Current Events > Falling is no joke

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Over 800,000 patients a year are hospitalized because of a fall injury, most often because of a head injury or hip fracture. Each year at least 300,000 older people are hospitalized for hip fractures. More than 95% of hip fractures are caused by falling,8 usually by falling sideways.

We're young men on this board, but boy I am not looking forward to reaching the age where falling, not even from a high place, just a slip, takes me out of commission for months. Life is so cruel, falling is a serious worry for older folks. There's a reason old people walk all weird, and it's a defense mechanism for falling man, they know it might be their day any minute guys.

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humans weren't designed to live past 50

ban fall guys

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And yet, its still funny.

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Man I can't remember the last time I fell to the ground. Shit, I've been hit by a car on my bike and still landed on my feet. It wasn't going very fast but still enough to give me a nasty adrenaline rush.

I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

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BettyWhite posted...

Man I can't remember the last time I fell to the ground. Shit, I've been hit by a car on my bike and still landed on my feet. It wasn't going very fast but still enough to give me a nasty adrenaline rush.

I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

These old people be fainting due to like low blood sugar while standing up and just annihilating themselves after they hit the ground breaking their hips, tearing connective tissue, bruising ribs and getting concussed.

Donald trump's presidency is one fall away from coming to a close. Shoot both presidential candidates are seriously fragile as heck, I'm pretty sure if the campaign season was during the summer both of these guys would be dead within the first week, not even from a fall, but from something even sillier like their bodies inability to thermoregulate properly and just die giving a speech cuz the sun was too hot that day.

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My grandmother died from complications from a fall out of bed.
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Like the more I hang out with old people the more I'm surprised daily that our president hasn't been sent to the shadow realm after a heat stroke, a heart attack from walking down the stairs, a stroke from the change in pressure from flying, a fall, the list goes on, trump is like 80 years old and they literally had him doing speeches and presentations every day during the quarantine, that's pretty darn impressive, he kept it together the whole time too. He didn't even have one senile moment, c'mon, money can buy a lot of things but at his age the guy can go anytime.

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Choco posted...

ban fall guys

It's disgusting how malicious that game is to people who have fell before.

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Yeah, its scary. My brother-in-laws father died from falling down some stairs while carrying patio chairs into the basement. You reach a point where your body just doesnt work like it used to and actions that youve performed thousands of times suddenly become dangerous.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

My grandmother died from complications from a fall out of bed.

Sorry to hear that. Ya it sounds silly, but it's deadly man.

Just think about how many old folks die of strokes each year because they are constipated. Constipation induced stroke bro... That's seriously killing people, or just putting them out the game permanently. Think about that one, Donald trump is one poorly digested meal away from bursting a blood vessel in his brain while he goes number 2...

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Shablagoo posted...

Yeah, its scary. My brother-in-laws father died from falling down some stairs while carrying patio chairs into the basement. You reach a point where your body just doesnt work like it used to and actions that youve performed thousands of times suddenly become dangerous.

You just reminded me that my Grandpa died from falling down the stairs of the house I now live in. Oddly enough, this house wasn't even passed down. It left our family and came back in it with me. He died in the hospital tho,not in the house.

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I take care of old folk and can confirm all this. They're careful af but shit still happens

And it'll happen to us too

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I wouldn't be surprised if another big senior citizen killer is old guys taking viagra and dying trying to impress some young broad. That seems like a really easy mistake to make. You're like 60+ years old, happen to find some young, sexy broad who pities you and will give you some pussy and you get so excited you die.

Yeah, screw getting old bro.

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