“Eating Raw Flour”: 40 Dangerous Things That Most Perceive To Be Safe

well then i’ll just defend myself with the ladder i keep under my pillow

It is not a contest to see what kills the most people every year, and then ignore the rest as if it had lost the game. I had some eye-opening ladder safety training when I worked for the local utility company. It is easy to be a smarty-pants about that, but there are a few key pointers to know. Always maintain 3 points of contact when ascending or descending; wear proper slip-resistant footwear, not bare feet or flip-flops; do not re-position your center of mass outside of the supporting ladder frame for any reason; only one person at a time on the ladder; do not work on a ladder without someone else with you (in case you slip or fall, you will be unable to get up); etc. etc. Yes, it is so easy to dismiss this, but ignorance about proper ladder safety harms and kills many people every year.

haha gravity falls reference

What? Ladders kill roughly 300 people *a year* in the US. *Every day*, on average, 316 people in the US are shot in murders, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention. Guns kill more people in one day than ladders do in a year!

I friend of mine (who is over 60 y.o.) was carrying the ladder from the garage with the intention of cleaning the gutters when his cell phone rang. "GET OFF THE LADDER THIS MOMENT!" - it was his wife who called from out of town. " But I ..." "JUST DON"T TOUCH THE LADDER!" "How do you even know..." It turns out his wife had threatened all their neighbors with castration if they didn't call her the minute they saw her husband with a ladder.

Killer. Gee whizz censorship is going too far.

And it's going to get much worse in the US. Due to hospitals being run like corporations, the minute one stops making a profit it gets shut down. Combine that with ob/gyns fleeing the states who have criminalized abortion, and you get a situation like the one in Alabama, which has no obstetric hospitals AT ALL. If you are a woman living in AL who is having a complicated pregnancy, or who needs medical help in labor, you are just s*** out of luck.

But with giant differences between countries. Here in Sweden it def isnt n.o one. Mortality rate is about 1/30.000 and some of that is cancer and other issues that still would have occurred.

I guess we will find another way to reproduce then /s

Number one kisser?? Kicker?? WHAT COULD IT BE??

Or just sleep for a bit, if that's possible. Get some caffeine in you, walk around, get back on the road.

Once we drove by night because it was summer and the days were way too hot. We had a 700km trip to do, sandwiches, snacks, coffee and tea, good music. We had slept 4-5 hours before driving. About 80 km before arriving, we felt exhausted. We stopped to have a breakfast, take a walk, but the feeling didn't go. Please note that there were friends waiting for us, but we didn't agree on a precise time. We had to sleep. Both of us, nearly an hour and half. Then we did the last hour of driving, safely.

Makes me glad I live in a small country. If I drove 6-8 hours at once, I'd already be somewhere in France.

If you feel tired and you absolutely need to keep driving, pull over, get out, walk around for 15 minutes or so, then get back in and continue driving. Do this every few hours, or if you start to feel too drowsy again.

I do a fair amount of long distance driving for work, and one trick I've learned is to take a large bottle of water, and make sure to have a few swigs from it every 10 to 20 minutes. 1. It keeps you hydrated 2. It makes you take some deep breaths, (part of the reason people nod off while driving is because they are sitting in a comfy chair, and not breathing deeply) 3. After 1 to 2 hours of swigging water like this, YOU HAVE TO STOP AND PEE! (thus, making you get out of the car and move around for a bit.) Try it, it really helps.

as a russian who was given a lot of Vodka and has witnessed family members really drunk off Vodka, and has had an uncle die from too much, i cannot stress this enough

I abused alcohol from age 17 until 25. When I was around 23 my doctor told me I already had liver damage. Thankfully I stopped!

Doesn't just cause liver problems either. Took me well into my 30s to find out heavy drinking is a direct cause of colorectal cancer. And now, of course, it's too late for me.

My father - veteran, ironworker, strongest person I knew, learned a lot. Quit drinking around 35, bought a house for us, things were looking good. Fell back into it at 44, died at 47. I was 21. Sucks thinking about the time we lost, but, his passing made me take stock and stop my indulging. Went 12 years without a drink, now if I have 10 a year, that is a lot. Had to leave a job (there were other reasons also) because of the drinking culture.

My niece drank herself to death at 37 leaving 5 kids behind. It's kind of amazing booze is even legal.

65 mph translates into 187 FPS

When i leave a gap, someone pushes into it

German here. The amount of people on the Autobahn who will close in on me to definitely less than one car length to try and speed me up when I'm already doing 140 km/h scares me

Any large truck or urban assault vehicle that you can't see past. Back away. You have plenty of time to get to your destination.

"But I HAVE to tailgate all the time! If I don't it will take me almost *three whole seconds* longer to get to my destination!!! Surely that's worth risking my life over, right??"

If it's that important to you, just get a fake tan. Better than skin cancer.

Got traumatised by an ad on that. You see 4 year old girl exposed to the sun with no apparent protection during happy holidays. And then she is posing as a 45 year old woman saying 'Thanks mom' to the camera cause she now has cancer.

This should be at the top! I've had a Basel cell carcinoma (rodent ulcer) and is the type of cancer that rarely kills. But melanoma is one of the most dangerous cancer that leads very often to secondary cancer. By then it's too late! Terrible cancer to have!! All cancers are bad obviously, but this one is known to not stop, even after treatment. I know it's not everyone, but too many die because of this. You only have to get sunburn once, although this tends to happen more with very fair people.

I've never been a tanner or even any kind of an outdoor person, but I still got skin cancer.

Say no to star damage

Think also about the long-term effects of crippling brain damage and all that it entails.

I remember waking up in ICU on life support, fighting with a nurse to remove my tubes. I don't remember the crash that left my helmet in four pieces and me in coma for three days with bleeding on the brain. The helmet is why I am typing right now and not six foot under.

I come from a country where wearing helmets for all kind of activities is normal and not wearing one s frowned upon. Now living in a country where the locals think it is hilarious that all these tourists wear helmets "because they don't know how to cycle. We don't need one because we are smart". However, as soon as family members end up severely mentally handicapped or dead, the smartypants are angry, sad and frantically try to find somebody to blame. You do you, but accept the consequences.

I was life flighted to the hospital as a kid cuz I was hit on my bike and didn’t have a helmet. Never again. Glad I made it.

Lots of comments from motorists, all of whom are obviously wearing helmets whilst driving. As head injuries from car crashes would absolutely dwarf those occurring in these other pursuits.

Especially if your balance isn't that good to begin with.