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What is something that people think is dangerous but in reality is completely harmless? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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[–] MicrosoftSam 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?

[–] Garzak 129 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ask John Lennon.

[–] Psychlops 24 points 1 year ago

Lol, Jesus Christ

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

!LeMMySilvur

[–] shankrabbit 4 points 1 year ago

Oh shit... This was funny. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Many people believe that death by fan sucks but really, it blows.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they believe it will blow all the air out of the room

[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chop up all the oxygen and make it unusable?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the hydrogen and oxygen get redistributed in the wrong way, the room will fill with water and you drown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Understandable.

[–] feedum_sneedson 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's basically what they think, yes. That it interrupts the flow of the air, as if capillary action was needed to pull air into your lungs. I'm not sure how the myth started but at one point they were selling fans with special guards or something to protect against the imaginary risk.

Of course, I might be wrong - I read about this on the internet.

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 1 year ago

Fan Death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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