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.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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To be fair stop drop and roll is still good advice. You just don't find yourself on fire that often.
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You could also use bees, as long as you had 5 of em. "Gimme 5 bees for a quarter" you'd say.
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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
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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
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.
If you're afraid of volcanoes, there's a few places you can move to, such as Australia: https://worldinmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/volcano-world-map.jpg
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.
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.
Ah yes, the eye of the volcano
I think they meant that if you were on top of yellowstone when it went off then you wouldn't have time to feel afraid. Your body would transition directly from being biology to being physics without even enough time to pass through being chemistry.
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.
The car in the mall? Well...
Now that makes sense
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.
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Now I'm all about the Alaska triangle
Malls must be magic. That would also explain how Santa is at every mall.
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
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.
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.
There was a time in 1999 where quite a few of us had to stop, drop, shut em down open up shop.
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Clothes have become a lot less flammable over the years and open fireplaces aren't the primary heating method for most houses anymore.
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.
I was worried about acid rain; it sounded very concerning.
That's one thing we actually did fix
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.
Now we have plastic rain
I'm about the chocolate rain
**I move away from the atmosphere to breathe in