Pointlessly laughable things that people do

maybe they arent 100% sure that they didnt grow an extra 3ft during the flight.

Tbf - if the helicopter wheels punctured on landing , 8ft circus freaks might have reason to be a tad apprehensive.

Natural reaction. Have you ever been on one?

Not quite. The rotor blades are at the height that they are not to avoid decapitating anybody, but rather that the top of the craft is the best place for them. Early choppers did have the rotors underneath, but had an unfortunate habit of not flying.
Ducking on exit is a practice that dates back to the latter 19th century, when Abraham Lincoln famously had the top of his stovepipe hat sliced off on exiting the presidential chopper.
Since the late 1990s, stovepipes have gone out of fashion, however, 'Doing a Lincoln', is still consider the de rigeur method for exiting a helicopter.

I suppose you could have hours of fun by not actually landing but hovering an inch above a trampoline.

anyone remeber that woman who did a parachute charity jump straight into a helicopters propellers?

Hazel Blears wasn't it?

Sit forward 10" to get closer to the windscreen when it's foggy. Visibility might be 40m but that extra few inches all help??

Desmond Orchard 23 Nov 13:39
Early choppers did have the rotors underneath, but had an unfortunate habit of not flying.
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And chopping off the Passengers + Crews legs as they alighted !! :0 :0

Never been on one .
Yes , I accept it's a ''natural reaction'' and I would probably do the same myself -although now that I'm aware of it I would strive to emerge while standing avowedly erect at my full height ( a modest 5'9.)
However -I like to stand back and view the flux of human behaviour from a distance and see how many of our actions are silly , pointless or comical .

Briefly -another one . High handicap golfers buy top of the range golf balls which are not not inexpensive. The point is that they haven't the technique to get any of the benefit built in to the ball . Pointless waste of money .
It would be like an eighty year old woman buying a Ferrari racing car and driving it around at 40 mph.
The hackers no doubt do it for reasons of showing off but real golfers would be just laughing at them for their pretentiousness.

Gamble

Ducking on exit is a practice that dates back to the latter 19th century, when Abraham Lincoln famously had the top of his stovepipe hat sliced off on exiting the presidential chopper

Probably looking up to see what it was as helicopters were fairly rare in the 1800s

Start clapping when the plane lands, that really gets on my nerves.

I think that is acceptable if a drunken David Blunkett is the pilot.

Look at their watch when you ask them where they're going on holiday

(© Peter Kay)

Sit in a bath of baked beans. For charidee

you're supposed to duck your head when leaving a chopper, there was a reason for it but can't remember what

yea I don't get the clapping thing when aeroplanes land either?

does anyone clap me for doing my job? nuh they want to strangle me more like, even though what am doing is for the good of everybody

well, you definitely shouldn't jump out of a helicopter

wae a parachute let off right enough

why do women who are feeling tearful wave their hand up and down in front of their face? always puzzled me, that one :|

A lot of atheists tend to turn to religion if a plane enters a crash dive.

surely people duck when alighting from a helicopter due to the wind from the rotor blades??

People who bid too much for things on ebay - been looking at mac minis which you can get for £449 'buy it now' - somebody bid £453 in an auction from the same seller. Only a few quid this time but seen plenty more where people pay more on ebay than you can get elsewhere - do a bit of research it aint always cheaper!

does anyone else remember a story from years ago about a father who greeted his little son by throwing him up in the air and his head was chopped off by the blades!! is this an urban myth??

happened in a supermarket with a fan was on the national news!

aah thanks for that, im glad there was a grain of truth in it and i wasnt going completely mad!

well thats weird because fans have a motor where if you put your finger to it, then the fan would stop suddenly

even though the motor can spin fast, but its extremely weak

Sir Denis Eton-Hogg 23 Nov 18:37
does anyone else remember a story from years ago about a father who greeted his little son by throwing him up in the air and his head was chopped off by the blades!! is this an urban myth??

Sir Denis Eton-Hogg 23 Nov 18:46
aah thanks for that, im glad there was a grain of truth in it and i wasnt going completely mad!

FFS

yeah, thank god it happened!

probably an urban myth, because the chances of a father throwing a baby as high up as a supermarket ceiling its very low, also the fact that the fan is faulty is extremely low, and also the fact that fans have protection from people throwings at it making the chances even lower

so the chances of that happening is 0000001 to 1

but possible of course

all in all, that story is a load of fυcking sh!t

Sheer fan-tasy I'd say .

The actor Vic Morrow wasn't too keen on helicopters :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Morrow

0000001 to 1.So you mean even money?

so-called good golfers taking the p.iss out of bad golfers for having a dream.

imo

i remember the story aboyt the father accidently killing his child by lifting him/her up into the helicopter blades. anbout 10 years ago is my guess. Alas!

Jack Newton

Women that raise the right or left leg when they hug... why?!

Vote

probably same reason you don't need to duck when a fighter plane goes overhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-lXM1D8ZI

doubleagent 24 Nov 04:35
0000001 to 1.So you mean even money?

0.00000001/1

When someone (nearly always a woman) arrives late at a play/comedy show/meeting and they have to get to their seat they do that little half-run on the tiptoes as if that will make them invisible.

Silly cows.

KAMAKAZE PILOTS WEARING HELMETS

standing in the aisle of a train carriage for about 10 mins as it very slowly pulls into the station

Turn car radio off when you are lost.

hey i do that! i cant think when its on!

Different kinds of helicopters will have blades rotating at different heights above the ground. The rotating blades of a helicopter are not necessarily at the same height all the way round the circle in which they rotate, the forward part of the circle is often much lower. Further, they can quickly dip several feet when at slow speed.

Whether or not you duck depends on how sure you are of the distance between the top of your head and the lowest possible point of those blades. And how much you enjoy a faceful of downdraught.

Punterfleecer I think you got your decimal point in the wrong place!