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…
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.
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.
Dude wasn’t even dieting what was crazy is for all intents in purposes no one could tell he was losing weight. He looked the same weight but when he get on a scale it show him losing weight. You really should read it. For some reason its a stand alone novel, but its actually really short for a Stephen King novel.
I swear to God I’m not trying to be a dick, but just so you know the phrase is “for all Intents and purposes.”
It’s a pity you have to preface it that way.
Same mass, less weight. So he was gravity resistant.
Yes and also should tell you the title Elevation by Stephen King.
This is like a non-Christian version of my childhood fear of “The Rapture.”
You should anchor yourself to things.
Just need a tri-solar syzygy!
look out for red clouds above you, scp 858
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.
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
By now, satellites and GPS can just navigate us around the triangle, kind of like with hurricanes.
The triangle is HUGE, and due to where it covers, a lot of shipping went through it, and still does iirc… Saying its dangerous because ships wrecked there often isn’t that far off from calling Earth dangerous since every human has died there. It’s a true statement, I suppose, but the context helps understand it’s not a very reasonable one.
Yeah the mystery of the triangle was puffed up by disingenuous authors who lied and fudged details to pretend ships went missing all the time. Things like reporting ships missing but not their eventual returns, claiming there were no storms when records showed otherwise, including sinkings and crashes that happened well outside the triangle, and a bunch more.
When the the data is analysed; the number of incidents is the same as anywhere else on the planet.
Crew of Soyuz 11: “Well, screw you too!”
Haha, I was worried there were some obscure deaths I didn’t know about.
My understanding is there’s a lot of coral reefs in the Bermuda triangle and, like you say a lot of shipping with through there. So it makes sense a lot of ships went missing in that area.
Sailors are a superstitious lot so there were stories about it being cursed. Kinda like how it’s bad luck to carry bananas on a sailboat.
I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.
Happened to me once. I was super drunk walking home and didn’t see an open manhole in front of me. I got super lucky, though.
From my drunk perspective, I’m just walking along when suddenly the ground is nearly at my eye level. Then I realised I’m dangling there, with only my head and elbows outside. I dragged myself out and continued on home.
I have no idea how I managed to fall inside with both my legs at the same time and why my arms didn’t hurt like hell, not even in the morning.
The part of the brain that goes “we’re doing reflexes now and you don’t get a say” is wild.
I don’t think reflexes were involved here, more likely it was lucky arm positioning at the right time. But what do I know? I wasn’t quite there to witness it.
Chubbyemu made me fear gas station sushi.
Chubbyemu made me fear a lot of things
A lot of things make me fear gas station sushi.
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.
Neutrinos: tf is an atom I’ve never seen one
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!
And you’d deserve it for saying “on accident”
Don’t forget ‘for no reason’. As opposed to reasonable accidents.
Are accidents an accident if it didn’t happened accidentally?
Then they’re incidents.
My childhood fear was getting the vaccine shot for the swine flu which was a big issue in the mid 70’s. My 5th grade class received new text books and there was a photo of a kid getting the vaccine shot. Instead of a needle it was delivered by a big device that looked like an uzi machine gun and I was terrified of it. Time passed and I never got the shot. That’s when I learned how the news works.
Tbf kost things a child will cut contain atoms so it’s not as far fetched as it sounds
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”.
