• YAMAPIKARIYA@lemmyfi.com
    146·
    10 months ago

    I did, but at least I did something about it. Haven’t heard as much about the ol triangle lately have you? Yeah, that was me. You’re welcome

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      31·
      10 months ago

      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

      • barsoap@lemm.ee
        121·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I’ve never seen quicksand, but I have stepped in that thick-ass mud that traps you and schlorps your shoe off

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            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

  • problematicPanther@lemmy.world
    51·
    10 months ago

    Personally, i assumed that being on fire was something i would have to go through at least once in my life. But as time goes on, i have not had the need to, even once, stop, drop or roll.

    • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
      20·
      10 months ago

      The back of my jacket caught fire once around a firepit. Can confirm that “stop drop and roll” fixes that situation really quickly.

      Probably only time I’ll need that reflex though 🤞🏻

      • moistclump@lemmy.world
        14·
        10 months ago

        I once fell ass backwards into a fire pit. I was stopped and dropped but I could not roll. Was pulled out pretty quickly but my butt will forever have those burns.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      There was a time in 1999 where quite a few of us had to stop, drop, shut em down open up shop.

    • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      Clothes have become a lot less flammable over the years and open fireplaces aren’t the primary heating method for most houses anymore.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      I’ve done a lot of separate stopping, dropping, and/or rolling in my time, but never in that particular sequence for purposes of fire extinguishing.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 months ago

          Hmm why? Scrubber tech is getting better, the ppm requirements are stricter, and low grade fuel coal and diesel with sulfur in it is become less available. Which makes sense since do you want to move x amount of money to move y amount of weight or do you want to make more than x to move y amount of weight. Shit fuel that causes acid rain weights and takes up the same volume as the same as the stuff that doesn’t cause acid rain.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
    46·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      42·
      10 months ago

      To be fair stop drop and roll is still good advice. You just don’t find yourself on fire that often.

      • klemptor@startrek.website
        9·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Wait you managed to light yourself on fire with a CHARCOAL grill?

          Did you put accelerant on it for some reason?

        • Fishbone@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          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:

          1. Don’t wear frayed clothing while welding.

          2. Fire can’t be seen through certain welding masks. If you feel warm, lift the fucking mask.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        10 months ago

        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.

      • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        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…

        • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 months ago

          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.

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    301·
    10 months ago

    Yeah that was me. Then I heard about the triangle off the coast of Spain or something. So then I started making potential triangles all over the place. I had a globe with a schizo amount of triangles on it.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    28·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      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

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Lizardom@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 months ago

    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

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      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

    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 months ago

    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

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • AAA@feddit.de
    6·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        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.

          • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            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.

      • RiverGhost@slrpnk.net
        4·
        10 months ago

        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.