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Despite a reputation for safety, the temperatures and surprisingly high pressures make them even more dangerous than the air kind, but the NTSB refuses to investigate accidents because they insist there is no ‘transportation’ involved.
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Source: xkcd.com/3153/
It seems possible that there might be better ways to ride a hot waterbed.
Exactly.
This would work under water though.
“And we’re off… And we’re stopping”
“But we barely went anywhere”
“Gotta decompress. Just one more moment and… we’re off… and we’re stopping again.”
“This is much less interesting than I thought it’d be”
Oh, I don’t know. Waterbeds had a certain reputation back in the day, nudge nudge, wink wink. That’s probably why my oldest brother kept his so long, and why he and his wife had so many kids.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bet that would be amazing on my back
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As long as the heater doesn’t fail in the middle of the night.
tal@olio.cafe 2 weeks ago
Death by having the balloon role over and smother you would probably be kind of horrific.