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theianmachine aka Vitz Einer is a 26.47 year old boy, has been a member since February 8, 2007, has scored 3,805 submissions, giving an average score of 1.97, helping 41 designs get printed.

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Dec 31 '07 by theianmachine
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Ice Swimming In Vermont (This underwear is not designed by threadless)

It's a brother's tradition to go to Vermont and camp in green mountain national forest every year between Christmas and New Years. We just got back, and here is a sample of the fun.

FRICKINAWESOME on Dec 31 '07 at 11:50pm

I cannot see i t right now, but im sure it was fun and included massive amounts of ball shrink.

radiostaticstar on Dec 31 '07 at 11:51pm

jeesh, my nuts are at the back of my throat just watching that.

iPear on Dec 31 '07 at 11:53pm

what's the string for?

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 12:10am

We tied it around our wrists in case we got in trouble. Somebody always held the other end to haul whoever was swimming back out if they got lost or went into shock.

Pizazz on Jan 01 '08 at 12:19am

looks a bit nippy out

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 12:23am

a touch.

Ste7en on Jan 01 '08 at 12:39am

I live in Vermont...what the eff is green mountain national forest? hahahaha

bsweber on Jan 01 '08 at 12:48am

woo hoo! makes me proud to know you

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 12:59am

Thanks BS!

Ste7en, you should check this out

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 1:00am

one more try:

Green Mountains

bsweber on Jan 01 '08 at 12:14pm

that park is huge!

iPear on Jan 01 '08 at 12:15pm

haha @ blue text.

that looks pretty sweet though, you know, besides the onset of shock or something.

I think I'd do it.

Ste7en on Jan 01 '08 at 12:17pm

I dove into ice water at the top of a mountain in spring, but nothing quite like this

Johnny Baboon on Jan 01 '08 at 12:18pm

that's nothing. if you would of tied your hands and feet and then jumped in, now that would of been something to be proud about.

bsweber on Jan 01 '08 at 12:21pm

or if they jumped in with a fork or something and had to dig a new hole to get out

Johnny Baboon on Jan 01 '08 at 12:24pm

so pretty much what we're saying is that they're just a bunch of weenies. i've seen old ladies do this much better than them

Ste7en on Jan 01 '08 at 12:29pm

I actually have seen old ladies do this better than them, but they are russian, so they dont count....those people are made of ice

Krakaboom on Jan 01 '08 at 12:33pm

How is this more fun than sitting by a fire with a mug of hot chocolate?

Johnny Baboon on Jan 01 '08 at 1:38pm

How?!? How?!? Real men machete their way through a malaria and vietcong infested jungle to find a chocolate tree. And then make their own authentic hot chocolate.

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 6:12pm

we actually spent most of the trip playing farkle.

Tonteau on Jan 01 '08 at 6:17pm

That's awesome, I think I would have come out of the ice screaming, if I made it out at all.

I went swimming in the channel in may of this year and it was fecking freezing, my balls actually started hurting it was so could. I think sperm production went into overdrive. Still, nothing like that, though.

Tonteau on Jan 01 '08 at 6:18pm

*cold.

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 7:17pm

are you one of the insane people who swims the whole channel?

nikolina100 on Jan 01 '08 at 7:24pm

you boys are INSANE!!!!!

iPear on Jan 01 '08 at 7:25pm

what's a farkle?

Tonteau on Jan 01 '08 at 7:28pm

theianmachine on Jan 01 '08 at 7:17pm

are you one of the insane people who swims the whole channel?

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No, just a quick swim. It's the english disease: as soon as we get near the sea, we have to have a swim.

theianmachine on Jan 02 '08 at 12:04am

Farkle is only the greatest game in the world.

theianmachine on Jan 02 '08 at 12:05am

Tonteau, have you ever visited Gournsey?

Rambunkcious on Jan 02 '08 at 12:08am

you should have just jumped in why did you do it slowly! you are crazy!

theianmachine on Jan 02 '08 at 12:29am

in retrospect, that makes a lot of sense. It took me a long time to warm up, but I was worried that I would lose my head or start breathing water or something if I jumped right in. I wanted to be sure I could control myself before I went under the ice.

ph33lth3lov3 on Jan 02 '08 at 1:18am

wow! I cannot comprehend the level of cold that must be. Manly men, fo' sho!

on a side note- my family plays farkle too, but under the name Hot Dice. We used to call it Shit (grandma came up with it, from her experience of having a whole set of dice to roll but not getting anything and losing all your points), but my mom didn't like that too much... to hot dice it went. It's a fun game!

That scenery is beautiful, btw.

theianmachine on Jan 02 '08 at 9:12am

You have a funny grandmother!

theianmachine on Jan 02 '08 at 8:04pm

bump...

shaneisadrummer on Jan 03 '08 at 2:47pm

ph33lth3lov3 on Jan 02 '08 at 1:18am:

That scenery is beautiful, btw.

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we were gonna pretend like we were doing a nature show, and then pan over to one of us doing a cannonball into the ice.

shaneisadrummer on Jan 03 '08 at 2:47pm

by the way...

hi, Ian. did you know that i have an account on here?

10 days later

theianmachine on Jan 13 '08 at 10:18pm

Hi shane. I am doing some much warmer swimming here in the Bahamas.

386 days later

SnakeMan on Feb 03 '09 at 9:16pm

shrinkage

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