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    2 months ago

    At least a fire can happen anywhere.

    I also know not to struggle in quicksand and I’d be way more confused if that appeared in my daily routine.

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        Every other film had that horrendous scene of people drowning in unexpectedly appearing quicksand.

        Although most victims blunder blindly into quicksand, it sometimes seems that the merest touch of an extremity is enough to pull the unwary into its muddy and all-consuming depths like iron filings to a magnet.

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      2 months ago

      Quicksand trick also applies to falling in a grain silo, according to that one YouTube short I watched.

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    You remember this until the day you die. You forget about it in the morning and burn to death in the afternoon.

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      Standing there, engulfed in flames, thinking “Goddamn it, I know I know this, but what is it? Jump around? No, that cant be right. Sonofabitch, if I dont remember soon, Im gonna be in real trouble.”

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    No one in Hollywood or on YouTube recalls this. Everytime i see someone on fire I shout “STOP DROP AND ROLL” at the TV, but they just stand there and flail like morons.

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      I was on fire once and definitely forgot this in the moment, but my friend in the room remembered, shouted the instructions, and when I tried it, it worked quite well. got off with very minor burns and ruined pants