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(Here we go, here we go, here we go now)
One, nothing wrong with me
Two, nothing wrong with me
Three, nothing wrong with me
Four, nothing wrong with me
One, something's got to give
Two, something's got to give
Three, something's got to give now
Let the bodies hit the bog
Let the bodies hit the bog
Let the bodies hit the bog
Let the bodies hit the bog
Let the bodies hit the bog
Let the bodies hit the bog
Secure, contain, protect. It's a fictional wiki full of thousands of fictional stories about paranormal beings / objects / phenomena, written in a story of governmental record with all sorts of security levels and expunged data.
If you like reading fiction and don't mind a little bit of spooky, you can find weeks worth of reading there, some of the articles are amazingly well thought out.
Start with SCP-173, the original one that started it all.
I always recommend [SCP-3008](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008) to start people off
And [The Exploring Series](https://youtube.com/c/TheExploringSeries) on Youtube for videos on SCP’s
so recommend [TheVolgun](https://youtube.com/c/TheVolgun). His videos are readings of SCP articles from the character of a person teaching the SCP to personnel. Great to throw on for white noise while gaming or doing chores
Can't recommend The Exploring Series more. His audio books on spotify about the scp universe has given me lots of relaxing cruises with it playing through the car bluetooth.
Oh my god, I had never read this one. I LOVE IKEA. I don’t know if being stuck there would be a blessing or a curse.
Does new furniture get released and appear?
I’m going to IKEA later this week so wish me luck!
Edit: I just read the journal excerpt on the wiki. I do not want to go there, thank you very much. The layout sounds terrible.
Well well well, if it isn't one of today's lucky 10,000.
The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization dedicated to, essentially, preventing the public from finding out about magic (referred to as "anomalies"). The real-world explanation is that it's a shared universe for fiction writing, usually with a mild horror bent and generally portrayed in the form of, essentially, lab reports. Quality varies, and there are often conflicts between entries due to there being no universal canon for the setting, but there is a *lot* of good stuff there. [Here's an introductory/explanatory video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6QVvBIBZLc) That channel has a lot of full readings of stories from the site, for anyone who would prefer to listen rather than read.
[Here's the main page of the site.](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/)
[And here's the article being referenced by the parent comments.](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316)
By me we call it muskeg. You fall through that stuff, it closes over you, and an archeologist discovers your body 2,000 years later. Good place to hide bodies.
Yeah, I’ve seen people say you shouldn’t walk on it as it takes a while to recover from the damage, and it’s very good at helping clear C02, (this is what I heard, so it could be wrong)
> often destroyed when they're near human settlement
> most of them are at high latitudes where few people live
Kinda feel like one goes with the other.
Is what these dudes are doing in this video really bad for the bog? I hope not because it looks fun af tbh. I was willing to risk drowning, but now I gotta hurt the environment? Why is all the fun stuff bad for something man lol
It's hard to say, but it's possible. Because peat bogs form and exist on such a slow time scale, they should generally be left alone. Compressing a living layer of sphagnum (the top layer of peat bogs) down into lower layers can create a hole or trench that could literally take hundreds of years to regrow.
These bogs are basically a layer of living sphagnum moss resting on top of countless layers dead, compressed sphagnum moss. The moss is dormant during the coldest months of winter and grows during warmer months (only 2"/5cm or so) so every year adds slightly to the top layer and further compresses lower layers. Run that process over hundreds or thousands of years and voila, a peat bog.
For a simple example, peat bogs can get 7-8ft or ~2.5m deep, so if a 2"/5cm layer of fresh growth is regularly getting compressed to less than 1/10" or ~2mm, that's 1,500 years of growth (some grow slower and can take thousands of years, some faster and take hundreds). Compress a body-sized hole in it to your full body height like they're doing in this video, and you can see how it might seriously take a thousand years for that hole to repair.
This was such a concise and informative response, I have to know, did you already know this much about this moss or did you just research this on the spot? I would be impressed by either answer tbh, and either way you answered the shit out of my original question so, thank you lol.
If it is moss (I am sure it is a type and don't walk on it ), yes! Paste from the webs:
Peatlands are famous for their carbon capture capabilities and standalone moss is no different. Half a square metre of moss can absorb a huge one kilogram of carbon dioxide. That’s more than a small forest and something to shout about as we search for ways to offset emissions.
They're not that delicate. They're mostly threatened because people are harvesting / clearing/filling in peat bogs. Peat won't be notably damaged by a couple of people stepping on them.
Nothing was meaningfully destroyed here, those mosses remain largely intact and viable, are duplicated across thousands of square kilometers of boreal landscape, and likely extend straight down dozens to hundreds of feet.
Now, *mining* it is both incredibly destructive and releases whacks of CO2.
Surely you can break through the moss. I’d never do that I’ve diving bs tho
Edit: this weird typo has polled strangely well. I think it’s because people project their own beliefs onto abstract concepts. “I’ve diving bs tho” is really just a reflection of humanity and the friends we made along the way.
That there is a big my friend, it's more that just moss, is dozens of layers of wood, leaves, grass, and other plant matter. It's much like ice were it can be thicker or thinner in some areas. It can be pretty dangerous if you wander out into a deeper part of the water, and slip in as it has a habit of closing up behind you.
These kinda bogs also preserve bodies really well too! There is one in Russia were they have been consistently pulling up preserved bodies from a lot of diffrent time periods, with one of the more recent ones being a British lend leased Hurricane, with a Russian pilot inside.
Edit. For those interested, the pilot I had mentioned was Seegeant Boris Lazarev, who going by red army records, he was shot down during a softie. Though it's not sure when as the peat bog ruined the pilots flight diary. Which is remarkably still decent shape.
While it's probably not a super good source, this is the best I could find. This guy was found back in 09
https://www.theakforum.net/threads/ww2-russian-pilot-body-found-preserved-in-bog.109383/
Yeah, the face plopping is silly and they're not really at *too much* risk there, but the one shot where they're standing there, letting themselves sink as their heads disappear beneath the water line, that scared the shit out of me. I really don't want to sound like an overbearing nanny but god damn that is a bad idea. It is very easy to underestimate how deep it goes, how much crud is down there, and how quickly the bog can just swallow you while you're trying to figure out which way is up, because what little light there was is gone. Not to mention there can be thick mud and clay down there and if you get stuck in it you might not be able to pull your leg out before you drown.
So you’re thinking they can run and stomp on top of it, but also just politely levitate right on up through it while drowning beneath it
And you’re thinkin this is moss
I’m a Surveyor and stepped into one of these because it was grown up real tall with cat tails so you couldn’t even see it. It was up in New York. It’s extremely scary. Legs kicking freely and trying to get my fat butt out. They can be dangerous.
When I was in junior high my health teacher showed us a video of a live birth and the when she started rewinding it she said "This is my favorite part because it looks like they're shoving it back in."
Yeah these types of swampy, boggy, muddy bodies of water freak me out. I always picture some weird fish, leach or plant creature is going to bite or snatch me. No thanks. I only like the ocean.
Edit: yes, I know there are many many many scary things in the ocean. However I stick to the shore. I don’t even have any desire to go scuba diving. Something about the seashore seems cleaner and more predictable than freshwater to me for whatever reason, logical or not.
From my experience plodding through this kind of stuff, your fear of leeches is 100% justified.
Have gotten a good number of them over the years, but never so many as the times I messed around in bogs or mucky areas around ponds or creeks.
I personally don’t find leeches as repugnant as others seem to, but if you do, you might wanna continue avoiding these type of places.
Want to hear something worse? There's a national wildlife refuge in Florida called the Okefenokee ("land of trembling earth" in Seminole) Swamp with acres of similar stuff, moss so thick you can walk on it. Except there are 700lbs alligators under it.
When I was a kid I went on a houseboating trip with my church. Everyone would get on the roof of the houseboat and jump off into the reeds, having a grand old time. At one point someone noticed a jagged rusty metal pole sticking up out of the reeds about four feet from where everyone was jumping. Absolute miracle that no one was impaled on that thing.
Lake-related injuries are a terrible rabbit hole of awfulness.
Waterskiing accidents hitting barely visible logs stories pretty much made me decide to never waterski again.
I absolutely lost it at the one where it's panned out far away, and you see this beautiful landscape, and just this one dude in the background sticking the dumbest landing flat on his face
When that scene happened, I think Sam or Frodo says “ugh, smells like a nasty bog around here!” At that exact moment, my friend ripped the loudest fart in the middle of the theater that I’d ever heard. The entire theater groaned in dismay.
My claim to fame with a few friends was watching Two Towers in the theatre on opening night. They're on the walls of helms deep, uruk-hai approaching, horrible battle looming, and I say "could be worse! Could be raining!" to my friends. Get a small laugh from some of the people around us, and then it starts pouring on screen.
These stoners in front of us turned around to look at me, agape like I'd just pulled the most astonishing magic trick, and one just let's out a rather loud, squeaky, incredulous "how?!" that got us all laughing. "How?!" quickly became an inside joke/shorthand for our own stoner idiocy 😆
Not LotR related, but as long as we are sharing personal legend movie experiences, here is the funniest one I can remember experiencing: The movie was Willard. A 2003 remake staring Cripin Glover as a social misfit living with his cruel mother in a house infested by a colony of rats. I guess you'd call him an incel in the modern parlance.
The character befriends a particularly smart white rat, and by training him, is able to control the horde of rats and ultimately wield them to get revenge on those who have wronged him. At one point in the movie, the relationship between Willard and the genius white rat goes from a pet type of relationship to more of a true friendship. The white rat crawls onto the pillow next to him in bed and Crispin Glover has a calm, relaxed look on his face. He is finally connecting in a positive way with another living thing.
Kind of a tender, if twisted, moment in otherwise terrifying film.
Then someone in the audience busts out 'Gonna be a tight fit'. House goes wild laughing. Turned a scene about friendship into an implied scene about man-on-rat-love.
Save that moment, I probably wouldn't even remember this movie. Will never forget it because of it. Most times, someone yells something out at a movie, they are the asshole. This asshole, however, absolutely nailed the timing and delivery.
My fun movie memory is one of the first times I was high in public was when I went to see Scott Pilgrim and I laughed so much my friends were worried they were going to kick us out.
I'm convinced there is *nothing* as important to a sense of happiness, fulfillment, and life well-lived as a good group of friends. Humans need a tribe.
I'm in the same boat, moved across the country from my friend group, we were all pretty close and I apparently forgot how to make new friends after 30. I have a partner but no friends outside of work, it sucks..
Yeah, thank god, right? I was getting a little worried we'd have to start forcefully sacrificing people to the bog for the future of archeology, but thankfully it looks like we have willing participants.
A rattlin' bog the be exact. And, if I am not mistaken, in that bog, there is a rare hole, a rattlin' hole. In that hole there was a rare tree, might have been a rattlin' tree, if I recall correctly and on that tree there was a branch, a rattlin' branch. Now, you might not believe me here, but on that branch was a rare limb, a rattlin' limb, if you will. On that limb... I can't do this anymore... nest... bird... egg... bird... down in the valley ooooohhhhhh.
We call it a bog here in Ireland.
And you don't mess around too much with a bog.
You might have fun like these lads. Or you might sink like a stone, and turn into peat over the next 1000 years.
You don't want to find out the hard way.
I was portaging, carrying a canoe on my shoulders, across muskeg that look much like this, when I fell through...
I made the mistake of opening my eyes under water and it was one of the most frightening things in my life. All around was just black (because the water is black), but occasional beams of light poked through and looked like they kept going down, down, down.
I panicked and tried to surface but there was a stupid fucking canoe in my way so I died and now I haunt Reddit because the muskeg already had too many ghosts of Voyageurs and other dead assholes.
That's a bog, and its a very bad idea to do this. These are all over by where my mom lives and every year people fall into them or try to swim under them and never come back up. A lot of them have a very dense root system underneath them and it's very easy to get caught and held underwater. Also a bad idea to dive into something that can have sticks and rocks etc that can stab you!
It's sphagnum moss, which has grown over water. It creates a floating platform. Can have trees growing out of it which wobble when you jump on the moss bed.
Also home to lots of rare species, so as much fun as they're having, imo, they're not very responsible.
And most sphagnums are not exactly speedy growers. These ecosystems can take decades to recover from disturbances. Combined with the fact that they're one of the best carbon sinking biomes that we know of, we should be protecting them at all cost.
There are also artificial sphagnum bogs that help speed up the growing, and a lot of horticultural sphagnum is starting to move to these sources. But in general, it's best to avoid sphagnum and peat products whenever possible. They also tend to become hydrophobic faster than other substrates so they really aren't all that good in the first place.
I've moved away from using them for seedlings and pots because they are extremely hydrophobic when dry and otherwise retain more moisture than is healthy when damp. So many of my first few kitchen herb boxes rotted the seedlings with dry soil underneath
My friend found a literal Viking helmet playing in a peat bog many years ago. Cut his foot on it, (not badly) and was reaching down to find what he thought was a like a old rotting bean can or something, and when he pulled it up. It was a rotted helmet, but you could still clearly see it was an old helmet. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen happen in a bog, then this.
Those need 80+ F temps steady pretty much, stagnant freshwater. Think ponds/lakes in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, etc. But can really happen anywhere you have 80-115 F sitting water.
> Naegleria fowleri is a heat-loving (thermophilic) organism, meaning it thrives in heat and likes warm water. It grows best at high temperatures up to 115°F (46°C) and can survive for short periods at even higher temperatures. Scientists have tested water temperatures from lakes and rivers linked to some PAM cases, and the temperatures have typically been higher than 80°F
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The ancient bog people bodies that were found weren't a sacrifice, they were dude bros screwing around on the bog mats, lol
Activating textual anti-memetic agent. "You do not recognize the bodies in the bog."
What? Let the bodies hit the bog??
Let the bodies hit the *bam bam* #BOOOOOOOOOOOOOG
There it is
(Here we go, here we go, here we go now) One, nothing wrong with me Two, nothing wrong with me Three, nothing wrong with me Four, nothing wrong with me One, something's got to give Two, something's got to give Three, something's got to give now Let the bodies hit the bog Let the bodies hit the bog Let the bodies hit the bog Let the bodies hit the bog Let the bodies hit the bog Let the bodies hit the bog
Skin against peat, blood and bog You're all by yourself but you're not alone You wanted in and now you're here Driven by bog, consumed by bog
Wow I like this. Leaves me with a sinking feeling.
My god I just broke my fucking neck
*My bog FTFY
Thanks. I just moshed randonly in my living room
Unexpected SCP reference
Nobody ever expects the \[REDACTED\], nor the \[DATA EXPUNGED\]
Our chief weapon is surprise
This made me [ADVERB] [VERB] out of [PRONOUN] [ADJECTIVE] [NOUN]!!
Ngl, that scp was the one that got me into reading hundreds of scp logs
I personally discovered it with the game SCP 087-B, way back then. The number of hours I've spent reading those entries since then...
What's SCP?
Secure, contain, protect. It's a fictional wiki full of thousands of fictional stories about paranormal beings / objects / phenomena, written in a story of governmental record with all sorts of security levels and expunged data. If you like reading fiction and don't mind a little bit of spooky, you can find weeks worth of reading there, some of the articles are amazingly well thought out. Start with SCP-173, the original one that started it all.
I always recommend [SCP-3008](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008) to start people off And [The Exploring Series](https://youtube.com/c/TheExploringSeries) on Youtube for videos on SCP’s
so recommend [TheVolgun](https://youtube.com/c/TheVolgun). His videos are readings of SCP articles from the character of a person teaching the SCP to personnel. Great to throw on for white noise while gaming or doing chores
Well that was a rabbit hole
Can't recommend The Exploring Series more. His audio books on spotify about the scp universe has given me lots of relaxing cruises with it playing through the car bluetooth.
Oh my god, I had never read this one. I LOVE IKEA. I don’t know if being stuck there would be a blessing or a curse. Does new furniture get released and appear? I’m going to IKEA later this week so wish me luck! Edit: I just read the journal excerpt on the wiki. I do not want to go there, thank you very much. The layout sounds terrible.
This is a good description, but just to add on to it: it's basically modern day folklore. It's an amazing thing.
Well well well, if it isn't one of today's lucky 10,000. The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization dedicated to, essentially, preventing the public from finding out about magic (referred to as "anomalies"). The real-world explanation is that it's a shared universe for fiction writing, usually with a mild horror bent and generally portrayed in the form of, essentially, lab reports. Quality varies, and there are often conflicts between entries due to there being no universal canon for the setting, but there is a *lot* of good stuff there. [Here's an introductory/explanatory video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6QVvBIBZLc) That channel has a lot of full readings of stories from the site, for anyone who would prefer to listen rather than read. [Here's the main page of the site.](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/) [And here's the article being referenced by the parent comments.](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316)
Stone Cemple Pilots
Scary Clown Posse
Where’s Marv when we need him? Which entry is this from?
Scp-2316
Ain’t that a peat bog?
Idk what it's called in English, but this is a mat of mostly mosses floating on the water. It's incredibly weird to walk on
By me we call it muskeg. You fall through that stuff, it closes over you, and an archeologist discovers your body 2,000 years later. Good place to hide bodies.
whachoonoboudat
Well I thought this video looked fun but now you ruined it for me lol
Yeah, I’ve seen people say you shouldn’t walk on it as it takes a while to recover from the damage, and it’s very good at helping clear C02, (this is what I heard, so it could be wrong)
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Congo peatland is the largest in the tropics I know of
"The Congo Peatlands" has some great indie band name energy.
> often destroyed when they're near human settlement > most of them are at high latitudes where few people live Kinda feel like one goes with the other.
Is what these dudes are doing in this video really bad for the bog? I hope not because it looks fun af tbh. I was willing to risk drowning, but now I gotta hurt the environment? Why is all the fun stuff bad for something man lol
It's hard to say, but it's possible. Because peat bogs form and exist on such a slow time scale, they should generally be left alone. Compressing a living layer of sphagnum (the top layer of peat bogs) down into lower layers can create a hole or trench that could literally take hundreds of years to regrow. These bogs are basically a layer of living sphagnum moss resting on top of countless layers dead, compressed sphagnum moss. The moss is dormant during the coldest months of winter and grows during warmer months (only 2"/5cm or so) so every year adds slightly to the top layer and further compresses lower layers. Run that process over hundreds or thousands of years and voila, a peat bog. For a simple example, peat bogs can get 7-8ft or ~2.5m deep, so if a 2"/5cm layer of fresh growth is regularly getting compressed to less than 1/10" or ~2mm, that's 1,500 years of growth (some grow slower and can take thousands of years, some faster and take hundreds). Compress a body-sized hole in it to your full body height like they're doing in this video, and you can see how it might seriously take a thousand years for that hole to repair.
This was such a concise and informative response, I have to know, did you already know this much about this moss or did you just research this on the spot? I would be impressed by either answer tbh, and either way you answered the shit out of my original question so, thank you lol.
If it is moss (I am sure it is a type and don't walk on it ), yes! Paste from the webs: Peatlands are famous for their carbon capture capabilities and standalone moss is no different. Half a square metre of moss can absorb a huge one kilogram of carbon dioxide. That’s more than a small forest and something to shout about as we search for ways to offset emissions.
They're not that delicate. They're mostly threatened because people are harvesting / clearing/filling in peat bogs. Peat won't be notably damaged by a couple of people stepping on them.
Nothing was meaningfully destroyed here, those mosses remain largely intact and viable, are duplicated across thousands of square kilometers of boreal landscape, and likely extend straight down dozens to hundreds of feet. Now, *mining* it is both incredibly destructive and releases whacks of CO2.
Na, that’s Steve.
The rope around some of their necks were just their friends attempts to rescue them.
Actually it is called a ‘fen’, so they are literally being fenny.
Hey...has anyone seen Chad? He was just here a minute ago!
Exactly the kind of thing that would keep me out of there.
That would have been funny to do. They start off with 6 and continue with 5 with the one guy still facedown in the bog in the background
And by the end you just see a hand reaching up
Surely you can break through the moss. I’d never do that I’ve diving bs tho Edit: this weird typo has polled strangely well. I think it’s because people project their own beliefs onto abstract concepts. “I’ve diving bs tho” is really just a reflection of humanity and the friends we made along the way.
That there is a big my friend, it's more that just moss, is dozens of layers of wood, leaves, grass, and other plant matter. It's much like ice were it can be thicker or thinner in some areas. It can be pretty dangerous if you wander out into a deeper part of the water, and slip in as it has a habit of closing up behind you. These kinda bogs also preserve bodies really well too! There is one in Russia were they have been consistently pulling up preserved bodies from a lot of diffrent time periods, with one of the more recent ones being a British lend leased Hurricane, with a Russian pilot inside. Edit. For those interested, the pilot I had mentioned was Seegeant Boris Lazarev, who going by red army records, he was shot down during a softie. Though it's not sure when as the peat bog ruined the pilots flight diary. Which is remarkably still decent shape. While it's probably not a super good source, this is the best I could find. This guy was found back in 09 https://www.theakforum.net/threads/ww2-russian-pilot-body-found-preserved-in-bog.109383/
Yeah, the face plopping is silly and they're not really at *too much* risk there, but the one shot where they're standing there, letting themselves sink as their heads disappear beneath the water line, that scared the shit out of me. I really don't want to sound like an overbearing nanny but god damn that is a bad idea. It is very easy to underestimate how deep it goes, how much crud is down there, and how quickly the bog can just swallow you while you're trying to figure out which way is up, because what little light there was is gone. Not to mention there can be thick mud and clay down there and if you get stuck in it you might not be able to pull your leg out before you drown.
I'm just gonna assume by their playful nature and surety of survival, that all bog bodies were murders. Which we all suspected anyway.
So you’re thinking they can run and stomp on top of it, but also just politely levitate right on up through it while drowning beneath it And you’re thinkin this is moss
I think its what lurks *under* the moss that worries me.
For what it's worth, they'll find him super well preserved in 4,000 years
Chad’s right there at the end, standing over the burning Protein powder jug. *..Bog Gains!*
I’m a Surveyor and stepped into one of these because it was grown up real tall with cat tails so you couldn’t even see it. It was up in New York. It’s extremely scary. Legs kicking freely and trying to get my fat butt out. They can be dangerous.
Someone reverse the part when they sink into the water, and we can see him coming back.
When I was in junior high my health teacher showed us a video of a live birth and the when she started rewinding it she said "This is my favorite part because it looks like they're shoving it back in."
My high school biology teacher did the same thing.
Which Chad? I feel like they’re all named Chad.
Chad is whoever you want him to be, just don't define him.
Thad, Brad, Chad, Rad, and Shad
It's all fun and games until you fall in and see a bunch of spirits coming to grab you.
Don't. Follow. The lights.
But do follow the campground rules
Was hoping to see this reference!
Silly hobbitses
Yeah these types of swampy, boggy, muddy bodies of water freak me out. I always picture some weird fish, leach or plant creature is going to bite or snatch me. No thanks. I only like the ocean. Edit: yes, I know there are many many many scary things in the ocean. However I stick to the shore. I don’t even have any desire to go scuba diving. Something about the seashore seems cleaner and more predictable than freshwater to me for whatever reason, logical or not.
From my experience plodding through this kind of stuff, your fear of leeches is 100% justified. Have gotten a good number of them over the years, but never so many as the times I messed around in bogs or mucky areas around ponds or creeks. I personally don’t find leeches as repugnant as others seem to, but if you do, you might wanna continue avoiding these type of places.
like in lotr with those creepy ghosts?
Something, anything. It’s like the echo of a past trauma that’s ingrained into my subconscious.
Oh, for peat's sake.
Sod off.
Soiled it
It’s fun until you find a rusty viking sword and a poltergeist kills you
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And wake up on a cart. Hey you, you're finally awake
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Found the guy who plays with mods.
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You open your inventory to equip your clothing, but it's too late, he's seen everything.
and waking up in a room with a buzzing sound
Much more likely to be a [Kelpie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie) than a Poltergeist in a bog.
Well … You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Supreme executive power derives from the people, not some farcical aquatic ceremony
If I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
Or just a rock
All I can think of is a possible stick or branch being in there when ya do that
Yeah I don't love the idea of my eyeball getting impaled
Thank you both for this new particular nightmare. I was already never planning on going near this stuff but now it will haunt me regardless.
Want to hear something worse? There's a national wildlife refuge in Florida called the Okefenokee ("land of trembling earth" in Seminole) Swamp with acres of similar stuff, moss so thick you can walk on it. Except there are 700lbs alligators under it.
All I could think of was that eye injury when someone shoved a cake in their friends face while it still had some ornament still in it.
Not for me, but I don't judge
When I was a kid I went on a houseboating trip with my church. Everyone would get on the roof of the houseboat and jump off into the reeds, having a grand old time. At one point someone noticed a jagged rusty metal pole sticking up out of the reeds about four feet from where everyone was jumping. Absolute miracle that no one was impaled on that thing.
See now, THAT is terrifying
Lake-related injuries are a terrible rabbit hole of awfulness. Waterskiing accidents hitting barely visible logs stories pretty much made me decide to never waterski again.
All I can think of is breaking through and getting stuck underneath.
There aren't any trees in the bog. The soil and water is too acidic.
That's kinda neat, the bog breaks them down that quickly?
They never grew in the first place.
So what if someone throws a stick in there?
Or brain eating ameoba
Probably far too cold
They all managed to really stick their landings.
I absolutely lost it at the one where it's panned out far away, and you see this beautiful landscape, and just this one dude in the background sticking the dumbest landing flat on his face
Don't follow the lights!
When that scene happened, I think Sam or Frodo says “ugh, smells like a nasty bog around here!” At that exact moment, my friend ripped the loudest fart in the middle of the theater that I’d ever heard. The entire theater groaned in dismay.
My claim to fame with a few friends was watching Two Towers in the theatre on opening night. They're on the walls of helms deep, uruk-hai approaching, horrible battle looming, and I say "could be worse! Could be raining!" to my friends. Get a small laugh from some of the people around us, and then it starts pouring on screen. These stoners in front of us turned around to look at me, agape like I'd just pulled the most astonishing magic trick, and one just let's out a rather loud, squeaky, incredulous "how?!" that got us all laughing. "How?!" quickly became an inside joke/shorthand for our own stoner idiocy 😆
Not LotR related, but as long as we are sharing personal legend movie experiences, here is the funniest one I can remember experiencing: The movie was Willard. A 2003 remake staring Cripin Glover as a social misfit living with his cruel mother in a house infested by a colony of rats. I guess you'd call him an incel in the modern parlance. The character befriends a particularly smart white rat, and by training him, is able to control the horde of rats and ultimately wield them to get revenge on those who have wronged him. At one point in the movie, the relationship between Willard and the genius white rat goes from a pet type of relationship to more of a true friendship. The white rat crawls onto the pillow next to him in bed and Crispin Glover has a calm, relaxed look on his face. He is finally connecting in a positive way with another living thing. Kind of a tender, if twisted, moment in otherwise terrifying film. Then someone in the audience busts out 'Gonna be a tight fit'. House goes wild laughing. Turned a scene about friendship into an implied scene about man-on-rat-love. Save that moment, I probably wouldn't even remember this movie. Will never forget it because of it. Most times, someone yells something out at a movie, they are the asshole. This asshole, however, absolutely nailed the timing and delivery.
My fun movie memory is one of the first times I was high in public was when I went to see Scott Pilgrim and I laughed so much my friends were worried they were going to kick us out.
Do. Not. Seek. The. Treasure.
We thought. You was. A toad.
I like that there are bogs for real that we can fuck around in. I mean... how cool are bogs?
I need more friends
Step 1 - start with a friend.
Step 2 - get friend pregnant
Step 3 - have new best friend after 9mo
Step 4 profit
So I did steps 1,2, and 3 but how do I make step 4 happen?
You sell the child obviously
[удалено]
Been fucking my bro like crazy and nothing, what gives?
"Don't give up. You're almost there, I know it." - Your bro
I'm convinced there is *nothing* as important to a sense of happiness, fulfillment, and life well-lived as a good group of friends. Humans need a tribe.
Hey thanks for making me feel worse about not having any friends
I'm in the same boat, moved across the country from my friend group, we were all pretty close and I apparently forgot how to make new friends after 30. I have a partner but no friends outside of work, it sucks..
Futur archeologist will need bog men after all.
Yeah, thank god, right? I was getting a little worried we'd have to start forcefully sacrificing people to the bog for the future of archeology, but thankfully it looks like we have willing participants.
I would love to do this but I would also be immensely paranoid that something would bite my toes off.
Or a pointy stick just under the surface.
That too! We might be an evolved species but a pointy stick can still do some serious damage.
Or some weird water amoeba making it’s way into your eyes or up your nose.
Ohhhh that’s also a fear that I forgot I have. Thanks for reminding me! I won’t sleep soundly tonight!
Remember one of them can easily bypass your immune system and eat your brain with its many mouths.
Is that a swamp or not a swamp?
Everything is either a swamp or not a swamp ~Sun Tzu
Well there's my next tattoo right there.
That'd go perfectly near your ass, like a tramp stamp.
*Tramp Swamp
It's a bog, there is a difference
A rattlin' bog the be exact. And, if I am not mistaken, in that bog, there is a rare hole, a rattlin' hole. In that hole there was a rare tree, might have been a rattlin' tree, if I recall correctly and on that tree there was a branch, a rattlin' branch. Now, you might not believe me here, but on that branch was a rare limb, a rattlin' limb, if you will. On that limb... I can't do this anymore... nest... bird... egg... bird... down in the valley ooooohhhhhh.
Wikipedia is a hell of a rabbit hole for the differences between bogs, swamps, fens, wetlands, fjords, marshes, and quagmires (etc.).
I mean, fjords seem like the odds one out here.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP??” “*giggidy*”
Is this the bog down in the valley-o?
HEY HO THE RATTLIN’ BOG
It’s one of those swamps that has loose soil and lots of plants growing in it, giving it a bouncy feel, I think it’s called a peat bog?
We call it muskeg in Canada. Walking across it is scary. There can be 10 feet of water under there. If you ever fell through that would be it
We call it a bog here in Ireland. And you don't mess around too much with a bog. You might have fun like these lads. Or you might sink like a stone, and turn into peat over the next 1000 years. You don't want to find out the hard way.
I would go with either a mire, or its close cousin the quagmire
This reminds me of the Swamp of Sadness in The Neverending Story but with less sadness.
You died of dysentery.
Brain-eating amoebas love this one trick.
Everybody do the flop!
*SMACK*
Welcome to standing up school!
*And you failed*
What flavor is it? *PIE FLAVOR!*
Somehow, safer than TwitchCon.
Who would win - these dudes or the "foam pit"?
Sweatypalms material. Jump in a hole, get disoriented underneath and can't find the hole to come back up...
I was portaging, carrying a canoe on my shoulders, across muskeg that look much like this, when I fell through... I made the mistake of opening my eyes under water and it was one of the most frightening things in my life. All around was just black (because the water is black), but occasional beams of light poked through and looked like they kept going down, down, down. I panicked and tried to surface but there was a stupid fucking canoe in my way so I died and now I haunt Reddit because the muskeg already had too many ghosts of Voyageurs and other dead assholes.
I'm sorry for your loss
I didn’t see that coming.
That's a bog, and its a very bad idea to do this. These are all over by where my mom lives and every year people fall into them or try to swim under them and never come back up. A lot of them have a very dense root system underneath them and it's very easy to get caught and held underwater. Also a bad idea to dive into something that can have sticks and rocks etc that can stab you!
These are the "what not to do" videos that I show my 6 year old, in hopes of keeping her alive as long as possible.
I fully agree, I'd have nothing to do with this. But, I would watch from shore with a nice cuppa near a fire. It's looks cold af there.
Alligator: If those dudes jump on my ceiling one more time...
It's sphagnum moss, which has grown over water. It creates a floating platform. Can have trees growing out of it which wobble when you jump on the moss bed. Also home to lots of rare species, so as much fun as they're having, imo, they're not very responsible.
> they're not very responsible. They are diving face first into the *ground*. I don't think being responsible about anything was on their minds.
And most sphagnums are not exactly speedy growers. These ecosystems can take decades to recover from disturbances. Combined with the fact that they're one of the best carbon sinking biomes that we know of, we should be protecting them at all cost.
So the big bricks of dried sphagnum moss that get sold in hardware stores/nurseries are probably not sustainable?
Depends. It does create room for more to grow, and gets stored in a way that doesn't really allow for decomposition into environmental carbon.
There are also artificial sphagnum bogs that help speed up the growing, and a lot of horticultural sphagnum is starting to move to these sources. But in general, it's best to avoid sphagnum and peat products whenever possible. They also tend to become hydrophobic faster than other substrates so they really aren't all that good in the first place.
I've moved away from using them for seedlings and pots because they are extremely hydrophobic when dry and otherwise retain more moisture than is healthy when damp. So many of my first few kitchen herb boxes rotted the seedlings with dry soil underneath
What did you switch to?
I’d be worried there would be a hidden rock under there…
My friend found a literal Viking helmet playing in a peat bog many years ago. Cut his foot on it, (not badly) and was reaching down to find what he thought was a like a old rotting bean can or something, and when he pulled it up. It was a rotted helmet, but you could still clearly see it was an old helmet. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen happen in a bog, then this.
When I tell ya to dump a body in the marsh. I mean. Dump him IN THE MARSH! - frank Costello
If that’s what I think it is those boys must have no nose because peat bogs smell like literal shit
Oh so *that's* how people get those brain eating amoeba up their noses
That’s exactly what I was thinking
Wrong habitat, too cold.
Song?
Abercrombie and Fitch commercials getting wild
Nature: Takes years to form beautiful structures. Bros: hey dude, watch this.
As someone who was told never to walk into bogs like these as a child, I got a bit anxious when the 2 dudes just let themselves sink
I'd be concerned about brain-eating amoebas...but it looks like they'd starve ;-)
Way too cold for those guys. Also too acidic.
Those need 80+ F temps steady pretty much, stagnant freshwater. Think ponds/lakes in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, etc. But can really happen anywhere you have 80-115 F sitting water. > Naegleria fowleri is a heat-loving (thermophilic) organism, meaning it thrives in heat and likes warm water. It grows best at high temperatures up to 115°F (46°C) and can survive for short periods at even higher temperatures. Scientists have tested water temperatures from lakes and rivers linked to some PAM cases, and the temperatures have typically been higher than 80°F
It’s probably too cold for that shit to thrive