Just. Don't. Jumping a pool does not work.

I was wading through the vast wasteland that is the internet when I stumbled across a man of some description, presumably he had testicles, who was going to attempt to jump his swimming pool. If I need to tell you the rest of this story you clearly do not visit the internet very much let alone send postcards of your trip to Japan where you went to a strip club but quickly realised it wasn't THAT kind of strip club but you couldn't leave because that may seem impolite. Anyway, the guy almost makes it... with one leg... while the other is swallowed by the pool. And those testicles I assumed he had are now cursing the day his daddy's sperm said "No Y chromosome you first. You've earned that egg!"

This has happened far too much, do people really see things that clearly hurt and then decide to go try out said thing as a manly gesture to try and court a female?

Do they think that this one time everything will be alright?

Are people just dumb?

I guess we'll have to go with the second question and answer yes, yes they are.

Take, for example, the amount of people who routinely drive dangerously. Be it by speeding, not indicating (I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE WHO DON'T INDICATE!) and the like. They know full well that people die on the road everyday. So why risk it? I hear you ask. Well I hope you have a good apology because I'm getting to that and you shouldn't just jump ahead as that can ruin the whole dynamic of our relationship. They risk it because speed is good. It feels good and makes you feel like a man! (We even named a movie after it "The speed that made you feel like a man")

Some people believe that education is the key, that's why some people are sentenced to traffic school or whatever. To educate them. Does it work? I'm going to go with a resounding no.

If we see bad or terrible things happen this does not cause us to suddenly decide we would rather not partake in that particular activity. Take Air Crash Investigations, a television show whose M.O. is basically "LOOK HOW HORRIBLY YOU CAN DIE IN A PLAN CRASH!!!!!!".

People still fly in plans.

Look at 16 and pregnant.

Young girls still get knocked up.

Look at Jersey Shore.

People are still douchbags.

I guess it comes down to a personal thing where you can look at yourself in a mirror and say "That's not me. I'm cool!" and believe it. And this is why people keep trying, and failing to jump swimming pools. Because they want to be cool too.