Just curious. I don’t think I’ve jumped for a while, maybe two weeks? I think it was performative like ‘wow I’m so happy’ to underscore a point not practical
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jump a lot tbh, it’s a part of my “dance and jump around outside a bit while listening to tunes in the sun every day” anti-depression aktion
don’t really do like full practical jumps often tho really, i think i had to jump over a puddle like two months ago i guess? and ofc short hops on and off of curbs and shit i guess
“dance and jump around outside a bit while listening to tunes in the sun every day” anti-depression aktion
Sounds like fun!
yeah it’s fun and helpful, I probably look like the joker doing it but what can you do lmao
Often cos am short
Yesterday when my partner told me not to jump on an elevator so I jumped off the elevator
Nooo please don’t jump in or out of elevators it’s actually unsettling im w your partner on this one
They undergo more force when accelerating than when one person hops in them
Nobody said it’s a rational fear, it’s unsettling is all. I generally dislike lifts and will take stairs when I can
I used to be a little bit more unsettled by elevators until I learned how they work. Those things are built to such insane standards that I now feel safer in them than on a 5ft staircase. I don’t think I could be less unsettled by being somewhere aside from my literal bed.
Maybe I should learn more about them. I used to have recurring nightmares of being in a plummeting elevator (not helped by the fact it’s a trope in so many action movies and games). I guess it’s like vertical thalassophobia in some ways too, like it’s the same fear of the void underneath, but also the thought that you’re separated from it by just a few feet of metal. At least in the ocean you can swim. Then, add the vertigo, air pressure discomfort and related fear of heights/ledges/precipices (“I’m heading up to a place where I’ll be uncomfortable/afraid”) means that the ascent is scary and the destination sucks. Also small enclosed space. I have been stuck in elevators twice, once for just a few minutes the other time for about half an hour… All around, do not enjoy them.
You can jump up the steps instead of taking the elevator!
I jump in elevators all the time, although I don’t do with when other people are inside.
It’s fun, it’s not like an elevator with a 2000lb weight capacity is gonna break from a 160lb person jumping
I mean the elevator had completely come to a stop so it was fine
Nearly every day at work, jumping up stairs and over puddles and such. Vertical jumped at home recently to grab something from a high place. I’m pretty much a daily jumper
Don’t do that at work. You won’t get comp if you get hurt if they csn find a way out.
An eon. The older you get - the far less you jump.
The first time I heard that I was so very young. The album had just come out. It was ~40 years ago. I took it so personally - as young people do for creative stuff they love. I was driving along by myself and almost said “What is this fucking garbage!” out loud. And my thoughts continued “This is fucking awful! Fuck this shit! Fuck David Lee Roth!..” and yet more swearing. I was so angry listened to the whole song. It was a real hate listen even though that term was decades away.
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I can’t say I have strong feelings about the song either way, it’s from before my time. I wonder if there’s any that will make me feel similar down the track
My strong feelings were because I was young and I thought of Van Halen as “my” band. Eddie was often depressed so his lyrics could be (very) dark. The songs on the album Fair Warning (1981) are examples. David Lee Roth wanted Van Halen to be far more of a party band. He didn’t want to sing songs like Mean Street from that album. In any case - I’ve never googled but I’ve always assumed Jump was 100% David Lee relentlessly pushing and telling the band that as a radio friendly pop song it that would be a hit. And it sure was.
It is Van Halen’s most successful single, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
But Eddie pushed David Lee out of the band in 1985. Funnily enough - David Lee was replaced by somebody even more interested in money and radio friendly crap: Sammy Hagar. I think Hagar’s musical interests have only been three things: money, fame, and women. The band had their first Van Hagar era. 1984 was the band’s last really good album and the band never nearly as good again. That’s a shame but that’s how it goes.
thank you for the music history lesson, I understand your comment a lot better now.One more thing.
David Lee was incredibly dumb. He tried to do the impossible. He tried to recreate the lightning in a bottle vibe of Van Halen with his new band and their album Skyscraper (1988). I assume the band’s goal was to be a fantastically successful supergroup. I don’t know if he literally said to Steve Vai “Pretend to be Eddie” but that’s what Vai did. Vai and the bassist were technical wizards but they bring to mind a quote I learned decades later from the jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. He said “I can’t play a lie.”
The album was painful to listen to. It will always be amazing to me how some insanely talented musicians can have no taste and no soul. I felt embarrassed for Vai and the bassist.
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Ninja edit
I haven’t listened to any tracks on the album ~35 years. I remembered the songs as being at best about 2/10. If this song is typical - that’s far too kind. Maybe all the tracks are sub 1/10. My god. All that talent to create utter crap. And the Eddie ripoff stuff is even worse than I remembered.
Vai did. Vai and the bassist were technical wizards but they bring to mind a quote I learned decades later from the jazz saxophonist Stan Getz. He said “I can’t play a lie.”
Excellent quote
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I’m always shredding sick jumps on my bike yo
Probably yesterday? I jump up and climb anywhere I can. Idk if it’s just the autism but my brain has always been pretty much like “that’s the shortest path, so what if I have to jump over something”
I jump a lot, I like to run around and jump while I wait for stuff
I see a low ceiling i jump and smack it, so thursday.
Understandable!
Did some light parkour yesterday trying to catch a train.
when I get excited or when I’m energetic I jump around my room, so literally a couple minutes ago
That’s nice :) i wish i had that kind of ebullient energy
Every time i take the kiddo to dance class. He’s supposed to jump to but he always leaves me hanging.
Kids love watching adults exhaust themselves
probably like two months ago. I’m a mail carrier and there was this brick divider between two houses that would have taken a long time to walk around it so I jumped that shit
A few weeks ago, after seeing the trend of people jumping and not be able to. Had to confirm I could.
Damn near hit my head.
Yesterday. I brought my knees as high as I could to see if I could still do it without hurting myself. I was surprisingly okay!
