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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Why didn’t this woman just take the can of beans instead of the bread?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Because then she would have no toast for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

very good question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Woulda had beans on toast, but they lost the can of beans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Crocodile dundee moment

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Putting beans in the green texts now smh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Beans and greens

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 43 minutes ago

His face in this picture

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

now that's a good reason to be conservative

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

Everyone always laughs at hitting someone in the head with a punch/can of beans/baseball bat/2x4/karate chop/whatever and knock them out. The joke being that the person will wake in ten minutes or an hour like in the movies and they'll go about living again.

In real life if you knock someone out cold with some kind of hit to their head ... you've more than likely killed them or put them in a place where they will die within the next hour or two.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

False LMFAO.

Source: semi pro snowboarder who’s been knocked out many times

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Being knocked out is literally one step before dead and can have serious aftereffects like parts of your swollen brain dying because there's too less space for a swollen brain in your skull.

I too was once knocked out as a child and barfed 3 days afterwards with memory loss.

Take care of yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 46 minutes ago

It is not one step before death. Holy shit are you being dramatic.

I had a TBI as a result of a double impact - minor concussion where I didn’t pass out skateboarding (and didn’t know it), then the next day friendly fire collision with a friend in the park snowboarding. I was knocked out for five minutes, had an out of body experience, came to very aggressively with a permanent change of personality that persists to this day half a lifetime later. That being said I was nowhere near death, had a I been knocked out into a coma things would be different.

TBIs are nothing to mess with, they change you for life. ADHD like symptoms, mental health struggles, aggression and explosive anger, memory loss, gaslighting from medical professionals about the severity of the injury (the 2000s were rough…) and opening yourself up to abuse by future significant others because you don’t trust your own memory. Never mind the struggle to maintain employment or how TBIs are invisible disabilities that are tough to get workplace accommodations for.

TBIs are serious, even when they are ‘mild’ (a complete misnomer). But being knocked out ≠ being knocked into a coma which is one step from death. Nor does it mean you’re having a brain bleed. Your brain is inflamed and it’s key not to impact it again for a ~month while the inflammation recedes. Because I had a double impact I ended up permanently damaged. I worry about CTE and dementia later in life as I’ve had other hits to the head since, including getting knocked out momentarily while riding for work.

FYI in case anyone asks - yes I wear a helmet and was wearing one the day of my TBI. Helmets don’t prevent concussions at all, they prevent skull fractures, punctures and lacerations. The helmet saved my life because it prevented skull fracture but more importantly laceration, as my friend collided into my head with the edge of her board first.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

You're going too far in the opposite direction

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Relax, it's just another made up story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

She just stole a loaf of bread. Her sister's child was close to death, she was starving.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Being knocked out is certainly not good, but it's not automatic death like you're suggesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago) (1 children)

Depends where you hit and how hard. It's the emergency shutdown because of concussion. If the concussion was too hard, it can swell and then it gets dangerous. Not to mention fragile places like temple or neck.

Wdit: concussion, not convulsion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I don't think the word convulsion means what you think it means. Do you mean concussion? Concussion is only one type of head injury, though, with different grades to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So I once slipped on a puddle while jogging (in the wrong place) and hit the back of my head on sedimentary tiles.
Since I had stiffened my neck, trying to stretch it backward (yes I was doing that while jogging on wet tiles), my head hit the ground hard.
After about 2 minutes, I fainted for ~10 seconds. Was fine later.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's the problem with anecdotal evidence. You can always find that one person who fulfills the criteria but who's outcome doesn't match.

Of course you can be fine afterwards. But there's a considerable risk that you're not, and experiencing symptoms of a traumatic head injury does warrant a visit to the hospital.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Of course I visited the hospital for a CT scan.

Of course I'm not telling you to hit your head for fun.

This is just a fun story, not evidence for anything.

People have survived failed parachutes. Doesn't mean we can all be Alex Mercer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And even if you haven't killed them outright, they can have permanent disabilities.

If you, or someone you know, gets knocked out, or experiences other symptoms of a central nervous system trauma after a hit to the head, please seek medical care immediately. It's not one those "take two aspirin and let's see how it goes in the morning" kinda things.

I'm just one person, but during my life I've seen this multiple times. I will refrain from boring you, and doxxing myself, by telling my anecdotes. Suffice it to say that I have known people who would have been dead if they hadn't gone to work with a "bad hangover", or ended up with narcolepsy or chronic encephalopathy. And that was separate people BTW.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago

~~Skill~~ Skull issue

[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That is... Incorrect, there is about a 30% death rate within one year of brain trauma but there is absolutely no data showing that someone is going to die within an hour of being knocked unconscious more often than not, especially if they are young