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And how's there a car in a mall? Life's important questions

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I did, but at least I did something about it. Haven't heard as much about the ol triangle lately have you? Yeah, that was me. You're welcome
- Damn, that's pretty cool. I myself hunt down zombies in my free time.
  
  I don’t think I have ever seen a zombie before actually.
  
  Will you be down in South Florida anytime soon? They're kind of becoming a problem here.
  
  Stop hogging all the zombies, save some for the rest of us.
- GOAT
- No more frost giants thanks to yours truly TotallyNotSpez!
- You've done the world a great service o7

I thought quicksand would be a much bigger problem in my day to day life.
- Tbf you wouldn't hear the people who drowned in quicksand complain about it afterwards.
- The thing about quicksand that bothers me is that they never explain where you would encounter it. So I just assumed all sand could potentially become quicksand if it was deep enough. I guess I thought beaches weren't deep enough
  
  You need fine sand and lots of water so beaches weren't exactly wrong but it's still somewhat rare. Warning sign on Texel (Netherlands). Swamps are another candidate though there's also other traps there, as well as mudflats... or at least it's a very similar phenomenon the German term is different (Schlickloch vs. Treibsand) but it's essentially the same thing. Don't go walking from island to island without someone who can read the ground, maps would be useless they change every low tide. Also don't leave when the water is already coming back. Also, don't complain to your hotel that the sea is gone it's a feature, not a bug.
- Yes. Also being burried alive
  
  To be fair, it wasn't until much later that I learned that the "buried alive" was metaphorical. See: debt, stress, etc.
  
  Im still worried about this one.
- same! I thought I was the only one!

Personally, i assumed that being on fire was something i would have to go through at least once in my life. But as time goes on, i have not had the need to, even once, stop, drop or roll.
- The back of my jacket caught fire once around a firepit. Can confirm that "stop drop and roll" fixes that situation really quickly.
  Probably only time I'll need that reflex though 🤞🏻
  
  I once fell ass backwards into a fire pit. I was stopped and dropped but I could not roll. Was pulled out pretty quickly but my butt will forever have those burns.
- There was a time in 1999 where quite a few of us had to stop, drop, shut em down open up shop.
  
  Oooh nooo
- Clothes have become a lot less flammable over the years and open fireplaces aren't the primary heating method for most houses anymore.
- I've done a lot of separate stopping, dropping, and/or rolling in my time, but never in that particular sequence for purposes of fire extinguishing.

I was worried about acid rain; it sounded very concerning.
- That's one thing we actually did fix
  
  Now we have plastic rain
  
  I think we're going to be headed backwards with that one.

Why did the Bermuda triangle, quicksand, and maybe premature burial and stop drop & roll so capture our minds?

Replace the quarter to call home with swallowing gum or something.
- To be fair stop drop and roll is still good advice. You just don't find yourself on fire that often.
  
  In fact, it's a good thing that we never have to use Stop Drop & Roll ourselves.
  
  The one time I did find myself on fire, I completely forgot about stop, drop, and roll. Instead I ran until I stumbled on the hillside, then shouted "am I still on fire?"
  Aaand that story is why I no longer fucks with charcoal grills.
- He forgot to mention all the people just giving you drugs to get you addicted
  Fuckin’ D.A.R.E.
  
  Omg I was so disappointed later on life to find out there are no free drug people. Fucking lame, they said it would be like a costco market.
  
  Even when I got to university and literally all but one of my friends smoked weed, I still wasn't offered any. I don't think my 'friends' liked me that much..
- You could also use bees, as long as you had 5 of em. "Gimme 5 bees for a quarter" you'd say.
- Ok but spontaneous human combustion still got me shook though
  
  Well it doesn't happen. Something that's 70% water can't explode. Have you ever heard of an animal exploding randomly? There's literally no way for it to happen.
- what the fuck is a kangaroo shoe pocket
  
  Kangaroos (aka "Roos") were these awesome shoes with a little pocket in them.
  I got a pair about 13 years ago, long after they'd stopped being popular, and used them to hide my drugs in high school and college. They were awesome until I started hiding really bad drugs in there. Then they were just enabling me.
- Also what the fuck is swallowing gum.
  
  Rumor has it that if you swallow chewing gum, it will stay lodged in your gut for seven years

The car in the mall? Well...
- Now that makes sense

I remember getting really into it and then afterwards seeing a really good debunking. It still bothers me how people can knowingly lie for small amounts of money or a bit of reputation.
- Do you have a tl;dr of the debunking? I remember hearing it was like electromagnetic something messing with the nav systems but that one sounds like a myth now that I think about it
  
  Sure, a relative of mine was an ex-sailor and he pulled up maps of how many ships on average passed in a given area per year and then he divided it by the number of reported incidents. Demonstrating that the Bermuda Triangle had slightly less things go wrong compared to the ocean as a whole. Which he speculated was because everyone knows that hurricanes are a thing and the presence of the US coast guard.
  It didn't even take him that long. I got into a thing with him about it and about an hour on the computer later he had the numbers to back it up.

Yeah that was me. Then I heard about the triangle off the coast of Spain or something. So then I started making potential triangles all over the place. I had a globe with a schizo amount of triangles on it.
- Illuminati confirmed

I had so many theories about the Bermuda triangle and the Mary Celeste disappearance... Then I got older and more sceptical and found out the Bermuda triangle is nothing special, just highly trafficked and the Mary Celeste mystery was largely fictionalized and nothing remarkable.

Young Jesus fearing me hypothesized that the Garden of Eden was within the Bermuda triangle. It made sense to me... God kicked out the unworthy and disappearing planes and ships were God's wrath for trespassing. .
But now you're telling me the triangle isn't really a thing.... What else from my developing mind isn't real... Lol
- But now you’re telling me the triangle isn’t really a thing… What else from my developing mind isn’t real… Lol
  Anything involving the supernatural
- For one thing, red and blue aren't primary colors of paint. Mix magenta and yellow paint and you have red, mix magenta and cyan and you have blue.

Well I'll glad I'm not the only one, but after I saw the modern traffic going through the Bermuda triangle I was much less concerned.
There were many lost nights of sleep though

Nope. Atlantis.

Nah, it was all about quicksand for me.
That and just catching fire out of nowhere. And although that was mostly down to 80s shellsuits that were super flammable, I'm sure the new waves of cheap imported throwaway shit clothes are just as bad.
- Ah yes, the eye of the volcano

Malls must be magic. That would also explain how Santa is at every mall.

While quite interesting, the Bermuda triangle didn't concern me that much actually.
The movie Volcano (1997) however scared the shit out of young me, and I had problems sleeping for days. That was an issue I'd have liked to be solved.
- If you're afraid of volcanoes, there's a few places you can move to, such as Australia: https://worldinmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/volcano-world-map.jpg
  
  So interesting how the overwhelming majority are on the Pacific.
  The person you're replying to should move to Yellowstone Park. You don't have to be afraid of the volcano when you're at the centre of it. It's also very beautiful from what I've heard.
  
  I used to live straight in the volcano ring, even with a huge tragedy happening in a town nearby the year before I was born. I could see the snowy top of our local volcano every morning.
  But now I live in Sweden. Not only no volcanos or earthquakes but also no hurricanes, tornados, landslides, nothing. It's just flat and chill.

There was a short period after I heard the term Third World where I thought there was more than one world in our solar system and this is where Africa was. That was a strange few days.
- This is the cutest amd funniest thing I've ever heard

Quick sand I was sure that quick sand would be a daily problem

Now I'm all about the Alaska triangle

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Next time, on unsolved mysteries.

I don't get the car in the mall reference. What am I missing?
- You know how there's a car in a mall sometimes. Maybe for some raffle or for a tiny showroom.
  
  Oh. Bro they brought it in through the main doors - the center bar is often removable.

I used to think black holes were going to be a gigantic part of my day-to-day as an adult lol

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