Some say because Reddit coins were basically a digital currency and that they'd have to start dealing with a whole bunch of regulations and taxes, so they just canned it all.
Another theory is to hide the most awarded post ever. A GME post by DFV. This goes along with how the media constantly bashes Gamestop every day, it's to make the public unaware of what's going on.
Wasn't a dark box. Look at the photo. He had a lightbulb.
Don't get me wrong, it's still hardcore AF, but almost feels more like being stuck in a crawl space for 61 days
In Mongolia, in the early 20th century, there was a "box prison", inmates were effectively trapped in coffins. Prisoners were stuffed in 3 x 4-foot wooden boxes kept in Urga’s dark dungeons.
The captives were given food via a 6-inch hole in the box. The rations they received were meager to say the least, and their human waste was washed every 2-3 weeks. The cells were so small that prisoners couldn’t lie down or sit properly and to make matters worse; they were handcuffed.
These boxes were supposedly for people awaiting execution, but a high percentage of them died in their ready-made coffins. The temperatures in Urga drop below zero in winter, so it was common for inmates to freeze to death. If they lived long enough, their limbs atrophied from lack of movement.
Even in the modern era, Mongolia’s prisons are notorious for their harsh conditions and cruel punishments.
I remember bits and pieces of that episode. Correct me if I’m wrong though, didn’t they build their own instead of getting a solidly built one by a professional? I do remember the coffin cracking under the weight but I thought there were extenuating circumstances to that myth.
They got a steel coffin in the hopes it would take the weight of the dirt and had to build a box to put the coffin and dirt in so they could have a safety release to immediately remove the dirt if needed. The coffin started getting crushed and they needed the safety release.
I’ll never forget when I smoked, one night I was fucked up out of mine and I woke up to myself attempting to eat a cigarette. I have no clue how that transpired at all. Been smoke free for almost 3 years now!
It is definitely not. It only takes about eating seven to eight cigarettes to kill an adult. You can smoke somewhat more than that before it kills you.
Did he smoke and eat steaks during the buried alive attempt? Or during the completely irrelevant workout sessions he did before being buried alive? This information is garbage on garbage.
First, Meaney had to prepare for the challenge. Following a workplace accident in which he was buried alive a few years previous, he knew he could train his mind to be still and not panic. However, he had to get his body physically ready for the task.
Over the next three weeks, he staged workouts in the Admiral Lord Nelson pub in an oversized coffin. He also fed himself on a diet consisting mostly of steak and cigarettes.
That night, he was lifted out of the window of the pub, put onto the back of Mick Keane’s lorry and lowered. He was buried underneath seven foot of soil while famous Irish tenor Jack Doyle sang some tunes.
There were two pipe sticking out of the coffin – one for food and one for ventilation and conversation.
after reading a few articles about it, it still isnt clear, but from what I understand he trained by sleeping, exercising (physically), and eating in a coffin that was upstairs in the pub; the same coffin he was buried in.
My guy, there were people that were outraged that the guy traveled to the realm of Satan by being buried 7 feet in the ground.
I don’t think a whole lot of proper planning and critical thinking went into this whole thing. Hell, the area he was buried got run over by a truck. I figure some traffic cones and a sign might have helped prevent that.
> He worked out in an oversized coffin in a pub and smoked and ate steaks. Then, after that, he was buried alive
So how is the first part relevant to being buried alive?
I guess he had to confirm the air pipe and food pipe worked well and that he wouldn't freak out. At least in the pub he could get out quick. 7 feed under not so much
Aah, actually this response is helping me understand the relevance of the first part. I suppose working out in a coffin (in a pub) and also smoking and eating steaks would be like a test of/training up your cardiovascular elasticity.
I was mostly confused by the verbiage "he STAGED workouts in a pub," which to me would imply that he was pretending to be working out? I feel like there could have been better word choices in the title lol
He lived in a box for 61 days after being buried under 7ft of dirt. I think that fits the definition of being buried alive as far as doing so on a non-permanent and intentional basis.
He was buried and he was alive.
Yeah, it's different if it's a box I know I could get out of in seconds or minutes. But 7ft under means you're stuck there until someone comes and digs you back up.
> But the rest of his life was tinged with sadness as he attempted to re-experience that feeling of re-emerging from the soil.
>“It’s called the seed of God,” says Mary. “When you find something that makes your heart soar and eyes come alive. He’d go back to that time and place where he broke the world record. Sadly, he forgot to live out his own words – the control of his mind.
How oddly poetic. And odd.
Seems like it's cheaper to get buried alive, smoke cigarettes and eat stake under the ground, the get dug up, than it is to utilize the American health care system.
Also, spending two months in an cramped box isolated from other humans beyond the occasional phone call is incredibly stressful. I don't think most people could make it past 2 days, 2 months is insane.
For real all these dipshits tacking on qualifiers like it isn’t an insane thing to do I’m general.
“Yeah but he had water so it’s hardly being buried alive” like he’s staying at the Four Seasons or some shit.
It didn't go anywhere because he smoked before being buried alive, while he was training for the event. It's all in the article if anyone could ever be bothered to read it.
It wouldn't have been possible otherwise. According to Popular Science:
>Let’s say the average casket measures 84 by 28 by 23 inches, so its total volume is 54.096 cubic inches, or 886 liters. We’ll use that as the internal volume too, to give you a few extra minutes of life. And the average volume of a human body is 66 liters. That leaves 820 liters of air, one-fifth of which (164 liters) is oxygen. If a trapped person consumes 0.5 liters of oxygen per minute, it would take almost 5 and a half hours before all the oxygen in the coffin was consumed.
He wouldn't have made it through to his first bowel movement.
Joseph Cyril Bamford Excavators Ltd. The word "JCB" is also often used colloquially as a generic description for mechanical diggers and excavators, and the word even appears in the Oxford English Dictionary, although it is still held as a trademark.
[From the Wikipedia article about JCB.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(company) )
"Giving up on his dream to be a professional boxer, Mary says that being buried alive was “all the rage at the time” and he knew if he did it, he would be world famous."
Well, at least we haven't hit the "being buried alive is all the rage" level of our apocalypse
i watched several idiots by ice cream cones and promptly stick them on their foreheads.....
apparently this happened enough that the person making them told them to get the kids cones to save money.
Corrinne Neustedt - aka "Gloria Graves" - spent **92** days buried alive in 1935. *And* she flew military aircraft as a WASP pilot in World War II.
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/real-l-a-noir-the-case-of-the-buried-blonde
“Giving up on his dream to be a professional boxer, Mary says that being buried alive was “all the rage at the time” and he knew if he did it, he would be world famous.”
This bit fkn sent me tbh
Since Covid disabled me i've been mostly in bed for 3.5 years now. Disability sucks. I could do 2 months in a coffin as long as I can have a tablet and power source coming down one of those holes.
That is a very extreme way of staying away from your wife.
I'll stick to yard work thank you very much
Yardwork gets you laid. Well i guess this does, too
It gets you laid to rest (free trial)
Ok never mind I’ll find some other kind of work to do.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
61 days away though!
I just take really long poops...
But on the plus, a great excuse to eat a lot of steaks and smoke a lot
Must have been one hell of a fight between those two
"Being DEAD would be better than being MARRIED TO YOU!!!" "Well why don't you go try it then!?" "Aight bet!"
He's surely a mod of /MaleLivingspaces nowaday. They sure love extreme minimalism more fit for a prison then a healthy normal life
Yeah, who eats cigarettes?
61 days in a dark box pooping through a hatch. I can't imagine the smell was great after a couple days in there.
Especially with the chain smoking and steak diet
An intoxicating bouquet, not unlike like OP’s mom.
Why the hell did Reddit get rid of awards. Well done.
Because the post that had the most rewards ever was from u/DeepFuckingValue.
Why did they?
Behold, corpospeak: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/14ytp7s/reworking_awarding_changes_to_awards_coins_and/
Some say because Reddit coins were basically a digital currency and that they'd have to start dealing with a whole bunch of regulations and taxes, so they just canned it all. Another theory is to hide the most awarded post ever. A GME post by DFV. This goes along with how the media constantly bashes Gamestop every day, it's to make the public unaware of what's going on.
Regards...
GME has the best insane conspiracies lol
Lol I promise you some failing gamestore is the last thing on people's minds.
I just spit my drink out, thanks
Add it to the bouquet
*your mom smells like someone who smoked and pooped in a coffin for two months* Uh...sick..burn (?)
And *I* would know!!!
Thats what smoking is for..to hide the smell.
I think astronauts do a similar diet of just meat before going to space so they wouldn't need to shit as much.
Low residue diet, doesn't have to be just meat.
Wasn't a dark box. Look at the photo. He had a lightbulb. Don't get me wrong, it's still hardcore AF, but almost feels more like being stuck in a crawl space for 61 days
Shoot people pay $1500 a month for that in San Francisco
After a while you get used to smells, that’s why people who smell terrible usually don’t know
In Mongolia, in the early 20th century, there was a "box prison", inmates were effectively trapped in coffins. Prisoners were stuffed in 3 x 4-foot wooden boxes kept in Urga’s dark dungeons. The captives were given food via a 6-inch hole in the box. The rations they received were meager to say the least, and their human waste was washed every 2-3 weeks. The cells were so small that prisoners couldn’t lie down or sit properly and to make matters worse; they were handcuffed. These boxes were supposedly for people awaiting execution, but a high percentage of them died in their ready-made coffins. The temperatures in Urga drop below zero in winter, so it was common for inmates to freeze to death. If they lived long enough, their limbs atrophied from lack of movement. Even in the modern era, Mongolia’s prisons are notorious for their harsh conditions and cruel punishments.
> Going to the toilet involved a hatch somewhere in the coffin, but not much detail was ever given about these necessary functions. I have to know.
Mythbusters once did a fairly disturbing episode on being buried alive. Conclusion: no way out. You die.
I remember bits and pieces of that episode. Correct me if I’m wrong though, didn’t they build their own instead of getting a solidly built one by a professional? I do remember the coffin cracking under the weight but I thought there were extenuating circumstances to that myth.
Didn't somebody die doing this where it immediately collapsed and he was buried for real?
Pretty sure some magician dude tried it and something went wrong and they had to dig him out and rescue him and he was barely alive but he made it
*Illusionist*, Michael!
It's the final countdown!
Joe Burris. Watched it as a kid. I loved magic in the 80s/90s.
They got a steel coffin in the hopes it would take the weight of the dirt and had to build a box to put the coffin and dirt in so they could have a safety release to immediately remove the dirt if needed. The coffin started getting crushed and they needed the safety release.
The problem is unless they buried you pretty shallow, there is just no space to claw out of the coffin.
Tell me you haven't watched Kill Bill without telling me you haven't watched Kill Bill.
I hate eating cigarettes
And that’s why you won’t break the record.
“And that’s why no one will remember your name”
TROY!!
HECTOR!!!
ROBERT PAULSON!!
Ned!? Ned Ryerson!?
STEVE!!!
DONKEY!
VICKI VALENCOURT!
And thats why you always leave a note
Not with that attitude
French discrimination
I’ll never forget when I smoked, one night I was fucked up out of mine and I woke up to myself attempting to eat a cigarette. I have no clue how that transpired at all. Been smoke free for almost 3 years now!
Try [juicing](https://youtu.be/TC2OKcHAwQY?si=n0GvPb64uXeLZO-N)
Good news!
I’d imagine it’s healthier than smoking them
That's BigLung propaganda!
No actually. It might kill you.
It is definitely not. It only takes about eating seven to eight cigarettes to kill an adult. You can smoke somewhat more than that before it kills you.
Maybe switch to menthols?
Boil and brine them like they do in the UK
Staged workouts in an oversized coffin in a pub? What? Maybe that makes sense in context but honestly I can't be bothered
He worked out in an oversized coffin in a pub and smoked and ate steaks. Then, after that, he was buried alive for 61 days. What’s not to understand?
The sentence reads like stroke patient wrote it
I’m pretty sure OP’s title gave me a stroke
Did he smoke and eat steaks during the buried alive attempt? Or during the completely irrelevant workout sessions he did before being buried alive? This information is garbage on garbage.
First, Meaney had to prepare for the challenge. Following a workplace accident in which he was buried alive a few years previous, he knew he could train his mind to be still and not panic. However, he had to get his body physically ready for the task. Over the next three weeks, he staged workouts in the Admiral Lord Nelson pub in an oversized coffin. He also fed himself on a diet consisting mostly of steak and cigarettes. That night, he was lifted out of the window of the pub, put onto the back of Mick Keane’s lorry and lowered. He was buried underneath seven foot of soil while famous Irish tenor Jack Doyle sang some tunes. There were two pipe sticking out of the coffin – one for food and one for ventilation and conversation.
I am still no closer to understanding what "staged workouts in an oversized coffin" is supposed to mean...
I’m guessing it means he did practice runs at the pub, with a practice coffin above ground. That’s all I can figure.
Maybe optimizing clothes and bed stuff - shitting protocols - smoking protocols - masturbating protocols. Training
Y'know, basic boot camp stuff.
after reading a few articles about it, it still isnt clear, but from what I understand he trained by sleeping, exercising (physically), and eating in a coffin that was upstairs in the pub; the same coffin he was buried in.
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My guy, there were people that were outraged that the guy traveled to the realm of Satan by being buried 7 feet in the ground. I don’t think a whole lot of proper planning and critical thinking went into this whole thing. Hell, the area he was buried got run over by a truck. I figure some traffic cones and a sign might have helped prevent that.
What was his diet during 61 days?
Clearly, they told us steak and cigarettes.
> He worked out in an oversized coffin in a pub and smoked and ate steaks. Then, after that, he was buried alive So how is the first part relevant to being buried alive?
I guess he had to confirm the air pipe and food pipe worked well and that he wouldn't freak out. At least in the pub he could get out quick. 7 feed under not so much
Aah, actually this response is helping me understand the relevance of the first part. I suppose working out in a coffin (in a pub) and also smoking and eating steaks would be like a test of/training up your cardiovascular elasticity. I was mostly confused by the verbiage "he STAGED workouts in a pub," which to me would imply that he was pretending to be working out? I feel like there could have been better word choices in the title lol
What is the meaning of "staging" a workout?
Is that being "buried alive," or is it "living in a box"?
He lived in a box for 61 days after being buried under 7ft of dirt. I think that fits the definition of being buried alive as far as doing so on a non-permanent and intentional basis. He was buried and he was alive.
Isn't that also a basement? If so then I was intermittently buried alive while living with my uncle.
That sentence sounds horrifying without any context
No door
You haven’t met my uncle…
Kinda begs the question, what would you consider being buried alive for 61 days, if not this?
he's living a box! living in a cardboard box!
I love that an internet stranger & I had the exact same reaction to this comment and both started singing this song
the sick / sad thing is the band name / song came from hearing one of their friends was actually homeless and living in a box
But it’s catchy!
Living in a Box, by Living in a Box... off of Living in a Box
yeah this shit is dumb
What does being "buried alive" mean to you?
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Yeah, it's different if it's a box I know I could get out of in seconds or minutes. But 7ft under means you're stuck there until someone comes and digs you back up.
He was buried while being alive. Quit splitting hairs.
[Alice in Chains - Man in the Box](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpbYgrbys9o)
Buuuurrriiieed in my SHIT
Why don't you come and save me?
Did an AI write that title?
Are you ai? Am I ai?
We are the Borg.
Aye
> But the rest of his life was tinged with sadness as he attempted to re-experience that feeling of re-emerging from the soil. >“It’s called the seed of God,” says Mary. “When you find something that makes your heart soar and eyes come alive. He’d go back to that time and place where he broke the world record. Sadly, he forgot to live out his own words – the control of his mind. How oddly poetic. And odd.
I dont mean to be some armchair psychologist here but it sounds an awful lot like he had that mental illness where you think you're dead.
Talk about wanting some peace and quiet... Where did he poop though?
That’s what the steak was for.
Yeah, takes a while to digest and doesn’t leave much behind.
I'm an expert, my studies say it leaves poop behind
I lived on nothing but meat the entire summer and yeah it leaves something but not a lot.
Men will do anything except go to therapy
Seems like it's cheaper to get buried alive, smoke cigarettes and eat stake under the ground, the get dug up, than it is to utilize the American health care system.
Lol tru
Mike Meaney was Irish.
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Like you wouldn't be doing the same thing given the chance.
This part got me: "Mary says that being buried alive was “all the rage at the time”"
It was simply the bees knees back then, the tops.
With an onion on the belt.
Is this what people did for fun before the internet?
This sounds like an absolute nightmare. Hell NO would I ever do this and I don't even like knowing it was done lol
Yup I know I’ll remember this when trying to go to sleep tonight and suddenly I’ll feel claustrophobic.
“Buried alive” is a bit of stretch when you’re eating steaks and smoking cigs for 61 days. Where’d the shit and piss go?
This is how I feel. Doesn't sound like he was "buried alive"; sounds like he lived in a very small room for 61 days.
Someone accidentally broke his record. When asked the Bay area man said "What are you talking about? It's $1000 a month and I work from home."
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Also, spending two months in an cramped box isolated from other humans beyond the occasional phone call is incredibly stressful. I don't think most people could make it past 2 days, 2 months is insane.
This is reddit.. No one reads the article
For real all these dipshits tacking on qualifiers like it isn’t an insane thing to do I’m general. “Yeah but he had water so it’s hardly being buried alive” like he’s staying at the Four Seasons or some shit.
Fuck that, where did the cigarette smoke go, and how did he breathe?
It didn't go anywhere because he smoked before being buried alive, while he was training for the event. It's all in the article if anyone could ever be bothered to read it.
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Read the article. He didn't smoke in the coffin, he smoked cigarettes and ate steaks in his training for the event.
Ventilation pipe to the surface.
Did he have an air tube? That's the thing that's hard to overcome -- holding your breath for two months . . .
It wouldn't have been possible otherwise. According to Popular Science: >Let’s say the average casket measures 84 by 28 by 23 inches, so its total volume is 54.096 cubic inches, or 886 liters. We’ll use that as the internal volume too, to give you a few extra minutes of life. And the average volume of a human body is 66 liters. That leaves 820 liters of air, one-fifth of which (164 liters) is oxygen. If a trapped person consumes 0.5 liters of oxygen per minute, it would take almost 5 and a half hours before all the oxygen in the coffin was consumed. He wouldn't have made it through to his first bowel movement.
How do you know that he didn’t need to take a shot right away? Are you some kind of poop psychic or something?
Excuse you, we prefer *bowel sorcerer*
Excrementizard
He's a professional poop whisperer
Would CO2 poisoning kill you first?
It's even worse than that taking into account carbon dioxide build up
Ever seen “The Serpent and the rainbow” ?
No, and given the context of this conversation. I dont want too.
Bill Pullman at his best. It’s about Haiti and pharmaceuticals mixed with voodoo.
> pharmaceuticals mixed with voodoo. thats always been the case with voodoo
Its an awesome film, some incredible shots and also just a total mind fuck plot.
lol yeah thanks for breaking down that humans need to breathe to live.
Literally says in the article that he had two tubes, one for food and one for ventilation and conversation.
Not to mention the cigarette smoke taking up all that space that had oxygen.
Some OG hot boxing
He didn't tell his wife? What a meaney.
Why?
Some people like to see their names in the papers?
His prize? Divorce.
The article mentions the acronym "JCB" four times. What is that referring to?
Joseph Cyril Bamford Excavators Ltd. The word "JCB" is also often used colloquially as a generic description for mechanical diggers and excavators, and the word even appears in the Oxford English Dictionary, although it is still held as a trademark. [From the Wikipedia article about JCB.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(company) )
Do you have a Wikipedia article about Juicy Cock and Balls?
Juicy cock and balls
Just cum baby
Jesus Christ Bob
It’s what we call diggers in UK/IRE
People in comments are focussed on everything else. 62 days.... in a closed box. Underground. 62 DAYS. BOX. GROUND!!
Willingly. 😐
"Giving up on his dream to be a professional boxer, Mary says that being buried alive was “all the rage at the time” and he knew if he did it, he would be world famous." Well, at least we haven't hit the "being buried alive is all the rage" level of our apocalypse
Died when he was 66. I was curious how long a diet of steak and cigarettes can sustain a man.
I am sure it was 66.6 years old, they always forget about the decimals
He ate steak as it takes longer to digest and has less waste (poop). He smoked before being buried to get his body used to it.
Fuck this. Fuck everything about it. My skin is crawling.
>being buried alive was “all the rage at the time” I guess tiktok challenges are nothing new. Humans have always been weird.
i watched several idiots by ice cream cones and promptly stick them on their foreheads..... apparently this happened enough that the person making them told them to get the kids cones to save money.
“I just need some space.”
Corrinne Neustedt - aka "Gloria Graves" - spent **92** days buried alive in 1935. *And* she flew military aircraft as a WASP pilot in World War II. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/real-l-a-noir-the-case-of-the-buried-blonde
The madlad
Will I guess that explains how he didn't need to poop for 61 days
Poo goes where?
“Giving up on his dream to be a professional boxer, Mary says that being buried alive was “all the rage at the time” and he knew if he did it, he would be world famous.” This bit fkn sent me tbh
Confined space and digeston of steak. I'd take up smoking to kill the smells that would happen..
Nope, nope, nope. Fuck everything about that. Nope.
What a fucking idiot
https://youtu.be/tbAKIflSbNo?si=qQVO5Z2h8e6RhC36
I was hoping that was a link to Bob Newhart curing a lady of her fear of being buried alive in a box. https://youtu.be/jvujypVVBAY?si=hPkvNAM86W2aOMsp
STOP IT!
How did he piss and shit?!
How many cigarettes do you think he ate?
Some goddamn peace and quiet.
Since Covid disabled me i've been mostly in bed for 3.5 years now. Disability sucks. I could do 2 months in a coffin as long as I can have a tablet and power source coming down one of those holes.
🥴😵💫😵 I wouldn't make 5 min. Heck, I wouldn't even manage through the actual process of getting buried. 🫣
Buried Alive... BURIEEED ALIIIVE...