“What Is Extremely Rare But People Think It’s Very Common?” (35 Answers)

And spontaneous human combustion....

You & John Mulaney.

When I was a kid there was a period of time I worried about wondering into quicksand, and dying a terrible, suffocating, death. ( I was an unusually frightened kid.) I think that the fear developed after seeing guys dying in quicksand in an old Tarzan tv series.

I stepped in it once when I was about 11. In the movies it is always in some far away jungle. Didn't expect to find it in a boggy area in WA state. it worked out okay because there was some bedrock (or something solid) below so I only went down about waist deep and was able to slog my way out. Made me think though. I was just a young boy, alone, in the middle of some woods that were in the middle of an area of fields / cow pastures. If I had gone under I don't think anyone would have found me. Probably assume I ran away or was abducted. I found out the local farmer lost a cow in the same area. Saw it stuck but it went under before they could get a tractor to pull it out.

Quicksand was very popular on shows that were on TV in the Sixties. I remember thinking that I had never seen or heard of it anywhere else. I never thought it was real. It's Just a prop on television!

I don't get it. I just don't. I don't need to get it. All I need to do is accept people and love them for who they are. Whether I get it or not is irrelevant. If calling someone "they" or having gender-neutral toilets or whatever makes them feel accepted and loved, so be it. It's not my place to judge.

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Mildly surprised by that miniscule percentage. The appalling reality is that those few have become a political football. Conservatives make it seem like a national crisis, forcing liberals to spend so much time and energy defending their human rights instead of issues that affect everyone while the rich keep getting richer. Trans issues should be private and medical, not political tabloid fodder.

Which makes the hysterical attacks against them that much more infuriating.

My nieces Cheyenne and Serena both came out as trans and are now Charlie and Oliver. I took both of them out for Auntie sponsored shopping sprees, for new clothes and redecorating their rooms when they both came out 7 years ago. I'm one of the few that actually call both boys or I should say men now by their chosen names. I'm so proud of both of them, they are both in college and working towards their degrees but they will ALWAYS be my babies.

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In England, the survival rate for out of hospital cardiac arrest is about 8%... https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/cardiac-arrest-out-of-hospital-care/background-information/prognosis/#:~:text=Fewer%20than%201%20in%2010,attempted%20survive%20to%20hospital%20discharge.

1 in 10 odds is better than the odds of doing nothing.

In nearly 30 years in healthcare I've never seen anyone immediately regain consciousness after being resuscitated.

Omg, I witnessed it, and didn’t even know it is that rear. Paramedics were doing CPR to a man outside of cafe, on the street. He woke up, was super disoriented and immediately wanted to walk away from the scene.

I mean... When I got hit with narcan and resuscitated with CPR I suddenly woke up, alert, and tried to stand. It's at least common enough that paramedics were already yelling at me not to get up and tried holding me down.

My little sister is trans, I really hope people don't think of her like this

As has been pointed out many times, a sexual predator is not going to be stopped by a sign forbidding entry. They're not going to bother with elaborate ruses to get their way, almost always it's an act of opportunity mixed with weak morals and ethics making them not think twice about it.

As if a man has ever needed to pretend to be a trans woman to commit violence...

I don’t send my 5 year old to a public bathroom by himself because predators exist. The predator in my head isn’t a man in a dress. If you want to picture your predator as a man in a dress fine. Statistically it won’t be but take care of your kid all the same. That said there is not link between trans and child predation. Don’t use bad actors to justify taking away peoples rights. It’s just weak justification for your hate.

I never understood this one. In most bathrooms in the USA - girl stalls built same as boy stalls. When I sit in a boy stall I can not see the person next to me except maybe their feet. So it seems like the Venn diagram of the folks "benefitting" would be an extremely small subset of people who get a thrill out of listening to a female urinate and are willing to dress up as female / pretend to be trans in order to get access. That can't be very many people in real life. And my second thought is who cares? Like - reverse it - if a transman wanted to sit in the stall next to me and hear me poop - it doesn't change my day. Could have happened for all I know.

You need to be more worried about a crazy relative abducting you than a crazy stranger. That said, as a child walking home from elementary school one day, I was followed by a strange car. I did what my mom taught me: ran away screaming and it peeled off, never to be seen again. I was either very lucky or just paranoid.

Child of the 80s here. We used to get let out of the house to walk literally a mile and a half from home to go to the public pool, dozens of time a summer, by ourselves, when we were 6 to 9 years old. Everyone of my friends did similar things and I never knew anyone who was abducted. Would I do that with my child today? No I won’t but there is a middle ground. Child predators and abductions are extremely rare. Kick the kids off the Xbox and let them play outside.

Same for musicians. Friends of mine are only famous in their area, but live honestly, enough to raise a Family. The only one I know earning quite a lot ( 4000€ a month) is another friend who is in the shadow as a studio musician, playing music for jingles, ads, TV shows or for singers who sing under their name only with anonymous band. It's the most lucrative job

This doesn't surprise me. From what I understand, there are a lot of people auditioning for even the smallest of bit parts.

And of the 1% of aspiring actors who "make it" and become working actors, 99% (at least) of those working actors aren't famous and are making enough to pay their bills and rent a studio or one bed apartment somewhere. It's 1% of 1% who become famous and rich.

Same thing with fine artists. I'm a university professor and I'm always telling my students that if they really want this, then for the rest of their lives they are going to have two full time jobs: one that pays the bills and their studio time. If they get married, that's three full time jobs. Children, four full time jobs, and so on. And through all of it they may still not get recognition.

My nephew is a working actor. He makes about $50,000 a year from acting. It’s not enough to live on except very frugally in a city (and actors mostly live in cites). He’s also a high end bartender and makes about $70,000 doing that so overall, he’s doing well. He’d like to get something substantial enough to stop bartending but leveling up is very hard. He’s had some good years and some near misses but he can’t quite support himself via acting. This all makes him more successful than 95% of actors.

The old trope of a broken necklace spilling pearls all over the floor will never happen - each pearl is knotted in place

Cool. I love pearls.

My Mom had a beautiful pearl necklace. She told me that you have to wear them frequently to keep them looking good. There was something about the oil in our skin that kept them pristine.

Diamond should cost a dollar per pounds

How ethical are pearls though? I read pearls are only produced as a stress response to an attack, and bivalves can feel pain apparently. But I don’t know enough about it, or have read enough sources to know.

Senior citizen: Decades of vaccines - 0 reactions. I love 'em!

Antivaxxers all concerned about the dangers are obnoxious. A pinch and some soreness, you’re fine. I’m mildly allergic to the flu shot, it makes my arm huge every year for anywhere between three days and two weeks. It’s miserable, but I still get it, because I’d rather not give the flu to someone who would die from it. Don’t be a wimp, get the jabs that your doctor tells you to (barring serious allergy with doctor approval).

I’m not worried about the vaccine, I’m just a Trypanophobiac (fear of needles)

I mean any medication comes with some risk, they even vaccines warn about it. What the issue is, is the risk rate. For example the US Govt refused to give J&J Covid Vax full approval because women age 39-59 had higher than expected rates of cardiac issues. This caused a scare. What the FDA didn't say was that risk to women was less than birth control. The safest birth control had a nearly 20x higher rate of cardiac issues. I blame the FDA for that one scare. There are risk to injury like any medication, it is what the rate is compared to the disease.