Wikipedia articles which are exactly what you expect

[touchingcloth]

In terms of both length and subject matter. For instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_due_to_wingsuit_flying

There's a table of about 50 people, including multiple instances of the phrases "failed to clear" and "onto a roof" and "into the side of a mountain" and "took a wrong turn, flew over the wrong ridge, and crashed into an alpine pasture", often prefixed with words such as "accidentally" and "unexpectedly" and "for unknown reasons".

Did you know that the guy who parachuted out of a helicopter dressed as Daniel Craig during the London 2012 opening ceremony died the next year in a manner which earned him a place on Wikipedia's "list of fatalities due to wingsuit flying" article? I didn't, but it is exactly what I expect.

[Cold Meat Platter]

All of them, really. Not sure why you're expecting curveballs.

[thenoise]

There's a film of that chap jumping off the Eiffel tower to test his "parachute coat" on YouTube. Not graphic but a bit morbid and depressing all the same. He had permission to do a test with a dummy, but was so confident of his invention decided to test it on himself first attempt. It didn't end well.

[dissolute ocelot]

This is really overlapping the Amusing Wikipedia Stuff thread but there's a whole category on animal attacks, from cougars (27 deaths in North America) to beavers (one fatality in Belarus).

[Butchers Blind]

7620 metres without a parachute.

https://youtu.be/xMoAELwzGjo

[idunnosomename]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%27d_and_Bomb%27d

[kalowski]

7620 metres without a parachute.

https://youtu.be/xMoAELwzGjo

Holy fuck. I was dizzy with nerves, even though I knew I wasn't about to watch someone jump to their death. (On another note, I have seen someone jump to their death).

[Bernice]

Scrappy Doo's Wikipedia article is longer than Franz Kafka's foreskin The Trial

[touchingcloth]

7620 metres without a parachute.

https://youtu.be/xMoAELwzGjo

Holy fuck. I was dizzy with nerves, even though I knew I wasn't about to watch someone jump to their death. (On another note, I have seen someone jump to their death).

The title of the video - "air diver" - made me think he was going to end in water. I feel cheated.

[Ferris]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%27d_and_Bomb%27d

"Did you mean: cookie and bombay"

[mothman]

Literally one dead female wing jumper. Make of that what you will. And she was apparently very experienced too, they feel the need to point that out...

[touchingcloth]

Men are less aerodynamic because of our beer guts and fantastic penises. It stands to reason.

[Replies From View]

Wikipedia page on shitting

[Jittlebags]

Wikipedia page on shitting

Will probably include a diagram depicting various turd textures a la Bristol. Will probably not include info on the legality of posting a turd through the post to someone you dissaprove on. Mentioning no Prime Ministers.

[willbo]

I remember in the early 00s when the "Judaism in Rugrats" article was being held up as an example of wiki gone too far

[thenoise]

Literally one dead female wing jumper. Make of that what you will. And she was apparently very experienced too, they feel the need to point that out...

I'm sure she did her best.

[Blue Jam]

Hate wingsuit mechanics in video games, can never get the hang of them, there's no way I'd ever try out a real one.

I remember in the early 00s when the "Judaism in Rugrats" article was being held up as an example of wiki gone too far

Reading this I thought "I bet that cites the work of at least one PhD student". Yep, few academic articles in there, someone probably did use that exact phrase as a thesis title.

It reminds me of that Twitter exchange someone had with Armando Iannucci where he proudly retweeted their post about how they were about to start a PhD on themes of gender in In The Loop. Not that much weirder than doing one on religious language in Paradise Lost, I guess.

[jenna appleseed]

Scrappy Doo's Wikipedia article is longer than Franz Kafka's foreskin The Trial

https://tinyletter.com/waitingroom/letters/the-scrappy-doo-wikipedia-mystery

[mothman]

That's really sweet.

[Ferris]

Yeah that's very nice, glad I read it.

[Dr Rock]

I'll never be able to hate Scrappy again

[idunnosomename]

I always thought the whole thing of making him the baddy in the movie was terribly pandering to meta pop-culture and essentially a rum thing to do for a children's movie.

[mothman]

Definitely. Had no strong opinions either way about Scrappy, but that just seemed incredibly trite. And there was nothing Scrappylike about the movie version.