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It just goes to show you how worthwhile it is to understand an animal's language. Most wild animal attacks are done one people who did something wrong.

It's just the way the animal communicates, and if it stops them from misunderstanding my attention and biting off my face, then I'd let 'em do it without thinking twice :\

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custard500011 posted...

I've been living my life completely normally since this whole thing started and nothing happened to me or anyone I know. Going to bars, hanging out with groups of friends. Anyone that got sick that I've heard of has gotten over it fine.

Good for you.
Millions of others have died, but so long as it hasn't affected you and the couple friends you got, then I'm sure that you're right and it's all blown out of proportion. Afterall, you and your pals are the only census we have to tally the severity of the virus. If it hasn't affected you all then that gives us all we need to know.

You know, there was a shooting in a theatre near where I lived. Crazy stuff. 82 people were hurt and 12 died. But I'm alive and nobody I know got shot, so it probably wasn't a big deal. Four guys died protecting their girlfriends and one guy died protecting his teenage daughters. One of the victims was only six years old. But it didn't affect me. It was sad, but everyone I've heard of has gotten over it fine. The whole thing was blown way out of proportion.

Here's a census on how many people have died, but everyone you know is fine, so I'm just blowing it out of proportion.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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custard500011 posted...

None. This whole thing was blown way out of proportion

Yet another contender in the Darwin awards...

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Longsnout posted...

Sinopharm. Less than thrilled, better than nothing.

I never even heard of that shit

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Imagine the fucking hangover you'd have the next morning if you went out and got shitfaced on Mountain Dew then got hungry and ate Taco Bell like a proper drunk.

You'd wake up the next morning doing what I refer to as a "double-whammy" -- when you blow ass and vom at the same time. You'd be like Godzilla blasting down towers in Tokyo, then you'd likely curse the Gods and pass out on your toilet until your best mate comes in and finds you, bare ass, on the shower mat.

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Pfizer both times. I had zero symptoms afterwards and nobody I talked to did either. As opposed to literally everyone I met who got Moderna and said they felt like shit.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Johnson&Johnson one get pulled because it caused blood clots in a few people?

I think there's an antivaxxer at my workplace. Please help.

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Also, pro-tip:
If you're ever walking on a frozen body of water and you fall through the ice, don't try to pull yourself onto land then stand on your two feet get out because you'll just continue to fall through. Cold water really pulls the life out of you, so you'll exhaust and perish. Instead, keep your stomach to the ice and crawl on your belly until you reach solid ground. Pretend you're a seal. This displaces your weight more evenly and lessens the chances of falling through.

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But man, I'm surprised how many people are voting for freezing to death. It is by far the longest way to die of all the options presented. It may not be as painful as burning, but it can take hours if we're just talking about a cold winter day. And before dying you'd get unbearable frostbite on your extremities. I think people often underestimate how painful that is.

But if it's extremely cold, like -20 or in freezing water, it can take only 10 minutes for the shock from hypothermia to set in and end your life. It's by no means pleasant.

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Zeus posted...

There was the case of a tram breaking down in a sloped tunnel where the only people who survived were the guys who walked back to where the first was and proceeded down the tunnel. Everybody who went up in the tunnel away from the fire was killed by the fumes or heat.

That sound terrible! It's true that the heat itself can kill you before the fire cooks you. If anyone actually falls into a volcano they'd be dead long before the hit the lava. And once they did, they wouldn't sink like in the movies. They'd actually likely skitter around on the surface like water on a hot skillet due to the leidenfrost effect. Actually, that seems a lot more disturbing than the slow sinking into lava Hollywood portrays.

Again, melt really isn't the right word.

Actually, this time it really is. You can look it up. Most clothes melt before they burn due to the fabrics that are used, like polyester. I know this as a fact because one time a shirt of mine got misplaced by a candle. It never caught aflame, the fabric just melted everywhere...

You were right about flesh melting, I misspoke, I may have been thinking about how clothes melt into your flesh but who the Hell know. But yeah, having your clothes melt into you sounds like an unbelievably painful experience. It's no wonder they have burn wards. Such injuries require specific treatments if the person is to make a full recovery. And burns are some of the most painful wounds even long after they were caused. Fourth degree burns, however (that sometimes penetrate to the bone), I've heard are not painful because at that point it completely kills the nerves. I've even seen a video of a monkey with fourth degree burns on its arms from an electric line. The middle parts of its forearm was nothing but burnt flesh and the clear bones. You could see through the gap between the radius and ulna. But the monkey didn't act bothered at all because it felt no pain. That's awful enough, I can only imagine what living through that would be like for a person...

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^ Yup, a fire needs to be unbelievably hot to kill before smoke does. People think it's easy to just burn a body but it's actually really hard. Why do you think cremation needs to be done in a special furnace?

However, you can still get second or third degree burn in a fire if it's bad enough. Our purposes on this hypothetical question is meant to reflect this. I should have said cooked.

Even though the smoke inhalation will kill you first, in a really bad fire it will be excruciating before that happens. First thing that happens is that your clothes will melt into your flesh. It sucks...

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Muscles posted...

I heard burning to death is the most painful thing a person could experience, not sure if it's true but it does seem like it would be the most painful of the 3 even if it is probably the quickest

Freezing to death seems like it would take the longest by far and would be the most drawn out torture

I would have to say drowning

Drowning is not as fast as movies make it out to be. It can take up to 15 minutes or even longer for a person to die from suffocation. This is especially true if you are struggling at the surface or against waves in the ocean or currents in a river. If one is completely submerged, then it will not take as long...

It takes about 5 to 20 minutes to drown in fresh water -- but it can take up to half an hour to drown in the ocean. This is because of the salinity content. It actually draws water from your body towards it, so you drown in your own fluids alongside the seawater. With fresh water, the water content will actually diffuse from your lungs into your cells and overhydrate them, causing them to burst.

So it's not as quick as you may think, but unconsciousness occurs much quicker, so you will not have to feel yourself dying for as long. But it causes a primal type panic. Victims of drowning are found as corpses still clutching tightly onto sticks or rocks or anything they could grab onto in desperate hope that they it could save them. They also cause other people to meet the same fate. If you try to help a drowning person then they will grab onto you uncontrollably and often bring you to a watery grave alongside them. This is how multiple drownings happen and it's why it's so important that life-guards use floating equipment like boards or life-savers when rescuing somebody.

Even if it's lights out quicker than the other options, what you feel before you're granted the mercy of unconsciousness, and eventually death, is what makes it the least desirable option for me. But that's just me.

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And I'm just going to put this here, if you're in the ocean then sharks are the least of your worries.

With the other crap that's in there, plus the drowning itself, you'd be better off praying that a great-white comes to put you out of your misery -- but they won't.


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Far-Queue posted...

Some of us already are

nice

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As for me, I'd rather burn to death. The thing is that it is really painful, but at some point your nerves would be killed, if you're in a situation hot enough to cause 4th degree burns. And what kills people in a fire is actually the smoke inhalation. It'll suffocate you before you ever just have to feel your body melt.

With freezing, your nerves stay alive for much longer. It is incredibly painful and it is actually a pretty slow way to go. They say it's painless but it is not. There is a chance you may be able to be brought back to life afterwards, however -- but if I'm dead I'm dead, and I'd rather have it be done faster.

Drowning is literally the way I want to die the least. If you're fully submerged and not struggling at a violent surface, then it does not take as long as burning or freezing to death just because you will be unconscious before you ever die. But personally, I REALLY hate the feeling of holding my breath, having the pressure build up in my chest... It's awful. And if I'm suffocating in a fire due to the smoke, at least I don't have to feel my body at some point take an involuntary gasp and have water fill up my lungs. No thanks. Oh yeah, and it takes longer to drown in salt-water than it does in fresh water. Crazy stuff.

Honestly, I don't care how I go as long as I don't drown or get hung. Fuck that.

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BURNING
Pros: Smoke inhalation will kill you first and will likely disorient you before you fall unconscious.
Cons: Very painful and frightening. You'll watch your body melt and fall apart before you die.

FREEZING
Pros: There's a chance you can be resuscitated afterwards.
Cons: Painful and takes the longest. You will feel yourself slowly shutting down.

DROWNING
Pros: Lack of oxygen will render you unconscious relatively quickly if you are completely submerged.
Cons: Very frightening. Our instincts make us dread this type of death and panic unbelievably.

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Llamachama posted...

How can you be content with anything if you spend all your time comparing yourself with others?

Stop taking count of what you don't have and start taking count of what you do have.

I can guarantee it is a whole lot more than what a lot of people in this world have access to.

Whenever I need to be humbled I watch informative videos about space and shit. Reminds me how small we are...

And it's a wonderful quality to be grateful for what you have, but it's also okay to have aspirations to make things even better. There's nothing wrong with having dreams. It's when people lose sight of what's really important that creates problems.

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Who voted yay?

Oh, yeah... it's anonymous.

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Blighboy posted...

Do people not realize that your usernames don't have your full name and address attached?

Why is everybody on this site so fucking cowardly.

Did other people seriously "suggest" this?

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Spoiler alert

i suck

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But cowardice and intelligence go foot in foot.

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The trolls would have a field day.

Maybe we'd get into turf wars over certain boards.

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I don't think badly about people who have something I don't, I self-deprecate myself for not having it to begin with.


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It may spice up the sex and sexuality board a bit... I dunno.

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