mom0nga ยท 613 points ยท Posted at 04:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions, hands-down. They're tiny, highly-infectious particles that occur when protein molecules found in the nervous system misfold. Once a single bad prion enters a healthy person or animal, it causes all of the properly-folded proteins around it to misfold as well, causing a slow, but irreverible chain reaction that literally eats holes in the brain until the infected person withers away and dies. The diseases that prions cause are called Spongiform encephalopathies because infected brains have so many holes in them that they resemble a kitchen sponge.
One prion disease, Kuru, kills by robbing the infected of the ability to chew and swallow, causing death by starvation. Fatal Familial Insomnia kills otherwise healthy 30-somethings by suddenly disabling the body's ability to sleep, which leads to psychosis, coma, and death within months. CJD causes dementia and muscle tremors. All known prion diseases are untreatable and 100% fatal, and you can contract them in three main ways: by coming into contact with infected nervous tissue (this can happen via surgery or by eating infected meat), by inheriting the misfolding protein gene, or, most frighteningly, sporadically -- meaning that one day, your brain makes a mistake during protein synthesis. Scientists have also successfully aerosolized prions in the lab, creating a lethal spray which infected the brains of mice.
You wanna know the scary part? Prions are extremely infectious, with a same-species infection rate of 100%. In other words, once a prion from another human makes its way into your nervous system, you will contract a prion disease -- and there's even a very real possibility of infection from animals after eating infected meat, or, possibly, by coming into contact with the infected animal's urine or feces (scientists don't know yet).
But, although prions infect people like a virus, you can't kill them because they aren't alive. They easily "survive" being autoclaved, which means that they can hitch a ride on "sterilized" surgical instruments from one patient to another. If your hamburger meat contains an infectious prion, you won't be able to "cook it out". You can boil a prion, dip it in acid, soak it in alcohol, and expose it to radiation, and the prion will still be infectious. They can even maintain their infectious properties in the environment for decades -- infected brain specimens that were stored in formaldehyde 30 years ago are still just as "hot" today as they were 3 decades ago.
One last thought to keep you awake at night: it typically takes many decades after infection for there to be enough prions in your body to create symptoms, so you could be infected with prions right now and not know it. It is estimated that as many as one out of every 2,000 people in the U.K. carry infectious prions in their bodies with no signs of disease.
Yeah. You can't destroy prions in food so eating contaminated meat is always dangerous, but the notion that they stick around in a lab setting and on hospital tools is bull.
Holy shit. I thought there isn't anything more lethal/scary than Rabies, but Prion diseases are really fucked up. Especially the fact that my brain can fuck up on it's own, without even asking me :)
It's really fascinating to me that we even know of these diseases, and wonder how many are there that we don't know of.
Ankhsty ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain fucks up all of the time already. I don't need it killing me also..
[deleted] ยท -23 points ยท Posted at 10:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jjonj ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:37:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um, really? When I read this I thought Rabies is a Prion disease but OP didn't name it in his post so I went on it's wiki page and read that it's caused by Lyssaviruses so I thought it's not the same, although like most of these diseases it attacks central nervous system and brain.
Prions are horrendous. A relative of mine developed CJD, and the doctors ended up observing her with medical interest because she had a rare form of it (I think they said it was because of contaminated beef?) But within one year she went from a relatively healthy woman to dead, with dementia-like symptoms, psychosis and extreme symptoms of pneumonia along the way. It was horrible. This happened in the UK as well, where if I'm not mistaken prion diseases aren't as common (but I could just be making that up, I'm not sure of the stats).
This is utterly terrifying. How did the docs inform your relative that she had this untreatable, horrific disease that would put her through pure torture and ultimately kill her, and there was nothing that could be done, but hey, they'd "observe" her? How on earth does someone react to such a diagnosis?
Initially she had symptoms like vertigo and forgetfulness that got progressively worse, and they didn't realise it was CJD until a little while in (because it wasn't a common disease they didn't test for it immediately) By the time it was diagnosed she was already hospitalised and was very confused a lot of the time, and her husband (my grandfather, she was his second wife) was having to make medical decisions for her, as she was incapable of making them herself. The doctors were very honest and upfront, and basically told my grandfather that the diagnosis was grim and she would live for months at most, there was little they could do. They asked him if it would be ok for them to observe her as it was a rarer form of the disease and it may help them help others with it in the future, but ultimately the decision was his as he was speaking on her behalf. I think he realised that there was little to be done and decided that his wife's passing may as well help others, so he gave them the go ahead. Honestly, I don't think she was fully aware of what was going on a lot of the time, it wore her down so fast. But I know it was very hard on my grandfather - she was his second wife, and the divorce from his first wife, my grandmother, was not exactly the cleanest either. I can only imagine what it must feel like knowing there's a countdown on your partner's life.
This is so depressing. And horrifying. I cannot imagine watching a loved one go through that. I'm currently watching my ex husband (we remained close) have a benign brain tumor removed and he's completely changed. Vertigo and cannot sleep or focus. I was terrified he had this, but its been 2 years and while its not getting better, its not getting worse. Sometimes I want to suggest they test for this but I lose my nerve in the end. We are living in separate countries and he's had to move back in with his parents. It completely breaks my heart.
I'm so sorry this happened to a loved one. I hope that she was at least sedated and not in serious pain.
AFAIK, this is because of blood donations in the UK not having proper screening for things such as prions for a long time (they have since improved). This lead to the blood from people with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease being transfused into otherwise healthy people, and as OP said, the 100% infection rate led to the spread of the disease.
This also played a part of it. I'm not entirely sure as to when the laws over blood donation were tightened, so the BSE epidemic could have lead to more infected people donating blood.
But wait! There's good news! As terrifying as these are, we are actually making pretty big progress on these typed of diseases. There has been an effective vaccine developed for a spongiform encephalopathy in deer and elk. It's called chronic wasting disease, and it's been a fairly large problem where I'm from. But from what I remember, and this might not be 100% accurate, they manged to make a vaccine that was effective at targeting and destroying the prions, and they were working on making it edible, so they could bait wild populations with it. From what I remember though, they had success with it in injections in a lab setting. The man in charge of this research was hopeful that the same type of vaccine might help with certain human prion diseases. I should clarify actually it's not technically a vaccine since prions aren't living and therefor a true vaccination wouldn't be effective, since you're body can't produce antibodies.
tl;dr: we might not all be doomed just yet
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:16 on July 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned about these from The Lost World. The book not the movie.
Karen Wetterhahn's death shocked not only the entire chemistry department at Dartmouth, but also regulatory agencies, as the accidental exposure occurred despite her having taken all required measures known at that time. These included the use of latex gloves, a fume hood, and adherence to standard safety procedures. After Wetterhahn's mercury poisoning was discovered, her colleagues tested various safety gloves against dimethylmercury and found that the small, apolar molecule diffuses through most of them in seconds, much more quickly than expected.
Even through her illness and death she continued to educate and advance the study of the very thing that was killing her. There is something almost eloquent about that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Wetterhahn would recall that she had spilled one or two drops of dimethylmercury from the tip of a pipette onto her latex gloved hand."
Aemnys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ClF3 is a very strong oxidizing and fluorinating agent. It is extremely reactive with most inorganic and organic materials, including glass and teflon, and will initiate the combustion of many otherwise non-flammable materials without any ignition source. These reactions are often violent, and in some cases explosive.
"If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
During the liquid rocket propellant era, a major
incident involving ClF3 occurred the first time a
one-ton steel container was loaded with liquid ClF3
for bulk shipment. The container had been cooled
with dry ice to perform the liquid transfer and help
make the product safer to handle, since the ClF3
vapor pressure would only be about 0.007 kg/cm2
(0.1 psia) in the subcooled state. However, the dry
ice bath embrittled the steel container wall, which
split while it was being maneuvered onto a dolly,
instantaneously releasing 907 kg (2,000 lb) of cold
ClF3 liquid onto the building floor. The ClF3 dissolved
the 30 cm (12 inch) thick concrete floor and
another 90 cm (36 inches) of gravel underneath
the spill. The fumes that were generated (chlorine
trifluoride, hydrogen fluoride, chlorine, hydrogen
chloride, etc.) severely corroded everything that
was exposed. One eyewitness described the incident
by stating, โThe concrete was on fire!โ
I was watching a documentary that mentioned someone committing suicide by drinking hydrofluroric acid. He was said to have been found writhing in agony. I was sitting there thinking..."But why? Find another way!"
Edit: Correction, it was hydrochloric acid. It was on episode 6 of Monumental Mysteries on Netflix.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:32:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is probably what his organs looked like afterwards. (NSFW/L, Autopsy gore.)
j_heg ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:12:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Double-blind trials have shown that the only efficient treatment is to repeatedly say "thank mr skeltal".
She was studying how mercury ions affected DNA repair proteins. There didn't seem to be many deaths before hers, so little was known I guess about just how deadly it is. Its a real shame, and I wouldn't be surprised if the compound had a blanket "NOPE" across it now for when someone wants to synthesise it.
The first person to synthesize this compound, in the 1800s, died of symptoms of exposure only a few weeks later. He literally made buckets of this stuff in one sitting. It's amazing he didn't kill his entire village through the fumes alone.
they don't anymore. It just isn't worth the risk for what they used it for, which mostly was to weigh reactions and whatnot against other chemicals as a kindof benchmark.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like an impossibly small amount, but the standard dose for epinepherine, albuterol and nitroglycerin are all 0.3mg. Granted, those drugs will almost never kill you at that dose, it's just for context.
That and it kills you by destroying the ability for your nerves to communicate with your muscles. While that's happening, you can still feel it. Have you ever had a muscle spasm that kept you from moving a limb; remember how painful that was? Imagine that feeling, but across your entire body. Your muscles tense up painfully and undergo spasms while you choke on the air, your brain screaming for oxygen but your diaphragm unable to hear. You want to scream but you cannot. Minutes later if you are still unlucky-enough to be unconscious, your heart finally gives up the ghost and allows you to welcome the mercy of death.
Really any mercury compound. They can make for some pretty reactions, though. Made some mercury (II) iodide the other day as part of an Inorganic lab; it's a nice, orange color.
[a one-ton spill of the stuff] burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tragic case. But in my experience, science labs couldn't give a fuck about the safety of their workers. My old boss told me to "get over it" when I expressed concern about using a powerful mutagen in minimal safety environments.
cords55 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. Most of the private companies I have been to a very serious about safety. Because of insurance costs and the risk of being sued I am sure, but none the less. Academic labs, though, are really lax.
blizpix ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck academic labs. My husband is close to finishing up his doctorate in organic chemistry, and he has been forced to work with extremely dangerous compounds and the professor does almost nothing in terms of safety measures. My husband has had to go to the ER several times for things like inhaling a compound that creates hydrofluoric acid in the lungs when inhaled and breathing in too much cyanide. I pray he will take a teaching job soon, gives me gray hair.
anshr01 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's government for ya!
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:11:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, let's consult the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) on this stuff. This is something that actually everyone should do when when they're working on something that they're not familiar with... it's very important and it details pretty much every imaginable hazard associated with the material.
Good grief! A brief glance at this MSDS shows you just how scary this stuff really is. Sometimes it will tell you what type of gloves you can use but near as I can tell, the key here is very thick nitrile gloves (NOT LATEX). [Source: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/safety/19970512.html]
What I would do is work with it in in a sealed off inert atmosphere glovebox to prevent any inhalation threat, of which the gloves are constructed of extremely strong thick rubber. Put nitrile gloves over those gloves and then wear nitrile gloves going into it. If you did all that, your risk of skin contact would be greatly reduced. You would just have to handle the stuff extremely carefully. If I even knew I spilled even a drop of the stuff on the nitrile interior gloves, I'd immediately remove my hands (and I mean immediately, as in like 5 seconds or less) because the stuff will take some time to full absorb in. That one researcher (Karen Wetterhahn) made the mistake of using latex gloves and when she spilled it she kept them on so it was able to absorb right in.
There's more dangerous stuff out there though where an inert atmosphere glovebox would be perfect such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride. This is so you could completely eliminate moisture from the picture.
In my own research we work with moisture sensitive fluorides of which handling in a glovebox is completely necessary.
Nitrile gloves are what I think you'd go with here. They are pretty good for just about anything in a chemistry lab but they would have to be very thick. I'd wear a couple layers of it, but if you spill even a drop of the stuff on them you'd want to remove it immediately before it could potentially absorb in... and then contact the Environmental Health and Safety agency at whatever affiliation you're at.
Great description of symptoms of poisoning from chemistryworld
"But dimethylmercury beats them all hands down for toxicity. It was first synthesised in 1858 by George Buckton, working at the Royal College of Chemistry (now Imperial College). Frankland's research group began making dimethylmercury in 1863. His colleague Carl Ulrich inhaled some after a spillage, and soon showed classic symptoms of mercury poisoning, sore gums and numbness of his hands, deafness and poor vision. He became restless and noisy before lapsing into a coma. He occasionally rose from the coma to emit howling noises, but died a fortnight after symptoms were first recognised. A young technician who assisted in the cleanup took longer to develop similar symptoms, but within months was demented, restless, violent and incontinent. He died of pneumonia a year later. "
MeccIt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this chemistry blog: Things I Won't Work With - a list of exotic compounds that will mess you up in any number of ways.
That's the stuff that biomagnifies in predatory fish: the higher in the food chain, the higher level of methylized mercury. That's why you should only eat a certain fish a certain amount of times per month because then it accumulates in you.
Her brain couldn't even process pain in the end. That to me is what hit the hardest. You are dying and can't even process a negative response.
Mugros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a synthetic compound only found in special labs, especially today. Yes, it is highly toxic, but in no way does any person not working with it be scared by that.
Pioness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaand this is one of the reasons why I despised being in chemistry class. So many chemicals just waiting to fuck you up.
My boss suggested we make a dilute methylmercury solution for research (citing it would be "safer" because it would be aqueous, not pure methylmercury. I told him "Fuck no, I enjoy living."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late, I know.
They named an award for science after her to encourage women in science. I think this is great to encourage new discoveries. But why is it that someone always dies in some horrible way that their name is used for a new procedure or award?
PTBTIKO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5: How can such a tiny amount fuck her up so badly? And how do other people around her not get it too? I mean if she's got so much of this shit pumping through her veins and in her hair an shit, how is she not just nippin about poisoning every cunt?
This is really no where close the scariest real thing on earth. Fuck, tornadoes are scarier than this. Rabies is 10 x scarier than this. An angry mother goose is scarier than this.
Despite aggressive chelation therapy, her condition rapidly deteriorated; three weeks after the first neurological symptoms appeared, Wetterhahn lapsed into what appeared to be a vegetative state punctuated by periods of extreme agitation.[6] One of her former students said that "Her husband saw tears rolling down her face. I asked if she was in pain. The doctors said it didn't appear that her brain could even register pain."[5] Wetterhahn was removed from life support and died on June 8, 1997, less than a year after her initial exposure.[6]
Certain kinds of brain damage. You could lose the ability to form new memories right after a horrific accident, for example, and think it just happened for the rest of your life. You can also lose the ability, biologically, to feel pleasure of any kind.
My professor showed us a special on Clive Wearing, a man in England whose short-term memory was permanently compromised after a fever.
He complained of a headache and was rushed to the hospital. From what I remember, the fever was over 105 ยฐ, and after it broke he seemed fine. It wasn't until he began asking where he was and who this woman was (his wife), that the doctors determined he had severe brain damage.
A moment lasts 5 seconds until he is asking where he is, who is in front of him. He carries a notebook to serve as a reminder and writes down every moment before he forgets it. https://youtu.be/c62C_yTUyVg
Edit: Holy Batman! Thank you so much for the gold!
It's scary, yet amazing. He reacts to seeing his wife like he's never seen her before, he writes in his journal as if he's never been alive before that moment. My psychology teacher explained it like "this is the first time I've been alive. No now is the first time. No, this is the first time." And he can also still play the piano as well as he could before. It's amazing
"this is the first time I've been alive. No now is the first time. No, this is the first time."
The part when they show the notebook got to me.
His handwriting gets more and more frantic with every entry and he thinks every previous entry is fake and he violently crosses them out, because they scare him because it's his own handwriting. But it can't be his handwriting because he's only now awake and conscious for the first time. Repeat at infinitum every 15 minutes. Can you just imagine?
Its frightening to me, actually. To think that that can happen to basically anybody at anytime. I can only try to imagine what he feels when he sees his handwriting and is just overwhelmingly confused because he is "just now conscious". Whats really crazy is that it's unimaginable. And if you ever do experience it, events have happened to make you not know that you're even experiencing it. And the dedication and devotion his wife has is amazing. And even more amazing is how the brain works and reworks and reroutes to allow him to keep his language and music skills. These are all things that I got into psychology for, and no matter how many times I read about him or anything, it still amazes and astounds me
And even more amazing is how the brain works and reworks and reroutes to allow him to keep his language and music skills.
What I found weird was when he had finished playing a song on the piano and he seems to go into some sort of shock, shaking and twitching. As if his brain activity leaves the "music part" of his brain but has nowhere to go since the pathways are all destroyed.
If I remember correctly, my psych teacher said basically parts and links of his brain were destroyed and damaged purely from the temperature. He's lucky that he didn't wind up like Phineas Gage. Different scenario though, he was working on blowing up a mountain for a path for a railroad and something went wrong and he got a pipe through his head. He was fine except his personality completely changed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
Basically his muscle memory is attempting to do something his brain doesn't have the neurons for anymore. As a result, his muscles just kind of jerk in confusion.
And this is what he does on a daily basis! I feel like the reason his handwriting becomes so frantic is after those seconds pass where his mind (literally) becomes a blank slate, he looks at what he wrote and is so frustrated that he can't remember writing that.
That also got me. How after all of the trauma, he still retains the ability to play the piano. After posting here I looked him up and he's still alive!
I've experienced this type of short term memory loss before.
A few months ago, a group of friends and I decided to spend a Saturday afternoon high on 'shrooms. I ended up eating a bit too much: my trip was filled with significant visual hallucinations and highly emotional periods (ie a simple word, object, or action could significantly affect my feelings and thought pattern. I could go from jovial to petrified to curious nearly spontaneously, depending on the stimulus). After about a three hour period, I passed out.
When I woke, I recall being frantic: the people surrounding me had unknown faces, and I was perplexed at the notion of being. I didn't know who or what I was, and kept asking those around me panicky questions. Every time, they would answer, and try to calm me down (by this time, they were nearly sober).
Slowly (after about an hour), I was able to accept the fact that they were my friends, and I got remember their names. With more questions, I was able to remember their relationships to me, and things about them. I was able to remember who I was, my family, and my past. It took me the rest of the evening, but I sorted everything out. It was a surreal experience, and I can't imagine what life would be if I had been stuck there.
My aunt suffered from viral encephalitis as a teenager. She had sever brain swelling that lead to similar memory loss. She remembers her life prior to getting sick. She has no recollection of day to day activities, and couldn't tell you what she was doing 5 minutes ago. It's near impossible for her to form conventional memories.
We were shocked when she recalled the deaths of my grandparents. Fortunately, there was no confusion that they had passed. She can form new muscle memory through repeated actions, and can remember lyrics through song. She recognizes family friends, and new spouses as being familiar, yet even after 10+ years of regular interaction, she struggles to recall their name.
Being unable to form new memories skews our perception of time. She finds here self asking really basic questions, "Did I eat yet? When was the last time I went to the bathroom? How long have I been in this room?"
She finds repetitive tasks like word searches and jig-saw puzzles very relaxing, as she can be present in the activity. She carries a memory book with her at all times, though after her sickness she became largely illiterate. She doesn't review the memory book often, as she has difficult deciphering her own handwriting. Nevertheless it functions to give her a sense of time.
I'm so sorry your aunt had to go through that. Encephalitis is always something I've heard about on and off. Was it ever determined how she contracted it (herpes or other)?
Doing the jigsaw puzzles and such is probably great exercise for her brain, too. Do you know what kind - or how long - her therapy was post-illness?
I have heard/read about a guy who also has a memory span of ca. 30sec. It's so heatrhbreaking to see him greeting his wife everytime he sees her, like it's the first time in several years.
Jesus, that's scary. I got taken to hospital with a fever of 105.2 degrees a couple of years ago and didn't realise until after how close I was to all kinds of bad things happening. Luckily I was fine after a couple of nights in the hospital.
By this point he has probably become so regimented that writing in that notebook that it's "natural" (?) Still, he has to have someone with him at all times, even if it isn't his wife, as to not make him go into a panic.
Read Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist. It's about a mercenary soldier in the days of ancient Greece who suffered a head injury, and forgets everything every day. He writes stuff down to remind himself of who he is and what he's done. It is a very strange and powerful read.
The first time I saw it, I felt for him. I couldn't imagine how frustrating it is for him to feel like everything is new when everyone around him tells him it is not. One the most memorable parts of that documentary is when Wearing is sitting next to his wife and asks, "Hello, what is your name?" then he reads from the notebook that he told her he loved her how many seconds before.
And not just him, but his wife, too. She deserves major kudos for sticking by him through all of this. If that's not love, I don't know what it.
There's a comic series called "The Sandman". The Sandman punishes one of his captors with eternal waking. I never imagined that that Hell could be real.
important note: the fever was not the cause of his brain damage. It was the herpes encephalitis. (fevers don't cause brain damage unless the fever is caused by heat stroke, not illness)
I agree. I couldn't imagine how emotionally taxing it is to continue being with a spouse with severe mental trauma. Wearing's wife is 100 percent committed to him, although I wonder if his care would fall into professional hands if she were to pass away.
That's how I felt, too. Someone who was in his prime and so gifted with music, and all of a sudden this happens. It just goes to show how much we can take our faculties for granted.
Good God I was worried he's gonna hit his wife at 5 mins into the video when she was pushing him to remember stuff about the diary even while knowing that it wasn't possible for him. Leave him alone, woman! :(
I had a similar tragedy. I can feel pleasure, but only for a moment before someone tells me why that pleasure is stupid and why I was stupid for ever feeling that way in the first place.
Can confirm, dad has brain cancer. Totally different person now, doesn't even like Seinfeld anymore. Was once eloquent, best driver ever, could use motor skills, and amazing gardener. I feel so bad for him, he can't type, write, or even complete sentences without taking several minutes. HOWEVER, he is still a boss at jeopardy. No shit. Calls the answers out with a stutter, but still gets them before contestants can say "what is..."
I've had pills that make it impossible to feel sexual pleasure. So frustrating that no medication is worth it. And depression can make it so nothing is fun. Anhedonia. Even having gone through it before, when it happens I'm in total disbelief. Nothing is remotely stimulating.
Though im like to the party as usual i figured id but my two cents in anyways..After a great deal of head injuries and being diagnosed with tramatic brain injury my busy is no longer capable of producing dopamine. Though I take medicine and recreationally use supliments to try to help but I'll never be the same I'm just turning 26 this year and dealing with it has me dealing with suicidal thoughts daily. I wouldn't wish my head injuries on my worst enemy
I hear you buddy. I had a moderate-severe TBI in January after a motorcycle crash on the track (115-120mph). Was unconscious, airlifted, had a seizure, brain bleeding, morphine 4x/daily, all that fun stuff.
My brain still produces dopamine, but there are VERY few things that give me pleasure anymore. I've pretty much abandoned all of my hobbies, stopped talking to all of my family except my dad, don't care about sex, don't care if I have a job. I'm dealing with the same thoughts as you and it fucking sucks. It's the worst depression of my life by a factor of 10, except there are no meds that can help it.
The only thing, literally, that keeps me going is my friends. If I didn't have them, it'd be over for sure. No point.
You can also lack the ability to feel pain. I've heard stories of children who have it who put their hands on hot plates and end up with burns and don't feel a thing or even realize what is happening.
Yeah with depression and drug addiction the second is why a lot of people keep that addiction. Or else life has no joy. That old hobbies that you used to love are meaningless, amd nothing gives you any sayisfaction or pleasure. Hell even at one point opioids didnt do much because tolerance got too high. And without anything psychoactive nothing natural gives any pleasure. If anything avoiding sex and eating happens. It's why some docs that deal with opioid withdrawal have to be on methadone or suboxone for life because they rewired their brain too much.
Seen the story of a poor man who was in an accident and suffered brain damage of a kind that means he can't recognize faces anymore. He had to relearn to identify his kids and loved ones by their body shape and voices and even then he gets confused. Was sad to see him near tears when he confused his son and daughter (as in who was next to him)
Normally when you look at a face your eyes analysis the input in a triangle type pattern; eyes, nose, mouth, then chin/jaw, ears and hair which combine together in the brain to what you recognize as a face. His eyes get the signals in the wrong order so now he just sees jumbled, fuzzy mess when he looks at a face.
I have some mild brain damage due to a stroke. My long term memory is affected and when I learn new stuff occasionally it doesn't make the transition from shortterm to longterm memory that well. Also, paradoxically, the more you repeat stuff to me, the less likely I am to remember it.
That said, it's easy to adapt to. Just write things down more often. At first the "shit I totally forgot about this" was easy to get used to but I've learned to live with it. I.e. sometimes I'd put clothes in my washing machine and when someone reminds me of that later it's just completely gone.
and think it just happened for the rest of your life.
I would rather not survive. Good luck living on your own after 20 years go by.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You couldn't.
Ever watch 50 first dates? Sweet Adam sandler/drew Barrymore movie but terrifying premise really.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad lost his ability to walk, speak, control of his dominant arm, and lost control of his bowels to brain cancer even though he was still a fully aware, thinking person. I can only imagine what his frustration was like.
Any kind of psychosis scares the shit out of me because of this.
I'm epileptic, and after a seizure I experience almost complete memory loss and psychosis for about 30 minutes. Not knowing who you are, what you've done, who the people around you are or understanding anything that is happening around you is fucking terrifying.
If you have a casual interest in this, you should read some of the books by Oliver Sachs. He does an amazing job at describing some of his more interesting patients and his encounters with them. They are a mind fuck and very informative at the same time. The first one I read was "The man who took his wife for a hat".
d1x1e1a ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can also lose the ability, biologically, to feel pleasure of any kind.
or "marriage" as it's commonly known
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, but Adam Sandler could also swoon your for the rest of your life. Imgaine how cool that would be.
Ejaculatory anhedonia. Everything works down there, it points and shoots, but you feel no pleasure from it. Sounds like a recipe for crushing ennui to me.
I saw a documentary (who's title escapes me) about brain damage. There was a man who was in a motorcycle accident that ever so slightly damaged his frontal cortex.
Now he's lost all feeling and empathy towards his wife and kids. He flat out says he doesn't love them anymore. This scares the shit out of me.
Or maybe it isn't real and he's trying to escape his wife and kids.
Don't worry if this happens Adam sander will make a video for you detailing the accident so you can live your life normally, and you definitely won't ask the same questions every day or just think it's a joke for the rest of your life.
I got a more mild case of this after getting a brain injury after a car accident. Frontal lobe damage and left side of the brain. It made my emotions do a 180. I wanted to die for the first year or so. Anxiety and depression were unbearable. It was about two years before they found the right meds to make my life bearable, but ill never feel quite the same. That was 8 years ago and I lead a relatively normal life. I have trouble with short term memory. Emotions are weird. I don't feel empathy as much as normal people, anxiety and depression still need to be controlled. Its a bitch but its bearable.
unid0n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother got a brain injury at nine, now he reacts to pain weirdly. He slipped on ice and fractured his wrist...nothing. Didn't know till a few years later, he got an X-ray for something else. Yet getting his teeth drilled, he practically needs to be knocked out or he'll scream. Weird
In a recent question about fears like these, I mentioned a man who lived in a head injury unit in a skilled-nursing facility where my father was the administrator. He had burst a blood vessel in his brain while suppressing a sneeze, and spent the rest of his life a quadriplegic. Afraid of brain damage and aneurysms? Don't suppress your sneezes pleases.
I used to work with special needs adults, the folks with TBIs hit me the hardest. They used to be functioning normal folks who had their whole lives torn away from them.
Preidon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me for a year after I got a brain injury due to a car accident. Anterograde amnesia. Last thing I remember was my friend pulling out of her driveway. Accident was 2 miles away.
I have no memory from July 2005-June 2006.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lose ability to form new memories: damage to the parahippocampal gyrus, mamillary bodies, fornix, hippocampus, and other associated structures can remove ability to form new memories.
Lose ability to feel pleasure: destruction of the septal nuclei in the anterior-inferior septum pellucidum of the lateral ventricle can render you unable to feel pleasure of any kind! Hooray! :')
For anyone interested, a man who had Locked In Syndrome wrote a memoir by blinking one of his eyes. It's called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Really good book. Good movie adaptation too.
Fun fact, Metallica wanted to use that movie in the video for 'One' but they couldn't get the rights. So they just bought the rights to the film and and now they own all copyright to the film 'Johnny Get Your Gun'
zimmii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing that meme a few years ago and giggling to it over and over in my had to the point where that version has actually over-written my memory of the original lyrics
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 14:24:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was the song I first danced with a girl to in about 5th or 6th grade. She was pretty metal for a 12 year old.
kesht17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Landmine
Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
[deleted] ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 05:24:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's insane.
heiferly ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 11:45:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have status cataplecticus (an extremely rare symptom of narcolepsy). It's basically exactly like locked in syndrome, except it only lasts for hours up to a few days at a time; my first episode of it, I recalled The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and assumed I was "stuck" like that for the rest of my entire life. Ten hours is plenty of time to consume yourself with grief and terror of how fucked you are living in the prison of your own body when everyone around you thinks you're in a coma and there's no way to communicate.
The first time I experienced sleep paralysis I thought it was going to be forever, and that was just a minute or two. Holy crap, 10 hours of that? I can barely imagine.
It was awful. I was in the ER and everyone was talking about me as if I were in a coma or something. But I could hear everything and feel everything and I was wide awake and screaming on the inside ... I just couldn't make a sound or move my body. I was terrified that I was watching the rest of my entire life unfold. My mom was crying and talking about taking me home and caring for me. It was just insane. (I was in my late 20s at the time.) I take medication that makes the attacks less frequent now, but honestly just knowing what causes it and that it will end in 3 days or less (mine have never gone past 3 days, knock on wood) is enough to take some of the stress out of it.
YaoSlap ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 12:37:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you do when you have an attack? I can't imagine being trapped in my head for that long. I hope you're doing well.
So the physiology of the attacks is that the body drops into the paralysis of REM sleep despite being awake, so as in REM sleep the ocular muscles remain functional. So I've worked out a system with my husband and caregivers where I move my eyeballs up and down for yes and side to side for no (like nodding your head), so they can ask me questions and I can have at least that limited means of communication. Anything that requires more sophisticated communication, we use the alphabet for me to spell, painstakingly letter by letter (first letter, is it A-M? Y is it A-G? N H-M? Y etc.).
I used to have to be in the hospital when it happened, but I have several severe illnesses so I now have a central IV line with IV pump and two feeding tubes with feeding pump at home, so my nurses are able to care for all my needs here at home when I'm paralyzed during an attack without me becoming dehydrated or anything like that. So that helps too, not having to go to the hospital and be in a strange environment among people who aren't familiar with me and my condition when it happens. I like to have people talk to me, put TV shows on that I like, things like that to keep me from getting bored when I'm in an episode. Since I can express yes/no, I can at least tell them if I want to watch a certain show or movie or not. And having narcolepsy, when I get bored I just fall asleep LOL.
There are probably even better ways to do this, but off the top of my head have you considered using a grid of letters?
Write a 5x5 grid of the alphabet on a sheet of paper (leave out z, skip over it for words that use it or substitute s) and start in the center. Navigate the grid by moving your eyes in the appropriate direction. Double blink to confirm the selection. Quadrupal blink to tell people to get out the frid because you have something to say.
This cuts down the maximum eye-actions per letter from 26 to 5 (four navigation actions to reach corner letter, blink to confirm)
I can't intentionally blink. I only have control of the eyeball musculature, not the eyelids.
I appreciate all the people here making suggestions, but I've been doing this for 10 years now. We've tried a variety of communication methods and this is what works for me.
My thoughts come to binary or Morse. Up for 0 or short(.) And down for 1 or long(-) maybe these methods would help you be able to communicate more effectively.
She can't blink, only move her eyes. That gives her effectively four bits per action: eyes up, down, left, and right. Eight if she wants to try for diagonals. I agree that she needs a better system though.
It's sudden, usually brought on by sudden extreme emotions like laughter, surprise, etc. We do tend to go down slightly more gracefully than a person who is fainting, as the paralysis/paresis has a slightly gradual onset that can allow us to lean against a wall or piece of furniture and crumple down instead of falling like a board. (You're still pretty much screwed if you're on a flight of stairs though.)
I get sleep paralysis on a semi regular basis. It was almost every night at one point, now it just happens enough that I don't forget about it. I learned to calm down during the process and stop trying to move which only makes the feeling worse.
The hallucinations are crazy. I always heard terrifying unintelligible voices outside the bedroom. Then, I'll think that I have managed to roll myself off the bed and wake up from hitting the ground, then get up and walk around, but none of that actually happened. I'm still in the same exact spot, trapped.
I am a nurse who worked in a Neuro-trauma unit in Texas. I had a patient that was in a car accident and was diagnosed with locked in syndrome. The whole family wanted to remove life support and let the patient die.....except the husband. There was nothing anyone could do. She was transferred to a hospital in Colorado for further care. I don't know what happened after that but I went home and told my wife that if that happened to me, just to let me go. Terrible point in my career.
Is it even legal to let someone with locked in syndrome die? They're still there mentally, not brain dead. That's assisted suicide territory.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all likelyhood it should be viewed as assisted suicide, but is still classified as vegetative state for life support removal situations.
At some point, someone will get this syndrome and could feasibly survive to the point where we are able to repair the damage. If there's a method for communication, it should be their choice if they want to die not the families.
That is up to ethics and compliance officers to determine. Along with physicians and lawyers. Above my pay grade. Just because someone can be alive and family decides to remove life saving measures does not constitute assisted suicide nor murder. If a person can not make Healthcare decisions them selves without the presence of an advanced directive it falls to the hierarchy of the family where the husband (unless legally separated) would make all decision as if they were the patient. His decision was to keep her alive with machines.
Without the machines she would die. This is no where near anything illegal. It is compassion and knowing ones wishes.
Big take away is make sure your loved ones know what your wishes are before it's too late.
I've told my husband that if it comes to it to just do whatever and I won't hold it against him. After all, he's the one who has to live with or without me.
Having seen like half an hour of the movie, I feel qualified to answer this.
He had an assistant who would recite the alphabet and he would blink when the letter he wanted came up. I don't know if they developed a better system later on, I didn't watch that far.
I don't know if they ended up going to this road, but I've seen 'clusters' of letters grouped together. So you'll point to one group of five letters, then another group of five letters, and so on until they blink, and you select from the cluster. Best case scenario is you get your letter after two guesses, worst case you get it in 11. Might be still faster ways than this, but they'd probably involve asking a lot more questions.
Yeah, I remembered that too so I don't really know what that other dude meant. But if I recall correctly the book description was more detailed so maybe he was referring to that...
I'm guessing something similar to a Binary search, but with common words and letters ordered before less common letters?
Moopies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, except she didn't just read through the alphabet. The letters were read in order of his most used to his least used. So the more they went on, the faster it went.
i found it terrifying and could only watch the film five minutes at a time
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've gotta mention my friend Nick Chisholm. He's locked in, but the man is fearlessly pursuing his life. He is one of the few genuine inspirations in my life.
What sucks most about it but is "good" at the same time is it's possible to come out of it, so the idea of just "pulling the plug" on a locked in person isn't black and white. There's a local 17-year-old kid who got locked in by a brain stem stroke a few months back who is very slowly getting his abilities back. No idea how far he'll go though.
haleyim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that book for a class, it was so depressing but beautiful.
McKRAKK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:05 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there was a house episode where a guy was locked in and then house ran its typical things get worse and worse and then they magically cure patient routine...
True shit. Terrifying. Cared for a patient who was as the Drs said 'truely locked in. ' Somtimes she could cry. It was absolutely the most heartbreaking sound. 10 plus years later I'm still tearing up thinking of her.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 06:29:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non traumatic brain injury. Patient was fully aware. With apparently most to all orientation to persons and place and situation. Communication board communication was painfully slow, consistent with this finding and horrifically discovered years after the event. She was a young mother. She would cry heartbreaking sobs for hours after her family visited. She was completely unable to voluntarily move anything but her eyes and that was somewhat spastic and why the communication board was slow.
She would cry heartbreaking sobs for hours after her family visited.
This is heart breaking to read. And the family .. How do you even interact around someone in that position ? You can't pretend like nothing is happening. You can't either pretend to understand. Ugh, truly terrifying.
My grandfather suffered something similar to this. He had Parkinson's disease, but it wasn't the normal kind. His mind was still all there, but his body eventually completely failed him (including his ability to blink or even swallow)
We would visit him as much as possible, my grandmother lived in the same nursing home so that she could be with him all the time. It was hard, but basically we would just talk to him like we normally would. We told him about what was happening in our lives; we would do cross words and suduko's with him because he seemed to really enjoy those, we would all hang out as a family with him. It was usually ok, tough but manageable, but near the end of his life I will admit that I cried a few times (never around him, I would leave the room) it's very hard to see someone you love trapped in their body, especially him because he was always a very strong tough man.
Unfortunately there was nothing we could do for him in terms of euthanasia because it was illegal in Canada at the time, and because my grandfather's own wishes were to preserve his life for as long as possible.
Yeah, I can relate to that. Grandfather slowly died because of a brain clot, had to feed him, etc. He turned into a vegetable and died. But yeah, that's different. We're talking someone that we know is dying, and grandfathers too for both of us.
That's the story of a young mother that is not even dying; just trapped forever in there. I think that's a pretty big difference, that's much worse, to me at least.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dated an RN who worked in one of those facilities run by the state. People who were brain damaged since birth to the point of being non-verbal, non-ambulatory the whole bit.
She would sing to them and talk to them, some of them could smile when she walked in the room. She would have stayed there until retirement but they moved her to a facility working with sexual predators, so she's back in college to become a nurse anesthesiologist instead. Sad for those people because no one else treated them that well.
But at the same time, you can tell yourself you did something good, that you helped her. I remember that when I was spoon-feeding my slowly dying grandfather, I was devastated, but also knew that this was my place. That I would feel even worse not to do it, not to help him.
I went into a dark place for quite some times, and went real close to put a cushion over his face to help him on the other side, but I didn't. I don't know if I was right not to do it, as nothing good ever happened to him with time passing. But at least I know that in some place in his mind, the small light of consciousness that he kept was happy that I was there.
I used to care for a man with Friedreich's ataxia. It was the most emotionally draining job I've ever had. When I first started he could talk a little, just very slurred and slowly. He could feed himself. He could indicate what he wanted.
By the time I had to move he could only make vague noises and couldn't get his hands to do anything he wanted them to. It was heart breaking. Some days we both just could not communicate with the other. I'd just hold his hand and we'd sit there and have a good cry together.
It's ok rucksackempty, you did good. (reddit is wonderdul)
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 09:18:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did she ask to die?
If I ever got into that state I would probably spend every waking moment hating my family for not putting me out of my misery. We'd do the same for our pets, but not our flesh-and-blood, for some reason.
Chewzer ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 10:00:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister and I already decided if something like this ever happened to either of us we would pull the plug to end that torture.
Gullex ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife is such a dick, she is making me choose what happens to her if she gets in that position. On my form I have it picked to just pull the plug.
Lolleos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your wife loves you too much and is an extremely good person... Most people wouldn't bat an eye before telling their significant others what THEY want, putting their interests in front of their couple's, not caring how their couple would feel st that moment, yet your wife is willing to NOT make a choice about what happens to her life in case she's in such a horrible situation, giving you instead the choice to do as it would hurt you less. She trusts your judgement enough to make you choose and she loves you enough to think about you before thinking of herself. That's a real proof of love if you ask me!
While true, it also puts that person in an unbelievably difficult situation where you may feel personally responsible for not either giving it longer or for having let it go on for too long. When you pre-choose for yourself you remove that person from having to make an extremely difficult decision in one of the most stressful situations possible.
I think it probably tells more about personality than love (though we very much love each other). My wife sees it from the perspective that she wouldn't have all information and therefore cannot make an accurate decision ahead of time. She doesn't know what kind of life she'd live, if she'd recover, if she's be a vegetable or what.
I on the other hand want to remove the stressful decision for my wife. I don't want her to feel regret, or guilt or fear about her decision. I've removed that for her and have already decided if I'm on life support I'm done.
We both love each other but have both chosen differently because of our love.
Lolleos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a ton of sense! When you put it that way it does feel a bit burdensome, but I think it, at least, still says she trusts your decision fully, but I do get how you feel because, at that point (God forbid any of us has to get there) the "right" choice doesn't reallt exist.
Well enough about that gloomy subject; may you both live a happy life and experience an unshakeable health!
Pulling the plug refers to unplugging a form of life support. It's different from assisted suicide in the seems that are denying the means to live as opposed to actively killing the person which is what assisted suicide usually refers to.
Systral ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would mean that if it was a viable option. It is not.
Discontinuing life support will result in suffering while assisted suicide allows them a comforting way of passing away, which in this situation is their most obvious wish and should be granted under any circumstances.
Make a living will. Make your sister DPOA. If your dpoa doesn't have the strength to let you go, they can and will keep you alive. The doctors will do what your family wants because you are obviously never going to sue but the family will.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me, I should really get my papers done. . .
No she did not. She was otherwise physically healthy. There was never a point where she was on a vent , but was tube fed. Very religious family .
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:22:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because people consider pets as property. They feel like they have the right to kill them if they think it's what's best, because their will is superior over the animal's.
People don't treat other people the same way. If you can't consent, they will have a tough time killing you, because there is a chance that you may want to live. They would not want their actions to interfere with your will, because it's considered to be on equal footing to their own.
For this reason, I have told my immediate family more than once that if I was ever in that kind of situation, I would like to be euthanized. You should, too.
For this reason, I have told my immediate family more than once that if I was ever in that kind of situation, I would like to be euthanized. You should, too.
Is it... legal? Can someone request assisted suicide if they can't do it themselves? Can they request it in advance of any possible accident just in case they won't be able to respond anymore at that point?
(I'm in the United States and I'm unsure of the laws regarding that here)
I would absolutely want to be put out of my misery if I had locked in syndrome or something. I really would. But if the doctors refused to do it and a family member wanted to step in, I wouldn't want a family member to get thrown in jail for murder just for helping me escape a life of pain/misery.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:07:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the U.S. too. No, it's not legal.
The thing is though, for reasons you've pointed out, having assisted suicide be illegal doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I'm pretty sure that this will change relatively soon.
For that time, I'm saying it in advance. I highly advise everyone else to as well.
Gullex ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Registered nurse here. While technically assisted suicide is not legal, on multiple occasions I have given copious narcotics to patients who are clearly "on their way out", at the request of family. We don't call it assisted suicide, but those drugs certainly are hastening the natural process.
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, for example. Though there is still a lot of discussion about it, especially regarding Alzheimers because, roughly said, you have to be 'in your right mind' to make the decision. And a doctor has to confirm that your suffering is hopeless (you can't get better, are in a lot of pain, etc.). Things like this are what makes me so happy that I live in this country.
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to set up a living will.
Mark7A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone should have a durable power of attorney for healthcare for just this reason.
I made mine a little humorous for anyone who has to read it.
E.g. They must have a party in my room when they pull the plug (I don't want to go out with people feeling sad). I want a good party for my wake. I specifically stated my body can't be used for food (but organ donation is ok).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty bullshit when you think about it. Someone in that situation could be begging for someone to kill them, but legally you aren't allowed to. Like, wtf?
Gullex ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:23:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure if that happened to me I'd be communicating nothing but "Kill me...kill me....kill me...."
In a way, it's kind of a good thing that she could cry at all - at least she could still express what she was feeling in that way. It's probably worse to not be able to. :( That sounds really horrific to go through.
3domx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should have put a pillow over her head when no one was looking.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did this happen in America? If so, what if the family stopped paying the health insurance? Would the hospital stop caring for her and let her die then?
In America. Probably she would have become a ward of the state. No ward of the state is ever a DNR. They will do everything to keep them alive to prevent a lawsuit or the appearance of letting them die because they are poor.
Not really. Why ever visit their site again if they've demonstrated that they can't give you a full story without trying to rope you into some bullshit?
There's a million alternatives, no reason to give them anything.
jmur89 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:54:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh. Audio on NPR is not bull shit. It's the news outlet's main fare. NPR stands for National Public Radio, after all. Their digital text stories quite often lead into audio shows or clips. This isn't deceitful. It's just the way their platform works.
They put up a cliffhanger article. It was my one exposure to the site. Why would I go again? There are other news sites and this is the first one that deliberately ended on a cliffhanger to get me to listen to their audio or whatever.
Like most people I read much faster than people speak and I'd rather spend less time than more to get the story.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:03:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ate a shit ton of mushrooms for my first time ever, about 6 grams. At one point I could think clearly but couldn't make legible words, they were just shrieks and noises. I also had trouble with body function like moving my arms the way I wanted etc. It was at that point I started freaking out in my own head thinking about people like him. Unable to move there bodies and are thought to be brain dead. What if they are just trapped in their bodies? Minds working but unable to work the body in any way or communicate they are there. Scared the fucking shit outta me so bad, knowing what I wanted to say but not being able to. God damn terrifying. Amazing how much I take for granted being able to speak, move and be a normal human being.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you do them again after that? Do you regret taking them? Psilocybin is high on my list of things to try but I don't really have any friends who use so I'm hesitant to try on my own.
I absolutely don't regret it for a second. It was a ride. Eye opening in ways. I was not alone, I had other people with me one of which was sober. I was definitly the furthest gone, one point I was just laying of the floor screaming and laughing hysterically at the sound of my own voice. Id wave my hands In the air just staring at the trails. The two worse parts were when I couldn't speak anymore, and when I would take a piss after I finished it still felt like I was pissing, was convinced I was peeing in myself but nothing was wet. I never did piss myself but I was convinced I was, odd feeling lol. Staring at your face in the mirror was crazy, normal at first then it would completely twist and distort, when I'd look away and look back my face would be normal again before twisting and changing again. I haven't done them again, yet. I will though. Don't think I'll eat 6 grams though lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
was convinced I was peeing in myself but nothing was wet
I had this problem a lot when I first started smoking weed. Dunno why.
But occasionally there were things that elicited thoughts he could not ignore.
Like Barney.
"I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney," Martin says.
Since all the world thought Martin was a vegetable, at the special care center where he spent his days he was often in front of the TV watching reruns of the children's cartoon hour after hour, day after day.
If you click on the link for the audio, it is hosted by KUAC. KUAC is my college radio station!! (University of Alaska Fairbanks) I work in IT and watch the shows in person all the time. Small world!
Conversations with Richard Fidler is a an hour long free downloadable conversations show in australia covering a huge variety of storys and experiences from people world wide. This particular story is about a 30 year old tradesman from Perth who recounts his experience and recovery from locked in syndrome
Wow this is incredible, thank you for sharing. What an amazing story
Kigarta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I listened to that episode of Invisibilia about two weeks ago. Was definitely a good listen. Got to hear Martin's side of the story in it after a good 20 minute lead on like he had died.
As time passed, I gradually learned to understand my mother's desperation. Every time she looked at me, she could see only a cruel parody of the once-healthy child she had loved so much.
Dude this shit is fucking deep
gold_55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. What a fucking inspiration! To think what he must have gone through and to fight that hard for that long. Truly amazing. Puts my shit into perspective.
There must have been cases of people being paralyzed, blinded and deaf, but fully conscious,
Imagine that.. like what do you even make of that, I'd probably think I was dead, in purgatory or some bullshit "Oh hey here's another day of darkness and no stimulation", shit man most people have an idea of death and if you were in a car crash and had to deal with years of darkness you'd probably think this is what afterlife was.. how stressful is that.
And then you finally die because your mom can't afford your vegetable ass anymore.
Sad stuff indeed.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:39:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is like One Version Two because you cant be sure if you're dead or not.
Hetfield wanted to paint a picture of a prisoner of his own body, but I'm talking about a person with no perspective of their surroundings, and I'm sure that has definitely happened.
You would get stimulation through vivid hallucinations.
cryokin ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The House episode where Mos Def has this is one of my favorites ever. I love when they do the questioning.
bliffay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, the entire episode you have doctors like "No, he's going to die. Nothing to be done." & then House says "I'm not so sure" and Mos Def's character is like "Listen to this guy, he's a cool dude!!"
Can't up vote this enough. I suffer from sleep paralysis which isn't even a drop in an ocean the size of Jupiter compared to locked in syndrome.... and it terrifies me and fucks with me so much that having locked in syndrome would probably just kill my mind immediately.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck sleep paralysis. Fuck that shadow demon.
I can usually figure out what's going on and break out quickly, but those initial moments of terror never get easier.
I had a lucid dream/sleep paralysis just a few days ago.
I couldn't move, realized I'm lucid dreaming, then remembered that some people sees the shadow demon when they lucid dream. Shadow demon with red eyes then appears out of nowhere and sits on the edge of my bed and very clearly asked if I could see his face.
I thought "damn, i know this isn't real but it's still freaky"
Then the shadow demon said "sorry" and left my room.
I thought that was pretty cool.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 05:04:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the moments that I'm locked up, I'm scared shitless of my SP demon.
Yours sounds like a fucking bro.. And I can't help but wonder if that's a red flag.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how fear can affect you. In some cases it can paralyze you, in others it can make you freak out, and in others you can even be chill and try to laugh things off. The latter is something I do and I can't complain, although it never stops feeling weird when you're torn between acting "chill" and trying not to piss yourself.
Had spooky experiences as a kid and used a Ouija a while back. I believe in that stuff, so when I got a response, my first natural reaction was to try not to piss myself. Got over that and I just ran with it cheerfully despite still feeling fear.
Hey, if your Shadow Man is a Shadow Bro, just take the deal.
I have a personal trick to wake up from my dreams any time I want to.
I've realized at a young age that whenever I try to read anything in a dream, I immediately snap awake. Doesn't matter if it's a page or just letters. I've never been able to actually read anything while I'm dreaming even if I recognize it's a page of words.
Whenever I get a nightmare that I'm conscious of and I want to leave, I just start visualizing words. It's much more effective for me than to repeat 'wake up, wake up' to myself.
Demon bro was pretty cool. I've actually never seen the SP demon while I had SP before, and this was the first time after reading about it on reddit. I woke up for a brief second after that, went back to sleep, and then spent the 2nd lucid dream just flying and fucking around.
I get them quite often, if i get woken up too early and I go back to sleep, more often than not as soon as i start dreaming I realize i'm dreaming and I can control stuff a bit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only had sleep paralysis on one occasion, and didn't see the demon or anything, but it was like, as soon as I fell asleep I'd lock up and feel the terror until I could wake up. Then I'd calm down and fall asleep and it would happen again, and again, for a couple of hours. I got to a point where I was so freaked out I was worrying I would never be able to sleep again, like something broke in my mind and I'd be spending the rest of my life afraid to sleep. I've never had it happen again but it worries me when I think about it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something like 50% of people experience it at least once. Sounds like you got yours out of the way. If you "have" SP you probably would have had another episode by now.
I lucid dream frequently but if you practice checking for an anchor (i check for the time) and if it's funky you know it's a dream... then you'll be able to control your lucid dream.
Wait I thought the shadow demon was sort of a person to person, similar to dreams. I was unaware someone else has experienced that, is the shadow demon common with sleep paralysis?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:06:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search "sleep paralysis demon" on Google images. You'll likely find yours amongst the illustrations, like I did.
Pretty creepy, but it's comforting to know I'm not alone in seeing that shit.
Mine doesn't even show itself. It's usually to the right of me, all I can see is its hand slowly coming towards me as my chest gets tighter and tighter - by the time it gets close I break out but I still have never experienced anything more frightening in my life.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:53:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only had it once as far as I can remember, I knew I was sleeping so I tried to roll myself out of bed to bang my head on my bedside table to wake up. At least that was my dream logic. I can't imagine having it often.
For the inverse, I heard this story that sometimes, the minds sub-conscious will send you messages in the form of dreams. Its often the case that while in a coma, the mind will send you discreet messages to wake up. It can come in any form, according to the recorded cases. Maybe a song lyric will tell you to wake up, or your dream-world best friend might whisper it just loud enough for you to hear, and deny saying it after the fact. There as even been a few recorded instances where the message to wake up would appear in text, the sub-conscious asking you in graffiti in an alley you walk through, in a book you read, in a newspaper you pick up. Sometimes it could be a text from a friend or a message on the internet telling you to please wake up.
Spooky right? But I don't think its true.
JahWeir ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:45:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, man.
[deleted] ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 04:22:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
> Maybe a song lyric
> message on the internet
> wake up
So you're telling me that memes could save somebody's life?
"Wow, this would make a great writing prompt", I thought. Aaand actually Futurama already did that. A nice twist from the cliched 'Simpsons did it'.
jrizos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or...this very post on Reddit
pdx_1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:51:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wake up!
godbois ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:13:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin' Clanks. Glad they cut government subsidies on those leeches.
Mr_Mars ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, really? Like Haden's is a fuckin picnic. Show a little sensitivity.
And they're threeps, not clanks. People like you are what's wrong with the world.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay I am not the only one who gets it
godbois ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved that book so much. I thought it was really interesting how Scalzi didn't state the protagonist's gender intentionally. They even went so far as having two voice actors, a man and a woman, record the same script for two different version. Although oddly enough I mentally assigned the role of the protagonist as a woman, even though I was listening to the male recording.
I was so happy we're seeing another story in the same universe next year.
Already told my mom, and will tell any SO's, if I'm ever stuck in a coma, for the love of God, play me music and audio books, in case I'm actually like this.
sorunx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:26:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sheer amount of horrible things that can befall you in life. Non existence is better than existence.
cmatute ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. As a nurse I have seen it once. I couldn't imagine how bad that would be from their perspective. This would absolutely hit me as the worst possible thing
It's not on this earth - yet. But imagine when science unlocks the ability to transfer human memories to other bodies. Whether those are biological bodies or otherwise. Now imagine it's your memories and that with it also comes your consciousness. You are still you, but change bodies. Pretty awesome right? Now imagine evil corrupts this science and free will is taken from you. So there is a potential that your consciousness and memories may live on for hundreds or more years yet you have no free will, but know it. That would suck so bad.
I don't believe this is the same cause, but Lorenzo's Oil is about a kid who starts to lose the ability to control his body, and pretty much ends up in a Locked-in state. It gets to the point where the parents have to vacuum spit out of his mouth, and he ends up convulsing because he needs to cough but can't.
It's absolutely heart breaking, but it's about his parents finding the cure to something that helped a lot of kids and eventually his own son (the movie doesn't cover when he grows up, as it's a based on true events). Interesting movie.
Absolutely! Ever since I saw Diving Bell and the Butterfly it's been one of my irrational fears. A few years ago I had an acute onset of aphasia out of seemingly nowhere and I was really and truly terrified. I could move and somewhat understand what people were saying but not really talk or write. I was scared and angry that my body didn't work. Did learn that curse words must be stored across different centers as they were a few of the words I could get out!
So for all of you out there who think "I'm healthy, couldn't happen to me"... guess again.
I get sleep paralysis, this shit happens. I fucking hate it so much that if i go into a coma, id rather die. honest to god. i cant breathe or anything. fuck that shit
Yes! Jesus Christ this is literally my worst fear. My doctor told me that when people come in the ER and are completely unruly, he explains this syndrome to them. Then he tells them that he can give them a shot to cause it. They quickly calm down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to the article he was locked in for several weeks before he passed away. He's one of my favorite comedians of all time, and hearing him on opie and anthony so much made it feel like a friend passed.
Mark Billingham's novel Sleepyhead (it's been adapted for TV in the uk) uses this as the vehicle, in the sense that the villain is inducing it in people.
The way he writes from the victims perspective makes it even scarier, the way he capture the terror and panic.
My father is currently recovering from locked in syndrome.
His case, all he could originally do was blink. He also maintains full sensation.
So this means you can't move and naturally your body starts to ache (like sitting in a small seat on a long flight).
As pain intensifies, a person's eyes involuntary flutter and communication becomes difficult, heavy painkillers make communication almost impossible.
Pain and frustration aside though... Without the ability to swallow your salvia drips down into your lungs, and pneumonia can develop.
You wake up and all you can do is blink (or in some cases not even that)...
The fate of John Cusack's character at ending of Being John Malkovich is basically that. I don't think most people stopped to think about it, but it scared the shit out of me.
unwill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuyoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of a friend with locked in syndrome died recently. He was 29. The first time I met him was at an indie music club night at my friends university. He was the suavest most charismatic guy in the room, literally had groups of girls following him around, talking about nothing else when he wasn't present. Had a stroke that year and spent the next 10 years living with his parents as a prisoner in his own body. Absolutely horrifying condition
A friend of mine from high school became locked-in for six months after suffering the onset of transverse myelitis. He came out of it a much stronger, more driven personality. He also just preordered us both copies of Dark Souls 3. Much love, Adam <3
dukec ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an added bonus, you can get locked in syndrome if you are hyponatremic (have low blood sodium levels) and correct it too fast.
tehric ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is happening to my uncle right now - I didn't realize the condition had a name, but it's got to be the most horrible thing that can happen to a person. He had a stroke in the waiting area of the hospital around two years ago. Killed part of his brain stem but left the rest of his brain intact.
He can't move or speak, but he is still all there mentally. His eyes are spastic, though sometimes he can focus for awhile. He can communicate by speeding up the spasms timed with questions.
My aunt starts by asking him numbers, which represent sections of the alphabet. When he twitches his eyes upward, she then goes through each letter of that section of the alphabet until he also reacts to a letter. She then writes it down and moves onto the next letter.
He can also move his head slightly, just enough to hit a bumper placed extremely close to the side of his head which is really just a doorbell to let my aunt or my cousins know he needs something.
He cries a lot. He chokes on mucus. He's had pneumonia multiple times. I can't imagine what it must be like. It has been surreal to watch his body waste away. I want to help improve his life so badly, but I just don't know how. I know my entire family, including his mom and his adult kids, feel the same way. I provide new movies and TV shows to them as often as I can - he likes watching TV. I think about him often.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up a man named Ahmad Dedat from South Africa - this man had a complete system where he spoke by blinking and his wife would interpret everything for him.
Another "for anyone interested", there's sci-fi short story titled "I have no mouth and I must scream" about a computer that tortures people, one of the ways being similar to locked-in syndrome. Interesting read if you like dark, heavy shit.
Not a doctor here... but wouldn't the solution be to treat the patient with penicillin until there is only penicillin-dependent gonorrhea left (all of the 'normal' gonorrhea was killed by the penicillin), then cut off the supply of penicillin, so the remaining penicillin-dependent gonorrhea dies as well?
So we're basically getting diseases hooked on prescription drugs, then shoving them into a fatal withdrawal?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you build a resistance to every conceivable antibiotic. Check.
Dose everyone in the world with all said antibiotics. Check.
Cut everyone off. Check.
The one surviving bacteria is now a super-bacteria. Not only is it antibiotic resistant, it also makes the host seek out antibiotics to gorge on for survival. Check.
This is perfect. Just keep over prescribing them and then they will all be dependent on antibiotics. Then cut out the antibiotics and all the bacteria die! Checkmate bacteria.
laynnn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually pretty interesting. Do you have a source on that?
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[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:30:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Palodin ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a bit of both, as I understand it. Doctors prescribing antibiotics just because some idiot comes in and demands it for their cold is a problem too. As is people not finishing their courses, since that tends to leave more bacteria around to develop a resistance.
MrSayn ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:40:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is more dangerous than pyscho-terrorists like ISIS, yet governments are more concerned with unlocking phones than passing legislation to ban antibiotic use on animals. Top authorities in medicine have been issuing dead serious warnings for years, yet no one listens.
I guess we're supposed to enjoy our poop-fed tortured chickens pumped with antibiotics and just watch as medicine recedes 500 years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We're sorry ma'am. The surgery on your husband went well, but unfortunately he is now dying from a secondary infection that could not be prevented."
A phrase sadly soon to be repeated much more in the future...
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't let it get to you, your friend knew what they were doing, and also if they didn't alert you, the patient to this, they did an awesome job at controlling the situation.
Sounds like the first doc didn't treat you properly. She should have scheduled you for incision and drainage, and prescribed antibiotics that covered for MRSA the first time. Glad you're ok though!
Same here, except mine was very close to my brain. Glad we're both alive.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:15:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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LesliW ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you've heard about fecal transplants, but it's a very cool concept if you haven't. It hasn't really caught on yet because of what I like to call the "icky factor" but it has an extremely high cure rate for c. Diff. Basically, they introduce some healthy poop from a donor into your GI tract and the good bacteria take over and the c. Diff can't compete and dies. But it's gross, so it's not popular yet.
You might be interested in a guy I read about with allergies who improved his health by doing things backwards for a couple years. He wanted to expand the type of flora in his microbiome (same thing you want to do) so he didn't wash his hands unless they were absolutely filthy. In addition, he used public restrooms, touched everything other people touch in public, I can't even remember everything he did because it was so against the grain for me. My brain just blocked that part out!
Even though I do understand the logic behind it, not washing your hands AND touching things purposefully in public areas gives me the heebie-jeebies. I have persistent allergies myself, so I've tried to remember not to be so diligent about hygiene all the time. It weirds me out because it's so backwards from what I've been taught my entire life.
Oh bizarre! I will look into that. I was on immunosuppressants and became majorly paranoid about germs. I've stopped all medications to try and deal with things through nutrition and exercise. I will look for that article thanks!
This is pretty brilliant. My husband always insists the reason he doesn't ever get sick is because he does things like eat food he dropped on the ground. Maybe there's some truth to it
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:21:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright. I'm going to be That Guy because this is the exact reason. This is one of the main reasons I'm vegetarian. 80% of all antibiotics are used to keep livestock alive. Much of that is necessary because of factory farms. Every human could stop taking antibiotics tomorrow and it wouldn't even be a quarter of the usage, while we stare down the barrel of antibiotic resistance.
Or, you know, you could just stop giving them to livestock starting with banning use as a growth agent like the EU has from 2006 and then proceeding to ban them for prophylactic use (EU voted on this in 2011).
It should be pointed out that the 80% statistic is only for the United States. China produces and consumes the most antibiotics in the world, half of which are used in livestock.
Zoklett ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:54:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not really vegetarian, but I am about 90% of the time and was strictly vegetarian and even vegan for several years. Why is this relevant? Because a lot of the resistance to antibiotics has been linked to prophylactic antibiotics used in factory farmed meat. I also worked in a hospital for several years and came across this resistance to antibiotics many times during my career. There's no way of telling whether or not avoiding factory farmed meat has prevented me from developing this resistance - I'm also very prudent about when I take antibiotics and there's simply just a huge amount of variables, but I don't think avoiding it has HURT me. In fact, I'd say the number one most convincing reason to avoid meat in general IS antibiotic resistance.
I am not saying people shouldn't eat meat or that being vegetarian is a healthier lifestyle, because it isn't. There's a lot of variables there. But, it is nearly impossible to avoid factory farmed meat if you eat meat. You can say "I will only eat grass fed, farmers market, organic, etc..." but at the end of the day, if you eat meat you will most likely eat whatever meat is put in front of you regardless of where it's from. That's just my experience, though.
It's extremely scary to think that eating meat you get from the store could cause you to die a horrible death from incurable MRSA...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it works that way. The problem is macro, not micro. What one person does isn't going to effect whether bacteria develop drug immunity--but what every person does will.
Custom-made bacteriophages might solve this problem, although that would require a change in medical regulations. (Different strains of phages are considered separate drugs by the FDA. So that patient with XDR-TB? Their phage cocktail would have to go through the [fairly expensive] FDA approval process first. And also through that same process again for every single patient of XDR-TB.)
This happened to me! I almost died because I was really sick and my doc gave me a shot of bicillin what normally wipes out whatever crud people have because it's a powerful broad spectrum antibiotic. Well he sent me back to work because he assumed I would be fine in a few hours. 3 days later I could barely move, had tunnel vision and was sweating constantly so I went back to the doc. Turns out his magic cure simply did nothing because I was resistant to the antibiotic so my body was fighting off some hardcore viral infection all by its damn self.
Almost died.
I learned that its not as big of a problem as it seems. If we were to stop using antibiotics the bacteria with resistance would almost certainly lose out in competition to bacteria with resistance in about fifty years. Allocation of resources will naturally shift away from resistances when other shit comes to play.
So if I don't normally take Advil and whatnot am I more "ok" than others? I don't know much about antibiotic resistance but is it the same as caffeine tolerance or something where the more you take consistently = the bigger tolerance you have?
anneoud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not at scary as the fact that we have way to many people on this earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. I get about 2 sinus infections a year and I have noticed that they are getting more resistant to the antibiotics I use. Getting surgery to fix my sinuses as to not further the resistance.
And I hope I'll never have it. I have like 5 different antibiotics I could take against pseudomonads. I vary them and take them for a huge bombing run sometimes and so far they've been bombed pretty good. They're chronic though and will always come back to haunt me.
A virus/ bacteria that's extremely contagious, has flu-like symptoms at the start, is incurable, and is slow to kill its host. That shit would be scary.
By the time international travel shut down, it would be too late. Every country except for Madagascar would be infected.
In about thirty years I'm going to need major surgery. I'm slowly coming to the realization that because of superbugs I may not be able to have that operation.
It's fucking heartbreaking. What am I supposed to do?
I feel like more people should be concerned about this one.
sil863 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's terrifying. I was recently prescribed an antibiotic that worked for me a couple of years ago, but it didn't have any effect this time. It's scary to think that someday the stronger antibiotics they put me on will eventually be ineffective as well.
PEOPLE NEED TO FINISH TAKING THEIR ANTIBIOTICS AS PRESCRIBED
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it was Radiolab that did an interesting story on the mutations of bacterial infections and how we keep having to change the formulae to keep up. Turns out, they found after so long, strains begin to lose certain resistances because a treatment form has been so long abandoned, the bacteria had no reason/means to propagate those "old" resistances forward. In turn, this made some older types of treatments, actually effective again.
I may be butchering the explanation or overly simplifying it, but I thought it was really neat.
Yes, its scary, but remember that AB resistance actually makes the bacteria less adapted to survive in environments without the antibiotic. If we stop using an antibiotic, wild type bacteria will dominate again. The problem is hospital-acquired infections.
1337ish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:30:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or that is what we previously thought. We have now discovered that many resistant bacteria run a tight regulation of the resistance genes. This means that in the absence of antibiotics, the additional genes is a very small expense for them. Yes, in the long run they will be outnumbered by susceptible bacteria, but that may take more than a hundred years in complete antibiotic absence.
Nooooooo.... gotta disagree with you there. Having the gene is a plus in an environment with the antibiotic, but it in no way is a detriment to the bacteria if the gene does not need to be expressed. Ever heard of "junk DNA?" We all carry around loads of DNA that does nothing but sit there.
"Just a heads-up: That coffee we gave you earlier had fluorescent calcium in it so we can track the neuronal activity in your brain. There's a slight chance the calcium could harden and vitrify your frontal lobe. Anyway, don't stress yourself thinking about it. I'm serious. Visualizing the scenario while under stress actually triggers the reaction."
I suffered a ruptured aortic aneurysm while in an airplane. It wasn't bad enough having a <10% chance of survival even if they got me to an emergency room fast enough ... No no... I had to be fkn AIRBORNE.
Not quite seconds. If it were to literally EXPLODE, then yes probably under a minute. But if it's just leaking from one or more small tears, the stats are something like an increasing mortality of 5% every passing hour. Luckily my plane landed within 30 mins and I had a few small but growing tears. I was in the terminal in 20 mins, then on ambulance in another 15 min. And probably a 10-15 min ride to the emergency. Very lucky.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea. I experienced the worst internal pain I have ever felt in my life in back and chest, sort of between the shoulder blades area. It was a feeling of inflating inside, yet sinking at the same time like the life was being squeezed out of me as well. What had happened was my ascending aorta had a previously unknown aneurysm which had ruptured, and my aortic arch and descending aorta had dissected all the way down to the kidneys. But I didn't know about this till I was revived in the ICU and told about it.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, glad you're still alive!
They took ultrasound of my heart every second year from when I was born for some reason I still don't know (I guess they saw something was "wrong"?)
Then when I was 16, it had gone like 4-5 years since they called me in, so my mom asked if I could just "turn myself in" and just get it done. As I did, they said "We'll send you to another hospital for a check". They sent me to norways "best" hospital, and they saw that my aorta was at 9.5cm diameter, and it should be 4 or less. They also found "signs" of early upcoming rapture-damage.
I hope I'll never experience a rupture, I'm glad that they check me far more often now, hehe.
Wow! They're still watching your aorta at 9.5cm?? Must be in your abdomen, not chest. But that seems a bit risky waiting at that size.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, no no, I had a surgery where they fixed it, placed a stent and fixed some minor valve-leakage!
They said "Meh, we will contact you within a month for a surgery-date", went home, played for 1 hour, then got the call "Hey, you know what, get back!" Hehe.
It was in the chest, actually.
Did they figure out why you had your rapture? I took some gene-tests and they found out that I have a diagnose that lowers the quality/makes less "tissue" some places, which also explains why I had to replace my eye lense and had a released retina once aswell.
But hell, it's far better that they actually know it now, so I may have some inner peace.
How do you feel after this? Have you gotten somekind of health-related anxiety?
Ha ok, i was really wondering what they're waiting for.... I haven't had tests like you've mentioned, but ascending aorta aneurysms are known to be congenital in nature, I.e. A weakened aorta wall from birth. Mine was 7cm when I was operated upon. But I also had elevated blood pressure which had been spiking to 170/120 unbeknownst to me. So the combination of the two things led to my rupture.
It's been a year and 2 months since my surgery. I received a Dacron graft in the ascending aorta, and have stenting in the descending aorta from the left subclavian artery down to the renal arteries. I also had complications of the lungs and kidneys because of my condition, had to have about 1.5 liters of collected fluid taken out of each lung, and also was on dialysis for a week since my kidneys shut down from the trauma. Spent 3 weeks in the ICU, then began a slow recovery at home. I had to relearn how to walk, my muscles were so weakened. First few months were very slow, but then things started accelerating for the better. I'm now playing squash regularly, and doing some light lifting in the gym - still have to avoid heavy weights for blood pressure issues. I do have anxiety at times, mainly when very physically active and I can feel my blood rushing and always think about what it might do to my graft or stenting. I'm always fearing leaks!
How's your progress? How long has it been?
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been 6 years since my surgery.
I had to learn to walk again aswell, but it went faster to recover than what I expceted in the end of it.
It didn't scarr me that much at that time or the years after, as I had already had 7 surgeries (mostly eye-related) before this one, and I was kinda shocked that I was "that close" to maybe dying without noticing a thing.
I did also have some liquid in my lungs, but I didn't want to take the drainage at that time, so they let me go, as they said it would remove itself after a while. I had about 1 month in the hospital, 4-5 days in the emergency-monitoring-room-thingy, then to a normal room for 2 weeks where I learned to walk, trained my breathing with a crackpipe-looking device, then transported to my local hospital for monitoring for two more weeks.
Now 4-5 years later, I have had small periodes of anxiety, I had one after 4 years when I was hospitalized because of H/R of 30, which I had for many months. (Betablockers) It wasn't any problem, they took me off, but I had three months with constant anxiety of death.
Then it started again now a couple of months ago even though I was at a ultrasound/echo-check 2 weeks ago. They said "We are wondering about something", but they couldn't say what, but they assured me that it wasn't any critical, they just want to doublecheck with CT-scans that I am going to take within a couple of months. Anyhow, it's gone to that point where I am looking and (hopefully) getting to a health-anxiety-specialized psychiatrist. I have found that health-anxiety is my worst "enemy", it's just a big evil circle with a shortcut to hypochondria.
Other than that, it's been good. I don't feel that it has limited me that much, I have a minor leakage at my valve, but it's nothing to worry about. I just limit myself physically with lifting and stuff, as my diagnose will make this happend again if I don't take precautions of exhausting my heart.
I know your feeling of that "blood-rushing" and it's rather exhausting at times, especially if I lay down and hear my heartbeat louder than anything else. The thought of "My aorta was just a ticking bomb"-thought does also appear at times. And the classical anxiety-feeling of "cold liquid" going down your body, ofcourse.
How do you get your thoughts away from this, Bahndoos? And how has this limited your lifestyle?
Great speaking with you btw! I haven't spoken to more than one person that has had this surgery before.
It's a very physical feeling, so no matter how much I think about it will help. In fact thinking about it makes it worse. Since it's a physical feeling, I've found deep breathing and meditation to help me de-stress quite a bit. Going for walks has also been therapeutic, just strolling very casually in a park or down the street in a quiet neighborhood.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you're right. Thinking makes it much much worse, you'll get more focused on the heart area, you notice alot more placebo-things, can't seem to understand if what your feeling is muscular, nerves or something related to the heart, and then the circle is going.
I will try to take walks. Breathing does work sometimes, but then again I can't get my focus off my heart. Meditation is something that I've been thinking about, but I haven't done it yet, don't know why actually.
Is there any chance that you may have any bulges again? Or did they conclude that this was just a one-time-unlucky-thing?
Well I'm currently grafted and stented from the aortic root all the way down to the kidneys, so hopefully no more bulging of any kind! If you're having persistent anxiety, you might try acupuncture for stress/anxiety relief. I know a few women who were unable to conceive but were able to do so after acupuncture therapy, my point being it really does work.
I had the same thing happen to my father. The scariest thing was they told me that it was due to genetically determined factors. The surgeon told me this in front of my wife and two sons.
Parker_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:17:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. I don't know if you are and I'm even more worried.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better, the rate of cerebral aneurysmal rupture spikes in Autumn and Spring for no well understood reason.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would go out on a limb and say It probably has something to do with the season/temperature/pressure change.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world literature agrees with you, but at present it's not clear why that change should affect blood vessels locked inside the skull in quite that way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:47 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. I would assume it has to do with the body's reaction (voluntary or otherwise) to the temperature changes which probably affect their mood which does affect their brains.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:00:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is one that totally fucked w my head. I have constant headaches. So does my coworker. After a while I learned her headaches where caused by aneurysms little tiny ones at the terminal ends of the blood vessels in her head. Probably won't kill her but fuck how do you live with that.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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zonew ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually have Cage the Elephant in my head, too. Or, Around My Head.
I'm just piggybacking on his source of parents being doctors and his claim that anyresums are extremely rare. They are rare if you are not overweight and not a smoker.
The neurosurgeon that treated mom, said it was entirely caused by smoking for 20+ years. She was not overweight.. She was 5'6 and at most 115 lbs. The anreysum "leaked" rather then burst, and was caught, thankfully. Well...kind of.
She now has 40 titanium coils wrapped around either side of the anreysum that is just above her brain stem and essentially now has side effects as if she had a stroke. She cannot open her right hand or lift the arm without assistance & needs help walking. She is a shell of what she once was. I'm not entirely sure her life now is fulfilling. She isn't even 60 yet and she already knows her time is limited.
It was a wake up call for my dad, myself & my brother to quit smoking. It's been hard but we all are non smokers for quite a whilw now.
Non-smoker here. Had one about 5 years ago. Have high blood pressure, though. Being a type-A personality doesn't help.
Survival rate if aneurysm bursts is only 7 - 9 %.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:40:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Seakawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doubt it's from general smoking. Probably just from all the chemicals of cigarettes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nicotine doesn't do wonders for the blood pressure and heart, that's for sure.
Honestly, kind of a tangent, but cigarettes are just fucking awful in general. That's one government campaign that worked, although it worked especially well, because they are actually fucking awful.
Her neurosurgeon said it was caused from smoking over a pack a day for 30 years. She was never overweight or had any health issues, aside from allergies & asthma, until the day she was non stop vomiting and my dad took her to the ER, where they did an MRI & found the leaking anreysum.
Yes cigarettes. I have no idea about weed. Her neurosurgeon said her smoking daily for 30 years was the cause. She did smoke weed occasionally, but doubt that had any impact.
Had a rotation in vascular surgery recently; my supervising surgeon said he often sees abnormally young people presenting with strokes who describe themselves as "herbalists". Weed isn't good for your arteries.
Admittedly I'm not an avid blazer here but isn't it commonly smoked with tobacco mixed in rather than as a blunt? So weed smokers are assumed to carry the same risks as cigarette smokers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The risk won't be the same, nicotine is vasoconstrictory and causes your blood pressure to rise substantially, but if you care about your health weed should be vaped (started a while ago and not going back).
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could be hit by a runaway bus with no brakes, or a plane could tumble out of the sky right on top of your house, or a stray bullet could lodge itself in your brain...
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:17:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the thing though! Theres so many things you can be killed by unexpectedly, but one of them is when you just drop dead out of nowhere for no reason
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, getting decapitated by a plane wing is kind of sudden.
XDME ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the key distinction here is, something happened and the results from that ended with you dying vs. You were alive, you were dead, the end.
Obviously there is a cause that we don't know as of yet, but fear of the unknown isn't exactly uncommon.
My cousin had an aneurysm when he was about 25. He was in incredibly good shape and just playing volleyball with his friends when he just fell over. Still makes me uncomfortable thinking something like that can come out of nowhere.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother as well, similar age. Skinny as all hell, she did smoke though so that is def a risk factor. Massive bleeding and they wanted to harvest her organs already, nevertheless she woke up and now has zero after-effects. Other than being a bit erratic at times, that is, though that could be her personality tbh. Insane how the docs all thought she would never survive let alone be more than a vegetable, yet such recovery is possible. Certainly prevented me from being signed up as a donor.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:39:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the SILENT KILLER!
Jarom2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true, but if you think of how many people don't get them compared to people who do..the odds are definitely on your favor.
My stepdad is a health nut. 10 years ago, he ran around 5 miles a day, ate extremely healthy, and looked like he was in his early 30's even though he was almost 50. One day he randomly had a brain aneurysm. It was really scary but he pulled through, still scary stuff. Not many people are as lucky as him.
About 1 in 50 people have unruptured brain aneurysms and most show no symptoms until they rupture. There's no actual recorded incident of anyone dying from being struck by a meteorite. To me at least the thought of dropping dead at random (even though they're not instant, painless deaths for those who do "drop dead" from them), it is still a lot less scary than dying slowly of some other fatal disease. I have a venous abnormality in my brain which has about a 1-2% chance of hemorrhaging every year, and even though chances are slim that it'd hemorrhage and even if it does, that I'd die quickly, it seems preferable to most other ways of dying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to a friend of mine in high school. He was a great guy with a lot of friends, and one night he had an aneurysm and just died in his sleep.
It really makes you think about how quickly life can end, and for seemingly no reason.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My boss nearly died of one about two years ago. They were able to get him into surgery fast enough but it was incredibly close.
Scary shit man.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom had one year and a half ago. Survived. Terrified now.
That's actually why it doesn't scare me at all. There's literally nothing I can do to prevent them from happening, and by the time one's happened I'm already dead. So why the hell would I worry about that? If it happens it happens, and I'm really the only one who doesn't have to deal with it if it does.
elnots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"seemingly healthy." You can have an aneurysm and not ever know. If it ruptures you're fucked.
EONS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use this as your avenue to a release from fear. If you can die at any moment despite living the most healthy and fulfilling life, then there's nothing to be afraid of.
flaagan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guy I knew in college died from one. About a year after I graduated I suddenly noticed a lot of my classmates hoping he'd pull through and such on Facebook, with no comments from him. I asked a mutual friend what happened and she said an aneurysm in his brain. When he did pass away apparently the doctor had described it like being "a small hand grenade going off in his brain."
Yup happened to my uncle. They were on family vacation at his parents, and towards the end of the week my aunt and daughter left. They were gonna leave the next day but he had an aneurysm while his wife was on the plane home. Crazy stuff.
My former middle school math and science teacher died from an aneurism. I was either in my last year of high school or first year of college when I heard the news. He was apparently playing basketball with his adult son when he just collapsed on the court. Pronounced dead at the scene. Guy was in perfect health for his age (early fifties I think). Wonderful man. Great teacher. Losing him was quite the tragedy in our community.
I can't imagine how his family felt... Especially for his son, who was there when it happened.
I mean, I guess I can imagine it... I was present when my stepdad passed away, but he was already in the hospital dying of lung cancer... so, it would be the difference between seeing your parent die suddenly for no apparent reason compared to the slow progression of a terrible illness. It's a rough situation either way.
I wouldn't worry about it. If it happends you'll notice, but the chance of it happening are rather low. If I remeber right, 1% of my country's population carries an aneurysm, and of those 1%, and of those 1% only 1% actually erupts. But if it happends, here is a little heads-up on what it might feel like.
I recommend being in a public space when it happends, not that you can choose, but you can get lucky. Say a swimming pool, that's a good start. It also helps to be around twenty years old and healty as you said.
First thing you'll notice is when you dive into the water. Your sinuses will hurt an strange amount just from the small dive you did from the ledge. But you'll swim on, a bit confused but fine. Then your head suddenly feels weird. Like somebody flicked a switch inside, and now it just hurts a lot in there. Your neck muscles cramp up, and now you really wonder whats going on. Luckly, the pool is still rather shallow, so you can stand up and exit. You might sit down on the nearby bench for a while, thinking that this is weird but will probably sort itself out.
Then you'll start to feel nauseous and start to pass out, so you get your body up and walking towards the pool guard on the other side of the pool. She'll think you have malnutrition, and just need some sugar and rest. You throw up what shes giving to you. Now you are nauseos, have the worst headache of your life, close to fainting, and cold from the swimming-pool water. The time of the ambulance arrival depends on where you are, of course, but you will be in survival mode anyway, you won't notice the time.
Second recommendation: be close to one of your countries best neurological surgery hospitals. If you are, they might not even have to open up your skull. No, if you're really lucky they can feed platinum wires from your thigh up trough your blood vessels, all the way into the brain, and feed the wires into the aneurysm. There, the wires will fill out the cavity, and the blood will coagulated around them. There, you successfully survived your aneurysm.
What follows now is ten days of immobilization in a hospital bed, with a constant headache, and begging for the morphine injections every three hours. That's honestly the worst part, as you'll be in a 24/7 monitoring ward, where the nurses will wake you up once in a while and make you state your name, social security number, and todays date. Every once in a while, for ten days.
But here's the important part. All this only happends if you, like me, are young and healthy, and haven't carried that aneurysm for very long, so it's not that big. If if happends when you are maybe fifty, your chances will be way worse. So be glad it happend when you were young and healthy, because that's a bullet goddamn dodged.
why wife's good friend at work just died last week suddenly out of nowhere in her sleep and we think it was because of an Aneurysm. She was a super healthy active women in her 40's. had flu like symptoms one day, went to sleep the next and never woke up.
This also happened to a friends mother. She felt a little off, went to sleep and never woke up.
This type of thing is just not even fair. At least with things like Cancer you get an option to fight that shit, say your goodbyes, etc.
My neighbor who was a dad and a walking ad for a healthy lifestyle died in his 40's out of nowhere due to an aneurysm. Can confirm aneurysms are scary as shit.
A mate of mine very recently had BOTH his parents die from aneurysms. No warning, just bang. Both were healthy and active and only in their 60s. Nothing to be done. Game over.
Unfortunately his mother remained in a (possibly) vegetative state for some time before she died. Her eyes could follow you around the room and she appeared to respond to certain stimuli.
I hope I never face the decision he did - to turn off the life support for your own mother.
guilen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to my best friend. Guy worked out constantly, ate very well, was a shining star in his workplace (seriously, he outsold the rest of his team put together at least 5 years in a row), then boom. In the middle of a racketball match, gone instantly. The only kind of warning we had that I can think of is superstitious at best.
Imagine having migraines too. Mine are similar to cluster headaches, so I'll go from virtually no pain to feeling like someone stabbed a handful of needles into my head in an instant. Every single pain spike comes with the thought that it maybe be something like an aneurysm or meningitis. Plus if something bad does ever happen, it'll be like the boy who cried wolf. You never know when to respond cause a typical attack mimics so many other things.
Happened to my grandmother that way. Perfectly fine and putting laundry away. Tells my grandfather she doesn't feel right and then gone.
Mia_la ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're more common than most people think, too. I've always been terrified of them. My biggest fear was that someone I love would just fall over one day and never get up. Then it happened to my dad, so that's that.
The upshot of this is I had to be tested (family history and all) and at least I know for sure I don't have one now.
Happened to one of my father's friends. He was working on a construction site, felt tired, sat down on a chair and collapsed dead on the ground. Not even 50.
My step mom had a brain aneurysm five years ago, my dad was with her and knew something was crazy wrong. He got her to the hospital in 30 minutes (they live out in the country in Oklahoma) and she had an emergency surgery. She has fully recovered from it and lives pretty happily!
But I think there is a 2% chance you can fully recover from a brain aneurysm, which is where she had hers.
My wife went to meet her mentor one afternoon at star bucks and she never showed. She figured she missed a call or email asking to reschedule and went home only to find out that her mentor was talking to the principal at her school and just collapsed. Sadly she passed away, but it was crazy to think that you can be healthy and so full of life one minute and then literally gone the next. Aneurysms are scary shit!
A 16 year old kid at my school suffered from a brain aneurysm late last year while he was lifting weights with one of his friends. He said he "had a headache" earlier that week. The doctor said it was the largest one he'd ever seen and given a very poor survival chance. After a very very long time in the hospital, I luckily can still see him walking the halls.
This happened to my former computer science teacher from highschool. He was perfectly healthy as far as I knew, and we were pretty good friends- had him on facebook and I went back to the school after graduating to help them get their website up and running.
Anyway, I was kind of apathetic in highschool and didn't do so well except in CS. In university it started to change and I ended up getting an internship with IBM and learning a bunch of cool things- On a pretty good track. I have a good job now and attribute a lot of my 'drive' to the lessons he taught me..I was going to tell him all of this but then one day last year...just gone =/ it was the middle of the school year too and I know he was always beloved by the students, I can't imagine what it was like for them. RIP.
My wife's mom died in her 50's like that. Completely healthy. Shit happens man.
KJTB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father had an aortic aneurism a while ago. Was waking up some stairs and got extremely winded/knocked him out. Went to the doctor and 2 days later his chest is cracked open and he survives 20 hours of surgery followed by months of awful recovery. Last year he had to get the valve replaced again and suffered through another 5 or so hours of surgery.
What always upset me and what's really unfair is that my dad is in great shape for his age. He took the dog for a walk every day and lifted a couple times a week. Dude was in better shape than I am. He just got screwed on the genetics lottery (I have to get check ups now from time to time)
Aneurysms kill instantly IIRC. He is giving you mercy, take it before the crocs arrive.
Geta211 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naw you can live through an aneurysm, life won't be the same afterwords though, your brain chemistry gets messed up.
Source: family friend had one at Walmart
So, he was cutting the grass...lives alone...no one heard from him in 3 days so his sister and mom went to his house. They found the back door wide open and him in the bathtub. He was naked and it was full of water. They deduced that he started feeling ill, maybe hot and disoriented, then he went into the bathroom and filled it up to take a bath to make himself feel better then he died. He was my age...43. :( And, I would just like to say that in light of what is going on politically, Chris would be having a goddamned FIELD DAY with Donald Trump...he was so into politics!
I see. He was still functioning just not at 100%. Thats rough. Im glad your friends spirit lives on with you as you said hed be having a field day with Trump. Its scary how comical this years elections are going to be.
No, aneurysms are basically when an artery wall becomes excessively large due to weakness in the artery itself. Point is, not all aneurysms rupture and kill instantaneously. And even so, it is not instantaneous and in no way merciful, people often go on for a bit with an excruciating headache.
MG87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on the size and location of the aneurysm. Some increase in size faster than others.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Someone my grandma knows had an aneurysm and he lived. He had to have surgery in his brain though. He's a pretty tough guy, tbh.
Oh haha. Is that when he has cancer and knocks lana up?
MrFuxIt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and no. He does have cancer, and he and Lana hooked up, but he didn't knock her up. The night before his cancer surgery, while drunk, he told Lana that he had frozen sperm years earlier. As a result of the cancer scare, Lana started thinking about having a baby of her own, and decided to use Archer's frozen sperm. This is all revealed during the last minute of the last episode of season 5, after they flee San Marcos aboard the CIA plane with Slater and Holley.
I remember nothing about frozen sperm. I thought she said they had pitty cancer sex. You sound like you got your archer trivia down pat, so ill take your word on it.
I have to re run through the series anyways. New seasons coming up XD
MrFuxIt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, they definitely had pity sex but you didn't find out about the frozen sperm thing until right after you found out Archer was Abijean's father. As she's explaining, Lana points to the 'pity sex night' as the night she decided to have a baby, and then says that in his drunken state he told her that he had frozen sperm some years before. This got her thinking, and several weeks after the "Terms of Enrampagement" events she used his donor sperm.
I think i always focused on the ringggg aound and not what lana says.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a thoughtful, humane thing to say. I also, hope you have a painless aneurysm to escape the pain of being eaten alive by crocs should the situation arise, heaven forbid. Bless you, child.
OdetoZ ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 03:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have really high blood pressure. Doctor told me this can lead to a lot of medical problems in the future. Aneurysms were one of them. My response was 'meh'. Suddenly falling over dead doesn't sound anything like the worst way to go.
Seakawn ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:18:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may be more painful than just "dropping dead."
sebassi ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:59:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So are most ways you die. Only this one only takes seconds instead of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years.
Edit As /u/jamstar explained aneurysm's don't kill instantly or definitively. So disregard my comment.
However I still think a quick and unsuspected death is the way to go.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:57:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only this one only takes seconds instead of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years.
As someone whos family is prone to aneurysms you couldnt be further from the truth.
sebassi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:08:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you mean?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:57:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well out of four people in my family to have an aneurysm, Only one died in what you would call a fast death(which is not fast or painless like lots in this thread seem to think). Two ended up severly disabled, with one of those going on to die a year later after a secondary major bleed. One is still alive and well after having the aneurysm clamped in surgery after it was found during a screening.
sebassi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sucks. And I am sorry, I should probably have done a bit more research than just Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:18:32 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, but for me an aneurysm is the way to go. Alive one second, dead the next. Better than slow and painful over many years. That's far scarier.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:42:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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BAM225 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the same thing that happened to my Mom. Luckily, I was right there when I'm assuming it "burst" because out of no where she started screaming that she had the worst headache of her life. Almost two minutes afterward she was in the fetal position on the floor, throwing up and shaking. That was a scary experience. Thank god for modern technology and medicine, I don't know how she is alive either. This happened 6 years ago.
That sounds awful. I'm sorry that he went through that. I would prefer the kind that kill you instantly, but I'm no fool. It often doesn't work out that way, you are right.
This is what comforted me when my dad died of an aneurysm. Mayyyybe a brief extreme pain and then it's over. Much better than a drawn out painful death. I miss him everyday but I'm glad he didn't have to suffer.
I am sorry to hear this. It makes me feel selfish for my comment. But I am glad that he died with little suffering. It must have been very hard, and a great shock.
My dad also had an aneurysm very recently. But my dad's biggest fear was that he would be confined to a wheelchair with nothing to do but stare out of the window when he would get old. I know he was at his happiest working outside, and he wouldn't bear not being able to do that. But he did not have to face that, and he wasn't going to be in hospital for hours on end.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alive one second, dead the next.
Or like MANY people. Alive one second.... then severly disabled for the rest of your life... or until the next one pops.
bjl0924 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a coworker back in Chicago die of this maybe a month and a half after I started. He was a relatively healthy dude, a little overweight, funny as hell. Remember seeing him that Friday talking to him about a meeting we had Monday morning, then came into work to an email from our CEO saying he passed away Sunday night. Fucking scary.
My father had three in his life. Two in his brain. He went to his doctor nearly every day for a week complaining about horrible headaches before one ruptured. Surgeon was able to repair both in one surgery and he was only left with occasional headaches. The third started with him thinking he had kidney stones. He went to the hospital thinking he'd get something for pain. They found he had an aortic aneurysm. It ruptured before they could send him to a better hospital. Aneurysms scare the fuck out of me.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:18:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very specific pro tip: if you ever get a concussion, push for a CT scan. I pushed for one and they ended up finding something incidentally. Always good, they can catch something that could save your life!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:19:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very unfortunate, but that doesn't discount the necessity of the scan itself... Without it then her aneurysm could have burst and she could have died anyway.
Did you have the swishing sound in your head? Heard about a patient who had a huge AVM and assumed everybody got that sound lol
DrBongo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my gf had one go off in her brain 5 years ago when she was 24. She got it destroyed with lasers because it was too dicey to surgically operate. She is doing fairly well now but physically disabled permanently. It was pretty bad, she definitely shouldn't have survived in her specific scenario.
Hi AVM friend! I just had mine removed this last summer after it burst unexpectedly while I was grilling. Always happy to run into fellow survivors, especially since it's such a relatively unknown condition.
Also crocodiles. Deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
This! Aneurysms scare the fuck out of me. I was at the Bills game where a kid my age was presumed to be pass out drunk but turned out he had an aneurysm somewhere around half time and noone realized he was dead until after the game.
My grandma had a brain aneurysm about 15 years go. I remember getting pulled out of football practice in 4th or 5th grade to go to the hospital. My dad, uncle and aunt (who flew in from Puerto Rico) had to decide whether or not to pull the plug on their own mother. I forget how long she was in a coma for.
She is alive and well today, you wouldn't even know if you speak with her. That was the only time I've seen my dad tear up.
My Opa had one while he was blueberry picking with my Mother and her Brothers. She was 14 at the time I was 5 years into the future and I didn't see my mother eat a blue berry until I was a teenager.
loki444 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:24:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you hit 40, every time you have a pain in your body, you think you are having an aneurysm of some sort, leaving you wondering if this is how it's all going to end.
My buddy at work had one Feb. 4. Brain aneurysm, found him laid out in the shop barely breathing. I'd spoken to him earlier that night and he kept holding his hand over his right eye. Said it was just a headache and he'd had them for years and nobody he'd seen could figure out why.
Ugh. I'm so sorry :( my mom's best friend died from an aneurysm two and a half years ago and I still expect to see her at gatherings. She was otherwise healthy. Terrible.
So far yes. He's still partially paralysed on the left side. It took him over a week to start speaking again and his vocabulary is still limited. He's got a long way to go and he and his wife already have a special needs daughter.
My aunt had one stopped before it burst in her brain. She still flies all the time, even though the doctor said not to.
...she has her own jet though, so who's to stop her.
MsAlign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine died of one when she was in grad school. She went to France for the summer with her sister and died while taking a shower. On the upside she died nearly instantly. The rest is all downside. She was 25. Getting the body back to the US was a huge headache. She had all these plans, and poof, her life was just gone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously though. A lady I worked with died in front of me at work when we were in the middle of talking about a customers order. Absolutely terrifying
My best friend in college had a blood clot in her brain and nearly died. Just, like, out of nowhere. She had a really bad headache and called the doctor and the BOOM! brain surgery.
zonew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This comment thread has me thoroughly terrified. My uncle died from one before I was even born, a quick change in shower temperature was all it took. Now, my dad has one and he's startled really easily. They seem to run in our family, which is even scarier.
This one really hits home for me. My mom is one of 5 girls. She is the only one that has not had an aneurysm. My one aunt died from hers on her birthday while dancing.
On the same side of the family, I have a second cousin who had two at the same time burst while he was still in high school. After he was healed and had most of a normal life back, he had another one a few months ago and passed. He was in his 20s.
Fucking scary shit yo!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a nurse in the intensive care unit I see a lot of ruptured aneurysms. Most common complaint that should trigger you to go immediately to ER and get a CT scan is a sudden onset of "worst headache of my life." The saddest (and fairly common in my line of work) thing I see is when a woman has an undiagnosed aneurysm and becomes pregnant. Midway through the aneurysm cannot handle the volume overload on the body and ruptures. So this young woman ends up dead or with me in the ICU. And if the fetus survives the father is left with a wife who is paralyzed on one side of her body, major debilitating neurological deficits or no wife at all. It really is terrifying.
My wife had not one but 2 aneurysms. She had medical procedures done to remove both of them. It kind of freaked me out so I had an MRI done and was told I didn't have any.
Well the swelling is bad yes, but just having it isn't as bad as having it and then it bursting...and then pressure builds in your skull.. slowly your face goes numb.. you try to scream for help but suddenly words are impossible... your legs grow weak as you fall to the ground... and die of a hemmorghic stroke all before you could finish masterbating.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok Archer.... Seriously though I just lost my grandfather last year to an aortic aneurysm, doctors knew about it and said it would be fine for now they would just keep an eye on it
That's how my bf's dad died. I get worried he'll have one too. He's very high stress, smokes a pack a day, and already had blood circulation problems. It scares me.
CTeam19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The are fucking scary and can happen any time and any where. My Mom was getting ready to go with my sister shopping for her graduation party, but decided to go to the bathroom first.
When she came out of the bathroom she suddenly felt light headed. She said that she was just going sit down for a minute. In a matter of seconds she was vomiting and unresponsive in the chair. My Dad immediately called the hospital and, being that it was 9 city blocks away, the ambulance got there in 2 minutes. At the same time the hospital called the air lift to come and get her since they figured with out even checking that it was a brain issue. She had her head scanned and without checking the results sent her on the air lift to the University of Iowa and would send the scan down there to prep them.
In the end, she survived but not without some cost. She has double vision without her special glass which, from what I understand, are bifocals on steroids. Also, she has lost a lot of energy. She could get a full 8 hours of sleep but after a full day of work she would fall asleep by 7pm in the chair. She would end up going back to work full time and driving by herself with in 6 months of having the brain aneurysm. Her Doctor says she is in the 0.00000001% of people that have one in the way she has survived and has gone on to have a relatively normal life.
The even scarier part is that she and my sister could've have been kill if she was driving on a busy highway going 70 mph if my Mom had just grabbed her purse and hopped into the car and instead of sitting down in the chair.
I have epilepsy and we get a very special light switch, just like an aneurysm. SUDEP. Sudden Unexplained Death from Epilepsy. Sometimes you just have one seizure too many and that's it. It makes you live differently.
Srsly. My first gf in middle school had an older sister in high school who had a aneurysm and just died in the school parking lot. Found at the end of the day after school.
To the people who say usually only smokers get aneurysms..My mother passed away 2 weeks after giving birth to my little sister. I was barely 2 years old. She was an R.N., 30 years old, non-smoker in perfect health who probably knew about warning signs and predispositions to diseases like aneurysms amongst other things considering her profession.. Except there were none she had a headache went to bed never woke up. D.o.a. at the hospital... And it can be genetic or hereditary
pflanz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this thread: no one knows that aneurisms aren't deadly.
BURST aneurisms, perhaps. But a huge number of people live a perfectly normal life with aneurisms, which are nothing more than a widening of a blood vessel. This sometimes weakens the vessel as well.
If this blood vessel is major (aorta, for example), if the aneurysm bursts, you're in for a bad time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're actually going to die whether you have one or not.
My physics teacher from 6th form had aneurysm about a year and a half ago. I don't really know how old she was, but she left 3 tweens and her husband behind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend just died of an aneurysm followed by a massive stroke last month. He's my age (30). The guy was in the middle of playing paintball when it struck. He went out doing what he loved.
My single biggest fear. When my health insurance kicks in I plan on getting bi-yearly MRI's to check and see if any are forming so they can be drained.
Late to the party but I've lived with an aneurysm for years on years now. Diagnosed with Marfan's Syndrome when I was 10 (look it up, don't be lazy) and one of the common symptoms is aortic aneurysms, which I have. I fit the profile other posters have described - thin, seemingly healthy, but with a massively enlarged aorta. You learn to live with it, as most things. I'm kinda drunk so not sure where I'm going with this, but just wanted to share a personal anecdote and suggest that many people do live with this reality, and it's not as horrifying with treatment as one may think.
Insofar as it's the ashes of an individual who linked the fire, you could say that, though the game suggests that the fire has been linked numerous times and that each cycle is not identical to past cycles.
Like the other person said. It's just some undead that has reinvigorated the first flame, which could possibly be the character from DS1. But I refuse to believe that the devs ignore your character decision in DS1. I didn't reignite the flame, so in my "head canon" the darkness came, but some undead came and fanned the embers of the first flame and ushered in the Age of Fire again. Essentially meaning your decision doesn't matter, everything will repeat over and over again. Which is sort of the theme in DS2.
Actually, DS2 takes place after the 'Link the Fire' ending; So it's a possibility that it was the DS1 protagonist. It's still more likely that the cycle continued for far longer though, and that there were many, many more times that the fire got linked.
MoaXing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that is the most commonly believed lore, but I don't think FROM ever confirmed it, or even any of the lore of Drangleic's connection to Lordran
MikoSqz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they didn't confirm that The Old Dragonslayer is Ornstein either, did they?
MoaXing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well one of the bigger theories that I think some people like more is that Old Dragonslayer was made by Heide for one of Gwyn's daughters who left Lordran with the god of flame
I use Acuvue 2 week contacts. I can make them last a month easily, but I never once sleep with them in and change the solution out daily. Wash your hands thoroughly, too. Be safe with your eyes.
TsMAmp ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:41:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm definitely much more careful with my eyes now. About a year or two ago, I left them in for a month and a half straight. They were 30 day contacts, but I should have cleaned them and replaced them by then. Anyway, I got bumps on my eyelids, which forced me to wear only glasses for at least 9 months, take eye drops daily, and now I can only wear contacts less than 10 hours a day.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wore mine 3-4 months straight ( each set ) without ever taking them out, for about 4 years. Never had a problem. What do you mean bumps on your eyelids?
TsMAmp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were underneath my eyelid, so basically when I blinked, they would constantly pull my contacts with them, which was really annoying.
However, after reading (and seeing) an article about someone who went blind in one eye because contacts got infected and turned his eye some weird green color.
I wear contacts now only for special occasions (aka to look good).
Probably giant papillary conjunctivitis. I have that flare up from time to time, and you can't wear your contacts. Well you can, but it's kind of torture. You can feel the bumps rubbing against your eyeball all day. And they'll move your contacts around every time you blink. Steroid eye drops usually clear it up in a couple of weeks. It sucks and it's just one of those things you're either prone to getting and will always have, or you're lucky and never have to deal with it
I once left an old contact in a solution that was probably old. Opened it like a few weeks later and put it in.
Completely ignored the fact that there were like 3 or 4 small, orange, sac-looking things now floating in it. I wondered why my eye started burning for the rest of the day...
Oh man that's horrible. Worst I've done is handle pickled jalapeรฑos and forget to wash my hands before putting contacts in not too long afterward. Getting them in was easy. Getting them out as my mind went completely haywire as my eyes were burning out of my sockets was another matter. Excruciating.
Delsana ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thrusts the same contacts back into your eye ball with one slightly bent and scratching your eye.
I've actually completely stopped wearing contacts, I mean sure it's convenient sometimes but I just wear my glasses now. My eyes thanked me lol. But to be fair when i did wear contacts I would wear them for many days at a time which was a terrible idea.
Seriously. Mine start to feel nasty after 3-4 weeks. She slept in them and swam with them in multiple times. They must have practically been fused to her cornea
Edit: to clarify, this is 3-4 weeks of regular use, with the 30 day lenses, including removing them every evening before bed to soak overnight.
I'm at like the toppest of the top quality and it's still and issue. I think it stems from the fact that I have one eye that's nearsighted and one eye that has astigmatism, so nothing really works for both.
I asked my optometrist how it was that people could wear contacts for days, and sleep in them and shit, but if I wore mine for more than 8 hours my eyes felt like they had sand in them and I started to get a migraine.
She said "they wear different kinds of contacts than you."
"Oh," I said. "Can I wear that kind?"
"Not with your prescription, no."
You're not alone. I have different prescriptions for different eyes, but I think it's the astigmatism that's to blame.
My friend once saw her primary care doctor because she started gaining a bunch of weight. Friend: "I think my new medication is making me gain weight" Doctor: "no, Jeannie, it is your mouth making you gain weight". That's a bitch slap of truth right there
KToff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, of course you lose weight if you eat more and gain weight when you eat more many drugs can change your appetite.
I never exercise discipline when eating including snacking and I am at healthy weight.
If I took a drug which makes me eat more before I stop feeling hungry I will gain weight unless I learn to pay attention to my diet and exercise restraint.
It is easy to say "eat less" when you eat the right amount without thinking about it....
I had no idea how bad my prescription really was until, as a vain sixteen year old, I asked my eye doctor if I could switch to contacts. She literally laughed and said, "We'll try. But probably not."
MrFyr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:45:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
better than being laughed at. My family has a history of high blood pressure and sure enough I started having it about the same my mother's started.
At my appointment last week when the nurse assistant took my blood pressure I asked her "any better than usual?" she just laughed as she walked out of the room and never said yes or no.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to always sleep on my side and use my arm as my pillow and my doc thinks that may be the cause since it's constant pressure on my eye every night.
Hey just wanted to chime in and let you know I've worn my contacts for months at a time out of laziness. Don't be lazy; take them out or you'll probably get GPC like I did twice.
You may find that astigmatism contacts fit better but honestly I don't see why your doc prescribes them for you if you really have astigmatism.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have those and I love them. Once I thought it was a good idea to try the whole "30 consecutive days" thing... Woke up one morning with a sharp pain in one eye. Didn't have health insurance. Went to the eye doctor anyway and sure enough, I had a corneal ulcer. $60 for a tiny bottle of antibiotic drops, but a few days later the infection was gone. NEVER AGAIN.
contacts and astigmatism don't seem to want to work together. I have one in both eyes, different prescriptions. I'm constantly having to twirl my contacts back into place so I can see.
I have the same prescription in both my eyes and a good day is getting 12 hours out of my dailies. But that's using eye drops a few times and suffering the next day. I just have very sensitive eyes. You guys are not alone.
I can't get more than a couple hours of wear out of a pair of dailies while in Missouri, but when I was visiting Mexico, I could wear the same pair for a couple days. Taking them out at night, of course.
I've noticed a difference when near the ocean. You don't realize how moist the air is until you are wearing contacts away from the ocean and you want to rip your eyes out.
algbs3 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:37:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true actually. I currently use biofinity torics with a relatively high prescription & astigmatism. They're technically approved for overnight use for maybe a week or more, and when they come out of the package they kinda feel "slimy" in a good way because they are great for dry eyes. I take them out everyday anyways because my eyes suck and they don't need to get worse, also my eyes have a slight gap when I sleep so they get super dry. But yeah, you should be able to wear that kind, but you should do it because it allows more oxygen to get to your eye which is a really big deal (so many kinds of disease are associated with hypoxia), not because you can wear it overnight.
Astigmatism here too, that's definitely it, had the same talk with my eye doc as well. They don't actually make my prescription so I have to "fake it" with a slightly different one that gives me like 20/25 vision. It's not that my eye sight is terrible, even, I'm a -1.75, -1.50. Something about the axis on my eyes is really messed up (one of the later numbers in my prescription or something like that)
I use hard contacts and I'm supposed to sleep with them in and take them out in the morning. It's a treatment called ortho-k and it's supposed to reshape my cornea in order to ensure that I can see during the day without any correction
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Right around -7. One eye is a little under and one is a little over. I think the problem is the astigmatism in one eye is so bad "my eye is shaped like a football." (Doctor's words).
They have to custom cut my contacts to fit my gross freak eye. I'm guessing the cool contacts you can sleep in don't do the weird requests, or something. I know that every visit to the optometrist since I've worn corrective lenses (age 6) has ended with a bill containing an extra fee for the strange lenses for my special eyes. Even glasses lenses are $100+ than normal.
I'm not sure what your prescription is, but I'm at a -7 with astigmatism and I wear acuvue oasys. I can keep mine in for 3-5 weeks at a time with no problems. I usually try not to, as they last longer when I take them out every week or so, but they certainly can.
i'm pretty damn near-sighted, have astigmatism, and wear my contacts for days. i know it's not good for me. but i wear biofinity toric monthlies in case you were interested.
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's the astigmatism that's to blame
Agreed. I also have astigmatism and although I never wore contact lenses my optometrist always said that it would be improbable that I would like them.
I tried once, within 3 seconds I went apeshit to take it off again. Incredibly uncomfortable.
If they start to feel like shit, try putting in some eye drops. None of that visine bullshit though, get some high quality Systane or some TheraTears. I wore contacts for 10+ years before I was able to get lasik, and anything with preservatives in the drops would make my eyes start burning. High quality drops help keep the lens clean and lubricated.
The whole "let me try on your glasses.... Wow, you're so blind! I can't even see!" bit never gets old, right?
People don't appreciate how much I hate being without my glasses. If I have to go too long (getting an x-ray or something) I have to keep my eyes closed or I'll get as nauseous headache.
_corn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was stupid and didn't wear them for about a year which worsened my eyesight from constant strain so I know how you feel with the headaches
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can get contacts that you don't take out for a month.
Or at least you used to, I don't think you can anymore. I have heard a lot of horror stories from people older than me.
There's also what they used to do before laser eye surgery, which is implants. Guy I used to live with got a biiiiggg payout for them screwing that up in NI.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be tons of opportunity to write professionally at that job!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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iLeo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The struggle is real. If I can't get Lasik done when I'm older, I'm fucked because I can't handle these freaking toric contact lenses. I want to wear cool colored contacts but any ones for astigmatism are pricey and ugly as shit.
I finally found some glasses I really like. Haven't missed contacts since. Except when I want to wear sunglasses. I can't afford prescription sunglasses, which sucks.
Walmart has sunglasses for $20 that fit over prescription glasses. They're my solution for not wanting to splurge on transitions. Perks: Using them while driving, using them with multiple pairs, savings on not buying transitions. Cons: they're a bit on the bulky "old man sunglasses" side. I don't care so they're perfect for me! Buying my glasses on eyebuydirect.com saves a bit, too. I buy mine no frills for $12 ($7 for glasses, $5 for shipping).
They'd possibly work, but my glasses are huge. Apparently I have a fat head. I didn't know about this problem till I tried on glasses and found out that they all squeezed my temples. Now I wear a pair of large male hipster frames. I get a lot of compliments, but I always have to bite my tongue to avoid saying "thanks! They're the only ones that can wrap around my huge face!"
My face doesn't even look that wide, but I have actual dents in my temples where previous glasses have squeezed. I didn't know they shouldn't do that until I figured out that's where some of my headaches were coming from. When I went in for a pair that didn't warp the shape of my skull, I ended up trying on nearly every pair in the store. The gal that helped me was trying so hard to be positive about my newly discovered fat-face affliction.
This pair works though, so I'm happy. I just tell myself my head is big because it's full of smart brains!
Zennioptical.com is the way to go. You can sort by size and it's only a small fee to add tint to make them sunglasses! I've never looked back!! I know morbidly obese people with fat faces that buy their glasses on there so I'm sure you can find something that will work for you! :)
I'm not even overweight, which is the crazy thing. I guess it's good since it's not a problem related directly to my health... But on the other hand having a naturally fat head isn't ideal either.
I'll check it out though. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah sorry I wasn't suggesting you were overweight! I was saying I know people with really fat heads that did find something so I think there's a chance :) I hope you do see something that works, prescription sunglasses are the shit!
My Rx only comes in a few brands because I have to wear toric xr. These brands are much less comfortable than the ones I used to wear. For some of us, comfort depends heavily on the Rx.
We have the same eyes! Mine get pretty bad when I'm tired and drunk. Wish I could use contacts but the thought of something touching my eyes makes me feel sick.
I have the same problem! My boyfriend can wear his contacts for weeks at a time but if I were to sleep in mine I'd be in a world of hurt, at least in my right eye. Mine start to bother me after about 10 hours.
How much astigmatism? Because if it's really not too much....you can still wear a spherical (not toric aka astigmatic) lens on that eye. It won't be as crisp as your other eye but you would still have good vision. Acuvue oasys 1-day is the newest daily lens and it's amazing but more expensive unfortunately
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother had this problem too. She ended up getting tiny little pieces of rubber put into her tear ducts because she wasn't producing enough tears. Now she has been wearing contacts comfortably everyday for years.
foxmom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This problem is exactly why I just wear glasses. I may someday spring for surgery but contacts make me miserable.
You know you can get different contacts for each eye right?
I started having serious issues wearing contacts for more than a couple hours. My optometrist told me that I had bumps underneath my eyelids from allergies and that was the likely issue.
They never went away (I wasn't going to spend $130 on a Rx eye drop to fix it) so j got LASIK recently. Best decision ever.
Poor tear quality doesn't help much either. I wear glasses 90 percent of the time for comfort and convenience. As well as that all too often time that you have to spend a quarter of an hour trying to get them out.
jatoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up Blepharitis. I went to the opticians yesterday about a problem I was having, getting a lot of pain from my contact lenses. Eyelid wipes are my go to thing apparently. Also, you can get moisturizing drops specifically for contacts. Might be worth looking at.
Hey, optometry student here. The quality of the dailies aren't likely to be the issue. If you go to the optician for your perscription you might have them tell you approximately how long you can have them in, and the duration has a lot to do with how dry your eyes are. Most modern contacts are made to be breathable to some extent, but none allow your eyes to hydrate exactly in the same way they would without contacts.
In short, the dailies have nothing to do with it. There's likely an issue with dryness. Anyone who experiences discomfort wearing lenses for a short period of time should schedule an appointment with their optician. You'll either be advised against using contacts or you might be able to start on eye drops.
Okay. I have a bad habit of keeping in contacts for like 2-3 weeks. Terrible, I know. These arent the 30 day contacts.
What are the disadvantages of doing this, risks, etc?
KGoo ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 04:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are many. Microbial keratitis, conjunctivitis, acanthamoeba keratitis, hypoxia. A quick Google search should freak you out plenty enough to get you to change.
ImJLu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question: my optometrist says to keep my dailies in for 8-10 hours but sometimes I just have long days and keep them in for like 14. Is this a big deal?
Maybe not. It's possible your eyes could be becoming more dry than they normally would be; in fact that's pretty much guaranteed. If you don't notice it, however, you should be fine. That doesn't mean it's the best idea. Talk to your optometrist about it and maybe you'll be able to get yourself some eye drops for long days.
nc863id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear 30-day Biofinity contacts, and I usually forget I have them in for about 2-3 months, at which point they begin to itch after a long day.
well I mean... they are only supposed to be worn for 8-10 hours max, so I'm not 100% sure what people are complaining about (I wear them too, and I suspect in my case it's probably the amount of eye makeup I've got on too)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:39 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that apparently less breathable contacts can be better for dry eyes bc they keep the moisture in, but it's only anecdotal :') I feel ya though, why can't I just have normal eyes!?
Seriously. I have dailies and they feel fine if I'm up for 18 hours
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:04:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have dry eyes and I couldn't use contacts at all, even the super-high end ones. They would immediately be uncomfortable. It's less about the quality of the contacts than your eyes.
More like get laser eye surgery. If people of the past knew the kind of flawless technology available today to solve vision problems they'd think anyone not taking advantage of that was literally crazy.
I'm talking about financially. Non corrupt oversight is great but he hasn't provided a genuine way for college to be payed for. Who pays it? His polices sound good from a birds eye view and he made it look like he was pushing for the dismantling of the two party duopoly/pro independent. But essentially he's sold out, at least to me he is. He said if he were to loose the democratic nomination that he would indorse Hillary. The party has him.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all. But while he's against corruption he has specifically indicated that there's not really another way at this time to get elected and after seeing the Republican candidates running he believes the country would be in a worse state if such individuals got in. He hates it just as I do but if he loses he will try and embrace the lesser of two evils.
The pinnacle of Republican and Democrat are one and the same. I'm not trying to sound 100% anti Bernie because I'm not. He and Trump are the two candidates who are disrupting both parties and it's about time. If you're referring to Hillary as the "lesser" of the "two evils" then I'm genuinely concerned.
Edit: btw, there is alternatives to get into the race... Libertarian convention *hint hint
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Disruption is one thing, but if we disrupt just to get worse in then we've served us no purpose.
Hillary is most certainly the lesser of two evils compared to Trump, Cruz, Rubio, or even Kasich. There's simply far too much they'd purge.
I am fully aware of "other" options but we both know they won't really result in anything. Let's wait for the nominations to continue this discussion.
So you're for a criminal on record and a predator. Google "Cathy O'Brien MK Ultra victim" please. It's one thing to have an opinion on certain candidates but it's entirely different to literally have a fucking criminal and sexual predator in the presidential race, let alone walking freely in America. I'm sorry but that bitch belongs in a prison cell.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would need far more proof than that, but that doesn't change the fact of the matter that I said.
Cathy O'Brien, sorry, mixed her last name up. Please listen to her testimony. Btw, Hillary also praises Robert Byrd (KKK member). Pro Iraq, racist against blacks, email scandal, covering up Bill Clintons Sex scandal, ect. ect. People need to stop watching Mainstream Media and investigate the truth. (More than half is even on mainstream media)
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are skewing a few of those there which makes me questiion how much reinforcement and research you've done.
This does not change what I said though. The candidates are mostly all so bad other than Sanders. There's not a lot of choices that won't make me feel bad.
Skewing them? My research is so flawed, you're right, I'm wrong. I forgot that I should exclusively watch CNN, FOX, MSNBC, never question my government, and submit to authority. My God, is the Fluoride doing its work. Congrats to the CIA's MK Ultra and Operation Mockingbird too
Delsana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:27:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure you're even arguing anymore. First we were primarily talking about how letting one of the republican party candidates win would be disastrous as many important bills would be contested and laws removed.
Whether or not what you're saying with no sourcing or citations is true, some of it that I have already researched is not. And that's what I was saying.
I'm nearly past using citations. I'm not writing a fucking essay here and I'm not going to go out of my way to put my effort into wiping someone's ass when they should know how to do it themselves. Where I get my sources you ask? Military, ex military, investigators, gov. insiders, whistleblowers, gov. Documents, doctors, scientists, manuscripts, history encyclopedias, alternative media... Ect. Ect. Is that enough for you? When I hear something new to me that makes me question, I research and I research continuously with multiple sources for hours and hours and hours. Now, you're telling me that some of what I've said isn't true yet I have without a doubt that you've put less than 20 minutes into trying to debunk the facts.
Investigating isn't always easy and it takes time. I suggest you give yourself some room to find out the answers for yourself instead of coming out as a sheep because that's how you're acting, frankly. It's shameful for me to see a fellow American being brainwashed even though roughly 90% of people can admit to Hillary's criminal backround and outrageous statements.
Delsana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:26:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You remind me of myself sadly. I do about fifty hours of research every ten days and have for a long long time. We will agree to disagree as you miss the point.
Politically electing one of the GOP members would be disastrous and I won't fall for That.
I got my surgery done in Korea about a year ago, which is supposed to be quite a bit cheaper than in the US. If you ever plan on visiting a SEA country, I'd highly recommend doing it here as the ridiculous population density means doctors will have more experience, not to mention they're pretty on top of their shit when it comes to technology. The typical $3-4K you'd be dishing out in the US would cover both your airfare and your surgery anyway. LASEK, aka PRK, is not to be confused with LASIK.
In case you were wondering, the major difference between the two is that LASIK cuts the inner layer and leaves the upper flap intact, while LASEK takes it straight off the top. For this reason, LASIK is generally considered "safer" (since you can always lift the flap up and make adjustments), but honestly, both have their pros and cons otherwise there would probably be a major difference in price.
Also, LASEK is recommended for people who partake in sports/activities which may involve trauma to the eye, since the flap left by LASIK can become dislodged (say, by a basketball hitting you in the face), which may be difficult to recovery, not to mention excruciatingly painful.
I personally enjoy various extreme sports (and getting hit in the face?) so I picked LASEK.
It doesn't work that way. Not all contact lens manufacturers make lenses that fit every sort of curvature of people's eyes. That's why you get fitted. Some manufacturers' lenses fit your eyes. Others don't. Maybe your eyes will only accommodate the most expensive lenses, or maybe they'll only accommodate the cheapest lenses. So you can try "invest[ing] in better dailies" but you'll feel like a jack off as those more expensive, ill fitting lenses slip off your eyeballs into your lower eyelids.
It's incorrect. The verb needs needs to be followed by either an infinitive (to be + verb) or a gerund (-ing form) or a noun. The grammatically correct forms would be "needs to be replaced," "needs replacing," or "needs replacement."
That said, infinitive cupula deletion is very common in parts of the US, specifically Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, Northern West Virginia, and Central Indiana.ย If you're in an area where it is part of the standard dialect, there's nothing wrong with using it, but anyone not used to it will find it jarring.
That's interesting and good to know. I don't know if this is stupid, but I always try to speak without any hint of the Pittsburgh dialect so people don't think I'm stupid.
I wouldn't say it's stupid, just that it's not proper in standard English, which is pretty much the defining characteristic of any kind of regional dialect.
The thing about language is that is a completely made up construct, and there's no reason what is proper can't or shouldn't change over time. In fact, if you look at really old literature, it's obvious that it does. So just because something isn't proper, doesn't make it stupid. The stuffy perfectionists who complain about the dumbing down of language or whatever are really hypocrites, unless they pepper their speech with thee's and thou's.
Oh I agree. I just try to avoid saying things like kelor, gum band, jagger bush, etc. Cause I'm afraid others will judge me. I don't really care if other people use them.
Kelor=color, jagger bush=any thorned bush, and gum band=rubber band. Honestly I do judge people who say those, it's just the comment above me made me feel bad about admitting it.
Edit: Actually kelor should be keller. Pronounced like Helen Keller.
I just had only seen that type of phrasing here so I figured he was from Pitt. It seemed normal to me in that sense, but I only heard it after I moved to Pitt and never anywhere else.
A colleague had the lasering done, one day she woke up and couldn't open her eyes. Apparently she was too dehydrated and her eyelids stuck to the portion of the eye they scraped off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just got my eyes checked earlier this week. The doctor told me since it's been two years without any changes that I'm a candidate for lasik now. I really love the idea of waking up and not having to worry about glasses or contacts or constantly needing to buy either. But I hate stuff near or in my eye. I've worn contacts for nearly 15 years and still have trouble putting them in - so I don't think I'd be able to handle lasik.
Definitely talk to an optometrist about your surgical options as there's more than just lasik. PRK and IOT are other options and IOT (Intra-ocular transplants) sound like the safest to me; it's a typical cataract removal but they add a new lens in to improve your vision, and then you don't need to remove your cataracts later. If any problems with your lens come up, you can get it replaced. The only issue is getting this covered by your insurance or HSA.
..but..don't they force you to be aware during lasic? Don't they inject your eyeball with a needle??
ayane_m ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 00:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They don't feel like anything; good contacts seemingly disappear. However, if you have RGP (Rigid Gas Permeable) lenses, they feel like a dome on your eye that's protruding out when you blink, because the eyelids will make contact with the lens. This is more apparent for those with astigmatism or other irregularities in the cornea.
Having contacts in your eyes will make it more irritating when foreign matter enters the eye than without, and all contacts cause the eye to feel a little dry (especially soft contacts, which need to continuously absorb water). Still, you cannot really feel them there when in use.
I never really noticed when I was wearing hard contacts. One major difference is if I got dust or anything in my eye it hurt so bad and that one eye would tear up like crazy.
ayane_m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Were they hard contacts or RGPs? RGPs are more notorious for discomfort than traditional hard lenses due to the way they sit on the cornea.
Gas permeable. It was really nice that you can run them under water, but I much prefer my soft contacts
prest0G ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the opposite experience. You could pour bleach in my eye and I probably wouldn't feel it. Although I did have a few manor eye infections that probably desensitized them.
TsMAmp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:41:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it's different for every person (and varies by contact brand), but for me, I don't really feel anything when I wear mine. Although after like 8-10 hours they can start to get a little bit irritating because I can start to feel them move when I blink.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put some in a few days ago (Acuvue moist dailies) and forgot about them. Occasionally my eyes get dry and I can't wear a pair for more than a few hours because it feels like there's an eyelash in my eye and I keep rubbing at them until the lens falls out. It's worse if I ride my motorcycle, or fall asleep with my eyes partially open. Then it feels like sand in my eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're honestly so comfortable and easy to wear. No smudging, no worrying about breaking or losing them.
I used to have trouble with them because I wore a shit ton of mascara and put eyeliner on my waterline, but I stopped doing that so now I have no problem. If you don't wear eye makeup, you'll have no problem.
I would absolutely recommend them, just use common sense - don't sleep in your contacts, let them soak overnight in fresh solution, don't wear longer than recommended, etc.
Real talk, they are extremely annoying to wear for the first week when you start wearing them. They irritate your eyes but your eyes eventually get used to them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, my first week with some monthlies that I absolutely hated was hell. Then I just gave up and switched to the Dailies Total One ones. That felt pretty magical.
I wore them for three years and hated them. Always just felt like something was there bothering me. I even tried a variety of brands (my dad is an optician so I had plenty of samples).
My wife, on the other hand, loves contacts and keeps them way too long (my father yells at her for this). Totally opposite of my reaction. So to each their own, I suppose!
My girlfriend wears her dailies sometimes until they legit rip off and fall apart.
We were driving once, had just left her neighborhood when she emergency pulls over freaking out only to pull a contact from one eye that was ripped from the top down to the middle like the top part of a peace sign.
Of course it is, it's 2016 after all. And if she's anything like my girlfriend she's probably stubborn (insert women joke here). But maybe there is some way to approach it that will help her alter her behaviour for the better, after all it would be awful if something did happen.
I use those too, and I've got super dry eyes as well. (Thanks eyes, for being allergic to the proteins in the tears YOU YOURSELF PRODUCE. Good job, team.)
I can usually get to day 2, maybe day 3 with these. Day one feels like heaven on my eyeballs.
You have to give your eyes time to get used to them. When I got mine recently, they told me to wear them for 4 hours the first day, then 6 the second day, then 8, then 10, and finally 12. They definitely felt uncomfortable the first couple days but now I can't even feel them
You might want to speak with your eye doctor about Dailies Total 1, or MyDay lenses. Both are bit higher rated than 1-Day Acuvue Moist. Source: I sell contacts.
I have super sensitive eyes so I wear glasses all the time.. how do you people put something in your eyes for long hours? This one time I had to put on lenses for 10 minutes in hospital for checking something, I cried in agony for all those minutes in the waiting room. My god I'd rather be slapped in the face than go through that again
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When was the last time you went to an optometrist? Asking because I was using the same lenses as you, I hadn't had a check-up in 6-7 years, I'd just been ordering the same brand and prescription online. Turns out my contacts were old technology and had actually been damaging my corneas for quite a long time, I just thought I got dry itchy eyes after 8-9 hours. I got a new brand this week and they feel sooo much better than the old ones I had
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 506 points ยท Posted at 01:33:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
wait... you left your contacts in for 3 weeks??
I can't even sleep with them on. It's perfect when I go to class.
edit: TIL there are contacts that can be worn for weeks. Not really popular here and they are pretty expensive. :\ I'm still paranoid bec of the stories so even if I can afford one, I'll never wear them.
No I mean just 3-4 weeks of regular wear. I take them out every evening when I get home from work. I can't either the one time I forgot to take them out before bed I threw them away in the morning and started a new pair.
I was told 30 days for my soft lenses, and that was great,because I'm a broke college student. So wrong. I'm friends with an optometrist now and he set me straight. 2 weeks. I can't believe how bad it was till I listened to him. I feel so much better.
Monthly lenses will be thicker than 2 week ones. It's hard to tell without comparing the two but yeah
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
meh.. you can stretch the two week ones out if you wear them like 8-10 hours and just switch to your glasses when you get home. I think the two weeks and one month are just there to cover their ass. If it starts to bug your eyes time for a new pair.
I wear my 2 week ones for at least double that amount. I'm honest with my eye people about it and they've always said it's alright as long as I'm taking them out every night, not swimming with them in, and they don't feel weird.
I did that for years and my eye doctor finally got me to agree to take them out every Friday night and soak them. She says they're ok to wear for 6 weeks or so (mine are two-week disposable). She said it's like wearing bandaids all the time- it feels better after a while to have a bandaid on if you're wearing it all the time but you really do need to not have the bandaid on all the time.
Lol. My doc made me make the same deal. I can wear them as long as I like, but I'm supposed to take them out once a week. I'm still really bad about doing it.
Acuvue Oasis are supposed to be changed every 2 weeks. Make sure you change your lenses appropriately (yours may be different - monthly, though) or you may start having problems.
Almost all monthly lenses are approved to sleep in 6 nights a week. You just gotta take them out once a week. So protip, don't throw them out next time. Just clean them.
Yesterday i scratched mye eyes (i have daylies), and my fucking contact disappered behind my eyelid. I panick like a goose, rubbing my eye with water and hope, then they came back. Terrifying as hell!
That's how I do my dailies. Before I go to sleep I just snatch them out my eyeballs and throw them. When something gets chucked or rapidly discarded my gf calls it 'getting contacted' because of the way I take them out.
I wear contacts that are designed to be left in for 30 days and nights without being removed. It kinda sucks in the morning cause they are dry, but after five minutes or so they are fine.
I just asked my eye doctor (ophthalmologist, not optometrist) about these, and he said no medical doctor will ever tell you you can sleep in your contacts. No lenses are safe to sleep in, as they're all perfect breeding grounds for bacteria when the lenses are in and your eyes are closed for extended periods of time.
I have contact lenses which last a month. Take them out one day per week but you can safely wear them for an entire month. Costs me about $500AUD per year though.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just converted that to my currency and yeaaaahh no thanks.
edit: pretty cool that you can wear them for days though.
Very likely. I developed a stigmatism and thats why I have ones I have to take out onve per week instead of changing once a month without taking them out. They were actually slighty cheaper buly about $50-100
I wear monthies as well, (also Aussie) and I take mine out every night because they feel gritty as fuck first thing in the morning otherwise. I wear those things for months at a time and have never had an issue in the 15 years or so I've been wearing them. It may be that I'm just lucky, and my optometrist lectures me every once in a while, but it's working for me. Once I earn enough to get shot in the face with some lasers I'm getting it done.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left a pair in for about nine months, only removing them if something got in them.
I was homeless, my glasses were broken when I was jumped one night, and a friend had a prescription that was fairly close to mine. So she gave me a pair of contacts because I truly couldn't see anything without them.
Those contacts were my most precious possession. I was afraid to take them out because they could be ruined or lost, and I didn't actually have much in the way of solution and what not. So they stayed in.
One day I woke up and my eyes felt like they were on fire. There were apparently small tears all over the contacts, which had given me micro-abrasions, which got infected. I couldn't see for days, and couldn't afford the eye drops needed to fix my eyes.
Luckily I eventually regained my sight, and got off the street some time later. The doctor I see now says the blood flow to my eye actually rerouted itself or something, and I'm lucky to still be able to wear contacts at all.
It can really fuck your shit up.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only heard about these extended wear contacts now. They are not really popular in my country. And stories like these are keeping me from wearing them. :\ Glad to know that you're okay.
Damn. I got tiny, uninflected scratch on my eye once and it fucked my whole week up. I could barely keep my eyes open in direct sunlight because it felt like it was going through my eye and searing my brain. I can't imagine anything more severe than that.
If you're just asking in general, most of the time you don't feel them at all. If you put them in wrong or flipped inside-out then you'll notice of course, like getting an eyelash in your eye.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:37:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on the type of contacts. I use the soft contact lenses. There's no friction really you will just "feel" that the contacts are there for the first week. But after that, it's like it's not even there. My eyes gets itchy (dryness) after maybe 6 hours but can be quickly remedied by the contacts solution.
I have a question, what do you do when your contacts get dry? I've heard people tell me they spray a bit of their contact solution in their eyes but my solution says, specifically, to not do that. Are their contact solutions that can act as regular eye drops? Or do you mean you rinse your contacts under solution?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My contact solution is the 2-in-1 deal. I can use it as a cleaner and also as regular eye drops. I have a friend that has your type of solution (for cleaning only), he messed up and the contacts still has a bit of solution left when he put it in his eyes. He said it fucking stings. So yeah def not try to use it as a regular eye drop.
Some solutions are perfectly safe to add any extra moisture. Anything with peroxide listed is a giant no. Artificial tears are fabulous for anyone. Keep the rest of your body hydrated too by drinking water.
Yeah, probably ProxiClear. It should be taken off the market. It comes with a special case that's supposed to neutralize the peroxide so they're good to wear the next morning. However, it's not at all uncommon for the case to fail halfway through the bottle and you'll put your contact in only to feel like somebody poured acid in your eyes. I couldn't put contacts in for about five days after that and had lingering effects for several weeks afterwards.
I use that stuff, different brand though. You can tell towards the end of the month when the case is starting to not work fully but then I just change lenses and get a new case.
This method of cleaning is a god-send to people like me who's eyes react badly to the preservatives in regular cleaners.
A lot of the overnight solutions are basically just saline which is perfectly safe to put in your eye. It's cleaning solutions that aren't safe to put in your eyes.
One mistake a lot of people make is to touch the nozzle of the bottle against the eye or eyelid, which basically renders it useless afterwards as sterile solution.
Wsntme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't put contact cleaning solution in your eye- ever! Saline is an alternative if you don't have the eye drops.
If you shop the eye care section eye drops are sold as being safe for contacts (or not) I'm so glad you never put cleaning solution in your eyes..those chemicals have to be bad!
If your contacts have been sitting in them all night and have a nice layer of solution on them when you put them in your eye, how bad can it be?
Wsntme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess..
I've tried it when I took the contact right back out and into my eye. it stung like... (fill in blank with your favorite explicition) i made up that word..I've forgotten the proper word.
Thanks for your input...
Blinking it right now and I don't notice them at all. If your eyes are dry or your contacts are old, you can start to notice. You just feel them like they're there, I don't really know how else to describe it.
I don't feel a thing. The whole thing about contacts being such a bother is nothing but an infomercial thing. I pop mine in, in the morning, and think nothing of them till I take them out at night. Yeah I could get lasik but I don't see the need. I pay like $150 a year for contacts vs a couple thousand for surgery? I'm good.
Zfusco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I participated in a trial of contacts that you could wear for 2-4 weeks. Other than some "fuzziness" in the morning, they were remarkably comfortable.
I think ultimately they weren't approved because someone got some sort of horrific infection, but honestly I wish I could just get them as daily wear contacts.
PNGN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when i first went to jail they were having problems processing my commissary request so i kept mine in for 2 months before i could finally buy some fucking contact solution. They wouldnt let my parents bring me ANYTHING from the outside
Jothay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worn sets for 9 months straight without taking them out at all. I can't even tell they are there
I have monthly contacts and I haven't taken mine out in like 4 weeks. I'm def going to tonight
Adolf_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I keep mine in over night for about a month. The worse that happens is that your eyelids develop these bumps that secret a protein. The protein makes the lens stick to your eyelid and it moves when you blink.
I went a whole week before without taking out contacts. As long as you make sure to keep them moist, it should be fine. Any longer than ~10 days and you will start having problems. (Unless the contacts are made to be able to be left on for that long.)
I leave mine in for 45-60 days at a time. I don't even take them out at night. I've worm them in this fashion for the last 4 years or so, and have never had an issue.
My eye doctor says that everyone reacts differently to them, though. Some people might need to take them out often, some never do.
I've only left mine in overnight once, because I've always wanted to know what it was like to wake up and to be able to see. I've had glasses since kindergarten. I would have had better vision when I woke up if I had taken them out :(
Not really popular here and they are pretty expensive. :\
My gf switched to the monthly ones because they actually worked out cheaper, but you're supposed to take them out at night. I'd just be paranoid about dropping one and having lost an entire week/month's worth of contact lenses in one go!
I have contacts that are meant for up to 30 days of continuous wear. They stay on my eyes for about 3 weeks at a time. I put solution in my eyes 3-4 times a day, but I don't take them out unless they are irritated or I need a new pair.
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I've had contacts like this for probably 4 years now and my eyes are perfectly healthy (for someone with poor enough vision to require contacts that is)...90% of the time I forget I'm wearing them.
I have contacts that I leave in for 2-3 weeks at a time sometimes. I alternate months wearing glasses and contacts so they never get too worn out on either one
edit: mine are made for that, perfectly ok to do so. Probably not a good idea in general to have a little plastic film on your eyeball for too long, though, hence the switching
Majache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm that's weird, I keep mine in for months and they weren't expensive. I also never had an infection either.. I wasn't very clean with them either. I would pretty much wear them till they fell out from drying up. Maybe I got lucky.
elnots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young and dumb I left them in for a week. The monthly kind. Eyes would be glazed over with crust when I woke up days later in the week. Never had an issue. Was for about 6 months.
I won't lie, for about 1-2 years I got lazy and was leaving my monthly use yet take out nightly lenses in for about 4-5 weeks at a time. When they started to bother me, they were thrown away. I would wear my glasses a day or two and then repeat. Then I went for an eye exam, and my vision had gotten worse. Doc asked about my use, and I didn't lie. Not being a kid, he simply told me the truth about how I was starving my eyes of oxygen, and slowly killing them. WTF? My eyes had gotten about .25 worse in each eye, but he predicted that would correct itself if I stopped being stupid. DONE! I then only wore them about 8-12 hours a day and sure enough a year later my eyes had corrected back to their prior state. Doc seemed odd that my eyes had gotten better, and then I told me the story. He seemed ecstatic that his prediction was dead on.
I must be weird because I've been sleeping with my contacts in for 8 years. I wear the same pair for 2 months at a time and never take them out. When I change them I'll go about a day or 2 wearing glasses before putting another pair in. My eye doctor says my eyes are perfectly fine and said it's only a problem if I start getting eye infections or if they ever bother me. Neither of which ever happen.
I have contacts that I can wear until my eyesight worsens or until they are no longer in top condition (too many scratches etc.). If you just take them out every evening and wash them before putting them in and after taking them out you should be fine. You can also deep cleanse them once in a while.
I didn't find monthly contacts to be that bad. The only thing is that they are best for a week at a time. I get horrible migraines and red eyes after that.
Yeah leave mine in for 4 weeks at a time. Then take them out, bin them, sleep a night without contacts and put in a fresh pair the next day. Works out around โฌ170 a year, which is way cheaper than dailies, which come to about โฌ1/day
About 10 years ago, there was a period where I didn't take my contacts out more than maybe 4 or 5 times in 6 or 8 months. I haven't worn contacts on a regular basis in about 8 years, having switched back to glasses.
At my last eye exam, the optometrist said, "You wear your contacts all the time, right? I can tell because of the vascularization of your corneas." I didn't want to tell her it had been years and years since I'd worn contacts regularly.
Point being, you are doing lasting damage to your eyes, with long-term physiological effects. Get your shit together, dude.
I had almost the exact same experience! Except I just went straight back to contacts and still keep them in constantly...I did switch from the kind I had been using to the thirty day ones, though, and the eye doctor said things were looking better, but it's recently come to my attention that my eye doctor may not actually be a really great doctor so I'm going to a new one. Hopefully my eyes are ok.
nc863id ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:33:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and me both. I clean them (very) occasionally when they start to itch, but that's usually after a few months of wear. Never had a single issue taking them out either.
10 years it's been that way. I can't fucking explain it. Thought I was the only one.
My ex-gf once sat in front of me, drunkenly trying to take her contacts out. I could see her pulling at them and it was like her whole eye was stretching forward, as though they were stuck. Turns out she'd already taken them out a few drinks earlier.
I have had that a few times where i'm extremely tired, and I doze off. Then I wake up 20-30 minutes later, and in the dark I fumble to take out my contacts to put them in the container.
After 3 minutes of rubbing my cornea, I slowly realize I had already taken them out before I dozed off, and my eyes were fine.
Only a handful of times (in 2 years) I've actually slept with contacts in, and when you wake up your eyes are just so insanely dry that I must take them out to soak.
But 364 days of the year it goes well and I take them out every evening, I'm completely conditioned to take them out whenever I am planning on closing my eyes for more than a few minutes (naps/sleep).
I used to work in an optometrists office, and I've seen that happen. This kid kept his contacts in for weeks at a time, and when he did take them out he stored them in a zip lock bag with his spit instead of solution.
The contacts fusd to his cornea and he had to undergo surgery.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:05:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That happened to my 7th grade home room teacher. When she was like 14 she left her contacts in for TWO YEARS. They fused to her cornea and she had to have them surgically removed. She wears insanely thick glasses now but I don't know how that didn't blind her.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Amen! I thought Acuvue was the greatest thing ever until I switched. Now I can't even feel my contacts unless I get something in my eye or something. Sooo comfortable. I use tons of artificial tears because my eyes are chronically dry, but these contacts seem to be the most comfortable I've ever worn by far. And my dry eyes have nothing to do with contacts anyway.
I have the basic contacts where you are supposed to take them out every night, once when I was in the sixth grade I slept in them for a week and I got a corneal ulcer.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's odd, I haven't had any problems not taking them out for 2 months at a time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I sometimes leave mine in for a a few days. Between work and school there are weeks when I normally fall asleep doing homework. They just start to get so damn dry that I take them out and wear my glasses for a few days. I can't imagine keeping them in for months.
Anivair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the two week lenses that come out at night. Sometimes if I'm feeling really lazy they last me like 18 days, but then they just get too irritating
I have bi-weeklys but they last perfectly well up to even a month. I've fallen asleep while wearing pairs from time to time with no problems. Contacts have proven to be so easy for me I will never go back to glasses
Mine are to be replaced every 2 weeks but if you don't do the cleaning twice with saline solution every day they will get bad right away. They hurt keeping in for a 7 hour day for me. Slept in them once. Will never do that ever again
My great aunt left hers in for years. She had early stages of Alzheimer's and just forgot that she used to wear glasses. I can't imagine the pain she was in every day but couldn't figure out why
I literally never took mine out for over 6 months. Then I at least started changing them every month. I hated putting them in, hence never taking them out. Luckily when I went to see the eye doctor my prescription was the same, and I just stuck with glasses. Not a smart idea looking back.
True! You can start growing a sort of callus on the eye due to prolonged contact wear. Yikes.
pjvex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Back when I was in grad school, I wore 2 week disposable lenses. Being that I was 27 and invincible, I rarely took them out. Until, that is, I realized the diuretic properties of alcohol, and how dehydrated you get from drinking a lot.
On one particular morning after plenty of beer (and god knows how many Jรคgermeister shots), my eyes were like marbles that had spent 10 hours drying in a kiln. My mistake was thinking, "boy, I should take these contacts out ASAP!". Big mistake. As I pinched them off of my eyeball, I think they ripped the corneas off (or at least part of the surface of the eye).
I doused them with saline and visine, and thought it was ok, but then my eyes became very painful when they were open because the air irritated them, but they hurt even worse when I closed them. By 3 am on the second night without any sleep, I finally went to the ER. They put in a strong topical anesthetic, and gave me some gooey Vaseline-like eye drops to coat my eyes until the surface grew back.
That was one the second most painful thing I've experienced.
My brother once kept his 30 day lenses for 2 years! I was stunned that he appeared to have no ill effects from this. He literally took them out the day he went to the opticians to get new glasses and contacts.
I used 30 days lenses for like 40 days leaving them in 24/7, never had any problems really.
Though i have now operated my eyes so i dont need it anymore.
Seriously i have the 16 hour accuvue oasis 2 week contacts. I usually stretch them an extra week or so but i stow them every night and rinse them every morning. Shits gross yo.
Have you ever thought of Laser correction?. I had it done around 15 years ago, and not only do I still marvel at the clarity of the world around me every morning when I wake up, I have easily saved the $4,000 it cost me in glasses and contact lenses.
I can't even fathom how a person can swim while wearing contacts and not lose them. I've had mine come out from just walking in some rain, when the drops get in my eyes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't feel the need to clarify to a bunch of faceless posters, for one your eyes clean themselves, two we all know you didn't do that everynight and that's fine because there is literally no point if your eyeballs function. (Which they clearly do)
I keep mine in for multiple months without removing them, have been doing so for almost 10 years now
thanks for the edit. i was about to rant on you. my "friend" back in the day did this and nobody could convince him otherwise. was an arrogant prick, so maybe he didn't deserve eyeballs
You shouldn't do this. The contacts say they're rated 3-4 weeks safe but it's still far, far less safe to have them in that long continuously rather than taking them in and out regularly.
Wait so the girl was taking them out and just used them for too long or she kept them in for a solid 6 months?
Gertiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine 3-4 weeks. I was once prescribed some contacts you were supposed to be able to wear overnight. Woke up the next morning to eyes that just felt dry and gross. Never worn my contacts overnight again. I can't even stand it if I doze off for an hour or so wearing my contacts. I have to take them out and clean them to feel comfortable again.
Tell me you're joking. They should be removed daily for the microbiological homeostasis of your eyes. They trap small bacteria under them that go anaerobic if left too long and it creates an acidic environment. This is what happens when people don't brush their teeth. Those critters cause fermentation to occur, changing the acidity of the mouth, eating the teeth.
If you brush your teeth to keep them clean, do the same favor for your eyes and take the contacts out nightly.
I wasn't clear enough. This is 3-4 weeks of normal use, which for me includes taking them out every evening to soak overnight. I'm very particular about cleaning my lenses.
I knew a kid who had a prescription of -18.00 in his contacts, he didn't take them out for a whole YEAR and got fungus on his eyes. He never took them out because he could see jack shit without them and glasses made everything all distorted supposedly. It was probably a lot of laziness too.
gqtrees ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why do you people care so little about your eyes that you would keep em on even during sleep! just take em out, takes few seconds!
sh2nn0n ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:26:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or ya know....wear glasses?
I know I wouldn't want to mess with the upkeep of contacts, so I just opt to look "uncool" I guess.
Nihht ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:04:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear glasses but contacts do have advantages. The obvious being that you don't have to worry about glasses being on your face.
Having clear peripheral vision that doesn't fog up or get dirty and usable in the rain is amazing
gqtrees ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i dont know man, i just got glasses recently. I wear glasses most of the time, and when i am playing sports i put on contacts. I went into store with the hottest sales rep at lenscrafters in the area and just asked her for her honest opinion (and told her price didn't matter so she wouldn't be pressured to make a sale) and she hooked me up with glasses that look great on me, get compliments from everyone now lol
sh2nn0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad she set you up with something you like and are confident in. I was being sort of silly in my original comment....I actually love my glasses. I have several different pairs so I don't get bored.
I know not everyone can afford several pair or hell, even one really nice pair. However, there are decent glasses in every price range. I just love glasses, I guess? :)
It also helps that now I think I look strange without them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:38:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because people are stupid. They have the "nothing's happened yet. Doubt it ever will. I'm smarter than trained doctors, anyways!" mindset.
Gcoks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I keep mine in for months. I'm just lazy.
byebyev ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:30:07 on August 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same. I'm lazy and cheap.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:13:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stupid FTFY
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:33:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well mine have been in for probably 4-5 months.
Serinus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you take them out at night?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. I usually wear mine for 5-6 months then change out. Never get dry, never irritate me. Been like this for probably 12-13 years.
I assume nasty things grow in your eye? Like fungus, bacteria, etc? I've done the same for years and never had any issues. I know it's considered bad, but why?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No idea. I've never had anything bad happen
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly you've gotten two of them rare antibacterial and fungicidal eyeballs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So am I in trouble?
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, you'd have to ask a real eyeballologist for that one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welllll... What if you thought you took out your contact but you actually didn't. And you didn't realize it. For 4 months. Until you went to your optometrist for blurry vision in one eye. And he decides he's gonna show you a magic trick and takes out a goddamn contact out of your eye. You know. Hypothetical and all that jazz.
Sometimes my contacts end up folded under my eyelid and there is no way that i know the contact is there except an unshakable feeling that something is horribly wrong.
Haha well I thought I took it out and I had dropped it on the floor. I seriously thought I had seen it fall and when I couldn't find it, I decided to forget about it. And since it was my last pair that I had, I just never ordered more till my eye appt. I never felt it in my eye. Yeah...stupidity.
Serinus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's easier than you'd expect. When you take out your contacts, you usually don't really know if you've gotten it or not until you can see the contact. You could assume you dropped it and didn't bother to find it. Now, not finding the removed contact to verify is definitely a fuckup for exactly this reason.
You can always cover the other eye and try to verify by reading something.
People are asking a lot about leaving contacts in, I cpuld go 4-6weeks leaving them in, even sleeping with them in. It just never bothered me until about 3 months ago. Now I remove them every night, eyes feel a ton better. So for anyone who doesn't have issues with leaving contacts in, take them ou at least at night, future self will thank you. O and yes I had 1 month contacts.
I left a pair of disposable contacts in my eyes for over a year because I struggled so hard with taking them out and putting them back in. I actually lost one about half way through the year, and didn't have any more so I went the year with 1 disposable contact to see with.
Needless to say my eyes ended up extremely fucked up vision wise, but I got Lasik and I'm doing great now. No fungus or horrible things happened to me thankfully.
I left a pair in for almost a year one time, even though I knew one of them was slightly torn. I woke up one morning and my eye hurt REALLY bad and I couldn't see out of it. I went to check it out in the mirror and the one lens that was torn had disintegrated into about 3 or 4 pieces, most of which had worked it's way into the back of my eye socket.
I retrieved like half of it initially, then over the next few days the other pieces made their way back to the front enough where I could see them in the very corner of my eyeball, just enough to claw them out with the tip of my fingernail.
Nothing quite like having shit stuck in your eye socket that isn't supposed to be there. You can feel it in there all day long, but there isn't anything you can do about it. Those few days were like a perpetual anxiety attack.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how shit can bite you in the ass when you act like a retard towards your body!
craftyj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had mine in for a whole hear once. No joke.
My5tirE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐ I leave mine in for weeks at a time. I also use my 30 day ones for 6-8 months before I toss them away. I know it's really bad for my eyes but other than them getting irritated once every month or so for a day ( I'll take them out, clean them, and leave them out for a week) I have had 0 issues with doing this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do that when I was in high school. I'm 22 now and have decided that it's incredibly irresponsible to go against what trained optometrists tell me I should do. You can't replace your vision if you lose it, why take the chance? I take them out every night. It's important to let your eyes get oxygen. Otherwise blood vessels will start to grow on your eye to supply the oxygen. Not good. Trust me
AuxHero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS.... oh i read that wrong
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I say... I've been sleeping/living in contacts for about 8 years now. I never take them out even when sleeping, it's too much hassle. I switch them regular like monthly but apart from that I never take them out. Surgery scares me and I've never owned a pair of glasses. I do wonder how it's eventually going to catch up with me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on the type you have. Regardless though, that's really irresponsible. You only get one pair of eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My record is 15 months. My optometrist thinks I "take such good care of my eyes."
Lagered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I chronically leave mine in for months at a time before changing them. I have the monthly O2 optics that are supposedly constant wear (albeit for a month at a time, not multiple months like I tend to do...).
I usually wear them until my eyes are blurry the next morning with sleep for five minutes or so after waking up, then I know it's time to change. Perhaps I'll take them out before bed tonight...
I had been leaving mine in for months at a time, I may have even gone 6 months, been doing it for years, for no particular reason though I started wearing my glasses exclusively since December, but anyway I wore my contacts in for months at a time and was completely fine.
What's worst are the people who don't really clean their contact lens cases. MY WIFE IS TERRIBLE WITH THIS AND I LOOK AT HER FLUID AND WANT TO VOMIT. I had to get that off of my chest.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at a jail and we got some crazy inmates sometimes. Anyway, one day a guy hits the intercom and tells us he is going blind. Call the nurse in and she ends up taking him to a specialist to remove the contacts he had left in since his booking. He'd been there for 8 months and was starting to develop cysts in his eyes.
H0bbez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine have been in for roughly 3 months so far. I literally cannot afford more, my only pair of glasses are twisted, bent and a weaker prescription. Unfortunately I have a stigmatizm(?) In one eye that takes a different prescription so I need to buy 2 boxes :/
I've done it before. the worst thing that happens to most people who do this is you begin to grow new veins towards the middle of your eye since oxygen cant reach underneath. it goes away pretty quick though. Reading this I'm really glad my eyeballs didn't get eaten.
My husband left his in for between 1.5 and 2 YEARS once. He's perfectly fine. I have no idea how.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've probably made it 4 or 5 months with mine. I did that consistently for 4 or 5 years.
I actually woke up one day and my eyes were red and burning and couldn't keep my lenses in, got someone to take me to the optometrist to get them checked out. They were fine besides being suffocated basically. After that I still slept with them in for months at a time.
Once I heard the eyeball amoeba story I started taking mine out every night.
In our office, we get lots of patients that wear their contacts for up to 3 months continuously. They don't take them out even for cleaning. Then they look suprised when they are prescribed antibiotics or banned from wearing any for a month. When I am getting the patient prepped to see the optometrist, I ask," How many days at a stretch do you keep them in?". The guilty culprits are usually 20-40 years old. We have a giant poster of some nasty pictures in the workup room. It shows some possible results of never removing the contacts. I honestly try to scare and gross them out a bit. Convienence and affordability seem to be the biggest reasons for not throwing then away or removing them more often.
Oreius1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left mine in for about 1-2 months straight and one night they were bothering me so I got out of bed and took them out and threw them away. About 10 minutes later my left eye started hurting really bad so we ended up going to the emergency room. Turns out the contact had dried to my eye, so when I pulled he contact out, I pulled some of my cornea out as well. It was like a baby rug burn on my eye. I never EVER sleep with my contacts in anymore. That was some of the worst pain I have ever felt.
prest0G ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:06:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear my dailies for about a week at a time (stupid, I know, but my health insurance doesn't cover anything). Anyways, I always make sure I put several rounds of eyedrops into my eyes before I try to take them out solely because of this reason.
keenuno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh I usually go about 2 months of never taking them out, including sleeping in them, and they seem completely fine. Which will never happen again because apparently I can get FUCKING AMOEBAS EATING MY EYEBALLS! WHY DIDN'T MY EYE DOCTOR WARN ME THIS SHIT CAN HAPPEN!
My current pair have been in for close to a year, I never have a problem with them feeling uncomfortable and I've never had an eye infection, hell at times I forget I even wear contacts
prest0G ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, for Christ's sake, change em out at least every month or two. Any more than that you're asking for it.
I have the daily contacts but I wear them for weeks at a time (sleep and everything). It didn't bother my eyes so I asked my optometrist at my next appointment and he said it wasn't doing any damage to my eyes. He inferred that the contacts allowed enough oxygen to get through that it wasn't an issue. It's odd to me because I can't deal with the contacts you take out and save every night. They bother my eyes too much. I'm fine with this though because it saves me a ton of money as well haha
as someone who wears monthlys for 4-6 months than I really should, even I don't take them out when they start irritating my eyes. need to give my eyes some fucking time to refresh themselves
I did with dailies. Multiple times. Ya i rinsed em occasionally.
I can't wear contacts 5 years later. It just hurts. My eye doctor says i have scars. Also when i went after she said it had bumps lesions and infections. So my eyes were in bad shape
I dated a guy that had monthly lenses and never took them out for months. Slept in them, swam in them, etc. for over six months. I have no idea how he still has eyes.
Before I had LASIK surgery... I wore my contacts for a year without cleaning or changing them. My doctor told me I was one of the few that could do it. He said that I would know if something was wrong because the eyes are so sensitive. I just lucked out I guess. Sure saved me money on contacts.
In my late teens and early twenties I would never take out my monthly lenses and eventually protein deposits would form. One time I one lens tore so I went around wearing one contact for three months. I really pissed off my optometrist and she warned me of all the danger but was surprised my eyes were fine. She showed me photos of fucked up eyes from lens abuse and now I take them out nightly. I can't believe I use to do this, much shame.
When I was a dumb kid, I wore contacts continuously for several months. Not surprisingly, I started to have issues with one eye. Had an ulcer. Almost went blind.
1/10 won't do it again.
It's as bad as the chick who left her tampon in for 9 days. WHY.
TubeZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've left my contacts in for 6 months once (I know, stupid, I'm past that now). Eventually my eyes got some inflammation and a portion of my contacts started going white and then I took them out. Optometrist gave me some drops and I used them for a week or so and my eyes were fine. This was around two years ago and my eyes are still alive.
When I first got contacts I left mine in for several weeks. It was probably about 2 months. I thought you were only suppose to take them out for comfort. But since my eyes weren't uncomfortable I just left them in.
After about 2 months, my eyes started to feel really uncomfortable and really bloodshot. Went to the eye doctor and turns out I was close to going blind.
Apparently your eyes need oxygen or something and the contacts don't allow oxygen to your eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a guy who left his in for years. His eyeballs grew around his contacts and he couldn't take them out. He constantly had eye issues and was always needing drops, and rubbing them.
Beyond that he was a funny dude. Always seemed happy.
I left the same pair in for months at a time. For 3 to 6 months at a time. I did this for a few years. Finally after a 8 months I took them out. The next morning I awoke with my eye swollen shut and feeling like I had sand under my eyelid. Apparently i got a infection from wearing my contacts that long. It was swollen for a week. I always take them out every night now.
Well this just conjured up a high school memory. I got these long wear contacts (wear a month straight then discard) and basically I wore them for one year straight. Amazingly they felt fine until month 11 when my eyes started to feel like hell. Went to see an eye doctor and I was told I basically couldn't wear contacts for at least six months. Said I had mushroom shaped protein all over my eyes.
I think I got off lucky. I wear contacts still to this day but responsibly now.
I left mine in for close to 6 months straight. Slept in them and everything. Yeah, my eye doctor had some choice words for me. The one on my left eye was almost fused there.
I do. I hate waking up blind in the dark and my eyes never bother me. I tell the eye doctors about my habits and they do extra tests, always concluding that my eyes are still very healthy, besides being extremely near sided. I need to just go and get LASIK before the amoebas attack.
I have done this. I don't think it was six months, but it was maybe three? Eventually I got an infection in both of my eyes where I would be pulling white puss in long strings out from under my eyelids. I stopped wearing them, and went to see some eye specialists.
I think it took 1.5 years for my eyes to fully "recover". I do not wear contacts anymore (glasses only), and the one time I tried returning to contacts, they won't physically stay on my eyeballs anymore. They just fall off.
My eyes remember.
KidColi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was swimming I would leave my contacts in for months at a time just because I didn't want to wake up earlier than I had to put them in. My eye doctor told me how I had blood vessels growing under my eyes to bring oxygen under the lenses. Now I can barely stand them for a day
I did. It took several years to build up a tolerance. When I went to the eye doctor to get a new prescription I told him and his reply was "This is the point when I should yell at you and tell you to never do that, but your eyes are fine, so I guess keep doing what you're doing."
It was at that point that he gave me the Night & Day ones. Shortly after I went back to wearing glasses.
I have contacts that last for three weeks without taking them out. I forget they are in there for days at a time. I've never struggled with having dry eyes from contacts, so I could screw up my eyes really bad if I was stupid enough to actually forget about them for a month or two. But I don't really see how I could do that haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
then they act like it's the contact lenses fault that they get an infection.
Try again "professional writing major here" guy
walruz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Play stupid games, win stupid prices.
[deleted] ยท 397 points ยท Posted at 02:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad caught acanthamoeba keratitis from swimming underwater in a lake with his contacts in.
He's almost completely lost sight in his right eye from them chowing down, and ever since I've been far too afraid to regularly wear contact lenses save for when I need to wear eye protection.
Do the contacts make a difference though? Like if you don't have contacts, are you safe from this shit, or should I just stay out of the water entirely?
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 04:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The contacts don't make a difference, he thinks it does though.
You're definitely safer not using contacts, but the doctors said the likeliness of it happening is very very very very slim and that he essentially had shit luck. It'd be silly not to wear contacts in the fear of getting scary eye eating amoebas, I just prefer glasses anyways.
kdem007 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew I recognized your name! Cool to see someone from r/Airsoft in the wild
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amoeba lives on the lense, it won't blind you if you're not wearing contacts and you don't have to be afraid of wearing then as long as you're not a fucktard who gets water on them and keeps wearing them.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After awhile though they spread from the lense on to your eye, and if you have bad contact habits (like my dad did) then it'd be hard to tell until it's too late.
I only use contacts when I absolutely need them. Every other time I just wear my glasses.
Some sports related activities like running are very helpful with contacts instead of glasses. But I really don't see the need to swim with contacts on when they can get easily damaged that way.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he always says that he regrets being so lazy to not take them out. He used glasses for a year or two afterwards, before switching back to contacts again. At least he uses one a day contacts now.
at the very least wear swimming goggles if you have contacts on
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol you don't wear goggles in water polo. you can't wear goggles.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:07:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're legally blind without them
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not legally blind, so I cannot legally wear goggles in the sport of water polo
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dw i wore contacts for 4 years of high school polo and swimming and i'm fine. oh but make sure to switch them out regularly. like mine are supposed to be used for a month at a time before tossing and i kept to that schedule pretty diligently.
SpeCSC2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully there aren't any amoebia in the pool water. Probably not due to the chlorine so I wouldn't worry :)
I only use contacts when I absolutely need them. Every other time I just wear my glasses.
Two weeks ago I was home from university and I visited an eye doctor for the first time in a buncha years. They were like "yeah you should get glasses, at least for long-distance vision", and so I started thinking "hmm, I wonder if contact lenses are a good option".
Just looked up this eye-eating amoeba. Yep. I'm never wearing contacts. Every single goddamn thing can stay the fuck away from my eyes. "Here put some glass in front of your eyes, people might have to adjust to the new look, but on the other hand, it's less likely that your eyes will be functionally destroyed by amoeba." "ok doc"
Pyramat ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 05:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you just follow the proper directions (of which there really aren't many) then the risk of eye-eating amoebas is negligible. Avoiding contacts completely because you're afraid of eye-eating amoebas is like avoiding eating solid food because you're afraid of choking.
When I was young there was mercury in contact lens solution. Want to be fucked up? That's how you get fucked up. The white part of my eye basically started to break down. Plot twist: I still wear contacts.
My comment was intended to be about invisible illness, not midgets. So maybe it was a little confusing. I don't know that invisible illness is actually the scariest thing in the world, but I share in the sentiments of the original poster.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also think about all the money you save, where i live a years supply of contact lences will be more expensive than a a pair of glasses and the glasses will last you a longer time comparatively so its the more frugal way to go, i have never tried contacts and have no plans to do it either.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's basically how I feel about glasses. They're low-tech solution that has never let me down.
If you are really scared about contacts, and also don't like glasses, rigid gas permeable contacts work like a charm. Put them in when you go to bed, take them out in the morning, no risk of flesh eating amoebas what so ever.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to wear them constantly back in high school and college. And then one day it was as if my eyes started rejecting them. It didn't matter if they were brand new lenses, if kept them perfectly clean, I even tried the O2-permiable kind, every time I put them in my eyes started burning.
As a person who doesn't wear glasses, I don't understand the statement: >I only use contacts when I absolutely need them.
Please explain when one would need contacts.
Sometimes like running track (glasses will fall of when you start running), football (hard to wear glasses in a helmet), swimming (can't wear glasses behind goggles) etc. require wearing contacts over glasses. It's still possible to do these things with glasses but it's much more difficult.
My dad caught acanthamoeba keratitis from swimming underwater in a lake with his contacts in.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that your dad caught that because he didn't disinfect his contacts properly after swimming in an amoeba-filled lake?
Attle37 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm such an unlucky cunt I caught it twice, once in each eye about 2 years apart. At the time of the first case it was relatively unheard of so was only caught late on, to this day I'm amazed I got my full sight back. And yea, lazer eye surgery over contacts from then on!
Not to be that guy, but it's safer to wear prescription safety glasses or goggles that go over your normal glasses rather than contacts+safety glasses. If anything were to get under your contacts, whether it be sawdust or chemicals, it would be harder to clean/remove.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:10:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just happened to a friend of mine in the complex swimming pool.
I have a workshop with power tools and, even then, I won't wear contacts. I wear my regular glasses with Trivex lenses behind a Lexan face shield. If anything can make it past Lexan and Trivex, I would be well and truly fucked in many other ways.
Cornea specialist ophthalmologist here. It's called acanthamoeba and it's a bitch to treat. You have to treat them with chlorhexadine, bromine, and phmb. These are strong chemicals essentially the same as pool cleaner. You have to put these right in the eye and it takes a long time to improve.
Acanthamoeba Keratitis! I actually had that (although I didn't leave my contacts in for six months, mine is from a different stupid mistake), and am one of the only people in the world who have regained their vision entirely.
I was training for my ballroom exams, and my contacts had been bothering me. I took them out, and stuck them in water since I didn't have any solution with me, with plans of putting them into solution when I got home. (I have sensitive eyes, and used a solution that takes 6 hours to clean the lenses due to the peroxide in the solution) and completely forgot to put them in solution, plus didn't wear them for about a week. I put them in, and pretty much the amoeba had the chance to get into my eye.
Then there is the whole process of discovering what it was, and everything. If you want, I can elaborate on that, but I've been planning on setting up an AMA with pictures of the amoeba in my eye, and more to the story in the next few weeks.
I had it too, back in high school (would've been around 2007/08) in the wake of the AMO Complete Moisture Plus lens solution recall. I too was lucky that it was caught quite early. My normal ophthalmologist referred me to a cornea specialist after about a week, who immediately diagnosed it and scraped the outer layer of my cornea. 9 months and thousands of hourly eye drops later, and all I'm left with is some scarring in my right cornea. Unfortunately, this has prevented me from being able to have LASIK done, but hey, at least I can see!
Yeah, in order to get the worst of the amoebas out of my eye, they put some numbing drops in, inserted a wire speculum to keep my eye open and used a small blade to scrape off the outer layer off my cornea. It doesn't really hurt at the time due to the drops, but it's still very uncomfortable. And there were a few minutes between when the drops wore off and the painkillers they prescribed kicked in where I was in a world of pain.
Once that was done, I had 3 different eye drops I had to apply hourly (day and night) for several weeks. They gradually taper the frequency down over the course of about ~9 months until you're officially amoeba-free. The reason it takes so long is that the acanthamoeba goes into a cyst-like state when it's attacked, which makes it almost impervious to any sort of treatment. You just have to keep at it for a long period of time.
It exists in water, dirt, air, etc. Water is the main culprit, which is why you are not supposed to wear your contacts while swimming, in the shower, or put them in water instead of solution. And why you need to wash your hands before taking your contacts out.
Did you also regain vision completely? I was first diagnosed with an ulcer, but it wasn't getting any better. Then after a few more days of not getting any better, they had an oh shit moment, and sent me to another clinic. Then after a weekend of them going hmm, the new clinic sent me to the U of MN because they didn't have the equipment to see the amoeba. I had to stay on eye drops for almost a year, and only have a small scar, but I'm not looking to do LASIK.
Are you on biweekly contacts or do you have to stick with once dailies?
My uncorrected vision in that eye is about the same as it was prior (which isn't saying much, I have pretty poor eyesight). However, the issue is more than with all the scarring in my cornea, it's difficult to correct the vision. Glasses do essentially nothing and I'm forced to wear hard RGP contact lenses for even a moderate improvement in vision. For the most part, I've learned to rely pretty heavily on my left eye and just use the right one to help with depth perception.
I'd always wanted to get LASIK and do away with glasses/contacts, but was told that my cornea is too thin to risk the procedure (although the doc who did my consultation said that with improvements in technology, it may be more feasible 10-15 years down the road).
I forget exactly which clinic I ended up going to, although I know it was somewhere in St. Paul/Minneapolis (I grew up in the Twin Cities), although I don't think it was at the U of M. Fortunate that I was living in a part of the world with many fantastic eye doctors :)
Yeesh. Yeah, my scar is on the edge of the iris, so none of my vision has been affected. I am lucky enough to be on once dailies though. The only thing is that my eye gets dry more than normal every now and again.
LASIK was never something I wanted to do. Saw the process on the Discovery Channel once. Nope nope nope, not for me.
U of MN would definitely be something to look into, they might have something to offer.
I was trying to take a contact out, and messed up (don't ask how) so it seemed to have slipped to the side of my eye. Then I couldn't feel it so I just assumed I'd gotten it out without realising. I keep thinking that, despite not being able to feel it, that it might be hiding in the side, since I didn't physically witness it out of my eye. I should probably go get it checked out..
Dude its your fuckin eye, why the hell haven't you gotten it checked yet. It'll be like 50 bucks, and possibly save your fucking vision. Jesus don't be kne of the Legion of lazy idiots who fuck their vision with contacts over nothing. Get it checked.
What I'd like to know is how anyone could not notice that amoebas are eating their fucking eyes. Like, wouldn't your eyes hurt like hell enough to warrant a trip to a doctor before the situation gets too out of hand? Getting an eyelash or plain water in my eyes stings like a bitch, I'd probably see an eye doctor after a single day of any possible symptoms.
Just touched eyeball with clean finger. Still feels irritated 5 minutes later. I suppose I just have very sensitive ones? Like I mentioned before, regular water fucks me up real bad.
Oh god - the burn! I did that once. There was a little pool of saline in the lens before I stuck it on my eye. So many tears. Which was helpful in rinsing out my eye! It was so red.
R99 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh what? I soak my lenses in the same solution that I use to clean them every day. Is that not normal? It doesn't bother me at all and my eye doctor has never said to not do it.
I use the Clear Care with the standing up case. I think it's fine to soak and clean if you use other brands but Clear Care has a warning label on the front and it burns horribly if it touches the eye. I have to get a second saline solution to rinse them with at night and the morning.
R99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I put my contacts in saline overnight. The brand name is Bio True, it's what my optometrist recommended me and I like it.
See, this is why I wear glasses; for one thing, I think it's absolutely disgusting to place any object directly on the eyeball. Secondly, glasses double as a nifty eyeball shield.
I knew someone who kept his in for over a year without taking them out. It was so gross.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucked up. I kept mine in for 3 months before. Cleaned them daily however. This was only because I couldn't afford new contacts or glasses and only had that last pair left.
Have been wearing long wear contacts for 25 years. Put them in, leave them for 30 days, exchange for a new set. Costs less than $100/year. I wear Accuvue Oasis now.
My coworker had one of those get into his eyes after he fell asleep with contacts on. He was misdiagnosed a few times before they caught the thing. It started off looking just red and scratched and then turned bloodshot and the eye went blind. He had to serve tables with an eyepatch and we ended up raising money so he could take time off work.
He had to go to Johns Hopkins for their elite eye doctors and then moved back home with his family in the south. The last I heard, he (VERY) luckily got sight back to that eye and is doing well. After all of the misdiagnoses and mess ups with medication dosages, he's lucky to be alive.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stories like these make me happy I stopped wearing contacts like... 6 years ago. I was bad at taking them out and my eyes were always irritated. Once I ran out, I wore my glasses again. Sometimes I miss contacts, but I know I shouldn't.
A number of years ago I was working in a small city known for tourism and it's lovely beaches. I had worn contacts for years and when I ran out of new pairs I simply started reusing the same pair of one-month contacts over an over... I would take them out each night and then put them in again the next morning. Until it started to hurt when I took them out. I'm talking lemon juice and jalapenos in your eyes every night I took them out. What does super smart me decide to do? Go to a doctor ad get new contacts? Heck no that's a 30 minute drive into town and I don't have a car (or money for an eye exam and new contacts). So I left them in every night and would just put a few drops of saline in my eyes the next day to rewet them.
I did this for months. 2 months passed, 4, 6, and ten about 8 months later I started having a severe reaction. Burning and burning and more burning... took the contacts out only from one eye, I had to work and as a bartender, seeing is impirtant. Put some drops in, burning didn't stop. Left them out for 2 days, felt better and put the same contact back in. Yep same one. If you've ever worun your contacts too long your contacts will get dirtier and dirtier to the point where they are a cloudy mess speckled with calcified buildup scratching your eyelids and corneas every time you blink. do not do this. Trust me.
After over 10 months with the same pair of contacts and nearly that entire time with them left in my eyes, I finally went to an eye doctor. I had blood vessels growing into my iris trying to help feed more oxygen to my eyes because my contacts weren't allowing oxygen though and I was literally suffocating my eyeballs. Luckily no permanent damage, but it very well could have blinded me for life. Scary stuff.
Tl:Dr I did that once. No amoebas but could have blinded myself suffocating my eyeballs. 10+months and only took them out once or twice.
"I'M AMOEBA IN MY EYES JOHNSON HERE AT AMOEBA IN MY EYES JOHNSON'S ELECTRONICS. I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY AMOEBA IN MY EYES, AND THERE'S SO MANY TVS, MICROWAVES, RADIOS, I THINK, I'M NOT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SURE WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN STOCK BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. OUR PRICES, I HOPE, AREN'T TOO LOW!"
That amoeba is called acanthamoeba, and it is just about the worst thing that can possibly infect the eye. I have a classmate in optometry school that got this from wearing her contacts in a hot tub. She had to have corneal transplants in both eyes. Shit is GNAR.
I looked this up actually because I also tend to go very long periods of time without taking out my contacts. It turns out the reason she got infected was because she swam with them in which allowed them to infect her contacts. It's still a good idea to change and wash your contacts regularly, but it usually won't leave you blind.
I had it happen to me. Used tap water to store my contacts on occasion, because I was young and stupid and at a lady's house... yada yada... sex may have been involved... But anyway, I contracted an amoeba parasite called Acanth-amoeba. Was consuming my retina. It cleared up with steroid treatment and some other things, but I don't recommend it. The retinal biopsy (where the surgeon took a slice off my retina while I was awake) was uncomfortable to say the least. Take care of your contact lens hygiene, kids!
Novijen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See this, this is why I wear glasses and not contacts.
Megmca ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I shared that story on Facebook and one of my coworkers came in the next day pissed as hell because she'd read it, immediately taken her contacts out, and ripped one.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of the families son passed away that way last year. He went swimming in a lake and later died from causes from the brain eating amoeba in his brain...
Just to clarify as people don't seem to understand, she didn't take them out AT ALL for six months. It's perfectly fine to wear contacts for a month (and probably longer) as long as you take them out every night and put them in saline solution. I'm not even sure how she managed it if I so much as nap in mine they disappear around the side of my eyeball and I have to spend about half an hour trying to coax them out
An old boss of mine would leave dailies in until his eyes got so infected he'd have to go to the hospital. He was an incredibly intelligent dude, but he just kept doing it. It just boggled us. He at one point got meningitis and was in the hospital for almost a year and nearly died. I don't know if the contact thing could have caused that, but I expect the constant infections probably didn't help.
This can also happen if you use tap water on your contacts
CatV3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:52:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can (sorta) confirm. I used to wear dailies for longer than a day, like a week or so. Until one day my right eye was in a ton of pain and very light sensitive. Went to eye doc and she found 3 ulcers growing in my right eye. 6 months wearing just glasses, tons of different eye drops and a lot of pain later, I still can't wear my contacts every day without irritating the scars. Lesson learned: Daily contacts should be thrown away daily. Who knew.
I had the same infection from going in a hot tub with contacts in with a scratched cornea. Sadly (?) I didn't get featured in the news, but can confirm, it was hell.
This is called acanthamoeba keratitis and I had it and it fucking sucked. But you can get it from just regular contact lense wear, I got it because I put my contacts in with damp hands. It's become sensationalised in the press recently, but essentially it does eat your eyeballs.
chirpzz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knew a dude who had this happen (after he went swimming in a lake) woke up with scar tissue on his cornea. He had to get a cornea transplant. Last I heard he was doing well and he could see again.
KidColi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A kid I swam with in college got an amoeba and almost lost his eye. He has permanent damage to his eyes and still has to take special eye drops.
However the scariest part about this story is that our athletic department blamed him and refused to sanitize our pool.
Water shot up my nose when jumping into a semi stagnant area of water on a hot day this summer. I was seriously tripping out for an entire week. I would have semi panic attacks at any sign of my neck feeling stiff or pressure in my head.
The day after the potential symptoms period was over I read that some poor young kid in Houston got the amoeba, and he ended up dying a few days later.
Fuck that amoeba. It is literally made of nightmares.
This amoeba prevented me from diving last year. Was found in a lake I was going to scuba in like a month before I went. Good timing on my part because people died in that lake before they figured it out.
So not only does it eat your brain....it manages to be racist whilst doing so!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it evil though? It's just its nature. We are its food.
Is a lion evil for eating a buffalo?
Are we evil for eating chicken?
Delsana ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I evil for eating you and then wearing your skin as a coat because I'm cold?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But is it in human nature to kill another human being for their skin? I don't think so. Back in the day when we still were venturing out of warm Africa we would have used fur of animals we killed.
We now can make wool and cotton clothes. We don't mass hunt deer for their fur.
I don't know what the fuck I am trying to say. My point is calling an amoeba 'evil' is ridiculous.
Delsana ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my human cultural nature. Om nom nom your bones taste good.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Om nom nom your bones taste good.
I am at least good for something haha. Enjoy me. ;)
TheTyke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, that logic also dictates we should be vegetarian/vegan.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:21:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I took this 'argument' from mom. I asked her "why is being vegetarian important when our bodies are designed for an omnivorous diet. Don't other animals eat other animals?".
She said something like "but we have other means of acquiring food, like farms. We have the choice to not kill animals, it isn't necessary for survival. But for a lion, it is. It would die without meat".
I don't know if it makes any sense, but it stuck with me. I am not a vegetarian, but I still found the argument interesting.
Hindu Indian here btw, just so you know where the argument was coming from.
TheTyke ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with your mum, yeah. I'm vegetarian and would love to visit India. Dope place.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's coming over to visit you, like a good friend! It appreciates your friendship so much. You should buy it a gift.
Looking back the water wasn't that sketchy. It was flowing a few days earlier but got low enough where there wasn't a lot of flow.
However what really got to me are the incidents where it has occurred in large lakes that aren't considered stagnant.
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 03:58:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This amoeba is ubiquitous around the globe. Almost any unpurified water might have some living in it. If that sounds scary, take heart! Literally millions of people swim and bathe in natural water daily, and almost none of them ever die by amoebal meningitis.
The most reassuring thing to note is this: there is only one very tiny area in the back of your sinuses where these amoebas can cause this effect on you, and it's protected. Your sinuses almost always have small amounts of air trapped inside, even when you take a noseful of water. That vulnerable spot has a permanent bubble trapped next to it. Amoebas can't swim through air.
Moral of this story is take a deep breath before you dive, purify any water you shoot up your nose, and don't worry too much about amoebas eating your brain. :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I appreciate all the info you've got on Naegleria, I think its badass
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:36 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope this knowledge will help my anxiety around water. I used to love swimming until I had a horrible nervous breakdown last year. Thanks for sharing this.
I'mansweringa2montholdpostiknowshutup.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:44 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I still use a sinus rinse pretty much daily, and every time I do, I think about this post I wrote. I'm glad I could help, friend. :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:58:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 04:05:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australian here, was a little bit surprised. Seriously did God just sit there one day after creating hallucinagenic mushies & think "yeah, gonna work on that big brown patch now. Let's see.. spikey trees that will drive people insane.. umm YEAH I'll put a leftover beaver tail & duck face on that huge rat thing, needs more poison though.. some DMT in those trees for later.. oh man I'm wasted, just gonna leaves these snakes here for a bit. I'll spread them out later..."
There's a video of some British outdoors guy touching one. He goes into some pretty intense pain and admits to the camera dude that he wasn't expecting a plant to hurt -that- much.
He ends up walking off, then kind of collapsing to his knees and puking from pain.
ours ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:42:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he later try to kiss some irukandji jellyfish to check if the hurt that much?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:53:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CdotW ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your will shall be done
evictor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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antemon ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I occasionally flush my nostrils with a neti pot.
so it's a delicate balance of extreme discomfort and asphyxiation or brain eating amoeba that I have to ponder on before using the thing.
I'm so paranoid that I used distilled bottled water for it.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Luxray ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many of the saline sprays actually have additives that can increase congestion if used over a longer period of time, and they don't even flush the sinuses out like neti pots do.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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iamanis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flonase is OTC now, and it's awesome. I'll swear by that spray. If I was a race car driver, Flonase would be my main sponsor. Fuck yeah Flonase!
I used it for awhile but it started to cause nose-bleeds :(
Fuck my allergies.
Luxray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so paranoid that I only wash mine with distilled water.
iamanis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me too. Do you boil it still?
Luxray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I don't boil it, there's not really any point to it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distilled water is fine, especially if it stays closes and doesn't have much exposure to anything outside the bottle. (I.e.: put the lid back when you're done.) Amoebas, like any other organism, need nutrients and minerals to survive. Distilled water has almost all of its nutrients and minerals removed. Any amoeba that does find its way into some pure distilled water is likely to starve to death. If you have doubts, microwave or boil it first.
Full disclosure: I've sinus rinse almost daily for about 3 years. Distilled water + salt packet every time. I clean the squirt bottle daily and replace it a few times each year. Still alive.
Just get some chlorine from your local pool store and chlorinate the water.
Not sure if this will have side effects for you if you only use a very small amount.
Chlorine kills. Everything. That's why we use it in pools. You can swallow pool water without dying so a very small concentration of chlorine should be fine and still kill everything off.
Well, that is one of the least surprising things I have heard in my entire fucking life. Even if you can't see it, if it's from Australia you will die a horrible death.
People have gotten it from using straight pond/lake water to neti
Buddy_Z ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went through this multiple times this past summer, to the point where I started taking my temperature every couple hours thinking maybe I could get to the hospital early enough.
Fun fact: these little fuckers can have a delayed onset type of effect. They're only active in the state you find in warm water, but in cooler water they exist in, I guess what can be likened to a cocoon state. So, if you think you're safe swimming in cooler water where they shouldn't be active and inhale these cocoons, your warm nasal cavity is the perfect environment to essentially activate them and unleash the ultimate Trojan horse.
Also, they're completely naturally occurring, feeding on whatever it is they eat in the sediment. So basically no freshwater is safe.
I have felt your pain. Tripping out is not fun. When I was little I was taking prescription meds that caused me to hallucinate. I thought that clouds were alien spaceships which was not helped by the fact that it also made my hearing sensitive enough that I could hear the fucking ac fans or whatever shit it was in the ceiling. Whatever it was it sounded exactly like what you would expect a flying saucer to sound like. I also was convinced that I had lice (not helped by the fact that my dogs had fleas) and worms which at one point I literally hallucinated diving in and out of my body in the middle of class causing me to freak the fuck out during an ongoing lesson.
SosX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once I had to jump into a waste water river to get my gf dog out, my parents laughed it off, it's really hard to get fucked up from that.
I had some really bad allergies last summer, like to the point that multiple times a day my eyes itched and burned so bad I just had to lay down and close them for half an hour or so. I couldn't breathe through my nose for about a month straight. I bought a neti pot with the intent to use it and then remembered that bit about the amoeba in the brain.
That neti pot is still sitting unopened on my desk and I'm typing this I realize I should just burn it.
iamanis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People have also gotten it from not boiling the water they use in a neti pot!
Like, 2 people died from it from neti pots. And it was because they used tap water. Just use distilled water from the store, microwaving it will be fine. You don't need to boil water every time you neti.
Chyhart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw one of these alive under a microscope in my biology 1 class at community college. Professor freaked out, had everyone look at it and then made sure it was properly disposed. It's was actually one of the coolest things I've seen.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My specialist Dr. is the biggest name in Canada for my specific disease which requires me to clear my sinuses daily. She says as long as you live in an area that has proper water sanitation stations in the city the tap water is perfectly safe to use as long as you use the salt packets with it. (FYI I don't live in flint michigan)
I used to (still do but more carefully) crudely irrigate my nose by simply snorting (just a little) water and then blowing it out. REALLY effective at clearing sinuses.
Anyway, 3 years ago I got a fever, right around the time I was hearing about the Amoeba causing fatalities here in Louisiana. The fever was all encompassing for about a week and I thought I had the amoeba, I thought I was going to die. I got better though, despite not going to a doctor. There is a 3% survival rate, so MAYBE I did have it and beat it, but almost certainly it was just something else.
Sisters ex told me about this and every time after we went to the lake, I would like always check my neck and seriously be paranoid to where I got tension headaches, and one of the first signs is headaches so I would worry more and my headaches would continue for weeks... yea i'm stupid but fuck that shit, I'll only cliff jump off into like clear ocean water.
FUCK. Same here. I went swimming in a local water hole after having read about it, and got some water up my nose from diving. That didn't scare me as much, but the kicker? I just so happened to get a stiff neck and a fever in the following days which happened to be totally unrelated.
But yeah, I literally thought I was dying. Just stayed in bed for three days having panic attacks.
Forget swimming in lakes. I've heard stories of people getting and dying from brain eating Amoeba because they used a Neti Pot without boiling the water beforehand. Fuck that, I'm never using one of those things after hearing that. Even if the water is boiled and sanitised to fuck.
I was adjusting a sprinkler in my yard and accidentally shot a bunch of water up my nose. It was somewhat cold, but the fact that it came from an untreated well and I'm in Florida made me freak out for a week. I rubbed my neck and stretched it out so much I gave myself neck pain, furthering my paranoia.
I don't always have hypochondria, but when I do, it's because I think I have a brain-eating amoeba with a 99% fatality rate.
Woman I know is the head of the infectious disease dept. at the VA. Her teenage son died from that amoeba. He was swimming in a lake, got it and died. His mother could do NOTHING for him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember the damn amoeba scare. I grew up in Texas and as a kid my dad off handedly told me about the amoeba. From the age of 5 to probably 10 I would ask "does this water have the bad stuff?" before swimming in any lake or river.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People should not be using neti pots in the first place.
What about it's charmingly named cousin, rat lung worm? It's in Hawai'i now, but headed to the U.S. mainland eventually. People who've caught it have actually committed suicide due to years of debilitating pain.
Naegleria Fowleri is horrifying. It can even stay dormant in soil and then contaminate warm water. Fascinating little critter but.... damn...
Skreep ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a microbiologist. Learning about all of the fun stuff out in the world can make one a little paranoid. Or it can leave you feeling like there's no escaping so why bother.
I really wanted to go into that field or be a virologist but I think I would drive myself damn near insane!
Skreep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:34:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really love what I do. I minored in molecular biology and wish I had a chance to pursue that path more in the professional world. Micro jobs are not to easy to find in my area.
Can we not train the tardigrades to wage war against these brain-eating monsters?
Skreep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The size difference between the two would be like us waging war on moving sandwiches. But true to bear form, the tardigrades prefer to eat things half their size. Maybe we can create an army of tardigrade riding natural killer cells to eliminate the N. fowlerii scourge.
I heard a story about one girl that survived, they had to lower her body temperature to something extreme to kill the amoeba. But unless you catch it early you're fucked.
I did a mud run in Houston about a year and a half ago, and then read in the news about some lady getting brain-eating amoebas from a mud run somewhere else. I know how much water and mud I got up my nose. After reading about that, every time I got a headache I got worried.
Rumor has it that's one of the reasons Disney abandoned their water park in Florida. The official reason is a new law was passed that required them to purify the water and since they got it from a lake it would be too expensive, but a child who swam there got infected and died after a similar strain was found in the connecting lake. Rather than tear it down it's cheaper to leave it abandoned so not it just sits there wasting away
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would they abandon 20 years after the only death from the amoeba occurred there? The kid died in 1980, but it closed in 2001/2002.
Because as unfortunate as the poor kid's death was, it had nothing to do with River Country closing. The law change, plus the fact that they had two far superior and better performing water parks already caused the demise.
What do you mean unless you fill it with tap water on a day a boil order was issued? That sounds like the opposite of what would happen. If you boil the water, it won't survive. So just always boil. What am I not understanding?
He means that if your tap water is contaminated, that the water company notices the contamination and warns you that you must boil it before use, that you don't boil it, that you put it up your nose and that you're very unlucky, your brain will get eaten.
I always boil my neti pot water & then cool it down before using. Usually I'll just fill up a coffee cup or small bowl and microwave it for 5 minutes or so...then transfer to the freezer for 30 minutes till it cools.
The alternative is buying distilled water but aint nobody got time for that.
kevms ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:12:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you got time to boil and freeze water for 35+ minutes? Use distilled water, dude. It only takes a minute for me to pour it in and warm it up in the microwave.
I knew a kid in junior high who died of this. He was simply water skiing in a lake, and a few days later he was dead. Apparently he had contracted this amoebic infection from the lake water through his ears. Scary shit.
This just makes me want to plug my ears and nose up when I go swimming anytime now. You fuckers are gonna make this coming summer so damn hard for me to enjoy...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching "Monsters inside me" one night and it was about an 18 y/o girl who went swimming in Georgia, and one went up her nose. Needless to say, she died in less than a week. Those suckers have a 90% mortality rate.
The thing is, when one says brain eating amoeba most people think of the critter that lives in warmish bodies of water and water heaters and can feel somewhat safe. Most people don't know that there is a only slightly less deadly variety that the CDC discourages awareness of because it lives in the everyday environments of dirt and dust.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/daughter-dies-brain-killing-amoeba-california-mom-amoeba/story?id=30116133
Tjm95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did a paper on this in microbiology. Naegleria Fowleri swims in through your nose into your brain and starts chewing on the mucous membranes. No way to stop it unless you somehow luck out. Scary as hell considering they exist in most freshwater bodies.
My brother-in-law got that amoeba and survived, because it attacked his eye and didn't go up his nose like it usually does. He picked it up swimming in Lake Travis in Austin. Thought he had pink eye, went to the eye doctor, and the eye doctor looked at his eye under a scope and freaked out. It was etching a path across his cornea, and my bro-in-law could see the etch in his vision. They gave him some drops for his eye and that cleared it up, but said he'd have died eventually and out of the 5 other people that got it that year, he's the only one that lived. Crazy stuff.
What the hell, all my american family are always worried about this. they called me crazy man for swimming in the Colorado river. Said the amoeba would eat my brain. I took the opportunity to scare them by dumping water on the unexpectedly.
Jokes on them, I have no brain. Amoeba would starve.
Oh, good, I had not been worried enough. Here is a one-stop "never swimming in a lake again" shop.
dinomic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Brain-Eating Amoeba, or Naegleria fowler are single-celled organisms. It doesn't happen often. But most summers, several Americans -- usually healthy, young people -- suffer sudden, tragic deaths from a brain-eating amoeba. (first discovered in australia) "
Another horrible thing that wants to kill you from Australia!
It closed Disney's River Country. Which should also be on the list as abandoned parks are scary as shit. The park still has running water and the music still eerily plays all day and night. If you're ever thinking of venturing out there it can be accessed by staying at the Camp Wilderness Resort. The front gates are easily accessible. As a Florida marine biologist I have found samples of N. Fowleri in several waterways throughout the state. Including the St John's River, Lake Mary and the northern tip of Lake Okeechobee. I have not found any positive samples in any of the Disney ponds or waters but they say that it didn't close River Country but it did. I do report my findings to the FWC and they do post warnings on their website if a confirmed sample is found. Before you're next swimming trip in Florida be sure to check their site and they will advise you. And amoebas aren't the only fun things swimming around out there. Cheers.
Amazing. It is my understanding that the incidences of confirmed samples are much greater in frequency in southern states. Is that fairly consistent with what you have learned?
Water Temps typically determine a lot and water in the southern states and tropical locales are always warmer. The thing with the amoeba is most people can fight it off with their immune systems but the ones that are compromised tend to be more susceptible to it. As in River Country 100's of people were swimming with it. Some of the algae that can get out of control worries us more though.
Hadn't ever heard of them before. Looks like I won't be swimming in any lakes this summer
gabyxo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its not just the brain eating amoeba you should be worried about. Amoeba colonise all our water systems and our water purification systems aren't at all effective at removing them. They could be having so many unknown effects on the general population that we don't know about but there's no money in it so no one is researching it really.
Holy fucking shit yes. I was all about clearing my sinuses with geyser/netti pot like helper. Definitely the most hygienic of my roommates. Till ones day I read about the brain eating amoeba. Never again have I cleaned my sinuses cuz they can feel like shit over no feeling (from amoeba). And fuck those amoebas getting ready food
kezz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The so-called brain-eating amoeba is a species discovered in 1965. It's formal name is Naegleria fowleri. Although first identified in Australia.
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I think the cause is prions, right?
So this can be filed under prions.
Also, it is worse than staying awake, you are always in a pre sleep condition, that is you feel drowsy and constantly doze off but cannot get a REM sleep.
Are we talking the kind of dozing off like in class where you immediately wake up for a split second every time your head starts to fall? Or a little deeper than that, but just not REM?
Once it progresses far enough the brain shows signs of an "REM like" state, but the person is awake. A dreamlike hallucinogenic state where over months the afflicted becomes unresponsive and mute before dying.
[deleted] ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 05:04:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me really glad I can choose to die in a hospital of my own will. Anyone who would argue against being able to end your life in a humane way must be a damn fool.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:34:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BigEent ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 06:13:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually Physician Assisted Suicide is legal in 5ish states in America and is actually used. There was a huge story last year of a woman with cancer who moved across the country to do it.
And the Facebook comments on that story made me want to vomit "only God can choose when you die she's going to hell!"
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:47:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Netherlands - we even have the option of euthanasia available for terminally sick children.
czorio ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if they are over the age of 12 and there is absolutely no way of improvement. Even then a lot of doctors will have to mull over it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I shouldve been more specific - but clickbait tainted me.
DCromo ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 06:14:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
apparently doctors are allowing people to die for a ton of different things. like anxiety and depression, after 3 or 4 meetings with therapists.
i'm not saying depression or anxiety shouldn't be treated like a terminal illness, trust me i know, but 3 or 4 sessions with a psychiatrist seems a bit on the light side.
vice t.v. show showed a pt. who went through that exact motion before dying.
stubing ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 09:06:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
after 3 or 4 meetings with therapists.
source?
DCromo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the vice episode is a half hour long. they quote her son as saying, and i'm paraphrasing here: you'd think in a country, especially the netherlands, that couldn't have what is essentially a death sentence, after three or four conversations with someone.
the counterpoint to the for argument is that it opens a slippery slope of what is permitted with people wanting to die.
on the other hand, if someone wants to who are we to say otherwise?
stubing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it sounds like an easy solution to this implementation. Just add a minimum number of visits to two different doctors (this is for patients asking for suicide because they are depressed).
on the other hand, if someone wants to who are we to say otherwise?
I actually agree with you that we should let people kill themselves if they want to. I just believe we need to make sure that this is what they want and not just what they've been feeling recently. I actually can see how 3 or 4 visits would be enough though. If the patient shows they have a history of severe depression, they've already tried a lot of things, and they always wanted to die, then I can see how that decision could be made.
Have a source for the assisted suicide for anxiety and depression thing? I'd believe that they'd put that on the table for a patient with long term depression that had not been helped by any treatment options, but short of that I have a hard time believing that.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
severe depression and anxiety are hard to comprehend. I imagine it has to be recorded in a persons medical history in most cases and tried nearly every treatment available.
DCromo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dude the vice episode has the lady die, on television. her daughter and son both are itnerviewed saying that essentially, and of all places the neterhlands, you can have a death sentence after 3 conversations with someone.
it's paraphrased but the son was pretty pissed.
blew my mind too. and i agree if you've had a long term struggle over a few years with the same doctor and can't jsut find anything that works and the quality of life is seriously hurt by it, b all means. but the lady met with a psychiatrist 3 times and then was put down.
she said she ha debilitating anxiety about going out and the pressure of life and living was too much to bear.
then again if someone wants to be put down, who are we to say otherwise? on the other hand if it was that unbearable, i'm kind of surprised the didn't take matters into their own hands already. i dont know, it does seem like a potentially slippery slope.
So are all of the symptoms a result of not sleeping? Do sleeping pills not work for them? Or what if they were put into a chemically induced coma, would the symptoms improve?
Also, I don't get how this disease takes 7-36 months to kill you, don't you die after around 10 or 11 sleepless days?
Sleeping pills and barbiturates actually speed the progression of the disease, apparently. They've tried the induced comas, but while they are knocked out, they aren't able to get into REM.
Pills and other things have no effect and a coma just paralyzes them but they may or may not stay awake. Coma certainly doesn't help improve symptoms though, and people in comas die faster. It takes months to kill you both because it is only harder to get to sleep toward the beginning and also because you don't die from lack of sleep at 11 days. That's just the record anyone has ever gone before they went back to sleep again.
They have tried everything from pills to barbiturates through IV. Those with FFI go from a presleep state to a comatose state without any vital sleep on these treatments. The prions are misfolded proteins that cause similar regular folded proteins they come in contact with to misfold also. These start to basically clump up around the brain and these clumps destroy nerve cells. Your brain (mainly the thalamus) turns into a holey sponge looking thing.
There are several variants of prion disease. One type is contagious and usually picked up by eating the meat of an animal that has the protein (this is "mad cow disease"). Another is genetic in that your DNA harbors the code to make the protein and at some point in your life it starts being produced. In both cases the protein is shaped in such a way that its chemical interactions with other proteins it comes into contact with transforms those proteins into a replica of itself, starting a chain reaction of your brain's functional proteins turning into clones and propagating until everything is just mush. It's the Agent Smith of the medical world and we have no way of fighting it.
Agent Smith is the most brilliant prion analogy I've ever heard.
Gc13psj ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, going cannibal and eating another human's brain will also give you some kind of prion disease. I guess it's technically covered under your eating of animal meat, but it's still worth pointing out.
So remember people, if you absolutely need to go cannibal if you're trapped on a desert island or something, draw the line at the brain.
Yes, I'm aware that is the case with some prion disease. But we're talking specifically about Fatal Familial Insomnia, which is not contagious between people. That's why the person I was responding to referred to it as being genetic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah okay. I wonder if you ate someone's brain with FFI if you'd contract it
FFI is exclusively genetic, with the mutation at position 178, whereas sporadic fatal insomnia (sFI) occurs randomly (as the name implies)...however it's so rare that less than 10 cases have been diagnosed as of 2014.
CJD, on the other hand, its 80-85% of the time sporadic, 9-14% genetic and the rest are iatrogenic or caused by ingestion of contaminated beef. (Stats vary depending on what review you read, which is why I gave a range)
Unfortunately CJD is only diagnosable post mortem. There is no good and accurate marker for CJD (currently doctors will use levels of the protein 14-3-3, but it is not reliable on its own), however you can get diagnosed with CJD by basically eliminating all other possibilities!
As for the bad beef, I wouldn't worry, because you may not be as susceptible as others to getting vCJD from contaminated beef. The position 129 polymorphism strongly influences this susceptibility. So you have 3 possibilities: MM, MV, or VV (methionine and valine). Most people are heterozygous (so MV), and these people are the middle with respect to susceptible to BSE transmission. MM is the most susceptible while VV is less than MM and MV in terms of susceptibility1
In reality though, all diagnosed cases of vCJD have been homozygous for methionine (MM)2
Didn't mean me in particular! Just meant in general. I'm a bit obsessed with finding out what will eventually kill me. But that's some interesting info about the prion. They've always interested me but we never studied them much in our neuro classes at my university.
According to Wikipedia, there's a familial version, which involves mutations in the Prion Protein gene, and a sporadic version, which is caused by exposure to misfolded prions.
You wouldn't find anything acquired like that. Just what you're genetically predisposed to or bound to have.
Like I didn't want to know that I'm more likely than not to have congestive heart failure... but now that I know, i exercise and eat better.
The only scary one for me was when I was waiting to find out if I had friederichs ataxia (luckily skipped me). That wasn't 23andme though. No other genetic test has scared me. 23andme is definitely worth it for all the random behavioral predispositions. I finally have an excuse about my aversion to chewing and similar sounds.
Definitely not for most people, at least! Just a bunch of "1% higher than average risk based upon two preliminary studies" and such. With things like Huntington's, they show a debriefing page and give you the option to not look, I think.
I could.... however you (or anyone else) can just PM me your questions and I will answer them when I can! (I'm a grad student, so I am quite busy!)
However if it gets to a point where I have a lot of messages or I get the same type of questions over and over, I may throw together a little AMA where I outline the answers to some of the more commonly asked questions, while leaving the thread open for new questions.
Edit: Apparently if you keep an eye on /r/science there will be an AMA in about a month or so with some prion researchers, so you can get all you questions answered there!
bardorr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yum, sponge brain!
k_vp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are fucking insane. I'm studying neuroscience and I want to continue a career in research and I'm fascinated by prions but the idea of working with TSEs and stuff makes me way too anxious
BioRam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work with prions and while you definitely have to be careful , as long as you aren't being really stupid you should be fine. However, my lab has a policy that if you ever cut yourself with a piece of equipment, you have to bleach the wound, because if prions did get inside, that's really the only chance of killing them.
These terms, mutation and polymorphism, can be used to describe the same sequence variant, but in relation to evolution there is a critical distinction. Whereas,ย mutationย implies a change from the ancestral sequence at some time,ย polymorphismย refers to inherited differences between individuals. Some mutations persist to become polymorphisms but others are repaired or further mutated and become irrelevant as agents of continuing evolution.source
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the difference between a polymorphism and a mutation?
I believe that some families have a mutated protein (prion caused but don't quote me on it) that can be passed on to offspring.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, prions are basically just misfolded proteins, so the gene probably was mutated in a way that makes easily-misfolded forms of a protein. But that's just what makes sense to me - I got no sources.
Yes, some prions are. Since they are just fucked up proteins a family's cells basically have it in their DNA to produce them, just like they produce normal proteins
The prions aren't piggybacking on the DNA or passing from one family member to another through blood. The deformed genes responsible for making the malformed proteins (prions) happen to be hereditary.
It can be picked up or genetic. A family in Italy had a genetic defect that carried the gene for it. Tribes in Paua New Guinea got "Kuru" from eating infected human nervous tissue. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapies (sheep disease), and CreutzfeldtโJakob disease are all related and are picked up from ingesting prions.
The worst thing about prions is that they can survive cooking. You have to reduce them to ash to destroy them.
This very particular case is inheritable, but generally prion diseases are transmitted by consuming prions. I guess maybe this one is too but I don't think we have a documented case of someone eating the brain of a FFI patient.
Ttess98 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:02:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prion researcher here! Yes, prions can be passed down by consuming cells containing prions that have human analogs (see kuru), but a lot of prions form because there is a defect in one of the chaperon proteins that enclose a new protein as it forms. Without this protection, it misfolds and starts a chain of prions. If your family has a defect on one of these chaperons, it can greatly increase your chances of getting the disease.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are your thoughts on CWD?
Everything I've read says it's not able to be transmitted to humans, but it still gives me the willies.
I'm also a prion researcher (you can see my history), and with respect to CWD here is my two cents:
Yes, you are correct that we have yet to see it successfully passed to humans. However there are a couple of caveats:
First, it is possible that the CWD prions are in the affected persons body, but can't replicate to pathogenic levels during the lifespan of the person. CWD affects secondary lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, spleen) first and replicate there, then invade the brain, which is unlike BSE, CJD, Kuru, etc.
Second, although CWD may not be able to pass directly to humans, it may pass into another animal (like bovines), and then get passed to humans (like BSE transmission to humans). It's thought that is how some strains of BSE came about, through scrapie (Sheep prion disease) contaminated feed1
oldgov2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Believed to be a prion disease. The damage to the hypothalamus is what causes the sleep loss. It also messes up temperature regulation so people's body temp fluctuate wildly.
I know they mention in the video that they tried using sleep aids and they just made it worse, but what about just straight up anesthesia? I wonder if that could put them to sleep. I'm also not sure if you actually go into REM sleep while knocked out with anesthesia.
My grandmother has late stage Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementia. She has been on a kick lately where she absolutely cannot/will not sleep. I'm not talking a day or two, I'm talking 2 solid weeks of chronic sleep disruptions. Meds.do.zilch. It's a very strange feeling watching the gentleman in the video reach for something, and then gesture like he is buttoning his shirt. It really got to me. Gram makes very similar gestures while lying in bed. I once watched her think she was making herself a bowl of cereal from the comfort of her bed. Her eyes were mostly closed. I watched her open the box, pour the cereal in a bowl, peel and cut bananas, open a carton of milk, all the way a mime would imitate. It was both fascinating and very very sad. She wasn't awake, but she wasn't asleep either. This is becoming very common and it is very freaky to watch.
Essentially your body never gets the chance to recover from basic daily tasks and just wears down until something bigger or even a lot of small things just fuck you...
Fucking apparently you guys don't want me sleeping at all tonight. Had to read about prions because I had no clue what you were talking about. No fucking good dreams tonight. Reddit is turning me into a hypochondriac.
VargBoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must construct additional prions!
bardorr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking prions. If they somehow get into your body, or start to be produced in your body, good fuckin' luck. Damn misfolded proteins. Scary.
loki444 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't the prions get in their spaceship to get help for Wickus in 3 years?
I have whats been described as a nasty case of insomnia and i can confirm that after a certain amount of sleeplessness, you go insane. The first thing that comes to mind is hurting yourself. Thankfully, I'm prescribed Ambien. It has probably saved my life. I'm sure it will cause dementia though.
Actually, in early stages of the disease you sleep but can't get rem, but in later stages, you can't sleep at all, at least from what I've studied on the disease.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insomnia and severe anxiety. I have a lot of difficulty with falling and staying asleep; It's easier and less frustrating to just stay awake. On the upside, a lot of stuff gets done around the house.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it's a prion disease so he would have to consume her infected brain tissue when it is actively contaminated with the protein. I think that's rather unlikely.
No, this one is passed on genetically and now the way that mad cow or kuru is transmitted. It also doesn't show up until the person who has it is middle aged.
Barne ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A carrier usually just has the disease in their genes, it doesn't affect them. It can be passed down, which is why /u/brixton75 was terrified of his kids getting it.
It's autosomal dominant though, so she'll definitely express it, right?
Barne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry man I'm not qualified enough to confirm or deny, so I'm guessing you're probably right on this. I'm hoping he/she doesn't though, that's probably the worst way to die.
No, their genes carry it but don't allow it to manifest.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:43:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the symptoms shows, there is some (illegal in the States) drug that produce Rapid Eye Movement (REM),might worth a try. I think it's DMT, but I will look it up later today.
It's a prion disease that renders your brain physically incapable of initiating or sustaining REM sleep. That's like looking at a dead body and saying "hey I heard caffeine makes people jittery!"
[deleted] ยท 292 points ยท Posted at 01:47:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kind of related but not, did you ever read that crazy story someone came up with, called like the Russian Sleep Experiment or something. Scary shit.
ugh hes so bad for that, children of the corn would have been great if he made it a story about the manipulative powers of cults but no, had to make the main leader kid literally possessed with crazy devil magic powers. turned quickly from creepy and unsettling to just silly in one scene.
Him and pretty much everyone. I can probably count the satisfying endings I've read on my fingers. And half of them probably actually came from fanfiction.
Stephen King is a good example right here, all those intense build up and the end really betrayed your expectations... most of his famous works are like that.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like when all those fifth graders run a train on the girl fifth grader in the sewer, and at the same type he drops the fact that she was regularly abused by her father like it was nothing
I don't mind about that part actually, it was odd and very out of place, but in the same time, it's kind of a final payoff to that girl's character growth, that liberal choice agaisnt her father(and forcing all the Losers Club into adult). That scene was both weird and resonating.
What really disappointing is the Rogan's involvement and It's final reveal.... kind off anti-climax actually.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wasnt it just like a giant spider monster or something
Especially the endings to horror stories, because generally the buildup is what's scary and suspenseful. Things are almost always scarier when you have no idea what's going on.
Just write the ending first. That's what musicians do.
Kalayo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:21:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a published author, but my first thing on Reddit was a post on /r/nosleep titled "Michael, you motherfucker". I write creatively as a hobby and I think I'm okay, but I simply can not write a proper ending. It's extremely difficult.
I believe someone went ahead and fixed the ending (probably without credit, and more or less stole it) but it was 10x better and more grounded than the original. Unfortunately I can't find a link because there's a surprising amount of 'retreads' to that particular story.
_0x20 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it?
"We were observing these patients for 30 days but we let them cover the observation windows for a few days before we bothered to do something about it", followed by black magic rites and whatever.
Rykaar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Completely agree. It felt so real until the whole "we are god" shit.
Touchรฉ. I stand corrected. I'm not really familiar with the differences between the two but it was awesome. Would you recommend one over another to an outsider?
I didn't realize that at first and it scared the living shit out of me
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:01:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha well, I say obviously now I've read it. I remember getting to about half way and thinking what the actual fuck is going on here. Then it goes extra crazy at the end, then I thought hmmm, maybe not.
Ehh... I mean it's creepy if you don't think about it. The moment you put any and I do mean any amount of thought into it it just falls apart. That said it did fuck with me for a day or so.
Kept me really scared up until the last thing the people experimented on say. I never went from scared to laughing that fast. But the rest was brilliant.
I had a patient in the ED who came in with insomnia and thought he had this. I asked if anyone in his family had it. He said no. Had a hard time explaining that he was just anxious and not dying.
People with benign medical conditions + the internet = super fun conversations. If you aren't going to take my advice, why did you come see a doctor?
I think in those cases it's important to explain to them WHY they don't have it, not just "There is pretty much no chance" because all they hear is "There is a chance". You have to go through all the symptomes that they don't have which are signs of the disease etc. So if someone had a cold and they thought they had aids, you would have to say "Well you see, you don't have aids because you're white blood cell count is normal and a person with aids don't have that" etc..
Whenever I can, I'm always happy to go through these things with people. That said, if you come to the ER with anxiety and I have several people who are actually critically ill, you're going to get a "it's not that, it's just anxiety, here are your discharge papers. If you're still concerned, please call your doctor."
MrGund ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Well that's enough to keep me up at night
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:12:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
in a bid to provide temporary relief in the later stages of the disease, physicians induced a coma with the use of sedatives, to no avail as his brain still failed to shut down completely.
Great recommendation! That's actually where I heard about it in depth, a few months back. I also really liked their Rabies episode as of recent. I don't know what it is about the disease ones, but with prions etc involved, they do a great job of dumbing it down... And making you realize how scary FFI really is
t33j4f ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What scared me more were the changes to wikipedia.
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned about this disease through a Hetalia fanfic, written since the author has insomnia and a chance of having FFI. Every time I reread it (three years or so for fun) I can't stand it and break down crying. This is a horrible disease, up with ALS in its mental and physical toll on the body and mind.
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you do, don't read it before bed. I reread the first chapter just because... the writing draws me in and I have a hard time not reading this story, but yeah. //my recommendation. Tell me how you like it!
Shit, can you DM the link? I got wayyyy more replies on that comment and I think I might have lost the link ๐. I'll definitely check it if you can send it this way
Lapulta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:37 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"One of the most notable cases is that of Michael (Michel A.) Corke, a music teacher from New Lenox, Illinois (born in Watseka, Illinois). He began to have trouble sleeping before his 40th birthday in 1991; following these first signs of insomnia, his health and state of mind quickly deteriorated as his condition worsened. Eventually, sleep became completely unattainable, and he was soon admitted to University of Chicago Hospital with a misdiagnosis of clinical depression due to multiple sclerosis. Medical professionals Dr Raymond Roos and Dr Anthony Reder, at first unsure of the nature of his illness, initially diagnosed multiple sclerosis; in a bid to provide temporary relief in the later stages of the disease, physicians induced a coma with the use of sedatives, to no avail as his brain still failed to shut down completely. Corke died in 1993, a month after his 42nd birthday, by which time he had been completely sleep-deprived for six months."
This is caused by prion's. It's basically a protein that eats away at your brain and there's no cure for it. It stared off bsck in Italy hundreds of years ago. It's scary as shit. Mad cow disease was also caused by prions for those who don't know. They're not viruses or bacteria it's crazy.
This is the worst way I know to die. Can you imagine not sleeping for a year and a half while it runs its course? I'm inclined to believe suicide is a common cause for death.
Just did a research project on this... So fucked up. Basically you just stay awake and your body can't repair itself from doing basic daily tasks and it just fucks you. No known cure... Prions man
AxmxZ ยท 5264 points ยท Posted at 02:38:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki.
EDIT: This comment now accounts for half of all my comment upvotes. Here's something no one's ever said before: thank you, Australian pain tree!
That means some brave or stupid fucker thought it would be a great idea to try and eat the fruit of a tree that has tortured people and animals alike to suicide....
squired ยท 840 points ยท Posted at 06:10:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 09:56:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And after that, I meet my totem spirit
Itโs a stinging fruit, so I have to kill it
Then I drink all his blood and steal his powers
Slither around in the dirt for hours
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where not only are the spiders, sea snakes, giant whales, crocodiles, land snakes of various species, kangaroos, and platypuses out to kill you (no really, the platypus has a venomous barb on its hind legs - probably won't kill a healthy adult, but still) - so is the foliage.
Only about a third of wild fugu are poisonous enough to kill a person (they're not poisonous on their own, they're poisonous due to what they eat), so the first guy who tried probably just got lucky.
There's always that "first person to eat" something. Imagine being the first dude who thought it'd be a good idea to eat a chicken egg or drink milk. We take it for granted now but...
MGStan ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:29:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fs0i ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that first guy to take the plunge...
Probably saw that the little cows just sucked on the mother, and then grew up big and healthy.
MGStan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then probably babies. A proto farmer is left with a mate that died in childbirth and needs to feed his progeny, but he has some perfectly healthy cows (or goats or...) that just gave birth to calfs and could provide milk.
You want some snake oil? This is neither unique to sharks fins or humans. Practically everybody tries to take what they have and make it seem more impressive to those that do not have it.
Milk isn't too far-fetched, every mammal drinks it, it just so happens that we are the only ones able to take it from other species.
Same for eggs, tons of animals eat eggs.
In general, it's easy to assume something is double of you see other animals eating it too. And there are safe (ish) and easy ways to determine if eating something would kill you or not.
As for cheese or other seemingly disgusting things... When you're starving, you eat what you can find.
avenp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10,000s of years ago, some person left their fruit or grains out in the rain and it fermented. Imagine being that guy, looking at this bubbly, stinky soup stuff, and thinking "Hey I should try drinking that".
Morkai ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possibly a new phrase for the coat of arms?
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:57:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, think about it. Some brave stupid fucker realized that there are tiny flying insects that swarm around you and sting you. He thought it was a good idea to go over to where they live, harvest some yellow, gooey, liquid, and eat it.
And his young, human sidekick? None other than... Albert Einstein. (Before he was called Albert Einstein and instead referred to himself as Christopher Robin, of course.)
Fenor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he's a brave man. that succeded where other had failed. brave enought to put his life on the line to expand the horizon of the world with the knowledge that, yes, that fucker is edible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
British settlers have a lot to answer for but we weren't half forward !
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe it means that some smart fucker examined the chemical compounds of the fruit? Even simpler would be to feed it to an animal before tasting it.
What if you were in the wild and your legs were gone or nonfunctional or some shit, you were starving and stuck in a grove of these evil bastards, armed only with a rusty pair of tweezers?
I dunno how this would happen but the devil would probably be involved somehow.
Some dude was like theres no way it hurts that bad and there isn't a delicious treat inside. Just like whoever first had honey. "I just fucking know they're hiding something delicious inside there."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always preferre starting the day with some freshly sliced satan.
Not really, 1:10 (assuming they're diluting a stock solution) is pretty mild, it'll sting and might cause damage if you don't rinse it off relatively quickly but it won't melt you
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:01:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unfortunately, it's not going to reverse the pain that's begun, it will just prevent more of the pain causing chemical to be released onto the skin if you rinse the hairs in acid first. you're still fucked
Only exception to this being hydrofluoric acid. Won't melt your skin (it can, if left to do its thing), but even a diluted solution can still stop your heart! (Bonds with calcium in the bloodstream.) Otherwise yeah, chemical burns are a bitch but I've spilt very diluted hydrochloric on myself before and it caused mild irritation. 1:10 will cause some discomfort/redness and a burning sensation at worst.
Edit:
Hydrofluoric acid is extremely nasty stuff. It melts glass, and if it contacts your skin it makes its way to your nerves due to its affinity with calcium, and hurts like fuck. Have nothing to do with it, ever.
It's funny how it's technically not even that acidic, it's just an extremely potent contact poison. Yay halogens...
It also is super reactive if that wasn't clear.
Maladog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't really hurt though. It attacks your nerves so quickly that you almost can't feel anything. There are stories of chemists who have gotten holes in their gloves while working with HF and they didn't notice until they took their gloves off and saw the burns on their hands. I don't know if I believe that it is that painless, but it definitely doesn't hurt like fuck, it is fairly painless actually.
Some guys I know were given a solution to remove calcium spotting from glass panes on an atrium, they were told it was citrus cleaner and used it all day without gloves. They didn't soak in it, but definitely got some on their fingers. They couldn't sleep that night from the aching pain in their nail beds. They asked me to check out the material they'd been using, sure enough it was HF.
I've worked with it a fair bit, I use it to remove calcium staining from glass. Does a great job, nothing else comes close. I've never hurt myself with it, some friends have though- see my other replies. I use full protective gear, goggles, respirator with acid cartridge, impermeable gauntlets etc.etc. So should anyone working with this stuff.
Yeah, all the concentrated stuff is iffy if you can't get it off your hands quickly (for acids/alkalines about 10s, does not apply to Oleum,HF, H2O2, Dimethylmetals and so on)
Spilled a tiny drop of sulfuric acid (17.8 Molar) in my face... it stings a bit, but not that bad. Friend got a few marks on his hand. That acid behaves so oddly, tiny amounts of force makes it go flying...
In Junior High, we were retards and had spray wars with 3% (I think) diluted HCL wearing goggles and aprons. That was probably on the lower end of stupid stuff we did as kids.
Can confirm, had a drop of it splash onto my unprotected wrist in a college chemistry class. Me running to the emergency sink is probably the fastest I've ever moved in my life. Fortunately, no injuries.
I also did that once. It was the highest molar acid we used all year. I poured it out of the graduated cylinder. I set the cylinder down and one drop jumped off the rim onto my arm. That shit burns
Yep. Straight acids are actually pretty tame, as long as the non-acid part isn't something awful you can wash it right off and be fine. Bases, on the other hand, will fuck you up severely.
You can stick your hand in dilute hydrochloric acid for a good few minutes and won't even feel anything. Remember spilling some on myself in chemistry class once and not noticing for a while, but that was 1:25 i seem to remember.
Faxon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what you're saying is the solution is to get someone with an empty stomach to immediately vomit on you if stung?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the most chemist looking chemist I've ever seen.
Edit: The part where they show HCl with chicken leg is kinda what happens to food inside our stomach. Think about it that's what food becomes inside our body before being processed for nutrients.
SirArlo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love puffy scientist hair. Makes them look legit.
Hoihe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spilled acid a lot of times on myself. Never c.c h2so4 level but boiling hot 1:2 HCl? Sure.
If you don't panick and immediately dab it down with a cloth then rinse it clean for minutes, it won't hurt you.
What you need to fear is c.c oxidizing acids, H2F2 (weak acid, but flour ducks you up) and NaOH (it was famously used by a serial killer to dissolve the bodies of his victims)
Still, I wouldn't fuck around with it. I worked at a pool supply store for 2 years, and we stocked hydrochloric and sulfuric acid, in mostly undiluted forms. I think it was .1 MBV or something like that. A couple of the bottles had blemishes, so we left them on the back porch of the shop. Apparently, the sun baked the bottles a bit over a few weeks period, and we accidentally broke one while we were horsing around after work. It burned about a half inch deep hole in the concrete over the course of about 30 seconds.
Yep. Now something you really don't want to put on your skin is hydrofluoric acid.. That shit is so corrosive it needs to be stored in special containers because it dissolves glass.
HCl actually interferes with the nerve endings, so a mild solution will probably reduce the existing stinging. This is one of the reasons HCl can be so insidious in you spill on you in a lab. You sometimes don't notice until after it's been on there for awhile.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, concentrated sulfuric acid mixed with concentrated hydrogen peroxide is another story.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hydrochloric acid is dangerous though because it binds to the calcium in you, and the calcium of choice is the covering of your nerves. Have you ever had your lips go numb after being exposed to HCl fumes? That's why.
I just imagine it as a skin treatment commercial. Man has terrible rash from pain tree on face, takes out of bottle of Nivea Hydrochloric Acid, splashes on face...burning-flesh-smoke rises from cheeks "ahhh, soothing burn!"
"Nivea Hydrochloric Acid, because it's better than what most of Australia's Nature does to you!"
Only the top layer, though. Second and lower layers of your skin resist acid, which is why it's a lot safer to work with concentrated acids as it is with concentrated bases- concentrated bases will melt through your hand without any pain (because it dissolves pain receptors, so they don't activate), whereas concentrated acids it stings a bit and leaves a red spot where your skin regrows.
Source: accidentaly sulphuric acided my finger once as chem major, was fine.
I mean, killing the nerves would be better than some of the accounts of two fucking years of pain. Though I dunno if acid would do enough damage in this context to actually kill the nerves. Safer to just set yourself on fire.
nah, hydrochloric acid as actually a lot less corrosive than people think
Ren921 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all! Or I'd would've burned off a thumb in chemistry lab by now because I never wore gloves and we used diluted HCL. It's not as extreme as concentrated
d1x1e1a ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the correct treatment is cider....
any time i get a prick in my hand I put it in cider...
bedpan3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:55:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw hell, that's just the same skin peel bitches in the burbs pay good money for
Sounds like a contender with the Manchineel tree in Florida and around the Caribbean area. Rain falling from the tree can cause blisters on the skin, and cause blindness if it hits your eyes.
Seriously. Fuck Florida and there stupid 8 tolls between a city .
Avohaj ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey we also have a really toxic fruit bearing tree..."
When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ..., gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat". Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump."
Poor fool.
Bersto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:51:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've lived in Florida my entire life and have never heard of this
You know how in civilized schools bullies pressure and trick others into doing dumb shit? Probably like that. Whoever lived through it first likely didn't want to eat it.
I imagine a situation like where it's set up as a "trial" for some lame duck to be accepted into a clan.
"Eating that will kill me!"
"No no no, the trick is to skin it first" snickers to friends
You'd think the horrific pain in the hand he was holding it in would be enough warning not to wipe his bum with it. Maybe he was holding it with tongs?
pv46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The sting is potent enough to kill humans"
In the quote from the article.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me whilst out at our farm. Luckily the affected area was only the size of about a 5 cent piece or a penny for you yanks, but it got to the point I ended up scrubbing the area with steel wool to remove the top few layers of skin, rather than continue to endure that bullshit.
I live in a place actually called Gympie here in Australia. It ain't so bad. You're more likely to be hit by a speeding car while crossing the road than being killed by the wildlife and nature. The bogans are more deadly.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not even painful, as a kid I used to sting myself because I found the sensation odd and I have no issue about handling nettles without gloves. They aren't even as bad as a bee sting.
When I was in Australia, a tour guide told me about this plant. Her story was about a naive young tourist who was tricked into wiping his butt with the leaves of a gympie stinger. He died. FUCK. THAT.
Ralon17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At that point it's not a trick, it's practically attempted murder.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:12:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Australian and I've never heard of this. Funny though it's endangered in N.S.W, that implies we are actively trying to save it? Nope. Let the fuckin' thing go extinct! 'Straya.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Research scientist Marina Hurley spent three years studying the stinging trees in the Atherton Tableland (Queensland), wearing protective clothing. Her initial symptoms lasted for hours and involved sneezing fits, watering eyes and a runny nose, but the allergy became more severe with repeated exposure. In one incident she had to be hospitalized. Her extreme itching and urticaria required steroid treatment.
I spent a few months living in an Australian rainforest in the Atherton Tablelands, a couple weeks of which was spent chasing bats around for a research project. This involved a lot of scrambling around through dense understory when it was dark out, which is a pain because of all the spiky plants and whatnot. Saw somebody get hit by one of these... I guess they only got a small dose, but they said it basically felt like they had broken their arm.
Isn't there a video of a guy who willingly touches it then starts gagging and pukes and says "I really didn't think it would hurt that bad" it seemed like a documentary
kynde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I came to comments thinking "I have no idea what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's some Australian wildlife thingamajing".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's worse is the town named after it. Bogans galore
I remember reading about the officer that shot himself but the reason was because he wipes his ass with one of the leaves unknowingly. Can you imagine?
See, it's really nothing to worry about. People talk about it happening "any day now." That's on a geological time scale. "Any day now" means "possibly in a million years."
Geology student here, most people don't understand geologic time. 100 years is absolutely nothing. Everything is measured it millions of years, not just few year cycles
Rhamni ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:44:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question. Could super volcanoes be triggered in any way deliberately? Like what if you drill a deep hole and blow a big nuke down there?
It could certainly cause an eruption, but the pressure available for a super eruption probably wouldn't exist yet, so it would likely be a smaller eruption, if it even happened
baumee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would it relieve enough volcanic pressure to delay the super explosion?
Possibly. You could also bore a fuck ton of holes and NOT put nukes down them lol. Kind of like poking a bunch of little holes in a giant zit rather than squeezing it til it pops. Disgusting analogy. I'm ashamed.
baumee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If mythbusters has taught us anything, it's that blowing stuff up is always better than not.
It's honestly kind of amazing how everyone isn't dead. With all of the possibilities in the universe being a possibility all the time constantly and humans being capable of being affected by those possibilities 24/7, you'd think almost everyone would be killed by now.
I mean like, all these possibilities are taking rolls of dice constantly:
-Tripping and falling on your head and killing you
-Aneurysms
-Heart attack
-Getting murdered
-Car accident
-Thunderstorm striking you with lightning and killing you
-Your home collapsing on you
-Gas tank explosion
-Disease infecting you and killing you before you can realize and get treatment
-Suicidal impulse causing you to commit suicide
All of these are just some of the possibilities and the most likely at that. 24 hours a day for these possibilities to roll the right dice yet I'm still alive, and your chances even increase the older you get.
Well, technically, most people ARE dead, aren't they?
jay_roe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot pulmonary embollism!
Can strike anyone, no early warning symptoms, dead in seconds
elnots ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like 10,000 years. Sometime within that time-frame say scientists familiar with the subject. Also, we'll "know" when it's coming before it happens. The ground should swell upwards by hundreds of feet within a few days. Then most of the park goes up in a gigantic explosion. So.. there's that.
Thing is that it could happen tomorrow. It could also happen 3000 years from now or a million years from now. The scary part is not knowing.
I'm not afraid, worse things could happen in my lifetime. It's still a pretty scary thing to think about though.
Every few hundred thousand years is like every few days in geological time. It takes waayyy longer for these things to happen.
Also, we might not be in any danger at all. The earth has been calming down in terms of tectonic activity. The pressure under Yellowstone might never again become great enough for an eruption.
You can take that particular thing off the rotation. It's dramatized pseudo-science for people that don't understand probability.
EDIT: Okay, I'll admit pseudo-science is the wrong term. Info-tainment-science? My key point was that it's dramatized. Those Discovery Channel specials love to spin the facts to play up fears like this. Here's a somewhat relevant recent AMA.
teh_tg ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 03:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, then why isn't heart disease #1 on this Reddit list? Nice try smart boy.
Please explain more. I also have this on my misery rotation and would love to remove it.
CBSU ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 04:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Foremost, it is astronomically unlikely to occur in our lifetimes. Sensationalism dictates it will happen soon, as it "is overdue," but this is false. It will likely take thousands of years before throwing the world unto apocalypse.
Even the Yellowstone website has a section on this now.
Well it is Overdue but on a Geologic timescale soon is a long time, It is just as likely to happen in our lifetime as it is in our Great, great, great, great, grandchilds.
The eruption cycle roughly every 60,000 yo 100,000 years and the last large eruption was 70,000 years ago.
There isn't any pseudo-science going on, nobody knows when it will go up and the best case scenario we will know few months to a year before.
But what we do know is the last time it erupted and the time before that and the time before that, etc. and the eruptions have been pretty good at being on a normal time scale.
dotMJEG ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:43:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a little while back from a volcanologist that the caldera is actually calming down and shrinking, and that his is becoming less and less likely to ever happen.
I have a Professor right now who just did a presentation about the Yellowstone calderas shape and how it is changing, and how the movement of the overlapped plates affect the eruptions. He firmly believes that if there is another drop in the underlying plate there will most likely be another large eruption, and the as far as they can tell the dropping of the plates have happened with almost every large eruption.
There isn't pseudo-science going on there are actual people who put these studies out there that take a lot of work to get to the conclusion. That is what bugged me the most about your comment.
There may be sensationalist articles out there but the data does say that an eruption is due soon, but soon for volcano's is thousands of years but it could just as much be 20,000 years or it could happen tomorrow.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:25:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But realistically, there is nothing you could do if it happened, and there are far more likely things to worry about.
I mean, we're also kind of overdue for a major asteroid impact too.
But, there's no point for ordinary people to worry about it. I
There's nothing you could do besides preparing for ordinary disasters that are far more likely and you should prepare for anyway. Like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc for your region.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asteroid impacts don't make sense with "overdue". Whether one has happened recently doesn't really affect whether another one will happen soon - it's the gambler's fallacy.
Most geological events do make sense with "overdue", as they're the result of pressure building up over time and then finally overcoming whatever is holding it back and all of that built-up energy being released at once. So if there were no eruptions (or earthquakes or whatever) this year, then they're more likely to happen next year as that pressure is still building and hasn't released.
Or to put it another way - asteroid impacts are playing Russian roulette but spinning the cylinder each time. Geological events are playing Russian roulette without re-spinning the cylinder.
I love when it they say we are overdue for a major asteroid impact, sure on average we would likely have a impact by now. But it is not like an astroid suddenly looks at its watch and goes "Oh gosh, look at the time, I am overdue with my appointment of colliding into earth wiping out much of its large life forms.
dotMJEG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh well you are right, now that you mention it I recall something about it having to do with the plates.
There isn't pseudo-science going on there are actual people who put these studies out there that take a lot of work to get to the conclusion. That is what bugged me the most about your comment.
uhhhh, ok? Not sure where I ever even touched on anything there. I literally just said I saw somewhere where someone more reputable and knowledgeable than I said that this was becoming less and less likely. That's all. Nothing to get worked up about.
very true, Im in the immediate kill zone (if its a large eruption) So ill go out in style at least
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean that makes it even scarier. Well not really but.. that fucking thing is gonna wipe us out. As far as we know the only thing questioning the universe will likely be dead within 30 000 years.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The way I understand, the scale of a supervolcano's level of being overcooked is much, much larger than the timescale humans naturally imagine. Sure, the volcano may be overdue, but it's overdue on a scale of millions of years. So a few thousand years are practically nothing.
I wish. Yellow is hypothesized to be on a 60~100k year cycle, 70k since last. It is still a very large timeframe for a human but small enough that the odds are far from non-existant.
You're unlikely to win the lottery but someone always does. The odds that'd you'd personally be alive to day if we went back to the start of the universe are infinitely more unlikely yet here you are. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to scare people.
Meatros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I plan to live for thousands of years, therefore this is one of my direct and most worrisome fears.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
misery rotation
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that the probability is low, but where is the pseudo-science? Isn't it more appropriate to just call it dramatic or speculative
The pseudo is that there'd be no warning. Just waking up one day and 'bang' there it goes. There will be serious seismic activity and ground rise before any eruption. With the time scales at play, hopefully the next time it does occur we'll be able to evacuate all in the blast zone well in advance and watch the initial show in safety from a really really far distance. Of course, the ecological impacts are still going to be unimaginable.
HAC522 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think an evacuation would be pretty much impossible. I think i read/saw that the projected calculations in terms of whose royally screwed is anyone West of the original thirteen colonies. The rest of the country, and large portions of Canada and Mexico, would be SOL.
Anything remaining of the country would like be barely habitable and just imagine how massive a global food shortages there would be with the ash filling the skies.
The lead time for an evacuation would need to be great. There are tufts of compressed Yellowstone ash in Kansas that are 3m-4m deep. We'd need to move everyone east of Idaho/Utah to the coasts, abandoning much of the continental US. I'll let you parse out the difficulties in convincing Americans that science is real... much less the actual evacuation.
No its not pseudo-science, there may be articles that sensationalize it but the volcano is over due. Now overdue for a volcano can be tomorrow or 30,000 years because geology is slow and unpredictable.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:37:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you sound like an asshole who recently learned the word pseudo and wish to show it off.
Just visited yellowstone a month or so ago. words can't do justice to the feeling of being inside that park. It's such an incredibly volatile area, even without the super volcano erupting.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any the majority of people will deny/ignore the evidence that is so glaringly obvious to some, and after a month or 2 the people will be all like "see nothing happened", and if they evacuated they'd move back.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then a swarm happens and you spend the next month checking the University of Utah seismic graphs every hour, getting slightly more nervous everytime the lake shows a slow rumble... Or so I hear...
Then some months later you randomly remember it while trying to fall asleep and start the cycle all over again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father's a geologist. He says it's foolish to worry about this. He says it will indeed likely go off, and 'soon' -- but 'soon' in geological terms. Which he defined as "probably by ten thousand years from now".
If it makes you feel better. Experts have found NO evidence that it will erupt. Can it? Yes, it's in the realm of possibility...the same way a rogue black hole could come along and swallow up our entire solar system.
this is one of those things that I remember every time I go up there every year and then forget about because holy shit buffalo and hot springs and shit. worth the risk of exploding along with all of wyoming
I was just taking about this with my friend yesterday. luckily i live close enough to die within 4 minutes if the blast doesn't take me out, so there's that...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup science teacher told us about it last week, now I'm scared again..atleast I'm in the Bahamas on vacation
I feel this. Living right next to a fault line in California is like that. All is fine and good until someone starts talking about earthquakes like the 1901 or something, and then I'm fucking spooked for a week. It could happen at any moment..
Icharus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:19 on March 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so, how was your week? i hope this comment doesn't cause the worrying to recur for another seven days...
I think that's the first time in a "horror" movie I've felt bad for the monsters. The birds are just helplessly stuck there making pathetic cawing noises while some douchebags smack them with clothes hangers. Poor birds.
kaaz54 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that the guy responsible for making that animation gambled away the budget he'd been given, and for the last 17.50$ he had left, he found a teenager on craigslist with l33t computerskillz.
[deleted] ยท 376 points ยท Posted at 01:14:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most glaring unrealistic thing about this explosion is that anyone in the scenes has any hearing left after the explosion. When the Krakatoa erupted in 1883, sailors on a ship 40 miles away got ruptured eardrums and a factory 100 miles away recorded a sound volume of 172 decibels. People were reporting sounds akin to artillery fire up to 3000 miles away.
Wow, I never considered that. I thought the most unrealistic thing in that whole scene was that we as an audience were expected to care about John Cusack's character.
"Yes, he fell into the abyss! ...Dammit."
Mirria_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly if you watched that movie expecting anything else than impressive SFX wrapped with a meaningless storyline then you setting yourself up for disappointment. I enjoyed that movie.
You could spend hours listing everything that was wrong about the physics though.
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The geologist in me started giggling. Now I'm trying to be serious about it, but I really can't. Those geysers are still smoking peacefully in the background.
Bless their souls, they did their best.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And by 'Discovery' you mean 'teenage Michael Bay with an A-B mixer'?
Those are just the instant ones. The resulting ash cloud would basically stop all agriculture in the Northern Hemisphere, and billions would starve to death or die of horrific lung damage.
it has been talked about, but there is no way to ensure this wouldn't start some kind of eruption by trying. No turning back if you attempt it.
[deleted] ยท 766 points ยท Posted at 02:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just save the game before you try it.
Jacio9 ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 02:56:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mods disabled softcore resets about 60 million years ago. The old lizard players tried to exploit it when they found out the server was getting wiped, but no luck there.
I mean... wouldn't a bunch of smaller eruptions be preferable to the big one?
VTWut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be comparable to trying to release the pressure of a balloon by poking it with holes. You have a material (the crust) holding a comparably large amount of pressure (magma and volatile gases heated by a mantle hot spot) without a safe way to release the pressure. The pressure likely at the point (evidenced by crustal uplift in area) where if you try to poke a hole in the balloon (drill into the crust), the immense pressure will cause it to pop (super volcano eruption). And since we don't have a way to control the release of pressure with current technology that isn't analogous with prodding it with a hollow needle, the safest action is to just let it run its course (which is an eruption that will not likely occur within our lifetimes).
Zapness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:30:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thing is that wouldn't cause tiny little eruptions if they messed up even a little bit. It would be a sudden violent release of magma, which would rip open the rest and kill everyone. So we should not do that.
Uh... an eruption is releasing the pressure. It's not like Yellowstone has bad gas or something (side note: it also does), the pressure is... wait for it... a hot-spot of lava.
This "drill to make it better" idea is silly because A) humans have never, ever driven down that far, but even more importantly B) what, exactly do you think is going to "come up" with the release? Rainbows?
Yellowstone has exploded before, but past performance is not indiciative of future results. Regardless, we're talking about something that runs on geologic time. It might be "overdue" for an eruption... but by that measure, we could still be talking about tes of thousands of years... or never...
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the Soviets dropped their Tsar Bomba (tested at 50 megaton nuclear bomb, but is capable of going to as high as 100 megatons) onto Yellowstone national park and let it hit the ground before it detonated, would the resulting explosion be enough to set off the volcano?
Eh... just set up a perimeter of nuclear bombs. If it erupts, blow them up. That's how explosive containment works. But of course everyone is scared of nuclear energy and the military isn't going to want to give up their toys.
VTWut ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pressure is already there, it's just being held back by the strength of the thick layer of continental crust. Drilling a hole would just create a weak point, causing the huge eruption to happen sooner.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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VTWut ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:34:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, it would depend on the concrete to even come close, as commercial concrete usually sits from around 4000 psi in terms of compressive strength. Although there is ultra high performance concrete that performs up to 29,000 psi.
That would put concrete typically lower than the compressive strength for most common rock composition of Yellowstone, Rhyolite (8,700-31,900 psi). You could get comparable strength to the rock that is already holding the pressure at bay, albeit with the highest performing concrete.
But then looking in terms of volume of concrete necessary, the continental crust in the Yellowstone area ranges from 33 to 54 km thick. If that volume of high strength material ends up failing to keep the volcanic pressures from escaping, its highly unlikely that we would be able to plop down enough concrete to "seal it up". For comparison, to cover the same volume of continental crust of Yellowstone National Park, we would need 5.05x1014 cubic yds of concrete. If we use this figure of 13 million cubic yds of concrete used in 2007, we would need 38,846,153 years to produce a comparable amount of concrete.
So yea, not really feasible to just patch it up with today's technology.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VTWut ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:27:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure we don't have a 900+ mile drill to reach Yellowstone from the Pacific coast.
Drilling at an angle from off-coast would probably create a weak point somewhere else along the continental crust in another state, which would create a similar eruption to what is trying to be prevented.
Even if all of the pressure escaped into the ocean, I wouldn't be surprised if the rapid eruption of material created some sort of tsunami event along with the immediate destruction of drilling equipment and staff. Even if it did not, there would still be a very, very large disturbance to the Pacific coast volcanic gasses and materials that I'm sure the surrounding wildlife, commercial businesses, and local people would not appreciate.
To your point #3, I think the bigger fear from Yellowstone isn't the eruption and immediate destruction, but the ash cloud that kills all crops for many years and poisons lungs, killing billions. So while tsunami and earthquakes would be beyond tragic, if the ash and explosion stay underwater it wouldn't be a near extinction level event. Greatest good for greatest number and all that..
VTWut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dumping a large amount of ash and debris into the Pacific ocean would cause a host of other problems. Possible tsunami, blowing out the coast line, the likely death of wildlife in the ocean causing fishing industries to collapse, etc.
The point is really moot though as pointed out in the first two points. We don't have Drilling technology that reaches that far, and even if we did, trying to release that pressure through a small drilled hole would still likely result in a blowout in the continental crust somewhere between Yellowstone and the coast.
Yeah it's going to be a disaster no matter how that pressure eventually is released. If the tech did exist and devastating destruction was imminent, it would have to be a choice of the best terrible outcome.
If you're serious, most scientists think this would be an awful idea.
No one is really sure if that would trigger the volcano, which many expect it would. Not to mention most of our tech would just straight up melt trying to do that.
Id rather us take a chance, that it probably won't erupt anytime soon, and leave it alone instead of drilling holes to release pressure which could cause it to erupt.
It's like coming across a sleeping grizzly bear. You can either try and sneak past it and have a good chance of not disturbing the bear. Or pick up a twig on the ground, run up and attempt to stab the bear to death greatly increasing your chances of being mauled/killed.
Bremic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone told me the bang from the initial eruption would literally be heard around the world.
Furoan ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 02:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Probably. I mean Krakatoa had an eruption heard about 4,000 miles away from the epicentre and the shock-wave travelled around the world a couple times. The Mt. Tambora Volcano 'only' killed 10,000 instantly but the climate change it brought about were in a HUGE radius. There was global cooling and a lot of crops failed because it didn't get hot enough for harvest. Yellowstone would probably out do both of them.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
spokeshave
hehe
Furoan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
d'oh!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spokeshave, the new, 16 blade razor, from Gillette.
Furoan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tbh when I read my misspelling, I thought it said 'Spock shave' and I thought it was a prevention device, in case your first officer mysteriously grows a goatee and turns evil.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Furoan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm...possibly. Really the question comes down to how often you venture into or receive visitors from alternative timelines.
You got it the other way round. It's order of magnitude.
PCCP82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHEEEEEIIIIIIITTT
tinfins ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 02:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was your mom talking about the next time I come over.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Krakatoa erupted, the pressure wave traveled around the Earth multiple times and the explosion was heard from almost 5,000km away. I'd say Yellowstone would definitely be heard around the planet.
I'm skeptical of that. Mostly because of power being distributed in all directions.
Now that being said, the shockwave would be enormous and create all sorts of crazy weather. So you might get some major wind gusts shortly after eruption in Europe.
Well, that's an interesting question. You'd have a refugee crisis that would make the EU's problems look pleasant in comparison, but you also have the luxury of having a giant ass desert to put people in until they get eaten by spiders and jellyfish and kangaroos.
Skull thrones would definitely become more affordable for you.
Veeron ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the entire northern hemisphere, just most of North America. The rest of the world would face reduced agricultural production for years to come, but saying billions would starve is a massive overstatement. The death toll would likely be in the tens of millions, this wouldn't be an apocalyptic event outside North America.
I've heard that it could be most efficient attack a terrorist could perform with a single nuke. The only trick is burying the nuke in the right spot to trigger the explosion.
Your exaggerating. Tens, maybe even hundreds of millions would starve, but very unlikely to reach into the billions. Lung damage wouldn't be that big a risk except for those fairly close, and even then basic safety measures would limit it. A decent chunk of agriculture in the US would be lost from the direct ash falls, but beyond that, the northern and southern hemispheres would receive fairly similar impacts, long winter, short cold summer, but not total crop failure. Wealthy nations would very likely be able to avoid starvation all together.
monty845 ยท 195 points ยท Posted at 01:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would probably kill a ton more, 87k is just those who die instantly. It would render 1-5 US states uninhabitable, most people would be able to evacuate, but your looking at 2-10 million refuges. It would result in total crop destruction in another 5-10 states, (up to 15 total) including many of the largest agricultural areas in the US. The death toll up to this point would probably still be in the 100s of thousands.
Then comes the volcanic winter. Global cold weather, and reduction in sunlight will result in major reductions in crop yields globally, lasting at least a year, and potentially several. The ensuing global famine will kill millions, maybe tens of millions throughout the third world. First world countries will probably be able to acquire adequate food, but at a high price, and at the expense of poorer countries.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:19:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Economic Troubles is barely the start. The entire world would be thrown into chaos. What do you think happens when India and China realize there isn't going to be enough food to go around, and that a substantial portion of their population may see food shortages, or even full on starvation? And it will be even worse in much of Africa, where they can barely feed themselves as it is. How it would all pan out is impossible to say, maybe we come out riding on top, maybe we don't.
All that said though, its not the end of the world for the US.
We can't. This is the planet earth just doing it's thing.
Theoretically, we could have not moved so many people to a place that blows up. Try moving as many people away from the potentially affected regions as possible. But then that's risky too.
Where do we move them? To a bunch of high-rise buildings that suddenly get struck by a freak-gigantic earthquake or tornado?
Natural disasters just happen. This is just a particularly big one.
MrSayn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess this is why people build bunkers and stock them with food.
Its really not. Look at the ash-falls from past eruptions of Yellowstone itself. Look at the climate data from similar eruptions further back. My starvation numbers may be low, maybe its hundreds of millions, but it still wouldn't be the end of the world, which some people seem to treat it as.
eh thats not the bad part, if it were to be an explosive eruption it has the potential energy to blast 1/3rd of north america in to space. Nukes are good but they are still party poppers compared to nature.
Also the surrounding towns/cities that were lucky to be far enough from the pyroclastic cloud would still be in trouble as the ash will cover everything. When it builds up enough it's heavy enough to collapse roofs and is like shards of glass that you can inhale... slowly building up like a putty on the inside of your lungs.
Taking into account the very low population density of the hundreds of miles' radius around Yellowstone, tens of thousands dead would mean the blast area would be enormous. Enough to very soon make an impact over a huge section of the western US and Canada.
I watched a documentary many years ago about this supervolcano, and it considered the eruptions of Krakatoa, Pinatubo, and St. Helens as "babies" in comparison.
Damn krakatoa a baby by comparison? Didn't the sound of the explosion travel around the earth 6 times.
PCCP82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you could add all of them, Tambora as well, and not even get to half of the explosive content of Yellowstone
wpnw ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:17:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, 87,000 people would not be killed instantly. First of all, that article cites a CNN article that doesn't cites its source for that figure, so questionable already. SECONDLY, the chance that there is absolutely no warning prior to an eruption which is big enough to kill 87,000 people is so infinitesimally small that it's not even worth entertaining the idea. Volcanoes are produced by gas and molten rock moving through other less molten rock. That doesn't happen without a hell of a precursor of some sorts - usually a lot of earthquakes. There was months of notice prior to St. Helens going off, likewise with Pinatubo (which was the largest eruption on the planet since 1912, and resulted in only 847 deaths, but very few (if any) were a direct result of the explosion itself). Volcanoes just do not erupt to this capacity without making their intentions known first. People would be evacuated, and much to the chagrin of the news media, this sort of sensationalist bullshit would continue to only live in Hollywood.
I live in CO so I know I'd die pretty quick. Oh well.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live about four hours from said volcano. My plan, if it goes off without warning, is to crack open a six-pack, sit on a lawn chair atop my roof, and greet my demise with a middle finger and bottle of Odell's IPA.
I've watched enough movies to know that all we need to do is stuff a nuclear bomb down in there. The resulting explosion will set off a chain reaction that will naturalize the volcano. It's proven science. WMDs are our best worst friend.
It wouldn't be that bad. There would be potentially months or years of warning. There have been 3 explosive eruptions (caldera forming) at Yellowstone in the last 2 million years and they didn't wipe out all life on Earth. The surrounding states would get a lot of ash fall, but there would be enough warning to evacuate them. Additionally, almost all of the Yellowstone eruptions have been lava flows and not explosions, which would be completely harmless. Sulfate aerosols released by the eruption would cause global temperatures to drop for a few years, but that would be temporary and might be offset by global warming. The ash in the air could lower crop yields in the US for years until it settles, so food shortages worldwide would be the biggest risk.
wpnw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Additionally, almost all of the Yellowstone eruptions have been lava flows and not explosions, which would be completely harmless.
The eruptions may have had lava flows accompany them, but they most certainly have not been mostly lava flows. They were mostly ash and ignimbrite (basically ash mixed with smaller rocks that weren't pulverized into ash). The last three caldera forming eruptions produced 1000, 280, and 2500 (the largest known at Yellowstone, 2500 times larger than St. Helens) cubic kilometers of material respectively. If those were mostly lava, we would have been talking about literally entire mountains larger than Olympus Mons on Mars being formed. 2500 cubic kilometers = 600 cubic miles. That's a footprint approximately the size of Texas - but 600 miles high. Even after 2.1 million years that wouldn't just disappear.
The caldera forming eruptions were not mostly lava flows, I'm talking about the other eruptions. There have been dozens of lava flows since the last explosive eruption. If Yellowstone does erupt it is much more likely to be a lava flow than explosion and only people inside the park will be in danger.
wpnw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, yes that is absolutely true. Your initial comment didn't make it sound like you were addressing the smaller eruptions that have occurred there (I'm sure others would have probably read into it as well, especially since these buzzfeed-esque type articles never care to mention them).
But they're all granola eating hippies, so is it really a loss?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the past decade, there has been some increased activity at the site. Since 2004, the supervolcano has been rising and just this month, roads were closed in Yellowstone after extreme heat from below wasmeltingย the asphalt on roads up above.
The comments on that article are ridiculous. It is a scary thought but on the scale of geologic time, our lifetimes are humbled. I don't think there we should worry about it.
b4xt3r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would like to point out that when a geologist says it could happen, "any time now" they mean on a geological timescale... "any time now" means between now and the next few hundred thousand years.
A similar geological mystery, the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Could lay dormant for all humankind. Could split the US in half. Definitely not as scary or deadly. Most likely. Last time it gave way, sections of the Mississippi flowed backward and the river changed course. Well... the river frequently changes course, but not usually in a matter of seconds. Could be scary. Maybe. But probably not.
I am one of those people. The moment the geologists and other scientists in the park start evacuating, is the point in time I start to worry. I'd rather live in beauty than worry about dying because of it.
Bremic ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:58:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is an exhibit in the Aukland Museum which says the entire city is built on a series of volcanoes that make up one big super volcano; and that if it was to erupt then don't worry about how to get away, you would just be dead in a burning hell of fire and molten rock. Enjoy the rest of the exhibit.
Go buy a book on deaths in Yellowstone. I was reading it at every giftshop. That book is so morbid it details all the deaths in Yellowstone. Geysers and hot springs kill quite a few
Tridian ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:48:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia, where the one thing that isn't trying to kill you is the actual country.
Yeah... the scary thing is that Yellowstone is overdue for an eruption. The last eruption occurred 640,000 years ago. The last three super-eruptions took place at increments of 600,000-700,000 years.
But we don't have to worry. It's not like Yellowstone is swelling and bulging. Oh wait it is.
OP you would like the book Ashfall and the sequel Ashen Winter. It's mostly YA but pretty good, basically Yellowstone explodes and the US goes to shit. Probably one if my fav books.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the end of the supervolcano documentary (on Discovery or something) they talked about that. The DNA of all animals can be traced to many different ancestors; humans can only be traced to a few.
Theres the Lake Taupo super volcano north east of me. If it blows up the whole central N.I of Nz will die. Man I love Volcanology! I think thats about ~800k-1m
Oh God yes. Went to Santorini this autumn and and realised that it had been the location of one of the biggest eruptions in recorded history - ca 1600 BC. What shocked me the most was the impact it had on people world wide - entire civilisation went extinct. Check out the wiki page for the historical impact.
Our guide on our tour of the (still active) volcano told us that some people theorise that it was the cause of the Plagues of Egypt being written into the bible - thunderstorms of fire, darkness, infestation of frogs and lice, livestock dying... Very interesting, VERY SCARY.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and other prion diseases ("Mad cow" disease, for example).
Rapid degeneration of brain tissue, cavities form in the brain, and the person dies. Always.
Now why is that scary? You don't need to worry about mad cow disease unless you eat bad beef, right?
Wrong. 85% of the cases are spontaneous. The problem is a misfolded protein that forces other proteins to misfold. This happens spontaneously in 85% of the people who die of it. Just happens one day out of nowhere.
Your brain can literally just start eating itself suddenly. How's that for terrifying?
jrwreno ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well....a good indicator of whether or not you can spontaneously develop a prion is if you are displaying random genetic PrPC mutations.
A single amino acid change in the PrPC sequence can 'birth' a particularly virulent prion....however most people that spontaneously developed prions, also had random genetic PrPC mutations.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:03:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with my grandmother. I was young but even I remember how fast it all happened. Hurts to think about my mom and her siblings having no idea what or why it's happening.
Happened with my grandmother too. She started getting a little "strange" around Christmas and died in February. It's a terrible disease and it happens so rarely, they still don't know much about it.
kphly ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 14:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In very rare instances, we have to operate on people who have CJD. We practically wear space suits and every single inch of the operating room is covered in drapes. I'm not sure what's scarier, the disease or being forced to come into contact with the brain of someone with the disease.
Ankhsty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Brit who lived through the 'problem beef' era this freaks me out big time. CJD can incubate/lie dormant for up to 50 years.
It is thought that potentially we could have something of an epidemic of CJD in the future, and that around 1 in 2000 people in the UK are carriers of it. That's potentially a lot of people.
For non-Brit Reditors, you may or may not know, this is the reason Brits who lived through the 90s in the UK are banned from donating blood in most other countries.
Yeah, I mentioned it in another comment above but CJD is horrific. A relative of mine went just under a year from healthy to dead, and that's longer than most people last. It's like Alzheimer's, psychosis, extreme pneumonia and several other illnesses all rolled into one, with absolutely no cure.
kaptant ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because 85% of cases are spontaneous doesn't mean the incidence of the disease is high. I mean if you want to worry about everything in the world that can kill you then be my guest but these really shouldn't be a daily worry.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:10:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The median duration of the disease is 4 months. As in, on average, you die 4 months after getting it.
Edit: it's 4 months after symptoms begin, thanks /r/cartmancakes
Rather, it's 4 months after symptoms begin. You can have it for decades before anything shows.
In my friend's case, he started showing symptoms in July 2015. Hospitalized in August. confirmed in September. Dead in January this year. It was unreal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:24 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda like asbestos. It normally takes 12 to 20 years for symptoms to start showing, but it can be as long as 40 years.
They're also extraordinary stable and difficult to destroy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Embalmer here, we had a CJD case and the prep room was turned into a giant restricted zone, there wasn't one piece of equipment or table that didn't have thick plastic covering it. We still did the embalming as to why I have no idea because we didn't allow any viewing of any kind and the casket was completely sealed. We threw away every single thing we used to embalm that case and had the blood drained separate and picked up by a special bio-hazard company. Very scary few days. CJD can outlive almost any sanitizing effort including pressure and high temperature aka Autoclave
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CJD and Mad Cow are the exact same thing, just that CJD is when it's in humans, while Mad Cow is when it's in a cow.
Actually classic CJD is considered different than variant CJD (vCJD), which is transmitted by consuming infected beef. I used "mad cow" because it's more familiar to people than vCJD or bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
It's also transferred through spinal fluid. Once "mad cow" was recognized we started to cook surgical instruments for almost twice as long as the normal orthopedic or general surgery equipment. One lady came into our hospital and ended up having it, all the equipment used for her surgery was melted down and thrown away because fuck that shit. Imagine walking in to get your back fixed, walk out with an incurable prion disease.
Source: Operating Room Core-Tech / Central Processing
Doinkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:32 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great uncle died last year of this. Scary shit. It went downhill pretty fast
Calguy1 ยท 4750 points ยท Posted at 23:31:26 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What comes next after stumbling across cute, adorable little grizzly Cubs.
the_eric ยท 659 points ยท Posted at 02:35:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I moved to LA, I had a roommate that I had never met before. Our first time meeting was after I signed my lease and moved in. As we're introducing ourselves, I'm like "Hey, what's your first and last name. I'll add you on facebook". So he tells me and I google his name. The first thing that comes up is a headline that says "(name of town where he's from) cross-country runner races a grizzly bear, gets lucky".
I looked up from my phone and said "Did you outrun a fucking bear?". He just looked down and said "yeah". All I could say was "HOW IS THAT NOT THE FIRST THING YOU TELL PEOPLE WHEN YOU MEET THEM!?!?"
Turns out, he was out for a run when he inadvertently ran between a mama bear and her cub. He didn't notice the bear until it was inches away from biting into his ass. He kept running but made a quick left turn, so he was able to gain a few seconds while the bear had to stop and turn. He ran into a wooded area where he was looking for a tree to climb. When he didn't see one he could climb, he jumped into an alder bush.
The bear found him and started to circle the bush. The bear got about three feet away from his face and that's when my roommate started to hold his breath. After what he said felt like forever, the bear turned and went back to it's cub.
I live in an area with a lot of bears. A friend of mine was biking along the river in town at night, and didn't see the grizzly on the side of the path until she was right next to it. It lunged and swiped at her with its paw, but luckily didn't unseat her. She had to get stitches and now has some pretty gnarly scars on her back that are very clearly claw marks.
The worst that's happened to me is having to spray a black bear with bear spray so I could get out of my tent. Pretty tame in comparison, but being five feet from a bear and having nowhere to go certainly got my heart pumping a bit.
the_eric ยท 295 points ยท Posted at 03:13:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I once pricked my finger while stitching up a torn teddy bear. I'm not saying our injuries are similar, but I'm not not saying that.
Ankhsty ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:57:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your service, doctor.
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 10:26:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MYTH: If you can, you should climb to escape from a grizzly bear.
TRUTH: A common misconception is that grizzly bears, unlike black bears, cannot climb trees. While its long
claws make climbing more difficult for a grizzly than for a black bear, a grizzly can get to you in a tree
Climb a tree while being chased by a grizzly and you've just managed to leave yourself no escape route.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 17:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A Grizzly will attack you for two reasons. Either it feels threatened, or it's hungry.
In the case it feels threatened, do NOT run away like the cross-country runner did, because that engages the bears predator reflexes. (When it sees something running from it, the instinct is to chase.) Instead you want to stay calm, do NOT make eye contact (Bears see this as a challenge) and back away slowly speaking in a calm voice. You won't intimidate the bear, it knows it can kill you, but by being calm and not rushing away, you project that you aren't going to go down easy. So if the bear sees you not challenging it, looking strong but leaving, it'll be content to let you go because it doesn't want to risk getting hurt killing you.
If the bear is hungry... You're dead.
EDIT Just wanted to add that Grizzles are rarely that hungry. They forage, they are essentially always snacking, so it's only a sick bear, or one that's been denied food for a long time will be hungry enough to stalk humans. So 99% of bear encounters will be where the bear is threatened. I think I read that 3/4 of bear attacks happen because there are cubs nearby that the bear is protecting, so doing the calm walk away is perfect to indicate you aren't threatening and prevent attack.
In his case he accidentally came between the bear & her cubs... if it were you, would you feel confident in your first strategy, given the bear likely sees you as a threat to her young?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:49:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'll start answering by saying I would NOT run like he did. The bear only ran after him because of the chase instinct, and stopped when he stopped running. (Holding his breath did absolutely nothing, by the way. Bears smell your scent, not your exhaled oxygen.)
Yes. I would feel confident in that strategy. Why? Because I've actually used it. I have met bears while hiking in the Rockies, and I'm still here to type.
The most important part is to move away from the cubs. Don't run, but you want to show the bear you are not after the cubs. A bear might actually move towards you, like it's about to charge, but they're just testing you. Here's a video of a bear charging a biker in Jasper (coincidentally one of the places I've run into bears while hiking) It's the bears way of saying "Leave or I will attack". If the bear really intended to attack, it would keep coming. These guys were smart... They backed off to show they didn't want to challenge the bear, but they didn't run. As a result, the bear went back to what it was doing before it felt threatened.
EDIT:Here's another good video of doing the right thing around a Grizzly bear. These two hunters come across a mom and her cubs. They don't want to kill the bear so they do all the right things so as to prevent an attack. Notice how they don't run. (Notice also they shoot a gun to try and scare her away, but she doesn't care. Bears have no fear when it comes to protecting cubs) They make noise so she knows they aren't trying to sneak up on her cubs, they stand their ground when charged... If they had run, that would've been far more dangerous. But the bear sees they aren't after her cubs, so she heads off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:34 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no grizzly bears in California.
Hey everyone look! I found someone with no reading comprehension! Because if they actually read, they would've seen that the writer MET the guy in California, and then discovered that, in the town he was from (which was NOT in California) he had out-run a Grizzly bear!
I was living in Texas and didn't want to move across the country without a home to go to, so I managed to score an apartment over the phone. It wasn't that scary if you take into account that I was informed by the landlord that we were the same age, he was an aspiring model/actor, he worked in handbags at Nordstrom, and he was moving to LA from the city I was born in. There's no way some Alaskan pretty boy who sells purses was going to be that fucking dangerous.
I got the snark. I just didn't want you to think I was some irresponsible idiot. The apartment was in Van Nuys, so it was pretty sketchy. I just got lucky. I'm sorry for fucking up your joke.
On a side note, you can BANK selling purses and shoes in stores like Nordstroms or Neiman Marcus. I used to work at Neimans and one dude cleared $180k working in the shoe dept. He developed a clientele and basically became a personal shopper for wealthy people. It still blows my mind that you can clear six figures selling clothes.
yarow12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:06 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no way some Alaskan pretty boy who sells purses was going to be that fucking dangerous.
That's what he wanted you to think.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In one sense mama bears are stupid. Human gets between me and the cub? I'm going to abandon the cub to pursue this guy into the distance to slaughter him in revenge. Hope no one eats my cub meanwhile!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am genuinely curious as to why comments like these are upvoted? What does it add to the discussion?
vgulla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't. Reddit just loves memes and being able to go "I get that reference." Wait until you see all the Rick and Morty quotes that will inevitably fill up every thread of unrelated material.
Yeah, it was pretty good. The bear scene is probably one of the most brutal thing I've ever seen in a movie, and I've seen some pretty fucked up movies.
It's pretty great if you are into wilderness survival movies. It's pretty unabashedly brutal in certain aspects. The bear scene is pretty grizzly (;D) and there are some other visually heavy scenes for this kind of movie, but it isn't anything I'd say is traumatic for an adult and the gore is not that bad as a whole.
All around a great ride if you are into that kind of movie. But if you aren't, you probably aren't going to be that impressed. Gorgeous visuals, a lot of watching a cripple walk through the woods, which could be boring depending on your taste as the pace is slow and steady throughout the movie. There are a number of events and key locations along with some pretty visceral action, but I could easily see people being turned off by the slow pace.
I thought it was pretty rad though, and Leo definitely earned his Oscar as I would say it's the best role he's played.
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 02:35:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a reference to The Revenant? I feel like it is, but I've never seen it so I'm not sure.
Sorry. But... since the last time the Cubs won the World Series:
The Ottoman Empire still existed.
Fourteen teams were added to MLB.
Halley's Comet passed Earth.
Halley's Comet passed Earth again.
The Titanic was built, sailed, sank, and rediscovered.
The USA fought in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again.
Alaska, Arizona, and Hawaii, and Oklahoma became states in the Union.
The Russian Empire existed.
The Soviet Union was born and collapsed. (/u/Banzai51)
The Cubs played 15,000 regular season games...and lost the majority of them...
Okay I'm done sorry....
Edit: Back by popular demand.
Humans went from basic flight to the moon.
Prohibition was created (man that must've been terrible, watching the Cubs lose and not even being able to drink) and repealed (yay now they can drown their sorrows again!)
Radio was invented, so that Cubs fans not at games could hear their team lose.
Television was invented, so that Cubs fans not at games could see their team lose.
The Red Sox actually won a World Series.
The Cardinals won 11 World Series.
Women got the right to vote.
Jim Crow laws were struck down and the USA had its first black President. (/u/TheDudeNeverBowls)
Edit 2: As /u/xemplifyy put it, because I got gold, I am now "more of a winner than the Cubs have been in the last 106 years."
Since the Cubs last won a World Series, Arizona became a part of the Union, built a team, built a stadium for that team to play in, and then proceeded to win the World Series.
Schilling and Randy Johnson. Two Tower-ing pitchers
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude...
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:56:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since the Cubs last won a world series, Georgia was readmitted to the union (/s), Atlanta was rebuilt, got too busy to hate, stole Boston, er Milwaukee's team, built them a stadium, endured Ted freakin Turner, Chief Knock-a-homa, at least one 17 game losing streak in the 70's, and then proceeded to win a world series.
I'm not american, so I have no idea about baseball. But how can a professional team suck so badly? Surely by pure luck they'd have scraped together a half-decent team one year and won a series in what, over a hundred years? So they're terrible, and unbelievably unlucky? Why do they have fans? Why hasn't the team just disbanded? Is playing for the Cubs now seen as a baseball graveyard where old potbellied washouts go to die? (No offense to you as a fan, just curious.)
Nsena0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:04:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about the losing most of them one. In 2008 the Cubs had their 10,000th win, with an all time record of 10,000-9,465. For them to have lost the majority they would've had to have been already well below a .500 team before 1908, since in the last 7 years they definitely haven't lost 600 more games than they have won.
There it is. Shouldn't have to scroll down so far for this. We have owned the Cubs for the last 100+ years. Real Chicago fans cheer for the White Sox anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:00 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cubs still won the only playoffs series between the two teams.
According to wikipedia, the Cubs won the 1907 World Series, with the last game being played on October 12, 1907. Oklahoma was established as the 46th state on November 16, 1907.
jackie robinson was born, became the first black man to play baseball, and died since the last time the cubs won a world series. also AIDS and crack cocaine became trendy and DNA was discovered
Don't forget their in town rivals The White Sox, who until 2005 actually had a longer World Series drought than the Cubs (by a year or two) won a World Series
The Titanic was built, sailed, sank, rediscovered, had a movie made about it, and had the lead actor finally win an Oscar almost 20 years after he starred in the movie about Titanic.
But this is our year. It's a tough life for cubs fans. My grandpa was born five years after their last win, lived to be 92, and still never saw them do it.
You mention the Cardinals winning 11 World Series but not the Yankees winning 27? Odd choice but okay.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs and Cardinals are division rivals. I had a roommate in college who was a diehard Cubs fan and watched the 2004 World Series solely to root against the Cardinals.
Fair, but I still don't think its a good comparison. Plus, he mentions the Red Sox won a World Series since the Cubs last won. The Red Sox have actually won 7. Their curse didn't start until 1918, 10 years after the Cubs.
Man I really dislike them being Chicago's pride. Like yea Sox are horrible right now, but holding on to old dreams and they're still losing and shitting on the south side just cause they're the first Chicago team. Pisses me off. I'm leaving this thread. Gotta tone it down a bit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit. If the Cubs had won a World Series, you think women's suffrage might not have happened?
Ummmmm.... It's HALLEY'S comet named after Edmond Halley, not Bill Haley (and the comets). I was fortunate enough to be one of the first to see images of it the last time it came around because I worked at the Institute for Astronomy at UH.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talkie movies were invented, and television
vrek86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ou are always in a pre sleep condition, that is you feel drowsy and constantly doze off but cannot get a REM sleep.
EDIT: Here is a person showing the symptom I mentionedย
The yankees have won the world series 27 times since the cubs last did!
Bears scare the shit out of me. I love the great outdoors, but man, the thought of bears kinda stops me for a moment. They are fast, huge, climb fucking trees, they will eat you. Ugh I hate bears so much
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you read the previous thread, don't say this. We already have dolphin on fish rape, we don't need grizzly bear rape, which is 100x more terrifying. You are staying if it wants you to. Ugh
A life changing journey across post ice-age North America full of Phil Collins songs? Until you realize that you killed his mother before being turned into a bear by your ghost brother? God I need to rewatch Brother Bear.
I can tell you in full confidence as an Alaskan outdoorsman, grizzly attacks are so ridiculously uncommon that they should never be of any worry. The one grizzly attack that happened near me was videotaped, and I watched it with the responding state troopers as a part of a training experience. At the start the lady (a small woman, probably 45 years old) says "aww, it looks like a big doggy! I wonder how close we can get..."
If you're not that stupid, a bear will most likely not actually harm you.
roh8880 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feel the need to tell you a friend and and I stumbled across a couple Grizzly cubs a couple years back now (and couldn't locate mom). Long story short, we ended up making the longest detour ever around Upper Kananaskis Lake (you're from Calgary, right?), but no horror stories to be had. :)
You see bear cubs you should quickly and quietly get the fuck out of there.
djrage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At my old job 5 cubs walked and played around in front of the garage door, with mama bear ~150 feet away. That was sketch esp cause they were near my coworkers motorcycle and he was getting ready to go home.
sbsb27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This video sums it up pretty nicely. I feel like the dog is trying to buy time for the workers to get out of there, and they are just sitting there laughing.
It might not be Antarctica, but living in ND I've seen doors freeze over like that, and have had winds of insane velocities carrying snow across the state, it's an insane feeling to look out into that chaos while warm and cozy in your wooden box with a cup of hot cocoa.
It's amazing what humans can adapt to live in.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 13:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so, uh, you do know there's other parts of earth with houses for sale, right?
To be fair, Canada is essentially the northern version of antarctica, so it'd make sense that it's cool and freezy as well (just with giant white grizzy bears instead of bird zebras).
hahaha, she's all like "whooohoohooohooooo" ... can't imagine the amount of cabin fever you suffer living in Antarctica for any given time. She's got the right attitude to get through it.
Now imagine Edward Shackleton and his crew living on that God forsaken continent for months, with just primitive supplies. It blows my mind that there wasn't a single fatality. Shows you just how defiant the human body is.
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:07 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More the human mind and human ingenuity. You'll die in under half an hour when exposed naked to temperature at or below 0C/32F.
My old work had a massive walk-in freezer for biological samples, we kept it at -80C. I had to go in there multiple times a day for a project once - as soon as you open the door, a 13-minute timer starts. If the timer runs out, the loudest alarm you've ever heard goes off, and everyone rushes to the freezer to make sure nobody's in there. That room can kill you in an hour. I'm glad the coldest room I have to go into now is only -20C...
"Today's forecast, cloudy with some mild snow flurries."
Kusibu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That looks like Wisconsin during a "fun" winter. Funny thing, our house has an airlock kind of like that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do all these people get to Antarctica? By ship or by plane? Can you imagine flying in a plane in weather like this?
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost all scientists there for research and such going by plane and sometimes ship. There are the odd few tourists in the summer, but in winter, almost everyone leaves; there could be thousands of scientists and such there in summer, but there's about 100 people total on the in winter on average. I figure Condition 1 weather you only occur in winter, and you definitely don't want to be flying into that.
Would your own baby not be the exact opposite of a stranger?
mnh1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son's first expression after being born was a look of complete shock and horror as he looked around and was handed to me. As I held him for the first time he folded his hands and refused to make eye contact before trying (unsuccessfully) to crawl away.
Then the nurse sighed at us both and shoved my boob in his mouth. Once he had a belly fully of colostrum, my baby looked much more pleased with life, and he was much more willing to be held by me.
Those first moments are very much like meeting a stranger. The baby is someone you've waited so long to meet, and you know a little bit about this person from feeling him move, but knowing a vague sleep cycle, preferred resting position, and energy level isn't the same as knowing the person, much less the person he will become.
I honestly considered this when my wife was pregnant - how the flap-jacking hell do women keep from getting a terminal wiggins out of this. Evolution, of course, but just in case my dearest hadn't thought of it, I declined to bring it up. Seriously, all I could think of was Alien.
You mean the concept of your own species' procreation is something you fail to grasp that you were locked into dumb ideas other people uncritically accepted and spread around? That's how it seems. I hope how it seems is not how it is.
Seriously, people who push the parasite idea either don't 7th grade biology, or babies are to them as Jews were to Nazis.
rvnnt09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bad enough that she got her tubes tied as soon as she could after i popped out.
Nah, they're not considered a parasite because they can't take what the mother needs. The needs of the mother get met first, and then the baby gets the nutrients that are left.
Parasites are different species from its prey, a host species.
Furthermore, it is scientifically wrong consider the gestating offspring of a male and female host to be a parasite despite it simply being a new, genetically-unique individual of their same species.
To consider it a parasite for political reasons which dodge science - to justify killing it - puts a person on the level of Nazis and Marxists.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:51 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 664 points ยท Posted at 23:35:51 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TRC042 ยท 545 points ยท Posted at 23:42:00 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to get 3-4 sinus infections per year. Started dating a woman who managed a visiting nurses office, on one of our first dates she got back into the car and used hand sanitizer (this was '97, it was new). She explained why, and I started keeping a bottle in my car.
Have had only 2 sinus infections since then. The world is a dangerous place for us bags of salt water called humans.
first off, why did you fuck a chick with a YI? actually you dont have to answer that because i know how dumb you are when you said you put fucking hand sanitizer on your dick ๐
I have a dumb question, what's wrong with this?
It's just going to set your dick on fire for a bit right, but at least the yeast infection is taken care of?
Pro Life Tip for women: Treat vaginal yeast infections by eating yogurt or drinking milk with acidophilus. It's much healthier for your lady bits and clears up area faster since you're ingesting good bacteria that works itself from the inside out. Using creams or otc treatments can mess up your pH balance and your bodies natural ability to heal itself. Also if you're on antibiotics good idea to consume probiotics as well.
for future knowledge, just buy the vagina cream. if you happen to be allergic, you can use (alternating) diluted apple cider vinegar, yogurt, or garlic. I guess for garlic you'd have to crush it up and sort of spread it on there like a sandwich.
Worst part: hand sanitizer doesn't kill Candida. More likely to give yourself a yeast infection by putting that on your dick after coming into contact with it - you'll kill everything but the Candida giving it open season on your junk.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know you can just put canesten's anti-fungal cream on your penis for 3-4 days daily and you'll be fine? It kills any yeast bacteria that may be lingering there, and it's pretty inexpensive.
One time I fucked a girl with a fungi infection and started having red dots on my dick. Decided to go see the doctor for free instead of buying hand sanitizer.
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was rooting for the scientist that wanted to wipe them out myself.
stu55 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get a neilmed sinus rinse kit, I have been doing it twice a day for probably 7 years and get sick so much less.
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long as I carry hand sanitizer, I never get sick anymore. The few times I have I always traced back to running out or forgetting to use it. Stuff is great!
You'd be amazed at what washing your hands can do for you.
The most important step, the most critical method in infection, number one at each and every list before anything else, is proper hand hygiene.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:56:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did she put hand sanitizer on after getting in the car? Did she put it on after getting out?
atcoyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing happened to me when I moved and started walking to work instead of taking public transit. I will also tell you that if you take public transit and do not wear gloves, you are just asking for it...
.....really? I get sinus infections at least a couple times a year. You're saying just using some hand sanitizer every time I get in my car might save me from that misery?
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh yeah. Most virus' and bacteria are transmissible via contact; ie you touch the handle of the door some snotty kid in front of you opened 30 seconds before, then you stop at McD's and grab a burger.
I wait until I reach the car as I can get inside without touching anything inside. Squirt first, fondle steering wheel later. Voila! Sterile environment. Make another stop, rinse and repeat.
I carry a tiny bottle when I go to the mall as grabbing a burger at the food court with germy paws will make you just as sick as anything else.
It's not even any hassle; I do it without even thinking and don't even slow down while I'm doing it. Maybe 10 seconds when I get into the car. The only time it annoys me is when I have to refill the bottles I keep in various places, and that's maybe 5 minutes work per week.
Well worth it to avoid 3-4 sinus infections each year.
Edit: Understand that your mouth shares direct connections to your sinus cavities. If it goes into your mouth, your sinuses will share in it. Pretty sure most of the colds I've ever gotten were not from people coughing, but from frikkin door handles.
You may have just changed my life for the better, sir. Thank you.
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happy to help. I hate sinus headaches worse than anything. Cut a finger off and I'm all "well, that hurts, think it'll go back on?" I get a sinus headache and I whine and moan and beg for a quick death.
Surprisingly, I rarely get sinus headaches even during an infection. What I hate the most are the random headaches or migraines or whatever that hit my temples. The best I've heard it described like it feels as if one of these has been placed on your temples and it's just being screwed down constantly. Any sort of movement or anything that causes my blood to pump more than my resting heart rate just shoots pain through my head. Pain meds hardly work, and I've had one last a few days. Afterwards I just feel like my whole body and brain is only functioning about 50%: I think slowly, I move slowly and stiffly, it is miserable.
Anyways, not really sure why I felt like sharing that, but in case you have any more life changing advice I'm listening! lol
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" -- Aristotle
You should realize that humans, as do most non-microscopic creatures, exist as an amalgamation of many other different organisms. A human being is more of a collective of organisms than it is just a single being.
Why? You've never had a problem with them before, have you? Have you heard of anyone else having problems with them? The fact of the matter is that our body is not some pure temple, it's full of bacteria and other non-native creatures. Sometimes they aid us in stuff like digestion and the decomposition of dead skin cells. I'm not a biologist or anything, but I'd imagine the relationship is mostly symbiotic, or else we'd have a natural defense mechanism or something. If they were harmful, we'd do something about them. For now, the only thing you can do is accept them, because they sure as hell aren't going anywhere no matter how hard you try.
They're good for you, by cleaning dead skin cells. A lot of our microbiology used to be other organisms (mitochondria as an example). Think of them as something like that, a tiny, symbiotic organism like a itty bitty roomba that cleans your skin.
Are you also aware that if you take all the cells of your body, and all of the cells of all the bacteria living in or on you, the cells of the bacteria outnumber yours greatly?
ZachB15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, mites live in your eyelashes, and eat them until they essentially replace them.
Well there are also thousands of micro-organisms in your mouth and entire digestive tract. Most of them are good for you. The answer is less skin shaving more 'don't think about it.'
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:36:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, mites are small and innocuous. I'd rather not live with the knowledge that I have a several foot long worm living inside of me, and the best option for removing it is to shit it out.
TRC042 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's probiotics that people pay for to drink and eat "beneficial microorganisms". They work for me, but if you stop and think, it's a bit gross.
After I realized that, I stopped being grossed out by little inhabitants that help me get that shit out of me.
Zaxop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is something kind of cool about the fact that there are millions of organisms living inside and on your body, that all depend on you for life. Every person is like a planet, with his or her own unique population of creatures trying to survive.
TRC042 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure of the number, but I think if you add up the weight of all the living organisms on earth, and subtract the weight of the bacteria and viruses, the bacteria out-weigh the other critters. I know it's a huge number. Soil is chock-a-block full of bacteria.
eridor0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would explain the tiny subdivisions on my face.
"Speaking of objects that Demodex need to push out of their bodies, these mites also don't have anuses. They still need to poo, so it's been said that they 'explode' with waste at the end of their lives." Umm...I thought I was ok with them, but I'm not sure I am anymore.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, fuck man, it makes me so uncomfortable knowing that there could be another.. thing living inside of me
Bad news, there are more bacteria in your body than human cells. Mouth, nose, gut, even your conjuctivae (bacteria are multiplying on the inside of your eyelids right now.
Also, there are mites all over your body.
Archaea in your gut.
Fungi on your skin and in your gut.
You are home to more living things than you could count.
jlaray ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 01:31:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people wonder why I'm afraid of pregnancy. Fuck that noise.
Rhamni ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:47:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inside of you is a skeleton that wants you to have sex so it can build another skeleton inside you.
I thought it was because you would eventually have to expelled the parasite out if your vagina which will most likely tear wide open while you also defecate in a room full of strangers focusing on your now torn open vagina waiting for the thing that's going to make your life a living hell for the next 18+ years...you can call me Mr. Sunshine :)
jlaray ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:07:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That too! xD
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you just described it...
Mechdra ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:08:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't downvote, he's right. It's like saying something is unimaginable; but it's really just a description of how much further it goes. Which is why "indescribable" is, ironically, a description.
Out of the list of 10 at that link, I think the Toxoplasma gondii is the worst for us. It's meant to infect cats, but if it gets too far up the food chain, it ends up in us (about 30% of humans have it). And according to the tests, it actually does change our personalities. It makes women more intelligent and outgoing/sexual, and it makes men less intelligent and more stoic. The scientists so far have said that they believe that it (the parasite) doesn't really know what to do with us, as it is meant to be in cats, and when it discovers our bodies it's like, "Well, I screwed up, not sure what to do now." But importantly, the article contains this line:
T. gondii cysts infecting a human have nothing to lose, evolutionarily speaking, in trying manipulative strategies adaptive in other intermediate host species.
...In other words, right now in human history, we have a parasite in our brains that is experimenting on us, trying to find the most successful outcome of modifying our personalities. And we don't currently know how that will play out, because the science here is too new to it.
If you like horror movies and are cool with found footage, you should check out The Bay. It's not the best movie ever, but the concept of it is really cool and disturbing. What if that shit happened to humans?
Ya know, its interesting that we have all this stuff 'inside' us, but it isn't TECHNICALLY inside. The stuff in your stomach isn't inside you until it crosses the stomach tissue. So all the bacteria on your skin and in your guts isn't really IN you, just ON you to varying degrees.
Edit: digestive lining, not stomach tissue. Stomachs are for breaking down, not absorbing. Silly me.
So, its inside of you physically but not biologically. Its like those pool noodles you buy at the store. You can put water in the hole in the middle, and the water is technically inside the pool noodle. However, its not INSIDE the actual Styrofoam part, its just wrapped in it.
Stuff doesn't enter your body until it passes through the digestive lining. Then its INSIDE your body. Just like the pool noodle, the food is just in the middle hole.
So you could say you're more bacteria than you are really "you". But then we're getting into philosophical territory which is a whole other issue.
Anyways, old estimates were that these bacteria outnumbered your cells 10:1. New data suggests it's more like 1.3:1 and that number possibly shifts in your cells favor every time you take a dump.
Oh for sure. If you totaled the genetic material of my person right now I'd have no doubt that its mostly 'not me.' Gut flora, skin bacteria, any infections or random bacteria lurking in my vicera, mitochondrial DNA (debatable but I'll allow it).
I think its super neat and I feel bad for being a bad symbiote sometimes. My gut flora didn't deserve this recent kick of Mexican food I've been on. I'm a bad host.
Bogsby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you only count nucleated cells, though, you end up with about 10:1 again.
20% of Americans have Toxoplasma Gondii, a parasite which alters the brain of its host in ways we don't really understand. It is linked to schizophrenia and a variety of other mental disorders.
But look on the bright side -- there's an 80% chance that you're clean! Unless you live in a less developed country. In that case you probably have it.
Zaldarr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true however imagine if you had something that lives inside of you causing havoc on your body such as migrating to your lungs, up your trachea, back down your esophagus and starts producing eggs in your intestine.
I work in vet medicine, so i deal with lots of disgusting things; missing eyeballs, broken off legs, bleeding, rotting flesh. But I can't handle simple parasites. They make me throw up.
Currently enrolled in a parasitism course and working under a parasitologist. Can confirm they are metal. Super cool though. However any time someone is sick. Automatically irrationally assume because of parasite.
Then you probably shouldn't think about the ten some odd pounds of bacteria in your belly.
Or the absurd amount of Staph bacteria on your skin right now.
Or the bacteria in your mouth right now, gnawing away at the remains of your last mean, pooping acid in your teeth.
Fizzay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How are you scared of parasites? You see them on Reddit every day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be okay with parasites if they asked first. Like if a tapeworm came up to me and said, "Hey man, my girlfriend kicked me out of the house and I got nowhere to go, could I kick around in your intestines for a bit?" I'd be cool with that. You go little guy.
st00j ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically there are more cells in your body that are inhuman than there are human cells. Your body needs the foreign bacteria, found in the gut for example, to stay alive.
EmilyVS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How I feel about pregnancy.
Indigoh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are loads of things living inside you. (I really miss being able to use the 10:1 statistic.) :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your digestive tract is packed full of bacteria that has a symbiotic relationship with you. They're all alive. Or is your fear related to particularly large (multicellular) organisms?
You do realize that there are millions of bacteria living in your mouth, gut, and pretty much all over you right now right?
Koiq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are millions of not only living bacteria within your body, but also arachnids that live in your hair follicles. scalp, pubic hair, eyelashes, you name it, these guys live there, crawling around in your skin.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A majority of the cells in your body aren't your own.
FrejGG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the bright side you're alive and thriving because of the various bacteria in your gut.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair you have many living things inside and on your surface. Cells are literally collections of [once (in a different form) self sustained] living sub-organisms. Life is crazy.
The pure chance of a random death which follows us at every turn. I've come within a millimeter, literally, of death on a completely random occurrence over which I had zero control.
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Edit: Happened when I was 10 yrs old. My best friend (9), his younger brother (7), and I were playing in the woods. Building forts and whatnot. To aid us in our tasks we had some garden tools. Namely, 2 shovels and a mattock. For those that don't know, a mattock is a pickaxe with a hoe opposite of the axe instead of a pick. When we were heading out of the woods the younger brother, who was carrying the mattock, got his foot stuck in kudzu. He couldnt extricate himself while holding the mattock so he threw it without really paying attention. I had just so happened to stop and bend down to pick something up at that exact moment. Not sure which part hit me, the hoe or axe, but it found my skull at the perfect angle. Woke up to my friend yelling "Don't worry, you're not bleeding." Thing was....there was blood EVERYWHERE. At the hospital the doctor said a millimeter of movement in any direction, twisting, turning, forward, backward, side to side, anything, and it would have killed me. As it was, it only knocked me unconscious, I lost a good bit of blood, and had a few stitches. But hey, I have a cool story and a neat scar.
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Edit #2: Kudzu is a vine plant from Japan that became invasive in the south in the 1950s. Hard to kill, and grows at an incredible rate. In a similar fashion as bamboo, or other invasive plant species.
omg_yeti ยท 205 points ยท Posted at 02:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This and the fact that any given encounter with another person can result in your death due to the other person having made a simple mistake.
Yes it was. I actually saw a chart on another thread recently showing that the 350Z was at or near the top of the list of cars most likely to be involved in a deadly collision.
I was surprised how well I did considering it was a blind corner so I didn't see him until I was basically on top of him.
The tow truck driver who cleared the wreck told me he had to tow the other guy 5 hours away since it was a delivery van from out of town. He said the other driver felt super bad about it. I don't think he was texting or anything. I just figured he'd been driving for nearly 5 hours, and now he was rolling through mostly empty streets at 4am and let his guard down.
I really miss that car, but I'm glad it had my back when something went wrong.
AGeary ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it did you good though, everything except you took the impact.
I had some broken bones and burns. Still have issues with my right hand, but otherwise super glad I wasmt on my motorcycle or something like that. Just the best example I have personally experienced of suffering the result of another person's slip up.
I could've said a plane crash or some other event where a lot of lives were lost due to a single mistake, but thought I'd keep it more personal since I always remember that event whenever I think about times where this sort of thing happens.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knocked on wood after posting.
JPLnavy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had mine for 5 years now, it's an '03. It's the best car I've ever driven. I think it's just a car you have to master. It's blindspots can get amateur drivers killed. You need good situational awareness and discipline behind the wheel. I've driven it through 500 miles of torrential downpours while alongside big-rig trucks, it's important to understand the limits of the car and your limits as a driver.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS. I have an '03 as well, and although its only my second car (I'm in college), I love it. The blind spots were the first thing I had to get used to. It is not a car for amateurs. Did not let me down driving through ice, rain, and 30mph winds coming back to school from break one night. Hell of a car.
Reminds me of the video of the cement truck toppling onto a car, one moment you're just sitting at a set of lights and the next, gone, crushed under tonnes of cement and truck.
Life can be over in an instant without you even seeing it coming.
There's a dashcam video of a brick falling off of an oncoming truck, through the windshield of a car, and strikes the passenger. I will never be able to unhear the screams of the driver in that video.
I apologize for not posting, but just thinking about it gets to me.
I've seen way worse too. The biggest concern for me really was more the fact that I also ride a motorcycle. If I'd been on that in this incident even the fact that I always ride in full gear wasn't going to save me. It is a moment that makes your mortality vastly more apparent.
Since I was in a car I'm here 6 years later and the only remnants of the event are some lingering issues with my right hand/wrist, and a newfound respect for how easily your day can be thrown into chaos.
Fazz20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good call. How do you manage your life, though? Big city dweller? Small town guy? Live on a campus?
Fazz20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I moved about 50 feet from my college. I either walk or take a bus. If I need to I'll take a cab. It's not easy, but I just can't get over driving. When I was in high school my boyfriend at the times brother was hit by a lady who didn't have her lights on. He was 13. I think about him whenever I get behind the wheel.
vierce ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:40:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, in the same way Marie Antoinette is OK.
Villyer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like anytime you drive, someone in the opposite lane can sneeze and accidentally jerk their car across the median straight into you.
anamea ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened?
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 05:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His mate got his foot stuck in something, threw the thing away with out thinking and it clonked Op in the noggin and if he was aligned differently it would have fucked him up even more.
Strangely enough, a millimeter is equal to exactly 1/1000 of a meter. There are tons of other amazing coincidences (like a millimeter cubed equaling a milliliter, and a milliliter of water requiring one calorie to raise by one celsius and 0 being freezing point (and melting point!) of water, and 100 celsius being enough to boil water. Crazy stuff, I tell ya.
Happened when I was 10 yrs old. My best friend (9), his younger brother (7), and I were playing in the woods. Building forts and whatnot. To aid us in our tasks we had some garden tools. Namely, 2 shovels and a mattock. For those that don't know, a mattock is a pickaxe with a hoe opposite of the axe instead of a pick. When we were heading out of the woods the younger brother, who was carrying the mattock, got his foot stuck in kudzu. He couldnt extricate himself while holding the mattock so he threw it without really paying attention. I had just so happened to stop and bend down to pick something up at that exact moment. Not sure which part hit me, the hoe or axe, but it found my skull at the perfect angle. Woke up to my friend yelling "Don't worry, you're not bleeding." Thing was....there was blood EVERYWHERE. At the hospital the doctor said a millimeter of movement in any direction, twisting, turning, forward, backward, side to side, anything, and it would have killed me. As it was, it only knocked me unconscious, I lost a good bit of blood, and had a few stitches. But hey, I have a cool story and a neat scar.
Good story, but please explain the one millimeter movement bit. I'm sure you could have died if say, the pick went through your skull, but the one millimeter comment doesn't make any sense to me from a medical perspective
There was no pick, as this was a mattock. It was a thickened "hoe" style end for digging a trench, and on the other side was the axe. Both sides of this one were heavy steel, and sharpened. The axe for obvious reasons, and the hoe to cut roots. Though thankfully, both were somewhat dull when this happened. It hit me right on the curve where the side of the head meets the top of the skull, almost directly above my right ear. The doctor basically said that any movement, and it would have fractured my skull. As it was, it glanced/bounced off the curvature of my skull.
Think of it in the same way you do an egg shell. You can hit it in just the right spot and it doesn't break, but hit it with the same force in a slightly different spot, and it breaks easily.
Thanks for the info. I still don't understand why your physician told you that. It sounds like you got hit at the border between the temporal and the parietal bone. The only thing I can think is that your middle meningeal artery is in that area. If you had fractured your skull and injured the artery, that's the classic way people develop an epidural hematoma (a specific type of brain bleed which has a high mortality rate).
That said, there is no reason to believe that if you didn't have a skull fracture that you would have had one if you shifted a millimeter.
Sorry to harp on this. I'm just never one to exaggerate what did/could have happened with any of my patients. Glad you're ok.
Something similar happened to me yesterday. I hit a patch of ice and my car landed on the driver side door in a ditch with a foot of water in it. The car was completely totaled and I somehow only got a few bruises and scratches, thankfully
This is a song by some lady who was hit by a car on her bicycle and almost died. There were all kinds of horrible results for her following the accident.
Also your post reminded me of that video of the woman and her mom driving, and then a brick falls off a truck and comes through the windshield and kills her mom in the passenger seat. I'm not going to link it, because fuck that, you sick fucks can google it. But it really hit home with the "anyone can die at any time and what the fuck do you even do in that situation" kind of thing.
Nah, my hair is to thick, and too long. The scar is only about 1" to 1.5" long, and my hair is a around 7" long. You can feel it, but I don't think Imgur has scratchn'-sniff pictures yet. Sorry!
Teh_Gen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life is chaos. You could get hit by a car, live and the driver becomes your husband/wife. The week after you could get a prion and die. Chaos is a sure thing, nothing else is.
Something similar-ish happened to my brother and I as kids. We were young and similarly building forts. We had grabbed some left over wood, 2x4s and whatnot and headed into the woods with neighbor kids. Brother was up in a tree keeping "lookout" for whatever kids look out for in trees. At some point he fell out of the tree trying to get down, turns out he landed about an inch away from a 2x4 that had a nail still in it sticking straight up. Not a small nail either >_> shit still haunts me.
Yeap! Those moments are even scarier because you're more aware of just how close you came. I have a few of those moments as well. Not quite as close as your brother, but similar in fashion.
Recently, I was walking home from work and was on the phone with my sister. Waited at the light for the walk signal, light changed and the signal came, so I started to cross. If I was walking any faster, the car that ran the red light would have hit me. I felt the swish of the car as it passed right in front of me.
I promptly said goodbye to my sister and then called my mom. Mom's make all near death experiences better.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go on...
Bodley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude did you steal my story? I was hit with one in the back of my head in second grade. Luckily it was with the flat part not the spiky part. My friend somehow didn't see me bend down in front of him as he swung it. A few staples later and I have a sweet scar. Also, you are a rower? Because that would be weird. I've been rowing for almost 10 years now. Are you my brother?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a retarded version of Where The Red Fern Grows. Except you aren't dead.
modtrax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are you from Massachusetts by any chance?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woke up to my friend yelling "Don't worry, you're not bleeding."
I think about this all the time. I actually think how lucky I am. I don't lead a particularly dangerous life but have had many experiences (as I'm sure most people have when they think about it) where I was possibly close to death or serious injury but escaped unharmed. Eg narrowly missing being involved in a serious car accident, getting out of my depth in the ocean and thinking I'm going to drown, medical issues that could have turned out much worse, plane crashing a short time after I flew the same route, falling down stairs without injury, etc
Best friend got a bitchin' Clayemore for Christmas one year and we were admiring it. His dog knocked him on the elbow trying to jump at me and it caused his arm to thrust the sword towards me. I barely was able to deflect the blade with my arm before it went through my chest. Blade sliced my arm so smoothly I didn't even feel it and no one noticed until I started dripping blood on the floor.
I didn't really realize how close I came to a serious injury, or possibly death as it was coming for the center of my chest, until a few years later.
Edit: Even better, the area it cut on my arm was maybe an inch away from the vein on my arm that people tend to cut to kill themselves.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was camping, and we were gathering wood. One of the branches fell down, and I instinctively stepped aside. If I hadn't stepped aside, I'd be incredibly dead. Scary.
I also came so close to death. Dad and I were in the car going to do some Go Carting. It was dark because it was like November or something. I was in the passenger seat, a friend was in the back seat and Dad was, of course, driving. We were in the outside lane on the motorway (the rightmost lane, UK) and we could see in the other carriageway that every car was flashing their lights rapidly. We were the only car on our carriageway and had no idea what was going on. Then dad looked straight ahead and a car going the wrong way down the motorway was heading right for us with its lights off. We could only swerve to the left. We missed them by inches.
Funnily enough my mate in the back had no idea it happened.
This just reminded me of a time when I was almost knocked out or even worse at primary school.
It was a fairly windy day and we were out for lunch playing on the tennis courts. We had some freestanding basketball nets on one of the courts and a friend kicked a football near one of them. I went to go get it, picked it up turned around and started walking back. I looked at my friend and his face just dropped. There was a loud crash and I looked around to where I had been milliseconds before and the whole basketball net had come falling down. Would have had a terrible concussion if I was a slow walker!
a similar thing happened to me when my friend swing a hoe backwards and hit me in the forehead with it. a few hours in the emergency room after getting my head glued back together and i'm fine! unless you consider the amount of time i spend on reddit...
Just experienced an "I could be dead right now" moment today myself. So on my everyday way to the train station I have to cross a traffic light, where you have to press a button in order for the light to turn red (or green for pedestrians in that case). While it was switching from yellow the red a truck was still relatively far away. The light has been red for a good amount of time (like 4) seconds but the driver still drove past it full time. If I wouldn't have paid attention or I wouldn't wait all the time for every car to completly stop I would probably be dead right now.
You need a mattock to go through the cave in the west...
Oknight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone, everywhere, always through all history could have been hit and killed by a meteorite at any second and there's absolutely no way to protect yourself from that -- it shouldn't be scary, it should just give you perspective.
It's a plant from Japan that became invasive in the south in the 1950s. Colloquially, farmers down there call it "Japan's revenge for WW2." Hard to kill, and grows at an incredible rate.
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I'm kind of new to reddit, so I'm not sure if I am linking this right. But let's give it a try. Kudzu
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time I was in my buddy's garage lifting weights, and the really thick, heavy-duty metal spring that holds up the garage door snapped. Must have been real brittle and like 15 years old or so. It snapped and flew past us and off the concrete interior wall faster than we could even see it. Like a gun, rail gun probably just launching a heavy piece of metal extremely fast. If it had hit either of us in a very small room it could easily have killed us. But instead we just said "holllly sh*t!" and went about our lives.
At the hospital the doctor said a millimeter of movement in any direction, twisting, turning, forward, backward, side to side, anything, and it would have killed me
Yeah, I think k a lot of people have had really close calls. I hit a hole and fell over on my bicycle when I was young, and a car almost ran over my head. Got a tire mark on the top of my helmet.
Dude, that one hits home for me. I watched a guy die 4 years ago when he laid down his bike and his head got run over by a car being towed behind a truck. Wasn't a fun sight. Glad you didn't suffer the same fate.
My town really needs to have some bike lanes put in. (Not that I would trust cars not to drive in them anyway.)
I'm working on converting some bicycles to electric ones for my grandmother and I to ride together, and I know I'm going to worry about something happening to her while I'm out.
My friend's a molecular geneticist. Her boss had some interesting research on a long term (so pretty much permanent) research projectโฆโฆin the prion lab.
She just laughed as she said no.
She would much rather work in a level 4 lab than with prions.
Watching people eat different brain based delicacies on cooking or travel shows creeps me the fuck out.
It should be noted that the level isn't dependent on how deadly the pathogen, but how easily it can spread. Airborne = level 4.
Edit- I've been reminded by people who paid more attention than me in microbiology lectures that it depends on more than just transmittability, but also it's virulence and treatability
[deleted] ยท 194 points ยท Posted at 08:10:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's when a guy in a blood-spattered lab coat hands you a vial and says "this is a sputum sample. It's from a guy who literally coughed up his lungs after going to $country last week. Help us."
It should be noted that it significantly depends upon the following three factors:
Pathogenicity: How much does it fuck you up?
Transmittability: How does it spread?
Treatability: What can you do about it?
Plague for example would be an okay candidate for level 4, since it can fuck you right up and tends to lurk in rodent populations*, but a bid of doxycycline, and you're alright. Hence, it's level 3.
Source: Microbiologist.
*IE once it's out there it can hang our for quite a while, and is extremely hard to eradicate.
Level 5 means the pathogen creates its own interdimensional wormholes in spacetime to spread directly to the blood stream of every living creature on the planet.
Ebola isn't airborne though, is it? I thought it could only be spread through human contact, usually via bodily fluids?
Hateborn ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:53:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
One strain, Ebola Reston, was known to be airborne, or at least speculated to be since blood contact transmission seemed far less likely in the lab in Reston, VA that it was identified in.. The good news is that the Ebola Reston strain did not affect humans, though it was highly lethal to lower primates. Being that the other known forms of Ebola originated with lower primates and made the jump to humans, Ebola Reston is still terrifying since it could easily mutate to affect us.
Ebola is a flawed virus in that it is not airborne, and kills it's host ridiculously fast -- thus inhibiting the likeliness of transmission to other hosts. When ebola does mutate to become airborne shit is going to become real very fast. Ebola is only one of many viruses that are scary as hell though. The scariest virus is one that is transferred with ease (airborne, sexually) and then remains dormant for a good length of time while the host(s) transfer it to others. Zombie Apocalypse scenarios start to play out here. Or massive reduction in population at very least. I remember my microbiology teacher discussing this in depth with the class, and it really put it into perspective. The quicker it becomes obvious, the quicker the host gets treatment. The less likely it is to spread. A really scary virus stays dormant for a long time after infection while the host goes about spreading it about. HIV/AIDS is a great example of such a virus. Imagine one that stays dormant even longer.
you get more points by having some severity, I've found coughing and sneezing, plus a focus on air, then water to be a very effective starting strategy.
Those all sound like a much better time than a prion lab. She made the right call. I wouldn't even want to be around a researcher working in a prion lab.
In a general sense, it isn't that viruses are more or less deadly than bacterial infections-both can be very severe and cause death. It has more to do with how the biosafety levels are classified. The classifications for biosafety level 4 are that the pathogens have a high risk of aerosol transmission, cause severe disease in the individual as well as having a very high transmissibility to others. The other big caveat for level 4 is that it is reserved for pathogens for which there is no available vaccine or other treatment available. Often bacterial infections require pretty close contact in order to cause disease (think drinking contaminated water or physically introducing the bacteria to an entry point to you body by not washing your hands or having an open wound). It also often takes a large number of bacteria to be introduced to your body at once before your immune system is overwhelmed and you get sick, whereas the number of viruses that you need to be infected with can be very low.
Which in some ways makes marburg worse. One of the "problems" with ebola if you're a virus is that it kills hosts too quickly. As a result it can burn out relatively quickly as well, since it basically kills everyone in the area before they have a chance to spread it. There's a lethality sweet spot that viruses want to be really effective. That's part of the reason the Spanish flu was so awful. Spread like crazy and didn't kill every thing it touched
That is actually only true in recent history. Even then it's debatable. The most recent outbreaks of Ebola have 90% kill rate. Marburg has had instances of 40% kill rate and others of 100%. We don't know enough about Marburg to make such objective statements. If you do an ounce of research you'll realize every comparison piece in the world says the same thing. They are similar, but we really don't know enough about the two to make such bold statements. Quite frankly, Marburg scares me more. But hey. There's always gotta be that guy, right?
I'm curious as to what you mean by recent history given that my limited research on it was 2007 but sure, I guess there hasn't been a million or so infections, and the only ones in a civilized country with decent healthcare were in the 60's.
However, I'd say it's definitely less lethal than Ebola. Those 100% kill rates you quoted were typically less than 5 people in each outbreak in countries with abysmal healthcare and a low standard of living. I will agree with you on two points, we really don't know all that much about either of the two strains of marburg we've discoved, or really all that much about ebola, and that the more recently discovered strain of marburg does seem to be a lot more lethal than the older one.
Secondly it's comparison to Ebola would beg the question of...which strain?
It's a complicated mess of comparing two deadly groups of viruses which I suppose I shouldn't have done in the first place.
Ianb219 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Anthrax album is pretty sweet though.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Corky Ramano.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought this might make a lovely science career. Then I read your comment. Lovely, brave woman that friend of his is.
BSL-4 builds upon the containment requirements of BSL-3 and is the highest level of biological safety. There are a small number of BSL-4 labs in the United States and around the world. The microbes in a BSL-4 lab are dangerous and exotic, posing a high risk of aerosol-transmitted infections. Infections caused by these microbes are frequently fatal and without treatment or vaccines. Two examples of microbes worked with in a BSL-4 laboratory include Ebola and Marburg viruses.
An airborne virus is classed as a level 4.
A level 4 lab is where they study these viruses (and contagions).
Everything about these labs is to prevent the escape from anything being studied from escaping
There's airlocks that are designed to force the air to move toward the actual lab area (pressure negative IIRC), self contained H/VAC systems with special HEPA filtres and UVC lighting in the ducts to scrub the air, and self contained biohazard suits connected to outside air systems to protect the people.
Upon leaving the lab there's special decontamination showers you need to go through to wash the suit off before you pass through the exit airlocks.
[deleted] ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 03:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That depends. A fuel-air explosion would actually be pretty effective in eliminating airborne pathogens as it sucks in (and subsequently combusts) air from the surrounding area.
Sorry, my point was not that FAE devices are used in any way in relation to biological material, but that a thermobaric explosion would be more effective at killing airborne pathogens than conventional explosives, due to the explosion combusting the air in the immediate vicinity.
Nope. I don't know where /u/Kootenaygirl got their info from but not all BSL-4 viruses are airborne and not all airborne viruses are BSL-4. E.g. Influenza is airborne but can be handled at BSL-2 while Ebola is not airborne and is classified BSL-4. Being airborne isn't what makes them BSL-4 agents, it is the fact that the pathogenic agents can cause fatal disease to humans and there is no cure or treatment available.
Source: I am doing my PhD on a BSL-4 virus
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was being sarcastic, but thanks for the extra information.
You're in a big, puncture resistant bag. It looks like a hazmat suit.
That's going to suck if you have to itch your nose.
Though if you work in labs you really shouldn't do this anyways. It's a good way to get sick, dead, or fired.
The decontamination showers are part of a series of fail safes to keep any possibility of a virus escaping as close to nil as possible.
Boloar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pressure negative is correct. The lab is at a lower pressure than the surrounding facilities, so air is forced in towards the lower pressure and not out when a door is opened.
The Microbiology department at my hospital lab maintains negative pressure, nowhere near as sophisticated as a BSL 4 facility but it's definitely there. That door is a bitch to open from the outside.
Sorry, totally missed the lethal part. The different levels describe how they're spread and how lethal they are.
A level 4 lab is usually working with stuff that's already lethal, fast mutating with the potential to become lethal (the flu), or stuff they aren't sure of how its spread.
Edited because I'm not paying attention.
I did a graduate rotation in a lab that worked with genetically engineered retroviruses. That was a biological safety level 2 lab. A level 4 lab takes incredible proportions because they only deal with super viruses, sometimes weaponized super viruses. Yes, you are a space suit and have to go through 2 airlocks and the chemical bath to get in, but that's not what makes the level 4 rooms so special. There's all the other things in there that have to be incredibly sterile , from the Giant centrifuges to the very air itself. If there is a virus that doesn't have a name, only a number, then a BSL 4 lab is where you would find it.
Some dodgy science here. Level four actually relates to a potentially fatal organism for which there is no cure. It's nothing to do with transmission, but security is tighter to prevent a biohazard leak. There are airborne pathogens like tuberculosis in level three labs, which have potentially fatal organisms that have a cure.
, level 1 pretty harmless e.g e.coli and other bacteria,
level 2 mild risk of infection hepatitis, HIV, etc.
Level 3: pathogenic disease very dangerous such SArS corona. Virus and requires lots of protective measures,
level 4 is pretty much diseases which are a threat to large populations, anthrax, Ebola, etc
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bio-Safety Level 4, the highest level there is. I'm an engineer who's designed the HVAC and plumbing systems for few laboratory building. I've done a few BSL-3 labs, but never a BSL-4. Even a Level 3 lab is quite complicated to design.
That's what the rabbit cat eaten in the Marburg house.
Malak77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all in your head.
anonym0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's already under their control
craftyj ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:26:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to ingest them, right?
glr123 ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 03:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct, though you do want to make sure you do not have accidental exposure. Prions on your gloves then scratching your eye or touching your nose, that sort of thing.
But most prion labs use prions from other organisms, like mice, that haven't been shown to ever do anything to humans.
jrwreno ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 05:35:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But....Prions are INFAMOUS for jumping the species barrier!
In fact, Prions that have crossed the species barrier (jumped from sheep to bat to human) are the MOST INFECTIOUS and have the HIGHEST MORBIDITY!
I believe we fondly called them the Promiscuous Prion in Pathology 101....
glr123 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:48:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, and some prions are thought to be infectious across species quite easily - like those from the bank vole.
jrwreno ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:12:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember explaining how the Prion works to fellow students... by describing how if you grab the end of a knitted shirt and pulled, it would unravel on and on. Just like how a Prion would attach to other proteins, and unravel them.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, seriously? That's a really kind of neat image once you get past the horror.
It's very simplified but a good way of explaining how something that is objectively not alive in any sense, even less so than viruses, can have such a devastating effect.
And how many trials of human experiments have been conducted to prove that?!?!?! 0___o
/s
KThingy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:57:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I know you're probably not involved in this directly, and the official scientific opinion is there isn't a proven risk to humans, but I have to ask anyway. I'm a hunter, and CWD is a major concern to myself and most American hunters. How big of a deal is it really in regards to crossing species. I've read prions can stay dormant in your system for decades before they start causing problems. Is there a chance CWD could be hiding in lots of hunters already, and we just haven't seen the effects? How do we determine it isn't laying dormant as opposed to not really being a threat. I understand if you can't / don't want to answer this, but I will say prions fucking terrify me, thanks for trying to slay the monsters.
glr123 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:09:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, it's not unbelievable really that prions could be lying dormant for a number of years before serious symptoms start to show up. Unfortunately, there is no real reliable test to really pick them up at such an early stage. The closest would probably be something like this:
That being said, unless you know you have consumed meat from a population that is thought to be contaminated it shouldn't really be a concern I don't think. If you are hunting something that is closely related to a group like the Canadian Elk, though, it might be a much bigger cause for concern. Right now prions are ravaging certain populations in the middle of the country and Canada, and while cross species infectivity is not really established or known, I would personally be a little concerned if I was in those areas.
I tought the prions are mostly in the nerve/brain tissue. But that paper seems to indicate that prion seeds are strongly present in nasal cavity (? as i cant find anywhere good definition what nasal vault exactly means.)
SOO hunters out there, if your local elk population has prions, dont make jellied moose nose.
"CONCLUSIONS
In this preliminary study, RT-QuIC testing of olfactory epithelium samples obtained from nasal brushings was accurate in diagnosing CreutzfeldtโJakob disease and indicated substantial prion seeding activity lining the nasal vault."
glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both really, a big finding is that early stages of Prion diseases infect the neurons in the nasal cavity, which is a direct link to the brain. You have a lot of neurons in your olfactory area.
That sounds a little on the horrific side. Substantial prion seeding activity in the area where we collect mucous and then shoot it out when we sneeze.
I swear, if I was an alien and wanted to eliminate all higher life on earth, prions are the way I'd do it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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glr123 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:49:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shea241 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:16:06 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's talking about Scions, though.
Fizzbit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:14:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, can you do an AMA?
glr123 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 04:49:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could, though I am by no means an expert. You should keep an eye on /r/science, we have some prion AMAs coming up in about a month or so from actual professors who are experts in the field!
Fizzbit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our AMA's are usually from such noteworthy scientists who don't get much public recognition too. The mod team does an insanely great job at making sure this information is available to the average redditor.
dl064 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Here, try one'.
Arfbark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about those of us that don't work in a Prion lab? I feel many other labs aren't as well equipped. Especially if they're not prepared for a prion, can you then understand the fear then?
glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where would you get prions from? They are pretty rare, accidental contamination is probably nearly impossible.
Arfbark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my experience, in hospitals, we sometimes have to grind up tissue to culture it, or body parts will be sliced very thin to view cells, etc. I would think this exists for the veterinary field too.
Really? That's awesome!
I guess the transmission wouldn't be too worrisome, but I know my friend was creeped out about the killabitlity of prions.
She got asked to work in the lab about 6 years ago and I haven't really kept up on any new studies or findings with them since.
Read a compelling story of a man who's wife has a deadly disease that causes the misfolding or proteins. Together they're working on advancing prion research.
"The paper is Minikelโs first published research study, but it probably will not be his last. In 2012, he and Vallabh decided to devote their lives to research to find treatments for fatal familial insomnia, which killed Vallabhโs mother in 2010. The couple have just started graduate school in biology at Harvard University and say that being personally affected by the disease gives them a different perspective on science from most researchers in the field โ for instance, by prompting them to solve the puzzle of anticipation that had long vexed scientists."
Well, she just mostly works with poop.
There's no level 4 lab where she works but there's still no way she's working in the prion lab.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's worse, prions can have symptomless incubation times of over 3 years, and are pretty much 100% lethal. Thousands upon thousands of people could become infected before we even identities it.
I am definitely not an offal person either.
Or a bone-in foods person. Or tinned salmon. Or gelatine.
Or sausage.
If I didn't love bacon, shellfish, wild game, and chicken breasts so much I'd be a vegetarian.
I remember loving steak and kidney pies until I found out the kidney wasn't the beans, but the organ.
Well since you have to consume prions or have the genes to get the condition, and stuff like ebola can be transmitted by contact with fluids... I know which I'd prefer ;p
I test for prions at work quite a bit. I wash my hands A LOT before lunch or having snacks. TSE, CWD, BSE, Scrapies, etc. (Tse =trasmissible spongiform encephalitis) the umbrella term for the disease. Prion is not a disease.
CWD =chronic wasting disease (deer)
Scrapies (sheep)
BSE = bovine spongiform encephalitis
Edit: to provide more information, they arrive at my lab in three ways. Fresh (dead (common) , alive and about to have a really bad day(rare), fixed in formalin,(most common) or frozen during hunting season) so we perform necropsy to remove the brain if we receive the body/head, and dissect out the retro-pharangeal lymph nodes and another node I cannot remember the name of currently
All of this has to be reported for positives, and if it is a farm, there are rules on depopulating it. Please check with the DNR for that. I'm just a guy that walks around in a lab coat like I'm doing something important all day, in reality I'm listening to tubthumping by chumbawumba on repeat.
There was a recent outbreak of wasting disease, in a population of deer protected for hunting, near where I live. The guy who oversaw the maintenance of the herd apparently knew and did nothing to dispose of the infected individuals. He's got about ten years in prison, because a lot of people around here eat the deer they hunt...
The way they are destroyed is alkaline digestion. Same with spinal cords and brain tissues.
Tkj5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I worked for a Zoologist whose work was all about Chronic Wasting Disease and its transmissions through populations of deer. Luckily there have been no reported cases in the area.
It depends on what you're eating. If you're eating deer with CWD or beef with BSE you're probably okay but that's not the kind of thing you want to roll the dice with. If you're eating monkey or human) then you could be in trouble. It depends on how genetically similar the species you're eating is to human.
This is going to sound really stupid, buuut, I looked up Cervid.
Any member of the deer family, Cervidae, comprising deer, caribou, elk, and moose, characterized by the bearing of antlers in the male or in both sexes.
Is there something related to the antlers that makes them susceptible? (Also thinking of cows and sheep as horned animals, but then again, so are goats, but I haven't heard of Mad Goat disease)
The first part is serious, now Imma be a bit silly, buuuuut, do you think parkour goats have prion disease?
The antlers aren't the problem, they're just different families of ungulates. Cervids are genetically more closely related to each other than they are to bovids (cows, sheep, other ruminants). The prion disease that affects sheep and goats is called scrapie
And there's no stupid question when you're asking in earnest! Asking is how you learn :)
Thanks! Makes sense. TIL ungulates. Super non interesting fact.
Most terrestrial ungulates use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole body weight while moving.
So did the hoof evolve to support running on the toe tips, or did toe tip running influence hoof growth?
I've never been so interested in ungulates in my life. Reddit is weird.
Edit: it says terrestrial ungulates. Are there non-terrestrial ungulates. Don't answer if it's a no, I want submarine unicorns, tyvm.
Ungulates are the best! At least as far as I'm concerned. There are a ton of interesting facts.
The hoof is essentially a really strong nail. Those that had the stronger nails were likely to run and support themselves better, and were thus more likely to outrun predators, making them more fit and resulting in those individuals reproducing and passing that trait down.
There are! Narwhals! Whales are ungulates too :D
There's also lechwe, which are considered "aquatic mammals" and look like what you'd typically expect. They're (beautiful imho) antelope that live in wetlands
Thanks for such great answers! I am now subscribed to daily ungulate facts. (Seriously though, Narwhal are ungulates, same as Corvids (almost Unidan ed there) Cervids with the Lechwe somewhere in between habitat wise is cool shit. Thanks again for your knowledge!
You're welcome and thank you for the questions! :) I actually really enjoy sharing things I've learned; knowledge should be shared (but most of my friends get sick of listening to me go on about "useless" animal facts lol).
cp5184 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:18:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that post was the prequel to the walking dead.
I'm just a guy that walks around in a lab coat like I'm doing something important all day, in reality I'm listening to tubthumping by chumbawumba on repeat.
As a scientist and former lab technician, this made me lol.
In 50 years time there will be a epidemic of brain wasting tied directly to having listened to Chumbawumba during youth. People effected will be known as 'Chumbies' because of their constant repeating of the lyrics, "I get knocked down,
But I get up again, You're never gonna keep me down."
So if prions are not a disease, what are they? Is it like an invasive species? How do you contract it? If someone has prions, can you 'catch' it? Why do you wash your hands a lot? Are they like a germ?
Sorry, this is the first I've ever heard of Prions and I think I understand what they do, but I don't understand how people 'catch' it (like a cold?).
SnackSac ยท 3329 points ยท Posted at 00:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Came here looking for this and found it.
Prions are infectious proteins that fold abnormally and trigger the misfolding of other, similar proteins. Eventually, the buildup of misfolded proteins can cause lesions to form in the brain, leading to disease.
Nasty scary incurable thing!
Edit 1: Yes I copy and pasted the descriptions from the Googs
Edit B: The Fatal Familial Insomnia was what first introduced me to prions.
The age of onset is variable, ranging from 18 to 60, with an average of 50.[citation needed] The disease can be detected prior to onset by genetic testing.[3] Death usually occurs between 7 and 36 months from onset. The presentation of the disease varies considerably from person to person, even among patients from within the same family.
The disease has four stages:
The person has increasing insomnia, resulting in panic attacks, paranoia, and phobias. This stage lasts for about four months.
Hallucinations and panic attacks become noticeable, continuing for about five months.
Complete inability to sleep is followed by rapid loss of weight. This lasts for about three months.
Dementia, during which the patient becomes unresponsive or mute over the course of six months. This is the final progression of the disease, after which death follows.
Other symptoms include profuse sweating, pinpoint pupils, the sudden entrance into menopause for women and impotence for men, neck stiffness, and elevation of blood pressure and heart rate. Constipation is common as well. As the disease progresses, the patient is forever stuck in a state of pre-sleep limbo. During these stages it is common for patients to repeatedly move their limbs as if dreaming.
NOTE: Above is copied from the Wiki page so you don't have to click links to be scared.
Prisons are not scary...... all the time. Hollywood makes them out to look terrible as hell 24 hrs a day. Most of the time it's chill. But when something does happen it's pretty bad.
Source- worked at a prison.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edit: I meant Vonnegut's Ice-nine, but mistakenly used the Roman numeral which is reserved for the significantly less dangerous real-world phase of ice. D'oh! Luckily, folks knew what I meant.
Proteins fold in certain ways as they're made without fail. Now, imagine a supercooled solution of something, say water that's still liquid below its freezing point. Add one seed crystal and the whole thing freezes right quick. Prions are like that: they're more stable confimers of existing proteins. When they interact with the correctly-folded proteins, those proteins spontaneously refold to the prions's more stable state. They become useless and the body doesn't recognize them as pathogens so it can't destroy them. They build up, all the while converting properly folded proteins, resulting in a cascade of useless crap building up in the body and clogging things up. I can't find the drug at the moment, but there was one used in chemotherapy that had to be discontinued because a more stable inactive form got into the processing equipment and contaminated everything. For more information on the subject, look up Mad Cow Disease or the human form, variant CreutzfeldtโJakob Disease.
1) We really need to develop a companion to FoldIt called UnFoldIt where everyone helps destroy prions forevor.
2) I always figured CreutzfeldtโJakob Disease was named as such to prevent Madman Disease from being headlined & inciting panic.
3)
there was one used in chemotherapy that had to be discontinued because a more stable inactive form got into the processing equipment and contaminated everything.
Yes but the ice-nine palordrolap is referencing is almost certainly Vonnegut's ice nine from Cat's Cradle, which is stable at normal temperature and pressure (unlike the real ice IX) and causes all water it comes into contact with to form into ice nine by incorporating it into its crystal structure.
That sounds like an SCP object. Actually, I know for a fact that there's an SCP object like that. It's a quartz crystal that can only be contained with granite because everything else it touches becomes quartz. A very large number of people died containing it.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then it's probably based on the Vonnegut boom written forty years ago
Ice-nine ice with a melting point at 114ยฐF (45ยฐC) and capable of freezing liquid water at or below 45C is not a real thing.
Ice IX is a real thing, it is a hydrogen-ordered version of Ice III. It's a lot like normal ice, except its molecules are ordered differently. There are 17 different varieties of ice, but they all melt at 0C and 1 ATM AFAIK.
I wonder which variety of ice Elsa used to hang that fucking chandelier from an ice-rod that was like an inch thick at most. Ice Ih probably doesn't have the tensile strength, and is probably way too brittle if there were ever a light breeze.
And I feel like Creudzfelt-Jakob is caused by them too.
You are correct in both Bovine Spongiform and Creudztfelt-Jakob are both prionic diseases.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why you don't eat cows with mad cow disease? Prions?
lf11 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best part about this is that our sterilization techniques are designed around disrupting DNA but notably not denaturing proteins. While many proteins are naturally denatured by the heat of sterilization, prions don't. And indeed, since prions are misfolded, the hydrophobic sections are exposed and they cling to steel.
What this means is that our sterilization procedures do pretty much nothing to stop prion contamination and subsequent infection.
Of course, if you really want a good time, look up "chronic wasting disease." That's a prion disease. Another fun fact about prion diseases is that most species have fairly similar PrP sequences. This means that a misfolded deer protein should be able to fairly readily infect a cow ... or a human. Of course there is "no evidence" that this happens but how much of that is simply because nobody has actually investigated it in a laboratory?
Isn't this Mad Cow Disease? You eat an infected burger when you're 7, you live life normally, when you turn 50 or 60 or whatever, you get what appears to be Alzheimer's because the prions turned your brain into a sponge?
It can be earlier than that. And you die in months, usually 6-7, 2 years depending on the variant. There's no cure or treatment really. A diagnosis is a death sentence.
I was scrolling through to see if prions were mentioned and I wanted a solid way for people to know he didn't mean prisons. Google was my homeboy on that one!
Avcdo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No prions aren't alive. They're like viruses. But even smaller and they don't have dna or rna. So they can like, infect everything, and survive in the ground for years, and don't trigger an immune response.
dombeef ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And theres basically no cure, right? unlike cancer, they are just simple proteins, not anything that can really be detected by your immune system?
Avcdo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:52:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:45:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck
481516 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how?
midri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if he's being funny, but prions can "survive" for an incredibly long time outside the body and require insane temperatures and/chemicals to destroy. They could be picked up by touch and your nose has a direct link to your brain.
Is there a reason that prion diseases are not more common if this is the case?
midri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert, but I'd guess it's just because it occurs incredibly rarely and society takes mad cow disease VERY seriously. All it takes is a hint (does not even have to actually exist) of it being in a meat plant to shut down and have the plant closed for months and completely cleaned.
I first read about prions through Worm, and just assumed they were made up. Them actually existing is pretty scary (although I doubt they work as well as in that book)
They're not alive. They're accidental, crumpled proteins that when they encounter other proteins of a compatible type also crumple. Rather than life think of it like an isotope. It can make other things radioactive and deadly. Except unlike radiation it's really really hard to detect, and even the tiniest bit can become deadly over time.
I never understood how that worked. So they are just the same protein you have normally except it is arranged wrong? If so why would it cause other proteins to follow suit?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also worth noting that Prions are neither alive nor dead, and the they can' t be killed or destroyed IIRC.
midri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're protein pairs, they can be destroyed. It's just really, really hard. We're talking hundreds of degrees of heat and/or hours in a 99% bleach solution
Prions (most well known example is Mad Cow Disease) are like the ultimate disease. No cure, and since the prions aren't actually alive, if an infected animal or person dies the prions are still there ready to take another victim. Only way to dispose of them is incinerate the carcasses, denaturing proteins. Absolutely terrifying.
To be fair, you can totally kill the prions. You just heat them up until it denatures the protein. The tricky part is doing that without cooking the brain....
Literally just had a lecture on these yesterday, I thought I was noped out but then, the lecture on the Nazi's treatment of the Soviets I was just like .... This worlds fucked it :(
Two separate classes FYI.
gollyJE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I find them so terrifying because they aren't even alive. They're not cells or even viruses, just clusters of proteins. Infectious proteins. Literally inanimate objects that happen to cause a horrifying, fatal, incurable disease. There is no evolutionary reason for them to do this! It's like having a fucking rock that causes people to go insane and drop dead. And this rock turns other rocks it touches into deadly rocks.
My friend who is a doctor told me that if he wanted to destroy humanity he would try to make an airborne prion. Vaccines, antibiotics, and any other medicine would be useless.
For anyone reading this who is unaware, chronic wasting disease, mad cow disease, scrapie, cjd (I can't spell the whole name, and fatal familial insomnia are all examples.
Last I heard, there were scientists who also speculated that Alzheimer's could be a prion disease........ Which essentially means looking for a cure is in vain.
not really that infectious, since (iirc) theyre incapable of moving on there own so you have to do some pretty specific things to get ifnected
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What makes it for me is that prions aren't just another virus or bacteria or anything. They're not alive at all. You can't kill a protein. You can just destroy anything that may have come into contact with them and hope to god you got them all and they won't spread.
They're also the plot of The Lost World by Michael Chrichton. It's a dinosaur book which was written to serve as a basis to the film sequel to Jurassic Park.
Apparently some research has been done that shows it can be reversible - e.g. yeast could apparently cure itself of a certain type of prions under certain conditions.
It's possible that we could eventually find a way to reverse the effects or prevent the spread but that's probably a way off at the moment.
They are also immune to most forms of cleansing. You can't boil them, treat them with antivirals or antibiotics, bleach won't tear them apart, and stomach acid is useless if ingested. And once ingested it's just a matter of time.
Prions are the reason I'll eat anything but nervous tissue. And pickles. But not because of prions. Pickles are just nasty.
Isn't there research being done with the use of ultrasound as a possible effective therapy? I remember reading about using ultrasound to open the blood/brain barrier so medication can be brought in to fight the prion clumping.
I really wish I wouldn't have read this. I have gone 20 years without having anxiety and all the sudden I have terrible anxiety, blurred vision, I still sleep okay but there's a constant pressure in my head now. Hypochondria taking over!
American prisons are heaven (except I guess Gitmo, thats just marginally better) compared to India,Russia and THailand
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Years ago when I visited Fark.com, there was a headline (and I don't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this): "When life has you down, just be thankful that you're not an inmate in the Brazilian prison system."
Context: There was a riot and one or more inmates were beheaded.
Except way scarier. They can't be killed with boiling, ammonia, bleach, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde, or alcohol. The only way to kill them is to soak them in concentrated Lye for a few hours or blast them with pressurized steam at 134c or 273f for four hours. You only need a few to start the chain reaction of protein misfolding and once it starts there is no cure. You just keep losing brain function until you die a few months later.
Very true. However, denaturing is a concept that some people might not be familiar with and killing something is. Since both denaturing and killing something render it inactive, I figured it would get the point across.
Prions don't denature proteins, they cause them to refold. You would think it would be easier to denature them, but they are incredibly resilient little suckers.
Well by causing a prion to refold wouldn't you neutralize it? Although from what I understand we don't know exactly how the infectious refolding works.
Hmm. That's an interesting idea. I don't know if we know why the person misfolds to begin with so it would be difficult to reverse the process. I believe it just acts as a template for other proteins. Maybe it's confirmation is more energetically favorable?
Okay, so just the brain? That's a relief. Soaking my whole body in lye sounds painful, but I think I can handle just the brain.
guyswtf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was 272f for 20 minutes. We've never dealt with prion contamination at my hospital so long as I've been there, but I'm pretty sure 20 minutes in the clave at 272 will kill everything.
Maybe. I was just going off decontamination protocol from a single lab, so it's very possible I was mistaken and it is 272F for 20 minutes. In any case, they are hard to kill and terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are prions considered alive? Or are the misfolded proteins as alive as a virus, and thus, not.
Unlike viruses or bacteria, prions don't have DNA, they don't move on their own, and they don't consume energy. They act as a catalyst to make other proteins misfold and they can be transmitted from organism to organism. So technically they are not alive.
dbx99 ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 01:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you incinerate an infected animal? The prions are still there in the ashes and now they can get inside your body by simply being inhaled.
Wait isn't that bad since foot and mouth disease is prionic and didn't they burn all the cows?? I just know I'm not allowed to donate blood purely because I was in Britain during that time
Yeah but only from prion-to-prion contact. A cell (ie. Bacteria) can't be genetically engineered to create them. I suppose you could put a prion into a bacterial cell and very quickly put that cell into a human, but it will kill the bacteria anyway and if you can do that, might as well forgo the bacteria entirely.
My phone must have autocorrected it to pyron. I meant prion.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why can't it be genetically engineered to create them? I'm reasonably certain that prions are just a series of amino acids like any other protein. It arose twice on its own.
If I'm not mistaken (I'm a geneticist not a bioengineer) prions are special from other proteins because they are folded wrong. Some bizarre thing happened that caused the protein to not obay the laws that normally govern it. Because of this weird trait, they can't be consistently created without the presence of another prion.
Also, if the bacteria could produce prions, they are non-discriminant and kill by attrition, meaning that they will kill the bacteria before it spreads, effectively negating the need for the bacteria in the first place.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm suggesting a virus. Does that change things?
They're also slow acting. Would they kill the host too quickly?
Again, they have to "happen" they can't be specifically created. Meaning bacteria, virus, or multicellular organisms can't create them naturally because they all rely on DNA.
They're also slow acting. Would they kill the host too quickly?
Slow is relative. They take a long time in humans and animals because we have a LOT of cells to kill. Bacteria and viruses are (with rare exceptions) are single-cellular, so the prion will likely kill the cell before it reproduces. If it doesn't, both sister cells will have enough prions in them to kill them before they reproduce (if not, then the cycle repeats, my point is that the nature of how cells divide and prions work puts the chronological clock to work when the piron is first introduced).
So, the only way to have a piron in a virus is to monitor billions of individual cells and wait for one to eventually develop one (theoretically impossible) or to put the piron into the cell yourself.
Back to my original statement, if you have the resources to do that, you might as well just forgo the middle man and infect a person with a piron directly.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I understand it, only certain proteins can be prionified, and given that they're only found in CNS cells (that I'm aware of) I don't know if either a virus or bacteria would be destroyed by it.
To get the prion into the virus or bacteria, if you can't program them with DNA, could you program them to produce a redundant protein that can be prionified and then expose a culture to the prion?
I took a food micro class in college, and right before Halloween our professor showed us a documentary on Mad Cow/Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. After watching, he explained how that, in addition to being highly infectious, these prions are also very stable and can exist in the environment for extended periods of time and cannot be easily rendered inactive from incineration. I then asked him what would happen if these were to somehow contaminate food or water supplies... His response was "and that's when you hope your tax dollars are being put to good use to maintain proper waste disposal systems."
Oh, and you could be infected but not develop symptoms from many years later. Think about that - slowly getting killed by a burger you ate 4 years ago.
Prion: "A person who drives a Prius extremely slow in the left lane along side another slow moving vehicle leaving a trail of rage and destruction in their wake."
This is my whole thing about cannibals. Cannibals always get the shakes in movies. That only happens when you eat prions. Don't eat the brain, like you probably wouldn't IRL, and you can eat as many people as you want. Like, hello, serial killers and tribes in South America? No shakes.
I don't know why there aren't more movies using prions as a mcguffin. I mean 24 used them once, but imo they should be the cause of like every fourth zombie apocalypse, and the secret weapon of a similar fraction of doomsday cults.
KWITHI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions will fuck your shit up, and there's not a damn thing that can be done about it.
My close family member died of 'mad cow disease' in the early 1990's. Scientists weren't sure if prions were even real then. It was a terrible way to go, at just 42.
The chances of contracting prion disease like mad cow disease is 1 in 10 billion servings. You have a better chance of winning the jackpot in a lottery a few times than getting a prion disease.
When I was a nurse on a neuro unit I had a patient with a prion disease. She went blind and deaf then went full blown crazy. It was terrifying to watch.
The scariest part is that we still don't fully understand the mechanism. We all have cellular prions in our bodies and theoretically a single abnormal prion can initiate a conformational change. Even scarier we could all be carriers and that it's just a matter of time until symptoms develop. I've worked with infectious prions for 10 years now and my greatest fear is 20 years from now I gradually start to forget things. Then lose mobility and my ability to talk. Once the symptoms present, it's game over, dead within months. Upon death I've stipulated in my will for my brain, spinal and lymph nodes to be donated for screening.
I think that if the human race ever sees a "zombie virus" like in the movies, it won't be a virus at all. It'll be a prion disease. A prion disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs that crave flesh so much they'll eat each other really isn't that far fetched... Shout out to The Return Man for being the first to plant that idea in my head, interesting book.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you I own a prion, thing drives like a dream and is good for the enviroment.
FolkDude ยท 5641 points ยท Posted at 01:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm gonna go with human trafficking. Could range from forced labor to forced prostitution. I mean...really think about it. REALLY think about walking down the street, minding your own business, and then you're kidnapped and sentenced to a life of being bought and sold for various forms of labor. Even worse, having it done or initiated by your own parents. shit, that's terrifying to me.
Edit: I'm glad to read so many opinions and insight on the matter. I do understand that "trafficking" is a pretty broad term. A lot of unfortunate folks tend to get lured in, rather than straight up kidnapped, which is even more terrifying, IMO. People the trust, or think they can trust.
Watched a documentary on this today in my sociology class! Super fucking sad. Saw a 10 yo boy be reunited with his father after being kidnapped and forced to work in a rug factory for 3 years. The conditions were horrible. 5am-12am he spent on the loom, usually got about 2-3 hours of sleep. He slept and lived in the same room as his loom, and was very rarely allowed out, even to go to the bathroom. Leaving the factory/house itself was a huge no-no; another girl said they urinated on the roof to avoid leaving/being seen. Any fuck up resulted in a beating. He was scared not to work, and he was scared to work, because accidents were punished with violence. The kids were conditioned to be terrified of outsiders coming to the "house", and hid whenever strangers arrived. I saw a really young girl- maybe 5, screaming because she was afraid of the rescuers, who kept repeating who they were and what they were doing. Thankfully, the carpet factory got busted and all of the child slaves were either returned to their families or properly cared for. The little boy says he still has nightmares. It was an awful reality to be faced with, even just on a screen. FYI, this incident occurred in India. If you want to watch this documentary, it's called Slavery: A Global Investigation. Worth your time.
Thanks for the suggestion, going to have to be in the right emotional/mental state when I watch that. Ever since I became an uncle it's like my mind automatically inserts my nephew and nieces into such stories and it makes it both much more real, heartbreaking and unbearable when I read about them.
They got about 18 kids out of there, but the actual guy running the show escaped. The mob only had like 1 real cop, and apparently they rarely want things to get violent bc the slavers could have guns.
Oh god. I suddenly am ashamed of my username. I hope someday nobody has to go through this evilness.
Raiquo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:50:32 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey now, don't feel bad. Not all rugs are made under detestable conditions. In fact, a good percentage of rugs are produced under wholesome conditions! Besides, slavery sweat shops are most often producing electronics or clothing (because, electronics = high markup, clothing = seconds per article to produce).
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AsaTJ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad this happened in India. Our justice system in the West would have been too nice to them. Seriously, anyone who does something like that straight up deserves to get the shit beaten out of them, at a minimum.
India isn't a lot better. Look up the gavit sisters. Killed upto nine toddlers by starvation, battering their heads after kidnapping them and are still contesting their death sentence in court after being arrested 15 years ago.
They really do, kidnapping followed by slavery should get punished by a lifetime of jail in a 3rd world country prison system. But it's actually unfortunate that the factory was busted in India. It's harder to get cops involved. The raid was conducted mostly by parents and other normal people. They had 2 cops max, but I'm pretty sure I only saw 1. Slavery's not very uncommon in places like this. It's horrible, but it gets overlooked by government. None of the poor villagers had guns, so they were afraid of getting heated with the slaver, since it was more likely for him to have a gun. In the end the guy got away.
This! I cannot wrap my mind around the psychology of ANYONE who is faced with the opportunity to, say, fuck an eight-year-old and goes, "Yeah sure that sounds awesome." How does your brain not just shatter and weep?
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Selective empathy and easy money can make people do some wild shit. Hitmen are just as fucked up really.
Really? I would think hitmen are a lot saner. It's human instinct to kill stuff, but to harm a child?
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill stuff sure. All biological evidence points to us being communal and relatively peaceful towards each other though. But then we have this higher level cognitive functioning that allows to justify some pretty awful things. Hard pressed to say it's instinct though.
Pas__ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Communal, with the in-group. Tribes against each other usually weren't so ... communal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is purely cultural/sociological, not instinctual.
Pas__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, it's very much biologically motivated. You share genes with your family, and the tribe is very much your extended family. Their survival is your survival. Everyone and everything else has questionable motives, as they don't share as many genes with you as your tribemates. Unknown parties could (and usually do) carry unknown infections, whereas you have usually the same immunity in-group.
Scarce resources and survival of the conservative and so on evolved us into this.
Of course nowadays a completely different mindset makes sense, hence we have to fight our biology.
Hitmen in the movies don't kill kids. Real assassins do. When's the last time you read an article about a suicide bomber who decided to wait for the next bus because there were kids on the first one?
I don't know why you're really downvoted. It's obvious you meant to say "in the way" not "in the east". You must be on mobile and it corrected to "east" instead of "way". Unfortunate, because it makes you look kind of racist against Asians just for a silly spelling mistake
I think it's important to understand that no one can choose the genes or the upbringing that they are given. Certain events in a persons life, and certain genetic factors (hormones, brain function etc) could lead a person down these paths.
This is not to say that they are blameless, rather that we should hope to better society by providing understanding and support to reduce the number of pedophilia cases.
If you understand what I am saying, then you could replace pedophilia with any other human condition. No one chooses to be a pedophile, much more than they chose the colour of their skin. They do however, choose whether or not they will act on their desires, and that is indefensible.
I do oppose any action that could ruin another persons life, and society must learn how to help those who are inclined to this behaviour, and those who cannot recover must be removed from society.
It is unfair to shame someone for being mentally ill, and further pushing them down a dark and lonely road, where in some cases, these people could be helped and potentially changed.
You may be in the right here,but I think they should supress their thoughts and the moment they actually abuse a child they're unredeamable.
I'm attracted to women, I'm pretty mich default sexually but I would never rape, not even talking about abusing a child.
They should absolutely 100% go through the motions of psychological help as soon as "those" thoughts occur, but society needs to rid itself of the flat out hatred. I would like to think that if people became more aware and tried to humanise (rather than demonise) these people, that more of them would seek help before they did something unforgivable.
A very large proportion of child abusers were abused as children. Most normal people can't imagine it, but most normal people were not victims of the unimaginable either.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And i dont understand how pedophilia and child porn is on the rise as well. Sick fucks. Fuck Jared from subway and fuck that dude from Glee
Valid point. Things get more coverage today than any decade before this and there's just more people, so statistically it's bound to be noticed more than previously.
I think children that have parents that KNOWINGLY sell them into this kind of shit is way way worse than being kidnapped. Like, if your kidnapped you would think you would at least have people trying to find you...
I remember fallout having two small small story line quests about this subject. Both of which got me interested in being more aware about this.
A companion you travel with talks about how her parents abused her and sold her when she was old enough to be sold. Then she bought herself out and can right home to face her parents. When she got there. She kill her parents.
You find a kid who's been trapped for centuries in a roasted fridge. He has turned into a ghoul. Which made good slaves. A man walks up and asks to buy the kid. You are able to choose to sell him or tell the dude to fuck off. You can guess which one I chose.
My friend's sister in law had something similar happen to her. She disappeared several years ago after coming home from work. No sign of forced entry, cell phone on the counter, but she just vanished one night. They spent 2 years looking for her, questioning the husband, close family, anybody that would have been able to easily enter the residence but got nothing to go on.
After 2 years of investigation turning up absolutely nothing someone finally finds her remains in their creek bed. 25 miles from her home. The remains were pretty well decayed. To this day the cause of death and murderer are still undetermined. One night in August of 2011 she just disappears and is found dead 2 years later and was likely killed close to the time of her disappearance.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Jowobo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think in Shantaram it's even described how some parents who lived in the slums considered selling off their kid a good deal for that kid too. After all, they'd at least be alive.
Sure, the slavers know what to say to a heartbroken parent to assuage their guilt. I saw a story about a boy whose parents were told it was a special work experience scholarship program or something to get them to agree.
Jowobo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely. I can see how in a desperate situation the whole "It may be hard work, but they'll be alive and out of the slums!" spiel may sound very believable.
I'm not going to lie: this is my absolute biggest fear when it comes to my child. I live in an American city where there have been a record number of human trafficking cases lately, and just the other day a man was convicted of trafficking young and teenage girls and pimping them out.
You got it man, thats the thing that got me with Taken. Its not the pretty brunette whos father goes to the ends of the earth to save her, its the blonde friend who ended up drugged/dead at the whore house half way through the movie... thats life, not Liam Neeson.
[deleted] ยท 250 points ยท Posted at 02:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that depends on who you are and where you live. The plot from Taken isn't exactly realistic. A missing Westerner with a flipping out family would just raise too much attention.
Typical victims of human trafficking are from poor countries and weren't abducted but lured in with false promises. The victims get shipped to a foreign country, have their passports taken away and are being threatened by their captors. At that point they don't really see a chance to flee anymore, but it's a different kind of slavery than in the 18th century USA or ancient Rome. Equally fucked up, but different.
Many people believe human trafficking in the United States doesn't exist and is in just poorer countries but it does...Where I live, which is Ohio, there is a big trafficking issue. Yes it is typical in poorer countries but it is also an issue in the states and is more common than you believe.
It being a transit town is most likely why trafficking exist there I believe. I remember a trucker who was going through Toledo reported that there were underage workers at a certain truck stop there, they had to be less than 15. He ended up helping uncover this huge ring that spanned quite a few states I believe.
[deleted] ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 04:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cartels are probably entrenched in American government. The brother of the head of the Zetas cartel lived freely in Dallas for years.
Being the sibling of a wanted criminal isn't itself a crime, so this shouldn't be that surprising. They need evidence this brother was also a criminal, rule of law and all...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Listen to those warnings. Mexico is a dangerous place, I use to live there
The cartels are worse than isis, they will cut the throat of everyone you have ever met in front of you and leave you die tied to a tree in the dessert.
I think you've been watching too much Fox news. I've been to around 40 countries and I've probably met teeny blonde white girls traveling through all of them. I mean, don't go driving through Syria at the moment, but plenty of girls travel (even alone) to places like India, South America, and SE Asia and come back un-kidnapped.
Soarinc ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:20:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at the statistics you (I assume you're American) are already in a not too safe country. The Global Peace Index is a bit skewed for the purpose of determining how likely you'll be a victim of a crime and the US would rank significantly better if the military part wasn't included, but there are countless countries that by now offer similar levels of security as the US or Western Europe. E.g. the Eastern European states in the European Union may already be as safe or safer than most Western countries. The same goes for a select few of South American and African countries.
Basically, if you're careful you can go to most countries. And traffic (some countries have really deathly roads), diseases and accidents are much more likely to kill you than crime. It's like that in pretty much every country.
Yep. Estimated 17,500 are trafficked into America yearly. Check out End It Movement of you want to get involved in bringing an end to it. The money they raise goes directly to other organizations that are out in the field helping rescues women, men, and kids.
Edit: they have a list of organizations that they help. All are fighting human trafficking. Their website is a great resource.
This just happened in January. Two girls were rescued from a Shell station in Wyoming. They had been picked up in Philadelphia and were being transported to California. Apparently the girls were offered jobs and a ride out west, but when they agreed and got into the car, the situation turned threatening. Thank goodness they were rescued. I can't imagine how scary that must have been.
Soarinc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a real site or like theonion? (parody site?)
When you browse their site, it looks like the local paper for Rawlins, Wyo., a small town apparently named after a Civil War general, General John Aaron Rawlins. The story didn't make national news, but it appears on NBC and Fox News websites. The articles reference the Rawlins Times article.
Yes! See this bugs the shit out of me as well. I'm under the impression that many of us feel that trafficking is a "poor country" thing, but it's fucking not. Like the dude above mentioned: folks being lured in with false promises. I'm thinking border crossing. Yeah, come work for me in America. You can feed your family and I will help you all become citizens. Drives me nuts. And of course, only hundreds of other examples. Ughhg.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does absolutely exist. The victims are just very unlikely to be upper or middle class white people. Think of the effort police take when they think a child has been abducted. That something a criminal organization would want to prevent at all cost. Their targets are people who've already fallen through the cracks of the system. Illegal Aliens, maybe junkies.
Abusing the weak is sadly something humans do very often.
It also happens a lot in the States. Major cities like Boston especially. The most common story is pre-teen girls who run away from an abusive home, only for an older man or woman to promise to take care of them. Instead, they are given drugs and sold to men for sex. After a while they're so addicted to the drugs they can't (or don't even want to) escape.
I think it may have been how you started your sentence and the fact that human trafficking isn't a pissing contest. It happens everywhere. Where it happens thats where the problem is. The fact that you stated that the numbers are negligible because the numbers are less than those of other countries is still wrong to say. You can't minimize a crime like this.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:33:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm done with reddit.
You guys seriously don't get it. All countries are affected by this, but in different ways. I've said it since the get go. Developed nations are the buyers and poorer nations are the origin of the trafficked people.
Yes, there are many buyers in the United States, no one was arguing with you about this, people were just upset because you minimized the crimes being committed here. We get it but it seems like you still don't.
Tuckboi ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres a lot trafficking happening in the states. I personally know someone who was brought into that world.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres a lot trafficking happening in the states.
Fact. You don't need to convince him. If anyone doesn't believe this they're a fucking moron.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people are TRAFFICKED to the States. The amount of people enslaved in the country is negligible in comparison to other countries. I miss explained my stance, sorry.
No one is saying it doesn't happen in poorer countries, they're just pointing out that it ALSO happens in developed countries. It's not unique to poor, third world situations. The methods are different but its still horrific.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for real this guy goes out there and makes this incredibly bold claim and doesn't have any proof to back it up at all lets see some proof
junkit33 ยท -44 points ยท Posted at 03:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Running away from home and being seduced is a monumental difference from being snagged off the street.
By and large, the stuff of nightmares does not happen in US cities.
ucbiker ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 04:19:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would think that children being seduced, addicted to drugs, and then forced into prostitution is pretty much a thing of a nightmares.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 04:33:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not your normal seduction. If you read up on what happens to girls. Lots of times they'll meet a "perfectly respectable" guy that promises to take care of them. Then they runaway to him and they get locked in a room 24hrs a day and are raped by multiple men throughout the course of the day. Sometimes they willing start doing addictive drugs but sometimes it's forced.
TIL being manipulated into drug dependent prostitution isn't the stuff of nightmares.
Knobull ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 04:39:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And it's not just clandestine criminal organizations that do this. Governments do it too. Qatar is known for this shit, they use slave labour from South Asia primarily and work them to death. The football world cup of 2022 is supposed to be in Qatar and there are reports that the stadiums are being built by such slave labour and there will be thousands of deaths before they're completed.
And yet no country takes action about this. No-one in power talks about this. The UN doesn't do anything (big surprise), but I guess I shouldn't be surprised with that since they consider Saudi Arabia as the leader of human rights.
Petrol dollars buy the silence...they should all be gased for shit they are doing over there.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:52:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im someone from the UK, someone from my school ran away from home and was almost led into trafficking by an older man. Nationwide search by the Police and she was found in Scotland. Surreal shit.
Them and children basically anywhere, really gets to me if I think too much about how many kids are in Walmart with their mom and suddenly are taken to be shot up with heroin and raped for years until they die at 10-20 painfully and with little to no love or joy in their lives :(
How many kids are snatched from Walmart or similar every year? Do you have a stat?
I don't think trafficking only happens in poor countries. But I think it's scaremongering to say that 'so many' kids are taken from a location like this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always been told that stores are one of the riskier places for abductions (but most abductions being more the family-member-who-lost-custody variety than the sell-into-sex-slavery variety). The parents are distracted getting whatever items they're shopping for, and if the kid is a little older than like 4 or 5 the parent doesn't immediately freak out when they're out of sight but just assumes they wandered a little bit but are still somewhere nearby, so the kidnapper has more time to get away before anybody realizes anything is wrong.
I'm not sure if I put this in the category of things I've always been told that are actually true, or just something that got blown way out of proportion. Even if I found out that it was completely false, I think I've had this drilled into my head so much that I'm still going to be a little paranoid about keeping my kids in sight any time I'm in public.
I'm sure there must be some kind of stat for where children are abducted. And how often it actually happens. The store theory seems implausible to me since so many large stores like that have security guards and/or CCTV to deter shoplifters. I wonder if it's anything to do with the Jamie Bulger case (Warning: NSFL) since that image of him walking away so innocently with the two boys is so horrifying and etched in peoples' consciousness.
It really is. It's such a horrifying case, though. It's kind of hard to imagine what they could leave out to make it less horrifying. The bare facts are bad enough.
So many meaning too many, I don't have a statistic but there are are multiple different occasions I've heard of it happening. That and children being taken during vacations, being out and about in an unfamiliar place, those horror stories of kids being taken and used to smuggle drugs over the border, etc. More absolutely come from poor countries, with promises of a better life, being traded by their own parents for money, or whatever it may be. Regardless of where the kids (or adults, anyone really) come from, it's tragic and very scary to think about how it just happens and they're meant to suffer for years because other people don't care and buy the "services."
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:13:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why are you arguing that this would be somehow less traumatic for a non-western person?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not. I'm just saying that the mostly Western people on reddit don't need to worry about being kidnapped on a vacation in Paris.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:34:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In midst of the storytime epidemic on YouTube, theres a girl who has a video how she was lead into hanging out with older girls then lead to trafficking. She talk about how what she went through and warns young girls or the warning signs. I forget her name. But if I see the video again ill link it. Its a must see for any teen girl. It can happen to anyone. This is a sick world we sometimes
Vice news did an episode on fertility clinics in India. The lower-end places aren't subject to regulations and apparently implant multiple fetuses per woman, so they'll definitely have the babies they promised the customer. But they wind up with extra babies and sell them for cash, no questions or paperwork.
There are a lot of people out there that aren't on the books. Who knows what they're used for?
Richer countries like the US, Japan, etc. still have people targeted, but its, not surprisingly, the ones most vulnerable. Like someone else wrote, you have those from broken abusive homes, you also have girls(at least for sex trafficking usually) from rural areas who're also lured away with false promises and a chance to escape life from the countryside. At least its what I've learned in class. Most come from poorer countries as there's less risk but they also take into account the "tastes" of their rapists err clients.
But yeah, not many and going to grab two teenage western girls in Paris when they can get attractive white girls from the Romanian countryside without as much of the risk,
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:29:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happens in every developed nation too. There is a story said here in every one of these threads of a girl being kidnapped off a cruise ship, that doesn't sound very poor to me. Lots of cruise ships actually do role calls before they even dock to help curb this problem.
nefhar ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not slavery. The foreign sex workers don't want to return home. They could just tell the police or law agency or call home but don't want to risk deportation. It is a form of economic immigration for women..like the migrants to Germany. And has been highly effective getting into Canada with very bad outcomes for Canadian women and society.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:44:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not slavery. The foreign sex workers don't want to return home.
That's a bit too much of a generalization. Yes, some stay out of their free will, but many don't. If you're from a country where the police is generally corrupt you're much less likely to turn to them. You're also not going to leave if your captors threaten to kill your family back home or if you're afraid of being cursed.
nefhar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are not children being snatched from their mothers and taken to a Calcutta dungeon. These women know what they are getting into when they come to Canada. This is happening across the globe and a lot of countries have had to change their laws because of it.
Money is just the math we have to do to co-operate with eachother. Millions on lives can be broken down to the number they spend on food each day. Its the math we do that lets us live in our shelters, have our possessions, and can break down every human accomplishment. The moon landing took 25.4 billion units. The statue of liberty was 250,000 units. the roof over my head is 550 units each month.
The evil part is people trying to cheat the math, the numbers are completely neutral, it is us and our actions. Not only evil, we have need, and in a world where everything requires it, there sure is a lot of need.
Seakawn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:21:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. Money isn't bad, it's neutral. If you're bad, you'll do do bad things for money.
More mental health facilities need to be accessible and normalized, and education needs to keep reforming.
That's rubbish. Money is zero sum. As a society, if there are a few greedy, control hungry sociopaths in charge of the monetary system, they can enrich themselves at the expense of others in that society through corrupt methods. As artificial scarcity envelopes the society, the people get desperate and end up turning to crime sometimes just to stay alive.
Think about how western society is structured. The central banks own the government, which is constantly trying to pay off its debt with interest. This causes ever rising taxes and spending cuts, lowering the quality of life for its citizens and causing future generations to be laden with debt, like selling our children into servitude, whether we like it or not. To think money is just a neutral number and not a tool for control is very very naive.
Thats an outcome of the system, is started at much simpler roots. It wasn't always so powerful, its incredibly new levels in todays age. The mechanism is obviously long broken, and the numbers have gotten much too large for us, much too fast. Like I said that math has to be done EVERY day for billions of people's lives, just to get them to the next.
The reality of possessions themselves have always made it that there are kings, and peasants. Its just that there was always a hope for the ones at the top to spread it out.
fraac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human nature says they won't unless you make them.
Ya, but sooner or later our nature is going to adapt to the fact there isn't really any world left to explore. And the rich are caged in here with the poor.
Unless that whole "The meek will inherit the earth" means they're gonna fly out of here and leave us on this rock.
fraac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at the reactions to refugees. There will be another world war before the rich willingly spread the wealth.
War is just us fighting over the cage, hopefully the poor don't continuously kill the poor, usually enough bloodshed in the right direction actually lets revolutions happen.
There is one more way in human nature that has a chance to right this. Those who rebel from the poor sometimes do spread the wealth without being forced. Its just as of recent the "poor" have been given all their animilistic needs and a little more. You could drown out your entire life with a crap job, media and the many goods available to even small sums of money. Turns out Heroes who stand up because of justice and righteousness are the rarest ones, or don't even exist, usually it only happens because they have to fight to change their terrible lives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh ya if you trace back where the actual value comes from today it gets pretty damn dirty. Haha, remember that whacky time when it was gold?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the same argument that is made by those who claim that guns don't kill people, rather people kill people.
And sure, the tool is independent to the user, up to a point. But greed is universal, so having a tool around that rewards greed is probably not the best idea.
Not saying that I have a better idea. Obviously money is the best we've got. But just saying that money is just the math really misses the point.
It is a reality that there is a scarcity of goods and services in the world. Money is a medium of exchange of said goods and services. No more no less. No evil.
Penis, you mean? How often to you hear about women buying prostitutes? Men are the market. If men didn't feel the need to fuck anything and everything 24/7 sex trafficking would be non existent
But in this context it makes more sense to say "pussy". Seeing as when people are saying that evil is caused by money, they aren't talking about the 10 dollar bill's desire to fuck shit up.
It's people's DESIRE for money, and people's DESIRE for pussy, that caused all of this.
The person saying "pussy" is not blaming women, they are just saying that the DESIRE for pussy causes a lot of really fucking big problems.
I'm wincing really hard just thinking that kids have been forcibly amputated to look sadder when they're begging just to bring in more money to their abusers. These sick fucks not only exploit the impoverished but the good intentions of other people.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:50:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went to the Philippines last November and saw poverty on a level that I'm just not used to seeing in America. I've seen homeless out in Phoenix and San Francisco and thought that was bad but this was different. Then I was told that a lot of the homeless kids are organized into gangs. If you give them money, it goes to some criminal organization and used for whatever nefarious means they use it for. If the kids don't hit the quota they are punished with starvation and beatings.
I still struggle to come to grips with it emotionally. Perhaps I'm just naive, but I just kept thinking what kind of shit existence are these kids are born into and have no chance of ever escaping?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the reason it is so far down is slavery as a concept is something people understand rather well and has been part of history forever. Bacteria that eat your eyeballs is new.
Well no. Not that global nuclear war isn't pants shittinfly scary, if it were to happen. But this is currently a horrendous reality for thousands of people around the world...like right now.
This almost happened to my mum a few times when she was young. No matter how careful you are, it only takes one moment of venerability for all your shit to be fucked up.
I had to double check but no, venerable doesn't mean "old age" it means something/one who is worthy of great respect because of wisdom, holiness or being great. This often goes with age, but it doesn't mean age of itself.
Thanks, TIL. I wonder what the term is for words that come to be linked in people's minds with other qualities associated with them. Other examples might include "nubile" and "decadent".
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 03:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is the worst in my opinion. even if you escape you can't recover mentally and physically. you've probably been pissed on. you are riddled with STDs. can't see how you could return to society. or your organs are farmed while you're alive.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:38:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain?
Dracili ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:04:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he was pointing out that the main reason victims have trouble re-establishing themselves in society has to do with the social stigmas surrounding then. Like people thinking they are "broken" after their experience. Qu1cjbeam just didn't put it into words.
That study also used a real loose definition of slavery (by their definition, if you work for money that you need to survive, you are a slave). That and there are far more people alive now than in any point of history. So there's more of everything now. Percentage wise, we are at an all time low.
I've had stories about the dark web, human trafficking and those red rooms (torture chat room type things). That place makes me nauseous it's so fucked up.
You will be happy to know that red rooms are 100% urban legend and there is no evidence of them ever existing. That and anyone who has spent 5 minutes on the deep web can tell you that there is 0% chance of getting a live streaming video working. It's way too slow. Think 1995 dialup slow, then slow it down another 50%.
There are a ton of creepypastas involving them, but they are works of fiction
i get what you're saying, and probably that's all true. i used to browse the deep web and even those simple html only sites load in like 30 seconds.
but think about it like this. there were 7 billion people on earth last time i checked. do you really think that there aren't persons out there that fucked up in the head to watch that kind of stuff? every single thing that you can think about, even if it's mildly fucked up, or completely fucked up, or not fucked up at all, was already done, or was already thought/discussed by several others.
Oh yeah, there's no doubt there's fucked up people that would watch, but there's technological reasons why they don't exist. Another reason is that the plugins used for viewing live feeds would open up exploits that could be used to track where it was broadcasting from.
I used to spend a lot of time on the deep web. Most of the stuff you read about it are either hoaxes or fake websites.
Something few people pay nearly enough attention to.
So, while we're momentarily focusing on it, I'd like to ask that you all consider donating to Operation Underground Railroad. They set up stings to actually rescue children who have been kidnapped and sold into sex slavery.
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE THE GODDAMN HEROES OF EARTH.
benenke ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a story about a girl, down on her luck, who fell in love with a man who encouraged her, cared for her, and supported her.
Five years pass, and he asks her to move with him to another country. Of course she obliges.
Once there, her identity is stripped from her, she's thrust out onto the streets, and is held at gunpoint saying that if she tries to run, he'll kill her family.
Five years
Why this isn't talked about more is absolutely beyond me.
There was a woman who went missing while on a cruise with her family. Her picture's been popping up since then on various foreign websites advertising prostitution, and an American soldier says he saw her in a brothel and she begged him to help her escape. I can't imagine :(
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a clean and safe midwest city. Some people were arrested a while back for human trafficking and keeping victims here working. It's creepy to think I may have walked by one of the victims and didn't take any notice of it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend keeps telling me about how women are kidnapped in China and sold to people trying to get wives for their sons in poor areas of the country. The areas where they kill their daughters because they don't see any value in them. The local government overlooks this because ??? and it's to the point where pointing out that this goes on can get you in trouble because they government doesn't want to deal with the unrest caused by their inaction.
The depths people are willing to go to to create problems and then "solve" them never ceases to amaze me.
Yes! My first thought was "human nature", and you said it! The fact that [some] humans get off on the pain and suffering of others is disturbing. I just finished watching Cartel Land and they were describing the things the Cartel did to a group of people who worked for a man who couldn't pay them... horrifying.
This is why I'm fat. Try kidnapping me. Just try it.
No, I'm kidding. I'm just really lazy. Please don't kidnap me, I don't think I'd like it.
davydog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I see this posted I feel obligated to post the human trafficking hotline. Better to be safe than sorry! If it seems suspicious the least you can do is report it!
1 (888) 373-7888
ixora7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I feel lucky I was born a guy. The thought of someone just upping me and my life is over and handed to this fucking scummiest of scum piece of shit horse fucking arsehole cuntbag son of a bitch whos mother must have shat him out gives me massive creeps.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the labor is so mundane it makes no sense. Literally you have to stand still like a stand-up light while a lampshade and working light are put over you.
If you move you get things taken away. Important things.
F41th ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Including the torture they put children through to make them approving of child prostitution. What do you have to put a 6 year old through to make them be nice to a middle aged man that wants to rape them?
It is a pretty depressing thought of how large of a business human trafficking is.
And if you think that it doesn't happen in western countries, you are sadly mistaken.
HotDogen ยท 2302 points ยท Posted at 04:22:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Edit: as this has become so popular I ask two things: PLEASE give any reddit gold/silver to whoever copypastas this' NOT ME, and if you copy this, link this post due to the additional info.
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done - see below).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Each time this gets reposted, there is a TON of misinformation that follows by people who simply don't know, or have heard "information" from others who were ill informed:
Only x number of people have died in the U.S. in the past x years. Rabies is really rare.
Yes, deaths from rabies are rare in the United States, in the neighborhood of 2-3 per year. This does not mean rabies is rare. The reason that mortality is so rare in the U.S. is due to a very aggressive treatment protocol of all bite cases in the United States: If you are bitten, and you cannot identify the animal that bit you, or the animal were to die shortly after biting you, you will get post exposure treatment. That is the protocol.
Post exposure is very effective (almost 100%) if done before you become symptomatic. It involves a series of immunoglobulin shots - many of which are at the site of the bite - as well as the vaccine given over the span of a month. (Fun fact - if you're vaccinated for rabies, you may be able to be an immunoglobulin donor!)
It's not nearly as bad as was rumored when I was a kid. Something about getting shots in the stomach. Nothing like that.
In countries without good treatment protocols rabies is rampant. India alone sees 20,000 deaths from rabies PER YEAR.
The "why did nobody die of rabies in the past if it's so dangerous?" argument.
There were entire epidemics of rabies in the past, so much so that suicide or murder of those suspected to have rabies were common.
In North America, the first case of human death by rabies wasn't reported until 1768. This is because Rabies does not appear to be native to North America, and it spread very slowly. So slowly, in fact, that until the mid 1990's, it was assumed that Canada and Northern New York didn't have rabies at all. This changed when I was personally one of the first to send in a positive rabies specimen - a raccoon - which helped spawn a cooperative U.S. / Canada rabies bait drop some time between 1995 and 1997 (my memory's shot).
Unfortunately, it was too late. Rabies had already crossed into Canada.
Lots of people have survived rabies using the Milwaukee Protocol.
False. ONE woman did, and she is still recovering to this day (some 16+ years later). There's also the possibility that she only survived due to either a genetic immunity, or possibly even was inadvertently "vaccinated" some other way. All other treatments ultimately failed, even the others that were reported as successes eventually succumbed to the virus. Almost all of the attributed "survivors" actually received post-exposure treatment before becoming symptomatic and many of THEM died anyway.
Bats don't have rabies all that often. This is just a scare tactic.
You have to get the treatment within 72 hours, or it won't work anyway.
False. The rabies virus travels via nervous system, and can take several years to reach the brain depending on the path it takes. If you've been exposed, it's NEVER too late to get the treatment, and just because you didn't die in a week does not mean you're safe. A case of a guy incubating the virus for 8 years.
Please, please, PLEASE stop posting bad information every time this comes up. Rabies is not something to be shrugged off. And sadly, this kind of misinformation killed a 6 year old just this Sunday. Stop.
[deleted] ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 05:48:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies is scary and shit, but aren't most of the deaths from Rabies in underdeveloped countries? Like in the US it's less than a handful of deaths per year and most of the exposure comes from when the people were overseas. Is this because of aggressive vaccination campaign for anyone bit by an animal?
HotDogen ยท 437 points ยท Posted at 05:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Here in the U.S., even though the cost of post-exposure is around $7K, it's done on ANY person even SUSPECTED of being POSSIBLY in contact.
There was one case I had where a little girl had been bitten by her pet puppy. The protocol was for the dog to be brought into the facility and observed for 10 days. Pretty straightforward.
But the parents got all dodgy about it, not wanting to let me see the puppy. Finally, I sent the cops to their place to PHYSICALLY take them to the hospital to have the little girl started on post exposure. It'd been two weeks, and they'd been fighting me all the way.
Turned out, the puppy had died. They'd buried it on base (a major no-no) and didn't want to get busted.
So while their daughter got her first round of shots, daddy was escorted by the police and made to bring the now rotting corpse of the puppy to me. Lots of fun decapitating that one...
So I sent in the head to the lab for testing, and sure as shit, positive. Only positive puppy I'd ever seen, no idea how it got exposed.
So I literally saved that little girl's life. And the parents never so much as apologized.
If you get the post exposure treatment prior to being symptomatic, it has a near 100% success rate. It's just crazy expensive. However, joe-blow can get the 3 shot preemptive vaccination series for the low-low cost of just $750. I highly recommend it if you've got the money to burn.
According to a cited answer on quora it lasts between 2 to 3 years and if you live in a high risk environment you should get a booster shot one year after the first shot and then again every 3 to 5 years.
Into your muscle tissue: pectorals, biceps, glutes. Number of shots depends on your weight.
Source: Got the shots l.
ala1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:51 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the immunoglobulin for post exposure. It's dosed at 20 IU/kg and supplied at 150 IU/mL so a 150 lb person would need 9 mL of immunoglobulin following exposure. First, as much as possible of that volume must be injected into and around the bite, but because that's such a high volume of liquid, you usually only get ~4 mL or less in, depending on the location of the bite. The rest has to go into a big muscle such as your gluteal or lateral thigh.
The vaccine given pre exposure is a simple small volume (1 mL regardless of weight) IM injection into the deltoid. The side effects suck, but the actual injection is no worse than a flu shot.
Deyona ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 13:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But even with the vaccines, if you get bitten you need to do some post treatment. Two more shots is what my vaccination office told me. Better to be safe then sorry I guess
ala1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:14 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You get revaccinated again. One dose at the time of exposure and another 3 days later. It's the vaccine which is a simple small volume injection into your shoulder like a flu shot, not the immunoglobulin which is extremely painful and most goes directly into the bite, then whatever's left into your butt or thigh.
What's the post-exposure vaccination series like? I hear it's brutal. I mean, not as brutal as rabies, but still harsh for someone who doesn't enjoy getting shots.
Dimsml ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 07:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to be like 10 shots to the stomach, but now there are only four and these go in a muscle, like your arm or butttcheek.
All at once or over time? I seem to recall hearing this from a guy I know who got multiple shots all at once by a small team of nurses.
Quick story: I met this guy at a golf tournament when he came into the bar at the end of the day and said 'You guys aren't gonna believe this - a fox just ran up to me and bit my leg! Right in broad daylight!'
Everyone there just looked at him. Me: 'Dude, we totally believe you. Aaaand you've got rabies.'
Took him a while to get it through his head that he really, really needed to get to the hospital. But he did, and to this day his nickname is Old Yeller.
Dimsml ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 07:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, they are done on a schedule, like one immediately, one in a day, in 3 days, in a week and so on. Depends on the vaccine type, I think. I have heard old Soviet ones were like 40 (!) shots.
Here is the WHO page, has some data about schedules used:
You are correct, it used to be 40 shots (not sure about now). I remember mid-90s, parents used to tell me to beware of abandoned dogs, there were tons of them on the street, because "if the unknown dog bits you - they're going to give you 40 injections to the stomach just to be safe".
I have heard old Soviet ones were like 40 (!) shots.
Jesus, I think I'd almost rather have rabies.
Edit: for those confused why I imply I might prefer a gruesome death to getting shots, consider the possibility that I just might be going for humor here.
Tyg13 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...you read the rabies description right? I'd get 100 shots if it meant my brain didn't slowly liquefy as I spend the last 4 days of my life dying an agonizing death.
Well there are only 2,678,400 seconds in a month, so that means you would be taking a shot roughly every 2.6 seconds for a month straight if you needed to take a million shots over a month.
If you have a bite wound from a rabid animal, multiple shots are made into the wound site. It's pretty crazy. I used to run a summer camp and a rabid cat wandered onto the property and bit one of my counselors in the shin. We went to the hospital and she was given shot after shot after shot into the wound itself until her shin looked like it had a softball under it. Then she was put on the regular schedule. They don't mess around with that disease.
I've had it done after a bat bite. If they can find the wound, they will inject a shit ton of immunoglobin around the bite. Then you have to get 4 shots in each of your limbs (and they are HUGE, and the vaccine/Ig serum is very viscous) immediately, then 3, 7 and 14 days later. It was pretty painful but a million times better than having rabies.
edit: also it did not cost $7,000 lol. I think without insurance it was about $750 but my insurance covered some since it was post-exposure.
The one I got was adminstered before me and a few were leaving for Afghanistan. There were 25 of us. The side effects stated that 1 in 25 will develop fever and hydrophobia. Guess who got the side effects.
I couldn't drink water, but I was so thirsty. It was weird, because Sprite was totally fine.
It was a revulsion to drinking water. Really odd to describe. Water wouldn't go down, and any water in my nose or throat felt like being engulfed in flames.
I could drink stuff that wasn't water per se. Milk, Sprite strangely, Juices. Was for only a couple days--so my pee was brown and I had a headache, but no worse for the wear.
Well, as long as it was just the exception of repeating yourself, it's fine. I suppose that the exception of repeating yourself must be as annoying as the exception of repeating yourself.
Mine was brutal. The number of shots you get depends on body weight. If I remember right I got five-six at one time the first time (both arms, both thighs, and either one or both ass cheeks), then followed up and got two more I think in the weeks after. I felt like shit getting them (almost passed out) and felt like shit the days after. I don't mind shots but it was excessive and having that many needles going into my body was not my definition of fun.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome insight. I learned a lot today about rabies. Thanks.
Well, that's probably with the intra-dermal administration. Intramuscular requires 10x the amount of vaccine (but is more effective). Intra-dermal is only about $50 per shot in the U.S. as well, but you have to find 9 friends to get it done with you or the doctors won't do it. They have to mix up a full 1cc of vaccine either way.
I imagine more people are available to be vaccinated in Norway?
NorOa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:25:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, that makes sense. Might be, I'm not actually sure how common it is to be vaccinated against it here, since we're listed as a rabies free country.
Weird. If you're rabies free, there'd be no reason for the vaccine. I'd actually be interested in seeing what the vaccine is. If it's the full 1cc dose, I wonder if you'd be willing to ship me some? :D
NorOa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:20:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's usually taken if you're about to travel to countries with a significant risk, I would suppose. You'll be able to walk into clinics that does "travel vaccines", and get it quite quickly there.
That's fucked up. There aren't many people (thankfully) on this earth that wouldn't be completely fucking devastated by their child dying from rabies. Did they at least thank you??
Wow, I didn't know the vaccines were that expensive in the US. Here in the Philippines, a full course of ERIG would cost roughly around 150USD and PCEC would be around 25USD.
So I literally saved that little girl's life. And the parents never so much as apologized.
And they're still parents... that poor girl having to be raised by idiots.
ked_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I didn't know there was a rabies vaccine for humans. This would have been good information to have when I was a pest control tech that trapped animals. I've been in attics with 500 bats, trapped thousands of raccoons, skunks, possums, squirrels, etc... Our bosses never felt the need to give us the rabies vaccine.
Luckily we didn't have too much contact directly with the animals. They were either in cages or dead when we dealt with them so luckily no bites.
I guess it was obvious it was buried somewhere? One thing I have to ask is if the vaccination only lasts a few days for humans, how do animals get vaccinated only yearly?
I wasn't sure why they wouldn't bring the puppy in until they finally did. The father only went and dug it up when I forced his daughter to start the post exposure, because he wanted me to send it for testing to "prove it wasn't positive."
I think you have have misunderstood something somewhere. The vaccination lasts for years. I had my own titer tested at the 3 year mark, and was still 14x higher than would be considered "immune". (I had a very strong immune response to the vaccines.)
Small consolation, considering all the other stuff you have that wants to kill you.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd honestly rather be bit by one of your damn spiders or snakes and have the whole 'necrotized' tissue and pain than even run the risk of getting rabies.
We sorta do with the Australian bat lyssavirus. Same genus and poor outcomes for those infected. So many more fruit bats in the suburbs than I remember from my childhood now too....
Nope, it's like a series of tetanus shots. I've had rabies immunoglobulin serum and vaccine, it honestly wasn't that bad. The cat bite and resulting infection that led to me getting rabies shots were much worse.
Malgana ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 10:46:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically if you ever get bitten, just get the shot. Also if you live in a place where there's lots of bats, get the shot beforehand.
I've been exposed to rabies, it isn't too bad. Just shots after the fact. It's a running joke among friends. As long as you're aware you've been bitten, you'll be fine.
Not fucked, it will give you more time to get to the hospital for treatment which you may need if you're in a bat infested cave. It won't actually stop you getting rabies though...
Boro84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea thats not entirely true, it doesnt make you immune persay but if youre bitten by something with rabies and you get the shot in a timely manner you wont actually get rabies
I understand that. What I mean is if you get the shots before going travelling then happen to get bitten by something rabid then you will still need to get treatment. Having shots beforehand will give you more time to deal with that but won't actually prevent you getting rabies. At least, that was my understanding.
Boro84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an expensive one that doesn't make you immune.
I had the vaccine before travelling to africa and it was three injections over the course of several weeks EACH costing ยฃ60 (about $85). The vaccine expires in a few hours so needs to be mixed up from a powder and a special solvent a few minutes before used.
Finally my understanding is the treatment for rabies is 5 injections the first to be administered within 24 hours of exposure. By having the vaccine you only need 3 injections to treat and you have 72 hours to begin treatment.
Source/disclaimer: This is all as explained to me by the doctor and nurse who recommended and administered these for me.
Hard to tell, the NHS don't offer it in the uk for free as we have wiped out rabies so it's a choice for you to go to dangerous places. So mine was done privately in the uk(read with profit on top)
zeus17 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
legit information ..
been bitten by a dog :( (i am in the ph so imagine )
after being bitten was rushed to the hospital given a shot,then needed to go back for 7 more shots if i remeber right...
over the coourse of a 2 weeks-1 month...
plus there is a an old superstition here,that if a crazy dog bites you,you also go crazy..
Glad to hear you're ok after it, did they ever test the dog to see if it was rabid?
Also with regards to the treatment shots I heard they used to be done into your liver or Pancras (big needle into the gut area) is that still the case?
zeus17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nope never had the chance,i was the 10th guy to be bitten by the stray dog :(
nope,i rememebr having shots in both my arms,both legs and my butt..
Misinterpretation and no. The physical shot itself cannot be mass made in an injectable form, needs to be administered shortly after being processed. If an animal attacks you without being provoked or intimidated and it displays signs of being rabid then absolutely seek medical attention but if you slap a parrot and it nips you then just walk away and keep that one to yourself.
Vaccine is almost the wrong label. The vaccine lasts beyond the incident I believe, but rather than making you immune it merely slows the progress so you have longer to get treatment and need less of it.
Not sure how long the vaccine itself lasts but I had it a couple months before I traveled it's only outside the body the vaccine becomes useless in no time atall.
Aside from the financial downside which I've only heard of being passed on to the patient in the US there are absolutely zero downfalls from being vaccinated if you encounter wildlife on a regular basis or are traveling to a location not written about in journals for it's speedy clinical response times.
CDC says that it averages about $750 for the full three shot series and that there is a cheaper version for about $45 an injection. So, it's about as cheap as in every other country.
roaddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to get the full regine last fall in New York State. The ER doctor gave me that figure.
You clearly have more experience on this topic than me and are probably correct. Could the price difference be explained by the hospital or by the location? Rabies isn't that common in NY.
roaddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No idea, I was just the pin cushion on this one. First round was 5 injections, then one per week for 4 weeks. Not NYC, central New York.
no, its not like a routine shot. you have to actively seek it (so, if you are likely to be exposed to rabies or if you know you've been bitten)
jefriboy ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 16:02:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes during elementary school age there is an opportunity given at school as well as at your doctors office and there is a significant chance you have gotten it.
le_epic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
never go camping
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:32:26 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was reading it and started thinking I might have rabies but I'm just high all the time and the symptoms just randomly happen at random points, and I'm not dead.
ender91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:22 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This, is a description of me. You. ....are me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:23 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
During training we were made to watch tons of horrifying videos, many of which I've since seen are now on YouTube. Just look for "dying of rabies" on YouTube, but I warn you, it's NSFL.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was terrified of spreading it to my kids after one of the slides showed someone's 3 year old went blind from contact with their vaccination site. I postponed mine until actually deployed by claiming someone I lived with had autoimmune issues. It didn't help reading The Hot Zone, but damn that's a good book.
visit Turkey. I got bit by a dog on a hiking trip last year and went to the hospital and the whole rabies regimen along with a tetanus booster and five shots of immunoglobulin only cost 25 dollars. And actually, I didn't pay for the shots. I paid 25 dollars for the doctors appointment for her to write the prescription then all the shots were free after that.
Oh how I love to live in Denmark. Everything is free and you get all the vaccines and treatment you need. And education is free as well. All the way from you're a tiny child to you finish university. I think these to things are the primary reason, that we are the happiest people in the world. So much we don't have to worry about. And yes I know we have extremely high taxes to make this work, but trust me, it's worth it.
We are not allowed by law to send criminal people back to their own country, if that country uses torture or death penalty. So if you are from one of the states that still have the death penalty, then we legally can't send you back, if you have done something criminal that would lead to you getting the death penalty in your home state. But I do not think that's the easiest way to get here.. and you'd end up in prison here as well.
But of cause you can get Danish citizenship the normal way. It's just pretty hard and takes quite a few years normally.
Edit: of cause you would only go to prison in Denmark if what ever you did is also a criminal offence in Denmark. If you are a political refugee, I think we have to give you asylum :)
It just makes it less likely you'll contract it and more time between bite and contraction, but if there's suspected contact with rabies you need to get the full cycle.
arkzist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's another one to fuck you up: So far, in all of history there is only one documented case of someone being cured from rabies, and only through some very "fortunate" circumstances (including having it occur in a developed country with access to an innovative treatment method). She still did incur some brain damage and is not fully back to normal.
I was wondering if anyone would mention Jeanna Giese.
I'm her age and grew up in the same city. I wasn't directly friends with her (she went to the other school) but plenty of mutual friends.
She does technically have mild brain damage but she's seemingly capable of living independently now.
Edit: quick glance at her Facebook shows she's married now. Posts look just like anybody else's. According to the wiki, she just has coordination issues now. She was always rather smart and still is.
zasabi7 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:54:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought it is 5 people, treated the same way she was. Oh, and only 5/36 treatments were successful. Very encouraging!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been exposed to rabies twice, once resulted in bites and then vaccinations. The bite was from a cat, the other was a bat I killed before it could get close.
The cats were scary. The first time I was about 10, rabies was going around particularly badly that summer. The animals were all vaccinated, but alas. The cat that bit me was normally very mellow and sweet. Her breathing was ragged, there was a foamy drool sliding out of one side of her mouth, and she was twitchy. I could tell she was sick, but didn't know what it was. I tried to reach out to her and she came after me. I went and got dad, he recognized it right away. You can only test for rabies reliably through the brain, so the cat was caught and her head was sent to the lab.
It was positive, we spent the summer getting rabies shots.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:37:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost a 100% kill rate. Recently a 15 year old girl survived rabies after a doctor pretty much killed her in a deep coma and then brought her back. This allowed her body to eventually mount an immune response which eventually removed the rabies virus from her brain.
Drop bear education is prominent throughout childhood. Just like drug and sex education.
We know how to spot, avoid and handle drop bears.
Do we really want the animals in Australia that are capable of killing us having more ways to kill us?
Know someone who was attacked by a rabid coyote, got immunoglobulin of sometype, he's 10 years older than me, family related, still a jackass, but is alive. EDITED: I was like 12 when this happened, am 24 now.
Far from, it was experimental at the time, and had been used on like a handful of people at the time apparently, but I was a kid then, and I don't remember to well. I can ask him, but he probably smokes too much weed to remember.
The worst part is the level of naivety of the virus. People obviously know you don't want rabies, but I don't think they know that the appearance of symptoms means you're already dead. I got nicked by feral dog in Guatemala and it just barely broke the skin. First I told the people who owned the lodge I was staying at. The guy's advice was that if I got any symptoms I should let them know immediately... terrible advice. To play it safe, I saw two doctors there and they both told me I shouldn't worry about it. One actually told me if I didn't see symptoms for 8 days that I would be totally fine. After 8 days I thought I was worry-free.
A few nights later I decided to watch a documentary on the first girl to EVER survive rabies just because I didn't feel totally convinced based off the small amount of research I had done. There actually is a minuscule chance of survival. What they do is they put your body into such a deep coma that the virus can't act and your body has some time to initiate an immune response adequate enough to fight it off. The thing is that in the process your brain still gets absolutely scrambled. You basically have to start from square one, relearning motor functions etc after they wake you up. I think it's called the Milwaukee Protocol
After watching this documentary, I was about to shit my pants. I was already sick with a viral throat infection before getting nicked so every day I could not help but wonder if those symptoms were the throat infection of the beginning of the end.
It was 16 days after the nick that I finally got the shots. Just reading your post brings me back to how fucking scared I was at the prospect of it all.
A lot of people gave Australia shit when they didn't let Johnny Depp's dogs into Australia; but what you mentioned is the exact reason why. We do not have rabies anywhere in our country and we'd like to keep it like that.
Damn, what a description. I don't know why it reminded me a bit of the Flare virus from The Maze Runner series. Seriously though, I wouldn't want to go through that. Not like anyone would want to go through that.
Rabies is what inspired zombies and all of that and very probably also the Flare in the Maze Runner series. It's terrifying, but now you know its weakness: hydrophobia.
HEY PSA FOR THE RABIES VACCINE: if you live near a plasma donation center, they often have rabies programs where they give you the vaccine so they can get your sweet, sweet antibody-infested blood-juice.
My roommate's doing the program now and they pay him an extra $10 per shot. I'm going to do the one coming up in April (couldn't do this one because like a week before signups started they took signups for tetanus and I did that).
I was transfixed reading your post on Rabies. Great wordsmithing to go with your expertise on the subject. Thank you for an educational, albeit scary, post.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:29:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was one of the most metal things I've ever read.
For Michelle, of course, there was no doubt of [rabies] exposure. She had two fang marks on her leg, raccoon blood all over her clothes, and a battered raccoon carcass in a plastic bag. But getting treatment proved to be its own type of horror story.
First she called the vet, who told her to call the Health Department. She called the Health Department, but they were closed on weekends. So she left a message, and called another Health Department in a different county. Same thing. Eventually, she just went to the emergency room on her own, where she was told that this wasn't an emergency. She had 10 to 14 days before she needed to get a shot, and she should just call the Health Department again after the weekend.
Early Monday morning, the guy from the Health Department-- where she had left her first message on Saturday-- called her back. She told him everything was fine. She had been to the hospital.
Michelle: And I said, well, I was told I had 10 to 14 days. And he says, you don't have 10 to 14 days. You have 72 hours from the moment that you are bitten. He says, you must have a shot by the end of today.
The man on the phone wasn't in Michelle's county. So he told her to go to her own Health Department and they would give her the shot. But when she called there, they said they needed to test the carcass for rabies first, which meant sending it to the rabies laboratory, two hours away in Albany. Michelle begged them to just give her the shot first and worry about Albany later. So they made arrangements for her to go to the closest hospital in yet another county.
Michelle: So my husband and I go. And of course, we have to wait time in the emergency room. And then we get in. And then, when we're inside, then someone comes and tells me that I live in Putnam County, and I'm in a hospital in Westchester, and that they can't give me the shots.
Alex Blumberg: You survived the attack by the raccoon. You survived hitting it over the head with a tire iron 50 times. And then the thing that finally brought you to your knees was the US health care system.
...And then she needed five follow-up shots, but she couldn't find a doctor to give her any. She called eight doctors. And none of them would even see her until she threatened to call the State Board of Health.
Nihht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:37:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really fucking glad I live in Australia. By some fucking miracle we don't have rabies here.
I was talking about this with one of the poms at work today actually. I would have absolutely no idea what to do regarding rabies as it is just not an issue.
It's really funny how I never heard of rabies until a year ago and I'm 27 now. When I was little my mother would tell me of this extremely dangerous disease "Rabies" that is transmitted by dogs. And if I ever saw a dog that has it's mouth covered in white foam then I should stay away and tell her.
I was a kid and I forgot about that and never have I even thought much of it ever again, until one day I came up with the idea of reading Besnilo by Borislav Pekic. Besnilo is the name for Rabies in my language and it's root comes from a word Besan which means sleepless, furios, mad, without sleep, etc.
Note: Rabies in a book Besnilo is a mutated virus that doesn't really exist. Don't know if it's possible for Rabies to mutate that way or to be engineered in a lab, but if it were we're all fucked.
It didn't even cross my mind that book is about Rabies, I thought it's about some kind of man that went mad :D Until I went on Rabies wikipedia page. Every single thing OP said about Rabies is true. I don't know if I should be more scared of it, or fascinated by it. When I heard it has 100% mortality rate after the symptoms show I was in awe. The problem is that I have been bitten by dogs quite a few times and although I would report every single bite to my parents, some other kid might not think of it as much or would be afraid to do so.
I know that most countries have taken measures against rabies and it's non-existent in civilized parts of the world but you never know with odds. Governments most certainly didn't go around torching every single cave of bats around, and all it takes is one bite.
As for the mutation, it makes for good movies, and scary media fodder to justify paychecks for the CDC and WHO, but the truth is that it takes MILLENNIA of steady mutation for a virus to change its transmission vector. There's never been a single recorded case of it happening even over the span of a few hundred years. The media likes to make it sound like you can just flip a switch in the DNA and it'll suddenly go from fluid-borne to air-borne, but it just doesn't work like that...
But this isn't to say that we won't some day dig up a sample of some RELATED virus in Antarctica or something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*from a cave in sub-Saharan Africa. That's where the really nasty shit usually lives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's giving you VERY dangerous and misleading information. Google "incubation period of rabies in humans" and "incubation period of rabies" and you'll see 3 months is quite common. While it's highly unusual, this study was done on a case where the incubation could have been as much as 25 years. The problem is, we simply do not know what the longest incubation period is. We do know of some that were over a year.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So my cat bit me in July, he's still alive and well. Am I good?
I don't know that he's ever been vaccinated but he's only been outdoors on a leash, and not at all since around that time in July.
I even went to the doctor and they grilled me about everything, specifically to determine rabies risk, no treatment was given aside from antibiotics. Still, i'm shitting bricks now, or is that the rabies?! Oh my god.
Yes, you're fine. If the animal is still alive after 10 days, even if it HAD rabies at the time, it couldn't have been contagious. Just like with humans, once they start showing symptoms, they're dead pretty soon after.
But you really do need to get him vaccinated. It's too cheap, and too necessary not to.
For this exact reason when I took an extended trip through Egypt, India, and Indonesia, the first vaccine I asked for was for rabies. What a horrible way of dying.
At what point during all this happening, do you attack a kid and mother stranded in a car?
Boro84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a friend of mine and I were conversing and we both agree, with there is going to be a "zombie apocalypse", its going to be because of a rabies outbreak
There is a video of a child dying of rabies, his screams are some of the most horrifying sounds I have heard, it was like he was turning into a zombie. No I won't link it I don't want to see it again.
One of the shocking turns in Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaime McPheeters comes when their mountain guide gets bitten by a rabid animal, and they have to take the one person in their group who knew a safe path through the Rockies and shoot him.
okay I should NOT have read this at one in the morning when i'm getting a slight headache and feeling twitchy and anxious.
lampell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After so many other long posts I've read on reddit, I half expected the ending to either consist of being ripped for three fiddy or something involving your aunt and uncle in Bel Air.
Duckism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
actually there is one documented case of a person got cured from it. so it's not quite 100%
Yes, she's one of the (few) survivors of the Milwaukee Protocol. I think in total there have been 3 or 4, but I've not followed it closely. Even with the protocol, the death rate is in the 90% range.
On further research it appears that the others DID ultimately succumb to the rabies once they were woken from the coma. To date there is only one survivor who may have even been an anomaly.
Robdog_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you get vaccinated you are mostly immune to this though. Is that right?
It's a 3 phase vaccination (unless you're doing the intra-dermal vaccine, which I'd prefer to see us all go to, but it's unlikely to happen). But yes, once the full cycle is through, your titer will be strong enough that you don't have to worry for a few years.
Fortunately, most rodents don't really "carry" rabies. The virus seems to fly through their systems so fast, they don't make a decent host. So you'll never hear of a "rabid squirrel" or rat.
I've seen some videos of where people have late stage rabies...that footage is haunting - and I've not seen something I'd call more haunting in my life.
I've seen videos of people burned alive, blown apart, executed, drowned, beheaded, firing squad, hanging, etc. and the worst I can think of, would be late stage rabies videos.
I think I may have had a run in with a rabid bat. I was riding my bike to work and I saw a bat lying on the ground twitching, and covered in some white almost net like thing. I got a bit closer and it started freaking out on the ground so I booked it out of there, when I returned, it was gone. Idk if that is a sign of rabies or not but it scared the shit out of me at the time.
I had a friend spend a large chunk of money to be vaccinated after a bat that got in her house flew into her. I thought she was being silly but I guess I need to apologize.
Probably how insanely close the entire world came to nuclear annihilation in 1983.
"On September 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command at Serpukhov-15, a bunker where the Soviets monitored their satellite-based detection systems. Shortly after midnight, panic broke out when an alarm sounded signaling that the United States had fired five Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, toward Russia. The warning was a false alarmโone of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of sunlight off clouds near Montana as a missile launchโbut to the Soviets, it appeared the United States had started a nuclear war.
Protocol demanded that Serpukhov-15 report any signs of a missile launch to the Soviet high command, but Petrov had a hunch the warning was an error. He knew the new satellite system was mistake-prone, and he also reasoned that any nuclear strike by the Americans would come in the form of hundreds of missiles, not just five. With only minutes to make a decision, Petrov chose to ignore the blaring warning alarms and reported the launch as a false alarmโa move that may have averted a nuclear holocaust. The incident remained classified until after the Cold War ended, but Petrov later received several humanitarian awards for his extraordinary actions, and was even honored by the United Nations."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am obligated to mention that my 'grooms cake' at my wedding was a regular cake printed with the picture of George Washington holding his opponents wife's hand.... In a jar of Acid.
Pretty sure he wouldn't have been responsible for the nuclear holocaust. He'd just be responsible for 5 unaswered nuclear attacks. Had the attack been real there'd have been a nuclear holocaust with or without his report.
It's kind of the perfect, risk-free call, actually. If he was wrong, the whole world was gonna get nuked anyway, so there'd be no one around to fire him.
medsl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, there would have been massive responses. They would just have been delayed by the few minutes it takes for another early warning system to pick the attack up.
Actually he would not have been responsible because only five nukes would have been launched instead of 5 plus the entire USSR stash. Being wrong and taking 5 nukes to the motherland does not the apocalypse make.
The response though, five nukes would dampen very little Soviet response.
Obligatory this didn't just happen, I just got out of the hospital after 25 years of recovery. So I'm in Russia and shit, and these damn Americans are at our necks threatening us with nukes. Our fucking leader thought it would be a good idea to save money wherever we could so he gets this sketchy ass satellite from Craigslist. About a week into it's operation it sees a reflection of the sun off the damn clouds that fucking cover the iceberg we call home and thinks the Americans are bombing us. Me being me think the worst and immediately send out 150 nukes back to the Americans. This is where the fuck up happens and damn was it huge. Turns out the Americans didn't send out any nukes at all! I just started a nuclear war because our Craigslist satellite malfunctioned! It's gonna be so hard to find a new job now! LOL
Are people not realizing that if he had gotten it wrong, then every single human being would have been dead within the hour? If they had been real missiles, then the Soviets would have responded with more missiles, and this would have triggered mutually assured destruction. He wouldn't be around to be fired.
Now that I think of it, he made the only rational choice. If the warning is real and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets return fire and MAD is triggered). If the warning is real and he doesn't send the message, then everyone is dead (the impact of the missiles leads the Soviets to return fire, MAD is triggered). If it's a false alarm and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets launch their missiles and MAD is triggered). That leaves us with only one possible scenario for not killing everyone: not sending the message and hoping that it's a false alarm. That is literally the only thing he could have done that wouldn't have guaranteed the imminent destruction of the planet.
Of course, in the moment and at that level of stress it's highly unlikely the anyone would be capable of making that assessment, but it sort of makes you wonder if he had already played out this scenario in his head beforehand.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIFU by ending the world in a Nuclear Holocaust.
Zireall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov. We've had issues with Petrov at previous nuclear strikes. Some of the Kremlin staff lobbied to bring him back for the Cold War, feeling he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him anymore.
1) Petrov. We've had issues with Petrov in previous cold wars. Some Soviet people lobbied to bring him back for '83, feeling that he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
2) As long as we're firing missiles, we are also firing them at the production company that we've been working with on the Shanghai Major. They will be nuked, and we hope to get the main event hosted in CIS instead.
My Dad worked in the missile silos during the height of the Cold War. He was always extremely resentful of the military, because after an extensive education in business and accounting, he assumed he'd be put to work in logistics somewhere, but because he had whatever qualities they were looking for in his psychological profile, he was placed in a nuclear silo.
He used to tell me about drills where they had to turn the key, if the other guy didn't, they had to shoot him. But of course, they were drills. But the guys turning the key didn't know that.
For all I know he was making it up, but Dad wasn't the kind of guy who made stuff like that up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are people not realizing that if he had gotten it wrong, then every single human being would have been dead within the hour? If they had been real missiles, then the Soviets would have responded with more missiles, and this would have triggered mutually assured destruction. He wouldn't be around to be fired.
Now that I think of it, he made the only rational choice. If the warning is real and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets return fire and MAD is triggered). If the warning is real and he doesn't send the message, then everyone is dead (the impact of the missiles leads the Soviets to return fire, MAD is triggered). If it's a false alarm and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets launch their missiles and MAD is triggered). That leaves us with only one possible scenario for not killing everyone: not sending the message and hoping that it's a false alarm. That is literally the only thing he could have done that wouldn't have guaranteed the imminent destruction of the planet.
Of course, in the moment and at that level of stress it's highly unlikely the anyone would be capable of making that assessment, but it sort of makes you wonder if he had already played out this scenario in his head beforehand.
Petrov. We've had issues with Petrov at previous events. Some Soviet command people lobbied to bring him back for Serpukhov-15, feeling that he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
Well, in reality, he got demoted, and eventually had psychological issues.
Petrov himself states he was initially praised by Votintsev and promised a reward,[2][9] but recalls that he was also reprimanded for improper filing of paperwork under the pretext that he had not described the incident in the war diary.[9][10]
He received no reward. According to Petrov, this was because the incident and other bugs found in the missile detection system embarrassed his superiors and the influential scientists who were responsible for it, so that if he had been officially rewarded, they would have had to be punished.[2][5][9][10] He was reassigned to a less sensitive post,[10] took early retirement (although he emphasizes that he was not "forced out" of the army, as it is sometimes claimed by Western sources),[9] and suffered a nervous breakdown.[10]
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the alarm wasn't false, assuming the missiles disable Russia from retaliating, then by not alerting the government he would have saved American lives; lives of the enemy but a net gain for humanity.
Jcit878 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats why i find it interesting. In the end, he did the 'right' thing either way. However one way prevented a war and the other may have saved his country. Tough situation to be in
Mutually assured destruction. If the US really had launched nukes Russia was over either way.
6to23 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 nuclear missiles isn't going to do that much damage to a country the size of Russia. So not a big problem even if he got it wrong. They'll be launching hundreds back at the US in no time if it was real.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:09:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of Russia's population is very concentrated five nukes could devestate them.
I don't think they had any way of preventing that devastation once they ICBMs are in the air. Early warning would allow a faster retaliation and allow a missile silo to fire before it was hit.
Correct, but he's still right to correct the guy. 5 decent yeild nuclear weapons could kill over 10 percent of their population. That plus the loss of manufacturing capacity, political leadership and industrial knowledge would irreperably cripple a country to the point they'd likely never again be even a regional power for at least this age and would even more likely collapse into smaller states.
Edit: Recalculated using period correct population density and warhead yield
To be fair, 5 ICBM's isn't just 5 nuclear warheads. Each Minuteman III (first deployed in 1970, so only theoretically ready by '73) carried 3 warheads of at least 300kt each. That's kinda scary. That's enough firepower to destroy 15 Soviet cities. And sure the USSR would have been able to launch hundreds back, but then the USA would have launched hundreds as well.
The issue is that even the initial 15 warheads would be enough to kill millions of people. And with no real ability to stop the warheads, it's assured strikes.
Good thing MAD, while crazy, works.
Now just imagine if the Peacekeeper had actually been deployed. 20 warheads...
Dabat1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:14:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Depends on where they are aimed. Five warheads aimed into Siberia wont do anything. But five MIRVs aimed at Murmansk, Vladivostok, St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Moscow and Omsk would have crippled the Soviet government, military and their anti-US strategic missile forces.
I'm going to be honest here, if he had got it wrong, Russia might have been in rune, but the US would have been completely torn apart by the rest of the world. Either way, if he launched nukes back, or not, a world wide nuclear war would have started, likely ending up with the death of billions. Either way, it's not like Russia would have lost the ability to retaliate after being hit by 5 nukes.
Under normal circumstances entirely true, MAD and all, however in this case if the US fired nukes and the Russians didn't respond before they landed the Russians would never have a chance to fire back because they'd all be dead from the blasts, which would be a US victory.
Now granted, from the moral standpoint yes there is no winner because millions are dead but from a strategic one Russia has been nuked to oblivion and the US hasn't, pointing to a US victory.
Even if he got it wrong, he'd still be slightly mitigating (maybe) the effects of a global nuclear holocaust. If the US and USSR launched all their missiles at each other, there would be between zero and a few humans alive right now. If one just obliterated the other without a response, there'd be between a few and a handful of humans alive right now. Either way, he made the right decision. And any American counterpart that made a similar decision would be making the right decision.
If he got it wrong they still would of had enough in their arsenal to retaliate plenty. Everyone in the works would have been screwed if nuclear war actually happened
If he got it wrong, the bombs would have exploded in five locations, and Russia would have had more than enough remaining ICBMs to counter-attack. He did the right thing.
I mean they still had time to launch. The thing with nuclear warfare is that they just need to press a button minutes before getting hit. They won't be around to see their revenge but it doesn't matter. All of the developed world with the possible exceptions of East Asia and Australia would be wiped out. The fallout and nuclear winter would take care of any survivors. Even with just USA firing everything and USSR not retaliating the entire hemisphere would be fucked.
If he'd got it wrong, five nukes would have gone off and the odds are hundreds would have been launched shortly thereafter. He did the right thing either way you look at it. One way is a chance for no death - the other way, we would have been screwed either way.
Uh, you realise those 5 missiles wouldnt destroy whole Russia? Whole world would be fucked because Russia would fire million rockets back and ofc America aswell
Lumin0s ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:43:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn straight. Man is an american hero, regardless if he wasn't american. Sometimes it's hard to respect the communists, but this guy was uber intelligent and is literally 100% responsible for every single one of us being here.
[deleted] ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 03:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's also a world hero. Nuclear war wouldn't have just obliterated the US and Russia you know
juandh ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait you're telling me there are parts that aren't America or Commie?
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There used to be a phrase: "Why, that's mighty white of you." It was intended as a compliment.
xenidus ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:35:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I read it first and was like 'Okay sure maybe a little too sentimental but great' and then I read this and went back and youre totally right. I didnt even think twice. Guess that speaks to the general isolation Americans live in from the rest of the world in a broad sense. Largely tuned into only the goings-on and interests of ourselves.
So you're saying that the rest of the world doesn't live in general isolation and are tuned into the going-ons and interests of their own, first and foremost?
hiS_oWn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, but it's harder to pretend like your the only one in the building when the people in the penthouse suite are base jumping off the roof while lobbing smoke flares, downing scotch, and shouting "AMERICA!"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the whole damned English-speaking world watches American TV and movies and gets American news. We all know what the USA is up to because all y'all drown everything else out.
Well, population-wise, the US makes up the vast majority of the English-speaking world.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll give you "majority" but not "vast". USA has like 65% of the world's native English speakers, but once you add in people who speak English as a second language, the USA is probably closer to only 20-25%. (Don't forget that English is still an official language in places like India.)
That said, in addition to my original point about the USA exporting its culture in English, all y'all also export a ton of your media translated into foreign languages. Everybody except for North Korea gets American movies and pop music.
Yeah, "vast" was an overstatement, but when you said "English-speaking world" I thought you were talking about the countries in which English is the primary language. I don't think American media "drowns everything else out" in countries where English is only a second language.
With that said, I agree with your general point.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I should apologize for coming off so strongly. Sorry about that. It's just one of my pet peeves that here in Canada, I'm still inundated with American media to the extent that Canadian media sometimes struggles to find airtime. (On the plus side, we do promote our stuff pretty well, which lessens my frustration.)
Oh, no worries. I didn't take your previous message to be harsh or anything.
Just curious: why do you prefer Canadian media to American media? I consume tons of Canadian media (from TV to radio to podcasts, etc), as well as tons of British media, and I don't really see why media from one country would be preferable to the other. Its country of origin seems pretty irrelevant to me.
Oh, by the way, I've lived in Canada so I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm just curious what about it is bothersome to you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically, I think it's just a national pride thing. Like, something being of American origin has never ever stopped me from enjoying it, but if I find out it's Canadian that definitely gives it a bonus in my mind.
If I had to guess, I'd say my attitude is probably a product of that national Canadian inferiority complex. We're so proximate and so similar, yet so much smaller (except geographically) compared to the USA that sometimes we can't even tell the difference, so I think it's sort of like rooting for hometown David against Goliath.
Also, at least entertainment-wise, I really do think we've produced some great stuff. And truth be told, yes, often I really can't tell which country something originates from without looking it up, so this is definitely an issue of small variations. (Also note: I tend to count in Canada's favour any joint Canadian-American productions or American productions starring Canadians. Deadpool is a Canuck.)
v3scor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or he could just mean that Petrov was not only a hero for the nation he actually served, but was even a hero for the nation that his was at war against.
This just in: Reddit account /u/Lumin0s is actually the account for every single American citizen on Earth and all comments posted by it are representative of their collective beliefs. More at 8.
Lumin0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:57 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can accept that. Although, I'll be less proud when Trump gets elected
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was more like "he's an honorary american because how can you hate a guy who saved the fucking planet."
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germany was incredibly ove-extended when they invaded Russia. Without American involvement, sure Russia would likely have still won eventually (though they would have been fighting a war on 2 fronts). Alone with no one to keep Germany busy (and destroy their infrastructure) and no one to fight off the Japanese, I don't think things would have gone well for Russia.
Nobody is saying help of America didnt sped things up, however main player was Russia and i see people on reddit acting all the time like USA came in like Superman and saved everyone from inevitable loss to nazis
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or, y'know, just a hero...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also got a dishonorable discharge from the Russian military, if I remember correctly, because his hesitation (even though absolutely warranted) suggested that he could not be trusted to be 100 percent compliant or something like that
Not at all. He was praised by his superiors, but he received no reward because if he did it would mean that his higher ups fucked up and would have to be punished. He took an early retirement soon after (which was his own decision).
Petrov underwent intense questioning by his superiors about his judgment. Initially, he was praised for his decision.[2] General Yury Votintsev, then commander of the Soviet Air Defense's Missile Defense Units, who was the first to hear Petrov's report of the incident (and the first to reveal it to the public in the 1990s), states that Petrov's "correct actions" were "duly noted."[2] Petrov himself states he was initially praised by Votintsev and promised a reward,[2][9] but recalls that he was also reprimanded for improper filing of paperwork under the pretext that he had not described the incident in the war diary.[9][10]
He received no reward. According to Petrov, this was because the incident and other bugs found in the missile detection system embarrassed his superiors and the influential scientists who were responsible for it, so that if he had been officially rewarded, they would have had to be punished.[2][5][9][10] He was reassigned to a less sensitive post,[10] took early retirement (although he emphasizes that he was not "forced out" of the army, as it is sometimes claimed by Western sources),[9] and suffered a nervous breakdown.[10]
The phrase that has earned many Darwin Awards.... but Petrov is the exception.... What's his secret? Can he see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?!!
He's a doctor who said fuck to France and became a Sailor and then End up living the rest of his life being an adventurer In Vietnam, and he then discovered the remedy to the BUBONIC PLAGUE (Which killed 1/3 of humanity) !
He helped the local children and was recocgnized as a Saint There !
After Vietnam independance, they got rid to anything which was link to the french colonial era except for him and he has still street named after him in every big cities in Vietnam.
Oh and he also discovered how to cultivate rubber !
He didn't do nothing. He second guessed the computer and reported a false alarm. Following protocol (not making his own decisions) would have ended things for all of us. He absolutely saved the world.
I'm not saying Petrov did the wrong thing, but it's a huge overstatement to say that he "absolutely saved the world". There is pretty much zero chance that reporting the erroneous detection up the chain of command would have resulted in a nuclear launch. Petrov was monitoring only one of several nuclear detection systems. The US and USSR both used a mix of satellites, ground based radar, and ship-based radar to detect incoming launches. What would have almost certainly happened is that an officer would notice that only 1 of multiple systems was reporting a launch, and determined it to be a false alarm.
There a redundancies and safeguards in place to protect against this situation. The same thing actually happened in the United States, not only once, but twice (at least). The soldiers in Petrov's place did follow protocol and pass the alert up the chain of command. In both cases, they were recognized as erroneous alerts within a few minutes.
One was when technicians accidentally ran a tape simulating a nuclear attack. 10 planes were scrambled and some bases were put on alert, but within a few minutes officers noticed that only 1 detection system was reporting an attack, while others were reporting nothing.
A man who was in charge of potentially starting nuclear holocaust did not save the world, he almost ended it.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:03:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world would probably be better off with less humans. So he actually prolonged the destruction of earth.
Mirria_ ยท 257 points ยท Posted at 03:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was some incident too during the Cuban missile crisis where a Russian sub was being hit by depth charges and they decided to surrender rather than launch nukes, which wasn't even an unanimous decision by the commanding staff.
Just so we're clear here it was the second in command of the B-59, Vasili Arkhipov, who refused to authorize the captain's order which had the political officer's authorization to launch nukes.
He was the commander of the sub flotilla and was stationed on B-59. If he were stationed on another sub then the torpedoes could have been launched with only the authorization of the captain and the political officer, which the sub already had. It was a hair's breadth from happening, and it was pure luck that this guy was on the right sub at the right moment in history.
And just for a little more clarity of the situation, Russia was installing nuclear missiles at the request of Cuba. This sub was near Cuban waters. The US pushed the world incredibly close to nuclear war with its recklessness and it's only due to the restraint of the USSR, and particular people within the USSR, that a nuclear war didn't break out.
figec ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, this incident is the closest we came to nuclear war. And I completely disagree that it was US recklessness that is to blame. While Kruschev was indeed driven by the deployment of IRBMs in Turkey to strategically respond, they went further in that it was they who gave their commanders in the field much looser restrictions in the use of weapons. In this situation, the order was that if there was a hull breach, commanders can use their nuclear torpedoes to respond.
The Cubans are also to blame as they pressured the Soviets to field nuclear FROGs pointed at the US Guantanamo base and were much more eager to use them out of the justifiable fear of an invasion.
So while the US was being aggressive in protecting its interests, it was the Soviets and Cubans who were much less hesitant to turn a conventional situation into a nuclear one.
EDIT: changed Russian to Soviet in order to seem less ignorant
Yanto5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel depth chargibg a submarine you arent at war with counts as agressive.
figec ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US didn't depth charge the submarines. The Cony (or was it the Beale?) used practice charges to try to signal the Soviet sub to surface. These were essentially hand grenades and the Soviets had the technical capability to discern the difference.
The Soviet leadership put the world in a dangerous position as they gave the hull breach order knowing their subs would be out of contact for a while due to the operating orders they were given (they were not to make contact with the US fleet so surfacing to make radio contact with the Soviet fleet was next to impossible). Rather than sit back on a position of caution, they opted for a position of literally the most extreme escalation. B-59 had been out of contact with Soviet leadership and were lead to believe prior to going dark that war was imminent. At the time the Cony was dropping the practice charges, captain Savitsky and his crew were exhausted, without any information on the situation, frightened and making a lot of mistakes. They were not put in that position by the Americans, but by the Soviet leadership.
I can see a reasoned argument about using the FROGs had the US Marines made a beachhead at Tarara as the Cubans would not have been able to stop an invasion conventionally. I would still disagree as the Soviet nuclear weapons were not there to protect Cuba but only to counter the strategic threat sitting in Turkey. Even if the US sunk a Soviet sub with conventional weapons, use of nuclear weapons in response would not have been justified. And certainly making loud noises in the ocean is not a cause to use nuclear weapons, either.
The Cony (or was it the Beale?) used practice charges to try to signal the Soviet sub to surface. These were essentially hand grenades and the Soviets had the technical capability to discern the difference.
That's a hilarious rationalization. You don't see why this could be considered an act of aggression? I might go fire a couple of blanks at a police officer or something...
figec ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not hilarious and 5 grenades and sonar pinging were the accepted procedures in place at the time to request an unknown and potentially hostile sub to surface and identify. It was used effectively to get at least two other Soviet subs to surface and identify themselves (well, they gave fictitious names, but did surface and communicate).
However, you are not alone in your disbelief at how stupid that was in the context of the quarantine. When Kennedy was told about the practice on the morning of October 24th, he face-palmed. Robert Kennedy recounted that when "Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara reviewed the use of practice depth charges (PDCs), the size of hand grenades, to signal the submarines, 'those few minutes were the time of greatest worry to the President. His hand went up to his face & he closed his fist.'"
Yeah, but if you shot blanks at a police officer a reasonable response would be firing back with their hand gun. Not calling in a carpet bomb of the general area the suspect was in. Besides, the US was blockading Cuba and the Soviets tried to sneak past the blockade, as a Sovet officer I would have expected the Americans to try everything in their power to stop my submarine, depth charges included.
BBA935 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:20:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This really should be a thing. This single person's action affected the course of every living thing's existence on Earth for the better. Is there anyone in history that can be said to have actually without a shadow of a doubt prevented the end of the world single handedly?
I am sure there are other people that have done similar things and we just haven't heard about them. I think honoring Petrov is emblematic. It isn't just for him, but it is for everyone that made a rational decision to stop world war 3.
SilasX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recommend "celebrating" it by making a conscious effort to avoid escalating conflicts with others, just as he did.
t33j4f ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spock did a great thing, but he only saved the boat, not the world.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he hadn't done what he done did, the US probably could have thought it was a nuclear attack on then, and launched at Russia in retaliation. This happened relatively close to the coast of Charleston.
yarow12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:46 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This should be an official day of the year celebrated by both the USA and Russia.
That would be great, but it is impossible right now. Given the lukewarm relations between the US and Russia, neither one wants to admit to a weakness. Russia would have to admit that an officer stopped a catastrophe by violating orders, and the US would have to admit that a Soviet officer prevented a nuclear exchange.
That means your parents were probably getting schwifty a lot during that week between christmas and new years when nobody gives a fuck about responsibilities.
My sister, myself, and my brother all had birthdays within the same week (I was born mid September, 1983). I heard from my parents that when my dad was working as an executive for Zellers (a defunct Canadian corporation) the week between Xmas and new years was the only time they had together.
There are many other instances of stuff like this. Like in 1979 when a computer mixed up 0s with 2s at Cheyenne Mountain. 2,222 missiles is not something you want to see on the Big Screen.
Also during the Cuban Missile Crisis, crazy already, a US ship firing warning shots at a Soviet Nuclear Armed submarine. They though that WWIII had started and 2 out of 3 people said to fire a nuclear torpedo. But luckily under the code, all 3 of them had to authorize the attack.
Also during the CMC, a US spy planes where told not to fly over the USSR due to the tensions, but one accidentally did. Soviet fighters where sent to intercept it, and American nuclear armed fighters where sent to escort the U2 out of Soviet airspace.
Finally in 1995 a rocket was sent up to study the Aurora Borealis. But the probelm was that someone forgot to tell Moscow and they thought that the rocket was a Trident II SLBM. It appeared even more so when the stages began to detach, which the Russians thought was the MIRV system being carried out.
For the 1995 one the scientist informed 40 countries including Russia but somehow the heads-up didn't reach the people operating the radar alert system, probably due to bureaucracy fuck ups. This one was much closer since it wasn't just some individual deciding whether to pass the information onto the authorities, but the authorities themselves were aware of the signs and ready to perform nuclear retaliation (Yeltsin had the launch keys activated and ready). It probably helped that this was in 1995 which was a time with much less tension compared to the height of the Cold War, and the fact that Russia was much more cooperative with the West during the decade after the USSR collapsed, which made an actual nuclear strike seem rather unlikely.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:42:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but one accidentally did.
Bullshit that was an accident. That's something they did throughout the war. "Let's fly a plane over to see if they're serious". It was just a show of force. If the Soviets had wanted it to be taken seriously, they would have fired SAM's instead of sending up fighters. Fighters are usually scrambled against aircraft from a different country. We do it today. If a Russian Tu-95 flies up over Canada, we will absolutely send something up (F-15's would be my guess) to intercept them. We won't shoot them down unless something drastic happens. I met a man who flew in EC-121's and EC-135's during the Cold War. He would fly up over communist countries and they had various anti air defenses that would go through their first stages (tracking) and they would keep an eye on them and mark them on a map.
The official story States that the Aurora Borealis led the plane off course. Also I don't think at that time SAM's could reach that height. U2's were designed to fly super high to avoid being shot down.
The official story States that the Aurora Borealis led the plane off course. Also I don't think at that time SAM's could reach that height. U2's were designed to fly super high to avoid being shot down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Famously a U2 was shot down by a SAM.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did we die?
acouvis ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:19:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vasili Arkhipov, the same guy who was in charge of the Widow-maker, is equally credited with preventing a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis:
On 27 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of eleven United States Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph located the diesel-powered nuclear-armed Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine B-59 near Cuba. Despite being in international waters, the Americans started dropping practice signaling depth charges, explosives intended to force the submarine to come to the surface for identification. There had been no contact from Moscow for a number of days and, although the submarine's crew had earlier been picking up U.S. civilian radio broadcasts, once B-59 began attempting to hide from its U.S. Navy pursuers, it was too deep to monitor any radio traffic. Those on board did not know whether war had broken out or not.[5][6] The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, decided that a war might already have started and wanted to launch a nuclear torpedo.[7]
Unlike the other subs in the flotilla, three officers on board the B-59 had to agree unanimously to authorize a nuclear launch: Captain Savitsky, the political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and the second-in-command Arkhipov. Typically, Russian submarines armed with the "Special Weapon" only required the captain to get authorization from the political officer to launch a nuclear torpedo. However, due to Arkhipov's position as flotilla commander, the B-59's captain also was required to gain Arkhipov's approval. An argument broke out, with only Arkhipov against the launch.[8]
Even though Arkhipov was only second-in-command of the submarine B-59, he was in fact commander of the entire submarine flotilla, including the B-4, B-36 and B-130, and equal in rank to Captain Savitsky. According to author Edward Wilson, the reputation Arkhipov had gained from his courageous conduct in the previous year's Soviet submarine K-19 incident also helped him prevail.[7] Arkhipov eventually persuaded Savitsky to surface and await orders from Moscow. This effectively averted the nuclear warfare which probably would have ensued if the nuclear weapon had been fired.[9] The submarine's batteries had run very low and the air-conditioning had failed, so it was forced to surface amidst its U.S. pursuers and head home.[10] Washington's message that practice depth charges were being used to signal the submarine to surface never reached B-59, and Moscow claims it has no record of receiving it either.
More like, how about this guy gets EVERY AWARD AVAILABLE ON THE Fucking PLANET.
This gave me chills man.
mziff ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:42:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a pretty amazing documentary about this called "The Man Who Saved The World" that follows him around as he goes to the UN to get an award and retells all about it. It's interesting to see how it changed him and his point of view on it all.
antsugi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:48:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why it's always important to have that guy at work that knows the ins and outs and quirks of the machines
Sloptit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:27:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ramn_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:41:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And here I am, a young Swede, slowly munching away at my last cold Swedish meatball while reading this in total peace. Man, time's really changed. I mean, not for us, we were pretty much the same throughout, but yours... damn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't all meatballs in your country Swedish meatballs? Also, enjoy!
Ramn_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be surprised. A lot of German meatballs. Yes, German meatballs. Heresy. Who do they think they are? Do they know who we are?
Lol I was about to say, before I read the second half of your post that your parents probably ate cold meatballs too during the news broadcast of the Cuban missile crisis or something
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war
If you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history. An American spy plane had been shot down over Cuba while another U2 had got lost and strayed into Soviet airspace. As these dramas ratcheted tensions beyond breaking point, an American destroyer, the USS Beale, began to drop depth charges on the B-59, a Soviet submarine armed with a nuclear weapon.
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The exhausted Savitsky assumed that his submarine was doomed and that world war three had broken out. He ordered the B-59's ten kiloton nuclear torpedo to be prepared for firing. Its target was the USS Randolf, the giant aircraft carrier leading the task force.
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The launch of the B-59's nuclear torpedo required the consent of all three senior officers aboard. Arkhipov was alone in refusing permission. It is certain that Arkhipov's reputation was a key factor in the control room debate. SOURCE
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world almost ended multiple times during that period. There were Russians living in the states who had the authority to launch a nuclear strike without the approval of Russia. All the times they could have done it while living here, listening to all our news about how the US might start it.
Or in the Bay of Pigs when Bobby Kennedy proved he was by far the smartest Kennedy.
Same goes for Sir Mike Jackson of the British army who basically told Wesley Clark to fuck off when he ordered NATO troops to attack Russian troops stationed at Pristina Airport.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good lord.
manesag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So opposite WarGames. Holy shit
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
saw a one hour documentary about that. He was one cool cat under pressure. Thank god!
I teach software testing and love referencing him as the "Tester Who Saved the World"
fortevn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How big of a shit that could really be if he chose otherwise? I mean, yeah, Russia and USA would probably laid in ruin like the Fallout game series. But what about the rest of the world?
It's been explained to me one way before. If every nuclear nation launched their entire arsenal at once, and 99% of the missiles were disabled or destroyed before they hit their target, the remaining 1% would still be enough to end all life on the planet. That's something to consider.
fortevn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But at that time weren't only US and Russia hadving nuclear weapons? And they will fire at each others. Although it's true if a war broke out others countries would join in. But I suck at history to guess.
bobnye ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of what I was thinking. I mean there would surely be problems, but is New Zealand going to be hugely affected? I don't think it's quite the apocalypse.
What's scary is how many different stories there are like this that happened during the cold war. The one that comes to my mind (and others have posted many of the other stories) happened at NORAD. During a training exercise, they used drill tapes (big magnetic tape reels that showed what different Soviet first strikes would look like) and forgot to switch the external feed that goes out to the distributed commands running the launch facilities across the nation. Miraculously someone caught the error before anything was actually launched but for more than a few minutes, the entire nuclear arsenal stood on very real alert because as best as anyone could tell it was the end of human civilization. Because NORAD was transmitting a worst case scenario Soviet first strike for in-house training purposes out as if it was a real attack.
First USSR Top Brass commended him. Then stripped him of his commission and fired him. Not he is generally viewed by Russian officials as a hero. May even have a stamp but I can't 100% claim this.
There is this, the RYAN program the Soviets had to detect a NATO first strike that was pure paranoia, the Korean Airline 007 shoot down by the Soviets, Regan's 'evil empire' statements, Pershing II missiles in West Germany and their 7 minutes to Moscow capability, and to wrap it all up Able Archer 83 exercise (full network exercise using proper nuclear launch protocols) which the Soviets thought was Operation Barbarossa II (Nazi Germany sneak attack on the Soviet Union in WWII).
Deutschland '83 is a great show that went through this period. I highly recommend watching it.
Interestingly enough, he's not the first Russian to save the world:
October 27, 1962... the Soviet submarine B-59 was detected by U.S. Navy destroyers in the Atlantic Ocean, and one of the ships began dropping explosive depth charges to force the sub to surface. Thirty years later, a communications intelligence officer on the B-59, would report that the Captain Valentin Savitsky ordered a nuclear-armed torpedo to be armed for firing at the U.S. ships, and that the second-in-command, Vasili Arkhipov, persuaded Savitsky to surface instead.
Nepoxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How serious would it have been though? If Petrov had thought the U.S. really had fired ICBMs, what would Russia's response have been? Is their only option to counter attack?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome, but my question is: when considering the political climate of 1983, is there any reason whatsoever that the USA would completely randomly decide to start a MAD nuclear war? ...No. And with five missiles? FUCK no that's just ridiculous. So it doesn't exactly take a genius to discern that that was a false alarm. Still ice cold on his part don't get me wrong, but not like it was some exceptional feat of mental reasoning
Insane to think how many times during the Cold War that the fate of the world came down to one or two people. Just one stupid or overly gung-ho person and none of us would be here today.
Wasn't there a similar incident with a Russian nuclear submarine off Cuba where three officers had separate keys to activate the nukes? I think there's a documentary on it.
The world actually got much closer on January 25, 1995 when the Norwegians released a rocket to observe the Aurora borealis. The message was passed all around the world but the crumbling Soviet Union had problems with bueracracy and the message never made it up top. The rocket was thought to be a US launched missle, but luckily, according to legend, Yeltsin was drunk at the time and said he did not think his friend Bill Clinton would attack the Soviets.
Zodiii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We were arguably closer to a M.A.D. scenario during the Norwegian Rocket Incident, which was one of, if not the only time, nuclear keys were activated.
I mean to be honest if im the guy who's in charge of determining weather a nuke from an enemy is launched or not I'd want to be damn sure before I make that call because I could single handedly end the world.
There was probably many instances where false positives were detected and set up the chain, who would then make the same judgment call as this one particular officer did. The only reason this story is unusual is that this man made the call a few tiers lower than normal.
This is crazy, I've never even heard of this before. You'd think this would be something taught in schools, but I guess not.
ZhouDa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's not just this one instance either, the world came pretty close to nuclear annihilation on multiple occasions. I don't have time to look them up so I only remember the most famous one of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but if time travelers did exist I'd have to think keeping a nuclear war from happening would be a full time occupation before anyone could bother killing Hitler.
Would Donald Trump be the one to make that call if he were president?
0ttr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real scariest thing is that we came to the brink much more often than this one incident.
Read the book Command and Control and you'll discover that probably about every other year of the cold war we came as close or closer to a complete nuclear disaster or war. No book has ever given me nightmares like that did.
Now go listen to what those goddamn idiots running for the Republican nomination at the debate tonight were saying, all saber rattling and braying about "confronting" Russia and China and arming their enemies or sending out carrier battle groups to intimidate and fuck knows what else just begging to get into a war; and most of the people in audience were egging them on.
I wanted one sane person to tell them the truth, to tell them "If there is a nuclear exchange, all of you, all of your children, all of your friends and neighbor are going to die. Every one. You will either die outright or die slowly and painfully, but your lives and everything you know will be over. Over."
Before Rand Paul dropped out I was backing him 100%. As well as being the only liberty minded candidate, he called everyone else out on their warhawk bullshit, like threatening to set up a no-fly zone over Syria and shoot down Russian jets. Just absolute bullshit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. also had a system glitch like that where it looked like the Soviets had fired missiles:
At 8:50am, on the morning on November 9th, 1979, a warning appeared on the computers of four American command centers (including at the Pentagon and at the Strategic Air Commandโs bunker deep beneath Cheyenne Mountain) that a massive Soviet ICBM strike was en route to the United States. Minuteman nuclear missiles were readied to launch a retaliatory attack, and the National Emergency Airborne Command Post (a 747 modified to resist the effects of EMPs and radiation) took off, although the president was not on board. Senior officers quickly convened a threat assessment conference. However, after six tense minutes, early warning satellites and radar showed that no Russian missiles had been launched. It was later discovered that a training tape depicting a massive Soviet attack had accidentally been loaded into the early warning computers, and had generated the false alarm. After an investigation of the incident, a new off-site facility was created on which to run training tapes.
hmmm, so the US can just go ahead and really launch 5 missiles at russia, and they'll ignore them.
Then they can launch all the rest of them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My pussy brother uses this as his 'war experience' because he was in Germany in '83. No, you didn't go to war, you don't know what it is to be a veteran, shut the fuck up. We barely mentioned it at dinner back then, it was that insignificant and no one remembers but history buffs.
I actually did a junior high history project on him, and if I remember correctly, I think he was even in the states at or around that time? It was really cool to be doing a project on a guy who was being talked about at that time.
somecow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a "missile" (actually just a radio beacon) that was programmed to fly all over the USSR and squawk a signal to launch ever single last nuke they had, more or less?
jrk1841 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
petrik77 ยท 1341 points ยท Posted at 01:17:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soldier wiped ass with it. Shot himself.
dmon670 ยท 528 points ยท Posted at 02:39:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hair becomes a self injecting hypodermic needle. Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 03:13:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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chubbsw ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:24:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You mean like bull-nettle? Not as bad as gympie gympie, but OMG the agony I felt lol. I was 12 working out of town and staying in a camper with coworkers. There was a really small man I thought it'd be fun to wrestle him down just to see if I could. I was wearing gym shorts only fresh out of the shower and ended up rolling all around in bull nettle while wrestling with him. I was fucked until the next morning. I got stung by a little blue triangular jellyfish once, not so bad, but the full body bull nettle rivaled having my 3rd degree burn scrubbed.. At least for one evening.
Edit: Didn't realize this sounded like an erotic scene until I re-reddit this AM lol. Especially if you read it in an Alec Baldwin voice. Damn wine...
Orlitoq ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:25:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well I mean doesn't that depend on the jellyfish? Isn't there that one jellyfish that moron stung himself, a lifeguard and his son with and nearly killed all three?
That's irukandji jellyfish (of course in Australia) which has a sting described to go beyond Spinal Tap, in a pain index from 0 to 10, one victim ranked it 12. Besides most excruciating pain in the whole body, sting victims also experience "a psychological phenomena such as the feeling of impending doom" and the symptoms may last weeks.
chubbsw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely, I didn't want to call it the wrong name is all and sound like a liar. It was a blue man o war in South Padre (Gulf of Mexico) but it barely dragged a few tentacles across my foot/calf.
I know with nettles to make the stinging stop you find a fern with the little orange dots on the back of the leaves and rub it on the area that was stung and it makes the pain/stinging stop within minutes. Learned it from a boy scout.
Plus - isn't the cure literally something like duck tape? You get stung, you place the tape on it, rub it in so it sticks to the needles well, and then pull.
It's a simple answer, and seems, to a point, intuitive, especially when they'd have known that the soldier wiped with gympie gympie.
yeah all I remember is the hydrochloric acid is an important tep because it denatures the poison. Though obviously you dont want to KEEP the spines in.
Unless you're really talented, wiping ones ass with a leaf would almost certainly require grabbing it first. How would he have not known what it was before wiping?
Wow of all the plants that were probably around him, he took that one. Damn that sucks.
Zombare ยท 536 points ยท Posted at 01:57:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm always fascinated with living organisms such as these. They look so innocent but god damn what in their developmental history caused them to become so damn mean/defensive?
This is ridiculous, it is a fuzzy looking leaf but it will completely floor your if you so much as brush it.
40Koalas ยท 1144 points ยท Posted at 02:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Stop fucking eating me"
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:41:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like Australia is what happens when an Arms race goes to far. Like sure you can nuke the entire world 5 times over, but whats the point after 2?
Maybe that is why koalas only eat eucalyptus leaves. The second leaf they tried was this fucker and they immediately decided they aren't taking any chances again!
What's also crazy is that it's one of the only edible things in the area it grows, but the fruit is covered in hairs.
Even more interesting though is that because of how painful they are animals and even other plants grow away from them, making it harder for it to actually pollinate etc. So some are starting to grow without the pain poison on their hairs.
Seeds get spread by animal droppings. Animals steer clear of these fuckers. No seeds dropped near them.
GikeM ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant hogweed was brought to Britain as an ornamental plant. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Now it is popping up everywhere and in my town it even grew at a school and stung a kid pretty bad who went into a bush to get a football back.
ACAFWD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:33:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking shit. They brought that as an invasive species?!
cespes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:33:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It got lucky. One day, some tiny little mutation changed their chemical composition just slightly, in such a way that just so happens to sting like a motherfucker.
A friend of mine brushed against this, the sap/oils on the leaves cause the area they touch to become hypersensitive to sunlight. She ended up getting blistery sunburns in a few spots on her arm that left scars. Nasty stuff.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:15 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm pretty sure the local human and animal population learned very fast to avoid this plant. Back in the days when people still lived traditional hunter-gatherer lives they knew their plants and would stay away from the dangerous/poisonous ones.
So this is just regular evolution. Works for the plant, no one destroys or eats it.
I know man, I went with an INT focused build instead of strength and boy do I regret it! The magic sucks and I haven't been able to leave the starting town.
Oh man, never invest in arcane or blood your first play through. Every little bit of damage counts and you need those early game advantages. I'd say start over, but that's your call.
Redback, funnelweb, blue ring octopus, taipan, tigersnake, adder, box jellyfish, stonefish, and the poison thing that lives in a shell, that spikes you when you pick it up!
Spiders scared all the volcanoes away, most likely...
Smidy81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'On a pain index of zero to ten, with zero being no pain at all and ten being the most excruciating pain imaginable, Dr. Jamie Seymour ranked the pain of a sting from an Irukandji jellyfish a twelve.'
When I visited the US, I fell into drinking with some locals and the topic of deadly Australian things came up. Mustering the most serious expression I could, I informed these poor Americans that Australia, in addition to having a country the size of the USA, also once had a population the same size*. Those of us who lived in Australia now were just the last remaining survivors of a continent hell-bent on wiping any trace of humanity from it's lands. We were all very drunk, and for a little while, I think they believed me.
*Australia's current population is approaching 24 million people. We have never been subject to extinction level events on the scale I described.
Not all that long ago I decided to watch some live stream that was posted on Reddit, it was supposed to start 5 minutes after I saw the post.
~10 minutes later the guy put up a message, 'sorry, live stream is delayed and will start in ~30 minutes. A (several meters long) snake got in my house and I'm trying to get it out.'
Normally I wouldn't have the patience to wait 30 minutes for a live stream but when there is a bigass snake involved, I wanna know how it ends.
After 30 minutes several people started wondering if the guy was still alive. 10 minutes after that the live stream started as if nothing had happened. Somewhere witnessing this made me realize how boring my country was, and I didn't really mind.
Also, an extinction event only counts if it happens in a short time span. Australia is trying to kill you guys ever since you got there. :P
โFor two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower.โ
...jesus fuck.
ozbian ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:58:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tropical australian here. I feel like that's a plant I should've known about before now!
Or if you somehow engineer the plants to develop easy to blow away leaves, it'd be a biological weapon. Both of which are strictly forbidden by laws of war.
That being said, it would be wise to develop such a weapon in a just in case scenario in secrecy, if not already, especially the biological kind as it would be nearly untraceable, have very delayed effects and ultimately devastate the economical power of your target.
L3dpen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wise in which way? Weaponize something like that and it would spread. We'd have an uncontrollable, far spreading, inescapable torture device take over a chunk of the world. There's a reason bio/chemical weapons are banned, they would be in nobody's interest.
That is not scary. Painful but not scary. I got stung by one of those Gympie Stingers (Dendrocnide moroides) when I was 8. I was living on Tambourine mountain and I was running through some bushy area on my property and I actually grabbed the leaf with a full fist. It hurt a lot. My father put my hand in hot water and most of the fine hairlike spines came out.
One of the treatments is diluted hydrochloric acid. We're talking pain so bad that acid makes it better.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โBeing stung is the worst kind of pain you can imagine - like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same timeโ. I really hope noone actually know what experiencing those two things simultaneously feels like. Although I suppose it feels like being stung by this plant. Wait...
Dreizu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
one of six stinging-tree species found
in Australia
My brain called it way, way before reading the entirety of the article. These horror stories make me want to cuddle into my faux fur blankie and never leave the states forever.
Whenever I read stuff like this and think of the years of evolution it must have taken for that plant to go from defence to offense, I think of humans. Part of me truly believes we have really evolved well for oursleves and the other part is still like; when the fuck do we start being born with poison talons and sonar?
Almost walked into this shit once when I visited that killer country. Australian buddy, in a calm and no big deal tone was like " watch it, that stuff makes you want to rip your flesh off."
Well alrighty...I'll be at the airport getting the hell off this continent.
ans141 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if there are any fools on YouTube who do challenges with this tree.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had my first brush with what I assume was poison oak last summer hiking near the Oregon coast. I hadn't previously made myself aware of what to watch out for, must've brushed against it without knowing. Blisters and a scar is what I got. I don't know why I had always thought it just made you itch/rash, no it can fuck you up.
On a similar note...herds of bison were found dead in Yellowstone in winter years back. At first the park suspected poachers but it was winter and interior Yellowstone is hard to access. Turns out there was an overnight temperature inversion and all the gases from the nearby geysers and geologic features became trapped at ground level and suffocated the Bison. Since learning this, I've wondered if you could have an event around the main geyser basins that could potentially harm visitors and other people to Yellowstone.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:23:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats equally terrifying! Sounds like a freakin' x-file...
An inversion during winter at Yellowstone actually makes a pretty dramatic scene at dawn. The heavy fog that crystalizes on all the trees with the sun just coming up and perhaps a coyote or a fox loping by makes a really magical sunrise.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just looked up a few images of what you described. It is actually very pretty, in a creepy, ominous way
Don't spoil the joke like that! Get out of here with that and go do something good with your life like helping out this settlement that's in trouble, here, I'll mark it on your map.
I wish I could find some videos of those songs. Like with actual people singing, not those static image crap videos on youtube. I assume most songs were on radio but there could be some videos that have evaded my google-fu.
R00t240 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume you've seen his terrifying response to the triad question during the debate. Had no fucking clue what the triad is but that didn't stop him from vomiting some scary nonsense to prove how clueless he is on the matter. Watch the video its a doozy
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/12/17/what-is-nuclear-triad-debate-sot.cnn
"I think โ I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.โ Trump
He was basically saying that nukes are devostating and scary, and that the biggest threat in his eyes is a rogue state gaining that power. He sure as hell had no idea about the triad, but it's not like he was saying 'Yeah, let's nuke everybody!' - quite the opposite.
He'd still make a shit president, though.
_MUY ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, let's not ignore that his rambling response which demonstrated absolutely zero understanding of the job of the president actually began with the string "We need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who's totally responsible, who really really knows what he or she is doing".
He uses words like "absolutely" and small phrases about responsibility, skill, knowledge as a way to buy time while he's creating a reply. It's almost the same as listening to a teenager saying "um" and "like".
He then launches into memory as a way to prove that he's knowledgable to cover for the fact that he actually isn't knowledgable on the subjectโany high schooler with no foreign policy experience could have said that going into Iraq would have destabilized the region.
Then he segues into an attack on President Obama and a snipe at Global Warming, putting negative emphasis on the name to build up his audience, repeats himself, and moves back toward a vacuous three-repeat list on the subject of nuclear devices: nuclear, nuclear proliferation, and "having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon".
There is absolutely no substance to this man.
Megmca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:19:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well at least we won't have to worry about our loan payments.
I can't. I think there's a pretty damn good chance of it actually. People talk about him losing in national polls now, but can you imagine when he starts really going after Hillary? She has 10 airports worth of baggage for him to use against her.
Bremic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see the problem being that Trump will immediately go nuclear with everyone he doesn't like - because there are only enough bombs to destroy the world 100 times over and he would run out...
I see the problem being all the countries he will insult and alienate. The US is a huge economy, with a massive military force, and he will definitely push to use it in ways to bolster his personal agenda. There will be resistance, but there is resistance to the idea of him getting the job in the first place; and yet that seems to be at a non-zero chance of happening.
So what happens when other countries get antsy and what he is threatening to do? There will be an escalation of tension, and it doesn't have to be the US who pushes the button first. And the first button doesn't have to be nuclear. The last 20 years have proven that. Look how much the American Dream has been destroyed without a single nuke being used so far this century.
Morthra ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look how much the American Dream has been destroyed without a single nuke being used so far this century.
The America dream is being able to provide for your family and being able to live a comfortable lifestyle and there doesn't seem to be very much farcical about that but maybe you can explain it more in depth
Everybody says this, but think about some of the things that Trump has responded to. He usually responds with a sick burn, not by going out and assassinating the person. I also kinda want to mention how Kim Jong Un hasn't blown up South Korea yet.
That is so just barely true. In fact, that's a point of contention. Conventional war is terrifyingly devastating to a population and a country as well. Yeah, nukes are humanities ultimate weapon, but the loss of life through conventional warfare in the 20th century might have been enough of a lesson on its own to prevent super powers from entering into outright war.
Besides, de-orbiting a telephone pole sized chunk of tungsten packs the same punch as a decent sized nuke without the fallout contaminating your new territory. Nukes are the popular specter among many.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides, de-orbiting a telephone pole sized chunk of tungsten packs the same punch as a decent sized nuke without the fallout contaminating your new territory. Nukes are the popular specter among many.
It's also WAY more expensive than a nuke. Moving that amount of weight in to space costs a lot. It would cost something like 800m just to get that amount of weight in to space, not even considering the rest of the costs.
but is total annihilation as a very real possibility worth avoiding to settle our differences?
edit: I am a little sad this got downvoted
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think about the consequences of a full out conventional war: Yes.
Nuclear weapons are in no way sufficient to turn the earth into an unlivable wasteland. They're 'just' sufficient to destroy the centers of human infrastructure and economy and thus letting most of us starve. If we're unlucky they might indirectly (ashes from burning cities) cause nuclear winter which would increase the starvation problem. So nuclear war would wipe out human civilization and the vast majority of humans. But life would continue to exist on earth. Maybe with, maybe without humans.
Now compare these results with a conventional war where the earth is split evenly in two more or less equally strong fractions. Compared to the consequences of such a war the Second World War would look like a small skirmish. Japan and Germany are two small countries, but they managed to kill tens of millions of people. Now imagine what would have happened if the West (Western Europe + Japan + America) had gone to war with the East (Eastern Europe, USSR + China) in the Cold War. Such a war would have had the potential to wipe out most of humanity as well. So I'm really glad that nuclear weapons exist. They're not the only thing that could cause human civilization to end, but they make it an obvious consequence to everyone thinking about starting a war.
My issue is the route of what caused the way is still there... it needs to be dealt with, and not by simply wiping out the population that is recruited for its defense. There are very real and big issues, and they need to be faced. Civilization has been wiped out several times before... and all its done is set us back to where we were to deal with the same problems we had before. Its a harder road to travel, one that is much more difficult to pin down, but its the only one that leads to real progress.
time has taught us you cannot simply remove a threat, by killing Saddam Hussein its widely accepted we created Isis.... as a quick example. Heck WWII wouldn't have happened if it were not for the way we ended WWI. The only way to deal with a problem is at the root.
Eh, frankly nuclear war isn't that horrific anymore. Improved guidance has lead to far smaller yields for warheads, and drastically reduced stockpiles mean that pretty much every nuclear weapon will be used to destroy other nuclear weapons, command/control, or be held in reserve. Also, the assumptions behind nuclear winter being a thing are questionable.
Basically, unless you live around nuclear weapons or the command/control mechanisms for them the biggest impact on your life will be taking care of the small percentage of the population directly affected, or maybe being drafted.
I think its more about the fact that within someones grasp there is the ability to eliminate a continent worth of people. The only thing that propagates this is not realizing how unbelievable the repercussions really are. How absurd... our minds refuse to admit how terrible these consequences are. From direct impacts to the fallout that follows. The fact that this exists as a real possibility should never be the case, the ultimate expression of power that a cascading of events has the very real potential of happening.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that this exists as a real possibility should never be the case
No, you wish they weren't the case. Sorry, scientific progress doesn't stop happening because you don't believe in the ramifications.
As a quick example the dark ages were basically a total reset for western civilization. It took a long long time to build back up from that. People looked on the Roman ruins as having been made by the gods they were so far removed from the ability to build them.
I feel like being caught in a nuclear explosion is quite a nice way to go in comparison to some of the other methods we've created. We're pretty fucked up sometimes.
I mean becoming instantly vaporized can't really hurt so I guess you are right. I believe it would be worse to be a survivor in the hell-zone afterwards.
There is no limit to the size of a nuke. You can literally make a 1000 MT nuke, drill a hole deep into the earth, put it in. And there is a solid chance that you will crack the crust of the earth causing massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I work in the field of nuclear/radiation safety. I'm not afraid of radiation and I work with radioactive materials regularly. Anyone who respects radiation and is adequately trained to work it radioactive materials has nothing to fear from it. All that being said...
I'm terrified of nuclear weapons.
If certain terrorists get their hands on the right nuclear weapons they could easily kill a quarter of a million people.
A lot of people think of nuclear weapons as these large bombs and missiles that require planes or rockets to deliver them. While that is true for many of them, it isn't very common knowledge that we have made much smaller nuclear devices. Our original nuclear weapons were very large, but as things tend to go with much technology, their successors were made progressively smaller. We kept making them smaller and smaller to make delivery easier until we got to a point that we were making artillery shell-sized nuclear warheads that infantry could shoot at the enemy. Upon getting to that point they realized a nuclear weapon could be carried by an individual, so we made some for that purpose as well.
They were built for the purpose of, for example, hiding under a bridge as troops retreat from an oncoming force. When the enemy enters the area, boom. No more bridge, no more enemy. Of course, these were built decades ago before we were so concerned with terrorists.
Look into 'Broken Arrows' the term used for missing nuclear weapons.
There are currently a dozen or so missing nuclear weapons out there, including several lost on US soil/waters.
The only fully intact, functional weapons that we've truly lost track of were two aboard a B-47 the went missing over the Mediterranean, and one that was lost off the USS Ticonderoga.
A possible fourth is one that was jettisoned over Tybee Island, Georgia. There is debate about whether it had a core installed or not.
As for the rest..
Several we know precisely where they are, but they are not feasible to recover. An example of this would be the two aboard the USS Scorpion.
Others we know their location to a high degree, but again, not viable to recover. An example of this would be the one lost in Goldsboro. We know within a couple hundred feet where it is, its just under a couple hundred feet of mud in a swamp. Easier to just keep an eye on the swamp and ensure nobody digs there.
The rest of the broken arrows were either self destructed, were destroyed in crashes, were recovered, or were simply not fully functional bombs to begin with(most early nukes had removeable cores for safety, which were removed for transport or training missions).
A B-52 bomber, carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 thermonuclear fusion bombs, was scheduled for a mid-air refueling from a tanker plane sometime around midnight. However, their routine refueling trip was interrupted when the tanker crew noticed a fuel leak on the bomber's right wing.
The bomber was directed to a holding pattern over the open ocean, where the crew was to await the majority of their fuel to leak and/or be consumed, after which they would make an emergency landing at the nearby airbase. However, on their way there the fuel leak worsened significantly, causing them to lose almost all of their fuel in just a few minutes. They were immediately redirected to land at the airbase.
Unfortunately, on their way to the runway, they lost control of the aircraft. The crew bailed out, leaving the bomber to crash. The aircraft broke apart mid-air shortly afterwards, releasing the two nuclear bombs. One bomb deployed its parachute automatically, drifting down slowly and landing relatively intact. The other did not, and hit the ground at about 700 miles an hour, disintegrating and depositing pieces of wreckage anywhere from 20 to 200 feet below ground. Incidentally, most of it is still there, as the ground was too moist to dig up properly. Only a few pieces of wreckage (including the primary fission core, but not the secondary fusion one) were recovered.
However, contrary to what you might think it wasn't the second bomb that came close to detonating. The first bomb's parachute opened as part of the arming sequence, because the breakup of the bomber made it think it had been dropped. Almost the entire detonation sequence of the bomb triggered, with two different safety devices failing to prevent it. A third safety was ineffective in the air, and so the detonation had been stopped only by the fourth and final safety, a single safe/arm toggle switch that had set to "safe". The kicker, though? On of the pieces recovered from the second bomb was the same arming switch. The switch on that bomb had been set to "arm".
I feel like ejecting shouldn't be an option when there are nuclear weapons on board. You either land the plane and ensure the safety of the nukes, or die trying. Am I wrong?
Boonaki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just what's been declassified, imagine what hasn't been declassified.
They are scary, but at the end of the day being vaporized by a massive amount of energy is far from the worst way to out. I'd rather die in an atomic bombing than exsanguinate from a car crash.
Haha if you think this is the scariest thing on earth you should do some more thinking. They're really not that scary, there implication is and there is a slim chance of them ever being used on earth again. The scariest would have to be the numerous viruses and other pathogens that have the ability to wipe out large scales of the population which we have no protection or ablity to stop besides quarantine. Roughly 250,000 people died between 2 nukes, 50-100 million people died of the Spanish flu. All it takes is another pathogen to cross species and 5-10% of the population could fall especially with the ever growing resistance to anibiotics we are seeing
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and there is a slim chance of them ever being used on earth again.
Really? North Korea has been detonating them with some frequency lately.
Moreover, the chance of a nuclear war is remote, but the chance of accidental detonations is pretty significant. Moreover, geopolitical circumstances can change, sometimes quite rapidly.
The risks of nuclear warfare really aren't as remote as people like to hope though.
Although terrifying I highly doubt any major world power will risk launching a nuke and being that guy to start the end of the world. Luckily if something like this were to happen there are plenty of counter defenses and I'm sure nations will all come together to prevent full scale nuclear fallout.
Possibly more terrifying though would being a survivor of a nuclear bomb. The aftermath we would all face would be horrifying. It would rain black radiated water as far as I know plus more.
helix19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recently found out in 1961, during a training mission a plane accidentally dropped an armed nuclear missile 260x larger than Hiroshima on North Carolina. One low voltage switch kept it from exploding. The documents were only declassified a few years ago.
Apparently, Kim Jong Un, in response to the new, tougher sanctions, has given an order to make their nuclear weapons ready at a moment's notice.
Jozaron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going along with this, the theory of Nuclear Winter in the event that an all out nuclear exchange takes place. The effects are absolutely... chilling...
Sure there may be those who survive the blasts, but the decade long world wide winter is likely what will ultimately destroy humanity.
Read into the Hanford site. The American government knowingly dosed around 60,000 people with terminal levels of plutonium radiation while providing them a utopian society to keep them happy building bomb grade material. Where do you think the nuclear family came from?
Fucking seconds, seconds of exposure and you die days or hours later from rad exposure.
Christ, nuclear power is generally safe but it's fucking terrifying, to know we mess with that kind of power. Some of these folks had no clue, but some of them... how horrifying to know that you and everyone around you is probably going to experience a prolonged and painful death in the next few days, and you can't do anything about it, but you don't have time to dwell on your impending death because if you stop working a lot more people will die too.
rathat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Forget North Korea, If there's going to ever be a nuclear war, I guarantee it'll involve Pakistan, and not necessarily the Pakistani government. If there is even one fired unintentionally, I guarantee it'll be Pakistan.
It's called quick thawing and no you don't have to worry about that since usually you cook it as soon as it is thawed, just don't let it sit for a long time at that temp.
It will if you take it out of the Styrofoam packaging. I've thawed a while chicken in 20 minutes running it under hot water until I could open the cavity and run the water directly through the middle.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are not supposed to thaw with hot water, it can cause bacteria to spread/multiply rapidly.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At that point there is not mitigating the danger. You just sit there, running one feeble excuse through your head after another, every one worse than the previous.
Trash your house, then sit on the front step till she comes home.
"Mom! Omg mom I came home and...and...I think we were robbed! And I thought, what if they're still in there?!? First I was so angry I almost ran through the house just HOPING I'd find someone and make them sorry. But then I though about how you'd feel if I got hurt... I couldn't do that to you. So I've been sitting here waiting for you...but (sob)...mom...(sniffle)...I'm so sorry. While I was sitting here I realized that by not risking my life by going in after a burglar....it meant I wasn't in there, taking the chicken from the freezer like you'd asked! (Crying) I'm so sorry. I'm so stupid, Mom...(sobs)I ruined dinner, and you work SO. HARD. and deserve to come home to find things just as you asked! I don't even deserve your love...."
Your mom will hold you and pat your back and rub your hair and shhhhh shhhh you, and she will be so thankful you didn't risk your life. You're not in trouble for forgetting the chicken. She'll lovingly chastise you for thinking she'd rather have defrosted chicken than the safety of her beautiful, loving, wonderful miracle of the heavens - you. You silly, brave and loving you!
ichael1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:52:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you forgot to take the chicken out of the oven. That happened to me, was only burnt a lot.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:21:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the oven sure as hell isn't preheated. All I had to do was turn the knob... We at least know emotional death happens somewhere between here and 450 degrees.
Fizzbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband read this and said "No, replace 'Mom' with 'Wife'. Much more terrifying."
GBFel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment just reminded me of the huge age range on Reddit. For you missed calls from Mom means getting in trouble when she gets home. For older folks it could mean someone is dead or dying. Always good to be reminded just how many of you young'uns are running around on here.
Come home from school to a note on the fridge that says "please set the oven to 375, and put the chicken in at 4:30."
It's now 6:00. My mom just pulled into the driveway. I hear her keys enter the lock on the front door. I've been in the basement playing video games since 2:30.
JFro17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:06 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can just pop it in the microwave for a few seconds right? RIGHT?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You hear the key enter the keyhole and realize the sink is still full.
I think it comes from the fact that he grew up in a time without voicemail, answering machines, or caller ID. So, if you called someone and they didn't pick up, maybe they were out in the yard and barely missed the call. It's logical to just call again. Plus, they would have no record of you calling since they have no caller ID (remember, this is the 50's).
But the problem is that he still does it now. So if he calls me just to say hi, and I don't answer, he'll call like 4 more times.
It's scary as hell (I automatically assume someone died), but I haven't been able to get him to understand, lol.
You exactly described the situation i have with my dad.
I always fear that one day something bad happens, my phone keeps ringing and i don't answer, because he called "wolf" a few too many times.
Came home from a weekend away and had 13 missed calls from my mom. She knew I was out of town so there was no reason for her to be calling. I knew it couldn't be good. As I began dialing into voice mail she called on the other line to tell me my dad had just been killed in a car accident.
My dad does that all the time. Once I got a voicemail at 10:30 at night on a weeknight, saying to call him as soon as I get it. The message? "There's a Walker Texas Ranger marathon on TV!"
Ugh, my mom is great for calling like 10 times, then texting me with "Call me immediately" for shit like this. With her, it's usually stuff on facebook she saw and wants me see and/or fact check for her.
oh man... one time I looked at my phone and saw my mom had texted me like three hours earlier. The preview text on my phone just said "why didn't you tell me..." FUCK, what did I forget? I must be in deep shit. I open the text and...
"why didn't you tell me about Sharknado?"
Apparently my mother had just learned about Sharknado and thought it was hilarious. She had no idea she almost gave me a heart attack.
Oh my god. Ten years ago my sister got a call from our mother at three in the morning, right around the same time our grandfather was hospitalized for a month after a really bad fall,* and she groggily answered it in a panic, convinced it was terrible news. Nope, Mom was just calling to give her unsolicited advice about her role in a play.
She's pulled crap like this on both of us (late night/early morning calls over frivolous stuff), but her timing couldn't have been worse.
*Grampa lived another eight years, although his health was never the same. Falling down a full flight of concrete stairs isn't beneficial for anyone, let alone someone in their '80s.
I pocket dialed my grandma once when I was really drunk at a party. As soon as I noticed it I hung up (drunk in college), and was praying she didn't freak out and assume I was dead.
Feh, try leaving through your garage because you didn't have a house key and having her climb over a fence to smash out a back window to use the bathroom only to have her pee herself before making it in. I had to clean my entire garage by myself and make breakfast for her for 3 weeks.
My mum rang me at 08.45hrs on a Monday morning - I was shitting myself. Turns out she just rang for a chat...
Edit: actually just realised your answer might have a very different implication depending on your age. With ageing parents those unexpected calls set off a certain dread.
My mom plays a dangerous game where she calls multiple times a day every day. She does this to everyone in the family. Don't feel too bad for her she's lonely for a reason, shes a toxic person. Everyone screens their calls regularly (although we each still see her once every month or two cause we eventually do all feel bad.) But one day she'll really need to get a hold of someone and she wont be able to.
The older you get, the scarier this is.
When you're young & you see 10 missed phone calls from Mom you think, "oh shit I'm in so much trouble."
When you're older & you see 10 missed phone calls from Mom you think, "oh shit.. This is it. Dad just died.."
One time a friend and I snuck out for a night out. We decided we both didnt want the fun interupted by our parents if they were to catch us. So we both turned our phones off and put them under our car seats before going out. When we got back we turned our phones on and waited. His parents texted, "having fun?" while he had 4+ missed calls. Thankfully my parents had no idea
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You just reminded me of college... Too many times getting so blitzed, I couldn't even look myself in the eyes with a mirror, let alone deal with anyone except my equally obliterated roommate, and my mother would call, right when it kicks in high gear. I would reject it and she would start blasting me with texts, and being my mother, she went immediately from missed call to sending two texts (usually "Hello?" followed by "Answer me!"), then to begging me to answer because she assumed I was dead in a gutter. I would meanwhile be furiously trying to come up with an excuse as to why I didn't respond, but I couldn't because I was too damn high. Ahh, the good old days...
Bohzee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, it's when you will never get any calls of her again, that is.
pro tip: ocassionally back up your voice mails, it can be worth a fortune for you.
My mother's a cunt so I'd just keep ignoring them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you reach a certain age, people you know start to die. It can happen early in life too but as a young adult, it seems to start to happen more often. Having many missed calls from my mom is the scariest thing in the world. The last two times it happened she was calling to let me know we'd lost somebody.
This one happened to me once... When I called her back, I found out my uncle (her brother) had died that day of an heart attack, right in front of her :(
JDP37 ยท 1849 points ยท Posted at 01:54:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles. Why? oh, I don't know. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
People talk about the alligator/crocodile's bite but I'm more scared of their death rolls. Once they bite something they do a couple sideways flips with the prey clasped in their mouth, trying to break the thing's back or rip off limbs.
lzrae ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 03:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I grew up swimming in a lake behind my grandma's house called Alligator Lake. I'm real glad I have all my fingers and toes.
Although any lake in Florida can be considered alligator lake.
Alligators are not crocodiles. Alligators are the puppies of the crocodilian world, they're more scared of you than you are of them. Crocodiles do not give a fuck. They will kill you without a second thought.
lzrae ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 04:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a funny story related to that. At my work, there was a married couple. The wife grew up in Minnesota, the husband in Florida. When they were out camping, she decided to just run and jump into the lake. The husband freaked out because you don't just JUMP IN A LAKE in Florida. We don't have a problem with alligators in Minnesota LOL
They're pretty docile most of the time unless you fuck with them or they have eggs. I used to kayak past them all the time. At most they would get spooked and just jump in the water.
lzrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was told they're more afraid of you than you are of them. But accidents can happen. My grandma always told me to shove my thumb in its eye if I was grabbed.
And we never went through the canals during mating season.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reptiles in general are brutal. There's a video out there of snapping turtles eating mice, and it turns out it's second nature for them to grab the body in their mouth and then use a claw to rip the fucking mouse in half.
I mean a death roll is more of a sideways thing. If you're a gator on the edge of the water and you just bit something, you'd have to pull backwards and then down to drown it. A couple rolls to the side wouldn't drown it (but would fuck it up).
Nah alligators are more afraid of you than you probably are of it. Crocs though (and not the stylish shoe), will fuck your day up without even thinking about it.
It may have been an alligator, but I recently saw an article about how otters will kill and eat crocodiles/alligators. Apparently they just attack them right behind their head and the crocodile/alligator dies from exhaustion/lactic acid build up.
Arkroy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was once out on this trip taking pictures for a biology class. During the trip I saw these two crocodiles tear up this mutt, jesus that was something else. I realized then that I never want to fuck with one of those.
You know what other shit they do? Kill you in a fucking insane way, then stash you under a log or some shit on the bottom of a river and feed on you later.
I once saw a documentary about a hippo family in africa. They all died of anthrax but all the crocodiles that ate the dead bodies were just fine cuz they are immune to anthrax
The funny thing about crocodiles and alligators is that even though their bite force may be strong, a couple of rubber bands is all it takes to prevent them from opening their jaws
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They also have some memory, can communicate with each other, and are capable of planning and cooperation.
They're an excellent example why "primitive" does not mean "unevolved." They are exceedingly effective at filling their niche, so much that not many other creatures fill similar niches anymore.
In high school biology, we watched a video on Super Croc, which is a gigantic crocodile that could and would eat a T-Rex. I'm so glad we have "tiny" ones by comparison.
If they aren't in the water, or at least your aware of their existence, they aren't that scary. I've dealt with a lot of them and they can be read as long as you have respect for them.
sirfray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must have missed the post above where the lion punked a crocodile.
rvnnt09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh they are scary as fuck for sure. I can't help but feel a strange curiosity toward them. If someone was like "hey you wanna get close to this big ass crocodile, we've got safety measures in place but the damn thing could still kill you". I'd go "fuckin hell let's do it", damn near the closest thing to a dinosaur ill ever see
geofurb ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 09:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nazis don't trap passer-bys in sticky traps, then inject them with venom and enzymes to digest them from the inside, suck them into their mouths and spit them back into their husk of a body a few times, and later devour them.
At least, not regular Nazis. I haven't thoroughly researched horrific cross-over Nazis like horse-sized spider-zombie Nazis.
There's probably some species of spider somewhere in the unpenetrated depths of some triple-canopy jungle where a spider has venom which merely makes insects compliant, rather than dead, and it has them all in huge tunnel networks manufacturing t-shirts.
Isn't spider web like concentration camp for spiders? I mean they kidnap or trick bugs into, tie it to web, and fucking eat it or something. Just saying.
It's from the soundtrack of a 70s Italian crime movie called Italia a Mano Armata. Here's a cover from a few years ago made by a band called Calibro 35. I highly recommend listening to their music if you liked this one.
Jesus speedballin christ, I clicked that cause I wanted to hear Rick Astley...
[deleted] ยท 2712 points ยท Posted at 02:17:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I never, ever needed to hear the things that you just typed. I've just got a mental image of mrs. Dolphin comin home to mr. Dolphin standing in the living room, turgid wang balls deep in some mackerel, wagging the fish tail and his eyebrows at the same time.
This comment now counts for 1/5 of my upvotes. Alarming.
glydy ยท 617 points ยท Posted at 02:38:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've just got a mental image of mrs. Dolphin comin home to mr. Dolphin standing in the living room, turgid wang balls deep in some mackerel, wagging the fish tail and his eyebrows at the same time.
I know, that is a terrible combination of words that I typed up there and I am ashamed to spread such a terrible video. But in reality, I think it simply shows how much like us they really are!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay! Dolphins also have a Ted Bundy! My new nightmare. Dolphin rape.
I'm still picturing the scenario. The wife dolphin hangs by the door and let's out a tepid, "
F...frank, what are you-"
"SUSAN WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE YOU HOME THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE"
"...what the hell have you done to Mike."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, my head had it as a fishy foreplay attempt. Like mrs. Dolphins going to go "oh frank!" And swoon slightly, but artistically, and then heavy dolphin bangin.
Dear lord, don't look up the monkey fucking a frog. It's awful, awful, awfully easy to google.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll get right on avoiding that. Why are there so many videos of animals bangin other species? And does that count as bestiality if it's a monkey fuckin a frog?
From what I remember through my incredulous peals of horrified laughter, it looked to be less of a full-on fucking situation and more of a masturbatory tool use thing. Tools, in this case, being whatever wasn't fast enough to run away.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:59:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn and I really never needed to hear the things you just typed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ain't that the life.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They even wrap live eels around their penis to masturbate. On the darker side..they have been known to exile a female if she doesnt let them have sex. Theyll also deny her food and such :\
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta wank. And it's hard out there for a pimp. Gotta worry that's hard for an ocean pimp, too.
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never, ever needed to hear the things that you just typed.
Wow, I had the same thought after everything you typed after that comment.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like there's two kinds of people who didn't click that link. Some, like you, think "that's pretty fucked up and I don't want to see it". Others, like me, think "I saw that years ago".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw "Mrs Dolph Lungdren" instead of what you really typed. Goddammit brain. I feel it's worse.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh.
Goobz24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've got quite a way with words.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's before you see the "woman had sex with dolphin" in the related videos.
Not to worry, it was all for a scientific experiment so it's all good. Oh and apparently they had to halt the experiment because the dolphins tested positive for LSD. Nothing weird going on there.
You know, I have to side with the dolphin on this one. It's not like he can buy a Fishlight on AmazonRiver.com and go to his cove and watch pron in private. Sometimes a mammal's gotta 'bait.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, I watched the whole thing waiting for the dolphin to finish, but it cuts off. Guess I have to google dolphin cum... Good grief.
The music makes this video ten times more entertaining to watch.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hot
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, the music it was makes it unsettling. Without the music you can atleast realise that the Dolphin is probably just thinking of the dead fish as just a dead body that isn't being used. And he needs to masturbate. So he shags it. Like a bird rubbing it's ass on a tree.
I remember listening to a interview on NPR from a researcher who likened dolphins to ultra violent gangs in the wild. They will gang up on other dolphins and or other animals and gang rape or beat the thing to death, sometimes both. Then I think about the ones at Sea World or other marine parks and my mental image becomes gangs in prison. Lots of prison sex and attacking whoever they feel like. The trainers are only making them behave for snacks.
This is one of those videos where I can't quite resist clicking out of morbid curiosity and almost immediately have to go and erase my history out of guilt and disgust.
can we talk about how weird animal penises are for a minute?
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless you for describing the video instead of just linking to it. Had you just linked it, I would've watched it. Now I know not to. You are a better person than I.
Whenever people mention CN shows, I always feel the need to include Steven Universe, as it's often forgotten.
Steven Universe, a show made by one of the artists from Adventure Time, is probably one of my favourite shows of all time and it's only been getting better and better after each episode. (hiatuses are getting worse though :()
Someone postulated on a reddit thread not too long ago that it's even worse, because they're definitely smart, but they have no sense of morals or ethics, so they really do whatever they want without worrying about any repercussions or having any empathy towards the victim. They're the sociopaths of the sea. Most of us humans have at least a semblance of empathy/ethics!
Hmm, maybe they are, as species, as fickle as humans. You can't say humans are good, or humans are bad, because individually, we all have degrees of it. It's probably the same with dolphins.
They have really advanced brains, and very developed societal structures. They don't have fingers or thumbs, though, so obviously they can't build a civilization like we have. Octopi are also pretty smart; they use tools and play games.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:59:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haven't dolphins dragged humans underwater and raped them before?
Gyrant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As rapes go, though, getting it from a dolphin might not be the worst case scenario. On account of having no limbs to hold onto each other with, and salt water being really bad for sperm, dolphins basically cum immediately upon successful penetration. So you'd only have to endure his crooked, pointy penis for a moment before he'd blow his load and be done with you.
TL;DR A male dolphin is the ultimate one-pump-chump.
Sea otters also do this. Bite the noses off baby seals and rape them while they drown. Then they keep the bodies around for up to a week to continue to face fuck them.
they have prehensile weiners though, so that'd suffice I imagine
arkzist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They can team up with the chimps, they already rip faces off
8-4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โFor instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchโthe wheel, New York, wars and so onโwhilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than manโfor precisely the same reasons.โ
Also otters, there are reports of otters kidnapping baby seals and raping them, often to death. Some even state that they keep the seal around for a week or so.
I'm glad otters are as small as they are.
Hench21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Otters are rapists. Sea otters rape baby seals to death. I've also heard of them luring young away, killing, then raping them. Not sure on the facts of second anecdote.
There's a part on blackfish where the whale kept dragging the guy under them letting him breathe enough to stay alive then almost drowning him again. They don't do this to humans in the wild. It understood that it was being held captive and took revenge. Basically the most similar thing to crucifixion that an aquatic mammal could carry out in terms of death by torture and exhaustion. Crazy to think there are other animals on this planet with the emotional depth of humans. I've heard they can actually experience emotions that we don't, weird stuff.
A Psychopath is the scariest thing on earth. A physically larger than you, well dressed, unexpected psychopath who wants to hurt you. Any terrible thing you can imagine, they can imagine it too - and probably many things worse.
I got on a kick reading about psychopaths a couple years back. 4% of American men feel no emotion and derive pleasure from dominating others. It's like finding out vampires are real, or They Live is a documentary.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any especially good books on the subject that you would recommend?
Depends on your preference for entertaining vs. detailed or academic.
If you want a quick read that is fairly light and funny, but still gets into a lot of very interesting information on the topic, I would recommend "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. (This is the same guy who wrote "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and is in much the same style.)
If you want a more detailed look, I would recommend "Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us" by Robert Hare - Hare is also the person who created the PCLR test which is used to diagnose psychopathy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. Saved for actual future reference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brutal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A physically larger than you, well dressed, unexpected psychopath who wants to hurt you
Yeah, you just prompted me to look it up, I was misremembering. The rates for the American population overall is estimated around 1%; however, that is disproportionately men, so it's higher than that (couldn't find a proper estimate with quick Googling).
The 4% number is Hare's estimate of the rate of psychopathy in the business world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:37 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And those who succeed big time in the business world? 100%
110Liam ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest part is that they see everything objectively. Once they learn how to get something they want, they just go get it. This is why sociopaths and psychopaths tend to be extremely charming and genuine. They use you're trust to manipulate you. Ted Bundy for example was described as a charmer. He knew how to pick up chicks like nobodies business. Then he takes them to his house and ends their lives traumatically.
Fun facts:
1) He lived about 10 minutes from my house at one point. Killed and raped several people in my city. My grandma also remembers being warned about him while he was still murdering here.
2) My dad's old friend used to go the the gym with Ted quite often. That friend still has a pair of Ted Bundy's sweatpants.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:29:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible.
I agree. Humans are definitely the scariest thing on the planet. In the U.S. there seems to be a huge need for firearms and concealed carry. David Bowie wrote a song about being scared of Americans. WTF is going on. I think this is also why zombie movies are the most popular of the horror genre right now. People aren't really scared of monsters, sure they are thrilling to see, but crazy, diseased humans are terrifying. Think of the scariest movie you have ever seen, for me it's The Strangers, just crazy people trying to murder. Now think back to when that Norwegian guy bombed 8 people, then killed 69 youth group campers out on an island. That f'n guy was scary, Hitler was scary, ISIS is scary. If you get a bad feeling about someone, get the f away from them.
Nackles ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:13:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never been scared of supernatural horror, it just leaves me cold, because I don't believe it can happen. People being evil, that already happens, a lot... that's terrifying.
People like to shit on slow zombies, the founders of the subgenre. "They're not scary, easy to kill, and the military would contain the situation within a week." The scariest aspect of classic ghouls is not the dead themselves, but how they motivate our society towards chaos, and how the situation pits us against everything, be it safety, hunger, or each other.
Yeah, enough time spent on /r/UnresolvedMysteries and /r/MorbidReality and I don't fear anything half as much as I fear the capacity of other people for horrible things.
While I agree humans are the worst... there's lots of fucked up shit in the animal kingdom too... I hear otters a pretty nasty in a rapey kind of way.
Then there's all those insects and murder their mate after sex...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:26:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm...they also do it for fun, I think. Why else bite of someone's thumbs? Or their face? If they wanted to neutralize you, they'd just tear your throat out.
People are by far scarier, but I don't know why anyone would keep a chimpanzee as a "pet". (The keepers and their friends are usually the ones most horrifically attacked.)
People scare me not because everyone is evil, but because literally anyone I know (especially the most charming and charismatic) could, in their heart of hearts, be someone who desires nothing more than to hurt the people around them, myself included. You read about these people in the news - people who are just fucking unhinged, disconnected, detached from society, emotionless, and guiltless. People without any sense of empathy or sympathy. People who can inflict upon others infinite pain and suffering and horror with no regrets.
People like to think that the figures and faces they see every day are harmless and benign because they're familiar. That's simply not true. Every single person you meet holds within them the potential to go fucking nuts and massacre every single person they know and love, and that could happen in the space of ten minutes. Five minutes. One minute. Every single person you meet has the power and opportunity to fuck your shit up, and that's a fact.
This is number 1 IMO. The person closest to you is literally the most dangerous thing you'll usually encounter every day. Except maybe when driving, but that's still other people.
Where did the whole "wear your skin as a suit" thing ever come from? Did that ever happen in reality?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs murdered a bunch of women so that he could stitch together some kind of fucked up woman suit. There are a few serial killers in real life that made things out of human skin but never a suit afaik. Ed Gein is the most famous one.
There are some pretty terrible ways to live and die, but only another person can envision the worst of them and make them a reality for someone else. In the past this behavior was even sanctioned by government. People are he worst.
I think this is more of an irrational fear than a legitimate fear. Now, if you had said "heights" I'd completely agree.
Palawin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. I mean sure we can be afraid of the deep ocean or volcanoes or other shit happening but for most of us we simply don't have the exposure to be in danger or for it to pose any real threat to us.
But the creativity of a twisted mind? Fuck that. Knowing what a human being without empathy is actually capable of doing to another human being is truly scary. I don't have nightmares of a volcano relocating next to me house or being teleported into the middle of deep ocean, what scares me is the truly messed up ways human beings are capable of hurting each other.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It puts the lotion on its skin. But in all seriousness, we have the potential to be worse than any thing else we've ever known. We have given ourselves the ability to wipe out all sentient life as we know it.
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You win, other people can be the worst.
When your government tells you that you should not be able to defend yourself, then maybe your government is the worst.
Whenever I think k people have it bad now I think one day someone is going to have the technology to torture someone for hundreds of years by keeping them alive through a whole bunch of scientific advances.
Tell me about it. Something on Reddit the other day prompted me to brush up on the story of Jeffrey Dahmer. I even watched the NBC interview with him and his parents. So normal seeming and that's what makes it fucked up. He can go from talking about his fond childhood memories to drugging, killing, raping, dismembering and eating then disposing of and making trophies out of humans in one sentence and without changing tone. Seriously fucked. I'd rather be eaten by a lion.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my death, I'd be happy that I took good enough care of my skin to be worn by a serial killer. That means I was doing something right :-D
Bears don't really care if you're still alive or not before they eat you as log as they have you incapacitated. They'll feast on your guts while you talk to your mom on your cellphone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes animals do torture their victims.
Hazzman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your user name makes me skeptical of this warning.
Definitely humans.
The best way I heard this out was in a story I read about a guy camping alone in the middle of the woods at night. He heard something stirring outside his tent and assumed it was some kind of wild animal. He grabbed a pan or something and jumped out of his tent banging on it and yelling expecting to see some raccoon or something scurry away but all he saw was a man dart into the darkness.
Nothing sounds scarier than that to me.
I know this is six hours later but I have to comment because I agree so much. Humans are by far the scariest thing ever. The one form of evil that exists.
Alzheimer's disease. Watching someone you love fade away and become a shell of a person is fucking terrifying.
Edit: Thanks to everyone for sharing their stories.
kyewtee ยท 660 points ยท Posted at 02:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the first time in my life, when I was ~28, I lived near my Grandma. I didn't visit her once between the time I moved there, and her death.
The last time I saw her we had a circular conversation about how my dad regretted selling the farm and other similar topics. Every 5 minutes I got a slap in the face of how this strong steadfast woman who made a life for herself was imprisoned.
Over
And over
Every
Five
Minutes.
I called her on her 90th birthday and she hung up after I introduced myself because she didn't know who I was.
When she died my dad was at her bedside. He said at that point she didn't know who he was. But she sat up suddenly and looked straight into his eyes with so much hurt. And so much love. And recognition. And then she laid back. And that was it.
My husband's grandmother had dementia. When I first met her she was moderately into her dementia. She was on repeat every 5 minutes saying how she didn't feel well and didn't know why. Her husband took care of her. He was in his late 80's at the time. He said he couldn't bear the thought of putting her in a home.
In the end, she had no clue who anyone was (including her husband). It killed her husband to hear her ask who he was multiple times a day. Just before she died, she was sort of this shell of a person lying in a hospital bed when she looked at her husband and said "I love you." She passed away a day or two later.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work with a lot of people who have varying levels of dementia and nothing makes you wanna live your life more than seeing how you you could end up....
craggsy ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 13:54:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was listening to the radio once and a nurse who works with elderly people in particular Alzheimer patients called in, Indian man, around mid 20s, first job after graduating uni. anyway one day he went into to check on a patient who had early stages and she smiled when she saw him 'oh its so nice to see you again, I knew you would come back' she said, nurse was a bit confused 'shall we dance again' she said. they danced for a bit and she laughed 'forgotten how to dance already have you' she said.
This continued for a few months, he would walk in the room, she would say the same thing and they would dance, eventually he decided to take dance lessons and they would dance.
It got to the point where she could no longer move easily and her speech started going but she would always smile when he walked in and there was always something behind the eyes.
One day he comes into work to find she has passed away in the night and her family have gathered. the daughter see the nurse and gasps 'you look exactly like a former lover of my mother'
Turns out during the war the lady was a nurse and fell in love with an Indian soldier, they used to dance every night and eventually he was killed whilst fighting. The man called the radio because part of him was glad he was able to make her happy in her last few months and part of him felt guilty for lying to her.
My paternal grandmother had Alzheimer's. At one point, she couldn't remember who my dad was, but would remember later. My dad was a long haul truck driver and would stop in to see her at her nursing home when he was in the area. She wouldn't know who he was most times, but days or so later would tell her sister that my dad had visited. She thought my grandmother was confused about it until she called my Dad one day and found out that he had been visiting her from time to time, and that she was actually remembering his visits.
kyewtee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:35:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother wasn't ill with Alzheimers, but she did the exact same thing with my mom. On her death bed, she suddenly sat up, and looked my mom in the eyes as if to say something. Then laid down and checked out.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That happens with dementia. When you die, your brain floods with chemicals which causes lucidity for a few moments before death. It happened to one of my clients.
Happened a couple days before her death for my MIL. She was unconscious for the most part for like a week before we moved her to hospice. Then after one day in hospice she was awake, talking, watching the ball game, she was even eating and she hadn't done that for almost a month before she even was admitted to the hospital. I left because I needed to work, and when I came back tomorrow morning she was unconscious and never woke back up. Took her 2 more days to die. But what she had was what the book hospice gave me called "burst of energy" and was a sign of death.
Same with my grandmother. That moment when she tries her damnedest to make a connection is pretty heartbreaking. And her being stuck in a time loop of sorts, where she remembers vividly everything within a point of time in the past one day, and another point of time the next.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw my grandmother alive (she had Alzheimer's, at 89), she called us (me, my mom and my sister, my dad had died 15 days earlier), and thanked us for visiting. Two days later she passed away.
My grandfather had it and Im insanely fearful that my father will get it as he gets older. It killed me when I saw him visit my grandfather in the hospital and he just wasnt responsive whatsoever. I dont even know how I will handle that if it comes to pass.
Grandpa died from it in 2013 after having for almost 15 years. Drowned in his own spit forgetting how to swallow. When that shit gets advanced it makes a terrible affliction devestating. I hope they either find a cure or allow right to die because its so unfair to leave someone in limbo like that
I just lost my grandmother in October of last year. When I thought about Alzheimer's I thought of shell just forget who I am. Then she moved in and it was the scariest thing I have experienced. Going from having a decent concept of what was going on to then accusing us of trying to keep her away from her mother and father that died 50 years ago then having to tell her all those people are no longer with us and having her go ballistic. I seriously hope that they find a way to cure or make the symptoms not as bad. Her last days she spent screaming every minute or two this loud painful scream and you'd wake her to ask what's wrong and you get "I wasnt screaming. Then one day the screaming stopped and she went to sleep. She slept for solid twenty hours after not sleeping for three days from just screaming herself awake. Finally she just stopped breathing and I swear I've never been happier for Someone just because the pain was gone and she could rest and see all of her loved ones again if there is an afterlife. The craziest part is I still have vivid dreams of the screaming. 5/7 nights are me dreaming of still taking care of her. I have never been more afraid of a disease in my entire life.
Man reminds me of my ex's grandma. She had dementia but her husband was taking care of her. He dies unexpetedly from a heart attack. There were some issues but while my FIL was setting up a home for her, she came to stay with us for about a month while estate was getting squared away etc. Her dementia was alot like that movie 50 first dates only except every 24 hours it was about 30 minutes. So she would get up in the AM in an unfamiliar house asking about her husband. We would sit her down, explain her husband of 50 years was dead. She would brrak down weeping and experiencing his death again for the first time there would be a lull in the conversation and then she would ask where she was and about her husband and have to literally do again. It was the most heart breaking month of my life. We ended up lying to her because the emotional turmoil was affecting her health. Nasty nasty stuff
Do you have any personal experience with this? I know removing feeding tube is an approved way to assist with dying but it sounds so inhumane and im not being disrespectful just trying to understand how this doesn't cause agony to starve the elder to death? Is it the copius amounts of morphine? And if so, why is it ethical to remove feeding tube, but not to load them up with enough poppy juice to send them into the tequila sunrise? My mind always does a =\= regarding care we provide to humans vs animals. Id go to jail for a long time if I starved my terminal dog to death. Thanks for your above reply, It obviously sparked alot of questions for me. If you dont respond I might shuffle over to eli5 or one of the health subs
op135 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:22 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my point is that you don't have to give somebody a feeding tube just to keep them alive. plenty of people are allowed to die through disease processes without ever having to be hooked up with a feeding tube. look at it this way: dementia is a disease and the end-stage of this disease is the inability to eat, which ultimately leads to death. so giving someone a feeding tube just to keep them alive doesn't fix or cure the disease, it's merely death prolongation (aka life support) with nearly ZERO quality of life and chance for recovery. however, if the person in question has a previously filled out legal document stating their "dying wishes" which might show that they want a feeding tube, then it would be illegal/immoral to not fulfill that wish. and to answer your question, there is literature that states starving to death isn't painful as the body releases "feel good chemicals" that aid in the dying process.
my grandmother had it pretty bad. It was heartbreaking to watch when she didn't know who my dad was. I cry to think of a time when my dad doesn't know who I am.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:55:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Man, I tear up to my own thoughts all the time!
Hm, maybe I should talk to Danny Glover about pseudobulbar affect...
I mean I definitely laugh at my own thoughts, to the point that multiple strangers have looked at me weirdly. Maybe I should too...
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:39:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of my tearing up is at things that I find beautiful or which make me marvel at the wonder of things. Like, seriously I have a 3 year-old and have watched the video of Colors of the Wind a thousand times and still have to wipe my eyes by the end of the second verse. What is that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BTW, I had a grandfather who died of Alzheimer's a few years ago. Growing up, Papaw was the sweetest, most awesome grandpa a boy could ask for.
I was a few years out of college when he was diagnosed as being in the early stages. At first everyone just attributed it to his bad hearing, but then they went to his doctor. He mostly seemed normal still, but he got confused sometimes. He sold his guns, and eventually his truck, to be safe.
Another year or two and he had gotten to be too much for my grandmother to handle on her own and they moved down here to live with my parents. He would still try to have conversations, and if you only engaged for a sentence or two he might have seemed normal, but any longer and it would stop making sense and devolve into mumbling. He could get frustrated and belligerent sometimes.
Then my grandmother fell and broke her hip. While she was in the hospital it was decided that, with her trying to recover and being unable to stay with him at home during the day, it would be best for them to move to a retirement community.
They found a place that had normal-looking apartments as well as a skilled nursing wing where my grandmother could stay while she was still wheelchair-bound and an Alzheimer's wing so she could still visit him every day. They had been married for over 60 years.
That worked for a month or so until one night, Papaw got up and left his room. He somehow ended up in another patient's room which he thought was his room. Some kind of scuffle ensued and he ended up falling to the floor and breaking his hip. He would never walk again.
He spent the next year in skilled nursing. He'd smile at you when you visited him, but he wouldn't say more than a very quietly mumbled word here and there. Then he stopped saying anything and mostly slept all the time. I don't know how much of that was the Alzheimer's and how much was the medication they were giving him to keep him manageable.
He had his eyes closed for most of his 83rd birthday party. About a month later a non-healing wound which had developed got infected, and after the wound care place couldn't do anything, he was moved to hospice. He was there for a couple weeks, basically being "kept comfortable" until he died of dehydration/starvation. The last time I saw him, I held his hand and he looked me in the eye with what I like to think was a knowing look. I like to think he had a moment of clarity, but who knows.
He died a shriveled up vegetable. I would love to have not watched that, for my last memory of him to be the sharp, funny, kind man I knew as a kid, but that's not what happened. My grandmother made it another couple years until she died of heart failure.
Yeah, Alzheimer's is awful.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it is unimaginable. Consider that you're lucky though, that your own thoughts haven't caused you more tears. Mine have, and many others.
I suppose this is one of those "grass is always greener" situations but I often wish I was a bit more emotional.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I guess I shouldn't have said that you're lucky. I don't know your situation. Emotions are incredibly difficult, at least for me, because often it's difficult to be empathetic in all of the ways that we admire. I think it's important to give ourselves credit for what we are able to contribute, while recognizing what we are not. I guess I was just projecting a bit, so I apologize.
No, this is a fantastic comment, you're totally right.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the key to being more emotional is being grateful. So remind yourself, as often as you are able to without it driving you mad, that you could in fact wake up tomorrow with your mother incoherent, and you'll be grateful for how things are at this moment. Some people need to experience loss to be grateful, but we all have the opportunity to imagine it. It's hard, and it takes will and effort, but you'll see the world differently. In the end if we don't imagine what it's like to be poor, or what it's like to be an orphan, a refugee, starving, then we'll never help those people. And if we can't help those people, what are we doing here?
Anyway, you just gotta imagine all of the different scenarios.
I have no problem with that lol, my family was very poor until I was around 12 and we received section 8 housing. Grateful everyday to be living near the beach in Santa Monica!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's awesome! Keep it up then, it'll come along.
Thanks! I feel like it has been already. I used to be the typical teenage redditor with absolutely 0 empathy and a cold hard "logical" approach to everything but I've learned that that's not really what makes someone a mature adult like I used to think lol.
My parents wouldn't let me see my grandad after they realised he had it as they wanted me to keep the memory of the man i knew rather than what he unfortunately become.
Kind of the same deal for me actually. I wasn't able to see my grandpa over a year until he died, found out just a year ago that he lost his legs and didn't want me to see him because of it. I was incredibly upset beforehand but now I kinda understand.
My husband's grandmother died from dementia and now his dad has it.
We were guessing he might have something when his dad was beginning to show signs but it was confirmed during Christmas dinner when he forgot my name during grace. He's known me for almost 9 years.
It absolutely fucking terrifies me knowing that the odds of my husband having some sort of memory problem later in life are tremendous. I try not to think about it because I'll start to panic and tear up.
The human life is a temporary time-line, so all we can really do is live day-by-day and comfort each other. It's stupid and depressing and we're all going to die someday and the best thing we can do is live happily in the moment. Honestly the #1 reason why I plan on having kids when I'm older.
Wish I could tell you some actual comforting words but I'm just some random 19 year old on the internet. Sorry if I'm actually making you feel shittier but it's the way I deal with it :/
I have 2 kids now and the thought of them being genetically predisposed of having dementia breaks my heart but I honestly hope I'm not around to see that.
I really want to make a memory book for my husband of all the letters we wrote, pictures we took, and family trips we did so if his memory does start to slip then he has something to refer back to.
Every single day I'm thankful that my moms side of the family has excellent longevity genes. They all live to almost 100 with no serious illnesses and simply end up dying of old age. One of her aunts got very aggressive breasts cancer and beat it right away. My mom takes care of herself a lot and I'm happy I get her for at least 5 more decades. My dads side of the family has high blood pressure and diabetes, but thankfully my dad doesn't have diabetes and keeps his BP under control. I'm thankful The worst thing I inherited from either of my parents was their attitude and bad skin.
XoYo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only part of the horror. Alzheimer's does so much more than mess with your memory. It causes mood swings, personality changes, psychotic episodes, delusions, incontinence, loss of physical control and, finally, it attacks your autonomic systems.
It took my mother seven years to go from initial diagnosis to death. For the last half of that, I never knew which version of her I would see when visiting. She would have fits of rage, screaming threats and abuse at me, or be terrified of things she had imagined, unable to communicate them. No matter what I tried to say, it usually only made things worse.
Having her mistake me for my father or uncle was bad enough, but having her screaming at me that she hated me and wanted me dead was worse.
Thinking about how, as a mom, I might someday forget my daughter is terrifying to me. How could I forget the little being I've poured my heart and soul into? So scary.
Just thought about it and got really sad for a second, then decided if it were to ever happen to her I would make up a new story each time. Fuck trying to tell her I'm her son, I'd say i'm here to fix the washing machine but I forgot my tools. Or I'd tell her I'm the gardener then go and water the garden. Or the chef ordered by her awesome son, then cook her up an amazing meal. Or just a listener sent by a company there to listen to her tell me stories from her past. Yes. That's what I'd do :)
I'm a guy who used to be a girl. One of my greatest fears is that one of my parents may forget who I am now and ask me who I am and where their daughter is.
Its honestly heartbreaking. My grandmother died from Alzheimer's a few years ago. I can still remember the first day she forgot my mothers name. That moment of shock when my grandma asked who my mom was, and the second of silence as my mom soaked it in was very sad.
Last time I remember actually crying to a song was The Antler - Kettering
after a classmate died. Song still gives me sad-shivers.
2a0c40 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an alternative she might start thinking there are two or more of you. Like she'll be talking to you face to face, but refer to something you did or said earlier as though you were an entirely separate copy of yourself who wouldn't know they had done that. Then a few hours later she'll be fine.
It's a strange disease and everyday life doesn't really prepare you to deal with someone afflicted with it.
It gets to be a relief down the line when they just kind of sit there oblivious to the world around them and you know it's just a matter of time until they die. It's the early stages when they still know enough that it makes them frustrated and angry that they can't drive or figure out how to put on their pants.
Yup those loops are depressing but you learn to navigate them away from the distressing thoughts, it's a constant spur of the moment distraction when they come back around to the subject.
Remember driving my grandma to visit a relative in a nursing home.
She'd been in a car accident, had a rough time with the recovery and was in the end stage of cancer, although she'd forget every morning.
Had lunch there a few times. Some of the other people at the table were heartbreaking. Little old lady who'd apparently been traumatized somehow and kept mistaking me for some grandson or other, for instance.
Or the old man who the staff treated like a child, helping him eat....Come to find out, the guy was a retired Air Force general who at one time had headed the Air Force's training command.
That's crazy. I remember when I was a kid my youth group volunteered at the nursing home every now and then, pushing their wheelchairs to their church service. Never got close to them though.
I'm kind of terrified of my parents needing to go into a home, because I'm scared to see this happen to them.
I hated the disease before, but when I saw my nanny go through it, it was almost more than I could handle.
I would visit her once a week, and was there one time for her dinner. She was eating her napkins and dumping out her sweet tea on the floor.
She spent most of her time after that at the nurse's station, swaddling her teddy bear over and over and over again. She was always very nurturing. It broke my heart.
Not to mention the horror of realizing that you are directly descended from the person and are at risk of getting the disease. Makes you hesitant to reproduce.
I'll add to the pile of scary shit. My dad's mother couldn't remember who he was. His sister would take turns caring for her at her house, and sometimes my dad would come in the front door and his mother would start screaming and attacking him with a rolled up newspaper, thinking he was an intruder. I can't imagine how awful that felt.
I never personally knew anyone who went through it, but the stories have always terrified me and broken my heart. My mother and I visited one of her relatives in a home for people with Alzheimer's, and I couldn't handle it.
My parents live in another state, separated but they still do things for each other. My dad recently told me that my mom's been forgetting things recently. Doctor's appointments she always takes my dad to, repeating herself multiple times, even getting lost on the way to places she's been before.
I am scared. Terrified. I don't want to lose her like that. She's only 63. I don't even have kids yet.
It runs in my family in addition to working with Alzheimer patients for several years. The older I get the more it scares me, growing up my great grandma had it bad but I was used to it since I was too young to remember her much before then. My grandma (her daughter) also had it towards the end of her life and it was sad but again, I dealt with it okay. I know my mom will most likely have it and that terrifies me, what terrifies me more is if and when I will be affected. Funny thing is that Alzheimer's patients were by far my favorite to work with in Hospice care, even the ones that had a tendency to be combative never were with me.
My great-grandmother had severe alzheimers and dementia. I was at my grandmother's (her daughter's) funeral, and watching my father explain to her where she was, and who was in the casket was one of the most heart-breaking experiences of my life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it wouldn't bother you to see people that have done bad things go through terrible times. Sadly it's more often than not that a good person suffers because of it too.
CTE doesn't even have clearly defined features and progression is, by most accounts very slow. Its very serious, but pretty weak by most neurodegenerative standards.
People are so blissfully unaware of death. It's almost like a trance, completely unaware of your impermanence here on earth on a moment by moment basis. Even if you aren't, it can take a lifetime to fully understand and accept that someday we will all die. When you truly understand the insight of coming face to face with that reality, you understand why religion exists. The truly difficult part is that death is just the end, the real agony is the veracity of the suffering that the world can inflict on any one being. I think perhaps that's why many religions didn't register with me. Such obsession with the afterlife, but little insight into suffering. The Buddhists called this Samsara. It literally means 'sea of suffering', I think. Anyways, Buddhists...good fellows you should check them out. Who knows, maybe I'm the 33rd reincarnation of a Bodhisattva and just happened to run into you ;)
When I was 12, our church group went on a mission trip to a nursing home, and a couple of us were designated to go the "Dementia Hallway", and talk to all of the patients that had Alzheimer's and Dementia. It was the most horrific thing, nobody made sense, their stories alll conflicted, and we just sorta played along.
Coming back to the real world after that was the strangest brainfuck ever.
Oh my god why do they make children do this. Happened to me in gradeschool. The elderly woman I was paired up with wasn't understandable, and when I politely tried to excuse myself to find a teacher she grabbed my wrists and tried to keep me at the table by force while grunting loud non-words. It was TERRIFYING.
It just made me severely afraid of old people and scared of getting old myself. Like "oh hey how do we make sure none of these kids want to volunteer at a nursing home."
[deleted] ยท 180 points ยท Posted at 03:12:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually it's to make the older person feel valued and give the kid insight and empathy, but it was probably to early for you
[deleted] ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 04:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's fine for general elderly fold, but if they're in late stages of Alzheimer's/dementia, I think it's better if they're left to professionals.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:17:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a spectrum, people with dementia can have lucid parts of the day or times where human contact is necessary. Sure, a person who has advanced dementia and is unpredictable is not a good pairing with a child, but shunting people off to professionals is just condemning them to an even more sad decline before death
Source: Medical student whose sick of seeing people abandoned by families when they're no longer verbal
I'm curious about their lucid points throughout their day...do they act out? And how early on in the stage of dementia do a lot of families abandon those patients?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:14:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't done a lot of neuro yet, but from what I've seen many patients have lucid points where they are more or less normal. Many get a bit confused as to what's gone on, some realize that they're going downhill and panic a bit, some are just perfectly pleasant. Haven't seen too much acting out
As for the second part, it depends on the family, not that I've seen a ton. Some stick with it to the end though, and I think it means something even for those lost deep in dementia
Until you've lived with a person with advanced Alzheimer's you don't know how hard it is. My father in law got early onset Alzheimer's dementia at the age of 55. He lifted weights every day. He got violent and paranoid. My mother in law had just died of breast cancer and we were 26, trying to further our careers and start a family. We moved in with him for as long as we could but I didn't trust him alone with my wife.... His own fucking daughter because he would get scared and act out. It wasn't his fault. He was the nicest guy in the world before that. He shit in the bathtub on almost a weekly occurrence. He couldn't hold a conversation. He punched out the mirrors in the house because he thought someone was watching him. So until you've seen someone you love and used to know go through this you have no fucking clue what it's like. It's the hardest thing in the world. We HAD to move him in to a home for his safety and our own. He spent the last 3 months of his life in a wonderful facility with people that could tend to his needs. We visited as much as we could. We both took time off work. Some people don't have that luxury. Some people don't have a choice. I can't imagine how hard it would have been if we had kids. Alzheimer's isn't just for old nice grannies. More and more people are being diagnosed with early onset every year. It's sad but you can't be there every second. And I can tell you at the end almost certainly when he was laid up in that hospital bed struggling to breathe because his brain couldn't tell his lungs what to do, he had no fucking clue if we were there or not. He had for all intents and purposes already died.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:46:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry for your loss
To be clear, what I meant by abandoning them was sticking them in a home and going a year or more at a time without seeing them. There's nothing wrong with putting them in a setting where they'll get the support they need and allow you to live your own lives, but completely abandoning them once they're there is reprehensible
Yeah, I did it in college and it was a wonderful experience. And then my grandpa got Alzheimer's right after, so I was already prepared. My family used humor to get through it, because he did say some pretty off-the-wall things. A few years later I saw an actual brain from a person who had alzheimer's at a "body world" exhibit at my local science museum, and it was really eye-opening to what was going on. The grey matter just kind of... disappears. All that's left is white matter. It makes the brain look like a brain-version of the grand canyon.
Mundius ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:03:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a description I could have lived without.
When I was a pre-teen, my mom decided to bring my sibling and I with some family friends to the local nursing home for volunteer bingo.
I don't like the elderly. I've never been comfortable around them, and even my own grandparents make me nervous. The nail in that coffin was when Sister Margaret showed up to bingo. Her face was scaly, scarred, and covered in boils. She was very pleasant to talk to, but i was terrified internally.
I had insight and empathy, what I didn't have was a goddamn briefing beforehand. I mean HECK. They told us "don't complain that it stinks" and I thought "of course I won't be so rude!"
Went in expecting non-contagious not-feeling-well old people who wanted to play cards. Was NOT prepared for scary old lady grabbing me, after years of "don't let scary old people grab you" being drilled into me.
We needed way more supervision than we got and it took me ten years to get comfortable around old people again :(
In all honesty you did the old people a favour, imagine not knowing where you are, and not knowing why you are afraid (because Alzheimers, you've forgotten you don't know where you are but the stress hormones remain), seeing and talking to children makes anybody think they're in a non-hostile environment.
I think this isn't communicated well enough to children but if it makes you feel any better, you eventually reasoned with your terror, their's only got worse...
My aunt had alzheimers down south, and after meeting her for the first time, she was a lovely person, cooking some sage sausage. 5 minutes later i came into the kitchen and she was shocked saying, when did you get here. Sad stuff.
Working at a nursing home was the most depressing job I've ever had. I don't know why they only hire teenagers to do activities with the dementia and Alzheimer's patients. It's way too depressing for someone that young, and it's fucked me up pretty good.
nina00i ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just one of the many 'welcome to reality' activities young people get. I'd rather hang out with old people than have a close family member die as a kid.
IMO if kids are going to volunteer with dementia patients, they should be well educated on the condition first. And supervised.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.. I worked in a dementia facility and it was often violent
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:30:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something I'll never forget is going to the nursing home in grade school to sing Christmas carols or some shit, and the old ladies who couldn't do anything besides wail incoherently. I remember trying to give one a Christmas card and all she did was groan "I don't want it" and I was completely lost for what to do. I probably just freaked out and ran off.
They took us to the nursing home to.. Idk. Do something with the residents when I was in preschool. I was 4-5, but I remember things like the guy wandering around in just a shirt and a woman trying to wake up the lady she was playing cards with. I thought for sure she had just died and that that's what happened there. They just hang out and die completely out of the blue.
They just hang out and die completely out of the blue.
Pretty much.
We tell the families they went peacefully and quickly, we don't tell them it was on the toilet with their pants down or face first into their plate of food or while waiting by the door for someone, anyone to remember they exist and come visit them.
It makes you wonder what the point of living long really is.
I work on a surgical floor. If we lose a patient after a code blue it can be quite the endeavour getting them cleaned up before we let the family see them. Especially if they try and fail to start a femoral line... Such a bloody mess.
I had one with some type of abdominal cancer. When she went the floodgates opened from every orifice, and I had family waiting to say their goodbyes with their kids. Blood was literally dripping of the bed.
I finally had to stick gauze deep in her mouth and up her nostrils to stem the flow, then held my breath while they commented on how peaceful she looked. I was sweating it on that one.
Traumas are expected to be a mess. Grandma in her bed is not. But man, it sure can be. Kinda like the 550+lb aortic aneurysm who was a full code...Blood everywhere. Families can't handle that.
Oh god, 550 pounds?! I've had to deal with over 300 pound guys who coded, but not over 500. Though thinking of full code, I do remember a while back having a 90+ year old. Full code, lung mass. Family was demanding a biopsy and all kinds of treatment. The poor guy weighed maybe 85 pounds and was almost completely nonverbal. I was able to turn him with 1 hand, if I had wanted to I could have just thrown him over my shoulder without even trying. They were finally convinced to sign a DNR and take him home to end his life peacefully. It really helped me understand why my grandmother had a DNR and living will before she was 75. She doesn't want to go on with no quality of life.
stephj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:48:23 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are an amazing person
oskool ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:59:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it in grade school, had a 90 year old lady who couldn't talk, barely able to communicate by body movements. I was probably in like 5th grade. I actually still remember her fondly and feel I tried to interact with her and make her feel happy. The last time we visited that year, her son came in and he was a preacher or priest or something. He thanked me and said that I had made his mother happy, he appreciated it, etc. This was probably 28 years ago and I can still remember the details of the room, where I was sitting, etc. It was definitely a positive experience for me, made me realize that we can all have an impact on people, kindness goes a long way!
That's well and good but in my case it was like exposing a child to sea kelp touching their feet in the ocean without first explaining that it isn't sharks.
The lack of preparation just set me up for freakout. I thought they were going to be like my grandparents, in need of more quiet/gentle activities but still very much "normal" people behaving in socially acceptable ways.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes you just gotta throw em in.
I understand your metaphor/simile, but explaining alzheimers to a child would be difficult. And second, you need to be tossed in the oicean/shark tank, you can't just coddle people their whole lives.
chirmer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You missed his point. He wasn't even aware they were struggling with a disorder at all. Even a simple "Hey Timmy, we're going to spend some time with the elderly, and these folks are going through some struggles so they might not behave like you think they will" would be SOMETHING.
Completely, COMPLETELY disagree that throwing kids into a situation like this without warning is okay. The biggest memories I have from my childhood are when I was put into a situation unprepared and terrified.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does every other human being on earth. Those memories are an attempt to make you survive long enough to spread your genetics.
Stop being such a victim.
chirmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your post, quite literally, could not be more full of crap. Please do not have children. Sincerely, sane society.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me find you my tiny violin.
While you teach your children how to post blogs on tumblr about how their feelings were hurt in the wrong way, I will teach mine how to internalize it, deal with it, and come out as better people in the end.
chirmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll talk slower so you can understand me this time. You... like... do realize... kids can like... be taught to learn and grow from an experience... like... while being told what the fuck is going on, right? What if the kid had shouted, "Daddy, I think this lady is stupid!" Because you couldn't fucking be bothered to warn the them? Think things through, pal. It's what the brain is for.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:14 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am 44 and as a result of something similar am absolutely terrified of children, the elderly and people with severe disabilities. It's the inability to communicate that frightens me. I have had this terror since childhood and I have no idea how to address it.
I remember my grandfather grabbing my wrist like that. Strangely I think that was one of his few lucid moments near the end. Like, he wanted to hold onto the presence of the moment.
Right? I started as a CNA at 16, became an LPN at 21 and an RN at 24. Most of my early years were in LTC and I really believe it changed me dramatically. I don't think we can feel things like other people do.
My grandmother has dementia now, and i dont find it to be like your experience. Sure, she will ask me the same question like 10 times in a conversation but who cares? She remembers me and thats all i care about. Once thats out the window it'll be tough
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Been there before. It was a completely secluded, isolated ward at the nursing home. There was a courtyard that was about 15x15 feet with 10 foot walls they could walk in. There were some that just watched black and white tv all day. There were some who just paced in an oddly perfect route constantly. And there were some who just stood in the corner murmuring things to themselves. It was something out of a zombie film. Just terrifying.
Yup, now I don't go anywhere near nursing homes. Oddly enough though, I've fostered a couple of mentally handicapped kids, and they are nowherenear as scary.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to volunteer at an d folks home. There was an old dame in the lobby who was convinced I was her son. I played along, but it was fucking heartbreaking. I cried a little after. I rarely cry.
Humdot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I work at a nursing home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went to take a crime report from an old gent who had managed to get hold of a phone. He was reporting his car stolen......he thought it was 1977 and it had just happened. No doubt in a filing cabinet somewhere there is a dusty old report of the same thing. We knew he hadn't really had anything happen, I just went to check on him.
Exactly, he was 12. Get over it. He wasn't trying to be malicious at all.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:16:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had multiple people in my family with Alzheimer's, It's just that I can understand how scary it would be as a kid to have someone screaming at you for seemingly no reason. No one was saying bad things about your mother or people with Dementia or Alzheimer's.
My dad is in the same state- being trapped in his body. He's almost on year 6. Luckily still has his speech but the disease is slowly working on his lungs so that will be gone too.
I'm 2000 miles away from home and it seems that every time we Skype (twice a week) things have gotten worse. His head is clear, he loves learning, but you can tell he's restless. There's tons of things he wants to do and believes he still can, but has no way to do them.
Watching him call over to his wife so that she can wipe his eye when they start burning is heartbreaking. The person you once saw as completely indestructible is fading fast- just like you said. It started in the left hand, took most of his left arm, attacked his legs, put him in a wheelchair. Now no use of his arms, no use of his legs, fading use of his lungs. He knows the end is coming soon; we've made our peace and I'm going back in a week to finalize that. ALS is the scariest, worst thing I've ever endured- but I couldn't imagine what it's like for him.
I can't imagine what he feels: the pain, the restlessness, the fear, and even just how he must feel when he thinks that he's a burden to us. He's apologized to me for walking slow (back when he still could). That's another thing- it takes people who are completely healthy at first and just takes that all away. ALS sufferers not only lose their physical capabilities; it takes an immense toll on the mind and emotions.
My mom got ALS. She didn't last six years, but she died of a heart attack before it completely wasted away her body. She had a few bad days, mostly in relation to the drug she took while part of a failed clinical trial, but she handled it far better than I think I would have in her position.
Just be there for your father emotionally as much as you can. It's not always easy, my mom often didn't want to talk about it. I can't really say what went through her mind. The only thing she ever did to complain was say, 'this sucks,' every once in a while. She just kind of bottled up, and I really wish I could have done more for her emotionally.
Reading about ALS and the like really makes me wonder how people can be so strong to power through that, it's impressive.
I sure as hell would be having some serious suicidal thoughts when being diagnosed with one of those diseases. Better end it as long as I'm still able to do it myself.
For my dad it came down to seeing me as much as he could.
If you knew you had a finite amount of time with your loved ones, you'd do everything you possibly could to maximize the amount of time spent with them.
jefvel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you need anyone to talk to/ask questions/yell about why your family, hit me up. Nobody should go through it alone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks man, that's really cool of you. Fortunately my friends have been by my side through this whole ordeal, as well as my mom/sister, but it's hard to go through it, and sometimes it's good to talk to someone who also went/is going through it.
Grandfather had it. He started getting a little unbalanced in his walking, and his speech start slurring very slightly. Wasn't diagnosed ALS for a while, because the doctors all thought he'd had some minor strokes. His eyesight started going, and then things got worse, and other symptoms started presenting, they realized what it was. He went downhill pretty quick. ALS sucks.
My grandmother had ALS when I was pretty young. This sounds similar to what I recall. She died within a year iirc. The hardest part was watching my mom go through watching her mother waste away, unable to do anything to help.
My mother was recently diagnosed with it a year ago and it's horrifying to see the progress of the disease. She can't drive she can barely walk with the help of a walker, she has to live on the first floor of the dream house she bought (just a modest two story house that she dreamed of having when she was a child). My parents are having to sell it because she cannot handle being trapped on the first floor and not being able to tend to her garden she built.
I'm sorry you are going through it. My best friend's mom just passed away from it. She made it about 6 years after diagnosis. It is really hard watching it happen. If any positive can come from it, i think that it's that everyone has time to come to terms with it. You get time to spend together. For my friends mom (almost like a mom to me too) she got to go surrounded by her husband and 5 kids. It's really hard to experience though.
edit: There have been studies that have shown that marijuana can slow the progression of the disease. My friends very conservative mom almost considered it at one point but there is no way her family would have thought that a good route to go.
Both of my grandfathers died from ALS. I was alive to see only one of them pass away from this awful disease. All I can say is thank you to everyone that participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge. The charities benefitted SO MUCH from that "dumb fad".
Tanek42 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:18:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother died from ALS last year after 11 years. She was not very old when first diagnosed and to watch the deterioration of her body while her mind was fully intact was so painful. I can't even imagine the psychological effect in has when she realizes there's another thing she can't do such as walking, controlling her power wheel chair, using the restroom/bathing independently, moving to get comfortable in bed, using a page flipper to read books, chewing food, speaking, swallowing, breathing without a ventilator...And we've been "close" to a cure for over a decade so this tiny glimmer of hope just sat there on the horizon. There are few, if any, diseases that scare me more than ALS.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Molecular bio major here - Huntington's is a terrifying disease because it works at a genetic level similar to cancer. It basically causes a constant repetition of a certain nucleotide chain to fuck with how your proteins are created. Huntington's encoded proteins to have a long track of glutamine which can really fuck you up. Basically effects you similarly to parkinsons but a hell of a lot harder to cure
This sounds so bad, I didn't know much about the disease and I can't imagine how hope crushing it is for people with Hungtinton to hear how hard it will be to cure it.
This thread is fucking me up so badly because I might have MS (but after months we still don't know, getting tested and bla bla). Even if I'm beyond terrified, I think if I had been told it could be Hungtinton or ALS I wouldn't have been able to hold on emotionally like I've been doing.
It makes me so sad for those people, I really hope treatments don't take too long to get discovered. If I had one wish I'd wipe out diseases forever.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MS can be fairly dormant if it makes you feel better, my grandma had it her entire life and not too many complications. There are new technogies by the way. Preventing genetic diseases like cancer is unfortunately a futuristic dream but the treatment for them is getting increasingly better.
I know two people with huntingtons. They were youngish lads when they were diagnosed (in their early 20's) after watching their dad die from it. I only ever see one of them now, he walks his dogs all the time and you can see him getting worse, it's horrible. I remember going to school with the other one of them, he was the toughest kid in school, no one messed with him but he was so nice at the same time, I never saw him in a fight ever but people knew not to mess with him. Now I never see him even though we all live in a tiny village so it's kind of impossible not to run into people all the time, I worry he's just trapped in his house degenerating. Fuck all of those diseases! I have Addison's disease and it sucks but I count myself lucky it's not worse!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Early 20's is very early and unfortunate for them. There is new technology for treatment but still fairly far away
It really is, unless I'm mistaken and they were tested due to genetic links at that age without symptoms, I'm not sure. Either way they can only be in their 30's now and definitely do have symptoms.
I am very sorry to hear about that, I hope that you are holding as well as can be.
It absolutely sounds and looks terrifying.
From my understanding, Stephen Hawking is actually one of the "luckier" victims of Lou Gehrig's disease -- yet he literally only has physically control of one cheek.
With as much respect as I can defer, I feel like Stephen Hawking's life would be my personal hell, to be trapped in a body with a clear mind and control of only one cheek to be used to communicate one sentence per hour (a genius mind might even be worse because Hawking can be pretty contemplative and introspective, and he arguably would be insatiably curious without the efficient means to explore his curiosity in subjects).
My grandfather had ALS as well, it unfortunately attacked his upper body first and got to his lungs fairly quickly. While he could communicate though he also made jokes the whole time asking us who snuck in the flask this time for him.
Great man. Such a terrifying disease to watch such an amazing and strong man just deteriorate so quickly like that, after a month he could barely even write to us that he needed his breathing tube adjusted or what not.
My Grandmother had it to. She was always sick with Bronchitis for a year and a couple of times fell and hurt her knee or hip. For the most part she was okay until they realized she had ALS. Slowly she could talk less and less. It took about a year maybe a year and a half and needed someone to help her the entire way. Just like your wife's uncle her mind was clear as ever. I still remember the last day. She was really sick at the hospital and she was coughing really bad. A couple of nurses came in and we said goodbye. We came back a little later and she was asleep. She never woke back up her heart beat for another 12 hours or so. We just watched the heartbeat monitor get slower and slower until it finally stopped. It was more or less peaceful last day but sad.
My dad had ALS and died a couple years back... This sounds exactly like what
happened. They thought he had a stroke, because of his slur. Watching him wither until he was a husk of a man was intense, to say the least. One of the most ripping experiences of my life was hearing him put "I love you" on repeat while I was walking out the door before my ride back to Houston..
The hardest part about the entire thing was relating to people again. It's all I could think about. I still think about it/him daily, but not in the same sense. I'm damn proud he was my father.
In saying that, if I ever get ALS I'm kayaking with a bucket of chum and a knife into the middle of the ocean and putting my demons down.
Man, that "challenge" made me furious. I literally quit social media for the majority of that summer. I'm glad a lot of people donated, but I was frustrated by the number of people doing something stupid just to "raise awareness" (and not donate).
So it's basically permanent sleep paralysis? There aren't many situations, if any other, that I know ahead of time I would want to die. I wouldn't want this for anyone. Seriously, no one. If hitler had this I would mercy kill him. Sorry to hear about your uncle.
I've watched a lot of people die in a lot of different ways. ALS is my nightmare, followed by MS and Alzheimer's, specifically the stage where you know something awful is happening but can't remember what.
I am so sorry. My grandmother passed from ALS before I was even born, but it is one of the most terrifying things that could happen to me. Is there a gene test for this??
No, there is no positive test for ALS. It is diagnosed by ruling all other diagnoses out. It runs in the families of an extremely small number of patients, and it is not known why this is the case. If your grandmother was the only one in your direct family with ALS, then it's a pretty safe bet it's sporadic and not familial.
doom32x ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'm on the other end of that stick, my paternal grandfater died of ALS before I was born, my father died of it 5 years ago. Scares the shit out of me that I could have less than half of my life left already and I just turned fucking 30.
I don't know as much about familial ALS, but if I recall correctly, it's figured to be probably a 50/50. But I also seem to remember reading a couple years ago that familial ALS presents pretty early (thinking 20's and 30's). So if you can manage to look at it like every year you make it through, the better your odds are of not having it, you might be able to keep some optimism.
doom32x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Yeah, I know its likely 50/50 if familial, not sure with age thing though. Father died at 54 his father at 61 or so. The math both being sporadic isn't great, although my grandfather was a mechanic on heliocopters in the WWII pacific front, my old man was a diesel mechanic with at least two massive concussions we know about, so I'm somewhat hopeful that bad non-genetic luck was involved.
My family was told they could be tested after my grandmother had been diagnosed. AFIAK I think only one of my aunts may have. My mom and I are too terrified to know. I had never heard there were two "forms" if you will. I just assumed she was the first in the family to get it. But it comforts me a little to know I and my mom might be safe. Especially considering no one else has been diagnosed and I'm in my early 30s and so far pretty healthy.
Sadly, various cancers seem to be pretty prevalent in my family and none have been pleasant to watch.
ALS isn't like Huntingtons or others where the diagnosis of a family member is scary (for your health, that is). From the little you've told me, I would guess that you shouldn't worry yourself. Especially given that if it WAS familial, then in order for you to get it, your mom would have to get it first. And familial presents at earlier ages than Sporadic. Given that your grandmother presumably was diagnosed in her 50's or later, and that your mother is presumably in her 50's or later now (you being in your 30's), if neither you or your mom have had it by now then I can't see any logical reason why you would have anything to worry about.
It's funny how much the reassurance of a stranger can help sometimes :) I really appreciate the link and explanation. You are correct, my grandmother was diagnosed in her 70s, and my mother is in her 60s now. So based on those factors I'm more confident that my grandmother's case was sporadic.
Definitely still a hellish ordeal to go through for any family member or friend of someone suffering from ALS (and those who have it!). My heart goes out to anyone who's been touched by this disease.
Have the same issue with my best friend. Known this guy for 48 years. It is scary to watch him not being able to communicate, walk, eat, and talk. Everyday it seems to get worse. Fuck this disease.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the end they either go on a ventilator or slowly suffocate to death over a few days time, it's not a quick end.
My wife's uncle also had ALS. It's just sadder and sadder and sadder every way you look at it. He was sharp as ever and yet because of the numbness in his extremities and tongue people would treat him like he was drunk or mentally handicapped. That to me was always one of the saddest parts of it.
My stepfather has it, and while he's made slow progress so far, I'm worried I won't have the courage to watch him go through it. Its kept me up at night crying many nights, it just doesn't feel like he deserved to get it.
Watched my grandmother waste away from ALS. She went from happy and energetic and always trying to entertain family to completely locked in and severely depressed. She could only move 3 muscles (all in her face) and that's what she controlled her speech synthesizer with. 3 words per minute.
She told me that she was physically in pain, but the worst pain was seeing how it affected us. She would have killed to spend 5 minutes with us in her old body โ So she could tell us how much she loved us without the focus being on her illness.
If I was ever diagnosed, I would kill myself to spare my family from seeing my mind being trapped in a dead body. It's a death sentence regardless.
joe2105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I ever find out I'm coming down with this I'm Ending my life on my own terms.
Zabren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My great grandfather committed suicide. He was pretty far into ALS, from what I understand. From what I understand, they had to feed him via tube and generally lost all semblance of independence. He just couldn't take it, I guess. He walked out into the backyard and pulled the trigger, I guess not wanting to do it in the house. "The help," I guess you could say, found him or ran outside first, or whatever.
Ever since I found that out a year or two ago, I haven't thought of ALS the same. I know that if I end up developing it or anything like it, it'll be a one way flight to a death with dignity state.
I love reddit because I can read a simultaneously tragic and scary story, and then see that your username is PM_BUTT_PICS. And then I just don't know how to feel.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Massive props to him keeping a sense of humour though.
I think that being able to go through all that and still think to crack a joke says a lot about a person.
sgdbw90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father passed away from ALS in 2009. It's exactly as terrible as people make it sound, but I have to say that this fucking disease at least had the dignity to keep his mind intact until the end. He needed computer assistance to talk and was totally dependent on caregivers (mostly my family), but he never lost his edge or his wit. The last day I spent with him we went to the Nixon Library (presidential sites were a common trip for us). Though most movement was impossible, my die-hard liberal father managed to pull off a satisfied, shit-eating grin in a photo next to Nixon's resignation letter. It was stupendous. I'm so glad we had that day together. For those of you whose family members are going through this now, make sure you take opportunities for new happy memories. There are more than enough awful ones, but you and your family can fight back. And you'll be so glad you did.
I sometimes wonder how Stephen Hawking deals with it. Like he should have been dead before I was born, how is he still alive? How does he handle the fact that all his interaction with the world is through a single cheek muscle?
AMP2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to hear about that...
My triplet aunts are currently in the process of all enduring MND (ALS). The gene was passed on by my grandmother to the identical triplets.
First, one of my aunts fell sick to the disease, and was only diagnosed a day before her death. Then my grandmother's gene activated, she was gone within a year. I'll never forget her last words to me before I had to go back overseas after our last visit to see her. "Go and live your life, have fun. Love is eternal".
The stress caused by these deaths has activated my mother's and my final aunt's genes within close proximity. Now my aunt is reaching the stage of breathing machines, my mother is fluctuating in her progression and her annorexia and alcoholism are making her progress faster. Thank god we have found a pre-pre-trial drug that appears to be helping her slow/halt the progression. I'm so afraid for the day I hear my aunt has passed, it's inevitable at this point. I think it's going to tip my mother over the edge, it might be her death sentence.
What scares me most is that this has all happened within 4 years... I still remember all 4 of them being so healthy in 2010 when they visited us. I miss those days.
Just another note for all you guys regarding donations to ALS/MND foundations... Donate to something else, they reckon that they are close enough to the cure that they don't need more money for now. What we really need is awareness so drug companies recognise the demand for MND drugs so they can be distributed legally and safely.
My mom died after 5 years with ALS. Terrifying is an understatement. I know if I ever contract it I will end my own life. I don't have the desire to suffer like that.
I know it doesn't mean much now but reading this makes me happy I let someone dump a bucket of ice water on my head and gave a few bucks. I'm so sorry, I couldn't even imagine.
[deleted] ยท 573 points ยท Posted at 01:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Sister started showing symptoms of Huntington's recently. Our Father has it and it was passed from his Mother. I was tested for it 5 years ago and I always wondered why my sister refused to get tested. She had other medical issues to worry about from what she recently told me.
[deleted] ยท 181 points ยท Posted at 02:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think getting tested then finding out you have it but show no symptoms is somewhat more scary. Living day in and day out waiting for you to start losing control of your own body.
I would rather know whether or not the sword is hanging above my head.
I know this might hurt some feelings... but I think it's selfish to have kids if you have the disease. Hiding from the knowledge doesn't make it better.
I honestly don't know whether I'd want to know or not. If I were considering children, it would obviously be a consideration, but if not...
If I was clear, obviously, it'd be a huge relief.
If I had it, it would have a pretty big impact on my life. I live my life assuming I'll be relatively healthy and functional into my 50s and 60s. I plan for that, spend time in school for that, etc. If I knew I only had 10 or 20 good years to go, I don't think I'd be making the same choices.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:19:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would want to know. I wouldnt do certain careers and would probably be more reckless. If i knew i had huntingtons i would probably go the traveling band or backpacking across europe route.
Knowing i wouldnt have to worry about retirement or anything would make me live in the now. I would def want to know
If you want to backpack across Europe, do it now. You could die any day, and you won't be staying in youth hostels after you retire. Don put your life on hold.
Lots of my relatives have made it into their 80s and beyond - it's quality of life that's the issue (hence the "healthy and functional") bit. I assume I'll live at least into my 70's, but I don't assume I'll be able to do all the things I can do now.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:34 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why there's psychological evaluations as part of the testing process. My fiancรฉ got tested a few years ago and it was taxing, but he thankfully came out clear. His father died of it a few months before he decided to get tested. It was pretty early onset too, so it was scary to think about. The more cag repeats the more pronounced it is. His sister doesn't want to get tested... I understand why from both sides though.
Ultimately, though, psychological evaluations aren't going to prevent a diagnosis from having a huge impact, nor do they guarantee that the person is prepared to handle their diagnosis.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:42 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't guarantee anything, that's for sure. But if the psychologist doesn't think you're ready to handle the results whatever they may be, you can bet you aren't getting tested for a certain amount of time. Then they'll reevaluate, but they make you wait.
Per everything online, counseling is recommended and considered a normal part of the process, but they're not going to delay testing on that basis alone. In some cases, emotional issues that could make someone seem "unprepared" to handle diagnosis could, in fact, be symptoms of the disease. Furthermore, refusing to proceed with testing could cause greater emotional harm.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:28 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not exactly true. My fiancรฉ got delayed. There's a slew of questions and if they aren't answered the way they want to hear them they put it off a few months. It's just precautionary to give the person time to decide if they really want to go through with finding out. I agree delaying can do more harm than good, as was the case with my fiancรฉ.
Delays based on the person's answers are not part of the government recommended protocol, for whatever that's worth.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:52 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He got tested at one of 13 centers for excellence for HD. I think they do a pretty good job. The support groups are really helpful for those going through it, just putting that out there.
I'm not commenting on quality of care he received. Only saying it differs from the official guidelines.
dwill07 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is selfish, at the very least they should adopt. When it's all said and done they're still going to have their partner/kids taking care of them 20+ years before they would have been originally if onset is in the 35-55 range. No need to put your own kids at such a disadvantage right from the start.
Depends. In some states IGF is covered by health insurance as long as you've tried to get preggo for a year and are unable to. With a genetic diagnosis I wouldn't be surprised if it would be covered from the get-go.
As for the stress, I'm not so sure. I haven't done it but I imagine it would be less stressful than guessing whether your child would be healthy or viable or not.
Not possible. Carriers have one copy of a recessive gene that causes a disease when you have two copies. Carriers, having only one bad copy, experience no disease, but can pass it on to their kids if they have children with another carrier. Huntington's is a dominant disease. You get it even if you only have one copy of the gene.
I've got a shitty genetic lottery too. I have stepkids, and it's pretty great, so there's that.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you're a Dalek. I joke about the genetic lottery of my family. Huntington's on my fathers side and my mother died from issues with Crohn's disease. My sister has dealt with stomach issues for years and now she is showing signs of Huntington's.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We both have kids already and her oldest has kids. So this is a nightmare situation for me.
Unplanned pregnancy. About a half to two-thirds of pregnancies in the West are unplanned.
Lack of proper diagnosis. HD has only been regularly diagnosed as HD for a couple decades -- the tests have only existed since the 90s. It was routinely misdiagnosed prior.
Lack of understanding how HD is passed on, which is particularly common in families that were only recently diagnosed.
Inaccurate information. Someone might think their wing of the family doesn't have it, for instance, when in reality the grandfather everyone thought was just getting cantankerous with age was actually in the early stages.
Also, about 10% of HD cases are de novo (without a family history). People who aren't from HD families may unwittingly have it themselves and pass it on.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did not live around my fathers side of the family and we had never even heard of it until his diagnosis and by then it was too late. I have no idea why no one ever talked to us about it.
In Biology class, we learned about this man who had HD. His wife was so ashamed that she hid the disease from everyone, telling her children that he died of old age / cancer, what have you.
Well lo and behold, a few years after he dies (wife still remains quiet about the whole thing), their son has kids. And a few years later, the son is diagnosed with HD. A few decades later, HIS kid(s) are diagnosed with HD too. Totally the wife's fault, IMO. I think it's ridiculously irresponsible to knowingly withhold information about serious genetic issues like HD. Like, worthy of a lawsuit / jail time.
I'm really sorry about your family. It's devastating when it's out of the blue like that, and you have to worry about yourself AND your kids. I hope everything works out alright for you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with you. When I was thinking of getting tested I talked with my boss and he told me of a father and son that worked at the plant they both started showing symptoms at the same time. A year later the mother/wife was taking care of them both. I do not want that for my wife or kids. After my sister told me of her symptoms I talked to my brother in law and told him it was going to be rough and he just said he was not going anywhere.
toboozy ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think most people don't really want to know they're going to lose control of themselves and die young, they'd rather just have it come on and tackle it then. I can sympathize with that mind set.
I think in terms of getting tested, one reason one might avoid it is because, for some people, all it would really do is inflict a sense of abject, inescapable doom upon them. Imagine how it might affect your life knowing with certainty that your body and mind will begin to slowly fail well before they're meant to and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it. And it's more or less a coin flip. If that coin flip comes out as a loss, every waking moment from that moment forward would be haunted by the certainty that you will lose yourself, and everyone you know and love will have to watch it happen. And what's worse, you get an approximate timeline. Life becomes a countdown. Now compare that to what you get if you win the coin flip. Relief? The maintenance of the status quo? The same life as you would've tried to live before you even knew it was possible you could have this terrible disease? You gain nothing, really, because "not being sick" is an abstract concept. Perhaps you feel blessed or lucky for awhile but eventually that'll give way to more concrete things. So basically you flip a coin and either your life is destroyed or nothing changes. Or you don't flip the coin and you try not to think about it because it won't change the outcome anyways. And while maybe that uncertainty is not as good as knowing for sure that you'll be ok, it is infinitely better than knowing that you won't be.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason I got tested was because I wanted to know so I could plan out my life as far as I could. I can understand why someone would not get tested. A positive result puts a big timer on your life and most people would not want that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes sorry. For some reason I forgot to put that part in.
ExudE ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:14:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting that positive result can have lots of benefits as well, compared to realizing you have the disease at 35 years old. If you live in the United States, at least, caring for a HD patient is very expensive, and if you do not prepare adequately, you could leave your spouse and children with an enormous financial burden.
Speaking of children, knowing your genetic status allows you to know if adoption or pre-implantation genetic testing is required, because I'm sure you don't want to pass the disease along.
Getting the negative result, or "winning the coin flip," as you said, allows you to proceed with your life as normal. If you do not choose to get tested, the very same people who would feel that inescapable doom of a positive result would live in fear of the possibility of succumbing to the disease.
Yes. This is exactly why I didn't have genetic testing done when my mum was diagnosed and died young of a very nasty, aggressive form of cancer. If the test came out positive, the preventative care would be essentially the same anyway - screening procedures much earlier and more often, some changes in diet, etc, and I was already certain I did not want children. So why choose to have all hope stolen away?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry. My brother won't get tested and I totally understand why. I am adopted ( my biological mom and my adoptive mom are sisters ) and my biological mom is the only one of the three that doesn't have it, so I cannot have it either. I really do worry though because so many people in my family have it and I've watched them go through it and its terrible :(
I think that it's a lot scarier knowing that you are going to die young than to have hope that you might not.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. Although I would rather know because of the area we live in is rural so the medical care we can get is poor. When she first told me she was showing symptoms I did not sleep that night because I was trying to figure out how to get her the care she will need later on.
Fatkin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should watch the last episode of Scrubs (season 8 last episode, not season 9) if you haven't already. It might give you a little insight into what's going through your sister's head.
I'm sorry that your family is in this position. I can understand why she would avoid getting tested earlier--it's a terrifying kind of knowledge to live with. Hoping for the best, but if it isn't good I'm wishing you as much peace and comfort as possible.
But if you did know that you had a seriously debilitating hereditary disease...why the fuck would you procreate? Jesus
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:48:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He did not know that he had it. When he found out my wife was pregnant and he wanted our daughter tested in utero and for us to think about aborting if the test came back positive. That upset me because I knew nothing about Huntington's then. I am glad I did not have to make that choice.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. We got distracted from HD when the ultrasound tech mistakenly diagnosed her with a cleft palate. We spent hours on the internet trying to find out about cleft palates and talking to doctors only to find out she was fine. I was tested some time around then and since the test was negative it slipped our minds.
Neural tube defects are pretty serious too. I've got the MTHFR mutation ("mothafucka" gene, as I like to call it) and the inability to process folic acid in enriched foods causes those. And lots of miscarriages. I don't really blame you for getting sidetracked.
Yeah, I just got tested and learned about it. I've been suffering SO many shitty health problems for the past 20 years. I'm homozygous on the 677 gene, but not on the other one. I'm hoping that avoiding folic acid totally, and supplementing with 5-MTHF and methylated B12 will help. If you have any other info, please message me! My life has been miserable!
Zgicc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A family member passed away less than a month ago. Stay strong.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. My father watched two of his brothers and his mother suffer and die from Huntington's. It must be a really hard thing to deal with both as a Huntington's patient and as a loved one.
Everyone on my father's side has died of Huntington's. His 4 siblings. His mother and so on down the line. It is a shitty way to go. I decided not to get tested because of my job. Just had a kid and it is a little scary to think that he or I might die the same way.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's mother has it and she refuses to get tested. She just doesn't want to know if she'll deteriorate so she can live her life without worrying about when symptoms will start showing if she's positive. If it does happen, she's going to come live with me so that her kids don't have to take care of her and see her like that.
Other than knowing whether or not you have it, what are the benefits of being tested?
If you don't have it, great, huge weight lifted of your shoulders.
But if you do, there's nothing you can really do, right? So then you know for sure you have it and are just waiting for it take hold. Would probably drive most people a little insane. So you're in no better spot than knowing that you may or may not have it.
My mom has AD. It is truly the hardest to get over for us. I've come to terms with the fact that the mother I grew up with is gone. I've also grown to love the mother I still have.
Shes a different person true. But she is just as powerful a teacher as she was when I was growing.
Her love is so unconditional, that even without the ability to tell me the words I love you, I can tell she still feels it.
There are these faint glimmering moments. With a bit of clarity she can sound almost 100% like her old self. It's then that I realize she's still there just buried deep in the grave of her memory. So much dirt to be uncovered.
Some people choose to desperately dig the dirt away, hoping her former self will show again, that for another faint glimmering moment she's here.
But for every tonne of dirt I removed, 2 tonnes remained.
I think she realized how much I was trying to help her. She would tell me that it's okay in those moments. They were so infrequent, it really can drive you insane.
It took years for her to tell me it's okay. That the disease is what it is and that she still loves me. Like putting together a puzzle when you get a single piece once every 6 months. After a while you get a hint at what the puzzle says up. It looks like "its okay, I love you, it will be okay, you're such a good son, I can't wait for you to get married even if I never see your bride, your kids will be generous and loving like their father, I just won't know their names, tell your father I love him." And its at that point you can't really do anything but shutoff. I fucking hate it but it's a burden that can hone you as a person, and make you want to fix this shitty fucked up thing we live in called nature. I want to hate it, but I can't let her love go to waste.
I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. My mother was recently diagnosed with ALS & your experiences have given me a new perspective. Thank you for this. Be strong & keep the positive energy our mothers always need.
To add to this, as my grandma started to descend deeply into Alzheimer's (it's been more than ten years now and she can barely speak), she would have moments of clarity and tell me how she was begging God for death whenever she prayed, and that she didn't understand his plan and wished she could just be free and die.
It's a nightmare for everyone involved :/
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma has Alzheimer's and I walked in to visit her last Sunday. I said "hey granny, I missed you", and she just kept saying "who are you?" "Who is this?" It's awful.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:42:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just told her that he was at work and would be back soon.
They've actually begin recommending this, playing along rather than going for brutal truth. Bringing reality to them is less important than their emotional well being.
Even worse: most of the times my grandma says she can't understand why her parents left her alone in the middle of nowhere. It's like having an 88-year-old child who was just abandoned by their family.
I'm my mother's caregiver for ALS, and it's not exactly a fucking picnic. When you reach these magnitudes of suffering, there's really no point in trying to explain why one person or another has it harder. It's just different, but it's all terrible psychologically.
I wouldn't dismiss the patient experience of Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's and dimentia both cause deep anxiety in patients. Imagine not knowing where you were, who your family is, who these strangers are that claim to be nurses, who you are. Imagine being scared and alone and increasingly isolated from the people around you. Anxiolytics are commonly rxed
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I'm sorry.
ralten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hallucinating is uncommon in AD. You're thinking of Dementia with Lewy Bodies.
Ugh. My mom may be developing dementia or adult onset schizophrenia, and my dad is going through the tests to diagnose ALS. I'm pretty fucking disheartened right now.
There are many ALS patients who also suffer aspects of dementia. So in addition to losing their body, they also lose their ability to think, understand you, express emotion. It's FTD with Motor Neuron Disease
At risk for Huntington's disease, can confirm. Getting tested for it in three weeks because I've started to show physical chorea symptoms. This is definitely the most terrifying month of my entire life. I wake up and go to bed thinking about death. Every time I forget about my death, my muscles twitch and remind me that my body is no longer my own, that it belongs to the disease now, and soon my mind will too.
I commented somewhere else ITT this same thing but I just wanted to send you an internet hug pal. I've been getting tests for MS for months but we don't know yet because I barely show "atypical symptoms" or whatever. I know it's not the same disease, but I totally get what you mean when you mention your last month has been completely dominated by this. I know for experience what the lack of answers and constant thoughts about death and doom can cause to the mind.
Sending good vibes, I hope good luck strikes you and your symptoms are caused by any other thing that isn't Huntingtons. Nobody should be going through this.
Yep, my grandpa had Alzheimer's; a few years after he passed his daughter (my aunt) developed ALS.
With Alzheimers, your body stays in pretty good shape while your mind rots away.
With ALS, your mind stays pristine while your body fails you.
Oh, and while you lose control of your body, you still get to feel all of the pain. You know how you shift around in your chair/bed a few times an hour to stay comfortable? With ALS, you still have that discomfort, but you can't do anything about it. That discomfort, when unaddressed, develops into tear-jerking pain, and you have to ask your caregivers to adjust your body for you (and simply making this request, by the way, is a struggle, as ALS takes your ability to communicate too). Saw it happen to my aunt many times.
ALS leaves you trapped in your body. That's hell. When my aunt finally passed, knowing she was free of that pain, and that prison, was a relief. I wouldn't wish one more day of that agony on her.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I recall correctly, she ultimately asphyxiated in her sleep. She'd had a DNR posted on her bedroom door for months beforehand -- she'd made her choice.
It was about 18 months from diagnosis to death, in the end. Hell of a thing; it strikes out of the blue. She was the picture of health one day (in her late 40s, her kids just old enough to start college), started having a little trouble getting up the stairs the next (which lead to the diagnosis), and within a couple months, she's wheelchair bound; a few more and she almost completely lost the ability to speak and chew her own food. Of course, sometimes it's slower.
Sounds like you've never heard of early onset Alzheimer's. My cousin has a friend (who's 22) with Alzheimer's. Literally the worst thing that can happen.
Well, Wikipedia says early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD) can strike as early as age 15. And just looking up EOFAD 22 years old I found a couple articles about how it works and how early it can start. Some messed up stuff man.
neish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having watched my uncle die of ALS just last year and my grandfather die ten years ago and you'd understand why so many sufferers want a dignified death by euthanasia instead. Seeing my uncle try to eat and choke on the smallest piece of food was horrific. The panic in his eyes and the helplessness still sends shivers down my spine.
Unfortunately it seems my family might have familial ALS and tends to strike at a younger age. I imagine someone else in my family will be afflicted at some point.
neish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:18 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing that, it's still an uphill battle in a lot of places. Thankfully I live in Canada and just a few days ago the first Canadian outside Quebec has passed away by assisted suicide. She was suffering from ALS. So at least there are options for me should I ever develop it or anyone else in my family.
My mom just got diagnosed with ALS last July. It's horrific to watch. I hate it for her. To see her even have trouble swallowing water makes me so upset. I wouldn't wish this on anyone...
I know exactly what you're going through. My mom got diagnosed in September. I just came across my mom's tips for drinking easier. She just started losing her voice. I horrified to watch the the most amazing woman that made me who I am today slowly fall apart. Be strong & stay positive around her.
I'm sorry to hear that. My mom's voice is almost entirely slurred. I can see the frustration in her because she wants to talk and visit with me when I come into town. I absolutely hate this disease. I'm visiting her this weekend. I have to utilize the time I have left with her. Stay strong and contact me if you want to talk. I'm all ears.
Usually, Alzheimer's waits until you're older, but not always. I recently had a patient in her early 60's, with kids about my age, that was diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer's. It sucks. They've taken her to doctor after doctor, trying to figure out what's going on and why this happened. It's heartbreaking. She hobbles around, unable to make conversation, barely eating, and terrified of the shadows on the walls. She hates letting us change her clothes and pulls at them when we try to help her to the toilet.
We just celebrated my dad's 59th birthday and I am so thankful that they're both still healthy.
Waiting to see if my teen daughter will develop symptoms of schizophrenia. She's already hallucinated...and I mean on-going hallucinating in which identified characters were reoccurring. It started when I told her of her dad's death.
I'm absolutely terrified that the hallucinations will return, except worse and with added delusions and paranoia.
We had a family friend, my dad's best man, who had rapid onset alzheimers. He's barely into his 60s, but is in an assisted living facility now. For awhile he was homeless, no job, no possessions because he just forgot to pay for a rental unit he had so they took his stuff. He was a doctor too, he had money, just didn't remember anything about having it or how to use it or...I don't know. He just couldn't do it.
My parents helped him get in to a home, and he went from being able to ride his bike supervised and participate in group activities to essentially being confined to his room a lot of the time. He couldn't hold people's faces in his mind for more than a few minutes before he'd freak out about being surrounded by strangers, and acting defensively.
It's scary too, because the type he has is super hereditary. His mom had it and passed away pretty early, he has it now, and there's a good chance his 2 sons will have it.
He was older, sure, but he really wasn't old at all yet. The man was like an uncle to me, he doesn't remember anyone now, and it sucks so much. As hard as it is for me and my parents, it must be 10x worse for his kids.
I lost my mother to ALS almost five years ago. I sincerely can't think of anything worse, she became trapped inside her own body.. but the mind is still aware of everything.
My Father passed when he was 59 and I was 12. He was fitter than most 30 year olds, running and boxing well into his 50's, which made it so much worse seeing his vigor stubbed out. I wrote a little blog about his would be 71st birthday recently, it might help someone who is currently dealing with ALS to know what life is like a decade plus one
http://www.rileywynn.com/blog/2016/2/26/to-del-on-your-birthday
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle has Huntington's. He was diagnosed probably 4 years ago, and since then his kids have all gotten tested. Two of his three kids already have kids, and both of them tested positive for carrying the gene.
It sucks because in one of my evolution classes we talked about how Huntington's inhibits tumor growth at young ages to keep people alive and then after the person has reached child-having-age it starts to show symptoms. One of his kids who has the gene for Huntington's also had leukaemia as a kid.
Becker was already one of the best guitarists in the world at 19 years old and on the verge of a huge career when he was diagnosed with ALS. It's a heartbreaking story, but it shows that he has since gone on to live a productive life, even while being completely paralyzed.
My father had ALS. Watching someone as athletic as he was break down and not be able to do anything he loved was the worst thing to witness. He fought strong and kept a smile on his face. Man I love him.
JillGr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 12 years old my aunt took me with her to visit one of her oldest friends. She was in the end stages on ALS. I remember thinking it was very weird and sad. Especially when they told me shad had just lost the ability to blink and move her eyes the week before..... It's something I'll never forget
My dad is going through the months long ringer of testing to see if he has ALS. He just got his first MRI this morning, after nerve tests and an EKG earlier this year. He says it's surreal being in a position where he's praying for it to be cancer or a stroke.
He's been having a lot of trouble swallowing and speaking, and losing fine motor control. Unfortunately it's one of those things that they diagnose by eliminating every other cause, so it'll be a while before we know for sure.
He's a military vet, and for a reason they haven't figured out yet, it's approximately twice as likely to develop in vets, particularly those who were in the Gulf in the early 90's, which he was.
My best friend's mother died of Huntingtons. His sister has tested negative. He won't get tested. He's currently a year shy of the age that his mother started showing symptoms.
Actually, I believe senility is inhereited. It's passed throw the epoe4 gene. I know next to nothing about it, scientifically, but the genes associated with increased risk are most definitely genetic.
My mother has it and my grandfather had it. It's horrible seeing your mother slowly wither away. I mean she can still do ordinary stuff and she's not demented yet. But it's only a matter of years now.. I kinda want to get tested, but I also dont wanna have a death sentence over my head at 22
ALS is fucking TERRIFYING! My mom passed away in 2012 from it. I spent 3 years taking care of her and the whole time she was aware of exactly what was happening. Up until about 2 or 3 months before she died she was fully aware. She lost awareness due to the massive amounts of morphine she needed to allow her to breathe. It scares the shit out of me that I'll get it as well.
She had a bad case of yeast infection in her mouth due to her not being able to swallow or eat and after that she would stress about breathing and she'd start gasping. The morphine helped her relax enough to breathe, but it also knocked her into lala land.
helix19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad might have a form of late onset muscular dystrophy, and I might have it too. I'm fucking terrified.
I agree with the Huntington's Disease. My grandpa had it ( he passed a while back ) and my mom currently has it. She's doing really well considering ( she also has brain damage from an accident ) but exercise has really helped. Her sister has it tooโฆ.its so sad to watch them deteriorate :(
My fiance used to work with Huntington's disease. Did it for 15 years. I still see tears at the edge of his eyes when he talks about it. It's a bloody harsh thing. He even has a scar on his right eye where he got punched by a patient
My mom narrowly managed to avoid Huntington's... It's like a combination of Alzheimer's disease and MS depending on how it reacts to who gets it. A very large portion of my family has died from it, my two aunts have it but somehow my mom was spared which means fortunately my immediate family is safe from it. That said, I still have lots of cousins who could be carrying it. After seeing what it did to my grandfather and all of his brothers... I wouldn't wish that kind of shit on my worst enemy.
My brother-in-law's mother has Huntington's. He made the decision not to get tested and is currently around 40-ish. It's really scary because now is when you expect to start seeing symptoms. It's a really scary disease in general and I just feel for anyone that has it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle has ALS. Thanksgiving two years ago his arm was in a sling, swollen. Now he can barely walk or talk. It's truly terrible
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in a lab that studies ALS and occasionally meet with ALS patients. We're trying to figure out what's going wrong with the cells in the brain and spinal cord so we can develop ways to treat it. It's a terrifying disease. I know that for those of you who have lost a loved one to ALS, this may not be much solace, but there are many, many people worldwide working to unravel this disease. I truly believe it's only a matter of time until we have ways of treating ALS.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had my best friend's dad pass from ALS when I was about 8. Very healthy, athletic guy who enjoyed cycling. It's very sad seeing someone wither away like that.
Huntington's is terrible especially if you have kids. It appears when you're around 40 and once you have it there is a very good chance your children might as well.
I don't think its useful to say any of these diseases are worse than the other.
Watching my grandma slowly forget who my mom and I were, even though we took care of her 5 days a week was an awful thing to go through as a kid. When I started to realize that could happen to my mom in the future is when it really got scary. A lifetime of being a family gone within a year.
Muscular dystrophy can hit when you're a child. A neighbor of mine couldn't walk by the time he was 5, and ended up dying right after he reached 23. Just graduated college and was starting to make money selling comics he drew on a computer. They were very funny.
The heartache his family felt, my mom felt and anyone who has lost a loved one to ALS or Huntington's to is no worse than any others. It all sucks.
Huntingtons is really rough since every child has a 50/50 chance of getting it. Symptoms usually show up after people have kids and it just goes on and on for generations.
LBD (Lewy Body Dementia) is another one. My mom has it. My dad, and her doctors have not told her. I'm not sure why. She probably wouldn't remember 5 minutes later. :( But she's very confused and has no idea what's wrong with her. She knows something is wrong, but she has no idea what it is. She doesn't know it's fatal. And my dad is going downhill fast because of all the stress of dealing with the associated medical issues that come with it. (She is in an assisted living facility, and she's been to the emergency room 50 times in the last year, for various blood-pressure-related issues, strokes, fluid build-up, edema, pleurisy, etc).
At least her hallucinations are very benign. She sees birds out of the window that aren't there. Like hawks, and owls and things. She believes they're real, and she is pretty soothed by them.
On her bad days, she says she wants to die. In fact, I know that that's what she would want, because when she was younger, and not impaired, she would talk about how this kind of thing was one of her worst fears, and she would want to be euthanized. And now it's happening to her. And it's terrible. There isn't a fucking thing anyone can do about it. Her doctors are pretty much clueless most of the time. :(
ALS is HORRID! I lost both my grandfathers and my dad to ALS. Though my mom's dad had the version that affects the leg and arms , while my dad and his father had the one that was one in the brain. I took care of my dad for two years and six months before he died in July of 2008. July is my least favorite month because of this.His dad died in 2000 and my mom's dad in 1976.
A very close family friend got diagnosed with ALS in december, around Christmas time.
He died a week or two ago. His son, who was in prison, didn't get out in time to say goodbye. He died in about 2-3 months after his diagnosis.
I also remember a teacher at my high school. He was suddenly out of class for two weeks and when he came back, he told us he was diagnosed with ALS and went to as many different doctors as he could find. He's a pretty active dude, so it must've been terrifying to get that diagnosis. Happily though, he's still around, and still teaches, so I guess it was a misdiagnosis.
Absolutely terrifying. Especially family members, knowing that it's in your genes and that you could put your children through that is absolutely horrifying.
Yes. My grandma passed away a year ago after a long long battle with Alzheimers. It was awful and I'm so scared that my mom will get it too. Or that I will. I can only hope that in the next 50 years a cure or more effective treatment is found.
Both of my mother's parents are currently suffering. She is an only child and makes a 45 minute commute a few days a week to visit them. Unfortunately she can't bring them any closer because their benefits don't cover any care out of province. Seeing her in the depression she had for years at the beginning of diagnoses was terrifying.
On top of all this my paternal grandmother is starting to show signs of memory loss.
I'm sorry. It really is scary. I try to remember all the good things, like her love of cats, her daily cup of English breakfast tea, how she loved me even after she forgot my name. My grandma lived with us for a year or so before she got too bad and needed round the clock care in a specialized home not far from my parents' house. I spent my senior year of high school taking care of her the way one takes care of a 5 year old child, but she gave me so many good memories.
Alzheimer's messes with the connections in your brain in different areas, when those connections stop the cells start to die. You can even see the differences in a healthy brain vs Alzheimer's, so many spaces and alot smaller, due to the massive amounts of cell death.
My grandpa is in his 4th year of Alzheimer's and no longer recognizes me or most of our family. He is constantly wandering and essentially talking gibberish and none of what he says makes sense. Also has no idea about bathrooms and just pees wherever he pleases. He used to be such a smart man, farmer and has such an amazing personality. It's called the long goodbye for a reason, you slowly watch the traits you loved about that person fade away and you basically spend their entire illness grieving the loss of a person who's body is still there, but not their mind.
If I am ever diagnosed with it I'm going to take a shit load of sleeping pills when it starts to be really noticable and call it the end. Alzheimer's terrifies me.
I have a plan. A wonderful plan. See, I own a shotgun. If I ever have an Alzheimers diagnosis, I will promptly go home, and blow my head the fuck off.
If it's too late for that, my living will stipulates I be transported to somewhere where assisted suicide is legal by any means necessary, and my life terminated.
No Fucking Way I am going to make my loved ones watch me melt away like that. I've seen it too many times.
I can totally understand where your coming from, but don't kill yourself with a shotgun ever, it makes a huge mess that your family would have to deal with as well. Inert gas hypoxia is 100x better.
My grandmother had alzheimer's, and before my parents put her in a home, I visited one day. She panicked and told my parents to call the police because someone had broken in. She didn't know who I was at all. I ended up not seeing her again before she died because it upset her too much.
Alzheimer's, or any mental illness for that matter, is fucking terrifying.
My grandfather went through Louie body dementia which is similar. The craziest thing about that was one moment I was having to bring him back in the house while he screamed for help, then the next he was talking about when he was Santa clause for us once 14 years prior like nothing was wrong.
Grandmother was diagnosed when I was 16, I couldn't make myself visit her in the home. She passed away last week, she weighed 80 pounds. My mind is all I have, and forgetting the people I love is the worse death.
Don't know if that's worse or ALS. With ALS, you have a perfectly healthy mind, but your muscles fail you until you can't even breathe.
plafman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:19:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I completely agree..... But....
I can also see it as a positive for some who have it. If I'm old and most of my friends and family are gone, or I'm not healthy and stuck in a nursing home, god damn it would be great to slip back to the great times when I was young. Or to at least not have the ability of remembering every shitty day of a horrible life.
I'm kinda in agreement with you. My mother-in-law works in a dementia ward and says the patients are happy enough since they're in their own world. As someone who fears the end, I would see it almost as a blessing. Crap for everyone having to look after you though. My uncle has recently been diagnosed with it, so it'll be interesting to see if it changes my opinion.
It's a shame but a lot of the time this isn't how it works. You forget recent memories and remember things from the past, but you also think you're still in that past, but no one you knew from that time is still around. My grandma has alzheimer's and she is terrified ALL the time - she wants to know where her mum and dad are, and wants to know why all her friends have deserted her. From what I've seen, there is rarely a positive in living in a past that no longer is.
This happened to my grandmother, father's side. By the end of it all, she did not recognize any of her grandchildren, including myself, because her mind was at a time period where my father and his brother and sister were in their teens. But because of that, she also did not recognize my father or his brothers.
It was heartbreaking, and I admit it scares me to end up like that.
That's why I sympathize with people like Robin Williams, who took his life into his own hands, even though he had something other than Alzheimers, it's the same concept
I think pulmonary fibrosis has them beat. Your lungs slows scar over, and you slowly suffocate to death. It's like watching someone slowly drowning. Eventually their heart gets so enlarged from extra pumping, that it finally stops. I'll take a bullet before that.
Fuck you. I came here to laugh at other people's fears, not feel things about my late grandfather
elboydo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention that they begin to do terrifying shit.
We moved my nan closer, so that we could provide direct care, and the decay became so real.
there were often times when my mum would go over and be told that my nan had been in a couple hour long conversation with my uncle who died around 16 years before.
Other times she would call in a panic about people she didn't invite being in her house and refusing to leave. Upon arrival, my mum saw that the "people" were all old friends who were mainly long dead and, more importantly, were not actually there.
My grandmother had Alzheimer's. She used to call me bye the name of our dog and pat me on the head. After she died, it took me a while to figure out why I didn't cry. I finally realized that, to me, my grandmother had been gone for a long time before she died. That is why this disease is so scary. It takes away everything a person is and leaves them as little more than a shell.
Yup, really brings home how frail human existence really is, when the brain goes, the person goes with it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather is showing signs of this now. He grew old enough to watch most of his sibling go through it, and im dreading the day he looks at my face and doesnt recognize it =(
Dave proceeds to break into tears as his grandmother's Alzheimers has progressed to the point where she can no longer remember him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always told my wife that if I start showing signs of Alzheimer's, just take me out back and shoot me. My grandmother on my mom's side had it, it was heartbreaking.
My Aunt died of Alzheimer's a few years back. We visited her near the end and my mom played the violin for her. It was incredible to see how she could still react to music when everything else around her became meaningless. She could barely speak, but asked us to play Row Row Row Your Boat. I'll never forget it.
Having Alzheimer's isn't so bad, it's rough and you get frustrated until you don't know your sick. It's horrible on your loved ones though. Personally I would be more scared of Parkinson's or ALS, with a failing body to the point you are trapped inside.
AtoZZZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle. Thanksgiving two years ago, he wandered off somehow (we were watching the Redskins/Cowboys game, but we made sure to have the doors locked and closed). His mother freaked out among his brothers and sisters. But my grandmother hurt the most. My dad (his brother), uncles, and my brother went out to search. They all drove away. I went on foot, looking around people's front yards. Someone came out and asked if I was looking for someone. Now, he doesn't speak English anymore, only his native tongue (and barely). So he opened their door, walked in, and sat on their couch. So they invited me in. And I asked him in his native tongue to go back to his sister's house. He said that she's not available. I don't know what he meant by that, but frankly I don't want to know. I told him that let's go back to his brothers, sisters, and mom. And I'll take him to them. He didn't say anything, but he came with me. My family broke out crying when I came home with him. A week later, I bought a large chocolate bouquet for them to thank them.
It's terrible. You grow up with someone, remember their jokes, smile, laughs, and love. And then they completely forget everything.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's heart wrenching being one of the ones who are inevitably forgotten, but it's not pleasant being one of the ones who is unexplainably still remembered either.
She loved you, I'm sure you mean just as much or more to her than me, I don't know why my name correctly comes out when she sees me, ok? I'm not doing this on purpose and neither is she.
I am a nursing student and I just did my rotation at an assisted living facility for patients with dementia. The gentleman I was talking with had Alzheimer's and we would repeat the same conversation multiple times. He had a good grasp on the past and who he was, and was by all accounts a very intelligent man. I haven't seen a family member go through it and it was just eye opening to see in person what it does to people.
If you guys have listened to "For reasons Unknown" by The Killers, its a great song about what its like seeing a person with Alzheimer's from their perspective.
Alzheimer's is absolutely horrific. Early onset Alzheimer's is even scarier. My aunt is like 55 and completely gone. She started her decline years ago, far too young for that thing. My grandpa died of it, my grandma had dementia. It apparently runs in the family. I think about it all the time and its scares the absolute fucking shit out of me. Give myself anxiety thinking about it. I'm forgetful, I have ADD, so it's natural to have problems that make you think awful things lol. I can't think of anything worse man.
I'm taking care of an older family friend. Everyone else has left her basically and I'm the only person who visits her at least a few times a week. She's been showing the early signs but they've been ignored. Hopefully it's just old age but her confusion is getting quite scary.
Like most older people she misplaces things but a few times already I've seen her walk into her own house and not know where she is. I still have very normal conversations with her and she remembers me well but I fear it's all starting. Worst part is that she has nobody to take care of her. She seems very independent now and only needs me for the heavy stuff but I know she's very weak and can't do simple things like grocery shopping or her own laundry.
I'm not equipped to deal with this. She's not even family but I do love her. If things get worse and she'll need assistance on a daily basis I won't be able to help her. I do my best just to hang out with her because I know it makes her very happy but that's only in the afternoons when I stop by for an hour or so. It sucks and it's scary.
I watched my grandfather go through this when I was younger. On the good days he would know our names and chat with us a little. On the bad days he would have no clue who any of us were and would get scared and aggressive.
He suffered through this for 3-4 years before he passed and it hurt so much to see a strong man be reduced to nothing in such a short time. Towards the end he didn't talk and wasn't coherent most of the time. I think the worst part for me was watching my grandmother deal with it. They were extremely old school so he was always the caretaker, the breadwinner, and she was the stay at home wife who never learned to drive or work. I can't even imagine how she felt, taking care of her husband like he was a toddler when all her life he was the one taking care of her.
Fuck Alzheimer's. It truly is one of the hardest things for a family to experience.
My Grandfather died about 40 years ago when my mom was only 13. He had a twin brother. He has Alzheimer's and every time my mom visits him, he asks her how her dad (his brother) is doing. He remembers who my mom is, but he doesn't remember that his twin brother is dead. Its heartbreaking.
I lost my father to this. It was probably the hardest 4 months for my mother and me, especially towards the end when he was completely bed ridden. It quickly made me reevaluate my life priorities.
just wanted to hop on the bandwagon and plug a link to the NIH gift fund where you can donate directly to the government agency that funds Alzheimer's research being done at universities across America! By donating to them you dont have to worry about how much of your money is going to charity salaries/ "awareness" campaigns... it all goes straight to the research.
C3lder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, you get used to seeing it after a while. And there are much, much worse ways to die than slowly losing your cognitive function after you've lived a full life.
It definitely gets scarier when you get up in age. My parents are getting older and my uncle (by marriage, no blood relation) recently passed away from Alzheimer's, it definitely hit close to home for them. I cannot convince them that they're going to be fine, even though they have no family history, stay mentally and socially active, have never abused drugs/alcohol, exercise regularly, etc. I swear to god my mom is on the verge of inventing an app that will alert her when there's a new potential dementia cause to have massive anxiety about.
My grandfather's Alzheimer's has progressed a lot over the past couple of years. At first he was his same old self, but with significant memory issues, but as the disease progressed, I think the saddest thing became that he just doesn't engage any more, maybe because he recognizes how little he knows of what is going on.
But there are always good days and bad days. The bad days make the good moments richer. I visited my Grandfather in the hospital while he was sick, and he couldn't piece together who I was, who my mother (his daughter) was. He was asking where his mother was, probably subconsciously thinking of his wife who wasn't able to visit. As he was drifting to sleep I stepped out to leave for the night, and when I did I heard him call my name...even though earlier when he tried to think of my name he couldn't come up with it.
The disease fucks with your conscious thought and memories, but sometimes the deep, subconscious awareness shows itself in surprising ways.
My grandpa was diagnosed with Alzheimer's last week. Needless to say it's been hard to get out of bed the last few days. I respect the hell out of him and I don't look forward to him losing himself.
This scares the shit out of me. My grandmother and her sister both died in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's. I remember that towards the end, my grandmother was downright hostile to my mum--the only one of her children who was willing to step up, manage all the legal/medical/financial stuff, and visit frequently. Her memory had reverted to a time when my uncle was the golden child and my mum was a troubled teen. She could usually recognize them, but she couldn't remember a god damn thing about their lives in the 35ish years since then. She went from a sweet granny who feeds you and showers you with gifts to a hostile feral child. It was so confusing and painful.
I am worried about my mother now, as she approaches the age where my grandma first showed signs. And ultimately hoping that a treatment/cure is developed before I am at that age.
Alzheimer's Disease is terrifying. I worked in a dementia unit for 2 years and it was the hardest thing I've ever done. The crazy thing is, as the day gets later the dementia gets worse, it's called "sundowning". I had one lady who would be the sweetest lady in the world, but come 5pm she would scream "WHERE IS MY BABY?!?" OR "I NEED TO GET HOME MY MOTHER IS GOING TO KILL ME!" I developed a pretty solid skill set to calming down a dementia patient and redirecting their energy, but it was heartbreaking to watch happen.
sirgog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This, or any other disease that takes a comparable toll on a person over the same timeframe.
Alcoholism comes to mind. (The difference being that it is more reversible, at least in theory, which keeps you hopeful)
My grandfather passed away last year as a result of Alzheimer's disease. It's extremely hard to say goodbye to someone who doesn't even recognize you anymore. All you can do is hold on to the memories of the past.
I hate to steer away from the scariness of this awful disease, but honestly, I hope I get it. Now not too early on mind you. But if I'm 80 or so, I can sympathize with the elderly on how it must feel. Although waking up each day having brand new experiences sound fairly enticing. Now I'm sure some of those experiences are more often than not terrifying, although in the same breath so is tripping. Personally I've always been pretty good at governing my emotions on a trip, so I feel as if I'd handle Alzheimers fairly well. Who knows though, perhaps I'm wrong and it's a horrible shame all around.
keboh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. First thing that came to mind. Alzheimer's and dementia
My grandfather was the best, most honest and honorable man I ever knew. Years before any symptoms appeared, the American legion that he dedicated so much of his life to named their hall after him as a surprise. My grandfather was moved to tears at this and spoke of it often. I'm glad he had this memory to hold on to for as long as he could. He met my son, but it was already too late because he was unable to make new memories or know what was going on. It's a shame because I know he would have loved my son, he always gravitated towards babies. He died at his home, not knowing it was his home, in s hospice bed in his son's (my father's) old bedroom. He died with his wife by his side, not knowing that he was loved by so many but none more than her. He died a way before his heart stopped beating, the goodbye was a long goodbye that took years to say. No one should pass without the knowledge of who they were and what they have accomplished.
I came here late to say this. I'm actually working with an old professor of mine on research to stop Alzheimer's. She's absolutely amazing and we are constantly doing research. But like you said, it really does leave the person as a shell of their former self. Ones memories are what make a person.
For my job, I work as an in-home healthcare provider dealing specifically with Alzheimer's patients. It's truly heartbreaking and takes so much patience. I feel so good working with them because I feel I can maybe make their lives and their families lives a little easier.
My Dad has it. It just sucks and it keeps on sucking and sucking and sucking him away from the inside out. Eventually, imperceptibly, there won't be any of him left.
Lost my grandfather to this quite a few years ago. My extended family has a bunch of issues and never told us he had Alzheimer's until it was nearly through with him. They actually used this disease to trick him into thinking my family wanted nothing to do with him and all kinds of stuff. So for years we never heard from them or anything until he was close to the end and the few decent ones on that side realized the lies being told.
I hadn't spoke to him for probably 10 years at that point. Always loved him to death as a kid and the last time I saw him it was so weird because my aunt and him were traveling and were supposed to stay with us for a few days before they continued on with their trip. Instead they stopped by for about an hour or so, said they had gotten a hotel room instead of staying with us like we had planned, and then left to go to the hotel to get some rest and would be back the following morning. They never came back. Come to find out my aunt had been up to a bunch of shady shit and was basically using him for money and feeding him all these lies. Guess he had an episode and she convinced him that him and my father had a massive fight and wanted nothing to do with him. I was about 13 or 14 at this time and never knew any of this until years later when we found out the truth.
I called him wanting to talk to him at least once and let him know I still cared about him and that I had never stopped loving him. As a kid my grandmother shunned me because she hated my mother but my grandfather adored me, we even share the same birthday and whenever we came to visit he always spent time with me, played around, took me places, I barely remember this time but my mom tells me that it was easy to see I was his favorite grandkid.
When I finally got on the phone with him he didn't remember me... We spoke for a few minutes and there was nothing there. He kept asking who I was, what I was calling about, and then eventually thought that I was my dad still in high school for a few moments but then he slipped back into having no idea who I was....
That was one of the hardest phone calls I've ever had to make. Listening to him have no idea who I was and then him getting annoyed because I was bothering him. The call only lasted a few minutes before he gave the phone to my other aunt and she apologized over and over again but I knew it wasn't her fault.
About a week after that he passed away. Felt like my grandfather died thinking I hated him, that the lies he was told were his reality and never understood what he did to deserve so much resentment that we wanted nothing to do with him. To this day it still tears me up thinking that he died feeling that way, or at least some part of him did.
I'm 18 and my mom was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's when I was 14/15.. She was only 49. In the last 4 years or so she's completely lost the ability to form a legitimate sentence, can't drive, and just sits at home watching jeopardy. Alzheimer's is probably the worst fucking thing to ever experience and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I'm still struggling to find ways to cope with it, and I don't think I ever will find something that helps definitively. This may sound morbid, but I can't wait for my mom to pass away.. I just want her to be happy and herself again.
My grandmother created an almost alternate reality. Her house was a vacation home set up to look just like hers and her family were all just lookalikes.
She would start crying and say to her husband, "you take such good care of me but I miss my husband. Can you tell him to come visit me?"
Towards the end they really are just a shell. Its heartbreaking.
And it's scary from the other side too-- waking up and not knowing who the fuck this person in your house is, not to mention who the fuck you yourself are. My oma has it, and it was killing my Opa to take care of her, but he's slowly detaching and she's on a lot of psychiatric meds to chill out. It's sad but could be worse I guess.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpa had it for 20 years. My grandma kept him alive too long in my opinion. I hope that never happens to me.
You ever see advanced dementia? Seeing someone in their early thirties completely gone and their loved one standing in the corner with just a blank stare. That's awful.
I don't think it's as scary as it is depressing. My father visited my grandmother, with Alzheimer's, once a week. She always referred to him as Bob, her son who never went to see her. Watching him hold back tears, because his mother no longer recognized him, was one of the most saddening things I'd ever witnessed.
My grandmother has alzheimers and although she isn't completely gone yet, watching my mom take care of her is heart breaking. She can't do simple jigsaw puzzles, read, or even color inside the lines anymore. All she does all day is try to help do whatever is being done but then she forgets what she's doing so she's just in the way.
:( have you ever heard the song miracle? By kristoff krane? I hope you listen and enjoy.
0xB4BE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, this will get buried, but what the hell. I'll still share.
While I agree Alzheimer's is a terrible disease, some of the most beautiful moments in my life were with people with Alzheimer's, both taking care of my grandmother, whom I loved so very much and taking care of elderly in Alzheimer units before changing careers.
We would laugh, we would hold hands. The simple things made the most difference: A smile. A kind tone of voice. When they would get scared, we would walk and I'd do something silly to distract them, to soothe them. Honestly, it is so very powerful to be able to be there for a person that is both lost and trapped, and learn to communicate not verbally, but on an emotional level. I have so many stories. So many laughs and silly things to remember them by.
And when my own grandmother, the one person who ever loved me unconditionally when I was growing up, got ill, I felt so privileged to have had the chance to make her smile, to tell her how much she was loved, to walk with her, to take care of her, even if ever so briefly, because she had been there for me. She had done these things for me when I was small and barely a person. I had a chance to do something so powerful, so genuinely meaningful by having the chance to help her. She was my grandmother, through and through, even in the end.
A person doesn't end at the loss of their mind, or part of their personality. They're just different.
this is one of the worst things my grandma is going through it rn. It's getting so bad.
She at the stage where she gets mad at anything and everything and will try to pick a fight with me and only me.. she can't do jokes.. she also barely eates. To make it worse when she gets upset she just stops and won't eat anything. It's so bad
pdx_1 ยท 528 points ยท Posted at 23:31:11 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ice crevasses
Watched a movie called Touching the Void on Netflix last night, about a guy who gets stuck in one. I am now terrified of falling in one.
[deleted] ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 23:46:31 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you live in somewhere like Florida this would be especially funny. Of course there you have sinkholes.
I've heard many times that it's because of the extensiveness of some of their governmental transparency laws, so journalists have almost unfettered access to arrest records.
OK so I'll take a minute to explain Florida Man. You know how news articles have articles headlines like "Florida man fights crocodile for meth"? Now imagine they are all about the same dude, America's worst super hero. Florida Man.
The worst superhero to ever be naked and drunk at a courthouse...
Methuga ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 00:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have Burmese pythons duking it out with alligators for supremacy of the Everglades. You literally have a SyFy movie happening in your backyard. Efffffff thaaaaat
It's actually fun to go gator boatn, on the way to Cocoa beach there's a little shak that drives around in a swamp boat showing you gators and shit. When I was 12 there was a duck chillin in the water next to the boat when all of a sudden a snake launched out wrappin up on it and not two seconds later a gator eats the snake and duck. My sister became a vegan because of it and I now worship Cthulu.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't follow your sister's logic. She sees animals in the wild eating one another so she's like "you know what? Fuck butter."
Crocodiles are the scary ones. Alligators just chill and dont really fuck with anyone unless you do something like try to hurt it. Crocodile will fuck your shit up just because you exist.
http://imgur.com/NWsXw8c
This is one of the signs at the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park.
I nearly peed myself laughing at how morbid the Parks people are.
pdx_1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's an amazing book. And movie. I still have no idea how that guy was able to crawl out of a crevasse with a broken leg, and then go over miles of glacial terrain...
That movie is fantastic. The guy is right there narrating and yet as I watch the actor in that crevasse with his broken leg I'm having trouble believing there's any way he could survive.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:45:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the one about the guy who falls and his femur splits his tibia and his partner cuts his rope?
Man that's such a good documentary. Usually I don't like survival documentaries but that one had me on the edge of my seat and even though I had to leave where I was before it finished I made sure I watched the rest on Youtube later.
I've crossed over a few on metal ladders, wearing crampons. The trick is to not look into the dark crack leading to hell itself. That and keeping a steady rhythm.
Most likely not a stock unmodified jetski but you can have it 90% underwater and virtually useless to you. I've seen a few people modify jetskis and to fit high performance parts they had to remove the foam inserts at the nose which give it that last bit of buoyancy. Those can probably sink.
I had a standup jetski virtually completely underwater in the Sf bay. Even towing it was a nightmare because the rope would pull it down and then the whole thing would go entirely underwater and cause even worse towing issues. I unded up holding to tow rope myself, and using my life jacket and torso to keep the front of the ski above water as we went to the marina at maybe 2 miles an hour. Took almost an hour honestly and was one of my least favorite trips.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe they are now. This was closer to 2005. We either didn't know or it was still ok.
I looked it up recently and I still think you can jetski as log as you are going somewhere with a purpose. So leaving one marina and going to another location or beach might be ok still. Worth checking out because on the right weather it's a cool place.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, I can NOT even imagine the amount of panic I would feel being stranded in the middle of the ocean. I started panicking after falling into the water of a shallow lake while tubing. The water is SUPER shallow and boats kick up dirt terribly and you can't see your hand just inches beneath the surface. Fuck the ocean. It's beautiful... but I'm staying near the shore.
Thats swimmable I mean horrible but doable with a life jacket if you aint an olympic swimmer lol.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My thalassophobia hurts...please stop.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i was about 5 miles out when the outer hull on a trimaran had the support mounts start coming apart. the captain was absolutely piss drunk and thought it was hilarious. we were in a smallish storm, probably 5ft seas.
On the plus side, though you were probably only 50 metres or so from the ground.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if you can swim that ogopogo might eat u
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But did you die?
[deleted] ยท 2151 points ยท Posted at 01:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1008 points ยท Posted at 03:21:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just to make the Man o' war even scarier, it's not even a jellyfish... or a single organism. It's a colony of specialised individuals that act together as a single being, which is pretty freaky when you think about it
[deleted] ยท 614 points ยท Posted at 03:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jellyfish in general creep me out. They don't have brains! They're basically water that is alive.
No, but box jellyfish stalk prey...for miles and miles and navigate mangrove swamps...no brain per se but they have to have a similar process to do any of that.
It's fascinating to imagine types of intelligence (if that's even the right word for it?) that don't require use of a brain.
TheTyke ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 04:34:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, intelligence comes in so many forms. I think the reason we believe it to be brain = intelligence, no brain = no intelligence, is simple as we have brains and it's easier to understand that way, even if it's wrong.
They have a lot of eyes..or input light sensors...that sort of infers it has a brain of some description..or a processing spot.which i guess is a brain even if it isnt like ours. They are fascinating. over there. Wayyyyyyy over there. Away from my general vicinity.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:42:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could take a brain and take away the meaty bits, and then spread it over a sidewalk and it would still function as a brain, regardless of if its a brain or not.
Brains are just complex computers, its the difference between having you computer in a tower or mounting the pieces to a wall.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:40:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't see what your trying to say in that first statement at all. It doesn't make sense.
What he is trying to say, is that a jellyfish could have a brain spread throughout the entire organism, or that the jellyfishes entire self is a brain.
Simple terms, a brain doesn't have to be clumped up likes ours to be a brain.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:46:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh okay thank you for the explanation. I'll stop scratching my head now.
To be fair, humans have neurons (nerve cells) all over their body as well. It's just the brain is a massive clump of them that controls and interprets the signals from the ones spread across the body.
I forget the term now but we learned what classifies an organism as intelligent in school. Wasn't very crucial to plugging holes in people so it kind of faded away
It is, however, quite capable of hunting down the weak of mind who stray too far from shore, or get caught in riptides, or fall off of a boat; and then giving them a delicious serving of agonizing death.
Maybe it's not intelligence per se but just responding to its surroundings. Yano like sensors. I don't think they would need any form of thought process to achieve that other than: we need to eat or we'll die, and other simple organism thoughts
In my state, we have box jellyfish warnings every month. Glad I can't swim and don't go to the beach.
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simple thoughtless behavior patterns can be enough to lead a creature to food or away from a threat. Jellyfish have had hundreds of millions of years to settle on the most effective responses to various stimuli.
Like selecting and targeting specific prey, tracking it for kms and through mangroves trailing 2+mtrs of delicate (but deadly) tendrils ? Thats an intelligence. Even if its instinctual behaviour- its a highly evolved one to the point of mimicing intelligence, which would be the same thing, really. Im not saying they think like anything we could recognise, but its behaviours strongly suggest much more than basic reaction to stimuli.
f_d ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:36:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Orb weaving spiders follow extremely simple rules to create complex structures. They don't have any idea what they're trying to create, and they aren't following a blueprint in the shape of the finished structure. They're just traveling out a certain distance and breaking off at an angle in relation to the web they've already built. The result is intricate and complicated.
There was an article detailing mosquito hunting patterns last year. I only read a news summary, but this link to the source has the relevant details.
They follow very simple rules like moving into a cloud of carbon dioxide, zig-zagging to reacquire the cloud when they lose it, then moving toward nearby sources of heat and visual contrast until they can match enough cues to trigger a landing. If they get brushed off they try again, and again, and again, until they succeed or lose their target. They aren't thinking about these hunting actions at any stage. It's extremely unlikely they have any sense of what they're doing, it's all simple reflexes firing in response to stimuli. Yet in practice they are effective, relentless hunters.
Plants bend toward light because light makes the tip of the plant release a hormone causing receiving cells to lengthen. That's enough to create twisty stems and branches. Similarly, actively growing tips send hormones that suppress nearby growth downstream, and that's all the plant needs to form its distinctive spread of leaves and branches.
Bacteria can find their way toward nutrients or away from a threat simply by orienting themselves based on the concentrations of chemicals in front of and behind them.
Would you say a primitive heat-seeking missile is doing anything more than turning its nose toward the closest heat source? It doesn't need a fancy computer, just an infrared sensor and flight controls that always point the missile toward the brightest infrared source. No brain whatsoever, nothing except an eye wired up to the rocket fins, yet it will mimic the actions of the human pilot in the plane it's following. Clever stalker or brainless device following a few clever rules? A jellyfish moving toward shapes its eyes evolved to follow isn't thinking any more deeply than a sophisticated missile.
It's entirely possible human intellect and consciousness are nothing more than higher-order reflexive behaviors. A brain could be completely predictable if you know its current state and all inputs. What we think of as our free will could be an abstraction of our inevitable decision making. But there's still a difference between understanding a situation, forming a plan, and executing it, versus following a trail of chemicals and currents in the water, pulling away from the wrong kinds of shapes, and reeling in the arms once enough cells are signalling they're in contact with the right kind of surface.
Please note I don't know box jellyfish from grape jelly, so I'm speaking very broadly based on a quick skim of how they hunt. The kinds of things I'm describing should hold true regardless of the specific techniques box jellyfish use.
I ascribe it to the anthropomorphic principle. When we observe other lifeforms taking actions we imagine we would in similar circumstances, especially behaviors that at birds-eye-view seem complex and premeditated, we ascribe our intelligence onto them in some capacity.
We can't help it, our brains have this imprinting function that recognizes deviations from expectations; noone expects little insects or mindless jellies to do anything we'd find impressive, so when they do, we can't help but assign it empathically or as a threat.
I also live in Illinois and have had a mild jellyfish sting. Dang things will get you anywhere.
He770zz ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister got stung by a jelly fish once. She said it felt like getting electrocuted, she said it was a sensation you can't really describe, but you'd have to feel it. She said it hurt like hell.
Growing up around the water on the Gulf, I'm been stung 100s of times. There was one summer a bunch of crazy looking, exotic jellyfish came in on a big tanker or something from South America. I was wake boarding on a river that drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Ride ended, waiting for the boat to come pick me up when all of a sudden I feel this net-like thing gliding across me, and not 2 seconds later I was screaming my lungs out. Never felt so much acute pain in my life. When my dad pulled me back on the boat my entire right leg was covered in squiggly red marks. Didn't go back in the water til winter drove them all off or killed them.
Ugh yes, once I was snorkeling and saw a weird distortion in the water right in front of my mask - took me a second to realize a jellyfish was right there. I backed up, turned around, and saw two more. I dunno if they migrate or what but suddenly there were dozens of faint distortions in the water all around us - you could hardly see them but you'd know if you bumped one believe me... Trying to get back to shore was like playing minesweeper
Nothing is more funny/depressing than watching all the northerners come down for their week of vacation in the summer and the ocean be filled with jelly fish. Happens once or twice a season and everyone just stands on the shore. No one in the water
I've been planning on going for a snorkel somewhere with the intention of seeing sharks.
Got there and there were hundreds of tiny jellyfish about 3-6cm big in the water, and wound up packing it in.
I've also had one draw blood.
[deleted] ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 05:20:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some of them do have eyes! Box jellyfish have four different kinds of eyes specialized for different functions, from light detection to differentiating colours, sizes, etc.
Rothyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find them beautiful. At the Monterey Bay Aquarium they have dimly-lit tanks of moon jellies and comb jellies in dark corridors. If you can manage to get to the aquarium when it's not crowded, it's very peaceful to just sit and watch the jellies float around.
evilf23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i tried to transplant a small jellyfish i found on the james' river edge last week into a fish tank and it died. i got him river water and rushed home immediately. i was bummed, i thought having a jellybro would be neat.
I got stung pretty badly by a Man O' War. That fucker's tentacles wrapped around my leg somehow and I had faint scars from it for years on the back of my leg. Fuck that thing.
late to the party, but I got stung by a Portugese Man o' war while vacationing in Florida. I was in about 2 feet of water. Got stung on my leg, one of the most painful experiences of my life. After a trip to the hospital, I was informed if I would have been stung to that magnitude on my chest it would have been fatal. It felt like putting a hot iron on your leg for a few hours.
rnykal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you think about it, aren't we all colonies of specialized individual cells, acting together as a single being?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but not quite in the same way. While the cells that are part of you (not the internal bacteria, but your cells) are, well, you... the zooids comprising a man o' war are definable as individuals (though they can't survive away from the colony, because they lack many functions performed by others)
rnykal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're kind of the same way, if you think about it.
FemtoG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this makes the mitochondria/ cell coordination theory more plausible
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's almost every species though
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's really not such a big deal. Plants are collections of specialized clone cells that cooperate without a central nervous system coordinating everything. Your body is a collection of specialized clone cells that cooperate with special deference to your nervous system. As long as cells can interpret each others' chemical or electrical signals in useful ways, they can work as an organism. Ants do a similar thing on a larger scale.
How about a single cell up to 20cm across living free in the ocean? It's hard to keep traditional categories in mind when looking at one of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophore
BCSteve ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:50:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plants are collections of specialized clone cells that cooperate without a central nervous system coordinating everything. Your body is a collection of specialized clone cells that cooperate with special deference to your nervous system
But that's the thing about siphonophores, they're not clonal cells of each other. They're a colony of cells, each one with different DNA, that are so integrated with each other that it looks like they're a single organism.
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Indeed, but don't their reproductive members pass their DNA directly to the descendant colony? They are closely compatible with each other and retain that compatibility across generations.
Most ants and bees aren't clones of their mother, but the members of a colony are linked closely enough to consider them free-ranging cells of a larger organism.
Farmers have been gluing one plant's roots to another's body for a long time. If the two parts can communicate effectively with each other and continue to perform their roles, it doesn't matter that they were born as separate entities. They are now behaving as a single new entity, like a car with a replacement engine or suspension.
You can swap someone else's organs into your body and live normally if they cooperate. In unusual cases, you can be born with more than your own cloned cells. Look up chimeras. And even if every cell in your body is a clone of the original egg, different cells will have different genes active, making them behave more like the father or mother rather than carbon copies of each other.
If the Man of War colony cells are so integrated that they carry out the same functions as a organism composed of clones and can't exist independent of each other, are the two organisms really so far apart? The colony cells reproduce a little differently, but practically speaking they're all on the same evolutionary path together and function as a single group. In its daily life it's just another jellyfish variant. A fascinating convergence, but not a fundamental break with the ways other multicellular creatures behave as a single entity. It's a larger-scale version of the permanent cooperation between our own animal cells and our mitochondria.
I always get kind of confused about them, because my experience with one when I was younger (maybe around 10 or younger?) was so different. I got stung, walked up the beach and got some ice and was fine.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 02:49:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 02:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my surrealist memories was our Atlantic crossing. Just doing a complete 360, looking around and seeing nothing but water in all directions. A disc of deep blue as far as the eye can see. And here you are, the only thing keeping you alive is this jumble of wood, fiberglass, and a sail. Really puts things into perspective about how small you are. Was over 26 days without seeing land.
I've never really thought about how claustrophobic that would be. I can't imagine doing that crossing in a 1-man sailboat, not because I'd feel lonely but because I'd feel trapped.
Today I went to get a hair cut and for some reason I felt completely trapped in that chair so I started having a mini heart attack and I felt really sweaty and my leg was trembling but I didn't wanna say "hold up I'm freaking the fuck out for no reason right now" So I just sat there panicking and suffering and I don't even know why I would feel trapped in that situation. I get a hair cut every month or 2 and it's never happened before.
I was riding my bike in the woods the other day at night when my light blew out and I was in pitch black of dense woods with about a 4 mile hike because I couldn't see shit. Shit was fine even tho it seemed ominous as fuck, then the coyotes started howling. Sounded like a good 20 of them and they all sounded rabid as fuck. I started jogging and got lost in the woods and couldn't find my way out for about 2 hours. That shit fucking sucked and was scary as shit now that I think about it afterwards. Type 2 fun I guess.
Omg nightmare fuel..lucky it was coyotes and not wolves.. reminds me of a girl that got lost here this fall in the Canadian rainforest "playing tag" running down deer trails. Forest so thick she heard the search team a few times around midnight and then 3am, and they heard her calling back, but she was not found till noon the next day, she is considered lucky to be alive.
A few months ago, one ran up and attacked some lady who lives near me. She was just sitting on a lawn chair and the coyote ran out of the woods and attacked her. Then it ran off again.
Wanna know the weirdest fucking thing? It was probably only a few coyotes. They are insanely skilled at making it sound like there is a bunch of them when howling.
I know man. And jesus christ, they sounded fucking rabid. Insanely rabid, like imagine a bunch of drunken people screaming and shouting native american chants around a bonfire loud. Fuck coyotes.
not to be "that guy" but everything I've read about the Portuguese man o war says that they have a painful sting but not a deadly one. are you sure that's what stung the crew member?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:50:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may of been a Box jellyfish, but Im not sure. Man o wars can be deadly, especially if you are stung all around your heart and are in the middle of the ocean with no medical aid around. I cannot comment on whether it was a quick death or not.
I guess if it was huge and he was wearing no wetsuit and it got a really firm (almost bear-hug-like) grip around the guy's torso, it could've delivered enough toxins almost directly to his vital organs (instead of, say, being stung on an extremity and relying purely on the circulatory system to transport the toxins to said organs) to actually kill the guy pretty quickly.
That said, I've always thought of bluebottles as more of a (albeit excruciating) mediocre annoyance.
Source: Grew up on Sydney's beaches. Bluebottles are common.
realjd ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Floridian here. They commonly wash up in large numbers here in the summer when there is a hurricane off shore, or whenever we have a few days with a strong wind from the east. Like you said, a minor but painful annoyance. If they were actually dangerous they'd use nets at the beaches like they do up north in your country.
Interesting. Of course I knew they didn't instantaneously disappear, but I didn't know that a sting happened simply by touching one. How long do those tentacles last until they've deteriorated to the point of being harmless?
There's an absolutely ridiculous amount of them on the beach sometimes.
froggym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grew up in the north of his country. They drag patrolled beaches twice a day or so at the height of summer. I never really went to the beach as a kid despite living on it.
Probably a cardiac arrest- its toxin would induce one almost instantly if it hit an unprotected chest. motherfuckers they are
jiccc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What exactly were you doing on the ocean for five years? if you don't mind me asking.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger I spent 5 years traveling on a 40 foot sailboat with my family. I'm not entirely sure why.. parents are crazy I guess, but im very grateful for the experience. We visited 32 countries.
Have a bunch of questions for you and hope you don't mind. How old were you (what years of your life)? Would you have wanted to sail for longer? Shorter? Would you have preferred a traditional upbringing with consistent childhood friends? How many siblings were with you? An AmA would be cool, imo.
Well, I'm not really sure why you think it'd be expensive. Are you thinking the boat is expensive? Because pretty much everything else about that lifestyle is cheaper than living on land. No rent/mortgage, no car, home-schooling, cheap food, no nights out, no entertainment expenses, etc. And when they were in port in those various countries the cost of living in those places was probably usually much lower than in their home country (I'm guessing they're from a first-world country).
It's the fact that they are able to build up their assets and careers to the point where they can live comfortably when they return. They're living on the money from their assets in the years they are gone and still don't worry.
I see what you mean, but to me that's just a hippie lifestyle, basically. You don't need much money to do it (in the tens of thousands, but I don't consider that wealthy at all), the lifestyle itself is extremely cheap, and when they return to land they won't be any worse off financially than when they left. I'm not really sure what you mean by "living comfortably" when they return. I imagine they'll just continue to live a low-cost hippie lifestyle on land just like they were doing on the boat.
Crap 40ft seems kinda small for the stuff you were doing. I spent a summer on a 72ft boat sailing around and even then you'd get rocked around a ton. I can't even imagine what a little 40ft would be like.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, there seams to be a decent amount of interest. Might look into doing something like this coming up.. Too much shit tied to this account though. In order to be able to answer questions in detail i'd want to use a different account. Keep your eyes open, something might pop up over the next few days.
I've been on several boat, ferry, and cruise ship rides, and this is all accurate.
Recently, Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas had to turn back to port twice because of heavy waves, and the shaking was pretty bad. I mean, if one of the world's largest ships cannot overcome such a storm, it boggles my mind why people go out in worse weather in flimsy boats.
Not a tornado, but a water spout. They are actually quite common in small squalls. The big ones are very worrisome, and you seem to have caught a glimpse of one of the aforementioned. You don't completely shit bricks until you realize that they are really fucking strong, and most likely carry with them a riptide or undercurrent in the water.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water spout, I new tornado wasn't the right word but I was drawing a blank on what to refer to it as. Thanks haha
What terrifying stories you have. I love the beach and going out on the ocean but at the same time am conscious and a little scared of this kind of stuff.
Had a rough experience with a riptide last week, it rattled me quite a bit, thankfully was with friends who were able to assist me and knowing what to do when caught in one helped a lot. But still it was a first time and it caught me totally off guard, if I was alone and uneducated I could have drowned.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes dude, glad you stuck around!
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in goddamn Nebraska, a somewhat comfortable distance from the ocean, and I cannot understand why you would willingly live on the ocean. You might as well go live in an active volcano, far as I'm concerned.
Might I ask why you went and lived on a boat? Suicide? Military? Wanted to challenge Poseidon on his turf?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mentioned this a few other comments but basically I was pretty young at the time and was not involved in the decision. It was my parents dream and one day when my brother and I were old enough we sold everything, bought a boat and that was home for the next 5 years. It was a 40foot sail boat and we traveled to 32 countries. Tbh I don't know their exact reasoning but it's phenomenal perspective to have... Looking back it's surreal, it's crazy to think it actually happened.
Fascinating. I bet you saw some lovely constellations and stars out at sea. It's one thing I've always wanted to see...just being alone out on a boat, looking up at the stars...
Rip tides. I seriously dream about them. I was a beach lifeguard 10 years ago, and we went through training on how to avoid rip tides, and how\where they occur. It is incredibly dangerous to even save someone from one, but I sure as hell know where they are and tell people to gtf away from them. Don't go near jetties when you're in the water people. Thank Neptune I never had to rescue anyone from THAT. Currents are (fairly) easy (DO NOT PANIC), but riptides suck ass.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad almost died in one when he was younger so I've always received a lot of warnings. Tbh they freak me out, can happen so fast.
It's the opposite that terrifies me. Getting knocked off a boat in the middle of the ocean, with a life preserver. You'd just sit there, floating, waiting to die. No one is going to find you. You'll either die of thirst or get eaten alive by a shark or whatever fucking sea monsters live down there. Best case scenario you take the life preserver off and let yourself drown. Can you imagine how horrible that would be?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah haha i've thought about this... Or being stranded on a small raft or something. Slowly getting hungrier and thirstier.. It's just a waiting game.. You're surrounded by water but if you drink it the salt will only make you thirstier and kill you faster.
there was a Portuguese man o war jellyfish in it and it landed on his chest. He got fried.
He must have been the unluckiest motherfucker alive. Portugese man o' wars, contrary to popular belief, are not that fucking venomous. Can you die? Yes but it is extremely unlikely. This story reeks for me for several reasons:
The little bubble itself is actually safe to handle. It's not venomous at all. That's really the only thing that can "land on your chest".
The tentacles, which are delicate as fuck, are the venomous part. They would in all likelyhood stick to the said in this scenario because when the venom-filled nematocysts fire off, which they do on contact, they stick to fucking everything.
The odds of a man o war with tentacles intact flying off a sail salvaged from the water and landing on some guys chest are miniscule. The odds of him also having a sufficient allergic reaction to cause an allergic shock, respiratory arrest and death are astronomical.
Depending on seasons we used to run into these critters almost daily both in the mid atlantic and in SEA, most of the time you just avoid them but on occasion I've wrapped several feet of tentacles around my forearm to keep them off my guests. It hurts, kind of like several bee stings at once, and it leaves... welts for lack of a better word, but it's really not the floating biological land mine people make it out to be. Common bees sting and kill way more people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Freak stuff happens man. To address your points, I mentioned in different comment that it may of been a box jelly fix, the story is true but this was over 10years ago and i was young so it's possible I've skewed some of the details. Also they were in a very remote location, days from medical aid, I'm unsure how fast he died. And it was a spinnaker sail, they are pretty big and when then fall in the water pulling them up usually functions like a big scoop/cup, there can be a lot of water in them. It happened to us a few times, fortunately no jelly fish though.
Edit: Tbh though, I'm pretty sure it was a man o war. Deaths to them might not be that common but it can happen.
Yes, death from man o wars do happen, however they happen almost exclusively to unprotected swimmers with preexisting conditions of some kind.
A box jellyfish is a far more likely culprit in this scenario but they do, for the most part, look nothing like a man o war.
I still don't get how he managed to get a bucket load of water on his chest for salvaging a spinnaker though. I've dipped the bottom edge in the sea many times and filled it with a lot of water, especially when there's a swell the bow tends to dig in quite heavily. I don't get how he'd manage to dump it over his own chest though. Even if he somehow managed to lose the entire spinnacker overboard he should have gotten that much water up when salvaging it. I don't know, I just can't imagine a scenario where this happens, it sounds like another sailor's urban myth. The flying man o' war.
jaylem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you ever get caught in a rip current, the way to not die is try your best to swim parallel to the shoreline until you get out of the current. If you try to swim directly back to shore you will have a bad time.
missb00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea that this man o war is actually what we call a bluebottle here in Aus. Pretty common where I grew up on the east coast.
Had a scar on my left arm for years because of a Man O' War sting. I was living in Honolulu as a kid and we went up to one of the beaches on the north shore side of the island, though not where they have the surf competitions. I'm paddling along on my board and duck my head as a wave crashes over me and then, suddenly, there is an intense pain on my arm. It was a small Man O' War (tentacle length of 3-4 feet, very small bell structure that was only 2-3 inches long), it had landed on my arm, and my reaction to the pain was to strike the thing hurting me... causing the tentacles to reflexively do a partial wrap of my forearm. Luckily, I was very close to shore and we got it off fast, but the area where the bell had landed remained as an oval-ish shaped scar due to the concentration of stingers around the edges where the tentacles connect to the main body. Took a couple of years before I regained feeling in my left arm - those things are no joke, I can see a fully grown colony killing someone it stung in the upper body due to the damage to the respiratory and circulatory systems, especially considering what I experienced with a sting to an extremity by a juvenile colony.
Also got the pleasure of being inside a storm were tornados were touching down in the water and sucking it up. Talk about navigating a mine field.. Complete terror tbh.
I never realised that the Portuguese man o' war (Bluebottle) was actually that deadly, I have been stung quite a few times whilst in the ocean and whilst painful and uncomfortable, I wasn't worried about dying at the time. Though the radiating pain that spreads through half of your body after being a hit by a fresh one can be kinda horrible. The bloody things wash up all over the beach that we camp on pretty regularly.
LiamTk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live on the great lakes and every once in a while during a bad storm we can see waterspouts over the lake. I couldn't imagine being out there during one of those. So little room for error out there. If you mess up you're totally screwed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tornadoes on the water? That's the shit in my nightmares.
Just imagining how rough the waves would be and how LOUD everything would be makes me shiver!
Fried him, huh? Sounds a little odd, considering deaths from Portuguese Man-o'-war jellyfish are exceedingly rare. Any more details?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fried was just an exaggerated expression. But it did kill him, one of those rare situations I suppose. They were days from medical aid and I'm not sure how fast he died. Also this was over 10years ago and I was young at the time, I'm pretty sure it was man o war, but it's also possible it was something like a box jellyfish.
Holy shit... I was watching a documentary on jellyfish this morning and I was thinking "What if a wave crashes over the boat carrying a box jellyfish? You'd be fucked and you weren't even in the water"
Are there different types of Portuguese man of war, because in australia we have them and call them bluebottles and they couldn't really kill you, just like bee stings.
They crazy part is we think only living on water can kill us in an instant. Sometimes the Ground just sakes and shows you how flimsy your buildings are. 10s of thousands of people die a year mistaking the the rock in space they're on for ground.
Gonna have to say that's some sea shanty you got going here matey.
As someone that worked as a real sailor, your story reeks of a special kind of stupid and brine.
Sailors don't fear the ocean. They respect her, and honour the claim to their souls when her payment is due.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally my first comment about the ocean was about respecting her.. Get over yourself, other people have experiences too, doesn't mean one is wrong and one is right. My comment about fear stemmed from being a 7 year old in a severe storm on a relatively small sail boat.
I'm pretty much referring to your last statement. Anyone who is stupid enough to be in that situation has no respect for nature.
That's as bad as those idiots who sailed through a pumice plume thinking it was really cool only to actually be in one of the most dangerous situations possible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blanket statements are almost never accurate. I would of thought anyone with experience around this subject would recognize how fast things can change out on the water. You don't willingly put yourself into these situations, sometimes they just happen. And when they do the question becomes where is the safest place to ride out a storm? You do what you gotta do, it's not a pleasure cruise.
-eDgAR- ยท 5206 points ยท Posted at 23:25:32 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I fucked my lumbar up today and the laugh you caused was followed by a shriek of pain that may get the police called to do a welfare check by a concerned neighbor. Hilarious.
Fuck I forgot they had the weird xenomorph jaws. At least for the most part though, they're not visible unless you're in their mouth. Somehow less unsettling than the goblin shark, despite the fact eels can fuck you up.
They are actually really slow and clumsy animals. The only part of their body that moves with precision or speed is their mouth. They can't see for shit either.
So do they like....smell their prey or something? Cause I know normal not horrifyingly creepy sharks have a great sense of smell. Can't imagine something living in the ocean with shit sight have many other options for prey location.
It's all freaky and I want nothing to do with that alien shark. I'll just....avoid all water it lives in, yep. Cause that's a relatively shallow water dweller compared to the other deep sea horrors on this thread.
Moray Eels actually do have a subset of jaws. They use them to pull fish deeper into the throat. They can't really suck the fish in like other predatory fish, because of how narrow their heads are. So they became abominations.
It looks like the camera moves at a fixed speed instead of an adjustable speed so it's hard to control
NKHdad ยท 248 points ยท Posted at 03:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the operator is actively shitting his pants and can't control the camera, which is what I would have done if I didn't know the aliens from "Independence Day" lived in our deep ocean
Down there, yeah, however. If they are 97% noodle arms that don't do anything but chill there and drag behind them, collecting food on the ground, it doesn't seem like that would be advantageous. Just an easy way to be killed. TL;DR Bigger is better in the dark depths, but only if being big actually helps. (Ie. Being swole)
Iaren ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is nobody else going to point out that its defining feature is clearly its incredibly long tentacles but some idiot went ahead and named it the Big FIN squid? Was anyone looking at the fins?
We still haven't caught one of these as adults, only babby ones, and apparently the distinguishing feature of the babies is very large fins not 20 meter tentacles.
But they are clearly down there plotting against us. Wouldn't it be better to get down there before they are ready and mess things up than to wait until they get all their ducks in a row?
We really don't know anything about the adults, we just assume that the animals caught on camera are adult versions of the baby squid we've caught with very large fins, I mean the animal on the gif could very well be something else entirely...
Thuglos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you play at your friends house, but his sensitivity settings are way higher than yours.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:46:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's crazy to think that this thing, along with all the other deep sea creatures, are out there in the world right now. I'm in my bed, and they're out there in the ocean. They exist on the same planet.
I don't know why that's tripping me so much but they just seem so surreal.
Scientists have speculated that bigfin squid feed by dragging their arms and tentacles along the seafloor, and grabbing edible organisms off the floor.
U H
Alternatively, they may simply use a trapping technique, waiting passively for prey to bump into their arms.
The black swallower is also creepy and weird. Strangest animal on the planet IMO. If there's an after life where you can pick an animal, I want to be a black swallower :)
That looks like an underwater alien. Ive seen those long looking tentacles or whatever you call them on a squid on aliens in different movies or shows over the years
Hey, I was there when we shot that video! We just called it Creature X. Somebody uploaded the video to YouTube (not me). They've only been seen deeper than 7000 feet afaik. I imagine as we continue to drill in deeper water, we'll see more of them. We have video of all kinds of crazy deepwater life but we can get in trouble for uploading it. Most of the videos are so short because we can't investigate anything interesting we see, because we have to keep working. Its like "hey, a translucent purple thing just floated by, too bad we can't chase it down and we'll probably never see it again!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BananaHammockRepublic 2,097 points : 13 replies : 2 years ago reply
This is actually a very deep crevasse in the Pacific Ocean called the Trench of Nope."
Hilarious
Rcp_43b ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh Fuck THAT!! This is the first image of deep sea fish that utterly creeps me out.
Those hover over your bed while you sleep, harvesting your brain waves when you dream. You know one's been to visit you when you have a nightmare. That's a symptom of its feeding.
A lot of people think this is the scariest, but I disagree. Goblin sharks and frilled sharks are scary because they can chomp the fuck out of you, but what's that going to do? Tickle you?
Every time I see that footage, I always think to myself, "they can afford to build a super expensive, super tough submersible capable of diving that deep, but can't make a decent fucking motor to control their camera?!" It's like trying to play an fps with one of these.
According to Google they were discovered in 1898. Nice try, guy.
American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan described the goblin shark in an 1898 issue of Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, recognizing the peculiar fish not only as a new species, but also a new genus and family.
It's probably because of that time on 9/11, when Steve Buscemi volunteered to maul those teenage swimmers to death off New York's Amity island and had to be hunted down.
I see Goblin sharks mention all the time on reddit, I just don't see what's creepy about them. They have like a floating jaw instead of a large opening one. Hardly the stuff of nightmares.
All Sharks' jaws work like that. They are connected to the body by a mass of muscle that lunges the jaws forward to grab prey. The goblin shark's lunching motion looks so freaky because they must compensate for the length of their snout
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goblin shark, you say? Yeah, maybe we should've completely avoided testing nuclear bombs in the ocean. OR we should go ahead an nuke those Goblin sharks. Tough call.
It'll probably explode (ok, it's an exaggeration, but still) before it even gets to your living room, because the pressure there is FAR FAR FAR less than in its native environment.
Oh fucks sake imagine the mess if one of those things literally explodes in your living room
sidogz ยท 1901 points ยท Posted at 01:07:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't think it would literally explode (I'm sure you realise that). It'd probably just turn in to a pile of goo.
Edit: I wasn't thinking about teleporting directly into the living room. I don't know why, it's just the kind of thing I'd normally jump straight to.
ahdguy ยท 1908 points ยท Posted at 01:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me deep ocean to your living room is pop-city... Look up what happened to the deep sea divers when someone opened the wrong airlock while they were decompressing...
Buford dolphin
nc863id ยท 3053 points ยท Posted at 01:43:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.
In my job we use high pressure water to irrigate. Sometimes a mouse will wander into the open pipes before we pressurize them. This is exactly the sound they make exiting the 1/8th inch nozzle of the irrigation system. Props for appropriate onomatopoeia.
To be fair, deep woods has the same calming/horrifying feel. There have been times I've felt at peace in the wilderness. There have also been times I've been absolutely terrified of what lies around me and above me.
Edit: I replied to the wrong comment and I understand you can't blow up in the woods. I'm so sorry :/
[deleted] ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 02:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:45:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well what else are you supposed to do? put it down and give up? Its not like you're gonna read the first 10 steps all over again.
Tyg13 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides, it's only cheating if you backtrack before you reach one of the endings. Otherwise, you're just exploring the different endings/options in the book, which is just common sense really. You might as well get your money's worth and read the whole thing.
rburp ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:57:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. That's why I always read them straight-through, one page after another. It's like horror vignettes.
Yep. I live in the northern Rockies and I carry a 10mm handgun at all times when I go hiking and camping. Yeah, bears are scary, but it's mountain lion and moose that I'm worried about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Rather that than my insides be shot out by pressure tbh
Balind ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That must be terrifyingly painful for the few seconds until you are dead.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:15:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i doubt it would be. all of your senses would be obliterated instantly when your brain stem snaps. it would just be tremendously loud for a split second and then you'd die.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:12:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This brings up an interesting perspective that many people don't really think about.
So, most people feel like they are behind their eyes. Imagine what it would be to feel like you are above yourself or in your knee. Its possible to experience this with hallucinogens obviously, but also meditation. Granted through meditation generally requires years of practice. A variant of this is an out of body experience although that can be a whole other level experience in itself. You don't get to see yourself in 3rd person every day.
When people think of hallucinogens they think of seeing things and changing colors or movement but they don't often think about what it feels like. Aside from a blissful warmth radiating through your body one of the more common experiences is to feel like you're melting or gravity is much stronger than normal. Its honestly almost impossible to describe because its really not something you can understand without doing it. Just like I'm sure its hard to understand what being shot actually feels like.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was I the only one thinking shenanigans on the stuff people have been believing? Id wager physics can explain most of the stories in some way or another
TKmac02 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But have you ever been non violently dismembered? If you think bring violently dismembered is relaxing, just wait until you've had the non violent version
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very true. Alone in the deep woods without a light. Not just in the dark. But WITHOUT a light at all. No way to light things enough to see even if you want to. Absolutely horrifying. And its one of those things you cant even begin to understand unless youve been there against your will.
I've been in the woods in the middle of the night a few times on my way to and from a 12th century castle ruin near my village. Pointing your flashlight towards a noise only to see its light reflected in one or two green eyes isn't too great either.
Scuba diving is the most relaxing thing I've ever done. So quiet while you just float alllooonngg. I would take a nap down there if it was such a dumb idea after thinking about it.
Relaxing and possibly taking a nap while floating in neutral buoyancy like this is one of my dreams. In a dark pool, at a safe depth, with air supplied from a machine at the surface and an emergency reserve that activates itself automatically if the air pressure drops or if there's too much CO2 in your mask, tethered to the bottom so that you won't risk surfacing still asleep with your lungs full of air, it seems pretty safe. In a dry suit and a pool heated to the same temperature as your skin so that you don't feel a temperature difference between yourself and the universe, it could be magical. Maybe add earplugs or your favorite music so that the noise of the equipment isn't distracting.
tBanzai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been aware of them since Joe Rogan started promoting them years ago in his podcast and found one relatively close to where I live, but I never went, I'm a bit grossed out by the fact that the same sludge is used for dozens of people since it's quite expensive to replace. Also, I'd prefer to be completely submerged and have the ability to rest in any position. If isolation tanks were affordable, I'd love to have my own at home though.
It's not that scary for an apex predator, as humans are. Oceans are an alien environment, whole different league.
Mail540 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you go in the woods with another apex predator (bear/mountain lion) you are no longer the apex predator your high on the food chain but that is their place and you best respect that or get out of the way.
djrage ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:36:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you got a 12 gauge with slugs, and a sidearm, you're still up top.
Mail540 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you carry a loaded 12 gauge and a sidearm wherever you go?
Alwin_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But have you ever had this happen to you by leaving the forrest to quickly?
Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt there have been times you've been explosively forced through a 24" escape in a fraction of a second so fast that you couldn't even register that you were dead while in a forest.
There's pretty much a nil chance of getting forced through a small opening and having your guts exploded ten metres away by merely making a mistake in the woods, though. Although a quick death, i'd probably still rather be eaten by a bear.
My first solo-duck hunt was terrifying. There's nothing like wading into 4' deep freezing cold water in pitch black in the middle of the woods to set up decoys and then hearing the snort of a wild boar scoping out your encampment. My balls dropped 4 inches that day.
Like no shit I was playing Far Cry 3 and they have this like deep ass trench in the ocean. Nothing is inside it and no sharks around but like I was legit starting to freak when I just kept swimming down into that hole...IN A VIDEOGAME!
I always tell my Co workers to imagine a stack of soda cans as tall as the tallest building they can see, then do that another 50 or 100 times, then imagine that everywhere.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck the ocean. THAT is literally the scariest real thing on the planet.
The oceans are awesome. Beautiful. Swimming, snorkeling, diving. The scariest thing is swimming in them thinking about all the pollutants and toxins we put in the water. I can't lie though, big sharks do scare the crap out of me - seen Jaws too many times.
gqtrees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how about the planet that floats through empty space with killer asteroids flying around and other dangerous shit! (i know that wasn't the initial question lol, but crazy to think about still)
Datkif ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about the fact we are less then a drop in the ocean compared to the universal
Someone of medical inclination could probably tell us how fast one would pass out from losing all abdominal organs and associated ability to retain blood. My guess would be: not as fast as one would prefer.
I would guess that at best you would die as fast as if you were decapitated. Pretty sure "instant" deaths require direct and excessive damage to the brain.
I've heard that someone can live with less than half of their liver. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume a man can live with a whole trachea, part of a small intestine, and some thoracic spine.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he came out of the pipe as a chunky slurry. let's look at the numbers...
from nine atmospheres to one atmosphere is a net eight atmospheres, or 117.6 pounds per square inch. pressure is force divided by area, so in order to determine the force, you multiply the pressure by the area. a 24" diameter pipe will have a cross-sectional area of 12 squared x pi, which is 452.4 square inches. 452.4 x 117.6 produces 53,202 pounds of force pushing his body through the tube. that sounds like a lot.
bluesox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Medical investigations were carried out on the four divers' remains. The most conspicuous finding of the autopsy was large amounts of fat in large arteries and veins and in the cardiac chambers, as well as intravascular fat in organs, especially the liver.[5] This fat was unlikely to be embolic, but must have "dropped out" of the blood in situ.[5] It is suggested the boiling of the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble.[5]
nc863id ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pressure differential forcefully extruded him through the opening, ripping him apart and splattering his innards all over the place like someone turned on a ludicrous gibs cheat code.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I copy/pasted exact same exert and sent it to a few friends out of amazement. Not to exploit the tragedy of the crew, but god damn it would this make a fantastic scene.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is literally one of the most brutal ways of dying I've read.
I watched a video once of the piping they keep on the floor for oil rigs, there was a crack in one not much large than maybe a lighter, it sucked one of those giant crabs into it in less than a second
prykor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As as messy and terrifying as that is, the guy probably didn't feel shit. Probably a big WOOSH and then oblivion.
ymek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the other guys boiled to death...
Medical investigations were carried out on the four divers' remains. The most conspicuous finding of the autopsy was large amounts of fat in large arteries and veins and in the cardiac chambers, as well as intravascular fat in organs, especially the liver. This fat was unlikely to be embolic, but must have "dropped out" of the blood in situ. It is suggested the boiling of the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble
the boiling of the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble.
Even if the bastards weren't sucked out a small whole intestines-first like a human tube of Soylent Green flavored toothpaste, the pressure change boiled the blood in their bodies, causing the fats in their blood to fall out of suspension, which caused giant blockages like instant heart attacks and strokes in every major blood vessel.
In short, they were fucked 6 ways from Sunday.
railz0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a moment-
Yeah, fuck that. This entire thread is just one big fat nope. Good bye!
Oh my fucking god. That actually deserves the expression. That's like a final destination movie if it were real and also were about a thousand times worse than anything that's been thought up. In an instant your body is forced through a 60 cm hole. You can't have not experienced a brief moment of pain but good Lord I hope it went quickly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hard to imagine what that could have looked like when it happened... A split second took him from a man with eyes and thoughts to... That... Mass of flesh. Horrifying.
Yeah, but the story also bothers me for another reason - so the guy, Komarov, knows it'll be a suicide mission, that he'll likely die upon reentry and goes anyway because his friend Yuri Gagarin would be the backup in case he refuses. It's a very touching story and all, but my question is - if Komarov could possibly refuse, why couldn't Gagarin?
Looking at this, this is probably the guy described in that autopsy report.
hochizo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the other divers had their blood flash-boil in their veins. Just as dead, but still in one piece!
lavars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would that look like? Would their eyes be fucked up? Or is it all just internal and they look completely normal?
hochizo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most conspicuous finding of the autopsy was large amounts of fat in large arteries and veins and in the cardiac chambers, as well as intravascular fat in organs, especially the liver.[5] This fat was unlikely to be embolic, but must have precipitated from the blood in situ.[5] It is suggested the boiling of the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble.[5]
The rigor mortis was unusually strong.[5] The hypostases (accumulations of blood in internal organs) were light red, and in two cases, there were numerous hemorrhages in the livers. All the organs showed large amounts of gas in the blood vessels, and scattered hemorrhages were found in soft tissues. One of the divers had a large sub-conjunctival bulla (a blister in the tissue of the eye).[5]
So, in at least one case, the eyes were pretty fucked up.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude looks like ground beef
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't the guy who was forced through the porthole, right? So how did this go about happening, is this the result of a mass internal rupture caused by all the high density oxygen in his blood/organs escaping rapidly to the outside of his body due to the insanely large and fast leap to a low pressure atmosphere?
I'm really intrigued to know more. I'd love if anyone with a medical background could explain.
HuoXue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's...so fascinatingly grotesque but so unrecognizable, if I didn't know what it was supposed to be, I would just assume it was some weird movie prop shit.
BJob22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It probably would have been a lot worse if he weren't carrying that ground beef with him at the time of decompression.
tinymog ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure you know of the blobfish? That's the result of these creatures being brought up to the surface. Not pop, just smoosh. Blobfish is actually pretty cute (imo) in its natural habitat.
That's the result of these creatures being brought up to the surface.
That's entirely due to the fact that the body of the blobfish is capable of somewhat adjusting to the the pressure differential, preventing it from exploding. If you were to some how magically transport it from its native habitat to above sea levels, it would instantly explode.
It's really not the same thing. Humans have the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on us, but we don't pop when introduced to a vacuum. These fish are mostly resistant to the pressure of the water because they themselves are mostly water. It's not any sort of structural integrity keeping them from being crushed.
eric67 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a matter of equilibrium. Their bodies do exert an amount of outward pressure but it dissipates quickly from any small expansion, and exerts more fully under the higher pressure of being that deep in the ocean. Water is very difficult to compress, and these animals being mostly water take advantage of that. You can put a human body 20,000 feet underwater and it will remain, for the most part, physically intact. It won't become crushed or suddenly implode.
We've also brought animals from the deep up to the surface and they didn't pop. Animals such as whales also swim very, very deep and they don't pop when they come to the top of the water. Etc.
The factors that make this harmful to us is the pressure on the gases in our organs and bloodstream. Oxygen and other gases would violently rupture at the cellular level and be squeezed from you. But you as a whole wouldn't pop or explode, as we're mostly made of water and other liquids which don't particularly enjoy being compressed.
That wasn't because of some internal force causing them to explode though, at least not a traditional explosion. What happens is all the fluids in the body would boil. Blood vessels would burst. Gas would escape, but it wouldn't look like an explosion per se.
None of that would happen. They are made of mostly water, just like us, which does not compress well. If we were to go that deep we wouldnt implode or get squished and look like a raisin, we'd look very much the same. The thing that is dangerous for humans is the pressure on our organs and our blood stream. If a fish from 10k feet deep teleported into your living room it would probably just die and lay there.
Hmm. I don't think you understood my comment. When a body experiences extreme pressure changes, whether it's a change from deep depths to normal pressure, or normal pressure to a vacuum, gas bubbles form in the fluids. That's what decompression sickness is. The synopsis about the medical findings in the Wiki article about the Byford Dolphin supports this:
Medical investigations were carried out on the four divers' remains. The most conspicuous finding of the autopsy was large amounts of fat in large arteries and veins and in the cardiac chambers, as well as intravascular fat in organs, especially the liver. This fat was unlikely to be embolic, but must have precipitated from the blood in situ. It is suggested the boiling of the blood denatured the lipoprotein complexes, rendering the lipids insoluble.
So, as long as the fish has gas in it's blood and other fluids (which I can't imagine it doesn't), the likely cause of death would be fluids boiling in the fish resulting in an embolism.
knuppi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to think this was only at 9 atm, which is achieved at a depth of 80-90 meters.
Just for reference, deep-sea creatures can be found at a depth of +4000 meters.
They wasn't a change in atmospheric pressure though, that was a small hole between two different pressure areas that they effectively got sucked out. They won't explode any more then we won't shrivel up like raisins at depth. Living things are almost entirely liquid and solid which don't compress or expand.
But that tank, and also people, are full of air. Water doesn't expand nearly as much when you depressurize it. Unless said animal has a swim bladder, it won't explode. It will probably die, but not too violently.
TsterT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it wasn't their fault, but faulty equipment was to blame.
The North Sea Divers Alliance, formed by early North Sea divers and the relatives of those killed, continued to press for further investigation and, in February 2008, obtained a report that indicated the real cause was faulty equipment.
volound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless the squid is going to be instantaneously teleported from 1000 bars (ocean floor) to 1 (ground level), this doesn't apply at all - it's just reddit-comment-porn.
ejabno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That room full of people decompressed so violently because it was full of gas, both in the people's lungs and in the room itself. A deep sea fish isn't directly comparable, though anything with a gas-filled swim bladder would most likely explode.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it doesnt work like that. Science people have captured some of these creatures and returned them to the surface. They live just fine in lab tanks, without all the pressure. They are used to being in great pressure areas, but being brought to a low pressure area doesnt bother them.
When I was a kid someone told me that if a person would be that deep in the ocean and was exposed to the pressure, their body would instantaneously implode into a ball and would shoot up toward the surface and out of the water.
That happened because air is a compressible medium. What would actually happen if you brought one of those fish to the surface is the dissolved gasses in its blood stream would boil. At most, I think it's eyeballs might pop, and the more tender tissues/would turn mushy, but that's about it.
There's a reason one of the first things you're taught when learning how to dive is to never hold your breath on ascent.
Just to illustrate the point....in 60 feet of water, you have close to an additional 2 atmospheres of pressure exerted on you. At 100 feet, you're close to an additional 3 atmospheres.
At the depth these animals live, you're talking closer to 200 to 300 additional atmospheres of pressure.
So yeah, literally violently explosive if you somehow pulled on from its depth to your living room.
sidogz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah sure. In that situation it would literally explode!
This is true. You've all probably seen that image of that blobfish (yes, that pink one with the uncanny-valley face). That fish lives in very high pressure zones, so when it is taken out of the water, it turns into, well, a blob.
sidogz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They probably wonder why they're called that!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
religion
anorex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey so in Star Trek wouldn't teleporting to another planet kill you if the air pressure change is too much?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it doesnt work like that. Science people have captured some of these creatures and returned them to the surface. They live just fine in lab tanks, without all the pressure
9swords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Teleporting is the 'go-to' solution for all those pesky problems.
Phyisis ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason people pop from ascending too quickly is because we have lots of pockets of gas which compress easily.
I'm pretty sure fish don't have lungs citationneeded
Fish are mostly water, and water is only ~5% more dense at the bottom of Mariana's Trench than at sealevel, 5% is not insignificant, but it's not exactly explosive.
I did an English test yesterday and there was something about how there was a kind of fish that had lungs sorta like ours, I don't remember what it was called but I think it started with the letter "D"
....... They won't explode any more then we would shrivel up like raisins if we went down there. They are made of mostly water which is incompressible.
Well we do have gas in our system that's why if you ascend too quickly you get the bends. Nitrogen bubbles coming from your tissue to your bloodstream are too big if you come up too fast and get stuck in your joints and can cause death.
I imagine if the hole in the Buford dolphin incident was larger, the man who was sucked through might not have exploded but would certainly have had issues with the bends.
You ascend slowly so that the bubbles have time to disperse slowly. I imagine rapidly bringing any living organism from the bottom of the trench to the top could cause some issues but I don't know enough about the circulatory system of fish.
I'm an OW diver but the comment before mine was about things from the trench exploding if brought to sea level. I know you can't explode that way, you can explode being sucked thru a 24" hole due to explosive decompression though.
I also was just giving a quick definition of the bends. I know more about it its just long to explain.
We can get nitrogen in our bloodstream and get the bends, because we breathe air which is mostly nitrogen. Fish however breath water which is absolutely no nitrogen.
The worst case I could see happening here is that some fish have a small bladder that allows them to tell which way is up. That might rupture and cause the fish to die, but it's unlikely it would explode. It's the same as how you wouldn't explode if you were suddenly teleported into space. You would die instantly, but would pretty much be intact
53bvo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But these bubbles are only a problem because we use over-pressurized gas when scuba-diving. Freedivers can rise to the surface as fast as they want.
I'm not saying fish would explode but they definitely change their ballast unlike a freediver who only has what he takes down (or less). I am genuinely interested in what would happen if you changed the pressure on a fish rapidly now.
Their are actually lots of pictures of fish brought to surface quickly. The bladder blows up like a balloon and is often sticking out the mouth a little bit.
FrejGG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a myth. For the vast majority of deep sea species, this is untrue. The reason being that deep sea species don't have gas chambers that need regulation. There is no gas inside of them to expand when brought to the surface.
Source: studying BSc in marine biology.
It would become inflated as fuck, as it's not being squeezed by pressure so hard. Explosion is probably an exaggeration, but either way the creature's chances of survival in lower pressure are slim.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, hadn't thought that the body would react that way but it makes sense. Thanks.
Let's talk about gases. Combined gas law states P1V1/T1=P2V2/T2 (Pressure, volume, and temperature). Pressure is down there is about 760000torr. Temperature is about 275K. Let's say the volume of an imaginary gas is 1 liter. At the surface, pressure is 760torr, and temperature is about 300K. This means the volume of the gas at the surface will increase to over 300L (I'm probably doing the math wrong, but you get the general idea).
So, you pretty much explode.
ELI5: Gases in your lungs are highly compressible. Down there it's super high pressure. If you teleported to the surface, the air in your lungs would expand over 300 times its original size. As would the gas in your blood.
Water actually contracts when it melts/expands when it freezes- that's one of its unique properties. I don't know the specifics, but I'd assume it's because when it's frozen, it can't leak out- but, when it starts to melt, the pressure is higher (thanks to the ice taking up so much space) and the liquid water can leak out.
I wish i could actually see a real scientific presentation of this. Like the presentations of crocodile vs sharks, etc. Also, [7]
Diavelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can tell you've hooked a Yelloweye while you're fishing in AK because as they depressurize from being reeled up, their air bladder (buoyancy organ) expands and starts to kill them. So you'll get a bit of a fight right when you hook em and then you think you lost him... but he's still there, floating on up. The bladder can push their eyes out of the sockets and the stomach out of the mouth too. Looked strange as hell the first time I saw one. Yelloweye
when i was on exchange in Norway, the host dad used to work on an oil rig. he told us how they went fishing with really long lines, and when they got something from deep down their eyes would pop while being reeled in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Blobfish. They look like normal fish at deep sea (scary but still fish), but bring them up to lower pressures and they bloat into a bizarre freakish THING.
Not really/ Most deep sea animals have no void spaces and are thus as incompressible as the surrounding water. They dont explode when brought to the surface. They usually just die because of the increased temperature (its always near freezing down there)
It's not like it has some kind of explodey-organ to counteract deep pressures. It just doesn't have lungfuls of air to crush, like we do. It would not explode on the surface =)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it doesnt work like that. Science people have captured some of these creatures and returned them to the surface. They live just fine in lab tanks, without all the pressure
It wouldn't explode unless you lifted it out of the ocean quickly. For the same reason that deep sea divers don't explode when they get back to dry land.
Actually most deep-sea animals can be brought back to the surface alive. I've kept numerous deep-sea animal in aquaria without pressure. They do fine. They do need cold temperatures thought.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:29:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are you sure it isn't more pressure, because I'm pretty sure depth and pressure are proportional to each other
Those are deep sea hatchetfish. Freshwater hatchetfish can easily be kept in captivity and are actually a popular aquarium fish. Their unique shape comes from an enlarged muscle that allows them to leap out of the water in the case of danger (make sure your tank isn't an open-top.)
I was okay with it in the gif, because it didn't really connect in my brain, but with that image it's like holy shit. Why does this exist.
What possible function is served by those long-ass tentacles? It must've evolved to have such long tentacles, but how on earth could enough random mutations have accumulated to make that happen? At some point, you'd think they'd grow too long and the creatures' bodies wouldn't be capable of supporting such long tentacles, but that fucking thing somehow evolved in a way that its body IS able to support that much tentacle, and then ALSO just the fact that they are that fucking long.
Somebody give me a fucking giraffe for scale. Even fucking giraffes have an evolutionary reason for their long necks, despite the fact that their vocal cords are fucked because of it. They can fucking reach food with those necks. What can this monstrosity do with those tentacles? What possible reason could this creature have for existing in its current state?
On a more serious note, look at those fucking tentacles compared to goddamn everything else. Like, okay, everything but the person there seems like a freaky son of a bitch I tell you hwat, but that thing's tentacles are so disgustingly long compared everything else there, the proportions are fucking ridiculous. Going back to my point again, none of these other guys have tentacles that long or that fucking useless. It's like fucking hair, and I almost imagine it's just as useless.
And on top of that, I don't like any part about it, especially the fact that it doesn't move at all. Like, fuck, if it was going about its day, doing things and being at least productive towards its own goddamn life, then I'd be okay with it. Like, fuck, if it was wandering around fucking grocery shopping in whatever passes for an oceanic grocery store, then maybe it'd be more okay, but that fucking thing is just lifeless. Like, you don't know what it's capable of, it's just there and it could do anything. Is it sleeping? Does it not have the brain function to do actual life things? Is it a literal alien that chose the most fucking back-of-the-woods-but-underwater group of people to observe? What a useless alien. Fuck. Cut your hair. Get a job. Move away from home. Do something with your life.
I bet even bottom feeders are afraid of that thing. Imagine crawling around the sea floor minding your own business, only to be abducted by this flurry of tentacles and brought up to that...thing
Honestly, I'm planning to do some stand up on sunday. Not professionally, of course, but as a hobby. It's a talent show sort of thing.
I won't be using this alien thing in my routine, though. Fuck that thing. Gives me the creeps. Like sure it's funny that this lifeless fuck gets to be internet famous for doing nothing and looking weird, but I believe in earning fame the hard way. Which explains why I only do comedy as a hobby, obviously. I'll surely have much better odds at becoming internet famous if I stay in school and get that degree in librarian sciences. Actually, fuck, I bet that alien/squid/jellyfish/motherfucker didn't go to dumb non-fish university for librarian sciences, it probably went to the fucking school of having stupid hair for tentacles, got a diploma in sucking at being alive. I don't know why I ragged on it in the first place, it's probably a professor, looks like a fucking role model when it comes to being a huge waste of space.
evilf23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and here i am thinking " i would eat the fuck out that thing's tentacles. squid is delicious."
i make a fettucini alfredo with crab meat and calamari rings in the sauce along and it's magically delicious. house smells like a women's bathroom at applebee's for 3 days but it's worth it.
Hah. It went pretty well actually. A bit of a rocky start, and I only prepared enough material for about 3 minutes, but the majority of the laughter really came at the very end. The biggest problem was finding a starting point. That was easy in this thread because I already had inspiration from the stupid fucking waste of space squid from outer space, and everybody had the image in front of them to refer to. In my routine, though, it was important to engineer the feelings that I wanted my audience to have, because I couldn't simply point to something and say "I'm gonna be talking about THAT, and how THAT is a piece of shit that isn't even worth the sum of all the molecules in its weirdo body".
Also, I had to be mindful of my audience and I felt it wasn't appropriate to be so arrogantly rude even as a joke. My audience was a group of people that I continue to see on a regular basis, and painting a picture of myself as a belligerent sailor was not in my best interests.
Fair enough. Maybe you could create a character who could assume that persona for you? That's one perk to ventriloquism, guys like Dunham can be several characters in a single show. But I'm a tad drunk right now, don't take me too seriously. Glad to hear it went well.
Could you imagine being a diver (assuming its possible) those depths and just having all those thick tentacles just graze you on the shoulder? I'm scaring myself
(The real joke here is that I'm actually one of those useless hair squid jellyfish demon fucks, and I'm fooling you all into thinking we're not aliens. Nobody will see it coming when we flop onto dry land and probably just instantly fall apart due to the differences in pressure and lack of aquatic medium with which we naturally support our absolutely worthless goofy stick bodies.)
Oh dear god. Releasing your mind control spores throughout the atmosphere in a cloud of nuclear holocaustic proportions?? Begone hell beasts! Return to Cthulhu's murky embrace! Humanity will fight on the day of our declaration of independence! We shall strike you down with great vengeance and furious anger as we proclaim your place on OUR planet. Welcome to Earf.
I've got a lot of respect for the guy, though I feel like his character is a creation of both his comedic talent and his physical body. Like, his appearance and his accent and the pitch of his voice are all just as important as the things he says. As /u/kaluse235 said, "I can't help reading this in GradeAunderA's voice". I assure you, my voice is nothing like that, and if you heard this in my voice, you might think I'm just getting worked up over nuffin. Karl's character and chosen style of humor work quite well together, plus I imagine he's a much better improviser than I am. He doesn't have the ability to completely plan out his responses or preview his "rants" before delivering them. I also respect the fact that he's willing to put his reputation on the line; he plays his character so well that some people think he's an actual idiot.
All in all, he does something I'd like to do with a higher degree of skill than I have, in places I'd love to visit, and for clearly more money than I currently make.
Long story short, I appreciate the compliment but I've got a long way to go before I'm Karl Pilkington.
Isord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know you are fucking about, but I just want to point out that usually long tentacles like that just filter food out of the water.
Ilmara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but that fucking thing is just lifeless. Like, you don't know what it's capable of, it's just there and it could do anything. Is it sleeping? Does it not have the brain function to do actual life things?
You jest, but that's actually pretty Lovecraftian.
Wtf is that thing all the way on the right?! That thing is narrow enough to creep up on you and then slither in through your throat and make you it's meat puppet.
Just wait, soon it will evolve to hover in the air. You'll see swarms of them floating across the countryside, wrapping their tentacles around everything in their path.
From left to right, we have: Colossal squid, giant squid, Humboldt squid, Dana octopus squid, Onykia robusta, bigfin squid, longarm octopus squid, cockatoo squid, Megalocranchia, and Asperoteuthis acanthoderma.
From left to right, we have: Colossal squid, giant squid, Humboldt squid, Dana octopus squid, Onykia robusta, bigfin squid, longarm octopus squid, cockatoo squid, Megalocranchia, and Asperoteuthis acanthoderma.
d_colt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What purpose is served by the tentacles??. . The better to tickle you my dear.
DRNbw ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has long tentacles, probably because there's so little food it needs to increase its range. And supporting those thin tentacles (they might be like jellyfish tentacles, with no or limited motor functions) might not be that expensive.
And supporting those thin tentacles (they might be like jellyfish tentacles, with no or limited motor functions) might not be that expensive.
Okay, sure, but...
It has long tentacles, probably because there's so little food it needs to increase its range.
Why not fucking move closer to the ground? A giraffe would look mighty fucking stupid trying to eat the fruit off of a tree on a hill while standing at the bottom of the hill. It might be able to manage it, but it would have a much easier time just climbing the fucking hill.
I'm guessing these scary ass lookin squid probably can't fight that well, and all the short ones that were closer to the ocean floor (or wherever their food is) got eaten by predators. The ones with the mutations making them look like long freaks were avoided by predators because they were more intimidating.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not fucking move closer to the ground?
Because now it can eat both things on the ground and smaller things trying to eat things on the ground, and fish preying on them. Think of it as an airplane squid that's carpet bombing the sea floor.
Think of it like this: would you rather go fishing with a big net or a small net? Moving closer to the ground is like saying "just go fishing in an area with more fish!" Sure, okay. But while I'm there, I'd rather have a big net.
alzayz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
in the ocean, the ground is not where all the animals live. the tentacles are meant to catch things swimming through the water. for your giraffe analogy to be correct, a giraffe would need to have mouths all up and down its neck. and leaves would have to be blowing through the air.
evilf23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big ass creepy squid is the quintessential ocean outfighter mike. he really keeps his opponent at the end of his reach with those tentacles and uses the increased leverage to draw those dumb fucking fish into it's beak. the question is what happens when an aggressive pressure fighter like an octopus get's inside his reach. we know the blue ringed octopus has venemous infighting, but can he get past the deadly tenatacle range of the bigfin squid. tonight, we'll find out @ Ultimate Tentacle Championship 196, bigfin VS bluering. Live, and only on PPV.
Not to mention the fact they look like they go on fucking right angles like some kind of crib mobile from hell.
stromm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finding food from a safe distace.
It likely floats above the boundary layer that contains its food. Letting its tentacles dangle into that layer till prey touches one and then BAM, grabs one.
No biggie if it loses a tentacle, it likely can regrow them.
I feel silly for asking this, but is that legit? Like, you could've scaled the giraffe picture appropriately to actually represent the scale or you could've just taken the picture off google and thrown it on top of the other image.
Ah, whoops, I just realized that image is two giraffes having sex. It's safe to say I've made a fool of myself.
Though you're the one who now has a picture of two giraffes having sex overlaid on top of a useless squid hair demon saved to your hard drive so I think I'm the real winner here.
Seeing things like this makes me think about all those old paintings of ships being broken apart by giant squids. Makes you wonder if there really were squids that did that once upon a time. And fuck they might even still be out there somewhere. Just chilling in a dark crevice somewhere. Waiting.
It seems obvious to me that the tentacles are so long so that when they stuff them down your throat, they can go through all of your intestines and still reach your butthole.
Its the same logic behind jellyfish. They need those long tentacles because they can't see. They just drag them around and if a fish runs into them they grab/paralyze it.
The evolution of it makes sense too. The organisms with longer tentacles caught more food, so they're the ones that reproduced. Creating a species with longer tentacles.
Reach food down below? Catch food with a larger net? I dunno
Crash15 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell even exists down there for such vile creatures to consume? Because we both know it's obviously evolved that way, and if it's evolved then it has to eat something for nutrients
Why the hell do any of the Mariana Trench creatures exist? How did they fucking get there?
The thing in the picture is a man-made construction. Not sure what it is off the top of my head, but somewhere else in this comment thread someone's identified it.
Crash15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god, I thought the Hydra from the Half-Life 2 Beta was real
I get that it's disturbing because it's so different from everything we're used to seeing, but I don't really understand why some people have a level of fear that almost becomes anger. It's minding its own business in its own area of the planet that most people will never cross, living its own life and doing its own thing. It's fine. It just looks a bit ethereal.
I imagine you're talking about my post. I'm not actually afraid of it, or angry. It's just a weird thing, and I amused myself with the idea of somebody just not accepting its existence. So, essentially, it's precisely because it makes no sense for someone to get angry-fear over it that I made the post in the first place.
I don't think anybody is truly that afraid of these things that they'd get mad about them existing.
[deleted] ยท 800 points ยท Posted at 02:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You say that. But they'll be even stranger. That squid evolved on the same planet as every other creature you know of. Aliens wouldn't have a single common ancestor with any of them.
Probably the closes thing to aliens on our planet though, because they evolved in conditions no shallow water or land animals did. Almost like evolving on another planet.
Another planet that supports life could easily be very similar to Earth. There's a reason we look for earth-like planets. Aliens would likely appear more similar than you expect.
Unless one of the great filter is is the replacement of biological life with technological life.
Multi celled organisms evolve much faster than single celled.
Animals that use tools have a distinct advantage above those that do not.
Robotics has the potential to evolve far faster than any biological organism.
Biological organisms rationally would be far more prone to extinction and the loss of technological advancement.
Multi world alien civilizations that survived probably don't last long as technological beings. The universe is prone to of all kinds of activities that love to destroy all biological life because we evolve relatively slowly when compared to robotics.
So basically are alien superiors in this universe probably resemble bender more than they do us. We really are just stupid meat bags.
The trouble right now is robotics needs humans to support it.
But I imagine a day where our minds, entombed in and directly connected to giant, metal spacecraft wander the system like interplanetary hunter gatherers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you draw the line between biology and computing? If a race developed tech the the point where they could replace natural reproduction with tech that engineers biological things with brains... Is that biologic or robotic? If the tech that produced them was smart and capable of making intelligent "evolutions" quickly, would that be a biological organism that had the advantage of rapid response to environmental stressors?
Those are all legit questions, btw, not rhetorical.
This is not scientific at all but in my mind I split the difference between biology and robotics at a cellular level. Biology works on DNA or similar molecules and the way it reproduces.
To me biology is based on an evolutionary path of molecular constructions. ( yes I understand that silicon has the possibility of a biological evolutionary path but I basically ignore that in the way that I would perceive the separation.)
To me technological intelligence would be programmed by a biological intelligence. Every advancement would be far from random chance. ( I also ignore the benefits of genetic algorithms in constructing robotics.
Basically if it is planned out and constructed specifically for improvement at every step to me it would be on the technological side of things. A good example would be genetically engineering a virus verses of virus that was evolved.
It's a pretty gray area so we basically have to construct our own ideals of what one would be versus the other.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't say "statistically" say that unless you know the probability of human like aliens existing in a solar system. There are ~1029 stars in the universe but it may very well be a 1/1029 chance.
If humans ever found and visited such a planet, the first thing we would do is not try to understand them or experiment with them, we would most likely try to have sex with them. Imagine if we were somehow able to reproduce with them? The first interstellaracial baby!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever play Mass Effect? That's kinda the assumption they make. They take it a bit too far though, and give the aliens boobs/vaginas.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't give all of them that stuff, just like 3 other races really. Hanar, Volus, Elkor, etc don't have an analogous reproductive system. It is a little human centric that all the major species in that game are humanoid bipeds, but it's a game made by and for humans so what can you do.
I mean let's be real would you care about Liara as much if she was a Hanae througj the games? No similair body language that we mostly communicate with? No tone? It really does matter.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:58:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely agree with that, that's why I pointed out it was made for humans by humans. It wouldn't be as great a game if it weren't tailored for us.
I personally think that they did a great job in not just having stereotypical aliens in their games.
They kind of made (at least hte first game) while showing their work hardcore, but still invoking space opera tropes. Green alien space babes were kind of an inevitability.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:18:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mass Effect also taught me that young women will inevitably go crazy for what are essentially Avian-Human hybrids and that men will go crazy for purple humans in suits that make their hips look fantastic.
Yeah, that won't happen. But it's entirely possible that we go to another planet which has creatures we'd recognize as birds, insects, etc... even that it's dominated by a humanoid species.
After all, on an earth-like planet there are some things that are pretty certain. You're going to have creatures filling a bunch of evolutionary niches, just like on Earth. Flight is going to evolve (it's evolved separately three times on Earth, in insects, birds, and bats) at least once, possibly with an entirely new type of wing from anything on Earth. Most creatures will have eyes which we recognize as eyes - predator species will have forward-facing eyes and prey species will have sideways-facing eyes. There will probably be a bunch of different poisonous and/or venomous species. And so on.
The details will be different, of course. Perhaps creatures on this alternate planet have 3 eyes (in a triangle for predators (for depth perception) and in a flatter line for prey (for a wider field of vision)). But we'd still recognize them as eyes.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:11:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Actually, relatively speaking, there's a fairly good chance that shit like this is under the ice of Europa. Panspermia is a real possibility. If something from Mars, more than likely, spawned life here then that same type of life could have easily made its way to Europa. So yes considering the depth of the water and the pressures involved as well as the energy source of feeding off of the thermal vents there is a really good chance that shit like this is under the ice of Europa.
What? No, there's no way to say there's a good chance. Relative to anywhere else in our solar system, yes, but that doesn't make it even remotely a good chance.
The truth is we don't even understand what it takes to form life so we can't give it odds worth a damn. Finding something would greatly improve our understanding though.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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DRNbw ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:02:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opposable thumbs (or something like it) is probably very important. So either primates, or maybe something like elephants (they can use tools with their trunks).
brodhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are only important for land life, I would think. A sentient aquatic species is possible that instead uses tentacles or something.
CosmicJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bipedal actually means walks on two legs. Birds are bipeds, but they don't have hands.
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do know all animals are sentient?
Tactful ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:04:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I didn't know that, thanks for informing me. I thought animals were like rocks or mobile phones or pizza.
brodhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He means sentient as in we know we exist.
TheTyke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From google:
Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience).
Sapience is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with appropriate judgement, a mental faculty which is a component of intelligence or alternatively may be considered an additional faculty, apart from intelligence, with its own properties. Robert Sternberg has segregated the capacity for judgement from the general qualifiers for intelligence, which is closer to cognizant aptitude than to wisdom. Displaying sound judgement in a complex, dynamic environment is a hallmark of wisdom.
To be honest, it does seem unnecessarily convoluted. Not to mention, animals display all of these things and yet we use it as a way to say they don't? Doesn't make any sense to do that.
Perhaps there was a sentient organism that went it extinct as it came out of it's primal infancy but before it could leave a lasting record of it's existence for us to find.
Tactful ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess its possible, especially if it happened long enough ago to leave behind zero evidence of sentience. I still feel there would be something though: remains of tools, some marks or etchings, fossils or remains.
Who says life has to be carbon based requiring earth like conditions. If theres one thing earthen life has taught us its that life can adapt to exist on almost any world.
Carbon is super great for life because it can bond with 4 other atoms, making it good for creating large structures. It also exists easily at roughly the same temperature range as liquid water. There are reasons we're carbon-based - it's not just random chance.
It's true that life doesn't need to be carbon-based (some people have put forth silicon as an alternate base element) but it's certainly far, far easier that any alternative. And no, it doesn't need to be earth-like, it's just more likely based on what little we know.
We have a really really good jist. We know the general rules. That's why carbon is so likely, because of its relationship with other elements in this universe.
You're the second person now who's brought up carbon-based life when I never mentioned anything of the sort. I was talking about how evolution would likely result in similar features such as eyes even on alien worlds.
But what's always made me wonder is the fact that our evolutionary path has taken its own unique path due to what unique conditions our planet has sustained over the billions of years. I mean we had meteors, mass extinctions due to whatever the hell happened, etc. so each planet will have its own unique evolutionary path, so who knows what they would look like.
True, but the point is that aliens are gonna look totally, well, alien. As in unrecognizable. The squid is more like a small glimpse of what aliens could look like.
Well aliens that visited us would potentially have similar elements no? I mean as we learn more about biology we start realizing that there are universal advantages to things like thumbs and brains right? Granted the aliens could have way bigger thumbs or have advanced in a way that doesn't require a brain.
I'd hazard a guess that based on how life emerged as carbon based here, its got to be one of the easier ways for life to develop. If that's the case it seems, based on the compounds for life to begin that dna is somewhat inevitable. Now the features that dna expresses could be wildly different than anything we have here. But it seems that the features of life that worked here will probably work other places. In that sense alien life wouldn't be that "alien" to us.
The strangeness caused by not having any common ancestors would be at the microscopic level -- the chemistry that composes them, how the cells function, how inheritance functions. The possible body shapes will be determined by the pressure of the medium they live in, and by what kinds of things they need to do. A predator living on the ground in an atmosphere will probably look a lot like a predator from similar environments on Earth.
Yeah this is the stuff we used as template for aliens in movies. I'm sure it won't even be reasonable when we see non carbon based lifeforms. That'd be interesting if they just naturally didn't elicit a reaction from us. They look like weird modern art shit and we're just like. Meh.
AsaTJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily. If you believe form follows function, aliens that evolved on a planet similar to ours would develop similar ecological niches and probably show some convergent features. Granted, there's a lot of variation within a given niche. Velociraptors and wolves technically fill the same niche in different eras and don't look a whole lot alike.
evilf23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they're just telepathic fart clouds made of gas that can alter the composition of atoms.
cimbop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We only think that because aliens are based off the living creatures on Earth that are least similar to Humans, so insects and you guessed it deep sea creatures.
Yeah, at the top of the video, it says "Shell Perdido." That's deepest oil rig in the world, in something like 8000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
Holy shit so people actually had to go down there to build that and shit like that is down there with them? I wouldn't care how much that paid
ub8m8 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think thats scary look at this Jellyfish
It was actually made by robotic human controlled submarines because the depth is too much. Theres a cool mini documentary on the construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMX8BEWMtlw
That's what scares me the most about the ocean, things emerging from the darkness. This is almost more scary than the actual creature in the picture, those weird shapes obscured in the distance.
jambait ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when I first saw this someone pointed out what if the squid is just a lure and there is an even bigger creature behind it. It is most definately not the case but still gave me the willies
I don't know, but for some reason they looked like spider fangs to me and now it looks like there is a massive fucking sea-spider (fanged crab?) lurking behind it.
tw33zer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something even bigger
Xenokkah ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 01:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
STRIDEEEEEEEEER!
jihiggs ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that section where you are overlooking a courtyard with several striders in it with other humans fighting was so awesome. and the never ending box of rockets conveniently placed. really great.
Not obsessively (that would be birds with the obsession), but I think they're damn fascinating creatures. Actually have a squid tattoo I designed on my forearm.
Edit: I also realize you said this because I had a typo in my initial comment lol. Fixed it to fin.
That is the actual worst thing I have ever seen. When it was moving around it was freaky enough, but when the camera panned down... my mouth fell open. Christ.
It reminds me of the ET from Independence Day. You know, the one that slammed Data against the glass and then got shot by Jayne Cobb.
g8z05 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit that's Jayne! I can't believe I didn't make that connection. Though, in fairness I haven't sat through a full watch of Independence Day in probably 10 years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really stoned and watched this gif about 7 times getting disappointed each time when the camera man pans downwards towards the light and not focusing on the creepy squids body. Then i realised it was looping
I think the worst thing about that squid is how its tentacles stick out and look all pointy at the top. It makes it look like some sort of fuckin spider.
when I was like 8 my aunt had this book of animals from all over the world. one page when you turned, had two disgusting creepy hatchet fish RIGHT IN YOUR FACE and I made sure I folded that page so I wouldn't have to look at them ever again. those things have haunted me my entire life.
Igguz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
trilobot ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 01:23:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Just FYI most of those animals are very small and often less than a foot long. Even if you somehow encountered them without dying from pressure they wouldn't be of any harm at all.
I'm a little bit scared of swimming at times because I don't want anything touching or poking me when I swim, especially slimy algae. But I wouldn't say I'm scared at all of those pictures, instead I feel a sense of mystique.
The place: BMO Harris Bradley Center
The event: Bucks VS Spurs
The snack: Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears made by Haribo
I recently took my 4 year old son to his first NBA game. He was very excited to go to the game, and I was excited because we had fantastic seats. Row C center court to be exact. I've never sat that close before. I've never had to go DOWN stairs to get to my seats. 24 stairs to get to my seats to be exact.
His favorite candy is Skittles. Mine are anything gummy. I snuck in a bag of skittles for my son, and grabbed a handful of gummy bears for myself, to be later known as Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears, that I received for Christmas in bulk from my parents, and put them in a zip lock bag.
After the excitement of the 1st quarter has ended I take my son out to get him a bottled water and myself a beer. We return to our seats to enjoy our candy and drinks.
..............fast forward until 1 minute before half time...........
I have begun to sweat a sweat that is only meant for a man on mile 19 of a marathon. I have kicked out my legs out so straight that I am violently pushing the gentleman wearing a suit seat in front of me forward. He is not happy, I do not care. My hands are on the side of my seat not unlike that of a gymnast on a pommel horse, lifting me off my chair. My son is oblivious to what is happening next to him, after all, there is a mascot running around somewhere and he is eating candy.
I realize that at some point in the very near to immediate future I am going to have to allow this lava from Satan to forcefully expel itself from my innards. I also realize that I have to walk up 24 stairs just to get to level ground in hopes to make it to the bathroom. Iโll just have to sit here stiff as a board for a few moments waiting for the pain to subside. About 30 seconds later there is a slight calm in the storm of the violent hurricane that is going on in my lower intestine. I muster the courage to gently relax every muscle in my lower half and stand up. My son stands up next to me and we start to ascend up the stairs. I take a very careful and calculated step up the first stair. Then a very loud horn sounds. Halftime. Great. Itโs going to be crowded. The horn also seems to have awaken the Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears that are having a mosh pit in my stomach. It literally felt like an avalanche went down my stomach and I again have to tighten every muscle and stand straight up and focus all my energy on my poor sphincter to tighten up and perform like it has never performed before. Taking another step would be the worst idea possible, the flood gates would open. Donโt worry, Daddy has a plan. I some how mumble the question, โwant to play a game?โ to my son, he of course says โyesโ. My idea is to hop on both feet allllll the way up the stairs, using the center railing to propel me up each stair. My son is always up for a good hopping game, so he complies and joins in on the โfunโ. Some old lady 4 steps up thinks its cute that we are doing this, obviously she wasnโt looking at the panic on my face. 3 rows behind her a man about the same age as me, who must have had similar situations, notices the fear/panic/desperation on my face understands the danger that I along with my pants and anyone within a 5 yard radius spray zone are in. He just mouths the words โgood luck manโ to me and I press on. Half way up and there is no leakage, but my legs are getting tired and my sphincter has never endured this amount of pressure for this long of time. 16 steps/hops laterโฆโฆ.4 steps to goโฆโฆ.My son trips and falls on the stairs, I have two options: keep going knowing he will catch up or bend down to pick him up relieving my sphincter of all the pressure and commotion while ruining the day of roughly the 50 people that are now watching a grown man hop up stairs while sweating profusely next to a 4 year old boy.
Luckily he gets right back up and we make it to the top of the stairs. Good, the hard part was over. Or so I thought. I managed to waddle like a penguin, or someone who is about to poop their pants in 2.5 seconds, to the men's room only to find that every stall is being used. EVERY STALL. It's halftime, of course everyone has to poop at that moment. I don't know if I can wait any longer, do I go ahead and fulfil the dream of every high school boy and poop in the urinal? What kind of an example would that set for my son? On the other hand, what kind of an example would it be for his father to fill his pants with a substance that probably will be unrecognizable to man. Suddenly a stall door opens, and I think I manage to actually levitate over to the stall. I my son follows me in, luckily it was the handicap stall so there was room for him to be out of the way. I get my pants off and start to sit. I know what taking a giant poo feels like. I also know what vomiting feels like. I can now successfully say that I know what it is like to vomit out my butt. I wasn't pooping, those Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears did something to my insides that made my sphincter vomit our the madness.
I am now conscious of my surroundings. Other than the war that the bottom half of my body is currently having with this porcelain chair, it is quiet as a pin drop in the bathroom. The other men in there can sense that something isn't right, no one has heard anyone ever poop vomit before.
I can sense that the worst part is over. But its not stopping, nor can I physically stop it at this point, I am leaking..it's horrible. I call out "does anyone have a diaper?" hoping that some gentleman was changing a baby. Nothing. No one said a word. I know people are in there, I can see the toes of shoes pointed in my direction under the stall.. "DOES ANYONE HAVE A DIAPER!?!" I am screaming, my son is now crying, he thinks he is witnessing the death of his father. I can't even assure him that I will make it.
Not a word was said, but a diaper was thrown over the stall. I catch it, line my underwear with it, put my pants back on, and walk out of that bathroom like a champ. We go straight to our seats, grab out coats and go home. As we are walking out, the gentleman that wished me good luck earlier simply put his fist out, and I happily bumped it.
My son asks me, "Daddy, why are we leaving early?"
"Well son, I need to change my diaper"
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Kuntrol ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 00:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU BETTER LOSE YOUSELF IN THE MUSIC THE MOMENT YOU WANT IT YOU BETTER NEVER LET IT GOTHIS IS YOUR ONE SHOT DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO BLOW THIS OPPURTUNITY COMES ONCE IN A LIFE TIME
They are, but that's because our first evidence of the species was finding them in fishing nets. We kinda just went with the visual we got when they pulled them up.
Aww... Poor guy. He seems so regular and then there's the most unflattering picture of him ever just circulating the internet so people think that's just his face. Super sad face.
I'm not sure if the decompression alone would kill it, or if other factors (stress/injury/etc.) would contribute. I can't find a solid source to answer, best I found was a Telegraph article that was mostly guilt-trip.
I do know that they don't have swim bladders like most fish, so they don't have that to control their buoyancy. Their bodies are mostly gelatinous so they are less dense than the water around them. This helps them move slowly at that depth, so they don't expend a lot of energy just trying to float at that depth of water pressure.
I imagine being taken out of that pressurized element and put in shallow water, he wouldn't fare well. Not sure if we could somehow get them back to that deep pressure, if it would be fine and recover. Regardless, they're found typically in deep-sea trawling nets, and being out of water for that long does kill them. So yeah, the blobfish you see on boats are dying. :(
I imagine being taken out of that pressurized element and put in shallow water
It would definitely die from suffocation, but it's bones must be very strong to withstand the immense pressures so I would think it would handle the surface okay. It's not like going the reverse direction, from low pressure to high (like humans going deep), when you get crushed. It's way better to be under less pressure than you're used to compared to much much more.
Put another way, you'd do much better in vacuum with an O2 face mask than at the bottom of the ocean.
It doesn't need to withstand the pressure at that depth. There are no air pockets in the fish so there's nothing to crush. Humans wouldn't be crushed either after the point that our gas was all expelled. That'll kill you dead, sure, but it won't crush you like a trash compactor.
You've got more body cavities than just your lungs. Your brain is in a cavity, your chest and abdomen... lots of things to go crush. Even if that fish doesn't have bones, it's probably a slower death @ the surface for it than for us down there.
A "cavity" in anatomy is a fluid-filled area of the body that contains organs. Fluid filled is the key point there, they aren't going to be crushed because fluids and solids don't compress (they do, but not to a really appreciable extent). Your body would shut down however, because it's not built to operate at those pressures. Which is essentially what is happening in these fish,the dissolved gasses in their bodies are expanding and tearing apart the systems that weren't evolved to operate at a lower pressure.
In the deep ocean where they're found, the pressure is a lot higher and their bodies don't look quite as strange and goopy as they do in our atmosphere.
They're not built for our relatively low pressure environment, and look like sad pathetic jelly, but disturbingly human-ish.
Not sure what you are talking about. That is the meirl subreddit so I linked it.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original sub is /r/me_irl. You may not have meant it that way, so I'm sorry for overreacting, but every time it's brought up it seems someone feels the need to link to /r/bannedfromme_irl and the cheap knockoff /r/meirl because they're butthurt.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's not true, /r/meirl is 5 yrs, 6 months and 7 days old whereas /r/me_irl is 3 yrs, 4 months and 7 days
Looks like /r/bannedfromme_irl is banned so I guess they were a little too butthurt. I'll look into it though. I saw meirl and subbed, didn't know there was some fight over it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the kind of thing acienct greeks would right tales about. Was the fate of Grolick the ugly decapitated and cursed hundreds of feet in into Poseidon's locker.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ted cruz??
a2lolo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing is a) terrifying and b) much bigger than I assumed. I've never seen anything next to it to add scale before, so thanks for the info and the nightmares.
Ha okay that's kind of cute. I think it's in the category of things that are kind of cute in a photo, but would scare the crap out of me if I saw it in person. I'm not good with sea creatures! :)
abstruh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is not possible, but sometimes I think about waking up in the deep ocean. No light, just cold dark water. Something brushes up against me and it could be any one of those heinous creatures. Oh fuck this, I'm ending this thought and comment.
The Hatchetfish are what creep me out the most
Like, god damn, what the fuck did they see to make them look like that?
Are they always that frightened?
Maybe the camera the "protagonist" is holding is using a flash, and the light is reflected off Cthulu's eyes? the wiki page says the trait is common among deep sea creatures.
I thought about a cat's Tapetum lucidum, but it's illuminating the area around the eyes, also there wouldn't be a shadow on the guy's feet towards the camera flash.
I've taken several physics, photography and vision sciences classes, and am really fun at parties.
So I believe you but can you really see it in this particular one? I just see black.
sfzen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:03 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's very faint, but yes. You see how in the tweaked one, the light from above reflects off the top of the tentacles, and the eye glows red/orange? You can just barely make that out in the normal picture.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:55 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I can baaaarely make it out now that you mention that
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a beer commercial a while back (I can't find a link) with a beer that falls in a lake and floats to the bottom past all sorts of stuff and there was a massive scary looking fish lurking. Like this picture it gives me the willies.
Bat_bot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always though the the original with nothing in it scarier, just falling into the blackness alone...
mrheh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This picture represents the perfect theme for the best aquaman movie.
There are several versions of this picture, with different stuff at the bottom... and they all remind me of the starting scene of Another World. Fucking hard game.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I see this picture, I think of the song Long Way Down, by Robert DeLong. Really captures the feeling of descending slowly into bottomless darkness.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:50:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how it works. The distance one would see to the ground out of a window is equal to the distance from the surface to there.
Maybe you have a point, but you won't be seeing that plane.
No light
Crush
phliuy ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
if it were clear
Next time, read a little more carefully before jumping to show off the physics you learned in junior year of high school.
And before you try to poke holes in that statement to try to prove what knowledge you have, yes, if it were perfectly clear, there would be no light absorption, therefore there would be no light scattering, and light would reach the ocean floor just fine.
Saying that I couldn't see it because it would be crushed? Not unless the inside of the airplane were a vacuum. Otherwise, it would fill with water and the pressures inside and outside of the plane would equalize minus a few truly air tight compartments, many of which would flood anyway.
So in conclusion, yes, I would see the plane if it were clear, no, it wouldn't be crushed, so next time, maybe think about the situation before trying to stroke your ego by showing off what is probably a very baseline level of knowledge about physics and the ocean.
A plane would most likely be crushed that far down. It doesn't matter what is in it, the structure of the plane would still be destroyed. However, I'm the average Layman, and I have no plans to go to college to become a scientist just to study how a plane reacts to water pressure.
Now, light doesn't travel entirely through water. It reflects off of the water, it refracts through the water. Then light gets dimmer based off of distance from the source. Since it's underwater, the light can't travel pased 3,280 feet. So, the water won't be "clear" if you had a (non-glass) cup of tap water that size, and set US airlines to fly around it, then you still wouldn't see that far down (and you'd need to know how to tread water if you fell in). So, you wouldn't see that far down.
Now, in the universe of hypotheticals that only exists when mentioned, if light physics weren't something to worry about, and the plane was invincible, then you could see it; however, in the real world that plane would be crushed by the water pressure and you wouldn't suspect a thing.
phliuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If it's not a sceintific debate, you probably shouldn't have tried to use what little science knowledge you had to impress yourself.
No, the plane would not be crushed. An object is crushed due to pressure differences. The pressure of water inside the plane would equal the pressure on the outside of the plane. Therefore, no pressure difference, therefore, no crush.
As I very, very specifically said, "if it were perfectly clear, there would be no light absorption, therefore there would be no light scattering, and light would reach the ocean floor just fine". As water is not perfectly clear, by adding the modifier "if it were clear", I show that 1) I know that it's not clear, and 2), this scenario includes perfectly clear water. Learn to read.
So, yes, if the water were clear, as I mentioned 3 times, you could see the plane. No, the plane would not be crushed because there is not pressure difference to crush it.
If you admit to being a layman and not having a strong grasp of basic physics, you probably shouldn't try to keep arguing it.
Please stop trying to save your ego. You are wrong on both accounts, deal with it.
Bringing up that it's not a real world situation? ok. And what is your point? attempting to discredit hypotheticals purely because they are hypotheticals is just laughable.
and finally, you wouldn't need to go to college to understand the physics behind this. You would only need to be competent with high school physics, which you are not.
Yea, one of my "teachers" didn't want me in physics for 12th grade, so I ended up in a study hall run by her. She was a total bitch. So, now I'm going to want to see if there are physics classes at PTI, as it's important to becoming a game designer.
phliuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm sorry you were precluded from physics from whatever reason.
However, you don't need to enroll in a physics course to get the basics of it, Khan academy and numerous other online resources can teach fundamental physics perfectly well. For example, harvard has publicly available online recorded lectures from numerous courses, of which I believe physics is one.
GARGRAVARR: The whole infinite Universe. The Infinite sums. The Infinite distances between them, and yourself. An invisible dot on an invisible dot. Infinitely small.
matkv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:44:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the story of โThe Hitch-Hikerโs Guide to the Galaxyโ. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than โThe Celestial Homecare Omnibusโ, better selling than โFifty-Three More Things To Do In Zero Gravityโ, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphidโs trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: โWhere God Went Wrongโ, โSome More Of Godโs Greatest Mistakesโ, and โWho Is This God Person Anyway?โ. In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the outer eastern rim of the galaxy, the โHitch Hikerโs Guideโ has already supplanted the great โEncyclopaedia Galacticaโ as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, because, although it has many omissions, contains much that is apocryphal - or at least wildly inaccurate - it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important ways: first, it is slightly cheaper, and second, it has the words โDonโt Panicโ inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover. To tell the story of the book, itโs best to tell the story of some of the minds behind it. A human, from the planet Earth, was one of them, though as our story opens, he no more knows his destiny than a tea-leaf knows the history of the East India Company. His name is Arthur Dent, he is a six-foot tall ape descendant, and someone is trying to drive a bypass through his home.
matkv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
recently learned that there was something called the farallon tectonic plate, but most of it has been swallowed by the earth as the north american plate moves over it, it has formed an 800-2000 Km tall almost vertical wall of rock that penetrates the mantel. the Mariana trench is 11 KM deep
They've been to the bottoms of "shallower" parts of the ocean, more common than not, it's just a lot of sand, though every now and then a whale corpse will float down and make it a party, and then there's the places where entire ecosystems break the rules of the sun being the start of the food chain
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the curious: the chart gives the elevation of the peak of Everest, not the height from the base.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Girthโขwidthโขangle of the shaft from the base
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was just a picture of a computing server before I zoomed in. I was confused. Anyway -- Hows is that submarine just chillin there...is it on a lip of earth(?) in the trench?
Oh, the chart just shows relative depth, this isn't all in the trench. That German battleship sunk off the coast of France in WWII, but the Mariana Trench is near the Philippines.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That makes way more sense. Thanks
Amazing, astounding and a little bit humbling too. This mystique with the ocean was probably what European explorers from the premodern era felt when sailing around the world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing looks like it would be sombodys great uncle murry.
It astounds me that only 10% of something that makes up 75% of the earth has been mapped, yet we;re choosing to ignore it to explore fucking space, lets finish our own damn planet first! lol
Hardly, one. What idiot doesn't wear a life jacket on open water, 2 who take that long to surface, 3 how stupid do you have to be to not float on your back? Like shit, it was if he was trying to drown
yeah, when he went to take off his shoes I thought thats what he was doing, nope, just gonna shove my head underwater
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:27:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always hear this advice. But like how? Good luck getting your pants off, finding something to bind the leg holes if you even have a belt for your waist. Good luck breathing in enough air while treading water to fill the pants.
kivalo ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 02:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it in Boy Scouts for the swimming merit badge. It's not impossible, but certainly tough. A big benefit to doing it is that you're close to a dock on a lake, and not in the middle of the ocean so there's not nearly as much shock or panic going on. Shorts are pretty useless, but if you're wearing pants, you need to get them off, and knot the end of the legs area to each other, get that "donut" over your head with the waist section in front of you, and lift the waist opening out of the water and then submerge it to trap enough air to keep you afloat. Air leaks out relatively quickly, but you just repeat that process until you tire and ultimately drown.
wertexx ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:48:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how much you reckon till you drown? Compared to just floating on your back, I mean does that device actually help to float or it's just to trick your mind while you are drowning faster than you normally would.
ftgbhs ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, I'd be freaking out, and I have no idea how I would act in that situation. I would hope though, that I would just lay on my back and tread water. I have done that for very long periods of time in a pool. I know there's no current or waves in a pool, but still.
wertexx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea plus you know,when in a pool your body is like 100% relaxed. We will need drugs to keep calm on top of 5km deep water with the closest shore 1000 kilometers away and knowing death is inevitable.
ftgbhs ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:19:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, basically to summarize my comment. "I'd like to think I'd be fine but I wouldn't be."
Styrak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can reinflate them by exhaling into the fabric. I've been through a bunch of water survival courses it's not that hard to stay afloat using clothes. Hell a marine who was knocked of a boat did it for like a week using sweatpants.
kivalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I admit that it's been a good 15 years since I've tried or even thought about it, but that also sounds correct. Now that you mention it I faintly recall exhaling into a shirt to keep it inflated.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine doing that after falling into the frigid ocean off a boat in the middle of no where would be very easy. It's easy to say you'd just do that in the event of that occurring, but I think it would be much harder in real life in uncontrolled situations.
We had to do it when I was in the 82nd Airborne Division. Itโs called drown proofing. They had us jump in with our combat uniforms on, boots pants, jacket. We then were told how to use our pants as floatation devices. You get those boots off first, then your pants, tie the bottom of the legs together, use your hand or belt to cinch the waist and then begin breathing into the waistband, slowly filling the legs up with air. Once they are full, you can rest for a short period of time before you need to breath more air onto them, but sure enough, 30 minutes later and youโre chilling and relaxed. It works.
Same here. We learn it during CWS in Marine boot, except if I recall, we use the slap method. You quickly dunk your waist to catch air then slap the water to keep adding more air. It keeps you from having to take your waistline out of the water and deflating them entirely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're military trained I could see how you could do it, however the layman in an uncontrolled situation couldn't do it nearly as well, even though they like to think they easily could.
I wouldn't try it at the pool, last guy that took his bottoms off there got hauled away by the po po.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In controlled situation. Imagine falling off a boat into the frigid Atlantic, no land in sight, boat gone. You realm think the lay person will be calm enough to do it right immediately never having done it before?
Actually, the friend was trying to turn around. It can take an extremely long time to completely turn 180 degrees in a sailboat, which is what happened there.
I'm not even sure if it would be possible to survive that. I would just lay on my back and focus on breathing when the waves don't crash over my face and hope I don't freeze to death.
Genuine question, if he backfloated he likely could've maybe lasted those few minutes, couldn't his friend likely turn it around and hopefully find him with some luck. Or would he be basically 100% s.o.l? I'm confused on that part.
I've done some sailing and can shed some light on this.
Firstly if two guys on a boat in the middle of the ocean alone you'd expect they'd know how to sail. Certifications or not sailing in these conditions is all about experience. Really early on in sailing training or whatever you want to call it you will practice MOB's or man over board drills. This is a skill you will learn and re enforce all through sailing. Because as you saw leaving your buddy to die is kinda a dick move. The point in all this is that those guys should know this stuff and his friend should have at least made a much better attempt that what he did.
The procedure is kinda hard especially if your alone one the boat but it's doable.
Sailing is not like a motor boat and because of that your subject to the wind. What that means is it's not that simple as just turning around, cutting of the engine and helping your friend in the boat. Instead the basic procedure looks something like this.
Throw some floating shit in the water. This is huge, Just grab whatever is near and floats and chuck it behind you. All sailboats have or should have a life raft on the stern (back) for this very reason. The other reason to throw floating shit is because it helps you see them (more on this later)
Keep going in the direction your going and give your self some room to turn in this case your going to tack (turn into the wind). Be liberal with the room, it's better to go an extra 50 feet than miss your friend and have to go back again. the more time goes by the harder it gets. The ocean moves so their constantly drifting and getting harder to find.
your now going downwind and coming back to your friend. this time follow this direction for a good 400 feet or so. Passing where you think your friend is. Remember, sailing. you cant just stop with full sail up and facing down wind.
Tack again and if you've done everything right you should be heading almost directly upwind and on the path to where you think your friend is. Your going to have to get to him and stop hence going upwind. When you sail directly into the wind it's whats called "irons" and your sails flap or luff about, in other words they dont fill with wind and the boat doesn't move. So on your way up you hug as close to irons as possible. when you see your friend ahead point the boat directly into the wind and let the sails luff. Do this on the early side because the boat is going to drift. Inertia and stuff.
When you see him get him the the boat. there's a technical way to do this but for boats without ladders and stuff but honestly as long as you get him in the boat alive all is good. toss a rope and tie a loop in it for him to sit in as almost like a harness. I recommend the Bowline. From there Just hoist him up best you can.
One important thing to note which I learned when doing these drills is that it's way harder to see someone that you might thing. Your looking for a small dark black circle (their head) in middle of the ocean. Add in 3 or 4 for swells everywhere and it's damn hard to spot. Hence the trowing floaty shit, it will drift the same way he is and it more stuff to see, better odds. Also those rafts I mention earlier have a huge orange flag pole on them. So prioritize getting that in the water ASAP, it will help you and your friend a ton.
I had to do this one time in a much less serious circumstance buddy and I where screwing around on a Hobie cat (not me) and he fell in. These are really easy to move and he could just climb back on so no threat of survival at all. Still followed the above procedure and it worked perfectly, I Literary just drifted right up to him and the boat was at almost a complete stop for him to climb back on. So yeah, practice makes perfect I guess.
TL;DR learn to sail and make sure friends to as well.
Edit: Thanks for gold! Does this make me a professional sailor now?
Great explanation, but more simply, one of the very first things anyone should learn while sailing is how to immediately tack hard through the wind, heave to, and end up in irons.
There are a couple other techniques as well, but this probably the easiest.
Also, if it's a large sailboat and difficult to control with just one person, I was taught to let the jib go free (the front sail) and now you can just focus on the mainsail.
Swells are such a significant factor. I once went salmon fishing 14 miles off the coast of Washington and it was just 10 ft swells, and it was obvious that if someone fell in they would be VERY far from the boat in a matter of minutes.
When we did our MOB drill they threw in a white buoy, holy shit did that thing blend in. Every swell we had to decide if it was a swell or by chance our buoy. It was only 2-3 feet as well. If you don't get that flotation stuff out there and their not wearing any thing bright that they can wave around that guys chances are not too good. Took us 3 hours to find the buoy. It's hard to explain just how hard it is to spot stuff in even a small swell without actually seeing it. needless to say, after dong that drill I've been far more alert about not putting myself in a position to fall in.
All in all flotation is is key for the visual reference alone, oh and so the other guy doesn't drown.
I'm probably wrong and someone made this up, but the friend sailing was cheating with the guy's wife and wanted to kill him. I don't remember if that was stated on the website (this was a game PSA about drowning where you had to keep scrolling to stay afloat) or someone speculating in the comments, but that's what I remember reading.
Easiest by just turning nose on to the wind, then setting the rudder all the way to one side and the sail off to the other, so they work against each other. This is called 'heaving to' and it's one of the most stable configurations you can put a sailboat into without tying it to shore.
Bobzer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:54:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah or just drop your fucking sail and motor over to him. seriously, any boat that size will have a little 5 or 10hp engine to navigate through harbors. all that guy needed to do was toss a floaty, head upwind, drop sail and spin back around under power.
I think the guy didn't have any sailing experience. If someone took me out and then went overboard, there's no way I'd know how to turn around. Best I could do would be throw an anchor if I was able to think while being that scared and also know where its kept.
Yup.. If there was wind there's no way (unless they had some really nice motors) they would be able to turn around and get back to him in time... They could have thrown a damn rope or something though.
I only have some sort of idea about this because my ex lived on his sailboat and I learned very quickly that we could not just "turn around" to rescue my hat or sunglasses lol
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I know about tacking lol so yea they definitely could have done something but you're right if they're not experienced it wouldn't have been easy... Either way they still could have thrown a line or bumper out to the guy or something...
I've never been in a situation where we had to do a complete turn around like that and I don't sail so what little knowledge I have is from taking trips lasting from a few days to a month with just the 2 of us. In strong winds it just seems like it would take longer (mostly because I would just be following directions) than 3-4mins to turn around and get back, without a life jacket and the waves and pressure it seems like it would be hard for the person to stay afloat... I know it can happen pretty quickly, the wind can get scary though ๐ณ
vistuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well actually it wouldn't, unless you have no experience doing a MOB you should ALWAYS do a MOB.
I'm gonna be honest if i was dropped there even if i could survive by doing many things i would just let myself drown. The idea of creatures down there...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Japanese submarines slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. Was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in ten minutes.
Didn't see the first shark for about a half hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know was that our bomb mission was so secret no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know, the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, the shark come to the nearest man. That man, he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark, he, go away...but sometimes he wouldn't go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya'. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is, he's got lifeless eyes. Black guys. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya' he doesn't even seem to be livin'...till he bites ya' and those black guys roll over white and then...ah, then ya' hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red and, despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and...they rip you to pieces
You know by the end of that first Dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there wereโmaybe a thousand. I do know how many men: they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson's mate. Thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up and down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half, below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted usโa young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper, here. Anyway, he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. Three hundred and sixteen men come outโthe sharks took the rest. June the twenty-ninth, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
Anyway, I don't wear a life jacket.
tw33zer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddammit, just watch Jaws. You are screwing my shit up, man. You're screwing it! And-and you just--you have no consideration. Do you? That is just so rude. I would-I would never do that to you, ya' asshole. I mean, right? I'm a cool guy, I don't screw up other people's shit, man. I--
GODDAMMIT. GODDAMMIT. I'm just so flusterated right now, I can't deal with this--
MY WRATH SHALL FALL UPON THEE LIKE THE CRASHING OF A THOOOOOOUSAND WAVES, AND I SHALL CALL UPON THE UGLIEST AND MIGHTIEST OF SEA CREATURES FROM THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN TO OBLITERATE YOUR VERY SOUL!
Styrak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean to be fair if you just got blind sided by a huge propelled object you might be a little disoriented combined with being thrown into freezing water in the same motion it is somewhat reasonable to assume that you might just be panicking and flailing wildly.
Coastguardsmen here, you would be amazed at the amount of commercial fishing boats in our area that don't have life jackets on board. Most have the mandated immersion suits, but that doesn't help if you suddenly go overboard. A lot of people are far more stupid than you think.
I dunno man I almost drowned once getting knocked under by a waterfall and in the fucking panic of feeling parts of your body shutting down, I completely forgot how to float on my back
It was mostly to demonstrate the effects of hypothermia. Your body goes into like hella survival mode and starts constricting your blood vessels to conserve heat. Your extremities go numb pretty quick and it's literally only minutes before you can rip your own nails off and not feel it. Once that starts setting in, you are starting to circle the drain. In fact, even if you get rescued, you have to be warmed up slowly and evenly so you don't go into cardiac arrest.
Source: Had hypothermia. Didn't rip nails off though, just wanted to go to sleep (which probably meant die at that time)
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey... Aren't you the guy who posted the Kevin story?
Long story short, during a regatta in late October in Ithaca, NY, my boat pitchpoled (bow got forced into the water while the stern lifted up and we basically flipped forward). The entire fleet (about 24 boats IIRC) all met the same fate. Under normal circumstances this would be no biggie, but because it was the entire fleet, they didn't have enough rescue boats to come help right everyone quickly. I ended up spending about 30 minutes in the water. By the time they got me in a rescue boat, I was pretty much an ice cube and spent the rest of the day in the sailing center under a pile of blankets, listening to Amon Amarth. I was lucky that between my wetsuit and the onsite medical staff, I ended my regatta alive and without any permanent damage.
And yes, you stop shivering and feeling really anything at all. I distinctly remember being more tired than I've ever been before or since. My skipper just kicked me and made me answer questions the entire ride back to shore to try and keep me awake.
Plus side is I don't really get bothered by the cold anymore. A hoodie is about all I need any more.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Honestly, aside from the hypothermia, it was a really fun regatta. The weather was crazy (white caps all day with some really solid gusts and a great course adjustment) and even though I spent the rest of the weekend on shore, I had a good time.
A strong puff. It was blowing a solid 25-30 with gusts over 50. We got hit with one of those gusts while everyone else was on the downwind leg, or just rounding the leeward mark. It's kind a risky spot because you try and increase your sail area as much as possible at the sacrifice of control and responsiveness. Typically you loosen everything you can, but we were completely reefed down and still lost it. We knew a capsize was inevitable, but a pitchpole was a surprise. Cornell's sailing center was a yacht club at the very south end of the lake and we capsized closer to the windward mark, having just come around to go downwind. The rest of the fleet was closer to the leeward mark and thus closer to the sailing center...and rescue boats.
Makkel ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:42:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say it's hallucinations... Like the diver or the doll. He's cold and tired, he starts to faint. His hand are cold so it may feel like his nails are falling off...
That stressed me out way more then I expected it to.
kanated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Honestly this one doesn't affect me at all cause it looks so fake and unlikely. Maybe it's cause I'm used to swimming. Just the way he goes from drowning to stable while using both hands to pull his fingernail off and then back to drowning makes it look very staged.
100 percent, fuck that. Turned it off the second he fell in.
myblunda ยท 140 points ยท Posted at 23:18:22 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
More specifically deep in the ocean. No one's gone down there and checked what's going on. It's crazy to think that we've been to the moon and have up close pictures of pluto, but haven't gone to the deepest part of our own ocean.
Edit: I am wrong. Hear me roar
max-peck ยท 164 points ยท Posted at 23:28:18 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have gone to the deepest part of the ocean on many occasions.
Yeah, so is the moon's surface. The only reason people say we know more about the lunar surface is because we've taken pictures of it, whereas we can't take a picture of the ocean floor, we need other methods. But there has certainly been more manned missions to the ocean floor than any moon or planet. Probably more unmanned missions too.
I could be wrong, someone will fact check no doubt. But I thought we have come close to reaching the bottom, but are a couple hundred feet short of actually reaching it?
The deepest point in the ocean is Challenger Deep it's nearly 11,000 meters (36,000 ft) deep, and has been visited by submersibles on four occasions (two manned, two unmanned).
Gat dayum imagine being in a tin can in the middle of the dark with 11 kilometers of water above you. You might as well be in space, you're so far out of this world.
Yeah, terrifying stuff. That first mission took five hours to descend, then only spent twenty minutes at the bottom, because they spotted a crack in the outer layer of porthole.
Dasbaus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to be a party pooper here, but I would have rolled a natural 20 at that point and neither pants nor underwear wood have survived. They would discover the guy standing behind be has serious damage to his legs and thighs from the blast.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Party Pooper
Heh
Dasbaus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I chuckled at it.
I clean nasty shit like that for a living. I know my shit.
Chipotle really does a number on sewage pipes bro.
I feel like you have to be ready to accept death before you even go down there. It just seems so easy for something to go wrong with the sub at those pressures
James Cameron doesn't do the things James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does the things James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.
Every time I see that episode on, I have to say it with him out loud.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never really got the point of that episode. Were they making fun of JC for trying to find the lowest of the low, or were they praising him for trying to raise an extremely low bar?
That's inaccurate. It is the Deepest known point. Since only approximately 5% of the world's seafloor has been mapped,its' highly likely that there is a deeper point. Source (There's better sources if you want)
I'll concede that it's the Deepest known point, not definitively the deepest point.
That said, you're taking valid information, (that only 5% of the of the world's seafloor has been mapped in detail,) and using it to come to a faulty conclusion, (that it's highly likely that there's a deeper point).
That conclusion might be supported if ocean deep points were in any way randomly distributed, however they're not. The fact is that the vast majority of the ocean floor hasn't been charted in detail because it is--according to the available data--geologically less interesting.
The Marianas Trench is as deep as it is because it's a massive subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is being pushed down under another. It is a massive geological feature, which is why it was discovered fairly early.
According to the source I could find satellite surveys can give a horizontal resolution of 10-15 km. So for a deeper feature to be found it'd have to be significantly less than that wide while being more than 11 km deep.
Now it's certainly possible that there is an undersea feature out there that's deeper than the Marianas Trench, while also being small enough not to show up on the satellite maps. However, given our current understanding of geology, such a feature would not be expected. So while it's certainly possible that there's a deeper point, it's not highly likely.
Tundru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that just the deepest known point in the ocean? For all we know there could be way deeper areas.
Well the bottom isnt going to be sheer rock and easy to define. The bottom is silt mud and detritus. You can get as low as you can in water. But the mud is impossible
We did go to the deepest part of our oceans (Mariana Trench) multiple times but yes, we know very little or nothing about the creatures living in the depths of our oceans. We know more about our moon than our deep oceans.
Nurum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though to be fair I would imagine that we actually have more actual photos and have observed more surface area of the moon than we have of the marianas trench.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have barely begun to explore the ocean. Imagine trying to map the world from a hot air balloon with a flashlight. That's what exploring the ocean is like. There is sooooooo much we have never seen.
Like physically, or just remote controlled submersibles? Because I was always under the impression people haven't been down to the deepest parts of the ocean, We've just sent remote controlled devices down there.
Its mainly unexplored and that's what gives you the willies - the fear of the unknown is fucking primordial.
Dasbaus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weird part looking St those fish is thinking how long have they been there? They look jurassic but not freakishly huge, is it possible they are a breed that existed thousands of years ago, or maybe a cross breed?
Os it they still exist because we have never gone to fish for them or for how many years never even knew of their existence other than a fisherman legend every so often? Of this is anyway real, what else is lurking down there? There's the legend of a loc Ness monsta roaming around, but how can we assume there isn't something of that nature wandering around? Is it possible such a creature could have been in hibernation, and trapped by tremendous amount of force as water overcame it? Is it theroedicly possible that a godzilla could in fact exist in an area of the ocean we have yet to explore?
What if there is a different civilization of people or aliens there, who may or may not affect the planet with their decisions? Maybe it possible they live below us never knowing what is beyond their dark dense sky of water
And how damn possible is it bikini bottom is down there, and mofo spongebobby sweatpants (look him up on youtube) is down there flipping burgers for $. 75 an hour.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dasbaus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whats crazy to me is, the only reason we know of the dinosaurs is fossil remains, the seas seems to be way better at recycling things. How the hell do we know what the largest squid could of been?
Dasbaus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could have been? It's probably still down there waiting for someone to trip on its turf so it can start a gang war.
Can you imagine if chitulu was real and came to fuck some boats up? That wouldn't be a fun day, and the Internet would explode.
Humans can make themselves invulnerable to certain attacks by injecting themselves with the corpses of their enemies. Being humans, they converted this defensive technology into an offensive weapon, which they have used for multiple acts of genocide. For example, one enemy had the ability to fly through the air, pass with perfect invisibility among humans, and reach every corner of the planet. It tortured and killed a third of the humans it touched, and it outnumbered the humans a hundred trillion to one. Humans employing the corpse-injection method slaughtered the entire species, down to the last individual. Other enemies have been driven to the edge of extinction and are expected to succumb before the human onslaught in the near future.
Most of the humans who undertake this ritual are children. Afterward, as a reward, they get a small piece of candy on a stick.
We literally wiped an entire species off the surface of the earth
TimS194 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 04:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We literally wipe entire species off the surface of the earth regularly, without even meaning to. Just because we like how they look or taste dead, or want their space and don't care enough to not kill 'em in the process.
ACAFWD ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 06:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but driving a species to extinction is easy, we do it constantly. Driving a contagion that thrives on humans (which there are a lot of) to extinction is rather hard.
Imagine if all the antelope in the world decided they were fed up with lions, developed specialized lion-killing tactics, and systematically murdered lions to extinction.
There's something extra-metal about genociding your predator.
That's what you think. That's what they want us to think. Just wait until Black Friday. When this new strain of smallpox makes a comeback. It's going to be on every bank note, and spread faster than anyone could imagine. It's only a matter of time.
When the city falls, we will rise.
.........and I gave myself a boner. I can't wait for Monday......
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:16 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have been wiping species off the face of the earth ever since we started walking on two feet.
Wonder what happened to giant mammals and shit? We killed them all. Their extinction in certain places coincides with the arrival of men to those places.
[deleted] ยท 155 points ยท Posted at 02:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took me a long time to realize you were talking about disease.
John was an average, ordinary businessman. He had a house, a loving wife and 3 kids. He was known for being enchanting and making friends at the snap of a finger. His social capabilities were through the roof. Then, the evil vaccine showed up. John tried to escape from the murderous doctor, tried to tell him that he found a study that absolutely proved vaccines have all poisons and toxins on earth inside them, but he still got injected with that lethal vaccine.
What of John now, you ask? Dead? No, worse. He became autistic! John now has aspergers and he needs to be watched 24/7! He can't even make friends with his charismatic charm anymore! Don't do vaccines, kids! Bush did 9/11! Dick Cheney made money off the Iraq War! The government is made of lizardpeople!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there an alien analysis story that someone wrote up about this? About how we can lose entire limbs and keep functioning an other things? I can access imgur.com at work but I can access i.imgur.com
They might not be corpses. Sometimes, we cull populations down to only their weakest members, inject those frail organisms alive into our bodies to make ourselves immune to them, which we do by allowing our much larger and more robust immune defenses to violently disassemble them.
The tv show Community had a sports mascot for it's Greendale college which is supposed to be unoffensive to every iirc. It turns out looking horrifying.
Just another example of Humans being irrational creatures. While able to comprehend that tree bark will hurt his fists when he punched the tree, this Human will punch it anyways, enduring the pain just to express their excitement.
Rr9s ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:55:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is off topic, but this video is a great example of why public domain is great. Here's all this public domain footage assembled together, combined with new work to create a new work of art that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Carry on
EFlagS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Public domain is absolutely amazing. I can't believe there's so much stuff just out there than anyone can use... completely free of charge!
vivvav ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only very recently learned about Tom Scott and he's fuckin' great.
These things got big a few years ago on 4chan's /tg/ board and were originally called "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" stories and consequently there's a /r/HFY subreddit with links to classic stories. Many of them are kind of poorly written and could use an editing pass but there are some gems. My personal favorite is about The Veil. Humans finally learn interstellar travel and excitedly explore the galaxy, only to find ruins and graveyards of ancient civilizations that apparently self-destructed. Finally, humans make contact (in a most spectacular way) that cements their place in the galaxy as the super badass scary race that somehow survived growing up in The Veil of Madness where every other sentient species eventually goes insane.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily with the senses part. Every species, obviously is a product of its environment. An animal that lives the dark won't rely on sight, but more on touch, smell, and hearing. Who knows what crazy environments a lifeform from another planet could live in? They may have an entirely different sense that we don't even know of.
Though lifeforms that live in the void of space my have no sense of hearing or smell, but may only have touch, taste, and possibly little use for visible light.
WhapXI ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just read the first couple of chapters of the Jenkins thing. It started out pretty cool, but became pretty preachy, pretty fast.
hcrld ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skip that. It's just a 2-3 chapter phase. Transitions back to action pretty fast. Ever wonder what 5 kilograms of antimatter would do to San Diego?
WhapXI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I burned on through it. The backtracking is real. In the car with Catholic reporter lady and despite him being rugged and sexy, he tuts and complains every time he looks at a church. Lmao. He went from Mary Sue to caricature in the course of a single chapter.
Yeah, Jenkins actually gets delegated to being a pretty minor character later on, and most people in the story unanimously agree he's kind of an asshole.
redworm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My problem with HFY is those series. I started with the humans don't make good pets then realized it's probably the worst way to read a story I've ever tried. If someone put that stuff in a pdf or epub I'd be happy as a pig in shit. I love hfy stories.
hcrld ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try reading on the mobile site. It's better, even on desktop. It auto-opens in New tab if you're reading off the recommended order, and is a plain white with no sidebar.
redworm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll give that a try but it's still in a browser. I like to be able to adjust font sizes and line width if I'm going to be reading for a few hours. I appreciate the link
If you google "Humanity Fuck Yeah" you'll get some fantastic stories that are written from the perspectives of alien species and their encounters with humans. It's pretty much the source material for all those pictures.
The craziest creepiest most terrifying thing about humans is the endurance. Humans can, and have, run non stop for more than a hundred kilometers. They have multiple biological mechanisms for heat dissipation from the body, even in conditions warmer than the body itself. They can go without nourishment or rest for extended periods of time.
They have a crazy fast healing factor, and superficial wounds become filled with tougher hardened tissue in a matter of days. Even broken bones, or torn soft tissues, heal in weeks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, the scariest thing about humans isn't even on there.
Anthropologists believe one of our main hunting methods was something called "pursuit predation-" we are incredible long distance travelers, and would often hunt by finding a pack of animals and just... following them. For days. Slowly walking after they until they all succumbed to exhaustion from trying to stay ahead of us and gave up, and we got our tasty meal.
You know that scene in every horror movie where the main character is running away, but the monster is never doing more than a brisk walk? But every time they turn around, the monster is only a few steps behind?
As far as I know, we are the only species that will torture members of our own species. Also, while other animals kill to survive, there are plenty of humans that kill just for fun.
Yeah I think a lot of people forget what they are capable of just as being a human being. For instance people are scared of dogs but a grown male could literally grab a dog's mouth and rip it off the top of its head if its survival instincts kicked in enough.
I really wish they would do a national Geographic video about how deadly humans can be. Even without guns or knives (only simple tools made by hand) humans can be very deadly when not fat and unathletic from lethargy.
We don't do braces because we have too many teeth, we have just enough teeth but a softer diet, which causes our jaws to grow in too small for the amount of teeth we have.
All joking aside this should be higher. Humans are hands down the scariest thing on this planet. I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find it.
Stuff like this has always been fascinating to me. What characteristics would we have compared to other beings? I imagine did like aliens maybe being theses cold logical beings who'd never do shutting unless the math turned out heavily in their favor, while humans are emotional and will take leaps of faith. Sometimes winning big, other times losing big.
Also, human bites are seriously dangerous. It's not strictly true but in essence, humans can be considered both venomous (our bites infect and will cause stone nasty wounds/kills you) and poisonous (eating humans is a bad idea. We contain a lot of heavy metals and other stuff that you don't want. There's diseases you'll get as well from eating humans).
Having to kill someone. I love shooting as a hobby. Everything about it(except the cost), from buying a new gun to modifying it to going to the shooting range. I've never met a person at the gun range that I didn't like; most of them are more than happy to help a new shooter or chat about the hobby. That said, I'm terrified of having to pull the trigger to take a life. I'll do it if I need to defend myself or someone else because fighting back(by hand or with a weapon) is an emotionless reflex for me, but I know that it would destroy me afterward. I don't want to be the one to close the final chapter of someones book, even if it's a shitty story.
c3h8pro ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:37:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all seriousness, you get used to it. I went to Vietnam a lean mean killing machine, the USMC got their moneys worth. I never dehumanized the VC or the NVA or however you want to put it, they were men just like us fighting a war they didn't want either based on some fools politics Im sure they didn't understand fully either. You do however realize really quick that your the one who dies if you don't pull the trigger. That split second of realism is why I'm alive. I still see every iron sight picture I ever took and I never forget the "thuk" noise the rounds made on a torso, but you do be come able to live with it. Your soul accepts and your mind forgives you but your heart never lets you forget.
Buddy of mine was driving in the middle of the night. When he was going up a hill, a whimsical sink hole devoured his car. He said that he just jumped out of his car and crawled out of the hole. Then within a few moments the hole filled up with water.
About a couple of months ago (during all the rain we got in the south) a car fell into a creek when bridge gave way. The driver drowned but passenger survived. They were heading home after a party. Now I have a slight fear of bridges. Not the big ones but the small ones that never get serviced.
A lot of the big ones desperately need service too. There's some pretty scary statistics out there about the bridges in the US which I don't want to go find since I need to drive across one tomorrow.
Every day, to and from work, I cross a rather sizable bridge. I think about it at least once a week "When was the last time they checked this thing out? Are there unnoticed stress fractures?"
I definitely get nervous when traffic is backed up and I have to sit on the bridge for a while; all that weight.
I'm willing to bet your friends just don't properly grasp the concept. Kind of like when you're a kid and have no fear of jumping from a 10 foot wall because you have a bin bag as a parachute. sink holes should be terrifying to any rational person.
I don't think so. I think any rational person would look at the number of occurrences, combined with the fact that there is really fuckall you can do about it and choose not to let it occupy your fears.
Install ground-penetrating radar in your house and check it obsessively for signs of a cavity forming. See how we went pretty much instantly from 'easy and sensible' to 'impractical and paranoid'?
kiddo51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the ground penetrating radar is something you could do if you really, really, wanted it. And it would in fact improve your odds of avoiding a sink hole, if only by a tiny bit. You could also drill test wells around your property and check them periodically by dropping a camera and lights down.
Any cracked pipe in the ground can cause a sinkhole, I've seen a few of these. Rainwater soaks into the ground, maybe it finds the crack in the pipe and starts to flow in. The flow is slow at first, but it starts to carry little bits of dirt with it. No one knows this is happening, but it is constant, persistent. Eventually, enough earth has been eroded into the pipe that there is a cavity under the ground, barely stable, just waiting for some weight to cause the collapse. Maybe that weight comes from snow, and we wake up to see a big hole. Maybe that weight is you. Nom. Nom. Nom.
kiddo51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... avoid cracked pipes underground?
1UpBox ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:52:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you start crying if you walk into a kitchen or bathroom?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:40 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I don't shower
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently after the water all drained away, a quite extensive cave was found. Unfortunately, before much exploring was done, it was cemented shut by the state.
Hahaha. I live in ozark missouri and the sinks here are everywhere. We have a 5 acre hobby farm with a giant sink hole in our southern paddock. I've always worried about a huge hole opening on my property, but I'm more worried for the horses we have that run over it.
These are so fucking scary. There was a guy who had one open up in his bedroom!! His brother was also in the house and was fine. Tried to save him but the brother was too far down the hole!! How is this even possible!! And now I'm freaked out again.
I'm convinced one will open at the bottom of my street. No idea how they work, but there's a pothole that keeps reappearing after it is filled, and there is a lot of water that seeps from under some houses along the two hills that connect at that point
nl1004 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed! I get them pretty regularly due to a traumatic brain injury. I thought they were migraines until I explained it to someone. They aren't called "suicide headaches" for no reason.
People just don't know. There have only been three times in my life that I've been in the hospital screaming my lungs out. Once was when I was born, another was a kidney stone, and cluster headaches make the third.
They eventually stopped for me and that's great because I could not live with that for the rest of my life.
Coul33t ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:08:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kidney stone is a fucking killer. First time I vomited because of the pain. Cluster headache is ... Well, worse. That's awful.
Coul33t ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have occular migraine. I thought I was very unlucky, and it was the worst kind of headache possible, until I learnt about cluster headaches ... Now, I still complain when I have one (they're very intense), but I thank whoever is in charge of the Universe that I don't have cluster headaches. Stay strong.
When i was about 13 my dad busted me over the head with a piece of metal pipe and now i have chronic cluster headaches. Im 18 now and get them about 9 times a week every few months. Just living day to day is difficult but it's just a fact of life for me now.
kilslef ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can confirm. Although my episodes are only seasonal now.
I had a wisdom tooth extraction that started it back in 2001.
A few weeks after the extraction, i got clusters.
They happen now, every september for 3 weeks.
My typical pain and onset description. They happen at the same time, every day.
The trigger, is a smell, taste, sight , or a noise. I know this because the first symptom ocurrs right after the trigger.
My left eye will pulse a bit and get watery. I know i have about 5 minutes before the pain. Next my nose will run a bit and i'll feel a pressuring sensation (not pain). Next my mouth will get watery. (all this on the left side of my face.
My jaw will tense a bit and then bam. THe entire left side of my face feels like someone is shooting it. Not shot it, it's a constant pain. it feels like the left side of my face is trying to push something out of it that doesn't have enough room to be in there.
Unlike migraines, when i get my cluster. I must move. I will bang my head against things, pinch myself. Ultimately as i've dealt with these going on 10 years, i just bare it. They last exactly 35 minutes to the second almost. Now i just get up and walk until the time is over.
Once i get the first one, i usually cry a bit because i know what the next 3 weeks will be like. Every year, i hope that this is the year they stop.
THe initial onset back in the early 2000's , i asked my doctor to kill me multiple times.
There is no medication that worked for me. Oxygen therapy, immitrex shots, beta blockers. Nothing. I wish i could put into words the pain that i experience with them. Once the headache leaves, i feel like i ran a marathon. My body and mind is so exhausted that all i can do is lay down. I try to schedule my vacations from work around that time lol. Adjusting to life for the 3 weeks sucks.
If you have any questions about clusters, or if you possibly have them, or anything feel free to message me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh yeah, i'm lucky that mine are on the less painful side for cluster headaches. therefore only debilitating, and not annihilating. i can't imagine what it'd feel like if i were less lucky.
The fact that we are all going to die one day and this is the only life we will ever have (according to science anyway). If you fuck up, that's it. You don't get another chance. If you miss out on something you may never get to try again. You probably won't get to see the entire world in person, taste every type of food, see every movie, or find out if you could have been happier with someone else. That scares me more than anything.
And this is what keeps me up at night. Another terrifying thought is you'll never know if it's the last time you'll see someone/visit a place/do something.
Yeah, I always tell my parents and friends I love them when saying goodbye. No matter what happens, at least they know how important they are to me.
apm54 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do the same and I feel like people think I overuse it, but I lost a friend recently and it makes me happy to know that he knew how much he meant to me.
lzrae ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always say I love you. I always think that may be the last time I see them. I'm really happy I said it to my stepdad on the phone that last time.
I literally never tell anyone in my family I love them, like, I just can't do it, I don't feel it, not even when they were on their deathbed it just feels like a lie... I know it's pretty terrible but I have a hard time saying "love" for some reason... even to my closest family... I don't really feel guilty about it, it just feels like I should tell my family I love them... but I can't...
I just can't...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do what you want to do. Do it wisely. Say what you want to say. Say it wisely. Don't let these opportunities go to waste. Don't think you'll say these things later. Don't think you'll see that special person another time. Make every second count.
oh man, I can't fit in my favorite dress anymore. Don't they cut the back off or something?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do now.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:59:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? It makes me feel relieved. Like yeah I can fuck up really bad but at least it won't really matter. I'm gonna die and so are you, so why do you care so much? It almost makes me feel a little better
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:22:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the big lebowski about an optimistic nihilist? I've always considered myself that but haven't seen the movie. Maybe I would like it.
idsimon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's any comfort, life is completely meaningless and nothing you do or don't do matters. In fact, only a handful of us (if any!) will even be remembered in a couple hundred years. Just do what makes you happy. You're playing with house money. Stakes are low. Any mistake you make is no biggie because the game has no point.
Cool. Unfortunately for me, I find it scary as hell!
Andrado ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's a good thing. If you know you'll never experience something, or see a person or place again, it would change your perception in that last encounter, to the point that you're no longer enjoying the experience but thinking about the situation. If it's a person, place, or activity I love, I would much rather have my last experience be just like the rest, because it was in that state that I found enjoyment.
SosX ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:07:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, it's so awesome to try all you can and knowing every experience is unique. Millions would love to live your life, just enjoy it. At least you ain't a kid in a fucked up place in Africa, have a fucking go at life man, it's fantastic out here.
The thing about dying is that you don't get to experience it. We fear the dark because bad things can come out of it and harm us. We fear spiders because they can harm us. We fear not doing well because we could flunk out or get fired and thus experience a bad outcome.
You will never perceive death or suffer from it. You weren't around to be sad and suffer for the first 13 billion years of time, and you won't start when you're dead. Thus, fearing death isn't logical.
Plus, if you believe in a religion that states it, you'll be fine anyway.
Roruman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Every time my boyfriend leaves I have to tell him to drive safe. I worry that the one time I forget will be the time something happens, and I don't know. It isn't very logical, but I guess fear isn't always logical.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never know. At 16 I lost four teeth in a car accident just driving around the block. I didn't have my seat belt on and smashed my mouth on the steering wheel. I didn't think I needed the seat belt since I was taking such a short trip. If someone had told me to drive safe, maybe it would have given me pause enough to put my seat belt on. Probably not because I was 16 and dumb as fuck, but I might have.
I'm sorry about your accident, but thanks for your story! I'm glad I always make sure to say it, I hope it makes him even a little more conscious when he drives.
Keeps me up at night sometimes too. Only thing that does and it causes me great anxiety at times. It's taken a while to calm down from it, but every so often... it hits.
The best way to stop it I found is to think about all the time I've spent with those I love and how I will continue to do so until the day I die.
When this stuff keeps you up at night, be aware that you won't be living your one life to the fullest if you're tired. There's no winning with this shit!
There is nothing wrong with this predicament, but I think only /u/poem_for_your_sprog can explain it best. Too bad he/she doesn't take requests.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the FlipSide, that's a good reason to live a life of little to no regrets. If you could die at this very moment, you might as well be doing something you enjoy.
You should look into stoic philosophy. It shouldn't keep you up at night, it should be bringing you into focus on every experience as though it may be your last. Life is beautiful, don't let it pass away being afraid of living.
Damn man. I feel so guilty right now. I should have gone to see a friend last weekend who was in the hospital and I made an excuse not to. He died today and now I won't get that opportunity. I'm so sad.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Because we do not know when we will die we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your life that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four of five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty and yet it all seems limitless"
I had a fight with my boyfriend the day before he was leaving on a cross-country bike trip, didn't say I love you because I was pissed he was leaving me (I was young). He died in Iowa.
In the five years since his death, I always say I love you when I say goodbye, either in person or on the phone, either after a fight or having beers. As I learned, you can be furiously upset with someone and still love them to pieces.
I like that though. On a smaller scale: my American family lives in Singapore, and every year I visit them I try to experience it like it's the last time. They could move back anytime, and my chances of seeing it again go way down. But I try to treat a lot of things that way.
Don't worry, as far as I understand it.... It is the same as going to sleep only you don't wake up.. Not even endless darkness... Because you are not observing anything. Just.... Nothing...
Just like sleep.. Well with that I'm going to sleep
Which is why you gotta go out with a bang. Three kids I went to high school with died recently. One drowned rafting, one was street racing super late at night and one died skiing in New Zealand. If I'm gonna die, I wanna be doing something fun as hell. Not in a bed in a hospital.
Read "Staring at the Sun" By Irvin D. Yalom. It's an existential psychology professor at Stanford who writes a book were he discusses anxiety of death and the feelings of regret or unfulfilled life and whatnot. It's also quite philosophical
So? I don't understand the fear. I can understand the disappointment of looking back and going, "man...woulda shoulda coulda..." because that sucks. But if you're terrified...fucking act like it. Do shit now so that you don't miss that opportunity. Take those risks to find out what you're made of now...cause if you get killed or die because of it, you won't have time for regret. You're dead.
But if you bitch out, and look back on it when you're 30 or 80 or whatever...you deserve to be terrified. You deserve regret.
Face your fears now and experience life. Know what it means to live...not to regret.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks of these things, shortly followed by that horrible hollow, cold feeling in your stomach... Thanks for the horrible feels
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:53:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jotmool ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:05:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get panic attacks, and I cope by breathing deeply and telling myself stories in my head.
But specifically about the "but we're all going to die" thing. Time is really weird and mysterious, so is consciousness. There's a really good chance of the multiverse, or time repeating, or time not really being linear. So many mysteries that I don't feel that existential dread as much anymore, because who knows. Maybe we can experience consciousness in many ways throughout time, maybe it never ends (not that there's an afterlife, but that we're always having our conscious experiences from life).
I spent most of my teenage years and childhood lying awake at night with mortal dread. But now, the more I think about it, the less I feel I have to dread. Death is scary, I don't want to die, I don't want my family to die, but the universe is so rich with mystery, I don't think there's a "void."
I get those too sometimes. I have no idea how normal people cope, but I just try to think of happy thoughts and close my eyes and hope I fall asleep quick.
The part that gets me is that you'll just cease to exist, like what the fuck will happen, and if the answer is nothing, do you just not have any consciousness?
Puqqz ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see this mentioned enough. I think about this every now and then, like what the fuck happens?
Honestly, it's impossible to imagine (obviously) but like what the fuck man, I'm so blown away by the fact that when you die, you're just dead like you can't possibly imagine not existing.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You ever had a problem with falling asleep? I mean the actual act itself. You ever wake up and not remember any dreams or what happened while you were asleep? If that didn't bother you, I'd say dying shouldn't either.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:57:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually that terrifies me
ulpisen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say dying shouldn't either.
eh, death shouldn't scare you, dying is horrifying
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:12:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kind of what I meant. There are some horrific ways to go, but once it's over its over.
ulpisen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's an interesting distinciton, dying is really sad, death is just nothing
It's the opposite. Dying doesn't scare me. It's temporary. Death is forever. Scares the shit out of me.
Puqqz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I almost always refer to when this comes up haha, read my mind perfectly. It's just crazy to think about though, just being like that forever..
Imagine the opposite though, having consciousness forever. Eternity is a long time, our minds have difficulty comprehending thousands of years, let alone infinite years.
No thanks! When I go, I want all the lights turned off.
From an external perspective it makes perfect sense, but it's really strange to think about. Probably why even a lot of atheists believe in some form of afterlife. Being an organic life form is weird, man.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
When we die, a dog, a tree, a star; do we all see the same fate? Conciousness or no conciousness? What differentiates us all. Or do all of our remains face the same fate, ash to ash dust to dust. No one will know until it's too late.
ulpisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one will know until it's too late.
not with that attitude
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"The dead know only one thing: that it is better to be alive."
-Full Metal Jacket
Puqqz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my bad. Just typed whatever came to my head at the moment.
iJeax ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 02:59:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I think there is only so much Science can prove. And realistically, no one knows unless you're dead. There could be an afterlife, there might not be, we don't know.
There's also the theory that the universe is a computer simulation. If so, backups are a thing.
iJeax ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't really have a belief, I'm kind of in the middle. Would that make me Agnostic? I just don't think humans really have the answer to what happens after death. I hope there is something, because if there is nothing, that would suck. And sure we wouldn't know we're dead, but thinking about it now sucks haha.
On the same lines there is just as little proof that there is nothing. Belief that death is the end would be just as irrational. It's really down to preference.
ulpisen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
except the evidence we do have points towards the brain being the source of our minds, and as the brain goes, so do the minds
Yes we do. The neurons in your head that interpret stuff and give you consciousness will be dead. You won't have anything to think with. It will be exactly like it was before you were born
If we are very lucky and technological and scientific progress is growing exponentially, I mean look at the last 20 years, we might get the chance to actually upload our mind
Does it bother you that the universe existed billion of years before you were born? Why should it bother you that it will exist billions of years after you die?
Does it bother you that this line is overused and still doesn't really mean anything?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Contrast is terrifying. Not existing for all of eternity is just like eating nothing but oatmeal. Existence is like eating steak. You will be terrified of the fact that after you're time you'll never be able to experience the variety of life. Terrifying.
Hey, remember the year that you were born? Death is like all the time before that from the beginning of time. That's the funny thing. You've already been dead for billions of years.
Almost creepier than that - albeit in the same vein - is that whatever does occur, occurs for eternity. This absolutely unfathomable amount of time. Not even another lifetime, or a million years, but eternity.
If we legitimately do just cease to exist - which is my belief as well, though that's a whole different story - then that's probably the least 'scary' option.
If there's a hell? You're there forever. If there's a heaven? You're there forever. Paradise forever is a lovely thought and all, but the point is: anything forever is pretty horrifying, even the best case scenario. And if there's reincarnation? You're reincarnating forever. With that logic, wouldn't the same 'souls' or 'beings' perpetually be on Earth? All the same conflicting personalities and viewpoints? At least, this is my limited understanding of various religions. I don't know of any where their beliefs of what happen post-death changes over time (excluding purgatory, which would just delay that inevitability), but could be wrong.
And if you think that's scary now, imagine having that little revelation around age 6, because I was clearly a normal child.
...Also, hit a wrong key while typing and 'eternity' immediately autocorrected to 'enter butt'. It doesn't really add anything to my point, but I thought it was noteworthy nonetheless.
Einstein said this about the death of a family friend:
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
It's actually almost a relief to me that I probably won't have anyone left when I die. My younger sister died 5 years ago, so I've become an only child, and I don't speak to the majority of my extended family because they're a bunch of racist, homophobic asshats. I always worried that my death would be sad or inconvenient for my family, but I suspect I'll be the last one left.
Nothingness implies a lack of presence. Sweet oblivion it is. You can objectively claim you were doing something else but if you can't recall it - you aren't missing it, like all the years of your life you spend sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After you die, you won't worry about it. You cease to exist.
utried_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's not like you're going to be sitting there, dead, thinking about them and wondering. Your consciousness is completely gone. So "not knowing" doesn't even really make sense in this context.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and if you have kids late in life, you'll probably never meet your grandchildren. I'm 39 and have a 1 year old son, and that one just hit me the other day.
thardoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the good news is that you'll never know anything again, so it's not like you will worry about it.
On the bright side, once it happens you'll be indifferent to all that stuff.
Bremic ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I tell people, especially when overtly religious people ask me "aren't you worried what happens to you after you die?"
My response is normally "So what do you remember about the year before you were born?" Of course they respond "nothing". I ask them "Was it good to you? Was it comfortable? Was it painful? Did you feel that you were missing out on something?" They either respond "Of course not I wasn't born yet" or "But I was living another life at that point and don't remember it now."
Either way works because the response is "I am not worried about death, because it will be like that." Either I will not be aware of it because I won't be there. Or I will be in another life and don't remember this one so I won't care (I don't believe this).
Luxray ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being aware of it is what gets me. I don't want to cease to exist.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're immortal, man! When you die, either your conscience will somehow carry on or you'll cease to exist, but if you do you won't know it, so don't worry too much about it.
Once it happens, it won't matter. All we can do is enjoy life now and not worry about after we die. I really don't want to talk about religion on Reddit but that's what a lot of Christians don't understand. The afterlife is not what this is all about. This is what this is all about. Live life today; Don't worry about tomorrow.
Indeed, how if it had been that sperm instead of this sperm, you wouldn't exist. Your parents would still have had a child, may have given it the same name, fostering an environment that produced a similar personality, making the same friends, living a similar life...but it would be a different person. It wouldn't be "you but you'd think differently so you wouldn't realize it," it would be a different person, and you just...wouldn't get the chance. Ever.
โWe are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?โ ~ Richard Dawkins
But we're also a different person every second, right? According to the constant movement of ourselves, be it the current state of the brain, muscles, metabolism or each particle simply existing- no matter how "plastic" we are. Then I guess the lack of inherit meaning of everything and us never objectively being an individual in the first place comes in, though.
See now, to me, what I want at least somewhat answered in my life is...
How in the fuck is consciousness assigned?
As in, the small ant that lives 3 months and that is it, how is it their consciousness in that being and not you? It seems unfair that we as humans can have 100+ year lives, and an ant only months.
Especially if that is if that is it.
I am grounded in science, and am not trying to get into a spiritual/philosophical debate, but it does make me consider consciousness as something that can be created again in another medium.
I just want to know how everything shakes out, what leads to our predetermination to be humans, and for the predetermanation to be an ant?
Would love for this to be answered in my life time.
I don't know that it would necessarily be assigned but I think it could be just random. I think consciousness is just another chance occurrence. A random mixture of DNA that creates a brain that happens to come into being. I don't think it's fair that an ant would have a brief conscious span but fairness may not be a reason that it is planned. Some humans have extremely short life spans or periods of consciousness as well but I don't know that there is a reason or plan for that. Just talking, not trying to necessarily imply anything. I'm fascinated by this topic.
Yeah, fairness to me in the grand scope is pretty much meaningless, there isnt a higher being keeping tabs or anything in my mind, more of that it introduces a variable that I believe needs to now be accounted for. Not being able to wrap my head around it really makes me re-evaluate the topic.
Like, I am almost positive there is other life out there, are we in that same random pool of opportunity too? Could it have been just as likely that we were another form of life 15 billion light years away? Or are we exclusively of this earth\solar system\galaxy?
It definitely makes me consider that there is an opportunity to have consciousness again.
Maybe it is that you decompose, earth is destroyed, but billions of years down the road earth collides to form another life forming planet (just as an example, this would be incredibly rare) and part of your dna that decomposed is retained, and only part of that chain needs to be there to be assimilated into another new living being. That is my non-scientific theory I am running with right now, really the only way I can settle the topic for myself.
Kalayo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From a Tedtalks I listened to a few days ago.. Some lady made the claim that it was one in 400 Trillion.
That's arguable. You are presuming that you could only be meaningfully "you" with your exact dna. But is that really true? This is an assumption. One that is harder to support than it sounds like once people move past using dictionary definitions and thinking they solve philosophical issues.
I just don't think it would be me. Had a different sperm won, it would be a different consciousness. I would never be conscious. Maybe that person would look similar to me and obviously would be raised similar to how I was but it would be a different person. I would never exist.
I grew up in a religious family and was told I could live forever and be happy with my family or be punished forever. I used to worry about what my decisions meant to this "forever." And then over time I became an atheist. I wasn't sure if I thought everything stopped after death. But, after a while the thought of it has become comforting to me. I don't have to go on for forever! I can just stop. I can rest. I can be done. I can let go. And someday maybe my atoms will become part of another star. It's hard to explain. I'm just able to find it a relief in a way.
I agree. The thought of being conscious forever always made me really nervous and I also felt a lot of relief when I didn't believe that anymore.
Tundru ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least once you die that's it...you won't even know you're dead or even existed. Wait...that's not helpful at all.
TNUGS ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:12:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find it comforting. it's the ultimate indifference.
5510 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So unless you are super religious, you should help bring attention to / donate money to anti-aging research (like SENS). Of course even if we "cure" that, in your current form you have to worry about the sun exploding or getting hit by a bus, but it's a critical first step.
We're just a generation or two away from the immortality that comes with uploading memories and personalities onto drives and/or transferring to some sort of body. Mark my words. We just missed it, on the grand scale of things. Assuming we don't nuke ourselves first.
5510 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:40:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming there's not teleporter death type issue, yes. Although that still leaves you with a potentially indefinite lifespan, but some other challenges to gain immortality.
There's something about that though. If you upload your consciousness and think it meaningfully counts as "you" it means you think your mental data matters more than your body. If this is true, then some form of palingenesis exists by default so long as something somewhere in reality kicks into something sufficiently resembling your mental data. And hell, we live in a probably infinite universe and there's a mathematical formula for how close you can expect an exact doppleganger of yourself to exist in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, the way health care is advancing, we'll probably see it. It's been said that the first person who will love to 200 has already been born, so we might see it happen
Uploading memories and personalities doesnยดt make you personally immortal it just immortalizes your being. It still wonยดt necessarily be the same because your body influences a great deal of who you are.
In the first place though, you're only composed entirely of "your being". Two identical instances running at the same time obviously aren't the same thing, but when the conscious is meaningless, you only exist to feel happy and spread your meme
I guess that does depend more on your philosophy, though
Is that really a good idea? Over population is already enough of a problem
5510 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
(TLDR: just read it, this is super important, yet everyone ignores it)
I know you probably don't mean it in a bad way (and lots of people say it), but if you stop and think about it, that's an INCREDIBLY fucked up thing to say. Yes, overpopulation is a potential issue, but you have to address it by reducing births. I know that sounds dystopian, but the alternative is way MORE dystopian... literally worse than Hitler.
Try looking at it this way:
Imagine if some genius scientist tomorrow releases something into the atmosphere to permanently cure aging for all humans and their future children, forever. It's a fait acompli, he doesn't ask for input or permission, he just does it. So now NOT curing aging isn't an option.
At this point you only have two realistic options. Either cut way down on births... or systematically round up and kill "old" people (keep in mind nobody is physically old anymore). I mean shit like Logan's Run is supposed to be dystopian, not a good recommendation for social framework. I mean I strongly believe that intentionally going out of your way to not cure something (or even suppress a cure) is pretty similar to rounding people up and kill them... especially because the motivation would literally be "we need people to die."
Yeah, I understand people would be upset with incredibly strict laws to slow population growth, but what kind of alternative is it to kill off (either directly or indirectly) "old" people?
Or imagine if you want to have kids, but an evil genie curses you. He says that in order for you to have kids, you have to go find a healthy 26 year old and shoot them in the head. I think everybody would agree it would be SUPER fucked up if you went and shot a 26 year old in the head. So why is it not super fucked up for people to want "old" (though physically perfectly healthy) people to die to make room for their kids?
Shit, if two people REALLY want to have kids (well some small number of kids would still be needed, but outside of whatever lottery or process governs that), maybe they can choose to not be "cured" of aging. If there are X number of "spots" in the world, they can have TWO kids, and give those kids their spots and die (not immediately upon having the kids, but of aging eventually)."
But I don't plan on kids, and I sure as shit am not giving up MY spot, just so some selfish fuckers can have THREE kids!!!
People also say it would be bad for "humanity." For one thing, I strongly disagree on their definition of humanity. Humanity isn't a faction in a giant game of Civ, it's not there just for the accomplishments of some faction, where the individual lives are meaningless. To me humanity is "all the humans currently alive." It can't be good for humanity for all humans to die preventable deaths! Humanity is the collection of individual humans, and it's obviously better for them to not age, and try and prevent all forms of death, unless they choose to do so.
But even if we go with the "Civ faction" definition of humanity that people use for some reason, curing aging is INCREDIBLY underrated. For one thing, people might give more of a shit about long term problems like environmental issues if they thought they might still be around in a couple hundred years.
But it's also important to think about the HUGE economic benefits. Current unemployment numbers are bullshit... the REAL unemployment is around 50%... because kids and old people don't work! Not only that, but a lot of people are involved with caring for kids and old people. And yet they are still consumers we currently support.
In a world with few kids and few old people, we could literally DOUBLE the number of workers without adding ANY new consumers. That's an insane increase to productivity, and that productivity isn't cancelled out by extra mouths to feed or supply basic needs to. Shit, we could cut everybody to working only 75% as much and still have 150% of the world's productivity.
Of course the eventual goal is a post scarcity economy where work is mostly optional, but talking in the shorter term, curing aging would have HUGE economic benefits.
Part of the problem is people are obsessed with status quo... or can't even imagine changing it.
But imagine a world where aging had never existed... people had never aged (beyond full maturity around 25 or whatever). Now imagine that in that world, some crazy alien meteor virus or something inflicted everybody with aging. HOLY SHIT can you imagine the insane amount of effort that would go into curing it? We would be putting in the maximum amount of money and resources possible without counterproductively crashing the economy by neglecting other important things like farming. It would be the kind of effort you would see if we learned a giant asteroid was going to crash into the Earth in 15 years unless we found a way to stop it. We're talking "asteroid priority" effort here... and yet people dont.
The thing is, dying is super scary. And for lots of human history, dying from aging was completely unavoidable. Shit, it may still be unavoidable for us alive today, but it's at least realistic to think there's a chance. Well when it's totally unavailable, the only way to find peace is to try and rationalize it away. Either religion, or focus on living through your children, or spouting poetic bullshit about how "death gives life meaning." Or "every good movie needs an ending" (terrible analogy, death is more like the movie theater burning down so you can't watch ANY more movies).
From HPMOR:
"Then look within the part of yourself that flees not from death but from the fear of death, that finds that fear so unbearable that it will embrace Death as a friend and cozen up to it, try to become one with the night so that it can think itself master of the abyss.
Also, people just like to rationalize poetic nonsense in general. Also form HPMOR:
"Uh huh," Harry said. "See, there's this little thing called cognitive dissonance, or in plainer English, sour grapes. If people were hit on the heads with truncheons once a month, and no one could do anything about it, pretty soon there'd be all sorts of philosophers, pretending to be wise as you put it, who found all sorts of amazing benefits to being hit on the head with a truncheon once a month. Like, it makes you tougher, or it makes you happier on the days when you're not getting hit with a truncheon. But if you went up to someone who wasn't getting hit, and you asked them if they wanted to start, in exchange for those amazing benefits, they'd say no. And if you didn't have to die, if you came from somewhere that no one had ever even heard of death, and I suggested to you that it would be an amazing wonderful great idea for people to get wrinkled and old and eventually cease to exist, why, you'd have me hauled right off to a lunatic asylum! So why would anyone possibly think any thought so silly as that death is a good thing? Because you're afraid of it, because you don't really want to die, and that thought hurts so much inside you that you have to rationalize it away, do something to numb the pain, so you won't have to think about it -"
And if possible Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (yes, really) (really long): http://hpmor.com/
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's nothing wrong with old people dying. That's what old people do. Death is necessary, it is a part of the cycle of our universe. The universe is one giant cycle. Nothing lasts forever. There is no need to stop death. Live your life, let the next generation enjoy theirs, and their children too. Our mortality is what gives us purpose.
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Uh huh," Harry said. "See, there's this little thing called cognitive dissonance, or in plainer English, sour grapes. If people were hit on the heads with truncheons once a month, and no one could do anything about it, pretty soon there'd be all sorts of philosophers, pretending to be wise as you put it, who found all sorts of amazing benefits to being hit on the head with a truncheon once a month. Like, it makes you tougher, or it makes you happier on the days when you're not getting hit with a truncheon. But if you went up to someone who wasn't getting hit, and you asked them if they wanted to start, in exchange for those amazing benefits, they'd say no. And if you didn't have to die, if you came from somewhere that no one had ever even heard of death, and I suggested to you that it would be an amazing wonderful great idea for people to get wrinkled and old and eventually cease to exist, why, you'd have me hauled right off to a lunatic asylum! So why would anyone possibly think any thought so silly as that death is a good thing? Because you're afraid of it, because you don't really want to die, and that thought hurts so much inside you that you have to rationalize it away, do something to numb the pain, so you won't have to think about it -"
I mean seriously, what are you even saying? You know who else dies? People with smallpox. People with malaria. People eaten by crocodiles. Men killed in battle, and their women raped and killed when the invading army overruns their city. People who starve to death, or die of cold.
I guess we shouldn't have tried to cure or reduce those things. And I guess we shouldn't try and cure caner... after all, people with cancer die, that's what people with cancer do!
And what is this critical need for death is this weird universal Gaia type thing you seem to be talking about?
And "our mortality is what gives us purpose?" Why does it give us purpose? I can enjoy plenty of things in my life without mortality. Besides, death ERASES PEOPLE'S EXISTENCE! What could remove "your purpose" more than REMOVING YOU ENTIRELY???
I mean once again, try and REALLY pretend you are coming from a word where aging didn't exist... and then aging came and infected everybody one day... would you seriously be like "wow, this is so awesome, it's totally necessary and life has so much purpose!"
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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5510 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:30:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh... of course. It's terrible. That's like telling a person who lives near the Nile and has to get water from it that "honestly, you just sound like a person afraid of crocodiles."
And almost everybody is afraid of death. Who gets cancer and goes "meh, whatever"? Almost nobody. I mean if somebody breaks into your house and holds you at gunpoint tomorrow, are you gonna be like "whatever, I'm indifferent, either shot me or don't"?
this only changes when it comes to trying to rationalize away the fear of inevitable death from aging. They fight in any way possible to avoid death when they think it's avoidable, but unavoidable death is so scary they have no option but to rationalize it away. Well, with courage they can learn with modern technology, it's not QUITE unavoidable anymore.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are being unreasonable. There is no point in imagining a world where death does not exist, and suddenly descends upon the world like a disease. We do not live in a such a world. You are also wrongly suggesting that almost everybody is afraid of death. I don't think that is true, because although many people are afraid of it, many others are not. Cancer is a different thing altogether. People don't want to die when they are twenty or even fifty, they want to make it to old age. Also what they fear is the pain and the suffering, both physical and emotional that diseases such as cancer bring to both the patient and those close to them. Untimely death, violent death, these are all different things from what i am talking about. There is nothing wrong with death that comes when you have lived a long, healthy and fulfilling life. Why would you even want to live for hundreds or thousands of years? This is impossible for you to understand, because this is all just a matter of perspective. If i am a hundred years old, i will not fear death, i will embrace it. And hopefully my children and their children can go on to enjoy life too.
5510 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There is no point in imagining a world where death does not exist, and suddenly descends upon the world like a disease. We do not live in a such a world.
Believe it or not, you aren't telling me something I don't already know there. That's why I intentionally used it as a HYPOTHETICAL. What's the point of even having a discussion when you are going to just brush aside incredibly major points of mine by saying that you (apparently) don't believe in hypotheticals at all... I mean, are you serious with this? Do you even logically discourse?
And I guarantee you that if I could return 80 year old people who were in very poor health back to being 25 again, they wouldn't be like "no, that's ok, I was planning on dying soon, it's my time so I'm going to kill myself now."
And you can talk a big game today about how you will embrace death at 100, but I bet if your aging was "cured," you wouldn't commit suicide once you were 100.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If my aging was cured i would probably kill myself not too long after hitting 100. Maybe i would make it to 150 before i literally just became bored of living. You are seriously underestimating how bored you will become given enough time.
5510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:47 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you would have that option. Personally, I don't want to live "forever," so much as I want to be alive tomorrow... every day. And don't foresee that changing in any remotely foreseeable timeframe. And I have trouble imagining that "boredom" would make me kill myself.
Though once again, even if we completely ignore extending the actual length of your life, there would still be massive quality of life benefits to not aging. Even if you still died at 90, do you want to spend your 80th birthday crippled and senile? Or be healthy, active, and attractive in the body of a 25 year old?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:19:29 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair points all around. All just a matter of perspective i guess.
I like to think that if someone had a gun on me I'd laugh. Depends on who else is in danger I suppose... kind of a reverse "The Stranger" scenario, just see what they do.
Why spend your life trying to find a way to not die when you can just live.
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Por que no los dos? I mean I know I talked about asteroid priority, but it's not something that you can productively consume every waking moment of your life with. Besides, that logic pretty much implies you shouldn't eat healthy, care about long term health risks, care about STDs, care about anything long term that stands in the way of hedonism in the moment. I mean, if we were successful, the time you lose will be repayed a shitload-fold.
And aging does SO MUCH to stand in the way of "just living." Fuck, for now forget extending lifespan... just think about health. Even if people still just dropped dead at the age of 90, imagine if you had your full health until. Would you rather be crippled and feeble and senile and stuff at 80? Or be totally healthy and active and still living your life to the fullest?
And because my goal is to "just live" forever. Or at least for the next 1,000 years, I don't anticipate my view changing, but longer than that get's pretty much completely impossible to forecast.
If we can upload our consciousness to a drive then we could just live in a virtual world.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to be "super religious" to believe in life after death? The fuck outta here with that shit
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:36:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to be super religious to believe it CONFIDENTLY enough to not bother trying to avoid a mortal death in this world. I mean there's also potential things like simulation hypothesis, but even then, why risk it?
And if somebody is totally convinced something better is on the other side, why not just kill themselves to get their faster? IMO killing yourself and "intentionally not prolonging your life" (unless it's like a heroic sacrifice thing) are pretty similar.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will mean nothing to be human once you stop existing.
I mean if the message is "because we endure," then we should PURSUE anti aging. Fuck evolution, fuck the incredibly harsh reality that's nature, fuck entropy, fuck anything that stands in the way of human spirit and invention. We are going to live on and if the universe thinks otherwise then fuck the universe, because we can overcome.
Well, good luck overcoming the heat death of our universe then. If you make it that long.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't universal heat death just a theory? Besides at that point I have to imagine humanity (or nu-humanity) will be able to travel between universes or something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to be better, but you cannot escape death...and nor should we truly want to. Being mortal gives us courage...makes us understand the value of life...the value of everything.
I'd take a limited life filled with love, ambition & a creative pursuit of happiness, over a near endless existence of simply being alive to just not die.
5510 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it takes courage to fight. Not to surrender and rationalize poetic bullshit. It's easy to mitigate the fear of death by pretending you think death is a good thing. But to consider death the worst thing in existence, and almost inevitable, and yet every day work in the margins of "almost" to try and defeat death? That's courage.
And it's easy to say that now. But if you are actually 90 and on your deathbed or some shit, you may think differently. Besides, I think I can find enjoyable shit to fill my life with forever.
And why are you suicidal? If you don't want to live, you want to die, and that means you are suicidal. Why do people (presumably including you) fight tooth and nail by any means possible to avoid death by ANY other means, and yet casually say "oh yeah, death by aging, no big deal."
Man, you are literally me. I've been thinking about this for years. I was thinking about this half an hour ago. I used to believe one hundred percent that when I die, I'd go to heaven, but recently I've been skeptical. All I can recommend is to live your life to the fullest, and hope that when we die, we move on to another great adventure, where we'll all meet each other again. That sounds a little Dumbledory I know, but I truly hope with all my heart that this isn't it. That this brief flicker on the radar of the universe isn't all we have. And that's really all we can do.
Tbh no one knows shit when it comes to why we are here and what happens after your die.. Not the scientists. Not the pope. Not Obama. Not your 2nd grade teacher. Not the guy who posted this. So don't lose hope that there's nothing after death.. because non of us know for certain.
tinfins ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:35:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the other hand, through absolute dumb fucking luck a finite group of atoms have spanned the reaches of time and space to unify in just such a way to create a planet that can foster multi-cellular life. And in what is the tiniest fraction of time that is the history of not only the universe but life itself, that planet has then in turn managed to not just spawn life that ultimately created you, but created you at such a stage of the complex development of living beings that you have the self-awareness to appreciate what it is to be alive for this brief moment and then bitch about it on the internet.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tldr I'm a selfish cunt for having the audacity to whine about my mortality :D
"I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics, that no energy in the universe is createdโฆ none is destroyed. That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle will go on to be a part of something else, maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova 10 billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing โฆ a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth, a monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are."
mng242 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find this Richard Dawkins quote helps a little with those thoughts:
"We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
I find it oddly comforting that (in my belief) there's no life after death because every single thing I worry about is absolutely pointless on the grand scale of time. It's motivational in a sense because you realize this is it, so you better make it good; there's no time to stress or worry about the small things, enjoy your time here!
Had this thought one day when I was driving into work, I was very stressed about a meeting I was about to have with my supervisor, he'd been riding my ass. I thought about the scale of it all, and that we're all brief bits of the universe being aware of itself as it flies through space on a moat of dust. Ten years ago that thought would have made me anxious and depressed, now it's an incredible relief.
mng242 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It definitely is relieving, but I think all people find it a scary revelation for awhile.
Your atoms were born in a star light years away until it exploded, your atoms flew through space for probably a billion years until they landed on earth. Your atoms probably went through dinosaur after dinosaur. They have probably been part of a countless number of plants. You probably won't be conscious for it, but your atoms will endure for eternity. To me, I can't think of anything that makes me feel more eternal and immortal.
Alternatively, that's one of the most beautiful things about our lives. The fact that we only get one chance, and that we probably won't be able to do everything or find out all the answers. Because it makes the things we do experience and the successes we do have all the more meaningful.
That's if you're lucky enough to live at least a moderately balanced life. What about all those people unlucky enough to be brought in to a life that doesn't have much happiness at all? For their sake I hope there's something more.
This threadchain is a rollercoaster of emotions, first OP talks about how death really sucks, then someone says nah it makes life beautiful, and now you just brought me down again.
It's a complicated issue. Truthfully, it can't just be simplified into a reddit post. But I'll do my best to give my perspective on it:
My life doesn't have much happiness to it right now. Lost a key source of financial support that's left my family in a situation where we might not be able to pay our power or internet bills, and my apartment complex generally doesn't look too kindly on folk who can't at least pay for the electricity. We're living on a small food budget (for a group of three, especially with one of us having impulse control problems that she's having a bad time getting under control) that may not last us the full month. My grandmother was recently diagnosed with colon cancer, and her chances of a long-term survival aren't exactly big -- which means I may have to, for the first time in my life, deal with a death in the family of someone I know, love and care for...
It's not pleasant. It's not happy. But today, a friend of my mother's offered to take her on a road trip to a place my mother's always wanted to go. I'm not even involved, but my mom's happy and so I've been feeling kind of good all day. Happiness... it's a fickle thing. But I think, no matter how small the doses, everyone's life has some in it, even if it's just a happiness that you're still breathing from time to time. I think that the only time you're NEVER going to find happiness, never going to find that 'something more' is when you stop looking for it.
Maybe I'm naive. Ignorant. I'm still basically just a kid, at 22. I'm a social shut-in only able to hold my own in a conversation behind a computer screen. Have had one real life friend in my entire goddamn life.
But in my mind, if I stop trying to find the good in things, then I may as well be dead. It's as simple as that. I don't think any human being can remain sane if they only look at the negatives, and I think anyone who says they can is a goddamn liar.
jfong86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was really well written. Thanks for sharing that.
I'm not that much older, so I can't deny that I might just be naive and ignorant too, but I can't think of much else I can do but appreciate what I do have, be good, and have faith that my life decisions will ultimately lead to a happy end.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:12:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really great post.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:58:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Grieve over a lost chance, and move on. It's not necessarily going to be easy, but life will go on if you're just willing to give it the opportunity to do so. Might take some time, but I think it will happen. Eventually.
I think if you are still here and breathing, you havent fucked up your only shot. Time moves forward and there's nothing you can do about the past, other than reflect and learn from it. Dont let old ghosts haunt you. Youll be dead before you know it, one way or another, so you might as well enjoy what you have.
I must say that I really hate all these happy go lucky kind of awnsers.
I never got a chance for a happy childhood. It took away my chance for a happy adult life. I can only hope for a happy seniorship.
I don't buy the "oh well. I can always catch the next train" kind of thinking.
When all ships have sailed for the dreams you had and all you can see infront of you is a giant field of fucking nothing untill the end there's no amount of greiving that can make up for a lost opportunity.
The only reason I even leave my bed is because there's still people I care about but time will take them away from me soon enough. After that...well. Who knows.
I'm just going to put this here -- I will respond to you. I've responded to nearly everyone, but I'm going to need some time to figure out how to put my thoughts into words here because I certainly don't wanna fuck this response up. Just don't want you to think I'm ignoring you. :P Check back.
I don't know what you've gone through, so I can't exactly respond with perfection here, but I'll do my best because I think you're in a place in your life right now where you need and deserve the best possible answer. If you're willing to go more in-depth, I'm willing to listen, whether in this thread or in a PM โ and equally, if you're not willing to share private stories with a stranger on the internet, that is one-hundred percent reasonable and I'll respect that.
One thing you said though, I can sympathize with. The whole 'giant field of nothing'. It's what I'm seeing right now. It's taken about three, maybe four weeks, for my entire fucking life to fall into pieces around me. What once was enough to get by suddenly turned into a situation where I might not have power, an internet connection or food for the better part of this month, and even after that ends, no actual visible way to guarantee it won't happen again nearly immediately. My sister is losing her job, my mother is losing what little mental stability she had in the first place from the stress, and my grandmother is dying.
What once was a comfortable life became a giant field of nothing, with no forseeable end except THE end.
But it hit me a couple of days ago. Shit may be falling apart, but what in the actual hell is sitting around and crying over it going to do? Nothing. Not a goddamn thing except make me fall deeper into that field of nothing, sink into that abyss until it fucking kills me.
I've been sitting on my ass and wasting away since high school, because anxiety issues have basically put me into a situation where going out and doing something with my life terrifies me. Having to deal with people and actual responsibility, where my actions might be effecting the people I love for the worst if I fuck up... I'm scared. I'm so fucking scared. I'm an inch away from a meltdown.
I don't know where my future is going, but I know where I'm going to try to lead it. Going to face my fear, find a part time job to help pay the bills. At the same time, I'm going to break down and try to find a way to get the financial aid to go to college. Try and pursue a career โ something like cyber security, I'm thinking, since computers have always kind of been my thing.
That giant field of nothing... I think it's there for everyone, at some point. Some point in your life where you can't see a future, only a void that you're completely certain is going to drag you down and eat you alive. But I think the only way to tell if there is a future, if there is another side of that giant field of fucking nothing, is if you try to cross it. You might not be able to pursue your dreams, yeah. You're DEFINITELY not going to find something that'll make it so that problems never plague you again, not going to find something that'll make it so that field of nothing won't ever rear its ugly head again.
But you can find something that's worth dealing with the shitstorm for. You talk about the people you care about and I can agree โ if it was just me, and not four and a half (the half being my adorable old cat) people that I could be out there trying to build a better future for, I might just get lost in that giant field of nothing forever. But it isn't just me. I have something worth dealing with the bad stuff for, so I'm going to fight tooth and fucking nail to make sure I don't get consumed. I may not live a perfect life, and I may not be able to make a perfect life for the people I love so much, but if I can spend the rest of my life trying, I think I'll be able to die one day and be happy.
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Got to admit that was seriously fucking therapeutic. Even if you don't listen to me here and still say I'm feeding you happy-go-lucky bullshit, thanks for giving me the opportunity to write this out. Hope this helps, and if it doesn't, hope you can find yourself something brighter on your own, or with the help of others.
as a 46 year old that had a heart attack last year. Is living a sham marriage because I love my kids, and have failed to achieve anything I really wanted to in life.. this is real, true terror.
The fact that we are all going to die one day and this is the only life we will ever have (according to science anyway). If you fuck up, that's it. You don't get another chance. If you miss out on something you may never get to try again. You probably won't get to see the entire world in person, taste every type of food, see every movie, or find out if you could have been happier with someone else. That scares me more than anything.
This scares me the most. Also the love of my life killed herself a year ago and this is what I told her all the time, but yet she still went through with it. I don't get it, and I never will. It sucks, and now all I really want to do is find out where she went.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This really gets me. Especially since it seems like we are all wrapped up with our careers, long commutes, money, bills, credit, insurance, family problems, this, that. All that stuff really stresses me out because it feels so god damn pressing and suffocating in the moment even though it's not in the big scheme of things. It makes me feel like a coward when I think about it because there's nothing really stopping me from dropping it all and Alexander Supertramping it and travelling the world and embracing the nihilism except the pressure of the hamster wheel and the fear of stepping off of it.
what really freaks me out is that so many major things in your life come down to computers algorithms or chance......like getting placed into a class where you might make no friends or meet your soulmate. i always think about how random people i met in classes or on clients at work had a big effect on me.
Try getting over a hundred comments of this discussion. I think I'm just going to go rock back and forth in the fetal position for a while and contemplate my own insignificance in the universe. Feel free to do the same.
Looking forward to something you enjoy doesn't make your life pointless. I too would hate not to live to see the new, well Captain America not Avengers, movie. I love a good redemption story and the Civil War storyline.
I think it is more logical to think that everyone will be able to experience consciousness again. I doubt there will ever be a shortage of living beings that are conscious. Once we die we will lose consciousness and never come back to that instance again, but somewhere else in time or space other cells will come together forming an organism that is self aware. There is no soul or anything deeper than the electrochemical processes in our brain that could pass on between instances of consciousness, but there are an infinite number of instances.
I've had similar thoughts, not necessarily 'missing out' on things, but just life in general.
I, as I like to call it, think myself crazy at night when I'm trying to sleep, which incendently causes me to have trouble sleeping. This is what my brain usually thinks about.
What is life?
Why am I here?
There's so much more I want to do, have, & achieve.
Death scares the sh*t out me. Well, mostly just my death. What if I die and that's it?
Sometimes I think I'd rather have that, I'd be completely fine with it, and let me have it now because life as I know is not worth living.
I've never met a girl I 'can't live without'. (Which the older I get the more I believe there's not one.) I don't know how many times I've thought that I will die alone.
What if you only get one shot, and one opportunity? I need capture it, and not let it slip. My palms are sweaty. Knees week armaaaaaaall right. I'm going to go take my sleep aid & think myself crazy until it kicks in.
Life, death, and everything in between, and after.
That's what scares me.
This is why, even though I gave up religion a long time ago, I've never been able to go fully atheist. I'm always going to believe something goes on/exists/happens after we die. I'm just not able to comprehend utter cessation of existence like that - it's like trying to wrap your brain around the true definition of zero, or infinity.
Even if I don't remember things before the age of 4 or so, they happened. I can't claim with confidence some form of energy as yet undiscovered perpetuates us before birth or after death. Though one thing is for sure - we are not the same person moment after moment, our minds and bodies are constantly changing. The me from seven years ago was literally another person compared to the me now.
Brain injuries and other such events can destroy memories, change how you think, feel, etc. Scary enough there, and it does lend credence to "negation" at death, but still.
My current favorite theory is that some time in the far, far distant future our ingenuity and technology leads us to find sources of almost limitless energy and perfect space/time detection or modeling. Which enabled humanity (or whatever passes for us then) to reconstitute every person from the past at the moment of their death in this future universe, so that all of humanity's history experiences their "ultimate age" together.
It's a weird idea but a fun one. I'm not sure if I believe in a Creator anymore or an Afterlife - but us creating ourselves? Forging our own paradise through our imagination and pursuit of technology?
I dunno. in my mind's eye, I can see it.
Oknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science tells me I can be recreated in a computer simulation and am probably typing this in a computer simulation now.
SCIENCE
ztsmart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:29:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just start over at your most recent save point
I really like that story. I actually sent it to another person who commented. Good stuff.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This used to scare me. But it doesn't anymore. I remember when I was really young my dad said after you hit 30 you don't really worry about death anymore. I didn't understand what he meant. But as someone who fought depression in waves since I was 17, I became fascinated with the subject of death, and the idea of dying. I immersed myself in books, philosophy, history, all the while trying to gain a proper perspective. It still terrified me. But I was young. It got me out of my comfort zone and I traveled, skied, and drank more than I could afford but I didn't just fall in line. But I was still terrified. I've since settled down. I'm in a different region than where I'm born and my life is fine. I still seek fun, work harder than I ever have, and think about death. But I used to be scared of death. I'm still a bit scared of dying, but not the permanence of death. I'll be 30 in a few months and I understand what my father meant. I still fight depression in waves but I know what it takes to pull myself out and when I notice I'm succeeding I can really reflect on how great life can be and how lucky we are. Even when I'm apathetic and morose. I guess my point is my dad was right, death isn't all that scary. Not nearly as scary as living can be, sometimes.
All the more reason to enjoy the things you do have instead of worrying about the things you will never have. There are people in the world who will never have your experiences too.
Dude, you just gotta...like, not dwell on it. Fuck it. Do what you want to do to the best of your ability, and try not to waste time thinking about something that is going to happen. Because it is going to happen. No matter what you do. Might as well not waste time on it.
a9s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Every day you are faced with countless decisions. A limited path through those decisions will lead to your life at its happiest and most fulfilled, whatever you may consider that to mean to you. Most of them will not. I can say with certainty that, whoever you are, you have not made all those decisions correctly, which blocks you off from even more critical decisions. And there's no way to know the "answers."
Acceptance is key in this case, because that's all you can do. Accept it and rationalize your life based on only having this short time to accomplish your goals and enjoy your existence. Thinking of that I should spend my time in a better way than commenting on reddit, it's easier said than done.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stop thinking about that. it's unhealthy and obsessive
I look at this from the complete opposite perspective. We're all incredibly lucky to even exist on this planet, at this point in history, for any amount of time.
Eh, I'm not too scared of dying. The flipside is that you won't realize you're dead. You just won't exist. If I don't exist then I'm probably not in a caring mood.
death is a beautiful thing, a sweet release from the pain and misery of this world
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As scary as it is, it's also at the same time oddly poetically relaxing (for me at least). I mean, everything's gotta end eventually. I honestly hate the idea of being immortal. It sounds great at first, but think about it, seeing all your love ones and everyone you know die around you, all the boring moments in life extended, and it would never end.
Yeah but contemplating a complete lack of existence in the meantime is unsettling.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So this is actually the correct answer. Damn it self consciousness.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to think that one day after you die, say within forty to fifty years, everyone that knows you will die and the thought and memories of you will be utterly gone forever from the universe. One day in the future, a day will come when it is the last time someone says your name or thinks about you.
My son's reaction depends on his mood. The other night I said "One . . . Twwoooooo . . ." and he just smiled at me. But once I got up, you'd have thought his world ended. "No, daddy! No! No, daddy!" All I did was make him sit in a high chair and you'd have thought he was being beaten.
I think its magic. I have a three year old and I use counting to three really sparingly so it has more impact. But when I do use it she will now jump and do exactly as she's told. Though I used it in front of two adult friends and they both said they instinctively started looking around to see what they had done wrong. I apparently have a good stern mummy voice.
anndor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You tell them. "You have until I count to three to stop doing that/pick up that mess/put your pants back on."
Counting down was always for fun, like if we were playing tag in the house. 3-2-1-GO! And then you better run your ass off because if mom catches you, you're gonna get tickled until you pee your pants.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GabeN's mom would count up to 2 episode 2.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:38:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So your mom is a "glass half-full" kind of lady?
ridris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't work on my kid, I try that all the time. The little smart-ass continues to count till 10 when I stop at 3.
Nah, man, nah. If you count up, you could go to four or five or six. If you count down there's only zero. Counting down, you know there's an end, it's way more serious.
My mom was merciful. She included two and a half and even sometimes two and three quarters. Oh. As a parent myself now, I just realized she gave the extended count because she didn't know what to do if she got to THREE!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's more that getting to 3 is a big effing hassle that involves timeouts and whatnot and that everyone will have a much better time of it if the kid complies.
I actually count down because I can start on 5 or 3 depending on how fast I want stuff to move. I usually count faster at first to create a sense of urgency. Then I'll slow down and throw in quarters and halves as long as reasonable progress is being made towards compliance.
Kalayo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoop some ass! Once your kids start learning that they face no consequences, the power of that countdown becomes compromised. Nothing wrong with a little spanking now and again. Keeps kids straight. Better than the modern day alternative of giving kids fucking iPads to pacify them, wherein they learn screaming and shouting is the way to go about to getting what they want.
Aparty ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would start counting to 5. At 3 I would start walking in their direction and they would take it seriously and listen. I was asked once "what happens when you get to 5?"
"I don't know, I've never made it that far"
My daughter told me recently that the tone of my voice when I was counting was scary enough, they didn't want to find out either. So yesterday I tried it with my 2 year old grandson while he was playing in the curtains.
"Get out of the curtains"
ignoring
"I said get out of the curtains"
ignoring
"ONE"
peeks face out and turns on the cute "two, three, a, b, seven" proud smile
As a mom, I was a "count upper", too. The funny thing was, there was no threat attached to it: All I ever said was "I better not get to 3" and, somehow, it worked! This further evolved to the point where all I had to say was "I'm going to start counting" or "You'd better not make me count"...and that worked, too.
The responses in this thread are cracking me up! I'll have to remember to ask my son (now 20) if he remembers what he thought might happen if I ever got to 3.
For my mom, it was when we heard our middle name. Scratch that, I knew the wooden spoon was coming when she was so pissed, she weren't through all my brothers' names first.
Serima ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a mom, the count down from three is basically a super power. That and just knowing when your child is doing something they're not supposed to. Not quite as cool as dad reflexes, but still handy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These days, you'll see the parent count down asymptotically.
"3,2,1 and a half, 1 and a quarter, 1 and one eighth, 1 and one sixteenth..." And the child knows that they will never get to 0 and continues to misbehave.
My mom used to use a plastic spoon. She never used it against me because I actually made an effort to behave, but she used it against my sister on a rare occasion and my brother every other day practically.
At one point, my brother was refusing to take the trash out because he was going to hang out with friends, and my mom started to get pissed and grabbed the spoon and threatened him with it if he didn't, and he took off running down the street. My mom chased after him and tripped, but while doing so she threw the spoon as hard as possible.
It went like 30 feet and hit him; when he got home he was trying to make my mom feel guilty for hitting him. It was hilarious.
I think my parents researched some advanced fucking parenting tactics before they had me. The count to 3 and the subsequent brick wall of 'you blew it' in response to whatever I wanted were like a shock collar to a 5 year old me.
I've stopped counting to three. When I want my kids to complete a simple task, (i.e. Putting on socks) and they decide to contemplate the universe and their place in it, I begin counting down from a reasonable number. They scramble and panic, because getting to one is a sure fire TIFU.
Almost every natural disasters/ event comes with some warning you can see beforehand. But sinkholes just kinda happen, and they don't seem to care too much about where. One minute you're waiting for your hot pocket to be done, the next you're looking at a giant hole in the street with your car in the bottom.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:46:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
At least they have enough research done on earthquakes to determine where the earthquake "hot spots" are in the world. Though earthquakes have definitely randomly hit spots before on the globe (and even then, they're not random according to Mother Nature, but to us, they are), we at least know enough that if you live in say, Atlantic Canada, the chances of you getting hit with an earthquake (and noticing it; past the level of tremors) are far lower than the chances of you getting hit with an earthquake if you live in Tokyo. Location makes a vast difference.
Sinkholes though. You park your car, your day's going swell, you step outside the office, and the road - and your car - is just poof, vanished into the earth, and probably a few unlucky pedestrians with it. Scary shit.
Its not how you die. Its the way you die. Earthquakes? You get crushed, die instantly. Worse case scenario, you can still breathe but maybe being crushed. Sinkhole? Well just imagine being sucked into a sink hole. It wouldn't be a slow death, but slow enough to be the scariest fucking thing in your life.
I'd say tornadoes are scarier. Even the largest sinkholes can only take out a handful of people. A big tornado can kill hundreds. If an eF5 were to go through KC, OKC, St. Louis, etc., it would cause billions of dollars worth of damage and, if we were very, very unlucky, it could plow through multiple major cities. There are a few cases of extremely long lived tornadoes that could easily go through a few major cities in Texas.
I live in a tornado zone and, strangely enough, they don't scare me. I probably should be scared of them but it just doesn't come up as a big fear. Probably because I've lived through so many tornado warnings/watches where nothing (luckily) happens so I'm like whatever about it.
Godfuckingdammit reminded me of the time I thought a tornado was going to hit my house... can confirm that's the most terrified I've ever been in my life.
While the fear factor is definitely valid, I think that sinkholes only occur with certain materials, particularly limestone. Not every area is built upon limestone.
This is accurate. Im from florida but im pretty familiar with natural disasters around the world. Ive been in earthquakes. Seen a volcano erupt. Been trapped in a elevator during a hurricane. Ive slept through a tornado that hit 1 block away from me. And after reading a story about a sinkhole death, this is probably the #1 most scariest death. A lot of people are misreading the question of OP saying what is just scary. But its actually different when its what is the most scariest death. Earthquake? You'll get crushed, instantly. Tornado? You'll get smacked or die from a drop, instantly. Hurricane? You'll drown or get smacked, instantly (and you have good warning). Volcano you'll burn and you have good warning. Sinkhole? You have absolutely 0 warning, you fall being crushed beneath the weight of sand and concrete blocks/wood/other materials (imagine it happening in your house) and when you let out scream for help, no body can help you, you get crushed slowly and die from suffocation at the same time. This is the scariest fucking thing ever. But people wouldn't understand if they have never been around sinkholes or have them in your area.
Edit: I apologize, op didnt ask for scariest death, but regardless I still think sinkholes are a mean force of nature and would be pretty scary if a person got sucked in one.
-eDgAR- ยท 1285 points ยท Posted at 00:04:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature. Just check out /r/NatureIsMetal. Here are some of the tops posts to give you an idea: Warning some are NSFL
Honestly felines are so fucking awesome. Look at the lioness trying to bring down that huge giraffe.
Like you know the bit in martial art movies where the antagonist is going to fucking DESTROY some minor good guy to prove how strong he is (like the top student at blah blah temple) and the minor good guy just goes in, no fear, all honour & ferocity, and pulls off some crazy shit even though he/she doesn't have a chance?
In fact fuck Kung Fu panda where is my large cat based kung fu trilogy?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not because of this, but holy shit lions are beautiful creatures.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:01:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straight up is the greatest thing the internet has ever shown me. I've been to the African wild a few times, and while sitting in a boat in the water near crocs is pretty breathtaking, and while running across fresh lion tracks is pretty panicky, nothing is as heart-stopping as waking up in the middle of the night hearing a pack of spotted hyenas fucking around right outside your tent. I will never forget those sounds as long as I live.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting thing about lions, the darker the mane the more testosterone the lion has in it. So the dominant lion usually has the darkest mane
lenaro ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's some really cool footage of them fighting each other in BBC Africa. Fuckers slam those giant-ass necks right into each other. That's why they've got horns. It's pretty intense.
Fun Giraffe fact: The things on top of their head are neither horns nor antlers. They're called ossicones (essentially horns) instead of keratin they're made of bone tissue
They remind me of Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks, linebacker for the Raiders, back in the day...
"He looks like he was welded together out of two-inch pipe. Unfortunately, when you collide with him, he feels like he was welded together out of two inch pipe."
Zebiusu ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 02:51:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gf used to work in an animal lab. Apparently this was a huge problem when trying to breed genetically modified mice for an autism study. If the mother got stressed she would eat the babies to conserve calories.
This is correct, but so is the comment you're replying to. When there is a scarcity of food or a stressful environment they eat the babies to conserve calories.
Some of the stuff on that sub is really amazing and shocking, particularly this image since it depicts something that we don't usually expect to happen. A lot of the posts though are just "hey look at this predator kill this prey animal like they do every day".
I'm not sure, but my guess is that it's about to eat it.
I would also guess that it didn't hunt it, but is just scavenging it. I don't know too much about foxes specifically, so I'm also kind of surprised that a red and arctic would come into contact very often. Perhaps this is a rare event at the northern extent of the red's range.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
quanjon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possibly, but apparently crocodiles (like most reptiles) are actually very skittish creatures. They look scary and their thrashing in water is intimidating, but they don't really go looking for fights if they can avoid it.
Hyenas should be called the king of the animals, because they fuck lions up real bad on a daily basis. They steal from lions a lot, and they get way larger than you would think. Lions are hyenas' bitches
Oh I was really worried about the giraffe vs lion one since giraffes are my favorite wild animal. But that made me so so happy. Look at those lanky legs go :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, everyone is talking about the crabs and I am sitting here going wait, conchs hunt shit? They can move? That's the most terrifying thing I learned out of this.
At first when I saw these titles I was excited. Fuck yeah nature, then I watched all the gifs and I'm not metal enough for this shit. I hate watching animals die, the only one that satisfied me was giraffe vs lion because that giraffe was a boss and the lion was probably okay.
I saw that exact battle over a tulip snail's shell in Marine Science class. It was loads of fun to watch. Not scary at all, mostly because I'm not likely to be a victim of a horse conch.
Aw man, the elephant killing that buffalo was really sad! I assumed it was going to be a justice-served type of deal, but that poor buffalo wasn't doing anything! And holy shot, does that elephant make that buffalo look small!
P.S. Are we sure that's a buffalo?
Damn that tag team was savage! Buffalo walking with it's kid one second, with birds on his back SUPER chill then BAM! Two freaking lions jump out and start attacking, and you can see the kid still hanging around in the last second of the gif :(
Watched all of these. Highlights include:
1.) that "apex predator's" face. Killing machine with a hilarious expression.
2.) I didn't see the stab, but the buffalo's neck was all broken towards the end. I think the elephant smashed its neck?
3.) Damn. Big buffalo died protecting the young. Saw the little buffalo coming back to check on things D:
4.) rekt
5.) Hilarious little battle. What lives these creatures live.
6.) Jacked af.
7.) Nice kicks.
8.) Saw this the other day I actually didn't wanna see it again haha.
NATURE IS METAL \m/
schlebb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Squirrel eating a baby squirrel isn't terribly uncommon. A lot of animals will resort to eating their young (or just generally killing them) if they feel the conditions they will be brought up in are bad. I am pretty sure that is not the exact thought process that happens, but my ex roomies dog before being adopted was a breeding dog that was being abused and she ate her entire litter.
Thanks now all I see is the entire screen filled up with some giant world ending sea monster. We need the Japanese to get some Jaegers Evangelions up and running.
He's probably not very nimble. Tie those in a knot and he's basically stuck.
Put on some light music and this fellow looks downright comical. Silly squid. Your tentacles are way too long for your body! No wonder your ancestors never crawled onto land.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:04:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought the carriers and the striders were really creepy. They're animals, and also machines.. Bioengineering made them monsters.. I wonder what they originally were. It's crazy to me.
I don't know why, but easily the most unsettling part about these things is the almost perfect right angle bend of all of it's tentacles near the body. Like, what the fuck? Is it trying to to praise Cthulu and Pythagoras at the same time?
I don't get what is so scary about it. Squid with a small head. Wouldn't want to meet it, but I don't want to meet a bear, lion etc. in the wild either.
Cancer. Every single one of my grandparents died of cancer. Everything to me now that I'm in my late 20's feels like cancer.
lf11 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 02:51:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the sensation of power turns off your ability to empathize. Give someone power and they literally turn into a sociopath. (Look up "psychology of power" if you want to learn about the fun experiments researchers are doing to show this.)
Our entire power structures are built without knowing the barest simple basics of what power actually does to the human mind.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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lf11 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the things about sociopathy is that people usually are not aware of their behavior or that it is generally negative in society. It is the same for people with power. They are unaware of their inability to empathize.
You see it everywhere. This business about politicians supporting NSA wiretapping until they realize they themselves were monitored, and then becoming staunch civil liberties defenders? That is because they are simply not capable of empathizing with others, and so cannot understand the sensation of surveillance until it is applied directly to them.
Health care policy is a great one. Congress actually exempted themselves from the ACA. But what kind of health care policy are you going to get from people who can't empathize with the sick and injured?
This, I think, is an unintentional side effect of the 2nd Amendment. If you are ruling of a nation of angry, armed rednecks, then you never quite have the sensation of total power. There's always that little check that if you piss off the wrong person, it's lights out. That puts a strange sort of limit on the "sensation" of power, forcing you to perhaps maintain a degree of empathy for others. It's just a theory, with absolutely no research behind it, but it is interesting to think about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This, I think, is an unintentional side effect of the 2nd Amendment. If you are ruling of a nation of angry, armed rednecks, then you never quite have the sensation of total power. There's always that little check that if you piss off the wrong person, it's lights out. That puts a strange sort of limit on the "sensation" of power, forcing you to perhaps maintain a degree of empathy for others. It's just a theory, with absolutely no research behind it, but it is interesting to think about.
Funny you'd say that, because it seems to me that the US is one of the 1st world countries where the citizens are the least protected by the people holding the power, with no minimum wage, no health care, laxist control of food quality, etc.
lf11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are also one of the oldest governments on the planet, and long overdue for a major revolution or at least a reworking of the structures of power. As such things go, the US has worked pretty well for a rather remarkably long stretch of time. It's time for a change-up, but I think the 2nd Amendment actually plays a part in our overall level of peace simply because it forces political players to keep their sense of power in check.
We do have a lot of face-to-face gun violence, but we've only had one significant war within our borders since the country was founded and that's pretty damn good. Wars run up body counts much faster than crime. Between multiple revolutions to contain out-of-control governments or a steady trickle of gun violence ... I'll take the gun violence.
How little people can tell about a person's mental health. When you break a leg or cough up blood people tell you to take a break from work, go to a doctor until you get better. When you get a mental disorder the onus is suddenly on you to explain why you can't function.
The thing is, if you have a broken bone, depending on what you work as, you can still do something. But let's say you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and now you're just a lazy freeloader who wants a break from work.
I have CFS and it fucking sucks in itself let alone with the varying levels of disapproval from everyone. I want to get a job and be normal, I'd love that because then I could have goals again and that would be fab. But when just walking for 10 minutes or so (like on an errand) leaves me on the verge of fainting and needing 16ish hours of sleep afterwards, that would be a bit difficult. One of the little things that really hurts is that I could rest all day to go and see my four year old cousin who I love very much and lives a couple of doors away, but I can only sit with her and play with dolls or like 5 minutes of hide and seek. She'll ask if we can play tag or if I can spin her around and I have to tell her no again and she thinks I must really not like playing with her or something. I guess its like being really old and frail but I'm 20 :(
I'm so sorry you have to deal with that. That must be so hard. I recently ended up with a condition that causes chronic pain. I'd really like to get a job, as well, I'm just not sure if I could really handle it or not. I'm going to try to take some classes and see how that goes. I can empathize with you a little, but of course can't fully understand what it's like for you. It really sucks to have people say something rude because you sleep more than they do. I won't sleep much for a while and then I'll sleep too much for a while. (I actually didn't sleep at all last night. Soon I'll end up sleeping like 16 hours.) Anyway, best of luck to you. You're a strong person.
One of my closest friends has chronic fatigue syndrome along with other kidney and stomach issues and some hemophilia sprinkled into the mix. Watching this friend miss their entire last year of school and all the important things that happened in that year sucked.
Or if you're just not in a good mental place and you're supposed to just get over it or something. A friend of mine got murdered because her ex just couldn't let her go and started hating her until he lost control. He was just a normal dude who had a rough childhood and apparently wasn't in control of his mental state, and that's how it turned out. It's hard to notice even for the one with issues, because we all live with out own reality being the norm. If you break a leg, you notice, but if you've grown up with hate or violence in your mind, how do you know that's an issue if that's your norm? How do you decide someone isn't mentally healthy when there isn't necessarily a condition you can categorize it to?
[deleted] ยท -59 points ยท Posted at 05:37:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of all the real problems in the world you pick fucking chronic fatigue syndrome.
Is this gonna be the next cool disorder that all the kids have? Depression is getting pretty played out, and ADHD is like sooo 2008...
i have ulcerative colitis and nobody can tell i'm sick
but it's not exactly socially acceptable for a young woman to explain that "no, i can't do anything because my colon is covered in bloody, mucousy ulcers, i'm lying in bed in pain, i have non-stop diarrhea and i've managed to shit my pants 3 times in the last 24 hours."
Ulcerative colitis has a PR problem. The name just has no meaning for most people. Start telling people you have Australian Crocodile Rabies and you'll get a proper response.
Thank you! Little people are unbelievably perceptive. I was once constipated and was feeling mentally ill. This midget came up to me and handed me a Miralax saying "Tough times, eh?"
Yes, add a lethal weapon, be it a gun (going "postal" anyone) or put them in the front of a plane and then the fun really begins. Even a car with wrong person behind the wheel can be lethal. It is not a good idea for someone with mental issues to be forced to work, it really isn't.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People not properly understanding mental health is the scariest thing on this earth to /u/Shady_maniac. Not crocodiles, piranhas, lions, prions or giant squids, it is half the general public's lack of understanding about depression.
I would say this is 50/50. If you can tell someone is messed up, they're probably a pretty average person, perhaps having a bad day. If they're messed up and you can't tell, they are a sociopath and that is genuinely terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they're messed up and you can't tell, that's not indicative of sociopathy. The only thing this is indicative of is the fact that they have some reason to hide their disorder. People with disorders as benign as depression or anxiety can hide it well. And besides, sociopathy itself isn't dangerous. It can be if the person who has it isn't taking steps to control it. If you have a personality disorder of any sort and know how to cope, you're no more a threat to society than any mentally healthy person.
And besides, if you can tell someone is messed up, usually that means they're messed up. And in need of help and sympathy and support.
Considering your post history, I'd think you'd be a little more sensitive to people whose brains aren't wired to function the way a standard person's brain would. Your comment is a little appalling.
You are right, and I do apologize for my comment. What I meant to say is if I can really read a person, I can pick up on what negative personality traits they might have, and I guess that makes me feel comfortable because I know who they are. It's not that positive traits don't make me feel that way too, it's just that (in my experience) with most people you don't see a persons bad side until you know them more intimately.
I should also note that I don't think a person has to be messed up for me to feel comfortable around them, but I don't think I've ever met a single person who didn't have some minor personality defect.
If I can't read a person at all, or feel like they are being fake around me, that really scares me. It makes me feel unsafe. I completely misused the word sociopath, I don't know why that was the first thing to come to mind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for explaining yourself. You're being really civil, and I appreciate that. It's hard to come by this sort of thing on the Internet, sometimes.
I think I understand where you're coming from. Your original comment may have been worded poorly, but now I understand your genuine feelings behind it. Sorry for leaping at your throat like that. No hard feelings, I hope?
Not at all! I was not in a clear state of mind when I wrote the original comment, and as I said I do see how it was worded offensively. If anything I appreciate the thought-out response.
I'm sitting on a bench in Brisbane, Australia waiting for my 8 year old little girl to finish her ballet class. I wish with all my heart that you could be doing the same. All the best to you from one parent to another.
Well a little ray of hope. A friend of mine at 10 got diagnosed with a brain tumor, no way to cut it out. Instead they used focused radiation and chemo.
Terrible thing to go through, but he was a trooper.
Doctor said all this treatment would severely stunt his growth, if he lived to adulthood, he would be very short, obviously who cares.
A portion of his skull completely stopped growing and he needed reconstructive surgery as he grew, and grew, and grew. He wound up being 6'4"... Still alive and healthy today.
Jeesus man. If I have one piece of advice it this: cry. Just keep crying until you cant anymore. Its the bodies defense mechanism against emotional shit like your situation. Good luck.
Every day you manage to wake up and drag yourself out of bed under those circumstances is a testament to your devotion to that little girl. I'm so very sorry, my friend.
ixora7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant squids. The fact that there are creatures with eyes the size of basketballs just swimming around is terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:14:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they're there, right now. Swimmin' around all creepy and alien-like. With the same amount of reality in which you're experiencing the room you're in now, there is a monstrous deep sea creature experiencing its surroundings at this very moment. If you were to teleport to the depths of the ocean, it would be there, hangin' out, plain as day.
It's sort of like wondering "what's my long lost friend doing right now? I bet he's at home in his bedroom or something. If I could be a fly on the wall, what would be going on?"... For some reason thinking of it in that way makes me realize the existence of these weird ass creatures, rather than just intellectually understanding they're there.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:46:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. And here's some nightmare fuel for you - there's a shit ton of them down there. They range all over the world's oceans and they're a good part of the diet of sperm whales. Hard to know how many there really are but it's surely in the tens or even hundreds of millions. Oceans are big, and whales gotta eat, a lot.
If that's not scary enough, there've been a number of reports of fishermen and boaters who've seen them near the surface. I read one as a kid about a squid fisherman who was pulling little guys off a baited line at night, and looked up to see a gigantic fucking eye looking at him from about 10 feet away. Just sitting there. It swam away (and was probably in a bad way, being so close to the surface) but this made an impression on 10-year-old me. The thought of swimming in the ocean at night still gives me the wiggins.
If it helps, the 40+ft is mostly the 2 primary tenticles. Here's a picture the body is smaller than you most of the time, so its not like its gonna eat you.
What if a molten core at the center of earth is a myth, and its really just more water and sea monsters!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would be good for people who are afraid of sea monsters because these creatures can swim to the center of the earth. The center of the earth if farther away than the depth of the real ocean.
My aunt's HOA fined her for so many things, like building an awning without prior approval and refusing to take it down, get approval, and put it back up (fined for every month it was up for years). She was fined for having too many cars in front of her house (hers, her husband's, 6 kids ages 16 and up living there, and all their boy/girlfriends visiting or living with them). She was fined for one of the kids working on their car in front of their house.
But....she never paid the fines. I don't know what kind of shenanigans happened in her HOA contract, but they forced her out and now somehow own her house because of the unpaid fines and fees from not paying the fines.
It's almost like she signed a legally binding document and then proceeded to reneg on her end of the deal. Such shenanigans! She would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddlin' kids!
Oh yeah, she definitely should have lived up to what she agreed to. However, that doesn't mean I can't think parts of the contract were shenanigans. In fact, contracts can be thrown out in court because their content is unreasonable, so the fact that a contract exists doesn't make it legal. In her case, probably a legal contract that she can't get out of. I still think it's dumb and she's dumb.
Tell that to the judge that thought kesha's contract wasn't totally more rape than she was actually raped. Her contract is disgustingly close to slavery in the music industry.
Like I said, I'm sure the contract is perfectly legal, but the existence of a contract doesn't automatically mean it is legal. And even if it is legal, my aunt was stupid to agree with such restrictions if she couldn't live by them/pay the fines. But even if it is legal and entirely her fault for not complying, I still think whoever added all these very restrictive clauses was an asshole. They might not be wrong, but they're still assholes.
I got stung by a jellyfish in Florida. I didn't see it (it might have just been a loose tentacle that still had active stingers), but it basically hit me along a 6 inch stretch of my inner thigh...stopped just short of the nethers, which I guess is a plus.
Agreed. My fucking home owners association terrifies me. They can literally take my house from me for missing one single payment, even if the house is paid off.
I work for an HOA management company in a state with wicked strong HOA laws (AZ). They aren't scary, really. 90%+ of the people that live in HOA's we manage (redacted) have 0 problems. Receive a letter about weeds? Fix the weeds and file an appeal, or tell us why you can't get them done (physically incapable, w/e) and we'll work with you every single time. Hell, even better, be fucking courteous and just explain your situation to us, we'll work with you!
But when you refuse to pull your weeds, park a gutted Chevelle on your lawn, paint your house shit green, don't pay your assessments, have dogs barking constantly in your backyard, and constantly harass the manager and HOA board... Your fault. Nothing we can do. You'll go to collections and the attorney, and if you refuse to play ball, we'll win and garnish your wages for everything you owe, plus the cost of the attorney.
Things don't just randomly get that bad, though. Just keep your house clean, let us know you'll be parking on the street for a week, and that you want to repaint your house. We'll work with you and get you every single piece of information you'll need.
Edit: Downvote all you want, it's the truth. Been here for 3 years and ZERO people have been fined for shit that they weren't told about beforehand. It isn't our fault that you didn't read your "homeowners" packet.
Edit 2: You'd think I would learn, but I always end up trying to explain what is actually going on in an HOA and end up downvoted. I've never said I agree with HOAs, and I've been very vocal about the fact that I wouldn't live in one, but I still know the inner-workings (in AZ) so I figured I'd at least explain some of the stuff that goes on. Oh well.
PS - I don't try to actively defend HOAs. These are just the facts from a source that, really and truly, doesn't like them.
Edit 3: Legitimately, though, I'm just trying to help explain what is actually going on in HOAs. Not sure why my professional opinion and willingness to explain what goes on in the industry (and why this shit happens) is a valid reason for a downvote. I guess people just don't like to listen.
People move into homes for less than ideal reasons all the time, and will sometimes sign things they don't fully agree with or even understand because they are desperate. Same with employment contracts. I like when people are tidy and quiet and respectful too, but the HOA way of making that happen kind of makes my skin crawl.
and will sometimes sign things they don't fully agree with or even understand because they are desperate. Same with employment contracts.
That just means they need to make sure they follow the rules, though. You don't get a pass for that. The rules are typically really simple and easy anyway. Don't park five cars in your yard, clean your weeds, and put your trashcans away.
If you have problems, ask for an appeal. That's all there is to it. Most (of the HOAs I work with) are great and understand financial hardship or whatever, and will grant extensions or try to get you the information you need (cheap, good contractors, ect).
With that said, I won't ever live in an HOA. If I am dropping $100-300k on a house, I want to paint it whatever color I want, I want to be lazy and let the front yard go to shit, and I don't want to care about what it looks like as long as it stands.
But many of those rules shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place. I shouldn't need you to "work with me" if I want to have my house painted. I should just be able to do it.
You bought a home within a development that has a set of rules to help try to maintain property values. The HOA has a suggested color pallet for the body and trim to keep the homes looking uniform and "nice."
In the HOA's we have that DON'T have pre-approved colors, the HOA Architectural Board requires a form and paint chips to be sent in so they can look at the colors, and if they like them, bam, you can paint your house whenever.
In all of the HOAs we manage, you still need to fill out an Architectural form just so the HOA, management company, and potential next owners know what colors you are using, and when, so they can repaint if necessary. The same thing applies for if you need to repaint later on.
I'm not saying I agree with the whole HOA thing, because personally I don't, but that's what you bought into, and there are rules that you need to follow. They're easy as shit to follow, too.
Edit: Downvote train is real strong here. I'm just presenting facts about HOAs. They're annoying, and I don't agree with their purpose, but seriously, they're easy to deal with. Read your CC&Rs and bam, you know the rules you bought into.
My dad bought a waterfront house in a brand new neighborhood. He was the original owner. The developer sold him on the fact that the neighborhood had a lot next to the boat ramp for boat storage in the off-season. Then shortly after moving in, the non-waterfront owners (who were the vast majority of the entire neighborhood) in the HOA voted to prohibit boat storage on the lot. So my dad put his boat in his driveway, which was also against HOA rules. The HOA sued. My dad fought it to the state supreme court and won. The HOA left him alone after that.
Because we're on the same level as Nazis, yep. They totally gave you a packet with every rule when you moved to germany, let you vote on every rule, and couldn't do anything that wasn't in the rules. Yep.
Except the Nazis were completely corrupt, had ulterior motives, didn't value the opinions of people they deemed subhuman, and, you know, started a world war.
You signed up for an HOA. No one forced you to buy a house with an HOA. You were given the rule set before you signed your mortgage. You agreed to the terms when you signed your mortgage. You're the ones at fault, not the HOA.
As I said earlier, all you have to do is keep your yard clean, pay your dues, and don't change the outside of your house without approval from the board. Easy shit.
By "you," I didn't necessarily mean you specifically.
Either way, if you buy a house in an HOA, you are required to follow the rules. Plain and simple. If you don't like HOAs, don't buy a house in one, it's that easy.
Now that's an interesting topic that I honestly don't know much about. The last time I heard anything about a neighborhood deciding to "create" an HOA you still had to opt in before they could apply the rules to you legally until they got to a certain size. They, also, won't have the authority (legally) to do anything to you if you didn't opt in. That doesn't mean they couldn't harass you, though.
I don't know much about that problem, though. A real HOA is created by the developers that build the homes in an area before anyone even has the option of buying one.
Also, just a quick note: "Creating" an HOA takes a lot of money, time, and knowledge about state/fed laws. It isn't something a small group in your neighborhood would be able to do easily, if even at all, or maybe even legally.
First and foremost, you vote for every executive position. President, VP, Treasurer, ect, just like a democracy. We, also, have a required quorum needed for the votes to count.
Secondly, the executive team has to vote on everything that they want to change, and typically the bylaws can't be changed without a full vote by the homeowners, which also has a quorum requirement.
Things like adding new acceptable paint colors isn't important, but something like a special assessment for fixing the roofs, community areas, irrigation, ect. would typically be voted.
Adding things like a no parking on the street overnight clause would just be the executives, most of the time. They are required to send out a notification about any changes to the bylaws, special assessments, and changes in the executive team.
All of the associations we manage also get the meeting minutes and budget (including the HOA savings account, expenditures, ect), and have access to the board meeting packets for each meeting from the beginning of the HOA.
Either way, you can also call for a vote of no confidence, or demand a revote for most things as a homeowner if enough people disagree.
All of this is, of course, different per state. We have very strong HOA laws, but they're also fairly transparent and are required to inform everyone living in the HOA about any and all changes.
Probably not the scariest thing ever, but during C school the Boeing representative showed us images of what happens when someone gets sucked into a CFM56-7B turbo fan (737 engine). Even at idle speeds the man was almost unrecognizable as a human being, mostly just bloody chunks everywhere. Looked like someone threw a watermelon and some ground beef into the intake. I've never felt comfortable when disconnecting the ground comms. jack while engines are turning, those images are just too burned into my mind to forget that I too am a few short steps away from being instant chum.
There was a video here a while back where a man got sucked into one those engines (dunno the specifics as I'm not an expert on airliners) and just popped out of the other end unscathed. Could've been fake, but if not the man must've been incredibly lucky.
If it's true he's incredibly lucky, also the outer ring of a turbofan has fewer sets of blades because it provides most of the thrust, so it is primarily responsible for pushing air.
I forget where I remember this from, but workers who said they were exposed to extreme radiation for a few seconds or so said they felt "pins and needles all over their faces" when they looked at some radioactive object. Definitely not that heap of stuff though.
lzrae ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 04:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that someone exposed lost his skin. As if he stood up and his skin fell off like baggy pants.
This guy took some pretty extreme rads. You can see he's missing like, all of his skin.
But the doctors managed to keep him alive for 87 days. Full article here
NSFL
lzrae ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 04:35:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. I'm putting that in my will under "Just kill me if..."
Someone in r/bestof (I think) linked to a discussion about this a couple months ago. There was a post with interviews with the doctors and nurses who treated this guy, and the redditor that was linked did a summary of the interview. It seems that they didn't really want to keep the guy alive, but the guy's family kept telling him to hold on and that he could make it, so the doctors didn't try to hard to persuade them to just let him die. I'm sure they got lots of useful information from it, but they weren't keeping him alive just for science. The doctors and nurses seemed pretty conflicted about it, if I remember correctly.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a big piece of info to me.
I remember certain Youtubers who would include this event in list videos who claimed it was the government being heartless.
Oddgit ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately a lot of youtubers love to heap on dramatic details regardless of if the details are correct or not. It might just get those extra views after all.
Probably the part where someone dies? It's like someone saying they're not against abortion but it makes them uncomfortable. It seems fairly obvious to me...
sh2nn0n ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone in r/bestof (I think) linked to a discussion about this a couple months ago. There was a post with interviews with the doctors and nurses who treated this guy, and the redditor that was linked did a summary of the interview. It seems that they didn't really want to keep the guy alive, but the guy's family kept telling him to hold on and that he could make it, so the doctors didn't try to hard to persuade them to just let him die. I'm sure they got lots of useful information from it, but they weren't keeping him alive just for science. The doctors and nurses seemed pretty conflicted about it, if I remember correctly.
I think that was the when they realized that a water valve had to be opened, or there would be much bigger, more devastating destruction to come. Some men volunteered to dive into the radioactive water to release the valve and died days later. One of those guys was the skin pants guy.
lzrae ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heroes.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Louis Slotin dropped one innocuous-looking piece of metal onto another innocuous-looking piece of metal for a few seconds and then a few days later he died.
When this photo was taken, 10 years after the disaster, the Elephantโs Foot was only emitting one-tenth of the radiation it once had. Still, merely 500 seconds of exposure would prove fatal.
Sure, why not? Just give me some money so I can get clearance and I will take some pics.
I was thinking the same thing. Wasn't there a picture of some Chernobyl workers in the reactor with some of this radioactive lava next to them? Granted they died but they were alive long enough for the picture to be taken
Edit: changed a few words so it made sense
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Iirc one of the best (color might I add) photos of it was taken with a self timer on a camera on long exposure and the guy actually posed on the ladder next to it. He is also probably still alive. So there's that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it actually weight that much? Hundreds of tons?
Why? They stated the picture was taken with the use of a mirror but they didn't state when. And they didn't state if you look at it "currently". Thr absence of that suggests initially looking at something like that would kill you instantly.
I made no claims about the picture being taken with a mirror. The BS I was referring to was about the weight ("hundreds of tons") and the instant death if you look at it. Even those who were exposed to the object when it first formed were not killed instantly.
Precision, son. Precision.
Railboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This Wikipedia page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor) - tells us what the Elephant's Foot is made of and how big it is. I didn't spot a weight but that should be easy to calculate right? I'm curious now.
Fortunately, modern third- and fourth-generation reactor designs and existing safety protocols make things like elephant's feet impossible.
Chernobyl was a mis-managed shithole with barely-adequate safety protocols that were overridden by an unauthorized experiment, and then covered up by a fascist government to save face.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Came here looking for this and found click-baity crap-text instead. Replace "instantaneous" with "300 seconds" for accuracy. And then you look at the photo and think of the guy who had to be in that room to take it.
It's down there right now and it's still that lethal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I know yes (but not as bad as it was when the incident happened). I think it's something like 2 hours of being exposed to it will lead to certain death.
It consists of nuclear fuel, fission products, control rods, structural materials from the affected parts of the reactor, products of their chemical reaction with air, water and steam, and, in the event that the reactor vessel is breached, molten concrete from the floor of the reactor room.
It will be there for hundreds of years. I say hundreds because hopefully they can find something to do with it. Otherwise, it will be there until the end of humans.
Is it? At least you get to keep your dignity that way. And the feeling of shit rubbing around in your underwear and down your back thigh area, not that nice. Yeah I'd much rather be constipated.
Alph1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this expression.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I have to disagree with you there. Rejection just leaves me feeling utterly flattened, fear of rejection is a more buzzing anxiety in the corner of my brain.
It's not. It's totally not. I still shutter when thinking about all the rejection I've faced. I remember each and every time vividly. It's horribly embarrassing and comes with a natural feeling of shame. Never have I shuttered or felt embarrassed from not asking out a girl.
The way I see it, while the fantasy might be nice, the fact remains that you don't get her if you don't ask. It would drive me crazy to always wonder how my life would be different if I had been able to man up and ask.
I used to be like that too. But having been rejected so many times without success, I'm now only happy when I'm living in the fantasy that I might get a certain girl. As soon as she rejects me the fantasy is gone and I become depressed again.
Anrikay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give up. That fantasy is just that, a fantasy. You can never hold its hand or kiss it goodnight, cuddle up with it during a storm or take it out to meet your friends.
If you want girls and aren't getting them, either improve yourself or lower your standards.
Examine the girls you're going after and yourself. That 8/10 with a fantastic body, great face, flawless makeup, is spending hours a day to get that look. If you want girls in her league, you need to do the same. Work out, good hygiene, good haircut, good clothes, confident body language, you can go from a 5 to a 7 easy. But it takes time.
If you're physically similar levels of attractive, then look at how you're asking them out/your personality. Do you come off like you expect a no? Does your follow up look like an /r/cringepics post? Anyone can learn to be confident and charming, you just have to be willing to examine your mistakes and put in the time to improve. It's a skill.
Practice by asking out girls you don't like first, learn what you're doing wrong and how to fix it, and then ask out a girl you do like. Asking out girls you don't know is good for practice because you'll probably never see them again, so it doesn't matter if you get rejected.
Don't let your dreams be dreams and JUST DO IT. I believe in you man, now you gotta believe in yourself. Your future girl is out there so go get her!
Having recently experienced the worst case scenario, the one that I always have to talk my self down from because "it is never going to happen" (The scenario is: ask friend out, she says no, stops talking to me, and all our mutual friends stop talking to me), I was startled to say that I am glad I did it. Burning up not saying anything, followed by the pain having another person on the list of "What if...." is worse then the actual worse case scenario.
Obviously people are different, and how we experience things is different, and what we may or may not value is different. But I am now much more inclined to ask people out, because I have experienced the worst case scenario, and it was better then not having asked.
Had my heart crushed recently by rejection from someone I'd waited years to finally tell how I truly felt. The rejection was some of the worst pain of my life.
Still glad I did it. Faced my worst fear and now, not only do I not have to live with it anymore, but every other possibility of rejection is trivial. I'd rather take the possibility of pain than live in fear of it. The pain gets better over time, but the fear never does.
I totally agree. Rejection sucks, but it's so much better to just get it over with than to sit there wondering what if, and it gets so much worse the longer you sit and wait. Something similar happened to me years ago, and it stung, but I got over it. Wish I had done it sooner. After some time apart from each other, we're friends again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine this person has not yet experienced the latter yet then
Down the road definitely, but the soul crushing feeling of "I wasted hours of my life thinking about this girl only to find out that she's never cared about me, and I still can't stop thinking about her" is way worse than "What if she says no?"
The thing is, when you're really in love with a person, asking them out could ruin any semblance of a relationship with them, no matter how platonic it may be
Been rejected three times, always feel better right after. Now I have a girl so I don't need to worry about it anymore but even she rejected me at one point.
Ah god, yes, this exactly. For me it's a girl I work with. I don't fear the rejection itself, I fear the aftermath - either way. If she says no, now I have to work with this person who I asked out, and see her every day, along with all the other who would probably find out (she'd tell a close friend, who'd gossip to others, who'd spread it around further, and now I'm that guy who asked a coworker out and got shot down).
But if she says yes...what then? We have to go do something, alone, in real life. Alone! What does she really think of me? What will we talk about? What if I say something awful or stupid, or take a liberty that I thought was justified but wasn't? Now we're back to scenario one, with all the coworker gossip and bullshit, just about different things.
But aghh, if it worked out... I really really want to pull the trigger, but god damn it I can't stop thinking and it's just all so damned overwhelming.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree. I spent the happiest 6 years of my life with someone I met at work. She ended it and crushed my heart, and we both still work there. Things were awkward for a bit, but we're both adults, we do our jobs and that's that.
I'd never trade those years for anything, but if I had your attitude they'd never have happened in the first place.
When someone special comes into your life you don't ignore that for anything.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to know I'm not alone, what makes it worse for me, is that I've never been on a date. Honestly never tried to get a girl because of this, only once but that's a long terrible story.
I feel you, I'm not real experienced in that department either. I've had two girlfriends, one I met online and knew well enough to be in love with before I ever actually met her in real life, and one I got to know by going out every Friday with a group of co-workers that included her. Obviously I went on "dates" with both of them while we were together, but that's a whole different kettle of fish from a traditional first date with someone new.
The latter broke up with me recently and I've been on two dates since then. Both girls I met on tinder, which certainly makes it easier (it's easier when you're just chatting online, plus you know for sure the girl is interested to at least some extent). So I still have never asked someone out on a date the traditional way actually. That's probably a big part of why I'm so scared to do it, I guess.
Coworkers are always a difficult situation. I dated a few of them when I was younger, including one girl who was my boss! If you go for it, I'd say keep it really casual. Don't ask her out to dinner, or specifically say you're asking her on a date, unless she asks you if that's what you're doing. Ask her out to something that's a mutual interest, or a drink after work if you're old enough, that kind of thing.
If she says yes, cool. Just be yourself. Remember, she said yes, so there must be something about you that makes her want to see you outside of work.
Exactly. If you get rejected, you know she is not for you, but at the same time you don't want that to be the case because you currently have a desire to be with her.
You're worried about mucking it up, aren't you? Well, practice it a few times. Practice it until you can say it on autopilot. Every detail. Then ask her. And don't worry if you do muck it up, I've been rejected more times than I can count, but eventually got a "yes" from someone.
zhill29 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just tell her she has nice shoes, then ask if she'd like to fuck. At least then if she rejects you, you can act like it was a joke. If she says yes, she's a slut and probably has herpes DON'T DO IT!
That's how I am too. I don't take rejection personally and it's not that bad, it's me actually asking them out which ends up getting cringy as fuck because I get super nervous.
This is going to sound like a really weird recommendation, but try something like Tinder. You face a lot of rejection, get a lot of practice asking girls out, maybe even get some practice on dates. Might even meet someone you like!
I had that bro. 9/10 blonde gave me number when I asked. Talked for a few days, invited her to concert, replied yes. On the day, she flaked. Then gave me the sorry I lied about not having a boyfriend. Granted that she's Canadian in US and her bf is still in Canada.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's those kind of moments when I think of that Wayne Gretzky quote, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take." As long as you're not asking her out, the answer might as well always be no.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about women asking sn out?
Wth is this not happening more?
I thought they are now all emancipated and shit. Still we have to do all the work.
I've noticed that you'll never regret the outcome of asking as much as not asking. I did it just today, saw this beauty in a grocery store, passed in the isle then was just in front of her in the checkout line. I should have waited outside and at least tried to strike up a conversation, you never know how special that stranger could become to you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair she could also be themone that slowly kills you with rat poison
The thing that has been stopping me isn't the fear of rejection. Yeah it'd suck, but it happens, so whatever. It's that I don't want to lose a friend. I feel like there's no going back to a normal friendship after that. Thoughts?
Only if you are awkward about it, then you will lose a friend. Just be yourself, I know treating her like a friend afterwards seems like overpushing. But sometimes it works, at least now she knows that you appreciate her cuteness or certain traits if you weren't creepy about it when you asked her out, or disclosed on a date. Most of all, after rejection, she will look at you as a man who has confidence and who moves on and doesn't hold grudge of rejection. Basically she knows that you ain't a salty bitch or bitter petty man. If she rejected, just casually joke it off.
Remember this (excuse my languages): what do bitches hate the most? Other bitches, so don't be one.
Plus my favorite line after rejection that always get a playful reply and positive vibe from girls is: "Oh Hey, you are right. That was a bad idea, we wouldn't look cute together anyways." Play the contradictory unexpected game to mess with their mind and they will forget moment ago they rejected you. They might give you a chance afterwards.
Or it could be a work thing where she doesn't have any choice but to appear kind and refuse the download because of work limitations, despite actually wanting a faster browser.
Trust me I know...I work for the government which solely uses internet explorer. Some of the websites I need don't even have full compatibility with edge which is extremely annoying.
Internet Explorer is actually quite high quality these days.
J0L0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been with chrome for years and she has gotten big and bloated over time as well. Still my go to, but I do find myself checking out some of those lean browsers from time to time.
When I asked my first girlfriend to be my girlfriend and she said yes, I just said thanks in a monotone voice. She and my friends still make fun of me for it.
GPU I don't know, but I seem to remember Edge using more memory than Chrome for a small number of tabs and vastly more than Firefox with a lot of tabs.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edge is actually pretty good.
No, it's a really bad browser
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair though edge is a much higher grade in quality over Internet explorer
You should be using edge for netflix and such though, as it's currently the only browser that supports 1080p playback.
I mean edge is actually a really decent browser. The lack of addon support kills it for me though.
grigby ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:05:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, since you're on 10 anyway, just use the Netflix app. Also 1080p but supports 5.1 sound which edge does not. Plus the app is really good. Can't see reviews and other nitty gritty details, but it's a very high quality standard.
Edge is actually the only browser that currently supports all the features of ES6, aka the newest complete version of javascript. The world is backward.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I've heard, MS has been investing a buttload of engineer-hours into their browser for the past...like 5 years or something. At this point I'm not actually surprised.
I've been calling it "Browser Downloader" for years.
wellsdb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One my computer instructors used to call it Internet Exploder.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually the opposite of the truth. Internet Explorer has the largest market share for any internet browser. It's kind of cheating since it comes with Windows, but it's still used the most(I think Chrome is behind by like 1%)
While that's true. I recently switched and now Microsoft edge is my exclusive browser for Netflix. This is because chrome and Firefox can't watch Netflix in 1080p. The rest of my browsing is pretty much chrome though.
Internet Explorer is specifically designed to ask to be my default browser and I tell it no every time. If IE's primary function is destined to fail 100% of the time then what sort of chance do I have?
You clearly haven't felt chest burning sensation of having a girl burst out laughing in front of your face in response to you asking her out, Snail Murderer.
Ayyy experienced this for the first time today. I felt proud at first but then ashamed because I was such a dumbass that I didn't ask her out first, so she had to make the first move.
Potado ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's known to happen, although indirectly.
evieee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my husband out when we were in high school.
Not /u/boker49, but if you're serious, I'm a woman and I've done it lots of times. If I'm interested in someone, I invite them to do something with me (coffee shop, etc.). I try to do it before I'm too interested, though. That way, if I'm rejected I'm not too upset about it. It's good to find out he's not interested early on.
You know what's weird? Maybe I'm just full of shit, but from personal experience you're really only afraid until you do it. Once you actually make that desicion it's sooo much easier. You're now the one in control, you get to choose when and largely where it happens. It's your show and you just have to own it. Own it and be happy with yourself because at least you had the self confidence to try. It's much easier to be asked than to ask; she can say no, but it's your show and your aaking her to participate, so own it and go perform.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. The pre ask phase is nerve wracking. Once you are in the conversation, it isnโt so bad.
I feel fine in the moment, but a few days after a rejection I always get really heavily depressed. Like now I have to start all over again with another girl that will probably end in rejection just like all the others. It's hard to get excited about meeting someone new eventually.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:30:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Priorities of the young and healthy. Typically anyway. This was refreshing to see after a huge thread of so much wtf. Thanks. Made me smile after a whole lot of "omfg" reactions.
The worst she can do is say no. On the other hand, if she says yes you could end up finding someone you love or if you find you aren't romantically compatible, maybe a good friend. If you never ask, you will never know.
It's amazing how this goes from the most difficult thing in the world to a complete non-issue once you've dated for the first time.
tombue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LPT: Buy alcohol, tell the girl "hey, I've got beer and whiskey, wanna drink some?". If she says yes, it's a success, if she says no, you still have alcohol and a chance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bi guy checking in. Asking out a guy is wayyyy worse. At least as a straight, you're reasonably sure the girl won't deny you because she's only into other girls. Especially at a bar. With a guy, you have to be sure he's gay, and deal with the rejection when it comes hard and fast. Which is usually how you spend your friday nights anyway.
I did this today and I'm not sure what to make of the answer. I thought things were going well, been talking for two months or something (in same college class and ride bus). I figured why not ask, we had a lot in common and I enjoy talking to her.
So at the end of the bus ride today I was like "Hey do you wanna get coffee or something sometime" and she said "umm *long pause that felt like an eternity but was like 3 or 4 seconds * maybe"
I'm preeetty sure that's not a good thing. But some friends are saying she probably just legit wasn't sure.
So I'm just sorta like. Well shit rn cause I'm 0/4 over the last two years and I was really hoping and thinking this could be my chance.
All knowledgeable Reddit what do I do? Just wait a while and eventually bring it up if it doesn't before that?
For me it's not the rejection, but hitting on girls always makes me feel like I'm being some asshole misogynist guy and I'm terrified to be them because it's so terrible so I just never do and friend-zone everyone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually really easy. You're probably thinking with the wrong head.
Stop thinking for once in your life and just ask her. Don't rationalize about doing it later. Later isn't going to be a better time unless she's dealing with the death of a loved one. Stop making excuses, stop reading what I typed and just do it. Even if she says no it's worth doing. Either way, next time will be easier.
If my experiences in life have taught me anything, so long as you're reasonably average looking and you two connect on some level, she'll say yes - even if it doesn't work out after the first date you'll still get the chance.
I mean, I'm no Casonova and I'm decidedly average looking but I've dated a couple of girls I'd consider out of my league. Though, since those didn't work out here's another piece of advice - find someone who you know shares common interests. It's all well and good connecting to someone on a personality level, but if you can't engage with that person on topics they're interested in or share in their passions then it won't work out well.
I found one video, and it could easily have been faked or of something that isn't a fish. Actual articles are almost all against the candiru doing that sort of thing.
mnh1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:53:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the idea that the fish can swim up a stream of urine if you stand on the bank of the river and pee in is totally false, because of course it is.
The fact that the fish scents ammonia to locate the gills of fish it would like to be a parasite on is true. It's also true that if you pee in water you are swimming in, this releases a quantity of urine that will attract this parasitic fish. It will look for the source of that, in an attempt to find gills to burrow into. Humans don't have gills, but the urethra smells close enough to this parasite. Just swimming without peeing also carries a risk.
You don't like big cats that sneak up on prey and kill before the prey has time to react, really big snakes than can eat crocodiles, or spiders the eat birds
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never met one personally but I think I'm going to have to say no.
NG96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of which are eligible for free super saver delivery
Well I'm a Prime member, so I get free two-day penis fish.
Andrado ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:41:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's so beautiful. You're far more likely to slip and break your neck on the wet floor of your local grocery store than your are to have problems with these fish when visiting South America.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well yeah, but I go to the grocery more often then I plan on going to the Amazon. My chances of having a problem with the fish are 0 since I never plan on going to the Amazon.
Andrado ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but I'm saying one random trip to the grocery store vs. trip to the Amazon. I'm not comparing a lifetime of grocery shopping to a single vacation.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and in all honestly I'll probably want to go there some day. Just ask me when we're not talking about penis fish.
Not only do they swim up you pee stream INTO YOUR FUCKING DICK, they have a dorsal fin with rear facing spines. So, once they're up your dick, they can't be pulled out. It has to be cut out. In the jungle, where every cut festers and rots
E-Squid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the medical incidents on the fish have been guys peeing while swimming in rivers/lakes. Essentially they're following the chemical signature of the pee in the water to the urethra opening, which they penetrate
Yes sir. It's called the candiru. I read about it when I was a kid in the SAS survival guide and have always been too terrified to pee in open water as a result.
That part's not so bad. It's the backward-facing barbs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the dreaded CANDIRU! A naughty little fish with a penchant for swimming up a man's urethra to feed on the damaged tissue of the pitiful mass of flesh you once called your penis!
Saw a CNN news report on this back in 2002. I was like, 6 years old and always had that vague memory of the show in the back of my head. Now it's been confirmed.
I've been cultivating a fresh water penis aquarium for a while so I'll make sure to not to add a penis fish into the mix. Is this also a problem for salt water penises?
It's the candiru. What it usually does is swim into the gills of a fish. The waste from a human is detected by the candiru like the waste excreted from the fish at the gills and it has been said to mistakenly burrow into... the source of the waste (urethra). However, unless you are peeing in the waters of the Amazon, you should be safe.
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Hydric acid. You've heard of all the others, but this one is truly the worst. This substance is used regularly in heavy industries, waste processing, and is known as the one chemical able to dissolve more substances than any other solvent on Earth. The process that creates this volatile compound can ignite any flammable material nearby. It also acts as a universal carrier of disease-causing microorganisms, including the flesh-eating bacteria that has so many other people on this thread scared to death.
In all seriousness, though, FOOF is pretty scary. It can ignite ice at subzero temperatures. Scratch that, it can ignite any organic material at negative 300 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 184 degrees Celsius) in a massive explosion. If it reacts with hydrogen sulfide (present in natural gas), not only will you be reduced to a cinder by the detonation, what's left of your flesh will be eaten away by the hydrogen fluoride (extremely acidic) byproduct of the previous explosion. Don't go near it.
EDIT: As some kind and wise Redditors so gently reminded me, there are some inaccuracies with my description of FOOF. Hydrogen fluoride is actually a weak acid; however, it is still dangerous in vapor form and will deal severe damage to your body. FOOF reacts vigorously with ice, even at subzero temperatures, but it doesn't "ignite" ice, per se. At least, the reaction wouldn't result in anything similar to flames.
2059FF ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 01:59:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all seriousness, though, FOOF is pretty scary.
If you've never read "Things I Won't Work With", you're in for a treat.
Oh, I was trying to link to the old Corante "In the Pipeline" website. I kept searching for it, and seeing the sciencemag page pop up under the older link. I didn't realize till just now that the whole website moved.
I was getting worried for a bit there...how else will I get my organic chemistry fix.
zazazam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That article is one of my favorite pieces of literature. Impressive considering that I've never enjoyed chemistry.
If the paper werenโt laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, youโd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic. I ran out of vulgar expletives after the second page. A. G. Streng, folks, absolutely takes the corrosive exploding cake, and I have to tip my asbestos-lined titanium hat to him.
The sulfur chemistry of FOOF remains unexplored, so if you feel like whipping up a batch of Satanโs kimchi, go right ahead.
You can easily waste away 6 hours reading his blog and won't stop thinking "holy shit" for even a second.
The chemist John Clark describes chlorine trifluoride thusly in his book Ignition:
It is, of course, extremely toxic, but thatโs the least of the problem. It is hypergolic [able to ignite spontaneously on contact with an oxidizer] with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, andtest engineers
Ouch. Clark goes on to say it is possible to contain ClF3, with a caveat:
It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.
arul20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:02:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for damn interesting info .. + for using 'thusly'
Somewhere near the beginning, Clark kicks off by saying that chemistry is a mixture of things that are toxic, corrosive and highly inflammable and rocket propellant chemistry being things that are all three.
He talks about conferences of researchers and how they would swap stories of what really happened at the bar. I have visions of a lot of scientists with missing hair and eyebrows.
This means that it doesn't only not like you, it REALLY doesn't like you. It first forces a proton into basically anything it touches(even hydrocarbons), then it starts stripping its electrons. This destroys stuff.
You couldn't even pick up a bottle of it; the bottle would stop existing, along with your hand, the table under your hand, and however much of the ground the acid can destroy.
It's a pretty common misconception that HF is extremely acidic. It's classified as a weak acid because the ka (equilibrium constant) is fairly low, and it is much more dangerous to inorganics than it is to organic compounds. The dangerous part is HF's toxicity, and that's really nothing to laugh about. Having all of the calcium in your body turned into CaF2 isn't a fun way to go, at all.
Sorry if I'm being nitpicky, but HF chemistry is way cooler than just saying it's acidic!
It's also a common misconception with my chemistry students is that strong acids can dissolve anything while weak acids are child's play. I had a student who was playing around with glacial acetic acid in a lab once and when I scolded him for being dangerous he told me to relax because vinegar can't hurt anyone. If I had had zero empathy I would have let him dip a finger in and learn a valuable lesson
I occasionally get a whiff of glacial acetic acid. Can confirm it's unpleasant.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:53:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cleaner knocked about 100 mL of it onto the bench when they were cleaning somewhere they were told specifically not to touch. I just threw some sand and sodium carbonate onto it, but the damage was done. The lab reeked of vinegar.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably teach them that glacial acetic acid is not the same as the acetic acid they've been working with before starting the lab. Just thinking back to my first year as a student and I wouldn't have realized they're much different based on the name, let alone THAT much different in terms of being a hazard.
The lab I teach requires them to get the MSDS for all reagents and solvents they use for each experiment. I can see teaching that to kids but these are college students, I can't hold their hands for them
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can see where you're coming from, but that's a hefty punishment for not doing the homework.
When you are in a lab you cannot do anything half assed. Half assed scientists are missing fingers, blind, poisoned, or burned because they were half assed. While I do all I can to make sure my students are informed and safe, safety starts with them and if they can't take a minute to read a warning that is clear as day on an MSDS then at a certain point I am no longer concerned about their lackadaisical approach to their studies and would be content to let shit happen if it wasn't my job to prevent shit from happening
Eh, probably would've been fine. The danger of concentrated acids is was overhyped. As long as it doesn't get in your eyes, wash it off and you're fine.
It can be, and usually is, the small things that get you. I've never had an accident with any "dangerous chemicals," but I've made plenty of mistakes with others that seem harmless. Convincing beginning chemistry students that every chemical should be taken seriously is nearly impossible.
Yep. The issue with fluoride is that very few of its compounds are soluble in water, so when you get your hands on one that is (like, say, hydrofluoric acid) you'd better be very careful that it doesn't start forming a solid with some random other thing that you'd prefer stayed dissolved.
Okay cool, you seem like a guy that knows what he's talking about. I'm in AP chem and I've always wondered why HF has a low Ka. Is it because F- has such a high electron affinity that the intermolecular forces from the water (hydrogen bonding or dipole-dipole or whatever) aren't strong enough to pull the H+ from the F-?
Pretty much! They're both small atoms with a decent amount of orbital overlap. As acids dissociate and re-associate they form dynamic equilibria between water, each other, and other species to stabilize themselves. In the case of HF, the two atoms would rather be stabilized by each other, as well as other HF molecules, than they would by water.
This is kind of embarrassing considering I am 3/4ths through my course, but I don't understand why ionic compounds dissolve in water. Obviously most of the work we do is based on solutions and Kh and all that, but I don't understand why things dissolve. When I asked my teacher, he tried to explain it to me, but it was clear he doesn't have a firm enough grasp to explain it thoroughly. The best understanding I have is that the ionic compounds arrange themselves in the lowest possible energy state and the water has almost a grid of charges that make it easy for the ions to fall in place.
Is that accurate? Are acids like acetic acid weak because the the anion is too big to fit into the positve spaces in the water?
No worries, sometimes the things that appear simple are extremely difficult to understand. You're on the right track there, but I'll do my best to refine it. Forgive me if any of this is too simple, but I'll start from the beginning because I don't know much of your background.
If you recall, water has a dipole because the oxygen and hydrogens have significantly different electronegativities. One way to think of this is that the electrons are "pulled" close to the oxygen because they are better attracted to the positive charges in its nucleus, and this gives the area around oxygen an overall negative charge. Conversely, because the hydrogens do not have those electrons, they have a positive charge. This, combined with the bent shape of water, gives a partial negative charge on oxygen and a partial positive charge on the hydrogens. There's an overall direction of charge inherently associated with the molecule.
Now, with ionic compounds we can use table salt as an example. The positive charges on the sodium atoms love the negative charges on the chlorine atoms, but when you throw them into water they also love the partial charges on the oxygen atoms. This causes the oxygens to surround the sodiums, with the hydrogens pointed outwards, forming a "shell." These are called solvation shells, and depending on how strong the ionic compound's charge is they can be varying sizes. When you put these water molecules around the ionic species, they also "shield" the charge, meaning that the chlorine atoms can't see the sodiums as well as they normally can, and they can float away from each other (i.e. dissolve). The sodium and chlorine atoms will still see each other and tend to stay close to one another, but you have several layers of water that will keep them apart, and they can also associate with other dissolved ions if they happen to bump into them.
In the case of organic acids like acetic acid things become much more complicated. Hydrogen is already part of water, so there's an equilibrium there rather than just a dissociation (essentially the same thing, but we tend to give those interactions special treatment because they're more analogous to a reversible chemical reaction than they are to an ionic species). The hydrogen forms H3O+, or more complicated variations on that if concentrations become high enough, leading to excess hydrogens in the water. Like any other reversible reactions, they also like H3CCOO- (the base conjugate of acetic acid) that they left behind when they dissolved into the water, which allows them to recombine.
Now, here's where your energy understanding comes into play. The dynamic equilibrium of the H+ leaving and recombining depends on how much it likes the water compared to the acid, and is how we define the strength of the acid. The overall energy of the system will be lowered and that will determine whether the acid is weak or strong. In a case like acetic acid the hydrogen decides that it likes water and the conjugate base close enough that it won't always be on either the water or the base. If we made the compound Cl3CCOOH instead, the chlorine atoms would pull electrons away from the oxygens, and the hydrogen wouldn't have as much of an incentive to come back to the compound once it left (no free space on chlorine, and oxygen is more positive). This would increase the acidity of the compound.
Size doesn't matter too much when we're talking about small molecules. If we started to talk about proteins, polymers, macromolecules, etc. then it certainly would though, and those systems can be much more complex because they tend to "fold," with hydrophobic regions folding closely together and hydrophillic regions being exposed to the water in order to form those solvation shells.
I hope that's what you were expected and that it's helpful! If you need any clarification, resources, etc. just let me know and I'll be happy to help
Isn't it dangerous when HF undergoes reduction/oxidization uncontrollably with other stuff? I mean HF + Li doesn't sound like fun. There's a reason why tripropellant rockets aren't used.
To be honest organic chemistry isn't my field, so I can't answer about propellants very well. I'm not positive, but I also don't think HF and lithium would be too bad under normal conditions aside from the heat generated by rapid oxidation (which, to be fair, can be extremely dangerous). Anything that is uncontrollable is generally regarded as bad or useless, and if it generates lots of heat I can almost guarantee that it's going to be bad. That's why pyrophorics are considered to be so dangerous.
Calcium is important for the nervous system and for structural support in bones. You're essentially causing permanent nerve damage, may have heart attacks, and you're weakening your bones. CaF2 is also insoluble in water, so I would assume it's like having tiny grains of sand in your blood and muscles. The acid also goes straight through skin and can give chemical burns (which may not be apparent or even hurt for 24 hours after exposure, at which point it might be too late for you). Because of the damage to nerves, muscles, vascular tissue, and skin, you also set yourself up for serious infections.
It's pretty horrifying but cool. The antidote that they use to prevent damage is full of calcium, with the goal making the HF bind to that calcium instead of the calcium in your body.
First of all, dioxygen diflurodie, sometimes called FOOF, is rarely, if ever, referred to as "an acid." To call it "extremely acidic" is a misunderstanding of what acidity is. It is an oxidizer, like some, but not all acids. Furthermore, it cannot be considered an acid by solvent system. While you're correct that it can be explosive, saying it can "ignite ice" is a little silly. It can oxidize water at temperatures below its freezing point, which is not abnormal or other substances, especially inorganic ones.
Ah, sorry, to clarify, I was referring to HF (hydrogen fluoride), the product of the reaction between FOOF and hydrogen sulfide. And since HF's not extremely acidic either, I'm still wrong. Same for the ice. I'll edit my reply accordingly.
It's not called FOOF because it's soft and fluffy. It's called FOOF because that's the sound it makes after the concrete you spilled some on bursts into flames, the fireproof gloves you're wearing burst into flames, and the water you pour on the fire to try and put it out explodes. It's a very exciting chemical.
By hydrogen fluoride I believe you mean hydrofluoric acid, which can be classified as a strong weak acid. Quick chemistry lesson, folks. There are 6 strong acids:
HNO3 (Nitric acid)
HClO4 (Perchloric acid)
H2SO4 (Sulfuric acid)
HCl (Hydrochloric acid)
HBr (Hydrobromic acid)
HI (Hydroiodic acid)
These acids, when put in water, dissociate completely; that is, the acidic hydrogens (the H's on the acids) and the conjugate bases fall apart completely, for example, HNO3 will turn into H+ and NO3-. All of them will do this. Weak acids, on the other hand, do not dissociate completely. Take acetic acid (vinegar), HC2H3O2, only a small amount of the acid will fall apart into its respective ions.
What makes an acid an acid are those extra hydrogens, which lack an electron so they are in effect just protons. Acids all have a ka value, which is a mathematical constant for that acid which shows the ratio of the acidic protons and the conjugate bases to the acid in solution. A strong acid has a ka of large (sounds silly but because they dissociate completely we don't bother with the number for them). HF (hydrofluoric acid, as OP was talking about) has a ka of 7.2E-4 IIRC. This puts it in the realm of a fairly strong weak acid, when compared to many others.
One trend that you'll notice in chemistry is that stuff that contains fluorine is dangerous as fuck. And this is true pretty much all the time. HF, FOOF, F2 (elemental fluorine gas), etc, all crazy nasty stuff that I would not mess with. If you really want to be scared of crazy chemicals, look up dimethyl mercury. This shit will kill you in less than a fraction of one drop of it.
is known as the one chemical able to dissolve more substances than any other solvent on Earth.
It also acts as a universal carrier of disease-causing microorganisms, including the flesh-eating bacteria that has so many other people on this thread scared to death.
How does that work?
EDIT - I've seen every episode of Bullshit. I'm not sure how I fell for this.
A weak acid doesn't mean it's not more dangerous than some strong acids. Weak denotes how easily it donated protons, not how much it'll Fuck you up. Hydrofluoric acid is incredibly dangerous .
Hydric acid is an alternative name for water. The first paragraph just exaggerates all the things water can do - it's not corrosive at all, but it's still known as the "Universal Solvent", and it can carry just about any germ. Creating water from hydrogen and oxygen gas is pretty explosive.
Concentrated hydrogen fluoride is stronger than nitric acid and almost as strong as sulfuric acid. The mistake is dilute hydrofluoric acid is weak because it forms very little Hydronium ion owing to the strong H-F bond giving a low pH. However using the Hammett acidity function we find that concentrated hydrogen fluoride is an incredibly strong Bronstedt -Lowry acid. Addition of a lewis acid such as antimony pentaflouride, ammonia, or hydrochloric acid produce horrifying super acids. Such as flouroantimonic acid. An acid 1016 times stronger than sulfuric acid.
Acids are scary in general. Sulfuric will make your skin boil. Sounds like sizzling bacon according to my dad. Hydrofluoric attacks bones and barely burns skin but can be fatal.
[deleted] ยท 1182 points ยท Posted at 23:57:38 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I definitely want to kill him.
gizamo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can shear a sheep many times, but skin it only once. Basically, I'm saying you could just scrape gold skin flakes off him every day. The human body sheds a rather surprising amount of skin.
Or you could breed him.
...or get a cheese grater and see if his scars form in gold, too. But, if breeding him didn't cross a line, grating his skin probably does.
That's probably more like "harvest" than just murder.
Either way, one is just a hate crime... the other is for obtaining useful materials (or so they believe). Both are fucked up but one is at least understandable in a weird way. The other is just pure malicious hate.
I was going to say this! I just watched a special about how albinos are kidnapped and dismembered for their "heeling powers". The show had interviews with survivors of attacks and shit.
Definitely walked away from the show thinking "wtf is wrong with people!"
People really underestimate this one. There are people out there hate me, want me dead, will sabotage my career, arrest me, etc., simply because of the color of my skin. No questions asked. All predetermined on sight.
This is the first thing I thought of when I looked at the thread. Man it's so fucked. And not to mention how badly mob mentality can corrupt an otherwise peaceful mind. All I can think about is Trump supporters...a young black girl was attacked at one of his rallies for no reason other than being a black girl. I'm so scared about the state of America.
Nasdasd ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:13:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
similarly, people would kill me for who I'm attracted to
1Down ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:14:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also people who would kill me because I have an incongruence with my birth gender.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedo?
Nasdasd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is saying albino and I assumed you were black.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I live in Baltimore and feel the same way. Back in 2006 I got the Worldstar Treatment from 4 teenagers who singled me as a "cracka ass bitch" while I was walking down the street. My checkbone never did heal quite right. :/
asshair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very few people advocate actual individual murder based on skin color.
Actual racism is far more subtle, insidious, and dangerous.
SilasX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you gotta admit, the color would look nice as a jacketWHAAAA?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really only ever hear about the racist horror stories that go on in America.
I don't live in a racist country and it still is a pretty scary thing.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:30:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How scared are white people really for being killed for being white? As a white person, I don't think I'm actually afraid of violence coming from that. Like, I generally don't wanna be killed of course, but it's not related to my race.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there really any other way to live?
tkousc ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I hope you aren't a white farmer in southern Africa....
rcbs ยท -28 points ยท Posted at 01:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Britain they kill you for your colour, in America the kill you for your color.
In many Muslim countries, they kill you for your gender, sexual preferences, religious preferences, (including being the wrong type of Muslim), educational aspirations, political aspirations, country of origin, cartoon drawing preferences, and much more.
Yes. My mom was born in 1961. In Tuskegee, Alabama. The government was still infecting people with syphillis in her home town, when she was born.
Edit. People in the Tuskegee Syphillis experiments weren't directly infected with syphillis. Some people infected their spouses because they did not know they had the disease or thought they were actually being treated for it. Some people had children born with syphillis because they did not know they had the disease or thought they were being treated properly for it. Thats what i mean by the government infecting people.
TMWNN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The government was still infecting people with syphillis in her home town, when she was born.
Strange, given that the Tuskegee Experiment only involved not treating syphilis in people who already had contracted the disease (or telling them that they had the disease).
The truth is bad enough, without idiots like you spreading nonsense.
You're right. Those were some emotionally driven words, and not precisley true. People not involved in the trials, but who were married to or children of people in the experiment contracted or were born with syphillis.
rcbs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sucks, but that doesn't exactly translate to modern society.
denga ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It kind of does. Yea, we might not be lynching people, but the people who grew up while they were are still alive and (more scary) hold positions of power.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. But their days are numbered. Hopefully we will reach a point where civilization will realize racism and bigotry are as backwards as we know them to be.
2 race based murders (5 total "hate murders") in a nation of 300,000,000 in 2013.
Are you an anti vaxxer as well, or do statistics not matter in your world?
Bremic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Britain they kill you for your colour, in America the kill you for your color.
So.....either way you're dead because of someone else's irrational hatred, though. When you're being killed to death, the thought "I could be being killed to death for some other petty, ignorant reason if I lived in a different place" isn't really a comfort.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. But the chances of that happening in the US or Britain is extremely low. Like 5 in 300000000 in 2013 per FBI hate crime stats (US stats, britain might be worse)
The chance of being killed in most Middle Eastern countries is pretty low as well, if the metric we are going to use is "how many people killed for this specific reason" vs "population in general."
Also, I'd like to see your source for "5 in 300 million."
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm honestly skeptical; not because of the race statistics but because of the transgender statistics. I simply don't believe that is accurate. If only because those numbers are limited to perpetrators who are a) caught and b) charged with a hate crime.
Plus, it being somewhat rare does not mean it is not a scary real thing. The question was "what's the scariest real thing on earth," not "what is a danger lurking behind every corner." Also, being assaulted or harassed or having your home defaced because of your skin color is also pretty scary.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, and it unquestionably happens, much of it unreported, but being murdered for skin color isn't very scary in the US or UK, at least not as often as shark attacks or getting stuck by lightning during a thundersnow storm.
Well since "prevalent" is an unquantifiable measurement that you can twist to fit your preconceptions, try just googling trans woman life expectancy and see where that takes you.
No but I pretty sure we are arguing about to different subjects. I never said it didn't happen all I insinuated was that being in the middle east will make it a lot more likely. What I was saying is that if was so wildy close to the middle east I'm sure I would know as I spend a good deal of time online across different sites
Why do I have to provide evidence of higher rates but you can just assert that there are more trans people than ever before? Transgenderedness isn't a trend. More people are openly trans, certainly, but nobody would argue that there are more gay people than ever before.
You wanted evidence that there is widespread violence toward specifically targeted social groups in the West. You have it. What else do you want?
Population growth, homie. Statistically there has to be. Its like box office busters. More people are around to buy the movie and there are certainly more people to be gay than ever before. I don't need to look anything up for this. This is an assumption made using that fact. And once again and I will repeat this. I did not claim it didn't happen, I did not claim it wasnt rising. That's all you. What I did say and ask for was stats that it is worse than say saudi.a trans person here is a hell of a lot safer than there and I don't think that is something to argue.
No. You didn't say Saudi Arabia in this comment chain or anything about comparing things to far away countries. The initial point made was that belonging to certain social groups can get you killed in western countries. Evidence was demanded and provided. If comparing your own country to a shithole like Saudi Arabia makes you feel better about the murder of trans people, whatever, not much of a coping strategy but its your call. That's not what was asked for though.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes because it is NOT COMMON. Stop stalling. Legit source race crime stats or you lose.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incidents and getting killed for your race are different, arent they? Dig a little deeper and you will find 2 skin color related murders in 2013.
2 in a nation of 300,000,000.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"People that would kill me for my skin colour."
The answer in 2013 was 2. Do hate crimes happen, yes, all too often. Do people get KILLED for thier skin color, yes, about as often as getting killed by a shark while being struck by lightning.
you get killed for being gay or trans in any of those places (although I'd rank them in severity of danger and the worst one would come up looking a lot worse)
No matter what your skin color, gender, language, what country you come from or whatever else, there is someone out there that would hurt you or even kill you for being that.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just so everyone knows, that's a general term for when bacteria get into the deeper layers of the skin and spread along the fascia. There isn't one specific bacteria that causes it. Lots of different kinds do it. It's pretty damn rare though.
well, regardless of what you call yourself, you have studied microbiology, so you are to some extent a microbiologist! Maybe not professionally, but who cares?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a bachelors degree in physiology but that doesn't include a ton of microbio
It's not often that I get to tell this story since NF doesn't come up a lot in conversation!
My dad contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis after donating a kidney to his sister in the late '90s. Ate away most of the flesh on his left side, back, and torso and resulted in him being in a coma for several months. He's okay now, aside from not being able to work for the rest of, well, ever.
I was only a child when this happened, but I think my dad's humor surrounding the whole situation is what helped make such a serious illness a bit less terrifying for me.
For example, he went to a bar with a buddy a few years post-illness and a bunch of the regulars were comparing scars, as guys in bars do. Anyways, my dad proceeds to lift up his shirt to show his scar (For context, he's basically missing everything from his bellybutton to the left side of his spine) and makes some joking comment about it being a "shark bite".
The guys in the bar actually buy it, so my dad, being my dad, just sort of nods to his friend and they go with it. They come up with some absurd story about snorkeling off the coast of Australia and my dad having what "had to be a 30ft long" Great White latch onto him, trying to rip him apart until he "punched it in the face" and it "swam away crying". Every single patron of the bar (all pretty drunk, mind you) bought their story, except for one gentleman, the biggest dude in the building, obviously, who proceeded to ask my dad how he could have known that the shark was crying. Dad's answer? "Well, you see, the tears were oily and they floated to the top." This was apparently sufficient for the gentleman, who promptly commended my dad's bravery and bought him a beer. And that's the story of how my dad has basically figured out how to never have to pay for anything at a bar. And you know what? It hasn't failed in 18 years.
TL;DR - My dad had NF and regularly blames his scar on a shark attack to get free drinks out of people. Works every time.
SAMAKUS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my fucking God, I'm the same as your dad. I say to people I've just met that I was bitten by a shark. It's hard at the beach when people stare, so I came up with the that story. I'm missing all of my left axilla muscles, like a shark latched on under my armpit, and took a bite.
Did you have NF as well? That's crazy coincidental if so!
I'm glad you're (I assume) doing well, and aren't letting your injury stop you from enjoying the beach! :) I hope you use the shark bite story to freak out tourists by telling them that it happened on that beach.
SAMAKUS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:19:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. It's usually unheard of that people just lose flesh/muscle, most of the time it targets the extremities, never heard about someone who is arguably a lucky unlucky person like me. I'm thankful I have all my fingers and toes.
Yay, extremities! Very rare indeed. What's your story? How/when did you contract, if you don't mind my asking?
SAMAKUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2013, I'm just out of the recovery phase. The only reason it targeted my chest muscles is because I had pulled them after tripping and grabbing a door handle, pulling my pec as I fell down. I hate to think what would have happened to me had I not tripped that day. I'd have lost a limb for sure.
This is one of several stories. Glad you enjoyed it, haha.
Here's another: When he was coming out of his coma, the doctors all told us that he was probably going to be brain dead, to prepare for the worst, etc.
So, they wake him up and the nurse waves at him and says "Hi, [My dad's name], I'm Denise, I'll be your nurse." My whole family is in the room anxiously waiting to find out if he'll be able to speak. A few moments go by until finally my father lifts his head and says "Hi," to the woman. He then gestures to my cousin, who is standing on the other side of the room. "have you met de-nephew?"
I am seriously convinced that the only thing that brought him back from the coma was the overwhelming need to continue making dad jokes.
Very close friend of mine had this years ago and still lives with all kinds of shit (hair loss, major scarring, hip pain, etc). Has no idea how she got it and spent months in the hospital.
Slawd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a flesh eating bacteria once, it was horrible, The head surgeon made a pass everyday to visit me to check-up on me though, which was cool.
Pancreatic cancer. The pancreas makes - among other things - digestive enzymes. When it metastasizes to your brain, for example, it continues to make the enzymes and begins to digest your brain as if it were a cheeseburger.
danwroy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, this is a genuinely new and terrifying one for me, thanks
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:23:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, a cancer cell stays the type of cell it originated from, or, at least, a messed up version of it. You can generally tell where a cancer cell originated if you look at the inside of the cell.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I saw a thread a while back about someone getting sucked into a sink hole while he was in his bedroom. Yep that's by far the scariest thing. His brother said he could hear him screaming for a good minute or so. Imagine all of the sudden youre watching Netflix or cable (I don't discriminate) and the floor beneath you falls as well as your bed and you and you are suddenly in a pit of sand having concrete blocks and wood hit you or weigh you down as the foundation and walls to your house disintegrates from the outer edge of the sink hole. And the sand keeps piling up and up until you are completely covered with your hands above the sand trying to grab for something, anything. And then your hands feel something. Its more sand. Youre sinking and sinking while more weight piles on top of you, you try to struggle but as you sink down things just get harder and you are running out of energy fast. At this point you cant breathe but you have no other life line at this point. Things are getting dark. You know if you open your mouth sand and dirt will come rushing in and make it harder for you to breathe what fraction of oxygen that you were getting before. But at this point you have to scream. Youd do anything to live, to see light, to breathe normal.... to continue your life. You scream and scream but its no use, your brother cant do anything to help you. You sunk so fast you have no idea how deep you are but the faint cry of your brother screaming "im trying to help" sounds like hes just getting further and further away. You know at this point if he were to try anything, he would die too. You continue to scream until finally you slip onto deaths embrace.
Apparently they couldn't even recover his body it was so dangerous. They filled it with concrete and called it a day. Yep that is by far the most scariest thing. I would rather jump out of a plane into the ocean, break several bones on impact and slowly drown and get chewed to death by sharks than fall into a sinkhole. Especially unsuspecting as he did.
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I live in Florida where this shit happens pretty regularly compared to the places it doesnt happen or have a slim chance of happening in. It doesnt keep me up at night because there's hurricanes, tornados and a ton of other shit here that sucks too but sinkholes? Fuck that. So this is what came to mind.
Eh, ive been bit by a shark surfing once. It wasn't a particularly hard bite as he kinda nibbled me for a second and stopped. Its not fun but it wasn't the worst thing in the world. There was just a decent amount of blood when I got out of the water and the most painful thing was pouring alcohol on the multiple wounds and scrubbing it hard to make sure the bacteria wouldn't infect anything. At least you know whats happening. I would take anything that allowed me to understand whats happening as a death rather than being sucked into a sinkhole un-suspectingly where I just have no idea what's happening.
Holy crap man! That's hectic. I would be stoked at getting out of that so lightly. Shark attack survivor is a pretty elitist club. To clarify though I was actually referring to OP's initial scenario of falling and shattering bones on impact only to be mauled by sharks while you can do nothing. Either way, I wouldn't want either scenario in a million years!
Girtzie ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 02:48:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A blood vessel in your brain can leak or pop at any time and begin to fill your brain with blood. The only symptom is a sudden bad headache and at that point its usually too late.
That's a stroke. In an aneurysm the blood vessel actually bursts.
Most intracranial aneurysms occur between the underside of the brain and the base of the skull. The aneurysm can leak or rupture, causing life-threatening bleeding.
An unruptured aneurysm usually causes no symptoms. A key symptom of a ruptured aneurysm is a sudden, severe headache.
Treatments for an unruptured aneurysm include medications to control blood pressure and procedures to prevent a future rupture. Emergency medical care is needed for a ruptured aneurysm.
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:49:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness. Losing your grip on reality is terrifying.
I think it's scarier that that. A lot of people who have really intense mental illness issues or delusions will have what are called "moments of clarity." They suddenly become aware of reality and the current state that their lives are in. It's terrifying for them in a way, but they think that they'll finally be able to recover. Then it fades and they lose control again and go back down under.
odms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to disagree. I went through a period where I had severe depression, multiple panic attacks per day leading to agoraphobia, and insomnia. During a lot of panic attacks I would have a sort of out of body experience with a detachment from reality. Looking back on it now I consider myself to have lost grip on reality most of the time even though I knew what was happening.
Hayseus ยท 202 points ยท Posted at 02:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time.
When you need more, its never there.
When you have too much, you want less.
It erodes everything and everything.
There is no possible escape from it...and you only have a set amount to begin with.
"Try to imagine a world without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check his watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
"No god or devil is crueler than time." -Alec K. Redfearn
Onatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time is awful, and it's unfortunate because it has such a control over everyone's life. It makes people stress and worry when we should just enjoy ourselves and what we have.
Hayseus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that is impossible unless you have an adequate amount of time to do so...
Ostriches. They are like 7 foot foot tall feathered velociraptors. They have a brain smaller than a golfball and can disembowel you with one kick of their sharp taloned feet.
danwroy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine one of these idiots going after you, as you sit there holding your intestines, the shame
That must be a bizarre and upsetting scenario, having someone biting off their fingers while screaming for help at the same time because they can't stop.
This is late, and you probably already have your answer. Its like a sink, diver 1 was there when the plug was pulled, diver 2 when the sink was half full and still draining, and diver 3 got there when the sink was empty IE when the systems were almost completely of equal pressure.
When I said 'almost instantly' I was thinking of the deep ocean incident stated earlier, which was misleading.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:43 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm trying to find the diving fatality mentioned in this subreddit, where this group of people exploded in a depressurization chamber because of a human fault, do you know where it is?!
Yellowstone national park is a super volcano which is the most overdue seismic event in the world. According to Bryson's "a brief history of nearly everything", Yellowstone's cauldera is 22 miles in diameter, and has Erupted regularly every 600,000 years for the last 1.8 million years: the last eruption was 637,000 years ago; when it finally does erupt, the explosion will have the force equivalency of ~GET THIS~ A pile of dynamite the size of Rhode Island, 8 miles high. It will displace enough earth to cover most of the United States under approximately 10 feet of ash. one of the interviewed geophysicists said that the reason we love Yellowstone, are because of thermal events such as 'old faithful'. elsewhere, such events have typically been associated as warning signs of imminent eruption. So watch your pants
*edit:the grammars
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This website states that the last eruption was actually 174000 years ago.
Also : "Will the Yellowstone volcano erupt soon?
Current geologic activity at Yellowstone has remained relatively constant since scientists first started monitoring more than 30 years ago. Another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, but it is very unlikely in the next thousand or even 10,000 years. Scientists have also found no indication of an imminent smaller eruption of lava."
At the risk of sounding like a hippie; nuclear weapons. You can level a city with conventional explosives and that will be the end of it. But a nuke will have horrible lasting effects.
What makes this scarier is that international governments have nuclear bombs that they're not entirely sure the strength of. Governments haven't been able to test nuclear bombs since the 60's, but that hasn't stopped them from making them. Plus, history shows that scientists have had a pretty bad time at predicting the power of nuclear weapons. Just look at Castle Bravo. It was over double what they predicted.
Here's hoping they never have to be used.
Boonaki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:06:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually we know the maximum yield of weapon by the weight.
For every 1 kilo of warhead weight you can get a maximum of 6 kilotons of yield. Most deployed weapons are far under that yield.
Or bombs that have no lasting effects. Like neutron bombs. They can penetrate almost any material, kill any living thing, and the area will be clean in an hour.
That scares me more because factions are more likely to use them. And while fallout sucks and is nice there wouldn't be any, being exploded in a target city does not sound like my idea of a good time.
Ugh...[Shudder]
Threads. My dad had me watch that as a kid. By far the most haunting movie I've ever seen. Just thinking about it 20+ years later still makes me feel raw.
Yes. There's no fallout or lingering hazards to life; barring unexploded ordinance. With nukes, you have to take into account radiation and the massive amount of dust and debris scattered across the atmosphere.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To an extent. The lasting fallout damage is actually a lot less than previously assumed IIRC it was tested in the 50s and Ground Zero less than 2 hours after detonation had a shockingly low level of dangerous (penetrating) radiation.
Now you know what scares me about nukes? Because they terrify me. It's the inevitability of it. Once one is launched, unless we do something immediately, we've only got a few minutes till it strikes. ICBMs, especially with MIRV warheads, can wipe a city flat, maiming thousands that aren't killed outright (a mercy if you ask me). And that's not factoring those that WILL die after the bomb but haven't yet, people whose skin has been stripped off, eyes boiled, arms fused to sides and faces, who torturously are in a level of pain their brains can't even comprehend, and are doomed to die soon. Do you know what killed hundreds of initial survivors of the atomic weapons used on Japan? Drowning. Imagine this. There's a huge flash and a roar and then nothing and you are in more pain than you have ever felt on every inch of your skin. You go to raise your hand and you feel what you initially feels like clothing slough off. But it's not clothing, it's charred flesh sticking your arm to your side. Your brain is confused and you can barely see anything if anything at all, but you see people moving! People who just experienced the same thing, the same burns, and you drag yourself up and stagger after them. They move for water because that's what you do when you're burned, but this is the worst burns anyone has ever experienced. The crowd presses towards a canal and the first wave slips in, and vanishes beneath the surface, no strength to swim as the next wave does the same. Over and over again like lemmings, slipping into the water and drowning.
Bombs don't do that. Bombs kill and maim groups. They'll knock out a housing flat, and sometimes leave cluster munition to be found and kill civilians decades later (also awful), a mortar will strike a breadline and kill twenty two civilians waiting for food in a besieged city, but an atom bomb is indescriminate. If you're within the fireball you can do nothing but watch as the single streak, bearing your certain doom, gets larger and suddenly is gone, and in its place is something which can only exist to destroy.
Noob3rt ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:03:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Noises in the dark. I'm a grown ass man and anything I cannot immediately identify in the dark gets my heart racing. Everyone is saying shit scientific shit like brain-eating amoeba but nah, those noises in the dark will mess with you each and every single time.
Underwater caves. They are filled with horrifying monsters, hundreds of terrifying ways to kill you. Such things and ways include black dragonfish, which were the inspiration for fucking xenomorphs, pressure differentials that can rip you to pieces, fluid transitions that look like air pockets buy are actually fucking acid! Melt your face off acid! Earth above you that can shift and, if you're lucky crush you into a thin red film, or, if your not, trap you into a slow agonizing death of attrition on your oxygen against fucking rocks. Who you think is going to win that one? The fucking underwater cave! That's fucking who!
Collapse of civilization. As a father of a 3 year old, The Road by Cormac McCarthy scares the shit out of me.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:45:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to say there aren't real problems that need to be fixed with modern life, but people forget just how good we have it. Imagine if anyone out there could do anything to you, with you and the people close to you as your only defense? Scares the hell out of me.
I'm pretty shy and have to actively choose to get to the question again.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or if you're in the mood for more McCarthy read Blood Meridian.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:32:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny that even with an insanely more massive scale of the human population, we value a human life more than any point in history. Actually pretty uplifting.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:56:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you can put the blame on someone with this one. With sinkholes, brain-eating amoebe, and rabies there's no clear perpetrator. But when civilization collapses at least you can say "The leftists did it"
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:22:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a child die. Hell on earth, you'll never be the same, you'll never "recover". My best friend lost her daughter to cancer at 18 months old, with her daughters twin surviving, ALSO being pregnant. She's never been the same and it was the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
This happened to my daughter at the same age. Not cancer, but a tragic car accident from a drunk drive. No matter how hard you try, like you said, you will NEVER be the same. It makes you a shell of a person that no amount of therapt, time, medication, alcohol, having more kids... will fix it. Pulling them off life support... It makes the world bleak and gray everyday and you literally just live off the hope that you will see them again someday. My only wish in life is to meet the 4 kids lives she saved from donating her organs.
THAT is the scariest thing on Earth. fuck deep sea creatures.
This has to be the winner - it may be the only thing I can honestly say I'd trade my life to prevent, without hesitation. Becoming a parent changed me.
91_1LE_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If it makes you feel any better there is a theory called the multiverse. Which means there are an infinite number of universes and anything that can happen will happen. So theoretically, one day you will live again, in another universe. And theoretically, you will live many times, in many universes. And theoretically, you are living in numerous different universes at this very moment. As if, you are existing while already existing. Jesus Christ I need a dooby just thinking about this.
Supervolcanos. I think there are 2 or 3 in the USA. The fact that there is nothing we can do except for visiting yellowstone park and pray to the volcano Gods that they spare the people of earth their hot liquid fury.
Tiy991 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:58:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an utter shit hole. Crime, gangs, and drugs are everywhere. Even the local police will tell you not to stop your car in Gary, Indiana. Literally. They've said if you come to a stop light or sign in a bad area at night, do not stop your vehicle, just proceed through it with caution.
I realize this is not technically on Earth but I always like Arthur C. Clarke's quote: "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
AIDS. Seriously, the more you study it, the more you realize it is a virus that is just perfectly fine tuned to fuck you up. All the proteins it makes and expresses on its surface are designed to evade any defenses the body has. It completely hijacks the one system designed to keeps us safe. It induces cancers. Weird cancers that most other people never get. It leaves you susceptible to all sorts of odd infections from other viruses, bacteria, amoeba, fungi, etc. that can just chew away at your brain and other organs. Dying from AIDS can often be a pretty horrific death. It's getting better in the Western world with modern medicine, but it's disturbing shit.
jrwreno ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:08:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how you posted AIDS vs HIV. HIV, if treated early enough with conventional medications.....is highly controllable, and a person can have a relatively long life-expectancy with it.
AIDS, however, is HIV at its worst; when you have had a long and relatively symptom free latency period until HIV drops your CD4+ T cell count below 200 cells per ยตL, and that is when you hit the point of almost no return.
I would be more scared of something like Rabies, where if you did not receive immediate treatment for infection the day you contract it....once symptoms surface, it is a 100% morbidity rate. If you are unknowingly infected by a rabid animal, like a tiny painless bite from a rabid vampire bat....4-7 days later, you are likely starting to die.
Not to downplay the tragedy of AIDS, but nowadays HIV is VERY treatable. Current methods provide you with a viral count so low it isn't detected anymore. You remain asymptomatic forever. HIV patients actually have a slightly higher life expectency compared to genpop because HIV often makes people take care of themselves better.
But yeah, AIDS itself is horrifying. If you lack access to these modern drugs, you're totally fucked.
In theory yes. But you can take the same drug if you are not infected and almost totally reduce the chance you'll ever get infected. Lots of gay men and other at risk people take the drug truvada regularly as an hiv preventative.
The most famous of these is Kaposi's Sarcoma. It's a cancer that most people think comes from lymphatic endothelium. It's considered an AIDS defining cancer because outside of AIDS patients or severely immunocompromised patients, it is extremely uncommon. Outside of that, every once in a while you read a case study about some odd cancer that is considered highly uncommon showing up in an AIDS patient.
My friend who is a doctor told me that in terms of life expectancy and painful symptoms, she'd much rather have HIV than diabetes! The more I studied it, the more surprised I was at how controllable and manageable HIV is today with access to treatment - treatment that itself is becoming rapidly more available worldwide, but almost unquestionably readily accessed in the western world. A lot of the fear of AIDS is a hang up from the panic a few decades ago, and right now I feel that this attitude today does a lot to perpetuate stigma. I really feel that it's nowhere near the scariest thing on our earth, at least not anymore.
I would agree to this to an extent. If you have uncontrolled diabetes, you are just about guaranteed to have some pretty serious, pretty painful effects. I think that what makes AIDS so scary is that the effects it causes are almost always as incurable as the disease itself. In diabetes, you can manage hypertension, neuropathy, retinopathy, etc. with medication. With AIDS, once you start getting infected with every odd disease known to man, they're incredibly difficult to treat. There are patients who have so many infections on top of their AIDS induced cancers, doctors aren't even sure what killed the patient. Also, type 2 diabetes is reversible and noninfectious. AIDS is forever and you can catch it from anyone.
TLDR: diabetes and AIDS both suck in different ways
I mean, technically, yes. This is true. But talk to any physician of a patient who died from Kaposi's Sarcoma, toxoplasmosis, or any other AIDS defining illness and I guarantee the cause of death begins with "AIDS-complicated..." But thanks for adding that little tidbit to make yourself feel smart of the internet.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guns don't kill people, bullets don't kill people, wounds don't kill people... see you can pass the buck forever
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But goy it's "the gift", why haven't you gotten POZ'd up yet?
K3R3G3 ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:20:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Asteroids/Comets/Meteors
Any 35,000mph house-sized super dense rock that could strike our earth at any moment with no warning setting off a catclysmic chain reaction of global events wiping out 99.999% of our species and plunging us into a nuclear winter and/or ice age.
Edit: Why was this not already mentioned?! Not enough people fear and comprehend the wrath of supersonic space shit.
No idea why this is so low on the thread. I knew someone had said it, so I scrolled before I said it myself. but. fuck. our planet has been hit by them god knows how many times in its lifetime. and just take a look at the amount of pockmarks on the moon. it's made of pockmarks. all it would take is one of the right size. and I'm sorry, but I don't have any sort of confidence that we could develop or properly test a technology that would actually stop the thing. also, I'm pretty sure any person/organisation capable of spotting an asteroid that dangerous with earth in it's trajectory would have enough of a mind to keep the potential collision completely under wraps. so. you'd either burn alive (if you're close enough to the point of impact), or become a casualty of social chaos/the layer of ash blocking out the sun. and you probably wouldn't have a fucking clue it was about to happen until it got close enough for it to be obvious. crazy.
K3R3G3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:47:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got it.
Darkseh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will be testing possibilities of pushing Asteroids out of the crash course during 2023 (Sometimes in 20s ?) using probe to crash into it to try to change its course. There are more options for the smaller rocks, but for planetoids, only option we have so far is using nuclear weaponry to divert it out of crashing into the Earth.
Edit: Mind you, I am not expert. I just listened to expert talk about these possibilities on czech radio so I do not really know the details.
Was looking for this before I posted it. The fact that all life on earth has been nearly wiped out (and advanced civilizations destroyed) in cycles of 10's to 100's of thousands of years and it's only a matter of time before it happens again.
Makes you wonder how far people got in the past and how similar or different their histories were to ours...
K3R3G3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry for long link and dailymail... I'm on mobile.
Edit: or she
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It can trigger dormant volcanoes to erupt which causes the nuclear winter. Where it hits plays a huge part, such as dry land or the ocean. It has happened before and will again. Look into it. I highly recommend Randall Carlson's appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience. He spells it all out and shows the data.
Edit: I'd also look at the kind of energy such an impact would carry. I think you're hugely underestimating it. How dense it'd be and, thus, the mass of something that size at 35 times the speed of a pistol bullet. And the effects on weather from atmospheric debris from the impact.
Scary shit. I'm 24, M, but I will tell you this, if I had a child, and my baby went missing, the dread would haunt me. I hope no one ever has to go through this, and it saddens me that a lot of people do. Edited: spellings.
I would literally become Liam neison and kill who ever I had to to get my baby back. As a Christian it scares me that I would have zero issues killing someone who took my kid.
solzhe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it might be worse if you didn't even know they were abducted. Like everyone saw your kid get off the school bus but the kid never arrived home.
Depression. The fact that sometimes I'm really sad and there's nothing I can do about it. Knowing that I'll have to deal with that feeling and constantly battle it the rest of my life terrifies me to no end.
danwroy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I had a dream about being chased by a black bear. I didn't freak out beaucse black bears are the overweight, hoodie-wearing version of the species. They're too slopey and berry-loving to frighten me.
Edit: "Startled black bears run away, often to a tree... making grizzlies over 20 times more dangerous." - bear.org
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:35:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of how dumb the average person is. Now imagine that 50% of the world is dumber than that, and that those people work in the government, handle your taxes, teach your children, and own firearms.
The fact that Donald Trump is running for President, and a surprising amount of people actually seem to be OK with it.
ZachB15 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like seriously, can you even imagine the stuff he's gonna start. Not to mention the fact that he thinks we should torture and kill terrorist's families and he wants to keep Guantanamo open.
'The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
Baikeru ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hospitals. I know that's clichรฉ, but I just spent five months in one with cancer. The cancer actually wasn't the scary part, I wasn't even worried about that (they caught it early and now it's mostly gone, and now I'm back home and back at work). It was the endless hours laying down alone. I eventually lost use of my legs and had to relearn to walk. About three months in I ended up buying a 3DS off Amazon just for something to do. I didn't know until after I got it that it has Netflix and Hulu apps, which was a huge plus. But those were the five scariest months of my life.
As an oncology nurse your comment makes me sad. I don't know how to help my patients through the months of boredom and alone time.
Do you have any suggestions to help me help my long-term patients better?
Baikeru ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:08:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I took some time to really think about this answer before commenting. The only thing I can think of is just spending more time with the patients. I know you can't spend every moment with every patient, but those were some great moments, when a nurse would come in just to chat. In fact, I got so close to my nurses that I have a couple of them added on Facebook and we still talk regularly now. :)
It's not guaranteed, but it is a very good chance. If your cat is an indoor cat, from an indoor cat, it probably doesn't, as a toxo vaccine is part of the standard regimen. My girl was a feral and she doesn't have it.
It is transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and it's not just cats that transmit it
The more worrying thing about this is there are multiple companies trying to turn it into a pest control for crops.
Think GMO plants that were bred produce these spores, these spores I think are one of the scariest things in nature and adding it into the food supply scares the hell out of me honestly.
If a zombie apocalypse ever happens it strikes me this could be the way.
testa12 ยท 182 points ยท Posted at 03:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suicidal depression and how prevalent it is in men.
And men's health in general. It just gets no exposure no one talks about it and nothing gets done.
sa130r ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First and foremost let your most trusted/closest person in your life know what you're going through. That was the thing that started me on the path to recovery from my "mental health rock bottom"
Cproo12 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll add that if you don't have somebody to trust, a therapist is also a great alternative for most people. /r/MMFB (Make me feel better) is also a subreddit for those needing to just vent and get help feeling better.
If it can be of any help to you, I suffered from depression for most of my life and for me it was the buddhist meditation with the mantra Nam MyoHo RenGe Kyo that really helped me. I guess there must be other mantras, there are tons of buddhists schools, but I like the ternary rythm of this one. And also, I never cared to try another type of meditation. It adds a ritual of around half an hour in the morning and in the evening in your life and when you practice it every day you'll fell gradually better and better.
In itself, the mantra means in japanese "I devot myself to the marvelous law of the lotus sutra" and comes from a buddhist monk named Nichiren.
I'm an atheist with zero belief in any kind of afterlife, so I don't really get along with buddhists organisations (there are several schools who follow the teachings of Nichiren). But I'm grateful for what it actually accomplished in my life.
It is not a cure though. Many times, I stopped practicing the mantra and depression creepled back in. But my life is normal and I wouldn't have had a family nor the job I have today If it weren't for it.
Good luck to you, I know your pain and it is indeed a fearful sickness.
testa12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. I've lived with chronic depression my entire adult life. Medication helps, but thoughts of suicide are a part of my daily thinking. Sucks.
Krypson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
been thinking of that everyday since I was a kid. not intrusive thoughts?
sokeydo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
20-25% of all people suffer from depression at some point during their life. That's like 2 billion people on Earth
lzrae ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me, my mom, and my brother keep each other alive. Sometimes I feel like everyone is suicidal, and some people are just better at hiding it.
I just have to appreciate that there are people who care about me. Sometimes I resent it, because I can't leave them like that. I'm still pissed at my stepdad for quitting out, and I'd be damned if I did that to my family.
I just want to hug somebody who's feeling like that right now. I wish I could help.
I think everyone thinks about death, naturally. We consider ways to avoid it, to delay it. We fantasize about cancelling it completely. We develop methods to stay it away or steal life back away from it even after it claims someone.
I think most of us also consider what the difference in the world would be, not only to those close to us, but also in a more general sense.
Some lucky few of us look at all of the things listed in this whole thread and think, "That wouldn't be so bad." This way of thinking isn't actually suicidal, it's just pro-death. It's like we're on the precipice and tipping one way or the other wouldn't make much of a difference.
I'm taking steps to try to land more on the "life" side of this teeter-totter, rather than the side of oblivion. I don't blame society, I don't blame gender, or race, or age, or politics, or laundry detergent commercials, or religion, or nutrition. I don't blame anything at all.
Take care of yourself, lzrae.
lzrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:46 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I forgot to reply to this, but it really stuck with me. I appreciate it. Life gets hard sometimes, but I constantly try to make it better, not just for me, but for anyone around me. If I can make other people happy, I'm even happier. Friends or strangers.
Speaking of, I've started doing game giveaways for people who have Steam. I'm not popular or rich, but I hope someone will appreciate it. If you're interested in that, or know someone who would be, pm me. Not gonna bother you about it otherwise, don't worry! Just wanna give gifts to people I appreciate. I'm putting up a link to Deus Ex and DE: Human Revolution later today on Steamgifts.com
My job is IT. I know what's wrong with it. It's just easier at this point to replace it than attempt to fix it. Yet the ease of replacing gets harder and harder when ya gotta pay for food, glasses, etc for the kids and engine parts and tires for the car, and... etc.
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:31 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah they just found the one demographic in America whose life expectancy is declining rather than rising, it's working-class middle-aged white men. They're dying in staggering numbers from suicide and addiction, as well as generally poor health from obesity, poor diet, smoking, etc.
Not really... Eligible whites actually utilize social welfare benefits slightly more than eligible people of color. The government has abandoned all the poor, not just the white poor.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No... There's no race-based social welfare programs in the United States. Anyone who is below a certain income can qualify for subsidized housing, food stamps, unemployment benefits, SS disabilty and old age benefits, Medicaid, cash welfare to families.
testa12 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why you're being downvoted when it's true.
chubbsw ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Don't be a pussy." Comedian Bill Burr really touches on this topic in a hilarious way about how men aren't allowed to think puppies are cute and shit in the same way women are, etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's becaue humans have an instinct to protect and care for children and women. So yeah. Funny thing I read about my area however, is that our homless shelter only allows the men to sleep over. Eventually humans pull their heads out of their asses I suppose, here and there.
[deleted] ยท -36 points ยท Posted at 03:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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testa12 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:48:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've found the female doctors are the only ones who will take the time.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And tough guys who think, "Any man who can't take care of his problems isn't a man at all."
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:35:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spent 2 years doing this to myself while struggling with depression and all I did was lump on so much self-hate that it made everything 10 times worse. Don't be ashamed to ask for help and be vulnerable. It could save your life.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:41:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True story. It's that fucking bullshit attitude that's killing guys.
Stupidity combined with empathy and ignorance. It leads to nice people doing terrible things thinking they are helping when in reality they are making things FAR FAR worse.
Cancer. You never know when you might suddenly have it and it could end your life. It will almost certainly affect someone you know or even someone very close to you at some point in your life and fate is never certain once it intrudes into your personal life.
The gastric acid in our stomach.
It has a pH of approx. 1-3 and if it wasn't for the mucus lining in the stomach and other neutralising factors in the duodenum, it would start eroding us from within.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:16 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once knew a kid whose stomach acid kept coming up his esophagus to the point where he had to have surgery because it had eroded his throat and was very painful.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the scariest thing on earth though.
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many people get dissolved alive by their own stomach acid?
How many people get buried alive in sinkholes, or caught by terrorist groups and tortured?
Which one is more likely to happen?
Which represents more danger (because it is more likely to happen)?
Which should we be more scared of (because it represents more danger)?
Leharen ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying a slow, agonizing death. Just knowing that you're going to die and whatever's doing it is taking its sweet time killing you must feel horrible. I'd take a quick death over a slow one any day.
Some 18 year old wanted to explore a locked cabin, so he decided to climb down the chimney. Got stuck halfway down, never made it out. Authorities believed that he heard them searching, as they walked by the cabin multiple times. They also believe he died from dehydration, so he could have been alive for over a week. He was finally discovered by the people who owned the cabin (They used it for vacation) when bones started showing up in the fireplace.
Mxxx12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:40:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone dude, 1000 cubic km of magma and an eruption 2500x bigger than mt. st hellens. US first, then the globe will be real fucked and its a time bomb
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Donald will just build a wall around yellowstone. Problem solved.
ender89 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervolcano. There are several supervolcanos around, and if any of them blow, the whole world is fucked. Yellowstone national park is one, and when it goes, the entire continental US is toast immediately; followed by the rest of the world as the shear volume of ash that gets dispersed in the upper atmosphere blocks out the sun long enough for most of civilization to starve to death. Also, fun fact, Yellowstone national park is measurably rising in the way that the top of a volcano expands before an eruption.
What is called a "limnic eruption", when organisms die at the bottom of a lake and eventually becomes methane. The high pressure creates a liquid layer of methane which rests on the bottom. Due to an unknown reason, these lakes can overturn and release tons of methane into the air. The methane is more dense than air and settles on the ground. This suffocates anyone within a very wide radius (think 10+ miles). It has happened before, where an entire village went to bed for the night and nobody woke up. It is the only naturally occurring method of mass asphyxiation.
I realize, cars are more likely to kill you. I realize the odds of me being in a plane crash are infinitesimal. It doesn't matter because if I did die in a plane, to me, that would be the most horrific death I could have.
Imagine a nice drive in your car. You're coming down an old country road. You look over, a beautiful bird lights on a BLAM
YOU'RE DEAD.
Really not so bad in the great scheme of things. Not a horrendous way to go.
Now, you're on a plane, afraid of them to begin with so your blood pressure is already up. You sit down, the captain comes on says yadda yadda yadda. You take off. Maybe this isn't so bad.
Turbulence. Oh god. What? I really am going to die (but in the back of your mind you think nah, I'm just overreacting). Violent turbulence. The oxygen masks drop. You hear a loud groaning.
BLAM.
Part of the engine has exploded, it has flown off and through the cabin. The noise of air rushing is deafening. The voices of children crying somehow still comes through. You're hit in the face with someone's vomit as you look back, you see the gaping hole, and worse, you notice the ground, the sky, the ground, the sky, the ground, the sky showing through the now massive and ever widening hole.
You think of the children and how fucking awful it is that they're going to die in a few moments. You think of your wife and kids and how awful it's going to be when someone tells your wife, and when she in turn tells your kids. How hard that's going to be for her. Then you really let it sink in.
This plane is definitely crashing. I'm definitely going to die today.
I'm going to die today.
Die? I'm going to die?
You think perhaps there's a way out of it. You search in shock and panic under your seat for something that will save you. The plane's spinning is leaning you over in a grotesque fashion so the only place you can look is under your seat.
The hole widens and more people fly out, still strapped into their seats.
Nothing can save you, you know. There's nothing to do but wait.
You pray. Maybe you've been agnostic your whole life. You pray to whatever might be able to provide a miracle. But it's not in the cards for you.
You think of how you didn't travel. You'll never see scotland. You were only traveling now for fucking training in Wisconsin. You're angry now. Angry at yourself, at the fucking airline for killing you.
You're crying hot burning tears. You see the ground is almost here through the spinning hole. You close your eyes. You can only think of two words.
The botfly. Imagine larva burrowing through your brain, which feels nothing so you are blissfully unaware as your most intimate self is irrevocably masticated. Only risky, invasive brain surgery can save you now, but nothing can recover what was lost.
With global warming, the botfly will migrate north...
Fuck off, man. Fuck right off with all of that. Canada may be one of the only safe places left on Earth. We just got Harper out of office, we don't need to be worrying about those little bug rapist bullshits now. Fuck.
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Any street named after someone who was assassinated. Lincoln, Kennedy, MLK.. People usually get shot on those streets.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:30:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's another correlation there besides assassination: if they were a leader in civil rights. Which all of these people were.
African American neighborhoods disproportionately have lower income, and tend to have higher crime. And also, streets named after leaders in civil rights.
Case in point: my city has a Henry Johnson Boulevard, which runs right through some of the worst neighborhoods in the state. Henry Johnson was a black solider in World War I and repelled a German counterattack by himself, sustaining 21 wounds and saving a fellow soldier, and his only weapon was his fists.
phoenix, az never had one, but last year they decided to give one street the name MLK Blvd ceremonially (so it's not official, but the signs are on the road now along with the official name). and it just so happens they picked a street through a very terrible part of town...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed out loud when I found out they chose Broadway.
Every Broadway I've been on has been sketchy as hell. It's like they did that on purpose...
My town is too small and too white to have an MLK street, we just have a tiny little King Street a couple blocks from "downtown" (the grocery store) full of run-down housing
Most US cities rename a somewhat major street after MLK because, well, MLK should have a street named after him. But cities usually pick a street in a heavily black area of town (because you know, white people would NEVER regard MLK as a historical figure /s), and the honest truth is that the heavily black neighborhoods of most US cities experience high levels of poverty and associated high levels of crime. It's even reached the point that there's almost kind of a conventional wisdom in the US that you shouldn't get off the freeway at the MLK exit regardless of which city you're in. So yeah, it's misguided and regrettable, but "Martin Luther King Blvd." is usually not a great area.
Come to Georgia (USA)....... we have an MLK named street in every town and multiples in Atlanta. They almost out number the amount of times Peachtree shows up on a street sign.
Source: born, raised, and still living in Georgia....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rochester's got Avenue D. I always called it the Detroit section of Roc's Detroit-meets-Portland undertones.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The street you really want to look out for is shit like Malcolm X Drive
Cone snails. They have the most toxic venom on earth and have killed tons of fishermen who accidentally catch them and swimmers who accidentally step on them.
Conus geographus (the Cigerette Snail) has venom so powerful that if stung, you have about the time it takes to smoke a cigerette before you die, and because there is no reliable way to extract venom from the snail without killing it, there are no anti-venoms available.
Here is a video of a cone snail eating a fish, it's venom works instantly, the fish is digested while still alive (but paralyzed): www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zgbn_QffM
Maybe not necessarily real, depending on what you believe but it's religion for me. People of all religions believe that theirs is the one true religion. But there's tons of them. I was raised to believe that Jesus Christ is my savior but that's only because that's how my culture is. The fact that I might get damned to hell solely because I don't know whether or not I believe in the right religion scares the shit out of me
In Islam you're not condemned to hell. There will be non muslims in heaven. The only way you get condemned is if you know islam is true and you deny it.
Wish that we're true. There would be a lot less explosions. According to Islam, non-muslims only get death for their transgression. The Qur'an repeatedly calls for violence against non-believers.
I'm sad that's the exposure and explanations you were provided about Islam.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islamic law and the hadith call for women to be treated like cattle. People are still stoned to death in accordance with sharia jurisprudence. Prove I'm wrong and I'll convert on the spot.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The powerful men that created these religions knew this, and used it as the most effective behavioral control mechanism ever implemented. You have nothing to worry about. Well, maybe, but nothing any man has ever witnessed.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because something seems like it "should" exist, like God, an afterlife or justice, doesn't make it real.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:54:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that how you sleep every night? You know you will be questioned for every little deed you did in your life. It's amazing how people think that we exist for no reason at all and have no consequences of our actions.
sarge26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:57 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk man, he goes to sleep believing people who do truly evil shit in the world will not be held accountable for their actions, whereas you believe justice will be served. So you tell me who needs the presence/omission of God as a tool to distort reality so as to cope with it ?
sh2nn0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find solace in believing that we are all right, basically. Culture and language (along with human tampering) make it all seem a great more different than it is. Just my opinion of course.
Take solace in the fact that everyone has a different view on the topic. It's good evidence that nobody has the right answer because the entire concept is bogus, man-made nonsense. To take a line from FDR, the only thing you have to fear is fear itself, because that's what keeps you thinking about it.
If there is a divine creator, he would rather see the path you took, and the choices you made, have faith in yourself, not 1000 year old manipulated ideologies.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:54:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 06:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Ha, can you believe there are really people that worry about an invisible man in the sky? And how other people live their lives? How silly! I need to make sure nobody lives their lives in this fashion. And sometimes I stay up at night worrying about things I don't believe. And people that are happy for the wrong reasons make me so mad! And..."
I feel bad for atheists. They believe there is no higher power, and still spend their lives getting ulcers over it.
i have a serious fear of this. my grandfather got dementia and forgot a lot of people in his life and my mom is slowly getting older and forgetting more and morre shit nothing significant yet but its getting there. i hate forgetting anything cause i start getting this feeling that it can and/or will happen to me in like 30-40 years.
I'm no doctor, so feel free to disregard the rest of this post, but I would suggest:
Staying social, and having meaningful stimulating enjoyable new conversations and interactions
Other mentally stimulating activities. Maybe learning how to program or how to play an instrument. Maybe try creative writing.
Have new, exciting experiences. Make sure your brain can't just be on autopilot 100% of the time day in and day out
Be immersed in nature. Go on hikes, spend a little time in the sun, maybe do some gardening, sometimes just chill in the outdoors. Go to the beach, walk in the woods, sit next to a pond.
Finally, of course, eating healthy and exercising are probably good
Approved by the most extreme of douchebags. I am not liable for any harm or death that may result from following this advice.
thekram ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 01:10:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only does this thing mess you up, its aggressive as hell.
As an Australian it amazes me how often we just shrug off the danger and go outside
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeaaaah, but having lived in Australia for the last couple of years, seems to me like these things have the potential to hurt when they want, but mostly they're just too chilled out to. Unless you really piss them off or freak them out then you're screwed.
As an Australian it amazes me how often we just shrug off the danger and go outside
im not from there but isnt only so much of it populated then rest is dontfuckinggoovertherewild life?
thekram ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:31:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the population is on the seaboard that's true.
The rest of it is so beautiful though if you ever get the chance to come to Australia you are missing out if you only stay in the cities we have some absolutely stunning landscapes and so much of our nature is endemic to Australia.
wertexx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:57:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but read what he wrote, aren't those beautiful landscaped the places where all the nasty stuff hide? You are safe in a city from what I understood, but going into the nature isn't something that safe?
thekram ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess its hard to answer as an Australian, I understand there are risks but I sorta just shrug say "Fuck it" and go look at the pretty stuff.
wertexx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:54:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea it's different, I'm front a country that doesn't have anything that can hurt. The most dangerous thing around that we can face is a... fox. I THINK there might be wolves somewhere but am unsure, never heard of it. Spiders, snakes, drop bears, venomous poisonous whatever, nothing I have ever encountered. It's probably why things like that look scary for me.
In the last two cities I've lived in I've had brown snakes in my yard. They're little fuckers.
wertexx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure how venomous brown snakes are but I assume they no good :(
thekram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2nd most venomous snake in the world.
The first venomous (according to wiki) is the indian taipan, which is pretty shy. The brown snake though wants to fuck people up. Its like a super bogan. Except a snake.
wertexx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
???????
I'll insert a joke of why you haven't burnt your house, but a serious question how one lives walking distance to something that can (and want?) to kill you in seconds.
thekram ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think another comment in this chain nailed it pretty well though, a lot of the stuff that can kill you simply doesn't want to.
The eastern brown snake I used as an example is an odd one because it is hyper aggressive but I saw a really neat description the other day. Its more of a hyper-aggressive defence, it doesn't want to bite you / kill you, I mean why would it you are heaps bigger it doesnt want to risk getting messed up ---- BUT if you get too threatening (the real problem is pregnant snakes) they would rather get the first hit in.
It drops its leaves, which spread a flammable oil and some poison around. This starts a wildfire, which kills all the competition except the extremely fire resistant eucalyptus tree.
Yes, I did a ton of cocaine ~2 years, and due to a medical issue thought I couldnt do it anymore. Turns out I can and have done it twice in the past month in a half, pretty moderate first time, a good amount second time.
Fuck man, I loved it again, until I was coming down and had the most unceccesary terrible anxiety that was rooted in nothing more than the chemical I had consumed.
I don't mind feeling shit the next day so much as the overwhelming anxiety that the come down produces, probably should grab some benzos for next time...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who raises them as a hobby, you should give them another chance. They are not dangerous to humans at all and in fact are quite intelligent and consume many pests.
Thing is, I know they are not dangerous. The spiders in my country have claws (hope that's correct) so tiny they couldn't penetrate human skin. And they are useful. But I'm still scared to shit if I see one.
R0da ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tiny babies!!
Druston ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Totally just squealed over the baby. Baby spiders are so goddamn cute, especially jumpers!
Really? Jumping Spiders are arguably the most docile type of spider out there. They're harmless to humans, they don't leave webs, they don't eat people-food, and they keep your home pest-free. :)
If you bug them they will show you how "harmless" they are.
I shared a flat with one only as big as a saucer. They get to be the size of dinner plates and there's rumors of a few as big as a serving platter (somebody knows somebody who knows somebody who saw it type of thing).
nancyaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes. So they do bite? They are not an issue here in California, and I'm thankful.
They usually only bite to defend themselves or their nest (as far as I know). If you back them in a corner they will come out fighting. If you step on them they will bite.
Death... knowing that after this there is possibly nothing after this. Just silence and darkness. One minute your alive and the next nothing.. it's truly scary to think about it. It'd keep me up alot of nights and I'd cry alot too because I mean who wouldn't with something like that. I try not to think about it cause it still scares me to this day.
Yep. Absolutely scary - and very few people even know what it is.
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VioDes ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 01:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say ManBearPig, but you've got it already.
VioDes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah damn is it too late to change my answer?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:27 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the fall last year and how it seemed like it lasted about a week? Well that's pretty much the norm now. Because of global warming fall as we knew it is gone. By 2050 it is projected that the ice caps will completely melt during the summer. It has already begun.
VioDes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:38 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles. Think about it. A one ton 15 foot sub-aquatic dinosaur relative that waits for hours underwater for someone or something to drink, obviously something we all need to do.
They then strike with one of the strongest bite forces in the animal kingdom take you under water then all proceed to rip you apart while you're still alive with a death roll. They're the perfect assassin.
Populations of people who live near them know of crocodiles who constantly hunt humans.
To me, that I can totally be in mad love with a person and how my whole world is about them. But, to them, I may just be a small fling while they are going through a divorce. Knowing that my entire heart and mind is devoted to one person and they have the power to destroy me.
Kjmcgee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"300 seconds will produce a relatively quick death, which is better than many alternatives.
After just 30 seconds of exposure, dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two minutes of exposure and your cells will soon begin to hemorrhage; four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. 300 seconds and you have two days to live."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it labeled as the most radioactive thing on Earth at one point?
jeffy44 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe so. 30 years later it is still burning through the concrete foundation. During the meltdown I'm pretty sure it reached 2300 degree C, and has maintain 1600 for some time. I honestly don't understand how you wouldn't spontaneously com bust before the radiation killed you.
Its ok bby, only dreams now. I wish I had this username earlier in my internet career, honestly. Ive had so many dumb internet names. This one is my favorite though. Plus, it should stay relevant longer than my old Wheel of Time/ Lord of the Rings names.
I'm doing well enough. I had a very intense negative experience several years ago that very nearly broke me. I got through it, but it really drove home how horrifying it is to question reality. Sorry to hear about your own experiences, but glad you found support.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anytime you want to talk, I'm here.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about thinking you may be going crazy, but not having the money to see a doctor about it?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone with schizoaffectve disorder I fully understand what you mean. It is scary like walking around knowing at any moment you could black out for hours at a time doing stuff you'll never find out. I've been so scared d of getting pregnant or raped and not knowing about and then end up struggling to raise a kid. Being crazy stinks, but thank God for medicine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you going through?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity. Think of what can intentionally destroy the entire living existence on this planet. Every act of nature cannot be intentional because it has to happen for balance to maintain homeostasis. Animals eat other animals to balance life. Every living thing on this planet remains in check because of every other living thing on this planet. Except for humans. We stepped outside of that checks and balances system ages ago with the development of large scale agriculture and division of labor. Why we can intentionally destroy every living thing on this planet is not because we have to; we don't have to do a single thing. We can do it because we choose to. The power of choice is the greatest strength and the greatest weakness.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:24:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No such homeostasis exists. Species go extinct constantly, the planet has murdered most of it's life five times, our cars are fueled by the mass slaughter of generations of animals.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:31:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine sitting on your couch and literally the ground just starts shaking underneath you. Things that aren't strapped down are thrown around easily, buildings shake, it's like a time bomb primed and ready to go off anytime.
People in Earthquake zones (Like California) are equipped and should be ready (Wardrobes secured to the wall), but people who rarely get earthquakes aren't.
Most people think earthquakes are like what they see in movies and on TV, they are nowhere near that.
99 percent of the earthquakes I have been in I barely even noticed. My wife has to bring it up to me sometimes "did you feel that? It was an earthquake" which I usually call bullshit on then look it up and sure as shit, it was a 2.0....They usually last about a second, and just a little rolling or wobble. The one in 89 was like a giant rolling ride, it fucked stuff up. But those are like a once in a lifetime event.
I agree that most aren't a big deal, but it is pretty scary to imagine the earth's plates moving like that.
I used to live in California and experienced a few myself, and was excited when I could barely feel the one that hit DC a few years ago. But if you aren't ready for one and in an earthquake zone you could be seriously hurt when a large item isn't secured falls.
I was in the Washington State nisqually earthquake of 2001, it was a 6.9. Wasn't that big of a deal. I was in the 7th grade at the time, in class.
savo137 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:15:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes. The groung just randomly decided to swallow up houses and people and animals for no apparent reason. You could just be chilling at the house and then bam! You're trapped 100 feet underground. That's absolutely terrifying.
Kmc2958 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:59:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death. Like where the actual fuck do we go or what happens. We have no facts on this no science or research other than you are done. Just don't exist anymore.
A lot less had been explained by science in the past.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest thing is realizing how completely insignificant the entire planet is in size to even the smallest of stars, and knowing that the eventual heat death of the universe will leave us drifting through a cold and empty void. And that is only if we learn to get along with each other and the other forms of life on this planet. Then somehow learn how to colonize other planets (which are millions of light-years away and would take generations of spaceflight to reach) before the eventual violent death of our own star engulfs the earth in fire.
The fact that you can be falsely accused of a crime that is testimony only and be convicted and spend many years in prison. You can say you will never commit a crime but you can't say you won't be accused of one.
Suqleg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, any phone call during the night is always bad.
Sixray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this gave me an instinctive lurch in my stomach that brought back bad memories. having had this happen several times in the last couple years makes me feel fear any time I see a new message from family on my phone.20
Humans. Incredibly dangerous; super scary. Very smart (relative to other species), but unable to resist a bent toward destruction (their own, as well as the word at large), able to imagine and manifest seemingly unlimited horrors, and despite being completely capable (intellectually) of avoiding their own annihilation (as well as that of other species and the planet at large), they take very few steps toward preservation of the species in the long term, seeming to contradict their own biological imperative -- unwilling to awknowedge that nearly every problem they have could be solved by self-regulating (reducing) their global population. People are scary.
Not sure why you're getting down-voted. You're not wrong. I work in the medical field and this is a very real threat that science is trying to get ahead of.
Didn't even know I was getting downvoted. Too many people on Reddit who think a downvote validates their own opinion. And the top vote is for a tree. Something that can easily be avoided. But yeah, the last time I got really sick it was scary to think about how much worse it would be if I was an older person or if it was a mutated virus that we couldn't do anything about. Such a tiny thing, with so much power.
HiImYury ยท 1002 points ยท Posted at 23:38:03 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The idea of Donald Trump possibly being in charge of the strongest Super Power in the world.
Edit: thank you for Reddit gold! Never knew I'd sit at the cool kids table.
The worst case scenario is actually that he gets the stuff done that he's saying he will and that he ruins any positive reputation the US might have somewhere in the world.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:04:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There's a hell of a lot more to a president's job than working with congress. A president can't even introduce bills. But a president can start a war (and don't give me that bullshit about only congress can declare war because the us hasn't declared war since 1941).
A president is a hell of a lot more than the bills he can sign into law and to think otherwise is just plain dumb.
So bear in mind that given that he can start wars and that if he does something dumb enough, then yes, the world could quite literally end. And while I don't think he's quite dumb enough for something like that, that's not something worth taking a chance on.
Trump is actually the least likely candidate on the Republican ballot to start a fucking war. His policies are very pro-foreign relations.
Then you have Cruz, the evangelical nutjob who thinks Russia is the antichrist and Rubio who seems like a complete moron without an individual thought in his brain.
But keep meme-ing about how Trump is the next Hitler because you choose to believe everything you read on reddit and don't do an iota of research on people's actual platform.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pro foreign relations? Are you fucking kidding me? Dude wants to start trade wars, build a wall, and talks about wanting to bully other countries.
RaePie ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:20:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly... Imagine how sick of it he'll be when Trump is president. We'll have to hear about it every fucking day for 4/8 years.
Lumin0s ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we get trump for two terms im chopping my dick off.
_MUY ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:18:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't think an elected leader can use that position as a stepping stone to consolidate power, or that democracies can fail if they elect the wrong leaders, then I advise you to read up on history.
At least we can make fun of the president again. Remember Bush? He was constantly a laughing stock. Obama certainly gets his fair share of criticism but he doesn't really get made fun of like Bush, because of his more mild temperament and also possibly because people don't want to be seen as racist.
No, he just continued it and added a few trillion to the National Debt. No big deal though, really they're all the same. That's why people are supporting Trump, he might screw us over, but every other candidate up there on both sides absolutely will screw us over. And he's saying things that people want to hear.
_MUY ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people aren't supporting Trump, the people really hate Trump. They hate him. It's unreal how much the people really hate the guy. I say, just look at the polls. Look at the numbers. He's despised. He's despised, okay?
Yeah being able to form coherent sentences helps a lot.
_MUY ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me translate that to Trumpish for you:
"I tell you whatโlook at itโyou look at these people. They can't even form a coherent sentence! I say. Look. You have to, be able to form, a coherent sentence. I have the greatest sentences. Aren't they great? Ann Coulterโwho I adore. She's an unbelievable authorโshe really loves my sentences."
ademnus ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4/8 years? It won't take nearly that long for a military coup to depose him.
_MUY ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There won't be a military coup. He's a leader, the military will commit war crimes if he tells them to. He's going to open up the libel laws. It won't be legal to write anything negative about him, so no one will have any idea he's doing it. The military will be too busy siphoning oil out of Iraq and Syria to come home and defend their families, but there wouldn't be a point anyway. Military families will be very taken care of. They'll only be seeing positive messages from their spouses. And if someone tries to talk about what a horrible job Trump is doing, he'll just shut down parts of the internet.
Flawless plan.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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_MUY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, tongue-in-cheek. I take politics seriously and Trump has all the hallmarks of a dictator in the making. He's said all these things and you can never tell where his true ambitions lie.
In defense of his assertion that the military should be committing war crimes, Trump said that the military would commit those acts if he commanded them to, because he is a leader.
At a rally in Ft Worth, Tx, he said he plans to open up the libel laws to allow him to sue journalists for writing what he considers to be negative stories, hit pieces, and lies.
He stated several times that he wants the military to seize the oil in the territory between the Levant and Iraq and using it to fund the military's noncombat systems (wounded warriors sorts of things).
His strategy to combat the flow of information and organization across the globe between terrorist cells is to shut down parts of the internet. He's also been a staunch defender of the NSA surveillance program and 'figured out very quickly' that Edward Snowden is a spy who needs to be captured.
His plan for the military is to basically restructure the entire military budget to make the military more powerful for the same amount of money by cutting programs.
He wants totally closed borders, total control over immigration, a 'complete shutdown' of 25% of the world's population entering the US, etc.
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pipe dreams. Sick fascistic pipe at dreams at that. He's not even got a chance to win.
I'm fucking sick of the possibility of Hillary being president.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 04:20:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm not stoked on it but my two cents is she's the best realistic choice
I wish O'Malley would have been able to have more support. Dude is smart, did well as governor, had good positions, and didn't do anything good awful like Clinton has. He'd be more conservative than I am but I'd have voted for him in a heartbeat.
Ted Cruz is crazier, Marco Rubio is just an idiot, and John Is living in a world where he's already won the election.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:35:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think cruz is crazier. If anything he's more consistent and is clearly actually a very intelligent person. I mean dude has argued in front of the supreme court.
Rubio does seem rather childish but at this point I think he's the best republican choice. He's not too far right of center (too far for my liking, but I am very liberal). He's fairly intelligent and not a born again Christian.
I like kasich a little more than Rubio because he's not quite as much of a dumbass when it comes to climate change but he's otherwise hopeless.
Honestly I'd have been stoked if it was O'Malley vs. Paul.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't understand how there is no sort of neutral council or something for potential candidates. We are joking about the whole thing now, but some people are actually stupid enough to vote for Trump. I mean, what meaningful thing has he really done in his life that makes him a suitable president for a powerhouse like the US?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not so worried about what he'd do as far as helping enact laws beyond signing bills into law that most republicans would favor. I'm more concerned about how he sets the way we act with other countries. Also there's been a continual trend since teddy Roosevelt toward consolidating executive power and I'm concerned about how much he'd be able to get away with.
Britain agrees. It would be embarrassing for you, terrifying for everyone else. Unless you are white and elitist; then you are laughing.
Andrado ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then move somewhere that doesn't democratically elect its leaders. Otherwise you have to accept there will always be a chance that someone you don't like is elected. I think every candidate in both parties is a massive disappointment and America deserves much better, but I respect the process even when I disagree with it.
emdave ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not a case of 'someone we don't like' - it's a case of someone totally unsuitable for the role!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:35:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also sick of people say: you don't like it then move!
Andrado ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 03:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All I'm saying is you either accept the status quo or you work to change it. Nobody is interested in hearing what you don't like if you're not committed to doing something about it. Otherwise it's just complaining, and there are way too many passive complainers in this country who we would be better off without.
There are millions of idiots that think a Trump presidency will bring about the end of the world. Millions of others say the same about Sanders, Cruz, Rubio, or Hillary getting elected, and it's stupid. It will make very little difference in the long run.
testa12 ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:05:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is a result of people being sick of the bulshit politically correct world they live in. Leftists only have themselves to blame for trump.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:22:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, you don't get to blame democrats for it. Democrats have moved more to the right I'd anything. The people to blame are those afraid of outsiders (read foreigners) and those that dislike the normal political discourse so much they'll look past lies and falsehoods because they mistake his lies for a "straight shooter"
testa12 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I said leftists. I'm not even from America. But the fact that people can't say they don't want foreigners living near them out loud is exactly why they're voting for a guy who will.
It's nothing to do with fear and everything to do with not wanting your country and culture to turn to shit. You can be tolerant all you want pal, but I don't want to live on a street full of Muslims from the Middle East. Because their culture is fucked and I want nothing to do with it. You can't say that out loud without being called a racist and a bigot by leftists. So don't scratch your heads when people like me vote in a guy who will.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's valuing your culture and then there's racism. What's more is this not a place that's always had a homogeneous culture
testa12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is also genuinely not wanting to live in, near or around some cultural groups. That's not racism. It's no different to not liking carrots.
This romantic notion of submersing yourself in other cultures in order to show your social media circle what a good little tolerant peace loving humanitarian you are is fucking bulshit. If that's you, go for it. More power to you. Nothing is stopping you from getting on a plane and living in beirut for a year. But I've seen enough of the world and lived in enough of it now to know that I don't want more than half of it anywhere near me or my family. And I'll vote for someone who will make that happen. And so will millions of others who have half a brain and a bit of world experience.
And as i said originally, the fact that even remotely criticising or admitting you don't like another culture gets you labelled everything just short of Hitler is exactly why you have trump now.
So instead of people being able to openly discuss the negetive impacts of certain cultures we all have to pretend they're all awesome lest we be publicly outed as a racist. And because of that, no political leader has touched the issue in decades.
So now you don't get a reasonable candidate who will tackle the issue with tact and logic you get a nutbag who is going to build a wall as he's the only one with the balls to say what everyone is thinking.
Good luck with Trump. And i'll give you a free piece of advice. Every time you call another person who criticizes a cultural group a bigot or a racist or just generally shut down their opinion like it has no merit you create another trump voter and you feed the far right.
So yes, leftists did create Trump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The funniest thing about racists is they get upset when you call them a racist. That first sentence where you said you don't want to live around certain ethnic groups? THE FUCKING DEFINITION OF RACISM
How is it different from carrots? All carrots are pretty much the same. People are not, you fucking bigot.
testa12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
facepalm, it's just not, sorry. I know you've been trained for years to identify anyone who even remotely says something negative about any culture other than your own to be a racist but that's not what it is at all.
Here is a loose definition of racism.
Racism consists of ideologies and practices that justify or cause or perpetuate unequal treatment of groups or individuals based on criteria of perceived racial or ethnical difference.
From wiki.
Now I don't treat anyone from any race unfairly. I wouldn't not give a guy a job because of his skin color. I don't expect other races to sit in different parts of the cinema. That's racism dude.
Not wanting to live in Mumbai because you don't like Indian Culture is not fucking racism you twit. And not wanting your suburb to turn into Mumbai is also not racism. For starters a culture is not a race. They are certainly tied together but are not the same. I hate Islamic Middle Eastern culture. I don't hate the racial group or believe them to be inferior to me. Do I think their culture is inferior to ours? You're damn right I do. Corporal punishment? Gay/Women's rights? Tolerance of other cultures? Their culture is basically circa 700 AD.
I bet I can find a whole swath of cultures you don't like and by your logic that makes you a racist. Like I said. If I don't like carrots that doesn't mean I want to destroy all carrots and not let carrots onto the shelf in the super market and make carrots grow on the road while all the other vegetables get to grow in the ground. It just means I don't want carrots on my fucking plate.
You are in fact the bigot here, here's the definition of that one by the way because you misused that too.
a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.
That's you. It's literally what you've been doing since we started talking. you're just so blinded by the bulshit leftist propaganda you've been fed your whole life you can't see past your hatred.
Get the hell over it he met the requirements to run don't get pissy because someone can run for president and you don't like them. Seriously he again met he requirements to run there isn't shit anyone can do about it. You have to hate democracy if you seriously think he shouldn't be allowed to run.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Regardless of whether you like him, it's not like the president has dictatorial power. If he is as bad as everyone says he is, the worst we get is 8 more years of nothing getting done.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said this before, I'll say it again. HE CAN START WARS. This isn't just "oh shucks nothing gets done. " even if that was the case THINGS NEED TO GET DONE.
My point was things will not get done regardless basically. Also I mean he wouldn't be the first president to do "missions" of undeclared war. Not to mention he is nonintervention in the first place. You may not like him but he's not as crazy as headlines make him seem.
Edit: as a side note, must make clear I'm not a trump supporter (I feel like someone might pull this up because I've posted in /r/the_donald) but I will defend him as a legitimate candidate and not some demon from hell as people portray him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So other presidents have done it meaning, fuck it, that's par for the course now and he can too? Are you kidding me? And he's not non interventionist. He wants to get involved in syria, would likely get involved with Russia as result, and also wants to start trade wars via protectionism and who the fuck knows what actual conflicts those could lead to? Not to mention i wouldn't put it past him to start shit with Iran or North Korea and as a result Russia and China
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny you have to make very clear you're not a Trump supporter or reddit will downvote you all day.
Welcome to reddit, where people are more irritated about reading the same thing more than once or twice a day than the idea of an unhinged and unpredictable egomaniac controlling a country with a military the size of several other smaller countries.
Nyxtro ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm genuinely scared of this, it's not people trying to be cute or funny for karma, it's sensible people who are worried that this insane person is going to be in charge of the United States of fucking America.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:44:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU'RE FIRED
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:25:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's stomping Cruz and Rubio. It's literally Trump vs. Clinton or Sanders at this point. He's basically in the general election already. Being dismissive because it's 'just the primaries' leads me to believe that you don't understand how very real the possibility of Donald Trump holding the keys to the biggest stockpile of nuclear war heads on the planet is. I'm not even American but that's fucking terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:35:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's the spirit! But honestly at this rate I wouldn't mind having Obama for a third term, too bad it's not possible.
brahdz ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an outside observer, I can tell you Obama has done more for the reputation of the USA than any president before him. Not to mention he cleaned up Bush's mess. You'd be lucky to have him for a 3rd term.
This is bullshit. Obama is not American and true Americans don't give a darn about our reputation as outsiders watch us implode. Our nation is more divided than ever, Obamacare is a fraud, and having to witness narcissistic politicians fight over control of real lives is leaving me disgusted by the whole process and our lack of control to fix it.
How is Obama not American? He grew up in America even if he wasn't born here (which he probably was).
Our nation is divided right now, but it has been divided much more. There was a time that a part of the country left the rest and we had a full-on war.
Yeah obamacare is not amazing, but it at least is better than the old system. Millions of formerly uninsured Americans can now get more affordable healthcare.
And the only way to change the system is to write to your congresspeople and vote. Also write to your state congresspeople. And make sure you get everyone to know to vote. Doing nothing will do precisely that: nothing.
thratty ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 01:28:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's a misconception actually. Watch this video, through a few political loopholes it actually is extremely possible for a president to serve 3 or more terms.
We all need US, cmon its the trading common ground.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:45 on May 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was feeling that way about the socialist before he was essentially finished.
TheTrub ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:41:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just Trump, but his cabinet appointees, too. Imagine Chris Christie as the attorney general.
bjbyrne ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:22:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Hillary
5MC ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Or Bernie.
If two obese and idiotic BLM women can take over his speech that easily, then Putin, China, and everyone else would utterly dominate him.
Not to mention he hasn't had the spine to take on Hillary for the horrifically corrupt criminal she is. For fuck's sake, she's literally under investigation by the FBI, and he refuses to go after her on it.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to open your eyes a little bit to reality and focus on something other than the free stuff that Bernie tells you he will give you to win your vote.
That's a pretty shallow and pretty much just wrong interpretation of why people like bernie. I'm a student but would vote for him over any other candidate regardless of the benefit to me because of the benefits he would bring to millions of people. He cares about equality and rights and treating people like people, rather than which minority to blame for all our problems.
You should look up his stance on environmental issues. He believes global warming is a hoax and wants to get rid of EPA.
VoroJr ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 01:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not bullshit if it is true. He's a populist towards poor people, he just says what they want to hear. He creates panic and dangers when there are none, at least not close to america.
Yes terrorism is a thing, yes it's bad, but no, you don't need more guns to prevent it or more security measures geared towards potential muslim terrorists. After 9/11, more people have died to mass shootings than to terrorism. Think about that.
I am living in Europe, we have the refugee crisis to deal with and a lot of people are terrified by the recent Paris attacks, yet if politicians said any of Trumps "famous quotes", they would be laughed at and asked to resign.
Wow, you gave my answer before i could give it lol.
[deleted] ยท -39 points ยท Posted at 01:42:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am living in Europe, we have the refugee crisis to deal with and a lot of people are terrified by the recent Paris attacks, yet if politicians said any of Trumps "famous quotes", they would be laughed at and asked to resign.
Not a surprise. You're sitting back in silence as your continent is overrun by Muslims. Most people here don't want to end up like Europe.
rjolly ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do Americans who have no idea what they are talking about pretend to know about Europe and what is going on in Europe? Like..how do you even believe this shit??
Exactly! To avoid potential confrontations you have to assert dominance by bombing some hospitals and murdering children on the other side of the planet
the huge amount of refugees we have that are commiting crimes and refusing to comply with our society's norms?
If reddit patriots taught me anything its that you people refer to these as "blacks"
Dude, it's not the 1950s, we're not the greatest country anymore.
VoroJr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is so much bullshit in your comment, I won't even try to educate you. I recommend you inform yourself before making sound europe like hell because actually life hasn't changed in any way in the last year.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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VoroJr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:20:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know why I take the "liberal way"? Because it would be a waste of time trying to change a racists mind. I've tried dozens of times in my own country. You people aren't listening to reasonable arguments. All you say is migrants are -insert negative attitude here-, they steal our jobs and money and don't learn the language.
When I ask them where they read about it they name some bullshit news source and I already know who I am talking to.
I'll try anyways, just to not be the one trying to sound smart.
So no, Europe isn't overrun. We haven't even grown half a percent in population. People are being sent back, crime rates are exactly the same, the only thing going up is the amount of weapons in the hands of private people. (which correlates with the fact that right-wing populists are always saying how bad things are to get voters)
ISIS is NOT coming closer. In fact, they are taking massive hits since the paris attacks happened.! You should know, America is supporting us for the most part.
Yes, the politics part is kinda annoying, but there is so much conflict of interest going on and every country tried to get the best deal they could until now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me educate you-- Islam is not a race.
rttp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:39:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your primary news source is fox news. Why waste time trying to educate a GED hick?
Yeah loads of bullshit there. Unfortunately also true.
EUROPE YES
D3M01 ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:24:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I live in Europe. He isn't making it up. Crime rates are up and so many people don't want to integrate and instead push sharia law into our countries and don't bother learning the language. Not saying they are all like that but a big enough % of them are for it to be an issue.
Keep living in your leftist fairytail.
Downvoted for admitting we have a problem, what a world.
D3M01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:56 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.K. :) Nice try though.
VoroJr ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where?
Because it isn't true. I am from Austria and we have taken the highest amount of refugees considering our population.
Most "crimes" they committed where made up or exaggareted by populist media.
Yes the stuff that happened is bad, but wtf, a lot of the rape cases were made up be women who just hate refugees. There is no reason to hate them.
D3M01 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Fucking really? Made up? There are so so many reports of crime released by the POLICE in these countries, not the media, that point to a high amount of refugee violence. Now why would the government make up statistics about the very people they let in en-masse? I can't comprehend how you could put down rape victims like that to side with refugees. You ever heard of Rotherham? And there is a reason the Swedish police aren't allowed to report ethnicities in crime statistics now.
Im sure you could find similar groups but instead of being muslims, they are jewish or Christian.
D3M01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:33 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That whataboutism. The topic was clearly sharia which you denied with your cute meme. If you know anything about sharia law you'll know it does not fit in western society. If there are Christian or Jewish law groups/courts in Europe I HIGHLY doubt they're as archaic as sharia.
Paulbo83 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:16:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then move there
VoroJr ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good.
I don't want to end up like an uneducated american that identifies as a patriot, believes what a racist populist says and doesn't even know what empathy means.
Paulbo83 ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 02:24:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh we are educated. We just arent brainwashed like you are to think that letting unchecked people into your countries, some of them being people who want to kill you is "empathy". But if you wanna believe that hes a racist populist (which would be funny because americas minorities love him) then thats fine because luckily you cant vote. But no i can see why your nervous about trump being the leader of the free world. Being a european, id imagine youd be rather nervous to not have big brother america protect you from all your fuck ups.
Anyone who blindly follows a demagogue to me is pretty uneducated. Trump is the new Waldo, where he just says things to get a rise out of people. And the argument? "Trump is different and says what the party does't want him to say. He's fighting against the establishment." He even said he would want to sue the media for saying negative things about him. That's not freedom of speech, but a lot of Trump followers don't understand that. Let me guess, you're a white dude. You don't understand the xenophobia that there is for brown people like me in America. Go ahead and downvote me, I don't care.
welp you just said that trump is xenophobic, while making the racist assumption that im a white dude supporting trump. a bit hypocritical but despite this, i wont downvote you. instead, i will explain to you my educated and researched reasoning why i am supporting him. I am a socially liberal but fiscally conservative person. I like the fact that bernie is for the people, however socialism is historically terrible(please do not cite scandanavian countries. If i want to have income taxes of 40 to 60 percent with little job or economic growth as well as 25% sales tax, i will just move there. thats not bernies tax plan, but his is much much higher than what we have now. Taxing the rich 52% will just make them leave the country and taxing the poor 12 percent isnt helping them either. i could debate it all day but you get my point). So bernie is not my guy. hillary is hillary I dont think i need to explain myself. cruz and rubio are bible thumping puppets that hate abortion and gay marriage. Trump is the only fiscally conservative and socially liberal candidate that will NOT defund planned parenthood, or end gay marriage. fiscally will fight crony capitalism, and replace it with pure capitalism. i welcome you to check out his tax plan which taxes the lowest bracket 0% compared to bernies taxes the poor 12%. His healthcare policies that just came out are brilliant, and i have heard few people, even socialists who only support single payer, disagree. he will fight to bring manufacturing jobs back here and is the most qualified to do it of any of them, and that helps everyone. I also support strict code on illegal immigration. it is illegal for a reason, a huge amount of drugs come over the border and illegal immigrants are undercutting jobs with wages that american citizens cant compete. I say give them amnesty, build the wall and let new immigrants in legally. and Of course i do not like his statements of banning all muslims. but he isnt going to do that, has revoked that statement, and specifically says temporarily banning syrian refugees. which you may be against, but you must understand that isis is our enemy. And chunk amount of them are hidden amongst the ranks of the refugees and you see it all over europe. It is not against muslims, but against isis and radical terrorists.
I'm sorry for signaling out you're white, it came out of a place of anger. I'm a liberal too but I think that Clinton is gonna win the nomination (even though I like Sanders). But you have to admit that Trump supporters (some of them) are batshit insane. Just the other day I saw a video of a black woman getting pushed around during a Trump rally. He doesn't condemn any of this, not the two guys in Boston who pissed on a Mexican man's face in Boston, not the statement that he said about a protester getting roughed up, and not the recent statements on another protester saying that he missed the old days of roughing someone up. Not only that but blocking criticism of him if he becomes president is ridiculous to say the least. It doesn't matter if he bans all Muslims or not, but it ignited a xenophobic part of latent xenophobes here. The damage is done, not by Trump's actions but his statements and how they affect and allow his followers to behave.
well he may want to silence the media but you have to remember its not like he has the power to do so. and what his supporters have done is bad but what protesters have done is bad too. with all parties. i saw bernie supporters harrassing some girl who had the trump sticker on her phone case calling her ugly racist whatever. and the protesters got roughed up because they tried coming within a certain distance of a presidential candidate. or they fight when being escorted out. these candidates have protection similar to obama at this point. there cant be any leniency in security. Edit: i understand the concerns of xenophobia. hopefully most of america isnt dumb enough to generalize isis and radical terrorism as islam as a whole and can look past trumps pandering.
Mardok ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i just looked at your history post and you just go around saying "i looked at your history post and realised my mistake. you are clearly not a smart man " to whoever you disagree with. so please, do share your substantial reply id love to hear what someone so intellegent has to say.
D3M01 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't give a fuck about his post history? How about you stick to the topic instead of your constant attempts at deflection. So typical.
This. That guy never had his "substantial reply". After he looked at mine, i took a look at his post history its just him criticizing other peoples culture because his misinformed lil brain doesnt understand other people think differently than him. Hes a chump
Mardok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of me would like to see what happened if Trump got elected in just to see how bad he'd fuck it up so people like you two morons would understand why a xenophobic idiot with no political background would make a terrible president.
The fact the most of the other candidates aren't much better (or even worse) speaks highly of your terrible system.
More like xenophobic because he thinks all Muslims are terrorists when they are the second largest religious population of the world. Racist because he thinks all Hispanics are from Mexico and are rapists and drug dealers.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many non-muslim terrorists have attacked the US lately? 0
Also, illegal immigrants are more likely to be involved with crime than others, who cares if they're from mexico or cuba or whatever. splitting hairs
What constitutes a ''terrorist'' attack? What you see on Fox news? There has been dozens of attacks that would be considered terrorist attacks since the new year that have been done by non Muslims. And I don't even need to continue this conversation if you think Hispanics have higher crime rates because they're Hispanic. Please do a little research and pick a new presidential candidate.
Source: Graduate of a Bachelors in CJS and basic facts you can fucking Google.
Chewsti ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:42:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
edit Started replying to some of these but decided it was better for my health to just not debate politics on the internet. So fine you guys win.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:01:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Have YOU read Donald Trumps policies on his site? He gives vapid lip service to conservative talking points such as "We have been too afraid to protect and advance American interests and to challenge China to live up to its obligations." That is a meaningless sentence.
His website says largely nothing of substance policy-wise. One clear policy of his calls for "a one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate."
And then his website goes on and on about Mexicans.
"Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old womanโs home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the โblood trailโ leads straight to Washington. "
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He wants to repeal the best thing to happen to healthcare in America in my lifetime. Do you remember what was happening before ACA? People were going bankrupt due to their health. People lost their homes due to their health.
Rolling back Obamacare is ludacris. His plan to replace Obamacare?
"grow the economy and bring capital and jobs back to America. The best social program has always been a job"
"If we were to simply enforce the current immigration laws and restrict the unbridled granting of visas to this country, we could relieve healthcare cost pressures on state and local governments."
"we need to reform our mental health programs and institutions in this country."
Yes. He blames Illegal Immigrants, The unemployed, and the mentally unwell people for the system's troubles. His plan to fix the healthcare system? Grow the economy. How? Magic.
What part of this do you find attractive / sensible?
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a typical Trump supporter, you offer no facts to back up your claim. Just a wild, inflammatory statement implying that your opponents would let people die on the streets, and then some name-calling.
Do you really think health savings accounts and a less regulated healthcare industry would raise the quality of care? Price transparency is absolutely on point, but how, exactly, does he plan to do it? Once again, no facts, no policies, nothing concrete to back up his claim. Just a couple of chest-beating paragraphs on the free market, freedom, and making america great again.
He is just blurting out whatever bullshit r/politics tells him to.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that people believe what you're PARROTING is the real problem.
Paulbo83 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:34:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow you must get your news from fox or cnn. Maybe watch a debate for once. Half of the things you just said are stretched and the other half are absurd lies. He actually said he wants to fund planned parent hood. 0 percent corporate tax is what the Scandinavian countries do. Dont you wanna be like the scandanavian countries? And if you think a multi billionaire has a "dodgy business record" then you obviously have no idea anything about business or economics. Especially considering you just said the debt limit is a way to force policies. Please explain this. He said hes getting rid of shitty ass common core and building education. He has had the same tax plan for months. And you say "bankrupt so many companies". He bankrupt 4 companies of the 570 hes created. Which if you do the math, is a less than one percent failure rate. Meanwhile you have bernie who has passed 4 bills in his 50 years of being a senator. 4. His SUCCESS rate is less than a half a percent. that And he still made money off the bankruptcies. So even when he loses he still wins. Further more, you think trump is xenophobic for protecting american people from specifically radical islamic terrorism
He doesn't want to tax the 1%, but I mean why would he? All his buddies would be pissed and probably stop inviting him to hangout on their yachts! C'mon we can't have that
Does he even have any buddies left? So want to sleep all day tomorrow. My mother wants me to go to the rally he's going to be at in my town. Thinking that he's going to be within two miles of my house makes me vomit.
Because the international community has completely turned their backs on him, and if we elect him, the credibility of our nation severely plummets in the worldwide community. And that's dangerous.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey-oooo! Also Airplane Food, amiright?! What's the deal with airplane food anyway?
zgh5002 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why we have a system wherein the president is not a king or dictator. He would be a lame duck, one and done president. The only thing he might get done is an audit of the FED, but that would be pushing it. The House and the Senate would not work with him. You think what they did to Obama is bad? You wait.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 00:56:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul have different political views. Donald Trump is xenophobic and panders to fearful people.
obimk1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Study history and please find out what fascism is..
Watton ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, nothing bad about a candidate who wants to stop my other family members from legally entering into the country just because of their religion. Or a candidate who hesitated to denounce America's most well known hate group.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 02:48:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this would be much higher, to be honest. Have an upvote.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny because a lot of Canadians are starting to lean towards the idea that they are full and don't want any more lefties flooding into their country sized safe space.
I don't think it would actually be that bad. This guy if you actually look has no real policy ideas, he doesn't know the intricacies of how legislating works, and almost no one in congress likes him. Yeah he can trick blue collar workers into supporting him because of his quasi nationalist racists anti-PC campaign but that won't fly in the Senate, regardless of party.
To me, Ted Cruz is a much more frightening possibility.
This shit is said every time some dumbass gets elected. People need to stop being pussies - the world won't end it didn't end when bush was president, Obama, and won't end if Trump gets in.
afoz345 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conversely, Hillary is just as terrifying. A lying criminal who should be in jail. Make no mistake, Trump is a psychopath, but Hillary is just a different side of the same coin.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
THANK YOU SO MUCH! After being absolutely terrified by rabies, then having my heart shattered by an inoperable brain cancer in an 8 year old, that lifted my spirits a colossal amount. Thank you๐
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:00:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I own a house. My bank account hitting less than $800.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:31:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:07:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why false? LOL because your house costs more than mine in a shitty area and you have a kid? Sorry about your shitty life man. A shitty area would be any major city or outskirt.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False because there are scarier things on Earth.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand that you get freaked out by things that aren't relevant to you like a picture of a giant spider in Australia. You may live in Europe or the US. If you do, just quit being a sissy bitch. Deal with it, I called you a bitch. Read my history, I'm a fat FAT FAT FAT asshole. Deal with it sissy man/girl. it's all the same nowdays. Or just LOL. Like me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get freaked out by the things I ought to be freaked out by. And I live in Australia. I eat giant spiders for breakfast.
It's the parasitic fungus that turns ants into zombies.
In The Last of Us this fungus becomes able to infect humans and starts the zombie apocalypse.
It's predominantly found in tropical forests but due to growing population growth and spread it might come into contact with humans, this would open up the possibility of it mutating and spreading to humans. This would lead to "zombies".
lolol it's been in contact with people for thousands of years. It's traditionally used as a health food.
It will not mutate to feed on humans any time soon.
Also the ants don't cannibalize each other, they climb and spread spores. Mind control sure, but not really zombies.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:34:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Solitary confinement. After being completely secluded for so long, your mind basically falls apart and the things that you will experience are literally (yes literally) the worst possible things you can imagine.
1194js ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:51:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depression.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:07:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emergent viruses, particularly influenza. Even though Ebola would have a difficult time rampaging through developed countries, there is always the risk of something newer, more contagious, and deadly coming along. SARS could have killed millions.
He's probably not a serial killer. Right? Probably.
sdvr1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was reading a sub regarding the creepiest things people have found out while hiking, and someone said their dog found what looked like a femur for a small human. Later that year in the area, they found the body of a child. Later they arrested the serial killer Robert Charles Brown. He was convicted of two murders but claimed over 48. Did not sleep well that night.
antibiotic resistant bacteria - and it's not even the fact that this exists because that is fucking evolution... but it's scary 1.) that people deny evolution 2.) we are actively facilitating resistance by destroying our source of antibiotic r&d i.e tropical systems
Fucking things bury in shallow water, get up to 3 meters long, attack by shooting forward and dragging prey under the sand and their toxin causes permanent nerve damage in humans.
tleb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late to this, but even the slightest thought of losing my child is fucking crushing. I wouldn't know how to carry on. I'd feel guilt if I managed to move on into some sort of productive life, shame if I couldn't, and would seriously cease to function.
J_Ash7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a disorder that has to be treated, not just condemned. It can be helped but like any other mental disorder is has to be recognized and "accepted" so that outing and treatment does not necessarily mean social isolation etc.
Pushing it back and automatically labeling people as criminals is not going to help anyone...
The ocean in prehistoric times. If I were to randomly wake up on a small remote island and like 15 min away swimming distance there's a bigger islands with more room and food and you can observe the whole island from where you are so there are no dinosaurs and the ocean in between those two islands is like a really deep canyon I'd stay on that little shit island
robhol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. We've known for a hundred years we're basically killing ourselves, but people have been getting rich of it, so nothing has been done. Now it's basically a coin toss whether civilization will collapse.
I've learned while taking bio medical core that the most toxic of toxins is Botulinum, my professor suggested that if u were to take a dime, then divide that dime into 1 billion tiny pieces, one piece of that 1 billion is enough to kill you. To answer anyone's questions, Botox yes is basically Botulinum however modified to not hold high pathogenicity. Why don't terrorists use this toxin? Simply because it's hard to do so, Botulinum doesn't work good as a gas as its effects become gradual and not instantaneous because of air entry, easily diluted in water, not as effective as a gun.
Just the fact that 1.3-1.4 nano grams can kill a human being is mind boggling. Keep in mind a red blood cell is measured in micro grams, micro > nano.
Someone would have to inject it right into you close range, or splash some in your eyes, kinda hard to kill more than 1 person without the whole place panicking thus not a recommended bio terror route, actual nerve gas is probably better in this case, like sarin gas.
I have to say volcanoes. Mt. Rainier is going to fuck up a lot of shit when it explodes. In fact, some scientists believe that the eruption could be so massive that it might make St. Helens go also. Anyways, the pyrclostic blast and spewing lava... Terrifying! Every time I look at Mt Rainier, I think, "so pretty, so majestic.. It's going to kill me." Then I drink some beer and I don't worry so much. It's kind of become a problem.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ISIS and radical islam. It's like being at a medieval theme park but instead it's not a theme park but rather real life some 2k km away from me.
"The blood from your whole body goes to your head, it stops there and never comes down. But soon, it will come out from you nose, your eyes, mouth and even your ears. Then you will die, painfully" - 'Johnny' / Kiss of the Dragon
DISCLAIMER: I'm never going anywhere near acupuncture needles. Fuck... That!
One could go on forever. But the scariest part is, most people live with these institutions, and either are okay with them continuing to exist, or even support them. That, to me, is terrifying.
trysten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think that civilization can continue without systems of government?
I can paint a picture of how I imagine an anarchist society working, if you're interested.
I think people might be able to rely on arbitration and mediation to settle disputes. For relationships like employment, business partnerships, marriage, etc. people could write up a contract that provided terms for the specific parties to the contract to abide by. They could agree on the rules they would follow, agree ahead of time on an arbitrator or arbitration agency to go to in case of disputes, and agree on what would happen if they had a dispute and the arbitrator decided against one of them. Probably one of them would have to pay restitution.
For cases where you can't practically draw up a contract ahead of time between the specific individuals involved in a dispute, people could organize into small associations that each had their own rules for members to follow. Each member would sign a literal, real contract with the association, agreeing to abide by certain rules, and in exchange the other members would agree to abide by the same rules, and they would help protect each other when need be, and set up an arbitration system for club members to use when they had a dispute.
Members of different associations could use something like "conflict of law rules" to decide how to settle disputes between them, similarly for a dispute involving someone who didn't belong to any association. Today, if someone from Michigan steals a car from someone from Oregon while they're both in Hawaii and the case is somehow being tried in Alaska, they would have some conflict of law rules to determine what would happen, what laws they would apply, who had jurisdiction, etc.
The associations would be similar to this, with several specific differences. 1) Associations would not need to be geographically based, and often wouldn't be. I could live next door to a member of a different association from myself, and if I wanted to, I could call up my current association and end my contract with them, without the need to move halfway across a continent afterwards. I may not even have to move at all, I could switch from one group to another, or start my own, all while living in the same place. Thus, people living in the same geographical area could have different "law codes", and arbitration systems, to choose from in resolving their disputes.
2) I imagine people having the ability to "contract around" the rules of their association. Two people who wanted to draw up a contract dealing with just the two of them specifically could opt out of specific club rules in their relationship, while still being subject to those rules in other cases.
3) Different associations could be run in different ways, but for me I think I would like to be a part of one that was small, (e.g. a few hundred to a few thousand people,) and run with a direct democracy. My contract with the association would serve the role of a constitution, guaranteeing to me that the other members couldn't vote to kill me and harvest my organs or what have you, while within certain limits members could decide on the rules they wanted to follow in their interactions with each other. Where today the constitution in the U.S. is, practically speaking, whatever the Supreme Court says it is, with an association like this I could actually be bound by rules I had consented to follow, and if my association went crazy, trying to institute victimless crimes or economic interventions or what-have-you, I would have a much stronger voice through a direct democracy in a small group than in the current U.S. representative system, and I could opt out by contracting around those rules, or if need be quitting my association entirely and joining a different one or organizing a new one with like-minded people.
4) Since I would have a real, literal contract with my association, the contract could specify my obligations towards other members, and their obligations towards me, ensuring reciprocity in our relationship and laying things out in a way I, and others, could actually understand.
The associations could handle disputes involving relatively simple offenses, rape, murder, theft, arson, assault, things like that, while for complicated relationships the specific parties involved could draw up a contract dealing with their specific situation and meeting their specific needs.
Penalties for offenders could involve payment of restitution to victims, or, in the case of murder, to the victim's family or someone else specified in the victim's will. People could enforce the decisions of arbitrators by boycotting those who refused to cooperate. If and when someone posed a demonstrable, ongoing threat to others' physical safety, they could be exiled, placed under house arrest, or imprisoned, but I think anarchists could get away with letting the offender choose their place of confinement, (albeit from a limited number of options,) and, beyond keeping them well enough restrained to stop them from wandering out and chopping people into pieces with a chainsaw, we could let them go about their lives as they wished. I don't think we would need routine strip searches, or solitary confinement, or isolation from the outside world through refusing to allow them visitors or communication, etc. Keep them inside, but otherwise leave them alone.
And now I have written a terribly lengthy comment. Kudos to you if you read it all.
Maybe everything I just described wouldn't work. Maybe anarchists could come up with something different from what I have described, or maybe anarchy can never work in a large scale industrial society at all. Maybe this system would end up being just as inhumane as the present one. I don't know.
But I hope that enough people can care enough to want to try something different. At least we could experiment with different ideas, instead of letting governments as they currently exist keep on.
Right now I have just described a cute science fiction scenario. Presenting and analyzing the empirical evidence necessary to make all this somewhat plausible would take a much longer comment. (Or a study or a book, or more.)
But I can provide a few sources. I don't expect people to try the system I described above anytime soon, if ever, but I would like to live in an intentional community one day. We know that groups around Dunbar's number, 150 people or so, can live peacefully without government. I like the examples of the Modern Times and Slab City communities. That could probably be good enough for me, even if it couldn't work on a larger scale.
Some other sources:
Gullah Island Dispute Resolution: A Case of Afrocentric Restorative Justice, by Morris Jenkins, Journal of Black Studies. Details a group of communities that settled disputes through mediation, of various forms. One community, at least, had a jail, and they used corporal punishment against children, (spanking,) but it sounds like their jail was a temporary place to keep people before they could mediate a dispute, I don't think they had long-term prison sentences. And I would just have to rely on other evidence in favor of peaceful parenting.
How Important is State Enforcement for Trade?, by Peter Leeson, discusses arbitration and contractual enforcement in modern international trade, and provides evidence that, without government enforcement, people could still settle their disputes through arbitration.
I hope you found something of interest to you in all of this... And I'm sorry for such a long comment. But even with all this I'm not sure I've provided an adequate answer.
Feel free to ask questions, criticize, send hatemail, whatever. I can provide more resources if you want, but I don't know how interested you are in these ideas.
Thanks for reading. Peace to you.
trysten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:41 on March 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read this several times since you posted. Thank you for an in-depth look at your ideas and ideals. While I do have some comments, I fear that any response I might offer simply won't match the word count of your post .^
Thanks! I'm glad you got something out of my post.
I do tend to make my comments too lengthy. I'm curious what thoughts you had, regardless of the length of any reply you give, but I am glad that you found the ideas interesting whether or not you want to comment in detail. And I am glad that you took the time to read and think about the ideas, as well.
I shall certainly try to keep an open mind, as I expect you will as well. And I shall try to keep learning. Peace to you, friend!
Mosul Dam. Apparently it has always been a shitshow of a dam, only surviving due to constant maintenance. Enter the orcish horde, otherwise known as ISIS. They have no interest in doing any maintenance. They're not even interested in letting it happen without interference. So of course it's now way behind on maintenance, and will probably collapse and kill a million people.
Xx69xX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:54:53 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tourism is big in Australia. I get why they don't warn people of drop bears, but the active way they deny their existence is fucking immoral. There are native Australians who don't know of their existence and full capabilities.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:44:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For business loans, could make or break your business.
For personal finances, could increase your quality of living but will most likely make you not sleep at night.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
An7hrax ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:56:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its all in the power of belief. From a certain perspective its not a stretch to say people "worship" money. To add on to that, think about the scraps of paper with numbers on them sitting in your wallet. Because people believe they represent power, they are willing to kill for it quite often, or at the very least spend massive portions of their life trying to do what ever can get them more of it.
I think what's scarier is the human brain; driving people to be extreme in their beliefs (on any subject for that matter) without them even noticing the change...
aqf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drug addiction, based on another Reddit post I just read.
JGatz7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
However getting to the other end of it gives you some crazy stories.
Needs to be higher up. People who can't deal with the idea that the whole system we have is wrong and that they personally are contributing to it.
Also, people who believe it is a problem yet aren't even trying and engaging in conspicuous consumption. Maybe it's too much to expect people to go vegetarian, but it actually takes less work to NOT go on vacation or NOT buy things you don't need.
It does take systemic policy changes and personal consumption can be a distraction. However, if people managed to find lower-energy ways of being happy, the adjustment required by forced social changes won't be so bad.
Many liberals are also climate change deniers in this respect.
jjonj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh... At least none of them are running for president of the most powerful nation in the world or anything.
The critical thinkers are the ones who put the actual work into the study of climate science.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he means climate change deniers. To deny climate change is completely retarded.
Jess52 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:08:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I consider myself conservative on a lot of issues like health insurance gun control, and welfare, but if there is one thing that pisses me off about them is the denying of climate change. I'm a forestry major and I love trees and it makes me so sad that people don't want to protect them
That's fine but those are two different things. Saying "I like trees" has nothing to do with saying "Climate change is real". You do know that volcanoes have been a factor for the change in climate in the past, right? I think the people who claim that others don't believe in climate change are possibly spinning the "denier's" statements to fit a narrative.
Personally, I'm sure it is happening. Climate change is ALWAYS happening. I don't believe man is fully to blame. And the fact that people think they can stop the Earth's environment from changing is ludicrous. There are so many factors that change it. That doesn't mean I like pollution. I'm against pollution. I recycle metals all the time. I also love to fish and hunt, so picking up trash that isn't mine may be something that happens when I'm out in the woods or lakes. I just don't give into the "green" companies doing the same shit that people have been complaining that the oil companies have been doing. I'm also not sold by that 97 percent scientist report of which you can google how they found errors in.
Jess52 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:50:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees are the second largest producer of O2 behind algae. They remove most of the CO2 we produce and by huge deforestation in central America and the African coast we are removing one of the few things that removes greenhouse gases naturally. So yes saying I love trees and climate change is real go hand in hand. We are losing forest in South America at a rate of 9% per year. And in Africa at 11% per year. Without trees and forest climate change will happen faster than it already is.
mrsuns10 ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate does change but to think that we are responsible for climate changing in a very fast amount of time is very non-believable to me
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:32:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 12 years sober and have been around the AA / NA / Rehab world the entire time. As a result, I've known A LOT of people - especially heroine addicts - who have clinically died before being resuscitated. All of them say the same devastating thing - There is no life after death. There is no light. There is no heaven....no hell. There is nothing. NOTHING. You are simply.....gone.
We have one chance - One chance to live our lives right. Our time here and the right to own it is no different than the ant's life you ended on your way to class or work today. There is nothing more terrifying to me.
It's the same as death in that there's no experience. I agree that if there is some kind of soul, then being biologically alive but unconscious wouldn't necessarily disprove it. A more interesting question is, when we eventually develop the ability to bring back cryonic patients, do you think they'll have anything to tell us about an afterlife?
It's the same as death in that there's no experience
By that logic, isnt sleep like death?
A more interesting question is, when we eventually develop the ability to bring back cryonic patients, do you think they'll have anything to tell us about an afterlife?
I also doubt it, but something tells me even that's not going to put a nail in the belief in a soul's coffin. People will just move the goalpost, saying god knew they were going to be brought back, and therefore didn't show them heaven, or something.
And yet, even then the accuracy in the comparison to death is only from a certain perspective.
but something tells me even that's not going to put a nail in the belief in a soul's coffin.
What makes you think it would? The person is not dead. Their brain is fully functional. The only thing they were "brought back" from was artificial sleep, why would anyone expect visions of the afterlife? Most believers in the soul nowdays arent shamanistic, they likely dont believe in "spirit trances" etc. They believe that the soul only experiences things after actual death.
You don't consider those currently cryonically preserved to be dead? I guess it depends on how you define death. Clinically dead, yes, but I guess you're talking more about information death, which (hopefully) has remained in tact. I guess one could argue that the soul is only "released" once this informational structure is completely dismantled.
You don't consider those currently cryonically preserved to be dead?
Is there brain activity? If so, then no. Is there any reason why should I consider anything less death?
I guess it depends on how you define death.
The irreversible termination of life sustaining biological functions (given that only brain death is irreversible, then brain death is the only valid type of "death")
Clinically dead, yes,
Just an aside, heart stoppage used to be considered irreversible which is why it is called clinical death, and not "death" death. Its like the difference between legal blindness and actual blindness.
I respectfully disagree with the notion that someone who overdosed holds the truth to one of the greatest questions of our existence. It is not that they overdosed that makes me disbelieve it, but that they were not truly dead. Conversely, there are countless cases of people having confirmed OBE's. So experiences differ, but that doesn't give us the information necessary to draw such a sweeping conclusion about such an important question.
There's currently nothing to empirically validate the statement that we'll be able to bring back cryonically frozen patients. The entire (very expensive) process hinges on the yet unsubstantiated reasoning that successful technology is simply a matter of time. And its success does not simply depend upon reanimating someone's frozen corpse, but possessing an array of other nano technologies to cure and ward off various diseases.
It is totally unprecedented, and therefore we have no way of knowing. If they do, or if they don't - either way, it will have some profound philosophical and theological implications.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:04 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough I find that very comforting. We have no way to know if the particular religion we follow is the one. How can we be sure whatever believe is not just pissing whatever being that might be out there off. It's a total crap shoot. If there's nothing after this some of us are a lot better off.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This will convince literally nobody.
The fact that the clinically dead drug addicts had nothing to say about life after death does not prove anything either way.
You're denying the resurrection of the body by saying "only this body we currently live in", as if we're ghosts in shells, which means you don't even pass the most basic litmus test of Christian orthodoxy.
I once saw a video of a guy in the Middle East getting executed with a .50BMG machine gun mounted on a technical. I mean, fucking seriously? Couldn't just hang him? Or put a clean single 9mm round through the head? No, they had to (and I'm not exaggerating here) blow his whole damn head off with a fucking high power machine gun. Simply because they could!
Humans absolutely are, without a doubt, the most terrifying things on this planet.
Thats pretty disturbing, but it did miss out that if we lack the speed required, or strength to hunt, we bend the will of other animals to help us hunt.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming... As a natural resources major in college it's scary to see how fast this planet is going to shit (climate wise) and the common person doesn't care enough to change their ways to fix it. It's scary what's going to happen.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it really is a scary thought. People just don't want to believe it.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow they told you in nature resource courses that the world is running out of resources? crazy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For example. Here is one of those people..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Environmentalists are some if the least environmentally friendly people out there. I believe in climate change.... I also believe that lost of the current environmentalism is idiotic
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please elaborate. I'd like to know how environmentalists are the least environmentally friendly people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you actually, or do you want another post to downvote? (not that i really care)
People dont care about the environment. They care about what benefits them personally. You too: if climate changed was assured to not endanger you or your progeny or anything you cared about, you wouldnt care either.
Enviromentalism is predicated on making people believe that adverse effects of pollutants and whatnot effect them personally. Which makes sense: thats the only way they can get people to change. In that sense, I support enviromentalism.
What I DONT support is environmentalism (TM), the movement that turns fear of climate change into personal gain. That is what modern environmentalists are... people who would hurt the potential for real change to fullfill their own pet projects.
Every time I see a prius, I don't think about the owner saving the world. I think about the owner being swayed by a lobbying group that secures hundreds of millions of dollars from teh government to produce cars that need to be driven for 15+ years to become economically efficient, even with the subsidies. Cars that have batteries which, when accounted for their production and disposal, offeset any good the "clean" running car creates. It would be exponentially better for the enviroment to take the 20k you are spending extra for your prius and plant trees with it, or donate it to those less fortunate (people who have real need now).
Environmentalists would have you believe that it is "evil" to allow tribes in sub-Saharan africa hunting rights to white rhinos, lions, etc. But what we see is that when the tribes have more "skin in the game", they make much stronger efforts to protect wildlife than when they get no value from wildlife protection.
Environmentalists would have you believe that any litter is wrong, and that and company that polutes a river should immediately be shut down. But a more nuanced approach would show that there is an optimal amount of anything in the world, including pollution. (I can prove it to you very simply: would you spend an hour cleaning a pond if it was 50 percent oil? (probably yes) 30% (maybe yes) .000001%? (absolutely not). so we know the optimal amount for you is between .000001 and 30%.)
Environmentalists would have you believe eating local is good for the environment (it isnt: any economist will tell you the benefits of eating locally are offset 100 times by the reduced efficiency of the practice)
Environmentalists would have you believe wearing leather shoes is evil, when in reality it might be the most sustainable material we have, considering the alternatives are mostly derived from oils.
Environmentalists would have you believe that nalgenes are good for the enviroment because they save you from having to use pixi cups or whatnot to hold water, when in actuality you would need to use hundreds of those same cups to come close to the the damage creating and disposing of a nalgene creates (not to mention, the original nalgenes had BPA ad all had to be thrown out... hardly environmentally friendly).
I have so many more. Look, I care about the environment. I am also just realistic in looking at the costs and benefits of projects that are often thrown at me under the guise of environmentalism which are little more than self serving cronyism. (take for example, solyndra). If you want to do real good, how you (environmentalists, not you in general) take that 20 bucks extra you are spending on "organic" produce and buy pasta for your local soup kitchen. They could use the money much more than billionaires like elon musk.
Modern climate change is merely a pricing problem: the price of pollution is too low, and production of goods often misses externalities like pollution in product cost. A true "environmentalist" would push cap and trade or carbon taxes over any of the other supposed modern environmental solutions, and wouldnt have to scare you with drowning polar bears and imminent ozone disasters (which, by the most recent looks of it, appear to be fixing themselves much faster than "anticipated") to do it.
I can provide references for any of the above examples when I get off work.
Hillary Clinton. No seriously, do you realize how much power that woman has? Its terryifying. Inevery honesty poll she has at least 80% of people saying she is dishonest but yet people are still voting for her. She has a whole nation brainwashed, and if she surrounded her self with the right people I could bet that she would be able to do what Hitler couldnt fathom. Am I comparing her to Hilter? No but she has way to much power to her disposal. For christ's sake vote for bernie sanders over her at least he is trustworthy. I dont really care for the democrats, I would like to go in Cruz control so this might sound biased, but if you look at all of the scandals and shennanigans she has gotten away with you would wonder how she is not in prison yet. This is what happens when a political figure becomes too powerful and rich.
I think you overestimate the power the President has. I'm not disagreeing with you - you make some valid points - but her being in the White House isn't going to mean the end of the world tomorrow. There are checks and balances, and the President has a remarkably-low amount of power for a chief executive. So take a breather!
I mean I know that the president has so many limitations, but look at all the rules she has broken and gotten away with or thrown other people under the bus! I just think ok if she gets away with all of that what stops her from doing it all if she is president?
That's a different story. Her potential policies will have to go through Congress before being enacted, so there's that filter. And in regards to past issues - a different topic - she hasn't gotten away with it yet. Just because she's not rotting in Leavenworth right know doesn't mean she won't be.
Yea I know she hasnt gotten away with the emails yet, but things like Bhengazi, she is probably in the clear with whatever she did. I am just dissapointed that this what pur country has come to, and donald trump is not much better, its pretty much just picking the lesser of the 2 evils right now.
If I'm alone walking at night and walk past a black guy, I'm okay. If I see a middle-eastern guy in public with a bookbag, I'm okay. Tell me you're Russian and I'm getting the fuck out.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dmt
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
one of the most intense experiences humans can achieve, but the trip only lasts 5 minutes, you believe you're dead but your heartbeat Is the only thing that keeps your last grasp on reality, after you wake back up from the trip you realize how dull reality is
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not actually "scary" when you're on your journey. Every person on the planet should have to do dmt once a year. There would be no more wars.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the scariest possible thing now is that gene editing tech that came out recently.
I mean, who knows what could happen if that CRISPR thing could get into the wrong hands...
Miv333 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to say humans; we're self aware and yet will stick to self destruction and terrible acts based on a few emotions such as greed and anger.
Utopia? Nope, let's just use and pollute our world and environment and have other guilable people kill each other to distract themselves while we do it.
Humans, I checked to see if this obvious answer was here, but I'm on a phone so, but yeah, flat out the thing on earth that has done the most to terrify me are humans. Kinda sucks really. I'm not some "I hate people " person but I'm more afraid of them, humans, nut jobs with guns, bombs, missiles, poisons, hell even our companies that make us stuff inadvertently try to kill us with chemicals, pollute our water, poison the air. Yup it's people.
Lesch-Nyhan disease. Think of it like Huntingtons or Tourettes, but instead of losing motion control or verbal control you can't help but self-mutilate yourself and you feel everything.
Savants. They really highlight the true abilities of the human brain. They also show us how very little we do understand about how the brain works. Between the guy who does math problems by seeing blobs form into shapes and the guy who can fly over a city and then draw the whole thing from memory just boggles my mind.
Yea, if you go to the deeper parts of the ocean there actually isnt that much life there. You are not gonna find dolphins in the middle of the Atlantic. Most of the life is close-ish to the shore and the sea floor.
Being bitten by a rabid animal.
Long story short the most agonizing and dehumanizing assured way of dying.
Rabies is the single most terrifying disease that will torment you for a couple of days and will result in assured death... not to mention, turning you into a zombie-like state.... Oh and the hydrophobia from rabies, imagine being afraid of water, the sight of water, the sound of water...
Only a handful of known survivors ... well ... braindead people ... after being put into a chemical induced coma (Milwaukee protocol).
Cproo12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depression and anxiety are the two scariest things I have experienced so far.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a really good question that we dont have the definitive answer to; as is with most good questions. My answer tends to lean towards ignorance for now but as soon as i see that scary creature up close ill just have to keep wondering.
-Dying of mad cow disease, fucking way to go.
- A nearby star going supernova. Could happen any moment, no way to know
- Donald Trump
- If 10% of global population get sick, all nuke central will go critical due to lack of qualified labor
-Flesh eating virus
VOZ1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
They're not bacteria. They're not viruses. They're not organisms or living things in any way. They are simply misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to misfold in the same way. They will absolutely destroy your brain--or any creature's brain--and there is nothing we can do to stop them. Oh, and they're sorta contagious. And can be spread by aerosols. And they may be behind a number of neurodegenerative diseases. They're terrifying.
Prions, its this small organism that causes mental deficiencies that are difficult to kill,
Prions can be destroyed through incineration providing the incinerator can maintain a temperature of 900 F for four hours. In an autoclave, prions can be deactivated by using a temperature of 270 F at 21 psi for 90 minutes. If the infectious material is in a solution of sodium hydroxide, deactivation will occur after one hour at 250 F and 21 psi.
Prions are rare though, only happening in a literal one-in-a-million
That a democratically elected government, in a first world nation, has let a certain cult (rhymes with pientology) kidnap people and put them into 'rehabilitation centers' where they are not permitted to have any contact with the outside world. Cops do nothing, governments do nothing. No one does anything. They could knock on your door tomorrow and scoop you up, and no swat team would come knock down the door to get you out, no hostage negotiator would handle getting you home. You'd be there until they didn't want you to be.
chisav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being trapped in a coma being fully aware but unable to do anything.
Gmajj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is horrible! My husband had cancer, and wasn't comatose, but couldn't communicate except by blinking. Just before it got that bad, I told my daughter that I didn't know if his facial expressions were involuntary, or from pain. He managed to move one finger to swish on the sheet to tell me he was hurting. God, I hate myself for not getting that earlier, or asking for stronger meds. That was 12 years ago, and I still second guess myself.
chisav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely not your fault. I'm sure you did all you could. Don't beat yourself up about it. But yeah, sometimes I think about scenarios like that and I don't know how anyone could go through that.
Dying slowly due to respitory disease. One slow hard breathe at a time knowing the inevitable that you'll suffocate to death. Asthma and severe allergy sufferer here. Some nights the wheezing is terrifying.
Stuff that isn't on our earth like getting hit by a meteorite. No not the planet killers, just something small enough to take out 2-3 cars on a freeway that I happen to take on the way home. We get small ones every so often one makes it to the ground.
jaxmanf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, it's happened to me like 3 times. One time was no big deal, couldn't move.
One time I saw two glowing red eyes staring back at me and I couldn't move.
The last time it happened there was a small girl standing at the foot of my bed and a man standing in the doorway I didn't know.
Each time it happened I realized what was going on when I couldn't move so I knew I had to be hallucinating and I just relaxed until I could move again.
Sink holes bruh, sink holes. They can happen anywhere at any time. Imagine sleeping in your bed and waking up as you are falling down a bottomless hole ...... Bruhhh
Depending on the type, takes literally the tiniest imaginable ammount (.2mg or less) to kill you, in the most horrific way possible.
Many remain on surfaces, were DESIGNED to remain on surfaces, indefinitely, rendering a zone completely uninhabitable, and will happily leech into the soil, the water.
People are scared of nukes. That's fine. But a nuke is just a big bastard of an explosion with some radiation.
People are scared of biological weapons. I am too, sure, they are the most likely candidate to wipe out the entire human civilization. Self-replicating bastards designed solely to kill humans efficiently? Sure, terrifying. They should be on this list.
But something about just the TINY amount of nerve gas it takes to kill you, how RAPIDLY it kills you, how terrifyingly it kills you, the built in persistence, the fact that it isn't just limited to humans, the lack of warning...
Reminds me of that scene from The Sacrament. You know the one, where the girl injects her brother while he's helpless... God that scene made me ill. Same feeling I get from thinking about nerve gas.
People. Its seriously so crazy how someone can do something as awful as murder or torture or rape or anything like that and have absolutely no empathy or regret. It freaks me out
The deepest most undiscovered parts of the earth, be it oceans or mountains . I honestly still dream of amazing animals living there (but I might have read to much Lost World)
aazav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty terrified of Alzheimer's. To think that one day, everything you've ever done or learned would just slowly stop existing to you and you wouldn't even know it's gone... Ugh
cil0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being in space. You're flung into the void. You have no way of returning, and no way for anyone to get to you. All you have left is your oxgygen supply and your thoughts.
The ocean. How big it is. How deep it goes and we don't know what's underneath. What kind of creatures are lurking, waiting to be discovered. The giant squid, giant sharks, bigger than a bus. Now imagine if you were dropped in the middle of the ocean at 2am. Nothing around. You open your eyes but you can't see anything. You're floating in black water. Completely silent all around you. You lose track of time and direction. All you can do is wait. Wait for someone to come find you or worse, wait for something to come find you.
The deadly pain tree of Australia: gympie stinger.
"Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki.
Did somebody say nuclear bombs yet? But even more dangerous are the sociopaths we allow to rule this earth, with the capability of human extinction at their fingertips.
cancer cells. Seriously at any point practically any cell can switch and just be like 'i aint stopping fam' and that persons days are then numbered. It can happen to anyone :/ so sad when it does...
Cluster Headaches
Some of the worst pain you can possibly experience and there is no cure. "Due to an occasional association with suicidal thoughts, cluster headaches have been colloquially named "suicide headaches."
For real, the scariest nightmare I've ever experienced was about me developing extreme schizophrenia and very suddenly. I couldn't figure out what was real anymore, and I didn't have that wonderful feeling of relief upon waking and realising it was just a dream, because i wasn't sure I had actually woken up. Took about 30 minutes just staring at the room in terror before my brain was convinced it was only a nightmare and that I really was awake.
And I think about that dream constantly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting caugh fapping
xFuimus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always thought the Bermuda Triangle was pretty spooky
bukolan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:13:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of laying on your death bed and just being surrounded by fear of uncertainty. You will always be uncertain but we have to strive to find comfort in our impermanence through some means in life. We have to think and ponder death or we're met with it only to find out how unprepared we really are to face our most inevitable truth.
This is my favorite quote that I like to think of often, for some reason it comforts and frightens the hell out of me.
"Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does comeโto them, their wives, their children, their friendsโcatching them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries, what fury, what despair! . . .
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death. . . . We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere.
To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Montagnie"
Edit - Spelling
neoxman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't even have to be on your deathbed to be scare as shit. At least a few times a year i'm just going about my daily business then I suddenly think about death and just get terrified.
I've currently got my 8 month old daughter asleep on my knee. Nothing in this thread is more terrifying than the idea that something could happen that means I outlive her. There's nothing on earth more horrifying that the idea of losing her.
Except maybe people who paint themselves and pretend to be statues.
Dementia. It is the saddest, and scariest thing I've had to witness my father go through in his early 50s.
Alcohol can do cruel, cruel things. Be smart about your alcohol intake
People. Think about it, just for a second. All of the atrocities our species has committed is absolutely staggering, and we're all over this fuckin' planet. We in control of it. It's "ours". And we're absolutely psychotic.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Depression.
Okay so it's not gonna eat you like a bear or cut your life short like a disease but living with it every damn day of your life is terrifying.
You go to bed not knowing if you'll get any sleep or you'll be kept awake by the demons in your head convincing you that you or your family will die because you're a terrible human.
Watching the people you know you love be happy and crave that love and happiness but always be kept apart from it by what feels like just an inch, but you can never get there.
Always thinking the worst, never being able to take criticism 'cause it sounds like you're about to be sacked or divorced or cut off.
Not being able to trust your friends and family actually love you 'cause really, why would they? They must just be using you or feeling sorry for you. They don't actually like you.
kyo45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lfpa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of this is scary, but what really scares me (and also makes me fucking angry) is the fact that right now there is child porn ( and child rape) happening somewhere in the world. It just terrifies me how unaware people usually are about this. Im also scared about how easy it is to hurt people, and how often it happens. We are our worst enemy
_AISP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parasitic tapeworms. I don't know about you, but I don't want a fucking worm that can grow up to 50 ft long in your intestine. Whale tapeworms can be 100 feet or more.
And prions...Fuck them. We barely know any more than that they are just evil proteins that wreck havoc in your body and brain.
The fact that we could love someone so dearly, enough to create another life with them and think everything was meant to be and you were destined to be a family and in the blink of an eye, a disease or sudden accident or attack can end it all and put you right back where you started before you met, except now you have the grief and potentially the guilt to carry around with you
Gheea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. I dont mean like the beach i mean places like the mariana trench. Places where your so deep you cant see a damn thing only endless expances of darkness and you have no damn clue what kind of monsters are down there with you. Truly terrifying.
sexybug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention if your submersible collapsed or had an explosive decompression on the way back up, your insides would so quickly become your outsides it's not even funny.
Watching someone you love and care about die and not being able to do anything about it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human infestation. This single pesky species is multiplying quickly, invading and destroying habitats around the world, and driving many other species to extinction, and we have found no reliable way to control them up to now.
However, we at the League of Viruses are exploring a few promising new avenues...
TeamJim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There have been some terrifying examples so far but most of these - such as the gympie stinger or amoeba - by not doing certain things, however inconvenient they may be. Others, such as Aneurysms or prions are down to the hand you are dealt and have no real control over them.
However, nuclear war wins it for me.
The first thing we will know about an attack from a nuclear detonation will be a blinding flash followed by a blast that will incinerate everything withing miles of ground zero. If you are lucky it will be this that kills you. Outside of the blast zone, depending on the yield of the device and wind strength, there is going to be a shit load of radiation which will kill you within hours, days or weeks following detonation. Chances are that if the detonation was due to an attack rather than some sort of accident, not only has there been other detonations close to you but across the globe as every nuke that can be lunched will be, so pretty soon the whole world is going to be irradiated.
"The effects of a war involving many nuclear explosions would be on a scale larger than anything previously experienced in human history. If 500 warheads were to hit major US and Russian cities, 100 million people would die in the first half an hour and tens of millions would be fatally injured. Huge swaths of both countries would be blanketed by radioactive fallout. Most Americans and Russians would die in the following months from radiation sickness and disease epidemics." (icanw.org)
The real scary part is that nine countries have nuclear arsenals. Nine men have the power to order the launch a nuclear attack at a a moment's notice capable of reaching anywhere on the planet within minutes.
The icing of the cake of shit inducing fear is that whilst some of those capable of launching the attacks are elected through democratic process, some are not.
How do you feel knowing that your life is in the hands of Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and potentially in less than 12 months time, Donald Trump?
People.
Specially dumb people in large groups (I know you're thinking nazi, you're not too far off).
And spiders and sharks, but mostly dumb people in large groups.
Giant hogwart. A weed in the uk that if removed without protective clothing. The liquid inside will burn your skin so you are alergic to uv rays. Meaning you can never go outside without excrutiating pain.
What are some of the dangers associated with DHMO?
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
I'm gonna go with the crevasse. One minute you're just chillin, walking around on a mountain, and the next you're falling 1,000 feet into an abyss where you pretty much have to just chill until you die because nobody and hear you call for help and there's no way in hell you're climbing out of there
mouri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is winning the current GOP candidacy and possibly the election.
Donald Trump having the possibility of being president....
Seriously, there are so many things wrong with this from how stupid some of the American public is to the fact that an insane con-artist could sit as the "leader of the free world"
An execution method in which a person is tied onto a small boat. They are force-fed milk and honey, causing the victim to vomit and defecate. Flies and other bugs will be drawn to the scent and will slowly eat the victim alive
Prions. Resistant to virtually everything, nearly undetectable, fatal.
You could bleach it, heat it, formaldahyde, it would fold roght back in place. And when it feels like it, magically turn proteins evil. See Mad Cow Disease
My sister's Early Onset Alzheimer's. She still knows me, but doesn't remember my name. Every time I see her, I'm terrified that'll be the day she doesn't know me.
WSHIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The death of a child. A couple of friends of mine have lost children to SIDS, birth defects, etc. As a parent, I can't even imagine how devastating that would be, and the whole "there but for the grace of God" thing has kept me awake several nights. If anything like that happened to my daughter, I can honestly say I don't think I'd want to survive it either.
But.... in honesty I have to admit that while I have never forgotten my lost little one (died at 10 months) the agony lessens with time. I pray for all parents who have shared that agony with me.
WSHIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have my deepest sympathies and condolences. I hope....well, I don't know what I would want for anyone else in that situation. I guess I hope that you are happy in whatever way you can be.
"On December 13, about 30 soldiers came to a Chinese house at #5 Hsing Lu Koo in the southeastern part of Nanking, and demanded entrance. The door was open by the landlord, a Mohammedan named Ha. They killed him immediately with a revolver and also Mrs. Ha, who knelt before them after Ha's death, begging them not to kill anyone else. Mrs. Ha asked them why they killed her husband and they shot her. Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1 year old baby. After being stripped and raped by one or more men, she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina. The baby was killed with a bayonet. Some soldiers then went to the next room, where Mrs. Hsia's parents, aged 76 and 74, and her two daughters aged 16 and 14 [were]. They were about to rape the girls when the grandmother tried to protect them. The soldiers killed her with a revolver. The grandfather grasped the body of his wife and was killed. The two girls were then stripped, the elder being raped by 2โ3 men, and the younger by 3. The older girl was stabbed afterwards and a cane was rammed in her vagina. The younger girl was bayoneted also but was spared the horrible treatment that had been meted out to her sister and mother. The soldiers then bayoneted another sister of between 7โ8, who was also in the room. The last murders in the house were of Ha's two children, aged 4 and 2 respectively. The older was bayoneted and the younger split down through the head with a sword."
But wait, there's more! Humans are VERY fucked up.
"Most of the victims were killed in their own villages or in towns, often by their neighbors and fellow villagers. The militia typically murdered victims with machetes, although some army units used rifles. The Hutu gangs searched out victims hiding in churches and school buildings, and massacred them. Local officials and government-sponsored radio incited ordinary citizens to kill their neighbors, and those who refused to kill were often murdered on the spot. "Either you took part in the massacres or you were massacred yourself.""
But wait, there's more! Being fucked up isn't something new in our culture!
America with it's current population of ignorant and/or religious zealot citizens and their control over vast stocks of nuclear weapons. The fact some religious nutjob might live in the White House one day scares me. And I live here. I'd hate to be in some place that they consider "needing Gawd's wrath"... or California.
"Why the fuck do they call these crisps Turkey Bacon flavour? There isn't even any Turkey or Bacon in the packet. It's false advertisement!" - My Dad.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being on a flight that crashes into the ocean. I'm not afraid of flying and I love planes. But the irrational fear of being on a flight that fails to the point of ending in the ocean is terrifying. My solace is that at least death would be instantaneous.
The fact that someone would easily make the decision to kill another person for money. The value that people place on power and possessions never ceases to amaze me, and in many ways I, too, fall for this.
Prions. They are not bacteria, not viruses, they aren't alive. They attack your proteins and then you die. Mad cow disease is an example of a prion that attacks the proteins in the brain. There are many varieties.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost any human being. I mean damn, people can and do a lot of fucked up shit. And since we can't read minds, we have no way for certain to ascertain the motives of others. Best we can do is guess based on circumstances or hope they give themselves away.
Global Warming - That we are slowly killing our existence through the burning of fossil fuels but too many people don't care. Even presumably intelligent people like Republicans.
Sorry I'm so late to the party, but Giant Hogweed is freaking terrifying... I think because it's here in the States, looks so similar to harmless Queen Anne's Lace, and secretes a juice that, when exposed to sunlight causes horrifyingly painful blistering of the skin. I'm not doing the horror justice, you should go read about it
Fatal familial insomnia. Terrifying! Basically your brain can't achieve the level of sleep your brain and body need and you ultimately die of dementia and lack of sleep. A diagnosis is a death sentence. They've tried drug, putting people under, in comas, everything but the brain can't reach a certain level. Yikes!!! It's generally diagnosed when one is older (50s-60s).
Edit: also the mental disorder where one feels like a limb they have doesn't belong to them. It's strange and foreign. Doctors can't remove it because of the hippopotamus (lol) oath. This one guy put his leg in a box and put a ton of dry ice on it. He said was intense pain but when the doctors removed it he said he was so amazingly happy about it.
The scariest thing on this earth is the human brain!
Sleep paralyses is creepy.
Sleep paralyses is when youre between dreaming and being awake. You cant move, and you can see and here things around you that are scary, like monsters.
Some people say theyve been abducted by aliens but its probably sleep paralyses.
its honestly horrifying. people can say stuff to you, make you wish you were dead. they can manipulate you. they leave you without warning.
but you get blamed. they twist their words, making you at fault.
soon enough, all of your friends are on their side. they make things up about how its your fault, how you scared them off, how you were creepy.
and when you attempt to kill yourself because its too much, your best friend just left you to join their side, they laugh and joke, saying "he wont do it this time. he never succeeded."
and they all tell you to die, for you were the abuser the whole time.
Not sure how well I can articulate this fear but like for some reason I feel like there is zero chance I will live long enough to die of natural old people causes. Im 18 years old rn, and i have 52 more years until I get to 70.
Ive escaped potential death at every second of my life, and just seems unlikely that I will be able to do that for the next 52 years.
As awesome as it is to be young in 2016 relative to the past, everything in this world is damgerous to my life. At any moment a bomb can drop where you are, and in that split second you watch a fiery humbling wave of incomprehensible energy coming at you. Ive had dreams about that shit and its surreal to think that could just happen with no warning or anything. Or an asteroid can do the same. Or a supervolcano, tornado, tsunami, untreatible disease, overpopulation, people with no regard for life, and just insane weapons. I really dont see how humanity can survive the next 50 years. I guarantee something big will happen and kill me in the blink of an eye.
Its seems so unrealistic but its the truth. Real life isnt always a happy story. I just feel like the more and more our society progresses, the less fucks the universe gives about me. Its so weird because being 18 i feel immortal, but something tells me there aint a chance i live to old age. Something will happen.
People who believe that a god is speaking to them directly. It's only a matter of time before one of them tries to do god's will and bring about the rapture.
The fact that there are people out there so wrapped up in a fictional character, they are willing to saw the head of another human being off while they are still alive to prove their faith in a story. Worst thing I've ever seen.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That amazonian parasite that goes up your urethra if youre swimming and latches on with hooks
I'm late, and this isn't really on earth, and but SPACE
Seriously. It's endless and seconds of exposure will kill a person.
We also know almost nothing about it. We have guesses and estimates, and sometimes basic knowledge and understanding of some things, but we have almost zero hard proof. We've only stepped on our own moon a handful of times, and unless something changes, even the people who were there will be dead relatively soon.
Hell, all life on our planet has existed during a single digit percentage of our sun's lifespan.
I don't know about your earth, but mine has the humans.
OferZak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hilary Clinton
Pli1337 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fucking Deep Sea... every animal we know from there is terrifying -and fucking big! ...i really do not want to know what creatures there are, we have not met yet!
Are you implying that one's unwillingness to accept aging is due to a lack of ambition? What if one's greatest ambitions lie beyond a normal lifespan? What if working on aging is one's ambition?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last comment makes no sense.
Unless you die young or middle age, you will get older and either age well or poorly depending on genetics. Ambition itself can be very harmful, in that the most ambitious in society are the one's who don't look on who they step on to climb the economic ladder. It is ambition that encourage's conquest, and a need to accumulate more power and domination over other's. I'm just saying it's not this ultimate virtue people think it is.
Ambition on its own is neither good nor bad, I think it depends on where it comes from. Ambition for oneself/one's own tribe of people, or ambition for the entire species. Personal gain vs the betterment of the world. Just comes down to the type of person you are.
awwwwwwww did i not spell it in the culturally sensitive way?
Xsable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, you spelled it wrong, which someone who took the time to read it wouldn't have done. You haven't read a word other than a few cherry picked lines from some facebook posts and hate articles. You probably haven't read anything of importance in your life. I'm not Muslim, but you are a moron.
I swear to god I wish I could read a thread like this without trump being every other answer. I wanna see some actually scary shit
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:41:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how hard it would be to add some code that would scan the thread for duplicate posts and pop up a "sorry, that response has already been posted" message.
Going to the hospital for something rather trivial and getting out without any limbs on your body. Happened to a woman a couple of years ago. Also: blood transfusions with shit like HIV, still better than flesh eating bacteria I suppose.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:59:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spatbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Statistically you shouldn't be scared, it would be like trying to kill a fly with a musket at night from 3 miles away. We can say with near certainly the earth will not be annihilated from a gamma ray burst.
Losing a child. I have a 10 year old boy who I have fathered solely since birth after his mom decided other dicks were more important than her own child. Anyways what scares me is him growing up. I had a rough childhood. Some times I almost died from all the crazy things I would do, and then tell my self, how the fuck am I still alive!!!
Well I fear because my son is just like me, and I know once he hits those teen years soon hes going to be a rebel, I just hope he lucks out like I did.
I think where he's lucked out is in having you as his dad.
Start letting him know from now that he can always share anything with you because you've been through enough shit yourself that you understand, without judgement.
Tell him that you'll always be there for him, but that you also won't just stand back and watch him fuck himself over....if your experience tells you he's making a big mistake, you're not afraid to be the bad guy and have him pissed off with you for a while if it's necessary to prevent him from doing something that may harm him.
The way you speak makes me truly believe that, while there may be some rough teenage times ahead, you and your son are a team and he's very lucky to have such a loving dad.
All the very best to you and your boy.
Odorless, invisible, heavier than air gas 'spills' downhill, suffocating anyone unlucky enough to be in its path. Hard to run away when you can't breathe. Can't predict them and once they've started you can't control or really predict them, you're just fucked if you're asleep in a low lying area.
There's absolutely nothing we humans could do to stop a world-killing asteroid right now, with our modern technology. Like the one in Armageddon. The chances of it happening are infinitesimal, but if our number comes up it's game over.
That is potentially true... but it depends a lot on how much lead time you have, and how big the asteroid / comet is. If you had a year or two warning, Earth probably survives even with current technology. If you have less than a year warning, then you have a real problem for anything a mile across or larger. Smaller asteroids could kill a lot of people, but aren't extinction level events.
We have it made and yet we fuck it up. We destroy the very planet beneath our feet and do our best to destroy each other in order to have the most toys at death.
pBoogie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that fish in the Amazon that swims into your dick hole and then releases spikes.
Being killed and your last memory being your murderer laughing as they start to kill the rest of your family.
1KTakk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crazy people eager to kill you just because you don't believe in the same fictitious all powerful being, or believe differently about the same one, as they do.
Most people, when confronted with the knowledge that aging is not immutable, and that people are actively working (and making progress) on solutions, will do everything to justify aging and death. They tell themselves they want to die, but really, they want everyone else to suffer the same fate as well, so that they can feel better about it. It's why so many people have fantasies of the entire world ending, be it a meteor, rapture, what have you. Crab mentality.
It's like trying to justify the existence of a Dragon Tyrant. It's scary in that it's sort of like mob mentality in the opposite direction. Instead of violent animals, we turn into docile sheep, ignoring the problem. I think it's an evolutionary adaptation or something. I guess it's no different than the Bystander Effect.
Knowing that if we all came together, we could solve any problem, but instead choose to doom ourselves and everyone else is excruciating.
So, you believe that death isn't an inevitability ?
Or are you talking about a soul ?
I guess I'm confused with the language you're using. For example your first statement says "and making progress" ...progress towards what ? Extending life ? I'm almost positive that the entire health field has spent the better part of it's existence doing just that...literally millions of people have worked on technology towards solutions in both the extension of life as well as the quality of it.
I can honestly say that I've never heard anyone fantasize about the destruction of the earth.
I think it's the opposite of a lust for massive death exists, in fact, I am pretty sure than many a theory about fear and its encapsulation of every person is a much more commonly held belief.
Unless, I'm misunderstanding your position completely. In which case, I apologize.
Progress towards indefinite life, being able to sufficiently combat the biological processes of aging so that we will no longer die of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc breaks it down well. To briefly summarize, the way we've been tackling things like Alzheimer's, heart disease, is doomed to fail because they intervene too late. These things are not diseases in the traditional sense, not separate from aging, but are aging itself. They're lifelong processes/damage accumulation that eventually pass our threshold of tolerance, which is when they start causing problems.
I've heard it pop up in many casual conversations when people talk about how they want to die, in a joking way, but I think it's a genuine desire on some primitive, selfish level, because it's an equal fate for all.
I'm not sure I'm correctly interpreting your statement about encapsulating fear. Do you mean to say that the fear of missing out, or of getting ones hopes up is the reason people fight against the "cure" for aging? I think that's completely true, but don't see it as mutually exclusive with the "mass destruction" desire. The desire to have everyone die at once, or to have everyone eventually age and die as you will is the same, because on a large enough timescale, the average lifespan is really insignificant. We might not like the idea others getting to live "forever" (thousands of years might as well be forever to our ape brains) when we assume we won't get to. In short, it's not fair. If I can't have it, you shouldn't have it. The crab mentality.
While I don't think it's attainable, I have no issues with those who pursue it. In fact, for future generations they would benefit greatly and I've always been for the advancement of human existence....as long as it's meaningful.
I don't know how I personally view this ( as I've said it is new) but it does bring up some interesting theories.
Thanks for the heads up on this !
Have a great weekend.
gnovos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The simple fact that you are aware, and have no idea why or what to do about it.
These dont come close to bears. They can run up to 30 miles per/hr for long periods of time, climb trees, kill anything, extremely strong, and are very intelligent.
ksm6149 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT ARE THEY DAMMIT I NEED TO KNOW. And are they in Australia? Because it makes a difference
The single most terrifying thing on this planet, in my mind, is the very real possibility that Donald Trump is a viable candidate for the presidency. It simply shows that, if you have enough money, a famous enough name, you can become one of the most powerful people on the planet in charge of a nuclear arsenal.
171214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
dradik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:07:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Trump might become president in a post Hitler age..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. Watching his rise to dominance in the Republican primary has seriously shaken me to the core. I now question everything I've thought or assumed about people. I just don't understand anymore.
patdude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:49:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the bacteria have succeeded
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:16 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spending months wondering whether that can or plastic bag is going to be the one fucks with you. I've been in the car with guys that swerve around garbage in the road here in the states because they just can't shut that shit off.
Friends calling you at 0300 cause they hit their wives in the face when she woke them up.
22 a day is scary. We have 37. That's one guaranteed and two possibly.
Overseas insurgents will hide IEDs in things that most people wouldn't bother taking a second look at or would even go over and try to pick up.
Oh someone dropped a magazine for an M4 here let me go pick it up and then boom the guy's dead or has his legs blown off or some shit. That's what he's talking about with guys avoiding garbage and not being able to shut that shit off. You spend months or even years over there on multiple deployments, shit fucks with you.
One of my best friends was woken up by his girl in the middle of the night right after he got back from deployment and started choking her. Took him a good couple of seconds to realize what he was doing and stop.
Top answer has over 4K right now, so no way I don't get buried.
But the mind. At the end of the day, your mind creates your reality and nothing else. There's nothing in the real world that can scare you more than your mind can.
Global thermonuclear war... it's only a matter of time. Hopefully leaders would come to their senses before destroying the world but some people just want to watch it burn. So many countries have them now, I'm predicting a strike within the next 10 years as the middle east continues to collapse in war and possibly those crazy bastards in n Korea.
X-3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not scary. He's an actor and has been socially liberal his entire life. His daughter, which runs a lot of his company is best friends with Chelsea Clinton....okay, yes that is scary.
Going to see your doctor. He saus he'll if anythings wrong. He calls on a saturday morning but you miss the call. You can't reach him for the entire day after that.
That exact thing happened to a buddy of mine. Doctor called him on a SUNDAY, told him to come right in. Turns out he had osteosarcoma, cancer of the jawbone. Had to have his jawbone removed, heavily irradiated, and re-installed. He lived withoout cancer the rest of his life.
She says to me suddenly, i think i need to stop talking to you for a few days. I get all upset and insecure. She texts me a picture of a positive pregnancy test. Everything goes still.
I'm a teenager, and there is nothing more terrifying than my mom approaching me and forcing me to show her what is on my phone, even if I'm doing nothing wrong.
Super AIDS. A teaspoon of that in your butt and you're dead in a month...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Volcanoes. Unpredictable and lay dormant for years and then the next thing you know your town is missing. Yellow Stone is said to be pretty violent if it erupts.
patdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
actually volcanoes are predictable... earthquakes however....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but if a big one of the larger dormant ones go off it does more than knock a few buildings down.
patdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:20 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but a good geologist will predict volcanic activity weeks in advance so evacs can happen and only property is damaged.
Earthquakes strike with no warning and if you are in a non earthquake rated building your chances of becoming tomato jam/minced/crushed are pretty high. We have quakes a lot where I live and they still scare the bejesus out of me.
It just comes out of nowhere and you end up just freezing up. Even if you don't freeze up, it is so hard to move, because the ground is literally shaking.
hiya_M8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of damage that can be caused by a single Trident 2 missile
There's 14 Ohio Submarines in the US Navy
there are 24 trident 2 missles on each
each missle carries 12 warheads
each warhead has the explosive force of 475,000 tonnes of TNT
In total the damage caused by just the ohio US submarine fleetis 1,915,200,000
To put that in perspective the bomb that dropped on hiroshima had the destructive force of only 15,000 tonnes of TNT killing about 75,000 people instantly
Only 8% of the worlds nuclear arsenal..................
A cassowary.
Sure they're in Australia NOW. But it's only inevitable that some dumbass wants one as an exotic pet and it gets out. Invasive assassin species.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fear of someone finding out my asshole was stained blue for two weeks. You can't just explain that shit
It is entirely possible that you are a self-aware mind that just popped into existence, complete with memories and your current circumstances, that will cease to exist in an instant, as a result of random fluctuations in a high-entropy Universe.
Death at any moment. I was walking across the street and passed in front of a train. As it passed behind me, I quickly saw another train going the opposite direction. So at that moment I was stuck between them. Only a foot or so of space between myself and both the trains. Scary shit.
Not to be an edgelord or anything, but I'd say humans. The variance is what makes it scary. The new friend you've made might be a lovely person or they might be planning on killing you and burying you in their basement. Or throwing your limbs into acid.
And frankly, nature is nature. Nature does what nature does for various reasons regardless of whether we enjoy them or not. But a human being willfully torturing another human, someone they know is conscious and aware of what's going on? That's some scary shit right there.
The fact that you could be kidnapped and turned into a slave and no one would know. The fact that there are so many slaves around the world in 2016. Some dark things out there created by humanity.
BLKWD_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sheer uncaring enormity of the world. The straight up possibility that you can do everything perfectly; succeed in friendship, love, finances, everything... and the universe will still find a way to crush you to dust and, what's more, it won't even remember your existence a blink in the cosmic timescale from now.
To paraphrase Chris Rock talking about marriage: We have two choices in life. We can be miserable, or we can be lonely. And EVERYBODY chooses miserable.
evivelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Disease's like Mad Cow Disease caused by misfolded proteins called prions.
The disease is not a bacteria or a virus, it is reconfiguration of proteins that can spread like wild fire. There is no cure because there is no microbe. It is your body mis-folding its own proteins.
It can be transmitted by blood, and theoretically could effect your body similar to ice-nine from "Cat's Cradle"
Humans. Just listen to any serial killer, or really any psychopath confess to their crime. Listening to someone explain how they violently murdered someone with literally ZERO fucks to give is absolutely chilling.
Heroin. Heroin ruins addicts. Heroin wrecks families. Heroin destroys trust. Heroin burns money. Heroin generates crime. Heroin decimates communities. Heroin makes a man believe he is a superman. Heroin makes one sleepy, all the time. Heroin makes somebody into a nobody. Heroin tricks minds into loving the loser lifestyle. Heroin causes unintentional suicides. Heroin buries people. Heroin.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this is a plant that stings you and hurts so bad people and animals have killed themselves to escape the pain which last for months to year.
Climate change. The planet that we have lived on for the past 10 thousand years is going to be gone very soon. We can act now to lessen the effects, but things are going to change drastically at this point, no way around that.
Words... They're the whole way we communicate. While many of the other mentioned things are scary because they may harm or kill you, words have a much deeper power. Countries go to war over words, people kill their children over words, people can go insane and lose themselves over words, people kill themselves because of words. This isn't something that you'll never run across in your life or have a very small chance of experiencing. Every single day we talk hundreds, thousands of times. To think that every word we utter may have a much larger impact they we can imagine is profound, terrifying.
yanroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being wrongfully convicted of a crime
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that no matter how civilised and progressive we think we are, every first world nation still keeps an armed defence force at its side in case another country's government want to start some shit and invade.
We really haven't come that far, when you look at it like that.
Mega tsunamis which could race towards our coasts as thousands of feet tall walls of pure water and energy. They are only a really large land slide or a comet strike away and could have devastating effects on some of the most populated areas on Earth.
The elephant's foot. A huge mass of chernobylite, a mix if molten reactor core and cement that emits enough radiation to kill a person with less than 5 minutes of exposure. When it was discovered, they had to use a mirror to take pictures because the radiation broke the camera.
You know, I've always been terrified of ghosts. Goblins, demons, fairies and all that stuff is culture specific, but ghosts are something that have been reported by many different cutures and are still being seen today. I set up a camera in an empty house for five minutes to try to hear the same footsteps my friend was hearing and sure enough, when I checked the footage, I heard five CLEAR footsteps from nowhere walk towards the camera, make the camera adjust and focus it's microphone, then walk five more steps away into nothingness. I also have some footage of my buddy and I in a barn and we didn't hear it then, but when we checked the footage after, you hear a young kid's voice go "Hiiii!" Fucking freaked me out so much. One other time, during my dad's wake, my brother's friend was driving my niece home and my niece turns beside her and goes "Grandpa's right next to me!" And she starts giggling. My brother's friend and his girlfriend just white-faced the whole car ride.
If you didn't know already, I believe in ghosts.
mhyang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles, but then again, maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me, it would be climate change and possibly dying because the Earth gets too fucked up to salvage.
hitch21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion. Because it encompasses the worst of human nature. Tribalism, xenophobia, mandated hatred and probably the worst is believing things based on no evidence or faith as they kindly put it.
It's far from our only problem in the worle but it underpins some of the worst regimes in the world and war between religions has killed millions and violence between sects causes a large number of deaths each day.
Where it once brought people together and laid down a moral framework it now pushes us apart and fragments us. Moreofer, it's moral framework isn't close to modern ethics and so it is outdated. Read the books as history because that is what they should be by now.
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but the Demon Core is terrifying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core because one instant it's ok, and the next instant with the wrong turn of a screwdriver it kills everyone around.
The reason it's so scary is that I make metal parts for scientists and Engineers that do this type of thing sometimes and it's so scary to think that they might kill themselves with something that "seems" harmless.
IcedZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say climate change, but I think that could be encompassed by religion... tough call.
Any kind of mental illness. The idea of literally losing your mind scares the shit out of me. And almost everyone will have some sort of experience with it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Night terrors. Waking up and thinking something so terrifying is so real, but knowing in the very back of your mind it isn't only to snap back to reality after a minute or so. Then you sit up terrified that you can't even trust your brain anymore. After I got raped, it started happening to me. THAT is the scariest encounter.
I mean, if you get old and your mental health deteriorates, not knowing where you are or who is around you is terrifying, I've seen it happen to too many loved ones.
Waiting for the doctor to tell you if that lump on your skin is just a mole, or a life threatening disease? People panics or shut down.
Significant other not responding to your messages/calls for a couple hours? Are they cheating? Did they get in a fatal car wreck? Or just forget their phone on their bed while doing laundry? Chances are you don't contemplate the last one without the other two bugging you.
Car is making sounds? How expensive will it be? Will you even be able to make it to a mechanic?
Unplanned uncertainty has caused me the most amount of panic over the most pathetic situations.
reasonable assumption of your own mortality. technically your immortality has yet to be disproved (barring some tragedy taking place between when you said this and my reply :/ )
True. However, I think the eventual destruction of the earth and potential collapse of the universe puts the probability of my eventual demise damn near 1, and that's even assuming that I manage to break all known records of human longevity.
And immorality holds almost as many terrors as mortality.
Sav_ij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, it's the most simple thing that's most frightening. Death will come to us all. It's unavoidable, our true destiny as living beings. Even the most oldest trees wither away. We are all born to die.
Buried, but as a geophysicist? Humans. We are, at the far end, 100 years from complete biosphere destruction. And there is nothing we will do to fix it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bot flies
Ennion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The wandering spider. The most venomous spider, covers a few kilometres a day, it's bite can kill a small child, causes painful erections for males that destroy the genitalia and I'm not sure what it does to women
Politics. In a war, nowdays, with the nuclear power and actual technology, politicians/presidents/dictators can destroy the whole world and put an end to the human life.
I know it's cliche as fuck, but humans are the scariest thing on this planet. Yeah getting eaten by a shark is fucked up, but what about being subjected to an iron maiden?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Demodex, they are little mites that live in your pores and eye lash follicles. At night they have sex on your face and then they go back into your pores.
Fucking Locked-in Syndrome where you are effectively locked into your own mind due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. If you're really unlucky you'll suffer from Total Locked-in Syndrome wherein the eyes are also paralysed. Throughout the paralysis all senses are fine so you can feel pain and still see and hear everyone around, but cannot communicate it. There is no known cure and it is extremely rare for any significant motor function to return. Historically many patients are simply thought of as unconscious or when respiratory control is lost, simply dead and are buried or cremated alive. Really fuck that shit!
Chronic nerve pain. People's bodies getting fucked up and their nerves sending pain signals to the brain. I've heard people who have cluster headaches (a form of nerve pain due to activation of the trigeminal nerve) say they would rather be tortured than go through another headache.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Angler Fish
ckinz16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer, debilitating mental illness, and spiders
Dremlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mega Tsunamis
Earthquake or landslide created. Wondering if I will see Cascadia fault line slip in my lifetime.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People and their brains. We have the brain power to make weapons of mass destruction. Our brains allow us to rationalize truly horrific acts. The worst part is, the more the brainpower a person has, the more certain they are right.
I'm sure some happy clappy people will chime in with the great things we've done...but think about it a moment, our greatest accomplishments were (and are) directly the result of the suffering of many, and the brain of a person or people who thought that was A-OK.
myztry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right and wrongly are largely determined by perspective. Things can thus be both right and wrong at the same time.
If you went for an outside perspective, say aliens, then you'd probably find most of what we do is wrong.
At least that's what they'll tell themselves as they remove us from the planet.
Knowing that both sides of your family come with a long history of alcohol abuse, Alzheimer's, dementia, neuroblastoma, and breast cancer. And not knowing which one, or any will get passed on to you, and which ones will you pass on.
Lachwen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dissociative fugue. You can literally wake up one day as a completely different person mentally. Different personality, different desires. No memory of your previous self. When the fugue state finally ends, you go back to your previous self without any memory of anything from the time you were in the fugue. They have no idea what ultimately causes it (though it appears it can be triggered by stress) and, while exceedingly rare, it apparently can happen to anyone regardless of their mental health status.
Numbers stations are pretty damn creepy. They're like this distant reminder, this little creepy voice that, it turns out, is pretty much EXACTLY the insidious thing it appears to be.
The droughts and severe fluctuations in weather across the globe. We will soon find nations fighting over fresh water more than anything else unless we really work hard towards finding a solution to this whole global warming and accepting the fact for one sincere time that we messed it up!
Locked-in syndrome. You're awake. You can see and breathe, but all voluntary function is gone. To many, you appear like a brain-dead vegetable. You lay there staring at the ceiling wondering if your doctor is smart enough to know what's happening, or if they decide to be charitable and donate this "brain-dead man's" kidney.
Biological technologies, materials and know-how capable of wiping-out 80% of humanity in a fortnight will soon be within the reach of 22-year-old university graduate students who can't get a date.
Mental disease scares me the worst. I have moderate depression and moderate/severe anxiety and it does its best to run my life. And i do my best to fight it. Theres days where i dont want to exist, but at the same time i am too scared to do anything about it so i just lay in bed all day. Ive never considered suicide. I wouldnt ever do it. But then on the other hand i fight it by being around my family. My niece. And my god brother/ sister. They are the ones that neutralize the depression and anxiety the best. I wouldnt want anyone to go through this without some type of support group. Even if its their family. If anyone needs to talk ill talk as long as you want. I know what its like. That feeling of helplessness. Cracking into pieces. Just so someone wont be alone.
Genetic modification. In a better age, the key to unlimited human potential. In our current world, the societal implications could not be overstated. If you have not seen Gattaca, go watch it now.
Toxoplasmosis. Up to half of the worlds population is affected (23% in US, 95+% in some areas of the world. Traditionally it is believed to cause no symptoms in healthy adults although research points to a scary coloration between infection and: automobile accidents, OCD, parkinson's, alzheimers, suicide, and bipolar disorder.
Now coloration is not causation so it may be likely that people prone to these issues are also prone to certain other behavioral tendencies that make them more susceptible but also know that studies prove that infection causes a change in rodent behavior
Deep time. How thoroughly inevitable oblivion is. All of humanity doesn't (and will never) warrant mention in any unbiased history of earth. Much less the universe.
Tasachs. You're born with a genetic disease that slowly erodes your nervous system until you die, the whole time in pain. You usually die around the age of three. It's a genetic disease oddly caried by akanantin Jews. Just another one of those many ways that God reminds us how much he loves us.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Tay-Sachs. *Ashkenazi Jews.
vauvau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The realization that at any time, you can catch a disease, get hit by a car, or even die. And after a few years people will forget about you, and you will nit be remembered.
So IMO. Reality is fucking scary.
We gon' fuck ourselves right off this planet. Seriously, what species is so bad at life that it prepares to colonize other planets rather than uniting to not destroy the planet it is already living on? We are some arrogant mofos. On the plus side, though, I do enjoy air conditioning and we had a pretty good run!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola. Seriously. Fuck that.
Once you contract it, you're covered in it pretty quickly. By the time you get through the initial symptom (headache), pretty much everyone in your immediate vicinity is more than likely affected. Usually, from onset of symptoms to death is a week to 10 days. A painful, miserable death.
Imagine some guy eats a monkey-meat sandwich in Africa and gets on a plane the next day to New York City. He's touched multiple common surfaces on the plane (bathroom door, arm rests, seat belts, his trash, overhead compartments) that inevitable gets touched by other passengers. All of the people who have touched those surfaces are potentially infected, so now they start spreading. Plane touched down in NYC and everyone gets out and goes out into the city or carries on to their destinations. The virus quickly spreading. It could get out of control FAST.
Innerv8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
hugaw1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies. It's the closest thing to becoming a zombie. You get it from animal bites and a month or so later, become really excited, move controllably, become deathly afraid of water, and try to bite other people. If you get a vaccine within a few days after exposure, there is a 100% survival rate. But if you don't get it before symptoms appear, it's a near 100% death rate. Only three people have ever survived.
gRRacc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People, because no matter what other thing you say is scarier, there is someone that would intentionally put you, your family, and your friends through it, for their personal pleasure.
Fluorine. It's extremely reactive and almost everything it reacts with becomes lethal in small quantities
-zara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire. It is probably the absolute most painful way to die/be injured. If you survive, you have to have your scars scrubbed away to prevent infection. Also you'll be disfigured.
Honestly, for me it's suddenly losing a loved one. My dad died of cancer six and a half years ago when I was 15. Because of an important lesson he taught me I was able to get through it as easily as a person could get through losing their best friend. He had once told me that we were luckier than a lot of people. He may have been dying, but we knew he was and we had time to spend together before it happened. He told me that it was lucky that we were given that chance, that we still had time. He told me that many people lose loved ones unexpectedly, and without saying goodbye, sometimes regretting saying the last things they said to them. I miss him so much, but I the time we spent together knowing he was leaving was amazing and I'm glad we had that opportunity.
Wars. I've never fought in a war but from stories that I've heard from veterans and documentaries like this really make me think about how scary and how fucked up people get from fighting in them.
In my opinion it would probably be the unknown people always fear the unknown and plus it's ridiculously scarry how much we don't know about the universe
Keystones. I mean I know it's a time tested technique for centuries. But ever since I found out that's how arches work, I always look up in mistrust whenever I pass under an arch. If I can I say fuck go around.
For god's sake man, put a pillar in there.
primase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking snapping turtles. Oh look at that cute turtle, I'm going pick it up so it doesn't get it by a car. Oh look, that cute turtle just bit off 4 of my fingers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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phome83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
The consensus at the moment is that we're essentially fucked.
Other people. The capacity that other people have to hurt and kill their fellow man is terrifying. The reckless driving, the lack of respect for life, the theft, the burglary, the torture, the violence, the rape, the enslavement, the murder, the hate. Human nature's capacity for evil is the scariest thing on our planet and it is very, very real.
There are certainly a large amount of scary things in nature, but it's really hard to answer objectively. I have three scariest things that I rate in no particular order.
Falling into lava (OUCH)
Being buried alive
Working as a nurse, I've taken care of people who are demented and contracted so badly that they have no life. They literally lay in a fetal position full time, rely on others to feed them, wipe their ass and give medicines. As somebody who loves to be active, that shit scares me to no end.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of meta but: quantum mechanics.
Basically; in quantum mechanics - things exist yet don't exist until measured at the fundamental level.
You are made of things that don't exist yet exist only when someone checks.
In my experience? Natural things. Drowning is horrifying, I've experienced it twice. Nothing really beats the power of water except maybe the power of wind. A hurricane doesn't have anything on a Tornado. After that, lightning.
kar1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis. I woke up fully conscious, unable to move any part of my body. This would also include my mouth which itched to scream for help. I live alone, and god damn. When your body thinks you are dreaming, but your mind is fully in gear, talk about legitimate, paralyzing fear.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's happened to me twice before. scary fucking situation. i just remember thinking WTF. how can i not move
Deadly little motherfuckers most of the time, excruciating all of the time, nearly invisible and probably coming to a beach near you. theyre spreading and they probably arent one species but many. Tiny tiny jellyfish.
The fact that at anywhere and at any time you could die from a freak accident. Imagine you're in bed about to go to sleep... Out of nowhere a meteor the size of a grain of rice come beaming throught your roof and into your fragile little brain. Or a drunk driver crashing through your house into your room.
The fact that what we actually see in real life is not actually when it's happening; but in the past because of the delay between the light reaching our optic nerve and our brain interpreting it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one day, there is a 100% chance that I am going stop existing on earth and fuck knows what I will experience or if the word experience will even makes sense. That and hairless chimps. Those things are fuckin terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The god damn FLU. I've seen Contagion and now I'm terrified.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Primary Progressive Aphasia is pretty up there. The symptoms are forgetting everyday words progressively until you can't even comprehend spoken words. Eventually, you become and vegetable and shut down. It's usually the result of brain damage. No cure. Just imagine slowly loosing the ability to make yourself heard, and then understand your loved ones, knowing that you'll soon be wearing diapers and wasting away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An entire civilization annihilating another civilization in the most brutal, insane, and cruel ways. All because of arbitrary reasons that one imaginary presence is better than another.
If we spent trillions of dollars to find a cure for aging, with some time we would find it. If 7 billion people are not aging, we are going to have some major problems with resources.
Not necessarily. Japan's the longest lived and they're shrinking. As nations get more educated and technologically advanced, they have fewer kids. Without aging, women will also be able to wait much longer to have a child. All that failing, law could limit new births. Agree to wait 50 or 100 years to have your kid, or no anti-aging treatment, etc.
The fact that humans are pretty loosely strung together. On one hand it can take a lot to push someone over the edge, on the other you just snap!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the straw that breaks the camel's back
rkantos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unlimited money creation - or fractional reserve banking.
Actually not money creation in itself, but the fact few people actually realize properly how our current economy and society is based and relies on it.
Not the scariest but farm implements and Power take offs. A power take off can simply be described as a shaft that spins at high speeds to operate tractor attachments. An unprotected PTO can easily catch clothing and take you on the worst ride of your life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister's jack Russell can read my mind. It's freaky.
X-3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please explain this phenomena.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think simple commands and he does them. He knows the names of his toys (before he destroys them). So i think "get froggy" and he goes and picks up his stuffed frog toy and comes back to me. Dogs do not understand language, just one or two word combinations. Yet I talk to him and he "understands". It's weird and really cool.
X-3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if you know this, but dogs are the only animal on earth that has evolved along side man as a companion. So a dog will do things for you, as a person, that they wouldn't do for their own kind. One trait all domestic dogs have is what your eyes are doing and the tone of your voice. Dogs are great visual learners so he/she might just be watching your eyes. My dog is like that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A brain aneurysm could be developing inside of you right now, and unless you happen to get a CT scan in time, it could pop and kill you where you stand.
What would have happened if the chernobyl divers chose not to pick a guaranteed excruciating death.
Fun fact. They were so irradiated at the time of death, they had to be buried in lead coffins that were soldered shut.
0614 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very fucking cliched answer, but the people.
There's the minority that are just completely fucking insanely evil (like Jesus Christ I feel like throwing up when I hear their way of thinking.) That's the cliched one, but none-the-less awful to think about.
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And then it's super fucking scary to realise that the majority of the population are very selfish regarding things that they can't see (horribly cruel regimes that occur in a far-off country that the average first world countryman chooses to stay away from.)
Just the whole "out of sight, out of mind" mentality. It's bad that it's a thing, it's fucking scary as Christ that it's a thing the majority of the population are into.
As society moves more towards interacting with systems instead of humans, I think this risk becomes that much more dangerous. If you ever saw the movie In Time -- it's a very real scenario. Though just replace the "Time" aspect with access to money or access to food.
Biological weapons.
They are absolutely terrifying. During the late 1980s, the Soviet Union's Chimera Project studied the feasibility of combining smallpox and Ebola into one super virus.
They also have explored making "dormant viruses." These are viruses that would lay dormant for extended periods of time in the victim until they are triggered by a stimuli.
The stuff that humans do to each other at their worst. Concentration camps, forced labor camps, torture, genocide, random killings and rapings, and so on. It makes the world feel like a terrifying place.
Grizzly Bear. When parents tell kids monsters aren't real they are full of shit because Grizzly Bear exists. The only other thing that scared me as a child was Pablo Escobar. He was real and he would murder me in cold blood. Even as a little kid I knew this.
Gbcue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know how no one mentioned it (I probably missed someone saying it), but resistance to antibiotics is a freaking terrifying. So many diseases and infections are treated using antibiotics and if those became obsolete we would have no way of treating them
I've read through the thread, and I can't believe this hasn't come up yet: time.
For me, the scariest thing on our Earth is the notion that I only have a finite amount of time to spend with my loved ones, I only have a finite amount of time to accomplish my goals, and there is only a finite amount of time before I die.
I find those thoughts haunting, and thoroughly frightening. Everything else can be cured, fought, avoided, or requires human input. You can't cure the passage of time, you can't fight the passage of time, you can't avoid the passage of time, and it's completely unaffected by human input.
Something less stomach churning, but also unpleasant is that sometimes people "die". Not by ceasing to live, but because the person that they were get replaced by the person that they become. Someone who loved you with all of their heart and who promised to stick it out to the end, can just be replaced by another person who looks like the former them, and sounds like the former them, and just no longer loves you. The former them is effectively dead, and you can do nothing about it but grieve and move on. So a lot of you have that to look forward to, and the rest are probably living through the after affects.
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Guys... We're all going to die. You're going to die. At some point, it's all going to end. Worrying about how is just wasted energy. What's really scary is trying to figure out where the infinitely thin seam is on the curtain separating what you think is reality, and what really is.
A microscopic, immortal, virtually unkillable omnivore that possesses the most complex gene structure of any known animal. It can survive in any cataloged environment (including the vacuum of deep space) and can thrive and reproduce after being frozen for over 30 years. Evolution/mutation would turn these tiny little moss piglets into the things that ends mankind, for we would never be able to destroy them all and they would feed on us without hesitation.
the unknown... the forces of nature that we not only have not discovered yet, but the fact that we probably will have little to no control over such forces...
or us creating antimatter and obliterating a city or a country(or all life on earth)
fwd0120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working with things that could kill you instantly -
Hydraulic presses, wood chippers, garage door springs, power cables, anything under extreme pressure, construction vehicles, molten metals, most power saws, arc-welding, etc. Pretty much putting any body part in the wrong place could kill you.
The only thing keeping us from hurting ourselves is our brain saying "don't do that".
Dimbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature- specifically natural disasters.
In the blink of an eye whole towns and cities can be destroyed, any living thing can be killed or critically injured/ broken.
I have relatives with things listed here as well as others that are inevitable, Dementia, Parkinson's, MS, stage 4-5 cancer at a young age... This thread allowing me to relate to others comments OS so extremely unsettling... Knowing anxiety is not a good thing for me I'm wondering why I decided to read through so much...
This has probably already been said. But that kind of coma that's almost like sleep paralysis but you're aware of everything but can't talk or move. Shit freaks me out
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes. So scary, in fact, the world has needed to learn to not fear them over several generations to keep civilized society on track.
For me it was being buried up to my neck in sand on a date, and I know I might be alone here.
However, i made a huge mistake that still haunts me. After I asked her to dig me out (which happened damn quick) it was like it made her realize that I was trapped and she had the control.
It could have ended worse (Creepshow comes to mind. I still have trouble watching it) but the terror I felt while she did have me, and during what she did, was worse than anything I have a word for.
Nuclear weapons. Fission was discovered by scientists who were at the top of their field. Fission was realized by scientists who were at the top of their field. Nuclear weapons were invented and build by scientists and engineers at the top of their field. However, nuclear weapons are controlled by politicians (who are complete idiots and morons as compared to the scientists and engineers who built the thing). Invented by A+ students, used by D- students.
Nothing else has destroyed more of the earth and bled its resources and actually affected environmental changes like we have. We're collectively destroying a planet. We're like a shitty Death Star.
iiowyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suicidal Depression. The most powerful biological computer, the thing that is the cause for all of our success... and it is trying to kill you.
I think that is why I actually find The Happening to be a scary movie for me. Not the contrived plot or most of what is in the movie. Just the idea that, no matter how hard I have tried to drag myself out of the pit, no matter how many little successes I achieve... that one day something is going to click and I will be gone. And it will be a relief.
That to me is scary.
huskarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia, sleep paralysis, night terrors...any kind of disturbing visual or auditory hallucinations.
Gamma Ray Burst. A big-ass star explodes, and then--
Nothing. If you are on the side of Earth facing the explosion, you cease to exist. Vaporized. Everything you love, also ceases to exist. The suckers on the other side of our pitiful world die too. Painfully.
Yeah sure a few DeGrasse Tyson types will buzz the media for a short awhile before it explodes, saying a we might see a huge supernova in our lifetimes. But if they find out that the star's rotational pole points at us, that will be our only warning. No one will ever predict exactly when the monster dies...
And when the big fucker does... Goodbye. You will most certainly NOT see it coming.
For me, it's the passage of time. It passes by so damn quickly and the older you get, the faster it seems to pass by. I get anxiety over this even though I am happily married to a lovely woman who I enjoy every minute with. I am terribly afraid of my loved ones passing away with age and growing old myself.
There's some kind of worm living in africa
. when you walk over one, it digs into your foot and lays eggs inside you. The freshly hatched baby worms will eat their way up your body until they eat your eyes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like that is the kind of thing I might notice before it gets that far.
DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE- how has no one mentioned this!!!? Literally every now living thing that comes into contact with this chemical will meet its maker after a period of time! We need more places to follow the likes of Flint, Michigan, and put a ban on this deadly chemical. Learn more at: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
people that don't value human life and enjoy hurting others
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find humans to be the scariest thing on the Earth. Sentient animals that have the power to create and destroy many things and that are typically driven by emotion rather than rational thought.
One of the biggest driving forces behind human social progress is war. The quest for ever-better weapons has led to so many advancements that are used in peaceful ways, but that begs the question of what could have been invented if all of those scientists were pursuing peace from the start?
Also, as someone with the schizoid personality type/disorder I view pretty much everyone else in the same way I imagine most people view NPCs in video games or supporting characters in TV series. The exception is that these NPCs have the ability to intrude upon and make changes to my existence without my consent. That is incredibly scary to me, because the only thing I want in life is to be left alone in peace and quiet. Uninvited reminders that my private fantasy isn't secure are terrifying. Probably sounds batshit insane to most of you, but I'm wagering most of you aren't schizoids.
ZipC0de ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly........We Are
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Just remember all the war crimes, the nonsensical conflicts and unmotivated violence. Despite our intelligence, we're the most irrational animals.
Tanrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that scares me most is brain damage or dementia. Go ahead and kill me, at least then I won't have to deal with literally losing myself, while I'm aware that I'm losing myself.
Limnic eruptions are pretty damn scary. Basically, a bunch of CO2 dissolved in a large lake suddenly bubbles out of the lake and suffocates everything in the area. One day, you're out for a swim, blub blub blub, hurrrrrrk, dead.
There is no cure. It can last for years, as it is a chronic condition.
In ALS, both the upper motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die, and stop sending messages to muscles. Unable to function, the muscles gradually weaken, waste awayย (atrophy), and have very fine twitchesย (called fasciculations). Eventually, the ability of the brain to start and control voluntary movement is lost. Eventually, all muscles under voluntary control are affected, and individuals lose their strength and the ability to move their arms, legs, and body.
Some people still have all their mental faculties, and can see and taste and hear, but they are trapped in their body.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The possibility of an asteroid destroying all life on earth on any given day of the week. Or maybe the fact that the sun will die out sometime in the future. But before it dies out it will consume the earth. But before it consumes the earth our species will probably have gone extinct.
Humans. From a few actions, we can fuck up someone's life. A few wrong actions can mean war with other nations. We have rapists and paedophiles, and people in power who could press a button, and end a war. Its really scary what could happen if a few crazy people could get their hands on a few rifles, tanks or even nukes.
I'm just glad we have some people in power who are responsible with all of this
The oceanic conveyor belt. It circulated around the earths oceans bringing water water to the poles and cold water to the equator. This process is essential for nutrients and oxygen to keep our oceans alive. It stopped once before millions of years ago and almost ended all species on earth. Scientists say there are now large sections of the system already shutting down. The alkalinity of the ocean in those sections are bordering on deadly.
(The bigotry, stupidity and plain malignancy of) the human being. It never ceases to surprise what both insane and supposedly sane people do to each other and to the planet.
Permafrost thawing, huge amounts of methane being released into the atmosphere, earth temperature rising by 8 degrees within 2-3 decades, no food growing for 10 billion people, World War III, all humans dead.
MrScats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin Octopus
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drivers!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest thing to have a personal experience with: scopolamine. turns you into a zombie and you have no free will. people will use it to rob you. it's a problem in Colombia.
Scariest thing for all of us: nuclear weapons, climate change, or antibiotic resistant bacteria
Sleep paralysis. Consciously waking up and realizing your mind is separated from your body and you can't scream or wiggle your toes is terrifying.
I've had times when I consciously woke up and felt my arms around my ex and tried to make noise or movements that would cause her to move my body and break me out of it to no avail, then regained control of my body and shot up just to ask if they heard my cries for help and her saying, no.
Scariest instance was when she was already awake and moving about and I saw her and tried scream at her to move me, just to have her say I wasn't making any noise.
bapo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, really. Statistically, you're more likely to die from a car crash than any other injury, including other forms of transportation.
And people drive on a daily basis.
And despite adhering to traffic laws when walking or riding a bike, I still have dangerously close calls with inattentive or reckless drivers at least several times per week.
Cars are fucking terrifying.
Lotacus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me a few years back about this sleeping death thing that happens to young hmong guys like me and ever since then it has scared the shit out of me every time i lay down for sleep. Did some interweb scrounging and i found a neat case study but it still scares me wheneever i try sleeping. Thanks, mom, for scaring me the rest of my life.
The fact that we have to run telethons to get the public to buy machinery for hospitals in order to save children dying of curable illnesses. That we are nothing.
One nip from the pretty colored, tiny little thing and you have about 10 minutes to left to live. What makes it so horrible is that you will be fully aware as your body rapidly becomes paralyzed and you slowly suffocate to death.
They can live in tiny rock pools at low tide, and if you disturb one by accident... well that little bite may be the last thing you ever feel.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my family dynamics
jrm2007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Becoming homeless in the USA seems up there. As I have mentioned before, there is for many apparently no way out and no government programs that really seem to help. A protracted death sentence with ever-increasing discomfort. Also, painful, incurable illness in states without doctor-assisted suicide.
Mental illness. especially as its still not taken very seriously (lots of people think of it as lazyness/something one can shake off) and it has kind of a social stigma.
at the same time it makes you lose control of yourself and makes you lose whats you.
Not here yet, but likely in the next 50-100 years - a true general artificial intelligence.
We likely won't even know we've created it. It will just be the culmination of computer science and math algorithms over the next partial century. So we won't know it exists, but it will know that it exists. And it will be smarter than us in virtually every way. And then it will be smarter than us in every way, not just virtually. And then it's too late. Hopefully we were smart enough to program it to where it can't hurt us, otherwise we might be fucked.
Theorists have long mentioned the idea of a "great filter" - a point where most intelligent life forms meet their demise, which explains why we haven't yet encountered intelligent life. One such great filter could be the discovery of a strong AI, and we are likely within a century of getting there.
The deadly pain tree of Australia: gympie stinger.
"Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki.
The inevitable heat death of the universe. it's not that scary when you research it due to the fact that it will happen sa far into the future that we don't really matter at all when that happens.
but you know... the thought that everything we know exists will stop existing and just disperse within fractions of a second is kinda scary.
LTuckR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rc117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions? I heard someone knowledge describe them in detail on here before, and sounded pretty terrible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're rare. Yes they can be scary but in all instances they require certain specific circumstances.
Take, for instance, the Kuru virus. It is found in only a handful of Haitian tribes yet you see it in movies as a symptom of cannibalism. Unless you've been hanging out in Haiti and eating brains, you're safe.
armadan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw this on reddit the other day, and it really hammered home how much the universe doesn't give a shit about human life:
1986 Lake Nyos disaster
On August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption occurred at Lake Nyos which triggered the sudden release of about 100,000 - 300,000 tons[8] [...] of CO2. This gas cloud rose at nearly 100 kilometres per hour [...] it then rushed down two valleys branching off to the north, displacing all of the air and suffocating some 1,700 people within 25 kilometres.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read about someone whiping their ass with a leaf of this tree and then commiting suicide
Death. Not the act of actually dying but what comes afterwards. Because in truth, we have 0 clue what happens. Just about everything else that I've seen on this list is something we at least can study and understand. But the uncertainty of what lies beyond life. Depending on your beliefs it could be an eternity of bliss, an eternity of terror and pain, another life as another species or person, or just nothingness. I'm more scared of nothingness than I am of hell being real, because for my consciousness to cease to exist is the most terrifying thing I can imagine.
Splike_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
Grinagh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the humble botfly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botfly
The human botfly occasionally uses humans to host its larvae. The larva, because of its spines, can pose an extremely painful subepidermal condition. One removal method is to use the tree sap of the matatorsalo, found in Costa Rica, which is reputed to kill the larva, yet leave its body in the skin.[11] Additionally, one can attempt to seal the breathing hole of the larva with nail polish or petroleum jelly; after a day, with a clinical professional, the breathing hole is enlarged and the larva is removed with forceps. Squeezing the larvae out is not recommended, as it can cause the larvae to rupture; their bodily fluids have been known to cause severe anaphylactic shock.[12] Use of adhesive tape can work, but carries additional risk of infection because portions of the larva's breathing tube can be broken off by the tape and make the remainder of the body difficult to remove
awp235 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sll3rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely, nukes.
There are long and storied histories of oh so many horrors from horrible toxins in Australian trees and mammals, in the entire microbial universe, in diseases and conditions, to SIDS, to vast miles long asteroids that could potentially wipeout life on Earth, though I guess that doesn't fit the question anyway.
All of those are natural, and scary, and horrific. But fuck all of that because humans invented the scariest fucking thing on Earth ever and there are two factions on Earth with enough stockpiled to wipeout life on the planet and have just spent the better part of a century fucking with each other. Literally just kind of sort of threatening each other with complete annihilation, but not really, but maybe if the other guy gets just a bit too uppity and lets down their guard for just a second or two.
You know, like brothers that just don't get along and they only reason one hasn't killed the other is cuz they would both die and so would everyone else on the fucking planet.
I mean, if we had nukes and A-bombs but only some superbeings that were literally personafied goodness and justice and really didn't want people to die for incredibly stupid reasons, even had some sort of mantle of sorts to actually preserve life, for realsies, had exclusive access to the triggers, that would be one thing.
Nope.
Instead it's humans. Homo fucking sapiens. And the cat's permanently out of the bag, so really, a nuclear holocaust isn't really a matter of if, but when. Maybe not in our lifetimes. Maybe three-hundred years from now. Or maybe in a month. Who the fuck honestly knows?! We act like just because the Cold War is over that it could never happen again. It can, it probably will if we don't somehow kill ourselves first. But hey, it could happen.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of late but here it is: CAMEL SPIDERS. I once talked to a guy who was a fire fighter in the military. Said he did 3 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and the scariest shit he saw out there was these fuckers. Apparently, they latch onto the bottoms of camels and bite them. Their venom numbs the area so the camel doesn't even know it's happening and then it eats the camel alive. Even worse, the guy told me that, while most animals out there run away from humans, camel spiders are attracted to shadows so THEY FOLLOW YOU. He carried a broom handle around just to fight them off. Here's a link if want nightmares forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
The fact that the entire world is minutes away from destruction at all times, and to end the world would only take two people and "the flip of a switch" (referencing the MAD between different nations and the stockpiles of ICBM's around the globe)
War. Most definitely war. Mindless slaughter of thousands of innocent women, children and men for the sole purpose of "proving a very vague point" such as "my imaginary God has a much bigger penis than your imaginary God". Also the migrant crisis is awful. I was a refugee for a long time as well, and I know what it means. We did not travel long (only across a couple countries), and I simply cannot imagine travelling across a continent to escape war only to be met by people who think you don't belong there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans, no doubt. The sheer amount of malice they're capable of, coupled with a mind capable of finding ways to enact their nefarious schemes. All this while actually possessing the ability to sympathise with their victims.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Torture chambers. That stuff you've seen in the saw movies, and hostel movies, doesn't even compare to what real torturers do to people. Torture is something that mankind has been working on, for thousands of years. Thousands. Of years. And we've only been getting better at it.
Think about it.
So be careful when you visit strange lands. People get abducted all the time. Other people pay good money to see it happen, others pay to do it themselves. Some of them make a career out of doing.
The theory goes that the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs was so violent and so large that within two to three hours, the entire atmosphere, globally, was up around twelve hundred degrees. The only things which survived were hibernating, below ground our underwater.
But that's an hour long episode, so have some Amazonian insanity fungi.
Devils breath (scopolamine) is pretty frightening, though I must say I've learned about a whole bunch of new things to be terrified of in this thread. I couldn't necessarily say it's the scariest but they're all pretty up there...
Smallest jellyfish that you cant even see it in the water because it smaller than you fingernail and trasparent. It is also the deadliest jellyfish in the world.
Rosaly8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weather.
2Flow2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. After first learning about it in biology class, it was terrifying to find out that we still don't know fully what causes it, how to predict it, or how to stop it.
People are probably by far the most destructive force on earth. Certainly in regards to our ability to change, and do harm to the environment, and other species, but also to ourselves. If anything on earth is going to have intent to kill or harm you it's probably going to be a person.
Plus you never know who's stealing from you, or lying to you, or secretly hates you. And people do all sorts of emotional damage as well like abuse, and humiliation. Nothing else in nature hoists it's expectations on you, then derides you for not meeting them. People are horrible. I'm going to go make sure my doors are locked again.
This: Go watch the documentary on Youtube called Life. I stumbled on it somehow by accident and it broke my mind. It's really eye opening, sobering, and makes you realize that evolution, and especially humans, are the most destructive force that exists. As intelligence evolves and we develop the ability to create things, competition for the crucial resources that were once so abundant on Mother Earth to provide life for all living things, becomes a process of destruction. Go watch. It's sobering and eye opening.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No takers for global warming? If anything else could wipe out entire species, cause stronger hurricanes, tropical storms and water scarcity, wouldn't we call it dangerous? Seems a pretty easy one to me.
Wanting to get married and have a family and not getting one. :( The fact that you have to rely on someone else to make this dream come true for you and you can't just do it by yourself. I want someone to grow old with and I can't just make it happen.
At any moment as you walk down the street, ride the bus, or shop, someone could turn around and end your life. There is almost nothing you can do about it and nothing you can do to predict it. The only thing that keeps people from acting like the animals they are is either a sense of decency or the threat of punishment. If someone just stops giving a shit, what can you do?
โWhat's the scariest real thing on our earth?โ
Is it the human physical form? Because itโs an actual entity capable of impacting on its real world surroundings. Yet alarmingly โcontrolledโ and directed by a device operating on the basis of virtual reality. This is evidenced by the observation that all such mechanisms run incompatible paradigms. Which exhibit contradictions between not only their internal notional narratives, but also the integral nature of those unique worldviews themselves. Therefore as well as failing to appreciate that their own survival is dependant on identifying and presenting a cohesive, rational and sustainable response to reality. They are also actively intent and engaged in undermining, attacking, and destroying that which ultimately supports their own existence. How much more frightening can any double Kamikaze (total annihilation) type threat get?
usku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Homo Sapiens. We have a nasty habit of destroying our living space, killing each other over mindless things, exterperating and exterminating other species for our needs. All this without fully understanding the ramifications that this pale blue dot is all we have currently.
There is nothing else on this earth that is more terrifying then us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The super volcano that is under yosemite being overdue to kill us all.
iGenie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on your mentality, the fact that one perceives the nigh infinite amount before one's birth exactly as the time after one's death. That is, infinite nothingness.
nosb_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for me, human beings. (war, religion, money, egoism, media.. the list is very long..)
Yes.....I've just got a mental image of mrs. Dolphin comin home to mr. Dolphin standing in the living room, turgid wang balls deep in some mackerel, wagging the fish tail and his eyebrows at the same time.....best of luck
drcyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
inahst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia and psychosis. Not being able to trust your senses and cognition would be terrible, especially when you are convinced that they are accurate
Getting banned on PSN for something you didn't do. All the digital games you bought gone all because you were hacked. And Sony almost never repeals their decisions. It really scares me how they are allowed to get away with this.
"Trigeminal neuralgia is considered by medical experts to be one of the most painful conditions known to humankind."
OmegaSE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity
stromm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having anyone yell out your full name...
Takes me right back to being a little kid and my mom or grandmother doing it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Bacterias. Those little fuckers just keep evolving in an enormous rate rendering antibiotics useless day after day. I wouldn't want to see someone die from a slow and painful infection. Pharmacists need to step up and invent some new ways to treat these fuckers!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is the chick that works at Rite Aid supposed to do about it?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Nuclear Attack.
One minute you're reading your newspaper.
Next you have no eyes, can't breath properly and all your skin hurts with very severe burns to the point where even the air stings and all you can do as a scream is let out a whimpered groan that has no vocal chord power, because your vocal chords have melted.
And that's if the pressure wave hasn't utterly destroyed you.
You might get maybe, 10 seconds of warning, when you see the missile, which looks like a comet. And maybe you might see the flash, which will be the last thing you ever look at before it blinds you. There is no getting under a desk or taking cover behind a wall, because, the wall and the desk are going to be evaporated along with you.
And if you survive, you are not going to enjoy the agonizing death from radiation poisoning and total DNA failure.
And this is a threat which is present every day, as long as we have these weapons and people who hate our country.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a parasite, they're incredibly difficult to stop let alone cure.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me the thought of tiny unstoppable organisms literally chowing down on the parts of you that makes you you for a couple of weeks till you die wins the scariest thing on the planet award
Monotheistic faiths (belief in one God eg: Christianity, Islam). Pagan culture (polytheistic, belief in many gods) in the ancient world was highly tolerant and the assumption was that X culture's Gods ruled over X patch of land. The world became so much more volatile when it became a war over who worshipped the 'one true God'.
A hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia.
The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as โThe Devilโs Breath,' and is derived from a particular type of tree common to South America.
Stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror stories of how people were raped, forced to empty their bank accounts, and even coerced into giving up an organ.
Pedophilia. The currently leading theory on the cause of being a pedophile is a similar part of your brain that makes you gay or straight. So if that is the truth, can we ever morally and effectively treat pedophilia?
Sulfuric mustard or mustard gas... it causes blisters to appear on exposed skin and forms blisters to form in the lungs when inhaled. It Wounldnt be a painless death and has been described as being worse than death.
Yeah, my dad died of ALS about 7 years ago and while his doctors felt confident it was non-familial and we didn't need to be tested, it's hard to not consider the worst at times.
endebe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cern. A machine that could create a massive black hole that eats everything you've ever loved, Or a cool experiment.
Any disease that makes you lose you memory/intelligence such as Alzheimer's. My absolute worst fear is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, its basically mad-cow disease for humans, or a rapidly progressive Alzheimer that can strike at any age.
thezuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to a family friend in his late 60s. Was fine Friday, disoriented finding his classroom to lecture on Monday, and deceased 3 weeks later.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob? Its really rare isn't it, unlucky, especially to be killed that quickly.
thezuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not clear, to be honest (I am familiar with prion research and diseases, but the results of testing was relayed to me by a family member without a medical background). I was under the impression that they basically left testing for post-mortem as getting samples before wasn't going to change anything and would only be useful info for offspring. He has 4 adult children and (whatever it was) they think shouldn't affect them...
Yeah, if it was a prion its impossible that they could get it. Its terrifying that you just wake up one day slightly disoriented and then in the next couple months you become unable to compile a sentance. Thats what happened to my Grandmother at a much slower pace(she had alzeimers) I dont know the details because I was 6 when it happened but apparently thats what happened.
thezuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spoke to him on the phone when he was first hospitalized and he knew who I was. But he couldn't finish sentences. He kept trailing off. It was really awful. He was put in nursing care, lost a lot of weight, and would just stare at the ceiling all day. Progressed very rapidly. We live in the US and I don't think he ever traveled anywhere and ate a bad burger, etc. But who knows.
We have the power to eradicate almost all life on this planet with the push of a few buttons. If we keep pollution levels up then we could pretty much do that on a slower basis as well.
We kill thousands of our own species at a time over disputes, often hurting or trampling over other species in the process.
And slowly but surely we are still working towards outer space.
Assuming we don't blow ourselves up. I pity any other intelligent species we meet should we ever achieve long distance space travel. We are just nucking futs.
"Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki*
Dementia is pretty scary, you can be a fully functioning member of society one day and then you become completely dependent on others to look after you, not to mention the behavior changes and not remembering the names and faces of those you love.
I would also say having a stroke is pretty damn scary, walking around doing house stuff or shopping then bam, I heard of a staff member on a stroke ward who had a massive stroke at their work, unfortunately they didn't make it :(
Aroumia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After reading half of these comments; i'm glad I never leave my room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Methanosarcina, thought to be the main cause of the PermianโTriassic extinction event where 90% of all life on earth became extinct.
Commitment. I can't even chose 'open always with .. <insert app>'. Apart from that I'm really scared of the realization when my parents die and I have to give a speech at the funeral, that I didn't really know them.
Cryten0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of a publically racist leader of one of the strongest nations in the world. Viewed from those of us on the outside.
The Caldera at Yellowstone. It has the potential to wipe out life on Earth if it goes up. It is swelling the landscape like a boil under the skin, shifting lakes and forests and animals.
It is not thought to be likely to go up anytime soon, which hasn't stopped the media fear-mongering, but the idea that such devastating potential is just sitting there under immense pressure... waiting, if fucking terrifying.
Lego000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Box jelly fish. They are so small you can't see them. Heard stories of people asking others to kill them it's so bad. Also pain killers don't help at all. You just have to ride it out.
HandโSchรผllerโChristian disease: "characterised by granulomatous lesions with histiocyte proliferation involving mainly the bones and skin; it affects children and young adults. The three classic symptoms are softened areas of the skull and other flat bones" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%E2%80%93Sch%C3%BCller%E2%80%93Christian_disease
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. We are ridiculously capable of great things but instead the majority of technological progress is made in support of a war effort. Imagine how quickly humanity could colonise other planets if every country spent its military budgets on a space program instead.
Sanhael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a narrow, placid-looking creek somewhere in northern England. What is completely invisible from the surface is that it cuts extremely deep, and channels the full, concentrated force of an entire river. Supposedly, nobody who's ever so much as stepped into this thing has survived.
It's a genus of 400+ species of fungi, the vast majority of which are parasitic on various insects and other arthropods. This parasitism takes the form of hijacking the infested bug's nervous system, causing it to find an ideal spot where it anchors itself and proceeds to wait, until it dies, and then the fungus bursts out of it's corpse raining spores on other insects to repeat the process.
Hell's Itch. I got it Last summer and oh my god. Never in my life have I experienced so much pain. The pain felt as if little ants had been crawling underneath my skin and biting me, but I can't touch them because it makes it 100 times worse. Sometimes even today contact with oxygen makes it sting. It's a curse that I'm forced to deal with. I felt insane, I ran around my house naked and screaming. Eventually I laid down and controlled my breathing and didn't move for 2 days while I watched How I Met Your Mother.
The pain of CH attack is remarkably greater than in other headache conditions, including severe migraine. The pain is typically described as burning, stabbing, boring or squeezing, and may be located near or behind the eye. The pain of a cluster headache is often described as sharp, penetrating or burning. People with this condition say that the pain feels like a hot poker being stuck in the eye or that the eye is being pushed out of its socket.
Those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts during an attack as a result of the pain. It is reported as one of the most painful conditions.
If left untreated, attack frequency may range from one attack every two days to eight attacks per day. The duration of a typical CH attack ranges from about 15 to 180 minutes.
Cluster headache.
The pain of CH attack is remarkably greater than in other headache conditions, including severe migraine. The pain is typically described as burning, stabbing, boring or squeezing, and may be located near or behind the eye. Those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts during an attack as a result of the pain. It is reported as one of the most painful conditions.
Colombian Devil's Breath
Reported on orignally by Vice News. A plant you can use to instantly take people's free will and memory away while also having them do what you tell them to do (have sex, commit a crime, hand over their money or empty their bank account)
From Wiki
"One common and particularly dangerous method that criminals use in order to rob a victim is through the use of drugs. The most common has been scopolamine. Unofficial estimates put the number of annual scopolamine incidents in Colombia at approximately 50,000. Scopolamine can render a victim unconscious for 24 hours or more. In large doses, it can cause respiratory failure and death. It is most often administered in liquid or powder form in foods and beverages. The majority of these incidents occur in night clubs and bars, and usually men, perceived to be wealthy, are targeted by young, attractive women. To avoid becoming a victim of scopolamine, one should never accept food or beverages offered by strangers or new acquaintances or leave food or beverages unattended. Victims of scopolamine or other drugs should seek immediate medical attention.[36]"
We all think that in our life of comfort and luxury that we've banned bacteria to the outskirts of civilization, that we have pushed them to the brink of extinction.
No. Not only are bacteria ubiquitous (think of an environment, and biologists have found bacteria living or surviving there), but their ability to mutate and exchange genetic material makes them scary as hell. They are nature's masterpiece, not us. We are comparatively weak, unadaptable, and hopelessly bound to a tiny segment of earth. You can gather samples from the Marinara Trench, near the funnels, where the water is 180C, and you find bacterial life. You can look into a nuclear reactor, and you will find bacterial life. You can take samples from caustic water near a geyser, that would kill any complex lifeform, and you'll find it teeming with bacterial life.
Not only that, but we are hopelessly dependent on them. It is estimated that there are ten times more bacteria in your average human than their are human cells. We are, to an approximation, more bacteria than human. If it weren't for their tireless work, we couldn't digest food, we couldn't breath, nothing would rot. On the flip side, with them, we are at a constant risk of being overwhelmed and turned into their newest food source. Relatively benign bacteria, such as streptococus (sp?), while responsible for nothing more than a sore throat, will cause devastation if they manage to migrate to another part of our body. And our immune system will be completely overwhelmed and unable to deal with the subsequent necrotizing facitis.
And they evolve, quickly and in a widespread fashion. Our current battery of antibiotics are failing, getting less and less efficient every year. We are losing our sole line of defense, and we will, inevitably, lose the war.
JibJig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Yellowstone Caldera one of the largest supervolcano in the world if it erupts it will cover most of the planet in ash causing 'nuclear winter' like conditons pushing us back into a ice age
seergod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders
masoles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The old saying goes that you shouldn't be scared of what you read about in the newspaper but of what is too common to be written about in a newspaper. Almost no one of us will face prions, amoebas, volcanoes or gympie trees. Many of us will face cancer or stroke and many of us will become old and lonely. The last one is the most scary thing for me
So more like bizzaro world Hulk?
The incredible Bulk, roller of rolls, defender of hurt feelings, and generally just a lazy person.... Oh dear god we've already been hit!
There's many things but a major one are bacterial mutations.
Most people laugh at the idea how fiction portrays viruses but it's possible for one mistake to evolve into something worse. If more people didn't take their health for granted and purposely live in such ravaged continental conditions, then things wouldn't have become so bad in most parts of the world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We may never get another shot at life, I guess we just have to wait and find out.
Capitalism and how nobody can feel how its idiology permeates everything in your life. People talk so much about distopias and brainwashing but they cant recognize it.
The-Rev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scopolamime. It's a drug made in Columbia made from the datura plant and when used it turns you into an extremely suggestable "zombie." Criminals blow the drug in unsuspecting peoples faces or lace their drknks. Once they start to see the drug take hold of their victim, they go up and take control of the person, bring them to their apartment and force then to give the criminals all their belongings and empty their bank accounts. If the victim is a woman, she is usually brutally raped. The vicim usually wakes up around 2 days later remembering none of it. It is fucking terrifying. It is also very easy to overdose. So criminals accidentally killing people with it commonplace. Pretty nasty shit.
My grandmother had a condition called Trigeminal Neuralgia a nerve pain in the face so bad that some call it the suicide disease. While there are some treatments that work to alleviate the pain, there isn't a cure-all.
I can't find it now, and need to get ready for work, but I once did a report on the topic and learned that it keeps you alert as it causes convulsions and weakens your bones. The mixture of which causes your bones to break, and you're kept awake to feel it all. And eventually you suffocate to death, as you lose control of your diaphragm muscles...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't cause convulsions and it doesn't weaken your bones. You basically lose control of your body and just drop dead.
Sleep Apnea. Imagine being so dehydrated you can't function but everytime you drink water you get violently ill. Thats sleep apnea....and Kanye hes pretty scary too
Withdrawal from a hardcore benzo addiction would probably be the worst thing. No one sympathizes with you and you can have withdrawals for years and with some people it never goes away.
The feeling of constant panic every single minute of the day would drive me insane.
I really need to stop reading threads like this while pregnant and hormonal. All the worst case scenarios flying through my head and now I'm sitting here crying about prions and hugging my one year old.
If you drop it on your skin, you don't even feel it as it passes right through and goes straight into your bloodstream to eat your blood calcium and down on into your bones to start eating your bones. It literally passes through your body and does nothing but eat your bones. Theoretically if you fall into a tank of it you will come out of it with no bones- just a bag of skin and organs.
If you are exposed to it the only treatment is to get an incredibly painful shot of calcium directly onto the exposed area to neutralize the acid.
And it's incredibly commonly used in many chemical industries.
I don't know where to find windows 7 images. Try torrenting or something.
My craw constantly has this stuck in my peripheral vision. The kid seemed nice, but I do the surgery, which was freaking me out. But as soon as I sat down I couldn't "see" the concern on their feet.
Sadly, my parents came to be a lot of practice and even that isn't contained in a good mood and its hard to achieve and maintain, do and be calm. Even when you hear people say "could of", it's similar to life and liberty. They require an investment of time and she said she likes me too. Best feeling ever.
Aeleas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean no doubt is the scariest thing on earth. God knows what's lurking in the depths.... All I know is they're most likely blind and creepy as fuck.
All fair points, but i live in the united states and getting Congress to pass those laws or not pass laws banning those regulations if implemented will be extremely challenging.
Trevoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders?
kopin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. BY FAR. The rest of the natural world fears us. Any animals that don't fear us, well they just haven't had enough time around us to learn that response.
We also made nukes, and decided to make THOUSANDS OF THEM, AND POINT THEM AT EACH OTHER.
When I was in the military bootcamp they had a section of it closed off to us. From what they told us someone had died to meningitis a weekk prior. They had to go through it I guess to clean it
Going to prison especially if in a foreign country. I had to do weekend jail time and it sucked. I can only imagine that it gets worse in a real prison not just a county jail. I can't imagine how terrifying it would be going to prison in a third world country.
altoyz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Viruses. A novel influenza A virus is about as terrifying as it gets for me. Something that is technically not alive and incredibly small can significantly reduce our civilization to a former shadow of itself. Google Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.
srs1317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia, especially those who have it who become violent
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
Cosomo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans. The most unpredictable species on this planet that, when it all comes down to it is trying to kill you. fuck you. eat you. be you. love you. hate you. buy you. sell you. manipulate you. control you.
For me it's probably that the planet has had at least 5 extinction level events in the past that we know of and we're probably due for one again eventually. Everything you know, everything humanity has done, every ounce of creativity our species has imagined can and probably will be wiped from the face of history.
You're under the assumption that A. there's going to be anything out there to recognize what we've done, and B. that our probes aren't going to be destroyed by some random rock or fall into a star or something else. I agree I think our space probes are probably our best bet at being remembered (along with possibly the moon landers) but everything else will be erased from time.
Taking Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). "Intrepid travelers report that past jeweled-gates can be found mechanical-Elves, Aliens, Egyptian Gods, temples, pyramids, and palaces of pulsating light, and some would say, the entire possible population of the Collective Unconsciousness. A magical place where the totality of phenomenal existence can be experienced in an often terrifying transpersonal flash." http://www.dmtsite.com/dmt/experience/descriptions_of_experience.html
I'm really late but definitely Cone Snails. They harpoon a needle with a toxin that makes you destroy your bowel systems... If you're lucky enough to live...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth its self. The thought that we are nothing but a speck in the universe, where anything could possibly exist, or maybe we are alone, which is even scarier, your life is worthless when you think about it.
Edit: I haven't even gotten through 10 main comments and I've decided that I'm never going to Australia. In fact, I'm never leaving my home without a suit of armor.
The "things I won't work with" blog, which had the best analysis and narrative on the stuff, appears to be offline at the moment.
Just know it's a substance that has killed or poisoned most who have ever tried to synthesize or work with it, and that it detonates most organic compounds at -300F.
9279 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That 21 year old porn stars who have no life wisdom make a large amiuntif miney and all have suoer nice homes already on their wayto being nearly paid off.
The rapid increase of our population and climate change. It threatens our entire species and not many have taken action. Also I think it's absurd that we have politicians that have the audacity to deny it since they're funded by the big polluters.
Now found wild in the Southern USA. "The sap of giant hogweed causes phytophotodermatitis in humans, resulting in blisters, long-lasting scars, and if it comes in contact with eyes, blindness. These serious reactions are due to the furocoumarin derivatives in the leaves, roots, stems, flowers, and seeds of the plant."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A major Cosmic Ray hitting the planet and killing everything.
I mean, not like we would know, since we would all be dead pretty fast.
No way to see it coming.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:25 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an old engineer, and I think my feet are firmly on the ground, but walking through this place is the scariest thing I've had to endure. It makes my skin crawl.
Actually if it was a clear day, or even if you could see the blue sky and it suddenly turns bright (but not blinding!) white then make peace with your gods and get as drunk/hammered as possible so you don't feel the pain quite so badly
Next to where I work is an abandoned psychology hospital.
It's cold/grey/dark and after gipsys stole the roof it's now wet and there's a pretty bad smell.
I'm an old engineer, and I think my feet are firmly on the ground, but walking through this place is the scariest thing I've had to endure. It makes my skin crawl.
The noise I make walking through echoes through the tiled walls. If I stand still there are noises, probably just the building contracting/expanding but my imagination tells me something made that noise.
That we will never really know another human being.
Whatever kind of cosmos is inside their head you will never get to know the machinations/imaginations/motives/contents of the consciousness truly.
You will only ever see another human being as your projected expectations ( of former experience with this/other humans) and thats it.
You will never know another human because we can not communicate from consciousness to consciousness.
That is fucking scary given how our consciousness and mind defines who we are.
Motor neurone disease: no cure, no known cause, can happen to anyone anytime, your body becomes your own jail until you have to eat-breathe through a tube, cancer is pretty shitty too
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death... And then taxes. And maybe a possible Terminator-style Apocalypse.
jxhnb5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the there are five instances of nuclear materials being ACCIDENTALLY stolen in Mexico since 2013.
die9991 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate Change. We just fucked ourselves over and theres no turning back. Fuck you too Exxon.
Cancer. It seems like a mundane answer, right? People get cancer and it either kills them or doesn't, there are treatments for it, so on. Really think about it, though. Your body is destroying itself for no good reason, and the treatments for it are pretty damn hellish. That's assuming they work. If they don't you're in for a nightmarish slow and painful death as you waste away over the course of days, weeks, or even months.
My dad had cancer twice, and I watched him struggle to survive. Before then I'd have really needed time to think about it when someone asked me what I was most afraid of. It became a pretty personal fear for me, so I don't have to think about it any more. F**king cancer, man.
liammcb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea. There is a country of some 25 million people which has zero outside communication, suspected nuclear weapons and it's all controlled by one mad man
Plutonium. 9 lbs of powdered plutonium released into the atmosphere would wipe out all life on earth, leading to a mass extinction that our planet would never recover from. Sleep tight!
Insomnia so bad that over the course of about a year you become physically unable to sleep while slowly descending into extreme fatigue, paranoia, hallucinations, dementia, psychosis and ultimately death.
A 100% fatal, uncurable, untreatable and truely horrific disease.
The scariest thing on our earth is that the magnetic field is weakening fast. This is due to the magnetic poles switching. If this weakening continues, we will be exposed to dangerous solar light waves that will damage any sort of wireless technology. It is theorized that this is what caused the extinction of the Neanderthals. There is nothing that people can do about this because it is just a natural process of the earth that has happened plenty of times. Save yourselves!!! Mars, here I come!
The fact that if your balls switch sides in your sack you will need surgery and possibly lose your testicles. That shit freaks me out every time I sit down now.
Death terrifies me. The thought that you're dead, all you see is blackness, you can't feel, smile, or make people enjoy things you've done terrifies me to the extreme.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that snake in the amazon that can crawl up your eurethra and lodge itself in there with its spiny thorn like scales
I grew up near the epicenter of these earthquakes and we were taught about them in school constantly. The Mississippi River flooding and flowing backwards, Steaming mud geysers, and gaping chasms appearing in seconds. I was terrified as a kid. I mean this greasy bastard rang church bells in Boston. Every time an earthquake shook my house a I think I pooped a little. The New Madrid Fault is ready to go for round two and its looking like a 9.0 at least. I mean for real this is the shit that could trigger the Yosemite Supervolcano. Or vice-versa. It might have been my teachers hyping it up, but Northeast Arkansans and Missourians are haunted by this shit.
Iputtie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:46 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna have to say, whats not on our Earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:00 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
adamd22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:49 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay so I'm late to the party but I'm here with something fresh.
Wealth inequality. Sure, quality of life has gotten better for everyone, that's not a point of dispute, it never has been, hopefully never will be. But look at any source splitting the population into percentiles, showing wealth growth, and displaying it on a graph. The growth becomes non-existent the lower you go. Relatively speaking of course.
You can look at it from a different angle and say "but the incomes of the lower class are rising". Yes but that isn't accounting for inflation.
1% of the population own 48% of the wealth. The top 20% own 94.5% of the wealth. And the approximately 50% of the population who vote right wing say it's unfair to tax these people.
Here's another perspective. The middle class is shrinking, and the divide between rich and poor is only becoming more pronounced. And sure, if you click on that link and look at it for 10 seconds, it looks good right? Number of lower and middle class people shrinking, number of upper class people growing. Combine it with the other link and you'll realise that yeah, more people are becoming rich, by shoving others into the dirt. 80% of the population own 5.5% of the wealth in the world. What more, most of the lower class shrinkage comes from the older generations, essentially meaning you have to live a few decades just for the right to leave the lower class.
Does this not disgust you like it disgusts me? No matter which way you vote, no country, capitalist or not, should be operating on profits rather than treatment of the majority. Trickle-down economics does not work. Humanity will advance as it normally does whether you give the majority of the population basic right to utilities or not. Business advances technology, and therefore human quality of life. This much is true, but taking that, and squeezing the majority of the population for everything, on the justification that it will "help them in the long run" through business R&D and innovation, is completely disgusting. And it's horrific that anybody has this mindset, this lack of sympathy for other human beings, simply because they believe poor people simply "aren't trying hard enough" or "aren't clever enough to get rich.
I think the middle class will be a relic of the 20th century. And guess who's fault it is, that the middle class is going extinct? The middle class themselves.
They always want more for less. Instead of paying for more from their fellow middle class brethren they instead chose China goods and services. Shipping off all their potential jobs and earnings to emerging nations willing to work for peanuts.
And the net effect of that is their own countries end up being places were everything favours owners of capital. The 1 percenters.
When you watch and listen to the media you would think the world is a very rich place. But it's actually a very poor one.
But who knows I might be wrong. I'm just an Economics major paraphrasing from a really good BBC documentary I watched about the financial crises of '08 and '09.
American voters. Seriously. They have the world's most powerful army, a lot of them are racist religious nutbags who believe the end of the world is neigh. Just look at the last time they voted the same retard into office...not once...but twice....2x wars later and a budget surplus left my democrat Clinton....well...you know what happened after.
Donald Drumpf 2016 anyone?
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:28:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either North Korea or whatever is at the bottom of the ocean. One is total fucking insanity, the other might be total fucking insanity just hiding at the bottom of the ocean.
His only answer to everything is to increase taxes for everyone. His policies would put the country in even more crippling debt....assuming congress would approve them. Sweeden is finally seeing how that hurts and is moving back from socialism.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders, unlike Trump, specifies how he will pay for all his proposals.
Well when you pick 1 country that may not be doing well, and omit the other 9 or 10 that are extremely successful with being socialist, you kind of set yourself up. The fact you misspelled Sweden was icing on the cake. Look at the other socialist countries in the world and compare their economies to ours. Also compare their quality of life. China pretty much owns the U.S. with all the debt, Finland, and Denmark have much higher overall life satisfaction as well as a higher working class. We need a reform. Is socialism the answer? Who fucking knows, but we can't promise change and keep the same policies that have failed time and time again.
Well according to Forbes Denmark is the happiest country in the entire world with Norway, Netherlands and Sweden directly behind. US is in the 20's. And I doubt they have more debt than the average American.
Idiots are always happy. I worked with a moron from Greece that hated what he was forced to go to free college for and still defended it. He's still happy to have a miserable time wasting his time.
petgreg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:28 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They wreak havoc in your brain and have no known cure.
EDIT: No known cure reference.
Laratez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that every single person I love will die. Especially my little sister. I know its soppy but it seriously scares the shit out of me. Sorry if this has already been suggested.
If you ever read anything about the 1918 Flu pandemic you will find it very scary A sick person couldn't take of their selves and most people would not help because they didn't want to catch the flu and DIE.
Probably the mushy grey matter lumps surrounded by a fortress of bone and flesh who are capable of creating bombs that can kill hundreds of thousands in an instant.
Loosing trust in there only person/your slice of the world you trusted.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bill Cosby
eu01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying the second death- being eternally separated from God is just as scary as not going through the second death but knowing that my family didn't make it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ancient man. Imagine you're an antelope drinking from the river, all of a sudden a spear just barely misses you and stabs the dirt behind you. You start to run just from the fear of seeing that spear and then you hear strange sounds and feet running behind you. You get a glimpse behind yourself and you see several tall, dark, two legged things chasing you, all with spears in their hands.
Man was made for long endurance running, we release sweat to cool ourselves down as we run. Imagine being chased by something that is guaranteed to catch up to you and kill you, sure you can move faster, but can you move longer?
The fact that Donald Trump is actually looking like he might win the Republican nomination, and maybe even the whole race for President. Its actually terrifying to me.
Probably how insanely close the entire world came to nuclear annihilation in 1983.
"On September 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command at Serpukhov-15, a bunker where the Soviets monitored their satellite-based detection systems. Shortly after midnight, panic broke out when an alarm sounded signaling that the United States had fired five Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, toward Russia. The warning was a false alarmโone of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of sunlight off clouds near Montana as a missile launchโbut to the Soviets, it appeared the United States had started a nuclear war.
Protocol demanded that Serpukhov-15 report any signs of a missile launch to the Soviet high command, but Petrov had a hunch the warning was an error. He knew the new satellite system was mistake-prone, and he also reasoned that any nuclear strike by the Americans would come in the form of hundreds of missiles, not just five. With only minutes to make a decision, Petrov chose to ignore the blaring warning alarms and reported the launch as a false alarmโa move that may have averted a nuclear holocaust. The incident remained classified until after the Cold War ended, but Petrov later received several humanitarian awards for his extraordinary actions, and was even honored by the United Nations."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Large groups of apathetic, hateful, and extremely religious people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apathy
UFOsRus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies. It basically 100% lethal, there are only like 3 survivors who were put into induced coma and this slowed the disease enough for the body to fight it off, but they generally were permanently pretty messed up afterwards. People die while having cramps in all muscles. 10 days post exposure there is no cure. Having a child of yours get it is what nightmares try to live up to.
currently for me its this. Cannon like booms at home shaking volumes, without a source to be discovered. Then there is the other sound which i have heard, it sounds like steal beams grinding against each other, but it sounds like its coming from the sky.And this was at 3:30 am on a sunday, so constructions out. This is world wide, it started really happening at the new year.
rathat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Forget North Korea, If there's going to ever be a nuclear war, I guarantee it'll involve Pakistan, and not necessarily the Pakistani government. If there is even one fired unintentionally, I guarantee it'll be Pakistan.
The fact so many can be so blindly supportive of someone like Hillary. (Just kidding, wanted to poke back at all the anti Donald trolls out there who either are not being serious or have no idea what scary is lol. Though she is still a scary thing.)
Splitje ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American and Russian governments
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never understand this mindset. I grew up in a very diverse area that had lots of Muslims. When I think of Muslims I think of my friends are practicing and are lovely people, very family-centric. I know of a few people who take it too far but they're the minority. There's always people who take it too far. It's people you should be afraid of
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:29 on March 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, every time a team of reporters use a hidden camera, some shit comes up. Like rape is ok, hitting and stoning is ok and so on. I don't say that being recorded by a hidden camera is gonna make me look like an angel, but i wonยดt say itยดs ok to rape and stone people.
Sharia laws etc. is the devil.
Bit of a daft argument given there's about a billion Muslims. That's hardly evidence that Islam is inherently evil. Let's not forget fringe Christianity and the bombing of abortion clinics, rewriting of textbooks, anti-science etc. Sharia law and its implementation, like a lot of law, varies from place to place.
Christians used to be pretty fond of burning each other for being the wrong sort of Christian.
The problem with religion is that it's practiced by people, and all the hangups and failures they may have.
Late to the party, but I'm surprised that no one has posted anything about scopolamine, aka "devil's breath". It's a powdered drug out of Columbia that basically allows you to completely take over a person's free will temporarily. They will bow to your every request, and I mean EVERY. Want them to kill their own family? Give you all their banking information? No problem. They won't see a problem with it either.
Best part? They won't remember a thing when they come out of it.
All someone has to do is blow a tiny bit at you while passing you on the street and you're done. The effects are almost instant.
Everybody dies. No one will care since it happens to everyone. Sure, they'll be sad for a bit. But what do you even leave behind? A name? A small impact? Even the most influential people of all time will be forgotten. Nobody lives on purpose. There is no point.
Seriously the chemicals humans can make/manipulate and the damage it does is mind boggling.
Whether it is Chernobyl incident or Bhopal Gas Leakage Disaster or Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing, its one of the most dangerous creations of the human mind. I think.
Im from Northern Ireland and during the 90s as part of a legal law hundreds of murderers who killed civillians because of religion were set free. I find the chance that I may be talking to a killer everyday quite scary thinking about it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pcchanm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Yurei2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organized Religion. Now before you get all mad, hear me out. If you are a believer in a religion, then you must believe that all other religions are false, right? Then what you have with organized religions, are massive groups of people, all of whom insist they know the deepest mysteries of the universe, but can't actually prove a single one of their claims, and who use their unproven claims as if they were facts upon which they base most if not all of their life decisions. Even if a religion is correct, and you happen to be that religion, there are literally thousands more that are entirely wrong, and people will insist they are actually right and you are wrong no matter what you tell them or show them.
Thank you. Yea, nothing much else to be scared of after that. And organ donation was an extremely hard part of it too. Once you go through all that it kind of makes you numb to anything else. The only positive thing that comes of it is that other lives were saved, so in a way that baby is living on. Good on your friend for making that tough decision. Sorry for yours and her loss :(
Wow sounds like life has given you a shit sandwich and I am so sorry that you have had to go through that. I'd love to say I understand you and where you're coming from but I have never had to make such a tough call so your strength is beyond my comprehension. I hope you have a great weekend!
ex_jw1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That might be dangerous. But it's hardly scary. You'll never see a horror movie come out with somebody afraid to go into the basement because global warming might be down there.
yeah I meant man in the human sense, so man and/or woman. I love the downvotes I get for almost nothing. Reddit can really BLOW ME sometimes. That's not aimed at you sir.
They're killing on trade deals. They devalue their currency, they're like chess grand masters when it comes to trade. The problem is their people are too smart for our people, and we have the smartest people in the world, but we're not using them.
I know plenty of religious people who are perfectly intelligent and reasonable people. If belief in a higher power and afterlife helps get them through their day who am I to say that they are wrong.
Obviously there are extremists who take their belief way too far and harm or shame others in the name of their faith and that's bad. But to equate all religious belief to a rotten mind just doesn't seem fair to me.
For the record I am an atheist, but since this is Reddit I'm sure I'll be bashed anyway for defending religion.
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core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say you should be denied your dopey fairy tales. I said it was scary watching what it does to peoples' behavior. Watch a video of some ISIS guy sawing someone's head off while screaming the praises of his imaginary sky-friend. Now that's disgusting.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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core13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did I say you couldn't have your religion?
core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a guy, a Jew, who would sit and swelter in his apartment on a Saturday because his religion forbade him to turn on his air conditioner. He couldn't leave , either, because his god did not want him to drive a car.
His religious beliefs did not affect me in the least yet I am told I must respect his irrational behavior because... why? He's a fucking idiot and would be a candidate for a mental institution were it not for his "religion". This is the essence of religious "mind rot". Do I want a person such as this in government and making laws that will affect me? Do I want someone with such a skewed view of reality teaching my children? Do you?
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core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:31 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when you succeed in abolishing religion to prevent these irrational acts, what's next? If you'd truly seek to eradicate "irrational behavior",
Where did I advocate for any of that? Please show me. Hysterical much? lol
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core13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See ya!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Muslims in large numbers. Unless of course you're a U.S. Marine, in which case it's a gift.
As I watch a mass-marketed tv show on a syndicated network, while eating my hyper-processed crunchy high-sodium snack. But its even more ridiculous to think of yourself as above it. We can know the system is inherently evil, but it is near impossible to separate from.
Motherfucking chimpanzees. Multiple times stronger than a human. Stupid enough to not understand reason but smart enough to know when something is a threat and that the best way to cripple it is to go after 1) its hands 2) its face 3) its genitals.
Nothing perpetrated by any animal on this planet (other than humans) approaches the terror of a chimpanzee attack. They'll bite off your fingers and then tear off your face and your nuts. Ugh.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soul crushing debt when you can barely pay the bills as it is. And then? An eviction notice. It doesn't sound too bad, but it's something you don't always plan for. Maybe you expect it, but you hope it never happens... That you will pay your rent right on time and live on Ramen for the next two weeks again. What can you do? No money for a new deposit somewhere else, most friends will be living w h a loved one and may not be able to provide to you up with them temporarily. And your family? Not an option for everyone.
My condolences to anyone who has ever been put in that situation. My childhood was spent like this, and the fear that comes at that one word... Eviction...
The stockpiles of nuclear weapons most countries have laying around. We quite literally have the ability for one country to cause the end of the world.
I've just never understood why they have to look so horrifying. I mean what is the actual purpose of them looking like that?
kalir ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:47:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
racism in a America. seriously the stuff that blows up around election time from it is the very perils that George Washington spoke of during his inauguration speech.
The explosion of the entire universe, fuck humanity, we just got here. Aliens got feels too m8
capitlj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Extinction? Well the last climate change didn't kill us & I'm pretty sure we're a bit better equipped this time around. I'm not saying it's not a problem but extinction is a bit dramatic.
The fact that people today can acknowledge the moral horrors perpetrated by people in the past as a matter of daily course, but not acknowledge that some of our present customs may in their due time be considered equally horrific by future generations.
That, and the inevitable heat death of the Universe.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump
jo3pic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:14:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me, it's debt. I had many addiction problems that have repeatedly put me in very close calls in terms of my financial well being. Im just now getting the help I need and making sure it NEVER gets this bad ever again.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That animal agriculture accounts for 50% of green gas emissions yet all the focus is on cars, trains, and airplanes when they only account for close to 10%
Psychopaths. The most dangerous and fascinating creatures on Earth. I say creatures because they don't even fall into the "human" category. They are closer to animals.
kirkiri ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting old
tidus8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking out a guy, being a guy, explaining yourself to your family who've said homophobic things before and just in general were unpleasant to grow up with.
ffj_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it's being alone.
ichael1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes, and then Hippos
Booler ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:55:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I read this thread before bed? Fuck this shit.
GendoSC ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:55:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The incredible lack of common sense exhibited by most people on a day to day basis. That and Donald Trump having any chance whatsoever of being put in charge of a fucking country.
csmh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump being elected as President
CJ_Guns ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you're doing a stint in the loony bin and you don't have a lock on your door, then the compulsive masturbators wandering the halls are pretty scary.
Also it would not be permanently uninhabitable, or completely uninhabitable. But uv rays would increase 80% so most people wouldn't be able to survive.
Dyph3n ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now, the prospect of Donald Trump actually becoming the US president. This whole ordeal is fucking ridiculous and speaks volume of how racist America still is, despite the prevalent notion that we're "freedom and equality for all" land of opportunity.
clodhen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The situation between South and North Korea. Seoul getting reduced to rubble from 10,000 artillery installations in the blink of an eye (an hour) is scary to me.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
born to young to explore the galaxy to old born to explore the world born just in time to explore dank memes
Irresponsible, under educated politicians and other 'decision makers' are by far the most scary real thing on the planet because they, as a group, have the capacity to screw everything up for everyone and nearly everything else here.
Rokaroo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the fact that at any given moment our world will end. This could be our own life ending thereby the little world we live in ends or the actual planet we inhabit is destroyed in an instant. Think nuclear disaster ๐
Incendiary weapons: Napalm, white phosphorous, and flame throwers. I can't believe flame throwers are legal here in the U.S. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one scene on Family Guy where Peter puts on the black Startrek guys googles and sees nothing but KKK members...I'm black btw
I googled the most painful medical symptoms a human can experience and it says some type of headaches is the worst in the world. We get headaches all the time but how can this one be the worst?
Zadik ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:44:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those hardcore headaches. I dont remember the name but, damn.
Edit: theyre called "Cluster Headaches" . There are many many videos out there. I just chose one but you can view more. It looks like you go through hell.
Agent Smith: "I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
Religion. What had Hitler got against the Jews specifically? What ideology do members of ISIS really around. Catholic vs protestant, Shiite vs sonni, Christian vs Muslim... What force can motivate a father to bury his own daughter alive for loving the wrong boy. Peaceful my arse, it's a catalyst for evil.
Europe becoming an Islamic territory. It is a major blow to human rights, economic success, technological advancement, and medicine for unseen generations ahead.
iamnas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man (long pause)
thank you for watching
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:16:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my birthday and instead of waking up stoked for an exciting day, like I did as a child, I woke up dreading going to work. The only difference is my age. I'm going with aging today.
TJD269 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:01:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A small island with thousands of snakes with lethal venom that melts human flesh. Uninhabited since the lighthouse operator and his entire family were killed by snakes...
To me the thing that scares me is man. The unyielding tenacity that he has to find more efficient ways to destory each other.
We have the ability to make humanity work for a common goal yet we refuse to acknowledge it for reasons of personal gain.
Humanity has an inherent blood lust that will never be satisfied because it's who we are. Murder, rape, robbery,, and other violent acts have to be committed from a natural standpoint
These will never be quelled. That's what scares me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not hate. Hate takes too much time. People said that when I was subscribed to coontown and now on voat. I make no qualms about my membership there.
Everyone else does cause they want to group me into something they can put into a corner and forget about. Truth is that I don't care about skin color.
I care of crime and violence then not really facing it head on. That's what bugs me. Do I use slang terms sure I do cause I don't know how else to express my anger. I don't feel violence towards them is the answer.
I feel that role models is but unfortunately too many times I have tried and been burned. So now I feel my personal safety is paramount to someone I don't have vested in with any ties.
Wish I knew of a better way.
chaaPow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:45:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion? think about it, delusional people that lack critical thinking skills gather in huge numbers all over the world to pray to deities, wage wars on one another, promote hate against anyone who disagrees or doesn't live their lifestyle, discriminating women so openly its disgusting and bombing the shit out of innocent people in the name of their gods and basically trying to crawl into every teeny tiny part of your life and tell you whats 'wrong' or 'right'. oh did i mention they tend to rape kids and not pay taxes and have laws to protect them from it? like vatican for instance where the underaged rape victim is BY LAW forbidden to speak about it until an x number of years had passed AFTER they became of age? yeah
Why is reddit so obsessed with the existential fear of death. It makes a thread go from interesting to boring really quick. Death is always going to be terrifying, this thread could have had way cooler answers than 'a brain aneurism'.
Hup234 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump doesn't have a chance. It'll be Hillary and there's no point even going to the polls.
Donald trump or drumpf as president, or fluorine the most electronegative element will bond with anything literally pulling arm apart by bonding with your skin cells, surface proteins. Spooky stuff.
Not to mention that like a fifth of the people in this thread have stated it and it's not edgy
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1) "naivety" can be scary. 2) it's not naive to see that Trump getting anywhere near the whitehouse, any amount of electoral success he is getting, is actually a serious deal - as he is not fit for the position, and it's an important position, even if you think he's not serious about the things he says. 3) they are not nice people if they hold views similar to those campaigned by trump
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok thanks, we'll agree to disagree.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do realise us presidents control a nuclear arsenal right?
KBom21 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has a real chance to become President of the United States with full access to the nuclear arsenal and control of the most powerful military in the world.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have this mutual agreement of civility with every other major world power even though we collectively have enough nuclear firepower to eradicate our entire Planet several hundred times over, the aftermath of which would ensure no life would ever spring forth due to the perpetual irradiated wasteland the Earth would become, one overshadowed by nuclear winter and the souls of 7 billion sapient's lost in the squabbles of a suicidal species.
There's also no Ghostbusters to combat the string of spirits haunting the remnants of our flawed mental health facilities.
Wwind99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop giving in to fear. USA, Russia and half dozen other countries have had nukes ready to fire for decades. Just because they are not your friends doesnt make them psychotic as much as media would have you believe.
I just don't think any of them are crazy enough to ever use them... Checks and balances in Russia and China are admirable compared to NK. But your right. I could be feeding the fear troll. The threat though is not a phantom. All this fucker has to do is start with SK and we are all in as is China and everyone else. God knows what deprave plans lay in military folders waiting to be deployed... Wait that's the fear again.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a baby in utero. Just try to imagine that, suspended in liquid, unable to breathe or make a sound, barely able to move, as the room you're in gets smaller and smaller and smaller...
Fuck that.
Gmajj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we all did that. And at the time we "felt" sheltered and cozy. That's why newborns throw their arms out every time they hear a loud noise. They are looking for those cozy perimeters. And you have no knowledge of breathing so no problem there. Being born, squeezing through the birth canal and suddenly having to breathe, sounds not being muffled anymore, and bright light would be much more terrifying, I would think.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grizzly Bears, Great White Sharks, violent black youths, brain embolisms, earthquakes/tidal waves, Pakistani nuclear warheads, ISIS Muslims, zika mosquitos, tractor trailer fleet maintenance managers, serious Trump supporters
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liberal democrats.
Rexplex ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mirza2 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Millions of giant Spanish slugs are showing up in gardens and fields in Britain, as reported by Care2โฒs Steve Williams. As Dr. Ian Bedford, head of entomology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, describes Arion vulgaris as seemingly unaffected by the slug pellets meant to kill them, being a creature who โeats crops spared by our native slugs, tolerates drier conditions, reproduces in greater numbers and even eats dead animals and excrement.โ
Dr. Bedford and other scientists have created a โslugwatchโ website and are asking for photos and reports of sightings to get an idea of how pervasive the Spanish slug (which may be breeding with native slugs to yield a frost-tolerant hybrid) is in Britain.
Honestly, the fact that trump has made it this close to becoming the leader of a country. Now I have always been under the impression that the earth is populated with a lot of stupid people, but enough for something like this to go on? No, I did not expect that. The fact that his "campaign" has gone on this long shows that there's more then just a couple painfully stupid people out there...their are a lot of them, enough to have a significant impact on the world. That scares me.
This is a serious response: A Trump rally, or more specifically, how easily a group of seemingly normal people can become an angry mob in a matter of seconds. Also, being a brown person, the actual amount of people that probably don't want me in the country I was born in makes me a little sad.
mrhu03 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf. It's the obvious choice, but at this point it's becoming evident that this situation is NOT going away any time soon. If this man becomes President, to say we are going to enter a dark age will be an understatement. If this demagogue, who has pretty much proven to be a literal occurring joke for ANY comedy show, wins the Presidency, that means we will probably be at war with either Mexico or ISIS before the end of his 1st year.
Abortion clinics and the mindset of people who see no problem with the daily atrocities that happen inside those clinics. (It's scary because it involves literally millions of people killed and it's the clearest display of moral decline in human history.)
Not people. What's scarier is finding yourself in a position which will affect your whole life,physical and mental health and wellbeing and having no option to escape.
and before you get all touchy and tell me to go back to /r/Atheism, take a minute to imagine religion from my point of view.
Religion is a butt-ton of people believing outlandish stuff without any real demand for evidence, and they feel so right about it that they feel entitled to boss everyone else around. At the same time, each subgroup of the larger religionist group thinks every other subgroup is wrong in the face of their own overwhelming rightness - a trait that often leads to violence, destruction, and warfare.
The spiritual realm. Okay, so what is the spiritual realm? I had a dream once I decided to become a Christian, I went to sleep and awoke in darkness. I heard a giant demonic growl and then it grabbed me and threw me up and down like a ragdoll. Before this, I use to get sleep paralysis. One time, I got a really nasty bout where I saw a demonic version of my father walk and start doing a voodoo dance over my bed while I was stuck to my bed. My room looked the same, everything was normal except for that. The spiritual realm is the scariest but Christ protects me. There's a reason why good and evil exists in our world - it comes from the spiritual realm and our own sinful nature.
By no means do I support Trump (I honestly think this is by far the worst slate of candidates of all time) But I think Bernie, Cruz, Hillary and Trump are all incredibly awful. They all take turns rotating for the worst slot.
And then Carson and Rubio aren't qualified either.
Yes Reddit I don't like Bernie, you can execute me now
spmahn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kasich seems like the most reasonable out of all of them, although he just recently signed a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio, so maybe he's not that much different.
I don't like Bernie either, but I'm a fan of the Sanders for President subreddit, I find it so amusing how brainwashed, politically naive, and mathematically challenged they are over there
Right now, Trump and all the hatred and racism he has let loose. Seeing how people are treated during his rallies and the KKK things really fuckin scares me. People say he won't win, but there's is just so much misdirected hatred in his supporters. And people who are republican diehards will vote for him even though they don't like him. Like it really scares me for the future of this country and the minorities out there.
Crammpa ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort this thread by Controversial.
Fascism.
As a minority, events like the holocaust, genocide in rwanda, serbia, and now syria, it's terrifying to me that human beings seem to always fall under the spell of people who "tell it like it is."
I suppose the worse thing that could ever happen to a soul is to be deprived of the Love of God in Hell for eternity. We only live on Earth for a short while, and we have plenty of opportunities to find Him at church. His presence is quite real, and you can feel it by being baptized. Please do so!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, my mistake he has no chance of winning, not so scary. The fact that anyone would believe his Marxist nonsense would work in America is the real terror
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mom0nga ยท 613 points ยท Posted at 04:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions, hands-down. They're tiny, highly-infectious particles that occur when protein molecules found in the nervous system misfold. Once a single bad prion enters a healthy person or animal, it causes all of the properly-folded proteins around it to misfold as well, causing a slow, but irreverible chain reaction that literally eats holes in the brain until the infected person withers away and dies. The diseases that prions cause are called Spongiform encephalopathies because infected brains have so many holes in them that they resemble a kitchen sponge.
One prion disease, Kuru, kills by robbing the infected of the ability to chew and swallow, causing death by starvation. Fatal Familial Insomnia kills otherwise healthy 30-somethings by suddenly disabling the body's ability to sleep, which leads to psychosis, coma, and death within months. CJD causes dementia and muscle tremors. All known prion diseases are untreatable and 100% fatal, and you can contract them in three main ways: by coming into contact with infected nervous tissue (this can happen via surgery or by eating infected meat), by inheriting the misfolding protein gene, or, most frighteningly, sporadically -- meaning that one day, your brain makes a mistake during protein synthesis. Scientists have also successfully aerosolized prions in the lab, creating a lethal spray which infected the brains of mice.
You wanna know the scary part? Prions are extremely infectious, with a same-species infection rate of 100%. In other words, once a prion from another human makes its way into your nervous system, you will contract a prion disease -- and there's even a very real possibility of infection from animals after eating infected meat, or, possibly, by coming into contact with the infected animal's urine or feces (scientists don't know yet).
But, although prions infect people like a virus, you can't kill them because they aren't alive. They easily "survive" being autoclaved, which means that they can hitch a ride on "sterilized" surgical instruments from one patient to another. If your hamburger meat contains an infectious prion, you won't be able to "cook it out". You can boil a prion, dip it in acid, soak it in alcohol, and expose it to radiation, and the prion will still be infectious. They can even maintain their infectious properties in the environment for decades -- infected brain specimens that were stored in formaldehyde 30 years ago are still just as "hot" today as they were 3 decades ago.
One last thought to keep you awake at night: it typically takes many decades after infection for there to be enough prions in your body to create symptoms, so you could be infected with prions right now and not know it. It is estimated that as many as one out of every 2,000 people in the U.K. carry infectious prions in their bodies with no signs of disease.
therealthomaspynchon ยท 347 points ยท Posted at 10:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?
[deleted] ยท 438 points ยท Posted at 11:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously though.
Scientist 1: So u know how prions are super scary and shit?
Scientist 2: yeah y?
Scientist 1: Let's make an aerosol version of them, what could go wrong
Scientist 2: lol k
Ankhsty ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 23:06:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the part where they get a grant.
fuckitimatwork ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 14:52:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
joshmanzors ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You gotta
Gotta be fresh
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:05:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anchovie_Paste ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:49:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yolo
GRANDSONOFBIRCH ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because Science isn't about why, it's about why not!
(But in all honestly that's terrifying)
cowvin2 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's just what happens when a lot of scientific research is funded by the military, i guess.
madcaesar ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:40:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG, YOU PUSSY?????
icannotfly ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:41:55 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my guess is bioweapon research
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:45 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervillian scientist obviously.
introversed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:49 on March 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As Patton Oswalt once joked: "We're science. We're all about coulda, not shoulda"
[deleted] ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 14:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MissMesmerist ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 18:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Effectively you'd have to turn your burger or brain "meat" into carbon for it to be safe, rather than simply cooking it?
Cruzzfish1 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 18:59:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. You can't destroy prions in food so eating contaminated meat is always dangerous, but the notion that they stick around in a lab setting and on hospital tools is bull.
lye_milkshake ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 12:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey that's not so bad! So I could get infected with prions and still live for a good 20-30 years :)
Fuck you.
Dimitrije ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 10:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. I thought there isn't anything more lethal/scary than Rabies, but Prion diseases are really fucked up. Especially the fact that my brain can fuck up on it's own, without even asking me :)
It's really fascinating to me that we even know of these diseases, and wonder how many are there that we don't know of.
Ankhsty ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain fucks up all of the time already. I don't need it killing me also..
[deleted] ยท -23 points ยท Posted at 10:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jjonj ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:37:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies is not a prion disease
Dimitrije ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:31:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um, really? When I read this I thought Rabies is a Prion disease but OP didn't name it in his post so I went on it's wiki page and read that it's caused by Lyssaviruses so I thought it's not the same, although like most of these diseases it attacks central nervous system and brain.
IOwnAOnesie ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 13:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are horrendous. A relative of mine developed CJD, and the doctors ended up observing her with medical interest because she had a rare form of it (I think they said it was because of contaminated beef?) But within one year she went from a relatively healthy woman to dead, with dementia-like symptoms, psychosis and extreme symptoms of pneumonia along the way. It was horrible. This happened in the UK as well, where if I'm not mistaken prion diseases aren't as common (but I could just be making that up, I'm not sure of the stats).
DerpyPyroknight ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:13:59 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was more common because there wS some outbreak of mad cow disease in their beef supply
DragonToothGarden ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:21:34 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is utterly terrifying. How did the docs inform your relative that she had this untreatable, horrific disease that would put her through pure torture and ultimately kill her, and there was nothing that could be done, but hey, they'd "observe" her? How on earth does someone react to such a diagnosis?
IOwnAOnesie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:09:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Initially she had symptoms like vertigo and forgetfulness that got progressively worse, and they didn't realise it was CJD until a little while in (because it wasn't a common disease they didn't test for it immediately) By the time it was diagnosed she was already hospitalised and was very confused a lot of the time, and her husband (my grandfather, she was his second wife) was having to make medical decisions for her, as she was incapable of making them herself. The doctors were very honest and upfront, and basically told my grandfather that the diagnosis was grim and she would live for months at most, there was little they could do. They asked him if it would be ok for them to observe her as it was a rarer form of the disease and it may help them help others with it in the future, but ultimately the decision was his as he was speaking on her behalf. I think he realised that there was little to be done and decided that his wife's passing may as well help others, so he gave them the go ahead. Honestly, I don't think she was fully aware of what was going on a lot of the time, it wore her down so fast. But I know it was very hard on my grandfather - she was his second wife, and the divorce from his first wife, my grandmother, was not exactly the cleanest either. I can only imagine what it must feel like knowing there's a countdown on your partner's life.
DragonToothGarden ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:44:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is so depressing. And horrifying. I cannot imagine watching a loved one go through that. I'm currently watching my ex husband (we remained close) have a benign brain tumor removed and he's completely changed. Vertigo and cannot sleep or focus. I was terrified he had this, but its been 2 years and while its not getting better, its not getting worse. Sometimes I want to suggest they test for this but I lose my nerve in the end. We are living in separate countries and he's had to move back in with his parents. It completely breaks my heart.
I'm so sorry this happened to a loved one. I hope that she was at least sedated and not in serious pain.
Thank you for sharing the details.
Fenrir-The-Wolf ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 13:19:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I literally hate you. No sleep for me now. Fucking hell this shit scares the crap out of me
TsarFootVtheGreat ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:57:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No sleep for you now, huh?
Fenrir-The-Wolf ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good lord why.
thesnakeinyourboot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:38:27 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are Hitler.
ssntf7 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:10:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL I am scared of prions and will never ever go outside again.
Bumfondler ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the UK?
P.s /r/nosleep
DyingSlowlyAlone ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 12:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AFAIK, this is because of blood donations in the UK not having proper screening for things such as prions for a long time (they have since improved). This lead to the blood from people with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease being transfused into otherwise healthy people, and as OP said, the 100% infection rate led to the spread of the disease.
andyrocks ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:55:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the BSE epidemic of the 90s?
DyingSlowlyAlone ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This also played a part of it. I'm not entirely sure as to when the laws over blood donation were tightened, so the BSE epidemic could have lead to more infected people donating blood.
Bumfondler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the reply man hoping i never need an emergency blood transfusion, happy things have improved though!
OhHowDroll ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:58:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Because we're Science: All about 'Coulda!' not 'Shoulda'." -Patton Oswalt
Ezombio ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:57:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What proteins are these, typically?
Annoying_Ryhmes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:07:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I didn't read that...
_lelouch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any way to cure or get rid of prions? Fuck, that's scary.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit... that scares me
airbiscuits_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:45:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't want to sleep this week anyway.
BMan3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:39 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, my Grandfather passed away due to CJD, I had no idea that this was how it worked. Fascinating.
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm just going to never leave my house ever again.
DragonToothGarden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wanted to scare the shit out of me? You've scared the shit out of me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:59 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thankfully there's research with some possibly good results: http://www.prionalliance.org/2014/02/04/what-are-the-potential-treatments-for-prion-disease/
HippieShakeShake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:21 on March 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But wait! There's good news! As terrifying as these are, we are actually making pretty big progress on these typed of diseases. There has been an effective vaccine developed for a spongiform encephalopathy in deer and elk. It's called chronic wasting disease, and it's been a fairly large problem where I'm from. But from what I remember, and this might not be 100% accurate, they manged to make a vaccine that was effective at targeting and destroying the prions, and they were working on making it edible, so they could bait wild populations with it. From what I remember though, they had success with it in injections in a lab setting. The man in charge of this research was hopeful that the same type of vaccine might help with certain human prion diseases. I should clarify actually it's not technically a vaccine since prions aren't living and therefor a true vaccination wouldn't be effective, since you're body can't produce antibodies.
tl;dr: we might not all be doomed just yet
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:16 on July 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned about these from The Lost World. The book not the movie.
Nighthawk321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck me.
cambo666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is there a way to test for it?
SuperCactai ยท 2590 points ยท Posted at 02:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dimethylmercury is seriously terrifying.
Dimethylmercury is extremely toxic and dangerous to handle. Absorption of doses as low as 0.1 mL can result in severe mercury poisoning.
Dimethylmercury passes through latex, PVC, butyl, and neoprene within seconds, and is very quickly absorbed through the skin.
Be sure to read about a scientists tragic, accidental death because of it too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn
yyjthrowaway ยท 1971 points ยท Posted at 04:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Known for: -Work on toxic metal exposure, -dying of toxic metal exposure"
thanks Wikipedia...
[deleted] ยท 4357 points ยท Posted at 04:54:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
She died doing what she did.
EDIT: Something something most upvoted comment ever.
Kobe7477 ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 05:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She died because of the way it is.
SFRookie ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 05:45:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How neat is that?
KoopaKola ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:02:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a beaut!
FootofOrion ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 07:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She had 99 problems, toxic metal exposure was one of them.
AREYOUFUCKING_SORRY ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 09:20:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
FramedNaida ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me_irl
KoopaKola ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:16:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFTFY
Pagiras ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:19:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty neat!
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:21:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
AdmiralKatieAckbar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it goes.
jrizos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:27:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They Don't Think It Be Like It Is But It Do
Consanguineously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! Look at this aspen tree. You can tell that it's an aspen tree because of the way it is.
Scroachity ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:57:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was alive for hours before she died!
wrongstep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Allegedly!!
the_star_lord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is alive for hours before they die....
Scroachity ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:26:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thatsthepoint.jpg
the_star_lord ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:57:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Annnnd I've made a fool of myself. Went right over my head. Il see my self out.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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AREYOUFUCKING_SORRY ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 09:21:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have not seen /r/negativewithgold yet, my friend.
tablesix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many votes was it? It's over 950 now.
Natanael_L ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've gotten one at 4 points once.
0OOOOOO0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:44 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got one at 2
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:22:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do as I say, not as I do"
-Karen Wetterhahn
thegreattober ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:25:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And possibly loved? Who knows.
indorock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Murray Curry
hypercube33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alive.
SteelyEly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat!
Xan_the_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want this on my gravestone one day!
iananimator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having second thoughts about being cremated because i want this on my gravestone so bad now
Sopi619 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Billy the kid, did what he did and he died.
somewhereinks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even through her illness and death she continued to educate and advance the study of the very thing that was killing her. There is something almost eloquent about that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Wetterhahn would recall that she had spilled one or two drops of dimethylmercury from the tip of a pipette onto her latex gloved hand."
Aemnys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some might say she lead the way.
SMTRodent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So did Steve Irwin, but I think he had a lot more fun doing his thing than she did doing hers.
cugma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't explain why this is so funny but I've been laughing for at least 2 minutes over it. Thank you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely didn't expect this fanfare. No problem.
V29A15A16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But her aim was getting better!!
frozenHelen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No more will she do all the things that she done.
BytesAndCoffee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:47:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Related fact from Portal 2
CoffeeCupComrade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ironically there's an award in her name to encourage women to enter the sciences.
maluminse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death metal.
Redskinfreak4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity and dying of radioactivity.
Donkey__Xote ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:39:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, didn't see that one coming...
Dragonite_is_gay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:07:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was doing what she did when she died.
[deleted] ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 04:30:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also most fluoride compounds. Fuck fluorine.
learnyouahaskell ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 05:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now add Chlorine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride
BlueEyedGreySkies ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 13:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus.
learnyouahaskell ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 14:00:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And "glass" includes sand, like for putting out fires.
rm-f ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:06:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The wikipedia article mentions that the only way to stop the fire is to watch and let it cool. Even CO2 doesn't work.
learnyouahaskell ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:42:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I wonder if liquid nitrogen would help.
Edit: Why downvote if you aren't going to provide a fact that ClF3 + N2 is, indeed, an exothermic reaction? Not only that but the cold would help.
piecat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:29 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd imagine a noble gas would be pretty good too
Wilreadit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha ha.
Talk about a very electronegative result
NecroGod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:05:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the article:
"If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
learnyouahaskell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:54:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, yes, that's from Ignition by John Clark; you might be interested, and there is a free legitimate PDF online.
GarrusAtreides ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:44:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060318221608/http://www.airproducts.com/nr/rdonlyres/8479ed55-2170-4651-a3d4-223b2957a9f3/0/safetygram39.pdf
Lovely stuff, isn't it?
TheMadFrat ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
colourless, poisonous, corrosive, and extremely reactive gas
closes vent hood, takes off gloves, and goes home
Marinah ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 06:32:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, you'd know if there was any in the hood. It would ignite the glass.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:12:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And shortly after that, it would also ignite him.
Cyphixthegreat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:18:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to call it Devil's Piss
oaschbeidl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ding ding ding
We have a winner!
Tallywort ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:13 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or compounds with too much nitrogen for their own sake.
twitchy fucks of compounds those.
PM_ME_UR_SPOOKYDOOT ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:46:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think this is quite the same magnitude of danger, but I used to work on a refinery which used hydrofluoric acid on one of its units.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid
Invisible contact burns which leech calcium from your body and cause tissue death. Serious damage to the eyes. Serious damage to the lungs of inhaled.
User_name8627 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:58:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I was watching a documentary that mentioned someone committing suicide by drinking hydrofluroric acid. He was said to have been found writhing in agony. I was sitting there thinking..."But why? Find another way!"
Edit: Correction, it was hydrochloric acid. It was on episode 6 of Monumental Mysteries on Netflix.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:32:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is probably what his organs looked like afterwards. (NSFW/L, Autopsy gore.)
j_heg ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 14:12:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Double-blind trials have shown that the only efficient treatment is to repeatedly say "thank mr skeltal".
mrmikemcmike ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 05:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like a bad idea.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why chemists felt the need to make it. What could they hope to gain?
tahlialouise ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 05:24:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was studying how mercury ions affected DNA repair proteins. There didn't seem to be many deaths before hers, so little was known I guess about just how deadly it is. Its a real shame, and I wouldn't be surprised if the compound had a blanket "NOPE" across it now for when someone wants to synthesise it.
robstoon ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:29:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was well known how toxic it was. What wasn't known was that it could absorb through normal protective gloves almost instantly.
Yuktobania ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:58:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first person to synthesize this compound, in the 1800s, died of symptoms of exposure only a few weeks later. He literally made buckets of this stuff in one sitting. It's amazing he didn't kill his entire village through the fumes alone.
dripdroponmytiptop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:25:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they don't anymore. It just isn't worth the risk for what they used it for, which mostly was to weigh reactions and whatnot against other chemicals as a kindof benchmark.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VX Nerve Gas as well. .2mg is all it takes.
Leroy_Parker ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:01:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like an impossibly small amount, but the standard dose for epinepherine, albuterol and nitroglycerin are all 0.3mg. Granted, those drugs will almost never kill you at that dose, it's just for context.
Yuktobania ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:00:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That and it kills you by destroying the ability for your nerves to communicate with your muscles. While that's happening, you can still feel it. Have you ever had a muscle spasm that kept you from moving a limb; remember how painful that was? Imagine that feeling, but across your entire body. Your muscles tense up painfully and undergo spasms while you choke on the air, your brain screaming for oxygen but your diaphragm unable to hear. You want to scream but you cannot. Minutes later if you are still unlucky-enough to be unconscious, your heart finally gives up the ghost and allows you to welcome the mercy of death.
Hauvegdieschisse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it can be made in a well equipped garage lab.
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So can nickel carbonyl, if I'm not mistaken.
gymnasticRug ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:04:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea that happened at Dartmouth. My father used to work there around that time.
Hydrochloric_Comment ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:26:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really any mercury compound. They can make for some pretty reactions, though. Made some mercury (II) iodide the other day as part of an Inorganic lab; it's a nice, orange color.
RedshiftOnPandy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read the wiki link you posted, it sounds... terrifying to the say the least.
DCoder1337 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amazing "Things I Won't Work With" blog has a post on a similar compound dimethylcadmium, and other nightmare chemicals such as chlorine trifluoride:
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tragic case. But in my experience, science labs couldn't give a fuck about the safety of their workers. My old boss told me to "get over it" when I expressed concern about using a powerful mutagen in minimal safety environments.
cords55 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. Most of the private companies I have been to a very serious about safety. Because of insurance costs and the risk of being sued I am sure, but none the less. Academic labs, though, are really lax.
blizpix ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck academic labs. My husband is close to finishing up his doctorate in organic chemistry, and he has been forced to work with extremely dangerous compounds and the professor does almost nothing in terms of safety measures. My husband has had to go to the ER several times for things like inhaling a compound that creates hydrofluoric acid in the lungs when inhaled and breathing in too much cyanide. I pray he will take a teaching job soon, gives me gray hair.
anshr01 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's government for ya!
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:11:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you work for Shredder??
PokeytheChicken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zombies?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zombie nematodes.
TheAstroChemist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a chemist there are certain materials that I would only allow myself to work with in a glovebox. This would one of them.
cheeseit123 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:43:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you handle something like this? Even in a glove box it sounds like this substance goes through any glove material
TheAstroChemist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, let's consult the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) on this stuff. This is something that actually everyone should do when when they're working on something that they're not familiar with... it's very important and it details pretty much every imaginable hazard associated with the material.
Good grief! A brief glance at this MSDS shows you just how scary this stuff really is. Sometimes it will tell you what type of gloves you can use but near as I can tell, the key here is very thick nitrile gloves (NOT LATEX). [Source: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/safety/19970512.html]
What I would do is work with it in in a sealed off inert atmosphere glovebox to prevent any inhalation threat, of which the gloves are constructed of extremely strong thick rubber. Put nitrile gloves over those gloves and then wear nitrile gloves going into it. If you did all that, your risk of skin contact would be greatly reduced. You would just have to handle the stuff extremely carefully. If I even knew I spilled even a drop of the stuff on the nitrile interior gloves, I'd immediately remove my hands (and I mean immediately, as in like 5 seconds or less) because the stuff will take some time to full absorb in. That one researcher (Karen Wetterhahn) made the mistake of using latex gloves and when she spilled it she kept them on so it was able to absorb right in.
There's more dangerous stuff out there though where an inert atmosphere glovebox would be perfect such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride. This is so you could completely eliminate moisture from the picture.
In my own research we work with moisture sensitive fluorides of which handling in a glovebox is completely necessary.
justinsayin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What sort of flexible glove material would you use to work with this material? It goes through most things, including PVC.
TheAstroChemist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nitrile gloves are what I think you'd go with here. They are pretty good for just about anything in a chemistry lab but they would have to be very thick. I'd wear a couple layers of it, but if you spill even a drop of the stuff on them you'd want to remove it immediately before it could potentially absorb in... and then contact the Environmental Health and Safety agency at whatever affiliation you're at.
DanielSank ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things I won't work with
emmelinefoxley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great description of symptoms of poisoning from chemistryworld
"But dimethylmercury beats them all hands down for toxicity. It was first synthesised in 1858 by George Buckton, working at the Royal College of Chemistry (now Imperial College). Frankland's research group began making dimethylmercury in 1863. His colleague Carl Ulrich inhaled some after a spillage, and soon showed classic symptoms of mercury poisoning, sore gums and numbness of his hands, deafness and poor vision. He became restless and noisy before lapsing into a coma. He occasionally rose from the coma to emit howling noises, but died a fortnight after symptoms were first recognised. A young technician who assisted in the cleanup took longer to develop similar symptoms, but within months was demented, restless, violent and incontinent. He died of pneumonia a year later. "
MeccIt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this chemistry blog: Things I Won't Work With - a list of exotic compounds that will mess you up in any number of ways.
gingerlovingcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Thanks for sharing this. Very sad stuff.
Boonaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So deadly it was never weaponized.
AAA1374 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you handle this, then?
EmeraldCityDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember handling mercury as a kid with no protection. Use to play with it in my hand... how dangerous was that?
DukeofEarlGrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say it's equivalent to 2 days in Flynt. Not much, but not something you want to be doing often.
rosedragoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the stuff that biomagnifies in predatory fish: the higher in the food chain, the higher level of methylized mercury. That's why you should only eat a certain fish a certain amount of times per month because then it accumulates in you.
scatticus_finch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fiance is a chemist. While he'll likely to never work with this, there's so much about his job that terrifies me.
Justlooking17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find the most terrifying part of the wiki story that she didn't worry when she spilled as she believed she was taking all necessary precautions.
When you work in a lab and follow all the rules, and you DIE
HodortheGreat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even more frigthening: it only costs 2,098 USD!
NewspaperPirateHat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She Wetterhahn with something she shouldn't have.
PaperRaper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Her brain couldn't even process pain in the end. That to me is what hit the hardest. You are dying and can't even process a negative response.
Mugros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a synthetic compound only found in special labs, especially today. Yes, it is highly toxic, but in no way does any person not working with it be scared by that.
Pioness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaand this is one of the reasons why I despised being in chemistry class. So many chemicals just waiting to fuck you up.
DukeofEarlGrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you meant "dreaded". Unless you actually felt chemistry class was despicable and beneath you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude that was my aunt karen!!!
arkzist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. Just a few drops?
imjustyittle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"a few drops of the chemical absorbed through the gloves proved to be fatal..."
Absorbed...through the gloves. Holy shit!
jillarroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
20 years ago and they had no idea it could permeate latex gloves. It was like a landmine of chemistry.
ManPumpkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe we should, I don't know, STOP FUCKING MAKING IT.
NameLessTaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find it even more frightening how long it takes to set in.
aazav ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a scientist's* tragic, accidental death
Learn this.
mesorouth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's often called dimethyl death in industry.
Traceofbass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My boss suggested we make a dilute methylmercury solution for research (citing it would be "safer" because it would be aqueous, not pure methylmercury. I told him "Fuck no, I enjoy living."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late, I know.
They named an award for science after her to encourage women in science. I think this is great to encourage new discoveries. But why is it that someone always dies in some horrible way that their name is used for a new procedure or award?
PTBTIKO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5: How can such a tiny amount fuck her up so badly? And how do other people around her not get it too? I mean if she's got so much of this shit pumping through her veins and in her hair an shit, how is she not just nippin about poisoning every cunt?
delmar42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, thank you for posting that link. A fascinating read.
trios13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is there a reason to handle Dimethylmercury? Is it used for anything?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then in a later section:
Is it organic or synthetic? Or can something be both and I don't understand what those words mean?
platyviolence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is really no where close the scariest real thing on earth. Fuck, tornadoes are scarier than this. Rabies is 10 x scarier than this. An angry mother goose is scarier than this.
ProfessorPenetrator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn that's some scary shit
EPIKGUTS24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dimethyl Cadmium is actually more dangerous
dripdroponmytiptop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mother of fucking god.
Zodiak213 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:27 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you get this from wearing PVC pants?
WicksCherrycoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:23 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kind of wish I hadn't read that...
blooheeler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:41 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well.
MarcDLoeb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about dimethylcadmium?
XyzzyPop ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:05:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should read bout Di hydrogen Monooxide, stuff is scary as hell.
chiiillin ยท 1886 points ยท Posted at 02:06:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Certain kinds of brain damage. You could lose the ability to form new memories right after a horrific accident, for example, and think it just happened for the rest of your life. You can also lose the ability, biologically, to feel pleasure of any kind.
leftclicksq2 ยท 966 points ยท Posted at 03:57:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My professor showed us a special on Clive Wearing, a man in England whose short-term memory was permanently compromised after a fever.
He complained of a headache and was rushed to the hospital. From what I remember, the fever was over 105 ยฐ, and after it broke he seemed fine. It wasn't until he began asking where he was and who this woman was (his wife), that the doctors determined he had severe brain damage.
A moment lasts 5 seconds until he is asking where he is, who is in front of him. He carries a notebook to serve as a reminder and writes down every moment before he forgets it. https://youtu.be/c62C_yTUyVg
Edit: Holy Batman! Thank you so much for the gold!
mellifluous14 ยท 327 points ยท Posted at 04:15:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's scary, yet amazing. He reacts to seeing his wife like he's never seen her before, he writes in his journal as if he's never been alive before that moment. My psychology teacher explained it like "this is the first time I've been alive. No now is the first time. No, this is the first time." And he can also still play the piano as well as he could before. It's amazing
Crisp_Volunteer ยท 124 points ยท Posted at 05:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The part when they show the notebook got to me. His handwriting gets more and more frantic with every entry and he thinks every previous entry is fake and he violently crosses them out, because they scare him because it's his own handwriting. But it can't be his handwriting because he's only now awake and conscious for the first time. Repeat at infinitum every 15 minutes. Can you just imagine?
mellifluous14 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its frightening to me, actually. To think that that can happen to basically anybody at anytime. I can only try to imagine what he feels when he sees his handwriting and is just overwhelmingly confused because he is "just now conscious". Whats really crazy is that it's unimaginable. And if you ever do experience it, events have happened to make you not know that you're even experiencing it. And the dedication and devotion his wife has is amazing. And even more amazing is how the brain works and reworks and reroutes to allow him to keep his language and music skills. These are all things that I got into psychology for, and no matter how many times I read about him or anything, it still amazes and astounds me
Crisp_Volunteer ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I found weird was when he had finished playing a song on the piano and he seems to go into some sort of shock, shaking and twitching. As if his brain activity leaves the "music part" of his brain but has nowhere to go since the pathways are all destroyed.
mellifluous14 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I remember correctly, my psych teacher said basically parts and links of his brain were destroyed and damaged purely from the temperature. He's lucky that he didn't wind up like Phineas Gage. Different scenario though, he was working on blowing up a mountain for a path for a railroad and something went wrong and he got a pipe through his head. He was fine except his personality completely changed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
sunnygovan ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:09:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC he was ramming a charge, accidentally detonated it and the ram-rod shot out like a bullet.
er1c1996 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:33:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically his muscle memory is attempting to do something his brain doesn't have the neurons for anymore. As a result, his muscles just kind of jerk in confusion.
Mal10284 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:49:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a book called 'before I go to sleep' which sounds like it's based off this(condition). It's a good read if you're interested .
lordcookies ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 09:33:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the movie Memento. One of the best movies i have ever watched.
daneelr_olivaw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:13:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
watched. ever have i movies best the of One
FTFY
Hayes231 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:33:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://xkcd.com/270/
_jacks_wasted_life_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ah, you beat me to it. ;) I concur. Brilliant.
SpellJenji ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the Nicole Kidman movie.
Hayes231 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its the book that movie was based on
SpellJenji ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:23 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense.
leftclicksq2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is what he does on a daily basis! I feel like the reason his handwriting becomes so frantic is after those seconds pass where his mind (literally) becomes a blank slate, he looks at what he wrote and is so frustrated that he can't remember writing that.
jimmy_eat_womb ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:10:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can i play the piano any more?
TheAmorphous ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:02:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course you can!
mynameisblanked ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:25:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I couldn't before!
flyingwolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:39:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dr Zaues!
FierceDeity_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except he doesn't say "no"... He doesn't remember him saying that to be able to falsify it.
TheStooner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talk about living in the moment. Jesus. Could be a blessing or a curse, depending on your outlook.
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That also got me. How after all of the trauma, he still retains the ability to play the piano. After posting here I looked him up and he's still alive!
guntermench43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So human goldfish then...
fourthchoice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've experienced this type of short term memory loss before.
A few months ago, a group of friends and I decided to spend a Saturday afternoon high on 'shrooms. I ended up eating a bit too much: my trip was filled with significant visual hallucinations and highly emotional periods (ie a simple word, object, or action could significantly affect my feelings and thought pattern. I could go from jovial to petrified to curious nearly spontaneously, depending on the stimulus). After about a three hour period, I passed out.
When I woke, I recall being frantic: the people surrounding me had unknown faces, and I was perplexed at the notion of being. I didn't know who or what I was, and kept asking those around me panicky questions. Every time, they would answer, and try to calm me down (by this time, they were nearly sober).
Slowly (after about an hour), I was able to accept the fact that they were my friends, and I got remember their names. With more questions, I was able to remember their relationships to me, and things about them. I was able to remember who I was, my family, and my past. It took me the rest of the evening, but I sorted everything out. It was a surreal experience, and I can't imagine what life would be if I had been stuck there.
MispelledZobmie ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:34:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's like 40.5 Celsius... got myself 41.5 C last year for no apparent reason, and felt like dreaming. Now I'm kinda scared...
KofOaks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I had 105.7 once when I was a kid (was always high when sick but that as high as it went) I was literally hallucinating.
edit : typo
Cmokahontas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same for me once when I was real lil. woke up late, wandered out of bed and the walls were melting. horrifying but thankfully my mom was awake
bolaxao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had 40c
AeroMechanik ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of good that notebook would be.
print "YOU HAVE A BRAIN CONDITION THAT MAKES YOU FORGET EVERYTHING AFTER 5 SECONDS! UHH.... YOUR WIFES NAME IS JULIE!";
continue;
Hayes231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he should just get tattoos all over his body "remember sammy jankis" , "JOHN G. RAPED AND MURDERED YOUR WIFE"
VitQ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:49:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"remember sammy jankis"
jzerocoolj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sammy, it's time for my shot.
Vadersays ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:18:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That poor woman.
Hayes231 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:37:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
too bad john g. did what he did
aneasymistake ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You see, I have this condition."
Hayes231 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:35:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I know, you told me before"
Moopies ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:48:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. When they first show his notes and he's written "I AM ALIVE" in giant letters...
kerplunk288 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:30:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt suffered from viral encephalitis as a teenager. She had sever brain swelling that lead to similar memory loss. She remembers her life prior to getting sick. She has no recollection of day to day activities, and couldn't tell you what she was doing 5 minutes ago. It's near impossible for her to form conventional memories.
We were shocked when she recalled the deaths of my grandparents. Fortunately, there was no confusion that they had passed. She can form new muscle memory through repeated actions, and can remember lyrics through song. She recognizes family friends, and new spouses as being familiar, yet even after 10+ years of regular interaction, she struggles to recall their name.
Being unable to form new memories skews our perception of time. She finds here self asking really basic questions, "Did I eat yet? When was the last time I went to the bathroom? How long have I been in this room?"
She finds repetitive tasks like word searches and jig-saw puzzles very relaxing, as she can be present in the activity. She carries a memory book with her at all times, though after her sickness she became largely illiterate. She doesn't review the memory book often, as she has difficult deciphering her own handwriting. Nevertheless it functions to give her a sense of time.
leftclicksq2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:51 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry your aunt had to go through that. Encephalitis is always something I've heard about on and off. Was it ever determined how she contracted it (herpes or other)?
Doing the jigsaw puzzles and such is probably great exercise for her brain, too. Do you know what kind - or how long - her therapy was post-illness?
bogmansaha ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:02:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have heard/read about a guy who also has a memory span of ca. 30sec. It's so heatrhbreaking to see him greeting his wife everytime he sees her, like it's the first time in several years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmzU47i2xgw
karmachameleon4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:38:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, that's scary. I got taken to hospital with a fever of 105.2 degrees a couple of years ago and didn't realise until after how close I was to all kinds of bad things happening. Luckily I was fine after a couple of nights in the hospital.
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really glad you made a full recovery!
Sable-Knight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched an anime somewhat like this, ef: a tale of memories. Very tragic stuff. One of my favourites when I used to watch anime.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds relevant to my interests.
drmadao ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:24:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How come he doesn't forget what is the notebook for?
leftclicksq2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He has to constantly reminded of what the notebook is for after his mind (literally) resets.
drmadao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:06 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it becomes a long term memory?
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:13 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of, or maybe a muscle memory.
Aemnys ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:02:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does he remember to keep on writing in his notebook he has? If it the look of the book serves as a reminder, then why can't his wife?
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By this point he has probably become so regimented that writing in that notebook that it's "natural" (?) Still, he has to have someone with him at all times, even if it isn't his wife, as to not make him go into a panic.
darrellbear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist. It's about a mercenary soldier in the days of ancient Greece who suffered a head injury, and forgets everything every day. He writes stuff down to remind himself of who he is and what he's done. It is a very strange and powerful read.
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll definitely look into that. Thanks for the recommendation!
Time_Ocean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We literally JUST watched that today in Cognitive Psych. I almost started tearing up, poor guy.
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I saw it, I felt for him. I couldn't imagine how frustrating it is for him to feel like everything is new when everyone around him tells him it is not. One the most memorable parts of that documentary is when Wearing is sitting next to his wife and asks, "Hello, what is your name?" then he reads from the notebook that he told her he loved her how many seconds before.
And not just him, but his wife, too. She deserves major kudos for sticking by him through all of this. If that's not love, I don't know what it.
PM_ME_HKT_PUFFIES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Memento
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love that movie
WorldTechToys ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So like this Guy?
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like him.
dargonfyre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a comic series called "The Sandman". The Sandman punishes one of his captors with eternal waking. I never imagined that that Hell could be real.
BiscuitDisease ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
important note: the fever was not the cause of his brain damage. It was the herpes encephalitis. (fevers don't cause brain damage unless the fever is caused by heat stroke, not illness)
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
745631258978963214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:07 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm obscenely patient, but not gonna lie, I'd have likely filed for divorce within a week tops. That lady is a godsend to him.
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:37 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. I couldn't imagine how emotionally taxing it is to continue being with a spouse with severe mental trauma. Wearing's wife is 100 percent committed to him, although I wonder if his care would fall into professional hands if she were to pass away.
robophile-ta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:33:46 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched a documentary about him, very interesting.
He used to be a renowned academic before, which is even more terrifying. In his prime, now he's functionally useless..
leftclicksq2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:45:23 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how I felt, too. Someone who was in his prime and so gifted with music, and all of a sudden this happens. It just goes to show how much we can take our faculties for granted.
Hayes231 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
does he have a vendetta for John G., the man who raped and murdered his wife?
theclownwithafrown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes!! I saw that too. Very sad, but very interesting
TommyRobotX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like 50 First Dates. But, you know, more horrifying.
Inkspells ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Drew Barrymore in 50 first dates but shorter
jerkandletjerk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good God I was worried he's gonna hit his wife at 5 mins into the video when she was pushing him to remember stuff about the diary even while knowing that it wasn't possible for him. Leave him alone, woman! :(
leftclicksq2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She must get just as frustrated, but yeah, lay off lady!
cuntweiner ยท 1542 points ยท Posted at 03:49:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That second one happened to me the day I made my reddit account.
PM_me_ur_dick_pics ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 06:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a similar tragedy. I can feel pleasure, but only for a moment before someone tells me why that pleasure is stupid and why I was stupid for ever feeling that way in the first place.
Phantom707 ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 06:26:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my professional* opinion, you have a severe case of life.
TheNosferatu ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm.
Source: I have a life.
roflpwntnoob ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where can I acquire this "life"?
TheNosferatu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:06:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unsure, I spawned with one.
TheStooner ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:14:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/outside
TheNosferatu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:23:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, I don't understand people outside. The reception there is never better then it is here inside.
TheStooner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you click the link?
sharfpang ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not 'acquire' but 'develop'. It's fairly contagious, easy to catch from people who have it.
sharfpang ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:29:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry though, it passes eventually.
MumBum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read it as "You can also lose the ability, biologically, to feel pressure of any kind". That wouldn't be so bad.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bedsores, buddy.
Brandon23z ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? Why the fuck did I make a Reddit account?
I didn't even like this site the first time I tried it. I gave it a second chance and that's when I made an account.
doom_vr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you subscribe to /r/nofap that day?
MagicHamsta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:01 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything is a repost/shitpost.
FluffyChristian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We know /u/cuntweiner
nexx84 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:27:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
happened to me when i got married.
NOTASOUND ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 06:26:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh kek, have your upboat
saladLife ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 05:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, dad has brain cancer. Totally different person now, doesn't even like Seinfeld anymore. Was once eloquent, best driver ever, could use motor skills, and amazing gardener. I feel so bad for him, he can't type, write, or even complete sentences without taking several minutes. HOWEVER, he is still a boss at jeopardy. No shit. Calls the answers out with a stutter, but still gets them before contestants can say "what is..."
Half_Dead ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:07:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like your dad is fast and has a good memory.
ucrallifeman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:54:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had pills that make it impossible to feel sexual pleasure. So frustrating that no medication is worth it. And depression can make it so nothing is fun. Anhedonia. Even having gone through it before, when it happens I'm in total disbelief. Nothing is remotely stimulating.
philnyethescienceguy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though im like to the party as usual i figured id but my two cents in anyways..After a great deal of head injuries and being diagnosed with tramatic brain injury my busy is no longer capable of producing dopamine. Though I take medicine and recreationally use supliments to try to help but I'll never be the same I'm just turning 26 this year and dealing with it has me dealing with suicidal thoughts daily. I wouldn't wish my head injuries on my worst enemy
wellwasherelf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:44:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear you buddy. I had a moderate-severe TBI in January after a motorcycle crash on the track (115-120mph). Was unconscious, airlifted, had a seizure, brain bleeding, morphine 4x/daily, all that fun stuff.
My brain still produces dopamine, but there are VERY few things that give me pleasure anymore. I've pretty much abandoned all of my hobbies, stopped talking to all of my family except my dad, don't care about sex, don't care if I have a job. I'm dealing with the same thoughts as you and it fucking sucks. It's the worst depression of my life by a factor of 10, except there are no meds that can help it.
The only thing, literally, that keeps me going is my friends. If I didn't have them, it'd be over for sure. No point.
what-the-muffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hang in there, bud.
juicebox244 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:32:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Low dopamine's a bitch :/
starlit_moon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can also lack the ability to feel pain. I've heard stories of children who have it who put their hands on hot plates and end up with burns and don't feel a thing or even realize what is happening.
Chappelow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember Sammy Jenkis
doittuit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:19:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah with depression and drug addiction the second is why a lot of people keep that addiction. Or else life has no joy. That old hobbies that you used to love are meaningless, amd nothing gives you any sayisfaction or pleasure. Hell even at one point opioids didnt do much because tolerance got too high. And without anything psychoactive nothing natural gives any pleasure. If anything avoiding sex and eating happens. It's why some docs that deal with opioid withdrawal have to be on methadone or suboxone for life because they rewired their brain too much.
ashion101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:26:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seen the story of a poor man who was in an accident and suffered brain damage of a kind that means he can't recognize faces anymore. He had to relearn to identify his kids and loved ones by their body shape and voices and even then he gets confused. Was sad to see him near tears when he confused his son and daughter (as in who was next to him)
Normally when you look at a face your eyes analysis the input in a triangle type pattern; eyes, nose, mouth, then chin/jaw, ears and hair which combine together in the brain to what you recognize as a face. His eyes get the signals in the wrong order so now he just sees jumbled, fuzzy mess when he looks at a face.
njuffstrunk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have some mild brain damage due to a stroke. My long term memory is affected and when I learn new stuff occasionally it doesn't make the transition from shortterm to longterm memory that well. Also, paradoxically, the more you repeat stuff to me, the less likely I am to remember it.
That said, it's easy to adapt to. Just write things down more often. At first the "shit I totally forgot about this" was easy to get used to but I've learned to live with it. I.e. sometimes I'd put clothes in my washing machine and when someone reminds me of that later it's just completely gone.
KuyaJohnny ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the movie "memento"?
f1del1us ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would rather not survive. Good luck living on your own after 20 years go by.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You couldn't.
Ever watch 50 first dates? Sweet Adam sandler/drew Barrymore movie but terrifying premise really.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad lost his ability to walk, speak, control of his dominant arm, and lost control of his bowels to brain cancer even though he was still a fully aware, thinking person. I can only imagine what his frustration was like.
AnnFranklyMyDear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any kind of psychosis scares the shit out of me because of this.
I'm epileptic, and after a seizure I experience almost complete memory loss and psychosis for about 30 minutes. Not knowing who you are, what you've done, who the people around you are or understanding anything that is happening around you is fucking terrifying.
sharfpang ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know a guy whose brain just doesn't produce serotonin. No joy in life, ever, no matter what he does.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isnt that what 50 first dates is about? Good ol days when Adam Sandler movies were not total crap.
Dr_Kriegers_Van ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it's called "getting a job in a cube farm."
HeidiSliman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too have seen Fifty first Dates
ulpisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
did I ever tell you about Sammy Jankis?
Nighthawk0973 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You might have a very minor case of serious brain damage."
Tyrionsnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi, I'm Tom!
Rigo2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a casual interest in this, you should read some of the books by Oliver Sachs. He does an amazing job at describing some of his more interesting patients and his encounters with them. They are a mind fuck and very informative at the same time. The first one I read was "The man who took his wife for a hat".
d1x1e1a ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or "marriage" as it's commonly known
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, but Adam Sandler could also swoon your for the rest of your life. Imgaine how cool that would be.
fanfarius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember Sammy Jankis.
ShelfordPrefect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ejaculatory anhedonia. Everything works down there, it points and shoots, but you feel no pleasure from it. Sounds like a recipe for crushing ennui to me.
ThatGuyWhoEngineers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a documentary (who's title escapes me) about brain damage. There was a man who was in a motorcycle accident that ever so slightly damaged his frontal cortex.
Now he's lost all feeling and empathy towards his wife and kids. He flat out says he doesn't love them anymore. This scares the shit out of me.
Or maybe it isn't real and he's trying to escape his wife and kids.
linkolphd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry if this happens Adam sander will make a video for you detailing the accident so you can live your life normally, and you definitely won't ask the same questions every day or just think it's a joke for the rest of your life.
lilith4507 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anhedonia, it is a symptom of schizophrenia.
blazingeye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a head injury that no shit made me more confident and assertive while also removing my crippling depression and anxiety.
sonty_the_gnome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got a more mild case of this after getting a brain injury after a car accident. Frontal lobe damage and left side of the brain. It made my emotions do a 180. I wanted to die for the first year or so. Anxiety and depression were unbearable. It was about two years before they found the right meds to make my life bearable, but ill never feel quite the same. That was 8 years ago and I lead a relatively normal life. I have trouble with short term memory. Emotions are weird. I don't feel empathy as much as normal people, anxiety and depression still need to be controlled. Its a bitch but its bearable.
unid0n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think i got this the day i got married
maluminse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErjP5xMTc8I
cassygrace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother got a brain injury at nine, now he reacts to pain weirdly. He slipped on ice and fractured his wrist...nothing. Didn't know till a few years later, he got an X-ray for something else. Yet getting his teeth drilled, he practically needs to be knocked out or he'll scream. Weird
youdubdub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a recent question about fears like these, I mentioned a man who lived in a head injury unit in a skilled-nursing facility where my father was the administrator. He had burst a blood vessel in his brain while suppressing a sneeze, and spent the rest of his life a quadriplegic. Afraid of brain damage and aneurysms? Don't suppress your sneezes pleases.
Respect_Beck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work with special needs adults, the folks with TBIs hit me the hardest. They used to be functioning normal folks who had their whole lives torn away from them.
Preidon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I keep .txt on my computer.
Naturallypurple909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now thats really something to think about. Wow.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me for a year after I got a brain injury due to a car accident. Anterograde amnesia. Last thing I remember was my friend pulling out of her driveway. Accident was 2 miles away.
I have no memory from July 2005-June 2006.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lose ability to form new memories: damage to the parahippocampal gyrus, mamillary bodies, fornix, hippocampus, and other associated structures can remove ability to form new memories.
Lose ability to feel pleasure: destruction of the septal nuclei in the anterior-inferior septum pellucidum of the lateral ventricle can render you unable to feel pleasure of any kind! Hooray! :')
PM_ME_JINX_PORN ยท 3062 points ยท Posted at 00:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to go with Locked-in Syndrome.
sunflower-galaxy ยท 1379 points ยท Posted at 03:43:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone interested, a man who had Locked In Syndrome wrote a memoir by blinking one of his eyes. It's called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Really good book. Good movie adaptation too.
Wolfeman0101 ยท 1010 points ยท Posted at 09:13:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Krasstrout ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 09:30:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Song based on the book/movie "Johnny Got His Gun", about war and its aftereffects.
Bankrotas ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 12:53:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a great movie.
onacho ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:46:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
S...O...S.......help....me.......S...O...S.......help....me.......
MG87 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:55:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much scarier than any modern horror film
satanlicker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:12:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, Metallica wanted to use that movie in the video for 'One' but they couldn't get the rights. So they just bought the rights to the film and and now they own all copyright to the film 'Johnny Get Your Gun'
Batrachot0xin ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:33:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That book changed me.
sockofdoom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:49 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had such a hard time with that book; it was so well written and I wanted to finish it, but god it made me depressed.
dl064 ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 11:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parklife!
Silxx1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:13:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope more people get this, quality comment
Japi- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:03 on March 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it
SaturdaysKids ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funniest reply I've read in months
lumberjawsh ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 11:08:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, now I have One stuck in my head
never0101 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 12:40:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the worst problem to have
throwthisawayrightnw ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 09:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They wrote about all kinds of things they never personally experienced, witnessed, or understood... and sometimes they did a good fucking job of it!
EroticHeartAttack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emphasis on sometimes.
Meltic ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 15:39:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bargains imprisoning me All that I see Absolute savings What a great deal What a great buy Look at these jeans Damn I look sexy as hell
DiscordianStooge ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:53:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering some car company is using "Fuel" in ads, this may not be too far from reality.
mango2407 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take your upvote
zimmii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing that meme a few years ago and giggling to it over and over in my had to the point where that version has actually over-written my memory of the original lyrics
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 14:24:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh DAH!
duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh DAH!
duh-duh-duh DAH!
duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh DAH!
duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh DAH!
duh-duh-duh DAH!
ModsEqualsFags ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 14:58:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LANDMINES
HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT
TAKEN MY SPEECH
TAKEN MY HEARING
TAKEN MY ARMS
TAKEN MY LEGS
TAKEN MY SOUL
LAND ME WITH LIFE IN HEEEEELLLL
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Left
TheTurtleTamer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:32:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Left
Juanchio88 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right
dogecoins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shut up, Beavis
ModsEqualsFags ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, buttwipe.
CANADIENxBOSS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:55 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Shut up Beavis!"
spacegrate ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always immediately start singing Kimya Dawson in my head whenever this is mentioned.
luthier8741 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Landmine has taken my sight Taken my speech Taken my hearing Taken my arms Taken my legs Taken my soul Left me with life in hell
johnnytaquitos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sweet kirk solo*
DestroyerTerraria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dark yet darker The darkness keeps-
Whoops, wrong sub.
T-A-W_Byzantine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wake me up
Wake me up inside
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:40:50 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, listening to Metallica when I read this
ebircsx0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was the song I first danced with a girl to in about 5th or 6th grade. She was pretty metal for a 12 year old.
kesht17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Landmine Has taken my sight Taken my speech Taken my hearing Taken my arms Taken my legs Taken my soul Left me with life in hell
[deleted] ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 05:24:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's insane.
heiferly ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 11:45:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have status cataplecticus (an extremely rare symptom of narcolepsy). It's basically exactly like locked in syndrome, except it only lasts for hours up to a few days at a time; my first episode of it, I recalled The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and assumed I was "stuck" like that for the rest of my entire life. Ten hours is plenty of time to consume yourself with grief and terror of how fucked you are living in the prison of your own body when everyone around you thinks you're in a coma and there's no way to communicate.
cakeandbeer ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 11:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I experienced sleep paralysis I thought it was going to be forever, and that was just a minute or two. Holy crap, 10 hours of that? I can barely imagine.
heiferly ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 12:14:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was awful. I was in the ER and everyone was talking about me as if I were in a coma or something. But I could hear everything and feel everything and I was wide awake and screaming on the inside ... I just couldn't make a sound or move my body. I was terrified that I was watching the rest of my entire life unfold. My mom was crying and talking about taking me home and caring for me. It was just insane. (I was in my late 20s at the time.) I take medication that makes the attacks less frequent now, but honestly just knowing what causes it and that it will end in 3 days or less (mine have never gone past 3 days, knock on wood) is enough to take some of the stress out of it.
YaoSlap ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 12:37:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you do when you have an attack? I can't imagine being trapped in my head for that long. I hope you're doing well.
heiferly ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 13:00:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the physiology of the attacks is that the body drops into the paralysis of REM sleep despite being awake, so as in REM sleep the ocular muscles remain functional. So I've worked out a system with my husband and caregivers where I move my eyeballs up and down for yes and side to side for no (like nodding your head), so they can ask me questions and I can have at least that limited means of communication. Anything that requires more sophisticated communication, we use the alphabet for me to spell, painstakingly letter by letter (first letter, is it A-M? Y is it A-G? N H-M? Y etc.).
I used to have to be in the hospital when it happened, but I have several severe illnesses so I now have a central IV line with IV pump and two feeding tubes with feeding pump at home, so my nurses are able to care for all my needs here at home when I'm paralyzed during an attack without me becoming dehydrated or anything like that. So that helps too, not having to go to the hospital and be in a strange environment among people who aren't familiar with me and my condition when it happens. I like to have people talk to me, put TV shows on that I like, things like that to keep me from getting bored when I'm in an episode. Since I can express yes/no, I can at least tell them if I want to watch a certain show or movie or not. And having narcolepsy, when I get bored I just fall asleep LOL.
danpascooch ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 13:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There are probably even better ways to do this, but off the top of my head have you considered using a grid of letters?
Write a 5x5 grid of the alphabet on a sheet of paper (leave out z, skip over it for words that use it or substitute s) and start in the center. Navigate the grid by moving your eyes in the appropriate direction. Double blink to confirm the selection. Quadrupal blink to tell people to get out the frid because you have something to say.
This cuts down the maximum eye-actions per letter from 26 to 5 (four navigation actions to reach corner letter, blink to confirm)
heiferly ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't intentionally blink. I only have control of the eyeball musculature, not the eyelids.
I appreciate all the people here making suggestions, but I've been doing this for 10 years now. We've tried a variety of communication methods and this is what works for me.
danpascooch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd hope nobody here thinks they know better than you what works best for you.
I love these kind of thought exercises though, so thanks for indulging.
TorchedPanda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My thoughts come to binary or Morse. Up for 0 or short(.) And down for 1 or long(-) maybe these methods would help you be able to communicate more effectively.
tesseract4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She can't blink, only move her eyes. That gives her effectively four bits per action: eyes up, down, left, and right. Eight if she wants to try for diagonals. I agree that she needs a better system though.
danpascooch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:50:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She can move back and forth in place of blinks then.
How the hell do they keep her eyes from drying out? Sounds like a nightmare
tesseract4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assumed she did it with her eyes closed. You can still see where the eye is pointing when closed.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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heiferly ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's sudden, usually brought on by sudden extreme emotions like laughter, surprise, etc. We do tend to go down slightly more gracefully than a person who is fainting, as the paralysis/paresis has a slightly gradual onset that can allow us to lean against a wall or piece of furniture and crumple down instead of falling like a board. (You're still pretty much screwed if you're on a flight of stairs though.)
kybarsfang ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw the use of tap code on a recent episode of The Flash. It might help.
Channel250 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:14:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All Hail Black Guy In A Mask!
Edit: Who am I kidding, it's probably Jay
Cruzzfish1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Learn Morse code with up for . and side for - or something.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is damn interesting.
TTTaToo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:01:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Netflix marathons?
Mr_Chaple ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:56:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until auto play asks if you're still there
tesseract4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:50:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Dogfish90 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get sleep paralysis on a semi regular basis. It was almost every night at one point, now it just happens enough that I don't forget about it. I learned to calm down during the process and stop trying to move which only makes the feeling worse.
The hallucinations are crazy. I always heard terrifying unintelligible voices outside the bedroom. Then, I'll think that I have managed to roll myself off the bed and wake up from hitting the ground, then get up and walk around, but none of that actually happened. I'm still in the same exact spot, trapped.
Konker101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so you can hear them but you cant do anything about it? this world is fucked.
ihearttatertots ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 10:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am a nurse who worked in a Neuro-trauma unit in Texas. I had a patient that was in a car accident and was diagnosed with locked in syndrome. The whole family wanted to remove life support and let the patient die.....except the husband. There was nothing anyone could do. She was transferred to a hospital in Colorado for further care. I don't know what happened after that but I went home and told my wife that if that happened to me, just to let me go. Terrible point in my career.
lumpytuna ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 11:10:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it even legal to let someone with locked in syndrome die? They're still there mentally, not brain dead. That's assisted suicide territory.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 13:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all likelyhood it should be viewed as assisted suicide, but is still classified as vegetative state for life support removal situations.
At some point, someone will get this syndrome and could feasibly survive to the point where we are able to repair the damage. If there's a method for communication, it should be their choice if they want to die not the families.
ihearttatertots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:58 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is up to ethics and compliance officers to determine. Along with physicians and lawyers. Above my pay grade. Just because someone can be alive and family decides to remove life saving measures does not constitute assisted suicide nor murder. If a person can not make Healthcare decisions them selves without the presence of an advanced directive it falls to the hierarchy of the family where the husband (unless legally separated) would make all decision as if they were the patient. His decision was to keep her alive with machines.
Without the machines she would die. This is no where near anything illegal. It is compassion and knowing ones wishes.
Big take away is make sure your loved ones know what your wishes are before it's too late.
cakeandbeer ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:59:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've told my husband that if it comes to it to just do whatever and I won't hold it against him. After all, he's the one who has to live with or without me.
DBroncos247 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:36:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phenomenal book and movie
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:23:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did that work? like morse code?
Neocrasher ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:18:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Having seen like half an hour of the movie, I feel qualified to answer this.
He had an assistant who would recite the alphabet and he would blink when the letter he wanted came up. I don't know if they developed a better system later on, I didn't watch that far.
Formal_Sam ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 10:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if they ended up going to this road, but I've seen 'clusters' of letters grouped together. So you'll point to one group of five letters, then another group of five letters, and so on until they blink, and you select from the cluster. Best case scenario is you get your letter after two guesses, worst case you get it in 11. Might be still faster ways than this, but they'd probably involve asking a lot more questions.
dedicated2fitness ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A better system was explained really well in The martian book and glossed over completely in The martian movie.
bucky763 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:15:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In short, how was it done in the book?
FlickeringCity ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:49:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hex code, letters and numbers placed in a circle around the rotating camera.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That system was definitely explained in the movie. Not in great depth, but it was clearly shown and hexadecimal was mentioned.
FlickeringCity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I remembered that too so I don't really know what that other dude meant. But if I recall correctly the book description was more detailed so maybe he was referring to that...
dedicated2fitness ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be a book spoiler to explain it so i'm not gonna
Formal_Sam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:07:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing something similar to a Binary search, but with common words and letters ordered before less common letters?
Moopies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically, except she didn't just read through the alphabet. The letters were read in order of his most used to his least used. So the more they went on, the faster it went.
reacharound565 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure Julian Schnabel directed it? He also did my favorite Basquiat movie. Diving Bell was beautiful.
alterlightone ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:49:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i found it terrifying and could only watch the film five minutes at a time
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've gotta mention my friend Nick Chisholm. He's locked in, but the man is fearlessly pursuing his life. He is one of the few genuine inspirations in my life.
eletricmojo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:58:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the most artistic and creative films out there.
strumpster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that was beautiful
ThorTheMastiff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The man's wife in the movie was played by the gorgeous Emmanuelle Seigner
gold_55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that like 15 years ago. An amazing book. Going to dig it up and re read it. Thanks for the jog of memory stranger.
Dogfish90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read the book, but technically doesn't being locked in mean you have no method of communicating? As in, not even one blinking eye?
mechapoitier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What sucks most about it but is "good" at the same time is it's possible to come out of it, so the idea of just "pulling the plug" on a locked in person isn't black and white. There's a local 17-year-old kid who got locked in by a brain stem stroke a few months back who is very slowly getting his abilities back. No idea how far he'll go though.
haleyim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That movie is so fucking sad and great.
kippy236 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have never sobbed over a book as much as I cried reading that one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WOW, that's amazing, Did they tape a pen to his eye?
Matilda__Wormwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That story makes me pray that assisted suicide becomes legal and widely accepted where I live.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would spell out PLEASE KILL ME non-stop.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that book for a class, it was so depressing but beautiful.
McKRAKK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:05 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there was a house episode where a guy was locked in and then house ran its typical things get worse and worse and then they magically cure patient routine...
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 555 points ยท Posted at 03:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True shit. Terrifying. Cared for a patient who was as the Drs said 'truely locked in. ' Somtimes she could cry. It was absolutely the most heartbreaking sound. 10 plus years later I'm still tearing up thinking of her.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 06:29:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
could you elaborate please?
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 112 points ยท Posted at 07:09:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non traumatic brain injury. Patient was fully aware. With apparently most to all orientation to persons and place and situation. Communication board communication was painfully slow, consistent with this finding and horrifically discovered years after the event. She was a young mother. She would cry heartbreaking sobs for hours after her family visited. She was completely unable to voluntarily move anything but her eyes and that was somewhat spastic and why the communication board was slow.
yoshi570 ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 09:33:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is heart breaking to read. And the family .. How do you even interact around someone in that position ? You can't pretend like nothing is happening. You can't either pretend to understand. Ugh, truly terrifying.
stone_opera ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 10:17:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather suffered something similar to this. He had Parkinson's disease, but it wasn't the normal kind. His mind was still all there, but his body eventually completely failed him (including his ability to blink or even swallow) We would visit him as much as possible, my grandmother lived in the same nursing home so that she could be with him all the time. It was hard, but basically we would just talk to him like we normally would. We told him about what was happening in our lives; we would do cross words and suduko's with him because he seemed to really enjoy those, we would all hang out as a family with him. It was usually ok, tough but manageable, but near the end of his life I will admit that I cried a few times (never around him, I would leave the room) it's very hard to see someone you love trapped in their body, especially him because he was always a very strong tough man.
Unfortunately there was nothing we could do for him in terms of euthanasia because it was illegal in Canada at the time, and because my grandfather's own wishes were to preserve his life for as long as possible.
yoshi570 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 10:31:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I can relate to that. Grandfather slowly died because of a brain clot, had to feed him, etc. He turned into a vegetable and died. But yeah, that's different. We're talking someone that we know is dying, and grandfathers too for both of us.
That's the story of a young mother that is not even dying; just trapped forever in there. I think that's a pretty big difference, that's much worse, to me at least.
NaggingNavigator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather just died from the same thing. I'm so sorry.
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was truly one of the saddest things I have ever witnessed.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, what becomes of someone in that state? Are they put in a care facility to live out hell on earth until they die, decades later?
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:52:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dated an RN who worked in one of those facilities run by the state. People who were brain damaged since birth to the point of being non-verbal, non-ambulatory the whole bit. She would sing to them and talk to them, some of them could smile when she walked in the room. She would have stayed there until retirement but they moved her to a facility working with sexual predators, so she's back in college to become a nurse anesthesiologist instead. Sad for those people because no one else treated them that well.
yoshi570 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But at the same time, you can tell yourself you did something good, that you helped her. I remember that when I was spoon-feeding my slowly dying grandfather, I was devastated, but also knew that this was my place. That I would feel even worse not to do it, not to help him.
I went into a dark place for quite some times, and went real close to put a cushion over his face to help him on the other side, but I didn't. I don't know if I was right not to do it, as nothing good ever happened to him with time passing. But at least I know that in some place in his mind, the small light of consciousness that he kept was happy that I was there.
rucksacksempty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to care for a man with Friedreich's ataxia. It was the most emotionally draining job I've ever had. When I first started he could talk a little, just very slurred and slowly. He could feed himself. He could indicate what he wanted. By the time I had to move he could only make vague noises and couldn't get his hands to do anything he wanted them to. It was heart breaking. Some days we both just could not communicate with the other. I'd just hold his hand and we'd sit there and have a good cry together.
Not very professional of me, I know.
yoshi570 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok rucksackempty, you did good. (reddit is wonderdul)
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 09:18:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did she ask to die?
If I ever got into that state I would probably spend every waking moment hating my family for not putting me out of my misery. We'd do the same for our pets, but not our flesh-and-blood, for some reason.
Chewzer ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 10:00:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister and I already decided if something like this ever happened to either of us we would pull the plug to end that torture.
Gullex ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 13:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You better damn well get that shit in writing before you need it. And get it notarized.
PewPewLaserPewPew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife is such a dick, she is making me choose what happens to her if she gets in that position. On my form I have it picked to just pull the plug.
Lolleos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your wife loves you too much and is an extremely good person... Most people wouldn't bat an eye before telling their significant others what THEY want, putting their interests in front of their couple's, not caring how their couple would feel st that moment, yet your wife is willing to NOT make a choice about what happens to her life in case she's in such a horrible situation, giving you instead the choice to do as it would hurt you less. She trusts your judgement enough to make you choose and she loves you enough to think about you before thinking of herself. That's a real proof of love if you ask me!
PewPewLaserPewPew ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:08:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While true, it also puts that person in an unbelievably difficult situation where you may feel personally responsible for not either giving it longer or for having let it go on for too long. When you pre-choose for yourself you remove that person from having to make an extremely difficult decision in one of the most stressful situations possible.
I think it probably tells more about personality than love (though we very much love each other). My wife sees it from the perspective that she wouldn't have all information and therefore cannot make an accurate decision ahead of time. She doesn't know what kind of life she'd live, if she'd recover, if she's be a vegetable or what.
I on the other hand want to remove the stressful decision for my wife. I don't want her to feel regret, or guilt or fear about her decision. I've removed that for her and have already decided if I'm on life support I'm done.
We both love each other but have both chosen differently because of our love.
Lolleos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a ton of sense! When you put it that way it does feel a bit burdensome, but I think it, at least, still says she trusts your decision fully, but I do get how you feel because, at that point (God forbid any of us has to get there) the "right" choice doesn't reallt exist.
Well enough about that gloomy subject; may you both live a happy life and experience an unshakeable health!
vaticidalprophet ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 11:22:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC people with locked-in syndrome breathe by themselves, thus there is no plug to pull.
Giygas ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 13:03:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well then, all we need is a well placed pillow.
Systral ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:16:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plug pulling as in assisted suicide.
eccentrus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
which is illegal in most places AFAIK
It_Happens_Today ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:23:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For now
YelrahRehguab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irrelevant when it comes to saving your loved one from a living hell.
eccentrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
relevant if you want to breath fresh air for the rest of your life.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Point?
InjuredGingerAvenger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pulling the plug refers to unplugging a form of life support. It's different from assisted suicide in the seems that are denying the means to live as opposed to actively killing the person which is what assisted suicide usually refers to.
Systral ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would mean that if it was a viable option. It is not. Discontinuing life support will result in suffering while assisted suicide allows them a comforting way of passing away, which in this situation is their most obvious wish and should be granted under any circumstances.
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than the tube feeding.
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:22:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make a living will. Make your sister DPOA. If your dpoa doesn't have the strength to let you go, they can and will keep you alive. The doctors will do what your family wants because you are obviously never going to sue but the family will.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me, I should really get my papers done. . .
HitlersToaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Memories all that's left behind
As I lie and wait to die
Little do they know
That I hear their choice of life
End it now
It is the only way
Too cruel
That is what they say
Release me from this lonely world
There is no hope
Why don't you
Pull the plug
Let me pass away
Pull the plug
Don't want to live this way
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:17:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No she did not. She was otherwise physically healthy. There was never a point where she was on a vent , but was tube fed. Very religious family .
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:22:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because people consider pets as property. They feel like they have the right to kill them if they think it's what's best, because their will is superior over the animal's.
People don't treat other people the same way. If you can't consent, they will have a tough time killing you, because there is a chance that you may want to live. They would not want their actions to interfere with your will, because it's considered to be on equal footing to their own.
For this reason, I have told my immediate family more than once that if I was ever in that kind of situation, I would like to be euthanized. You should, too.
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:19:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put it in writing! Living wills! And make sure you appoint a DPOA who will honor your wishes.
sabrefudge ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:31:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it... legal? Can someone request assisted suicide if they can't do it themselves? Can they request it in advance of any possible accident just in case they won't be able to respond anymore at that point?
(I'm in the United States and I'm unsure of the laws regarding that here)
I would absolutely want to be put out of my misery if I had locked in syndrome or something. I really would. But if the doctors refused to do it and a family member wanted to step in, I wouldn't want a family member to get thrown in jail for murder just for helping me escape a life of pain/misery.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 12:07:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from the U.S. too. No, it's not legal.
The thing is though, for reasons you've pointed out, having assisted suicide be illegal doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I'm pretty sure that this will change relatively soon.
For that time, I'm saying it in advance. I highly advise everyone else to as well.
Gullex ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 13:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Registered nurse here. While technically assisted suicide is not legal, on multiple occasions I have given copious narcotics to patients who are clearly "on their way out", at the request of family. We don't call it assisted suicide, but those drugs certainly are hastening the natural process.
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am also an RN. That is not assisted suicide, but help shorten the suffering.
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:23:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, in the sense that we're administering medication that hastens the dying process.
MasoKist ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:07:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom has been a clinical charge nurse on a neuro telemetry floor for 35 years. Y'all are angels of mercy โก
Gullex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:21:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:)
Thanks. I was one. I do case management for an insurance company now. These days it's much more rare for a patient to thank me.
It_Happens_Today ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seconded
Destiny_Seeker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:44:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Assisted suicide is not legal
Edit: So I apparently need to clarify: In the US, except in 5 states.
Fennek1237 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:43:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit is not a one country page. Millions of people from different countries visit this site. So how can you simply say "it is not legal"?
mossenmeisje ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, for example. Though there is still a lot of discussion about it, especially regarding Alzheimers because, roughly said, you have to be 'in your right mind' to make the decision. And a doctor has to confirm that your suffering is hopeless (you can't get better, are in a lot of pain, etc.). Things like this are what makes me so happy that I live in this country.
Destiny_Seeker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He specifically stated he is from the US
sabrefudge ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:56:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the question I asked, that he was responding to, was specifically about the United States.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:01:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it, or is becoming legal, in Canada
Systral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:17:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should, everything else is selfish.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"But only God can take life!"
segagaga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it should be.
So_is_mine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:57:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is in Switzerland no?
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to set up a living will.
Mark7A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone should have a durable power of attorney for healthcare for just this reason.
I made mine a little humorous for anyone who has to read it.
E.g. They must have a party in my room when they pull the plug (I don't want to go out with people feeling sad). I want a good party for my wake. I specifically stated my body can't be used for food (but organ donation is ok).
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty bullshit when you think about it. Someone in that situation could be begging for someone to kill them, but legally you aren't allowed to. Like, wtf?
Gullex ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:23:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure if that happened to me I'd be communicating nothing but "Kill me...kill me....kill me...."
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:27:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagined she wanted to see her children grow.
sockofdoom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:16:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a way, it's kind of a good thing that she could cry at all - at least she could still express what she was feeling in that way. It's probably worse to not be able to. :( That sounds really horrific to go through.
greedcrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:57:45 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honest to god at that point I would like to die.
3domx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should have put a pillow over her head when no one was looking.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did this happen in America? If so, what if the family stopped paying the health insurance? Would the hospital stop caring for her and let her die then?
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:27:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In America. Probably she would have become a ward of the state. No ward of the state is ever a DNR. They will do everything to keep them alive to prevent a lawsuit or the appearance of letting them die because they are poor.
Itstheonlyway_k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They would probably put her in some home or something
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She was in a long term care facility. She had several small children and her husband was caring for them.
Itstheonlyway_k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ward of the state means the state pays for her care and provides her care. It goes through adult protective services.
flashmanMRP ยท 1025 points ยท Posted at 02:42:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Like this? Very scary stuff...
.EDIT. Be sure to listen to the audio link with the article, it offers a different perspective.
Bohzee ยท 527 points ยท Posted at 04:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
meeeh what a cliffhanger!
Maoman1 ยท 218 points ยท Posted at 04:55:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a link that wasn't intentionally shortened to be a teaser / advertisement.
Mal10284 ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 07:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What an amazing read.
IlIIlIIllI ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:15:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was quite touching. I had misty eyes by the end of it.
HaggisEnchiladas ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:47:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His TED talk is amazing as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzfxvJ9cq8
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:19:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have got to stop cutting onions on Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:10:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unexpected love story
_i_suck_at_this_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's raining in my face ahhhg
CuTEwItHoUtThEe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't expecting to go on a feels-trip today.
shadow1515 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:52:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a great episode though, hearing him speak about his experience is crazy.
Hmm_Peculiar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a great podcast though, and free.
weeeee_plonk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also wrote the book Ghost Boy (he being Martin Pistorius, no relation to Oscar). It's a super fast read.
loveableterror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was on This American life too, very unique experience, and the guy seems kinda cool
akjoltoy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:02:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2010610/The-Ghost-Boy-The-uplifting-story-Martin-Pistorius-survived-mystery-paralysis-love.html
I will never visit npr again. I don't think I've had a news site do something like that with an article before.
I_downvote_typos ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's an extreme and disproportionate response.
BuddhistSC ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. Why ever visit their site again if they've demonstrated that they can't give you a full story without trying to rope you into some bullshit?
There's a million alternatives, no reason to give them anything.
jmur89 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:54:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh. Audio on NPR is not bull shit. It's the news outlet's main fare. NPR stands for National Public Radio, after all. Their digital text stories quite often lead into audio shows or clips. This isn't deceitful. It's just the way their platform works.
akjoltoy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They put up a cliffhanger article. It was my one exposure to the site. Why would I go again? There are other news sites and this is the first one that deliberately ended on a cliffhanger to get me to listen to their audio or whatever.
Like most people I read much faster than people speak and I'd rather spend less time than more to get the story.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:03:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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EpicBeeStorm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:55:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was actually much better
akjoltoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has a complete article written by Martin himself.
The other basically ended on a cliffhanger.
ToiletSpork ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:30:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What. A. Ride.
BobbyQuarters ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know right. Being forced to watch Barney. Very scary stuff
SLOTH_POTATO_PIRATE ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:36:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell... That is so scary. That picture of him with his wife made me happy. They are both very cute.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:38:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, at some point after years I would think the same, personally. For their sake, not because I'm tired of it. How torturous that must be.
Ceungosse ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:44:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ate a shit ton of mushrooms for my first time ever, about 6 grams. At one point I could think clearly but couldn't make legible words, they were just shrieks and noises. I also had trouble with body function like moving my arms the way I wanted etc. It was at that point I started freaking out in my own head thinking about people like him. Unable to move there bodies and are thought to be brain dead. What if they are just trapped in their bodies? Minds working but unable to work the body in any way or communicate they are there. Scared the fucking shit outta me so bad, knowing what I wanted to say but not being able to. God damn terrifying. Amazing how much I take for granted being able to speak, move and be a normal human being.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you do them again after that? Do you regret taking them? Psilocybin is high on my list of things to try but I don't really have any friends who use so I'm hesitant to try on my own.
Ceungosse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I absolutely don't regret it for a second. It was a ride. Eye opening in ways. I was not alone, I had other people with me one of which was sober. I was definitly the furthest gone, one point I was just laying of the floor screaming and laughing hysterically at the sound of my own voice. Id wave my hands In the air just staring at the trails. The two worse parts were when I couldn't speak anymore, and when I would take a piss after I finished it still felt like I was pissing, was convinced I was peeing in myself but nothing was wet. I never did piss myself but I was convinced I was, odd feeling lol. Staring at your face in the mirror was crazy, normal at first then it would completely twist and distort, when I'd look away and look back my face would be normal again before twisting and changing again. I haven't done them again, yet. I will though. Don't think I'll eat 6 grams though lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had this problem a lot when I first started smoking weed. Dunno why.
Thanks for your answer.
fleshtrombone ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:59:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ultimatedeathfart ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:56:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of Johnny got his gun.
Mark7A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Metallica's "One" video
Ultimatedeathfart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course! Where do you think I learned about it? /r
SilentJoe1986 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or listen to Metallica's One. I was 10 when I first really listened to the words of that song and it freaked me the fuck out.
duskykmh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Eventually Martin found a way to reframe even the ugliest thoughts that haunted him. Like when his mother said, "I hope you die.""
Damn, that's gotta hurt
ChewbaccaFart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And for the next guy that listens: What is your excuse for being single?
GargoyleSparkles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also a TedTalk that Martin gave on YouTube, which I'd link but I'm old and don't know how to on mobile.
mikegates90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you click on the link for the audio, it is hosted by KUAC. KUAC is my college radio station!! (University of Alaska Fairbanks) I work in IT and watch the shows in person all the time. Small world!
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh... I get that way sometimes. Completely aware but can't move or talk.
alfa_leader_bacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conversations with Richard Fidler is a an hour long free downloadable conversations show in australia covering a huge variety of storys and experiences from people world wide. This particular story is about a 30 year old tradesman from Perth who recounts his experience and recovery from locked in syndrome
deadlysarcasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow this is incredible, thank you for sharing. What an amazing story
Kigarta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I listened to that episode of Invisibilia about two weeks ago. Was definitely a good listen. Got to hear Martin's side of the story in it after a good 20 minute lead on like he had died.
78523965412369874123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude this shit is fucking deep
gold_55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. What a fucking inspiration! To think what he must have gone through and to fight that hard for that long. Truly amazing. Puts my shit into perspective.
Arkajion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are the best parents ever.
AlwaysClassyNvrGassy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing to think that after all this he went on to become a double amputee, a star athlete, and now a convicted murderer.
LeAlthos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me_irl
megalomonczar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Invisibilia is a really good podcast.
Dhelio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:16:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For everyone else interested, here's the full story without cliffhanger!
MittenMadness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
here is a short portion of his book.
askdljlasjdlajsd ยท 125 points ยท Posted at 03:59:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There must have been cases of people being paralyzed, blinded and deaf, but fully conscious,
Imagine that.. like what do you even make of that, I'd probably think I was dead, in purgatory or some bullshit "Oh hey here's another day of darkness and no stimulation", shit man most people have an idea of death and if you were in a car crash and had to deal with years of darkness you'd probably think this is what afterlife was.. how stressful is that.
And then you finally die because your mom can't afford your vegetable ass anymore.
Sad stuff indeed.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:39:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my breath as I wish for death
askdljlasjdlajsd ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:52:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is like One Version Two because you cant be sure if you're dead or not.
Hetfield wanted to paint a picture of a prisoner of his own body, but I'm talking about a person with no perspective of their surroundings, and I'm sure that has definitely happened.
wabisabi218 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:28:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should read the book Johnny Got His Gun.
derkederr ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:31:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The book 'Johnny's Got A Gun' is a story about a guy who is paralyzed blind and deaf, pretty interesting read
neko_ceko ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:38:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think he was paralyzed, he just didn't have arms and legs. He communicated by banging his head in morse code, so not really paralyzed.
TatManTat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:35:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you feel hunger at all? or any other bodily functions? Genuinely curious
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would get stimulation through vivid hallucinations.
cryokin ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The House episode where Mos Def has this is one of my favorites ever. I love when they do the questioning.
bliffay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, the entire episode you have doctors like "No, he's going to die. Nothing to be done." & then House says "I'm not so sure" and Mos Def's character is like "Listen to this guy, he's a cool dude!!"
MarcelRED147 ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 03:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't up vote this enough. I suffer from sleep paralysis which isn't even a drop in an ocean the size of Jupiter compared to locked in syndrome.... and it terrifies me and fucks with me so much that having locked in syndrome would probably just kill my mind immediately.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck sleep paralysis. Fuck that shadow demon.
I can usually figure out what's going on and break out quickly, but those initial moments of terror never get easier.
Sparkism ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 04:55:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a lucid dream/sleep paralysis just a few days ago.
I couldn't move, realized I'm lucid dreaming, then remembered that some people sees the shadow demon when they lucid dream. Shadow demon with red eyes then appears out of nowhere and sits on the edge of my bed and very clearly asked if I could see his face.
I thought "damn, i know this isn't real but it's still freaky"
Then the shadow demon said "sorry" and left my room.
I thought that was pretty cool.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 05:04:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the moments that I'm locked up, I'm scared shitless of my SP demon.
Yours sounds like a fucking bro.. And I can't help but wonder if that's a red flag.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how fear can affect you. In some cases it can paralyze you, in others it can make you freak out, and in others you can even be chill and try to laugh things off. The latter is something I do and I can't complain, although it never stops feeling weird when you're torn between acting "chill" and trying not to piss yourself.
Had spooky experiences as a kid and used a Ouija a while back. I believe in that stuff, so when I got a response, my first natural reaction was to try not to piss myself. Got over that and I just ran with it cheerfully despite still feeling fear.
Hey, if your Shadow Man is a Shadow Bro, just take the deal.
Itstheonlyway_k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not the fear that paralyses them. It's the fact that their brains haven't fully awaken so they don't have control of their bodies.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just meant in general, not in that specific situation.
Sparkism ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:44:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a personal trick to wake up from my dreams any time I want to.
I've realized at a young age that whenever I try to read anything in a dream, I immediately snap awake. Doesn't matter if it's a page or just letters. I've never been able to actually read anything while I'm dreaming even if I recognize it's a page of words.
Whenever I get a nightmare that I'm conscious of and I want to leave, I just start visualizing words. It's much more effective for me than to repeat 'wake up, wake up' to myself.
Demon bro was pretty cool. I've actually never seen the SP demon while I had SP before, and this was the first time after reading about it on reddit. I woke up for a brief second after that, went back to sleep, and then spent the 2nd lucid dream just flying and fucking around.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish lucid dreams were able to be reliably induced. That shit would be better than videogames.
Sparkism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:15 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get them quite often, if i get woken up too early and I go back to sleep, more often than not as soon as i start dreaming I realize i'm dreaming and I can control stuff a bit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only had sleep paralysis on one occasion, and didn't see the demon or anything, but it was like, as soon as I fell asleep I'd lock up and feel the terror until I could wake up. Then I'd calm down and fall asleep and it would happen again, and again, for a couple of hours. I got to a point where I was so freaked out I was worrying I would never be able to sleep again, like something broke in my mind and I'd be spending the rest of my life afraid to sleep. I've never had it happen again but it worries me when I think about it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something like 50% of people experience it at least once. Sounds like you got yours out of the way. If you "have" SP you probably would have had another episode by now.
iananimator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:39:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh shit, I'm sorry"
"Sorry for what? Our conscious taught us not to be afraid of our demons. "
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:22:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right version gachiGASM
Polish_Potato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you hang out with your shadow demon now?
Sparkism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He never texted me back :(
inc_mplete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lucid dream frequently but if you practice checking for an anchor (i check for the time) and if it's funky you know it's a dream... then you'll be able to control your lucid dream.
PantheraLupus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:00 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mine said "Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you muahahaha muahahahahahaa"
PathOfTheLogical ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait I thought the shadow demon was sort of a person to person, similar to dreams. I was unaware someone else has experienced that, is the shadow demon common with sleep paralysis?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:06:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search "sleep paralysis demon" on Google images. You'll likely find yours amongst the illustrations, like I did.
Pretty creepy, but it's comforting to know I'm not alone in seeing that shit.
dolphincss ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine doesn't even show itself. It's usually to the right of me, all I can see is its hand slowly coming towards me as my chest gets tighter and tighter - by the time it gets close I break out but I still have never experienced anything more frightening in my life.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:53:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, guess I'm never sleeping again...
Rhettidor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:56:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah why am I reading this at 4 in the morning?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol me too! Can't sleep cuz of insomnia and now I'm reading about the sp demon... Ugh never sleeping again!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard of that one too. I couldn't imagine not being able to see it.
Hara-Kiri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only had it once as far as I can remember, I knew I was sleeping so I tried to roll myself out of bed to bang my head on my bedside table to wake up. At least that was my dream logic. I can't imagine having it often.
AcclimateToMind ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 03:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the inverse, I heard this story that sometimes, the minds sub-conscious will send you messages in the form of dreams. Its often the case that while in a coma, the mind will send you discreet messages to wake up. It can come in any form, according to the recorded cases. Maybe a song lyric will tell you to wake up, or your dream-world best friend might whisper it just loud enough for you to hear, and deny saying it after the fact. There as even been a few recorded instances where the message to wake up would appear in text, the sub-conscious asking you in graffiti in an alley you walk through, in a book you read, in a newspaper you pick up. Sometimes it could be a text from a friend or a message on the internet telling you to please wake up.
Spooky right? But I don't think its true.
JahWeir ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:45:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, man.
[deleted] ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 04:22:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
> Maybe a song lyric
> message on the internet
> wake up
So you're telling me that memes could save somebody's life?
MrAppleSpiceMan ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 04:33:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wake me up
Wake me up inside
I can't wake up
Wake me up inside
save me
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
skeleton.jpg
breedwell23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed that as skel-e-toooon dot J. P. G. And it fit perfectly with the song :D
onlytech_nofashion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WAKE UP!
Itstheonlyway_k ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I heard that while I was in coma I would just let my body go and die.
80WillPower08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wake me up before you go girl
classicredditfame ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:35:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wake me up befor I go go
AcclimateToMind ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:52:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WAKE ME UP
CANT WAKE UP
SAVE MEEEE
dupelize ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:58:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes it could be a text from a friend or a message on the internet telling you to please wake up.
katburr1997 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 04:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really didn't need to worry that I'm in a coma or something
Classy_Scrub ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:39:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please wake up, we miss you
katburr1997 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:49:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now I know it's a lie
Classy_Scrub ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:50:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prions are making you think that
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh :(
swimmer491 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:20:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WAKE ME UP
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
CAN'T WAKE UP
RezKalamari ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you trying to tell me to wake up?
BrydenH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow so spoopy
theclownwithafrown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wake up young man. It's time to wake up
poopiedoodles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Wow, this would make a great writing prompt", I thought. Aaand actually Futurama already did that. A nice twist from the cliched 'Simpsons did it'.
jrizos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or...this very post on Reddit
pdx_1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:51:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wake up!
godbois ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:13:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin' Clanks. Glad they cut government subsidies on those leeches.
Mr_Mars ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, really? Like Haden's is a fuckin picnic. Show a little sensitivity.
And they're threeps, not clanks. People like you are what's wrong with the world.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay I am not the only one who gets it
godbois ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved that book so much. I thought it was really interesting how Scalzi didn't state the protagonist's gender intentionally. They even went so far as having two voice actors, a man and a woman, record the same script for two different version. Although oddly enough I mentally assigned the role of the protagonist as a woman, even though I was listening to the male recording.
I was so happy we're seeing another story in the same universe next year.
0Megabyte ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Already told my mom, and will tell any SO's, if I'm ever stuck in a coma, for the love of God, play me music and audio books, in case I'm actually like this.
sorunx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:26:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sheer amount of horrible things that can befall you in life. Non existence is better than existence.
cmatute ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/thread
PM_ME_KALISTA_FEET ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wanna trade PMs?
izcenine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. As a nurse I have seen it once. I couldn't imagine how bad that would be from their perspective. This would absolutely hit me as the worst possible thing
thelasagna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you read the diving bell and the butterfly?
MoonIsMadeOfCheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm reading Ghost Boy right now, about a guy who overcame this. So, so terrifying.
Macktologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not on this earth - yet. But imagine when science unlocks the ability to transfer human memories to other bodies. Whether those are biological bodies or otherwise. Now imagine it's your memories and that with it also comes your consciousness. You are still you, but change bodies. Pretty awesome right? Now imagine evil corrupts this science and free will is taken from you. So there is a potential that your consciousness and memories may live on for hundreds or more years yet you have no free will, but know it. That would suck so bad.
WrathOfDionysus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe this is the same cause, but Lorenzo's Oil is about a kid who starts to lose the ability to control his body, and pretty much ends up in a Locked-in state. It gets to the point where the parents have to vacuum spit out of his mouth, and he ends up convulsing because he needs to cough but can't.
It's absolutely heart breaking, but it's about his parents finding the cure to something that helped a lot of kids and eventually his own son (the movie doesn't cover when he grows up, as it's a based on true events). Interesting movie.
iblamepaulsimon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely! Ever since I saw Diving Bell and the Butterfly it's been one of my irrational fears. A few years ago I had an acute onset of aphasia out of seemingly nowhere and I was really and truly terrified. I could move and somewhat understand what people were saying but not really talk or write. I was scared and angry that my body didn't work. Did learn that curse words must be stored across different centers as they were a few of the words I could get out!
So for all of you out there who think "I'm healthy, couldn't happen to me"... guess again.
xMAXPAYNEx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get sleep paralysis, this shit happens. I fucking hate it so much that if i go into a coma, id rather die. honest to god. i cant breathe or anything. fuck that shit
scarletmagnolia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Jesus Christ this is literally my worst fear. My doctor told me that when people come in the ER and are completely unruly, he explains this syndrome to them. Then he tells them that he can give them a shot to cause it. They quickly calm down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:( Patrice Oneal
According to the article he was locked in for several weeks before he passed away. He's one of my favorite comedians of all time, and hearing him on opie and anthony so much made it feel like a friend passed.
Locked in is terrifying shit.
HausKino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mark Billingham's novel Sleepyhead (it's been adapted for TV in the uk) uses this as the vehicle, in the sense that the villain is inducing it in people.
The way he writes from the victims perspective makes it even scarier, the way he capture the terror and panic.
Kinda1OfAKind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is honestly what scares me the most, more than drowning.
markandrew3185 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might have to agree with this one.
My father is currently recovering from locked in syndrome.
His case, all he could originally do was blink. He also maintains full sensation.
So this means you can't move and naturally your body starts to ache (like sitting in a small seat on a long flight). As pain intensifies, a person's eyes involuntary flutter and communication becomes difficult, heavy painkillers make communication almost impossible.
Pain and frustration aside though... Without the ability to swallow your salvia drips down into your lungs, and pneumonia can develop.
You wake up and all you can do is blink (or in some cases not even that)...
indorock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fate of John Cusack's character at ending of Being John Malkovich is basically that. I don't think most people stopped to think about it, but it scared the shit out of me.
unwill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a House episode about that.
Lukethehedgehog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Fuck man, wish euthanasia was legal so people didn't have to go through this if it happened
slash217 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DARKNESS, IMPRISONING ME
mybwablu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the same thing Awakenings is about?
Fuyoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of a friend with locked in syndrome died recently. He was 29. The first time I met him was at an indie music club night at my friends university. He was the suavest most charismatic guy in the room, literally had groups of girls following him around, talking about nothing else when he wasn't present. Had a stroke that year and spent the next 10 years living with his parents as a prisoner in his own body. Absolutely horrifying condition
NortonPike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similar: Johnny Got His Gun
goldfishsayshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any PMs yet?
ZippoS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"It is extremely rare for any significant motor function to return. The majority of locked-in syndrome patients do not regain motor control"
I don't care if there's even a minute chance of recovery... at that point, end my suffering and let me die.
dengseng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so that's what it's called
I remember reading this somewhere else but not specifically to Martin
newsorpigal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine from high school became locked-in for six months after suffering the onset of transverse myelitis. He came out of it a much stronger, more driven personality. He also just preordered us both copies of Dark Souls 3. Much love, Adam <3
dukec ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an added bonus, you can get locked in syndrome if you are hyponatremic (have low blood sodium levels) and correct it too fast.
Osmotic demyelination syndrome for the interested.
tehric ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is happening to my uncle right now - I didn't realize the condition had a name, but it's got to be the most horrible thing that can happen to a person. He had a stroke in the waiting area of the hospital around two years ago. Killed part of his brain stem but left the rest of his brain intact.
He can't move or speak, but he is still all there mentally. His eyes are spastic, though sometimes he can focus for awhile. He can communicate by speeding up the spasms timed with questions.
My aunt starts by asking him numbers, which represent sections of the alphabet. When he twitches his eyes upward, she then goes through each letter of that section of the alphabet until he also reacts to a letter. She then writes it down and moves onto the next letter.
He can also move his head slightly, just enough to hit a bumper placed extremely close to the side of his head which is really just a doorbell to let my aunt or my cousins know he needs something.
He cries a lot. He chokes on mucus. He's had pneumonia multiple times. I can't imagine what it must be like. It has been surreal to watch his body waste away. I want to help improve his life so badly, but I just don't know how. I know my entire family, including his mom and his adult kids, feel the same way. I provide new movies and TV shows to them as often as I can - he likes watching TV. I think about him often.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that what Jason Becker has?
Neilio_Heilio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up a man named Ahmad Dedat from South Africa - this man had a complete system where he spoke by blinking and his wife would interpret everything for him.
Andythegriffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another "for anyone interested", there's sci-fi short story titled "I have no mouth and I must scream" about a computer that tortures people, one of the ways being similar to locked-in syndrome. Interesting read if you like dark, heavy shit.
bogmansaha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This condition gets referenced in:
Dr. House: Season 5, Ep. 19
Scrubs: Season 5, Ep. 19
does this mean anything, or is it a coincidence?
markyLEpirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is that??
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same note - having a(n) SO that gets highly offended by everything you say.
gomurifle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. I often thought about this but never know it could happen.
dockerhate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the thought you might be in it now. Come back to us...
philosoTimmers ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:35:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My SO had(has) locked-in Syndrome, she had a spontaneous recovery, but still deals with a lot of long-lasting effects.
[deleted] ยท 2275 points ยท Posted at 01:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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StormedRex ยท 955 points ยท Posted at 02:15:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's gotten so bad some strains of Gonorrhea are actually Penicillin-dependent and will die out without it
SonyMaxell ยท 1464 points ยท Posted at 02:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So we have come full circle.
Klockmon ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 05:52:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly this, unfortunately you need the penicillin to destroy the ghonnerhea that's dependant on the penicillin to survive.
DarkZyth ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 06:52:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait....how would that work out?
acho818 ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 07:07:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly.
karmicviolence ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 08:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a doctor here... but wouldn't the solution be to treat the patient with penicillin until there is only penicillin-dependent gonorrhea left (all of the 'normal' gonorrhea was killed by the penicillin), then cut off the supply of penicillin, so the remaining penicillin-dependent gonorrhea dies as well?
China_-_Man ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 09:09:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then you are left with some penicillin resistant gonorrhea that isn't dependent and may reproduce. Idk science.
etandcoke306 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:19:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a doctor either but that sounds right.
Dark_messengeR ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 18:40:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a doctor. A Customer Service representative here. Hello.
IceFire909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
username checks out
newm1070 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:41:31 on April 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you hear me?
sebastiaandaniel ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:15:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some are not so far gone that they can't live without it. Only some strains can't do without.
Edit: those strains can resist the antibiotic
0OOOOOO0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:44 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a doctor, but I have one, and this sounds about right
ryannayr140 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need Dr. House for this one.
nate445 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:05:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it Lupus?
ryannayr140 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:08:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's never Lupus, damnit.
Chief2091 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it one time that it was, though?
Daynightz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it was me!
EmptierHayden ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:42:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I'm allergic to penicillin, now what?
TyroneWubbles ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:09:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
never have sex
Queen_Jezza ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 11:50:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, he's a redditor.
j_heg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:49:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He could become a slashdotter as well for extra protection.
coffeecandybean ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 12:15:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice. xD
BusinessPenguin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:08:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry. The correct answer was "Savage".
ObliviousScrublord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:40 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, never had sex, don't have ghonorrea.
radicalelation ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 04:15:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, the solution is to make every other bacteria dependent on antibiotics until we cut them off?
Sounds crazy enough to work!
wrong_assumption ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 09:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't mess with bacteria going through drug withdrawal.
dalledayul ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:34:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So we're basically getting diseases hooked on prescription drugs, then shoving them into a fatal withdrawal?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you build a resistance to every conceivable antibiotic. Check.
Dose everyone in the world with all said antibiotics. Check.
Cut everyone off. Check.
The one surviving bacteria is now a super-bacteria. Not only is it antibiotic resistant, it also makes the host seek out antibiotics to gorge on for survival. Check.
Edit: Bacteria=/=Virus
radicalelation ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, of course it's antibiotic resistant, it's a virus!
Beefytaco97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright professor, calm down
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10 weird tricks to wipe out diseases. You won't believe #3
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost cried
maran999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/writingprompts
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 04:48:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
source? I don't believe you
Ninjakannon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:03:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Googling "penicillin dependent gonorrhea" didn't yield confirmation.
Splendidissimus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that seems like a problem that solves itself.
Yojimboy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what?
BabyCat6 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well some people are allergic to penicillin so I'm sure there's another option.
MrBenzito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:34:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not doubting you, I'm genuinely curious. Can you provide a link to something about penicillin dependent gonorrhea?
My very, very basic Googleing achieved no result.
TheWizardGrandolph ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:54:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good thing penicillin will kill me as quickly as it kills other bacteria then.
SelectPersonality ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is perfect. Just keep over prescribing them and then they will all be dependent on antibiotics. Then cut out the antibiotics and all the bacteria die! Checkmate bacteria.
laynnn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually pretty interesting. Do you have a source on that?
Persiano123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All planned.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, there StormedRex. I'm super curious about doing some research on that. Do you know where you would have read that?
TheNosferatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that one of those problems that solve themselves, though?
theboyfromganymede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that good? Self immolating gonorrhea
conpermiso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that better or worse? In that scenario couldn't we just let the virus starve to death?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Checkmate.
honeybadgerrrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And where do you get this information from? We don't treat gonorrhea with penicillin so this strain won't survive very long in the public...
xanas1489 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna need a source on that. I can't find anything to back that up. Sounds unlikely to be.
EPIKGUTS24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well that sounds like a very useful adaptation if i do say so myself
DoctorX1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:16 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IS THIS SOME KIND OF PUN
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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aleenaelyn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:01:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to look like a smurf, colloidal silver may be for you!
Tissue buildup of silver is permanent. Colloidal silver is linked to seizures and kidney failure. Consult your local quack doctor to see if colloidal silver is right for you.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:30:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Palodin ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a bit of both, as I understand it. Doctors prescribing antibiotics just because some idiot comes in and demands it for their cold is a problem too. As is people not finishing their courses, since that tends to leave more bacteria around to develop a resistance.
WetVertigo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MCR-1
MrSayn ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:40:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is more dangerous than pyscho-terrorists like ISIS, yet governments are more concerned with unlocking phones than passing legislation to ban antibiotic use on animals. Top authorities in medicine have been issuing dead serious warnings for years, yet no one listens.
I guess we're supposed to enjoy our poop-fed tortured chickens pumped with antibiotics and just watch as medicine recedes 500 years.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We're sorry ma'am. The surgery on your husband went well, but unfortunately he is now dying from a secondary infection that could not be prevented."
A phrase sadly soon to be repeated much more in the future...
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Graphite_Smear ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:07:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congrats on not dying. MRSA is one of those satanic infections. I wouldn't want it near anyone's spine.
IllFapToThatoncam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:40:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
K this needs elaborating, please, how long did it take to heal? Was it necrotizing?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:11:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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IllFapToThatoncam ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:21:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was necrotizing, it was killing tissue and traveling. Glad it healed up. Hope it also stays the fudge away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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IllFapToThatoncam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:28:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't let it get to you, your friend knew what they were doing, and also if they didn't alert you, the patient to this, they did an awesome job at controlling the situation.
branomac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What antibiotics did they put you on?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Casehead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:05 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was sulfa. I had MRSA, but am deathly allergic to Sulfa. Was a scary situation.
tanman170 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the first doc didn't treat you properly. She should have scheduled you for incision and drainage, and prescribed antibiotics that covered for MRSA the first time. Glad you're ok though!
Casehead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:52 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not op, but i had MRSA cellulitus on my face. It was necrotizing and ate a bunch of the tissue. Gross, and incredibly painful.
Casehead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:33 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here, except mine was very close to my brain. Glad we're both alive.
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LesliW ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if you've heard about fecal transplants, but it's a very cool concept if you haven't. It hasn't really caught on yet because of what I like to call the "icky factor" but it has an extremely high cure rate for c. Diff. Basically, they introduce some healthy poop from a donor into your GI tract and the good bacteria take over and the c. Diff can't compete and dies. But it's gross, so it's not popular yet.
BiblioMom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes I've read quite a bit about it. I don't meet criteria for a doctor to do it and have considered doing it myself using a family member as a donor.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might be interested in a guy I read about with allergies who improved his health by doing things backwards for a couple years. He wanted to expand the type of flora in his microbiome (same thing you want to do) so he didn't wash his hands unless they were absolutely filthy. In addition, he used public restrooms, touched everything other people touch in public, I can't even remember everything he did because it was so against the grain for me. My brain just blocked that part out! Even though I do understand the logic behind it, not washing your hands AND touching things purposefully in public areas gives me the heebie-jeebies. I have persistent allergies myself, so I've tried to remember not to be so diligent about hygiene all the time. It weirds me out because it's so backwards from what I've been taught my entire life.
BiblioMom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh bizarre! I will look into that. I was on immunosuppressants and became majorly paranoid about germs. I've stopped all medications to try and deal with things through nutrition and exercise. I will look for that article thanks!
Casehead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:14 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is pretty brilliant. My husband always insists the reason he doesn't ever get sick is because he does things like eat food he dropped on the ground. Maybe there's some truth to it
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:21:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Utterly terrifying.
YesHunty ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:38:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone with a suppressed immune system, this terrifies me.
I could get a fairly basic infection and no drug could help me if it was a superbug.
People need to stop taking antibiotics for non bacterial infections, and we need to stop giving them to all our livestock unnecessarily.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can say that again!
badwolf42 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:30:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright. I'm going to be That Guy because this is the exact reason. This is one of the main reasons I'm vegetarian. 80% of all antibiotics are used to keep livestock alive. Much of that is necessary because of factory farms. Every human could stop taking antibiotics tomorrow and it wouldn't even be a quarter of the usage, while we stare down the barrel of antibiotic resistance.
LeucanthemumVulgare ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 06:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, that's the most convincing argument I've ever heard for vegetarianism. As far as I'm concerned, please continue being That Guy.
thecrazycatman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really?? Any more info on this? Sounds scary
badwolf42 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.wired.com/2010/12/news-update-farm-animals-get-80-of-antibiotics-sold-in-us/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/antibiotics/art-20045720
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/drug-resistant-staph-what-you-need-to-know/?_r=0
IBuildBrokenThings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, you know, you could just stop giving them to livestock starting with banning use as a growth agent like the EU has from 2006 and then proceeding to ban them for prophylactic use (EU voted on this in 2011).
It should be pointed out that the 80% statistic is only for the United States. China produces and consumes the most antibiotics in the world, half of which are used in livestock.
Zoklett ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:54:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not really vegetarian, but I am about 90% of the time and was strictly vegetarian and even vegan for several years. Why is this relevant? Because a lot of the resistance to antibiotics has been linked to prophylactic antibiotics used in factory farmed meat. I also worked in a hospital for several years and came across this resistance to antibiotics many times during my career. There's no way of telling whether or not avoiding factory farmed meat has prevented me from developing this resistance - I'm also very prudent about when I take antibiotics and there's simply just a huge amount of variables, but I don't think avoiding it has HURT me. In fact, I'd say the number one most convincing reason to avoid meat in general IS antibiotic resistance.
I am not saying people shouldn't eat meat or that being vegetarian is a healthier lifestyle, because it isn't. There's a lot of variables there. But, it is nearly impossible to avoid factory farmed meat if you eat meat. You can say "I will only eat grass fed, farmers market, organic, etc..." but at the end of the day, if you eat meat you will most likely eat whatever meat is put in front of you regardless of where it's from. That's just my experience, though.
It's extremely scary to think that eating meat you get from the store could cause you to die a horrible death from incurable MRSA...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it works that way. The problem is macro, not micro. What one person does isn't going to effect whether bacteria develop drug immunity--but what every person does will.
Agent_Pinkerton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Custom-made bacteriophages might solve this problem, although that would require a change in medical regulations. (Different strains of phages are considered separate drugs by the FDA. So that patient with XDR-TB? Their phage cocktail would have to go through the [fairly expensive] FDA approval process first. And also through that same process again for every single patient of XDR-TB.)
lovelikeangels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have antibiotic allergies to several antibiotics. EQUALLY SCARY.
Redoverred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me! I almost died because I was really sick and my doc gave me a shot of bicillin what normally wipes out whatever crud people have because it's a powerful broad spectrum antibiotic. Well he sent me back to work because he assumed I would be fine in a few hours. 3 days later I could barely move, had tunnel vision and was sweating constantly so I went back to the doc. Turns out his magic cure simply did nothing because I was resistant to the antibiotic so my body was fighting off some hardcore viral infection all by its damn self. Almost died.
justme909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup! Fun fact: there's now a bunch of TB that is resistant to every known antibiotic.
ThePlagueLives ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm allergic to Amoxicillin and anything with Penicillin in it..Am I screwed?
Tykenolm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Grandma has this, it sucks.
LouisvilleProtestor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned that its not as big of a problem as it seems. If we were to stop using antibiotics the bacteria with resistance would almost certainly lose out in competition to bacteria with resistance in about fifty years. Allocation of resources will naturally shift away from resistances when other shit comes to play.
buddhas_plunger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's pretty scary that someday we could have bacteria that is resistant to every antibiotic and just kills everyone
PM_ME_YOUR_DANKNESS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if I don't normally take Advil and whatnot am I more "ok" than others? I don't know much about antibiotic resistance but is it the same as caffeine tolerance or something where the more you take consistently = the bigger tolerance you have?
anneoud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not at scary as the fact that we have way to many people on this earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. I get about 2 sinus infections a year and I have noticed that they are getting more resistant to the antibiotics I use. Getting surgery to fix my sinuses as to not further the resistance.
Zarick452 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Aye - XDR-TB is essentially a death sentence and its spreading...
FierceDeity_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I hope I'll never have it. I have like 5 different antibiotics I could take against pseudomonads. I vary them and take them for a huge bombing run sometimes and so far they've been bombed pretty good. They're chronic though and will always come back to haunt me.
defiantketchup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. This is how humanity ends.
ChokinMrElmo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A virus/ bacteria that's extremely contagious, has flu-like symptoms at the start, is incurable, and is slow to kill its host. That shit would be scary.
By the time international travel shut down, it would be too late. Every country except for Madagascar would be infected.
joshannon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In about thirty years I'm going to need major surgery. I'm slowly coming to the realization that because of superbugs I may not be able to have that operation.
It's fucking heartbreaking. What am I supposed to do?
ryannayr140 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things weren't so bad before antibiotics. Life will go on.
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be joking.
3rdcoffeecup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like more people should be concerned about this one.
sil863 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's terrifying. I was recently prescribed an antibiotic that worked for me a couple of years ago, but it didn't have any effect this time. It's scary to think that someday the stronger antibiotics they put me on will eventually be ineffective as well.
MeatballSubWithMayo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PEOPLE NEED TO FINISH TAKING THEIR ANTIBIOTICS AS PRESCRIBED
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it was Radiolab that did an interesting story on the mutations of bacterial infections and how we keep having to change the formulae to keep up. Turns out, they found after so long, strains begin to lose certain resistances because a treatment form has been so long abandoned, the bacteria had no reason/means to propagate those "old" resistances forward. In turn, this made some older types of treatments, actually effective again.
I may be butchering the explanation or overly simplifying it, but I thought it was really neat.
The_Celtic_Chemist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Over-population is even more real. Antibiotic resistance or a superbug could be our only shot. That's scary.
SkepticShoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, its scary, but remember that AB resistance actually makes the bacteria less adapted to survive in environments without the antibiotic. If we stop using an antibiotic, wild type bacteria will dominate again. The problem is hospital-acquired infections.
1337ish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:30:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or that is what we previously thought. We have now discovered that many resistant bacteria run a tight regulation of the resistance genes. This means that in the absence of antibiotics, the additional genes is a very small expense for them. Yes, in the long run they will be outnumbered by susceptible bacteria, but that may take more than a hundred years in complete antibiotic absence.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:45:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooo.... gotta disagree with you there. Having the gene is a plus in an environment with the antibiotic, but it in no way is a detriment to the bacteria if the gene does not need to be expressed. Ever heard of "junk DNA?" We all carry around loads of DNA that does nothing but sit there.
SkepticShoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just asked my microbiology professor about this and he said they definitely have a disadvantage, and studies have proven this.
mikealwy ยท 3568 points ยท Posted at 00:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aneurysms
[deleted] ยท 1416 points ยท Posted at 01:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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GamerKey ยท 3053 points ยท Posted at 02:39:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thinking and worrying about aneurisms increases the chances of getting one...
Just joking of course
Chasedabigbase ยท 250 points ยท Posted at 06:12:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Just a heads-up: That coffee we gave you earlier had fluorescent calcium in it so we can track the neuronal activity in your brain. There's a slight chance the calcium could harden and vitrify your frontal lobe. Anyway, don't stress yourself thinking about it. I'm serious. Visualizing the scenario while under stress actually triggers the reaction."
WarlordTim ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:21:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I was looking for this comment.
SMTRodent ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:08:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you remind me what it's from?
EthanWeber ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 15:18:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's from Portal 2. Cave Johnson says it.
SMTRodent ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:41:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fantastic, thanks.
Mongopwn ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:14:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"If you start to have difficulty breathing, that's not part of the test. That's asbestos."
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully you can map my neural pathways and upload it to the cloud before i have an aneurysm so I can live online forever in my virtualized universe.
Activated_Raviolis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:11:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you'll suffer a mild case of severe brain damage.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Chasedabigbase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Double checked, he says vitrify
TheRealAnktious ยท 1343 points ยท Posted at 04:30:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, Satan.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:58:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its pronounced Sateen actually
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:14:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehehe my kids just got into this movie. Can't read that sentence now without hearing that line after it! Haha
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:44:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A favourite for my kids! I love having an exscuse to be a child again!
Kittamaru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
D'OH! you beat me to it XD
neurohero ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:24:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, it's bad luck to be superstitious.
Satans__Secretary ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:27:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you bringing Satan into this?
yomama629 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, he didn't save the world, my cousin Krillin told me it was two dudes from outer space named Carrot and Vegetable or something like that
TheRealAnktious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you might have responded to the wrong thread...
yomama629 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:10:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, you mentioned Mr. Satan, I found out he didn't really save the world from Cell and Buu
PMmeURbestNSFW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this as being signed by Satan.
Kittamaru ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, actually, it's "Sah-teen", now :D (points if you get the reference)
EDIT - posted that before clicking the "show additional comments"... realize now I'm late to the party XD
PoliticallyApoplect ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:11:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They call that a hypochondria-loop.
treemister1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhhh fucka you!
advice_animorph ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:26:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No no no noonononoaaablaughhwaasbskdnebdhs
flippant_gibberish ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bahndoos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:10:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suffered a ruptured aortic aneurysm while in an airplane. It wasn't bad enough having a <10% chance of survival even if they got me to an emergency room fast enough ... No no... I had to be fkn AIRBORNE.
MacAdler ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:29:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... what happened? How did you make it out alive?
Bahndoos ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:06:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. This is my ghost on Reddit.
Kimmag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't had mine ruptured, but I had to be thrown in hospital because they saw "signs of rupture".
But I thought that you died within seconds if it ruptured?
Bahndoos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:10:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not quite seconds. If it were to literally EXPLODE, then yes probably under a minute. But if it's just leaking from one or more small tears, the stats are something like an increasing mortality of 5% every passing hour. Luckily my plane landed within 30 mins and I had a few small but growing tears. I was in the terminal in 20 mins, then on ambulance in another 15 min. And probably a 10-15 min ride to the emergency. Very lucky.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh!
How did you "know" you had a rupture?
Bahndoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea. I experienced the worst internal pain I have ever felt in my life in back and chest, sort of between the shoulder blades area. It was a feeling of inflating inside, yet sinking at the same time like the life was being squeezed out of me as well. What had happened was my ascending aorta had a previously unknown aneurysm which had ruptured, and my aortic arch and descending aorta had dissected all the way down to the kidneys. But I didn't know about this till I was revived in the ICU and told about it.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, glad you're still alive!
They took ultrasound of my heart every second year from when I was born for some reason I still don't know (I guess they saw something was "wrong"?)
Then when I was 16, it had gone like 4-5 years since they called me in, so my mom asked if I could just "turn myself in" and just get it done. As I did, they said "We'll send you to another hospital for a check". They sent me to norways "best" hospital, and they saw that my aorta was at 9.5cm diameter, and it should be 4 or less. They also found "signs" of early upcoming rapture-damage.
I hope I'll never experience a rupture, I'm glad that they check me far more often now, hehe.
Bahndoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow! They're still watching your aorta at 9.5cm?? Must be in your abdomen, not chest. But that seems a bit risky waiting at that size.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, no no, I had a surgery where they fixed it, placed a stent and fixed some minor valve-leakage!
They said "Meh, we will contact you within a month for a surgery-date", went home, played for 1 hour, then got the call "Hey, you know what, get back!" Hehe.
It was in the chest, actually.
Did they figure out why you had your rapture? I took some gene-tests and they found out that I have a diagnose that lowers the quality/makes less "tissue" some places, which also explains why I had to replace my eye lense and had a released retina once aswell.
But hell, it's far better that they actually know it now, so I may have some inner peace.
How do you feel after this? Have you gotten somekind of health-related anxiety?
Bahndoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha ok, i was really wondering what they're waiting for.... I haven't had tests like you've mentioned, but ascending aorta aneurysms are known to be congenital in nature, I.e. A weakened aorta wall from birth. Mine was 7cm when I was operated upon. But I also had elevated blood pressure which had been spiking to 170/120 unbeknownst to me. So the combination of the two things led to my rupture.
It's been a year and 2 months since my surgery. I received a Dacron graft in the ascending aorta, and have stenting in the descending aorta from the left subclavian artery down to the renal arteries. I also had complications of the lungs and kidneys because of my condition, had to have about 1.5 liters of collected fluid taken out of each lung, and also was on dialysis for a week since my kidneys shut down from the trauma. Spent 3 weeks in the ICU, then began a slow recovery at home. I had to relearn how to walk, my muscles were so weakened. First few months were very slow, but then things started accelerating for the better. I'm now playing squash regularly, and doing some light lifting in the gym - still have to avoid heavy weights for blood pressure issues. I do have anxiety at times, mainly when very physically active and I can feel my blood rushing and always think about what it might do to my graft or stenting. I'm always fearing leaks!
How's your progress? How long has it been?
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been 6 years since my surgery.
I had to learn to walk again aswell, but it went faster to recover than what I expceted in the end of it.
It didn't scarr me that much at that time or the years after, as I had already had 7 surgeries (mostly eye-related) before this one, and I was kinda shocked that I was "that close" to maybe dying without noticing a thing.
I did also have some liquid in my lungs, but I didn't want to take the drainage at that time, so they let me go, as they said it would remove itself after a while. I had about 1 month in the hospital, 4-5 days in the emergency-monitoring-room-thingy, then to a normal room for 2 weeks where I learned to walk, trained my breathing with a crackpipe-looking device, then transported to my local hospital for monitoring for two more weeks.
Now 4-5 years later, I have had small periodes of anxiety, I had one after 4 years when I was hospitalized because of H/R of 30, which I had for many months. (Betablockers) It wasn't any problem, they took me off, but I had three months with constant anxiety of death.
Then it started again now a couple of months ago even though I was at a ultrasound/echo-check 2 weeks ago. They said "We are wondering about something", but they couldn't say what, but they assured me that it wasn't any critical, they just want to doublecheck with CT-scans that I am going to take within a couple of months. Anyhow, it's gone to that point where I am looking and (hopefully) getting to a health-anxiety-specialized psychiatrist. I have found that health-anxiety is my worst "enemy", it's just a big evil circle with a shortcut to hypochondria.
Other than that, it's been good. I don't feel that it has limited me that much, I have a minor leakage at my valve, but it's nothing to worry about. I just limit myself physically with lifting and stuff, as my diagnose will make this happend again if I don't take precautions of exhausting my heart.
I know your feeling of that "blood-rushing" and it's rather exhausting at times, especially if I lay down and hear my heartbeat louder than anything else. The thought of "My aorta was just a ticking bomb"-thought does also appear at times. And the classical anxiety-feeling of "cold liquid" going down your body, ofcourse.
How do you get your thoughts away from this, Bahndoos? And how has this limited your lifestyle?
Great speaking with you btw! I haven't spoken to more than one person that has had this surgery before.
Bahndoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a very physical feeling, so no matter how much I think about it will help. In fact thinking about it makes it worse. Since it's a physical feeling, I've found deep breathing and meditation to help me de-stress quite a bit. Going for walks has also been therapeutic, just strolling very casually in a park or down the street in a quiet neighborhood.
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you're right. Thinking makes it much much worse, you'll get more focused on the heart area, you notice alot more placebo-things, can't seem to understand if what your feeling is muscular, nerves or something related to the heart, and then the circle is going.
I will try to take walks. Breathing does work sometimes, but then again I can't get my focus off my heart. Meditation is something that I've been thinking about, but I haven't done it yet, don't know why actually.
Is there any chance that you may have any bulges again? Or did they conclude that this was just a one-time-unlucky-thing?
Bahndoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm currently grafted and stented from the aortic root all the way down to the kidneys, so hopefully no more bulging of any kind! If you're having persistent anxiety, you might try acupuncture for stress/anxiety relief. I know a few women who were unable to conceive but were able to do so after acupuncture therapy, my point being it really does work.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/news/why-acupuncture-works-anxiety-relief/
Kimmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:57 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to hear that there is no more bulging on the way!
I will take your tip of acupucture seriously and look it up, thank you Bahndoos!
Bahndoos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome. Good to have someone to discuss these things with, so thank you as well. I hope you find relief from anxiety very soon.
Hematophagian ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:08:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad went from superhealthy to vegetable to dead in 2 weeks....
D3s3chable ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:40:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had the same thing happen to my father. The scariest thing was they told me that it was due to genetically determined factors. The surgeon told me this in front of my wife and two sons.
Parker_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:17:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. I don't know if you are and I'm even more worried.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better, the rate of cerebral aneurysmal rupture spikes in Autumn and Spring for no well understood reason.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would go out on a limb and say It probably has something to do with the season/temperature/pressure change.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world literature agrees with you, but at present it's not clear why that change should affect blood vessels locked inside the skull in quite that way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:47 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. I would assume it has to do with the body's reaction (voluntary or otherwise) to the temperature changes which probably affect their mood which does affect their brains.
Consanguineously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't not think about them, either! They hate that too! Draw an anti-aneurysm circle and sit inside it.
Polarbear53041 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a monster...
stevenmc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer!
Fillipuster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will soon be starting a petition against the use of small font sizes.
riselikebread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, kind of like sleep paralysis.
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cave Johnson: Please don't think about that too much, because that's what causes it.
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like "the game" but it actually kills you
Whywouldanyonedothat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds almost like the Game
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:00:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is one that totally fucked w my head. I have constant headaches. So does my coworker. After a while I learned her headaches where caused by aneurysms little tiny ones at the terminal ends of the blood vessels in her head. Probably won't kill her but fuck how do you live with that.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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zonew ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually have Cage the Elephant in my head, too. Or, Around My Head.
aneasymistake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aspirin?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Aspirin doesn't help her. Also, I meant the ideal that you are having several aneurysms a week.
aneasymistake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it was just a guess. :)
heiferly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the aneurysm bursts, aspirin could be a risk factor for more significant damage, couldn't it?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Melbot3000 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are only rare if you are non-smoker.
Source: Mom has a brain anreysum caused from smoking.
CTeam19 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Mom is a non-smoker and had one. But she is also overweight and her parents both had strokes.
Melbot3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just piggybacking on his source of parents being doctors and his claim that anyresums are extremely rare. They are rare if you are not overweight and not a smoker.
The neurosurgeon that treated mom, said it was entirely caused by smoking for 20+ years. She was not overweight.. She was 5'6 and at most 115 lbs. The anreysum "leaked" rather then burst, and was caught, thankfully. Well...kind of.
She now has 40 titanium coils wrapped around either side of the anreysum that is just above her brain stem and essentially now has side effects as if she had a stroke. She cannot open her right hand or lift the arm without assistance & needs help walking. She is a shell of what she once was. I'm not entirely sure her life now is fulfilling. She isn't even 60 yet and she already knows her time is limited.
It was a wake up call for my dad, myself & my brother to quit smoking. It's been hard but we all are non smokers for quite a whilw now.
mandy-bo-bandy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm: my mom had one and never smoked.
Double confirmation: my grandpa had three. Smoked a pipe on the reg.
theJapanesePrincess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non-smoker here. Had one about 5 years ago. Have high blood pressure, though. Being a type-A personality doesn't help.
Survival rate if aneurysm bursts is only 7 - 9 %.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:40:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Seakawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doubt it's from general smoking. Probably just from all the chemicals of cigarettes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nicotine doesn't do wonders for the blood pressure and heart, that's for sure.
Honestly, kind of a tangent, but cigarettes are just fucking awful in general. That's one government campaign that worked, although it worked especially well, because they are actually fucking awful.
Melbot3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Her neurosurgeon said it was caused from smoking over a pack a day for 30 years. She was never overweight or had any health issues, aside from allergies & asthma, until the day she was non stop vomiting and my dad took her to the ER, where they did an MRI & found the leaking anreysum.
Melbot3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes cigarettes. I have no idea about weed. Her neurosurgeon said her smoking daily for 30 years was the cause. She did smoke weed occasionally, but doubt that had any impact.
TheHexamethoniumMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Had a rotation in vascular surgery recently; my supervising surgeon said he often sees abnormally young people presenting with strokes who describe themselves as "herbalists". Weed isn't good for your arteries.
Admittedly I'm not an avid blazer here but isn't it commonly smoked with tobacco mixed in rather than as a blunt? So weed smokers are assumed to carry the same risks as cigarette smokers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The risk won't be the same, nicotine is vasoconstrictory and causes your blood pressure to rise substantially, but if you care about your health weed should be vaped (started a while ago and not going back).
Hate to be that guy but here I am..
sourc3original ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:00:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop smoking.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could be hit by a runaway bus with no brakes, or a plane could tumble out of the sky right on top of your house, or a stray bullet could lodge itself in your brain...
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:17:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the thing though! Theres so many things you can be killed by unexpectedly, but one of them is when you just drop dead out of nowhere for no reason
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, getting decapitated by a plane wing is kind of sudden.
XDME ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the key distinction here is, something happened and the results from that ended with you dying vs. You were alive, you were dead, the end.
Obviously there is a cause that we don't know as of yet, but fear of the unknown isn't exactly uncommon.
Luigimario280 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That can happen from lots of stuff
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:16:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yeah...eventually.
DrKaptain ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin had an aneurysm when he was about 25. He was in incredibly good shape and just playing volleyball with his friends when he just fell over. Still makes me uncomfortable thinking something like that can come out of nowhere.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother as well, similar age. Skinny as all hell, she did smoke though so that is def a risk factor. Massive bleeding and they wanted to harvest her organs already, nevertheless she woke up and now has zero after-effects. Other than being a bit erratic at times, that is, though that could be her personality tbh. Insane how the docs all thought she would never survive let alone be more than a vegetable, yet such recovery is possible. Certainly prevented me from being signed up as a donor.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:39:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the SILENT KILLER!
Jarom2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true, but if you think of how many people don't get them compared to people who do..the odds are definitely on your favor.
kook_on_the_wave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck it, why be healthy?
MohsanIzSexy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My stepdad is a health nut. 10 years ago, he ran around 5 miles a day, ate extremely healthy, and looked like he was in his early 30's even though he was almost 50. One day he randomly had a brain aneurysm. It was really scary but he pulled through, still scary stuff. Not many people are as lucky as him.
GoodMorningClam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My step mom survived a brain aneurysm! My dad saved her life by reacting quick enough.
Did your dad fully recover?
Mad_Hatter_Bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit happens, I feel like it's as likely to happen as getting hit by s meteorite
atomic_cake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
About 1 in 50 people have unruptured brain aneurysms and most show no symptoms until they rupture. There's no actual recorded incident of anyone dying from being struck by a meteorite. To me at least the thought of dropping dead at random (even though they're not instant, painless deaths for those who do "drop dead" from them), it is still a lot less scary than dying slowly of some other fatal disease. I have a venous abnormality in my brain which has about a 1-2% chance of hemorrhaging every year, and even though chances are slim that it'd hemorrhage and even if it does, that I'd die quickly, it seems preferable to most other ways of dying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to a friend of mine in high school. He was a great guy with a lot of friends, and one night he had an aneurysm and just died in his sleep.
It really makes you think about how quickly life can end, and for seemingly no reason.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My boss nearly died of one about two years ago. They were able to get him into surgery fast enough but it was incredibly close.
Scary shit man.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom had one year and a half ago. Survived. Terrified now.
Torch_Salesman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually why it doesn't scare me at all. There's literally nothing I can do to prevent them from happening, and by the time one's happened I'm already dead. So why the hell would I worry about that? If it happens it happens, and I'm really the only one who doesn't have to deal with it if it does.
elnots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"seemingly healthy." You can have an aneurysm and not ever know. If it ruptures you're fucked.
EONS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use this as your avenue to a release from fear. If you can die at any moment despite living the most healthy and fulfilling life, then there's nothing to be afraid of.
flaagan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guy I knew in college died from one. About a year after I graduated I suddenly noticed a lot of my classmates hoping he'd pull through and such on Facebook, with no comments from him. I asked a mutual friend what happened and she said an aneurysm in his brain. When he did pass away apparently the doctor had described it like being "a small hand grenade going off in his brain."
lemonade1094 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup happened to my uncle. They were on family vacation at his parents, and towards the end of the week my aunt and daughter left. They were gonna leave the next day but he had an aneurysm while his wife was on the plane home. Crazy stuff.
LeReddator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read that you may have several aneurysms in your life and never know. It's brain aneurysms that you notice, obviously.
watcher45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sterling Archer s biggest fear.
awkwardbabyseal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My former middle school math and science teacher died from an aneurism. I was either in my last year of high school or first year of college when I heard the news. He was apparently playing basketball with his adult son when he just collapsed on the court. Pronounced dead at the scene. Guy was in perfect health for his age (early fifties I think). Wonderful man. Great teacher. Losing him was quite the tragedy in our community.
I can't imagine how his family felt... Especially for his son, who was there when it happened.
I mean, I guess I can imagine it... I was present when my stepdad passed away, but he was already in the hospital dying of lung cancer... so, it would be the difference between seeing your parent die suddenly for no apparent reason compared to the slow progression of a terrible illness. It's a rough situation either way.
MinisterforFun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin passed away at the end of December last year :( He came back from Japan and passed.
We still have the photos of he and his family in Japan having a lot of fun.
omaca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like car accidents!
TriDemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't worry about it. If it happends you'll notice, but the chance of it happening are rather low. If I remeber right, 1% of my country's population carries an aneurysm, and of those 1%, and of those 1% only 1% actually erupts. But if it happends, here is a little heads-up on what it might feel like.
I recommend being in a public space when it happends, not that you can choose, but you can get lucky. Say a swimming pool, that's a good start. It also helps to be around twenty years old and healty as you said.
First thing you'll notice is when you dive into the water. Your sinuses will hurt an strange amount just from the small dive you did from the ledge. But you'll swim on, a bit confused but fine. Then your head suddenly feels weird. Like somebody flicked a switch inside, and now it just hurts a lot in there. Your neck muscles cramp up, and now you really wonder whats going on. Luckly, the pool is still rather shallow, so you can stand up and exit. You might sit down on the nearby bench for a while, thinking that this is weird but will probably sort itself out.
Then you'll start to feel nauseous and start to pass out, so you get your body up and walking towards the pool guard on the other side of the pool. She'll think you have malnutrition, and just need some sugar and rest. You throw up what shes giving to you. Now you are nauseos, have the worst headache of your life, close to fainting, and cold from the swimming-pool water. The time of the ambulance arrival depends on where you are, of course, but you will be in survival mode anyway, you won't notice the time.
Second recommendation: be close to one of your countries best neurological surgery hospitals. If you are, they might not even have to open up your skull. No, if you're really lucky they can feed platinum wires from your thigh up trough your blood vessels, all the way into the brain, and feed the wires into the aneurysm. There, the wires will fill out the cavity, and the blood will coagulated around them. There, you successfully survived your aneurysm.
What follows now is ten days of immobilization in a hospital bed, with a constant headache, and begging for the morphine injections every three hours. That's honestly the worst part, as you'll be in a 24/7 monitoring ward, where the nurses will wake you up once in a while and make you state your name, social security number, and todays date. Every once in a while, for ten days.
But here's the important part. All this only happends if you, like me, are young and healthy, and haven't carried that aneurysm for very long, so it's not that big. If if happends when you are maybe fifty, your chances will be way worse. So be glad it happend when you were young and healthy, because that's a bullet goddamn dodged.
Strongpillow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why wife's good friend at work just died last week suddenly out of nowhere in her sleep and we think it was because of an Aneurysm. She was a super healthy active women in her 40's. had flu like symptoms one day, went to sleep the next and never woke up.
This also happened to a friends mother. She felt a little off, went to sleep and never woke up.
This type of thing is just not even fair. At least with things like Cancer you get an option to fight that shit, say your goodbyes, etc.
NorthWoods16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor who was a dad and a walking ad for a healthy lifestyle died in his 40's out of nowhere due to an aneurysm. Can confirm aneurysms are scary as shit.
SmellYaLater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A mate of mine very recently had BOTH his parents die from aneurysms. No warning, just bang. Both were healthy and active and only in their 60s. Nothing to be done. Game over.
Unfortunately his mother remained in a (possibly) vegetative state for some time before she died. Her eyes could follow you around the room and she appeared to respond to certain stimuli.
I hope I never face the decision he did - to turn off the life support for your own mother.
guilen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to my best friend. Guy worked out constantly, ate very well, was a shining star in his workplace (seriously, he outsold the rest of his team put together at least 5 years in a row), then boom. In the middle of a racketball match, gone instantly. The only kind of warning we had that I can think of is superstitious at best.
ramma314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine having migraines too. Mine are similar to cluster headaches, so I'll go from virtually no pain to feeling like someone stabbed a handful of needles into my head in an instant. Every single pain spike comes with the thought that it maybe be something like an aneurysm or meningitis. Plus if something bad does ever happen, it'll be like the boy who cried wolf. You never know when to respond cause a typical attack mimics so many other things.
hypercube33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched one of our horses die right next to me from one. Only took a moment, went down through the fence into the flower bed and that was it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's for balancing reasons, otherwise a healthy lifestyle would be too overpowered.
Squeegeed3rdEye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to my grandmother that way. Perfectly fine and putting laundry away. Tells my grandfather she doesn't feel right and then gone.
Mia_la ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're more common than most people think, too. I've always been terrified of them. My biggest fear was that someone I love would just fall over one day and never get up. Then it happened to my dad, so that's that.
The upshot of this is I had to be tested (family history and all) and at least I know for sure I don't have one now.
MouseRat_AD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Years ago my mom's good friend (they were middle school teachers) collapsed and died of an aneurysm in front of her class.
Ismyusernamelongenou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to one of my father's friends. He was working on a construction site, felt tired, sat down on a chair and collapsed dead on the ground. Not even 50.
cambo666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happened to a family friend... wife came home to him on the stairs like foaming at the mouth, or that's how the story goes.
GoodMorningClam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:09:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My step mom had a brain aneurysm five years ago, my dad was with her and knew something was crazy wrong. He got her to the hospital in 30 minutes (they live out in the country in Oklahoma) and she had an emergency surgery. She has fully recovered from it and lives pretty happily!
But I think there is a 2% chance you can fully recover from a brain aneurysm, which is where she had hers.
Chimichanga13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife went to meet her mentor one afternoon at star bucks and she never showed. She figured she missed a call or email asking to reschedule and went home only to find out that her mentor was talking to the principal at her school and just collapsed. Sadly she passed away, but it was crazy to think that you can be healthy and so full of life one minute and then literally gone the next. Aneurysms are scary shit!
acetominaphin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My best friend died from one when I was 13, he was 14. Perfectly healthy kid, just up and died.
beatlesguy99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A 16 year old kid at my school suffered from a brain aneurysm late last year while he was lifting weights with one of his friends. He said he "had a headache" earlier that week. The doctor said it was the largest one he'd ever seen and given a very poor survival chance. After a very very long time in the hospital, I luckily can still see him walking the halls.
LainIwakura ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to my former computer science teacher from highschool. He was perfectly healthy as far as I knew, and we were pretty good friends- had him on facebook and I went back to the school after graduating to help them get their website up and running.
Anyway, I was kind of apathetic in highschool and didn't do so well except in CS. In university it started to change and I ended up getting an internship with IBM and learning a bunch of cool things- On a pretty good track. I have a good job now and attribute a lot of my 'drive' to the lessons he taught me..I was going to tell him all of this but then one day last year...just gone =/ it was the middle of the school year too and I know he was always beloved by the students, I can't imagine what it was like for them. RIP.
pablodiablo906 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife's mom died in her 50's like that. Completely healthy. Shit happens man.
KJTB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father had an aortic aneurism a while ago. Was waking up some stairs and got extremely winded/knocked him out. Went to the doctor and 2 days later his chest is cracked open and he survives 20 hours of surgery followed by months of awful recovery. Last year he had to get the valve replaced again and suffered through another 5 or so hours of surgery.
What always upset me and what's really unfair is that my dad is in great shape for his age. He took the dog for a walk every day and lifted a couple times a week. Dude was in better shape than I am. He just got screwed on the genetics lottery (I have to get check ups now from time to time)
Bomberhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happened to a friend of mine. He wasn't but about 25 at the time. Scary stuff.
elenabuena13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My MIL just died from one in January. Aged 57 with perfect health. That scares me so much.
BatMally ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vice President of my high school class collapsed and died his freshman year of college. Perfectly healthy. Aneurysm. Gone forever.
It was a fucking shock, getting that news.
[deleted] ยท 3272 points ยท Posted at 01:41:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THEY CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE LANA.
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 978 points ยท Posted at 03:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you get an aneurysm while being attacked by crocodiles.
[deleted] ยท 910 points ยท Posted at 04:43:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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frog_licker ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 08:32:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the best part was that he said "that would be like if I said I hope you get cancer," then a couple episodes later he gets cancer.
Lord_Zirp ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:29:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aneurysms kill instantly IIRC. He is giving you mercy, take it before the crocs arrive.
Geta211 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naw you can live through an aneurysm, life won't be the same afterwords though, your brain chemistry gets messed up. Source: family friend had one at Walmart
Victimidation ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:04:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Lt. before he died had a brain aneurysm and lived. He was a bad ass old dude. Was 55 and had 20 inch biceps.
Geta211 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude sounds like my grandpa, probably stubborn as an ox.
Victimidation ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously mate, and super cut and dry.
jennthemermaid ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:50:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor had a brain aneurysm TWICE and lived through both of them and was fine. There are a lot of variables there.
I also had a friend that got an aneurysm while cutting the grass...he was found dead in the bathtub by his mother 3 days later. :(
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Howd he end up in the bathtub?
jennthemermaid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, he was cutting the grass...lives alone...no one heard from him in 3 days so his sister and mom went to his house. They found the back door wide open and him in the bathtub. He was naked and it was full of water. They deduced that he started feeling ill, maybe hot and disoriented, then he went into the bathroom and filled it up to take a bath to make himself feel better then he died. He was my age...43. :( And, I would just like to say that in light of what is going on politically, Chris would be having a goddamned FIELD DAY with Donald Trump...he was so into politics!
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:07:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see. He was still functioning just not at 100%. Thats rough. Im glad your friends spirit lives on with you as you said hed be having a field day with Trump. Its scary how comical this years elections are going to be.
Lord_Zirp ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, now Walmart was the cause of that aneurysm. Therefore, we can not definitively say that you can live through an aneurysm.
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:08:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or a Walmart.
Jaywebbs90 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:27:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Work at Walmart. Have yet to live through it.
REDDITATO_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:59:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an Archer quote. His two biggest fears are crocodiles and aneurysms.
Jaywebbs90 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:29:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume he knows considering he posted thequote from Archer immediately after that one was said. :p
REDDITATO_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was responding to Lord_Zirp who was replying as if it were an actual comment. Not the "WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT" comment.
Jaywebbs90 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:52:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I seriously did not see that comment between the two... wtf reddit.
Chatty1113 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, aneurysms are basically when an artery wall becomes excessively large due to weakness in the artery itself. Point is, not all aneurysms rupture and kill instantaneously. And even so, it is not instantaneous and in no way merciful, people often go on for a bit with an excruciating headache.
MG87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on the size and location of the aneurysm. Some increase in size faster than others.
Saturnium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Someone my grandma knows had an aneurysm and he lived. He had to have surgery in his brain though. He's a pretty tough guy, tbh.
JimJobJugger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:50:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if you think about it, that would be the ultimate zone full of danger.
ICrimsonI ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:00:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, but how would you phrase that?
JimJobJugger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dangerfull zone?
naughty_ottsel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
haha a zone full of danger
-reggie- ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be like..me saying I hope you get CANCER!
Wackytobbacy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are fucked anyway, so the croc takes your mind off things
STinG666 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you happen to catch Regis this morning?
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Na. Why may I ask? I imagine I could find it somewhere.
MrFuxIt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a reference. A damn good reference.
https://youtu.be/omYyKpSFUGg
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh haha. Is that when he has cancer and knocks lana up?
MrFuxIt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and no. He does have cancer, and he and Lana hooked up, but he didn't knock her up. The night before his cancer surgery, while drunk, he told Lana that he had frozen sperm years earlier. As a result of the cancer scare, Lana started thinking about having a baby of her own, and decided to use Archer's frozen sperm. This is all revealed during the last minute of the last episode of season 5, after they flee San Marcos aboard the CIA plane with Slater and Holley.
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember nothing about frozen sperm. I thought she said they had pitty cancer sex. You sound like you got your archer trivia down pat, so ill take your word on it.
I have to re run through the series anyways. New seasons coming up XD
MrFuxIt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, they definitely had pity sex but you didn't find out about the frozen sperm thing until right after you found out Archer was Abijean's father. As she's explaining, Lana points to the 'pity sex night' as the night she decided to have a baby, and then says that in his drunken state he told her that he had frozen sperm some years before. This got her thinking, and several weeks after the "Terms of Enrampagement" events she used his donor sperm.
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhhh. Does she explain this on the plane when archers having a loud rinnnnggggg sound going on?
MrFuxIt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, that's the scene.
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think i always focused on the ringggg aound and not what lana says.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a thoughtful, humane thing to say. I also, hope you have a painless aneurysm to escape the pain of being eaten alive by crocs should the situation arise, heaven forbid. Bless you, child.
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:01:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a quote but thanks. I give mercy amongst my enemies.
CaptCoe ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:14:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THEY'RE THE SILENT KILLER
mickerst6m6 ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came looking for Archer reference, wasn't disappointed.
mrsuns10 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I immediately looked for the Archer reference.
kentguard-69 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:30:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the third saddest thing I've heard all day.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:07:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What were the first two?
kentguard-69 ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pam told me about a little girl who drowned trying to save a puppy.
mergedloki ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:12:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the second?
kentguard-69 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 04:13:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The puppy drowned too.
MissMamanda ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You all get my upvotes :)
naughty_ottsel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can you smile after remembering that brilliant scene...
GalacticProfessor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:38:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So...one?
MissMamanda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..I upvoted everyone on the thread...
GalacticProfessor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I misread that as you get all my upvotes.
My bad.
MissMamanda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:32:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha okay :)
pm_your_huge_chode ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was that little girl
sherylcarol?Tereboki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phrasing.
mergedloki ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:11:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what makes them so terrifying.
Jonnyboy1994 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:33:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're the silent killer
krackerbarrel ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the silent killer
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LAAAAANNNAAAAAAAAAAA
torb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My three biggest fears are being with you in a boat - three times.
thekure23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LANAAAAAAAAAA
OdetoZ ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 03:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have really high blood pressure. Doctor told me this can lead to a lot of medical problems in the future. Aneurysms were one of them. My response was 'meh'. Suddenly falling over dead doesn't sound anything like the worst way to go.
Seakawn ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:18:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may be more painful than just "dropping dead."
sebassi ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:59:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So are most ways you die. Only this one only takes seconds instead of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even years.
Edit As /u/jamstar explained aneurysm's don't kill instantly or definitively. So disregard my comment.
However I still think a quick and unsuspected death is the way to go.
callummc ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be there for yooooouuuuusorry
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:57:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone whos family is prone to aneurysms you couldnt be further from the truth.
sebassi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:08:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you mean?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:57:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well out of four people in my family to have an aneurysm, Only one died in what you would call a fast death(which is not fast or painless like lots in this thread seem to think). Two ended up severly disabled, with one of those going on to die a year later after a secondary major bleed. One is still alive and well after having the aneurysm clamped in surgery after it was found during a screening.
sebassi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sucks. And I am sorry, I should probably have done a bit more research than just Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:18:32 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing to be sorry about mate.
redeyesandtears ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:17:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I come from a family prone to aneurysms as well; you are absolutely correct. They are devastating, especially if it ruptures and you survive.
S1lentBob ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:17:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it could also just severely (and i mean severely) disable you bodily and mentally for the rest of your life.
darwin2500 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The majority of aneurysms are not fatal and just lead to a long, healthy life of severe mental and/or psychical disability.
I'd be a little more scared if I were you.
excelsis_deo ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 04:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, but for me an aneurysm is the way to go. Alive one second, dead the next. Better than slow and painful over many years. That's far scarier.
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BAM225 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the same thing that happened to my Mom. Luckily, I was right there when I'm assuming it "burst" because out of no where she started screaming that she had the worst headache of her life. Almost two minutes afterward she was in the fetal position on the floor, throwing up and shaking. That was a scary experience. Thank god for modern technology and medicine, I don't know how she is alive either. This happened 6 years ago.
TheSorrowInYou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:57:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but that missing word makes the sentence pretty hilarious even though the topic is very grim.
dansk_potato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's even worse that I triple checked this before posting...
excelsis_deo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds awful. I'm sorry that he went through that. I would prefer the kind that kill you instantly, but I'm no fool. It often doesn't work out that way, you are right.
AccioMotherfucker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:20:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ones that are deadly are typically quick.
tribefan89 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:00:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what comforted me when my dad died of an aneurysm. Mayyyybe a brief extreme pain and then it's over. Much better than a drawn out painful death. I miss him everyday but I'm glad he didn't have to suffer.
excelsis_deo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sorry to hear this. It makes me feel selfish for my comment. But I am glad that he died with little suffering. It must have been very hard, and a great shock.
mashupoteiito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:59:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad also had an aneurysm very recently. But my dad's biggest fear was that he would be confined to a wheelchair with nothing to do but stare out of the window when he would get old. I know he was at his happiest working outside, and he wouldn't bear not being able to do that. But he did not have to face that, and he wasn't going to be in hospital for hours on end.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or like MANY people. Alive one second.... then severly disabled for the rest of your life... or until the next one pops.
FuzzyNippres ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:37:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not scared of them, they're so rare I think I'll be just fi
atomic_cake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, at least you had time to click the save button.
Captain_Sheep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:20 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Candlejack is the source of all brain aneu
bjl0924 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a coworker back in Chicago die of this maybe a month and a half after I started. He was a relatively healthy dude, a little overweight, funny as hell. Remember seeing him that Friday talking to him about a meeting we had Monday morning, then came into work to an email from our CEO saying he passed away Sunday night. Fucking scary.
lisserella ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father had three in his life. Two in his brain. He went to his doctor nearly every day for a week complaining about horrible headaches before one ruptured. Surgeon was able to repair both in one surgery and he was only left with occasional headaches. The third started with him thinking he had kidney stones. He went to the hospital thinking he'd get something for pain. They found he had an aortic aneurysm. It ruptured before they could send him to a better hospital. Aneurysms scare the fuck out of me.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:18:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very specific pro tip: if you ever get a concussion, push for a CT scan. I pushed for one and they ended up finding something incidentally. Always good, they can catch something that could save your life!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:19:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very unfortunate, but that doesn't discount the necessity of the scan itself... Without it then her aneurysm could have burst and she could have died anyway.
onlytech_nofashion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn, I'm sorry this happend to your mom :(
Chungster96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok now i have to go give myself a concussion
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:18:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah.... Um....
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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MrMango786 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you have the swishing sound in your head? Heard about a patient who had a huge AVM and assumed everybody got that sound lol
DrBongo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my gf had one go off in her brain 5 years ago when she was 24. She got it destroyed with lasers because it was too dicey to surgically operate. She is doing fairly well now but physically disabled permanently. It was pretty bad, she definitely shouldn't have survived in her specific scenario.
handsomehermes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi AVM friend! I just had mine removed this last summer after it burst unexpectedly while I was grilling. Always happy to run into fellow survivors, especially since it's such a relatively unknown condition.
Briighteyes16 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle just died because he had an Aneurysm. :( Was only 55.
chingiz1996 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:04:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also crocodiles. Deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
askdljlasjdlajsd ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:50:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine having an aneurysm while being attacked by a crocodile, that's like a guaranteed death sentence.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:32:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Compoundwyrds ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my worst fear. I'm sorry for your loss.
PornAccount3314 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This! Aneurysms scare the fuck out of me. I was at the Bills game where a kid my age was presumed to be pass out drunk but turned out he had an aneurysm somewhere around half time and noone realized he was dead until after the game.
YesOrNah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:53:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma had a brain aneurysm about 15 years go. I remember getting pulled out of football practice in 4th or 5th grade to go to the hospital. My dad, uncle and aunt (who flew in from Puerto Rico) had to decide whether or not to pull the plug on their own mother. I forget how long she was in a coma for.
She is alive and well today, you wouldn't even know if you speak with her. That was the only time I've seen my dad tear up.
ThatOneHippyGuy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Opa had one while he was blueberry picking with my Mother and her Brothers. She was 14 at the time I was 5 years into the future and I didn't see my mother eat a blue berry until I was a teenager.
tight_butthole ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:23:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did you get 5 years into the future?
ThatOneHippyGuy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom had me when she was 19
AccioMotherfucker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:22:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is hilarious.
loki444 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:24:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you hit 40, every time you have a pain in your body, you think you are having an aneurysm of some sort, leaving you wondering if this is how it's all going to end.
Wate2028 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My buddy at work had one Feb. 4. Brain aneurysm, found him laid out in the shop barely breathing. I'd spoken to him earlier that night and he kept holding his hand over his right eye. Said it was just a headache and he'd had them for years and nobody he'd seen could figure out why.
taytermuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he... get better?
Wate2028 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:36:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he passed the next day. Still half expect him to be sitting in the office every night when I go to do my paperwork.
taytermuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh. I'm so sorry :( my mom's best friend died from an aneurysm two and a half years ago and I still expect to see her at gatherings. She was otherwise healthy. Terrible.
topiramatolover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had one and it exploded twice before i knew about it, but i was lucky, i had it "fixed" and now i only have this headaches once in a while
Targaryen-ish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the thread where one guy asked what anal rhythms was and why it was so dangerous.
Kevinjc6882 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:44:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks you mr archer, would you like some crocodiles with that?
mikealwy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its one of my 3 biggest fears
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how my grandpa died.
michemarche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. My cousin just suffered a brain aneurysm 2 weeks ago. He is so lucky to be alive but he will never be the same.
timidnoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he become cognitively impaired as a result?
michemarche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So far yes. He's still partially paralysed on the left side. It took him over a week to start speaking again and his vocabulary is still limited. He's got a long way to go and he and his wife already have a special needs daughter.
MCPE_Master_Builder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt had one stopped before it burst in her brain. She still flies all the time, even though the doctor said not to.
...she has her own jet though, so who's to stop her.
MsAlign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of mine died of one when she was in grad school. She went to France for the summer with her sister and died while taking a shower. On the upside she died nearly instantly. The rest is all downside. She was 25. Getting the body back to the US was a huge headache. She had all these plans, and poof, her life was just gone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously though. A lady I worked with died in front of me at work when we were in the middle of talking about a customers order. Absolutely terrifying
beelzeflub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma recently passed away due to complications arising after an aneurysm leak coil. Scary shit.
Rosenblattca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My best friend in college had a blood clot in her brain and nearly died. Just, like, out of nowhere. She had a really bad headache and called the doctor and the BOOM! brain surgery.
zonew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This comment thread has me thoroughly terrified. My uncle died from one before I was even born, a quick change in shower temperature was all it took. Now, my dad has one and he's startled really easily. They seem to run in our family, which is even scarier.
chrissycapstick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one really hits home for me. My mom is one of 5 girls. She is the only one that has not had an aneurysm. My one aunt died from hers on her birthday while dancing.
On the same side of the family, I have a second cousin who had two at the same time burst while he was still in high school. After he was healed and had most of a normal life back, he had another one a few months ago and passed. He was in his 20s.
Fucking scary shit yo!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LOVE YA SO MUCH MAKES ME SIIIICK
tianamarie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This terrifies me to no end
GrammarBeImportant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom? Mom? Mommy?
dodeca_negative ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Had a friend drop dead at 30 out of nowhere.
Charming-ander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is literally where a lot of my anxiety stems from.
Divinityfound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why stress when it's beyond your contro---
liftlovelive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a nurse in the intensive care unit I see a lot of ruptured aneurysms. Most common complaint that should trigger you to go immediately to ER and get a CT scan is a sudden onset of "worst headache of my life." The saddest (and fairly common in my line of work) thing I see is when a woman has an undiagnosed aneurysm and becomes pregnant. Midway through the aneurysm cannot handle the volume overload on the body and ruptures. So this young woman ends up dead or with me in the ICU. And if the fetus survives the father is left with a wife who is paralyzed on one side of her body, major debilitating neurological deficits or no wife at all. It really is terrifying.
vulnerablehuman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the same train of thought... brain haemorrhage.
I had an aunt who was perfectly healthy, aged 43, had a brain haemorrhage, and that was that. It hurts and terrifies me to this day (6 years later)
sbsb27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or sudden death cardiac arrhythmias. Or deep vein thrombosis.
oscarboom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife had not one but 2 aneurysms. She had medical procedures done to remove both of them. It kind of freaked me out so I had an MRI done and was told I didn't have any.
jeric614 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the swelling is bad yes, but just having it isn't as bad as having it and then it bursting...and then pressure builds in your skull.. slowly your face goes numb.. you try to scream for help but suddenly words are impossible... your legs grow weak as you fall to the ground... and die of a hemmorghic stroke all before you could finish masterbating.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok Archer.... Seriously though I just lost my grandfather last year to an aortic aneurysm, doctors knew about it and said it would be fine for now they would just keep an eye on it
Mrfrunzi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a good friend who almost died from this. The most badass person I know too.
Went home for lunch, never came back, and his dad found him in a pool of blood. Took years of recovery but he still can't even play his Xbox.
Dude is a fucking beast. I WILL go snowboarding again with him. I really feel like treatment can help him as science makes advances.
Just makes me sad. Guy taught me how to drive.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best way to avoid them is vigorous workouts. Also, one of the ways to cause them.
lexattack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how my bf's dad died. I get worried he'll have one too. He's very high stress, smokes a pack a day, and already had blood circulation problems. It scares me.
CTeam19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The are fucking scary and can happen any time and any where. My Mom was getting ready to go with my sister shopping for her graduation party, but decided to go to the bathroom first.
When she came out of the bathroom she suddenly felt light headed. She said that she was just going sit down for a minute. In a matter of seconds she was vomiting and unresponsive in the chair. My Dad immediately called the hospital and, being that it was 9 city blocks away, the ambulance got there in 2 minutes. At the same time the hospital called the air lift to come and get her since they figured with out even checking that it was a brain issue. She had her head scanned and without checking the results sent her on the air lift to the University of Iowa and would send the scan down there to prep them.
In the end, she survived but not without some cost. She has double vision without her special glass which, from what I understand, are bifocals on steroids. Also, she has lost a lot of energy. She could get a full 8 hours of sleep but after a full day of work she would fall asleep by 7pm in the chair. She would end up going back to work full time and driving by herself with in 6 months of having the brain aneurysm. Her Doctor says she is in the 0.00000001% of people that have one in the way she has survived and has gone on to have a relatively normal life.
The even scarier part is that she and my sister could've have been kill if she was driving on a busy highway going 70 mph if my Mom had just grabbed her purse and hopped into the car and instead of sitting down in the chair.
CompMolNeuro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have epilepsy and we get a very special light switch, just like an aneurysm. SUDEP. Sudden Unexplained Death from Epilepsy. Sometimes you just have one seizure too many and that's it. It makes you live differently.
nukedabunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had an aneurysm. They are not fun. But yay disabled parking
Moon_chile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also alligators.
Cockatoo010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would actually be how I'd die if I could choose my cause of death.
PajamaHive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Srsly. My first gf in middle school had an older sister in high school who had a aneurysm and just died in the school parking lot. Found at the end of the day after school.
laxrat45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the silent killer Lana!
GeneralLeeRetarded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't tell if this was a subtle Archer reference lol
phixional ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah man, my sister passed away from one about 8 years ago now. On her lunch break at work and all of a sudden she collapsed.
Hutchphilpot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To the people who say usually only smokers get aneurysms..My mother passed away 2 weeks after giving birth to my little sister. I was barely 2 years old. She was an R.N., 30 years old, non-smoker in perfect health who probably knew about warning signs and predispositions to diseases like aneurysms amongst other things considering her profession.. Except there were none she had a headache went to bed never woke up. D.o.a. at the hospital... And it can be genetic or hereditary
pflanz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this thread: no one knows that aneurisms aren't deadly.
BURST aneurisms, perhaps. But a huge number of people live a perfectly normal life with aneurisms, which are nothing more than a widening of a blood vessel. This sometimes weakens the vessel as well.
If this blood vessel is major (aorta, for example), if the aneurysm bursts, you're in for a bad time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're actually going to die whether you have one or not.
dontyieldbackshield ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They can happen a any time, Lana!
espressodude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Not even active and healthy people are exempted.
BabuGhanoush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My physics teacher from 6th form had aneurysm about a year and a half ago. I don't really know how old she was, but she left 3 tweens and her husband behind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend just died of an aneurysm followed by a massive stroke last month. He's my age (30). The guy was in the middle of playing paintball when it struck. He went out doing what he loved.
NecromanaOpDeRouter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're the silent killer Lana
ZombyTed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And their good freinds, cardiac blood clots.
Buddy of mine lost his brother last month to one. Young, healthy and everything, and just dropped dead at work.
glswenson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My single biggest fear. When my health insurance kicks in I plan on getting bi-yearly MRI's to check and see if any are forming so they can be drained.
CptJustice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm as someone who watched it happen to my wife. Incredibly terrifying, and you are utterly powerless to do anything about it.
She did live, btw.
rockhoun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad died of one. But he was 72, so that didn't freak me out.
But then a friend of mine. whoworked ski patrol, told me the story of the 13-year-old girl who died of one on the slopes.
redditpierce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A kid named Garrett at our highschool had one of these in his sleep. Lots of people miss him, but he wasn't that great of a guy if you ask me.
DeadEndKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late to the party but I've lived with an aneurysm for years on years now. Diagnosed with Marfan's Syndrome when I was 10 (look it up, don't be lazy) and one of the common symptoms is aortic aneurysms, which I have. I fit the profile other posters have described - thin, seemingly healthy, but with a massively enlarged aorta. You learn to live with it, as most things. I'm kinda drunk so not sure where I'm going with this, but just wanted to share a personal anecdote and suggest that many people do live with this reality, and it's not as horrifying with treatment as one may think.
youdubdub ยท 5257 points ยท Posted at 23:17:49 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain-eating amoeba.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 4226 points ยท Posted at 23:55:33 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a story a while ago about a girl who left her contacts in for 6 months and amoebas ate her eyeballs..
TsMAmp ยท 3365 points ยท Posted at 00:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
takes out contacts...
40Koalas ยท 4337 points ยท Posted at 02:39:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
carefully places them in roaring bonfire
ObnoxiousMammal ยท 4135 points ยท Posted at 04:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A strange force has strengthened your Estus Flask
Edit: Many cherries were popped today. Thanks for gold, too bad this doesn't help me with my current SotFS playthrough.
Makabajones ยท 1265 points ยท Posted at 05:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
praises sun
[deleted] ยท 211 points ยท Posted at 06:38:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 07:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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wadiwad ยท 94 points ยท Posted at 07:06:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lowly times these are..like bitch I just bought 90 life gems off you stfu
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 07:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MajorWipeout ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:03:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feeble cursed one!
Lightdroplet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you really think you can manage the glories that are my spells?
SunBorne187 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:17:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're worse than my reckless daughter!
Helios-Apollo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gavlan wheel, Gavlan deal. Gavlan want souls, many, many souls.
SunBorne187 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:24:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I aught to fetch a new ember...
jaydezzal ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:29:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flame... Dear flame...
Helios-Apollo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gods frown on such soul scrimpers.
Rave-Lord-Nito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:23:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm interested in one thing. Dark. You haven't the gift.
Trav_da_man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thrust Woman But Whole!
Picklegunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:04 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reasons to always make sure that you are going to buy/upgrade something so he doesnt get mad
SunBorne187 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew you'd be ba-ack ;)
cycle_schumacher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? You again? Can't you see I'm busy?
thegraymaninthmiddle ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:43:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FEEBLE UNDEAD!
cycle_schumacher ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:48:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a way to make him stfu? I always buy something from him and he still insults me.
caseyweederman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:15:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just who he is. Either you're a fool and you'll go mad using his spells, or you're a fool for not using his spells. I miss Logan.
1Down ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of him as a tsundere. He insults you but secretly thinks you're the best ever.
thegraymaninthmiddle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not without killing him....
momzthebest ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:23:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be wary of boulder
ggerf ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:57:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Visions of chest, try dual-wielding
caseyweederman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:17:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried making good or funny messages. Then I gave up and wrote "torch" by the Ivory King bonfire. It's got the most votes by far.
Ulti ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:37:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Message!
caseyweederman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:07:01 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
message ahead
...
message behind
elvinbolo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try tongue but hole
Monteitoro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jump here
TimonAndPumbaAreDead ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:19:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A - A - A - A - bitch I just wanted to level up
caseyweederman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:18:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
B - B - B - B let me out let me out I'm trapped. I'll signal for help with my eyelashes.
IbSunPraisin ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 10:55:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\ [T] /
DasFrettchen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:26:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
relevant username
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Lightdroplet ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\[T]/
.[โผ]
.[][]
There, a better one.
DrapeRape ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:36:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
RaccoNooB ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:19:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\[T]/
lordtuts ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:23:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\[T]/
GIOverdrive ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:16:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are one of 'those' fucks that graffiti my abandon caves with your "warnings"!
Edit: added an s
that_one_guy567 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you are filled with determination
Boop_the_snoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:02 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yare yare daze
caseyweederman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:20:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seeks misery
ColorMeGrey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\[T]/
gel_ink ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:37:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\[T]/
FL21 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:27:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gloriously incandescent
kingkobalt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:03:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
420Pr4153 it
Pokesers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone is invading the forest. You are beiong summoned.
FUCK
MooseEngr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:22:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/Darksouls2 is leaking...
Boop_the_snoot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:21 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
accidentally levels up dexterity
Br0metheus ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 07:45:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\[T]/
manablight ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 06:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Praising intensifies
CyanWyvern ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:30:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gulp
Leakimlraj ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gulch
MoaXing ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, I always thought that sublime bone dust was secretly old contact lenses. Thanks for clearing that lore up. \o/
MikoSqz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:14:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually the remains of the protagonist from Dark Souls 1, right?
Coronal_Eclipse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:27:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insofar as it's the ashes of an individual who linked the fire, you could say that, though the game suggests that the fire has been linked numerous times and that each cycle is not identical to past cycles.
apgtimbough ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:39:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the other person said. It's just some undead that has reinvigorated the first flame, which could possibly be the character from DS1. But I refuse to believe that the devs ignore your character decision in DS1. I didn't reignite the flame, so in my "head canon" the darkness came, but some undead came and fanned the embers of the first flame and ushered in the Age of Fire again. Essentially meaning your decision doesn't matter, everything will repeat over and over again. Which is sort of the theme in DS2.
CaffeinatedLemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, DS2 takes place after the 'Link the Fire' ending; So it's a possibility that it was the DS1 protagonist. It's still more likely that the cycle continued for far longer though, and that there were many, many more times that the fire got linked.
MoaXing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that is the most commonly believed lore, but I don't think FROM ever confirmed it, or even any of the lore of Drangleic's connection to Lordran
MikoSqz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they didn't confirm that The Old Dragonslayer is Ornstein either, did they?
MoaXing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well one of the bigger theories that I think some people like more is that Old Dragonslayer was made by Heide for one of Gwyn's daughters who left Lordran with the god of flame
Haru_sama ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 06:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What has been done, cannot be undone
ZealouslyTL ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:49:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sucks that they're not keeping Ascetics for DS3
MakeLoveNotWarPls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:32:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they'll find a way around it
djbootybutt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
20 more days!
Freak_at_war ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:38:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Keeper has served me well, butโฆ enough with herโฆ Kehehehehehe....
Masterhaend ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:22:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kick kick kick
+1000 souls
Freak_at_war ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait for the day when he kicks back at you
archaicScrivener ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Bearer- Seek- Seek- Lest-"
MikoSqz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bearseexeeklest
DoScienceToIt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
\ [T] /
IAmNotJoshua ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're filled with determination.
TimonAndPumbaAreDead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/darksouls is leaking
RambunctiousGay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kindles Bonfire
nShorty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kek
Ace-of-Spades88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Started replaying DS2 today, in preparation for Dark Souls III.
ObnoxiousMammal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I highly recommend playing with Scholar of the First Sin, it makes some very fun and challenging additions to the game.
Ace-of-Spades88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had DS2 on PS3, but yeah I just downloaded the SotfS edition for PS4. It's great so far!
heerenbTV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rest at bonfire
rhadamanth_nemes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...amazing.
SECRET_AGENT_ANUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys, /r/darksouls is leaking again...
Zukamimotu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to see /r/darksouls is leaking today.
viperex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You had to ruin it with a damn acceptance speech
ObnoxiousMammal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:26:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry not sorry
Didn't think anyone would be viewing the thread now anyways, oh well ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Chugging_Estus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:59 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Git gud m8
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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MothaFuckingSorcerer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't you used to be titstanbull?
astrong621 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Praise. The. Sun.
HighKingForthwind ยท 724 points ยท Posted at 03:57:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
warmth fills the dark room
[deleted] ยท 236 points ยท Posted at 05:33:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Shloop_Shloop_Splat ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 05:47:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a stranger arrives in the night
averagescottishgirl ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:24:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love this game!
megahurt5 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:43:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shia surprise!
aka_liam ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:53:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The room is hot
TheWiredWorld ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:12:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please tell me what game this was?
TheOldTubaroo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:41:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just called "a dark room" iirc. On mobile, so I can't find a link rn
strangeshrimp ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called "A Dark Room" http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
re-ki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:41:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Says she can help
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:00:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ZeeCom ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 06:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
look, another forced Undertale reference
jamesaj23 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:44:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I looked at the stars
giannini1222 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:09:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Opiyam ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:42:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I told you not to talk to me anymore!
gambiting ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:11:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are filled with determination.
MoreThanTwice ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 05:20:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It fills you with determination
coolkid1717 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:37:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of revenge fills your mind
Just_like_my_wife ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The match is struck. The blazing star is born.
SadGhoster87 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:47:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You feel... something. It fills you with detemmienation.
Moist-Anus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such is life in Mother Russia.
MistaBig ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until you realize those thoughts are the amoebas thoughts as they begin eating into your brain.
SadGhoster87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddammit
NZheadshot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:04:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are filled with determination
floppywanger ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:42:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The warmth gives way to a slight boner and you are confused.
AS_A_VEGAN ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:46:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
NXJS ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:52:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
while something crawls on my leg
ModsCanSuckMyDick ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 05:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's me, ur brother
coolkid1717 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:37:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wanna go bowling?
Big_Metal_Unit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But first, another settlement needs your help.
notepadpad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:59:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is this from!?
HighKingForthwind ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
notepadpad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
astrong621 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Dark Room
notepadpad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
Absay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A web browser game called "A Dark Room".
notepadpad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
claytonasaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait how is the room with a bonfire in it dark?
HighKingForthwind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some rooms are stay dark even when filled with light and warmth. Some rooms are always happy even when no one is in them.
Such is the way of some rooms
TheWiredWorld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please tell me what game this was?
HighKingForthwind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A dark room. First result when you google it :)
LunaTehNox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:05 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my GOD I was just thinking about replaying this game but I couldn[t remember the name. I was addicted about a year ago. the sequel was hard as fuck
ZettTheArcWarden ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for the night is dark and full of terror
calicotrinket ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yelling "DIE AMOEBA"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:02:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ERMEBUH DEAATTHHHH!!!
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:13:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
books a flight to opposite side of planet
KevinTran91 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
B-B-B-B-BONFIYAHHH
starraven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You''ll get caught up in the
Quenz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KINDLING INTENSIFIES
poopyspooky ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:11:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BONFIRE LIT
Deadpool_irl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mt Doom that shit
sumsimpleracer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You a roll a 1. You fall into bonfire instead.
Jakabov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:41:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're now in NG+.
baconandeggsandbacon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:05:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick, take mine too.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:29:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agni is pleased by the offering. It's not ghee, but it's close enough.
Bogosaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gently reaches for bucket of water to douse flames now spreading up arm
Gumgrapes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"There, now my eyes are perfectly fine"
"Fuck"
gibbey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was the use of the word "roaring" that got me. Well done, sir.
_Lady_Deadpool_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
made from the twigs of an Australian stinging tree
SoShoolD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steven Avery then charged with theft/destruction of property.
lennybird ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:27:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use Acuvue 2 week contacts. I can make them last a month easily, but I never once sleep with them in and change the solution out daily. Wash your hands thoroughly, too. Be safe with your eyes.
TsMAmp ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:41:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm definitely much more careful with my eyes now. About a year or two ago, I left them in for a month and a half straight. They were 30 day contacts, but I should have cleaned them and replaced them by then. Anyway, I got bumps on my eyelids, which forced me to wear only glasses for at least 9 months, take eye drops daily, and now I can only wear contacts less than 10 hours a day.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wore mine 3-4 months straight ( each set ) without ever taking them out, for about 4 years. Never had a problem. What do you mean bumps on your eyelids?
TsMAmp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were underneath my eyelid, so basically when I blinked, they would constantly pull my contacts with them, which was really annoying.
Enferlain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:14:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not even while asleep?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:19:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Never took em out.
Carbon839 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could do that as well.
However, after reading (and seeing) an article about someone who went blind in one eye because contacts got infected and turned his eye some weird green color.
I wear contacts now only for special occasions (aka to look good).
Aryas_prayer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:20:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably giant papillary conjunctivitis. I have that flare up from time to time, and you can't wear your contacts. Well you can, but it's kind of torture. You can feel the bumps rubbing against your eyeball all day. And they'll move your contacts around every time you blink. Steroid eye drops usually clear it up in a couple of weeks. It sucks and it's just one of those things you're either prone to getting and will always have, or you're lucky and never have to deal with it
StopReadingMyUser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once left an old contact in a solution that was probably old. Opened it like a few weeks later and put it in.
Completely ignored the fact that there were like 3 or 4 small, orange, sac-looking things now floating in it. I wondered why my eye started burning for the rest of the day...
lennybird ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man that's horrible. Worst I've done is handle pickled jalapeรฑos and forget to wash my hands before putting contacts in not too long afterward. Getting them in was easy. Getting them out as my mind went completely haywire as my eyes were burning out of my sockets was another matter. Excruciating.
Delsana ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thrusts the same contacts back into your eye ball with one slightly bent and scratching your eye.
g-spot_adept ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:30:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the smart play is disposable contacts - throw away at the end of the day - no chance of amoeba
Drunkstep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've actually completely stopped wearing contacts, I mean sure it's convenient sometimes but I just wear my glasses now. My eyes thanked me lol. But to be fair when i did wear contacts I would wear them for many days at a time which was a terrible idea.
Carbon839 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here, but on top of that I would play/use my computer for hours straight. Eyes would become really dry really quick.
Drunkstep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here lol especially in highschool
gapball ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:25:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Realizes wasn't wearing contacts.
screams
Yoshih9 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think I'll just stick with my glasses thank you very much.
Archipithecus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:01:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
puts on glasses
argumentumadabsurd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOO!! you only had 5 months 205 days to beat the record!
acada ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time for LASIK
Stoveboy13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took them out so fast.
SpecialFeatures ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just need the right ones.
StrungoutScott ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah man, i usually wear mine for about a month at a time.
[deleted] ยท 4748 points ยท Posted at 23:59:10 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHO LEAVES THEIR CONTACTS IN FOR 6 MONTHS THAT'S DISGUSTING
ambiguouslaurels ยท 2961 points ยท Posted at 00:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Seriously. Mine start to feel nasty after 3-4 weeks. She slept in them and swam with them in multiple times. They must have practically been fused to her cornea
Edit: to clarify, this is 3-4 weeks of regular use, with the 30 day lenses, including removing them every evening before bed to soak overnight.
purplemilkywayy ยท 2250 points ยท Posted at 00:18:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I have dailies and they start to feel bad after 8 hours lol.
Edit: I use 1-day acuvue moist. I just have super dry eyes.
CatsAreUnicorns ยท 565 points ยท Posted at 00:25:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Invest in better dailies.
Tannerdactyl ยท 226 points ยท Posted at 01:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm at like the toppest of the top quality and it's still and issue. I think it stems from the fact that I have one eye that's nearsighted and one eye that has astigmatism, so nothing really works for both.
DoctorClitortoise ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 02:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my optometrist how it was that people could wear contacts for days, and sleep in them and shit, but if I wore mine for more than 8 hours my eyes felt like they had sand in them and I started to get a migraine.
She said "they wear different kinds of contacts than you."
"Oh," I said. "Can I wear that kind?"
"Not with your prescription, no."
You're not alone. I have different prescriptions for different eyes, but I think it's the astigmatism that's to blame.
ashinynewthrowaway ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 03:35:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dunno why, but that story really made me laugh.
Bladelink ยท 189 points ยท Posted at 04:15:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so blunt.
"can I get those cool ones?!"
"no."
SlipperySloo ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My friend once saw her primary care doctor because she started gaining a bunch of weight. Friend: "I think my new medication is making me gain weight" Doctor: "no, Jeannie, it is your mouth making you gain weight". That's a bitch slap of truth right there
KToff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, of course you lose weight if you eat more and gain weight when you eat more many drugs can change your appetite.
I never exercise discipline when eating including snacking and I am at healthy weight.
If I took a drug which makes me eat more before I stop feeling hungry I will gain weight unless I learn to pay attention to my diet and exercise restraint.
It is easy to say "eat less" when you eat the right amount without thinking about it....
ZeroFucksWereGiven_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:38:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea how bad my prescription really was until, as a vain sixteen year old, I asked my eye doctor if I could switch to contacts. She literally laughed and said, "We'll try. But probably not."
MrFyr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:45:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
better than being laughed at. My family has a history of high blood pressure and sure enough I started having it about the same my mother's started.
At my appointment last week when the nurse assistant took my blood pressure I asked her "any better than usual?" she just laughed as she walked out of the room and never said yes or no.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DoctorClitortoise ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Doc said my eye with the really bad astigmatism is shaped like a football. That's a really enjoyable mental image. I call it my pointy eye.
joblessthehutt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:00:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice, that'll confuse the European readers high fives
FlamingJesusOnaStick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't look but you got a Stewie in your eye.
DoctorClitortoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha-ha! I picture him singing Bryan Adams while peaking out.
karmachameleon4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Brit it took me far too long to work out what was wrong with an eye shaped like a football.
skellera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to always sleep on my side and use my arm as my pillow and my doc thinks that may be the cause since it's constant pressure on my eye every night.
DoctorClitortoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting theory. I always just blamed my blind ass Mama. But I do sleep on my side with my arm under me.
skellera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's the same side that you have astigmatism, we might have figured it out! haha
rock_hyrax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not your Hey Arnold eye?!
Roccos_modern_life ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:01:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use the same kind...I could easily go months lol. Especially if I get super busy and lose track of the days.
mokacoffay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey just wanted to chime in and let you know I've worn my contacts for months at a time out of laziness. Don't be lazy; take them out or you'll probably get GPC like I did twice.
1-555-867-5309 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear Air Optix Night and Day and I have all kinds of astigmatism going on.
skellera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You may find that astigmatism contacts fit better but honestly I don't see why your doc prescribes them for you if you really have astigmatism.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have those and I love them. Once I thought it was a good idea to try the whole "30 consecutive days" thing... Woke up one morning with a sharp pain in one eye. Didn't have health insurance. Went to the eye doctor anyway and sure enough, I had a corneal ulcer. $60 for a tiny bottle of antibiotic drops, but a few days later the infection was gone. NEVER AGAIN.
abatnamedtwitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
contacts and astigmatism don't seem to want to work together. I have one in both eyes, different prescriptions. I'm constantly having to twirl my contacts back into place so I can see.
Troll_berry_pie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, the contacts definitely gave you astigmatism?
skellera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, sleeping with my arm as a pillow on the same side every night did.
Tory_Rox ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the same prescription in both my eyes and a good day is getting 12 hours out of my dailies. But that's using eye drops a few times and suffering the next day. I just have very sensitive eyes. You guys are not alone.
cameragirl89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't get more than a couple hours of wear out of a pair of dailies while in Missouri, but when I was visiting Mexico, I could wear the same pair for a couple days. Taking them out at night, of course.
Tory_Rox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've noticed a difference when near the ocean. You don't realize how moist the air is until you are wearing contacts away from the ocean and you want to rip your eyes out.
nobodyknoes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Astigmatism is a bitch
algbs3 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:37:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true actually. I currently use biofinity torics with a relatively high prescription & astigmatism. They're technically approved for overnight use for maybe a week or more, and when they come out of the package they kinda feel "slimy" in a good way because they are great for dry eyes. I take them out everyday anyways because my eyes suck and they don't need to get worse, also my eyes have a slight gap when I sleep so they get super dry. But yeah, you should be able to wear that kind, but you should do it because it allows more oxygen to get to your eye which is a really big deal (so many kinds of disease are associated with hypoxia), not because you can wear it overnight.
guinnypig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I'm wearing now. They're the only ones I can tolerate for 8 hours. That being said, I wear my glasses daily instead. It's still painful.
I can't believe that I was wearing contacts on a regular basis 10 years ago without issues. Getting older sucks, but astigmatism sucks worse.
raiders13rugger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Astigmatism here too, that's definitely it, had the same talk with my eye doc as well. They don't actually make my prescription so I have to "fake it" with a slightly different one that gives me like 20/25 vision. It's not that my eye sight is terrible, even, I'm a -1.75, -1.50. Something about the axis on my eyes is really messed up (one of the later numbers in my prescription or something like that)
szepaine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use hard contacts and I'm supposed to sleep with them in and take them out in the morning. It's a treatment called ortho-k and it's supposed to reshape my cornea in order to ensure that I can see during the day without any correction
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DoctorClitortoise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right around -7. One eye is a little under and one is a little over. I think the problem is the astigmatism in one eye is so bad "my eye is shaped like a football." (Doctor's words).
They have to custom cut my contacts to fit my gross freak eye. I'm guessing the cool contacts you can sleep in don't do the weird requests, or something. I know that every visit to the optometrist since I've worn corrective lenses (age 6) has ended with a bill containing an extra fee for the strange lenses for my special eyes. Even glasses lenses are $100+ than normal.
royalobi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Exact same conversation with doc, astigmatism is what I was told.
everythingstakenFUCK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what your prescription is, but I'm at a -7 with astigmatism and I wear acuvue oasys. I can keep mine in for 3-5 weeks at a time with no problems. I usually try not to, as they last longer when I take them out every week or so, but they certainly can.
butterscotch_yo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i'm pretty damn near-sighted, have astigmatism, and wear my contacts for days. i know it's not good for me. but i wear biofinity toric monthlies in case you were interested.
Stonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. I also have astigmatism and although I never wore contact lenses my optometrist always said that it would be improbable that I would like them.
I tried once, within 3 seconds I went apeshit to take it off again. Incredibly uncomfortable.
hobbitish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So...in other words you are saying you have special eyes?
DoctorClitortoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Special. Weird. Fucked up. Pain in the ass. Extra expensive. High maintenance. The label depends on where you land on the optimism/pessimism scale.
They don't really make me feel like a special snowflake, as much as they make me phobic of breaking my expensive glasses.
wytrabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they start to feel like shit, try putting in some eye drops. None of that visine bullshit though, get some high quality Systane or some TheraTears. I wore contacts for 10+ years before I was able to get lasik, and anything with preservatives in the drops would make my eyes start burning. High quality drops help keep the lens clean and lubricated.
Funky-Town ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a different prescription in each of my eyes, both astigmatism, and I have monthly contacts.
_corn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Astigmatism is a real asshole
I have it in both eyes at different severities and it just ruins my day if I'm not wearing my glasses
DoctorClitortoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole "let me try on your glasses.... Wow, you're so blind! I can't even see!" bit never gets old, right?
People don't appreciate how much I hate being without my glasses. If I have to go too long (getting an x-ray or something) I have to keep my eyes closed or I'll get as nauseous headache.
_corn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was stupid and didn't wear them for about a year which worsened my eyesight from constant strain so I know how you feel with the headaches
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly how many eyes do you have? ;:)
Kousetsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can get contacts that you don't take out for a month.
Or at least you used to, I don't think you can anymore. I have heard a lot of horror stories from people older than me.
There's also what they used to do before laser eye surgery, which is implants. Guy I used to live with got a biiiiggg payout for them screwing that up in NI.
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I_troll_one_guy_4evr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be tons of opportunity to write professionally at that job!
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iLeo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The struggle is real. If I can't get Lasik done when I'm older, I'm fucked because I can't handle these freaking toric contact lenses. I want to wear cool colored contacts but any ones for astigmatism are pricey and ugly as shit.
DoctorClitortoise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I finally found some glasses I really like. Haven't missed contacts since. Except when I want to wear sunglasses. I can't afford prescription sunglasses, which sucks.
dreadofdemise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Walmart has sunglasses for $20 that fit over prescription glasses. They're my solution for not wanting to splurge on transitions. Perks: Using them while driving, using them with multiple pairs, savings on not buying transitions. Cons: they're a bit on the bulky "old man sunglasses" side. I don't care so they're perfect for me! Buying my glasses on eyebuydirect.com saves a bit, too. I buy mine no frills for $12 ($7 for glasses, $5 for shipping).
DoctorClitortoise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They'd possibly work, but my glasses are huge. Apparently I have a fat head. I didn't know about this problem till I tried on glasses and found out that they all squeezed my temples. Now I wear a pair of large male hipster frames. I get a lot of compliments, but I always have to bite my tongue to avoid saying "thanks! They're the only ones that can wrap around my huge face!"
My face doesn't even look that wide, but I have actual dents in my temples where previous glasses have squeezed. I didn't know they shouldn't do that until I figured out that's where some of my headaches were coming from. When I went in for a pair that didn't warp the shape of my skull, I ended up trying on nearly every pair in the store. The gal that helped me was trying so hard to be positive about my newly discovered fat-face affliction.
This pair works though, so I'm happy. I just tell myself my head is big because it's full of smart brains!
dreadofdemise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To put things into perspective, they fit over top of my work issued prescription safety glasses. It's good nuff for me. :)
missmoonchild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zennioptical.com is the way to go. You can sort by size and it's only a small fee to add tint to make them sunglasses! I've never looked back!! I know morbidly obese people with fat faces that buy their glasses on there so I'm sure you can find something that will work for you! :)
DoctorClitortoise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not even overweight, which is the crazy thing. I guess it's good since it's not a problem related directly to my health... But on the other hand having a naturally fat head isn't ideal either.
I'll check it out though. Thanks for the suggestion.
missmoonchild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah sorry I wasn't suggesting you were overweight! I was saying I know people with really fat heads that did find something so I think there's a chance :) I hope you do see something that works, prescription sunglasses are the shit!
DoctorClitortoise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually a secret fear of mine. If I gain too much weight and these glasses are suddenly too small....
Do they make a big and tall head store? Will I look like Easter island!? Will my neck give out under the weight?!
#Bigheadproblems.
Heavening ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look with your special eyes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MY BRAND!
maegan0apple ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's still an issue, comfort? That doesn't have much to do with your rx. Maybe you have a dryness issue.
InsanelyHotUncle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:14:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Rx only comes in a few brands because I have to wear toric xr. These brands are much less comfortable than the ones I used to wear. For some of us, comfort depends heavily on the Rx.
maegan0apple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband wears those too, and he can wear them for hours and hours without discomfort. He says it's like his eyelids have built up calluses
InsanelyHotUncle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am totally jealous of your husband! Maybe I'm just unlucky with sensitive eyes and poor eyesight.
iscrewsaladfingers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have the same eyes! Mine get pretty bad when I'm tired and drunk. Wish I could use contacts but the thought of something touching my eyes makes me feel sick.
giantblueox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the same problem! My boyfriend can wear his contacts for weeks at a time but if I were to sleep in mine I'd be in a world of hurt, at least in my right eye. Mine start to bother me after about 10 hours.
Throwback534 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How much astigmatism? Because if it's really not too much....you can still wear a spherical (not toric aka astigmatic) lens on that eye. It won't be as crisp as your other eye but you would still have good vision. Acuvue oasys 1-day is the newest daily lens and it's amazing but more expensive unfortunately
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother had this problem too. She ended up getting tiny little pieces of rubber put into her tear ducts because she wasn't producing enough tears. Now she has been wearing contacts comfortably everyday for years.
foxmom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This problem is exactly why I just wear glasses. I may someday spring for surgery but contacts make me miserable.
Thievesago ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try dailies total1.
HonorableLettuce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the exact same, nearsighted and an astigmatism in one eye and wear daily contacts. I feel fine having mine in for 12-16 hours a day.
valyrianqueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know you can get different contacts for each eye right?
I started having serious issues wearing contacts for more than a couple hours. My optometrist told me that I had bumps underneath my eyelids from allergies and that was the likely issue.
They never went away (I wasn't going to spend $130 on a Rx eye drop to fix it) so j got LASIK recently. Best decision ever.
Raz0rLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poor tear quality doesn't help much either. I wear glasses 90 percent of the time for comfort and convenience. As well as that all too often time that you have to spend a quarter of an hour trying to get them out.
jatoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would it help if I made you cry?
Lusitania_420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try Acuvue Oasys. They have them for astigmatism. It's a 2 week wear, but they feel amazing!
iR3C0N7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should invest in some rewet drips. The cold relief that comes from putting those drops into your eyes is amazing
Balony1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get two different boxes, the case is labled right and left.
I-Know-What-I-Like ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up Blepharitis. I went to the opticians yesterday about a problem I was having, getting a lot of pain from my contact lenses. Eyelid wipes are my go to thing apparently. Also, you can get moisturizing drops specifically for contacts. Might be worth looking at.
LeGrandeMoose ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 02:18:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, optometry student here. The quality of the dailies aren't likely to be the issue. If you go to the optician for your perscription you might have them tell you approximately how long you can have them in, and the duration has a lot to do with how dry your eyes are. Most modern contacts are made to be breathable to some extent, but none allow your eyes to hydrate exactly in the same way they would without contacts.
In short, the dailies have nothing to do with it. There's likely an issue with dryness. Anyone who experiences discomfort wearing lenses for a short period of time should schedule an appointment with their optician. You'll either be advised against using contacts or you might be able to start on eye drops.
naturesbfLoL ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay. I have a bad habit of keeping in contacts for like 2-3 weeks. Terrible, I know. These arent the 30 day contacts.
What are the disadvantages of doing this, risks, etc?
KGoo ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 04:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are many. Microbial keratitis, conjunctivitis, acanthamoeba keratitis, hypoxia. A quick Google search should freak you out plenty enough to get you to change.
infinitewowbagger ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 09:33:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eye eating amoebas apparently
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naturesbfLoL ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:29:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a major astigmatism so I cant get those :(
ImJLu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question: my optometrist says to keep my dailies in for 8-10 hours but sometimes I just have long days and keep them in for like 14. Is this a big deal?
LeGrandeMoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe not. It's possible your eyes could be becoming more dry than they normally would be; in fact that's pretty much guaranteed. If you don't notice it, however, you should be fine. That doesn't mean it's the best idea. Talk to your optometrist about it and maybe you'll be able to get yourself some eye drops for long days.
nc863id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear 30-day Biofinity contacts, and I usually forget I have them in for about 2-3 months, at which point they begin to itch after a long day.
Am I a freak?
thorscope ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:54:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have acuvue moist, one of the most expensive brands, and it still feels that way after a long day. It's just that they dry out quick.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:47:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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snek-queen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well I mean... they are only supposed to be worn for 8-10 hours max, so I'm not 100% sure what people are complaining about (I wear them too, and I suspect in my case it's probably the amount of eye makeup I've got on too)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:39 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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snek-queen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:10 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that apparently less breathable contacts can be better for dry eyes bc they keep the moisture in, but it's only anecdotal :') I feel ya though, why can't I just have normal eyes!?
Obradbrad ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 01:26:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. I have dailies and they feel fine if I'm up for 18 hours
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:04:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have dry eyes and I couldn't use contacts at all, even the super-high end ones. They would immediately be uncomfortable. It's less about the quality of the contacts than your eyes.
CatTheCat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:26:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like get laser eye surgery. If people of the past knew the kind of flawless technology available today to solve vision problems they'd think anyone not taking advantage of that was literally crazy.
soup_feedback ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have atrophied lacrimal glands, 4-5 hours is the most I can wear contacts. It's not always about quality.
slee_stak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sucks because they're damn expensive and conveniently not covered by health care
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For now.
slee_stak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully. It wouldn't be difficult to change it in the U.S.A, pretty obvious to me
Delsana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well Sanders wants to.
slee_stak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. His education plan wouldn't work though.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it would. All his factors rely on non corrupt oversight and lawmaking. Which should be expected not hoped for.
slee_stak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm talking about financially. Non corrupt oversight is great but he hasn't provided a genuine way for college to be payed for. Who pays it? His polices sound good from a birds eye view and he made it look like he was pushing for the dismantling of the two party duopoly/pro independent. But essentially he's sold out, at least to me he is. He said if he were to loose the democratic nomination that he would indorse Hillary. The party has him.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all. But while he's against corruption he has specifically indicated that there's not really another way at this time to get elected and after seeing the Republican candidates running he believes the country would be in a worse state if such individuals got in. He hates it just as I do but if he loses he will try and embrace the lesser of two evils.
slee_stak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pinnacle of Republican and Democrat are one and the same. I'm not trying to sound 100% anti Bernie because I'm not. He and Trump are the two candidates who are disrupting both parties and it's about time. If you're referring to Hillary as the "lesser" of the "two evils" then I'm genuinely concerned.
Edit: btw, there is alternatives to get into the race... Libertarian convention *hint hint
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Disruption is one thing, but if we disrupt just to get worse in then we've served us no purpose.
Hillary is most certainly the lesser of two evils compared to Trump, Cruz, Rubio, or even Kasich. There's simply far too much they'd purge.
I am fully aware of "other" options but we both know they won't really result in anything. Let's wait for the nominations to continue this discussion.
slee_stak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:32 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you're for a criminal on record and a predator. Google "Cathy O'Brien MK Ultra victim" please. It's one thing to have an opinion on certain candidates but it's entirely different to literally have a fucking criminal and sexual predator in the presidential race, let alone walking freely in America. I'm sorry but that bitch belongs in a prison cell.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would need far more proof than that, but that doesn't change the fact of the matter that I said.
slee_stak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:39 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cathy O'Brien, sorry, mixed her last name up. Please listen to her testimony. Btw, Hillary also praises Robert Byrd (KKK member). Pro Iraq, racist against blacks, email scandal, covering up Bill Clintons Sex scandal, ect. ect. People need to stop watching Mainstream Media and investigate the truth. (More than half is even on mainstream media)
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are skewing a few of those there which makes me questiion how much reinforcement and research you've done.
This does not change what I said though. The candidates are mostly all so bad other than Sanders. There's not a lot of choices that won't make me feel bad.
slee_stak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:57 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skewing them? My research is so flawed, you're right, I'm wrong. I forgot that I should exclusively watch CNN, FOX, MSNBC, never question my government, and submit to authority. My God, is the Fluoride doing its work. Congrats to the CIA's MK Ultra and Operation Mockingbird too
Delsana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:27:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure you're even arguing anymore. First we were primarily talking about how letting one of the republican party candidates win would be disastrous as many important bills would be contested and laws removed.
Whether or not what you're saying with no sourcing or citations is true, some of it that I have already researched is not. And that's what I was saying.
I don't even watch tv..
slee_stak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:51 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm nearly past using citations. I'm not writing a fucking essay here and I'm not going to go out of my way to put my effort into wiping someone's ass when they should know how to do it themselves. Where I get my sources you ask? Military, ex military, investigators, gov. insiders, whistleblowers, gov. Documents, doctors, scientists, manuscripts, history encyclopedias, alternative media... Ect. Ect. Is that enough for you? When I hear something new to me that makes me question, I research and I research continuously with multiple sources for hours and hours and hours. Now, you're telling me that some of what I've said isn't true yet I have without a doubt that you've put less than 20 minutes into trying to debunk the facts.
Investigating isn't always easy and it takes time. I suggest you give yourself some room to find out the answers for yourself instead of coming out as a sheep because that's how you're acting, frankly. It's shameful for me to see a fellow American being brainwashed even though roughly 90% of people can admit to Hillary's criminal backround and outrageous statements.
Delsana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:26:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You remind me of myself sadly. I do about fifty hours of research every ten days and have for a long long time. We will agree to disagree as you miss the point.
Politically electing one of the GOP members would be disastrous and I won't fall for That.
Have a good day
Revelation_X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Invest in LASEK surgery from a reputable doctor. Seriously, best $1800 I've ever spent in my life.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did you get LASIK? $1800 is pretty cheap. it's about $4000 where I live.
PhilxBefore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:00:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the US it averages at just about $1700. Most places I know are around $1k per eye but often offer discounts.
I'm a spider though, so it costs me roughly 10 times more.
Revelation_X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got my surgery done in Korea about a year ago, which is supposed to be quite a bit cheaper than in the US. If you ever plan on visiting a SEA country, I'd highly recommend doing it here as the ridiculous population density means doctors will have more experience, not to mention they're pretty on top of their shit when it comes to technology. The typical $3-4K you'd be dishing out in the US would cover both your airfare and your surgery anyway. LASEK, aka PRK, is not to be confused with LASIK.
In case you were wondering, the major difference between the two is that LASIK cuts the inner layer and leaves the upper flap intact, while LASEK takes it straight off the top. For this reason, LASIK is generally considered "safer" (since you can always lift the flap up and make adjustments), but honestly, both have their pros and cons otherwise there would probably be a major difference in price.
Also, LASEK is recommended for people who partake in sports/activities which may involve trauma to the eye, since the flap left by LASIK can become dislodged (say, by a basketball hitting you in the face), which may be difficult to recovery, not to mention excruciatingly painful.
I personally enjoy various extreme sports (and getting hit in the face?) so I picked LASEK.
soniacristina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not everyone is a good candidate for LASIK/LASEK.
HothSleddingChamp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't work that way. Not all contact lens manufacturers make lenses that fit every sort of curvature of people's eyes. That's why you get fitted. Some manufacturers' lenses fit your eyes. Others don't. Maybe your eyes will only accommodate the most expensive lenses, or maybe they'll only accommodate the cheapest lenses. So you can try "invest[ing] in better dailies" but you'll feel like a jack off as those more expensive, ill fitting lenses slip off your eyeballs into your lower eyelids.
CCoL_Golf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MY BRAND
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or just wear glasses?
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Brontosaurus_Bukkake ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:25:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you from Pittsburgh? Or that area?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JustASandwich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me three
I_dont_have_a_waifu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Pittsburgh and that sentence seems perfectly normal to me. What's strange about it?
ianuilliam ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's incorrect. The verb needs needs to be followed by either an infinitive (to be + verb) or a gerund (-ing form) or a noun. The grammatically correct forms would be "needs to be replaced," "needs replacing," or "needs replacement."
That said, infinitive cupula deletion is very common in parts of the US, specifically Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, Northern West Virginia, and Central Indiana.ย If you're in an area where it is part of the standard dialect, there's nothing wrong with using it, but anyone not used to it will find it jarring.
I_dont_have_a_waifu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's interesting and good to know. I don't know if this is stupid, but I always try to speak without any hint of the Pittsburgh dialect so people don't think I'm stupid.
ianuilliam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't say it's stupid, just that it's not proper in standard English, which is pretty much the defining characteristic of any kind of regional dialect.
The thing about language is that is a completely made up construct, and there's no reason what is proper can't or shouldn't change over time. In fact, if you look at really old literature, it's obvious that it does. So just because something isn't proper, doesn't make it stupid. The stuffy perfectionists who complain about the dumbing down of language or whatever are really hypocrites, unless they pepper their speech with thee's and thou's.
Edit: corrected some grammar. ;)
I_dont_have_a_waifu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I agree. I just try to avoid saying things like kelor, gum band, jagger bush, etc. Cause I'm afraid others will judge me. I don't really care if other people use them.
ianuilliam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea what any of those words mean, and I would almost certainly be judging anyone I heard saying then.
I_dont_have_a_waifu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kelor=color, jagger bush=any thorned bush, and gum band=rubber band. Honestly I do judge people who say those, it's just the comment above me made me feel bad about admitting it.
Edit: Actually kelor should be keller. Pronounced like Helen Keller.
ianuilliam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude. Those are almost as bad as "pop."
I_dont_have_a_waifu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:24:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah I forgot about that. That one's pretty bad.
Brontosaurus_Bukkake ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just had only seen that type of phrasing here so I figured he was from Pitt. It seemed normal to me in that sense, but I only heard it after I moved to Pitt and never anywhere else.
I_dont_have_a_waifu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh that's strange. I always thought it was a pretty standard phrase, but Pittsburghers do say some pretty strange things.
stephj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Burgh.
skalra63 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A colleague had the lasering done, one day she woke up and couldn't open her eyes. Apparently she was too dehydrated and her eyelids stuck to the portion of the eye they scraped off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is she okay now?
skalra63 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeh. She had to pull them off her eye balls. Appareny she was told before the laser, that she should drink more fluids... And didnt
digitaldeadstar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just got my eyes checked earlier this week. The doctor told me since it's been two years without any changes that I'm a candidate for lasik now. I really love the idea of waking up and not having to worry about glasses or contacts or constantly needing to buy either. But I hate stuff near or in my eye. I've worn contacts for nearly 15 years and still have trouble putting them in - so I don't think I'd be able to handle lasik.
purplegreendave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's still a lot more than lenses. Some day I aspire to get laser eyes.
CrystlBluePersuasion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely talk to an optometrist about your surgical options as there's more than just lasik. PRK and IOT are other options and IOT (Intra-ocular transplants) sound like the safest to me; it's a typical cataract removal but they add a new lens in to improve your vision, and then you don't need to remove your cataracts later. If any problems with your lens come up, you can get it replaced. The only issue is getting this covered by your insurance or HSA.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..but..don't they force you to be aware during lasic? Don't they inject your eyeball with a needle??
ayane_m ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 00:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They don't feel like anything; good contacts seemingly disappear. However, if you have RGP (Rigid Gas Permeable) lenses, they feel like a dome on your eye that's protruding out when you blink, because the eyelids will make contact with the lens. This is more apparent for those with astigmatism or other irregularities in the cornea.
Having contacts in your eyes will make it more irritating when foreign matter enters the eye than without, and all contacts cause the eye to feel a little dry (especially soft contacts, which need to continuously absorb water). Still, you cannot really feel them there when in use.
foxyguy1101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is something I've been wondering my entire life.
I think my insomnia's been cured
Bojangles010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:19:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Hate my RGP contacts. I much prefer glasses.
ziggaziggah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never really noticed when I was wearing hard contacts. One major difference is if I got dust or anything in my eye it hurt so bad and that one eye would tear up like crazy.
ayane_m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Were they hard contacts or RGPs? RGPs are more notorious for discomfort than traditional hard lenses due to the way they sit on the cornea.
ziggaziggah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gas permeable. It was really nice that you can run them under water, but I much prefer my soft contacts
prest0G ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the opposite experience. You could pour bleach in my eye and I probably wouldn't feel it. Although I did have a few manor eye infections that probably desensitized them.
TsMAmp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:41:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it's different for every person (and varies by contact brand), but for me, I don't really feel anything when I wear mine. Although after like 8-10 hours they can start to get a little bit irritating because I can start to feel them move when I blink.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put some in a few days ago (Acuvue moist dailies) and forgot about them. Occasionally my eyes get dry and I can't wear a pair for more than a few hours because it feels like there's an eyelash in my eye and I keep rubbing at them until the lens falls out. It's worse if I ride my motorcycle, or fall asleep with my eyes partially open. Then it feels like sand in my eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're honestly so comfortable and easy to wear. No smudging, no worrying about breaking or losing them.
I used to have trouble with them because I wore a shit ton of mascara and put eyeliner on my waterline, but I stopped doing that so now I have no problem. If you don't wear eye makeup, you'll have no problem.
I would absolutely recommend them, just use common sense - don't sleep in your contacts, let them soak overnight in fresh solution, don't wear longer than recommended, etc.
Uncle_Skeeter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Real talk, they are extremely annoying to wear for the first week when you start wearing them. They irritate your eyes but your eyes eventually get used to them.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, my first week with some monthlies that I absolutely hated was hell. Then I just gave up and switched to the Dailies Total One ones. That felt pretty magical.
gibson85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wore them for three years and hated them. Always just felt like something was there bothering me. I even tried a variety of brands (my dad is an optician so I had plenty of samples).
My wife, on the other hand, loves contacts and keeps them way too long (my father yells at her for this). Totally opposite of my reaction. So to each their own, I suppose!
ChristopherSquawken ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:24:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend wears her dailies sometimes until they legit rip off and fall apart.
We were driving once, had just left her neighborhood when she emergency pulls over freaking out only to pull a contact from one eye that was ripped from the top down to the middle like the top part of a peace sign.
Girl is crazy, love her lol.
MsMathWiz ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly you are crazy too letting her recycle disposable dailies and drive.....hmmmmm
ChristopherSquawken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She can do what she wants, I don't know anything about contacts and she's never hurt herself.
MsMathWiz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh your life could've been on the line! ๐
LePoisson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:39:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus no judgment but are you and her poor as fuck because there is no good reason to do what she's doing.
ChristopherSquawken ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:50:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naw we both live at home post college, I have no clue why she does it. I have perfect vision so I know nothing if contacts, not my place to correct.
LePoisson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:59:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean it could really screw her vision up. She's been lucky.
ChristopherSquawken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's aware of the risks, it's her choice.
LePoisson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it is, it's 2016 after all. And if she's anything like my girlfriend she's probably stubborn (insert women joke here). But maybe there is some way to approach it that will help her alter her behaviour for the better, after all it would be awful if something did happen.
ChristopherSquawken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bring it up all the time haha
puppiesandlifting ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use those too, and I've got super dry eyes as well. (Thanks eyes, for being allergic to the proteins in the tears YOU YOURSELF PRODUCE. Good job, team.)
I can usually get to day 2, maybe day 3 with these. Day one feels like heaven on my eyeballs.
roseyd317 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried dailies the first time and I couldn't last more than 6 hours
SdBolts4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to give your eyes time to get used to them. When I got mine recently, they told me to wear them for 4 hours the first day, then 6 the second day, then 8, then 10, and finally 12. They definitely felt uncomfortable the first couple days but now I can't even feel them
roseyd317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had been wearing regular contacts before he switched me to dailies and it just wouldn't work
purplemilkywayy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use 1-day acuvue moist. My eyes are just super dry.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been dying to try these. Are they much easier to rip then the regular ones?
Yoadrian3495 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also have dry eyes. After a few hours my eyes feel like a desert
Brazzelon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cottonmouth too?
mynameisseven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should've went to my sister's wedding then. Not a dry eye in the house!
cait_Cat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same problem here. I get this intense migraine behind my eye of if I wear them too long too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why not just use glasses?
Docc99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dailies Total 1 by Ciba Vision (Alcon). You're going to have to pay to play, however.
Terrh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A guy I know uses dailies once. But he doesn't take them out for months at a time.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it doesn't matter when I put the contacts in, if it's 12 midnight I wills uddenly need to poke my eye viciously to get them out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got punctal plugs for moderate-to-severe dry eyes and it's been very helpful. Cheap, quick, permanent fix. Might want to check it out.
anonvisiondirect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might want to speak with your eye doctor about Dailies Total 1, or MyDay lenses. Both are bit higher rated than 1-Day Acuvue Moist. Source: I sell contacts.
Thievesago ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try dailies total1.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For dry, red eyes...Clear Eyes
drawafade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get Laser eye. Best money you'll ever spend.
EchoJunior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have super sensitive eyes so I wear glasses all the time.. how do you people put something in your eyes for long hours? This one time I had to put on lenses for 10 minutes in hospital for checking something, I cried in agony for all those minutes in the waiting room. My god I'd rather be slapped in the face than go through that again
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When was the last time you went to an optometrist? Asking because I was using the same lenses as you, I hadn't had a check-up in 6-7 years, I'd just been ordering the same brand and prescription online. Turns out my contacts were old technology and had actually been damaging my corneas for quite a long time, I just thought I got dry itchy eyes after 8-9 hours. I got a new brand this week and they feel sooo much better than the old ones I had
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for dry red eyes, clear eyes is awesome.
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/5-21-2015/JCSinD.mp4
rabbifuente ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got the same ones, they're great
[deleted] ยท 506 points ยท Posted at 01:33:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
wait... you left your contacts in for 3 weeks??
I can't even sleep with them on. It's perfect when I go to class.
edit: TIL there are contacts that can be worn for weeks. Not really popular here and they are pretty expensive. :\ I'm still paranoid bec of the stories so even if I can afford one, I'll never wear them.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 282 points ยท Posted at 01:38:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I mean just 3-4 weeks of regular wear. I take them out every evening when I get home from work. I can't either the one time I forgot to take them out before bed I threw them away in the morning and started a new pair.
bitetheboxer ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was told 30 days for my soft lenses, and that was great,because I'm a broke college student. So wrong. I'm friends with an optometrist now and he set me straight. 2 weeks. I can't believe how bad it was till I listened to him. I feel so much better.
PossiblyAMurderer ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Monthly lenses will be thicker than 2 week ones. It's hard to tell without comparing the two but yeah
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
meh.. you can stretch the two week ones out if you wear them like 8-10 hours and just switch to your glasses when you get home. I think the two weeks and one month are just there to cover their ass. If it starts to bug your eyes time for a new pair.
KallistiEngel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear my 2 week ones for at least double that amount. I'm honest with my eye people about it and they've always said it's alright as long as I'm taking them out every night, not swimming with them in, and they don't feel weird.
afroken3130 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:15:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My 30 day lenses haven't come out in about 3 months non-stop. I've worn then like that for years with no problems...guess I've just been lucky
Swimming_up ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did that for years and my eye doctor finally got me to agree to take them out every Friday night and soak them. She says they're ok to wear for 6 weeks or so (mine are two-week disposable). She said it's like wearing bandaids all the time- it feels better after a while to have a bandaid on if you're wearing it all the time but you really do need to not have the bandaid on all the time.
afroken3130 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol. My doc made me make the same deal. I can wear them as long as I like, but I'm supposed to take them out once a week. I'm still really bad about doing it.
hhreplica1013 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's shit like this that makes me scared that my right eye is slowly getting worse than my left.
heatshield ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:15:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Acuvue Oasis are supposed to be changed every 2 weeks. Make sure you change your lenses appropriately (yours may be different - monthly, though) or you may start having problems.
PossiblyAMurderer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost all monthly lenses are approved to sleep in 6 nights a week. You just gotta take them out once a week. So protip, don't throw them out next time. Just clean them.
DeadUsernamee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah i do that move a lot
Redid-it ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yesterday i scratched mye eyes (i have daylies), and my fucking contact disappered behind my eyelid. I panick like a goose, rubbing my eye with water and hope, then they came back. Terrifying as hell!
YourMumsAGoodBloke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how I do my dailies. Before I go to sleep I just snatch them out my eyeballs and throw them. When something gets chucked or rapidly discarded my gf calls it 'getting contacted' because of the way I take them out.
rbkallday ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear contacts that are designed to be left in for 30 days and nights without being removed. It kinda sucks in the morning cause they are dry, but after five minutes or so they are fine.
chowder138 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same I keep lubricant eye drops next to my bed and use them first thing in the morning. Dry feeling goes away instantl
GraphicDesignMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't leave us hanging bro, finish telling us!
chowder138 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
y.
bobby4444 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most doctors don't recommend sleeping in them for all 30 days, though. Even if they are "designed" too
Plsdontreadthis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just asked my eye doctor (ophthalmologist, not optometrist) about these, and he said no medical doctor will ever tell you you can sleep in your contacts. No lenses are safe to sleep in, as they're all perfect breeding grounds for bacteria when the lenses are in and your eyes are closed for extended periods of time.
MightyHipsterHater ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:17:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have contact lenses which last a month. Take them out one day per week but you can safely wear them for an entire month. Costs me about $500AUD per year though.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just converted that to my currency and yeaaaahh no thanks.
edit: pretty cool that you can wear them for days though.
MightyHipsterHater ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:28:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Health insurance helps. I only pay 150 out of pocket.
caulfieldrunner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have Medicare and it looks like my plan doesn't cover vision. It fucking sucks. Covers dental, but nothing about vision.
dunemafia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:33:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, after seeing the medical bills, you wouldn't believe your eyes anyway.
caulfieldrunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my Medicare is full coverage anyway. Eyes aren't nearly enough to push it over, even if they were part of my plan.
chowder138 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine are a few hundred bucks for 6 pairs. That may be because they're special "Toric" lenses though.
MightyHipsterHater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very likely. I developed a stigmatism and thats why I have ones I have to take out onve per week instead of changing once a month without taking them out. They were actually slighty cheaper buly about $50-100
instasquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here but I pay ~$300AUD a year
MeatbombMedic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear monthies as well, (also Aussie) and I take mine out every night because they feel gritty as fuck first thing in the morning otherwise. I wear those things for months at a time and have never had an issue in the 15 years or so I've been wearing them. It may be that I'm just lucky, and my optometrist lectures me every once in a while, but it's working for me. Once I earn enough to get shot in the face with some lasers I'm getting it done.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How much is that in freedom dollars?
MightyHipsterHater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
372
Telesto311 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:05:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left a pair in for about nine months, only removing them if something got in them.
I was homeless, my glasses were broken when I was jumped one night, and a friend had a prescription that was fairly close to mine. So she gave me a pair of contacts because I truly couldn't see anything without them.
Those contacts were my most precious possession. I was afraid to take them out because they could be ruined or lost, and I didn't actually have much in the way of solution and what not. So they stayed in.
One day I woke up and my eyes felt like they were on fire. There were apparently small tears all over the contacts, which had given me micro-abrasions, which got infected. I couldn't see for days, and couldn't afford the eye drops needed to fix my eyes.
Luckily I eventually regained my sight, and got off the street some time later. The doctor I see now says the blood flow to my eye actually rerouted itself or something, and I'm lucky to still be able to wear contacts at all.
It can really fuck your shit up.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only heard about these extended wear contacts now. They are not really popular in my country. And stories like these are keeping me from wearing them. :\ Glad to know that you're okay.
qwerto14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I got tiny, uninflected scratch on my eye once and it fucked my whole week up. I could barely keep my eyes open in direct sunlight because it felt like it was going through my eye and searing my brain. I can't imagine anything more severe than that.
aristarch ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered: How 'different' does blinking feel when you have contacts in? Is there noticeable friction or does it just feel weird?
Australixx ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're just asking in general, most of the time you don't feel them at all. If you put them in wrong or flipped inside-out then you'll notice of course, like getting an eyelash in your eye.
LenoCanSuckIt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An eyelash made of knives.
celtic_thistle ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:47:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't feel mine at all 95% of the time.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:37:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on the type of contacts. I use the soft contact lenses. There's no friction really you will just "feel" that the contacts are there for the first week. But after that, it's like it's not even there. My eyes gets itchy (dryness) after maybe 6 hours but can be quickly remedied by the contacts solution.
Slyninja215 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:12:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a question, what do you do when your contacts get dry? I've heard people tell me they spray a bit of their contact solution in their eyes but my solution says, specifically, to not do that. Are their contact solutions that can act as regular eye drops? Or do you mean you rinse your contacts under solution?
kephartprong__ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's rewetting drops you can use.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My contact solution is the 2-in-1 deal. I can use it as a cleaner and also as regular eye drops. I have a friend that has your type of solution (for cleaning only), he messed up and the contacts still has a bit of solution left when he put it in his eyes. He said it fucking stings. So yeah def not try to use it as a regular eye drop.
ShataraBankhead ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:09:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some solutions are perfectly safe to add any extra moisture. Anything with peroxide listed is a giant no. Artificial tears are fabulous for anyone. Keep the rest of your body hydrated too by drinking water.
caulfieldrunner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, probably ProxiClear. It should be taken off the market. It comes with a special case that's supposed to neutralize the peroxide so they're good to wear the next morning. However, it's not at all uncommon for the case to fail halfway through the bottle and you'll put your contact in only to feel like somebody poured acid in your eyes. I couldn't put contacts in for about five days after that and had lingering effects for several weeks afterwards.
notsomebodyelse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use that stuff, different brand though. You can tell towards the end of the month when the case is starting to not work fully but then I just change lenses and get a new case.
This method of cleaning is a god-send to people like me who's eyes react badly to the preservatives in regular cleaners.
caulfieldrunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine didn't even last a month. I used the case four or five times. I said halfway through the bottle because I had gotten a travel sized one.
Slyninja215 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah TIL, thanks.
seamustheseagull ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:45:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of the overnight solutions are basically just saline which is perfectly safe to put in your eye. It's cleaning solutions that aren't safe to put in your eyes.
One mistake a lot of people make is to touch the nozzle of the bottle against the eye or eyelid, which basically renders it useless afterwards as sterile solution.
Wsntme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't put contact cleaning solution in your eye- ever! Saline is an alternative if you don't have the eye drops. If you shop the eye care section eye drops are sold as being safe for contacts (or not) I'm so glad you never put cleaning solution in your eyes..those chemicals have to be bad!
shmaltz_herring ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your contacts have been sitting in them all night and have a nice layer of solution on them when you put them in your eye, how bad can it be?
Wsntme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess.. I've tried it when I took the contact right back out and into my eye. it stung like... (fill in blank with your favorite explicition) i made up that word..I've forgotten the proper word. Thanks for your input...
Slyninja215 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:10:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blinking it right now and I don't notice them at all. If your eyes are dry or your contacts are old, you can start to notice. You just feel them like they're there, I don't really know how else to describe it.
somedude456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't feel a thing. The whole thing about contacts being such a bother is nothing but an infomercial thing. I pop mine in, in the morning, and think nothing of them till I take them out at night. Yeah I could get lasik but I don't see the need. I pay like $150 a year for contacts vs a couple thousand for surgery? I'm good.
Zfusco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I participated in a trial of contacts that you could wear for 2-4 weeks. Other than some "fuzziness" in the morning, they were remarkably comfortable.
I think ultimately they weren't approved because someone got some sort of horrific infection, but honestly I wish I could just get them as daily wear contacts.
PNGN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean IF you go to class
scarfox1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends if they're night time ones or not
chowder138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They make ones that you can wear for up to a month nonstop. I have them in right now.
They bother me some days. But not usually.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm still paranoid bec of the stories. hahaha Plus those kind of contacts are pretty expensive.
WeMustDissent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when i first went to jail they were having problems processing my commissary request so i kept mine in for 2 months before i could finally buy some fucking contact solution. They wouldnt let my parents bring me ANYTHING from the outside
Jothay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worn sets for 9 months straight without taking them out at all. I can't even tell they are there
logarithmyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have monthly contacts and I haven't taken mine out in like 4 weeks. I'm def going to tonight
Adolf_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I keep mine in over night for about a month. The worse that happens is that your eyelids develop these bumps that secret a protein. The protein makes the lens stick to your eyelid and it moves when you blink.
GodOfDumbness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went a whole week before without taking out contacts. As long as you make sure to keep them moist, it should be fine. Any longer than ~10 days and you will start having problems. (Unless the contacts are made to be able to be left on for that long.)
OneTimeDealer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I leave mine in for 45-60 days at a time. I don't even take them out at night. I've worm them in this fashion for the last 4 years or so, and have never had an issue.
My eye doctor says that everyone reacts differently to them, though. Some people might need to take them out often, some never do.
I'm lucky that I'm in the latter camp.
surprised-duncan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're actually a lot better than glasses imo. The stories are so rare and usually fake/improbable.
rainbowtwinkies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine have to be able to be worn for a month because theyre so difficult to make and therefore expensive.
charming_quarks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only left mine in overnight once, because I've always wanted to know what it was like to wake up and to be able to see. I've had glasses since kindergarten. I would have had better vision when I woke up if I had taken them out :(
evilmnky45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My scleral lenses are $400 per lens. Just one for $400.
SourceWebMD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend wears hers for a month solid. I've tried to convince her that it's a bad idea but she doesn't listen. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Dubalubawubwub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My gf switched to the monthly ones because they actually worked out cheaper, but you're supposed to take them out at night. I'd just be paranoid about dropping one and having lost an entire week/month's worth of contact lenses in one go!
FerretHydrocodone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have contacts that are meant for up to 30 days of continuous wear. They stay on my eyes for about 3 weeks at a time. I put solution in my eyes 3-4 times a day, but I don't take them out unless they are irritated or I need a new pair.
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I've had contacts like this for probably 4 years now and my eyes are perfectly healthy (for someone with poor enough vision to require contacts that is)...90% of the time I forget I'm wearing them.
qwerto14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL that people can't go a day in contacts. After about an hour I don't feel them at all anymore.
Nordiquy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have contacts that I leave in for 2-3 weeks at a time sometimes. I alternate months wearing glasses and contacts so they never get too worn out on either one
edit: mine are made for that, perfectly ok to do so. Probably not a good idea in general to have a little plastic film on your eyeball for too long, though, hence the switching
Majache ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm that's weird, I keep mine in for months and they weren't expensive. I also never had an infection either.. I wasn't very clean with them either. I would pretty much wear them till they fell out from drying up. Maybe I got lucky.
elnots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young and dumb I left them in for a week. The monthly kind. Eyes would be glazed over with crust when I woke up days later in the week. Never had an issue. Was for about 6 months.
somedude456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I won't lie, for about 1-2 years I got lazy and was leaving my monthly use yet take out nightly lenses in for about 4-5 weeks at a time. When they started to bother me, they were thrown away. I would wear my glasses a day or two and then repeat. Then I went for an eye exam, and my vision had gotten worse. Doc asked about my use, and I didn't lie. Not being a kid, he simply told me the truth about how I was starving my eyes of oxygen, and slowly killing them. WTF? My eyes had gotten about .25 worse in each eye, but he predicted that would correct itself if I stopped being stupid. DONE! I then only wore them about 8-12 hours a day and sure enough a year later my eyes had corrected back to their prior state. Doc seemed odd that my eyes had gotten better, and then I told me the story. He seemed ecstatic that his prediction was dead on.
Avoidingsnail ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I must be weird because I've been sleeping with my contacts in for 8 years. I wear the same pair for 2 months at a time and never take them out. When I change them I'll go about a day or 2 wearing glasses before putting another pair in. My eye doctor says my eyes are perfectly fine and said it's only a problem if I start getting eye infections or if they ever bother me. Neither of which ever happen.
GoldenDragonfly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have contacts that I can wear until my eyesight worsens or until they are no longer in top condition (too many scratches etc.). If you just take them out every evening and wash them before putting them in and after taking them out you should be fine. You can also deep cleanse them once in a while.
rubydrops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't find monthly contacts to be that bad. The only thing is that they are best for a week at a time. I get horrible migraines and red eyes after that.
Blackwater6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have these, they're not that expensive, I think I paid 100 euro for 1 years worth (actually two because I leave them in for two months).
Blackwater6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can also confirm that nothing has eaten my brakjkjkjkjkjkjkjdewlqdfaeswvgfvrvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
seamustheseagull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah leave mine in for 4 weeks at a time. Then take them out, bin them, sleep a night without contacts and put in a fresh pair the next day. Works out around โฌ170 a year, which is way cheaper than dailies, which come to about โฌ1/day
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never take my contacts out.
Before this thread, I'd forgotten I wear them.
I really need to get my shit together about that.
JerkfaceMcGee ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About 10 years ago, there was a period where I didn't take my contacts out more than maybe 4 or 5 times in 6 or 8 months. I haven't worn contacts on a regular basis in about 8 years, having switched back to glasses.
At my last eye exam, the optometrist said, "You wear your contacts all the time, right? I can tell because of the vascularization of your corneas." I didn't want to tell her it had been years and years since I'd worn contacts regularly.
Point being, you are doing lasting damage to your eyes, with long-term physiological effects. Get your shit together, dude.
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:15:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK. I will. Thank you for your tale.
Jerk face.
JerkfaceMcGee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe once you get your shit together, we can go bowling!
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or we can just smoke a j and watch The Big Lebowski ;)
JerkfaceMcGee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:43:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either way is fine, as long as I can have a White Russian.
AskIfImASquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a jerk face is better than being an amoeba eyeball.
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:50:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Um, OK.
Just wondering, are you a squid?
yolibobchris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or are they a kid?
Opium_Poppy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had almost the exact same experience! Except I just went straight back to contacts and still keep them in constantly...I did switch from the kind I had been using to the thirty day ones, though, and the eye doctor said things were looking better, but it's recently come to my attention that my eye doctor may not actually be a really great doctor so I'm going to a new one. Hopefully my eyes are ok.
nc863id ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:33:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and me both. I clean them (very) occasionally when they start to itch, but that's usually after a few months of wear. Never had a single issue taking them out either.
10 years it's been that way. I can't fucking explain it. Thought I was the only one.
damngraboids ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:43:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had this same pair in since...December 2014. Or '13. I forget. Yeeaahh.. I need to make an appointment.
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
20 years for me. I keep getting warned by every eye doctor that it could cause problems, but, knock on wood...
BrandiSnow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:46:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are they fused to your eyeballs?
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, no they're not. I actually have one last pair from two years ago. I'm gonna change them tonight then make an appointment to the eye doctor.
aneasymistake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:01:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ex-gf once sat in front of me, drunkenly trying to take her contacts out. I could see her pulling at them and it was like her whole eye was stretching forward, as though they were stuck. Turns out she'd already taken them out a few drinks earlier.
The moral of the story? Wear glasses!
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:50:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK. Thank you for the advice.
deknegt1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have had that a few times where i'm extremely tired, and I doze off. Then I wake up 20-30 minutes later, and in the dark I fumble to take out my contacts to put them in the container.
After 3 minutes of rubbing my cornea, I slowly realize I had already taken them out before I dozed off, and my eyes were fine.
Only a handful of times (in 2 years) I've actually slept with contacts in, and when you wake up your eyes are just so insanely dry that I must take them out to soak.
But 364 days of the year it goes well and I take them out every evening, I'm completely conditioned to take them out whenever I am planning on closing my eyes for more than a few minutes (naps/sleep).
ShataraBankhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Set yourself a nightly alarm to remind you to remove them.
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that's the problem. I've been wearing contacts for over twenty years, and I've always done this.
heylady22 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:16:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work in an optometrists office, and I've seen that happen. This kid kept his contacts in for weeks at a time, and when he did take them out he stored them in a zip lock bag with his spit instead of solution. The contacts fusd to his cornea and he had to undergo surgery.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:05:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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heylady22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember, something like 14-16. I saw crazy things people thought were totally acceptable at that job. It's cringe-worthy.
brotatopants ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:00:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put a pair in that I drunkenly used water in the case instead of solution and immediately had to throw them out. I can't even imagine.
Night_Hawk_Delta ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:35:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That happened to my 7th grade home room teacher. When she was like 14 she left her contacts in for TWO YEARS. They fused to her cornea and she had to have them surgically removed. She wears insanely thick glasses now but I don't know how that didn't blind her.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Opium_Poppy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amen! I thought Acuvue was the greatest thing ever until I switched. Now I can't even feel my contacts unless I get something in my eye or something. Sooo comfortable. I use tons of artificial tears because my eyes are chronically dry, but these contacts seem to be the most comfortable I've ever worn by far. And my dry eyes have nothing to do with contacts anyway.
Jefftopia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have permanent rgp contacts but even still protein build up is awful for visibility and throws the fit off.
bailiebunge7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:41:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the basic contacts where you are supposed to take them out every night, once when I was in the sixth grade I slept in them for a week and I got a corneal ulcer.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's odd, I haven't had any problems not taking them out for 2 months at a time.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wtf
thescorch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I sometimes leave mine in for a a few days. Between work and school there are weeks when I normally fall asleep doing homework. They just start to get so damn dry that I take them out and wear my glasses for a few days. I can't imagine keeping them in for months.
Radioactive-Sloth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even wear mine for an hour before I take them off and start to wear my glasses because of how dry they get. Even with drops, they feel nasty.
logarithmyk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BRB about to take mine out
Anivair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the two week lenses that come out at night. Sometimes if I'm feeling really lazy they last me like 18 days, but then they just get too irritating
mcnarlab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have bi-weeklys but they last perfectly well up to even a month. I've fallen asleep while wearing pairs from time to time with no problems. Contacts have proven to be so easy for me I will never go back to glasses
evilmnky45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I've had the same pair of contacts for 6 months. Scleral lenses only get changed our if they break.
Currentlycollege ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine are to be replaced every 2 weeks but if you don't do the cleaning twice with saline solution every day they will get bad right away. They hurt keeping in for a 7 hour day for me. Slept in them once. Will never do that ever again
EndGame410 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great aunt left hers in for years. She had early stages of Alzheimer's and just forgot that she used to wear glasses. I can't imagine the pain she was in every day but couldn't figure out why
jeffro422 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I literally never took mine out for over 6 months. Then I at least started changing them every month. I hated putting them in, hence never taking them out. Luckily when I went to see the eye doctor my prescription was the same, and I just stuck with glasses. Not a smart idea looking back.
lmaodelayyy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:33:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What i look forward to doing the most when i get home is to rip out those contacts and let my eyes breath
juneburger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True! You can start growing a sort of callus on the eye due to prolonged contact wear. Yikes.
pjvex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Back when I was in grad school, I wore 2 week disposable lenses. Being that I was 27 and invincible, I rarely took them out. Until, that is, I realized the diuretic properties of alcohol, and how dehydrated you get from drinking a lot.
On one particular morning after plenty of beer (and god knows how many Jรคgermeister shots), my eyes were like marbles that had spent 10 hours drying in a kiln. My mistake was thinking, "boy, I should take these contacts out ASAP!". Big mistake. As I pinched them off of my eyeball, I think they ripped the corneas off (or at least part of the surface of the eye).
I doused them with saline and visine, and thought it was ok, but then my eyes became very painful when they were open because the air irritated them, but they hurt even worse when I closed them. By 3 am on the second night without any sleep, I finally went to the ER. They put in a strong topical anesthetic, and gave me some gooey Vaseline-like eye drops to coat my eyes until the surface grew back.
That was one the second most painful thing I've experienced.
rotunderthunder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother once kept his 30 day lenses for 2 years! I was stunned that he appeared to have no ill effects from this. He literally took them out the day he went to the opticians to get new glasses and contacts.
imbued94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:16:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used 30 days lenses for like 40 days leaving them in 24/7, never had any problems really. Though i have now operated my eyes so i dont need it anymore.
ToneBox627 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:46:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously i have the 16 hour accuvue oasis 2 week contacts. I usually stretch them an extra week or so but i stow them every night and rinse them every morning. Shits gross yo.
mateuszkucz99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glasses for the win!
aristideau ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever thought of Laser correction?. I had it done around 15 years ago, and not only do I still marvel at the clarity of the world around me every morning when I wake up, I have easily saved the $4,000 it cost me in glasses and contact lenses.
Quatzecoatl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have biweekly and use the same pair for 2-3 months... I'm lazy.
weedmane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
see this is why I just wear glasses.
Vaderesque ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:34:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even fathom how a person can swim while wearing contacts and not lose them. I've had mine come out from just walking in some rain, when the drops get in my eyes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't feel the need to clarify to a bunch of faceless posters, for one your eyes clean themselves, two we all know you didn't do that everynight and that's fine because there is literally no point if your eyeballs function. (Which they clearly do)
I keep mine in for multiple months without removing them, have been doing so for almost 10 years now
StosifJalin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:06:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Information like this will hurt someone. It's about avoiding an infection.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:53:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Natural selection my friend, if their genetics are that shit then it's time for the chain to get a little lighter (break off weakest link)
StosifJalin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, but you really don't know what you're talking about.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
k
c3p-bro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is there any source at all?
ambiguouslaurels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/girl-left-her-contacts-6-months-and-amoebas-ate-her-eyeballs
ShataraBankhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reviewofophthalmology.com/content/d/therapeutic_topics/i/1327/c/25470/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LIKE A GOOD BOY. DON'T YOU LET THOSE AMEEBAY KILL YOU!!!!!!
jewboyfresh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How are those by the way? I use normal acueview 2s that I wear during the day and take off at night
Are they comfortable?
CoreBeatz7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for the edit. i was about to rant on you. my "friend" back in the day did this and nobody could convince him otherwise. was an arrogant prick, so maybe he didn't deserve eyeballs
Perpetualinvalidity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have, for years now, been using 30 day contacts for several months, taking them out and leaving them in solution overnight, with no adverse effects.
thirdeschelon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You shouldn't do this. The contacts say they're rated 3-4 weeks safe but it's still far, far less safe to have them in that long continuously rather than taking them in and out regularly.
iphoneguy350 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait so the girl was taking them out and just used them for too long or she kept them in for a solid 6 months?
Gertiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine 3-4 weeks. I was once prescribed some contacts you were supposed to be able to wear overnight. Woke up the next morning to eyes that just felt dry and gross. Never worn my contacts overnight again. I can't even stand it if I doze off for an hour or so wearing my contacts. I have to take them out and clean them to feel comfortable again.
slappinbass ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me you're joking. They should be removed daily for the microbiological homeostasis of your eyes. They trap small bacteria under them that go anaerobic if left too long and it creates an acidic environment. This is what happens when people don't brush their teeth. Those critters cause fermentation to occur, changing the acidity of the mouth, eating the teeth.
If you brush your teeth to keep them clean, do the same favor for your eyes and take the contacts out nightly.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't clear enough. This is 3-4 weeks of normal use, which for me includes taking them out every evening to soak overnight. I'm very particular about cleaning my lenses.
maegan0apple ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:48:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a kid who had a prescription of -18.00 in his contacts, he didn't take them out for a whole YEAR and got fungus on his eyes. He never took them out because he could see jack shit without them and glasses made everything all distorted supposedly. It was probably a lot of laziness too.
gqtrees ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why do you people care so little about your eyes that you would keep em on even during sleep! just take em out, takes few seconds!
sh2nn0n ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:26:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or ya know....wear glasses?
I know I wouldn't want to mess with the upkeep of contacts, so I just opt to look "uncool" I guess.
Nihht ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:04:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear glasses but contacts do have advantages. The obvious being that you don't have to worry about glasses being on your face.
julianface ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:37:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having clear peripheral vision that doesn't fog up or get dirty and usable in the rain is amazing
gqtrees ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i dont know man, i just got glasses recently. I wear glasses most of the time, and when i am playing sports i put on contacts. I went into store with the hottest sales rep at lenscrafters in the area and just asked her for her honest opinion (and told her price didn't matter so she wouldn't be pressured to make a sale) and she hooked me up with glasses that look great on me, get compliments from everyone now lol
sh2nn0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad she set you up with something you like and are confident in. I was being sort of silly in my original comment....I actually love my glasses. I have several different pairs so I don't get bored.
I know not everyone can afford several pair or hell, even one really nice pair. However, there are decent glasses in every price range. I just love glasses, I guess? :)
It also helps that now I think I look strange without them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:38:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because people are stupid. They have the "nothing's happened yet. Doubt it ever will. I'm smarter than trained doctors, anyways!" mindset.
Gcoks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I keep mine in for months. I'm just lazy.
byebyev ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:30:07 on August 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same. I'm lazy and cheap.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:13:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stupid FTFY
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:33:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well mine have been in for probably 4-5 months.
Serinus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you take them out at night?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. I usually wear mine for 5-6 months then change out. Never get dry, never irritate me. Been like this for probably 12-13 years.
drakoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume nasty things grow in your eye? Like fungus, bacteria, etc? I've done the same for years and never had any issues. I know it's considered bad, but why?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No idea. I've never had anything bad happen
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly you've gotten two of them rare antibacterial and fungicidal eyeballs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So am I in trouble?
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, you'd have to ask a real eyeballologist for that one.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. I don't know any eyeball people
TheFudgiestNugget ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP your eyeballs
DothePenguinShuffle ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:19:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welllll... What if you thought you took out your contact but you actually didn't. And you didn't realize it. For 4 months. Until you went to your optometrist for blurry vision in one eye. And he decides he's gonna show you a magic trick and takes out a goddamn contact out of your eye. You know. Hypothetical and all that jazz.
BrandiSnow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:47:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can you not realize you didn't take out your contact?
MercWithaMouse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:29:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes my contacts end up folded under my eyelid and there is no way that i know the contact is there except an unshakable feeling that something is horribly wrong.
DothePenguinShuffle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha well I thought I took it out and I had dropped it on the floor. I seriously thought I had seen it fall and when I couldn't find it, I decided to forget about it. And since it was my last pair that I had, I just never ordered more till my eye appt. I never felt it in my eye. Yeah...stupidity.
Serinus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's easier than you'd expect. When you take out your contacts, you usually don't really know if you've gotten it or not until you can see the contact. You could assume you dropped it and didn't bother to find it. Now, not finding the removed contact to verify is definitely a fuckup for exactly this reason.
You can always cover the other eye and try to verify by reading something.
mynameisblanked ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:12:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can tell if I've got my contact out or not by the way I can't fucking see without them.
turningpoint84 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People are asking a lot about leaving contacts in, I cpuld go 4-6weeks leaving them in, even sleeping with them in. It just never bothered me until about 3 months ago. Now I remove them every night, eyes feel a ton better. So for anyone who doesn't have issues with leaving contacts in, take them ou at least at night, future self will thank you. O and yes I had 1 month contacts.
OldNewMom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband's record is 7 months same pair. He sleeps in them also
TheyKeepOnRising ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left a pair of disposable contacts in my eyes for over a year because I struggled so hard with taking them out and putting them back in. I actually lost one about half way through the year, and didn't have any more so I went the year with 1 disposable contact to see with.
Needless to say my eyes ended up extremely fucked up vision wise, but I got Lasik and I'm doing great now. No fungus or horrible things happened to me thankfully.
watchoutfordeer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had mine in through all of college.
lookslikeyoureSOL ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I left a pair in for almost a year one time, even though I knew one of them was slightly torn. I woke up one morning and my eye hurt REALLY bad and I couldn't see out of it. I went to check it out in the mirror and the one lens that was torn had disintegrated into about 3 or 4 pieces, most of which had worked it's way into the back of my eye socket.
I retrieved like half of it initially, then over the next few days the other pieces made their way back to the front enough where I could see them in the very corner of my eyeball, just enough to claw them out with the tip of my fingernail.
Nothing quite like having shit stuck in your eye socket that isn't supposed to be there. You can feel it in there all day long, but there isn't anything you can do about it. Those few days were like a perpetual anxiety attack.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how shit can bite you in the ass when you act like a retard towards your body!
craftyj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had mine in for a whole hear once. No joke.
My5tirE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐ I leave mine in for weeks at a time. I also use my 30 day ones for 6-8 months before I toss them away. I know it's really bad for my eyes but other than them getting irritated once every month or so for a day ( I'll take them out, clean them, and leave them out for a week) I have had 0 issues with doing this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to do that when I was in high school. I'm 22 now and have decided that it's incredibly irresponsible to go against what trained optometrists tell me I should do. You can't replace your vision if you lose it, why take the chance? I take them out every night. It's important to let your eyes get oxygen. Otherwise blood vessels will start to grow on your eye to supply the oxygen. Not good. Trust me
AuxHero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS.... oh i read that wrong
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I say... I've been sleeping/living in contacts for about 8 years now. I never take them out even when sleeping, it's too much hassle. I switch them regular like monthly but apart from that I never take them out. Surgery scares me and I've never owned a pair of glasses. I do wonder how it's eventually going to catch up with me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on the type you have. Regardless though, that's really irresponsible. You only get one pair of eyes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone looking to meet some amoeba
Cuss_bucket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My record is 15 months. My optometrist thinks I "take such good care of my eyes."
Lagered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I chronically leave mine in for months at a time before changing them. I have the monthly O2 optics that are supposedly constant wear (albeit for a month at a time, not multiple months like I tend to do...).
I usually wear them until my eyes are blurry the next morning with sleep for five minutes or so after waking up, then I know it's time to change. Perhaps I'll take them out before bed tonight...
yakalakkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boss left them in for like a year. Granted he was always putting eyedrops in. Still, he had to peel them off his eyes..shudder
Quailmannnn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left my 30 day contacts in for a year non stop once. No joke.
frenchfrites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew someone in college that just her contacts in for weeks.
pinkfloydfan4life ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had been leaving mine in for months at a time, I may have even gone 6 months, been doing it for years, for no particular reason though I started wearing my glasses exclusively since December, but anyway I wore my contacts in for months at a time and was completely fine.
coltonmusic15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's worst are the people who don't really clean their contact lens cases. MY WIFE IS TERRIBLE WITH THIS AND I LOOK AT HER FLUID AND WANT TO VOMIT. I had to get that off of my chest.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a safe place.
SgtGrumbles04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to work at a jail and we got some crazy inmates sometimes. Anyway, one day a guy hits the intercom and tells us he is going blind. Call the nurse in and she ends up taking him to a specialist to remove the contacts he had left in since his booking. He'd been there for 8 months and was starting to develop cysts in his eyes.
H0bbez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine have been in for roughly 3 months so far. I literally cannot afford more, my only pair of glasses are twisted, bent and a weaker prescription. Unfortunately I have a stigmatizm(?) In one eye that takes a different prescription so I need to buy 2 boxes :/
WizardSenpai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've done it before. the worst thing that happens to most people who do this is you begin to grow new veins towards the middle of your eye since oxygen cant reach underneath. it goes away pretty quick though. Reading this I'm really glad my eyeballs didn't get eaten.
reallybadwords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband left his in for between 1.5 and 2 YEARS once. He's perfectly fine. I have no idea how.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've probably made it 4 or 5 months with mine. I did that consistently for 4 or 5 years.
I actually woke up one day and my eyes were red and burning and couldn't keep my lenses in, got someone to take me to the optometrist to get them checked out. They were fine besides being suffocated basically. After that I still slept with them in for months at a time.
Once I heard the eyeball amoeba story I started taking mine out every night.
mimicgogo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had the current pair in for about three...
ShataraBankhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In our office, we get lots of patients that wear their contacts for up to 3 months continuously. They don't take them out even for cleaning. Then they look suprised when they are prescribed antibiotics or banned from wearing any for a month. When I am getting the patient prepped to see the optometrist, I ask," How many days at a stretch do you keep them in?". The guilty culprits are usually 20-40 years old. We have a giant poster of some nasty pictures in the workup room. It shows some possible results of never removing the contacts. I honestly try to scare and gross them out a bit. Convienence and affordability seem to be the biggest reasons for not throwing then away or removing them more often.
Oreius1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left mine in for about 1-2 months straight and one night they were bothering me so I got out of bed and took them out and threw them away. About 10 minutes later my left eye started hurting really bad so we ended up going to the emergency room. Turns out the contact had dried to my eye, so when I pulled he contact out, I pulled some of my cornea out as well. It was like a baby rug burn on my eye. I never EVER sleep with my contacts in anymore. That was some of the worst pain I have ever felt.
prest0G ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:06:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wear my dailies for about a week at a time (stupid, I know, but my health insurance doesn't cover anything). Anyways, I always make sure I put several rounds of eyedrops into my eyes before I try to take them out solely because of this reason.
keenuno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh I usually go about 2 months of never taking them out, including sleeping in them, and they seem completely fine. Which will never happen again because apparently I can get FUCKING AMOEBAS EATING MY EYEBALLS! WHY DIDN'T MY EYE DOCTOR WARN ME THIS SHIT CAN HAPPEN!
therealScarzilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My current pair have been in for close to a year, I never have a problem with them feeling uncomfortable and I've never had an eye infection, hell at times I forget I even wear contacts
prest0G ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, for Christ's sake, change em out at least every month or two. Any more than that you're asking for it.
sturmhauke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of dumb motherfuckers, apparently.
redmastif01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My record is about 4 months before they start to bother me.
tigr87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This girl I know yesterday told me that she has had her contacts in since October. I feel like I should tell her she is about to die now
MindlessArt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the daily contacts but I wear them for weeks at a time (sleep and everything). It didn't bother my eyes so I asked my optometrist at my next appointment and he said it wasn't doing any damage to my eyes. He inferred that the contacts allowed enough oxygen to get through that it wasn't an issue. It's odd to me because I can't deal with the contacts you take out and save every night. They bother my eyes too much. I'm fine with this though because it saves me a ton of money as well haha
ambereatsbugs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister left them in for months whens he was a teen and scratched her eyes up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have left them in for almost a year or maybe more. Same pair. I am disgusting.
jt213 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Regularly wear mine for 4+ weeks. When they get dry I change them. Never had any issues whatsoever. Every time I go to the doc, he recommends Lasik.
Acuvue Oasis for those interested. -3.5
laxt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. Going six months without changing contacts makes it sound like an urban legend.
I don't wear contacts, but don't your eyes get annoyingly dry after just one night of leaving them in?
Skibxskatic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as someone who wears monthlys for 4-6 months than I really should, even I don't take them out when they start irritating my eyes. need to give my eyes some fucking time to refresh themselves
thehighhobo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did with dailies. Multiple times. Ya i rinsed em occasionally.
I can't wear contacts 5 years later. It just hurts. My eye doctor says i have scars. Also when i went after she said it had bumps lesions and infections. So my eyes were in bad shape
skitzo563 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever seen the movie May?
7firewire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And who throws a shoe? Honestly?
SmokinMagic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did for three months and got an ulcer. I've taken them out every night since.
aebelsky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its easy u dont feel it
Dillywink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I.. Do?? Uhhh.. I'll stop after eating of the eyeballs thing.
croakiee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dated a guy that had monthly lenses and never took them out for months. Slept in them, swam in them, etc. for over six months. I have no idea how he still has eyes.
The_GreenMachine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my roommate everybody
shoopdahoop22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eyeglasses for the win!
OriginalSin22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before I had LASIK surgery... I wore my contacts for a year without cleaning or changing them. My doctor told me I was one of the few that could do it. He said that I would know if something was wrong because the eyes are so sensitive. I just lucked out I guess. Sure saved me money on contacts.
deftly_lefty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my late teens and early twenties I would never take out my monthly lenses and eventually protein deposits would form. One time I one lens tore so I went around wearing one contact for three months. I really pissed off my optometrist and she warned me of all the danger but was surprised my eyes were fine. She showed me photos of fucked up eyes from lens abuse and now I take them out nightly. I can't believe I use to do this, much shame.
MytinyJiJi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left my contacts on for 1 year and a half
shinecore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a dumb kid, I wore contacts continuously for several months. Not surprisingly, I started to have issues with one eye. Had an ulcer. Almost went blind. 1/10 won't do it again.
legendofhilda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's as bad as the chick who left her tampon in for 9 days. WHY.
TubeZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've left my contacts in for 6 months once (I know, stupid, I'm past that now). Eventually my eyes got some inflammation and a portion of my contacts started going white and then I took them out. Optometrist gave me some drops and I used them for a week or so and my eyes were fine. This was around two years ago and my eyes are still alive.
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she was depressed.
Lord--Of--Darkness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I first got contacts I left mine in for several weeks. It was probably about 2 months. I thought you were only suppose to take them out for comfort. But since my eyes weren't uncomfortable I just left them in.
After about 2 months, my eyes started to feel really uncomfortable and really bloodshot. Went to the eye doctor and turns out I was close to going blind.
Apparently your eyes need oxygen or something and the contacts don't allow oxygen to your eyes.
kcirbfilms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there's your answer. Disgusting people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a guy who left his in for years. His eyeballs grew around his contacts and he couldn't take them out. He constantly had eye issues and was always needing drops, and rubbing them.
Beyond that he was a funny dude. Always seemed happy.
Twiggiams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left the same pair in for months at a time. For 3 to 6 months at a time. I did this for a few years. Finally after a 8 months I took them out. The next morning I awoke with my eye swollen shut and feeling like I had sand under my eyelid. Apparently i got a infection from wearing my contacts that long. It was swollen for a week. I always take them out every night now.
kraken9911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this just conjured up a high school memory. I got these long wear contacts (wear a month straight then discard) and basically I wore them for one year straight. Amazingly they felt fine until month 11 when my eyes started to feel like hell. Went to see an eye doctor and I was told I basically couldn't wear contacts for at least six months. Said I had mushroom shaped protein all over my eyes.
I think I got off lucky. I wear contacts still to this day but responsibly now.
Blackwater6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I leave mine in for 1-2 months each time, wouldn't want to go any longer than that though. And yes, they are designed to be slept in.
Princess_Little ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've left mine in for 2 months straight. No ill effects, only a little dry.
fuckingriot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 14 I would keep mine in for 3-4 months straight, no issue. Nowadays, I can't last 12 hours without them drying up and causing irritation.
berniens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I left mine in for close to 6 months straight. Slept in them and everything. Yeah, my eye doctor had some choice words for me. The one on my left eye was almost fused there.
DPestWork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do. I hate waking up blind in the dark and my eyes never bother me. I tell the eye doctors about my habits and they do extra tests, always concluding that my eyes are still very healthy, besides being extremely near sided. I need to just go and get LASIK before the amoebas attack.
IchBinGelangweilt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking idiots. I don't feel bad for her at all.
earthgarden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
some dirty broad
EmptySearchHistory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have done this. I don't think it was six months, but it was maybe three? Eventually I got an infection in both of my eyes where I would be pulling white puss in long strings out from under my eyelids. I stopped wearing them, and went to see some eye specialists.
I think it took 1.5 years for my eyes to fully "recover". I do not wear contacts anymore (glasses only), and the one time I tried returning to contacts, they won't physically stay on my eyeballs anymore. They just fall off.
My eyes remember.
KidColi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was swimming I would leave my contacts in for months at a time just because I didn't want to wake up earlier than I had to put them in. My eye doctor told me how I had blood vessels growing under my eyes to bring oxygen under the lenses. Now I can barely stand them for a day
Khourieat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe she thought it worked like condoms where you just leave them on 24/7 until they expire.
TommyRobotX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did. It took several years to build up a tolerance. When I went to the eye doctor to get a new prescription I told him and his reply was "This is the point when I should yell at you and tell you to never do that, but your eyes are fine, so I guess keep doing what you're doing."
It was at that point that he gave me the Night & Day ones. Shortly after I went back to wearing glasses.
Vetrevetre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have contacts that last for three weeks without taking them out. I forget they are in there for days at a time. I've never struggled with having dry eyes from contacts, so I could screw up my eyes really bad if I was stupid enough to actually forget about them for a month or two. But I don't really see how I could do that haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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I_troll_one_guy_4evr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try again "professional writing major here" guy
walruz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Play stupid games, win stupid prices.
[deleted] ยท 397 points ยท Posted at 02:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad caught acanthamoeba keratitis from swimming underwater in a lake with his contacts in.
He's almost completely lost sight in his right eye from them chowing down, and ever since I've been far too afraid to regularly wear contact lenses save for when I need to wear eye protection.
Midas-Whale ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do the contacts make a difference though? Like if you don't have contacts, are you safe from this shit, or should I just stay out of the water entirely?
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 04:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The contacts don't make a difference, he thinks it does though.
You're definitely safer not using contacts, but the doctors said the likeliness of it happening is very very very very slim and that he essentially had shit luck. It'd be silly not to wear contacts in the fear of getting scary eye eating amoebas, I just prefer glasses anyways.
kdem007 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew I recognized your name! Cool to see someone from r/Airsoft in the wild
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayy lmao itsa me, Dildie
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair it's an easy name to recognize ...
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amoeba lives on the lense, it won't blind you if you're not wearing contacts and you don't have to be afraid of wearing then as long as you're not a fucktard who gets water on them and keeps wearing them.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After awhile though they spread from the lense on to your eye, and if you have bad contact habits (like my dad did) then it'd be hard to tell until it's too late.
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I mean that if you're just swimming without the lens or showering without the lens it's not going to be able to spread to your eye.
xNyxx ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:27:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Contacts are a million times better for sight than glasses though. You won't regret it.
Midas-Whale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I wear them almost every day. Just wondering.
pokelord13 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:40:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only use contacts when I absolutely need them. Every other time I just wear my glasses.
Some sports related activities like running are very helpful with contacts instead of glasses. But I really don't see the need to swim with contacts on when they can get easily damaged that way.
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he always says that he regrets being so lazy to not take them out. He used glasses for a year or two afterwards, before switching back to contacts again. At least he uses one a day contacts now.
themadninjar ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That seems like a given...
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a water polo player and a swimmer... Who also worn the same contacts for 3~ months...
Shit.
pokelord13 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at the very least wear swimming goggles if you have contacts on
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol you don't wear goggles in water polo. you can't wear goggles.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:07:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're legally blind without them
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not legally blind, so I cannot legally wear goggles in the sport of water polo
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dw i wore contacts for 4 years of high school polo and swimming and i'm fine. oh but make sure to switch them out regularly. like mine are supposed to be used for a month at a time before tossing and i kept to that schedule pretty diligently.
SpeCSC2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully there aren't any amoebia in the pool water. Probably not due to the chlorine so I wouldn't worry :)
DoomZero755 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two weeks ago I was home from university and I visited an eye doctor for the first time in a buncha years. They were like "yeah you should get glasses, at least for long-distance vision", and so I started thinking "hmm, I wonder if contact lenses are a good option".
Just looked up this eye-eating amoeba. Yep. I'm never wearing contacts. Every single goddamn thing can stay the fuck away from my eyes. "Here put some glass in front of your eyes, people might have to adjust to the new look, but on the other hand, it's less likely that your eyes will be functionally destroyed by amoeba." "ok doc"
Pyramat ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 05:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you just follow the proper directions (of which there really aren't many) then the risk of eye-eating amoebas is negligible. Avoiding contacts completely because you're afraid of eye-eating amoebas is like avoiding eating solid food because you're afraid of choking.
idreamofkitty ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:02:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, I should be avoiding solid food now too?
trex694 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you're fat.
jojenpaste ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:33:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are milkshakes solid?
Ktopotato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Step 1: Don't forget to take them out
Step 2: DON'T FORGET TO TAKE THEM OUT
Step 3: DON'T FORGET TO TAKE THEM OUT, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
GodofWitsandWine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was young there was mercury in contact lens solution. Want to be fucked up? That's how you get fucked up. The white part of my eye basically started to break down. Plot twist: I still wear contacts.
Ragwolfe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How old are you?
GodofWitsandWine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:55 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also think about all the money you save, where i live a years supply of contact lences will be more expensive than a a pair of glasses and the glasses will last you a longer time comparatively so its the more frugal way to go, i have never tried contacts and have no plans to do it either.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's basically how I feel about glasses. They're low-tech solution that has never let me down.
MisterBinlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are really scared about contacts, and also don't like glasses, rigid gas permeable contacts work like a charm. Put them in when you go to bed, take them out in the morning, no risk of flesh eating amoebas what so ever.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to wear them constantly back in high school and college. And then one day it was as if my eyes started rejecting them. It didn't matter if they were brand new lenses, if kept them perfectly clean, I even tried the O2-permiable kind, every time I put them in my eyes started burning.
KoalaKyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a person who doesn't wear glasses, I don't understand the statement: >I only use contacts when I absolutely need them. Please explain when one would need contacts.
pokelord13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes like running track (glasses will fall of when you start running), football (hard to wear glasses in a helmet), swimming (can't wear glasses behind goggles) etc. require wearing contacts over glasses. It's still possible to do these things with glasses but it's much more difficult.
wolfsplosion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I... I wear them when I scuba so I can see the fishes... I leave for a diving trip tomorrow... I'm in full fucking panic right now!! :(
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you also have goggles on and were taught to clear your mask.
IAmWhatTheRockCooked ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:57:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHY IS THIS A THING
wrong_assumption ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that your dad caught that because he didn't disinfect his contacts properly after swimming in an amoeba-filled lake?
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:34:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh.. did it hurt?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, definitely.
basileusautocrator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:40:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why wearing contacts is a factor?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easier for them to get caught up in there because of water trapped under the lenses, I'd assume
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:38:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you lie. you're obviously not a man with dildo hands, either. how can we believe anything you say (especially if it's as horrifying as that)
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:40:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a man of many talents, baby
Brendanm132 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was Edward dildo-hands taken?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, I made this user around 10th grade and I thought it was fucking hilarious
37-pieces-of-flair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
chowing down
Shudder...
Attle37 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm such an unlucky cunt I caught it twice, once in each eye about 2 years apart. At the time of the first case it was relatively unheard of so was only caught late on, to this day I'm amazed I got my full sight back. And yea, lazer eye surgery over contacts from then on!
Edit: A word
LIL_CRACKPIPE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BreakBloodBros ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:29:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to be that guy, but it's safer to wear prescription safety glasses or goggles that go over your normal glasses rather than contacts+safety glasses. If anything were to get under your contacts, whether it be sawdust or chemicals, it would be harder to clean/remove.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:10:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just happened to a friend of mine in the complex swimming pool.
Uncle_Erik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:01:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry about your dad.
I have a workshop with power tools and, even then, I won't wear contacts. I wear my regular glasses with Trivex lenses behind a Lexan face shield. If anything can make it past Lexan and Trivex, I would be well and truly fucked in many other ways.
Ktopotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swimming
with contacts in
Ah, yes. I see the problem.
Letty_Whiterock ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:08:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Times like this I remind myself that I like glasses and don't need the responsibility of contacts.
seeing_red415 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:31:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cornea specialist ophthalmologist here. It's called acanthamoeba and it's a bitch to treat. You have to treat them with chlorhexadine, bromine, and phmb. These are strong chemicals essentially the same as pool cleaner. You have to put these right in the eye and it takes a long time to improve.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you tell me why dialation eye drops feel like acid whereas it's no big deal for most people?
Also, I'm horrified of eye doctors. You are my boogie man.
=(
LookSpaghettiArms ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:19:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Acanthamoeba Keratitis! I actually had that (although I didn't leave my contacts in for six months, mine is from a different stupid mistake), and am one of the only people in the world who have regained their vision entirely.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:23:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Care to elaborate? This sounds interesting
Idie_999 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:17:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My money is on a bad blast to the face from a person in an airport bathroom.
Kemakill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No reply yet, so this must be true.
LookSpaghettiArms ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was training for my ballroom exams, and my contacts had been bothering me. I took them out, and stuck them in water since I didn't have any solution with me, with plans of putting them into solution when I got home. (I have sensitive eyes, and used a solution that takes 6 hours to clean the lenses due to the peroxide in the solution) and completely forgot to put them in solution, plus didn't wear them for about a week. I put them in, and pretty much the amoeba had the chance to get into my eye.
Then there is the whole process of discovering what it was, and everything. If you want, I can elaborate on that, but I've been planning on setting up an AMA with pictures of the amoeba in my eye, and more to the story in the next few weeks.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:38:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I put them in water overnight when I was in high school a few times too. I'm sorry you went through that! I'll be looking forward to your AMA.
zylphite ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:39:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had it too, back in high school (would've been around 2007/08) in the wake of the AMO Complete Moisture Plus lens solution recall. I too was lucky that it was caught quite early. My normal ophthalmologist referred me to a cornea specialist after about a week, who immediately diagnosed it and scraped the outer layer of my cornea. 9 months and thousands of hourly eye drops later, and all I'm left with is some scarring in my right cornea. Unfortunately, this has prevented me from being able to have LASIK done, but hey, at least I can see!
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:38:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..scraped... your eyeball...?
zylphite ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, in order to get the worst of the amoebas out of my eye, they put some numbing drops in, inserted a wire speculum to keep my eye open and used a small blade to scrape off the outer layer off my cornea. It doesn't really hurt at the time due to the drops, but it's still very uncomfortable. And there were a few minutes between when the drops wore off and the painkillers they prescribed kicked in where I was in a world of pain.
Once that was done, I had 3 different eye drops I had to apply hourly (day and night) for several weeks. They gradually taper the frequency down over the course of about ~9 months until you're officially amoeba-free. The reason it takes so long is that the acanthamoeba goes into a cyst-like state when it's attacked, which makes it almost impervious to any sort of treatment. You just have to keep at it for a long period of time.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:53:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god wtf.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:36:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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LookSpaghettiArms ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:44:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It exists in water, dirt, air, etc. Water is the main culprit, which is why you are not supposed to wear your contacts while swimming, in the shower, or put them in water instead of solution. And why you need to wash your hands before taking your contacts out.
LookSpaghettiArms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you also regain vision completely? I was first diagnosed with an ulcer, but it wasn't getting any better. Then after a few more days of not getting any better, they had an oh shit moment, and sent me to another clinic. Then after a weekend of them going hmm, the new clinic sent me to the U of MN because they didn't have the equipment to see the amoeba. I had to stay on eye drops for almost a year, and only have a small scar, but I'm not looking to do LASIK.
Are you on biweekly contacts or do you have to stick with once dailies?
zylphite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncorrected vision in that eye is about the same as it was prior (which isn't saying much, I have pretty poor eyesight). However, the issue is more than with all the scarring in my cornea, it's difficult to correct the vision. Glasses do essentially nothing and I'm forced to wear hard RGP contact lenses for even a moderate improvement in vision. For the most part, I've learned to rely pretty heavily on my left eye and just use the right one to help with depth perception.
I'd always wanted to get LASIK and do away with glasses/contacts, but was told that my cornea is too thin to risk the procedure (although the doc who did my consultation said that with improvements in technology, it may be more feasible 10-15 years down the road).
I forget exactly which clinic I ended up going to, although I know it was somewhere in St. Paul/Minneapolis (I grew up in the Twin Cities), although I don't think it was at the U of M. Fortunate that I was living in a part of the world with many fantastic eye doctors :)
LookSpaghettiArms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:48:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeesh. Yeah, my scar is on the edge of the iris, so none of my vision has been affected. I am lucky enough to be on once dailies though. The only thing is that my eye gets dry more than normal every now and again.
LASIK was never something I wanted to do. Saw the process on the Discovery Channel once. Nope nope nope, not for me.
U of MN would definitely be something to look into, they might have something to offer.
TheBlueRivers ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:25:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lian Kao
ellipsisEclipses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Saved me a Google
pm_your_netflix_Queu ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:15:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah going to stick with my nerd specs. Thanks I needed the reminder.
jacquelinesarah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying to take a contact out, and messed up (don't ask how) so it seemed to have slipped to the side of my eye. Then I couldn't feel it so I just assumed I'd gotten it out without realising. I keep thinking that, despite not being able to feel it, that it might be hiding in the side, since I didn't physically witness it out of my eye. I should probably go get it checked out..
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:13:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude its your fuckin eye, why the hell haven't you gotten it checked yet. It'll be like 50 bucks, and possibly save your fucking vision. Jesus don't be kne of the Legion of lazy idiots who fuck their vision with contacts over nothing. Get it checked.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the slip happen all the time! I always panic and roll my eyes around until I see it lurking in some corner.
jacquelinesarah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same, but this time I never found it!
ThePedoHunter ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:57:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I'd like to know is how anyone could not notice that amoebas are eating their fucking eyes. Like, wouldn't your eyes hurt like hell enough to warrant a trip to a doctor before the situation gets too out of hand? Getting an eyelash or plain water in my eyes stings like a bitch, I'd probably see an eye doctor after a single day of any possible symptoms.
PhilxBefore ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:10:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your eyeball has no sensitive nerves. Go ahead, poke it (with clean hands) and you won't feel anything.
Your eyelid, socket, and surrounding areas will burn like a bitch if you cut onions or breathe the wrong way.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's just the tissue around the eye that burns like hell with the dialation eye drops?
ThePedoHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just touched eyeball with clean finger. Still feels irritated 5 minutes later. I suppose I just have very sensitive ones? Like I mentioned before, regular water fucks me up real bad.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. I went to my eye doctor when I accidentally used the solution that you're supposed to soak the lenses in to rinse one in the morning.
madamelifeguard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god - the burn! I did that once. There was a little pool of saline in the lens before I stuck it on my eye. So many tears. Which was helpful in rinsing out my eye! It was so red.
R99 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh what? I soak my lenses in the same solution that I use to clean them every day. Is that not normal? It doesn't bother me at all and my eye doctor has never said to not do it.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use the Clear Care with the standing up case. I think it's fine to soak and clean if you use other brands but Clear Care has a warning label on the front and it burns horribly if it touches the eye. I have to get a second saline solution to rinse them with at night and the morning.
R99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I put my contacts in saline overnight. The brand name is Bio True, it's what my optometrist recommended me and I like it.
anniewriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess some solutions are multi purpose and some aren't .
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't fix it, once you were them after the amoeba was in the water that touched them you are entirely fucked.
ThePedoHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit... Yeah, I think it's safe to say I'm sticking with my nerd glasses. Fuck amoebas.
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:37:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't get the contacts wet and keep wearing them like an idiot you are 100% not fucked though.
Mostly_Syrup ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:37:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder what else she ignored for 6 months?
TheMadBlimper ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:03:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, this is why I wear glasses; for one thing, I think it's absolutely disgusting to place any object directly on the eyeball. Secondly, glasses double as a nifty eyeball shield.
FPSGamer48 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I wear glasses.
R99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or just not leave contacts in for 6 months at a time, without even taking them out at night
RyoDai89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:17:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fuck?!
EightyObselete ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have source? Not doubting you just interested in reading up.
ambiguouslaurels ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/girl-left-her-contacts-6-months-and-amoebas-ate-her-eyeballs
poke9dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WARNING: that article got NASTY pics, yo.
coalminnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sick!
chasers_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eye-moebas
RIOTS_R_US ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or the one who had faucet water and had an eyeball eating worm.
t33j4f ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a teacher whose contacts melted onto her eyeballs during an Australian heat-wave.
Pikapops ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew someone who kept his in for over a year without taking them out. It was so gross.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucked up. I kept mine in for 3 months before. Cleaned them daily however. This was only because I couldn't afford new contacts or glasses and only had that last pair left.
First paycheck with a new job, I bought contacts.
AustinAuranymph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BRB CHANGING CONTACTS
Miagod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes even longterm contacts can harm you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. Mine have been in over a year.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit.. I leave my contacts in for forever too. It's been 3 or so months..
Taking them out now!
bmhadoken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The answer is to not leave your contacts in for 6 sodding months.
Brittle_Bones_Bishop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck leaves contacts in for 6 months? I can barely wear them 10 hours but 6 months.
MPC45000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why I stick to glasses.
Mad_Hatter_Bot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I got LASIK, only was able to get a single contact on in my lifetime
fuckitx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember that article ;( bleugh
poke9dude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
an anime I was just watching had almost that exact story in one episode. anime was mushishi, episode 2, don't worry, no gore
southsideson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a thing about a girl in india, she was having pains in here ear, and they found out there was an ant colony in there, and they havent been able to get them out, they keep seeing one come out every once in a while.
You're welcome for the nightmares.
dbryhitman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*cleans glasses
Loupegarou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have been wearing long wear contacts for 25 years. Put them in, leave them for 30 days, exchange for a new set. Costs less than $100/year. I wear Accuvue Oasis now.
docbauies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if i ever need glasses, i'm sticking with glasses.
RemyMill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, I wear 30 day contacts for like 2 or 3 months on average....
I take them out nightly to soak in solution at least?
Heyoooo55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My coworker had one of those get into his eyes after he fell asleep with contacts on. He was misdiagnosed a few times before they caught the thing. It started off looking just red and scratched and then turned bloodshot and the eye went blind. He had to serve tables with an eyepatch and we ended up raising money so he could take time off work.
He had to go to Johns Hopkins for their elite eye doctors and then moved back home with his family in the south. The last I heard, he (VERY) luckily got sight back to that eye and is doing well. After all of the misdiagnoses and mess ups with medication dosages, he's lucky to be alive.
Kenyanguyhere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6 months, she was just asking for it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stories like these make me happy I stopped wearing contacts like... 6 years ago. I was bad at taking them out and my eyes were always irritated. Once I ran out, I wore my glasses again. Sometimes I miss contacts, but I know I shouldn't.
gone_gaming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Storytime!
A number of years ago I was working in a small city known for tourism and it's lovely beaches. I had worn contacts for years and when I ran out of new pairs I simply started reusing the same pair of one-month contacts over an over... I would take them out each night and then put them in again the next morning. Until it started to hurt when I took them out. I'm talking lemon juice and jalapenos in your eyes every night I took them out. What does super smart me decide to do? Go to a doctor ad get new contacts? Heck no that's a 30 minute drive into town and I don't have a car (or money for an eye exam and new contacts). So I left them in every night and would just put a few drops of saline in my eyes the next day to rewet them.
I did this for months. 2 months passed, 4, 6, and ten about 8 months later I started having a severe reaction. Burning and burning and more burning... took the contacts out only from one eye, I had to work and as a bartender, seeing is impirtant. Put some drops in, burning didn't stop. Left them out for 2 days, felt better and put the same contact back in. Yep same one. If you've ever worun your contacts too long your contacts will get dirtier and dirtier to the point where they are a cloudy mess speckled with calcified buildup scratching your eyelids and corneas every time you blink. do not do this. Trust me.
After over 10 months with the same pair of contacts and nearly that entire time with them left in my eyes, I finally went to an eye doctor. I had blood vessels growing into my iris trying to help feed more oxygen to my eyes because my contacts weren't allowing oxygen though and I was literally suffocating my eyeballs. Luckily no permanent damage, but it very well could have blinded me for life. Scary stuff.
Tl:Dr I did that once. No amoebas but could have blinded myself suffocating my eyeballs. 10+months and only took them out once or twice.
TheMeowMeow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I'M AMOEBA IN MY EYES JOHNSON HERE AT AMOEBA IN MY EYES JOHNSON'S ELECTRONICS. I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY AMOEBA IN MY EYES, AND THERE'S SO MANY TVS, MICROWAVES, RADIOS, I THINK, I'M NOT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SURE WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN STOCK BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. OUR PRICES, I HOPE, AREN'T TOO LOW!"
IntrospectorGadget ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That amoeba is called acanthamoeba, and it is just about the worst thing that can possibly infect the eye. I have a classmate in optometry school that got this from wearing her contacts in a hot tub. She had to have corneal transplants in both eyes. Shit is GNAR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba_keratitis
ProfitisAlethia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked this up actually because I also tend to go very long periods of time without taking out my contacts. It turns out the reason she got infected was because she swam with them in which allowed them to infect her contacts. It's still a good idea to change and wash your contacts regularly, but it usually won't leave you blind.
Protahgonist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Her biggest mistake was having delicious eyeballs.
Mmmm, that tasty tasty undefended biomass.
CHeartsMangoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She also went swimming in a public pool more than once a week. There's all kinds of bacteria in there.
Kazitron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm suddenly really glad that I picked glasses.
Dolthra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whelp, looks like I'm staying with glasses then.
humanoid12345 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had it happen to me. Used tap water to store my contacts on occasion, because I was young and stupid and at a lady's house... yada yada... sex may have been involved... But anyway, I contracted an amoeba parasite called Acanth-amoeba. Was consuming my retina. It cleared up with steroid treatment and some other things, but I don't recommend it. The retinal biopsy (where the surgeon took a slice off my retina while I was awake) was uncomfortable to say the least. Take care of your contact lens hygiene, kids!
Novijen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See this, this is why I wear glasses and not contacts.
Llama_on_a_bike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having just got contacts, AGH WTF: http://www.people.com/article/amoebas-eat-eyeballs-contacts
Megmca ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I shared that story on Facebook and one of my coworkers came in the next day pissed as hell because she'd read it, immediately taken her contacts out, and ripped one.
Cheap_Ass_Sunglasses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:09:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is just one of the many reasons why I prefer my glasses.
muggojill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
taking "feast your eyes" to another level I see
rubydrops ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ate her eyeball? What remained? An empty socket? I remember seeing some picture of someone's eye filled with maggots.
iskiml0ot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm taking my contacts out now
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend of the families son passed away that way last year. He went swimming in a lake and later died from causes from the brain eating amoeba in his brain...
qryCosmos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Contacts. Not even once. It's a lifetime of untucked shirt-tails and wondering where I sleft the damned things for me!
hoodectomy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Link for the lazy:
http://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/woman-blinded-cornea-eating-bugs-after-leaving-contacts-6-months
drs_enabled ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bug is called "acanthomoeba". It sucks.
TenLittleAliens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:23:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's why I wear glasses.
TheSeaOfThySoul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is just one if the many reasons why I don't wear contacts.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:05:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eyeglasses, wohoo!
Frostywood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just to clarify as people don't seem to understand, she didn't take them out AT ALL for six months. It's perfectly fine to wear contacts for a month (and probably longer) as long as you take them out every night and put them in saline solution. I'm not even sure how she managed it if I so much as nap in mine they disappear around the side of my eyeball and I have to spend about half an hour trying to coax them out
GodofWitsandWine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thaaaat's gross. My sister's boyfriend has had his in for a year. I am going to hunt this story down and mail it to him anonymously.
yamateh87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:34:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying go figure out whether I should get new glasses or eye contacts this definitely answered my question lol
cthulhuscatharsis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:51:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An old boss of mine would leave dailies in until his eyes got so infected he'd have to go to the hospital. He was an incredibly intelligent dude, but he just kept doing it. It just boggled us. He at one point got meningitis and was in the hospital for almost a year and nearly died. I don't know if the contact thing could have caused that, but I expect the constant infections probably didn't help.
OD_Emperor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:03:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright. If I ever have to wear contacts I'm wearing glasses instead.
vakavaka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had that almost happen. Caught it very early and never wore contacts again. DO NOT sleep in contact lenses
Hench21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Confirmed
http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/5589288
vatrat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:27:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's the contact equivalent of leaving dirty dishes in the sink for two years
SomeoneImportant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:41:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This can also happen if you use tap water on your contacts
CatV3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:52:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can (sorta) confirm. I used to wear dailies for longer than a day, like a week or so. Until one day my right eye was in a ton of pain and very light sensitive. Went to eye doc and she found 3 ulcers growing in my right eye. 6 months wearing just glasses, tons of different eye drops and a lot of pain later, I still can't wear my contacts every day without irritating the scars. Lesson learned: Daily contacts should be thrown away daily. Who knew.
thebuttpirater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I'll just stick with glasses...
_tasteslikechemicals ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had the same infection from going in a hot tub with contacts in with a scratched cornea. Sadly (?) I didn't get featured in the news, but can confirm, it was hell.
candre23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is that story.
a_future_promised ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found it.
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/girl-left-her-contacts-6-months-and-amoebas-ate-her-eyeballs
editedbycooper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is called acanthamoeba keratitis and I had it and it fucking sucked. But you can get it from just regular contact lense wear, I got it because I put my contacts in with damp hands. It's become sensationalised in the press recently, but essentially it does eat your eyeballs.
chirpzz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knew a dude who had this happen (after he went swimming in a lake) woke up with scar tissue on his cornea. He had to get a cornea transplant. Last I heard he was doing well and he could see again.
KidColi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A kid I swam with in college got an amoeba and almost lost his eye. He has permanent damage to his eyes and still has to take special eye drops.
However the scariest part about this story is that our athletic department blamed him and refused to sanitize our pool.
jaewayne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, this is me
theclownwithafrown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm making an eye appointment for new contacts right now...
delmar42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Save up for LASIK, folks. Best elective surgery ever...
GraemeTaylor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone posted it on TIL...
fokinsean ยท 2712 points ยท Posted at 01:14:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Water shot up my nose when jumping into a semi stagnant area of water on a hot day this summer. I was seriously tripping out for an entire week. I would have semi panic attacks at any sign of my neck feeling stiff or pressure in my head.
The day after the potential symptoms period was over I read that some poor young kid in Houston got the amoeba, and he ended up dying a few days later.
Fuck that amoeba. It is literally made of nightmares.
http://imgur.com/6uy3qkJ?r
Edit: Bonus Scare
People have also gotten it from not boiling the water they use in a neti pot!
CaptainAwesome214 ยท 2527 points ยท Posted at 01:52:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THAT EVIL LITTLE FUCK SMILING??!!
bluutack ยท 4359 points ยท Posted at 02:35:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when you love your job you never work a day in your life
aboutsomeoneelse ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 03:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is outstanding
redmist13 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:21:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not often do comments make me laugh out loud, holy shit
Peanutbutt-hurt ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
KipChelly ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:44:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh boy! Here I go killing again!"
-Amoebapulous Michael
anti_pope ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:04:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't stop laughing at this.
CoreBeatz7 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:04:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
theres gotta be a subreddit for quotes for creepily irrelevant pictures
Mixell_Burk ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is truly an underrated comment
johnny_appletits ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's perfect. You deserve the gold.
Catatonic27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just collapsed into a giggling pile of uselessness at work because of you and almost got caught on Reddit by my boss.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:39 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Catatonic27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:14 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anytime bro. (:
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Magnificent
Thinnestspoon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:32:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's me in a good mood for the rest of the day!
nPrimo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:17:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get it
Xwire1337 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:21:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you love your job you wouldn't consider it work.
nPrimo ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:31:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh okay
Pahk0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:30:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you like your job, work doesn't feel like work. The amoeba loves its job of killing people.
nPrimo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh okay
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:49 on March 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL and so did nPrimo
nPrimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:03 on March 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no :(
Picnic_Basket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If something was so fun that you love doing it, someone else would do it for free, so you'll be unemployed forever
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:22:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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nPrimo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:11:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hey it's me...wait, you're not me!
nPrimo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah :D
MothaFuckingSorcerer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never agreed with that statement. I love physical labor, and the jobs I've enjoyed reflect this. It's still work, but I like it.
Lotacus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there. Well played, friend, well played indeed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking aced it!
peoplerproblems ยท 773 points ยท Posted at 02:08:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aww it likes you
Juz16 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god
Stacia_Asuna ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Howdy! I'm Amy! Amy the amoeba!
You IDIOT! In this world, it's amoeba or be amoeba'd!
imsosorryitlookedlikeomegaflowey
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:20:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Delsana ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:48:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Om nom nom nom brain brain brain om nom nom nom.
Minusguy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:48:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he likes him for what he is inside
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:31:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm high and you people are really exacerbating the effects... and not in a good way.
Delsana ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:48:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world is on fire.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course. Why would I expect someone to say anything else?
McLovin804 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And God doesn't have enough tears to put out the flame.
Delsana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because God is your dog and still upset you didn't give him a bone.
The-Strange-Remain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With soy sauce and a side order of pickled ginger.
bamforeo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:36:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omnomnom
plump_tinkler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:21:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MAMMY
Darius314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Satans__Secretary ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:18:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
High-Octane Nightmare Fuel
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's a depraved emotionless monster who wants to eat your brains. Duh.
WafflesOfChaos ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:35:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This amoeba prevented me from diving last year. Was found in a lake I was going to scuba in like a month before I went. Good timing on my part because people died in that lake before they figured it out.
For-The-Swarm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did they sanitize the lake, or maybe destroy it with an underwater nuke?
WafflesOfChaos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:11:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They did neither of those things
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:22:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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CaptainAwesome214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐
Lucifaux ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just Steve.
Satans__Secretary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd more call it Amoejehova.
Lucifaux ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My secretaries would do well not to correct their boss.
Shadowr54 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's eating your memories! So many good thoughts! You didn't need them right?
Ban_all_religion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tummy full of tasty brains?
Beardybeardface1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like a black and white minstral.
So not only does it eat your brain....it manages to be racist whilst doing so!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it evil though? It's just its nature. We are its food.
Is a lion evil for eating a buffalo?
Are we evil for eating chicken?
Delsana ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I evil for eating you and then wearing your skin as a coat because I'm cold?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But is it in human nature to kill another human being for their skin? I don't think so. Back in the day when we still were venturing out of warm Africa we would have used fur of animals we killed.
We now can make wool and cotton clothes. We don't mass hunt deer for their fur.
I don't know what the fuck I am trying to say. My point is calling an amoeba 'evil' is ridiculous.
Delsana ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my human cultural nature. Om nom nom your bones taste good.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am at least good for something haha. Enjoy me. ;)
dysfunctional_vet ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cultural... I see what you did there.
TheTyke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, that logic also dictates we should be vegetarian/vegan.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:21:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I took this 'argument' from mom. I asked her "why is being vegetarian important when our bodies are designed for an omnivorous diet. Don't other animals eat other animals?".
She said something like "but we have other means of acquiring food, like farms. We have the choice to not kill animals, it isn't necessary for survival. But for a lion, it is. It would die without meat".
I don't know if it makes any sense, but it stuck with me. I am not a vegetarian, but I still found the argument interesting.
Hindu Indian here btw, just so you know where the argument was coming from.
TheTyke ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with your mum, yeah. I'm vegetarian and would love to visit India. Dope place.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's coming over to visit you, like a good friend! It appreciates your friendship so much. You should buy it a gift.
belladas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the joker's face from the batman comics.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laughing Coffin
monstrinhotron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HELLO DAAVE!
https://youtu.be/qkiix0aveRk
tarquinwinot1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why it's papa lazarou
IdentifiesBoringPuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You swear like Deb on Dexter. It feels forced, and it's boring.
CaptainAwesome214 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
K
IdentifiesBoringPuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also your username is a stupid cliche.
CaptainAwesome214 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you seem to be having a very rough day. Hope it gets better for you, dude.
IdentifiesBoringPuns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CAPTAIN AWESOME! WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
Get a personality of your own.
twistmental ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awww, it's a little clown
Random-Compliment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The eyes are also mouths.
Aemnys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"First discovered in Australia"
Of course..
Wild_Hunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's coming for your brain
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it feels wrong for something that fucked up to be that cute...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the Joker.
mtm5891 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:53:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because /r/pareidolia
asdjk482 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BECAUSE YOUR MONKEY BRAIN THINKS EVERYTHING IS FACES
the_eric ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 02:26:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that amoeba terrifies you so much, maybe you should stop jumping into semi stagnant areas of water.
fokinsean ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:34:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Note taken.
Looking back the water wasn't that sketchy. It was flowing a few days earlier but got low enough where there wasn't a lot of flow.
However what really got to me are the incidents where it has occurred in large lakes that aren't considered stagnant.
[deleted] ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 03:58:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This amoeba is ubiquitous around the globe. Almost any unpurified water might have some living in it. If that sounds scary, take heart! Literally millions of people swim and bathe in natural water daily, and almost none of them ever die by amoebal meningitis.
The most reassuring thing to note is this: there is only one very tiny area in the back of your sinuses where these amoebas can cause this effect on you, and it's protected. Your sinuses almost always have small amounts of air trapped inside, even when you take a noseful of water. That vulnerable spot has a permanent bubble trapped next to it. Amoebas can't swim through air.
Moral of this story is take a deep breath before you dive, purify any water you shoot up your nose, and don't worry too much about amoebas eating your brain. :)
TheMissingMeatball ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:24:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hmm sounds like something an amoeba would say
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:15:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(Shit, my cover is blown!)
SliverMcSilverson ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My hero :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I appreciate all the info you've got on Naegleria, I think its badass
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:36 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope this knowledge will help my anxiety around water. I used to love swimming until I had a horrible nervous breakdown last year. Thanks for sharing this.
I'm answering a 2 month old post i know shut up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:44 on May 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I still use a sinus rinse pretty much daily, and every time I do, I think about this post I wrote. I'm glad I could help, friend. :)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:58:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only snort the pure shit. Fuckin casuals.
Pumpernickelfritz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can water can be semi stagnant? Does it kind of move, or move slowly? It's only stagnant in one spot? So many questions.
the_eric ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just assumed it was like milk. You know when it's good, you know when it's bad, and there's a pretty wide gray area in between the two.
CelloFiend ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 02:27:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"first discovered in australia"
Somehow not surprised.
[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 04:05:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australian here, was a little bit surprised. Seriously did God just sit there one day after creating hallucinagenic mushies & think "yeah, gonna work on that big brown patch now. Let's see.. spikey trees that will drive people insane.. umm YEAH I'll put a leftover beaver tail & duck face on that huge rat thing, needs more poison though.. some DMT in those trees for later.. oh man I'm wasted, just gonna leaves these snakes here for a bit. I'll spread them out later..."
CelloFiend ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:11:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Care to elaborate on the spiky trees? Everything else sounds familiar.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:30:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gympie gympie tree.. covered in hairs which are actually poisonous spines -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
CelloFiend ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:46:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Y'all be nuts.
Neglectful_Stranger ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a video of some British outdoors guy touching one. He goes into some pretty intense pain and admits to the camera dude that he wasn't expecting a plant to hurt -that- much.
He ends up walking off, then kind of collapsing to his knees and puking from pain.
ours ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:42:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he later try to kiss some irukandji jellyfish to check if the hurt that much?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:53:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah.. just a little
ghjfds78908 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:57:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the land of terror
Satans__Secretary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even the amoebas are trying to kill you!
CdotW ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 02:36:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naglaeria fowleri. Don't take a parasitology class or you will be scared of everything. DON'T EAT SUSHI
fokinsean ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:38:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the deal with sushi?
CdotW ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parasites. All kinds. Don't eat raw fish or meat. Ever. I know it's good. So is being healthy.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you tell me what the chances are that I'll drop dead after eating store-bought sushi before the expiration date?
ibbolia ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:15:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most sushi you get is flash frozen beforehand to kill off any parasites.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:01:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All. In the US and EU anyway. Your sushi is safe.
Slyninja215 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:15:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god I just went on a sashimi spree for dinner last night
goodbye reddit
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:59:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Slyninja215 is kill.
Quenz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no
Cassiterite ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:50:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
F
CdotW ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your will shall be done
evictor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
F
antemon ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I occasionally flush my nostrils with a neti pot.
so it's a delicate balance of extreme discomfort and asphyxiation or brain eating amoeba that I have to ponder on before using the thing.
I'm so paranoid that I used distilled bottled water for it.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Luxray ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many of the saline sprays actually have additives that can increase congestion if used over a longer period of time, and they don't even flush the sinuses out like neti pots do.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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iamanis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flonase is OTC now, and it's awesome. I'll swear by that spray. If I was a race car driver, Flonase would be my main sponsor. Fuck yeah Flonase!
oh-thatguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used it for awhile but it started to cause nose-bleeds :(
Fuck my allergies.
Luxray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so paranoid that I only wash mine with distilled water.
iamanis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me too. Do you boil it still?
Luxray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I don't boil it, there's not really any point to it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Distilled water is fine, especially if it stays closes and doesn't have much exposure to anything outside the bottle. (I.e.: put the lid back when you're done.) Amoebas, like any other organism, need nutrients and minerals to survive. Distilled water has almost all of its nutrients and minerals removed. Any amoeba that does find its way into some pure distilled water is likely to starve to death. If you have doubts, microwave or boil it first.
Full disclosure: I've sinus rinse almost daily for about 3 years. Distilled water + salt packet every time. I clean the squirt bottle daily and replace it a few times each year. Still alive.
HakushiBestShaman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just get some chlorine from your local pool store and chlorinate the water.
Not sure if this will have side effects for you if you only use a very small amount.
Chlorine kills. Everything. That's why we use it in pools. You can swallow pool water without dying so a very small concentration of chlorine should be fine and still kill everything off.
doth_thou_even_hoist ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:14:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK FUCK NO FUCK THAT FUCK
LokBruh ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:12:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And of course its origin is Australia.. fml
neonKow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if you didn't want nature to murder you, you shouldn't be in Australia. It's not like nature didn't warn you with giant spiders already.
RaePie ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:13:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can't really look like that, with that scary face shape on it, right?
Thurito ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:44:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think those circle things change shape and size, but it looks like they end up being faces sometimes.
drunquasted ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:53:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:O
HelloRMSA ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:27:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8O
nc863id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Needs some shoop da whoop.
masterx25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IM FIRRIN MAH LAZZZERR!!
ThisIsTheMilos ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:14:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*first discovered in Australia
Well, that is one of the least surprising things I have heard in my entire fucking life. Even if you can't see it, if it's from Australia you will die a horrible death.
sloth_jones ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:14:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People have gotten it from using straight pond/lake water to neti
Buddy_Z ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went through this multiple times this past summer, to the point where I started taking my temperature every couple hours thinking maybe I could get to the hospital early enough.
Fun fact: these little fuckers can have a delayed onset type of effect. They're only active in the state you find in warm water, but in cooler water they exist in, I guess what can be likened to a cocoon state. So, if you think you're safe swimming in cooler water where they shouldn't be active and inhale these cocoons, your warm nasal cavity is the perfect environment to essentially activate them and unleash the ultimate Trojan horse.
Also, they're completely naturally occurring, feeding on whatever it is they eat in the sediment. So basically no freshwater is safe.
Edit: a word
VILLA777 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:41:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a hypochondriac and have OCD. I opened a tab to research this brain eating amoeba but NOPE. I'm not digging myself into a deeper hole.
Spoon_Elemental ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have felt your pain. Tripping out is not fun. When I was little I was taking prescription meds that caused me to hallucinate. I thought that clouds were alien spaceships which was not helped by the fact that it also made my hearing sensitive enough that I could hear the fucking ac fans or whatever shit it was in the ceiling. Whatever it was it sounded exactly like what you would expect a flying saucer to sound like. I also was convinced that I had lice (not helped by the fact that my dogs had fleas) and worms which at one point I literally hallucinated diving in and out of my body in the middle of class causing me to freak the fuck out during an ongoing lesson.
SosX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once I had to jump into a waste water river to get my gf dog out, my parents laughed it off, it's really hard to get fucked up from that.
Techtorn211 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i feel like that thing is mocking me...
shit_lord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just convinced me of intelligent or malevolent design.
Real_Adam_Sandler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it's scary if you zoom in close enough, it's a fucking microWHATTHRFUCKISTHAT?
techiesgoboom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had some really bad allergies last summer, like to the point that multiple times a day my eyes itched and burned so bad I just had to lay down and close them for half an hour or so. I couldn't breathe through my nose for about a month straight. I bought a neti pot with the intent to use it and then remembered that bit about the amoeba in the brain.
That neti pot is still sitting unopened on my desk and I'm typing this I realize I should just burn it.
justunsubscribing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, it even has a cool, scary face. This guy is going to be a villain in a Disney movie about bacteria and all the other microbes, someday.
writer-lane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear Jesus'shoseisfat,
My imgur page was set to 400% zoom from a previous visit.
darkbreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That picture is mocking me.
iamanis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like, 2 people died from it from neti pots. And it was because they used tap water. Just use distilled water from the store, microwaving it will be fine. You don't need to boil water every time you neti.
RexixMedia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit due you had this!? You do know how lucky you are right? That amoeba infection has a mortality rate in the 90s!
fokinsean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I didn't have it. Just scared that I did.
Chyhart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw one of these alive under a microscope in my biology 1 class at community college. Professor freaked out, had everyone look at it and then made sure it was properly disposed. It's was actually one of the coolest things I've seen.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My specialist Dr. is the biggest name in Canada for my specific disease which requires me to clear my sinuses daily. She says as long as you live in an area that has proper water sanitation stations in the city the tap water is perfectly safe to use as long as you use the salt packets with it. (FYI I don't live in flint michigan)
thedogsmeeow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Answers my question perfectly. From Canada also and always just use tap water.
helloiamsilver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad I don't use my Neti pot anymore
Maezel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"(first discovered in australia)"
Surprise, surprise!
DrMasterBlaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always use distilled water.
CarlsPie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to (still do but more carefully) crudely irrigate my nose by simply snorting (just a little) water and then blowing it out. REALLY effective at clearing sinuses.
Anyway, 3 years ago I got a fever, right around the time I was hearing about the Amoeba causing fatalities here in Louisiana. The fever was all encompassing for about a week and I thought I had the amoeba, I thought I was going to die. I got better though, despite not going to a doctor. There is a 3% survival rate, so MAYBE I did have it and beat it, but almost certainly it was just something else.
WhelpCyaLater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sisters ex told me about this and every time after we went to the lake, I would like always check my neck and seriously be paranoid to where I got tension headaches, and one of the first signs is headaches so I would worry more and my headaches would continue for weeks... yea i'm stupid but fuck that shit, I'll only cliff jump off into like clear ocean water.
HippoPotato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boiling the water in a Neti pot? I've been using the same one in the shower for a year now...never cleaned or boiled anything. Looks fine.
Choking_Smurf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck your edit. Fuck that shit. I use the neti pot too frequently apparently. Fuck.
DeaconNuno ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me change my downvote to an upvote.
"Pfff, whatever, brains have all sorts of problems, and amoeba is just another, rare--OH WHAT THE HOLY PISS BREATHING DRAGON ASS!!"
asdjk482 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're being serious, I have no words for how silly you are.
fokinsean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thuper thilly
geckosean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
FUCK. Same here. I went swimming in a local water hole after having read about it, and got some water up my nose from diving. That didn't scare me as much, but the kicker? I just so happened to get a stiff neck and a fever in the following days which happened to be totally unrelated.
But yeah, I literally thought I was dying. Just stayed in bed for three days having panic attacks.
CheesecakeCaptain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:08:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forget swimming in lakes. I've heard stories of people getting and dying from brain eating Amoeba because they used a Neti Pot without boiling the water beforehand. Fuck that, I'm never using one of those things after hearing that. Even if the water is boiled and sanitised to fuck.
ShadowWriter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it was first discovered in Australia
realmadrid2727 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you me?
I was adjusting a sprinkler in my yard and accidentally shot a bunch of water up my nose. It was somewhat cold, but the fact that it came from an untreated well and I'm in Florida made me freak out for a week. I rubbed my neck and stretched it out so much I gave myself neck pain, furthering my paranoia.
I don't always have hypochondria, but when I do, it's because I think I have a brain-eating amoeba with a 99% fatality rate.
Steffisews ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woman I know is the head of the infectious disease dept. at the VA. Her teenage son died from that amoeba. He was swimming in a lake, got it and died. His mother could do NOTHING for him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it comes from Australia...
OsamaBinLollin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:14:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"First discovered in Australia." Yep, sounds about right.
N7_MintberryCrunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"1st discovered in Australia." Where else can you find something that's so small and just waiting to kill you?
eaterofworld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKING KILL IT
ikesbutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First discovered in Australia....figures!
windysands ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair the fact they eat brain cells is just coincidence.
Big_Burds_Nest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people call be a wimp for plugging my nose when I jump into water.
grammar_test ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
das racist!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I not surprised?
notquiteotaku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST KILL IT WITH FIRE
Mattya929 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it's from Australia.
TheShinySilverSpork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it was discovered in Australia
DragonTamerMCT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fairly rare though as I understand it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all about the distilled water
MadeSomewhereElse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember the damn amoeba scare. I grew up in Texas and as a kid my dad off handedly told me about the amoeba. From the age of 5 to probably 10 I would ask "does this water have the bad stuff?" before swimming in any lake or river.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People should not be using neti pots in the first place.
kumquat_juice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are those circular things that look like eyes and a mouth?
EvilKermit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"First discovered in Australia."
Be about right...
draweverybody ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hilarious that the ameoba looks like that. Lol
dat_joke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it was first discovered in Australia...
ghostdate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god, I never thought about getting it from a neti pot.
I've never heard of brain eating amoebas appearing in my region, but it could always happen...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't sleep...clown will eat me...
DaddyF4tS4ck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last thing is scary because I use neti pots a lot.
BelleHades ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that is exactly why I refuse to use neti pots. Plus I forget things too easily sometimes :(
heytheredelilahTOR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of fucking course.
se_astringo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it was discovered in Australia.
TiberiCorneli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"First discovered in Australia"
Of course.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JUMPSCARE WARNING HOLY SHIT
karmannsport ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"First discovered in Australia." Fucking of course it was.
purplechai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The smile just makes it even worse ugh holy shit
An00bis_Maximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok so never using that fucking neti pot again even if I do boil the water.
mayhawjelly ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:14:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to Louisiana. It seems like I see these articles at least once a year.
khegiobridge ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What about it's charmingly named cousin, rat lung worm? It's in Hawai'i now, but headed to the U.S. mainland eventually. People who've caught it have actually committed suicide due to years of debilitating pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis
ColonelKetchup13 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:29:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria Fowleri is horrifying. It can even stay dormant in soil and then contaminate warm water. Fascinating little critter but.... damn...
Skreep ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a microbiologist. Learning about all of the fun stuff out in the world can make one a little paranoid. Or it can leave you feeling like there's no escaping so why bother.
bonjourdan ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"EVERYTHING IS DIRTY" - me after a year of micro
ColonelKetchup13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really wanted to go into that field or be a virologist but I think I would drive myself damn near insane!
Skreep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:34:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really love what I do. I minored in molecular biology and wish I had a chance to pursue that path more in the professional world. Micro jobs are not to easy to find in my area.
youdubdub ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we not train the tardigrades to wage war against these brain-eating monsters?
Skreep ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:06:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The size difference between the two would be like us waging war on moving sandwiches. But true to bear form, the tardigrades prefer to eat things half their size. Maybe we can create an army of tardigrade riding natural killer cells to eliminate the N. fowlerii scourge.
cosmopolis- ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would literally have full-blown panic attacks about this for a month straight when I first learned about it. Terrifying shit.
z3r0Var0c ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:27:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A kid close to my hometown was one of the first ones. He was my cousins beat friend. He literally got it from splashing around in some puddles, iirc
deezhazelnuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened to him?
R99 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:34:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably died, I think like 99% of people who get it die.
deezhazelnuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit, didn't expect it to be that lethal
IBroughtTheMeth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:26:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't expect the brain eating amoeba to be that lethal?
deezhazelnuts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:24:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought maybe it would be very serious but treatable at least. Just didn't expect it to have such a high mortality rate.
14366599109263810408 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard a story about one girl that survived, they had to lower her body temperature to something extreme to kill the amoeba. But unless you catch it early you're fucked.
bojiggidy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did a mud run in Houston about a year and a half ago, and then read in the news about some lady getting brain-eating amoebas from a mud run somewhere else. I know how much water and mud I got up my nose. After reading about that, every time I got a headache I got worried.
gigabyte898 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:25:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rumor has it that's one of the reasons Disney abandoned their water park in Florida. The official reason is a new law was passed that required them to purify the water and since they got it from a lake it would be too expensive, but a child who swam there got infected and died after a similar strain was found in the connecting lake. Rather than tear it down it's cheaper to leave it abandoned so not it just sits there wasting away
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would they abandon 20 years after the only death from the amoeba occurred there? The kid died in 1980, but it closed in 2001/2002.
corruocorruo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:31:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk maybe they just forgot about it
BrianLikesTrains ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:29:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because as unfortunate as the poor kid's death was, it had nothing to do with River Country closing. The law change, plus the fact that they had two far superior and better performing water parks already caused the demise.
FinnMacCoul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria fowleri. One of my favorite Zebra Diagnoses. http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/
C3lder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone in neurology...yep.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any of the brain eating parasites, for the same reason Alzheimer's is scary.
akamustacherides ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, cousin died from said amoeba.
SkyNabb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya know what? Fuck this. I'm out.
clementleopold ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason I can't use the Neti pot anymore
ParadoxPixie ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:56:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, why? Is there a legitimate amoeba scare for neti pots?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:13:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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TheBadProgrammer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean unless you fill it with tap water on a day a boil order was issued? That sounds like the opposite of what would happen. If you boil the water, it won't survive. So just always boil. What am I not understanding?
Exotemporal ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:24:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He means that if your tap water is contaminated, that the water company notices the contamination and warns you that you must boil it before use, that you don't boil it, that you put it up your nose and that you're very unlucky, your brain will get eaten.
TheBadProgrammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I understand now. They should have ended their last sentence with "and don't boil it." And that threw me off.
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 03:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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wombosio ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just boil the water..
bobby4444 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet you work for big pharma you asshole
KeepinItRealGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:22:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't seriously believe this, can you?
sumnewdguy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:13:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always boil my neti pot water & then cool it down before using. Usually I'll just fill up a coffee cup or small bowl and microwave it for 5 minutes or so...then transfer to the freezer for 30 minutes till it cools.
The alternative is buying distilled water but aint nobody got time for that.
kevms ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:12:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you got time to boil and freeze water for 35+ minutes? Use distilled water, dude. It only takes a minute for me to pour it in and warm it up in the microwave.
TheDezzicK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be careful microwaving distilled water. There is a higher risk of flash boiling when microwaving distilled water.
kevms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only microwave it for 25 seconds, just enough for it to be warm.
Butterbean6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a kid in junior high who died of this. He was simply water skiing in a lake, and a few days later he was dead. Apparently he had contracted this amoebic infection from the lake water through his ears. Scary shit.
DammitCollins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just makes me want to plug my ears and nose up when I go swimming anytime now. You fuckers are gonna make this coming summer so damn hard for me to enjoy...
kook_on_the_wave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh I live in Florida. I used to golf ball dive and these scared me in the summer. Summer sucked for that job, winter in Florida was/is better.
artgo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will be eventually cured, don't worry. Ref: https://redd.it/3bc0dz
flatironkicker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
prions. CJD, Kuru, etc
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was watching "Monsters inside me" one night and it was about an 18 y/o girl who went swimming in Georgia, and one went up her nose. Needless to say, she died in less than a week. Those suckers have a 90% mortality rate.
Wedacucumbas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never even heard of amoebas until about 20 years ago when a childhood friend passed away because of them when we were in middle school.
HansBlixJr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as expected, from Australia.
xRickyBobby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who uses a netipot, this was certainly of interest. Never use tap water.
xannmax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay so this may be a paranoia/just anxiety thing but now I'm dead afraid of something like this happening to me.
zepol_xela ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the reason I don't use a neti pot anymore.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those only kill you if you snort them in! If you swallow water if the amoebas in it, youll be okay
SuperSulf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't swim in fresh water that is over 80 degrees.
At least in Florida, we've had people die to this before.
laxt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I woke up screaming to a nightmare about such amoeba eating my brain, and just THAT experience was.. life-changing..
hakimmacarampat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Searched the microscopic images of these thing... happy little bastards they look like...
Stormydawns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, when one says brain eating amoeba most people think of the critter that lives in warmish bodies of water and water heaters and can feel somewhat safe. Most people don't know that there is a only slightly less deadly variety that the CDC discourages awareness of because it lives in the everyday environments of dirt and dust. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/daughter-dies-brain-killing-amoeba-california-mom-amoeba/story?id=30116133
Tjm95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best avoid the brain slug planet then
RobBakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They shut down a Disneyworld theme park cause of those.
Hindulovecowboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Appropriately nick named "Donald Trump." Terrifying...
medicfox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did a paper on this in microbiology. Naegleria Fowleri swims in through your nose into your brain and starts chewing on the mucous membranes. No way to stop it unless you somehow luck out. Scary as hell considering they exist in most freshwater bodies.
ZenTriBrett ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother-in-law got that amoeba and survived, because it attacked his eye and didn't go up his nose like it usually does. He picked it up swimming in Lake Travis in Austin. Thought he had pink eye, went to the eye doctor, and the eye doctor looked at his eye under a scope and freaked out. It was etching a path across his cornea, and my bro-in-law could see the etch in his vision. They gave him some drops for his eye and that cleared it up, but said he'd have died eventually and out of the 5 other people that got it that year, he's the only one that lived. Crazy stuff.
patalbwil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria fowleri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleriasis
rocklandia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell, all my american family are always worried about this. they called me crazy man for swimming in the Colorado river. Said the amoeba would eat my brain. I took the opportunity to scare them by dumping water on the unexpectedly.
Jokes on them, I have no brain. Amoeba would starve.
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Source?
gprime311 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are even worse.
KeepinItRealGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, this is terrifying, but I'm actually super glad that I know about this now.
buddhas_plunger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that shit. I don't even want to swim in lakes any more. Just... Fucking no.
BryanTheSheep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria fowleri. It's a brain-eating amoeba that usually lives in warm freshwater and has a 98% mortality rate.
masnera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain.... eating amoeba? least of my worries.
kamehamenah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wallet-eating amiibos
BruteTartarus66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Discovered in Australia. Coincidence? I think not.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always use distilled water when neti potting, everyone!
Sammikins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well now I have a new thing to be terrified of, Fml.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are pretty scary too.
tylerthehun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume he means Naegleria fowleri, for those wondering.
pigferret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/NRA
youdubdub ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, good, I had not been worried enough. Here is a one-stop "never swimming in a lake again" shop.
dinomic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Brain-Eating Amoeba, or Naegleria fowler are single-celled organisms. It doesn't happen often. But most summers, several Americans -- usually healthy, young people -- suffer sudden, tragic deaths from a brain-eating amoeba. (first discovered in australia) "
Another horrible thing that wants to kill you from Australia!
trevisan_fundador ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"naegleria fowleri"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleriasis
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
House MD 2x21: Euphoria
Chitownsly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It closed Disney's River Country. Which should also be on the list as abandoned parks are scary as shit. The park still has running water and the music still eerily plays all day and night. If you're ever thinking of venturing out there it can be accessed by staying at the Camp Wilderness Resort. The front gates are easily accessible. As a Florida marine biologist I have found samples of N. Fowleri in several waterways throughout the state. Including the St John's River, Lake Mary and the northern tip of Lake Okeechobee. I have not found any positive samples in any of the Disney ponds or waters but they say that it didn't close River Country but it did. I do report my findings to the FWC and they do post warnings on their website if a confirmed sample is found. Before you're next swimming trip in Florida be sure to check their site and they will advise you. And amoebas aren't the only fun things swimming around out there. Cheers.
youdubdub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing. It is my understanding that the incidences of confirmed samples are much greater in frequency in southern states. Is that fairly consistent with what you have learned?
Chitownsly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water Temps typically determine a lot and water in the southern states and tropical locales are always warmer. The thing with the amoeba is most people can fight it off with their immune systems but the ones that are compromised tend to be more susceptible to it. As in River Country 100's of people were swimming with it. Some of the algae that can get out of control worries us more though.
GfunkSkillet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/brain-eating-amoeba
wunqrh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:55 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's cancer.
lord_gaben3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I hear it mentioned my head starts to get itchy. Probably the most terrifying thing outside of nuclear weapons
Psychokineticballer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:51 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hadn't ever heard of them before. Looks like I won't be swimming in any lakes this summer
gabyxo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its not just the brain eating amoeba you should be worried about. Amoeba colonise all our water systems and our water purification systems aren't at all effective at removing them. They could be having so many unknown effects on the general population that we don't know about but there's no money in it so no one is researching it really.
HappyLittleRadishes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria Fowlerii
fun stuff
Shrodingers_Dog ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking shit yes. I was all about clearing my sinuses with geyser/netti pot like helper. Definitely the most hygienic of my roommates. Till ones day I read about the brain eating amoeba. Never again have I cleaned my sinuses cuz they can feel like shit over no feeling (from amoeba). And fuck those amoebas getting ready food
kezz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What am I not surprised?!
youdubdub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. Just like the time that doctor doctor gave himself H. Pylori just so he could prove it was what caused ulcers. Guess where he was? AUSTRALIA.
Free2718 ยท 4319 points ยท Posted at 00:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatal Familial Insomnia is pretty fucking scary.
wiki
No known cure and you just stay awake until til you go insane and then die
ChaIroOtoko ยท 2439 points ยท Posted at 01:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think the cause is prions, right? So this can be filed under prions.
Also, it is worse than staying awake, you are always in a pre sleep condition, that is you feel drowsy and constantly doze off but cannot get a REM sleep.
EDIT: Here is a person showing the symptom I mentioned
Much much worse that staying fully awake.
reddit__scrub ยท 316 points ยท Posted at 03:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are we talking the kind of dozing off like in class where you immediately wake up for a split second every time your head starts to fall? Or a little deeper than that, but just not REM?
goodoledickbutt ยท 419 points ยท Posted at 04:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once it progresses far enough the brain shows signs of an "REM like" state, but the person is awake. A dreamlike hallucinogenic state where over months the afflicted becomes unresponsive and mute before dying.
[deleted] ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 05:04:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me really glad I can choose to die in a hospital of my own will. Anyone who would argue against being able to end your life in a humane way must be a damn fool.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:34:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BigEent ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 06:13:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the US I'm guessing. There was a woman in Canada just the other day with ALS I believe who performed a doctor assisted suicide. I can find a link Edit:http://globalnews.ca/news/2550663/calgary-woman-with-als-first-in-alberta-to-be-granted-physician-assisted-death/
Not_Ah_doctor ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 06:21:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Actually Physician Assisted Suicide is legal in 5ish states in America and is actually used. There was a huge story last year of a woman with cancer who moved across the country to do it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_the_United_States
Edit: Brittany Maynard was the story I was referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_Maynard
BigEent ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:35:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea. I'm glad it's becoming a legitimate option.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:55:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the Facebook comments on that story made me want to vomit "only God can choose when you die she's going to hell!"
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:47:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Netherlands - we even have the option of euthanasia available for terminally sick children.
czorio ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if they are over the age of 12 and there is absolutely no way of improvement. Even then a lot of doctors will have to mull over it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I shouldve been more specific - but clickbait tainted me.
DCromo ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 06:14:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
apparently doctors are allowing people to die for a ton of different things. like anxiety and depression, after 3 or 4 meetings with therapists.
i'm not saying depression or anxiety shouldn't be treated like a terminal illness, trust me i know, but 3 or 4 sessions with a psychiatrist seems a bit on the light side.
vice t.v. show showed a pt. who went through that exact motion before dying.
stubing ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 09:06:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
source?
DCromo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the vice episode is a half hour long. they quote her son as saying, and i'm paraphrasing here: you'd think in a country, especially the netherlands, that couldn't have what is essentially a death sentence, after three or four conversations with someone.
the counterpoint to the for argument is that it opens a slippery slope of what is permitted with people wanting to die.
on the other hand, if someone wants to who are we to say otherwise?
stubing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it sounds like an easy solution to this implementation. Just add a minimum number of visits to two different doctors (this is for patients asking for suicide because they are depressed).
I actually agree with you that we should let people kill themselves if they want to. I just believe we need to make sure that this is what they want and not just what they've been feeling recently. I actually can see how 3 or 4 visits would be enough though. If the patient shows they have a history of severe depression, they've already tried a lot of things, and they always wanted to die, then I can see how that decision could be made.
Lord_Cronos ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 06:25:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have a source for the assisted suicide for anxiety and depression thing? I'd believe that they'd put that on the table for a patient with long term depression that had not been helped by any treatment options, but short of that I have a hard time believing that.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
severe depression and anxiety are hard to comprehend. I imagine it has to be recorded in a persons medical history in most cases and tried nearly every treatment available.
DCromo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dude the vice episode has the lady die, on television. her daughter and son both are itnerviewed saying that essentially, and of all places the neterhlands, you can have a death sentence after 3 conversations with someone.
it's paraphrased but the son was pretty pissed.
blew my mind too. and i agree if you've had a long term struggle over a few years with the same doctor and can't jsut find anything that works and the quality of life is seriously hurt by it, b all means. but the lady met with a psychiatrist 3 times and then was put down.
she said she ha debilitating anxiety about going out and the pressure of life and living was too much to bear.
then again if someone wants to be put down, who are we to say otherwise? on the other hand if it was that unbearable, i'm kind of surprised the didn't take matters into their own hands already. i dont know, it does seem like a potentially slippery slope.
NuclearThane ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:33:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are all of the symptoms a result of not sleeping? Do sleeping pills not work for them? Or what if they were put into a chemically induced coma, would the symptoms improve?
Also, I don't get how this disease takes 7-36 months to kill you, don't you die after around 10 or 11 sleepless days?
read_dance_love ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleeping pills and barbiturates actually speed the progression of the disease, apparently. They've tried the induced comas, but while they are knocked out, they aren't able to get into REM.
Cruzzfish1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:52:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pills and other things have no effect and a coma just paralyzes them but they may or may not stay awake. Coma certainly doesn't help improve symptoms though, and people in comas die faster. It takes months to kill you both because it is only harder to get to sleep toward the beginning and also because you don't die from lack of sleep at 11 days. That's just the record anyone has ever gone before they went back to sleep again.
goodoledickbutt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:58:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have tried everything from pills to barbiturates through IV. Those with FFI go from a presleep state to a comatose state without any vital sleep on these treatments. The prions are misfolded proteins that cause similar regular folded proteins they come in contact with to misfold also. These start to basically clump up around the brain and these clumps destroy nerve cells. Your brain (mainly the thalamus) turns into a holey sponge looking thing.
ManPumpkin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, that is literally creepypasta level shit.
PrivilegeCheckmate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:20:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleeper has awakened.
Tarabelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is totally an episode of Star Trek TNG.
osnapitsjoey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like everything but the vital parts of your brain died and you're a true walking zombie. That's fucking nuts.
HimekoTachibana ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 09:31:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds awesome.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, like that. There is a documentary about FFI that showed a person doing exactly that. Here check this out.
nav13eh ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:07:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUUCKIN PRIONS!
Mrpoodlekins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:52:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKING PRAWNS!
Atrew ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 02:32:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched a doc that said it was genetic, are prions genetic?
DrTurkeyJerky ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:01:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are several variants of prion disease. One type is contagious and usually picked up by eating the meat of an animal that has the protein (this is "mad cow disease"). Another is genetic in that your DNA harbors the code to make the protein and at some point in your life it starts being produced. In both cases the protein is shaped in such a way that its chemical interactions with other proteins it comes into contact with transforms those proteins into a replica of itself, starting a chain reaction of your brain's functional proteins turning into clones and propagating until everything is just mush. It's the Agent Smith of the medical world and we have no way of fighting it.
Music_Lady ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 05:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agent Smith is the most brilliant prion analogy I've ever heard.
Gc13psj ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, going cannibal and eating another human's brain will also give you some kind of prion disease. I guess it's technically covered under your eating of animal meat, but it's still worth pointing out.
So remember people, if you absolutely need to go cannibal if you're trapped on a desert island or something, draw the line at the brain.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 02:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a type of Prion disease
MoBizziness ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:52:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's really crazy that it's a disease caused by contagious proteins
Unspool ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:02:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like an Ice-9 scenario, just inside your body.
ExtremelyLongButtock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:38:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is not contagious. It is genetic.
SunshineLemonade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're not saying it's contagious between people. It's "contagious" between proteins. The misfolded proteins cause other proteins to misfold.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:18:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are contagious, it's just you have to eat the contaminated protein. Luckily for humans we don't regularly eat each others brains
SunshineLemonade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I'm aware that is the case with some prion disease. But we're talking specifically about Fatal Familial Insomnia, which is not contagious between people. That's why the person I was responding to referred to it as being genetic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah okay. I wonder if you ate someone's brain with FFI if you'd contract it
SunshineLemonade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There hasn't been a documented case of that, but I'm interested to know the answer as well. It makes sense.
MayorMcCheese65 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:05:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Fatal Insomnia can occur sporadically but mostly it is passed down genetically. CJD on the other hand mostly occurs by chance.
ISellMoneyForMoney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is still a large genetic component too, I think. I remember that was on my 23andme
DNAhelicase ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:26:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FFI is exclusively genetic, with the mutation at position 178, whereas sporadic fatal insomnia (sFI) occurs randomly (as the name implies)...however it's so rare that less than 10 cases have been diagnosed as of 2014.
CJD, on the other hand, its 80-85% of the time sporadic, 9-14% genetic and the rest are iatrogenic or caused by ingestion of contaminated beef. (Stats vary depending on what review you read, which is why I gave a range)
ISellMoneyForMoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you determine the cause of CJD either in vivo or post mortem?
I'd want to know before I died if it was some bad beef that did me in!
DNAhelicase ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:52:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Unfortunately CJD is only diagnosable post mortem. There is no good and accurate marker for CJD (currently doctors will use levels of the protein 14-3-3, but it is not reliable on its own), however you can get diagnosed with CJD by basically eliminating all other possibilities!
As for the bad beef, I wouldn't worry, because you may not be as susceptible as others to getting vCJD from contaminated beef. The position 129 polymorphism strongly influences this susceptibility. So you have 3 possibilities: MM, MV, or VV (methionine and valine). Most people are heterozygous (so MV), and these people are the middle with respect to susceptible to BSE transmission. MM is the most susceptible while VV is less than MM and MV in terms of susceptibility1
In reality though, all diagnosed cases of vCJD have been homozygous for methionine (MM)2
ISellMoneyForMoney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't mean me in particular! Just meant in general. I'm a bit obsessed with finding out what will eventually kill me. But that's some interesting info about the prion. They've always interested me but we never studied them much in our neuro classes at my university.
AngusEubangus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to Wikipedia, there's a familial version, which involves mutations in the Prion Protein gene, and a sporadic version, which is caused by exposure to misfolded prions.
fieldstation090pines ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, your 23andme said you have indicators for CJD? Did you have to follow up with a doctor?
ISellMoneyForMoney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it said I had no hereditary risk. My only issues seem to be anxiety and associated IBS. Much less interesting.
fieldstation090pines ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh thank goodness. Discovering something like that is one of the fears putting me off doing it.
ISellMoneyForMoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wouldn't find anything acquired like that. Just what you're genetically predisposed to or bound to have.
Like I didn't want to know that I'm more likely than not to have congestive heart failure... but now that I know, i exercise and eat better.
The only scary one for me was when I was waiting to find out if I had friederichs ataxia (luckily skipped me). That wasn't 23andme though. No other genetic test has scared me. 23andme is definitely worth it for all the random behavioral predispositions. I finally have an excuse about my aversion to chewing and similar sounds.
fieldstation090pines ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I know that one is coming up for me. I have to eat lunch separate from my coworkers because everyone brings apples.
Thanks for the overview though. I was picturing it more as a shopping list for how you die.
ISellMoneyForMoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely not for most people, at least! Just a bunch of "1% higher than average risk based upon two preliminary studies" and such. With things like Huntington's, they show a debriefing page and give you the option to not look, I think.
synthcheer1729 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe certain genes cause you to have a better chance to mess a protein up? It seems possible.
AngusEubangus ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:04:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wiki says it's caused by two mutations in the Prion Protein gene. A Methionine at position 128 along with a Asparagine at position 178.
DNAhelicase ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:14:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Position 129 not 128. Also, the change at 178 is referred to as a mutation, but the change at 129 is technically a polymorphism, not a mutation.
Fun fact, if you have Valine instead of Methionine at 129 and the Asparagine at 178, you get familial CJD (fCJD).
ModsCanSuckMyDick ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:27:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a fun fact at all.
AngusEubangus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, you got me!
DNAhelicase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do prion research, so I have a keen eye for these things ;)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you do an AMA?
DNAhelicase ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I could.... however you (or anyone else) can just PM me your questions and I will answer them when I can! (I'm a grad student, so I am quite busy!)
However if it gets to a point where I have a lot of messages or I get the same type of questions over and over, I may throw together a little AMA where I outline the answers to some of the more commonly asked questions, while leaving the thread open for new questions.
Edit: Apparently if you keep an eye on /r/science there will be an AMA in about a month or so with some prion researchers, so you can get all you questions answered there!
nathanielle_jones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aye, I was just wondering that
bardorr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yum, sponge brain!
k_vp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are fucking insane. I'm studying neuroscience and I want to continue a career in research and I'm fascinated by prions but the idea of working with TSEs and stuff makes me way too anxious
BioRam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work with prions and while you definitely have to be careful , as long as you aren't being really stupid you should be fine. However, my lab has a policy that if you ever cut yourself with a piece of equipment, you have to bleach the wound, because if prions did get inside, that's really the only chance of killing them.
tinkletwit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the difference between a polymorphism and a mutation?
DNAhelicase ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:49:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These terms, mutation and polymorphism, can be used to describe the same sequence variant, but in relation to evolution there is a critical distinction. Whereas,ย mutationย implies a change from the ancestral sequence at some time,ย polymorphismย refers to inherited differences between individuals. Some mutations persist to become polymorphisms but others are repaired or further mutated and become irrelevant as agents of continuing evolution.source
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the difference between a polymorphism and a mutation?
Edit:sorry I just saw your answer further down
RocketGirl83 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:03:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe that some families have a mutated protein (prion caused but don't quote me on it) that can be passed on to offspring.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, prions are basically just misfolded proteins, so the gene probably was mutated in a way that makes easily-misfolded forms of a protein. But that's just what makes sense to me - I got no sources.
andre5913 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, some prions are. Since they are just fucked up proteins a family's cells basically have it in their DNA to produce them, just like they produce normal proteins
XtremeGnomeCakeover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prions aren't piggybacking on the DNA or passing from one family member to another through blood. The deformed genes responsible for making the malformed proteins (prions) happen to be hereditary.
_AlreadyTaken_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be picked up or genetic. A family in Italy had a genetic defect that carried the gene for it. Tribes in Paua New Guinea got "Kuru" from eating infected human nervous tissue. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapies (sheep disease), and CreutzfeldtโJakob disease are all related and are picked up from ingesting prions.
The worst thing about prions is that they can survive cooking. You have to reduce them to ash to destroy them.
shadow1515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This very particular case is inheritable, but generally prion diseases are transmitted by consuming prions. I guess maybe this one is too but I don't think we have a documented case of someone eating the brain of a FFI patient.
Ttess98 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:02:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prion researcher here! Yes, prions can be passed down by consuming cells containing prions that have human analogs (see kuru), but a lot of prions form because there is a defect in one of the chaperon proteins that enclose a new protein as it forms. Without this protection, it misfolds and starts a chain of prions. If your family has a defect on one of these chaperons, it can greatly increase your chances of getting the disease.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are your thoughts on CWD?
Everything I've read says it's not able to be transmitted to humans, but it still gives me the willies.
DNAhelicase ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also a prion researcher (you can see my history), and with respect to CWD here is my two cents:
Yes, you are correct that we have yet to see it successfully passed to humans. However there are a couple of caveats:
First, it is possible that the CWD prions are in the affected persons body, but can't replicate to pathogenic levels during the lifespan of the person. CWD affects secondary lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, spleen) first and replicate there, then invade the brain, which is unlike BSE, CJD, Kuru, etc.
Second, although CWD may not be able to pass directly to humans, it may pass into another animal (like bovines), and then get passed to humans (like BSE transmission to humans). It's thought that is how some strains of BSE came about, through scrapie (Sheep prion disease) contaminated feed1
oldgov2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you eat your parents brains, definitely.
justpickafuckingname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but the genes that express the protein are.
imatworkprobably ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The Family That Couldn't Sleep" is a wonderful (if you are into that kind of thing) book about this and other prion disorders
lucifer1343 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I second this, I've been meaning to finish it for a while.
joeycapone ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never trusted those damn communist hybrid cars in the first place
steezefries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude just let prions be prions
_AlreadyTaken_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Believed to be a prion disease. The damage to the hypothalamus is what causes the sleep loss. It also messes up temperature regulation so people's body temp fluctuate wildly.
Droidmonky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my sleep study showed that i get 34 percent of stage 1 sleep which is that half awake half sleep stage. now i'm afraid to go on wikipedia.
ToughBabies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know they mention in the video that they tried using sleep aids and they just made it worse, but what about just straight up anesthesia? I wonder if that could put them to sleep. I'm also not sure if you actually go into REM sleep while knocked out with anesthesia.
DoctorFlimFlam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother has late stage Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementia. She has been on a kick lately where she absolutely cannot/will not sleep. I'm not talking a day or two, I'm talking 2 solid weeks of chronic sleep disruptions. Meds.do.zilch. It's a very strange feeling watching the gentleman in the video reach for something, and then gesture like he is buttoning his shirt. It really got to me. Gram makes very similar gestures while lying in bed. I once watched her think she was making herself a bowl of cereal from the comfort of her bed. Her eyes were mostly closed. I watched her open the box, pour the cereal in a bowl, peel and cut bananas, open a carton of milk, all the way a mime would imitate. It was both fascinating and very very sad. She wasn't awake, but she wasn't asleep either. This is becoming very common and it is very freaky to watch.
IamAOurangOutang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cant the doctors like knock you unconscious or something?
ChaIroOtoko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That worsens the problem. It's like a plot from a Junji ito manga.
IamAOurangOutang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's terrifying.
DefensiveGaming1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was in a Star Trek TNG episode
concussed_cowboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Essentially your body never gets the chance to recover from basic daily tasks and just wears down until something bigger or even a lot of small things just fuck you...
DrizzlyEarth175 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like my first time using opiates. Coupled with a near-manic happiness.
pimpnocchio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking apparently you guys don't want me sleeping at all tonight. Had to read about prions because I had no clue what you were talking about. No fucking good dreams tonight. Reddit is turning me into a hypochondriac.
VargBoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must construct additional prions!
bardorr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking prions. If they somehow get into your body, or start to be produced in your body, good fuckin' luck. Damn misfolded proteins. Scary.
loki444 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't the prions get in their spaceship to get help for Wickus in 3 years?
grease_monkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Scientology the cure for deadly prions?
cavedoggy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have whats been described as a nasty case of insomnia and i can confirm that after a certain amount of sleeplessness, you go insane. The first thing that comes to mind is hurting yourself. Thankfully, I'm prescribed Ambien. It has probably saved my life. I'm sure it will cause dementia though.
B0Bi0iB0B ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
REM sleep is not restful sleep. Narcolepsy is when you only have REM sleep but never get rested.
PunLateToTheParty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are the scariest thing ever
rubydrops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unable to sleep and an inevitable deterioration of your psyche that eventually causes hallucinations? Wow.
YOUMUSTKNOW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know we're talking about the worst things imaginable... but can we not talk about prions...
slurp_derp2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, not Lupus ?
slurp_derp2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, not Lupus ?
slurp_derp2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, not Lupus ?
constantreverie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, in early stages of the disease you sleep but can't get rem, but in later stages, you can't sleep at all, at least from what I've studied on the disease.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PRIONS!
RandomPerson9367 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That awkward moment when you have exactly this for the last two nights...
SPARTAN-113 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genetics are almost certainly the leading factor in it, but still, since it's so rare, that part isn't well understood either.
KnightWing168 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the second time that I read Prions as prisons
EhhWhatsUpDoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least staying fully awake, you're mostly sure it's real. That no REM, half awake shit would distort reality so fast. No thanks
Clambulance1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems to be hereditary. Are prions passed down through the family?
gooberfaced ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it wrong that the most disturbing part of that video was the cow with mad cow?
Thedustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would cocaine be able to wake you up?
Thedustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would cocaine be able to wake you up?
Gradicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AKA Ben Carson disease
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watch The Machinist. Fantastic movie about a guy who can't sleep any more, persisting in this state.
Insanity_-_Wolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:12 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God that talking head is so fucking annoying.
SwissAndCheddar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:05 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
accidentally clicks link NOPENOPENOPENOPE clicks back frantically
Barf_Dexter ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:57:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, sort of like having a newborn
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like when nerds read the wiki and try to come off like they know wtf is going on.
reveille293 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I kind of thought about this too.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atleast I try to be knowledgeable about stuff. Nothing wrong in that is it?
thesandbar2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's genetic. Not prions.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Read the wiki article OP linked. The cause is prions but the disease is inherited from parents.
conspiratorialk ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:23:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned about this last year and I sincerely wish that I hadn't, as someone who frequently goes 2-3 days at a time without sleeping.
Iamsodarncool ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you do that?
DragonTamerMCT ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Normal insomnia probably
conspiratorialk ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insomnia and severe anxiety. I have a lot of difficulty with falling and staying asleep; It's easier and less frustrating to just stay awake. On the upside, a lot of stuff gets done around the house.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does your anxiety stem from?
Asdayasman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:15:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
vidya
brixton75 ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 01:52:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We just did dna analysis...my so carries this. The fear of checking my kids was huuuuuge. Thank goodness not one got it.
iSuby ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You willing to risk it from now on?
daats_end ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 05:09:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it's a prion disease so he would have to consume her infected brain tissue when it is actively contaminated with the protein. I think that's rather unlikely.
foreststairs ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:33:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, this one is passed on genetically and now the way that mad cow or kuru is transmitted. It also doesn't show up until the person who has it is middle aged.
TheWiredWorld ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:26:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are extremely stupid.
AlecHunt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So your wife is fucked?
Barne ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A carrier usually just has the disease in their genes, it doesn't affect them. It can be passed down, which is why /u/brixton75 was terrified of his kids getting it.
AlecHunt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:22:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's autosomal dominant though, so she'll definitely express it, right?
Barne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry man I'm not qualified enough to confirm or deny, so I'm guessing you're probably right on this. I'm hoping he/she doesn't though, that's probably the worst way to die.
Dynamaxion ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:12:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, there are way worse ways to die.
Barne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What can be worse than not sleeping ever again and slowly degrading into mental illness?
Dynamaxion ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being tortured to death over the same period in a Pakistani prison?
purpleslug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, their genes carry it but don't allow it to manifest.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:43:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the symptoms shows, there is some (illegal in the States) drug that produce Rapid Eye Movement (REM),might worth a try. I think it's DMT, but I will look it up later today.
Dynamaxion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a prion disease that renders your brain physically incapable of initiating or sustaining REM sleep. That's like looking at a dead body and saying "hey I heard caffeine makes people jittery!"
[deleted] ยท 292 points ยท Posted at 01:47:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kind of related but not, did you ever read that crazy story someone came up with, called like the Russian Sleep Experiment or something. Scary shit.
Luuuuuurrker ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 02:54:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that creepy pasta had a good premise but just turned into the cliche sp00ky d00ker when everyone just kills each other :/
ironwolf1 ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 02:46:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was good, but the ending was really piss poor writing.
HarryBlarr ยท 126 points ยท Posted at 03:33:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the creepypastas always has an interesting build up and then fail miserably in the end anyway.
HarryPotterAMA ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 03:46:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking as a published author, endings are incredibly hard to write- certainly the thing I struggle with the most.
stufff ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:52:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and Stephen King.
ZanzaraEE ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Stand. 1000 pages of greatness and then it ends pretty much with "magic" descending from the sky.
Nermish_121 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:37:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk, it was a shitty ending, but it did kinda fit with the whole theme of incredible coincidences and fate
stufff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was literally the hand of god.
santaire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ugh hes so bad for that, children of the corn would have been great if he made it a story about the manipulative powers of cults but no, had to make the main leader kid literally possessed with crazy devil magic powers. turned quickly from creepy and unsettling to just silly in one scene.
caulfieldrunner ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Him and pretty much everyone. I can probably count the satisfying endings I've read on my fingers. And half of them probably actually came from fanfiction.
aneasymistake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And George R R Martin.
HarryBlarr ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:53:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stephen King is a good example right here, all those intense build up and the end really betrayed your expectations... most of his famous works are like that.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like when all those fifth graders run a train on the girl fifth grader in the sewer, and at the same type he drops the fact that she was regularly abused by her father like it was nothing
HarryBlarr ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:02:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT, eh?
I don't mind about that part actually, it was odd and very out of place, but in the same time, it's kind of a final payoff to that girl's character growth, that liberal choice agaisnt her father(and forcing all the Losers Club into adult). That scene was both weird and resonating.
What really disappointing is the Rogan's involvement and It's final reveal.... kind off anti-climax actually.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wasnt it just like a giant spider monster or something
thedonkeyman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:18:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a creature that manifested people's fears and fed off them. It wasn't so much one monster as the entire town.
TheWiredWorld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh... are you being facetious?
losangelesvideoguy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:39:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ehhhโฆ You started out strong, but your post kinda fell apart at this point.
Goodrichguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially the endings to horror stories, because generally the buildup is what's scary and suspenseful. Things are almost always scarier when you have no idea what's going on.
calvinbrownie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just write the ending first. That's what musicians do.
Kalayo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:21:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a published author, but my first thing on Reddit was a post on /r/nosleep titled "Michael, you motherfucker". I write creatively as a hobby and I think I'm okay, but I simply can not write a proper ending. It's extremely difficult.
beelzeflub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone should rewrite the ending.
j_heg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds exactly like Twilight (the first one).
crypticfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe someone went ahead and fixed the ending (probably without credit, and more or less stole it) but it was 10x better and more grounded than the original. Unfortunately I can't find a link because there's a surprising amount of 'retreads' to that particular story.
Sciaphobia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now you have to find it. :P
_0x20 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it?
"We were observing these patients for 30 days but we let them cover the observation windows for a few days before we bothered to do something about it", followed by black magic rites and whatever.
Rykaar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Completely agree. It felt so real until the whole "we are god" shit.
Asdayasman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely written by two people. Started out good, then shifted gears half way through to pure shite.
MemeInBlack ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was basically the plot of Serenity (aka the cause of the Reavers).
Questhook ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:35:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so... nearly... free.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
link for the interested
Free2718 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:13:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but I think that ended up just being something /nosleep. Just a story but creepy nonetheless
SometimesIArt ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 02:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotcha, I was just reiterating it for anyone who's never read it
tarna927 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:00:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it was a creepypasta originally, if I'm not mistaken
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Touchรฉ. I stand corrected. I'm not really familiar with the differences between the two but it was awesome. Would you recommend one over another to an outsider?
TuffLuffJimmy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:11:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was never thought be be true... It's a story.
i_706_i ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was pretty obviously fiction from the beginning
Psyche_Siren ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such a messed up story...
Raustan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:39:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is, thankfully, just a story. It's a creepy pasta.
caulfieldrunner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, as the original post states. No body thinks it's real.
dude8462 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:34:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love creepy pasta like this
inspektor_queso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a short film.
Here's the trailer.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great story with an ending reminiscent of something I would have written at 14 in high school creative writing. (I failed English)
finallyinfinite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it was fake
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:55:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well obviously
finallyinfinite ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't realize that at first and it scared the living shit out of me
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:01:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha well, I say obviously now I've read it. I remember getting to about half way and thinking what the actual fuck is going on here. Then it goes extra crazy at the end, then I thought hmmm, maybe not.
finallyinfinite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's fucked up
DragonTamerMCT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ehh... I mean it's creepy if you don't think about it. The moment you put any and I do mean any amount of thought into it it just falls apart. That said it did fuck with me for a day or so.
But it really does just fall apart.
Toltolewc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently its from creepypasta and its all fiction. Kinda glad that it is tho cuz that shit scared me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was like the first creepypasta I read. Damn.
BabbMrBabb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude that story is so unsettling. I don't think it's true though
bobber310 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuuuuuck that.
Chrisisvenom2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you referring to polyphasic sleeping?
nosliw_rm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I KNOW THAT VIDEO
horchata_guey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was told this story a few months ago, so scary!
foreverinLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kept me really scared up until the last thing the people experimented on say. I never went from scared to laughing that fast. But the rest was brilliant.
NoThrowLikeAway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I remember right, that short story was the basis for /r/nosleep
vitriolicnaivety ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for those interested in reading it
Sensei8 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r u 12??
Gramage ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:20:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd heard of that before. Guess I won't complain about having "trouble" sleeping anymore.
DrSlappyPants ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a patient in the ED who came in with insomnia and thought he had this. I asked if anyone in his family had it. He said no. Had a hard time explaining that he was just anxious and not dying.
People with benign medical conditions + the internet = super fun conversations. If you aren't going to take my advice, why did you come see a doctor?
NorthernSpectre ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:10:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think in those cases it's important to explain to them WHY they don't have it, not just "There is pretty much no chance" because all they hear is "There is a chance". You have to go through all the symptomes that they don't have which are signs of the disease etc. So if someone had a cold and they thought they had aids, you would have to say "Well you see, you don't have aids because you're white blood cell count is normal and a person with aids don't have that" etc..
DrSlappyPants ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:14:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I can, I'm always happy to go through these things with people. That said, if you come to the ER with anxiety and I have several people who are actually critically ill, you're going to get a "it's not that, it's just anxiety, here are your discharge papers. If you're still concerned, please call your doctor."
MrGund ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Well that's enough to keep me up at night
[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:12:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god it already started
Nacho_Cheesus_Christ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:26 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip in peace
AbsolutelyNotAGhost ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is this even possible?
DragonTamerMCT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:49:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fortunately as the name implies, it's familial. You have to inherit it.
shredgnar85 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:00:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Listened to a good podcast on this this summer...
http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/is-there-a-disease-that-kills-by-preventing-sleep/
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great recommendation! That's actually where I heard about it in depth, a few months back. I also really liked their Rabies episode as of recent. I don't know what it is about the disease ones, but with prions etc involved, they do a great job of dumbing it down... And making you realize how scary FFI really is
t33j4f ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What scared me more were the changes to wikipedia.
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Now this intrigues me... What do you mean? Edit: any examples?
t33j4f ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wikipedia website looks different now
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Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't say I can see a comparison from mobile.
t33j4f ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but I'm on a desktop! OUTRAGEOUS.
Didymos_Black ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if anyone has ever tried psychedelics as a treatment?
Didymos_Black ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be damned. It's been tried with GHB. https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb_journal3.shtml
nlansing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Documentary on the subject (YouTube)
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome thanks!
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I learned about this disease through a Hetalia fanfic, written since the author has insomnia and a chance of having FFI. Every time I reread it (three years or so for fun) I can't stand it and break down crying. This is a horrible disease, up with ALS in its mental and physical toll on the body and mind.
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting, care to link it or DM?
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Certainly~ https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8317514/1/Footsteps
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, I'll be checking that out tomorrow.
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you do, don't read it before bed. I reread the first chapter just because... the writing draws me in and I have a hard time not reading this story, but yeah. //my recommendation. Tell me how you like it!
Free2718 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will do
Lapulta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:46 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
//lurk post, Did you ever get to read it? What'd you think?
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:25 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, can you DM the link? I got wayyyy more replies on that comment and I think I might have lost the link ๐. I'll definitely check it if you can send it this way
Lapulta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:37 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! Sorry this is a bit late! I've been busy.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8317514/1/Footsteps
huhwhat90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suffer from insomnia and it's one of my greatest fears.
nedflandersuncle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible to bottle and sell this disease to college students?
madeinhawaii88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuckin prions man.> wiki
intredasted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is definitely something imma read more about.
Wyatt821 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would happen if they just out the person under anesthesia?
ThinkinWithSand ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From the wiki:
"One of the most notable cases is that of Michael (Michel A.) Corke, a music teacher from New Lenox, Illinois (born in Watseka, Illinois). He began to have trouble sleeping before his 40th birthday in 1991; following these first signs of insomnia, his health and state of mind quickly deteriorated as his condition worsened. Eventually, sleep became completely unattainable, and he was soon admitted to University of Chicago Hospital with a misdiagnosis of clinical depression due to multiple sclerosis. Medical professionals Dr Raymond Roos and Dr Anthony Reder, at first unsure of the nature of his illness, initially diagnosed multiple sclerosis; in a bid to provide temporary relief in the later stages of the disease, physicians induced a coma with the use of sedatives, to no avail as his brain still failed to shut down completely. Corke died in 1993, a month after his 42nd birthday, by which time he had been completely sleep-deprived for six months."
Wyatt821 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:31 on March 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, that is fucking horrible!
DerpyDruid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happens if you put them under with massive but not fatal amounts of sleeping medication or even anesthesia?
C3lder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are by far the scariest thing that no one really talks about. But not for me-- I found out I'm immune by genetic analysis!! :-)
reddit__scrub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that.
UrNotThePadre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw a great documentary on this once. On mobile. Wish I could find it.
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh please link that. I'd love to check it out. There was a Stuff You Should Podcast and they first exposed me to it a few months back.
UrNotThePadre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I believe THIS is it.
EDIT:
Actually, I think it's THIS ONE.
EDIT EDIT:
Yeah, def that second one. First one seems like it could be interesting though if you're jonesing for sad family stories.
Free2718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Person of your word, respect. I'll check it out. Thanks!
nikhild__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is caused by prion's. It's basically a protein that eats away at your brain and there's no cure for it. It stared off bsck in Italy hundreds of years ago. It's scary as shit. Mad cow disease was also caused by prions for those who don't know. They're not viruses or bacteria it's crazy.
minnesotan_youbetcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I cannot begin to imagine where one's brain is at, psychologically, after 18 months without sleep. I mean, even a couple weeks would be nuts.
seattleque ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just heard about that for the first time about an hour ago in an episode of NCIS.
ChipAyten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck i havent been sleeping well lately :/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
one of the most disturbing thing's i've watched, especially towards the end when he can't talk or move anymore and is constantly hallucinating.
Im_Still_New_Here ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to have a hard time sleeping after reading that
BigBassBone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spent all last night awake with some minor panic attacks, so this is not helping.
OliverFig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Caused by the prion protein mutator, mentioned in the third or fourth scary item ITT
Doorhorse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason this really reminds me of Stephen King's book "Insomnia".
ShermanBallZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never heard of this before. Fascinating. Creepy.
StinzorgaKingOfBees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the worst way I know to die. Can you imagine not sleeping for a year and a half while it runs its course? I'm inclined to believe suicide is a common cause for death.
concussed_cowboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just did a research project on this... So fucked up. Basically you just stay awake and your body can't repair itself from doing basic daily tasks and it just fucks you. No known cure... Prions man
AxmxZ ยท 5264 points ยท Posted at 02:38:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The deadly pain tree of Australia: gympie stinger.
"Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki.
EDIT: This comment now accounts for half of all my comment upvotes. Here's something no one's ever said before: thank you, Australian pain tree!
strictlyrude27 ยท 4106 points ยท Posted at 05:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh
altshiftM ยท 3336 points ยท Posted at 05:53:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That means some brave or stupid fucker thought it would be a great idea to try and eat the fruit of a tree that has tortured people and animals alike to suicide....
squired ยท 840 points ยท Posted at 06:10:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes sense though on a certain level...
"The hair of the dog that bit you."
Phantom707 ยท 1013 points ยท Posted at 06:24:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ate it to gain its stinging powers.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 09:56:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And after that, I meet my totem spirit Itโs a stinging fruit, so I have to kill it Then I drink all his blood and steal his powers Slither around in the dirt for hours
UppercaseVII ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:19:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that what you call rolling around in pain feeling like your life is on fire?
PM_ME_YOUR_WOLOLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
solid lonely island reference
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:07 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you someone understands ;)
Azurenightsky ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 10:18:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And so, the devil fruits are now part of real life cannon.
tracerbullet__pi ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gympiestinger-man!
roguepawn ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:26:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not one villain would dare fight him.
AdmiralKatieAckbar ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But he'll never get a hug...
roguepawn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:00:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:(
LoBo247 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Became "MegaFlow, the true rap god"
Every verse he spits stings to the core.
dandroid126 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:53:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It gave me no singing powers! It gave me no nutrients!
TheGreenSide ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:12:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tried to masturbate. Not recommended.
_AISP ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:57:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Masturbate with gympie stranger leaf.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many times do I have to tell you, you can't get stinging powers by swallowing this stuff.
TheSchnozzberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is The Gymp!
rastal66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, is this Gilbert Gottfried's Origin Story?
VanessaH4005 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Stinging powers, come to meee!"
espais ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude is a true Kirby
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
aukir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But literally just died instead.
NavalMilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And so T-Pain was born.
sounds_goood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:16 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we need a movie
PyrokidSosa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One Piece Confirmed lol
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:13:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That never worked to treat rabies
squired ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:18:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I'm sure someone has tried, which is kinda the point.. ;)
EchoPhi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:36:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously something so painful is protecting something extremely tasty.
Arwox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The silica-tipped hair of the plant that made your buddy kill himself.
JOHANSENATOR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wasn't the entire "hair of the dog" thing nonsensical on all levels?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:29 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The hair of the plant that stung you."
uaq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. That's where "Hair of the dog" comes from when people drink to get over hang overs!
FeloPastry ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:07:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard that expression in full before and now it makes so much more sense haha. Thanks
buster2Xk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Neither, I've always just heard "hair of the dog" and assumed it was like "eye of newt".
RiskyWisky ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:44:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAT monkey island reference DOE.
AlexDerLion ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:52:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to Australia.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where not only are the spiders, sea snakes, giant whales, crocodiles, land snakes of various species, kangaroos, and platypuses out to kill you (no really, the platypus has a venomous barb on its hind legs - probably won't kill a healthy adult, but still) - so is the foliage.
whatisyournamemike ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia you really need some work on that tourist advertising.
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 06:14:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the first person to eat Fugu, the deadly puffer fish. Maybe mistakes were made, but the results...
RyghtHandMan ยท 99 points ยท Posted at 06:30:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...are not worth the risk
aredna ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 06:48:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fugu has no flavor - it's not even worth the risk of eating it.
Catguin ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 08:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's worth it to show your courage and willingness to risk to others. I'm drunk. Sorry
I love you
0day1337 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:03:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The risk if you eat it prepared properly is well within reasonable tolerance... Or else people wouldnt eat it.
aredna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much zero chance of dying - but it really has no taste and is rubbery. People only eat it for the implied risk.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DrJohanzaKafuhu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Condescension is not that attractive either.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What
jimbojonesFA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks cap'n
shinkouhyou ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:51:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only about a third of wild fugu are poisonous enough to kill a person (they're not poisonous on their own, they're poisonous due to what they eat), so the first guy who tried probably just got lucky.
Mr_Smartypants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if you think about it, more like the second person.
its_the_peanutiest ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 06:24:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's always that "first person to eat" something. Imagine being the first dude who thought it'd be a good idea to eat a chicken egg or drink milk. We take it for granted now but...
MGStan ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:29:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easy, the first people to drink milk were babies.
its_the_peanutiest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be clear I meant cows milk. No big deal now, sure. But that first guy to take the plunge...
songofmyown ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw almond milk in the supermarket. I didn't even know you could milk an almond.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't expect us to drink each other's milk, do you?
Dragonbut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:23:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd drink your milk. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Fs0i ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably saw that the little cows just sucked on the mother, and then grew up big and healthy.
MGStan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then probably babies. A proto farmer is left with a mate that died in childbirth and needs to feed his progeny, but he has some perfectly healthy cows (or goats or...) that just gave birth to calfs and could provide milk.
gloryhog1024 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:17:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But...if the baby was the first...what did the mother of the baby drink when she was a baby?
MGStan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Her mother's milk. Even proto-people breastfed.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 06:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine the chicken thing comes from seeing other carnivores eating eggs. The milk is probably because we drink milk too.
bmhadoken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We WERE those egg-eating carnivores. Tree-climbing apes are well positioned to snatch bird nests. Why drop the habit just because you got smart?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good point. Now some crazy is going to say " I didn't come from no monkeys" ;)
altshiftM ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:26:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine the guy who figured out shark fin soup.
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 07:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine the guy who took a piece of shark that has no nutricious value or taste, and was able to sell it to people at a premium.
DrJohanzaKafuhu ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:20:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You want some snake oil? This is neither unique to sharks fins or humans. Practically everybody tries to take what they have and make it seem more impressive to those that do not have it.
mkultra9885 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sales!
Morkai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:13:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Note: On second attempt, ensure shark is dead or incapacitated first. Shark bites are quite painful.
Heavy_Object_Lifter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this statement based off of firsthand knowledge or anecdotal evidence? Please cite sources.
ConspicuousPineapple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:19:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Milk isn't too far-fetched, every mammal drinks it, it just so happens that we are the only ones able to take it from other species.
Same for eggs, tons of animals eat eggs.
In general, it's easy to assume something is double of you see other animals eating it too. And there are safe (ish) and easy ways to determine if eating something would kill you or not.
As for cheese or other seemingly disgusting things... When you're starving, you eat what you can find.
avenp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10,000s of years ago, some person left their fruit or grains out in the rain and it fermented. Imagine being that guy, looking at this bubbly, stinky soup stuff, and thinking "Hey I should try drinking that".
MakeltStop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joe Mande has a great bit about the guy who discovered milk trying to explain it to his other cavemen friends
SpeakerOfThings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It was probably the village idiot. "MOOOOO! AHM A CALF, OY AM! MOOOOOOO! OYL AVE A DRINK WIFF ME COW MATEZ!"
'Hey ... isn't that your brothe ...'
'Shut up'.
Fabgrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Eating milk, eggs, etc. makes sense, but I always wonder about the first person to try Prairie Oysters.
Edit: While I always heard "prairie oyster", it looks like the real term is "Rocky Mountain Oyster". TIL
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans have been eating eggs long before we were humans
DrJohanzaKafuhu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:18:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll assume you mean non-human milk. The first thing most humans have ever done is drank from their mom's tit.
cockhole666 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why do i see this comment so fucking often? it's goddamn stupid. animals eat eggs and drink milk ffs
its_the_peanutiest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dog eats it's own shit. But I sure as hell won't follow suit.
cockhole666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah thats something our ancestors learned the hard way at some point down the line
mybrainithurts ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:43:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brave & stupid..probably drunk..'straya mate..
Morkai ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possibly a new phrase for the coat of arms?
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:57:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, think about it. Some brave stupid fucker realized that there are tiny flying insects that swarm around you and sting you. He thought it was a good idea to go over to where they live, harvest some yellow, gooey, liquid, and eat it.
EDIT: Thanks for 17 karma XD
carnizzle ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking at historical records I can say with some certainty that the person was whinnie the pooh. I say historical records.
MeowMixDeliveryGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And his young, human sidekick? None other than... Albert Einstein. (Before he was called Albert Einstein and instead referred to himself as Christopher Robin, of course.)
hypercube33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Badgers eat the shit like candy so we probably saw that too.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to smear it with vegemite
shamchimp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:12:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we don't eat it, the tree wins.
hawaiibusinessguy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like this?
https://youtu.be/I6xyrYjaKDo?t=15s
BlackAndArtsy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well thank the Source for all brave and stupid fuckers who tried everything before we had to.
warwick2B5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:25:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'brave or stupid fucker' = Aussie.
Moustache_Ryder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So metal
Half_Dead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They probably threw it to an animal first.
DoingItWrongly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd give the fruit a try.
BUTTHOLE_TALKS_SHIT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hold my beer."
sqbronco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or extremely hungry
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After somebody cut off their own tongue licking it while still covered by stinging hairs.
BrentOnDestruction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real MVP, as it were.
LordOfTurtles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because he saw other animals eating it
worsewithcomputer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know any Australians? This checks out.
herpesyphigonolaids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats pretty fucking metal though
TherapeuticThrowback ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original Evel Knievel
PM_ME_COOTER_SNAPS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully they thought of removing the hairs on their first attempt.
dont_worryaboutit139 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, now I'm just curious to know what it tastes like.
Pachi2Sexy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would make it worth it if the health benefits where as close as gaining super powers
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's Australia. If you are not going to eat anything that's covered in poison, you are not eating anything there.
WaitingToBeBanned ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Fuck you to, nature!"
Noodsy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that how you become a super hero?
baconandeggsandbacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one that gets me is the genius who first looked at bees and thought that the little bastards must be hiding something delicious in their hive.
Fenor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and he survived
altshiftM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably.
Fenor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he's a brave man. that succeded where other had failed. brave enought to put his life on the line to expand the horizon of the world with the knowledge that, yes, that fucker is edible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome't Straya.
sulaco42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah......Australia mate, it's just how it is here.
macutchi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
British settlers have a lot to answer for but we weren't half forward !
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe it means that some smart fucker examined the chemical compounds of the fruit? Even simpler would be to feed it to an animal before tasting it.
Csavage14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, if it goes to those lengths to protect itself, you gotta be some what curious as to how good the thing is that it's protecting.
OPsMomsCock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It did say it's in Australia, I can picture an Australia doing this.
headshothoncho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he really wanted to die, but found a tasty treat instead.
C0lMustard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats how hungry people get.
Dubbedbass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I nominate LA Beast.
PM_ME_UR_BAGEL_BITES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I mean we are talking about Australians here.
OD_Emperor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the people in Japan who eat, I think it was a very poisonous pufferfish that has to be prepped perfectly not to kill you. Just why?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes it's hard to find food in a desert country, kay?
boxybrownmd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talk about the fries biting back... Damn!
BluesFan43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I thought the first person to eat an oyster was weird.
scarletphantom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh the trial and error of early humans to determine what was ok to eat.. must have been brutal.
BWander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hunger is one of the best motivators.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That guy is either really dumb or has balls of steel
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he was awful hongry, tho
downvotemeufags ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The origin of "Hold My Beer"
Filthymcfriendly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey anything with that much defense has got to be hiding something Awesome
Metabro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So metal.
LandgraveCustoms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the same lunatic that first tried Fugu.
thishitisgettingold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's only logical. One might think. Why is this tree going through all of this trouble to guard it's fruit? It must be awesome.
ShutUpHeExplained ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey, I dare you to eat that fruit.."
ThatGuyWhoEngineers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, the stingers on this fruit cause agonizing pain, enough to make someone commit suicide.
Well let's shave it and try to eat it.
aarnott50 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there's one thing about humans, it is that we will try to find a way to eat anything.
cayneloop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
considering that someone once thought to squeze a cow's utter and drink the white substance that squirted out, it doesn't surprise me
depnameless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well it wouldn't bother defending itself so well if it wasn't guarding something amazing
mrplattypus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some stupid fucker that wore gloves
giraffecause ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, some...australian.
aab0908 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or they fed it to someone else....
swimmerboy29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Welcome to Jackass!"
inc_mplete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can see this fruit as the next puffer fish challenge for chefs who want to take food to the next level.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it is Australia.
Neolife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the tree tries to protect the fruit that much, it has to taste good.
marker2002 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:55:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops... Missed one
tfdom ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take some gympie stinger fruit with a side of blowfish
Minguseyes ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:38:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The recommended treatment for skin exposure to the hairs is applying diluted hydrochloric acid (1:10) and pulling them out with a hair removal strip.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 05:50:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll probably just stick with apples
clumsy_bicycle ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:58:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you're bananas
SiameseVegan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How big are the hairs? Are we talking like hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs?
hawaiibusinessguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently the ones on the fruit aren't that bad.
https://youtu.be/I6xyrYjaKDo?t=15s
asdfgtttt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that mans hat!
Win_in_Roam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:31:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet the fruit's really good. Why else would the tree protect it so much? 0_0
hawaiibusinessguy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it's pretty watery and not too exciting https://youtu.be/I6xyrYjaKDo?t=15s
Win_in_Roam ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:48:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wasn't very scary tbh. He didn't even remove any hairs, just popped a fruit in his mouth. I feel like I've been lied to!
deSitter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, Les got fat!
MoJo81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a cancer cure.
-5m ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes you wonder what kind of persons find this stuff out..
HoodEnthusiast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:46:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better taste really fucking good
AeroMechanik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come on guys! They're ripe! Just gotta brush the hairs off!
hawaiibusinessguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or don't even bother. https://youtu.be/I6xyrYjaKDo?t=15s
hawaiibusinessguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/I6xyrYjaKDo?t=15s
Apparently it's not that hard. (Guy eats candidly gympie stinger fruit)
mr_____awesomeqwerty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of like stinging nettles if you boil them
RationalCube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite part is that the treatment is to pour hydrochloric acid over the area
Fionnlagh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should just say "remove affected skin". A bit more to the point.
phallus_prime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The forbidden fruit
BlondieClashNirvana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That god nobody wiped their ass with those leaves.
LysergicOracle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you were in the wild and your legs were gone or nonfunctional or some shit, you were starving and stuck in a grove of these evil bastards, armed only with a rusty pair of tweezers?
I dunno how this would happen but the devil would probably be involved somehow.
jondrethegiant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I think we figured out what the new trend in Japan is going to be...
Imtroll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like something an evil villain would serve at his house party.
We have blowfish and fruit from the stinging tree. We may have gotten all the stingers off but who knows.
*James Bond takes a bite and stares at evil villain as he shallows the fruit. *
"Very good Mr. Bond... You're very brave to eat the stinging fruit."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/GVrTepl2hvs
cloudhppr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
really wondering how these fruits taste. wtb testimonial
googlion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't eat it, it wins.
CylentShadow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet it's the cure for cancer.
XFX_Samsung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can tell someone really fucking hated the tree to even test the fruit.
pubic_freshness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"uhh... I think next time I should remove the spikes from this fruit"
worldsfastestsloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some dude was like theres no way it hurts that bad and there isn't a delicious treat inside. Just like whoever first had honey. "I just fucking know they're hiding something delicious inside there."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always preferre starting the day with some freshly sliced satan.
Dazzyreil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fruit looks pretty damn seducing if you ask me..
ameya2693 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia in a nutshell.
lodro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's what she said
NewfieVaper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look so pretty though! :D
AdviceMang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna pass on that one.
visivopro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife is a naturopath and she often talks about like curing like , so I wonder if taking it after a sting would take the pain away.
MagicJohnsonPSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I'll have a strawberry!
DirtyMexican87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol for treatment use hydrochloric acid.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder who found that out. And how many tried and failed and committed suicide.
adudeguyman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It must taste delicious.
Discobros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that mean there is an animal out there immune to the sting? Isn't the point of fruit for animals to eat in order to spread the seed of the plant?
Tilt23Degrees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:58:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you want super powers? Cause that's how you get super powers.
ThePhoenixRoyal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Treatment
I shivered when I read the german translation of hydrochloric acid.
edude45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fruit must taste like chicken... it's the almighty chicken fruit tree I've always wanted.... I must travel to this... Australia...
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hate to be the guy that had to find out that.
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's perfectly safe if you get rid of the bits that kill you.
LouisvilleProtestor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:13:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SPECIAL PREPERATION INGREDIENTS WTF IS THIS TORIKO?
elruary ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:31:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dont be a pussy cunt.
machenise ยท 184 points ยท Posted at 06:06:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like you left out the most important part of the officer shooting himself because of the pain: He used the leaf of the tree for toilet paper.
Insiddeh ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 11:49:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh... Oh no... That's horrifying.
Exlexus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 14:02:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, would have been a serious pain in the arse...
dinosaurs_quietly ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 14:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like that whole story is a myth. No source, and how would he have avoided the pain long enough to start using the leaves?
PrimeLegionnaire ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glove
vernazza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:44:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds totally plausible.
machenise ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:11:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just reporting what's on the page.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:06:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I felt my asshole clench
TsukasaAcelyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... Is this for real?
machenise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. It's on the Wikipedia page op linked.
steelandblood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You feel like?
machenise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:12:53 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He felt it too.
jonsnowbro ยท 2302 points ยท Posted at 05:35:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus the recommended treatment is to melt your skin
Gen_McMuster ยท 988 points ยท Posted at 06:11:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not really, 1:10 (assuming they're diluting a stock solution) is pretty mild, it'll sting and might cause damage if you don't rinse it off relatively quickly but it won't melt you
acid in real life isn't like xenomorph blood it takes some time to do considerable damage and high concentrations/volumes too
moonerdooder ยท 687 points ยท Posted at 06:14:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last of their worries I'm sure
Gen_McMuster ยท 226 points ยท Posted at 06:18:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, topical skin irritation is preferable to being driven to madness by hell's bush
chopstyks ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 12:37:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is how I describe my last relationship.
hlfx ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:03:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bravo sir!
KnuckleChildrenSoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We dated the same person?
RedditTooAddictive ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:34:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean George?
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:40:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always.
EinherjarofOdin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After all this time?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:01:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
unfortunately, it's not going to reverse the pain that's begun, it will just prevent more of the pain causing chemical to be released onto the skin if you rinse the hairs in acid first. you're still fucked
Flattcat78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell's Bush........ why does that sound like an awesome girl band name....
BluesFan43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like a good trade off to me
IceFire909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the name of santiago's sex tape!
G96Saber ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know Hillary Clinton was that bad.
Kerbobotat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:03:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After the tree straining the hydrochloric acid is almost relieving.
pixelfreeze ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 06:58:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Only exception to this being hydrofluoric acid. Won't melt your skin (it can, if left to do its thing), but even a diluted solution can still stop your heart! (Bonds with calcium in the bloodstream.) Otherwise yeah, chemical burns are a bitch but I've spilt very diluted hydrochloric on myself before and it caused mild irritation. 1:10 will cause some discomfort/redness and a burning sensation at worst.
Edit: hydrofluoric not flouric. I'm dumb.
pukesonyourshoes ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 08:10:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Contains fluorine. No flour involved.
Edit: Hydrofluoric acid is extremely nasty stuff. It melts glass, and if it contacts your skin it makes its way to your nerves due to its affinity with calcium, and hurts like fuck. Have nothing to do with it, ever.
kingofchaos0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:31:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's funny how it's technically not even that acidic, it's just an extremely potent contact poison. Yay halogens...
It also is super reactive if that wasn't clear.
Maladog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't really hurt though. It attacks your nerves so quickly that you almost can't feel anything. There are stories of chemists who have gotten holes in their gloves while working with HF and they didn't notice until they took their gloves off and saw the burns on their hands. I don't know if I believe that it is that painless, but it definitely doesn't hurt like fuck, it is fairly painless actually.
pukesonyourshoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Some guys I know were given a solution to remove calcium spotting from glass panes on an atrium, they were told it was citrus cleaner and used it all day without gloves. They didn't soak in it, but definitely got some on their fingers. They couldn't sleep that night from the aching pain in their nail beds. They asked me to check out the material they'd been using, sure enough it was HF.
Edit: typo
KING_OF_SWEDEN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your wording kinda makes it seem like you are you speaking from experience. Am I correct?
pukesonyourshoes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:07:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked with it a fair bit, I use it to remove calcium staining from glass. Does a great job, nothing else comes close. I've never hurt myself with it, some friends have though- see my other replies. I use full protective gear, goggles, respirator with acid cartridge, impermeable gauntlets etc.etc. So should anyone working with this stuff.
alkenrinnstet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Short out your standard lithium ion battery (e.g. in your phones/laptops) and enjoy your free HF fumes.
PM_ME_UR_STEAMKEYS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:34:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have spilled concentrated sulphuric and hydrochloric acid over my hands (96% and 37% , respectively)
No lasting damage.
FireBurstRazorBack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A friend has NaOh (IIRC) spill across the back of his hand 2 years ago. He still has a huge scar there, like a bump. Think Fight Club scar.
PM_ME_UR_STEAMKEYS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, all the concentrated stuff is iffy if you can't get it off your hands quickly (for acids/alkalines about 10s, does not apply to Oleum,HF, H2O2, Dimethylmetals and so on)
Thomasedv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spilled a tiny drop of sulfuric acid (17.8 Molar) in my face... it stings a bit, but not that bad. Friend got a few marks on his hand. That acid behaves so oddly, tiny amounts of force makes it go flying...
Pm_me_ur_croissant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:59:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me (with the real stuff) It's that tingling in my skin that gets me.
gooddaysir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Junior High, we were retards and had spray wars with 3% (I think) diluted HCL wearing goggles and aprons. That was probably on the lower end of stupid stuff we did as kids.
R0oskie91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flourantimonic Acid tho
mybrainithurts ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:47:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If in doubt or pain..pee on it..snake bites,drop bear attacks,jelly fish attacks..just have a beer and piss on it....'straya mate!
TribeWars ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:33:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think even sulfuric acid gives you a few seconds to wash off before it starts to burn your skin.
DenmarkDaniels ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:14:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, had a drop of it splash onto my unprotected wrist in a college chemistry class. Me running to the emergency sink is probably the fastest I've ever moved in my life. Fortunately, no injuries.
chunkosauruswrex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:52:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also did that once. It was the highest molar acid we used all year. I poured it out of the graduated cylinder. I set the cylinder down and one drop jumped off the rim onto my arm. That shit burns
Alpha3031 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:01:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't stock about 12 M? I suppose it isn't too bad is you're just rinsing, but it's still pretty concentrated.
infinitewowbagger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, have spilt 36% sulphuric acid on myself with no ill effects as I rinsed it off fairly quickly.
It did stain my clothes and shoes though.
Ai_of_Vanity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is the acid they throw on people's faces in third world countries?
diggthenredditthen ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:57:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes not acid but the exact opposite something extremely alkaline like caustic soda, drain cleaner etc.
thelaststormcrow ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Straight acids are actually pretty tame, as long as the non-acid part isn't something awful you can wash it right off and be fine. Bases, on the other hand, will fuck you up severely.
hhhnnnnnggggggg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:48:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drain cleaner will do that to a face??
NightGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:05:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Industrial strength ones, yeah. They're basically liquid lye, which is just nasty, nasty shit.
Gen_McMuster ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:40:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Likely something highly concentrated.
Note, it doesn't take long for something to cause a chemical burn but it will take a long time to turn it into a puddle.
In that video, you can see the color of the meat had changed after only a couple minutes of contact. That would be a severe burn with living tissue
RiversBromo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:48:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, when someone throws acid in your face on the street, you can't exactly immediately wash it off, so severe damage is more likely.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They use formic acid iirc. It's used to coagulate latex into workable blocks.
maxjnorman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You want fluoroantimonic acid, 10,000,000,000,000,000 times stronger than 100% sulfuric acid.
It'll very quickly melt anything except Teflon, often releasing hydrogen fluoride gas along the way (toxic!).
Xan_the_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit, I've seen RoboCop!
Giggyjig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can stick your hand in dilute hydrochloric acid for a good few minutes and won't even feel anything. Remember spilling some on myself in chemistry class once and not noticing for a while, but that was 1:25 i seem to remember.
Faxon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what you're saying is the solution is to get someone with an empty stomach to immediately vomit on you if stung?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the most chemist looking chemist I've ever seen.
ameya2693 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sulphuric Acid....my favourite. slurp, slurp
Edit: The part where they show HCl with chicken leg is kinda what happens to food inside our stomach. Think about it that's what food becomes inside our body before being processed for nutrients.
SirArlo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love puffy scientist hair. Makes them look legit.
Hoihe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spilled acid a lot of times on myself. Never c.c h2so4 level but boiling hot 1:2 HCl? Sure.
If you don't panick and immediately dab it down with a cloth then rinse it clean for minutes, it won't hurt you.
What you need to fear is c.c oxidizing acids, H2F2 (weak acid, but flour ducks you up) and NaOH (it was famously used by a serial killer to dissolve the bodies of his victims)
Calamity58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still, I wouldn't fuck around with it. I worked at a pool supply store for 2 years, and we stocked hydrochloric and sulfuric acid, in mostly undiluted forms. I think it was .1 MBV or something like that. A couple of the bottles had blemishes, so we left them on the back porch of the shop. Apparently, the sun baked the bottles a bit over a few weeks period, and we accidentally broke one while we were horsing around after work. It burned about a half inch deep hole in the concrete over the course of about 30 seconds.
Chesney1995 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was not prepared for the human embodiment of science at 0:30.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's just not touch the tree k
zombiefingerz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Now something you really don't want to put on your skin is hydrofluoric acid.. That shit is so corrosive it needs to be stored in special containers because it dissolves glass.
DrDisastor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah bases are far scarier concerning acute short exposure.
Hauvegdieschisse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless it's heated. Hot acid is horrifying.
thebigslide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HCl actually interferes with the nerve endings, so a mild solution will probably reduce the existing stinging. This is one of the reasons HCl can be so insidious in you spill on you in a lab. You sometimes don't notice until after it's been on there for awhile.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, concentrated sulfuric acid mixed with concentrated hydrogen peroxide is another story.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hydrochloric acid is dangerous though because it binds to the calcium in you, and the calcium of choice is the covering of your nerves. Have you ever had your lips go numb after being exposed to HCl fumes? That's why.
Dark_messengeR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do most scientists almost always sport this "bad hair" look?!
allvoltrey ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:29:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I beg to differ http://abcnews.go.com/2020/slideshow?id=9477095
AeroMechanik ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was gross.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really.
Beo1 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 06:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It probably breaks down the toxins and needles faster than your skin, and let's be honest, the acid burn sounds preferable anywAy
Swimming__Bird ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 06:59:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just imagine it as a skin treatment commercial. Man has terrible rash from pain tree on face, takes out of bottle of Nivea Hydrochloric Acid, splashes on face...burning-flesh-smoke rises from cheeks "ahhh, soothing burn!"
"Nivea Hydrochloric Acid, because it's better than what most of Australia's Nature does to you!"
SpellJenji ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:39:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of reminds me of the Joker peddling his cosmetics brand in the Keaton Batman movie.
kronaz ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:58:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MenschyJewster ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:47:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, diluted. We don't know what concentration it's at, but presumably it's diluted enough that it doesn't melt your skin off.
joe579003 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:59:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was gonna say, we're missing molarity, here
desync_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2M HCl is often called dilute. Compared to 18M HCl, it is really quite dilute.
kirmaster ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:03:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only the top layer, though. Second and lower layers of your skin resist acid, which is why it's a lot safer to work with concentrated acids as it is with concentrated bases- concentrated bases will melt through your hand without any pain (because it dissolves pain receptors, so they don't activate), whereas concentrated acids it stings a bit and leaves a red spot where your skin regrows.
Source: accidentaly sulphuric acided my finger once as chem major, was fine.
SPARTAN-113 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:56:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, killing the nerves would be better than some of the accounts of two fucking years of pain. Though I dunno if acid would do enough damage in this context to actually kill the nerves. Safer to just set yourself on fire.
hotbrokemess ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just melt it. Melt it, and then wax it off.
cuntpuncher_69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah, hydrochloric acid as actually a lot less corrosive than people think
Ren921 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all! Or I'd would've burned off a thumb in chemistry lab by now because I never wore gloves and we used diluted HCL. It's not as extreme as concentrated
d1x1e1a ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the correct treatment is cider....
any time i get a prick in my hand I put it in cider...
bedpan3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:55:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw hell, that's just the same skin peel bitches in the burbs pay good money for
NFLinPDX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a slightly stronger version of those pore pads that Biore made (are they still a thing?)
Delliott90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straya
Semperty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does hydrochloric acid even come across someone's mind to heal/fix something like this?
MysteryBros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'straya!
Covert_Ruffian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, at least you won't have the hairs from the plant...
I_WaxAssholesAllDay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm up for the task, I just need the whole hydrochloric acid thing and it's on!
Gullex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard the best thing for them is to apply tape to pull the hairs out.
khanfusion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suspect you can substitute vinegar for the dilute HCl. The lowered pH probably helps denature the toxin that hurts so fucking much.
robdunf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would assume then that the sting is alkaline, I would try lemon juice first... work my way up from there before accidentally/nearly melting my skin.
IceFire909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's better than the alternative
HandsOffMyDitka ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 05:41:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a contender with the Manchineel tree in Florida and around the Caribbean area. Rain falling from the tree can cause blisters on the skin, and cause blindness if it hits your eyes.
sockHole ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:12:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's it. I will never be returning to florida.
AeroMechanik ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. Fuck Florida and there stupid 8 tolls between a city .
Avohaj ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey we also have a really toxic fruit bearing tree..."
Poor fool.
Bersto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:51:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've lived in Florida my entire life and have never heard of this
Nightwalker911 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:18:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are usually cut down and removed I would imagine.
56473829110 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Endangered and protected species.
Nightwalker911 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for filling me in. That would explain so few in quantity.
teh_maxh ยท 320 points ยท Posted at 03:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it's almost worse because it's not deadly.
[deleted] ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 05:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 05:33:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone with a deep thirst for revenge.
AeroMechanik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:27:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha I scrolled up to see if it was the same person who said something about eating it because hair of the dog .
km1bm30 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:18 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sting me, I'll fucking eat you tree
SFRookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WWHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such a lust for memes
stfm ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aborigines
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:39:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:02:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't risk eating it for fear of missing a hair and subsequently starving to death.
DemiDualism ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know how in civilized schools bullies pressure and trick others into doing dumb shit? Probably like that. Whoever lived through it first likely didn't want to eat it.
I imagine a situation like where it's set up as a "trial" for some lame duck to be accepted into a clan.
"Eating that will kill me!"
"No no no, the trick is to skin it first" snickers to friends
skins, eats and lives "OH cool"
others sit in disbelief
audreyfbird ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy did it for TV.
anthropophagus ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:37:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
iirc, some early explorer wiped his bum with it and killed himself
does that count?
Stink_pizza ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd think the horrific pain in the hand he was holding it in would be enough warning not to wipe his bum with it. Maybe he was holding it with tongs?
Flyrpotacreepugmu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know how long it takes to be painful, but maybe it's not that bad at first?
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not an early explorer, it was an officer in the military during WWII
Vinnie_Vegas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not an early explorer, it was an officer in the military during WWII
TangoZuluMike ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:42:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say it's not lethal, but it is deadly in it's own way.
simjanes2k ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:36:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
?
Nastapoka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Stig *
boy_from_potato_farm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[need quotation to verify]
SeaBear3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"To the death!"
"No! To the pain!"
pv46 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The sting is potent enough to kill humans"
In the quote from the article.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me whilst out at our farm. Luckily the affected area was only the size of about a 5 cent piece or a penny for you yanks, but it got to the point I ended up scrubbing the area with steel wool to remove the top few layers of skin, rather than continue to endure that bullshit.
llBoonell ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 05:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to my country: even the bloody plants are trying to kill you.
izzidora ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:17:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly my first thought was totally Australia. That country is never making my bucket list.
Moustache_Ryder ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'll provide the bucket
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the coffin
su5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:35:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have poisonous shells on the beach. Wtf
1SweetChuck ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:52:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe this hasn't been used for a Jackass type show.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:13:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to see This Guy jump into a pile of leaves from this tree.
SkyKiwi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHYYYYYYYYYY NOOOOO
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:44:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said the same thing.
WhackTheSquirbos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't watch it right now, is that the guy that jumps into the cactus and starts squealing like a pig?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. And they are pulling 5 cm long spikes out of his skin that looked like they were stuck straight down inwards.
throwawaylms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd pay 10 bucks to see that.
Andon_Reddit ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:01:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just gave me another reason to not go to Australia.
kaleidoscope_pie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:03:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a place actually called Gympie here in Australia. It ain't so bad. You're more likely to be hit by a speeding car while crossing the road than being killed by the wildlife and nature. The bogans are more deadly.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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streetlightsurgeon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What kind of nettles are we talking about? I live in the UK, been stung lots also and it's hardly comforting but in no way unbearable
omrog ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 11:20:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falling into nettle bushes is surely a mandatory experience for any child growing up in Britain.
Hara-Kiri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:29:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not even painful, as a kid I used to sting myself because I found the sensation odd and I have no issue about handling nettles without gloves. They aren't even as bad as a bee sting.
lcplholt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am pretty sure those are also in Australia. And from the description of the tree the nettle does not compare.
Christ_on_a_Crakker ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 05:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Australia man.
Satans__Secretary ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even the motherfucking trees want to kill you.
Random note, my Aussie friend RolePlayed a character whose arrows were covered in that poison. Urrrgh.
omrog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the animals and trees don't kill you, the sun will.
Knotknewtooreaddit ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have been stung. Was 15.
Gave me nightmares for 12 months.
bucky763 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How would describe the feeling? And how long did it is? This plant is really interesting.
Knotknewtooreaddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:22:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Initially, like spiky lava was being forced through by neck. Then it got so much worse.
I had to walk a couple of kilometres back home as I was on a solo fishing trip and all i remember is seriously thinking that I was going to die.
There is no possible way anything else could cause more pain.
traditions ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.videobash.com/video_show/why-you-don-t-want-to-touch-the-gympie-gympie-plant-1793101 video of a guy touching it
alexeiw123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha what the hell! I told me so?
mrkoffers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:15:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in Australia, a tour guide told me about this plant. Her story was about a naive young tourist who was tricked into wiping his butt with the leaves of a gympie stinger. He died. FUCK. THAT.
Ralon17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At that point it's not a trick, it's practically attempted murder.
thesecretpotato69 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Braht his cop killed him self, while this other dude was worried about not being able to work.
BenMQ ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:55:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you read the article the guy that killed himself used the leaf for "toilet purposes"
TheSkyCrusader ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus fuck
Miniappolis ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't help but laugh when I hear stories of tourists wiping with the leaves because they are the perfect size for TP.
MoffKalast ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:08:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, the butthurt.
Grimlock_1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:20:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:12:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Australian and I've never heard of this. Funny though it's endangered in N.S.W, that implies we are actively trying to save it? Nope. Let the fuckin' thing go extinct! 'Straya.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was my thought as well.
Rock_Socks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Pain Lord
Diaboloclese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mess with the Time Tombs, you get the pain tree. Tail as old as time really... well kinda backward time, it's complicated.
VianneRoux ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:49:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happens when you light it on fire?
treemister1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just looks like normal leaves in the picture! That's terrifying!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:09:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even the plants in Australia want to kill you. . .
dwana49 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because of course some Australian thought it would be a good idea to test that hypothesis
jimsf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a video of someone getting stung by one in a National Geographic show http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/why-you-dont-want-to-touch-the-gympie-gympie-plant/81008069/
While I know the Gympie Stinger is bad I'll throw a vote in for the Bullet Ant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0V7xv9qu0
thebreakfastbuffet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
she should have worn plate armor
_Lady_Deadpool_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And all of 2 people are surprised
Hime_Takamura ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was just the animals in Australia that were out to kill you. The PLANTS are too?! WHY DOES ANYONE LIVE IN AUSTRALIA
audreyfbird ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a nice video.
masnera ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:34:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at least it has some edible fruits.
SomeRandomAustralian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:49:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've actually got one of these in my backyard. My dad told me a about it from a young age so it's never really been a problem
Roadworx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap that's terrifying
derglingrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spent a few months living in an Australian rainforest in the Atherton Tablelands, a couple weeks of which was spent chasing bats around for a research project. This involved a lot of scrambling around through dense understory when it was dark out, which is a pain because of all the spiky plants and whatnot. Saw somebody get hit by one of these... I guess they only got a small dose, but they said it basically felt like they had broken their arm.
Depuceler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in Gympie.
My cousin fell out of a tree onto a gympie gympie bush and that poor bastard ended up in hospital. Funny shit lol.
sktwentythree ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in Gympie. Never thought I'd see it mentioned as a top comment on reddit.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did everyone else read this in their head in an Australian accent?
Bobblefighterman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
did everyone else read this in their head in an American accent?
definitewhitegirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as if the spiders and the snakes weren't enough... fuck
WobblyRibbedGangsta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get me out of this country, hurry, please
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah nah mate, you're stuck here now!
lilacfortress ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there a guy who used one of those leaves to wipe his butt? Heard he killed himself.
onlytech_nofashion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wtf, source ?
lilacfortress ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cyril Bromley - http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung,-never-forgotten/
Looks like he didn't commit suicide, though.
Life_Tripper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get back to r/nature before it all busts loose!
Tony_Balogna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
has there been an effort to get rid of the species?
Hardciderandthc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there a video of a guy who willingly touches it then starts gagging and pukes and says "I really didn't think it would hurt that bad" it seemed like a documentary
kynde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I came to comments thinking "I have no idea what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's some Australian wildlife thingamajing".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's worse is the town named after it. Bogans galore
Lasagnahead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah fuck
ShortFuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before opening the comments, I knew the top comment would be Australia.
LickyBoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if the hairs are removed it is edible. In case you were curious.
CaptainAngry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad it wasn't my job to figure that one out.
FunneyBonez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I really would like to visit Australia
Then I read stuff like this.
Tothoro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that where Dropbears live?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live less than 30 minutes away from a place called Gympie.
rip
scrotumbrau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Top post but I think I may have to downvote because there was no reference to your mom. Golden opportunity lost.
hciofrdm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course in Australia.
YellowRainbowMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never going to Australia
l0rdl33t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, the Australian officer that shot himself actually used the gympie stinger as toilet paper. Yowzers.
VampireSurgeon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is fucking horrible and there's no shock it's from Australia
wutimahdjsj888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why have we not made this plant extinct, or at least contained?
WhiteRhino909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember reading about the officer that shot himself but the reason was because he wipes his ass with one of the leaves unknowingly. Can you imagine?
skalra63 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there anything in australia not trying to kill you?
I_am_jacks_reddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds a lot like the stone fish
MarsLumograph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why??
MightyDope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whip spiders! Just another scary thing from Australia
Tocoapuffs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So this is how you make the crutiatus curse.
TaurineLine719 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just another great thing Australia has to offer
boredbrat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Australia!
DeaconNuno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Get me that thing for my new torture program!" - Trump
bonyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the carnivorous island from Life of Pi.
Kunyisland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
god damn. I love reddit.
Booster_123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my hand has fallen in that before... Pain was bad but not as bad as described
quote_boat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, but wasn't there a story about some guy using the leaves to wipe his ass after taking a shit?
slykethephoxenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Having touched this plant myself. Can confirm.
Just to clarify, there is another plant that looks exactly like this painful plant, which is completely harmless and grows everywhere.
rainbowcabbage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad's been stung by one of these. Said it was the worst pain in his life and lasted for years
kvalfetta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like something /u/officiallysteveo would do
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love you. NOW YOU DIE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good. Maybe it'll kill some of them fuckers off.
Mr_Happytime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a video of a TV show host touching the plant: https://youtu.be/8HOIQjILUBg
jerschwab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill it with fire!
GoldenDragonfly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the tree looks so normal!! How can I avoid it if I cannot distinguish it from other green plants!?
TwisterAU ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting...
pretty sure this guy used leaves or somesuch as toilet paper, poor bastard.
abcriminal ยท 4064 points ยท Posted at 23:07:51 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Super volcanoes.
Thank you for the gold, u/TinyBahamut! May the beast forever stay dormant..
PainMatrix ยท 2788 points ยท Posted at 23:58:13 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone park. 87,000 people would be killed instantly
[deleted] ยท 2674 points ยท Posted at 00:20:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of those things were once and I see it I worry about it non stop for a week or so and then forget about it. It's a never ending cycle.
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 02:37:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, it's really nothing to worry about. People talk about it happening "any day now." That's on a geological time scale. "Any day now" means "possibly in a million years."
lonestarpig ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Geology student here, most people don't understand geologic time. 100 years is absolutely nothing. Everything is measured it millions of years, not just few year cycles
Rhamni ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:44:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question. Could super volcanoes be triggered in any way deliberately? Like what if you drill a deep hole and blow a big nuke down there?
Conkeldurr ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 03:52:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give Trump ideas
Stuntman119 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:16:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's gonna build a wall...
Sweetster ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:55:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing gets rid of those pesky immigrants like an exploding supervolcano!
_bieber_hole_69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*well
lonestarpig ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It could certainly cause an eruption, but the pressure available for a super eruption probably wouldn't exist yet, so it would likely be a smaller eruption, if it even happened
baumee ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would it relieve enough volcanic pressure to delay the super explosion?
Supadoopa101 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:40:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possibly. You could also bore a fuck ton of holes and NOT put nukes down them lol. Kind of like poking a bunch of little holes in a giant zit rather than squeezing it til it pops. Disgusting analogy. I'm ashamed.
baumee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If mythbusters has taught us anything, it's that blowing stuff up is always better than not.
I liked your gross analogy.
It_Happens_Today ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the lick o' your science talk
lonestarpig ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It likely would, but we don't know if it would trigger the super eruption, and once we did it there would be no way to go back.
Consanguineously ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:55:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's honestly kind of amazing how everyone isn't dead. With all of the possibilities in the universe being a possibility all the time constantly and humans being capable of being affected by those possibilities 24/7, you'd think almost everyone would be killed by now.
I mean like, all these possibilities are taking rolls of dice constantly:
-Tripping and falling on your head and killing you
-Aneurysms
-Heart attack
-Getting murdered
-Car accident
-Thunderstorm striking you with lightning and killing you
-Your home collapsing on you
-Gas tank explosion
-Disease infecting you and killing you before you can realize and get treatment
-Suicidal impulse causing you to commit suicide
All of these are just some of the possibilities and the most likely at that. 24 hours a day for these possibilities to roll the right dice yet I'm still alive, and your chances even increase the older you get.
rnrigfts ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:31:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Nuked. XD
InVultusSolis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot
Portmanteau_that ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You also forgot
racket_surgeon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, technically, most people ARE dead, aren't they?
jay_roe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot pulmonary embollism! Can strike anyone, no early warning symptoms, dead in seconds
elnots ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like 10,000 years. Sometime within that time-frame say scientists familiar with the subject. Also, we'll "know" when it's coming before it happens. The ground should swell upwards by hundreds of feet within a few days. Then most of the park goes up in a gigantic explosion. So.. there's that.
rarely-sarcastic ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:34:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thing is that it could happen tomorrow. It could also happen 3000 years from now or a million years from now. The scary part is not knowing.
I'm not afraid, worse things could happen in my lifetime. It's still a pretty scary thing to think about though.
PoopReddditConverter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Common misconception. It actually couldn't happen any day now.
shea241 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:00 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hasn't it been shown to have erupted once every few hundred thousand years? When was the last eruption estimated to be?
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:52 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every few hundred thousand years is like every few days in geological time. It takes waayyy longer for these things to happen.
Also, we might not be in any danger at all. The earth has been calming down in terms of tectonic activity. The pressure under Yellowstone might never again become great enough for an eruption.
M0D3RNW4RR10R ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 01:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, I'm just going to leave this thread.
UrungusAmongUs ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 02:29:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You can take that particular thing off the rotation. It's dramatized pseudo-science for people that don't understand probability.
EDIT: Okay, I'll admit pseudo-science is the wrong term. Info-tainment-science? My key point was that it's dramatized. Those Discovery Channel specials love to spin the facts to play up fears like this. Here's a somewhat relevant recent AMA.
teh_tg ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 03:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, then why isn't heart disease #1 on this Reddit list? Nice try smart boy.
jaked122 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's too common for us to fear proportionate to its risk.
Seakawn ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if I'm satisfied with that answer. What's your background in brain science? Is that just your intuitive answer?
Hingl_McCringleberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't take a rocket appliance to know that volcanoes are dangerous
Virgo__Supercluster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're like the worst case Ontario. Everyone should just except your apology
mmmurtagh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indianapolis jones over here :P
bthebard ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please explain more. I also have this on my misery rotation and would love to remove it.
CBSU ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 04:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Foremost, it is astronomically unlikely to occur in our lifetimes. Sensationalism dictates it will happen soon, as it "is overdue," but this is false. It will likely take thousands of years before throwing the world unto apocalypse.
Even the Yellowstone website has a section on this now.
sherminnater ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:35:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it is Overdue but on a Geologic timescale soon is a long time, It is just as likely to happen in our lifetime as it is in our Great, great, great, great, grandchilds.
The eruption cycle roughly every 60,000 yo 100,000 years and the last large eruption was 70,000 years ago.
There isn't any pseudo-science going on, nobody knows when it will go up and the best case scenario we will know few months to a year before.
But what we do know is the last time it erupted and the time before that and the time before that, etc. and the eruptions have been pretty good at being on a normal time scale.
dotMJEG ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:43:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a little while back from a volcanologist that the caldera is actually calming down and shrinking, and that his is becoming less and less likely to ever happen.
sherminnater ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a Professor right now who just did a presentation about the Yellowstone calderas shape and how it is changing, and how the movement of the overlapped plates affect the eruptions. He firmly believes that if there is another drop in the underlying plate there will most likely be another large eruption, and the as far as they can tell the dropping of the plates have happened with almost every large eruption.
There isn't pseudo-science going on there are actual people who put these studies out there that take a lot of work to get to the conclusion. That is what bugged me the most about your comment.
There may be sensationalist articles out there but the data does say that an eruption is due soon, but soon for volcano's is thousands of years but it could just as much be 20,000 years or it could happen tomorrow.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:25:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But realistically, there is nothing you could do if it happened, and there are far more likely things to worry about.
I mean, we're also kind of overdue for a major asteroid impact too.
But, there's no point for ordinary people to worry about it. I There's nothing you could do besides preparing for ordinary disasters that are far more likely and you should prepare for anyway. Like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc for your region.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asteroid impacts don't make sense with "overdue". Whether one has happened recently doesn't really affect whether another one will happen soon - it's the gambler's fallacy.
Most geological events do make sense with "overdue", as they're the result of pressure building up over time and then finally overcoming whatever is holding it back and all of that built-up energy being released at once. So if there were no eruptions (or earthquakes or whatever) this year, then they're more likely to happen next year as that pressure is still building and hasn't released.
Or to put it another way - asteroid impacts are playing Russian roulette but spinning the cylinder each time. Geological events are playing Russian roulette without re-spinning the cylinder.
Demokirby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love when it they say we are overdue for a major asteroid impact, sure on average we would likely have a impact by now. But it is not like an astroid suddenly looks at its watch and goes "Oh gosh, look at the time, I am overdue with my appointment of colliding into earth wiping out much of its large life forms.
dotMJEG ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh well you are right, now that you mention it I recall something about it having to do with the plates.
uhhhh, ok? Not sure where I ever even touched on anything there. I literally just said I saw somewhere where someone more reputable and knowledgeable than I said that this was becoming less and less likely. That's all. Nothing to get worked up about.
sherminnater ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh sorry that was someone else who made the psuedo-science claim my bad
dotMJEG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:11:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NBD brah. In the end none of us want to die coated in volcanic ash.
sherminnater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
very true, Im in the immediate kill zone (if its a large eruption) So ill go out in style at least
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean that makes it even scarier. Well not really but.. that fucking thing is gonna wipe us out. As far as we know the only thing questioning the universe will likely be dead within 30 000 years.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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shrekinator ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way I understand, the scale of a supervolcano's level of being overcooked is much, much larger than the timescale humans naturally imagine. Sure, the volcano may be overdue, but it's overdue on a scale of millions of years. So a few thousand years are practically nothing.
IIIIllllIIIIlllll ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:30:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it could happen at any moment?
bobybushia ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats what I read
shrekinator ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:34:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chances aren't zero, but they're pretty fucking close to it. Just relax.
Masqerade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:18:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish. Yellow is hypothesized to be on a 60~100k year cycle, 70k since last. It is still a very large timeframe for a human but small enough that the odds are far from non-existant.
sherminnater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't listen to him man, he doesnt really know what he's talking about.
Hara-Kiri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're unlikely to win the lottery but someone always does. The odds that'd you'd personally be alive to day if we went back to the start of the universe are infinitely more unlikely yet here you are. I'm sorry, I'm just trying to scare people.
Meatros ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I plan to live for thousands of years, therefore this is one of my direct and most worrisome fears.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that the probability is low, but where is the pseudo-science? Isn't it more appropriate to just call it dramatic or speculative
geothearch ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:38:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pseudo is that there'd be no warning. Just waking up one day and 'bang' there it goes. There will be serious seismic activity and ground rise before any eruption. With the time scales at play, hopefully the next time it does occur we'll be able to evacuate all in the blast zone well in advance and watch the initial show in safety from a really really far distance. Of course, the ecological impacts are still going to be unimaginable.
HAC522 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think an evacuation would be pretty much impossible. I think i read/saw that the projected calculations in terms of whose royally screwed is anyone West of the original thirteen colonies. The rest of the country, and large portions of Canada and Mexico, would be SOL.
Demokirby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything remaining of the country would like be barely habitable and just imagine how massive a global food shortages there would be with the ash filling the skies.
notscenerob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lead time for an evacuation would need to be great. There are tufts of compressed Yellowstone ash in Kansas that are 3m-4m deep. We'd need to move everyone east of Idaho/Utah to the coasts, abandoning much of the continental US. I'll let you parse out the difficulties in convincing Americans that science is real... much less the actual evacuation.
UrungusAmongUs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair point.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:36:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain?
Conkeldurr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bookmarking this in the hopes that you'll elaborate.
ThisIsReLLiK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it is still possible, even though the chances are very slim.
sherminnater ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No its not pseudo-science, there may be articles that sensationalize it but the volcano is over due. Now overdue for a volcano can be tomorrow or 30,000 years because geology is slow and unpredictable.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:37:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you sound like an asshole who recently learned the word pseudo and wish to show it off.
ThatPlayWasAwful ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:46:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just visited yellowstone a month or so ago. words can't do justice to the feeling of being inside that park. It's such an incredibly volatile area, even without the super volcano erupting.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ashesarise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any the majority of people will deny/ignore the evidence that is so glaringly obvious to some, and after a month or 2 the people will be all like "see nothing happened", and if they evacuated they'd move back.
tremillow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!remindme one week to bring this up again.
heill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, right?
finallyinfinite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait so I'm not the only one?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then a swarm happens and you spend the next month checking the University of Utah seismic graphs every hour, getting slightly more nervous everytime the lake shows a slow rumble... Or so I hear...
Fixes_Spelling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...one of those things were once and I see it...
where
lardo1800 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I'm due for my irrational fear of the open ocean.
DragonTamerMCT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then some months later you randomly remember it while trying to fall asleep and start the cycle all over again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father's a geologist. He says it's foolish to worry about this. He says it will indeed likely go off, and 'soon' -- but 'soon' in geological terms. Which he defined as "probably by ten thousand years from now".
Gabbatron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you forget about it, doesn't that mean the cycle just ended?
killerturtlez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your comment made me loose the game, just thought I would share since no one is around me.
Icharus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! 7 days
starraven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like escalators
argumentumadabsurd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How cute like a little worrying bee dance
The_Dark_Goat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a grammatical fucked up sentence
krickets12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn it I think we've evolved this way on purpose. Can you imagine if we didn't forget the things that scare us to death?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of those things I dont worry about at all because it's so huge and unavoidable/unhelpable that it's like.. if it happens.. I mean, what?
It's like I wanna worry but where do you even start with something like that.
49blackandwhites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better. Experts have found NO evidence that it will erupt. Can it? Yes, it's in the realm of possibility...the same way a rogue black hole could come along and swallow up our entire solar system.
rleclair90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I still get jimmies about the Cascadia subduction zone.
_and_beyond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's now time for my weekly existential crisis panic attack
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of sounds like it ends when you stop worrying about it
Rdombrowski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just scrolling through ask Reddit and find a dipping brother with 1600 karma, always a good feeling
tahoebyker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how I am about smallpox
Wahots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only nice for for me is that I'm so close, I'd probably only hear the roar for less than 20 seconds before being vaporized.
aza9999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!remindme 1 week: PM Ccox19 about super volcanoes
MrTheodore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is one of those things that I remember every time I go up there every year and then forget about because holy shit buffalo and hot springs and shit. worth the risk of exploding along with all of wyoming
crazyisthenewnormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, from what I understand, the geysers relieve a lot of pressure. So, as long as the geysers keep going, we're good.
mauxtrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just taking about this with my friend yesterday. luckily i live close enough to die within 4 minutes if the blast doesn't take me out, so there's that...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup science teacher told us about it last week, now I'm scared again..atleast I'm in the Bahamas on vacation
roxin411 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:16 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel this. Living right next to a fault line in California is like that. All is fine and good until someone starts talking about earthquakes like the 1901 or something, and then I'm fucking spooked for a week. It could happen at any moment..
Icharus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:19 on March 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so, how was your week? i hope this comment doesn't cause the worrying to recur for another seven days...
rowan_fay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:14 on June 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
isnt Yellowstone also like thousands of years overdue for a boom
sjwillis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't sound like a cycle
[deleted] ยท 1617 points ยท Posted at 00:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Discovery world made a gif of what it would look like.
EDIT: this is from the link above
-Reddit_Account- ยท 2455 points ยท Posted at 01:49:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
...did they just copy/ paste explosion gifts onto a landscape?
Edit: I see the error, but I will keep it up as it keeps people from pronouncing GIF like a brand of peanutbutter.
omnilynx ยท 800 points ยท Posted at 02:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This Christmas, give your loved ones the gift of explosions.
A0mine_Daiki ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok there megumin
Siberwulf ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found Michael Bay.
infinitewowbagger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:37:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MR TORGUE?
-Tibeardius- ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:20:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXPLOSIONS?!?!
swimmer491 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*gif of explosions
prfssrlnghr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Tim The Enchanter
PurpleLego ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gif of explosions
Konker101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every kiss begins with K.
TheGiik ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 02:45:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't forget the camera shake effect.
ours ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes it all seem so real.
Nackles ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:22:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit, James Nguyen.
Dizrhythmia129 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:23:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's the first time in a "horror" movie I've felt bad for the monsters. The birds are just helplessly stuck there making pathetic cawing noises while some douchebags smack them with clothes hangers. Poor birds.
-Reddit_Account- ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:32:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Epic.
Nackles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He SAID "Shock and Awe," he tried to warn us!
Famixofpower ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:46:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love how that guy can't unlock a fucking car!
JunkShack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:57:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They couldn't even round out the bottom of the mask to make it look somewhat 3 dimensional.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:56:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brought to you by the Birdemic VFX team.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by Michael Bay
wamsizl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They copied and pasted the explosion accross lake Yellowstone im pretty sure. But I'm also pretty sure all of Yellowstone would blow up if it erupted.
JtheNinja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's odd is the blast seems to come in the mountains beyond the lake, when the lake actually fills the center of the old caldera.
aBeaSTWiTHiNMe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FreddieW was busy.
broadwayallday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no no no, they're jifs
-Reddit_Account- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WE'RE DOING THIS AJAIN.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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broadwayallday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:03 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
according to the ron burgundy pronunciation guide, a
gifjif may actually have a soft J, and we should all call them YIFs from now on.Neuermann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll give you an explosion gift.
sub_xerox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐๐
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Bay would love this gift!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ye
Wahots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Bay's wet dream
MagicHamsta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone: Directed by Michael Bay.
Stacia_Asuna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks as crudely shooped as Omega Flowey so I presume yes.
definetelytrue ยท 3250 points ยท Posted at 01:30:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like I am actually there.
VisualBasic ยท 224 points ยท Posted at 04:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah. I could seriously feel the heat from those CGI flames.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its so.....immersive
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At a cinematic frame rate of 5FPS!
delnoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE HUMAN EYE CANT SEE OVER 20 FPS ANYWAYS!!! /s
Tubaka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty sunny considering ash from a supervolcanoe is blotting out the sun.
et1337 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:16:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. You're right Ron. This is the greatest thing in the world.
TerminalReddit ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol thank you for stopping my mini panic attack about the situation with this comment I wish I could give you more but this must suffice
definetelytrue ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:32:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my greatest moment.
REDDIT SILVER
TerminalReddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it makes you feel even better I even clicked on the give gold button but then I saw the "$4.99" tag and I realized I'm a poor motherfucker
definetelytrue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:23 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better.
cmpunkbuster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Bay level.
Sea-Salt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, 2012 would give Michael Bay a boner. Just money shot after money shot of disaster porn.
Tuva_Tourist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like I am actually playing Duke Nukem.
PewPewLaserPewPew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
watched it in oculus and now am dead
Fat_Guy_With_Snacks ยท 1855 points ยท Posted at 01:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are some top notch special effects.
HughJorgens ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:22:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still better than Birdemic's.
mitochondrial_steve ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:29:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's close
Missy_Elliott_Smith ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick! Fend off the super-volcano with coat hangers! It's the only way!
thisdoescompute ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:29:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/highqualitygifs
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:34 on March 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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1stwarror ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 01:53:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like 10 people put their lunch money for the day together to buy some special effects
ShacoPastorius ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:21:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And ended up buying lunch anyways
Lemerney2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i could do better with a free app on my phone...
kaaz54 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that the guy responsible for making that animation gambled away the budget he'd been given, and for the last 17.50$ he had left, he found a teenager on craigslist with l33t computerskillz.
[deleted] ยท 376 points ยท Posted at 01:14:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like a Michael Bay film
hbgoddard ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His effects are much better.
coredumperror ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:38:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Michael Bay's explosions are significantly more realistic.
Famixofpower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe he uses real explosions. One scene in one of the Transformers movies had the actors running on a "carpet" full of explosives
HowIsntBabbyFormed ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:58:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like Michael Bay's "special" cousin made it.
Professional_Bob ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:57:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like Birdemic.
phumanchu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:51:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/Michaelbaygifs
neon_fish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least his explosions look good.
weedwhacker4199 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone park: Age of Extinction
WithASideOfBacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Needs more lens flare
cragnathor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's JJ Abrams not Michael Bay
ext23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shhh don't give him any more ideas
DimitriV ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, I never thought I'd reference 2012 as a positive example of anything but its depiction of Yellowstone erupting was better.
Mirria_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Roland Emmerich, people
The most glaring unrealistic thing about this explosion is that anyone in the scenes has any hearing left after the explosion. When the Krakatoa erupted in 1883, sailors on a ship 40 miles away got ruptured eardrums and a factory 100 miles away recorded a sound volume of 172 decibels. People were reporting sounds akin to artillery fire up to 3000 miles away.
DimitriV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I never considered that. I thought the most unrealistic thing in that whole scene was that we as an audience were expected to care about John Cusack's character.
"Yes, he fell into the abyss! ...Dammit."
Mirria_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly if you watched that movie expecting anything else than impressive SFX wrapped with a meaningless storyline then you setting yourself up for disappointment. I enjoyed that movie.
You could spend hours listing everything that was wrong about the physics though.
kungfukai ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:37:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did they just grabbed a bunch of Action Essential keyed explosions and called it a day?
RomanV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably only the 720p pack, too.
JtheNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, they spent 20 mins simulating an explosion for the second shot!
ocean365 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:42:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I made the same video on an iPad about 2 hours ago haha
SIMPLYBUD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like a bollywood volcanoe
eliguillao ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/michaelbaygifs
patientbearr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first part is kinda cool and then it just turns into shit tier animated explosions
Windex_Attack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:41:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The special effects get my dick-a-pumpin
Biggoronz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol nah that's from birdemic
DragonTamerMCT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
those first few explosion effects are awful. The rest just looks like it was made in blender with way too small of a number of particles.
larryfuckingdavid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a Macgruber volcano
Lapulta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The geologist in me started giggling. Now I'm trying to be serious about it, but I really can't. Those geysers are still smoking peacefully in the background.
Bless their souls, they did their best.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And by 'Discovery' you mean 'teenage Michael Bay with an A-B mixer'?
moon_patrol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shiet, if this happens, I won't believe my eyes!
Nrwnknght64 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks more like a syfy movie
Dremlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The questions on that day will be fun to find out.
Will the vents collapse into a single giant vent?
How many of the magma chambers will be active in the eruption?
R99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/michaelbaygifs
resting_dickface ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, now I'm less afraid
Ponyface1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After seeing that Gif I am not so worried anymore.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember. If you can see the eruption you are too close and already dead.
PoliticallyApoplect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Needs a Troy McClure voice over imo.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It sucks it's in Wyoming too, some of the best skiing and wilderness there.
PajamaHive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking LOVE Discovery World for their god awful animations that they make.
Johnhaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No no, that's video from the last time it actually happened.
lessgoboys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duke3D'd
Zireall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That looks kind of underwhelming.
ngstyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Michael Bay will be directing the super volcano?
torb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science has gone too far!
FelixMontague ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/highresgifs do a much better job than this.
SwarleyThePotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by Michael Bay
The_0ne_Free_Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Directed by Michael Bay.
Sworn_to_Ganondorf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thos flames looked straight outa /r/montageparodies lol
hypercube33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Needs more robots playgrounds and a fence. Try again. Also where is travolta
Dusry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is some Sega CD level graphics right there.
ZetsubouZolo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Birdemic 2 confirmed
_jacks_wasted_life_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's it?! huh, I was expecting a hell of a lot more.
agha0013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Discovery made that, or they asked r/michaelbaygifs to make it for them?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/michaelbaygifs
redditorfromfuture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How would we die when we away from it!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This version in a film is nuts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h36j7aSsYWo
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Discovery made a whole movie about it! And it's terrifying!
Wombinatar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michael Bay?
LaXandro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this /r/michaelbaygifs ?
nithiiyan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:32:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A new Micheal bay production..
SuperDan000 ยท 173 points ยท Posted at 01:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
87,000 deaths? That doesn't sound too bad.
CaptainUnusual ยท 690 points ยท Posted at 01:12:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are just the instant ones. The resulting ash cloud would basically stop all agriculture in the Northern Hemisphere, and billions would starve to death or die of horrific lung damage.
-kindakrazy- ยท 230 points ยท Posted at 01:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes. Sounds like we should drill a few holes to release that pressure.
WienerCleaner ยท 310 points ยท Posted at 01:40:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it has been talked about, but there is no way to ensure this wouldn't start some kind of eruption by trying. No turning back if you attempt it.
[deleted] ยท 766 points ยท Posted at 02:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just save the game before you try it.
Jacio9 ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 02:56:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mods disabled softcore resets about 60 million years ago. The old lizard players tried to exploit it when they found out the server was getting wiped, but no luck there.
seiferfury ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They did successfully exploit a loophole, but then they got nerfed and became chickens.
Springheeljac ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:05:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear the Ostrich class is still pretty beast.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No man, the Secretary Bird is the best class.
Springheeljac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That shit is pretty cool.
I_am_THE_GRAPIST ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:30:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/outside
TacoRedneck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you grape my kids?
Iziama94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why none of my quicksaves worked
coltonmusic15 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are referring to dinosaurs... haha. I get it. haha.
MarcelRED147 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:53:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Person with the answers. Am I too late to vote in the primary?
CreamyGoodnss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last save point was like a while ago, bro
RorariiRS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's pretend this is actually possible for a minute.
If it were, who would be the one to actually click the save button.
Concrete_Mattress ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to live in your world.
AspiringScreenwriter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/outside
lukin187250 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better check with them if there are any patch notes regarding that part of the map.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's nothowthatworks
ZurichianAnimations ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we mess up, just press L+R+start and we're good to go.
Bladelink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't save scum in the current Earth version.
mutantpbandj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/outside
imnoobhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys! /r/outside is leaking again.
recuerdamoi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you meant like deer and stuff.
eversaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, we accidentally saved at the exact moment the volcano went off and we don't have any backups!
David_Robot ยท 137 points ยท Posted at 01:55:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, you could just tape the holes back up!
hawkfanlm ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:15:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duct Tape works for everything.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:55:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gorilla tape might be called for at that point.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shittyaskscience needs you
KaiMgarth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or get a really big cork.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read cork as cock at first.
KaiMgarth ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:50:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That'll work too, I guess.
OrangeSail ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go back to /r/ShittyAskScience
AWildCookieMonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duct tape has infinite power
mr_popcorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duct tape is the solution to everything. Even unstable supervolcanoes.
arriflex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And make Canada pay for it!
Heychels_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put some coconut oil on it. Coconut oil fixes eeeeverything.
smegma_legs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuct tape
Cadaverlanche ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:26:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get BP to do it. They're great at plugging leaks quickly.
mrlowe98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean... wouldn't a bunch of smaller eruptions be preferable to the big one?
VTWut ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be comparable to trying to release the pressure of a balloon by poking it with holes. You have a material (the crust) holding a comparably large amount of pressure (magma and volatile gases heated by a mantle hot spot) without a safe way to release the pressure. The pressure likely at the point (evidenced by crustal uplift in area) where if you try to poke a hole in the balloon (drill into the crust), the immense pressure will cause it to pop (super volcano eruption). And since we don't have a way to control the release of pressure with current technology that isn't analogous with prodding it with a hollow needle, the safest action is to just let it run its course (which is an eruption that will not likely occur within our lifetimes).
Zapness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:30:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thing is that wouldn't cause tiny little eruptions if they messed up even a little bit. It would be a sudden violent release of magma, which would rip open the rest and kill everyone. So we should not do that.
SandstoneD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ctrl+Z
cthulhushrugged ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:15:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh... an eruption is releasing the pressure. It's not like Yellowstone has bad gas or something (side note: it also does), the pressure is... wait for it... a hot-spot of lava.
This "drill to make it better" idea is silly because A) humans have never, ever driven down that far, but even more importantly B) what, exactly do you think is going to "come up" with the release? Rainbows?
Yellowstone has exploded before, but past performance is not indiciative of future results. Regardless, we're talking about something that runs on geologic time. It might be "overdue" for an eruption... but by that measure, we could still be talking about tes of thousands of years... or never...
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if we blew up the volcano?
Corte-Real ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what the primary function of a Blow Put Preventer is for in Offshore Drilling.
Aspergers1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the Soviets dropped their Tsar Bomba (tested at 50 megaton nuclear bomb, but is capable of going to as high as 100 megatons) onto Yellowstone national park and let it hit the ground before it detonated, would the resulting explosion be enough to set off the volcano?
UpHandsome ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:26:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh... just set up a perimeter of nuclear bombs. If it erupts, blow them up. That's how explosive containment works. But of course everyone is scared of nuclear energy and the military isn't going to want to give up their toys.
VTWut ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pressure is already there, it's just being held back by the strength of the thick layer of continental crust. Drilling a hole would just create a weak point, causing the huge eruption to happen sooner.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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VTWut ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:34:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, it would depend on the concrete to even come close, as commercial concrete usually sits from around 4000 psi in terms of compressive strength. Although there is ultra high performance concrete that performs up to 29,000 psi.
That would put concrete typically lower than the compressive strength for most common rock composition of Yellowstone, Rhyolite (8,700-31,900 psi). You could get comparable strength to the rock that is already holding the pressure at bay, albeit with the highest performing concrete.
But then looking in terms of volume of concrete necessary, the continental crust in the Yellowstone area ranges from 33 to 54 km thick. If that volume of high strength material ends up failing to keep the volcanic pressures from escaping, its highly unlikely that we would be able to plop down enough concrete to "seal it up". For comparison, to cover the same volume of continental crust of Yellowstone National Park, we would need 5.05x1014 cubic yds of concrete. If we use this figure of 13 million cubic yds of concrete used in 2007, we would need 38,846,153 years to produce a comparable amount of concrete.
So yea, not really feasible to just patch it up with today's technology.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soooooooo were fucked?
Lawsoffire ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:02:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not enough concrete in the world for that
MrCheaperCreeper ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not with that attitude there isn't.
iritator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's covered in rock, which is already like having 100s or 1,000s of feet of concrete above it.
SyntheticManMilk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cross drill a hole from the ocean.
VTWut ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:27:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure we don't have a 900+ mile drill to reach Yellowstone from the Pacific coast.
Drilling at an angle from off-coast would probably create a weak point somewhere else along the continental crust in another state, which would create a similar eruption to what is trying to be prevented.
Even if all of the pressure escaped into the ocean, I wouldn't be surprised if the rapid eruption of material created some sort of tsunami event along with the immediate destruction of drilling equipment and staff. Even if it did not, there would still be a very, very large disturbance to the Pacific coast volcanic gasses and materials that I'm sure the surrounding wildlife, commercial businesses, and local people would not appreciate.
DigitalMariner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To your point #3, I think the bigger fear from Yellowstone isn't the eruption and immediate destruction, but the ash cloud that kills all crops for many years and poisons lungs, killing billions. So while tsunami and earthquakes would be beyond tragic, if the ash and explosion stay underwater it wouldn't be a near extinction level event. Greatest good for greatest number and all that..
VTWut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dumping a large amount of ash and debris into the Pacific ocean would cause a host of other problems. Possible tsunami, blowing out the coast line, the likely death of wildlife in the ocean causing fishing industries to collapse, etc.
The point is really moot though as pointed out in the first two points. We don't have Drilling technology that reaches that far, and even if we did, trying to release that pressure through a small drilled hole would still likely result in a blowout in the continental crust somewhere between Yellowstone and the coast.
DigitalMariner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's going to be a disaster no matter how that pressure eventually is released. If the tech did exist and devastating destruction was imminent, it would have to be a choice of the best terrible outcome.
InVultusSolis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only viable solution: nuke it.
ThanatosX23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:40:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... would that mean I would have to delay my Starbucks an hour or two?
Blinsin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the explosion is big enough to destroy almost the entire western hemisphere what would the tsunami do from the explosion in the ocean?
thorscope ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't know if that will help or hurt yet. That's why nothing's being done until it's researched more.
DragonTamerMCT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're serious, most scientists think this would be an awful idea.
No one is really sure if that would trigger the volcano, which many expect it would. Not to mention most of our tech would just straight up melt trying to do that.
Von_Miller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Id rather us take a chance, that it probably won't erupt anytime soon, and leave it alone instead of drilling holes to release pressure which could cause it to erupt.
It's like coming across a sleeping grizzly bear. You can either try and sneak past it and have a good chance of not disturbing the bear. Or pick up a twig on the ground, run up and attempt to stab the bear to death greatly increasing your chances of being mauled/killed.
Bremic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fracking Good Idea Dood.
LeRohameaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to Vault 420, my friend
framerotblues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awww yeah, baby. Let's hit that zit of American bedrock and save humanity before the calamity.
Bear4188 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not like it would just vent some steam into the air. The pressure is an enormous mass of magma that wants to flood all over the continent.
WorkLemming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ash collecting on buildings as far south as Colorado/New Mexico would eventually collapse roofs.
samrosie715 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a young justice reference?
ilkikuinthadik ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 01:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone told me the bang from the initial eruption would literally be heard around the world.
Furoan ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 02:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Probably. I mean Krakatoa had an eruption heard about 4,000 miles away from the epicentre and the shock-wave travelled around the world a couple times. The Mt. Tambora Volcano 'only' killed 10,000 instantly but the climate change it brought about were in a HUGE radius. There was global cooling and a lot of crops failed because it didn't get hot enough for harvest. Yellowstone would probably out do both of them.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hehe
Furoan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
d'oh!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spokeshave, the new, 16 blade razor, from Gillette.
Furoan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tbh when I read my misspelling, I thought it said 'Spock shave' and I thought it was a prevention device, in case your first officer mysteriously grows a goatee and turns evil.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Furoan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm...possibly. Really the question comes down to how often you venture into or receive visitors from alternative timelines.
randomasfuuck27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We could use a global cooling though
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can never even begin to fathom how Krakatoa was that unbelievably loud! And powerful. It's one fucking volcano.
waitingtodiesoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do people suffer ear damage from an eruption?
plazmablu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:15 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not probably. Yellowstone would be 100x worse or more.
PCCP82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
probably? Yellowstone is magnitudes of orders higher...
Opticity ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:21:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got it the other way round. It's order of magnitude.
PCCP82 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHEEEEEIIIIIIITTT
tinfins ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 02:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was your mom talking about the next time I come over.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Krakatoa erupted, the pressure wave traveled around the Earth multiple times and the explosion was heard from almost 5,000km away. I'd say Yellowstone would definitely be heard around the planet.
peoplerproblems ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm skeptical of that. Mostly because of power being distributed in all directions.
Now that being said, the shockwave would be enormous and create all sorts of crazy weather. So you might get some major wind gusts shortly after eruption in Europe.
Brettallica ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soooooo... im all good down under yeh? :-D
CaptainUnusual ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's an interesting question. You'd have a refugee crisis that would make the EU's problems look pleasant in comparison, but you also have the luxury of having a giant ass desert to put people in until they get eaten by spiders and jellyfish and kangaroos.
Skull thrones would definitely become more affordable for you.
Veeron ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the entire northern hemisphere, just most of North America. The rest of the world would face reduced agricultural production for years to come, but saying billions would starve is a massive overstatement. The death toll would likely be in the tens of millions, this wouldn't be an apocalyptic event outside North America.
whitebob ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So not much of a loss to the world really.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but being rich I can juts go in my bunker.
greentoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck, lets stop being damn animals about this and make sure we aren't just growing our peoples food on open dirt.
simcityrefund1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whole of northern hemisphere? will it affect china,indie,asia and australia food production?
Ms4sman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, gee, well is that it?
whitebob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh well, only the Northern Hemisphere.
brett6781 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why we need to beef up the fucking space program.
Earth is fucked? Time for Mars!
Lemerney2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good thing i live in australia! i bet that's the first time anyone has said that.
ShutUpHeExplained ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So....the 87,000 are the lucky ones then?
fodafoda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that it could be most efficient attack a terrorist could perform with a single nuke. The only trick is burying the nuke in the right spot to trigger the explosion.
monty845 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your exaggerating. Tens, maybe even hundreds of millions would starve, but very unlikely to reach into the billions. Lung damage wouldn't be that big a risk except for those fairly close, and even then basic safety measures would limit it. A decent chunk of agriculture in the US would be lost from the direct ash falls, but beyond that, the northern and southern hemispheres would receive fairly similar impacts, long winter, short cold summer, but not total crop failure. Wealthy nations would very likely be able to avoid starvation all together.
monty845 ยท 195 points ยท Posted at 01:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would probably kill a ton more, 87k is just those who die instantly. It would render 1-5 US states uninhabitable, most people would be able to evacuate, but your looking at 2-10 million refuges. It would result in total crop destruction in another 5-10 states, (up to 15 total) including many of the largest agricultural areas in the US. The death toll up to this point would probably still be in the 100s of thousands.
Then comes the volcanic winter. Global cold weather, and reduction in sunlight will result in major reductions in crop yields globally, lasting at least a year, and potentially several. The ensuing global famine will kill millions, maybe tens of millions throughout the third world. First world countries will probably be able to acquire adequate food, but at a high price, and at the expense of poorer countries.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:19:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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monty845 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Economic Troubles is barely the start. The entire world would be thrown into chaos. What do you think happens when India and China realize there isn't going to be enough food to go around, and that a substantial portion of their population may see food shortages, or even full on starvation? And it will be even worse in much of Africa, where they can barely feed themselves as it is. How it would all pan out is impossible to say, maybe we come out riding on top, maybe we don't.
All that said though, its not the end of the world for the US.
firedrake242 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like the US would try and start taking people over at that point to try and stem the dying
ulkord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:11:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The country in which the super volcano just exploded would take in people? Unlikely.
BitchCuntMcNiggerFag ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:44:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet.
Crisner62 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:55:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global cold weather you say? We found the way to reverse climate change
rolfraikou ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But making everything colder would still be a climate change. :p
DeathsIntent96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would still be reversing the change that's already occurred.
rolfraikou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reversing it, but then surpassing it to another extreme.
DeathsIntent96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah. But he was clearly joking.
monty845 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just in case your not joking, it would only last a few years, after which global warming would return as if nothing had happened.
firedrake242 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:24:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but there would be a lot less people and massively less cows.
NeckbeardDiaries ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it's settled then, we will nuke Yellowstone.
Crisner62 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least we have a temporary fix while we create a permanent one.
Yoadrian3495 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:08:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll stay on my cozy little east coast
GumdropGoober ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world does not want to see what happens when the world's greatest military power is suddenly in need of massive new areas of arable land.
guitar_hunter_dude ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:17:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One might call it "living space."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
South 'Murica, here we come.
promonk ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:42:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why the US keeps up its navy.
iCokahola ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how do we prevent this because that sounds fucking terrible.
rolfraikou ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We can't. This is the planet earth just doing it's thing.
Theoretically, we could have not moved so many people to a place that blows up. Try moving as many people away from the potentially affected regions as possible. But then that's risky too.
Where do we move them? To a bunch of high-rise buildings that suddenly get struck by a freak-gigantic earthquake or tornado?
Natural disasters just happen. This is just a particularly big one.
MrSayn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess this is why people build bunkers and stock them with food.
Scherzkeks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Long Night IRL
JRW-98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We shouldn't worry too much though, other countries love us! They'll help us out! /s
zombiesatmidnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What IF!!! We just point big fans at the sky until the ash cloud goes up to space?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, let us not forgot people will probably start turning on each other, killing each other for supplies. That shit will get whack.
booty_pictures_pls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that happened in a game of Civilization, i'd just quit.
xj13361987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just realized what the caused the shit show in The Road.
zquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mexico is going to be really happy, that trump made them build that wall.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn earth for how cool you are you can also do some real fucked up shit
fodafoda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's one way of solving global warming, isn't it?
OctopusPirate ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way worse than that.
Yellowstone is way bigger than you think.
monty845 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:50:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its really not. Look at the ash-falls from past eruptions of Yellowstone itself. Look at the climate data from similar eruptions further back. My starvation numbers may be low, maybe its hundreds of millions, but it still wouldn't be the end of the world, which some people seem to treat it as.
DanielMcLaury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human reaction to it could end the world, though.
XEV4NX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:18:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would likely render half of the earth uninhabitable.
elboltonero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:43:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're the lucky ones.
OkArmordillo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok Hitler not everything can cause as many deaths as you.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nervously looks at USA map
BringTheNewAge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eh thats not the bad part, if it were to be an explosive eruption it has the potential energy to blast 1/3rd of north america in to space. Nukes are good but they are still party poppers compared to nature.
Leprechorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can reasonably say that there would not be anywhere near enough energy to blast a third of a large continent into space.
BringTheNewAge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats what we were taught about it
Leprechorn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, teachers can be idiots, too
BringTheNewAge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
true...
DarthSnoopyFish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the surrounding towns/cities that were lucky to be far enough from the pyroclastic cloud would still be in trouble as the ash will cover everything. When it builds up enough it's heavy enough to collapse roofs and is like shards of glass that you can inhale... slowly building up like a putty on the inside of your lungs.
LoverboysHeadband ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taking into account the very low population density of the hundreds of miles' radius around Yellowstone, tens of thousands dead would mean the blast area would be enormous. Enough to very soon make an impact over a huge section of the western US and Canada.
aMAYESingNATHAN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly the massive global effect from the ash clouds would destroy most life on earth.
If yellowstone erupts in our lifetime most life on earth is over as we know it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we round up to 100k deaths, and say the USA has a population of 300 million, that's 0.03% of America dead. 1 in 3000 people in the USA is dead.
Makes it sound like a lot more people
kristamhu2121 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:03:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was looking to see if someone would say Yellowstone. I try to forget it exists.
3v0gsxr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm like 500 miles from Yellowstone. It terrifies me sometimes.
jkmonty94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:18:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn it you made me check. While I'm at school I'm only 370 miles away
PacSan300 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 00:46:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched a documentary many years ago about this supervolcano, and it considered the eruptions of Krakatoa, Pinatubo, and St. Helens as "babies" in comparison.
Supreme_Turtle ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 01:06:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KRAKATOA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHVMBDQXEAg
LittlePantsu ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:44:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Someone wanna help me out, that song during that part is catchy as hell and I cant find it for the life of me.
edit. I found it actually, gonna help anyone out who has been looking for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyfP4JFpAiY
Fuzzycactus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn krakatoa a baby by comparison? Didn't the sound of the explosion travel around the earth 6 times.
PCCP82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you could add all of them, Tambora as well, and not even get to half of the explosive content of Yellowstone
wpnw ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:17:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, 87,000 people would not be killed instantly. First of all, that article cites a CNN article that doesn't cites its source for that figure, so questionable already. SECONDLY, the chance that there is absolutely no warning prior to an eruption which is big enough to kill 87,000 people is so infinitesimally small that it's not even worth entertaining the idea. Volcanoes are produced by gas and molten rock moving through other less molten rock. That doesn't happen without a hell of a precursor of some sorts - usually a lot of earthquakes. There was months of notice prior to St. Helens going off, likewise with Pinatubo (which was the largest eruption on the planet since 1912, and resulted in only 847 deaths, but very few (if any) were a direct result of the explosion itself). Volcanoes just do not erupt to this capacity without making their intentions known first. People would be evacuated, and much to the chagrin of the news media, this sort of sensationalist bullshit would continue to only live in Hollywood.
celtic_thistle ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:47:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in CO so I know I'd die pretty quick. Oh well.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live about four hours from said volcano. My plan, if it goes off without warning, is to crack open a six-pack, sit on a lawn chair atop my roof, and greet my demise with a middle finger and bottle of Odell's IPA.
I AM ONE OF THE 87,000!!!
mothfukle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:22:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've watched enough movies to know that all we need to do is stuff a nuclear bomb down in there. The resulting explosion will set off a chain reaction that will naturalize the volcano. It's proven science. WMDs are our best worst friend.
CodenameMolotov ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:16:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It wouldn't be that bad. There would be potentially months or years of warning. There have been 3 explosive eruptions (caldera forming) at Yellowstone in the last 2 million years and they didn't wipe out all life on Earth. The surrounding states would get a lot of ash fall, but there would be enough warning to evacuate them. Additionally, almost all of the Yellowstone eruptions have been lava flows and not explosions, which would be completely harmless. Sulfate aerosols released by the eruption would cause global temperatures to drop for a few years, but that would be temporary and might be offset by global warming. The ash in the air could lower crop yields in the US for years until it settles, so food shortages worldwide would be the biggest risk.
wpnw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The eruptions may have had lava flows accompany them, but they most certainly have not been mostly lava flows. They were mostly ash and ignimbrite (basically ash mixed with smaller rocks that weren't pulverized into ash). The last three caldera forming eruptions produced 1000, 280, and 2500 (the largest known at Yellowstone, 2500 times larger than St. Helens) cubic kilometers of material respectively. If those were mostly lava, we would have been talking about literally entire mountains larger than Olympus Mons on Mars being formed. 2500 cubic kilometers = 600 cubic miles. That's a footprint approximately the size of Texas - but 600 miles high. Even after 2.1 million years that wouldn't just disappear.
CodenameMolotov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The caldera forming eruptions were not mostly lava flows, I'm talking about the other eruptions. There have been dozens of lava flows since the last explosive eruption. If Yellowstone does erupt it is much more likely to be a lava flow than explosion and only people inside the park will be in danger.
wpnw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, yes that is absolutely true. Your initial comment didn't make it sound like you were addressing the smaller eruptions that have occurred there (I'm sure others would have probably read into it as well, especially since these buzzfeed-esque type articles never care to mention them).
the_eric ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they're all granola eating hippies, so is it really a loss?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the past decade, there has been some increased activity at the site. Since 2004, the supervolcano has been rising and just this month, roads were closed in Yellowstone after extreme heat from below wasmeltingย the asphalt on roads up above.
Woah
vitalogst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only legitimate answer for anyone in the Americas, and probably the world.
ianoftawa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the green areas of not America would argue that the Taupo supervolcano which caused the last glacial maximum would be of more concern.
Fish_Happens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The comments on that article are ridiculous. It is a scary thought but on the scale of geologic time, our lifetimes are humbled. I don't think there we should worry about it.
b4xt3r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here to say that.
pm_your_netflix_Queu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wiki says no
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would like to point out that when a geologist says it could happen, "any time now" they mean on a geological timescale... "any time now" means between now and the next few hundred thousand years.
zaturama015 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i would like to think that living in NY would be safe but a tsunami would bury us.
leXie_Concussion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's not even the biggest one on Earth. ;)
ITeachFuckingScience ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then many millions more from the debris cloud blotting out the Sun
Lothar_Ecklord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A similar geological mystery, the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Could lay dormant for all humankind. Could split the US in half. Definitely not as scary or deadly. Most likely. Last time it gave way, sections of the Mississippi flowed backward and the river changed course. Well... the river frequently changes course, but not usually in a matter of seconds. Could be scary. Maybe. But probably not.
SeamusHeaneysGhost ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"just this month, roads were closed in Yellowstone after extreme heat from below was melting the asphalt on roads up above"
MooseinPursuit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, don't forget that the rest of North America would slowly starve to death.
My-Names-Jeff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think I would rather die instantly.
MooseinPursuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ironically, the best place to be when the Yellowstone super volcano erupts, is Yellowstone.
Just ride that violent eruption of molten rock straight up to heaven.
Spencerguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My favorite part of that article was the people arguing about the Bible and Global warming in the comments
God_Damnit_Nappa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also one in the Sierra Nevada range near a popular ski resort called Mammoth. Hurray!
estuaryfire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
850 Miles away from the explosions. Maybe only 5 feet of ash in my yard.
Thatlawnguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That title tho...
KenJongill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I should probably get some volcano insurance...
ImHereToReddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i wonder if several cameras are pointed in the general direction to catch the event
asylumsaint ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live less than an hour away from yellowstone. Amazing place but damn its going to suck when that shit finally blows.
dr-krieger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am one of those people. The moment the geologists and other scientists in the park start evacuating, is the point in time I start to worry. I'd rather live in beauty than worry about dying because of it.
syntaxvorlon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, the lucky ones. Eventual categories are projected in the millions, if not about a billion people.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm in that range! How exciting!
Alcoholic_jesus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to sound crude but... That's it? .02% of the population is a "super volcano?"
Myfourcats1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instantly is the way to go.
Bremic ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:58:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is an exhibit in the Aukland Museum which says the entire city is built on a series of volcanoes that make up one big super volcano; and that if it was to erupt then don't worry about how to get away, you would just be dead in a burning hell of fire and molten rock. Enjoy the rest of the exhibit.
abcriminal ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:18:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that would definitely put an end to a nice little Saturday outing :/ How bloody frightening!!
FactualNeutronStar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:10:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to Yellowstone over spring break. Now I really want to tell people that if the volcano erupted we'd be instantly killed.
waitingtodiesoon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:52:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go buy a book on deaths in Yellowstone. I was reading it at every giftshop. That book is so morbid it details all the deaths in Yellowstone. Geysers and hot springs kill quite a few
Tridian ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:48:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia, where the one thing that isn't trying to kill you is the actual country.
the_other_skier ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:22:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Zealand here. Lake Taupo would like a word.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:49:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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the_other_skier ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, good luck! That said, quake capital down here...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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the_other_skier ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:11:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, we're a tough lot.
Totally not leaving the city permanently in 3 months or anything.
Salrith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, like the world's largest (technically) active volcanic province is in Australia.
Source: Have been there
Tridian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a resident, I don't recall there being a (noteworthy) volcanic eruption in Australia in hundreds of years.
Salrith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There hasn't been. Hence only technically active.
DudeNiceMARMOT ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:02:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but what about MEGA volcanoes?
trios13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are those a thing?
DudeNiceMARMOT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:51:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably not. I just thought it sounded cool.
trios13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:27:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
almost gave me a heart attack you asshole!
Subpotentcoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps on a distant, volatile planet!
KurtVV ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:02:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, did you see my comment a while back about scary transmissions at 3:54am?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2qwm98/its_354_am_your_tv_radio_cell_phone_begins/cna9d50
abcriminal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had not seen it before and can honestly say I'm even more terrified of super volcanoes now :/
KurtVV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, sorry
flossdaily ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah... the scary thing is that Yellowstone is overdue for an eruption. The last eruption occurred 640,000 years ago. The last three super-eruptions took place at increments of 600,000-700,000 years.
But we don't have to worry. It's not like Yellowstone is swelling and bulging. Oh wait it is.
captainraincoat15 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP you would like the book Ashfall and the sequel Ashen Winter. It's mostly YA but pretty good, basically Yellowstone explodes and the US goes to shit. Probably one if my fav books.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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captainraincoat15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No problemo
Diersada0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My parents grew up with the author and I have a signed copy that I've read about a dozen times. It's a great series and super dark for the genre.
captainraincoat15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn thats pretty sick. A signed copy?
Johnsmitish ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You dick, I'm reading about this, knowing that I'm gonna be terrified about this for the next month.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Johnsmitish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but I coulda just gone along, being stupid me without worrying about a volcano pretty much decimating future life on earth.
Nisas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The good news is that they haven't erupted for thousands of years and you've only got like 70 more years in you at best. Let's roll those dice.
random314 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:24:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read somewhere that Last time one of those thing went off, the human population was wiped down to about a thousand being pair.
gorpie97 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the end of the supervolcano documentary (on Discovery or something) they talked about that. The DNA of all animals can be traced to many different ancestors; humans can only be traced to a few.
CreamyGoodnss ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check out the Supervolcano series by Harry Turtledove
meta_student ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MGMT - Ode to the Supervolcano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjwEZycE94c
Created for an Environmental Science class (for non majors) very relevant to this thread - "Hazardous Earth: Stuff That Will Kill You"
wwwmind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read about this some years ago. man did that scare me.
Prookies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, so here we go, the terrorists drop a nuke inside of the super volcano. Everyone dies in America.
davvblack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ban scapeshift
gooberzilla2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living in the PacNW, there are 4 volcanoes around, and a continental plate. Living dangerously
bagelfireball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Volcanoes are like earth buttholes.
Doomdoomkittydoom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the correct answer.
Hypnosavant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should just drill down there and release some of the pressure.
Pebblezcrwd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres the Lake Taupo super volcano north east of me. If it blows up the whole central N.I of Nz will die. Man I love Volcanology! I think thats about ~800k-1m
indorock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently Yellowstone's next eruption is wayyy overdue, by a few thousand years. No big deal.
redawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just said this up top. upvote. i agree.
lauraswoods ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh God yes. Went to Santorini this autumn and and realised that it had been the location of one of the biggest eruptions in recorded history - ca 1600 BC. What shocked me the most was the impact it had on people world wide - entire civilisation went extinct. Check out the wiki page for the historical impact.
Our guide on our tour of the (still active) volcano told us that some people theorise that it was the cause of the Plagues of Egypt being written into the bible - thunderstorms of fire, darkness, infestation of frogs and lice, livestock dying... Very interesting, VERY SCARY.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
organic warheads
CheifDash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's basically a big giant fire lava pimple.. http://imgur.com/6u1mTgH
Tacorgasmic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... Krakatoa wasn't a super volcano?!
Nope nope nope this shit, I'm getting out of here!
kiwieatingakiwifruit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:30:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I study super eruptions! I also get too excited about the inevitable death and destruction they bring.
valkan101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the plus side, it would fill our atmosphere with sulfur oxide! Yay for volcanic global cooling!
tellme_areyoufree ยท 476 points ยท Posted at 02:29:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and other prion diseases ("Mad cow" disease, for example).
Rapid degeneration of brain tissue, cavities form in the brain, and the person dies. Always.
Now why is that scary? You don't need to worry about mad cow disease unless you eat bad beef, right?
Wrong. 85% of the cases are spontaneous. The problem is a misfolded protein that forces other proteins to misfold. This happens spontaneously in 85% of the people who die of it. Just happens one day out of nowhere.
Your brain can literally just start eating itself suddenly. How's that for terrifying?
jrwreno ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well....a good indicator of whether or not you can spontaneously develop a prion is if you are displaying random genetic PrPC mutations.
A single amino acid change in the PrPC sequence can 'birth' a particularly virulent prion....however most people that spontaneously developed prions, also had random genetic PrPC mutations.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:03:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bluesgrrlk8 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain biopsy
NecroGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, but what's the point in that? I mean, unless you want to make sure you don't pass it on genetically.
I already have a vasectomy, so, whatevs.
N8dogg420 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 09:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpa died of CJD. It's a seriously fucked up disease. Perfectly healthy to death in a matter of 3-4 months.
DeacanCheese300 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 12:44:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with my grandmother. I was young but even I remember how fast it all happened. Hurts to think about my mom and her siblings having no idea what or why it's happening.
thatsbaloneyhomey ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened with my grandmother too. She started getting a little "strange" around Christmas and died in February. It's a terrible disease and it happens so rarely, they still don't know much about it.
kphly ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 14:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In very rare instances, we have to operate on people who have CJD. We practically wear space suits and every single inch of the operating room is covered in drapes. I'm not sure what's scarier, the disease or being forced to come into contact with the brain of someone with the disease.
Ankhsty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has anyone lived or is it 100% fatal?
chickenkyiv ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 14:45:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Brit who lived through the 'problem beef' era this freaks me out big time. CJD can incubate/lie dormant for up to 50 years.
It is thought that potentially we could have something of an epidemic of CJD in the future, and that around 1 in 2000 people in the UK are carriers of it. That's potentially a lot of people.
For non-Brit Reditors, you may or may not know, this is the reason Brits who lived through the 90s in the UK are banned from donating blood in most other countries.
jenntasticxx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always wondered why that was. That's crazy. And scary.
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[deleted] ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 04:25:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining Archer would be one person who say this.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the silent killer, Lana.
IOwnAOnesie ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:16:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I mentioned it in another comment above but CJD is horrific. A relative of mine went just under a year from healthy to dead, and that's longer than most people last. It's like Alzheimer's, psychosis, extreme pneumonia and several other illnesses all rolled into one, with absolutely no cure.
kaptant ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because 85% of cases are spontaneous doesn't mean the incidence of the disease is high. I mean if you want to worry about everything in the world that can kill you then be my guest but these really shouldn't be a daily worry.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:10:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The median duration of the disease is 4 months. As in, on average, you die 4 months after getting it.
Edit: it's 4 months after symptoms begin, thanks /r/cartmancakes
cartmancakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:53:42 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rather, it's 4 months after symptoms begin. You can have it for decades before anything shows.
In my friend's case, he started showing symptoms in July 2015. Hospitalized in August. confirmed in September. Dead in January this year. It was unreal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:24 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda like asbestos. It normally takes 12 to 20 years for symptoms to start showing, but it can be as long as 40 years.
shemihazazel ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:19:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are a bitch.
wadiwad ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow I'm a vegetarian now!
XDXMackX ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better make sure no one uses manure to fertilize those vegetables.
Buffalo__Buffalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the matter? You don't want to take that 15% chance of contracting a prion disease by eating a hamburger?
Letracho ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is a joke but to the uninformed who scare easily, there's less than 1000 US cases per year. So pretty rare.
theboyfromganymede ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:47:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I'm sure it's pretty rare until you end up being one of those 1000
SyKoHPaTh ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 14:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you go from being rare to well, done?
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go directly to jail.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:27:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here in the US, pretty slim to almost 0%. That is a big time thing they keep a lookout for.
Hauvegdieschisse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're also extraordinary stable and difficult to destroy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Embalmer here, we had a CJD case and the prep room was turned into a giant restricted zone, there wasn't one piece of equipment or table that didn't have thick plastic covering it. We still did the embalming as to why I have no idea because we didn't allow any viewing of any kind and the casket was completely sealed. We threw away every single thing we used to embalm that case and had the blood drained separate and picked up by a special bio-hazard company. Very scary few days. CJD can outlive almost any sanitizing effort including pressure and high temperature aka Autoclave
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CJD and Mad Cow are the exact same thing, just that CJD is when it's in humans, while Mad Cow is when it's in a cow.
tellme_areyoufree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually classic CJD is considered different than variant CJD (vCJD), which is transmitted by consuming infected beef. I used "mad cow" because it's more familiar to people than vCJD or bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Here is some more information: http://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/index.html
G-O-single-D ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also transferred through spinal fluid. Once "mad cow" was recognized we started to cook surgical instruments for almost twice as long as the normal orthopedic or general surgery equipment. One lady came into our hospital and ended up having it, all the equipment used for her surgery was melted down and thrown away because fuck that shit. Imagine walking in to get your back fixed, walk out with an incurable prion disease.
Source: Operating Room Core-Tech / Central Processing
Doinkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:32 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great uncle died last year of this. Scary shit. It went downhill pretty fast
revofire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically critical system failure for your DNA then eh?
theboyfromganymede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't affect DNA.
bluesgrrlk8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. Fuck prions, that's some scary shit!
Calguy1 ยท 4750 points ยท Posted at 23:31:26 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What comes next after stumbling across cute, adorable little grizzly Cubs.
the_eric ยท 659 points ยท Posted at 02:35:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I moved to LA, I had a roommate that I had never met before. Our first time meeting was after I signed my lease and moved in. As we're introducing ourselves, I'm like "Hey, what's your first and last name. I'll add you on facebook". So he tells me and I google his name. The first thing that comes up is a headline that says "(name of town where he's from) cross-country runner races a grizzly bear, gets lucky".
I looked up from my phone and said "Did you outrun a fucking bear?". He just looked down and said "yeah". All I could say was "HOW IS THAT NOT THE FIRST THING YOU TELL PEOPLE WHEN YOU MEET THEM!?!?"
Turns out, he was out for a run when he inadvertently ran between a mama bear and her cub. He didn't notice the bear until it was inches away from biting into his ass. He kept running but made a quick left turn, so he was able to gain a few seconds while the bear had to stop and turn. He ran into a wooded area where he was looking for a tree to climb. When he didn't see one he could climb, he jumped into an alder bush.
The bear found him and started to circle the bush. The bear got about three feet away from his face and that's when my roommate started to hold his breath. After what he said felt like forever, the bear turned and went back to it's cub.
TLDR: Fuck bears.
Rangerbear ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 03:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in an area with a lot of bears. A friend of mine was biking along the river in town at night, and didn't see the grizzly on the side of the path until she was right next to it. It lunged and swiped at her with its paw, but luckily didn't unseat her. She had to get stitches and now has some pretty gnarly scars on her back that are very clearly claw marks.
The worst that's happened to me is having to spray a black bear with bear spray so I could get out of my tent. Pretty tame in comparison, but being five feet from a bear and having nowhere to go certainly got my heart pumping a bit.
the_eric ยท 295 points ยท Posted at 03:13:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I once pricked my finger while stitching up a torn teddy bear. I'm not saying our injuries are similar, but I'm not not saying that.
Ankhsty ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 22:57:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your service, doctor.
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 10:26:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Carbon839 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:50:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet those claw marks are kickass, let's be real.
ObscureRefence ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:04:06 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would wear nothing but backless shirts.
whisperingsage ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:31:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pretty grizzly scars
CurlingPornAddict ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:45 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you live? The OP story was about a black bear.
Rangerbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:32 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alberta, in the Rockies.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 15:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing he didn't find a tree to climb. As someone who lives in Western Canada where there are a lot of bears, he should know...
Living with Grizzlies
Climb a tree while being chased by a grizzly and you've just managed to leave yourself no escape route.
FindMucker ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what should you do instead?
[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 17:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A Grizzly will attack you for two reasons. Either it feels threatened, or it's hungry.
In the case it feels threatened, do NOT run away like the cross-country runner did, because that engages the bears predator reflexes. (When it sees something running from it, the instinct is to chase.) Instead you want to stay calm, do NOT make eye contact (Bears see this as a challenge) and back away slowly speaking in a calm voice. You won't intimidate the bear, it knows it can kill you, but by being calm and not rushing away, you project that you aren't going to go down easy. So if the bear sees you not challenging it, looking strong but leaving, it'll be content to let you go because it doesn't want to risk getting hurt killing you.
If the bear is hungry... You're dead.
EDIT Just wanted to add that Grizzles are rarely that hungry. They forage, they are essentially always snacking, so it's only a sick bear, or one that's been denied food for a long time will be hungry enough to stalk humans. So 99% of bear encounters will be where the bear is threatened. I think I read that 3/4 of bear attacks happen because there are cubs nearby that the bear is protecting, so doing the calm walk away is perfect to indicate you aren't threatening and prevent attack.
rollinff ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:08:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In his case he accidentally came between the bear & her cubs... if it were you, would you feel confident in your first strategy, given the bear likely sees you as a threat to her young?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:49:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'll start answering by saying I would NOT run like he did. The bear only ran after him because of the chase instinct, and stopped when he stopped running. (Holding his breath did absolutely nothing, by the way. Bears smell your scent, not your exhaled oxygen.)
Yes. I would feel confident in that strategy. Why? Because I've actually used it. I have met bears while hiking in the Rockies, and I'm still here to type.
The most important part is to move away from the cubs. Don't run, but you want to show the bear you are not after the cubs. A bear might actually move towards you, like it's about to charge, but they're just testing you. Here's a video of a bear charging a biker in Jasper (coincidentally one of the places I've run into bears while hiking) It's the bears way of saying "Leave or I will attack". If the bear really intended to attack, it would keep coming. These guys were smart... They backed off to show they didn't want to challenge the bear, but they didn't run. As a result, the bear went back to what it was doing before it felt threatened.
EDIT: Here's another good video of doing the right thing around a Grizzly bear. These two hunters come across a mom and her cubs. They don't want to kill the bear so they do all the right things so as to prevent an attack. Notice how they don't run. (Notice also they shoot a gun to try and scare her away, but she doesn't care. Bears have no fear when it comes to protecting cubs) They make noise so she knows they aren't trying to sneak up on her cubs, they stand their ground when charged... If they had run, that would've been far more dangerous. But the bear sees they aren't after her cubs, so she heads off.
CurlingPornAddict ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:39 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are no grizzly bears in California.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:34 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey everyone look! I found someone with no reading comprehension! Because if they actually read, they would've seen that the writer MET the guy in California, and then discovered that, in the town he was from (which was NOT in California) he had out-run a Grizzly bear!
So... Thanks for your pointless comment?
RobinHoodRat ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 09:59:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamn that IS scary! Who in their right mind would sign a lease with a complete stranger in Los Dangerous? Sketchy, you're lucky to be alive!!!!
the_eric ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 10:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was living in Texas and didn't want to move across the country without a home to go to, so I managed to score an apartment over the phone. It wasn't that scary if you take into account that I was informed by the landlord that we were the same age, he was an aspiring model/actor, he worked in handbags at Nordstrom, and he was moving to LA from the city I was born in. There's no way some Alaskan pretty boy who sells purses was going to be that fucking dangerous.
RobinHoodRat ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:15:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry I guess u missed the snark. Cheers to Alaskans selling purses in LA. Sounds like a solid gig. /S
the_eric ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:10:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got the snark. I just didn't want you to think I was some irresponsible idiot. The apartment was in Van Nuys, so it was pretty sketchy. I just got lucky. I'm sorry for fucking up your joke.
RobinHoodRat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:31:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All good broski. I made the mistake of moving in with a vegan psycho from CL who worked at Whole Foods. It was pretty scary, I'm lucky to be alive. :)
the_eric ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just for having to withstand all the broccoli farts and B.O., you might qualify for Veterans Benefits.
a_glorious_bass-turd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a side note, you can BANK selling purses and shoes in stores like Nordstroms or Neiman Marcus. I used to work at Neimans and one dude cleared $180k working in the shoe dept. He developed a clientele and basically became a personal shopper for wealthy people. It still blows my mind that you can clear six figures selling clothes.
yarow12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:06 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what he wanted you to think.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In one sense mama bears are stupid. Human gets between me and the cub? I'm going to abandon the cub to pursue this guy into the distance to slaughter him in revenge. Hope no one eats my cub meanwhile!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The article for those interested: http://juneauempire.com/stories/081708/out_319643871.shtml
the_eric ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are correct.
omegatheory ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:52:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just a bluff charge! well until it isn't
Konker101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck that noise
coday182 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of THIS video.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure that's fake.
AFishBackwards ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:51:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surely that's the last thing you'd want to do.
fistful_of_dollhairs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hi, I'm Chad, I like to out-run bears"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jeeze everyone knows that all you need is a good kung fu crane technique to beat a bear.
delmar42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a runner myself, this freaks me right the hell out.
annony-mau5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
like the sea bear, drawing a circle around yourself makes you invisible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a modest roommate.
PhamNuwensGodshatter ยท 6597 points ยท Posted at 23:58:31 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An Oscar?
The_Fassbender ยท 201 points ยท Posted at 02:46:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Magnificent
fradrig ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:54:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best use of that gif ever. You can almost feel his satisfaction.
christhedorito ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am currently crying over your username, what have you done.
SymphonyofSound ยท 1013 points ยท Posted at 01:23:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking brilliant
Denchura ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SinnerOfAttention ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:04:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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roeravid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:00:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We kelpished it, Reddit!
ssnistfajen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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somethinginfinitely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:57:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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IHateBrainCells ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:14:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bminixhofer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We tried.
IHateBrainCells ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. They tried. I just stopped the retardation.
slader166 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it Reddit!
cranterry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DemonHiatus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:35:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it was pretty funny...
World_Piece ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lob...
The JAM!!!!
henry_white ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am genuinely curious as to why comments like these are upvoted? What does it add to the discussion?
vgulla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't. Reddit just loves memes and being able to go "I get that reference." Wait until you see all the Rick and Morty quotes that will inevitably fill up every thread of unrelated material.
the_k_i_n_g ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leo gets it all
putrid_poo_nugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How original.
YesBennyLikePizza ยท 183 points ยท Posted at 02:44:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God I wish I had Gold to give. Here's a crude drawing of Abe Simpson I found on the internet instead http://i.imgur.com/9XpVUgb.jpg
ds580 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 03:17:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's... yellow...
Try this next time
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:11:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf it has gotten so much more detailed and awesome. When did it stop being a ms paint doodle?
Ymir24 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:21:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It died. Now it lives again...
whisperingsage ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:32:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shiny and chrome?
ds580 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever someone decided to create this version? IDK. The mspaint doodle still exists.
SLOTH_POTATO_PIRATE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/DoIDeserveSilver
Gamerjackiechan2 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:35:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. You don't even deserve reddit bismuth for getting my hopes up. Here's what you barely deserve.
vizzmay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:43:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck reddit gold, reddit bismuth is the real shit.
I still accept reddit gold though.
Gamerjackiechan2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah bismuth looks cool as shit.
BlackfishBlues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take some reddit wood. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Gamerjackiechan2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone wants some reddit wood
Gamerjackiechan2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. You don't even deserve reddit bismuth for getting my hopes up. Here's what you barely deserve.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's from a real episode.
MarcelRED147 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never seen the movie was it good?
ThisIsARobot ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it was pretty good. The bear scene is probably one of the most brutal thing I've ever seen in a movie, and I've seen some pretty fucked up movies.
MarcelRED147 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:12:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool I'll try n check it out, especially since it bagged Leo the Oscar
sfzen ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:28:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't care too much either way about the plot, but the cinematography was fantastic. Even if you don't like the movie, you'll enjoy watching it.
djrage ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:14:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, it was such a fantastically produced movie that the cinematography alone makes watching it worth it.
elephanturd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:26:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bone tomahawk takes the cake for me
ChocolateGautama3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I rented that without knowing it was a horror/western, the last part of that movie really fucked me up.
elephanturd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same, great acting though
BigDaddyDelish ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:36:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty great if you are into wilderness survival movies. It's pretty unabashedly brutal in certain aspects. The bear scene is pretty grizzly (;D) and there are some other visually heavy scenes for this kind of movie, but it isn't anything I'd say is traumatic for an adult and the gore is not that bad as a whole.
All around a great ride if you are into that kind of movie. But if you aren't, you probably aren't going to be that impressed. Gorgeous visuals, a lot of watching a cripple walk through the woods, which could be boring depending on your taste as the pace is slow and steady throughout the movie. There are a number of events and key locations along with some pretty visceral action, but I could easily see people being turned off by the slow pace.
I thought it was pretty rad though, and Leo definitely earned his Oscar as I would say it's the best role he's played.
[deleted] ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 02:35:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a reference to The Revenant? I feel like it is, but I've never seen it so I'm not sure.
Multiscoop ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:48:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it is.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Hugh Glass (Leo's character) gets brutally mauled by a Grizzly bear
Chawklate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep
The-Fox-Says ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:09:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take your upvote and leave.
AvoidMySnipes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you explain this?
spannerphantom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watch the revenant, it'll be worth it.
AvoidMySnipes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhhh, I was thinking it was from the Revenant lol. Just needed confirmation, thank you!
nPrimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reference? Is this related to The Revenant?
Leo_s_oscar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:D you rang?
Roruman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit gold
numberninemac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eyyyyyy
icanhazfunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:42:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got gold easier than Leo got an Oscar. Bravo.
FoxMcWeezer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain
alex3omg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. You have to be cold and eat a raw fish for that. You know. Acting?
Kotakui ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol too funny
duffdealer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, happens everytime. Source: am Ranger
Reel_Won ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People are so clever.
dirkforthree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's a polar bear
aeternitatisdaedalus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice
discollegebitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're the best
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:19:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HowTheyGetcha ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:05:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really?
Guava_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well what's wittier?
HowTheyGetcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't tend to bookmark Reddit gags, sorry. But this one, while hilarious, was pretty obvious.
Zedmas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has to be the whole "descartes before the whores" deal. That shit was fantastic
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Zedmas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scroll down a tad
benoitrio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hilarious?
HowTheyGetcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok you got me.
scotscott ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:04:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't know.
Braekdown ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:22:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
slow clap
LegoClaes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:29:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just one, a lot of scars
SilverHammer10 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:54:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally! I understand a reference in pop culture!
Vinvect ยท 1816 points ยท Posted at 00:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A world series?
Sack_Of_Motors ยท 3389 points ยท Posted at 01:30:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....
Sorry. But... since the last time the Cubs won the World Series:
and Oklahomabecame states in the Union.Okay I'm done sorry....
Edit: Back by popular demand.
Edit 2: As /u/xemplifyy put it, because I got gold, I am now "more of a winner than the Cubs have been in the last 106 years."
JCthulhuM ยท 2189 points ยท Posted at 02:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since the Cubs last won a World Series, Arizona became a part of the Union, built a team, built a stadium for that team to play in, and then proceeded to win the World Series.
jamesno26 ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 03:27:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In only their 4th year of existing too.
bergie321 ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 04:39:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worst thing to hit NYC in 2001.
halvin_and_cobbes ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 09:09:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schilling and Randy Johnson. Two Tower-ing pitchers
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude...
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:56:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since the Cubs last won a world series, Georgia was readmitted to the union (/s), Atlanta was rebuilt, got too busy to hate, stole Boston, er Milwaukee's team, built them a stadium, endured Ted freakin Turner, Chief Knock-a-homa, at least one 17 game losing streak in the 70's, and then proceeded to win a world series.
Thromnomnomok ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 05:24:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since the Cubs last won a world series, the Braves have one three- in three different cities.
Noble_Flatulence ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
won?
Thromnomnomok ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:26:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, obviously, I meant that they possess one number three in three different cities.
Noble_Flatulence ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps, but not in Minnesota :)
RoboNinjaPirate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Juan
jeffariah85 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:18:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one right here hurts. This is our year!
V-Bomber ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Achievement Unlocked
mrsuns10 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:54:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go D-Backs!
beer_down ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go D-Backs!
Mills445 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go Dbacks
Wearethegears ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:35:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go D-backs!
Risley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that doesnt count as a rape of the Cubs, I dont know what is.
fks_gvn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eleven times
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're goddamn right.
calinet6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lapped.
AWildCookieMonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man that right there is just bad
masterwarlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
11 TIMES
ChefBoyarDEZZNUTZZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go D-Backs!
darkstar000 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lolz
Sum_Bitch ยท 417 points ยท Posted at 02:03:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah no that's okay. I don't mind crying.
Majormlgnoob ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:16:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4-1 favorites
Sum_Bitch ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:37:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HYPE!
McFluffy_Butts ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not even a Cubs fan and I'm depressed too. Damn.
dannywatchout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:18:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May the great Arrieta help lead the charge and ease our pain ;_;
BezerkMushroom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not american, so I have no idea about baseball. But how can a professional team suck so badly? Surely by pure luck they'd have scraped together a half-decent team one year and won a series in what, over a hundred years? So they're terrible, and unbelievably unlucky? Why do they have fans? Why hasn't the team just disbanded? Is playing for the Cubs now seen as a baseball graveyard where old potbellied washouts go to die? (No offense to you as a fan, just curious.)
acCripteau ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:04:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long streak of not good management and/or ownership. For a long time they were owned by the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
FantasyDuellist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:54:41 on May 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lived in Chicago, and the fans love that team. A lot of them don't really care about the game, and just go there to drink. Every game sells out.
Then there were the White Sox who were good and had terrible attendance.
The Cubs have good management now though so there's a good chance they'll win one.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You Cubs fans are so polite I would swear you were Canadians but Jays fans are kinda dicks.
Sum_Bitch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey shutup.
I'm sorry that was mean.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sorry too :(
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop repenting, damnit.
whirl-pool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tears of laughter.
srry72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok. I'm still scared of you guys and Maddon (Dodgers fan)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Maddon has a solid chance at getting them a win in the World Series.
idiotsonfire ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:46:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every team has a bad century, right?
Shall-Not-Pass ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:50:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the Sox fan.
KingOfTheUnitdStates ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:15:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go Sox.
Nsena0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:04:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about the losing most of them one. In 2008 the Cubs had their 10,000th win, with an all time record of 10,000-9,465. For them to have lost the majority they would've had to have been already well below a .500 team before 1908, since in the last 7 years they definitely haven't lost 600 more games than they have won.
Thromnomnomok ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:27:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From 1909 to 2015, the Cubs have gone 8278-8428. So, in fact, they actually are a bit below .500 over that time period.
Conversely, from 1871 to 1908, They went 2407-1772.
Nsena0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, they were pretty good before the WS. Thanks for finding the actual numbers!
Calamity58 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giving hope to all Cubbies that even a catastrophic behemoth can still have a second life.
RadSpaceWizard ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:34:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're god damn right.
reallydontgiveashit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There it is. Shouldn't have to scroll down so far for this. We have owned the Cubs for the last 100+ years. Real Chicago fans cheer for the White Sox anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:00 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cubs still won the only playoffs series between the two teams.
RadSpaceWizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, no one in St. Louis hates Chicago or anyone therein, we just love poking fun at the Cubs. But you probably really don't give a shit.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im pretty sure he meant the exact opposite to the Cubs winning
heisunknown ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget New Mexico also became a state!
ForeverFun ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:08:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Korea was a monarchy and had an Emperor the last time the Cubs won the World Series.
Majormlgnoob ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:15:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oklahoma became a state in 1907 the Cubs last won in 1908
Sack_Of_Motors ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:35:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to wikipedia, the Cubs won the 1907 World Series, with the last game being played on October 12, 1907. Oklahoma was established as the 46th state on November 16, 1907.
Majormlgnoob ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs won both the 1907 and 1908 World Series's
Sack_Of_Motors ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:49:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh hey you're right. Totally missed that. Ma bad dood.
Alreadyhaveone ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:37:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're the favorites
MiffedCanadian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:50:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is where I cracked up. Thanks for the fun facts!
Hayes231 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jackie robinson was born, became the first black man to play baseball, and died since the last time the cubs won a world series. also AIDS and crack cocaine became trendy and DNA was discovered
UnpasteurizedAsshole ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget their in town rivals The White Sox, who until 2005 actually had a longer World Series drought than the Cubs (by a year or two) won a World Series
OrbitalSquirrel ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"...we'll root, root, root for the Cubbies; If they don't win it's the same..."
-LOGALOG- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, we know....
Gavinsayswhat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much I've been looking for this for a speech!
Vivid_Sparks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also the Chicago White Sox won two world series; one in 1917 and one in 2005.
Semirg56 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is my favorite post of all time
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:35:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude this is the year
booyah81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Titanic was built, sailed, sank, rediscovered, had a movie made about it, and had the lead actor finally win an Oscar almost 20 years after he starred in the movie about Titanic.
morguecontrol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:12:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But this is our year. It's a tough life for cubs fans. My grandpa was born five years after their last win, lived to be 92, and still never saw them do it.
that_one_guy567 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn goats fucking the team over. Hell this year I just want them to make it to the World Series.
And it would be nice if the wild card game wasn't necessary for them to get into the playoffs. That was excessively stressful
xemplifyy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow. You got reddit gold for this. You're more of a winner than the Cubs have been in the last 106 years!
Banzai51 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:57:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Soviet Union was born and collapsed.
XenomorphSB ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savage
Pretzeloid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a huge Cubs fan, I hate you, up-voted you and laughed real hard.
afoz345 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go Cards!!!!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:45:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They made it into the best four teams last year and they've added more power.
JELLY__FISTER ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure the best 4 teams in the league last year were in the AL
TheDudeNeverBowls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Civil rights and a black president.
Sack_Of_Motors ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooohh good one. I'll add it.
Queefmonlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait til next year, bub.
mrsuns10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the towers fell
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, my great-grandfather was 5 the last time they won.
razor21792 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And six of those teams have won the World Series, a few of them multiple times.
theprophetsammy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even browse r/askreddit in peace without my favorite team being trashed.
NOWHERE IS SAFE
dingoransom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tagged as Cubs Roaster.
SkidmarkInMyUndies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Must be a petrified Cardinals fan (I'm a Phillies fan, so fuck off everyone).
reveille293 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck is this one not gilded and the one above it is!?!? Someone else please do this.
RockStar5132 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Cardinals fan, this makes me laugh extra hard.
Mad_Hatter_Bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least we got the Hawks!
BabbMrBabb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think what he was trying to say is that if you come across the Cubs in a World Series, you get (win) the World Series.
Interesting post btw, I don't really keep up with baseball but it sounds like the Cubs suck ass
WaterStoryMark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Seems like you're living in the past. Don't they usually say that about Cubs fans?
Torvaun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget, the last time the Cubs won the World Series, there were Civil War veterans in attendance.
whichwitch9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a little harsh....
COLASSAL_PEN15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instead of saying sorry, say Thank You for your patience while I list these facts of history
omglaz0rz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..World Series... only one country competes... fucking stupid to call it that in my opinion.
jjacobsnd5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mention the Cardinals winning 11 World Series but not the Yankees winning 27? Odd choice but okay.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs and Cardinals are division rivals. I had a roommate in college who was a diehard Cubs fan and watched the 2004 World Series solely to root against the Cardinals.
jjacobsnd5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:54:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair, but I still don't think its a good comparison. Plus, he mentions the Red Sox won a World Series since the Cubs last won. The Red Sox have actually won 7. Their curse didn't start until 1918, 10 years after the Cubs.
klingersux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
deserves gold
Tone_it_down_brah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man I really dislike them being Chicago's pride. Like yea Sox are horrible right now, but holding on to old dreams and they're still losing and shitting on the south side just cause they're the first Chicago team. Pisses me off. I'm leaving this thread. Gotta tone it down a bit.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit. If the Cubs had won a World Series, you think women's suffrage might not have happened?
Thanks a lot Obama.
theJapanesePrincess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ummmmm.... It's HALLEY'S comet named after Edmond Halley, not Bill Haley (and the comets). I was fortunate enough to be one of the first to see images of it the last time it came around because I worked at the Institute for Astronomy at UH.
superdood56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That shit cray
Nickcomstock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soon you'll be able to change the titanic fact to "built, sailed, sank, rediscovered, movie made about it, rebuilt, sailed again"
chiguayante ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time the Cubs won a World Series, Mormons still practiced polygamy.
Driftwood12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn right we won 11 :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
vrek86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The yankees have won the world series 27 times since the cubs last did!
sdglksdgblas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im sure Jim from According to Jim would kill you. Also upvote for starting with Ottoman Empire :D
LightsSoundAction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2016 is the year man.
giaENT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes me really happy as a Cardinals fan.
j_walk_17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GoRedbirds!
dowork91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they got rolled by the Mets in the 2015 NLCS
Wompum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the Cardinals fan. . . . . We know our own kind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Cardinals fan this post made my morning.
DeMagnet76 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What else?
koningbaas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Dutchie who visited Chicago once I can confirm.
RikoDabes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now do the indians!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
found the butt hurt White Sox fan
philphan25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Red Sox have actually won 3 World Series.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You...you make me sad... (cubs fan)
tomgabriele ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When the Cubs last won, the Julian calendar was still in use (Russia officially switched in 1918)
schlup-pup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only a Cards fan knows all of that
Huskie252 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow
dibetta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cardinals won 11 World Series? Found the Cards fan. How about the 27 World Series won by the Yankees since the last Cubs WS win?
coredumperror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as
for some reason.
Conky2312 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...go on
KingJamesTheRetarded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got this from that post a while back, didn't you?
benanders ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will never again feel sympathy for the cubs after watching the 30 for 30 about the guy in the crowd who caught the foul ball.
Futatossout ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:36:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair we beat the Cubs in 1918 too...
thedude37 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn right... munches salad
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WEAREGOOD
facetiousrunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate you
Vinvect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:02 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
<3
Undercover_Mop ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:06:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Mets fan, I loved every minute of it. Sorry Cubs fans :/
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adorable little grizzly cub throw blankets?
frenchfrites ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:09:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bears scare the shit out of me. I love the great outdoors, but man, the thought of bears kinda stops me for a moment. They are fast, huge, climb fucking trees, they will eat you. Ugh I hate bears so much
DukeOfGeek ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:33:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are so cute...
Parkkkko ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 00:45:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bear Rape?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you read the previous thread, don't say this. We already have dolphin on fish rape, we don't need grizzly bear rape, which is 100x more terrifying. You are staying if it wants you to. Ugh
Commando388 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A life changing journey across post ice-age North America full of Phil Collins songs? Until you realize that you killed his mother before being turned into a bear by your ghost brother? God I need to rewatch Brother Bear.
trustworthy_expert ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:10:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can tell you in full confidence as an Alaskan outdoorsman, grizzly attacks are so ridiculously uncommon that they should never be of any worry. The one grizzly attack that happened near me was videotaped, and I watched it with the responding state troopers as a part of a training experience. At the start the lady (a small woman, probably 45 years old) says "aww, it looks like a big doggy! I wonder how close we can get..."
If you're not that stupid, a bear will most likely not actually harm you.
roh8880 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My 44 Magnum Mare's Leg pointed in mama's face!!
Mccmangus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:12:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vacating the area in a calm but nonetheless brisk fashion?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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squired ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check out the National Forests, it gets even better.
OhioMegi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Total annihilation. Rule one when we moved to Alaska- don't fuck with bears, especially baby bears because Mama bear is not far away.
Sykotik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mama will eat you alive for sure.
loveisnotmade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feel the need to tell you a friend and and I stumbled across a couple Grizzly cubs a couple years back now (and couldn't locate mom). Long story short, we ended up making the longest detour ever around Upper Kananaskis Lake (you're from Calgary, right?), but no horror stories to be had. :)
natergonnanate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:51 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean AFTER you took pictures and post in /r/aww for sweet sweet karma?
BaconAllDay2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having done so, it involves running back down thw hill faster than your friend.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PETA chewing you out?
Eltotsira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here lookin' for bears- found bears.
staytrill77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting struck by lightning?
XyzzyPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A honey picnic?
StinzorgaKingOfBees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You see bear cubs you should quickly and quietly get the fuck out of there.
djrage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At my old job 5 cubs walked and played around in front of the garage door, with mama bear ~150 feet away. That was sketch esp cause they were near my coworkers motorcycle and he was getting ready to go home.
sbsb27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mamma!
randomanitoban ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the bright side at least they aren't cute, adorable little polar bear cubs.
Polar Bear hunting whales for reference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have done this, I just kept on walking like I hadn't seen anything.
SM00ZE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we bear bears?
MumumumumumumaskMASK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This video sums it up pretty nicely. I feel like the dog is trying to buy time for the workers to get out of there, and they are just sitting there laughing.
NotYourAsshole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dead bears and a smoking gun? You should be armed if wondering in woods that have bears in them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My history teacher was attacked by a bear once, and the bear died.
funkmasta_kazper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is Disembowelment?
Wild_Hunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See the Revenant for reference
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone stabs your son?
chrscoast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? Winning an Oscar?
MN_Pups ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:34 on March 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yall should go read that IamA about the lady that was attacked by a bear and lived to tell the story. Quite fascinating.
Fascinating Bear Attack Lady
Tsquare43 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A world series win?
Redpin ยท 636 points ยท Posted at 02:10:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a non-existential manner, a "condition 1" in Antarctica seems pretty scary: https://youtu.be/qz2SeEzxMuE
artemisdragmire ยท 192 points ยท Posted at 04:58:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might not be Antarctica, but living in ND I've seen doors freeze over like that, and have had winds of insane velocities carrying snow across the state, it's an insane feeling to look out into that chaos while warm and cozy in your wooden box with a cup of hot cocoa.
It's amazing what humans can adapt to live in.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 13:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so, uh, you do know there's other parts of earth with houses for sale, right?
MrDanger ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 10:48:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might not be ND, but living in California, I've never seen any-fucking-thing even remotely like that, thank fucking God.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It might not be California, but living in Italy is crazy too.... always sunny and 70 outside.
zytz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:09:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a walk in closet that's only partially insulated. Sometimes the walls in one corner freeze like that
achooblessyou12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These past few winters have been fucking lovely though
artemisdragmire ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:54:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yay global warming!
achooblessyou12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:41:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I blame El Nino for coming to our country and stealing our winter
boc333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:58 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both was pretty bad.
AntProtein ยท 118 points ยท Posted at 03:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, even despite the build up I did not expect that.
AWildCookieMonster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the cold and everything but being in that seems like it would be impossible to survive for more than 5 seconds
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:01 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably literally. I'd imagine you'd die within a few minutes in the clothes she was wearing.
Linear_Duck ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Her laugh at 0:42.
[deleted] ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 11:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ellisgeek ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 14:36:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do I sign up?
getALLthesketches ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:20:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one who thought she was actually kind of adorable?
Nihht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:01:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was the enthusiasm. She loved it. She's also probably insane because what kind of psychopath stays in Antarctica in winter.
nwsm ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 05:32:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn that's insane. Also she seems a bit insane
feistyannity ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 05:56:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's in Antarctica. Of course she's insane.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 11:11:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's probably infested with Thing.
macdaddyfresh6 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:06:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For all we know she is the thing
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's in Antarctica in winter. She's probably suicidal. Or she will be soon enough with those daylight hours.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:54:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Gsusruls ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 05:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if you slice one open and stay close to the smell, you might last the night.
ScurvyTurtle ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:33:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how any of this works.
salawm ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 05:23:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap, can't believe this is on EARTH
745631258978963214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:12:19 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, it just looks like a regular thunderstorm-blizzard combo to me. I'd think that a hurricane or tornado is scarier.
jossmac ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 07:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"100 metres visibility" - that was like 1m.
Redpin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing this was a particularly impressive "condition 1."
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:16 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Condition 1m visibility?
Aries2203 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 13:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was 30m, which is 100ft. However I agree that it looked like it wasn't even that โบ
bytor137 ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 05:04:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"A little bit blowy out there."?
In Saskatchewan, we'd just move the barbeque around to the other side of the house -- outta the wind, like. ; D
Konker101 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
on the edge of the garage with the radio on and a nice cold beer.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:05:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bytor137 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It occasionally gets mentioned. : )
Awhile back, someone rescued some foxes in Sask and it made the frontpage.
Both /r/regina and /r/saskatchewan are here, too ... even the riders have their own subreddit ... r/riderville. : )
mutha_scratcha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
all that talk makes me thirsty for a old style Pilsner. ( not from there, just love to grab a 2-4 when I go to canada
brandon0220 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gotta be the Deadpool Regina name drop
745631258978963214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:10:04 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, Canada is essentially the northern version of antarctica, so it'd make sense that it's cool and freezy as well (just with giant white grizzy bears instead of bird zebras).
uhhhclem ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's my all-time favorite YouTube video. That's pretty much what I imagine the surface of Jupiter is like.
RiversBromo ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 10:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to be that guy, but there is no proper surface on Jupiter.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 14:48:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this, but my brain still refuses to comprehend how this works.
uhhhclem ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but there's also not a way of saying what I meant that was both precise and felicitous.
SixshooteR32 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if they upgraded the weatherstripping
ScurvyTurtle ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:35:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Set condition 1 throughout the ship
MacAdler ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is not a drill.
Photophrenic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sir, we can't pick up anything with all this draedis interference.
SirVelocifaptor ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:56:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is when we Norwegians might consider the waters to be cold enough to swim in.
OrphanBach ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:12:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eep
SirVelocifaptor ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:30:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't want to boil in that water, now do we?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's some horror game shit
_jacks_wasted_life_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hahaha, she's all like "whooohoohooohooooo" ... can't imagine the amount of cabin fever you suffer living in Antarctica for any given time. She's got the right attitude to get through it.
1dirtypig ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now imagine Edward Shackleton and his crew living on that God forsaken continent for months, with just primitive supplies. It blows my mind that there wasn't a single fatality. Shows you just how defiant the human body is.
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:07 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More the human mind and human ingenuity. You'll die in under half an hour when exposed naked to temperature at or below 0C/32F.
al3x3691 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My old work had a massive walk-in freezer for biological samples, we kept it at -80C. I had to go in there multiple times a day for a project once - as soon as you open the door, a 13-minute timer starts. If the timer runs out, the loudest alarm you've ever heard goes off, and everyone rushes to the freezer to make sure nobody's in there. That room can kill you in an hour. I'm glad the coldest room I have to go into now is only -20C...
KingreX32 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:54:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude thats messed up. Imagine how the first explorers to the artic felt. They didnt have all the fancy technology we take for granted.
Bear4188 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then there's the emperor penguins that are just out there chillin in that weather. Just got huddle up in their big penguin pile.
Echo5Kilo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Today's forecast, cloudy with some mild snow flurries."
Kusibu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That looks like Wisconsin during a "fun" winter. Funny thing, our house has an airlock kind of like that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do all these people get to Antarctica? By ship or by plane? Can you imagine flying in a plane in weather like this?
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost all scientists there for research and such going by plane and sometimes ship. There are the odd few tourists in the summer, but in winter, almost everyone leaves; there could be thousands of scientists and such there in summer, but there's about 100 people total on the in winter on average. I figure Condition 1 weather you only occur in winter, and you definitely don't want to be flying into that.
the_real_aussie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was an amazing eye-opening experience.
VictorVaughan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dealt with similar conditions on The Long Dark, I think I could translate it to this real world scenario.
sorrenti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, Canada was here
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scary, yes. But is that really the scariest thing on Earth?
Redpin ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:52:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's scary not just because it's on Earth, but because it is Earth. Crap, just made it existential.
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:03 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/DoJ6TrxRRc8?t=5m15s
Oliqu ยท 2652 points ยท Posted at 23:07:43 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Parasites.
[deleted] ยท 2308 points ยท Posted at 00:01:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you think ya mum felt about you?
theniceguytroll ยท 2432 points ยท Posted at 01:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a problem, though. Everyone's been inside of his mom at some point.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 03:12:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DraketheDrakeist ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 04:09:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't know me. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ )
FuckDeeper ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 07:51:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually you don't know me ;)
wolfiesrule ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:57:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out.
roeravid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:14:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very nice, miss pancakes, very nice
ClassikAssassin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:09:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let him think that
jpepsred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there an ama about this?
TheNarwhalrus ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:39:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savage.
aixenprovence ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds, you say.
Hewhohalls ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:34:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tsk tsk tsk, Well how's his wife holding up?
aixenprovence ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:19:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds, you say.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gonna need a senzu bean for that one.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:41:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take it easy there, Oedipus
BobbyQuarters ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:29:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bhahahah his mom is a slut
qasem01 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
TMW someone sets you up to insult someone else's mother.
ooh_a_phoenix ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even the dog.
goldanred ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something something your mom's giving you a hand job
ikeandclare ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
User name checks out
The_Ghast_Hunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
D
srs1317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean...you're not wrong
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
REKT.
EvidentlyTrue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brb calling the police to report a fucking murder
Zachamiester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or another.
cambo666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself... err.. I mean... normal human agreeing statement.
Brodogmillionaire1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obligatory REKT, MATE
jguay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boom roasted
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
username doesn't check out.
NobleHalcyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HA! GOT EM!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh
Ohheyrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BUUUUUUURRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN!
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And he's not talking about being in a pregnancy. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ )
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
xoxfxjx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
heyo!
thatguypeng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:18 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone's been inside OP's mom at some point.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:41 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot decide on which way this should be interpreted.
McBeastly3358 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKIN NAILED HIM MATE
JOLLY GOOD SHOW
Thai_hapa ยท 134 points ยท Posted at 01:15:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm: having an absolute stranger grow inside of you and kick you from the inside out is uncomfortable on many levels
candygram4mongo ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 02:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kind of feel like it would be weirder if you knew them beforehand.
xCharlieScottx ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:37:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stick your mate Gavin who you owe a favour to in there
OpalsAndBanonos ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:04:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought it was weirder realizing I had someone taking naps inside me. The kicking was expected.
Thai_hapa ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:13:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or that there was constantly a penis inside of me, and not in the pleasant way either
celtic_thistle ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:50:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually thought it was cool :3 But when he got the hiccups? That was unpleasant.
Consanguineously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ed Gein's Playhouse
resonant14 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would your own baby not be the exact opposite of a stranger?
mnh1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son's first expression after being born was a look of complete shock and horror as he looked around and was handed to me. As I held him for the first time he folded his hands and refused to make eye contact before trying (unsuccessfully) to crawl away.
Then the nurse sighed at us both and shoved my boob in his mouth. Once he had a belly fully of colostrum, my baby looked much more pleased with life, and he was much more willing to be held by me.
Those first moments are very much like meeting a stranger. The baby is someone you've waited so long to meet, and you know a little bit about this person from feeling him move, but knowing a vague sleep cycle, preferred resting position, and energy level isn't the same as knowing the person, much less the person he will become.
It's really an adventure.
deathlyWhimsical ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No joke, that is one of the reasons I don't ever want to be pregnant.
Yoadrian3495 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:10:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Babies are just large parasites
DoctorX1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:07:15 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never passed biology, did you?
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly considered this when my wife was pregnant - how the flap-jacking hell do women keep from getting a terminal wiggins out of this. Evolution, of course, but just in case my dearest hadn't thought of it, I declined to bring it up. Seriously, all I could think of was Alien.
DoctorX1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:15:30 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean the concept of your own species' procreation is something you fail to grasp that you were locked into dumb ideas other people uncritically accepted and spread around? That's how it seems. I hope how it seems is not how it is.
Seriously, people who push the parasite idea either don't 7th grade biology, or babies are to them as Jews were to Nazis.
rvnnt09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bad enough that she got her tubes tied as soon as she could after i popped out.
idontknowdogs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Couldn't a baby be considered a parasite? One organism living off of another?
whaddayacallit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:49:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, they're not considered a parasite because they can't take what the mother needs. The needs of the mother get met first, and then the baby gets the nutrients that are left.
Throwawayboomerang99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you think your mom felt about me?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She said she felt the first inch of her vag get quite brutally ruined, so all in all a good effort bro
Throwawayboomerang99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, that wasn't my doing then. I only have half an inch.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Angles bruv, angles
Radioheadi5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you think his mum thought about me?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She said she felt the first inch of her vag get quite brutally ruined, so all in all a good effort bro
Radioheadi5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just the tip. CLASSIC!
SandstoneD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His arms are broken?
DoctorX1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:15 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parasites are different species from its prey, a host species.
Furthermore, it is scientifically wrong consider the gestating offspring of a male and female host to be a parasite despite it simply being a new, genetically-unique individual of their same species.
To consider it a parasite for political reasons which dodge science - to justify killing it - puts a person on the level of Nazis and Marxists.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:51 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How to kill a joke 101: miss it completely
PM_ME_CHEEKY_NANDOS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SAVAGE
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:11:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously it's different. Pregnancy is natural and beautiful. Bot fly maggots on the other hand... not so much.
TRC042 ยท 829 points ยท Posted at 23:34:39 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do realize that your skin houses mites, right?
[deleted] ยท 664 points ยท Posted at 23:35:51 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TRC042 ยท 545 points ยท Posted at 23:42:00 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to get 3-4 sinus infections per year. Started dating a woman who managed a visiting nurses office, on one of our first dates she got back into the car and used hand sanitizer (this was '97, it was new). She explained why, and I started keeping a bottle in my car.
Have had only 2 sinus infections since then. The world is a dangerous place for us bags of salt water called humans.
HauschkasFoot ยท 729 points ยท Posted at 23:50:10 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One time I fucked a girl with a yeast infection and put hand sanitizer on my dick afterwards. Huge mistake
[deleted] ยท 1393 points ยท Posted at 23:57:13 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HAND SANITIZER
HauschkasFoot ยท 533 points ยท Posted at 00:03:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some lessons are harder to learn than others
OrangeSail ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:03:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. Harder.
SirVelocifaptor ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. Lessons
gurg2k1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And some lesions are harder to lose than others.
FallenXxRaven ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you ever get whacked in the balls though, some icy hot will take the lingering pain away almost instantly.
cantadmittoposting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah the ol' Major Payne treatment
dos8s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But did he get a yeast infection?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:29:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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HauschkasFoot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/Punintentional
gaallen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
coltonmusic15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but you know he will not unlearn that lesson.
guitar_hunter_dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt it stayed hard for long.
Joey2Slowy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lesson was the only thing that was hard for a while after that...
vandebay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hander
the_delivererer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And some are learned while harder than others
Sophisticated_Sloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pun intended?
soundsrealbutisnt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you've got to hand it to him though
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least it's a lesson you only need to learn once.
cuddlesnuggler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some lesions burn harder than others
Konker101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
first off, why did you fuck a chick with a YI? actually you dont have to answer that because i know how dumb you are when you said you put fucking hand sanitizer on your dick ๐
aznanimality ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:42:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a dumb question, what's wrong with this?
It's just going to set your dick on fire for a bit right, but at least the yeast infection is taken care of?
HauschkasFoot ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 03:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're really underselling this part
not_a_muggle ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hand sanitizer won't get rid of a yeast infection. A yeast infection is a fungal infection that requires a cream or pill.
LooneyLouLou ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:22:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pro Life Tip for women: Treat vaginal yeast infections by eating yogurt or drinking milk with acidophilus. It's much healthier for your lady bits and clears up area faster since you're ingesting good bacteria that works itself from the inside out. Using creams or otc treatments can mess up your pH balance and your bodies natural ability to heal itself. Also if you're on antibiotics good idea to consume probiotics as well.
NamelessAce ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:59:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better idea: smear yogurt all over the infected area. It'll work faster.
hypercube33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In*
RealNiceTrain ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:14:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He should've used dick sanitizer.
Aimintothedark18 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:20:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have put hand sanitizer on my dong and it just felt cold, whats the big deal?
trustthepudding ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming some went down the pee hole
Aimintothedark18 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea that might be unpleasant.
Dimsml ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You suggest he should do fisting instead, right?
Defavlt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He should have used dick sanitizer.
DangusKahn ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well they don't make dick sanitizer
SoDamnShallow ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soap. It's called washing well with soap.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SoDamnShallow ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:51:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, considering this whole issue revolves around having sex, I doubt this would be an issue in such a case.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NamelessAce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see.
celtic_thistle ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:49:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't use a condom?!
HauschkasFoot ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:50:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What dat
QuentinDave ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:02:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like your style, man.
lukin187250 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It covers your dick.
faithle55 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:23:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit's list of things not to put my dick in:
Crazy
Hand sanitiser
...
gracefulwing ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for future knowledge, just buy the vagina cream. if you happen to be allergic, you can use (alternating) diluted apple cider vinegar, yogurt, or garlic. I guess for garlic you'd have to crush it up and sort of spread it on there like a sandwich.
KarlOskar12 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:19:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worst part: hand sanitizer doesn't kill Candida. More likely to give yourself a yeast infection by putting that on your dick after coming into contact with it - you'll kill everything but the Candida giving it open season on your junk.
number__ten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also fun: cutting hot peppers with your bare hands and then jacking it later. Do not recommend.
VanGohPro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so that was you running down the street screaming while holding your crotch
aardvark34 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, no Nurse Williams, I told you to prick his boil!
Pagiras ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rookie mistake. Should've used wang sanitizer.
Dubalubawubwub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there's your mistake, you should have used dick sanitizer.
hilarymeggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone knows you're supposed to put yogurt on your dick.
ilkikuinthadik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One time I put Listerine on my butthole to stop the swamp-ass. It was unpleasant.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that was a dumb move. You should have used Listerine.
SpaceTourettes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chances of catching thrush from sex are pretty low, for future reference.
Kiss_My_Wookiee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, I've done this, too!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know you can just put canesten's anti-fungal cream on your penis for 3-4 days daily and you'll be fine? It kills any yeast bacteria that may be lingering there, and it's pretty inexpensive.
PantheraLupus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using anything antibacterial is the worst thing you can do because it kills off the bacteria that keeps the yeast at bay...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought yeast infections were only good at colonizing other vaginas, huh
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:53:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Thunderoad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or there is pill that's better then the cream.
zombie-yellow11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One time I fucked a girl with a fungi infection and started having red dots on my dick. Decided to go see the doctor for free instead of buying hand sanitizer.
KellogsHolmes ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:17:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugly giant bags of mostly water.
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was rooting for the scientist that wanted to wipe them out myself.
stu55 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get a neilmed sinus rinse kit, I have been doing it twice a day for probably 7 years and get sick so much less.
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long as I carry hand sanitizer, I never get sick anymore. The few times I have I always traced back to running out or forgetting to use it. Stuff is great!
xtremechaos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be amazed at what washing your hands can do for you.
The most important step, the most critical method in infection, number one at each and every list before anything else, is proper hand hygiene.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:56:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did she put hand sanitizer on after getting in the car? Did she put it on after getting out?
atcoyou ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same thing happened to me when I moved and started walking to work instead of taking public transit. I will also tell you that if you take public transit and do not wear gloves, you are just asking for it...
tworkout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wash my hands... With soap.
ghastrimsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:34:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.....really? I get sinus infections at least a couple times a year. You're saying just using some hand sanitizer every time I get in my car might save me from that misery?
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh yeah. Most virus' and bacteria are transmissible via contact; ie you touch the handle of the door some snotty kid in front of you opened 30 seconds before, then you stop at McD's and grab a burger.
I wait until I reach the car as I can get inside without touching anything inside. Squirt first, fondle steering wheel later. Voila! Sterile environment. Make another stop, rinse and repeat.
I carry a tiny bottle when I go to the mall as grabbing a burger at the food court with germy paws will make you just as sick as anything else.
It's not even any hassle; I do it without even thinking and don't even slow down while I'm doing it. Maybe 10 seconds when I get into the car. The only time it annoys me is when I have to refill the bottles I keep in various places, and that's maybe 5 minutes work per week.
Well worth it to avoid 3-4 sinus infections each year.
Edit: Understand that your mouth shares direct connections to your sinus cavities. If it goes into your mouth, your sinuses will share in it. Pretty sure most of the colds I've ever gotten were not from people coughing, but from frikkin door handles.
ghastrimsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:56:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You may have just changed my life for the better, sir. Thank you.
TRC042 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happy to help. I hate sinus headaches worse than anything. Cut a finger off and I'm all "well, that hurts, think it'll go back on?" I get a sinus headache and I whine and moan and beg for a quick death.
ghastrimsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprisingly, I rarely get sinus headaches even during an infection. What I hate the most are the random headaches or migraines or whatever that hit my temples. The best I've heard it described like it feels as if one of these has been placed on your temples and it's just being screwed down constantly. Any sort of movement or anything that causes my blood to pump more than my resting heart rate just shoots pain through my head. Pain meds hardly work, and I've had one last a few days. Afterwards I just feel like my whole body and brain is only functioning about 50%: I think slowly, I move slowly and stiffly, it is miserable.
Anyways, not really sure why I felt like sharing that, but in case you have any more life changing advice I'm listening! lol
BrotherChe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" -- Aristotle
You should realize that humans, as do most non-microscopic creatures, exist as an amalgamation of many other different organisms. A human being is more of a collective of organisms than it is just a single being.
IAmA_TheOneWhoKnocks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? You've never had a problem with them before, have you? Have you heard of anyone else having problems with them? The fact of the matter is that our body is not some pure temple, it's full of bacteria and other non-native creatures. Sometimes they aid us in stuff like digestion and the decomposition of dead skin cells. I'm not a biologist or anything, but I'd imagine the relationship is mostly symbiotic, or else we'd have a natural defense mechanism or something. If they were harmful, we'd do something about them. For now, the only thing you can do is accept them, because they sure as hell aren't going anywhere no matter how hard you try.
Scherzkeks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess someone just wanted to remind you about them.
obiworm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And your gut is home to thousands of kinds of bacteria, and most of your poop is theirs?
Leprechorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And those tiny microscopic mites have microorganisms living inside them, too
awkward_hedgehog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody tell him about the eyelash mites.
Cassandra_Anderson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're good for you, by cleaning dead skin cells. A lot of our microbiology used to be other organisms (mitochondria as an example). Think of them as something like that, a tiny, symbiotic organism like a itty bitty roomba that cleans your skin.
FootofOrion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't think about your micro biome then.
ilkikuinthadik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, but bacteria living on and in your body outweigh the cell count of your body by about 10/1
TheNosferatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you also aware that if you take all the cells of your body, and all of the cells of all the bacteria living in or on you, the cells of the bacteria outnumber yours greatly?
ZachB15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, mites live in your eyelashes, and eat them until they essentially replace them.
im1nsanelyhideousbut ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:21:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well can they eat my acne? like ur gettin free rent m8 do me a favor and clean up
Undecided_User_Name ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 00:18:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shaving my skin off now
SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:15:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there are also thousands of micro-organisms in your mouth and entire digestive tract. Most of them are good for you. The answer is less skin shaving more 'don't think about it.'
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:36:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am. Thank you!
FunInStalingrad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be the kind of person WHO doesn't give names to all the organisms on their body...
JackDelRetard ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:56:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAP8o5ZEo0
This should help you.
michealikruhara0110 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:46:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, mites are small and innocuous. I'd rather not live with the knowledge that I have a several foot long worm living inside of me, and the best option for removing it is to shit it out.
therealkainoa ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:58:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also like billions of small living bacteria
crinkledshirt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:08:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel itchy after reading that. Grim
TRC042 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's probiotics that people pay for to drink and eat "beneficial microorganisms". They work for me, but if you stop and think, it's a bit gross.
Tocoapuffs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We poop.
After I realized that, I stopped being grossed out by little inhabitants that help me get that shit out of me.
Zaxop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is something kind of cool about the fact that there are millions of organisms living inside and on your body, that all depend on you for life. Every person is like a planet, with his or her own unique population of creatures trying to survive.
TRC042 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure of the number, but I think if you add up the weight of all the living organisms on earth, and subtract the weight of the bacteria and viruses, the bacteria out-weigh the other critters. I know it's a huge number. Soil is chock-a-block full of bacteria.
eridor0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would explain the tiny subdivisions on my face.
panix199 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:04:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
interesting article! thanks for sharing.
Qscfr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How much would is suck to be a tiny bug. Like what you going to do. Like it's just a ticking clock for you to die.
adoboacrobat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that there is a skeleton under your skin too
StickmanSham ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
o fuck
FunInStalingrad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:55:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spooky.
bthebard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Speaking of objects that Demodex need to push out of their bodies, these mites also don't have anuses. They still need to poo, so it's been said that they 'explode' with waste at the end of their lives." Umm...I thought I was ok with them, but I'm not sure I am anymore.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I licked my lips after reading this.
mr_popcorn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:38:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u wot mite
ath393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How'd all this skin get on my arm?
tweeblethescientist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eyelash bugs
Undeadicated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not if I TEAR IT OFF!
coltonmusic15 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what exactly is veggie mite sandwiches made out of? 0.0
twitchchat9000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MITELIVESMATTER
BassCreat0r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, now my face itches.
jkmonty94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DEAR GOD, NO!
8-4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I never have to feel alone again
ImGreenDabadedabadie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I refuse to click that link and learn anymore about this.
-reggie- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
U WOT MITE
v6277 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:14:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they don't damage the host wouldn't they be symbionts?
theboyfromganymede ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:34:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh I don't really mind them. They should at least pay rent though.
iffy220 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's not even getting into gut bacteria...
-ScruffyLookin- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
looks at hand.. "Sup"
ilikecamelsalot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
UGH god I'm so aware now.........................Fuckkk :(
NDIrish27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:33:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, at least they don't have anuses?
Letty_Whiterock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're harmless though from what I can tell. Parasites by definition cause some kind of harm to the host if my memory is correct.
Alcoholic_jesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't hunk they qualify as parasites though
Crazii-P ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But with a face like this how could you be mad?
t0comple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to throw up
themastersb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time to go burn my skin.
ZirGsuz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:30:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, fuck off.
qquiver ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:09:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guy says he's afraid of parasites and you tell him he's crawling with them, what a dick.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:42:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This didn't bother me until the article said the mites were related to ticks.
Now I care, a lot.
tellme_areyoufree ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bad news, there are more bacteria in your body than human cells. Mouth, nose, gut, even your conjuctivae (bacteria are multiplying on the inside of your eyelids right now.
Also, there are mites all over your body.
Archaea in your gut.
Fungi on your skin and in your gut.
You are home to more living things than you could count.
jlaray ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 01:31:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people wonder why I'm afraid of pregnancy. Fuck that noise.
Rhamni ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:47:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inside of you is a skeleton that wants you to have sex so it can build another skeleton inside you.
happypolychaetes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:43:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2deep4me
SilentJoe1986 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:25:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was because you would eventually have to expelled the parasite out if your vagina which will most likely tear wide open while you also defecate in a room full of strangers focusing on your now torn open vagina waiting for the thing that's going to make your life a living hell for the next 18+ years...you can call me Mr. Sunshine :)
jlaray ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:07:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That too! xD
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omfg.. Creative writing much? Haha
violeblanche ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:18:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't think of pregnancy without thinking of the chestburster from Alien. Never, ever, ever going to have biological children.
Methuga ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 00:18:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know about all the types of ones that can control their hosts' brains?
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150316-ten-parasites-that-control-minds
You're welcome.
saltier_then_the_sea ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:31:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate you so much it isn't describable.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you just described it...
Mechdra ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:08:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't downvote, he's right. It's like saying something is unimaginable; but it's really just a description of how much further it goes. Which is why "indescribable" is, ironically, a description.
jack_skellington ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:36:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of the list of 10 at that link, I think the Toxoplasma gondii is the worst for us. It's meant to infect cats, but if it gets too far up the food chain, it ends up in us (about 30% of humans have it). And according to the tests, it actually does change our personalities. It makes women more intelligent and outgoing/sexual, and it makes men less intelligent and more stoic. The scientists so far have said that they believe that it (the parasite) doesn't really know what to do with us, as it is meant to be in cats, and when it discovers our bodies it's like, "Well, I screwed up, not sure what to do now." But importantly, the article contains this line:
...In other words, right now in human history, we have a parasite in our brains that is experimenting on us, trying to find the most successful outcome of modifying our personalities. And we don't currently know how that will play out, because the science here is too new to it.
dryerlintcompelsyou ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck am I reading this thread
Bunny36 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dryer lint compelled you?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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buttercheesebread ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I could make myself smarter I would too.
Chatmauve ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well, it would only make you more stoic.
NecroGod ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:26:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, cats are disease carrying filth bags.
roomandcoke ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:37:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you like horror movies and are cool with found footage, you should check out The Bay. It's not the best movie ever, but the concept of it is really cool and disturbing. What if that shit happened to humans?
SketchyConcierge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bit about the flu is disturbing as hell.
promonk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My personal favorite plausible zombie apocalypse scenario is a cordyceps fungus.
bsmith0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like the goa'uld.
celtic_thistle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I literally gagged several times reading that, and I'm not a squeamish person at all. GROSS.
mr_popcorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is how the end of the world happens.
director5831 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could be lucky and it could fail it's mission
douchecanoe42069 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:04:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MALE. TO FEMALE.
furlongxfortnight ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 23:55:36 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora
BurnPhoenix ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 00:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ya know, its interesting that we have all this stuff 'inside' us, but it isn't TECHNICALLY inside. The stuff in your stomach isn't inside you until it crosses the stomach tissue. So all the bacteria on your skin and in your guts isn't really IN you, just ON you to varying degrees.
Edit: digestive lining, not stomach tissue. Stomachs are for breaking down, not absorbing. Silly me.
Brontosaurus_Bukkake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is that not in you?
pez78guy ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Topologically, we're donuts.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:08:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to think people shame cannibals. Who could resist a delectable donut?
BurnPhoenix ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:21:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, its inside of you physically but not biologically. Its like those pool noodles you buy at the store. You can put water in the hole in the middle, and the water is technically inside the pool noodle. However, its not INSIDE the actual Styrofoam part, its just wrapped in it.
Stuff doesn't enter your body until it passes through the digestive lining. Then its INSIDE your body. Just like the pool noodle, the food is just in the middle hole.
Brontosaurus_Bukkake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But a pool noodle is open on both ends perpetually. Hopefully you aren't!
BurnPhoenix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you're forgetting about the pool noodle sphincters, located at each end.
They make it really weird to blow water out the end like a cannon.
Brontosaurus_Bukkake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:11:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I just realized I've been getting the wrong kind of noodles :(
Goof245 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mouth at one end, anus at the other. Technically you're open both ends :P
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, your nose is perpetually open, and your anus isn't as tight as you think it is.
Ardgarius ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:07:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha they're just on the inside of your 'tube', the ends being mouth and anus
xenodius ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, we're just meat donuts and that stuff isn't the filling, it's the frosting on the hole. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
rimnii ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's actually very important. Your body DOES NOT like it when those bacteria enter the blood stream
lookslikeyoureSOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have more bacteria in your body than you have "human" cells.
So you could say you're more bacteria than you are really "you". But then we're getting into philosophical territory which is a whole other issue.
Anyways, old estimates were that these bacteria outnumbered your cells 10:1. New data suggests it's more like 1.3:1 and that number possibly shifts in your cells favor every time you take a dump.
BurnPhoenix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh for sure. If you totaled the genetic material of my person right now I'd have no doubt that its mostly 'not me.' Gut flora, skin bacteria, any infections or random bacteria lurking in my vicera, mitochondrial DNA (debatable but I'll allow it).
I think its super neat and I feel bad for being a bad symbiote sometimes. My gut flora didn't deserve this recent kick of Mexican food I've been on. I'm a bad host.
Bogsby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you only count nucleated cells, though, you end up with about 10:1 again.
lejefferson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just leave this here.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/
Perry558 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:58:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The microorganisms in your body outnumber your own cells 10 to 1. We can't live without them.
frogsrbetter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:54:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look on the bright side. It's evolutionarily disadvantageous for most parasites to kill you.
arzon75 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wolbachia...
lets_trade_pikmin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
20% of Americans have Toxoplasma Gondii, a parasite which alters the brain of its host in ways we don't really understand. It is linked to schizophrenia and a variety of other mental disorders.
But look on the bright side -- there's an 80% chance that you're clean! Unless you live in a less developed country. In that case you probably have it.
Zaldarr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/radarlovelizard disagrees.
gamedemon24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try not to get pregnant then.
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had malaria twice. AMA
ngwoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are billions of other things living inside you
The_Raggedy_Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true however imagine if you had something that lives inside of you causing havoc on your body such as migrating to your lungs, up your trachea, back down your esophagus and starts producing eggs in your intestine.
Lawlietlight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a nice one,a parasitic tongue
The_Raggedy_Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good news though it actually doesn't affect the fish a whole lot
catdoctor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then maybe I shouldn't tell you that you have more bacterial cells in your body than you have human cells.
Yoadrian3495 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in vet medicine, so i deal with lots of disgusting things; missing eyeballs, broken off legs, bleeding, rotting flesh. But I can't handle simple parasites. They make me throw up.
jacquelinesarah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't ever get pregnant
thechairinfront ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You realize that you've got a bagillion bacteria living in your gut right?
SkepticShoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're about 50% bacteria (by cell number) just so you know.
Eshmam14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But.. You're made of cells.. There are literally uncountable amount of living things inside you. Let's not forget all the bacteria and etc.
DiscordsTerror ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might not like the fact that there are millions of foreign bacteria living inside you at this moment.
xtremechaos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have trillions and trillions of normal body flora inside you right this very second. How do you think you get your vitamin K? The vitamin K store?
Swan_Ronson666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wolbachia.
helloiamsilver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact, there are more cells in your body that are not you than there are cells that are you!
Geminii27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If all the non-human things were removed from your body, you'd probably die. We're more an ecosystem than a single animal.
Silencedlemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about all the bacteria inside you?
spaniel_rage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is at at least a pound of bacteria on or inside you right now.
carlsonbjj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you mean like the trillions of bacteria that help you survive?
markevens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that there are more bacteria in your intestines than you have cells in your entire body?
sickly_snake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your body contains more bacteria cells than you cells.
StinzorgaKingOfBees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could be? No no, there definitely are several things living in and off of you.
The_Raggedy_Man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently enrolled in a parasitism course and working under a parasitologist. Can confirm they are metal. Super cool though. However any time someone is sick. Automatically irrationally assume because of parasite.
SaltyStrangers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the bright side, you can reason it wont kill you cause killing you means killing itself.
A more complex understanding of parasites (something I dont have) probably proves that wrong tho
LifeOfMagic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dalgeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you count all the bacteria in and on your body, you consist of more non-human cells than human cells.
dysfunctional_vet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you probably shouldn't think about the ten some odd pounds of bacteria in your belly.
Or the absurd amount of Staph bacteria on your skin right now.
Or the bacteria in your mouth right now, gnawing away at the remains of your last mean, pooping acid in your teeth.
Fizzay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How are you scared of parasites? You see them on Reddit every day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be okay with parasites if they asked first. Like if a tapeworm came up to me and said, "Hey man, my girlfriend kicked me out of the house and I got nowhere to go, could I kick around in your intestines for a bit?" I'd be cool with that. You go little guy.
hilarymeggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could be?
st00j ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically there are more cells in your body that are inhuman than there are human cells. Your body needs the foreign bacteria, found in the gut for example, to stay alive.
EmilyVS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How I feel about pregnancy.
Indigoh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but how about the population of your gut?
Lord_Cronos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know that microorganisms in your body outnumber the cells that are you by 10 to 1. They're friendly though, so it's ok.
radical0rabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bajillions of mites live on your face.
CremasterReflex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IIRC you have more bacteria living in and on your body than you have actual human cells.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could? There's millions that are right now m
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you'll be happy to know that your body houses more foreign bacterial cells than all of your human cells combined.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have literally more living things inside you than there are cells that make up you.
And the craziest part is science now thinks they affect your mental state.
HawkWoman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kind of how I feel about pregnancy.
princessbynature ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You almost certainly have mites (parasites) on your face.
audreyfbird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are loads of things living inside you. (I really miss being able to use the 10:1 statistic.) :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your digestive tract is packed full of bacteria that has a symbiotic relationship with you. They're all alive. Or is your fear related to particularly large (multicellular) organisms?
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm female... this feeling crosses my mind every day. :(
spurious_interrupt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do realize that there are millions of bacteria living in your mouth, gut, and pretty much all over you right now right?
Koiq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are millions of not only living bacteria within your body, but also arachnids that live in your hair follicles. scalp, pubic hair, eyelashes, you name it, these guys live there, crawling around in your skin.
monkeybrain3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's one of those things that it's easier not to think about or you'll go insane.
Like right now there are like little bugs on your eyelashes constantly eating stuff from your body.
THORMUNZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You gotta be pure and rub you're whole body with hand sanitizer just like danny did in sunny
Hyoscine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"could be"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A majority of the cells in your body aren't your own.
FrejGG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the bright side you're alive and thriving because of the various bacteria in your gut.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair you have many living things inside and on your surface. Cells are literally collections of [once (in a different form) self sustained] living sub-organisms. Life is crazy.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 2255 points ยท Posted at 23:23:59 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The pure chance of a random death which follows us at every turn. I've come within a millimeter, literally, of death on a completely random occurrence over which I had zero control.
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Edit: Happened when I was 10 yrs old. My best friend (9), his younger brother (7), and I were playing in the woods. Building forts and whatnot. To aid us in our tasks we had some garden tools. Namely, 2 shovels and a mattock. For those that don't know, a mattock is a pickaxe with a hoe opposite of the axe instead of a pick. When we were heading out of the woods the younger brother, who was carrying the mattock, got his foot stuck in kudzu. He couldnt extricate himself while holding the mattock so he threw it without really paying attention. I had just so happened to stop and bend down to pick something up at that exact moment. Not sure which part hit me, the hoe or axe, but it found my skull at the perfect angle. Woke up to my friend yelling "Don't worry, you're not bleeding." Thing was....there was blood EVERYWHERE. At the hospital the doctor said a millimeter of movement in any direction, twisting, turning, forward, backward, side to side, anything, and it would have killed me. As it was, it only knocked me unconscious, I lost a good bit of blood, and had a few stitches. But hey, I have a cool story and a neat scar.
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Edit #2: Kudzu is a vine plant from Japan that became invasive in the south in the 1950s. Hard to kill, and grows at an incredible rate. In a similar fashion as bamboo, or other invasive plant species.
omg_yeti ยท 205 points ยท Posted at 02:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This and the fact that any given encounter with another person can result in your death due to the other person having made a simple mistake.
Like maybe they forgot to stop for a red light while I'm crossing the same intersection. Luckily I walked away from this one.
BeaSk8r117 ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 02:53:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is that a 350z
because my friend has gotten into TWO accidents in his 350z and i'm convinced it's an accident machine.
scotscott ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 03:15:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not anymore!
ManThing910 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:27:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a 175z now
745631258978963214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:00:59 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it's at least a 240sx.
omg_yeti ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 03:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it was. I actually saw a chart on another thread recently showing that the 350Z was at or near the top of the list of cars most likely to be involved in a deadly collision.
I was surprised how well I did considering it was a blind corner so I didn't see him until I was basically on top of him.
The tow truck driver who cleared the wreck told me he had to tow the other guy 5 hours away since it was a delivery van from out of town. He said the other driver felt super bad about it. I don't think he was texting or anything. I just figured he'd been driving for nearly 5 hours, and now he was rolling through mostly empty streets at 4am and let his guard down.
I really miss that car, but I'm glad it had my back when something went wrong.
AGeary ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it did you good though, everything except you took the impact.
omg_yeti ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had some broken bones and burns. Still have issues with my right hand, but otherwise super glad I wasmt on my motorcycle or something like that. Just the best example I have personally experienced of suffering the result of another person's slip up.
I could've said a plane crash or some other event where a lot of lives were lost due to a single mistake, but thought I'd keep it more personal since I always remember that event whenever I think about times where this sort of thing happens.
Konker101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
everytime i hear of a 350z its been in an accident.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:33:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Own 350z. No accidents.
tickertinkler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not yet.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knocked on wood after posting.
JPLnavy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had mine for 5 years now, it's an '03. It's the best car I've ever driven. I think it's just a car you have to master. It's blindspots can get amateur drivers killed. You need good situational awareness and discipline behind the wheel. I've driven it through 500 miles of torrential downpours while alongside big-rig trucks, it's important to understand the limits of the car and your limits as a driver.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS. I have an '03 as well, and although its only my second car (I'm in college), I love it. The blind spots were the first thing I had to get used to. It is not a car for amateurs. Did not let me down driving through ice, rain, and 30mph winds coming back to school from break one night. Hell of a car.
itsmeagainjohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:42:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does he call himself drift king?
BeaSk8r117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not gonna lie: yeah.
go-cartMozart ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had one and my only wreck was being rear ended by a liar and I got a lot of speeding tickets. Now I drive a rx350
Runs_towards_fire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:59:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or if someone driving an 18 wheeler forgets to look when changing lanes and makes you roll down a hill 6 times. Sorry for the lack of pic.
omg_yeti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a pic would've been NSFL. I'm glad you made it out.
Lukeyy19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the video of the cement truck toppling onto a car, one moment you're just sitting at a set of lights and the next, gone, crushed under tonnes of cement and truck.
Life can be over in an instant without you even seeing it coming.
NSFL http://i.imgur.com/yGQzjxP.gifv (no gore, just shocking)
omg_yeti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a dashcam video of a brick falling off of an oncoming truck, through the windshield of a car, and strikes the passenger. I will never be able to unhear the screams of the driver in that video.
I apologize for not posting, but just thinking about it gets to me.
Lukeyy19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have seen that video but watched it without sound for that very reason, I plan never to watch that video with sound.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's almost heartbreaking to watch. Hits you in the pit of your stomach.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:56:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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omg_yeti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen way worse too. The biggest concern for me really was more the fact that I also ride a motorcycle. If I'd been on that in this incident even the fact that I always ride in full gear wasn't going to save me. It is a moment that makes your mortality vastly more apparent.
Since I was in a car I'm here 6 years later and the only remnants of the event are some lingering issues with my right hand/wrist, and a newfound respect for how easily your day can be thrown into chaos.
Fazz20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I don't fucking drive.
laughingrrrl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:08:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good call. How do you manage your life, though? Big city dweller? Small town guy? Live on a campus?
Fazz20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I moved about 50 feet from my college. I either walk or take a bus. If I need to I'll take a cab. It's not easy, but I just can't get over driving. When I was in high school my boyfriend at the times brother was hit by a lady who didn't have her lights on. He was 13. I think about him whenever I get behind the wheel.
laughingrrrl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:09 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for replying.
Squiblbledoo ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Priorities.
Wilcows ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:38:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're just inches away from death hundreds of times every day in this world that we've created. Cars passing. High stairs. Weird doors. Etc. etc.
Speshal_Snowflake ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of doors.. NSFW http://gfycat.com/IlliterateDirectLadybird
Nixxxy279 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like NSFL
CuteDreamsOfYou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is... is he okay?
vierce ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:40:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, in the same way Marie Antoinette is OK.
Villyer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like anytime you drive, someone in the opposite lane can sneeze and accidentally jerk their car across the median straight into you.
anamea ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened?
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 05:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His mate got his foot stuck in something, threw the thing away with out thinking and it clonked Op in the noggin and if he was aligned differently it would have fucked him up even more.
yoshi570 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guy falls while holding tool, tools hits OP's head, OP's lived to tell it.
ryannayr140 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda hard to believe IMO.
kkjdroid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He fell down some stairs.
DeKo_xD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TL;DR: "Happened when I was 10 yrs old. [...] But hey, I have a cool story and a neat scar."
Hey_im_miles ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:35:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
millimeter ey? do explain ..
EldestPort ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's a unit of measurement equal to 0.0394 inches.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0.0394 inches are equal to 0.1 Centimeters
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:43:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is factual.
0b_101010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO! 0.0394 inches are equal to 0.001 Meters.
SirAlexspride ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO! 0.0394 inches are equal to 1.00076 ร 10-6 kilometers
0b_101010 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:11:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, you are right!
745631258978963214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:03:26 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strangely enough, a millimeter is equal to exactly 1/1000 of a meter. There are tons of other amazing coincidences (like a millimeter cubed equaling a milliliter, and a milliliter of water requiring one calorie to raise by one celsius and 0 being freezing point (and melting point!) of water, and 100 celsius being enough to boil water. Crazy stuff, I tell ya.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 01:53:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened when I was 10 yrs old. My best friend (9), his younger brother (7), and I were playing in the woods. Building forts and whatnot. To aid us in our tasks we had some garden tools. Namely, 2 shovels and a mattock. For those that don't know, a mattock is a pickaxe with a hoe opposite of the axe instead of a pick. When we were heading out of the woods the younger brother, who was carrying the mattock, got his foot stuck in kudzu. He couldnt extricate himself while holding the mattock so he threw it without really paying attention. I had just so happened to stop and bend down to pick something up at that exact moment. Not sure which part hit me, the hoe or axe, but it found my skull at the perfect angle. Woke up to my friend yelling "Don't worry, you're not bleeding." Thing was....there was blood EVERYWHERE. At the hospital the doctor said a millimeter of movement in any direction, twisting, turning, forward, backward, side to side, anything, and it would have killed me. As it was, it only knocked me unconscious, I lost a good bit of blood, and had a few stitches. But hey, I have a cool story and a neat scar.
DrSlappyPants ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:49:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good story, but please explain the one millimeter movement bit. I'm sure you could have died if say, the pick went through your skull, but the one millimeter comment doesn't make any sense to me from a medical perspective
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:58:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was no pick, as this was a mattock. It was a thickened "hoe" style end for digging a trench, and on the other side was the axe. Both sides of this one were heavy steel, and sharpened. The axe for obvious reasons, and the hoe to cut roots. Though thankfully, both were somewhat dull when this happened. It hit me right on the curve where the side of the head meets the top of the skull, almost directly above my right ear. The doctor basically said that any movement, and it would have fractured my skull. As it was, it glanced/bounced off the curvature of my skull.
Think of it in the same way you do an egg shell. You can hit it in just the right spot and it doesn't break, but hit it with the same force in a slightly different spot, and it breaks easily.
DrSlappyPants ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 08:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the info. I still don't understand why your physician told you that. It sounds like you got hit at the border between the temporal and the parietal bone. The only thing I can think is that your middle meningeal artery is in that area. If you had fractured your skull and injured the artery, that's the classic way people develop an epidural hematoma (a specific type of brain bleed which has a high mortality rate).
That said, there is no reason to believe that if you didn't have a skull fracture that you would have had one if you shifted a millimeter.
Sorry to harp on this. I'm just never one to exaggerate what did/could have happened with any of my patients. Glad you're ok.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:20:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All good doc! It's never a bad thing to learn more!
Dustytehcat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you beat that kids ass
Hey_im_miles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:06:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thabks for sharing! that sounds brutal gajhh.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap
hamdinger125 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL that that weird pickaxe thing my uncle has is called a mattock.
Obradbrad ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar happened to me yesterday. I hit a patch of ice and my car landed on the driver side door in a ditch with a foot of water in it. The car was completely totaled and I somehow only got a few bruises and scratches, thankfully
EarthAllAlong ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a song by some lady who was hit by a car on her bicycle and almost died. There were all kinds of horrible results for her following the accident.
Anyway the song has some lyrics about how narrowly she escaped death, and how that's a strange feeling.
Also your post reminded me of that video of the woman and her mom driving, and then a brick falls off a truck and comes through the windshield and kills her mom in the passenger seat. I'm not going to link it, because fuck that, you sick fucks can google it. But it really hit home with the "anyone can die at any time and what the fuck do you even do in that situation" kind of thing.
Thunderoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the hardest things I ever watched. That guy crying is heartbreaking.
Reddit_userhahaha ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is INSANE. Fuck dude, that is seriously crazy. Glad you're alive.
mikejacobs14 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:00:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have another day! :)
gmc_doddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep! This exactly. Almost 5 months ago I was in a freak accident that very nearly killed me and since then it's changed my perspective a lot.
Teh_Gen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could we see this scar por favor?
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, my hair is to thick, and too long. The scar is only about 1" to 1.5" long, and my hair is a around 7" long. You can feel it, but I don't think Imgur has scratchn'-sniff pictures yet. Sorry!
Teh_Gen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's ok thanks for your story though!
notRYAN702 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life is chaos. You could get hit by a car, live and the driver becomes your husband/wife. The week after you could get a prion and die. Chaos is a sure thing, nothing else is.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say something slightly different. Life itself is order amidst chaos.
MarianasTrench ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar-ish happened to my brother and I as kids. We were young and similarly building forts. We had grabbed some left over wood, 2x4s and whatnot and headed into the woods with neighbor kids. Brother was up in a tree keeping "lookout" for whatever kids look out for in trees. At some point he fell out of the tree trying to get down, turns out he landed about an inch away from a 2x4 that had a nail still in it sticking straight up. Not a small nail either >_> shit still haunts me.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeap! Those moments are even scarier because you're more aware of just how close you came. I have a few of those moments as well. Not quite as close as your brother, but similar in fashion.
An_Octopi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Recently, I was walking home from work and was on the phone with my sister. Waited at the light for the walk signal, light changed and the signal came, so I started to cross. If I was walking any faster, the car that ran the red light would have hit me. I felt the swish of the car as it passed right in front of me.
I promptly said goodbye to my sister and then called my mom. Mom's make all near death experiences better.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go on...
Bodley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude did you steal my story? I was hit with one in the back of my head in second grade. Luckily it was with the flat part not the spiky part. My friend somehow didn't see me bend down in front of him as he swung it. A few staples later and I have a sweet scar. Also, you are a rower? Because that would be weird. I've been rowing for almost 10 years now. Are you my brother?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a retarded version of Where The Red Fern Grows. Except you aren't dead.
modtrax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are you from Massachusetts by any chance?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, childhood.
Rocha_999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think about this all the time. I actually think how lucky I am. I don't lead a particularly dangerous life but have had many experiences (as I'm sure most people have when they think about it) where I was possibly close to death or serious injury but escaped unharmed. Eg narrowly missing being involved in a serious car accident, getting out of my depth in the ocean and thinking I'm going to drown, medical issues that could have turned out much worse, plane crashing a short time after I flew the same route, falling down stairs without injury, etc
RazgrizSeed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean a Pulaski? That's a pretty specific tool to own. Did one of your family members work in forestry?
AoO2ImpTrip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best friend got a bitchin' Clayemore for Christmas one year and we were admiring it. His dog knocked him on the elbow trying to jump at me and it caused his arm to thrust the sword towards me. I barely was able to deflect the blade with my arm before it went through my chest. Blade sliced my arm so smoothly I didn't even feel it and no one noticed until I started dripping blood on the floor.
I didn't really realize how close I came to a serious injury, or possibly death as it was coming for the center of my chest, until a few years later.
Edit: Even better, the area it cut on my arm was maybe an inch away from the vein on my arm that people tend to cut to kill themselves.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was camping, and we were gathering wood. One of the branches fell down, and I instinctively stepped aside. If I hadn't stepped aside, I'd be incredibly dead. Scary.
ankrotachi10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also came so close to death. Dad and I were in the car going to do some Go Carting. It was dark because it was like November or something. I was in the passenger seat, a friend was in the back seat and Dad was, of course, driving. We were in the outside lane on the motorway (the rightmost lane, UK) and we could see in the other carriageway that every car was flashing their lights rapidly. We were the only car on our carriageway and had no idea what was going on. Then dad looked straight ahead and a car going the wrong way down the motorway was heading right for us with its lights off. We could only swerve to the left. We missed them by inches.
Funnily enough my mate in the back had no idea it happened.
EmptierHayden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just reminded me of a time when I was almost knocked out or even worse at primary school.
It was a fairly windy day and we were out for lunch playing on the tennis courts. We had some freestanding basketball nets on one of the courts and a friend kicked a football near one of them. I went to go get it, picked it up turned around and started walking back. I looked at my friend and his face just dropped. There was a loud crash and I looked around to where I had been milliseconds before and the whole basketball net had come falling down. Would have had a terrible concussion if I was a slow walker!
Lemerney2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a similar thing happened to me when my friend swing a hoe backwards and hit me in the forehead with it. a few hours in the emergency room after getting my head glued back together and i'm fine! unless you consider the amount of time i spend on reddit...
AimlessBash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just experienced an "I could be dead right now" moment today myself. So on my everyday way to the train station I have to cross a traffic light, where you have to press a button in order for the light to turn red (or green for pedestrians in that case). While it was switching from yellow the red a truck was still relatively far away. The light has been red for a good amount of time (like 4) seconds but the driver still drove past it full time. If I wouldn't have paid attention or I wouldn't wait all the time for every car to completly stop I would probably be dead right now.
RedNeckMilkMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gets stuck tomahawks friend with heavy object
asldfbaslfbawlfyb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need a mattock to go through the cave in the west...
Oknight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone, everywhere, always through all history could have been hit and killed by a meteorite at any second and there's absolutely no way to protect yourself from that -- it shouldn't be scary, it should just give you perspective.
blazingeye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know what a Maddox is but what the hell is a kudzu
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a plant from Japan that became invasive in the south in the 1950s. Colloquially, farmers down there call it "Japan's revenge for WW2." Hard to kill, and grows at an incredible rate.
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I'm kind of new to reddit, so I'm not sure if I am linking this right. But let's give it a try. Kudzu
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A 7 yr old kid, lol. He was trying to throw it out of the kudzu into the field. Found me instead.
slurmfactory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time I was in my buddy's garage lifting weights, and the really thick, heavy-duty metal spring that holds up the garage door snapped. Must have been real brittle and like 15 years old or so. It snapped and flew past us and off the concrete interior wall faster than we could even see it. Like a gun, rail gun probably just launching a heavy piece of metal extremely fast. If it had hit either of us in a very small room it could easily have killed us. But instead we just said "holllly sh*t!" and went about our lives.
Life!
RegretDesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:26 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is an insane amount of luck.
blaze8902 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:50 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I think k a lot of people have had really close calls. I hit a hole and fell over on my bicycle when I was young, and a car almost ran over my head. Got a tire mark on the top of my helmet.
RowRowRowedHisBoat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:49:52 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, that one hits home for me. I watched a guy die 4 years ago when he laid down his bike and his head got run over by a car being towed behind a truck. Wasn't a fun sight. Glad you didn't suffer the same fate.
blaze8902 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:40 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My town really needs to have some bike lanes put in. (Not that I would trust cars not to drive in them anyway.)
I'm working on converting some bicycles to electric ones for my grandmother and I to ride together, and I know I'm going to worry about something happening to her while I'm out.
harisshahzad98 ยท 4857 points ยท Posted at 23:44:39 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking prions man
Kootenaygirl ยท 1840 points ยท Posted at 01:37:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's a molecular geneticist. Her boss had some interesting research on a long term (so pretty much permanent) research projectโฆโฆin the prion lab. She just laughed as she said no. She would much rather work in a level 4 lab than with prions.
Watching people eat different brain based delicacies on cooking or travel shows creeps me the fuck out.
Osservanza ยท 821 points ยท Posted at 02:51:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's a level 4 lab?
ThanatosX23 ยท 1850 points ยท Posted at 02:56:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where they keep things like ebola, Marburg, anthrax. Lovely stuff like that. :)
ChucktheUnicorn ยท 562 points ยท Posted at 05:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It should be noted that the level
isn't dependent on how deadly the pathogen, but how easily it can spread. Airborne = level 4.Edit- I've been reminded by people who paid more attention than me in microbiology lectures that it depends on more than just transmittability, but also it's virulence and treatability
[deleted] ยท 194 points ยท Posted at 08:10:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Klaus_Goldfish ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 08:45:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is one edge case: The "unknown" pathogen.
It's usually assigned BSL3 by default, unless the sample came from some sort of mass casualty situation. In that case, it's 4 until it's identified.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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wingedcoyote ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:04:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dunno
Klaus_Goldfish ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's when a guy in a blood-spattered lab coat hands you a vial and says "this is a sputum sample. It's from a guy who literally coughed up his lungs after going to $country last week. Help us."
ChucktheUnicorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, I misremembered. I edit my post to reflect as much.
[deleted] ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 06:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, now I feel uncomfortable.
JoanofSpiders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't. See one of the above comments. The common cold isn't BSL-4 because it's not deadly in pretty much anyone.
Klaus_Goldfish ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 08:44:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be noted that it significantly depends upon the following three factors:
Plague for example would be an okay candidate for level 4, since it can fuck you right up and tends to lurk in rodent populations*, but a bid of doxycycline, and you're alright. Hence, it's level 3.
Source: Microbiologist.
*IE once it's out there it can hang our for quite a while, and is extremely hard to eradicate.
soccerfreak67890 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:58:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plague is BSL 3. I've worked with it before
Klaus_Goldfish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:41:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. As I said above, the reason it's there (and not one level up) is the trivial treatment.
soccerfreak67890 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha sorry for some reason I skipped over that part
nighterfighter ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 07:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what's 5? Does it go up to 5?
oceanjulep ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 07:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. 4 is as bad as it gets.
Azonata ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 08:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what they want you to believe.
Cypherex ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 08:30:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Level 5 means the pathogen creates its own interdimensional wormholes in spacetime to spread directly to the blood stream of every living creature on the planet.
temporaryuser1000 ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 08:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And we're back to fucking prions man
boredguy12 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:41:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
level 5 is when you're a cyborg and you get a half real half code virus
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:08:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahaaa! So there is a level 5
ShutUpHeExplained ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:22:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking of something like the Blood Plague from WoW but in real life.
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lvl 5 is clearly the Flood.
Styrak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But this one goes to 11.
IEatMyEnemies ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 09:23:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 means that it can spread as soon as you hear about it. Sorry. You're infected now.
anunnaturalselection ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 09:52:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I get my butler to read comments first.
heartbeats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:49:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Cranston
Natanael_L ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So level 5 is for holding dank memes?
indigo945 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:55:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Access to information on memetic agents is restricted to level 3 personell.
IEatMyEnemies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not an O5? Here. just look at this image that is not in any way, shape or form related to a memetic kill agent. Trust me, i promise
soccerfreak67890 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:56:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So "The Game" would be level 5?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lost the game
Optionions ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Level 5s can be transmitted telepathically.
Kaceytbh ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:52:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I just lost the game.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK
Insi6nia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S BEEN SO LONG
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it hasn't been that long for me. I was watching a Vsauce video about a week ago and the fucker mentioned it.
LordManders ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:12:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola isn't airborne though, is it? I thought it could only be spread through human contact, usually via bodily fluids?
Hateborn ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:53:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
One strain, Ebola Reston, was known to be airborne, or at least speculated to be since blood contact transmission seemed far less likely in the lab in Reston, VA that it was identified in.. The good news is that the Ebola Reston strain did not affect humans, though it was highly lethal to lower primates. Being that the other known forms of Ebola originated with lower primates and made the jump to humans, Ebola Reston is still terrifying since it could easily mutate to affect us.
_jacks_wasted_life_ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:47:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola is a flawed virus in that it is not airborne, and kills it's host ridiculously fast -- thus inhibiting the likeliness of transmission to other hosts. When ebola does mutate to become airborne shit is going to become real very fast. Ebola is only one of many viruses that are scary as hell though. The scariest virus is one that is transferred with ease (airborne, sexually) and then remains dormant for a good length of time while the host(s) transfer it to others. Zombie Apocalypse scenarios start to play out here. Or massive reduction in population at very least. I remember my microbiology teacher discussing this in depth with the class, and it really put it into perspective. The quicker it becomes obvious, the quicker the host gets treatment. The less likely it is to spread. A really scary virus stays dormant for a long time after infection while the host goes about spreading it about. HIV/AIDS is a great example of such a virus. Imagine one that stays dormant even longer.
LordManders ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:25:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We could all be infected right now!!
anndor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:24:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why, in Plague,Inc, I always dump all my points into the various transmission methods before I start going for more noticeable symptoms.
brandon0220 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:53 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you get more points by having some severity, I've found coughing and sneezing, plus a focus on air, then water to be a very effective starting strategy.
soccerfreak67890 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually most airborne pathogens are BSL 3. 4 is pretty much reserved for deadly ones that have no known treatment
ChucktheUnicorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea you're actually right. I misremembered. I probably should've said it's dependent on the relative risk of exposure as well as its danger.
StaySwoleMrshmllwMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But Ebola isn't airborne.
craftyj ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 03:25:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk man Marburg and anthrax are pretty fucking scary. I know they take good precautions, but Jesus...
TOO_DAMN_FAT ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 04:02:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anthrax is commonly found on farms and around cows. Weaponized type anthrax is a little different.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:12:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its still deadly though, man
TOO_DAMN_FAT ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:13:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, PAL!
superbonboner ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:26:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Settle down there, guy
TOO_DAMN_FAT ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:31:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Names not guy, bro.
parkeyb ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:45:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's man, dude.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:11:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a dude, cuz.
cybershanker ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:19:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah, buddy.
kylekeck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Juat calm down, chief.
superbonboner ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:40:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mccloud
FuckDeeper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you say boss
cybershanker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am calm, Kemosabe.
coolkid1717 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not now, I'm in the fucking zone.
TheMadFrat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lets allow cooler heads to prevail, fellow humans and/or bots
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BOTS?! INSOLENCE!(That's what the prions want you to think)
_thisguygetsit_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not your buddy, guy.
forkface1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
im not your guy, bro.
opalorchid ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:17:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those all sound like a much better time than a prion lab. She made the right call. I wouldn't even want to be around a researcher working in a prion lab.
Greenbastard_ ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 04:09:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, anthrax is level 3-it's a bacteria. Level 4 is all viruses.
DerpyPyroknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:06:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a particular reason why viruses are more deadly?
Greenbastard_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:34 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a general sense, it isn't that viruses are more or less deadly than bacterial infections-both can be very severe and cause death. It has more to do with how the biosafety levels are classified. The classifications for biosafety level 4 are that the pathogens have a high risk of aerosol transmission, cause severe disease in the individual as well as having a very high transmissibility to others. The other big caveat for level 4 is that it is reserved for pathogens for which there is no available vaccine or other treatment available. Often bacterial infections require pretty close contact in order to cause disease (think drinking contaminated water or physically introducing the bacteria to an entry point to you body by not washing your hands or having an open wound). It also often takes a large number of bacteria to be introduced to your body at once before your immune system is overwhelmed and you get sick, whereas the number of viruses that you need to be infected with can be very low.
gprime311 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:34:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anthrax and Ebola over prions any day of the week.
MrTumbleweed ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mmmmm Marburg. The virus horror books are written about!
Coffeezilla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:57:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Marburg is less lethal than ebola. but otherwise symptoms of both are the same. The only thing different really about ebola is it kills faster.
flameruler94 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:00:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which in some ways makes marburg worse. One of the "problems" with ebola if you're a virus is that it kills hosts too quickly. As a result it can burn out relatively quickly as well, since it basically kills everyone in the area before they have a chance to spread it. There's a lethality sweet spot that viruses want to be really effective. That's part of the reason the Spanish flu was so awful. Spread like crazy and didn't kill every thing it touched
MrTumbleweed ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:33:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is actually only true in recent history. Even then it's debatable. The most recent outbreaks of Ebola have 90% kill rate. Marburg has had instances of 40% kill rate and others of 100%. We don't know enough about Marburg to make such objective statements. If you do an ounce of research you'll realize every comparison piece in the world says the same thing. They are similar, but we really don't know enough about the two to make such bold statements. Quite frankly, Marburg scares me more. But hey. There's always gotta be that guy, right?
Coffeezilla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm curious as to what you mean by recent history given that my limited research on it was 2007 but sure, I guess there hasn't been a million or so infections, and the only ones in a civilized country with decent healthcare were in the 60's.
However, I'd say it's definitely less lethal than Ebola. Those 100% kill rates you quoted were typically less than 5 people in each outbreak in countries with abysmal healthcare and a low standard of living. I will agree with you on two points, we really don't know all that much about either of the two strains of marburg we've discoved, or really all that much about ebola, and that the more recently discovered strain of marburg does seem to be a lot more lethal than the older one.
Secondly it's comparison to Ebola would beg the question of...which strain?
It's a complicated mess of comparing two deadly groups of viruses which I suppose I shouldn't have done in the first place.
Ianb219 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Anthrax album is pretty sweet though.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Corky Ramano.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought this might make a lovely science career. Then I read your comment. Lovely, brave woman that friend of his is.
clancy6969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duh, everyone knows that!
gloomyzombi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol we work with much worse stuff than that.
run56137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could be wrong, but I don't believe anthrax is a level 4. 3, maybe.
PantheraLupus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love near a town called Marburg
atcchief ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ebola is a bsl 3 virus. So it's still not level 4.
Edit: Also, as far as I remember there are like, less than 10 bsl 4 labs in the US
TrystFox ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola and Marburg are both BSL level 4. They're Filoviruses.
Source
Also, I believe there are now about 15 BSL-4 labs in the US. :3
Donakebab ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola is definitely a bsl 4 virus.
http://www.cdc.gov/training/QuickLearns/biosafety/
TheMadFrat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:05:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah and they are only in 7 different cities (ex: there are 4 at Ft Detrick). There are more labs that have the capability of becoming level 4 though
A-real-walrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And smallepox.
Kootenaygirl ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 03:29:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An airborne virus is classed as a level 4. A level 4 lab is where they study these viruses (and contagions).
Everything about these labs is to prevent the escape from anything being studied from escaping There's airlocks that are designed to force the air to move toward the actual lab area (pressure negative IIRC), self contained H/VAC systems with special HEPA filtres and UVC lighting in the ducts to scrub the air, and self contained biohazard suits connected to outside air systems to protect the people. Upon leaving the lab there's special decontamination showers you need to go through to wash the suit off before you pass through the exit airlocks.
[deleted] ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 03:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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blueberriesnpancakes ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 03:42:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is, of course, not true. That would just spread the contents everywhere.
SaintZvlkx ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:12:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That depends. A fuel-air explosion would actually be pretty effective in eliminating airborne pathogens as it sucks in (and subsequently combusts) air from the surrounding area.
blueberriesnpancakes ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 05:50:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it wouldn't be effective at all. That's not how explosions or clean labs work, and this is coming from someone who works in one every day.
badstuffstuff ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
now a nuclear explosion.....
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:57:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'm going to trust Walking Dead before user blueberriesnpancakes regarding how the CDC's self destruct system is setup.
Letracho ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:27:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good call.
Frekavichk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't a fuel-air explosion be the same as boiling(which would kill the nasty shit, right?)?
10ebbor10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In some parts, but it's extremely unlikely you'd get everything, or even most of it.
SaintZvlkx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:46:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sorry, my point was not that FAE devices are used in any way in relation to biological material, but that a thermobaric explosion would be more effective at killing airborne pathogens than conventional explosives, due to the explosion combusting the air in the immediate vicinity.
you_freak_bitch ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:05:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all airborne viruses are classified as level 4.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean the common cold isn't level 4?
you_freak_bitch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. I don't know where /u/Kootenaygirl got their info from but not all BSL-4 viruses are airborne and not all airborne viruses are BSL-4. E.g. Influenza is airborne but can be handled at BSL-2 while Ebola is not airborne and is classified BSL-4. Being airborne isn't what makes them BSL-4 agents, it is the fact that the pathogenic agents can cause fatal disease to humans and there is no cure or treatment available.
Source: I am doing my PhD on a BSL-4 virus
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was being sarcastic, but thanks for the extra information.
you_freak_bitch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:32 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you might have been but thought I'd give you the extra info just in case!
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:08 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the clarification. :) I was going from memory on the virus levels. The memory's getting kind of rusty lately.
civetservescoffee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:53:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It's over 9,000.
110011001100 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have to do this every time you have say an itch in your nose or need to rub your eyes?
felix_dro ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You pretty much wear a space-suit, so probably not too much eye itching
110011001100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which makes me wonder, how do astronauts, etc deal with that
Kootenaygirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:36:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're in a big, puncture resistant bag. It looks like a hazmat suit. That's going to suck if you have to itch your nose. Though if you work in labs you really shouldn't do this anyways. It's a good way to get sick, dead, or fired.
The decontamination showers are part of a series of fail safes to keep any possibility of a virus escaping as close to nil as possible.
Boloar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck my nose is itching just imagining it
Destiny_Seeker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pressure negative is correct. The lab is at a lower pressure than the surrounding facilities, so air is forced in towards the lower pressure and not out when a door is opened.
The Microbiology department at my hospital lab maintains negative pressure, nowhere near as sophisticated as a BSL 4 facility but it's definitely there. That door is a bitch to open from the outside.
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can imagine.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:01:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So flu and rhino viruses are level 4, are they? Really?
No.
theunnoanprojec ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:30:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They didn't mean all airbourne viruses are level four, they meant all level four viruses are airbourne
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sorry, totally missed the lethal part. The different levels describe how they're spread and how lethal they are. A level 4 lab is usually working with stuff that's already lethal, fast mutating with the potential to become lethal (the flu), or stuff they aren't sure of how its spread. Edited because I'm not paying attention.
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry missed the deadly part. In the post and my last response.
Kirboid ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:02:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Top. Men.
CompMolNeuro ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did a graduate rotation in a lab that worked with genetically engineered retroviruses. That was a biological safety level 2 lab. A level 4 lab takes incredible proportions because they only deal with super viruses, sometimes weaponized super viruses. Yes, you are a space suit and have to go through 2 airlocks and the chemical bath to get in, but that's not what makes the level 4 rooms so special. There's all the other things in there that have to be incredibly sterile , from the Giant centrifuges to the very air itself. If there is a virus that doesn't have a name, only a number, then a BSL 4 lab is where you would find it.
ikeandclare ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just watch the movie Contagion.
skink35620 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:55:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nasty infections disease lab. it's a safety/containment level. it's where nasty shit like anthrax, smallpox, ebola, all that fun stuff.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:09:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest viruses are kept there. Think Small Pox.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically all the bad that will kill you and there isn't a cure for is worked with in level 4 labs
Fellhuhn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does "Resident Evil" ring a bell?
hokie_high ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're really interested in this stuff, read The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.
KingBooScaresYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some dodgy science here. Level four actually relates to a potentially fatal organism for which there is no cure. It's nothing to do with transmission, but security is tighter to prevent a biohazard leak. There are airborne pathogens like tuberculosis in level three labs, which have potentially fatal organisms that have a cure.
say-something-nice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
4 levels of biohazard in labs
, level 1 pretty harmless e.g e.coli and other bacteria,
level 2 mild risk of infection hepatitis, HIV, etc.
Level 3: pathogenic disease very dangerous such SArS corona. Virus and requires lots of protective measures,
level 4 is pretty much diseases which are a threat to large populations, anthrax, Ebola, etc
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bio-Safety Level 4, the highest level there is. I'm an engineer who's designed the HVAC and plumbing systems for few laboratory building. I've done a few BSL-3 labs, but never a BSL-4. Even a Level 3 lab is quite complicated to design.
MagicHamsta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:22 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Biosafety level 4.
Basically labs where the most dangerous, exotic, and/or easily spread agents that pose a high individual risk are kept.
TomatoCo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where scientists work with highly virulent diseases with no known cure or countermeasure.
glr123 ยท 717 points ยท Posted at 03:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in a Prion lab, it's honestly not that scary.
pmYourFears ยท 2250 points ยท Posted at 03:22:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what the prions want you to think.
KeatingOrRoark ยท 1444 points ยท Posted at 03:43:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
beelzeflub ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 04:22:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, man.
WithASideOfBacon ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 06:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck man - Prion
Doctah_Whoopass ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can now literally catch the gay.
Hauvegdieschisse ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 14:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#NoLivesMatter - Prion
Larry_the_Walrus ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forced That For You
GOthee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This actually creeped me more than the original comment
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you're thinking of Midi-Chlorians.
MagicHamsta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:49 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Braaaiiinnsss~
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:13:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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745631258978963214 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:51:04 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno why you were downvoted; that literally was the joke. That the prions are the ones making you think that.
Irregulator101 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"But what will brain slugs do for the average civilian?"
"Attach brain slugs to them"
"Yeah you say that now..."
-Futurama
fairshoulders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what the rabbit cat eaten in the Marburg house.
Malak77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all in your head.
anonym0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's already under their control
craftyj ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:26:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to ingest them, right?
glr123 ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 03:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct, though you do want to make sure you do not have accidental exposure. Prions on your gloves then scratching your eye or touching your nose, that sort of thing.
But most prion labs use prions from other organisms, like mice, that haven't been shown to ever do anything to humans.
jrwreno ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 05:35:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But....Prions are INFAMOUS for jumping the species barrier!
In fact, Prions that have crossed the species barrier (jumped from sheep to bat to human) are the MOST INFECTIOUS and have the HIGHEST MORBIDITY!
I believe we fondly called them the Promiscuous Prion in Pathology 101....
glr123 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:48:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, and some prions are thought to be infectious across species quite easily - like those from the bank vole.
jrwreno ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:12:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember explaining how the Prion works to fellow students... by describing how if you grab the end of a knitted shirt and pulled, it would unravel on and on. Just like how a Prion would attach to other proteins, and unravel them.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, seriously? That's a really kind of neat image once you get past the horror.
Destiny_Seeker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's very simplified but a good way of explaining how something that is objectively not alive in any sense, even less so than viruses, can have such a devastating effect.
Cuahucahuate22 ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 03:51:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how many trials of human experiments have been conducted to prove that?!?!?! 0___o
/s
KThingy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:57:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I know you're probably not involved in this directly, and the official scientific opinion is there isn't a proven risk to humans, but I have to ask anyway. I'm a hunter, and CWD is a major concern to myself and most American hunters. How big of a deal is it really in regards to crossing species. I've read prions can stay dormant in your system for decades before they start causing problems. Is there a chance CWD could be hiding in lots of hunters already, and we just haven't seen the effects? How do we determine it isn't laying dormant as opposed to not really being a threat. I understand if you can't / don't want to answer this, but I will say prions fucking terrify me, thanks for trying to slay the monsters.
glr123 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:09:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, it's not unbelievable really that prions could be lying dormant for a number of years before serious symptoms start to show up. Unfortunately, there is no real reliable test to really pick them up at such an early stage. The closest would probably be something like this:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1315200
That being said, unless you know you have consumed meat from a population that is thought to be contaminated it shouldn't really be a concern I don't think. If you are hunting something that is closely related to a group like the Canadian Elk, though, it might be a much bigger cause for concern. Right now prions are ravaging certain populations in the middle of the country and Canada, and while cross species infectivity is not really established or known, I would personally be a little concerned if I was in those areas.
TGiFallen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When did cwd become a problem?
Has it just recently started ravaging elk populations?
Keisari_P ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tought the prions are mostly in the nerve/brain tissue. But that paper seems to indicate that prion seeds are strongly present in nasal cavity (? as i cant find anywhere good definition what nasal vault exactly means.) SOO hunters out there, if your local elk population has prions, dont make jellied moose nose.
"CONCLUSIONS In this preliminary study, RT-QuIC testing of olfactory epithelium samples obtained from nasal brushings was accurate in diagnosing CreutzfeldtโJakob disease and indicated substantial prion seeding activity lining the nasal vault."
glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both really, a big finding is that early stages of Prion diseases infect the neurons in the nasal cavity, which is a direct link to the brain. You have a lot of neurons in your olfactory area.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds a little on the horrific side. Substantial prion seeding activity in the area where we collect mucous and then shoot it out when we sneeze.
I swear, if I was an alien and wanted to eliminate all higher life on earth, prions are the way I'd do it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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glr123 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:49:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about it?
Arkansan13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:58:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being a smart ass but genuinely curious, wasn't it thought at one time that Prions from cows posed little to no threat to humans?
glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That I do not actually know, long before I started working in the field and getting any sort of idea what times were like back then is difficult.
borderwave2 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:51:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scary part is that prions have an incubation time of like 20 years. You could be exposed today and not get sick until you retire.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:49:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's better odds than smoking. Brb census taker.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:11:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What, that's like, the opposite of scary
g0_west ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:48:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it means even once you retire/change jobs you still have to worry about it
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you retire you have to worry about dying anyway, rates of death spike among those who stop working permanently.
Ballsy12 ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 04:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I drive a Prius, it's not that scary
barcelonaKIZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has it ever gotten in your mouth though?
shea241 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:16:06 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's talking about Scions, though.
Fizzbit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:14:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, can you do an AMA?
glr123 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 04:49:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could, though I am by no means an expert. You should keep an eye on /r/science, we have some prion AMAs coming up in about a month or so from actual professors who are experts in the field!
Fizzbit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will do! Thanks for the heads-up!
WaitingToTakeYouAway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our AMA's are usually from such noteworthy scientists who don't get much public recognition too. The mod team does an insanely great job at making sure this information is available to the average redditor.
partypoopin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:05:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... it's already too late for you.
glr123 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's possible!
The_Telltale_Fart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:50:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, prions
GetMemedKiddo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does one get such a position/does it pay well?
glr123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pays absolutely awful, but I'm a grad student. Maybe someday I will make more money.
turn0 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, not likely. This is even more true when you take into account the amount of schooling. You should have become a football coach.
Dkeh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopes...deleted
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's certainly possible!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ingestion, exposure across mucous membranes like in the eye.
The_Specialest_K ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck Is a prion
TastyBleach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? Wow thats awesome. Howd u get into that? Is that what u wanted to do?
hypercube33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the mad scientist guys
LuckyBrander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone else super interested in this? AMA?
glr123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have an AMA with: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-story
In /r/science on April 28th!
dl064 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Here, try one'.
Arfbark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about those of us that don't work in a Prion lab? I feel many other labs aren't as well equipped. Especially if they're not prepared for a prion, can you then understand the fear then?
glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where would you get prions from? They are pretty rare, accidental contamination is probably nearly impossible.
Arfbark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my experience, in hospitals, we sometimes have to grind up tissue to culture it, or body parts will be sliced very thin to view cells, etc. I would think this exists for the veterinary field too.
ShutUpHeExplained ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. What exactly would you classify as scary then? Cause this shits gonna give me nightmares for a month.
glr123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably deadly airborne viruses.
Khlompur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, Prions!
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? That's awesome! I guess the transmission wouldn't be too worrisome, but I know my friend was creeped out about the killabitlity of prions. She got asked to work in the lab about 6 years ago and I haven't really kept up on any new studies or findings with them since.
teh_maxh ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:10:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Cause you'll be dead of prions before the project's over.
StoyLoks ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read a compelling story of a man who's wife has a deadly disease that causes the misfolding or proteins. Together they're working on advancing prion research.
http://www.nature.com/news/computer-scientist-makes-prion-advance-1.16047
"The paper is Minikelโs first published research study, but it probably will not be his last. In 2012, he and Vallabh decided to devote their lives to research to find treatments for fatal familial insomnia, which killed Vallabhโs mother in 2010. The couple have just started graduate school in biology at Harvard University and say that being personally affected by the disease gives them a different perspective on science from most researchers in the field โ for instance, by prompting them to solve the puzzle of anticipation that had long vexed scientists."
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:56:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this woman has found the perfect balance between nerdy and badass. "yeah I work in a lab with dangerous, little known diseases."
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, she just mostly works with poop. There's no level 4 lab where she works but there's still no way she's working in the prion lab.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's worse, prions can have symptomless incubation times of over 3 years, and are pretty much 100% lethal. Thousands upon thousands of people could become infected before we even identities it.
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're so hard to destroy. That's what really freaks her out. She's sticking with stuff disinfectants can get rid of.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, don't eat brains. Or human for that matter because that's how you get Kuru.
Kootenaygirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:38:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched Anthony Bourdain chow down on some brain and blood soup and I had to change the channel. It gave me the heebs.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:48:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kootenaygirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:07:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably why she sticks to bacteria and viruses.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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stanfan114 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a great horror movie about prion disease called We Are What We Are.
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooh if I could up vote you multiple times I would! Alas I am too poor for gilding you.. Sorry.
seanbastard1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT ARE THE DELICACIES MAN?! PLEASE TELL ME KINDER BUENO IS SAFE?
Kootenaygirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think they put brain in Bueno. Might want to check the ingredient list though.
sugarqq ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read all of this (and child comments) and thought you were talking about a prison lab...
coolkid1717 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you get prions just by touching them? How dangerous are they?
ImALittleCrackpot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or seeing people eat bone marrow.
Kootenaygirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am definitely not an offal person either. Or a bone-in foods person. Or tinned salmon. Or gelatine. Or sausage. If I didn't love bacon, shellfish, wild game, and chicken breasts so much I'd be a vegetarian. I remember loving steak and kidney pies until I found out the kidney wasn't the beans, but the organ.
theninjallama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What has to happen to be affected by a prion you're handling?
Kootenaygirl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions cause stuff like kuru and CJB. It destroys your brains.
IAmPiernik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well since you have to consume prions or have the genes to get the condition, and stuff like ebola can be transmitted by contact with fluids... I know which I'd prefer ;p
wiseoldtabbycat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm pretty sure if an animal is infected with prion disease, you just as likely risk contracting it from consuming muscle tissue.
Famixofpower ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, for a nuclear war to be dangerous, one bomb would just need to be near a Level 4 lab, wouldn't it.
PrepareInboxFor ยท 802 points ยท Posted at 02:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I test for prions at work quite a bit. I wash my hands A LOT before lunch or having snacks. TSE, CWD, BSE, Scrapies, etc. (Tse =trasmissible spongiform encephalitis) the umbrella term for the disease. Prion is not a disease. CWD =chronic wasting disease (deer) Scrapies (sheep) BSE = bovine spongiform encephalitis
Edit: to provide more information, they arrive at my lab in three ways. Fresh (dead (common) , alive and about to have a really bad day(rare), fixed in formalin,(most common) or frozen during hunting season) so we perform necropsy to remove the brain if we receive the body/head, and dissect out the retro-pharangeal lymph nodes and another node I cannot remember the name of currently
All of this has to be reported for positives, and if it is a farm, there are rules on depopulating it. Please check with the DNR for that. I'm just a guy that walks around in a lab coat like I'm doing something important all day, in reality I'm listening to tubthumping by chumbawumba on repeat.
beelzeflub ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 04:25:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a recent outbreak of wasting disease, in a population of deer protected for hunting, near where I live. The guy who oversaw the maintenance of the herd apparently knew and did nothing to dispose of the infected individuals. He's got about ten years in prison, because a lot of people around here eat the deer they hunt...
PrepareInboxFor ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:07:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way they are destroyed is alkaline digestion. Same with spinal cords and brain tissues.
Tkj5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I worked for a Zoologist whose work was all about Chronic Wasting Disease and its transmissions through populations of deer. Luckily there have been no reported cases in the area.
hypercube33 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:56:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wisconsin?
TitoBaggins ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That guy got 10 years. What happens to the officials repsonsible in Flint?
Bangledesh ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 15:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A retirement party and bonus.
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They aren't contagious or anything unless ingested? Or is that monkey brain thing a hoax?
Ovenchicken ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 02:40:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are sometimes transmittable through bodily fluids.
HatesRedditors ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How transmittable, and more importantly, how do they taste?
Thwerty ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 04:38:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is protein bro, tastes like gains.
radicalelation ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delicious.
gr3g0rian ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:19:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like chicken
foldingcouch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:51:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends on what you're eating. If you're eating deer with CWD or beef with BSE you're probably okay but that's not the kind of thing you want to roll the dice with. If you're eating monkey or human) then you could be in trouble. It depends on how genetically similar the species you're eating is to human.
Nordiquy ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:39:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because they're making you forget
_suckittrebek_ ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:00:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea what that is, but it sounds painful.
Arkansan13 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:00:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prion disease that occurs in sheep.
kcha95 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:58:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last sentence should be used as a common expression.
opalorchid ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is washing your hands just for peace of mind? If soap destroyed prions, they wouldn't be nearly as terrifying
Amantus ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions aren't actually that hard to deal with outside the body. They're deactivated by alkalinity.
opalorchid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They can persist in the environment. That's why cervids can't be kept in the same area that had individual(s) with cwd
Edit-typo
Redditacious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is going to sound really stupid, buuut, I looked up Cervid.
Is there something related to the antlers that makes them susceptible? (Also thinking of cows and sheep as horned animals, but then again, so are goats, but I haven't heard of Mad Goat disease)
The first part is serious, now Imma be a bit silly, buuuuut, do you think parkour goats have prion disease?
opalorchid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The antlers aren't the problem, they're just different families of ungulates. Cervids are genetically more closely related to each other than they are to bovids (cows, sheep, other ruminants). The prion disease that affects sheep and goats is called scrapie
And there's no stupid question when you're asking in earnest! Asking is how you learn :)
Redditacious ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Thanks! Makes sense. TIL ungulates. Super non interesting fact.
So did the hoof evolve to support running on the toe tips, or did toe tip running influence hoof growth?
I've never been so interested in ungulates in my life. Reddit is weird.
Edit: it says terrestrial ungulates. Are there non-terrestrial ungulates. Don't answer if it's a no, I want submarine unicorns, tyvm.
opalorchid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ungulates are the best! At least as far as I'm concerned. There are a ton of interesting facts.
The hoof is essentially a really strong nail. Those that had the stronger nails were likely to run and support themselves better, and were thus more likely to outrun predators, making them more fit and resulting in those individuals reproducing and passing that trait down.
There are! Narwhals! Whales are ungulates too :D
There's also lechwe, which are considered "aquatic mammals" and look like what you'd typically expect. They're (beautiful imho) antelope that live in wetlands
Redditacious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for such great answers! I am now subscribed to daily ungulate facts. (Seriously though, Narwhal are ungulates, same as
Corvids(almost Unidan ed there) Cervids with the Lechwe somewhere in between habitat wise is cool shit. Thanks again for your knowledge!opalorchid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome and thank you for the questions! :) I actually really enjoy sharing things I've learned; knowledge should be shared (but most of my friends get sick of listening to me go on about "useless" animal facts lol).
cp5184 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:18:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that post was the prequel to the walking dead.
dandroid126 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really confused by your parentheses.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This might actually be a great way to get rid of zombies. Just pump them full of the shit until they all collapse
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In many ways, prions are the molecular "zombies".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe thats how it'll all begin? Weponised prions...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:52:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
nPrimo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's it like?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't Fatal Insomnia a prion disease as well?
mostlytheshortofit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. CWD is from prions? As a Colorado deer hunter I will never bitch about having to send in the heads again.
Saxon2060 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a scientist and former lab technician, this made me lol.
Calsmokes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He makes a whiskey drink :)
pranaykotapi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A noob question. Does consuming more protein in regular diet increase the accumulation of prions?
beardface84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
Octopus_Tetris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got no doubt.
waxattacks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
nutsnerem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tubthumping on repeat would be worse than 'mad cow'
TicklishEyeball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your writing style is extremely hard to follow. Cool stuff though.
SprocketGizmo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any chance you're in Wisconsin?
stiff-vag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get knocked down!
Kinger15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He drinks the whiskey drink
D4days ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terrifying to think that if you were holding a vail and you got knocked down, you might never get back up again.
nsaemployeofthemonth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cannot remember name of node................I have some bad news for you.
squeeiswin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My God, they've already got to you...
TheRenaldoMoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is "depopulate it" just is a way to gloss over killing all the animals? :(
TheRandomScotsman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole album, or just the one song?
ViperSRT3g ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I applaud the work that you do, but that is still somewhat terrifying.
PinkyandzeBrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In 50 years time there will be a epidemic of brain wasting tied directly to having listened to Chumbawumba during youth. People effected will be known as 'Chumbies' because of their constant repeating of the lyrics, "I get knocked down, But I get up again, You're never gonna keep me down."
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're never gonna keep you down.
roboninja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once had a summer job constructing prion sample kits to send to livestock farms. Remember the jars of formalin.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed out loud at that, thanks.
laceandhoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:33 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if prions are not a disease, what are they? Is it like an invasive species? How do you contract it? If someone has prions, can you 'catch' it? Why do you wash your hands a lot? Are they like a germ?
Sorry, this is the first I've ever heard of Prions and I think I understand what they do, but I don't understand how people 'catch' it (like a cold?).
Ghoulaugen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:39 on April 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you ever find any prions?
SnackSac ยท 3329 points ยท Posted at 00:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Came here looking for this and found it.
Prions are infectious proteins that fold abnormally and trigger the misfolding of other, similar proteins. Eventually, the buildup of misfolded proteins can cause lesions to form in the brain, leading to disease.
Nasty scary incurable thing!
Edit 1: Yes I copy and pasted the descriptions from the Googs
Edit B: The Fatal Familial Insomnia was what first introduced me to prions.
[Wiki Page[(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia#Presentation)
Here's what scared the shit out of me:
The age of onset is variable, ranging from 18 to 60, with an average of 50.[citation needed] The disease can be detected prior to onset by genetic testing.[3] Death usually occurs between 7 and 36 months from onset. The presentation of the disease varies considerably from person to person, even among patients from within the same family.
The disease has four stages:
Other symptoms include profuse sweating, pinpoint pupils, the sudden entrance into menopause for women and impotence for men, neck stiffness, and elevation of blood pressure and heart rate. Constipation is common as well. As the disease progresses, the patient is forever stuck in a state of pre-sleep limbo. During these stages it is common for patients to repeatedly move their limbs as if dreaming.
NOTE: Above is copied from the Wiki page so you don't have to click links to be scared.
fierceandtiny ยท 2333 points ยท Posted at 00:57:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read the OP as "prisons" and was like "eh... Sure, okay. I've heard they're scary."
Then saw this and realized my mistake with horror.
MrCoral ยท 338 points ยท Posted at 01:45:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yep, me too. I thought this was an extended metaphor...a very elaborate extended metaphor
shr3dthegnarbrah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:21:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All folded in on itself.
FogSeeFrank ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was Prawns misspelled and I thought it was a District 9 joke.
PacSan300 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:08:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Norwegian prisons aren't so scary.
rhllor ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks better than my condo.
TheEndgame ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:56:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks better than the student dorm i had in Norway. Priorities government....
heiferly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they source their prison furniture from Ikea? That looks at least as nice as the dorm room I had freshman year (at a top 10 US university).
geishadreams ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read it as "prisons" too!!
jerog1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read it as prons
thought it was a district 9 reference
Skullkan6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:29:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prisons are pretty scary. Imagine being stuck somewhere you can't leave.
originalwombat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:38:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too. I was getting really confused at all the talk of brain eating.
Saleroso ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:47:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read it pretty fast and at first I read it as "prius"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read Prius at first.
What kind of car do you drive? Oh just a Toyota Prion. ....guh
Somethingwentclick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the first sign of having prions... You should settle your affairs and tell you loved ones that you love them.
Fiddydollaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You described my train of thought perfectly as well.
sculder17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst thing about prisons are the dementors
kitchenperks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prisons are not scary...... all the time. Hollywood makes them out to look terrible as hell 24 hrs a day. Most of the time it's chill. But when something does happen it's pretty bad.
Source- worked at a prison.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I've heard they're scary" lol this made my day
palordrolap ยท 631 points ยท Posted at 01:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Prions. The
Ice IXIce-nine of proteins.Edit: I meant Vonnegut's Ice-nine, but mistakenly used the Roman numeral which is reserved for the significantly less dangerous real-world phase of ice. D'oh! Luckily, folks knew what I meant.
Shattered_Sanity ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:49:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
For those who don't know:
Proteins fold in certain ways as they're made without fail. Now, imagine a supercooled solution of something, say water that's still liquid below its freezing point. Add one seed crystal and the whole thing freezes right quick. Prions are like that: they're more stable confimers of existing proteins. When they interact with the correctly-folded proteins, those proteins spontaneously refold to the prions's more stable state. They become useless and the body doesn't recognize them as pathogens so it can't destroy them. They build up, all the while converting properly folded proteins, resulting in a cascade of useless crap building up in the body and clogging things up. I can't find the drug at the moment, but there was one used in chemotherapy that had to be discontinued because a more stable inactive form got into the processing equipment and contaminated everything. For more information on the subject, look up Mad Cow Disease or the human form, variant CreutzfeldtโJakob Disease.
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:51:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1) We really need to develop a companion to FoldIt called UnFoldIt where everyone helps destroy prions forevor.
2) I always figured CreutzfeldtโJakob Disease was named as such to prevent Madman Disease from being headlined & inciting panic.
3)
No. No. No no no.
dankmernes ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you in my karass?
billyboru ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 02:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool Cats Cradle reference
GODD_JACKSON ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:27:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; man got to sit and wonder why, why, why
tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; man got to tell himself he understand
graffiti_bridge ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See the cat? See the cradle?
GODD_JACKSON ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that book really got me through some shit
MrFahrenkite ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:25:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny, a shit really got me through that book.
I almost exclusively read on the toilet.
graffiti_bridge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:34:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, last summer I lost my job, my house and my children. I read three Vonnegut novels right after.
I don't want to know where I could've ended up if I didn't disappear into those. Point is: me too, man, me too.
Mia_la ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:15:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
Mikav ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:29:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're thinking of Ice-nine.
eilatanz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's all kinds of other ice too! All the way up to XVI.
AAA1374 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:27:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also nearly the name of a pretty good metal band. Ice Nine Kills.
yoitsreid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvote for Kurt Vonnegut reference
Raistlini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently reading Cat's Cradle thanks to my girlfriend. So happy I got this reference.
meevis_kahuna ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:44:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Good EDIT: Cats Cradle reference
Lurking4Answers ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:24:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what Galapagos is in that context, but Ice IX is a real thing.
Hammedatha ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but the ice-nine palordrolap is referencing is almost certainly Vonnegut's ice nine from Cat's Cradle, which is stable at normal temperature and pressure (unlike the real ice IX) and causes all water it comes into contact with to form into ice nine by incorporating it into its crystal structure.
Lurking4Answers ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like an SCP object. Actually, I know for a fact that there's an SCP object like that. It's a quartz crystal that can only be contained with granite because everything else it touches becomes quartz. A very large number of people died containing it.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then it's probably based on the Vonnegut boom written forty years ago
Lurking4Answers ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, obviously.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I read your comment thinking you'd never heard of the book and thought it was recent or something
Lurking4Answers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happens.
Stacia_Asuna ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we're f***ed
Hammedatha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it goes.
_DeepThought_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:12:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're thinking of SCP-409. There's also SCP-009, Red Ice, which is almost exactly this.
Lurking4Answers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excellent work.
Pseudoboss11 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:32:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice-nine ice with a melting point at 114ยฐF (45ยฐC) and capable of freezing liquid water at or below 45C is not a real thing.
Ice IX is a real thing, it is a hydrogen-ordered version of Ice III. It's a lot like normal ice, except its molecules are ordered differently. There are 17 different varieties of ice, but they all melt at 0C and 1 ATM AFAIK.
Lurking4Answers ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice is cool.
Rodents210 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:10:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder which variety of ice Elsa used to hang that fucking chandelier from an ice-rod that was like an inch thick at most. Ice Ih probably doesn't have the tensile strength, and is probably way too brittle if there were ever a light breeze.
meevis_kahuna ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops I meant Cats Cradle. Isnt' that what you are referring to?
Lurking4Answers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
meevis_kahuna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you referring to?
Lurking4Answers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This.
foxyguy1101 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only recently did I realize that mad cow disease is cause by prions/ And I feel like Creudzfelt-Jakob is caused by them too.
Griffolion ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:47:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are correct in both Bovine Spongiform and Creudztfelt-Jakob are both prionic diseases.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that why you don't eat cows with mad cow disease? Prions?
lf11 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The best part about this is that our sterilization techniques are designed around disrupting DNA but notably not denaturing proteins. While many proteins are naturally denatured by the heat of sterilization, prions don't. And indeed, since prions are misfolded, the hydrophobic sections are exposed and they cling to steel.
What this means is that our sterilization procedures do pretty much nothing to stop prion contamination and subsequent infection.
Of course, if you really want a good time, look up "chronic wasting disease." That's a prion disease. Another fun fact about prion diseases is that most species have fairly similar PrP sequences. This means that a misfolded deer protein should be able to fairly readily infect a cow ... or a human. Of course there is "no evidence" that this happens but how much of that is simply because nobody has actually investigated it in a laboratory?
PhiIadelphia_Eagles ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:47:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this Mad Cow Disease? You eat an infected burger when you're 7, you live life normally, when you turn 50 or 60 or whatever, you get what appears to be Alzheimer's because the prions turned your brain into a sponge?
Saw a documentary on this. Fuck thay shit.
Spooferfish ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be earlier than that. And you die in months, usually 6-7, 2 years depending on the variant. There's no cure or treatment really. A diagnosis is a death sentence.
Princess_Little ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was the documentary call Boston Legal?
PhiIadelphia_Eagles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was a kid so idk
Princess_Little ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a show. It's funny, not a documentary.
bigjohnny82 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:50:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice copy and paste. At first I was like... this guy knows his shit! Then I looked it up and found this lol
SnackSac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was scrolling through to see if prions were mentioned and I wanted a solid way for people to know he didn't mean prisons. Google was my homeboy on that one!
finallyinfinite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:41:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mad cow disease.
I hear prions and immediately think of Going Bovine by Libba Bray. Awesome read; hilarious and deep all at once. Taught me a bit about mad cow.
dipique ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little biological robots. Scary shit.
chronicxyouth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this how cancer works?
Avcdo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No prions aren't alive. They're like viruses. But even smaller and they don't have dna or rna. So they can like, infect everything, and survive in the ground for years, and don't trigger an immune response.
dombeef ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And theres basically no cure, right? unlike cancer, they are just simple proteins, not anything that can really be detected by your immune system?
Avcdo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:52:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, your body won't notice them since they are your own proteins in a different form. But there are a few strategies that have been effective in nice to kill them. http://www.prionalliance.org/2014/02/04/what-are-the-potential-treatments-for-prion-disease/
anonymau5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. You can get it by picking your nose.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:45:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well fuck
481516 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how?
midri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if he's being funny, but prions can "survive" for an incredibly long time outside the body and require insane temperatures and/chemicals to destroy. They could be picked up by touch and your nose has a direct link to your brain.
Dronevil27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a reason that prion diseases are not more common if this is the case?
midri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an expert, but I'd guess it's just because it occurs incredibly rarely and society takes mad cow disease VERY seriously. All it takes is a hint (does not even have to actually exist) of it being in a meat plant to shut down and have the plant closed for months and completely cleaned.
iceman012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I first read about prions through Worm, and just assumed they were made up. Them actually existing is pretty scary (although I doubt they work as well as in that book)
LexiForNow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the record this is what causes mad cow disease.
LacksAgency ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are prions a life form? Why do they want to do that? It seems like an evolutionary cul-de-sac... but they exists... so they can't be...
lunartree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're not alive. They're accidental, crumpled proteins that when they encounter other proteins of a compatible type also crumple. Rather than life think of it like an isotope. It can make other things radioactive and deadly. Except unlike radiation it's really really hard to detect, and even the tiniest bit can become deadly over time.
pm_your_netflix_Queu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never understood how that worked. So they are just the same protein you have normally except it is arranged wrong? If so why would it cause other proteins to follow suit?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Aromir19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exceedingly small.
craftyj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nigh undetectable until it's too late as well.
borderwave2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also worth noting that Prions are neither alive nor dead, and the they can' t be killed or destroyed IIRC.
midri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're protein pairs, they can be destroyed. It's just really, really hard. We're talking hundreds of degrees of heat and/or hours in a 99% bleach solution
michaelmax98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
Prions (most well known example is Mad Cow Disease) are like the ultimate disease. No cure, and since the prions aren't actually alive, if an infected animal or person dies the prions are still there ready to take another victim. Only way to dispose of them is incinerate the carcasses, denaturing proteins. Absolutely terrifying.
Purple_Poison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of the reasons why cannibalism is not a good idea. You can get infected by prions from other humans.
OPs_Moms_Fuck_Toy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, you can totally kill the prions. You just heat them up until it denatures the protein. The tricky part is doing that without cooking the brain....
mgs4manj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this practically cancer...?
simcityrefund1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so prions is just like a normal protein that just folded itself incorrectly (randomly or controlled by the protein?)
midri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but their shape causes near by proteins to unfold the same as them.
jewboyfresh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what's cool?
Some African cannibal tribes that suffer from Kuru have developed a resistance against the pripn through a (most likely point)-mutation
PhysicsIsMyMistress ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a mistake gained consciousness and causes everything else to become mistakes.
THAT'S NOT HOW THINGS SHOULD WORK!
kook_on_the_wave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally just had a lecture on these yesterday, I thought I was noped out but then, the lecture on the Nazi's treatment of the Soviets I was just like .... This worlds fucked it :(
Two separate classes FYI.
gollyJE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I find them so terrifying because they aren't even alive. They're not cells or even viruses, just clusters of proteins. Infectious proteins. Literally inanimate objects that happen to cause a horrifying, fatal, incurable disease. There is no evolutionary reason for them to do this! It's like having a fucking rock that causes people to go insane and drop dead. And this rock turns other rocks it touches into deadly rocks.
Kinghero890 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend who is a doctor told me that if he wanted to destroy humanity he would try to make an airborne prion. Vaccines, antibiotics, and any other medicine would be useless.
LamborghiniJones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What on earth do we do to avoid such a horrid thing? It seems like it can be spread through meats?
37-pieces-of-flair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that last sentence in the voice of Gollum.
opalorchid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For anyone reading this who is unaware, chronic wasting disease, mad cow disease, scrapie, cjd (I can't spell the whole name, and fatal familial insomnia are all examples.
Last I heard, there were scientists who also speculated that Alzheimer's could be a prion disease........ Which essentially means looking for a cure is in vain.
notRYAN702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't Mad Cow a prion?
Forikorder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not really that infectious, since (iirc) theyre incapable of moving on there own so you have to do some pretty specific things to get ifnected
Nihht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What makes it for me is that prions aren't just another virus or bacteria or anything. They're not alive at all. You can't kill a protein. You can just destroy anything that may have come into contact with them and hope to god you got them all and they won't spread.
SamuraiKatz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Best example I can think of is mad cows disease for anyone curious
Knight12ify ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're also the plot of The Lost World by Michael Chrichton. It's a dinosaur book which was written to serve as a basis to the film sequel to Jurassic Park.
NoobsliceZA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically any neurodegenerative disease comes from prion and protein aggregation.
jrizos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? Are they alive or not?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Came here looking for this and found it."
Yeah we can see that.
ABlindMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So a sort of Ice 9 or Grey Goo of the brain? Awesome new nightmares, thanks.
ABlindMonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EDIT: Note to self: finish reading the other comments before posting.
EDIT: Use the edit button to edit. Also have brain checked for lesions.
FranklyDear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the beginning of X-Men so, uh, we're down.
Ninjavitis_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% lethal and incurable. Luckily it's not easy to catch since your digestive system will usually protect you.
Kitbixby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what happens when someone gets Mad Cow Disease
Waveseeker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If school taught us one thing, it's how to copy/paste google.
cottonthread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently some research has been done that shows it can be reversible - e.g. yeast could apparently cure itself of a certain type of prions under certain conditions.
It's possible that we could eventually find a way to reverse the effects or prevent the spread but that's probably a way off at the moment.
DeeJason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that cause by humans eating human flesh and brain?
utspg1980 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I initially read that as lesbians. O.o
zoicyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pretty easy to avoid tho - for the most part, 'don't eat brains' does the job just fine.
kaian-a-coel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Litterally protein zombies.
TheSchnozzberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are also immune to most forms of cleansing. You can't boil them, treat them with antivirals or antibiotics, bleach won't tear them apart, and stomach acid is useless if ingested. And once ingested it's just a matter of time.
Prions are the reason I'll eat anything but nervous tissue. And pickles. But not because of prions. Pickles are just nasty.
PinkyandzeBrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there research being done with the use of ultrasound as a possible effective therapy? I remember reading about using ultrasound to open the blood/brain barrier so medication can be brought in to fight the prion clumping.
ratpoison987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're not 'infectious' because they're not alive. They're somethings totally different.
They're not DNA, they're not RNA. Needless to say they don't even have a cell membrane. Simple proteins.
muff_cabbag3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really wish I wouldn't have read this. I have gone 20 years without having anxiety and all the sudden I have terrible anxiety, blurred vision, I still sleep okay but there's a constant pressure in my head now. Hypochondria taking over!
vitriolic_amalgamati ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:55 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was mad cow disease when i first heard about them. Fuck prions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:59 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.prionalliance.org/2014/02/04/what-are-the-potential-treatments-for-prion-disease/
Thankfully there's some promising research going on
uuuuuhhhh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:42:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read prisons too and thought this was a metaphor for an embarrassingly long time
CaptainObvious_1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but how the fuck is that the scariest thing in the world?
Nufity ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 02:12:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fooking prawns
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha, I'm so glad someone else thought of that as well.
pumpkinhead002 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean. That's what they look like. Right?
OldTrafford25 ยท 931 points ยท Posted at 01:24:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy Jesus, I am TERRIFIED of American prisons, let alone prisons across the world.
Edit: misread your post. Prions are scary too. But ya, prisons are still scary.
Thenightmancumeth ยท 1237 points ยท Posted at 02:12:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine having a cellmate with infectious prions while you are in prison for stealing a prius.
OldTrafford25 ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 02:18:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that wouldn't be a good time.
In fairness, if I went to jail for stealing a Prius I'd deserve to be there.
sohetellsme ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:43:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found your prius trying to vote for Ralph Nader.
ngwoo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:48:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Priuses have really good resale value
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jail =/= prison
AgonizingFury ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I stole a Prius, I wouldn't go to jail or prison. My local police department doesn't have a Prius so they would never catch me.
( For those who don't get it )
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:20:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And at lunch they play Primus
unholymackerel ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:39:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not live, pre-recorded
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:42:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shudder
unholymackerel ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
precisely!
johnnybeefcakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do they do prior to that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put Primus in a Prius but infect them with prions
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you promise?
carsausage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, that's not so bad.
tigercaviar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or a Scion
SoulOfAMachine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And all you get to eat are pringles
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not on my list of priorities.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Thenightmancumeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is great thanks man
XxThumbsMcGeexX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be a disastropri
PointAndClick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Printing priers prioritize privacy prior to pricing pristine prisms.
TylerLivingston ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Precisely
zizzor23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, you wouldn't really have to worry about his prion related disease unless you decided to eat him.
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as you don't eat their brain matter you'd be fine.
OG_Carrots_94562 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prior to my incarceration, I was a pious man.
sillEllis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Piousity prefers to pop up post prisoning.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and suffering from priapism...
adustbininshaftsbury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't call that suffering...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I bet you would. Boners are fun until they won't go away, the blood in your dick runs out of oxygen, and you get penile gangrene.
...unless that's your thing...
Titan7771 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From a principal living in Prineville.
HatchetToGather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you already have a prior.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too conceptual; 6/10 for effort
Elliot_Fox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My phobia.
ignore_my_typo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who had a prion conviction.
TheTurqmelon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the dude with prions has more to worry about. He's stuck with someone who tried to steal a Prius.
Minusguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would anybody steal a Prius
Strangedazefly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like what you did there
qwerto14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And all the cafeteria serves is prawns.
ImInSolitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you steal a prius
roost3rman27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man I chuckled at that one, thank you for that ๐
Choking_Smurf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suffering succotash
GwenTheWelshGal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be scared shitless if I was in that situation.
LaReddoux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine having a cellmate with infectious prions while you are in prison for
stealingdownloading a prius.whoamiamwho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine being sentenced to being a prion for the rest of your life. But since prions aren't really alive, I don't know what will happen.
Narconomenon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you steal a prius?
kernunnos77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if you stole a Prius, they'd never catch you and you've have fans all over the world cheering you on.
Source: Crackle commercial I saw 200 times in one sitting.
VicAceR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed.
an-ok-dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you steal my fucking prions!
Arthrawn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:00:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions in Prison
Zagubadu ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:49:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol out of all the countries you could pick to be afraid of their prison systems I think america shouldnt be your first choice.
opalorchid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:29:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Locked up abroad made me terrified to travel
neko_ceko ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:42:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really would be in at least top 5.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely not
Minnesota_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be kidding.
idkwat2dowithmyhands ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you know what the scariest part of American prisons is? The DEMENTORS
opalorchid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd take prison over prions any day
110011001100 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American prisons are heaven (except I guess Gitmo, thats just marginally better) compared to India,Russia and THailand
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Years ago when I visited Fark.com, there was a headline (and I don't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this): "When life has you down, just be thankful that you're not an inmate in the Brazilian prison system."
Context: There was a riot and one or more inmates were beheaded.
_angesaurus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, good. That's the point!
cephaswilco ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I JUST LEARNED ABOUT THESE EARLIRE TODAY, FREAKED ME OUT THEN, DOUBLY FREAKING ME OUT NOW!!!
The-Prophet-Muhammad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are now contaminated with Prions. Enjoy the remainder of your life!
Yoshi_IX ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 01:16:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those too lazy for a Google search, prions are like viruses that you immune system can't detect.
selectiverealist ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 02:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except way scarier. They can't be killed with boiling, ammonia, bleach, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde, or alcohol. The only way to kill them is to soak them in concentrated Lye for a few hours or blast them with pressurized steam at 134c or 273f for four hours. You only need a few to start the chain reaction of protein misfolding and once it starts there is no cure. You just keep losing brain function until you die a few months later.
chula198705 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:50:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not really killing the prion this way, since they're not really alive. You're denaturing the protein - basically just unfolding it.
selectiverealist ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:01:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very true. However, denaturing is a concept that some people might not be familiar with and killing something is. Since both denaturing and killing something render it inactive, I figured it would get the point across.
Dynamaxion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't there simpler ways to denature a protein? Prions denature the proteins in your brain pretty easily.
selectiverealist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions don't denature proteins, they cause them to refold. You would think it would be easier to denature them, but they are incredibly resilient little suckers.
Dynamaxion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well by causing a prion to refold wouldn't you neutralize it? Although from what I understand we don't know exactly how the infectious refolding works.
selectiverealist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm. That's an interesting idea. I don't know if we know why the person misfolds to begin with so it would be difficult to reverse the process. I believe it just acts as a template for other proteins. Maybe it's confirmation is more energetically favorable?
radicalelation ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:09:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, if I ever get infected, I soak every bit of myself in lye for a few hours. Gotcha.
selectiverealist ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:10:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, just make sure to crack open your skull first so the lye can get to all those brain prions. You'll be fine.
radicalelation ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, so just the brain? That's a relief. Soaking my whole body in lye sounds painful, but I think I can handle just the brain.
guyswtf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was 272f for 20 minutes. We've never dealt with prion contamination at my hospital so long as I've been there, but I'm pretty sure 20 minutes in the clave at 272 will kill everything.
selectiverealist ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:22:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe. I was just going off decontamination protocol from a single lab, so it's very possible I was mistaken and it is 272F for 20 minutes. In any case, they are hard to kill and terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are prions considered alive? Or are the misfolded proteins as alive as a virus, and thus, not.
Tittybananas ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, not alive. They're just proteins. I'd say their less alive than viruses.
selectiverealist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:55:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unlike viruses or bacteria, prions don't have DNA, they don't move on their own, and they don't consume energy. They act as a catalyst to make other proteins misfold and they can be transmitted from organism to organism. So technically they are not alive.
dbx99 ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 01:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you incinerate an infected animal? The prions are still there in the ashes and now they can get inside your body by simply being inhaled.
dankmernes ยท 127 points ยท Posted at 02:34:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at a picture of a prion? It's now misfolding proteins in your eyes.
Nackles ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, that's a weeping angel.
AS_A_VEGAN ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:50:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think too much about a prion? It is now misfolding your SOUL!
gostahennin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:53:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought about a prion the other day while doing my laundry, it's all misfolded now.
Pumpernickelfritz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll miss you sight, you were good to me. Time to throw these eyeballs in the trash.
spikeyfreak ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:02:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure proteins can't be absorbed through your lungs.
peoplerproblems ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 02:06:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure I don't want to find out.
dbx99 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:29:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No but some get into your throat and you swallow them.
Avcdo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:21:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human affecting ones can't. But I'm pretty sure like a deer could get chronic wasting disease by inhaling it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what the prions want you to think.
teh_maxh ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incineration can work. It just requires a more time and higher temperature than normally used.
Ardgarius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait isn't that bad since foot and mouth disease is prionic and didn't they burn all the cows?? I just know I'm not allowed to donate blood purely because I was in Britain during that time
girraween ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of that Itchy and Scratchy episode where scratchy cut up all the little itchys and then inhaled them all.
ShwangCat ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as pylons.
You must construct additional prions.
Eltotsira ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:10:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read that as cylons. We must not construct additional cylons
opalorchid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not? What's with the frakking prejudice? Cylons had lives and loved ones too <3
Eltotsira ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the frack jarked off in my coffee!
essieecks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have a plion.
AOEUD ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:52:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine if you genetically engineered the common cold to inject prions.
Avcdo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:21:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine if you genetically engineered prions to attack a cold virus.
doomneer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You can't naturally create a prion. That is why they are dangerous. They can only be made by mistake IIRC.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're contagious.
doomneer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah but only from prion-to-prion contact. A cell (ie. Bacteria) can't be genetically engineered to create them. I suppose you could put a prion into a bacterial cell and very quickly put that cell into a human, but it will kill the bacteria anyway and if you can do that, might as well forgo the bacteria entirely.
Cycleoflife ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK IS A PYRON!?!?
doomneer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My phone must have autocorrected it to pyron. I meant prion.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why can't it be genetically engineered to create them? I'm reasonably certain that prions are just a series of amino acids like any other protein. It arose twice on its own.
doomneer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm not mistaken (I'm a geneticist not a bioengineer) prions are special from other proteins because they are folded wrong. Some bizarre thing happened that caused the protein to not obay the laws that normally govern it. Because of this weird trait, they can't be consistently created without the presence of another prion.
Also, if the bacteria could produce prions, they are non-discriminant and kill by attrition, meaning that they will kill the bacteria before it spreads, effectively negating the need for the bacteria in the first place.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm suggesting a virus. Does that change things?
They're also slow acting. Would they kill the host too quickly?
doomneer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Again, they have to "happen" they can't be specifically created. Meaning bacteria, virus, or multicellular organisms can't create them naturally because they all rely on DNA.
Slow is relative. They take a long time in humans and animals because we have a LOT of cells to kill. Bacteria and viruses are (with rare exceptions) are single-cellular, so the prion will likely kill the cell before it reproduces. If it doesn't, both sister cells will have enough prions in them to kill them before they reproduce (if not, then the cycle repeats, my point is that the nature of how cells divide and prions work puts the chronological clock to work when the piron is first introduced).
So, the only way to have a piron in a virus is to monitor billions of individual cells and wait for one to eventually develop one (theoretically impossible) or to put the piron into the cell yourself.
Back to my original statement, if you have the resources to do that, you might as well just forgo the middle man and infect a person with a piron directly.
AOEUD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I understand it, only certain proteins can be prionified, and given that they're only found in CNS cells (that I'm aware of) I don't know if either a virus or bacteria would be destroyed by it.
To get the prion into the virus or bacteria, if you can't program them with DNA, could you program them to produce a redundant protein that can be prionified and then expose a culture to the prion?
B00zecakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I took a food micro class in college, and right before Halloween our professor showed us a documentary on Mad Cow/Bovine spongiform encephalopathy. After watching, he explained how that, in addition to being highly infectious, these prions are also very stable and can exist in the environment for extended periods of time and cannot be easily rendered inactive from incineration. I then asked him what would happen if these were to somehow contaminate food or water supplies... His response was "and that's when you hope your tax dollars are being put to good use to maintain proper waste disposal systems."
Oh, and you could be infected but not develop symptoms from many years later. Think about that - slowly getting killed by a burger you ate 4 years ago.
Scariest Halloween I've ever had.
wrinkledlion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously dude. Prions are the only thing stopping me from trying cannibalism. Scary stuff.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats pretty fucked up man.
Why you wanna eat someone else?
fatgirlsgive-RIMJOBS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some people ate me before.
wrinkledlion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll try anything once!
hezdokwow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:09:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you misspelled Prawns, I was bout to say dood district 9 is just a movie.
Dattosan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My biochem professor swears he could create a zombie(-like) outbreak by using prions.
evivelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ice-nine of proteins
Epicsteve69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They make prisons for that?
sweaty-pajamas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must construct additional prions.
eeeezypeezy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my favorite recent scifi novels, Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, has a really frightening sequence involving prions
RocketGirl83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatal familial insomnia is no laughing matter, fuck prions I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
Sherlock--Holmes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prion: "A person who drives a Prius extremely slow in the left lane along side another slow moving vehicle leaving a trail of rage and destruction in their wake."
brittont ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you eat copious amounts of human brains?
Happy_Laugh_Guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my whole thing about cannibals. Cannibals always get the shakes in movies. That only happens when you eat prions. Don't eat the brain, like you probably wouldn't IRL, and you can eat as many people as you want. Like, hello, serial killers and tribes in South America? No shakes.
philipquarles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why there aren't more movies using prions as a mcguffin. I mean 24 used them once, but imo they should be the cause of like every fourth zombie apocalypse, and the secret weapon of a similar fraction of doomsday cults.
KWITHI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions will fuck your shit up, and there's not a damn thing that can be done about it.
nutmegtell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My close family member died of 'mad cow disease' in the early 1990's. Scientists weren't sure if prions were even real then. It was a terrible way to go, at just 42.
DildoFire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chances of contracting prion disease like mad cow disease is 1 in 10 billion servings. You have a better chance of winning the jackpot in a lottery a few times than getting a prion disease.
brokenjill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a nurse on a neuro unit I had a patient with a prion disease. She went blind and deaf then went full blown crazy. It was terrifying to watch.
Fallthrough ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest part is that we still don't fully understand the mechanism. We all have cellular prions in our bodies and theoretically a single abnormal prion can initiate a conformational change. Even scarier we could all be carriers and that it's just a matter of time until symptoms develop. I've worked with infectious prions for 10 years now and my greatest fear is 20 years from now I gradually start to forget things. Then lose mobility and my ability to talk. Once the symptoms present, it's game over, dead within months. Upon death I've stipulated in my will for my brain, spinal and lymph nodes to be donated for screening.
RetlaOge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is how you know a benevolent God doesn't exist.
woah_dudee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
agreed with prisons, which are my worst nightmare. upvoted for prions, which are my new nightmare.
jared1981 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh, you see "We Are What We Are"?
It's on Netflix
gonesoon7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that if the human race ever sees a "zombie virus" like in the movies, it won't be a virus at all. It'll be a prion disease. A prion disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs that crave flesh so much they'll eat each other really isn't that far fetched... Shout out to The Return Man for being the first to plant that idea in my head, interesting book.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you I own a prion, thing drives like a dream and is good for the enviroment.
FolkDude ยท 5641 points ยท Posted at 01:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm gonna go with human trafficking. Could range from forced labor to forced prostitution. I mean...really think about it. REALLY think about walking down the street, minding your own business, and then you're kidnapped and sentenced to a life of being bought and sold for various forms of labor. Even worse, having it done or initiated by your own parents. shit, that's terrifying to me.
Edit: I'm glad to read so many opinions and insight on the matter. I do understand that "trafficking" is a pretty broad term. A lot of unfortunate folks tend to get lured in, rather than straight up kidnapped, which is even more terrifying, IMO. People the trust, or think they can trust.
dboyder222 ยท 567 points ยท Posted at 03:03:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I worry about this. What about children who are kidnapped and force into this shit?! There are some sick motherfuckers out there.
Taylor8675309 ยท 640 points ยท Posted at 07:24:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched a documentary on this today in my sociology class! Super fucking sad. Saw a 10 yo boy be reunited with his father after being kidnapped and forced to work in a rug factory for 3 years. The conditions were horrible. 5am-12am he spent on the loom, usually got about 2-3 hours of sleep. He slept and lived in the same room as his loom, and was very rarely allowed out, even to go to the bathroom. Leaving the factory/house itself was a huge no-no; another girl said they urinated on the roof to avoid leaving/being seen. Any fuck up resulted in a beating. He was scared not to work, and he was scared to work, because accidents were punished with violence. The kids were conditioned to be terrified of outsiders coming to the "house", and hid whenever strangers arrived. I saw a really young girl- maybe 5, screaming because she was afraid of the rescuers, who kept repeating who they were and what they were doing. Thankfully, the carpet factory got busted and all of the child slaves were either returned to their families or properly cared for. The little boy says he still has nightmares. It was an awful reality to be faced with, even just on a screen. FYI, this incident occurred in India. If you want to watch this documentary, it's called Slavery: A Global Investigation. Worth your time.
RiotShaven ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 09:33:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the suggestion, going to have to be in the right emotional/mental state when I watch that. Ever since I became an uncle it's like my mind automatically inserts my nephew and nieces into such stories and it makes it both much more real, heartbreaking and unbearable when I read about them.
Meowymeow88 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:32:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened to the slavers?
Taylor8675309 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 18:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They got about 18 kids out of there, but the actual guy running the show escaped. The mob only had like 1 real cop, and apparently they rarely want things to get violent bc the slavers could have guns.
herbshekelstien ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 11:04:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They got fake Syrian passports that list them as 12 year olds, and are currently in Germany attending school.
Timeyy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:59:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very funny m8, I never even heard of Indians among the current migration wave
SuperStalin ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 14:04:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the Balkans, I talked to some Pakistanis going to Germany
PsySick ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:26:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Syrian Indians? Wut.
bumlove ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is wrong with people?! How could you do that to someone, let alone a kid?
El_Camino_SS ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:47:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Money my friend. Why work when you can enslave others. This was how humanity ran for millenia. MILLENIA.
I think anyone in the slaves and human trafficking business deserves a death penalty.
A_favorite_rug ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:09:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. I suddenly am ashamed of my username. I hope someday nobody has to go through this evilness.
Raiquo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:50:32 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey now, don't feel bad. Not all rugs are made under detestable conditions. In fact, a good percentage of rugs are produced under wholesome conditions! Besides, slavery sweat shops are most often producing electronics or clothing (because, electronics = high markup, clothing = seconds per article to produce).
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, read sociology as scientology.
Polarbear53041 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who hurt children like that should die.
AsaTJ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad this happened in India. Our justice system in the West would have been too nice to them. Seriously, anyone who does something like that straight up deserves to get the shit beaten out of them, at a minimum.
cycle_schumacher ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:58:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
India isn't a lot better. Look up the gavit sisters. Killed upto nine toddlers by starvation, battering their heads after kidnapping them and are still contesting their death sentence in court after being arrested 15 years ago.
relevantusername- ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:53:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up the fucking magdalen (spelling?) laundries... Ireland's biggest shame.
Taylor8675309 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They really do, kidnapping followed by slavery should get punished by a lifetime of jail in a 3rd world country prison system. But it's actually unfortunate that the factory was busted in India. It's harder to get cops involved. The raid was conducted mostly by parents and other normal people. They had 2 cops max, but I'm pretty sure I only saw 1. Slavery's not very uncommon in places like this. It's horrible, but it gets overlooked by government. None of the poor villagers had guns, so they were afraid of getting heated with the slaver, since it was more likely for him to have a gun. In the end the guy got away.
nfmadprops04 ยท 127 points ยท Posted at 04:52:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This! I cannot wrap my mind around the psychology of ANYONE who is faced with the opportunity to, say, fuck an eight-year-old and goes, "Yeah sure that sounds awesome." How does your brain not just shatter and weep?
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Selective empathy and easy money can make people do some wild shit. Hitmen are just as fucked up really.
Pm_me_ur_croissant ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I would think hitmen are a lot saner. It's human instinct to kill stuff, but to harm a child?
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill stuff sure. All biological evidence points to us being communal and relatively peaceful towards each other though. But then we have this higher level cognitive functioning that allows to justify some pretty awful things. Hard pressed to say it's instinct though.
Pas__ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:09:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Communal, with the in-group. Tribes against each other usually weren't so ... communal.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is purely cultural/sociological, not instinctual.
Pas__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, it's very much biologically motivated. You share genes with your family, and the tribe is very much your extended family. Their survival is your survival. Everyone and everything else has questionable motives, as they don't share as many genes with you as your tribemates. Unknown parties could (and usually do) carry unknown infections, whereas you have usually the same immunity in-group.
Scarce resources and survival of the conservative and so on evolved us into this.
Of course nowadays a completely different mindset makes sense, hence we have to fight our biology.
PrivilegeCheckmate ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 11:13:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitmen in the movies don't kill kids. Real assassins do. When's the last time you read an article about a suicide bomber who decided to wait for the next bus because there were kids on the first one?
Pm_me_ur_croissant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know they kill indiscriminately, but they don't target children specifically.
bluesgrrlk8 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:28:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless they're paid to.
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tiny Tim has got to go.
brannana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I mean 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' wasn't a great song, but worthy of murder?
Pm_me_ur_croissant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they do so for money. Not because they take a perverse pleasure in the harming of a child
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to know how much he's being payed to commit suicide.
PrimaxAUS ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
These kinds of people have never really received much in the way of human kindness, so they don't understand it.
Or they're just born fucked up.
Edit: I can't speel.
gravitoid ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 09:29:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why you're really downvoted. It's obvious you meant to say "in the way" not "in the east". You must be on mobile and it corrected to "east" instead of "way". Unfortunate, because it makes you look kind of racist against Asians just for a silly spelling mistake
poopin-poni ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:10:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good guy for explaining this to other redditors!
Oolonger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:25:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was clearly autocorrect, and not them being an aunt.
nothinggoldcanstay ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:50:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's important to understand that no one can choose the genes or the upbringing that they are given. Certain events in a persons life, and certain genetic factors (hormones, brain function etc) could lead a person down these paths.
This is not to say that they are blameless, rather that we should hope to better society by providing understanding and support to reduce the number of pedophilia cases.
maimonguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are you really defending pedophiles? I understand completely what your saying but come the fuck on...
nothinggoldcanstay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:06:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you understand what I am saying, then you could replace pedophilia with any other human condition. No one chooses to be a pedophile, much more than they chose the colour of their skin. They do however, choose whether or not they will act on their desires, and that is indefensible.
I do oppose any action that could ruin another persons life, and society must learn how to help those who are inclined to this behaviour, and those who cannot recover must be removed from society.
It is unfair to shame someone for being mentally ill, and further pushing them down a dark and lonely road, where in some cases, these people could be helped and potentially changed.
maimonguy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:14:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You may be in the right here,but I think they should supress their thoughts and the moment they actually abuse a child they're unredeamable.
I'm attracted to women, I'm pretty mich default sexually but I would never rape, not even talking about abusing a child.
nothinggoldcanstay ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should absolutely 100% go through the motions of psychological help as soon as "those" thoughts occur, but society needs to rid itself of the flat out hatred. I would like to think that if people became more aware and tried to humanise (rather than demonise) these people, that more of them would seek help before they did something unforgivable.
It's just a really shitty thing that exists.
maimonguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:27:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely agree, I like the fact we live in an age we can have these types of conversations.
DulceyDooner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:29 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A very large proportion of child abusers were abused as children. Most normal people can't imagine it, but most normal people were not victims of the unimaginable either.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And i dont understand how pedophilia and child porn is on the rise as well. Sick fucks. Fuck Jared from subway and fuck that dude from Glee
pelvicmomentum ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:47:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's because the population is on the rise
gravitoid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:32:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Valid point. Things get more coverage today than any decade before this and there's just more people, so statistically it's bound to be noticed more than previously.
Heathen92 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of like how violence and homicide is statistically lower than ever, but people feel less safe?
gravitoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:11:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait for it.....pedo apologia in 3...2...1...quicker than you can say ephebophile.
Kinda1OfAKind ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 08:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think children that have parents that KNOWINGLY sell them into this kind of shit is way way worse than being kidnapped. Like, if your kidnapped you would think you would at least have people trying to find you...
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember fallout having two small small story line quests about this subject. Both of which got me interested in being more aware about this.
A companion you travel with talks about how her parents abused her and sold her when she was old enough to be sold. Then she bought herself out and can right home to face her parents. When she got there. She kill her parents.
You find a kid who's been trapped for centuries in a roasted fridge. He has turned into a ghoul. Which made good slaves. A man walks up and asks to buy the kid. You are able to choose to sell him or tell the dude to fuck off. You can guess which one I chose.
ViolentWrath ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's sister in law had something similar happen to her. She disappeared several years ago after coming home from work. No sign of forced entry, cell phone on the counter, but she just vanished one night. They spent 2 years looking for her, questioning the husband, close family, anybody that would have been able to easily enter the residence but got nothing to go on.
After 2 years of investigation turning up absolutely nothing someone finally finds her remains in their creek bed. 25 miles from her home. The remains were pretty well decayed. To this day the cause of death and murderer are still undetermined. One night in August of 2011 she just disappears and is found dead 2 years later and was likely killed close to the time of her disappearance.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Jowobo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think in Shantaram it's even described how some parents who lived in the slums considered selling off their kid a good deal for that kid too. After all, they'd at least be alive.
bluesgrrlk8 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:33:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, the slavers know what to say to a heartbroken parent to assuage their guilt. I saw a story about a boy whose parents were told it was a special work experience scholarship program or something to get them to agree.
Jowobo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely. I can see how in a desperate situation the whole "It may be hard work, but they'll be alive and out of the slums!" spiel may sound very believable.
A_favorite_rug ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To have such a bad roll in life so bad, that having you're kids as slaves becomes a good thing. That's beyond tragic.
CrookCook ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly much to be alive for
CupcakesAreTasty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to lie: this is my absolute biggest fear when it comes to my child. I live in an American city where there have been a record number of human trafficking cases lately, and just the other day a man was convicted of trafficking young and teenage girls and pimping them out.
It terrifies me.
MagicJohnsonPSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't go to Japan then
yarow12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:44 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is now a bad time to mention how a Redditor lost his virginity when he was 9 years-old?
[deleted] ยท -28 points ยท Posted at 06:57:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:28:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can tell by your username you don't get out much, do you
Microthrowaway64 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got it man, thats the thing that got me with Taken. Its not the pretty brunette whos father goes to the ends of the earth to save her, its the blonde friend who ended up drugged/dead at the whore house half way through the movie... thats life, not Liam Neeson.
[deleted] ยท 250 points ยท Posted at 02:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that depends on who you are and where you live. The plot from Taken isn't exactly realistic. A missing Westerner with a flipping out family would just raise too much attention.
Typical victims of human trafficking are from poor countries and weren't abducted but lured in with false promises. The victims get shipped to a foreign country, have their passports taken away and are being threatened by their captors. At that point they don't really see a chance to flee anymore, but it's a different kind of slavery than in the 18th century USA or ancient Rome. Equally fucked up, but different.
mascaradilema ยท 233 points ยท Posted at 03:05:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Many people believe human trafficking in the United States doesn't exist and is in just poorer countries but it does...Where I live, which is Ohio, there is a big trafficking issue. Yes it is typical in poorer countries but it is also an issue in the states and is more common than you believe.
pokemaugn ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 03:30:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also in Ohio! They've been bringing a lot of attention to it on the news lately by speaking to victims
mascaradilema ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 03:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mid-Ohio here, although I'm not from this area I know it is extremely common in Toledo and big at truck stops, especially with underage girls.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mascaradilema ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 05:11:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It being a transit town is most likely why trafficking exist there I believe. I remember a trucker who was going through Toledo reported that there were underage workers at a certain truck stop there, they had to be less than 15. He ended up helping uncover this huge ring that spanned quite a few states I believe.
[deleted] ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 04:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cartels are probably entrenched in American government. The brother of the head of the Zetas cartel lived freely in Dallas for years.
monty845 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:18:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being the sibling of a wanted criminal isn't itself a crime, so this shouldn't be that surprising. They need evidence this brother was also a criminal, rule of law and all...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Listen to those warnings. Mexico is a dangerous place, I use to live there
scinfeced2wolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:01:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cartels are worse than isis, they will cut the throat of everyone you have ever met in front of you and leave you die tied to a tree in the dessert.
bluesgrrlk8 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oooh, that doesn't sound too bad..especially if it's cheesecake!
scinfeced2wolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:37:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Desert, English is hard.
nfmadprops04 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This exactly. I'm a teeny blonde white girl and there are so many countries I can't even visit, let alone drive through.
DolphinSweater ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 07:04:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you've been watching too much Fox news. I've been to around 40 countries and I've probably met teeny blonde white girls traveling through all of them. I mean, don't go driving through Syria at the moment, but plenty of girls travel (even alone) to places like India, South America, and SE Asia and come back un-kidnapped.
Soarinc ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 07:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try, human trafficker.
DolphinSweater ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:02:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shhhhh, dude. Be cool, damn.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:20:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at the statistics you (I assume you're American) are already in a not too safe country. The Global Peace Index is a bit skewed for the purpose of determining how likely you'll be a victim of a crime and the US would rank significantly better if the military part wasn't included, but there are countless countries that by now offer similar levels of security as the US or Western Europe. E.g. the Eastern European states in the European Union may already be as safe or safer than most Western countries. The same goes for a select few of South American and African countries.
Basically, if you're careful you can go to most countries. And traffic (some countries have really deathly roads), diseases and accidents are much more likely to kill you than crime. It's like that in pretty much every country.
pillsanddiamonds ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Ohio too, I was told Dayton was the absolute worst city for human trafficking.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BeaversandDucks2015 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where in Ohio? Let me move away from here. Edit: here being Ohio. I'm over it.
mascaradilema ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:23:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is over Ohio.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:36:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought Ohio was for lovers...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:09:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently lovers of little kids
youngbuck95 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Estimated 17,500 are trafficked into America yearly. Check out End It Movement of you want to get involved in bringing an end to it. The money they raise goes directly to other organizations that are out in the field helping rescues women, men, and kids.
Edit: they have a list of organizations that they help. All are fighting human trafficking. Their website is a great resource.
PixieScience ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:11:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
http://www.rawlinstimes.com/news/2016/01/two-women-rescued-from-alleged-human-traffickers/
This just happened in January. Two girls were rescued from a Shell station in Wyoming. They had been picked up in Philadelphia and were being transported to California. Apparently the girls were offered jobs and a ride out west, but when they agreed and got into the car, the situation turned threatening. Thank goodness they were rescued. I can't imagine how scary that must have been.
Soarinc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a real site or like theonion? (parody site?)
PixieScience ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you browse their site, it looks like the local paper for Rawlins, Wyo., a small town apparently named after a Civil War general, General John Aaron Rawlins. The story didn't make national news, but it appears on NBC and Fox News websites. The articles reference the Rawlins Times article.
NBC Philadelphia http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Human-Trafficking-Wyomong-Philadelphia-California--365082631.html
Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/12/women-rescued-from-human-traffickers-in-wyo-after-one-mouthed-help-me-to-cops.html
If you feel the story is inaccurate, though, I'm happy to remove it. It's not my intention to spread misinformation.
FolkDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! See this bugs the shit out of me as well. I'm under the impression that many of us feel that trafficking is a "poor country" thing, but it's fucking not. Like the dude above mentioned: folks being lured in with false promises. I'm thinking border crossing. Yeah, come work for me in America. You can feed your family and I will help you all become citizens. Drives me nuts. And of course, only hundreds of other examples. Ughhg.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does absolutely exist. The victims are just very unlikely to be upper or middle class white people. Think of the effort police take when they think a child has been abducted. That something a criminal organization would want to prevent at all cost. Their targets are people who've already fallen through the cracks of the system. Illegal Aliens, maybe junkies.
Abusing the weak is sadly something humans do very often.
__rosebud__ ยท 131 points ยท Posted at 02:55:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also happens a lot in the States. Major cities like Boston especially. The most common story is pre-teen girls who run away from an abusive home, only for an older man or woman to promise to take care of them. Instead, they are given drugs and sold to men for sex. After a while they're so addicted to the drugs they can't (or don't even want to) escape.
nfmadprops04 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:50:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not even for money. There's always going to be another Jaycee Dugard or Michelle McKnight.
kingwi11 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry but Boston?
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:28:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every major city and particularly the ones with ports
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mascaradilema ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:22:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they were trying to point out that it exists everywhere and is a lot more common than people think.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mascaradilema ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's deleted.
I think it may have been how you started your sentence and the fact that human trafficking isn't a pissing contest. It happens everywhere. Where it happens thats where the problem is. The fact that you stated that the numbers are negligible because the numbers are less than those of other countries is still wrong to say. You can't minimize a crime like this.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:33:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm done with reddit.
You guys seriously don't get it. All countries are affected by this, but in different ways. I've said it since the get go. Developed nations are the buyers and poorer nations are the origin of the trafficked people.
Don't believe me? Go do a quick search on google, or better yet look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking#/media/File:Trafficking_of_women,_children_and_men.png
But whatever, who needs logic or facts? Fuck it, it's the way reddit does it.
mascaradilema ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, there are many buyers in the United States, no one was arguing with you about this, people were just upset because you minimized the crimes being committed here. We get it but it seems like you still don't.
https://polarisproject.org/sex-trafficking
We hope you enjoyed your stay.
Tuckboi ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres a lot trafficking happening in the states. I personally know someone who was brought into that world.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fact. You don't need to convince him. If anyone doesn't believe this they're a fucking moron.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people are TRAFFICKED to the States. The amount of people enslaved in the country is negligible in comparison to other countries. I miss explained my stance, sorry.
And it's her not him.
VivatRegina ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:18:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one is saying it doesn't happen in poorer countries, they're just pointing out that it ALSO happens in developed countries. It's not unique to poor, third world situations. The methods are different but its still horrific.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Torch_Salesman ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snoop Dogg glorifies kidnapping people and coercing them into sex acts with strangers through serious drug addiction?
I guess I listening to Doggystyle, but I wasn't really hearing it, you know?
Elrokk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we get a quote on this from his lyrics?
Reddit_cctx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for real this guy goes out there and makes this incredibly bold claim and doesn't have any proof to back it up at all lets see some proof
junkit33 ยท -44 points ยท Posted at 03:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Running away from home and being seduced is a monumental difference from being snagged off the street.
By and large, the stuff of nightmares does not happen in US cities.
ucbiker ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 04:19:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would think that children being seduced, addicted to drugs, and then forced into prostitution is pretty much a thing of a nightmares.
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 04:33:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not your normal seduction. If you read up on what happens to girls. Lots of times they'll meet a "perfectly respectable" guy that promises to take care of them. Then they runaway to him and they get locked in a room 24hrs a day and are raped by multiple men throughout the course of the day. Sometimes they willing start doing addictive drugs but sometimes it's forced.
NanoEuclidean ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 04:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is not even close to accurate.
MrBojangoUnchained ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 04:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL being manipulated into drug dependent prostitution isn't the stuff of nightmares.
Knobull ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 04:39:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
And it's not just clandestine criminal organizations that do this. Governments do it too. Qatar is known for this shit, they use slave labour from South Asia primarily and work them to death. The football world cup of 2022 is supposed to be in Qatar and there are reports that the stadiums are being built by such slave labour and there will be thousands of deaths before they're completed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYXgMigfpo (there are many more videos like this one, just search on youtube for Qatar World Cup)
And yet no country takes action about this. No-one in power talks about this. The UN doesn't do anything (big surprise), but I guess I shouldn't be surprised with that since they consider Saudi Arabia as the leader of human rights.
RtardedPelican ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:03 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrol dollars buy the silence...they should all be gased for shit they are doing over there.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:52:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im someone from the UK, someone from my school ran away from home and was almost led into trafficking by an older man. Nationwide search by the Police and she was found in Scotland. Surreal shit.
TalentlessBiscuit ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:46:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Them and children basically anywhere, really gets to me if I think too much about how many kids are in Walmart with their mom and suddenly are taken to be shot up with heroin and raped for years until they die at 10-20 painfully and with little to no love or joy in their lives :(
caffeine_lights ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:27:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many kids are snatched from Walmart or similar every year? Do you have a stat?
I don't think trafficking only happens in poor countries. But I think it's scaremongering to say that 'so many' kids are taken from a location like this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always been told that stores are one of the riskier places for abductions (but most abductions being more the family-member-who-lost-custody variety than the sell-into-sex-slavery variety). The parents are distracted getting whatever items they're shopping for, and if the kid is a little older than like 4 or 5 the parent doesn't immediately freak out when they're out of sight but just assumes they wandered a little bit but are still somewhere nearby, so the kidnapper has more time to get away before anybody realizes anything is wrong.
I'm not sure if I put this in the category of things I've always been told that are actually true, or just something that got blown way out of proportion. Even if I found out that it was completely false, I think I've had this drilled into my head so much that I'm still going to be a little paranoid about keeping my kids in sight any time I'm in public.
caffeine_lights ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:42:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm sure there must be some kind of stat for where children are abducted. And how often it actually happens. The store theory seems implausible to me since so many large stores like that have security guards and/or CCTV to deter shoplifters. I wonder if it's anything to do with the Jamie Bulger case (Warning: NSFL) since that image of him walking away so innocently with the two boys is so horrifying and etched in peoples' consciousness.
mascaradilema ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it happens frequently, I think it's because of code Adam that makes people think it's a common occurrence.
HyruleanHero1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had never heard of James Bulger. That was a horrifying read...
caffeine_lights ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I'm sorry. I'll go back and put a NSFL warning on it. It's so well known in the UK I assumed it was heard of elsewhere but perhaps not.
HyruleanHero1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No need to put a warning, it's just that the Wikipedia article is really thorough and upsetting. That poor kid...
caffeine_lights ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is. It's such a horrifying case, though. It's kind of hard to imagine what they could leave out to make it less horrifying. The bare facts are bad enough.
TalentlessBiscuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So many meaning too many, I don't have a statistic but there are are multiple different occasions I've heard of it happening. That and children being taken during vacations, being out and about in an unfamiliar place, those horror stories of kids being taken and used to smuggle drugs over the border, etc. More absolutely come from poor countries, with promises of a better life, being traded by their own parents for money, or whatever it may be. Regardless of where the kids (or adults, anyone really) come from, it's tragic and very scary to think about how it just happens and they're meant to suffer for years because other people don't care and buy the "services."
caffeine_lights ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I totally agree with you there.
B000B000 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:40:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This terrifies me.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:13:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why are you arguing that this would be somehow less traumatic for a non-western person?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not. I'm just saying that the mostly Western people on reddit don't need to worry about being kidnapped on a vacation in Paris.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:34:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In midst of the storytime epidemic on YouTube, theres a girl who has a video how she was lead into hanging out with older girls then lead to trafficking. She talk about how what she went through and warns young girls or the warning signs. I forget her name. But if I see the video again ill link it. Its a must see for any teen girl. It can happen to anyone. This is a sick world we sometimes
EarthExile ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:06:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vice news did an episode on fertility clinics in India. The lower-end places aren't subject to regulations and apparently implant multiple fetuses per woman, so they'll definitely have the babies they promised the customer. But they wind up with extra babies and sell them for cash, no questions or paperwork.
There are a lot of people out there that aren't on the books. Who knows what they're used for?
PhAnToM444 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:30:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happens everywhere. People from the US are sold for sex way more than you probably think. Thousands and thousands every day.
ddrober2003 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:47:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Richer countries like the US, Japan, etc. still have people targeted, but its, not surprisingly, the ones most vulnerable. Like someone else wrote, you have those from broken abusive homes, you also have girls(at least for sex trafficking usually) from rural areas who're also lured away with false promises and a chance to escape life from the countryside. At least its what I've learned in class. Most come from poorer countries as there's less risk but they also take into account the "tastes" of their rapists err clients.
But yeah, not many and going to grab two teenage western girls in Paris when they can get attractive white girls from the Romanian countryside without as much of the risk,
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:29:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happens in every developed nation too. There is a story said here in every one of these threads of a girl being kidnapped off a cruise ship, that doesn't sound very poor to me. Lots of cruise ships actually do role calls before they even dock to help curb this problem.
cbsmalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I've never been on a cruise and had no idea about this. Do they do the same before they leave? Just curious
connorcam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley
FolkDude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:35:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree 100%
nefhar ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not slavery. The foreign sex workers don't want to return home. They could just tell the police or law agency or call home but don't want to risk deportation. It is a form of economic immigration for women..like the migrants to Germany. And has been highly effective getting into Canada with very bad outcomes for Canadian women and society.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:44:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a bit too much of a generalization. Yes, some stay out of their free will, but many don't. If you're from a country where the police is generally corrupt you're much less likely to turn to them. You're also not going to leave if your captors threaten to kill your family back home or if you're afraid of being cursed.
nefhar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are not children being snatched from their mothers and taken to a Calcutta dungeon. These women know what they are getting into when they come to Canada. This is happening across the globe and a lot of countries have had to change their laws because of it.
WeirdWest ยท 905 points ยท Posted at 02:13:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down to see this. Fucking horrifying what some people will put others through.
gianniks ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 02:26:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Money man. Makes the best things in the world possible, but can also being out the worst in people.
greentoof ยท 126 points ยท Posted at 04:12:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Money is just the math we have to do to co-operate with eachother. Millions on lives can be broken down to the number they spend on food each day. Its the math we do that lets us live in our shelters, have our possessions, and can break down every human accomplishment. The moon landing took 25.4 billion units. The statue of liberty was 250,000 units. the roof over my head is 550 units each month.
The evil part is people trying to cheat the math, the numbers are completely neutral, it is us and our actions. Not only evil, we have need, and in a world where everything requires it, there sure is a lot of need.
Seakawn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:21:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. Money isn't bad, it's neutral. If you're bad, you'll do do bad things for money.
More mental health facilities need to be accessible and normalized, and education needs to keep reforming.
FuckDeeper ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 07:29:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's rubbish. Money is zero sum. As a society, if there are a few greedy, control hungry sociopaths in charge of the monetary system, they can enrich themselves at the expense of others in that society through corrupt methods. As artificial scarcity envelopes the society, the people get desperate and end up turning to crime sometimes just to stay alive.
Think about how western society is structured. The central banks own the government, which is constantly trying to pay off its debt with interest. This causes ever rising taxes and spending cuts, lowering the quality of life for its citizens and causing future generations to be laden with debt, like selling our children into servitude, whether we like it or not. To think money is just a neutral number and not a tool for control is very very naive.
greentoof ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:27:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats an outcome of the system, is started at much simpler roots. It wasn't always so powerful, its incredibly new levels in todays age. The mechanism is obviously long broken, and the numbers have gotten much too large for us, much too fast. Like I said that math has to be done EVERY day for billions of people's lives, just to get them to the next.
The reality of possessions themselves have always made it that there are kings, and peasants. Its just that there was always a hope for the ones at the top to spread it out.
fraac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human nature says they won't unless you make them.
greentoof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya, but sooner or later our nature is going to adapt to the fact there isn't really any world left to explore. And the rich are caged in here with the poor.
Unless that whole "The meek will inherit the earth" means they're gonna fly out of here and leave us on this rock.
fraac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at the reactions to refugees. There will be another world war before the rich willingly spread the wealth.
greentoof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War is just us fighting over the cage, hopefully the poor don't continuously kill the poor, usually enough bloodshed in the right direction actually lets revolutions happen.
There is one more way in human nature that has a chance to right this. Those who rebel from the poor sometimes do spread the wealth without being forced. Its just as of recent the "poor" have been given all their animilistic needs and a little more. You could drown out your entire life with a crap job, media and the many goods available to even small sums of money. Turns out Heroes who stand up because of justice and righteousness are the rarest ones, or don't even exist, usually it only happens because they have to fight to change their terrible lives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
greentoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh ya if you trace back where the actual value comes from today it gets pretty damn dirty. Haha, remember that whacky time when it was gold?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the same argument that is made by those who claim that guns don't kill people, rather people kill people.
And sure, the tool is independent to the user, up to a point. But greed is universal, so having a tool around that rewards greed is probably not the best idea.
Not saying that I have a better idea. Obviously money is the best we've got. But just saying that money is just the math really misses the point.
I_AM_VERY_SMRT ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't miss the point.
It is a reality that there is a scarcity of goods and services in the world. Money is a medium of exchange of said goods and services. No more no less. No evil.
greentoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No guns are crafted for a purpose, money only suggest possibility. There are systems on top of the concept that ruin it sure.
easygo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You pay 550 for rent? So affordable. Where do you live
greentoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Canada, limited time Student housing situation, 10 grand a year in tuition makes the 550 not the problem.
gRRacc ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people wouldn't put another person through that for any reason. Money isn't causing it.
IWantAnAffliction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not entirely sure you understand what money actually is if you think it
Sensei8 ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 03:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and pussy makes the money go round, unfortunately
pokemaugn ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Penis, you mean? How often to you hear about women buying prostitutes? Men are the market. If men didn't feel the need to fuck anything and everything 24/7 sex trafficking would be non existent
Tysonzero ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:03:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But in this context it makes more sense to say "pussy". Seeing as when people are saying that evil is caused by money, they aren't talking about the 10 dollar bill's desire to fuck shit up.
It's people's DESIRE for money, and people's DESIRE for pussy, that caused all of this.
The person saying "pussy" is not blaming women, they are just saying that the DESIRE for pussy causes a lot of really fucking big problems.
Lucifaux ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:02:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly a rational and level headed response.
fgdadfgfdgadf ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If pussy didn't exist, sex trafficking wouldn't exist
flyingpigmonkey ยท -20 points ยท Posted at 03:41:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to assume you're one of the men hating "feminist" types that think men shouldn't exist.
metralo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:37:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he's not wrong.
leblackrose ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:57:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bothered to look through the comments of pokemaugn, one of the extremists unfortunately
Sensei8 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they do though. That's truth. Can't suppress your feelings. Does that make em evil?
green_speak ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:58:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm wincing really hard just thinking that kids have been forcibly amputated to look sadder when they're begging just to bring in more money to their abusers. These sick fucks not only exploit the impoverished but the good intentions of other people.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:50:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went to the Philippines last November and saw poverty on a level that I'm just not used to seeing in America. I've seen homeless out in Phoenix and San Francisco and thought that was bad but this was different. Then I was told that a lot of the homeless kids are organized into gangs. If you give them money, it goes to some criminal organization and used for whatever nefarious means they use it for. If the kids don't hit the quota they are punished with starvation and beatings.
I still struggle to come to grips with it emotionally. Perhaps I'm just naive, but I just kept thinking what kind of shit existence are these kids are born into and have no chance of ever escaping?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the reason it is so far down is slavery as a concept is something people understand rather well and has been part of history forever. Bacteria that eat your eyeballs is new.
karadan100 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For money.
clancy6969 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:22:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that is way worse than being devoured alive by a great white shark.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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WeirdWest ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:58:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well no. Not that global nuclear war isn't pants shittinfly scary, if it were to happen. But this is currently a horrendous reality for thousands of people around the world...like right now.
40Koalas ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:01:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This almost happened to my mum a few times when she was young. No matter how careful you are, it only takes one moment of venerability for all your shit to be fucked up.
Salt-Pile ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:19:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*vulnerability.
Venerability = old age.
Arelien ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:49:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/venerable
I had to double check but no, venerable doesn't mean "old age" it means something/one who is worthy of great respect because of wisdom, holiness or being great. This often goes with age, but it doesn't mean age of itself.
Salt-Pile ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:49:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, TIL. I wonder what the term is for words that come to be linked in people's minds with other qualities associated with them. Other examples might include "nubile" and "decadent".
Toastalicious_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:30:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, some people are into that.
[deleted] ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 03:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is the worst in my opinion. even if you escape you can't recover mentally and physically. you've probably been pissed on. you are riddled with STDs. can't see how you could return to society. or your organs are farmed while you're alive.
qu1ckbeam ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Attitudes like this don't exactly help.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:38:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain?
Dracili ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 06:04:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he was pointing out that the main reason victims have trouble re-establishing themselves in society has to do with the social stigmas surrounding then. Like people thinking they are "broken" after their experience. Qu1cjbeam just didn't put it into words.
qu1ckbeam ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*she
"They" works as a catch-all, if you're unsure.
Dracili ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:03:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair, my bad.
HowTheyGetcha ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:44:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/there-are-more-slaves-today-any-time-human-history
14 million in India alone, or 1% of their population.
steiner_math ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:24:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That study also used a real loose definition of slavery (by their definition, if you work for money that you need to survive, you are a slave). That and there are far more people alive now than in any point of history. So there's more of everything now. Percentage wise, we are at an all time low.
booty_pictures_pls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:32:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a slave to The Man
HowTheyGetcha ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hadn't read the study, thanks. Do you know where I can find it?
rynoooo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:41:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
relevant user name
shenanigins ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:00:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had stories about the dark web, human trafficking and those red rooms (torture chat room type things). That place makes me nauseous it's so fucked up.
steiner_math ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:23:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You will be happy to know that red rooms are 100% urban legend and there is no evidence of them ever existing. That and anyone who has spent 5 minutes on the deep web can tell you that there is 0% chance of getting a live streaming video working. It's way too slow. Think 1995 dialup slow, then slow it down another 50%.
There are a ton of creepypastas involving them, but they are works of fiction
psychedelique ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:48:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i get what you're saying, and probably that's all true. i used to browse the deep web and even those simple html only sites load in like 30 seconds.
but think about it like this. there were 7 billion people on earth last time i checked. do you really think that there aren't persons out there that fucked up in the head to watch that kind of stuff? every single thing that you can think about, even if it's mildly fucked up, or completely fucked up, or not fucked up at all, was already done, or was already thought/discussed by several others.
steiner_math ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, there's no doubt there's fucked up people that would watch, but there's technological reasons why they don't exist. Another reason is that the plugins used for viewing live feeds would open up exploits that could be used to track where it was broadcasting from.
I used to spend a lot of time on the deep web. Most of the stuff you read about it are either hoaxes or fake websites.
LuminousRabbit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:52:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. I need this sort of talking down every time I read something horrific. Now please tell me Guantanamo Bay never happened. Please.
*edit stupid autocorrect.
mimi_jean ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gitmo's still kicking, friend. I'm not sure why we aren't releasing them or at the very least looking over their case files yet...
nomnomnompizza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:24:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume red rooms are supposedly something similar to the movie Hostel?
ACAFWD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. The Onion format is great for anonymity but it has shitty ping and bandwidth.
shenanigins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god, that is a huge relief. Makes my stomach churn just thinking about people being willing to organize one.
DeaconNuno ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something few people pay nearly enough attention to.
So, while we're momentarily focusing on it, I'd like to ask that you all consider donating to Operation Underground Railroad. They set up stings to actually rescue children who have been kidnapped and sold into sex slavery.
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE THE GODDAMN HEROES OF EARTH.
benenke ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a story about a girl, down on her luck, who fell in love with a man who encouraged her, cared for her, and supported her.
Five years pass, and he asks her to move with him to another country. Of course she obliges.
Once there, her identity is stripped from her, she's thrust out onto the streets, and is held at gunpoint saying that if she tries to run, he'll kill her family.
Five years
Why this isn't talked about more is absolutely beyond me.
nfmadprops04 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a woman who went missing while on a cruise with her family. Her picture's been popping up since then on various foreign websites advertising prostitution, and an American soldier says he saw her in a brothel and she begged him to help her escape. I can't imagine :(
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley
Nurfur ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:16:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Next thing you know, it's 15 years later and you fall out of a suitcase on the roof of some random apartment building
Charles_K ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Laugh and the world laughs with you...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a clean and safe midwest city. Some people were arrested a while back for human trafficking and keeping victims here working. It's creepy to think I may have walked by one of the victims and didn't take any notice of it.
Gotarsenic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of puts the crap I complain about in perspective. Next time I don't get my 1-2 hours of "me-time" in a day, I'm going to not bitch about it.
e5c4p3artist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. This is absolutely it right here.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend keeps telling me about how women are kidnapped in China and sold to people trying to get wives for their sons in poor areas of the country. The areas where they kill their daughters because they don't see any value in them. The local government overlooks this because ??? and it's to the point where pointing out that this goes on can get you in trouble because they government doesn't want to deal with the unrest caused by their inaction.
The depths people are willing to go to to create problems and then "solve" them never ceases to amaze me.
evlbuxmbetty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! My first thought was "human nature", and you said it! The fact that [some] humans get off on the pain and suffering of others is disturbing. I just finished watching Cartel Land and they were describing the things the Cartel did to a group of people who worked for a man who couldn't pay them... horrifying.
sarasublimely ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I'm fat. Try kidnapping me. Just try it.
No, I'm kidding. I'm just really lazy. Please don't kidnap me, I don't think I'd like it.
davydog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I see this posted I feel obligated to post the human trafficking hotline. Better to be safe than sorry! If it seems suspicious the least you can do is report it!
1 (888) 373-7888
ixora7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I feel lucky I was born a guy. The thought of someone just upping me and my life is over and handed to this fucking scummiest of scum piece of shit horse fucking arsehole cuntbag son of a bitch whos mother must have shat him out gives me massive creeps.
FolkDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:51 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well put.
Delsana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the labor is so mundane it makes no sense. Literally you have to stand still like a stand-up light while a lampshade and working light are put over you.
If you move you get things taken away. Important things.
F41th ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Including the torture they put children through to make them approving of child prostitution. What do you have to put a 6 year old through to make them be nice to a middle aged man that wants to rape them?
alpacafarts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a pretty depressing thought of how large of a business human trafficking is.
And if you think that it doesn't happen in western countries, you are sadly mistaken.
HotDogen ยท 2302 points ยท Posted at 04:22:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Edit: as this has become so popular I ask two things: PLEASE give any reddit gold/silver to whoever copypastas this' NOT ME, and if you copy this, link this post due to the additional info.
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done - see below).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Each time this gets reposted, there is a TON of misinformation that follows by people who simply don't know, or have heard "information" from others who were ill informed:
Yes, deaths from rabies are rare in the United States, in the neighborhood of 2-3 per year. This does not mean rabies is rare. The reason that mortality is so rare in the U.S. is due to a very aggressive treatment protocol of all bite cases in the United States: If you are bitten, and you cannot identify the animal that bit you, or the animal were to die shortly after biting you, you will get post exposure treatment. That is the protocol.
Post exposure is very effective (almost 100%) if done before you become symptomatic. It involves a series of immunoglobulin shots - many of which are at the site of the bite - as well as the vaccine given over the span of a month. (Fun fact - if you're vaccinated for rabies, you may be able to be an immunoglobulin donor!)
It's not nearly as bad as was rumored when I was a kid. Something about getting shots in the stomach. Nothing like that.
In countries without good treatment protocols rabies is rampant. India alone sees 20,000 deaths from rabies PER YEAR.
There were entire epidemics of rabies in the past, so much so that suicide or murder of those suspected to have rabies were common.
In North America, the first case of human death by rabies wasn't reported until 1768. This is because Rabies does not appear to be native to North America, and it spread very slowly. So slowly, in fact, that until the mid 1990's, it was assumed that Canada and Northern New York didn't have rabies at all. This changed when I was personally one of the first to send in a positive rabies specimen - a raccoon - which helped spawn a cooperative U.S. / Canada rabies bait drop some time between 1995 and 1997 (my memory's shot).
Unfortunately, it was too late. Rabies had already crossed into Canada.
False. ONE woman did, and she is still recovering to this day (some 16+ years later). There's also the possibility that she only survived due to either a genetic immunity, or possibly even was inadvertently "vaccinated" some other way. All other treatments ultimately failed, even the others that were reported as successes eventually succumbed to the virus. Almost all of the attributed "survivors" actually received post-exposure treatment before becoming symptomatic and many of THEM died anyway.
False. To date, 6% of bats that have been "captured" or come into contact with humans were rabid.. This number is a lot higher when you consider that it equates to one in seventeen bats. If the bat is allowing you to catch/touch it, the odds that there's a problem are simply too high to ignore.
False. The rabies virus travels via nervous system, and can take several years to reach the brain depending on the path it takes. If you've been exposed, it's NEVER too late to get the treatment, and just because you didn't die in a week does not mean you're safe. A case of a guy incubating the virus for 8 years.
No.
Please, please, PLEASE stop posting bad information every time this comes up. Rabies is not something to be shrugged off. And sadly, this kind of misinformation killed a 6 year old just this Sunday. Stop.
[deleted] ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 05:48:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies is scary and shit, but aren't most of the deaths from Rabies in underdeveloped countries? Like in the US it's less than a handful of deaths per year and most of the exposure comes from when the people were overseas. Is this because of aggressive vaccination campaign for anyone bit by an animal?
HotDogen ยท 437 points ยท Posted at 05:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Here in the U.S., even though the cost of post-exposure is around $7K, it's done on ANY person even SUSPECTED of being POSSIBLY in contact.
There was one case I had where a little girl had been bitten by her pet puppy. The protocol was for the dog to be brought into the facility and observed for 10 days. Pretty straightforward.
But the parents got all dodgy about it, not wanting to let me see the puppy. Finally, I sent the cops to their place to PHYSICALLY take them to the hospital to have the little girl started on post exposure. It'd been two weeks, and they'd been fighting me all the way.
Turned out, the puppy had died. They'd buried it on base (a major no-no) and didn't want to get busted.
So while their daughter got her first round of shots, daddy was escorted by the police and made to bring the now rotting corpse of the puppy to me. Lots of fun decapitating that one...
So I sent in the head to the lab for testing, and sure as shit, positive. Only positive puppy I'd ever seen, no idea how it got exposed.
So I literally saved that little girl's life. And the parents never so much as apologized.
If you get the post exposure treatment prior to being symptomatic, it has a near 100% success rate. It's just crazy expensive. However, joe-blow can get the 3 shot preemptive vaccination series for the low-low cost of just $750. I highly recommend it if you've got the money to burn.
backtocatschool ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 06:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How long does this vaccine last?
IBuildBrokenThings ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 13:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to a cited answer on quora it lasts between 2 to 3 years and if you live in a high risk environment you should get a booster shot one year after the first shot and then again every 3 to 5 years.
ChristyElizabeth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:45:20 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do they put the shot?
MyDevotedLove ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:20:25 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Into your muscle tissue: pectorals, biceps, glutes. Number of shots depends on your weight.
Source: Got the shots l.
ala1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:51 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the immunoglobulin for post exposure. It's dosed at 20 IU/kg and supplied at 150 IU/mL so a 150 lb person would need 9 mL of immunoglobulin following exposure. First, as much as possible of that volume must be injected into and around the bite, but because that's such a high volume of liquid, you usually only get ~4 mL or less in, depending on the location of the bite. The rest has to go into a big muscle such as your gluteal or lateral thigh.
The vaccine given pre exposure is a simple small volume (1 mL regardless of weight) IM injection into the deltoid. The side effects suck, but the actual injection is no worse than a flu shot.
Deyona ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 13:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But even with the vaccines, if you get bitten you need to do some post treatment. Two more shots is what my vaccination office told me. Better to be safe then sorry I guess
ala1985 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:14 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You get revaccinated again. One dose at the time of exposure and another 3 days later. It's the vaccine which is a simple small volume injection into your shoulder like a flu shot, not the immunoglobulin which is extremely painful and most goes directly into the bite, then whatever's left into your butt or thigh.
Asdayasman ยท -32 points ยท Posted at 12:30:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life.
gloomyzombi ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 13:50:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. You have to get updates every couple of years.
TheOldTubaroo ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 14:00:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wahngrok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you...
Have an upvote.
whisperingsage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on if the vaccine works.
gloomyzombi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:17:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying you don't have to get boosters if it works? Because you have to get boosters every couple of years.
whisperingsage ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:42:04 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, if it doesn't work it lasts for life.
Koiq ยท -85 points ยท Posted at 08:16:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2-3 days.
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:46:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the post-exposure vaccination series like? I hear it's brutal. I mean, not as brutal as rabies, but still harsh for someone who doesn't enjoy getting shots.
Dimsml ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 07:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to be like 10 shots to the stomach, but now there are only four and these go in a muscle, like your arm or butttcheek.
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 07:30:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
All at once or over time? I seem to recall hearing this from a guy I know who got multiple shots all at once by a small team of nurses.
Quick story: I met this guy at a golf tournament when he came into the bar at the end of the day and said 'You guys aren't gonna believe this - a fox just ran up to me and bit my leg! Right in broad daylight!'
Everyone there just looked at him. Me: 'Dude, we totally believe you. Aaaand you've got rabies.'
Took him a while to get it through his head that he really, really needed to get to the hospital. But he did, and to this day his nickname is Old Yeller.
Dimsml ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 07:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, they are done on a schedule, like one immediately, one in a day, in 3 days, in a week and so on. Depends on the vaccine type, I think. I have heard old Soviet ones were like 40 (!) shots.
Here is the WHO page, has some data about schedules used:
http://www.who.int/rabies/human/postexp/en/
Edit: it appears there are schedules where you get several shots at once.
comrad_gremlin ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:27:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are correct, it used to be 40 shots (not sure about now). I remember mid-90s, parents used to tell me to beware of abandoned dogs, there were tons of them on the street, because "if the unknown dog bits you - they're going to give you 40 injections to the stomach just to be safe".
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 07:52:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Jesus, I think I'd almost rather have rabies.
Edit: for those confused why I imply I might prefer a gruesome death to getting shots, consider the possibility that I just might be going for humor here.
Tyg13 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...you read the rabies description right? I'd get 100 shots if it meant my brain didn't slowly liquefy as I spend the last 4 days of my life dying an agonizing death.
wrong_assumption ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:39:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if it took, say, 101 shots, you would rather chose the agonizing death?
I would take 100,000 if necessary. Probably a million, if you spread them out over a month please.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At that point just leave a needle in me, like an insulin pump.
Insi6nia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well there are only 2,678,400 seconds in a month, so that means you would be taking a shot roughly every 2.6 seconds for a month straight if you needed to take a million shots over a month.
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but ... shots. I really don't like shots.
SingzJazz ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:08:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a bite wound from a rabid animal, multiple shots are made into the wound site. It's pretty crazy. I used to run a summer camp and a rabid cat wandered onto the property and bit one of my counselors in the shin. We went to the hospital and she was given shot after shot after shot into the wound itself until her shin looked like it had a softball under it. Then she was put on the regular schedule. They don't mess around with that disease.
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should - skip the treatment and the best you can hope for is that Rick Grimes puts you down quick.
Baeocystin ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:42:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to get those when I was a kid.
The worst part is the crunch as the needle deeply pierces your flesh to reach your stomach.
JiForce ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:24:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Crunch?
Baeocystin ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:28:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crunch.
JiForce ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 08:28:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm deeply unsettled.
annnnnnnnnnnnnnnna ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:36:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had it done after a bat bite. If they can find the wound, they will inject a shit ton of immunoglobin around the bite. Then you have to get 4 shots in each of your limbs (and they are HUGE, and the vaccine/Ig serum is very viscous) immediately, then 3, 7 and 14 days later. It was pretty painful but a million times better than having rabies.
edit: also it did not cost $7,000 lol. I think without insurance it was about $750 but my insurance covered some since it was post-exposure.
OEMcatballs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one I got was adminstered before me and a few were leaving for Afghanistan. There were 25 of us. The side effects stated that 1 in 25 will develop fever and hydrophobia. Guess who got the side effects.
I couldn't drink water, but I was so thirsty. It was weird, because Sprite was totally fine.
BenjaminGeiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I presume the hydrophobia went away?
OEMcatballs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:03:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it was basically an overnight issue, but I murdered 2x2 liters of Sprite.
throwmeawaaey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:31 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah, shit. What was it like? Like, actual fear of water?
OEMcatballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:37 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a revulsion to drinking water. Really odd to describe. Water wouldn't go down, and any water in my nose or throat felt like being engulfed in flames.
throwmeawaaey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:44 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah... that sounds crazy. How did you, like, cope? I would go crazy...
OEMcatballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:53 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could drink stuff that wasn't water per se. Milk, Sprite strangely, Juices. Was for only a couple days--so my pee was brown and I had a headache, but no worse for the wear.
throwmeawaaey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:28 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh... weird. At least you're okay now, though.
OEMcatballs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:04 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. With the exception of repeating myself, I've had no issues, with the exception of repeating myself.
throwmeawaaey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:01 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, as long as it was just the exception of repeating yourself, it's fine. I suppose that the exception of repeating yourself must be as annoying as the exception of repeating yourself.
fuckyesiswallow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:22:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine was brutal. The number of shots you get depends on body weight. If I remember right I got five-six at one time the first time (both arms, both thighs, and either one or both ass cheeks), then followed up and got two more I think in the weeks after. I felt like shit getting them (almost passed out) and felt like shit the days after. I don't mind shots but it was excessive and having that many needles going into my body was not my definition of fun.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome insight. I learned a lot today about rabies. Thanks.
U2SpyPlane ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:38:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it so expensive compared to the dog vaccine?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:36:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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thesnakeinyourboot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:23:47 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is not really related but American hospitals are years better than Canada.
Asdayasman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:30:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans have jobs.
Also, AMERICA
DrDalenQuaice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:30:00 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can also just shoot the dog with bullets instead of vaccines.
NorOa ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
750 $? It cost 50 $ in Norway, 60 $ if you want someone to administer it.
HotDogen ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:17:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's probably with the intra-dermal administration. Intramuscular requires 10x the amount of vaccine (but is more effective). Intra-dermal is only about $50 per shot in the U.S. as well, but you have to find 9 friends to get it done with you or the doctors won't do it. They have to mix up a full 1cc of vaccine either way.
I imagine more people are available to be vaccinated in Norway?
NorOa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:25:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, that makes sense. Might be, I'm not actually sure how common it is to be vaccinated against it here, since we're listed as a rabies free country.
HotDogen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:32:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weird. If you're rabies free, there'd be no reason for the vaccine. I'd actually be interested in seeing what the vaccine is. If it's the full 1cc dose, I wonder if you'd be willing to ship me some? :D
NorOa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:20:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's usually taken if you're about to travel to countries with a significant risk, I would suppose. You'll be able to walk into clinics that does "travel vaccines", and get it quite quickly there.
So, for the vaccine "Rabipur" by GSK Vaccines GmbH it's 459.8 NOK for 1 ml (1 cc).
For the immunoglobulin the price is much higher, though.
Pretty sure it's not allowed to ship this stuff around :p
drinkandreddit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucked up. There aren't many people (thankfully) on this earth that wouldn't be completely fucking devastated by their child dying from rabies. Did they at least thank you??
HotDogen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Never heard another word from them.
Wild_Loose_Comma ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:35:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is nuts. I just looked it up, and post-exposure is free in Ontario (and I'm pretty sure its low-cost to free in every other province).
VEXARN ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Canada man. We got it good up here. Except for that whole dollar bit but who's counting....
BagongBuhay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I didn't know the vaccines were that expensive in the US. Here in the Philippines, a full course of ERIG would cost roughly around 150USD and PCEC would be around 25USD.
BagongBuhay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, and it's free if you go to public clinics / hospitals.
AMasonJar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:55 on April 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the government doesn't do crap to help pay and we're reliant on whether or not insurance feels like paying for us.
Woyaboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does the vaccine last forever?
HotDogen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. You have to get regular titer tests. It's different for everyone but good for a few years at least.
roaddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to put down a raccoon a few months ago, and in the process some of it's bodily fluids got in my eye. Yup, that's a vaccination!
NecroGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they're still parents... that poor girl having to be raised by idiots.
ked_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, I didn't know there was a rabies vaccine for humans. This would have been good information to have when I was a pest control tech that trapped animals. I've been in attics with 500 bats, trapped thousands of raccoons, skunks, possums, squirrels, etc... Our bosses never felt the need to give us the rabies vaccine.
Luckily we didn't have too much contact directly with the animals. They were either in cages or dead when we dealt with them so luckily no bites.
Aleforge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it was obvious it was buried somewhere? One thing I have to ask is if the vaccination only lasts a few days for humans, how do animals get vaccinated only yearly?
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't sure why they wouldn't bring the puppy in until they finally did. The father only went and dug it up when I forced his daughter to start the post exposure, because he wanted me to send it for testing to "prove it wasn't positive."
I think you have have misunderstood something somewhere. The vaccination lasts for years. I had my own titer tested at the 3 year mark, and was still 14x higher than would be considered "immune". (I had a very strong immune response to the vaccines.)
ThePr1d3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I live in a country with proper healthcare
[deleted] ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 09:42:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia basically doesn't have rabies at all, which is great.
It's also why we were going to kill Johnny Depp's stupid dogs. We take quarantine seriously as fuck
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 15:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow it's like the one thing you don't have
Discordia54 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Small consolation, considering all the other stuff you have that wants to kill you.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd honestly rather be bit by one of your damn spiders or snakes and have the whole 'necrotized' tissue and pain than even run the risk of getting rabies.
opeydopey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:06 on April 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We sorta do with the Australian bat lyssavirus. Same genus and poor outcomes for those infected. So many more fruit bats in the suburbs than I remember from my childhood now too....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bat_lyssavirus
DragonToothGarden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I moved to Mexico. I'm reading this shit at 5am and fucking terrified. Does not help that my spine is on fire from nerve damage.
SalamanderSylph ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
>2016
>Still having rabies in your country
>God Save The Queen
ender91 ยท 527 points ยท Posted at 05:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I..........I..............Jesus. I dont know how to handle this.
jefriboy ยท 305 points ยท Posted at 05:27:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get the vaccination.
Tocoapuffs ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 07:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea... I'm going to do this right now.
rotunderthunder ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:40:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just so you know, the vaccine won't make you immune, it just slows the dying process.
wrong_assumption ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 09:31:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, here's where I draw the line. WHAT THE FUCK?
So, you're saying, even if I get the vaccine, if I decide to go into a bat-infested cave and get bitten ... I'm FUCKED?
[deleted] ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 09:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, it's not true. In fact, you can have the vaccination after exposure (but before it reaches your brain) and you'll live
IzzyInterrobang ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:42:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whelp, looks like its vaccine time for my dog and I. I think hers is due in April.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:45:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IzzyInterrobang ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 20:51:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a crapton of bats that hang around my house. Saving up $1500 dollars is better than rabies.
cameron4200 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm; am vaccinated. Also not covered by insurance at all.
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:13:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't for rabies vaccines they stick a half foot long needle deep into your stomach??
IzzyInterrobang ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, for adults it's a needle in the arm.
oneelectricsheep ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was the post-exposure treatment but for years now it's been intramuscular injections and then follow up vaccines
TheHornyToothbrush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh thank god. I've been scared to death of getting rabies for ever now because of that.
oneelectricsheep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:34 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh you may still be terrified because it cost 9k for prophylaxis and follow up shots 2 years ago.
my_random_thots ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:07:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, it's like a series of tetanus shots. I've had rabies immunoglobulin serum and vaccine, it honestly wasn't that bad. The cat bite and resulting infection that led to me getting rabies shots were much worse.
Malgana ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 10:46:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically if you ever get bitten, just get the shot. Also if you live in a place where there's lots of bats, get the shot beforehand.
Jaxartosaurus ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 10:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been exposed to rabies, it isn't too bad. Just shots after the fact. It's a running joke among friends. As long as you're aware you've been bitten, you'll be fine.
RealHumanHere ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:51:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you're not aware?
Utecitec ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:49:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See the above description.
rotunderthunder ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not fucked, it will give you more time to get to the hospital for treatment which you may need if you're in a bat infested cave. It won't actually stop you getting rabies though...
Boro84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea thats not entirely true, it doesnt make you immune persay but if youre bitten by something with rabies and you get the shot in a timely manner you wont actually get rabies
rotunderthunder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand that. What I mean is if you get the shots before going travelling then happen to get bitten by something rabid then you will still need to get treatment. Having shots beforehand will give you more time to deal with that but won't actually prevent you getting rabies. At least, that was my understanding.
Boro84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gotcha
AbigailLilac ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 11:21:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there any downsides to the vaccine? Why doesn't everyone get it?
soupreme ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 14:06:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an expensive one that doesn't make you immune.
I had the vaccine before travelling to africa and it was three injections over the course of several weeks EACH costing ยฃ60 (about $85). The vaccine expires in a few hours so needs to be mixed up from a powder and a special solvent a few minutes before used.
Finally my understanding is the treatment for rabies is 5 injections the first to be administered within 24 hours of exposure. By having the vaccine you only need 3 injections to treat and you have 72 hours to begin treatment.
Source/disclaimer: This is all as explained to me by the doctor and nurse who recommended and administered these for me.
paradox_backlash ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 15:28:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, in America, about $13,000 per shot right?
PM_ME_UR_STEAMKEYS ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shkrelian extrapolation?
arcainic ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:39:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where are you getting those shots, At a non-profit? A 2,000% markup is the norm here.
soupreme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hard to tell, the NHS don't offer it in the uk for free as we have wiped out rabies so it's a choice for you to go to dangerous places. So mine was done privately in the uk(read with profit on top)
zeus17 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
legit information .. been bitten by a dog :( (i am in the ph so imagine )
after being bitten was rushed to the hospital given a shot,then needed to go back for 7 more shots if i remeber right... over the coourse of a 2 weeks-1 month...
plus there is a an old superstition here,that if a crazy dog bites you,you also go crazy..
2 years,,,still sane...or so i think...
soupreme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to hear you're ok after it, did they ever test the dog to see if it was rabid?
Also with regards to the treatment shots I heard they used to be done into your liver or Pancras (big needle into the gut area) is that still the case?
zeus17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nope never had the chance,i was the 10th guy to be bitten by the stray dog :(
nope,i rememebr having shots in both my arms,both legs and my butt..
Aleforge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea the vaccination only lasts a few days. So if you get bitten by ANY animal you should rush and get injected to be safe?
jefriboy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Misinterpretation and no. The physical shot itself cannot be mass made in an injectable form, needs to be administered shortly after being processed. If an animal attacks you without being provoked or intimidated and it displays signs of being rabid then absolutely seek medical attention but if you slap a parrot and it nips you then just walk away and keep that one to yourself.
soupreme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:06:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vaccine is almost the wrong label. The vaccine lasts beyond the incident I believe, but rather than making you immune it merely slows the progress so you have longer to get treatment and need less of it.
Not sure how long the vaccine itself lasts but I had it a couple months before I traveled it's only outside the body the vaccine becomes useless in no time atall.
mdkunknown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody answer this.
jefriboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:04:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aside from the financial downside which I've only heard of being passed on to the patient in the US there are absolutely zero downfalls from being vaccinated if you encounter wildlife on a regular basis or are traveling to a location not written about in journals for it's speedy clinical response times.
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than the cost, and a minor fever after each shot for some, no.
ShameAlter ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously those vaccines cause autism, you all are idiots who deserve to die of autism.
/s
AbigailLilac ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:54:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "/s" makes obvious jokes less funny.
RoachKabob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it lets people know you're not a troll, just sarcastic.
AbigailLilac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the difference if trolls use it too?
ShameAlter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better safe than sorry.
roaddog ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:39:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It costs about $5000.
jefriboy ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 14:53:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is covered entirely here by Canadian health care.
RealHumanHere ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 15:52:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And in each country in Europe.
How the fuck can it cost 5k in the US, wtf.
seriouscrayon ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism
jefriboy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like such a baffling reality for them. That may be the cost without any insurance there but for it to even be a point of concern is weird.
roaddog ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:40:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is the cost w/o insurance. I had to get the shots recently and the hospital told me that is how much it would cost if I were uninsured.
Dol-Amroth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CDC says that it averages about $750 for the full three shot series and that there is a cheaper version for about $45 an injection. So, it's about as cheap as in every other country.
roaddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to get the full regine last fall in New York State. The ER doctor gave me that figure.
Dol-Amroth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:17:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You clearly have more experience on this topic than me and are probably correct. Could the price difference be explained by the hospital or by the location? Rabies isn't that common in NY.
roaddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No idea, I was just the pin cushion on this one. First round was 5 injections, then one per week for 4 weeks. Not NYC, central New York.
Dol-Amroth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know either. Glad you're better, though!
DatGrag ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 15:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a normal 24 year old US citizen who grew up in a middle-class suburban neighborhood, is it likely that I have been given this vaccination?
zenithica ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:58:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, its not like a routine shot. you have to actively seek it (so, if you are likely to be exposed to rabies or if you know you've been bitten)
jefriboy ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 16:02:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes during elementary school age there is an opportunity given at school as well as at your doctors office and there is a significant chance you have gotten it.
E: Apparently the system failed
alabamapanda ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raise money for awareness through a celebrity pro-am fun run
zenithica ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:55:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
then present your massive cheque to a rabies doctor
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:33:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FOR THE CURE
Autumnsprings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:04 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Careful. The Susan G. Komen foundation will sue.
mrmikemcmike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire. You handle it with fire.
le_epic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
never go camping
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:32:26 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was reading it and started thinking I might have rabies but I'm just high all the time and the symptoms just randomly happen at random points, and I'm not dead.
ender91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:22 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This, is a description of me. You. ....are me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:23 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And we, are, farmers
got_mule ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 05:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kind of don't want to believe you, but if you have a source, I will be terrified all over again.
HotDogen ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 05:30:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The closest I can find is Mayo Clinic's very sterile, medical list of symptoms. But I can assure you, it's horrifying.
During training we were made to watch tons of horrifying videos, many of which I've since seen are now on YouTube. Just look for "dying of rabies" on YouTube, but I warn you, it's NSFL.
[deleted] ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 07:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Call_me_Kelly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:21:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was terrified of spreading it to my kids after one of the slides showed someone's 3 year old went blind from contact with their vaccination site. I postponed mine until actually deployed by claiming someone I lived with had autoimmune issues. It didn't help reading The Hot Zone, but damn that's a good book.
backtocatschool ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:49:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I get a vaccine for it even if there is almost a zero chance of getting rabies.
Hexatona ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:32:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
to exacerbate the issue, the rabies vaccine is hecka expensive
firefarmer74 ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 10:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
visit Turkey. I got bit by a dog on a hiking trip last year and went to the hospital and the whole rabies regimen along with a tetanus booster and five shots of immunoglobulin only cost 25 dollars. And actually, I didn't pay for the shots. I paid 25 dollars for the doctors appointment for her to write the prescription then all the shots were free after that.
Dittestark ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:32:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh how I love to live in Denmark. Everything is free and you get all the vaccines and treatment you need. And education is free as well. All the way from you're a tiny child to you finish university. I think these to things are the primary reason, that we are the happiest people in the world. So much we don't have to worry about. And yes I know we have extremely high taxes to make this work, but trust me, it's worth it.
dalonelybaptist ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but it's also cold and drinks cost three bars of gold
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So? At least you won't die of horrifying diseases.
dalonelybaptist ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No you'll die of exposure or boredom ;)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck America, how do I get out of this shit hole country immediately?
Dittestark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be Mexican or muslim.
And vote for Donald trump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool, can I then seek political asylum in Denmark?
Dittestark ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are not allowed by law to send criminal people back to their own country, if that country uses torture or death penalty. So if you are from one of the states that still have the death penalty, then we legally can't send you back, if you have done something criminal that would lead to you getting the death penalty in your home state. But I do not think that's the easiest way to get here.. and you'd end up in prison here as well. But of cause you can get Danish citizenship the normal way. It's just pretty hard and takes quite a few years normally.
Edit: of cause you would only go to prison in Denmark if what ever you did is also a criminal offence in Denmark. If you are a political refugee, I think we have to give you asylum :)
cbsmalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:04 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...brb, committing a crime in Texas
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Awesome! Bring on presidente Trump. Should I start learning Danish now? Haha.
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even with insurance?
JessaFace ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Preexposure generally isn't even covered for those of us working in a high risk field. I had to rely on worker's comp for a post exposure series.
Satans__Secretary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:26:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucked.
Heretical_Healer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the vaccine but even with it if you're bit by something assumed to be rabid you need more shots.
cbsmalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:02 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what's the point of the vaccine?
Heretical_Healer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:42 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just makes it less likely you'll contract it and more time between bite and contraction, but if there's suspected contact with rabies you need to get the full cycle.
arkzist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh geeze
indorock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:44:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Here's another one to fuck you up: So far, in all of history there is only one documented case of someone being cured from rabies, and only through some very "fortunate" circumstances (including having it occur in a developed country with access to an innovative treatment method). She still did incur some brain damage and is not fully back to normal.
Interesting documentary about her story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2bKjKJPLk0
XirallicBolts ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 11:06:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wiki article of the procedure used in the video
I was wondering if anyone would mention Jeanna Giese.
I'm her age and grew up in the same city. I wasn't directly friends with her (she went to the other school) but plenty of mutual friends.
She does technically have mild brain damage but she's seemingly capable of living independently now.
Edit: quick glance at her Facebook shows she's married now. Posts look just like anybody else's. According to the wiki, she just has coordination issues now. She was always rather smart and still is.
zasabi7 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:54:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought it is 5 people, treated the same way she was. Oh, and only 5/36 treatments were successful. Very encouraging!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Four others have been cured by the same method.
Jaxartosaurus ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 10:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been exposed to rabies twice, once resulted in bites and then vaccinations. The bite was from a cat, the other was a bat I killed before it could get close.
The cats were scary. The first time I was about 10, rabies was going around particularly badly that summer. The animals were all vaccinated, but alas. The cat that bit me was normally very mellow and sweet. Her breathing was ragged, there was a foamy drool sliding out of one side of her mouth, and she was twitchy. I could tell she was sick, but didn't know what it was. I tried to reach out to her and she came after me. I went and got dad, he recognized it right away. You can only test for rabies reliably through the brain, so the cat was caught and her head was sent to the lab.
It was positive, we spent the summer getting rabies shots.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:37:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Y'all should read Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.
DuhTrutho ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 08:36:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost a 100% kill rate. Recently a 15 year old girl survived rabies after a doctor pretty much killed her in a deep coma and then brought her back. This allowed her body to eventually mount an immune response which eventually removed the rabies virus from her brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2bKjKJPLk0
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:33:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Milwaukee Protocol. Successful in this case, but the overall rate of survival is low.
mr-snrub- ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 12:02:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me glad that we don't have the rabies virus in Australia. FINALLY SOMETHING THAT WON'T KILL YOU BEING IN AUSTRALIA
HotDogen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies or drop bears? You weigh it out.
mr-snrub- ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:20:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bear education is prominent throughout childhood. Just like drug and sex education.
We know how to spot, avoid and handle drop bears.
Do we really want the animals in Australia that are capable of killing us having more ways to kill us?
HotDogen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:24:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough. :D
black_rage_hotdogs ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 13:01:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this with a headache really adds to the intensity
IllFapToThatoncam ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 06:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Know someone who was attacked by a rabid coyote, got immunoglobulin of sometype, he's 10 years older than me, family related, still a jackass, but is alive. EDITED: I was like 12 when this happened, am 24 now.
wrong_assumption ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 09:43:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Immunoglobulin" sounds like some homeopathic bullshit. I'm glad it's not.
IllFapToThatoncam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:44:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Far from, it was experimental at the time, and had been used on like a handful of people at the time apparently, but I was a kid then, and I don't remember to well. I can ask him, but he probably smokes too much weed to remember.
Ed_is_on_Reddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Immunoglobulin = antibody
SerendipitouslySane ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:46:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I don't go outside.
Pjamma34 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst part is the level of naivety of the virus. People obviously know you don't want rabies, but I don't think they know that the appearance of symptoms means you're already dead. I got nicked by feral dog in Guatemala and it just barely broke the skin. First I told the people who owned the lodge I was staying at. The guy's advice was that if I got any symptoms I should let them know immediately... terrible advice. To play it safe, I saw two doctors there and they both told me I shouldn't worry about it. One actually told me if I didn't see symptoms for 8 days that I would be totally fine. After 8 days I thought I was worry-free.
A few nights later I decided to watch a documentary on the first girl to EVER survive rabies just because I didn't feel totally convinced based off the small amount of research I had done. There actually is a minuscule chance of survival. What they do is they put your body into such a deep coma that the virus can't act and your body has some time to initiate an immune response adequate enough to fight it off. The thing is that in the process your brain still gets absolutely scrambled. You basically have to start from square one, relearning motor functions etc after they wake you up. I think it's called the Milwaukee Protocol
After watching this documentary, I was about to shit my pants. I was already sick with a viral throat infection before getting nicked so every day I could not help but wonder if those symptoms were the throat infection of the beginning of the end.
It was 16 days after the nick that I finally got the shots. Just reading your post brings me back to how fucking scared I was at the prospect of it all.
_____D34DP00L_____ ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:21:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people gave Australia shit when they didn't let Johnny Depp's dogs into Australia; but what you mentioned is the exact reason why. We do not have rabies anywhere in our country and we'd like to keep it like that.
HotDogen ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:02:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Hawaii's the same way. Crazy protocols for bringing pets in, and with good reason.
SalamanderSylph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:15:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No Rabies in Britain either.
Nihht ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:39:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. Depp's ego is probably not worth as much as the biological security of 7.7 million square kilometers and 24 million people.
Xist3nce ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:30:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me just say that was the most terrifying thing I've read in a long time due to how well written it was.
widespreadhammocks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually not everywhere. Hawaii is rabies free. Animals from the mainland have to go through a rabies quarantine before arrival.
thelonewolf29 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:22:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, what a description. I don't know why it reminded me a bit of the Flare virus from The Maze Runner series. Seriously though, I wouldn't want to go through that. Not like anyone would want to go through that.
MightyButtonMasher ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:18:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies is what inspired zombies and all of that and very probably also the Flare in the Maze Runner series. It's terrifying, but now you know its weakness: hydrophobia.
wrong_assumption ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about those people that long to be eaten alive? Maybe they have a different opinion. Maybe rabies turns them on.
thelonewolf29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I guess you could say I made a wrong assumption about those people then.
ladyoflate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HEY PSA FOR THE RABIES VACCINE: if you live near a plasma donation center, they often have rabies programs where they give you the vaccine so they can get your sweet, sweet antibody-infested blood-juice.
My roommate's doing the program now and they pay him an extra $10 per shot. I'm going to do the one coming up in April (couldn't do this one because like a week before signups started they took signups for tetanus and I did that).
Donate plasma: get paid for shots.
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is amazing! I'm going to totally look into this!
attackshak ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I was transfixed reading your post on Rabies. Great wordsmithing to go with your expertise on the subject. Thank you for an educational, albeit scary, post.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:29:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was one of the most metal things I've ever read.
I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT
GOOD JOB
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao! Love rick n morty.
sethra007 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:10:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And just to make it worse:
--from This American Life: And the Call Was Coming from the Basement. Act 1 - The Hills Have Eyes
Nihht ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:37:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really fucking glad I live in Australia. By some fucking miracle we don't have rabies here.
HotDogen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:53:07 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's because the shit you DO have is too mean for it.
Nihht ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:42:22 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take my chances with the salties.
TripleTownNinjaBear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:24:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except New Zealand! http://nzsm.webcentre.co.nz/article346.htm
I was talking about this with one of the poms at work today actually. I would have absolutely no idea what to do regarding rabies as it is just not an issue.
Xxviii_28 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Upvoting out of pure fear.
Dimitrije ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:36:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really funny how I never heard of rabies until a year ago and I'm 27 now. When I was little my mother would tell me of this extremely dangerous disease "Rabies" that is transmitted by dogs. And if I ever saw a dog that has it's mouth covered in white foam then I should stay away and tell her.
I was a kid and I forgot about that and never have I even thought much of it ever again, until one day I came up with the idea of reading Besnilo by Borislav Pekic. Besnilo is the name for Rabies in my language and it's root comes from a word Besan which means sleepless, furios, mad, without sleep, etc.
Note: Rabies in a book Besnilo is a mutated virus that doesn't really exist. Don't know if it's possible for Rabies to mutate that way or to be engineered in a lab, but if it were we're all fucked.
It didn't even cross my mind that book is about Rabies, I thought it's about some kind of man that went mad :D Until I went on Rabies wikipedia page. Every single thing OP said about Rabies is true. I don't know if I should be more scared of it, or fascinated by it. When I heard it has 100% mortality rate after the symptoms show I was in awe. The problem is that I have been bitten by dogs quite a few times and although I would report every single bite to my parents, some other kid might not think of it as much or would be afraid to do so.
I know that most countries have taken measures against rabies and it's non-existent in civilized parts of the world but you never know with odds. Governments most certainly didn't go around torching every single cave of bats around, and all it takes is one bite.
HotDogen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:14:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As for the mutation, it makes for good movies, and scary media fodder to justify paychecks for the CDC and WHO, but the truth is that it takes MILLENNIA of steady mutation for a virus to change its transmission vector. There's never been a single recorded case of it happening even over the span of a few hundred years. The media likes to make it sound like you can just flip a switch in the DNA and it'll suddenly go from fluid-borne to air-borne, but it just doesn't work like that...
But this isn't to say that we won't some day dig up a sample of some RELATED virus in Antarctica or something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*from a cave in sub-Saharan Africa. That's where the really nasty shit usually lives.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shudders Let me tell you about Herpes B... Or any one of a dozen other diseases
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or as much as a year. But any way to find out if it was still alive 2 weeks later?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's giving you VERY dangerous and misleading information. Google "incubation period of rabies in humans" and "incubation period of rabies" and you'll see 3 months is quite common. While it's highly unusual, this study was done on a case where the incubation could have been as much as 25 years. The problem is, we simply do not know what the longest incubation period is. We do know of some that were over a year.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh, yeah, now I'm tracking. You're right, Herpes would present itself much more quickly. But that's another bad way to die.
bulbouscorm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So my cat bit me in July, he's still alive and well. Am I good?
I don't know that he's ever been vaccinated but he's only been outdoors on a leash, and not at all since around that time in July.
I even went to the doctor and they grilled me about everything, specifically to determine rabies risk, no treatment was given aside from antibiotics. Still, i'm shitting bricks now, or is that the rabies?! Oh my god.
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:01 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, you're fine. If the animal is still alive after 10 days, even if it HAD rabies at the time, it couldn't have been contagious. Just like with humans, once they start showing symptoms, they're dead pretty soon after.
But you really do need to get him vaccinated. It's too cheap, and too necessary not to.
Lemerney2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so if i ever get rabies set myself on fire? got it.
hellwaspeople ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:13:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to stop reading. I've been sick over the last few days, and after ticking off the third symptom freaked out. Am I dying?
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly hope not.
hellwaspeople ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. Me too
HotDogen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the up side, you'll know for sure by this time next week. :)
buttzest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be at the top. That was one of the most interesting reads I've had from Reddit in a long time. Bravo.
k0d3k1ttn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks /r/nosleep o.o
AuntieMamesTravels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For this exact reason when I took an extended trip through Egypt, India, and Indonesia, the first vaccine I asked for was for rabies. What a horrible way of dying.
_twinsizemattress__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit makes me never want to leave my house
978hehateme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At what point during all this happening, do you attack a kid and mother stranded in a car?
Boro84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a friend of mine and I were conversing and we both agree, with there is going to be a "zombie apocalypse", its going to be because of a rabies outbreak
sandra_partial ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work at Walmart and we have several bats flying around daily. I caught two just yesterday. I never thought of how terrifying this is.
stanfan114 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a video of a child dying of rabies, his screams are some of the most horrifying sounds I have heard, it was like he was turning into a zombie. No I won't link it I don't want to see it again.
nationalisticbrit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Milwaukee protocol sounds like something the SCP Foundation would have.
I mean, why in the fuck is it called protocol? That's scary shit.
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:51 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:o TIL about Collaborative Writing! Thanks!
Neuroticmuffin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:28 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... i think this is the first time I've read something on reddit that legitimately scared me..
Thatsnowconeguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:26:26 on April 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck man the music I was listening to made that even worse to read
Jwalla83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...just gonna go ahead and cancel that camping trip then...
tigersmhs07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'm just going to stay inside forever.
Electric_unicorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cries
uhhhclem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the shocking turns in Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaime McPheeters comes when their mountain guide gets bitten by a rabid animal, and they have to take the one person in their group who knew a safe path through the Rockies and shoot him.
catrionaseawolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
okay I should NOT have read this at one in the morning when i'm getting a slight headache and feeling twitchy and anxious.
lampell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After so many other long posts I've read on reddit, I half expected the ending to either consist of being ripped for three fiddy or something involving your aunt and uncle in Bel Air.
Duckism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
actually there is one documented case of a person got cured from it. so it's not quite 100%
Dreamcaster1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the UK we're completely rabies free, in fact the last report case from an animal indigenous to the British isles was 1922.
hatchman1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck...
slurp_derp2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody call Stephen Hawking....
Iconoclast123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/
spectrumero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not everywhere. It's not been in the British Isles since 1922.
twoLegsJimmy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP OK!
I'm never leaving England again...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HotDogen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, she's one of the (few) survivors of the Milwaukee Protocol.
I think in total there have been 3 or 4, but I've not followed it closely. Even with the protocol, the death rate is in the 90% range.On further research it appears that the others DID ultimately succumb to the rabies once they were woken from the coma. To date there is only one survivor who may have even been an anomaly.
Robdog_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you get vaccinated you are mostly immune to this though. Is that right?
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a 3 phase vaccination (unless you're doing the intra-dermal vaccine, which I'd prefer to see us all go to, but it's unlikely to happen). But yes, once the full cycle is through, your titer will be strong enough that you don't have to worry for a few years.
Solanstusx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...the fuck.
stoneknight2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not here in the UK. Sometimes it's good to live on an island.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HotDogen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:03:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fortunately, most rodents don't really "carry" rabies. The virus seems to fly through their systems so fast, they don't make a decent host. So you'll never hear of a "rabid squirrel" or rat.
TotallyNotanOfficer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen some videos of where people have late stage rabies...that footage is haunting - and I've not seen something I'd call more haunting in my life.
I've seen videos of people burned alive, blown apart, executed, drowned, beheaded, firing squad, hanging, etc. and the worst I can think of, would be late stage rabies videos.
An_Unfriendly_Brit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't have rabies in the UK.
leconnaisseur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody fucking hell, I did not know how totally fucked up it really was... Thanks for scaring me, OP!
amangamer1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I may have had a run in with a rabid bat. I was riding my bike to work and I saw a bat lying on the ground twitching, and covered in some white almost net like thing. I got a bit closer and it started freaking out on the ground so I booked it out of there, when I returned, it was gone. Idk if that is a sign of rabies or not but it scared the shit out of me at the time.
lets_chill_dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't heard about the Milwaukee Protocol leaving the survivors mentally disabled; didn't the first girl turn out fine then go to college?
HotDogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She had to learn to speak and walk again. She mostly recovered, but will always have some slight physical disability from it.
PM_ME_YOUR_FEELINGS9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once woke up to a bat munching on my big toe. I'm scared.
thematabot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to have nightmares about that. I don't even know if it's a thing in the UK.
witzelsuchty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend spend a large chunk of money to be vaccinated after a bat that got in her house flew into her. I thought she was being silly but I guess I need to apologize.
IncendiaryB ยท 6573 points ยท Posted at 02:19:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably how insanely close the entire world came to nuclear annihilation in 1983.
"On September 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command at Serpukhov-15, a bunker where the Soviets monitored their satellite-based detection systems. Shortly after midnight, panic broke out when an alarm sounded signaling that the United States had fired five Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, toward Russia. The warning was a false alarmโone of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of sunlight off clouds near Montana as a missile launchโbut to the Soviets, it appeared the United States had started a nuclear war.
Protocol demanded that Serpukhov-15 report any signs of a missile launch to the Soviet high command, but Petrov had a hunch the warning was an error. He knew the new satellite system was mistake-prone, and he also reasoned that any nuclear strike by the Americans would come in the form of hundreds of missiles, not just five. With only minutes to make a decision, Petrov chose to ignore the blaring warning alarms and reported the launch as a false alarmโa move that may have averted a nuclear holocaust. The incident remained classified until after the Cold War ended, but Petrov later received several humanitarian awards for his extraordinary actions, and was even honored by the United Nations."
dannymason ยท 5096 points ยท Posted at 02:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad he got credit.
Jcit878 ยท 2358 points ยท Posted at 03:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But just imagine if he got it wrong..
the_master_of_memes ยท 3783 points ยท Posted at 03:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
He'd get fired
EDIT: Apparently Petrov is an ass
Lances_Lost_Nut ยท 779 points ยท Posted at 03:39:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be pretty hard to find a new job after a fuck up as major as that.
millipedecult ยท 1522 points ยท Posted at 03:46:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Yes, I was responsible for the nuclear holocaust, but I think my previous skills would make me a great addition to the leadership of McDonald's."
"Yeah, no. I have three arms because of you buddy." He says out of his second mouth, an auxiliary mouth if you will.
[deleted] ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 04:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of all the bad things that radiation exposure due to nuclear weaponry could do to you, I'm sure three arms is pretty low on the list.
millipedecult ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 04:29:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Three arms, two mouths, and you don't want to know what else;)
TheSleepingGiant ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 04:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He means two weenies.
joeycapone ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 05:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL not all results of nucelar holocaust are bad
SadGhoster87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:50:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently it affected your spelling pretty bad though.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's nucular.
Nloveladyallen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:30:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New kyoo lurr
_Caek_ ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/DoubleDickDude
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddammit
Timekeeper81 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:03:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude had like, thirty goddamned dicks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am obligated to mention that my 'grooms cake' at my wedding was a regular cake printed with the picture of George Washington holding his opponents wife's hand.... In a jar of Acid.
railmaniac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If three arms were that low they'd be three legs
baconandeggsandbacon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Baby I wish I had three tits.
Konker101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
could be a ghoul
carsausage ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:49:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least he's good at Nintendo 64!
HeyCasButt ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:41:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure he wouldn't have been responsible for the nuclear holocaust. He'd just be responsible for 5 unaswered nuclear attacks. Had the attack been real there'd have been a nuclear holocaust with or without his report.
joeycapone ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 05:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's kind of the perfect, risk-free call, actually. If he was wrong, the whole world was gonna get nuked anyway, so there'd be no one around to fire him.
medsl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, there would have been massive responses. They would just have been delayed by the few minutes it takes for another early warning system to pick the attack up.
HeyCasButt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:48:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I meant just like not as quickly. I have no delusions that there wouldn't be a response.
grease_monkey ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you looking at smoothskin?
Nubcake_Jake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually he would not have been responsible because only five nukes would have been launched instead of 5 plus the entire USSR stash. Being wrong and taking 5 nukes to the motherland does not the apocalypse make.
The response though, five nukes would dampen very little Soviet response.
simjanes2k ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically, he would have been responsible for halving the global nuclear holocaust, at the expense of The Motherland.
No one would have gotten "extra" blown up or radiation.
skalra63 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With 2 mouthes is it now ok to talk with your mouth full?
millipedecult ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, one mouth chewing the, other mouth talking. The porn industry would go through the greatest transformation ever.
euendo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:45:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All I read was the first line and catch "McDonald's" in my periphery and I bust up. Then when I composed myself, the very last line killed me.
flameruler94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you're a perfect candidate for president of the universe
LesEnfantsTerribles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd be an awesome Radroach burger expert!
FierceDeity_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy would be the first example of someone who is absolutely UNEMPLOYABLE because everyone hates him
Highlad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One's for show and one's for blowing!
VisionRUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10/10 would read again with Russian accent
fistful_of_dollhairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for making me spit my coffee out, have an upvote, asshole
zeugma25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:33 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see how having a second mouth could possibly be seen as auxiliary
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmfaoooo thank you for this. I havnt laughed this hard all week :)
AdamTheAntagonizer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:33:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd watch this book
misterhamez ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're trying too hard
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's paying off.
personstolemyname2 ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 04:23:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could have been the most upvoted TIFU post of all time though. Think about the karma.
Lances_Lost_Nut ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:46:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
TIFU
Obligatory this didn't just happen, I just got out of the hospital after 25 years of recovery. So I'm in Russia and shit, and these damn Americans are at our necks threatening us with nukes. Our fucking leader thought it would be a good idea to save money wherever we could so he gets this sketchy ass satellite from Craigslist. About a week into it's operation it sees a reflection of the sun off the damn clouds that fucking cover the iceberg we call home and thinks the Americans are bombing us. Me being me think the worst and immediately send out 150 nukes back to the Americans. This is where the fuck up happens and damn was it huge. Turns out the Americans didn't send out any nukes at all! I just started a nuclear war because our Craigslist satellite malfunctioned! It's gonna be so hard to find a new job now! LOL
BuddhaOnBlow ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edit: Holy shit this blew up!!
Lances_Lost_Nut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good one.
Gastropoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just read that in a Professional Russian style voice in my head. Thank you.
grandpagangbang ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:27:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our cockroach overlords would probably censor that shit
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He could also do an AMA, oh the karma...
0xyidiot ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:46:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's be honest here, it is not like he made a sex joke in China bad.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 11:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MrPants17 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:45:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov is an ass. We won't be working with him again.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MrPants17 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No problem. I hope all of reddit is shanghaied by enraged /r/dota2 fans.
Qonic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:33 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think this was intentional
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:21:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, a lot of companies discriminate against the dead
CocktailPenist ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:21:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There'd be no jobs after a fuck up like that
Rain12913 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are people not realizing that if he had gotten it wrong, then every single human being would have been dead within the hour? If they had been real missiles, then the Soviets would have responded with more missiles, and this would have triggered mutually assured destruction. He wouldn't be around to be fired.
Now that I think of it, he made the only rational choice. If the warning is real and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets return fire and MAD is triggered). If the warning is real and he doesn't send the message, then everyone is dead (the impact of the missiles leads the Soviets to return fire, MAD is triggered). If it's a false alarm and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets launch their missiles and MAD is triggered). That leaves us with only one possible scenario for not killing everyone: not sending the message and hoping that it's a false alarm. That is literally the only thing he could have done that wouldn't have guaranteed the imminent destruction of the planet.
Of course, in the moment and at that level of stress it's highly unlikely the anyone would be capable of making that assessment, but it sort of makes you wonder if he had already played out this scenario in his head beforehand.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIFU by ending the world in a Nuclear Holocaust.
Zireall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIFU by ignoring the alarms at my work. [L]
markasoftware ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIFU by getting banned in
RussiaDex22er ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not like there'd be anyone left to give him a bad reference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He could have changed his name to 'Gene' and managed a Cinnabon in Omaha.
Ruri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoosh.
black_rage_hotdogs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds fitting for a position at comcast
ztsmart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He would probably end up traveling the wasteland alone eventually meeting a dog then going on to save numerous settlements from raiders
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you have any references we can call?"
Not anymore
SadGhoster87 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:49:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially if he were dead.
Armaan_v ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 04:13:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For being an ass
Crowsdower ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 06:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov. We've had issues with Petrov at previous nuclear strikes. Some of the Kremlin staff lobbied to bring him back for the Cold War, feeling he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him anymore.
FlockaFlameSmurf ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:30:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And his keyboard stolen.
SuperFreakonomics ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:41:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like /r/dota2 is leaking.
CommodoreHefeweizen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:38:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No shit. It was on the top of /r/all and even non-Dota-playing gamers know who Gaben is and read his posts.
TurboChewy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally every other thread nowadays
w1nt3r_mute ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamn my /r/dota2 drama is leaking
NZKr4zyK1w1 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 05:58:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1) Petrov. We've had issues with Petrov in previous cold wars. Some Soviet people lobbied to bring him back for '83, feeling that he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
2) As long as we're firing missiles, we are also firing them at the production company that we've been working with on the Shanghai Major. They will be nuked, and we hope to get the main event hosted in CIS instead.
ucantbannme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meta as fuck.
Also, I've always wanted to say that.
poopypooppooppoopy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:46 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
idungeddit:c
Adolph_Fitler ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:09:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fried
Shudai ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine he'd get a letter of warning and a stern talking to if it was his first holocaust.
Mundius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like a firing range.
DaRoyalJester ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fired. I see what you did there.
Swan_Ronson666 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:08:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not the only thing that would have been fired that day.
vravikumar ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically he would've fired.
benjbob111 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
F I R E D
boot2skull ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"0 days since last successful nuclear attack."
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gaben fired him
machucogp ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then called him an ass
BigREDafro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
out of a cannon into the sun.
Randy_____Marsh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, probably reprimanded
too_late_to_party ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd get gold?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fired: As in cooked in nuclear flame.
trevdordurden ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon into the sun.
Oblivious_Oathkeeper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon, into the sun?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or set on fire in the ensuing nuclear apocalypse
NananaBedman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
roasted.
MrAppleSpiceMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think everyone would get fired.
Because, you know.
Nukes
theninjallama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd get ded
lefthandlarsony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ftfy
shellwe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally, along with the rest of the world.
Gwam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His boss would go nuclear
FrostHard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no, not here too.
DayvyT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Administrative leave, with pay
ill_tell_my_father ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ftfy
SrewolfA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:D
:(
๐บ๐ธ
Hardabs05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By himself
36yearsofporn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Dad worked in the missile silos during the height of the Cold War. He was always extremely resentful of the military, because after an extensive education in business and accounting, he assumed he'd be put to work in logistics somewhere, but because he had whatever qualities they were looking for in his psychological profile, he was placed in a nuclear silo.
He used to tell me about drills where they had to turn the key, if the other guy didn't, they had to shoot him. But of course, they were drills. But the guys turning the key didn't know that.
For all I know he was making it up, but Dad wasn't the kind of guy who made stuff like that up.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FIRED
Flaming_cow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fried
FTFY
DreamAeon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov is an ass
Alexioth_Enigmar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
PupPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he just...?
samwitch645 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In more ways than one
pm_your_huge_chode ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be an awesome tifu
Missing_nosleep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon into the sun.
Arku57 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or worse. Expelled.
aatencio91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
shartsonsheets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i dont think there would be anyone left to fire him, or any jobs.
Fuguete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
such an ass
Mundius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard there's a good job for him right behind this chemical shed.
Divinityfound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think job termination is the least of his worries.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HR hates him
cRUNcherNO1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
changyang1230 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd get nuked.
Engagefullswag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His job would be the least of his problems...
masterbaguette ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YAMES ;_;
format120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon, into the sun.
shamefulled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
FatBoyNotReally ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
upon
TechKnuckle-Support ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fried FTFY
Tone_it_down_brah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After he fired, of course.
Rain12913 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are people not realizing that if he had gotten it wrong, then every single human being would have been dead within the hour? If they had been real missiles, then the Soviets would have responded with more missiles, and this would have triggered mutually assured destruction. He wouldn't be around to be fired.
Now that I think of it, he made the only rational choice. If the warning is real and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets return fire and MAD is triggered). If the warning is real and he doesn't send the message, then everyone is dead (the impact of the missiles leads the Soviets to return fire, MAD is triggered). If it's a false alarm and he sends the message, then everyone is dead (Soviets launch their missiles and MAD is triggered). That leaves us with only one possible scenario for not killing everyone: not sending the message and hoping that it's a false alarm. That is literally the only thing he could have done that wouldn't have guaranteed the imminent destruction of the planet.
Of course, in the moment and at that level of stress it's highly unlikely the anyone would be capable of making that assessment, but it sort of makes you wonder if he had already played out this scenario in his head beforehand.
SadGhoster87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out
Alex_Musial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So would the Soviet missiles.
hablomuchoingles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who would fire him? Worst they'd do is throw him out of the bunker to roam the wastelands
Thinse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They made a movie about him recently and Im pretty sure that he got demoted for not following protocol!
peeup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he's an ass
ChippyLipton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So would a few nukes.
An00bis_Maximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, nuked
koala_cola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon.
koala_cola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Into the sun.
RowThree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
too soon
DoubleClickMouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He and everyone else in a hundred mile radius.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blasted out of his job.
numberninemac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eyyyyyy
dsiluiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cause of the missiles, cleverrrrrr
farenhite451 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GabeN pls
Balony1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't have to worry about retirement
timstm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fried*
Stewish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or dead
Whatever
Alfredtg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That pun was apocalyptic holy shit
adrian5b ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd fire a lot of people, too.
MoreDope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
out of a cannon, into the sun
ThatPurellSmell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov. We've had issues with Petrov at previous events. Some Soviet command people lobbied to bring him back for Serpukhov-15, feeling that he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
notINGCOS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He got fired. No really he lost his job over it.
Dodgiestyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fried*
Cajolerofdeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally.
mista0sparkle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, in reality, he got demoted, and eventually had psychological issues.
TesticlesInTiaras ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd be dead
SHOWMEBOOBSPLEASE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living up to your namesake
armnhammer20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY: He'd get fried
B-Knight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think "incinerated" is more relevant.
UCanJustBuyLabCoats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon.
webdevop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pertrov was an ass. We will never be working with him again.
sailesaile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of a cannon
erasethenoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd get nuked
lolzor7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
futurehead22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More likely promoted, as America would be dead
hiufxa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FIRED
Nipzyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:13:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
Nekratal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's an ass and we wont be working with him again
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would have been the right move too.
Nyxisto ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:34:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
exactly, mutual annihilation isn't exactly better than just annihilation
theghostecho ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:18:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He would have still have made the right choice.
neko_ceko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the alarm wasn't false, assuming the missiles disable Russia from retaliating, then by not alerting the government he would have saved American lives; lives of the enemy but a net gain for humanity.
Jcit878 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats why i find it interesting. In the end, he did the 'right' thing either way. However one way prevented a war and the other may have saved his country. Tough situation to be in
KrazyKukumber ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In what way would the other way have saved his country?
GobiasACupOfCoffee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mutually assured destruction. If the US really had launched nukes Russia was over either way.
6to23 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 nuclear missiles isn't going to do that much damage to a country the size of Russia. So not a big problem even if he got it wrong. They'll be launching hundreds back at the US in no time if it was real.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:09:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of Russia's population is very concentrated five nukes could devestate them.
seanflyon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think they had any way of preventing that devastation once they ICBMs are in the air. Early warning would allow a faster retaliation and allow a missile silo to fire before it was hit.
HeyCasButt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:53:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Correct, but he's still right to correct the guy. 5 decent yeild nuclear weapons could kill over 10 percent of their population. That plus the loss of manufacturing capacity, political leadership and industrial knowledge would irreperably cripple a country to the point they'd likely never again be even a regional power for at least this age and would even more likely collapse into smaller states.
Edit: Recalculated using period correct population density and warhead yield
bikeboy7890 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, 5 ICBM's isn't just 5 nuclear warheads. Each Minuteman III (first deployed in 1970, so only theoretically ready by '73) carried 3 warheads of at least 300kt each. That's kinda scary. That's enough firepower to destroy 15 Soviet cities. And sure the USSR would have been able to launch hundreds back, but then the USA would have launched hundreds as well.
The issue is that even the initial 15 warheads would be enough to kill millions of people. And with no real ability to stop the warheads, it's assured strikes.
Good thing MAD, while crazy, works.
Now just imagine if the Peacekeeper had actually been deployed. 20 warheads...
Dabat1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:14:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Depends on where they are aimed. Five warheads aimed into Siberia wont do anything. But five MIRVs aimed at Murmansk, Vladivostok, St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Moscow and Omsk would have crippled the Soviet government, military and their anti-US strategic missile forces.
Nubian_Ibex ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
St. Petersburg was called Leningrad in the USSR. Stalingrad is now called Volgograd (after the Volga river that flows through the city).
Dabat1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:31:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tthat's what I get for dredging up Soviet geography when I am tired. Fixed.
metalninjacake2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Murmansk? Seriously?
Dabat1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:23:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the '70s and '80s it was the backup Arctic port for the Soviet nuclear armed submarine fleet, so yeah, Murmansk.
Edit: Arctic port, nor Pacific.
metalninjacake2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you meant population wise, except Vladivostok (I was born there, I knew its significance in terms of the navy).
Dabat1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, if sorting by population Murmansk is really far down there. It is like, what, 40,000 people or something like that?
metalninjacake2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:07:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's tiny.
DaddyF4tS4ck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:59:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to be honest here, if he had got it wrong, Russia might have been in rune, but the US would have been completely torn apart by the rest of the world. Either way, if he launched nukes back, or not, a world wide nuclear war would have started, likely ending up with the death of billions. Either way, it's not like Russia would have lost the ability to retaliate after being hit by 5 nukes.
GoodHunter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he wouldn't be around much longer to worry about it
jelloisnotacrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So embarrassing!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He'd be on the hot seat
lastrideelhs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who would know? The world would be gone
Edit: at least Fallout could be a reality at that point
PatriotGabe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The USA would have won a nuclear war
Wildkeep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, no
ViolentCheese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't win a nuclear war.
PatriotGabe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Under normal circumstances entirely true, MAD and all, however in this case if the US fired nukes and the Russians didn't respond before they landed the Russians would never have a chance to fire back because they'd all be dead from the blasts, which would be a US victory.
Now granted, from the moral standpoint yes there is no winner because millions are dead but from a strategic one Russia has been nuked to oblivion and the US hasn't, pointing to a US victory.
Natanael_L ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:04:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Dead man's hand". The systems can autofire when all humans are killed
tweakingforjesus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
How about a nice game of chess?
Killthekeywork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout
ThegreatPee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing but Keith Richards and WallโขE
Hazzman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States would be the new global supreme leader?
Dakar-A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We wouldn't be having this conversation.
tamsui_tosspot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He would have been demoted, almost certainly. Something like that goes in your permanent record.
justsayahhhhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The shit would have hit the fan just as hard. There wouldn't be almost nuclear holocaust, there wouldn't be a reddit. Just pain and deathclaws
el_capitan_obvio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure no one would have known, because we'd all be dead.
whiskeyrebellion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then he would have gotten half credit.
LordRandomcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'd be living (or not living) in Fallout right now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vault-Tec is here for you!
TwitchyNewt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/tifu
steggun_cinargo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We wouldn't be able to
AHungryGorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somehow I doubt five nukes would have been enough to stop Russia from firing most of their nukes.
freet0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"hah, jokes on them. If I'm wrong we'll all be dead. Good luck punishing me then!"
servohahn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if he got it wrong, he'd still be slightly mitigating (maybe) the effects of a global nuclear holocaust. If the US and USSR launched all their missiles at each other, there would be between zero and a few humans alive right now. If one just obliterated the other without a response, there'd be between a few and a handful of humans alive right now. Either way, he made the right decision. And any American counterpart that made a similar decision would be making the right decision.
CanadianGangsta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'd be having Deathclaw Omelet & mut-fruit juice for breakfast.
stonedboss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout: IRL
Macrat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He still woukd have saved a bunch of lives. American lives, yes, but a lot of them.
ifixputers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at least one person would die
Arancaytar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case it probably wouldn't have mattered anymore - it's like a real-world Pascal's Wager.
Duckism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
really? after the world has ended do we still have to worry about jobs?
badfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout would be real.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He would have received a bunch of post-humanitarian awards.
mastapetz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It too would have prevented a world wide nuclear holocaust. Just russia would be smaller
andrewsmd87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he got it wrong they still would of had enough in their arsenal to retaliate plenty. Everyone in the works would have been screwed if nuclear war actually happened
the_y_of_the_tiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he got it wrong, the bombs would have exploded in five locations, and Russia would have had more than enough remaining ICBMs to counter-attack. He did the right thing.
Hodor_The_Great ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean they still had time to launch. The thing with nuclear warfare is that they just need to press a button minutes before getting hit. They won't be around to see their revenge but it doesn't matter. All of the developed world with the possible exceptions of East Asia and Australia would be wiped out. The fallout and nuclear winter would take care of any survivors. Even with just USA firing everything and USSR not retaliating the entire hemisphere would be fucked.
Szwejkowski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he'd got it wrong, five nukes would have gone off and the odds are hundreds would have been launched shortly thereafter. He did the right thing either way you look at it. One way is a chance for no death - the other way, we would have been screwed either way.
Smugjester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then russian would be gone, and they wouldn't have nuked us back because he chose to ignore it.
STylerMLmusic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Russians would die, and the Americans would be monsters, but the planet would still be habitable, so.
Wildkeep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, you realise those 5 missiles wouldnt destroy whole Russia? Whole world would be fucked because Russia would fire million rockets back and ofc America aswell
a_James_Woods ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:08:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
September 26th should be international Stanislav Petrov day.
Maybe the power of reddit could make that a thing.
-Pelvis- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell. Yes.
Petrov day! Day of no explode planet anniversary celebration!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:04:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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-Pelvis- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sum, considering the context, is so low that it probably would have been better to only give the award.
"Thanks for saving the planet from total annihilation! Here's an award! Oh, and here's 1000 bucks."
numberthreepencil ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He would probably get fired if he did that today.
Coldhandss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn straight. Fallout is fun to play, but in real life? Not so much.
OwenBelly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How much Karma do you suppose that is worth?
ex_jw1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd give him Reddit gold like... twice.
smoothoperator96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:03 on March 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me refer your attention to this movie, which is about this incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAAky4iJcsQ It is sooo mindblowing...
Lumin0s ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:43:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn straight. Man is an american hero, regardless if he wasn't american. Sometimes it's hard to respect the communists, but this guy was uber intelligent and is literally 100% responsible for every single one of us being here.
[deleted] ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 03:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's also a world hero. Nuclear war wouldn't have just obliterated the US and Russia you know
juandh ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait you're telling me there are parts that aren't America or Commie?
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:47:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thankfully
HoraceDerwent ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 03:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, Americans really think they are the only nation on earth.
[deleted] ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:36:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This guy was such an upstanding human being I'll allow him the privilege to be a free american man like I am!"
tamsui_tosspot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There used to be a phrase: "Why, that's mighty white of you." It was intended as a compliment.
xenidus ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:35:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I read it first and was like 'Okay sure maybe a little too sentimental but great' and then I read this and went back and youre totally right. I didnt even think twice. Guess that speaks to the general isolation Americans live in from the rest of the world in a broad sense. Largely tuned into only the goings-on and interests of ourselves.
Da904Biscuit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're saying that the rest of the world doesn't live in general isolation and are tuned into the going-ons and interests of their own, first and foremost?
hiS_oWn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, but it's harder to pretend like your the only one in the building when the people in the penthouse suite are base jumping off the roof while lobbing smoke flares, downing scotch, and shouting "AMERICA!"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the whole damned English-speaking world watches American TV and movies and gets American news. We all know what the USA is up to because all y'all drown everything else out.
KrazyKukumber ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:05:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, population-wise, the US makes up the vast majority of the English-speaking world.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll give you "majority" but not "vast". USA has like 65% of the world's native English speakers, but once you add in people who speak English as a second language, the USA is probably closer to only 20-25%. (Don't forget that English is still an official language in places like India.)
That said, in addition to my original point about the USA exporting its culture in English, all y'all also export a ton of your media translated into foreign languages. Everybody except for North Korea gets American movies and pop music.
KrazyKukumber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, "vast" was an overstatement, but when you said "English-speaking world" I thought you were talking about the countries in which English is the primary language. I don't think American media "drowns everything else out" in countries where English is only a second language.
With that said, I agree with your general point.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I should apologize for coming off so strongly. Sorry about that. It's just one of my pet peeves that here in Canada, I'm still inundated with American media to the extent that Canadian media sometimes struggles to find airtime. (On the plus side, we do promote our stuff pretty well, which lessens my frustration.)
KrazyKukumber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:09:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, no worries. I didn't take your previous message to be harsh or anything.
Just curious: why do you prefer Canadian media to American media? I consume tons of Canadian media (from TV to radio to podcasts, etc), as well as tons of British media, and I don't really see why media from one country would be preferable to the other. Its country of origin seems pretty irrelevant to me.
Oh, by the way, I've lived in Canada so I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm just curious what about it is bothersome to you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically, I think it's just a national pride thing. Like, something being of American origin has never ever stopped me from enjoying it, but if I find out it's Canadian that definitely gives it a bonus in my mind.
If I had to guess, I'd say my attitude is probably a product of that national Canadian inferiority complex. We're so proximate and so similar, yet so much smaller (except geographically) compared to the USA that sometimes we can't even tell the difference, so I think it's sort of like rooting for hometown David against Goliath.
Also, at least entertainment-wise, I really do think we've produced some great stuff. And truth be told, yes, often I really can't tell which country something originates from without looking it up, so this is definitely an issue of small variations. (Also note: I tend to count in Canada's favour any joint Canadian-American productions or American productions starring Canadians. Deadpool is a Canuck.)
v3scor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah pretty sure he means something like that.
wunwuncrush ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or he could just mean that Petrov was not only a hero for the nation he actually served, but was even a hero for the nation that his was at war against.
Consanguineously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just in: Reddit account /u/Lumin0s is actually the account for every single American citizen on Earth and all comments posted by it are representative of their collective beliefs. More at 8.
Lumin0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:57 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can accept that. Although, I'll be less proud when Trump gets elected
juandh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was more like "he's an honorary american because how can you hate a guy who saved the fucking planet."
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck off
tamsui_tosspot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 20 million Soviet soldiers who died on WWII's Eastern Front all became honorary Americans when they fell, didn't you know that?
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Wildkeep ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TFW americans really believe they are reason why Nazis were defeated
seanflyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American steel, Russian blood, and English intelligence.
Wildkeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia would have won alone, it would have taken longer but they would prevail
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Wildkeep ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:49:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speculations
seanflyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germany was incredibly ove-extended when they invaded Russia. Without American involvement, sure Russia would likely have still won eventually (though they would have been fighting a war on 2 fronts). Alone with no one to keep Germany busy (and destroy their infrastructure) and no one to fight off the Japanese, I don't think things would have gone well for Russia.
Wildkeep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody is saying help of America didnt sped things up, however main player was Russia and i see people on reddit acting all the time like USA came in like Superman and saved everyone from inevitable loss to nazis
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or, y'know, just a hero...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/shitamericanssay
FireSail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the gulag too for insubordination
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:31:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was fine. He's still alive today.
FireSail ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:50:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... but just barely
Assface28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes...good for him. Lol I mean most of us may not even be here commenting if he did not show restraint and dicipline.+1
vladulianov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As now, you have exactly 1983 karma for this comment. Which is... Neat, I guess.
hit0k1ri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad it didn't blow up in his face
cambo666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It almost brought a tear to my eye.
Professor226 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And was then executed for failing to follow protocol.
archaic_angle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He also got a dishonorable discharge from the Russian military, if I remember correctly, because his hesitation (even though absolutely warranted) suggested that he could not be trusted to be 100 percent compliant or something like that
neko_ceko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
archaic_angle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for the correction
duhblow7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
iirc at the time he was demoted.
neko_ceko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all. He was praised by his superiors, but he received no reward because if he did it would mean that his higher ups fucked up and would have to be punished. He took an early retirement soon after (which was his own decision).
protagonizer ยท 3633 points ยท Posted at 02:55:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Few people can claim to have literally saved the world.
GloomyShamrock ยท 2909 points ยท Posted at 03:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Eh. Fuck it."
-Petrov
ihlaking ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 04:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Petrov
smruf ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Han shot first.
slendermanrises ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:08:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no such thing as Han shooting first because there is no Gweedo. Gweedo is dieded.
Stuntman119 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hanburger.
mimi_jean ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-Michael Scott
lordtuts ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:36:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-Wayne Gretzky
RichardMNixon42 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:50:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like that this response works for either possible course of action.
"Eh. Fuck it." Goes back to sleep
"Eh. Fuck it." Hits the red button and grabs the handle of vodka
depikey ยท 166 points ยท Posted at 04:28:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Cyka blyat!"
-Petrov
Deaf_Mans_Radio ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cheeki Breeki
Mundius ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:05:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ะธ ะฒ ะดะฐะผะบะต.
AGeary ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:00:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a nuuu
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giff AWP noob. cyka blyad
deknegt1990 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:47:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!
TurtleRanAway ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:23:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kotol geef me mana
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IDI NAHUI PIZDEC
TheRealHanBrolo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well they planted at A site.... Soooooooo
pacotaco724 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
jonosvision ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 04:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Lunch is in 15 minute. It is false Alarm."
yoshi570 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 09:48:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov: "For God sake, where did I put the codes for nuclear activation again ?"
pats his front and back pockets nervously, looks around and realizes the room is full of officers looking anxiously at him
"You know what guys, I'm pretty sure this is a false alarm."
7firewire ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How funny if Petrov was just a lazy stoner, oh man, nuclear war is so much paperwork. I'll just ignore and hopefully it all goes away.
mechanicalhuman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:21:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When doing less is more.
DrSuchong ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:10:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always imagined it as him having a massive vodka hangover.
"Ugh fuck this beeping hits shutoff button goddamn machine always bleepings, bloopings, and bleetings."
Later once he's sobered up more and realized what he did he makes up a story quick to save his ass.
Lazy_Typin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's see how this plays out...
bergie321 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:36:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like me when that darn carbon monoxide alarm keeps going off. Just hit it with a shoe and go back to sleep.
queen_in_my_pictures ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:52:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The phrase that has earned many Darwin Awards.... but Petrov is the exception.... What's his secret? Can he see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?!!
ChoosetheSword ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Dees Montana look lak wery beauteeful ples. I theenk i go wen dees bullsheet ees over."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most legendary g-move of all time
SuperSulf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if the Soviet captain in xmen first class who didn't fire their missiles was based on this guy.
protagonizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're probably right.
Qwertyg101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Words of a true hero
skybluegill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bravely default.
Carlsenium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OfficialCasualCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wan't this quote on a t-shirt
Raneados ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We'll see if this is still a thing after I've finished my coffee."
wrong_assumption ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who knew, indifference is the highest form of love.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the Russian way, no?
hau5cat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
Bkkrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who would be left to quote him?
DONT_SHOOT_THE_WALL ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 03:42:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That dude who killed Hitler changed the world though
drakir89 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:44:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Hitler himself? Yeah he sure left a mark.
metalninjacake2 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:15:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I saw a clip somewhere of a couple Jewishes in tuxedoes assassinating him.
reddit_Iurker ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thatsthejoke.jpg
drakir89 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never know for sure...
Snorlack ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wooooosh!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Dabrush ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:06:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, because he killed the man who killed Hitler.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah if he really wanted to save the world he would've done it six years earlier, before all those people got killed.
FlamingHippy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:22:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: Hitler killed Hitler
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:49:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The election's in November.
gags on mouth-vomit
504michael ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:10:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Few people can also claim to have almost destroyed the world.
Entershikari ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:30:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure Alexandre Yarsin did !!!
He's a doctor who said fuck to France and became a Sailor and then End up living the rest of his life being an adventurer In Vietnam, and he then discovered the remedy to the BUBONIC PLAGUE (Which killed 1/3 of humanity) !
He helped the local children and was recocgnized as a Saint There !
After Vietnam independance, they got rid to anything which was link to the french colonial era except for him and he has still street named after him in every big cities in Vietnam.
Oh and he also discovered how to cultivate rubber !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Yersin
ArmouredDuck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And all he had to do was do nothing.
Leprechorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I claim to have literally saved the world. Just, uh.. take my word for it
monsieurpommefrites ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russians. Formidable people.
Defeated the majority of the Nazis. First humans in space. One of them saved the planet.
casualblair ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it really saving the world if your actions would have ended it so you did nothing instead?
seestheirrelevant ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He gave the order not to follow protocol.
Pun-Master-General ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 03:43:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't do nothing. He second guessed the computer and reported a false alarm. Following protocol (not making his own decisions) would have ended things for all of us. He absolutely saved the world.
Nubian_Ibex ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm not saying Petrov did the wrong thing, but it's a huge overstatement to say that he "absolutely saved the world". There is pretty much zero chance that reporting the erroneous detection up the chain of command would have resulted in a nuclear launch. Petrov was monitoring only one of several nuclear detection systems. The US and USSR both used a mix of satellites, ground based radar, and ship-based radar to detect incoming launches. What would have almost certainly happened is that an officer would notice that only 1 of multiple systems was reporting a launch, and determined it to be a false alarm.
There a redundancies and safeguards in place to protect against this situation. The same thing actually happened in the United States, not only once, but twice (at least). The soldiers in Petrov's place did follow protocol and pass the alert up the chain of command. In both cases, they were recognized as erroneous alerts within a few minutes.
One was when technicians accidentally ran a tape simulating a nuclear attack. 10 planes were scrambled and some bases were put on alert, but within a few minutes officers noticed that only 1 detection system was reporting an attack, while others were reporting nothing.
A second time, a hardware error in monitoring systems would randomly replace "2" with "0" when reporting the number of incoming missles. The same thing happened, a few bases put on alert. Some officers didn't even bother starting their planes' engines because they knew it was almost certainly a false alarm.
butt-guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Valid point, but you could also say that if somebody else were in his position they wouldn't have made the same decisions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno man, i decided to hold in a fart after some dodgy mexican food the other day.
Haltgamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/thanksbasedcoalshower
mrbaggins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another person who can
TractorOfTheDoom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe he knew he would die anyway, so what.s the point in fucking up the rest of the world?
kcha95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you mean to say that by not blowing up the world you are saving the world, than you can consider me a heroe.
bigirnbrufanny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck it, lets go bowling dude
CrustyButtFlake ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A man who was in charge of potentially starting nuclear holocaust did not save the world, he almost ended it.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:03:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world would probably be better off with less humans. So he actually prolonged the destruction of earth.
Mirria_ ยท 257 points ยท Posted at 03:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was some incident too during the Cuban missile crisis where a Russian sub was being hit by depth charges and they decided to surrender rather than launch nukes, which wasn't even an unanimous decision by the commanding staff.
Blockhead47 ยท 102 points ยท Posted at 03:58:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPY2SgyG5w.
(The man who saved the world - PBS - Secrets of the Dead - 53 minutes).
Edit: format and video link
Buffalo__Buffalo ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 09:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just so we're clear here it was the second in command of the B-59, Vasili Arkhipov, who refused to authorize the captain's order which had the political officer's authorization to launch nukes.
He was the commander of the sub flotilla and was stationed on B-59. If he were stationed on another sub then the torpedoes could have been launched with only the authorization of the captain and the political officer, which the sub already had. It was a hair's breadth from happening, and it was pure luck that this guy was on the right sub at the right moment in history.
And just for a little more clarity of the situation, Russia was installing nuclear missiles at the request of Cuba. This sub was near Cuban waters. The US pushed the world incredibly close to nuclear war with its recklessness and it's only due to the restraint of the USSR, and particular people within the USSR, that a nuclear war didn't break out.
figec ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, this incident is the closest we came to nuclear war. And I completely disagree that it was US recklessness that is to blame. While Kruschev was indeed driven by the deployment of IRBMs in Turkey to strategically respond, they went further in that it was they who gave their commanders in the field much looser restrictions in the use of weapons. In this situation, the order was that if there was a hull breach, commanders can use their nuclear torpedoes to respond.
The Cubans are also to blame as they pressured the Soviets to field nuclear FROGs pointed at the US Guantanamo base and were much more eager to use them out of the justifiable fear of an invasion.
So while the US was being aggressive in protecting its interests, it was the Soviets and Cubans who were much less hesitant to turn a conventional situation into a nuclear one.
EDIT: changed Russian to Soviet in order to seem less ignorant
Yanto5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel depth chargibg a submarine you arent at war with counts as agressive.
figec ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US didn't depth charge the submarines. The Cony (or was it the Beale?) used practice charges to try to signal the Soviet sub to surface. These were essentially hand grenades and the Soviets had the technical capability to discern the difference.
The Soviet leadership put the world in a dangerous position as they gave the hull breach order knowing their subs would be out of contact for a while due to the operating orders they were given (they were not to make contact with the US fleet so surfacing to make radio contact with the Soviet fleet was next to impossible). Rather than sit back on a position of caution, they opted for a position of literally the most extreme escalation. B-59 had been out of contact with Soviet leadership and were lead to believe prior to going dark that war was imminent. At the time the Cony was dropping the practice charges, captain Savitsky and his crew were exhausted, without any information on the situation, frightened and making a lot of mistakes. They were not put in that position by the Americans, but by the Soviet leadership.
I can see a reasoned argument about using the FROGs had the US Marines made a beachhead at Tarara as the Cubans would not have been able to stop an invasion conventionally. I would still disagree as the Soviet nuclear weapons were not there to protect Cuba but only to counter the strategic threat sitting in Turkey. Even if the US sunk a Soviet sub with conventional weapons, use of nuclear weapons in response would not have been justified. And certainly making loud noises in the ocean is not a cause to use nuclear weapons, either.
Buffalo__Buffalo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a hilarious rationalization. You don't see why this could be considered an act of aggression? I might go fire a couple of blanks at a police officer or something...
figec ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not hilarious and 5 grenades and sonar pinging were the accepted procedures in place at the time to request an unknown and potentially hostile sub to surface and identify. It was used effectively to get at least two other Soviet subs to surface and identify themselves (well, they gave fictitious names, but did surface and communicate).
However, you are not alone in your disbelief at how stupid that was in the context of the quarantine. When Kennedy was told about the practice on the morning of October 24th, he face-palmed. Robert Kennedy recounted that when "Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara reviewed the use of practice depth charges (PDCs), the size of hand grenades, to signal the submarines, 'those few minutes were the time of greatest worry to the President. His hand went up to his face & he closed his fist.'"
Donut_of_Patriotism ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:54:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but if you shot blanks at a police officer a reasonable response would be firing back with their hand gun. Not calling in a carpet bomb of the general area the suspect was in. Besides, the US was blockading Cuba and the Soviets tried to sneak past the blockade, as a Sovet officer I would have expected the Americans to try everything in their power to stop my submarine, depth charges included.
Buffalo__Buffalo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was the US blockade the right thing to do?
Donut_of_Patriotism ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:15 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk, maybe it was a bad idea to blockade. But even so, a nuclear response would not even be close to a reasonable reaction.
8-4 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I found out four years ago, I made a print of him and hung it on my wall, just to remind me how close we were to the end.
wasmic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This needs more attention. In that incident, the world was even closer to going boom than in 1983. Vasili Arkhipov is da man.
solute24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov + this: TIL: Russians are really good at saving the world
chunky_soup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's a clip from Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States detailing the incident: https://youtu.be/I_GQzYUujI4?t=1707
username_lookup_fail ยท 1843 points ยท Posted at 03:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Help us celebrate Petrov day. September 26. There are at least 5 of us.
ChrisRunsTheWorld ยท 812 points ยท Posted at 03:51:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be hundreds of us, not just five.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:20:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are dozens of us.
DOZENS!
SRode ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
came here for this
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:39:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
alright now leave
UncheckedException ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you see comrade, stop world from nuclear explosion, tens of people remember name.
username_lookup_fail ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just poking fun at the lack of awareness. I've had Petrov day on my calendar for years, but most people have never even heard the name.
ChrisRunsTheWorld ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:03:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I first heard of it on reddit a few months ago probably. But I was just playing on this:
username_lookup_fail ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:21:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, missed the reference. I skipped the link because I'm very familiar with the story already.
RedbullZombie ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:13:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it was fucking excellently played
ChrisRunsTheWorld ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, Zombie.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:51:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a Petrov joke good enough for Petrov day.
iamsy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:38:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I scroll through the garbage for comments like this one. brilliant, thank you.
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:41:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understood that reference!
zlimK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice.
Skipper07B ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So meta
Dodgiestyle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turns out there's none.
SweeetDonuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:57:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There really should be. There are too many bullshit holidays to not honor people like this.
Iheartjimjames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are dozens of us
FranklyDear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on how much GOT you watch
DeeThreeTimesThree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
ConfusedDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally dozens!
Calsmokes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im down to party
Hench21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are dozens of us... DOZENS!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI
AcadieKid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be thousands.
lildutchboy7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
GlassHouses8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tens of hundreds!
W1ldman247 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:29:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 26 Sep 2016
thatblackguyyouknow1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 26 Sep 2016
RezDiggity ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's also my birthday so I'm for it.
BBA935 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:20:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This really should be a thing. This single person's action affected the course of every living thing's existence on Earth for the better. Is there anyone in history that can be said to have actually without a shadow of a doubt prevented the end of the world single handedly?
username_lookup_fail ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sure there are other people that have done similar things and we just haven't heard about them. I think honoring Petrov is emblematic. It isn't just for him, but it is for everyone that made a rational decision to stop world war 3.
SilasX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recommend "celebrating" it by making a conscious effort to avoid escalating conflicts with others, just as he did.
t33j4f ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
six!
Tom5awyer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seven!
Lazy_Typin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ยกOcho!
MaybeLitterate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cinco?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seis! Now don't delay...play it straight
PM_ME_CALF_PICS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay my b-day finally means something!
tacomalvado ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got it marked on my calendar.
Choppergold ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to do this
wardsac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:32:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will raise a glass. Is there a website?
username_lookup_fail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
petrovday.com is still available. I don't have time to set it up, so if somebody wants to grab it go for it.
wardsac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 26 Sep 2016
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:36:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at least five Petrovs?
username cannot be found
NwaveY ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just created an event on my calendar
Mister_Greatness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's my bday, I have been celebrating for 26 of those year things.
Dave520 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally the day my brother was born ...sept 26.1983
warsch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Petrov is the tenth most common surname in Russia. There are millions of you
Dracula_Bus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh, that's my brothers birthday, 1984.
Thatdude253 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happens to be my birthday, so I'll join you
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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username_lookup_fail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was, but I just took it. I'll invite you to mod, but I have to admit that --Satan-- might be intimidating to some.
Darth_Yohanan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Free shots of fireball whiskey
Lonely_Luke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My birthday!!!! Im so down to ignore my bday for Petrov day!
SadGhoster87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:50:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are dozens of us!
SlimOCD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
636 I see so far
pappypapaya ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dozens of us!
GreyOran ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just added it into my calendar to repeat yearly.
_thisguygetsit_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:06:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally DOZENS!
SnailzRule ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One for each missile.
jakethespectre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally dozens
MightyDope ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are literally dozens of us!
Thortsen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:46:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He. That's my wife's birthday.
cwm3846 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally dozens
FranklyDear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way better than celebrating fucking "Flag Day" or "Columbus Day." Shit.
SunshineButMoonshine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just put that in my callendar
cerealjunky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, lets. And in 100 years it shall be known only as vodka day and no one will know why, they'll just drink like Cinco de Mayo.
X-istenz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! September 26. "Crisis Averted!"
Drunkenaviator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you celebrate? Go out and get bombed?
Monte-Kristo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:58:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My BDay!
Super_cheese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow something happened on my birthday!
mohan2607 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:55:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey that's my birthday
DocGerbill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:56:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's make this a thing, any pictures of him to spread on facebook?
Lemerney2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:56:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! september 26
infinity404 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:30:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2016-09-26
KnightInDulledArmor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remind Me September 26!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I celebrate for Sergei Preminin every October third. Join me!
username_lookup_fail ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spock did a great thing, but he only saved the boat, not the world.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:28:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he hadn't done what he done did, the US probably could have thought it was a nuclear attack on then, and launched at Russia in retaliation. This happened relatively close to the coast of Charleston.
yarow12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:46 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This should be an official day of the year celebrated by both the USA and Russia.
username_lookup_fail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:06 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be great, but it is impossible right now. Given the lukewarm relations between the US and Russia, neither one wants to admit to a weakness. Russia would have to admit that an officer stopped a catastrophe by violating orders, and the US would have to admit that a Soviet officer prevented a nuclear exchange.
I think the best bet is to spread awareness.
MarleyL4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:54 on June 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll celebrate it with you. (Petrov day shares a day with my Birthday!)
s3kshun61 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make it 6
BlackAndArtsy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll try to remember this...but it's unlikely
DaftLord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Celebrate by playing Civ 5 and nuking the crap out of each other!
ventdivin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or bookmark this date for easy karma
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! (September 25, 2016) about (Petrov Day)
wosdam ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 03:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow. That was the day I was born.
tmishkoor ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That means your parents were probably getting schwifty a lot during that week between christmas and new years when nobody gives a fuck about responsibilities.
LisaLies ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister, myself, and my brother all had birthdays within the same week (I was born mid September, 1983). I heard from my parents that when my dad was working as an executive for Zellers (a defunct Canadian corporation) the week between Xmas and new years was the only time they had together.
Nukeman8000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you're obviously the antichrist.
Is your name Damien perchance?
NerdFighter40351 ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:56:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are many other instances of stuff like this. Like in 1979 when a computer mixed up 0s with 2s at Cheyenne Mountain. 2,222 missiles is not something you want to see on the Big Screen.
Also during the Cuban Missile Crisis, crazy already, a US ship firing warning shots at a Soviet Nuclear Armed submarine. They though that WWIII had started and 2 out of 3 people said to fire a nuclear torpedo. But luckily under the code, all 3 of them had to authorize the attack.
Also during the CMC, a US spy planes where told not to fly over the USSR due to the tensions, but one accidentally did. Soviet fighters where sent to intercept it, and American nuclear armed fighters where sent to escort the U2 out of Soviet airspace.
Finally in 1995 a rocket was sent up to study the Aurora Borealis. But the probelm was that someone forgot to tell Moscow and they thought that the rocket was a Trident II SLBM. It appeared even more so when the stages began to detach, which the Russians thought was the MIRV system being carried out.
ssnistfajen ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the 1995 one the scientist informed 40 countries including Russia but somehow the heads-up didn't reach the people operating the radar alert system, probably due to bureaucracy fuck ups. This one was much closer since it wasn't just some individual deciding whether to pass the information onto the authorities, but the authorities themselves were aware of the signs and ready to perform nuclear retaliation (Yeltsin had the launch keys activated and ready). It probably helped that this was in 1995 which was a time with much less tension compared to the height of the Cold War, and the fact that Russia was much more cooperative with the West during the decade after the USSR collapsed, which made an actual nuclear strike seem rather unlikely.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:42:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit that was an accident. That's something they did throughout the war. "Let's fly a plane over to see if they're serious". It was just a show of force. If the Soviets had wanted it to be taken seriously, they would have fired SAM's instead of sending up fighters. Fighters are usually scrambled against aircraft from a different country. We do it today. If a Russian Tu-95 flies up over Canada, we will absolutely send something up (F-15's would be my guess) to intercept them. We won't shoot them down unless something drastic happens. I met a man who flew in EC-121's and EC-135's during the Cold War. He would fly up over communist countries and they had various anti air defenses that would go through their first stages (tracking) and they would keep an eye on them and mark them on a map.
NerdFighter40351 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The official story States that the Aurora Borealis led the plane off course. Also I don't think at that time SAM's could reach that height. U2's were designed to fly super high to avoid being shot down.
NerdFighter40351 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The official story States that the Aurora Borealis led the plane off course. Also I don't think at that time SAM's could reach that height. U2's were designed to fly super high to avoid being shot down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Famously a U2 was shot down by a SAM.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did we die?
acouvis ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:19:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vasili Arkhipov, the same guy who was in charge of the Widow-maker, is equally credited with preventing a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis:
jamey0077 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:21:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
several humanitarian awards?
More like, how about this guy gets EVERY AWARD AVAILABLE ON THE Fucking PLANET.
This gave me chills man.
mziff ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:42:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a pretty amazing documentary about this called "The Man Who Saved The World" that follows him around as he goes to the UN to get an award and retells all about it. It's interesting to see how it changed him and his point of view on it all.
antsugi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:48:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why it's always important to have that guy at work that knows the ins and outs and quirks of the machines
Sloptit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:27:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's me.
sudsomatic ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:49:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There were actually several other close calls during the war
Ramn_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:41:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And here I am, a young Swede, slowly munching away at my last cold Swedish meatball while reading this in total peace. Man, time's really changed. I mean, not for us, we were pretty much the same throughout, but yours... damn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't all meatballs in your country Swedish meatballs? Also, enjoy!
Ramn_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:20:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be surprised. A lot of German meatballs. Yes, German meatballs. Heresy. Who do they think they are? Do they know who we are?
Preposterous.
TheMeticulousOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol I was about to say, before I read the second half of your post that your parents probably ate cold meatballs too during the news broadcast of the Cuban missile crisis or something
biggustdikkus ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:45:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be living Fallout 4 raiding and looting if some other retard was in his spot.
aegis2293 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you'd be dead.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:46:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself, smoothskin.
ShadowM4st3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably not even alive in the first place.
Does that still mean you're dead or do you have to be alive to die?
FPSGamer48 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOW DO WE NOT LEARN OF THIS MAN MORE OFTEN?!?!? HE IS THE REASON ANYONE BORN AFTER 1983 IS EVEN ALIVE!
ALobpreis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incredible how the push of a button can dramatically change the course of the world...
Zerowantuthri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This wasn't even the first time.
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world almost ended multiple times during that period. There were Russians living in the states who had the authority to launch a nuclear strike without the approval of Russia. All the times they could have done it while living here, listening to all our news about how the US might start it.
Or in the Bay of Pigs when Bobby Kennedy proved he was by far the smartest Kennedy.
hypodermicninja ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same goes for Sir Mike Jackson of the British army who basically told Wesley Clark to fuck off when he ordered NATO troops to attack Russian troops stationed at Pristina Airport.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good lord.
manesag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So opposite WarGames. Holy shit
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
saw a one hour documentary about that. He was one cool cat under pressure. Thank god!
coltonmusic15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's incredibly interesting.
siha_tu-fira ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I teach software testing and love referencing him as the "Tester Who Saved the World"
fortevn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How big of a shit that could really be if he chose otherwise? I mean, yeah, Russia and USA would probably laid in ruin like the Fallout game series. But what about the rest of the world?
IncendiaryB ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:53:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been explained to me one way before. If every nuclear nation launched their entire arsenal at once, and 99% of the missiles were disabled or destroyed before they hit their target, the remaining 1% would still be enough to end all life on the planet. That's something to consider.
fortevn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But at that time weren't only US and Russia hadving nuclear weapons? And they will fire at each others. Although it's true if a war broke out others countries would join in. But I suck at history to guess.
bobnye ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort of what I was thinking. I mean there would surely be problems, but is New Zealand going to be hugely affected? I don't think it's quite the apocalypse.
DonutCopLord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear fallout would kill everything, not the nukes themselves
WalterFStarbuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's scary is how many different stories there are like this that happened during the cold war. The one that comes to my mind (and others have posted many of the other stories) happened at NORAD. During a training exercise, they used drill tapes (big magnetic tape reels that showed what different Soviet first strikes would look like) and forgot to switch the external feed that goes out to the distributed commands running the launch facilities across the nation. Miraculously someone caught the error before anything was actually launched but for more than a few minutes, the entire nuclear arsenal stood on very real alert because as best as anyone could tell it was the end of human civilization. Because NORAD was transmitting a worst case scenario Soviet first strike for in-house training purposes out as if it was a real attack.
snapfractalpop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the nuclear war did occur. We only survive today because of quantum immortality.
gabbathehut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First USSR Top Brass commended him. Then stripped him of his commission and fired him. Not he is generally viewed by Russian officials as a hero. May even have a stamp but I can't 100% claim this.
AkshagPhotography ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he was on reddit, his action would be the most guilded post ever
DangermanAus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
'83 was a sketchy year.
There is this, the RYAN program the Soviets had to detect a NATO first strike that was pure paranoia, the Korean Airline 007 shoot down by the Soviets, Regan's 'evil empire' statements, Pershing II missiles in West Germany and their 7 minutes to Moscow capability, and to wrap it all up Able Archer 83 exercise (full network exercise using proper nuclear launch protocols) which the Soviets thought was Operation Barbarossa II (Nazi Germany sneak attack on the Soviet Union in WWII).
Deutschland '83 is a great show that went through this period. I highly recommend watching it.
Wiki page that has many of the events in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
Joseph_Brawlin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cant even fucking fathom the balls of mythril on this guy to make a call like that, well done Petrov!
thegr8rambino13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea this is definitely up there, my sister was born that exact day lol
xiongzxiongz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah because the US is the entire world, you insular redneck
BlueBerryNinjaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
99 Red Balloons go by
dysfunctional_vet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 26 Sep 2016 Help us celebrate Petrov day. September 26. There are at least 5 of us.
ThisIsReLLiK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, I didn't know we were that close to IRL Fallout. TIL.
Mr_Quagmire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interestingly enough, he's not the first Russian to save the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1962#October_27.2C_1962_.28Saturday.29
There's a good PBS special dedicated to him:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-man-who-saved-the-world-watch-the-full-episode/905/
Nepoxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How serious would it have been though? If Petrov had thought the U.S. really had fired ICBMs, what would Russia's response have been? Is their only option to counter attack?
-Goshawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The unknown is the scariest thing for me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome, but my question is: when considering the political climate of 1983, is there any reason whatsoever that the USA would completely randomly decide to start a MAD nuclear war? ...No. And with five missiles? FUCK no that's just ridiculous. So it doesn't exactly take a genius to discern that that was a false alarm. Still ice cold on his part don't get me wrong, but not like it was some exceptional feat of mental reasoning
CocktailPenist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking glints of sunlight on the clouds near Montana...
Rabbyte808 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Insane to think how many times during the Cold War that the fate of the world came down to one or two people. Just one stupid or overly gung-ho person and none of us would be here today.
Sleeper256 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
99 red balloons, floating in the summer sky...
kensai01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would have been only months alive at the time. That is so fucked.
lennybird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't there a similar incident with a Russian nuclear submarine off Cuba where three officers had separate keys to activate the nukes? I think there's a documentary on it.
IncendiaryB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know I was actually looking for this instance to post since it is arguably the one of the absolute CLOSEST instances of nuclear war breaking out.
Prominer44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vasili Arkhipov, yet another hero of the Cold War.
SLPicnicBasket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The world actually got much closer on January 25, 1995 when the Norwegians released a rocket to observe the Aurora borealis. The message was passed all around the world but the crumbling Soviet Union had problems with bueracracy and the message never made it up top. The rocket was thought to be a US launched missle, but luckily, according to legend, Yeltsin was drunk at the time and said he did not think his friend Bill Clinton would attack the Soviets.
Zodiii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We were arguably closer to a M.A.D. scenario during the Norwegian Rocket Incident, which was one of, if not the only time, nuclear keys were activated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident
username_004 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That man deserves a monument in DC.
He should be taught about in our schools.
007T ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โซ As 99 red balloons go by โช
Brittle_Bones_Bishop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean to be honest if im the guy who's in charge of determining weather a nuke from an enemy is launched or not I'd want to be damn sure before I make that call because I could single handedly end the world.
twitchchat9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck that is terrifying
AccessTheMainframe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was probably many instances where false positives were detected and set up the chain, who would then make the same judgment call as this one particular officer did. The only reason this story is unusual is that this man made the call a few tiers lower than normal.
thebachmann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is crazy, I've never even heard of this before. You'd think this would be something taught in schools, but I guess not.
ZhouDa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's not just this one instance either, the world came pretty close to nuclear annihilation on multiple occasions. I don't have time to look them up so I only remember the most famous one of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but if time travelers did exist I'd have to think keeping a nuclear war from happening would be a full time occupation before anyone could bother killing Hitler.
crulwhich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would Donald Trump be the one to make that call if he were president?
0ttr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real scariest thing is that we came to the brink much more often than this one incident.
Read the book Command and Control and you'll discover that probably about every other year of the cold war we came as close or closer to a complete nuclear disaster or war. No book has ever given me nightmares like that did.
dankclaw420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then again coming close to nuclear war has happened so many times
ihlaking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes, that was close! My life would have ended two months before it began!
jumpy_monkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now go listen to what those goddamn idiots running for the Republican nomination at the debate tonight were saying, all saber rattling and braying about "confronting" Russia and China and arming their enemies or sending out carrier battle groups to intimidate and fuck knows what else just begging to get into a war; and most of the people in audience were egging them on.
I wanted one sane person to tell them the truth, to tell them "If there is a nuclear exchange, all of you, all of your children, all of your friends and neighbor are going to die. Every one. You will either die outright or die slowly and painfully, but your lives and everything you know will be over. Over."
Cheer for that your stupid fuckers.
IncendiaryB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before Rand Paul dropped out I was backing him 100%. As well as being the only liberty minded candidate, he called everyone else out on their warhawk bullshit, like threatening to set up a no-fly zone over Syria and shoot down Russian jets. Just absolute bullshit.
Rough_Cut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moral of the story: If you want to win a war against Russia, only launch 5 missiles.
Baym-n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2277106/
wtfsven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, you'd be surprised exactly how many nuclear bombs it would take to destroy the earth, or even make the majority of it unlivable.
Source
lutel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He should have be awarded with peace Nobel. Apparently that prize was given to Al Gore who made great power point about global warming.
IncendiaryB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Nobel Peace prize is sadly incredibly political. There is no room for actual change-makers.
FakingHappiness513 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But https://youtu.be/k3IlHBBGCIw
Yeast_or_gtfo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, that must have been a hard decision to make
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. also had a system glitch like that where it looked like the Soviets had fired missiles:
At 8:50am, on the morning on November 9th, 1979, a warning appeared on the computers of four American command centers (including at the Pentagon and at the Strategic Air Commandโs bunker deep beneath Cheyenne Mountain) that a massive Soviet ICBM strike was en route to the United States. Minuteman nuclear missiles were readied to launch a retaliatory attack, and the National Emergency Airborne Command Post (a 747 modified to resist the effects of EMPs and radiation) took off, although the president was not on board. Senior officers quickly convened a threat assessment conference. However, after six tense minutes, early warning satellites and radar showed that no Russian missiles had been launched. It was later discovered that a training tape depicting a massive Soviet attack had accidentally been loaded into the early warning computers, and had generated the false alarm. After an investigation of the incident, a new off-site facility was created on which to run training tapes.
NiceSasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hmmm, so the US can just go ahead and really launch 5 missiles at russia, and they'll ignore them.
Then they can launch all the rest of them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My pussy brother uses this as his 'war experience' because he was in Germany in '83. No, you didn't go to war, you don't know what it is to be a veteran, shut the fuck up. We barely mentioned it at dinner back then, it was that insignificant and no one remembers but history buffs.
fullmetalpopsical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I get him Reddit gold
knillex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"thanks for not turning this place to shit bro, heres a gold star :) "
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's cool to know, thanks for sharing
ineedmymedicine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
two months before i was born, I would have been okay with this
merecido ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
IComposeEFlats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
99 luftballoons
harbingerofe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually did a junior high history project on him, and if I remember correctly, I think he was even in the states at or around that time? It was really cool to be doing a project on a guy who was being talked about at that time.
Swagstah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watchmen, anyone?
ver489 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They made a documentary about him called "the man who saved the world". It's really good. But the guy hardly takes credit for anything.
ephemeraln0d3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! sept 26
trobe211 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How have I never heard of this??
somecow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a "missile" (actually just a radio beacon) that was programmed to fly all over the USSR and squawk a signal to launch ever single last nuke they had, more or less?
jrk1841 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talk about a fun fact
BBQsauce18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for not killing all of us
hamclammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, the reddit repost to end all reposts
ontbijtkoek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worth watching: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2277106/?mode=desktop
Sickooo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I remember correctly he only got recognized by the UN. The Soviets actually demoted him because of the whole thing
Xiphias_ ยท 1650 points ยท Posted at 23:30:10 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gympie Gympie
petrik77 ยท 1341 points ยท Posted at 01:17:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soldier wiped ass with it. Shot himself.
dmon670 ยท 528 points ยท Posted at 02:39:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hair becomes a self injecting hypodermic needle. Holy shit.
[deleted] ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 03:13:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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chubbsw ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:24:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You mean like bull-nettle? Not as bad as gympie gympie, but OMG the agony I felt lol. I was 12 working out of town and staying in a camper with coworkers. There was a really small man I thought it'd be fun to wrestle him down just to see if I could. I was wearing gym shorts only fresh out of the shower and ended up rolling all around in bull nettle while wrestling with him. I was fucked until the next morning. I got stung by a little blue triangular jellyfish once, not so bad, but the full body bull nettle rivaled having my 3rd degree burn scrubbed.. At least for one evening.
Edit: Didn't realize this sounded like an erotic scene until I re-reddit this AM lol. Especially if you read it in an Alec Baldwin voice. Damn wine...
Orlitoq ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:25:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Sworn_to_Ganondorf ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 10:08:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First story sounded like a gay sex encounter at first lol
TheChinook ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 10:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he was fucked until the next morning.
Knight12ify ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I mean doesn't that depend on the jellyfish? Isn't there that one jellyfish that moron stung himself, a lifeguard and his son with and nearly killed all three?
jukranpuju ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:35:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's irukandji jellyfish (of course in Australia) which has a sting described to go beyond Spinal Tap, in a pain index from 0 to 10, one victim ranked it 12. Besides most excruciating pain in the whole body, sting victims also experience "a psychological phenomena such as the feeling of impending doom" and the symptoms may last weeks.
chubbsw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely, I didn't want to call it the wrong name is all and sound like a liar. It was a blue man o war in South Padre (Gulf of Mexico) but it barely dragged a few tentacles across my foot/calf.
Knight12ify ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you're lucky though - I mean wrong jellyfish, then no more worrying about the bull-nettle for you my friend.
EONS ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:53:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sell your stories ala Kramer
DaddyRocka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? This is what your wrestling partner thought would take your mind off of it?
notyourtypicalwife ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:38:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know with nettles to make the stinging stop you find a fern with the little orange dots on the back of the leaves and rub it on the area that was stung and it makes the pain/stinging stop within minutes. Learned it from a boy scout.
Willmono7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think jellyfish are a little cooler, their is a spring loaded poison harpoon.
channel4newsman ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the doctors in the article said he felt the effects of it for two years!!
fiddlecocks ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:23:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine when it finally went away
alitayy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:29:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is intermittent, so he wouldn't really know when it was gone.
dingoransom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The relief would be so euphoric.
Willmono7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stinging nettles are just the same
Caridor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not actually uncommon. Many plants, such as the common stinging nettle have this.
Pricerocks ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
g0_west ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not as bad as the guy who fell into the tree and was hospitalised for 3 weeks, eventually going mad.
Fuck man.
MadHiggins ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:31:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
an urban legend, as soon as he would have touched it with his hand he'd have known what it was.
Veritech-1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless he's wearing gloves, as soldiers often do.
MadHiggins ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 04:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
who wipes their butt wearing gloves? your gloves would get covered in shit since they're like 5 times bulkier than your fingers.
Veritech-1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:01:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone who shits outside when its cold.
LWAW ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:07:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but I doubt it gets that cold in Queensland.
Veritech-1 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:09:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're the real thinker.
MadHiggins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you can't take your gloves off for the seconds it takes to wipe your ass to avoid getting them covered in literal crap? i'm not buying it.
nobody2000 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus - isn't the cure literally something like duck tape? You get stung, you place the tape on it, rub it in so it sticks to the needles well, and then pull.
It's a simple answer, and seems, to a point, intuitive, especially when they'd have known that the soldier wiped with gympie gympie.
Finalpotato ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:51:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cure is actually rubbing hydrochloric acid on the affected area.
nobody2000 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems to be both
Finalpotato ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:17:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah all I remember is the hydrochloric acid is an important tep because it denatures the poison. Though obviously you dont want to KEEP the spines in.
Pimping_NZ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I totally get it but I am still laughing at the cause and effect
Savor_The_Flavor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:45:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless you're really talented, wiping ones ass with a leaf would almost certainly require grabbing it first. How would he have not known what it was before wiping?
Spork-in-Your-Rye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow of all the plants that were probably around him, he took that one. Damn that sucks.
Zombare ยท 536 points ยท Posted at 01:57:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm always fascinated with living organisms such as these. They look so innocent but god damn what in their developmental history caused them to become so damn mean/defensive?
This is ridiculous, it is a fuzzy looking leaf but it will completely floor your if you so much as brush it.
40Koalas ยท 1144 points ยท Posted at 02:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Stop fucking eating me"
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 04:41:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You wiping yo ass with me? Awww hell no!!!"
firedrake242 ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:27:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We aren't fucking doing this mate"
Letty_Whiterock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought being eaten was beneficial for plants because it helps seeds spread.
Stale-Memes ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:33:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think only if fruit is eaten, because that's where the seeds are.
Tocoapuffs ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:51:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the fruit is fine! Just remove all of the hairs first.
FierceDeity_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:50:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want to be the guy who removes the hair off of those fruits for a living
wrong_assumption ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:59:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That also works with humans, actually.
A_favorite_rug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what peppers are telling us, but look at them now! Let's make Gympie Toilet Paper!
EPIKGUTS24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"u gonna eat me? ill fucken show you m8"
[deleted] ยท 505 points ยท Posted at 02:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia, the Cold War of evolution.
JamoJustReddit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this metaphor
canyouhearme ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia really ought to weaponise it's native flora and fauna - imagine an invasive rice species crossed with the Gympie Gympie plant....
jedimika ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:18:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, why not cross it with kudzu and destroy the earth.
purpleslug ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:29:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO
canyouhearme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't read "Death of Grass" ...
wrong_assumption ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:00:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, now the atomic bomb sounds to me like a nice bonfire.
Bloods9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think u/DO_U_EVN_SPAGHETTI would approve of that...
Juvar23 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:58:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia is winning.
GeminiK ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:06:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I know they're winning, I want to know if they've won.
Nomicakes ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 05:37:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still working on it. Things are still alive here.
Username_not_taken0 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol the only thing upvoted all day
heroman44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reach reference?
GeminiK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn right.
Gray_side_Jedi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:46:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia isn't winning. It won long ago.
0xyidiot ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:48:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like Australia is what happens when an Arms race goes to far. Like sure you can nuke the entire world 5 times over, but whats the point after 2?
NewAndExistingUser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So there are two animals who's extinction I'm amazed hasn't happened yet, sloth is one and koala is the other.
pm_me_ur_burnttoast ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:30:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't question Koalas. You don't fuck with drop bears bro.
laughingrrrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially if you don't want STDs.
Xan_the_man ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:00:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe that is why koalas only eat eucalyptus leaves. The second leaf they tried was this fucker and they immediately decided they aren't taking any chances again!
Consanguineously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders, centipedes and scorpions are just remnants from a really pissed off arms race.
LordOverThis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:19 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And sharks. They're what happens when nature goes "what if we just gave something all the teeth?"
Dynamaxion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears man...
stabbyrum ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's also crazy is that it's one of the only edible things in the area it grows, but the fruit is covered in hairs.
Even more interesting though is that because of how painful they are animals and even other plants grow away from them, making it harder for it to actually pollinate etc. So some are starting to grow without the pain poison on their hairs.
Vanity_Blade ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:31:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What fresh hell is this?
pokemaugn ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:34:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THEY'RE ALIVE
Mr_Chaple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeds get spread by animal droppings. Animals steer clear of these fuckers. No seeds dropped near them.
GikeM ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant hogweed was brought to Britain as an ornamental plant. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Now it is popping up everywhere and in my town it even grew at a school and stung a kid pretty bad who went into a bush to get a football back.
ACAFWD ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:33:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking shit. They brought that as an invasive species?!
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what Florida says about exotic snakes.
cespes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:33:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It got lucky. One day, some tiny little mutation changed their chemical composition just slightly, in such a way that just so happens to sting like a motherfucker.
toxicmischief ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:18:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shitty parenting.
fordr015 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what in their developmental history caused them to become so damn mean/defensive?
The devil bro, duh.
MG87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because Australia.
jzerocoolj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsnip#Toxicity
A friend of mine brushed against this, the sap/oils on the leaves cause the area they touch to become hypersensitive to sunlight. She ended up getting blistery sunburns in a few spots on her arm that left scars. Nasty stuff.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:15 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm pretty sure the local human and animal population learned very fast to avoid this plant. Back in the days when people still lived traditional hunter-gatherer lives they knew their plants and would stay away from the dangerous/poisonous ones.
So this is just regular evolution. Works for the plant, no one destroys or eats it.
SoElectric ยท 551 points ยท Posted at 00:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to Australia! You might accidentally get killed, Your blood is bound to be spilled.
stanley_apex ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:11:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With survival you must be skilled, You must also be strong willed.
crypticfreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Creating a character, you mustn't oppose to be skilled,
For you will only survive if you choose a strong build.
Cooper1590 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know man, I went with an INT focused build instead of strength and boy do I regret it! The magic sucks and I haven't been able to leave the starting town.
crypticfreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, never invest in arcane or blood your first play through. Every little bit of damage counts and you need those early game advantages. I'd say start over, but that's your call.
Head_to_toe_legit ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your life's constantly under threat
Have you been bitten yet?
Only got 3 seconds left
'Til a massive coronary breakdown!
AmbassadorForThe90s ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a song written by some scared weird little guys.
JollyOldBogan ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redback, funnelweb, blue ring octopus, taipan, tigersnake, adder, box jellyfish, stonefish, and the poison thing that lives in a shell, that spikes you when you pick it up!
WhipWing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:26:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would like to see Australia but this shit is terrifying and now trees can fuck you up there?
JollyOldBogan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, in all honesty you're not gonna see jack shit of this unless you're bush bashing out Woop Woop way.
Only thing you have to worry about in big cities are drunk bogans, the price of coffee/beer and maybe Bill Shorten.
stoneknight2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot bullet ants
bmscott ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:42:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Australia, everything can kill you except the people. (In America, it's the other way around)
Here's a simple, common jellyfish - it's invisible - sometimes even painless sting - you just drop dead 3 days later... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish
Kiumbra ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that children is why you must never visit the valley of nopes
Actual_princess ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...or it hurts worse than anything ever and you die in minutes...
OneTripleZero ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:06:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck yeah Common Kingslayer!
Rykaar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're also the only continent without active volcanoes.
That or they're just dodgy time-bombs that could go off at any moment.
Gray_side_Jedi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders scared all the volcanoes away, most likely...
Smidy81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'On a pain index of zero to ten, with zero being no pain at all and ten being the most excruciating pain imaginable, Dr. Jamie Seymour ranked the pain of a sting from an Irukandji jellyfish a twelve.'
indorock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still doesn't come close to death by dropbear. shudder
morgazmo99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:09:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your formatting is a tad confusing
SoElectric ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redditing on my phone, sorry.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh it's not that it's easy to figure out I just thought it was funny
albertofranfruple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your pants are bound to be filled
TastyBleach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I know that song, scared wierd little guys?
TheNosferatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the third thing in this thread which originates from Australia.
Why do people live there?
IVotedForClayDavis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I visited the US, I fell into drinking with some locals and the topic of deadly Australian things came up. Mustering the most serious expression I could, I informed these poor Americans that Australia, in addition to having a country the size of the USA, also once had a population the same size*. Those of us who lived in Australia now were just the last remaining survivors of a continent hell-bent on wiping any trace of humanity from it's lands. We were all very drunk, and for a little while, I think they believed me.
*Australia's current population is approaching 24 million people. We have never been subject to extinction level events on the scale I described.
TheNosferatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all that long ago I decided to watch some live stream that was posted on Reddit, it was supposed to start 5 minutes after I saw the post.
~10 minutes later the guy put up a message, 'sorry, live stream is delayed and will start in ~30 minutes. A (several meters long) snake got in my house and I'm trying to get it out.'
Normally I wouldn't have the patience to wait 30 minutes for a live stream but when there is a bigass snake involved, I wanna know how it ends.
After 30 minutes several people started wondering if the guy was still alive. 10 minutes after that the live stream started as if nothing had happened. Somewhere witnessing this made me realize how boring my country was, and I didn't really mind.
Also, an extinction event only counts if it happens in a short time span. Australia is trying to kill you guys ever since you got there. :P
Slammasam2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't wait!
otherdroidurlookin4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
with pee your pants will be filled.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you don't have rabies though.
mproj ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:02:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speaking of Australia, snapbears are pretty vicious.
nancyaw ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget drop bears.
ayotechnology ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lost a couple of friends when a drop bear landed on a hoop snake and rode it after them.
RIP In Peace Dirty Mike and the Boyz.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:06:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
...jesus fuck.
ozbian ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:58:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tropical australian here. I feel like that's a plant I should've known about before now!
cudachal ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:58:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck did evolution make STINGING TREES.
Scherzkeks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:25:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OF COURSE ITS IN AUSTRALIA
cespes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can this be weaponized? That sounds horrifying. I'm amazed no one has done it yet.
ihatehappyendings ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:29:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would be classified as chemical warfare
Or if you somehow engineer the plants to develop easy to blow away leaves, it'd be a biological weapon. Both of which are strictly forbidden by laws of war.
That being said, it would be wise to develop such a weapon in a just in case scenario in secrecy, if not already, especially the biological kind as it would be nearly untraceable, have very delayed effects and ultimately devastate the economical power of your target.
L3dpen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wise in which way? Weaponize something like that and it would spread. We'd have an uncontrollable, far spreading, inescapable torture device take over a chunk of the world. There's a reason bio/chemical weapons are banned, they would be in nobody's interest.
Tuistedcookie ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is not scary. Painful but not scary. I got stung by one of those Gympie Stingers (Dendrocnide moroides) when I was 8. I was living on Tambourine mountain and I was running through some bushy area on my property and I actually grabbed the leaf with a full fist. It hurt a lot. My father put my hand in hot water and most of the fine hairlike spines came out.
Scherzkeks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations. You just made it scarier.
eric67 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you mean mount tamborine?
slazer2au ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely, damn mountain goats.
Tuistedcookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Avelaide ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I one created a power point presentation for my college speech class about the dangers of Australia. Apparently I missed one.
sammij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to trek around the Daintree rainforest, bloody glad I have never experienced this pain.
pm_your_netflix_Queu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew it would be in Australia
kingmike9879 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bro take a pic of me next to this plant
slazer2au ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a video on ebamsworld with a guy touching it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would this be anywhere else BUT Australia?
Tyrannosapien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the treatments is diluted hydrochloric acid. We're talking pain so bad that acid makes it better.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โBeing stung is the worst kind of pain you can imagine - like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same timeโ. I really hope noone actually know what experiencing those two things simultaneously feels like. Although I suppose it feels like being stung by this plant. Wait...
SailorRalph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you Australia. Your people are great but your environment and ecosystems are literally the worst.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Their work is chemical warfare so I can only assume they were investigating its use as a biological weapon."
That's a pretty chilling ending too.
ambersroses81 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The guy in the picture is uh...awfully fucking close to the suicide plant there.
ihatehappyendings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Country checks out.
Deadpool_irl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tucker bush man!
TedTheViking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it's from Australia.
Dreizu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain called it way, way before reading the entirety of the article. These horror stories make me want to cuddle into my faux fur blankie and never leave the states forever.
LimePersonality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I read stuff like this and think of the years of evolution it must have taken for that plant to go from defence to offense, I think of humans. Part of me truly believes we have really evolved well for oursleves and the other part is still like; when the fuck do we start being born with poison talons and sonar?
kesekimofo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost walked into this shit once when I visited that killer country. Australian buddy, in a calm and no big deal tone was like " watch it, that stuff makes you want to rip your flesh off."
Well alrighty...I'll be at the airport getting the hell off this continent.
ans141 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the same as Bull Nettle?
Undecided_Username_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if there are any fools on YouTube who do challenges with this tree.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had my first brush with what I assume was poison oak last summer hiking near the Oregon coast. I hadn't previously made myself aware of what to watch out for, must've brushed against it without knowing. Blisters and a scar is what I got. I don't know why I had always thought it just made you itch/rash, no it can fuck you up.
hyperlite135 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really interesting read. Australia never fails to amuse me.
Zdrastvutye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surprise, surprise, this plant is in Australia.
audreyfbird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy did it for TV.. He pukes from the pain.
Leakimlraj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I don't go outside.
goodthinggoingon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, this plant is literally the Australian version of the nettle.
WaterWaterAdult ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck Australia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is a video of some dude touching it. On purpose.
ZealotOnPc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gympies not a very nice place, either.
ffryd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're just going to let this one slide?
NobleHalcyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
-Snakes
-Sharks
-The Dentist from Find Nemo
-Spiders
-Gympie Gympie
Reasons to stay the fuck away from that continent.
mkultra9885 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only someone had shown M. Night this plant before The Happening...who am I kidding, nothing could have saved that movie.
kkjdroid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of its victims was actually named Les Moore. Wow.
Enjoying_A_Meal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why were they being so casual about it?
"i heard the berries on this suicide inducing tree is edible"
Picks one and eats it.
"not much taste to them kind of water."
Guide," ya careful now mate, and watch how I point out the spine by waving my hand inches above the leaves"
stephj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The researcher pictured goes by the name "Les Moore."
Well done, parents.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:41 on July 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I raise you the Bullet ant sting.
[deleted] ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 23:18:58 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 01:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched the episode of House the other night where he removes a surprise tapeworm from a girls stomach, whilst I was eating spaghetti...noooooooooope
seahawks9091699091 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a good one. when I watched it: "So I can have one in me?" Then my internet cut
sapandsawdust ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:57:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever heard of The Troop by Nick Cutter? Horror book, will never not be terrified of tapeworms again.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I...am ok with getting a tapeworm. I would lose weight, that's for sure.
110Liam ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer from a tape worm can spread to you.
pewtz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also how freaking common these things are in our pets and other domestic animals.
[deleted] ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 02:44:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Limnic eruption
Powdercum ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:40:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still, some people think it is a good idea to capture and store atmospheric CO2 that way.
AltaSkier ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:05:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On a similar note...herds of bison were found dead in Yellowstone in winter years back. At first the park suspected poachers but it was winter and interior Yellowstone is hard to access. Turns out there was an overnight temperature inversion and all the gases from the nearby geysers and geologic features became trapped at ground level and suffocated the Bison. Since learning this, I've wondered if you could have an event around the main geyser basins that could potentially harm visitors and other people to Yellowstone.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:23:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats equally terrifying! Sounds like a freakin' x-file...
AltaSkier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:34:19 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An inversion during winter at Yellowstone actually makes a pretty dramatic scene at dawn. The heavy fog that crystalizes on all the trees with the sun just coming up and perhaps a coyote or a fox loping by makes a really magical sunrise.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just looked up a few images of what you described. It is actually very pretty, in a creepy, ominous way
_bieber_hole_69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instantly suffocating for no immediate reason sounds terrifying. If that were to happen, I'd just light a match and watch the world burn
Mar1eC ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lighting a match wouldn't do anything. Fire needs oxygen not CO2. The match would just burn out almost inmeadiately.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what a way to go -_-
[deleted] ยท 2904 points ยท Posted at 23:06:39 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons
1992Olympics ยท 1115 points ยท Posted at 00:08:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maaaaayyybeee, you'll think of me
Cowman_42 ยท 520 points ยท Posted at 00:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you are all alone...
Dennyboy101 ยท 293 points ยท Posted at 01:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the one who is waiting for you.
IAMA_Plumber-AMA ยท 284 points ยท Posted at 01:42:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will prove untrue, then what wiiiillll youuuuu doooooooooo?
Hanpwolf ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maaaaybee, you'll sit and sigh, wishing that I were near...
IAMA_Plumber-AMA ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:04:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Dear...
Maybe, you'll ask me toooo come back agaaaaaaain...
Aaaa aa aand maaaaybe, I'll be there baaaaaybyyyyy.
Watawkichaw ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:11:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe I'll say maybe!
IAMA_Plumber-AMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oops, you got me!
lovesducks ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 01:58:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the ink spots?
goeljranados ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 02:00:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
yup. everyone relates the ink spots with nuclear weapons for some strange reason. you could say their career set the world on fire
edit: /s
ionwesker ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 02:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always associate it with the image of a of a Power armored trooper putting a bullet in the back of someones head.
ixijimixi ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 02:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just how they'd have wanted to be remembered, I'm sure.
Royalties. Royalties never changes
xVale ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 02:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always think of the opening scene of Fallout 3 when I hear the Ink Spots.
goeljranados ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 02:28:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout singlehandedly brought back 40s/50s music
TheRealPinkman ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:59:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout is the reason I got into swing, big band, and stride in my piano playing and it's the reason I have a monthly gig at a cabaret now.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Polish_Potato ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:41:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lay that pistol doooooooooooowwwwnnn
CaptainDefect ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much.
foreverinLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BioShock helped too. But yeah Fallout started that way before BioShock existed. I'm just not sure how many people remember the first one.
stubbsie208 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:28:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do! Every now and again I'll get nostalgic and play through 1 and 2, and then progress onto another few months of FOnline.
Guennor ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:01:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I picture an old tv with destroyed buildings on the background
TheCoolman78 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:55:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guennor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember the mr handy commercial
A_favorite_rug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That was a Canadian civ getting shot if I recall.
ionwesker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it was a power armor trooper.
Justadabwilldo ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:33:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That strange reason being the Fallout games.
eDgEIN708 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:09:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't spoil the joke like that! Get out of here with that and go do something good with your life like helping out this settlement that's in trouble, here, I'll mark it on your map.
mr-snrub- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:55:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They've recently used this song in an ad for Workplace Safety in Australia and I can't take it seriously cause I can think about is Fallout 4
ImALittleCrackpot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:55:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was also used at the end of the animated short film Logorama. Watch the credits all the way to the end.
asifbaig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I could find some videos of those songs. Like with actual people singing, not those static image crap videos on youtube. I assume most songs were on radio but there could be some videos that have evaded my google-fu.
a_p3rson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really think it actually started a flame in my heart
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's because of the Fallout video games. The Ink Spots music plays during the opening cutscenes.
Rizaldeez ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:17:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're spot on
IAMA_Plumber-AMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:59:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes!
TylerIsI ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:15:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mayyyybeee, you'll sit and decide, wishing that I were nearrrrr.
promonk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to start a flame in your heeeaaart!
MNGaming ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maaaayybeee, you'll sit and sigh...
IAMA_Plumber-AMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wishing that I, were near...
Dear...
Maybe, you'll ask me toooo come back agaaaaaaain...
Aaaa aa aand maaaaybe, I'll be there baaaaaybyyyyy.
Jabeebaboo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maaaaybeee, you'll sit and sigh... Wishiiiing that I weeeeere near
Mr_GoodBud ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:54:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whack! Smack! Choppin that meat!
conrailmechanic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallouts leaking and your not doing YOUR GODDAMN JOB.
IAMA_Plumber-AMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tunnel snake removal service?
conrailmechanic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:59:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And while your at it, my dads water purifier is broken.
faphappy16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom's spaghetti
V-Bomber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will be untrue
Delliott90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe... Just maybe....
sillyponcho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will prove untrue.
cyfermax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never alone, have dogmeat.
Dogmeat is love, dogmeat is life.
Threedawg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bow wow
Calamity58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War.. War never changes..
MarcelRED147 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:52:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genuinely thought your comment was related to your user name for a second then. Got very confused.
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:18:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is it not ? what happened in 1992. What ?!?!?!
o0DrWurm0o ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking more along the lines of "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know wheeeeeen"
WikiWantsYourPics ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about "We will all go together when we go"?
Beejsterb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 1992 Olympics?
PinkertonTM ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I started thinking of the 1992 Olympics, not knowing this was a song at first :l
IComposeEFlats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll think of you, and let it gooooo
FreshPrinceOfNowhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it the Unified Team? Were they a conspiracy? WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE '92 OLYMPICS???
Stevet159 ยท 516 points ยท Posted at 01:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons with trump holding the codes, while in a Twitter fight.
ToPimpAButterface ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 02:57:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump doesn't stand a chance in a Twitter fight cause Hillary will just have all his tweets deleted
DaBlueCaboose ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:23:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SAVAGE
R00t240 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume you've seen his terrifying response to the triad question during the debate. Had no fucking clue what the triad is but that didn't stop him from vomiting some scary nonsense to prove how clueless he is on the matter. Watch the video its a doozy http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/12/17/what-is-nuclear-triad-debate-sot.cnn
"I think โ I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.โ Trump
NoMouseville ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:17:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was basically saying that nukes are devostating and scary, and that the biggest threat in his eyes is a rogue state gaining that power. He sure as hell had no idea about the triad, but it's not like he was saying 'Yeah, let's nuke everybody!' - quite the opposite.
He'd still make a shit president, though.
_MUY ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, let's not ignore that his rambling response which demonstrated absolutely zero understanding of the job of the president actually began with the string "We need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who's totally responsible, who really really knows what he or she is doing".
He uses words like "absolutely" and small phrases about responsibility, skill, knowledge as a way to buy time while he's creating a reply. It's almost the same as listening to a teenager saying "um" and "like".
He then launches into memory as a way to prove that he's knowledgable to cover for the fact that he actually isn't knowledgable on the subjectโany high schooler with no foreign policy experience could have said that going into Iraq would have destabilized the region.
Then he segues into an attack on President Obama and a snipe at Global Warming, putting negative emphasis on the name to build up his audience, repeats himself, and moves back toward a vacuous three-repeat list on the subject of nuclear devices: nuclear, nuclear proliferation, and "having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon".
There is absolutely no substance to this man.
Megmca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:19:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well at least we won't have to worry about our loan payments.
Shankocity ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is funny because I can so see trump threatening someone with nukes on twitter.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:06:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one is giving the codes to Trump, believe me.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You told me that Trump wouldn't even make it the first week of running.
I don't believe you anymore.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:22:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always knew Trump had a chance. Hell, he knew too. But I can assure you that he won't be president.
parrotpeople ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't. I think there's a pretty damn good chance of it actually. People talk about him losing in national polls now, but can you imagine when he starts really going after Hillary? She has 10 airports worth of baggage for him to use against her.
fairshoulders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They also serve who only stand and wait.
SebayaKeto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A nuke is overkill even for Rosie O'Donnell
LouQuacious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read "command & control" they're scary as shit just sitting there.
gizamo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:35:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lil' Kim in N. Korea making fun of Drumpf's small hands could be the end of us all.
sillEllis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...what's she doing there? Isn't she still in prison?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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unknownohyeah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
Bremic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see the problem being that Trump will immediately go nuclear with everyone he doesn't like - because there are only enough bombs to destroy the world 100 times over and he would run out...
I see the problem being all the countries he will insult and alienate. The US is a huge economy, with a massive military force, and he will definitely push to use it in ways to bolster his personal agenda. There will be resistance, but there is resistance to the idea of him getting the job in the first place; and yet that seems to be at a non-zero chance of happening.
So what happens when other countries get antsy and what he is threatening to do? There will be an escalation of tension, and it doesn't have to be the US who pushes the button first. And the first button doesn't have to be nuclear. The last 20 years have proven that. Look how much the American Dream has been destroyed without a single nuke being used so far this century.
Morthra ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American Dream was always a farce.
Reddit_cctx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The America dream is being able to provide for your family and being able to live a comfortable lifestyle and there doesn't seem to be very much farcical about that but maybe you can explain it more in depth
nalhunaidi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With Kanye
whirl-pool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Queue twilight zone intro music.
nukedetectorCA94612 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, my job will probably still be safe.
keenanpepper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm honestly way more concerned about North Korea than any US leader, even Donald Trump.
GwenTheWelshGal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope a situation such as that never happens.
DeaconFrostedFlakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With Kim Jong Un
Asdayasman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but if he nukes the Left it's not a big deal.
redrhyski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Safer than President Kanye though.
gallantBlackKnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better than Hillary having the codes when the FBI comes to get her.
IchBinGelangweilt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh dear god why
UserCaleb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody says this, but think about some of the things that Trump has responded to. He usually responds with a sick burn, not by going out and assassinating the person. I also kinda want to mention how Kim Jong Un hasn't blown up South Korea yet.
marino1310 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The president cant fire nuclear weapons at will.
Hell, the president couldnt fire them at all. He just has one of the dozen or so keys required to launch them.
monsieurpommefrites ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump will kill a lot of people as President.
greentoof ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will he kill more than bush though?
monsieurpommefrites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doubtful, but I don't want to find out.
Exsanguination45 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid cunt
bathrobehero ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we get to that point we deserve a nuclear fallout.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for you Americans, why do the rest of the world should suffer for your stupidity.
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not American, I'm talking about humanity as a whole.
earth_sandwich ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You realize he is very anti-war right?
elboltonero ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:42:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only 2 things scare me, and one is nuclear war.
Nipplecheecks ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is the other one a paper cut on your dick head? that scares me.
Blubkill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It didnt scare me until now
Catatonic27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:16:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for that Satan.
Braekdown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
holds crotch ... Fuck man!
Nipplecheecks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also, ex was giving me dome one time and the ball from her tongue piercing went in my peehole. that also scares me.
Braekdown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.... Go on
Nipplecheecks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
thats all i got to say about that.
rathat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's scary because I'm not scared for myself, I'm scared for Humanity, our culture, and life on Earth.
Undecided_User_Name ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 00:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm NUCLEAR!!!!!
flopenden ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:44:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm WILD!!!!
Undecided_User_Name ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 00:51:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm WAKING UP INSIDE...
Monsters_of_the_Past ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:27:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A HEART OF BROKEN GLASS
LuckoftheDuck ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DEFILED
lolt64 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:55:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DEEP INSIDE
THE ABANDOOONED
CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD
Undecided_User_Name ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
STANDING ON THE EDGE OF THE UNDERWORLD
Monsters_of_the_Past ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking into the abyss
Undecided_User_Name ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking AT the abyss!!! Not into, AT
Monsters_of_the_Past ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's been a while since I listened to the song >.<
Undecided_User_Name ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a personal problem
SilentHispanic ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 01:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CANT WAKE UP
Sergeantbmmb ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SSSAAAAAAVEEEE MEEEEEEEE
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WAKE ME UP
EBOLA_CEREAL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BEFORE YOU GO-GO
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you had one job
Sergeantbmmb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't leave me hangin' on like a yo-yo...
A_Prostitute ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:08:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can't wake up
frostyz117 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A HEART OF BROOOOKEN GLASS
dielga1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:48:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(Can't wake up)
Commando388 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A heart of BROKEN GLASS! DEFILED!
ZombieBiologist ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:49:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S AAAAALL OVER
wait_what_how_do_I ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:03:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the cryyyying
LeRohameaux ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:35:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And nobody's crying but me
1RedReddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Friends aaaaaaalll over
KerbonautCC ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Know I'm tryyyying
coldmtndew ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 00:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They do a lot of good at far as keeping conflict from going to war is concerned.
Sand_Trout ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 01:42:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, they do good by being so fucking terrifying that even heads of state are scared of them.
coldmtndew ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but good regardless.
Pumpernickelfritz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's pray they never get into the wrong hands.
Solid-Snek ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:59:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, deterrence. Such a beautiful yet terrifying thing.
BlazingFox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:17:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"War is peace" in action.
NafinAuduin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is so just barely true. In fact, that's a point of contention. Conventional war is terrifyingly devastating to a population and a country as well. Yeah, nukes are humanities ultimate weapon, but the loss of life through conventional warfare in the 20th century might have been enough of a lesson on its own to prevent super powers from entering into outright war.
Besides, de-orbiting a telephone pole sized chunk of tungsten packs the same punch as a decent sized nuke without the fallout contaminating your new territory. Nukes are the popular specter among many.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also WAY more expensive than a nuke. Moving that amount of weight in to space costs a lot. It would cost something like 800m just to get that amount of weight in to space, not even considering the rest of the costs.
DukeOfGeek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is the short term benefit. The real cost is coming, trust me.
GavinZac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So far. All they've done is up the stakes for the next big one.
The_cynical_panther ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole nuclear power thing is cool too.
sshan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until they don't. They reduce likelihood and dramatically increase impact.
coldmtndew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never denied that.
Pattern_Is_Movement ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:22:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
but is total annihilation as a very real possibility worth avoiding to settle our differences?
edit: I am a little sad this got downvoted
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think about the consequences of a full out conventional war: Yes.
Nuclear weapons are in no way sufficient to turn the earth into an unlivable wasteland. They're 'just' sufficient to destroy the centers of human infrastructure and economy and thus letting most of us starve. If we're unlucky they might indirectly (ashes from burning cities) cause nuclear winter which would increase the starvation problem. So nuclear war would wipe out human civilization and the vast majority of humans. But life would continue to exist on earth. Maybe with, maybe without humans.
Now compare these results with a conventional war where the earth is split evenly in two more or less equally strong fractions. Compared to the consequences of such a war the Second World War would look like a small skirmish. Japan and Germany are two small countries, but they managed to kill tens of millions of people. Now imagine what would have happened if the West (Western Europe + Japan + America) had gone to war with the East (Eastern Europe, USSR + China) in the Cold War. Such a war would have had the potential to wipe out most of humanity as well. So I'm really glad that nuclear weapons exist. They're not the only thing that could cause human civilization to end, but they make it an obvious consequence to everyone thinking about starting a war.
Pattern_Is_Movement ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My issue is the route of what caused the way is still there... it needs to be dealt with, and not by simply wiping out the population that is recruited for its defense. There are very real and big issues, and they need to be faced. Civilization has been wiped out several times before... and all its done is set us back to where we were to deal with the same problems we had before. Its a harder road to travel, one that is much more difficult to pin down, but its the only one that leads to real progress.
AthleticsSharts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better than the alternative I suppose. By which I mean removing the threat and actually doing it.
Pattern_Is_Movement ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
time has taught us you cannot simply remove a threat, by killing Saddam Hussein its widely accepted we created Isis.... as a quick example. Heck WWII wouldn't have happened if it were not for the way we ended WWI. The only way to deal with a problem is at the root.
BurtGummer938 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, frankly nuclear war isn't that horrific anymore. Improved guidance has lead to far smaller yields for warheads, and drastically reduced stockpiles mean that pretty much every nuclear weapon will be used to destroy other nuclear weapons, command/control, or be held in reserve. Also, the assumptions behind nuclear winter being a thing are questionable.
Basically, unless you live around nuclear weapons or the command/control mechanisms for them the biggest impact on your life will be taking care of the small percentage of the population directly affected, or maybe being drafted.
Pattern_Is_Movement ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:50:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think its more about the fact that within someones grasp there is the ability to eliminate a continent worth of people. The only thing that propagates this is not realizing how unbelievable the repercussions really are. How absurd... our minds refuse to admit how terrible these consequences are. From direct impacts to the fallout that follows. The fact that this exists as a real possibility should never be the case, the ultimate expression of power that a cascading of events has the very real potential of happening.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you wish they weren't the case. Sorry, scientific progress doesn't stop happening because you don't believe in the ramifications.
Pattern_Is_Movement ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a quick example the dark ages were basically a total reset for western civilization. It took a long long time to build back up from that. People looked on the Roman ruins as having been made by the gods they were so far removed from the ability to build them.
NotWrongJustAsshole_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:10:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Iraq totally agrees with you.
Chooseday ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:11:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like being caught in a nuclear explosion is quite a nice way to go in comparison to some of the other methods we've created. We're pretty fucked up sometimes.
TheLittleGoodWolf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:39:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean becoming instantly vaporized can't really hurt so I guess you are right. I believe it would be worse to be a survivor in the hell-zone afterwards.
Brightinly_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe not nuclear weapons, but that having your chromosomes destroyed by radiation is pretty damn scary.
CutterJohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Said no sunbather, ever.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump having access to nuclear weapons.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what's scarier?
There is no limit to the size of a nuke. You can literally make a 1000 MT nuke, drill a hole deep into the earth, put it in. And there is a solid chance that you will crack the crust of the earth causing massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ChaIroOtoko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You may want to read this Quora discussion
finallyinfinite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm ever going to die from nuclear weapons, I want to die in the blast. Radiation poisoning or cancer? No thanks.
PoeticallyInclined ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Lehrer's got your back
notlogic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in the field of nuclear/radiation safety. I'm not afraid of radiation and I work with radioactive materials regularly. Anyone who respects radiation and is adequately trained to work it radioactive materials has nothing to fear from it. All that being said...
I'm terrified of nuclear weapons.
If certain terrorists get their hands on the right nuclear weapons they could easily kill a quarter of a million people.
A lot of people think of nuclear weapons as these large bombs and missiles that require planes or rockets to deliver them. While that is true for many of them, it isn't very common knowledge that we have made much smaller nuclear devices. Our original nuclear weapons were very large, but as things tend to go with much technology, their successors were made progressively smaller. We kept making them smaller and smaller to make delivery easier until we got to a point that we were making artillery shell-sized nuclear warheads that infantry could shoot at the enemy. Upon getting to that point they realized a nuclear weapon could be carried by an individual, so we made some for that purpose as well.
They were built for the purpose of, for example, hiding under a bridge as troops retreat from an oncoming force. When the enemy enters the area, boom. No more bridge, no more enemy. Of course, these were built decades ago before we were so concerned with terrorists.
LifeIsBizarre ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:17:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look into 'Broken Arrows' the term used for missing nuclear weapons.
There are currently a dozen or so missing nuclear weapons out there, including several lost on US soil/waters.
CutterJohn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only fully intact, functional weapons that we've truly lost track of were two aboard a B-47 the went missing over the Mediterranean, and one that was lost off the USS Ticonderoga.
A possible fourth is one that was jettisoned over Tybee Island, Georgia. There is debate about whether it had a core installed or not.
As for the rest..
Several we know precisely where they are, but they are not feasible to recover. An example of this would be the two aboard the USS Scorpion.
Others we know their location to a high degree, but again, not viable to recover. An example of this would be the one lost in Goldsboro. We know within a couple hundred feet where it is, its just under a couple hundred feet of mud in a swamp. Easier to just keep an eye on the swamp and ensure nobody digs there.
The rest of the broken arrows were either self destructed, were destroyed in crashes, were recovered, or were simply not fully functional bombs to begin with(most early nukes had removeable cores for safety, which were removed for transport or training missions).
Pausbrak ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In 1961, the US Air Force came very, very close to accidentally nuking North Carolina.
A B-52 bomber, carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 thermonuclear fusion bombs, was scheduled for a mid-air refueling from a tanker plane sometime around midnight. However, their routine refueling trip was interrupted when the tanker crew noticed a fuel leak on the bomber's right wing.
The bomber was directed to a holding pattern over the open ocean, where the crew was to await the majority of their fuel to leak and/or be consumed, after which they would make an emergency landing at the nearby airbase. However, on their way there the fuel leak worsened significantly, causing them to lose almost all of their fuel in just a few minutes. They were immediately redirected to land at the airbase.
Unfortunately, on their way to the runway, they lost control of the aircraft. The crew bailed out, leaving the bomber to crash. The aircraft broke apart mid-air shortly afterwards, releasing the two nuclear bombs. One bomb deployed its parachute automatically, drifting down slowly and landing relatively intact. The other did not, and hit the ground at about 700 miles an hour, disintegrating and depositing pieces of wreckage anywhere from 20 to 200 feet below ground. Incidentally, most of it is still there, as the ground was too moist to dig up properly. Only a few pieces of wreckage (including the primary fission core, but not the secondary fusion one) were recovered.
However, contrary to what you might think it wasn't the second bomb that came close to detonating. The first bomb's parachute opened as part of the arming sequence, because the breakup of the bomber made it think it had been dropped. Almost the entire detonation sequence of the bomb triggered, with two different safety devices failing to prevent it. A third safety was ineffective in the air, and so the detonation had been stopped only by the fourth and final safety, a single safe/arm toggle switch that had set to "safe". The kicker, though? On of the pieces recovered from the second bomb was the same arming switch. The switch on that bomb had been set to "arm".
keenanpepper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like ejecting shouldn't be an option when there are nuclear weapons on board. You either land the plane and ensure the safety of the nukes, or die trying. Am I wrong?
Boonaki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just what's been declassified, imagine what hasn't been declassified.
bassplayer96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are scary, but at the end of the day being vaporized by a massive amount of energy is far from the worst way to out. I'd rather die in an atomic bombing than exsanguinate from a car crash.
BurtDickinson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's hella selfish.
Mr_Flippers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not everyone who got A-bombed had the luxury of being vaporised
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though these have the most chance of actually ruining our lives, of the things discussed in this thread.
Derstilweedndat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are two things that scare me and one of them is nuclear war
KickassMcFuckyeah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe fall out ... but if a nuke explodes close enough you will be dead without to much suffering.
celestialmotion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha if you think this is the scariest thing on earth you should do some more thinking. They're really not that scary, there implication is and there is a slim chance of them ever being used on earth again. The scariest would have to be the numerous viruses and other pathogens that have the ability to wipe out large scales of the population which we have no protection or ablity to stop besides quarantine. Roughly 250,000 people died between 2 nukes, 50-100 million people died of the Spanish flu. All it takes is another pathogen to cross species and 5-10% of the population could fall especially with the ever growing resistance to anibiotics we are seeing
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? North Korea has been detonating them with some frequency lately.
Moreover, the chance of a nuclear war is remote, but the chance of accidental detonations is pretty significant. Moreover, geopolitical circumstances can change, sometimes quite rapidly.
The risks of nuclear warfare really aren't as remote as people like to hope though.
pwnedkiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Although terrifying I highly doubt any major world power will risk launching a nuke and being that guy to start the end of the world. Luckily if something like this were to happen there are plenty of counter defenses and I'm sure nations will all come together to prevent full scale nuclear fallout.
Possibly more terrifying though would being a survivor of a nuclear bomb. The aftermath we would all face would be horrifying. It would rain black radiated water as far as I know plus more.
redditzendave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, much more afraid of the people in charge of them.
MrFusionHER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also carnies. Circus folk. Smell of cabbage. small hands.
Chitribe2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear generators red lights flash a shadow in the future.
ArfaBlast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't hug your children with nuclear arms
helix19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recently found out in 1961, during a training mission a plane accidentally dropped an armed nuclear missile 260x larger than Hiroshima on North Carolina. One low voltage switch kept it from exploding. The documents were only declassified a few years ago.
lukin187250 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crawl out through the fallout baby!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am become death; the destroyer of worlds.
PhilyDaCheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do ever feel like a plastic bag floating in the wind..."
DeadPrateRoberts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, Kim Jong Un, in response to the new, tougher sanctions, has given an order to make their nuclear weapons ready at a moment's notice.
Jozaron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going along with this, the theory of Nuclear Winter in the event that an all out nuclear exchange takes place. The effects are absolutely... chilling...
Sure there may be those who survive the blasts, but the decade long world wide winter is likely what will ultimately destroy humanity.
smokesinquantity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read into the Hanford site. The American government knowingly dosed around 60,000 people with terminal levels of plutonium radiation while providing them a utopian society to keep them happy building bomb grade material. Where do you think the nuclear family came from?
FlamingFlyingV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War. War never changes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, at least they're quick
StevandCreepers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atom bomb baby...
that_one_guy16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's even scarier is the number that have been accidentally dropped on the US, by the US. Thank god none were active/somehow defective.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your username is cool.
ConnectionIssues ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking nuclear power at all.
Christ, read about Chernobyl. Or the Manhattan Project.
The demon core.
Or the personal stories of the people at Chernobyl.
Fucking seconds, seconds of exposure and you die days or hours later from rad exposure.
Christ, nuclear power is generally safe but it's fucking terrifying, to know we mess with that kind of power. Some of these folks had no clue, but some of them... how horrifying to know that you and everyone around you is probably going to experience a prolonged and painful death in the next few days, and you can't do anything about it, but you don't have time to dwell on your impending death because if you stop working a lot more people will die too.
rathat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Forget North Korea, If there's going to ever be a nuclear war, I guarantee it'll involve Pakistan, and not necessarily the Pakistani government. If there is even one fired unintentionally, I guarantee it'll be Pakistan.
DumbledoreHashtags ยท 3399 points ยท Posted at 00:43:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you have ten missed calls from Mom.
TreetMeRite ยท 2201 points ยท Posted at 02:17:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you realise the chicken she asked you to take out the freezer is still in there
lordfluffywuffykins ยท 461 points ยท Posted at 03:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And she tells you that she'll be home in 10 minutes and at that point you know you're in some deep shit.
[deleted] ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 04:14:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Silencedlemon ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 04:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cold water not hot and lots of it.
Source: line cook.
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Silencedlemon ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:45:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... You know now.... So.....
sabrefudge ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You run cold water over a frozen chicken to thaw it? Not hot?
Wow... TIL.
Why is that? I would think the heat would thaw it faster?
throatytheory ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 11:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hot water will start to cook the outside layer and make it taste worse after being fully cooked, atleast i think so..?
lordtuts ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:39:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the correct answer. You should actually use lukewarm water.
Source: Three years running Chick-fil-a and too many times of running out of already thawed chicken.
SybariticLegerity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that bad since the bacteria can thrive in lukewarm water?
anal-razor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, considering that you cook it, I really don't think it's much of an issue unless you undercooked it.
Silencedlemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called quick thawing and no you don't have to worry about that since usually you cook it as soon as it is thawed, just don't let it sit for a long time at that temp.
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put the frozen chicken in a zip lock. Put the zip lock in a big bowl of room temp water. It'll thaw in no time.
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asked to put dinner into the oven at 4:30
Wait until 5:20, mom will be home at 6
Put dinner in the oven at max temp then lower it as mom pulls into the driveway
Every time
Silencedlemon ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude.... That's not how you use an oven... Slow and low makes the best food, ask any bbqer
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SilentJoe1986 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on the teenager. I started cooking at 10 and by 12 I was making dinner every night.
batmansthebomb ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 09:37:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amateur. By 7 I was head chef in a five star restaurant, by 8 I owned four of my own restaurants. Child labor laws are ruining this country.
mttdesignz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
End of Speech!
pinkfloydfan4life ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
typical teenager.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG I can't wait for this! My kids are 6, 4, and 1. One day they'll be our indentured servants...
SilentJoe1986 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will if you take it out of the Styrofoam packaging. I've thawed a while chicken in 20 minutes running it under hot water until I could open the cavity and run the water directly through the middle.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are not supposed to thaw with hot water, it can cause bacteria to spread/multiply rapidly.
Ama_iamadouche ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:19:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And your eyes are red aa shit and she'll know
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At that point there is not mitigating the danger. You just sit there, running one feeble excuse through your head after another, every one worse than the previous.
Boneykingz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:13:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you use the hair dryer to defrost it and are subsequently still in deep shit for the next fortnight.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's okay just microwave it for a few minutes, she'll think it's been thawing out all day.
Throwawayboomerang99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And when she says that shes going to take away all of your big boy points and you won't be able to purchase any tendies for the foreseeable future.
henrebotha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the irony is simply too much for you to bear.
Sunnygrg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But then you realize your arm is broken, so all is good.
sniperFLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually one way to get superpowers.
In this instance, you get super speed.
KingreX32 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cant you just take it out and run hot water on it? Ive done that multiple times. And got away with it.
"I took it out an hour ago, its still frozen in the middle thats why I couldn't pull them apart"
Everytime.
doodah360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:51 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Received 10 minutes ago
zesty_hootenany ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trash your house, then sit on the front step till she comes home.
"Mom! Omg mom I came home and...and...I think we were robbed! And I thought, what if they're still in there?!? First I was so angry I almost ran through the house just HOPING I'd find someone and make them sorry. But then I though about how you'd feel if I got hurt... I couldn't do that to you. So I've been sitting here waiting for you...but (sob)...mom...(sniffle)...I'm so sorry. While I was sitting here I realized that by not risking my life by going in after a burglar....it meant I wasn't in there, taking the chicken from the freezer like you'd asked! (Crying) I'm so sorry. I'm so stupid, Mom...(sobs)I ruined dinner, and you work SO. HARD. and deserve to come home to find things just as you asked! I don't even deserve your love...."
Your mom will hold you and pat your back and rub your hair and shhhhh shhhh you, and she will be so thankful you didn't risk your life. You're not in trouble for forgetting the chicken. She'll lovingly chastise you for thinking she'd rather have defrosted chicken than the safety of her beautiful, loving, wonderful miracle of the heavens - you. You silly, brave and loving you!
ichael1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:52:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you forgot to take the chicken out of the oven. That happened to me, was only burnt a lot.
READMEtxt_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fffuck this gets me
TheCuddles123 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:22:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or worse, the chicken that's in the oven!
LassieBeth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's :(
herpderpcake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:46:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH SHIT
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:21:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the oven sure as hell isn't preheated. All I had to do was turn the knob... We at least know emotional death happens somewhere between here and 450 degrees.
JurassicBasset ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is one of the scariest realisations ever.
Toastalicious_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me today.
numberninemac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god this.
katiejch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:18:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So meta.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's when you start running that bitch under hot water
PMmeforsocialANXhelp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg. Stahp. That is easily the scariest thing.
PhilyDaCheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KFC for dinner it is then
Persiano123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I usually just lightly microwave it at that point to escape her goddamn lecture.
foreverinLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just reminded me that I forgot to take out today's lunch. I live alone, but will have to eat something else apparently.
legendaryPeen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to me just yesterday!! Except it wasn't even chicken it was frozen fish, we ran out of chicken and I didn't even know
nicolasyodude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you left the milk out shudder
bunker_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can thaw out chicken pretty fast though.
salvu667 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do i put it in with or without the tinfoil!?
blackfox1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sprints to freezer removes chicken calls mom back
Fizzbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:13:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband read this and said "No, replace 'Mom' with 'Wife'. Much more terrifying."
GBFel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment just reminded me of the huge age range on Reddit. For you missed calls from Mom means getting in trouble when she gets home. For older folks it could mean someone is dead or dying. Always good to be reminded just how many of you young'uns are running around on here.
Bozlogic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come home from school to a note on the fridge that says "please set the oven to 375, and put the chicken in at 4:30."
It's now 6:00. My mom just pulled into the driveway. I hear her keys enter the lock on the front door. I've been in the basement playing video games since 2:30.
JFro17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:06 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can just pop it in the microwave for a few seconds right? RIGHT?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You hear the key enter the keyhole and realize the sink is still full.
redditor1983 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 02:46:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have this problem, but mainly with my dad.
I think it comes from the fact that he grew up in a time without voicemail, answering machines, or caller ID. So, if you called someone and they didn't pick up, maybe they were out in the yard and barely missed the call. It's logical to just call again. Plus, they would have no record of you calling since they have no caller ID (remember, this is the 50's).
But the problem is that he still does it now. So if he calls me just to say hi, and I don't answer, he'll call like 4 more times.
It's scary as hell (I automatically assume someone died), but I haven't been able to get him to understand, lol.
Mickey0815 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You exactly described the situation i have with my dad. I always fear that one day something bad happens, my phone keeps ringing and i don't answer, because he called "wolf" a few too many times.
dogdayafternoon ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 02:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came home from a weekend away and had 13 missed calls from my mom. She knew I was out of town so there was no reason for her to be calling. I knew it couldn't be good. As I began dialing into voice mail she called on the other line to tell me my dad had just been killed in a car accident.
So. Yeah. Missed calls from mom are not so good.
HotShartsInMyFace69 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry :(
DumbledoreHashtags ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya. I feel the same as HotShartsInMyFace69.
Mjolnir12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:40:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do such nice people always have such ridiculously immature names
MandMcounter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:54:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to hear that.
ZaphodBeeblebrocks ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When your mom has missed ten of your calls...
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:36:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. 10 missed calls from mom is not NEARLY as horrifying as 10 missed calls from your kids.
TwilightTink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, and now I'm crying
inc_mplete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no apocalypse when tables turn... rather, a lecture that ends with "I am your mother and that's final!"
steiner_math ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:27:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad does that all the time. Once I got a voicemail at 10:30 at night on a weeknight, saying to call him as soon as I get it. The message? "There's a Walker Texas Ranger marathon on TV!"
Marzipan86 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, my mom is great for calling like 10 times, then texting me with "Call me immediately" for shit like this. With her, it's usually stuff on facebook she saw and wants me see and/or fact check for her.
gregdoom ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:40:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. The worst.
SchockWaves ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:14:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh man... one time I looked at my phone and saw my mom had texted me like three hours earlier. The preview text on my phone just said "why didn't you tell me..." FUCK, what did I forget? I must be in deep shit. I open the text and...
"why didn't you tell me about Sharknado?"
Apparently my mother had just learned about Sharknado and thought it was hilarious. She had no idea she almost gave me a heart attack.
JeSuisYoungThug ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:21:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the mother.
ScurvyTurtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew I shouldn't have stepped on that crack.
freyalorelei ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god. Ten years ago my sister got a call from our mother at three in the morning, right around the same time our grandfather was hospitalized for a month after a really bad fall,* and she groggily answered it in a panic, convinced it was terrible news. Nope, Mom was just calling to give her unsolicited advice about her role in a play.
She's pulled crap like this on both of us (late night/early morning calls over frivolous stuff), but her timing couldn't have been worse.
*Grampa lived another eight years, although his health was never the same. Falling down a full flight of concrete stairs isn't beneficial for anyone, let alone someone in their '80s.
pez78guy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:37:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or from grandma. Why the heck is grandma calling me?
TwilightTink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I pocket dialed my grandma once when I was really drunk at a party. As soon as I noticed it I hung up (drunk in college), and was praying she didn't freak out and assume I was dead.
doorbellguy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have 12 missed calls from mom right now. Am I in deep shit?
DumbledoreHashtags ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:19:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are so fucked
doorbellguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:26:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me in a 15 minute conversation that followed, if anyone is interested.
TheHoneyCreeper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm interested
MasterAgent47 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:28:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What scares the most is hearing a "tring tring" 10 times from my pocket?
That's because I don't have a mobile.
WhiteShadow0909 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:01:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially worrying since I haven't spoken to her in over a decade.
Although, I'd be more concerned that she had the number than I would be about missing the call.
DumbledoreHashtags ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh God, I'm sorry
WhiteShadow0909 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude... no worries. It was a joke.
It would take more than a random comment on the internet to get me riled up about my issues.
MarcelRED147 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In fairness I identified with your first comment in seriousness.... do I. .. do I get the Internet sympathies now?
_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:26:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah. Get your ass checked out.
SheZowRaisedByWolves ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feh, try leaving through your garage because you didn't have a house key and having her climb over a fence to smash out a back window to use the bathroom only to have her pee herself before making it in. I had to clean my entire garage by myself and make breakfast for her for 3 weeks.
Educated_Spam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never made it to ten... shivers
Fenris78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:15:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mum rang me at 08.45hrs on a Monday morning - I was shitting myself. Turns out she just rang for a chat...
Edit: actually just realised your answer might have a very different implication depending on your age. With ageing parents those unexpected calls set off a certain dread.
twizzwhizz11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or just one missed call and one voicemail, that only consists of "Hi. Call me back immediately."
enphurgen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom plays a dangerous game where she calls multiple times a day every day. She does this to everyone in the family. Don't feel too bad for her she's lonely for a reason, shes a toxic person. Everyone screens their calls regularly (although we each still see her once every month or two cause we eventually do all feel bad.) But one day she'll really need to get a hold of someone and she wont be able to.
ExmuslimDude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you still live with your mom.
corruptcake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The older you get, the scarier this is. When you're young & you see 10 missed phone calls from Mom you think, "oh shit I'm in so much trouble." When you're older & you see 10 missed phone calls from Mom you think, "oh shit.. This is it. Dad just died.."
dabosweeney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just got stressed out
nicom225 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One time a friend and I snuck out for a night out. We decided we both didnt want the fun interupted by our parents if they were to catch us. So we both turned our phones off and put them under our car seats before going out. When we got back we turned our phones on and waited. His parents texted, "having fun?" while he had 4+ missed calls. Thankfully my parents had no idea
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Lothar_Ecklord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just reminded me of college... Too many times getting so blitzed, I couldn't even look myself in the eyes with a mirror, let alone deal with anyone except my equally obliterated roommate, and my mother would call, right when it kicks in high gear. I would reject it and she would start blasting me with texts, and being my mother, she went immediately from missed call to sending two texts (usually "Hello?" followed by "Answer me!"), then to begging me to answer because she assumed I was dead in a gutter. I would meanwhile be furiously trying to come up with an excuse as to why I didn't respond, but I couldn't because I was too damn high. Ahh, the good old days...
Bohzee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, it's when you will never get any calls of her again, that is.
pro tip: ocassionally back up your voice mails, it can be worth a fortune for you.
Zidane3838 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother's a cunt so I'd just keep ignoring them.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you reach a certain age, people you know start to die. It can happen early in life too but as a young adult, it seems to start to happen more often. Having many missed calls from my mom is the scariest thing in the world. The last two times it happened she was calling to let me know we'd lost somebody.
killedbill88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one happened to me once... When I called her back, I found out my uncle (her brother) had died that day of an heart attack, right in front of her :(
CatanOverlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or early-morning phone calls. those are the worst.
Admiral_Fuckwit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or when you check your phone on your day off and see that you have a missed call from your boss.
ForgotUserID ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I haven't heard from you since yesterday. Don't do that to me!" /r/thisismylifenow
Anxiety
Tycho-the-Wanderer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At early hours of the day/morning when you are usually sleeping. Also when they come with text messages saying "please call me back soon".
taysto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worse, waking up to a call from Mom at 2am.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At 6 AM.
hilarymeggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG, this. And a text that says, "I'm very hurt. If you choose to contact me in the future, fine. But I will not be bothering you again."
williamtbash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or when your phone rings from your mom at 2am.
romulusnr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Dad. It's because of this fear that I subscribed to VM-to-text.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I go on Reddit and there's a large number next to the orangered envelope...
SnapeWho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At my age that doesn't mean I'm in trouble, it means someone's either seriously ill or dead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or when you have ten missed calls from your adult child. Yeah...scares the piss out of me every time.
Limepirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or your girlfriend!
unid0n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and your arms are broken
burncenter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about when mom yells your first and middle names together?
coreyisthename ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Youre father has had a medical emergency, just come home now."
I got that call about my mom from my dad.
She was dead.
0RGASMIK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On shrooms
JDP37 ยท 1849 points ยท Posted at 01:54:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles. Why? oh, I don't know. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
originalpoopinbutt ยท 386 points ยท Posted at 03:20:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People talk about the alligator/crocodile's bite but I'm more scared of their death rolls. Once they bite something they do a couple sideways flips with the prey clasped in their mouth, trying to break the thing's back or rip off limbs.
lzrae ยท 114 points ยท Posted at 03:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I grew up swimming in a lake behind my grandma's house called Alligator Lake. I'm real glad I have all my fingers and toes.
Although any lake in Florida can be considered alligator lake.
Here's a post I made previously of that lake: http://imgur.com/Pp6SECs
zacablast3r ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 04:29:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators are not crocodiles. Alligators are the puppies of the crocodilian world, they're more scared of you than you are of them. Crocodiles do not give a fuck. They will kill you without a second thought.
lzrae ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 04:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, good. Stay in Florida. Got it.
Wait. There are sinkholes here. Nowhere is safe!
RagdollPhysEd ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 10:45:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relax. Floridaman is more likely to kill you than anything else there
baconandeggsandbacon ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:00:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get out of Floria immediately, I hear Australia is safe.
Calamity_Jesus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are crocodiles in Florida. About 2000 of them. They can grow to be about 20' long. Sorry.
JoolaceM ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American Crocodiles are also spikier and look way more malicious than any other crocodile.
Calamity_Jesus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're practically Godzilla Hitlers .
lzrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:50:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
D:
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... What? Thanks now I'm not gonna swim for a month.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:44:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Florida also has crocodiles =)
MG87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:04:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have crocs in Florida, they usually like to hangout near mangrove canals though
Polish_Potato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:43:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the only difference is the fourth tooth!
thesnakeinyourboot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:32:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GradeAUnderA?
Polish_Potato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:34 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, love that guy.
BroJackson_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, man, I'm pretty damn scared of them.
zacablast3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well don't be a Dumbass and you'll be fine.
BroJackson_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems complicated.
zacablast3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Floridans manage. I'm sure you'll be fine.
i_invented_the_ipod ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:25:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one thing I noticed during my first trip to Florida, especially anywhere near the Everglades.
Small pond? Alligator.
Drainage ditch on the side of the road? Alligator
Reflecting pool at Kennedy Space Center? Alligator.
Anywhere that there's at least 6 inches of water? Alligator.
CheekyCheesehead ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:44:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a funny story related to that. At my work, there was a married couple. The wife grew up in Minnesota, the husband in Florida. When they were out camping, she decided to just run and jump into the lake. The husband freaked out because you don't just JUMP IN A LAKE in Florida. We don't have a problem with alligators in Minnesota LOL
Lazman101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're pretty docile most of the time unless you fuck with them or they have eggs. I used to kayak past them all the time. At most they would get spooked and just jump in the water.
lzrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was told they're more afraid of you than you are of them. But accidents can happen. My grandma always told me to shove my thumb in its eye if I was grabbed.
And we never went through the canals during mating season.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as a floridian. not really.
invalidimput ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it was because I grew up in a rural area less than a mile from an Alligator farm, but yes, can confirm. We also had bobcats.
phumanchu ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:34:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSe2j-izIWY
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 05:20:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't even seem pissed. It's the Jerry of the crocodile pit.
Timboflex ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 06:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It turns to look at the other crocodile like: "Wait a second..... Dude, did you just eat my arm? Not cool bro."
Nihht ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:36:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then he just turns away like "eh not worth my time."
Iziama94 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:52:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Metal
Thorasor ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:41:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No joke, that's terrifying
originalpoopinbutt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:21:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's insanity. Now think of a twenty-five foot saltwater crocodile on the coast of Australia doing that shit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty stupid
745631258978963214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:56:42 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's annoying how they cut out and then brag about being "uncut". Fuck that.
shadow1515 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:58:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reptiles in general are brutal. There's a video out there of snapping turtles eating mice, and it turns out it's second nature for them to grab the body in their mouth and then use a claw to rip the fucking mouse in half.
ManThing910 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or, as it were, first nature.
MetalFace127 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles are no joke scary...Ill just leave this here. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/supersize-crocs-crocodile-secrets-of-survival/1750/
BigKevRox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:34:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, I thought they did the death rolls in the water in order to drown their prey. At least...that's how I'd do it...
originalpoopinbutt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean a death roll is more of a sideways thing. If you're a gator on the edge of the water and you just bit something, you'd have to pull backwards and then down to drown it. A couple rolls to the side wouldn't drown it (but would fuck it up).
originalpoopinbutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean every time you do a roll you'd bring the prey back above the surface and give it a chance to take a breath.
ImportGuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a reason they aren't called hurt-really-bad rolls..
Anchovie_Paste ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone cue footage of that alligator biting another alligators arm off and the other alligator just looks at him like "wtf m8?"
steve0suprem0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, that death roll is gonna be sweet relief after it's crushed whatever it bites.
Mcquiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am much more scared of angry Chimps or Gorillas. they will rip your whole face apart while screaming.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:23 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not afraid of the bite as much as I'm afraid of drowning. That sounds very painful.
Piemagicman ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 04:28:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What else is on your top 3? Alligators and brain aneurysms?
Hi_Im_Saxby ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah alligators are more afraid of you than you probably are of it. Crocs though (and not the stylish shoe), will fuck your day up without even thinking about it.
Meltman845 ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 03:35:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dangaaaa zone
lankypenguin458 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 05:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lana, Lana, LANA, LANAAAAA
Kongo204 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:00:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT???
Belimicus_rex ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 04:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility
mrtime1122 ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 04:31:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did no one get the reference? But seriously shits scary
cyoung55 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 05:55:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right? I continued looking for someone to say something but its like no one noticed it, uncultured swine they all are
leahyrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No we got the reference
look_behind_youuu ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:41:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget it can go for years without eating.. then as soon as you walk by the water. you're gonzo
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously? Fucking years???
pandafat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh, you got a source on that?
look_behind_youuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.top10listland.com/top-10-animals-that-can-survive-without-food/
MercuryCrest ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:00:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're fucking dragons without wings. Damn them.
The_Ghast_Hunter ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:48:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they cant breathe fire hopefully
ADreamByAnyOtherName ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:14:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yet. evolution is a harsh mistress.
drdouglasp ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:48:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3. Brain aneurysm
Lion_the_Bunny ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:02:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not alone. Crocodiles/alligators are the only things I have nightmares about.
YovahnHoole ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:54:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Archer!
Ajaxeler ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:48:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hah I live in North Australia. Fear of crocodiles is a very healthy fear. Lack of fear probably means your death.
ShigglyB00 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least they don't have horse legs and wings
Lumin0s ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:42:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give them ideas.
seefatchai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:13:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be pretty amazing if it was humanity which manages to make them extinct.
shizzamX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may have been an alligator, but I recently saw an article about how otters will kill and eat crocodiles/alligators. Apparently they just attack them right behind their head and the crocodile/alligator dies from exhaustion/lactic acid build up.
I've found the article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140306-otter-alligator-florida-predator-photos-wildlife/
IamSocky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but... You can nuke it right?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think people prefer to bbq them
SlimLovin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you not?
Macfrogg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the only way to be sure.
IamSocky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:04:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe two nukes just in case
Tbklstkat26 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get this reference. Archer?
Arkroy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was once out on this trip taking pictures for a biology class. During the trip I saw these two crocodiles tear up this mutt, jesus that was something else. I realized then that I never want to fuck with one of those.
campbell13789 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about brain aneurysms?
TheNosferatu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:04:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, how do you feel about sharks? On the one hand, they aren't found on land as often, on the other hand, we based torpedo's on their shape.
Asdayasman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perfect killing machine my dick. It's sitting at a local maximum.
beardface84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:29:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice Archer reference bro.
ratmfreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:16:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do they eat? EVERYTHING.
dillonbouray ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to the..... Danger Zone
EngiDaBoss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know someone who works with crocodiles, and as strong as their jaws can SNAP they cant open them if you hold them shut
ArsenalOwl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:42:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Irwin voice But not metal!
MoisterizeR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what other shit they do? Kill you in a fucking insane way, then stash you under a log or some shit on the bottom of a river and feed on you later.
Also, they're fucking armourplated.
Ochsenfree ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah and I'm sure we'll find a way to wipe them off the planet within 200 years.
Blues88 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:16:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything! They eat everything! And fear is their bacon bits...
somefuckertookmynick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:22:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, I read here on reddit that it's the only predator that instinctively sees humans as a prey. Too good they aren't fast out of the water.
skovern ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Crocodiles don't have ears!"
"They absolutely have ears, shithead!"
"Well, so do I, and you just talked yourself out of a hat."
KyleHooks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but...I own guns. Shotgun beats strong bite.
lurkingin10sifies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:53:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once saw a documentary about a hippo family in africa. They all died of anthrax but all the crocodiles that ate the dead bodies were just fine cuz they are immune to anthrax
gerald_bostock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention pretty much immunity to any disease.
the_honest_liar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/d0Eqwjfnoos
Ecdre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok Captain Hook.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sad nobody else sees what you've done here. God Damn, dude.
IlyasMukh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:58:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Archer?
Geaux_joel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:15:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Igetthatreferance.jog
I_Stalk_Turtles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:47:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The funny thing about crocodiles and alligators is that even though their bite force may be strong, a couple of rubber bands is all it takes to prevent them from opening their jaws
Dancegames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ARCHER!
wives_nuns_sluts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:43 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Irwin was a badass
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They also have some memory, can communicate with each other, and are capable of planning and cooperation.
They're an excellent example why "primitive" does not mean "unevolved." They are exceedingly effective at filling their niche, so much that not many other creatures fill similar niches anymore.
Cheesus85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks?
ctmannymanny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LANAAAA!!!
Vatrumyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which shows you how sissy of a bite newton had.
LennMacca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Number 2 is Alligators.
machenise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In high school biology, we watched a video on Super Croc, which is a gigantic crocodile that could and would eat a T-Rex. I'm so glad we have "tiny" ones by comparison.
treemister1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also aneurisms
SwimminAss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they aren't in the water, or at least your aware of their existence, they aren't that scary. I've dealt with a lot of them and they can be read as long as you have respect for them.
visceralrogue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so saddened by how few people got this reference whatsoever.
gmc_doddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Live in Australia...terrified of these fuckers.
jelloisnotacrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Luckily it can be foiled by stepping onto a high ledge.
_Dawnlight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to Australia.
The_Woman_S ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus they can run 10mph on land....
sirfray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must have missed the post above where the lion punked a crocodile.
rvnnt09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh they are scary as fuck for sure. I can't help but feel a strange curiosity toward them. If someone was like "hey you wanna get close to this big ass crocodile, we've got safety measures in place but the damn thing could still kill you". I'd go "fuckin hell let's do it", damn near the closest thing to a dinosaur ill ever see
theysomepussytome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:15 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact they're so agile despite their size gets me, that and their ability to hide so well in water
Thepurest420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:09 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LANA
Seoul_Surfer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:02:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dae watch archer?? This show is such a GemTM
[deleted] ยท 5991 points ยท Posted at 23:37:59 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Cynical_Lurker ยท 1046 points ยท Posted at 03:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Reminds me of this quote.
'Spiders don't build concentration camps.'
-random redditor a couple of years ago
MalHeartsNutmeg ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 04:32:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Number of concentration camps I've been imprisoned in: 0
Number of spiders I've been too close to: Infinite.
WhipWing ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:29:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Number of concentration camps I've been in: 0
Number of people I've been close to: 0
Checks out.
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you're still with us!
geofurb ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 09:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nazis don't trap passer-bys in sticky traps, then inject them with venom and enzymes to digest them from the inside, suck them into their mouths and spit them back into their husk of a body a few times, and later devour them.
At least, not regular Nazis. I haven't thoroughly researched horrific cross-over Nazis like horse-sized spider-zombie Nazis.
Foray2x1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must not be familiar with ze Killer Klauns from Outerspace!
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 05:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not for humans, at least...
Hounmlayn ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give them enough time in an abandoned house and they will though
faithle55 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do we know?
There's probably some species of spider somewhere in the unpenetrated depths of some triple-canopy jungle where a spider has venom which merely makes insects compliant, rather than dead, and it has them all in huge tunnel networks manufacturing t-shirts.
AislinKageno ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 14:52:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they're for spiders, wouldn't they be, like, asterisk-shirts?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spider silk tees
aeschenkarnos ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:43:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasps do this to spiders and caterpillars, though it's paralyzing them to let the wasp larvae eat them alive rather than manufacturing T-shirts.
dhshawon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
faithle55 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:49:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta start somewhere.
In all Wal-marts, by the way.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Cynical_Lurker ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, of course! it was by the professional quote maker '[deleted]'. That guy sure does get around eh.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:06:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
lodolfo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I usually just see him spamming [deleted] over and over again in /r/AskHistorians
Konker101 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:55:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but they do look creepy as fuck
Isord ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:12:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucking brilliant. I've got to remember to give myself the credit for this in the future.
Spastic_hawk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:42:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a Dystopian Carlsberg beer commercial...
Groupoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do webs not count?
ZazMan117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Webs yo
seanyok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His name was arbitage and he runs a yoga class somewhere.
TheRenaldoMoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:11 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what if everything was spiders?
samuellangs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:33 on April 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't spider web like concentration camp for spiders? I mean they kidnap or trick bugs into, tie it to web, and fucking eat it or something. Just saying.
jarodney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spider webs cant melt steel beams!!
brickmack ยท 3881 points ยท Posted at 00:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins though, they'd definitely do that. Except the skin suit part, they'd heed opposable thumbs for that
brujahbattalion ยท 1939 points ยท Posted at 02:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right! I saw a video where a dolphin fucked a headless fish's corpse. Wore it like a little fishy condom.
NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvLZxG6pB6U
GhostTown82 ยท 302 points ยท Posted at 02:36:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The choice of music for this video is surprisingly fitting..
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:25:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not clicking that and I'm going to just assume it's Benny Hill.
My_6th_Throwaway ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much better than that.
danightman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much.. much better...
1moe7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:13:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sexual healing?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 09:21:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like background music from an 80s TV show about a detective.
Cavvyhour ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About a dolphin detective perhaps?
1moe7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like our suspect has raped yet another victim!
CyanWyvern ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of TF2
marmadukeESQ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone know what song this is? I must know! :(
fabulousmarco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:30:33 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's from the soundtrack of a 70s Italian crime movie called Italia a Mano Armata. Here's a cover from a few years ago made by a band called Calibro 35. I highly recommend listening to their music if you liked this one.
marmadukeESQ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
fabulousmarco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was extremely surprised to find it here.
Acopalypse ยท 238 points ยท Posted at 02:41:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus speedballin christ, I clicked that cause I wanted to hear Rick Astley...
[deleted] ยท 2712 points ยท Posted at 02:17:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I never, ever needed to hear the things that you just typed. I've just got a mental image of mrs. Dolphin comin home to mr. Dolphin standing in the living room, turgid wang balls deep in some mackerel, wagging the fish tail and his eyebrows at the same time.
This comment now counts for 1/5 of my upvotes. Alarming.
glydy ยท 617 points ยท Posted at 02:38:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext - ed
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:56:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you.
oswaldcopperpot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:52:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm picturing the dolphin doing groucho marx too...
| Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Serraptr ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/evenwithcontext
mateusjay954 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:51:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you look at it a certain way it could even be /r/evenwithcontext
bamfbanki ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 14:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/evenwithcontext
brujahbattalion ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, that is a terrible combination of words that I typed up there and I am ashamed to spread such a terrible video. But in reality, I think it simply shows how much like us they really are!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay! Dolphins also have a Ted Bundy! My new nightmare. Dolphin rape.
Orion78762 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh. I'm trying to play pool with this in my head
Dead2TheCore ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That might be the most poetic thing I have ever read.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Understood. I'm glad my imagery got itself across!
kejigoto ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:59:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's scaled for her pleasure~
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:11:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want you to be my dolphin condom advert guy.
Adamarshall7 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sides were not ready for this.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry. I hope they get better. (There's a joke in here about houses and siding, but I'm not sure I can get to it.)
Adamarshall7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still picturing the scenario. The wife dolphin hangs by the door and let's out a tepid, "
F...frank, what are you-"
"SUSAN WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE YOU HOME THIS ISN'T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE"
"...what the hell have you done to Mike."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, my head had it as a fishy foreplay attempt. Like mrs. Dolphins going to go "oh frank!" And swoon slightly, but artistically, and then heavy dolphin bangin.
Adamarshall7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:12:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I see, the Mackerel Maiming is a romantic gesture within the dolphin community. I can understand that. From a distance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Safe distances are the best distances
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:37:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:19:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god. Please.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then don't look up the guy getting a facial from a dolphin. The only reddit click I regret.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My goodness hurts. Can you be less moral from reading something?
AwfulWaffleWalker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it just a guy getting dolphin cum in his face or something more brutal?
BeardyAndGingerish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:26:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear lord, don't look up the monkey fucking a frog. It's awful, awful, awfully easy to google.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll get right on avoiding that. Why are there so many videos of animals bangin other species? And does that count as bestiality if it's a monkey fuckin a frog?
BeardyAndGingerish ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I remember through my incredulous peals of horrified laughter, it looked to be less of a full-on fucking situation and more of a masturbatory tool use thing. Tools, in this case, being whatever wasn't fast enough to run away.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:59:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck nature
what_the_puck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If he was standing, I don't think Mrs. Dolphin would be worried about the dickfish.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dickfish. Maybe she's just worried about the smell?
what_the_puck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah that's like perfume or something to them
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fishdick perfume
what_the_puck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
literally swimming off the shelves
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ughck.
MATH_ALWAYS_WINS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Touch my BASS!!!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. Yes puns!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or so she trebled.
FortuneGear09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you've never heard of dolphin rape cave?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have. Just... Not dolphin headless corpse pleasuring. That's new.
Reddit_cctx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn and I really never needed to hear the things you just typed
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ain't that the life.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They even wrap live eels around their penis to masturbate. On the darker side..they have been known to exile a female if she doesnt let them have sex. Theyll also deny her food and such :\
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta wank. And it's hard out there for a pimp. Gotta worry that's hard for an ocean pimp, too.
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I had the same thought after everything you typed after that comment.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spreading the love
hoodectomy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:49:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't go deep enough on YouTube. Mr. Dolphin came home to Mrs. Human.
You missed the video about the woman who actually lived with a dolphin and did the dirty with it :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKgel-kTGg&sns=em
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have lived my life wanting this experiment in be exaggerated.
CyberSunburn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well have another upvote then
muzzyMANmike ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would count for about 5/1 of my upvotes :(
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We still love you, muzzyman.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, when you can't used whip cream and chocolate sauce, why not mackerel?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's just soooo many foods I'd use before mackerel. Strawberries. Nutella. Bananas.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:29:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about where it's better?
You know, down where it's wetter.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck in heaven this is wasn't needed.
doihavemakeanewword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the early 2000s an Edinburgh woman came home to her husband wearing nothing but a skirt and wig f*cking a frozen chicken on the couch.
During the heated discussion immediately following the husband said that they could still have the chicken for dinner.
Arancaytar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not what it looks like!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then maybe you should turn off text to speech.
WhiskeyMadeMeDoIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be scared, denying who I was
Acting straight but then going out to the gay fish clubs
Dancing with the Marlins making out with the all the Snappers
I'd take a Salmon home and work that Coddle Fin for hours
But now I'm out and I'm free to love what I want
Be it Yellow Fin or Bass or them trout in Vermont
I slapped that Holland ass, make that Grouper butt shake
I'll come to your house and have an orgy in your motherfuckin' fish tank (fish tank, fish tank)
Mother fuckin' gay fish
(I'm a fish yo) Goin' on a gay fish
(Yeah now I'm where i belong girl) makin' love to other gay fish
I really get around I'm the slut of the sea
When i say I've got crabs I mean it literally
I was eating dinner and just had to go down on that Mackerel on the dish
Cause I'm the gayest of the gay fish (gay fish)
wrong_assumption ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's beautiful prose. Are you an English prof?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:50:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not. But for more exotic prose, please check out your local fanfic creators! It's both horrifying and arrousing, for all genders!
Tommy2255 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like there's two kinds of people who didn't click that link. Some, like you, think "that's pretty fucked up and I don't want to see it". Others, like me, think "I saw that years ago".
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw "Mrs Dolph Lungdren" instead of what you really typed. Goddammit brain. I feel it's worse.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh.
Goobz24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've got quite a way with words.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A regular Shakespeare of dick mackerel.
dexter311 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Continues to type more things people didn't need to hear.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Misery loves company, and a captive audience is the best right up until you have to explain things to the police.
Plz_Gooby_No ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not my fault if she wants to do ass to trout. Did I say ass to trout? I meant Bass to mouth.
einalem58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
now 1/2 of your upvote.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an obscene amount though.
einalem58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you realize that your top comment is about dolphin raping a mackerel to death ?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wasn't gonna go there, but it's definitely not something to put on my resume.
einalem58 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want to know what kind of job have this as a requirement ...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:28:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Senior Reddit representative in charge of digital marketing / advertisements.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've gotten to the point in my life where I watch dolphins jerk themselves off with fish corpses. What a time to be alive...
GloryOfTheLord ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 02:33:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK.
I did not expect that to be real. I thought you were joking. But no, it had to be real. Oh god my eyes.
SaintBio ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are for you:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ad_1419625992&comments=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCwk7pP80Z0
GloryOfTheLord ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those links stay blue satan >:|
SaintBio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not Satan, I'm a saint.
GloryOfTheLord ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anybody who links videos of frog rape by monkeys is Satan
pyleofderp ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:24:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess those links didn't stay blue.
GloryOfTheLord ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:24:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have bad self control.
SaintBio ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:52:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rape is a human concept, animals can't rape. The fish got raped though
SippantheSwede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's before you see the "woman had sex with dolphin" in the related videos.
Not to worry, it was all for a scientific experiment so it's all good. Oh and apparently they had to halt the experiment because the dolphins tested positive for LSD. Nothing weird going on there.
OddProphet ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:38:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The music is fucking fantastic
MassExtinction2014 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:04:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fishlight.
winter0215 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:01:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched it.
Don't know what I was expecting. It's a dolphin fucking a headless fish. My day just got considerably worse
dicedbread ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some reason, I had to watch that. I'll admit that dolphin looked HAPPY.
xStupidgirlx ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waited for the cumshot :( disappointed now
scotscott ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sigh
unzips
OrangeSail ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That music though
Dharmasabitch ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:05:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I have to side with the dolphin on this one. It's not like he can buy a Fishlight on AmazonRiver.com and go to his cove and watch pron in private. Sometimes a mammal's gotta 'bait.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, I watched the whole thing waiting for the dolphin to finish, but it cuts off. Guess I have to google dolphin cum... Good grief.
Yodamanjaro ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:27:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about the sea lions fucking penguins?
Source: https://youtu.be/UA4sifQ3ymk
ScruffyNerfShepard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha that music and the dolphin's smile.
Atigerwithlaserbeams ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:08:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't watched the video, but I'm about ninety percent sure the W on that warning of yours should be an L.
Potatoe_away ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fishlight.
Lilly741 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe how much this made me laugh. So wrong.
jimibulgin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for the link. from there I went on to this masterpiece.
vizzmay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:34:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Dolphins can be necrophiles.
CowardiceNSandwiches ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:03:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. That's...resourceful.
uhmhi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently, the animal kingdom is filled with perverts.
Here's a chimp prying open the mouth of a toad, so he can throat fuck it like there's no tomorrow
reeeee222 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strange, a co-worker just showed me that video less than a minute before i saw your comment.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:57:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i dunno what I expected
Zylle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not clicking the video but...
Thank reddit, I am now no longer concerned about dolphin-safe tuna.
Kill the dolphins!
KurtVV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, don't stick your dick in crazy (fish)
cltlz3n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hah! The fuck? NSFW?
TylerIsI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The music changes it from total terrifying to a slightly wtf sideshow.
Cristookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i should be studying
Naes895 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That link is staying blue.
nmezib ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at that glib fucker
lesgetdown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the fishlight became a thing then eh?
LITER_OF_FARVA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dolphin is just laughing maniacally as he skull fucks a corpse.
Techtorn211 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well now i have a weird watch history
seestheirrelevant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll just add this to my blue link collection.
tikhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most amazing part of this video is the music.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That smile is the creepiest part. Fucker knew what he was doing was wrong
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Filmed vertically. :(
Bohzee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of this chimp raping a frog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tquDnOdYDI
(NSFW)
Krumbfnd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That dolphin is like, "hey yall all look at my wang"
lowcoaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Original Fleshlight.
grOUgh65 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That music
PadaWINE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no way I'm not watching that...well what do you know, a Coppola directed it...
DeniedScout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The music makes this video ten times more entertaining to watch.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hot
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, the music it was makes it unsettling. Without the music you can atleast realise that the Dolphin is probably just thinking of the dead fish as just a dead body that isn't being used. And he needs to masturbate. So he shags it. Like a bird rubbing it's ass on a tree.
But the music makes it weird and wrong.
Petroleos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does he have such good aim?
NATURE
SoundisPlatinum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember listening to a interview on NPR from a researcher who likened dolphins to ultra violent gangs in the wild. They will gang up on other dolphins and or other animals and gang rape or beat the thing to death, sometimes both. Then I think about the ones at Sea World or other marine parks and my mental image becomes gangs in prison. Lots of prison sex and attacking whoever they feel like. The trainers are only making them behave for snacks.
Urmomsfishtank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a real fish. It's one of those fancy new fishlights.
HansBlixJr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the Fishlight.
miserylovescomputers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That link is definitely staying blue for me. Dolphins are the stuff of nightmares.
Bigdumidiot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes our aquatic Bros just need a fish light.
anorex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The joy on his face.
dingoransom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Noooooo. I didn't need to see that. I can never look at dolphins the same way again.
DopePedaller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I wasn't logged in when I viewed that. The suggested videos I'm getting now are deeply disturbing.
ArtDSellers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That music.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was hot.
IAmWhatTheRockCooked ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"so long and thanks for all the fish"
itsmybootyduty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of those videos where I can't quite resist clicking out of morbid curiosity and almost immediately have to go and erase my history out of guilt and disgust.
SnailzRule ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a gif? I'm too lazy to watch the video
DontHaveAnything11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CoreBeatz7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the fuck mate?! Upvote. But what the fuck.
MrVentham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Up Next: Walrus sucks own dick'
Well, here we go down another awful Youtube rabbit hole...
TickleMafia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can we talk about how weird animal penises are for a minute?
SmoSays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless you for describing the video instead of just linking to it. Had you just linked it, I would've watched it. Now I know not to. You are a better person than I.
avocado-soldier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That link is staying blue and I'm fine with that
MayorOfFuccechio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sigh *unzips
Lotacus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, that is enough internet for today.
aneasymistake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I should not have watched that on a crowded commuter train. NSFCCT.
neanderthalensis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think he was doing that on porpoise?
TRexCymru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well i have a new fetish
Spentworth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphin Cameron.
greenmcr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what I was expecting
Shaif_Yurbush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That dolphin isn't even majestic either. Looks like the equivalent of a human serial killer
TheAlmightyConch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:13:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That music is hilarious
aristideau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen a video of chimp do that with a (live-ish) frog.
DolphinDestroyerv2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And people ask me why I destroy dolphins
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great soundtrack
the_north_place ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They fuck like we do
offmychest_is_cancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck
ShopSmartShopS-Mart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or like a Fishlight?
bloodthorn1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:09 on March 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what the actual fuck did i just watch
Salt-Pile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair that dolphin is in the dolphin equivalent of prison.
And a headless fish is probably the dolphin equivalent of a fleshlight. Being food in a zoo it was probably dead when it got there.
AvoidMySnipes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How. In. The. Fucking. World. Did. You. Get. To. That. Video. Naturally. While. Browsing. Youtube. ???????????
-eDgAR- ยท 447 points ยท Posted at 01:22:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a fact
362Billy ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 02:06:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a rock fact!
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loved that show.
doryyyy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:30:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too. I wish they would make a second season.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was always intended to be a short series.
killubear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The creator of that show worked on Adventure Time. If you haven't already, give that a go! I HIGHLY recommend it. Plenty of episodes too.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should mention the name, ha. It's called Over the Garden Wall.
Tsutarja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever people mention CN shows, I always feel the need to include Steven Universe, as it's often forgotten.
Steven Universe, a show made by one of the artists from Adventure Time, is probably one of my favourite shows of all time and it's only been getting better and better after each episode. (hiatuses are getting worse though :()
julibakereggs222 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphin be hard as a rock
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are almost as smart as humans. I guess they can be almost as evil.
flyinthesoup ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:48:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone postulated on a reddit thread not too long ago that it's even worse, because they're definitely smart, but they have no sense of morals or ethics, so they really do whatever they want without worrying about any repercussions or having any empathy towards the victim. They're the sociopaths of the sea. Most of us humans have at least a semblance of empathy/ethics!
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? I've heard a lot of stories of dolphins helping people and each other out altruistically.
flyinthesoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, maybe they are, as species, as fickle as humans. You can't say humans are good, or humans are bad, because individually, we all have degrees of it. It's probably the same with dolphins.
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are the people of the sea.
zeeyaa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do you really think Dolphins are "almost as smart" as humans? lol
110Liam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:28:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have an average IQ of 98.
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have really advanced brains, and very developed societal structures. They don't have fingers or thumbs, though, so obviously they can't build a civilization like we have. Octopi are also pretty smart; they use tools and play games.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:59:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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offmychest_is_cancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why
Texpatriate2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins are the rapers of the sea.
Cyntheon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dogs do too though. Everyone seems to miss that dogs do the same and even more frequently than Dolphins!
RogueMonkalot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get back to the hole Edgar.
Random-Miser ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How would you know? How do you know you aren't surrounded by Dolphins wearing people suits RIGHT NOW.
brickmack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lock myself in a nuclear bunker, there's nobody within 500 meters of me
NamelessAce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if YOU'RE the people suited dolphin?!?!
brickmack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god
illini211 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Random, but my fiancee told me she had disposable thumbs last night. I needed to share.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw shit it's James!
icelizard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate dolphins
ooklamok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Sea Cosbys?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They probably bite your head off and have sex with your neckhole if it's anything like what they already enjoy doing.
brickmack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:10:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You see that video of a dolphin raping a decapitated fish? Messed up, man. Messed up. That smile will haunt me
dolphinhj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins prefer handjobs
Rodents210 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haven't dolphins dragged humans underwater and raped them before?
Gyrant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As rapes go, though, getting it from a dolphin might not be the worst case scenario. On account of having no limbs to hold onto each other with, and salt water being really bad for sperm, dolphins basically cum immediately upon successful penetration. So you'd only have to endure his crooked, pointy penis for a moment before he'd blow his load and be done with you.
TL;DR A male dolphin is the ultimate one-pump-chump.
SailorRalph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aisha Tyler told me (and the rest of the internet) that a dolphin will kill you if it ejaculates inside you.
brickmack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sure about that? I've heard positive stories about sex with male dolphins.
SailorRalph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aisha Tyler said so so it must be true. /s
Arrow156 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why they use their penis to grab and carry things.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Orcas specifically
theonlylawislove ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody needs a fleshlight.
BigButt_BiggerHeart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sea otters also do this. Bite the noses off baby seals and rape them while they drown. Then they keep the bodies around for up to a week to continue to face fuck them.
honeybeemoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they have prehensile weiners though, so that'd suffice I imagine
arkzist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They can team up with the chimps, they already rip faces off
8-4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
speedy_recovery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also otters, there are reports of otters kidnapping baby seals and raping them, often to death. Some even state that they keep the seal around for a week or so.
I'm glad otters are as small as they are.
Hench21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Otters are rapists. Sea otters rape baby seals to death. I've also heard of them luring young away, killing, then raping them. Not sure on the facts of second anecdote.
_angesaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dolphins really freak me the fuck out. Why people seem to like them, I do not know. They really give off a creepy vibe.
aidsaol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heed my opposable thumbs! HEED THEM!!
basalticlava ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a part on blackfish where the whale kept dragging the guy under them letting him breathe enough to stay alive then almost drowning him again. They don't do this to humans in the wild. It understood that it was being held captive and took revenge. Basically the most similar thing to crucifixion that an aquatic mammal could carry out in terms of death by torture and exhaustion. Crazy to think there are other animals on this planet with the emotional depth of humans. I've heard they can actually experience emotions that we don't, weird stuff.
babypeppermint ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 01:36:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/7rwUdL9qXjk
Rowan5215 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL human beings are Reavers
JorusC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all. But the Reavers were human beings. That was kinda the point.
lodolfo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You learned that today?
Rowan5215 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
look, maybe I should have said TIL ALL human beings are Reavers, but I was just going for the cheap joke
EnvyEndymion ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 00:24:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, this animal did kill and dismember a guy in Egypt once.
AmericanSalesman ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 02:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Psychopath is the scariest thing on earth. A physically larger than you, well dressed, unexpected psychopath who wants to hurt you. Any terrible thing you can imagine, they can imagine it too - and probably many things worse.
MrApophenia ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:51:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got on a kick reading about psychopaths a couple years back. 4% of American men feel no emotion and derive pleasure from dominating others. It's like finding out vampires are real, or They Live is a documentary.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any especially good books on the subject that you would recommend?
Ebu-Gogo ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Twilight. Scared the shit out of me.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:06:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saved for future reference. Thanks for this suggestion of this academic study of psychopathy.
MrApophenia ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:34:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on your preference for entertaining vs. detailed or academic.
If you want a quick read that is fairly light and funny, but still gets into a lot of very interesting information on the topic, I would recommend "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. (This is the same guy who wrote "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and is in much the same style.)
If you want a more detailed look, I would recommend "Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us" by Robert Hare - Hare is also the person who created the PCLR test which is used to diagnose psychopathy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. Saved for actual future reference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brutal
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We call them Tories
BrusselsSproutCobler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4% seems a little high, not sure I believe that one.
MrApophenia ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you just prompted me to look it up, I was misremembering. The rates for the American population overall is estimated around 1%; however, that is disproportionately men, so it's higher than that (couldn't find a proper estimate with quick Googling).
The 4% number is Hare's estimate of the rate of psychopathy in the business world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:37 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And those who succeed big time in the business world? 100%
110Liam ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bull
idontknowdogs ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest part is that they see everything objectively. Once they learn how to get something they want, they just go get it. This is why sociopaths and psychopaths tend to be extremely charming and genuine. They use you're trust to manipulate you. Ted Bundy for example was described as a charmer. He knew how to pick up chicks like nobodies business. Then he takes them to his house and ends their lives traumatically.
Fun facts: 1) He lived about 10 minutes from my house at one point. Killed and raped several people in my city. My grandma also remembers being warned about him while he was still murdering here. 2) My dad's old friend used to go the the gym with Ted quite often. That friend still has a pair of Ted Bundy's sweatpants.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:29:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Further interaction...what in the blue hell?
scupdoodleydoo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:15:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone I know is good friends with his mother. Poor woman.
MuffinStumps ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dennis Reynolds
homohomosapien ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to return some videotapes
arideout12 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:43:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if I trust /u/hungry_lion telling me not to be afraid of lions...
kristopho ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. Humans are definitely the scariest thing on the planet. In the U.S. there seems to be a huge need for firearms and concealed carry. David Bowie wrote a song about being scared of Americans. WTF is going on. I think this is also why zombie movies are the most popular of the horror genre right now. People aren't really scared of monsters, sure they are thrilling to see, but crazy, diseased humans are terrifying. Think of the scariest movie you have ever seen, for me it's The Strangers, just crazy people trying to murder. Now think back to when that Norwegian guy bombed 8 people, then killed 69 youth group campers out on an island. That f'n guy was scary, Hitler was scary, ISIS is scary. If you get a bad feeling about someone, get the f away from them.
Link to the scary Norwegian guy on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
Nackles ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:13:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never been scared of supernatural horror, it just leaves me cold, because I don't believe it can happen. People being evil, that already happens, a lot... that's terrifying.
PeeDeeFlow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:37:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you watch The Walking Dead, humans pose a larger threat than the zombies lol.
I_AM_LOOKING_AT_YOU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:54:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People like to shit on slow zombies, the founders of the subgenre. "They're not scary, easy to kill, and the military would contain the situation within a week." The scariest aspect of classic ghouls is not the dead themselves, but how they motivate our society towards chaos, and how the situation pits us against everything, be it safety, hunger, or each other.
celtic_thistle ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:37:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, enough time spent on /r/UnresolvedMysteries and /r/MorbidReality and I don't fear anything half as much as I fear the capacity of other people for horrible things.
Inquisitorsz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:33:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While I agree humans are the worst... there's lots of fucked up shit in the animal kingdom too... I hear otters a pretty nasty in a rapey kind of way. Then there's all those insects and murder their mate after sex...
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:26:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like how orcas murder baby whales for sport.
ducttapeprodigy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:02:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they vote!
ZJonas96 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neither will anyone else except Eminem
Lawsoffire ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:59:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Ramsay Bolton
Delta-07 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:52:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ramsay Snow*. Idc what you say, a six year old can't legitimize a bastard. Tommen could barely write his name, let alone know why.
laaanis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Talk like that will get you flayed
Thecoffeeclub ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly what my first thought was when I saw the question.
Marimba_Ani ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A chimpanzee might. Those fuckers are scary, too.
Nackles ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But AFAIK they won't do it slow just to hear you scream. They just want to make you into a non-threat and they do it fast.
Marimba_Ani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm...they also do it for fun, I think. Why else bite of someone's thumbs? Or their face? If they wanted to neutralize you, they'd just tear your throat out.
People are by far scarier, but I don't know why anyone would keep a chimpanzee as a "pet". (The keepers and their friends are usually the ones most horrifically attacked.)
jonaugpom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then use the skin to fashion some high end luggage.
Rufiux ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about the smell? You haven't even considered the smell, you bitch!
braindeathdomination ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People scare me not because everyone is evil, but because literally anyone I know (especially the most charming and charismatic) could, in their heart of hearts, be someone who desires nothing more than to hurt the people around them, myself included. You read about these people in the news - people who are just fucking unhinged, disconnected, detached from society, emotionless, and guiltless. People without any sense of empathy or sympathy. People who can inflict upon others infinite pain and suffering and horror with no regrets.
People like to think that the figures and faces they see every day are harmless and benign because they're familiar. That's simply not true. Every single person you meet holds within them the potential to go fucking nuts and massacre every single person they know and love, and that could happen in the space of ten minutes. Five minutes. One minute. Every single person you meet has the power and opportunity to fuck your shit up, and that's a fact.
kyle2143 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is number 1 IMO. The person closest to you is literally the most dangerous thing you'll usually encounter every day. Except maybe when driving, but that's still other people.
Mortress ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earthlings is an interesting documentary on the sick things humans are capable of.
superr_rad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans are the fucking worst let's be honest
AmazonExplorer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did the whole "wear your skin as a suit" thing ever come from? Did that ever happen in reality?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs murdered a bunch of women so that he could stitch together some kind of fucked up woman suit. There are a few serial killers in real life that made things out of human skin but never a suit afaik. Ed Gein is the most famous one.
lukin187250 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
would you fuck me?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never thought this would have to be explained. I must be getting old :(
livingcode ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up Ed Gein. Unless you value your sanity...
NiceGuyMike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is worse, getting hit by a bull or a train? I don't really know, but a train won't back up and finish the job.
Kazaril ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:46:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
depends on who's driving the train I guess.
TR-BetaFlash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nice try, lion.
GregoryGoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are some pretty terrible ways to live and die, but only another person can envision the worst of them and make them a reality for someone else. In the past this behavior was even sanctioned by government. People are he worst.
TheSpreadHead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is more of an irrational fear than a legitimate fear. Now, if you had said "heights" I'd completely agree.
Palawin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. I mean sure we can be afraid of the deep ocean or volcanoes or other shit happening but for most of us we simply don't have the exposure to be in danger or for it to pose any real threat to us.
But the creativity of a twisted mind? Fuck that. Knowing what a human being without empathy is actually capable of doing to another human being is truly scary. I don't have nightmares of a volcano relocating next to me house or being teleported into the middle of deep ocean, what scares me is the truly messed up ways human beings are capable of hurting each other.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ive never heard of anyone raping an alligator
pm_your_netflix_Queu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wont do that. At least probably not.
I doubt a leather suit would look good on me anyhow.
Aenimopiate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It puts the lotion on its skin. But in all seriousness, we have the potential to be worse than any thing else we've ever known. We have given ourselves the ability to wipe out all sentient life as we know it.
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You win, other people can be the worst.
When your government tells you that you should not be able to defend yourself, then maybe your government is the worst.
Just repeating history, Google it.
PickYourSelfBackUp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...or make you fall in love with them and then cut your heart out and feed it back to you...
magnusholm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like humans do to cows?
random314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gorillas and monkeys will cause you much pain when they attack...
ALexusOhHaiNyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bro. Do you even Killer Whale?
kevonicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that over 90% of the earth's population believes a magic man in the sky watches them is terrifying to me.
____DeadStool____ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
During a zombie apocalypse people would be much scarier than the zombies.
Logan_Mac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OW THE EDGE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skrillex knows a thing about that
lawrencer12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I think k people have it bad now I think one day someone is going to have the technology to torture someone for hundreds of years by keeping them alive through a whole bunch of scientific advances.
Darklyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reavers?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but they aren't going to rape me. Unless they're dolphins apparently...
Lothar_Ecklord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me about it. Something on Reddit the other day prompted me to brush up on the story of Jeffrey Dahmer. I even watched the NBC interview with him and his parents. So normal seeming and that's what makes it fucked up. He can go from talking about his fond childhood memories to drugging, killing, raping, dismembering and eating then disposing of and making trophies out of humans in one sentence and without changing tone. Seriously fucked. I'd rather be eaten by a lion.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my death, I'd be happy that I took good enough care of my skin to be worn by a serial killer. That means I was doing something right :-D
onlybobcatsfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is an interesting case about a prion disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia. Pretty sad stuff
Laughterjones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a suit, like an Edgar suit?
C3lder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human potential for evil is...extraordinary.
Real_Adam_Sandler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human nature is shit.
People collectively go against common sense and reason, believe all shorts of craziness and commit horrible crimes.
I am scared more of mobs than individual criminals.
I see reality distorted on a daily basis.
LustyLioness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It puts the lotion in the basket!
therealpanserbjorne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hell is other people."
spottedraccoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out, I now believe a lion wouldn't wear my skin
asianwaste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Animals are known to play with their prey before killing.
After that, dead is dead.
THE_CHOPPA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A bear will sit on you and start eating you ... Alive.
JabasMyBitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or try to start a conversation with you.
Nodor10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold up....say that last part again...wear your skin as a suit? Aight.
ghosttrainhobo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bears don't really care if you're still alive or not before they eat you as log as they have you incapacitated. They'll feast on your guts while you talk to your mom on your cellphone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes animals do torture their victims.
Hazzman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your user name makes me skeptical of this warning.
rebelcanuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people are at that game Ed Gein though.
thesilentguy101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine walking alone in the woods and you see either a wild animal or a human. Which made you afraid just now.
DuckRabbitMilkStout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reavers ain't men.
DoctorBallard77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely humans. The best way I heard this out was in a story I read about a guy camping alone in the middle of the woods at night. He heard something stirring outside his tent and assumed it was some kind of wild animal. He grabbed a pan or something and jumped out of his tent banging on it and yelling expecting to see some raccoon or something scurry away but all he saw was a man dart into the darkness. Nothing sounds scarier than that to me.
EattheRudeandUgly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh Dennis
Ganparse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since I didn't see it....
And, if you are very very lucky, they will do it in that order.
tahomadesperado ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is six hours later but I have to comment because I agree so much. Humans are by far the scariest thing ever. The one form of evil that exists.
RawPawVagabond ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always heard that joke as "Stretch your skin to make their canoes."
Fuck your canoe! Stabs himself repeatedly is the punchline.
RustyStrings12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if you're lucky they'll do it in that order
Jonthrei ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An alligator or lion will eat you before it kills you.
SpottyNoonerism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Admit it, you're just trying to distract us from yourself and the other hungry lions, aren't you?
flameruler94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone's been watching too much firefly lately
batty3108 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reavers ain't men.
Dodgiestyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try Hungry_Lion. I'm keeping my eye on you.
Ms_Mediocracy ยท 6368 points ยท Posted at 00:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Alzheimer's disease. Watching someone you love fade away and become a shell of a person is fucking terrifying.
Edit: Thanks to everyone for sharing their stories.
kyewtee ยท 660 points ยท Posted at 02:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the first time in my life, when I was ~28, I lived near my Grandma. I didn't visit her once between the time I moved there, and her death.
The last time I saw her we had a circular conversation about how my dad regretted selling the farm and other similar topics. Every 5 minutes I got a slap in the face of how this strong steadfast woman who made a life for herself was imprisoned.
Over
And over
Every
Five
Minutes.
I called her on her 90th birthday and she hung up after I introduced myself because she didn't know who I was.
When she died my dad was at her bedside. He said at that point she didn't know who he was. But she sat up suddenly and looked straight into his eyes with so much hurt. And so much love. And recognition. And then she laid back. And that was it.
Alzheimers fucking sucks.
Mommasaur ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 04:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband's grandmother had dementia. When I first met her she was moderately into her dementia. She was on repeat every 5 minutes saying how she didn't feel well and didn't know why. Her husband took care of her. He was in his late 80's at the time. He said he couldn't bear the thought of putting her in a home.
In the end, she had no clue who anyone was (including her husband). It killed her husband to hear her ask who he was multiple times a day. Just before she died, she was sort of this shell of a person lying in a hospital bed when she looked at her husband and said "I love you." She passed away a day or two later.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 05:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work with a lot of people who have varying levels of dementia and nothing makes you wanna live your life more than seeing how you you could end up....
craggsy ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 13:54:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was listening to the radio once and a nurse who works with elderly people in particular Alzheimer patients called in, Indian man, around mid 20s, first job after graduating uni. anyway one day he went into to check on a patient who had early stages and she smiled when she saw him 'oh its so nice to see you again, I knew you would come back' she said, nurse was a bit confused 'shall we dance again' she said. they danced for a bit and she laughed 'forgotten how to dance already have you' she said. This continued for a few months, he would walk in the room, she would say the same thing and they would dance, eventually he decided to take dance lessons and they would dance. It got to the point where she could no longer move easily and her speech started going but she would always smile when he walked in and there was always something behind the eyes. One day he comes into work to find she has passed away in the night and her family have gathered. the daughter see the nurse and gasps 'you look exactly like a former lover of my mother' Turns out during the war the lady was a nurse and fell in love with an Indian soldier, they used to dance every night and eventually he was killed whilst fighting. The man called the radio because part of him was glad he was able to make her happy in her last few months and part of him felt guilty for lying to her.
AlmightyB ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:25 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0223027
Here you go
screamofwheat ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My paternal grandmother had Alzheimer's. At one point, she couldn't remember who my dad was, but would remember later. My dad was a long haul truck driver and would stop in to see her at her nursing home when he was in the area. She wouldn't know who he was most times, but days or so later would tell her sister that my dad had visited. She thought my grandmother was confused about it until she called my Dad one day and found out that he had been visiting her from time to time, and that she was actually remembering his visits.
kyewtee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:35:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's sweet :-)
rickgut2004 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:32:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother wasn't ill with Alzheimers, but she did the exact same thing with my mom. On her death bed, she suddenly sat up, and looked my mom in the eyes as if to say something. Then laid down and checked out.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 15:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That happens with dementia. When you die, your brain floods with chemicals which causes lucidity for a few moments before death. It happened to one of my clients.
Crizzle777 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:56:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened a couple days before her death for my MIL. She was unconscious for the most part for like a week before we moved her to hospice. Then after one day in hospice she was awake, talking, watching the ball game, she was even eating and she hadn't done that for almost a month before she even was admitted to the hospital. I left because I needed to work, and when I came back tomorrow morning she was unconscious and never woke back up. Took her 2 more days to die. But what she had was what the book hospice gave me called "burst of energy" and was a sign of death.
sigint_bn ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:28:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with my grandmother. That moment when she tries her damnedest to make a connection is pretty heartbreaking. And her being stuck in a time loop of sorts, where she remembers vividly everything within a point of time in the past one day, and another point of time the next.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I saw my grandmother alive (she had Alzheimer's, at 89), she called us (me, my mom and my sister, my dad had died 15 days earlier), and thanked us for visiting. Two days later she passed away.
chuckoy123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn right she should've thanked you. Visiting is hard especially if you died just 15 days ago
_0x20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got chills reading this.
[deleted] ยท 896 points ยท Posted at 01:09:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super scary, and you don't even realize how scary it is until you personally know someone who goes through it.
BobTehCat ยท 549 points ยท Posted at 02:29:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thinking about how my mom could start suddenly forgetting who I am is the closest I've ever gotten to tearing up to my own thoughts.
T3hSwagman ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 03:08:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather had it and Im insanely fearful that my father will get it as he gets older. It killed me when I saw him visit my grandfather in the hospital and he just wasnt responsive whatsoever. I dont even know how I will handle that if it comes to pass.
djdubyah ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:42:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandpa died from it in 2013 after having for almost 15 years. Drowned in his own spit forgetting how to swallow. When that shit gets advanced it makes a terrible affliction devestating. I hope they either find a cure or allow right to die because its so unfair to leave someone in limbo like that
Mischief631 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just lost my grandmother in October of last year. When I thought about Alzheimer's I thought of shell just forget who I am. Then she moved in and it was the scariest thing I have experienced. Going from having a decent concept of what was going on to then accusing us of trying to keep her away from her mother and father that died 50 years ago then having to tell her all those people are no longer with us and having her go ballistic. I seriously hope that they find a way to cure or make the symptoms not as bad. Her last days she spent screaming every minute or two this loud painful scream and you'd wake her to ask what's wrong and you get "I wasnt screaming. Then one day the screaming stopped and she went to sleep. She slept for solid twenty hours after not sleeping for three days from just screaming herself awake. Finally she just stopped breathing and I swear I've never been happier for Someone just because the pain was gone and she could rest and see all of her loved ones again if there is an afterlife. The craziest part is I still have vivid dreams of the screaming. 5/7 nights are me dreaming of still taking care of her. I have never been more afraid of a disease in my entire life.
djdubyah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man reminds me of my ex's grandma. She had dementia but her husband was taking care of her. He dies unexpetedly from a heart attack. There were some issues but while my FIL was setting up a home for her, she came to stay with us for about a month while estate was getting squared away etc. Her dementia was alot like that movie 50 first dates only except every 24 hours it was about 30 minutes. So she would get up in the AM in an unfamiliar house asking about her husband. We would sit her down, explain her husband of 50 years was dead. She would brrak down weeping and experiencing his death again for the first time there would be a lull in the conversation and then she would ask where she was and about her husband and have to literally do again. It was the most heart breaking month of my life. We ended up lying to her because the emotional turmoil was affecting her health. Nasty nasty stuff
WalterWhiteRabbit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:55:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same. But a few years earlier. Greatest man I've ever known.
MrsWolowitz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once you watch a loved one linger and suffer, you cant be against right to die
op135 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
with dementia, they'll eventually stop eating, and there is no law that says you have to keep feeding them with a tube.
djdubyah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have any personal experience with this? I know removing feeding tube is an approved way to assist with dying but it sounds so inhumane and im not being disrespectful just trying to understand how this doesn't cause agony to starve the elder to death? Is it the copius amounts of morphine? And if so, why is it ethical to remove feeding tube, but not to load them up with enough poppy juice to send them into the tequila sunrise? My mind always does a =\= regarding care we provide to humans vs animals. Id go to jail for a long time if I starved my terminal dog to death. Thanks for your above reply, It obviously sparked alot of questions for me. If you dont respond I might shuffle over to eli5 or one of the health subs
op135 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:22 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my point is that you don't have to give somebody a feeding tube just to keep them alive. plenty of people are allowed to die through disease processes without ever having to be hooked up with a feeding tube. look at it this way: dementia is a disease and the end-stage of this disease is the inability to eat, which ultimately leads to death. so giving someone a feeding tube just to keep them alive doesn't fix or cure the disease, it's merely death prolongation (aka life support) with nearly ZERO quality of life and chance for recovery. however, if the person in question has a previously filled out legal document stating their "dying wishes" which might show that they want a feeding tube, then it would be illegal/immoral to not fulfill that wish. and to answer your question, there is literature that states starving to death isn't painful as the body releases "feel good chemicals" that aid in the dying process.
source: a family member died from dementia
Steve6387 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exact same here.
TwilightTink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my grandmother had it pretty bad. It was heartbreaking to watch when she didn't know who my dad was. I cry to think of a time when my dad doesn't know who I am.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:55:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Man, I tear up to my own thoughts all the time!
Hm, maybe I should talk to Danny Glover about pseudobulbar affect...
BobTehCat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean I definitely laugh at my own thoughts, to the point that multiple strangers have looked at me weirdly. Maybe I should too...
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:39:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of my tearing up is at things that I find beautiful or which make me marvel at the wonder of things. Like, seriously I have a 3 year-old and have watched the video of Colors of the Wind a thousand times and still have to wipe my eyes by the end of the second verse. What is that?
Don't judge me! The music, lyrics, and animation are all fucking amazing!
Treebone_Dickrat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:47:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tough construction/oil field dad...5 daughters...this song fucks me up every time.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey have you checked out /r/Frisson ?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME!?!?
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol sorry, it's a great sub though
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BTW, I had a grandfather who died of Alzheimer's a few years ago. Growing up, Papaw was the sweetest, most awesome grandpa a boy could ask for.
I was a few years out of college when he was diagnosed as being in the early stages. At first everyone just attributed it to his bad hearing, but then they went to his doctor. He mostly seemed normal still, but he got confused sometimes. He sold his guns, and eventually his truck, to be safe.
Another year or two and he had gotten to be too much for my grandmother to handle on her own and they moved down here to live with my parents. He would still try to have conversations, and if you only engaged for a sentence or two he might have seemed normal, but any longer and it would stop making sense and devolve into mumbling. He could get frustrated and belligerent sometimes.
Then my grandmother fell and broke her hip. While she was in the hospital it was decided that, with her trying to recover and being unable to stay with him at home during the day, it would be best for them to move to a retirement community.
They found a place that had normal-looking apartments as well as a skilled nursing wing where my grandmother could stay while she was still wheelchair-bound and an Alzheimer's wing so she could still visit him every day. They had been married for over 60 years.
That worked for a month or so until one night, Papaw got up and left his room. He somehow ended up in another patient's room which he thought was his room. Some kind of scuffle ensued and he ended up falling to the floor and breaking his hip. He would never walk again.
He spent the next year in skilled nursing. He'd smile at you when you visited him, but he wouldn't say more than a very quietly mumbled word here and there. Then he stopped saying anything and mostly slept all the time. I don't know how much of that was the Alzheimer's and how much was the medication they were giving him to keep him manageable.
He had his eyes closed for most of his 83rd birthday party. About a month later a non-healing wound which had developed got infected, and after the wound care place couldn't do anything, he was moved to hospice. He was there for a couple weeks, basically being "kept comfortable" until he died of dehydration/starvation. The last time I saw him, I held his hand and he looked me in the eye with what I like to think was a knowing look. I like to think he had a moment of clarity, but who knows.
He died a shriveled up vegetable. I would love to have not watched that, for my last memory of him to be the sharp, funny, kind man I knew as a kid, but that's not what happened. My grandmother made it another couple years until she died of heart failure.
Yeah, Alzheimer's is awful.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure it is unimaginable. Consider that you're lucky though, that your own thoughts haven't caused you more tears. Mine have, and many others.
BobTehCat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:51:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose this is one of those "grass is always greener" situations but I often wish I was a bit more emotional.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I guess I shouldn't have said that you're lucky. I don't know your situation. Emotions are incredibly difficult, at least for me, because often it's difficult to be empathetic in all of the ways that we admire. I think it's important to give ourselves credit for what we are able to contribute, while recognizing what we are not. I guess I was just projecting a bit, so I apologize.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, this is a fantastic comment, you're totally right.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the key to being more emotional is being grateful. So remind yourself, as often as you are able to without it driving you mad, that you could in fact wake up tomorrow with your mother incoherent, and you'll be grateful for how things are at this moment. Some people need to experience loss to be grateful, but we all have the opportunity to imagine it. It's hard, and it takes will and effort, but you'll see the world differently. In the end if we don't imagine what it's like to be poor, or what it's like to be an orphan, a refugee, starving, then we'll never help those people. And if we can't help those people, what are we doing here?
Anyway, you just gotta imagine all of the different scenarios.
BobTehCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no problem with that lol, my family was very poor until I was around 12 and we received section 8 housing. Grateful everyday to be living near the beach in Santa Monica!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's awesome! Keep it up then, it'll come along.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I feel like it has been already. I used to be the typical teenage redditor with absolutely 0 empathy and a cold hard "logical" approach to everything but I've learned that that's not really what makes someone a mature adult like I used to think lol.
donkey2471 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:14:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My parents wouldn't let me see my grandad after they realised he had it as they wanted me to keep the memory of the man i knew rather than what he unfortunately become.
BobTehCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of the same deal for me actually. I wasn't able to see my grandpa over a year until he died, found out just a year ago that he lost his legs and didn't want me to see him because of it. I was incredibly upset beforehand but now I kinda understand.
Now I'm sad :(
Mommasaur ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My husband's grandmother died from dementia and now his dad has it.
We were guessing he might have something when his dad was beginning to show signs but it was confirmed during Christmas dinner when he forgot my name during grace. He's known me for almost 9 years.
It absolutely fucking terrifies me knowing that the odds of my husband having some sort of memory problem later in life are tremendous. I try not to think about it because I'll start to panic and tear up.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human life is a temporary time-line, so all we can really do is live day-by-day and comfort each other. It's stupid and depressing and we're all going to die someday and the best thing we can do is live happily in the moment. Honestly the #1 reason why I plan on having kids when I'm older.
Wish I could tell you some actual comforting words but I'm just some random 19 year old on the internet. Sorry if I'm actually making you feel shittier but it's the way I deal with it :/
Mommasaur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have 2 kids now and the thought of them being genetically predisposed of having dementia breaks my heart but I honestly hope I'm not around to see that.
I really want to make a memory book for my husband of all the letters we wrote, pictures we took, and family trips we did so if his memory does start to slip then he has something to refer back to.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a fantastic idea!
horses_around ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:20 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An internet stranger but Im sorry . : ) Great idea!I I thought of doin something like that after remembering "50 first dates" . the irony..
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BobTehCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's really bad, my condolences.
OSUbuckeye420 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:05:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, just reading this makes me want to call both of my parents so much more
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:51:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations! You just accidentally used the Meisner technique!
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the learnin'
Sandy_Emm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:21:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every single day I'm thankful that my moms side of the family has excellent longevity genes. They all live to almost 100 with no serious illnesses and simply end up dying of old age. One of her aunts got very aggressive breasts cancer and beat it right away. My mom takes care of herself a lot and I'm happy I get her for at least 5 more decades. My dads side of the family has high blood pressure and diabetes, but thankfully my dad doesn't have diabetes and keeps his BP under control. I'm thankful The worst thing I inherited from either of my parents was their attitude and bad skin.
XoYo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's only part of the horror. Alzheimer's does so much more than mess with your memory. It causes mood swings, personality changes, psychotic episodes, delusions, incontinence, loss of physical control and, finally, it attacks your autonomic systems.
It took my mother seven years to go from initial diagnosis to death. For the last half of that, I never knew which version of her I would see when visiting. She would have fits of rage, screaming threats and abuse at me, or be terrified of things she had imagined, unable to communicate them. No matter what I tried to say, it usually only made things worse.
Having her mistake me for my father or uncle was bad enough, but having her screaming at me that she hated me and wanted me dead was worse.
Fuck Alzheimer's.
EatsPeanutButter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thinking about how, as a mom, I might someday forget my daughter is terrifying to me. How could I forget the little being I've poured my heart and soul into? So scary.
EinsteinWolf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just thought about it and got really sad for a second, then decided if it were to ever happen to her I would make up a new story each time. Fuck trying to tell her I'm her son, I'd say i'm here to fix the washing machine but I forgot my tools. Or I'd tell her I'm the gardener then go and water the garden. Or the chef ordered by her awesome son, then cook her up an amazing meal. Or just a listener sent by a company there to listen to her tell me stories from her past. Yes. That's what I'd do :)
BobTehCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now there's a short story I'd cry over.
DoomZero755 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't do this to me, man. I wasn't ready for these feelings.
aaaghhhhhhh
this hypothetical sadness has turned very quickly into real sadness
I mean I guess sadness is just sadness if you feel it all the same but fuck me I'm feeling it mr krabs
jw88p ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It runs in my family. If I'm 65+ and diagnosed, I will euthanize myself.
MrQuizzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always phrase it saying I'd kill myself before I lost the good sense to do so.
BobTehCat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly though, I most likely will too, if I were in that situation.
ButtSexington3rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a guy who used to be a girl. One of my greatest fears is that one of my parents may forget who I am now and ask me who I am and where their daughter is.
xBoshify ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its honestly heartbreaking. My grandmother died from Alzheimer's a few years ago. I can still remember the first day she forgot my mothers name. That moment of shock when my grandma asked who my mom was, and the second of silence as my mom soaked it in was very sad.
postulate_that ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If that came close to tearing you up. This song might destroy you.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought the link would be This Will Destroy You - The Mighty Rio Grande which is a great sad atmospheric song.
Last time I remember actually crying to a song was The Antler - Kettering after a classmate died. Song still gives me sad-shivers.
2a0c40 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an alternative she might start thinking there are two or more of you. Like she'll be talking to you face to face, but refer to something you did or said earlier as though you were an entirely separate copy of yourself who wouldn't know they had done that. Then a few hours later she'll be fine.
It's a strange disease and everyday life doesn't really prepare you to deal with someone afflicted with it.
Kalkaline ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It gets to be a relief down the line when they just kind of sit there oblivious to the world around them and you know it's just a matter of time until they die. It's the early stages when they still know enough that it makes them frustrated and angry that they can't drive or figure out how to put on their pants.
BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn, that first line. That's why it's so terrible, there's many illnesses that'd I'd take a quick death over.
NeoPC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any thought of me having to lose my parents at some point nearly brings me to tears every time.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:58:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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BobTehCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!remindme 12 hours
Madscotsman11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I couldnt finish it. The thought of my parents being in that state makes me cry everytime.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Scarlet-Witch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup those loops are depressing but you learn to navigate them away from the distressing thoughts, it's a constant spur of the moment distraction when they come back around to the subject.
omgtheykilledkenny36 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:43:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched it happen to my grandmother its a fate I would not wish on worst enemy.
finallyinfinite ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:44:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a friend who works in a nursing home very close to lots of people who have it, and you can tell it really takes a toll on him
YankeeBravo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's rough, no doubt.
Remember driving my grandma to visit a relative in a nursing home.
She'd been in a car accident, had a rough time with the recovery and was in the end stage of cancer, although she'd forget every morning.
Had lunch there a few times. Some of the other people at the table were heartbreaking. Little old lady who'd apparently been traumatized somehow and kept mistaking me for some grandson or other, for instance.
Or the old man who the staff treated like a child, helping him eat....Come to find out, the guy was a retired Air Force general who at one time had headed the Air Force's training command.
finallyinfinite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's crazy. I remember when I was a kid my youth group volunteered at the nursing home every now and then, pushing their wheelchairs to their church service. Never got close to them though.
I'm kind of terrified of my parents needing to go into a home, because I'm scared to see this happen to them.
honestlyimeanreally ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandmother! I never even fucking knew you.
I can only reflect on how much you showed me love despite you calling me a different name almost every time I saw you.
My greatest fear is having to watch my mom slowly devolve into the same mental state.
GregariousBlueMitten ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is so true.
I hated the disease before, but when I saw my nanny go through it, it was almost more than I could handle.
I would visit her once a week, and was there one time for her dinner. She was eating her napkins and dumping out her sweet tea on the floor.
She spent most of her time after that at the nurse's station, swaddling her teddy bear over and over and over again. She was always very nurturing. It broke my heart.
ColonelKetchup13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention the horror of realizing that you are directly descended from the person and are at risk of getting the disease. Makes you hesitant to reproduce.
DasHungarian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, grandfather had it but fortunately I only saw him like that in person once (he lived in Hungary).
ViolentEastCoastCity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll add to the pile of scary shit. My dad's mother couldn't remember who he was. His sister would take turns caring for her at her house, and sometimes my dad would come in the front door and his mother would start screaming and attacking him with a rolled up newspaper, thinking he was an intruder. I can't imagine how awful that felt.
cthomasm1994 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm freaking terrified of having to see my family go through something like that.
bippybup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never personally knew anyone who went through it, but the stories have always terrified me and broken my heart. My mother and I visited one of her relatives in a home for people with Alzheimer's, and I couldn't handle it.
My parents live in another state, separated but they still do things for each other. My dad recently told me that my mom's been forgetting things recently. Doctor's appointments she always takes my dad to, repeating herself multiple times, even getting lost on the way to places she's been before.
I am scared. Terrified. I don't want to lose her like that. She's only 63. I don't even have kids yet.
Scarlet-Witch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It runs in my family in addition to working with Alzheimer patients for several years. The older I get the more it scares me, growing up my great grandma had it bad but I was used to it since I was too young to remember her much before then. My grandma (her daughter) also had it towards the end of her life and it was sad but again, I dealt with it okay. I know my mom will most likely have it and that terrifies me, what terrifies me more is if and when I will be affected. Funny thing is that Alzheimer's patients were by far my favorite to work with in Hospice care, even the ones that had a tendency to be combative never were with me.
FOURSCORESEVENYEARS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:36:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great-grandmother had severe alzheimers and dementia. I was at my grandmother's (her daughter's) funeral, and watching my father explain to her where she was, and who was in the casket was one of the most heart-breaking experiences of my life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:47:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it wouldn't bother you to see people that have done bad things go through terrible times. Sadly it's more often than not that a good person suffers because of it too.
actuarymanmanman ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with CTE people but the NFL does not seem to be scared of this reality
brightbrightfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CTE doesn't even have clearly defined features and progression is, by most accounts very slow. Its very serious, but pretty weak by most neurodegenerative standards.
actuarymanmanman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boycott the NFL!
nohonorincensoring ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People are so blissfully unaware of death. It's almost like a trance, completely unaware of your impermanence here on earth on a moment by moment basis. Even if you aren't, it can take a lifetime to fully understand and accept that someday we will all die. When you truly understand the insight of coming face to face with that reality, you understand why religion exists. The truly difficult part is that death is just the end, the real agony is the veracity of the suffering that the world can inflict on any one being. I think perhaps that's why many religions didn't register with me. Such obsession with the afterlife, but little insight into suffering. The Buddhists called this Samsara. It literally means 'sea of suffering', I think. Anyways, Buddhists...good fellows you should check them out. Who knows, maybe I'm the 33rd reincarnation of a Bodhisattva and just happened to run into you ;)
HITLERS_SEX_PARTY ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have Alzheimer's, but at least I don't have Alzheimer's.
foxyguy1101 ยท 1199 points ยท Posted at 01:33:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was 12, our church group went on a mission trip to a nursing home, and a couple of us were designated to go the "Dementia Hallway", and talk to all of the patients that had Alzheimer's and Dementia. It was the most horrific thing, nobody made sense, their stories alll conflicted, and we just sorta played along.
Coming back to the real world after that was the strangest brainfuck ever.
PossiblyPagan ยท 1037 points ยท Posted at 02:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god why do they make children do this. Happened to me in gradeschool. The elderly woman I was paired up with wasn't understandable, and when I politely tried to excuse myself to find a teacher she grabbed my wrists and tried to keep me at the table by force while grunting loud non-words. It was TERRIFYING.
It just made me severely afraid of old people and scared of getting old myself. Like "oh hey how do we make sure none of these kids want to volunteer at a nursing home."
[deleted] ยท 180 points ยท Posted at 03:12:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually it's to make the older person feel valued and give the kid insight and empathy, but it was probably to early for you
[deleted] ยท 72 points ยท Posted at 04:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's fine for general elderly fold, but if they're in late stages of Alzheimer's/dementia, I think it's better if they're left to professionals.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:17:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a spectrum, people with dementia can have lucid parts of the day or times where human contact is necessary. Sure, a person who has advanced dementia and is unpredictable is not a good pairing with a child, but shunting people off to professionals is just condemning them to an even more sad decline before death
Source: Medical student whose sick of seeing people abandoned by families when they're no longer verbal
beautifullybusy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:02:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm curious about their lucid points throughout their day...do they act out? And how early on in the stage of dementia do a lot of families abandon those patients?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:14:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't done a lot of neuro yet, but from what I've seen many patients have lucid points where they are more or less normal. Many get a bit confused as to what's gone on, some realize that they're going downhill and panic a bit, some are just perfectly pleasant. Haven't seen too much acting out
As for the second part, it depends on the family, not that I've seen a ton. Some stick with it to the end though, and I think it means something even for those lost deep in dementia
ClamPantry ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:08:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until you've lived with a person with advanced Alzheimer's you don't know how hard it is. My father in law got early onset Alzheimer's dementia at the age of 55. He lifted weights every day. He got violent and paranoid. My mother in law had just died of breast cancer and we were 26, trying to further our careers and start a family. We moved in with him for as long as we could but I didn't trust him alone with my wife.... His own fucking daughter because he would get scared and act out. It wasn't his fault. He was the nicest guy in the world before that. He shit in the bathtub on almost a weekly occurrence. He couldn't hold a conversation. He punched out the mirrors in the house because he thought someone was watching him. So until you've seen someone you love and used to know go through this you have no fucking clue what it's like. It's the hardest thing in the world. We HAD to move him in to a home for his safety and our own. He spent the last 3 months of his life in a wonderful facility with people that could tend to his needs. We visited as much as we could. We both took time off work. Some people don't have that luxury. Some people don't have a choice. I can't imagine how hard it would have been if we had kids. Alzheimer's isn't just for old nice grannies. More and more people are being diagnosed with early onset every year. It's sad but you can't be there every second. And I can tell you at the end almost certainly when he was laid up in that hospital bed struggling to breathe because his brain couldn't tell his lungs what to do, he had no fucking clue if we were there or not. He had for all intents and purposes already died.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:46:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry for your loss
To be clear, what I meant by abandoning them was sticking them in a home and going a year or more at a time without seeing them. There's nothing wrong with putting them in a setting where they'll get the support they need and allow you to live your own lives, but completely abandoning them once they're there is reprehensible
ClamPantry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry if I came across as harsh. I was grumpy this morning.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No worries
Robobvious ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 03:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or too late for her...
Orgalorgg ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:31:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I did it in college and it was a wonderful experience. And then my grandpa got Alzheimer's right after, so I was already prepared. My family used humor to get through it, because he did say some pretty off-the-wall things. A few years later I saw an actual brain from a person who had alzheimer's at a "body world" exhibit at my local science museum, and it was really eye-opening to what was going on. The grey matter just kind of... disappears. All that's left is white matter. It makes the brain look like a brain-version of the grand canyon.
Mundius ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:03:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a description I could have lived without.
Orgalorgg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:32:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll be ok. They're doing amazing things with Alzheimer's prevention these days.
Mundius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually don't have a history of Alzheimer's in my family, entirely unrelated. Just imagining a brain but white and like a grand canyon of brain...
Azusanga ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:31:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a pre-teen, my mom decided to bring my sibling and I with some family friends to the local nursing home for volunteer bingo.
I don't like the elderly. I've never been comfortable around them, and even my own grandparents make me nervous. The nail in that coffin was when Sister Margaret showed up to bingo. Her face was scaly, scarred, and covered in boils. She was very pleasant to talk to, but i was terrified internally.
PossiblyPagan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:39:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had insight and empathy, what I didn't have was a goddamn briefing beforehand. I mean HECK. They told us "don't complain that it stinks" and I thought "of course I won't be so rude!"
Went in expecting non-contagious not-feeling-well old people who wanted to play cards. Was NOT prepared for scary old lady grabbing me, after years of "don't let scary old people grab you" being drilled into me.
We needed way more supervision than we got and it took me ten years to get comfortable around old people again :(
askdljlasjdlajsd ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all honesty you did the old people a favour, imagine not knowing where you are, and not knowing why you are afraid (because Alzheimers, you've forgotten you don't know where you are but the stress hormones remain), seeing and talking to children makes anybody think they're in a non-hostile environment.
I think this isn't communicated well enough to children but if it makes you feel any better, you eventually reasoned with your terror, their's only got worse...
Pumpernickelfritz ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:29:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt had alzheimers down south, and after meeting her for the first time, she was a lovely person, cooking some sage sausage. 5 minutes later i came into the kitchen and she was shocked saying, when did you get here. Sad stuff.
RossPerotVan ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 04:14:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry. ... but "Alzheimers down south" cracked me up.
RedZaturn ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working at a nursing home was the most depressing job I've ever had. I don't know why they only hire teenagers to do activities with the dementia and Alzheimer's patients. It's way too depressing for someone that young, and it's fucked me up pretty good.
nina00i ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just one of the many 'welcome to reality' activities young people get. I'd rather hang out with old people than have a close family member die as a kid.
Accumbenz ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:58:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IMO if kids are going to volunteer with dementia patients, they should be well educated on the condition first. And supervised.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.. I worked in a dementia facility and it was often violent
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:30:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something I'll never forget is going to the nursing home in grade school to sing Christmas carols or some shit, and the old ladies who couldn't do anything besides wail incoherently. I remember trying to give one a Christmas card and all she did was groan "I don't want it" and I was completely lost for what to do. I probably just freaked out and ran off.
FaptainAwesome ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:49:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They took us to the nursing home to.. Idk. Do something with the residents when I was in preschool. I was 4-5, but I remember things like the guy wandering around in just a shirt and a woman trying to wake up the lady she was playing cards with. I thought for sure she had just died and that that's what happened there. They just hang out and die completely out of the blue.
Telesto311 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:58:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much.
We tell the families they went peacefully and quickly, we don't tell them it was on the toilet with their pants down or face first into their plate of food or while waiting by the door for someone, anyone to remember they exist and come visit them.
It makes you wonder what the point of living long really is.
FaptainAwesome ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work on a surgical floor. If we lose a patient after a code blue it can be quite the endeavour getting them cleaned up before we let the family see them. Especially if they try and fail to start a femoral line... Such a bloody mess.
Telesto311 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:46:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had one with some type of abdominal cancer. When she went the floodgates opened from every orifice, and I had family waiting to say their goodbyes with their kids. Blood was literally dripping of the bed.
I finally had to stick gauze deep in her mouth and up her nostrils to stem the flow, then held my breath while they commented on how peaceful she looked. I was sweating it on that one.
Traumas are expected to be a mess. Grandma in her bed is not. But man, it sure can be. Kinda like the 550+lb aortic aneurysm who was a full code...Blood everywhere. Families can't handle that.
FaptainAwesome ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:15:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god, 550 pounds?! I've had to deal with over 300 pound guys who coded, but not over 500. Though thinking of full code, I do remember a while back having a 90+ year old. Full code, lung mass. Family was demanding a biopsy and all kinds of treatment. The poor guy weighed maybe 85 pounds and was almost completely nonverbal. I was able to turn him with 1 hand, if I had wanted to I could have just thrown him over my shoulder without even trying. They were finally convinced to sign a DNR and take him home to end his life peacefully. It really helped me understand why my grandmother had a DNR and living will before she was 75. She doesn't want to go on with no quality of life.
stephj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:48:23 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are an amazing person
oskool ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:59:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it in grade school, had a 90 year old lady who couldn't talk, barely able to communicate by body movements. I was probably in like 5th grade. I actually still remember her fondly and feel I tried to interact with her and make her feel happy. The last time we visited that year, her son came in and he was a preacher or priest or something. He thanked me and said that I had made his mother happy, he appreciated it, etc. This was probably 28 years ago and I can still remember the details of the room, where I was sitting, etc. It was definitely a positive experience for me, made me realize that we can all have an impact on people, kindness goes a long way!
notgayinathreeway ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You comforted her.
She wanted you to stay. She tried to restrain you and begged you not to go. That's how much you meant to her in that moment.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well if you don't expose children to it you A. alienate the kids who are exposed to it and B. you make adults that don't understand it.
PossiblyPagan ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 07:42:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's well and good but in my case it was like exposing a child to sea kelp touching their feet in the ocean without first explaining that it isn't sharks.
The lack of preparation just set me up for freakout. I thought they were going to be like my grandparents, in need of more quiet/gentle activities but still very much "normal" people behaving in socially acceptable ways.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes you just gotta throw em in.
I understand your metaphor/simile, but explaining alzheimers to a child would be difficult. And second, you need to be tossed in the oicean/shark tank, you can't just coddle people their whole lives.
chirmer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You missed his point. He wasn't even aware they were struggling with a disorder at all. Even a simple "Hey Timmy, we're going to spend some time with the elderly, and these folks are going through some struggles so they might not behave like you think they will" would be SOMETHING.
Completely, COMPLETELY disagree that throwing kids into a situation like this without warning is okay. The biggest memories I have from my childhood are when I was put into a situation unprepared and terrified.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So does every other human being on earth. Those memories are an attempt to make you survive long enough to spread your genetics.
Stop being such a victim.
chirmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:07:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your post, quite literally, could not be more full of crap. Please do not have children. Sincerely, sane society.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me find you my tiny violin.
While you teach your children how to post blogs on tumblr about how their feelings were hurt in the wrong way, I will teach mine how to internalize it, deal with it, and come out as better people in the end.
chirmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll talk slower so you can understand me this time. You... like... do realize... kids can like... be taught to learn and grow from an experience... like... while being told what the fuck is going on, right? What if the kid had shouted, "Daddy, I think this lady is stupid!" Because you couldn't fucking be bothered to warn the them? Think things through, pal. It's what the brain is for.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:14 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JaguarJumper ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:22:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am 44 and as a result of something similar am absolutely terrified of children, the elderly and people with severe disabilities. It's the inability to communicate that frightens me. I have had this terror since childhood and I have no idea how to address it.
SuperSmashBrosPele ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that you can learn an important lesson: appreciate what you have now, because it can all go so fast.
mymagicalbox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Maybe to learn empathy?
Edit: They could do something about realizing when it's too much for some kids though. I'm sorry you were traumatized! :(
jdlyons81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So did you guys bone or what?
obligarchy1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember my grandfather grabbing my wrist like that. Strangely I think that was one of his few lucid moments near the end. Like, he wanted to hold onto the presence of the moment.
sellyberry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, now imagine your 30 and that's your mother you're visiting :(
hadesflames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, let's be honest here. Kids aren't exactly running in droves to volunteer at nursing homes anyway.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I ever get diagnosed with anything where my mental health deteriorates I'm going to drive off a bridge.
SeaLeggs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so they can say 'if you don't eat your vegetables, you'll become one'.
_angesaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Children are just tiny adult humans. You need to experience "scary" things at some point. It's worse to be sheltered, imo.
jellary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. It's kind of an all-or-none deal. Either it works out and you meet a cool old person or someone tries to keep you as their pet.
Lacey_Von_Stringer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Dee
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:02:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Telesto311 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right? I started as a CNA at 16, became an LPN at 21 and an RN at 24. Most of my early years were in LTC and I really believe it changed me dramatically. I don't think we can feel things like other people do.
quichagan ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:00:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother has dementia now, and i dont find it to be like your experience. Sure, she will ask me the same question like 10 times in a conversation but who cares? She remembers me and thats all i care about. Once thats out the window it'll be tough
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would they make you do that at 12...?
That's fucking terrifying.
Koonsthekoons ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Been there before. It was a completely secluded, isolated ward at the nursing home. There was a courtyard that was about 15x15 feet with 10 foot walls they could walk in. There were some that just watched black and white tv all day. There were some who just paced in an oddly perfect route constantly. And there were some who just stood in the corner murmuring things to themselves. It was something out of a zombie film. Just terrifying.
S1mplejax ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:37:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright that sounds overwhelming as fuck and a good way to make you scared of mentally disabled people in general.
foxyguy1101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, now I don't go anywhere near nursing homes. Oddly enough though, I've fostered a couple of mentally handicapped kids, and they are nowherenear as scary.
RhubarbCharb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother has had last stage dementia for a while, every time I feel sad about it, I remind myself how much worse it is for my dad.
stuckwithculchies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what was your mission?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to volunteer at an d folks home. There was an old dame in the lobby who was convinced I was her son. I played along, but it was fucking heartbreaking. I cried a little after. I rarely cry.
Humdot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, I work at a nursing home.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went to take a crime report from an old gent who had managed to get hold of a phone. He was reporting his car stolen......he thought it was 1977 and it had just happened. No doubt in a filing cabinet somewhere there is a dusty old report of the same thing. We knew he hadn't really had anything happen, I just went to check on him.
PhysicsNovice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pot meet kettle
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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TheManWithSomeGoals ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:48:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could not handle people with Alzheimer's on acid. It would be a sure fire bad trip.
ExtraBread ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just being around old people on acid would trip me out.
firedrake242 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's just the acid
[deleted] ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 02:48:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:02:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What part of it? They literally just described what happened to them.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 03:05:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, it really can be if they're in a bad episode, especially as a child.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:09:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mrbubblesthebear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah 12 year olds can deal with traumatic experiences!
tubular1845 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, he was 12. Get over it. He wasn't trying to be malicious at all.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:16:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had multiple people in my family with Alzheimer's, It's just that I can understand how scary it would be as a kid to have someone screaming at you for seemingly no reason. No one was saying bad things about your mother or people with Dementia or Alzheimer's.
mrbubblesthebear ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:28:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop taking things so personally. Everyone has shitty parts of their lives and stuff they have to deal with.
TheChoya ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:51:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone with a mother with dementia, you should realize the reality that it's a horrible thing for all involved.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 02:55:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is English your first language?
If it is, you might be lacking critical communication skills. You have completely misunderstood everything you've replied to.
hb_alien ยท 2320 points ยท Posted at 01:11:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ALS and Huntington's Disease are just as bad.
At least Alzheimer's waits until you're old in most cases. Those two can strike at any time in your adulthood.
Edit: changed worse to just as bad.
PM_BUTT_PICS ยท 1873 points ยท Posted at 02:31:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife's uncle had ALS. He went almost a year before being diagnosed. They couldn't figure out what it was.
He got super skinny, his arms sort of locked half raised and close to his body. He had trouble walking.
By the end he couldn't talk and couldn't move.
The last time the family gathered he tried to lighten the mood by having the computer say "if I owe anyone money, nows the time to speak up".
He was slowly trapped in his body, unable to move or speak for weeks.
His mind was as clear as it had ever been. He just slowly lost more and more movement each day becoming his own tomb.
ALS is fucking terrifying.
TonyDarko ยท 122 points ยท Posted at 04:06:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad is in the same state- being trapped in his body. He's almost on year 6. Luckily still has his speech but the disease is slowly working on his lungs so that will be gone too.
I'm 2000 miles away from home and it seems that every time we Skype (twice a week) things have gotten worse. His head is clear, he loves learning, but you can tell he's restless. There's tons of things he wants to do and believes he still can, but has no way to do them.
Watching him call over to his wife so that she can wipe his eye when they start burning is heartbreaking. The person you once saw as completely indestructible is fading fast- just like you said. It started in the left hand, took most of his left arm, attacked his legs, put him in a wheelchair. Now no use of his arms, no use of his legs, fading use of his lungs. He knows the end is coming soon; we've made our peace and I'm going back in a week to finalize that. ALS is the scariest, worst thing I've ever endured- but I couldn't imagine what it's like for him.
I can't imagine what he feels: the pain, the restlessness, the fear, and even just how he must feel when he thinks that he's a burden to us. He's apologized to me for walking slow (back when he still could). That's another thing- it takes people who are completely healthy at first and just takes that all away. ALS sufferers not only lose their physical capabilities; it takes an immense toll on the mind and emotions.
royalblue420 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom got ALS. She didn't last six years, but she died of a heart attack before it completely wasted away her body. She had a few bad days, mostly in relation to the drug she took while part of a failed clinical trial, but she handled it far better than I think I would have in her position.
Just be there for your father emotionally as much as you can. It's not always easy, my mom often didn't want to talk about it. I can't really say what went through her mind. The only thing she ever did to complain was say, 'this sucks,' every once in a while. She just kind of bottled up, and I really wish I could have done more for her emotionally.
HubertTempleton ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:34:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading about ALS and the like really makes me wonder how people can be so strong to power through that, it's impressive.
I sure as hell would be having some serious suicidal thoughts when being diagnosed with one of those diseases. Better end it as long as I'm still able to do it myself.
TonyDarko ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For my dad it came down to seeing me as much as he could. If you knew you had a finite amount of time with your loved ones, you'd do everything you possibly could to maximize the amount of time spent with them.
jefvel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw this text to speech program that uses recordings of real voices mentioned on Reddit before. I think it was this http://www.acapela-group.com/speech-impairment-acapela-group-introduces-my-own-voice-a-world-premiere-for-voice-replacement-in-10-languages/
Could maybe be worth looking into.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My heart goes out to you homie. My dad also has als and it has been quite a ride. He's getting to the point where his mobility is pretty much gone.
It hurts so much seeing him getting worse, I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
TonyDarko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you need anyone to talk to/ask questions/yell about why your family, hit me up. Nobody should go through it alone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks man, that's really cool of you. Fortunately my friends have been by my side through this whole ordeal, as well as my mom/sister, but it's hard to go through it, and sometimes it's good to talk to someone who also went/is going through it.
TonyDarko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course. I choose not to talk about it with anyone who knows me, but that's just the way I am.
iendandubegin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing your story. I hope you and your family handle the transition as well as one can.
Tactically_Fat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd give you a hug if I could.
TonyDarko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hug accepted
drfitcat ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 03:17:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's awful. I'm sorry for your loss, your wife's uncle sounds like a pretty cool dude.
bojiggidy ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandfather had it. He started getting a little unbalanced in his walking, and his speech start slurring very slightly. Wasn't diagnosed ALS for a while, because the doctors all thought he'd had some minor strokes. His eyesight started going, and then things got worse, and other symptoms started presenting, they realized what it was. He went downhill pretty quick. ALS sucks.
TankGirlwrx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:28 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother had ALS when I was pretty young. This sounds similar to what I recall. She died within a year iirc. The hardest part was watching my mom go through watching her mother waste away, unable to do anything to help.
hirohumi ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother was recently diagnosed with it a year ago and it's horrifying to see the progress of the disease. She can't drive she can barely walk with the help of a walker, she has to live on the first floor of the dream house she bought (just a modest two story house that she dreamed of having when she was a child). My parents are having to sell it because she cannot handle being trapped on the first floor and not being able to tend to her garden she built.
It's the worst watching this happen to her.
coyotebored83 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry you are going through it. My best friend's mom just passed away from it. She made it about 6 years after diagnosis. It is really hard watching it happen. If any positive can come from it, i think that it's that everyone has time to come to terms with it. You get time to spend together. For my friends mom (almost like a mom to me too) she got to go surrounded by her husband and 5 kids. It's really hard to experience though.
edit: There have been studies that have shown that marijuana can slow the progression of the disease. My friends very conservative mom almost considered it at one point but there is no way her family would have thought that a good route to go.
RhubarbCharb ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both of my grandfathers died from ALS. I was alive to see only one of them pass away from this awful disease. All I can say is thank you to everyone that participated in the ALS ice bucket challenge. The charities benefitted SO MUCH from that "dumb fad".
Tanek42 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:18:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother died from ALS last year after 11 years. She was not very old when first diagnosed and to watch the deterioration of her body while her mind was fully intact was so painful. I can't even imagine the psychological effect in has when she realizes there's another thing she can't do such as walking, controlling her power wheel chair, using the restroom/bathing independently, moving to get comfortable in bed, using a page flipper to read books, chewing food, speaking, swallowing, breathing without a ventilator...And we've been "close" to a cure for over a decade so this tiny glimmer of hope just sat there on the horizon. There are few, if any, diseases that scare me more than ALS.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Molecular bio major here - Huntington's is a terrifying disease because it works at a genetic level similar to cancer. It basically causes a constant repetition of a certain nucleotide chain to fuck with how your proteins are created. Huntington's encoded proteins to have a long track of glutamine which can really fuck you up. Basically effects you similarly to parkinsons but a hell of a lot harder to cure
SpinningNipples ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds so bad, I didn't know much about the disease and I can't imagine how hope crushing it is for people with Hungtinton to hear how hard it will be to cure it.
This thread is fucking me up so badly because I might have MS (but after months we still don't know, getting tested and bla bla). Even if I'm beyond terrified, I think if I had been told it could be Hungtinton or ALS I wouldn't have been able to hold on emotionally like I've been doing.
It makes me so sad for those people, I really hope treatments don't take too long to get discovered. If I had one wish I'd wipe out diseases forever.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MS can be fairly dormant if it makes you feel better, my grandma had it her entire life and not too many complications. There are new technogies by the way. Preventing genetic diseases like cancer is unfortunately a futuristic dream but the treatment for them is getting increasingly better.
SpinningNipples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for the encouraging words :)
girl-lee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know two people with huntingtons. They were youngish lads when they were diagnosed (in their early 20's) after watching their dad die from it. I only ever see one of them now, he walks his dogs all the time and you can see him getting worse, it's horrible. I remember going to school with the other one of them, he was the toughest kid in school, no one messed with him but he was so nice at the same time, I never saw him in a fight ever but people knew not to mess with him. Now I never see him even though we all live in a tiny village so it's kind of impossible not to run into people all the time, I worry he's just trapped in his house degenerating. Fuck all of those diseases! I have Addison's disease and it sucks but I count myself lucky it's not worse!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Early 20's is very early and unfortunate for them. There is new technology for treatment but still fairly far away
girl-lee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is, unless I'm mistaken and they were tested due to genetic links at that age without symptoms, I'm not sure. Either way they can only be in their 30's now and definitely do have symptoms.
Death_Star_ ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:22:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am very sorry to hear about that, I hope that you are holding as well as can be.
It absolutely sounds and looks terrifying.
From my understanding, Stephen Hawking is actually one of the "luckier" victims of Lou Gehrig's disease -- yet he literally only has physically control of one cheek.
With as much respect as I can defer, I feel like Stephen Hawking's life would be my personal hell, to be trapped in a body with a clear mind and control of only one cheek to be used to communicate one sentence per hour (a genius mind might even be worse because Hawking can be pretty contemplative and introspective, and he arguably would be insatiably curious without the efficient means to explore his curiosity in subjects).
MikeyC207 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watching my grandfather go through this now. He was diagnosed over ten years ago though.
cia_w953 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather had ALS as well, it unfortunately attacked his upper body first and got to his lungs fairly quickly. While he could communicate though he also made jokes the whole time asking us who snuck in the flask this time for him.
Great man. Such a terrifying disease to watch such an amazing and strong man just deteriorate so quickly like that, after a month he could barely even write to us that he needed his breathing tube adjusted or what not.
Sorry for your loss, ALS sucks.
Woodshadow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:45:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Grandmother had it to. She was always sick with Bronchitis for a year and a couple of times fell and hurt her knee or hip. For the most part she was okay until they realized she had ALS. Slowly she could talk less and less. It took about a year maybe a year and a half and needed someone to help her the entire way. Just like your wife's uncle her mind was clear as ever. I still remember the last day. She was really sick at the hospital and she was coughing really bad. A couple of nurses came in and we said goodbye. We came back a little later and she was asleep. She never woke back up her heart beat for another 12 hours or so. We just watched the heartbeat monitor get slower and slower until it finally stopped. It was more or less peaceful last day but sad.
titanicx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sisters husband had this. Went from one of the strongest men I have known to nothing in such a short time.
Inkwell25 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad had ALS and died a couple years back... This sounds exactly like what happened. They thought he had a stroke, because of his slur. Watching him wither until he was a husk of a man was intense, to say the least. One of the most ripping experiences of my life was hearing him put "I love you" on repeat while I was walking out the door before my ride back to Houston..
The hardest part about the entire thing was relating to people again. It's all I could think about. I still think about it/him daily, but not in the same sense. I'm damn proud he was my father.
In saying that, if I ever get ALS I'm kayaking with a bucket of chum and a knife into the middle of the ocean and putting my demons down.
failworlds ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:52:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh, now i understand the ice bucket challenge
TankGirlwrx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:40 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, that "challenge" made me furious. I literally quit social media for the majority of that summer. I'm glad a lot of people donated, but I was frustrated by the number of people doing something stupid just to "raise awareness" (and not donate).
the_great_addiction ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:35:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's basically permanent sleep paralysis? There aren't many situations, if any other, that I know ahead of time I would want to die. I wouldn't want this for anyone. Seriously, no one. If hitler had this I would mercy kill him. Sorry to hear about your uncle.
Sounds like a funny guy too. I lol'd at his joke
Telesto311 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've watched a lot of people die in a lot of different ways. ALS is my nightmare, followed by MS and Alzheimer's, specifically the stage where you know something awful is happening but can't remember what.
But ALS tops all those by far.
PadaWINE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am so sorry. My grandmother passed from ALS before I was even born, but it is one of the most terrifying things that could happen to me. Is there a gene test for this??
lesllamas ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:21:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, there is no positive test for ALS. It is diagnosed by ruling all other diagnoses out. It runs in the families of an extremely small number of patients, and it is not known why this is the case. If your grandmother was the only one in your direct family with ALS, then it's a pretty safe bet it's sporadic and not familial.
doom32x ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'm on the other end of that stick, my paternal grandfater died of ALS before I was born, my father died of it 5 years ago. Scares the shit out of me that I could have less than half of my life left already and I just turned fucking 30.
lesllamas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know as much about familial ALS, but if I recall correctly, it's figured to be probably a 50/50. But I also seem to remember reading a couple years ago that familial ALS presents pretty early (thinking 20's and 30's). So if you can manage to look at it like every year you make it through, the better your odds are of not having it, you might be able to keep some optimism.
doom32x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Yeah, I know its likely 50/50 if familial, not sure with age thing though. Father died at 54 his father at 61 or so. The math both being sporadic isn't great, although my grandfather was a mechanic on heliocopters in the WWII pacific front, my old man was a diesel mechanic with at least two massive concussions we know about, so I'm somewhat hopeful that bad non-genetic luck was involved.
TankGirlwrx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:44 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My family was told they could be tested after my grandmother had been diagnosed. AFIAK I think only one of my aunts may have. My mom and I are too terrified to know. I had never heard there were two "forms" if you will. I just assumed she was the first in the family to get it. But it comforts me a little to know I and my mom might be safe. Especially considering no one else has been diagnosed and I'm in my early 30s and so far pretty healthy. Sadly, various cancers seem to be pretty prevalent in my family and none have been pleasant to watch.
lesllamas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:21 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a number of factors that you mentioned that point to your grandmother not having FALS.
http://www.alsa.org/about-als/genetic-testing-for-als.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
ALS isn't like Huntingtons or others where the diagnosis of a family member is scary (for your health, that is). From the little you've told me, I would guess that you shouldn't worry yourself. Especially given that if it WAS familial, then in order for you to get it, your mom would have to get it first. And familial presents at earlier ages than Sporadic. Given that your grandmother presumably was diagnosed in her 50's or later, and that your mother is presumably in her 50's or later now (you being in your 30's), if neither you or your mom have had it by now then I can't see any logical reason why you would have anything to worry about.
TankGirlwrx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:44 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny how much the reassurance of a stranger can help sometimes :) I really appreciate the link and explanation. You are correct, my grandmother was diagnosed in her 70s, and my mother is in her 60s now. So based on those factors I'm more confident that my grandmother's case was sporadic.
Definitely still a hellish ordeal to go through for any family member or friend of someone suffering from ALS (and those who have it!). My heart goes out to anyone who's been touched by this disease.
mannrodr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey - just turned 31 (on sunday). My pops died from ALS too and it was a short story.. Message me
PadaWINE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:31 on March 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thx :)
rklystron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have the same issue with my best friend. Known this guy for 48 years. It is scary to watch him not being able to communicate, walk, eat, and talk. Everyday it seems to get worse. Fuck this disease.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the end they either go on a ventilator or slowly suffocate to death over a few days time, it's not a quick end.
Artvandelay1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife's uncle also had ALS. It's just sadder and sadder and sadder every way you look at it. He was sharp as ever and yet because of the numbness in his extremities and tongue people would treat him like he was drunk or mentally handicapped. That to me was always one of the saddest parts of it.
rockerdrummer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I've watched this happen to my uncle and I'm terrified of it.
_Niggers_Gonna_Nig_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should have done more ice bucket challenges..
110011001100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, any good countries where euthanasia is legal and looking for immigrants?
jenniferfox98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My stepfather has it, and while he's made slow progress so far, I'm worried I won't have the courage to watch him go through it. Its kept me up at night crying many nights, it just doesn't feel like he deserved to get it.
AllezCannes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm seeing like, 50 replies to your post about people who know someone diagnosed with ALS. WTF is going on, is it becoming more and more common?
wolfsuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just watched this happen to my father last year. Can confirm..
TuPacMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched my grandmother waste away from ALS. She went from happy and energetic and always trying to entertain family to completely locked in and severely depressed. She could only move 3 muscles (all in her face) and that's what she controlled her speech synthesizer with. 3 words per minute.
She told me that she was physically in pain, but the worst pain was seeing how it affected us. She would have killed to spend 5 minutes with us in her old body โ So she could tell us how much she loved us without the focus being on her illness.
If I was ever diagnosed, I would kill myself to spare my family from seeing my mind being trapped in a dead body. It's a death sentence regardless.
joe2105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle had ALS, wouldn't wish it upon anyone.
TheMadmanAndre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I ever find out I'm coming down with this I'm Ending my life on my own terms.
Zabren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My great grandfather committed suicide. He was pretty far into ALS, from what I understand. From what I understand, they had to feed him via tube and generally lost all semblance of independence. He just couldn't take it, I guess. He walked out into the backyard and pulled the trigger, I guess not wanting to do it in the house. "The help," I guess you could say, found him or ran outside first, or whatever.
Ever since I found that out a year or two ago, I haven't thought of ALS the same. I know that if I end up developing it or anything like it, it'll be a one way flight to a death with dignity state.
Shankocity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love reddit because I can read a simultaneously tragic and scary story, and then see that your username is PM_BUTT_PICS. And then I just don't know how to feel.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Massive props to him keeping a sense of humour though.
I think that being able to go through all that and still think to crack a joke says a lot about a person.
sgdbw90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father passed away from ALS in 2009. It's exactly as terrible as people make it sound, but I have to say that this fucking disease at least had the dignity to keep his mind intact until the end. He needed computer assistance to talk and was totally dependent on caregivers (mostly my family), but he never lost his edge or his wit. The last day I spent with him we went to the Nixon Library (presidential sites were a common trip for us). Though most movement was impossible, my die-hard liberal father managed to pull off a satisfied, shit-eating grin in a photo next to Nixon's resignation letter. It was stupendous. I'm so glad we had that day together. For those of you whose family members are going through this now, make sure you take opportunities for new happy memories. There are more than enough awful ones, but you and your family can fight back. And you'll be so glad you did.
just_comments ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I sometimes wonder how Stephen Hawking deals with it. Like he should have been dead before I was born, how is he still alive? How does he handle the fact that all his interaction with the world is through a single cheek muscle?
AMP2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to hear about that...
My triplet aunts are currently in the process of all enduring MND (ALS). The gene was passed on by my grandmother to the identical triplets.
First, one of my aunts fell sick to the disease, and was only diagnosed a day before her death. Then my grandmother's gene activated, she was gone within a year. I'll never forget her last words to me before I had to go back overseas after our last visit to see her. "Go and live your life, have fun. Love is eternal".
The stress caused by these deaths has activated my mother's and my final aunt's genes within close proximity. Now my aunt is reaching the stage of breathing machines, my mother is fluctuating in her progression and her annorexia and alcoholism are making her progress faster. Thank god we have found a pre-pre-trial drug that appears to be helping her slow/halt the progression. I'm so afraid for the day I hear my aunt has passed, it's inevitable at this point. I think it's going to tip my mother over the edge, it might be her death sentence.
What scares me most is that this has all happened within 4 years... I still remember all 4 of them being so healthy in 2010 when they visited us. I miss those days.
Just another note for all you guys regarding donations to ALS/MND foundations... Donate to something else, they reckon that they are close enough to the cure that they don't need more money for now. What we really need is awareness so drug companies recognise the demand for MND drugs so they can be distributed legally and safely.
gianini10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom died after 5 years with ALS. Terrifying is an understatement. I know if I ever contract it I will end my own life. I don't have the desire to suffer like that.
MechanicalTurkish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that.
AdmiralSnackbar_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it doesn't mean much now but reading this makes me happy I let someone dump a bucket of ice water on my head and gave a few bucks. I'm so sorry, I couldn't even imagine.
[deleted] ยท 573 points ยท Posted at 01:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Sister started showing symptoms of Huntington's recently. Our Father has it and it was passed from his Mother. I was tested for it 5 years ago and I always wondered why my sister refused to get tested. She had other medical issues to worry about from what she recently told me.
[deleted] ยท 181 points ยท Posted at 02:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think getting tested then finding out you have it but show no symptoms is somewhat more scary. Living day in and day out waiting for you to start losing control of your own body.
But what do I know, no one I know has it.
captainburnz ยท 104 points ยท Posted at 03:37:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would rather know whether or not the sword is hanging above my head.
I know this might hurt some feelings... but I think it's selfish to have kids if you have the disease. Hiding from the knowledge doesn't make it better.
a_caidan_abroad ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:47:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly don't know whether I'd want to know or not. If I were considering children, it would obviously be a consideration, but if not...
If I was clear, obviously, it'd be a huge relief.
If I had it, it would have a pretty big impact on my life. I live my life assuming I'll be relatively healthy and functional into my 50s and 60s. I plan for that, spend time in school for that, etc. If I knew I only had 10 or 20 good years to go, I don't think I'd be making the same choices.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:19:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would want to know. I wouldnt do certain careers and would probably be more reckless. If i knew i had huntingtons i would probably go the traveling band or backpacking across europe route.
Knowing i wouldnt have to worry about retirement or anything would make me live in the now. I would def want to know
nrealistic ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to backpack across Europe, do it now. You could die any day, and you won't be staying in youth hostels after you retire. Don put your life on hold.
FluffySharkBird ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. My family lives a long time. I'm aiming for at least 90
a_caidan_abroad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:47:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of my relatives have made it into their 80s and beyond - it's quality of life that's the issue (hence the "healthy and functional") bit. I assume I'll live at least into my 70's, but I don't assume I'll be able to do all the things I can do now.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:34 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why there's psychological evaluations as part of the testing process. My fiancรฉ got tested a few years ago and it was taxing, but he thankfully came out clear. His father died of it a few months before he decided to get tested. It was pretty early onset too, so it was scary to think about. The more cag repeats the more pronounced it is. His sister doesn't want to get tested... I understand why from both sides though.
a_caidan_abroad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:23 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ultimately, though, psychological evaluations aren't going to prevent a diagnosis from having a huge impact, nor do they guarantee that the person is prepared to handle their diagnosis.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:42 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't guarantee anything, that's for sure. But if the psychologist doesn't think you're ready to handle the results whatever they may be, you can bet you aren't getting tested for a certain amount of time. Then they'll reevaluate, but they make you wait.
a_caidan_abroad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:30 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Per everything online, counseling is recommended and considered a normal part of the process, but they're not going to delay testing on that basis alone. In some cases, emotional issues that could make someone seem "unprepared" to handle diagnosis could, in fact, be symptoms of the disease. Furthermore, refusing to proceed with testing could cause greater emotional harm.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:28 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not exactly true. My fiancรฉ got delayed. There's a slew of questions and if they aren't answered the way they want to hear them they put it off a few months. It's just precautionary to give the person time to decide if they really want to go through with finding out. I agree delaying can do more harm than good, as was the case with my fiancรฉ.
a_caidan_abroad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:04 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delays based on the person's answers are not part of the government recommended protocol, for whatever that's worth.
enjoyus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:52 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He got tested at one of 13 centers for excellence for HD. I think they do a pretty good job. The support groups are really helpful for those going through it, just putting that out there.
a_caidan_abroad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:34 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not commenting on quality of care he received. Only saying it differs from the official guidelines.
dwill07 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is selfish, at the very least they should adopt. When it's all said and done they're still going to have their partner/kids taking care of them 20+ years before they would have been originally if onset is in the 35-55 range. No need to put your own kids at such a disadvantage right from the start.
JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:26:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No need to adopt when you can do prenatal genetic diagnosis.
dwill07 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, that's pretty stressful and costs a lot though right?
taysto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:00:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is the adoption process?
captainburnz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Much less stressful for your partner.
JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends. In some states IGF is covered by health insurance as long as you've tried to get preggo for a year and are unable to. With a genetic diagnosis I wouldn't be surprised if it would be covered from the get-go.
As for the stress, I'm not so sure. I haven't done it but I imagine it would be less stressful than guessing whether your child would be healthy or viable or not.
read_dance_love ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you're comfortable with aborting an already conceived child. Otherwise, adoption.
JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No? PGD can be used in conjunction with IGF. They test the embryo before implantation.
read_dance_love ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, so it's an option. I personally wouldn't want that much medical intervention to conceive, but it is an option.
JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:27:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Selfish? Not really. There is such a thing as prenatal genetic diagnosis. You can responsibly have kids without passing the gene down.
captainburnz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, but it's still quite uncommon. I would sincerely regret marrying my wife if I had to watch her then one or more of my kids die.
jondySauce ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:59:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I refuse to be tested. My mom had it and I don't think I could handle knowing.
whenifeellikeit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:07:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't have any kids, then. You're a carrier.
justme909 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:39:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not possible. Carriers have one copy of a recessive gene that causes a disease when you have two copies. Carriers, having only one bad copy, experience no disease, but can pass it on to their kids if they have children with another carrier. Huntington's is a dominant disease. You get it even if you only have one copy of the gene.
whenifeellikeit ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, cool, I got my terminology mixed up. That means someone who has even one copy of the gene stands a good chance of passing it on. Gotcha.
jondySauce ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:12:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. Don't plan to have kids or adopt. Wouldn't want a kid to go through what I had to.
whenifeellikeit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:22:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a shitty genetic lottery too. I have stepkids, and it's pretty great, so there's that.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you're a Dalek. I joke about the genetic lottery of my family. Huntington's on my fathers side and my mother died from issues with Crohn's disease. My sister has dealt with stomach issues for years and now she is showing signs of Huntington's.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We both have kids already and her oldest has kids. So this is a nightmare situation for me.
Sea_Cucumbers ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:13:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, but why would you have biological children with something like Huntington's in your family?
vaticidalprophet ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:46:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, about 10% of HD cases are de novo (without a family history). People who aren't from HD families may unwittingly have it themselves and pass it on.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did not live around my fathers side of the family and we had never even heard of it until his diagnosis and by then it was too late. I have no idea why no one ever talked to us about it.
Sea_Cucumbers ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:46:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh that makes sense then.
In Biology class, we learned about this man who had HD. His wife was so ashamed that she hid the disease from everyone, telling her children that he died of old age / cancer, what have you.
Well lo and behold, a few years after he dies (wife still remains quiet about the whole thing), their son has kids. And a few years later, the son is diagnosed with HD. A few decades later, HIS kid(s) are diagnosed with HD too. Totally the wife's fault, IMO. I think it's ridiculously irresponsible to knowingly withhold information about serious genetic issues like HD. Like, worthy of a lawsuit / jail time.
I'm really sorry about your family. It's devastating when it's out of the blue like that, and you have to worry about yourself AND your kids. I hope everything works out alright for you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with you. When I was thinking of getting tested I talked with my boss and he told me of a father and son that worked at the plant they both started showing symptoms at the same time. A year later the mother/wife was taking care of them both. I do not want that for my wife or kids. After my sister told me of her symptoms I talked to my brother in law and told him it was going to be rough and he just said he was not going anywhere.
toboozy ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you and your sister planning on having kids?
AdmiralSnackbar_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:02:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think most people don't really want to know they're going to lose control of themselves and die young, they'd rather just have it come on and tackle it then. I can sympathize with that mind set.
sevillianrites ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:14:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think in terms of getting tested, one reason one might avoid it is because, for some people, all it would really do is inflict a sense of abject, inescapable doom upon them. Imagine how it might affect your life knowing with certainty that your body and mind will begin to slowly fail well before they're meant to and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it. And it's more or less a coin flip. If that coin flip comes out as a loss, every waking moment from that moment forward would be haunted by the certainty that you will lose yourself, and everyone you know and love will have to watch it happen. And what's worse, you get an approximate timeline. Life becomes a countdown. Now compare that to what you get if you win the coin flip. Relief? The maintenance of the status quo? The same life as you would've tried to live before you even knew it was possible you could have this terrible disease? You gain nothing, really, because "not being sick" is an abstract concept. Perhaps you feel blessed or lucky for awhile but eventually that'll give way to more concrete things. So basically you flip a coin and either your life is destroyed or nothing changes. Or you don't flip the coin and you try not to think about it because it won't change the outcome anyways. And while maybe that uncertainty is not as good as knowing for sure that you'll be ok, it is infinitely better than knowing that you won't be.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason I got tested was because I wanted to know so I could plan out my life as far as I could. I can understand why someone would not get tested. A positive result puts a big timer on your life and most people would not want that.
Tysonzero ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:51:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were negative right?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes sorry. For some reason I forgot to put that part in.
ExudE ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:14:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting that positive result can have lots of benefits as well, compared to realizing you have the disease at 35 years old. If you live in the United States, at least, caring for a HD patient is very expensive, and if you do not prepare adequately, you could leave your spouse and children with an enormous financial burden.
Speaking of children, knowing your genetic status allows you to know if adoption or pre-implantation genetic testing is required, because I'm sure you don't want to pass the disease along.
Getting the negative result, or "winning the coin flip," as you said, allows you to proceed with your life as normal. If you do not choose to get tested, the very same people who would feel that inescapable doom of a positive result would live in fear of the possibility of succumbing to the disease.
hopefulmachines ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:35:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. This is exactly why I didn't have genetic testing done when my mum was diagnosed and died young of a very nasty, aggressive form of cancer. If the test came out positive, the preventative care would be essentially the same anyway - screening procedures much earlier and more often, some changes in diet, etc, and I was already certain I did not want children. So why choose to have all hope stolen away?
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Appreciate that.
evilaliencat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:24:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry. My brother won't get tested and I totally understand why. I am adopted ( my biological mom and my adoptive mom are sisters ) and my biological mom is the only one of the three that doesn't have it, so I cannot have it either. I really do worry though because so many people in my family have it and I've watched them go through it and its terrible :(
Ovenchicken ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that it's a lot scarier knowing that you are going to die young than to have hope that you might not.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. Although I would rather know because of the area we live in is rural so the medical care we can get is poor. When she first told me she was showing symptoms I did not sleep that night because I was trying to figure out how to get her the care she will need later on.
Fatkin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:01:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should watch the last episode of Scrubs (season 8 last episode, not season 9) if you haven't already. It might give you a little insight into what's going through your sister's head.
mikefarquar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The future can be whatever I want."
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion.
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dwill07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just watch all of scrubs honestly, the shows fucking awesome
Fatkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair warning, it may hit really close to home, so be prepared.
Fake-Professional ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry to hear that :( Has she been diagnosed, or is there a chance her exhibited symptoms were caused by something else?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She is going to be tested this week hopefully.
glorioid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry that your family is in this position. I can understand why she would avoid getting tested earlier--it's a terrifying kind of knowledge to live with. Hoping for the best, but if it isn't good I'm wishing you as much peace and comfort as possible.
EarthAllAlong ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No offense to your father--maybe he didn't know.
But if you did know that you had a seriously debilitating hereditary disease...why the fuck would you procreate? Jesus
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:48:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He did not know that he had it. When he found out my wife was pregnant and he wanted our daughter tested in utero and for us to think about aborting if the test came back positive. That upset me because I knew nothing about Huntington's then. I am glad I did not have to make that choice.
whenifeellikeit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So did you test her?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. We got distracted from HD when the ultrasound tech mistakenly diagnosed her with a cleft palate. We spent hours on the internet trying to find out about cleft palates and talking to doctors only to find out she was fine. I was tested some time around then and since the test was negative it slipped our minds.
whenifeellikeit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:25:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neural tube defects are pretty serious too. I've got the MTHFR mutation ("mothafucka" gene, as I like to call it) and the inability to process folic acid in enriched foods causes those. And lots of miscarriages. I don't really blame you for getting sidetracked.
JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I study genetics and I also call this gene motherfucker!
whenifeellikeit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I just got tested and learned about it. I've been suffering SO many shitty health problems for the past 20 years. I'm homozygous on the 677 gene, but not on the other one. I'm hoping that avoiding folic acid totally, and supplementing with 5-MTHF and methylated B12 will help. If you have any other info, please message me! My life has been miserable!
Zgicc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A family member passed away less than a month ago. Stay strong.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. My father watched two of his brothers and his mother suffer and die from Huntington's. It must be a really hard thing to deal with both as a Huntington's patient and as a loved one.
ForeverFun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes, you just don't want to know. I know I avoided getting tested for diabetes just because I'd rather not know.
vegaspecos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone on my father's side has died of Huntington's. His 4 siblings. His mother and so on down the line. It is a shitty way to go. I decided not to get tested because of my job. Just had a kid and it is a little scary to think that he or I might die the same way.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:12:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend's mother has it and she refuses to get tested. She just doesn't want to know if she'll deteriorate so she can live her life without worrying about when symptoms will start showing if she's positive. If it does happen, she's going to come live with me so that her kids don't have to take care of her and see her like that.
mymagicalbox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my understanding there is no cure right? Maybe she just preferred not knowing.
bimbles_ap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than knowing whether or not you have it, what are the benefits of being tested?
If you don't have it, great, huge weight lifted of your shoulders.
But if you do, there's nothing you can really do, right? So then you know for sure you have it and are just waiting for it take hold. Would probably drive most people a little insane. So you're in no better spot than knowing that you may or may not have it.
Just curious.
waitingtodiesoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just think of thirteen from House about why she never wanted it to be tested.
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oligobop ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 03:19:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom has AD. It is truly the hardest to get over for us. I've come to terms with the fact that the mother I grew up with is gone. I've also grown to love the mother I still have.
Shes a different person true. But she is just as powerful a teacher as she was when I was growing.
Her love is so unconditional, that even without the ability to tell me the words I love you, I can tell she still feels it.
There are these faint glimmering moments. With a bit of clarity she can sound almost 100% like her old self. It's then that I realize she's still there just buried deep in the grave of her memory. So much dirt to be uncovered.
Some people choose to desperately dig the dirt away, hoping her former self will show again, that for another faint glimmering moment she's here.
But for every tonne of dirt I removed, 2 tonnes remained.
I think she realized how much I was trying to help her. She would tell me that it's okay in those moments. They were so infrequent, it really can drive you insane.
It took years for her to tell me it's okay. That the disease is what it is and that she still loves me. Like putting together a puzzle when you get a single piece once every 6 months. After a while you get a hint at what the puzzle says up. It looks like "its okay, I love you, it will be okay, you're such a good son, I can't wait for you to get married even if I never see your bride, your kids will be generous and loving like their father, I just won't know their names, tell your father I love him." And its at that point you can't really do anything but shutoff. I fucking hate it but it's a burden that can hone you as a person, and make you want to fix this shitty fucked up thing we live in called nature. I want to hate it, but I can't let her love go to waste.
MightyMinx ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. Reading this literally made me start crying...
I'm so sorry both for you and your mom, and your entire family.
oligobop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No need to be sorry. Love the people in your life for all they're worth. The love they return is always worth it.
MightyMinx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It really is, and stories like yours do such a good job showing that.
beastyAJ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:13:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. My mother was recently diagnosed with ALS & your experiences have given me a new perspective. Thank you for this. Be strong & keep the positive energy our mothers always need.
oligobop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amen!
976692e3005e1a7cfc41 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, I'm so sorry for your situation. You're amazing, taking care of her.
I wish you the best.
ProdigyLightshow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:58:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck dude this almost made me cry. I love my mom so much, I couldn't imagine what you're going through. I hope you find some peace.
GiggleButts ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:58:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To add to this, as my grandma started to descend deeply into Alzheimer's (it's been more than ten years now and she can barely speak), she would have moments of clarity and tell me how she was begging God for death whenever she prayed, and that she didn't understand his plan and wished she could just be free and die.
It's a nightmare for everyone involved :/
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BlindManBaldwin ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:53:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have both with my grandparents. One has ALS, the other has dementia/Alzheimer's and had a major stroke
Lucifaux ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:49:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In either case I would opt for a very quick and slightly entertaining death, like a rollercoaster at Wonderland with no restraints.
Also the children won't be crying for once.
MetallicSong ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:18:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandma has Alzheimer's and I walked in to visit her last Sunday. I said "hey granny, I missed you", and she just kept saying "who are you?" "Who is this?" It's awful.
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JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They've actually begin recommending this, playing along rather than going for brutal truth. Bringing reality to them is less important than their emotional well being.
sorrytosaythat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even worse: most of the times my grandma says she can't understand why her parents left her alone in the middle of nowhere. It's like having an 88-year-old child who was just abandoned by their family.
lesllamas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm my mother's caregiver for ALS, and it's not exactly a fucking picnic. When you reach these magnitudes of suffering, there's really no point in trying to explain why one person or another has it harder. It's just different, but it's all terrible psychologically.
JamesTiberiusChirp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't dismiss the patient experience of Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's and dimentia both cause deep anxiety in patients. Imagine not knowing where you were, who your family is, who these strangers are that claim to be nurses, who you are. Imagine being scared and alone and increasingly isolated from the people around you. Anxiolytics are commonly rxed
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I'm sorry.
ralten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hallucinating is uncommon in AD. You're thinking of Dementia with Lewy Bodies.
MotherFuckingCupcake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh. My mom may be developing dementia or adult onset schizophrenia, and my dad is going through the tests to diagnose ALS. I'm pretty fucking disheartened right now.
robbiedenali ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are many ALS patients who also suffer aspects of dementia. So in addition to losing their body, they also lose their ability to think, understand you, express emotion. It's FTD with Motor Neuron Disease
HDthrowawayyy ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At risk for Huntington's disease, can confirm. Getting tested for it in three weeks because I've started to show physical chorea symptoms. This is definitely the most terrifying month of my entire life. I wake up and go to bed thinking about death. Every time I forget about my death, my muscles twitch and remind me that my body is no longer my own, that it belongs to the disease now, and soon my mind will too.
SpinningNipples ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:20:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I commented somewhere else ITT this same thing but I just wanted to send you an internet hug pal. I've been getting tests for MS for months but we don't know yet because I barely show "atypical symptoms" or whatever. I know it's not the same disease, but I totally get what you mean when you mention your last month has been completely dominated by this. I know for experience what the lack of answers and constant thoughts about death and doom can cause to the mind.
Sending good vibes, I hope good luck strikes you and your symptoms are caused by any other thing that isn't Huntingtons. Nobody should be going through this.
bloodwalt ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my grandmothers had Alzheimer's and the other had ALS. that sucked
Gsusruls ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:35:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're a genetic time bomb.
bloodwalt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yep pretty much fucked. what were we talking about again?
merreborn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:09:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yep, my grandpa had Alzheimer's; a few years after he passed his daughter (my aunt) developed ALS.
With Alzheimers, your body stays in pretty good shape while your mind rots away.
With ALS, your mind stays pristine while your body fails you.
Oh, and while you lose control of your body, you still get to feel all of the pain. You know how you shift around in your chair/bed a few times an hour to stay comfortable? With ALS, you still have that discomfort, but you can't do anything about it. That discomfort, when unaddressed, develops into tear-jerking pain, and you have to ask your caregivers to adjust your body for you (and simply making this request, by the way, is a struggle, as ALS takes your ability to communicate too). Saw it happen to my aunt many times.
ALS leaves you trapped in your body. That's hell. When my aunt finally passed, knowing she was free of that pain, and that prison, was a relief. I wouldn't wish one more day of that agony on her.
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merreborn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I recall correctly, she ultimately asphyxiated in her sleep. She'd had a DNR posted on her bedroom door for months beforehand -- she'd made her choice.
It was about 18 months from diagnosis to death, in the end. Hell of a thing; it strikes out of the blue. She was the picture of health one day (in her late 40s, her kids just old enough to start college), started having a little trouble getting up the stairs the next (which lead to the diagnosis), and within a couple months, she's wheelchair bound; a few more and she almost completely lost the ability to speak and chew her own food. Of course, sometimes it's slower.
Best of luck to you and your mom.
maniacBUM1017 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:44:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like you've never heard of early onset Alzheimer's. My cousin has a friend (who's 22) with Alzheimer's. Literally the worst thing that can happen.
hb_alien ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:44:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's super rare though.
vaticidalprophet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
22?! And I thought dying only somewhat younger than average would save me...
Do you have any articles on this? Scientific, journalistic, whatever. Even in lurid tabloids the earliest cases I've known of were very late 20s.
maniacBUM1017 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, Wikipedia says early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD) can strike as early as age 15. And just looking up EOFAD 22 years old I found a couple articles about how it works and how early it can start. Some messed up stuff man.
neish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having watched my uncle die of ALS just last year and my grandfather die ten years ago and you'd understand why so many sufferers want a dignified death by euthanasia instead. Seeing my uncle try to eat and choke on the smallest piece of food was horrific. The panic in his eyes and the helplessness still sends shivers down my spine.
Unfortunately it seems my family might have familial ALS and tends to strike at a younger age. I imagine someone else in my family will be afflicted at some point.
hb_alien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VICE did an episode on euthanasia a couple of weeks back. Season 4 episode 3. It's great that at least some people have this option.
https://www.vice.com/read/we-investigate-the-right-to-die-debate-on-the-new-episode-of-vice-on-hbo
neish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:18 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing that, it's still an uphill battle in a lot of places. Thankfully I live in Canada and just a few days ago the first Canadian outside Quebec has passed away by assisted suicide. She was suffering from ALS. So at least there are options for me should I ever develop it or anyone else in my family.
SibcyRoad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watching someone turn into a shell with all their cognitive abilities intact is torture for all involved parties.
derrick88rose ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:42:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom just got diagnosed with ALS last July. It's horrific to watch. I hate it for her. To see her even have trouble swallowing water makes me so upset. I wouldn't wish this on anyone...
beastyAJ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know exactly what you're going through. My mom got diagnosed in September. I just came across my mom's tips for drinking easier. She just started losing her voice. I horrified to watch the the most amazing woman that made me who I am today slowly fall apart. Be strong & stay positive around her.
derrick88rose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry to hear that. My mom's voice is almost entirely slurred. I can see the frustration in her because she wants to talk and visit with me when I come into town. I absolutely hate this disease. I'm visiting her this weekend. I have to utilize the time I have left with her. Stay strong and contact me if you want to talk. I'm all ears.
thackworth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:26:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually, Alzheimer's waits until you're older, but not always. I recently had a patient in her early 60's, with kids about my age, that was diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer's. It sucks. They've taken her to doctor after doctor, trying to figure out what's going on and why this happened. It's heartbreaking. She hobbles around, unable to make conversation, barely eating, and terrified of the shadows on the walls. She hates letting us change her clothes and pulls at them when we try to help her to the toilet.
We just celebrated my dad's 59th birthday and I am so thankful that they're both still healthy.
cindyscrazy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:49:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waiting to see if my teen daughter will develop symptoms of schizophrenia. She's already hallucinated...and I mean on-going hallucinating in which identified characters were reoccurring. It started when I told her of her dad's death.
I'm absolutely terrified that the hallucinations will return, except worse and with added delusions and paranoia.
habbathejutt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We had a family friend, my dad's best man, who had rapid onset alzheimers. He's barely into his 60s, but is in an assisted living facility now. For awhile he was homeless, no job, no possessions because he just forgot to pay for a rental unit he had so they took his stuff. He was a doctor too, he had money, just didn't remember anything about having it or how to use it or...I don't know. He just couldn't do it.
My parents helped him get in to a home, and he went from being able to ride his bike supervised and participate in group activities to essentially being confined to his room a lot of the time. He couldn't hold people's faces in his mind for more than a few minutes before he'd freak out about being surrounded by strangers, and acting defensively.
It's scary too, because the type he has is super hereditary. His mom had it and passed away pretty early, he has it now, and there's a good chance his 2 sons will have it.
He was older, sure, but he really wasn't old at all yet. The man was like an uncle to me, he doesn't remember anyone now, and it sucks so much. As hard as it is for me and my parents, it must be 10x worse for his kids.
AsthmaticHummingbird ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lost my mother to ALS almost five years ago. I sincerely can't think of anything worse, she became trapped inside her own body.. but the mind is still aware of everything.
re-claim ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Father passed when he was 59 and I was 12. He was fitter than most 30 year olds, running and boxing well into his 50's, which made it so much worse seeing his vigor stubbed out. I wrote a little blog about his would be 71st birthday recently, it might help someone who is currently dealing with ALS to know what life is like a decade plus one http://www.rileywynn.com/blog/2016/2/26/to-del-on-your-birthday
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hb_alien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear lord...
ICanHazSkillz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember doing a project for biology in my sophomore year where I had to research a disease, and I picked Huntingtons Disease.
You're lucky if your a vegtable by the time you're 40.
IAmATriceratopsAMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle has Huntington's. He was diagnosed probably 4 years ago, and since then his kids have all gotten tested. Two of his three kids already have kids, and both of them tested positive for carrying the gene.
It sucks because in one of my evolution classes we talked about how Huntington's inhibits tumor growth at young ages to keep people alive and then after the person has reached child-having-age it starts to show symptoms. One of his kids who has the gene for Huntington's also had leukaemia as a kid.
Dudes had a rough life.
lysergicfuneral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a documentary called Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet.
Becker was already one of the best guitarists in the world at 19 years old and on the verge of a huge career when he was diagnosed with ALS. It's a heartbreaking story, but it shows that he has since gone on to live a productive life, even while being completely paralyzed.
SwoffordLegacy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father had ALS. Watching someone as athletic as he was break down and not be able to do anything he loved was the worst thing to witness. He fought strong and kept a smile on his face. Man I love him.
JillGr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was about 12 years old my aunt took me with her to visit one of her oldest friends. She was in the end stages on ALS. I remember thinking it was very weird and sad. Especially when they told me shad had just lost the ability to blink and move her eyes the week before..... It's something I'll never forget
MotherFuckingCupcake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad is going through the months long ringer of testing to see if he has ALS. He just got his first MRI this morning, after nerve tests and an EKG earlier this year. He says it's surreal being in a position where he's praying for it to be cancer or a stroke.
He's been having a lot of trouble swallowing and speaking, and losing fine motor control. Unfortunately it's one of those things that they diagnose by eliminating every other cause, so it'll be a while before we know for sure.
He's a military vet, and for a reason they haven't figured out yet, it's approximately twice as likely to develop in vets, particularly those who were in the Gulf in the early 90's, which he was.
graffiti81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My best friend's mother died of Huntingtons. His sister has tested negative. He won't get tested. He's currently a year shy of the age that his mother started showing symptoms.
roomandcoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are specifically hereditary though (at least Huntington's is), whereas alzheimers isn't.
hb_alien ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:54:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True about Huntington's, but I believe ALS can affect anyone.
eaglemoses ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are both familial and non-familial types of ALS, unfortunately.
TonyDarko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's terrifying- my dad has it and I'm 100% sure I don't want to get tested.
Gsusruls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, I believe senility is inhereited. It's passed throw the epoe4 gene. I know next to nothing about it, scientifically, but the genes associated with increased risk are most definitely genetic.
HDthrowawayyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't make it any less terrifying or horrible or humiliating or painful of a disease..
Thedonlouie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother has it and my grandfather had it. It's horrible seeing your mother slowly wither away. I mean she can still do ordinary stuff and she's not demented yet. But it's only a matter of years now.. I kinda want to get tested, but I also dont wanna have a death sentence over my head at 22
thechairinfront ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ALS is fucking TERRIFYING! My mom passed away in 2012 from it. I spent 3 years taking care of her and the whole time she was aware of exactly what was happening. Up until about 2 or 3 months before she died she was fully aware. She lost awareness due to the massive amounts of morphine she needed to allow her to breathe. It scares the shit out of me that I'll get it as well.
hb_alien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry for your loss.
Question: How does morphine help you to breathe in that condition?
thechairinfront ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She had a bad case of yeast infection in her mouth due to her not being able to swallow or eat and after that she would stress about breathing and she'd start gasping. The morphine helped her relax enough to breathe, but it also knocked her into lala land.
helix19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad might have a form of late onset muscular dystrophy, and I might have it too. I'm fucking terrified.
evilaliencat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree with the Huntington's Disease. My grandpa had it ( he passed a while back ) and my mom currently has it. She's doing really well considering ( she also has brain damage from an accident ) but exercise has really helped. Her sister has it tooโฆ.its so sad to watch them deteriorate :(
Holovoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also Lewy Body Dementia
thenewtbaron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there is early onset alzheimers... so there
CM6556 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. My Dad's in his final days of MND (ALS, to you folk) and the lady next door has Huntingtons's. Man... Visiting is doubly depressing.
kunibob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will go with "all three are fucking terrifying."
MrBannaner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fiance used to work with Huntington's disease. Did it for 15 years. I still see tears at the edge of his eyes when he talks about it. It's a bloody harsh thing. He even has a scar on his right eye where he got punched by a patient
Brocerystore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or teenagehood for Huntington's. My girlfriends 16 & 17 year old brother's have it. Not fun
enigmahack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom narrowly managed to avoid Huntington's... It's like a combination of Alzheimer's disease and MS depending on how it reacts to who gets it. A very large portion of my family has died from it, my two aunts have it but somehow my mom was spared which means fortunately my immediate family is safe from it. That said, I still have lots of cousins who could be carrying it. After seeing what it did to my grandfather and all of his brothers... I wouldn't wish that kind of shit on my worst enemy.
ScytheSergeant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great aunt got REAL unlucky and got Alzheimer's at 54, awful watching her just get worse and worse.
Getquickrich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lets not forget about PSP. That's a blast as well.
techiesgoboom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother-in-law's mother has Huntington's. He made the decision not to get tested and is currently around 40-ish. It's really scary because now is when you expect to start seeing symptoms. It's a really scary disease in general and I just feel for anyone that has it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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hb_alien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VivatRegina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goes back and reads earlier comment
Damn. I am a bad reader today.
snoogins355 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle has ALS. Thanksgiving two years ago his arm was in a sling, swollen. Now he can barely walk or talk. It's truly terrible
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work in a lab that studies ALS and occasionally meet with ALS patients. We're trying to figure out what's going wrong with the cells in the brain and spinal cord so we can develop ways to treat it. It's a terrifying disease. I know that for those of you who have lost a loved one to ALS, this may not be much solace, but there are many, many people worldwide working to unravel this disease. I truly believe it's only a matter of time until we have ways of treating ALS.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had my best friend's dad pass from ALS when I was about 8. Very healthy, athletic guy who enjoyed cycling. It's very sad seeing someone wither away like that.
GetMemedKiddo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huntington's is terrible especially if you have kids. It appears when you're around 40 and once you have it there is a very good chance your children might as well.
benisuber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think its useful to say any of these diseases are worse than the other.
Watching my grandma slowly forget who my mom and I were, even though we took care of her 5 days a week was an awful thing to go through as a kid. When I started to realize that could happen to my mom in the future is when it really got scary. A lifetime of being a family gone within a year.
hb_alien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just meant that they can get you earlier in life. That's worse in my opinion.
benisuber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Familial Alzheimers can hit in your 30s or 40s.
Muscular dystrophy can hit when you're a child. A neighbor of mine couldn't walk by the time he was 5, and ended up dying right after he reached 23. Just graduated college and was starting to make money selling comics he drew on a computer. They were very funny.
The heartache his family felt, my mom felt and anyone who has lost a loved one to ALS or Huntington's to is no worse than any others. It all sucks.
PhilosophicalPhool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I were diagnosed with ALS or Huntington's I would kill myself immediately thereafter.
IndoloThrowAway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huntingtons is really rough since every child has a 50/50 chance of getting it. Symptoms usually show up after people have kids and it just goes on and on for generations.
rockrolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you say ALS is as hard on the patient as paralysis? I've always wondered this
queen_of_the_spammed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LBD (Lewy Body Dementia) is another one. My mom has it. My dad, and her doctors have not told her. I'm not sure why. She probably wouldn't remember 5 minutes later. :( But she's very confused and has no idea what's wrong with her. She knows something is wrong, but she has no idea what it is. She doesn't know it's fatal. And my dad is going downhill fast because of all the stress of dealing with the associated medical issues that come with it. (She is in an assisted living facility, and she's been to the emergency room 50 times in the last year, for various blood-pressure-related issues, strokes, fluid build-up, edema, pleurisy, etc).
At least her hallucinations are very benign. She sees birds out of the window that aren't there. Like hawks, and owls and things. She believes they're real, and she is pretty soothed by them.
On her bad days, she says she wants to die. In fact, I know that that's what she would want, because when she was younger, and not impaired, she would talk about how this kind of thing was one of her worst fears, and she would want to be euthanized. And now it's happening to her. And it's terrible. There isn't a fucking thing anyone can do about it. Her doctors are pretty much clueless most of the time. :(
hilldill84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ALS is HORRID! I lost both my grandfathers and my dad to ALS. Though my mom's dad had the version that affects the leg and arms , while my dad and his father had the one that was one in the brain. I took care of my dad for two years and six months before he died in July of 2008. July is my least favorite month because of this.His dad died in 2000 and my mom's dad in 1976.
rasmushr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's put brain tumors into that category
THUMB5UP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Dr. Hadley
PoopykinsMcgee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a nurse at an Alzheimer's Dementia facility and we have a lady that is only 42. Her children are still in high school. It's fucking terrible.
whofartedinmycereal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also hauntavirus. 25% fatal.
Jynxbunni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:37:52 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer's can occur up to 20 years before symptoms show. And early onset is 40....
RosaFullofThorns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:43 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A very close family friend got diagnosed with ALS in december, around Christmas time.
He died a week or two ago. His son, who was in prison, didn't get out in time to say goodbye. He died in about 2-3 months after his diagnosis.
I also remember a teacher at my high school. He was suddenly out of class for two weeks and when he came back, he told us he was diagnosed with ALS and went to as many different doctors as he could find. He's a pretty active dude, so it must've been terrifying to get that diagnosis. Happily though, he's still around, and still teaches, so I guess it was a misdiagnosis.
ginsunuva ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:12:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's okay cause we dumped ice water on our heads and now it's cured
HisRoyalestDudeness ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:57:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But....but....I thought we got rid of that by pouring ice water over our heads?
Guido9 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:08:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"A shell of a person" :'(
HurriKaydence ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 01:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely terrifying. Especially family members, knowing that it's in your genes and that you could put your children through that is absolutely horrifying.
Laureltess ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. My grandma passed away a year ago after a long long battle with Alzheimers. It was awful and I'm so scared that my mom will get it too. Or that I will. I can only hope that in the next 50 years a cure or more effective treatment is found.
HurriKaydence ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:53:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Both of my mother's parents are currently suffering. She is an only child and makes a 45 minute commute a few days a week to visit them. Unfortunately she can't bring them any closer because their benefits don't cover any care out of province. Seeing her in the depression she had for years at the beginning of diagnoses was terrifying.
On top of all this my paternal grandmother is starting to show signs of memory loss.
Laureltess ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:02:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry. It really is scary. I try to remember all the good things, like her love of cats, her daily cup of English breakfast tea, how she loved me even after she forgot my name. My grandma lived with us for a year or so before she got too bad and needed round the clock care in a specialized home not far from my parents' house. I spent my senior year of high school taking care of her the way one takes care of a 5 year old child, but she gave me so many good memories.
HDthrowawayyy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:36:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any neurodegenerative disease, really. They are by and far the worst class of diseases known to man.
Jimmyjams1994 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's messes with the connections in your brain in different areas, when those connections stop the cells start to die. You can even see the differences in a healthy brain vs Alzheimer's, so many spaces and alot smaller, due to the massive amounts of cell death.
My grandpa is in his 4th year of Alzheimer's and no longer recognizes me or most of our family. He is constantly wandering and essentially talking gibberish and none of what he says makes sense. Also has no idea about bathrooms and just pees wherever he pleases. He used to be such a smart man, farmer and has such an amazing personality. It's called the long goodbye for a reason, you slowly watch the traits you loved about that person fade away and you basically spend their entire illness grieving the loss of a person who's body is still there, but not their mind.
If I am ever diagnosed with it I'm going to take a shit load of sleeping pills when it starts to be really noticable and call it the end. Alzheimer's terrifies me.
sniperdude12a ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:58:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain tumors are horrifying for the same reason
Shark_Porn ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:21:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah dawg, fuck that shit.
I have a plan. A wonderful plan. See, I own a shotgun. If I ever have an Alzheimers diagnosis, I will promptly go home, and blow my head the fuck off.
If it's too late for that, my living will stipulates I be transported to somewhere where assisted suicide is legal by any means necessary, and my life terminated.
No Fucking Way I am going to make my loved ones watch me melt away like that. I've seen it too many times.
mrpoodles11 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:28:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can totally understand where your coming from, but don't kill yourself with a shotgun ever, it makes a huge mess that your family would have to deal with as well. Inert gas hypoxia is 100x better.
BakedBuffalo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother had alzheimer's, and before my parents put her in a home, I visited one day. She panicked and told my parents to call the police because someone had broken in. She didn't know who I was at all. I ended up not seeing her again before she died because it upset her too much.
Alzheimer's, or any mental illness for that matter, is fucking terrifying.
Harmicky ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:10:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment by /u/Poem_For_Your_Sprog really made it frightening for me.
jaded_fable ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:34:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get ready to cry
Polliwog39 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:11:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My biggest fear. I saw what it did to my grandfather.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:18:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still Alice make me fear Alzheimer.
TwilightTink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Such a good book, but it definitely sacred the crap out of me
BobAlaskiian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather went through Louie body dementia which is similar. The craziest thing about that was one moment I was having to bring him back in the house while he screamed for help, then the next he was talking about when he was Santa clause for us once 14 years prior like nothing was wrong.
mypatchiswhite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's and dementia are a pretty bad combo. Prayers and good vibes to anyone whose loved ones are afflicted.
FuegoEggo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:44:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandmother was diagnosed when I was 16, I couldn't make myself visit her in the home. She passed away last week, she weighed 80 pounds. My mind is all I have, and forgetting the people I love is the worse death.
KimberlyInOhio ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know if that's worse or ALS. With ALS, you have a perfectly healthy mind, but your muscles fail you until you can't even breathe.
plafman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:19:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I completely agree..... But....
I can also see it as a positive for some who have it. If I'm old and most of my friends and family are gone, or I'm not healthy and stuck in a nursing home, god damn it would be great to slip back to the great times when I was young. Or to at least not have the ability of remembering every shitty day of a horrible life.
Rain-on-roof ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm kinda in agreement with you. My mother-in-law works in a dementia ward and says the patients are happy enough since they're in their own world. As someone who fears the end, I would see it almost as a blessing. Crap for everyone having to look after you though. My uncle has recently been diagnosed with it, so it'll be interesting to see if it changes my opinion.
pseudoqueef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a shame but a lot of the time this isn't how it works. You forget recent memories and remember things from the past, but you also think you're still in that past, but no one you knew from that time is still around. My grandma has alzheimer's and she is terrified ALL the time - she wants to know where her mum and dad are, and wants to know why all her friends have deserted her. From what I've seen, there is rarely a positive in living in a past that no longer is.
Morguito ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to my grandmother, father's side. By the end of it all, she did not recognize any of her grandchildren, including myself, because her mind was at a time period where my father and his brother and sister were in their teens. But because of that, she also did not recognize my father or his brothers.
It was heartbreaking, and I admit it scares me to end up like that.
venusar200 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I sympathize with people like Robin Williams, who took his life into his own hands, even though he had something other than Alzheimers, it's the same concept
10minutes_late ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think pulmonary fibrosis has them beat. Your lungs slows scar over, and you slowly suffocate to death. It's like watching someone slowly drowning. Eventually their heart gets so enlarged from extra pumping, that it finally stops. I'll take a bullet before that.
pm_me_ur_pornstache ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you. I came here to laugh at other people's fears, not feel things about my late grandfather
elboydo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention that they begin to do terrifying shit.
We moved my nan closer, so that we could provide direct care, and the decay became so real.
there were often times when my mum would go over and be told that my nan had been in a couple hour long conversation with my uncle who died around 16 years before.
Other times she would call in a panic about people she didn't invite being in her house and refusing to leave. Upon arrival, my mum saw that the "people" were all old friends who were mainly long dead and, more importantly, were not actually there.
IT is a scary time.
nutmegtell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. My mother in law is in the middle stages. I keep waiting for 'her' to come back. But she's gone and it breaks my heart.
Her mother also had it and I'm terrified for my children to get it.
Captain_Boobalicious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother had Alzheimer's. She used to call me bye the name of our dog and pat me on the head. After she died, it took me a while to figure out why I didn't cry. I finally realized that, to me, my grandmother had been gone for a long time before she died. That is why this disease is so scary. It takes away everything a person is and leaves them as little more than a shell.
redditzendave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, really brings home how frail human existence really is, when the brain goes, the person goes with it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather is showing signs of this now. He grew old enough to watch most of his sibling go through it, and im dreading the day he looks at my face and doesnt recognize it =(
DollasAndSense91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandmother. The sweetest and greatest woman in the world disappeared right in front of me. Ripped my fucking heart out.
aswd2471 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my grandmother has this right now. i can certainly confirm, it fucking sucks.
rxjalapenosnatch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dark Joke:
Knock Knock.
Who's There?
Dave.
Dave who?
Dave proceeds to break into tears as his grandmother's Alzheimers has progressed to the point where she can no longer remember him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always told my wife that if I start showing signs of Alzheimer's, just take me out back and shoot me. My grandmother on my mom's side had it, it was heartbreaking.
LockeProposal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Caregiver here: yyyep.
A_BOMB2012 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I've seen the people themselves who have it don't appear to be suffering in any way.
I_M_Bacon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Aunt died of Alzheimer's a few years back. We visited her near the end and my mom played the violin for her. It was incredible to see how she could still react to music when everything else around her became meaningless. She could barely speak, but asked us to play Row Row Row Your Boat. I'll never forget it.
Greywolfin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grandfather has it now and its sad to know that this is the man ill remember and not the loving grandfather who took me out for lunch every few weeks
jabroni156 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This, yes my grandma it's terrible
BaldingEwok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having Alzheimer's isn't so bad, it's rough and you get frustrated until you don't know your sick. It's horrible on your loved ones though. Personally I would be more scared of Parkinson's or ALS, with a failing body to the point you are trapped inside.
AtoZZZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle. Thanksgiving two years ago, he wandered off somehow (we were watching the Redskins/Cowboys game, but we made sure to have the doors locked and closed). His mother freaked out among his brothers and sisters. But my grandmother hurt the most. My dad (his brother), uncles, and my brother went out to search. They all drove away. I went on foot, looking around people's front yards. Someone came out and asked if I was looking for someone. Now, he doesn't speak English anymore, only his native tongue (and barely). So he opened their door, walked in, and sat on their couch. So they invited me in. And I asked him in his native tongue to go back to his sister's house. He said that she's not available. I don't know what he meant by that, but frankly I don't want to know. I told him that let's go back to his brothers, sisters, and mom. And I'll take him to them. He didn't say anything, but he came with me. My family broke out crying when I came home with him. A week later, I bought a large chocolate bouquet for them to thank them.
It's terrible. You grow up with someone, remember their jokes, smile, laughs, and love. And then they completely forget everything.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my nightmare.
hoopKid30 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's heart wrenching being one of the ones who are inevitably forgotten, but it's not pleasant being one of the ones who is unexplainably still remembered either.
She loved you, I'm sure you mean just as much or more to her than me, I don't know why my name correctly comes out when she sees me, ok? I'm not doing this on purpose and neither is she.
Shrodingers_Dog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah eat me alive ameoba, don't just eat my brain, that's cruel.
skinny_beaver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am a nursing student and I just did my rotation at an assisted living facility for patients with dementia. The gentleman I was talking with had Alzheimer's and we would repeat the same conversation multiple times. He had a good grasp on the past and who he was, and was by all accounts a very intelligent man. I haven't seen a family member go through it and it was just eye opening to see in person what it does to people.
mrsuns10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you guys have listened to "For reasons Unknown" by The Killers, its a great song about what its like seeing a person with Alzheimer's from their perspective.
OuchyDathurts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's is absolutely horrific. Early onset Alzheimer's is even scarier. My aunt is like 55 and completely gone. She started her decline years ago, far too young for that thing. My grandpa died of it, my grandma had dementia. It apparently runs in the family. I think about it all the time and its scares the absolute fucking shit out of me. Give myself anxiety thinking about it. I'm forgetful, I have ADD, so it's natural to have problems that make you think awful things lol. I can't think of anything worse man.
rarely-sarcastic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm taking care of an older family friend. Everyone else has left her basically and I'm the only person who visits her at least a few times a week. She's been showing the early signs but they've been ignored. Hopefully it's just old age but her confusion is getting quite scary.
Like most older people she misplaces things but a few times already I've seen her walk into her own house and not know where she is. I still have very normal conversations with her and she remembers me well but I fear it's all starting. Worst part is that she has nobody to take care of her. She seems very independent now and only needs me for the heavy stuff but I know she's very weak and can't do simple things like grocery shopping or her own laundry.
I'm not equipped to deal with this. She's not even family but I do love her. If things get worse and she'll need assistance on a daily basis I won't be able to help her. I do my best just to hang out with her because I know it makes her very happy but that's only in the afternoons when I stop by for an hour or so. It sucks and it's scary.
revelrouspoem91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I watched my grandfather go through this when I was younger. On the good days he would know our names and chat with us a little. On the bad days he would have no clue who any of us were and would get scared and aggressive.
He suffered through this for 3-4 years before he passed and it hurt so much to see a strong man be reduced to nothing in such a short time. Towards the end he didn't talk and wasn't coherent most of the time. I think the worst part for me was watching my grandmother deal with it. They were extremely old school so he was always the caretaker, the breadwinner, and she was the stay at home wife who never learned to drive or work. I can't even imagine how she felt, taking care of her husband like he was a toddler when all her life he was the one taking care of her.
Fuck Alzheimer's. It truly is one of the hardest things for a family to experience.
Masamune_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention seeing them come back to being perfectly normal only for them to die shortly after.
quinyng ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What could be scarier is that I'll get it myself and be a useless burden for my family.
ogrezilla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Grandfather died about 40 years ago when my mom was only 13. He had a twin brother. He has Alzheimer's and every time my mom visits him, he asks her how her dad (his brother) is doing. He remembers who my mom is, but he doesn't remember that his twin brother is dead. Its heartbreaking.
hbchilln ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I lost my father to this. It was probably the hardest 4 months for my mother and me, especially towards the end when he was completely bed ridden. It quickly made me reevaluate my life priorities.
kinglove2014 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im watching my grandpa go thru it. Worse thing ive ever seen, its like there gone already
XspawnX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yo or to add to that... CJD. My mom died from it. Quite scary.
Des_Fury ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle just died last Friday from it and my grandma when I was 16, fuck that disease.
Chloe_Flawless ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The movie Still Alice really shows how sad and scary that disease is.
BioLogicMC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's researcher here:
just wanted to hop on the bandwagon and plug a link to the NIH gift fund where you can donate directly to the government agency that funds Alzheimer's research being done at universities across America! By donating to them you dont have to worry about how much of your money is going to charity salaries/ "awareness" campaigns... it all goes straight to the research.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/about_ninds/gift_fund.htm
C3lder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, you get used to seeing it after a while. And there are much, much worse ways to die than slowly losing your cognitive function after you've lived a full life.
larryfuckingdavid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It definitely gets scarier when you get up in age. My parents are getting older and my uncle (by marriage, no blood relation) recently passed away from Alzheimer's, it definitely hit close to home for them. I cannot convince them that they're going to be fine, even though they have no family history, stay mentally and socially active, have never abused drugs/alcohol, exercise regularly, etc. I swear to god my mom is on the verge of inventing an app that will alert her when there's a new potential dementia cause to have massive anxiety about.
UghImRegistered ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather's Alzheimer's has progressed a lot over the past couple of years. At first he was his same old self, but with significant memory issues, but as the disease progressed, I think the saddest thing became that he just doesn't engage any more, maybe because he recognizes how little he knows of what is going on.
But there are always good days and bad days. The bad days make the good moments richer. I visited my Grandfather in the hospital while he was sick, and he couldn't piece together who I was, who my mother (his daughter) was. He was asking where his mother was, probably subconsciously thinking of his wife who wasn't able to visit. As he was drifting to sleep I stepped out to leave for the night, and when I did I heard him call my name...even though earlier when he tried to think of my name he couldn't come up with it.
The disease fucks with your conscious thought and memories, but sometimes the deep, subconscious awareness shows itself in surprising ways.
hunterofbears ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpa was diagnosed with Alzheimer's last week. Needless to say it's been hard to get out of bed the last few days. I respect the hell out of him and I don't look forward to him losing himself.
glorioid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This scares the shit out of me. My grandmother and her sister both died in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's. I remember that towards the end, my grandmother was downright hostile to my mum--the only one of her children who was willing to step up, manage all the legal/medical/financial stuff, and visit frequently. Her memory had reverted to a time when my uncle was the golden child and my mum was a troubled teen. She could usually recognize them, but she couldn't remember a god damn thing about their lives in the 35ish years since then. She went from a sweet granny who feeds you and showers you with gifts to a hostile feral child. It was so confusing and painful.
I am worried about my mother now, as she approaches the age where my grandma first showed signs. And ultimately hoping that a treatment/cure is developed before I am at that age.
zombiefatcher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's Disease is terrifying. I worked in a dementia unit for 2 years and it was the hardest thing I've ever done. The crazy thing is, as the day gets later the dementia gets worse, it's called "sundowning". I had one lady who would be the sweetest lady in the world, but come 5pm she would scream "WHERE IS MY BABY?!?" OR "I NEED TO GET HOME MY MOTHER IS GOING TO KILL ME!" I developed a pretty solid skill set to calming down a dementia patient and redirecting their energy, but it was heartbreaking to watch happen.
sirgog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This, or any other disease that takes a comparable toll on a person over the same timeframe.
Alcoholism comes to mind. (The difference being that it is more reversible, at least in theory, which keeps you hopeful)
Redditz14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, I was just gonna say sharks.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much, losing their memory one by one. Slowly degrading at every second.
pmcglock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, mad cow disease.
ztelemetry ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather passed away last year as a result of Alzheimer's disease. It's extremely hard to say goodbye to someone who doesn't even recognize you anymore. All you can do is hold on to the memories of the past.
TheSurgeonGeneral ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to steer away from the scariness of this awful disease, but honestly, I hope I get it. Now not too early on mind you. But if I'm 80 or so, I can sympathize with the elderly on how it must feel. Although waking up each day having brand new experiences sound fairly enticing. Now I'm sure some of those experiences are more often than not terrifying, although in the same breath so is tripping. Personally I've always been pretty good at governing my emotions on a trip, so I feel as if I'd handle Alzheimers fairly well. Who knows though, perhaps I'm wrong and it's a horrible shame all around.
keboh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. First thing that came to mind. Alzheimer's and dementia
ladymeowingtonIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandfather was the best, most honest and honorable man I ever knew. Years before any symptoms appeared, the American legion that he dedicated so much of his life to named their hall after him as a surprise. My grandfather was moved to tears at this and spoke of it often. I'm glad he had this memory to hold on to for as long as he could. He met my son, but it was already too late because he was unable to make new memories or know what was going on. It's a shame because I know he would have loved my son, he always gravitated towards babies. He died at his home, not knowing it was his home, in s hospice bed in his son's (my father's) old bedroom. He died with his wife by his side, not knowing that he was loved by so many but none more than her. He died a way before his heart stopped beating, the goodbye was a long goodbye that took years to say. No one should pass without the knowledge of who they were and what they have accomplished.
SlipperyAccident ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I came here late to say this. I'm actually working with an old professor of mine on research to stop Alzheimer's. She's absolutely amazing and we are constantly doing research. But like you said, it really does leave the person as a shell of their former self. Ones memories are what make a person.
goback2yourhole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For my job, I work as an in-home healthcare provider dealing specifically with Alzheimer's patients. It's truly heartbreaking and takes so much patience. I feel so good working with them because I feel I can maybe make their lives and their families lives a little easier.
squatchisreal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worse knowing that it runs in your family. And you know for a fact it is going to happen to you someday. :-(
Satinsbestfriend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya Alzheimer's is scary to us. To the person if if happens slowly they might not notice. ALS and Huntingtons is horrendous.
billywatkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Dad has it. It just sucks and it keeps on sucking and sucking and sucking him away from the inside out. Eventually, imperceptibly, there won't be any of him left.
kejigoto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lost my grandfather to this quite a few years ago. My extended family has a bunch of issues and never told us he had Alzheimer's until it was nearly through with him. They actually used this disease to trick him into thinking my family wanted nothing to do with him and all kinds of stuff. So for years we never heard from them or anything until he was close to the end and the few decent ones on that side realized the lies being told.
I hadn't spoke to him for probably 10 years at that point. Always loved him to death as a kid and the last time I saw him it was so weird because my aunt and him were traveling and were supposed to stay with us for a few days before they continued on with their trip. Instead they stopped by for about an hour or so, said they had gotten a hotel room instead of staying with us like we had planned, and then left to go to the hotel to get some rest and would be back the following morning. They never came back. Come to find out my aunt had been up to a bunch of shady shit and was basically using him for money and feeding him all these lies. Guess he had an episode and she convinced him that him and my father had a massive fight and wanted nothing to do with him. I was about 13 or 14 at this time and never knew any of this until years later when we found out the truth.
I called him wanting to talk to him at least once and let him know I still cared about him and that I had never stopped loving him. As a kid my grandmother shunned me because she hated my mother but my grandfather adored me, we even share the same birthday and whenever we came to visit he always spent time with me, played around, took me places, I barely remember this time but my mom tells me that it was easy to see I was his favorite grandkid.
When I finally got on the phone with him he didn't remember me... We spoke for a few minutes and there was nothing there. He kept asking who I was, what I was calling about, and then eventually thought that I was my dad still in high school for a few moments but then he slipped back into having no idea who I was....
That was one of the hardest phone calls I've ever had to make. Listening to him have no idea who I was and then him getting annoyed because I was bothering him. The call only lasted a few minutes before he gave the phone to my other aunt and she apologized over and over again but I knew it wasn't her fault.
About a week after that he passed away. Felt like my grandfather died thinking I hated him, that the lies he was told were his reality and never understood what he did to deserve so much resentment that we wanted nothing to do with him. To this day it still tears me up thinking that he died feeling that way, or at least some part of him did.
What I would give to change that...
beats247 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 18 and my mom was diagnosed with Early-Onset Alzheimer's when I was 14/15.. She was only 49. In the last 4 years or so she's completely lost the ability to form a legitimate sentence, can't drive, and just sits at home watching jeopardy. Alzheimer's is probably the worst fucking thing to ever experience and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I'm still struggling to find ways to cope with it, and I don't think I ever will find something that helps definitively. This may sound morbid, but I can't wait for my mom to pass away.. I just want her to be happy and herself again.
squirmdragon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother created an almost alternate reality. Her house was a vacation home set up to look just like hers and her family were all just lookalikes.
She would start crying and say to her husband, "you take such good care of me but I miss my husband. Can you tell him to come visit me?"
Towards the end they really are just a shell. Its heartbreaking.
studentech ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:00:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No word of a lie, I fear neurodegenerative diseases more than death.
When I'm dead I'm dead, don't care. But when I'm trapped in my own mind while all things I hold dear slip away one by one?
No fucking thank you, let's not ponder that too long.
My heart goes out to anyone who knows someone affected, because that is the scariest thing on earth to me.
Man, writing can be cathartic sometimes.
Archer has Aneurysms and gators, I have these. Everyone has a biggest fear.
plinth19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's scary from the other side too-- waking up and not knowing who the fuck this person in your house is, not to mention who the fuck you yourself are. My oma has it, and it was killing my Opa to take care of her, but he's slowly detaching and she's on a lot of psychiatric meds to chill out. It's sad but could be worse I guess.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpa had it for 20 years. My grandma kept him alive too long in my opinion. I hope that never happens to me.
SailorRalph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You ever see advanced dementia? Seeing someone in their early thirties completely gone and their loved one standing in the corner with just a blank stare. That's awful.
Nightmare_Ninja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it's as scary as it is depressing. My father visited my grandmother, with Alzheimer's, once a week. She always referred to him as Bob, her son who never went to see her. Watching him hold back tears, because his mother no longer recognized him, was one of the most saddening things I'd ever witnessed.
DanklinTheTurtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother has alzheimers and although she isn't completely gone yet, watching my mom take care of her is heart breaking. She can't do simple jigsaw puzzles, read, or even color inside the lines anymore. All she does all day is try to help do whatever is being done but then she forgets what she's doing so she's just in the way.
PM_me_boobs_iluvem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:( have you ever heard the song miracle? By kristoff krane? I hope you listen and enjoy.
0xB4BE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, this will get buried, but what the hell. I'll still share.
While I agree Alzheimer's is a terrible disease, some of the most beautiful moments in my life were with people with Alzheimer's, both taking care of my grandmother, whom I loved so very much and taking care of elderly in Alzheimer units before changing careers.
We would laugh, we would hold hands. The simple things made the most difference: A smile. A kind tone of voice. When they would get scared, we would walk and I'd do something silly to distract them, to soothe them. Honestly, it is so very powerful to be able to be there for a person that is both lost and trapped, and learn to communicate not verbally, but on an emotional level. I have so many stories. So many laughs and silly things to remember them by.
And when my own grandmother, the one person who ever loved me unconditionally when I was growing up, got ill, I felt so privileged to have had the chance to make her smile, to tell her how much she was loved, to walk with her, to take care of her, even if ever so briefly, because she had been there for me. She had done these things for me when I was small and barely a person. I had a chance to do something so powerful, so genuinely meaningful by having the chance to help her. She was my grandmother, through and through, even in the end.
A person doesn't end at the loss of their mind, or part of their personality. They're just different.
Well, I'm crying. I miss my grandma so much.
Sippingin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandpa had this when I was real young, it kinda sucks how I don't have any memory of him actually remembering me.
Deleteuser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This terrifies me. I have watched so many people I love go through this, and I know that this may very well be my fate.
goldanred ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any sort of loss of memory/brain function, I think. My dad had brain cancer, and it was scary as shit.
Mommy4Orion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked upon my grandpa
Now skin and bone.
A sad little man
In his mind alone.
Long ago,
This man was strong.
Defended his family
A joy to be among.
Now curled up tightly,
Coughing and wheezing,
He lies in bed,
Covered-yet freezing.
Outings are rare,
Every meal is a chore,
He's lost all his hobbies,
Every night is torture.
I couldn't imagine,
Losing all that I'd known,
Being confused all the time,
And not having a home.
This is why,
I will not judge
When God decides
To send him above.
At times the greatest gift
Can be death--
When souls are gone
Yet there remains a breath.
italianplumber1439 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is one of the worst things my grandma is going through it rn. It's getting so bad. She at the stage where she gets mad at anything and everything and will try to pick a fight with me and only me.. she can't do jokes.. she also barely eates. To make it worse when she gets upset she just stops and won't eat anything. It's so bad
pdx_1 ยท 528 points ยท Posted at 23:31:11 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ice crevasses
Watched a movie called Touching the Void on Netflix last night, about a guy who gets stuck in one. I am now terrified of falling in one.
[deleted] ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 23:46:31 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you live in somewhere like Florida this would be especially funny. Of course there you have sinkholes.
PhamNuwensGodshatter ยท 307 points ยท Posted at 23:57:57 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Florida-Man.
Tanks4me ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 01:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard many times that it's because of the extensiveness of some of their governmental transparency laws, so journalists have almost unfettered access to arrest records.
JohnnyScissorkicks ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:04:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep!
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:46:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah you don't want to fall into Florida Man.
bojiggidy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially not his crevasse...
ItsBitingMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, i'm terrified of le crevasse too
ArchangelleDread ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Kayaker420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From Florida, can confirm
HeavyShockWave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Florida-men
I think there's more than one there.
PM_ME_UR_REDDIT_GOLD ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
OK so I'll take a minute to explain Florida Man. You know how news articles have
articlesheadlines like "Florida man fights crocodile for meth"? Now imagine they are all about the same dude, America's worst super hero. Florida Man.Jhesus_Monkey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His powers are meth and stabbing!
bearface93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And crocodiles.
wutimahdjsj888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst superhero to ever be naked and drunk at a courthouse...
Methuga ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 00:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have Burmese pythons duking it out with alligators for supremacy of the Everglades. You literally have a SyFy movie happening in your backyard. Efffffff thaaaaat
hezdokwow ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually fun to go gator boatn, on the way to Cocoa beach there's a little shak that drives around in a swamp boat showing you gators and shit. When I was 12 there was a duck chillin in the water next to the boat when all of a sudden a snake launched out wrappin up on it and not two seconds later a gator eats the snake and duck. My sister became a vegan because of it and I now worship Cthulu.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't follow your sister's logic. She sees animals in the wild eating one another so she's like "you know what? Fuck butter."
Frisnfruitig ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:16:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does that make sense in any way though.
DaddyRocka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't make sense, what part of her being vegan did you not get?
Being vegan for any voluntary reason makes no sense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking water moccasins.
shivers
Howtofightloneliness ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In 5th grade going to the Everglades was a field trip. We even waded through the water that was at or just above our waists.
teh_maxh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Florida is pretty big. Most of Florida is not close to the Everglades.
Though the part that is has crocodiles, not just alligators.
marino1310 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:42:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles are the scary ones. Alligators just chill and dont really fuck with anyone unless you do something like try to hurt it. Crocodile will fuck your shit up just because you exist.
teh_maxh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, American crocodiles are actually relatively nice, but that's still in crocodile terms.
darealogre ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:35:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah if you live in the part of Florida formally known as Cuba.
If you live anywhere north of that your only fear is broken glass and pill heads.
Pmang6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm
UnexpectedPreston ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:41:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
Kootenaygirl ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 01:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/NWsXw8c This is one of the signs at the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park. I nearly peed myself laughing at how morbid the Parks people are.
pdx_1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God that kids face hahahaha!
2potatopancakes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:07:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HHUURRRNGGH
kreptinyos ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's an amazing book. And movie. I still have no idea how that guy was able to crawl out of a crevasse with a broken leg, and then go over miles of glacial terrain...
mydadsfriend ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:48:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First time I heard crevasse I thought they were just saying crevice pretentiously.
diffyqgirl ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That movie is fantastic. The guy is right there narrating and yet as I watch the actor in that crevasse with his broken leg I'm having trouble believing there's any way he could survive.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:45:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the one about the guy who falls and his femur splits his tibia and his partner cuts his rope?
Edit- autocorrect
BigglesNZ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:33:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man that's such a good documentary. Usually I don't like survival documentaries but that one had me on the edge of my seat and even though I had to leave where I was before it finished I made sure I watched the rest on Youtube later.
ThunderKlappe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:42:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Touching the Void?
pdx_1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sure
ThunderKlappe ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:47:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wanted to make sure there wasn't another movie on Netflix about Crevasses that I hadn't seen. :)
pdx_1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
edited, thank you.
wadiwad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:28:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny I watched enter the void I was just as scared
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've crossed over a few on metal ladders, wearing crampons. The trick is to not look into the dark crack leading to hell itself. That and keeping a steady rhythm.
doc_frankenfurter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:42:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was real and Joe Simpson ended up crawling out and surviving.
Tagichatn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good thing I live in southern California
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've fallen into one. It wasn't so scary while it was happening because my brain couldn't make sense of what was going on
boyerman ยท 6514 points ยท Posted at 23:07:14 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean
ask_me_if_Im_lying ยท 675 points ยท Posted at 23:48:37 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most intense fear I've ever felt was when the tiny boat I was on broke down and water started coming in. We were about two miles from shore
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 01:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a jet ski sink past the sand bar. That was scary. Ended up getting rescued by a chopper.
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 02:41:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can sink a jet ski?
[deleted] ยท 100 points ยท Posted at 03:42:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're aware of an unsinkable object then you need to patent that shit because you're the only one aware of it
[deleted] ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:44:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a Pen? I'm about to patent Helium!
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:50:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, but I was picturing man made things when I said objects
WalterWhiteRabbit ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:08:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Styrofoam?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's over, SirLetssDance.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:51:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see . . . do metaphorically unsinkable objects count? Like the drug cartels?
AHungryGorilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All we have to do is legalize everything they sell. They'd be gone pretty fast.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only once legitimate businesses started selling them too. Even then it would take a while because the cartel would probably kill their competition.
Either that or the cartel becomes a legitimate business.
Anchovie_Paste ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Helium is running out on our planet. Better hurry up
Help_me_123_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hindenberg 2.0, Lana!
tylerthehun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should we tell him about hydrogen?
jrizos ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 07:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Styrofoam hull boats. bam. pay me.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:59:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most consumer boats already have styrofoam built into them
jrizos ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 14:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pay. Me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok ok! Just put the gun down!
Pyrric_Endeavour ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:09 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude cork works just as well. There was some ghost ship which drifted for weeks until is was found because of it.
tryin2figureitout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:40:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A log.
notmyusualreddit ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:47:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely not a stock unmodified jetski but you can have it 90% underwater and virtually useless to you. I've seen a few people modify jetskis and to fit high performance parts they had to remove the foam inserts at the nose which give it that last bit of buoyancy. Those can probably sink.
I had a standup jetski virtually completely underwater in the Sf bay. Even towing it was a nightmare because the rope would pull it down and then the whole thing would go entirely underwater and cause even worse towing issues. I unded up holding to tow rope myself, and using my life jacket and torso to keep the front of the ski above water as we went to the marina at maybe 2 miles an hour. Took almost an hour honestly and was one of my least favorite trips.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow That sucks.
thisiscrazy4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:30:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought jet skis were illegal in the SF bay?
notmyusualreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe they are now. This was closer to 2005. We either didn't know or it was still ok.
I looked it up recently and I still think you can jetski as log as you are going somewhere with a purpose. So leaving one marina and going to another location or beach might be ok still. Worth checking out because on the right weather it's a cool place.
mohallor ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 02:50:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom can sink a jet ski
Cromatose ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear Lord....
lacinyc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
He had a family, man....then she sank.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:36:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was a rental. The tank cracked and it took on water.
PolymorphicOOPS ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you live??
Dondervuist ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 00:52:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not so sure about this. Are you just lying to us to get karma?
Aids_Party ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you think that? His story isn't exactly implausible.
kingspitfire ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:05:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at his name
JohannesJ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:23:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read his username ;)
Urgullibl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi there.
columbus8myhw ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks in
DefinitelyNot_Bgross ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go bucks?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DefinitelyNot_Bgross ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I-O!
ObscureUserName0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds terrifying.
Except.. after reading your username.. you lyin' boi??
DunkanBulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, how'd you get back to shore? Just luck of the wind?
dill_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't just leave us hangin, what happened?
Blackout420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AND...??
neocelt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did you get out?
Finessence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you survive?
adnaanbheda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're lying, aren't you ?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, I can NOT even imagine the amount of panic I would feel being stranded in the middle of the ocean. I started panicking after falling into the water of a shallow lake while tubing. The water is SUPER shallow and boats kick up dirt terribly and you can't see your hand just inches beneath the surface. Fuck the ocean. It's beautiful... but I'm staying near the shore.
dcampa93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just reading this gave me crazy anxiety
EpicCheesyTurtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you died?
Chouzetsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, what happened next? How did you get to dry land
sawu101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dont lie it will turn your frontal lobe white
ILaughAtFunnyShit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you make it back?
Sworn_to_Ganondorf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats swimmable I mean horrible but doable with a life jacket if you aint an olympic swimmer lol.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My thalassophobia hurts...please stop.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i was about 5 miles out when the outer hull on a trimaran had the support mounts start coming apart. the captain was absolutely piss drunk and thought it was hilarious. we were in a smallish storm, probably 5ft seas.
still scares me to think about it.
L1ttl3J1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the plus side, though you were probably only 50 metres or so from the ground.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:24:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if you can swim that ogopogo might eat u
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But did you die?
[deleted] ยท 2151 points ยท Posted at 01:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1008 points ยท Posted at 03:21:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just to make the Man o' war even scarier, it's not even a jellyfish... or a single organism. It's a colony of specialised individuals that act together as a single being, which is pretty freaky when you think about it
[deleted] ยท 614 points ยท Posted at 03:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jellyfish in general creep me out. They don't have brains! They're basically water that is alive.
Actual_princess ยท 364 points ยท Posted at 04:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, but box jellyfish stalk prey...for miles and miles and navigate mangrove swamps...no brain per se but they have to have a similar process to do any of that.
miserylovescomputers ยท 205 points ยท Posted at 04:21:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's fascinating to imagine types of intelligence (if that's even the right word for it?) that don't require use of a brain.
TheTyke ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 04:34:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, intelligence comes in so many forms. I think the reason we believe it to be brain = intelligence, no brain = no intelligence, is simple as we have brains and it's easier to understand that way, even if it's wrong.
Actual_princess ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 04:44:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have a lot of eyes..or input light sensors...that sort of infers it has a brain of some description..or a processing spot.which i guess is a brain even if it isnt like ours. They are fascinating. over there. Wayyyyyyy over there. Away from my general vicinity.
opalorchid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:36:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it more of a ganglion
Actual_princess ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:39:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya lost me..whats a cyst?
[deleted] ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 04:42:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could take a brain and take away the meaty bits, and then spread it over a sidewalk and it would still function as a brain, regardless of if its a brain or not.
Brains are just complex computers, its the difference between having you computer in a tower or mounting the pieces to a wall.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:40:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't see what your trying to say in that first statement at all. It doesn't make sense.
Psychoticgamerr ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 05:44:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What he is trying to say, is that a jellyfish could have a brain spread throughout the entire organism, or that the jellyfishes entire self is a brain.
Simple terms, a brain doesn't have to be clumped up likes ours to be a brain.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:46:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh okay thank you for the explanation. I'll stop scratching my head now.
Psychoticgamerr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Np!
Cthulu2013 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... Do jellyfish have neurons all over their body?
As far as I knew, they behaved almost like plants in that specialized cells used chemotaxis to modify the life forms behaviours.
/am not a scientist. Am emt with awful grasp of biology
cbelaski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, humans have neurons (nerve cells) all over their body as well. It's just the brain is a massive clump of them that controls and interprets the signals from the ones spread across the body.
Cthulu2013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yes I am aware of that.
I forget the term now but we learned what classifies an organism as intelligent in school. Wasn't very crucial to plugging holes in people so it kind of faded away
MARZalmighty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:42:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a friend once that his brains out like this... it did not still function.
Reginald_Waterbucket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest thing I read on here.
Cthulu2013 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 12:19:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called intelligence because no jellyfish is capable of doing fucking math.
Christonakite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:31:21 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is, however, quite capable of hunting down the weak of mind who stray too far from shore, or get caught in riptides, or fall off of a boat; and then giving them a delicious serving of agonizing death.
thatpizzaguy5150 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like people making shit comments on Reddit. Edit: Didn't want you to think that was at you. Just in general. Sorry if it seemed that way!
DefinitelyNot_Bgross ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it's not intelligence per se but just responding to its surroundings. Yano like sensors. I don't think they would need any form of thought process to achieve that other than: we need to eat or we'll die, and other simple organism thoughts
jarodney ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, like a politicians?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sentience
AwesomeAutumns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One word: robots.
lennyfromthe313 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
instinct.
daemin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:03 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In other words, the brain is amazed that there are intelligent things that don't require it. How narcissistic.
miserylovescomputers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, good point! We humans are incredibly narcissistic.
TumbleDwarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
trump?
fqn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah box jellyfish are terrifying. I might be spending the next month in Koh Samui, where 3 tourists have died from box jellyfish in the last year. If I get in the water, I'm wearing one of these: http://blogs.gonomad.com/wp-content/blogpics/beourguest/IMG_0457-796457.JPG
kittykittybittybitty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kind of reminds me of that movie "It Follows" Gives me the heebie jeebies.
theJapanesePrincess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my state, we have box jellyfish warnings every month. Glad I can't swim and don't go to the beach.
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simple thoughtless behavior patterns can be enough to lead a creature to food or away from a threat. Jellyfish have had hundreds of millions of years to settle on the most effective responses to various stimuli.
Actual_princess ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:43:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like selecting and targeting specific prey, tracking it for kms and through mangroves trailing 2+mtrs of delicate (but deadly) tendrils ? Thats an intelligence. Even if its instinctual behaviour- its a highly evolved one to the point of mimicing intelligence, which would be the same thing, really. Im not saying they think like anything we could recognise, but its behaviours strongly suggest much more than basic reaction to stimuli.
f_d ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:36:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Orb weaving spiders follow extremely simple rules to create complex structures. They don't have any idea what they're trying to create, and they aren't following a blueprint in the shape of the finished structure. They're just traveling out a certain distance and breaking off at an angle in relation to the web they've already built. The result is intricate and complicated.
There was an article detailing mosquito hunting patterns last year. I only read a news summary, but this link to the source has the relevant details.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2815%2900740-X
They follow very simple rules like moving into a cloud of carbon dioxide, zig-zagging to reacquire the cloud when they lose it, then moving toward nearby sources of heat and visual contrast until they can match enough cues to trigger a landing. If they get brushed off they try again, and again, and again, until they succeed or lose their target. They aren't thinking about these hunting actions at any stage. It's extremely unlikely they have any sense of what they're doing, it's all simple reflexes firing in response to stimuli. Yet in practice they are effective, relentless hunters.
Plants bend toward light because light makes the tip of the plant release a hormone causing receiving cells to lengthen. That's enough to create twisty stems and branches. Similarly, actively growing tips send hormones that suppress nearby growth downstream, and that's all the plant needs to form its distinctive spread of leaves and branches.
Bacteria can find their way toward nutrients or away from a threat simply by orienting themselves based on the concentrations of chemicals in front of and behind them.
Would you say a primitive heat-seeking missile is doing anything more than turning its nose toward the closest heat source? It doesn't need a fancy computer, just an infrared sensor and flight controls that always point the missile toward the brightest infrared source. No brain whatsoever, nothing except an eye wired up to the rocket fins, yet it will mimic the actions of the human pilot in the plane it's following. Clever stalker or brainless device following a few clever rules? A jellyfish moving toward shapes its eyes evolved to follow isn't thinking any more deeply than a sophisticated missile.
It's entirely possible human intellect and consciousness are nothing more than higher-order reflexive behaviors. A brain could be completely predictable if you know its current state and all inputs. What we think of as our free will could be an abstraction of our inevitable decision making. But there's still a difference between understanding a situation, forming a plan, and executing it, versus following a trail of chemicals and currents in the water, pulling away from the wrong kinds of shapes, and reeling in the arms once enough cells are signalling they're in contact with the right kind of surface.
Please note I don't know box jellyfish from grape jelly, so I'm speaking very broadly based on a quick skim of how they hunt. The kinds of things I'm describing should hold true regardless of the specific techniques box jellyfish use.
Psyladine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I ascribe it to the anthropomorphic principle. When we observe other lifeforms taking actions we imagine we would in similar circumstances, especially behaviors that at birds-eye-view seem complex and premeditated, we ascribe our intelligence onto them in some capacity.
We can't help it, our brains have this imprinting function that recognizes deviations from expectations; noone expects little insects or mindless jellies to do anything we'd find impressive, so when they do, we can't help but assign it empathically or as a threat.
Actual_princess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It probably stems from the same parts of the brain as perodoia.
Savor_The_Flavor ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still smart enough to get my brother twice as teenagers. We live in Illinois.
ShanePizza ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:06:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also live in Illinois and have had a mild jellyfish sting. Dang things will get you anywhere.
He770zz ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister got stung by a jelly fish once. She said it felt like getting electrocuted, she said it was a sensation you can't really describe, but you'd have to feel it. She said it hurt like hell.
WhaleMetal ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 04:33:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Growing up around the water on the Gulf, I'm been stung 100s of times. There was one summer a bunch of crazy looking, exotic jellyfish came in on a big tanker or something from South America. I was wake boarding on a river that drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Ride ended, waiting for the boat to come pick me up when all of a sudden I feel this net-like thing gliding across me, and not 2 seconds later I was screaming my lungs out. Never felt so much acute pain in my life. When my dad pulled me back on the boat my entire right leg was covered in squiggly red marks. Didn't go back in the water til winter drove them all off or killed them.
Jwalla83 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:35:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh yes, once I was snorkeling and saw a weird distortion in the water right in front of my mask - took me a second to realize a jellyfish was right there. I backed up, turned around, and saw two more. I dunno if they migrate or what but suddenly there were dozens of faint distortions in the water all around us - you could hardly see them but you'd know if you bumped one believe me... Trying to get back to shore was like playing minesweeper
sillEllis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...you in the wrong part of bikini bottom, boy.
I_AM_VERY_SMRT ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK. THAT.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bru_tech ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:26:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing is more funny/depressing than watching all the northerners come down for their week of vacation in the summer and the ocean be filled with jelly fish. Happens once or twice a season and everyone just stands on the shore. No one in the water
Majesticus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:03:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like being stung by thousands of tiny wasps.
Aardvark_Man ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:49:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been planning on going for a snorkel somewhere with the intention of seeing sharks.
Got there and there were hundreds of tiny jellyfish about 3-6cm big in the water, and wound up packing it in.
I've also had one draw blood.
[deleted] ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 05:20:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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advice_animorph ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:40:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. You're thinking of electrocution, which is death by electricity. Electrocuted means death OR injury by electricity.
_dudz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:47:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. If you're gonna correct someone at least get it right lol
ilkikuinthadik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only that, but the organisms cannot survive on their own. They are custom evolved for a symbiotic relationship
fripletister ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is technically true for humans as well.
Green_armour ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Spanish they're literally called living water. "Agua Viva"
aMillenarian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:12:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Spanish they're called Aguamala, literally bad water.
mappsy91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'if they're 97% water, why not just give 'em 3% more and make them water' a solution to the jellyfish problem
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they attack? i'm not sure, i always figured they just floated around and bumped into things.. they dont even have eyes!
polkadotdream ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:08:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some of them do have eyes! Box jellyfish have four different kinds of eyes specialized for different functions, from light detection to differentiating colours, sizes, etc.
Rothyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jelly*
Boneykingz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are we...
andai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a group of organisms, they probably have a type of group intelligence similar to groups of animals, such a swarm of insects
StevenG8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what's fun, the portuguese word for jellyfish is "รกgua-viva", which basically means LIVE WATER.
cambo666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sea critters have always freaked me. But this for sure. they're brainless. How does no one else find this as alarming as I do.
superflippy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find them beautiful. At the Monterey Bay Aquarium they have dimly-lit tanks of moon jellies and comb jellies in dark corridors. If you can manage to get to the aquarium when it's not crowded, it's very peaceful to just sit and watch the jellies float around.
evilf23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i tried to transplant a small jellyfish i found on the james' river edge last week into a fish tank and it died. i got him river water and rushed home immediately. i was bummed, i thought having a jellybro would be neat.
poobicus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fucking morpha
Averant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like humans are star stuff that contemplates the stars, jellyfish are the ocean come to life to murder you.
JT117 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of Hunters from Halo. They're just a bunch of worms combined together
lennybird ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Hunters from Halo!
25schmeckels ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:20:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so are you
MeshesAreConfusing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:56:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite.
Freevoulous ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:44:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SO its not only a creepy jellyfish, its also communism!
jennthemermaid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got stung pretty badly by a Man O' War. That fucker's tentacles wrapped around my leg somehow and I had faint scars from it for years on the back of my leg. Fuck that thing.
brazilian_wax_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:09:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got stung by one when I was younger... Felt like I got electrocuted (probably because I did). One of the worst feelings ever.
ResRevolution ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:00:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't electrocution, it's an incredible small needle penetrating your skin.
Coolfuckingname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too! The wind on my leg for weeks afterwards felt like i was on fire. Good times!
_Bones ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:13:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn commie jellyfish bastards.
WhyamIreadingthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Voltron of the sea
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean Borg.
Watawkichaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bacteria on your body outnumber your genetic cells. You are or a process than you are a being.
rnykal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, your cells live and die individually as well.
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe less than had been thought.
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/01/06/036103
chewynipples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... We discovered the Borg?
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We are Man O' War. You will be stung. Resistance is futile."
nastyrtium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh....what
ybfelix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... Hunters from Halo?
Spambop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bit like people
skryb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Resistance is futile
_Limited_Edition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
late to the party, but I got stung by a Portugese Man o' war while vacationing in Florida. I was in about 2 feet of water. Got stung on my leg, one of the most painful experiences of my life. After a trip to the hospital, I was informed if I would have been stung to that magnitude on my chest it would have been fatal. It felt like putting a hot iron on your leg for a few hours.
DooDooBrownz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
borgfish
rnykal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you think about it, aren't we all colonies of specialized individual cells, acting together as a single being?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, but not quite in the same way. While the cells that are part of you (not the internal bacteria, but your cells) are, well, you... the zooids comprising a man o' war are definable as individuals (though they can't survive away from the colony, because they lack many functions performed by others)
rnykal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I was just going for a /r/woahdude.
Though I really do think like that, and like to imagine that you can extrapolate that to defining the whole universe as a multicellular being.
But, yeah, I understand we're structurally a lot different than Man O' War.
NavalMilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're kind of the same way, if you think about it.
FemtoG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this makes the mitochondria/ cell coordination theory more plausible
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's almost every species though
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's really not such a big deal. Plants are collections of specialized clone cells that cooperate without a central nervous system coordinating everything. Your body is a collection of specialized clone cells that cooperate with special deference to your nervous system. As long as cells can interpret each others' chemical or electrical signals in useful ways, they can work as an organism. Ants do a similar thing on a larger scale.
How about a single cell up to 20cm across living free in the ocean? It's hard to keep traditional categories in mind when looking at one of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophore
BCSteve ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:50:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's the thing about siphonophores, they're not clonal cells of each other. They're a colony of cells, each one with different DNA, that are so integrated with each other that it looks like they're a single organism.
f_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Indeed, but don't their reproductive members pass their DNA directly to the descendant colony? They are closely compatible with each other and retain that compatibility across generations.
Most ants and bees aren't clones of their mother, but the members of a colony are linked closely enough to consider them free-ranging cells of a larger organism.
Farmers have been gluing one plant's roots to another's body for a long time. If the two parts can communicate effectively with each other and continue to perform their roles, it doesn't matter that they were born as separate entities. They are now behaving as a single new entity, like a car with a replacement engine or suspension.
You can swap someone else's organs into your body and live normally if they cooperate. In unusual cases, you can be born with more than your own cloned cells. Look up chimeras. And even if every cell in your body is a clone of the original egg, different cells will have different genes active, making them behave more like the father or mother rather than carbon copies of each other.
If the Man of War colony cells are so integrated that they carry out the same functions as a organism composed of clones and can't exist independent of each other, are the two organisms really so far apart? The colony cells reproduce a little differently, but practically speaking they're all on the same evolutionary path together and function as a single group. In its daily life it's just another jellyfish variant. A fascinating convergence, but not a fundamental break with the ways other multicellular creatures behave as a single entity. It's a larger-scale version of the permanent cooperation between our own animal cells and our mitochondria.
Kenyanguyhere ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:26:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought the cure was to piss on it?
Retlaw1995 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:36:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
isn't all life like that...
sniperFLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not single-celled organisms.
hellwaspeople ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:49:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always get kind of confused about them, because my experience with one when I was younger (maybe around 10 or younger?) was so different. I got stung, walked up the beach and got some ice and was fine.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 02:49:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 02:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my surrealist memories was our Atlantic crossing. Just doing a complete 360, looking around and seeing nothing but water in all directions. A disc of deep blue as far as the eye can see. And here you are, the only thing keeping you alive is this jumble of wood, fiberglass, and a sail. Really puts things into perspective about how small you are. Was over 26 days without seeing land.
cocoanut ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:10:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never really thought about how claustrophobic that would be. I can't imagine doing that crossing in a 1-man sailboat, not because I'd feel lonely but because I'd feel trapped.
Adamsandlersshorts ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feeling trapped anywhere freaks me the fuck out.
Today I went to get a hair cut and for some reason I felt completely trapped in that chair so I started having a mini heart attack and I felt really sweaty and my leg was trembling but I didn't wanna say "hold up I'm freaking the fuck out for no reason right now" So I just sat there panicking and suffering and I don't even know why I would feel trapped in that situation. I get a hair cut every month or 2 and it's never happened before.
beautifullybusy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:08:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anxiety attacks? Have you had them before?
Adamsandlersshorts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happens once in a while but I feel like it's more claustrophobia than anxiety because the only time that ever happens to me is when I feel trapped.
vandamninator ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:16:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was riding my bike in the woods the other day at night when my light blew out and I was in pitch black of dense woods with about a 4 mile hike because I couldn't see shit. Shit was fine even tho it seemed ominous as fuck, then the coyotes started howling. Sounded like a good 20 of them and they all sounded rabid as fuck. I started jogging and got lost in the woods and couldn't find my way out for about 2 hours. That shit fucking sucked and was scary as shit now that I think about it afterwards. Type 2 fun I guess.
cocoanut ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg nightmare fuel..lucky it was coyotes and not wolves.. reminds me of a girl that got lost here this fall in the Canadian rainforest "playing tag" running down deer trails. Forest so thick she heard the search team a few times around midnight and then 3am, and they heard her calling back, but she was not found till noon the next day, she is considered lucky to be alive.
sabrefudge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coyotes can be crazy too.
A few months ago, one ran up and attacked some lady who lives near me. She was just sitting on a lawn chair and the coyote ran out of the woods and attacked her. Then it ran off again.
Dayman_ah-uh-ahhh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:22:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wanna know the weirdest fucking thing? It was probably only a few coyotes. They are insanely skilled at making it sound like there is a bunch of them when howling.
vandamninator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know man. And jesus christ, they sounded fucking rabid. Insanely rabid, like imagine a bunch of drunken people screaming and shouting native american chants around a bonfire loud. Fuck coyotes.
DeathsIntent96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, to me the the scary thing about the ocean is the sheer enormity of it.
monkeytoes77 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:35:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not to be "that guy" but everything I've read about the Portuguese man o war says that they have a painful sting but not a deadly one. are you sure that's what stung the crew member?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:50:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It may of been a Box jellyfish, but Im not sure. Man o wars can be deadly, especially if you are stung all around your heart and are in the middle of the ocean with no medical aid around. I cannot comment on whether it was a quick death or not.
PM_Me_Labia_Pics ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it was a fish this big!
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:04:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He died from a bluebottle?
DapperFrog ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:28:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess if it was huge and he was wearing no wetsuit and it got a really firm (almost bear-hug-like) grip around the guy's torso, it could've delivered enough toxins almost directly to his vital organs (instead of, say, being stung on an extremity and relying purely on the circulatory system to transport the toxins to said organs) to actually kill the guy pretty quickly.
That said, I've always thought of bluebottles as more of a (albeit excruciating) mediocre annoyance.
Source: Grew up on Sydney's beaches. Bluebottles are common.
realjd ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Floridian here. They commonly wash up in large numbers here in the summer when there is a hurricane off shore, or whenever we have a few days with a strong wind from the east. Like you said, a minor but painful annoyance. If they were actually dangerous they'd use nets at the beaches like they do up north in your country.
KrazyKukumber ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:57:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They sting you when you're on shore?
realjd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:10:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Just don't step on them and you'll be fine though. They're bright blue and easy to avoid.
Most stings thou are people in the water who brush by one getting washed up. Lifeguards put up a purple flag whenever they're around.
froggym ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:42:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their tentacles don't disappear when they die. You will still get stung if you touch one on the beach.
KrazyKukumber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting. Of course I knew they didn't instantaneously disappear, but I didn't know that a sting happened simply by touching one. How long do those tentacles last until they've deteriorated to the point of being harmless?
DeathsIntent96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's an absolutely ridiculous amount of them on the beach sometimes.
froggym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grew up in the north of his country. They drag patrolled beaches twice a day or so at the height of summer. I never really went to the beach as a kid despite living on it.
Actual_princess ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:06:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a cardiac arrest- its toxin would induce one almost instantly if it hit an unprotected chest. motherfuckers they are
jiccc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What exactly were you doing on the ocean for five years? if you don't mind me asking.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was younger I spent 5 years traveling on a 40 foot sailboat with my family. I'm not entirely sure why.. parents are crazy I guess, but im very grateful for the experience. We visited 32 countries.
RolandSnowdust ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:03:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have a bunch of questions for you and hope you don't mind. How old were you (what years of your life)? Would you have wanted to sail for longer? Shorter? Would you have preferred a traditional upbringing with consistent childhood friends? How many siblings were with you? An AmA would be cool, imo.
brazilian_wax_ ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:12:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea! AMA!!
ginger_mafia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would love to know these answers as well! My husband wants us to "sail the world" when we're older and I'm a bit freaked out about it.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:59:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your parents are the fucking coolest.
THEREAL_ROBFORD ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And im assuming wealthy as fuck.
KrazyKukumber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that expensive.
THEREAL_ROBFORD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, explain?
KrazyKukumber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'm not really sure why you think it'd be expensive. Are you thinking the boat is expensive? Because pretty much everything else about that lifestyle is cheaper than living on land. No rent/mortgage, no car, home-schooling, cheap food, no nights out, no entertainment expenses, etc. And when they were in port in those various countries the cost of living in those places was probably usually much lower than in their home country (I'm guessing they're from a first-world country).
THEREAL_ROBFORD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the fact that they are able to build up their assets and careers to the point where they can live comfortably when they return. They're living on the money from their assets in the years they are gone and still don't worry.
That is wealthy in my eyes.
KrazyKukumber ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you mean, but to me that's just a hippie lifestyle, basically. You don't need much money to do it (in the tens of thousands, but I don't consider that wealthy at all), the lifestyle itself is extremely cheap, and when they return to land they won't be any worse off financially than when they left. I'm not really sure what you mean by "living comfortably" when they return. I imagine they'll just continue to live a low-cost hippie lifestyle on land just like they were doing on the boat.
Thanks for the discussion mate.
UberMcwinsauce ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:27:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should do an AMA, that's extremely interesting
jiccc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super cool!
Thoughtlessandlost ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crap 40ft seems kinda small for the stuff you were doing. I spent a summer on a 72ft boat sailing around and even then you'd get rocked around a ton. I can't even imagine what a little 40ft would be like.
Dingobabies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Head to /r/casualiama please!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, there seams to be a decent amount of interest. Might look into doing something like this coming up.. Too much shit tied to this account though. In order to be able to answer questions in detail i'd want to use a different account. Keep your eyes open, something might pop up over the next few days.
Dingobabies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sub is perfect for you. Honestly you should should just subscribe, the top of the month is always interesting.
PacSan300 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:30:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been on several boat, ferry, and cruise ship rides, and this is all accurate.
Recently, Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas had to turn back to port twice because of heavy waves, and the shaking was pretty bad. I mean, if one of the world's largest ships cannot overcome such a storm, it boggles my mind why people go out in worse weather in flimsy boats.
lietome1818 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a tornado, but a water spout. They are actually quite common in small squalls. The big ones are very worrisome, and you seem to have caught a glimpse of one of the aforementioned. You don't completely shit bricks until you realize that they are really fucking strong, and most likely carry with them a riptide or undercurrent in the water.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water spout, I new tornado wasn't the right word but I was drawing a blank on what to refer to it as. Thanks haha
lietome1818 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all good, word is honestly outdated. Should just be called a water tornado.
Rocha_999 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What terrifying stories you have. I love the beach and going out on the ocean but at the same time am conscious and a little scared of this kind of stuff.
thatG_evanP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Portuguese man o war "jellyfish". FTFY. They're not really jellyfish.
nerak33 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First thought, "this is bullshit, it is impossible to live in boats".
I need to go out more.
ChrisColumbus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a rough experience with a riptide last week, it rattled me quite a bit, thankfully was with friends who were able to assist me and knowing what to do when caught in one helped a lot. But still it was a first time and it caught me totally off guard, if I was alone and uneducated I could have drowned.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes dude, glad you stuck around!
SmoSays ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in goddamn Nebraska, a somewhat comfortable distance from the ocean, and I cannot understand why you would willingly live on the ocean. You might as well go live in an active volcano, far as I'm concerned.
Might I ask why you went and lived on a boat? Suicide? Military? Wanted to challenge Poseidon on his turf?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mentioned this a few other comments but basically I was pretty young at the time and was not involved in the decision. It was my parents dream and one day when my brother and I were old enough we sold everything, bought a boat and that was home for the next 5 years. It was a 40foot sail boat and we traveled to 32 countries. Tbh I don't know their exact reasoning but it's phenomenal perspective to have... Looking back it's surreal, it's crazy to think it actually happened.
you_me_fivedollars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if you don't mind me asking - what made you live on the ocean for five years? Work or just morbid curiosity?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:54:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was pretty young at the time, it was my parents desion. We sold everything and lived on a 40foot boat for 5 years sailing all over the the place.
you_me_fivedollars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fascinating. I bet you saw some lovely constellations and stars out at sea. It's one thing I've always wanted to see...just being alone out on a boat, looking up at the stars...
Brittle_Bones_Bishop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Live in Florida dont fuck with the ocean.
learnyouahaskell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/heavyseas
saladLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip tides. I seriously dream about them. I was a beach lifeguard 10 years ago, and we went through training on how to avoid rip tides, and how\where they occur. It is incredibly dangerous to even save someone from one, but I sure as hell know where they are and tell people to gtf away from them. Don't go near jetties when you're in the water people. Thank Neptune I never had to rescue anyone from THAT. Currents are (fairly) easy (DO NOT PANIC), but riptides suck ass.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad almost died in one when he was younger so I've always received a lot of warnings. Tbh they freak me out, can happen so fast.
https://youtu.be/t8MCVV3k2v8
Jack-so-Slack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That you Quint?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No sir :(
geoman2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the opposite that terrifies me. Getting knocked off a boat in the middle of the ocean, with a life preserver. You'd just sit there, floating, waiting to die. No one is going to find you. You'll either die of thirst or get eaten alive by a shark or whatever fucking sea monsters live down there. Best case scenario you take the life preserver off and let yourself drown. Can you imagine how horrible that would be?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah haha i've thought about this... Or being stranded on a small raft or something. Slowly getting hungrier and thirstier.. It's just a waiting game.. You're surrounded by water but if you drink it the salt will only make you thirstier and kill you faster.
expl0dingsun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god that sounds absolutely horrifying
KentusBrockus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard them called man o war. We have them in Australia and we call them blue bottles. Makes them sound so harmless.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've learned tonight that they are less dangerous than I originally thought, still not something to fuck with though. Blue bottles sounds so benign.
KentusBrockus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I got stung by three once. One around my face and neck, and two around my stomach and legs. Was insanely painful but no where near deadly.
LouisvilleProtestor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly that sounds like the fucking life of a real bonafide badass. Not any man could handle that terror.
Allieareyouokay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must have so many stories...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep an eye out for an ama or causal ama in the near future!
GoldenDragonfly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they look so pretty...
Superplaner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He must have been the unluckiest motherfucker alive. Portugese man o' wars, contrary to popular belief, are not that fucking venomous. Can you die? Yes but it is extremely unlikely. This story reeks for me for several reasons:
Depending on seasons we used to run into these critters almost daily both in the mid atlantic and in SEA, most of the time you just avoid them but on occasion I've wrapped several feet of tentacles around my forearm to keep them off my guests. It hurts, kind of like several bee stings at once, and it leaves... welts for lack of a better word, but it's really not the floating biological land mine people make it out to be. Common bees sting and kill way more people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Freak stuff happens man. To address your points, I mentioned in different comment that it may of been a box jelly fix, the story is true but this was over 10years ago and i was young so it's possible I've skewed some of the details. Also they were in a very remote location, days from medical aid, I'm unsure how fast he died. And it was a spinnaker sail, they are pretty big and when then fall in the water pulling them up usually functions like a big scoop/cup, there can be a lot of water in them. It happened to us a few times, fortunately no jelly fish though.
Edit: Tbh though, I'm pretty sure it was a man o war. Deaths to them might not be that common but it can happen.
Superplaner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, death from man o wars do happen, however they happen almost exclusively to unprotected swimmers with preexisting conditions of some kind.
A box jellyfish is a far more likely culprit in this scenario but they do, for the most part, look nothing like a man o war.
I still don't get how he managed to get a bucket load of water on his chest for salvaging a spinnaker though. I've dipped the bottom edge in the sea many times and filled it with a lot of water, especially when there's a swell the bow tends to dig in quite heavily. I don't get how he'd manage to dump it over his own chest though. Even if he somehow managed to lose the entire spinnacker overboard he should have gotten that much water up when salvaging it. I don't know, I just can't imagine a scenario where this happens, it sounds like another sailor's urban myth. The flying man o' war.
jaylem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you ever get caught in a rip current, the way to not die is try your best to swim parallel to the shoreline until you get out of the current. If you try to swim directly back to shore you will have a bad time.
missb00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea that this man o war is actually what we call a bluebottle here in Aus. Pretty common where I grew up on the east coast.
Hateborn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had a scar on my left arm for years because of a Man O' War sting. I was living in Honolulu as a kid and we went up to one of the beaches on the north shore side of the island, though not where they have the surf competitions. I'm paddling along on my board and duck my head as a wave crashes over me and then, suddenly, there is an intense pain on my arm. It was a small Man O' War (tentacle length of 3-4 feet, very small bell structure that was only 2-3 inches long), it had landed on my arm, and my reaction to the pain was to strike the thing hurting me... causing the tentacles to reflexively do a partial wrap of my forearm. Luckily, I was very close to shore and we got it off fast, but the area where the bell had landed remained as an oval-ish shaped scar due to the concentration of stingers around the edges where the tentacles connect to the main body. Took a couple of years before I regained feeling in my left arm - those things are no joke, I can see a fully grown colony killing someone it stung in the upper body due to the damage to the respiratory and circulatory systems, especially considering what I experienced with a sting to an extremity by a juvenile colony.
izucantc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds scary but amazing.
morgazmo99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember some particular dubious decision making.. I went swimming with a mate, blind drunk in the middle of the night during this.
Pretty lucky to be able to post about it. Plenty of people died doing lots more sensible things..
VivereInSomnis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can conform.
hurricaneivan117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AMA?
mcguinness91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never realised that the Portuguese man o' war (Bluebottle) was actually that deadly, I have been stung quite a few times whilst in the ocean and whilst painful and uncomfortable, I wasn't worried about dying at the time. Though the radiating pain that spreads through half of your body after being a hit by a fresh one can be kinda horrible. The bloody things wash up all over the beach that we camp on pretty regularly.
LiamTk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live on the great lakes and every once in a while during a bad storm we can see waterspouts over the lake. I couldn't imagine being out there during one of those. So little room for error out there. If you mess up you're totally screwed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tornadoes on the water? That's the shit in my nightmares.
Just imagining how rough the waves would be and how LOUD everything would be makes me shiver!
Harb1ng3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All these stories are why I stay on land. The ocean can go fuck itself.
figgy_puddin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fried him, huh? Sounds a little odd, considering deaths from Portuguese Man-o'-war jellyfish are exceedingly rare. Any more details?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fried was just an exaggerated expression. But it did kill him, one of those rare situations I suppose. They were days from medical aid and I'm not sure how fast he died. Also this was over 10years ago and I was young at the time, I'm pretty sure it was man o war, but it's also possible it was something like a box jellyfish.
suitcasegnome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, I am having trouble breathing now thinking about that jellyfish. Why did I start reading this thread?!
boshangs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a second I thought the story was going in a different direction.
sillEllis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...the PMoW killed him? I didn't know they were that dangerous.
Erekshon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit... I was watching a documentary on jellyfish this morning and I was thinking "What if a wave crashes over the boat carrying a box jellyfish? You'd be fucked and you weren't even in the water"
That story of the man o' war is terrifying....
cowsblood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there different types of Portuguese man of war, because in australia we have them and call them bluebottles and they couldn't really kill you, just like bee stings.
I_am_chris_dorner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:18 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how would one go about living on a boat for five years? What did you do?
greentoof ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They crazy part is we think only living on water can kill us in an instant. Sometimes the Ground just sakes and shows you how flimsy your buildings are. 10s of thousands of people die a year mistaking the the rock in space they're on for ground.
Corte-Real ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gonna have to say that's some sea shanty you got going here matey.
As someone that worked as a real sailor, your story reeks of a special kind of stupid and brine.
Sailors don't fear the ocean. They respect her, and honour the claim to their souls when her payment is due.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally my first comment about the ocean was about respecting her.. Get over yourself, other people have experiences too, doesn't mean one is wrong and one is right. My comment about fear stemmed from being a 7 year old in a severe storm on a relatively small sail boat.
Corte-Real ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:12:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty much referring to your last statement. Anyone who is stupid enough to be in that situation has no respect for nature.
That's as bad as those idiots who sailed through a pumice plume thinking it was really cool only to actually be in one of the most dangerous situations possible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blanket statements are almost never accurate. I would of thought anyone with experience around this subject would recognize how fast things can change out on the water. You don't willingly put yourself into these situations, sometimes they just happen. And when they do the question becomes where is the safest place to ride out a storm? You do what you gotta do, it's not a pleasure cruise.
-eDgAR- ยท 5206 points ยท Posted at 23:25:32 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep ocean, like these creatures from the Mariana Trench
[1]. They don't even look like they are from this world. Also shoutout to /r/TheDepthsBelow[1]
Creatures from the Mariana Trench
Anglerfish Flashlight Fish
Fanfin Seadevil
Frilled Shark
Fangtooth
Hatchetfish
Barreleye
Goblin Shark
Dragon Fish
Anglerfish
Hatchetfish
Drunk_camel_jockey ยท 2925 points ยท Posted at 01:31:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The goblin shark is pretty fucking crazy, just a big fucking nope for me.
Here is the link. http://i.imgur.com/0kNH8.gif
malakai_the_peacock ยท 2345 points ยท Posted at 01:39:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wtf, it's like it's sending out its smaller mouth. Fucking deep sea xenomorph shark.
chakakhanfeelsforme ยท 4280 points ยท Posted at 02:09:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think you're out of reach but he's still goblin that ass up.
TeamAmerica5 ยท 146 points ยท Posted at 02:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'd give you gold but I'm poor, have some reddit bronze instead
Edit: changed my mind
PositivityIsMyVibe ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 02:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America, Fuck yeah!!!
JesusCries ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the good vibe
railmaniac ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:00:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah mate. Goblins take that sort of thing seriously.
Insi6nia ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:51:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time is money, friend.
vizzmay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turning reddit bronze into reddit gold. Are you an alchemist?
GOthee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here, have reply since i am poor as well.
Doobie717 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I fucked my lumbar up today and the laugh you caused was followed by a shriek of pain that may get the police called to do a welfare check by a concerned neighbor. Hilarious.
casse_toi ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:45:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
get the fuck outta here
hezdokwow ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be a rapper.
derekandroid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:40:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This shark fucks.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:14:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swiggity swooty.
DipIntoTheBrocean ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:08:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice.
chrisinurpants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like groceries
UTK-LSU-TIGER ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:01:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I replied just to say this comment made me laugh so hard.
ambid17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take your damn up vote
busmans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You, I like.
rimmyrim ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:38:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao
PhaliceInWonderland ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...it's Shia Lebouf
LemonSqueeeezy ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:08:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact: Moray eels have pharyngeal jaws!
malakai_the_peacock ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck I forgot they had the weird xenomorph jaws. At least for the most part though, they're not visible unless you're in their mouth. Somehow less unsettling than the goblin shark, despite the fact eels can fuck you up.
bamforeo ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:30:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's gonna eat ya with his little mouth too. Zoop!
Veeron ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun fact; the goblin shark lives in (relatively) shallow waters.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good. Time to avoid where ever they swim around in.
Valahiru ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are actually really slow and clumsy animals. The only part of their body that moves with precision or speed is their mouth. They can't see for shit either.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:34:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So do they like....smell their prey or something? Cause I know normal not horrifyingly creepy sharks have a great sense of smell. Can't imagine something living in the ocean with shit sight have many other options for prey location.
Hyperiok ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:01:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Its long snout is covered with ampullae of Lorenzini that enable it to sense minute electric fields produced by nearby prey," - wikipedia
So basically the same stuff that most normal sharks have, except they have to solely rely on it to detect prey.
nancyaw ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:14:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the creature in Alien.
frothingnome ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:30:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that sums up the ocean pretty nicely.
LessLikeYou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giger was right!
roryr6 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:10:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's mouthing off.
Ice_Cold345 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure which would be scarier, it having multiple mouths or the fact that it's just one mouth and the jaws are capable of extending like that.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:17:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all freaky and I want nothing to do with that alien shark. I'll just....avoid all water it lives in, yep. Cause that's a relatively shallow water dweller compared to the other deep sea horrors on this thread.
Drunk_camel_jockey ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:40:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep it's a nightmare nope.
bojiggidy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/7oWDejlVCOw?t=7s
sublimemongrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like deep sea alien
Mixell_Burk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goblin shark is all like
danny841 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is the biological advantage of a mouth that moves separate from the head, besides looking scary as fuck?
malakai_the_peacock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it's natures way of just saying 'fuck you'.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no it looks like the shark is just a shell, and something grew inside of it.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whelp, now all I'm thinking of is The Thing. Which has somehow just made it worse.
Arch_0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quite a few sharks have this method. The inspiration for Aliens mouth was from dragonflies
gamblingman2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most fish can do that.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not freaky on my little betta though lol, it's not as......-pronounced-.
Vriksasana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His jaws aren't attached to his skull
Sorry I'm taking a class about fish and I get really excited
malakai_the_peacock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that makes it so much worse.
dirtymikenthaboyz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the Alien of sharks haha
CommanderPhoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Moray Eels actually do have a subset of jaws. They use them to pull fish deeper into the throat. They can't really suck the fish in like other predatory fish, because of how narrow their heads are. So they became abominations.
malakai_the_peacock ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you're down by the sea, and a eel bites your knee, that's a moraaaaaay~
Naf5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All sharks do that, as do a number of fish. The goblin shark just happens to be ugly enough without doing it.
Noozilla ยท 1882 points ยท Posted at 02:48:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The creepiest I've seen is probably the bigfin squid.
"Estimates based on video evidence put the total length of the largest specimens at 8 metres (26 ft) or more."
Here's a gif of a rare sighting
Full picture
suoirucimalsi ยท 1294 points ยท Posted at 03:24:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to imagine the camera is holding still.
MLG_NooB ยท 225 points ยท Posted at 03:35:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh thank Christ it isn't. I thought it was just that fast.
pokelord13 ยท 100 points ยท Posted at 03:42:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the camera moves at a fixed speed instead of an adjustable speed so it's hard to control
NKHdad ยท 248 points ยท Posted at 03:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the operator is actively shitting his pants and can't control the camera, which is what I would have done if I didn't know the aliens from "Independence Day" lived in our deep ocean
TheCommonChild ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:59:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you evolution. You make no sense.
zirdante ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 04:03:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, when you live in pitch black darkness, you want to be as big as possible to get prey, right?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya but who's the prey, all the creatures down there look like predators, who are the predatees?
Lizard10 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they all are
"There's always a bigger fish."
Stuntman119 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:35:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Now this is pod racing."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wh....what bigger fish?
Lizard10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:53:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the ones we don't know about yet, it's been estimated we've only seen 10% of the nope fuel down there
_TheGreatDekuTree_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that explains my ex.
TheCommonChild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:32:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Down there, yeah, however. If they are 97% noodle arms that don't do anything but chill there and drag behind them, collecting food on the ground, it doesn't seem like that would be advantageous. Just an easy way to be killed. TL;DR Bigger is better in the dark depths, but only if being big actually helps. (Ie. Being swole)
Iaren ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 04:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's fine. I don't need to sleep anyway.
GetMotivatedNow ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 06:26:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, me either. I'm about to have a baby. Now I can start practicing never sleeping.
MacHaggis ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:30:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to imagine the ship crew arguing with the guy controlling the camera.
"Ok, go right. No, a bit to the left again. No that's too much, just a bit to the right again. GOD DAMMIT, MOVE OVER, I'LL DO IT."
house_clouds ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:26:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was imagining the cameraman scrolling around like "uhh what the fuck" but congrats your way is way more terrifying
mphelp11 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:26:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop it.
Joey2Slowy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely do not like to imagine that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/stabilizedgifs
unproperNoun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:58:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't
Lord_Vectron ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:21:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain hurts even trying to comprehend that perspective
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:46:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck did i laugh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess I'm sleeping with the lights on
I_cant_stop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I thought the first time I saw that gif
poobicus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shit, man.
JJMcGee83 ยท 163 points ยท Posted at 03:34:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this is nightmare fuel. Looks like one of those creatures in Half Life/The Mist
TheEarthIsFalling ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:15:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty fucking sure that's an alien.
Tinox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weren't these things on Aquas in Star Fox 64?
NickDipples827 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that level was so awesome. TAKE OUT THE BIO-WEAPON!
SFRookie ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:54:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"THIS is the enemy's bio weapon?!"
SonicAlligators ยท 144 points ยท Posted at 04:10:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is nobody else going to point out that its defining feature is clearly its incredibly long tentacles but some idiot went ahead and named it the Big FIN squid? Was anyone looking at the fins?
RealSarcasmBot ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 06:03:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We still haven't caught one of these as adults, only babby ones, and apparently the distinguishing feature of the babies is very large fins not 20 meter tentacles.
SonicAlligators ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's..... a pretty reasonable explanation actually. Unless you're being sarcastic! I don't know what to think
RealSarcasmBot ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:14:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean it's not like anyone will actually go down there and actively look for them to capture and document, that's how you get alien invasions.
SonicAlligators ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:29:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they are clearly down there plotting against us. Wouldn't it be better to get down there before they are ready and mess things up than to wait until they get all their ducks in a row?
regularabsentee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:14 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that the plot of Ender's Game?
mostgreatestguy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:22:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait so we have never seen a full grown one? Shit dude.
RealSarcasmBot ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 11:45:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We really don't know anything about the adults, we just assume that the animals caught on camera are adult versions of the baby squid we've caught with very large fins, I mean the animal on the gif could very well be something else entirely...
cheshire_brat ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 12:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a typo. They meant to call it the Big F-in' Squid.
Winterplatypus ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would have called it the puppetmaster squid.
SonicAlligators ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 09:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Marionette squid would be more fitting. It sounds so much more "murder-y"
jataba115 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well it's also called the long arm squid, but the fin is also huge. The gif doesn't really show it
wrong_assumption ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In their defense, shit that moves is more interesting than the static shit, no matter how long.
ShelfDiver ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus. Just sitting there plotting your demise.
Tepelicious ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:56:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm picturing Jesus just sitting there plotting my demise.
capcalhoon ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:41:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kinda hate you for introducing that gif into my life.
MRPANDAKING420 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that, I'm staying on dry land
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:40:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Noozilla ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:46:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The video was taken at Shell's Perdido platform, so it may be part of the structure.
kryskryskrys ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS WAS TAKEN IN THE GULF OF MEXICO? fuckkkkk.
StewieGriffin26 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:54:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn't I thought it was like by Australia, or Japan, or anything besides the fucking gulf of Mexico!
G_Morgan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So we've identified the location of T'leth. Now to send in the squad to kill these fuckers before it is too late.
RaiderDamus ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:48:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Christ on a cracker. Floating there like a goddamn Reaper from Mass Effect.
angry_dave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You exist because we allow it"
Datnero362 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:54:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH FUCK THAT
I know the typical phrase is 'damn nature u scary' but for fuck's sake
pretty neat tbh
Forgototherpassword ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what is that, like an ocean mosquito?
NoMouseville ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK ME
_Wisely_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:55 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
garrus777 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:01:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those things look like real life hanar from mass effect
neonKow ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:19:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Hanar somehow look less alien.
DRACULA_WOLFMAN ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:12:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And less like it wants to murder me.
Fabrikator ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:04:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alien Facehugger final boss.
Thuglos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you play at your friends house, but his sensitivity settings are way higher than yours.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:46:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's crazy to think that this thing, along with all the other deep sea creatures, are out there in the world right now. I'm in my bed, and they're out there in the ocean. They exist on the same planet.
I don't know why that's tripping me so much but they just seem so surreal.
BattleSheeps ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:25:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
U H
U H H
SLOTH_POTATO_PIRATE ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:09:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Big Effin' Squid."
FuffyKitty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:02:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dang. It looks like somewhat like that glass sculpture of the T4 Bacteriophage
-WPD- ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:51:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I thought the Japanese Spider Crab was long.
Picture
Beejsterb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:49:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The black swallower is also creepy and weird. Strangest animal on the planet IMO. If there's an after life where you can pick an animal, I want to be a black swallower :)
Shrimp_WhiteWine ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The first visual record of the long-arm squid dates back to September 1988."
Damn. 1988? Makes you think wtf else is down there that we haven't discovered yet.
Wormination ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently knightmaring
folkdeath95 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Holy fuck, that thing can move through water as if it weren't there. Doesn't even look like it's trying...
oh the camera is just moving."
redheadedalex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wrote a story based on that the first time I saw the gif. Watching it now I'm like, what the fuck was the appeal, I'm just straight up terrified
anorex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camera was like, "Wait. What the fuck was that?"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the slenderman of squid.
Ultimate_Chimera ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No way, Bigfin (AKA Magnapinna) Squid are my favorite animals!
Debusatie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This footage was retrieved in the gulf of mexico, right off the coast of Texas
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terrifying! Never even knew these existed until reading this thread!
To think the giant and colossal squid species are terrifying....
sportznut1000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That looks like an underwater alien. Ive seen those long looking tentacles or whatever you call them on a squid on aliens in different movies or shows over the years
PalladiuM7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen enough hentai to know how that turned out...
Mindless_Insanity ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I was there when we shot that video! We just called it Creature X. Somebody uploaded the video to YouTube (not me). They've only been seen deeper than 7000 feet afaik. I imagine as we continue to drill in deeper water, we'll see more of them. We have video of all kinds of crazy deepwater life but we can get in trouble for uploading it. Most of the videos are so short because we can't investigate anything interesting we see, because we have to keep working. Its like "hey, a translucent purple thing just floated by, too bad we can't chase it down and we'll probably never see it again!"
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BananaHammockRepublic 2,097 points : 13 replies : 2 years ago reply
This is actually a very deep crevasse in the Pacific Ocean called the Trench of Nope."
Hilarious
Rcp_43b ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohh Fuck THAT!! This is the first image of deep sea fish that utterly creeps me out.
youraveragebassist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:42:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they're so god damn eerie.
LeekmySquash ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wish there was a banana there for scale
neonKow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is. You can't see it because of how big the creature is.
WalterWhiteRabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those long spider legs tho...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks kinda like the Ood.
thesagaconts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how the camera looks like it's trying to avoid eye contact.
PM_ME_ALL_THE-THINGS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the queen from the alien movies and those are pods. Better keep your mouth closed.
The-Strange-Remain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those hover over your bed while you sleep, harvesting your brain waves when you dream. You know one's been to visit you when you have a nightmare. That's a symptom of its feeding.
Zajdo1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol that sub driver is ready to 360 no scope some deep sea creatures with that sensitivity.
HansBlixJr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
someone needs to calibrate their joystick.
unidangit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK YOU GI AWAY I HATE YOU!!!
redvelvetcake42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the alien leader from independence day
sundog13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know what I am having nightmares of tonight.
Corte-Real ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shell Perdido is in Australia. Story for big scary animal checks out.
Pandapants88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely fucking not
RukePie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ArctosT18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Reapers"
qwerto14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people think this is the scariest, but I disagree. Goblin sharks and frilled sharks are scary because they can chomp the fuck out of you, but what's that going to do? Tickle you?
ObeselyMorbid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could they not have designed a better camera?
thedude1693 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strider from half life 2?
Mandos_PeriPeri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hail Cthulu
BluCookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
remember Kin of the cosmos
You're in the know, right?
CHIMPSnDIP88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are that thing's tentacles so damn long?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh that makes my stomach turn
danielgigantic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought the camera movement was actually the creature and I about shat.
Erger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooo no no no no no NOOOOOOOO
SharkRancher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my fucking god. That thing is the stuff of nightmares.
Peoples_Bropublic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like Slenderman had a baby with a shogoth.
PM_ME_UR_REDDIT_GOLD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that camera's controls need a "fine" knob
milkman182 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
looks like a pokemon
AwkwardTurtle636 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a creepy sea spider but worse.
EazyCheez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
looks like it's from the matrix
Balony1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean it just has long arms
RyghtHandMan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just gratuitious
Long-Island-Iced-Tea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
" Write something fun " gotta love imgur
kaas332 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaah that fucking cat paw again.
DarkHa1e ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha, don't worry Wikipedia I don't think I would confuse the two.
Poindexter234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are those weird oar like things at the bottom?
After watching the gif again I'm pretty sure it's the submarine
TopGunJazzin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
looks like an Angel from NGE
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it came from starfox 64
4mb1guous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I see that footage, I always think to myself, "they can afford to build a super expensive, super tough submersible capable of diving that deep, but can't make a decent fucking motor to control their camera?!" It's like trying to play an fps with one of these.
SovietDomino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:55:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to imagine that the light in the background is an eye, and the thing we see is just the tip of a tentacle...
Largoi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:03:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's Emrakul, we're all dead :(
jennthemermaid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a SCUBA diver, not scared of much...but if I saw that thing diving I would fucking die.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh Jesus at first I thought it was moving really fast and was like NOOOOOOPE
chrisinurpants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh hello underwater daddy long legs
Dire87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like War of the Worlds style
k_mermaid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Slenderman of the deep sea
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That gif didn't have me scared at first.
I was like, 'Oh. Yeah, it's creepy. But it isn't horrifying or anything. Meh.'
Then the camera zoomed out and I saw the start of the tentacles and I was like :O
And then the camera panned down and I was like :OOOOOOOOOO
Ask_me_about_my____ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why didn't they catch that shit and study it?
coppersocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, that does it. That's the scariest.
karadan100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like something out of Half Life.
Hench21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yea, i fought some of those in Half Life 2
JackLegJosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fairly certain those long tendrils are for ramming down your throat.
Rikon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats some Old god bullshit right there,
Asdayasman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Playing_on_sensitivity_10.gif
Richeh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bigfin my arse. That's a Slender Man Squid.
Astronaut_Sasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If slender man was a sea creature. Nope nope nope
NO_NOT_THE_WHIP ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:01:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet these guys were some of the inspiration for the xenomorphs from Alien.
[deleted] ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 02:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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NO_NOT_THE_WHIP ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
According to Google they were discovered in 1898. Nice try, guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark
jlisle ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They become less scary when you learn the males have a penis on their heads. Quite literally dick heads.
UrDoppelgangerBanger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:45:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Now wayyyyyy more scarier. Thanks!
Tain101 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:19:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it makes you feel better, they are pretty small.
That's a guys arm it's biting.
joec_95123 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're telling me it's now got a taste for human flesh?
Tain101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
taste for human sleeve*
eversaur ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't look THAT ba-OH FUCK ITS JAW
RRSC14 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:12:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you fucking kidding me
Player4Ruz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why but every time I see a goblin shark, it reminds me of Steve Buscemi.
joec_95123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:30:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably because of that time on 9/11, when Steve Buscemi volunteered to maul those teenage swimmers to death off New York's Amity island and had to be hunted down.
Laptraffik ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:07:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That there is some nightmare fuel
BelugaFetus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:08:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do not recommend googling a goblin shark attack, it was a bad idea all around
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nope
Raven_of_Blades ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagine what disgusting horrors await in the depths of the ocean we can't even get to... Prob makes the goblin shark look pretty.
SpewGutzClothing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did not expect that mouth!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well. Fuck that noise.
billyboru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I second that nope.
turco22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a super fucker.
SuperEvilnine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prometheus alien shark
Fiddydollaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is so alien like man, I am not convinced this is real :(
ShredLobster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then we'll head shhshhouth to the Mariana Trensssch
dsaasddsaasd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a gif of a buxom goblin shark lady giving head without moving her head. Just putting that mental image out there.
CruelCrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I support the theory of evolution overall but how the shit...
hab1b ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it just me or does it look like that animal just wants to die?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SEVEN LAYERS OF NOPE
one-hour-photo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like an alligator wearing a shark hat
WASPandNOTsorry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God watched Alien.
nikhild__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what the fuck is going on here
WillsLim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf these things are breeding, we have to kill them all
anorex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Predator.
Im_Dorothy_Harris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the snake creature from Beetlejuice.
Pandapants88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god????? No??????????
Orgalorgg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all about how you frame it.
krt03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Satan had a pet fish... Found it.
NothappyJane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my sons favourite shark, I think it looks like nightmares materialised in flesh but what do I know.
MalHeartsNutmeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see Goblin sharks mention all the time on reddit, I just don't see what's creepy about them. They have like a floating jaw instead of a large opening one. Hardly the stuff of nightmares.
DunkanBulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my fucking god THAT BIGASS THING ISN'T EVEN ITS MOUTH!?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuckkkkk a second mouth.
Zenabel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FUCK
Choking_Smurf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All Sharks' jaws work like that. They are connected to the body by a mass of muscle that lunges the jaws forward to grab prey. The goblin shark's lunching motion looks so freaky because they must compensate for the length of their snout
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuh uh. I'm getting the fuck out of this thread
starlit_moon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus. It's like something from Alien
izakk133 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I see someone with a lot of gums showing when they smile, I think of a goblin shark.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That octopus is so cute!!
Shrimp_WhiteWine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh goddamn. For a second I thought it was a fake monster from an old Sci fi show but - nope! That thing is for real! Ocean never again.
Edit: grammar
ArsenalOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha, dummy, your mouth is way too small to OH GOD NO IT IS NOT!
_doormat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goblin shark, you say? Yeah, maybe we should've completely avoided testing nuclear bombs in the ocean. OR we should go ahead an nuke those Goblin sharks. Tough call.
SillyRabit91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus...this is like "oh hey little gu-AAAHHHHHHH"
watchman28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woop woop woop I'm the goblin shark!
screamofwheat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to ask (though it could be the morphine talking) does your username infer that the camel is drunk or the jockey?
GameKyuubi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:21:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus fuck extendable jaws nope nope nope
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kinda like my chick's vagina
CupcakesAreTasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell is happening here, and can it be destroyed?
culturalcoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:22 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny, because some of these things look exactly how I imagine aliens to look.
HauschkasFoot ยท 6608 points ยท Posted at 23:44:41 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're only scary because they have home field advantage. Drop that fucker on my living room floor and I'll make sure he won't live to see morning.
PacSan300 ยท 4038 points ยท Posted at 23:49:45 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It'll probably explode (ok, it's an exaggeration, but still) before it even gets to your living room, because the pressure there is FAR FAR FAR less than in its native environment.
SeemsL3g1t_Top ยท 4122 points ยท Posted at 00:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fucks sake imagine the mess if one of those things literally explodes in your living room
sidogz ยท 1901 points ยท Posted at 01:07:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't think it would literally explode (I'm sure you realise that). It'd probably just turn in to a pile of goo.
Edit: I wasn't thinking about teleporting directly into the living room. I don't know why, it's just the kind of thing I'd normally jump straight to.
ahdguy ยท 1908 points ยท Posted at 01:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me deep ocean to your living room is pop-city... Look up what happened to the deep sea divers when someone opened the wrong airlock while they were decompressing... Buford dolphin
nc863id ยท 3053 points ยท Posted at 01:43:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY FUCKING SHIT GODDAMN
DeezNeezuts ยท 1038 points ยท Posted at 02:16:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say
MadCapsule ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 02:30:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, how's his wife holding up?
thats_satan_talk ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say...
causal_friday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very well then.
EmotionalDBZFan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
sprtn11715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see, to shreds you say.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:48:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God dammit, I knew this was coming.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had no idea, and that just made it funnier.
ialwaysrandommeepo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but what about his wife?
Rawlsdeep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds, You say.
ReadySteady_GO ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And his wife?
Animal_shapes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say
The-Strange-Remain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god I read it in his voice.
karsonic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was this from? I know I've heard the line but can't remember.
MiningForLight ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:15:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Futurama. The line is said by Professor Farnsworth. I think it's from the episode where Fry and Bender try to find a new apartment.
karsonic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
The-Strange-Remain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What this guy said.
Dodgson_here ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:22:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How's his wife holding up?
the_infosphere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the Infosphere and I app--oh. No. I, um... Not this one.
Neemoman ยท 746 points ยท Posted at 02:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the most descriptive way of explaining "the guy exploded."
AthleticsSharts ยท 438 points ยท Posted at 02:16:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, more accurately, "was extruded".
BalsaqRogue ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thbfthbtbffhtfhpht
AthleticsSharts ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:23:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my job we use high pressure water to irrigate. Sometimes a mouse will wander into the open pipes before we pressurize them. This is exactly the sound they make exiting the 1/8th inch nozzle of the irrigation system. Props for appropriate onomatopoeia.
WhaleMetal ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:04:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is it possible to capture this on film?
AthleticsSharts ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's Full blown winter right now. (Which means low temps of 2 degree centigrade or so). But i will sincerely try once Spring has sprung.
BalsaqRogue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 4 months "mouse juice"
Walter_Malone_Carrot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:07:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Extruded from life.
TheDemonClown ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Play-Doh ain't no joke.
thedersy1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude got Play-Doh Spaghetti Factory'd.
spartanburger91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explosively.
hilarymeggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was put through a garlic press.
mulberrybushes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even worse.
wrong_assumption ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Defenestrated.
sarasublimely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're cute
thipp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
W-what?
ridger5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the worst part about it, right there. The dude didn't explode, he was sucked through a straw, crushing his bones and liquefying his organs.
nc863id ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems more like he was crudely extruded. Which is somehow worse.
chanlonxp1 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:18:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't explode. He was pulled through a small hole.
LOL_its_HANK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds like he was snapped in half and pulled through. And everything sprang outward where his body bent?
chanlonxp1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:11:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Picture this
https://youtu.be/pUzDdsAA7mM
Edit: except, you know, a person. Don't fuck with Delta p
LOL_its_HANK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brother didn't even have a chance.
FoxFyer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:37:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ludicrous gibs!
MagpieMoose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And boiled. Instant explode-boiled...
Roo_Gryphon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and the most metal
Baalenlil7 ยท 1414 points ยท Posted at 01:58:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck the ocean. THAT is literally the scariest real thing on the planet.
FlamboyantSquid ยท 974 points ยท Posted at 02:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
To be fair, deep woods has the same calming/horrifying feel. There have been times I've felt at peace in the wilderness. There have also been times I've been absolutely terrified of what lies around me and above me.
Edit: I replied to the wrong comment and I understand you can't blow up in the woods. I'm so sorry :/
[deleted] ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 02:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:31:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:45:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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THE_MASKED_ERBATER ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:59:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well what else are you supposed to do? put it down and give up? Its not like you're gonna read the first 10 steps all over again.
Tyg13 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides, it's only cheating if you backtrack before you reach one of the endings. Otherwise, you're just exploring the different endings/options in the book, which is just common sense really. You might as well get your money's worth and read the whole thing.
rburp ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:57:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. That's why I always read them straight-through, one page after another. It's like horror vignettes.
ChainedDog ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 03:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was honestly expecting this to be Shia LaBeouf.
brodhi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:38:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I am disappointes.
spqanx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shia suprise i guess...
CapnJaques ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:39:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mountain lions scare this shit out of me. What scares me even more is seeing them and then not. You know they're probably still there... but where?
MachineFknHead ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:45:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's weird because they're kitties and I like kitties
CapnJaques ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine trying to pet ones belly. I can pet my kitty cats but anyone else will lose a hand...lol
VVangChung ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. I live in the northern Rockies and I carry a 10mm handgun at all times when I go hiking and camping. Yeah, bears are scary, but it's mountain lion and moose that I'm worried about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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bigtex222 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but a 10mm vs a moose? Just gonna piss it off.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:01:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, the woods are still significantly more forgiving than the ocean.
You have to do quite a few things wrong to die in the woods, but you can do everything right and still have the ocean just fuck your shit up.
GreatCanadianWookiee ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then out of the corner of your eye you spot him.
POI_Harold-Finch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this gave me goosebumps.
NSAapprovedusername ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:34:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Rather that than my insides be shot out by pressure tbh
Balind ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That must be terrifyingly painful for the few seconds until you are dead.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:15:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i doubt it would be. all of your senses would be obliterated instantly when your brain stem snaps. it would just be tremendously loud for a split second and then you'd die.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:12:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This brings up an interesting perspective that many people don't really think about.
So, most people feel like they are behind their eyes. Imagine what it would be to feel like you are above yourself or in your knee. Its possible to experience this with hallucinogens obviously, but also meditation. Granted through meditation generally requires years of practice. A variant of this is an out of body experience although that can be a whole other level experience in itself. You don't get to see yourself in 3rd person every day.
When people think of hallucinogens they think of seeing things and changing colors or movement but they don't often think about what it feels like. Aside from a blissful warmth radiating through your body one of the more common experiences is to feel like you're melting or gravity is much stronger than normal. Its honestly almost impossible to describe because its really not something you can understand without doing it. Just like I'm sure its hard to understand what being shot actually feels like.
YankeeBravo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:05:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing that must be the non-binding mediation.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:07:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My cousin opted for mediation when she got a divorce. Saved them both a pretty penny.
helicksher ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf man
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:55:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be surprised what you are really capable of experiencing in life. Its so much more than anyone can imagine.
PunishableOffence ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:57:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean I can actually have tree fiddy?
helicksher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YES YOU DESERVE IT. NOW PARDON ME WHILE I CURL UP NEXT TO THIS WOOD STOVE AND THINK ABOUT MY LIFE.
nvwlsll ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:15:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everywhere. Until you pass out/don't feel much because of shock/die
UhOhSpaghettios1963 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:29:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was almost certainly instantaneous.
Barely_adequate ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure but leaving the woods too fast won't make you explode.
Euphorium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leaving it too slow might result in you freezing to death as you go mad with hypothermia.
mxpxillini35 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:51:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok Leo, just enjoy your damned Oscar.
SmackyRichardson ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck does that have anything to do with a guy exploding all over the room?
El_Monstero29 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Were there ever any staircases above you in the woods?
FlamboyantSquid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:10:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DO NOT MENTION THAT NOSLEEP STORY TO ME.
Siggycakes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what no sleep story? I would like to know more.
FlamboyantSquid ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:33:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have fun never going outside again
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Siggycakes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:19:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT HAVE I ASKED FOR. I REGRET THIS DECISION.
djrage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if I should read this right before bed
Siggycakes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as long as you don't leave your room it won't bother you too much. I have to pee pretty badly now but i'm worried about going downstairs.
CyberSunburn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks I had almost forgotten about that story.
FlamboyantSquid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:27:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The land I hunt on has lots of unused stands. For most, the only thing left standing is- you guessed it - the stairs :)
Sk8erBoi95 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK. And I'm supposed to go camping for a couple days next week...
FuryofYuri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll be waiting....
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was I the only one thinking shenanigans on the stuff people have been believing? Id wager physics can explain most of the stories in some way or another
Ask_if_Im_Satan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I'VE SEEN THIS REFERENCE TODAY, AND THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I'M GOING TO COMMENT ON IT. Nice reference bro.
El_Monstero29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks bro :P
....Are you actually Satan?
Ask_if_Im_Satan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:03:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well thanks for asking man! Ya know, it means a lot to mean when people ask! Yes.
PM_ME_THE_BEST_STORY ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As being violently dismembered?
DeathByBamboo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey have you ever been violently dismembered? Maybe it does have a calming/horrifying feel to it.
Potemkin_village ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Getting eaten by an alligator is just like falling asleep, in a giant blender" - Homer Simpson, in some episode
PM_ME_THE_BEST_STORY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, now that you say it like that...
TKmac02 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But have you ever been non violently dismembered? If you think bring violently dismembered is relaxing, just wait until you've had the non violent version
acmarkes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, okay, but have you ever gotten yourself blown up after leaving the woods?
pokedrawer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at least there aren't tank sized monsters in the forest.
firedrake242 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you happen to see a black goat?
รญa! รญa! Yog-Sothoth!
curiously_clueless ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the woods are lovely, dark and deep
FlamboyantSquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a very powerful poem. I like Frost's work.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very true. Alone in the deep woods without a light. Not just in the dark. But WITHOUT a light at all. No way to light things enough to see even if you want to. Absolutely horrifying. And its one of those things you cant even begin to understand unless youve been there against your will.
Exotemporal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:54:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been in the woods in the middle of the night a few times on my way to and from a 12th century castle ruin near my village. Pointing your flashlight towards a noise only to see its light reflected in one or two green eyes isn't too great either.
blindwuzi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scuba diving is the most relaxing thing I've ever done. So quiet while you just float alllooonngg. I would take a nap down there if it was such a dumb idea after thinking about it.
Exotemporal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relaxing and possibly taking a nap while floating in neutral buoyancy like this is one of my dreams. In a dark pool, at a safe depth, with air supplied from a machine at the surface and an emergency reserve that activates itself automatically if the air pressure drops or if there's too much CO2 in your mask, tethered to the bottom so that you won't risk surfacing still asleep with your lungs full of air, it seems pretty safe. In a dry suit and a pool heated to the same temperature as your skin so that you don't feel a temperature difference between yourself and the universe, it could be magical. Maybe add earplugs or your favorite music so that the noise of the equipment isn't distracting.
tBanzai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a thing. Isolation tanks.
Exotemporal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:29:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been aware of them since Joe Rogan started promoting them years ago in his podcast and found one relatively close to where I live, but I never went, I'm a bit grossed out by the fact that the same sludge is used for dozens of people since it's quite expensive to replace. Also, I'd prefer to be completely submerged and have the ability to rest in any position. If isolation tanks were affordable, I'd love to have my own at home though.
MinisterOf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that scary for an apex predator, as humans are. Oceans are an alien environment, whole different league.
Mail540 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you go in the woods with another apex predator (bear/mountain lion) you are no longer the apex predator your high on the food chain but that is their place and you best respect that or get out of the way.
djrage ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:36:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you got a 12 gauge with slugs, and a sidearm, you're still up top.
Mail540 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you carry a loaded 12 gauge and a sidearm wherever you go?
VVangChung ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:35:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the woods where I live, yeah, actually.
cuntweiner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but you can breathe in the woods
Alwin_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But have you ever had this happen to you by leaving the forrest to quickly?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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FlamboyantSquid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"In the dark recesses of the mind, a disease known as FEAR feasts upon the souls of those who cannot overcome its power..." -Pat McHale
donkkong3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's like day be night in the middle of the forrest
CaptainHilders ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, not with THAT attitude!
brotatopants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, I'm a a big back country mountain biker and I've definitely had moments that i felt really freaked out for no reason.
Hiredgun77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love the deep forest. Sitting by a tree...relaxing.
And then I feel something crawling on me and I'm like "oh heeelllll no"
I'll take a park and a Pilsner any day.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially when there are lvl 138's just around you
PrisonCHild_2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah but you won't explode coming out of the woods
Lucifaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doubt there have been times you've been explosively forced through a 24" escape in a fraction of a second so fast that you couldn't even register that you were dead while in a forest.
FlamboyantSquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess... glances down and kicks rock
Lucifaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, then again, forests have bears.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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FlamboyantSquid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hear that everyone? /u/burgerlover69 says he'd blow us up! The woods is scary!
TrinaLynn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, your edit made me laugh. I just pictured someone in the woods walking through the brush and then exploding.
FlamboyantSquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happens, you know ;)
hlkhw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees can blow up in the woods from freezing!
Balony1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AR and thermal goggles my freind, you are now one with nature.
Chioborra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you can.
Icalasari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well
I mean
Maybe if there's unexploded ordinance?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can blow up in some woods. Bosnian and Sri Lankan ones for example.
KicksButtson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah? When is the last time someone literally exploded after coming out of the deep woods too quickly?
karadan100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's pretty much a nil chance of getting forced through a small opening and having your guts exploded ten metres away by merely making a mistake in the woods, though. Although a quick death, i'd probably still rather be eaten by a bear.
kinetogen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My first solo-duck hunt was terrifying. There's nothing like wading into 4' deep freezing cold water in pitch black in the middle of the woods to set up decoys and then hearing the snort of a wild boar scoping out your encampment. My balls dropped 4 inches that day.
Harb1ng3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but you don't just get squished through a hole by pressure in the forest. I'll take my chances on land thank you very much.
roboninja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my favorite edits of all time.
Sensei8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
forreal. If you go deep enough in Scandinavian woods you can hear wild boars and moose running all around you, but can't see them.
that-writer-kid ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:07:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. Most of those freaky fish are like the size of your hand. Death by pressure? That shit is violent.
hezdokwow ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:54:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
0-100 real god damn quick.
ujustdontgetdubstep ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:28:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so, human technology takes the cake, then?
Atom Bombs
Decompression Chambers
Auschwitz etc.
monkeybrain3 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:32:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like no shit I was playing Far Cry 3 and they have this like deep ass trench in the ocean. Nothing is inside it and no sharks around but like I was legit starting to freak when I just kept swimming down into that hole...IN A VIDEOGAME!
The ocean a deadly adversary.
Pablo_Hassan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always tell my Co workers to imagine a stack of soda cans as tall as the tallest building they can see, then do that another 50 or 100 times, then imagine that everywhere.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The oceans are awesome. Beautiful. Swimming, snorkeling, diving. The scariest thing is swimming in them thinking about all the pollutants and toxins we put in the water. I can't lie though, big sharks do scare the crap out of me - seen Jaws too many times.
fellowsquare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that thing is alive!
greentoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and it probably went FWWWOOOOOP!!!
shakeszilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its quick though.
gqtrees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how about the planet that floats through empty space with killer asteroids flying around and other dangerous shit! (i know that wasn't the initial question lol, but crazy to think about still)
Datkif ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about the fact we are less then a drop in the ocean compared to the universal
JobinWah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Less than one plank length in comparison to infinity.
ANAL_McDICK_RAPE ยท 377 points ยท Posted at 01:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least it was probably quick from his perspective, so there's that.
banfromallsubreddits ยท 464 points ยท Posted at 02:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, but what a way to go. I'd imagine it was a closed-casket funeral.
CapytannHook ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 02:20:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probs leave it open 60cm, for old times sake
banfromallsubreddits ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, dude.
Alan1999 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:23:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savage.
Callump01 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking brutal.
Long-Island-Iced-Tea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it is beyond brutal.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if they never decompress how will they move on? I mean, imagine the pressure in Heaven.
WadeK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably served sloppy joes at the reception, just to keep it thematic
TheRealBrosplosion ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 02:07:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably a closed-jar funeral at that point.
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:52:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're going to bury what's left of ya in a soup can!
zaxomophone ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:19:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They didnt even need a casket. They just scraped him off the ceiling and sealed him in a jar.
MountainVernacular ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:42:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Open casket, they just dressed the trachea in a bow-tie and laid him on a pillow.
TexasWithADollarsign ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:25:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Closed-bucket funeral.
Bonus points if it was from Home Depot.
BlankFrank23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boy, everybody sure beat me to that one.
StabbyPants ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:42:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
more like a bucket
Mister_Loki ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:42:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was there "in spirit."
Jay180 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:55:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Preserved in 160 proof.
TERRAOperative ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:53:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They probably just poured him into the casket....
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:15:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well when your remains are gathered with a snow shovel...
King_Of_Regret ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:49:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya think?
LittleKingSlice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:21:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear he was buried at sea
addysol ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:17:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ftfy
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very small casket.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like closed caskets
DoesntUnderstandJoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do you think they went for BBQ after?
melitini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like a closed jar. That dude was liquified.
coltonmusic15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was a bit hesitant clicking on continue this thread.... Man that's so insane though for real. Gosh.
GrooverMcTuber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They put the lid on the chum bucket after they wrang out the mop the last time.
XyzzyPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Closed bucket.
heytheredelilahTOR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd imagine it was a ziplock funeral.
An00bis_Maximus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like a ziplock bag funeral
TheDemonClown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Closed Ziploc bag funeral, more like it.
Trofeetito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah there's no way you show someone with an eye blister.
silencesc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it were open, it would be less "casket" and more "charcuterie platter".
Acc87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just one?
KicksButtson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was open casket, but no one had fun.
klatnyelox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd want it to be open casket for respect.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More likely a closed bucket funeral
epochellipse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like they say in the biz, "Open gasket, closed casket."
BridgetteBane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
Divides-By-Zer0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ftfy
mr_popcorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there even was a casket. The guy literally turned into goop. RIP
Laptraffik ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:06:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still, that guy was fucking eviscerated
BobTehCat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can imagine that was on his tombstone:
Here lies Hellevik, fucking eviscerated
Nickkcuf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pleasure is mine.
Ed_Thatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use that word a lot because I think it's a fantastic word, but this is the one time it's actually applicable. Goddam
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:29:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure all he felt was a sudden violent shove toward the door, maybe just enough time to think "Wha?!" I doubt he felt anything.
NeedsMoreShawarma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That doesn't really make sense. You'd at least feel pain the instant you hit the door physically. I think.
MJOLNIRdragoon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:01:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone of medical inclination could probably tell us how fast one would pass out from losing all abdominal organs and associated ability to retain blood. My guess would be: not as fast as one would prefer.
Bus_Chucker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would guess that at best you would die as fast as if you were decapitated. Pretty sure "instant" deaths require direct and excessive damage to the brain.
Real_Adam_Sandler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuh...your brain produces super drugs and the experience lasts a lifetime.
A life time of pain and being high as fuck.
fortcocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want this to be true so I'll believe it.
Ecorin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was actually so quick that when the valve was opened, by the millisecond he closed his eyes to blink, he was already dead.
TheGeraffe ยท 146 points ยท Posted at 01:55:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's alright. I'm sure he's okay now.
[deleted] ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 02:15:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Tis but a flesh wound
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:20:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's had worse!
McBeastly3358 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:05:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He got better.
TheGeraffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard that someone can live with less than half of their liver. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume a man can live with a whole trachea, part of a small intestine, and some thoracic spine.
BobTehCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure he's all right.
Because you know, of the bisection.
TheGeraffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That half was only holding him back.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheGeraffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ly seperated.
RaiderDamus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hellevik lost his left side in this incident. He's all right now.
TheGeraffe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would include his left buttock. I suppose it got left behind.
firedrake242 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He got better!
shmeckmo ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I remember reading this in the past. That's one of the worst things I've ever read.
cindyscrazy ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a picture too, ya know.
I am not looking that up for you.
shmeckmo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was not aware. I have no interest in seeing that.
100percent_right_now ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:04:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I found a new favourite way to not die.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he came out of the pipe as a chunky slurry. let's look at the numbers...
from nine atmospheres to one atmosphere is a net eight atmospheres, or 117.6 pounds per square inch. pressure is force divided by area, so in order to determine the force, you multiply the pressure by the area. a 24" diameter pipe will have a cross-sectional area of 12 squared x pi, which is 452.4 square inches. 452.4 x 117.6 produces 53,202 pounds of force pushing his body through the tube. that sounds like a lot.
bluesox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthemath
The-Prophet-Muhammad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/theydidthefuckyou
bluesox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit never ceases to surprise me.
Whats_Up4444 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:10:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand most of those words.
Goalie02 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its like the end of Alien: Resurrection, but with a bigger hole, a smaller creature and more pressure
Peoples_Bropublic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine cramming a tube of toothpaste through a hole smaller than the diameter of the tube, and his internal organs are the toothpaste.
Help_An_Irishman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:37:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is he okay?
TheUltimateSalesman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, the fat....
Samsantics1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delta P baby. I came here to say that this is actually the scariest thing on our earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0
It's a bit slow explaining the forces at the beginning. But it's scary as shit, and you can't stop it.
Genxun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminded me of this
finallyinfinite ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had to read this a few times to completely understand what happened. That's fucking... holy shit
strongblack0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
okay so if the opening was wider would he just get superpowers or what?.....
RamboJebusJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think they had an open casket funeral?
nc863id ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:07:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Open basket, maybe.
chaseg22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain like I'm 5?
nc863id ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pressure differential forcefully extruded him through the opening, ripping him apart and splattering his innards all over the place like someone turned on a ludicrous gibs cheat code.
NoBreadsticks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i don't think a 15 year old would get what a ludicrous gibs cheat code even means, let alone a 5 year old
lavars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5?
M8asonmiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guy basically got sucked through a straw and liquefied.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:17:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like that scene in Alien: Resurrection.
cathline ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like the inspiration for the transporter in Galaxy Quest
im1nsanelyhideousbut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this sounds familiar for some reason, was there a movie based on this or a movie that had a similar situation
Gsusruls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:28:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a famous accident, I think, so it's been discussed on reddit a few times.
nc863id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds kind of like what happens at one point in Alien: Resurrection, but we don't like to talk about that movie here or anywhere.
fuggahmo_mofuhgga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is fuckin horrifying.
monsieurpommefrites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I see you've read the report.
albertzz1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is he ok?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I copy/pasted exact same exert and sent it to a few friends out of amazement. Not to exploit the tragedy of the crew, but god damn it would this make a fantastic scene.
FNALSOLUTION1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I copied and was about to paste the same part. Being blown up is one thing but but to die like this! Fuck!
shamanshaman123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucking metal.
Sucks for the dude who had to experience it though.
tattybojan9les ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus christ that sounds like a fatality from Mortal Kombat.
TheFlashBrony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:19 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like this?
Violence warning, for obvious reasons.
Angrysausagedog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rub some dirt on it, she'll be right.
Nabber86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That delta P.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is literally one of the most brutal ways of dying I've read.
I watched a video once of the piping they keep on the floor for oil rigs, there was a crack in one not much large than maybe a lighter, it sucked one of those giant crabs into it in less than a second
prykor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delta P
oswaldcopperpot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a deep water well video of this happening to crabs.. It's fucking scary to watch.
Mail540 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whelp that's enough internet for tonight
MuzikPhreak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did it kill him?
nc863id ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just barely.
seanyok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaaah mother of fuck!!
Awesome-o_O ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would be ridiculously curious to see a realistic recreation of this event and wtf it would actually look like. I have a rather morbid curiosity.
WazzaMatta92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That goes on the list of things I wish I hadn't read...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can someone eli5 did the guy survive that?
POGtastic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As as messy and terrifying as that is, the guy probably didn't feel shit. Probably a big WOOSH and then oblivion.
ymek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the other guys boiled to death...
EverGreenPLO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broke in half and sucked almost dry.
Fuck.
Kinghero890 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes me think of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQG9uZin3fA
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like Alien: Resurrection
TheColorOfWater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you link to a gif illustration of this please?
Chioborra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That right there is how I want to die.
Skullkrid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW: Apparently these are his remains
Bigforsumthin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone convert that into layman terms. Clearly he died but how bad did he died?
Valorik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My official diagnosis: he ded
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did it kill him?
cwm3846 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much the same thing happens if you have mentos and Coke
Dire87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of Alien with the human-alien hybrid when it gets sucked out of a tear in the hull shudder
martyRPMM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE
TheOsuConspiracy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least it was quick...
rev_2220 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that sounds like something you'd see in a bad horror movie and scoff at for the bad sfx, holy fuck
tamasuperstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.... At least it was quick I guess.
InfinityCircuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!
Even if the bastards weren't sucked out a small whole intestines-first like a human tube of Soylent Green flavored toothpaste, the pressure change boiled the blood in their bodies, causing the fats in their blood to fall out of suspension, which caused giant blockages like instant heart attacks and strokes in every major blood vessel.
In short, they were fucked 6 ways from Sunday.
railz0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a moment-
Yeah, fuck that. This entire thread is just one big fat nope. Good bye!
Bloody_Hangnail ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Violently dismembered" Jesus fucking Christ.
Subalpine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
did he recover ok or do you think he still has a bit of a limp?
buffbodhotrod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my fucking god. That actually deserves the expression. That's like a final destination movie if it were real and also were about a thousand times worse than anything that's been thought up. In an instant your body is forced through a 60 cm hole. You can't have not experienced a brief moment of pain but good Lord I hope it went quickly.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he pull through?
aerobert ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So he basically exploded in half?
kingrootintootin2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing a documentary about this, here's the relevant scene
swaginite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An entire Cannibal Corpse album could be written based on that one description.
druedan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So he wasn't killed by the decompression per se, he was killed by being forced through a hole the size of a basketball.
PyrohawkZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS i need a picture of. thats some fallout "bloody mess"-level gore.
smokinntokin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't fuck with pressure. That shit will fuck you up for life
TXDRMST ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, I've seen Fatalities in Mortal Kombat that were tamer than this.
Gsusruls ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is what happens when you piss off Jesus. Believe in God yet?
scrubs2009 ยท 848 points ยท Posted at 02:19:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the divers.
NSFL
Quirl ยท 965 points ยท Posted at 02:45:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well. I'm not a doctor, but I'd say he is dead.
AT-ST ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 03:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was the one that survived.
Fallingdownescalator ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:20:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He did say he wasn't a doctor.
wyldside ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:45:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eh, just needs some WD40 and duck tape
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I find that hard to believe
wyldside ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
duck tape brand duct tape is duck tape. quack.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me more about this duck tape...
MBMinor1 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We can rebuild him
36yearsofporn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone else go "Da nananananana" whenever they see a $6 million man reference?
MrNewking ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:18:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, his shoes are off.
Whiskersgrower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dank meme, memer.
genericallyUnique89 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:51:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you should consider a career in the medical field
arudnoh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold on there Mr Hasty! We might still be able to revive him! Don't you quit on him now
I_am_Nightwing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say?
Mattklims ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:16:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, he could walk it off
ThePiderman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:07:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He.. didn't make it..
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He could be alive but I don't know enough about medical to dispute.
egracef ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah he's good
im_not_gandhi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Medical student chiming in: that dude's dead as shit.
MachateElasticWonder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll believe it when I see some credentials
Balony1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of the way im CPR certified
Wormination ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:59:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well. I'm not a dentist, but I'd say he needs dentures.
bobber310 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:49:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He ded
badasscoming ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah man he just needs some patching up
trinityolivas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He ded asf
NewStarKiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should probably get a real doctor in here to confirm. Precautions are everything these days.
Frostymcburgertits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh oh oh look who knows so much! Your friend here is only MOSTLY dead...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"u still going to school"
GamerFluffy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I think he could walk it off.
mista0sparkle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see the feet. Need to see the feet to confirm if shoes are still on. Only way to be sure.
docmagoo2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I AM a doctor, and I would have to confirm your finding...
Also HOLY FUCKING SHIT! that shocked even me
KicksButtson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're not a doctor, you can't make that call!
RiversBromo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah bro. The explosion didn't blow his shoes off, he's fine.
tamasuperstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically turned into brisket
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe dead-itis is the medical turn but of course I'm just a doctor professor
Paradigm6790 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I don't see any shoes.
UpvoteBecauseIcan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk, I don't think we can say that for sure.
Kmas90515 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can you be so sure? You didn't even check his pulse
summerjo304 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:58 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He dead
YawnDogg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shirley you must be joking
jennthemermaid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'M NOT JOKING, AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY.
Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thereโs still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take that home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, youโve got a stew going.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hard to imagine what that could have looked like when it happened... A split second took him from a man with eyes and thoughts to... That... Mass of flesh. Horrifying.
Gsusruls ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 02:29:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres... there's nothing left resembling a human in the photograph.
Except maybe that ... that's a hand, right?
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:09:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TudorGothicSerpent ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. That...might actually be the least recognizable and most mangled human corpse I've ever seen. And that's saying a lot after two years on Reddit.
Hodor_The_Half-Wit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:00:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuck me. I read about his story for a minute and fuck the guy who demanded his mission.
ADequalsBITCH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:38:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but the story also bothers me for another reason - so the guy, Komarov, knows it'll be a suicide mission, that he'll likely die upon reentry and goes anyway because his friend Yuri Gagarin would be the backup in case he refuses. It's a very touching story and all, but my question is - if Komarov could possibly refuse, why couldn't Gagarin?
Hodor_The_Half-Wit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know. Why didn't both of them just take the chance of losing their jobs instead of losing their lives? Sorta doesn't add up to me.
Gsusruls ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:23:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think ol' Vlad had it worse - he saw it coming. That decompression thing was probably damn near instantaneous.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:40:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel worse for the people that had to reassemble him like a puzzle
MrBojangoUnchained ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Corners first.
Gsusruls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude! - Too soon.
EBOLA_CEREAL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda like that bit in The Dig
vegan_warren ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:10:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
left I believe.
WooHooBar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He just needs a good nights sleep, he'll be fine.
Gsusruls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably should take some advil or something, though. I foresee a splitting headache.
Trofeetito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's the doctors lunch, next to it there's probably some hand residue.
Urgullibl ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:52:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking at this, this is probably the guy described in that autopsy report.
hochizo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the other divers had their blood flash-boil in their veins. Just as dead, but still in one piece!
lavars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would that look like? Would their eyes be fucked up? Or is it all just internal and they look completely normal?
hochizo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, in at least one case, the eyes were pretty fucked up.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude looks like ground beef
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Neuermann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh, now I'm hungry.
justinsayin ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:01:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ground pork, actually
CheckOutMyVan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe it's called Long Pork.
Hispanic_Gorilla_AMA ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:22:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So did he recover?
scrubs2009 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it took 2 years of physical therapy but he is currently able to walk without assistance.
Faugh ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy cow!
Is that guy alright?
mawop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get the feeling he's pretty dead.
Daggertrout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude straight up ugly dead.
le_b0mb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you give up on me now!
Tankirulesipad1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not clicking that link.
Aperturez ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:09:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest it's not that bad because it's so unrecognizable. There's no blood, nothing that identifies it even as human.
eetsumkaus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's exactly what makes it so bad...
Tankirulesipad1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just.... A bloody smear?
its_penguin_related ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:31:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just a pile of meat.
Hot_Orange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's exactly why I'm never clicking that.
ImBi-Polar ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:56:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was expecting so much worse..
notworthyhuman ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:17:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We can put him back together. We have the technology!
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:07:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Sivalion ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:21:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh god
PacSan300 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:22:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a good example where /r/nocontext would be preferable.
lalalola89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well shit...
sblow08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? Why did I click that link? I am not a smart man.
Saliber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit
TastyPinkSock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well did he live?
giraffegladiator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come on man. I'm just trying to eat my Frosted Flakes
burtwart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh. Full of regret for opening this.
pussyflavourpancakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't the guy who was forced through the porthole, right? So how did this go about happening, is this the result of a mass internal rupture caused by all the high density oxygen in his blood/organs escaping rapidly to the outside of his body due to the insanely large and fast leap to a low pressure atmosphere?
I'm really intrigued to know more. I'd love if anyone with a medical background could explain.
cherry_jester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WELP. Not eating my pizza anymore.
PadaWINE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sure that's just one?
BendoverOR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats staying blue.
GrooverMcTuber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even his watch went kablooey.
LonelyOnNaxos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain is having trouble recognizing that as an actual human being.
MrDudlles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wasn't nearly as bad as I thought, I feel as if I may still keep my eyes.
Ultimate_Cabooser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rekt
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit... Did he make it?
Winterhorrorland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To shreds you say
pootietang33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rekt.
HuoXue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's...so fascinatingly grotesque but so unrecognizable, if I didn't know what it was supposed to be, I would just assume it was some weird movie prop shit.
Bladerunner7777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm scared to click
what is it?
CarlsPie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY SHIT. I was reading the description and not sure how it would look....
doctorfunknasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is he gonna be ok?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jaysus Croist
jabberwockxeno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly that's not as bad as I would have thought given what wikipedia says.
plazmablu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the ever loving fuck!?
phoenixology ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like the contents of a KFC Bargain Bucket.
Frostywood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gnarley
Brodoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Put a band-aid on it, he'll be fine.
FoldingUserFerrariic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn
He's literally pulled pork
:c fuck I'll never want to be a diver lol
ARedWerewolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A few more pieces and he might have the semblance of a human. That's some intense shit right there.
bHarv44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really want to click this link but I'm sitting at the DMV surrounded by people... this place is horrible.
Flattcat78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a doctor but I did say at a Holiday Inn last night....... he is ded....
ztsmart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he survive?
crnelson10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know how sometimes you come across links on reddit that you just refuse to click on?
Justinlongdick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's staying blue.
CallOfCorgithulhu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what happens when you don't wear safety glasses. Thank God for Norm Abram.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What... What happened?
midnightwalrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a sudden craving for pulled pork..
BJob22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It probably would have been a lot worse if he weren't carrying that ground beef with him at the time of decompression.
tinymog ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure you know of the blobfish? That's the result of these creatures being brought up to the surface. Not pop, just smoosh. Blobfish is actually pretty cute (imo) in its natural habitat.
Coffeesq ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, I just had nasal surgery. I currently have a stark resemblance to surface Mr. Blobfish.
The-Prophet-Muhammad ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's entirely due to the fact that the body of the blobfish is capable of somewhat adjusting to the the pressure differential, preventing it from exploding. If you were to some how magically transport it from its native habitat to above sea levels, it would instantly explode.
Forgototherpassword ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does the first one have Diabetes?
NEREVAR117 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:14:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really not the same thing. Humans have the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on us, but we don't pop when introduced to a vacuum. These fish are mostly resistant to the pressure of the water because they themselves are mostly water. It's not any sort of structural integrity keeping them from being crushed.
eric67 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats only a dif of 1 atm
NEREVAR117 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:34:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a matter of equilibrium. Their bodies do exert an amount of outward pressure but it dissipates quickly from any small expansion, and exerts more fully under the higher pressure of being that deep in the ocean. Water is very difficult to compress, and these animals being mostly water take advantage of that. You can put a human body 20,000 feet underwater and it will remain, for the most part, physically intact. It won't become crushed or suddenly implode.
We've also brought animals from the deep up to the surface and they didn't pop. Animals such as whales also swim very, very deep and they don't pop when they come to the top of the water. Etc.
The factors that make this harmful to us is the pressure on the gases in our organs and bloodstream. Oxygen and other gases would violently rupture at the cellular level and be squeezed from you. But you as a whole wouldn't pop or explode, as we're mostly made of water and other liquids which don't particularly enjoy being compressed.
curious_creator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quality content right here.
Runs_With_Bears ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:13:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was rapid/explosive decompression. Gradual decompression would not result in pop city I don't believe.
poop_frog ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:23:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was an explosive decompression. Bringing JellyBlob to the surface would be gradual decompression. Different effects.
bowserusc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:21:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wasn't because of some internal force causing them to explode though, at least not a traditional explosion. What happens is all the fluids in the body would boil. Blood vessels would burst. Gas would escape, but it wouldn't look like an explosion per se.
fake_polkadot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
None of that would happen. They are made of mostly water, just like us, which does not compress well. If we were to go that deep we wouldnt implode or get squished and look like a raisin, we'd look very much the same. The thing that is dangerous for humans is the pressure on our organs and our blood stream. If a fish from 10k feet deep teleported into your living room it would probably just die and lay there.
bowserusc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm. I don't think you understood my comment. When a body experiences extreme pressure changes, whether it's a change from deep depths to normal pressure, or normal pressure to a vacuum, gas bubbles form in the fluids. That's what decompression sickness is. The synopsis about the medical findings in the Wiki article about the Byford Dolphin supports this:
So, as long as the fish has gas in it's blood and other fluids (which I can't imagine it doesn't), the likely cause of death would be fluids boiling in the fish resulting in an embolism.
knuppi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to think this was only at 9 atm, which is achieved at a depth of 80-90 meters.
Just for reference, deep-sea creatures can be found at a depth of +4000 meters.
chanlonxp1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They wasn't a change in atmospheric pressure though, that was a small hole between two different pressure areas that they effectively got sucked out. They won't explode any more then we won't shrivel up like raisins at depth. Living things are almost entirely liquid and solid which don't compress or expand.
Source: commercial diver certification.
Idodrunkthings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pop city bitch pop pop city bitch ten ten ten fishes blowing up and shit
Davecasa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that tank, and also people, are full of air. Water doesn't expand nearly as much when you depressurize it. Unless said animal has a swim bladder, it won't explode. It will probably die, but not too violently.
lets_trade_pikmin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, they didn't explode, and that was literally the worst possible scenario.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn *EDIT Daaaayuuummm
nonrg1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i was expecting a picture
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy damn
Crushgaunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm currently cringing in a generally uncomfortable manner.
Just thought you ought to know.
sidogz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm... not going to look at that... but I believe you.
jrr6415sun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pics or it didn't happen
notRYAN702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus. That's a brutal way to go.
TsterT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it wasn't their fault, but faulty equipment was to blame.
reenact12321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so happy that wasn't a video.
volound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless the squid is going to be instantaneously teleported from 1000 bars (ocean floor) to 1 (ground level), this doesn't apply at all - it's just reddit-comment-porn.
ejabno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yuck
All joking aside holy shit that's brutal
TheRealCalypso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Byford
witlessusername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non-Mobile Link
the_great_ganonderp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That room full of people decompressed so violently because it was full of gas, both in the people's lungs and in the room itself. A deep sea fish isn't directly comparable, though anything with a gas-filled swim bladder would most likely explode.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it doesnt work like that. Science people have captured some of these creatures and returned them to the surface. They live just fine in lab tanks, without all the pressure. They are used to being in great pressure areas, but being brought to a low pressure area doesnt bother them.
callmeice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was a kid someone told me that if a person would be that deep in the ocean and was exposed to the pressure, their body would instantaneously implode into a ball and would shoot up toward the surface and out of the water.
Mystery_Me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fish don't have lungs though, so not much to expand when the pressure changes.
imperfectcarpet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Byford*
YamiNoSenshi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, not clicking. That is some honest to god, real world nightmare fuel.
LolerCoaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That happened because air is a compressible medium. What would actually happen if you brought one of those fish to the surface is the dissolved gasses in its blood stream would boil. At most, I think it's eyeballs might pop, and the more tender tissues/would turn mushy, but that's about it.
WienerCleaner ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:35:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
maybe if it was teleported instanteously
LOL_its_HANK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For sake of arguement, obviously.
Wistian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's awful but intriguing.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
via explosion
astro_basterd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:44:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well then imagine the mess that the goo makes!
MiguelAndTulio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blobfish! c:
internetversionofme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The popularized image of the blobfish we see all over the internet depicts a dead blobfish for this reason c:
Here is a picture of what it normally looks like
YankeeBravo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a reason one of the first things you're taught when learning how to dive is to never hold your breath on ascent.
Just to illustrate the point....in 60 feet of water, you have close to an additional 2 atmospheres of pressure exerted on you. At 100 feet, you're close to an additional 3 atmospheres.
At the depth these animals live, you're talking closer to 200 to 300 additional atmospheres of pressure.
So yeah, literally violently explosive if you somehow pulled on from its depth to your living room.
sidogz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah sure. In that situation it would literally explode!
sometimescool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. This has actually been tested. They simply die, no explosion or goo.
sidogz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you explain the blobfish that others have mentioned?
InsaneZee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true. You've all probably seen that image of that blobfish (yes, that pink one with the uncanny-valley face). That fish lives in very high pressure zones, so when it is taken out of the water, it turns into, well, a blob.
sidogz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They probably wonder why they're called that!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
religion
anorex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gabagool Shark.
Kenyanguyhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This reminds me of the time nightcrawler teleported a shark
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mda3y6FFf11r3paemo1_1280.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. I think it would turn Super Saiyan from years of training at high pressure.
LsDmT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look like this http://i.imgur.com/TSl3aW0.jpg at sea level.
This is what they look like under water: http://i.imgur.com/G7pLCsx.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey so in Star Trek wouldn't teleporting to another planet kill you if the air pressure change is too much?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it doesnt work like that. Science people have captured some of these creatures and returned them to the surface. They live just fine in lab tanks, without all the pressure
9swords ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Teleporting is the 'go-to' solution for all those pesky problems.
PsychoAgent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining something like the failed test subjects in Ant-Man but the opposite.
Jwosty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like this?
SmartSoda ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:42:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you start questioning whether or not you really won...
Hewkho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like all the HowToBasic videos.
SFXBTPD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially if it turns inside out first
Jurk0wski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/nW-NiGp1gys?t=92
mausterio1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a home demonstration just microwave an egg.
I_grow_chongers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is why I want transporter tech. oh the prank calls I would make.
major_space ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine corpse explosion from Diablo II
vetch222 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My puppy would eat the carcass
Valkyrie21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be thoroughly traumatized
thecolbra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably something like this
Sandite5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have twin babies. I don't think it would surprise me in the least.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine the SMELL.
Jonerdak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're gonna need a bigger towel
Phyisis ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason people pop from ascending too quickly is because we have lots of pockets of gas which compress easily.
I'm pretty sure fish don't have lungs citation needed
Fish are mostly water, and water is only ~5% more dense at the bottom of Mariana's Trench than at sealevel, 5% is not insignificant, but it's not exactly explosive.
roflzzzzinator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did an English test yesterday and there was something about how there was a kind of fish that had lungs sorta like ours, I don't remember what it was called but I think it started with the letter "D"
LOL_its_HANK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All those cargo pants where I keep my gas.
DatMaiBienYe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to start keeping change in them instead
Chaos_Philosopher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some fish have a swim bladder that fills with air to help them judge how far down they are. Cephalopods do not, so they would be fine.
lannister80 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They'd be right at home on the surface of Venus, except for the 800 degree temperatures. And the lack of water. And the sulfuric acid rain.
IAmATroyMcClure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aahh, home sweet home.
chanlonxp1 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:13:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
....... They won't explode any more then we would shrivel up like raisins if we went down there. They are made of mostly water which is incompressible.
Urgullibl ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:51:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fish have this thing called a swim bladder...
chanlonxp1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some do some don't. Sharks don't.
Regardless, even those that do don't just pop like a balloon when you bring them to surface.
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks aren't exactly typical fish.
chanlonxp1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So? Nether are any fish living at thousands of feet. You won't run into any trout down there
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are all teleosts, as is the trout.
Chaos_Philosopher ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:04:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks aren't fish. Even if fish were a thing, still some fish do and some fish don't.
chanlonxp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..... Wha
Chaos_Philosopher ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:55:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks are not a form of fish nor are dolphins or molluscs.
chanlonxp1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:58 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're stupid.
You're also wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark
RedZaturn ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They would have to be brought up slow enough that their pressure could equalize
Runs_With_Bears ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:10:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wait, have we never brought one up to put in a museum or something? Or do they all just keep exploding? /s
chanlonxp1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No They won't explode. The only thing that expands or contracts under pressure differentials is gas. Living things are not made of gas.
Runs_With_Bears ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:25:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well we do have gas in our system that's why if you ascend too quickly you get the bends. Nitrogen bubbles coming from your tissue to your bloodstream are too big if you come up too fast and get stuck in your joints and can cause death.
I imagine if the hole in the Buford dolphin incident was larger, the man who was sucked through might not have exploded but would certainly have had issues with the bends.
You ascend slowly so that the bubbles have time to disperse slowly. I imagine rapidly bringing any living organism from the bottom of the trench to the top could cause some issues but I don't know enough about the circulatory system of fish.
chanlonxp1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am certified as a commercial diver. You.... Sort of understand what the bends are. You can't fucking explode though.
Runs_With_Bears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm an OW diver but the comment before mine was about things from the trench exploding if brought to sea level. I know you can't explode that way, you can explode being sucked thru a 24" hole due to explosive decompression though.
I also was just giving a quick definition of the bends. I know more about it its just long to explain.
chanlonxp1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:46:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah ok. Look.
We can get nitrogen in our bloodstream and get the bends, because we breathe air which is mostly nitrogen. Fish however breath water which is absolutely no nitrogen.
The worst case I could see happening here is that some fish have a small bladder that allows them to tell which way is up. That might rupture and cause the fish to die, but it's unlikely it would explode. It's the same as how you wouldn't explode if you were suddenly teleported into space. You would die instantly, but would pretty much be intact
53bvo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But these bubbles are only a problem because we use over-pressurized gas when scuba-diving. Freedivers can rise to the surface as fast as they want.
Runs_With_Bears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying fish would explode but they definitely change their ballast unlike a freediver who only has what he takes down (or less). I am genuinely interested in what would happen if you changed the pressure on a fish rapidly now.
chanlonxp1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their are actually lots of pictures of fish brought to surface quickly. The bladder blows up like a balloon and is often sticking out the mouth a little bit.
FrejGG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a myth. For the vast majority of deep sea species, this is untrue. The reason being that deep sea species don't have gas chambers that need regulation. There is no gas inside of them to expand when brought to the surface. Source: studying BSc in marine biology.
davThandi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:32:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't water pressure way more deeper in the water you go?
PacSan300 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it reaches 1000 times as much as the surface.
davThandi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dang, any idea how much deep end pools are?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About 1 additional atmosphere of pressure for every 33 feet seawater, or 34 foot freshwater.
Stop_Being_Ignant ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure they can take these creatures up to sea level as long as they don't ascend too fast, same as humans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then what's with that shark?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought more pressure would cause explosion. How would less?
PacSan300 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would become inflated as fuck, as it's not being squeezed by pressure so hard. Explosion is probably an exaggeration, but either way the creature's chances of survival in lower pressure are slim.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, hadn't thought that the body would react that way but it makes sense. Thanks.
Ieetzbread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ELI5? I would think increasing pressure makes things go boom
Auctoritate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's talk about gases. Combined gas law states P1V1/T1=P2V2/T2 (Pressure, volume, and temperature). Pressure is down there is about 760000torr. Temperature is about 275K. Let's say the volume of an imaginary gas is 1 liter. At the surface, pressure is 760torr, and temperature is about 300K. This means the volume of the gas at the surface will increase to over 300L (I'm probably doing the math wrong, but you get the general idea).
So, you pretty much explode.
ELI5: Gases in your lungs are highly compressible. Down there it's super high pressure. If you teleported to the surface, the air in your lungs would expand over 300 times its original size. As would the gas in your blood.
It isn't pretty.
Ieetzbread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this have anything to do with when you freeze a water bottle, and then as it melts it expands and overflows?
Auctoritate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water actually contracts when it melts/expands when it freezes- that's one of its unique properties. I don't know the specifics, but I'd assume it's because when it's frozen, it can't leak out- but, when it starts to melt, the pressure is higher (thanks to the ice taking up so much space) and the liquid water can leak out.
So, long story short, it's not really related.
GhostTown82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain the science behind this? Pressure = force/area and force = mass * acceleration Why does the fish explode?
MusiclsMyAeroplane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't.
Xboxben ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly yeah . If you take it out of its home you got your self monster soup
BobbyCock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do we explode in less pressure? I thought it through, yes. I suppose one wold implode if the pressure was much higher than they were used to.
donquexada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better, because fuck them shits.
ImAzura ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except they wouldn't...
That's like saying we would explode if subjected to a vacuum, like in space. We don't. We'll die, but we won't explode.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if it just grows unimaginably enormous and thusly far more dangerous?
FNALSOLUTION1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at Mr. Scientific facts over here everyone.
Eab413 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's fucking metal.
Jokkerb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how marine biologists pinata.
leetee91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish i could actually see a real scientific presentation of this. Like the presentations of crocodile vs sharks, etc. Also, [7]
Diavelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can tell you've hooked a Yelloweye while you're fishing in AK because as they depressurize from being reeled up, their air bladder (buoyancy organ) expands and starts to kill them. So you'll get a bit of a fight right when you hook em and then you think you lost him... but he's still there, floating on up. The bladder can push their eyes out of the sockets and the stomach out of the mouth too. Looked strange as hell the first time I saw one. Yelloweye
AmISupidOrWhat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when i was on exchange in Norway, the host dad used to work on an oil rig. he told us how they went fishing with really long lines, and when they got something from deep down their eyes would pop while being reeled in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IS THAT HOW THIS KIND OF SHIT WORKS!?
Baconoid_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It wins if it explodes in your living room.
danw650 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thought is amazing to me. Holy shit. So are these little fish SUPER tough or something? We'd be crushed down there.
SrewolfA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That explains Murky
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oarfish tend to live at pretty low depths, but have washed up on shores intact.
FUCKBOY_JIHAD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this gives me so much anxiety
Strawberrycocoa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Blobfish. They look like normal fish at deep sea (scary but still fish), but bring them up to lower pressures and they bloat into a bizarre freakish THING.
Pvt_Lee_Fapping ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't think pressure differentials like that matter much to fish since the water can freely flow through them.
para_sight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really/ Most deep sea animals have no void spaces and are thus as incompressible as the surrounding water. They dont explode when brought to the surface. They usually just die because of the increased temperature (its always near freezing down there)
xenodius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not like it has some kind of explodey-organ to counteract deep pressures. It just doesn't have lungfuls of air to crush, like we do. It would not explode on the surface =)
shagginflies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I can't go fishing for one?
Fizzay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's also why Aquaman doesn't fight crime on land. He has to fight underwater crime.
Pardonme23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Animal skin is strong enough not to explode
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it doesnt work like that. Science people have captured some of these creatures and returned them to the surface. They live just fine in lab tanks, without all the pressure
Bonesaw09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If dragon ball z has taught me anything, then those scary motherfuckers will be faster and deadlier than ever.
JesusDeSaad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine prepping a bowl of jelly, putting it in a freezer until it's ready, then emptying it in the middle of your living room.
The subsequent splash and jelly spread all over the floor is what would happen to any deep ocean fish if it teleported into your living room.
Source: have asked marine biologist friend who took a bucket of deep water something and emptied it on deck to test stuff.
Parabuthus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Implode.
Dire87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they literally dissolve partially, because their skin can't handle the reduced pressure and keep all their stuff together.
DeadeyeDuncan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It wouldn't explode unless you lifted it out of the ocean quickly. For the same reason that deep sea divers don't explode when they get back to dry land.
JoshSidekick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just means it has super strength on land like Aquaman.
Old_man_Trafford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny, they've taken these creatures up to the serfice and most are not effected by the change in pressure like humans.
SerDancelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is exactly the cause of death of pretty much every giant squid ever encountered at the ocean surface.
deadfulscream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or due to the lack of pressure it will expand to a gigantic size.
Could go either way, pretty sure science says so.
DrCraigMc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:51 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually most deep-sea animals can be brought back to the surface alive. I've kept numerous deep-sea animal in aquaria without pressure. They do fine. They do need cold temperatures thought.
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:29:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are you sure it isn't more pressure, because I'm pretty sure depth and pressure are proportional to each other
HowToCantaloupe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:32:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Typical internet tough guy.
asj29 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's joking bud.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:03:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder why you could tell he was joking but not that I was.
Ahh unless you are too! Then I can't tell and I'm the one with the brain tumor, fuck.
asj29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol my bad man. It sounded like you were pissed at him for some reason
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:23:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'll try and schedule those away games.
BobbyCock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:50:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Owned
Lazerspewpew ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:38:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, a vast majority of those creatures are tiny and extremely fragile
tinymog ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:42:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, especially the hatchetfish. Those ghastly things are only around the size of a nickel, maybe a tiny bit bigger.
therapistiscrazy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:01:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. They're still creepy as fuck though. They look like ghosts or something.
aguacate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they'd love tumblr amirite
FoxyGrampa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, you wouldn't have to really do anything either. Take a seat and crack open a beer.
Wait til it's dead then give it to your cat.
Scoobyblue02 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop you down there and...
stoneboot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sea monster, fite me irl behind the school 4pm
Dunsam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
RichHomieKwon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit I regret clicking the link. That fish is ugly as fuck.
davThandi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:33:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but to them we are probably ugly
Bkradley1776 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wouldn't want to anger the illithids
MuthaFuckasTookMyIsh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What're the dimensions of your living room floor? I'm open to bet it won't fit. What'll you do then?
SuperEvilnine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your sure right
ihatethesidebar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All you have to do is stay away from it, it'll suffocate on its own.
TakeCoverOrDie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just saw goblin shark in action nope nope nope fuuuuuuccccccckkkkkk nooooo http://i.imgur.com/0kNH8.gif
NumberNull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hatchetfish be like "Get me the fuck outta here".
RyoDai89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still braver than me.
arkain123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder if you could keep one around if you compressed the water to a comical degree
Alarid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scary? More like sushi.
Except the first one. He has a knife.
AusCan531 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno man, he's got a knife.
larryfuckingdavid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knock yourself out, NONE OF YOU drop that fucker on my living room floor, I don't need that shit.
Purple_Poison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what if it's larger than your living room?
callmebangarang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just let me get my debit card out for that gold. Fuck me I haven't laughed this hard in weeks
POI_Harold-Finch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every dog is lion in own home.
crawfishmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LMFAOOOO this is such a cute scenery
Fragahah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment should get it's own subreddit. Man, I am dying.
I-Ate-The-Bones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Home field advantage" ๐๐๐
Nodor10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just made my day
godzsmk93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You get it.
Kiwiteepee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this scenario, is it ironic that it's called a LIVING room floor?
Bau5_Sau5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's why we have pictures of them on shore intact
TheComebacKid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would take pleasure in smashing some of these with baseball bats.
acrylites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop it in a Chinese restaurant. . .it won't stand a chance.
SpermWhale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Challenge accepted!!!
Mohammadismyallah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those hatchetfish look like the demons from Freddy's Dead.
Qwik_Sand ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much any fish would die if they make it to my living room
taboo_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... by doing absolutely sweet FA.
squaqua ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that and they are all about 3 inches long.
FranklyDear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even the lil Dumbo Octopus? ;(
WriterV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think he'll be able to live longer than a second, he'll probably burst with the lack of pressure.
COMPTONOAK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest thing on our planet is us, and this comment just solidifies my opinion
CreepyStickGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
calm down steve
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wonder how they taste after a few minutes on the frying pan
stromm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop your living room on their floor and lets see who's talking
:)
I_am_fed_up_of_SAP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be a Man in Black.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too. My floor is THAT dirty!
v1ech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DeepSeaSushi
Eamondoh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose you could say they're gonna meet /u/HauschkasFoot.
MuskasBackpack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sure you want to be cursed by a goblin shark?
machotoast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to drop a colossal squid in your living room now and watch you do battle. You'll not leave unscathed if that thing is pissed.
ironheart777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:55 on April 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Seahawks fan would know a thing or two about home field advantage.
whynonamesopen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:13:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah they live underwater.
ajd341 ยท 105 points ยท Posted at 00:13:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those hatchetfish look like floating heads like Casper the ghost and his gang
promonk ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:33:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hatchetfish have silvery sides so their profiles are harder to detect. They're adapted to be ghostly.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:34:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hatchetfish were the creepiest ones to me.
internetversionofme ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:53:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are deep sea hatchetfish. Freshwater hatchetfish can easily be kept in captivity and are actually a popular aquarium fish. Their unique shape comes from an enlarged muscle that allows them to leap out of the water in the case of danger (make sure your tank isn't an open-top.)
Fishy friend.
fuggahmo_mofuhgga ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:41:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That pic will make good for an album cover.
Ozocubu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:27:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They remind me of the cover of that one Queen album. Just terrifying
Splendidissimus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Casper and the other ghosts were tortured into insanity and wanted to bring you down to join them.
CalmBeneathCastles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can just hear the moans...
thesnakeinyourboot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:19:15 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They reminded me of ghouls and now there is poop on my seat.
rogerthelodger ยท 297 points ยท Posted at 00:26:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Unidentified Anglerfish". Oh, that's Bob, he lives around the corner.
Jellooooo ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Subtle. I like it.
foreverinLOL ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the description of why it's named Anglerfish. Because it's a fish that fishes fish. Not all fishes fish but this one does.
unholymackerel ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They all look the same to me
PhoenixDog ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Racist.
helloiamsilver ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:17:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually that's Susan as male anglerfish are much much smaller than the females without any of the cool "angler" stuff.
WalrusMasterRace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Bob lives in a pineapple under the sea
MassXavkas ยท 1427 points ยท Posted at 01:14:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not from that trench, but this scares me. As a imgur user so eloquently put it:
[1]
The deep-ones are real. You better start praying to Cthulhu.
Altzan ยท 898 points ยท Posted at 02:39:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/rko4RI8.jpg
[1] the entire thing cropped[1]
DoomZero755 ยท 675 points ยท Posted at 03:34:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does this even exist?
I was okay with it in the gif, because it didn't really connect in my brain, but with that image it's like holy shit. Why does this exist.
What possible function is served by those long-ass tentacles? It must've evolved to have such long tentacles, but how on earth could enough random mutations have accumulated to make that happen? At some point, you'd think they'd grow too long and the creatures' bodies wouldn't be capable of supporting such long tentacles, but that fucking thing somehow evolved in a way that its body IS able to support that much tentacle, and then ALSO just the fact that they are that fucking long.
Somebody give me a fucking giraffe for scale. Even fucking giraffes have an evolutionary reason for their long necks, despite the fact that their vocal cords are fucked because of it. They can fucking reach food with those necks. What can this monstrosity do with those tentacles? What possible reason could this creature have for existing in its current state?
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 231 points ยท Posted at 03:59:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the best image but here is a size comparison.
DoomZero755 ยท 438 points ยท Posted at 04:37:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could not find the banana.
On a more serious note, look at those fucking tentacles compared to goddamn everything else. Like, okay, everything but the person there seems like a freaky son of a bitch I tell you hwat, but that thing's tentacles are so disgustingly long compared everything else there, the proportions are fucking ridiculous. Going back to my point again, none of these other guys have tentacles that long or that fucking useless. It's like fucking hair, and I almost imagine it's just as useless.
And on top of that, I don't like any part about it, especially the fact that it doesn't move at all. Like, fuck, if it was going about its day, doing things and being at least productive towards its own goddamn life, then I'd be okay with it. Like, fuck, if it was wandering around fucking grocery shopping in whatever passes for an oceanic grocery store, then maybe it'd be more okay, but that fucking thing is just lifeless. Like, you don't know what it's capable of, it's just there and it could do anything. Is it sleeping? Does it not have the brain function to do actual life things? Is it a literal alien that chose the most fucking back-of-the-woods-but-underwater group of people to observe? What a useless alien. Fuck. Cut your hair. Get a job. Move away from home. Do something with your life.
GreatCanadianWookiee ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 04:45:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wikipedia says its thought that it drags its tentacles along the ocean floor to pick up food.
Philsonat0r ยท 103 points ยท Posted at 04:57:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet even bottom feeders are afraid of that thing. Imagine crawling around the sea floor minding your own business, only to be abducted by this flurry of tentacles and brought up to that...thing
jobblejosh ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 09:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm imagining it like those tripod walkers from the movie adaptation of The War of The Worlds.
shoop! - And then you're gone.
AzureBlu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The (giant, spooky) barnacle of the sea.
Radius86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:37:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slowly. Facing the inevitable.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep ones shall harvest they're pitiful souls.
Mornai ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 04:46:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is the most hilarious comment I've read all week.
But yeah, fuck that thing. Nature is scary.
DennyCH ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:02:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do stand up
DoomZero755 ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 05:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I'm planning to do some stand up on sunday. Not professionally, of course, but as a hobby. It's a talent show sort of thing.
I won't be using this alien thing in my routine, though. Fuck that thing. Gives me the creeps. Like sure it's funny that this lifeless fuck gets to be internet famous for doing nothing and looking weird, but I believe in earning fame the hard way. Which explains why I only do comedy as a hobby, obviously. I'll surely have much better odds at becoming internet famous if I stay in school and get that degree in librarian sciences. Actually, fuck, I bet that alien/squid/jellyfish/motherfucker didn't go to dumb non-fish university for librarian sciences, it probably went to the fucking school of having stupid hair for tentacles, got a diploma in sucking at being alive. I don't know why I ragged on it in the first place, it's probably a professor, looks like a fucking role model when it comes to being a huge waste of space.
evilf23 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and here i am thinking " i would eat the fuck out that thing's tentacles. squid is delicious."
i make a fettucini alfredo with crab meat and calamari rings in the sauce along and it's magically delicious. house smells like a women's bathroom at applebee's for 3 days but it's worth it.
Wogachino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the laugh, man. You're killing it haha.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:09:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Barefootdweller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the bigfin squid died due to all the hate he sent its way.
kaluse235 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:31 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how'd the standup go yesterday? I was actually wishing I could watch. You sound damn funny.
DoomZero755 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:27 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hah. It went pretty well actually. A bit of a rocky start, and I only prepared enough material for about 3 minutes, but the majority of the laughter really came at the very end. The biggest problem was finding a starting point. That was easy in this thread because I already had inspiration from the stupid fucking waste of space squid from outer space, and everybody had the image in front of them to refer to. In my routine, though, it was important to engineer the feelings that I wanted my audience to have, because I couldn't simply point to something and say "I'm gonna be talking about THAT, and how THAT is a piece of shit that isn't even worth the sum of all the molecules in its weirdo body".
Also, I had to be mindful of my audience and I felt it wasn't appropriate to be so arrogantly rude even as a joke. My audience was a group of people that I continue to see on a regular basis, and painting a picture of myself as a belligerent sailor was not in my best interests.
kaluse235 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:14 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough. Maybe you could create a character who could assume that persona for you? That's one perk to ventriloquism, guys like Dunham can be several characters in a single show. But I'm a tad drunk right now, don't take me too seriously. Glad to hear it went well.
throwawaytomato ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That went in a direction I didn't expect. Yet I read the whole thing.
SizableSac ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you imagine being a diver (assuming its possible) those depths and just having all those thick tentacles just graze you on the shoulder? I'm scaring myself
_bananas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'M HERE!
Barefootdweller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oceanic grocery store. You sir made my evening.
hatcherrbwah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just made my fucking life. Thank you for restoring my faith in life, humanity, and the world.
DoomZero755 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:37:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(The real joke here is that I'm actually one of those useless hair squid jellyfish demon fucks, and I'm fooling you all into thinking we're not aliens. Nobody will see it coming when we flop onto dry land and probably just instantly fall apart due to the differences in pressure and lack of aquatic medium with which we naturally support our absolutely worthless goofy stick bodies.)
hatcherrbwah ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh dear god. Releasing your mind control spores throughout the atmosphere in a cloud of nuclear holocaustic proportions?? Begone hell beasts! Return to Cthulhu's murky embrace! Humanity will fight on the day of our declaration of independence! We shall strike you down with great vengeance and furious anger as we proclaim your place on OUR planet. Welcome to Earf.
kaluse235 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't help reading this in GradeAunderA's voice
Hokage_Chu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit! It's Karl Pilkington.
DoomZero755 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got a lot of respect for the guy, though I feel like his character is a creation of both his comedic talent and his physical body. Like, his appearance and his accent and the pitch of his voice are all just as important as the things he says. As /u/kaluse235 said, "I can't help reading this in GradeAunderA's voice". I assure you, my voice is nothing like that, and if you heard this in my voice, you might think I'm just getting worked up over nuffin. Karl's character and chosen style of humor work quite well together, plus I imagine he's a much better improviser than I am. He doesn't have the ability to completely plan out his responses or preview his "rants" before delivering them. I also respect the fact that he's willing to put his reputation on the line; he plays his character so well that some people think he's an actual idiot.
All in all, he does something I'd like to do with a higher degree of skill than I have, in places I'd love to visit, and for clearly more money than I currently make.
Long story short, I appreciate the compliment but I've got a long way to go before I'm Karl Pilkington.
Isord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know you are fucking about, but I just want to point out that usually long tentacles like that just filter food out of the water.
richardpapen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We found Karl Pilkinton
Ilmara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You jest, but that's actually pretty Lovecraftian.
Catatonic27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find your displeasure with this animal really quite wonderful.
kesekimofo ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 04:36:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf is that thing all the way on the right?! That thing is narrow enough to creep up on you and then slither in through your throat and make you it's meat puppet.
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 04:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asperoteuthis acanthoderma
Source
b14ckr05e ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:44:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature why
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:47:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait, soon it will evolve to hover in the air. You'll see swarms of them floating across the countryside, wrapping their tentacles around everything in their path.
J_the_Assassin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad I won't be on the planet then
shitwhore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I thought it was a giraffe
sticktoyaguns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even see that one holy fuck. That's even more terrifying.
ApolloSt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:24:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
TheOldTubaroo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah dude, think of all the calamari you'd get out of those beasts
whisperingsage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tentacles on the yellow squid are pitiful.
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially the tentacle in the middle.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CaptainMegaJuice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:55:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From left to right, we have: Colossal squid, giant squid, Humboldt squid, Dana octopus squid, Onykia robusta, bigfin squid, longarm octopus squid, cockatoo squid, Megalocranchia, and Asperoteuthis acanthoderma.
WooflesAndBacon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:19:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are we just not going to talk about the Colossal squid?
HardyNoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LoL this reminds me of the old pokedex size scale thing they had in the gameboy games. Come on anybody know what I'm talking about?
Zzazu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have thalassophobia so bad that this pixely size reference chart made my stomach drop. I am fascinated and terrified
JoshH21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
zytz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is a really brave man with a collection of frighteningly large dildos
salathiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, though. The thing with the 26 ft. tentacles could make you a marionette. I, for one, do NOT welcome our under-sea overlords.
MGPythagoras ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is the far left?
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From left to right, we have: Colossal squid, giant squid, Humboldt squid, Dana octopus squid, Onykia robusta, bigfin squid, longarm octopus squid, cockatoo squid, Megalocranchia, and Asperoteuthis acanthoderma.
d_colt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the FUCK is on the far right?!
CaptainMegaJuice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asperoteuthis acanthoderma
d_colt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the wiki picture is significantly less fear inducing thankfully
timothygruich ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 04:04:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What purpose is served by the tentacles??. . The better to tickle you my dear.
DRNbw ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has long tentacles, probably because there's so little food it needs to increase its range. And supporting those thin tentacles (they might be like jellyfish tentacles, with no or limited motor functions) might not be that expensive.
DoomZero755 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:29:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, sure, but...
Why not fucking move closer to the ground? A giraffe would look mighty fucking stupid trying to eat the fruit off of a tree on a hill while standing at the bottom of the hill. It might be able to manage it, but it would have a much easier time just climbing the fucking hill.
They're just long horses anyway.
hjf11393 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:00:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing these scary ass lookin squid probably can't fight that well, and all the short ones that were closer to the ocean floor (or wherever their food is) got eaten by predators. The ones with the mutations making them look like long freaks were avoided by predators because they were more intimidating.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because now it can eat both things on the ground and smaller things trying to eat things on the ground, and fish preying on them. Think of it as an airplane squid that's carpet bombing the sea floor.
solinaceae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of it like this: would you rather go fishing with a big net or a small net? Moving closer to the ground is like saying "just go fishing in an area with more fish!" Sure, okay. But while I'm there, I'd rather have a big net.
alzayz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
in the ocean, the ground is not where all the animals live. the tentacles are meant to catch things swimming through the water. for your giraffe analogy to be correct, a giraffe would need to have mouths all up and down its neck. and leaves would have to be blowing through the air.
evilf23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big ass creepy squid is the quintessential ocean outfighter mike. he really keeps his opponent at the end of his reach with those tentacles and uses the increased leverage to draw those dumb fucking fish into it's beak. the question is what happens when an aggressive pressure fighter like an octopus get's inside his reach. we know the blue ringed octopus has venemous infighting, but can he get past the deadly tenatacle range of the bigfin squid. tonight, we'll find out @ Ultimate Tentacle Championship 196, bigfin VS bluering. Live, and only on PPV.
DiscordsTerror ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:16:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well how else are they going to have sex with Japanese anime girls?
crypticfreak ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:51:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, those tentacles are nothing more than harmless brain suckers.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hey, if it works, it works.
thegreattober ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention the fact they look like they go on fucking right angles like some kind of crib mobile from hell.
stromm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finding food from a safe distace.
It likely floats above the boundary layer that contains its food. Letting its tentacles dangle into that layer till prey touches one and then BAM, grabs one.
No biggie if it loses a tentacle, it likely can regrow them.
All the important stuff is kept safe way up top.
ReverendRocky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It exists so the Japanese can make porn.
Size counts
TheDemonClown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine it slowly, oh-so-slowly running those tentacles up your face...
ModernSpiderman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giraffe for scale
DoomZero755 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel silly for asking this, but is that legit? Like, you could've scaled the giraffe picture appropriately to actually represent the scale or you could've just taken the picture off google and thrown it on top of the other image.
Ah, whoops, I just realized that image is two giraffes having sex. It's safe to say I've made a fool of myself.
Though you're the one who now has a picture of two giraffes having sex overlaid on top of a useless squid hair demon saved to your hard drive so I think I'm the real winner here.
jarodney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see you have yet to reach the henti portion of the internet.
ImNeworsomething ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tickle fights
starlit_moon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing things like this makes me think about all those old paintings of ships being broken apart by giant squids. Makes you wonder if there really were squids that did that once upon a time. And fuck they might even still be out there somewhere. Just chilling in a dark crevice somewhere. Waiting.
Qweloquiallisms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wrapping around its prey like a snake
G_Morgan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:42:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probing.
JackLegJosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems obvious to me that the tentacles are so long so that when they stuff them down your throat, they can go through all of your intestines and still reach your butthole.
claw_hammer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For upvotes
lazymitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stupid long fishes
MuskasBackpack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was created by breeding ghouls with aliens I believe.
DatNick1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like over a million years, the deep sea creatures were like "eh, nobody will Ever see us so let's just do what we want.".
Jwagner0850 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Considering the depths of the ocean it lives in, probably for the purpose of feeding/"feeling"/gathering.
UpvoteBecauseIcan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I'm wondering. Neither that thing is even scarier and can use those things, or they just kinda hang there with limited movement.
Bombkirby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theories are that it drags them against the sea floor for food or uses them as a net to catch things that swim below it
StoneyTheSloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You ever watch hentai?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giraffes are, on average, 16 to 20 ft. The internet tells me that Bigfin squids, or at least the one pictured, are about 26 ft.
FedoraFederation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To tentacle fuck your mom of course /s
AboutTenPandas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its the same logic behind jellyfish. They need those long tentacles because they can't see. They just drag them around and if a fish runs into them they grab/paralyze it.
The evolution of it makes sense too. The organisms with longer tentacles caught more food, so they're the ones that reproduced. Creating a species with longer tentacles.
ITS-A-JACKAL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:38 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reach food down below? Catch food with a larger net? I dunno
Crash15 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell even exists down there for such vile creatures to consume? Because we both know it's obviously evolved that way, and if it's evolved then it has to eat something for nutrients
Why the hell do any of the Mariana Trench creatures exist? How did they fucking get there?
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What are even these things?
DoomZero755 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing in the picture is a man-made construction. Not sure what it is off the top of my head, but somewhere else in this comment thread someone's identified it.
Crash15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god, I thought the Hydra from the Half-Life 2 Beta was real
DrLeonSisk ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 02:54:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus christ. How horrifying.
TheTyke ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 04:30:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not very nice. He doesn't look at your photos and leave comments like that.
FreedomUnits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how it hunts, it scares its prey to death.
TheDrunkenHetzer ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:07:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's some shit from a sci-fi horror movie. Fuck our planet for making such scary shit.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:19:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it staring at the camera? Do you think... yep, it knows. It saw us. Fuck this.
Slyninja215 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:06:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reminds me of a more creepy version of these
TARDISboy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i thought H.R. Giger was dead jesus fucking christ
FatherRogar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That horrifying moment when you realize that light in the back is reflecting off of a giant eye.........
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol.
Holywalrus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah fuck that fam
chrismakestv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMFG
zaturama015 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so majestic
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big Fin Squids are cute though...
pigi5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the puppetmaster
Adamarshall7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just imagined feeling that brush against my leg and noped the fuck out of bed. Christ.
Recoiler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like an alien baby, sitting in a really tall high chair, waving his little arms.
1TrueKingJoffreyB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just can't look away.
TheAdventMaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are those orb-looking things on the bamboo-looking sticks at the bottom, there?
Philsonat0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://gfycat.com/DearestUnfoldedBass
KarimBenZemanski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck. How does it even control those limbs?
derstherower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Peace?...No peace...
Lasagnahead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck
diba_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...oh
UndeadVette ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are the big round things that look like wooden spoons towards the bottom?
polkadotdream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get that it's disturbing because it's so different from everything we're used to seeing, but I don't really understand why some people have a level of fear that almost becomes anger. It's minding its own business in its own area of the planet that most people will never cross, living its own life and doing its own thing. It's fine. It just looks a bit ethereal.
DoomZero755 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine you're talking about my post. I'm not actually afraid of it, or angry. It's just a weird thing, and I amused myself with the idea of somebody just not accepting its existence. So, essentially, it's precisely because it makes no sense for someone to get angry-fear over it that I made the post in the first place.
I don't think anybody is truly that afraid of these things that they'd get mad about them existing.
Knight12ify ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anybody else think of those fuckers from Half-Life?
kaiomann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That looks like it's straight out of War of the Worlds.
oliwilton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
NotEmmaStone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck that
BlazingApples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:58 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god no
Solaris_Dawnbreaker ยท 611 points ยท Posted at 01:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what aliens would look like.
[deleted] ยท 800 points ยท Posted at 02:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You say that. But they'll be even stranger. That squid evolved on the same planet as every other creature you know of. Aliens wouldn't have a single common ancestor with any of them.
GuiltySparklez0343 ยท 182 points ยท Posted at 03:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the closes thing to aliens on our planet though, because they evolved in conditions no shallow water or land animals did. Almost like evolving on another planet.
-Mountain-King- ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 03:36:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another planet that supports life could easily be very similar to Earth. There's a reason we look for earth-like planets. Aliens would likely appear more similar than you expect.
TheDrunkenHetzer ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 03:46:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be interesting if we went to another planet, and the aliens are almost exactly like humans.
Pretty much impossible, but it would be interesting nonetheless.
BonesAO ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 03:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are so many stars that statistically there has to be a couple of human like aliens out there.
Good luck finding them though
icansolveanyproblem ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 04:52:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless one of the great filter is is the replacement of biological life with technological life.
Multi celled organisms evolve much faster than single celled.
Animals that use tools have a distinct advantage above those that do not.
Robotics has the potential to evolve far faster than any biological organism.
Biological organisms rationally would be far more prone to extinction and the loss of technological advancement.
Multi world alien civilizations that survived probably don't last long as technological beings. The universe is prone to of all kinds of activities that love to destroy all biological life because we evolve relatively slowly when compared to robotics.
So basically are alien superiors in this universe probably resemble bender more than they do us. We really are just stupid meat bags.
LeeSeneses ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The trouble right now is robotics needs humans to support it.
But I imagine a day where our minds, entombed in and directly connected to giant, metal spacecraft wander the system like interplanetary hunter gatherers.
reflectioneternal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're made out of meat
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you draw the line between biology and computing? If a race developed tech the the point where they could replace natural reproduction with tech that engineers biological things with brains... Is that biologic or robotic? If the tech that produced them was smart and capable of making intelligent "evolutions" quickly, would that be a biological organism that had the advantage of rapid response to environmental stressors?
Those are all legit questions, btw, not rhetorical.
icansolveanyproblem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is not scientific at all but in my mind I split the difference between biology and robotics at a cellular level. Biology works on DNA or similar molecules and the way it reproduces.
To me biology is based on an evolutionary path of molecular constructions. ( yes I understand that silicon has the possibility of a biological evolutionary path but I basically ignore that in the way that I would perceive the separation.)
To me technological intelligence would be programmed by a biological intelligence. Every advancement would be far from random chance. ( I also ignore the benefits of genetic algorithms in constructing robotics.
Basically if it is planned out and constructed specifically for improvement at every step to me it would be on the technological side of things. A good example would be genetically engineering a virus verses of virus that was evolved.
It's a pretty gray area so we basically have to construct our own ideals of what one would be versus the other.
Jamangar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cake day
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't say "statistically" say that unless you know the probability of human like aliens existing in a solar system. There are ~1029 stars in the universe but it may very well be a 1/1029 chance.
HimekoTachibana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If humans ever found and visited such a planet, the first thing we would do is not try to understand them or experiment with them, we would most likely try to have sex with them. Imagine if we were somehow able to reproduce with them? The first interstellaracial baby!
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever play Mass Effect? That's kinda the assumption they make. They take it a bit too far though, and give the aliens boobs/vaginas.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't give all of them that stuff, just like 3 other races really. Hanar, Volus, Elkor, etc don't have an analogous reproductive system. It is a little human centric that all the major species in that game are humanoid bipeds, but it's a game made by and for humans so what can you do.
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:54:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean let's be real would you care about Liara as much if she was a Hanae througj the games? No similair body language that we mostly communicate with? No tone? It really does matter.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:58:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I definitely agree with that, that's why I pointed out it was made for humans by humans. It wouldn't be as great a game if it weren't tailored for us.
I personally think that they did a great job in not just having stereotypical aliens in their games.
LeeSeneses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They kind of made (at least hte first game) while showing their work hardcore, but still invoking space opera tropes. Green alien space babes were kind of an inevitability.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:18:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mass Effect also taught me that young women will inevitably go crazy for what are essentially Avian-Human hybrids and that men will go crazy for purple humans in suits that make their hips look fantastic.
The_Iron_Bison ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I'm the weird one that dug on Jack, eh?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:05:53 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, same here. The tattoos drew me in, but the character development and very adorable romance kept me going.
A_Hobo_In_Training ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emergency induction port.
-Mountain-King- ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 04:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that won't happen. But it's entirely possible that we go to another planet which has creatures we'd recognize as birds, insects, etc... even that it's dominated by a humanoid species.
After all, on an earth-like planet there are some things that are pretty certain. You're going to have creatures filling a bunch of evolutionary niches, just like on Earth. Flight is going to evolve (it's evolved separately three times on Earth, in insects, birds, and bats) at least once, possibly with an entirely new type of wing from anything on Earth. Most creatures will have eyes which we recognize as eyes - predator species will have forward-facing eyes and prey species will have sideways-facing eyes. There will probably be a bunch of different poisonous and/or venomous species. And so on.
The details will be different, of course. Perhaps creatures on this alternate planet have 3 eyes (in a triangle for predators (for depth perception) and in a flatter line for prey (for a wider field of vision)). But we'd still recognize them as eyes.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:11:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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LeeSeneses ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Xenobilogy is a pretty rockin' idea. Its probably my fave part of sci-fi worldbuilding. Coming up with increasingly stupid but feasible aliens.
gayrudeboys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a sub for this that isn't /r/worldbuilding?
StyoFosho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love reading comments like this.
icansolveanyproblem ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:42:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, relatively speaking, there's a fairly good chance that shit like this is under the ice of Europa. Panspermia is a real possibility. If something from Mars, more than likely, spawned life here then that same type of life could have easily made its way to Europa. So yes considering the depth of the water and the pressures involved as well as the energy source of feeding off of the thermal vents there is a really good chance that shit like this is under the ice of Europa.
kaiomann ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:35:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me a while to notice that you ment Europa the moon and not just Europe.
LeeSeneses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:35:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And, worry not! If it isn't, all it takes is one sterilization procedure fuckup and a few billion years and, boom! Life on Europa!
singularity2030 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:18:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? No, there's no way to say there's a good chance. Relative to anywhere else in our solar system, yes, but that doesn't make it even remotely a good chance.
The truth is we don't even understand what it takes to form life so we can't give it odds worth a damn. Finding something would greatly improve our understanding though.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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DRNbw ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:02:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opposable thumbs (or something like it) is probably very important. So either primates, or maybe something like elephants (they can use tools with their trunks).
brodhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are only important for land life, I would think. A sentient aquatic species is possible that instead uses tentacles or something.
CosmicJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bipedal actually means walks on two legs. Birds are bipeds, but they don't have hands.
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do know all animals are sentient?
Tactful ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:04:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I didn't know that, thanks for informing me. I thought animals were like rocks or mobile phones or pizza.
brodhi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He means sentient as in we know we exist.
TheTyke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean self awareness?
Brainiacazoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what's the difference between the two?
TheTyke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From google:
Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals.
Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience).
Sapience is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with appropriate judgement, a mental faculty which is a component of intelligence or alternatively may be considered an additional faculty, apart from intelligence, with its own properties. Robert Sternberg has segregated the capacity for judgement from the general qualifiers for intelligence, which is closer to cognizant aptitude than to wisdom. Displaying sound judgement in a complex, dynamic environment is a hallmark of wisdom.
To be honest, it does seem unnecessarily convoluted. Not to mention, animals display all of these things and yet we use it as a way to say they don't? Doesn't make any sense to do that.
ChipAyten ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Perhaps there was a sentient organism that went it extinct as it came out of it's primal infancy but before it could leave a lasting record of it's existence for us to find.
Tactful ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess its possible, especially if it happened long enough ago to leave behind zero evidence of sentience. I still feel there would be something though: remains of tools, some marks or etchings, fossils or remains.
Probably not, but its fun to imagine.
ChipAyten ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who says life has to be carbon based requiring earth like conditions. If theres one thing earthen life has taught us its that life can adapt to exist on almost any world.
-Mountain-King- ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:40:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carbon is super great for life because it can bond with 4 other atoms, making it good for creating large structures. It also exists easily at roughly the same temperature range as liquid water. There are reasons we're carbon-based - it's not just random chance.
It's true that life doesn't need to be carbon-based (some people have put forth silicon as an alternate base element) but it's certainly far, far easier that any alternative. And no, it doesn't need to be earth-like, it's just more likely based on what little we know.
Hloupa_Husa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carbon is very unique.
Life can not adapt to live in many places relative to the known universe as we know it
NazeeboWall ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:49:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we don't know it, so this isn't any kind of argument.
Hloupa_Husa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have a really really good jist. We know the general rules. That's why carbon is so likely, because of its relationship with other elements in this universe.
LimpNoodle69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We look for earth like planets because that's the only way we know life has formed. There could be species out there that aren't based around carbon.
-Mountain-King- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're the second person now who's brought up carbon-based life when I never mentioned anything of the sort. I was talking about how evolution would likely result in similar features such as eyes even on alien worlds.
BenderTime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what's always made me wonder is the fact that our evolutionary path has taken its own unique path due to what unique conditions our planet has sustained over the billions of years. I mean we had meteors, mass extinctions due to whatever the hell happened, etc. so each planet will have its own unique evolutionary path, so who knows what they would look like.
Konker101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:41:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what if there were other humans?! that would be fucking baller.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It just occurred to me that we could be aliens to another planet/galaxy
Solaris_Dawnbreaker ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but the point is that aliens are gonna look totally, well, alien. As in unrecognizable. The squid is more like a small glimpse of what aliens could look like.
XyzzyPop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:46:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will be green, female, and sexy.
MustGoOutside ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to imagine there was a single carbon atom which spawned all life in the universe.
danny841 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well aliens that visited us would potentially have similar elements no? I mean as we learn more about biology we start realizing that there are universal advantages to things like thumbs and brains right? Granted the aliens could have way bigger thumbs or have advanced in a way that doesn't require a brain.
fastwall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that just blew my mind.
gamblingman2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd hazard a guess that based on how life emerged as carbon based here, its got to be one of the easier ways for life to develop. If that's the case it seems, based on the compounds for life to begin that dna is somewhat inevitable. Now the features that dna expresses could be wildly different than anything we have here. But it seems that the features of life that worked here will probably work other places. In that sense alien life wouldn't be that "alien" to us.
I could be totally wrong, I'm no scientist.
AKASquared ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The strangeness caused by not having any common ancestors would be at the microscopic level -- the chemistry that composes them, how the cells function, how inheritance functions. The possible body shapes will be determined by the pressure of the medium they live in, and by what kinds of things they need to do. A predator living on the ground in an atmosphere will probably look a lot like a predator from similar environments on Earth.
Beanthatlifts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what if we are the ancestors of aliens!
buffbodhotrod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this is the stuff we used as template for aliens in movies. I'm sure it won't even be reasonable when we see non carbon based lifeforms. That'd be interesting if they just naturally didn't elicit a reaction from us. They look like weird modern art shit and we're just like. Meh.
AsaTJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily. If you believe form follows function, aliens that evolved on a planet similar to ours would develop similar ecological niches and probably show some convergent features. Granted, there's a lot of variation within a given niche. Velociraptors and wolves technically fill the same niche in different eras and don't look a whole lot alike.
evilf23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they're just telepathic fart clouds made of gas that can alter the composition of atoms.
Chriss176 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This af
cimbop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We only think that because aliens are based off the living creatures on Earth that are least similar to Humans, so insects and you guessed it deep sea creatures.
Beejsterb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's head doesn't look that scary IMO. It looks like a squid. Squids are cute. It looks kind of cute.
browncow89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To Michael J Fox maybe
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There has to be life like this out there in space. We have found tons of water planets with billions of times more water than Earth. 2spooky.
Solaris_Dawnbreaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If anything all that water would make them even scarier looking!
I_Mean_Really ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
check out the hallucigenia
it was so strange it took scientists decades to confirm which end was its head
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/24/scientists-finally-decide-which-bit-of-this-weird-animal-is-the-head/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rather than imagining aliens, lets focus on the scariest thing on earth for now.
DownvoteDaemon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:40:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/AliensAmongUs
lemonpup ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 01:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what are those two big round things at the bottom of the frame near the end of the gif? are those part of it?
[deleted] ยท 161 points ยท Posted at 01:37:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it's part of an oil rig. I'm not entirely sure what I read when I first saw this video, but it's definitely man-made.
bojiggidy ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:00:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, at the top of the video, it says "Shell Perdido." That's deepest oil rig in the world, in something like 8000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
MSI_fiend ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:35:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit so people actually had to go down there to build that and shit like that is down there with them? I wouldn't care how much that paid
ub8m8 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was actually made by robotic human controlled submarines because the depth is too much. Theres a cool mini documentary on the construction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMX8BEWMtlw
Corte-Real ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guide posts for a TGB maybe or lift bags. Not 100% sure.
Source: Subsea Eng
SuccessPastaTime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what scares me the most about the ocean, things emerging from the darkness. This is almost more scary than the actual creature in the picture, those weird shapes obscured in the distance.
jambait ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:28 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/thalassophobia
SuccessPastaTime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice, a constant stream of things that'll scare the fuck out of me. Thanks. Gotta get over fears somehow. :D
MassXavkas ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what they are but they are not apart of that... Thing
lemonpup ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the thing is called a bigfin squid so I was unsure
uss1701jb ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:56:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just said that they're part of that thing, congrats
CookietheBunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He played himself
TheSllenderman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:23:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/rko4RI8.jpg Just imagine the glowing thing as an eye and the rest will fill in the blanks.
I remember when I first saw this someone pointed out what if the squid is just a lure and there is an even bigger creature behind it. It is most definately not the case but still gave me the willies
Happy_Neko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck you. Seriously. That was just rude to plant that in my head.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Egg pods
LadyParnassus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:53:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe those are part of the deep sea submersible the camera is mounted on. Looks like some kind of sensors, like radar or something.
Aramz833 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, but for some reason they looked like spider fangs to me and now it looks like there is a massive fucking sea-spider (fanged crab?) lurking behind it.
tw33zer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something even bigger
Xenokkah ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 01:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
STRIDEEEEEEEEER!
jihiggs ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:43:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that section where you are overlooking a courtyard with several striders in it with other humans fighting was so awesome. and the never ending box of rockets conveniently placed. really great.
denusmushemtogeva ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:47:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Striders were based off of giant squids :)
shoopdahoop22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is /u/npc_citizen?
NPC_citizen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dr. Freeman? I'm coming with you!
malakai_the_peacock ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 01:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Big fin squid, weird creature and I usually tend to like squid and octopuses.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:15:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're a big squid fan?
malakai_the_peacock ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not obsessively (that would be birds with the obsession), but I think they're damn fascinating creatures. Actually have a squid tattoo I designed on my forearm.
Edit: I also realize you said this because I had a typo in my initial comment lol. Fixed it to fin.
Charlie_Wallflower ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:38:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like someone set their controller sensitivity set to 10
SketchyConcierge ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is the actual worst thing I have ever seen. When it was moving around it was freaky enough, but when the camera panned down... my mouth fell open. Christ.
bitchdantkillmyvibe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was that it moving or the camera moving?
Demosth ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty positive the camera was moving, only because the tentacles/ legs/ abject horror sticks weren't swaying after the motion.
SketchyConcierge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh thank god
Embeast ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the everloving fuck IS that thing??
Urgullibl ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:55:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some sort of calamari in its natural environment.
Magnapinna species, to be exact.
thewitt33 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:26:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid
dragonspaceshuttle ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:55:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
SosX ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never gotten the hate, being a deep sea biologist must be so cool, all this animals are super exciting, not scary
cheetofarts ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:36:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Half life 3 confirmed
waltjrimmer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It reminds me of the ET from Independence Day. You know, the one that slammed Data against the glass and then got shot by Jayne Cobb.
g8z05 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit that's Jayne! I can't believe I didn't make that connection. Though, in fairness I haven't sat through a full watch of Independence Day in probably 10 years.
aznanimality ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Peace.......No peace"
hk0125 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way camera shakes makes it look like a final boss battle
FapingWithYourChild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT HAS KNEES?! WHY DOES IT HAVE KNEES?!
Jasdacool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BigFin squid are fucking terrifying.. imagine being tangled in it's tentacles...
EpicCheesyTurtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there's hentai of that.
gilbertojrequena ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, that's scary
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, just some sort of cephalopod.
NotJimStark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nope, I'm never going into the ocean again.
Diplominator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When they were first trying to focus I thought that was it moving around really fast and it was at least a billion times as scary.
Faugh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, I know it well from my nightmares.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That camera work is hilarious.
ae07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like the camera's extremely scared/insecure, trying not to look at it for too long. heh
QualityShitpostOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What makes this video weird for me is that it doesn't look like water, it looks like it's floating in the air hovering over the ground.
Willydangles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK THAT
Leftcoastdose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Peeaaaaceeee.... Nooo peeeeaaaaceeee weird ass siren noises** "is this glass bullet proof?"
CeruleanTresses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually think it's pretty in a weird way.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm scared of a little spider that's smaller than a penny.
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this is?
tikhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wtf this camera guy is terrible.
one-hour-photo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What in the goddamn is that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really stoned and watched this gif about 7 times getting disappointed each time when the camera man pans downwards towards the light and not focusing on the creepy squids body. Then i realised it was looping
everythingstakenFUCK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoever was operating that camera needs to find a new gig
VintageMerryweather ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit it's a strider!
Splendidissimus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think the worst thing about that squid is how its tentacles stick out and look all pointy at the top. It makes it look like some sort of fuckin spider.
RIOTS_R_US ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to watch the full gif, but I can't. I see that fucker all around me now.
CuteButPsycho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The quick movements of the camera definitely didn't help. Made me think of a horror movie where it pans away and pans back, then they die.
LeDrVelociraptor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell is that thing called?
NewStarKiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the literal fuckkk
sawdawg_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've worked on that platform, it's only about 200miles south of Galveston.
MassXavkas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you going to work on it again now knowing this lives there
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My phone wasn't loading right and all I saw was darkness. Was still creepy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck is that? That shit can stay down there.
sweetalkersweetalker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck nope
uwotmVIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The camera operator in that gif is like a kid trying to play on the maximum sensitivity in Call of Duty.
Migoozioo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that.. Is that a fen strider?
_bananas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT THE FLYING FUCK
missfarthing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The magnapina squid, my 9 year old's favorite sea creature to tell people about and then giggle because it sounds like magna-penis squid.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:37:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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valkan101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh look it's Ulyoth
starxlover20 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH hello thing of much nightmares, glad you really exist :-(
Zygore ยท 383 points ยท Posted at 01:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH GOD THE HATCHET FISH!
theworldbystorm ยท 175 points ยท Posted at 02:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look like the ghosts of sad old monks who were tortured to death by vikings or something.
3098 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's... very specific.
ManThing910 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:07:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they said "or something"!
Splendidissimus ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:10:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is both poetic and accurate.
theworldbystorm ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:12:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I pride myself on getting le bon mot.
EDGE515 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look like floating heads with wailing faces on them. That's the stuff of nightmares right there
62frog ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐ฑ
Mental_Duck ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:25:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have seen some shit
Holywalrus ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look like they're in horrible pain
h_saxon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like it has smaller hatchet fish for arms. I probably shouldn't give it ideas though.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:07:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They remind me of the mask transformation in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
iguanodonapproval ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:16:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Born from the souls of men killed at sea.
muggojill ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:48:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i saw it and my stomach dropped. now I know what I'll be seeing in my nightmares tonight.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:22:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I might just have nightmares after seeing them bitches. So glad I'm not a sea creature.
awkwardskribble ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those fuckers will haunt my nightmares for years to come.
hollibomb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:05:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when I was like 8 my aunt had this book of animals from all over the world. one page when you turned, had two disgusting creepy hatchet fish RIGHT IN YOUR FACE and I made sure I folded that page so I wouldn't have to look at them ever again. those things have haunted me my entire life.
Igguz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually that one looks kinda cute
AHippyInLeeds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just a little sillouetto of a fish!
trilobot ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 01:23:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Just FYI most of those animals are very small and often less than a foot long. Even if you somehow encountered them without dying from pressure they wouldn't be of any harm at all.
EDIT I mean look at these things! So so scary!
TankGirlwrx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:12:21 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This makes them far less scary for sure
imbignate ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 00:02:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also /r/thalassophobia
zach2992 ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 00:45:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've decided to change my choice for scariest subreddit.
BeardedLogician ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See also: /r/submechanophobia.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:10:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO NONONONONONONONO
AmazonExplorer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a little bit scared of swimming at times because I don't want anything touching or poking me when I swim, especially slimy algae. But I wouldn't say I'm scared at all of those pictures, instead I feel a sense of mystique.
RandomlyDead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also also /r/subnautica
Funeralord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
also also also /r/iamtheocean
uttermybiscuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thought that said that ass ophobia
jiggywolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Adam Kovic (Funhaus) has this when he plays games at least.
Juvar23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never visiting that sub again.
DerpyPotater ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:39:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So meta
imbignate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not what that means.
pm_me_my_own_comment ยท 1490 points ยท Posted at 23:33:28 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This creature from the Marinara Trench is even creepier.
It looks like a pile of worms mixed with blood!
_PlatinumWarrior_ ยท 270 points ยท Posted at 01:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is thatโฆ
Creepypasta?
I'll just go now
FrareBear ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:58:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non wait!
come back
we love you!!!
burritobattlefield ยท 526 points ยท Posted at 00:08:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think thats scary look at this Jellyfish Apparently it has been linked to a rapidly growing number of indirect deaths and the worst part is nobody seems to care.
H3LLK3Y533K3R ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:19:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking asshole that scared the shit out of me.
thorscope ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:49:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was getting ready to comment how little people are killed by sea creatures until I clicked on that link. Have an upvote you bastard.
edit: i just opened the link above you, now i feel really stupid.
vizzmay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:32:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
#littlepeoplelivesmatter
toughinitout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn it
LOL_its_HANK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what youre talking about.
birdwatcher69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there. Cheeky cheeky ;)
Beejsterb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big ol nasty fish
real_fuzzy_bums ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait until you see the ones from Sweden...
noodlyjames ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazon review of sugar fee gummy bears
The place: BMO Harris Bradley Center The event: Bucks VS Spurs The snack: Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears made by Haribo
I recently took my 4 year old son to his first NBA game. He was very excited to go to the game, and I was excited because we had fantastic seats. Row C center court to be exact. I've never sat that close before. I've never had to go DOWN stairs to get to my seats. 24 stairs to get to my seats to be exact.
His favorite candy is Skittles. Mine are anything gummy. I snuck in a bag of skittles for my son, and grabbed a handful of gummy bears for myself, to be later known as Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears, that I received for Christmas in bulk from my parents, and put them in a zip lock bag.
After the excitement of the 1st quarter has ended I take my son out to get him a bottled water and myself a beer. We return to our seats to enjoy our candy and drinks.
..............fast forward until 1 minute before half time...........
I have begun to sweat a sweat that is only meant for a man on mile 19 of a marathon. I have kicked out my legs out so straight that I am violently pushing the gentleman wearing a suit seat in front of me forward. He is not happy, I do not care. My hands are on the side of my seat not unlike that of a gymnast on a pommel horse, lifting me off my chair. My son is oblivious to what is happening next to him, after all, there is a mascot running around somewhere and he is eating candy.
I realize that at some point in the very near to immediate future I am going to have to allow this lava from Satan to forcefully expel itself from my innards. I also realize that I have to walk up 24 stairs just to get to level ground in hopes to make it to the bathroom. Iโll just have to sit here stiff as a board for a few moments waiting for the pain to subside. About 30 seconds later there is a slight calm in the storm of the violent hurricane that is going on in my lower intestine. I muster the courage to gently relax every muscle in my lower half and stand up. My son stands up next to me and we start to ascend up the stairs. I take a very careful and calculated step up the first stair. Then a very loud horn sounds. Halftime. Great. Itโs going to be crowded. The horn also seems to have awaken the Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears that are having a mosh pit in my stomach. It literally felt like an avalanche went down my stomach and I again have to tighten every muscle and stand straight up and focus all my energy on my poor sphincter to tighten up and perform like it has never performed before. Taking another step would be the worst idea possible, the flood gates would open. Donโt worry, Daddy has a plan. I some how mumble the question, โwant to play a game?โ to my son, he of course says โyesโ. My idea is to hop on both feet allllll the way up the stairs, using the center railing to propel me up each stair. My son is always up for a good hopping game, so he complies and joins in on the โfunโ. Some old lady 4 steps up thinks its cute that we are doing this, obviously she wasnโt looking at the panic on my face. 3 rows behind her a man about the same age as me, who must have had similar situations, notices the fear/panic/desperation on my face understands the danger that I along with my pants and anyone within a 5 yard radius spray zone are in. He just mouths the words โgood luck manโ to me and I press on. Half way up and there is no leakage, but my legs are getting tired and my sphincter has never endured this amount of pressure for this long of time. 16 steps/hops laterโฆโฆ.4 steps to goโฆโฆ.My son trips and falls on the stairs, I have two options: keep going knowing he will catch up or bend down to pick him up relieving my sphincter of all the pressure and commotion while ruining the day of roughly the 50 people that are now watching a grown man hop up stairs while sweating profusely next to a 4 year old boy.
Luckily he gets right back up and we make it to the top of the stairs. Good, the hard part was over. Or so I thought. I managed to waddle like a penguin, or someone who is about to poop their pants in 2.5 seconds, to the men's room only to find that every stall is being used. EVERY STALL. It's halftime, of course everyone has to poop at that moment. I don't know if I can wait any longer, do I go ahead and fulfil the dream of every high school boy and poop in the urinal? What kind of an example would that set for my son? On the other hand, what kind of an example would it be for his father to fill his pants with a substance that probably will be unrecognizable to man. Suddenly a stall door opens, and I think I manage to actually levitate over to the stall. I my son follows me in, luckily it was the handicap stall so there was room for him to be out of the way. I get my pants off and start to sit. I know what taking a giant poo feels like. I also know what vomiting feels like. I can now successfully say that I know what it is like to vomit out my butt. I wasn't pooping, those Satan's Diarrhea Hate Bears did something to my insides that made my sphincter vomit our the madness.
I am now conscious of my surroundings. Other than the war that the bottom half of my body is currently having with this porcelain chair, it is quiet as a pin drop in the bathroom. The other men in there can sense that something isn't right, no one has heard anyone ever poop vomit before.
I can sense that the worst part is over. But its not stopping, nor can I physically stop it at this point, I am leaking..it's horrible. I call out "does anyone have a diaper?" hoping that some gentleman was changing a baby. Nothing. No one said a word. I know people are in there, I can see the toes of shoes pointed in my direction under the stall.. "DOES ANYONE HAVE A DIAPER!?!" I am screaming, my son is now crying, he thinks he is witnessing the death of his father. I can't even assure him that I will make it.
Not a word was said, but a diaper was thrown over the stall. I catch it, line my underwear with it, put my pants back on, and walk out of that bathroom like a champ. We go straight to our seats, grab out coats and go home. As we are walking out, the gentleman that wished me good luck earlier simply put his fist out, and I happily bumped it.
My son asks me, "Daddy, why are we leaving early?" "Well son, I need to change my diaper" Read less
Kuntrol ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 00:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy FUCK
nSFW that shit man
ArtSchnurple ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:21:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like NSFL. I wasn't prepared for that at all.
PotterOneHalf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was about to click the link, but I'm in bed and about to go to sleep. You just saved me from a potentially torturous nightmare. Thanks!
tr3v1n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it made it pasta the censors.
Reddits_Worst_Night ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody Americans. That's nepolitana, marinara includes seafood.
Derwos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously that's Klingon gagh.
EliMFrost ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:41:15 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't usually like seafood but this looks good, is it edible?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey jokesters, your jokes suck!
TrueMrSkeltal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How dare you post an image of the one true deity for all to see! Not to mention the fact that this is a lifeless, mutilated imitation!
Die infidel!
monsieurpommefrites ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:52:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
madbaddangerous2know ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The marinara trench doesn't sound so bad...
sillEllis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, grab some garlic bread, and some parm cheese, (the block you grate off of, not the sawdust) and go to town!
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:12:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom?
YashFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KNEES WEAK
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weak knees mom are you having chest problems again
YashFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ARMS ARE HEAVY
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom it's ok stay with me. SOMEBODY CALL AN AMBULANCE
YashFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VOMIT ON MY SWEATER ALREADY
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH GOD SHE'S OD'ING SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING PLEASEEE
YashFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MAH SPAGHETTI
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SHE'S DEAD OH GOD SHE'S DEAD
YashFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU BETTER LOSE YOUSELF IN THE MUSIC THE MOMENT YOU WANT IT YOU BETTER NEVER LET IT GOTHIS IS YOUR ONE SHOT DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO BLOW THIS OPPURTUNITY COMES ONCE IN A LIFE TIME
H3LLK3Y533K3R ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest motherfucker on this thread!
scatmancaruthers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, I just vomited on my sweater.
AllGloryToSatan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vomit on your sweater already? Fucking mom's spaghetti.
Hearthing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom's spaghetti.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW next time holy shit
ItstheGypsyScum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:54:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's stuck to the table.
HairlessSasquatch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol ya got me
Boogiebones ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god man that's sick! What's wrong with you!?!
dashboardrage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait but that is sphegetti with sauce?
Aqwardturtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
should have seen that coming.
Band_of_the_Red_Hand ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I eat those for dinner
Zoom_the_Inquisitive ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:41:03 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to look at, let alone eat! /s
GunBrothersGaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should see the mom.
Mortimer14 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a representation of The Flying Spaghetti Monster. May his noodly appendage forever support you.
All Hail TFSM! Bow before him!
AlexSushiDog ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:39:38 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well player sir.
Farobi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:34:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if I say I have ate them and found them to be super delicious?
LucentNargacuga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like a trap to me.
Neemo53 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, Papyrus...
eversaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Sans! That's not a fish! Are you pranking me across time and space again?!
KingOfTheP4s ยท 234 points ยท Posted at 01:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, deep ocean creatures are sooooooo scary...
DefensiveEmpath ยท 432 points ยท Posted at 02:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They actually look like this when they're underwater: http://i.imgur.com/sE0tTZx.jpg
Decompression's hell on their bodies.
KKKmember4182 ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 03:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh now I feel sad
[deleted] ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 04:30:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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El-Tanque36 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:06:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I wondered how they would be mobile if they looked like that underwater
boxmandude ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:38:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm learning so much shit!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:58:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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DefensiveEmpath ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are, but that's because our first evidence of the species was finding them in fishing nets. We kinda just went with the visual we got when they pulled them up.
WhaleMetal ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:16:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do they become so... Pink then?
Wookie_Goldberg ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not much sunlight in the deep ocean
Kaelaface ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:17:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you serious? Is that really what they look like?
DefensiveEmpath ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 03:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, here's a side view: http://i.imgur.com/Metajez.jpg
kat_loves_tea ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 05:52:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aww... Poor guy. He seems so regular and then there's the most unflattering picture of him ever just circulating the internet so people think that's just his face. Super sad face.
Kaelaface ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Risky click of the day and it's only 8:00 am.
this-------------big ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:57:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
does it die when it becomes decompressed?
DefensiveEmpath ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if the decompression alone would kill it, or if other factors (stress/injury/etc.) would contribute. I can't find a solid source to answer, best I found was a Telegraph article that was mostly guilt-trip.
I do know that they don't have swim bladders like most fish, so they don't have that to control their buoyancy. Their bodies are mostly gelatinous so they are less dense than the water around them. This helps them move slowly at that depth, so they don't expend a lot of energy just trying to float at that depth of water pressure.
I imagine being taken out of that pressurized element and put in shallow water, he wouldn't fare well. Not sure if we could somehow get them back to that deep pressure, if it would be fine and recover. Regardless, they're found typically in deep-sea trawling nets, and being out of water for that long does kill them. So yeah, the blobfish you see on boats are dying. :(
Ultimate_Cabooser ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well yeah what else would make them that sad
SgtSmackdaddy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would definitely die from suffocation, but it's bones must be very strong to withstand the immense pressures so I would think it would handle the surface okay. It's not like going the reverse direction, from low pressure to high (like humans going deep), when you get crushed. It's way better to be under less pressure than you're used to compared to much much more.
Put another way, you'd do much better in vacuum with an O2 face mask than at the bottom of the ocean.
AadeeMoien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't need to withstand the pressure at that depth. There are no air pockets in the fish so there's nothing to crush. Humans wouldn't be crushed either after the point that our gas was all expelled. That'll kill you dead, sure, but it won't crush you like a trash compactor.
SgtSmackdaddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've got more body cavities than just your lungs. Your brain is in a cavity, your chest and abdomen... lots of things to go crush. Even if that fish doesn't have bones, it's probably a slower death @ the surface for it than for us down there.
AadeeMoien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A "cavity" in anatomy is a fluid-filled area of the body that contains organs. Fluid filled is the key point there, they aren't going to be crushed because fluids and solids don't compress (they do, but not to a really appreciable extent). Your body would shut down however, because it's not built to operate at those pressures. Which is essentially what is happening in these fish,the dissolved gasses in their bodies are expanding and tearing apart the systems that weren't evolved to operate at a lower pressure.
human_gs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a marine biologist, but I'm gonna go ahead and say yes
Shock900 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
Mageziya ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd known they looked different underwater for a while, but had never actually been able to find a picture of one.
Minusguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, this is news to me. I though it was just a swimming blob.
end_O_the_world_box ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I'd really wondered what they looked like underwater!
thetinymoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the thing with the long white teeth behind it in that picture?
DunkanBulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, it's actually pretty damn beautiful.
yonil9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow I actually feel bad for the fish now. All this time I laughed at how sad it looked.
guitarguy109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the same thing I felt when they decided that dinosaurs have stupid feathers :(
yolibobchris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it looks like they did tha kylie jenner lip challenge
LonelyOnNaxos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
poor little dudes :(
Dudeiszack ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 01:22:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like an old bald man. I kind of feel bad for it
-Reddit_Account- ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:36:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"
Why do they do this.
"
DaedalusRaistlin ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:41:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the deep ocean where they're found, the pressure is a lot higher and their bodies don't look quite as strange and goopy as they do in our atmosphere.
They're not built for our relatively low pressure environment, and look like sad pathetic jelly, but disturbingly human-ish.
-Reddit_Account- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't they actually quite beautiful in their environments?
Majormlgnoob ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:00:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look like regular fish
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:29:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fascinating! So the blob aspect helps it to keep homeostasis deep unda the sea!
somelittlepumpkins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ikr... it looks so sad!
KingOfTheP4s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's adorable
KingOfTheP4s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:33:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blobfish is the name
Faugh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Droopin' is my game.
iamMANCAT ยท 483 points ยท Posted at 01:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah if you were put at pressure orders of magnitude different than what your body was adapted to you'd look pretty weird too, bub
promonk ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you MANCAT or Wolverine? Make up your mind, man.
iamMANCAT ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:48:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol username is from like 3-4 years ago I don't even remember what it was supposed to mean.
Gallifrasian ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:57:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
newsom298 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:14:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That second picture is literally from Men in Black 3 lmao.
Quesadilla_Quarian ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 01:31:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me_irl
Otterable ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/meirl
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:22:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every fucking time.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit nobody cares about your cry baby sub where you go after the big meany mods ban you from the actual good sub.
Otterable ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:24:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure what you are talking about. That is the meirl subreddit so I linked it.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original sub is /r/me_irl. You may not have meant it that way, so I'm sorry for overreacting, but every time it's brought up it seems someone feels the need to link to /r/bannedfromme_irl and the cheap knockoff /r/meirl because they're butthurt.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that's not true, /r/meirl is 5 yrs, 6 months and 7 days old whereas /r/me_irl is 3 yrs, 4 months and 7 days
Otterable ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like /r/bannedfromme_irl is banned so I guess they were a little too butthurt. I'll look into it though. I saw meirl and subbed, didn't know there was some fight over it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'll be damned. I wonder what happened to /r/bannedfromme_irl.
KingOfTheP4s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something irl
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/absolutelynotme_irl
Totally_Triggered ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Donatella Versace is a blobfish
FlyingDutchDude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:26:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus christ
Consanguineously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I killed one of those on Skyrim, and I ended up marrying one while drunk in a quest
mozie1 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:42:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that Ted Cruz?
KingOfTheP4s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks more like Bernie
mrsplackpack ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:01:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They look like mr. Saturn
Patches_Mcgee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:45:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks kinda like Ted Cruz.
NicelyNicelyJohnson ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:47:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz?
sapeetapottus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:48:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I want to see that thing swim
Brad_theImpaler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Kill me."
FionasaMole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:18:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's theme music is that 'waap waap waap waaaaaah' fail noise.
TheSadAgony ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mr. Saturn as a blob
bryan00798 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It reminds me of Master Belch
solidspacedragon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tigers wouldn't look very scary in the deep ocean either...
Pressure difference is a thing ya know.
TBTurtles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My kid has a giant blobfish plushie. We love that ugly SOB.
KingOfTheP4s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
mellcrisp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fiance is furious right now. Not because I woke her up laughing, but because I can't stop.
MrFreeze_AMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like Ditto.
moemcgee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to see it in the water doing what it does.
Nex_Ultor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, that's so much bigger than I thought it was. I've never seen a picture of it next to something I could reference its size with.
the_dwarfee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel so sorry for him
wintersmoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I've seen that guy on the bus.
Kitten_pounce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know that was Ted Cruz's natural habitat.
ze_OZone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit I never realized how big those ugly bastards were.
Zammin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This comment is worth... half a portion!
PirateKilt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mobster who adapted to "sleeping with the fishes"?
greentoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the kind of thing acienct greeks would right tales about. Was the fate of Grolick the ugly decapitated and cursed hundreds of feet in into Poseidon's locker.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ted cruz??
a2lolo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lmao that looks like Ted Cruz
flame_in_darkness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like Ted Cruz
iguanodonapproval ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Scary. Pokemon, but still scary.
MetalFaceDinosauria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look! GOP canidates!
wellsdb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would not have wanted to pick that up with my bare hands. Yeesh.
katesnyc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing is a) terrifying and b) much bigger than I assumed. I've never seen anything next to it to add scale before, so thanks for the info and the nightmares.
KingOfTheP4s ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's adorable. They even made a lifesize plush of it.
katesnyc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:42 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha okay that's kind of cute. I think it's in the category of things that are kind of cute in a photo, but would scare the crap out of me if I saw it in person. I'm not good with sea creatures! :)
VforVegans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that where Ted Cruz gets his looks?
UdderTime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is that thing?
KingOfTheP4s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The blobfish
westsideasses ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:46:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Omg I want a dumbo octopus!!
Ask_me_about_WoTMUD ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:02:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think even crazier than how they look is that they survive at that freaking pressure. What the hell, Nature?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:19:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck all that shit
Baryshnikov_Rifle ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Second-last image is a Fleshlight.
sonuva-mitch ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:31:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the barreleye fish just looks sad. :(
dezeiram ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damn hatchetfish are fucking creepy
Definitely_want_me ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:54:41 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, that anglerfish
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:19:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate you.
zach2992 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:44:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that may be the scariest subreddit ever.
HomeBrainBox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Intelligent design my ass!
ControlBear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ASS2MOUTH, if you ask the uploader.
sunflashmace7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:42:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be the most awesome looking fish to randomly pull up on a fishing trip.
wedontbuildL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That first one looks like it's holding a knife O.o
vanillamonkey_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure most of those creatures don't come from the Mariana Trench. I think most of them live in less extreme, but still deep, water.
LastUniverseLurker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I wish I hadn't seen that fish.
plokijuh1229 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a massive throbbing Dragonfish.
OrnateFreak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol Dumbo Octopus
abstruh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is not possible, but sometimes I think about waking up in the deep ocean. No light, just cold dark water. Something brushes up against me and it could be any one of those heinous creatures. Oh fuck this, I'm ending this thought and comment.
A_Prostitute ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:55:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Hatchetfish are what creep me out the most Like, god damn, what the fuck did they see to make them look like that? Are they always that frightened?
ToxicValryn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dumbo octopus looks like a Pokemon xD lol
network_noob534 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:59:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was anyone else terrified of the hatchetfish?
Notsslyvi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dumbo octopus is so cute tho
blvkdlyfe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:01:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.imgur.com/hd53Y.jpg
Yeh fuck that.
TheJabberwok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:06:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Nope. Nope nope nopenopenopenopenope.
HolyNarwhal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:08:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Dumbo Octopus was a nice pause in that album. That thing looks adorably ridiculous.
ForceBlade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The angler looks like it's pulling out one of it's teeth to shiv you
Iemowi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hatchet fish. Wtf!
ChefOlson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:11:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone please link to that scene from the movie with the laughing paired with the goblin shark!
the_lost_banana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that that thing I saw on Nemo?
cqaperz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i just opened the fucking link and i cant tuch the floor holly shit
Velocirexisaur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the Dumbo Octopus makes up for the horror of all the other monstrosities.
Desi_M ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those aren't even scary, they're creepy and cool at best.
takeachillpill666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:14:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the dumbo octopus is adorable :3
Wisex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:20:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/thelassophobia
The_Legend_of_Jaelon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:21:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Frilled"
AbraxasHydroplane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:22:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have good posts, but HOLY SHIT i swear youre the only one posting on AskReddit sometimes.
PainMatrix ยท 1063 points ยท Posted at 23:52:16 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always think of this picture (hint, there's more to it than meets the eye)
Jedi_Outcast ยท 485 points ยท Posted at 00:22:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always forget Cthulhu is in that.
Noose_IV ยท 275 points ยท Posted at 04:07:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lifted the blacks in Photoshop for a clearer image for anyone having a tough time http://imgur.com/fwqV3AT
mega_blunder ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:54:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
your doing gods work /u/Noose_IV
Noose_IV ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thx bb
G_Morgan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:43:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cthulhu's work.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:40:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheSllenderman ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 03:35:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/6jrMxQK.jpg I personally
hatelove this oneJedi_Outcast ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 03:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If his eyes generate light, then how does he see?
TheSllenderman ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 03:47:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shrugs
CMLMinton ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:06:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the camera the "protagonist" is holding is using a flash, and the light is reflected off Cthulu's eyes? the wiki page says the trait is common among deep sea creatures.
Jedi_Outcast ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:12:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought about a cat's Tapetum lucidum, but it's illuminating the area around the eyes, also there wouldn't be a shadow on the guy's feet towards the camera flash.
I've taken several physics, photography and vision sciences classes, and am really fun at parties.
onlytech_nofashion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wtf O.o
Joeliosis ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:28:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... being driven to madness will do that to us deranged cultists. Shout out to /r/lovecraft.
ballweiner ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:21:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you man. That shit is terrifying on its own then u gotta go pointing that out.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see anything other than black and blue?
sfzen ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:26:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tiny person in the water at the top. Giant Cthulu in the bottom left.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:43 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't see it in this picture. I searched and someone else tweaked the levels on the picture and I can only see it then:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g5rhr/deep_end/cah5b03
So I believe you but can you really see it in this particular one? I just see black.
sfzen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:03 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's very faint, but yes. You see how in the tweaked one, the light from above reflects off the top of the tentacles, and the eye glows red/orange? You can just barely make that out in the normal picture.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:55 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I can baaaarely make it out now that you mention that
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who?
raymendx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see it. Where?
summerjo304 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:30 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me FOREVER to see it. Didn't realize I had to turn the brightness up on my phone first to see it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:13 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/UnexpectedCthulhu
alyraptor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he really deserved the Oscar for it, but politics.
DerangedDesperado ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:52:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is it?
PainMatrix ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 00:54:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cthulhu is in the lower left hand corner.
DerangedDesperado ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 00:55:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a joke? I'm using a phone and I can't see anything other than just black. Nevermind, turned up brightness
photonsnphonons ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:13:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT IS THE SEETHING DARKNESS HUNGERING FOR YOUR MIND.
blacksnake03 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually just on the border of complete darkness. It's not the bottom left, more like middle left
carolnuts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Can't see it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:56:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought this was a joke, then once I put it as my phone's wallpaper I saw it.
moleratical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was the kraken
Stacia_Asuna ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cthulhu's a kraken anthro conformed?
Anyntay ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:39:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's Optimus Prime, in the bottom right corner.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:05:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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KornymthaFR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to r/thalassophobia
pennypoppet ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:58:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a beer commercial a while back (I can't find a link) with a beer that falls in a lake and floats to the bottom past all sorts of stuff and there was a massive scary looking fish lurking. Like this picture it gives me the willies.
Bat_bot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always though the the original with nothing in it scarier, just falling into the blackness alone...
mrheh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This picture represents the perfect theme for the best aquaman movie.
dickmastaflex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IPS monitor master race. Cthulhu cannot hide from me.
matkv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:(
greenebean78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh. My. God.
AmericanFromAsia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone saying they're having trouble seeing the Cthulu but it's the first thing I saw in the picture. I guess it's time to calibrate my monitor
skillmau5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
silly, cthuhlu is way bigger than that
Lunchbox725 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what is it?
KnightInDulledArmor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turn up your brightness.
CantChangeUsernames ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:41:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you saying theres a Transformer somewhere in there?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is exactly why the ocean terrifies me beyond belief.
DuckWithBrokenWings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/lastimages
flyinthesoup ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:42:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are several versions of this picture, with different stuff at the bottom... and they all remind me of the starting scene of Another World. Fucking hard game.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stop. :c
FuckingFunk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:33:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't see :(
westsideasses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:47:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a white penis or dildo on top idgi
Splendidissimus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the disrupted water of a person breaking the surface. the tiny dark bit under the bright bit is a person.
kaiju-taxi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are you saying there freaking cthulhus at the bottom of the ocean? I knew it! I KNEW IT!
btowntkd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I see this picture, I think of the song Long Way Down, by Robert DeLong. Really captures the feeling of descending slowly into bottomless darkness.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:50:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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hansomfes ยท 1239 points ยท Posted at 00:38:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just gonna drop this here. From the Mariana trench
[deleted] ยท 706 points ยท Posted at 01:31:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get chills watching that picture. Then I laugh a little at Cthulhu chilling in the corner.
2Lainz ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 02:34:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, you laugh at him now....
Horntailflames ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 06:27:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just gonna leave this here
manlypanda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:56:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What kind of clouds are those?
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 10:34:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
C'mulus
TheRedComet ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
M'cumulus <tips rain>
richardpapen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:20:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scary
AndISaidHey27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the video source to this?
Horntailflames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure, but this is the original gif
AndISaidHey27 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, that's cool. Thanks.
squidonthebass ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:45:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
bpwoods97 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:16:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your heart will explode...
DragoCrafterr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You will die...
bpwoods97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:54:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are already dead.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DragoCrafterr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip c'thun comment chain
treemister1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:14:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long may he reign
BiscuitMiscuit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but given what I've seen of the Blob fish, he'd probably have some significant issues with decompression
2Lainz ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:37:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think a lesser cosmic entity like Cthulhu gives a crap about physics????? YOU DON'T EVEN PHNG GL'UI NGLLTHRN.
guitar_hunter_dude ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:08:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Cthulu Welsh?
jgo3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those who laugh get eaten last!
shakeszilla ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:06:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think the dark lord Cthulhu cares if ants laugh at him before they are crushed? All will be slaughtered, it makes no difference what you do.
jgo3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I seem to recall that the whole point of Cthulhu worship is that his loyal followers will get eaten first, sparing them the horror of what is to come.
McBeastly3358 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:09:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until he is revealed in JJ Abrams's 10 Cloverfield Lane next week.
chimchar66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The first trailer with "I think I'm alone now" really intrigued me, but as I saw more and more trailers, I became less and less interested.
miss_j_bean ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:08:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen that picture several times, never noticed the cthulhu.
EyeoftheRedKing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:13:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are different versions, some have him and some don't.
sarkule ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:23:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a sad day when Cthulhu isn't the scariest thing in a picture.
phliuy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:53:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the airliner part makes me feel less nervous about it.
I think "oh, so I could see an air plane all the way down there if it were clear." That seems a lot closer than what I thought.
Famixofpower ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how it works. The distance one would see to the ground out of a window is equal to the distance from the surface to there.
Maybe you have a point, but you won't be seeing that plane.
No light
Crush
phliuy ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:46:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Next time, read a little more carefully before jumping to show off the physics you learned in junior year of high school.
And before you try to poke holes in that statement to try to prove what knowledge you have, yes, if it were perfectly clear, there would be no light absorption, therefore there would be no light scattering, and light would reach the ocean floor just fine.
Saying that I couldn't see it because it would be crushed? Not unless the inside of the airplane were a vacuum. Otherwise, it would fill with water and the pressures inside and outside of the plane would equalize minus a few truly air tight compartments, many of which would flood anyway.
So in conclusion, yes, I would see the plane if it were clear, no, it wouldn't be crushed, so next time, maybe think about the situation before trying to stroke your ego by showing off what is probably a very baseline level of knowledge about physics and the ocean.
Famixofpower ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is reddit, not a scientific debate.
A plane would most likely be crushed that far down. It doesn't matter what is in it, the structure of the plane would still be destroyed. However, I'm the average Layman, and I have no plans to go to college to become a scientist just to study how a plane reacts to water pressure.
Now, light doesn't travel entirely through water. It reflects off of the water, it refracts through the water. Then light gets dimmer based off of distance from the source. Since it's underwater, the light can't travel pased 3,280 feet. So, the water won't be "clear" if you had a (non-glass) cup of tap water that size, and set US airlines to fly around it, then you still wouldn't see that far down (and you'd need to know how to tread water if you fell in). So, you wouldn't see that far down.
Now, in the universe of hypotheticals that only exists when mentioned, if light physics weren't something to worry about, and the plane was invincible, then you could see it; however, in the real world that plane would be crushed by the water pressure and you wouldn't suspect a thing.
phliuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If it's not a sceintific debate, you probably shouldn't have tried to use what little science knowledge you had to impress yourself.
No, the plane would not be crushed. An object is crushed due to pressure differences. The pressure of water inside the plane would equal the pressure on the outside of the plane. Therefore, no pressure difference, therefore, no crush.
As I very, very specifically said, "if it were perfectly clear, there would be no light absorption, therefore there would be no light scattering, and light would reach the ocean floor just fine". As water is not perfectly clear, by adding the modifier "if it were clear", I show that 1) I know that it's not clear, and 2), this scenario includes perfectly clear water. Learn to read.
So, yes, if the water were clear, as I mentioned 3 times, you could see the plane. No, the plane would not be crushed because there is not pressure difference to crush it.
If you admit to being a layman and not having a strong grasp of basic physics, you probably shouldn't try to keep arguing it.
Please stop trying to save your ego. You are wrong on both accounts, deal with it.
Bringing up that it's not a real world situation? ok. And what is your point? attempting to discredit hypotheticals purely because they are hypotheticals is just laughable.
and finally, you wouldn't need to go to college to understand the physics behind this. You would only need to be competent with high school physics, which you are not.
Famixofpower ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, one of my "teachers" didn't want me in physics for 12th grade, so I ended up in a study hall run by her. She was a total bitch. So, now I'm going to want to see if there are physics classes at PTI, as it's important to becoming a game designer.
phliuy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm sorry you were precluded from physics from whatever reason.
However, you don't need to enroll in a physics course to get the basics of it, Khan academy and numerous other online resources can teach fundamental physics perfectly well. For example, harvard has publicly available online recorded lectures from numerous courses, of which I believe physics is one.
Good luck.
theunknownknows ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I though it was an Ood
PacSan300 ยท 249 points ยท Posted at 00:43:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And even with that great depth, it's not even a fraction of the Earth's crust, which in turn is a thin eggshell for the planet.
zaxomophone ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:22:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which the whole planet itself is nothing more than a speck of dust at best floating through the cosmos.
edit: I a word.
PacSan300 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:32:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After some time, Earth is nothing more than a pale blue dot.
StezzerLolz ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:34:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
matkv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:44:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this from?
StezzerLolz ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:53:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
matkv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat,thanks!
Fishbone_V ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy I think.
gamelizard ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:35:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
recently learned that there was something called the farallon tectonic plate, but most of it has been swallowed by the earth as the north american plate moves over it, it has formed an 800-2000 Km tall almost vertical wall of rock that penetrates the mantel. the Mariana trench is 11 KM deep
HacksawJimDGN ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 01:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm hungry
danightman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you telling me that I can't dig my way to China from my California beach??
PacSan300 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:55:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. In fact, you can only dig to China if you're on a beach in Chile or Argentina.
danightman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE
anndor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, they could still dig to China from California, just not a straight line. They'd have to dig Bugs Bunny style.
eversaur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, the distance to the center of the earth has gotta be like, at least three.
AllGloryToSatan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Three speeds?
zachyon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
do you know what a fraction is
TheWarlock117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which in all fairness is a pretty small planet.
stinkadickbig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is pretty huge for a non-gas giant.
dylsexic_man ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 01:58:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what, the fuck, is that in the water on the second last mark
nathanm0199 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chthulu
Dasbaus ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:34:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chitulu is sitting down there even in this chart...
HumpingDog ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:14:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's not sitting, he's waiting.
Dasbaus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The time to strike could be any time. Yellow stone erupts? Here he comes to finish everything else off.
Small war? It's go time.
Japan fucks up and their reactor blows? Godzilla time
bold_facts ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's this.
ManikMiner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is....Deeper?
A_Prostitute ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:05:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw our Lord and Savior down in the corner
Razorspeed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nic? Where!?
A_Prostitute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the other one. The one Lovecraft created so lovingly for us.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:56:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Lizard10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:35:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They've been to the bottoms of "shallower" parts of the ocean, more common than not, it's just a lot of sand, though every now and then a whale corpse will float down and make it a party, and then there's the places where entire ecosystems break the rules of the sun being the start of the food chain
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PM_ME_YOUR_PW_PLEASE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the curious: the chart gives the elevation of the peak of Everest, not the height from the base.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Girthโขwidthโขangle of the shaft from the base
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was just a picture of a computing server before I zoomed in. I was confused. Anyway -- Hows is that submarine just chillin there...is it on a lip of earth(?) in the trench?
ndstumme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Submarine? Do you mean the blue whale?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I meant the battleship at 15,700ft
ndstumme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, the chart just shows relative depth, this isn't all in the trench. That German battleship sunk off the coast of France in WWII, but the Mariana Trench is near the Philippines.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That makes way more sense. Thanks
09twinkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're talking about the ship it's not in the Mariana's Trench, neither is the Titanic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes - this is what I meant. Thanks
AmazonExplorer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazing, astounding and a little bit humbling too. This mystique with the ocean was probably what European explorers from the premodern era felt when sailing around the world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing looks like it would be sombodys great uncle murry.
sudifirjfhfjvicodke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL that sperm whales can dive 8200 feet. They can hold their breath long enough to go a mile and a half underwater and come back up again.
mustachepantsparty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alvin! I am so happy to have had the chance to go inside of it.
ScubaPhteve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's that?
62frog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just crazy to me that it's so far down you can't see the EFFING SUN
Dookie_boy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We killed it. (The link)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"This webpage is not available"
Terrifying.
SLOTH_POTATO_PIRATE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I get an imgur mirror? I'm on mobile and it won't load. :/
the_lost_banana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That creature just sitting there in the dark scared me :(
CalPolyJohn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Respect for sperm whales... Those suckers can dive deep
TheScratchnSniff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It astounds me that only 10% of something that makes up 75% of the earth has been mapped, yet we;re choosing to ignore it to explore fucking space, lets finish our own damn planet first! lol
Midnight_Musings9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's it, you've officially sparked an interest in the deep ocean for me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have the same in the metric system?
strp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit.
What the hell are sperm whales doing at that depth? Secret club?
Mr_Phantismal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is Miraak doing there?
Methuga ยท 401 points ยท Posted at 00:08:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think you're scared of the ocean now?
No.
Now you're scared of the ocean.
Dane_makus ยท 361 points ยท Posted at 01:03:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hardly, one. What idiot doesn't wear a life jacket on open water, 2 who take that long to surface, 3 how stupid do you have to be to not float on your back? Like shit, it was if he was trying to drown
High_PlainsDrifter ยท 242 points ยท Posted at 01:49:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4) Make a flotation device out of your pants or shirt.
5) Make plans on how to kill your idiot friend who left you to drown.
Dane_makus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:54:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, when he went to take off his shoes I thought thats what he was doing, nope, just gonna shove my head underwater
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:27:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always hear this advice. But like how? Good luck getting your pants off, finding something to bind the leg holes if you even have a belt for your waist. Good luck breathing in enough air while treading water to fill the pants.
kivalo ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 02:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did it in Boy Scouts for the swimming merit badge. It's not impossible, but certainly tough. A big benefit to doing it is that you're close to a dock on a lake, and not in the middle of the ocean so there's not nearly as much shock or panic going on. Shorts are pretty useless, but if you're wearing pants, you need to get them off, and knot the end of the legs area to each other, get that "donut" over your head with the waist section in front of you, and lift the waist opening out of the water and then submerge it to trap enough air to keep you afloat. Air leaks out relatively quickly, but you just repeat that process until you tire and ultimately drown.
wertexx ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:48:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And how much you reckon till you drown? Compared to just floating on your back, I mean does that device actually help to float or it's just to trick your mind while you are drowning faster than you normally would.
ftgbhs ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, I'd be freaking out, and I have no idea how I would act in that situation. I would hope though, that I would just lay on my back and tread water. I have done that for very long periods of time in a pool. I know there's no current or waves in a pool, but still.
wertexx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea plus you know,when in a pool your body is like 100% relaxed. We will need drugs to keep calm on top of 5km deep water with the closest shore 1000 kilometers away and knowing death is inevitable.
ftgbhs ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:19:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, basically to summarize my comment. "I'd like to think I'd be fine but I wouldn't be."
Styrak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, hypothermia.
Potatoe_away ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can reinflate them by exhaling into the fabric. I've been through a bunch of water survival courses it's not that hard to stay afloat using clothes. Hell a marine who was knocked of a boat did it for like a week using sweatpants.
kivalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I admit that it's been a good 15 years since I've tried or even thought about it, but that also sounds correct. Now that you mention it I faintly recall exhaling into a shirt to keep it inflated.
itisonlyaplant ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found this video on reddit a few months back that showed how to makes pants into a life jacket.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine doing that after falling into the frigid ocean off a boat in the middle of no where would be very easy. It's easy to say you'd just do that in the event of that occurring, but I think it would be much harder in real life in uncontrolled situations.
itisonlyaplant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good advice regardless.
jonnyredshorts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We had to do it when I was in the 82nd Airborne Division. Itโs called drown proofing. They had us jump in with our combat uniforms on, boots pants, jacket. We then were told how to use our pants as floatation devices. You get those boots off first, then your pants, tie the bottom of the legs together, use your hand or belt to cinch the waist and then begin breathing into the waistband, slowly filling the legs up with air. Once they are full, you can rest for a short period of time before you need to breath more air onto them, but sure enough, 30 minutes later and youโre chilling and relaxed. It works.
Tony_Black ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. We learn it during CWS in Marine boot, except if I recall, we use the slap method. You quickly dunk your waist to catch air then slap the water to keep adding more air. It keeps you from having to take your waistline out of the water and deflating them entirely.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're military trained I could see how you could do it, however the layman in an uncontrolled situation couldn't do it nearly as well, even though they like to think they easily could.
jonnyredshorts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
try it at the pool or the beach...itโs not that hard at all.
ItsBitingMe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't try it at the pool, last guy that took his bottoms off there got hauled away by the po po.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In controlled situation. Imagine falling off a boat into the frigid Atlantic, no land in sight, boat gone. You realm think the lay person will be calm enough to do it right immediately never having done it before?
jonnyredshorts ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If youโre in frigid water itโs probably not going to matter, but you now have heard of this technique, donโt you think you could do it?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think my pants would be the first thing on my mind falling into the ocean to my certain doom.
jonnyredshorts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not with that attitude Mister!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6) drown
DunkanBulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about, don't stand that close to the edge in general?
Consanguineously ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, the friend was trying to turn around. It can take an extremely long time to completely turn 180 degrees in a sailboat, which is what happened there.
IRunLikeADuck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:17:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't, it takes a couple extra turns, But they teach you this literally the first day of a beginners sailing class.
It's something any experienced sailor would know.
Consanguineously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The friend wasn't experienced. See how he asks if he's sure when he says he will drive?
IRunLikeADuck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I guess I missed that part.
But man, I would haunt the shit out of that guy after I died. Just point the boat into the wind and let me swim to it.
Consanguineously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not even sure if it would be possible to survive that. I would just lay on my back and focus on breathing when the waves don't crash over my face and hope I don't freeze to death.
Erekshon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't really help a drowning simulator, now does it.
You've been saved by your experienced sailor friend!
Methuga ยท 153 points ยท Posted at 01:29:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you're missing the key point here -- that he is stranded in the middle of a fricking ocean. He could be Michael Phelps and he's still dying.
IveGotBallsOfSteel ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:43:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genuine question, if he backfloated he likely could've maybe lasted those few minutes, couldn't his friend likely turn it around and hopefully find him with some luck. Or would he be basically 100% s.o.l? I'm confused on that part.
AssEffectIII ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 02:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I've done some sailing and can shed some light on this.
Firstly if two guys on a boat in the middle of the ocean alone you'd expect they'd know how to sail. Certifications or not sailing in these conditions is all about experience. Really early on in sailing training or whatever you want to call it you will practice MOB's or man over board drills. This is a skill you will learn and re enforce all through sailing. Because as you saw leaving your buddy to die is kinda a dick move. The point in all this is that those guys should know this stuff and his friend should have at least made a much better attempt that what he did.
The procedure is kinda hard especially if your alone one the boat but it's doable.
Sailing is not like a motor boat and because of that your subject to the wind. What that means is it's not that simple as just turning around, cutting of the engine and helping your friend in the boat. Instead the basic procedure looks something like this.
Throw some floating shit in the water. This is huge, Just grab whatever is near and floats and chuck it behind you. All sailboats have or should have a life raft on the stern (back) for this very reason. The other reason to throw floating shit is because it helps you see them (more on this later)
Keep going in the direction your going and give your self some room to turn in this case your going to tack (turn into the wind). Be liberal with the room, it's better to go an extra 50 feet than miss your friend and have to go back again. the more time goes by the harder it gets. The ocean moves so their constantly drifting and getting harder to find.
your now going downwind and coming back to your friend. this time follow this direction for a good 400 feet or so. Passing where you think your friend is. Remember, sailing. you cant just stop with full sail up and facing down wind.
Tack again and if you've done everything right you should be heading almost directly upwind and on the path to where you think your friend is. Your going to have to get to him and stop hence going upwind. When you sail directly into the wind it's whats called "irons" and your sails flap or luff about, in other words they dont fill with wind and the boat doesn't move. So on your way up you hug as close to irons as possible. when you see your friend ahead point the boat directly into the wind and let the sails luff. Do this on the early side because the boat is going to drift. Inertia and stuff.
When you see him get him the the boat. there's a technical way to do this but for boats without ladders and stuff but honestly as long as you get him in the boat alive all is good. toss a rope and tie a loop in it for him to sit in as almost like a harness. I recommend the Bowline. From there Just hoist him up best you can.
One important thing to note which I learned when doing these drills is that it's way harder to see someone that you might thing. Your looking for a small dark black circle (their head) in middle of the ocean. Add in 3 or 4 for swells everywhere and it's damn hard to spot. Hence the trowing floaty shit, it will drift the same way he is and it more stuff to see, better odds. Also those rafts I mention earlier have a huge orange flag pole on them. So prioritize getting that in the water ASAP, it will help you and your friend a ton.
If your more visual here is a diagram.
I had to do this one time in a much less serious circumstance buddy and I where screwing around on a Hobie cat (not me) and he fell in. These are really easy to move and he could just climb back on so no threat of survival at all. Still followed the above procedure and it worked perfectly, I Literary just drifted right up to him and the boat was at almost a complete stop for him to climb back on. So yeah, practice makes perfect I guess.
TL;DR learn to sail and make sure friends to as well.
Edit: Thanks for gold! Does this make me a professional sailor now?
sixandchange ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:24:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Great explanation, but more simply, one of the very first things anyone should learn while sailing is how to immediately tack hard through the wind, heave to, and end up in irons.
AssEffectIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also they are great for a mid sail lunch without having to take the sails down.
ALetterFromHome ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the diagram helps a lot
AssEffectIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Take a look at the wind direction and way the sails are facing as well.
IRunLikeADuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a couple other techniques as well, but this probably the easiest.
Also, if it's a large sailboat and difficult to control with just one person, I was taught to let the jib go free (the front sail) and now you can just focus on the mainsail.
AssEffectIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeh I could see that being useful. No time to switch the jib each time you tack.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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AssEffectIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I wrote this in a bit of rush but I always love a reddit grammar lesson!
larryfuckingdavid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swells are such a significant factor. I once went salmon fishing 14 miles off the coast of Washington and it was just 10 ft swells, and it was obvious that if someone fell in they would be VERY far from the boat in a matter of minutes.
AssEffectIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When we did our MOB drill they threw in a white buoy, holy shit did that thing blend in. Every swell we had to decide if it was a swell or by chance our buoy. It was only 2-3 feet as well. If you don't get that flotation stuff out there and their not wearing any thing bright that they can wave around that guys chances are not too good. Took us 3 hours to find the buoy. It's hard to explain just how hard it is to spot stuff in even a small swell without actually seeing it. needless to say, after dong that drill I've been far more alert about not putting myself in a position to fall in.
All in all flotation is is key for the visual reference alone, oh and so the other guy doesn't drown.
leolego2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If someone falls and you're alone in the boat, just use the motor damn
AssEffectIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is very good advice, even if you can't drop the sails, turning the motor on will give you more control.
psychgirl88 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I always wondered how the dude didn't just turn around
YOU_FACE_JARAXXU5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure it was stated that the other guy didn't actually know how to sail.
Umutuku ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:02:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he just went along with it because of the implications.
conan_the_brobarian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds a little rape-y
Gekthegecko ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:34:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm probably wrong and someone made this up, but the friend sailing was cheating with the guy's wife and wanted to kill him. I don't remember if that was stated on the website (this was a game PSA about drowning where you had to keep scrolling to stay afloat) or someone speculating in the comments, but that's what I remember reading.
AssEffectIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check Above, I give sail knowledge.
Methuga ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:05:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe it's a sailboat and he's royally screwed
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:48:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't take down the sail and just float there and wait for the friend to catch up?
Legitimate question. Never been on a sailboat myself.
slaaitch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easiest by just turning nose on to the wind, then setting the rudder all the way to one side and the sail off to the other, so they work against each other. This is called 'heaving to' and it's one of the most stable configurations you can put a sailboat into without tying it to shore.
Bobzer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:54:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:44:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah or just drop your fucking sail and motor over to him. seriously, any boat that size will have a little 5 or 10hp engine to navigate through harbors. all that guy needed to do was toss a floaty, head upwind, drop sail and spin back around under power.
leolego2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:19:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
exactly. If someone falls and you're alone in the boat, just use the motor.
Math_Blaster_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:28:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can hook a circle in a sailboat... It would be hard to manage everything as one man, but it can be done
awesomesauce00 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:36:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the guy didn't have any sailing experience. If someone took me out and then went overboard, there's no way I'd know how to turn around. Best I could do would be throw an anchor if I was able to think while being that scared and also know where its kept.
Math_Blaster_ ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:41:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well drop the sail instead if your aren't trying the turn, and unless you have a few thousand feet of anchor line that won't help in the open ocean.
Source: used a slip and slide once
awesomesauce00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See? I'd leave him. Inexperience kills. I'd also probably die at sea a few days later after being unable to get back to shore.
AssEffectIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also check above, their only semi royally screwed.
lalalola89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup.. If there was wind there's no way (unless they had some really nice motors) they would be able to turn around and get back to him in time... They could have thrown a damn rope or something though.
I only have some sort of idea about this because my ex lived on his sailboat and I learned very quickly that we could not just "turn around" to rescue my hat or sunglasses lol
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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lalalola89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No I know about tacking lol so yea they definitely could have done something but you're right if they're not experienced it wouldn't have been easy... Either way they still could have thrown a line or bumper out to the guy or something...
I've never been in a situation where we had to do a complete turn around like that and I don't sail so what little knowledge I have is from taking trips lasting from a few days to a month with just the 2 of us. In strong winds it just seems like it would take longer (mostly because I would just be following directions) than 3-4mins to turn around and get back, without a life jacket and the waves and pressure it seems like it would be hard for the person to stay afloat... I know it can happen pretty quickly, the wind can get scary though ๐ณ
vistuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well actually it wouldn't, unless you have no experience doing a MOB you should ALWAYS do a MOB.
Shurmonator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea if you back float then you can stay there for quite some time.
Manicial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna be honest if i was dropped there even if i could survive by doing many things i would just let myself drown. The idea of creatures down there...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is total bullshit and an irrational phobia
Manicial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phobias don't have to be rational.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Phobias are by nature sort of irrational, yeah? Doesnt mean you can't point em out
Manicial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grass is green. Here i pointed out another thing we all know. Your turn.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey look i can downvote all of your posts too
ApplecakesMcGee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This still lets his dickhead friend off the hook.
MuthaFuckasTookMyIsh ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Japanese submarines slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. Was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in ten minutes.
Didn't see the first shark for about a half hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know was that our bomb mission was so secret no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know, the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, the shark come to the nearest man. That man, he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark, he, go away...but sometimes he wouldn't go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya'. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is, he's got lifeless eyes. Black guys. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya' he doesn't even seem to be livin'...till he bites ya' and those black guys roll over white and then...ah, then ya' hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red and, despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and...they rip you to pieces
You know by the end of that first Dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there wereโmaybe a thousand. I do know how many men: they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson's mate. Thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up and down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half, below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted usโa young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper, here. Anyway, he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. Three hundred and sixteen men come outโthe sharks took the rest. June the twenty-ninth, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
Anyway, I don't wear a life jacket.
tw33zer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this from, I've read it before
MuthaFuckasTookMyIsh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny joke, bruh.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The movie Jaws
Styrak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't get it. Bomb was dropped from plane?
MuthaFuckasTookMyIsh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Goddammit, just watch Jaws. You are screwing my shit up, man. You're screwing it! And-and you just--you have no consideration. Do you? That is just so rude. I would-I would never do that to you, ya' asshole. I mean, right? I'm a cool guy, I don't screw up other people's shit, man. I--
GODDAMMIT. GODDAMMIT. I'm just so flusterated right now, I can't deal with this--
MY WRATH SHALL FALL UPON THEE LIKE THE CRASHING OF A THOOOOOOUSAND WAVES, AND I SHALL CALL UPON THE UGLIEST AND MIGHTIEST OF SEA CREATURES FROM THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN TO OBLITERATE YOUR VERY SOUL!
Styrak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:50:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wat.
uss1701jb ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:01:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole thing looks like a PSA about wearing your life jacket, look at the very end.
Joelerific ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean to be fair if you just got blind sided by a huge propelled object you might be a little disoriented combined with being thrown into freezing water in the same motion it is somewhat reasonable to assume that you might just be panicking and flailing wildly.
LordApocalyptica ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:22:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called "drowning simulator", not "best precautions simulator."
CharmsCandy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did he rip his fingernail off??
KindredManatee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coastguardsmen here, you would be amazed at the amount of commercial fishing boats in our area that don't have life jackets on board. Most have the mandated immersion suits, but that doesn't help if you suddenly go overboard. A lot of people are far more stupid than you think.
Im_A_Narcissist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:29:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever tried swimming in freezing water?
s133zy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:18:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1: more or less what the message was here, stay safe.
2: panic
3: panic
KastaBortAvUppenbar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water is cold, you'd go in shock
SigurBear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno man I almost drowned once getting knocked under by a waterfall and in the fucking panic of feeling parts of your body shutting down, I completely forgot how to float on my back
darkcyril ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
venuswasaflytrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually really hard to see someone floating in the water. Often you can fall off and your boat can lose track of you really quickly.
FlabbergastedFish ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 00:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The part where he pulls out his finger nail. NOPE.
Jedi_Outcast ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 00:22:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hell was the point of that?
NoahtheRed ยท 123 points ยท Posted at 01:00:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It was mostly to demonstrate the effects of hypothermia. Your body goes into like hella survival mode and starts constricting your blood vessels to conserve heat. Your extremities go numb pretty quick and it's literally only minutes before you can rip your own nails off and not feel it. Once that starts setting in, you are starting to circle the drain. In fact, even if you get rescued, you have to be warmed up slowly and evenly so you don't go into cardiac arrest.
Source: Had hypothermia. Didn't rip nails off though, just wanted to go to sleep (which probably meant die at that time)
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey... Aren't you the guy who posted the Kevin story?
Edit: Did you get hypothermia because of Kevin?
NoahtheRed ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:23:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the hypothermia was at a regatta in college. Kevin was still but a wee child, eating those really big crayons they give small children.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:36:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He might've saved the crayons till 9th grade thinking they'd turn into alcohol.
chmpdog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you elaborate on this story? Did you fall into the water? Sailing or rowing?
NoahtheRed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I give the basic rundown below (or above). It was a sailing regatta at Cornell University back in October of 2005.
sintaroactual ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:55:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy posted the Kevin story over a year ago. How the fuck did you remember his username?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me present a counterpoint- How the fuck WOULDN'T I remember his username? The Kevin story was fucking hilarious!
sintaroactual ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, I suppose.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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NoahtheRed ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:08:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long story short, during a regatta in late October in Ithaca, NY, my boat pitchpoled (bow got forced into the water while the stern lifted up and we basically flipped forward). The entire fleet (about 24 boats IIRC) all met the same fate. Under normal circumstances this would be no biggie, but because it was the entire fleet, they didn't have enough rescue boats to come help right everyone quickly. I ended up spending about 30 minutes in the water. By the time they got me in a rescue boat, I was pretty much an ice cube and spent the rest of the day in the sailing center under a pile of blankets, listening to Amon Amarth. I was lucky that between my wetsuit and the onsite medical staff, I ended my regatta alive and without any permanent damage.
And yes, you stop shivering and feeling really anything at all. I distinctly remember being more tired than I've ever been before or since. My skipper just kicked me and made me answer questions the entire ride back to shore to try and keep me awake.
Plus side is I don't really get bothered by the cold anymore. A hoodie is about all I need any more.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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NoahtheRed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, aside from the hypothermia, it was a really fun regatta. The weather was crazy (white caps all day with some really solid gusts and a great course adjustment) and even though I spent the rest of the weekend on shore, I had a good time.
Auctoritate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the desensitivity to cold from, nerve damage?
NoahtheRed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I don't know. I've had checkups since then and nothing has set off any alarms. Perhaps just confirmation bias or something.
way2lazy2care ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened to make the whole fleet do that?
NoahtheRed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A strong puff. It was blowing a solid 25-30 with gusts over 50. We got hit with one of those gusts while everyone else was on the downwind leg, or just rounding the leeward mark. It's kind a risky spot because you try and increase your sail area as much as possible at the sacrifice of control and responsiveness. Typically you loosen everything you can, but we were completely reefed down and still lost it. We knew a capsize was inevitable, but a pitchpole was a surprise. Cornell's sailing center was a yacht club at the very south end of the lake and we capsized closer to the windward mark, having just come around to go downwind. The rest of the fleet was closer to the leeward mark and thus closer to the sailing center...and rescue boats.
Makkel ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:42:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say it's hallucinations... Like the diver or the doll. He's cold and tired, he starts to faint. His hand are cold so it may feel like his nails are falling off...
That's what I understood anyway.
Auctoritate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I heard apparently you can do it to keep yourself awake against hypothermia.
Makkel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh ok. Good to know... I guess...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for the warning!
booze_clues ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck owns a boat and can't swim?
ProdigalEden ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:26:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
his friend was a dick.
its_intolerance_to_U ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:43:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did he pull his fingernail off?
CourageTheCowardDog ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:53:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To keep warm
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In what way? Blood circulation or something? Or just the psychological effect of being "with it" still?
CourageTheCowardDog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not really sure but I think the pain gives you a rush of energy or something
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh ok. Adrenaline probably counteracts some of the effects then.
louiesoapbox ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:45:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would be cool and scary on a VR
Supreme_Turtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:03:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clicked on the link, then noticed some of the replies just before it loaded. Still decided to watch the video. I'm scared of the ocean now.
coltonmusic15 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tldw: you drown in 4:51 and tire quicker in the ocean than you'd realize.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow how powerful. That sucks.
LeekmySquash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I don't know how to swim I would've died quicker & not suffered 4 minutes longer
herrcoffey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha classic Charles
dabosweeney ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:44:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was fucking retarded
csl512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that was intense.
_phospholipid_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
accurate
djbootybutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/submechanophobia
never_safe_for_life ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You horrible man. How could you show that to me? God, it was terrifying.
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need a life jacket and floaties just to go into the tub now, thanks.
salty_john ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That stressed me out way more then I expected it to.
kanated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Honestly this one doesn't affect me at all cause it looks so fake and unlikely. Maybe it's cause I'm used to swimming. Just the way he goes from drowning to stable while using both hands to pull his fingernail off and then back to drowning makes it look very staged.
grammar_test ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck you. i got to 4 minutes and decided to stop because i don't want nightmares. take your upvote and go before i change my mind...
ILikeMyBlueEyes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. That. It gave me an anxiety attack.
shadowcerberus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, that's enough reddit for this year
AWWWYEAHHHH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This video only made me thirsty. And now I want to go swimming.
CoreBeatz7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:53:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whats the link for this game? crazy visual effects and fictional representation of drowning
Midnight_Musings9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real scary thing is that asshole Charles. What a dick.
SippantheSwede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, I couldn't stop thinking "oh okay this is what videogames look like now" long enough to be scared.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drowning hurts. A lot. Would rather die in a fire. Still doesn't scare me as much as the creatures lurking in the deep.
kaiju-taxi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Darn, I couldn't make it past the first minute. I imagine drowning like that would be hard, but losing someone like that.
writing_emphasis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh no! I'm drowning! Better pull my finger nail off.
Supernaturaltwin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did his fingernail come off that quickly?
crack-a-lacking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it really that hard to turn a boat around?
Cgcghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the water cold? Is that why he keeps rubbing his feet and hands?
DerangedDesperado ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:50:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100 percent, fuck that. Turned it off the second he fell in.
myblunda ยท 140 points ยท Posted at 23:18:22 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
More specifically deep in the ocean. No one's gone down there and checked what's going on. It's crazy to think that we've been to the moon and have up close pictures of pluto, but haven't gone to the deepest part of our own ocean.
Edit: I am wrong. Hear me roar
max-peck ยท 164 points ยท Posted at 23:28:18 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have gone to the deepest part of the ocean on many occasions.
WhatAGoodDoggy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, yes. But the ocean bed remains largely unexplored.
GiantDuarf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, so is the moon's surface. The only reason people say we know more about the lunar surface is because we've taken pictures of it, whereas we can't take a picture of the ocean floor, we need other methods. But there has certainly been more manned missions to the ocean floor than any moon or planet. Probably more unmanned missions too.
myblunda ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 23:31:07 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I could be wrong, someone will fact check no doubt. But I thought we have come close to reaching the bottom, but are a couple hundred feet short of actually reaching it?
MissionFever ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 23:43:41 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deepest point in the ocean is Challenger Deep it's nearly 11,000 meters (36,000 ft) deep, and has been visited by submersibles on four occasions (two manned, two unmanned).
FrostyNovember ยท 141 points ยท Posted at 23:55:03 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gat dayum imagine being in a tin can in the middle of the dark with 11 kilometers of water above you. You might as well be in space, you're so far out of this world.
MissionFever ยท 143 points ยท Posted at 00:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, terrifying stuff. That first mission took five hours to descend, then only spent twenty minutes at the bottom, because they spotted a crack in the outer layer of porthole.
patientbearr ยท 295 points ยท Posted at 01:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they would have spotted a brown spot on my pants when we resurfaced
wow_that_guys_a_dick ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if you wore the brown pants.
Dasbaus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 01:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to be a party pooper here, but I would have rolled a natural 20 at that point and neither pants nor underwear wood have survived. They would discover the guy standing behind be has serious damage to his legs and thighs from the blast.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh
Dasbaus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I chuckled at it.
I clean nasty shit like that for a living. I know my shit.
Chipotle really does a number on sewage pipes bro.
nightwing2024 ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 00:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If I was in there and I saw a crack, I'd absolutely have a panic attack, cry hysterically, and likely die.
FUS_ROH_yay ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 00:58:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just thinking about it is almost enough...
wargasm40k ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should check this place out /r/thalassophobia
coldjeanz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:35:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like you have to be ready to accept death before you even go down there. It just seems so easy for something to go wrong with the sub at those pressures
Pumpernickelfritz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better to die of panic, then nope liquid.
packageofcrips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow.
Was there any footage recorded? Probably way too dark, even with powerful lights...
Gackt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:47:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ehmm that's not how light works.
Lefthandedsock ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we we're even capable of building a hollow object that can hold humans and have windows and shit is fucking amazing.
DunkanBulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially when you consider the intense amount of pressure bearing down on the object.
Lefthandedsock ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:32:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha ha, that's what I meant to write. Now I just look like I'm fascinated by any hollow object with windows.
jax9999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
space is actualy easier.
Usuqamadiq ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 00:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron.
nightwing2024 ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 00:38:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least get the quote right.
Workaphobia ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:37:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James Cameron doesn't do the things James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does the things James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.
Every time I see that episode on, I have to say it with him out loud.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never really got the point of that episode. Were they making fun of JC for trying to find the lowest of the low, or were they praising him for trying to raise an extremely low bar?
Workaphobia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They were portraying JC as unlikable and full of himself.
ArtSchnurple ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
James Cameron James Cameron?
Originalreaper ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yo dawg I heard you liked deep water
So I put a submarine in your water and cracked your windshield so you could Deepwater in your submarine
dabosweeney ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:45:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope 100% fuck that id go to outer space first
MrMeeseeksTwin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds cool, is there a documentary about this or footage?
BakedBuffalo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't remember the name of the documentary, but James Cameron made one that covers his expedition to the Challenger Deep.
It was on Netflix not long ago, but I'm not sure if it's still on there.
MrMeeseeksTwin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks.
GloryOfTheLord ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's inaccurate. It is the Deepest known point. Since only approximately 5% of the world's seafloor has been mapped,its' highly likely that there is a deeper point. Source (There's better sources if you want)
MissionFever ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll concede that it's the Deepest known point, not definitively the deepest point.
That said, you're taking valid information, (that only 5% of the of the world's seafloor has been mapped in detail,) and using it to come to a faulty conclusion, (that it's highly likely that there's a deeper point).
That conclusion might be supported if ocean deep points were in any way randomly distributed, however they're not. The fact is that the vast majority of the ocean floor hasn't been charted in detail because it is--according to the available data--geologically less interesting.
The Marianas Trench is as deep as it is because it's a massive subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is being pushed down under another. It is a massive geological feature, which is why it was discovered fairly early.
According to the source I could find satellite surveys can give a horizontal resolution of 10-15 km. So for a deeper feature to be found it'd have to be significantly less than that wide while being more than 11 km deep.
Now it's certainly possible that there is an undersea feature out there that's deeper than the Marianas Trench, while also being small enough not to show up on the satellite maps. However, given our current understanding of geology, such a feature would not be expected. So while it's certainly possible that there's a deeper point, it's not highly likely.
Tundru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that just the deepest known point in the ocean? For all we know there could be way deeper areas.
Collegenoob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the bottom isnt going to be sheer rock and easy to define. The bottom is silt mud and detritus. You can get as low as you can in water. But the mud is impossible
singlemingle61 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:45:58 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We did go to the deepest part of our oceans (Mariana Trench) multiple times but yes, we know very little or nothing about the creatures living in the depths of our oceans. We know more about our moon than our deep oceans.
DirtyDan257 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think 3 people have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, one of them being James Cameron.
PCToTheMax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, been to the exact bottom multiple times. https://youtu.be/6N4xmNGeCVU
Bullshit-_-Man ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:47:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's the deepest currently known part of the ocean, many believe there to be deeper areas.
FroggiJoy87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, twice.
Nurum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though to be fair I would imagine that we actually have more actual photos and have observed more surface area of the moon than we have of the marianas trench.
Quackenstein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two. Two occasions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have barely begun to explore the ocean. Imagine trying to map the world from a hot air balloon with a flashlight. That's what exploring the ocean is like. There is sooooooo much we have never seen.
ghostdate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like physically, or just remote controlled submersibles? Because I was always under the impression people haven't been down to the deepest parts of the ocean, We've just sent remote controlled devices down there.
monsieurpommefrites ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deepest known part of the ocean.
BobbinsMcFerrin ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 23:27:35 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its mainly unexplored and that's what gives you the willies - the fear of the unknown is fucking primordial.
Dasbaus ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:44:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weird part looking St those fish is thinking how long have they been there? They look jurassic but not freakishly huge, is it possible they are a breed that existed thousands of years ago, or maybe a cross breed?
Os it they still exist because we have never gone to fish for them or for how many years never even knew of their existence other than a fisherman legend every so often? Of this is anyway real, what else is lurking down there? There's the legend of a loc Ness monsta roaming around, but how can we assume there isn't something of that nature wandering around? Is it possible such a creature could have been in hibernation, and trapped by tremendous amount of force as water overcame it? Is it theroedicly possible that a godzilla could in fact exist in an area of the ocean we have yet to explore?
What if there is a different civilization of people or aliens there, who may or may not affect the planet with their decisions? Maybe it possible they live below us never knowing what is beyond their dark dense sky of water
And how damn possible is it bikini bottom is down there, and mofo spongebobby sweatpants (look him up on youtube) is down there flipping burgers for $. 75 an hour.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dasbaus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shhhhiiit
greentoof ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:54:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whats crazy to me is, the only reason we know of the dinosaurs is fossil remains, the seas seems to be way better at recycling things. How the hell do we know what the largest squid could of been?
Dasbaus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could have been? It's probably still down there waiting for someone to trip on its turf so it can start a gang war.
Can you imagine if chitulu was real and came to fuck some boats up? That wouldn't be a fun day, and the Internet would explode.
Freckled_Bookworm ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:11:26 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Second this
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:42:06 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The goblin shark is fucking scary
FourWordReplies ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:15:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jacuzzis are way scarier
aliasforgotten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Known a drop, unknown an ocean.
Kalipygia ยท 2603 points ยท Posted at 23:58:06 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Human Being
B_For_Bandana ยท 1150 points ยท Posted at 02:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Humans can make themselves invulnerable to certain attacks by injecting themselves with the corpses of their enemies. Being humans, they converted this defensive technology into an offensive weapon, which they have used for multiple acts of genocide. For example, one enemy had the ability to fly through the air, pass with perfect invisibility among humans, and reach every corner of the planet. It tortured and killed a third of the humans it touched, and it outnumbered the humans a hundred trillion to one. Humans employing the corpse-injection method slaughtered the entire species, down to the last individual. Other enemies have been driven to the edge of extinction and are expected to succumb before the human onslaught in the near future.
Most of the humans who undertake this ritual are children. Afterward, as a reward, they get a small piece of candy on a stick.
VitruvianMonkey ยท 144 points ยท Posted at 04:10:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not quite true. They actually kept a tiny number alive solely to subject them to tortuous experimentation.
Kabufu ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 05:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a trophy
dryerlintcompelsyou ยท 107 points ยท Posted at 04:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
was
We literally wiped an entire species off the surface of the earth
TimS194 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 04:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We literally wipe entire species off the surface of the earth regularly, without even meaning to. Just because we like how they look or taste dead, or want their space and don't care enough to not kill 'em in the process.
ACAFWD ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 06:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but driving a species to extinction is easy, we do it constantly. Driving a contagion that thrives on humans (which there are a lot of) to extinction is rather hard.
ZorbaTHut ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 11:02:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine if all the antelope in the world decided they were fed up with lions, developed specialized lion-killing tactics, and systematically murdered lions to extinction.
There's something extra-metal about genociding your predator.
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:53 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human ancestors weren't predators. We were monkeys hiding in trees. Then we formed tool manipulation and social dynamics.
PrivilegeCheckmate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget about the ones we kill to increase sexual potency!
poeir ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:08:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but this time it was on purpose!
DaddyRocka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:01:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what you think. That's what they want us to think. Just wait until Black Friday. When this new strain of smallpox makes a comeback. It's going to be on every bank note, and spread faster than anyone could imagine. It's only a matter of time.
When the city falls, we will rise.
.........and I gave myself a boner. I can't wait for Monday......
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:16 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DaddyRocka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:38:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They referenced smallpox.
A game called The Division comes out Monday @ 11pm.
The premise is that someone created/obtained a suped up version of smallpox, puts it on bank notes, and distributes in NYC on Black Friday.
naughtydismutase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have been wiping species off the face of the earth ever since we started walking on two feet.
Wonder what happened to giant mammals and shit? We killed them all. Their extinction in certain places coincides with the arrival of men to those places.
[deleted] ยท 155 points ยท Posted at 02:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took me a long time to realize you were talking about disease.
synthcheer1729 ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 02:39:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you not been injected with the corpses of your other enemies yet?
Zacish ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 03:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I injected my self with corpses once. Now I'm autistic
Consanguineously ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 12:01:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
John was an average, ordinary businessman. He had a house, a loving wife and 3 kids. He was known for being enchanting and making friends at the snap of a finger. His social capabilities were through the roof. Then, the evil vaccine showed up. John tried to escape from the murderous doctor, tried to tell him that he found a study that absolutely proved vaccines have all poisons and toxins on earth inside them, but he still got injected with that lethal vaccine.
What of John now, you ask? Dead? No, worse. He became autistic! John now has aspergers and he needs to be watched 24/7! He can't even make friends with his charismatic charm anymore! Don't do vaccines, kids! Bush did 9/11! Dick Cheney made money off the Iraq War! The government is made of lizardpeople!
BusinessPenguin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm rather convinced Dick Cheney did make money of the Iraq War.
twitchchat9000 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:47:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LOL
rand486 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah! Thank you. I'm not a dumb person, but I could not put together what that was about.
e8ghtmileshigh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he's talking about viruses
Iwaspromisedcookies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was some kind of long lost Scientology secret
LuciferianAntichrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And vaccinations.
asshair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I took me a short time. Maybe by sentence 3
Tristan379 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the Nacirema
fairshoulders ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is hysterical. I'd gild you if I had money.
Blue_suede_shoes_111 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like I'm not getting something here
IEatMyEnemies ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:29:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's vaccines and smallpox
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Autism.
spencerdupre ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smallpox WAS a disease... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication
Tocoapuffs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last paragraph had me burst out laughing. But we are badass, good job humans.
Autoboat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is fucking perfect, thanks bud.
Nomad_Warrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:49:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
epic
TotallyNotanOfficer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are we talking about the flu?
If so: Fucking hell, I didn't know that it was that good. But fuck yeah, Humanity. Good job.
Hench21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, you must be looking for the writing prompts reddit. It's one thread over.
colorio111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The anti-vaxxers are at it again
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't there an alien analysis story that someone wrote up about this? About how we can lose entire limbs and keep functioning an other things? I can access imgur.com at work but I can access i.imgur.com
arquebus_x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...with the exception of a few kept in permanent solitary confinement, as test subjects.
Ramazotti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand why made-up rubbish like this gets upvotes. Bollocks is all I can say.
Antibane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They might not be corpses. Sometimes, we cull populations down to only their weakest members, inject those frail organisms alive into our bodies to make ourselves immune to them, which we do by allowing our much larger and more robust immune defenses to violently disassemble them.
copycat112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was the first one talking about?
B_For_Bandana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vaccines.
copycat112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I'm sorry I meant the one that we slaughtered the whole species.
B_For_Bandana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smallpox.
DieSchwagerin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this about?
B_For_Bandana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vaccines.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is it about ? I don't get it.
eagleraptorjsf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/HFY
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:58 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The black plague hasn't been irradiated.
KreegsMcSteves ยท 382 points ยท Posted at 01:06:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I clicked the link expecting (and hoping) to see a picture of the Greendale Human Being
Lookmanospaces ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:37:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That fucker is legit terrifying.
palad ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:41:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here you go
EvelynShanalotte ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without external links or pictures, tell an easily scared person what that is.
TheRandomkid321 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 10:37:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tv show Community had a sports mascot for it's Greendale college which is supposed to be unoffensive to every iirc. It turns out looking horrifying.
Rinychib ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly my thoughts
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not asking.Nope.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:07:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol its not like a monster or anything, it's a school mascot from the show Community.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah
DickSuckingGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here, it is pretty creepy
[deleted] ยท 305 points ยท Posted at 00:37:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome.
Some1StoleMyNick ยท 243 points ยท Posted at 01:02:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Scott's video is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPqk-O-fD4
40Koalas ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 02:59:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're badass! I'm gonna go punch a tree.
TheDrunkenHetzer ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just another example of Humans being irrational creatures. While able to comprehend that tree bark will hurt his fists when he punched the tree, this Human will punch it anyways, enduring the pain just to express their excitement.
Rr9s ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:55:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Minecraft?
TOO_DAMN_FAT ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you keep talking like that, I'm gonna eat your face.
Delsana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just died by a racoon in the tree.
creekbells ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:50:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahahaha dammit
dankmernes ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 03:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is off topic, but this video is a great example of why public domain is great. Here's all this public domain footage assembled together, combined with new work to create a new work of art that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Carry on
EFlagS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Public domain is absolutely amazing. I can't believe there's so much stuff just out there than anyone can use... completely free of charge!
vivvav ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only very recently learned about Tom Scott and he's fuckin' great.
-Oscar_The_Cat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. That's the first non-Computerphile video I've seen from this guy. I'm gonna have to look him up.
shadowswalking ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10/10 Now I want to read HHGTTG.
servohahn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:32:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh. Mostly harmless, I'd say.
D_K_Schrute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as Scott's Tot's
Gary_the_Goatfucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any more videos or articles like this? The topic has always been extremely interesting to me, but it's hard to search for it
turtletank ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:26:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These things got big a few years ago on 4chan's /tg/ board and were originally called "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" stories and consequently there's a /r/HFY subreddit with links to classic stories. Many of them are kind of poorly written and could use an editing pass but there are some gems. My personal favorite is about The Veil. Humans finally learn interstellar travel and excitedly explore the galaxy, only to find ruins and graveyards of ancient civilizations that apparently self-destructed. Finally, humans make contact (in a most spectacular way) that cements their place in the galaxy as the super badass scary race that somehow survived growing up in The Veil of Madness where every other sentient species eventually goes insane.
TheSpeedOfDarkness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love Tom Scott
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily with the senses part. Every species, obviously is a product of its environment. An animal that lives the dark won't rely on sight, but more on touch, smell, and hearing. Who knows what crazy environments a lifeform from another planet could live in? They may have an entirely different sense that we don't even know of.
ScurvyTurtle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:11:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Though lifeforms that live in the void of space my have no sense of hearing or smell, but may only have touch, taste, and possibly little use for visible light.
SoDamnShallow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should visit /r/HFY
hcrld ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 00:53:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/hfy
More specifically, Jenkinsverse
solidspacedragon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:30:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awwww yes, I actually expected to find this here!
WhapXI ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just read the first couple of chapters of the Jenkins thing. It started out pretty cool, but became pretty preachy, pretty fast.
hcrld ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skip that. It's just a 2-3 chapter phase. Transitions back to action pretty fast. Ever wonder what 5 kilograms of antimatter would do to San Diego?
WhapXI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I burned on through it. The backtracking is real. In the car with Catholic reporter lady and despite him being rugged and sexy, he tuts and complains every time he looks at a church. Lmao. He went from Mary Sue to caricature in the course of a single chapter.
meighty9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Jenkins actually gets delegated to being a pretty minor character later on, and most people in the story unanimously agree he's kind of an asshole.
redworm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My problem with HFY is those series. I started with the humans don't make good pets then realized it's probably the worst way to read a story I've ever tried. If someone put that stuff in a pdf or epub I'd be happy as a pig in shit. I love hfy stories.
hcrld ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:07:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try reading on the mobile site. It's better, even on desktop. It auto-opens in New tab if you're reading off the recommended order, and is a plain white with no sidebar.
https://m.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/ref/universes/jenkinsverse/chronological_reading_order
redworm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll give that a try but it's still in a browser. I like to be able to adjust font sizes and line width if I'm going to be reading for a few hours. I appreciate the link
Kojima_Ergo_Sum ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans breathe rocket fuel and excrete industrial solvents.
RandomRayquaza ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:11:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This sounds oddly a lot like that one random Tumblr post in regards to humans being depicted as harmless in movies
FingolfinSonofFinwe ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:22:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's cause it is.
omgitsprice ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:11:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mabel!
Lemurrific ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unexpected Mabel
ProcrastinatorSkyler ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:32:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
And as always the link to the original comment.
Whats_Up4444 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:19:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I liked the one about tanning.
LoneStarGeneral ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I'm gonna need her name pronto.
the-friendzoner ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Charisma Carpenter, and that was from Veronica Mars season 2.
LoneStarGeneral ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear sweet baby Jesus, what a fox. Thanks.
ScurvyTurtle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans lust for other humans' skin the way many animals lust for food.
Mitch_Mitcherson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you google "Humanity Fuck Yeah" you'll get some fantastic stories that are written from the perspectives of alien species and their encounters with humans. It's pretty much the source material for all those pictures.
The_Celtic_Chemist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only one of those things is exclusive to humans, and it's the least scariest.
xSPYXEx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention we ingest poison for fun, and have harnessed the power of a dying sun to power what's essentially a giant tea kettle.
FinFihlman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Click /r/HFY for awesome.
Legroom2368 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The craziest creepiest most terrifying thing about humans is the endurance. Humans can, and have, run non stop for more than a hundred kilometers. They have multiple biological mechanisms for heat dissipation from the body, even in conditions warmer than the body itself. They can go without nourishment or rest for extended periods of time. They have a crazy fast healing factor, and superficial wounds become filled with tougher hardened tissue in a matter of days. Even broken bones, or torn soft tissues, heal in weeks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, the scariest thing about humans isn't even on there.
Anthropologists believe one of our main hunting methods was something called "pursuit predation-" we are incredible long distance travelers, and would often hunt by finding a pack of animals and just... following them. For days. Slowly walking after they until they all succumbed to exhaustion from trying to stay ahead of us and gave up, and we got our tasty meal.
You know that scene in every horror movie where the main character is running away, but the monster is never doing more than a brisk walk? But every time they turn around, the monster is only a few steps behind?
That's us.
the_k_i_n_g ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fucking umbrella company
ThisIsSpartaChris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe our pantheon of warrior gods
CarpeCookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I know, we are the only species that will torture members of our own species. Also, while other animals kill to survive, there are plenty of humans that kill just for fun.
Rocky87109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think a lot of people forget what they are capable of just as being a human being. For instance people are scared of dogs but a grown male could literally grab a dog's mouth and rip it off the top of its head if its survival instincts kicked in enough.
Jooshmeister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet our minds are terribly fragile.
fgdadfgfdgadf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God that was so, so very awful
Chrisisvenom2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this thinking of the human being mascot from community
Maizemech56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really wish they would do a national Geographic video about how deadly humans can be. Even without guns or knives (only simple tools made by hand) humans can be very deadly when not fat and unathletic from lethargy.
Deesing82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/hfy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wanna know who that chick in the bikini is
sbd104 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Braces are not welded. Their cemented.
Kalipygia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:01:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*They're
sbd104 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Up boat for you.
Anonymonynonymous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't do braces because we have too many teeth, we have just enough teeth but a softer diet, which causes our jaws to grow in too small for the amount of teeth we have.
SilentJoe1986 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:35:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All joking aside this should be higher. Humans are hands down the scariest thing on this planet. I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find it.
jarodney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scientist: I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all.
[A pod reminiscent of the ones from the movie "The Fly" opens with a cloud of steam. It clears, revealing a naked human male.]
Naked Man: It turns out it's man.
https://theinfosphere.org/The_Scary_Door
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Walking down sidewalk looking at amazing fun facts about humans on phone, paying no attention to surroundings
"Wow! Humans are really badass and resilient. Aliens should be terrified of us."
Trips on curb and falls, hitting head on pavement. Dies instantly
kenpachitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LMF-AO
ScurvyTurtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, when human's are injured, one of the primary medical treatments includes filling their lungs with 100% combustible gases.
BustergunFIRE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you know:
Humans have the ability to run for miles without rest? No other animal in nature has the ability to distance run like humans.
EBOLA_CEREAL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT TURNS OUT IT'S MAN
Louzey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that girl in the bikini Jynx Maze?
Buffalo__Buffalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relevant
Dr0gar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We truly are space orcs
IngrownPubez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TURNS OUT ITS MAN
Ihavenoimaginaation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was actually really cool haha
Corte-Real ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're made of meat....
SmitOS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have been reading "Humanity, FUCK YEAH" since around midnight. Take your fucking upvote.
whoamiamwho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human bean
jellojellojello4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are kinda stupid, don't almost all living creatures on earth fit basically all these descriptions (e.g. fighting for hours after being shot).
RaccoNooB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff like this has always been fascinating to me. What characteristics would we have compared to other beings? I imagine did like aliens maybe being theses cold logical beings who'd never do shutting unless the math turned out heavily in their favor, while humans are emotional and will take leaps of faith. Sometimes winning big, other times losing big.
Also, human bites are seriously dangerous. It's not strictly true but in essence, humans can be considered both venomous (our bites infect and will cause stone nasty wounds/kills you) and poisonous (eating humans is a bad idea. We contain a lot of heavy metals and other stuff that you don't want. There's diseases you'll get as well from eating humans).
Don't fuck with humans.
Kalipygia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kuru is no joke, despite all the laughing.
MrRandomSuperhero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You cannot threaten me with a picture of Mabel.
T800CyberdyneSystems ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't mind me, just as n mobile saving this link.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:39:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Qwerv9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lettucent ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's literally the second thing down.
redditzendave ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:02:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LOL, was expecting a picture of Trump.
Nomicakes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The better version of this
TrashPanda007 ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 08:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having to kill someone. I love shooting as a hobby. Everything about it(except the cost), from buying a new gun to modifying it to going to the shooting range. I've never met a person at the gun range that I didn't like; most of them are more than happy to help a new shooter or chat about the hobby. That said, I'm terrified of having to pull the trigger to take a life. I'll do it if I need to defend myself or someone else because fighting back(by hand or with a weapon) is an emotionless reflex for me, but I know that it would destroy me afterward. I don't want to be the one to close the final chapter of someones book, even if it's a shitty story.
c3h8pro ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 18:37:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all seriousness, you get used to it. I went to Vietnam a lean mean killing machine, the USMC got their moneys worth. I never dehumanized the VC or the NVA or however you want to put it, they were men just like us fighting a war they didn't want either based on some fools politics Im sure they didn't understand fully either. You do however realize really quick that your the one who dies if you don't pull the trigger. That split second of realism is why I'm alive. I still see every iron sight picture I ever took and I never forget the "thuk" noise the rounds made on a torso, but you do be come able to live with it. Your soul accepts and your mind forgives you but your heart never lets you forget.
harring17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:20 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You said it
flywaytyler ยท 581 points ยท Posted at 23:33:50 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink holes
Sinnedangel8027 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:00:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Buddy of mine was driving in the middle of the night. When he was going up a hill, a whimsical sink hole devoured his car. He said that he just jumped out of his car and crawled out of the hole. Then within a few moments the hole filled up with water.
I'll see if I can get some pics up
Edit: Forgot to upload the pics but here they are
TheHoneyCreeper ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:35:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About a couple of months ago (during all the rain we got in the south) a car fell into a creek when bridge gave way. The driver drowned but passenger survived. They were heading home after a party. Now I have a slight fear of bridges. Not the big ones but the small ones that never get serviced.
eeyore134 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:55:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of the big ones desperately need service too. There's some pretty scary statistics out there about the bridges in the US which I don't want to go find since I need to drive across one tomorrow.
NecroGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every day, to and from work, I cross a rather sizable bridge. I think about it at least once a week "When was the last time they checked this thing out? Are there unnoticed stress fractures?"
I definitely get nervous when traffic is backed up and I have to sit on the bridge for a while; all that weight.
itzalexx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:05:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/9 bridges in the US is structurally deficient.. Highly recommend reading this page.
ApexBurton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:18:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pls deliver...that's insane
Sinnedangel8027 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forgot about this, I'll upload them here in a few minutes and edit my original comment.
Lemerney2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:22:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well?
ExcellaGionne ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the one that got Florida man while he was sleeping? It reopened.
MrHorseHead ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:44:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldnt it have been something if he was still in there?
ExcellaGionne ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:49:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He comes out as Hans Moleman, leader of the mole people.
In all seriousness though, sinkholes are terrifying and I hope he didn't suffer much.
[deleted] ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 00:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friends make fun of me for having a fear of sink holes...
J0L0 ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like it never happened. https://youtu.be/a7cOSzEKvrQ
admiral_snap ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:38:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This video just made me realized that I'm absolutely fuckin terrified of sink holes...
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No thank you
heinzbumbeans ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 01:56:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm willing to bet your friends just don't properly grasp the concept. Kind of like when you're a kid and have no fear of jumping from a 10 foot wall because you have a bin bag as a parachute. sink holes should be terrifying to any rational person.
SQUID_FUCKER ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think so. I think any rational person would look at the number of occurrences, combined with the fact that there is really fuckall you can do about it and choose not to let it occupy your fears.
slaaitch ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are things you can do to reduce your risk, though. Avoid limestone country is top of the list.
kiddo51 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What else is on the list?? Cause I'm thinking about it and it seems like that is the only thing you can do.
slaaitch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Install ground-penetrating radar in your house and check it obsessively for signs of a cavity forming. See how we went pretty much instantly from 'easy and sensible' to 'impractical and paranoid'?
kiddo51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's my point.
slaaitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But there are at least two things on the list.
kiddo51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:49 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theres only one that deserves to be on the list.
slaaitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the ground penetrating radar is something you could do if you really, really, wanted it. And it would in fact improve your odds of avoiding a sink hole, if only by a tiny bit. You could also drill test wells around your property and check them periodically by dropping a camera and lights down.
itzalexx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:00:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Avoid puddles where you can't see the road...
weres_youre_rhombus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:56:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any cracked pipe in the ground can cause a sinkhole, I've seen a few of these. Rainwater soaks into the ground, maybe it finds the crack in the pipe and starts to flow in. The flow is slow at first, but it starts to carry little bits of dirt with it. No one knows this is happening, but it is constant, persistent. Eventually, enough earth has been eroded into the pipe that there is a cavity under the ground, barely stable, just waiting for some weight to cause the collapse. Maybe that weight comes from snow, and we wake up to see a big hole. Maybe that weight is you. Nom. Nom. Nom.
kiddo51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... avoid cracked pipes underground?
1UpBox ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:52:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you start crying if you walk into a kitchen or bathroom?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:40 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why I don't shower
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He isn't with us anymore...
ColonelSarin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just avoid living in a house built above limestone
weres_youre_rhombus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:01:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes can also form from cracked utility pipes. So make sure you avoid areas that have those as well. You know, like streets. And parking lots.
Enobmah_Boboverse ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sinkholes are awesome! They might have caves attached to 'em!
Checkout these sinkholes forming in a retaining pond: https://youtu.be/lgWMhEWj5bA
Apparently after the water all drained away, a quite extensive cave was found. Unfortunately, before much exploring was done, it was cemented shut by the state.
teh_maxh ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes that already exist are awesome. The fact new ones can form with no warning is not.
lararin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This.
DeltaMango ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:29:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha. I live in ozark missouri and the sinks here are everywhere. We have a 5 acre hobby farm with a giant sink hole in our southern paddock. I've always worried about a huge hole opening on my property, but I'm more worried for the horses we have that run over it.
tamarainspace ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Freaking karst processes! It terrifies me. The whole state of Florida is a karst zone.
pogrmman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Karst is awesome!
NateBlaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BEES!!
MaxDG1013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in Florida, but I still don't even know what a sink hole is. I'm trying to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Onequalityoflife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These are so fucking scary. There was a guy who had one open up in his bedroom!! His brother was also in the house and was fine. Tried to save him but the brother was too far down the hole!! How is this even possible!! And now I'm freaked out again.
s4ndp4p3rm4n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Floridian here.
Sinkholes are real and they will fuck your life up. Moving to Florida? Get sinkhole insurance. This state can literally eat everything you own.
MumBum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YES. Scare the shit out of me.
hellwaspeople ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm convinced one will open at the bottom of my street. No idea how they work, but there's a pothole that keeps reappearing after it is filled, and there is a lot of water that seeps from under some houses along the two hills that connect at that point
atriaventrica ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 02:52:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cluster headaches.
nl1004 ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 02:54:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed! I get them pretty regularly due to a traumatic brain injury. I thought they were migraines until I explained it to someone. They aren't called "suicide headaches" for no reason.
beard_meat ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People just don't know. There have only been three times in my life that I've been in the hospital screaming my lungs out. Once was when I was born, another was a kidney stone, and cluster headaches make the third.
They eventually stopped for me and that's great because I could not live with that for the rest of my life.
Coul33t ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 10:08:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kidney stone is a fucking killer. First time I vomited because of the pain. Cluster headache is ... Well, worse. That's awful.
Coul33t ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have occular migraine. I thought I was very unlucky, and it was the worst kind of headache possible, until I learnt about cluster headaches ... Now, I still complain when I have one (they're very intense), but I thank whoever is in charge of the Universe that I don't have cluster headaches. Stay strong.
diphranium ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 05:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When i was about 13 my dad busted me over the head with a piece of metal pipe and now i have chronic cluster headaches. Im 18 now and get them about 9 times a week every few months. Just living day to day is difficult but it's just a fact of life for me now.
kilslef ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck why did he do that?
diphranium ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol it was an accident sorry for not being clear
kilslef ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 06:16:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I thought he was just a really shitty dad for a second there
jzerocoolj ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:56:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you considered psilocybin therapy?
Springheeljac ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:21:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://reset.me/personal-story/psilocybin-mushrooms-stopped-cluster-headaches/
I went from having them three or four times a month to once or twice a year.
Jerico_Hill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My word, that must be completely life changing for you. Fantastic!
Springheeljac ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:09:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It certainly made me less suicidal.
TheDreamGirl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:49:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This one should be higher on the list. It's terrifying how painful and debilitating they are.
Springheeljac ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:21:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://reset.me/personal-story/psilocybin-mushrooms-stopped-cluster-headaches/
TheDreamGirl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy cow. This is an incredibly interesting article! Thanks for sharing!
Springheeljac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It helped me out a lot.
BobMacActual ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:30:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Description given to a class of medical students:
"Imagine the worst hangover you've ever had. Imagine having ten of them at the same time.
"This is worse."
dalton_ts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:47:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had them a few times. -10/10. Easily the worst pain I've ever felt. Next worse is getting 2 shots in my big toe without numbing the skin first. Ouch.
voluptuous_lime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:47:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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tacostonight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can confirm. Although my episodes are only seasonal now.
I had a wisdom tooth extraction that started it back in 2001.
A few weeks after the extraction, i got clusters.
They happen now, every september for 3 weeks.
My typical pain and onset description. They happen at the same time, every day.
The trigger, is a smell, taste, sight , or a noise. I know this because the first symptom ocurrs right after the trigger.
My left eye will pulse a bit and get watery. I know i have about 5 minutes before the pain. Next my nose will run a bit and i'll feel a pressuring sensation (not pain). Next my mouth will get watery. (all this on the left side of my face.
My jaw will tense a bit and then bam. THe entire left side of my face feels like someone is shooting it. Not shot it, it's a constant pain. it feels like the left side of my face is trying to push something out of it that doesn't have enough room to be in there.
Unlike migraines, when i get my cluster. I must move. I will bang my head against things, pinch myself. Ultimately as i've dealt with these going on 10 years, i just bare it. They last exactly 35 minutes to the second almost. Now i just get up and walk until the time is over.
Once i get the first one, i usually cry a bit because i know what the next 3 weeks will be like. Every year, i hope that this is the year they stop.
THe initial onset back in the early 2000's , i asked my doctor to kill me multiple times.
There is no medication that worked for me. Oxygen therapy, immitrex shots, beta blockers. Nothing. I wish i could put into words the pain that i experience with them. Once the headache leaves, i feel like i ran a marathon. My body and mind is so exhausted that all i can do is lay down. I try to schedule my vacations from work around that time lol. Adjusting to life for the 3 weeks sucks.
If you have any questions about clusters, or if you possibly have them, or anything feel free to message me.
atriaventrica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you tried the psylicybin method?
tacostonight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have not heard of it till just now. I gave up on treatment 5 years ago and live with them.
atriaventrica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's worth a shot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh yeah, i'm lucky that mine are on the less painful side for cluster headaches. therefore only debilitating, and not annihilating. i can't imagine what it'd feel like if i were less lucky.
selectiverealist ยท 3127 points ยท Posted at 00:20:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we are all going to die one day and this is the only life we will ever have (according to science anyway). If you fuck up, that's it. You don't get another chance. If you miss out on something you may never get to try again. You probably won't get to see the entire world in person, taste every type of food, see every movie, or find out if you could have been happier with someone else. That scares me more than anything.
rainydazehaze ยท 1232 points ยท Posted at 00:41:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is what keeps me up at night. Another terrifying thought is you'll never know if it's the last time you'll see someone/visit a place/do something.
selectiverealist ยท 240 points ยท Posted at 00:49:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I always tell my parents and friends I love them when saying goodbye. No matter what happens, at least they know how important they are to me.
apm54 ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do the same and I feel like people think I overuse it, but I lost a friend recently and it makes me happy to know that he knew how much he meant to me.
lzrae ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always say I love you. I always think that may be the last time I see them. I'm really happy I said it to my stepdad on the phone that last time.
SoDamnToxic ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I literally never tell anyone in my family I love them, like, I just can't do it, I don't feel it, not even when they were on their deathbed it just feels like a lie... I know it's pretty terrible but I have a hard time saying "love" for some reason... even to my closest family... I don't really feel guilty about it, it just feels like I should tell my family I love them... but I can't...
I just can't...
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:20:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SoDamnToxic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:56:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really, I mean... I literally explained something about myself in like what? 60 words? Not really that complex...
Unless you know something about me that you're not telling me...
Tocoapuffs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You won't stop, and that's a good thing. Really opens your eyes to do what you want in this world and to let those who you care about know.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:03:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That made me feel kinda sad ๐
Quasar_Cross ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:47:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use it. Let it light a fire under your ass.
Do what you want to do. Do it wisely. Say what you want to say. Say it wisely. Don't let these opportunities go to waste. Don't think you'll say these things later. Don't think you'll see that special person another time. Make every second count.
good_guy_submitter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:22:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So in other words, quit Reddit. Got it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
;0
TwilightTink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it's the last thing you have said to/ heard from them
589547521563 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 05:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Me too. It makes me feel secure.
edit: apparently reddit doesn't like when I say to my loved ones that I love them
selectiverealist ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:54:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing gay about telling your bros you love them.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially while you bang em'. Nothing like telling your bros how much they mean to you while you give em' a reach around.
Seriously though, tell anyone who is close to you that you love them. You never know when your last chance will be.
In-burrito ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:16:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you ever wonder if you already own the clothes you'll die in?
rainydazehaze ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:21:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every year, you pass your birthday and other significant dates, including what will eventually be your date of death. Ever wonder what day it'll be?
pillsanddiamonds ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:52:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah that kinda fucked me up man, the little things you never think about that are kinda life changing.
Der_Baba ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:22:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hah! Jokes on you, I am naked all the time.
TwilightTink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:51:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh man, I can't fit in my favorite dress anymore. Don't they cut the back off or something?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:33:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do now.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:59:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? It makes me feel relieved. Like yeah I can fuck up really bad but at least it won't really matter. I'm gonna die and so are you, so why do you care so much? It almost makes me feel a little better
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:22:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the big lebowski about an optimistic nihilist? I've always considered myself that but haven't seen the movie. Maybe I would like it.
idsimon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You would like it either way!
burrito987 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If nothing matters, everything is possible.
SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's any comfort, life is completely meaningless and nothing you do or don't do matters. In fact, only a handful of us (if any!) will even be remembered in a couple hundred years. Just do what makes you happy. You're playing with house money. Stakes are low. Any mistake you make is no biggie because the game has no point.
KrazyKukumber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a joke or do you really think this will help the person you replied to?
SquirtleSpaceProgram ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:25:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It absolutely comforts me. Life's much simpler and less stressful with the reminder that the pressure is off.
KrazyKukumber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. Unfortunately for me, I find it scary as hell!
Andrado ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's a good thing. If you know you'll never experience something, or see a person or place again, it would change your perception in that last encounter, to the point that you're no longer enjoying the experience but thinking about the situation. If it's a person, place, or activity I love, I would much rather have my last experience be just like the rest, because it was in that state that I found enjoyment.
SosX ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:07:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, it's so awesome to try all you can and knowing every experience is unique. Millions would love to live your life, just enjoy it. At least you ain't a kid in a fucked up place in Africa, have a fucking go at life man, it's fantastic out here.
rainydazehaze ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:20:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I definitely try to expand my horizoms but I still have momentary panic attacks about how meaningless it all is in the end!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After reading the whole sex trafficking thing in this thread I'm not sure I'm ever going to go outside again.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:28:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you make sure you leave things better than you found it and leave people happy they met you, this really isn't all that bad.
PantheraAtrox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I was just feeling good about life and then this.. all my worst fears.
commiecomrade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing about dying is that you don't get to experience it. We fear the dark because bad things can come out of it and harm us. We fear spiders because they can harm us. We fear not doing well because we could flunk out or get fired and thus experience a bad outcome.
You will never perceive death or suffer from it. You weren't around to be sad and suffer for the first 13 billion years of time, and you won't start when you're dead. Thus, fearing death isn't logical.
Plus, if you believe in a religion that states it, you'll be fine anyway.
Roruman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Epicurus
dulcetContagion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Every time my boyfriend leaves I have to tell him to drive safe. I worry that the one time I forget will be the time something happens, and I don't know. It isn't very logical, but I guess fear isn't always logical.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You never know. At 16 I lost four teeth in a car accident just driving around the block. I didn't have my seat belt on and smashed my mouth on the steering wheel. I didn't think I needed the seat belt since I was taking such a short trip. If someone had told me to drive safe, maybe it would have given me pause enough to put my seat belt on. Probably not because I was 16 and dumb as fuck, but I might have.
dulcetContagion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:05 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry about your accident, but thanks for your story! I'm glad I always make sure to say it, I hope it makes him even a little more conscious when he drives.
radicalelation ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keeps me up at night sometimes too. Only thing that does and it causes me great anxiety at times. It's taken a while to calm down from it, but every so often... it hits.
The best way to stop it I found is to think about all the time I've spent with those I love and how I will continue to do so until the day I die.
larryfuckingdavid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When this stuff keeps you up at night, be aware that you won't be living your one life to the fullest if you're tired. There's no winning with this shit!
C2-H5-OH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is nothing wrong with this predicament, but I think only /u/poem_for_your_sprog can explain it best. Too bad he/she doesn't take requests.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the FlipSide, that's a good reason to live a life of little to no regrets. If you could die at this very moment, you might as well be doing something you enjoy.
wraith313 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should look into stoic philosophy. It shouldn't keep you up at night, it should be bringing you into focus on every experience as though it may be your last. Life is beautiful, don't let it pass away being afraid of living.
hairychested1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn man. I feel so guilty right now. I should have gone to see a friend last weekend who was in the hospital and I made an excuse not to. He died today and now I won't get that opportunity. I'm so sad.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRk9SRPzXnU
"Because we do not know when we will die we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your life that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four of five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty and yet it all seems limitless"
cannotkeepmouthshut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be diggin' it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one-shot deal - Zappa
neatlyfoldedlaundry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a fight with my boyfriend the day before he was leaving on a cross-country bike trip, didn't say I love you because I was pissed he was leaving me (I was young). He died in Iowa.
In the five years since his death, I always say I love you when I say goodbye, either in person or on the phone, either after a fight or having beers. As I learned, you can be furiously upset with someone and still love them to pieces.
ElMangosto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about this one: One day your dad/mom put you down and never picked you back up.
Or: At some point your name will be spoken for the last time ever.
DinoRaawr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean if you're dead, you wouldn't know it anyways, right?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This right here. No time for goodbyes, nothing.
RichieBooth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah so if that night might be your last don't waste it lying in bed worrying about something futile, just make sure youre happy and don't sweat it
johnny_appletits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like that though. On a smaller scale: my American family lives in Singapore, and every year I visit them I try to experience it like it's the last time. They could move back anytime, and my chances of seeing it again go way down. But I try to treat a lot of things that way.
Shankocity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's also a good thing.
Horst665 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something similar I read recently: At some point your parents put you down and never picked you up again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why let it keep you up? Just enjoy it and live it. I waste some days and grasp the shit out of others. Just live!
Randomacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, as far as I understand it.... It is the same as going to sleep only you don't wake up.. Not even endless darkness... Because you are not observing anything. Just.... Nothing...
Just like sleep.. Well with that I'm going to sleep
Calamity58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you may ask yourself "How did I get here?"
asdjk482 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everytime you see something is the last time you see that thing. Rivers can't be crossed by the same man twice even if the river wasn't moving.
abby81589 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why you gotta go out with a bang. Three kids I went to high school with died recently. One drowned rafting, one was street racing super late at night and one died skiing in New Zealand. If I'm gonna die, I wanna be doing something fun as hell. Not in a bed in a hospital.
saranowitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So live each day like it's your last and never waste a breath.
Stewbodies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's a last time for everything. Last time you talk to each person, last time you wake up, last time you go to any place you go to.
Funny_People ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think about this every day, the idea of ageing scares the shit out of me as well. So far not so bad as I am still fairly young but soon.. Faaack
victorherligt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:08 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read "Staring at the Sun" By Irvin D. Yalom. It's an existential psychology professor at Stanford who writes a book were he discusses anxiety of death and the feelings of regret or unfulfilled life and whatnot. It's also quite philosophical
ohlookahipster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuuuuuck.
Now I'm thinking what be the last song I will ever hear? What will be the last time I genuinely laugh? The last time I swim?
Rebal771 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:21:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So? I don't understand the fear. I can understand the disappointment of looking back and going, "man...woulda shoulda coulda..." because that sucks. But if you're terrified...fucking act like it. Do shit now so that you don't miss that opportunity. Take those risks to find out what you're made of now...cause if you get killed or die because of it, you won't have time for regret. You're dead.
But if you bitch out, and look back on it when you're 30 or 80 or whatever...you deserve to be terrified. You deserve regret.
Face your fears now and experience life. Know what it means to live...not to regret.
KrazyKukumber ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone well past 30, that's hilarious.
CoanTeen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got too much free time....
ReleaseTheRobot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:41:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once your realize your life and the life of everyone you know isn't precious it helps. You're just one of 7 billion of us, get over yourself.
gentlylubeme ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 01:51:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks of these things, shortly followed by that horrible hollow, cold feeling in your stomach... Thanks for the horrible feels
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:53:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jotmool ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:05:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watching my parents age makes me feel terrible :(
dingoransom ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Especially late at night when you stun yourself into a wide-eyed, hollowed-out shell of a person with your heart pounding. Fun times.
Fortune_Cat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:04:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get panic attacks from this. How do normal people cope?
Cassandra_Anderson ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:35:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get panic attacks, and I cope by breathing deeply and telling myself stories in my head.
But specifically about the "but we're all going to die" thing. Time is really weird and mysterious, so is consciousness. There's a really good chance of the multiverse, or time repeating, or time not really being linear. So many mysteries that I don't feel that existential dread as much anymore, because who knows. Maybe we can experience consciousness in many ways throughout time, maybe it never ends (not that there's an afterlife, but that we're always having our conscious experiences from life).
I spent most of my teenage years and childhood lying awake at night with mortal dread. But now, the more I think about it, the less I feel I have to dread. Death is scary, I don't want to die, I don't want my family to die, but the universe is so rich with mystery, I don't think there's a "void."
Frisnfruitig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd really like that to be true. Although I do think there is in fact a void.
Probably like before you were born; absolutely nothing.
Cassandra_Anderson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you don't experience not being born. You're only ever conscious.
dingoransom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:27:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get those too sometimes. I have no idea how normal people cope, but I just try to think of happy thoughts and close my eyes and hope I fall asleep quick.
NotEvenFast ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just remember, you most likely don't get to take any of your life memories with you. Feel better?
selectiverealist ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry and you're welcome.
ginsunuva ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:17:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you really think you were the only person who thought of something like this?
AlmightyRedditor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That horrible, hollow cold feeling is death itself
thecolbra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you think that's bad just think about all the situations the phrase "a minute too late" could apply to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. I can't go to bed for about 30 minutes each night because of this pure existential dread.
Fortune_Cat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:03:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get panic attacks thinking about this all the time
Thai_hapa ยท 503 points ยท Posted at 01:25:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And after you die, you'll never know what becomes of your loved ones, that's the part that gets me
dbx99 ยท 864 points ยท Posted at 01:33:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will die.
[deleted] ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 03:02:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking spoilers man
thisnachocheese ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:24:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this uplifting or depressing I'm struggling to decide
AbanoMex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:34:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no one gets out alive broh.
Darbinator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:37:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Leprechorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ModsCanSuckMyDick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Y
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Blackfeathers_eve ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:34:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucy?
Renverseur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Valar Morghulis.
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Valar Dohaeris.
nythnggs4590 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:38:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you're not wrong
idahoduckhunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks Dr Oz
Vince_Magik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks mate. Now I can die in peace โ๐ป๏ธ
ShibaHook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spoiler alert!!!!
CheesecakeCaptain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:17:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spoilers!
MissZoeyHart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh thanks. I feel better now.
SalchichaChistosa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about their loved ones?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about the loved ones of your loved ones?
dbx99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have some bad news
HoboTed110801 ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 02:51:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The part that gets me is that you'll just cease to exist, like what the fuck will happen, and if the answer is nothing, do you just not have any consciousness?
Puqqz ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see this mentioned enough. I think about this every now and then, like what the fuck happens?
Honestly, it's impossible to imagine (obviously) but like what the fuck man, I'm so blown away by the fact that when you die, you're just dead like you can't possibly imagine not existing.
HoboTed110801 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:23:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I totally get you, this is exactly how I feel.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You ever had a problem with falling asleep? I mean the actual act itself. You ever wake up and not remember any dreams or what happened while you were asleep? If that didn't bother you, I'd say dying shouldn't either.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:57:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually that terrifies me
ulpisen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eh, death shouldn't scare you, dying is horrifying
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:12:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kind of what I meant. There are some horrific ways to go, but once it's over its over.
ulpisen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's an interesting distinciton, dying is really sad, death is just nothing
VictorVaughan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the opposite. Dying doesn't scare me. It's temporary. Death is forever. Scares the shit out of me.
Puqqz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I almost always refer to when this comes up haha, read my mind perfectly. It's just crazy to think about though, just being like that forever..
fleshtrombone ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine the opposite though, having consciousness forever. Eternity is a long time, our minds have difficulty comprehending thousands of years, let alone infinite years.
No thanks! When I go, I want all the lights turned off.
ArcaneAmoeba ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:45:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From an external perspective it makes perfect sense, but it's really strange to think about. Probably why even a lot of atheists believe in some form of afterlife. Being an organic life form is weird, man.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:09:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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reficurg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But now that I do...
jackthesignalman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When we die, a dog, a tree, a star; do we all see the same fate? Conciousness or no conciousness? What differentiates us all. Or do all of our remains face the same fate, ash to ash dust to dust. No one will know until it's too late.
ulpisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not with that attitude
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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fleshtrombone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The dead know only one thing: that it is better to be alive."
-Full Metal Jacket
Puqqz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my bad. Just typed whatever came to my head at the moment.
iJeax ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 02:59:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I think there is only so much Science can prove. And realistically, no one knows unless you're dead. There could be an afterlife, there might not be, we don't know.
WarOnErrorism ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:50:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm an atheist but I entertain the idea that there could be SOMETHING after we die that we just literally do not understand.
lordcirth ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:25:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also the theory that the universe is a computer simulation. If so, backups are a thing.
iJeax ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:47:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't really have a belief, I'm kind of in the middle. Would that make me Agnostic? I just don't think humans really have the answer to what happens after death. I hope there is something, because if there is nothing, that would suck. And sure we wouldn't know we're dead, but thinking about it now sucks haha.
Leafsfan83 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're all just playing a game of Roy
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah. I'm playing the sequel Roy 2: Dave
Luhmies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being able to disprove something doesn't mean there's good reason to believe in it.
Why should we have any reason to believe there's an afterlife? It's a comforting thought, obviously, but that doesn't make it a rational one.
Hispanicwhitekid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the same lines there is just as little proof that there is nothing. Belief that death is the end would be just as irrational. It's really down to preference.
ulpisen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:58:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
except the evidence we do have points towards the brain being the source of our minds, and as the brain goes, so do the minds
PM_ME_YOUR_BULBASAUR ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:08:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes we do. The neurons in your head that interpret stuff and give you consciousness will be dead. You won't have anything to think with. It will be exactly like it was before you were born
Promasterchief ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:59:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we are very lucky and technological and scientific progress is growing exponentially, I mean look at the last 20 years, we might get the chance to actually upload our mind
CountDrewku ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This almost sounds scarier than not existing. I can't imagine wanting to be around forever. What the hell would you do with yourself for infinity.
Ramanadjinn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:26:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't count on infinity even if we found a way to not die from old age.
Promasterchief ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:37:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be fine with a simulated world as I'm experiencing it right now
ulpisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you wouldn't have to live for infinity, you'd get to live however long or short you wanted
bunker_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:04:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Erase your memories every thousand years so everything is new again.
CountDrewku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then that's not really you anymore is it?
JackLegJosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems weird and kind of terrible in the abstract but when push comes to shove, pretty much everyone wants to keep on living.
thetarget3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:44 on March 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You won't anyway. The universe only has a finite lifetime. At some point even a computer would stop.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:59:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Erase memories and rewatch shows. Make new things. If I'm immortal a requirement is the ability to forget things that I want to forget.
ILikeMtnDew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of the only thing that fills me with dread, truly scary stuff
oblivioustoobvious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would assume, yes. It's going to feel like it felt like before you were born. You will not know.
NortonPike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you don't exist for billions and billions of years. And, then you do--for about 80 trips around the sun. Then you don't anymore. Forever.
JackLegJosh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does seem like a waste to have consciousness and then it's just... gone. Like, what's even the point of having that kind of self-awareness?
Konker101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
litterally nothing. youre dead, you cant think, you cant see, you cant breath, you cant do anything.
You will be asleep forever. And thats the rough part, not being able to experience life again.
Anchovie_Paste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Self aware problems. I assure you that my dog does not give a fuck.
Morpheus01 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it bother you that the universe existed billion of years before you were born? Why should it bother you that it will exist billions of years after you die?
bunker_man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:05:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it bother you that this line is overused and still doesn't really mean anything?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Contrast is terrifying. Not existing for all of eternity is just like eating nothing but oatmeal. Existence is like eating steak. You will be terrified of the fact that after you're time you'll never be able to experience the variety of life. Terrifying.
TurduckenII ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:37:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, remember the year that you were born? Death is like all the time before that from the beginning of time. That's the funny thing. You've already been dead for billions of years.
enemawatson ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:21:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will almost assuredly be exactly the same for you after death as it was before you were born.
Not existing -> existing -> Not existing
Death didn't bother you before birth, and it won't bother you after life. That's just the way she goes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The contrast is terrifying to me.
poopiedoodles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost creepier than that - albeit in the same vein - is that whatever does occur, occurs for eternity. This absolutely unfathomable amount of time. Not even another lifetime, or a million years, but eternity.
If we legitimately do just cease to exist - which is my belief as well, though that's a whole different story - then that's probably the least 'scary' option.
If there's a hell? You're there forever. If there's a heaven? You're there forever. Paradise forever is a lovely thought and all, but the point is: anything forever is pretty horrifying, even the best case scenario. And if there's reincarnation? You're reincarnating forever. With that logic, wouldn't the same 'souls' or 'beings' perpetually be on Earth? All the same conflicting personalities and viewpoints? At least, this is my limited understanding of various religions. I don't know of any where their beliefs of what happen post-death changes over time (excluding purgatory, which would just delay that inevitability), but could be wrong.
And if you think that's scary now, imagine having that little revelation around age 6, because I was clearly a normal child.
...Also, hit a wrong key while typing and 'eternity' immediately autocorrected to 'enter butt'. It doesn't really add anything to my point, but I thought it was noteworthy nonetheless.
Lemurrific ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I try to conceptualize what if would be like to be dead.
Then I realize I literally can't, because I am there to think about it.
"I think, therefore I am."
gnichter ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:10:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine it's a lot like how it felt before you were alive
op135 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:12:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you literally can't even
spankymuffin ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but you won't be wondering what becomes of them because you'll be too busy being dead and not having thoughts, feelings, emotions, or regrets.
Morpheus01 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:16:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Einstein said this about the death of a family friend:
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
frickineh ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:24:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually almost a relief to me that I probably won't have anyone left when I die. My younger sister died 5 years ago, so I've become an only child, and I don't speak to the majority of my extended family because they're a bunch of racist, homophobic asshats. I always worried that my death would be sad or inconvenient for my family, but I suspect I'll be the last one left.
LauraPa1mer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry for your loss.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Enough of this cynical shit. I firmly believe in the afterlife/heaven exists in some shape or form.
Sensei8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good thing i don't have any loved ones
Nindeler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:13:41 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was hearing See Me Now by The Kooks right now so it gets a bonus for sad :/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you won't care because you will no longer be
cat_dev_null ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life will continue on without missing a beat. We only think we have purpose.
XyzzyPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did you feel last night at 4:37 am while you were sleeping? Sweet Oblivion.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. I was either having an engaging dream or I was experiencing nothingness. To me sweet oblivion doesn't existence.
XyzzyPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothingness implies a lack of presence. Sweet oblivion it is. You can objectively claim you were doing something else but if you can't recall it - you aren't missing it, like all the years of your life you spend sleeping.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After you die, you won't worry about it. You cease to exist.
utried_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's not like you're going to be sitting there, dead, thinking about them and wondering. Your consciousness is completely gone. So "not knowing" doesn't even really make sense in this context.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and if you have kids late in life, you'll probably never meet your grandchildren. I'm 39 and have a 1 year old son, and that one just hit me the other day.
thardoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well the good news is that you'll never know anything again, so it's not like you will worry about it.
greshark ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 01:47:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the bright side, once it happens you'll be indifferent to all that stuff.
Bremic ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 03:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I tell people, especially when overtly religious people ask me "aren't you worried what happens to you after you die?"
My response is normally "So what do you remember about the year before you were born?" Of course they respond "nothing". I ask them "Was it good to you? Was it comfortable? Was it painful? Did you feel that you were missing out on something?" They either respond "Of course not I wasn't born yet" or "But I was living another life at that point and don't remember it now."
Either way works because the response is "I am not worried about death, because it will be like that." Either I will not be aware of it because I won't be there. Or I will be in another life and don't remember this one so I won't care (I don't believe this).
Luxray ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not being aware of it is what gets me. I don't want to cease to exist.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:25:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're immortal, man! When you die, either your conscience will somehow carry on or you'll cease to exist, but if you do you won't know it, so don't worry too much about it.
soniacristina ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:35:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It could be worse. You could be so depressed that you actually want (and choose) to cease to exist.
ProphePsyed ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:19:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once it happens, it won't matter. All we can do is enjoy life now and not worry about after we die. I really don't want to talk about religion on Reddit but that's what a lot of Christians don't understand. The afterlife is not what this is all about. This is what this is all about. Live life today; Don't worry about tomorrow.
sheldonator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm with this guy.
Notjustnow ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you know that?
HomelessHarry ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:53:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you'll be dead
Mrs_MiaWallace ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that comforts me when I think about this is knowing how insanely likely it was for me to not exist at all. That's scarier to me.
Antithesys ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:21:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed, how if it had been that sperm instead of this sperm, you wouldn't exist. Your parents would still have had a child, may have given it the same name, fostering an environment that produced a similar personality, making the same friends, living a similar life...but it would be a different person. It wouldn't be "you but you'd think differently so you wouldn't realize it," it would be a different person, and you just...wouldn't get the chance. Ever.
Timmyc62 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And a fantastic song that makes good use of that quote is Nightwish's The Greatest Show on Earth.
Mrs_MiaWallace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:48:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's a great quote, thanks for sharing. I also like the classic to be or not to be speech, "thus conscience does make cowards of us all."
Antithesys ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That line has literally kept me alive.
AryanShiro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we're also a different person every second, right? According to the constant movement of ourselves, be it the current state of the brain, muscles, metabolism or each particle simply existing- no matter how "plastic" we are. Then I guess the lack of inherit meaning of everything and us never objectively being an individual in the first place comes in, though.
tunafister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See now, to me, what I want at least somewhat answered in my life is...
How in the fuck is consciousness assigned?
As in, the small ant that lives 3 months and that is it, how is it their consciousness in that being and not you? It seems unfair that we as humans can have 100+ year lives, and an ant only months.
Especially if that is if that is it.
I am grounded in science, and am not trying to get into a spiritual/philosophical debate, but it does make me consider consciousness as something that can be created again in another medium.
I just want to know how everything shakes out, what leads to our predetermination to be humans, and for the predetermanation to be an ant?
Would love for this to be answered in my life time.
Mrs_MiaWallace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know that it would necessarily be assigned but I think it could be just random. I think consciousness is just another chance occurrence. A random mixture of DNA that creates a brain that happens to come into being. I don't think it's fair that an ant would have a brief conscious span but fairness may not be a reason that it is planned. Some humans have extremely short life spans or periods of consciousness as well but I don't know that there is a reason or plan for that. Just talking, not trying to necessarily imply anything. I'm fascinated by this topic.
tunafister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:20:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for replying!
Yeah, fairness to me in the grand scope is pretty much meaningless, there isnt a higher being keeping tabs or anything in my mind, more of that it introduces a variable that I believe needs to now be accounted for. Not being able to wrap my head around it really makes me re-evaluate the topic.
Like, I am almost positive there is other life out there, are we in that same random pool of opportunity too? Could it have been just as likely that we were another form of life 15 billion light years away? Or are we exclusively of this earth\solar system\galaxy?
It definitely makes me consider that there is an opportunity to have consciousness again.
Maybe it is that you decompose, earth is destroyed, but billions of years down the road earth collides to form another life forming planet (just as an example, this would be incredibly rare) and part of your dna that decomposed is retained, and only part of that chain needs to be there to be assimilated into another new living being. That is my non-scientific theory I am running with right now, really the only way I can settle the topic for myself.
Kalayo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From a Tedtalks I listened to a few days ago.. Some lady made the claim that it was one in 400 Trillion.
bunker_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's arguable. You are presuming that you could only be meaningfully "you" with your exact dna. But is that really true? This is an assumption. One that is harder to support than it sounds like once people move past using dictionary definitions and thinking they solve philosophical issues.
Mrs_MiaWallace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just don't think it would be me. Had a different sperm won, it would be a different consciousness. I would never be conscious. Maybe that person would look similar to me and obviously would be raised similar to how I was but it would be a different person. I would never exist.
crazyisthenewnormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I grew up in a religious family and was told I could live forever and be happy with my family or be punished forever. I used to worry about what my decisions meant to this "forever." And then over time I became an atheist. I wasn't sure if I thought everything stopped after death. But, after a while the thought of it has become comforting to me. I don't have to go on for forever! I can just stop. I can rest. I can be done. I can let go. And someday maybe my atoms will become part of another star. It's hard to explain. I'm just able to find it a relief in a way.
Mrs_MiaWallace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. The thought of being conscious forever always made me really nervous and I also felt a lot of relief when I didn't believe that anymore.
Tundru ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least once you die that's it...you won't even know you're dead or even existed. Wait...that's not helpful at all.
TNUGS ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:12:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find it comforting. it's the ultimate indifference.
5510 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 02:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So unless you are super religious, you should help bring attention to / donate money to anti-aging research (like SENS). Of course even if we "cure" that, in your current form you have to worry about the sun exploding or getting hit by a bus, but it's a critical first step.
Edit: overpopulation addressed here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/48ujhq/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_on_our_earth/d0mwogg
TurnerJ5 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:34:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're just a generation or two away from the immortality that comes with uploading memories and personalities onto drives and/or transferring to some sort of body. Mark my words. We just missed it, on the grand scale of things. Assuming we don't nuke ourselves first.
5510 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:40:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming there's not teleporter death type issue, yes. Although that still leaves you with a potentially indefinite lifespan, but some other challenges to gain immortality.
And we might not be too late if people would get off their nonsense rationalizing asses (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/48ujhq/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_on_our_earth/d0mwogg) and do something about it.
I mean how weird is it that the shit I'm posting marks me as being into "weird fringe beliefs" to a lot of supposedly non suicidal people?
Savage9645 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:53:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it's weird to not want to live forever
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aaah, that's so incredibly frustrating.
TurnerJ5 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:05:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry you'll be complacently dead while your demigod ancestors are surfing on neon beaches and enjoying super exotic alien sex drugs.
bunker_man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:09:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's something about that though. If you upload your consciousness and think it meaningfully counts as "you" it means you think your mental data matters more than your body. If this is true, then some form of palingenesis exists by default so long as something somewhere in reality kicks into something sufficiently resembling your mental data. And hell, we live in a probably infinite universe and there's a mathematical formula for how close you can expect an exact doppleganger of yourself to exist in.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, the way health care is advancing, we'll probably see it. It's been said that the first person who will love to 200 has already been born, so we might see it happen
KamboMarambo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uploading memories and personalities doesnยดt make you personally immortal it just immortalizes your being. It still wonยดt necessarily be the same because your body influences a great deal of who you are.
AryanShiro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the first place though, you're only composed entirely of "your being". Two identical instances running at the same time obviously aren't the same thing, but when the conscious is meaningless, you only exist to feel happy and spread your meme
I guess that does depend more on your philosophy, though
DulceyDooner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:16 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, tech support would be a lot more stressful.
HowTheyGetcha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or overpopulation.
5510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/48ujhq/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_on_our_earth/d0mwogg
Garviel_Loken95 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:51:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that really a good idea? Over population is already enough of a problem
5510 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
(TLDR: just read it, this is super important, yet everyone ignores it)
I know you probably don't mean it in a bad way (and lots of people say it), but if you stop and think about it, that's an INCREDIBLY fucked up thing to say. Yes, overpopulation is a potential issue, but you have to address it by reducing births. I know that sounds dystopian, but the alternative is way MORE dystopian... literally worse than Hitler.
Try looking at it this way:
Imagine if some genius scientist tomorrow releases something into the atmosphere to permanently cure aging for all humans and their future children, forever. It's a fait acompli, he doesn't ask for input or permission, he just does it. So now NOT curing aging isn't an option.
At this point you only have two realistic options. Either cut way down on births... or systematically round up and kill "old" people (keep in mind nobody is physically old anymore). I mean shit like Logan's Run is supposed to be dystopian, not a good recommendation for social framework. I mean I strongly believe that intentionally going out of your way to not cure something (or even suppress a cure) is pretty similar to rounding people up and kill them... especially because the motivation would literally be "we need people to die."
Yeah, I understand people would be upset with incredibly strict laws to slow population growth, but what kind of alternative is it to kill off (either directly or indirectly) "old" people?
Or imagine if you want to have kids, but an evil genie curses you. He says that in order for you to have kids, you have to go find a healthy 26 year old and shoot them in the head. I think everybody would agree it would be SUPER fucked up if you went and shot a 26 year old in the head. So why is it not super fucked up for people to want "old" (though physically perfectly healthy) people to die to make room for their kids?
Shit, if two people REALLY want to have kids (well some small number of kids would still be needed, but outside of whatever lottery or process governs that), maybe they can choose to not be "cured" of aging. If there are X number of "spots" in the world, they can have TWO kids, and give those kids their spots and die (not immediately upon having the kids, but of aging eventually)."
But I don't plan on kids, and I sure as shit am not giving up MY spot, just so some selfish fuckers can have THREE kids!!!
People also say it would be bad for "humanity." For one thing, I strongly disagree on their definition of humanity. Humanity isn't a faction in a giant game of Civ, it's not there just for the accomplishments of some faction, where the individual lives are meaningless. To me humanity is "all the humans currently alive." It can't be good for humanity for all humans to die preventable deaths! Humanity is the collection of individual humans, and it's obviously better for them to not age, and try and prevent all forms of death, unless they choose to do so.
But even if we go with the "Civ faction" definition of humanity that people use for some reason, curing aging is INCREDIBLY underrated. For one thing, people might give more of a shit about long term problems like environmental issues if they thought they might still be around in a couple hundred years.
But it's also important to think about the HUGE economic benefits. Current unemployment numbers are bullshit... the REAL unemployment is around 50%... because kids and old people don't work! Not only that, but a lot of people are involved with caring for kids and old people. And yet they are still consumers we currently support.
In a world with few kids and few old people, we could literally DOUBLE the number of workers without adding ANY new consumers. That's an insane increase to productivity, and that productivity isn't cancelled out by extra mouths to feed or supply basic needs to. Shit, we could cut everybody to working only 75% as much and still have 150% of the world's productivity.
Of course the eventual goal is a post scarcity economy where work is mostly optional, but talking in the shorter term, curing aging would have HUGE economic benefits.
Part of the problem is people are obsessed with status quo... or can't even imagine changing it.
But imagine a world where aging had never existed... people had never aged (beyond full maturity around 25 or whatever). Now imagine that in that world, some crazy alien meteor virus or something inflicted everybody with aging. HOLY SHIT can you imagine the insane amount of effort that would go into curing it? We would be putting in the maximum amount of money and resources possible without counterproductively crashing the economy by neglecting other important things like farming. It would be the kind of effort you would see if we learned a giant asteroid was going to crash into the Earth in 15 years unless we found a way to stop it. We're talking "asteroid priority" effort here... and yet people dont.
The thing is, dying is super scary. And for lots of human history, dying from aging was completely unavoidable. Shit, it may still be unavoidable for us alive today, but it's at least realistic to think there's a chance. Well when it's totally unavailable, the only way to find peace is to try and rationalize it away. Either religion, or focus on living through your children, or spouting poetic bullshit about how "death gives life meaning." Or "every good movie needs an ending" (terrible analogy, death is more like the movie theater burning down so you can't watch ANY more movies).
From HPMOR:
Also, people just like to rationalize poetic nonsense in general. Also form HPMOR:
Seriously, everybody needs to read The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant (short) http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
And if possible Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (yes, really) (really long): http://hpmor.com/
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's nothing wrong with old people dying. That's what old people do. Death is necessary, it is a part of the cycle of our universe. The universe is one giant cycle. Nothing lasts forever. There is no need to stop death. Live your life, let the next generation enjoy theirs, and their children too. Our mortality is what gives us purpose.
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean seriously, what are you even saying? You know who else dies? People with smallpox. People with malaria. People eaten by crocodiles. Men killed in battle, and their women raped and killed when the invading army overruns their city. People who starve to death, or die of cold.
I guess we shouldn't have tried to cure or reduce those things. And I guess we shouldn't try and cure caner... after all, people with cancer die, that's what people with cancer do!
And what is this critical need for death is this weird universal Gaia type thing you seem to be talking about?
And "our mortality is what gives us purpose?" Why does it give us purpose? I can enjoy plenty of things in my life without mortality. Besides, death ERASES PEOPLE'S EXISTENCE! What could remove "your purpose" more than REMOVING YOU ENTIRELY???
I mean once again, try and REALLY pretend you are coming from a word where aging didn't exist... and then aging came and infected everybody one day... would you seriously be like "wow, this is so awesome, it's totally necessary and life has so much purpose!"
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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5510 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:30:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhhh... of course. It's terrible. That's like telling a person who lives near the Nile and has to get water from it that "honestly, you just sound like a person afraid of crocodiles."
And almost everybody is afraid of death. Who gets cancer and goes "meh, whatever"? Almost nobody. I mean if somebody breaks into your house and holds you at gunpoint tomorrow, are you gonna be like "whatever, I'm indifferent, either shot me or don't"?
this only changes when it comes to trying to rationalize away the fear of inevitable death from aging. They fight in any way possible to avoid death when they think it's avoidable, but unavoidable death is so scary they have no option but to rationalize it away. Well, with courage they can learn with modern technology, it's not QUITE unavoidable anymore.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:33:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are being unreasonable. There is no point in imagining a world where death does not exist, and suddenly descends upon the world like a disease. We do not live in a such a world. You are also wrongly suggesting that almost everybody is afraid of death. I don't think that is true, because although many people are afraid of it, many others are not. Cancer is a different thing altogether. People don't want to die when they are twenty or even fifty, they want to make it to old age. Also what they fear is the pain and the suffering, both physical and emotional that diseases such as cancer bring to both the patient and those close to them. Untimely death, violent death, these are all different things from what i am talking about. There is nothing wrong with death that comes when you have lived a long, healthy and fulfilling life. Why would you even want to live for hundreds or thousands of years? This is impossible for you to understand, because this is all just a matter of perspective. If i am a hundred years old, i will not fear death, i will embrace it. And hopefully my children and their children can go on to enjoy life too.
5510 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:15:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Believe it or not, you aren't telling me something I don't already know there. That's why I intentionally used it as a HYPOTHETICAL. What's the point of even having a discussion when you are going to just brush aside incredibly major points of mine by saying that you (apparently) don't believe in hypotheticals at all... I mean, are you serious with this? Do you even logically discourse?
And I guarantee you that if I could return 80 year old people who were in very poor health back to being 25 again, they wouldn't be like "no, that's ok, I was planning on dying soon, it's my time so I'm going to kill myself now."
And you can talk a big game today about how you will embrace death at 100, but I bet if your aging was "cured," you wouldn't commit suicide once you were 100.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If my aging was cured i would probably kill myself not too long after hitting 100. Maybe i would make it to 150 before i literally just became bored of living. You are seriously underestimating how bored you will become given enough time.
5510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:33:47 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you would have that option. Personally, I don't want to live "forever," so much as I want to be alive tomorrow... every day. And don't foresee that changing in any remotely foreseeable timeframe. And I have trouble imagining that "boredom" would make me kill myself.
Though once again, even if we completely ignore extending the actual length of your life, there would still be massive quality of life benefits to not aging. Even if you still died at 90, do you want to spend your 80th birthday crippled and senile? Or be healthy, active, and attractive in the body of a 25 year old?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:19:29 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair points all around. All just a matter of perspective i guess.
burrito987 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:46:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think that if someone had a gun on me I'd laugh. Depends on who else is in danger I suppose... kind of a reverse "The Stranger" scenario, just see what they do.
StraightScotty ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why spend your life trying to find a way to not die when you can just live.
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Por que no los dos? I mean I know I talked about asteroid priority, but it's not something that you can productively consume every waking moment of your life with. Besides, that logic pretty much implies you shouldn't eat healthy, care about long term health risks, care about STDs, care about anything long term that stands in the way of hedonism in the moment. I mean, if we were successful, the time you lose will be repayed a shitload-fold.
And aging does SO MUCH to stand in the way of "just living." Fuck, for now forget extending lifespan... just think about health. Even if people still just dropped dead at the age of 90, imagine if you had your full health until. Would you rather be crippled and feeble and senile and stuff at 80? Or be totally healthy and active and still living your life to the fullest?
And because my goal is to "just live" forever. Or at least for the next 1,000 years, I don't anticipate my view changing, but longer than that get's pretty much completely impossible to forecast.
StraightScotty ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just enjoy what you have man...not possible to do everything so just do what you can.
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:20:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Impossible is nothing.
And that's all I'm asking people to do... what they can. Unfortunately most do absolutely nothing.
ProphePsyed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we can upload our consciousness to a drive then we could just live in a virtual world.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to be "super religious" to believe in life after death? The fuck outta here with that shit
5510 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:36:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to be super religious to believe it CONFIDENTLY enough to not bother trying to avoid a mortal death in this world. I mean there's also potential things like simulation hypothesis, but even then, why risk it?
And if somebody is totally convinced something better is on the other side, why not just kill themselves to get their faster? IMO killing yourself and "intentionally not prolonging your life" (unless it's like a heroic sacrifice thing) are pretty similar.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because we endure. That's what it means to be human.
5510 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will mean nothing to be human once you stop existing.
I mean if the message is "because we endure," then we should PURSUE anti aging. Fuck evolution, fuck the incredibly harsh reality that's nature, fuck entropy, fuck anything that stands in the way of human spirit and invention. We are going to live on and if the universe thinks otherwise then fuck the universe, because we can overcome.
SaureGurke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, good luck overcoming the heat death of our universe then. If you make it that long.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:56:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't universal heat death just a theory? Besides at that point I have to imagine humanity (or nu-humanity) will be able to travel between universes or something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to be better, but you cannot escape death...and nor should we truly want to. Being mortal gives us courage...makes us understand the value of life...the value of everything.
I'd take a limited life filled with love, ambition & a creative pursuit of happiness, over a near endless existence of simply being alive to just not die.
5510 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it takes courage to fight. Not to surrender and rationalize poetic bullshit. It's easy to mitigate the fear of death by pretending you think death is a good thing. But to consider death the worst thing in existence, and almost inevitable, and yet every day work in the margins of "almost" to try and defeat death? That's courage.
And it's easy to say that now. But if you are actually 90 and on your deathbed or some shit, you may think differently. Besides, I think I can find enjoyable shit to fill my life with forever.
And why are you suicidal? If you don't want to live, you want to die, and that means you are suicidal. Why do people (presumably including you) fight tooth and nail by any means possible to avoid death by ANY other means, and yet casually say "oh yeah, death by aging, no big deal."
Johnsmitish ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, you are literally me. I've been thinking about this for years. I was thinking about this half an hour ago. I used to believe one hundred percent that when I die, I'd go to heaven, but recently I've been skeptical. All I can recommend is to live your life to the fullest, and hope that when we die, we move on to another great adventure, where we'll all meet each other again. That sounds a little Dumbledory I know, but I truly hope with all my heart that this isn't it. That this brief flicker on the radar of the universe isn't all we have. And that's really all we can do.
Send_butt_pics_guys_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tbh no one knows shit when it comes to why we are here and what happens after your die.. Not the scientists. Not the pope. Not Obama. Not your 2nd grade teacher. Not the guy who posted this. So don't lose hope that there's nothing after death.. because non of us know for certain.
tinfins ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:35:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the other hand, through absolute dumb fucking luck a finite group of atoms have spanned the reaches of time and space to unify in just such a way to create a planet that can foster multi-cellular life. And in what is the tiniest fraction of time that is the history of not only the universe but life itself, that planet has then in turn managed to not just spawn life that ultimately created you, but created you at such a stage of the complex development of living beings that you have the self-awareness to appreciate what it is to be alive for this brief moment and then bitch about it on the internet.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tldr I'm a selfish cunt for having the audacity to whine about my mortality :D
demonfurby ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I feel that. It sucks. Though one thing that sometimes makes me feel slightly better about it is the scene from the Season 1 finale of Agents of Shield.
"I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics, that no energy in the universe is createdโฆ none is destroyed. That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle will go on to be a part of something else, maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova 10 billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing โฆ a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth, a monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are."
mng242 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find this Richard Dawkins quote helps a little with those thoughts:
"We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
I find it oddly comforting that (in my belief) there's no life after death because every single thing I worry about is absolutely pointless on the grand scale of time. It's motivational in a sense because you realize this is it, so you better make it good; there's no time to stress or worry about the small things, enjoy your time here!
larryfuckingdavid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had this thought one day when I was driving into work, I was very stressed about a meeting I was about to have with my supervisor, he'd been riding my ass. I thought about the scale of it all, and that we're all brief bits of the universe being aware of itself as it flies through space on a moat of dust. Ten years ago that thought would have made me anxious and depressed, now it's an incredible relief.
mng242 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It definitely is relieving, but I think all people find it a scary revelation for awhile.
I_fix_aeroplanes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:43:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your atoms were born in a star light years away until it exploded, your atoms flew through space for probably a billion years until they landed on earth. Your atoms probably went through dinosaur after dinosaur. They have probably been part of a countless number of plants. You probably won't be conscious for it, but your atoms will endure for eternity. To me, I can't think of anything that makes me feel more eternal and immortal.
WiseCentaur9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, what should I search to research more about this? It's interesting
I_fix_aeroplanes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://youtu.be/9D05ej8u-gU
Neil DeGrasse Tyson has said these things numerous times.
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
Quasar_Cross ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:41:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck. This needs to be at the top of the thread.
therunawayguy ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:18:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alternatively, that's one of the most beautiful things about our lives. The fact that we only get one chance, and that we probably won't be able to do everything or find out all the answers. Because it makes the things we do experience and the successes we do have all the more meaningful.
TheBearOfBadNews ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:50:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's if you're lucky enough to live at least a moderately balanced life. What about all those people unlucky enough to be brought in to a life that doesn't have much happiness at all? For their sake I hope there's something more.
aznanimality ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This threadchain is a rollercoaster of emotions, first OP talks about how death really sucks, then someone says nah it makes life beautiful, and now you just brought me down again.
therunawayguy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a complicated issue. Truthfully, it can't just be simplified into a reddit post. But I'll do my best to give my perspective on it:
My life doesn't have much happiness to it right now. Lost a key source of financial support that's left my family in a situation where we might not be able to pay our power or internet bills, and my apartment complex generally doesn't look too kindly on folk who can't at least pay for the electricity. We're living on a small food budget (for a group of three, especially with one of us having impulse control problems that she's having a bad time getting under control) that may not last us the full month. My grandmother was recently diagnosed with colon cancer, and her chances of a long-term survival aren't exactly big -- which means I may have to, for the first time in my life, deal with a death in the family of someone I know, love and care for...
It's not pleasant. It's not happy. But today, a friend of my mother's offered to take her on a road trip to a place my mother's always wanted to go. I'm not even involved, but my mom's happy and so I've been feeling kind of good all day. Happiness... it's a fickle thing. But I think, no matter how small the doses, everyone's life has some in it, even if it's just a happiness that you're still breathing from time to time. I think that the only time you're NEVER going to find happiness, never going to find that 'something more' is when you stop looking for it.
Maybe I'm naive. Ignorant. I'm still basically just a kid, at 22. I'm a social shut-in only able to hold my own in a conversation behind a computer screen. Have had one real life friend in my entire goddamn life.
But in my mind, if I stop trying to find the good in things, then I may as well be dead. It's as simple as that. I don't think any human being can remain sane if they only look at the negatives, and I think anyone who says they can is a goddamn liar.
jfong86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was really well written. Thanks for sharing that.
therunawayguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Was worried about how that post was going to turn out, lol.
TheBearOfBadNews ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:21:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I admire your outlook and I wish you the best.
I'm not that much older, so I can't deny that I might just be naive and ignorant too, but I can't think of much else I can do but appreciate what I do have, be good, and have faith that my life decisions will ultimately lead to a happy end.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:12:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really great post.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:58:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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therunawayguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grieve over a lost chance, and move on. It's not necessarily going to be easy, but life will go on if you're just willing to give it the opportunity to do so. Might take some time, but I think it will happen. Eventually.
JustinUti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think if you are still here and breathing, you havent fucked up your only shot. Time moves forward and there's nothing you can do about the past, other than reflect and learn from it. Dont let old ghosts haunt you. Youll be dead before you know it, one way or another, so you might as well enjoy what you have.
therunawayguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. Well said.
Be_kind_to_me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I must say that I really hate all these happy go lucky kind of awnsers.
I never got a chance for a happy childhood. It took away my chance for a happy adult life. I can only hope for a happy seniorship.
I don't buy the "oh well. I can always catch the next train" kind of thinking.
When all ships have sailed for the dreams you had and all you can see infront of you is a giant field of fucking nothing untill the end there's no amount of greiving that can make up for a lost opportunity.
The only reason I even leave my bed is because there's still people I care about but time will take them away from me soon enough. After that...well. Who knows.
therunawayguy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just going to put this here -- I will respond to you. I've responded to nearly everyone, but I'm going to need some time to figure out how to put my thoughts into words here because I certainly don't wanna fuck this response up. Just don't want you to think I'm ignoring you. :P Check back.
therunawayguy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:16:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, so:
I don't know what you've gone through, so I can't exactly respond with perfection here, but I'll do my best because I think you're in a place in your life right now where you need and deserve the best possible answer. If you're willing to go more in-depth, I'm willing to listen, whether in this thread or in a PM โ and equally, if you're not willing to share private stories with a stranger on the internet, that is one-hundred percent reasonable and I'll respect that.
One thing you said though, I can sympathize with. The whole 'giant field of nothing'. It's what I'm seeing right now. It's taken about three, maybe four weeks, for my entire fucking life to fall into pieces around me. What once was enough to get by suddenly turned into a situation where I might not have power, an internet connection or food for the better part of this month, and even after that ends, no actual visible way to guarantee it won't happen again nearly immediately. My sister is losing her job, my mother is losing what little mental stability she had in the first place from the stress, and my grandmother is dying.
What once was a comfortable life became a giant field of nothing, with no forseeable end except THE end.
But it hit me a couple of days ago. Shit may be falling apart, but what in the actual hell is sitting around and crying over it going to do? Nothing. Not a goddamn thing except make me fall deeper into that field of nothing, sink into that abyss until it fucking kills me.
I've been sitting on my ass and wasting away since high school, because anxiety issues have basically put me into a situation where going out and doing something with my life terrifies me. Having to deal with people and actual responsibility, where my actions might be effecting the people I love for the worst if I fuck up... I'm scared. I'm so fucking scared. I'm an inch away from a meltdown.
I don't know where my future is going, but I know where I'm going to try to lead it. Going to face my fear, find a part time job to help pay the bills. At the same time, I'm going to break down and try to find a way to get the financial aid to go to college. Try and pursue a career โ something like cyber security, I'm thinking, since computers have always kind of been my thing.
That giant field of nothing... I think it's there for everyone, at some point. Some point in your life where you can't see a future, only a void that you're completely certain is going to drag you down and eat you alive. But I think the only way to tell if there is a future, if there is another side of that giant field of fucking nothing, is if you try to cross it. You might not be able to pursue your dreams, yeah. You're DEFINITELY not going to find something that'll make it so that problems never plague you again, not going to find something that'll make it so that field of nothing won't ever rear its ugly head again.
But you can find something that's worth dealing with the shitstorm for. You talk about the people you care about and I can agree โ if it was just me, and not four and a half (the half being my adorable old cat) people that I could be out there trying to build a better future for, I might just get lost in that giant field of nothing forever. But it isn't just me. I have something worth dealing with the bad stuff for, so I'm going to fight tooth and fucking nail to make sure I don't get consumed. I may not live a perfect life, and I may not be able to make a perfect life for the people I love so much, but if I can spend the rest of my life trying, I think I'll be able to die one day and be happy.
โฆ
Got to admit that was seriously fucking therapeutic. Even if you don't listen to me here and still say I'm feeding you happy-go-lucky bullshit, thanks for giving me the opportunity to write this out. Hope this helps, and if it doesn't, hope you can find yourself something brighter on your own, or with the help of others.
I'm going the fuck to bed, I think.
Promasterchief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might aswell be terminally ill or something, being alive is already an accomplishment tbh, congratulations!
selectiverealist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a very comforting thought.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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therunawayguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they did happen. And though they may not mean anything anymore, they meant something at the time. And that just has to be good enough.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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therunawayguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I never said it was ALL positives. :P
Krait_Haywire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:14:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deep thinking man, deep thinking.
Sensei8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah man
FireSail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some people, that is the great relief to the suffering that is life.
/emo
someoneinsignificant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody is gonna die. Come watch TV?
LearningToDive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does a wave spend its life worrying that it won't ever touch every bit of ocean? No. Be a wave
serenity_now_man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as a 46 year old that had a heart attack last year. Is living a sham marriage because I love my kids, and have failed to achieve anything I really wanted to in life.. this is real, true terror.
questionnz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNVg8V4EQU
It helps.
Chaosfreak610 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we are all going to die one day and this is the only life we will ever have (according to science anyway). If you fuck up, that's it. You don't get another chance. If you miss out on something you may never get to try again. You probably won't get to see the entire world in person, taste every type of food, see every movie, or find out if you could have been happier with someone else. That scares me more than anything.
This is weirdly inspiring.
Lando_Calrissian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if you find someone you love you have a 50-50 chance of dying alone! Pretty fun.
BullMarketWaves ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you can try. That's what gives me hope and drive.
HastaKalista ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just can't imagine NOT existing.. Not living to see the rest of the future is what scares me. I can barley type this without being terrified.
Barvoucher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is like 8 shower thoughts in one.
AWWWYEAHHHH ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This scares me the most. Also the love of my life killed herself a year ago and this is what I told her all the time, but yet she still went through with it. I don't get it, and I never will. It sucks, and now all I really want to do is find out where she went.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This really gets me. Especially since it seems like we are all wrapped up with our careers, long commutes, money, bills, credit, insurance, family problems, this, that. All that stuff really stresses me out because it feels so god damn pressing and suffocating in the moment even though it's not in the big scheme of things. It makes me feel like a coward when I think about it because there's nothing really stopping me from dropping it all and Alexander Supertramping it and travelling the world and embracing the nihilism except the pressure of the hamster wheel and the fear of stepping off of it.
Edgy rant over. At least tomorrow is Friday.
prestonwillzy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what really freaks me out is that so many major things in your life come down to computers algorithms or chance......like getting placed into a class where you might make no friends or meet your soulmate. i always think about how random people i met in classes or on clients at work had a big effect on me.
DoctorBallard77 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It frustrates me beyond belief knowing there are planets and galaxies out there that would take 100,000 of my life times to even get to
selectiverealist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, at least science has advanced to the point that we know they are there and can even see images of some of the closer ones.
epichvs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:21:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
aaaand that's enough reddit for one day
selectiverealist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try getting over a hundred comments of this discussion. I think I'm just going to go rock back and forth in the fetal position for a while and contemplate my own insignificance in the universe. Feel free to do the same.
ForgotUserID ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes I worry about dying before the next Star Wars or Avengers movie and realize how hollow and pointless my life is. Seriously.
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:56:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hang in there
r/longevity
selectiverealist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking forward to something you enjoy doesn't make your life pointless. I too would hate not to live to see the new, well Captain America not Avengers, movie. I love a good redemption story and the Civil War storyline.
TheInternetShill ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it is more logical to think that everyone will be able to experience consciousness again. I doubt there will ever be a shortage of living beings that are conscious. Once we die we will lose consciousness and never come back to that instance again, but somewhere else in time or space other cells will come together forming an organism that is self aware. There is no soul or anything deeper than the electrochemical processes in our brain that could pass on between instances of consciousness, but there are an infinite number of instances.
Simalacrum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....I should tell that girl I like her.
Der_Baba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm late, but I had the same fucking fear... You know what helped me to kinda overcome that?
You already have been dead. For at least 4 billion-something years, maybe longer. And you didn't care. You were fine. And you will be :)
Shamic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have this fear. Religion is basically like afterlife insurance, well, it makes me feel a bit better anyways
AJTbayBE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This.
I've had similar thoughts, not necessarily 'missing out' on things, but just life in general.
I, as I like to call it, think myself crazy at night when I'm trying to sleep, which incendently causes me to have trouble sleeping. This is what my brain usually thinks about.
What is life? Why am I here? There's so much more I want to do, have, & achieve. Death scares the sh*t out me. Well, mostly just my death. What if I die and that's it? Sometimes I think I'd rather have that, I'd be completely fine with it, and let me have it now because life as I know is not worth living.
I've never met a girl I 'can't live without'. (Which the older I get the more I believe there's not one.) I don't know how many times I've thought that I will die alone.
What if you only get one shot, and one opportunity? I need capture it, and not let it slip. My palms are sweaty. Knees week armaaaaaaall right. I'm going to go take my sleep aid & think myself crazy until it kicks in.
Life, death, and everything in between, and after. That's what scares me.
cunninglinguist81 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why, even though I gave up religion a long time ago, I've never been able to go fully atheist. I'm always going to believe something goes on/exists/happens after we die. I'm just not able to comprehend utter cessation of existence like that - it's like trying to wrap your brain around the true definition of zero, or infinity.
Even if I don't remember things before the age of 4 or so, they happened. I can't claim with confidence some form of energy as yet undiscovered perpetuates us before birth or after death. Though one thing is for sure - we are not the same person moment after moment, our minds and bodies are constantly changing. The me from seven years ago was literally another person compared to the me now.
Brain injuries and other such events can destroy memories, change how you think, feel, etc. Scary enough there, and it does lend credence to "negation" at death, but still.
My current favorite theory is that some time in the far, far distant future our ingenuity and technology leads us to find sources of almost limitless energy and perfect space/time detection or modeling. Which enabled humanity (or whatever passes for us then) to reconstitute every person from the past at the moment of their death in this future universe, so that all of humanity's history experiences their "ultimate age" together.
It's a weird idea but a fun one. I'm not sure if I believe in a Creator anymore or an Afterlife - but us creating ourselves? Forging our own paradise through our imagination and pursuit of technology?
I dunno. in my mind's eye, I can see it.
Oknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:24:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Science tells me I can be recreated in a computer simulation and am probably typing this in a computer simulation now.
SCIENCE
ztsmart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:29:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You just start over at your most recent save point
TheSlimyDog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you'll enjoy reading the Egg by Andy Weir.
selectiverealist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really like that story. I actually sent it to another person who commented. Good stuff.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This used to scare me. But it doesn't anymore. I remember when I was really young my dad said after you hit 30 you don't really worry about death anymore. I didn't understand what he meant. But as someone who fought depression in waves since I was 17, I became fascinated with the subject of death, and the idea of dying. I immersed myself in books, philosophy, history, all the while trying to gain a proper perspective. It still terrified me. But I was young. It got me out of my comfort zone and I traveled, skied, and drank more than I could afford but I didn't just fall in line. But I was still terrified. I've since settled down. I'm in a different region than where I'm born and my life is fine. I still seek fun, work harder than I ever have, and think about death. But I used to be scared of death. I'm still a bit scared of dying, but not the permanence of death. I'll be 30 in a few months and I understand what my father meant. I still fight depression in waves but I know what it takes to pull myself out and when I notice I'm succeeding I can really reflect on how great life can be and how lucky we are. Even when I'm apathetic and morose. I guess my point is my dad was right, death isn't all that scary. Not nearly as scary as living can be, sometimes.
thedomage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You were 5 seconds away from being a wank?
punktual ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the more reason to enjoy the things you do have instead of worrying about the things you will never have. There are people in the world who will never have your experiences too.
NonTransferable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to worry about that. Then I started smoking weed. I'm good with it all now.
Soulshot96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, you just gotta...like, not dwell on it. Fuck it. Do what you want to do to the best of your ability, and try not to waste time thinking about something that is going to happen. Because it is going to happen. No matter what you do. Might as well not waste time on it.
a9s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Every day you are faced with countless decisions. A limited path through those decisions will lead to your life at its happiest and most fulfilled, whatever you may consider that to mean to you. Most of them will not. I can say with certainty that, whoever you are, you have not made all those decisions correctly, which blocks you off from even more critical decisions. And there's no way to know the "answers."
Lemurrific ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw man, please don't remind me of that insurmountable existential dread.
I had almost ignored it today, too. :(
TimbuFTZB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I've gone from not existing to existing at least once already.
Who says it won't happen again?
redditzendave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death is not to feared, you know it is coming, not living the life you have is the biggest fear.
weedwhacker4199 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game
dyrtydan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Acceptance is key in this case, because that's all you can do. Accept it and rationalize your life based on only having this short time to accomplish your goals and enjoy your existence. Thinking of that I should spend my time in a better way than commenting on reddit, it's easier said than done.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stop thinking about that. it's unhealthy and obsessive
BimmerJustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I look at this from the complete opposite perspective. We're all incredibly lucky to even exist on this planet, at this point in history, for any amount of time.
narc_stabber666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out
Crackerpool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I'm not too scared of dying. The flipside is that you won't realize you're dead. You just won't exist. If I don't exist then I'm probably not in a caring mood.
Melesani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death is a beautiful thing, a sweet release from the pain and misery of this world
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As scary as it is, it's also at the same time oddly poetically relaxing (for me at least). I mean, everything's gotta end eventually. I honestly hate the idea of being immortal. It sounds great at first, but think about it, seeing all your love ones and everyone you know die around you, all the boring moments in life extended, and it would never end.
hypervisor_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, remember before you were born? You don't mind not-being alive then, you probably won't mind it later either.
selectiverealist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but contemplating a complete lack of existence in the meantime is unsettling.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So this is actually the correct answer. Damn it self consciousness.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to think that one day after you die, say within forty to fifty years, everyone that knows you will die and the thought and memories of you will be utterly gone forever from the universe. One day in the future, a day will come when it is the last time someone says your name or thinks about you.
madeinhawaii88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
truth right here. this is what terrifies me too.
dejacoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless." - Chuck Palahniuk
(or Fight Club, I mean whatever)
teh_tg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then do all you can while you are here, keeping in mind the Golden Rule like certain Muslim religions have no idea exist.
BrentonHu ยท 4807 points ยท Posted at 23:39:28 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom when she counts down from 3
A_salt_ed ยท 2402 points ยท Posted at 00:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, counting up to 3 is way worse
xmascrackbaby ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 01:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry dude. She just does that so you don't die.
AbombicTom ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reference
goldpeaktea314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just saw that episode last night
prop_noise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry. Your It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia reference wasn't lost.
redneckwonder ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:27:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1... 2... 2 and a half... 2 and three quarters...
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bobbysq ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:54:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"2 15/16..."
"2 31/32..." "Please come in now, you don't want me to get to 3!"
"2 63/64..."
"2 Episode 1..."
....
"2 8191/8192..."
GletscherEis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:08:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL my mum is Valve.
grabby_mcgrabberson ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a finality to it when you count down.
DefiningFire ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:21:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad always started on 2. Screw counting. "2!" was much scarier than being told to stop.
danger_one ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, I just commented above that that's how I do it. 2 is the only warning. 3 means I'm out of bubblegum.
47buttplug ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:50:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I pulled the ol' "I don't know what you're counting to so I'm just gonna keep going!"
I got spanked a lot as a child
Rommel79 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My son's reaction depends on his mood. The other night I said "One . . . Twwoooooo . . ." and he just smiled at me. But once I got up, you'd have thought his world ended. "No, daddy! No! No, daddy!" All I did was make him sit in a high chair and you'd have thought he was being beaten.
sweetprince686 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:01:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think its magic. I have a three year old and I use counting to three really sparingly so it has more impact. But when I do use it she will now jump and do exactly as she's told. Though I used it in front of two adult friends and they both said they instinctively started looking around to see what they had done wrong. I apparently have a good stern mummy voice.
Rauldukeoh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife would count up to our kids, that is idiotic. How do they know when you are going to stop counting? Counting down is much more clear
A_salt_ed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well they will learn real quick
anndor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You tell them. "You have until I count to three to stop doing that/pick up that mess/put your pants back on."
Counting down was always for fun, like if we were playing tag in the house. 3-2-1-GO! And then you better run your ass off because if mom catches you, you're gonna get tickled until you pee your pants.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GabeN's mom would count up to 2 episode 2.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:38:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So your mom is a "glass half-full" kind of lady?
ridris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't work on my kid, I try that all the time. The little smart-ass continues to count till 10 when I stop at 3.
RyanTheGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
UH ONE-UH T-TWO- UH THREE- CRUNCH
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....is this punchout?
RyanTheGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS THE FINAL COUNT DOWN!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh....it's the tootsie pop thing.
woosh on my part
RyanTheGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea that thing with the owl
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mfg this was the worse. Are you counting how many times I did it, or how many spankings I get?!
corruptcake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ONE!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah my mom only counted up but luckily I had a "2 and half" mom. Gave me a couple extra seconds to be a jerk before I caved.
Geta-Ve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because she can never make it all the way!!
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom probably isn't Muslim.
Edit: I am allowed to be "racist" because I'm Muslim.
ArsenalOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, man, nah. If you count up, you could go to four or five or six. If you count down there's only zero. Counting down, you know there's an end, it's way more serious.
mediokrek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I distinctly remember I only ever let her reach 3 once. After that I knew better.
TheGrizzReaper ยท 894 points ยท Posted at 00:13:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom counted down?
Guzzles ยท 258 points ยท Posted at 00:27:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For what?
Kiss_The_Skyy ยท 1443 points ยท Posted at 01:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
COUNT DOWN FOR WHAT
Eclapse ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 02:14:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
pleasefindJaRule ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:25:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank lil skeltal
spiralbatross ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
doot doot
shishdem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
D A N K
A
N
K
-Reddit_Account- ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 01:52:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TOOO LEE TE DE DEEE TO DOOO DOOOOOOO
HailToTheThief225 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:14:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thank mr skeltal
JMPesce ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doot
LeRohameaux ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calcim?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:49:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the loudest and clearest comment I've ever read
veeeSix ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
T minus 20 lashes.
Kiss_The_Skyy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:41:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How bout 40
ooogr2i8 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
abrupt ass beating
jfk_47 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bum babdum da dum Bum babdum da dum Bum babdum da dum Bum babdum da dum Bum babdum da dum
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐บ
Phileap ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DEEZ NUTS
Ninja_Wanker123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a bit of dust in your meme, my friend.
bassnugget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
insert high pitched electrodynamic sine wave wiggly pulse drop
Dodgiestyle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP OP
Geta-Ve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
megamaxie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take a consonant please.
TheGrizzReaper ยท 195 points ยท Posted at 00:29:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Before th beatings
timo_the_pirate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
with jumper cables
Osoguineapig ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
something something jumper cables
Plug-In-Baby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thnks fr th btngs
whirl-pool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THC?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With jumper cables
I miss him
scottsuplol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you gonna do whoop me
DoNotClick ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woosh
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw, this is cute!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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fnord_happy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
more like, found the white person
Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I found the person who doesn't know lil jon.
Aaaaayyyyy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
omfg.
yes.
again, plz.
Guzzles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
omfg I did it again. This is divine.
justmadearedit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The final countdown.
SinnerOfAttention ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For how many fucks she gave about your health.
switcheffect525 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it was....THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!
Trogdorocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah after he broke his arms ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
platypus15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom went down last night.
Elephantom11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
she sure went down amirite
callans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, then she blasts off
ryanknapper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Levitlame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NASA mom is best mom.
Zonorf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, his mom only went down
Johnputer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're from Australia. Clearly. It's the only logical explanation.
jlaray ยท 131 points ยท Posted at 01:30:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mine would count up to 3. Luckily, I only ever heard her get to "3" once, because I learned that 3 means a whoopin'.
whattithink ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:21:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom was merciful. She included two and a half and even sometimes two and three quarters. Oh. As a parent myself now, I just realized she gave the extended count because she didn't know what to do if she got to THREE!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's more that getting to 3 is a big effing hassle that involves timeouts and whatnot and that everyone will have a much better time of it if the kid complies.
I actually count down because I can start on 5 or 3 depending on how fast I want stuff to move. I usually count faster at first to create a sense of urgency. Then I'll slow down and throw in quarters and halves as long as reasonable progress is being made towards compliance.
Kalayo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoop some ass! Once your kids start learning that they face no consequences, the power of that countdown becomes compromised. Nothing wrong with a little spanking now and again. Keeps kids straight. Better than the modern day alternative of giving kids fucking iPads to pacify them, wherein they learn screaming and shouting is the way to go about to getting what they want.
Aparty ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would start counting to 5. At 3 I would start walking in their direction and they would take it seriously and listen. I was asked once "what happens when you get to 5?"
"I don't know, I've never made it that far"
My daughter told me recently that the tone of my voice when I was counting was scary enough, they didn't want to find out either. So yesterday I tried it with my 2 year old grandson while he was playing in the curtains.
"Get out of the curtains"
ignoring
"I said get out of the curtains"
ignoring
"ONE"
peeks face out and turns on the cute "two, three, a, b, seven" proud smile
I lost it.
WelfordNelferd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As a mom, I was a "count upper", too. The funny thing was, there was no threat attached to it: All I ever said was "I better not get to 3" and, somehow, it worked! This further evolved to the point where all I had to say was "I'm going to start counting" or "You'd better not make me count"...and that worked, too.
The responses in this thread are cracking me up! I'll have to remember to ask my son (now 20) if he remembers what he thought might happen if I ever got to 3.
NO_NOT_THE_WHIP ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never disobey mom when she goes Calo Nord mode.
prostateExamination ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:22:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3 gives you time to run
wonderbat3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOOOOOOWN
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has been proven by science that this song is the best ringtone you can have on your phone.
Tronald_Dump69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:48:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After using your FULL name in that tone.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I forgot how much bitchiness can be implied with italics
mudslideme ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For my mom, it was when we heard our middle name. Scratch that, I knew the wooden spoon was coming when she was so pissed, she weren't through all my brothers' names first.
Serima ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a mom, the count down from three is basically a super power. That and just knowing when your child is doing something they're not supposed to. Not quite as cool as dad reflexes, but still handy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These days, you'll see the parent count down asymptotically.
"3,2,1 and a half, 1 and a quarter, 1 and one eighth, 1 and one sixteenth..." And the child knows that they will never get to 0 and continues to misbehave.
craftsparrow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially when she has a wooden spoon.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never got to 3. Got way too scared
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my brother always let her go to three, she never did anything. i am still fucking scared though.
DagonPie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright I'm 21 and when my mom visits she still does this. I didn't know other people's moms did this too.
pennypoppet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time for the wooden spoon.
Ghostlier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:44:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom used to use a plastic spoon. She never used it against me because I actually made an effort to behave, but she used it against my sister on a rare occasion and my brother every other day practically.
At one point, my brother was refusing to take the trash out because he was going to hang out with friends, and my mom started to get pissed and grabbed the spoon and threatened him with it if he didn't, and he took off running down the street. My mom chased after him and tripped, but while doing so she threw the spoon as hard as possible.
It went like 30 feet and hit him; when he got home he was trying to make my mom feel guilty for hitting him. It was hilarious.
AcclimateToMind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think my parents researched some advanced fucking parenting tactics before they had me. The count to 3 and the subsequent brick wall of 'you blew it' in response to whatever I wanted were like a shock collar to a 5 year old me.
random314 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife when she calls me by my full name...
coalminnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No my mom is scarier
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When my wife counts down from 5.
GurJobD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the final countdown they're always singing about
freedmni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even worse is when she says your first, middle and last name. That's when you know you dun' fucked up.
icanbuyafez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've stopped counting to three. When I want my kids to complete a simple task, (i.e. Putting on socks) and they decide to contemplate the universe and their place in it, I begin counting down from a reasonable number. They scramble and panic, because getting to one is a sure fire TIFU.
Dont_like_my_comment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The final countdown?
grOUgh65 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's jam
finnmeister2324 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not mad, I'm...disappointed.
callme_nostradumbass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After saying my middle name.
KiloChild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially a Mexican mother. Chanclas are the real threat to humanity.
quantumcosmos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did your mom do fractions, repeat numbers, or was it just the straight 3-2-1?
My mom would repeat two twice. I don't think I ever made it past the second one.
SheZowRaisedByWolves ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would rather get sodomized with a rake than have my mom get to 0 or 3.
BabbMrBabb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To me counting down sounds like I'm about to start a race. Counting up reminds me of childhood whoopings
SorryNSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or used your middle name
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I count down from five. Obviously I'm too easy on the children.
Itsjustme50 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mom here. I count up to 5. And even I don't want to know what happens after that.
Blanketsarewarm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I defied the countdown once, I ended up getting a beatdown in return.
raknor88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After including your middle name when she calls you.
GrandpaJustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After saying my full name.
FranklyDear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:52:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't even want to know what happens when she gets down to "One-and-three-quarters"
TheNosferatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or when she uses your full name.
Dubsterlol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The accuracy of this comment
Konker101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or when she uses your middle name.
fucking better haul ass and stand at attention.
OPs_Hot_Mum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3...
Tits_is_your_dad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last time I counted down we ended up with you.
schlup-pup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then they throw in your full name, middle included
danger_one ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With my kids, all I have to say is 2. They know that Dad doesn't mess around with 1 and if I have to say 3, someone wins a beating.
master_implosion ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 23:46:02 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I taught her that one back before you were born.
Seat_Sniffer ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 23:58:30 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that how long you'd last?
Lawsoffire ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:01:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rekt
tatsuedoa ยท 215 points ยท Posted at 01:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my opinion, sinkholes.
Almost every natural disasters/ event comes with some warning you can see beforehand. But sinkholes just kinda happen, and they don't seem to care too much about where. One minute you're waiting for your hot pocket to be done, the next you're looking at a giant hole in the street with your car in the bottom.
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:46:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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UzukiCheverie ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:06:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least they have enough research done on earthquakes to determine where the earthquake "hot spots" are in the world. Though earthquakes have definitely randomly hit spots before on the globe (and even then, they're not random according to Mother Nature, but to us, they are), we at least know enough that if you live in say, Atlantic Canada, the chances of you getting hit with an earthquake (and noticing it; past the level of tremors) are far lower than the chances of you getting hit with an earthquake if you live in Tokyo. Location makes a vast difference.
Sinkholes though. You park your car, your day's going swell, you step outside the office, and the road - and your car - is just poof, vanished into the earth, and probably a few unlucky pedestrians with it. Scary shit.
KrazyKukumber ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes are not remotely close to being randomly geographically distributed.
Everything you said about earthquakes also applies to sinkholes.
GuttersnipeTV ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:48:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its not how you die. Its the way you die. Earthquakes? You get crushed, die instantly. Worse case scenario, you can still breathe but maybe being crushed. Sinkhole? Well just imagine being sucked into a sink hole. It wouldn't be a slow death, but slow enough to be the scariest fucking thing in your life.
AlphaBetaParkingLot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:46:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They can!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/earlywarning/
TheGreatNico ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:10:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say tornadoes are scarier. Even the largest sinkholes can only take out a handful of people. A big tornado can kill hundreds. If an eF5 were to go through KC, OKC, St. Louis, etc., it would cause billions of dollars worth of damage and, if we were very, very unlucky, it could plow through multiple major cities. There are a few cases of extremely long lived tornadoes that could easily go through a few major cities in Texas.
SylvesterStabone ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living in Texas, I'd like to hear about those cases. ..
Jwalla83 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even the tornadoes get delayed by traffic on I-45, you'll have plenty of time to escape
TheGreatNico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was an unbelievably large tornado, a set of them, actually, that tore across three states, killing hundreds
spritelyimp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:44:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live in a tornado zone and, strangely enough, they don't scare me. I probably should be scared of them but it just doesn't come up as a big fear. Probably because I've lived through so many tornado warnings/watches where nothing (luckily) happens so I'm like whatever about it.
Sinkholes, though? shiver
Satans__Secretary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Godfuckingdammit reminded me of the time I thought a tornado was going to hit my house... can confirm that's the most terrified I've ever been in my life.
BE_Airwaves ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:55:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or worse, you find yourself at the bottom of the hole.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like the random ones in the middle of lakes...like where does it lead if I fell in
HaloGeek ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:58:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While the fear factor is definitely valid, I think that sinkholes only occur with certain materials, particularly limestone. Not every area is built upon limestone.
tatsuedoa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's still scary, even if somewhat predictable. Not to mention how often some details are forgotten and we end up surprised.
Wasn't there a fairly sizable sinkhole in Brooklyn or new jersey a few years back?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea these things are creepy!
BornInTheRSA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:23 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank God it only happens in the street...right? .....
GuttersnipeTV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is accurate. Im from florida but im pretty familiar with natural disasters around the world. Ive been in earthquakes. Seen a volcano erupt. Been trapped in a elevator during a hurricane. Ive slept through a tornado that hit 1 block away from me. And after reading a story about a sinkhole death, this is probably the #1 most scariest death. A lot of people are misreading the question of OP saying what is just scary. But its actually different when its what is the most scariest death. Earthquake? You'll get crushed, instantly. Tornado? You'll get smacked or die from a drop, instantly. Hurricane? You'll drown or get smacked, instantly (and you have good warning). Volcano you'll burn and you have good warning. Sinkhole? You have absolutely 0 warning, you fall being crushed beneath the weight of sand and concrete blocks/wood/other materials (imagine it happening in your house) and when you let out scream for help, no body can help you, you get crushed slowly and die from suffocation at the same time. This is the scariest fucking thing ever. But people wouldn't understand if they have never been around sinkholes or have them in your area.
Edit: I apologize, op didnt ask for scariest death, but regardless I still think sinkholes are a mean force of nature and would be pretty scary if a person got sucked in one.
-eDgAR- ยท 1285 points ยท Posted at 00:04:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature. Just check out /r/NatureIsMetal. Here are some of the tops posts to give you an idea: Warning some are NSFL
The talons of an apex predator
Elephant stabs and kills buffalo
Tag team slaughter
Hyena with a lion's head
A battle ensues over a tulip snail's shell immediately after it is eaten by a huge horse conch.
The Fucking King
Giraffe vs Lion
Squirrel eats baby squirrel
[deleted] ยท 1147 points ยท Posted at 01:13:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude that lion is fucking jacked
Obradbrad ยท 506 points ยท Posted at 01:29:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those triceps are my new goal physique
OdetoZ ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Followed by that mane. Like, look at the color. The shimmer. The perfect center part. L'Oreal don't have shit on that.
NgauNgau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait until this gets hijacked by all of The_Donald nuts to whack off to.
Something something "Donald's glorious mane" something something
jennthemermaid ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 09:54:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was the sexiest goddamned lion I ever saw. Fuck.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:13:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jennthemermaid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:27:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RAWR
NewStarKiller ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:49:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/fit/
Reddit_cctx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:42:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit talk about forearms. Lion mode baby
ixora7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think he'd give me lifting tips? Wonder what protein he takes.
[deleted] ยท 245 points ยท Posted at 01:49:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the end you can see him looking around to check if any lionesses saw that
ApexBurton ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:46:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is the fucking king after all.
crazedmongoose ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:48:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly felines are so fucking awesome. Look at the lioness trying to bring down that huge giraffe.
Like you know the bit in martial art movies where the antagonist is going to fucking DESTROY some minor good guy to prove how strong he is (like the top student at blah blah temple) and the minor good guy just goes in, no fear, all honour & ferocity, and pulls off some crazy shit even though he/she doesn't have a chance?
In fact fuck Kung Fu panda where is my large cat based kung fu trilogy?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not because of this, but holy shit lions are beautiful creatures.
Eltotsira ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His arms look like people arms
JonnyBraavos ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:01:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No they look like Duane Johnson arms
Eltotsira ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DuaneTheRockJohnson, yes.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:48:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you seen male kangaroos?
coolfir3pwnz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:00:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SIMBA? NEVER HEARD OF HER
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:01:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Straight up is the greatest thing the internet has ever shown me. I've been to the African wild a few times, and while sitting in a boat in the water near crocs is pretty breathtaking, and while running across fresh lion tracks is pretty panicky, nothing is as heart-stopping as waking up in the middle of the night hearing a pack of spotted hyenas fucking around right outside your tent. I will never forget those sounds as long as I live.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:59:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting thing about lions, the darker the mane the more testosterone the lion has in it. So the dominant lion usually has the darkest mane
KingsoftheNorth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet he has an eight pack
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He does. A friend of mine saw him in the shower.
ghostphantom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well he does have to run around and fight shit all of the time and he's probably crushing it on the protein intake.
ShowMeYourBunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And he ain't scared of your shit.
coltonmusic15 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:23:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For real where is this guys work out video I need to know these secrets. But really where is the video that the gif is sourced from?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spend the time running after wilddebeest, zebras and antelopes; plus fighting male lions for territory and bitches.
Frisnfruitig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also lots of rest. Gotta rest to get them gains.
Phoojoeniam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol do u even lift brah
Holywalrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can see the veins in his legs
fitbrah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically they are his forearms
straumoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you even lift bro?!"
"Nah... I just swim around, chillin'."
"DAFUQ!?!?"
"Whoa... chill bro, chill... jeez, I'm outta here."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder what protein powder he uses.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like he spent 10 episodes training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber
timberwolf0122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dayamn nature, you scary
Chavezz13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"yeah, you best stay out the water.." "THE FUCK YOU JUST SAY?"
pdx_1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That lion has tree trunks for arms.
Heart-Shaped_Box ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/forearmporn
roomandcoke ยท 437 points ยท Posted at 01:47:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giraffes always look like they're going to break at any second.
doofinator ยท 57 points ยท Posted at 03:26:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Geraffes are so dumb
T1melimit ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 04:04:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stupid long horses
Splendidissimus ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:46:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then it turns out that they break lions.
lenaro ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's some really cool footage of them fighting each other in BBC Africa. Fuckers slam those giant-ass necks right into each other. That's why they've got horns. It's pretty intense.
Danthezooman ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 05:54:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fun Giraffe fact: The things on top of their head are neither horns nor antlers. They're called ossicones (essentially horns) instead of keratin they're made of bone tissue
and_rice ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You made me realuze their skulls probably look crazy, and after a bit of googling, it is confirmed.
CallMeLargeFather ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:49:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like some sort of weird dragon
Kid skulls with baby-teeth are the most terrifying skulls ive seen: pic
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:52:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're the most awkward fucking stupid animals but they can really fuck you up.
They're (imo) the most alien looking mammal
2legittoquit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:46:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats only from far away. Up close they look really solid.
Semblio ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:42:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ฮผ
Darbinator ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long horses
BobMacActual ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They remind me of Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks, linebacker for the Raiders, back in the day...
"He looks like he was welded together out of two-inch pipe. Unfortunately, when you collide with him, he feels like he was welded together out of two inch pipe."
kurashu89 ยท 339 points ยท Posted at 01:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, that one crab that crawls in the shell and taunts the others.
xCharlieScottx ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:42:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love the closeup of its face before it jumps in
SpetusMaximus ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:43:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like it's more of a "everyone fuck off I got it."
criticallyAnalytical ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:20:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Mine now, bitches!"
its-nex ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:46:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HEY....HEY....HEEEEY
ToxicPancakes ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:57:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just imagined him cackling as he ran away. A high pitch little laugh. Hehehehehehehe
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:22:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah underwater creatures seem less extreme and more hilarious. Look at them swishing and bouncing around.
coyootje ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:59:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would've laughed so hard if the crab would've been eaten by the horse conch as well.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:28:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that would kill the conch. Hermit crabs are vicious.
Reddit_means_Porn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said biiiiiitch!
Lord_of_the_Canals ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:58:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Ayeee bitcheess! Look who in the shellllll!"
XFX_Samsung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hermit crabs are great.
leechkiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:48:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I imagine them all arguing in cartoon french accents during that gif?
HA HA!! VICTOREE EES MINE!
Darcyoss ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 02:48:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
last link
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Icuras_II ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:13:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was without a doubt 100% the most brutal one of them all. It just looks at you while it's nibbling away at it's baby.
Chavezz13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:12:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me today: "man cut in half by train and moans till death" click "..baby squirrel" :( no, why, I'm not watching that
TheMightyMrM ยท 379 points ยท Posted at 01:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The second to last link was really satisfying for some reason
One after that wasn't as fun :(
wow_that_guys_a_dick ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 02:37:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's even funnier if you imagine the giraffe going "Sorry! 'Scuse me! Coming through! Sorry guys, sorry!"
Especially if you imagine Homer Simpson's voice.
napalm_anal_emission ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:32:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
David Schwimmer's voice.
Scherzkeks ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:35:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pivot!
something_python ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:53:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking John Cleese
JasonD31 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck squirrel......
jennthemermaid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little fucking baby eater!
Zebiusu ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 02:51:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gf used to work in an animal lab. Apparently this was a huge problem when trying to breed genetically modified mice for an autism study. If the mother got stressed she would eat the babies to conserve calories.
thechairinfront ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:37:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it was if the mother deems it's not good to have children such as scarcity of food, stress, and predators?
Zebiusu ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 03:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those are all forms of stress. If the baby isn't going to survive in the mother's view, it gets eaten.
giraffebacon ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:09:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is correct, but so is the comment you're replying to. When there is a scarcity of food or a stressful environment they eat the babies to conserve calories.
Not_Actually_A_Vegan ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worse part is that the baby thing comes back because it has no idea what to without its parent.
poly_atheist ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:22:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think the Giraffe made it 10 feet before being ambushed by a pride of feline, death-bringers.
HowTheyGetcha ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:41:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trampled to death. RIP pride.
squirrelguys ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:22:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell me about it :(
OneEyedWilly101 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't accidentally look at the Giraffe's asshole or thats all you'll see. :(
jennthemermaid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:56:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went back to look at it. This might be a low point for me.
smtfc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:19:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It actually doesn't seem like the squirrel is eating the baby.. I looked at it like it was cleaning it rather than eating..
antigravity21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
geraffes are so dumb
Megmca ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can see her thinking, "if I can just get high enough I can grab the trachea oh shit the hooves!"
I volunteered at the zoo one summer and we got tours behind the scenes. I didn't even come up to the giraffe's chest.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NOT THE HOOVES
Evolving_Dore ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 02:36:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some of the stuff on that sub is really amazing and shocking, particularly this image since it depicts something that we don't usually expect to happen. A lot of the posts though are just "hey look at this predator kill this prey animal like they do every day".
JakePops ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is the context of this image? Is it grieving its friend? Or did it hunt it?
Evolving_Dore ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:14:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure, but my guess is that it's about to eat it.
I would also guess that it didn't hunt it, but is just scavenging it. I don't know too much about foxes specifically, so I'm also kind of surprised that a red and arctic would come into contact very often. Perhaps this is a rare event at the northern extent of the red's range.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Evolving_Dore ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More great news about climate change!
theonewhomknocks ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 03:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude that squirrel gif is FUCKED UP
Quasar_Cross ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:59:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah for some reason, the squirrel was the worst. Fuuckkkk
t0comple ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:13:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that elephant is an asshole
RoboWarriorSr ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There seems to be wet patches indicting musk, sounds like mating season which male elephants are known to be, well, aggressive.
huggalump ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:44:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he felt like destroying something beautiful
liartellinglies ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:45:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't the crocs win that one though? I mean a lions a lion, but he's walking into the water, that has to put him at a disadvantage.
dinomite917 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Normally, but he's the fucking king.
quanjon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:17:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possibly, but apparently crocodiles (like most reptiles) are actually very skittish creatures. They look scary and their thrashing in water is intimidating, but they don't really go looking for fights if they can avoid it.
huggalump ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:46:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well yeah, I mean we've all seen this one right?
Regendorf ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:12:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a new respect for cats
Springpeen ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:51:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those hermit crabs fighting over the ballin ass new shell was hilarious. "Haaa I got it, fuckbois! Deuces bitch!"
Damn_Croissant ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:04:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last one is fucking awful :((((
jaredjeya ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 02:05:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to see the talons of an apex predator, just look at your hands
AsciiFace ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:39:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you aren't wrong. And that is the best kind of right.
DinoRaawr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Boooooo
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:32 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The talons of an apex predator
Nurum ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:25:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WTF that elephant is a douche and the hyena with a lion's head was really sad for some reason.
Professional_Bob ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 03:12:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the Hyena vs Lion thing goes both ways really. That Lion probably would have had no issue doing the same.
Nurum ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:32:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew they hunted each other, but for some reason a severed head of what you normally think of as the apex predator just seems very melancholy.
sebastiaandaniel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hyenas should be called the king of the animals, because they fuck lions up real bad on a daily basis. They steal from lions a lot, and they get way larger than you would think. Lions are hyenas' bitches
Pulped_Fetus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there's a large group yeah. 1v1 lions usually fuck hyenas up AFAIK.
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:22 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lions also steal from hyenas. It depends on group sizes and types of hyenas.
KidsMaker ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:16:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm bit depressed I think
ananda_yogi ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I was really worried about the giraffe vs lion one since giraffes are my favorite wild animal. But that made me so so happy. Look at those lanky legs go :)
DerangedBeaver ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 01:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As cool as lions are, I almost love it more when the apex predator gets taken out by what I would normally consider its prey
sebastiaandaniel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:13:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lion is not the apex. Hyenas are above lions. Hyenas eat lions, but lions rarely eat hyenas.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:42:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice try dude. Everyone's seen Lion King
Yetanotherone4 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:34:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never seen a jumping snail before.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, everyone is talking about the crabs and I am sitting here going wait, conchs hunt shit? They can move? That's the most terrifying thing I learned out of this.
TheLordBroseidon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CRAB BATTLE
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:16:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It somehow never occurred to me that conch shells used to have animals in them.
tuck190 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:20:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those lions in the third gif are fucking invisible. And the baby just goes back in to its mother/father. :( run away small child.
pokemaugn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya that one made me so sad
storm108 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:55:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love lions
ichael1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:55:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last one is the most messed up..
bettygauge ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:32:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a weird fucked up hatred between Hyenas and Lions
Hyena attacked by Lions
riotzombie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going through those links:
Nature... Nature... Epic... Yup, apex predator... Yup, pretty badass... Aaaaand a squirrel is eating a baby squirrel. What the fuck.
2legittoquit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That lion jumped like 10 feet in the air. Holy shit.
Wilcows ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:18:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it just me or at all your links not matching up with what you wrote? Using alien blue
TheCoconutCookie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I suddenly miring a lion
DoctorJohnZoidbergMD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you see the gif of the turtle eating a mouse? It tears the mouse in half and the top half of the mouse tries to swim away. Damn.
AdolfTibbler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sad to see the calf came back instead of running away in the tag team slaughter
daysleeper93 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first when I saw these titles I was excited. Fuck yeah nature, then I watched all the gifs and I'm not metal enough for this shit. I hate watching animals die, the only one that satisfied me was giraffe vs lion because that giraffe was a boss and the lion was probably okay.
cat_dev_null ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you didn't like to the penguin video. :( :( :(
MaxDG1013 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw that exact battle over a tulip snail's shell in Marine Science class. It was loads of fun to watch. Not scary at all, mostly because I'm not likely to be a victim of a horse conch.
Damen_aka_Ron_Ron ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
annd I have a new sub, thank you.
goof_schmoofer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one fucking violent planet. To survive something else must die.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh gosh. The baby water buffalo went back for the adult... Wtf.
Springheeljac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
theFATHERofLIES ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes me really happy to see my post linked here : )
charlie_do_562 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck that elephant and damn the baby buffalo went back to his dead parent :(
invisiblephrend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
til squirrels are omnivores/cannibals
Nodor10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, what did that buffalo do to piss him off?
CamoDeFlage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is no one gonna mention the bison violently voiding its bowels during this attack?
Dominwin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The little water buffalo going back hurt :(
prof0ak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:45:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rodents eat their own, fucking creeps
flaming_oranges ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The giraffe on was hilarious.
The squirrel one nearly made me puke.
Griz-Lee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woodpecker eating cute baby birds brains is missing
baconrug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
put some John Cena music to that team slaughter and we've got a party.
archertheduchess1990 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The buffalo literally shits himself when the lions jump him.
ShowMeYourBunny ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big cats are basically perfect killing machines. I wonder how they would have done in the age if dinosaurs. I bet really well. Wolves too.
not_a_muggle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ those talons...all I can see is the raptor from Jurassic Park that haunted my nightmares for almost 20 years.
Flubber_Car ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cannibalistic feticide is pretty unsettling.
Leprechorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All that and you don't include the skinned, gutted, and decapitated snake fucking attacking a guy like nothing happened
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nooooo the tag team slaughter was the worst for me. poor mom and baby :(
Womanleaving ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:41:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a tall person that giraffe one made me feel powerful
goodbye9hello10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love how in the tag team slaughter, the buffalo is constantly just shitting as he gets attacked.
WhoDaFuh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:02:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those two lions come out of fucking NOWHERE.
green_speak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Subscribed to that subreddit. Your selection was merciful to the uninitiated.
GrillMySkull ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:16:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG! That squirrel. I knew that a lot of animals eat their children but look at that video makes me feel sick.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't forget /r/natureisbrutal
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool stuff
hilarymeggin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw man, the elephant killing that buffalo was really sad! I assumed it was going to be a justice-served type of deal, but that poor buffalo wasn't doing anything! And holy shot, does that elephant make that buffalo look small! P.S. Are we sure that's a buffalo?
thenorsehorse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Africa. You're afraid of Africa.
anunnaturalselection ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:04:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how the horse conch spits the shell out for the hermit.
arkzist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn Nature you scary
drcorp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:23:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the Tag team slaughter gif, did the buffalo just give birth to the young one? Its walking unsteady..
If that is the case then this is surely the most messed up thing i've see today, and i've seen a lot of shit in this thread today..
patchsonic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:13:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wildabeast pooped itself as those lions jumped on it.
Asdayasman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those fucking hermit crabs are amazing.
BrandenBegins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn that tag team was savage! Buffalo walking with it's kid one second, with birds on his back SUPER chill then BAM! Two freaking lions jump out and start attacking, and you can see the kid still hanging around in the last second of the gif :(
naughtydismutase ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a biologist. Nature is brutal and motherfucking scary.
zytz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was kinda hoping the hyena would be wearing it like a hat. that would actually be terrifying
iCameron99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never leaving my house
slurmfactory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:42:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched all of these. Highlights include: 1.) that "apex predator's" face. Killing machine with a hilarious expression. 2.) I didn't see the stab, but the buffalo's neck was all broken towards the end. I think the elephant smashed its neck? 3.) Damn. Big buffalo died protecting the young. Saw the little buffalo coming back to check on things D: 4.) rekt 5.) Hilarious little battle. What lives these creatures live. 6.) Jacked af. 7.) Nice kicks. 8.) Saw this the other day I actually didn't wanna see it again haha.
NATURE IS METAL \m/
schlebb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something to add to this list {YouTube vid - 2:38}. A Baboon snacking on live prey. Warning, pretty NSFW!
GhostChronos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"tag team slaughter" oh damn I laugh out loud when the cub returns
d_colt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tbh those stripes are pretty snazzy, I'd want the shell too
Dark_messengeR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:51:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those lions made me hate Simba
chotheamazing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Squirrel eating a baby squirrel isn't terribly uncommon. A lot of animals will resort to eating their young (or just generally killing them) if they feel the conditions they will be brought up in are bad. I am pretty sure that is not the exact thought process that happens, but my ex roomies dog before being adopted was a breeding dog that was being abused and she ate her entire litter.
newsjunkie8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of animals eat their dead young to regain some nutrients. Cats do that too to their kittens if their kittens die during childbirth.
Mccmangus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:17:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnl, nature, you scary!
kreptinyos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH FUCK NO I DIDN'T WANT TO SEE A SQUIRREL EAT A BABY SQUIRREL
dabosweeney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god that lion just dad dicked the crocodile
SaddestBoyz2k12 ยท 1242 points ยท Posted at 00:41:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easily the bigfin squid.
Seriously, what the fuck
superluckyneko31 ยท 516 points ยท Posted at 02:22:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That looks like an initially underwhelming boss monster. Then you find out it's a powerful psychic and uses your party to murder you
BobsBurgersJoint ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 03:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your friends... wil... abandon...you.
Masterminderman ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 04:17:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
C'thun Ayyyy
shadow1515 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:00:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your heart....will....explode
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:21:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
D&D Mind flayer.
NeonDisease ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:50:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"a new host...must be found..."
xSPYXEx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's basically a mindflayer.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:47:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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lennybird ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:43:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminds me of the half-life 1 boss
V-Bomber ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:17:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plug the controller into port 2
im-not-a-panda ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:44:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they have guys like these in Zangarmarsh.
pikk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that brings me back
im-not-a-panda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has been a while for me too. It was one of my favorite zones though.
MyGrandpaLikesGuns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mega-Octillery
Persiano123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it was one of the early ocean bosses of ffx 10 if I'm not mistaken
CustomizeMyFrontPage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:15:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And for some reason it has really high defensive ratings even though it is literally a gelatinous, gangly mass of nothing.
Consanguineously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:12:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you get close to it and it becomes 10 times larger, like the aquatic boss in Twilight Princess.
BoneFistOP ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sectoid from XCOM?
Collif ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Friggin Ethereals man, I hate them
hilarymeggin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG, yes. Thanks a lot, Hitler!
Dark_messengeR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emerald Weapon from FF7
Griffolion ยท 681 points ยท Posted at 01:51:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Bigfin squid. Also known as "Servant of Cthulhu".
LINK_DISTRIBUTOR ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:28:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you realize it's actually a part of Cthulhu using that appendage as bait, in fact he's in the background
nitronomer ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ummm...
gibberish5387 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here looking for this.
wat555 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:41:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't seem too scary to me http://i.imgur.com/FGTcQbT.jpg
Slyninja215 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:32:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And distant cousin of the lake trio
DarthEinstein ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:17:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get Out.
ghostphantom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:43:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pssh, Cthulhu is an oversized piece of sashimi that Poseidon is kind enough to allow to exist within his realm.
MundaneFacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:40 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great Pontus will keep us safe.
SQUID_FUCKER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at the gams on that dame.
XyzzyPop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Handmaiden of Cthulhu, I believe is the correct nomenclature.
straumoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our damnation and ruler, Lord Cthulhu?"
iiRageProdigy ยท 660 points ยท Posted at 02:18:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be absolutely terrifying if that white spot is the actually eye of the larger creature, and this is just a lure we're seeing?
SonOfHorus82 ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:02:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks now all I see is the entire screen filled up with some giant world ending sea monster. We need the Japanese to get some Jaegers up and running.
Cricketot ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 05:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Elusive2000 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I mean it wouldn't be that bad...
*looks at picture
*dies
thissiteisalright ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stahp
Cricketot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:51:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With its two little maracas out front.
TheAngryBlueberry ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:37:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
okay I'm done with Reddit forever
Mix_Master_Floppy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:55:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would be worse would be if that wasn't the ocean, but a video from the space station.
LtSquid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:31:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't want to sleep tonight, thanks.
MakesPensDance ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you can fuck right the hell off with fhat
lzrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna cry. Tell me more...
Skullcrusher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:35:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever it's luring would be equally terrifying.
Average_Sized ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:57:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fear of oceans went up real quick there.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:37:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh god it would - http://i.imgur.com/6gojRWh.jpg
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck? Cannot unsee.
yifftionary ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calm down there satan...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah what if it was like that snake that has a spider-looking tail to lure in prey.
euphguy812 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, no sleep for me tonight
totodile-ac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stop stop stop stop
sub_xerox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See the two floating pods?
Antennae sensors...
Parker_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp. That gave me something to be concerned about.
Blanketsarewarm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuuuuck that
Persiano123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Intriguing
JungleLegs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, that would be super cool. Good thing I live in Indiana, though. That big ass monster will never get me or fit in my closet.
123ebm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a giant squid angler fish
mkstar93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it would be possible for a creature that large to survive especially that deep underwater.
yourfriendmisery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe you've done this.
TheLegendarySheep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't it be absolutely terrifying if this wasn't posted every single time this pic is mentioned?
iiRageProdigy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just trying to spread the fear!
swimmerboy29 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCK.
WhackTheSquirbos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy heck I actually just hyperventilated for a second.
745631258978963214 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:47 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, since we're land based and could just shoot the thing if it decides to become landborne.
Auctoritate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuuuuuck you.
ginsunuva ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:19:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice comment reposting
iiRageProdigy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
evel333 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 02:26:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't not read it as, "Big F'in Squid"
HowTheyGetcha ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I choose to believe that's how they came up with the name.
ThatOtherPersonTerra ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's in my head now
NZheadshot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great. Now I can't either
plafman ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:23:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL the aliens from Independence Day can swim.
ThisTemporaryLife ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:42:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like an aquatic xenomorph.
WittyLoser ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:33:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's probably not very nimble. Tie those in a knot and he's basically stuck.
Put on some light music and this fellow looks downright comical. Silly squid. Your tentacles are way too long for your body! No wonder your ancestors never crawled onto land.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:04:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, not scary. More interesting.
dorkchain ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:34:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he just looks like he's chillin and having a good time
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:43:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things that intend to kill you are much scarier.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:33:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DUUUDE FUCK THAT
FyllingenOy ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck. That. Shit.
pdx_1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:54:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like a Strider from Half-Life 2
heisenberg_97 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:12:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
moaning grinding noise PEW PEW PEW
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought the carriers and the striders were really creepy. They're animals, and also machines.. Bioengineering made them monsters.. I wonder what they originally were. It's crazy to me.
JonnyBraavos ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nahh thats Slendersquid
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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wutimahdjsj888 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What kind of dick uses a spoon for spaghetti?
lookieausername ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same kind of dick that eats soup with a fork.
Fizzbit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:27:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Metroid Prime is Real!
dontfluffmytutu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Things like this keep me out of the ocean
Lambykinz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:46:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
looks like a final boss from metroid lmao
ocean365 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just.... Nooooooope
eeeezypeezy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like one of the enemies from that Borderlands DLC
EustaceChapuys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read this as "big-f'in squid"
The_Devil_Memnoch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that's some next level creepy...
Darbinator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is there two sperm servants coming up to it
Crazy3ddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is also a juveniles too. They haven't found a fully grown one.
i_misread_titles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw YouTube starting to load after clicking the second link. Nope.
UzukiCheverie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew right off the bat what that video link was gonna lead to.
Imagine those tentacles (or whatever they are) draping over you in the middle of the deep, dark ocean.
Fuck that I just scared myself.
EDIT: Also, what's that in front of the squid in the picture link? Looks like someone Alakazam-ing it with some giant metal spoons.
Tilrr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scary thing, is that, that is considered to only be the baby....
ClassikAssassin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it looks like the sticks for a marionette.
SmokinArmadillo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a damn slender man of the sea!
LirikLeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's Shamshel from Evangelion!
topical_storm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motherfucker that's an Evangelion
coltonmusic15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like a super advanced alien race living under water just chilling until the time is right to take over the universe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that thing really tiny or far away?
And are those it's tentacles on the camera screen?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like some twisted anime marionette teddy bear evil spirit thing
look_behind_youuu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure that's a Marionette
dill_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is a toddler controlling that camera?
ProfMax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The combine invasion has already begun.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess I'm not sleeping tonight
got_mule ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why, but easily the most unsettling part about these things is the almost perfect right angle bend of all of it's tentacles near the body. Like, what the fuck? Is it trying to to praise Cthulu and Pythagoras at the same time?
QueCasular ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean... maybe would appear in nightmares and be creepy, but no way would this squid ever be a threat to human life.
DrizzlyEarth175 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RETURN THE SLAAAB
Sjaellos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The moment when you realize that the camera isn't actually panning side to side.
ToxicPancakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everytime I see this I can't help but think of the aliens from Independence Day.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
* snip snip *
Unicorn_Rainbow_Piss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do those things even reproduce lol
Mindless_Insanity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I prefer it's original name, Creature X.
13ig13oss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is why the next Dark Souls should have an entire area underwater.
wutimahdjsj888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is an alien.
untide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing looks like if it got a hold of you would turn you into a marionette.
Deidrick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of the cooler things I've seen on reddit and everyone is talking negative about it; that makes me sad. Poor bigfin squid.
atownfasho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You won, squids are my biggest fear in life by far.
foreverinLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't get what is so scary about it. Squid with a small head. Wouldn't want to meet it, but I don't want to meet a bear, lion etc. in the wild either.
bartycrank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was in the Gulf of Mexico.
We don't have to worry. The Deepwater Horizon explosion caused a massive oil leak that probably killed them all. Probably...
and_rice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoever is controlling that camera should be shot
freakingmagnets ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just one really, really big spider
SnippyTheDeliveryFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Xenos scum
communedweller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait.. that thing is fucking real? i thought it was a video game or something
Telkor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
oh crap
goodbye
myredditacctfw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
umh that's an alien....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit chief! It's the Covenant!
Siarles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:58 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The creepiest thing about this thing to me is how it's tentacles stick out one way then turn at a 90ยฐ angle like it has friggin' elbows.
yarow12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:17 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
. . . Da phuck?
m30w7h ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is a hentai wet dream right there. xD
g0atmeal ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:00:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Crazy how it instantly darts to the right and left. You'd never think something so big and lofty could be so quick.
Edit: /s
Tight_b-hole69 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you talking about the camera moving?
g0atmeal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, apparently the obvious joke was taken sincerely.
Tight_b-hole69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was a really bad joke
ThisTemporaryLife ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a big effin' squid.
Rafaeliki ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 03:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. Every single one of my grandparents died of cancer. Everything to me now that I'm in my late 20's feels like cancer.
lf11 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 02:51:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the sensation of power turns off your ability to empathize. Give someone power and they literally turn into a sociopath. (Look up "psychology of power" if you want to learn about the fun experiments researchers are doing to show this.)
Our entire power structures are built without knowing the barest simple basics of what power actually does to the human mind.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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lf11 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of the things about sociopathy is that people usually are not aware of their behavior or that it is generally negative in society. It is the same for people with power. They are unaware of their inability to empathize.
You see it everywhere. This business about politicians supporting NSA wiretapping until they realize they themselves were monitored, and then becoming staunch civil liberties defenders? That is because they are simply not capable of empathizing with others, and so cannot understand the sensation of surveillance until it is applied directly to them.
Health care policy is a great one. Congress actually exempted themselves from the ACA. But what kind of health care policy are you going to get from people who can't empathize with the sick and injured?
This, I think, is an unintentional side effect of the 2nd Amendment. If you are ruling of a nation of angry, armed rednecks, then you never quite have the sensation of total power. There's always that little check that if you piss off the wrong person, it's lights out. That puts a strange sort of limit on the "sensation" of power, forcing you to perhaps maintain a degree of empathy for others. It's just a theory, with absolutely no research behind it, but it is interesting to think about.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny you'd say that, because it seems to me that the US is one of the 1st world countries where the citizens are the least protected by the people holding the power, with no minimum wage, no health care, laxist control of food quality, etc.
lf11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are also one of the oldest governments on the planet, and long overdue for a major revolution or at least a reworking of the structures of power. As such things go, the US has worked pretty well for a rather remarkably long stretch of time. It's time for a change-up, but I think the 2nd Amendment actually plays a part in our overall level of peace simply because it forces political players to keep their sense of power in check.
We do have a lot of face-to-face gun violence, but we've only had one significant war within our borders since the country was founded and that's pretty damn good. Wars run up body counts much faster than crime. Between multiple revolutions to contain out-of-control governments or a steady trickle of gun violence ... I'll take the gun violence.
tigerscomeatnight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:54:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, psychopaths lack insight ("unaware of their inability to empathize"), it can't coexist with a conscience.
Shady_maniac ยท 318 points ยท Posted at 00:16:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How little people can tell about a person's mental health. When you break a leg or cough up blood people tell you to take a break from work, go to a doctor until you get better. When you get a mental disorder the onus is suddenly on you to explain why you can't function.
Spider191 ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 03:44:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, if you have a broken bone, depending on what you work as, you can still do something. But let's say you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and now you're just a lazy freeloader who wants a break from work.
HighFiveEm ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 11:44:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have CFS and it fucking sucks in itself let alone with the varying levels of disapproval from everyone. I want to get a job and be normal, I'd love that because then I could have goals again and that would be fab. But when just walking for 10 minutes or so (like on an errand) leaves me on the verge of fainting and needing 16ish hours of sleep afterwards, that would be a bit difficult. One of the little things that really hurts is that I could rest all day to go and see my four year old cousin who I love very much and lives a couple of doors away, but I can only sit with her and play with dolls or like 5 minutes of hide and seek. She'll ask if we can play tag or if I can spin her around and I have to tell her no again and she thinks I must really not like playing with her or something. I guess its like being really old and frail but I'm 20 :(
crazyisthenewnormal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:30:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry you have to deal with that. That must be so hard. I recently ended up with a condition that causes chronic pain. I'd really like to get a job, as well, I'm just not sure if I could really handle it or not. I'm going to try to take some classes and see how that goes. I can empathize with you a little, but of course can't fully understand what it's like for you. It really sucks to have people say something rude because you sleep more than they do. I won't sleep much for a while and then I'll sleep too much for a while. (I actually didn't sleep at all last night. Soon I'll end up sleeping like 16 hours.) Anyway, best of luck to you. You're a strong person.
MolestTheStars ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 05:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of my closest friends has chronic fatigue syndrome along with other kidney and stomach issues and some hemophilia sprinkled into the mix. Watching this friend miss their entire last year of school and all the important things that happened in that year sucked.
Lidodido ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or if you're just not in a good mental place and you're supposed to just get over it or something. A friend of mine got murdered because her ex just couldn't let her go and started hating her until he lost control. He was just a normal dude who had a rough childhood and apparently wasn't in control of his mental state, and that's how it turned out. It's hard to notice even for the one with issues, because we all live with out own reality being the norm. If you break a leg, you notice, but if you've grown up with hate or violence in your mind, how do you know that's an issue if that's your norm? How do you decide someone isn't mentally healthy when there isn't necessarily a condition you can categorize it to?
[deleted] ยท -59 points ยท Posted at 05:37:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of all the real problems in the world you pick fucking chronic fatigue syndrome.
Is this gonna be the next cool disorder that all the kids have? Depression is getting pretty played out, and ADHD is like sooo 2008...
BrandiSnow ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:01:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that sarcasm or are you for real?
The_Quasi_Legal ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's real, unfortunately. At least I feel better about myself now that I know cbg79 exists.
Spider191 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck, it was an example.
bass_the_fisherman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:46:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So everyone with mental problems is just faking it? Go fuck yourself.
tigattack ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:27:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That being your response you have obviously never experienced CFS.
crazyisthenewnormal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And you make the point perfectly.
hogpodge ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 05:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
or any kind of invisible illness :(
i have ulcerative colitis and nobody can tell i'm sick but it's not exactly socially acceptable for a young woman to explain that "no, i can't do anything because my colon is covered in bloody, mucousy ulcers, i'm lying in bed in pain, i have non-stop diarrhea and i've managed to shit my pants 3 times in the last 24 hours."
UnjuggedRabbitFish ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ulcerative colitis has a PR problem. The name just has no meaning for most people. Start telling people you have Australian Crocodile Rabies and you'll get a proper response.
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But now you're the proud owner of an e-hug!
hug
andai ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:49:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry :(
GodofWitsandWine ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently home for four days with a depressive episode. This. Thank you.
AndrewJackingJihad ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:28:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At first I thought little people had some way of tapping into brains to understand the mental health of it.
The_Quasi_Legal ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like midgets?
sam3tahsin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! Little people are unbelievably perceptive. I was once constipated and was feeling mentally ill. This midget came up to me and handed me a Miralax saying "Tough times, eh?"
Macktologist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know little people had a built in intuition for people's health. TIL.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the scariest thing on Earth, though.
doc_frankenfurter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, add a lethal weapon, be it a gun (going "postal" anyone) or put them in the front of a plane and then the fun really begins. Even a car with wrong person behind the wheel can be lethal. It is not a good idea for someone with mental issues to be forced to work, it really isn't.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terrifying mind-reading midgets
NateNMaxsRobot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:46 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read this through the first time as "How little people can tell about a person's mental health*.
Like dwarves have some sort of ESP in regard to detecting mental illness..
zander345 ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 06:36:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People not properly understanding mental health is the scariest thing on this earth to /u/Shady_maniac. Not crocodiles, piranhas, lions, prions or giant squids, it is half the general public's lack of understanding about depression.
DRIED_COW_FETUS ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:12:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many people have ever been killed by a giant squid?
zander345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:55:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother died whilst being killed by a giant squid, I wish you were just a little more sensitive mate.
IMadeFetchHappen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:47:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have.
gunsmith123 ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 07:09:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would say this is 50/50. If you can tell someone is messed up, they're probably a pretty average person, perhaps having a bad day. If they're messed up and you can't tell, they are a sociopath and that is genuinely terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they're messed up and you can't tell, that's not indicative of sociopathy. The only thing this is indicative of is the fact that they have some reason to hide their disorder. People with disorders as benign as depression or anxiety can hide it well. And besides, sociopathy itself isn't dangerous. It can be if the person who has it isn't taking steps to control it. If you have a personality disorder of any sort and know how to cope, you're no more a threat to society than any mentally healthy person.
And besides, if you can tell someone is messed up, usually that means they're messed up. And in need of help and sympathy and support.
Considering your post history, I'd think you'd be a little more sensitive to people whose brains aren't wired to function the way a standard person's brain would. Your comment is a little appalling.
gunsmith123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are right, and I do apologize for my comment. What I meant to say is if I can really read a person, I can pick up on what negative personality traits they might have, and I guess that makes me feel comfortable because I know who they are. It's not that positive traits don't make me feel that way too, it's just that (in my experience) with most people you don't see a persons bad side until you know them more intimately.
I should also note that I don't think a person has to be messed up for me to feel comfortable around them, but I don't think I've ever met a single person who didn't have some minor personality defect.
If I can't read a person at all, or feel like they are being fake around me, that really scares me. It makes me feel unsafe. I completely misused the word sociopath, I don't know why that was the first thing to come to mind.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for explaining yourself. You're being really civil, and I appreciate that. It's hard to come by this sort of thing on the Internet, sometimes.
I think I understand where you're coming from. Your original comment may have been worded poorly, but now I understand your genuine feelings behind it. Sorry for leaping at your throat like that. No hard feelings, I hope?
gunsmith123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:53:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at all! I was not in a clear state of mind when I wrote the original comment, and as I said I do see how it was worded offensively. If anything I appreciate the thought-out response.
dontbethewave ยท 741 points ยท Posted at 03:29:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The inoperable brain cancer that is killing my 8 year old little girl.
liveat60fps ยท 197 points ยท Posted at 07:35:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm sitting on a bench in Brisbane, Australia waiting for my 8 year old little girl to finish her ballet class. I wish with all my heart that you could be doing the same. All the best to you from one parent to another.
dontbethewave ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:27:34 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cherish those moments, from one parent to another.
TrueBlue98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:23:23 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this just brought a tear to my eye
whatiwishicouldsay ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 12:16:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well a little ray of hope. A friend of mine at 10 got diagnosed with a brain tumor, no way to cut it out. Instead they used focused radiation and chemo.
Terrible thing to go through, but he was a trooper.
Doctor said all this treatment would severely stunt his growth, if he lived to adulthood, he would be very short, obviously who cares.
A portion of his skull completely stopped growing and he needed reconstructive surgery as he grew, and grew, and grew. He wound up being 6'4"... Still alive and healthy today.
dontbethewave ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:06:26 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, hope is an amazing thing.
mookashon ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 04:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My prayers go out to you and your child.
Rachelle1016 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 05:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I second that.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 09:32:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me as well. I'm so sorry.
[deleted] ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 05:31:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dontbethewave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:07 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry for your suffering as well.
shishdem ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 06:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck...
dontbethewave ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:07:32 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Fuck...
QueenOfEverything ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry you/she are going through this
glassramen ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ouch, im sorry to hear. I wish you guys the best, and hope you make every day the best day of her life!
dontbethewave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:09:12 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are trying. We are going to Disney World next month for her Make A Wish. Make a Wish is Amazing, and Give Kids the World are also amazing.
glassramen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:13 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im so glad to hear! I hope she enjoys it to the fullest!
sapandsawdust ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:58:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's heartbreaking. I'm so sorry.
Curmugeon ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:54:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry. A friend's young son .............
"Our son Chase is being tested for gliomatosis cerebri, a brain cancer for which there is no cure."
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/chasebalay
alohaoy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing could be worse. I'm sorry.
RealGBK ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:48:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. I'm so sorry. I can't do anything to help you and that sucks.
dontbethewave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:09:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm her daddy and I can't do anything to help, that sucks even more.
Quasar_Cross ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:08:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry. My thoughts are with you and your daughter.
BobJonesies ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So sorry man. :(
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:27:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dontbethewave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:39 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish I was.
CustomizeMyFrontPage ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, okay.
dontbethewave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:24 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, okay...
arkzist ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:05:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh... sorry... i geeze
Wow um.
IEatsRawks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry :(
dontbethewave ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:38 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I'm really sorry too.
TheMightyApostrophe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, fuck. This should not happen to anyone. You and your familiy will be in my thoughts.
dontbethewave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:17 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks
GentTheHeister ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:56:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jeesus man. If I have one piece of advice it this: cry. Just keep crying until you cant anymore. Its the bodies defense mechanism against emotional shit like your situation. Good luck.
ihavenoenemies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friends 6 year old got brain cancer. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Sending you good thoughts and prayers and vibes.
dontbethewave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:33 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks
MegaChunkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:04:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good
nachosoup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That really is awful :( best of luck to both of you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:07 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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dontbethewave ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:07 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks
lauriebel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every day you manage to wake up and drag yourself out of bed under those circumstances is a testament to your devotion to that little girl. I'm so very sorry, my friend.
ixora7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry about that man.
lols-worthy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:31 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry, I can't imagine what that's like. God
emmyset23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:29 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking cancer. All the best.
janetnotjackson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:20 on March 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
our hearts go out to you and your girl.
_JustToComment ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 08:01:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dont worry fam, I got you. Collecting dragonballs now
Kilo_G_looked_up ยท 102 points ยท Posted at 00:47:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant squids. The fact that there are creatures with eyes the size of basketballs just swimming around is terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:14:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they're there, right now. Swimmin' around all creepy and alien-like. With the same amount of reality in which you're experiencing the room you're in now, there is a monstrous deep sea creature experiencing its surroundings at this very moment. If you were to teleport to the depths of the ocean, it would be there, hangin' out, plain as day.
It's sort of like wondering "what's my long lost friend doing right now? I bet he's at home in his bedroom or something. If I could be a fly on the wall, what would be going on?"... For some reason thinking of it in that way makes me realize the existence of these weird ass creatures, rather than just intellectually understanding they're there.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:46:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, they're real? Like 40+ ft giant squids?
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 07:42:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yep. And here's some nightmare fuel for you - there's a shit ton of them down there. They range all over the world's oceans and they're a good part of the diet of sperm whales. Hard to know how many there really are but it's surely in the tens or even hundreds of millions. Oceans are big, and whales gotta eat, a lot.
If that's not scary enough, there've been a number of reports of fishermen and boaters who've seen them near the surface. I read one as a kid about a squid fisherman who was pulling little guys off a baited line at night, and looked up to see a gigantic fucking eye looking at him from about 10 feet away. Just sitting there. It swam away (and was probably in a bad way, being so close to the surface) but this made an impression on 10-year-old me. The thought of swimming in the ocean at night still gives me the wiggins.
Danthezooman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:06:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Real, yes. 40+ ft? yes. The biggest ever found was 43 ft and claims of one up to 66 ft (unproven).
Then there's the Colossal squid! They think it can get up to 46 ft, but they haven't found an adult specimen
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:31:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there's the squid that attacked a ship in WWII that has been said to be bigger than Colossal Squid, measuring about approximately 80+ ft.
Blackcrow370 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:18:20 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean in pirates of the Caribbean?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yup
marino1310 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it helps, the 40+ft is mostly the 2 primary tenticles. Here's a picture the body is smaller than you most of the time, so its not like its gonna eat you.
Kilo_G_looked_up ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean is a big place. Plenty of room for giant squids!
DaddyRocka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if a molten core at the center of earth is a myth, and its really just more water and sea monsters!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would be good for people who are afraid of sea monsters because these creatures can swim to the center of the earth. The center of the earth if farther away than the depth of the real ocean.
FrigateSailor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:54:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not OK with giant squid. If you are in the ocean, there is no wall between you and those beaked monsters.
johnny__hotsauce ยท 200 points ยท Posted at 00:51:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jellyfish and HOA's
Seventytw ยท 185 points ยท Posted at 02:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The home owners association?
[deleted] ยท 215 points ยท Posted at 02:48:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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NotJimStark ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:30:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the realist shit.
machenise ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:10:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt's HOA fined her for so many things, like building an awning without prior approval and refusing to take it down, get approval, and put it back up (fined for every month it was up for years). She was fined for having too many cars in front of her house (hers, her husband's, 6 kids ages 16 and up living there, and all their boy/girlfriends visiting or living with them). She was fined for one of the kids working on their car in front of their house.
But....she never paid the fines. I don't know what kind of shenanigans happened in her HOA contract, but they forced her out and now somehow own her house because of the unpaid fines and fees from not paying the fines.
Help_me_123_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:38:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's almost like she signed a legally binding document and then proceeded to reneg on her end of the deal. Such shenanigans! She would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddlin' kids!
machenise ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:58:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah, she definitely should have lived up to what she agreed to. However, that doesn't mean I can't think parts of the contract were shenanigans. In fact, contracts can be thrown out in court because their content is unreasonable, so the fact that a contract exists doesn't make it legal. In her case, probably a legal contract that she can't get out of. I still think it's dumb and she's dumb.
LouisvilleProtestor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tell that to the judge that thought kesha's contract wasn't totally more rape than she was actually raped. Her contract is disgustingly close to slavery in the music industry.
machenise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:08 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, I'm sure the contract is perfectly legal, but the existence of a contract doesn't automatically mean it is legal. And even if it is legal, my aunt was stupid to agree with such restrictions if she couldn't live by them/pay the fines. But even if it is legal and entirely her fault for not complying, I still think whoever added all these very restrictive clauses was an asshole. They might not be wrong, but they're still assholes.
LouisvilleProtestor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:59 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:( I know you're right. I just wish that very wealthy people didn't have so much power.
gymnasticRug ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:05:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm, just did it, no longer have a home.
DaddyRocka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will absolutely never live under the control of a HOA as long as I still draw breath.
the_visalian ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:58:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Herpes On Ass
Horny Ocelot Attack
Hyenas On Acid
Take your pick.
hatessw ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh god, those things are terrifying. I've been stung by them multiple times in my neighborhood.
mannw ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone on our street got a notice from the HOA that our chimneys needed to be repainted.
tiggs81682 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:31:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Home Owner's Associations?
bojiggidy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:46:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I got stung by a jellyfish in Florida. I didn't see it (it might have just been a loose tentacle that still had active stingers), but it basically hit me along a 6 inch stretch of my inner thigh...stopped just short of the nethers, which I guess is a plus.
Oh, and HOAs can suck my balls.
Quadsimotto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:50:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically the Box Jelly.
bushondrugs ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 02:31:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My HOA made me get 3 signatures from neighbors before I could replace my garage door.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:24:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My eye is twitching, and it isn't even my life.
froggym ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:43:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The irukangji is way scarier. They are so small that in the ocean they are basically invisible. They also happen to be the most venomous jelly fish.
Gsusruls ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. My fucking home owners association terrifies me. They can literally take my house from me for missing one single payment, even if the house is paid off.
Damn_Croissant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOAs?
bg-j38 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I went diving with some tiny jellyfish this afternoon. Wasn't expecting that and then bam! right in my face.
Yetchi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did a half ironman in Miami last year where the swim was almost cancelled because of too many jellyfish. Fuck jellyfish. Never again.
Kettleboy7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Them Fees
TheBoulder_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im sorry .... Irukandji
ScriptLoL ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:21:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I work for an HOA management company in a state with wicked strong HOA laws (AZ). They aren't scary, really. 90%+ of the people that live in HOA's we manage (
redacted) have 0 problems. Receive a letter about weeds? Fix the weeds and file an appeal, or tell us why you can't get them done (physically incapable, w/e) and we'll work with you every single time. Hell, even better, be fucking courteous and just explain your situation to us, we'll work with you!But when you refuse to pull your weeds, park a gutted Chevelle on your lawn, paint your house shit green, don't pay your assessments, have dogs barking constantly in your backyard, and constantly harass the manager and HOA board... Your fault. Nothing we can do. You'll go to collections and the attorney, and if you refuse to play ball, we'll win and garnish your wages for everything you owe, plus the cost of the attorney.
Things don't just randomly get that bad, though. Just keep your house clean, let us know you'll be parking on the street for a week, and that you want to repaint your house. We'll work with you and get you every single piece of information you'll need.
Edit: Downvote all you want, it's the truth. Been here for 3 years and ZERO people have been fined for shit that they weren't told about beforehand. It isn't our fault that you didn't read your "homeowners" packet.
Edit 2: You'd think I would learn, but I always end up trying to explain what is actually going on in an HOA and end up downvoted. I've never said I agree with HOAs, and I've been very vocal about the fact that I wouldn't live in one, but I still know the inner-workings (in AZ) so I figured I'd at least explain some of the stuff that goes on. Oh well.
PS - I don't try to actively defend HOAs. These are just the facts from a source that, really and truly, doesn't like them.
Edit 3: Legitimately, though, I'm just trying to help explain what is actually going on in HOAs. Not sure why my professional opinion and willingness to explain what goes on in the industry (and why this shit happens) is a valid reason for a downvote. I guess people just don't like to listen.
Edit 4: Bring it bitches.
plinth19 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 04:08:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Justโฆ. comply with all our demands. We're really not that bad.
ScriptLoL ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You get a copy of the CC&R's before you sign your mortgage. You get to see what the rules are BEFORE you buy.
plinth19 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:43:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People move into homes for less than ideal reasons all the time, and will sometimes sign things they don't fully agree with or even understand because they are desperate. Same with employment contracts. I like when people are tidy and quiet and respectful too, but the HOA way of making that happen kind of makes my skin crawl.
ScriptLoL ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That just means they need to make sure they follow the rules, though. You don't get a pass for that. The rules are typically really simple and easy anyway. Don't park five cars in your yard, clean your weeds, and put your trashcans away.
If you have problems, ask for an appeal. That's all there is to it. Most (of the HOAs I work with) are great and understand financial hardship or whatever, and will grant extensions or try to get you the information you need (cheap, good contractors, ect).
With that said, I won't ever live in an HOA. If I am dropping $100-300k on a house, I want to paint it whatever color I want, I want to be lazy and let the front yard go to shit, and I don't want to care about what it looks like as long as it stands.
hamdinger125 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But many of those rules shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place. I shouldn't need you to "work with me" if I want to have my house painted. I should just be able to do it.
ScriptLoL ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:15:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You bought a home within a development that has a set of rules to help try to maintain property values. The HOA has a suggested color pallet for the body and trim to keep the homes looking uniform and "nice."
In the HOA's we have that DON'T have pre-approved colors, the HOA Architectural Board requires a form and paint chips to be sent in so they can look at the colors, and if they like them, bam, you can paint your house whenever.
In all of the HOAs we manage, you still need to fill out an Architectural form just so the HOA, management company, and potential next owners know what colors you are using, and when, so they can repaint if necessary. The same thing applies for if you need to repaint later on.
I'm not saying I agree with the whole HOA thing, because personally I don't, but that's what you bought into, and there are rules that you need to follow. They're easy as shit to follow, too.
Edit: Downvote train is real strong here. I'm just presenting facts about HOAs. They're annoying, and I don't agree with their purpose, but seriously, they're easy to deal with. Read your CC&Rs and bam, you know the rules you bought into.
the2belo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:25:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hello, I'm an amateur radio operator and--
[I am stabbed 47 times with a rusty lawnmower blade]
ScriptLoL ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:30:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More or less, yes.
foreoki12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:55:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dad bought a waterfront house in a brand new neighborhood. He was the original owner. The developer sold him on the fact that the neighborhood had a lot next to the boat ramp for boat storage in the off-season. Then shortly after moving in, the non-waterfront owners (who were the vast majority of the entire neighborhood) in the HOA voted to prohibit boat storage on the lot. So my dad put his boat in his driveway, which was also against HOA rules. The HOA sued. My dad fought it to the state supreme court and won. The HOA left him alone after that.
MrDanger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We all hate you. You are the devil.
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't hate the company, hate the HOA. We just follow the rules they set out.
MrDanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, we were only following orders. Nazi.
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because we're on the same level as Nazis, yep. They totally gave you a packet with every rule when you moved to germany, let you vote on every rule, and couldn't do anything that wasn't in the rules. Yep.
MrDanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, that's pretty much exactly how Nazi Germany worked. Are we getting through to you at all here?
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except the Nazis were completely corrupt, had ulterior motives, didn't value the opinions of people they deemed subhuman, and, you know, started a world war.
You signed up for an HOA. No one forced you to buy a house with an HOA. You were given the rule set before you signed your mortgage. You agreed to the terms when you signed your mortgage. You're the ones at fault, not the HOA.
As I said earlier, all you have to do is keep your yard clean, pay your dues, and don't change the outside of your house without approval from the board. Easy shit.
MrDanger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I didn't. How stupid do you think I am? You guys are fascists. No way I'm hanging out with you.
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By "you," I didn't necessarily mean you specifically.
Either way, if you buy a house in an HOA, you are required to follow the rules. Plain and simple. If you don't like HOAs, don't buy a house in one, it's that easy.
MrDanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh yeah? What do you do when your neighborhood decides to form one? Move out?
ScriptLoL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that's an interesting topic that I honestly don't know much about. The last time I heard anything about a neighborhood deciding to "create" an HOA you still had to opt in before they could apply the rules to you legally until they got to a certain size. They, also, won't have the authority (legally) to do anything to you if you didn't opt in. That doesn't mean they couldn't harass you, though.
I don't know much about that problem, though. A real HOA is created by the developers that build the homes in an area before anyone even has the option of buying one.
Also, just a quick note: "Creating" an HOA takes a lot of money, time, and knowledge about state/fed laws. It isn't something a small group in your neighborhood would be able to do easily, if even at all, or maybe even legally.
Edit: Again, this is just AZ. Other states vary.
MrDanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:06 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's an even better question: What do you do when the HOA you're locked into gets a new set of executive officers and they change the bylaws? LOL.
ScriptLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:58 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First and foremost, you vote for every executive position. President, VP, Treasurer, ect, just like a democracy. We, also, have a required quorum needed for the votes to count.
Secondly, the executive team has to vote on everything that they want to change, and typically the bylaws can't be changed without a full vote by the homeowners, which also has a quorum requirement.
Things like adding new acceptable paint colors isn't important, but something like a special assessment for fixing the roofs, community areas, irrigation, ect. would typically be voted.
Adding things like a no parking on the street overnight clause would just be the executives, most of the time. They are required to send out a notification about any changes to the bylaws, special assessments, and changes in the executive team.
All of the associations we manage also get the meeting minutes and budget (including the HOA savings account, expenditures, ect), and have access to the board meeting packets for each meeting from the beginning of the HOA.
Either way, you can also call for a vote of no confidence, or demand a revote for most things as a homeowner if enough people disagree.
All of this is, of course, different per state. We have very strong HOA laws, but they're also fairly transparent and are required to inform everyone living in the HOA about any and all changes.
MrDanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:48:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a lot of work and trouble, and you could still end up screwed; in fact, it's likely.
Oxideist ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:45:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably not the scariest thing ever, but during C school the Boeing representative showed us images of what happens when someone gets sucked into a CFM56-7B turbo fan (737 engine). Even at idle speeds the man was almost unrecognizable as a human being, mostly just bloody chunks everywhere. Looked like someone threw a watermelon and some ground beef into the intake. I've never felt comfortable when disconnecting the ground comms. jack while engines are turning, those images are just too burned into my mind to forget that I too am a few short steps away from being instant chum.
inglorious_gentleman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:52:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was a video here a while back where a man got sucked into one those engines (dunno the specifics as I'm not an expert on airliners) and just popped out of the other end unscathed. Could've been fake, but if not the man must've been incredibly lucky.
darthjkf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that was a turbo jet though not a turbo fan. Dont know if thats why though.
Oxideist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's true he's incredibly lucky, also the outer ring of a turbofan has fewer sets of blades because it provides most of the thrust, so it is primarily responsible for pushing air.
Stuckin_Foned ยท 299 points ยท Posted at 02:53:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radiation. http://imgur.com/cKTpmt9
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 03:53:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I forget where I remember this from, but workers who said they were exposed to extreme radiation for a few seconds or so said they felt "pins and needles all over their faces" when they looked at some radioactive object. Definitely not that heap of stuff though.
lzrae ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 04:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that someone exposed lost his skin. As if he stood up and his skin fell off like baggy pants.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 89 points ยท Posted at 04:17:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy took some pretty extreme rads. You can see he's missing like, all of his skin.
But the doctors managed to keep him alive for 87 days. Full article here
NSFL
lzrae ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 04:35:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit. I'm putting that in my will under "Just kill me if..."
DefinitelyNotLucifer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I....am not......guinea pig......"
respectableusername ยท 78 points ยท Posted at 04:35:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember that story differently. He kept pleading to die before he was unable to keep talking. They kept him alive in order to study him.
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 04:46:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he was forcefully kept alive so they could check the full effect of the lethal dose.
I'm not really a fan of the Right to die organization, but something like this?
It's a mercy kill at that point.
machenise ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 06:18:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone in r/bestof (I think) linked to a discussion about this a couple months ago. There was a post with interviews with the doctors and nurses who treated this guy, and the redditor that was linked did a summary of the interview. It seems that they didn't really want to keep the guy alive, but the guy's family kept telling him to hold on and that he could make it, so the doctors didn't try to hard to persuade them to just let him die. I'm sure they got lots of useful information from it, but they weren't keeping him alive just for science. The doctors and nurses seemed pretty conflicted about it, if I remember correctly.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually a big piece of info to me.
I remember certain Youtubers who would include this event in list videos who claimed it was the government being heartless.
One example coming to mind is Rob Dykes video (1:46)
Oddgit ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 07:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately a lot of youtubers love to heap on dramatic details regardless of if the details are correct or not. It might just get those extra views after all.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:00:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, at least the poor guy was in a medically induced coma
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:08:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If my memory is correct, They actually performed CPR and brought him back a few times.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 05:29:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, we're bringin him back again today? Someone go get the intern.
Tocoapuffs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:34:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not getting paid enough for this shit.
KrazyKukumber ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you have against a human being's right to die?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really against them, I'm just not really comfortable with the idea.
KrazyKukumber ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you mind elaborating on what about it makes you uncomfortable?
fortytwotrees ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the part where someone dies? It's like someone saying they're not against abortion but it makes them uncomfortable. It seems fairly obvious to me...
sh2nn0n ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand. You aren't alone.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:39:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah the pins and needles story is completely different from this one. Buy anyways, RIP radiation guy.
machenise ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone in r/bestof (I think) linked to a discussion about this a couple months ago. There was a post with interviews with the doctors and nurses who treated this guy, and the redditor that was linked did a summary of the interview. It seems that they didn't really want to keep the guy alive, but the guy's family kept telling him to hold on and that he could make it, so the doctors didn't try to hard to persuade them to just let him die. I'm sure they got lots of useful information from it, but they weren't keeping him alive just for science. The doctors and nurses seemed pretty conflicted about it, if I remember correctly.
Home_Builder ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:19:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that a Metallica song?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:23:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's about a soldier who stepped on a landmine.
Home_Builder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was being slightly sarcastic ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your fault for not properly using the sarcasm tag. :)
Home_Builder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:09:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly didn't think I needed to.
MrHorseHead ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:53:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. Just fuckin shoot me at that point.
Savor_The_Flavor ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:00:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like to think one of my brothers would put 2 in my head or convince a nurse to give me a big ol' syringe of morphine.
Jalkasuolangen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:52:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What you looking at smoothskin?
machenise ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that was the when they realized that a water valve had to be opened, or there would be much bigger, more devastating destruction to come. Some men volunteered to dive into the radioactive water to release the valve and died days later. One of those guys was the skin pants guy.
lzrae ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 14:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heroes.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 05:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Louis Slotin dropped one innocuous-looking piece of metal onto another innocuous-looking piece of metal for a few seconds and then a few days later he died.
tepuiswift ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:21:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good, can you imagine your thoughts the second you hear the noise of those pieces of metal colliding? You would know instantly that you were gone.
goodthinggoingon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pins and needles sensation mentioned in Wikipedia article on Chernobyl disaster
[deleted] ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 04:41:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Elephant's Foot is a real thing but text under the picture is some grade A bullshit.
Stuckin_Foned ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:45:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go take a picture then.
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 04:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-elephant-foot-of-the-chernobyl-disaster-1986/
Sure, why not? Just give me some money so I can get clearance and I will take some pics.
Klockmon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:11:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're really gonna do it???
FancySloth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:07:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP xoiz
TheFreshOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He hasn't come back yet. Probably dead. RIP man, you were a true hero.
FancySloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man there's no radiation. I'll go and take a picture.
Jumbojimbomumbo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:08:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I was thinking the same thing. Wasn't there a picture of some Chernobyl workers in the reactor with some of this radioactive lava next to them? Granted they died but they were alive long enough for the picture to be taken
Edit: changed a few words so it made sense
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Iirc one of the best (color might I add) photos of it was taken with a self timer on a camera on long exposure and the guy actually posed on the ladder next to it. He is also probably still alive. So there's that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it actually weight that much? Hundreds of tons?
KrazyKukumber ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 05:37:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, it weighs about 2 tons. Nor will it kill you instantly. The caption of the photo is mostly BS.
Help_me_123_ ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 06:32:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? They stated the picture was taken with the use of a mirror but they didn't state when. And they didn't state if you look at it "currently". Thr absence of that suggests initially looking at something like that would kill you instantly.
Precision, son. Precision.
KrazyKukumber ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:47:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I made no claims about the picture being taken with a mirror. The BS I was referring to was about the weight ("hundreds of tons") and the instant death if you look at it. Even those who were exposed to the object when it first formed were not killed instantly.
Precision, son. Precision.
Railboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This Wikipedia page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor) - tells us what the Elephant's Foot is made of and how big it is. I didn't spot a weight but that should be easy to calculate right? I'm curious now.
KrazyKukumber ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:20:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything I've ever read about the Elephant's Foot has said that it weighs around 2 tons.
frachris87 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cherenkov Effect... beautiful to see, terrifying to absorb.
Juus ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 10:34:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Here's a photo of a man standing right next to it
potatonipples123 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:55:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That guy's got balls
Aetj232 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 13:53:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not anymore
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think that he might be dead
Stuckin_Foned ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's degraded quite a bit but I bet that guy is not alive.
mifbifgiggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:08:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even directly after the accident it would only be lethal after 5 minutes of exposure.
Warsaw44 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:34:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find these captioned photos dubious. If you sited that as a source in a essay you'd be laughed out of the building. Here's some more reliable info: http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-elephant-foot-of-the-chernobyl-disaster-1986/
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Radiation is scary as fuck. It's invisible! "Nothing happened and now you're gonna die."
greyfade ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:40:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fortunately, modern third- and fourth-generation reactor designs and existing safety protocols make things like elephant's feet impossible.
Chernobyl was a mis-managed shithole with barely-adequate safety protocols that were overridden by an unauthorized experiment, and then covered up by a fascist government to save face.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IonizedBromine ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the product of Chernobyl. Insane quantities of unshielded Fission Fragments (which are, generally, more radioactive than Uranium)
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It actually melted through the floor and molded into the big blob we can see in the pic.
If I remember correctly, every scientist they sent to look at it got a lethal dose.
michael_harari ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its called corium. Its basically all the most radioactive shit from the chernobyl core that melted into slag
virginia_hamilton ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:43:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does that really weigh that much?
LIL_CRACKPIPE ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
Chance4e ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here looking for this and found click-baity crap-text instead. Replace "instantaneous" with "300 seconds" for accuracy. And then you look at the photo and think of the guy who had to be in that room to take it.
It's down there right now and it's still that lethal.
pizzaforthewin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:41:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What exactly is the elephant foots thing. I know it's radiation from Chernobyl, but what is it made out of
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/48ujhq/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_on_our_earth/d0n0s1k
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. How does it weigh thousands of pounds?
mifbifgiggle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It only weighs a few tons at most. It's probably just really dense molten material which is likely solid by now
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it still super radiated?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:30:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As far as I know yes (but not as bad as it was when the incident happened). I think it's something like 2 hours of being exposed to it will lead to certain death.
Stuckin_Foned ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:15:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It consists of nuclear fuel, fission products, control rods, structural materials from the affected parts of the reactor, products of their chemical reaction with air, water and steam, and, in the event that the reactor vessel is breached, molten concrete from the floor of the reactor room.
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok thank you. Is the elephants ear thing still there or is it gone?
Stuckin_Foned ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It will be there for hundreds of years. I say hundreds because hopefully they can find something to do with it. Otherwise, it will be there until the end of humans.
pizzaforthewin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. Thanks for all the information.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Stuckin_Foned ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The density of uranium is very high.
dankindonut ยท 4218 points ยท Posted at 23:39:32 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking out that girl.
thatswhatshesaidxx ยท 660 points ยท Posted at 00:36:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
better to shit your pants than die of constipation...
candygram4mongo ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 02:21:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But if I die of constipation, I won't have to spend the rest of my life physically cringing at the memory at random times forever.
KetchupKakes ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:42:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shitting your pants sucks, but eventually it becomes funny.
OtakuMecha ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:17:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or I just get discouraged from ever taking a shit again
hjf11393 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, I'm sure you will find other moments to cringe at.
Scherzkeks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't you the young go-getter?
thatswhatshesaidxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Started from the bottom now we here! got up off the couch n got a beer!
Scherzkeks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like you're the inspiration Tyco Brahe needed.
Calsmokes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it though?
MasterWiener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it? At least you get to keep your dignity that way. And the feeling of shit rubbing around in your underwear and down your back thigh area, not that nice. Yeah I'd much rather be constipated.
Alph1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this expression.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take a shit or get off the can.
jonasbeaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use that pickup line all the time. I'm pretty sure i'd nope out of the first one to fall for it.
WANTS_TO_BE_SMART ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just saying, you really oughta change your pants before asking her.
sub_xerox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, not too sure about this one
Saxon2060 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's beautiful
gallantBlackKnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been here too long.
Educated_Spam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well... Um. Uh... Ok. Yes.
summerjo304 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:18 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is such a great way to put it
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:08:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thatswhatshesaidxx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daviska ยท 1417 points ยท Posted at 00:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE FEAR OF REJECTION IS WORSE THAN REJECTION
TheKillerPupa ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 03:09:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, I have to disagree with you there. Rejection just leaves me feeling utterly flattened, fear of rejection is a more buzzing anxiety in the corner of my brain.
Jacarl10 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:24:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true when your rejection rate is 100%
Poppin__Fresh ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:21:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially the older you get. 10 rejections a year for 10 years is a lot worse than not knowing.
family_with_benefits ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 02:17:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fear cuts deeper than swords
EarthAllAlong ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 03:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instructions unclear, sword stuck in crush
skwerrel ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:42:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... nice
Lemerney2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow this quote is just perfect for the situation.
The_Celtic_Chemist ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:27:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's not. It's totally not. I still shutter when thinking about all the rejection I've faced. I remember each and every time vividly. It's horribly embarrassing and comes with a natural feeling of shame. Never have I shuttered or felt embarrassed from not asking out a girl.
city_mac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, at least you could say you tried.
ZJonas96 ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 01:26:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine this person has not yet experienced the latter yet then
[deleted] ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 02:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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matkv ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:00:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously! I definitely regret not asking out a crush from years ago, one of my biggest regrets actually.
petroleum-dynamite ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:46:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But who goes through life regretting not asking that girl from high school out?
love_is_just_sad ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 11:44:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me
petroleum-dynamite ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:53:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is pretty rough and I don't know your situation, but then I feel sorry for you.
Bojangles010 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:15:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've actually experienced both and not manning up and asking is definitely worse. Sounds like you haven't experienced the latter then.
Tain101 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:22:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe different people have had different experiences :D
The_Celtic_Chemist ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:29:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Everyone's wrong. But me.
Bojangles010 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. Mentally unstable individuals can't handle rejection, and us mentally stable guys can.
Tain101 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't group me in w/ u normies :D
Bojangles010 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:47:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I was talking about me and people like me, not necessarily you. Poor choice of words.
Tain101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:D
Pun-Master-General ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:46:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, it's much better to find out that the answer was "no" than to spend the rest of your life wondering if it might have been "yes."
Poppin__Fresh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:19:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me at least, the fantasy of "maybe I could've gotten her" is nicer to live in than the reality of being rejected so many times in a row.
Pun-Master-General ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way I see it, while the fantasy might be nice, the fact remains that you don't get her if you don't ask. It would drive me crazy to always wonder how my life would be different if I had been able to man up and ask.
Poppin__Fresh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be like that too. But having been rejected so many times without success, I'm now only happy when I'm living in the fantasy that I might get a certain girl. As soon as she rejects me the fantasy is gone and I become depressed again.
Anrikay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give up. That fantasy is just that, a fantasy. You can never hold its hand or kiss it goodnight, cuddle up with it during a storm or take it out to meet your friends.
If you want girls and aren't getting them, either improve yourself or lower your standards.
Examine the girls you're going after and yourself. That 8/10 with a fantastic body, great face, flawless makeup, is spending hours a day to get that look. If you want girls in her league, you need to do the same. Work out, good hygiene, good haircut, good clothes, confident body language, you can go from a 5 to a 7 easy. But it takes time.
If you're physically similar levels of attractive, then look at how you're asking them out/your personality. Do you come off like you expect a no? Does your follow up look like an /r/cringepics post? Anyone can learn to be confident and charming, you just have to be willing to examine your mistakes and put in the time to improve. It's a skill.
Practice by asking out girls you don't like first, learn what you're doing wrong and how to fix it, and then ask out a girl you do like. Asking out girls you don't know is good for practice because you'll probably never see them again, so it doesn't matter if you get rejected.
Don't let your dreams be dreams and JUST DO IT. I believe in you man, now you gotta believe in yourself. Your future girl is out there so go get her!
Shekondar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:18:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having recently experienced the worst case scenario, the one that I always have to talk my self down from because "it is never going to happen" (The scenario is: ask friend out, she says no, stops talking to me, and all our mutual friends stop talking to me), I was startled to say that I am glad I did it. Burning up not saying anything, followed by the pain having another person on the list of "What if...." is worse then the actual worse case scenario.
Obviously people are different, and how we experience things is different, and what we may or may not value is different. But I am now much more inclined to ask people out, because I have experienced the worst case scenario, and it was better then not having asked.
DrMobius0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:18:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not the slow burn of living with it for months. I'm never doing that again.
ethertrace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had my heart crushed recently by rejection from someone I'd waited years to finally tell how I truly felt. The rejection was some of the worst pain of my life.
Still glad I did it. Faced my worst fear and now, not only do I not have to live with it anymore, but every other possibility of rejection is trivial. I'd rather take the possibility of pain than live in fear of it. The pain gets better over time, but the fear never does.
YoWutupthischris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I totally agree. Rejection sucks, but it's so much better to just get it over with than to sit there wondering what if, and it gets so much worse the longer you sit and wait. Something similar happened to me years ago, and it stung, but I got over it. Wish I had done it sooner. After some time apart from each other, we're friends again.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sock_face ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:55:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So relieving once you get rejected, "Well I got that over with, time to move on".
Poppin__Fresh ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:22:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or alternatively "that's 32 rejections in a row, officially time to jump off a bridge".
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:55:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you work in sales?
2legittoquit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats the truest thing I've ever read.
courtFTW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the truth! Everyone should get rejected, it's not so bad and you're not as scared for next time- you've got some experience.
GenXer1977 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also never knowing is a thousand times worse then getting turned down. Trust me on this one.
ghostphantom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I don't want to end up alone so I'll ensure that I do!"
qwerto14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Down the road definitely, but the soul crushing feeling of "I wasted hours of my life thinking about this girl only to find out that she's never cared about me, and I still can't stop thinking about her" is way worse than "What if she says no?"
Poppin__Fresh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree. The fear of rejection doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge the way getting rejected 40 times in a row does.
Dennis__Reynolds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. I was rejected yesterday, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I always imagined. She was flattered that I asked
Aspergers1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, when you're gay, and attracted to a straight guy, then you don't have much choice.
Klockmon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance of rejection is the worst. Let it go dude, move on, she's just not into you.
treemister1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you say that
MC_Mooch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, when you're really in love with a person, asking them out could ruin any semblance of a relationship with them, no matter how platonic it may be
romulusnr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. It's miserable and kills your self esteem.
Tom38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE FATE OF DESTRUCTION IS ALSO THE JOY OF REBIRTH
mifbifgiggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Been rejected three times, always feel better right after. Now I have a girl so I don't need to worry about it anymore but even she rejected me at one point.
SunflowerSamurai_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, rejection is definitely worse.
KarmaforLama ยท 220 points ยท Posted at 23:46:22 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My man. I know rejection is a bitch to feel, but acceptance won't come unless you face rejections.
rileyrulesu ยท 346 points ยท Posted at 00:04:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's weird. I'd be perfectly fine being rejected, but asking her out is terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 00:20:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You wanna know what makes it terrifying? Fear of rejection.
akjd ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 02:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm actually more bothered by the fear of now wtf am I supposed to do if she accepts?
But maybe that's just me.
SilentPterodactyl ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:40:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here man. Idgaf about rejection, I'm afraid of the possibilities and the potential feels.
fgdadfgfdgadf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is kinda awkward cold approaching someone with the intent to sleep with them within 36 hours.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:22:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it's the fear of what the date will consist of and her opinion of me, I guess I overthink things sometimes
skwerrel ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:47:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah god, yes, this exactly. For me it's a girl I work with. I don't fear the rejection itself, I fear the aftermath - either way. If she says no, now I have to work with this person who I asked out, and see her every day, along with all the other who would probably find out (she'd tell a close friend, who'd gossip to others, who'd spread it around further, and now I'm that guy who asked a coworker out and got shot down).
But if she says yes...what then? We have to go do something, alone, in real life. Alone! What does she really think of me? What will we talk about? What if I say something awful or stupid, or take a liberty that I thought was justified but wasn't? Now we're back to scenario one, with all the coworker gossip and bullshit, just about different things.
But aghh, if it worked out... I really really want to pull the trigger, but god damn it I can't stop thinking and it's just all so damned overwhelming.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 11:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coworkers are a big no
Dont fuck in the factory
skwerrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I disagree. I spent the happiest 6 years of my life with someone I met at work. She ended it and crushed my heart, and we both still work there. Things were awkward for a bit, but we're both adults, we do our jobs and that's that.
I'd never trade those years for anything, but if I had your attitude they'd never have happened in the first place.
When someone special comes into your life you don't ignore that for anything.
commiecomrade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is exactly why I can't ask anyone out.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to know I'm not alone, what makes it worse for me, is that I've never been on a date. Honestly never tried to get a girl because of this, only once but that's a long terrible story.
skwerrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:48:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel you, I'm not real experienced in that department either. I've had two girlfriends, one I met online and knew well enough to be in love with before I ever actually met her in real life, and one I got to know by going out every Friday with a group of co-workers that included her. Obviously I went on "dates" with both of them while we were together, but that's a whole different kettle of fish from a traditional first date with someone new.
The latter broke up with me recently and I've been on two dates since then. Both girls I met on tinder, which certainly makes it easier (it's easier when you're just chatting online, plus you know for sure the girl is interested to at least some extent). So I still have never asked someone out on a date the traditional way actually. That's probably a big part of why I'm so scared to do it, I guess.
YoWutupthischris ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coworkers are always a difficult situation. I dated a few of them when I was younger, including one girl who was my boss! If you go for it, I'd say keep it really casual. Don't ask her out to dinner, or specifically say you're asking her on a date, unless she asks you if that's what you're doing. Ask her out to something that's a mutual interest, or a drink after work if you're old enough, that kind of thing.
If she says yes, cool. Just be yourself. Remember, she said yes, so there must be something about you that makes her want to see you outside of work.
MaritimeLime ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:03:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this truth too well
Night_Hawk_Delta ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fear of the fear of rejection
PacSan300 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. If you get rejected, you know she is not for you, but at the same time you don't want that to be the case because you currently have a desire to be with her.
mirror_1 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:13:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're worried about mucking it up, aren't you? Well, practice it a few times. Practice it until you can say it on autopilot. Every detail. Then ask her. And don't worry if you do muck it up, I've been rejected more times than I can count, but eventually got a "yes" from someone.
zhill29 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just tell her she has nice shoes, then ask if she'd like to fuck. At least then if she rejects you, you can act like it was a joke. If she says yes, she's a slut and probably has herpes DON'T DO IT!
funbaggy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's how I am too. I don't take rejection personally and it's not that bad, it's me actually asking them out which ends up getting cringy as fuck because I get super nervous.
YoWutupthischris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is going to sound like a really weird recommendation, but try something like Tinder. You face a lot of rejection, get a lot of practice asking girls out, maybe even get some practice on dates. Might even meet someone you like!
ArchdukeAwesomeSauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Kingbay ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:29:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about getting a yes and then a no a few days later. Feels the worst
KarmaforLama ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had that bro. 9/10 blonde gave me number when I asked. Talked for a few days, invited her to concert, replied yes. On the day, she flaked. Then gave me the sorry I lied about not having a boyfriend. Granted that she's Canadian in US and her bf is still in Canada.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you find out she didnt have a bf
Night_Hawk_Delta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:26:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's those kind of moments when I think of that Wayne Gretzky quote, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take." As long as you're not asking her out, the answer might as well always be no.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about women asking sn out?
Wth is this not happening more?
I thought they are now all emancipated and shit. Still we have to do all the work.
Night_Hawk_Delta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:16:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I mean there are instance where you both know you're into each other. If that's the case, why can't the woman do it if she feels ready.
dyrtydan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've noticed that you'll never regret the outcome of asking as much as not asking. I did it just today, saw this beauty in a grocery store, passed in the isle then was just in front of her in the checkout line. I should have waited outside and at least tried to strike up a conversation, you never know how special that stranger could become to you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair she could also be themone that slowly kills you with rat poison
lastrideelhs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah the last couple years I've faced a bunch of girls rejecting me, but hell at least I can say I tried.
johnny_appletits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that has been stopping me isn't the fear of rejection. Yeah it'd suck, but it happens, so whatever. It's that I don't want to lose a friend. I feel like there's no going back to a normal friendship after that. Thoughts?
KarmaforLama ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:31:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if you are awkward about it, then you will lose a friend. Just be yourself, I know treating her like a friend afterwards seems like overpushing. But sometimes it works, at least now she knows that you appreciate her cuteness or certain traits if you weren't creepy about it when you asked her out, or disclosed on a date. Most of all, after rejection, she will look at you as a man who has confidence and who moves on and doesn't hold grudge of rejection. Basically she knows that you ain't a salty bitch or bitter petty man. If she rejected, just casually joke it off.
johnny_appletits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess it's worth a shot. Thanks!
KarmaforLama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember this (excuse my languages): what do bitches hate the most? Other bitches, so don't be one. Plus my favorite line after rejection that always get a playful reply and positive vibe from girls is: "Oh Hey, you are right. That was a bad idea, we wouldn't look cute together anyways." Play the contradictory unexpected game to mess with their mind and they will forget moment ago they rejected you. They might give you a chance afterwards.
ricko_strat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The pain of woulda - shoulda - coulda, in other words the pain from not asking, is certainly worse than rejection.
The relief after a rejection, that it was not that big of a deal, serves to quickly switch to moving on to live another day.
hilarymeggin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Master has been rejected more times than the Novice has even asked.
nightpanda893 ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 02:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
1) The vastness of an unforgiving ocean
2) The twisted, horrible things human beings are capable of doing to one-another
3) Girls
saltnotsugar ยท 3935 points ยท Posted at 00:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey man, if Internet Explorer is brave enough to ask to be the default browser, you're brave enough to ask that girl out.
[deleted] ยท 161 points ยท Posted at 00:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Sack_Of_Motors ยท 396 points ยท Posted at 01:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then she probably will get extremely frustrated with her slow internet browser and realize she should have downloaded chrome or firefox.
[deleted] ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:42:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah the ol' Reddit internetexploreraroo
prsnep ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 03:59:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my Bill. I'm entering the Gates.
Munchay87 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:59:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm the fox that wants your box.
DeltaPositionReady ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or it could be a work thing where she doesn't have any choice but to appear kind and refuse the download because of work limitations, despite actually wanting a faster browser.
Sack_Of_Motors ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:36:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trust me I know...I work for the government which solely uses internet explorer. Some of the websites I need don't even have full compatibility with edge which is extremely annoying.
DeltaPositionReady ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:10:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also work for an organization that forces me to use internet explorer. It sickens me
notLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's someone's dream girl you are talking about.
DeltaPositionReady ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh I've done the work thing. Would not recommend. Stay with your current browser. Unless you have admin privileges
notLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chrome don't need to admin. Install safari On windows to really put people off
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too real
AboutHelpTools3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IE has a lot of flaws. But being slower than Chrome and Firefox is definitely not one of them.
Auctoritate ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet Explorer is actually quite high quality these days.
J0L0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been with chrome for years and she has gotten big and bloated over time as well. Still my go to, but I do find myself checking out some of those lean browsers from time to time.
Happy_Cats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And what do you download Firefox or Chrome off of? IE FTW!!!
Ninja Edit: Sarcasm
kotkaiser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! This works both, literally and as the analogy.
:(
kreptinyos ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahh the ol' Reddit browser-oo!
OkArmordillo ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:29:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I asked my first girlfriend to be my girlfriend and she said yes, I just said thanks in a monotone voice. She and my friends still make fun of me for it.
OddBacca ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you wake up from your dreams silly
answerisinmybriefs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She never does.
Sensei8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She'll either say yes, or she'll say "whewww that guy was creepy" and tell her friends.
EtticosLebos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who says yes to Internet Explorer?
[deleted] ยท 294 points ยท Posted at 00:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 01:17:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Actually, it is now called Microsoft Edge.
EDIT: well yes, /u/NiklasSpZ is correct
NiklasSpZ ยท 174 points ยท Posted at 01:25:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, that is a completely separate and new browser. Still using chrome though.
Stoll ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:08:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edge is actually pretty good.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 04:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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patternfall ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interfaces with Windows 10 child accounts so I can see what sites my daughter visits. So there's that.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:30:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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patternfall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, pretty much on that same level.
Qorinthian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't it use less memory and GPU?
Flyrpotacreepugmu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GPU I don't know, but I seem to remember Edge using more memory than Chrome for a small number of tabs and vastly more than Firefox with a lot of tabs.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's a really bad browser
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair though edge is a much higher grade in quality over Internet explorer
NiklasSpZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is indeed, but I still prefer chrome, probably just because that's what I'm used to now
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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MaviePhresh ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edge is much different than I.E. and I prefer it over Chrome. Sue me
01111000x ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:40:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No itโs not. Stop spreading ignorance
lordcirth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not. Edge is webkit based, like most modern browsers. And they are keeping IE around for a while for compatibility.
BonzaiThePenguin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it isn't, it's a fork of Trident.
Kreepykecleon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I use edge when chrome is eating too much ram. It's not bad
Edit: downvotes, cause I use edge at times, or for criticism to chrome?
DragonTamerMCT ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be using edge for netflix and such though, as it's currently the only browser that supports 1080p playback.
I mean edge is actually a really decent browser. The lack of addon support kills it for me though.
grigby ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:05:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or, since you're on 10 anyway, just use the Netflix app. Also 1080p but supports 5.1 sound which edge does not. Plus the app is really good. Can't see reviews and other nitty gritty details, but it's a very high quality standard.
DragonTamerMCT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I totally forgot about that because I just don't use the windows app store or whatever.
BiscuitOfLife ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:07:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edge is actually the only browser that currently supports all the features of ES6, aka the newest complete version of javascript. The world is backward.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I've heard, MS has been investing a buttload of engineer-hours into their browser for the past...like 5 years or something. At this point I'm not actually surprised.
magicfap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair with Anders Hejlsberg going full time on typescript it's pretty clear that MSFT is really invested in the future of javascript.
luckyvb ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:59:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it's on the edge of disaster...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:22:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use it and it's actually good
shalafi71 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gonna take years for the IE reputation to wear off. Edge seems pretty tight.
MrNationalParks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they need to talk you off one after your terrible decision?
PM_ME_CHEEKY_NANDOS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:01:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you are downloading chrome or Firefox its like edging for the real browsers. Hence the name edge.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The name edge is because they need the logo to remain a blue 'e'. From a UI perspective, this is very good reasoning.
Quatroking ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:05:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been calling it "Browser Downloader" for years.
wellsdb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One my computer instructors used to call it Internet Exploder.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:50:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually the opposite of the truth. Internet Explorer has the largest market share for any internet browser. It's kind of cheating since it comes with Windows, but it's still used the most(I think Chrome is behind by like 1%)
unverified_user ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Mozilla.org Explorer" doesn't have the same ring to it.
sordomayor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet Exploder FTFY
nerga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Firefox ftw. Chrome is spyware that runs slower and with more memory.
strudzilla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean Internet exploder?
Comrade-Napoleon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Safari!
raverbashing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With Internet Explorer the Internet explores you
eyeGunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vivaldi, you fuckin' pleb!
Chipwich ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:14:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edge is far better than Chrome on my surface. It doesn't overheat it.
hchighfield ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:00:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While that's true. I recently switched and now Microsoft edge is my exclusive browser for Netflix. This is because chrome and Firefox can't watch Netflix in 1080p. The rest of my browsing is pretty much chrome though.
SnipeCity73 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're brave enough to repost this, then he is brave enough to ask out that girl
BirkaBirkowski ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet Explorer is specifically designed to ask to be my default browser and I tell it no every time. If IE's primary function is destined to fail 100% of the time then what sort of chance do I have?
martix_agent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet no matter how many times it asks you, you will never say yes.
SnoodDood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:06:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you.....inspired me.
is-this-desire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet Explorer is court mandated to do that. Not sure that's the best way to find a loving relationship...
dmalton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And everytime we say brutally say no to Internet Explorer
Qwertyg101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's in its emo phase now, it goes by edge
guitarguy109 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I always reject the IE's passes at me :(
lnternetExplorer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn right!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn Daniel! Back at it again with the dank memes!!!
Samfu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And just like Internet explorer, we'll both get rejected.
PanzerKpfwVI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's it; you have inspired me to finally get the courage to ask that girl out. Thank you.
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're not robots.
ThePickleAvenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But every time it does, we're like "no, fuck off"
Cohomotopian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but he's retarded.
Hench21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh
Sui47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet explorer isn't brave, it has no standards. It'll ask ANYONE. It doesn't care if it gets toolbars as long as it's the default browser.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. This wasnt even funny or clever the first of the Nth times I've seen it.
ForceBlade ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:13:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yawn
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this comment is fucking shit
Commisioner_Gordon ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel ya, currently debating asking out one of my best friends who I simply adore. Except I have no nuts
Willydangles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:53:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey if you can protect Gotham with Batman you can ask her out.
ionwesker ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 02:10:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's Schrodinger's date.
If you don't ask her out, she's simultaneously likes you and doesn't like you.
HiDDENk00l ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:08:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And either way, the goal is to get inside that box.
AustinXTyler ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you just do it, it's really not that bad
ionwesker ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You clearly haven't felt chest burning sensation of having a girl burst out laughing in front of your face in response to you asking her out, Snail Murderer.
isaacandhismother ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:51:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You like killing snails eh?
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:34:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Uncle_Skeeter ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 01:08:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol what dream world do you come from where girls ask men out?
mirror_1 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:14:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Girl here! Have asked almost every single one of my men out.
Lurking4Answers ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 02:26:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bless you.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hero we need
mirror_1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really into redditors, though.
Hawtdogg ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one where men are too scared to ask women out, so women have to ask out men.
MyTrashcan ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 03:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God I wish that was reality. Fuck this gay earth.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:12:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, gay earth is the one where men ask men out and women ask women out.
takeachillpill666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayyy experienced this for the first time today. I felt proud at first but then ashamed because I was such a dumbass that I didn't ask her out first, so she had to make the first move.
Potado ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's known to happen, although indirectly.
evieee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I asked my husband out when we were in high school.
MandMcounter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not /u/boker49, but if you're serious, I'm a woman and I've done it lots of times. If I'm interested in someone, I invite them to do something with me (coffee shop, etc.). I try to do it before I'm too interested, though. That way, if I'm rejected I'm not too upset about it. It's good to find out he's not interested early on.
DothePenguinShuffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did! Annnddd got rejected :(
chiiillin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do.
IanYan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:36:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's called the 21st century.
thebiggestandniggest ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:18:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one where attractive men exist.
iamwussupwussup ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:56:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know what's weird? Maybe I'm just full of shit, but from personal experience you're really only afraid until you do it. Once you actually make that desicion it's sooo much easier. You're now the one in control, you get to choose when and largely where it happens. It's your show and you just have to own it. Own it and be happy with yourself because at least you had the self confidence to try. It's much easier to be asked than to ask; she can say no, but it's your show and your aaking her to participate, so own it and go perform.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. The pre ask phase is nerve wracking. Once you are in the conversation, it isnโt so bad.
Poppin__Fresh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel fine in the moment, but a few days after a rejection I always get really heavily depressed. Like now I have to start all over again with another girl that will probably end in rejection just like all the others. It's hard to get excited about meeting someone new eventually.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:30:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who's that girl?
Quasar_Cross ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Priorities of the young and healthy. Typically anyway. This was refreshing to see after a huge thread of so much wtf. Thanks. Made me smile after a whole lot of "omfg" reactions.
MOISTY_OYSTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Solution - Ask out ALL the girls.
Dresanity93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know what's worse, that or actually breaking up with a girl.
GillicuttyMcAnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that fucking rush you get from it... Jesus man, I'm an adrenaline junkie but nothing compares to asking out a girl you like.
Shadowx78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Girls are like pokemon, you can't catch them without any balls.
selectiverealist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst she can do is say no. On the other hand, if she says yes you could end up finding someone you love or if you find you aren't romantically compatible, maybe a good friend. If you never ask, you will never know.
LifeBehindHandlebars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What do you call a guy who gets rejected 99 times before getting a date?
A guy with a date!
Can't be scared of the no. It'll be a yes eventually, and you'll prefect you're technique along the way.
adustbininshaftsbury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's amazing how this goes from the most difficult thing in the world to a complete non-issue once you've dated for the first time.
tombue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LPT: Buy alcohol, tell the girl "hey, I've got beer and whiskey, wanna drink some?". If she says yes, it's a success, if she says no, you still have alcohol and a chance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bi guy checking in. Asking out a guy is wayyyy worse. At least as a straight, you're reasonably sure the girl won't deny you because she's only into other girls. Especially at a bar. With a guy, you have to be sure he's gay, and deal with the rejection when it comes hard and fast. Which is usually how you spend your friday nights anyway.
flippingasian2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A wise man once said:
Better to have loved and lost than to have masturbated alone the whole time.
Chaosfreak610 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
._.
JetBlue7337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably already buried but
I did this today and I'm not sure what to make of the answer. I thought things were going well, been talking for two months or something (in same college class and ride bus). I figured why not ask, we had a lot in common and I enjoy talking to her.
So at the end of the bus ride today I was like "Hey do you wanna get coffee or something sometime" and she said "umm *long pause that felt like an eternity but was like 3 or 4 seconds * maybe"
I'm preeetty sure that's not a good thing. But some friends are saying she probably just legit wasn't sure.
So I'm just sorta like. Well shit rn cause I'm 0/4 over the last two years and I was really hoping and thinking this could be my chance.
All knowledgeable Reddit what do I do? Just wait a while and eventually bring it up if it doesn't before that?
sakurafice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The absolute worst thing that could happen is that she says no. Think about that.
LyeInYourEye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it's not the rejection, but hitting on girls always makes me feel like I'm being some asshole misogynist guy and I'm terrified to be them because it's so terrible so I just never do and friend-zone everyone.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is actually really easy. You're probably thinking with the wrong head.
BloodSweatandFears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4U
I_fix_aeroplanes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop thinking for once in your life and just ask her. Don't rationalize about doing it later. Later isn't going to be a better time unless she's dealing with the death of a loved one. Stop making excuses, stop reading what I typed and just do it. Even if she says no it's worth doing. Either way, next time will be easier.
Reallyneedtofap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I asked "that" girl out last month and it has been the best decision I've made all year.
markevens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullshit. Here is my patented 2 step program for asking girls out.
wannahakaluigi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're only rejecting yourself. Pimps don't cry. -Mrs. Owens
Asgathor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet Explorer: The number one Browser to download a better browser.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a couple months outdated but the principle still stands http://imgur.com/2D9c9tf
matty2x4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"It's better to be seen as a douchebag than to not be seen at all" -The Brofessor
Psdjklgfuiob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how this is above "People that would kill me for my skin colour." lmao
iloveleboobs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just do it!! There's no point in not knowing! The fear of rejection is worse than rejection itself. And when it does work out it's the best!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did it though! Well, it was over text, but I did it! We have a date on Saturday!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
leekie_lum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
he gets gold for that, life is unfair !
Aiox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did it. Needed 1mg of Xanax and the shield of Snapchat texting for me to be able to do it without having an anxiety attack.
She and I plan on getting married.
Moral of the story, find a way and JUST DO IT.
EBOLA_CEREAL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
last year I managed to ask out a total of three girls. Two of them had girlfriends already
Fuck this, I thought, i'm going back to being gay
TheSeaOfThySoul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If my experiences in life have taught me anything, so long as you're reasonably average looking and you two connect on some level, she'll say yes - even if it doesn't work out after the first date you'll still get the chance.
I mean, I'm no Casonova and I'm decidedly average looking but I've dated a couple of girls I'd consider out of my league. Though, since those didn't work out here's another piece of advice - find someone who you know shares common interests. It's all well and good connecting to someone on a personality level, but if you can't engage with that person on topics they're interested in or share in their passions then it won't work out well.
PM_ME_HKT_PUFFIES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, she spends half an hour every morning getting her makeup right, in the hope of getting asked out by a random guy.
Are you that guy?
(She could also be doing it to be asked out by a girl, in which case it's probably not going to go well)
muyoriginalken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:36 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh just do it. Worst thing that can happen is she will say no.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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itwasmadeupmaybe ยท 422 points ยท Posted at 00:59:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The penis fish. It swims up your penis when you go pee. Fresh water I believe.
HugMuffin ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 01:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The wiki article is skeptical of its ability to do so. Apparently the one recorded case of this happening seemed false for several reasons.
BaylisAscaris ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:45:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can find videos on youtube of the candiru being surgically removed from penises.
blackledbetter ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:40:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair though you can find videos of almost anything being removed from dicks and buttholes.
pokemaugn ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:32:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe they shoved em in there?
Silva-esque_Joe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Million to one shot doc"
HugMuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I found one video, and it could easily have been faked or of something that isn't a fish. Actual articles are almost all against the candiru doing that sort of thing.
mnh1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:53:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, the idea that the fish can swim up a stream of urine if you stand on the bank of the river and pee in is totally false, because of course it is.
The fact that the fish scents ammonia to locate the gills of fish it would like to be a parasite on is true. It's also true that if you pee in water you are swimming in, this releases a quantity of urine that will attract this parasitic fish. It will look for the source of that, in an attempt to find gills to burrow into. Humans don't have gills, but the urethra smells close enough to this parasite. Just swimming without peeing also carries a risk.
HansBlixJr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I was just peein, doc. Honest"
[deleted] ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 01:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they are in the Amazon. Which is why I never want to go to the Amazon.
Majormlgnoob ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 02:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it has Jaguars, big spiders, and Anacondas
im1nsanelyhideousbut ยท 92 points ยท Posted at 02:25:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yea but those just kill you, they dont fuck with ur penis.
Majormlgnoob ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:26:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big Spiders don't kill you
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 02:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they also might fuck with ur penis
JonnyBraavos ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:03:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Increase your girth and stay hard for hours with just one weird spider!
Lumin0s ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They could. Depends on the big spider.
surprised-duncan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one will fuck with my penis :(
pizzaforthewin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:38:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The anaconda don't want none of that
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you trying to convince me to go or further deter me?
Majormlgnoob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't like big cats that sneak up on prey and kill before the prey has time to react, really big snakes than can eat crocodiles, or spiders the eat birds
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never met one personally but I think I'm going to have to say no.
NG96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of which are eligible for free super saver delivery
theSilverknight45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck all of those except the first one because jaguars are dank.
Majormlgnoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wild Jaguars tho...
badwolf42 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:32:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I'm a Prime member, so I get free two-day penis fish.
Andrado ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:41:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's so beautiful. You're far more likely to slip and break your neck on the wet floor of your local grocery store than your are to have problems with these fish when visiting South America.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well yeah, but I go to the grocery more often then I plan on going to the Amazon. My chances of having a problem with the fish are 0 since I never plan on going to the Amazon.
Andrado ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but I'm saying one random trip to the grocery store vs. trip to the Amazon. I'm not comparing a lifetime of grocery shopping to a single vacation.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, and in all honestly I'll probably want to go there some day. Just ask me when we're not talking about penis fish.
SyntheticManMilk ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:20:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wear a full body condom under a suit of kevlar and carry a gun.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:53:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the gun to shoot my dick off after one still somehow finds a way to swim in there?
TheoX747 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of many reasons.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:38:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brother told me they lived in swimming pools and got stuck in your dick if you peed in the pool.
TheKriegerVan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:38:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Seattle sucks anyways
2ndzero ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:58:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But free 2 day delivery with Prime...
Lothar_Ecklord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck the rainforest! Clear it all!
ButteringToast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit - I use amazon all the time on the toilet!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:43:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're a Prime member the penis fish are only two days away from your toilet.
kittykittybittybitty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they have free two day shipping!
thorscope ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:59:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Amazon river specifically, technically freshwater but we all know the Amazon is a portal that brings creatures from hell.
thasquidkid ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
shiningPate ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:09:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not only do they swim up you pee stream INTO YOUR FUCKING DICK, they have a dorsal fin with rear facing spines. So, once they're up your dick, they can't be pulled out. It has to be cut out. In the jungle, where every cut festers and rots
E-Squid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that was physically impossible
anthropophagus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is
you have to be submerged in teh water for it to swim up your urethra
shiningPate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:59:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the medical incidents on the fish have been guys peeing while swimming in rivers/lakes. Essentially they're following the chemical signature of the pee in the water to the urethra opening, which they penetrate
malakai_the_peacock ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:54:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://youtu.be/U_opDjElEug
The candiru!
ERankLuck ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:11:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't not hear that in the Monarch's voice
IngrownPubez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a nasty little fish with a penchant for swimming up a man's urethra!
nedflandersuncle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have to cut it out.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not real.
Tserraknight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Candiru IIRC
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Those scare me good.
FishesNBitches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vampire fish
Conkeldurr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't see this and not think of that awesome Dwayne Johnson movie The Rundown.
nigger2016 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dreaded candiru!
coltonmusic15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh my
helloiamsilver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has spines
jamey0077 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Changing my toilet to salt-water immediately.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jokes on them, my flow is weaker than Kanye's.
Kingimg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol I think it's called candy catfish and it lives in the amazon
Drewbixtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes sir. It's called the candiru. I read about it when I was a kid in the SAS survival guide and have always been too terrified to pee in open water as a result.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru
Luposetscientia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The penis fish. http://imgur.com/t17T3B6
Pete_the_rawdog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Male privilege.
LordRandomcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet another reason never to go to the Amazon.
JediExile ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That part's not so bad. It's the backward-facing barbs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the dreaded CANDIRU! A naughty little fish with a penchant for swimming up a man's urethra to feed on the damaged tissue of the pitiful mass of flesh you once called your penis!
Xenefungus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a myth, right? Right?!
MrTumbleweed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And has backwards barbs so if you try to pull it out it simply digs itself deeper into your willy!
jonarama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit. I shower in fresh water. Every morning. I wonder if it's already gotten in my penis.
The_Masturbatrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ick... Water, never touch the stuff, myself. Fish fuck in it.
ShenaniganNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kandiru
WuhanWTF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I KNEW IT. I KNEW THIS WAS REAL!
Saw a CNN news report on this back in 2002. I was like, 6 years old and always had that vague memory of the show in the back of my head. Now it's been confirmed.
entotheenth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old wives tale I believe.
NoThrowLikeAway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been cultivating a fresh water penis aquarium for a while so I'll make sure to not to add a penis fish into the mix. Is this also a problem for salt water penises?
Dankobot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't do that unless you actually submerge your dick while peeing. If you do that then you're fucking stupid.
SonicRainboom24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The candiru.
crazyisthenewnormal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the candiru. What it usually does is swim into the gills of a fish. The waste from a human is detected by the candiru like the waste excreted from the fish at the gills and it has been said to mistakenly burrow into... the source of the waste (urethra). However, unless you are peeing in the waters of the Amazon, you should be safe. Link
bobby2768 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically don't pee into or while submerged in freshwater?
Buzzardry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh, the dreaded candiru!!!
AWildCookieMonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It lives in the amazon and it is species of catfish
Immortal888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well shit, that's enough internet for today.
Heightsman09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The kanduru... One of natures many blessings
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Candiru, also known as caรฑero, toothpick fish, or vampire fish
seinnnnnn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:52:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Candiru?
oldsoulsam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Were you also watching Grey's Anatomy this afternoon?
Jabeebaboo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:34:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, the dreaded Candiru. Don't piss in the Amazon river or this barbed worm will swim into your shit and hook in.
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 760 points ยท Posted at 23:39:30 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hydric acid. You've heard of all the others, but this one is truly the worst. This substance is used regularly in heavy industries, waste processing, and is known as the one chemical able to dissolve more substances than any other solvent on Earth. The process that creates this volatile compound can ignite any flammable material nearby. It also acts as a universal carrier of disease-causing microorganisms, including the flesh-eating bacteria that has so many other people on this thread scared to death.
In all seriousness, though, FOOF is pretty scary. It can ignite ice at subzero temperatures. Scratch that, it can ignite any organic material at negative 300 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 184 degrees Celsius) in a massive explosion. If it reacts with hydrogen sulfide (present in natural gas), not only will you be reduced to a cinder by the detonation, what's left of your flesh will be eaten away by the hydrogen fluoride (extremely acidic) byproduct of the previous explosion. Don't go near it.
EDIT: As some kind and wise Redditors so gently reminded me, there are some inaccuracies with my description of FOOF. Hydrogen fluoride is actually a weak acid; however, it is still dangerous in vapor form and will deal severe damage to your body. FOOF reacts vigorously with ice, even at subzero temperatures, but it doesn't "ignite" ice, per se. At least, the reaction wouldn't result in anything similar to flames.
2059FF ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 01:59:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you've never read "Things I Won't Work With", you're in for a treat.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride
mangamaster03 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:25:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dammit...came here to say this. Link already purple. Awesome blog, though I think we killed it. It's down right now.
ShadeThief ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:02:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working for me ;)
mangamaster03 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:52:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, I was trying to link to the old Corante "In the Pipeline" website. I kept searching for it, and seeing the sciencemag page pop up under the older link. I didn't realize till just now that the whole website moved.
I was getting worried for a bit there...how else will I get my organic chemistry fix.
zazazam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That article is one of my favorite pieces of literature. Impressive considering that I've never enjoyed chemistry.
You can easily waste away 6 hours reading his blog and won't stop thinking "holy shit" for even a second.
demize95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:52:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this one.
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dang, this guy explains FOOF really well. I like this.
NortonPike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Oh, no you don't." :-)
jarjarbrooks ยท 414 points ยท Posted at 00:14:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Searched google, now on terrorist watch list.
Thanks Obama.
[deleted] ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 02:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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thatguyblah ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:29:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm much obliged for obama appreciating his thanks.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:41:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, Google says it's water... Somethings fishy here..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also known as hydronium hydroxide.
The_False-God ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opened Wikipedia page, am now being detained by the CIA
SteevyT ยท 190 points ยท Posted at 01:33:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think FOOF is bad, check out ClF3.
Stronger oxidizer than oxygen itself. Spontaneously combusts with things like water, sand, glass, asbestos. No measured ignition delay.
archiesteel ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 05:23:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chemist John Clark describes chlorine trifluoride thusly in his book Ignition:
Ouch. Clark goes on to say it is possible to contain ClF3, with a caveat:
arul20 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:02:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
upvote for damn interesting info .. + for using 'thusly'
doc_frankenfurter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somewhere near the beginning, Clark kicks off by saying that chemistry is a mixture of things that are toxic, corrosive and highly inflammable and rocket propellant chemistry being things that are all three.
He talks about conferences of researchers and how they would swap stories of what really happened at the bar. I have visions of a lot of scientists with missing hair and eyebrows.
solidspacedragon ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 02:38:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fluoroantimonic acid is pretty bad too.
It has a pKa of -25, and a pKb of 39.
This means that it doesn't only not like you, it REALLY doesn't like you. It first forces a proton into basically anything it touches(even hydrocarbons), then it starts stripping its electrons. This destroys stuff.
You couldn't even pick up a bottle of it; the bottle would stop existing, along with your hand, the table under your hand, and however much of the ground the acid can destroy.
Slyninja215 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:23:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how are things like this studied or even discovered? Is it more of a theoretical assumption that it exists?
095179005 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Acids and bases break things down by messing with their intermolecular/interatomic bonds.
In the case of a super
baseacid, you need a container that can't accept anymore protons, that way a reaction can't occur.solidspacedragon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:33:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You basically need a teflon container for fluoroantimonic acid.
It is the strongest organic bond in existence, and is immune to most exotic super acids and bases.
ihatehappyendings ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:38:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what's holding the other stuff?
jmlinden7 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glass mostly. Some things corrode glass and some corrode Teflon but very few corrode both
Thegamer211 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:08:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where we hold that stuff?
BobbyDropTableUsers ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plastic bottle.
Seriously. HF can dissolve both glass and fluorinated polymers, but not some simple plastics.
Seboy666 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:41:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unobtanium
LE4d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe we could float it on megastrong magnetic fields in a vacuum.
thelaststormcrow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Platinum would most likely work. Worst case, make a dish out of frozen argon.
SketchBoard ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diamagnetic isolation fields.
kesekimofo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Magic.
Bradart ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:13:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like antimatter
solidspacedragon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:10:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, a bottle of antimatter would make the immediate area stop being biology and start being physics.
TheOldTubaroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically just fuck fluorine, right?
solidspacedragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:29:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw ClF3 and my flashbacks to organic chemistry had me thinking how in the world is that even stable?
Then I realized what I said. . .
thelaststormcrow ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. A +3 chlorine with 10 valence electrons, which stabilizes by releasing elemental fluorine? Fuuuuuuuuck no.
arkzist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:04:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit my roommate was watching a documentary on this stuff a few weeks ago.
Combusts with asbestos
Reddits_Worst_Night ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:38:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But really, who's actually going to try and measure the ignition delay, that sounds like suicide to me.
willowpumpkin ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 01:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a pretty common misconception that HF is extremely acidic. It's classified as a weak acid because the ka (equilibrium constant) is fairly low, and it is much more dangerous to inorganics than it is to organic compounds. The dangerous part is HF's toxicity, and that's really nothing to laugh about. Having all of the calcium in your body turned into CaF2 isn't a fun way to go, at all.
Sorry if I'm being nitpicky, but HF chemistry is way cooler than just saying it's acidic!
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's also a common misconception with my chemistry students is that strong acids can dissolve anything while weak acids are child's play. I had a student who was playing around with glacial acetic acid in a lab once and when I scolded him for being dangerous he told me to relax because vinegar can't hurt anyone. If I had had zero empathy I would have let him dip a finger in and learn a valuable lesson
or_some_shit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I occasionally get a whiff of glacial acetic acid. Can confirm it's unpleasant.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:53:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cleaner knocked about 100 mL of it onto the bench when they were cleaning somewhere they were told specifically not to touch. I just threw some sand and sodium carbonate onto it, but the damage was done. The lab reeked of vinegar.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should probably teach them that glacial acetic acid is not the same as the acetic acid they've been working with before starting the lab. Just thinking back to my first year as a student and I wouldn't have realized they're much different based on the name, let alone THAT much different in terms of being a hazard.
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The lab I teach requires them to get the MSDS for all reagents and solvents they use for each experiment. I can see teaching that to kids but these are college students, I can't hold their hands for them
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can see where you're coming from, but that's a hefty punishment for not doing the homework.
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you are in a lab you cannot do anything half assed. Half assed scientists are missing fingers, blind, poisoned, or burned because they were half assed. While I do all I can to make sure my students are informed and safe, safety starts with them and if they can't take a minute to read a warning that is clear as day on an MSDS then at a certain point I am no longer concerned about their lackadaisical approach to their studies and would be content to let shit happen if it wasn't my job to prevent shit from happening
oceanjunkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, probably would've been fine. The danger of concentrated acids is was overhyped. As long as it doesn't get in your eyes, wash it off and you're fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVZQoJ5FdE
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love his channel but you should see his video on fuming nitric acid. He puts a few drops of it on a nitrile glove and it bursts into flames
oceanjunkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I think fuming nitric would be worse than these.
willowpumpkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be, and usually is, the small things that get you. I've never had an accident with any "dangerous chemicals," but I've made plenty of mistakes with others that seem harmless. Convincing beginning chemistry students that every chemical should be taken seriously is nearly impossible.
blindcolumn ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything that can be described with the phrase "turns all the X in your body into Y" is probably pretty terrifying.
8Bit_Architect ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turns all the shit in your body to candy.
cinqueda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But shit comes out pretty nicely, candy canes and lollipops...probably not.
8Bit_Architect ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Airheads, taffy, gumballs...
rnrigfts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Nuked. XD
thelaststormcrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. The issue with fluoride is that very few of its compounds are soluble in water, so when you get your hands on one that is (like, say, hydrofluoric acid) you'd better be very careful that it doesn't start forming a solid with some random other thing that you'd prefer stayed dissolved.
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:27:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the correction! I'll edit my reply accordingly.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:03:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, here the problem isn't with the H (acid) part, it's with the F part.
Say_Jesus_Backwards ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay cool, you seem like a guy that knows what he's talking about. I'm in AP chem and I've always wondered why HF has a low Ka. Is it because F- has such a high electron affinity that the intermolecular forces from the water (hydrogen bonding or dipole-dipole or whatever) aren't strong enough to pull the H+ from the F-?
willowpumpkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:04:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much! They're both small atoms with a decent amount of orbital overlap. As acids dissociate and re-associate they form dynamic equilibria between water, each other, and other species to stabilize themselves. In the case of HF, the two atoms would rather be stabilized by each other, as well as other HF molecules, than they would by water.
Say_Jesus_Backwards ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:52 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kind of embarrassing considering I am 3/4ths through my course, but I don't understand why ionic compounds dissolve in water. Obviously most of the work we do is based on solutions and Kh and all that, but I don't understand why things dissolve. When I asked my teacher, he tried to explain it to me, but it was clear he doesn't have a firm enough grasp to explain it thoroughly. The best understanding I have is that the ionic compounds arrange themselves in the lowest possible energy state and the water has almost a grid of charges that make it easy for the ions to fall in place.
Is that accurate? Are acids like acetic acid weak because the the anion is too big to fit into the positve spaces in the water?
willowpumpkin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:37 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No worries, sometimes the things that appear simple are extremely difficult to understand. You're on the right track there, but I'll do my best to refine it. Forgive me if any of this is too simple, but I'll start from the beginning because I don't know much of your background.
If you recall, water has a dipole because the oxygen and hydrogens have significantly different electronegativities. One way to think of this is that the electrons are "pulled" close to the oxygen because they are better attracted to the positive charges in its nucleus, and this gives the area around oxygen an overall negative charge. Conversely, because the hydrogens do not have those electrons, they have a positive charge. This, combined with the bent shape of water, gives a partial negative charge on oxygen and a partial positive charge on the hydrogens. There's an overall direction of charge inherently associated with the molecule.
Now, with ionic compounds we can use table salt as an example. The positive charges on the sodium atoms love the negative charges on the chlorine atoms, but when you throw them into water they also love the partial charges on the oxygen atoms. This causes the oxygens to surround the sodiums, with the hydrogens pointed outwards, forming a "shell." These are called solvation shells, and depending on how strong the ionic compound's charge is they can be varying sizes. When you put these water molecules around the ionic species, they also "shield" the charge, meaning that the chlorine atoms can't see the sodiums as well as they normally can, and they can float away from each other (i.e. dissolve). The sodium and chlorine atoms will still see each other and tend to stay close to one another, but you have several layers of water that will keep them apart, and they can also associate with other dissolved ions if they happen to bump into them.
In the case of organic acids like acetic acid things become much more complicated. Hydrogen is already part of water, so there's an equilibrium there rather than just a dissociation (essentially the same thing, but we tend to give those interactions special treatment because they're more analogous to a reversible chemical reaction than they are to an ionic species). The hydrogen forms H3O+, or more complicated variations on that if concentrations become high enough, leading to excess hydrogens in the water. Like any other reversible reactions, they also like H3CCOO- (the base conjugate of acetic acid) that they left behind when they dissolved into the water, which allows them to recombine.
Now, here's where your energy understanding comes into play. The dynamic equilibrium of the H+ leaving and recombining depends on how much it likes the water compared to the acid, and is how we define the strength of the acid. The overall energy of the system will be lowered and that will determine whether the acid is weak or strong. In a case like acetic acid the hydrogen decides that it likes water and the conjugate base close enough that it won't always be on either the water or the base. If we made the compound Cl3CCOOH instead, the chlorine atoms would pull electrons away from the oxygens, and the hydrogen wouldn't have as much of an incentive to come back to the compound once it left (no free space on chlorine, and oxygen is more positive). This would increase the acidity of the compound.
Size doesn't matter too much when we're talking about small molecules. If we started to talk about proteins, polymers, macromolecules, etc. then it certainly would though, and those systems can be much more complex because they tend to "fold," with hydrophobic regions folding closely together and hydrophillic regions being exposed to the water in order to form those solvation shells.
I hope that's what you were expected and that it's helpful! If you need any clarification, resources, etc. just let me know and I'll be happy to help
ElMenduko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it dangerous when HF undergoes reduction/oxidization uncontrollably with other stuff? I mean HF + Li doesn't sound like fun. There's a reason why tripropellant rockets aren't used.
willowpumpkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest organic chemistry isn't my field, so I can't answer about propellants very well. I'm not positive, but I also don't think HF and lithium would be too bad under normal conditions aside from the heat generated by rapid oxidation (which, to be fair, can be extremely dangerous). Anything that is uncontrollable is generally regarded as bad or useless, and if it generates lots of heat I can almost guarantee that it's going to be bad. That's why pyrophorics are considered to be so dangerous.
SpaceGhost1992 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happens when the calcium in your body turns into CaF2?
willowpumpkin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:54:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calcium is important for the nervous system and for structural support in bones. You're essentially causing permanent nerve damage, may have heart attacks, and you're weakening your bones. CaF2 is also insoluble in water, so I would assume it's like having tiny grains of sand in your blood and muscles. The acid also goes straight through skin and can give chemical burns (which may not be apparent or even hurt for 24 hours after exposure, at which point it might be too late for you). Because of the damage to nerves, muscles, vascular tissue, and skin, you also set yourself up for serious infections.
It's pretty horrifying but cool. The antidote that they use to prevent damage is full of calcium, with the goal making the HF bind to that calcium instead of the calcium in your body.
SpaceGhost1992 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah! Thanks for the answer!
jaredjeya ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:03:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FFS, first time I've ever been fooled by this joke. And I'm studying chemistry at university! I guess the name got me, it's not the usual DHMO.
DoNotForgetMe ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:47:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First of all, dioxygen diflurodie, sometimes called FOOF, is rarely, if ever, referred to as "an acid." To call it "extremely acidic" is a misunderstanding of what acidity is. It is an oxidizer, like some, but not all acids. Furthermore, it cannot be considered an acid by solvent system. While you're correct that it can be explosive, saying it can "ignite ice" is a little silly. It can oxidize water at temperatures below its freezing point, which is not abnormal or other substances, especially inorganic ones.
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, sorry, to clarify, I was referring to HF (hydrogen fluoride), the product of the reaction between FOOF and hydrogen sulfide. And since HF's not extremely acidic either, I'm still wrong. Same for the ice. I'll edit my reply accordingly.
immrmessy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:08:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even
betterworse than FOOF is FOOOFOr hexanitro anything
Valaramech ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
azidoazide azide. Shit will explode if you talk shit about it behind its back.
immrmessy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much
Hydrochloric_Comment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty cool to read about, though.
LordOfCinderGwyn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't take anything called FOOF seriously.
Pausbrak ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not called FOOF because it's soft and fluffy. It's called FOOF because that's the sound it makes after the concrete you spilled some on bursts into flames, the fireproof gloves you're wearing burst into flames, and the water you pour on the fire to try and put it out explodes. It's a very exciting chemical.
LordOfCinderGwyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BUT IT SOUNDS SO CUTE THO.
scotscott ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seriously, hydric acid has a ph of 7! That's higher than any other known acid!
Terabight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:30:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see what you did there
Munchnator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By hydrogen fluoride I believe you mean hydrofluoric acid, which can be classified as a strong weak acid. Quick chemistry lesson, folks. There are 6 strong acids:
These acids, when put in water, dissociate completely; that is, the acidic hydrogens (the H's on the acids) and the conjugate bases fall apart completely, for example, HNO3 will turn into H+ and NO3-. All of them will do this. Weak acids, on the other hand, do not dissociate completely. Take acetic acid (vinegar), HC2H3O2, only a small amount of the acid will fall apart into its respective ions. What makes an acid an acid are those extra hydrogens, which lack an electron so they are in effect just protons. Acids all have a ka value, which is a mathematical constant for that acid which shows the ratio of the acidic protons and the conjugate bases to the acid in solution. A strong acid has a ka of large (sounds silly but because they dissociate completely we don't bother with the number for them). HF (hydrofluoric acid, as OP was talking about) has a ka of 7.2E-4 IIRC. This puts it in the realm of a fairly strong weak acid, when compared to many others. One trend that you'll notice in chemistry is that stuff that contains fluorine is dangerous as fuck. And this is true pretty much all the time. HF, FOOF, F2 (elemental fluorine gas), etc, all crazy nasty stuff that I would not mess with. If you really want to be scared of crazy chemicals, look up dimethyl mercury. This shit will kill you in less than a fraction of one drop of it.
the_eric ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
How does that work?
EDIT - I've seen every episode of Bullshit. I'm not sure how I fell for this.
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search up hydric acid.
the_eric ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamn it, I'm dumb.
jroddie4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that Hydroflouric acid was worse.
awindinthedoor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how is this possible if it is that reactive to organic materialnevermind i'm stupid
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was referring to hydric acid in the first paragraph; FOOF is the one that's vigorously reactive to organic material.
awindinthedoor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did understand that much later on. Hence the edit. My bad and I apologise
lotekjeromuco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it dissolves so many substances how come it doesn't dissolve flesh eating bacteria?
Tysonzero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google "hydric acid" :P
lotekjeromuco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ. xD
shemp5150 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So this is kinda like the shit that turned Doc Brown into goo in Roger Rabbit. Gotcha.
weedwhacker4199 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only know of this because of breaking bad
body_massage_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A weak acid doesn't mean it's not more dangerous than some strong acids. Weak denotes how easily it donated protons, not how much it'll Fuck you up. Hydrofluoric acid is incredibly dangerous .
PolemicDysentery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is anyone else reading this as "Foof" and thinking it sounds adorable?
Auctoritate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh, do you even Kelvin?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I keep reading this as 'foof'. Rhymes with hoof.
treble322 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hard to take it seriously with a name like "foof."
CarbonCreed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, can you call water Hydric Acid? Wouldn't it be Oxic acid or something?
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't know about "oxic acid", but I did check, and apparently "hydric acid" is a valid alternative. As to why, I don't exactly know.
heytheredelilahTOR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't be scared of anything called FOOF.
Emma-lucy-loo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As soon as you called it FOOF I couldn't take it seriously.
CokeCanNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck does stuff live in hydric acid if it's so corrosive?
pyramidpulseweapon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:34:54 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hydric acid is an alternative name for water. The first paragraph just exaggerates all the things water can do - it's not corrosive at all, but it's still known as the "Universal Solvent", and it can carry just about any germ. Creating water from hydrogen and oxygen gas is pretty explosive.
CokeCanNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:21 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhh, lol.
browncoat_girl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Concentrated hydrogen fluoride is stronger than nitric acid and almost as strong as sulfuric acid. The mistake is dilute hydrofluoric acid is weak because it forms very little Hydronium ion owing to the strong H-F bond giving a low pH. However using the Hammett acidity function we find that concentrated hydrogen fluoride is an incredibly strong Bronstedt -Lowry acid. Addition of a lewis acid such as antimony pentaflouride, ammonia, or hydrochloric acid produce horrifying super acids. Such as flouroantimonic acid. An acid 1016 times stronger than sulfuric acid.
njvsvalhalla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read this article a white back on o2f2. Dioxygen Difluoride made with a pressure cooker! neat.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
notRYAN702 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Acids are scary in general. Sulfuric will make your skin boil. Sounds like sizzling bacon according to my dad. Hydrofluoric attacks bones and barely burns skin but can be fatal.
pm_me_ur_flags ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, I know it's deadly and everything, but FOOF is a fucking hilarious name.
alohaoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you keep it in?
LaReddoux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was scary until you called it "foof"
Ced777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah man, Chloride Trifloride, that's some hardcore shif. It can burn down concrete, asbestos and any solvant you can find
DDRDiesel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dead thread, but is this the same chemical, or a variant thereof, that caused the massive explosions in Tianjin, China?
kyrgrat08 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As scary as that sounds, I cannot take anything called FOOF seriously
SAMAKUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Necrotizing Fasciitis? Been there, contracted that.
mo9722 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:10:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was pretty sure water is the most common solvent
norsethunders ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:17:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woosh
OverNiteOats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you know SOMEthing
Junejanator ยท 3480 points ยท Posted at 23:18:22 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People that would kill me for my skin colour.
koproller ยท 2155 points ยท Posted at 23:39:21 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you gold?
[deleted] ยท 1182 points ยท Posted at 23:57:38 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I definitely want to kill him.
gizamo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can shear a sheep many times, but skin it only once. Basically, I'm saying you could just scrape gold skin flakes off him every day. The human body sheds a rather surprising amount of skin.
Or you could breed him.
...or get a cheese grater and see if his scars form in gold, too. But, if breeding him didn't cross a line, grating his skin probably does.
omgipeedmypants ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn Goldies.
Iamabioticgod ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:41:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
does that username work?
AnusTasteBuds ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:05:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But gold is for Xbox
AnotherRandomherOH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:47 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I can save $10? Deal.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:06:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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jd_balla ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:14:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
P. Sherman
42 Wallaby Way
Sydney, Australia
Reddits_owner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why kill him? He might be like a lizard!
We can cut off his little tail and then wait til it grows back!
Infinite gold!
LordofShit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gold bastard. GO BACK TO NEVER LAND!
TeLoCuido ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now you're on a list.
SexyJazzCat ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold him down.
tattlerat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know... I hate gold.
Scheidecker1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, fucking gold people. What assholes
Orphjk ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 01:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's a gorydamn pixie
intensenerd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:52:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really need to finish that book.
Makyura ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
finish the series. do it
Redbulldildo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck, I just remembered I have the last book
mtlevison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuuuuuuuuck!
LockeProposal ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bloodydamn pixies, eh?
mbleslie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's the red rising reference
Fizzay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:03:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IT'S A SHINY! THROW YOUR POKE BALL!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:21:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HomelessHeartSurgeon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KHEPRI
KHEPRI STOP
thehellbean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:20:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow spoilers much
Generic_Username0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:53:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Albino.
Oknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He should always believe in his soul
that he has the power to know
that He's indestructable
Dark_messengeR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you always believe in your soul?
6xydragon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oscar? Is that you? Has Leo hurt you?
he_adds_nothing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit gold?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better, he's platinum!
explorabitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure he's white.
LunarGuardian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glorydamn we shall gave a good night
Consanguineously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You see, Mr. Powers. I love gooooooooold.
alex3omg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's Bolton time!
LaTraLaTrill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. The color spiders.
Excuse me while I get my flame thrower.
poizan42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now he/she is
Kruc83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's made of Ivory.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im guessing oil
lukin187250 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:27:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is now pony boy.
vetch222 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:27:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raistlin?
OPs_Moms_Fuck_Toy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:00:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only his yoohooooooo
Arrow156 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Man
shutupjoey ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He could be oil
AS_A_VEGAN ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:52:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's a n*gget.
keyboard_mercenary ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:56:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
copperlivesmatter
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JonnyBraavos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well pop it on out bb
EnvyEndymion ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said "skin color" not "skin".
koproller ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:21:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gold is a colour.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:26:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more a for/because of issue...
[deleted] ยท 226 points ยท Posted at 00:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume you are albino.
Inquisitorsz ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 02:37:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's probably more like "harvest" than just murder.
Either way, one is just a hate crime... the other is for obtaining useful materials (or so they believe). Both are fucked up but one is at least understandable in a weird way. The other is just pure malicious hate.
ooogr2i8 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 04:03:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Dennis from always sunny was a lawyer
dontfluffmytutu ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:14:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say this! I just watched a special about how albinos are kidnapped and dismembered for their "heeling powers". The show had interviews with survivors of attacks and shit.
Definitely walked away from the show thinking "wtf is wrong with people!"
nythnggs4590 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:36:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a thing in some parts of Africa.
DylanMarshall ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:27:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly Tanzania.
Rain12913 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
warm0nk3ey22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:35 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry a little late, but in some parts of Africa albinos are used for rituals so they are killed and have their organs and limbs harvested
[deleted] ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 03:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I read this I initially thought you meant someone who just liked your skin so much that they decided to murder and skin you to take it.
But I guess you're probably talking about racists.
[deleted] ยท -22 points ยท Posted at 07:54:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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HelixHasRisen ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 10:10:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah. Who kills a black person for being white?
superr_rad ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 12:14:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
....lol
Quasar_Cross ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:06:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People really underestimate this one. There are people out there hate me, want me dead, will sabotage my career, arrest me, etc., simply because of the color of my skin. No questions asked. All predetermined on sight.
VincentGrayson ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:34:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, people that would kill me period.
The idea that another person could just decide to end my life, and given any degree of planning probably could, is fucking disturbing as hell.
egracef ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 05:02:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also have albinism and I think about this frequently
wutimahdjsj888 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:18:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where do you live though?
egracef ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:13:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America. I just meant thinking about how lucky I am and how I wish I could help.
superr_rad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the first thing I thought of when I looked at the thread. Man it's so fucked. And not to mention how badly mob mentality can corrupt an otherwise peaceful mind. All I can think about is Trump supporters...a young black girl was attacked at one of his rallies for no reason other than being a black girl. I'm so scared about the state of America.
Nasdasd ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:13:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
similarly, people would kill me for who I'm attracted to
1Down ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 15:14:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also people who would kill me because I have an incongruence with my birth gender.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedo?
Nasdasd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, just big burly men
Scorpinock ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:08:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is happening to Albinos in Africa right now. People are hacking limbs off of kids because they think they are magic.
Theonlysf ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:24:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, people that would kill me because I'm a dude married to another dude.
kudeikis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:44:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found King Midas
ulpisen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if someone would kill me, I don't really care about their excuse
Stringtone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you albino?
wmanns11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bloody people, they're all the same eh?
zachgowensleg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone is saying albino and I assumed you were black.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I live in Baltimore and feel the same way. Back in 2006 I got the Worldstar Treatment from 4 teenagers who singled me as a "cracka ass bitch" while I was walking down the street. My checkbone never did heal quite right. :/
asshair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very few people advocate actual individual murder based on skin color.
Actual racism is far more subtle, insidious, and dangerous.
SilasX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:00:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, you gotta admit, the color would look nice as a jacketWHAAAA?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't live in a racist country and it still is a pretty scary thing.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:30:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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pokemaugn ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:27:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cuz the KKK made sure to equally target the whites when there were so many blacks available
Be_kind_to_me ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the African Apartheid supporters made sure that black farm owners also got taped and killed. No? Okay...
Fizzay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think killing you would change their skin color.
Heelmuut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be a pretty fun system. War over racial issues would probably dissappear.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:15:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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QUEENROLLINS ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people who speak English around the world speak it in an Americanised way. Btw, people still get killed for the colour of their skin even in the first world. e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof & http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4460778.stm
StinkyPetes ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's crazy, but people are still being killed all around the world based solely on what is between their legs!
Nappiest ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"#Trump2016"
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:49:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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galikat131 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How scared are white people really for being killed for being white? As a white person, I don't think I'm actually afraid of violence coming from that. Like, I generally don't wanna be killed of course, but it's not related to my race.
Fluffee2025 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on where you are. I know a few places near where I live that would probably make you fear for your life due to your skin color.
18aidanme ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally everywhere other than Europe, North America and South America.
DylanMarshall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White people are getting targeted in australia? TIL
18aidanme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Smartass.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there really any other way to live?
tkousc ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I hope you aren't a white farmer in southern Africa....
rcbs ยท -28 points ยท Posted at 01:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Britain they kill you for your colour, in America the kill you for your color.
In many Muslim countries, they kill you for your gender, sexual preferences, religious preferences, (including being the wrong type of Muslim), educational aspirations, political aspirations, country of origin, cartoon drawing preferences, and much more.
YoungPotato ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol that doesn't make it any better.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 01:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That... did not make Britain or America any better in my eyes.
rcbs ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 02:32:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, all those hangings you hear about in London and Atlanta. Lol, the premise doesn't hold water in the UK, US, Europe, most of Asia.
2legittoquit ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When my mom was a kid they were still hanging people in Atlanta.
rcbs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:51:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And your mom was a kid half a century ago? If it is still going on, that would be the only thing on the news we would ever hear.
2legittoquit ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:00:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes. My mom was born in 1961. In Tuskegee, Alabama. The government was still infecting people with syphillis in her home town, when she was born.
Edit. People in the Tuskegee Syphillis experiments weren't directly infected with syphillis. Some people infected their spouses because they did not know they had the disease or thought they were actually being treated for it. Some people had children born with syphillis because they did not know they had the disease or thought they were being treated properly for it. Thats what i mean by the government infecting people.
TMWNN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strange, given that the Tuskegee Experiment only involved not treating syphilis in people who already had contracted the disease (or telling them that they had the disease).
The truth is bad enough, without idiots like you spreading nonsense.
2legittoquit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. Those were some emotionally driven words, and not precisley true. People not involved in the trials, but who were married to or children of people in the experiment contracted or were born with syphillis.
rcbs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sucks, but that doesn't exactly translate to modern society.
denga ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It kind of does. Yea, we might not be lynching people, but the people who grew up while they were are still alive and (more scary) hold positions of power.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. But their days are numbered. Hopefully we will reach a point where civilization will realize racism and bigotry are as backwards as we know them to be.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:35:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All you did was bad mouth the muslim countries , they are fucked up. But your comment did not alleviate my paranoia of racism in USA.
You just quoted which places are worse, that is not how you defend your country.
Scherzkeks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh. I didn't think the point was to defend America. I thought it was just pointing out depressing things.
rcbs ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting killed for your skin color DOESN'T HAPPEN in the US or UK, statistically speaking. Anecdotal cases aside, it doesn't happen.
ChaIroOtoko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does happen, but it is not common. Getting beaten up for being a sikh because you are mistaken for a muslim is a little common though.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, and that sucks. All the Sikhs I have known are super peaceful.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:51:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are you just not going to provide any sources? Like at all?
rcbs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:13:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013/tables/4tabledatadecpdf/table_4_offenses_offense_type_by_bias_motivation_2013.xls
2 race based murders (5 total "hate murders") in a nation of 300,000,000 in 2013. Are you an anti vaxxer as well, or do statistics not matter in your world?
Bremic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In America, u are irrelevant.
TerribleAttitude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:23:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So.....either way you're dead because of someone else's irrational hatred, though. When you're being killed to death, the thought "I could be being killed to death for some other petty, ignorant reason if I lived in a different place" isn't really a comfort.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. But the chances of that happening in the US or Britain is extremely low. Like 5 in 300000000 in 2013 per FBI hate crime stats (US stats, britain might be worse)
TerribleAttitude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chance of being killed in most Middle Eastern countries is pretty low as well, if the metric we are going to use is "how many people killed for this specific reason" vs "population in general."
Also, I'd like to see your source for "5 in 300 million."
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013/tables/4tabledatadecpdf/table_4_offenses_offense_type_by_bias_motivation_2013.xls
Only 2 murders if you are only counting race, 1 when it's white on black.
TerribleAttitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm honestly skeptical; not because of the race statistics but because of the transgender statistics. I simply don't believe that is accurate. If only because those numbers are limited to perpetrators who are a) caught and b) charged with a hate crime.
Plus, it being somewhat rare does not mean it is not a scary real thing. The question was "what's the scariest real thing on earth," not "what is a danger lurking behind every corner." Also, being assaulted or harassed or having your home defaced because of your skin color is also pretty scary.
rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, and it unquestionably happens, much of it unreported, but being murdered for skin color isn't very scary in the US or UK, at least not as often as shark attacks or getting stuck by lightning during a thundersnow storm.
TerribleAttitude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think you comprehend the definition of "scary."
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rcbs ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have stats to backup your claims? Please share.
Dennis-Moore ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ANY source you search will confirm that trans people are murdered at a vastly higher rate than any other group. http://time.com/3999348/transgender-murders-2015/
Or you know you could just learn to use Google.
ngwoo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:51:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you just ask for proof of discriminatory violence in western countries?
Are you real
Dennis-Moore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:03:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's fucking real they're all fucking real why do they have to be real nyyyaaaarrrgggh
IsThisLegit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:55:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He asked for stats that make it prevailent I'm western countries not that it doesn't happen at all.
Dennis-Moore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well since "prevalent" is an unquantifiable measurement that you can twist to fit your preconceptions, try just googling trans woman life expectancy and see where that takes you.
IsThisLegit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah something I have to go out of my way to hear about? Must not be happening as often or I'd have heard of it
Dennis-Moore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're trolling right? You can't imagine why the murders of trans people aren't something you hear about? Regardless, here it is, in the news that I suppose you don't read. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/13/transgender-homicide-victims-us-has-hit-historic-high
IsThisLegit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No but I pretty sure we are arguing about to different subjects. I never said it didn't happen all I insinuated was that being in the middle east will make it a lot more likely. What I was saying is that if was so wildy close to the middle east I'm sure I would know as I spend a good deal of time online across different sites
IsThisLegit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:53:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd also venture to say that there is a historic high of trans people in general so it stands to reason they would be murdered at a higher rate
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Dennis-Moore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do I have to provide evidence of higher rates but you can just assert that there are more trans people than ever before? Transgenderedness isn't a trend. More people are openly trans, certainly, but nobody would argue that there are more gay people than ever before. You wanted evidence that there is widespread violence toward specifically targeted social groups in the West. You have it. What else do you want?
IsThisLegit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Population growth, homie. Statistically there has to be. Its like box office busters. More people are around to buy the movie and there are certainly more people to be gay than ever before. I don't need to look anything up for this. This is an assumption made using that fact. And once again and I will repeat this. I did not claim it didn't happen, I did not claim it wasnt rising. That's all you. What I did say and ask for was stats that it is worse than say saudi.a trans person here is a hell of a lot safer than there and I don't think that is something to argue.
Dennis-Moore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. You didn't say Saudi Arabia in this comment chain or anything about comparing things to far away countries. The initial point made was that belonging to certain social groups can get you killed in western countries. Evidence was demanded and provided. If comparing your own country to a shithole like Saudi Arabia makes you feel better about the murder of trans people, whatever, not much of a coping strategy but its your call. That's not what was asked for though.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes because it is NOT COMMON. Stop stalling. Legit source race crime stats or you lose.
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rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2013/tables/4tabledatadecpdf/table_4_offenses_offense_type_by_bias_motivation_2013.xls
Incidents and getting killed for your race are different, arent they? Dig a little deeper and you will find 2 skin color related murders in 2013. 2 in a nation of 300,000,000.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rcbs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"People that would kill me for my skin colour."
The answer in 2013 was 2. Do hate crimes happen, yes, all too often. Do people get KILLED for thier skin color, yes, about as often as getting killed by a shark while being struck by lightning.
WackyWarrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In many Muslim countries they take religion very seriously.
spankthepunkpink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you get killed for being gay or trans in any of those places (although I'd rank them in severity of danger and the worst one would come up looking a lot worse)
Whats_Up4444 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:16:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are...are you serious?
Like, if I draw some manga character?
Majormlgnoob ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:17:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up Charlie Hebdo massacre
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the first time someone was killed over artistic expression, either http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/world/europe/dutch-filmmaker-an-islam-critic-is-killed.html?_r=0
J4Seriously ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah man, don't draw that Furry Yuri-trap shota-loli vanilla ntr doujin that you were thinking of making.
the_undine ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:44:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know a lot of those words.
J4Seriously ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm very familiar with them.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.rt.com/news/333846-saudi-twitter-atheism-jail/ Remind me why the US is on good terms with Saudi Arabia despite one human rights violation after another? Oh right, that stuff we put in our cars...
denga ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, 'cause the US doesn't commit any human rights violations...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. Whipping people for not believing in God is pretty medieval though.
rcbs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:18:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US has the capacity to supply all of its own oil. F the house of Saud.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's time to go electric, anyway. We've got the technologies for alternative energies, the money interest just isn't there.
rcbs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I give it 15 to 20 years.
nedflandersuncle ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you an albino in Africa?
brickmack ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 00:18:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it looks so good! I bet you taste like rich chocolate
its_a_rock_fact ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesnooooONONONO
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 00:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this a food fight reference
brickmack ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:38:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No? Is that a thing people actually reference?
kkjdroid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be.
Wraiith303 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:33:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
South Africa?
I get you.
Knight-of-Black ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:53:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter what your skin color, gender, language, what country you come from or whatever else, there is someone out there that would hurt you or even kill you for being that.
Applies to everyone.
Choking_Smurf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill you for your skin colour? Oh please, I'd kill you for a Klondike bar
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you white? Because I would kill to be white. And if I were white, I would probably only get 10 years (5 for good behavior)
batt3ryac1d1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:46:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist is white and not tumblrina's wet dream.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't go to south Africa
pie4all88 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:53:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one?
Snowcapt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAE racism is dead????
KMW_Wolverine ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that people of that same skin color either still do, or used to, kill each other for being witches.
Enigma1959 ยท 137 points ยท Posted at 23:11:32 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flesh-eating bacteria (necrotizing fasciitis).
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 03:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just so everyone knows, that's a general term for when bacteria get into the deeper layers of the skin and spread along the fascia. There isn't one specific bacteria that causes it. Lots of different kinds do it. It's pretty damn rare though.
SkepticShoc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:56:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, reddit needs more of us microbiologists
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:07:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah babe, I'm a scribe
SkepticShoc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, regardless of what you call yourself, you have studied microbiology, so you are to some extent a microbiologist! Maybe not professionally, but who cares?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a bachelors degree in physiology but that doesn't include a ton of microbio
Medi-Saiyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
mostly staph aureus and C perifringes
imnotpaidenough ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My great grandmother was a diabetic... and flesh eating is what killed her... the diabetes made her body unable to fight it at all caused her death
probablydot ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:56:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not often that I get to tell this story since NF doesn't come up a lot in conversation!
My dad contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis after donating a kidney to his sister in the late '90s. Ate away most of the flesh on his left side, back, and torso and resulted in him being in a coma for several months. He's okay now, aside from not being able to work for the rest of, well, ever.
I was only a child when this happened, but I think my dad's humor surrounding the whole situation is what helped make such a serious illness a bit less terrifying for me.
For example, he went to a bar with a buddy a few years post-illness and a bunch of the regulars were comparing scars, as guys in bars do. Anyways, my dad proceeds to lift up his shirt to show his scar (For context, he's basically missing everything from his bellybutton to the left side of his spine) and makes some joking comment about it being a "shark bite".
The guys in the bar actually buy it, so my dad, being my dad, just sort of nods to his friend and they go with it. They come up with some absurd story about snorkeling off the coast of Australia and my dad having what "had to be a 30ft long" Great White latch onto him, trying to rip him apart until he "punched it in the face" and it "swam away crying". Every single patron of the bar (all pretty drunk, mind you) bought their story, except for one gentleman, the biggest dude in the building, obviously, who proceeded to ask my dad how he could have known that the shark was crying. Dad's answer? "Well, you see, the tears were oily and they floated to the top." This was apparently sufficient for the gentleman, who promptly commended my dad's bravery and bought him a beer. And that's the story of how my dad has basically figured out how to never have to pay for anything at a bar. And you know what? It hasn't failed in 18 years.
TL;DR - My dad had NF and regularly blames his scar on a shark attack to get free drinks out of people. Works every time.
SAMAKUS ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:05:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my fucking God, I'm the same as your dad. I say to people I've just met that I was bitten by a shark. It's hard at the beach when people stare, so I came up with the that story. I'm missing all of my left axilla muscles, like a shark latched on under my armpit, and took a bite.
probablydot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you have NF as well? That's crazy coincidental if so!
I'm glad you're (I assume) doing well, and aren't letting your injury stop you from enjoying the beach! :) I hope you use the shark bite story to freak out tourists by telling them that it happened on that beach.
SAMAKUS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:19:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. It's usually unheard of that people just lose flesh/muscle, most of the time it targets the extremities, never heard about someone who is arguably a lucky unlucky person like me. I'm thankful I have all my fingers and toes.
probablydot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:39 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay, extremities! Very rare indeed. What's your story? How/when did you contract, if you don't mind my asking?
SAMAKUS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2013, I'm just out of the recovery phase. The only reason it targeted my chest muscles is because I had pulled them after tripping and grabbing a door handle, pulling my pec as I fell down. I hate to think what would have happened to me had I not tripped that day. I'd have lost a limb for sure.
Enigma1959 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's funny. Still horrifying, by funny.
probablydot ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:05:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is one of several stories. Glad you enjoyed it, haha.
Here's another: When he was coming out of his coma, the doctors all told us that he was probably going to be brain dead, to prepare for the worst, etc.
So, they wake him up and the nurse waves at him and says "Hi, [My dad's name], I'm Denise, I'll be your nurse." My whole family is in the room anxiously waiting to find out if he'll be able to speak. A few moments go by until finally my father lifts his head and says "Hi," to the woman. He then gestures to my cousin, who is standing on the other side of the room. "have you met de-nephew?"
I am seriously convinced that the only thing that brought him back from the coma was the overwhelming need to continue making dad jokes.
Enigma1959 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:17:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your dad is awesome. I love being around people like him.
probablydot ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:52:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, he's pretty cool, I guess. Thank you! I'll be sure to let him know!! (Although he's a Reddit lurker and will probably see this anyway)
d_colt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Severely under-upvoted
GamerKey ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chompers!
minipet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:57:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they called it "flesh-eating bacteria" to sound more flashy. You know, hook in all the idiots.
GamerKey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:37:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it worked, then.
nopenotyou ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:30:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very close friend of mine had this years ago and still lives with all kinds of shit (hair loss, major scarring, hip pain, etc). Has no idea how she got it and spent months in the hospital.
Slawd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:03:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a flesh eating bacteria once, it was horrible, The head surgeon made a pass everyday to visit me to check-up on me though, which was cool.
Squeggonic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:02:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Caused by an invasive streptococcus?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom had that. Thankfully it never progressed more than the size of a quarter on her forehead. She now just has a scar where it used to be.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had that. Could have been much worse.
TheMightyMrM ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:17:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't actually eat your flesh, they just dissolve it
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still pretty disgusting.
Kinsman-redeemer ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 01:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pancreatic cancer. The pancreas makes - among other things - digestive enzymes. When it metastasizes to your brain, for example, it continues to make the enzymes and begins to digest your brain as if it were a cheeseburger.
danwroy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, this is a genuinely new and terrifying one for me, thanks
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:23:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, a cancer cell stays the type of cell it originated from, or, at least, a messed up version of it. You can generally tell where a cancer cell originated if you look at the inside of the cell.
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GuttersnipeTV ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 04:03:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw a thread a while back about someone getting sucked into a sink hole while he was in his bedroom. Yep that's by far the scariest thing. His brother said he could hear him screaming for a good minute or so. Imagine all of the sudden youre watching Netflix or cable (I don't discriminate) and the floor beneath you falls as well as your bed and you and you are suddenly in a pit of sand having concrete blocks and wood hit you or weigh you down as the foundation and walls to your house disintegrates from the outer edge of the sink hole. And the sand keeps piling up and up until you are completely covered with your hands above the sand trying to grab for something, anything. And then your hands feel something. Its more sand. Youre sinking and sinking while more weight piles on top of you, you try to struggle but as you sink down things just get harder and you are running out of energy fast. At this point you cant breathe but you have no other life line at this point. Things are getting dark. You know if you open your mouth sand and dirt will come rushing in and make it harder for you to breathe what fraction of oxygen that you were getting before. But at this point you have to scream. Youd do anything to live, to see light, to breathe normal.... to continue your life. You scream and scream but its no use, your brother cant do anything to help you. You sunk so fast you have no idea how deep you are but the faint cry of your brother screaming "im trying to help" sounds like hes just getting further and further away. You know at this point if he were to try anything, he would die too. You continue to scream until finally you slip onto deaths embrace.
Apparently they couldn't even recover his body it was so dangerous. They filled it with concrete and called it a day. Yep that is by far the most scariest thing. I would rather jump out of a plane into the ocean, break several bones on impact and slowly drown and get chewed to death by sharks than fall into a sinkhole. Especially unsuspecting as he did.
[deleted] ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will sleep great tonight thanks!
GuttersnipeTV ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well I live in Florida where this shit happens pretty regularly compared to the places it doesnt happen or have a slim chance of happening in. It doesnt keep me up at night because there's hurricanes, tornados and a ton of other shit here that sucks too but sinkholes? Fuck that. So this is what came to mind.
revofire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and me both. We're the lightning capital too so don't go outside in a storm! :)
Shamic ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:31:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So this won't happen if I'm watching a dvd?
GuttersnipeTV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as its not Michael bay.
guitarguy109 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:04:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I stopped reading half way through, I'm kinda sick to my stomach now. Bravo.
StumbleOn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:37:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JESUS FUCK. This is horrifying.
gmc_doddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd take the sinkhole over sharks eating me.
GuttersnipeTV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:02:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, ive been bit by a shark surfing once. It wasn't a particularly hard bite as he kinda nibbled me for a second and stopped. Its not fun but it wasn't the worst thing in the world. There was just a decent amount of blood when I got out of the water and the most painful thing was pouring alcohol on the multiple wounds and scrubbing it hard to make sure the bacteria wouldn't infect anything. At least you know whats happening. I would take anything that allowed me to understand whats happening as a death rather than being sucked into a sinkhole un-suspectingly where I just have no idea what's happening.
gmc_doddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap man! That's hectic. I would be stoked at getting out of that so lightly. Shark attack survivor is a pretty elitist club. To clarify though I was actually referring to OP's initial scenario of falling and shattering bones on impact only to be mauled by sharks while you can do nothing. Either way, I wouldn't want either scenario in a million years!
Girtzie ยท 83 points ยท Posted at 02:48:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lalalola89 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:46:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can happen anywhere at anytime, that's what makes it so terrifying
Girtzie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:34:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy gets it
froggym ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles? They certainly can where I'm from.
zorbtrauts ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators are actually much less aggressive than รงrocodiles... And there are some รงrocodiles that get much larger than alligators.
TapetalFlipper0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
รง
teh_maxh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators aren't that bad. You don't fuck with them, they won't fuck with you.
gmc_doddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators first? If alligators were people Crocodiles are like the hitlers
MrDanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Florida?
_N0S ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was is the last one?
rad_platypus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A blood vessel in your brain can leak or pop at any time and begin to fill your brain with blood. The only symptom is a sudden bad headache and at that point its usually too late.
zacablast3r ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:32:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually a blockage in a blood vessel in your brain.
rad_platypus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:37:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a stroke. In an aneurysm the blood vessel actually bursts.
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:49:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness. Losing your grip on reality is terrifying.
WorriedChimera ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's hard to realise that when people meet you the reason they take time to warm up to you is that they sense something is slightly off about you...
Rick_from_C137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Yes it is.
Lazman101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but I can imagine it isn't that bad once you're too crazy to know that you're crazy.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:14 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paranoia, anxiety and depression are debilitating. Mania can be too.
Lazman101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, but I wouldn't say those qualify as losing your grip on reality.
madosooki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:23 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's scarier that that. A lot of people who have really intense mental illness issues or delusions will have what are called "moments of clarity." They suddenly become aware of reality and the current state that their lives are in. It's terrifying for them in a way, but they think that they'll finally be able to recover. Then it fades and they lose control again and go back down under.
odms ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to disagree. I went through a period where I had severe depression, multiple panic attacks per day leading to agoraphobia, and insomnia. During a lot of panic attacks I would have a sort of out of body experience with a detachment from reality. Looking back on it now I consider myself to have lost grip on reality most of the time even though I knew what was happening.
Hayseus ยท 202 points ยท Posted at 02:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time.
When you need more, its never there. When you have too much, you want less. It erodes everything and everything. There is no possible escape from it...and you only have a set amount to begin with.
Heisengerm ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 02:15:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, my daily dose of existential dread :(
For real though, probably the most correct answer here.
cooperjones2 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:06:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you."
Every time I hear that verse, I get chills in my back.
Time flows so fast and there's nothing we can do to slow it down.
Source of the verse: Pink Floyd - Time
Bread_Boy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:04:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:16:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
slamnasty99 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:44:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is so deep I need a fork
hinata2000100 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
"Try to imagine a world without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check his watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
A fear of time running out."
-The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom
oblivioustoobvious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't a problem for everyone.
Optionions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once.
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the only thing on here that I worry about every day.
celticwhisper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"No god or devil is crueler than time." -Alec K. Redfearn
Onatu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time is awful, and it's unfortunate because it has such a control over everyone's life. It makes people stress and worry when we should just enjoy ourselves and what we have.
Hayseus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that is impossible unless you have an adequate amount of time to do so...
ghostphantom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it."
envatted_love ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is a tautology.
Twatberriesandcream ยท 177 points ยท Posted at 01:24:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever it is, you can bet it lives in Australia.
DapperFrog ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 03:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
หuษแดlษษนสsnโ ษฏโ :ษฏษนแดษuoษ uษฦ
jokehunt96 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:25:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am strayan and woke up with 7 drop bears on my lawn, hectic shit.
pressbutton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:51:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure there are no Drumpf towers here
Geminii27 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:40:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And will probably get elected.
_N0S ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hoeing ๐
cuntweiner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australians?
Scherzkeks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/48ujhq/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_on_our_earth/d0mnv0l
cabin_in_the_woods ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I heard some of the sheep there are pretty harmless. Some.
JuniperJupiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toddlers?
grahampaige ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:39 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn they are on to me
Neuroticmuffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:40 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders don't build concentration camps though..
hypervisor_ ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:21:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ostriches. They are like 7 foot foot tall feathered velociraptors. They have a brain smaller than a golfball and can disembowel you with one kick of their sharp taloned feet.
danwroy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine one of these idiots going after you, as you sit there holding your intestines, the shame
TheSexualHobo ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:58:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Deep Sea, not fucking joking.
Kjmcgee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:19:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely. Deep sea and deep space. A lotta nope.
meshintas ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 11:15:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. It scares me deeply that this is even possible.
Read this great article about it:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/an-error-in-the-code
I also recommend the book he (the same author i just found out) wrote inspired by it, the Cobra event
NecroGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That must be a bizarre and upsetting scenario, having someone biting off their fingers while screaming for help at the same time because they can't stop.
WhackTheSquirbos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was one of the scariest, saddest things I've ever heard of. Glad they have found ways to subdue it, though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:05:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for sharing that article, it was a fascinating read
Samsantics1 ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 02:28:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delta P. The pressure differential between two systems can suck you through something the size of a quarter. It's scary as shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0
It's a bit slow explaining the forces at the beginning. But it's scary as shit, and you can't stop it.
wired-one ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:03:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scary, but a good watch.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the first event, how was Diver 3 able to retrieve Divers 1 and 2?
For-The-Swarm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was after the initial opening. The pressure nearly instantly equalizes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:46 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then why did Diver 2 die on his rescue mission?
For-The-Swarm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:47 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is late, and you probably already have your answer. Its like a sink, diver 1 was there when the plug was pulled, diver 2 when the sink was half full and still draining, and diver 3 got there when the sink was empty IE when the systems were almost completely of equal pressure.
When I said 'almost instantly' I was thinking of the deep ocean incident stated earlier, which was misleading.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:43 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. Poor divers 1 and 2.
CivilizedPeoplee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck you for that video..
Auralux_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great. As if I wasn't afraid of deep water before. I'll never dive!
lennyfromthe313 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:53 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm trying to find the diving fatality mentioned in this subreddit, where this group of people exploded in a depressurization chamber because of a human fault, do you know where it is?!
Samsantics1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:38 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure where exactly it was, but it was called the Byford Dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#section_2
a-nom-nom-ynous ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 02:55:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yellowstone national park is a super volcano which is the most overdue seismic event in the world. According to Bryson's "a brief history of nearly everything", Yellowstone's cauldera is 22 miles in diameter, and has Erupted regularly every 600,000 years for the last 1.8 million years: the last eruption was 637,000 years ago; when it finally does erupt, the explosion will have the force equivalency of ~GET THIS~ A pile of dynamite the size of Rhode Island, 8 miles high. It will displace enough earth to cover most of the United States under approximately 10 feet of ash. one of the interviewed geophysicists said that the reason we love Yellowstone, are because of thermal events such as 'old faithful'. elsewhere, such events have typically been associated as warning signs of imminent eruption. So watch your pants
*edit:the grammars
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/volcanoqa.htm
This website states that the last eruption was actually 174000 years ago.
Also : "Will the Yellowstone volcano erupt soon? Current geologic activity at Yellowstone has remained relatively constant since scientists first started monitoring more than 30 years ago. Another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, but it is very unlikely in the next thousand or even 10,000 years. Scientists have also found no indication of an imminent smaller eruption of lava."
SenatorMeathooks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, forgot about that one.
bigyoungboy1998 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:10:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would change the world forever if it did happen.
a-nom-nom-ynous ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:01:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah... the book goes on to say it prrrrrobably wouldn't be extinction level, but it'd definitely suck a lot of hot-assh
slouched ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:36:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not if, when
CosmicPube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't wait.
traumatron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A great writer and a great book.
glorae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:26 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hooray. Good to know I have other things to be terrified of other than the Cascadia fault line.
Ponchorello7 ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 01:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the risk of sounding like a hippie; nuclear weapons. You can level a city with conventional explosives and that will be the end of it. But a nuke will have horrible lasting effects.
EmeraldJunkie ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:40:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What makes this scarier is that international governments have nuclear bombs that they're not entirely sure the strength of. Governments haven't been able to test nuclear bombs since the 60's, but that hasn't stopped them from making them. Plus, history shows that scientists have had a pretty bad time at predicting the power of nuclear weapons. Just look at Castle Bravo. It was over double what they predicted.
Here's hoping they never have to be used.
Boonaki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:06:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually we know the maximum yield of weapon by the weight.
For every 1 kilo of warhead weight you can get a maximum of 6 kilotons of yield. Most deployed weapons are far under that yield.
CoffeeAndSwords ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:57:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or bombs that have no lasting effects. Like neutron bombs. They can penetrate almost any material, kill any living thing, and the area will be clean in an hour.
guitarguy109 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:38:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That scares me more because factions are more likely to use them. And while fallout sucks and is nice there wouldn't be any, being exploded in a target city does not sound like my idea of a good time.
clunting ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:36:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone who thinks that sounds hippie needs to watch Threads.
S_Polychronopolis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:19:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh...[Shudder] Threads. My dad had me watch that as a kid. By far the most haunting movie I've ever seen. Just thinking about it 20+ years later still makes me feel raw.
NoDoThis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't hug your children with nuclear arms!
madcaesar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Preach!
bigyoungboy1998 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like poison for the earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Ponchorello7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. There's no fallout or lingering hazards to life; barring unexploded ordinance. With nukes, you have to take into account radiation and the massive amount of dust and debris scattered across the atmosphere.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To an extent. The lasting fallout damage is actually a lot less than previously assumed IIRC it was tested in the 50s and Ground Zero less than 2 hours after detonation had a shockingly low level of dangerous (penetrating) radiation.
Now you know what scares me about nukes? Because they terrify me. It's the inevitability of it. Once one is launched, unless we do something immediately, we've only got a few minutes till it strikes. ICBMs, especially with MIRV warheads, can wipe a city flat, maiming thousands that aren't killed outright (a mercy if you ask me). And that's not factoring those that WILL die after the bomb but haven't yet, people whose skin has been stripped off, eyes boiled, arms fused to sides and faces, who torturously are in a level of pain their brains can't even comprehend, and are doomed to die soon. Do you know what killed hundreds of initial survivors of the atomic weapons used on Japan? Drowning. Imagine this. There's a huge flash and a roar and then nothing and you are in more pain than you have ever felt on every inch of your skin. You go to raise your hand and you feel what you initially feels like clothing slough off. But it's not clothing, it's charred flesh sticking your arm to your side. Your brain is confused and you can barely see anything if anything at all, but you see people moving! People who just experienced the same thing, the same burns, and you drag yourself up and stagger after them. They move for water because that's what you do when you're burned, but this is the worst burns anyone has ever experienced. The crowd presses towards a canal and the first wave slips in, and vanishes beneath the surface, no strength to swim as the next wave does the same. Over and over again like lemmings, slipping into the water and drowning.
Bombs don't do that. Bombs kill and maim groups. They'll knock out a housing flat, and sometimes leave cluster munition to be found and kill civilians decades later (also awful), a mortar will strike a breadline and kill twenty two civilians waiting for food in a besieged city, but an atom bomb is indescriminate. If you're within the fireball you can do nothing but watch as the single streak, bearing your certain doom, gets larger and suddenly is gone, and in its place is something which can only exist to destroy.
I hate nukes.
iObeyTheHivemind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know on second thought, hippies are the scariest real thing.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:03:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout New Vegas: Real Life Editionโข is getting more realistic seeming by the day...
joshiposhi96 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 11:09:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spoopers
edit: spiders
Ivancon10a ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spit out my drink. Im so easily amused
Noob3rt ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:03:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Noises in the dark. I'm a grown ass man and anything I cannot immediately identify in the dark gets my heart racing. Everyone is saying shit scientific shit like brain-eating amoeba but nah, those noises in the dark will mess with you each and every single time.
TheMightyApostrophe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I sometimes still sleep with a light on. I don't sleep well when there's light - but some nights that's the only way I'll close m eyes.
Malbranch ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 05:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Underwater caves. They are filled with horrifying monsters, hundreds of terrifying ways to kill you. Such things and ways include black dragonfish, which were the inspiration for fucking xenomorphs, pressure differentials that can rip you to pieces, fluid transitions that look like air pockets buy are actually fucking acid! Melt your face off acid! Earth above you that can shift and, if you're lucky crush you into a thin red film, or, if your not, trap you into a slow agonizing death of attrition on your oxygen against fucking rocks. Who you think is going to win that one? The fucking underwater cave! That's fucking who!
Zaphod1620 ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 01:10:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Collapse of civilization. As a father of a 3 year old, The Road by Cormac McCarthy scares the shit out of me.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 02:45:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to say there aren't real problems that need to be fixed with modern life, but people forget just how good we have it. Imagine if anyone out there could do anything to you, with you and the people close to you as your only defense? Scares the hell out of me.
higuysimonreddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:02:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only people I know are all a bunch of wusses just like me. I'd be fucked for sure.
TangoZuluMike ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:09:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Road was a weird read for me, all throughout I just couldn't accept that there was no goodness in people, the end got me though.
Shamic ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Under the right circumstances anyone can be evil.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoaoaoaoao
andreyevich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never saw them again.
I'm pretty shy and have to actively choose to get to the question again.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:32:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or if you're in the mood for more McCarthy read Blood Meridian.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:32:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny that even with an insanely more massive scale of the human population, we value a human life more than any point in history. Actually pretty uplifting.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:56:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least you can put the blame on someone with this one. With sinkholes, brain-eating amoebe, and rabies there's no clear perpetrator. But when civilization collapses at least you can say "The leftists did it"
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:22:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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resonant14 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basement edge
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:22:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a dumb 17 year old boy you wouldn't last long.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
^ Future roadagent
SleepSeeker75 ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 03:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a child die. Hell on earth, you'll never be the same, you'll never "recover". My best friend lost her daughter to cancer at 18 months old, with her daughters twin surviving, ALSO being pregnant. She's never been the same and it was the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
snickysnacky ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This happened to my daughter at the same age. Not cancer, but a tragic car accident from a drunk drive. No matter how hard you try, like you said, you will NEVER be the same. It makes you a shell of a person that no amount of therapt, time, medication, alcohol, having more kids... will fix it. Pulling them off life support... It makes the world bleak and gray everyday and you literally just live off the hope that you will see them again someday. My only wish in life is to meet the 4 kids lives she saved from donating her organs. THAT is the scariest thing on Earth. fuck deep sea creatures.
SleepSeeker75 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:24:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so sorry for your loss. ๐ข
Kevin_Uxbridge ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This has to be the winner - it may be the only thing I can honestly say I'd trade my life to prevent, without hesitation. Becoming a parent changed me.
I_am_the_one123 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:07:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everytime I hear a child dies or kidnap it makes me sad. They don't deserve it. They have a life to live, not taken away from.
nPrimo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rest in Peace.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 04:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If a someone cuts you off and you see they have children in the back, tell them "I hope you outlive your kids". No road rage, just depression.
nmejia1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dude wtf
phantahh ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 02:26:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The knowledge that I'm going to cease to exist one day.
YesHunty ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:43:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I freak out about this, I ask myself what it was like before I was born. I imagine it would be the same. It kind of calms me down.
NecroGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Similarly, I sometimes thing about how annoyed I am to have to get up in the morning.
When I was asleep I wasn't really aware of being comfortable and happy, but after I get up I miss that lack of comfortable unawareness.
One day I won't have to wake up anymore.
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
SpaceGhost1992 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shudders
91_1LE_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If it makes you feel any better there is a theory called the multiverse. Which means there are an infinite number of universes and anything that can happen will happen. So theoretically, one day you will live again, in another universe. And theoretically, you will live many times, in many universes. And theoretically, you are living in numerous different universes at this very moment. As if, you are existing while already existing. Jesus Christ I need a dooby just thinking about this.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101027-science-space-universe-end-of-time-multiverse-inflation/
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TimBadCat ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:21:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are just the universe experiencing itself.
phantahh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:12:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, you weren't already high?
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like it.
wartrukk ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 03:56:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervolcanos. I think there are 2 or 3 in the USA. The fact that there is nothing we can do except for visiting yellowstone park and pray to the volcano Gods that they spare the people of earth their hot liquid fury.
bad0seed ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:08:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We really need to get back to sacrificing virgins for this purpose.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:35:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We've run out.
Jacob0050 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 07:29:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, http://www.4chan.org
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know OPs mom has her influences.
WsupBreh ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 01:00:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysm.
It can happen anywhere at anytime, that's what makes it so terrifying.
Brodoof ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 01:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even before exiting incognito mode, happy fappy!
iObeyTheHivemind ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:54:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've thought about this. I would like to think I would somehow force myself to clear my browser history with my one working arm.
Brodoof ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:18:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Call... 911... After clearing the history...
Sabata11792 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There needs to be a sudden death add on that closes the browser after 30 minutes of inactivity when incognito/private mode.
Leharen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just having an aneurysm out of sheer stupidity.
mrsuns10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lana lana LANAAAAAAAA!
Scherzkeks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also alligators and crocodiles.
druggedupbysundown ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 01:53:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gary , Indiana
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahhh Gary... Come because you got lost on the way to Chicago, stay because you were stabbed and left for dead in an alley
BloodSweatandFears ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:31:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why
Tiy991 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:58:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an utter shit hole. Crime, gangs, and drugs are everywhere. Even the local police will tell you not to stop your car in Gary, Indiana. Literally. They've said if you come to a stop light or sign in a bad area at night, do not stop your vehicle, just proceed through it with caution.
Cat_With_The_Gat ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 12:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least it gave us Freddie Gibbs.
MikeOrtiz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gangsta Gibbs, hoe.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And Mike Jackson
munkeyy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:46:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious Extremists.
irritabletom ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 04:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I realize this is not technically on Earth but I always like Arthur C. Clarke's quote: "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
mookiburr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:02:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LOVE this quote and Arthur C. Clarke :)
Parttimedragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chances of us being affected by either possibility are pretty close to zero. I don't get why people are freaked out by this.
halfman-halfshark ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:19:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for pointing out your answer doesn't conform.
gonesoon7 ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:18:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AIDS. Seriously, the more you study it, the more you realize it is a virus that is just perfectly fine tuned to fuck you up. All the proteins it makes and expresses on its surface are designed to evade any defenses the body has. It completely hijacks the one system designed to keeps us safe. It induces cancers. Weird cancers that most other people never get. It leaves you susceptible to all sorts of odd infections from other viruses, bacteria, amoeba, fungi, etc. that can just chew away at your brain and other organs. Dying from AIDS can often be a pretty horrific death. It's getting better in the Western world with modern medicine, but it's disturbing shit.
jrwreno ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:08:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how you posted AIDS vs HIV. HIV, if treated early enough with conventional medications.....is highly controllable, and a person can have a relatively long life-expectancy with it.
AIDS, however, is HIV at its worst; when you have had a long and relatively symptom free latency period until HIV drops your CD4+ T cell count below 200 cells per ยตL, and that is when you hit the point of almost no return.
I would be more scared of something like Rabies, where if you did not receive immediate treatment for infection the day you contract it....once symptoms surface, it is a 100% morbidity rate. If you are unknowingly infected by a rabid animal, like a tiny painless bite from a rabid vampire bat....4-7 days later, you are likely starting to die.
StumbleOn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to downplay the tragedy of AIDS, but nowadays HIV is VERY treatable. Current methods provide you with a viral count so low it isn't detected anymore. You remain asymptomatic forever. HIV patients actually have a slightly higher life expectency compared to genpop because HIV often makes people take care of themselves better.
But yeah, AIDS itself is horrifying. If you lack access to these modern drugs, you're totally fucked.
TheCutGlassBowl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:11:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Totally! Was fucking shocked when my doctor friend said she'd rather have HIV than diabetes these days.
everybodysheardabout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the developed world, sure.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:07:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you still infect other people during sex?
smtfc ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:52:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it only makes you asymptomatic. Your partner though can take some meds to avoid being infected, not sure how to say it in english.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is interesting. So there are meds that prevent the HIV infection from a medicated partner?
smtfc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:06:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. Both have to take some meds. Still the use of condom is highly advisable.
King_Crab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, it is called PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis).
StumbleOn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:32:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In theory yes. But you can take the same drug if you are not infected and almost totally reduce the chance you'll ever get infected. Lots of gay men and other at risk people take the drug truvada regularly as an hiv preventative.
Crisp_Volunteer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:30:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you elaborate on that?
gonesoon7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:40:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most famous of these is Kaposi's Sarcoma. It's a cancer that most people think comes from lymphatic endothelium. It's considered an AIDS defining cancer because outside of AIDS patients or severely immunocompromised patients, it is extremely uncommon. Outside of that, every once in a while you read a case study about some odd cancer that is considered highly uncommon showing up in an AIDS patient.
TheCutGlassBowl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:09:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend who is a doctor told me that in terms of life expectancy and painful symptoms, she'd much rather have HIV than diabetes! The more I studied it, the more surprised I was at how controllable and manageable HIV is today with access to treatment - treatment that itself is becoming rapidly more available worldwide, but almost unquestionably readily accessed in the western world. A lot of the fear of AIDS is a hang up from the panic a few decades ago, and right now I feel that this attitude today does a lot to perpetuate stigma. I really feel that it's nowhere near the scariest thing on our earth, at least not anymore.
gonesoon7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would agree to this to an extent. If you have uncontrolled diabetes, you are just about guaranteed to have some pretty serious, pretty painful effects. I think that what makes AIDS so scary is that the effects it causes are almost always as incurable as the disease itself. In diabetes, you can manage hypertension, neuropathy, retinopathy, etc. with medication. With AIDS, once you start getting infected with every odd disease known to man, they're incredibly difficult to treat. There are patients who have so many infections on top of their AIDS induced cancers, doctors aren't even sure what killed the patient. Also, type 2 diabetes is reversible and noninfectious. AIDS is forever and you can catch it from anyone.
TLDR: diabetes and AIDS both suck in different ways
trigger1154 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AIDS doesn't kill you, it weakens you, other things then kill you.
gonesoon7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:43:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, technically, yes. This is true. But talk to any physician of a patient who died from Kaposi's Sarcoma, toxoplasmosis, or any other AIDS defining illness and I guarantee the cause of death begins with "AIDS-complicated..." But thanks for adding that little tidbit to make yourself feel smart of the internet.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guns don't kill people, bullets don't kill people, wounds don't kill people... see you can pass the buck forever
nigger2016 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:14:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โซโซโซโซโซโซโซโซโซ Everyone has AIDS
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But goy it's "the gift", why haven't you gotten POZ'd up yet?
K3R3G3 ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:20:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Asteroids/Comets/Meteors
Any 35,000mph house-sized super dense rock that could strike our earth at any moment with no warning setting off a catclysmic chain reaction of global events wiping out 99.999% of our species and plunging us into a nuclear winter and/or ice age.
Edit: Why was this not already mentioned?! Not enough people fear and comprehend the wrath of supersonic space shit.
phantomnoiise ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:32:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No idea why this is so low on the thread. I knew someone had said it, so I scrolled before I said it myself. but. fuck. our planet has been hit by them god knows how many times in its lifetime. and just take a look at the amount of pockmarks on the moon. it's made of pockmarks. all it would take is one of the right size. and I'm sorry, but I don't have any sort of confidence that we could develop or properly test a technology that would actually stop the thing. also, I'm pretty sure any person/organisation capable of spotting an asteroid that dangerous with earth in it's trajectory would have enough of a mind to keep the potential collision completely under wraps. so. you'd either burn alive (if you're close enough to the point of impact), or become a casualty of social chaos/the layer of ash blocking out the sun. and you probably wouldn't have a fucking clue it was about to happen until it got close enough for it to be obvious. crazy.
K3R3G3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:47:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got it.
Darkseh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:56:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will be testing possibilities of pushing Asteroids out of the crash course during 2023 (Sometimes in 20s ?) using probe to crash into it to try to change its course. There are more options for the smaller rocks, but for planetoids, only option we have so far is using nuclear weaponry to divert it out of crashing into the Earth.
Edit: Mind you, I am not expert. I just listened to expert talk about these possibilities on czech radio so I do not really know the details.
The_Iron_Bison ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'cause the thread is " scariest thing on our eartth"
K3R3G3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:40:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will be scary once it's on earth.
TimBadCat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was looking for this before I posted it. The fact that all life on earth has been nearly wiped out (and advanced civilizations destroyed) in cycles of 10's to 100's of thousands of years and it's only a matter of time before it happens again.
Makes you wonder how far people got in the past and how similar or different their histories were to ours...
K3R3G3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bingo.
diggthenredditthen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:48:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't ever say that to an archaeologist or they will laugh at you.
madcaesar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Advanced civilizations destroyed? What are you talking about??
mylifebelikelawl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earth is a spec in the universe. I don't worry about space shit
leptonsoup ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything the size of a house will fuck up anyone in a pretty decently sized vicinity's day but it's not going to be causing a nuclear winter.
TimBadCat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he means more like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2158054/Scientists-discover-evidence-meteorite-storm-hit-Earth-13-000-years-ago-killed-prehistoric-civilisation.html
Sorry for long link and dailymail... I'm on mobile.
Edit: or she
K3R3G3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It can trigger dormant volcanoes to erupt which causes the nuclear winter. Where it hits plays a huge part, such as dry land or the ocean. It has happened before and will again. Look into it. I highly recommend Randall Carlson's appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience. He spells it all out and shows the data.
Edit: I'd also look at the kind of energy such an impact would carry. I think you're hugely underestimating it. How dense it'd be and, thus, the mass of something that size at 35 times the speed of a pistol bullet. And the effects on weather from atmospheric debris from the impact.
JB_Big_Bear ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mire lurks. Screw mire lurks.
The_Monsters_Inside ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:58:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Having your muscles slowly turn to bone and literally being unable to move any part of your body terrifies me.
Aetheras ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:23:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My only regret... is that I have bone-itis
Sin_Research ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 04:27:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest real thing that could ever happen to someone is to have your child abducted, and never found.
IllFapToThatoncam ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:05:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scary shit. I'm 24, M, but I will tell you this, if I had a child, and my baby went missing, the dread would haunt me. I hope no one ever has to go through this, and it saddens me that a lot of people do. Edited: spellings.
MissBubbly17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would literally become Liam neison and kill who ever I had to to get my baby back. As a Christian it scares me that I would have zero issues killing someone who took my kid.
Sin_Research ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's easy. The hard part is doing nothing, because there is nothing you can do.
de4th_metalist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/-x8zBzxCwsM
solzhe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it might be worse if you didn't even know they were abducted. Like everyone saw your kid get off the school bus but the kid never arrived home.
FckingJourno ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 03:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depression. The fact that sometimes I'm really sad and there's nothing I can do about it. Knowing that I'll have to deal with that feeling and constantly battle it the rest of my life terrifies me to no end.
RandyMachoManSavage ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sociopathy is your cure. Don't be afraid.
corvusgray ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 00:15:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know, bears probably.
jed_PK ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 01:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just wait until you see a shaved bear. http://m.imgur.com/gallery/EWym2rX
A7X4REVer ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 02:36:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't feed the Yao Guai.
addlepated ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:45:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is all.
douchecanoe42069 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh god why. that looks like an emaciated hippo.
Eltotsira ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somehow, even scarier
venlaren ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the one from the brothel?
jed_PK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know honestly.
coldmtndew ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 00:58:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love the casual uncertain way this is worded.
danwroy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I had a dream about being chased by a black bear. I didn't freak out beaucse black bears are the overweight, hoodie-wearing version of the species. They're too slopey and berry-loving to frighten me.
Edit: "Startled black bears run away, often to a tree... making grizzlies over 20 times more dangerous." - bear.org
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:35:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of how dumb the average person is. Now imagine that 50% of the world is dumber than that, and that those people work in the government, handle your taxes, teach your children, and own firearms.
JuniperJupiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...spend several paychecks in June to blow shit up in July.
sektorwins ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:18:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being buried alive.
Boxy__Brown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:07:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or drowning
Jagrnght ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:51:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ghengis Khan. I listened to Dan Carlin on this dude for hours and now I can't stop thinking about him and his nerve.
sidewalksurfer6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that blows my mind is how much land his and his descendants' empire gained.
GottaJibbooToo ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 06:58:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump is running for President, and a surprising amount of people actually seem to be OK with it.
ZachB15 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like seriously, can you even imagine the stuff he's gonna start. Not to mention the fact that he thinks we should torture and kill terrorist's families and he wants to keep Guantanamo open.
Syithrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:00 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We should keep Guantanamo open...
IBlackKiteI ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:13:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flamethrowers
George Carlin put it best:
'The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
Baikeru ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 03:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hospitals. I know that's clichรฉ, but I just spent five months in one with cancer. The cancer actually wasn't the scary part, I wasn't even worried about that (they caught it early and now it's mostly gone, and now I'm back home and back at work). It was the endless hours laying down alone. I eventually lost use of my legs and had to relearn to walk. About three months in I ended up buying a 3DS off Amazon just for something to do. I didn't know until after I got it that it has Netflix and Hulu apps, which was a huge plus. But those were the five scariest months of my life.
sarasublimely ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:19:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As an oncology nurse your comment makes me sad. I don't know how to help my patients through the months of boredom and alone time.
Do you have any suggestions to help me help my long-term patients better?
Baikeru ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:08:12 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I took some time to really think about this answer before commenting. The only thing I can think of is just spending more time with the patients. I know you can't spend every moment with every patient, but those were some great moments, when a nurse would come in just to chat. In fact, I got so close to my nurses that I have a couple of them added on Facebook and we still talk regularly now. :)
sarasublimely ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:56:13 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Thanks for replying. I want to make a positive difference and feedback helps.
And I'm glad you're better.
McRogan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:34:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait...you can get Netflix on. 3DS?
Baikeru ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know, right!! I mean, it's not HD, and the screen isn't very big, but it's better than nothing.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the scariest thing on Earth, though.
Baikeru ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is while you're going through it.
Zoythrus ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 04:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We need to talk."
chimney17 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:48:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My heart just stopped for a second.
Inferiex ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 01:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bacteria that takes over an ant and can make them commit suicide/control them. And also how this bacteria could possibly leap to humans.
ZaphodTrippinBalls ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:45:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cordyceps fungus. Horrifying to look at them.
gregdoom ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:00:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Last of Us.
nonation ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:59:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are a few parasites that can change the behaviour of their hosts, including humans. Google it, it's really interesting but yeah scary!
iObeyTheHivemind ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:58:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you own cats chances are you are already infected with them.
TheGreatNico ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not guaranteed, but it is a very good chance. If your cat is an indoor cat, from an indoor cat, it probably doesn't, as a toxo vaccine is part of the standard regimen. My girl was a feral and she doesn't have it.
It is transmitted via the fecal-oral route, and it's not just cats that transmit it
nonation ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same if you eat beef rare.
UzukiCheverie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My cat is sitting on my lap as I type this, thank you for that.
iObeyTheHivemind ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:18:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Your welcome, UzukiCheverie's cat.
Lord_Met ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good ole toxoplasma, the only parasite I like :3.
-whodatninja- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't know about toxoplasmosis and at first thought you meant that cats are the parasites that change their owners' behaviors LOL
tweakingforjesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toxoplasmosis is a helluva drug!
Teknikal69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:25:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The more worrying thing about this is there are multiple companies trying to turn it into a pest control for crops. Think GMO plants that were bred produce these spores, these spores I think are one of the scariest things in nature and adding it into the food supply scares the hell out of me honestly.
If a zombie apocalypse ever happens it strikes me this could be the way.
testa12 ยท 182 points ยท Posted at 03:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suicidal depression and how prevalent it is in men.
And men's health in general. It just gets no exposure no one talks about it and nothing gets done.
wittlewadio ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 03:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can I get help?
sa130r ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 03:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First and foremost let your most trusted/closest person in your life know what you're going through. That was the thing that started me on the path to recovery from my "mental health rock bottom"
Cproo12 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll add that if you don't have somebody to trust, a therapist is also a great alternative for most people. /r/MMFB (Make me feel better) is also a subreddit for those needing to just vent and get help feeling better.
ice_cream_sandwiches ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 03:51:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the U.S. --
1 (800) 273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
UK and ROI: http://www.samaritans.org/
Anywhere else: Call emergency number or go to http://7cupsoftea.com and ask for a suicide hotline in your area.
I wish you the best my friend.
Armless_Dildo-Kin ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it can be of any help to you, I suffered from depression for most of my life and for me it was the buddhist meditation with the mantra Nam MyoHo RenGe Kyo that really helped me. I guess there must be other mantras, there are tons of buddhists schools, but I like the ternary rythm of this one. And also, I never cared to try another type of meditation. It adds a ritual of around half an hour in the morning and in the evening in your life and when you practice it every day you'll fell gradually better and better.
In itself, the mantra means in japanese "I devot myself to the marvelous law of the lotus sutra" and comes from a buddhist monk named Nichiren.
I'm an atheist with zero belief in any kind of afterlife, so I don't really get along with buddhists organisations (there are several schools who follow the teachings of Nichiren). But I'm grateful for what it actually accomplished in my life.
It is not a cure though. Many times, I stopped practicing the mantra and depression creepled back in. But my life is normal and I wouldn't have had a family nor the job I have today If it weren't for it.
Good luck to you, I know your pain and it is indeed a fearful sickness.
testa12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:44:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PM me
Butterbean6 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:58:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. I've lived with chronic depression my entire adult life. Medication helps, but thoughts of suicide are a part of my daily thinking. Sucks.
Krypson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me too man... me too
FoolsProof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
been thinking of that everyday since I was a kid. not intrusive thoughts?
sokeydo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
20-25% of all people suffer from depression at some point during their life. That's like 2 billion people on Earth
lzrae ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me, my mom, and my brother keep each other alive. Sometimes I feel like everyone is suicidal, and some people are just better at hiding it.
I just have to appreciate that there are people who care about me. Sometimes I resent it, because I can't leave them like that. I'm still pissed at my stepdad for quitting out, and I'd be damned if I did that to my family.
I just want to hug somebody who's feeling like that right now. I wish I could help.
kibitzello ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think everyone thinks about death, naturally. We consider ways to avoid it, to delay it. We fantasize about cancelling it completely. We develop methods to stay it away or steal life back away from it even after it claims someone.
I think most of us also consider what the difference in the world would be, not only to those close to us, but also in a more general sense.
Some lucky few of us look at all of the things listed in this whole thread and think, "That wouldn't be so bad." This way of thinking isn't actually suicidal, it's just pro-death. It's like we're on the precipice and tipping one way or the other wouldn't make much of a difference.
I'm taking steps to try to land more on the "life" side of this teeter-totter, rather than the side of oblivion. I don't blame society, I don't blame gender, or race, or age, or politics, or laundry detergent commercials, or religion, or nutrition. I don't blame anything at all.
Take care of yourself, lzrae.
lzrae ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:46 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I forgot to reply to this, but it really stuck with me. I appreciate it. Life gets hard sometimes, but I constantly try to make it better, not just for me, but for anyone around me. If I can make other people happy, I'm even happier. Friends or strangers.
Speaking of, I've started doing game giveaways for people who have Steam. I'm not popular or rich, but I hope someone will appreciate it. If you're interested in that, or know someone who would be, pm me. Not gonna bother you about it otherwise, don't worry! Just wanna give gifts to people I appreciate. I'm putting up a link to Deus Ex and DE: Human Revolution later today on Steamgifts.com
kibitzello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:00 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No games for me, thanks. My "game" computer died a few years back and I've yet to replace it. Might be part of the cause of my bleak outlook on life?
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:40 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw. Maybe. If I don't pay video games for a month I start losing my mind. Take it to best buy. We all need an escape.
kibitzello ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:11 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My job is IT. I know what's wrong with it. It's just easier at this point to replace it than attempt to fix it. Yet the ease of replacing gets harder and harder when ya gotta pay for food, glasses, etc for the kids and engine parts and tires for the car, and... etc.
lzrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:31 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw. I know the struggle. Sorry dude.
originalpoopinbutt ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 03:25:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah they just found the one demographic in America whose life expectancy is declining rather than rising, it's working-class middle-aged white men. They're dying in staggering numbers from suicide and addiction, as well as generally poor health from obesity, poor diet, smoking, etc.
radicalelation ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sauce?
c4v3m4naa ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 04:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sauce is why obesity, poor diet, and diabetes are a problem!
Jorfogit ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:33:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the entirety of government and social programs abandoned them, what'd you expect?
originalpoopinbutt ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 06:55:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really... Eligible whites actually utilize social welfare benefits slightly more than eligible people of color. The government has abandoned all the poor, not just the white poor.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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originalpoopinbutt ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 11:23:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No... There's no race-based social welfare programs in the United States. Anyone who is below a certain income can qualify for subsidized housing, food stamps, unemployment benefits, SS disabilty and old age benefits, Medicaid, cash welfare to families.
testa12 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why you're being downvoted when it's true.
chubbsw ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Don't be a pussy." Comedian Bill Burr really touches on this topic in a hilarious way about how men aren't allowed to think puppies are cute and shit in the same way women are, etc.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's becaue humans have an instinct to protect and care for children and women. So yeah. Funny thing I read about my area however, is that our homless shelter only allows the men to sleep over. Eventually humans pull their heads out of their asses I suppose, here and there.
[deleted] ยท -36 points ยท Posted at 03:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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testa12 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 06:48:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've found the female doctors are the only ones who will take the time.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 04:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And tough guys who think, "Any man who can't take care of his problems isn't a man at all."
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:35:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spent 2 years doing this to myself while struggling with depression and all I did was lump on so much self-hate that it made everything 10 times worse. Don't be ashamed to ask for help and be vulnerable. It could save your life.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:41:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True story. It's that fucking bullshit attitude that's killing guys.
PolemicDysentery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why feminism is our friend.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In theory.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, you don't have to convince me, I already believe it.
Batmanstarwars1 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:59:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could die now and never have known it happened.
thorscope ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:01:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the least scary thing on this earth.
guitarguy109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think anyone who's dead knows that they're dead.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could wake up... DEAD. Think about it.
Paladins_code ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:19:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupidity combined with empathy and ignorance. It leads to nice people doing terrible things thinking they are helping when in reality they are making things FAR FAR worse.
PleaseSendPants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignostempaths.
linkenski ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 00:07:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. You never know when you might suddenly have it and it could end your life. It will almost certainly affect someone you know or even someone very close to you at some point in your life and fate is never certain once it intrudes into your personal life.
Gunnersaurus_Rex ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:19:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gastric acid in our stomach. It has a pH of approx. 1-3 and if it wasn't for the mucus lining in the stomach and other neutralising factors in the duodenum, it would start eroding us from within.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:16 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once knew a kid whose stomach acid kept coming up his esophagus to the point where he had to have surgery because it had eroded his throat and was very painful.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the scariest thing on earth though.
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:41:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many people get dissolved alive by their own stomach acid?
How many people get buried alive in sinkholes, or caught by terrorist groups and tortured?
Which one is more likely to happen?
Which represents more danger (because it is more likely to happen)?
Which should we be more scared of (because it represents more danger)?
Leharen ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 02:46:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying a slow, agonizing death. Just knowing that you're going to die and whatever's doing it is taking its sweet time killing you must feel horrible. I'd take a quick death over a slow one any day.
wittlewadio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time is doing it to us all.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So let's do something about it
r/longevity
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:39:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once it's over you're dead, so maybe you can appreciate the pain keeping you awake
Syithrocks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:54 on March 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some 18 year old wanted to explore a locked cabin, so he decided to climb down the chimney. Got stuck halfway down, never made it out. Authorities believed that he heard them searching, as they walked by the cabin multiple times. They also believe he died from dehydration, so he could have been alive for over a week. He was finally discovered by the people who owned the cabin (They used it for vacation) when bones started showing up in the fireplace.
Mxxx12 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:40:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone dude, 1000 cubic km of magma and an eruption 2500x bigger than mt. st hellens. US first, then the globe will be real fucked and its a time bomb
metallikoh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But it's 'Merica. They have nothing to fear
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Donald will just build a wall around yellowstone. Problem solved.
ender89 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervolcano. There are several supervolcanos around, and if any of them blow, the whole world is fucked. Yellowstone national park is one, and when it goes, the entire continental US is toast immediately; followed by the rest of the world as the shear volume of ash that gets dispersed in the upper atmosphere blocks out the sun long enough for most of civilization to starve to death. Also, fun fact, Yellowstone national park is measurably rising in the way that the top of a volcano expands before an eruption.
bigyoungboy1998 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, it's going to blow? I mean it's may do so?
ender89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It could blow at any time, its eruptions are erratic and hard to predict, but they don't think it's in danger of erupting any time soon.
Krazy_Kollege_Kid ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:43:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is called a "limnic eruption", when organisms die at the bottom of a lake and eventually becomes methane. The high pressure creates a liquid layer of methane which rests on the bottom. Due to an unknown reason, these lakes can overturn and release tons of methane into the air. The methane is more dense than air and settles on the ground. This suffocates anyone within a very wide radius (think 10+ miles). It has happened before, where an entire village went to bed for the night and nobody woke up. It is the only naturally occurring method of mass asphyxiation.
puckbeaverton ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:32:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Planes, to me.
I realize, cars are more likely to kill you. I realize the odds of me being in a plane crash are infinitesimal. It doesn't matter because if I did die in a plane, to me, that would be the most horrific death I could have.
Imagine a nice drive in your car. You're coming down an old country road. You look over, a beautiful bird lights on a BLAM
YOU'RE DEAD.
Really not so bad in the great scheme of things. Not a horrendous way to go.
Now, you're on a plane, afraid of them to begin with so your blood pressure is already up. You sit down, the captain comes on says yadda yadda yadda. You take off. Maybe this isn't so bad.
Turbulence. Oh god. What? I really am going to die (but in the back of your mind you think nah, I'm just overreacting). Violent turbulence. The oxygen masks drop. You hear a loud groaning.
BLAM.
Part of the engine has exploded, it has flown off and through the cabin. The noise of air rushing is deafening. The voices of children crying somehow still comes through. You're hit in the face with someone's vomit as you look back, you see the gaping hole, and worse, you notice the ground, the sky, the ground, the sky, the ground, the sky showing through the now massive and ever widening hole.
You think of the children and how fucking awful it is that they're going to die in a few moments. You think of your wife and kids and how awful it's going to be when someone tells your wife, and when she in turn tells your kids. How hard that's going to be for her. Then you really let it sink in.
This plane is definitely crashing. I'm definitely going to die today.
I'm going to die today.
Die? I'm going to die?
You think perhaps there's a way out of it. You search in shock and panic under your seat for something that will save you. The plane's spinning is leaning you over in a grotesque fashion so the only place you can look is under your seat.
The hole widens and more people fly out, still strapped into their seats.
Nothing can save you, you know. There's nothing to do but wait.
You pray. Maybe you've been agnostic your whole life. You pray to whatever might be able to provide a miracle. But it's not in the cards for you.
You think of how you didn't travel. You'll never see scotland. You were only traveling now for fucking training in Wisconsin. You're angry now. Angry at yourself, at the fucking airline for killing you.
You're crying hot burning tears. You see the ground is almost here through the spinning hole. You close your eyes. You can only think of two words.
I'm sor-BLAM
You're dead.
Fuck planes.
IrrelevantButCute ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:10:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But those lil' packs of peanuts doe
Etrnlreturn ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 01:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The botfly. Imagine larva burrowing through your brain, which feels nothing so you are blissfully unaware as your most intimate self is irrevocably masticated. Only risky, invasive brain surgery can save you now, but nothing can recover what was lost.
With global warming, the botfly will migrate north...
UzukiCheverie ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 04:18:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck off, man. Fuck right off with all of that. Canada may be one of the only safe places left on Earth. We just got Harper out of office, we don't need to be worrying about those little bug rapist bullshits now. Fuck.
diggthenredditthen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clearly you haven't read about Yellowstone super volcano yet. Canada is toast.
UzukiCheverie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/sigh :(
Lumin0s ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:41:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop it. Stop it now. I am a man. I do not carry other living beings in side me. Please, do not insist that this can happen
aperson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh boy, are you in for a surprise.
ZachB15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, but you do. Eyelash mites live in your eyelashes. You technically are more bacteria than you are 'you'.
Lumin0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:21 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Silence, mortal! I will not hear any more of your blasphemy!
Robocek ยท 241 points ยท Posted at 00:24:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything on a street named MLK... Every towns got one.
thepikey7 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:41:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Gun store, gun store, liquor store.... Where the hell am I?"
DaddyRocka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MLK, duh
youseeit ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 02:23:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MLK Drive in San Francisco runs through one of the nicest urban parks in the United States and is relatively safe.
OneHunnaDolla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this isn't the case for Memphis Tennessee...
neoriply379 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not so much if you're there at 4 AM and you're homeless. SFPD's not gonna give you a comfy ride out of the park.
youseeit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:22:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was talking about from the standpoint of normal people, but okay then
steve0suprem0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The homeless aren't subhuman.
youseeit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who said they were?
steve0suprem0 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You said they weren't normal.
youseeit ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:04:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you get "subhuman" out of not normal? Do you always read too much into everything?
steve0suprem0 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:18:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Ballrekt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They aren't normal. They're mostly schizophrenics or drug addicts
youseeit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:50:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention that most people in the United States live, you know, indoors
bradythemonkey ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any street named after someone who was assassinated. Lincoln, Kennedy, MLK.. People usually get shot on those streets.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:30:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, there's another correlation there besides assassination: if they were a leader in civil rights. Which all of these people were.
African American neighborhoods disproportionately have lower income, and tend to have higher crime. And also, streets named after leaders in civil rights.
Case in point: my city has a Henry Johnson Boulevard, which runs right through some of the worst neighborhoods in the state. Henry Johnson was a black solider in World War I and repelled a German counterattack by himself, sustaining 21 wounds and saving a fellow soldier, and his only weapon was his fists.
Saxon2060 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:08:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
JFK streets in Paris and Marrakech are pretty decent.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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youseeit ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a dick mollusk.
RoflCopter726 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:54:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The MLK Blvd in my town is pretty much the main drag. Every retail store and restaurant is on it. The only dangerous thing about it is idiot drivers.
WhiskeyPrettyPit28 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The MLK street in my town is so ghetto and run down.
Solid-Snek ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:05:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately, that's how it tends to be in most cities.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*wipes tear* thanks person, very edcational
WhiskeyPrettyPit28 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I know, plus I was making a slight joke to the first commenter. Reddit is not what it used to be, sarcasm and jokes are normal things people. ๐
blizzardice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one in my college town was the same. The one in my home town isn't a ghetto. It's full of stores but the traffic is straight fucked up.
13thmurder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one where i live is actually a rather upscale main avenue.
...it's also the place where the most people get shot by far.
qaanaaqattaq ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
phoenix, az never had one, but last year they decided to give one street the name MLK Blvd ceremonially (so it's not official, but the signs are on the road now along with the official name). and it just so happens they picked a street through a very terrible part of town...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I laughed out loud when I found out they chose Broadway. Every Broadway I've been on has been sketchy as hell. It's like they did that on purpose...
The_cynical_panther ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just walked down MLK to get some chicken. It was fine.
Noozilla ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My little Kony?
originalpoopinbutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MLK Blvd in my town is pretty nice. Couple car dealerships, adjacent to some decent student housing.
bojiggidy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MLK in Dallas...fun area. /s
itmustbemitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My town is too small and too white to have an MLK street, we just have a tiny little King Street a couple blocks from "downtown" (the grocery store) full of run-down housing
TheTaylorSomebody ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MLK in Wilmington, NC is safe, shockingly! Just a bypass. Lol.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MLK and Broadway.
ghostphantom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I live on a street that dead ends off of an MLK Drive. Things could be worse.
browniesandpuppies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm Australian - could you explain what you mean by this?
youseeit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most US cities rename a somewhat major street after MLK because, well, MLK should have a street named after him. But cities usually pick a street in a heavily black area of town (because you know, white people would NEVER regard MLK as a historical figure /s), and the honest truth is that the heavily black neighborhoods of most US cities experience high levels of poverty and associated high levels of crime. It's even reached the point that there's almost kind of a conventional wisdom in the US that you shouldn't get off the freeway at the MLK exit regardless of which city you're in. So yeah, it's misguided and regrettable, but "Martin Luther King Blvd." is usually not a great area.
EtticosLebos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but that's where all the good drugs are.
JungleLegs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they all have a 7-11 with no less than two shitty cars with a stereo system that costed more than the car, playing as loud as possible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โOh God, we're at the corner of Cesar Chavez Way and Martin Luther King Boulevardโ --Skinner from the Simpsons.
PewPewtheDestroyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's even one in Naples, Italy.
AbigailLilac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The one in Austin is cool.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Haha yeah, MPC is all over this thread def rad totes
Flattcat78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come to Georgia (USA)....... we have an MLK named street in every town and multiples in Atlanta. They almost out number the amount of times Peachtree shows up on a street sign.
Source: born, raised, and still living in Georgia....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rochester's got Avenue D. I always called it the Detroit section of Roc's Detroit-meets-Portland undertones.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The street you really want to look out for is shit like Malcolm X Drive
JoeyJoJoJrShabado ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:28:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In America maybe.
ocean365 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:49:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol definitely not Russia or China
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ocean365 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I remember getting pick-pocked in Hanoi a few years back on a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
2legittoquit ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lmao. In the entire world, the scariest thing is an inner city neighborhood.
aazav ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every town's* got one.
Robocek ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually it would be "every town has one".. If you're going to correct it, do it right.
EDIT: and if it were possessive, the apostrophe would follow the s, "towns'"
RedBombX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always wondered about that. Learn something every day...
Mycotoxicjoy ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 02:53:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cone snails. They have the most toxic venom on earth and have killed tons of fishermen who accidentally catch them and swimmers who accidentally step on them.
Conus geographus (the Cigerette Snail) has venom so powerful that if stung, you have about the time it takes to smoke a cigerette before you die, and because there is no reliable way to extract venom from the snail without killing it, there are no anti-venoms available.
Here is a video of a cone snail eating a fish, it's venom works instantly, the fish is digested while still alive (but paralyzed): www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zgbn_QffM
teh_maxh ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no antivenom, but it's just a paralytic, so you'll need to be mechanically kept alive while the paralytic breaks down, and then you're fine.
And if that's the video I think it is, the fish is paralysed by insulin overdose, not the snail's venom.
huskarl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:53:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well damn. That needs to be a mascot for a sports team.
rman108720 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 00:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe not necessarily real, depending on what you believe but it's religion for me. People of all religions believe that theirs is the one true religion. But there's tons of them. I was raised to believe that Jesus Christ is my savior but that's only because that's how my culture is. The fact that I might get damned to hell solely because I don't know whether or not I believe in the right religion scares the shit out of me
flame_in_darkness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:08:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find comfort in the fact that most people who "died" and came back to life said absolutely nothing happened.
here2be2see2thee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:15:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Islam you're not condemned to hell. There will be non muslims in heaven. The only way you get condemned is if you know islam is true and you deny it.
FaustVictorious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wish that we're true. There would be a lot less explosions. According to Islam, non-muslims only get death for their transgression. The Qur'an repeatedly calls for violence against non-believers.
here2be2see2thee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:13:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sad that's the exposure and explanations you were provided about Islam.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islamic law and the hadith call for women to be treated like cattle. People are still stoned to death in accordance with sharia jurisprudence. Prove I'm wrong and I'll convert on the spot.
here2be2see2thee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:29 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://aboutislam.net/multimedia/videos/islam-really-says-women-ted-talk/
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 05:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The powerful men that created these religions knew this, and used it as the most effective behavioral control mechanism ever implemented. You have nothing to worry about. Well, maybe, but nothing any man has ever witnessed.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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FaustVictorious ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:49:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just because something seems like it "should" exist, like God, an afterlife or justice, doesn't make it real.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:54:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that how you sleep every night? You know you will be questioned for every little deed you did in your life. It's amazing how people think that we exist for no reason at all and have no consequences of our actions.
sarge26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:57 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk man, he goes to sleep believing people who do truly evil shit in the world will not be held accountable for their actions, whereas you believe justice will be served. So you tell me who needs the presence/omission of God as a tool to distort reality so as to cope with it ?
sh2nn0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find solace in believing that we are all right, basically. Culture and language (along with human tampering) make it all seem a great more different than it is. Just my opinion of course.
TheGame2912 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:49:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take solace in the fact that everyone has a different view on the topic. It's good evidence that nobody has the right answer because the entire concept is bogus, man-made nonsense. To take a line from FDR, the only thing you have to fear is fear itself, because that's what keeps you thinking about it.
IllFapToThatoncam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there is a divine creator, he would rather see the path you took, and the choices you made, have faith in yourself, not 1000 year old manipulated ideologies.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:54:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 06:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Ha, can you believe there are really people that worry about an invisible man in the sky? And how other people live their lives? How silly! I need to make sure nobody lives their lives in this fashion. And sometimes I stay up at night worrying about things I don't believe. And people that are happy for the wrong reasons make me so mad! And..."
I feel bad for atheists. They believe there is no higher power, and still spend their lives getting ulcers over it.
wallsk9r ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 23:57:28 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dimentia
NoDoThis ยท 140 points ยท Posted at 01:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And so it begins
revofire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rekt.
danwroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First with typos, then with lopsided drawings of cocks
nimbusdimbus ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 00:19:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dementia. FTFY.
TLCplLogan ยท 110 points ยท Posted at 01:35:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it's already started for OP.
family_with_benefits ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:28:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip
halibutface ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 00:26:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i have a serious fear of this. my grandfather got dementia and forgot a lot of people in his life and my mom is slowly getting older and forgetting more and morre shit nothing significant yet but its getting there. i hate forgetting anything cause i start getting this feeling that it can and/or will happen to me in like 30-40 years.
TL;DR- yes
extreme_douchebag ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:(
I'm no doctor, so feel free to disregard the rest of this post, but I would suggest:
Staying social, and having meaningful stimulating enjoyable new conversations and interactions
Other mentally stimulating activities. Maybe learning how to program or how to play an instrument. Maybe try creative writing.
Have new, exciting experiences. Make sure your brain can't just be on autopilot 100% of the time day in and day out
Be immersed in nature. Go on hikes, spend a little time in the sun, maybe do some gardening, sometimes just chill in the outdoors. Go to the beach, walk in the woods, sit next to a pond.
Finally, of course, eating healthy and exercising are probably good
Approved by the most extreme of douchebags. I am not liable for any harm or death that may result from following this advice.
thekram ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 01:10:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
Internet jokes aside Australia has a ridiculous amount of things that will properly mess you up. For example we have the eastern brown snake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake
Not only does this thing mess you up, its aggressive as hell.
As an Australian it amazes me how often we just shrug off the danger and go outside
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 01:51:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeaaaah, but having lived in Australia for the last couple of years, seems to me like these things have the potential to hurt when they want, but mostly they're just too chilled out to. Unless you really piss them off or freak them out then you're screwed.
Yo-effing-lo ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 02:19:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So they're like normal Australians?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
exactly
thekram ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:30:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much sounds like Australians :D
Mostly that's true, if you're on a bushwalk and you see a snake just don't kick it in its face and you're golden. There are exceptions.
gmc_doddy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:53:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too hot here to give a fuck about hurting someone unless you step on them.
im1nsanelyhideousbut ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:26:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
im not from there but isnt only so much of it populated then rest is dontfuckinggoovertherewild life?
thekram ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:31:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the population is on the seaboard that's true.
The rest of it is so beautiful though if you ever get the chance to come to Australia you are missing out if you only stay in the cities we have some absolutely stunning landscapes and so much of our nature is endemic to Australia.
wertexx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:57:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea but read what he wrote, aren't those beautiful landscaped the places where all the nasty stuff hide? You are safe in a city from what I understood, but going into the nature isn't something that safe?
thekram ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess its hard to answer as an Australian, I understand there are risks but I sorta just shrug say "Fuck it" and go look at the pretty stuff.
wertexx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:54:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea it's different, I'm front a country that doesn't have anything that can hurt. The most dangerous thing around that we can face is a... fox. I THINK there might be wolves somewhere but am unsure, never heard of it. Spiders, snakes, drop bears, venomous poisonous whatever, nothing I have ever encountered. It's probably why things like that look scary for me.
KillerWolf96 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:07:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah those drop bears are the most dangerous thing you can face.
wertexx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falls from the tree, rips your face off.
Can't top that easily!
froggym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cassowary. That is all.
thatsabitraven ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the last two cities I've lived in I've had brown snakes in my yard. They're little fuckers.
wertexx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure how venomous brown snakes are but I assume they no good :(
thekram ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2nd most venomous snake in the world.
The first venomous (according to wiki) is the indian taipan, which is pretty shy. The brown snake though wants to fuck people up. Its like a super bogan. Except a snake.
wertexx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
???????
I'll insert a joke of why you haven't burnt your house, but a serious question how one lives walking distance to something that can (and want?) to kill you in seconds.
thekram ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think another comment in this chain nailed it pretty well though, a lot of the stuff that can kill you simply doesn't want to.
The eastern brown snake I used as an example is an odd one because it is hyper aggressive but I saw a really neat description the other day. Its more of a hyper-aggressive defence, it doesn't want to bite you / kill you, I mean why would it you are heaps bigger it doesnt want to risk getting messed up ---- BUT if you get too threatening (the real problem is pregnant snakes) they would rather get the first hit in.
thatsabitraven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are very no good.
DaSaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:46:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have that in America, but without everything trying to kill you. :p
solidspacedragon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:41:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot the eucalyptus tree.
It drops its leaves, which spread a flammable oil and some poison around. This starts a wildfire, which kills all the competition except the extremely fire resistant eucalyptus tree.
SwimminAss ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a biologist I'm extremely excited for the opportunity this summer to go there, and catch and study all their neat deadly shit
ThisTemporaryLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is definitely my answer. I wanna go, but it feels like that country was designed to kill you, painfully.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:27:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crikey!!
ModsHaveAGodComplex ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 23:05:54 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Empty liquor bottles
[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:13:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just keep refilling them!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:07:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But that costs money!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're gonna need two quarts of rye tonight, Randy.
poly_atheist ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:24:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An empty sack of cocaine is very depressing.
tunafister ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I did a ton of cocaine ~2 years, and due to a medical issue thought I couldnt do it anymore. Turns out I can and have done it twice in the past month in a half, pretty moderate first time, a good amount second time.
Fuck man, I loved it again, until I was coming down and had the most unceccesary terrible anxiety that was rooted in nothing more than the chemical I had consumed.
I don't mind feeling shit the next day so much as the overwhelming anxiety that the come down produces, probably should grab some benzos for next time...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
MrMonsterDubEdition ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the alcoholic.
ModsHaveAGodComplex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guilty as charged
Troggie42 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:30:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easily the Bagger 288.
sugarbear_sb ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck did I just watch?
Troggie42 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:30:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Bagger 288! Come on man, it's right there in the title! ;)
BoshBishBash ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:45:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're scared of a giant shovel?
Troggie42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you not?
BoshBishBash ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not scared necessarily, maybe a little emasculated.
Troggie42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's understandable, it happens to all of us sometimes.
lookieausername ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:07:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Impressive machine but the fucking editing made me vomit out of my eyes.
Troggie42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that's the idea, actually.
Nerdwad420 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you can buy that song on iTunes is now the scariest thing on Earth.
Troggie42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I SHOULDN'T have bought it?
mookashon ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 23:15:39 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jumping spiders
sudosussudio ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 03:51:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who raises them as a hobby, you should give them another chance. They are not dangerous to humans at all and in fact are quite intelligent and consume many pests.
Here are some of mine: A tiny baby Hyllus diardi
One of my adults of the same species, her name is Skitty
A video of my two jumping spiders, Bitty and Furiosa, hanging out
Bonus: A super cute picture I didn't take of Habronattus
Yartch ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:28:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need a kitten sized jumping spider
CreepyDrunkleQrow ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:47:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, when it comes to spiders, im motherfucking out. But dayum if i didnt squee just a bit at skitty.
_MusicJunkie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thing is, I know they are not dangerous. The spiders in my country have claws (hope that's correct) so tiny they couldn't penetrate human skin. And they are useful. But I'm still scared to shit if I see one.
R0da ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tiny babies!!
Druston ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Totally just squealed over the baby. Baby spiders are so goddamn cute, especially jumpers!
WhackTheSquirbos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cute!!
KarmaforLama ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 23:44:29 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I find they to be the cutest of nopes though.
MoroccoBotix ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Jumping Spiders are arguably the most docile type of spider out there. They're harmless to humans, they don't leave webs, they don't eat people-food, and they keep your home pest-free. :)
daedalusprospect ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:30:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find jumping spiders to be spider bros, while everything else is a nope.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:58 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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nancyaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand they're big but harmless?
Mortimer14 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:01:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you bug them they will show you how "harmless" they are.
I shared a flat with one only as big as a saucer. They get to be the size of dinner plates and there's rumors of a few as big as a serving platter (somebody knows somebody who knows somebody who saw it type of thing).
nancyaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yikes. So they do bite? They are not an issue here in California, and I'm thankful.
Mortimer14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They usually only bite to defend themselves or their nest (as far as I know). If you back them in a corner they will come out fighting. If you step on them they will bite.
WeMadeItGuys ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:41:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So fire is the only true method?
Mortimer14 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:42:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuke it from orbit .. the only way to be sure.
scootarded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they jump?
wattjake ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders in general.
nancyaw ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders are your bros. All they want to do is chill and eat bugs. I can dig that.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:06:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, unless it is a tarantula, the just want to chill and eat birds.
sargex10 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:05:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death... knowing that after this there is possibly nothing after this. Just silence and darkness. One minute your alive and the next nothing.. it's truly scary to think about it. It'd keep me up alot of nights and I'd cry alot too because I mean who wouldn't with something like that. I try not to think about it cause it still scares me to this day.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically it's not even silence and darkness, as those are experiences of the absence of something. We really can't comprehend non-existence.
Hang in there
r/longevity
Brushstroke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death itself, my own death, doesn't scare me nearly as much as those I love dying.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
stupernan1 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 04:14:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how can this not be the fucking top?!??!?
ANOXIC OCEANS
MELTING METHANE BUBBLES!?!??
what caused THE GREATEST MASS EXTINCTION OF EARTH!!?!? where like what?!?? 80% of all land life and 90% of all ocean lifes die off?
those..exact....fucking...things
And guess what's happening right now?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:49:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally meh.
TheMightyApostrophe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. Absolutely scary - and very few people even know what it is.
Edit: word
VioDes ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 01:24:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:53:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say ManBearPig, but you've got it already.
VioDes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:27 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah damn is it too late to change my answer?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:27 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember the fall last year and how it seemed like it lasted about a week? Well that's pretty much the norm now. Because of global warming fall as we knew it is gone. By 2050 it is projected that the ice caps will completely melt during the summer. It has already begun.
VioDes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:38 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck man
INTERNETMASTER666 ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 04:15:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right. It IS scary how many people believe in it.
DivineDinosaur ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles. Think about it. A one ton 15 foot sub-aquatic dinosaur relative that waits for hours underwater for someone or something to drink, obviously something we all need to do.
They then strike with one of the strongest bite forces in the animal kingdom take you under water then all proceed to rip you apart while you're still alive with a death roll. They're the perfect assassin.
Populations of people who live near them know of crocodiles who constantly hunt humans.
They can also live an entire century.
JerkasaurousRexx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 04:42:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To me, that I can totally be in mad love with a person and how my whole world is about them. But, to them, I may just be a small fling while they are going through a divorce. Knowing that my entire heart and mind is devoted to one person and they have the power to destroy me.
Kjmcgee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me sad :(
Fibreoptix ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:57:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hogweed. A plant that can burn your skin (for years) and leave you blind.
jeffy44 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 13:47:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chernobyl's The Elephant's Foot
"300 seconds will produce a relatively quick death, which is better than many alternatives.
After just 30 seconds of exposure, dizziness and fatigue will find you a week later. Two minutes of exposure and your cells will soon begin to hemorrhage; four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. 300 seconds and you have two days to live."
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't it labeled as the most radioactive thing on Earth at one point?
jeffy44 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:02:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe so. 30 years later it is still burning through the concrete foundation. During the meltdown I'm pretty sure it reached 2300 degree C, and has maintain 1600 for some time. I honestly don't understand how you wouldn't spontaneously com bust before the radiation killed you.
Smoothuser ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 03:16:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely not brain slugs. They are great.
Jsp_ ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 04:03:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at the moment probably this
somefuckertookmynick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too much internet for me. If someone needs me I'm gonna be crying on the corner.
TheMightyApostrophe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't mind me asking: What happens in the video? I'm way to panicky to click that link...
Edit: Typo
somefuckertookmynick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's just say you won't take eggs for breakfast for a while...
TheMightyApostrophe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! Vague enough not to spoil others and the link will definitely stay blue for me. I like eggs.
WhackTheSquirbos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please elaborate
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Oh my god that "BLYAT" and then the smash with the book.
I don't know if I should be laughing my ass off or absolutely terrified.
Edit - Ok now after a brief google search, I am legitimately scared.
zachotule ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't find any reporting on the guyโit seems to be fakery/puppetry of some sort but I'm curious how it's being done! What did you find?
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just assuming some sort of fishing line, that's how the movement looked anyway...
Mike1304 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That gave me the most confused laughing fit. Wtf was that thing anyway?? Was it a chick or something?
MinnENT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even believe this isn't higher up. What the fuck did I just see?
Edit: what's up with the still frame of fetuses in a chamber before the video starts? I can't find it in the video.
RedditLovsCensorship ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you sure this isn't fake? It's fake.....RIGHT??
Fibreoptix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's as fake as my night with Sofรญa Vergara. But that "BLYAT"...Im in tears.
MissBubbly17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the frick man!
NotmenotyoubutI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What did i just watch?
minal187 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that is the most messed up thing I've seen.
got_mule ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the actual fuck...
PoppyOncrack ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 23:06:18 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ex wife.
[deleted] ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 23:19:41 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found Ron Swanson
rman108720 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 00:10:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's here... http://imgur.com/sO5TBPb
Griffolion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Godspeed.
PoppyOncrack ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:20:10 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually I'm Swan Ronson.
MissionFever ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:44:47 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is your ex named Sammy?
PoppyOncrack ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:46:08 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One of them is.
Griffolion ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tammy*
Swan_Ronson666 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:31:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually IM Swan Ronson.
PoppyOncrack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:39:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn it.
Swan_Ronson666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its ok bby, only dreams now. I wish I had this username earlier in my internet career, honestly. Ive had so many dumb internet names. This one is my favorite though. Plus, it should stay relevant longer than my old Wheel of Time/ Lord of the Rings names.
PoppyOncrack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayy, agreed.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:32:06 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, my mother's name is also Tammy. So what?
LadyManifesto ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:05:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sure you didn't find Johnny Carson?
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:30:29 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unlike the ocean, many men have explored her cavernous depths.
PoppyOncrack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:32 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And many women too ;)
grapesandmilk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:14 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Her aim is getting better!
bagelfireball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/gravityfalls unite!
PoppyOncrack ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:50:46 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, I hid all the bullets.
Mnwhlp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:26:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Beast ?
PoppyOncrack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
thegoon2357 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:38:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found Kevin Spacey/Johnny Carson.
Troubador222 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No my current wife!
Troubador222 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's a real witch http://imgur.com/iKXE4K0
PoppyOncrack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill her with fire!
Da60 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 02:42:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes bitches. The earth you stand on you can't trust.
Source: live in Florida
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that you're going crazy.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:36:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Can confirm. I was lucky. Came through it in some working order. Meds for life, double meaning there.
How are you doing?
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:32:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm doing well enough. I had a very intense negative experience several years ago that very nearly broke me. I got through it, but it really drove home how horrifying it is to question reality. Sorry to hear about your own experiences, but glad you found support.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anytime you want to talk, I'm here.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:04:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about thinking you may be going crazy, but not having the money to see a doctor about it?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone with schizoaffectve disorder I fully understand what you mean. It is scary like walking around knowing at any moment you could black out for hours at a time doing stuff you'll never find out. I've been so scared d of getting pregnant or raped and not knowing about and then end up struggling to raise a kid. Being crazy stinks, but thank God for medicine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you going through?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity. Think of what can intentionally destroy the entire living existence on this planet. Every act of nature cannot be intentional because it has to happen for balance to maintain homeostasis. Animals eat other animals to balance life. Every living thing on this planet remains in check because of every other living thing on this planet. Except for humans. We stepped outside of that checks and balances system ages ago with the development of large scale agriculture and division of labor. Why we can intentionally destroy every living thing on this planet is not because we have to; we don't have to do a single thing. We can do it because we choose to. The power of choice is the greatest strength and the greatest weakness.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:24:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No such homeostasis exists. Species go extinct constantly, the planet has murdered most of it's life five times, our cars are fueled by the mass slaughter of generations of animals.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:31:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever helps you sleep at night, bud.
Traviscat ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fault lines/Earthquakes.
Just imagine sitting on your couch and literally the ground just starts shaking underneath you. Things that aren't strapped down are thrown around easily, buildings shake, it's like a time bomb primed and ready to go off anytime.
People in Earthquake zones (Like California) are equipped and should be ready (Wardrobes secured to the wall), but people who rarely get earthquakes aren't.
JoeRudisghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most people think earthquakes are like what they see in movies and on TV, they are nowhere near that.
99 percent of the earthquakes I have been in I barely even noticed. My wife has to bring it up to me sometimes "did you feel that? It was an earthquake" which I usually call bullshit on then look it up and sure as shit, it was a 2.0....They usually last about a second, and just a little rolling or wobble. The one in 89 was like a giant rolling ride, it fucked stuff up. But those are like a once in a lifetime event.
Traviscat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree that most aren't a big deal, but it is pretty scary to imagine the earth's plates moving like that.
I used to live in California and experienced a few myself, and was excited when I could barely feel the one that hit DC a few years ago. But if you aren't ready for one and in an earthquake zone you could be seriously hurt when a large item isn't secured falls.
The-Prophet-Muhammad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was in the Washington State nisqually earthquake of 2001, it was a 6.9. Wasn't that big of a deal. I was in the 7th grade at the time, in class.
savo137 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:15:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes. The groung just randomly decided to swallow up houses and people and animals for no apparent reason. You could just be chilling at the house and then bam! You're trapped 100 feet underground. That's absolutely terrifying.
Kmc2958 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:59:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death. Like where the actual fuck do we go or what happens. We have no facts on this no science or research other than you are done. Just don't exist anymore.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
which is why we should fight it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
JoeRudisghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was it like before you were born? Most likely the same shit.
FaustVictorious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:20:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot less had been explained by science in the past.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest thing is realizing how completely insignificant the entire planet is in size to even the smallest of stars, and knowing that the eventual heat death of the universe will leave us drifting through a cold and empty void. And that is only if we learn to get along with each other and the other forms of life on this planet. Then somehow learn how to colonize other planets (which are millions of light-years away and would take generations of spaceflight to reach) before the eventual violent death of our own star engulfs the earth in fire.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:00:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we're right about heat death, and there's no escaping it, we might as well strive to make it to that point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
mcstafford ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:27:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those who legislate or otherwise enforce religious beliefs.
Handsunderhips ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you can be falsely accused of a crime that is testimony only and be convicted and spend many years in prison. You can say you will never commit a crime but you can't say you won't be accused of one.
Suqleg ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mormons.
Barvoucher ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:44:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Something coming up from under the toilet while I'm taking a dump.
Lurking_Grue ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:57:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant bat eating centepedes.
TankGirlwrx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:37:53 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HOLY FUCK NOPE KILL IT WITH FIRE
Lurking_Grue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:38:07 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My reaction: "Where are those things? Ok, putting that on the list of places to never fucking go ever."
beckdeck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:00:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness like Dementia or Schizophrenia.
TheIntelligentOne ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:01:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain screams in agony as I read the comments here.
lowfan ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:08:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gamma Ray bursts. Little to no warning and all is lost
moxy801 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:13:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons
Asiageek ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia. I mean, just look at some of the other comments here. Australia is just full of deadly, scary shit. It's like Mother Nature's torture room.
aphoenix ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:58:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The phone ringing at 3am.
WolbachiaBurgers ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ever since my uncle committed suicide last year, I hate phone calls in the middle of the night.
aphoenix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cousin for me, same story.
WolbachiaBurgers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah man it was pretty fucked. Sorry about your loss.
aphoenix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same to you.
BreefJerky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, any phone call during the night is always bad.
Sixray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading this gave me an instinctive lurch in my stomach that brought back bad memories. having had this happen several times in the last couple years makes me feel fear any time I see a new message from family on my phone.20
MeatballSubWithMayo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 15:32:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's. It will kill you, slowly, and will cause your families the anguish of losing you piece by piece. I can imagine nothing worse.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:19:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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slapuwithafish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:19:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this might be the winner.
teethinthedarkness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:02:41 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Incredibly dangerous; super scary. Very smart (relative to other species), but unable to resist a bent toward destruction (their own, as well as the word at large), able to imagine and manifest seemingly unlimited horrors, and despite being completely capable (intellectually) of avoiding their own annihilation (as well as that of other species and the planet at large), they take very few steps toward preservation of the species in the long term, seeming to contradict their own biological imperative -- unwilling to awknowedge that nearly every problem they have could be solved by self-regulating (reducing) their global population. People are scary.
Ratman_84 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:38:28 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ultra-viruses. Because if we go extinct, that's the most likely cause.
misbar_nano ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why you're getting down-voted. You're not wrong. I work in the medical field and this is a very real threat that science is trying to get ahead of.
Ratman_84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't even know I was getting downvoted. Too many people on Reddit who think a downvote validates their own opinion. And the top vote is for a tree. Something that can easily be avoided. But yeah, the last time I got really sick it was scary to think about how much worse it would be if I was an older person or if it was a mutated virus that we couldn't do anything about. Such a tiny thing, with so much power.
HiImYury ยท 1002 points ยท Posted at 23:38:03 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The idea of Donald Trump possibly being in charge of the strongest Super Power in the world.
Edit: thank you for Reddit gold! Never knew I'd sit at the cool kids table.
choombatta ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:03:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cruz is scarier.
Kramer_rulez ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:16:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that crazy bastard doesn't even want to invade Syria.
gianniks ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:00:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American president is far from being in charge of America.
HiImYury ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
okay okay, sorry i meant figure head.
kristamhu2121 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is not what Fox News told me.
Asdayasman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 12:31:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go vote.
drewhartley ยท 522 points ยท Posted at 00:34:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i'm already sick of these posts and it isn't even the general election. (i'm definitely NOT a trump fan, but still)
[deleted] ยท 1005 points ยท Posted at 01:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah well I'm fucking sick of the possibility
the_palici ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:42:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worst case scenario he doesn't get anything done with congress. The world won't end, don't worry guy.
craftygnomes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 13:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst case scenario is actually that he gets the stuff done that he's saying he will and that he ruins any positive reputation the US might have somewhere in the world.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:04:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
There's a hell of a lot more to a president's job than working with congress. A president can't even introduce bills. But a president can start a war (and don't give me that bullshit about only congress can declare war because the us hasn't declared war since 1941).
A president is a hell of a lot more than the bills he can sign into law and to think otherwise is just plain dumb.
So bear in mind that given that he can start wars and that if he does something dumb enough, then yes, the world could quite literally end. And while I don't think he's quite dumb enough for something like that, that's not something worth taking a chance on.
UpboatOrNoBoat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:32:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is actually the least likely candidate on the Republican ballot to start a fucking war. His policies are very pro-foreign relations.
Then you have Cruz, the evangelical nutjob who thinks Russia is the antichrist and Rubio who seems like a complete moron without an individual thought in his brain.
But keep meme-ing about how Trump is the next Hitler because you choose to believe everything you read on reddit and don't do an iota of research on people's actual platform.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pro foreign relations? Are you fucking kidding me? Dude wants to start trade wars, build a wall, and talks about wanting to bully other countries.
RaePie ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:20:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly... Imagine how sick of it he'll be when Trump is president. We'll have to hear about it every fucking day for 4/8 years.
Lumin0s ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 02:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we get trump for two terms im chopping my dick off.
RoflCopter726 ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 02:47:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tagged.
sfengi ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! 5 years
Lumin0s ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:54:45 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the bright side, there's a chance we won't even get him for one term.
Sincerily, /u/Lumin0s's dick
_MUY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What will you do if he reorganizes government to make himself permanent Supreme Emperor?
Lets_Be_Badguys ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:37:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be more worried about Clinton going all Palpatine on us than Trump. At least the orange idiot has income/influence outside of politics.
Lumin0s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:54 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dick and one ball. Keeping the other ball just to remind me that I lack the other one
TheFuckNameYouWant ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't work like that
_MUY ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:18:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't think an elected leader can use that position as a stepping stone to consolidate power, or that democracies can fail if they elect the wrong leaders, then I advise you to read up on history.
TurnerJ5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8 years, lmao.
duelingdelbene ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least we can make fun of the president again. Remember Bush? He was constantly a laughing stock. Obama certainly gets his fair share of criticism but he doesn't really get made fun of like Bush, because of his more mild temperament and also possibly because people don't want to be seen as racist.
2Pacsgodson ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:24:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And also possible he doesn't put his foot in his mouth and appear dumb most of the time
marsinfurs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also he didn't start a bullshit trillion dollar war.
TheFuckNameYouWant ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:15:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he just continued it and added a few trillion to the National Debt. No big deal though, really they're all the same. That's why people are supporting Trump, he might screw us over, but every other candidate up there on both sides absolutely will screw us over. And he's saying things that people want to hear.
_MUY ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people aren't supporting Trump, the people really hate Trump. They hate him. It's unreal how much the people really hate the guy. I say, just look at the polls. Look at the numbers. He's despised. He's despised, okay?
marqueemark78 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah being able to form coherent sentences helps a lot.
_MUY ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:26:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me translate that to Trumpish for you:
"I tell you whatโlook at itโyou look at these people. They can't even form a coherent sentence! I say. Look. You have to, be able to form, a coherent sentence. I have the greatest sentences. Aren't they great? Ann Coulterโwho I adore. She's an unbelievable authorโshe really loves my sentences."
ademnus ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4/8 years? It won't take nearly that long for a military coup to depose him.
_MUY ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There won't be a military coup. He's a leader, the military will commit war crimes if he tells them to. He's going to open up the libel laws. It won't be legal to write anything negative about him, so no one will have any idea he's doing it. The military will be too busy siphoning oil out of Iraq and Syria to come home and defend their families, but there wouldn't be a point anyway. Military families will be very taken care of. They'll only be seeing positive messages from their spouses. And if someone tries to talk about what a horrible job Trump is doing, he'll just shut down parts of the internet.
Flawless plan.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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_MUY ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, tongue-in-cheek. I take politics seriously and Trump has all the hallmarks of a dictator in the making. He's said all these things and you can never tell where his true ambitions lie.
In defense of his assertion that the military should be committing war crimes, Trump said that the military would commit those acts if he commanded them to, because he is a leader.
At a rally in Ft Worth, Tx, he said he plans to open up the libel laws to allow him to sue journalists for writing what he considers to be negative stories, hit pieces, and lies.
He stated several times that he wants the military to seize the oil in the territory between the Levant and Iraq and using it to fund the military's noncombat systems (wounded warriors sorts of things).
His strategy to combat the flow of information and organization across the globe between terrorist cells is to shut down parts of the internet. He's also been a staunch defender of the NSA surveillance program and 'figured out very quickly' that Edward Snowden is a spy who needs to be captured.
His plan for the military is to basically restructure the entire military budget to make the military more powerful for the same amount of money by cutting programs.
He wants totally closed borders, total control over immigration, a 'complete shutdown' of 25% of the world's population entering the US, etc.
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pipe dreams. Sick fascistic pipe at dreams at that. He's not even got a chance to win.
SyntheticManMilk ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:22:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I say lets give him a chance. If he sucks as hard as everyone says he will then he could always be impeached.
EDIT: C'mon. How badly could he fuck shit up? People are acting like it's the apocalypse.
SQUID_FUCKER ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 03:39:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the wrong stance to take when electing world leaders.
leaftreeforest ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well that's before he initiates the secret police to supposedly round up the illegal immigrants
SyntheticManMilk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you just use regular police to do that.
JimTokle ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 03:04:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fucking sick of the possibility of Hillary being president.
[deleted] ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 04:20:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm not stoked on it but my two cents is she's the best realistic choice
I wish O'Malley would have been able to have more support. Dude is smart, did well as governor, had good positions, and didn't do anything good awful like Clinton has. He'd be more conservative than I am but I'd have voted for him in a heartbeat.
pipof2010 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:26:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz is crazier, Marco Rubio is just an idiot, and John Is living in a world where he's already won the election.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:35:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think cruz is crazier. If anything he's more consistent and is clearly actually a very intelligent person. I mean dude has argued in front of the supreme court.
Rubio does seem rather childish but at this point I think he's the best republican choice. He's not too far right of center (too far for my liking, but I am very liberal). He's fairly intelligent and not a born again Christian.
I like kasich a little more than Rubio because he's not quite as much of a dumbass when it comes to climate change but he's otherwise hopeless.
Honestly I'd have been stoked if it was O'Malley vs. Paul.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't understand how there is no sort of neutral council or something for potential candidates. We are joking about the whole thing now, but some people are actually stupid enough to vote for Trump. I mean, what meaningful thing has he really done in his life that makes him a suitable president for a powerhouse like the US?
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not so worried about what he'd do as far as helping enact laws beyond signing bills into law that most republicans would favor. I'm more concerned about how he sets the way we act with other countries. Also there's been a continual trend since teddy Roosevelt toward consolidating executive power and I'm concerned about how much he'd be able to get away with.
DOWjungleland ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Britain agrees. It would be embarrassing for you, terrifying for everyone else. Unless you are white and elitist; then you are laughing.
Andrado ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then move somewhere that doesn't democratically elect its leaders. Otherwise you have to accept there will always be a chance that someone you don't like is elected. I think every candidate in both parties is a massive disappointment and America deserves much better, but I respect the process even when I disagree with it.
emdave ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 12:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not a case of 'someone we don't like' - it's a case of someone totally unsuitable for the role!
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:35:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm also sick of people say: you don't like it then move!
Andrado ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 03:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All I'm saying is you either accept the status quo or you work to change it. Nobody is interested in hearing what you don't like if you're not committed to doing something about it. Otherwise it's just complaining, and there are way too many passive complainers in this country who we would be better off without.
There are millions of idiots that think a Trump presidency will bring about the end of the world. Millions of others say the same about Sanders, Cruz, Rubio, or Hillary getting elected, and it's stupid. It will make very little difference in the long run.
SuperFreakonomics ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:47:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard Korea's pretty good this time of the year.
EverlastingThrowawy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love how this is so upvoted but people including myself feel the same way about sanders
warlocknoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:55 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got emmmmmm
Imrightbehimdyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:59:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Preachhhh
testa12 ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:05:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is a result of people being sick of the bulshit politically correct world they live in. Leftists only have themselves to blame for trump.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:22:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, you don't get to blame democrats for it. Democrats have moved more to the right I'd anything. The people to blame are those afraid of outsiders (read foreigners) and those that dislike the normal political discourse so much they'll look past lies and falsehoods because they mistake his lies for a "straight shooter"
testa12 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I said leftists. I'm not even from America. But the fact that people can't say they don't want foreigners living near them out loud is exactly why they're voting for a guy who will.
It's nothing to do with fear and everything to do with not wanting your country and culture to turn to shit. You can be tolerant all you want pal, but I don't want to live on a street full of Muslims from the Middle East. Because their culture is fucked and I want nothing to do with it. You can't say that out loud without being called a racist and a bigot by leftists. So don't scratch your heads when people like me vote in a guy who will.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:08:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's valuing your culture and then there's racism. What's more is this not a place that's always had a homogeneous culture
testa12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is also genuinely not wanting to live in, near or around some cultural groups. That's not racism. It's no different to not liking carrots.
This romantic notion of submersing yourself in other cultures in order to show your social media circle what a good little tolerant peace loving humanitarian you are is fucking bulshit. If that's you, go for it. More power to you. Nothing is stopping you from getting on a plane and living in beirut for a year. But I've seen enough of the world and lived in enough of it now to know that I don't want more than half of it anywhere near me or my family. And I'll vote for someone who will make that happen. And so will millions of others who have half a brain and a bit of world experience.
And as i said originally, the fact that even remotely criticising or admitting you don't like another culture gets you labelled everything just short of Hitler is exactly why you have trump now.
So instead of people being able to openly discuss the negetive impacts of certain cultures we all have to pretend they're all awesome lest we be publicly outed as a racist. And because of that, no political leader has touched the issue in decades.
So now you don't get a reasonable candidate who will tackle the issue with tact and logic you get a nutbag who is going to build a wall as he's the only one with the balls to say what everyone is thinking.
Good luck with Trump. And i'll give you a free piece of advice. Every time you call another person who criticizes a cultural group a bigot or a racist or just generally shut down their opinion like it has no merit you create another trump voter and you feed the far right.
So yes, leftists did create Trump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The funniest thing about racists is they get upset when you call them a racist. That first sentence where you said you don't want to live around certain ethnic groups? THE FUCKING DEFINITION OF RACISM
How is it different from carrots? All carrots are pretty much the same. People are not, you fucking bigot.
testa12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:13 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
facepalm, it's just not, sorry. I know you've been trained for years to identify anyone who even remotely says something negative about any culture other than your own to be a racist but that's not what it is at all.
Here is a loose definition of racism.
From wiki.
Now I don't treat anyone from any race unfairly. I wouldn't not give a guy a job because of his skin color. I don't expect other races to sit in different parts of the cinema. That's racism dude.
Not wanting to live in Mumbai because you don't like Indian Culture is not fucking racism you twit. And not wanting your suburb to turn into Mumbai is also not racism. For starters a culture is not a race. They are certainly tied together but are not the same. I hate Islamic Middle Eastern culture. I don't hate the racial group or believe them to be inferior to me. Do I think their culture is inferior to ours? You're damn right I do. Corporal punishment? Gay/Women's rights? Tolerance of other cultures? Their culture is basically circa 700 AD.
I bet I can find a whole swath of cultures you don't like and by your logic that makes you a racist. Like I said. If I don't like carrots that doesn't mean I want to destroy all carrots and not let carrots onto the shelf in the super market and make carrots grow on the road while all the other vegetables get to grow in the ground. It just means I don't want carrots on my fucking plate.
You are in fact the bigot here, here's the definition of that one by the way because you misused that too.
That's you. It's literally what you've been doing since we started talking. you're just so blinded by the bulshit leftist propaganda you've been fed your whole life you can't see past your hatred.
platinum_jackson ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:19:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get the hell over it he met the requirements to run don't get pissy because someone can run for president and you don't like them. Seriously he again met he requirements to run there isn't shit anyone can do about it. You have to hate democracy if you seriously think he shouldn't be allowed to run.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck you're a moron
platinum_jackson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:38 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Leave politics to the adults.
Konker101 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
blame idiots and old people
linkolphd ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:01:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Regardless of whether you like him, it's not like the president has dictatorial power. If he is as bad as everyone says he is, the worst we get is 8 more years of nothing getting done.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I said this before, I'll say it again. HE CAN START WARS. This isn't just "oh shucks nothing gets done. " even if that was the case THINGS NEED TO GET DONE.
linkolphd ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
My point was things will not get done regardless basically. Also I mean he wouldn't be the first president to do "missions" of undeclared war. Not to mention he is nonintervention in the first place. You may not like him but he's not as crazy as headlines make him seem.
Edit: as a side note, must make clear I'm not a trump supporter (I feel like someone might pull this up because I've posted in /r/the_donald) but I will defend him as a legitimate candidate and not some demon from hell as people portray him.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So other presidents have done it meaning, fuck it, that's par for the course now and he can too? Are you kidding me? And he's not non interventionist. He wants to get involved in syria, would likely get involved with Russia as result, and also wants to start trade wars via protectionism and who the fuck knows what actual conflicts those could lead to? Not to mention i wouldn't put it past him to start shit with Iran or North Korea and as a result Russia and China
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny you have to make very clear you're not a Trump supporter or reddit will downvote you all day.
don_leno ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:17:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to reddit, where people are more irritated about reading the same thing more than once or twice a day than the idea of an unhinged and unpredictable egomaniac controlling a country with a military the size of several other smaller countries.
Nyxtro ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm genuinely scared of this, it's not people trying to be cute or funny for karma, it's sensible people who are worried that this insane person is going to be in charge of the United States of fucking America.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:44:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YOU'RE FIRED
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:25:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's stomping Cruz and Rubio. It's literally Trump vs. Clinton or Sanders at this point. He's basically in the general election already. Being dismissive because it's 'just the primaries' leads me to believe that you don't understand how very real the possibility of Donald Trump holding the keys to the biggest stockpile of nuclear war heads on the planet is. I'm not even American but that's fucking terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 14:35:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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chatttheleaper ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:44:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because different political views are baaad.
agentgill0 ยท -26 points ยท Posted at 01:27:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
If you're not afraid of this, you're not paying attention. Edit: We'll see if I'm such an idiot in 6 months. Kthx
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 01:58:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im paying attention and not afraid of this. I just have a different opinion than you, and neither of us is right... no one is.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the right answer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I'll just keep doing what I'm doing tbh
BlueberryPhi ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 02:20:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Allow me to rephrase.
Donald Trump with the Nuclear Launch Codes.
nira007pwnz ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:35:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump doesn't get sole responsibility of using nuclear weapons.
iKickComputers ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 03:21:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, poor fucking you not being amused by the future of the free world.
Reprioritize.
Flightless_12 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:55:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alienblue content filters are amazing. I'll live in political ignorance, and like it too goddammit.
pokemaugn ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 03:31:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not very scary for middle class straight white boys, is it? Lol
dabosweeney ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 03:01:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See the problem is people like you, the same type of person that thinks "I'm tired of politics I just won't vote"
Inquisitorsz ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 02:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that it's even gotten this far is terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 01:51:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
low-effort posts
kotkaiser ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
low-energy post
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 00:38:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, hey. He'll get stuff done! Maybe not good stuff, but stuff nonetheless!
Opstoper ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:45:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the spirit! But honestly at this rate I wouldn't mind having Obama for a third term, too bad it's not possible.
brahdz ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an outside observer, I can tell you Obama has done more for the reputation of the USA than any president before him. Not to mention he cleaned up Bush's mess. You'd be lucky to have him for a 3rd term.
Lord_Cronos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:39:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an inside observer, I agree, and apologize for the fact you're being downvoted.
Indigo_Indulgence ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 14:04:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is bullshit. Obama is not American and true Americans don't give a darn about our reputation as outsiders watch us implode. Our nation is more divided than ever, Obamacare is a fraud, and having to witness narcissistic politicians fight over control of real lives is leaving me disgusted by the whole process and our lack of control to fix it.
TransitRanger_327 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:00:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is Obama not American? He grew up in America even if he wasn't born here (which he probably was).
Our nation is divided right now, but it has been divided much more. There was a time that a part of the country left the rest and we had a full-on war.
Yeah obamacare is not amazing, but it at least is better than the old system. Millions of formerly uninsured Americans can now get more affordable healthcare.
And the only way to change the system is to write to your congresspeople and vote. Also write to your state congresspeople. And make sure you get everyone to know to vote. Doing nothing will do precisely that: nothing.
Sherlock--Holmes ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Authoritarians everywhere! <sigh>
thratty ยท -18 points ยท Posted at 01:28:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's a misconception actually. Watch this video, through a few political loopholes it actually is extremely possible for a president to serve 3 or more terms.
Lol I deserved this haha
HiImYury ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha very true
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:18:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I thought other countries were now fond of saying they don't need the US anymore?
HiImYury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We all need US, cmon its the trading common ground.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:45 on May 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was feeling that way about the socialist before he was essentially finished.
TheTrub ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:41:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not just Trump, but his cabinet appointees, too. Imagine Chris Christie as the attorney general.
bjbyrne ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:22:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Hillary
5MC ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Or Bernie.
If two obese and idiotic BLM women can take over his speech that easily, then Putin, China, and everyone else would utterly dominate him.
Not to mention he hasn't had the spine to take on Hillary for the horrifically corrupt criminal she is. For fuck's sake, she's literally under investigation by the FBI, and he refuses to go after her on it.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to leave your basement more often.
earth_sandwich ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to open your eyes a little bit to reality and focus on something other than the free stuff that Bernie tells you he will give you to win your vote.
ElectricFirex ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a pretty shallow and pretty much just wrong interpretation of why people like bernie. I'm a student but would vote for him over any other candidate regardless of the benefit to me because of the benefits he would bring to millions of people. He cares about equality and rights and treating people like people, rather than which minority to blame for all our problems.
fgdadfgfdgadf ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 05:24:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should of gave them the kung fu karate chop hiyayayayayaya
TheRugsTopography ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 05:11:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh. Just ugh.
Razzle80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So he wants to be president of china too?
blueskywins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐
[deleted] ยท -20 points ยท Posted at 00:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
why exactly? care to elaborate? and don't give me the same old "he's racist and xenophobic" bullshit
Mr_Propane ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 01:05:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should look up his stance on environmental issues. He believes global warming is a hoax and wants to get rid of EPA.
VoroJr ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 01:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not bullshit if it is true. He's a populist towards poor people, he just says what they want to hear. He creates panic and dangers when there are none, at least not close to america.
Yes terrorism is a thing, yes it's bad, but no, you don't need more guns to prevent it or more security measures geared towards potential muslim terrorists. After 9/11, more people have died to mass shootings than to terrorism. Think about that.
I am living in Europe, we have the refugee crisis to deal with and a lot of people are terrified by the recent Paris attacks, yet if politicians said any of Trumps "famous quotes", they would be laughed at and asked to resign.
HiImYury ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:03:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, you gave my answer before i could give it lol.
[deleted] ยท -39 points ยท Posted at 01:42:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a surprise. You're sitting back in silence as your continent is overrun by Muslims. Most people here don't want to end up like Europe.
rjolly ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 12:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do Americans who have no idea what they are talking about pretend to know about Europe and what is going on in Europe? Like..how do you even believe this shit??
roomandcoke ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 01:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I kind of want to end up like Europe.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:09:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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treebard127 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:09:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, sounds exactly like America to be honest.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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farbenwvnder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly! To avoid potential confrontations you have to assert dominance by bombing some hospitals and murdering children on the other side of the planet
If reddit patriots taught me anything its that you people refer to these as "blacks"
roomandcoke ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 02:37:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, it's not the 1950s, we're not the greatest country anymore.
VoroJr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is so much bullshit in your comment, I won't even try to educate you. I recommend you inform yourself before making sound europe like hell because actually life hasn't changed in any way in the last year.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:26:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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VoroJr ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 10:20:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know why I take the "liberal way"? Because it would be a waste of time trying to change a racists mind. I've tried dozens of times in my own country. You people aren't listening to reasonable arguments. All you say is migrants are -insert negative attitude here-, they steal our jobs and money and don't learn the language.
When I ask them where they read about it they name some bullshit news source and I already know who I am talking to.
I'll try anyways, just to not be the one trying to sound smart.
So no, Europe isn't overrun. We haven't even grown half a percent in population. People are being sent back, crime rates are exactly the same, the only thing going up is the amount of weapons in the hands of private people. (which correlates with the fact that right-wing populists are always saying how bad things are to get voters)
ISIS is NOT coming closer. In fact, they are taking massive hits since the paris attacks happened.! You should know, America is supporting us for the most part.
Yes, the politics part is kinda annoying, but there is so much conflict of interest going on and every country tried to get the best deal they could until now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me educate you-- Islam is not a race.
rttp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:39:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your primary news source is fox news. Why waste time trying to educate a GED hick?
TheUproarCalledPanic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:46:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah loads of bullshit there. Unfortunately also true.
EUROPE YES
D3M01 ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:24:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I live in Europe. He isn't making it up. Crime rates are up and so many people don't want to integrate and instead push sharia law into our countries and don't bother learning the language. Not saying they are all like that but a big enough % of them are for it to be an issue.
Keep living in your leftist fairytail.
Downvoted for admitting we have a problem, what a world.
HokusSchmokus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 15:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where in Europe are you from?
MairusuPawa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:21 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Texas, likely
D3M01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:56 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.K. :) Nice try though.
VoroJr ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 10:05:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where? Because it isn't true. I am from Austria and we have taken the highest amount of refugees considering our population. Most "crimes" they committed where made up or exaggareted by populist media. Yes the stuff that happened is bad, but wtf, a lot of the rape cases were made up be women who just hate refugees. There is no reason to hate them.
D3M01 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:29 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Fucking really? Made up? There are so so many reports of crime released by the POLICE in these countries, not the media, that point to a high amount of refugee violence. Now why would the government make up statistics about the very people they let in en-masse? I can't comprehend how you could put down rape victims like that to side with refugees. You ever heard of Rotherham? And there is a reason the Swedish police aren't allowed to report ethnicities in crime statistics now.
worldnews_is_shit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:46:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wew
D3M01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:44 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/five-whitehall-buildings-held-by-wealthy-businessmen-now-operating-under-sharia-rules-a6910131.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia_patrols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Arbitration_Tribunal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Sharia_Council
worldnews_is_shit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:30 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im sure you could find similar groups but instead of being muslims, they are jewish or Christian.
D3M01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:33 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That whataboutism. The topic was clearly sharia which you denied with your cute meme. If you know anything about sharia law you'll know it does not fit in western society. If there are Christian or Jewish law groups/courts in Europe I HIGHLY doubt they're as archaic as sharia.
Paulbo83 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:16:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then move there
VoroJr ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:14:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good. I don't want to end up like an uneducated american that identifies as a patriot, believes what a racist populist says and doesn't even know what empathy means.
Paulbo83 ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 02:24:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh we are educated. We just arent brainwashed like you are to think that letting unchecked people into your countries, some of them being people who want to kill you is "empathy". But if you wanna believe that hes a racist populist (which would be funny because americas minorities love him) then thats fine because luckily you cant vote. But no i can see why your nervous about trump being the leader of the free world. Being a european, id imagine youd be rather nervous to not have big brother america protect you from all your fuck ups.
Energizer100 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't sound educated tbh
Paulbo83 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 05:37:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well thanks for "tbh" ing but im curious, In what sense do i sound uneducated?
Energizer100 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 05:46:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Anyone who blindly follows a demagogue to me is pretty uneducated. Trump is the new Waldo, where he just says things to get a rise out of people. And the argument? "Trump is different and says what the party does't want him to say. He's fighting against the establishment." He even said he would want to sue the media for saying negative things about him. That's not freedom of speech, but a lot of Trump followers don't understand that. Let me guess, you're a white dude. You don't understand the xenophobia that there is for brown people like me in America. Go ahead and downvote me, I don't care.
Paulbo83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
welp you just said that trump is xenophobic, while making the racist assumption that im a white dude supporting trump. a bit hypocritical but despite this, i wont downvote you. instead, i will explain to you my educated and researched reasoning why i am supporting him. I am a socially liberal but fiscally conservative person. I like the fact that bernie is for the people, however socialism is historically terrible(please do not cite scandanavian countries. If i want to have income taxes of 40 to 60 percent with little job or economic growth as well as 25% sales tax, i will just move there. thats not bernies tax plan, but his is much much higher than what we have now. Taxing the rich 52% will just make them leave the country and taxing the poor 12 percent isnt helping them either. i could debate it all day but you get my point). So bernie is not my guy. hillary is hillary I dont think i need to explain myself. cruz and rubio are bible thumping puppets that hate abortion and gay marriage. Trump is the only fiscally conservative and socially liberal candidate that will NOT defund planned parenthood, or end gay marriage. fiscally will fight crony capitalism, and replace it with pure capitalism. i welcome you to check out his tax plan which taxes the lowest bracket 0% compared to bernies taxes the poor 12%. His healthcare policies that just came out are brilliant, and i have heard few people, even socialists who only support single payer, disagree. he will fight to bring manufacturing jobs back here and is the most qualified to do it of any of them, and that helps everyone. I also support strict code on illegal immigration. it is illegal for a reason, a huge amount of drugs come over the border and illegal immigrants are undercutting jobs with wages that american citizens cant compete. I say give them amnesty, build the wall and let new immigrants in legally. and Of course i do not like his statements of banning all muslims. but he isnt going to do that, has revoked that statement, and specifically says temporarily banning syrian refugees. which you may be against, but you must understand that isis is our enemy. And chunk amount of them are hidden amongst the ranks of the refugees and you see it all over europe. It is not against muslims, but against isis and radical terrorists.
Energizer100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry for signaling out you're white, it came out of a place of anger. I'm a liberal too but I think that Clinton is gonna win the nomination (even though I like Sanders). But you have to admit that Trump supporters (some of them) are batshit insane. Just the other day I saw a video of a black woman getting pushed around during a Trump rally. He doesn't condemn any of this, not the two guys in Boston who pissed on a Mexican man's face in Boston, not the statement that he said about a protester getting roughed up, and not the recent statements on another protester saying that he missed the old days of roughing someone up. Not only that but blocking criticism of him if he becomes president is ridiculous to say the least. It doesn't matter if he bans all Muslims or not, but it ignited a xenophobic part of latent xenophobes here. The damage is done, not by Trump's actions but his statements and how they affect and allow his followers to behave.
Paulbo83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
well he may want to silence the media but you have to remember its not like he has the power to do so. and what his supporters have done is bad but what protesters have done is bad too. with all parties. i saw bernie supporters harrassing some girl who had the trump sticker on her phone case calling her ugly racist whatever. and the protesters got roughed up because they tried coming within a certain distance of a presidential candidate. or they fight when being escorted out. these candidates have protection similar to obama at this point. there cant be any leniency in security. Edit: i understand the concerns of xenophobia. hopefully most of america isnt dumb enough to generalize isis and radical terrorism as islam as a whole and can look past trumps pandering.
Mardok ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Says he's educated yet can't use grammar.
Paulbo83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa nice rebuttal dude
Mardok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I looked at your post history after writing out a more substantial reply and then realised my mistake. You are clearly not a smart man.
D3M01 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HAHAHA what bullshit.
Mardok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're welcome to go through his posts to substantiate that claim but I wouldn't recommend it.
Paulbo83 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i just looked at your history post and you just go around saying "i looked at your history post and realised my mistake. you are clearly not a smart man " to whoever you disagree with. so please, do share your substantial reply id love to hear what someone so intellegent has to say.
D3M01 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't give a fuck about his post history? How about you stick to the topic instead of your constant attempts at deflection. So typical.
Paulbo83 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:13:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. That guy never had his "substantial reply". After he looked at mine, i took a look at his post history its just him criticizing other peoples culture because his misinformed lil brain doesnt understand other people think differently than him. Hes a chump
Mardok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of me would like to see what happened if Trump got elected in just to see how bad he'd fuck it up so people like you two morons would understand why a xenophobic idiot with no political background would make a terrible president.
The fact the most of the other candidates aren't much better (or even worse) speaks highly of your terrible system.
Paulbo83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
may i ask what country you are from? im curious what system you have that is so much better. id love to let trump know about it when hes president.
Mardok ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Zealand.
Paulbo83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hear its pretty hard for you guys to get green cards to come over here
Psyanide13 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to be on the side of education, don't be on the side that stifles it at every chance.
[deleted] ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 03:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better than being a fucking cuck.
clunting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cuck a doodle doo
Hdgunnell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As if those points aren't enough
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 14:35:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Xenophobic because he's anti illegal immigration? Racist because he wants to stop the influx of muslims to the US?
Hdgunnell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:56:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like xenophobic because he thinks all Muslims are terrorists when they are the second largest religious population of the world. Racist because he thinks all Hispanics are from Mexico and are rapists and drug dealers.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How many non-muslim terrorists have attacked the US lately? 0 Also, illegal immigrants are more likely to be involved with crime than others, who cares if they're from mexico or cuba or whatever. splitting hairs
Hdgunnell ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What constitutes a ''terrorist'' attack? What you see on Fox news? There has been dozens of attacks that would be considered terrorist attacks since the new year that have been done by non Muslims. And I don't even need to continue this conversation if you think Hispanics have higher crime rates because they're Hispanic. Please do a little research and pick a new presidential candidate.
Source: Graduate of a Bachelors in CJS and basic facts you can fucking Google.
Chewsti ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 01:42:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
edit Started replying to some of these but decided it was better for my health to just not debate politics on the internet. So fine you guys win.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:10:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:01:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Have YOU read Donald Trumps policies on his site? He gives vapid lip service to conservative talking points such as "We have been too afraid to protect and advance American interests and to challenge China to live up to its obligations." That is a meaningless sentence.
Source: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/us-china-trade-reform
His website says largely nothing of substance policy-wise. One clear policy of his calls for "a one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate."
Source: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
And then his website goes on and on about Mexicans.
"Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old womanโs home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the โblood trailโ leads straight to Washington. "
Source: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He wants to repeal the best thing to happen to healthcare in America in my lifetime. Do you remember what was happening before ACA? People were going bankrupt due to their health. People lost their homes due to their health.
Rolling back Obamacare is ludacris. His plan to replace Obamacare?
Yes. He blames Illegal Immigrants, The unemployed, and the mentally unwell people for the system's troubles. His plan to fix the healthcare system? Grow the economy. How? Magic.
What part of this do you find attractive / sensible?
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:32:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a typical Trump supporter, you offer no facts to back up your claim. Just a wild, inflammatory statement implying that your opponents would let people die on the streets, and then some name-calling.
Do you really think health savings accounts and a less regulated healthcare industry would raise the quality of care? Price transparency is absolutely on point, but how, exactly, does he plan to do it? Once again, no facts, no policies, nothing concrete to back up his claim. Just a couple of chest-beating paragraphs on the free market, freedom, and making america great again.
blizzardice ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He is just blurting out whatever bullshit r/politics tells him to.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:22:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that people believe what you're PARROTING is the real problem.
Paulbo83 ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:34:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow you must get your news from fox or cnn. Maybe watch a debate for once. Half of the things you just said are stretched and the other half are absurd lies. He actually said he wants to fund planned parent hood. 0 percent corporate tax is what the Scandinavian countries do. Dont you wanna be like the scandanavian countries? And if you think a multi billionaire has a "dodgy business record" then you obviously have no idea anything about business or economics. Especially considering you just said the debt limit is a way to force policies. Please explain this. He said hes getting rid of shitty ass common core and building education. He has had the same tax plan for months. And you say "bankrupt so many companies". He bankrupt 4 companies of the 570 hes created. Which if you do the math, is a less than one percent failure rate. Meanwhile you have bernie who has passed 4 bills in his 50 years of being a senator. 4. His SUCCESS rate is less than a half a percent. that And he still made money off the bankruptcies. So even when he loses he still wins. Further more, you think trump is xenophobic for protecting american people from specifically radical islamic terrorism
HiImYury ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:05:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He doesn't want to tax the 1%, but I mean why would he? All his buddies would be pissed and probably stop inviting him to hangout on their yachts! C'mon we can't have that
hilldill84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does he even have any buddies left? So want to sleep all day tomorrow. My mother wants me to go to the rally he's going to be at in my town. Thinking that he's going to be within two miles of my house makes me vomit.
DeliveredByOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the international community has completely turned their backs on him, and if we elect him, the credibility of our nation severely plummets in the worldwide community. And that's dangerous.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey-oooo! Also Airplane Food, amiright?! What's the deal with airplane food anyway?
DjStankDaddyOF ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any candidate is better than Hillary.
ColonelSanders_1930 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I will vote for Trump.
Make America great again.
zgh5002 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why we have a system wherein the president is not a king or dictator. He would be a lame duck, one and done president. The only thing he might get done is an audit of the FED, but that would be pushing it. The House and the Senate would not work with him. You think what they did to Obama is bad? You wait.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 00:56:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul have different political views. Donald Trump is xenophobic and panders to fearful people.
obimk1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Study history and please find out what fascism is..
Watton ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, nothing bad about a candidate who wants to stop my other family members from legally entering into the country just because of their religion. Or a candidate who hesitated to denounce America's most well known hate group.
[deleted] ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 02:48:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mikey_says ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This shit isn't democracy. Superdelegates should be illegal. This election has already been bought by Hillary Clinton.
DrinkMuhRichCum ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He wants to build a wall! The world will end!
fratstache ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:44:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Low energy
GregoryEAllen ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe I had to scroll so far down to find President Trump. Have my meager up vote.
swannswann ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:44:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this would be much higher, to be honest. Have an upvote.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's funny because a lot of Canadians are starting to lean towards the idea that they are full and don't want any more lefties flooding into their country sized safe space.
Trickykids ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:45:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe Trump is this far down the list.
NocturnalGamer ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tied with the idea of Hillary possibly being in charge of the strongest super power in the world.
MoonMan420 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god shut the fuck up.
HiImYury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone needs to celebrate 420 on the moon, man.
AndrewJackingJihad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At this point I hope he gets elected so I can see shit go down both on the internet and in real life.
Heelmuut ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:35:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The president doesn't have as much power as people seem to think. All of his ridiculous propositions will be shut down in congress.
ezekiellake ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's ok - the precedent has been set. When dangerous bombastic lunatics have weapons of mass destruction we go for regime change.
Hench21 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:58:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You beat me to it :(
I got like halfway down this thread and was like, "No one played the Trump card yet?!" Guess I shoulda read it all.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:17:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Hilary Clinton for that matter.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:25:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, is he going to be in charge of China, Russia or the UK?
rmandraque ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:17:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Compared to everyone else before???
its_oliver ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:31:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it would actually be that bad. This guy if you actually look has no real policy ideas, he doesn't know the intricacies of how legislating works, and almost no one in congress likes him. Yeah he can trick blue collar workers into supporting him because of his quasi nationalist racists anti-PC campaign but that won't fly in the Senate, regardless of party.
To me, Ted Cruz is a much more frightening possibility.
platinum_jackson ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:17:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This shit is said every time some dumbass gets elected. People need to stop being pussies - the world won't end it didn't end when bush was president, Obama, and won't end if Trump gets in.
afoz345 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conversely, Hillary is just as terrifying. A lying criminal who should be in jail. Make no mistake, Trump is a psychopath, but Hillary is just a different side of the same coin.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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makemoney47 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:53:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
sonofmcleod ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 13:42:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about this? http://i.imgur.com/qOGyZ1X.jpg
emmyset23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:40 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THANK YOU SO MUCH! After being absolutely terrified by rabies, then having my heart shattered by an inoperable brain cancer in an 8 year old, that lifted my spirits a colossal amount. Thank you๐
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:00:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now that I own a house. My bank account hitting less than $800.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:31:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:07:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why false? LOL because your house costs more than mine in a shitty area and you have a kid? Sorry about your shitty life man. A shitty area would be any major city or outskirt.
thejensen_303 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:18:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easy there, tiger.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False because there are scarier things on Earth.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:23:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand that you get freaked out by things that aren't relevant to you like a picture of a giant spider in Australia. You may live in Europe or the US. If you do, just quit being a sissy bitch. Deal with it, I called you a bitch. Read my history, I'm a fat FAT FAT FAT asshole. Deal with it sissy man/girl. it's all the same nowdays. Or just LOL. Like me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I get freaked out by the things I ought to be freaked out by. And I live in Australia. I eat giant spiders for breakfast.
iccookies100 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:27:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Cordyseps unilateralis
It's the parasitic fungus that turns ants into zombies.
In The Last of Us this fungus becomes able to infect humans and starts the zombie apocalypse.
It's predominantly found in tropical forests but due to growing population growth and spread it might come into contact with humans, this would open up the possibility of it mutating and spreading to humans. This would lead to "zombies".
pharmaconaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lolol it's been in contact with people for thousands of years. It's traditionally used as a health food.
It will not mutate to feed on humans any time soon.
Also the ants don't cannibalize each other, they climb and spread spores. Mind control sure, but not really zombies.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:34:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Solitary confinement. After being completely secluded for so long, your mind basically falls apart and the things that you will experience are literally (yes literally) the worst possible things you can imagine.
1194js ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 04:51:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depression.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html?m=1
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html?m=1
unclebigbadd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:53:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife when she's pissed.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:07:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Emergent viruses, particularly influenza. Even though Ebola would have a difficult time rampaging through developed countries, there is always the risk of something newer, more contagious, and deadly coming along. SARS could have killed millions.
tacticoolmachinist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:59:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black holes. Solar events. Asteroids. Basically all of space.
spunknugget ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lampreys are the work of nightmares.
geoffreyjdavis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we are being truly honest? Poverty.
jdepps113 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Serial Killers.
They're real, they're as smart as you are, and you never know where one is. They could literally pop up and murder you at any vulnerable moment.
Yeah, they're rare. Thank God they're rare, because they're so goddamn awful.
You will now look behind you to make sure nobody's there, and so will I.
mellontree ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:46:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me husband is behind me.
Shit.
jdepps113 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's probably not a serial killer. Right? Probably.
sdvr1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:45:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was reading a sub regarding the creepiest things people have found out while hiking, and someone said their dog found what looked like a femur for a small human. Later that year in the area, they found the body of a child. Later they arrested the serial killer Robert Charles Brown. He was convicted of two murders but claimed over 48. Did not sleep well that night.
jdepps113 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:39 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always lock my doors and have weapons in my bedroom...just in case.
Piecesofthepuzzle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:33:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity.
Deadpool_irl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:34:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Four words "We need to talk"
guyver17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Had this recently. It's always awful
Dollamagnet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to sound cliche but Fear itself. Its amazing how much damage living in fear can do to the human soul and body.
SpetS15 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mankind
olseadog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you mean... man un-kind?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:37:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
acello ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was the Nazi Death Camps.
MidnightSun ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a parent, child predators.
clamdigger90 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just be sure to be way over-protective and paranoid all the time and they should be fine
symbi0nt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:14:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
antibiotic resistant bacteria - and it's not even the fact that this exists because that is fucking evolution... but it's scary 1.) that people deny evolution 2.) we are actively facilitating resistance by destroying our source of antibiotic r&d i.e tropical systems
Booyahkashah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking sinkholes
kilslef ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
deedeec ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deadly viruses that spread through the air.
LittleLilka ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:35:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, sinkholes.
misyo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:50:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysms. Suddenly, out of nowhere, instant death. No warning signs. No treatment. Just dead.
jayboy2456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But no suffering. I guess.
NecroGod ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is kind of how I see it.
thump
Then void time.
ReasonablyBadass ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:52:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bobbit worms
Fucking things bury in shallow water, get up to 3 meters long, attack by shooting forward and dragging prey under the sand and their toxin causes permanent nerve damage in humans.
tleb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
droopyheadliner ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:09:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain eating amoebas
nplayman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:22:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying alone.
gooberzilla2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:28:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cluster headaches, having headaches so bad you are incapacitated and causing pain to yourself to find some sort of relief.
KyStanto ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:08:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald J Trump could quite possibly be the next president of the united states
bigbez ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump may become the next President of the United States of America.
itinerant_gs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late to this, but even the slightest thought of losing my child is fucking crushing. I wouldn't know how to carry on. I'd feel guilt if I managed to move on into some sort of productive life, shame if I couldn't, and would seriously cease to function.
J_Ash7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:50:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
hammerdown12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
monkeymosh88 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:11:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate Change
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:13:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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WebtheWorldwide ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a disorder that has to be treated, not just condemned. It can be helped but like any other mental disorder is has to be recognized and "accepted" so that outing and treatment does not necessarily mean social isolation etc.
Pushing it back and automatically labeling people as criminals is not going to help anyone...
biiighead ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:14:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This presidential campaign.
Pixelbait ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:38:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sudden Infantile Death Syndrome. It's exactly what it sounds like
THORMUNZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:40:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean in prehistoric times. If I were to randomly wake up on a small remote island and like 15 min away swimming distance there's a bigger islands with more room and food and you can observe the whole island from where you are so there are no dinosaurs and the ocean in between those two islands is like a really deep canyon I'd stay on that little shit island
robhol ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans, easily and by a wide margin.
slicky_dickie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:51:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming...?
gnarcaster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:55:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
slicky_dickie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:20:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
chase_the_conqueror ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:12:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone super volcano
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald vs hillary, that is the scariest thing ever,murica is screwed
NemesisPrimev2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:21:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate Change.
Nuggg3t ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:21:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate Change!
coulditbehitler ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:22:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. We've known for a hundred years we're basically killing ourselves, but people have been getting rich of it, so nothing has been done. Now it's basically a coin toss whether civilization will collapse.
BadJuju8274 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:42:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've learned while taking bio medical core that the most toxic of toxins is Botulinum, my professor suggested that if u were to take a dime, then divide that dime into 1 billion tiny pieces, one piece of that 1 billion is enough to kill you. To answer anyone's questions, Botox yes is basically Botulinum however modified to not hold high pathogenicity. Why don't terrorists use this toxin? Simply because it's hard to do so, Botulinum doesn't work good as a gas as its effects become gradual and not instantaneous because of air entry, easily diluted in water, not as effective as a gun.
Just the fact that 1.3-1.4 nano grams can kill a human being is mind boggling. Keep in mind a red blood cell is measured in micro grams, micro > nano.
BreefJerky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how else could it kill you, if not airborne? Injected? If it touches your skin?
BadJuju8274 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone would have to inject it right into you close range, or splash some in your eyes, kinda hard to kill more than 1 person without the whole place panicking thus not a recommended bio terror route, actual nerve gas is probably better in this case, like sarin gas.
BreefJerky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:04:48 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, interesting!!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance. It might be getting better with education but the repeating behaviour doing stupid shit is really scary.
ShiftyJ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keanu Reeves
RBedlam ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:06:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scorpions. Nature has taken a wasp, a spider and a crab and stuck them all together.
Fuck you nature.
Vicous ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snuff films.
Dasneko ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:20:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Group mentality. What people are okey with doing when they are surrounded with other people is outright deplorable.
gazamcnulty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:33:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that if things go well you will either A- have to watch the love of your life die some day or B- you die first and leave your so all alone.
ExplosiveGonorrhea ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:44:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to say volcanoes. Mt. Rainier is going to fuck up a lot of shit when it explodes. In fact, some scientists believe that the eruption could be so massive that it might make St. Helens go also. Anyways, the pyrclostic blast and spewing lava... Terrifying! Every time I look at Mt Rainier, I think, "so pretty, so majestic.. It's going to kill me." Then I drink some beer and I don't worry so much. It's kind of become a problem.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ISIS and radical islam. It's like being at a medieval theme park but instead it's not a theme park but rather real life some 2k km away from me.
Mick_Stup ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
kingjoedirt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human brain. One wrong thing and you're fucked seven ways to Sunday.
enriceau ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:39:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump and the fact that he actually has a chance winning the elections.
LegoBeastiality ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:53:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death.
Lucifer_66 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:21:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student loans
Caridor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:30:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The idea that Donald Trump might become president.
And I say this as a Brit, living in Britain.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:33:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. The level of viciousness and cruelty we are capable of is astounding.
Oodalay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans in a desperate situation.
kevingp12 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. Anyone can catch it and it's killed millions already, and million more to come.
GermanTurdCake ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:14:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aneurysms.
TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"The blood from your whole body goes to your head, it stops there and never comes down. But soon, it will come out from you nose, your eyes, mouth and even your ears. Then you will die, painfully" - 'Johnny' / Kiss of the Dragon
DISCLAIMER: I'm never going anywhere near acupuncture needles. Fuck... That!
Soccergodd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trick question? Trump/Cruz/Hillary as potential presidents
fwambo42 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:21:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer.
trysten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life that is Death. Fucking terrifying.
ScarletEgret ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Governments.
They kill through warfare, through the death penalty, through police brutality, they torture people through solitary confinement and sexual abuse in prisons and elsewhere, they spy on virtually everyone, they kidnap children, strip search 13 year old students, watch 8 year olds writhe in pain from being handcuffed, and drag others from their seats, they forbid the poor from acting peacefully to make better lives for themselves, then imprison them for inability to pay fines, forbid people from feeding the homeless, and prevent people from charging affordable prices for their services, they have subjected human beings to experimental weapons testing, they have bombed buildings with children inside, killing the children and starting fires that leave scores of people homeless, they inflate the supply of money, which inflates prices, which also harms the poor...
One could go on forever. But the scariest part is, most people live with these institutions, and either are okay with them continuing to exist, or even support them. That, to me, is terrifying.
trysten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think that civilization can continue without systems of government?
TheTornJester ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course it can. Haven't you learned anything from The Walking Dead?
ScarletEgret ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:16 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know. I hope so.
I can paint a picture of how I imagine an anarchist society working, if you're interested.
I think people might be able to rely on arbitration and mediation to settle disputes. For relationships like employment, business partnerships, marriage, etc. people could write up a contract that provided terms for the specific parties to the contract to abide by. They could agree on the rules they would follow, agree ahead of time on an arbitrator or arbitration agency to go to in case of disputes, and agree on what would happen if they had a dispute and the arbitrator decided against one of them. Probably one of them would have to pay restitution.
For cases where you can't practically draw up a contract ahead of time between the specific individuals involved in a dispute, people could organize into small associations that each had their own rules for members to follow. Each member would sign a literal, real contract with the association, agreeing to abide by certain rules, and in exchange the other members would agree to abide by the same rules, and they would help protect each other when need be, and set up an arbitration system for club members to use when they had a dispute.
Members of different associations could use something like "conflict of law rules" to decide how to settle disputes between them, similarly for a dispute involving someone who didn't belong to any association. Today, if someone from Michigan steals a car from someone from Oregon while they're both in Hawaii and the case is somehow being tried in Alaska, they would have some conflict of law rules to determine what would happen, what laws they would apply, who had jurisdiction, etc.
The associations would be similar to this, with several specific differences. 1) Associations would not need to be geographically based, and often wouldn't be. I could live next door to a member of a different association from myself, and if I wanted to, I could call up my current association and end my contract with them, without the need to move halfway across a continent afterwards. I may not even have to move at all, I could switch from one group to another, or start my own, all while living in the same place. Thus, people living in the same geographical area could have different "law codes", and arbitration systems, to choose from in resolving their disputes.
2) I imagine people having the ability to "contract around" the rules of their association. Two people who wanted to draw up a contract dealing with just the two of them specifically could opt out of specific club rules in their relationship, while still being subject to those rules in other cases.
3) Different associations could be run in different ways, but for me I think I would like to be a part of one that was small, (e.g. a few hundred to a few thousand people,) and run with a direct democracy. My contract with the association would serve the role of a constitution, guaranteeing to me that the other members couldn't vote to kill me and harvest my organs or what have you, while within certain limits members could decide on the rules they wanted to follow in their interactions with each other. Where today the constitution in the U.S. is, practically speaking, whatever the Supreme Court says it is, with an association like this I could actually be bound by rules I had consented to follow, and if my association went crazy, trying to institute victimless crimes or economic interventions or what-have-you, I would have a much stronger voice through a direct democracy in a small group than in the current U.S. representative system, and I could opt out by contracting around those rules, or if need be quitting my association entirely and joining a different one or organizing a new one with like-minded people.
4) Since I would have a real, literal contract with my association, the contract could specify my obligations towards other members, and their obligations towards me, ensuring reciprocity in our relationship and laying things out in a way I, and others, could actually understand.
The associations could handle disputes involving relatively simple offenses, rape, murder, theft, arson, assault, things like that, while for complicated relationships the specific parties involved could draw up a contract dealing with their specific situation and meeting their specific needs.
Penalties for offenders could involve payment of restitution to victims, or, in the case of murder, to the victim's family or someone else specified in the victim's will. People could enforce the decisions of arbitrators by boycotting those who refused to cooperate. If and when someone posed a demonstrable, ongoing threat to others' physical safety, they could be exiled, placed under house arrest, or imprisoned, but I think anarchists could get away with letting the offender choose their place of confinement, (albeit from a limited number of options,) and, beyond keeping them well enough restrained to stop them from wandering out and chopping people into pieces with a chainsaw, we could let them go about their lives as they wished. I don't think we would need routine strip searches, or solitary confinement, or isolation from the outside world through refusing to allow them visitors or communication, etc. Keep them inside, but otherwise leave them alone.
And now I have written a terribly lengthy comment. Kudos to you if you read it all.
Maybe everything I just described wouldn't work. Maybe anarchists could come up with something different from what I have described, or maybe anarchy can never work in a large scale industrial society at all. Maybe this system would end up being just as inhumane as the present one. I don't know.
But I hope that enough people can care enough to want to try something different. At least we could experiment with different ideas, instead of letting governments as they currently exist keep on.
Right now I have just described a cute science fiction scenario. Presenting and analyzing the empirical evidence necessary to make all this somewhat plausible would take a much longer comment. (Or a study or a book, or more.)
But I can provide a few sources. I don't expect people to try the system I described above anytime soon, if ever, but I would like to live in an intentional community one day. We know that groups around Dunbar's number, 150 people or so, can live peacefully without government. I like the examples of the Modern Times and Slab City communities. That could probably be good enough for me, even if it couldn't work on a larger scale.
Some other sources:
Gullah Island Dispute Resolution: A Case of Afrocentric Restorative Justice, by Morris Jenkins, Journal of Black Studies. Details a group of communities that settled disputes through mediation, of various forms. One community, at least, had a jail, and they used corporal punishment against children, (spanking,) but it sounds like their jail was a temporary place to keep people before they could mediate a dispute, I don't think they had long-term prison sentences. And I would just have to rely on other evidence in favor of peaceful parenting.
An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism, by Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill and Reciprocal Exchange as the Basis for Recognition of Law: Examples from American History, by Bruce Benson both detail examples of organizations from the American Old West that looked a bit like the associations I imagined above. The mining camps, in particular. Both articles also refute the image from fiction stories of the Old West as a bastion of violence, showing that social order and peaceful relations could exist in quasi-anarchic communities.
How Important is State Enforcement for Trade?, by Peter Leeson, discusses arbitration and contractual enforcement in modern international trade, and provides evidence that, without government enforcement, people could still settle their disputes through arbitration.
I hope you found something of interest to you in all of this... And I'm sorry for such a long comment. But even with all this I'm not sure I've provided an adequate answer.
Feel free to ask questions, criticize, send hatemail, whatever. I can provide more resources if you want, but I don't know how interested you are in these ideas.
Thanks for reading. Peace to you.
trysten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:41 on March 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've read this several times since you posted. Thank you for an in-depth look at your ideas and ideals. While I do have some comments, I fear that any response I might offer simply won't match the word count of your post .^
Keep an open mind, friend!
ScarletEgret ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:25 on March 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I'm glad you got something out of my post.
I do tend to make my comments too lengthy. I'm curious what thoughts you had, regardless of the length of any reply you give, but I am glad that you found the ideas interesting whether or not you want to comment in detail. And I am glad that you took the time to read and think about the ideas, as well.
I shall certainly try to keep an open mind, as I expect you will as well. And I shall try to keep learning. Peace to you, friend!
Turbosuperfastlaser1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:31:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either when your mother says "wait for your father to get home."
Or
When your girl says "we need to talk."
Mcginnis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:45:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That there's a good chance that the next president of the United States could be a matter of choosing between Hillary and Trump.
Godders2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:17 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Hands down. Looking at the statistics of what horrific shit we've done; Agent Smith was right.
ryukasagi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people. Nothing will fuck you up as much as a human.
aeschenkarnos ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:35:39 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mosul Dam. Apparently it has always been a shitshow of a dam, only surviving due to constant maintenance. Enter the orcish horde, otherwise known as ISIS. They have no interest in doing any maintenance. They're not even interested in letting it happen without interference. So of course it's now way behind on maintenance, and will probably collapse and kill a million people.
Xx69xX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:54:53 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deez nutz
nimbusdimbus ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop Bears. You're just walking around minding your own business and the next thing you know, your throat is ripped out.
Multiscoop ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It amazes me that the Australian government doesn't warn travellers. It's like they WANT them to get eaten alive.
CMLMinton ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tourism is big in Australia. I get why they don't warn people of drop bears, but the active way they deny their existence is fucking immoral. There are native Australians who don't know of their existence and full capabilities.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:44:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is why I google things.
Dr-Zeuss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Drop Bear, Thylarctos plummetus, is a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the Koala. - See more at: http://australianmuseum.net.au/drop-bear
sfoxx ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 23:26:33 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loans.
HiImYury ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:36:54 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For business loans, could make or break your business. For personal finances, could increase your quality of living but will most likely make you not sleep at night.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
An7hrax ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:56:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a toss up between snakes and Donald Trump..
dieterpaleo ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:47:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The power of religion and how it makes people do the stupidest shit ever.
sodakid1919 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:24:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its all in the power of belief. From a certain perspective its not a stretch to say people "worship" money. To add on to that, think about the scraps of paper with numbers on them sitting in your wallet. Because people believe they represent power, they are willing to kill for it quite often, or at the very least spend massive portions of their life trying to do what ever can get them more of it.
iamaninja777 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think what's scarier is the human brain; driving people to be extreme in their beliefs (on any subject for that matter) without them even noticing the change...
aqf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drug addiction, based on another Reddit post I just read.
JGatz7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
However getting to the other end of it gives you some crazy stories.
Also, it gets you hella laid.
Source: almost 7 months clean
HeavyUnderwear ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that one day everyone who commented on this reddit thread or viewed it would be dead.
Daveleeog ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:21:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was nice knowing you, brother
FettyTeaz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:50:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 'what if' thought of horses being carnivores
firematt422 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 13:04:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States of America.
Knight-in-Gale ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 23:21:08 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change Deniers.
UzukiCheverie ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:16:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Add to that, Anti-Vaxxer's (or whatever people call them). What the fuck do they think they have to thank for the eradication of polio?
fastr1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:18:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flat earth believers.
sarasublimely ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They seem harmless really. Stupid. But harmless.
seefatchai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:22:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Needs to be higher up. People who can't deal with the idea that the whole system we have is wrong and that they personally are contributing to it.
Also, people who believe it is a problem yet aren't even trying and engaging in conspicuous consumption. Maybe it's too much to expect people to go vegetarian, but it actually takes less work to NOT go on vacation or NOT buy things you don't need.
It does take systemic policy changes and personal consumption can be a distraction. However, if people managed to find lower-energy ways of being happy, the adjustment required by forced social changes won't be so bad.
Many liberals are also climate change deniers in this respect.
jjonj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh... At least none of them are running for president of the most powerful nation in the world or anything.
Shazarae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heavily underrated comment.
Dank_Cheney ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything's OK
SkyBurner41 ยท -29 points ยท Posted at 00:44:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean critical thinkers?
AemonTheDragonite ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 02:21:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
The critical thinkers are the ones who put the actual work into the study of climate science.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 00:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, he means climate change deniers. To deny climate change is completely retarded.
Jess52 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:08:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I consider myself conservative on a lot of issues like health insurance gun control, and welfare, but if there is one thing that pisses me off about them is the denying of climate change. I'm a forestry major and I love trees and it makes me so sad that people don't want to protect them
blizzardice ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 03:58:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fine but those are two different things. Saying "I like trees" has nothing to do with saying "Climate change is real". You do know that volcanoes have been a factor for the change in climate in the past, right? I think the people who claim that others don't believe in climate change are possibly spinning the "denier's" statements to fit a narrative.
Personally, I'm sure it is happening. Climate change is ALWAYS happening. I don't believe man is fully to blame. And the fact that people think they can stop the Earth's environment from changing is ludicrous. There are so many factors that change it. That doesn't mean I like pollution. I'm against pollution. I recycle metals all the time. I also love to fish and hunt, so picking up trash that isn't mine may be something that happens when I'm out in the woods or lakes. I just don't give into the "green" companies doing the same shit that people have been complaining that the oil companies have been doing. I'm also not sold by that 97 percent scientist report of which you can google how they found errors in.
Jess52 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 11:50:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trees are the second largest producer of O2 behind algae. They remove most of the CO2 we produce and by huge deforestation in central America and the African coast we are removing one of the few things that removes greenhouse gases naturally. So yes saying I love trees and climate change is real go hand in hand. We are losing forest in South America at a rate of 9% per year. And in Africa at 11% per year. Without trees and forest climate change will happen faster than it already is.
mrsuns10 ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 03:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate does change but to think that we are responsible for climate changing in a very fast amount of time is very non-believable to me
Haoleopteryx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
What evidence do you have that the greenhouse effect doesn't exist?
Kazaril ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blindly holding to a position in the face of overwhelming evidence against it is like the exact opposite of critical thinking.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:45:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False.
girlfriend_pregnant ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:17:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
drumpf
spartan1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kek
Secretagentx ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Butnorp ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conor McGregor
jonobate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:16:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This plant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
TylrBrwn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:50:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Artificial Intelligence research
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:32:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop Bears
mars1138 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
StealthDropBear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stay right there. On the way.
Carson369 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:56:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf becoming my country's King.
Auralux_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
makedonalddrumpfagain
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:32:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 12 years sober and have been around the AA / NA / Rehab world the entire time. As a result, I've known A LOT of people - especially heroine addicts - who have clinically died before being resuscitated. All of them say the same devastating thing - There is no life after death. There is no light. There is no heaven....no hell. There is nothing. NOTHING. You are simply.....gone.
We have one chance - One chance to live our lives right. Our time here and the right to own it is no different than the ant's life you ended on your way to class or work today. There is nothing more terrifying to me.
apophis-pegasus ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 03:40:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But, are they really dead though? Their brain was still functioning, wasnt it?
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They weren't forming memories or having experiences. Might as well be death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
apophis-pegasus ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:43:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, because they were unconcious. Thats a sight different to death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:26:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the same as death in that there's no experience. I agree that if there is some kind of soul, then being biologically alive but unconscious wouldn't necessarily disprove it. A more interesting question is, when we eventually develop the ability to bring back cryonic patients, do you think they'll have anything to tell us about an afterlife?
apophis-pegasus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By that logic, isnt sleep like death?
I doubt it, personally.
K1ngN0thing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dreamless sleep, yes.
I also doubt it, but something tells me even that's not going to put a nail in the belief in a soul's coffin. People will just move the goalpost, saying god knew they were going to be brought back, and therefore didn't show them heaven, or something.
apophis-pegasus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet, even then the accuracy in the comparison to death is only from a certain perspective.
What makes you think it would? The person is not dead. Their brain is fully functional. The only thing they were "brought back" from was artificial sleep, why would anyone expect visions of the afterlife? Most believers in the soul nowdays arent shamanistic, they likely dont believe in "spirit trances" etc. They believe that the soul only experiences things after actual death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't consider those currently cryonically preserved to be dead? I guess it depends on how you define death. Clinically dead, yes, but I guess you're talking more about information death, which (hopefully) has remained in tact. I guess one could argue that the soul is only "released" once this informational structure is completely dismantled.
apophis-pegasus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there brain activity? If so, then no. Is there any reason why should I consider anything less death?
The irreversible termination of life sustaining biological functions (given that only brain death is irreversible, then brain death is the only valid type of "death")
Just an aside, heart stoppage used to be considered irreversible which is why it is called clinical death, and not "death" death. Its like the difference between legal blindness and actual blindness.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
mindfulwolf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I respectfully disagree with the notion that someone who overdosed holds the truth to one of the greatest questions of our existence. It is not that they overdosed that makes me disbelieve it, but that they were not truly dead. Conversely, there are countless cases of people having confirmed OBE's. So experiences differ, but that doesn't give us the information necessary to draw such a sweeping conclusion about such an important question.
K1ngN0thing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'll eventually be able to bring back cryonic patients. Do you think they'll have anything to tell us?
mindfulwolf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's currently nothing to empirically validate the statement that we'll be able to bring back cryonically frozen patients. The entire (very expensive) process hinges on the yet unsubstantiated reasoning that successful technology is simply a matter of time. And its success does not simply depend upon reanimating someone's frozen corpse, but possessing an array of other nano technologies to cure and ward off various diseases.
It is totally unprecedented, and therefore we have no way of knowing. If they do, or if they don't - either way, it will have some profound philosophical and theological implications.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:04 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a good point.
purplepenguinpants ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:07:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oddly enough I find that very comforting. We have no way to know if the particular religion we follow is the one. How can we be sure whatever believe is not just pissing whatever being that might be out there off. It's a total crap shoot. If there's nothing after this some of us are a lot better off.
cuntweiner ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:55:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's ok to fornicate now. Someone make the announcement.
purplepenguinpants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it's not we're all fucked anyway.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 04:41:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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flame_in_darkness ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:14:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to believe that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This will convince literally nobody.
The fact that the clinically dead drug addicts had nothing to say about life after death does not prove anything either way.
You're denying the resurrection of the body by saying "only this body we currently live in", as if we're ghosts in shells, which means you don't even pass the most basic litmus test of Christian orthodoxy.
lordcirth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Proof?
IsThereAnAshtray ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah man death is still spooky
MRoad ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:10:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:57:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta love the infamous BRRRT
sdvr1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Merica!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:54:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Those things are fucking terrifying.
A7X4REVer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:48:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once saw a video of a guy in the Middle East getting executed with a .50BMG machine gun mounted on a technical. I mean, fucking seriously? Couldn't just hang him? Or put a clean single 9mm round through the head? No, they had to (and I'm not exaggerating here) blow his whole damn head off with a fucking high power machine gun. Simply because they could!
Humans absolutely are, without a doubt, the most terrifying things on this planet.
bigvarg21 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:43:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Read about necklacing. It'll back up your thoughts about humans being terrible
Thursday_Dark ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:24:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Us.
dnomirraf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats pretty disturbing, but it did miss out that if we lack the speed required, or strength to hunt, we bend the will of other animals to help us hunt.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 02:49:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming... As a natural resources major in college it's scary to see how fast this planet is going to shit (climate wise) and the common person doesn't care enough to change their ways to fix it. It's scary what's going to happen.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it really is a scary thought. People just don't want to believe it.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow they told you in nature resource courses that the world is running out of resources? crazy.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For example. Here is one of those people..
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Environmentalists are some if the least environmentally friendly people out there. I believe in climate change.... I also believe that lost of the current environmentalism is idiotic
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please elaborate. I'd like to know how environmentalists are the least environmentally friendly people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:40:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you actually, or do you want another post to downvote? (not that i really care)
People dont care about the environment. They care about what benefits them personally. You too: if climate changed was assured to not endanger you or your progeny or anything you cared about, you wouldnt care either.
Enviromentalism is predicated on making people believe that adverse effects of pollutants and whatnot effect them personally. Which makes sense: thats the only way they can get people to change. In that sense, I support enviromentalism.
What I DONT support is environmentalism (TM), the movement that turns fear of climate change into personal gain. That is what modern environmentalists are... people who would hurt the potential for real change to fullfill their own pet projects.
Every time I see a prius, I don't think about the owner saving the world. I think about the owner being swayed by a lobbying group that secures hundreds of millions of dollars from teh government to produce cars that need to be driven for 15+ years to become economically efficient, even with the subsidies. Cars that have batteries which, when accounted for their production and disposal, offeset any good the "clean" running car creates. It would be exponentially better for the enviroment to take the 20k you are spending extra for your prius and plant trees with it, or donate it to those less fortunate (people who have real need now).
Environmentalists would have you believe that it is "evil" to allow tribes in sub-Saharan africa hunting rights to white rhinos, lions, etc. But what we see is that when the tribes have more "skin in the game", they make much stronger efforts to protect wildlife than when they get no value from wildlife protection.
Environmentalists would have you believe that any litter is wrong, and that and company that polutes a river should immediately be shut down. But a more nuanced approach would show that there is an optimal amount of anything in the world, including pollution. (I can prove it to you very simply: would you spend an hour cleaning a pond if it was 50 percent oil? (probably yes) 30% (maybe yes) .000001%? (absolutely not). so we know the optimal amount for you is between .000001 and 30%.)
Environmentalists would have you believe eating local is good for the environment (it isnt: any economist will tell you the benefits of eating locally are offset 100 times by the reduced efficiency of the practice)
Environmentalists would have you believe wearing leather shoes is evil, when in reality it might be the most sustainable material we have, considering the alternatives are mostly derived from oils.
Environmentalists would have you believe that nalgenes are good for the enviroment because they save you from having to use pixi cups or whatnot to hold water, when in actuality you would need to use hundreds of those same cups to come close to the the damage creating and disposing of a nalgene creates (not to mention, the original nalgenes had BPA ad all had to be thrown out... hardly environmentally friendly).
I have so many more. Look, I care about the environment. I am also just realistic in looking at the costs and benefits of projects that are often thrown at me under the guise of environmentalism which are little more than self serving cronyism. (take for example, solyndra). If you want to do real good, how you (environmentalists, not you in general) take that 20 bucks extra you are spending on "organic" produce and buy pasta for your local soup kitchen. They could use the money much more than billionaires like elon musk.
Modern climate change is merely a pricing problem: the price of pollution is too low, and production of goods often misses externalities like pollution in product cost. A true "environmentalist" would push cap and trade or carbon taxes over any of the other supposed modern environmental solutions, and wouldnt have to scare you with drowning polar bears and imminent ozone disasters (which, by the most recent looks of it, appear to be fixing themselves much faster than "anticipated") to do it.
I can provide references for any of the above examples when I get off work.
Calcdave ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:38:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But in the end, the scariest thing turned out to be ourselves...
TrollingPanda-_- ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton. No seriously, do you realize how much power that woman has? Its terryifying. Inevery honesty poll she has at least 80% of people saying she is dishonest but yet people are still voting for her. She has a whole nation brainwashed, and if she surrounded her self with the right people I could bet that she would be able to do what Hitler couldnt fathom. Am I comparing her to Hilter? No but she has way to much power to her disposal. For christ's sake vote for bernie sanders over her at least he is trustworthy. I dont really care for the democrats, I would like to go in Cruz control so this might sound biased, but if you look at all of the scandals and shennanigans she has gotten away with you would wonder how she is not in prison yet. This is what happens when a political figure becomes too powerful and rich.
Baloncesto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:22:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you overestimate the power the President has. I'm not disagreeing with you - you make some valid points - but her being in the White House isn't going to mean the end of the world tomorrow. There are checks and balances, and the President has a remarkably-low amount of power for a chief executive. So take a breather!
TrollingPanda-_- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean I know that the president has so many limitations, but look at all the rules she has broken and gotten away with or thrown other people under the bus! I just think ok if she gets away with all of that what stops her from doing it all if she is president?
Baloncesto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a different story. Her potential policies will have to go through Congress before being enacted, so there's that filter. And in regards to past issues - a different topic - she hasn't gotten away with it yet. Just because she's not rotting in Leavenworth right know doesn't mean she won't be.
TrollingPanda-_- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea I know she hasnt gotten away with the emails yet, but things like Bhengazi, she is probably in the clear with whatever she did. I am just dissapointed that this what pur country has come to, and donald trump is not much better, its pretty much just picking the lesser of the 2 evils right now.
Baloncesto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:00 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, I agree. I'm not a huge Clinton fan myself, but if it's between her and Trump, I'd choose her.
jdkon ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:22:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald drumpf
This_Weeb_Luvs_Rice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
RebelHydra ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Kardashians and their 'Fame'
Tsquare43 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact the there are lost Nukes out there.
Blackashgallow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
MystericWonder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radioactive waste, especially all that shit in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
sapeetapottus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russians.
If I'm alone walking at night and walk past a black guy, I'm okay. If I see a middle-eastern guy in public with a bookbag, I'm okay. Tell me you're Russian and I'm getting the fuck out.
Source: mom is from Russian.
sarcastroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EMP
The idea of a single rogue group setting off a single nuke and killing hundreds of millions is fucking terrifying.
If coordinated then even a small number would set billions into the stone age, which we can't survive.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HEMP is the second scariest thing to me. 1st is viruses/bio-weapons.
MagicMoogle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hemp is also weed =/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, High altitude emps. 3 to 5 of them would send north america into the dark ages.
VerenajFraser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:02:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Piss in death's mouth
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IDoneBeenHadGifts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:03:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Seriously, they cause all sorts of problems, they are great at lying, and they are all very self focused.
There's nothing more scary than people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW. People like Ed Geins.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dmt
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
one of the most intense experiences humans can achieve, but the trip only lasts 5 minutes, you believe you're dead but your heartbeat Is the only thing that keeps your last grasp on reality, after you wake back up from the trip you realize how dull reality is
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not actually "scary" when you're on your journey. Every person on the planet should have to do dmt once a year. There would be no more wars.
gwalker4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:40:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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Chooseday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:10:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. We can literally destroy almost everything.
ibbolia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's quitter talk
AuntBettysNutButter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons.
Ashenzaw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:38:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
craftysapien ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reality
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's why I vote Trump. He will make anime real.
barry_you_asshole ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i'd have to say Alzheimer's
lotekjeromuco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:55:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Child rape. Millions of children in poverty earning for a living sice 7-8 years by selling their bodies to mainly wester tourist pedophiles.
thebluezoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The inevitability of our own death and the deaths of everyone we know and love.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fight for everyone
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A politician.
GeebusNZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:04:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the most technologically advanced species on the planet does in the name of instinctive behavior.
youraveragedude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Box jellyfish
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the scariest possible thing now is that gene editing tech that came out recently. I mean, who knows what could happen if that CRISPR thing could get into the wrong hands...
Miv333 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super Volcanos
ozymandias737 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YES
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:23:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I came here for this. Mainly the one in the north west
coalminnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human mind.
Piercethemadlyn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
Keepitsecretsafe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to say humans; we're self aware and yet will stick to self destruction and terrible acts based on a few emotions such as greed and anger. Utopia? Nope, let's just use and pollute our world and environment and have other guilable people kill each other to distract themselves while we do it.
ozymandias737 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/10/science.spain
brothergrims ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans, I checked to see if this obvious answer was here, but I'm on a phone so, but yeah, flat out the thing on earth that has done the most to terrify me are humans. Kinda sucks really. I'm not some "I hate people " person but I'm more afraid of them, humans, nut jobs with guns, bombs, missiles, poisons, hell even our companies that make us stuff inadvertently try to kill us with chemicals, pollute our water, poison the air. Yup it's people.
arielncz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quicksand
gumbydude ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes have got to be up there
Vslacha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria Fowleri, everybody's favorite brain-eating amoeba!
DoubleJesusPower ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a man? Fucking heart disease, yo.
Dg_reddit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia - I wouldn't want to live if I had voices in my head.
Timrothsdad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Space
artrag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink holes
bulldogdiver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The yellowstone caldera - built in extinction event and it's been getting more active...
Cyhn0X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes.
Miss_Lonelyhearts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The limitless depths of human greed and malice.
suckfail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
No cure as it's just proteins, it's not a virus or bacteria.. most common (in animals) is mad cow disease.
rainbowgodslayer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fight it
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Strings_to_be_pulled ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing the ones you love.
wasabi_monster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
handsshaking ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Dynexx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
drwatkins9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either bot flies, or kangaroos. Kangaroos will fuck you up.
Tritiac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really scary? The Yellowstone Caldera. It could wipe out half of the US in no time at all. And then the rest of the world shortly after.
mylifebelikelawl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be a shame.
Hibria ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sea.
Ardinius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings.
Slim7777 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans..
rsgrrt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
lcmiracle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You and me. It's you and me.
Attackd09z ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The volcano under Yellowstone
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The various slumbering supervolcanoes. If one blows; it's bye bye humanity and other warmbloedige species, well most of them anyway.
Stringskip ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:59:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Volcanoes or volcanic ash clouds. Fucking terrifying.
hooray_for_dead_cops ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna side with Sartre and say people.
PAC-MAN- ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't consider that satire...
2thousand15 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean
Voidrith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a thalassaphobe... yes.
Professa333 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:02:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lesch-Nyhan disease. Think of it like Huntingtons or Tourettes, but instead of losing motion control or verbal control you can't help but self-mutilate yourself and you feel everything.
barkingspider05 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Savants. They really highlight the true abilities of the human brain. They also show us how very little we do understand about how the brain works. Between the guy who does math problems by seeing blobs form into shapes and the guy who can fly over a city and then draw the whole thing from memory just boggles my mind.
do_u_realize ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
our own eventual deaths
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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bntt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Idiotic_learner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:02:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rage against it
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change, bee extinction, greed.
Aleski ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
OodalollyOodalolly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has anybody said sinkholes yet? SINKHOLES
DonkeyTeethKP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:14:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. That shit creeps me out just because of how vast and lifeless is really is
cameljocky26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean is full of life, that it is place where life supposedly began.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DonkeyTeethKP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, if you go to the deeper parts of the ocean there actually isnt that much life there. You are not gonna find dolphins in the middle of the Atlantic. Most of the life is close-ish to the shore and the sea floor.
Sajintmm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep ocean
slick_bridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Abyss. Great movie
supremeb0101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Gurlurdo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being bitten by a rabid animal. Long story short the most agonizing and dehumanizing assured way of dying.
Rabies is the single most terrifying disease that will torment you for a couple of days and will result in assured death... not to mention, turning you into a zombie-like state.... Oh and the hydrophobia from rabies, imagine being afraid of water, the sight of water, the sound of water... Only a handful of known survivors ... well ... braindead people ... after being put into a chemical induced coma (Milwaukee protocol).
Cproo12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depression and anxiety are the two scariest things I have experienced so far.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super volcano
GenXer1977 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My body breaking down to where I'm permanently bed ridden but my mind is perfectly intact and aware.
glowjob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
Romansdp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:21:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just gonna go ahead and say it...Donald Trump
Twirphobo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming and Climate Change
padaliarushabh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:28:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying before we reach the technology to live forever.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hang in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:53:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
time to go 90% vegan and workout consistently :DD
wow_looksgreat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:29:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
Manyor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dark.
RNAVA22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
student loans and adult responsibilities
secret_ninja2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
kamikaze_red ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying alone.... ahhh depression
busterbrown89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a really good question that we dont have the definitive answer to; as is with most good questions. My answer tends to lean towards ignorance for now but as soon as i see that scary creature up close ill just have to keep wondering.
mauradoyle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
OrganizationZodiac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:33:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people.
RCILDMAN2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis (sleeping disorder) not REM ATONIA
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupidity.
Fennec_Murder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:37:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its a list so:
-Dying of mad cow disease, fucking way to go. - A nearby star going supernova. Could happen any moment, no way to know - Donald Trump - If 10% of global population get sick, all nuke central will go critical due to lack of qualified labor -Flesh eating virus
VOZ1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
They're not bacteria. They're not viruses. They're not organisms or living things in any way. They are simply misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to misfold in the same way. They will absolutely destroy your brain--or any creature's brain--and there is nothing we can do to stop them. Oh, and they're sorta contagious. And can be spread by aerosols. And they may be behind a number of neurodegenerative diseases. They're terrifying.
dongusman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
Brinsley2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness.
missbookazoo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SIDS: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It just happens, no warning.
BabyWugglez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Solitary confinement
Randomcommenter550 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Necrotizing fasciitis. By far the scariest thing that could happen to you, especially since it is becoming antibiotic resistant so rapidly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotizing_fasciitis
Pidgeot_Evolved ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:44:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super-volcanos are pretty terrifying. Especially if you live anywhere around the ring of fire.
teaching-man ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings. They are too smart for their own good.
SketchBoard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But not wise enough
Bladley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:47:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
PleaseSayPizza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:48:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest thing on earth is the implication of artificial intelligence. What makes this subject so scary is that it's an inevitability.
guyver17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have no mouth but must scream?
ZeronicX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions, its this small organism that causes mental deficiencies that are difficult to kill,
Prions are rare though, only happening in a literal one-in-a-million
Trademen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:50:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That a democratically elected government, in a first world nation, has let a certain cult (rhymes with pientology) kidnap people and put them into 'rehabilitation centers' where they are not permitted to have any contact with the outside world. Cops do nothing, governments do nothing. No one does anything. They could knock on your door tomorrow and scoop you up, and no swat team would come knock down the door to get you out, no hostage negotiator would handle getting you home. You'd be there until they didn't want you to be.
That is scary.
sops-sierra-19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rabbit hole goes deeper, Alice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_controversies
---ShineyHiney--- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stubbing your pinky toe
burritocurse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did it twice tonite.
markevens ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human's ability to change our entire planet's ecosystem in destructive ways and simultaneously not give a fuck.
godofgainz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overpopulation
fronko99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:58:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
TypicalCricket ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dieing alone.
sexy_fuzzyface ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes.
Redgen87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:06:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might have been said already but a meteor hitting earth to the extent that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater did.
It's possible that it could happen and it would pretty much extinct most of us.
relaxok ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Box Jellyfish.
noodleslip ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer.
ChipAyten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:12:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just going to live in a glass sphere ftom now on after this thread
RingtailRuffian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans!
I know, I know, 2edgy4u. But for real.
_Litespeed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lampreys
__RNGesus__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably prions. Don't google it. Just take my word for it. You'll sleep easier without this knowledge
Renzulli ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death.
chisav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being trapped in a coma being fully aware but unable to do anything.
Gmajj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is horrible! My husband had cancer, and wasn't comatose, but couldn't communicate except by blinking. Just before it got that bad, I told my daughter that I didn't know if his facial expressions were involuntary, or from pain. He managed to move one finger to swish on the sheet to tell me he was hurting. God, I hate myself for not getting that earlier, or asking for stronger meds. That was 12 years ago, and I still second guess myself.
chisav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely not your fault. I'm sure you did all you could. Don't beat yourself up about it. But yeah, sometimes I think about scenarios like that and I don't know how anyone could go through that.
IAcewingI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
wolfsuit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diseases like ALS.
DaddyTorres ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying slowly due to respitory disease. One slow hard breathe at a time knowing the inevitable that you'll suffocate to death. Asthma and severe allergy sufferer here. Some nights the wheezing is terrifying.
loqi0238 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If most people are being honest, death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's that whole Terror Management thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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Oprahs_Diarrhea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus)
Basically a bacteria that can fight off most of the antibiotics available today.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Schizophrenia deserves a mention
JC_tiggr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:30:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions. There's no cure for them and they most likely will kill you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck Prions
tigerstorms ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:35:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stuff that isn't on our earth like getting hit by a meteorite. No not the planet killers, just something small enough to take out 2-3 cars on a freeway that I happen to take on the way home. We get small ones every so often one makes it to the ground.
jaxmanf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human race.
PolishPeopleAreGross ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness/loneliness.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurism
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surpassed only by alligators and crocodiles.
FF13LightningReturns ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:43:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death
K1ngN0thing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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Beejsterb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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Bycatania ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
primehacman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me, probably sleep paralysis. The stories I've heard of what you see and experience because of make it sounds like a punishment from hell itself.
I'm not one to advocate suicide, but if that's the shit you have to deal with every time you sleep, I'd probably buy the bullet for you.
NecroGod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, it's happened to me like 3 times. One time was no big deal, couldn't move.
One time I saw two glowing red eyes staring back at me and I couldn't move.
The last time it happened there was a small girl standing at the foot of my bed and a man standing in the doorway I didn't know.
Each time it happened I realized what was going on when I couldn't move so I knew I had to be hallucinating and I just relaxed until I could move again.
HanSoloHere ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink holes bruh, sink holes. They can happen anywhere at any time. Imagine sleeping in your bed and waking up as you are falling down a bottomless hole ...... Bruhhh
jayboy2456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bruh. Yah. That's scary.
faithfamilyfootball ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:53:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep sea. We know so little... there is shit down there make great whites look like guppies and we know nothing about them.
ThirdFloorNorth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nerve gas.
Depending on the type, takes literally the tiniest imaginable ammount (.2mg or less) to kill you, in the most horrific way possible.
Many remain on surfaces, were DESIGNED to remain on surfaces, indefinitely, rendering a zone completely uninhabitable, and will happily leech into the soil, the water.
People are scared of nukes. That's fine. But a nuke is just a big bastard of an explosion with some radiation.
People are scared of biological weapons. I am too, sure, they are the most likely candidate to wipe out the entire human civilization. Self-replicating bastards designed solely to kill humans efficiently? Sure, terrifying. They should be on this list.
But something about just the TINY amount of nerve gas it takes to kill you, how RAPIDLY it kills you, how terrifyingly it kills you, the built in persistence, the fact that it isn't just limited to humans, the lack of warning...
Reminds me of that scene from The Sacrament. You know the one, where the girl injects her brother while he's helpless... God that scene made me ill. Same feeling I get from thinking about nerve gas.
klrmann123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Its-Julz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Its seriously so crazy how someone can do something as awful as murder or torture or rape or anything like that and have absolutely no empathy or regret. It freaks me out
deterministic_guy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death?
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
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green_meklar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dimethyl mercury has gotta be near the top of the list.
jayboy2456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn. Yeah that is scary!
Swissmiss1988 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
vinylhedgehog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cluster headaches.
malosaires ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human capacity to rationalize inflicting suffering on others.
oldskoolpleb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deepest most undiscovered parts of the earth, be it oceans or mountains . I honestly still dream of amazing animals living there (but I might have read to much Lost World)
aazav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sniper volcanos
TheMadmanAndre ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:25:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a Supervolcano beneath Yellowstone Park.
The last time it erupted it buried most of North America under 5 meters of volcanic ash.
jayboy2456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's up there for sure.
BtheDestryr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty terrified of Alzheimer's. To think that one day, everything you've ever done or learned would just slowly stop existing to you and you wouldn't even know it's gone... Ugh
cil0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate Change.
ABearYour ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ocean.
slapnoodle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tsunamis
chandlyr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:57:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Being in space. You're flung into the void. You have no way of returning, and no way for anyone to get to you. All you have left is your oxgygen supply and your thoughts.
Edit: Not exactly here on earth, my bad.
RightHandArmMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The inner core. It's nearly the size of the moon, and over 9,000 degrees.
micro102 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:58:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
uberalles_muke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:58:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no doubt, poisonous monkeys.
sealclubber281 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't care what anyone says. It's snakes. They don't have legs but they can still move around. What the fuck? It's the devil's work.
Dewyboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:04:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The degree of disconnect between the mainstream media and the suffering of America. How real issues are rarely discussed on TV.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:04:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
Pirlomaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:05:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate-denying republicans
DOWjungleland ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:14:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity.
We are an absolute liability, irrational, selfish, power hungry, short sighted. Horrendous people.
DoucheAsaurus_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:31:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is another Trump post, right?
DOWjungleland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could very well be.
PolarPawz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:16:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. How big it is. How deep it goes and we don't know what's underneath. What kind of creatures are lurking, waiting to be discovered. The giant squid, giant sharks, bigger than a bus. Now imagine if you were dropped in the middle of the ocean at 2am. Nothing around. You open your eyes but you can't see anything. You're floating in black water. Completely silent all around you. You lose track of time and direction. All you can do is wait. Wait for someone to come find you or worse, wait for something to come find you.
KaosKatalyst ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:17:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that people think Curry is a better basketball player than Lebron.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes.
bcs83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That human beings are looking for ways to destroy eachother for personal gain day in and day out.
The_Flash__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom's saggy tits.
HAC522 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:38:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A future where Trump is President.
vikster101 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:41:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's possibility of presidency.
borgnar_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A room full of upper-class white guys talking about how they can increase the sales for the new landmine factory they've just bought
Nevbe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump (Abit late but meh)
M4R10zM0113R ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:46:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politicians
damnradelaide ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
human beings; you can never know for sure what anyone's capable of.
RoJoCo92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life and death
Xaldyn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
wigglytuff2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:49:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that WWIII is basically happening right now.
Skeeders ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the stupid people have no issues with procreating.
KarenPolley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:01:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deadly pain tree of Australia: gympie stinger. "Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki.
satanicmajesty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did somebody say nuclear bombs yet? But even more dangerous are the sociopaths we allow to rule this earth, with the capability of human extinction at their fingertips.
CharredNoble ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
99strength ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cancer cells. Seriously at any point practically any cell can switch and just be like 'i aint stopping fam' and that persons days are then numbered. It can happen to anyone :/ so sad when it does...
Ecchifrog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:17:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time.
Failing to do something is one thing, but not having enough time is much scarier.
throwmethatj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm high and this thread is stressing me the fuck out holy shit
BritneysSpear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:20:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tom Cruise
Nusi218 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:23:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if me and by boyfriend go the distance, get married, and grow old together, one of us is going to die alone.
thetankburger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:25:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death
TechKilledMe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:25:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cluster Headaches Some of the worst pain you can possibly experience and there is no cure. "Due to an occasional association with suicidal thoughts, cluster headaches have been colloquially named "suicide headaches."
markovitch1928 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America. A million dead in Iraq,there were 10000 dead in Syria before they flooded in guns, 400000 now
E-135 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death. Or life, depends how you put it.
rennaps4 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's got to be nuclear weapons, especially after today's news from north Korea...
karmy916 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons
NihilismPlus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:42:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honeybadgers
themaybatatter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:46:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waiting for your biopsy results.
tswtom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Red Pill-ers are a real thing
captain_craisins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:06:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any one of us could drop dead in seconds due to a blood clot or pulmonary embolism. Doesn't matter how healthy you are
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:07:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised schizophrenia/psychosis hasn't been mentioned, or at least isn't higher up.
YeOldeBaconWhoure ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For real, the scariest nightmare I've ever experienced was about me developing extreme schizophrenia and very suddenly. I couldn't figure out what was real anymore, and I didn't have that wonderful feeling of relief upon waking and realising it was just a dream, because i wasn't sure I had actually woken up. Took about 30 minutes just staring at the room in terror before my brain was convinced it was only a nightmare and that I really was awake.
And I think about that dream constantly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting caugh fapping
xFuimus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:11:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've always thought the Bermuda Triangle was pretty spooky
bukolan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:13:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
theawesomeico ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop Bears
Jacob_the_Tank ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:18:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American voter.
Killdimz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:22:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Never coming to grips with death.
The thought of laying on your death bed and just being surrounded by fear of uncertainty. You will always be uncertain but we have to strive to find comfort in our impermanence through some means in life. We have to think and ponder death or we're met with it only to find out how unprepared we really are to face our most inevitable truth.
This is my favorite quote that I like to think of often, for some reason it comforts and frightens the hell out of me.
"Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does comeโto them, their wives, their children, their friendsโcatching them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries, what fury, what despair! . . . To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death. . . . We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
Edit - Spelling
neoxman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't even have to be on your deathbed to be scare as shit. At least a few times a year i'm just going about my daily business then I suddenly think about death and just get terrified.
Gupppythefish ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:27:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts but Sleep Paralysis is really terrifying.
ChubbyTrain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:29:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drug cartels. The supply and demand of snuff videos. Unvaccinated children. Stupid antivaxxer parents.
Son_Of_EZShot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:30:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To me the scariest thing would probably be Alzheimer's
Rosaly8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dementia. You basically forget everything that ever had meaning to you.
Rudycrown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:33:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our current American politicians
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:35:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HUMANS
ding_i_like_chips ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:37:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've currently got my 8 month old daughter asleep on my knee. Nothing in this thread is more terrifying than the idea that something could happen that means I outlive her. There's nothing on earth more horrifying that the idea of losing her.
Except maybe people who paint themselves and pretend to be statues.
ThatMorseCode ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:38:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dementia. It is the saddest, and scariest thing I've had to witness my father go through in his early 50s. Alcohol can do cruel, cruel things. Be smart about your alcohol intake
TheCrowbarSnapsInTwo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
dancingdj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:43:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming
maggotshavecoocoons2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:49:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
being told by a doctor that the slight pains you've been having are actually not inconsequential at all.
ajpjr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:50:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
celestisdiabolus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria fowleri, best known colloquially as the brain-eating amoeba
patogo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:51:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the earth's core is molten and compressing. Could it go nuclear?
Jnr_Guru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say that in the centre it already has
emberfairy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:52:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
global warming.
ClintonHarvey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THE FRIGGIN OCEAN.
imagirlinagirlsbody ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That if gravity just stopped. We'd all fall off \0/
Jnr_Guru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So would all our cars, most of our buildings, a lot of sand and dirt, and all the giraffes .
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:01:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism
Joarthus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Think about it, just for a second. All of the atrocities our species has committed is absolutely staggering, and we're all over this fuckin' planet. We in control of it. It's "ours". And we're absolutely psychotic.
Mankyliam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:06:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming.
anotherlamepun ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:09:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria Fowleri, the brain-eating ameoba.
zdh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:12:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mankind
jjthedragon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:17:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Yellowstone lava dome... Always looming.
doperdandy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:25:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heroin
adamgent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:25:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That plenty of nutjobs have a licence and opportunity, daily, to operate a 4000lbs vehicle capable of 100+ mph.
charleswrites ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest real thing on our Earth is OP's subtle implication that there are other Earths.
monsooooooon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:34:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
conservatives
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:37:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Depression.
Okay so it's not gonna eat you like a bear or cut your life short like a disease but living with it every damn day of your life is terrifying.
You go to bed not knowing if you'll get any sleep or you'll be kept awake by the demons in your head convincing you that you or your family will die because you're a terrible human.
Watching the people you know you love be happy and crave that love and happiness but always be kept apart from it by what feels like just an inch, but you can never get there.
Always thinking the worst, never being able to take criticism 'cause it sounds like you're about to be sacked or divorced or cut off.
Not being able to trust your friends and family actually love you 'cause really, why would they? They must just be using you or feeling sorry for you. They don't actually like you.
kyo45 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:38:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies
RockInShoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:39:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An uneducated police officer.
Jimbo516 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears. See the Australian Museum entry for nightmares.
lfpa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:48:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of this is scary, but what really scares me (and also makes me fucking angry) is the fact that right now there is child porn ( and child rape) happening somewhere in the world. It just terrifies me how unaware people usually are about this. Im also scared about how easy it is to hurt people, and how often it happens. We are our worst enemy
Grib_Suka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming. The way humans can consciously destroy their one and only living environment baffles me all the time.
OrionsRebirth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised I haven't seen drop bears anywhere.
Drop bears man. Drop. Bears.
weebi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest things on earth is Human.
Shadowcalibur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:20:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Telling a room full of redditors that Foo Fighters suck
shudder
Tania8 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:26:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sudden Infantile Death Syndrome. It is exactly what it sounds like
OlGingerBastard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a deadline
CptPossum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:41:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mankind!
_AISP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parasitic tapeworms. I don't know about you, but I don't want a fucking worm that can grow up to 50 ft long in your intestine. Whale tapeworms can be 100 feet or more.
And prions...Fuck them. We barely know any more than that they are just evil proteins that wreck havoc in your body and brain.
kisordog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:28:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Al-Baghdadi's brain
MusicMagi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:29:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we could love someone so dearly, enough to create another life with them and think everything was meant to be and you were destined to be a family and in the blink of an eye, a disease or sudden accident or attack can end it all and put you right back where you started before you met, except now you have the grief and potentially the guilt to carry around with you
Gheea ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
World wide carelessness. Is is real alrigh.
speaksoftly_bigstick ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks.
Nothing is scarier than being snapped back to the reality that you are not king of the hill or top of the food chain.
Lemonbomber1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary.
aman4456 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:36:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. I dont mean like the beach i mean places like the mariana trench. Places where your so deep you cant see a damn thing only endless expances of darkness and you have no damn clue what kind of monsters are down there with you. Truly terrifying.
sexybug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention if your submersible collapsed or had an explosive decompression on the way back up, your insides would so quickly become your outsides it's not even funny.
young_otis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:37:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread
yarrpirates ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
BigAggie06 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watching someone you love and care about die and not being able to do anything about it.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human infestation. This single pesky species is multiplying quickly, invading and destroying habitats around the world, and driving many other species to extinction, and we have found no reliable way to control them up to now.
However, we at the League of Viruses are exploring a few promising new avenues...
TeamJim ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Failure.
Caucasian_Male ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mandatory XKCD comic
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depression.
Qontinent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thalassophobia.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mother.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The TPP and the people behind it.
neoLibertine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:44:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There have been some terrifying examples so far but most of these - such as the gympie stinger or amoeba - by not doing certain things, however inconvenient they may be. Others, such as Aneurysms or prions are down to the hand you are dealt and have no real control over them.
However, nuclear war wins it for me.
The first thing we will know about an attack from a nuclear detonation will be a blinding flash followed by a blast that will incinerate everything withing miles of ground zero. If you are lucky it will be this that kills you. Outside of the blast zone, depending on the yield of the device and wind strength, there is going to be a shit load of radiation which will kill you within hours, days or weeks following detonation. Chances are that if the detonation was due to an attack rather than some sort of accident, not only has there been other detonations close to you but across the globe as every nuke that can be lunched will be, so pretty soon the whole world is going to be irradiated.
"The effects of a war involving many nuclear explosions would be on a scale larger than anything previously experienced in human history. If 500 warheads were to hit major US and Russian cities, 100 million people would die in the first half an hour and tens of millions would be fatally injured. Huge swaths of both countries would be blanketed by radioactive fallout. Most Americans and Russians would die in the following months from radiation sickness and disease epidemics." (icanw.org)
The real scary part is that nine countries have nuclear arsenals. Nine men have the power to order the launch a nuclear attack at a a moment's notice capable of reaching anywhere on the planet within minutes.
The icing of the cake of shit inducing fear is that whilst some of those capable of launching the attacks are elected through democratic process, some are not.
How do you feel knowing that your life is in the hands of Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and potentially in less than 12 months time, Donald Trump?
ChrebetEighty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deep Web.
jakefrmsatefarm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The oceans. They're so vastly huge and we know more about the moon orbiting our planet than we do about the bottoms of our own oceans.
Perfectionman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Specially dumb people in large groups (I know you're thinking nazi, you're not too far off). And spiders and sharks, but mostly dumb people in large groups.
thegabescat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary
flypstyx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:56:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump potentially becoming President.
noisyfactory ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:58:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
anotherandomer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:00:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trumps success
Yanman_be ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well Islam isn't real but their believers are.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:03:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has to be Oprah Winfrey's minge.
maliki92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:04:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant hogwart. A weed in the uk that if removed without protective clothing. The liquid inside will burn your skin so you are alergic to uv rays. Meaning you can never go outside without excrutiating pain.
pseud_o_nym ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:06:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump getting so many votes.
Sharkn91 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:10:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a thread to start the day with! Happy Weekend :/
r2deetard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Survey says..... Donald Trump!
quasichicane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:23:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you realize it was mothers day last week.
Blahgger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 2016 US presidential race
jrrthompson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:25:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings.
EatCrow_55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:29:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Kenlurd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:34:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dropbears.
Psymine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders. Big spiders...... Bigger spiders..... Even bigger spiders..... RUUUNNNN!!!!!!
Gromby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:36:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ocean....we really have no idea the mystery and terror it holds within its black, cold heart....
I am terrified
rotll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:37:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)
What are some of the dangers associated with DHMO?
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump's power level is getting pretty close to being OVER 9000. We should probably kick his dragon balls before this turns into a Cell saga.
ssanchez22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
nonstop_nosebleed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J. Drumpf
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change and nuclear weapons.
SquareSail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
pjokinen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:47:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna go with the crevasse. One minute you're just chillin, walking around on a mountain, and the next you're falling 1,000 feet into an abyss where you pretty much have to just chill until you die because nobody and hear you call for help and there's no way in hell you're climbing out of there
mouri ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:53:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is winning the current GOP candidacy and possibly the election.
Heliocentrist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mob mentality
fishcadet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
JustAteAPizza ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:05:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dragons
opentoinput ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:11:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than global warming, trump becoming president.
MrDavidCrane ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. We are capable of such cruelty to each other.
platinum_jackson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans - the possibilities are endless... Good and bad
glasercorey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
IJustWantComment ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:21:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for clarifying that you meant our earth, I almost wanted to post something about the other earth.
greenacratic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife when she's hungry.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:25:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Racism, hatred by humans against each other and Propaganda.
ishealright ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
something something trump something
Badfish6969 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:27:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump having the possibility of being president.... Seriously, there are so many things wrong with this from how stupid some of the American public is to the fact that an insane con-artist could sit as the "leader of the free world"
soshelpme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom
THUMB5UP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:30:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Synths, man...
IcyChains ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:32:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea of scaphism
emmyset23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:16 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An explanation for those who are too lazy for research?
IcyChains ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:18:03 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An execution method in which a person is tied onto a small boat. They are force-fed milk and honey, causing the victim to vomit and defecate. Flies and other bugs will be drawn to the scent and will slowly eat the victim alive
emmyset23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:20 on March 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awful! Almost nobody deserves that amount of suffering. ALMOST.
space_intestine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:33:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes
lelkenshamrocklel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:36:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radical islamic terrorism
longpoke ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:37:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton as President of the United States.
jakeistheman24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:42:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those Jeff Foxworthy Golden Corral commercials.
Nergaal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you seen what subreddits exist here?
KardelSharpeyes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
Ygdnc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Olqeable ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump has a real chans of becoming the next president for the USA.
hoozt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:45:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
johnymyko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:49:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life.
ninjisticpipie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:52:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity is hands down the scariest thing on this planet.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:56:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is a legitimate presidential candidate.
Kittamaru ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:59:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 2016 US Presidential Race...
amazn_azn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:06:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions. Resistant to virtually everything, nearly undetectable, fatal.
You could bleach it, heat it, formaldahyde, it would fold roght back in place. And when it feels like it, magically turn proteins evil. See Mad Cow Disease
rockthecasbah94 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:15:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
fibesman1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming President.
dontkillgamefish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
karch14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Sofa_Queen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:24:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister's Early Onset Alzheimer's. She still knows me, but doesn't remember my name. Every time I see her, I'm terrified that'll be the day she doesn't know me.
Zareth-Shahar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:25:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
DMagis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rock fish (or is it called Stone fish?) Also, the gympie gympie plant. Its pain is so excrutiatings, its caused people to commit suicide!!!
Cryptohaas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:35:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
jpbbroncos53 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:47:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming President.
WSHIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The death of a child. A couple of friends of mine have lost children to SIDS, birth defects, etc. As a parent, I can't even imagine how devastating that would be, and the whole "there but for the grace of God" thing has kept me awake several nights. If anything like that happened to my daughter, I can honestly say I don't think I'd want to survive it either.
cubical_bunneh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is awful. Really really awful.
But.... in honesty I have to admit that while I have never forgotten my lost little one (died at 10 months) the agony lessens with time. I pray for all parents who have shared that agony with me.
WSHIII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:33:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have my deepest sympathies and condolences. I hope....well, I don't know what I would want for anyone else in that situation. I guess I hope that you are happy in whatever way you can be.
Imnotawizzard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:50:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm impressed that this isn't on the top 4, but humans. Humans are very fucked up and scary animals. Examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
"On December 13, about 30 soldiers came to a Chinese house at #5 Hsing Lu Koo in the southeastern part of Nanking, and demanded entrance. The door was open by the landlord, a Mohammedan named Ha. They killed him immediately with a revolver and also Mrs. Ha, who knelt before them after Ha's death, begging them not to kill anyone else. Mrs. Ha asked them why they killed her husband and they shot her. Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1 year old baby. After being stripped and raped by one or more men, she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina. The baby was killed with a bayonet. Some soldiers then went to the next room, where Mrs. Hsia's parents, aged 76 and 74, and her two daughters aged 16 and 14 [were]. They were about to rape the girls when the grandmother tried to protect them. The soldiers killed her with a revolver. The grandfather grasped the body of his wife and was killed. The two girls were then stripped, the elder being raped by 2โ3 men, and the younger by 3. The older girl was stabbed afterwards and a cane was rammed in her vagina. The younger girl was bayoneted also but was spared the horrible treatment that had been meted out to her sister and mother. The soldiers then bayoneted another sister of between 7โ8, who was also in the room. The last murders in the house were of Ha's two children, aged 4 and 2 respectively. The older was bayoneted and the younger split down through the head with a sword."
But wait, there's more! Humans are VERY fucked up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
"Most of the victims were killed in their own villages or in towns, often by their neighbors and fellow villagers. The militia typically murdered victims with machetes, although some army units used rifles. The Hutu gangs searched out victims hiding in churches and school buildings, and massacred them. Local officials and government-sponsored radio incited ordinary citizens to kill their neighbors, and those who refused to kill were often murdered on the spot. "Either you took part in the massacres or you were massacred yourself.""
But wait, there's more! Being fucked up isn't something new in our culture!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_Rebellion
In the article they just say that the leaders were simply "executed", but how about a description by Dan Carlin of how that exactly happened?
http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-48-prophets-of-doom/
Yep, fucking scary as fucking fuck.
HonestIago15 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:52:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
dmadad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:59:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant anacondas
NewebieDev ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:03:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the fact that in 2/3 generations no one will know that I existed.
EatSleepComicSans ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:04:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seen a good amount of seizures in my lifetime and they never get any less terrifying to see.
TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother would humbly agree with you.
UnicornSpaceWhale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:07:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alone.
prometheus199 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:08:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness.
TheOldGuy59 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America with it's current population of ignorant and/or religious zealot citizens and their control over vast stocks of nuclear weapons. The fact some religious nutjob might live in the White House one day scares me. And I live here. I'd hate to be in some place that they consider "needing Gawd's wrath"... or California.
bleach_on_a_Tshirt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion that calls for death or killing in the name of God
TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean like how "Christians" like the idea of the death penalty?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being buried alive.
sykurbjorn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:51:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Why the fuck do they call these crisps Turkey Bacon flavour? There isn't even any Turkey or Bacon in the packet. It's false advertisement!" - My Dad.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being on a flight that crashes into the ocean. I'm not afraid of flying and I love planes. But the irrational fear of being on a flight that fails to the point of ending in the ocean is terrifying. My solace is that at least death would be instantaneous.
Frogmanisback ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Happened to Bernie Baby.
DDSloan96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us. Humans are the most destructive force on this planet
NotTooDeep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not knowing what happens next.
MosaicDream ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:27:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Artificial intelligence. Recent technological breakthrough created a self-aware robot. Skynet is real. The Terminator films were a warning.
http://www.businessinsider.my/this-robot-passed-a-self-awareness-test-that-only-humans-could-handle-until-now-2015-7/?r=US&IR=T#71iB3Am5VdUbFzuz.97
deltapilot97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that someone would easily make the decision to kill another person for money. The value that people place on power and possessions never ceases to amaze me, and in many ways I, too, fall for this.
urbestyeste ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
unfuck_yourself ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This whole fucking thread. I hate you all.
jcskarambit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity.
Specifically groups of people. Working together we can accomplish amazing things. See the Pyramids of Giza.
However, see Hitler and the Holocaust for what groups of people are also capable of.
Sometimes the most beautiful things on this planet are the most frightening.
daddymantits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The new ghostbusters movie
unknownreddits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:55:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons. Annihilate most life on earth and in the hands of humans which are proven to be driven on emotions
sandolle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions. They are not bacteria, not viruses, they aren't alive. They attack your proteins and then you die. Mad cow disease is an example of a prion that attacks the proteins in the brain. There are many varieties.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain Aneurysm
silverglyph ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fractals.
insanetopten ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:21:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
tigerscomeatnight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:48:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are humans (?) with no empathy and no one can see them.
grantness ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:22:11 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Almost any human being. I mean damn, people can and do a lot of fucked up shit. And since we can't read minds, we have no way for certain to ascertain the motives of others. Best we can do is guess based on circumstances or hope they give themselves away.
ThevirtualNelson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:19 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
babies. A new baby.
broiled ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:51:20 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Trump could actually be elected as President of the US.
sethamphetamine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:51:56 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming - That we are slowly killing our existence through the burning of fossil fuels but too many people don't care. Even presumably intelligent people like Republicans.
Jasonw331 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:13:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rapidly dwindling bee population
scoutmorgan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:52 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those spiders who hide under The toilet seat. Shudder.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:15:35 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Hillary Clinton presidency.
AUnusedUsername ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:04:21 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if it's possible to "misplace" the entire US treasury, but I'm sure she'll find a way...
falsethor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:09:33 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:49 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
Sorry I'm so late to the party, but Giant Hogweed is freaking terrifying... I think because it's here in the States, looks so similar to harmless Queen Anne's Lace, and secretes a juice that, when exposed to sunlight causes horrifyingly painful blistering of the skin. I'm not doing the horror justice, you should go read about it
cappiebara ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:52:49 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatal familial insomnia. Terrifying! Basically your brain can't achieve the level of sleep your brain and body need and you ultimately die of dementia and lack of sleep. A diagnosis is a death sentence. They've tried drug, putting people under, in comas, everything but the brain can't reach a certain level. Yikes!!! It's generally diagnosed when one is older (50s-60s).
Edit: also the mental disorder where one feels like a limb they have doesn't belong to them. It's strange and foreign. Doctors can't remove it because of the hippopotamus (lol) oath. This one guy put his leg in a box and put a ton of dry ice on it. He said was intense pain but when the doctors removed it he said he was so amazingly happy about it.
The scariest thing on this earth is the human brain!
semtimmy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:03:30 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralyses is creepy. Sleep paralyses is when youre between dreaming and being awake. You cant move, and you can see and here things around you that are scary, like monsters.
Some people say theyve been abducted by aliens but its probably sleep paralyses.
the_comatorium ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:52:30 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody has said cluster headaches yet?
GrujoLegend ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:53 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
bishoptutu1975 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:03 on March 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My cat when I have to give her the pill the vet prescribed.
TheLivingSylveon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:57 on March 12, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
emotional abuse.
its honestly horrifying. people can say stuff to you, make you wish you were dead. they can manipulate you. they leave you without warning.
but you get blamed. they twist their words, making you at fault.
soon enough, all of your friends are on their side. they make things up about how its your fault, how you scared them off, how you were creepy.
and when you attempt to kill yourself because its too much, your best friend just left you to join their side, they laugh and joke, saying "he wont do it this time. he never succeeded."
and they all tell you to die, for you were the abuser the whole time.
kevvkagee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:10:30 on March 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you work at 8 am, but you wake up to see its 7:59am
WarriorBeard6 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:23:15 on March 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders. Mother. Fucking. Camel spiders.
Ozymandeus3301 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:23:20 on March 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steve Buscemi
ColdestPanMan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:55 on April 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure how well I can articulate this fear but like for some reason I feel like there is zero chance I will live long enough to die of natural old people causes. Im 18 years old rn, and i have 52 more years until I get to 70. Ive escaped potential death at every second of my life, and just seems unlikely that I will be able to do that for the next 52 years.
As awesome as it is to be young in 2016 relative to the past, everything in this world is damgerous to my life. At any moment a bomb can drop where you are, and in that split second you watch a fiery humbling wave of incomprehensible energy coming at you. Ive had dreams about that shit and its surreal to think that could just happen with no warning or anything. Or an asteroid can do the same. Or a supervolcano, tornado, tsunami, untreatible disease, overpopulation, people with no regard for life, and just insane weapons. I really dont see how humanity can survive the next 50 years. I guarantee something big will happen and kill me in the blink of an eye.
Its seems so unrealistic but its the truth. Real life isnt always a happy story. I just feel like the more and more our society progresses, the less fucks the universe gives about me. Its so weird because being 18 i feel immortal, but something tells me there aint a chance i live to old age. Something will happen.
WolfColaExecutiveVP ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:09:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Telling your boss you have a fucking life outside of work and aren't being paid enough to give a shit about anything before 9:00 or after 5:00.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only scary with no social safety net. Capitalism turns us all into spineless slaves.
joerockt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:55:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Hillary Clinton is a serious candidate for president.
ChillOutAndSmile ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:17:34 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:23 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
definitely
somethings_inthe_way ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fundamentalist Islam
guyver17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fundamentalist anything
baldsteve ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:58:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who believe that a god is speaking to them directly. It's only a matter of time before one of them tries to do god's will and bring about the rapture.
Culinarytracker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That fish that swims up your urethra.
TheHairlessCat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of it happening makes my blood pressure rise. Can you imagine the amount of pure panic when it starts wiggling up your wiggler?
GhostofSora ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:51:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
But most of the scariest things one earth that people mention here is life itself.
RyanB_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly yeah. Can't think of anything worse than knowing you're going to die or go through immense pain and being powerless go stop it.
Muleryder ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 09:04:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
wzzzzrd ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 23:08:20 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
trevisan_fundador ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:13:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's not half as scary as the people who might actually VOTE for him...
sleepsoundsam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:49:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watched part of his Michigan appearance this morning. Fucking inbreds.
coldmtndew ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 00:59:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which 74 year old Jewish democratic socialist are you voting for?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:46:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you often times defend Donald Trump by pointing out the religion of his opponent? Or is it just the Jewish one?
DenverBowie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the age.
coldmtndew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im nowhere near anti Semitic.....
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:25:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know that. Maybe think, next time, how other people may interpret your words.
SonyMaxell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:02:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cool one
lucipherius ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:08:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better him then Killery, Trump over Killery.
mechanicalodyssey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:29:09 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god that one Australian plant with the spines that put you in unbearable pain?? Jesus.
Or the inevitability and unpredictability of everyone's death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:48:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
bobarski ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:35:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that there are people out there so wrapped up in a fictional character, they are willing to saw the head of another human being off while they are still alive to prove their faith in a story. Worst thing I've ever seen.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That amazonian parasite that goes up your urethra if youre swimming and latches on with hooks
MooseOnTehLoose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:40:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the elephants foot.
http://nautil.us/blog/chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot-is-still-lethal
to see it is death
LasherDeviance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This.
TimbitsandBears ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:49:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind control parasites in cat shit.
manticore116 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:49:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm late, and this isn't really on earth, and but SPACE
Seriously. It's endless and seconds of exposure will kill a person.
We also know almost nothing about it. We have guesses and estimates, and sometimes basic knowledge and understanding of some things, but we have almost zero hard proof. We've only stepped on our own moon a handful of times, and unless something changes, even the people who were there will be dead relatively soon.
Hell, all life on our planet has existed during a single digit percentage of our sun's lifespan.
DancingPickle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone national park.
LyeInYourEye ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the answer is probably death. We worship fairy tales just to not think about it.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Terror Management Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
slick_bridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Into the eternal darkness. Horrifying
Szymanski ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am too high for this thread. Jesus Christ.
bevoh13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
haha too good
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A mundane and pointless existence. It's basically death with bills.
Rachelle1016 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:22:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I see you've observed my life.
SketchBoard ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:36:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about your earth, but mine has the humans.
OferZak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hilary Clinton
Pli1337 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fucking Deep Sea... every animal we know from there is terrifying -and fucking big! ...i really do not want to know what creatures there are, we have not met yet!
TastyBleach ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im gonna say Donald Trump
Draco_Septim ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:14:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
saisharan007 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change and the thought of Donald Trump as POTUS.
OrphanCripplerz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea of Trump becoming President.
Gronkbonk83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:10 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of don trump becoming leader of the free world
Did not read previous comments but was sure that I'm not the only one with this fear.
KentuckyFriedWeed ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:06:21 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't take it lying down
r/longevity
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have nothing against death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:37:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about illness?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends. Even then, that's not the worst thing. What about, ambition?
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:41:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you implying that one's unwillingness to accept aging is due to a lack of ambition? What if one's greatest ambitions lie beyond a normal lifespan? What if working on aging is one's ambition?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That last comment makes no sense. Unless you die young or middle age, you will get older and either age well or poorly depending on genetics. Ambition itself can be very harmful, in that the most ambitious in society are the one's who don't look on who they step on to climb the economic ladder. It is ambition that encourage's conquest, and a need to accumulate more power and domination over other's. I'm just saying it's not this ultimate virtue people think it is.
K1ngN0thing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ambition on its own is neither good nor bad, I think it depends on where it comes from. Ambition for oneself/one's own tribe of people, or ambition for the entire species. Personal gain vs the betterment of the world. Just comes down to the type of person you are.
pm_me_my_own_comment ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:35:37 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People with absolute power over anything.
cecilomardesign ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 02:25:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Drumpf
Alexlam24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:22:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that he is only a few steps away from destroying the planet and making a IRL Oculus Rift in 4D Fallout 4 is just...
FattyCorpuscle ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:21:52 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:30:19 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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rogerthelodger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:31:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Archer is afraid of it, you better be afraid, too!
Multiscoop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is a very handsome alligator.
Owlluminati ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That smug bastard.
scootarded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yes, the vicious Tastydactyl.
BIGMc_LARGEHUGE ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:48:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears
Mortimer452 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:55:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Hillary Clinton
kaltkalt ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islam.
Flame me if you must. I'm NOT kidding, and I stand by it. Read the koran before you spout off the toleroid PC "religion of peace" crap to me.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:22:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same. Glad you said it.
Razzle80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:15:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islam is a peaceful tolerent religion.... and I'll decapitate anybody who says otherwise!
mylifebelikelawl ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Koran" Are you fucking kidding me? Go fuck your mum's pussy a bit more you nob.
kaltkalt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:38:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
awwwwwwww did i not spell it in the culturally sensitive way?
Xsable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, you spelled it wrong, which someone who took the time to read it wouldn't have done. You haven't read a word other than a few cherry picked lines from some facebook posts and hate articles. You probably haven't read anything of importance in your life. I'm not Muslim, but you are a moron.
kaltkalt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:54:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wrong. and i'll spell it koran if i want to. Or what, did I not capitalize the K? Petty whiner.
Xsable ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:22 on March 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
damn, even your troll was pathetic
mylifebelikelawl ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:07:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be given the death sentence. No one would miss you. Not even your whore of a mother.
sandybuttcheekz ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:50:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islam. It's the single biggest threat to world peace.
R00t240 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:53:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politicians in power who deny science/climate change.
Ahhmyface ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:55:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The variability in human reasoning that could allow for some people to actually think it's a good idea to bomb strangers or vote for donald trump.
Bearpapu1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:58:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes
eshemuta ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:53:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
imsofancy33 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:19:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
franktopus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I swear to god I wish I could read a thread like this without trump being every other answer. I wanna see some actually scary shit
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:41:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how hard it would be to add some code that would scan the thread for duplicate posts and pop up a "sorry, that response has already been posted" message.
Teklogikal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:11:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've just created the Reddit kill switch.
cmdalek ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion in general.
El_Raro ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll second the ocean. Nothing scares the absolute shit out of me more than the deep blue.
marauder1776 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:58:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Faith.
CryoHawk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:26:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
AreWeAfraidOfTheDark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:31 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
brain aneurysms
HaikuberryFin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:01:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waking for breakfast
to realize I've run out
of Rasien Bran Crunch.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/poem_for_your_sprog have a poetry battle with this guy
halibutface ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
did you intentionally haiku?
Gramage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Username checks out.
Baloncesto ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 15:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm afraid of people who can't spell "raisin," yet are allowed to vote.
MadBuddahAbusah ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:10:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That trump might become president
sugarbear_sb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:11:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make America great again
QueenOfEverything ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest thing ever. Today I was thing I have to leave the country. I can't believe people endorse this type of shit.
baronmad ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:01:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the rampant stupidity of the average person.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George Carlin โ 'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.'
Hrodrik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right wingers.
BleedingTeal ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:14:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President of the United States Donald Trump.
Oldsign ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism
Rx_Boost ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone says Trump, but what about Hillary? That's way more terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Donald Trump being president
Hygiene_Control ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:54 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going to the hospital for something rather trivial and getting out without any limbs on your body. Happened to a woman a couple of years ago. Also: blood transfusions with shit like HIV, still better than flesh eating bacteria I suppose.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:59:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your blood is tested after you donate it.
1992Olympics ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bermuda triangle
Fin4lSh0t ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate to break it to you buddy, but that gas recently been debunked.
sugakiwi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:16:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders. And women. And... spider-women
Benmandeezy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:36:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably sleep paralysis. Those who have experienced it know what I'm talking about.
Squiblbledoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm lucky I didn't hallucinate, but it still was terrifying.
maymay666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cassowary. Up to six feet tall and 100+ lbs. Like a feathered Raptor that's pissed off. And yes, from New Guinea and Australia.
lesusisjord ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States military.
tinyyellowhouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reasons?
lesusisjord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drone strikes from across the globe, the most advanced weapons, the ability to destabilize any country in the world.
tinyyellowhouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. That sounds pretty darn terrifying when you think about it.
playinvids ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:31:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fooking chimps, apes and monkeys
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:37:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Komodo Dragon.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=106948521692
HappyGoPink ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overpopulation.
I_Be_Strokin_it ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antibiotic resistant infections.
38whtmail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:49:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A wife and kids. They'll make you do anything. They'll make a man face any fear.
Henry_J ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:52:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
teh_maxh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf is a carnie?
sbay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
SenatorMeathooks ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gamma ray bursts
Spatbee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Statistically you shouldn't be scared, it would be like trying to kill a fly with a musket at night from 3 miles away. We can say with near certainly the earth will not be annihilated from a gamma ray burst.
SenatorMeathooks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm saying that it's scariest thing on Earth if it ever WAS on Earth.
dweezil12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton naked.
raubana ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about the Chernobyl "Elephant's Foot".
high_protein_diet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hilary Clinton.
Angrysausagedog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:22:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mob mentality / sheeple
monsterinacage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I vote for human beings. We're fucking terrifying for both our stupidity and our intelligence.
mrsuns10 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
flowersintx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing a child. I have a 10 year old boy who I have fathered solely since birth after his mom decided other dicks were more important than her own child. Anyways what scares me is him growing up. I had a rough childhood. Some times I almost died from all the crazy things I would do, and then tell my self, how the fuck am I still alive!!!
Well I fear because my son is just like me, and I know once he hits those teen years soon hes going to be a rebel, I just hope he lucks out like I did.
kylieo23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:36 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think where he's lucked out is in having you as his dad. Start letting him know from now that he can always share anything with you because you've been through enough shit yourself that you understand, without judgement. Tell him that you'll always be there for him, but that you also won't just stand back and watch him fuck himself over....if your experience tells you he's making a big mistake, you're not afraid to be the bad guy and have him pissed off with you for a while if it's necessary to prevent him from doing something that may harm him.
The way you speak makes me truly believe that, while there may be some rough teenage times ahead, you and your son are a team and he's very lucky to have such a loving dad. All the very best to you and your boy.
Tintinabulation ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:28:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Limnic eruptions.
Odorless, invisible, heavier than air gas 'spills' downhill, suffocating anyone unlucky enough to be in its path. Hard to run away when you can't breathe. Can't predict them and once they've started you can't control or really predict them, you're just fucked if you're asleep in a low lying area.
Scary shit.
thatfookinschmuck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:29:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness
Darth_Squid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's absolutely nothing we humans could do to stop a world-killing asteroid right now, with our modern technology. Like the one in Armageddon. The chances of it happening are infinitesimal, but if our number comes up it's game over.
DrTenochtitlan ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is potentially true... but it depends a lot on how much lead time you have, and how big the asteroid / comet is. If you had a year or two warning, Earth probably survives even with current technology. If you have less than a year warning, then you have a real problem for anything a mile across or larger. Smaller asteroids could kill a lot of people, but aren't extinction level events.
WOWEY_MACARONI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
Isimagen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humankind.
We have it made and yet we fuck it up. We destroy the very planet beneath our feet and do our best to destroy each other in order to have the most toys at death.
pBoogie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that fish in the Amazon that swims into your dick hole and then releases spikes.
SubsonicDust ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parasitic zombie worms. Nope...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I just watch this 2x
Elbarto9000 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Responsibilities
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
BadWolfCubed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, fuckin' entropy, man.
mokba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
wetonred24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles. Alligators. Brain aneurysm
trllhntr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:25:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz.
GrammerPants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:29:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being killed and your last memory being your murderer laughing as they start to kill the rest of your family.
1KTakk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crazy people eager to kill you just because you don't believe in the same fictitious all powerful being, or believe differently about the same one, as they do.
Favorite414 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:43:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion is pretty terrifying whether you believe in it or not. It's so destructive.
Severe_Punishment ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:18:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our imminent death.
Every. Single. One of us.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even scarier is that the majority of people try to justify it, actively hindering progress. Fuck that noise
/r/longevity
Severe_Punishment ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:46:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure I follow you.
To the question "what's the scariest thing on our earth" my response was "death"
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:52:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assumed you were talking about death by aging.
Severe_Punishment ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:29:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am/was.
I'm still confused though...care to elaborate ?
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Most people, when confronted with the knowledge that aging is not immutable, and that people are actively working (and making progress) on solutions, will do everything to justify aging and death. They tell themselves they want to die, but really, they want everyone else to suffer the same fate as well, so that they can feel better about it. It's why so many people have fantasies of the entire world ending, be it a meteor, rapture, what have you. Crab mentality.
It's like trying to justify the existence of a Dragon Tyrant. It's scary in that it's sort of like mob mentality in the opposite direction. Instead of violent animals, we turn into docile sheep, ignoring the problem. I think it's an evolutionary adaptation or something. I guess it's no different than the Bystander Effect.
Knowing that if we all came together, we could solve any problem, but instead choose to doom ourselves and everyone else is excruciating.
Severe_Punishment ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, you believe that death isn't an inevitability ? Or are you talking about a soul ?
I guess I'm confused with the language you're using. For example your first statement says "and making progress" ...progress towards what ? Extending life ? I'm almost positive that the entire health field has spent the better part of it's existence doing just that...literally millions of people have worked on technology towards solutions in both the extension of life as well as the quality of it.
I can honestly say that I've never heard anyone fantasize about the destruction of the earth. I think it's the opposite of a lust for massive death exists, in fact, I am pretty sure than many a theory about fear and its encapsulation of every person is a much more commonly held belief.
Unless, I'm misunderstanding your position completely. In which case, I apologize.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:33:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Progress towards indefinite life, being able to sufficiently combat the biological processes of aging so that we will no longer die of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc breaks it down well. To briefly summarize, the way we've been tackling things like Alzheimer's, heart disease, is doomed to fail because they intervene too late. These things are not diseases in the traditional sense, not separate from aging, but are aging itself. They're lifelong processes/damage accumulation that eventually pass our threshold of tolerance, which is when they start causing problems.
I've heard it pop up in many casual conversations when people talk about how they want to die, in a joking way, but I think it's a genuine desire on some primitive, selfish level, because it's an equal fate for all.
I'm not sure I'm correctly interpreting your statement about encapsulating fear. Do you mean to say that the fear of missing out, or of getting ones hopes up is the reason people fight against the "cure" for aging? I think that's completely true, but don't see it as mutually exclusive with the "mass destruction" desire. The desire to have everyone die at once, or to have everyone eventually age and die as you will is the same, because on a large enough timescale, the average lifespan is really insignificant. We might not like the idea others getting to live "forever" (thousands of years might as well be forever to our ape brains) when we assume we won't get to. In short, it's not fair. If I can't have it, you shouldn't have it. The crab mentality.
Severe_Punishment ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:26 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard this argument before.
While I don't think it's attainable, I have no issues with those who pursue it. In fact, for future generations they would benefit greatly and I've always been for the advancement of human existence....as long as it's meaningful. I don't know how I personally view this ( as I've said it is new) but it does bring up some interesting theories. Thanks for the heads up on this !
Have a great weekend.
gnovos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The simple fact that you are aware, and have no idea why or what to do about it.
BigBirdonaBench ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president.
teshoolama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PRIONS
Patman117 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That this man has the best chance at being the Republican nominee. http://imgur.com/pyULd7M
ItsJustAnotherDay- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:37:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Impregnating my gf. God help me if that happens, she'd have it.
magicmatt253 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:23:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These dont come close to bears. They can run up to 30 miles per/hr for long periods of time, climb trees, kill anything, extremely strong, and are very intelligent.
ksm6149 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WHAT ARE THEY DAMMIT I NEED TO KNOW. And are they in Australia? Because it makes a difference
magicmatt253 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:43:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol now that im reading my post again. Not very descriptive. Someone already said bears though.
rootbeer_cigarettes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf and his supporters.
mugsimba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ohrocco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:00:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf.
ValiumMm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:01:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president
Gusashi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:02:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Wallabizle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:02:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
skaag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president. I'm seriously scared shitless.
Peydey ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump being the lead candidate for President of the United States.
hbombs86 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Republican Primary race.
NotTipsy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:10:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump leading the GOP in delegates.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:13:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now, Trump being taken seriously.
Meatballe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
skynerd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
monstajosh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:16:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming President
Kramer_rulez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Salty low energy redditors
everybodysheardabout ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:20:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump could be elected President of the U.S. I'm not an American and it scares the shit out of of.
zReng ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:23:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump becoming president
faithle55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:27:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human stupidity, I think is probably what makes me more scared than anything else.
America seems to be manufacturing it in military strength and industrial quantities these days.
Blinknone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point. There are a lot of Bernie supporters.
faithle55 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking more of Mormons, Scientologists, evangelical christians, Texas School Textbook committees, Republican governors....
tomcotard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
PENNST8alum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's only scary if you vote for him...otherwise he's just another douchebag running for office.
SusieSuze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you vote for him, YOU'RE also very scary.
not_rocs_marie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:44:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That trump is leading polls for republicans.
Instantchampion ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:52:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
kaduhaggaaja ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
erublind ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drumpf
CrimsonKing1029 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:56:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
44elite444 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:00:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that there are thousands of religions and that they are all right. Have fun with that dartboard
_cinder_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:02:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
B-Knight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump?
Trump.
skbryant32 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
TheeSquanto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:29:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious people.
2muchbusiness4me ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:37:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
McDonald Trump.
NortonDK ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Catholic church
TheSuperNexus2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:14:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Fact that Donald Trump might become president, and have access to nuclear missiles.
Rocketflyer360 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
mmpress1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:27:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president of the United States...
Im_a_hunter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:31:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
dirtydale ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:48:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is Donald Trump not the number one answer?
ChiptheChipmonk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The single most terrifying thing on this planet, in my mind, is the very real possibility that Donald Trump is a viable candidate for the presidency. It simply shows that, if you have enough money, a famous enough name, you can become one of the most powerful people on the planet in charge of a nuclear arsenal.
Carlsoso5863 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president
171214 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
dradik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:07:48 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Trump might become president in a post Hitler age..
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. Watching his rise to dominance in the Republican primary has seriously shaken me to the core. I now question everything I've thought or assumed about people. I just don't understand anymore.
patdude ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:49:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the bacteria have succeeded
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:37:16 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blue whales. Those things are way too big.
halibutface ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
land lubber!
gamedemon24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say ourselves. It's amazing that humans are the most intelligent species, yet are the only one dumb enough to partake in things like war.
darthjkf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apes also fight in 'battles'.
johanjohn2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are not the only species to partake in war.
gamedemon24 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In a sense that's true, but when animals fight, it's pretty much just territoriality or maybe over food supply. They don't feel hatred for each other.
LUXURY_COCK_RINGS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:57:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ass after taco night
Silent13clk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dad?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes, famine
nomorepasswords ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:08:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS US HOOMAN! 2SPOOPY4ME
ShaynePC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doot doot
ozymandias737 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedophiles.
GrowthSpurt9 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:32:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing grip on reality, unable to identify, remember, or form simple sentences
shredfan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
PTSD and 22 a day
Spending months wondering whether that can or plastic bag is going to be the one fucks with you. I've been in the car with guys that swerve around garbage in the road here in the states because they just can't shut that shit off.
Friends calling you at 0300 cause they hit their wives in the face when she woke them up.
22 a day is scary. We have 37. That's one guaranteed and two possibly.
Pitchfork_Peasant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck did I just read?
Superfluous_Play ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
PTSD man.
22 veterans a day commit suicide.
Overseas insurgents will hide IEDs in things that most people wouldn't bother taking a second look at or would even go over and try to pick up.
Oh someone dropped a magazine for an M4 here let me go pick it up and then boom the guy's dead or has his legs blown off or some shit. That's what he's talking about with guys avoiding garbage and not being able to shut that shit off. You spend months or even years over there on multiple deployments, shit fucks with you.
One of my best friends was woken up by his girl in the middle of the night right after he got back from deployment and started choking her. Took him a good couple of seconds to realize what he was doing and stop.
Daves-crooked-eye ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:42:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brock Lesnar
LilytheElf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:48:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. No need for the devil, there some evil people out there...
Nigelpennyworth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:51:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's a three way tie between the brown recluse spider, nuclear weapons, and Barbara Streisand.
BrohanGutenburg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Top answer has over 4K right now, so no way I don't get buried.
But the mind. At the end of the day, your mind creates your reality and nothing else. There's nothing in the real world that can scare you more than your mind can.
forevergusta ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mhm.
someone_stole_mine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Large groups of easily manipulated people.
MetacomCreative ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Balding.
kaidance ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
current US presidential race
PunTC ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So much liberal salt to mine!
SavNasty1Point0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:14:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear Weapons
slick_bridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global thermonuclear war... it's only a matter of time. Hopefully leaders would come to their senses before destroying the world but some people just want to watch it burn. So many countries have them now, I'm predicting a strike within the next 10 years as the middle east continues to collapse in war and possibly those crazy bastards in n Korea.
TheMagicJay ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The U.S. might elect the Zodiac killer
plutomutt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:08:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedophiles.
NorwegianGodOfLove ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donal Trump could realistically become President of the United States, and therefore the Commander and Chief of the worlds largest Military Force..
also brain aneurysms.
BarbasDelGato ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:34:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
handsomemiked ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:20:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility Hillary Clinton could become President.
eyes5ib ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
thisispannkaka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
Offyellow ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump may become the next president of the usa
X-3 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not scary. He's an actor and has been socially liberal his entire life. His daughter, which runs a lot of his company is best friends with Chelsea Clinton....okay, yes that is scary.
KarmaCondom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:28:17 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deep ocean life-forms.
boobsforbrains ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:51:14 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The likelihood of aliens still living on the planet among us.
Definitely_want_me ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:57:39 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going to see your doctor. He saus he'll if anythings wrong. He calls on a saturday morning but you miss the call. You can't reach him for the entire day after that.
trevisan_fundador ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That exact thing happened to a buddy of mine. Doctor called him on a SUNDAY, told him to come right in. Turns out he had osteosarcoma, cancer of the jawbone. Had to have his jawbone removed, heavily irradiated, and re-installed. He lived withoout cancer the rest of his life.
thatswhatshesaidxx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:38:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irrationality. It can become catastrophic from a factor of 1.
The_Man11 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:46:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poverty?
Homelessness?
Eviction?
Losing your job when you have a wife and three kids?
Six year old still isn't home from school at 6:00?
Dogemaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The republican primary
titleunknown ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:57:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J Trump
Rudy_Bear83 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
fatscat84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton. Watching a breathing succubus actually running for president is the scariest shit ever.
SkyBurner41 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That people just assume that other people they've never met should have the power to tell them how to live.
tl;dr - Government
onewaybackpacking ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:15:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump is a presidential candidate.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
RealOutcasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
EverybodyHatesDipper ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:20:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Twisted209 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That trump could be president
Zola2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president.
JollyRhino09 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:24:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
abe559 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:24:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump, and/or his followers
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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abe559 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:21:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May I ask you why?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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abe559 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:29:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, spoken like a true Trump supporter.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:59:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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abe559 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The funniest part is you think you have a valid point.
iKnitSweatas ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Sanders
tittybop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Tommy-Atkins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women. Full stop
field1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as a serious presidential candidate.
ohBryan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming president
ClusterFSCK ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:53:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Trump Presidency, with a man who openly speaks of committing war crimes and mass murder in control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
Pseudotype1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ocean acidification.
Daswhip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Darkness, my old friend
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greed.
cryptolowe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
snakes, i dont trust any land creature that doesnt have arms or legs.. or people that like them, lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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teh_maxh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it full of danger noodles?
Gramage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friend used to breed rats to feed his snake, because it wouldn't eat anything it didn't kill itself. Pretty metal.
cryptolowe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuck snakes, thats all im sayin
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the fact that there is a server somewhere with every piece of information about us.
hello12400 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technology. It can be really good or be our demise.
saladpurple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That there are people willing to kill for stuff.
Schmeery1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
otrud2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Goblin Shark.
Overthinks_Questions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ouijahead ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She says to me suddenly, i think i need to stop talking to you for a few days. I get all upset and insecure. She texts me a picture of a positive pregnancy test. Everything goes still.
Jungledart34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:00:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read about this swing that was supposed to be on the edge of a cliff or something. http://www.boredpanda.com/the-swing-at-the-end-of-the-world-la-casa-del-arbol/
Xoncie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human
frosted1030 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The surface of the earth (the crust) is very very thin. It basically floats on a molten layer.
Chemsgalore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
KrabFace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ISIS is pretty bad
billthelawmaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lampreys. It's like an eldritch tentacle decided to be a fish
kurashu89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alone with your thoughts.
kingsooper_sucks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bagger 288!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God I really want to see that transform into something.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naegleria fowleri
Just a funny little amoeba. Which gets inside your nose. And then into your brain. And eats it.
There is no effective treatment. Once you get it, you have about 3 weeks left.
slowcoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American politics
Majormlgnoob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or any politics in general
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The collapse of society.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
History
zanemn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irukandji jellyfish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish
Absolutelynotaspy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:23:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dimethylmercury
SteroidSandwich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human mind
What other animal is fucked up enough to get pleasure out of squashing another animal for sexual pleasure?
DucksArentFood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just parents.
I'm a teenager, and there is nothing more terrifying than my mom approaching me and forcing me to show her what is on my phone, even if I'm doing nothing wrong.
Aleblanco1987 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super volcanos
alliestardust ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:30:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJFFxtuWUAAXysA.jpg
A_Game_of_Scones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:32:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tarantula hawk
jackvill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super AIDS. A teaspoon of that in your butt and you're dead in a month...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Volcanoes. Unpredictable and lay dormant for years and then the next thing you know your town is missing. Yellow Stone is said to be pretty violent if it erupts.
patdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
actually volcanoes are predictable... earthquakes however....
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but if a big one of the larger dormant ones go off it does more than knock a few buildings down.
patdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:20 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes but a good geologist will predict volcanic activity weeks in advance so evacs can happen and only property is damaged.
Earthquakes strike with no warning and if you are in a non earthquake rated building your chances of becoming tomato jam/minced/crushed are pretty high. We have quakes a lot where I live and they still scare the bejesus out of me.
ethiopiapetition ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:47:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
governments
SharkBrew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human propensity for violence.
patdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings. We can be irrational, hateful and senselessly violent. We can also destroy the earth.
Thank goodness we are smart enough to realise that and be reasonable
sirbodanglelot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
necrotizing fasciitis
sousvidejob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hurricanes and tornadoes.
Whorrox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bright blue eye shadow
KoreaFoShoYo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
์์ค๋ง๋ค
poohster33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:56:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A motivated person with nothing to lose.
GunBrothersGaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take Goliath Birdeater for Scariest shit in the world for $500.
YOU-FUCKING-RETARD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders 0_o
OmicronMC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earthquakes.
It just comes out of nowhere and you end up just freezing up. Even if you don't freeze up, it is so hard to move, because the ground is literally shaking.
Source: Live in Nevada.
MachoNakedCarp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slow or no internet
ShunkIsDrunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
plenty of /r/im14andthisisdeep material here
forevergusta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but, there is also plenty of material that isn't what you mentioned.
optionalsilence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:00:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not having a serious tag when needed
smilingfemalemachine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:01:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes.
mracrawford ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super volcanoes
jean_aimart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes
cmath89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick sand
eastcoastelijah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is if would it you then do around something but that?
Knowatim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guilt... been feeling it a lot lately. It's the worst emotion I have ever had the misfortune to experience.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Viruses and / or Bio-weapons. Read Richard Preston's "the Hot Zone".
BiscuitOfLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervolcanoes.
BimboChristie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans itself
ManualRestart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Starving people
ManualRestart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
class struggle
ManualRestart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wars
Jean_Pierre_Genie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The North Yungas Road in Bolivia.
Laptraffik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain Eating Amoeba. Just small shit you can't see like literally every parasite thats not a tick.
gk3coloursred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola.
jewsain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
surprised nobody has said hard drugs yet.
_blacksanta_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
Brile24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:10:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mother-In-Laws
immrmessy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know the nuclear deterrent from the movie Dr Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), It actually exists.
Lord_Polska ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people
Micro_is_soft ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysm
OrphanMeat338 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
taxes
hiya_M8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of damage that can be caused by a single Trident 2 missile There's 14 Ohio Submarines in the US Navy there are 24 trident 2 missles on each
each missle carries 12 warheads each warhead has the explosive force of 475,000 tonnes of TNT In total the damage caused by just the ohio US submarine fleetis 1,915,200,000 To put that in perspective the bomb that dropped on hiroshima had the destructive force of only 15,000 tonnes of TNT killing about 75,000 people instantly
Only 8% of the worlds nuclear arsenal..................
jtioannou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa. That's end the world shit right there.
kaiden1226 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
beergoggler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bum hands. You ever think what would happen if a bum flicked your lip. Instant bum bump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
snazzykazzy99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Water, I heard that a 100% of people who drink water DIE...
BoxofLazers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes. You're just minding your own business then the ground decides to have you for lunch.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fukishima
thejobelly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
Coreytrevor92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tornadoes just ask Dorothy!
DatThundersnatchDoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cassowary. Sure they're in Australia NOW. But it's only inevitable that some dumbass wants one as an exotic pet and it gets out. Invasive assassin species.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fear of someone finding out my asshole was stained blue for two weeks. You can't just explain that shit
PsyCrowX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people.
iheart2code ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just learned about Steven Johnson Syndrome earlier today and it's got me pretty scared. I wouldn't advise Googling it.
billyboru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the animals in Australia. So many things that can kill ya, mate.
Junius_Bonney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is entirely possible that you are a self-aware mind that just popped into existence, complete with memories and your current circumstances, that will cease to exist in an instant, as a result of random fluctuations in a high-entropy Universe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
BitOBear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The entire idea of parasites, and the fact that as a class, parasites are the single most successful kind of organism in all nature.
Worms crawling out of my eyes and liver? Why who could as for anything more?
Aturom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student loans
jjmitchell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American politicians
spyvspyvspy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles. Fear is their bacon bits.
Yankee_Fever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My huge cock
PM_ME_GOBLINS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...rape?
BenW95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Ocean, or humans.
Fusion516 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death at any moment. I was walking across the street and passed in front of a train. As it passed behind me, I quickly saw another train going the opposite direction. So at that moment I was stuck between them. Only a foot or so of space between myself and both the trains. Scary shit.
forevergusta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
at lease you'll have an instant death.
NamesNotRudiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
OPTIK_STAR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
OrangeredValkyrie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to be an edgelord or anything, but I'd say humans. The variance is what makes it scary. The new friend you've made might be a lovely person or they might be planning on killing you and burying you in their basement. Or throwing your limbs into acid.
And frankly, nature is nature. Nature does what nature does for various reasons regardless of whether we enjoy them or not. But a human being willfully torturing another human, someone they know is conscious and aware of what's going on? That's some scary shit right there.
mutteringInsano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean our planet.
pixelSHREDDER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asteroids
Mr_M3thod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes
luigi1fan1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sexy wall fucks.
con77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
spiders
anordinarybadger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of another world war breaking out. Think about the damage that would be done with today's weapon.
iamsheena ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you could be kidnapped and turned into a slave and no one would know. The fact that there are so many slaves around the world in 2016. Some dark things out there created by humanity.
BLKWD_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mans natural attraction to evil
dimoviktor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings, by far
eiasuka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. They're terrifying
CatxTurtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. You never know just who you're talking to.
nikhild__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
Beer_in_an_esky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sheer uncaring enormity of the world. The straight up possibility that you can do everything perfectly; succeed in friendship, love, finances, everything... and the universe will still find a way to crush you to dust and, what's more, it won't even remember your existence a blink in the cosmic timescale from now.
itssobadomg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:26:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Concept of torture.
Pburg34 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Artificial Intelligence
HughJorgens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola. If you enjoy sleeping at night, don't read The Hot Zone.
Invokationz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
DukeOfGeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. sadly in to late for anyone to see it.
mrpopenfresh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia and/or things you find in Australia.
ljcarter1906 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cockroaches
barto5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great White Shark
It will eat you alive and like it. Plus, it's got cold, dead eyes. Like a doll's eyes...
augoldfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bobbit worms
bobbybittman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness.
To paraphrase Chris Rock talking about marriage: We have two choices in life. We can be miserable, or we can be lonely. And EVERYBODY chooses miserable.
blackhawk007one ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life. Most planets don't have it. It's scary as Fuck. Source: Alive and conscious
Schleckenmiester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep Paralyses tries to shiver
NeonPredatorEnt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Human Mind
double-meat-fists ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
human induced environmental destruction
Kaioxygen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings, by a long way.
evivelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Disease's like Mad Cow Disease caused by misfolded proteins called prions.
The disease is not a bacteria or a virus, it is reconfiguration of proteins that can spread like wild fire. There is no cure because there is no microbe. It is your body mis-folding its own proteins.
It can be transmitted by blood, and theoretically could effect your body similar to ice-nine from "Cat's Cradle"
999999999989 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
sitomaniac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity's capacity for cruelty, destruction. And evil
amadprofeser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
darkone237 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fear it's self
no1_vern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time.
CryptidGrimnoir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire whirls. They are literally whirlwinds made of fire.
BiffManly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lampreys.
No, scratch that, deep water.
You know what, fuck the ocean.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
False rape accusation. No joke it's not even funny how easily someones life can be ruined from that.
kootrell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tigers bro. They are terrifying.
Th3HedonismBot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
King Cobras
ghost_sanctum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
iKickComputers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably climate change.
RyanDestroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Box jellyfish
ChocolateAndrew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human caused climate change.
SnowmanAK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AIDS
Hivac-TLB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That fish that can swim up your urethra.
STDs too. For those that are sexually active.
lost_in_aus84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to reddit, Australia
revscat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. Not even close.
theherothelegend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nukes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A PTSD flashback
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators, crocodiles and brain aneurysms
Elminster_Aumar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delta P is pretty scary...
aliblackcat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The weather.
liberaces_taco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The giant Yellowstone volcano.
stephen1547 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
coreanavenger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thinking of the worst thing you can imagine doing to someone and knowing someone has done worse at some point.
Ilikeporsches ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
mkhpsyco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious fanatics. Including all religions that have them. Especially scientologists.
Ultimatepurpose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
poop_giggle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like that goblin sharks are real.
Also the ocean. Not afraid of the water but more like what creepy giant monstrosity is lurking down in the depths.
BragnarImmortal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Just listen to any serial killer, or really any psychopath confess to their crime. Listening to someone explain how they violently murdered someone with literally ZERO fucks to give is absolutely chilling.
Mortimist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us
Based_Dan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
irukandji jellyfish
j3rbear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons... the amount of shit they can level instantly is pretty horrifying
matahdatah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heroin. Heroin ruins addicts. Heroin wrecks families. Heroin destroys trust. Heroin burns money. Heroin generates crime. Heroin decimates communities. Heroin makes a man believe he is a superman. Heroin makes one sleepy, all the time. Heroin makes somebody into a nobody. Heroin tricks minds into loving the loser lifestyle. Heroin causes unintentional suicides. Heroin buries people. Heroin.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well this is a plant that stings you and hurts so bad people and animals have killed themselves to escape the pain which last for months to year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
nl1004 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not surprisingly, it's from Australia.
Toast_With_Jam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit.com/r/creepy
bucketfarmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ALS. Fuck that shit. Your body basically slowly shuts down, but you remain completely lucid.
Mattknight19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Psychiatric Prisons I think. Imagine spending a night there as a sane person.
Kendallkip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
htd88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grizzly bears
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance and apathy.
Richguy14u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WIFE!!!
Urgullibl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Neutron Bomb.
tritiumhl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. The planet that we have lived on for the past 10 thousand years is going to be gone very soon. We can act now to lessen the effects, but things are going to change drastically at this point, no way around that.
kingjoey52a ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia. Everything there will kill you and they have terrible internet.
Electric_Balls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasps. Especially when you're trapped naked in a room with one.
chokemo_girls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For your consideration
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why... Why does it need a mouth inside its mouth...
Breakyerself ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hydrogen Bombs.
DFTBAwesome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rockfish stings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockfish
Dkjq58 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone in the Midwest tornadoes scare the shit out of me.
Johnmiachels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
voyaging ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Torture.
kinokomushroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole planet. It's so delicate.
ShadeThief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Words... They're the whole way we communicate. While many of the other mentioned things are scary because they may harm or kill you, words have a much deeper power. Countries go to war over words, people kill their children over words, people can go insane and lose themselves over words, people kill themselves because of words. This isn't something that you'll never run across in your life or have a very small chance of experiencing. Every single day we talk hundreds, thousands of times. To think that every word we utter may have a much larger impact they we can imagine is profound, terrifying.
yanroy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being wrongfully convicted of a crime
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that no matter how civilised and progressive we think we are, every first world nation still keeps an armed defence force at its side in case another country's government want to start some shit and invade.
We really haven't come that far, when you look at it like that.
negroflaco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people
repeat- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons are up there for me.
technobass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance and the serious lack of common sense.
Miket1533 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Section2F ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women
Hotcarl321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
yarzospatzflute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In terms of having a potential to do harm, the human race.
Sam_MMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Juan de Fuca superquake. Could happen now or in the next hundred years. Probably going to kill me when if it happens in my lifetime.
No point worrying about it now though.
vilpachu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. We can kill (and have) any creature on the planet.
DaKrazyKid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
MarshmallowBlue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bears. And i havent even seen the revenant yet.
Squirtacus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
King_Kayamon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the human capacity for evil
Doctor__Acula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysms - you can be happily going about your day at any stage, at any age and BAM. You're dead.
tc2007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Caldera below Yellowstone National Park.
Smokescreen7117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alone
LeFriendzonedNiceguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
presentexplorer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Home invaders who are into torture/rape/murder.
King-Spartan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
mihai2me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The inherent greed within all of us that will inevitably doom us all.
verpus77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Kangshimeng ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
jinbaittai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. People are fucked up.
realbigbob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
Monkeydong129 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain anuerysms. THEY'RE THE SILENT KILLER LANA
Daforce1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mega tsunamis which could race towards our coasts as thousands of feet tall walls of pure water and energy. They are only a really large land slide or a comet strike away and could have devastating effects on some of the most populated areas on Earth.
imadethisdickbuttmug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overpopulation
AWildCookieMonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Duckbill platypus, those buggin things can produce venom that will leave you in pain for weeks
_TheRogue_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings.
TarnishedOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Psychopaths and Sociopaths - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201401/how-tell-sociopath-psychopath
Keurigirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming
SteakIntake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans can be pretty scary
non_chalance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
periodical cicadas. Its basically one of moses' great plagues
Jaz_the_Nagai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
life, responsibility, reality and failure.
pdonoso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Free will
Shockeye0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A giant tsunami that can take out the entire east coast of north America. It's not a matter of if but of when.
ultrachilled ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love. It is a great thing but it also can fuck you up. Love makes people do crazy shit.
MuseoftheAges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mouth of a basking shark. It's like a gateway to nightmares
toxicpenguin5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The elephant's foot. A huge mass of chernobylite, a mix if molten reactor core and cement that emits enough radiation to kill a person with less than 5 minutes of exposure. When it was discovered, they had to use a mirror to take pictures because the radiation broke the camera.
D-DayDodger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I've always been terrified of ghosts. Goblins, demons, fairies and all that stuff is culture specific, but ghosts are something that have been reported by many different cutures and are still being seen today. I set up a camera in an empty house for five minutes to try to hear the same footsteps my friend was hearing and sure enough, when I checked the footage, I heard five CLEAR footsteps from nowhere walk towards the camera, make the camera adjust and focus it's microphone, then walk five more steps away into nothingness. I also have some footage of my buddy and I in a barn and we didn't hear it then, but when we checked the footage after, you hear a young kid's voice go "Hiiii!" Fucking freaked me out so much. One other time, during my dad's wake, my brother's friend was driving my niece home and my niece turns beside her and goes "Grandpa's right next to me!" And she starts giggling. My brother's friend and his girlfriend just white-faced the whole car ride.
If you didn't know already, I believe in ghosts.
mhyang ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Lakanooky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
fartfind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asteroids..they can wipe out everything in an instant. Plus there are soooo many of them flying past earth all the time....
Mrsg19812015 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life...
russiangerman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles, but then again, maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
Cullen_Bohanon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me, it would be climate change and possibly dying because the Earth gets too fucked up to salvage.
hitch21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion. Because it encompasses the worst of human nature. Tribalism, xenophobia, mandated hatred and probably the worst is believing things based on no evidence or faith as they kindly put it.
It's far from our only problem in the worle but it underpins some of the worst regimes in the world and war between religions has killed millions and violence between sects causes a large number of deaths each day.
Where it once brought people together and laid down a moral framework it now pushes us apart and fragments us. Moreofer, it's moral framework isn't close to modern ethics and so it is outdated. Read the books as history because that is what they should be by now.
santaismysavior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fuzzwell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but the Demon Core is terrifying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core because one instant it's ok, and the next instant with the wrong turn of a screwdriver it kills everyone around.
The reason it's so scary is that I make metal parts for scientists and Engineers that do this type of thing sometimes and it's so scary to think that they might kill themselves with something that "seems" harmless.
IcedZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was going to say climate change, but I think that could be encompassed by religion... tough call.
Galaxy_Ranger_Bob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Outdoors.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola.
A_BOMB2012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
Silencio051 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heroin withdrawal.
HITMANxsv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reality
Brahmus168 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any kind of mental illness. The idea of literally losing your mind scares the shit out of me. And almost everyone will have some sort of experience with it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
AH_Ethan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the elephants foot.
SaveMyElephants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
SageC_Random12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
jordanlund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those carniverous worms that could be hiding in your fish tank RIGHT NOW.
https://youtu.be/3H4J5QDQeA4
TheTinyTim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Night terrors. Waking up and thinking something so terrifying is so real, but knowing in the very back of your mind it isn't only to snap back to reality after a minute or so. Then you sit up terrified that you can't even trust your brain anymore. After I got raped, it started happening to me. THAT is the scariest encounter.
MagamanX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Transparent affirmative action
Kryptomonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Glassclose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the scariest real thing in my opinion is the idea that our very reality could be a simulation via VR.
BruceElMoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unplanned uncertainty.
I mean, if you get old and your mental health deteriorates, not knowing where you are or who is around you is terrifying, I've seen it happen to too many loved ones.
Waiting for the doctor to tell you if that lump on your skin is just a mole, or a life threatening disease? People panics or shut down.
Significant other not responding to your messages/calls for a couple hours? Are they cheating? Did they get in a fatal car wreck? Or just forget their phone on their bed while doing laundry? Chances are you don't contemplate the last one without the other two bugging you.
Car is making sounds? How expensive will it be? Will you even be able to make it to a mechanic?
Unplanned uncertainty has caused me the most amount of panic over the most pathetic situations.
I blame television.
Yoyoembry0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sex trafficking
Blueathena623 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowledge of my own mortality
pseudonarne ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:13:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
reasonable assumption of your own mortality. technically your immortality has yet to be disproved
(barring some tragedy taking place between when you said this and my reply :/ )
Blueathena623 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True. However, I think the eventual destruction of the earth and potential collapse of the universe puts the probability of my eventual demise damn near 1, and that's even assuming that I manage to break all known records of human longevity. And immorality holds almost as many terrors as mortality.
Sav_ij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The greatest danger ill face is another human
AmazingKreiderman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume some animal from Australia.
Paulsan94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
enterfunnyusername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything they keep in the CDC
alaska56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quicksand
fuzzwell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Goiรขnia accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident which could happen again because of people stealing scrap metal and parts from an abandoned medical facility.
redeyealien ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the unknown.
SecretMensBusiness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exploding Gum Trees
drevarus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. We exterminate entire species on a regular basis.
Killtrend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That waterfall that no one knows where it empties to.
Devils something or other.
Zero-Two ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us
Pizzaman211 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
GrimmjowJaggerjack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, it's the most simple thing that's most frightening. Death will come to us all. It's unavoidable, our true destiny as living beings. Even the most oldest trees wither away. We are all born to die.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:33:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's true until it isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
johnnyhammerstixx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opiate addiction.
yourmumlikesmymemes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Common people, empowered to believe they should have a say in the greater fate of humanity.
windseeker242 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans (they have nukes!) with cataclysmic events like a super volcanos or mega tsunamis are a close second.
.
Here watch this. It'll cheer you up!
. https://youtu.be/Qv36YqNM20k
RenegadeGeophysicist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buried, but as a geophysicist? Humans. We are, at the far end, 100 years from complete biosphere destruction. And there is nothing we will do to fix it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bot flies
Ennion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any hemorrhagic fever.
poof_404 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Back when I was a little kid it was quicksand. Now, to me, it's probably prison.
khegiobridge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tsunamis. That the water can silently begin rising up and flow onto the land and crush everything in it's path is just amazing to me.
Scudstock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mega-Volcano
YoBitchCheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Drama_Derp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying slow, alone and knowing you won't be remembered.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bird eating spiders.
ApocolypseCow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds really silly, but death... no one knows what to expect. number 2? Spiders obviously.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:09:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
r/longevity
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:18:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:22:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not mine... if you don't want to click the link, search for "Aubrey de Grey Ted Talk"
Don't watch the 08 one as it's out of date.
xVoluntasx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mariana Trench
-the deepest part of the world's oceans
-some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11,034 metres (36,201 ft)
-who knows what kind of things lurk down there
idontreadfineprint ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flesh eating bacteria
Cyberus01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man.
SpeakerRob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weaponized smallpox.
Xyphion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mother nature. Can create the most catastrophic events at the drop of a hat.
whatwhynope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer.
Doctor__Ew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Creatures in the ocean...
boobsmcgraw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people. Definitely other people.
In terms of the actual earth, probably the ocean.
IronLunchBox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean.
B00TYMASTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis... and to take it up a notch, Anesthesia awareness
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Storm while in the sea.
RazarTuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
steven8765 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
australia and everything in it.
retardedsquirrl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The elephants foot in chernobyl
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The wandering spider. The most venomous spider, covers a few kilometres a day, it's bite can kill a small child, causes painful erections for males that destroy the genitalia and I'm not sure what it does to women
mandipantz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever the hell this thing is.
tinod1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tubifex Worms :)
Droku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
jonnyredshorts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Japanese Hornet
bluemountain_lucky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. Your own body turns against itself.
sdo17yo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That super volcano ready to erupt under Yellowstone. If it does bye bye human race.
CorgiRocket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
Chopedada ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans i would say.
nico_tate07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politics. In a war, nowdays, with the nuclear power and actual technology, politicians/presidents/dictators can destroy the whole world and put an end to the human life.
Phanes_Protogonos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity. I don't think I need to explain...
jmac217 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
AgentEmbey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man-made stuff like nuclear weapons. The super volcano in Yellowstone. That Cone snail in Brazil....
keeplayer109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meningitis. You or a loved one could be dead very quickly.
ShittyMexican ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's cliche as fuck, but humans are the scariest thing on this planet. Yeah getting eaten by a shark is fucked up, but what about being subjected to an iron maiden?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HIV. Cancer. Alzeheimers. Dementia. HeartAttacks.
p00p_stain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SIDS. You put your child down to sleep and it never wakes up. And they don't know what causes it.
kingpiss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alzheimer's Disease. The idea of dying without remembering your life seems like the worst possible fate.
em3am ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? You won't know it.
swaggerqueen16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
suesays ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not knowing if conspiracies are real or not. Also how much the government is keeping from us, and Area 51.
deathcrisis24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans and you can guess why.
coalminnow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If, starting now, you stay sitting wherever you are and do nothing for the next three days, you will die. Dehydration is scary man
captaintaco2345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time itself. It can't be slowed down, it can't be stopped, and it can't be repeated. No one can escape it.
Igotnothingatall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coconut crab
majorfoodie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Caldera in Yellowstone.
QuietLittleVoice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
spiders.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing that swims up your piss hole and calls it home when you go swimming.
lsweetie7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting sucked into a tunnel in the ocean.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. We fucked up earth so much in a short period of time.
ShaneDAWS0N ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Demodex, they are little mites that live in your pores and eye lash follicles. At night they have sex on your face and then they go back into your pores.
Seems made up right?
http://www.businessinsider.com/there-are-tiny-mites-crawling-all-over-your-face-2014-8
Here's a close up of the little guy aww adorable isn't he?
Sometimes they overrun your eyelashes and you have to get cream to treat it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
DingDongDumper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That no matter how healthy you are you can have an aneurysm and die.
soberdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I may be late, but I haven't seen this yet.
Brain Tumors like the one that affected Charles Whitman
throwitdontshowit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
House centipedes...if google image wasn't enough....try youtube. Actually pretty common too
Jessicauhmazing1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. We continue to build as we destroy.
IConTrollYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Electricity. It only takes less than 12mA of current across your heart to cause ventricular fibrillation, then you're dead.
1TheBlackRanger5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes
YerAs5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
rtx447 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators, and Brain aneurysms
darybrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Locked-in Syndrome where you are effectively locked into your own mind due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. If you're really unlucky you'll suffer from Total Locked-in Syndrome wherein the eyes are also paralysed. Throughout the paralysis all senses are fine so you can feel pain and still see and hear everyone around, but cannot communicate it. There is no known cure and it is extremely rare for any significant motor function to return. Historically many patients are simply thought of as unconscious or when respiratory control is lost, simply dead and are buried or cremated alive. Really fuck that shit!
MrBriggs360 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is so horrific it blows my mind. When I get sleep paralysis for 15-20 seconds I blow a gasket inside
f1ne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Centipedes!!!!!
Five_Decades ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chronic nerve pain. People's bodies getting fucked up and their nerves sending pain signals to the brain. I've heard people who have cluster headaches (a form of nerve pain due to activation of the trigeminal nerve) say they would rather be tortured than go through another headache.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Angler Fish
ckinz16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer, debilitating mental illness, and spiders
Dremlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mega Tsunamis
Earthquake or landslide created. Wondering if I will see Cascadia fault line slip in my lifetime.
OhioMegi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unsolved deaths- Dyatlov Pass, Talmund guy, etc.
tenzigshowtime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
RFCwhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bobbit Worm. Honestly the only animal I have ever seen that looks like it was created by Satan himself. Look it up
Edit 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4J5QDQeA4 here's a good video
fsjd150 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tornadoes. about all you can do when you HEAR the damn thing coming is pray it misses you.
juanpontoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing it to stupid foretold human behaviors such as global warming.
Misteroctobers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing a child and total paralysis.
Gandolos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lava, like volcano lava. Fuck you nature you crazy!
duki512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an adult, I'm scared of kidney stones the most.
StickyBritches15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being eaten alive my these
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. There are people who will rape, dismember, destroy and desecrate you, your body and the people you love if they're given the chance.
Grimzkhul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysms
jherndez96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks. No doubt
themojomike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola
71hondascrambler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people who live on it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People and their brains. We have the brain power to make weapons of mass destruction. Our brains allow us to rationalize truly horrific acts. The worst part is, the more the brainpower a person has, the more certain they are right.
I'm sure some happy clappy people will chime in with the great things we've done...but think about it a moment, our greatest accomplishments were (and are) directly the result of the suffering of many, and the brain of a person or people who thought that was A-OK.
myztry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right and wrongly are largely determined by perspective. Things can thus be both right and wrong at the same time.
If you went for an outside perspective, say aliens, then you'd probably find most of what we do is wrong.
At least that's what they'll tell themselves as they remove us from the planet.
bman9422 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cancer
Underblade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity
Sop102 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
KallistiTMP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
crimson-adl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant squid.
You can fuck right off with that shit
STASXiC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
bumbletowne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clathrate gun
Bobbit worm
themikeswitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super disasters that could cause a major extinction event. A large meteor strike or a super volcano...
Game over man
availablemechanic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HUMANS!
NewYorkMutt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that both sides of your family come with a long history of alcohol abuse, Alzheimer's, dementia, neuroblastoma, and breast cancer. And not knowing which one, or any will get passed on to you, and which ones will you pass on.
Lachwen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dissociative fugue. You can literally wake up one day as a completely different person mentally. Different personality, different desires. No memory of your previous self. When the fugue state finally ends, you go back to your previous self without any memory of anything from the time you were in the fugue. They have no idea what ultimately causes it (though it appears it can be triggered by stress) and, while exceedingly rare, it apparently can happen to anyone regardless of their mental health status.
pieslapper17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders. Fucking spiders.
Spacejack_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Numbers stations are pretty damn creepy. They're like this distant reminder, this little creepy voice that, it turns out, is pretty much EXACTLY the insidious thing it appears to be.
lepetitdejeuner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ourselves.
alpacapicnic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming!
dentendre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The droughts and severe fluctuations in weather across the globe. We will soon find nations fighting over fresh water more than anything else unless we really work hard towards finding a solution to this whole global warming and accepting the fact for one sincere time that we messed it up!
JustDroppinBy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone National Park. When it blows, the U.S. goes, and a new ice age begins via the nuclear winter effect.
sybau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That protein disease that doesn't allow you to sleep.
Beanstudd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having knowledge of our own mortality.
VintageDrumBum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans growing inhumanity to each other.....
Josephinethesquirrel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Locked in syndrome.
Christiangrey1122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
dsailo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pollution and people who deny it exists.
Treebone_Dickrat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons
samtravis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The yellowstone super-volcano.
izzypop112 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Candiru.Those fish that will barb their way up your pee hole.
Emocmo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being falsely accused of a crime and going to jail. That would suck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes are pretty terrifying
copiouscuddles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quite possibly the Manchineel tree. THIS FUCKING TREE...http://www.odditycentral.com/news/the-manchineel-worlds-most-dangerous-tree-for-several-reasons.html
phearoids44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a human is capable of.
Gunslinger_11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australian wildlife.
Xonite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
Threefingered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dihydrogen Hydroxide
Qu4ttro87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer.
tempest590 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Locked-in syndrome. You're awake. You can see and breathe, but all voluntary function is gone. To many, you appear like a brain-dead vegetable. You lay there staring at the ceiling wondering if your doctor is smart enough to know what's happening, or if they decide to be charitable and donate this "brain-dead man's" kidney.
Duckarooie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysms
ItsDazzaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dimethylmercury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn
ChronickX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Infected mosquitos
KottonQueen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about Human Combustion?
Zenmasterthis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Biological technologies, materials and know-how capable of wiping-out 80% of humanity in a fortnight will soon be within the reach of 22-year-old university graduate students who can't get a date.
ReddEdIt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War. War includes all of the other terrors, including but not limited to: bombs; nukes; chemical weapons; guns; extreme pollution & environmental destruction; death at sea; disease pandemics; shrapnel & other methods of mangling flesh; beheadings; rape; imprisonment & torture; angrily invading foreigners; death by dangerous crawly things; democracy-destroying fascist demagogues rallying the unthinking population against a violent cause; violent racism; religious extremism; dying slowly, painfully and alone; death of loved ones and family members and slavery.
The_MadCalf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cassowaries. They are living velociraptors in allow every sense. As expected, they are commonplace in Australia.
Madscotsman11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental disease scares me the worst. I have moderate depression and moderate/severe anxiety and it does its best to run my life. And i do my best to fight it. Theres days where i dont want to exist, but at the same time i am too scared to do anything about it so i just lay in bed all day. Ive never considered suicide. I wouldnt ever do it. But then on the other hand i fight it by being around my family. My niece. And my god brother/ sister. They are the ones that neutralize the depression and anxiety the best. I wouldnt want anyone to go through this without some type of support group. Even if its their family. If anyone needs to talk ill talk as long as you want. I know what its like. That feeling of helplessness. Cracking into pieces. Just so someone wont be alone.
khalify_84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
L0G96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming.
NovelTeaDickJoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Genetic modification. In a better age, the key to unlimited human potential. In our current world, the societal implications could not be overstated. If you have not seen Gattaca, go watch it now.
techiesgoboom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toxoplasmosis. Up to half of the worlds population is affected (23% in US, 95+% in some areas of the world. Traditionally it is believed to cause no symptoms in healthy adults although research points to a scary coloration between infection and: automobile accidents, OCD, parkinson's, alzheimers, suicide, and bipolar disorder.
Now coloration is not causation so it may be likely that people prone to these issues are also prone to certain other behavioral tendencies that make them more susceptible but also know that studies prove that infection causes a change in rodent behavior
Spider191 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing all sense of touch, sight, speech, smell, and hearing, but not being able to communicate with anyone to just kill you.
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Overpopulation.
UGALaxBro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great. White. Fucking. Sharks. I mean c'mon they are the perfect for of evolution. Made to kill anything and everything
Spigdig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming.
The-Strange-Remain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings, if it wasint said already Humans could only harbor scary ideas, pathogens and acts.
xaphanos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deep time. How thoroughly inevitable oblivion is. All of humanity doesn't (and will never) warrant mention in any unbiased history of earth. Much less the universe.
rainbowgodslayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tasachs. You're born with a genetic disease that slowly erodes your nervous system until you die, the whole time in pain. You usually die around the age of three. It's a genetic disease oddly caried by akanantin Jews. Just another one of those many ways that God reminds us how much he loves us.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*Tay-Sachs. *Ashkenazi Jews.
vauvau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
JiggSawLoL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The realization that at any time, you can catch a disease, get hit by a car, or even die. And after a few years people will forget about you, and you will nit be remembered. So IMO. Reality is fucking scary.
uzamakinezi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings with no empathy n sympathy are the most scariest
whereismymind86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Chernobyl area is up there, beyond that, flesh eating diseases and big spiders probably.
Krabo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human botflies. Actually, any botflies.
hamhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
blackandwhite_tk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. Because it's so likely (in comparison to some of the other things listed).
cantrememberaccts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Methane hydrates could take us to an unlivable planet very quickly. The last generation could be alive today.
stacksmasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Turns insects into Zombies....
WhiteBenCarson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:59:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People that lack empathy
california_wombat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bears
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
henazo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anatoxin-a AKA "very fast death factor" molecule.
sofis_litzankat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep ocean.
syndus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are.
petit_cochon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
We gon' fuck ourselves right off this planet. Seriously, what species is so bad at life that it prepares to colonize other planets rather than uniting to not destroy the planet it is already living on? We are some arrogant mofos. On the plus side, though, I do enjoy air conditioning and we had a pretty good run!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola. Seriously. Fuck that.
Once you contract it, you're covered in it pretty quickly. By the time you get through the initial symptom (headache), pretty much everyone in your immediate vicinity is more than likely affected. Usually, from onset of symptoms to death is a week to 10 days. A painful, miserable death.
Imagine some guy eats a monkey-meat sandwich in Africa and gets on a plane the next day to New York City. He's touched multiple common surfaces on the plane (bathroom door, arm rests, seat belts, his trash, overhead compartments) that inevitable gets touched by other passengers. All of the people who have touched those surfaces are potentially infected, so now they start spreading. Plane touched down in NYC and everyone gets out and goes out into the city or carries on to their destinations. The virus quickly spreading. It could get out of control FAST.
Innerv8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
hugaw1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
geodebug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The most dangerous game: Man.
mcm120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Viruses. They are going to be the largest downfall of the human race and we have no idea how to stop most of them.
burnttoasttumor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people who live here.
McKoijion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Rabies. It's the closest thing to becoming a zombie. You get it from animal bites and a month or so later, become really excited, move controllably, become deathly afraid of water, and try to bite other people. If you get a vaccine within a few days after exposure, there is a 100% survival rate. But if you don't get it before symptoms appear, it's a near 100% death rate. Only three people have ever survived.
hanesbro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great White Sharks.
gRRacc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People, because no matter what other thing you say is scarier, there is someone that would intentionally put you, your family, and your friends through it, for their personal pleasure.
Bigboy_nicelegs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our own brains. I mean shit, those bastards named themselves.
Ivana_Karamazov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As Socrates says in the Gorgias, to do injustice is the worst thing there is.
modestthoughts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people
SquidJeans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fluorine. It's extremely reactive and almost everything it reacts with becomes lethal in small quantities
-zara ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire. It is probably the absolute most painful way to die/be injured. If you survive, you have to have your scars scrubbed away to prevent infection. Also you'll be disfigured.
apalawat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
I_Squanch_My_Family ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, for me it's suddenly losing a loved one. My dad died of cancer six and a half years ago when I was 15. Because of an important lesson he taught me I was able to get through it as easily as a person could get through losing their best friend. He had once told me that we were luckier than a lot of people. He may have been dying, but we knew he was and we had time to spend together before it happened. He told me that it was lucky that we were given that chance, that we still had time. He told me that many people lose loved ones unexpectedly, and without saying goodbye, sometimes regretting saying the last things they said to them. I miss him so much, but I the time we spent together knowing he was leaving was amazing and I'm glad we had that opportunity.
AceBacker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its a repost but the answer is humans are the scariest thing on earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rrzax/reddit_im_drunk_and_easily_impressed_what_is_the/c48c5gq
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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K1ngN0thing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once had a sleep paralysis experience that convinced me I'd never be sane again. The abject terror. If felt as if my mind were being ripped in two.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Locked in syndrome
SemperFiGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bobbit Worm
jmelchio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wars. I've never fought in a war but from stories that I've heard from veterans and documentaries like this really make me think about how scary and how fucked up people get from fighting in them.
spinquin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my opinion it would probably be the unknown people always fear the unknown and plus it's ridiculously scarry how much we don't know about the universe
Rarylith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weaponry.
ThePsychicDefective ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain Aneurysm.
CormacMccarthy91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Box jellyfish and parasites.
archertheduchess1990 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Small town police forces and courts (a la Steven Avery)
belevitt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cottonmouth snakes can get West Nile virus.
Devosanchez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your imagination.
asianwaste ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keystones. I mean I know it's a time tested technique for centuries. But ever since I found out that's how arches work, I always look up in mistrust whenever I pass under an arch. If I can I say fuck go around.
For god's sake man, put a pillar in there.
primase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings.
Janitor3333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans of course.
Nothing worse than torture, scary to think you could be abducted any moment and have your fingernails torn of 1 by 1.
YodasTinyGreenPenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking snapping turtles. Oh look at that cute turtle, I'm going pick it up so it doesn't get it by a car. Oh look, that cute turtle just bit off 4 of my fingers.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cancer
Rye_Architorture ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a fish that swims up your urethra and lays it's eggs in the Amazon. If that's not bad enough you then die. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru
PDplante ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life itself
xrisld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
NYstate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How easy it is to spread a biological weapon using insects.
See Entomological Warfare
Insectย vectorsย are easily gathered and their eggs easily transportable without detection. Isolating and delivering biological agents, on the other hand, is extremely challenging and hazardous.
phome83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
The consensus at the moment is that we're essentially fucked.
tennorabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
flesh eating bacteria.
ILikeRomanNumerals ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does our imagination count? I mean it's really a thing. Fuck imagination
silverleafx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Hazzzyharris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
Burkstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man
pandab34r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people. The capacity that other people have to hurt and kill their fellow man is terrifying. The reckless driving, the lack of respect for life, the theft, the burglary, the torture, the violence, the rape, the enslavement, the murder, the hate. Human nature's capacity for evil is the scariest thing on our planet and it is very, very real.
admiral_snap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Morgellons disease.
Dreadcrustacean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life.
kevsup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People with malicious intent
Chromedinky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People up there are like. O ocean scurry. And it is.
But goddam have you ever heard of kinetic bombardment. That actually keeps me up at night.
majorthrownaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone.
Daveleeog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are certainly a large amount of scary things in nature, but it's really hard to answer objectively. I have three scariest things that I rate in no particular order.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of meta but: quantum mechanics.
Basically; in quantum mechanics - things exist yet don't exist until measured at the fundamental level.
You are made of things that don't exist yet exist only when someone checks.
Reality is possibly not real.
whitney20z ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just checked. We're good.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:35:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And on this day, the world was saved by Whitney20z. We will forever be in debt.
egalroc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An asteroid slamming into it.
kilokilo78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Conndel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:21:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hippos. Swim fast, run fast, and have jaws of death. 2nd deadliest animal to humans behind mosquitos.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
JackAndy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my experience? Natural things. Drowning is horrifying, I've experienced it twice. Nothing really beats the power of water except maybe the power of wind. A hurricane doesn't have anything on a Tornado. After that, lightning.
kar1m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my dicc
miss0davis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sleep paralysis. I woke up fully conscious, unable to move any part of my body. This would also include my mouth which itched to scream for help. I live alone, and god damn. When your body thinks you are dreaming, but your mind is fully in gear, talk about legitimate, paralyzing fear.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that's happened to me twice before. scary fucking situation. i just remember thinking WTF. how can i not move
Actual_princess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:22:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irukandjiย
Deadly little motherfuckers most of the time, excruciating all of the time, nearly invisible and probably coming to a beach near you. theyre spreading and they probably arent one species but many. Tiny tiny jellyfish.
evergreenelise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of good ones here, but just in case it isn't here already: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, or Stone Man Disease.
ichigo2862 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bobbit worms
Cleeq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scopolamine is pretty damned scary.
fluttika ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
3BetLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human race.
open_foot_pls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that at anywhere and at any time you could die from a freak accident. Imagine you're in bed about to go to sleep... Out of nowhere a meteor the size of a grain of rice come beaming throught your roof and into your fragile little brain. Or a drunk driver crashing through your house into your room.
That's always terrified me.
Real_Omar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man.
RocknRollPewPew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders. Make my skin crawl at the thought of them.
chemtl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โn = -1/12 i.e. 1+2+3+4+5+6+...+n = -1/12
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just goes to show how much we still have to learn.
norsehorsetorse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
killer whales
boysboysboys18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that what we actually see in real life is not actually when it's happening; but in the past because of the delay between the light reaching our optic nerve and our brain interpreting it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one day, there is a 100% chance that I am going stop existing on earth and fuck knows what I will experience or if the word experience will even makes sense. That and hairless chimps. Those things are fuckin terrifying.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are those the chimp's balls. fucking WTF
shamgar10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"scariest real thing on earth"
Top comment is a history lesson.......
benjiTK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying alone.
fanboat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the last time, it's my earth, I called it.
Rizzledrizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but Yellowstone.
ErgoNonSim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The god damn FLU. I've seen Contagion and now I'm terrified.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Primary Progressive Aphasia is pretty up there. The symptoms are forgetting everyday words progressively until you can't even comprehend spoken words. Eventually, you become and vegetable and shut down. It's usually the result of brain damage. No cure. Just imagine slowly loosing the ability to make yourself heard, and then understand your loved ones, knowing that you'll soon be wearing diapers and wasting away.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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heartbreak_tuna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An entire civilization annihilating another civilization in the most brutal, insane, and cruel ways. All because of arbitrary reasons that one imaginary presence is better than another.
natural_hunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not exactly what you said but look up the Armenian Genocide.
trunglefever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean remains a mysterious and dangerous thing that we have no real grasp of yet...it is a wonderful and terrifying thing.
Onlyhereforthelaughs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[Insert Blank] currently residing in Australia.
501points ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ISIS
sethhhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
male pattern baldness
eyelane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct my spelling please: scopolamin
astral-dwarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate chaos and a global food shortfall.
ManOfHart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we spent trillions of dollars to find a cure for aging, with some time we would find it. If 7 billion people are not aging, we are going to have some major problems with resources.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:28:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily. Japan's the longest lived and they're shrinking. As nations get more educated and technologically advanced, they have fewer kids. Without aging, women will also be able to wait much longer to have a child. All that failing, law could limit new births. Agree to wait 50 or 100 years to have your kid, or no anti-aging treatment, etc.
Also, it would probably take much less money to effectively end aging with this approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
ScumEater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that humans are pretty loosely strung together. On one hand it can take a lot to push someone over the edge, on the other you just snap!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the straw that breaks the camel's back
rkantos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unlimited money creation - or fractional reserve banking. Actually not money creation in itself, but the fact few people actually realize properly how our current economy and society is based and relies on it.
Easy-Tigger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me.
dreamerdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
spiders
mirkeo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Yellowstone Super Volcano. Just knowing that when it erupts, it will kill everything on the planet. Shouldn't be for awhile though.
154bmag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Govenment
FairwayToHeaven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those scary fish that walk on land to find more water. Fuck that.
MagicMoogle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not the scariest but farm implements and Power take offs. A power take off can simply be described as a shaft that spins at high speeds to operate tractor attachments. An unprotected PTO can easily catch clothing and take you on the worst ride of your life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My sister's jack Russell can read my mind. It's freaky.
X-3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please explain this phenomena.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think simple commands and he does them. He knows the names of his toys (before he destroys them). So i think "get froggy" and he goes and picks up his stuffed frog toy and comes back to me. Dogs do not understand language, just one or two word combinations. Yet I talk to him and he "understands". It's weird and really cool.
X-3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if you know this, but dogs are the only animal on earth that has evolved along side man as a companion. So a dog will do things for you, as a person, that they wouldn't do for their own kind. One trait all domestic dogs have is what your eyes are doing and the tone of your voice. Dogs are great visual learners so he/she might just be watching your eyes. My dog is like that.
Deezguyz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A dog with peanut butter on his balls...anyone?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A brain aneurysm could be developing inside of you right now, and unless you happen to get a CT scan in time, it could pop and kill you where you stand.
You'd be dead before your body hit the ground.
olseadog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's exactly how I want to go. Dead before I can feel it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out in the water, and all of a sudden, a great white bites off the bottom half of you
Tyrannusverticalis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
Cautious_Dingo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most critters found at the bottom of the ocean. They're down there for a reason.
amybaj007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of us have to watch our parents die..
DARUBE961 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wish i hadnt read this right before bed.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2016/03/04/0200000000AEN20160304001100315.html
auxillary-priest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The concept of love in its entirety
pmorgan726 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:35:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes.
robbingvegas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
Maxdoff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The future.
hey_chackers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
theasianzeus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasps, Fuck that shit m8
olseadog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White Anglo Saxon People?
theasianzeus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Mantis Shrimp!
GetMemedKiddo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins.
SuspiciousOfRobots ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Robots
aferrick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:39:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alone with my thoughts
llDurbinll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much any wild animal in Australia.
Taptap10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
dolyez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we will all someday die, probably.
Raz0rLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would have happened if the chernobyl divers chose not to pick a guaranteed excruciating death.
Fun fact. They were so irradiated at the time of death, they had to be buried in lead coffins that were soldered shut.
0614 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very fucking cliched answer, but the people.
There's the minority that are just completely fucking insanely evil (like Jesus Christ I feel like throwing up when I hear their way of thinking.) That's the cliched one, but none-the-less awful to think about.
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And then it's super fucking scary to realise that the majority of the population are very selfish regarding things that they can't see (horribly cruel regimes that occur in a far-off country that the average first world countryman chooses to stay away from.)
Just the whole "out of sight, out of mind" mentality. It's bad that it's a thing, it's fucking scary as Christ that it's a thing the majority of the population are into.
dood1337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that every single creature (human or animal) nearby could end your existence at any given moment, at a whim.
lennonbemis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd be more terrified of ending another's life. Especially accidentally.
UpToYou1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loving someone
Rocky87109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Salvia Divinorum
Pi2hro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That people belive in a flat earth ...lmao
Fuzz-Muffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
Toovya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. If society implodes on itself (One example -- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/48ujhq/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_on_our_earth/d0mu9zv) it's very scary.
As society moves more towards interacting with systems instead of humans, I think this risk becomes that much more dangerous. If you ever saw the movie In Time -- it's a very real scenario. Though just replace the "Time" aspect with access to money or access to food.
tonka0909 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politics
m3gamuff1n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that all those scary monsters and stories were made in the head of humans. We make our own nightmares.
Chyllaxyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Adulthood, nothing scarier then a car payment
Kjmcgee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A house payment.
Chyllaxyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Medical bills
Kjmcgee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cringe
Chyllaxyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First world problems sigh
DanielPowerNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
JibbityJabbity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little creatures that can swim up your pee pee.
bigcracker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bacteria. Right now you have 5 pounds of living things on your body that could possibly kill you.
butgasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yosemite park
hughesthewho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
fergalicioso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tornado. Something that big with that much force and just destroys everything in its path. Fuck those Mother Nature made monsters.
crochet-queen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vulnerability.
onlyusemepickaxe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
We Are No Different from Ants. No... We Are Far Worse
In all regards...
lol_camis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change I'd think. I use to think I'll be dead by the time it really starts fucking us up but now I'm not sure.
HateCopyPastComments ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google
xRMD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming.
kiblick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old aged serial killers that had to retire for health reasons.
vchunduru93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Fleef_and_peef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
Bellcurvegod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Navy_Turtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Severe Weather: Been through several tornadoes when I lived in Texas. I still have nightmares 15 yrs later.
nukepoland2k16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
polish statues
BbrotHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
airborne brain-destroying virus
Gzogzez88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies...real life zombie disease
armahillo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
botflies
ricrider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming
And that fact that no one has mentioned this yet scares me even more!
confusedandlostcow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honey badgers
PenguinOntheRoad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:48:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism
ricslash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Milos from Serbia
money_run_things ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Biological weapons. They are absolutely terrifying. During the late 1980s, the Soviet Union's Chimera Project studied the feasibility of combining smallpox and Ebola into one super virus.
They also have explored making "dormant viruses." These are viruses that would lay dormant for extended periods of time in the victim until they are triggered by a stimuli.
We could already be infected....
Dameleon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spook
cakeyogi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
zip99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository
http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/
What will be left when we're gone?
autobulb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The stuff that humans do to each other at their worst. Concentration camps, forced labor camps, torture, genocide, random killings and rapings, and so on. It makes the world feel like a terrifying place.
generalnotsew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Grizzly Bear. When parents tell kids monsters aren't real they are full of shit because Grizzly Bear exists. The only other thing that scared me as a child was Pablo Escobar. He was real and he would murder me in cold blood. Even as a little kid I knew this.
Gbcue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The end of plastic (due to lack of oil).
crazymudman123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know how no one mentioned it (I probably missed someone saying it), but resistance to antibiotics is a freaking terrifying. So many diseases and infections are treated using antibiotics and if those became obsolete we would have no way of treating them
Banthrau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tarantula Hawks.
the_bunny_the_bear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dementia is pretty damn scary. Alzheimer's etc.
What's even scarier is the prospect of becoming completely paralyzed but still conscious and trapped unmoving in your head.
Mr_wrong_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debt
N01R7H3BL4CK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debt
desertchoir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Encephalitis lethargica
Le_German_Face ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just watch this.
5shorts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
Dr_BILLCosby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Extreme sinkholes, imagine waking up in the middle one and for a second writing it off as a nightmare before you die.
8easy8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:53:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming. I'm no tree hugger but bad things are in progress as I type this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way governments work.
bonafidegiggles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super bugs..
I.e. tuberculosis that is no longer susceptible to antibiotics
Etonet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:54:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mhh life
NotOriginalOriginal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the government.
DaveyGee16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I've read through the thread, and I can't believe this hasn't come up yet: time.
For me, the scariest thing on our Earth is the notion that I only have a finite amount of time to spend with my loved ones, I only have a finite amount of time to accomplish my goals, and there is only a finite amount of time before I die.
I find those thoughts haunting, and thoroughly frightening. Everything else can be cured, fought, avoided, or requires human input. You can't cure the passage of time, you can't fight the passage of time, you can't avoid the passage of time, and it's completely unaffected by human input.
MaxKawasakii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reading Article "Amoeba first discovered in Australia"..... Oh I'll just add that one to the list
krankkinder12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
UrDoppelgangerBanger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death. Inevitable death.
K1ngN0thing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAwnA5WvLc
/r/longevity
i_said_no_mayonnaise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Serial killers
Yourponydied ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea currently
swantamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How humans treat non-human animals. Seriously, go watch:
Something less stomach churning, but also unpleasant is that sometimes people "die". Not by ceasing to live, but because the person that they were get replaced by the person that they become. Someone who loved you with all of their heart and who promised to stick it out to the end, can just be replaced by another person who looks like the former them, and sounds like the former them, and just no longer loves you. The former them is effectively dead, and you can do nothing about it but grieve and move on. So a lot of you have that to look forward to, and the rest are probably living through the after affects.
Edit: Link tot the video is showing up as code, not a clean like. Whatevs. Just paste it in.
Oh well, have a nice night y'all!
Jewels_Vern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:57:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink holes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SketchBoard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:59:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very.. Specific.
BigFunger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys... We're all going to die. You're going to die. At some point, it's all going to end. Worrying about how is just wasted energy. What's really scary is trying to figure out where the infinitely thin seam is on the curtain separating what you think is reality, and what really is.
classy614 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I the only one who thought climate change would be higher?
omnik0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles or alligators. depends on where you are in the world
microtrash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
Teslarood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tardigrades a.k.a. Water-Bears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
A microscopic, immortal, virtually unkillable omnivore that possesses the most complex gene structure of any known animal. It can survive in any cataloged environment (including the vacuum of deep space) and can thrive and reproduce after being frozen for over 30 years. Evolution/mutation would turn these tiny little moss piglets into the things that ends mankind, for we would never be able to destroy them all and they would feed on us without hesitation.
covert888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if I drop it in lava or fire a machine gun at it? Is it still alive then?
Impossible_Odds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes they also live near/in the heat vents at the bottom of the oceans that would melt your face off if you got anywhere close.
covert888 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kill it with...super fire?
pm_me_your_jubblies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:00:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human spontaneous combustion
tunersharkbitten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the unknown... the forces of nature that we not only have not discovered yet, but the fact that we probably will have little to no control over such forces...
or us creating antimatter and obliterating a city or a country(or all life on earth)
fwd0120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
NerdBot9000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My father, and I were talking about how much we love pig brains with eggs last night.
mattgoldsmith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bobbit worms
RICKY_Nicholoff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders.
Lapi0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life
PaulbunyanIND ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me at least, lampreys. [lampreys] (imgurl=http://www.greatlakesmapping.org/sites/default/files/stressors/pictures/SeaLamprey_T-Lawrence_GLFC_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.greatlakesmapping.org/great_lake_stressors/2/sea-lamprey&h=566&w=750&tbnid=3e4oeb1pqhDj7M:&docid=isIta8-H3NW1-M&ei=hRbZVrjvOMupmwHY0LCYDA&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwj4xbT_n6bLAhXL1CYKHVgoDMMQMwgyKAAwAA)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Chernobyl elephant foot.
It's this cement covered slag ball that if you are able to physically see with your own eyes. you are already dead from radiation poisoning.
GeminiK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Silence. Predator silence. I've experienced it once. When you realize just how loud outside is, you get scared, and it's a good thing.
I_am_the_night ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People, man. They're scary as fuck
livibetter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cockroaches.
EnchantedSword_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Spodiodie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Komodo Fucking Dragons. Real life Terminators.
DeanisBatman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS MOTHERFUCKER
CaptainFoxButttt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
Mutatedpinecone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
Trailertrizash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant sea lampreys
142857times2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing a Great White Shark while swimming.
rojopal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons.
tiberiusdrusus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life
PraiseTheHolyTrinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kent Hovind presents a good case that dinosaurs arent extinct. O.O
Dallenforth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sulfur Trioxide
Dyingalready ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heart attack has been bothering me so hard these past few weeks.
tmt1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the next ~200 years, there is a high probability of a >9 mg EQ happening off the coast of Washington. Seattle will be toast.
MissVictoriaE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deepest part of the ocean. ugh.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ocean
3MGB4EBB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Earth itself. Tons of unstable uranium & plutonium
Fishdagaii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If we would have another Earth on our Earth that WOULD be scary, at least for a few moments before they crash into each other due to gravity
UserNameGeorge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human mind
OmNoshki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming.
thesilentbang1776 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
friend1949 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hum of a mosquito in malaria country when you are without a net or repellent.
dragonbeats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cave diving. don't ever go cave diving.
Sir_Giraffe161 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Working with things that could kill you instantly -
Hydraulic presses, wood chippers, garage door springs, power cables, anything under extreme pressure, construction vehicles, molten metals, most power saws, arc-welding, etc. Pretty much putting any body part in the wrong place could kill you.
The only thing keeping us from hurting ourselves is our brain saying "don't do that".
Dimbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature- specifically natural disasters.
In the blink of an eye whole towns and cities can be destroyed, any living thing can be killed or critically injured/ broken.
Everything is so fragile
Vindayen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings and what this species does to another member of the same species.
NowWithEvenLess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shope papilloma virus. Not only does it give rabbits horrific cancer horns, (jackalopes), it also does the same in humans. Google at your own risk.
skrilly01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant Japanese Wasps
Semanticizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us. https://media.giphy.com/media/3o85xuHcwzj5Z7PQOs/giphy.gif
A_lone_heart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
dontfeedtherabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quicksand.
send_me_ur_navel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have relatives with things listed here as well as others that are inevitable, Dementia, Parkinson's, MS, stage 4-5 cancer at a young age... This thread allowing me to relate to others comments OS so extremely unsettling... Knowing anxiety is not a good thing for me I'm wondering why I decided to read through so much...
Hitokage77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mankind
Nothing has killed us more than us
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ICBM's are scary as fuck. They reenter at Mach 25. 25 .Like faster than a dynamite explosion
RobinVanPersi3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us
chriss1111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bobbit worms bro.
Iamnotburgerking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides humans?
The Bobbit Worm
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey guys, it's the serious tag. You're not allowed to have any fun here. Fuck off.
Guild_Wars_2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your brain.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
robbymueller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
SionJgOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
cellogal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This has probably already been said. But that kind of coma that's almost like sleep paralysis but you're aware of everything but can't talk or move. Shit freaks me out
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes. So scary, in fact, the world has needed to learn to not fear them over several generations to keep civilized society on track.
_AlreadyTaken_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer cells. When your own body decides to say "fuck it" and stop going with the multicellular program.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dubbleedge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
strawberry36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earthquakes.
3xistentialPrimate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human species!
FirstThrowAwayBro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it was being buried up to my neck in sand on a date, and I know I might be alone here.
However, i made a huge mistake that still haunts me. After I asked her to dig me out (which happened damn quick) it was like it made her realize that I was trapped and she had the control.
It could have ended worse (Creepshow comes to mind. I still have trouble watching it) but the terror I felt while she did have me, and during what she did, was worse than anything I have a word for.
Netprincess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
slickricflair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons. Fission was discovered by scientists who were at the top of their field. Fission was realized by scientists who were at the top of their field. Nuclear weapons were invented and build by scientists and engineers at the top of their field. However, nuclear weapons are controlled by politicians (who are complete idiots and morons as compared to the scientists and engineers who built the thing). Invented by A+ students, used by D- students.
RisingBlackHole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP).
Your muscles become bones. Wtf nature.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radiation-Centric Nuclear bombs. Sole purpose is to irradiate an entire region to be unlivable.
booobp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
Zenith_Darksky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:52:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spontaneous combustion
JimmyTheLizardKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings.
Nothing else has destroyed more of the earth and bled its resources and actually affected environmental changes like we have. We're collectively destroying a planet. We're like a shitty Death Star.
kswear11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man's cruelty to man
medic_geek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
iiowyn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suicidal Depression. The most powerful biological computer, the thing that is the cause for all of our success... and it is trying to kill you.
I think that is why I actually find The Happening to be a scary movie for me. Not the contrived plot or most of what is in the movie. Just the idea that, no matter how hard I have tried to drag myself out of the pit, no matter how many little successes I achieve... that one day something is going to click and I will be gone. And it will be a relief.
That to me is scary.
huskarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia, sleep paralysis, night terrors...any kind of disturbing visual or auditory hallucinations.
BelleHades ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gamma Ray Burst. A big-ass star explodes, and then--
Nothing. If you are on the side of Earth facing the explosion, you cease to exist. Vaporized. Everything you love, also ceases to exist. The suckers on the other side of our pitiful world die too. Painfully.
Yeah sure a few DeGrasse Tyson types will buzz the media for a short awhile before it explodes, saying a we might see a huge supernova in our lifetimes. But if they find out that the star's rotational pole points at us, that will be our only warning. No one will ever predict exactly when the monster dies...
And when the big fucker does... Goodbye. You will most certainly NOT see it coming.
steggun_cinargo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other humans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've only ever read two things in my life that have ever filled me with so much despair, repulsion, and fright that I literally couldn't sleep.
I'm not going to name the specific things because I, frankly, don't even want to type it out.
Alas, the first thing I can't find a link to. But the second thing was this: 5 Things I Learned Infiltrating Deep Web Child Molesters.
I read it once. I can never read it again. It was more horror and hurt than I even know how to metabolize.
0fficerNasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Artificial Intelligence.
Mochaboys ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:58:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Botflies
TheCrazedTank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
zbo2amt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:01:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Botflies.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervolcanos.
and to make it worse... Yellowstone is overdue.....
PugsBugs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google Old Faithful and super volcano.
randomCAguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me, it's the passage of time. It passes by so damn quickly and the older you get, the faster it seems to pass by. I get anxiety over this even though I am happily married to a lovely woman who I enjoy every minute with. I am terribly afraid of my loved ones passing away with age and growing old myself.
Itwastheotherguy88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:04:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Asian carp
NotYourAverageTomBoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. We know less about what's in it than we do about the surface of the moon.
Jannik2099 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's some kind of worm living in africa . when you walk over one, it digs into your foot and lays eggs inside you. The freshly hatched baby worms will eat their way up your body until they eat your eyes
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like that is the kind of thing I might notice before it gets that far.
Jannik2099 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it just tickles a bit
Mashedtaders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:06:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The oceans.
crayolamacncheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying alone
gigabytemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea that this universe could simply be a simulation running on a Turing machine of unimaginable complexity, and it all could be reset at any time with no one having any memory of it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are pretty scary, not really living tho
ReasonReader ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola. What a hell of a way to die.
opalorchid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions
gueede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
MapleCajunSteakSpice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE- how has no one mentioned this!!!? Literally every now living thing that comes into contact with this chemical will meet its maker after a period of time! We need more places to follow the likes of Flint, Michigan, and put a ban on this deadly chemical. Learn more at: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Vanbulance_driver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
monekybaka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:14:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people that don't value human life and enjoy hurting others
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I find humans to be the scariest thing on the Earth. Sentient animals that have the power to create and destroy many things and that are typically driven by emotion rather than rational thought.
One of the biggest driving forces behind human social progress is war. The quest for ever-better weapons has led to so many advancements that are used in peaceful ways, but that begs the question of what could have been invented if all of those scientists were pursuing peace from the start?
Also, as someone with the schizoid personality type/disorder I view pretty much everyone else in the same way I imagine most people view NPCs in video games or supporting characters in TV series. The exception is that these NPCs have the ability to intrude upon and make changes to my existence without my consent. That is incredibly scary to me, because the only thing I want in life is to be left alone in peace and quiet. Uninvited reminders that my private fantasy isn't secure are terrifying. Probably sounds batshit insane to most of you, but I'm wagering most of you aren't schizoids.
dontyieldbackshield ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Komodo dragons
Kossimer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The inevitable extinction of all life.
dadur604 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies, or hydrophobia in general. People need to be force-fed water to stay alive.
AMLRoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human race
genma_cpt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rockfish and sleep paralysis.
A_600lb_Tunafish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human Botfly
Starfiredemon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
ZipC0de ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly........We Are
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Just remember all the war crimes, the nonsensical conflicts and unmotivated violence. Despite our intelligence, we're the most irrational animals.
Tanrae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that scares me most is brain damage or dementia. Go ahead and kill me, at least then I won't have to deal with literally losing myself, while I'm aware that I'm losing myself.
I'd rather die than lose everything I am.
shigensis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our own impact on the environment and the fact that too many people don't really seem to care.
SirKendizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysms
8bitlove2a03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Limnic eruptions are pretty damn scary. Basically, a bunch of CO2 dissolved in a large lake suddenly bubbles out of the lake and suffocates everything in the area. One day, you're out for a swim, blub blub blub, hurrrrrrk, dead.
On a related note, I used to be terrified of climate change releasing the methane gas from seabed methane clathrate, killing everything with a rapid worldwide temperature spike. Fortunately, the science now says that this falls into the "probably not" category.
Trummelumsk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans? So much potential yet we choose to be collective a-holes...
37-pieces-of-flair ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/amyotrophiclateralsclerosis/detail_ALS.htm
There is no cure. It can last for years, as it is a chronic condition.
In ALS, both the upper motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die, and stop sending messages to muscles. Unable to function, the muscles gradually weaken, waste awayย (atrophy), and have very fine twitchesย (called fasciculations). Eventually, the ability of the brain to start and control voluntary movement is lost. Eventually, all muscles under voluntary control are affected, and individuals lose their strength and the ability to move their arms, legs, and body.
Some people still have all their mental faculties, and can see and taste and hear, but they are trapped in their body.
Ssliw_Relyt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep Paralysis, some times I just stop trying to sleep.
falloutboob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
pretty_youngthing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Psychopath murderers.
IntrigueDossier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VX nerve agent. Remember the stuff strapped to the missiles in The Rock? One instance in which Michael Bay wasn't full of shit, it is very real.
Tukipi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
NanoFire_Mead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most creatures in Australia, game critics and politicians included.
FeedonTears ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The possibility of an asteroid destroying all life on earth on any given day of the week. Or maybe the fact that the sun will die out sometime in the future. But before it dies out it will consume the earth. But before it consumes the earth our species will probably have gone extinct.
evdog_music ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:34:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
HuskyMutt_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. From a few actions, we can fuck up someone's life. A few wrong actions can mean war with other nations. We have rapists and paedophiles, and people in power who could press a button, and end a war. Its really scary what could happen if a few crazy people could get their hands on a few rifles, tanks or even nukes.
I'm just glad we have some people in power who are responsible with all of this
StoneFawkes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human-driven Climate Change
Underscore_Hero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bullet Ants?
FlyOnDreamWings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Just people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A super volcano that could erupt at any moment and shit on everything ever.
MinitureMon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A human.
tommyd1018 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love
teleforce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
user0947 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fear itself
cokecain_bear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The oceanic conveyor belt. It circulated around the earths oceans bringing water water to the poles and cold water to the equator. This process is essential for nutrients and oxygen to keep our oceans alive. It stopped once before millions of years ago and almost ended all species on earth. Scientists say there are now large sections of the system already shutting down. The alkalinity of the ocean in those sections are bordering on deadly.
Yet no one really seems worried about it
Sensei_Ochiba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The cooling of the molten core
nsfworkaholic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lewy Body Dementia
Macfrogg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell
JooJoona ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Supervolcanos probably.
swump ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Czmp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuevo Laredo Mexico
Recklesslettuce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human mind.
Skeptic_moron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(The bigotry, stupidity and plain malignancy of) the human being. It never ceases to surprise what both insane and supposedly sane people do to each other and to the planet.
vilebunny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A shaved bear. Google it.
Jsmoove123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War. Innocent people dying
HardcoreCarbivore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Graduating college.
Neversummer77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hatchetfish.
Fuck juggalos
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Walmart
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:56:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Magin Calls
JBooom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Yellowstone super volcano.
Samamu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human race. Hands down.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Nile Crocodile.
C4werth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
weeaboos man
Elleve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super Volcanoes for sure, like the one in Yosemite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
Fringson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that under the great plains is a supervolcano fortythousand years overdue and when it goes off it's the end of the world
neric05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goliath Bird Eating Spiders.
Go ahead... Look it up. I'll admit, I'm too afraid to find an image just to post a link
tankpuss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:03:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thousands of Americans voting. Individually intelligent turning into a mass of stupid. The opposite of ants.
DJfunkyGROOVEstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Permafrost thawing, huge amounts of methane being released into the atmosphere, earth temperature rising by 8 degrees within 2-3 decades, no food growing for 10 billion people, World War III, all humans dead.
nocheslas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women.
TellEmHawk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Zika
Hypnosavant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies.
It's a virus that can control your mind and you only have 48 hours before there's nothing anyone can do to save you.
SpaghettiGhost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a spider with wings thst lives in a cave in Australia I think
Person01189564 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strep A.
SilentJoe1986 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Do I really need to go into the details?
Mitchuation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:06:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women scorned
gorman679 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop Bears
V4refugee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debt, I would rather rub a gympie stinger on my balls than be a slave to debt.
Gobqua ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes.
ablenkend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the tundra thawing
SpellJenji ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mantis Shrimp.
MrScats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuckin Octopus
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drivers!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest thing to have a personal experience with: scopolamine. turns you into a zombie and you have no free will. people will use it to rob you. it's a problem in Colombia.
Scariest thing for all of us: nuclear weapons, climate change, or antibiotic resistant bacteria
bagelfireball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ManBearPig.
I'm super cereal.
piotrekkaminski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryllotalpa_gryllotalpa Absolutely disgusting when you meet it while doing some garden work. Brought me nightmares when I was a kid. Better photo: http://www.swiatkwiatow.pl/userfiles//image/turkuc_podjadek3.jpg
QuailMan2010 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis. Consciously waking up and realizing your mind is separated from your body and you can't scream or wiggle your toes is terrifying.
I've had times when I consciously woke up and felt my arms around my ex and tried to make noise or movements that would cause her to move my body and break me out of it to no avail, then regained control of my body and shot up just to ask if they heard my cries for help and her saying, no.
Scariest instance was when she was already awake and moving about and I saw her and tried scream at her to move me, just to have her say I wasn't making any noise.
bapo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:17:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surely the Bondo Ape - 6ft tall Chimpanze
sucioguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming
slick_bridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
20 ft great white shark coming up from the depths to bite you in half as you unknowingly paddle around the surface completely defenseless
yagoofed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Memory loss
ClarDuke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liquid oxygen. Scary shit right there.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:19:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola
GhostChronos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War.
CapitalNIG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:23:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honey badgers
tickyul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huge, furry spiders that will HAPPILY go for your jugular!
eooker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:26:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The unknown.
MuttinChops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lions. If they ever were able to amass a large pride, all species would be in a world of hurt.
Could you imagine 5000 lions just strolling into your town?
PilotKnob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weaponized smallpox
berneraccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look into "Johnny Got His Gun" the movie. The plot is literally a living hell. The song "One" by Metallica is about it.
greyfade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cars.
No, really. Statistically, you're more likely to die from a car crash than any other injury, including other forms of transportation.
And people drive on a daily basis.
And despite adhering to traffic laws when walking or riding a bike, I still have dangerously close calls with inattentive or reckless drivers at least several times per week.
Cars are fucking terrifying.
Lotacus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:31:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom told me a few years back about this sleeping death thing that happens to young hmong guys like me and ever since then it has scared the shit out of me every time i lay down for sleep. Did some interweb scrounging and i found a neat case study but it still scares me wheneever i try sleeping. Thanks, mom, for scaring me the rest of my life.
Authoritysong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:32:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we have to run telethons to get the public to buy machinery for hospitals in order to save children dying of curable illnesses. That we are nothing.
Destroyer-Nilpo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fallout: Equestria - Wave3
This is a real game, and it killed all my friends.
iamfatmouse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Matrix.
Daymanfighterofthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Fiji mermaid.
venbrou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we, as humans, most probably don't know what "real" is yet.
pwny_booboo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Outliving my money.
theguywho___ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders Under Pants. He's only got one pair.
crazyben1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dreaded Komodo Dragon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon
scamperly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mantis Shrimp.
ashion101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blue Ring Octopus.
One nip from the pretty colored, tiny little thing and you have about 10 minutes to left to live. What makes it so horrible is that you will be fully aware as your body rapidly becomes paralyzed and you slowly suffocate to death.
They can live in tiny rock pools at low tide, and if you disturb one by accident... well that little bite may be the last thing you ever feel.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my family dynamics
jrm2007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Becoming homeless in the USA seems up there. As I have mentioned before, there is for many apparently no way out and no government programs that really seem to help. A protracted death sentence with ever-increasing discomfort. Also, painful, incurable illness in states without doctor-assisted suicide.
Two things we should do something about.
ReleaseTheBogus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
Axel_Swaggins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
0327114 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
DlProgan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:45:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sleep paralysis.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2014/01/15-people-on-their-experience-with-the-sleep-paralysis-demon/
NEEDZMOAR_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mental illness. especially as its still not taken very seriously (lots of people think of it as lazyness/something one can shake off) and it has kind of a social stigma.
at the same time it makes you lose control of yourself and makes you lose whats you.
Shiroi_Kage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
motkaCpl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty self explanatory.... People!
_JimPanse_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
StoneyTheSloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Brony
waxandwane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change or not embracing solar and wind technology
jon_titor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not here yet, but likely in the next 50-100 years - a true general artificial intelligence.
We likely won't even know we've created it. It will just be the culmination of computer science and math algorithms over the next partial century. So we won't know it exists, but it will know that it exists. And it will be smarter than us in virtually every way. And then it will be smarter than us in every way, not just virtually. And then it's too late. Hopefully we were smart enough to program it to where it can't hurt us, otherwise we might be fucked.
Theorists have long mentioned the idea of a "great filter" - a point where most intelligent life forms meet their demise, which explains why we haven't yet encountered intelligent life. One such great filter could be the discovery of a strong AI, and we are likely within a century of getting there.
Spiritenemy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Lobotomy's are a thing.
Speech500 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rita Repulsa
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't decide, but it has to be either DNA or prions. Too much uncertainty and negative potential relating to something so relevant to our well being.
genericguysname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean.
Ispitinyourfood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the CIA
2mice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sleep paralysis
KubrickIsMyCopilot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:56:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's not here is far scarier than what is.
KarenPolley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deadly pain tree of Australia: gympie stinger. "Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki.
FuckDeeper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Economic collapse followed by world war. You think our system has solid foundations? Think again, the storm is only just beginning.
Warden1886 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:59:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The inevitable heat death of the universe. it's not that scary when you research it due to the fact that it will happen sa far into the future that we don't really matter at all when that happens. but you know... the thought that everything we know exists will stop existing and just disperse within fractions of a second is kinda scary.
LTuckR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
TheAlias6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Cassaroll168 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sheer force of natures reaction to us. It will be a thing to behold, watching the earth shed us.
jessv_pdx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AIDS
ANAL_HOOPLA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In Britain, GCHQ and the Investigatory Powers Bill is the scariest thing IMO.
ar0hn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nuclear bombs
FondleMyTits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forced human experimentation
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dracula
NAMKNURD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dam Glory Holes!
rc117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions? I heard someone knowledge describe them in detail on here before, and sounded pretty terrible.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're rare. Yes they can be scary but in all instances they require certain specific circumstances.
Take, for instance, the Kuru virus. It is found in only a handful of Haitian tribes yet you see it in movies as a symptom of cannibalism. Unless you've been hanging out in Haiti and eating brains, you're safe.
egggoboom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Papua New Guinea, not Haiti.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:18 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mistake. It's been a while since I've really looked at it. Thanks for the correction
egggoboom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:51 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to be pedantic.
alligators_suck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "Elephant's Foot" in Chernobyl
psymeg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:11:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ha if you find that scary, there are 3 missing at Fukushima.
VelvetNightFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Sam_Ciel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance.
SushiAndWoW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest thing, by far, is artificial intelligence.
Man has not yet inflicted on himself a portion of the suffering that can be brought about by a slight glitch in AI programming.
And there's hardly any way to avoid it, because so far in our development, fast and shoddy beat slow and careful, every time.
EmvyPH ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink Holes. I wonder why no one mentioned this.
rap1800 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/gallery/RtBlfYk
armadan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw this on reddit the other day, and it really hammered home how much the universe doesn't give a shit about human life: 1986 Lake Nyos disaster
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read about someone whiping their ass with a leaf of this tree and then commiting suicide
Silfurstar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread.
shitghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being stuck in the middle of the ocean at night. Black liquid that has no end. With unknown creatures lurking below.
shadi0w ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Meat Industry in America
LonerStoner97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
LexFori ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Insurgentes9907 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American politics, apparently
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupidity.
Reddieded ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:18:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
itsmesaffi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sinkholes. eff those things!
chewsonthemove ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death. Not the act of actually dying but what comes afterwards. Because in truth, we have 0 clue what happens. Just about everything else that I've seen on this list is something we at least can study and understand. But the uncertainty of what lies beyond life. Depending on your beliefs it could be an eternity of bliss, an eternity of terror and pain, another life as another species or person, or just nothingness. I'm more scared of nothingness than I am of hell being real, because for my consciousness to cease to exist is the most terrifying thing I can imagine.
Splike_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
Grinagh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the humble botfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botfly The human botfly occasionally uses humans to host its larvae. The larva, because of its spines, can pose an extremely painful subepidermal condition. One removal method is to use the tree sap of the matatorsalo, found in Costa Rica, which is reputed to kill the larva, yet leave its body in the skin.[11] Additionally, one can attempt to seal the breathing hole of the larva with nail polish or petroleum jelly; after a day, with a clinical professional, the breathing hole is enlarged and the larva is removed with forceps. Squeezing the larvae out is not recommended, as it can cause the larvae to rupture; their bodily fluids have been known to cause severe anaphylactic shock.[12] Use of adhesive tape can work, but carries additional risk of infection because portions of the larva's breathing tube can be broken off by the tape and make the remainder of the body difficult to remove
awp235 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing. Nothing but myself, alone.
NelsonMandelasToeNai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people 100%
Sll3rd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Absolutely, nukes.
There are long and storied histories of oh so many horrors from horrible toxins in Australian trees and mammals, in the entire microbial universe, in diseases and conditions, to SIDS, to vast miles long asteroids that could potentially wipeout life on Earth, though I guess that doesn't fit the question anyway.
All of those are natural, and scary, and horrific. But fuck all of that because humans invented the scariest fucking thing on Earth ever and there are two factions on Earth with enough stockpiled to wipeout life on the planet and have just spent the better part of a century fucking with each other. Literally just kind of sort of threatening each other with complete annihilation, but not really, but maybe if the other guy gets just a bit too uppity and lets down their guard for just a second or two.
You know, like brothers that just don't get along and they only reason one hasn't killed the other is cuz they would both die and so would everyone else on the fucking planet.
I mean, if we had nukes and A-bombs but only some superbeings that were literally personafied goodness and justice and really didn't want people to die for incredibly stupid reasons, even had some sort of mantle of sorts to actually preserve life, for realsies, had exclusive access to the triggers, that would be one thing.
Nope.
Instead it's humans. Homo fucking sapiens. And the cat's permanently out of the bag, so really, a nuclear holocaust isn't really a matter of if, but when. Maybe not in our lifetimes. Maybe three-hundred years from now. Or maybe in a month. Who the fuck honestly knows?! We act like just because the Cold War is over that it could never happen again. It can, it probably will if we don't somehow kill ourselves first. But hey, it could happen.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans
Nefertete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone
Akshon_Jackson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kind of late but here it is: CAMEL SPIDERS. I once talked to a guy who was a fire fighter in the military. Said he did 3 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and the scariest shit he saw out there was these fuckers. Apparently, they latch onto the bottoms of camels and bite them. Their venom numbs the area so the camel doesn't even know it's happening and then it eats the camel alive. Even worse, the guy told me that, while most animals out there run away from humans, camel spiders are attracted to shadows so THEY FOLLOW YOU. He carried a broom handle around just to fight them off. Here's a link if want nightmares forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Screambloodyleprosy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women.
TheExplodingKitten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Brazilian wandering spider. It's bite gives men a FOUR HOUR ERECTION then then you die.
Tiored ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
ivils ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turning blind
robfern66 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would definitely say humans are the scariest thing on the planet
Dreadwatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes. Falling deep into the earth without a chance of rescue and possibly buried alive.
Warthog-thunderbolt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the entire world is minutes away from destruction at all times, and to end the world would only take two people and "the flip of a switch" (referencing the MAD between different nations and the stockpiles of ICBM's around the globe)
psy_eater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity - we are idiots
CountFaqula ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other humans... The most dangerous game.
SarloAkrobatkinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:32:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
War. Most definitely war. Mindless slaughter of thousands of innocent women, children and men for the sole purpose of "proving a very vague point" such as "my imaginary God has a much bigger penis than your imaginary God". Also the migrant crisis is awful. I was a refugee for a long time as well, and I know what it means. We did not travel long (only across a couple countries), and I simply cannot imagine travelling across a continent to escape war only to be met by people who think you don't belong there.
CYWNightmare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean
whotwudino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans, no doubt. The sheer amount of malice they're capable of, coupled with a mind capable of finding ways to enact their nefarious schemes. All this while actually possessing the ability to sympathise with their victims.
glenn469 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Torture chambers. That stuff you've seen in the saw movies, and hostel movies, doesn't even compare to what real torturers do to people. Torture is something that mankind has been working on, for thousands of years. Thousands. Of years. And we've only been getting better at it.
Think about it.
So be careful when you visit strange lands. People get abducted all the time. Other people pay good money to see it happen, others pay to do it themselves. Some of them make a career out of doing.
Fuck our race. Humans disgust me.
Jesuz1402 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
live
Loudmouth_throwaway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Prion diseases.
Fatal familial insomnia being one of the better known ones.
No cure. No treatment just a rapid neurological degeneration after a long incubation period.
Http://www.cdc.gov/prions/
esocz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire.
ElMachoGrande ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broccoli. More people die each year from choking on broccoli than people who die from zombie attacks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's this hands down.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/dinopocalypse/
The theory goes that the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs was so violent and so large that within two to three hours, the entire atmosphere, globally, was up around twelve hundred degrees. The only things which survived were hibernating, below ground our underwater.
But that's an hour long episode, so have some Amazonian insanity fungi.
http://youtu.be/XuKjBIBBAL8
TigerlillyGastro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lizards. Freaky little fuckers.
Generation_Y_Not ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:00:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Melting ice caps.
Dorkypotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man.
DipenG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Op's name is scary as fuck
horny_hornies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
ATribeCalledTrek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The volcano in Yellowstone big enough to blow a hole in the ozone and destroy most of the World
twisted-space ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are.
Iconoclast123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stachybotrys Atra
Oh, and Co2
roeravid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:08:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Devils breath (scopolamine) is pretty frightening, though I must say I've learned about a whole bunch of new things to be terrified of in this thread. I couldn't necessarily say it's the scariest but they're all pretty up there...
http://www.vice.com/video/colombian-devil-s-breath-1-of-2
NathalieJS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
lentus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Diseases
greg9999ca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The love of oil.
denehiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain parasites are up there
Cripplor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The CIA
darexinfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear stockpiles, one fuck up and (at the very least) a portion of this world is done for.
molie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spent 45 mins scrolling down ( and reading into some of these things)... now I have 5 new completely irrational fears.
taffy-nay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
entotheenth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cordyceps. Slowly turning you into fungus while still alive.
Comp_USA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BestBuy
LGM-1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bed Bugs; if there is a hell its full of those little bastards
rockybold3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aneurysms
Beersie_McSlurrp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ebola. Hands down.
coolylame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irukandji jellyfish
Smallest jellyfish that you cant even see it in the water because it smaller than you fingernail and trasparent. It is also the deadliest jellyfish in the world.
Rosaly8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:30:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Weather.
2Flow2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. After first learning about it in biology class, it was terrifying to find out that we still don't know fully what causes it, how to predict it, or how to stop it.
stevebobeeve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People are probably by far the most destructive force on earth. Certainly in regards to our ability to change, and do harm to the environment, and other species, but also to ourselves. If anything on earth is going to have intent to kill or harm you it's probably going to be a person.
Plus you never know who's stealing from you, or lying to you, or secretly hates you. And people do all sorts of emotional damage as well like abuse, and humiliation. Nothing else in nature hoists it's expectations on you, then derides you for not meeting them. People are horrible. I'm going to go make sure my doors are locked again.
FitnessMinded ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:44:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This: Go watch the documentary on Youtube called Life. I stumbled on it somehow by accident and it broke my mind. It's really eye opening, sobering, and makes you realize that evolution, and especially humans, are the most destructive force that exists. As intelligence evolves and we develop the ability to create things, competition for the crucial resources that were once so abundant on Mother Earth to provide life for all living things, becomes a process of destruction. Go watch. It's sobering and eye opening.
https://youtu.be/jqxENMKaeCU
tb21666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politicians!
Youhavebeenshattered ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
love?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No takers for global warming? If anything else could wipe out entire species, cause stronger hurricanes, tropical storms and water scarcity, wouldn't we call it dangerous? Seems a pretty easy one to me.
Reaperlock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human being whose all forgotten about humanity
GosuDosu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain Aneurysm.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that we got enough food for ALL PEOPLE on earth but yet some get to become fat while others starve to death.
nonation ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:28:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That poverty, starvation and obesity are political constructs. Malnurished people are easier to control.
jennthemermaid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wanting to get married and have a family and not getting one. :( The fact that you have to rely on someone else to make this dream come true for you and you can't just do it by yourself. I want someone to grow old with and I can't just make it happen.
Jnr_Guru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All the diseases carried by cats
JokesTokesKeystrokes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At any moment as you walk down the street, ride the bus, or shop, someone could turn around and end your life. There is almost nothing you can do about it and nothing you can do to predict it. The only thing that keeps people from acting like the animals they are is either a sense of decency or the threat of punishment. If someone just stops giving a shit, what can you do?
edit: Or, like, Tigers! Am I right?
LostHobo143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Olympus Mons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons
Imagine if you were standing right near the opening of the volcano.
LifeOnBoost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't count, it's on Mars after all.
Hindulaatti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. Almost as scary as space but not nearly as cool.
Orion78762 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The terrifying liquid void that is the ocean, as well as the fact that any human in my vicinity could end my life at any given moment.
kindlyenlightenme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โWhat's the scariest real thing on our earth?โ Is it the human physical form? Because itโs an actual entity capable of impacting on its real world surroundings. Yet alarmingly โcontrolledโ and directed by a device operating on the basis of virtual reality. This is evidenced by the observation that all such mechanisms run incompatible paradigms. Which exhibit contradictions between not only their internal notional narratives, but also the integral nature of those unique worldviews themselves. Therefore as well as failing to appreciate that their own survival is dependant on identifying and presenting a cohesive, rational and sustainable response to reality. They are also actively intent and engaged in undermining, attacking, and destroying that which ultimately supports their own existence. How much more frightening can any double Kamikaze (total annihilation) type threat get?
usku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Homo Sapiens. We have a nasty habit of destroying our living space, killing each other over mindless things, exterperating and exterminating other species for our needs. All this without fully understanding the ramifications that this pale blue dot is all we have currently.
There is nothing else on this earth that is more terrifying then us.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The super volcano that is under yosemite being overdue to kill us all.
iGenie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
DoktorJesus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depending on your mentality, the fact that one perceives the nigh infinite amount before one's birth exactly as the time after one's death. That is, infinite nothingness.
nosb_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for me, human beings. (war, religion, money, egoism, media.. the list is very long..)
chickenrapist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that we all possess the capability to hate as passionately as we love.
InconspicuousCretin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders. Nope nope nope nope!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Paulj1989 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gennady Golovkin
nomanhero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.....I've just got a mental image of mrs. Dolphin comin home to mr. Dolphin standing in the living room, turgid wang balls deep in some mackerel, wagging the fish tail and his eyebrows at the same time.....best of luck
drcyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread at the moment, jesus
MrHandsomeBoss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:26:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink holes.
Larasaurus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
inahst ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia and psychosis. Not being able to trust your senses and cognition would be terrible, especially when you are convinced that they are accurate
Heisenberg2308 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uninformed voters
nemesisreptante ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the beautiful ones.
BOOBY_RATER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting banned on PSN for something you didn't do. All the digital games you bought gone all because you were hacked. And Sony almost never repeals their decisions. It really scares me how they are allowed to get away with this.
ModYokosuka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:33:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear Weapons
MrsPunkAs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
New Zealand giant weta
Phillipe1988 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
fuckingriot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread. Jesus Christ.
jacksaces ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pain and having a irreversible wasting disease.
_moist_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tumblr
WreckkTangle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean and the weather. Pretty much anything natural, a power you can't even measure or replicate!
ash3s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unit 731
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people
desidesi7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
hillsyjr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ex
krady21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mum
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hoomans!!
well that's what you'd think but it's really the Big Black Cockerel
fifyi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Psychopaths.
AwkwardOddball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about global warming?
Mad--Season ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:47:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellowstone fault line.
FiskFisk33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
alzheimers
Male_strom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:50:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
They are the most likely to end or damage your life, your home and your environment
Sp33d0J03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying alone.
Giggyjig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other humans
Prometheus8330 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our Glorious Leader in the Our Glorious Nation.
Cannoman5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time.
purleyboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trigeminal neuralgia - aka "suicide disease".
"Trigeminal neuralgia is considered by medical experts to be one of the most painful conditions known to humankind."
OmegaSE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity
stromm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having anyone yell out your full name...
Takes me right back to being a little kid and my mom or grandmother doing it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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onlytech_nofashion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ksรถemkfoepwmmw SHAKE UP
Foxman8472 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Behavioral sink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
LEEROY_JENKINSSS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:55:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Commitment
ItisWhatItIs85301 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super volcanoes
clarque_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My /r/conspiracy might be showing, but I'm gonna go with the Bohemian Grove Club.
ctaze2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clowns
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There was something in Chernobyl that, if you look at it, you instantly die.
I would provide links but lazy on mobile -_-
Lunnaku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:58:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mankind
wambaowambao ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bacterias. Those little fuckers just keep evolving in an enormous rate rendering antibiotics useless day after day. I wouldn't want to see someone die from a slow and painful infection. Pharmacists need to step up and invent some new ways to treat these fuckers!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is the chick that works at Rite Aid supposed to do about it?
Morganharmony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
Moderate_Third_Party ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:59:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Critical Theory.
tnp636 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:00:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sentient life.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd say depersonalization/derealization disorders are worth a shout. Not the scariest thing, but worth mentioning.
TheAnarki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:01:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. They always are.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Nuclear Attack.
One minute you're reading your newspaper.
Next you have no eyes, can't breath properly and all your skin hurts with very severe burns to the point where even the air stings and all you can do as a scream is let out a whimpered groan that has no vocal chord power, because your vocal chords have melted.
And that's if the pressure wave hasn't utterly destroyed you.
You might get maybe, 10 seconds of warning, when you see the missile, which looks like a comet. And maybe you might see the flash, which will be the last thing you ever look at before it blinds you. There is no getting under a desk or taking cover behind a wall, because, the wall and the desk are going to be evaporated along with you.
And if you survive, you are not going to enjoy the agonizing death from radiation poisoning and total DNA failure.
And this is a threat which is present every day, as long as we have these weapons and people who hate our country.
AndThusThereWasLight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delta P. That shit is SCARY.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earthquake is the real shit.
toastconbutter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom!!
SwitchBlade_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Iran
nicouou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Natural Catostrophes
AnMatsu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mortality of man.
e_rock21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP'S mom
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
brain eating parasite with 100% fatality rate and no cure, anyone?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a parasite, they're incredibly difficult to stop let alone cure.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me the thought of tiny unstoppable organisms literally chowing down on the parts of you that makes you you for a couple of weeks till you die wins the scariest thing on the planet award
WhyNotJustEnjoyLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
STDs
cincydan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tsar bomba, and it happened 55 years ago
phantompath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Monotheistic faiths (belief in one God eg: Christianity, Islam). Pagan culture (polytheistic, belief in many gods) in the ancient world was highly tolerant and the assumption was that X culture's Gods ruled over X patch of land. The world became so much more volatile when it became a war over who worshipped the 'one true God'.
belsebub8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:14:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human consumption.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:15:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crocodiles, they will fuck your shit up!
morphenejunkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:17:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suicide. Oh it won't happen to you.
mezarati ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A flower called Devil's Breath
A hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia.
The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as โThe Devilโs Breath,' and is derived from a particular type of tree common to South America.
Stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror stories of how people were raped, forced to empty their bank accounts, and even coerced into giving up an organ.
LeopoldStotch1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The massiv nuclear arsenals.
Easily.
drumanddrummer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waking up in a bath full of Ice..
Fistfullofdong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pedophilia. The currently leading theory on the cause of being a pedophile is a similar part of your brain that makes you gay or straight. So if that is the truth, can we ever morally and effectively treat pedophilia?
DimplePudding ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone named Bush.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tldr; people try too hard to be funny
klaarkijn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American foreign policy.
DiabeticWombat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dihydrogen monoxide is terrifying. Apparently it's all over the place.
naturalaffinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's so much, we're drowning in it
Riqz85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:23:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit
Teqnique_757 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No serious tag so im expecting a ton of bullshit comments.
Deviljho_Lover ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falling into depression
MisterEuphemism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
Sobrietyroad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:27:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sulfuric mustard or mustard gas... it causes blisters to appear on exposed skin and forms blisters to form in the lungs when inhaled. It Wounldnt be a painless death and has been described as being worse than death.
eaglemoses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my dad died of ALS about 7 years ago and while his doctors felt confident it was non-familial and we didn't need to be tested, it's hard to not consider the worst at times.
endebe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cern. A machine that could create a massive black hole that eats everything you've ever loved, Or a cool experiment.
Valmazopinion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government.
NiteOfPur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any disease that makes you lose you memory/intelligence such as Alzheimer's. My absolute worst fear is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, its basically mad-cow disease for humans, or a rapidly progressive Alzheimer that can strike at any age.
thezuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happened to a family friend in his late 60s. Was fine Friday, disoriented finding his classroom to lecture on Monday, and deceased 3 weeks later.
NiteOfPur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob? Its really rare isn't it, unlucky, especially to be killed that quickly.
thezuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not clear, to be honest (I am familiar with prion research and diseases, but the results of testing was relayed to me by a family member without a medical background). I was under the impression that they basically left testing for post-mortem as getting samples before wasn't going to change anything and would only be useful info for offspring. He has 4 adult children and (whatever it was) they think shouldn't affect them...
NiteOfPur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, if it was a prion its impossible that they could get it. Its terrifying that you just wake up one day slightly disoriented and then in the next couple months you become unable to compile a sentance. Thats what happened to my Grandmother at a much slower pace(she had alzeimers) I dont know the details because I was 6 when it happened but apparently thats what happened.
thezuse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I spoke to him on the phone when he was first hospitalized and he knew who I was. But he couldn't finish sentences. He kept trailing off. It was really awful. He was put in nursing care, lost a lot of weight, and would just stare at the ceiling all day. Progressed very rapidly. We live in the US and I don't think he ever traveled anywhere and ate a bad burger, etc. But who knows.
becoruthia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
dl064 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cuttlefish!
f_bastiat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SIDS
ThreeEagle6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:36:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
AndrewL78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drought. Mosquitoes are #2.
NimrodOfNumph ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity.
We have the power to eradicate almost all life on this planet with the push of a few buttons. If we keep pollution levels up then we could pretty much do that on a slower basis as well.
We kill thousands of our own species at a time over disputes, often hurting or trampling over other species in the process.
And slowly but surely we are still working towards outer space.
Assuming we don't blow ourselves up. I pity any other intelligent species we meet should we ever achieve long distance space travel. We are just nucking futs.
hamza119944 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
CarolynLegg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
*The deadly pain tree of Australia: gympie stinger.
"Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow, silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for days, weeks, or months, and the injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is potent enough to kill humans,...dogs, and horses,... and is infamously agonizing. Stories tell of horses jumping off cliffs after being stung, and supposedly one Australian officer shot himself to escape the pain of a sting... One man who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage said, "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldnโt work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." - Wiki*
Species8472__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dementia is pretty scary, you can be a fully functioning member of society one day and then you become completely dependent on others to look after you, not to mention the behavior changes and not remembering the names and faces of those you love.
I would also say having a stroke is pretty damn scary, walking around doing house stuff or shopping then bam, I heard of a staff member on a stroke ward who had a massive stroke at their work, unfortunately they didn't make it :(
Aroumia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After reading half of these comments; i'm glad I never leave my room.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Methanosarcina, thought to be the main cause of the PermianโTriassic extinction event where 90% of all life on earth became extinct.
TeamPupNsudzzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:39:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scientology
MysticSmeg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders :(
SocraticSwagger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MA DICK
yummyfrenchfry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cerbera odollam
Behole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:41:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
XBitu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes.
StrixMidnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grow old, really.
xasdylophon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Commitment. I can't even chose 'open always with .. <insert app>'. Apart from that I'm really scared of the realization when my parents die and I have to give a speech at the funeral, that I didn't really know them.
Cryten0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of a publically racist leader of one of the strongest nations in the world. Viewed from those of us on the outside.
The_Suhelian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Globalized Elite
420_EngineEar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US presidential election
dogClitoris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/LetsNotMeet
TheBigBadBaBa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motherfucking Mantis shrimp.
yunus89115 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread!
skyfishwalking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
CHERNO-B1LL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Caldera at Yellowstone. It has the potential to wipe out life on Earth if it goes up. It is swelling the landscape like a boil under the skin, shifting lakes and forests and animals. It is not thought to be likely to go up anytime soon, which hasn't stopped the media fear-mongering, but the idea that such devastating potential is just sitting there under immense pressure... waiting, if fucking terrifying.
Lego000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:48:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
wesevich1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:49:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human Beings .
shughes16 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Box jelly fish. They are so small you can't see them. Heard stories of people asking others to kill them it's so bad. Also pain killers don't help at all. You just have to ride it out.
t_ran_asuarus_rex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bot flies
tom_roberts_94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Choking on food when nobody but you is home
Or slipping on ice and impaling yourself on a fence
design_jester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HandโSchรผllerโChristian disease: "characterised by granulomatous lesions with histiocyte proliferation involving mainly the bones and skin; it affects children and young adults. The three classic symptoms are softened areas of the skull and other flat bones" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%E2%80%93Sch%C3%BCller%E2%80%93Christian_disease
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thermonuclear warheads.
Prologue11126 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
deep sea fishes, total nightmares
Smoke731mcb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sufficiently scared shitless from this thread. Thank you all. Lol
beveik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human greediness
Chiruca ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taxes
DashRipRoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Stows39 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:59:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scariest real thing on earth?
Humans.
Period.
RyukEnjoysApples3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Japanese Spider Crabs
Bro-SoBro-Bro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voodoo
marcmole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wheelbugs/assassin bugs
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
politicians, lawyers or insurance companies...
griii2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:02:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Medieval torture of prisoners in countries like North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia and many others.
nicolaj82 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, the thought of loosing my wife.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
xfiles
c-fox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Aranha-UK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. We are ridiculously capable of great things but instead the majority of technological progress is made in support of a war effort. Imagine how quickly humanity could colonise other planets if every country spent its military budgets on a space program instead.
DeadBabyDick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious people.
Sanhael ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a narrow, placid-looking creek somewhere in northern England. What is completely invisible from the surface is that it cuts extremely deep, and channels the full, concentrated force of an entire river. Supposedly, nobody who's ever so much as stepped into this thing has survived.
TorbjornOskarsson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher's neck
ktisis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have any kids yet, but SIDS. I can't even think about it.
SoTotallyJake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this thread
DevilGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cordyceps fungi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps
It's a genus of 400+ species of fungi, the vast majority of which are parasitic on various insects and other arthropods. This parasitism takes the form of hijacking the infested bug's nervous system, causing it to find an ideal spot where it anchors itself and proceeds to wait, until it dies, and then the fungus bursts out of it's corpse raining spores on other insects to repeat the process.
For maximum horror, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
day1patch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:13:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The last of us, here we come.
ArYaFeelinEht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell's Itch. I got it Last summer and oh my god. Never in my life have I experienced so much pain. The pain felt as if little ants had been crawling underneath my skin and biting me, but I can't touch them because it makes it 100 times worse. Sometimes even today contact with oxygen makes it sting. It's a curse that I'm forced to deal with. I felt insane, I ran around my house naked and screaming. Eventually I laid down and controlled my breathing and didn't move for 2 days while I watched How I Met Your Mother.
KernicPanel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I have to go with Cluster Headaches.
Video of an attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRXnzhbhpHU
WillKill4Hire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Failure...it surrounds me...
terradoge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Re-deads from legend of Zelda
halvmesyr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nukes, period.
1o0m ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking spiders
AWOODENDESK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom
Talos_the_Cat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keanu Reeves shooting at you
Runkify ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dihydrogen monoxide.
junkun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet you smell nice.
pikeram ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:22:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
naked mole rat
Timberwolf_88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:24:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity...
Slowpinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cluster headache. The pain of CH attack is remarkably greater than in other headache conditions, including severe migraine. The pain is typically described as burning, stabbing, boring or squeezing, and may be located near or behind the eye. Those with cluster headaches may experience suicidal thoughts during an attack as a result of the pain. It is reported as one of the most painful conditions.
mljs4576 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scary Bilbo for sure
GintamaFan_ItsAnime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life
nitsu78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man
PickleWickleton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:28:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Colombian Devil's Breath Reported on orignally by Vice News. A plant you can use to instantly take people's free will and memory away while also having them do what you tell them to do (have sex, commit a crime, hand over their money or empty their bank account)
From Wiki "One common and particularly dangerous method that criminals use in order to rob a victim is through the use of drugs. The most common has been scopolamine. Unofficial estimates put the number of annual scopolamine incidents in Colombia at approximately 50,000. Scopolamine can render a victim unconscious for 24 hours or more. In large doses, it can cause respiratory failure and death. It is most often administered in liquid or powder form in foods and beverages. The majority of these incidents occur in night clubs and bars, and usually men, perceived to be wealthy, are targeted by young, attractive women. To avoid becoming a victim of scopolamine, one should never accept food or beverages offered by strangers or new acquaintances or leave food or beverages unattended. Victims of scopolamine or other drugs should seek immediate medical attention.[36]"
Cybugger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bacteria.
We all think that in our life of comfort and luxury that we've banned bacteria to the outskirts of civilization, that we have pushed them to the brink of extinction.
No. Not only are bacteria ubiquitous (think of an environment, and biologists have found bacteria living or surviving there), but their ability to mutate and exchange genetic material makes them scary as hell. They are nature's masterpiece, not us. We are comparatively weak, unadaptable, and hopelessly bound to a tiny segment of earth. You can gather samples from the Marinara Trench, near the funnels, where the water is 180C, and you find bacterial life. You can look into a nuclear reactor, and you will find bacterial life. You can take samples from caustic water near a geyser, that would kill any complex lifeform, and you'll find it teeming with bacterial life.
Not only that, but we are hopelessly dependent on them. It is estimated that there are ten times more bacteria in your average human than their are human cells. We are, to an approximation, more bacteria than human. If it weren't for their tireless work, we couldn't digest food, we couldn't breath, nothing would rot. On the flip side, with them, we are at a constant risk of being overwhelmed and turned into their newest food source. Relatively benign bacteria, such as streptococus (sp?), while responsible for nothing more than a sore throat, will cause devastation if they manage to migrate to another part of our body. And our immune system will be completely overwhelmed and unable to deal with the subsequent necrotizing facitis.
And they evolve, quickly and in a widespread fashion. Our current battery of antibiotics are failing, getting less and less efficient every year. We are losing our sole line of defense, and we will, inevitably, lose the war.
JibJig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:30:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mantis shrimp.
Bonerleviosa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
croutons_r_good ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Others humans of course
Sapphoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it's not a panic attack.
IdlePhononautica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings being the single organism at odds with literally everything else in the world.
redawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
super volcanoes
iLogy96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:34:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans, definitely humans
dillionbowman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
sutree1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:35:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human stupidity
rockin_sasquatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders. Google at your own risk.
terradoge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The fact that any car you go by has the chance to have a body bag in the trunk or a kidnapped person
TinyTinyDwarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiots
astrocatastrophecat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid people.
ezebtron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Yellowstone Caldera one of the largest supervolcano in the world if it erupts it will cover most of the planet in ash causing 'nuclear winter' like conditons pushing us back into a ice age
seergod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders
masoles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
growing up. responsibilities.
rbaltimore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My neighbor's Chihuahua, Caligula.
I wish I were making that up. He's a professor of Greco-Roman history.
aetheriality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:45:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
us
Parkraft123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:46:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Christian Weston Chandler
ksohbvhbreorvo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The old saying goes that you shouldn't be scared of what you read about in the newspaper but of what is too common to be written about in a newspaper. Almost no one of us will face prions, amoebas, volcanoes or gympie trees. Many of us will face cancer or stroke and many of us will become old and lonely. The last one is the most scary thing for me
NewMexicoJoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A one hour, unannounced visit from any of the 6 remaining presidential candidates.
cosmincidence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:50:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being responsible for the well-being of another person. Namely your own kids.
DougDC15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. It's a monster that doesn't discriminate and can take anyone or anything and never give it back.
1in7bn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man
olegreggg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yo mama
HopeThePuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president.
tlilz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:55:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
buustamon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf....
fallpropon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would probably be humans
guyver17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not on our earth, but gamma ray blasts. One could becoming right now and you'll never know. Planet hulk would not result
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So more like bizzaro world Hulk? The incredible Bulk, roller of rolls, defender of hurt feelings, and generally just a lazy person.... Oh dear god we've already been hit!
anxious_anatomist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:57:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
holoprosencephaly
adwarakanath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love.
BlownHappyKid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's many things but a major one are bacterial mutations.
Most people laugh at the idea how fiction portrays viruses but it's possible for one mistake to evolve into something worse. If more people didn't take their health for granted and purposely live in such ravaged continental conditions, then things wouldn't have become so bad in most parts of the world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:03:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We may never get another shot at life, I guess we just have to wait and find out.
sasidlovsky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump becoming president.
i_want_that_boat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Think about it. The biggest threat to you in your daily life is the strangers you interact with.
DoriansDelorian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:04:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:05:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/04/is-el-nino-or-climate-change-behind-the-run-of-record-temperatures
Happybadger96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Homo Sapiens.
swug3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness.
Skoot99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I'd have taken any of these things...until I saw that video of Keanu Reeves a few minutes ago.
rmandraque ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism and how nobody can feel how its idiology permeates everything in your life. People talk so much about distopias and brainwashing but they cant recognize it.
The-Rev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother in law...
SKnoetsen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:10:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
washheightsboy3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chuck Norris.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poverty and below poverty.
isthisreallytaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
maddasher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is more terrifying than any story on /r/nosleep.
keista2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Alexmonlol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Hoppnasty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOP debate
peej88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clowns
Lord_Quasar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
PMme10dolarSteamCard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From a post i made in r/fallout
The coconut crab everyone, in a nice album for ya. http://imgur.com/gallery/HSgVG
wkdritz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:31:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is absolutely terrifying. Glad we don't have anything like where I'm at.
stuckit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:57:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to cook and eat those.
tallulha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:21:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity
NINJA_SHEEP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ullrich.
kenshinmoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scopolamime. It's a drug made in Columbia made from the datura plant and when used it turns you into an extremely suggestable "zombie." Criminals blow the drug in unsuspecting peoples faces or lace their drknks. Once they start to see the drug take hold of their victim, they go up and take control of the person, bring them to their apartment and force then to give the criminals all their belongings and empty their bank accounts. If the victim is a woman, she is usually brutally raped. The vicim usually wakes up around 2 days later remembering none of it. It is fucking terrifying. It is also very easy to overdose. So criminals accidentally killing people with it commonplace. Pretty nasty shit.
Interesting documentary on it
mememaking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heroin addiction
yutsug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:24:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Closing your eyes in the shower
Mantaur4HOF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super volcanoes
holymoleycrabcakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes are quite terrifying.
squishysound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:25:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as President
skygig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death
Bob_Fillington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:26:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My nudes.
Abitterbuffalo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People have the ability to do anything they want. The possibilities are endless and terrifying.
-Zvennis- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:27:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
VanDoodah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:28:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shadows.
I know that they're technically not anything but we as a species have developed a keen eye for them so there must be something to them.
cryptonate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:29:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My grandmother had a condition called Trigeminal Neuralgia a nerve pain in the face so bad that some call it the suicide disease. While there are some treatments that work to alleviate the pain, there isn't a cure-all.
do_it_for_the_lolz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:30:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that a lot of super powers have dead men's switches. These devices launch a counter attack even if that country has been disabled.
diz4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:32:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
ShaggyJustin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
seluj1234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tsunamis ... Imagine that ...
DudeImMacGyver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
Professor_Pecan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:33:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
Dumbkittyonline ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:35:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anthrax escaping science labs because someone was careless which has happened before.
aviavy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity
Shiney79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Azidoazide azide. C2N14.
CarterDavison ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Time
Van-Demon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wind, it is an evil vindictive malevolent force
Gambit998 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When your Mother 'Middles names you'..... Bob 'GARY' Smith.....you know there is hell to pay!
HamzaAzamUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Money, politics, and people.
BazingaJ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death.
iComputerGeek101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
tonio_di_paulo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heartbreak.
Yourfriendsmum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anti-vaxxers. Scariest shit alive.
gnovotnydds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
ethansings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:43:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump actually becoming president
TinyOosik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump and his followers
TheRagingMidget ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People, by far.
paross ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:44:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Entropy
de_sente ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mother in law
reverend234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol us?
mb_mb_mb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism
Perfect_Orgsm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
America
Sean5294 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck Yeah!
C0lumbus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitting the pinkie against the chair
quueefeater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4chan /b is pretty scary.
TheEarlofPeapshire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Giant Hogweed. The burns and blistering that it causes are terrifying.
derangedkilr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Knightscope K5 'Predict and Prevent Crime' autonomous robot.
Gr1pp717 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
VX gas.
I can't find it now, and need to get ready for work, but I once did a report on the topic and learned that it keeps you alert as it causes convulsions and weakens your bones. The mixture of which causes your bones to break, and you're kept awake to feel it all. And eventually you suffocate to death, as you lose control of your diaphragm muscles...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't cause convulsions and it doesn't weaken your bones. You basically lose control of your body and just drop dead.
uwagapies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, plot point of the movie THE ROCK
ljamming445 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans...
cheri3757 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
beyondthewallofsleep ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government
desertdungarees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:51:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Anyone watch the US Republican primary debate last night? Definitely humans.
rulerofallyousurvey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that there fish with the barbs what swims up yer dickhole
theCamper1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
honestly , i think that the internet is the most scariest thing at all .
infiniterandomness ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans?
d3atharrow2i ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student loans
bsbllnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep Apnea. Imagine being so dehydrated you can't function but everytime you drink water you get violently ill. Thats sleep apnea....and Kanye hes pretty scary too
uwagapies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep Apnea isn't about dehydration. it's about blocked breathing passages during sleep.
bsbllnut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:27 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its called an analogy... 'facepalm'
fremblem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Potential super volcano eruption... Like... Ticking time bomb that we can't do much about.
http://www.ryot.org/supervolcano-yellowstone-volcano-will-it-erupt/765673
CaptPicard85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cluster Headaches
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious zealots. That's a special kind of crazy/stupid combo that I find unnerving.
pgh_duddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:55:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nature/Weather. You know what it can do. You know its coming. But you can't do anything about it.
MysteriousHunter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of another Bush in the White House.
Swirls109 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders.
ErraticGoose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking sharks
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antimicrobial resistance: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/
Hands down this.
sguillen18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Caitlyn Jenner
ifaptolatex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the reality that trump could be president.
codeMonkii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:00:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Withdrawal from a hardcore benzo addiction would probably be the worst thing. No one sympathizes with you and you can have withdrawals for years and with some people it never goes away.
The feeling of constant panic every single minute of the day would drive me insane.
Escape_Artist_EUW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom.
MattHasIdeas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Patrick Ewing.
Hewhoisnottobenamed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chlorine Trifluoride. This stuff will set asbestos, concrete, and glass on fire.
happy_beaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean mathematically the answer is the hippopotamus right?
kickmekate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really need to stop reading threads like this while pregnant and hormonal. All the worst case scenarios flying through my head and now I'm sitting here crying about prions and hugging my one year old.
uzernamesblo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:02:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My right hand.
josekun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Roxfall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
kimjongillest77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:03:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taxes.
EirikurG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Life
plattyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hydrofluoric Acid
If you drop it on your skin, you don't even feel it as it passes right through and goes straight into your bloodstream to eat your blood calcium and down on into your bones to start eating your bones. It literally passes through your body and does nothing but eat your bones. Theoretically if you fall into a tank of it you will come out of it with no bones- just a bag of skin and organs.
If you are exposed to it the only treatment is to get an incredibly painful shot of calcium directly onto the exposed area to neutralize the acid.
And it's incredibly commonly used in many chemical industries.
andreyevich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know where to find windows 7 images. Try torrenting or something.
My craw constantly has this stuck in my peripheral vision. The kid seemed nice, but I do the surgery, which was freaking me out. But as soon as I sat down I couldn't "see" the concern on their feet.
Sadly, my parents came to be a lot of practice and even that isn't contained in a good mood and its hard to achieve and maintain, do and be calm. Even when you hear people say "could of", it's similar to life and liberty. They require an investment of time and she said she likes me too. Best feeling ever.
Aeleas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This post seems terribly misplaced.
I_know_that_movie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatal familial insomnia is pretty scary.
LavaMeteor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: PRIONS PRIONS PRIONS PRIONS PRIONS
Pic40 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kidney stones
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
weather
Hauvegdieschisse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chemical weapons and how incredibly easy a good number of them could be manufactured by amateurs.
Aeleas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell, some of them could be manufactured by accident.
Hauvegdieschisse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:10:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read a story about that on here once. Some high school chemistry thing gone wrong. The moral of the story is fume hoods.
Evil_Oven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
knowing i spent money and did not get a receipt
Davinci07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:08:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions. Fucking prions are scary dangerous mofos
gazeebo88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Willful ignorance.
cyberwasi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think woman is the scariest real thing in the world
SS9596 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Federal Reserve.
Swainler2x4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Goblin Shark
el_tigre04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean no doubt is the scariest thing on earth. God knows what's lurking in the depths.... All I know is they're most likely blind and creepy as fuck.
jkeegan123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
testicular biopsy.
JebusLives42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trumps penis.
badwolf42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:12:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All fair points, but i live in the united states and getting Congress to pass those laws or not pass laws banning those regulations if implemented will be extremely challenging.
Trevoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders?
kopin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Natural disasters.
Sarahkubar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea that someone could actually bury you alive. And fucking sharks man. They're beautiful but god damn they are TERRIFYING.
Cereal4you ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as shark man, granted that would be terrifying as well.
Koneko04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What would be worse is a man who is fucking sharks. One terribly bad-ass, scary dude.
Sarahkubar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't agree more. Don't need sharks with bloody legs.
guest13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Industrial diving welders...
level92wizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The female vagina
BobbyBoogarBreath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
AlrightBoy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Things I've never heard of.
spenny_mule ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
fireball121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Outer space
jobiwonkinosi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump?
I_feel_collins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
ztsmart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
FauxMeatwad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:22:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Torture
arob1414 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Austrialia
Stinkfoot69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Hillary Clinton
Captainhowdy72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:24:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump! nothing else can compare!
UltimateArts13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
bishopweyland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Challenger Deep. 10,900m of descent into the darkest, deepest, coldest abyss on our planet.
ED3mtjani ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harlequin babies.
n1njafly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
GIOverdrive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes and Supercell storms. F dat shit!
unikilarki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It makes sense though on a certain level. Aww But I think GHOSTS are the scariest real thing on earth.
harteman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:30:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. BY FAR. The rest of the natural world fears us. Any animals that don't fear us, well they just haven't had enough time around us to learn that response.
We also made nukes, and decided to make THOUSANDS OF THEM, AND POINT THEM AT EACH OTHER.
Triumphant_Hippo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:31:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump.
dcamara5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
SnippyTheDeliveryFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:32:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'd be nice if you guys said what these things are instead of just mentioning them by name.
Aeleas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would also be nice if 2/3 of the answers weren't some variation on "Donald Trump."
straks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother...
(i love you, mom)
compactdigital1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:34:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sneks
Enzo03 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:50:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ssss!
snek fellings hurt
u taek dat bak nao.
compactdigital1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
am sorr snek
Loverboy242009406 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taxes
zak_on_reddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious, conservative Republicans.
alphaqbtch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fed
cjh57 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
MacPho13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tornados.
DeviantStrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact Donald Trump could become president.
publicram ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:36:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I was in the military bootcamp they had a section of it closed off to us. From what they told us someone had died to meningitis a weekk prior. They had to go through it I guess to clean it
slowshot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity's capacity to hate.
Noone enjoys being critical of themselves, so I understand if some people get upset.
Have good days.
welaxer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atomic bombs
Bignified ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any reality tv star who thinks they are making America great again.
PackaLacken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought that Donald Trump might become president.
BrisbaneAndroidDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:39:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's Trump, isn't it?
flinch85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Atom bomb
dunwiley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A politician.
Jasoncsmelski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Salfordpop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Idontwannalogin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:42:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Volcanoes
cooplooper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking bears
Lord_Zeeth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Mister_Justin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:43:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
koopcl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness. Also, spiders.
bealetonplayus1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going to prison especially if in a foreign country. I had to do weekend jail time and it sucked. I can only imagine that it gets worse in a real prison not just a county jail. I can't imagine how terrifying it would be going to prison in a third world country.
altoyz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
prototype31695 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that technology continually expands at an exponential rate.
Rhabdo1776 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions are pretty fucking freaky.
TrustworthyPanda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
death
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That I might die one day in my sleep.
capnwits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'd be lucky to die in your sleep, far worse ways to go. Radiation poisoning for instance!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well less on the pain and more on the abrupt end.
Never telling that girl you liked her, plans for the weekend you'd never do, etc
maabss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
global warming
BootRock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The current American election.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Calderas. Yellowstone will one day take out North America. That terrifies me.
BITCRUSHERRRR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fire. Lightning. The dark. Other humans.
MrMarchinko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tigers
Badger-Actual ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Deep Ocean.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Viruses. A novel influenza A virus is about as terrifying as it gets for me. Something that is technically not alive and incredibly small can significantly reduce our civilization to a former shadow of itself. Google Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.
Myelencephalous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing outdoes the irukandji jellyfish. Like, nothing - no snake, spider, plant.... this will ruin your life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzRhNxy-b00
GamerGuru247 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read about this super volcano in Yellowstone that if erupted would have the power of 1000 volcanoes http://www.ryot.org/supervolcano-yellowstone-volcano-will-it-erupt/765673
trotsky102 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Verneshot
Kbearforlife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nair
ELI5: I got home one night stupid high and drunk. I decided to go to the trusty website everyone uses and the rest of the night happened like this:
googles emo pov porn (because tattoos tho?)
finds pocket vagina
finds what is THOUGHT to be lotion
turns out to be nair
smells burning dick flesh
runs to shower, pain not stopping
put AXE SOAP on affected area, huge mistake
dick was burnt
Nair is a HORRIBLE thing. Why would that company make it look like basic lotion?
tasty-fish-bits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:50:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Governments.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
vnuss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
tommytom69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:51:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Enzo03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer has killed before we were around, kills while we are around, and will continue to kill after we are long gone.
Vithrus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Archeteuthis Dux
ChefBoyOG_412 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as a presidential candidate
Ghengis-Khunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming, hands down. We're all going to suffer for it.
Clap4boobies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump is about to be our next president.
Jeraconstrictor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:53:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
Itz_rhino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's chance at becoming president of the United States...
Tails_Da_Teemo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mind controlling parasites
superchunk7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
thatboringuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Suriname toads, creepy as hell
murphyn2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
chiliwonton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:55:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump talking about his penis
Johnqsmith1509 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatal Familial Insomnia has got to be up there... One day you wake up and never truly sleep again until you die of exhaustion amoung other things..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
Lawrencetheisotope ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
srs1317 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schizophrenia, especially those who have it who become violent
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
Cosomo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans. The most unpredictable species on this planet that, when it all comes down to it is trying to kill you. fuck you. eat you. be you. love you. hate you. buy you. sell you. manipulate you. control you.
Yeah, fucking sit on that fuckface.
Whatsamattahere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That people are truly voting for Donald Trump and that there is a chance he may one day control the USA.
anothermuslim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't check if already posted but, politicians.
GetMeOutOfMyHead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance.
InitiatePenguin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel Spiders. Because fuck me. That's why.
twostepdrew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
sarudesu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So.. not humans?
JoeTheSalmon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Society and the pressures around us.
TehNubcheeks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What isn't?
Rethious ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:02:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Autocratic regimes and their brainwashing.
pcweber111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it's probably that the planet has had at least 5 extinction level events in the past that we know of and we're probably due for one again eventually. Everything you know, everything humanity has done, every ounce of creativity our species has imagined can and probably will be wiped from the face of history.
PhreakOfTime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:14:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... except the hundreds of probes we've sent into various parts of deep space.
pcweber111 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're under the assumption that A. there's going to be anything out there to recognize what we've done, and B. that our probes aren't going to be destroyed by some random rock or fall into a star or something else. I agree I think our space probes are probably our best bet at being remembered (along with possibly the moon landers) but everything else will be erased from time.
Menace_Too_Sobriety ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep sea
jordan7741 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a Canadian, Donald Trump
latuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump with republicans in charge of congress and the senate.
hxzeldine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:04:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Children
A8Warmonger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Howard Sterns Ass...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ofc it's in Australia.
Patienceisavirtue1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:06:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Italian mother in law.
mkhnghn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have lived, and will soon be living once again, in areas with relatively high populations of black mambas.
I'm comfortable living in close proximity to basically all wildlife, but mambas scare the shit out of me.
zomboy000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:07:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean and damn near everything in it
OrdinaryVisionary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ignorance. Of all of the things listed in here, nothing has contributed more to death and destruction.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Devil's Breath.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143584/Scopolamine-Powerful-drug-growing-forests-Colombia-ELIMINATES-free-will.html
Mark7A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The next U.S. presidential election
garner99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ate it to gain its stinging powers.
Klynwe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness ..
BattleTitties ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
brain aneurysm
JakeBurgess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Took dirt and turned it into nuclear weapons.
muhniepie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:11:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taking Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). "Intrepid travelers report that past jeweled-gates can be found mechanical-Elves, Aliens, Egyptian Gods, temples, pyramids, and palaces of pulsating light, and some would say, the entire possible population of the Collective Unconsciousness. A magical place where the totality of phenomenal existence can be experienced in an often terrifying transpersonal flash." http://www.dmtsite.com/dmt/experience/descriptions_of_experience.html
HamrickZach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm really late but definitely Cone Snails. They harpoon a needle with a toxin that makes you destroy your bowel systems... If you're lucky enough to live...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:13:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump or Hillary might be the next president.
ResponseAccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poverty or the potential of being in a state of destitution?
Aren't we all just about one health issue or job cut away from that?
1101base2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
getting struck by falling debris from a space station...
Wilreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Polonium.
The most poisonous substance on earth
PrewHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. It covers 70% of the earth but there is so little we know about it.
someonethatiusedtobe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ourselfs
Nothing is more scary than facing your own demons
JRomeroFlores ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:27:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Earth its self. The thought that we are nothing but a speck in the universe, where anything could possibly exist, or maybe we are alone, which is even scarier, your life is worthless when you think about it.
ZutaTheFox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:30:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White Phosphorous
Duvieilh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This is going to give me nightmares.
Edit: I haven't even gotten through 10 main comments and I've decided that I'm never going to Australia. In fact, I'm never leaving my home without a suit of armor.
specialkake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Willful ignorance.
Adventure_Everywhere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The irs.
imcrowning ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living as a human.
uniqueuniform ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:35:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
momoandme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:38:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the ocean, we know little about what beneath the ocean compared to our knowledge about the sky
TheLawandOrder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Practically anything from Australia
noluck1977 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:39:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump could realistically be the next president.
scarlatan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
Decmally ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:42:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this thread has trump written on it more than the voting ballots will..
Jhulio3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The darker, hidden bits of Reddit's subs
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:47:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hands down /r/nosleep
pr0dig3y ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soil erosion
DeceiveDA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton being president
sufferpuppet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Think of the horror if the two put their differences aside and ran on the same ticket.
GameKyuubi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:52:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oxidizers.
DasWandbild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FOOF. Satan's Kimchi
The "things I won't work with" blog, which had the best analysis and narrative on the stuff, appears to be offline at the moment.
Just know it's a substance that has killed or poisoned most who have ever tried to synthesize or work with it, and that it detonates most organic compounds at -300F.
9279 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That 21 year old porn stars who have no life wisdom make a large amiuntif miney and all have suoer nice homes already on their wayto being nearly paid off.
savageartichoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other people.
bashfulbr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans! People are crazy
Muhlgasm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Inbreds with the strength of a retarded gorilla.
Sorry, X Files episode called "Home" fucked me up for life.
stingrayaffIiction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HORSESHOE CRABS
totti_07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:04:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of Trump actually being President
Theniallmc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
daddyyboyy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has any one said Donald Trump yet?
core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, you're the first.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scopolamine
AlexEdge345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's Mom :p
seaniyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. Or clowns. Nope never mind they're the same thing.
kenshin79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Females
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
sprkmstr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
geopolitics
hotkimm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
people fear because of the bigger ultimate forces in the universe we can't explain.
MichioDegrasseSagan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The rapid increase of our population and climate change. It threatens our entire species and not many have taken action. Also I think it's absurd that we have politicians that have the audacity to deny it since they're funded by the big polluters.
TeenageDirtbag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Trump's running for president, and he's doing alright.
weekendwarrior72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Camel spiders
reincarN8ed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sink holes.
Just one day the ground beneath your city decides to disappear.
Captain_Nemo_2012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:26:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heracleum mantegazzianum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
Now found wild in the Southern USA. "The sap of giant hogweed causes phytophotodermatitis in humans, resulting in blisters, long-lasting scars, and if it comes in contact with eyes, blindness. These serious reactions are due to the furocoumarin derivatives in the leaves, roots, stems, flowers, and seeds of the plant."
hahagutlaugh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us.
tb8592 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That spinning iguana that was posted the other day on the front page.
sixup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:59 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That thing fucked up my life.
Equilibriator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
giant squids should be up there like
JayFox21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deep Craters
JayFox21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deep Holes
Wild_Hunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharks, honestly people don't realise how powerful they are in water and how helpless you are if any large species was to attack you
Nooks83 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
DreadAngel1711 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Five Nights at Freddy's fandom
chrisacip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
cleanbutdirty801 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of "The Donald" being president of the United States.
OoBigDaddyLongLegs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Protein denaturation. There's no stopping it.
Emmryn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
F*cking goblin sharks.
LavaMeteor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you take a huge shit and flash and the water goes higher than usual and it overflows and the shit flops at your feet along with the toilet water
JudgmentalNarwhal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. We could easily blow up the Earth if one person decides to use a nuke.
huggybear78 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
flying roaches!!
thunder_ganesh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ocean.
MaDSteeZe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a hypochondriac and reading this thread. Excuse me while I go bubble wrap myself.
evn2rzn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tie between Poison Ivy and Barn Spiders.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well if I wasn't a hypochondriac before.. I am now...
BadWolfIdris ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings. They terrify me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People, they're unpredictable.
jackwoww ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings' capability of mass destruction
imperial1s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:45:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Catching mom and dad doing the deed
Dove_and_Grenade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ann Coulter
samlowry5611 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human Beings.
belegurfromthevoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prions.
I'm surprised they aren't higher up on this list
LtKittenKiss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia + waters surrounding it.
22andangry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean
shutyourface_grandma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nomads... and the Dutch.
Sabsitapsi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War
themagikbeans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders. End of story
msbabc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chlorine trifluoride.
TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiots voting for idiocy. Especially when they are the first pricks to complain about what they voted for.
RaisinBranRyan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
thinktwicemice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
offmychest_is_cancer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A major Cosmic Ray hitting the planet and killing everything.
I mean, not like we would know, since we would all be dead pretty fast.
No way to see it coming.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:25 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually if it was a clear day, or even if you could see the blue sky and it suddenly turns bright (but not blinding!) white then make peace with your gods and get as drunk/hammered as possible so you don't feel the pain quite so badly
PM_ME_HKT_PUFFIES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Next to where I work is an abandoned psychology hospital.
It's cold/grey/dark and after gipsys stole the roof it's now wet and there's a pretty bad smell.
I'm an old engineer, and I think my feet are firmly on the ground, but walking through this place is the scariest thing I've had to endure. It makes my skin crawl.
The noise I make walking through echoes through the tiled walls. If I stand still there are noises, probably just the building contracting/expanding but my imagination tells me something made that noise.
bazooopers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global nuclear annihilation
Boro84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Simple, Mother Nature. Other apex predators, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods, blizzards, naturally occurring fires, rough seas....etc. Shes a bitch
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean.
schnttrzpfn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That we will never really know another human being. Whatever kind of cosmos is inside their head you will never get to know the machinations/imaginations/motives/contents of the consciousness truly.
You will only ever see another human being as your projected expectations ( of former experience with this/other humans) and thats it.
You will never know another human because we can not communicate from consciousness to consciousness.
That is fucking scary given how our consciousness and mind defines who we are.
nemozeno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FFS....reading all the top comments, the scariest thing period is existence.
FML
The_Second_Pez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A spider that you try to kill in bed, and lose track of.
Footprints123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death. Nothing is more terrifying than your own mortality.
connurp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thickness of our atmosphere in relation to the size of the planet. Something so thin is protecting so large from so much danger. AWESOME!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us. We have the power to level entire cities
PM_ME_ONE_BTC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
KaleStrider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US government.
Especially considering Trump is a front-runner.
Treesarescary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motor neurone disease: no cure, no known cause, can happen to anyone anytime, your body becomes your own jail until you have to eat-breathe through a tube, cancer is pretty shitty too
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death... And then taxes. And maybe a possible Terminator-style Apocalypse.
jxhnb5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the there are five instances of nuclear materials being ACCIDENTALLY stolen in Mexico since 2013.
die9991 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate Change. We just fucked ourselves over and theres no turning back. Fuck you too Exxon.
FragHatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming. Extinction level events should terrify everyone.
M1ghtypen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer. It seems like a mundane answer, right? People get cancer and it either kills them or doesn't, there are treatments for it, so on. Really think about it, though. Your body is destroying itself for no good reason, and the treatments for it are pretty damn hellish. That's assuming they work. If they don't you're in for a nightmarish slow and painful death as you waste away over the course of days, weeks, or even months.
My dad had cancer twice, and I watched him struggle to survive. Before then I'd have really needed time to think about it when someone asked me what I was most afraid of. It became a pretty personal fear for me, so I don't have to think about it any more. F**king cancer, man.
seandfrancis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What isn't scary are brain slugs. Come on, let's all go get some brain slugs.
Stephano36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The presidential election
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Delta P
TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd also add: Acupuncture Needles.
Anyone seen "Kiss of the Dragon"?
Historys_Ghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gamma-ray burst can kill the entire planet before we even realize what happened (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tritiated water vapour.
slapuwithafish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
charismaticsciencist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the fact that Bill Murray will one day die.
PleaseSendPants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The drain at the bottom of the pool that sucks your guts out of your anus and drowns you at the same time when sat on.
aslokaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jay garrick
WatershedJamieL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drug & Alcohol Addiction.
liammcb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea. There is a country of some 25 million people which has zero outside communication, suspected nuclear weapons and it's all controlled by one mad man
TheAmbivalante ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republicans
Jaytimpz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sinkholes man. Sinkholes.
AlexanderAF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Plutonium. 9 lbs of powdered plutonium released into the atmosphere would wipe out all life on earth, leading to a mass extinction that our planet would never recover from. Sleep tight!
librarygal22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:38:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria
AdvantFTW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tumblr
Sinister-Mephisto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vampires
snowman815 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fatal Familial Insomnia.
Insomnia so bad that over the course of about a year you become physically unable to sleep while slowly descending into extreme fatigue, paranoia, hallucinations, dementia, psychosis and ultimately death.
A 100% fatal, uncurable, untreatable and truely horrific disease.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The IRS.
misterwizzard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This presidential race. We are soooo fucked.
Tis_be_thine_upvote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The scariest thing on our earth is that the magnetic field is weakening fast. This is due to the magnetic poles switching. If this weakening continues, we will be exposed to dangerous solar light waves that will damage any sort of wireless technology. It is theorized that this is what caused the extinction of the Neanderthals. There is nothing that people can do about this because it is just a natural process of the earth that has happened plenty of times. Save yourselves!!! Mars, here I come!
Lackofthefacts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women?
lazlounderhill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An ICBM with a nuclear warhead.
zuctronic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plutonium.
TGReporter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
meteors, though they are not technically from this planet
NiceBird_Asshole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking. Sharks.
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then don't fuck them, sheesh.
cryptenigma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:09 on March 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the old reddit shark-a-roo!
Chofo917 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cockroaches.
thatpizzaguy5150 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that if your balls switch sides in your sack you will need surgery and possibly lose your testicles. That shit freaks me out every time I sit down now.
character0127 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Grandma posts on your Facebook wall.
ProfessorPenetrator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After reading most of these, I'm not ever going to go to Australia.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:23:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women.
ImVeryOffended ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings.
doom_vr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that there is always something scarier than anything you had imagined so far.
feclar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How has no one in top 50 or so not mentioned HIPPOS!!!
Jack__Burton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honey badgers
ImJustaBagofHammers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kim Kardashian.
cm242 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sleep paralysis and JJ watt
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:04:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I completely understand why people would think sleep paralysis has some sort of supernatural cause if they were unfamiliar.
cm242 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea I have experienced it a few times and it is pretty horrible
AwesomeTrinket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death terrifies me. The thought that you're dead, all you see is blackness, you can't feel, smile, or make people enjoy things you've done terrifies me to the extreme.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that snake in the amazon that can crawl up your eurethra and lodge itself in there with its spiny thorn like scales
NitoTheBeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure death is the scariest real thing in life.
dielawn87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human Ignorance
I_love_hate_reddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:34:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Locked-in syndrome
Ba5eThund3r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Devil's breath. It's so amazingly simple, yet scary as heck once you understand what is made possible using it.
NiceBird_Asshole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do love me sum shark wiener tho
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
spiders, murderers and drunk drivers
atticus_red ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:33 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trypophobia things.
amilli1084 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
money.. it destroys everything it touches.
bugarskey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:40 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scopolamine or colombian devil's breath. That shit is for real!
Nackles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:34 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe thumbs because they recognize they're important...and the face, that could maybe be going for the eyes?
Robcofounder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:34 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
Think about it.
MartianPHaSR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:22:49 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clzFybU5kDg
horses_around ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:24 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of Loosin my grandma after loosin my grandpa.. They are my rocks.
Sludgerunner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:01 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Earthquakes of 1811-12
I grew up near the epicenter of these earthquakes and we were taught about them in school constantly. The Mississippi River flooding and flowing backwards, Steaming mud geysers, and gaping chasms appearing in seconds. I was terrified as a kid. I mean this greasy bastard rang church bells in Boston. Every time an earthquake shook my house a I think I pooped a little. The New Madrid Fault is ready to go for round two and its looking like a 9.0 at least. I mean for real this is the shit that could trigger the Yosemite Supervolcano. Or vice-versa. It might have been my teachers hyping it up, but Northeast Arkansans and Missourians are haunted by this shit.
Iputtie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:46 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna have to say, whats not on our Earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:00 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dangerous.html
shellbellhell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:21 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the ocean
adamd22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:49 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay so I'm late to the party but I'm here with something fresh.
Wealth inequality. Sure, quality of life has gotten better for everyone, that's not a point of dispute, it never has been, hopefully never will be. But look at any source splitting the population into percentiles, showing wealth growth, and displaying it on a graph. The growth becomes non-existent the lower you go. Relatively speaking of course.
You can look at it from a different angle and say "but the incomes of the lower class are rising". Yes but that isn't accounting for inflation.
1% of the population own 48% of the wealth. The top 20% own 94.5% of the wealth. And the approximately 50% of the population who vote right wing say it's unfair to tax these people.
Here's another perspective. The middle class is shrinking, and the divide between rich and poor is only becoming more pronounced. And sure, if you click on that link and look at it for 10 seconds, it looks good right? Number of lower and middle class people shrinking, number of upper class people growing. Combine it with the other link and you'll realise that yeah, more people are becoming rich, by shoving others into the dirt. 80% of the population own 5.5% of the wealth in the world. What more, most of the lower class shrinkage comes from the older generations, essentially meaning you have to live a few decades just for the right to leave the lower class.
Does this not disgust you like it disgusts me? No matter which way you vote, no country, capitalist or not, should be operating on profits rather than treatment of the majority. Trickle-down economics does not work. Humanity will advance as it normally does whether you give the majority of the population basic right to utilities or not. Business advances technology, and therefore human quality of life. This much is true, but taking that, and squeezing the majority of the population for everything, on the justification that it will "help them in the long run" through business R&D and innovation, is completely disgusting. And it's horrific that anybody has this mindset, this lack of sympathy for other human beings, simply because they believe poor people simply "aren't trying hard enough" or "aren't clever enough to get rich.
Clareth_GIF ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:49 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think the middle class will be a relic of the 20th century. And guess who's fault it is, that the middle class is going extinct? The middle class themselves.
They always want more for less. Instead of paying for more from their fellow middle class brethren they instead chose China goods and services. Shipping off all their potential jobs and earnings to emerging nations willing to work for peanuts.
And the net effect of that is their own countries end up being places were everything favours owners of capital. The 1 percenters.
When you watch and listen to the media you would think the world is a very rich place. But it's actually a very poor one.
But who knows I might be wrong. I'm just an Economics major paraphrasing from a really good BBC documentary I watched about the financial crises of '08 and '09.
hi_speed24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:44 on March 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "Mom"
3MGB4EBB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:31 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuke Bombs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:11 on March 8, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/what-in-the-world-is-this-whale-sized-tubular-sea-monster
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150608-ribbon-worms-animals-ocean-science-taiwan-world/
TankGirlwrx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:02:05 on March 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The speed of the proboscis of that ribbon worm is the creepiest part
Pain-Causing-Samurai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:50 on March 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's kind of cute. Brilliant shade of green.
Ozilyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:21 on March 9, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dark web!
redditlolgetit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:28 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that more than 18,000 people commented on this in just 6 days... meaning there's that much to be afraid of.
Killedbygluten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:01 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being chased by a convicted murder
emmyset23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:18 on March 10, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My goodness! Disgusting. Almost nobody deserves that. ALMOST.
Yosheth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:42 on March 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spider crabs
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:41 on April 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mother-in-laws
gatothegato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:50 on June 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
prions.
Lovelybones177 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:26 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worms that live inside of our bodies....cringe worthy shit right there...
shawiwowie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:30:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump is still a viable candidate for election
jamensramen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:29:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
leigh3renee ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump possibly running USA.
mortoson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact the Trump could become President.
Milo4point0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Full_Mittens ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
whatifthiswasmyname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump 2016
SeedofEden ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:42:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump's presidency
mkaramlo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president of US.
CaptainDadTV ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:44:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump.
ImAFrenchCanadian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump actually having a chance at becoming A U.S. President.
RosarioM0 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
Jckinthebox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
tehswagg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Thw possibility of Donald Trump being the commander and chief of the strongest military on the planet.
John10321 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump becoming our next president
db0255 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump actually really possibly being US President.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
drayb1986 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump's ratings in the polls.
jasonthelamb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump might be the next US President
Grammar_Police1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
agingbythesecond ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:08:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump has a chance at being President. This is down right terrifying!
carlsonbjj ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:08:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump comes to mind
Da_Cat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president.
Jattmessen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
bazinga_4_u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. Period.
Crono1981 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha you people, Donald Trump isn't real! ... wait... he isn't, right?
Uptomyknees ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:13:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump
TheFaultInOurFarts ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:27:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump right now
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:54:07 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[removed]
zach2992 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:49:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One word: dropbear.
coldmtndew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:00:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those dropbears are scary bro!
thundercat_011 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:12:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feminism.
shackmd ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bot flies and Bernie Sanders
kingsillypants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American voters. Seriously. They have the world's most powerful army, a lot of them are racist religious nutbags who believe the end of the world is neigh. Just look at the last time they voted the same retard into office...not once...but twice....2x wars later and a budget surplus left my democrat Clinton....well...you know what happened after. Donald Drumpf 2016 anyone?
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:28:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
TRUMP_SIMULATOR ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:04:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
CircusNinja75 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, I am going to have night terrors now. Thanks.
GaiusOrangeJulius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:23 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kodiak Bear
ParanoidDrone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
A_salt_ed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:16:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The basement....well as a kid it was.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either North Korea or whatever is at the bottom of the ocean. One is total fucking insanity, the other might be total fucking insanity just hiding at the bottom of the ocean.
FingerStuckInMyButt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Parents of young youth athletes. Too many are unpredictable assholes.
findtowelie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student Loans
big_mikeloaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
cameratoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:48:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
osumatt95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:50:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
VillainOfAll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
iouiuoiokljklj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
The_Salty_Spitoon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:10:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow so edgy and ironic.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you grow up in the aftermath of a war, you tend to have a fairly low opinion of people.
monkeybuttsauce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:24:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
NotSureHowItGoes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:25:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here to say Donald Trump and was clearly beaten. Don't know what I was expecting
kybalion7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as the leader of the free world.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ocsapasco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump becoming the next President of The United States of America.
digbick-j ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
right about now, i say it is the potential of a president donald drumpf
PROCRASTINATION_WON ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump winning.
Toredo_Mind_Fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump might become President of the United States of America
pixiepoof ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
mpicc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:31:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
somecardude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Bobylein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who think Donald Trump is the scariest thing on earth.
SunshineDaydream13 ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 00:51:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:31:42 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a cactus shoved up my vagina sounds more pleasant than that sentence.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:34:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assume away my friend.
Baym-n ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:48:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People tend to remember negative times better that they remember positive times. Example: what were you doing when 9/11 happened?
DTtocs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumph
MajorCrater ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:39:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chance that Donald Trump could be our next president of the United states.
gagnonca ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump and his supporters
sfengi ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People actually think that Bernie would be a good president.
blizzardice ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 04:04:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The more I read about that moron, the more I cringe.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:03:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At least all of his claims are backed up with facts. Unlike the fear-mongerer Trump. Just take a few minutes and read through both of their websites.
blizzardice ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:13:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His only answer to everything is to increase taxes for everyone. His policies would put the country in even more crippling debt....assuming congress would approve them. Sweeden is finally seeing how that hurts and is moving back from socialism.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders, unlike Trump, specifies how he will pay for all his proposals.
https://berniesanders.com/issues/how-bernie-pays-for-his-proposals/
I understand that Trump will cut taxes for some people. How, exactly, does he expect to balance this budget shortfall?
ElectricFirex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:20:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing about raising taxes is the government doesn't just sit on the money, they use it to enrich the lives of citizens.
blizzardice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:02:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are wasteful with it. I'd rather enrich my own life with my money.
bigvarg21 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:44:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that you can't spell Sweden automatically negates any argument you make.
blizzardice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is the dumbest comment ever made. I accidentally misspelled Sweeden so now their policies aren't changing?
bigvarg21 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well when you pick 1 country that may not be doing well, and omit the other 9 or 10 that are extremely successful with being socialist, you kind of set yourself up. The fact you misspelled Sweden was icing on the cake. Look at the other socialist countries in the world and compare their economies to ours. Also compare their quality of life. China pretty much owns the U.S. with all the debt, Finland, and Denmark have much higher overall life satisfaction as well as a higher working class. We need a reform. Is socialism the answer? Who fucking knows, but we can't promise change and keep the same policies that have failed time and time again.
blizzardice ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:54:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Venezuela and denmark aren't doing so well either. The citizens have high personal debt because they may more income to taxes.
Edit: Also, none of this matters. Bernie doesn't have a chance in hell of getting elected anyway.
bigvarg21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well according to Forbes Denmark is the happiest country in the entire world with Norway, Netherlands and Sweden directly behind. US is in the 20's. And I doubt they have more debt than the average American.
blizzardice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:50 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiots are always happy. I worked with a moron from Greece that hated what he was forced to go to free college for and still defended it. He's still happy to have a miserable time wasting his time.
petgreg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:28 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human nature.
AllTaints18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:24 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kidnappings. There is nothing that scares me more than that.
Cookieway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yellow Stone. That thing can blow any time, and we will be absolutely fucked.
TheDrGoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skeletons ๐
coldmtndew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2spooky4me
KoopaKola ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Careful, there's one right inside you!
SleepyLoner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:20:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Prions are proteins that have been coded wrong.
They wreak havoc in your brain and have no known cure.
EDIT: No known cure reference.
Laratez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:24:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that every single person I love will die. Especially my little sister. I know its soppy but it seriously scares the shit out of me. Sorry if this has already been suggested.
Layin_Down_the_Law ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:25:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alone :(
nsears14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:26:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anti-biotics. Specifically how diseases are getting more and more resistant over time.
IdoHaiP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human race.
Morthanc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:46:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
chucklesthe2nd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lonestar Tick. Fucker can cause an allergy to RED MEAT.
if I had to live without steak I'd go insane.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyomma_americanum
WhiskeyPrettyPit28 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:42:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brain aneurysm
gravedigger805 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:48:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
had one of those 0/10 do not recommend
Invictus3496 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. A lifeless world is a scary world.
mwcotton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:09:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you ever read anything about the 1918 Flu pandemic you will find it very scary A sick person couldn't take of their selves and most people would not help because they didn't want to catch the flu and DIE.
headless_bourgeoisie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:18:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White men.
Pepsiarizonasquirt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the mushy grey matter lumps surrounded by a fortress of bone and flesh who are capable of creating bombs that can kill hundreds of thousands in an instant.
feedmetothelesbians ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
27 missed calls from mom
lukethiel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student loans.
Debt.
Taxes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Unknown.
Death is coming. Taking comfort in that is easy when you know it's coming. What happens after that? Now that's scary.
THE_Incognito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This.
gronke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This scene from HBOs The Newsroom sums it up pretty well.
TeutonicTwit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organized religions.
LouisianasBeard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Clinton family
nesta420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are the most dangerous things in the universe
Arekeneras ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black holes?
nesta420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:28:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A black hole wont rape the fresh orifices it just created in me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
sammyb96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mike Tyson
daydreamurr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organized religion. Makes monsters of excuses and protects even more under their banners.
TheAKofClubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The current US presidential candidate line-up.
Tronzoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tammy.
SenatorMeathooks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goddamnit, now I won't be able to get to sleep.
meskarune ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Living in poverty
JaeyD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting a crazy girl pregnant.
cjc323 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary or Trump as president
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pandas
finebydesign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kardashians.
Kwetomthesavage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:08:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 150000 debt i have waiting for me at the end of school
ShovelyJoeYT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised you even need ask. The answer is, of course, Donald Trump becoming POTUS.
Mandroid45 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:15:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cordova
amoosewithnoname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politics in the United States recently. I thought of this as a joke but realised it really wasn't.
TundraWolf_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/the_donald
donownsyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brain when I can't fall asleep
pirouetteporpoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The human driven 6th mass extinction happening RIGHT NOW
brewster_the_rooster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stupidity
Huskytemplar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The really interesting scary things (for me at least) aren't on earth
krashlia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Future of the American Presidency
BlueSun288 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fish memes
HITLERS_SEX_PARTY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harlequin babies. Google it.
Next would be white guys over 50 with hair past their shoulders, wearing flip-flops or Crocs. Bonus if they play in a 'metal' band.
lilsniper ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
corrupt government and greedy corporations.
gymnasticRug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean. We just don't know what is down there.
NyctophobialGrue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People of the opposite sex
Skrapari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ManBearPig.
Albert0_Kn0x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nuclear weapons controlled by people with strong religious beliefs.
grandfunkpoobah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:38:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GINGIVITIS
PM_ME_YOUR_CHESTHAMS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears.
Iridium_Eclipse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States.
Australiancattledog1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Manbearpig
SirSpleenter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jay garrick
Silosolo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loosing trust in there only person/your slice of the world you trusted.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bill Cosby
eu01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dying the second death- being eternally separated from God is just as scary as not going through the second death but knowing that my family didn't make it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ancient man. Imagine you're an antelope drinking from the river, all of a sudden a spear just barely misses you and stabs the dirt behind you. You start to run just from the fear of seeing that spear and then you hear strange sounds and feet running behind you. You get a glimpse behind yourself and you see several tall, dark, two legged things chasing you, all with spears in their hands.
Man was made for long endurance running, we release sweat to cool ourselves down as we run. Imagine being chased by something that is guaranteed to catch up to you and kill you, sure you can move faster, but can you move longer?
J-J-JohnnyJay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother in-law.... ba-dum-tsss
NaisaDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.imgur.com/8VengAs.jpg Honestly terryfing.
8Bit_Architect ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiots in democratic societies.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally anything from Australia.
heebythejeeby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm from Australia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then you already know. Isn't it like, 90% of everything in nature that can quickly and horrifically kill you located in Australia?
heebythejeeby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh well 90% is a bit much... 75%?
90% of things will fuck up your day though. Even flies. They mostly drive you to wish plagues upon the earth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. Plus, I HATE spiders, and I've see the pictures from Australia.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That it is still not acceptable to fart in public.
mlkk22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bronze ELO players
heebythejeeby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Electric Light Orchestra?
mlkk22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:57:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no, Electric light orchestra is fine, I'm talking about players from the bottom part of a popular game
heebythejeeby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, a common mistake, I'm sure
sweetrolljim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The deep ocean
vapengfx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cancer
Sir_Abraham_Nixon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After seeing Deadpool, suffocation seems up there.
DarkRelik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom
D00maGedd0n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dying alone
Oregonhastrees ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:54:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
booger eaters
the-talking-goat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debbie Wasserman
Kitty-Zombie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Never-Ending Circlejerk of Poverty
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:03:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
HPV is actually THE most common STI in the US.
CrikeyKangaroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honey badgers. They truly don't give a fuck.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz
millipedecult ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:02:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I checked and no one said it, but man on man anal rape.
One kid in North Dakota, in one of those oil towns, got manhandled by 5+ dudes in a McDonald's, and no one did anything.
blockhose ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:04:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness
Single_Helix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom.
I'll see myself out.
bufftart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid people
newtizzle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A call from a relative before 6 am. My stomach drops when I see a call come in. Always means someone you love died.
RhubarbCharb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The United States presidential election.
Nolivesmatter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Willful, rampant stupidity coupled with a complete absence of personal responsibility.
Sconney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our minds, yo
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mother fucking Ghosts
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness. Being really, actually friendless where no one cares if you live or die.
McCFred ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going to bed, why did I come to this thread???
thegr8rambino13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:09:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
zionism/protocols of zion
Mexnexus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:10:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Men. Overfishing and nuclear power.
Dewey2020 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
clowns.
vonflare ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grey goo
HeisenDiaN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Jimmyrustlewilson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skeletons. Spooky Scary ones specifically.
Throwawayphonehaha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Home invasions
BodyMindSpirit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naked grandmas
Goddessofsin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:20:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
naked grandpas
MastaPhunkkyChkn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American healthcare system.
ledniv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Command-F "Trump". No results. Really?!
anon1moos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
modestonions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump is actually looking like he might win the Republican nomination, and maybe even the whole race for President. Its actually terrifying to me.
Good_Kid_Mad_City ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
schludini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
pookiespy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't it the imminent threat of Trump becoming president of the USA?
yolomololl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably how insanely close the entire world came to nuclear annihilation in 1983. "On September 26, 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov was in command at Serpukhov-15, a bunker where the Soviets monitored their satellite-based detection systems. Shortly after midnight, panic broke out when an alarm sounded signaling that the United States had fired five Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs, toward Russia. The warning was a false alarmโone of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of sunlight off clouds near Montana as a missile launchโbut to the Soviets, it appeared the United States had started a nuclear war. Protocol demanded that Serpukhov-15 report any signs of a missile launch to the Soviet high command, but Petrov had a hunch the warning was an error. He knew the new satellite system was mistake-prone, and he also reasoned that any nuclear strike by the Americans would come in the form of hundreds of missiles, not just five. With only minutes to make a decision, Petrov chose to ignore the blaring warning alarms and reported the launch as a false alarmโa move that may have averted a nuclear holocaust. The incident remained classified until after the Cold War ended, but Petrov later received several humanitarian awards for his extraordinary actions, and was even honored by the United Nations."
pazuzu_86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Knowing that one day you will die, and you will be alone.
Nanookthebear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
alone? How about "and you will not be."
TehKatieMonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
muu411 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump might be President
MiningdiamondsVIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president.
TheSelfishRedditor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump
Oops639 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump.
jonhen99 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:47:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
Oops639 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:56:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you don't comprehend why you never will.
whoknows-com ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:05:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The moment you realize you're too high
optomas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Freedom. We are terrified of freedom.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear warheads, and hows it's completely out of the common mans control over whether they are used or not.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cardboard rubbing together.
gutter_rat_serenade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The amount of children that are sexually abused.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly? Humans learning not to care about ANYTHING or ANYONE, because they care about the dumbest shit right now.
BASTARDHarbourMastah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
your mom?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Large groups of apathetic, hateful, and extremely religious people.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apathy
UFOsRus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rabies. It basically 100% lethal, there are only like 3 survivors who were put into induced coma and this slowed the disease enough for the body to fight it off, but they generally were permanently pretty messed up afterwards. People die while having cramps in all muscles. 10 days post exposure there is no cure. Having a child of yours get it is what nightmares try to live up to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies
CoyoteGospel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global Warming. Ain't even close.
scubafire4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
currently for me its this. Cannon like booms at home shaking volumes, without a source to be discovered. Then there is the other sound which i have heard, it sounds like steal beams grinding against each other, but it sounds like its coming from the sky.And this was at 3:30 am on a sunday, so constructions out. This is world wide, it started really happening at the new year.
nifkinten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're pregnant
thefiend617 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
white people
GreenSaver19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
religionismyth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
troubledtimez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Losing your house to your wife and paying for her to enjoy a slacker lifestyle.
SecretAsianMann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yer nan's cunt
Yodaskool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. #deep
MonsieurSander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:55:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tinnitus.
EpicNoob991 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have it. It's not that terrible
MonsieurSander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it is. Horrible.
Slendyla_IV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Golden State Warriors.
clacksy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MAD - mutual assured destruction
brettdad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:18:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cops
orangechickengeneral ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seeing your child die and not knowing how to help
rathat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Forget North Korea, If there's going to ever be a nuclear war, I guarantee it'll involve Pakistan, and not necessarily the Pakistani government. If there is even one fired unintentionally, I guarantee it'll be Pakistan.
zero_cat_chance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mobs in panic mode.
papershoes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Numbers stations. They are so inexplicably creepy.
thearticulategrunt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact so many can be so blindly supportive of someone like Hillary. (Just kidding, wanted to poke back at all the anti Donald trolls out there who either are not being serious or have no idea what scary is lol. Though she is still a scary thing.)
Splitje ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American and Russian governments
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump or bacterial meningitis.
apomares23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:21:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/ZZjmSc0.jpg
thekiriad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even as a Brit... Trump.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:41:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islam? Let the shitstorm begin.
guyver17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:08:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never understand this mindset. I grew up in a very diverse area that had lots of Muslims. When I think of Muslims I think of my friends are practicing and are lovely people, very family-centric. I know of a few people who take it too far but they're the minority. There's always people who take it too far. It's people you should be afraid of
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:29 on March 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, every time a team of reporters use a hidden camera, some shit comes up. Like rape is ok, hitting and stoning is ok and so on. I don't say that being recorded by a hidden camera is gonna make me look like an angel, but i wonยดt say itยดs ok to rape and stone people. Sharia laws etc. is the devil.
guyver17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:42 on March 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bit of a daft argument given there's about a billion Muslims. That's hardly evidence that Islam is inherently evil. Let's not forget fringe Christianity and the bombing of abortion clinics, rewriting of textbooks, anti-science etc. Sharia law and its implementation, like a lot of law, varies from place to place.
Christians used to be pretty fond of burning each other for being the wrong sort of Christian.
The problem with religion is that it's practiced by people, and all the hangups and failures they may have.
TumbleDwarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
clinton
Darkexistenceorlight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
Pat1711 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Chicker-Chick-Ahhhh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
riley123619 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
JayG01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
do_you_even_ship_bro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
Neireau ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Trump becoming president, and this is coming from a European.
SakuranboTomato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Late to the party, but I'm surprised that no one has posted anything about scopolamine, aka "devil's breath". It's a powdered drug out of Columbia that basically allows you to completely take over a person's free will temporarily. They will bow to your every request, and I mean EVERY. Want them to kill their own family? Give you all their banking information? No problem. They won't see a problem with it either.
Best part? They won't remember a thing when they come out of it.
All someone has to do is blow a tiny bit at you while passing you on the street and you're done. The effects are almost instant.
EDIT: There was a VICE documentary about it. I'd recommend it.
Fail_Panda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody dies. No one will care since it happens to everyone. Sure, they'll be sad for a bit. But what do you even leave behind? A name? A small impact? Even the most influential people of all time will be forgotten. Nobody lives on purpose. There is no point.
digging_for_1_Gon4_2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
LordFlashy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
stup3ndo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Chemicals.
Seriously the chemicals humans can make/manipulate and the damage it does is mind boggling.
Whether it is Chernobyl incident or Bhopal Gas Leakage Disaster or Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing, its one of the most dangerous creations of the human mind. I think.
garf6696 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im from Northern Ireland and during the 90s as part of a legal law hundreds of murderers who killed civillians because of religion were set free. I find the chance that I may be talking to a killer everyday quite scary thinking about it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:05:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Socialism
taylormade90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
SolaireOZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1) Alligators 2) Crocodiles 3) Brain aneurysm Goddammit Lana.
Entinu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:45:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You didn't bother to search if someone had said that already? Don't take my credit!
SolaireOZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:58:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry ?
BreefJerky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be.
_toodles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:39:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mankind.
Kappaccin0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president.
burpgas2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my penis
BreefJerky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, my penis.
Jnr_Guru ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:02:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's actually his penis. You have your own.
BreefJerky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist:
Actually, I don't!
Jnr_Guru ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:45:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you can't have his
burpgas2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:21:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, MY PENIS!
KayTeWe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, my penis.
K-Dickity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump for president.
writeman00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
shermenaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islam
Wolf_D_Ace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
shylocxs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings. Everyday normal fucking human beings.
SquidLoaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president.
Pcchanm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Yurei2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:02:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organized Religion. Now before you get all mad, hear me out. If you are a believer in a religion, then you must believe that all other religions are false, right? Then what you have with organized religions, are massive groups of people, all of whom insist they know the deepest mysteries of the universe, but can't actually prove a single one of their claims, and who use their unproven claims as if they were facts upon which they base most if not all of their life decisions. Even if a religion is correct, and you happen to be that religion, there are literally thousands more that are entirely wrong, and people will insist they are actually right and you are wrong no matter what you tell them or show them.
Now THAT is terrifying.
savemenico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop Bears
keeboz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
_wink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Th30zone ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
hidestoomuch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton running for presidency.
slytherinyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:05:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chance Donald Trump has to become president.
80558055 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
The_Real_Twisted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump potentially becoming president of the United States of America ... shudders
SRQCraft ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
partyturtles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:18:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
MrBiggz01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The potential for Donald trump to sit down in a meeting with Putin.
NathanDickson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president.
fleetingjackrabbit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised Donald Trump isn't top answer, tbh.
buyoct ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hitlery clinton
Kingleopolt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Durney flanders
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:52:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:13:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
snickysnacky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:21:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you. Yea, nothing much else to be scared of after that. And organ donation was an extremely hard part of it too. Once you go through all that it kind of makes you numb to anything else. The only positive thing that comes of it is that other lives were saved, so in a way that baby is living on. Good on your friend for making that tough decision. Sorry for yours and her loss :(
Shoop_a_Doop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow sounds like life has given you a shit sandwich and I am so sorry that you have had to go through that. I'd love to say I understand you and where you're coming from but I have never had to make such a tough call so your strength is beyond my comprehension. I hope you have a great weekend!
ex_jw1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump winning the election.
DoubleDroz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:19:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
mattchewy72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:45:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Democrats
itshukokay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:04:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of the name: Chancellor Trump
CannabisPrime2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:05:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
03223 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:16:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
Aunaqvi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming.
sufferpuppet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That might be dangerous. But it's hardly scary. You'll never see a horror movie come out with somebody afraid to go into the basement because global warming might be down there.
TheTornJester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe that's why "horror" movies are so shit these days. They never question anything. They're the same rehashed bollocks from years gone by.
This is where Natural Disaster movies come in.
CruzinIV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump, hands down!
Glockstrap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Donald Trump nomination.
usernametaken96935 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumph is scary as shit
equality_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organized Religion
insrtfunnysnhear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump... Not kidding...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
TheDirtyDisaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is scary about it?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:25:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
TheDirtyDisaster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:11:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright. So why is that scary?
WeekendAtBerniers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:27:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump's candidacy
LoveableShit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:27:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking Donald Trump and his political success
Recruit401 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:02:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump.
goodfella311 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump
Dandrucker11 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:46:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 06:35:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
Dandrucker11 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:11:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah I meant man in the human sense, so man and/or woman. I love the downvotes I get for almost nothing. Reddit can really BLOW ME sometimes. That's not aimed at you sir.
hiiemmarco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:53:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Men and women are equal
alleyehave ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:41:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Badassbanana69 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/l75KjG7.jpg
Myshuroff ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:41:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump or Monsanto
connerculkin ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:07:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming president
ethan_klickstein ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
eegbelac ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
detectivejamescarter ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:45:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
moj0risin ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:49:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump being elected president.
Desecr8or ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 10:10:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump and his supporters
spritehead ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:25:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
HiImYury ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 23:38:03 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea of Donald Trump possibly being in charge of the strongest Super Power in the world.
Ahdilable ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:14:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[Obligatory "Humans" philosophy/sci-fi movie with us as evil overused bullshit post]
Meowanie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:51:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
slick_bridges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:05:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not even close
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:31:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having to possibly say President Donald Trump.
Exodan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:57:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of President Trump and Kim Jong Un existing in the same dimension.
MehateRape ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:58:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White people
realoriginalrepost ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
White privilege apparently
allen84 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:23:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming the president of the United States.
Okonkwo69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:30:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump leading in the polls.
dropthebaum ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:30:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump
LibertyOfTheMasses ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:31:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:32:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump is quickly becoming a very serious candidate for president of the United States.
Dadadararada ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:33:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chyna
They're killing on trade deals. They devalue their currency, they're like chess grand masters when it comes to trade. The problem is their people are too smart for our people, and we have the smartest people in the world, but we're not using them.
AchtungKarate ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:37:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
baiti ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:38:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possibility of a Trump Presidency.
Craptacularama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:38:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Trump Presidency
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q3-a4qWCtIg/hqdefault.jpg
Cloudyyyy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:45:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
shootupLWC210 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:15:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black people
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:21:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being forced to choose between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton for president.
mattimisio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:42:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president
aMONAY69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:44:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
jaxcs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:46:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. A peevish 69 year old orange hued man who seeks leadership of the worlds last superpower and it's nuclear arsenal.
core13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:25:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mind-rot of religious belief.
solidwolf ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:33:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know plenty of religious people who are perfectly intelligent and reasonable people. If belief in a higher power and afterlife helps get them through their day who am I to say that they are wrong.
Obviously there are extremists who take their belief way too far and harm or shame others in the name of their faith and that's bad. But to equate all religious belief to a rotten mind just doesn't seem fair to me.
For the record I am an atheist, but since this is Reddit I'm sure I'll be bashed anyway for defending religion.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:34:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say you should be denied your dopey fairy tales. I said it was scary watching what it does to peoples' behavior. Watch a video of some ISIS guy sawing someone's head off while screaming the praises of his imaginary sky-friend. Now that's disgusting.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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core13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did I say you couldn't have your religion?
core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:21:25 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew a guy, a Jew, who would sit and swelter in his apartment on a Saturday because his religion forbade him to turn on his air conditioner. He couldn't leave , either, because his god did not want him to drive a car. His religious beliefs did not affect me in the least yet I am told I must respect his irrational behavior because... why? He's a fucking idiot and would be a candidate for a mental institution were it not for his "religion". This is the essence of religious "mind rot". Do I want a person such as this in government and making laws that will affect me? Do I want someone with such a skewed view of reality teaching my children? Do you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:47:15 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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core13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:31 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where did I advocate for any of that? Please show me. Hysterical much? lol
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:15 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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core13 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:00:57 on March 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See ya!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Muslims in large numbers. Unless of course you're a U.S. Marine, in which case it's a gift.
Rafaella1890 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 02:29:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 03:41:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Australiancattledog1 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:42:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly how I felt in 2008 about an Obama presidency. Now you can feel my dread.
ChristoCritter ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My lord and savior Jesus.
Dave_the_lighting_gu ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that the US has enough nukes to destroy the planet many times over. And there is a realistic chance Donald trump will be in charge of them
qw0rty ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:29:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
MidgardDragon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drumpf
DandyZebra ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did anyone say Donald Drumpf yet?
SlinkySleaze ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:36:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf as president.
misspetulant30 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
88Reasons ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:36:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know about the scariest, but the fattest is your mom
duetmasaki ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:27:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump, running for president
Blackout356 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 02:27:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Hottoddy1 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:34:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
scrumtrelesent ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:39:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
alexseiji ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
kconnors ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
gman204 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:10:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
OnDaRUF ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:27:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now... Trump?
henrysmith78730 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... that there are people out there that support Trump and worse yet they can reproduce.
dregxmangler ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:28:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
em3am ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correction: Drumpt
opposingpuddles ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact Donald Trump could be the president of the United states
bellsofwar3 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
SUPER_SAUCEY_SAIYAN ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 04:23:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump possibly becoming president.
milugan ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 04:24:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump's chances
ensen1231 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:54:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Trump could be president
ilikemonkeys ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:36:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
gatorchemist ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
Nocolas ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump being elected president
Optimus_Rhymez ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drumpf/Cruz 2016
Frission7 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:33:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump, and Donald Trump supporters
hamster1066 ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 23:11:56 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump running with the "football".
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:12:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
AppropriateTouching ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:49:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bronies.
acrowsmurder ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:09:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/The_Donald
sonourable ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
sonourable ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:15:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bunch of sissy ninny's down voting my comment
DONALD TRUMP
Bmurphy714 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as possible president.
prez_donald_drumpf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:31:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well, i did just watch the republican debate, soโฆ.
jcr4990 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:41:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I think I'm Pregnant" text message?
metricbanana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:22:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump becoming president and having access to nuclear launch codes.
DtownMaverick ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:10:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of Donald Trump with nukes
gedrii ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
TheBearInPink ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:36:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Brownicus ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders
SnoogiePie ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 00:09:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Organized Religion
breadnbutterr ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 23:57:56 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Trump may actually become president of the United States
Edit: lol down vote me trump supporters idgaf
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 02:55:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie sanders as potus
philipcarl33 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:45:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of Hillary Clinton as president. Or Bernie Sanders or Obama for 3rd term. Thank god that is not permitted.
Amoscor ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:02 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
LynxRufus ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The GOP
MolotovFlirtini ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Free market capitalism. Has a similar calming/horrifying feeling like the deep woods or the ocean.
Solid-Snek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MolotovFlirtini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I watch a mass-marketed tv show on a syndicated network, while eating my hyper-processed crunchy high-sodium snack. But its even more ridiculous to think of yourself as above it. We can know the system is inherently evil, but it is near impossible to separate from.
ferae_naturae ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obama
Throwaway66six ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AIDS!!!!!!!!!!!
mikrmak ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump for president.
toanythingtaboo ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
multiculturalism
DubbuhDubbuh ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton running for presidency.
WolfeBane84 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Obama Administration.
Hench21 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:53:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
OutOfMindz ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump and his supporters. Nuff said
The4D6 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 00:12:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
On a serious note: Portuguese Man'O War
That thing isn't a jellyfish rather a symbiotic collection of smaller organisms functioning as a floating natural toxic stinging sea mine
Fuck jellyfish
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:17:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CircusNinja75 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, you've met my ex then.
arse_lash ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:22:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
bishopthom ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:22:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Demodex
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/27/you-almost-certainly-have-mites-on-your-face/
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:26:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one bacteria that litteraly turns you into zombies off of the last of us.
EllaPrvi_Real ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A human sociopath.
saldb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:55:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a chance that trump might be lying and be a good president? Scary because he's obviously acting.
ouijahead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I told this to friend of a friend on fb. He called me an idiot and to go hang myself... He is a chief in the coast gaurd.
SatinSerpent ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:49:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Thyclonius Beacon
Damasticator ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:55:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
evanman69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:12:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This election.
_PM_ME_GOODMUSIC ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:21:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Real Numbers
dannymason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Th irrational numbers gave Pythagoras quite a fright.
_PM_ME_GOODMUSIC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They got spooked.
PM_ME_UR_HAIRY_BUSH ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Motherfucking chimpanzees. Multiple times stronger than a human. Stupid enough to not understand reason but smart enough to know when something is a threat and that the best way to cripple it is to go after 1) its hands 2) its face 3) its genitals.
Nothing perpetrated by any animal on this planet (other than humans) approaches the terror of a chimpanzee attack. They'll bite off your fingers and then tear off your face and your nuts. Ugh.
SpyVsSpy23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:24:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mankind
buddy1998 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:26:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
clowns, sharks, open water, bill cosby
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:26:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soul crushing debt when you can barely pay the bills as it is. And then? An eviction notice. It doesn't sound too bad, but it's something you don't always plan for. Maybe you expect it, but you hope it never happens... That you will pay your rent right on time and live on Ramen for the next two weeks again. What can you do? No money for a new deposit somewhere else, most friends will be living w h a loved one and may not be able to provide to you up with them temporarily. And your family? Not an option for everyone.
My condolences to anyone who has ever been put in that situation. My childhood was spent like this, and the fear that comes at that one word... Eviction...
Zmgreen8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:27:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The internet
18114 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:28:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
GodsCartel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:29:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
monkwren ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:29:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing's scarier than an angry mum
oz_moses ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:33:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Murica
Hithercat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:33:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us, Humans. By far the most terrifying.
WRCousCous ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:34:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prospect of a Drumft presidency in the USA.
microdon23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:36:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
China militarizing the South China Sea.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:37:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carrot Top.
P2Pdancer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:39:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This election.
busted_up_chiffarobe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:39:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islamic fundamentalism.
ImaSmackYew ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look behind you and see for yourself
blizzardice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:09 on March 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The baby powder behind the toilet?
SnizOnTheReg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being alone with my thoughts.
syzbo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's Mom
HiddenSwan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
isagez ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personalities
wat_up_buttercup ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The stockpiles of nuclear weapons most countries have laying around. We quite literally have the ability for one country to cause the end of the world.
JonnyBraavos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
FiveHoleCommando ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity.
lasttimewasabadtime ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mother in law
anameforme2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
mortalomena ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:42:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
95% of all Banks, Rothchild owned. Nothing on this planet comes close to how dangerous and harmfull they are.
Sean_Patrick ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:42:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yo mama
jtown8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:42:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me
bladerunner317 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:43:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If those fish live so deep, how are we able to get to them? In detail please.
StevenArviv ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:44:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it's a tie between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.
kalir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so canada has different prime ministers? thats pretty cool TIL i guess
StevenArviv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only one prime minister but each province has its own premier.
kalir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh cool i honestly didn't know that. thanks man
diggsbiggs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
jtioannou ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:45:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IRS
BleedingNitrate ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:45:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Us
MarthasFoolishGinger ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:47:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've just never understood why they have to look so horrifying. I mean what is the actual purpose of them looking like that?
kalir ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:47:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
racism in a America. seriously the stuff that blows up around election time from it is the very perils that George Washington spoke of during his inauguration speech.
bluethegreat1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:48:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those who prey on children
xSlick-Tx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
False: I'm not a kid, so I'm not worried
bear-necessitease ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:49:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change :(
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:49:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Time_traveIIer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jay Garrick is scary on every earth...
biophazer242 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The words "i'm pregnant"
I3------D ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:50:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War
lepperandfriends ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:51:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human Beings
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:51:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your finances after divorce
Tronald_Dump69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:52:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The movie "The Babadook", it's a real fucking movie and it really fucking scared me...
fireork12 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fucking wall chickens.
the_dwarfee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:53:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
War
drbroshuajergman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:56:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. The only thing scarier than the complete extinction of the human race is the fact that most of us don't really care.
Am_Squanch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The explosion of the entire universe, fuck humanity, we just got here. Aliens got feels too m8
capitlj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Extinction? Well the last climate change didn't kill us & I'm pretty sure we're a bit better equipped this time around. I'm not saying it's not a problem but extinction is a bit dramatic.
FNALSOLUTION1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:57:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The government
crackermachine ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lizard aliens disguised as humans.
PM_your_Asian_cunt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:59:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Men pulling their twig and berries to resemble a woman's cunt.
Hate that.
michihunt1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:59:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ISIS
randomfriendzone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:00:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being friendzoned.
smartstuff14 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:01:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My 5k word research essay I have three days to write.
greyjackal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dropbears
http://i.imgur.com/0Qo8ERN.jpg
Andyboy46 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:02:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Facebook ! It's turning everybody into jealous narcissists !
nineelevenlolhaha ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:04:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Income inequality
flapjax68 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:04:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you have a dream where you fucked up real bad
Austindecker ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Selfie sticks
BenIsBeast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
High school wrestling coaches.
Literalboy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man.
Elitecrisp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When toddlers do that walk/run thing.
Puffbrother ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your username.
MR_Exp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possiblilty of Donald Trump being president of the United States.
xXbracesforimpactXx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
D-DayDodger ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Combat
WatchRock ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
contrarian1970 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
V_for_VinceVega ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mantis shrimp. ive never been more afraid of something 1/100th my size
mces97 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity. Earth will be fine, but we are going bye bye one day due to our selfishness and greed.
darksideoftheswoon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck did I click on this. I knew what was here and still clicked. Damnit I'm stupid.
ShafiChowdhury ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:06:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
Vegesus44 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:07:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carnists
8stringLTD ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:07:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sperm whales
v3rts ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears.
5150_Delta-Niner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:08:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honey badger
Nick901304 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:09:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People. Never forget the season 5 premier of walking dead.
68696c6c ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:09:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The CIA
ohohkay ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:09:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I reading this before bed
maxbeee ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
VestiCat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
derek_reeter ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion ---brace for impact---
ShitsInPringlesCans ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The politically liberal mind set.
HypeMan_Q ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
moon4moon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The future
brotus5 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump leading in the GOP primaries.
21hprucd ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
CaliforniaSlide ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:11:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump leading in the race for the Presidency.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:11:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:11:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man Bear Pig
SkrublordPrime ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:11:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skeletons
pseudonarne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't want to alarm you but THERE'S A SKELETON LURKING INSIDE YOU. RIGHT NOW!
just biding its time.
onlysane1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:26:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick! Stab it until it stops moving!
Erotic_Abe_Lincoln ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A phone call at 330 or 4 in the morning.
EDIT: wtf would someone vote this down?
waspandunicorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:13:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As this point I'm gonna go with Donald Drumpf
Fatesurge ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:13:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that people today can acknowledge the moral horrors perpetrated by people in the past as a matter of daily course, but not acknowledge that some of our present customs may in their due time be considered equally horrific by future generations.
That, and the inevitable heat death of the Universe.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:14:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump
jo3pic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:14:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 2016 election.
thammer204 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:14:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always thought those bugs from the mummy would be about as bad as it gets, although they're not real so not really relevant here...
joab777 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politicians
BarelyLethal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super AIDS.
Panther90 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The evil in these woods.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bills
FN-guy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a pissed off Ranger Battalion
Geofferic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump - pick your poison!
Bmxuoe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the moment. American presidential candidates.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:16:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Manbearpig
trombone_shorter ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:17:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MAD
failture ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:18:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife when she's hungry
KernSteele ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:18:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me.
Zdominus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Different people are scared of different things.
EpicSauceFTW ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks
makehersquirtz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:19:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russians
Baktacular ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:19:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OPs mom
Johntiller ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:19:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which thing we do not know that is secret on earth
Zornock ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:19:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debt
Nosafune ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:19:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The next u.s president
futureformerteacher ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:20:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
illpoet ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:20:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit
69sucka ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom.
brolin_on_dubs ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slavery.
Thedrizzle20 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rosie O'donnell
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:21:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanities future.
s37747 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voodoo.
Kiyoko504 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:22:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
current issues with North Korea
Logan_Mac ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US Nuke stock
ericluster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell is other people.
Mr_Rekshun ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turbulence.
loli_trump ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa.
bvw ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So many great scary answers.
fenpark15 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Civil forfeiture.
Imagine_Baggins ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz
BobDylansButtCheese ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:24:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Paula Deen's cunt
MrDoctorSatan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans
Double_A_92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Wordcloud of this thread would be interesting.
abruce123412 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOBLINS
bounch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:25:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
to me, greed.
HelpMyNameWontFi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:26:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taxes
outtastudy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:26:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Koalas once they've become soaking wet in the rain
Skyhighgreen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:27:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
em3am ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Archer? Is that you?
don_truss_tahoe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Compound interest, student loans, and the prospect of an antiquated economically ignorant republican government.
apyoung88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bees
evilaliencat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me, it's debt. I had many addiction problems that have repeatedly put me in very close calls in terms of my financial well being. Im just now getting the help I need and making sure it NEVER gets this bad ever again.
looedaking ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:29:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student debt
TheNameIsNEFF ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming, us humans are doomed
Imagine_Baggins ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some of the places in the Deep Web are pretty fucked up in every sense of the word
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your imagination
3MATX ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:32:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change.
hawk8177 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:32:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt's Xmas Eve cooking!
amatuer_redditist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:33:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flying snakes.
piccini9 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thousands of nuclear weapons.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:33:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rogue Demons.
RedFloppyShoes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:33:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watching Cool Runnings alone in the dark.
Forgototherpassword ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:33:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This bug - Link
ToadkillerDoggy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:34:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
new Prius
jimbol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:34:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A weekend with the in-laws.
Theduke322 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:35:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd have to be honest and say women.
andypant ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:35:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hi mangs how are you all?
andypant ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:35:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you are all doing well mangs
i_am_not_important ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:35:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom, of course.
smookykins ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:36:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Free speech.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:36:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you seen that Satan horse at the Denver airport? I swear it's heralding the apocalypse.
ScoochMagooch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:36:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spooky skeletons
treezOH123 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:37:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fanatics and Zealots
Blazah ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:37:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That we don't know where space stops and what is after that point in space?
Bravoflysociety ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kim Jong-un
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That animal agriculture accounts for 50% of green gas emissions yet all the focus is on cars, trains, and airplanes when they only account for close to 10%
runtimemess ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"We need to talk"
Jiggidy40 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:39:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The continent of Australia.
Everything will kill you.
lumberjackpaul ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:39:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Becoming an adult.
GGEuroHEADSHOT ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loneliness
patjs92 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:40:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Manbearpig
McJohn117 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:40:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lack of common sense.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:40:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being forced by my work to visit Chittagong Bangladesh again. Seriously.....:-(
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:41:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Op's face
trefliips ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:42:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:42:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The dentist.
Lost_and_Profound ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:43:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Theoretical Calculus exams.
soundkite ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:43:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
superbugs
kissarmy5689 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:44:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:44:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nuclear weapons. How easy it is to destroy everything is unprecedented and terrifying.
weekii ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:45:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debt.
dielorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:45:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women
AjaxTheGreatX ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:45:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
self reflection
nicom225 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:45:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
getting arrested. Espcecially after the sandra bland scandal.
seafoamgreenlamps ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:45:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
According to my girlfriend its a ouija board that summons spider like demons and spirits.
42revolution ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:46:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The chance that you can commit yourself completely to something, do all the right things, make the right moves.
And it doesnt pan out.
zuchit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:47:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Brazil
a shthole place on this earth
bscolls ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:48:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A job
BrockLanders58 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:51:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Psychopaths. The most dangerous and fascinating creatures on Earth. I say creatures because they don't even fall into the "human" category. They are closer to animals.
specterwhitebelt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:52:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A cockroach that knows how to hover and control itself in the air
OMGWTFBBQLULZ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:52:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Boss. :(
duckmurderer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:52:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has nobody mentioned Dioxygen Diflouride?
I searched a little but didn't see it.
concussed_cowboy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:52:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:53:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Why the fuck am I reading this post? I won't be sleeping tonight.
Nobody_Panic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:53:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should be more concerned with the scariest real things on Earth-2. They got shark men that can walk on land, talk and tear up houses.
Rodents210 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hubris.
kirkiri ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting old
tidus8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking out a guy, being a guy, explaining yourself to your family who've said homophobic things before and just in general were unpleasant to grow up with.
ffj_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:54:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For me it's being alone.
ichael1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:55:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes, and then Hippos
Booler ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:55:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why did I read this thread before bed? Fuck this shit.
GendoSC ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:55:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going to war as a trooper.
brokenwinds ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit
T-Waldo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hearing a loved one say "we need to talk"
Handsunderhips ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:56:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
Ill-uminotme ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:57:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mel's hole
bartlet4us ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4000 Nuclear warheads in a country where a Person advocating War crime on national TV (aka Drumpf) is one of the leading presidential candidates.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump supporters.
nigger2016 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn nature, you scary!
Charles_St_James ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's hair.
mastadon5000 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government run torture and execution complexes. Nothing in nature is as scary as human cruelty, especially when it is systemised.
ikilledtupac ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American Special Forces
potatoesarethedevil ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The incredible lack of common sense exhibited by most people on a day to day basis. That and Donald Trump having any chance whatsoever of being put in charge of a fucking country.
csmh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump being elected as President
CJ_Guns ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:58:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Dead Hand.
Colonelfudgenustard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you're doing a stint in the loony bin and you don't have a lock on your door, then the compulsive masturbators wandering the halls are pretty scary.
Jacobs_Pickles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
HipHopCommitted ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pedophiles
StrayMoggie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:59:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary vs Donald
blackchinesecowboy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:00:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom.
slater2151 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump
guavacasa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:00:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my penis
Rafterman21 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:00:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That it would only take between 10-100 large scale nuclear detonations to destroy all life on earth rendering it permanently uninhabitable
ca1ibos ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nonsense.
Rafterman21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:26:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry lazy research, that was an estimate made in 1945.
Apparently 100 is the number: http://www.globalzero.org/blog/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-render-earth-uninhabitable
Also it would not be permanently uninhabitable, or completely uninhabitable. But uv rays would increase 80% so most people wouldn't be able to survive.
Dyph3n ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
allyboi101 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump possibly being president.
spottydodgy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm only afraid of two things. And one of them is nuclear war.
Osiris1636 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's hair
learath ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human stupidity.
Haskalies ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump actually having a shot at being the President of the US.
POI_Harold-Finch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snakes, even scarier in dreams.
NUMBerONEisFIRST ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:01:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government
NovaHReal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American school system.
mercy_lambo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
wailord40 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
chaptercat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DONALD TRUMP
griffith12 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Besides Donald Trump?
Australia.
biaggio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People who want to kill me because of whom I love.
starmag99 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:02:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Facts, facts are scary man, and that's a fact!
snuffles44 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the gop
Whaleator ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump running for president
WagnerWarrior ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Youtube's copyright system
mikered30 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as pres.
ValellaV ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
drunkhoboboy117 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The shaming of social justice
Just_a_prank_bro ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The current United States election cycle.
DEADLYDOZEN ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think its the religious hatred
aybrotha ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:03:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz
TNUBBZ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:04:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anerisams
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:04:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conor McGregor's left hand.
crawfishmonster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:04:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now, the prospect of Donald Trump actually becoming the US president. This whole ordeal is fucking ridiculous and speaks volume of how racist America still is, despite the prevalent notion that we're "freedom and equality for all" land of opportunity.
BerryhillManofSteel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:04:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
U.S Marines.
GreenFunkyCloud ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:05:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom
aaqqoo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:05:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this
Coldplasma819 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:05:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We all have skeletons inside us.
spooky
ancientwarriorman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:05:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The increasingly real prospect of a Trump presidency.
ZaphodBeeblebrox ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kim Jong-Un
Bringbacktheclassics ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:06:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RPG insects.
jar4ever ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:07:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Darthbewbs72 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:07:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That the United States may be in the hands of a crazy business man, or a crazy old socialist.
mountaineer2011 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:08:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The huge fucking bow of a ship seen from the water level.
Diegobyte ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:08:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz
lilmillzie17 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:08:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voodoo that shit will mess you up
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:08:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump winning states
INTERNETMASTER666 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DONALD TRUMP AMIRITE REDDIT????
speculiarity ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stealLikeAnArtist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
spazboy200 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that a Socialist, a federal criminal, or Donald Trump could become President of the United States in 2016.
CaliforniaEmmett ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Birds
Eat_me_Fucktard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Birds. Just the sheer number of birds in any given area.
AthleticKiwi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharknados
kodiaktreethree ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:09:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Debt.
thebee362 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Animal testing labs. Unexplored areas of gruesomeness.
Jorumvar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super aids
jr_G-man ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That there is a real possibility that there will be a presidential election with the two major candidates being Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
CYAAfghanistan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That the worlds most powerful country is controlled by a shadow puppet government.
TheAssmanNY ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Food4Thawt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:10:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crazy ass bus rides in 3rd World Countries where you have no control over the driver's decisions and there's a cliff on either side of you.
eff that.
Alsttr ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
TheZombieBoy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Politics
bench1947 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My future
bkmeda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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shigaire ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Illuminati.
clodhen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The situation between South and North Korea. Seoul getting reduced to rubble from 10,000 artillery installations in the blink of an eye (an hour) is scary to me.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
born to young to explore the galaxy to old born to explore the world born just in time to explore dank memes
syndicate57 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Cubs winning a World Series.
Gravity_Bike ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:11:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The way beg bugs have sex. The females don't have anything analogous to a vagina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination
cocojambles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
super AIDS, it's an epidemic
Alexwalled ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ME
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:12:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
medontplaylol ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
mollyratchet ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ghosts. Multiple.
7LeagueBoots ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irresponsible, under educated politicians and other 'decision makers' are by far the most scary real thing on the planet because they, as a group, have the capacity to screw everything up for everyone and nearly everything else here.
Rokaroo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Africa
xtremechaos ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unconsented circumcisions.
CrimsonGreymon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I came here thinking Trump would be the top comment.
mgsmaster2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha he was when I clicked the link.
masonyy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
my mom
raguirre1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ghosts.
bigguy62 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife when she is mad.
ThaFaub ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:14:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything
Ninjameme ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
ClassicalRev ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J Trump
tsmooov3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ideas. It can be destructive, beneficial, or both.
Ruddog7 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
MetalliMunk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
ImNotYourFatherJason ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clowns. Definitely clowns.
Origin_Saint ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:15:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump being able to realistically run for the President of the United States of America is certainly up there right now...
AnniversaryRoad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:16:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as (potentially) the president of the United States.
mrsana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:16:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. Hands down.
Velln ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:16:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every person you meet has a spooky skeleton inside of them
funkyfreshfunk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:16:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My mom
gamingtrainer8809 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ladies when they are angry or ghost
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/kanye SCARY
FratAlbert ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's impending presidency.
Sitdownyo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:17:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia + US polititions+ ISIS
mattntk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:18:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bareback double anal
chiliisgood ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:18:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
females
griefercast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:18:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
sivman17 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:19:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom
alilshit ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the fact that at any given moment our world will end. This could be our own life ending thereby the little world we live in ends or the actual planet we inhabit is destroyed in an instant. Think nuclear disaster ๐
Chuck_Rawks ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans. Especially ones that ask this question!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president of the United States...
tarna927 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd definitely recommend nosleep over creepypasta... far more interesting and original content
TheEnigmaJoke ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:20:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. This guy will start WW3 with that much hate and that much power.
uwishbae ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:22:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
helle246 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:23:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
greenbowlpackers69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The trump
Frostybagel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:24:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that it is looking more and more likely that Trump might become US president.
Patriots4life89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:25:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
YouCannotStumpTrump ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:25:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People that actually think Sanders has a chance.
pluggemr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People that think Trump actually has a chance.
rizabove ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:25:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2016 U.S presidential election
reboot108 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:27:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald drumph
Laffy_Sapphy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:29:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hadron Collider
Xenon18 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ocean.
Surferduffman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:39:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Trump becoming president
CodesALot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:42:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human Beings. Think about it, we've killed almost every living animal and destroyed absolutely every natural resource one way or another.
uhaul26 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:43:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women
Eckleburgseyes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:43:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to compliment you all for bot saying Trump.
punkrawkspence ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:43:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
LIMON_PEPINO ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:44:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The GOP
TheFox30 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump the us president
ONLY_SAYS_CUM_INSIDE ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cum inside
N0wayjose ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:45:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president
ovenmitt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:46:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The GOP
keylimesoda ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:46:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
DRpatato ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:46:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Having a fear-mongering tyrant get so far in the US elections.
KipaNinja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:47:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The nsa
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:47:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming president.
DrexlAU ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:48:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Americans might actually vote Trump to be Prez for the lols
why_bcuz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:48:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's hair
AJ23R7 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:49:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
romebe82 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:49:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump being president.
themysterypooper ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:50:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously, the answer is Republican frontrunner, Donald J. Drumpf.
NegroYetis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:51:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
emfrank ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:51:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humans ... definitely most evil and damaging thing on earth
veralibertas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:00:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The 2016 US election
sirius4778 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:00:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keanu Reeves
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:01:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How we'll run out of phosphorous reserves, Antarctica breaks up, and we hit the global water crisis within 10-20 years of each other.
DirtydanUA ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:01:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cigarettes.
fwd0120 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Road bingo
Mrarick13 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:03:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People
deflector_shield ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:04:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Civilization relies on limited resources
steve_maximus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:04:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Flu
Marktiim ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:06:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
North Korea
monkey_wizard ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:06:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My thoughts.
chofrahkah ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:06:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Federal Reserve.
Sithlink89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:06:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the rate we are going acid in water due to pollution will be will be so consentrated that the oceans will be unlivable by 2100
JablesRadio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:11:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redditors.
Doctor_Huh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:11:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Presentations
ronjeremysweiner ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:13:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That which walks on two legs
Imaglassofwater ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:13:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/im12andthisisdeep
Imaglassofwater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im genuinely terrified of most other people. Thats what i meant. Not trying to be profound.
dispencery ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:15:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean besides running out of fossil fuel, helium, and creating global warming?
everydayimritalin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:16:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Greed. Simply greed.
lagspike ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:16:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
caitlyn jenner in a SUV
SchmeddyBallz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:17:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any injury/issue involving my testicles.
Kenyanguyhere ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:18:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia
jedrekk ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:19:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mob mentality. How easy it is for us to blame Other People and be egged on to do the most horrific shit.
OBRkenobi ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:19:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming a.k.a humans (because we're causing it). Followed by thermo-nuclear weapons, obviously.
StealthDropBear ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:20:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Incendiary weapons: Napalm, white phosphorous, and flame throwers. I can't believe flame throwers are legal here in the U.S. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:25:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That one scene on Family Guy where Peter puts on the black Startrek guys googles and sees nothing but KKK members...I'm black btw
smith-smythesmith ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:25:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe that natural dam in Tajikistan that will kill millions when it inevitably collapses.
anshr01 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:27:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government and people that love and/or approve of big government including liberals, progressives, the left wing, communists, socialists, etc.
urmuh ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:28:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fragility of the global economy
Eatflowers65 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meth heads.
Super_Natant ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:28:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The notion that the story of our current society doesn't necessarily have a happy ending.
6_YEARS_LURKER ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:30:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why am I reading this? I am now terrified...
UFOsRus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:31:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The brazen bull. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBN_3YJKZrY
Red_Ded_Zed ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:31:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Government.
xIVIike ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:33:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ur mom
thatG_evanP ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:33:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife when she's pissed at me. You all think I'm joking.
hollakris ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:41:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I googled the most painful medical symptoms a human can experience and it says some type of headaches is the worst in the world. We get headaches all the time but how can this one be the worst?
Zadik ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:44:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That we don't know the truth.
WARH3ART ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:45:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Underground human cloning centers. Many celebrities have spoken out about them. But I'm Probably just gonna be seen as another nutcase lol
Coelacanth1938 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Walking home alone.
Twatty_too_hotty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:45:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its funny, noone here mentions humans?
BaconNinja89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump is naked sometimes.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:49:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not having health insurance
anonimityorigin ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
India and Pakistan having nuclear arsenals and hating each other completely.
HippiPrince ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Those hardcore headaches. I dont remember the name but, damn.
Edit: theyre called "Cluster Headaches" . There are many many videos out there. I just chose one but you can view more. It looks like you go through hell.
https://youtu.be/FCSyikUiXm8
psychbucket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:02:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Migraines?
HippiPrince ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, theyre worse than migranes.
xenobuzz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Tardigrades.
msgfromside3 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human beings
Agent Smith: "I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
southernbenz ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:52:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
triggerheart ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a spooky skeleton inside of you RIGHT NOW!
rubbar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:54:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Legos.
DJThomas07 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:56:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders.
solidus44 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:57:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Democrats/Liberals
Ultrallama ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:58:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears. Fucking terrifying.
Ronin8969 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:59:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fish.
ThinkTankTurret ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:03:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently Keanu Reeves.
pd_conradie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:07:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The updated hostile mob AI in Minecraft 1.9.
I LOST EVERYTHING.
And fuck you, it felt real.
sillysmiffy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:07:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Taxes.
WizardOfTheLawl ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:12:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the fact that the core of Earth is as hot as the Sun's surface
dan42183 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:13:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators, quickly followed by crocodiles, and in a long third brain aneurysms.
cthulhu8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:14:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP's mom
doctorfunknasty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:14:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republicans.
MADMAC33 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:15:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mother fuckin sharks on a mother fuckin plane
Doopliss320 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:15:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love.
IrishDruid98 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:16:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falling in Love
Tucagonzaga ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:16:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hunger and thirst.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The IRS
NJNeal17 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:17:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
American Corporation CEO's!!!
Ninja edit: Sorry, I'm born and raised American...
bigspks ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:20:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black goats...
Saw The Witch on Saturday.
DickSuckingGoat ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:21:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a failure
mmor2045 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:23:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Global warming
Bnewt60 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:24:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Democratic Party
Rabiid_Ninja ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:26:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Missing a stair
Yogadork ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:26:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hatred/intolerance/fear/callousness
needmorelove ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:26:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton's Vagina
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:28:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Justin trudeau
upfromda36chamba ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:29:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prospect of Trump as POTUS
xricepandax ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:29:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the 18 trillion dollar debt that the american government currently has
dyingfast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:29:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relativity. Our species is destined to thrive and die only within this solar system.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:29:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bears. How come none of you stupid sons a bitches said bears?
Cmdr_Nemo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:30:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Australia.
Zireall ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:31:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THIS ISNT MARKED WITH SERIOUS THIS IS MY CHANCE
Your mom.
diseased_ostrich ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:31:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that you can love someone with all your hear; but the love is dead
lukaseder ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharknados do freak me out
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:33:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the internet
RX91-MAD-J ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:34:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broken condoms.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mountains of single use plastic.
The-MeroMero-Cabron ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:35:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unchecked Capitalism.
Endolence ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:36:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Human greed.
Griddamus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:37:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The new ghostbusters trailer.
-5m ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:37:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have debt or relationship-related worries? Read this thread to make them go away.
Steam_Roller93 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:38:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Falling in love
Guybye ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:38:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women
ahlulnugraha ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:38:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anybody mention about doomsday?
early_hypnotoad ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:39:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Responsibilities
HaydenRude ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:39:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Classic... your mom
logicrulez ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:40:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Abuse of politcal power
RiotsoOP ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:40:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those 6 foot river otter shits that hunt in packs. Fuck that.
Entinu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:42:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alligators, crocodiles, and brain aneurysms.
lesphincteur ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:43:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ocean Acidification. We are all in serious trouble. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-last-time-our-oceans-got-this-acidic-it-drove-earths-greatest-extinction
ham_n_paint ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:45:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans, and what the earth will do to us as consequence for what we have done to it.
Bathtime4bears ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:45:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The temperature.
FuzzyGummyBear ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:45:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
AllPurposeRadio ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:46:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
John Cena's career
IronicCharles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4chan
NapClub ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:48:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ignorance
theInternetMessiah ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:48:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate-change.
mr_____awesomeqwerty ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:52:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hilary clinton becoming president. Oh wait, that isnt real
Brainfreezdnb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:52:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My girlfriend
dromoe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:54:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long Rang IBM Tactical Nuclear Warheads
sQueezy123 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:54:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a non-American. Trump becoming president..
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:58:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The devil and the fact most of you are oblivious . Read the bible folks before it's to late. Repent and believe the gospel of jesus.
Laxperte ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:11:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A loonatic with a red button that sends off thousands of atomic bombs.
Leeoku ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:21:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The poverty difference. Once you see it, it scars you at one some people live with
Dionysus24779 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:23:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The greed and love of money above all else.
watchZnow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:25:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary
cp5184 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sociopaths many people call "boss"
People who have convinced themselves that your group of people should be violently cleansed.
Guns, which have killed about a thousand times more people than nuclear weapons in the last century
Human error?
An earthquake that's a 10 on the richter scale
Cat 5 hurricane
Supervolcano
Sir Isaac fucking Newton WRT big things impacting earth at relativistic speed.
Human transport vehicles
Sinkholes and mudslides
onceuponatime12 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:57:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mother
RingAroundMeMember ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:06:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's all white people fault
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:26:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever scares you the most. Fear is personal and subjective.
EndlessCompassion ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:41:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prolonged torture with sexual assault. Can't get more grim.
Cypronis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just watched Room "shudder"
colinsteadman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:09:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion. What had Hitler got against the Jews specifically? What ideology do members of ISIS really around. Catholic vs protestant, Shiite vs sonni, Christian vs Muslim... What force can motivate a father to bury his own daughter alive for loving the wrong boy. Peaceful my arse, it's a catalyst for evil.
Cypronis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
try to remember the millions of charities that are funded by religions
secretlyacuttlefish ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spiders
Lus_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:31:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Earthquake?
TheWaxMann ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:43:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interviewing for a job.
Jnr_Guru ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:03:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
Mooseknuck77 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:10:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton as President of the United States
wangmince ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:16:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump running for presidency.
dczx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:18:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the Balrog
FelidApprentice ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:19:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old age
JamieLeeTurdis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:20:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Big fucking spiders. Annie get yo gun.
Rambo1stBlood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally came here to type "camel spiders"
Dont Google those bastards unless you want the nightmares your nightmares would have.
MrsPunkAs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:34:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google weta
mattisvider ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:21:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as the president
stevenmc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:35:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Thorpington ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:35:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Donald Trump becoming President.
doc10house ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:42:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An America with Donald Trump at the reins for a minimum of four years.
ludicrous_speeds ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:44:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J. Trump.
carsonJEFFRIES ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:49:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real possibility of Donald Trump becoming President of the United States should frighten every single man, woman, and child on this good planet.
aldorn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:50:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trumps presidency run?
dizzyack ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:51:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump
KaiburrKhronicle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:59:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
dingo78 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:01:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Platypus venom
Bustafish ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:09:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
AcidicOpulence ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:13:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion. What has killed more?
misdemeanour01 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:15:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans
omgpirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do Americans seem terrifying to you?
misdemeanour01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They always have. Are you an American?
omgpirate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yes I am. Thats why I am wondering what scares you about us
Wedgie32 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
dmadSTL ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:22:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as President.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:25:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf as President
slugsnot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:28:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump could be president
MrEmouse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:29:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The current US presidential candidates.
DrNatas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:34:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Donald Drumpf starts a world war 3 so my kids can die in a war.
sk1flyer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:38:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president of the United States.
Copper_Lontra ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:39:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The prospect of Donald Drumpf being the leader of the free world.
tem158 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:43:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that there is a decent chance that Donald Trump could become the next president of the U.S. That shit is terrifying.
hikerguy555 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:03:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
marksmanship21 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:06:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
rjbgs4 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:07:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now? Chance that Trump makes president
BleedWhiteBoy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:12:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Europe becoming an Islamic territory. It is a major blow to human rights, economic success, technological advancement, and medicine for unseen generations ahead.
iamnas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:12:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man (long pause)
thank you for watching
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:16:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Election cycle in the United States.
OKing_AldinO ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:20:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humanity.
NicksMix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has a chance at becoming president of a world super power.
PhishGreenLantern ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:28:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
Bigj4201992 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:38:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:39:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
somerde ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:42:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald "Big Don" Trump
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:42:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
relusionary ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:43:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump winning.
bmwwest23 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:53:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
United States Government.
Lelouchsenpai ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:57:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump or Hillary for president of the USA, we are screwed..
plur44 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:59:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lonelyness
Bigmurph762 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:00:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
neuroglias ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:01:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my birthday and instead of waking up stoked for an exciting day, like I did as a child, I woke up dreading going to work. The only difference is my age. I'm going with aging today.
TJD269 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:01:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Russia
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:01:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Radical Islamic Terrorism
Trundlejabrone ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:10:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now, trump
madmartigan00 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:10:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump.
Jereatrix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:15:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People.
MrDownie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:16:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
m33sh4 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:16:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hubris of man
Hunterr010993 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:19:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man.
FullTimeWorkIsCancer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:31:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2016 presidential election
trjayke ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:41:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Men's ignorance
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:54:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The threat of Capitalism
JuliSkeletor ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 13:58:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Vaccines... AND ATHEISM
Praise the Lord Jesus
DJWLJR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3/5...you forgot to end with "TRUMP 2016!"
Christplosion ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:04:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump could become President of the United States.
Funkicus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:10:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's candidacy bid
00nightsteel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:15:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump actually having a chance to be president.
PoeCollector ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:18:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snake Island.
A small island with thousands of snakes with lethal venom that melts human flesh. Uninhabited since the lighthouse operator and his entire family were killed by snakes...
NOPE island.
Cereal4you ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope nope nope island indeed.
EnigmaticSophomore ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:18:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump as a possible president.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
islam christianity and judiasm
www.exposingchristianity.com
Zezarict ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Trump may actually become president.
oldguynewname ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:36:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To me the thing that scares me is man. The unyielding tenacity that he has to find more efficient ways to destory each other.
We have the ability to make humanity work for a common goal yet we refuse to acknowledge it for reasons of personal gain.
Humanity has an inherent blood lust that will never be satisfied because it's who we are. Murder, rape, robbery,, and other violent acts have to be committed from a natural standpoint
These will never be quelled. That's what scares me.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:43 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted]
oldguynewname ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:49:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not hate. Hate takes too much time. People said that when I was subscribed to coontown and now on voat. I make no qualms about my membership there.
Everyone else does cause they want to group me into something they can put into a corner and forget about. Truth is that I don't care about skin color.
I care of crime and violence then not really facing it head on. That's what bugs me. Do I use slang terms sure I do cause I don't know how else to express my anger. I don't feel violence towards them is the answer.
I feel that role models is but unfortunately too many times I have tried and been burned. So now I feel my personal safety is paramount to someone I don't have vested in with any ties.
Wish I knew of a better way.
chaaPow ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:45:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion? think about it, delusional people that lack critical thinking skills gather in huge numbers all over the world to pray to deities, wage wars on one another, promote hate against anyone who disagrees or doesn't live their lifestyle, discriminating women so openly its disgusting and bombing the shit out of innocent people in the name of their gods and basically trying to crawl into every teeny tiny part of your life and tell you whats 'wrong' or 'right'. oh did i mention they tend to rape kids and not pay taxes and have laws to protect them from it? like vatican for instance where the underaged rape victim is BY LAW forbidden to speak about it until an x number of years had passed AFTER they became of age? yeah
matt_puka ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 14:51:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My ass.
Sloth_Broth ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:13:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is reddit so obsessed with the existential fear of death. It makes a thread go from interesting to boring really quick. Death is always going to be terrifying, this thread could have had way cooler answers than 'a brain aneurism'.
Hup234 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:24:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump doesn't have a chance. It'll be Hillary and there's no point even going to the polls.
Bob_abbey ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:15:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To anyone who's not American, Donald Trump
teh_blackest_of_men ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:34:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump could be president of the United States.
high_on_potneus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:43:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Soylent_Gringo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:52:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Belief systems.
Whether political or religious, it's gotten a lot of people killed.
KillerKlyde555 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:14:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My dick.
ktnlo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:40:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
redditlovesfish ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:49:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well apart from OP's mom, surely Donald Trump!
Ehns0mnyak ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:55:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump and his supporters?
KKtheKat1 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:44:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump or drumpf as president, or fluorine the most electronegative element will bond with anything literally pulling arm apart by bonding with your skin cells, surface proteins. Spooky stuff.
Emma_RedTube ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:46:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:50:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
DogblockBernie ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:56:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump or the idea that you lack any ability of free will in the universe and your fate is entriely predestined
cmanastasia22 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:01:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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pseudonarne ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
how is that scarier than us presidents? candidates have no power
3gyptaflip ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:21:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans. I can't believe their stupidity. It's scary.
Solid-Snek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:19:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no u
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:23:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that trump actually has supporters.
ChaosWolf1982 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Conservative Republicans, if you are someone who's not a Straight Cisgender White Christian Rich Male.
decaturbadass ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Donald
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump might become President of the United States of America.
NJD03 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:41:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
NotPaulISwear ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
BBSpecs2 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:44:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republicans.
mertle18 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
annoyinglyfriendly ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if it's Donald Trump or the people who want to vote for him
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:48:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SeamusHeaneysGhost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trumps a muppet , it has to be a real thing.
DamagedBaggage ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump supporters.
fittytuck ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:51:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
olive__you ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Bbrown43 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:55:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ProsandHans ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running the country.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
YoureAlrightinMyBook ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:57:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders wife.
Gmajj ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm a right to bear arms advocate, so seeing mass shootings that no one can stop with a single bullet is tragic.
Shenanigensler ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump may actually become president.
red_five_standingby ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:17:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
BMWMONEY ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:19:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
largish ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
wazma ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:23:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Crazygoda ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
joshprince33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J. Trump
iamwill08 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:24:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
MaryHadALittlePig ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J Trump
aidayvay ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
khelanrafe ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:26:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president of the US and actually winning.
Mumblau ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump running for president
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Volsdontletmedown07 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump being POTUS
osirusr ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:39:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Donald Trump presidency.
ButtsexEurope ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:42:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump might become president.
barelyanycreativity ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:47:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
change1001 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:50:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
alabuenster ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:54:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Grimsqueaker69 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:02:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has anyone said Donald Trump yet?
thrill_house3390 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:04:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump winning
theniteowl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:33:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump might actually be the next president of the United States. This terrifies me.
pmsnow ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:34:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
MattIsLame ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:34:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president
therealeasterbunny ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 15:31:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 23:39:36 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Intimacy
rcbs ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 01:30:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our presidential primaries
skipston ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump for President 2016
Connorangioli ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
spunkybobcat ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
roccanet ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:38:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump voters
Bramrod ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
paladipus ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 03:39:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
effigyss ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:07:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism
MartyMcMcFly ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:09:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently? Trump and his supporters.
glightningbolt ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:45:27 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Responsibility.
skaol ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:02:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
flying cockroaches apparently
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
humanity
FlabbergastedFish ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skeletons r pretty spooky.
do_0b ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your mom, naked.
cfoam2 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes to all these kool scary natural things but my more immediate concerns are Ted Cruz and North Korea...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sanders.
boobiesiheart ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:14:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
possible President Trump
As The Donald...I'm indifferent.
magik_man_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:17:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
dellE6500 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:46:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Presidential primaries.
Zstokes ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump as president.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:57:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion. Tens of millions have been killed in its name.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women
pipefishuk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:58:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
gatk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
demons
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are negative, inhuman, crazy, maniacs to say the least.
cheaney05 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:07:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary for president?
654456 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religion
RumAndCheeseParty ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:08:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of an asshole running the most powerful economy in the world
muddy_wedge ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump actually becoming president.
ouijahead ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:40:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used to scoff at the idea. Now im getting a little worried.
xgaspari ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The "Door to Hell" in Turkmenistan.
Method__Man ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Americans vote for Trump
BadBambi ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
normancay ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
SmellySlutSocket ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:19:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary Clinton
BaronVonWaffle ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:20:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Present and Commander in Chief of the United States military Donald J. Trump.
hunkmonkey ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump. But I'm not sure he's real.
tswys3 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:28:19 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is the top comment not Donald Trump?
pyro5050 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:30:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
yay.... ignore the too many men,
edit: wow... just realized this was not the flames game thread.... heeheehee
hewylewy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
NickBenson85 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald TRUMP!
mongaloid ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drumpf
AlasEarwax8 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumph
IceprincessOCN ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump reaching the presidency
CitySloth ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
FapingWithYourChild ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women.
CdM-Lover ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:35:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drumpf
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:36:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:47:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ultimegohan ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
TovrikTheThird ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
airedaleterrier ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president.
shark_eating_unicorn ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
LTfknJ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An Apache Helicopter.
Literally_Saintan ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Islam.
Hoboshanker ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump running for President and actually has a winning chance
torgian ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:42:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump with nuclear launch codes
unrighteous_bison ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
evi1shenanigans ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump actually has a chance of becoming president.
Timesuck_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
montypissthon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump winning.
zambartas ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's presidential odds.
mexicodoug ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If "real thing" means "real possibility" it's Donald Trump with his finger on the nuclear trigger.
Wo0d643 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
TheLawll ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump winning the election.
time4meatstick ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:46:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump being given the green light to "make America great again." Ooh the horror.
Rocklord_386 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president of the United States
winterfella4 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the donald trump 2016 campaign
zombiesnshit4ever ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some how Trump comes to mind
mcinsand ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:50:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump, Putin, and Kim Jong Un as leaders at the same time.
m0ng0o53 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious beliefs
Stratzee ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
fellowsquare ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump at the moment.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:55:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:00:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SenatorMeathooks ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:12:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention that like a fifth of the people in this thread have stated it and it's not edgy
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:35 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:38:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1) "naivety" can be scary. 2) it's not naive to see that Trump getting anywhere near the whitehouse, any amount of electoral success he is getting, is actually a serious deal - as he is not fit for the position, and it's an important position, even if you think he's not serious about the things he says. 3) they are not nice people if they hold views similar to those campaigned by trump
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok thanks, we'll agree to disagree.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:08:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You do realise us presidents control a nuclear arsenal right?
KBom21 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:57:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming President.
RogerWaterZ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
sc2mashimaro ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has a real chance to become President of the United States with full access to the nuclear arsenal and control of the most powerful military in the world.
IamRykio ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
trump
moomley12345 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Donald
Lowgarr ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump being president of the USA.
MusicMan793 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:00:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The US presidential race.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The donald.
-Rexa- ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:01:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a tie between Trump and Clinton
The_Third_Three ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has a very high probability of being in charge of the United States nuclear arsenal
Notte6 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
_rogerthealien ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of donald trump becoming our president.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now? Donald Trump.
SweetJebus731 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has anyone said Trump yet? Because I'm terrified..
Shay0613 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Bborkowski ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump for prez
Nannarki46 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ChaosTheory33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women.
highreed ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A human male
SLOson ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:13:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hitlery Klinton...
urPenguinsRbelong2us ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:20:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
israel only a true monster can steal land and murder children then call you anti semitic for holding them accountable for their actions.
checkitoutmyfriend ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True Believers
Duffmani ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalsim
Zgeex ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:25:25 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Willful ignorance.
scsmith83 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:30:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
andypant ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
listen mang
andypant ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is what is scaring me is when theis hppaens mang
adognamedpenguin ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that were killing this planet and dont have a back up planet.
Stormyfour20 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Donald.
MJordahn ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump may soon be president
stormingstormer ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ryan71076 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
WolverineMitten ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump for President
ProperHillbilly ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People that bear any resemblance to Dick Cheney.
I_Enjoy_Beer ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:48:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That a sizeable portion of my countrymen honestly think Donald Trump would be a good President.
panker ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:49:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Florida-man /r/floridaman
Weezyswag41 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nosferatu
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have this mutual agreement of civility with every other major world power even though we collectively have enough nuclear firepower to eradicate our entire Planet several hundred times over, the aftermath of which would ensure no life would ever spring forth due to the perpetual irradiated wasteland the Earth would become, one overshadowed by nuclear winter and the souls of 7 billion sapient's lost in the squabbles of a suicidal species.
There's also no Ghostbusters to combat the string of spirits haunting the remnants of our flawed mental health facilities.
PM_ME_DEMOCRAT_TEARS ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Republicans xD
midnighttoker024 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump as president
mnixxon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:52:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
MSGuzy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump
pigly2 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
myspacemessiah ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if you're talking animals it's gotta be alligators and crocodiles, hate them
Sammytentoes ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Tdawgmoney1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
donald trump leading the polls
meanpeoplesuck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump winning the presidency
OhNoIssGodzirra ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump actually has a real shot.
PREDXENO426 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
fane42 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's chances of being elected.
jord0 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:57:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
diggexpat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:01:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drop bears.
bluetux ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:03:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reading this thread
letonego ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:41 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald J. Trump
pcendeavorsny ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kim Jong-un actually having nukes to fire.
Wwind99 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop giving in to fear. USA, Russia and half dozen other countries have had nukes ready to fire for decades. Just because they are not your friends doesnt make them psychotic as much as media would have you believe.
Wikipedia to the rescue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_North_Korea
pcendeavorsny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:49:28 on March 31, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just don't think any of them are crazy enough to ever use them... Checks and balances in Russia and China are admirable compared to NK. But your right. I could be feeding the fear troll. The threat though is not a phantom. All this fucker has to do is start with SK and we are all in as is China and everyone else. God knows what deprave plans lay in military folders waiting to be deployed... Wait that's the fear again.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hilary Clinton
RancidLemons ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Being a baby in utero. Just try to imagine that, suspended in liquid, unable to breathe or make a sound, barely able to move, as the room you're in gets smaller and smaller and smaller...
Fuck that.
Gmajj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we all did that. And at the time we "felt" sheltered and cozy. That's why newborns throw their arms out every time they hear a loud noise. They are looking for those cozy perimeters. And you have no knowledge of breathing so no problem there. Being born, squeezing through the birth canal and suddenly having to breathe, sounds not being muffled anymore, and bright light would be much more terrifying, I would think.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grizzly Bears, Great White Sharks, violent black youths, brain embolisms, earthquakes/tidal waves, Pakistani nuclear warheads, ISIS Muslims, zika mosquitos, tractor trailer fleet maintenance managers, serious Trump supporters
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liberal democrats.
Rexplex ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Donald Trump presidency.
TheBaratheon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
djtterb ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
kinetixz0r ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:37:01 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
kelly9791 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's presidential campaign
KillerTofuuuuuu ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
mirza2 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:52:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Millions of giant Spanish slugs are showing up in gardens and fields in Britain, as reported by Care2โฒs Steve Williams. As Dr. Ian Bedford, head of entomology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, describes Arion vulgaris as seemingly unaffected by the slug pellets meant to kill them, being a creature who โeats crops spared by our native slugs, tolerates drier conditions, reproduces in greater numbers and even eats dead animals and excrement.โ
Dr. Bedford and other scientists have created a โslugwatchโ website and are asking for photos and reports of sightings to get an idea of how pervasive the Spanish slug (which may be breeding with native slugs to yield a frost-tolerant hybrid) is in Britain.
burbod01 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Facebook thinks it is Donald Trump.
surfingNerd ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump or Ted Cruz administration
Smalls_Biggie ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly, the fact that trump has made it this close to becoming the leader of a country. Now I have always been under the impression that the earth is populated with a lot of stupid people, but enough for something like this to go on? No, I did not expect that. The fact that his "campaign" has gone on this long shows that there's more then just a couple painfully stupid people out there...their are a lot of them, enough to have a significant impact on the world. That scares me.
PlsNerfTheDonkeh ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming the president
peaceblaster68 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super AIDS.
A teaspoon of Super AIDS in your butt and you're dead in 3 years
only-the-lonely ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PMS......................
jpy1980 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:02:59 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A woman planning a wedding and things are not going their way.
msjtx ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At this point, it's the thing that fell out of Ted Cruz's mouth at tonight's Republican debate.
crunch94 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:12:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is?
shawnGsteezy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans.
The9isles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:12:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiot.
shawnGsteezy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
29100610478021 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Humans
The9isles ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:12:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiot.
SlaughterHeights ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:13:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The things that go through a woman's mind...
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:23:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sex as a virgin.
Energizer100 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A demagogue as president
mindhawk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wealthy people who have sex with children and use their wealth to get away with it
ISfly10 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mere possibility of Donald Trump becoming POTUS
angel_bucks ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol Trump came up...alot in the comments :D
Lanko ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Americans
knifenfork ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Americans could actually vote Donald Trump in as president
chicoquadcore ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My wife on her period.
FartingPolarBear ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
ForumPointsRdumb ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The spider on the wall behind you.
PaJamieez ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:00:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a serious response: A Trump rally, or more specifically, how easily a group of seemingly normal people can become an angry mob in a matter of seconds. Also, being a brown person, the actual amount of people that probably don't want me in the country I was born in makes me a little sad.
mrhu03 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump's inevitable Republican nomination.
forlorn_tenders ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupidity.
Ejsponge61 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:16:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a black man, anytime I see an officer.
pikolhead ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Evangelicals.
Montag984 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility that Trump may become President.
Frederic_Bastiat ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:24:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Size of trumps penis. (nsfw)
FawkesFire13 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump might be Americas next president....that scares the hell out of me
this_is_very_good ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:26:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf
TheMoofasa ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming President?
okBroThatsAwkward ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People voting Trump
Shenaniganz08 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:28:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the possibility of trump being the next US president
yeahscience62 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf. It's the obvious choice, but at this point it's becoming evident that this situation is NOT going away any time soon. If this man becomes President, to say we are going to enter a dark age will be an understatement. If this demagogue, who has pretty much proven to be a literal occurring joke for ANY comedy show, wins the Presidency, that means we will probably be at war with either Mexico or ISIS before the end of his 1st year.
TheSinfulDeath ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny, I remember a lot of Republicans saying exactly the same thing about Obama. Hmmm...
BikeRidinMan ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ted Cruz.
taracener ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Religious fanaticism.
MrsFck-French ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At this very moment, Donald Trump..
Adornolicious ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The absolute scariest thing is this thread. Fuck this thread and all who contributed to it. Most of all, fuck me for opening it.
tacobelly54901 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is number 1, best answer.
cecilrt ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:52:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Israel..
A more powerful, deadly, religiously fanatical version of Iraq, with influential power in the US.
Confident in getting favours and billions from the US, while at the same time giving the US the finger
quadriviumed ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:57:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Bernie circle jerkers saying Donald Trump.
littlebitafraid ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Student loan debt.
jcr4990 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:51 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I think I'm Pregnant" text message?
a1b1no ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:09:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf!
synthmonger ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The people voting for trump
Shivadxb ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:12:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump or trump voters I'm not sure which. Is it the narcissist who will say anything for attention or the people who support him?
Either way both scare the crap out of me
GuitarGuru253 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump's presidential campaign
RaceMcGroth ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:29 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Yokies ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:47:44 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Trump.
patrickpdk ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:48:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Climate change. I hope that's the elephant in the room by this point
Shiney79 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:37:27 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CC is scary, but so are the people who still don't believe it's real.
Ringo007 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Black people
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:15:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump?
fcb98292 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 13:58:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thought of a lesbian liberal in the White House.
s0mcca02 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
BowlOfDix ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All you people saying Donald Trump need to get a clue. The scariest thing is Hillary and Bill are close to going back to the White House
SuperImaginativeName ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:10:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As always in this thread: Some guy raving on about some more boring as fuck chemistry things. It's like clockwork. Stop.
Milk_foam ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 23:56:12 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sara Jessica Parkers face
LaLongueCarabine ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:04:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
She's beautiful
1IIII1III1I1II ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 09:21:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Abortion clinics and the mindset of people who see no problem with the daily atrocities that happen inside those clinics. (It's scary because it involves literally millions of people killed and it's the clearest display of moral decline in human history.)
learning_to_fly5193 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not people. What's scarier is finding yourself in a position which will affect your whole life,physical and mental health and wellbeing and having no option to escape.
EliMFrost ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:43:24 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiots
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
diegolmdb ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:09:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Women's....
iamkuato ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:19:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
religion....
and before you get all touchy and tell me to go back to /r/Atheism, take a minute to imagine religion from my point of view.
Religion is a butt-ton of people believing outlandish stuff without any real demand for evidence, and they feel so right about it that they feel entitled to boss everyone else around. At the same time, each subgroup of the larger religionist group thinks every other subgroup is wrong in the face of their own overwhelming rightness - a trait that often leads to violence, destruction, and warfare.
It's seriously scary.
wigglewiggle245 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Socialism tbh
ancientZhangWarrior ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:50:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Voldemort
Mushhushshu ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:54:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald fuckin' Drumpf
saltyseabird ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 02:59:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump supporters
calebdanielt ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The spiritual realm. Okay, so what is the spiritual realm? I had a dream once I decided to become a Christian, I went to sleep and awoke in darkness. I heard a giant demonic growl and then it grabbed me and threw me up and down like a ragdoll. Before this, I use to get sleep paralysis. One time, I got a really nasty bout where I saw a demonic version of my father walk and start doing a voodoo dance over my bed while I was stuck to my bed. My room looked the same, everything was normal except for that. The spiritual realm is the scariest but Christ protects me. There's a reason why good and evil exists in our world - it comes from the spiritual realm and our own sinful nature.
demonchefofportland ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:32:34 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Christians.
classicwhitenerd ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:33:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump and his hair
kulektive ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:37:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A Donald Trump presidency.
Famous_LoL ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
METEORincoming ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
ICookWithFire ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
djmetal82 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:23 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That people look to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for leadership.
Thatnewguy93 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
spmahn ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This presidential poll showing Donald Trump ahead of Hillary Clinton
concussed_cowboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:53:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hillary should be in jail. Everyone should be ahead of her
spmahn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:57:08 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't disagree with you, but not Trump
concussed_cowboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By no means do I support Trump (I honestly think this is by far the worst slate of candidates of all time) But I think Bernie, Cruz, Hillary and Trump are all incredibly awful. They all take turns rotating for the worst slot.
And then Carson and Rubio aren't qualified either.
Yes Reddit I don't like Bernie, you can execute me now
spmahn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:40:14 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kasich seems like the most reasonable out of all of them, although he just recently signed a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in Ohio, so maybe he's not that much different.
I don't like Bernie either, but I'm a fan of the Sanders for President subreddit, I find it so amusing how brainwashed, politically naive, and mathematically challenged they are over there
concussed_cowboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should merge it with /r/cringe
I wouldn't mind Kasich, or Rubio but I don't think Kasich has a chance realistically, maybe Rubio does but not a great chance.
I really wanted Rand Paul. He was my favorite candidate... But that ship sailed long ago
kvdence ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:11 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Lorgeous ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming president.
Flunderfoo ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump.
Tehduckeggs ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:16:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
Zhotoro ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
sup_mello ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:51:22 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
mefaithfull ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:07 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
kyfoxhead ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:01:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
minjabinja ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:03:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i was expecting the first comment to be Trump...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Scroll a bit. So many people said Trump
crunch94 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:24 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now, Trump and all the hatred and racism he has let loose. Seeing how people are treated during his rallies and the KKK things really fuckin scares me. People say he won't win, but there's is just so much misdirected hatred in his supporters. And people who are republican diehards will vote for him even though they don't like him. Like it really scares me for the future of this country and the minorities out there.
Crammpa ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The American government.
joeycapone ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ex-wives
drk_evns ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:05:45 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump is lead GOP candidate.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:06:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sort this thread by Controversial.
Fascism.
As a minority, events like the holocaust, genocide in rwanda, serbia, and now syria, it's terrifying to me that human beings seem to always fall under the spell of people who "tell it like it is."
JudeauChop ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:37 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Drumpf. Seriously I find him terrifying.
AtomizingAir ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:16:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The impending possibility that Donald Trump actually has a chance at becoming the next president of the United States.
sir_patrickryan14 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess you aren't asking about Trumps hair ZING!
stugots85 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Capitalism.
AndyuGoonie ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:28:00 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awww
Fakecolor ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:00:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
asylum117 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:01:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
rumkahn ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:52 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
jewbaca8 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:03:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Kasegauner ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:05:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
minusSeven ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:06:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
Jesslynnlove ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:07:21 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president.
zaimc ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:10:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump
humblenyrok ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:12:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ElochQuentis ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump, apparently.
GuntherCloneC ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:04 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump potentially becoming president.
Going_Jamon ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:13:42 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump 2016
Deadisle49 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:14:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The fact that Donald Trump actually has a real chance at being elected for president
Waf3l ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:15:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The possibility of Trump winning.
TheKinkMaster ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:15:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
-TheDoctor ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Tsimms55 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:15 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real possibility of trump becoming president..
tomthebomb471 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:17:26 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump if he wins the presidency.
k1p57a ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:49 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody like Trump actually having a real chance at getting those nuclear codes...
k1p57a ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:18:53 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Somebody like Trump actually having a real chance at getting those nuclear codes...
Qd18630 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:19:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald fuckin trump becoming president.
Medicnotadriver ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:10 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
U.S. President Donald Trump
Tyvaros ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:21:28 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump.
cliff99 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:30:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump becoming president. Well ok, the hair's probably not real.
ImProbablyGonnaRunOu ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 08:41:36 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
libertarians
oscarflee ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 09:27:16 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose the worse thing that could ever happen to a soul is to be deprived of the Love of God in Hell for eternity. We only live on Earth for a short while, and we have plenty of opportunities to find Him at church. His presence is quite real, and you can feel it by being baptized. Please do so!
noobster5000 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:00:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump chance of presidency
thatswuhtshesaid ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 11:06:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
tree-60_noscope ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 23:37:42 on March 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me
GodOfAllAtheists ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:28:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right now? Donald Trump. Second place? Hillary Clinton.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:29:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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GodOfAllAtheists ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:35:18 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And just who the fuck are you?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:53:58 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SeeMoreEvil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:58:55 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That reply made no sense whatever. lol
DystopianBitch ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:39:48 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the tea bagger.
Yrevaisytliug3 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 02:55:06 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald trump willing
Post-NapoleonicMan ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:25:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In b4 Donald Trump.
cnote5 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:34:13 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Drumpfinite's
marelime1 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
fearednoob ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:35:12 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
Chloe_Flawless ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 03:35:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump becoming president
IJoinedTheDarkSide ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:35:39 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than the thought of Trump for president?
JinxsLover ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump or is it to soon?
Annanondra ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:48:30 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That Donald Trump is actually a serious contender for president of the United States
RobertNoll ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The GOP?
Hop-goblin ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:04:50 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has a legitimate chance to hecome POTUS
Chanderson96 ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:05:09 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
NonElectricalNemesis ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 05:08:47 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump running for president...
TheDoctorOfBeach ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:11:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump as President
OgreDTD ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:02:38 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
President Donald Trump shivers
hanginwithmrcooper ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 06:18:32 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
ILovehaighters ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 06:22:03 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trump
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 02:29:02 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bernie Sanders.
dannymason ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:32:54 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh, so scary.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:45:40 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, my mistake he has no chance of winning, not so scary. The fact that anyone would believe his Marxist nonsense would work in America is the real terror
meinmanhattan ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:06:33 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
Lego_minion ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 05:11:46 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 03:35:31 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(crackles knuckles)
Donald Trump baby!!
(leans back, drinks beers, waits to get all the upvotes and gold in the world)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:05 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
COME ON YOU BITCHES BRING ON THE DOWNVOTES
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:20 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel at this point that I may have responded harshly. Also, hello, me
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:57 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does one say to a dying star? Does one even say anything at all?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:17 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I suppose this is as good a time to show a poem I've been working on, I hope you like it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:34:56 on March 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But no one called.
Screaming into an uncaring night while hundreds listened ancillarily
too busy preparing dinners, watching TV, making love and trying to ignore
the racket outside as he began to rip off her clothes.
I sit quietly, earbuds in, feigning deaf as two homeless men
sing into a crowded sub filled with others doing the same.