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Datman2020 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

What is something that people think is dangerous but in reality is completely harmless?

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What is something that people think is dangerous but in reality is completely harmless?

Datman2020 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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  • @MicrosoftSam@lemmy.world
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    35•2 years ago

    What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?

    • @Garzak@lemmy.world
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      127•2 years ago

      Ask John Lennon.

      • @Psychlops@lemmy.world
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        24•2 years ago

        Lol, Jesus Christ

      • @jimrob4@midwest.social
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        9•2 years ago

        !LeMMySilvur

      • @shankrabbit@lemmy.world
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        3•2 years ago

        Oh shit… This was funny. Thank you.

    • Riskable
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      22•2 years ago

      Many people believe that death by fan sucks but really, it blows.

    • @yads@lemmy.ca
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      16•2 years ago

      I think they believe it will blow all the air out of the room

      • @ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world
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        15•2 years ago

        Chop up all the oxygen and make it unusable?

        • @insomniac@vlemmy.net
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          14•2 years ago

          If the hydrogen and oxygen get redistributed in the wrong way, the room will fill with water and you drown.

          • Rikudou_Sage
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            1•2 years ago

            Understandable.

        • @feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          That’s basically what they think, yes. That it interrupts the flow of the air, as if capillary action was needed to pull air into your lungs. I’m not sure how the myth started but at one point they were selling fans with special guards or something to protect against the imaginary risk.

          Of course, I might be wrong - I read about this on the internet.

    • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      3•2 years ago

      Fan Death.

    • @ezmack@lemmy.ml
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      2•2 years ago

      I used to work in a real sweatbox of a factory so we had huge fans running all day. It was deceptive because you’d normally be drenched in sweat but the fans prevented it. So you’d drink a gallon of water and take maybe one brown ass dehydrated piss. I could see something like that being blamed on a fan. Just heat exhaustion or dehydration

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