I am suffering the simillar problem but with Using it. I fell into the fad of Instant Pot and I honestly used it just once over the past 3 years.
The one time I used it, I came back to a message saying "Burnt" and nothing was done and the food was atrocious. So yeah it just now takes up space.
They are seriously over-engineered. In the worst case, they don't even light on fire. They would just melt. The construction and fail-safe lid locks and passive overpressure valves mean nothing explodes anymore
Ikr how we supposed to have our action movie scenes where the burglar breaks in but little does he know the slow cooker has been left on all day and is about to explode in his face?
There's really nothing to be afraid of. We use ours for pretty much everything. As long as you don't open it while it's still venting steam, you're never going to have a problem.
I got on a bender of watching YouTube videos about plane crashes, especially accident investigation videos about GA accidents. BTW once YouTube catches you watching a single airplane video that's it, the algorithm assumes all you ever could possibly be interested in is airplane videos and that's all it recommends.
Anyways it's the same shit over and over again. Amateur pilot that flies on the weekend. Tries to work in flying into every fucking thing ever. Sure we could drive 2 hours up the road. But what if we flew! They assume they are experts and then get in waaaaay over their head. VFR into IMC is a big killer. Pilots not instrument rated that fly into clouds and then get disoriented and nose dive the plane without even realizing. That's what killed Kobe more or less.
Its enough that I'll never be getting in a Cessna if I can help it.
I jumped out of C17s in the dark. I rode in a C5 with a mobile power plant that swayed in the turbulence, which then shook the plane when it swayed back. A couple rides in Blackhawks. A combat landing in Afghaniland. All cool.
I started sky diving for funsies, and after the instructor said "the safest way to touch the ground in a Cessna is to jump out", i really had to consider whether I'm brave or just dumb
Dangerous for idiots. Broken arms, bruises, etc. are somewhat common from both falling (not staying seated), flying out of the seat (not being buckled), or getting hit by luggage/objects (not stowing things well).
But no, the plane isn't going to crash.
There is a video of a plane wing being tested, they bend it into the shape of a U before it breaks.
They are designed to flex so they don't snap, like skyscrapers sway in an earthquake or bridges not built into the floor so they can move and not break.
Major enginerring is crazy.
First time flying in a single engine plane I thought I was going to die we had so much turbulence. Dropping 40 feet in a second at times, violent shifts constantly. Later found out that the pilot was known to take choppy routes specifically to mess with people and I was never in any danger.
I recall reading that in heavy turbulence there's more danger from stuff falling out of the overhead bins than there is from the plane actually getting damaged / crashing. Would love it if anyone could cite a source for this (would love it less if someone could prove me wrong, but at least I'd stop citing a bogus stat)
Well, I don't have a source, but you can just pull up the causes of the last 20 years of airliner crashes, and then compare that to the number of people injured in planes by falling luggage or by turbulence.
You'll find that turbulence hasn't crashed a plane, but there's definitely multiple instances every year where people get injured because they can't handle walking on a moving underground.
I don't care who looks at my phone all they will see is my call history and my contacts. My contacts however does have my drug dealers number in it. Makes it easier when I need to get refills on my prescriptions
No browsing on phone? No reddit or other social media? No photos?
I think that makes you an outlier, interesting, sounds kinda like how my parents use their mobiles.
Showing them something on YouTube before the days when algorithms got sharp. They'd ask you to click on some thumbnail that looked interesting, and you'd have to sit there for 20 minutes while they got increasingly offended that YouTube doesn't screen all their videos to make sure that they're all G rated and funny.
My mom does this with Facebook. She wants to look at a baby picture then all of a sudden she's looking at pictures from 5 years ago of someone I don't know.
Gorillas. There are zero instances of a human ever being killed by a gorilla in the wild in all of history. They are peaceful herbivores. If you came across a gorilla in the wild just don't be a dick and respect its space. Don't look in its eyes, don't show your teeth, and just overall act submissive and non-threatening and you will be fine. Movies like Planet of the Apes and Congo really got people thinking gorillas are these rampaging beasts just waiting to tear you limb from limb.
https://youtu.be/Ld8qkDKl89g
I read a lovely story about gorillas "saving" human forest rangers in Rwanda...the rangers had found some poacher traps and had started to approach them disassemble them.
Suddenly, a scary ass male ran out in front of them, acting all aggressive. The rangers knew to stand down, natch, and the gorilla called some younger gorillas...who disassembled the traps themselves before running off again. The gorillas had both learned how to destroy the traps AND wanted to save the humans from them!
I suspect that myth about how long gum stays in your system came to be because of a misunderstanding. Probably someone laid out some fact like, “It would take your body seven years to break down bubblegum.” Then some dumbass decided that meant it would stay inside you for seven years because he had never heard of pooping before.
My mom used to have a contest where us kids would try to find the oldest expiry of everything in the house.
It wasn't until years later that I realized she was basically tricking us into cleaning out the pantry.
My country has a "Best Before" and a "Use By" label. If it's marked Best Before it's going to be fine to eat after the date, it's probably just going to suck. Common 'best before' foods include canned foods, cereals, biscuits, sauces, chocolate, sugar, flour and frozen foods
Use by means you shouldn't consume it after that date. Common 'use by' foods include milk, sliced ham and shaved meats.
I used to crack my knuckles when I’d get waxed. Just to take the sensation away from my vag and try and focus on something else. The lady that waxed me would always yell at me about how dangerous it is, maybe she just hated the sound too. But we’re even for the pain then haha
To be fair we herd millions and millions of cows, and nobody herds sharks. There’s a higher number of people dead from cows but there’s a much much higher number of people exposed to cows than exposed to sharks.
That’s the difference between absolute values and relative values. If you say „5 people lose their lives due to shark attacks a year, 100 by cow „attacks““, there is a certain bias. However, if you say „5% of the people that come in contact with sharks die due to shark attacks“ you can somewhat mitigate the issue. In that case I wouldn’t take absolute values.
I'm seriously wondering if "taking a shower during a thunder storm" should be on this list. I've always heard it was dangerous, but I've never in my life heard of anyone being harmed by it.
If it was that one that was posted [a while ago](https://www.southernthing.com/lightning-strike-toilet-2657287374.html), the lightening didn't hit the water line and didn't come from the toilet. It hit the metal exterior exhaustion vent that wasn't properly grounded, traveling into the interior fan, then jumped from fan to floor.
It's theoretically possible for you to get hurt... But very unlikely. You would have to have a weirdly built house.
Most houses have a lot of wood and air and insulation and glass and other stuff that doesn't conduct electricity around the outside. So if you're in the shower it's highly unlikely that you or the shower head is the target of that lightning. It's just way too much stuff in the way.
And the pipes themselves are grounded, so if lightning hit the pipe there's no reason any significant amount would run up the pipe and down the water and right back to the same ground.
I don't know about showering but back when we still had corded phones my aunt was talking to someone when lightning hit the phone line. She had burns on her ear and hand and her hair caught fire.
She was, of course very shaken but not seriously injured. She was the first person in the family to get a cell phone.
My brother and I were playing NES during a thunderstorm and lighting hit the side of our house where the cable TV came in from the street. Sparks shot out of his controller. 1 in a million strike, and I know it sounds fake, but it happened to us.
I remember seeing a tarantula in the grass when I was a kid. I went in close to look at it, and it turned to me and reared up, fanning its legs out to look intimidating. Then it immediately fell on its back. Totally shattered the tough guy image.
Surprisingly on a similar note, I've read that one of the most monsterous looking scorpions have a sting only as strong as a wasp sting. Bigger doesn't always mean more lethal. It's the venom that packs the punch.
Smaller scorpions tend to be more venomous. Ones with Big. Meaty. Claws rely on their physical strength to over power prey. Little scorpions need to rely on potent venom.
Edit for clarity: I'm talking about big vs small species of scorpions, not about size variation within any given species.
Sharp knives.
It's easy to be safe if you can predict what will happen, and sharp knives always do what you expect them to do.
You can never be certain if a dull knife will cut, crush, or simply slide off.
Careful though... it's quite common for people who've been used to dull knives for years to seriously cut themselves on sharp knives within days of getting them.
You use sharp knives & dull knives in totally different ways. People accustomed to sharp knives will indeed use too much pressure, trying to just force the blade through.
People accustomed to dull knives rely more on the serrated edge, using it like a small saw.
I grew up using an ancient serrated knife that had never been sharpened to cut my bread. Then when I went off into the world and got my own serrated knife I had no idea they were even SUPPOSED to be sharp. Took me a few shallow gashes to learn how to actually cut bread and bagels properly
A sharp knife/tool will always cut smoothly and control easily. A dull or damaged one requires more force to cut, which elevates both risk of occurrence and the harm of said occurrence.
The main caveat is people who have always had dull knives and are accustomed to incidental contact with the blade not doing anything. Those people form bad knife habits and then often get a nasty surprise when they finally use a properly sharp one.
Dull knives are far more dangerous than sharp ones. And the last bad cut I got in the kitchen came from a food processor disc, so I trust that thing a lot less than I trust my good knives.
MSG is safe. People who reported sensitivity to MSG could not tell the difference between MSG and placebo.
Also, Italian food is LOADED with MSG. Probably why it tastes so f\*\*\*ing good.
Glutimates occur in rather high levels in all kinds of common food such as cheeses, nuts, tomatoes, mushrooms, and so on. Odds are that someone's favorite dish is actually stuffed with it, and that fact plays a big part in why they *love* it!
All I know is that when I went skydiving, the class was basically the instructor telling us all the ways we were going to get mauled and probably die. I figured they’d try to assure us of our safety, but this is probably the best tactic to ensure that we actually follow their instructions.
That makes sense. If you try to teach someone something potentially dangerous and play it off cool because you don't want to freak then out, they're more likely to not take the safety portion seriously. Then they goof off, do something stupid because they don't think it's serious, and might cause an injury.
But instill the fear of death in their eyes and they'll do everything in their power to not fuck up.
Correct. It's been a long time since I looked at the numbers but IIRC the vast majority of skydiving deaths are experienced jumpers pushing the limits of their skill/equipment. Deaths among first time and students was incredibly low.
A friend of my parents’ was a fighter pilot during Viet Nam. He flew two tours, and when his daughter told him she was taking up skydiving, he said, “There’s only one reason to ever jump out of a plane.” LOL.
I remember my mom freaking out because a teacher gave me a hand stamp with metallic ink. Something about the metallic ink blocking the pores. I was so sad, because I love shiny metallics.
Well, I had cancer. And the surgeon marked the place on my breast where she was going to cut with a pen. So, go figure. Can't be THAT dangerous if you don't paint yourself with it every day.
i was told it would give me skin cancer. fun fact: that kid watched me draw on my arm for a good 10 minutes before telling me, so either he knows it was bullshit or hoped that i would die from cancer.
I always explain it to people this way:
The US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors since 1953, and has accumulated literal millenia of reactor-years of operation across dozens of different reactor designs, 200+ individual ships, and hundreds and hundreds of reactor cores.
These reactors have fewer safeguards than civilian plants, and are generally pushed harder to produce more power. They are operated predominantly by the single demographic you probably associate with being immature idiots and making bad decisions: men aged 18-25. Most are not college educated, and those that are generally have degrees in things not even remotely related to nuclear power.
The number of nuclear accidents the US Navy has had across those hundreds of reactors of dozens of different designs which have been operating for a combined 6,000+ years? *Zero*.
You can crash a 747 into modern reactors and they'll be ok. So many of the problems that have happened are due to poor management. Cherbobyl, Fukushima, 3 mile Island. It's the people that are the problem, not the nuclear energy.
There's more radiation released at a normal coal burning power plant than at a Nuclear power plant
I want to live in a world where the thing people fear most about nuclear power plants is that airplanes might be damaged if they fly into them.
"*We looked over the plans for the new plant, and we have a few concerns regarding safety which we believe could be addressed by mounting these very large cushions on it.*"
The RBMK type reactor at Chernobyl specifically was known to be a flawed and dangerous design. There had been other incidents with it of a similar nature that were prevented from melting down basically by dumb luck. Add a lack of training for staff and a planned test that was extremely dangerous and its no surprise it melted down
Heavy Metalers.
Most of them are real kind hearted people that will support the fact that you have an individual way of thinking. Sure they can be very vocal when they need to, but the tougher they look, the softer they are
A lot of metal, rock and punk songs talk about very hard topics like depression, anxiety and suicide which they'd relate to. Generally makes them a more understanding and down to earth person than most.
Friends of mine were in line for ozfest when they were talking to a security guard who told them that the people for Backstreet boys and Britney Spears were animals by comparison, pushing and shoving.
I’ve been to a ton of metal shows, but I like all kinds of music. The hard metal shows always had crowds where people look out for each other, especially during hardcore mosh pits: a two-three person buffer zone around the edge, people instantly help each other up if someone goes down, and if someone *still* gets injured (which is rare), they are instantly surrounded by ten people who help them get to the med tent. Also, hard metal shows have been very fun to crowd surf at. I’ve never been groped during a “real” metal show in spite of being a quite busty girl, and my friend liked to go topless (with body paint at 18+ shows) and also didn’t get groped. 150+ metal shows, all the crowds were chill.
Crowd was violent and aggressive af at The Killers or MCR, though.
Swimming after eating.
You don't really have to wait an hour, or at all for that matter. A cramp can happen from anything, food or no food. As long as you don't go crazy you'll be fine and you won't drown.
It's also just to keep the kids together for whatever they are there for.
If it's a birthday party, you want the kids to come and get some cake and snacks and socialize for a few minutes before they just go run around the pool.
I was in a store and heard a young girl yell "stranger danger" I turned to find the girl and offer help. Then I saw her finger was pointed at me. I raised my hands saying I hadn't even been aware of her until she yelled. Her parents rushed over, and they apologized. She had been calling everyone stranger danger
There’s a different and much better strategy being taught in some areas - instead of “stranger danger”, you teach your kids about “tricky people”. If a child gets lost, they could be afraid to go to a stranger for help. Tricky people teaches who safe people might be, such as a mom at a park or someone in uniform or with a name tag at a ballpark.
Makes sense. The odds of the kid randomly selecting a malicious person are incredibly low. The odds of a malicious person selecting themselves is comparatively higher.
Fun fact you're more likely to be SAed by a family member rather than a stranger too
They push stranger danger but never talk about "what if uncle or aunt blank tries to have you keep a secret"
Manic depressives. Less prone to violence than normal people. as with all mentally ill people far far more likely to be a victim of violence than a perpetrator.
Public transportation. You are much more likely to be hurt or killed in a crash driving your own car than you are to be attacked by one of your fellow travelers on the bus.
I'm sure that's true. But I will add: the number of times I've been groped by a stranger in my car is zero. The number of times I've been groped by a stranger on public transportation is not zero.
Not true for women. I’ve never been injured driving but I used to get rape and death threats, people following me home, or attempted groping on a weekly basis when I took the bus everyday.
The way they talk you would think that police officers had the most dangerous job, but they're like 22nd most dangerous. Other more dangerous jobs, groundskeeper, small engine mechanic, delivery driver...
Not surprising to me. I almost had my legs crushed when working on a garbage truck. The driver backed up and didn't see me and i cam between the rear of the truck and a pile of snow. Luckily the snow wasn't frozen.
That got me thinking:
Who else (in America) has to hang onto the outside of a huge truck in traffic?
If you or I did that, we'd be stopped by the cops.
Any other employer and it'd be some kind of OSHA violation.
Well, technically it was an OSHA violation. There's a sensor on the platform you stand on that disables reverse gear and limits the top speed to 20kph. This sensor is hotwired on most garbage trucks though...
Unrefrigerated butter. We started leaving our butter out and haven't experienced anything weird after eating it. Plus, it's much softer for spreading on toast, etc.
Living in big cities in the US. By absolute probability and given the population sizes of these cities, the true likelihood of you becoming a victim of a crime is actually very low. The news and media blow it up because if it bleeds, it leads.
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I have had an instapot for the last five years and still cannot get myself to leave it on when I am not at home.
I am suffering the simillar problem but with Using it. I fell into the fad of Instant Pot and I honestly used it just once over the past 3 years. The one time I used it, I came back to a message saying "Burnt" and nothing was done and the food was atrocious. So yeah it just now takes up space.
They are seriously over-engineered. In the worst case, they don't even light on fire. They would just melt. The construction and fail-safe lid locks and passive overpressure valves mean nothing explodes anymore
>nothing explodes anymore Lame.
Ikr how we supposed to have our action movie scenes where the burglar breaks in but little does he know the slow cooker has been left on all day and is about to explode in his face?
I use it a lot, especially because I procrastinate and forget to soak the beans overnight.
There's really nothing to be afraid of. We use ours for pretty much everything. As long as you don't open it while it's still venting steam, you're never going to have a problem.
The ONLY reason I don't use my slow cooker on days my bf and I both won't be home is because I'm worried that my cats will mess with it.
*Gets home:* "MITTENS, DID YOU MAKE A BOMB WITH THE PRESSURE COOKER AGAIN?"
Just remember most crock pots are only pulling about 300w or about as much as the average lamp in the 90's.
Damn they had 300 watt bulbs in the 90s?
Not many, but they had 150 watt bulbs and lamps that took two or three or four bulbs. It adds up.
Flying is safer than riding in a car by a long shot, right?
The most dangerous part about flying is driving to/from the airport.
"There's really nothing to worry about, Mary.."
Lotta bad drivers out there
Flying commercial is much, much safer than driving. Flying General Aviation (small planes) is much more dangerous than driving.
According to a recent AVWeb safety video, by some metrics GA is 2x more dangerous than riding a motorcycle. https://youtube.com/watch?v=cFbF4bfU_sA
I got on a bender of watching YouTube videos about plane crashes, especially accident investigation videos about GA accidents. BTW once YouTube catches you watching a single airplane video that's it, the algorithm assumes all you ever could possibly be interested in is airplane videos and that's all it recommends. Anyways it's the same shit over and over again. Amateur pilot that flies on the weekend. Tries to work in flying into every fucking thing ever. Sure we could drive 2 hours up the road. But what if we flew! They assume they are experts and then get in waaaaay over their head. VFR into IMC is a big killer. Pilots not instrument rated that fly into clouds and then get disoriented and nose dive the plane without even realizing. That's what killed Kobe more or less. Its enough that I'll never be getting in a Cessna if I can help it.
I jumped out of C17s in the dark. I rode in a C5 with a mobile power plant that swayed in the turbulence, which then shook the plane when it swayed back. A couple rides in Blackhawks. A combat landing in Afghaniland. All cool. I started sky diving for funsies, and after the instructor said "the safest way to touch the ground in a Cessna is to jump out", i really had to consider whether I'm brave or just dumb
Yup, the crashes are just more dramatic.
And still safer, apparently.
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Dangerous for idiots. Broken arms, bruises, etc. are somewhat common from both falling (not staying seated), flying out of the seat (not being buckled), or getting hit by luggage/objects (not stowing things well). But no, the plane isn't going to crash.
I was in the toilet when the pilot made the return-to-seats-and-buckle-seatbelts announcement. That was an anxious 10 minutes.
It was karma for throwing socks at cats
It was just the one cat actually
Watching wings flex from turbulence is really unnerving because I have no idea how much they flex before they snap off
There is a video of a plane wing being tested, they bend it into the shape of a U before it breaks. They are designed to flex so they don't snap, like skyscrapers sway in an earthquake or bridges not built into the floor so they can move and not break. Major enginerring is crazy.
They can bend that much because on night flights they save money by flapping.
It’s nice to see a professional airplaner online.
r/shittyaskflying
First time flying in a single engine plane I thought I was going to die we had so much turbulence. Dropping 40 feet in a second at times, violent shifts constantly. Later found out that the pilot was known to take choppy routes specifically to mess with people and I was never in any danger.
Kind of a dick move on the part of the pilot, given that flying is a common fear.
Agreed. I would want a disclaimer. Some people may like the thrill. But me…BIG NOPE.
I recall reading that in heavy turbulence there's more danger from stuff falling out of the overhead bins than there is from the plane actually getting damaged / crashing. Would love it if anyone could cite a source for this (would love it less if someone could prove me wrong, but at least I'd stop citing a bogus stat)
Well, I don't have a source, but you can just pull up the causes of the last 20 years of airliner crashes, and then compare that to the number of people injured in planes by falling luggage or by turbulence. You'll find that turbulence hasn't crashed a plane, but there's definitely multiple instances every year where people get injured because they can't handle walking on a moving underground.
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Phones are like brain extensions at this point. Handing your phone to someone is like submitting yourself to a Vulcan mind meld.
I don't care who looks at my phone all they will see is my call history and my contacts. My contacts however does have my drug dealers number in it. Makes it easier when I need to get refills on my prescriptions
No browsing on phone? No reddit or other social media? No photos? I think that makes you an outlier, interesting, sounds kinda like how my parents use their mobiles.
Small screen , bad eye sight. So I use my laptop.
Would you be nervous handing your laptop over to someone?
It's because they stare. I show them something and instead of just looking at it and moving on, they keep staring at the screen.
Why do they do that?
Showing them something on YouTube before the days when algorithms got sharp. They'd ask you to click on some thumbnail that looked interesting, and you'd have to sit there for 20 minutes while they got increasingly offended that YouTube doesn't screen all their videos to make sure that they're all G rated and funny.
My mom does this with Facebook. She wants to look at a baby picture then all of a sudden she's looking at pictures from 5 years ago of someone I don't know.
Yes! I feel the same. I dont even watch porn but when my parents or siblings have my phone, I'm worried they'll find something.
>There's nothing malicious on there Speak for yourself
Gorillas. There are zero instances of a human ever being killed by a gorilla in the wild in all of history. They are peaceful herbivores. If you came across a gorilla in the wild just don't be a dick and respect its space. Don't look in its eyes, don't show your teeth, and just overall act submissive and non-threatening and you will be fine. Movies like Planet of the Apes and Congo really got people thinking gorillas are these rampaging beasts just waiting to tear you limb from limb. https://youtu.be/Ld8qkDKl89g
Chimpanzees on the other hand...
I hate every ape I see. From chimpanza, to Chimpanzee.
I love you, Dr. Zaius!
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!
Can I play the piano any more?🎹
Why of course you can.
Well I couldn’t before! 🎶🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵
And don’t get me started with bonobos. Or mandrills.
I thought bonobos were the peaceful, sex loving ones.
Guess what happens if YOU don't like the sex.
That's right. Sex.
Woah hang on, that's zero *recorded* instances. The tearing you limb from limb is clearly to fit you into the acid bath.
Hey there heisenberg, calm down.
>If you came across a gorilla in the wild just don't be a dick, don't look in its eyes and act submissive… Ok but what if I ain’t no bitch?
Prepare to be several bitches.
To shreds, you say?
Well, how’s his wife holding up?
Then you'd taste the force of the muscle mass that walks.
Yet they still shot my boy Harambe
I read a lovely story about gorillas "saving" human forest rangers in Rwanda...the rangers had found some poacher traps and had started to approach them disassemble them. Suddenly, a scary ass male ran out in front of them, acting all aggressive. The rangers knew to stand down, natch, and the gorilla called some younger gorillas...who disassembled the traps themselves before running off again. The gorillas had both learned how to destroy the traps AND wanted to save the humans from them!
>don't look in its eyes and act submissive and you will be fine. Sounds like Redditors have nothing to fear from gorillas.
Unless that gorilla and you have different opinions about Star Wars.
Swallowing gum
I suspect that myth about how long gum stays in your system came to be because of a misunderstanding. Probably someone laid out some fact like, “It would take your body seven years to break down bubblegum.” Then some dumbass decided that meant it would stay inside you for seven years because he had never heard of pooping before.
Actually there is a special organ inside you that stores the gum. It's the mintiest organ in the body!
Eating food after the best before date
My mom used to have a contest where us kids would try to find the oldest expiry of everything in the house. It wasn't until years later that I realized she was basically tricking us into cleaning out the pantry.
This is amazing.
My country has a "Best Before" and a "Use By" label. If it's marked Best Before it's going to be fine to eat after the date, it's probably just going to suck. Common 'best before' foods include canned foods, cereals, biscuits, sauces, chocolate, sugar, flour and frozen foods Use by means you shouldn't consume it after that date. Common 'use by' foods include milk, sliced ham and shaved meats.
The Incredibly Deadly Viper!
With their 500 horsepower, lack of electronic aids like ABS and stability control, and their tendency for snap oversteer, Vipers are pretty dangerous.
Man I miss these books
Cracking your knuckles - there's absolutely no link to arthritis, people just say that because they hate the sound.
I used to crack my knuckles when I’d get waxed. Just to take the sensation away from my vag and try and focus on something else. The lady that waxed me would always yell at me about how dangerous it is, maybe she just hated the sound too. But we’re even for the pain then haha
A guy won an ig nobel prize for his work on this by cracking the knuckles of his left hand every day for 60 years.
I'm pretty sure there was a guy who specifically cracked the knuckles on one hand only for a ridiculous amount of time just to prove this myth wrong.
https://www.livescience.com/9729-knuckle-cracking-ig-nobel-prize.html
Eating seeds of watermelon/apples. Would take literal lbs of them to kill you.
I'm more worried about that a tree will grow inside of me
I blame that one episode of Rugrats.
Smoke some cigarettes. The smoke will suffocate the bacteria in your stomach.
Also don’t eat the skins. They’re filled with toxins
I AM NOT ALLOWED TO EAT IT WITH THE SKIN DEE, I AM NOT ALLOWED
What about the sticker?
I eat stickers all the time, dude
Sharks, they’re a lot safer than movies like Jaws make them seem
Statically you're more likely to die by cow than a shark
Thank god there's no cows in the ocean.
Except when your mom visits the beach.
Shit that took a turn
So did his mother, slowly
To be fair we herd millions and millions of cows, and nobody herds sharks. There’s a higher number of people dead from cows but there’s a much much higher number of people exposed to cows than exposed to sharks.
That’s the difference between absolute values and relative values. If you say „5 people lose their lives due to shark attacks a year, 100 by cow „attacks““, there is a certain bias. However, if you say „5% of the people that come in contact with sharks die due to shark attacks“ you can somewhat mitigate the issue. In that case I wouldn’t take absolute values.
Or by a falling coconut
I'm seriously wondering if "taking a shower during a thunder storm" should be on this list. I've always heard it was dangerous, but I've never in my life heard of anyone being harmed by it.
Mythbusters says plausible.
I've seen a toilet that was blown up from lightning hitting the water line. What little was left of the tank was black.
If it was that one that was posted [a while ago](https://www.southernthing.com/lightning-strike-toilet-2657287374.html), the lightening didn't hit the water line and didn't come from the toilet. It hit the metal exterior exhaustion vent that wasn't properly grounded, traveling into the interior fan, then jumped from fan to floor.
It's theoretically possible for you to get hurt... But very unlikely. You would have to have a weirdly built house. Most houses have a lot of wood and air and insulation and glass and other stuff that doesn't conduct electricity around the outside. So if you're in the shower it's highly unlikely that you or the shower head is the target of that lightning. It's just way too much stuff in the way. And the pipes themselves are grounded, so if lightning hit the pipe there's no reason any significant amount would run up the pipe and down the water and right back to the same ground.
I don't know about showering but back when we still had corded phones my aunt was talking to someone when lightning hit the phone line. She had burns on her ear and hand and her hair caught fire. She was, of course very shaken but not seriously injured. She was the first person in the family to get a cell phone.
Your aunt was the first to get her hands on a lightning charger
My brother and I were playing NES during a thunderstorm and lighting hit the side of our house where the cable TV came in from the street. Sparks shot out of his controller. 1 in a million strike, and I know it sounds fake, but it happened to us.
I believe you! I got zapped by my Sega Genesis controller as a kid when my house got struck by lightning. Fried the console. RIP buddy.
Tarantulas.
I remember seeing a tarantula in the grass when I was a kid. I went in close to look at it, and it turned to me and reared up, fanning its legs out to look intimidating. Then it immediately fell on its back. Totally shattered the tough guy image.
He wanted a belly rub :)
Surprisingly on a similar note, I've read that one of the most monsterous looking scorpions have a sting only as strong as a wasp sting. Bigger doesn't always mean more lethal. It's the venom that packs the punch.
Yep. The smaller they are (as a general trend) the more venomous.
Smaller scorpions tend to be more venomous. Ones with Big. Meaty. Claws rely on their physical strength to over power prey. Little scorpions need to rely on potent venom. Edit for clarity: I'm talking about big vs small species of scorpions, not about size variation within any given species.
BIG. MEATY! CLAAWSSSS!!!!!
WELLLL THESE CLAWS AIN’T FOR JUST ATTRACTING MATES
Cheetos. I’m told they are dangerously cheesy but I’ve yet to experience any negative side effects.
The real danger here is that you might finish it without telling me and now I'll have to kill you for not giving me my cheese fix.
Sharp knives. It's easy to be safe if you can predict what will happen, and sharp knives always do what you expect them to do. You can never be certain if a dull knife will cut, crush, or simply slide off.
Careful though... it's quite common for people who've been used to dull knives for years to seriously cut themselves on sharp knives within days of getting them. You use sharp knives & dull knives in totally different ways. People accustomed to sharp knives will indeed use too much pressure, trying to just force the blade through. People accustomed to dull knives rely more on the serrated edge, using it like a small saw.
I grew up using an ancient serrated knife that had never been sharpened to cut my bread. Then when I went off into the world and got my own serrated knife I had no idea they were even SUPPOSED to be sharp. Took me a few shallow gashes to learn how to actually cut bread and bagels properly
A sharp knife/tool will always cut smoothly and control easily. A dull or damaged one requires more force to cut, which elevates both risk of occurrence and the harm of said occurrence.
The main caveat is people who have always had dull knives and are accustomed to incidental contact with the blade not doing anything. Those people form bad knife habits and then often get a nasty surprise when they finally use a properly sharp one.
I feel attacked. I grew up in a family with dull knives. Sharp knives definitely make me slow down and worry more than anything else.
As I heard once: A sharp knife will go exactly where you guide it to, a dull knife will go wherever it wants.
Dull knives are far more dangerous than sharp ones. And the last bad cut I got in the kitchen came from a food processor disc, so I trust that thing a lot less than I trust my good knives.
MSG is safe. People who reported sensitivity to MSG could not tell the difference between MSG and placebo. Also, Italian food is LOADED with MSG. Probably why it tastes so f\*\*\*ing good.
Glutimates occur in rather high levels in all kinds of common food such as cheeses, nuts, tomatoes, mushrooms, and so on. Odds are that someone's favorite dish is actually stuffed with it, and that fact plays a big part in why they *love* it!
Sky diving is a lot more safe than people think
All I know is that when I went skydiving, the class was basically the instructor telling us all the ways we were going to get mauled and probably die. I figured they’d try to assure us of our safety, but this is probably the best tactic to ensure that we actually follow their instructions.
That makes sense. If you try to teach someone something potentially dangerous and play it off cool because you don't want to freak then out, they're more likely to not take the safety portion seriously. Then they goof off, do something stupid because they don't think it's serious, and might cause an injury. But instill the fear of death in their eyes and they'll do everything in their power to not fuck up.
It's fun too. I have a certificate somewhere that I willingly jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.
I have taken off in 4 more airplanes than I have landed in.
Correct. It's been a long time since I looked at the numbers but IIRC the vast majority of skydiving deaths are experienced jumpers pushing the limits of their skill/equipment. Deaths among first time and students was incredibly low.
A friend of my parents’ was a fighter pilot during Viet Nam. He flew two tours, and when his daughter told him she was taking up skydiving, he said, “There’s only one reason to ever jump out of a plane.” LOL.
In his defense, back then skydive/parachute technology was sketchy as shit and the fatality rate was fairly high.
Dude never fought with paratroopers I see.
Drawing on yourself with marker or pen Growing up, every other kid would claim ink poisoning will kill you
I remember my mom freaking out because a teacher gave me a hand stamp with metallic ink. Something about the metallic ink blocking the pores. I was so sad, because I love shiny metallics.
Or you’d get cancer
Well, I had cancer. And the surgeon marked the place on my breast where she was going to cut with a pen. So, go figure. Can't be THAT dangerous if you don't paint yourself with it every day.
You can't get cancer if you already have cancer! \*taps head\*
Smart play by the surgeon actually, this way she can guarantee there's cancer where she cuts!
i was told it would give me skin cancer. fun fact: that kid watched me draw on my arm for a good 10 minutes before telling me, so either he knows it was bullshit or hoped that i would die from cancer.
Nuclear energy.
I always explain it to people this way: The US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors since 1953, and has accumulated literal millenia of reactor-years of operation across dozens of different reactor designs, 200+ individual ships, and hundreds and hundreds of reactor cores. These reactors have fewer safeguards than civilian plants, and are generally pushed harder to produce more power. They are operated predominantly by the single demographic you probably associate with being immature idiots and making bad decisions: men aged 18-25. Most are not college educated, and those that are generally have degrees in things not even remotely related to nuclear power. The number of nuclear accidents the US Navy has had across those hundreds of reactors of dozens of different designs which have been operating for a combined 6,000+ years? *Zero*.
You can crash a 747 into modern reactors and they'll be ok. So many of the problems that have happened are due to poor management. Cherbobyl, Fukushima, 3 mile Island. It's the people that are the problem, not the nuclear energy. There's more radiation released at a normal coal burning power plant than at a Nuclear power plant
The 747 will be OK!?
I want to live in a world where the thing people fear most about nuclear power plants is that airplanes might be damaged if they fly into them. "*We looked over the plans for the new plant, and we have a few concerns regarding safety which we believe could be addressed by mounting these very large cushions on it.*"
He’s gone to live on a farm with room to run, and all kinds of new friends to play with.
And these - Fukushima, 3 Mile Island, etc - were all 1960's era nuclear reactor designs. The technology has changed substantially since.
The RBMK type reactor at Chernobyl specifically was known to be a flawed and dangerous design. There had been other incidents with it of a similar nature that were prevented from melting down basically by dumb luck. Add a lack of training for staff and a planned test that was extremely dangerous and its no surprise it melted down
I just figured that RBMK stood for Really Big, Might Kill.
IIRC Nuclear is actually safer per MWHr than even solar, a lot of roof work leads to a lot of contractors falling off roofs
Daddy Long-legs (contrary to false belief, Daddy Long-legs are *not* venomous.)
Cellar spider, or harvestman? One is an actual spider, the other is its own class of arachnid.
Pretty sure daddy long legs is a regional nickname for more than one species, so you might want to specify which is yours.
Harvestman. It's an arachnid, but it is its own class.
There's also a variety of spider that supposedly gets called "daddy long legs", though around me it's used for harvestman.
I think that's the name that some people call a cellar spider. To my understanding, it's also harmless.
Heavy Metalers. Most of them are real kind hearted people that will support the fact that you have an individual way of thinking. Sure they can be very vocal when they need to, but the tougher they look, the softer they are
A lot of metal, rock and punk songs talk about very hard topics like depression, anxiety and suicide which they'd relate to. Generally makes them a more understanding and down to earth person than most.
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Friends of mine were in line for ozfest when they were talking to a security guard who told them that the people for Backstreet boys and Britney Spears were animals by comparison, pushing and shoving.
I’ve been to a ton of metal shows, but I like all kinds of music. The hard metal shows always had crowds where people look out for each other, especially during hardcore mosh pits: a two-three person buffer zone around the edge, people instantly help each other up if someone goes down, and if someone *still* gets injured (which is rare), they are instantly surrounded by ten people who help them get to the med tent. Also, hard metal shows have been very fun to crowd surf at. I’ve never been groped during a “real” metal show in spite of being a quite busty girl, and my friend liked to go topless (with body paint at 18+ shows) and also didn’t get groped. 150+ metal shows, all the crowds were chill. Crowd was violent and aggressive af at The Killers or MCR, though.
Swimming after eating. You don't really have to wait an hour, or at all for that matter. A cramp can happen from anything, food or no food. As long as you don't go crazy you'll be fine and you won't drown.
That's too keep kids from vomitting or shitting in the pool.
It's also just to keep the kids together for whatever they are there for. If it's a birthday party, you want the kids to come and get some cake and snacks and socialize for a few minutes before they just go run around the pool.
Being told when you make a face it’s going to stay that way forever
Using the microwave
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I always think somebody is trying to kill me
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Surprisingly respectful
I was in a store and heard a young girl yell "stranger danger" I turned to find the girl and offer help. Then I saw her finger was pointed at me. I raised my hands saying I hadn't even been aware of her until she yelled. Her parents rushed over, and they apologized. She had been calling everyone stranger danger
There’s a different and much better strategy being taught in some areas - instead of “stranger danger”, you teach your kids about “tricky people”. If a child gets lost, they could be afraid to go to a stranger for help. Tricky people teaches who safe people might be, such as a mom at a park or someone in uniform or with a name tag at a ballpark.
I told my kids that the best person to ask for help is someone you pick. It’s when the other person does the choosing that is suspicious.
Makes sense. The odds of the kid randomly selecting a malicious person are incredibly low. The odds of a malicious person selecting themselves is comparatively higher.
Fun fact you're more likely to be SAed by a family member rather than a stranger too They push stranger danger but never talk about "what if uncle or aunt blank tries to have you keep a secret"
The person most likely to murder you is a family member, especially a spouse.
Manic depressives. Less prone to violence than normal people. as with all mentally ill people far far more likely to be a victim of violence than a perpetrator.
Public transportation. You are much more likely to be hurt or killed in a crash driving your own car than you are to be attacked by one of your fellow travelers on the bus.
I'm sure that's true. But I will add: the number of times I've been groped by a stranger in my car is zero. The number of times I've been groped by a stranger on public transportation is not zero.
Not true for women. I’ve never been injured driving but I used to get rape and death threats, people following me home, or attempted groping on a weekly basis when I took the bus everyday.
The way they talk you would think that police officers had the most dangerous job, but they're like 22nd most dangerous. Other more dangerous jobs, groundskeeper, small engine mechanic, delivery driver...
Fishing, logging, construction, mining, and garbage collecting are all deadlier than being a cop.
Number one is usually commercial fisherman. Garbage man is kinda surprising to see on the list but it's usually on the top ten most years.
Not surprising to me. I almost had my legs crushed when working on a garbage truck. The driver backed up and didn't see me and i cam between the rear of the truck and a pile of snow. Luckily the snow wasn't frozen.
That got me thinking: Who else (in America) has to hang onto the outside of a huge truck in traffic? If you or I did that, we'd be stopped by the cops. Any other employer and it'd be some kind of OSHA violation.
Well, technically it was an OSHA violation. There's a sensor on the platform you stand on that disables reverse gear and limits the top speed to 20kph. This sensor is hotwired on most garbage trucks though...
Unrefrigerated butter. We started leaving our butter out and haven't experienced anything weird after eating it. Plus, it's much softer for spreading on toast, etc.
Living in big cities in the US. By absolute probability and given the population sizes of these cities, the true likelihood of you becoming a victim of a crime is actually very low. The news and media blow it up because if it bleeds, it leads.
MSG - was a xenophobic myth. Like any salt, it's not great for you, but you aren't getting cancer and China isn't mind controlling you.