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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Water. People often do not respect water and how it can quickly kill you.

el_monstruo , Pixabay/Pexels Report

Final score:

216points

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"Disembodied voice" 4 months ago

Please stay out of flood water. Yes, I'm serious.

72points

madeleinetwocock , Pixabay/Pexels Report

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are As a canadian let me just warn ya

**moose** 🫎

they’re much, MUCH larger and wickedly stronger than people think. for some reason people just don’t realize that these baddies are MASSIVE. psa: they are nowhere even *remotely close* to a deer!!

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196points

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Samsquatch & Monko 4 months ago

Canadian geese

60points

broccoli_octopus , FUTURE KIIID/Pexels Report

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Large herbivores. They've evolved defenses to make large predators rethink their life choices. They will mess you up.

Final score:

187points

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Samsquatch & Monko 4 months ago

Also elephants are quite intelligent

60points

Edward_the_Dog , Norma Mortenson/Pexels Report

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Texting while driving.

Final score:

181points

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xX_iced_vanilla_latte_Xx 4 months ago

this is so bad its now illegal where i live

67points

SketchtheHunter , Leonid Danilov/Pexels Report

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Hey, that small invertebrate you found by the sea?

Please leave it alone.

Went snorkeling with a guide a long time ago in some coral reefs.

When we saw a shark, the guide was like "Nah, don't worry. They're chill." Then we saw a tiny purple jellyfish, and the guide was like "WHATEVER YOU DO, stay away from this thing, it'll paralyze you and then you'll drown."

Final score:

170points

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BoredBranzino 4 months ago

A little over simplified. Meaning: Situational Awareness is key - wherever you may be. You don't want to bump into a Tiger Shark while frantically avoiding that purple jellyfish. Though I don't know how a guide would communicate all that while SNORKELING. Just be aware at all times, life isn't easy.

32points

straighttoplaid , Nicolas DeSarno/Pexels Report

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Moving water.

It's freaking dangerous. Water is heavy so when it's moving it has a lot of energy. It might not feel too bad walking through knee deep flowing water but if you fall the water will have more area to push on. You may not be able to get yourself on your feet again.

Final score:

165points

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lwolf1952 4 months ago

Dropping a gallon of water on your foot will give you some idea.

52points

leahmat , Karolina Kaboompics/Pexels Report

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Manipulations by chiropractors.
And if the manipulation doesn't kill you, it can certainly cause paraplegia or quadriplegia, vertebral dissections.
The sad part is that chiropractors will never own up to the fact and they'll actually claim that patients are coming in with an active stroke. Unfortunately a lot of their research is skewed. I would highly recommend looking into the American medical association, particularly neurologist to see the detrimental effects that a chiropractor can have. It's unfortunate how many people die secondary to a chiropractic manipulations - particularly in the neck and back.

For reference, I am a occupational therapist who has seen plenty of paraplegics and quadriplegics secondary to chiropractic injury.

Final score:

165points

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Pumpkinpi 4 months ago

My aunt is paralyzed from a chiropractor. It was about 20 years ago and he moved her spine incorrectly and it messed her nerve up. She’s been in a wheelchair since.

79points

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Hippos. Put it this way: Steve freakin' Irwin was afraid of hippos! If something is so dangerous that the croc wrestler is scared of them you do not mess with it!

Final score:

163points

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Hippopotamuses 4 months ago

We resent that. We're just misunderstood.

132points

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A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are So I was trying to look up a DIY mixture to remove mold/mildew recently. A surprising number of sources (including an AI tool) suggested mixing bleach and vinegar.

Rule of thumb. Never mix anything for cleaning, there are far too many chemical weapons that can accidentally be made.

Final score:

160points

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BarkingSquirell 4 months ago

I swear by baking soda and vinegar as my sole cleaners.

61points

#11

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are The Great Lakes. Just this past weekend 4 people decided to go in the water near my house even though the beach was under red flag warning and high waves. 3 got pulled out by a Good Samaritan when they got in trouble. Three days later and coast guard and fire department still hasn’t found the body of the 4th one. Rip tides are real. Weather kicks up fast. The Great Lakes are huge and dangerous. This is not your local pontoon lake.

cvanaver , Marta Wave/Pexels Report

Final score:

157points

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BoredBranzino 4 months ago

Any. Body. Of. Water. Be respectful. Don't press your luck.

65points

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#12

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Falling from regular standing height. My mom fell forward holding some groceries, got her arms out to brace her fall and still broke her wrist and jaw in multiple places. Grandma broke her hip just falling out of bed. Falling is dangerous

Final score:

156points

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BatPhace 4 months ago

It's not the falling part that's dangerous, it's the thing you land on that's the problem lol but yes, falling is dangerous

40points

Maanzacorian , Helena Lopes/Pexels Report

#13

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Horses

we've lived with them for so long that unless you spend regular time around them, you don't know just how unbelievably dangerous they are. It's a good thing they're so stupid or we'd be f****d.

Movies have people believing they're these docile creatures that live to serve humans. Those are the ones that have been trained *extensively*. They are otherwise 1500 pounds of dumb panicky hair-trigger muscle.

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150points

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smolspeedycats 4 months ago

"Dumb panicky hair-trigger muscle" could also work for some humans, be careful out there lol

125points

#14

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Do not f**k with koalas they are capable of ending you. Having held one at Lone Pines, those adorable bastards have steak knives for hands and get scared of falling really easily.

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Final score:

132points

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BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

Squirrels. I once saw a kid chase a squirrel into a corner, and that squirrel jumped on his face and clawed him to bits. Kid was fine afterwards, but he'll have some scars to remember that day by.

60points

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#15

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Things under huge amounts of tension. Boat lines, garage door springs, various other cables or springs used in industrial settings. These can send you back to the character select in an instant.

Capacitors. Maybe most people don't interact with them, but for those that do (DIY electronics repairs), a typical PSU in a home computer have capacitors that can kill you. Shocking, I know.

Final score:

131points

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LAWLAWLAW 4 months ago

These can send you back to character reset, best way of saying un alived I've heard

121points

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#16

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Brake-checking a semi (you’d think it’d be obvious but nope).

Final score:

129points

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StrangeOne 4 months ago

If you see someone you think is speeding, just move aside and get out of the way. Let the police find them and fate make the determination how they'll learn their lesson. The road is the best place to mind your own business.

84points

Sue User 4 months ago

If you want to speed, let me get out of the way. I am doing 60 in the fast lane ( when limit 55) and there is a car on my right. I am not goind to speed up to 80 to passthem faster to please you. Its my highway too.

8points

Rafael 4 months ago

"The road is the best place to mind your own business" is pure gold :-)

4points

Jude Laskowski 4 months ago

While driving in the mountains with a VN war vet, some idiot passed me illegally and my friend yelled out "hope you wind up in a ditch". Half hour later, there was the car in a ditch. This was before cell phones. Driver was upright and walking.

2points

Pyla 4 months ago

My driving instructor said that for some reason when people get behind the wheel they need to become a teacher. Brake checking anyone is asking for trouble.

2points

Saddest_Lion 4 months ago

Could you please tell this to my boyfriend?

2points

Turanga Leela 4 months ago

Why do people brake-check at all? I'm serious, I don't get it.

10points

FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 4 months ago

Because they think that they can dictate the rules of the road and in their opinion, they're driving fast enough and the guy behind them is the AH. If someone is on my àss, whether I'm driving 50mph or 80mph, I just move over and let them pass. Those who brake check are putting so many more lives at risk, when it isn't necessary at all, truly dangerous drivers.

1point

Colleen Glim 4 months ago

18 wheelers in general. A fully loaded semi weighs around 80000 pounds. These things do NOT stop on a dime and do NOT maneuver like a car. Always be respectful of that

10points

Mistletoe 4 months ago

No well trained 18 wheel driver will tailgate you. They know they can't stop. Only the newbies and just jerks will do that. (My husband is a trucker.)

0points

Lene 4 months ago

These things need space. And if you see two trucks on the highway with plenty of space between them, do NOT place your car in that space. The drivers in the trucks have made that much space so they do not crash into eachother if they have to do a hard brake. If you are in between them during that hard brake, chances are you will not come out of that situation alive.

5points

Steve Hall 4 months ago

Remember that anything bigger than you has the right of way, no matter what the law says.

4points

Charity Angel 4 months ago

This has always been my policy on the road. But I like to think I'm considerate, and also have a brain that still sort of works.

1point

Subaru645 4 months ago

Plenty of YouTube vids on this…

3points

Nikki Gross 4 months ago

I watched several videos on YouTube about this and I will NEVER get over people's stupidity or wonder if they have a death wish.

3points

Michael MacKinnon 4 months ago

There's a basic physics thing here: for some reason people think really heavy things like a semi (or worse, like a 100-car freight train) can stop on a dime. Nope. You're lucky to stop the latter within a kilometre or two.

3points

Colleen Glim 4 months ago

About a football field and a half for a fully loaded semi at 60mph to stop

2points

BoredBranzino 4 months ago

ANY Big Rig, whether empty or loaded -- which any random car driver would never know. It STILL weighs exponentially more than YOU. Don't eff around and find out

2points

Nikki Gross 4 months ago

I drive a compact car that is also 17 years old, so pretty much just about every other vehicle on the road is bigger and faster then me. I KNOW that if something happens I will lose! I drive defensively and always let other people have the right of way, even when they are wrong, since it's not worth my life to try to prove they're being an a*****e. I give Semi Trucks a wide berth and try to be as courteous as possible when I have to be around them. One of my BILS drove a semi for years and the stories he would tell would curl your hair when it comes to the stupidity of other drivers. Brake checking, cut offs, tail gating, etc are just a few things that he's seen while on the road and it gets even worse in any type of bad weather.

1point

Charity Angel 4 months ago

Is it terrible that my first thought there was "my hair could do with something to make it behave and curl properly"? (I have curly hair, it's just being lazy because I'm not currently up to looking after it properly)

1point

censorshipsucks 4 months ago

Also, don't forget the vortex of the wake around a semi. Basically as you pass it, or it passes you, it will "suck" you towards it because it has a low pressure area in its wake. You may think you can zoot past it but you may end up ploughing into it.

1point

Charity Angel 4 months ago

Tell you what, though - you can also ride the slipstream. I got caught in a terrible storm one evening, so it was safer to just cruise along with the trucks than zip past them. I might have been travelling at 30mph for 200 miles, on a road with a speed limit of 70, but my fuel efficiency was *amazing*.

0points

Griffy 4 months ago

It takes longer for air brakes to kick in than hydraulic brakes. Source: Many years ago I took CDL training.

1point

MrsFettesVette 4 months ago

OR brake-checking an RV

1point

The Shark Premium 4 months ago

Next time you drive next to one, look under the trailer and see where you're eye line is. The vast majority of underride crashes are fatal. 30mph can literally shear the top off a car and take your head right with it.

1point

FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 4 months ago

This happened in my local area this morning. A woman driving a sedan slammed into the back of a semi on an offramp from the highway. Not sure if she's going to survive, small news article just said serious injuries and they were rushed to a trauma center. I have a legit fear that a big truck won't see me and I'll end up underneath it, somehow. So I always use caution around them.

1point

Hippopotamuses 4 months ago

Could someone clarify what brake checking is? I'm guessing its slamming on the brakes to make sure they work?

1point

Ladedah 4 months ago (edited)

Kind of... except more like slamming on the brakes because the person behind you is riding your a*s too close...

5points

BarkingSquirell 4 months ago

They are checked for so many things while on a long haul.

1point

Hugh Crawford 4 months ago

Not sure you are on the right track there

1point

Salty_Sasquatch 3 months ago

Why the dickens would anyone brake-check a semi?? I know it keeps happening (Youtube). Are you doing it for the insurance money? Why chance offing yourself?? Those suckers are huge and heavy and will mow you down when they can't stop in time.

0points

Gary Geracci 4 months ago

Brake checking a Semi(Lets see, that's 80,000 vs.2,800 LBS-)Who's gonna win!

0points

Alex Walford 4 months ago

What if your in your own semi?

0points

Vicki Perizzolo 4 months ago

Cutting off any vehicle ia stupid but something that weighs 30 tons and can't stop ia darwinism at its best

0points

Seadog 4 months ago

And you wouldn't believe how many actually think that 80000 pound rig running 70 is supposed to slow down and let them merge. Doesn't work that way even for passenger cars, it's not the other drivers job to slow down for you. A lesson some woman learned when she tried to run the on ramp to the end then cut in front of my son. She didn't win her little race and neither did her Kia. Broad side pushed her down the interstate until he could get stopped and then she had the gall to tell the trooper he wouldn't let her over and she didn't know he was pulling a load, She literally rode right beside the trailer for half the on ramp before deciding to try and outrun him. Multiple witnesses took car of her little lie real quick. Took her insurance (State Farm) 6 months to pay for the damages to his rig. And then they still short changed him.

0points

Just-4-2day 4 months ago

Also don't camp in the left lane. Pass and then move back over to the right.

0points

Melinda Flick 4 months ago

A lot of tiny people with terrible tempers drive the roads. My rule when somebody is being an idiot is to let them go by. I want them out in front where I can see them. And while I might tap my horn to stop somebody from hitting me, it's a tap, not a seconds long blare. I drive an SUV, not a train. I'm gonna lose that battle sooner or later, so be polite.

0points

Puppy Dancing! 4 months ago

Brake checking is done when people are following so close you can't see their headlights and it should never be done so you actually slow down. A semi cannot get within 17-23 feet of you because then they can't see you. So if you are brake checking a semi, get off the road, you are an anxious driver, there is no way the semi was that close.

0points

WJK1531 4 months ago

I always get out of the way of trucks on the highway.

0points

Mistletoe 4 months ago

What is brake checking?

0points

Mistletoe 4 months ago

Never mind. I figured it out from other comments. I gather it means touching your brakes so the car behind you will back off a bit.

0points

Verena 4 months ago

Just last week I had a short-sighted motorcyclist behind me, who dedparately tried to read the fine print on my number plate. I was a bit over the speed limit but made some room to the left ... and he passed and even thanked me (foot gesture means "thanks" here). Seriously??? He did fit full prejudice mode, though. Blaring motor (see me? See meeee! Look at meeeee!), seating position, clothing... But at least he got the idea somebody took him serious.

0points

Happy Onion 4 months ago

There are enough karma videos on YouTube. Just let them become one WAY ahead of you.

0points

Lew k 4 months ago

No a semi driver but I drive a 10 ton bucket truck. I don't get brake checked much but people cut me off to turn immediately in front of me constantly. It's literally a daily event. If you're this person stop please. It's silly dangerous. My truck takes 4 times the distance to stop as your Civic. All it takes is me looking away for a second and when I hit your compact car I'll barely feel it and you will probably get crushed. Fault won't the big problem and I don't want that on my conscience.

0points

censorshipsucks 4 months ago

P=mV. If your car is one ton and a semi is 15 tons, and you are travelling at 100km/h and he's travelling at 80km/h, your momentum is 1 x 27,88 m/s or 27.88 kg⋅m/s. 15 tons at 80 km/h = 15 x 22.22 = 333.33 kg⋅m/s. He has 10x the inertia you do, so when he hits you, basically you will go flying forward. We can even calculate HOW far forward if we assume you go airborne.

0points

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#17

I stopped two German or Austrian tourists from touching a poisonous frog in Colombia. They had no idea. They were inches away with their phones.

I hadn't spoken German in years, but man my panic reaction brought those words to the tip of my tongue real fast.

Don't mess with wildlife, especially outside your own habitat.

Final score:

125points

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AtMostAFabulist Premium 4 months ago

But, they're so cuuuuute!!!!

21points

#18

A motorcycle. Crashed my Harley and have had 3 spinal surgeries, had 7 broken ribs, torn rotator cuffs....if I hadn't been wearing my helmet (which I didn't for years trying to be a tough guy/ idiot) I probably wouldn't be writing this. Helmet was scraped down to the inner layer.

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Final score:

120points

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Sexual Harassment Panda 4 months ago

It's not if but when on a motorcycle.

61points

#19

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Maternal hemorrhage. I am routinely shocked by expectant mothers who want to give birth at home, arguing that they can always transfer to the hospital "if there's a problem." No, no they can't. If the wrong type of bleeding begins, they'll be dead before the ambulance gets there.

Edit: as noted below, in some countries, certified nurse midwives attend home births with medications they can use to treat hemorrhage. However that is NOT the case in the US, where insurance requirements mean that most CNMs must be attached to hospitals. In many American states, "midwife" is not a restricted term, so self-described midwives with no qualifications at all get hired to attend home births. The results are a fairly predictable higher mortality rate for home births vs. hospital births in America.

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Final score:

119points

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David 4 months ago

YES. I watched my daughter almost bleed out giving birth. And she was in a hospital. A lot of worried looking nurses and doctors coming and going for a while. They finally got it stopped, she was pale and super weak but was lucky. She and her sister were home births. We were poor, it was affordable, everything went fine. But if I knew all I know now back then, I probably would have been afraid to do home birth.

55points

#20

The heat, it is too damn hot.

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Final score:

117points

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Binny Tutera 4 months ago

The deadliest form of severe weather is extreme heat.

42points

#21

Grapefruit. It interacts with a *ton* of medication.

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Final score:

116points

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Bartlet for World Domination 4 months ago

Also Seville oranges, limes, pomelos and maybe pomegranate. Here's the list (PDF) https://www.cmaj.ca/content/suppl/2012/11/26/cmaj.120951.DC1/grape-bailey-1-at.pdf

34points

#22

Cat bites. Their teeth are very thin like needles, and oftentimes after a deep puncture, the top layer of skin closes leaving infection trapped inside from all the bacteria in their mouths. If you ever get bitten by a cat, go to urgent care asap for antibiotics. Even if it seems fine at first. Waiting even just a few days can lead to sepsis (blood infection) which can be deadly.

I work in veterinary medicine, and one of my coworkers almost lost her hand from a cat bite infection.

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Final score:

115points

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Pumpkinpi 4 months ago

Yes! When we were children my sister got bit by a cat. She did not want to get in trouble with our parents so she washed and bandaged it without telling anyone. Two days later she was in the hospital on an IV because of blood poisoning!

39points

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#23

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Enclosed spaces. Don't assume it's the air you're used to down there.

Final score:

114points

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DebSue 4 months ago

Don't be the canary

74points

LucyVialli , Padli Pradana/Pexels Report

#24

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Inhaling too much helium.

I worked at a party store and we had someone rent a helium tank. We rented them by the week and then every week after there was a charge done to your card immediately. After 3 months we got a call from the renter's daughter asking if we could please stop charging her father's card. He had used the helium tank commit [self-harm] the day he rented the tank and we had charged him over $1,500 in the 3 months since.

It became a huge thing where we had to actively tell people once you fill your lungs completely with helium that the avioli can no longer process oxygen correctly. So while it's all fun and games to have that squeaky voice one super deep breath can end your life.

Final score:

112points

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Bec 4 months ago

They'll stop charging when you return the tank. Helium is a limited resource, we should really stop using it to fill stupid balloons that end up polluting or worse

151points

#25

Pushing someone.

My friend’s father got into a verbal altercation with someone. They pushed him. He fell and hit his head on the pavement. Lights went out immediately and he was brain dead. They had to take him off life support not even 12 hours later. So sad every time I think about it. He was a good man.

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Final score:

112points

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Hippopotamuses 4 months ago

This happens way too often.

26points

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#26

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Fistfight. One wrong punch and you’re in prison for killing a dude.

Final score:

110points

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John Mosley 4 months ago

Or you're dead. Just stop it.

69points

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#27

Selfies in high places.

Final score:

106points

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Mel Colley 4 months ago

Stupid stunts=stupid results.

60points

remes1234 , Miguel Á. Padriñán/Pexels Report

#28

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Rust. If you run into a hole in the ground with rusty stuff inside, that does not get good ventilation. Dont go in. Rust is iron combined with oxygen. And it can eat all of the oxygen in the air. And fun fact, your body cant tell how much oxygen is in the air, but does sense carbon dioxide is there. So you dont know you are going until you are dead.

Final score:

101points

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BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

When I see a rusty hole in the ground, my inclination is not to go inside. But thank you for the warning.

84points

#29

Running across the street and assuming the car sees you and will stop.

Just wait for the light.

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95points

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StrangeOne 4 months ago

Never just assume drivers care about your life. It could be your right to cross and their obligation to stop, but that doesn't mean they'll comply. Hold your hand out to indicate you're cross, look at the driver, look back for any vehicles wanting to turn onto the street your crossing from behind you, look for any cars not slowing down in every lane.

31points

#30

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Carbon Dioxide.

People have died playing with dry ice.

clopticrp , KWON JUNHO/Unsplash Report

Final score:

93points

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Max Fox 4 months ago (edited)

What happens is that high concentrations of CO2 cause your blood to absorb CO2 instead of oxygen. Since normal Oxygen levels are 21% and CO2 levels are 0.03%, the blood loses CO2 to the atmosphere and absorbs oxygen. However, if CO2 levels are too high, blood starts binding CO2 instead of oxygen, and we suffocate at the cellular level, even though oxygen levels are high enough. When CO2 is around 4% of the atmosphere, it can kill you, even if oxygen remains at 21%.

36points

#31

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are One simple wrong move on the highway.

PolarBearChuck , Pixabay/Pexels Report

Final score:

92points

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"Disembodied voice" 4 months ago

Learned this the hard way

27points

#32

Hi I’m in EMS.

Please wash your hands before you eat stuff, so many people come in contact with so many other people who have illnesses that can be contracted by eating with unclean fingers. Even if you’ve been around people you know all day you never know who they’ve been around, and sometimes it’s not even illnesses rather random germs AND I KNOW THIS IS OBVIOUS TO SOME PEOPLE but next time you see a local EMS crew eating food with their funny colored gloves on it’s because we’ve made a habit even if we hadn’t run any calls that day.

Of course if you aren’t in healthcare you’re not being exposed to as much but sometimes you need a reminder just how dirty the outside world really is lmao.

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Final score:

88points

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Pittsburgh rare 4 months ago

Wash your hands as soon as you get home is also good advice. Mind blowing how many people discovered hand washing during COVID

69points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#33

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Garage door springs. let a pro fix it. Mine snapped a bunch of years ago and it tore a 3 foot long hole in my garage door in a fraction of a second.

myspamhere , cottonbro studio/Pexels Report

Final score:

80points

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Robert Brozowski 4 months ago

Why is the photo of semi truck airlines?

57points

esoteric_enigma , Ellie Burgin/Pexels Report

#34

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Inhalents. I tried them once in high school. 2 weeks later a kid at another school died from using them THE FIRST TIME.

A couple weeks after that, I was offered them again. I told them f**k no and asked if they hadn't heard about the dead kid. They looked at me and seriously replied, "Oh yeah, it's okay. He used the wrong brand. He used the blue bottle, instead of the purple bottle.".

Final score:

79points

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Moë 4 months ago

My brother used them in high school and he’s dumb af now, they definitely kill brain cells

41points

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#35

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Carbon monoxide. well, minutes, but still.. it's odorless and colorless. most likely, you won't even know.

Final score:

77points

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BarkingSquirell 4 months ago

Why detectors are so important.

38points

#36

An allergic reaction to something you have been exposed to countless times before.

My mom was in her 40s when she suddenly had a reaction to a bee sting and almost died.

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Final score:

77points

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kissmychakram 4 months ago

Indeed. My sister was a huge fan of seafood and ate it all the time until she was 19 or so when out of nowhere anaphylaxis, a trip to the hospital and a fun application of chest paddles. It happened at least once more before it was agreed that she was now deathly allergic.

26points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#37

Entering or falling into a septic tank. Deaths are often not isolated to one person, but also the people who come in after in an attempt to rescue them.

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Final score:

75points

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The Shark Premium 4 months ago

What a horrific way to go...

37points

#38

Not looking right and left when crossing a street.

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Brian Droste 4 months ago

Or even when driving. Once you look one way then the other way, look back toward the first way again. Even though it might only take a second or less to turn your head, still something can come from the other side real quick.

31points

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#39

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Hitting your head against a wall.

There's a pretty famous story about a basketball player who missed a shot, got annoyed and headbutted (if I remember correctly) the post the hoop is attached to.

Didn't kill him but paralysed him from the neck down for life.

People do die from doing this, I've seen people get mad and headbut something 100 times, but do it wrong once and that's it, you're dead.

Edit: He made the shot but was called out got a foul so it didn't count, he died 13 years later. Someone has replied with a video link but... watch at your own discression, its not nice.

Final score:

69points

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Savahax 4 months ago (edited)

Boban Jankovic was his name. Found the vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wjfxCmXdo&pp=ygUOQm9iYW4gamFua292aWM%3D

16points

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#40

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Electricity, particularly involving overhead wires.

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68points

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David 4 months ago

Also static electricity. With high voltage lines you don't have to get anywhere close to touching them to get shocked. Once in my ignorant youth a friend and I climbed a high voltage line tower. We were only about half way up when we started getting shocked. We were FAR from the actual lines. Obviously it was not the full shock of the lines. But it was enough to maybe make someone lose their grip and fall and we were high enough up for the fall to have maybe killed us. If you have been around farms - think about the level of shock from an electric fence.

19points

#41

I would venture to say most people realize what can kill you instantly but less commonly discussed would be dehydration.

Yes you can die within seconds from it.

Heart failure is what gets you and if you are already primed for a heart attack due to either unhealthy habits or genetics, dehydration can kill you in seconds. Some drop dead of a widow maker right there on the spot.

Dehydration truly is a gamble so be cautious with it. Happens a lot in the summer months as people pick up alcohol and energy drinks instead of electrolytes. .

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67points

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The Shark Premium 4 months ago

Don't wait til you're thirsty to drink water. By then, you're already on your way to dehydration. Also, if you find yourself drinking tons of water but never feeling quenched, get some electrolytes. You need salt to replace what is lost in sweat and urine. When sodium levels are too low, water moves into cells and causes them to swell, which can cause a whole range of symptoms, including death. Hyponatremia is real. Hydrate your cells, don't drown them. 😉

37points

#42

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Those green transformer boxes found in people's yards. I've seen so many people sitting on them, climbing them, standing on them, playing on them. Those things transport thousands of volts of electricity and it only takes one second to receive the electric chair treatment.

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Final score:

64points

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Alice Landers 4 months ago

Really? Ours have warning painted on them, even warning to keep 'plantings/shrubs' within so many feet away

20points

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#43

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are A rogue brick on the highway.

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63points

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"Disembodied voice" 4 months ago

Rogue anything on the highway.

72points

UniqueBeauty29 , Anna Shvets/Pexels Report

#44

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are A ruptured aneurysm can kill you in seconds. It's often sudden and without warning, making it extremely dangerous and usually fatal if not treated immediately.

Final score:

63points

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John Mosley 4 months ago

And it can happen to anyone of any age or level of fitness at any time. Sleep tight!

46points

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#45

A Lot Of People Don’t Realize How Dangerous These 50 Things Are Poorly designed and manufactured submarines. Milliseconds actually.

Final score:

55points

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The Other Guest 4 months ago

Hmmm, wonder if this person had any particular sub in mind...

73points

#46

Anyone who works in a shop (hopefully) knows this… but compressed air. Not an uncommon thing for you to use it to blow metal shavings or other debris off your clothes after you’re done working, but if you have even a small cut somewhere and you get the air gun too close you can put an air bubble in your blood stream which will kill you the moment it passes through your heart. From what I’ve been told it is very painful and only takes a few seconds.

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52points

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Bec 4 months ago

Dad got a metal shaving in his eye from cleaning something off with his compressor. Fortunately no damage done but it hurt like hell, eye doctor got it out with a strong magnet

29points

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#47

Using a massage gun on your neck...

>*While handheld massage guns are generally safe to use on muscles, using them on the neck can be dangerous. The high vibrations produced by massage guns can injure unprotected areas of the neck, and in rare cases, can cause soft tissue damage or stroke-like symptoms.*.

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Savahax 4 months ago

Or, just don't use those oscillating deathguns at all

19points

#48

Eating polar bear liver. You’ll die of vitamin A poisoning. Vitamin A is not water soluble and eating too much can lead to painful symptoms and death. One polar bear liver has enough to kill over 50 adults.

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44points

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smolspeedycats 4 months ago

and....how likely am I to ever be eating polar bear liver?

87points

#49

If you get hit in the chest at a specific part of the heart's cardiac rhythm, dead. If you accidentally massage your carotid and have a vagal sensitivity, dead. If you have a genetic predisposition for certain arrhythmias and get startled, dead. The heart is a tricksy thing

Eta this is very rare. However, if you have any family members who have died unexpectedly and young and have a history of fainting for no reason get an EKG asap. .

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Nathaniel Heider 4 months ago

Im just Adding a comment, get your hearts checked!

18points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#50

Scuba diving. You lose track of time. Stay down a minute too long. That's it.

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38points

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BoredBranzino 4 months ago

Not true. Regulators tell one EXACTLY the time you have left 'breathing thru them" If you're too dumb to look at them and track the time, then you deserve it - and even if you caught it at the late moment, you could still take that last breath and exhale to the surface.

30points

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#51

Electricity. Most people respect it but don't realize how they're playing with their lives when doing things like taking off their nice shoes to check out the flooded basement. Or salvaging caps before properly discharging them. In 40 years I've known 2 people who've been electrocuted, and two others who were hospitalized.

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14points

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Bill Swallow 4 months ago

... See my comment for the item about 'things under a great deal of tension', which also mentioned Capacitors.

4points

#52

Working in oil and gas. More specifically in the field. Many workers forget the risks of their job and can become complacent. One thing goes wrong and you can be instantly dead. Whether that’s inhalation or a simple fire.

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Auntriarch 4 months ago (edited)

I was a secretary in an oil company once, the chief engineer was testing two student engineers and asked what they would do if one of them saw the other fall down unconscious. I butted in "run like fun in the other direction" and apparently that was the right answer, ie don't try to rescue anyone without your own breathing gear

8points

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#53

Air in the bloodstream.

Cut to the femoral artery in your leg. Though a lot of men have seen Band of Brothers.

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11points

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#54

Nitrogen poisoning. It is odorless and scentless.

Edit: it's not exactly poisoning. More like asphyxiation.

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10points

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Max Fox 4 months ago

Since nitrogen makes up almost 80% of our atmosphere, it's hardly likely to think that it would be poisonous. Also, it's not too much nitrogen, it's not enough oxygen.

5points

#55

Topical Benadryl if you use too much. Or if you combine it with alcohol. I used it on vacation for mosquito bites and forgot. Had a drink of alcohol a while later. Fell asleep and was barely breathing.

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10points

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Bec 4 months ago

I'm surprised a topical antihistamine would have such an impact! Sometimes I will only take 1/2 of a Benadryl pill because I am very affected by it, and they make me very drowsy - I would see how mixing that with alcohol could be very bad.

8points

#56

Though not many people have access to it, hydrogen fluoride or HF will kill you colder'n a mackerel of it gets into your bloodstream.

Flourosis of your bones is a nasty way to check out.

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8points

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Jihana 4 months ago

Had to work with HF at a previous job. I knew it was dangerous so I wanted to write an SOP about how to handle it savely, so I did a litte bit of research. One paper mentioned that a chemical burn the size of a finger nail can kill you. The problem is not the acidity but the fact that HF binds calcium, which is needed in your nerves. So yeah, it's a potent neurotoxin.

2points

#57

Swimming in cold water. Even 15C or lower can kill in seconds due to shock.

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David 4 months ago

I think this is more about a sudden plunge, shocking the body. 15C is 59F. I've swum in water in the 40s, and many times colder than 59. But never just run and dive in. Things like inner tubing and rafting and a little bit just swimming. But all situations where at one point or another I was immersed.

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BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

Some of these things are so unlikely they may as well have mentioned ACME Branded Anvils falling from the sky

31points

Joshua Moore 4 months ago

I bet Wile E. Coyote feels like quite the fool about now. 🥰🤣

16points

4 months ago

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned driving tired

29points

Dan Flo 4 months ago

Hydraulics. In one of my first customer support calls, the customer told me that they now have color coded hoses with pressure ratings because a few years earlier a guy connected a hose with 1400 bar burst pressure into a 1500 bar pump. The hose ruptured and a thin jet of hydraulic fluid cut through his body, killing him instantly. Even if you get the injection injury in your hand, you need to go to the hospital or you are done for. If you havnt eaten in a while, and is not easily disturbed, look up hydraulic injuries.

14points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

Normally I’m the first off to Google stuff, but I’m just gonna take your word on this one. :p

8points

Colin Matthews 4 months ago

New Zealand. It's not an Eco-Disneyland for northern Hemisphere tourists. The water is cold enough to kill in minutes, the back country, the South Island and the alpine areas look nice, but wander along a trail without the right gear or knowing the weather and you WILL die of exposure.

6points

BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

Also, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and uruk hai.

2points

William Teach 4 months ago

I'm surprised no one mentioned blowing stop signs and red lights

3points

censorshipsucks 4 months ago

Yep I see a crash every week because idiots do that a lot in SA (my country). Basically only red lights, in the day, with a pre-existing queue, are respected. Outside those criteria, a lot of people jump them.

2points

christie lowe 4 months ago

Dont ever ever try to run across the lanes of a freeway. You will not make it and it will traumatize more people than you think

2points

The Other Ben 4 months ago

Going in against a Sicilian, when DEATH is on the line!

2points

Sand Ers 4 months ago

Iocane powder.

2points

Arlene Harris 4 months ago

do not load knives in the dishwasher pointy side up. If you grab them wrong you cut your hand. If you trip and fall on them, you become a cutlery block...

1point

Racing Tadpole 4 months ago

Stupid visiting Mother in Law using your toothbrush as it's the same colour as yours, even though I got her a separate container, severe tonsillitis and three days sick in bed. The cat 🐈 loved that I was running a high temperature and would wrap herself around my throat, then I'd move her back down to my stomach.

1point

Shane S 4 months ago

Well worn charger cables. A preteen girl in our community was charging her phone while taking a bath. Essentially dropped a toaster in the tub. Sad thing.

1point

Sand Ers 4 months ago

I haven’t seen an outlet in a bathroom that wasn’t a GFCI in a long long time.

1point

Amy Manzanares 4 months ago

When I was a kid, my brother and I were playing on a shed next door to my grandmother's house in Mesa. She came over screaming for us to get off of it. Apparently it was infested with scorpions!

1point

Arlene Harris 4 months ago

if you are using any kind of moving machinery, tie your hair back and out of the way. I saw a woman get scalped when a loose bunch of hair got pulled into a printing press. Don't ever take for granted that you can reach the emergency cut off switch in time.

0points

DC 4 months ago

... and how incredibly cool it makes you to use an oh-so-creative term for ending yourself. "It'll fück you hot and cold like a tuna's wings on leaded cocaine", uh, yeah, whatever...

0points

Steve Hall 4 months ago

So many of these sound to me like the person who gets involved with it deserves to meet their maker.

0points

Colin Matthews 4 months ago

Fair. Like who looks at a polar bear liver and thinks mmmmm yummy

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BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

Some of these things are so unlikely they may as well have mentioned ACME Branded Anvils falling from the sky

31points

Joshua Moore 4 months ago

I bet Wile E. Coyote feels like quite the fool about now. 🥰🤣

16points

4 months ago

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned driving tired

29points

Dan Flo 4 months ago

14points

Moosy Girl 4 months ago

Normally I’m the first off to Google stuff, but I’m just gonna take your word on this one. :p

8points

Colin Matthews 4 months ago

6points

BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago

Also, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and uruk hai.

2points

William Teach 4 months ago

I'm surprised no one mentioned blowing stop signs and red lights

3points

censorshipsucks 4 months ago

2points

christie lowe 4 months ago

Dont ever ever try to run across the lanes of a freeway. You will not make it and it will traumatize more people than you think

2points

The Other Ben 4 months ago

Going in against a Sicilian, when DEATH is on the line!

2points

Sand Ers 4 months ago

Iocane powder.

2points

Arlene Harris 4 months ago

do not load knives in the dishwasher pointy side up. If you grab them wrong you cut your hand. If you trip and fall on them, you become a cutlery block...

1point

Racing Tadpole 4 months ago

1point

Shane S 4 months ago

Well worn charger cables. A preteen girl in our community was charging her phone while taking a bath. Essentially dropped a toaster in the tub. Sad thing.

1point

Sand Ers 4 months ago

I haven’t seen an outlet in a bathroom that wasn’t a GFCI in a long long time.

1point

Amy Manzanares 4 months ago

When I was a kid, my brother and I were playing on a shed next door to my grandmother's house in Mesa. She came over screaming for us to get off of it. Apparently it was infested with scorpions!

1point

Arlene Harris 4 months ago

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DC 4 months ago

... and how incredibly cool it makes you to use an oh-so-creative term for ending yourself. "It'll fück you hot and cold like a tuna's wings on leaded cocaine", uh, yeah, whatever...

0points

Steve Hall 4 months ago

So many of these sound to me like the person who gets involved with it deserves to meet their maker.

0points

Colin Matthews 4 months ago

Fair. Like who looks at a polar bear liver and thinks mmmmm yummy

2points