The Picard ManeuverM to [email protected] • 1 year agoYou're going to have to find out for yourself, if you're so curious.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1698
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minus-squareFlying Squidlinkfedilink67•1 year agoMy mother had a personal experience with quicksand. Unlike the movies, its name is correct. She was just suddenly stuck in it up to her knees. So now you all know. Also, it wasn’t in the jungle, it was in Canada, so she had to rely on being pulled out by my uncle since no vines were around.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-21 year agoOr held up a Tim Hortons coffee cup to attract the attention of local syrup farmers
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoAs a teen I was in the woods fucking around with my friend like teens are wont to do and I got stuck in some. I was quickly half calf deep before he helped me out. Overall that was a fun day.
minus-squareBoblinkfedilink2•1 year agoTangential, but quicksand is called so because it moves, much like quicksilver.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink69•1 year agoFun fact, the “Quick” part of it is an old timey synonym of “Living”. So basically, Living Sand. It’s the same thing with Quick Silver (mercury).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoNo, that’s when an immortal kills another immortal by beheading them and gain their powers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoWhich historically is when some Christian writers believed the fetus gets a soul
minus-squarepruwybenlinkfedilink23•1 year agoIs that why that movie was called “The Quick and the Dead”?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•1 year agoYeah, and apparently that phrase dates back to at least a 1526 translation of the Bible. It’s old.
My mother had a personal experience with quicksand. Unlike the movies, its name is correct. She was just suddenly stuck in it up to her knees.
So now you all know.
Also, it wasn’t in the jungle, it was in Canada, so she had to rely on being pulled out by my uncle since no vines were around.
She should’ve just lassoed a passing moose.
A moose once bit my sister
Or reached for a maple tree’s branch.
Or held up a Tim Hortons coffee cup to attract the attention of local syrup farmers
As a teen I was in the woods fucking around with my friend like teens are wont to do and I got stuck in some. I was quickly half calf deep before he helped me out. Overall that was a fun day.
Tangential, but quicksand is called so because it moves, much like quicksilver.
Fun fact, the “Quick” part of it is an old timey synonym of “Living”. So basically, Living Sand. It’s the same thing with Quick Silver (mercury).
When a fetus starts to move: “quickening”
No, that’s when an immortal kills another immortal by beheading them and gain their powers.
Which historically is when some Christian writers believed the fetus gets a soul
This is a fun fact!
That fact really was fun!
Is that why that movie was called “The Quick and the Dead”?
Yeah, and apparently that phrase dates back to at least a 1526 translation of the Bible. It’s old.