I thought quicksand would be a much bigger problem in my day to day life.
And how's there a car in a mall? Life's important questions
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giraffedesigner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Tbf you wouldn’t hear the people who drowned in quicksand complain about it afterwards.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You kidding me? for like a good half hour they won’t shut up about it!
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yes. Also being burried alive
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
To be fair, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that the “buried alive” was metaphorical. See: debt, stress, etc.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 10 months ago
Im still worried about this one.
dzervas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
same! I thought I was the only one!
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I was worried about acid rain; it sounded very concerning.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That’s one thing we actually did fix
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now we have plastic rain
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think we’re going to be headed backwards with that one.
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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 🤞🏻
moistclump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There was a time in 1999 where quite a few of us had to stop, drop, shut em down open up shop.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Oooh nooo
the_artic_one@programming.dev 10 months ago
Clothes have become a lot less flammable over the years and open fireplaces aren’t the primary heating method for most houses anymore.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be fair stop drop and roll is still good advice. You just don’t find yourself on fire that often.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
In fact, it’s a good thing that we never have to use Stop Drop & Roll ourselves.
klemptor@startrek.website 10 months ago
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.
root_beer@midwest.social 10 months ago
He forgot to mention all the people just giving you drugs to get you addicted
Fuckin’ D.A.R.E.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Omg I was so disappointed later on life to find out there are no free drug people. Fucking lame, they said it would be like a costco market.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Even when I got to university and literally all but one of my friends smoked weed, I still wasn’t offered any. I don’t think my ‘friends’ liked me that much…
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You could also use bees, as long as you had 5 of em. “Gimme 5 bees for a quarter” you’d say.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok but spontaneous human combustion still got me shook though
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 months ago
what the fuck is a kangaroo shoe pocket
Wolf_359@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Also what the fuck is swallowing gum.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Now that makes sense
force@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
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.
PatFussy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
z500@startrek.website 10 months ago
Illuminati confirmed
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
Lizardom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
prole@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I went through it on a cruise ship as a child. It’s literally nothing.
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nope. Atlantis.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Nah, it was all about quicksand for me.
That and just catching fire out of nowhere. And although that was mostly down to 80s shellsuits that were super flammable, I’m sure the new waves of cheap imported throwaway shit clothes are just as bad.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Malls must be magic. That would also explain how Santa is at every mall.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 10 months ago
There was a short period after I heard the term Third World where I thought there was more than one world in our solar system and this is where Africa was. That was a strange few days.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
This is the cutest amd funniest thing I’ve ever heard
AAA@feddit.de 10 months ago
While quite interesting, the Bermuda triangle didn’t concern me that much actually.
The movie Volcano (1997) however scared the shit out of young me, and I had problems sleeping for days. That was an issue I’d have liked to be solved.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you’re afraid of volcanoes, there’s a few places you can move to, such as Australia: worldinmaps.com/…/volcano-world-map.jpg
aeki@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I used to live straight in the volcano ring, even with a huge tragedy happening in a town nearby the year before I was born. I could see the snowy top of our local volcano every morning.
But now I live in Sweden. Not only no volcanos or earthquakes but also no hurricanes, tornados, landslides, nothing. It’s just flat and chill.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So interesting how the overwhelming majority are on the Pacific.
The person you’re replying to should move to Yellowstone Park. You don’t have to be afraid of the volcano when you’re at the centre of it. It’s also very beautiful from what I’ve heard.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Tumblr level post
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Quick sand I was sure that quick sand would be a daily problem
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now I’m all about the Alaska triangle
big_slap@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I used to think black holes were going to be a gigantic part of my day-to-day as an adult lol
Vespair@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t get the car in the mall reference. What am I missing?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You know how there’s a car in a mall sometimes. Maybe for some raffle or for a tiny showroom.
Vespair@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh. Bro they brought it in through the main doors - the center bar is often removable.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Next time, on unsolved mysteries.
yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 10 months ago
I did, but at least I did something about it. Haven’t heard as much about the ol triangle lately have you? Yeah, that was me. You’re welcome
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Damn, that’s pretty cool. I myself hunt down zombies in my free time.
Tremble@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t think I have ever seen a zombie before actually.
HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Will you be down in South Florida anytime soon? They’re kind of becoming a problem here.
MaoZedongers@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Stop hogging all the zombies, save some for the rest of us.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.de 10 months ago
GOAT
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No more frost giants thanks to yours truly TotallyNotSpez!
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
You’ve done the world a great service o7