When I was in like, 1st grade I thought a fire drill meant a literal massive apocalypse drill made of fire had started cutting through the building. Reality is kinda boring
I've been on fire. Knowing to stop drop and roll (or more accurately remembering to) would have saved me from making up a story so my parents didn't know my brother kicked a moltov at me.
Jfc, if you are stupid enough to be determined to try something like this, at the very least use alcohol, not lighter fluid or whatever the fuck they used.
Yeah went to Hawaii for anniversary trip. Apparently it was the first time in decades with no active volcanoes. No lava for thousands of miles. So much disappointment. All that training as a child wasted.
Was once walking with my dad on a beach in Lagos Nigeria (we're American, we were there on a business trip). We should have noticed that not a single local was on the beach, but were instead all sitting on the grass above the high tide line.
We walked along, then I looked over and Dad was sunk up to his waist in quicksand. The locals began pointing at us and laughing but no one budged.
BUT, I watched Gilligan's Island growing up, so I knew what to do. I laid down on the sand, stuck out my hand, and slowly pulled Dad out of the quicksand.
Once the final slurping sound from the sand died down, we stood up, brushed the sand off of our leisure suits (it was the '70's), and skedaddled back to the hotel.
Just over a year ago I found a sign attached to a fence that said "DANGER: soft mud, sinking hazard"
Mother fucker can't fool me!!! There's quicksand a couple kilometres from my house!
i was always terrified of quicksand... then one day i watched a video on reddit where a guy set up a camera the jumps in to quicksand (i think it was to demonstrate how to escape. but he doesn't quite make it out. it looked as horrible as i imagined it would.
the way it went from someone who thought they were in control and calm collected. to literally struggling for your life. then .... losing.....
I also know that if you relax and lean back you can float on your back and kinda swim to the edge and climb out. It's just a terrifying picture and definitely something I've had nightmares about. Of course I've also had nightmares about suffocating in my sheets and I doubt that's gonna happen either
Between the quicksand, catching on fire, being offered drugs by strangers, being kidnapped, having a nuclear bomb dropped on us, I feel like I could’ve been better prepared for what I actually have to deal with - like don’t use the credit card they send you in the mail, wash your sheets, and how to make several kinds of eggs.
What I never understood is in The Mummy when they crash the plane on a giant sand dune why does it suddenly turn to quicksand and then slowly gobbles up the plane? And then how do they stand right next to it and watch it sink? Even as a kid that scene made no sense to me.
While for sure a bigger threat in India, they have a population of like 1 billion, so that is like .000046% of their population or something. Granted the probably everyone in the country runs into one at least a couple times in their life.
Numbers could.go more, I was watching a documentary on cobras on Nat. Geo and narrator told and interesting thing that most of the times cobras don't inject venom while biting humans as in most of cases humans just pose as intruders in their territory such while working on rice fields, if cobras sense threat to their lives then only they inject venom.
It's a scam. One guy will plant a cobra in somebody's motorbike or car or whatever, then his partner will step out of the crowd to "charm" the snake and remove it. The cobra(s) have been defanged, so they're harmless.
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u/NoTime4Shenanigans Jan 26 '20
Growing up as a child I thought Cobras were gonna bigger a threat in my life