I thought quicksand would be a much bigger problem in my day to day life.
The thing about quicksand that bothers me is that they never explain where you would encounter it. So I just assumed all sand could potentially become quicksand if it was deep enough. I guess I thought beaches weren’t deep enough
You need fine sand and lots of water so beaches weren’t exactly wrong but it’s still somewhat rare. Warning sign on Texel (Netherlands). Swamps are another candidate though there’s also other traps there, as well as mudflats… or at least it’s a very similar phenomenon the German term is different (Schlickloch vs. Treibsand) but it’s essentially the same thing. Don’t go walking from island to island without someone who can read the ground, maps would be useless they change every low tide. Also don’t leave when the water is already coming back. Also, don’t complain to your hotel that the sea is gone it’s a feature, not a bug.
Yeah I’ve never seen quicksand, but I have stepped in that thick-ass mud that traps you and schlorps your shoe off
“Schlorp” is a very fitting word here
Yes. Also being burried alive
To be fair, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that the “buried alive” was metaphorical. See: debt, stress, etc.
Edgar Allan Poe has entered the chat…
I mean it was an actual thing too though!
Happened during the Rape of Nanking too, except they did it on purpose to civilians.
Oh for sure, but it’s not nearly as much an issue in day to day life as we were led to believe. I suppose I could have been clearer.
same! I thought I was the only one!
I was worried about acid rain; it sounded very concerning.
That’s one thing we actually did fix
Now we have plastic rain
I think we’re going to be headed backwards with that one.
Hmm why? Scrubber tech is getting better, the ppm requirements are stricter, and low grade fuel coal and diesel with sulfur in it is become less available. Which makes sense since do you want to move x amount of money to move y amount of weight or do you want to make more than x to move y amount of weight. Shit fuel that causes acid rain weights and takes up the same volume as the same as the stuff that doesn’t cause acid rain.
Why did the Bermuda triangle, quicksand, and maybe premature burial and stop drop & roll so capture our minds?
Replace the quarter to call home with swallowing gum or something.
To be fair stop drop and roll is still good advice. You just don’t find yourself on fire that often.
In fact, it’s a good thing that we never have to use Stop Drop & Roll ourselves.
The one time I did find myself on fire, I completely forgot about stop, drop, and roll. Instead I ran until I stumbled on the hillside, then shouted “am I still on fire?”
Aaand that story is why I no longer fucks with charcoal grills.
Caught my pants on fire from a welding spark and by the time I noticed, it was most of my leg on fire. Didn’t even think to stop drop and roll, I just took off my pants.
Couple of points of advice:
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Don’t wear frayed clothing while welding.
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Fire can’t be seen through certain welding masks. If you feel warm, lift the fucking mask.
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Wait you managed to light yourself on fire with a CHARCOAL grill?
Did you put accelerant on it for some reason?
I certainly did haha
You could also use bees, as long as you had 5 of em. “Gimme 5 bees for a quarter” you’d say.
what the fuck is a kangaroo shoe pocket
woah these are amazing! never seen them before!
Kangaroos (aka “Roos”) were these awesome shoes with a little pocket in them.
I got a pair about 13 years ago, long after they’d stopped being popular, and used them to hide my drugs in high school and college. They were awesome until I started hiding really bad drugs in there. Then they were just enabling me.
Ok but spontaneous human combustion still got me shook though
Well it doesn’t happen. Something that’s 70% water can’t explode. Have you ever heard of an animal exploding randomly? There’s literally no way for it to happen.
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Personally, i assumed that being on fire was something i would have to go through at least once in my life. But as time goes on, i have not had the need to, even once, stop, drop or roll.
The back of my jacket caught fire once around a firepit. Can confirm that “stop drop and roll” fixes that situation really quickly.
Probably only time I’ll need that reflex though 🤞🏻
I once fell ass backwards into a fire pit. I was stopped and dropped but I could not roll. Was pulled out pretty quickly but my butt will forever have those burns.
There was a time in 1999 where quite a few of us had to stop, drop, shut em down open up shop.
I’ve done a lot of separate stopping, dropping, and/or rolling in my time, but never in that particular sequence for purposes of fire extinguishing.
The car in the mall? Well…
Now that makes sense
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Rentner means pensioner. It’s a sub which is called “pensioners drive in things” and it is some kind of collection with news about old people shouldn’t been allowed to drive. Because they do hilarious crashes.
Young Jesus fearing me hypothesized that the Garden of Eden was within the Bermuda triangle. It made sense to me… God kicked out the unworthy and disappearing planes and ships were God’s wrath for trespassing. .
But now you’re telling me the triangle isn’t really a thing… What else from my developing mind isn’t real… Lol
But now you’re telling me the triangle isn’t really a thing… What else from my developing mind isn’t real… Lol
Anything involving the supernatural
For one thing, red and blue aren’t primary colors of paint. Mix magenta and yellow paint and you have red, mix magenta and cyan and you have blue.
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I remember getting really into it and then afterwards seeing a really good debunking. It still bothers me how people can knowingly lie for small amounts of money or a bit of reputation.
Do you have a tl;dr of the debunking? I remember hearing it was like electromagnetic something messing with the nav systems but that one sounds like a myth now that I think about it
Sure, a relative of mine was an ex-sailor and he pulled up maps of how many ships on average passed in a given area per year and then he divided it by the number of reported incidents. Demonstrating that the Bermuda Triangle had slightly less things go wrong compared to the ocean as a whole. Which he speculated was because everyone knows that hurricanes are a thing and the presence of the US coast guard.
It didn’t even take him that long. I got into a thing with him about it and about an hour on the computer later he had the numbers to back it up.
I had so many theories about the Bermuda triangle and the Mary Celeste disappearance… Then I got older and more sceptical and found out the Bermuda triangle is nothing special, just highly trafficked and the Mary Celeste mystery was largely fictionalized and nothing remarkable.
Yeah that was me. Then I heard about the triangle off the coast of Spain or something. So then I started making potential triangles all over the place. I had a globe with a schizo amount of triangles on it.
Illuminati confirmed
Well I’ll glad I’m not the only one, but after I saw the modern traffic going through the Bermuda triangle I was much less concerned.
There were many lost nights of sleep though
Nope. Atlantis.
Malls must be magic. That would also explain how Santa is at every mall.
Now I’m all about the Alaska triangle
Quick sand I was sure that quick sand would be a daily problem
I don’t get the car in the mall reference. What am I missing?
You know how there’s a car in a mall sometimes. Maybe for some raffle or for a tiny showroom.
Oh. Bro they brought it in through the main doors - the center bar is often removable.
