Reading in the dark.
I do this a lot (reading books on my phone before I sleep)
it does but damage the eyes?
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In South Korea most fans have timers so they’re not left on overnight, because people think it’ll kill you if you do leave it on.
This belief wasn’t helped by medical examiners putting “death by fan” on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a “cowardly death” for a few decades.
What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?
I used to work in a real sweatbox of a factory so we had huge fans running all day. It was deceptive because you’d normally be drenched in sweat but the fans prevented it. So you’d drink a gallon of water and take maybe one brown ass dehydrated piss. I could see something like that being blamed on a fan. Just heat exhaustion or dehydration
For my country (Germany): Catching a draft. Basically people believe that a light breeze from an open window will make you ill.
Also Russia and probably most eastern European countries. One of my kids will catch a cold and the first thing my mother or grandmother will ask is if they were somewhere drafty.
We have a similar one here in the US. People think if you go outside when it’s too cold, you’ll get sick.
It’s not completely baseless. You can’t get sick from the cold itself, but lower core body temp does weaken your immune system until you warm up, making it easier for you to get sick if you do get exposed to something.
God, on one hand, catching a draft makes you die and then on the other STOSSLÜFTEN!!
Schon, wenn meine Mutter lüftet. Alle Fenster im Haus (auch im Winter) und das ist nicht mehr ein Zug, aber ein ganzer Hauptbahnhof lol
Yeah, but then they go and open all the windows to “change the air” no matter the weather.
I used to work with a bunch of Germans in the US. I came in to the office one time at about 4:30am in February. One of the guys had all the windows open when the outdoor temperature was something like -20F.
Like Moritz, I think that avoiding the draft is more important than changing the air at that point. 🙄
I also had an old manufacturing guy tell me that drinking cold water in the summer would kill you because of the shock to your system.
They are large, and they gallop across your ceiling like demented gazelles, chasing down cockroaches.
However, they’re nonaggressive to humans, you’d have to seriously harrass one to provoke it into biting you, and the worst they could do to you is a beesting-like bite.
They’re also all named Kevin.
I sincerely hope you aren’t lying because I will accept this as fact and act accordingly should I ever see something I think is a huntsman spider
There’s apparently one subspecies of huntsman that could make you a bit nauseous and headachey, but the majority aren’t going to do more than hurt a bit. And yeah, they’re cool.
Of course, I’m not going to take responsibility if you misidentify something else as a huntsman…
Of course, I’m not going to take responsibility if you misidentify something else as a huntsman…
Oops, that was a 2011 Ford Mondeo coming straight at me, not a huntsman spider.
This is all true except I’ve met huntsmans with different names.
Also as you said, they are not completely harmless like OP requested. Going by these standards we could also list a lot of animals that occasionally bite or sting non lethally if provoked.
Granted, but they look a whole lot more threatening than they are, which I felt was in the spirit of the thread.
I’ve never had one, so I don’t know. I’ve always been irrationally nervous around bees, and I really, really don’t want to find out if I am or not.
Sorry, as an arachnophobe, Kevin better stay out of my house or have a faster draw than I do or he’s toast. Castle doctrine applies to spiders that large lmao.
