I have nothing to worry about while I'm in bermuda. I mean I'm not exactly triangle-shaped. Didn't these people ever have toys as kids? Sheesh!
Don't forget quicksand... I spent all my childhood afraid of falling into it. Somehow it was an unwarranted concern.
See I always knew it was fine because I was never in as jungle or swamp, because that's where it always is in movies and cartoons.
Sand evěrywhere
I hate sand.
It's even funnier when you remember that like 99% of all matter is empty space, and electrostatic force is what keeps everything from sliding past everything else.
Fun fact: The Bermuda Triangle actually lives in your closet and plans to get you in your sleep.
But, it told me it lived under my bed?!
Something under the bed is drooling.
It's a triangle, so it's under your bed, in your closet, and in the attic.
Neutrinos: tf is an atom I’ve never seen one
A, yes, quick sand, the bane of my childhood.
My mom once actually stepped in quicksand (thankfully only up to the top of her boot). It was in Canada. Yes, Canada has quicksand! She was visiting my uncle in Saskatchewan.
Unlike the movies, it fits its name. One minute she was walking, then suddenly it was like she fell into a pit, but couldn't get her boot out. I can't remember how the story ended. This was like 35 years ago that she told me about it.
Couple of years ago, I walked through a forest somewhere in the middle of The Netherlands, called the Waterloopbos, and I came across a blocked off area with quicksand warnings.
I kinda wish I had lost my shoes there, because the shoes I was wearing weren't good for forest walking.
That was the first and so far only time I had seen quicksand in my 44 years of existing on this blue marble.
Judging by she telling you this story I'd say it went quite okay.
Yeah, I just mean I don't remember how she got out.
My uncle told me he sailed through the Bermuda Triangle all the time. I thought he was full of crap.
Sometimes I look at the wide open sky and think "What if gravity suddenly reverses and I fall up into the sky and then space? That would be really dangerous."
I had a clear childhood memory of when gravity temporarily vanished and we all had to duck and cover under our desks. Years later I learned how gravity worked. A few years after that I realized my memory was impossible though it felt very real. This may be the root of my trust issues...
Human memory is wild. We’re extremely good at inventing things that never happened, or adjusting memories over time as we recall them into something completely different than what actually happened. And it can feel so real.
Just need a tri-solar syzygy!
Stephen King wrote a story of just that happening to a guy. Except gravity didn't reverse he just kind of lost mass, but the result was the same.
The dangers of dieting.
This is like a non-Christian version of my childhood fear of "The Rapture."
Roaming black holes
Gamma ray bursts
The germans invading
Electrified bodies/puddles of water
Yknow, the usual stuff kids are afraid of...
I don't think this is the usual stuff mate
When I was a kid there was a Norwegian children movie called "The hunt for the kidney stone" where a kid travels into the body of his sick grandpa to find out what's wrong with him (kidney stone). After the movie I asked my mom what kidney stones are, and where they come from. "You can get them if you eat too much salt, for example" she says, and after that I was TERRIFIED every time my parents would put salt on anything.
I read a story somewhere of someone getting them from the oxalates in peanut butter.
They were eating like 1 kg a week for a month or two though.
I just found out spinach is crazy high in them too! I love spinach...
I remember freaking out when the last season of Friends aired - what, there are people vacationing in Bermuda? Are they insane? I was in my late teens
When I was in my late teens, I ended up on a boat from Ft Lauderdale to the Bahamas. Theres no way no to go through just a little bit of the Burmuda Triangle. I remember freaking out / being super excited, wondering what crazy stuff things would happen on our journey. Of course, nothing happened. I was so disillusioned.
Reading all these adventure books and comics made me really fear quicksand as a child... I was living in East Berlins suburbs. The most comparable thing to quicksand would have been a mud puddle!
Just stick to elements lighter than iron and you'll be fine.
I will never not cringe at "on accident" instead of "by accident"
euchhhh.
To imagine you wrote this sentence by purpose.
Where does this this linguistically phenomenon come from?
Is it a mistaken use of "an accident" with the preposition to reflect the personal involvement?
Mistakes like "Could of" make sense to me because in my accent "could of" and "could've" are identically voiced.
I can also completly understand where we get "alot" because alot is just the beginning of an acorn, minus a few hundred years of lazy pronunciation behind it (an oak corn =acorn)
Google is telling me it's because younger people will use "on accident" as an antonym for "on purpose". That sounds feesible as an origin. Now I'm questioning if "by intent" is grammatically correct, I've been staring at words too long.
"By intent" doesn't look right to me, I would've said "with intent".
I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.
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