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.
I don’t get the car in the mall reference. What am I missing?
You know how there’s a car in a mall sometimes. Maybe for some raffle or for a tiny showroom.
Oh. Bro they brought it in through the main doors - the center bar is often removable.
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.
This is the cutest amd funniest thing I’ve ever heard
Now I’m all about the Alaska triangle
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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.
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
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.
Nope. Atlantis.
Malls must be magic. That would also explain how Santa is at every mall.
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.
The car in the mall? Well…
Now that makes sense
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.
Ok but spontaneous human combustion still got me shook though
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.
You should stay away from Sodium then I guess.
bursting into flames after my 11th Ramen bowl that day
Are you my doctor?!
To be fair stop drop and roll is still good advice. You just don’t find yourself on fire that often.
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.
Wait you managed to light yourself on fire with a CHARCOAL grill?
Did you put accelerant on it for some reason?
I certainly did haha
Caught my pants on fire from a welding spark and by the time I noticed, it was most of my leg on fire. Didn’t even think to stop drop and roll, I just took off my pants.
Couple of points of advice:
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Don’t wear frayed clothing while welding.
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Fire can’t be seen through certain welding masks. If you feel warm, lift the fucking mask.
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In fact, it’s a good thing that we never have to use Stop Drop & Roll ourselves.
what the fuck is a kangaroo shoe pocket
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.
I’m gonna look for some of these as my next trainer.
Bro im aussie and Ive never seen this. They are awesome.
woah these are amazing! never seen them before!
You could also use bees, as long as you had 5 of em. “Gimme 5 bees for a quarter” you’d say.
He forgot to mention all the people just giving you drugs to get you addicted
Fuckin’ D.A.R.E.
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.
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…
Oh man. This is embarrassing, but in college I didn’t want to be in any one in-group (I also have some flavor of commitment issue), so I used to push my way into groups and cliques where I wasn’t invited. I’d wallow in the palpable social discomfort of “Who the fuck is this?” for quite some time till I got used to it. This was my main way to score “recreational flora”. I’d later turn some of them into friends maybe a couple months down the road, but thinking back on this now, I cringe into a black hole.
Also what the fuck is swallowing gum.
Rumor has it that if you swallow chewing gum, it will stay lodged in your gut for seven years
Bad UX decisions is just like swallowing gum because both of them makes me shit myself
Ah yes of course, just like the apple seeds that grow a tree in your gut.
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
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.
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
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.
I thought quicksand would be a much bigger problem in my day to day life.
Tbf you wouldn’t hear the people who drowned in quicksand complain about it afterwards.
You kidding me? for like a good half hour they won’t shut up about it!
Help me, I can’t move, I am sinking, help m…
Yes. Also being burried alive
Im still worried about this one.
To be fair, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that the “buried alive” was metaphorical. See: debt, stress, etc.
I mean it was an actual thing too though!
Oh for sure, but it’s not nearly as much an issue in day to day life as we were led to believe. I suppose I could have been clearer.
Happened during the Rape of Nanking too, except they did it on purpose to civilians.
Edgar Allan Poe has entered the chat…
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
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.
Yeah I’ve never seen quicksand, but I have stepped in that thick-ass mud that traps you and schlorps your shoe off
“Schlorp” is a very fitting word here
This was always the reason at school for why we weren’t allowed to splash on puddles or walk in the mud. Even as a kid I called bullshit because I never saw tons of abandoned shoes in the mud. As a parent now I wonder how the heck they keep the kids out of the mud and puddles as well as they did
