US Living: 4 Things I Honestly Thought Would Be A BIGGER DEAL
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Before moving to the United States, I did have one or two reservations. There were certain elements of American life that I'd seen in films that I thought would be a much bigger deal once I lived in the US. Thankfully, those things haven't been anywhere near as central to my US existence as I initially feared. Here are four of them.
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FYI, when the tornado sirens go off, contrary to what you've heard about hiding in the basement, we actually go outside to look for them.
well i wanna see how bad the cleanup is going to be!
Right, who wants to miss that kind of weather phenomenon
yep, open the garage door, put up a few camp chairs in the garage, and watch the storm roll in...
Same. The sky is really pretty right before and it's eerily calm for a bit.
Exactly. That's why he hasn't seen any.
Distructive weather, venomous spiders, deadly snakes, aggressive animals, dangerous geography... Watching Lawrence over the years has made me realize that other countries think about our nature the way we think about Australia. 🤣
Same
Yeah. That's probably true. 😄
I mean, every time California gets a wildfire we get sweet fire tornado pics.
Yes but in the US nature usually stays in nature. The threats in Australia seem to be more interested in checking out civilization, or maybe I watch too much tv
@@honkytonkinson9787 Lol. I've found snakes and one time a really intrepid opossum in my house in a fairly urban area of California (I often leave the back door open for my dog), and was once shocked to discover our trash bin outside was not being raided by stray dogs but rather by a pair of urban coyotes. I cannot even count the number of camel spiders I've seen in the garage. My friend had a bat fly into her house once, and another called me in a panic to come over to capture and remove a tarantula that had found its way into her home.
We won't even talk about the wildlife Florida residents call animal control to remove, but I always thought of Florida as a whole universe unto itself anyway. 🤷♀️
"I could have played for Manchester United in England... if it wasn't for reality." Even as an American that made me smile.
Manchester United.... pffft.... if your going to have a fantasy it might as well be for playing for City.
@@JohnSmith-gm4fj Chudley Cannons FTW!
I know a man who actually did play for Manchester until he was permanently injured. He still works with them, but he now teaches at a high school nearby me in the States. Of course, he coaches soccer, too.
@@ebwarg I’m more of a Hollyhead Harpies fan! Go, Ginny!
@@Ripplesinthewaters You mean he's a football coach?
Jaywalking is one of those offenses you'll probably only ever get caught doing if you end up pissing off a police officer because then he'll try to stick you with everything on the book.
Along with all the things in the book too!
Exactly. The cops wrestled him down because *he kept ignoring them!*
The reminds me of a parade I was at one year during Mardi Gras season: we were all behind the barricades waiting for the parade to arrive, and a cop was walking up and down the street. A drunk (we were all drunk,. but he was *drunk)* tried to hop the barricades to get to the other side, and the cop said "no". Wash, rinse, repeat... twice. By this time, the cop was tapping his billy club in his palm. Dumb Drunk hopped the rail anyway, and the cop *beat the crap out of him* then hauled him off to the paddy wagon. We all cheered.
Kind of like littering as well. I've seen people unwrap candy and throw the candy wrappers on the sidewalk right in front law enforcement. Technically it's littering but if you do it while a cop is yelling at you for something else, he or she will throw that into the ticket. Although they'll likely enforce littering if it's like an empty soda pop or beer can you throw to ground, then that's just plain rudeness to the public.
@@paullangland6877 the law i hate is how it is supposedly illegal to throw away your trash in someone else's bin. I don't own a recycling bin but my neighbors do so on the day it's supposed to go out I take it for them and throw my recycling in there. Also a good time to point out we live in a condo so there bin is just under the stairs.
@@bland9876 "the law i hate is how it is supposedly illegal to throw away your trash in someone else's bin."
You can't hate a law if it doesn't exist; Google the damned thing and see if it's real.
You know, the jaywalking thing is interesting to me, because in the U.S., jaywalking is always used as the textbook example of "the most minor and inconsequential way in which a person could possibly break the law." Like, if a fictional character is riddled with guilt over jaywalking, you know they are _extremely_ straight-laced and follow the rules to the _letter,_ because jaywalking is a crime that literally no one cares about enforcing. As long as you aren't putting yourself and/or others in danger, you're fine.
Also, the term "jay" was originally an insult when the term was coined, and the term was invented by the automotive industry as part of an effort to shift the blame for car accidents onto pedestrians, so I really don't feel the least bit guilty about doing it.
Yeah but if you walk on a highway and get hit shouldn't the blame be on the pedestrian? Also walking when it's not your turn is the same as going through a red light. You are at fault if something happens and you aren't on a crosswalk as the pedestrian and I think it's quite common sense if you don't want to die. But In low speed areas sure who cares. But blaming the automotive industry when it's the one thing that saved our country is kinda sad.
@@likeablecloud2454 Are you... unanticipatedly expounding on movezig5's last sentence?
@@odo324 Yeah but the issue is that the term is needed. If some dumbass tries to commit suicide by walking in front of traffic it protects the driver. I processed his last sentence it's just that the whole idea of jaywalking is entirely unacceptable is stupid.
If you have a crosswalk we're people are supposed to stop and the road where you will probably die if you stop you have to understand why the crosswalks are needed. Then the term jay walking came out. His last sentence is stupid as yes although it was to push guilt on citizens it was needed as there were fucking idiots who put drivers in harm by walking were they shouldn't. And then if the driver hits them they would be guilty of murder for the pedestrians dumb decision.
@@likeablecloud2454 , "turns" are only necessary because of cars... Pedestrians and cyclists travel at speeds where you can just navigate between one another usually without stopping. In most countries, accordingly, cars get to wait their turn (stopping and staring is easiest for them anyhow; it's just a pedal assuming we are on surface streets) and everyone else can just go about their business. Highways are another matter of course, but that's not "jaywalking" since pedestrians aren't permitted at all on highways. And, frankly, strodes where you're likely to have a mix of pedestrians and cars going above 35 mph shouldn't exist; that's terrible city planning.
@@emma70707 dude jaywalking is literally walking were you shouldn't. Go to the crosswalks and the stroad isn't that dangerous. Sorry you seem to think they are dangerous because of speeds but most streets are 20 to 35 so it's quite literally a matter of not jaywalking.
I literally spit my coffee out when you described "A tornado results in the death of a witch" as a documentary. That was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. 👍
As documentaries go, that was a good one. Very instructional if, by chance, you find a road made of lemony masonry work. 😂
There's no place like home.
Most of my life and adolescence was spent in South Texas, and I often visited family in the hill country. I'll never forget seeing an actual scorpion on my aunt's wall as a child, and though I was told it was normal, I couldn't sleep that night.
As far as spiders go, however, I can't tell you 100% one way or another if I've encountered a brown recluse or not, and in some way, that kind makes it scarier. There's LOTS of different species of spiders in Texas, and 90% of them are harmless, but there's also a lot that look very similar to each other... or in other words, we have a LOT of brown spiders, but the only dangerous brown spider is the brown recluse, so when you see a big brown spider, you're not 100% sure if it can kill you or not. This has, at least made me (and I imagine a lot of other Texans) very wary of pretty much any brown spider, and when we find one we either tend to let it go outside or kill it on the spot.
Our black spiders are not as scary, considering the only ones you really need to worry about is the female black widow, which has an undeniably easy to identify red hourglass marking on its back that's nature's way of saying "don't touch me"
Worth pointing out that the most "impressive" part of identifying a brown recluse, specifically is that it's always much smaller than I figure it should be... just eyeballing it anyway. There are field guides for determining colors and markings along with other details about spiders and spider kin (like scorpions)... BUT with scorpions the "general rule" is that the larger the scorpion, the less dangerous it tends to be for humans. It's not a perfect rule, admittedly, but a fairly useful (98%-ish) rule when confronted with a scorpion in the house or in camp... as it were. ;o)
The stars at night, are big and bright-
Another thing for people who are unfamiliar with black widows; since they are web dwellers, its very rare to see them walking around after they've picked a place to set up shop. They do tend to become more active at night though, so they will be less likely to hide away then in the daytime, unless its in a cluttered place like a garage. The reason I'm saying this is because a black widows web feels different to the touch then other more common webs that belong to Daddy Long legs etc. A Widows web is strong to the touch. So if you accidently touch a web and notice that it feels more substantial, Get Your Hand Back. They will not charge at you but it always feels safer to me.
I live in Alabama and went on a backpacking trip recently. I moved a stone to sit on and underneath I found 5 scorpions. First time I’ve ever seen them. In Alabama, not Arizona or Colorado, but my home state of freaking Alabama
We visited family in East and Central Texas every summer when I was growing up. When we would go to our family reunions in Golthwaite, TX, there were only 2 hotels. The Hereford, which had crickets and scorpions, and the Mauny (sp?) which had slime mold. We stayed at both at different times but all agreed that the Hereford, with its crickets and scorpions was preferable to the moldy other hotel.💯
The person who got stopped after they jaywalked was almost certainly more about the fact that the officer had ordered him not to, and he did anyways, then it was about the actual jaywalking
You sound lucky
Once my husband got a ticket, I kid you not, because the HAND was red on the crosswalk. He was walking.🤷♀️
@@mangot589 yeah, that sounds pretty excessive (of the officer) for most situations.
@@mangot589 I mean that's essentially the same as going through a red light. Whether you're driving, on a bicycle, or walking, the rules of the road still apply to you. Not that I agree with all of them, but they exist, and you can't be all that upset or surprised when you get a ticket for breaking them.
Yes, he acted as of the officer didn't exist
Re: tornadoes, you might have seen one and not realized it. F1 tornadoes aren't necessarily announced on the news. Basically if you are looking at a wooded area in a severe thunderstorm and the trees seem to be doing a violent, circular hula, there is probably a low level tornado the air above you that isn't touching down because of the line of trees. Ditto if you are sitting at a stop light and across the intersection are sudden repeated waves of rain all moving rapidly and strongly.in the same direction.
I currently live out in the desert in El Paso - and we have those teeny-tiny micro-tornadoes called "dust devils". They look so cute - but if you do actually get in side one - they have a respectable amount of energy to them.
Violent hula lol
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When I was a first grader, I remember a Dust Devil picking one of my classmates a few inches off the ground. Looking back on it though, it's pretty obvious I fell for a bit of over exaggeration.
an f1 tornado started in a field near the playground when I was in elementary school (this was NH so they aren't even common here) and they didn't even make us come inside because they had decided that telling a playground full of 8 year olds a tornado was coming would be more likely to cause somebody to get hurt in the panic then the actual tornado which never even reached the playground before running out of power.
I mean, I'm from Texas. Currently, when I open the shed to fetch my lawnmower, I have to stand WAY BACK when I swing open the doors to avoid the colony of brown recluse spiders that have webbed it all over on the inside. I have also had to pick up a friend from the hospital when there was a nest of brown recluse that lived in her mattress, bit the shit out of her through the night, and almost killed her. Tornadoes are also a thing in my neck of the woods :) So, by just not being in Texas you're safe from at least half your list.
Karimonster -
So far I've been bitten by them in South Carolina and Oklahoma. A friend in Florida lost the sight of one eye when one crawled onto her face and bit her while she slept. That was Florida.
@@jamesredman1263 Had a neighbor who was bitten by one on the temple and lost the sight in his eye (and it went all gray, cloudy, and gross-looking) for about eight months, but it eventually got better. Took about two years to get back to normal, though.
Wait wait wait. I didn't know Brown relcuse spiders lived in Texas. That might be the one thing that'll make me move.
That mattress sounds like a nightmare
Maybe if Texas starts making a big deal about all the venomous creatures and dangerous things that exist in Texas, we can lower the number of people moving to Texas.
Wasps: Use poison under cover of darkness. Strike quickly and violently. Then retreat like a blitzkrieg. Do not underestimate. A fist sized nest may seem like a minor nuisance, until you get too close.
Got a nest of hornets this past summer on our porch... The thing's about the size of a basketball! Keeps the (other) bugs out of the house, though...
Will probably (now that cold weather is setting in) clamp a bucket around the thing with gasoline in the bottom and then slice it off... Cap the bucket quickly once it falls in... AND that's that. ;o)
Wasps, Yellow Jackets and hornets are WAY more of a problem than any "deadly" spider... which truly aren't that deadly at all. I really dislike flying stingy things. Oh and Velvet Ants ... DO NOT pick up no matter what.
@@Cattrix999 Funny you should bring up Velvet Ants... I picked one up two summers ago and stuck it in a coke bottle... brought the thing to Terminex and had that guy identify it...
I'd never seen such a cool looking ant in my life! I just wanted to know what the Hell it was...
"SO..." I said upon learning about the "Mule Killer wasp"... "That was among the top 10 dumbest f***in' things I've done in my life. Right?" ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Well you were certainly lucky. We had a 15" pool put up in the backyard a few years ago, we had to buy sand to layer in the perimeter before the vinyl was laid down. A few days later I found this beautiful red and black fuzzy large ant, booking it across my sewing room. I followed the critter until it came to the wall and squeezed under the baseboard. I didn't have the inclination to pick it up because bright red and black told me.. ahh shouldn't touch that. Later googled and found out it was a Velvet Ant which is really a large flightless female wasp with a Freaking Bad Sting attached. I was nervous for a few years every time I used my sewing room. But nothing ever showed back up. We speculate that this gorgeous beast had come in on the delivered pile of sand to cushion the bottom of the pool. You can actually buy these now online to keep as pets.. I keep tarantulas and see different species of velvet ants for sale every once in awhile .. so if you are interested you can be the proud owner of a few :) . not me, I'll stick to my spiders
@@Cattrix999 Yeah... lucky is one way to put it... I avoided (through no fault of my own) a horrible sting that day...
I normally relegate my brand of "stupid" to wrangling the dangerous reptiles... since nobody wants that job or function in life... if they're sane.
SO the whole "bright colors mean danger" software didn't stick with me... (lolz)
AND those "spiders" are technically megalomorphs... AND I'm sort of confident you've already been warned that they die from being dropped, so I can tentatively stay relatively comfortable with handling them... ;o)
You you think jaywalking isn't a sport? Really depends on where you live. "If you can dodge a car, you can dodge a ball."
In New Orleans it seemed to be a sport. People would just pop into the street from between cars, etc. Not wanting to be a murderer (even accidentally), it made me NERVOUS!
Dodge dip dive duck and dodge.
Welcome to Las Vegas, where even the police aim at careless pedestrians who foolishly use the crosswalks!
It's a sport in a Florida only the homeless must have balls of steel cause they just slowly walk out in the middle of traffic
*traffic
From an Alabama resident. Here's the thing about the Brown Recluse spider, it is called that because they are reclusive. I know they are around. I know the kind of places they like to hang around. I could probably find one in my house if I went looking. They have a strong preference for staying hidden and unnoticed. Out of habit I tend to give my shoes and clothing items a shake before I put them on just to be safe. At 51 years of age, I remain unbitten. I dont really expect that to change.
‘Interest that seems to largely diminish by the time people are done with education,,, kind of like Marching Band’
That one made me really laugh,, you know us too well Lawrence!
I felt this one, hit too close to home
Just the idea of a grown man playing soccer seems so ludicrous to me....that's what my little nephews do for fun. 😂
It made me laugh until it made me sad.
DCI? I guess they won't let you march that over 24.
I remember back when I worked at an airport I had a foreign guy come up to me and he pointed to our tornado shelter on site, and he was like, do..-do you guys actually use that?? I remember just being like, uhh, I mean, yes..? He was so genuinely worried about tornadoes so I had to explain that not only were they out of season, but most Midwesterners basically give no thought to them and a lot of times ignore the sirens. Like we have some bad ones every so often, like when Joplin, MO got straight leveled some years back, but that's like a once in a decade type event.
As far as recluses go, oh man Midwesterners also fear them but generally as long as you vacuum and actually use all the rooms in your house you wont have issues. However, I have heard stories of people just like, oh yeah had this spare bedroom that's never gone into and we moved the couch in there and there a massive nesting and like 50 brown recluses just chilling in there. True story btw.
But tbh even other Americans do exactly what you did, like people on the coast will be like, oh I could never live in the Midwest because Tornadoes are scary, or Midwesterners will be like, oh I could never live on the coast because of earthquakes and tropical storms. So don't feel bad, we do the same thing to each other.
I live in Kansas and my old house is mostly held together with desiccated brown recluse corpses
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Same
They have studied houses in that area that have literally hundreds of Brown Recluse cohabitating peacefully with human occupants. Turns out Brown Recluse spiders have very little to gain from biting humans except as a last ditch defense.
@@squintish Yeah we just ignore one another mostly
YOU TOOO? I thought mine was the only one, well that and piles of dust and cow manure that get blown in from the feed lots. Western edge btw.
Your fear of spiders in the US sound similar to my fear of living in Australia. Too many venomous creepy crawlies for me to hypothetically live there!
Totally!!!! Like, why do so many Aussie things want to kill you? If it ain’t crocodiles, there’s snakes, if you miss the snakes, there are sharks. Don’t forget the spiders either. Never get in a fight with a male platypus. They play dirty... And pythons
I saw Black Widows, Brown Recluses and Tarantulas during My time in Arkansas! There were also a lot of Snakes! One time there was a Copperhead in the Outhouse!
@@BETTERWORLDSGT You say this like it’s surprising? I live with these creatures every day. Copperheads usually won’t kill you-not adults anyway. The venom is much less toxic than rattlesnakes.
@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 I don't want anything biting Me, poisonous or not, I shot several snakes during My time there, carried a Pistol out there in the Country! Not surprising stall, just telling the experience.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT My very liberal, feminist, pro-gun control philosophy professor would carry a gun with her when she mowed her yard. She called it her “snake charmer”, and blew off the heads of multiple snakes with it. I’m definitely not going judge you for protecting yourself.
I was living in Arkansas, at the time, when I was bitten, on the shin, by a brown recluse while mowing my yard. When the swelling was the size of a softball My wife took me to the ER, where the doctor agreed that it was a spider bite and that I should see my doctor tomorrow. I said it was hurting now and could he not do something about it.
He began administering the lidocaine, inserting the needle into the wound. As I am lying there trying not to kick the doctor from the pain, my wife tells me, "That's the pain shot." I responded by growling out, "IT'S WORKING!"
I still have my leg, so everything worked out.
Love you show!
I snorted with laughter at “the documentary about the witch that was killed by a tornado” 😂😂😂 I probably butchered his exact phrasing but that is the gist - still giggling
I live in Oklahoma and am actually studying meteorology in grad school - so I've definitely seen tornadoes, caught a black widow in my house, and shaken brown recluse out of blankets put up for the winter. But all my friends from the coasts are equally freaked out by them, so it's not just a UK vs US thing!
Jaywalking is a crime that was created by the brand new auto industry in the early 20th century. Motorists weren't used to their newfound speed, and pedestrians weren't either. A lot of people got hit, and in order to save the burgeoning industry from lawsuits, jaywalking was declared a crime.
Its a sport in the uk ,see if you can get across the road with out getting run over
@@geoffpriestley7001 Same in Boston. Even if you cross on the corner, where you should (in the USA), cars don't give a shit. They go anyway.
@@DrVVVinK it's more also geared towards cities like LA, Newyork, small towns no one cares at lest now, i have been jaywalking for 20 years in my small town in u.s.
it makes sense with places with lots of people and cars though or main roads with high car count and speed
@@knightwolf3511 even in cities no one except bored cops care.
Another thing is that nobody wanted to do it because yes getting hit by a car isnt very fun and being called a Jay was something very offensive back then
Grew up in the bay area, we had on average about 70 earthquakes a week (mostly small ones) but I grew up in a trailer that would start rolling (just a little bit) everytime the earth started shaking. You begin to ignore anything under a magnitude 5 real quick.
When I lived in Wichita, KS, I used to see brown recluse spiders every so often. Mostly they hide under stuff in dark places though, so you don't see them even though they're there. Just don't blindly stick your hand in a shoe that's been in your closet for a while, and it'll be fine.
I lived in Andover KS for a couple of years in the early 00's, and that's about right, as my girlfriend at the time would tell me if I left a pair of shoes sitting too long in our closet to make sure, and shake them out just in case.
I've still never actually seen one, but when I was a teen, my stepmom nearly lost her leg one summer because she got bit in the camper.
Here in eastern Georgia they - WILL - chase - you. My cousin almost lost one of his feet to a brown recluse when the bite necrotized and split his foot in two down the middle from toe to heel. My dad also was bitten but we rushed him to the er in time for him to get a very expensive round of anti-venom before being admitted to the hospital for a series of anti-venom treatments that saved his life. In both cases, my cousin and my dad were unable to get away from the spiders which were actively attacking them, seemingly, for no other reason than their mere presence.
I live in the Midwest and have seen one tornado in my life. Hailstorms are what make the weather a real pain, the damage to cars and the roof repairs. Nothing like hearing the the ka-thunk, ka-thunk, of softball size hailstones smashing cars in a parking lot.
Being inside, listening to the noise, looking up at the ceiling, saying, "oh, God, that sounds expensive..."
When I was growing up in Georgia (the US state), I was allowed to walk around without an adult. We lived in a small town on the outskirts of Atlanta with a relatively small population and back then, every mom in the neighborhood knew you and knew when your own mom would be allowing you to walk around outside by yourself. So, the one thing that we were all (All of us young kids) told was to stay on the sidewalk and no jay-walking. I didn't know what jay-walking meant. I was 6 years old. I thought about this almost daily as I happily jay-walked all over the place in complete ignorance. One day, out of the blue, I got caught by one of the "other's mothers" and she called my mom to tell on me. When I got home, I was confronted with this infraction. I had, in the meantime, decided that to jay-walk meant that you took off all of your clothes and walked, naked as a jay-bird, across the street. The reasons for this seemed so insane that I knew I would NEVER do that...but, here I was, being accused. After several minutes of "yes you did!", "No I did NOT" my mom finally explained what it meant. I was actually relieved to learn that I had not completely lost my 6-year-old mind!
I live in oklahoma, not only are we in tornado alley but the number of different fronts that often move through means we get some crazy weather sometimes such as days where its entirely possible to wake up to summer weather only for it to be snowing by nightfall, whenever my family sees a tornado warning we never panic as we know its unlikely to do us any harm unless it literally comes at us but we have a closet in our home we can hide in as a precaution, bunker down, watch the weather report and when its all clear go back to bed, or be so tired from the day you fall asleep on the cosy floor since you bothered to surround yourselves in blankets and pillows
I have lived in the south my entire life, I have encountered sooooooooooooooooooooo many brown recluses.
North Louisiana has so many. I was always terrified of walking around near the lakes.
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Same here, anytime go to my shed I am sure I could find several, but as long as you don't bother them chances are they will not bother you. Though there was that one time I was bitten by one, the bite drained puss and necrotic tissue for several days. Strangely enough it happened in a motel room at a Holiday Inn, apparently the brown recluse was hiding in or around the bed, in a room that judging by the stale smell was rarely used..
I've seen a fair few of them, but never got close enough for them to bother me. I'm not exactly scared of them, and they're relatively normal, but I have a healthy respect for the amount of damage they can do. Same reason we stayed indoors for the night if we ever heard a coyote when I was a kid.
Great script-writing and transitions. Thank you.
If any one is afraid of not getting their soccer fix by moving to america, just move to the pacific northwest. PNW really cares about soccer. In fact, soccer is the only major sport that all three major PNW cities (Portland/Seattle/Vancouver) have a team in and all of their games sell out. Hell, you'll find astro turf soccer fields in public parks in Portland.
It's really popular down here in San Diego because of our proximity to Mexico. A lot of people here are migrants who love the game immensely. The Tijuana Xolos team used to come to my area to use the stadium for a big game.
Or move to Atlanta bc we’re crazy about our soccer team here
@@MysticHeather No where near as much as the PNW. Can't really beat Portland/Seattle/Vancouver in that regard.
One more reason for me to dislike that region.... Everything between Tijuana and Ketchikan is a mistake.
True story, my grandmother was bitten by a black widow in the 1940s or 50s-someone else in town had been bitten just before so the doctor got the anti-venom and had it “just in case”.
Around 1955, my moms was bitten by a brown recluse-BUT they didn’t know what bit her at first. She nearly died. She was bitten just above her elbow. Her entire arm and fingers swelled, then the area around the wound became necrotic and she was within a day or so of losing her arm when the doctor finally figured it out. They got her medicine but the flesh on her arm was not able to be saved. They had to take out a lot of the skin and all of the fat and since there was no such thing as skin grafts back then, they just pulled the skin tight over the hole in her arm and swelled it it. It looked like the bottom of a latex ballon.
It took her over a year to regain the full use of her arm and hand-her parents did her “therapy”...basically forcing her arm and fingers to move again while she cried.
Here’s the kicker-she worked in a hospital...all that time she went to work every day and saw doctors every day and they still couldn’t help.
Often, an encounter with a brown recluse is a once-in-a-lifetime event.
@@dbergerac9632 let’s hope so! I hope I never come in contact with one!
@@GoneWithTheGail Well, if the first one kills you, it's certainly once-in-a-lifetime. But living with them here in the South, ( my father was bitten and hospitalized for two weeks ) I am happy to say that I never had a close encounter in my 66 years.
Hell, I was born here and the thought of tornadoes and spiders still give me the willies...and I'm probably older than you. Don't get complacent!! That's what they're waiting for!
Hahaha! 🤣🤣🤣 that’s what I they are waiting for!
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I was thinking the same concerning spiders .. when you least expect one...there it is!
Exactly!! Lol That's freaking legit. You'll be like my Grandma and put on a bedroom shoe one day and almost lose your foot to a brown recluse bite. ALWAYS check your shoes.
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I remember in the 70’s watching shows on killer bees coming here from other countries.
Yep. And it was real, I remember a news segment about a lady in Texas (I think) who was trapped in her car because they swarmed it trying to sting it. I forget how they got them away.
A researcher in Brazil was trying to crossbreed a type of African bees that are very aggressive but also very productive, with local bees to get higher production. They escaped and spread out. They would intensely attack anything they deemed a potential threat - including random animals and humans. The issue was finally resolved when they were absorbed into wild local honeybee populations and their aggression faded, much like what the researcher was trying to accomplish in the first place.
I live in Louisiana and see a Black Widow fairly often, probably once every 2 weeks or so. They're usually chill as long as you're not messing with them
I live in New Jersey, and we did get some Tornados recently during a hurricane. It happens, and it’s very scary because it’s New Jersey. You don’t expect one to hit, but they still do.
I’m actually nervous every time I jaywalk. I do it often, but I’m always watching for cops and nervous. I’m a rule follower.
Well, you're actually not a rule follower, or you wouldn't be jaywalking!
I have relatives in eastern Oregon where you can pretty easily find Black Widow spiders in places like sheds, basements, and the crawl space under the house. They are pretty chill, don't react to much and just hang out in their mess of a web waiting for a snack to wander by. They don't seem to see very well because they seem to ignore you when you get close. They are a lot less scary than spiders that quickly run off and disappear right after you see them. Wear gloves when you get into the wood pile and you'll be fine.
American here. I remember a day I saw 8 tornados from my backyard. Also my x wife got bitten by a brown recluse when we were camping and I kill 5 or 10 black widows every summer. On top of that we kill and eat rattle snakes almost every year. Best part is we have a great fish and chips shop nearby.
But do you get ticketed for jaywalking?
8 tornados? That is insane
As an American Southerner I’ve seen tornados destroy entire subdivisions and level a whole shopping districts. I’ve heard people call in on the news minutes after their home was blown away.
25 years old and I've only ever seen one actual tornado but when I was a kid one did hop scotch over my town and destroyed my best friend's barn.
Pretty much every state has it’s issues. 🤣 As a Californian, who moved to Denver, I was shocked that my building has Tornado safe zones. I’d never even thought about tornadoes but was super excited that I didn’t have to sleep with my glasses under my pillow, have a radio and headlamp in my bedside table, keep a pair of shoes next to my bed, or worry about the big one.Lol
Every place on earth has its problems. There is no utopia. That’s how I can live in a Hurricane-prone state and not live in constant fear.
Ah, the big one. I've lost count of the number of earthquakes I've lived through, all pretty mild (though some didn't feel like it in the moment). After every one all the talking heads natter on about the mythical big one. If they really believed half of what they said they wouldn't be living anywhere near a fault line.
Apparently I live in utopia!
Lawrence, very informative along with a liberal amount of
dry British humor which I love.
Very enjoyable!
About four miles north of my house there is a small tornado alley. One subdivision had a large clubhouse and pool that years ago got obliterated along with several homes and a few deaths. They leveled the area and made a memorial park at the entrance to the subdivision.
A childhood friend was bitten by a spider, probably Brown Recluse. It was eventful enough for me to never forget about it but he did survive. I was stung by a scorpion on a sofa bed in my Grandmother's cabin.
I'm in New Zealand.
What about killer bees? Remember when they were a big thing? When I visited California a few years back I expected to hear more about killer bees.
Nope. Just regular bees.
If you hit Mojave or the High Desert area you would have seen cockroaches or what apartment managers call, "Not a big deal, it's a water bug". All fun and games till you have a trash chute in the building and little kids not being able to open the chute and lift the garbage without spilling rancid food everywhere...
Yeah those "Africanized" bees were supposed to be the end of the world. All they are is an excuse for the inspector guy to deny you the right to keep bees if he doesn't like you. He just has to pretend like he got stung. Or worse get stung somewhere else and not clean his suit before coming to visit your hives. Your bees will smell the pheromones from the other hive and attack.
@@jazzycup9274 I lived in for a few years in Scotsdale , Arizona from Michigan...where no one has ever heard of a "water bug". I learned about them when I nearly had a heart attack! The dang thing was 5 inches long and had crawled up the wall about a foot from my head!
@@sharondonelow5364 argh! I hate them so much!
Turns out that when Africanized honey bees mix with regular ones, the calmer traits usually prevail.
A tornado is far scarier than what's in your mind. Experienced my first up close one twelve years ago. Can no longer sleep during thunderstorms.
My sister’s husband is from the UK and he is absolutely terrified of tornadoes. I’ve experienced both tornadoes and hurricanes, so for me it’s not all the bad. The idea of a giant spiral of wind tearing everything apart is scary. I’ve also encountered a black widow and a brown recluse, both terrifying encounters. Also don’t forgot all the scary snakes. My sister was bit by a copperhead and had to be in the hospital for about a week.
Living as I do in the mountains of Southern California I have seen at least 10 black widows that I can recall. But not in the house - outside only. Best to avoid!
You are no stupid, just careful. I so enjoy watching your uploads. Some day I would love to visit Britain. Thank you again for all the work you put into your vlogs and have a fantastic day.
The only Black Widow I'm interested in is the one in the MCU...if they ever release the damn movie.
It's astonishing how late that movie is. It was getting buzz before Wonder Woman was announced, and now it's out, various tie-in movies are out, and it's sequel WW84 is out... and still no Black Widow movie.
Even about four films featuring Black Widow from the MCU have come out since then! She's even died, and we still haven't seen her movie yet!
Aargh! I'm so worked up about this now. I may need to go picket in the dark in my town that has nothing to do with producing Hollywood films.
Best "why did the chicken cross the road, joke".
I have seen tornadoes in the UK, twice. Once was a funnel cloud down in Suffolk, and another was a waterspout off the north Norfolk coast.
I approach jaywalking the same way I do other illegal things like going a bit over the speed limit: if I suspect a cop is around I follow the letter of the law, otherwise I just use common sense and avoid being reckless and endangering others
as a southerner yes, deadly spiders are common enough that you just put a glass over them and to pick them up and scold them for coming into your house while you place them outside in the yard, the place that you walk around barefoot to get the mail.
It's uncommon, but you can get in trouble for Jaywalking. It's mostly going to be because you were walking on a busy or dangerous street. I lived in San Francisco and there are plenty of areas you shouldn't cross without being at a light. Even if it looks clear, a car can come out of nowhere. That's why cops are more likely to give you a hard time if you're jaywalking in those areas.
I find it interesting because in the UK, it's recommended to cross away from junctions (unless there's a proper crossing there).
"Those areas" meaning California, chiefly. At least by reputation. It's a tradeoff because California's unusual in the US for having drivers seriously yield to pedestrians all the way across the road rather than zipping around them. The deal must be that if the pedestrian gets to stop the auto traffic, their power to do so must be constrained by serious enforcement of crossing-the-street laws.
@@chaos.corner I'm glad there's somewhere in the world where common sense applies to that. When you cross in the middle of the block (which they tell us from childhood not to do in the USA and probably Canada), you don't have to watch for turning cars. At street corners they could be coming from 4 directions, and they're not watching for you, they're watching for other cars.
@@goodmaro Yes. The US has right-on-red too which makes things even dicier. There are often crossings at junctions too but it all depends and this is more for crossing where there are no crossings.
I grew up in Illinois and spent a year in Oklahoma.
I’ve still never seen a tornado.
Floridian: I was bitten on my shoulder blade by a brown recluse, by the time I went to the ER the bite had necrosis the size of a drink coaster that opened up at regular intervals over the next 20 years. My brother, a Texan, had the misfortune to meet a brown recluse in his mailbox. He very nearly lost that finger. Brown recluses can be very nasty.
I am 62 years old and live in Manchester, Tn. Brown recluse’s are common to see at least once a month here, and you can go in the yard and turn over any piece of wood or debris and uncover a black widow. The South is nowhere to be if you’re squeamish of spiders!
Hmm, so far I'm in the middle of both Tornado Country and Recluse country. Luckily I haven't seen either.
Lucky you.
Does that make you a reclusive windbag with a penchant for being a little flighty and a real Lone Wolf?
love the videos! I live in Georgia and yes I've seen multiple brown recluses and even more black widows. My stepdad was even bitten by a brown recluse in my basement. He had to have surgery to get venom cut out.
I've lived through a handful of tornadoes... A few in the midwest, but my favorite one was NYC. It was a low cat tornado and seeing people freak out was hilarious. Only one building got destroyed and everyone hated the owner. So lucky us 🤣
Added:
Jay walking isn't punishable because of the low prosecution potential/rate. It's like chewing gum or spitting on the street. Non prosecutable offenses. Jay walking was the result of car companies blaming pedestrian's for multiple accidents because the car companies were looking bad.
Actually, the "un-enforceable" offenses often stay in the books as statutory in cities so that cops can "mess with you" under "probable cause" if they just don't like the way you look or act. It's impossible to state in court how "someone just ain't right" equates to probable cause. They don't accept olfactory prowess or intestinal sensitivity as evidence either... SO some statutory laws remain to allow for "police discretion" in the hopes it doesn't get abused... which (obviously enough) it does as a matter of routine. ;o)
In the NE we are use to natural disasters you can plan for: blizzard, nor’easter, hurricane. Tornadoes are one of those new fangled disasters coming to us via climate change and our earthquakes are low intensity and shallow. There was a deep big one several years back in VA that was felt up the east coast because of our bed rock and everyone thought it was an explosion at first because that seemed more likely. Then we all freaked the hell out, it was not a big or long earthquake and everyone originally from CA laughed at us.
In the south, especially Louisiana, we have those spiders. had a black widow on my patio & brown recluse @ my parents house.
Yes I was bitten by a brown recluse while living in Portland Oregon. It was terrible and yet I was very fortunate. The bite was on my knee, and my entire leg was red and swollen. Fortunately I went to the doctor right away. When I went back for second visit I could tell he was surprised at how much better it had gotten. I have a friend who got bit by one and had to have surgery. Mine was in early 1980s and I still have a scar.
I was born in Kansas. My first memory is of a pea green sky. We moved to Idaho when I turned 4.
And I live in Truckee (think "the donner party".) I've had four encounters with tarantula hawks, while tooling around in Reno. Go ahead and look up that one if you hate sleeping.
I'm an American and I actually have been stopped by a cop for jaywalking. It was at an intersection where a woman had recently been struck by a car and killed while crossing against the light, and there was apparently a lot of pressure on the city to Do Something, so they stationed a cop there. He didn't tackle me, but he did write me a ticket. That's hardly a normal occurrence, though.
"I could have played for Manchester United if it wasn't for reality". lol
You've only had to shelter from a tornado twice? I've had to twice in the past month! Then again, I'm in Oklahoma...
I live in the Pacific Northwest (Eastern Washington state). We don't have brown recluse spiders. Black widows are extremely rare and you need to be in a drier warmer area for that slim chance. There was a tornado once West of Spokane but it just tore the tops off of some pine trees. There have been a couple of warnings in my 53 years.
I got a warning from a cop for jaywalking once. I did it at a curve in the road where visibility was low. The biggest danger we have is the abundance of soccer fields.
We do have wildfires. That can be scary. The fire itself is pretty frightening if it is moving towards you, but ash falling on you while the fire is not visible can be unnerving too. Sometimes fires spread that way.
There was Mt St Helens, but I don't expect a repeat of that.
Steer clear of the soccer fields though. That's where you will encounter hordes of soccer moms.
Grew up and currently live in the mountainous region of Eastern Tennessee... AND I've come across black widows and brown recluses before... It's been a big enough deal (at least to me at the time) that I chased them down and herded them into jars with one of those paint brushes you use with water-colors or modeling paints for car and airplane kits as a child... From the jars (which are quite portable) I would transfer the spider in question to a terrarium, which had been fashioned from an old fish-tank with a screen-type lid... AND then proudly carry the latest "wildlife lesson" to school to show off in science class... AND sometimes the teacher would scream incoherent swears and run from the room... Other times, there was a reasonably professional (if somewhat nervous) presentation all about this opportunity to physically see the actual spider in question. We (as a class) would invariably get our science class disrupted for a dutiful trip to the school library to look it up and write out reports or notes to compare about it... AND more often than I'd expected at the time, the teacher would even request that I leave the terrarium with him/her to share with the rest of the classes that came through...
Of the two (perhaps obviously) the widow is the most impressive and presentational. Brown recluses are so small as to be easily overlooked in a terrarium of much size... and while important just in case you ever actually have to deal with them, they're not very impressive to look at except for the horror stories often shared around campfires about them...
BUT most often, around here just now, we mostly have common brown spiders, not even recluses, and huntsmen types (if I'm not mistaken) that can get as large as a grown man's hand... I'm not some fanatic of the things, or anything, but they're certainly not something to create instant terror in me, either... I don't think they're worthy of instant terror in much of anybody, really... SO to answer your second question... um.... No, my pants never changed their shade from regular blue upon finding a widow or recluse...
I've worked with exotics, mostly having rescued them from irresponsible "owners" and often housing them long enough to be documented and then brought to a proper and reputable dealer... SO I've handled several varieties of megalomorph... You'd probably just call them Tarantulas, but there are many kinds... AND as impressive as they appear for their shear size (some as large as a dinner plate or small pizza) it's worth pointing out that they're also quite delicate. They'll die for being dropped to a hard floor... SO you don't really have to worry about them either... ;o)
I've never seen a brown recluse after living in Texas my whole life but I'm still terrified I'll be killed by one everytime I go into my attic.
I lived in Texas for a few years and found one in my laundry room. I freaked out, threw a bowl over it, and weighed the bowl down with a book. Then I realized it probably couldn’t lift as much as I was picturing.
eh, the only way to die is if you're allergic to it's venom. Otherwise you're more likely to get a golfball to baseball sized hole where it bit.
They aren't as scary as you think just don't hold it and Don't bother it unless absolutely necessary.
I encountered one in Georgia
I was bit by one once. It was pretty gross but not deadly.
The brown recluse/wolf spiders leave incredibly painful bites that swell and ooze puss for weeks sometimes but usually aren’t deadly
I just about jaywalked across a 5 lane road beside the beach because the crosswalk wasnt working. Since we were only a short a 5 minute walk from the place we were staying we didnt bring any water with us. Didnt wanna risk jaywalking because I was in charge of taking care of my little sibling.
It was scorching hot, we were hiding in the shade of the streetlight pole waiting 15 minutes to see whether the crosswalk would work, gave up, and ended up walking for 40 or so minutes down to the next crosswalk hoping it would work instead, across the street, and all the way back in the direction we just walked in order to get back to the place we were staying that was only a FIVE MINUTE WALK AWAY. Walked for that long on a foot that was injured and bleeding from some coral I stepped on at the pier. (I think it was coral. It blended in with the concrete)
I didnt care about how expensive that singular bottle of water cost at the creepy gas station we stopped at, that was the most delicious water Ive ever tasted in my life, we were so overheated and dehydrated.
From now on I'll always jaywalk in this stupid country.
When I lived in the Netherlands, a friend I met there was talking about maybe getting a summer job as a camp counselor in Texas. We talked extensively about what being a camp counselor was like because I had been one in Missouri for a couple of years and my mom had been one in Oklahoma….
One day this friend came up to me, alarmed, and asked, “are there snakes in Texas?!?” I laughed, I mean, I really laughed. I told him that, indeed, there are snakes in Texas, 3 or 4 venomous ones of note, but they are nothing to worry about. Just watch where you walk and stay away from them. We had a huge conversation about rattlesnakes, copperheads, water moccasins, and coral snakes…we also talked about king snakes, rat snakes (yellow and red) garter snakes and various other reptiles one may encounter in Texas, depending on location (East Texas has alligators.)
We have well over 300 million people living here. It is rare, indeed, that people are randomly attacked by snakes.
Having grown up in the midwest as I did, one of my biggest concerns as a child was identifying quicksand. This is such a common and comical concern had among children of a certain era in the US that it has become a meme…”When I was a kid, I thought there would be a lot more quicksand to worry about when I grew up.”
A "really strong documentary" - lol
Howdy, Danger here. West Virginia is pretty nice. I'm not even worried about mothmen, dogmen and other fun things :D
I don't know who Noel Edmonds is, but - ZING!
He was a popular TV personality back in the 80s. Quite an amusing chap if you liked that sort of thing. Then something happened on one of his shows and a man died. Whilst it wasn’t his fault, Edmonds took it badly and has never been the same since. Lately he’s been in trouble for saying cancer is caused by ‘negative energy’ and has clearly got issues. He’s become a bit of a joke figure but it’s really rather sad.
@@egpx Actually there have been studies that suggest that stress can lead to an increased susceptibility to various illnesses, including cancer. It is fair to describe that kind of stress as negative energy. He may have a point there.
@@rtyria nah, it’s more than just stress he was on about. For a start he was extolling the virtues of an electromagnetic ‘pad’ that cured his cancer. Complete woo science.
You said “disoriented cows” rather than “disorientated cows”!
both are correct British English.
both have been in literature for more than half a century
when using disorientated, people tend to define what something is disorien(ta)ted by,
in disoriented, it's more often just an observation without explaining the cause
when in doubt: disoriented.
And he said "Two Thousand Eight" rather than "Two thousand AND Eight" !
Been in a tornado, live in hobo spider country, and was chased by a black widow the size of my hand as a child and have seen countless, guess My arachnophobia is justified after all come to think on it
Biologist here. I'm calling bullshit on the black widow. I've dealt with several and they simply do not get that big, nor do they chase. Quit lying.
In your case just because you are arachnophobic doesn't mean the spiders aren't out to get you!
@@codybrown5309 I was about 12 at the time, I’m not saying adult hand size, plus I am considering outstrecheched legs as being part of the size
@@acepilot1 a 12 year old hand is still way to big even with legs. So no.
@@codybrown5309 well then you’ve obviously never been chased by a pregnant one while raking bark
I have lived in Arizona since 2014. We have several rattle snake species, black widow spiders, bobcats, and cougars!
Black widows are a little more common in the great plains, where I'm from, but they're surprisingly docile. Their main issue is they like to take up residence in places like beside electric gauges or rarely used mailboxes. So while they aren't an active threat like some spiders, they put themselves in rarely-used-but-important spaces
Since you've been there've been a number of tornados in IL. In 2013, one killed three and destroyed a good portion of Washington.
My biggest fear in America is meeting an Englishman in the latest United kit......
I’ve seen 3 or 4 tornadoes and I’m 27. And only 2 that even stayed on the ground for more than a couple of seconds. I’ve lived close to towns that got ABSOLUTELY wrecked. But they were like an hour drive away so I didn’t experience it thankfully.
Living in the Midwest, my number one fear is other drivers on icy winter roads.
This!!!
It’s not even winter yet and I almost get hit by cars almost everyday when walking to class and work. They literally drive 1 foot away from me even tho it’s the law to give pedestrians 10 feet. I’ve actually had to jump out of the way. I’m sooooo scared I’m gonna get hit
As a Northerner living in the midwest I also fear midwesterners in the snow.
@@FakeRyanGuild at least they aren't southerners.
@Tom - hopefully, this account won't get hacked 3 feet for bicycles? I'm lucky if I get 3 inches!
Oh my god. The idea of the British media fearmongering about jaywalking in America is the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I’m sure the cop only arrested that historian for jaywalking because he did it immediately after being told not to. The police officer then needed to go on a little ego trip and punish the historian for not respecting his authoritah.
In a lot of US cities, especially the larger ones, jaywalking is technically against the law, but everybody still does it anyway and the laws against it are virtually never enforced. In the city I live in, the fine for jaywalking is set by statute at $1.00. Given that, even if the police wanted to strictly enforce anti-jaywalking laws, it simply would not be worth the paperwork.
Personally, I’d estimate that I jaywalk directly in front of a cop a least a couple of times per week and have never even been scolded for it.
When Winston Churchill came to America, he went to NYC. He looked in both wrong directions, then, stepped into street and was promptly run over by a taxi. I believe he survived the experience.
Jaywalking not only varies by state but also by city. Most places don't enforce it.
you’re not american if you haven’t jaywalked lmfao. it’s so low of a misdemeanor that it isn’t enforced in most states/cities
Isn’t that hilarious? I know I’m Boston jaywalking is more of an average Tuesday than an offense. Seriously, if the pedestrian actually crosses instead of meandering down the road you’re in luck.
As an American , growing up I really thought quicksand would be a much bigger deal .
Yes!
Hahahaha.... me too! you wouldn’t happen to be a child of the 60’s would you? quick sand often appeared on tv shows in those days as a treacherous obstacle. the idea of falling into some quick sand as I crossed the meadow on my way to school was a very real consideration. lol (quick sand) that sure does take me back !
Bro SAME cartoons and Indiana Jones really had me convinced
John Mulaney!!!
@@michellejoy3678 born in 66 so lots of shows I watched in the 70’s had that theme 😂
Of course you haven’t seen one, they are called brown recluse not brown socialite
I like your humor melodicgrog!
Brown socialite. Lol. Good one!
Years ago We used to see them under Boards when I was doing Construction!
I see a brown recluse about every 3 months in Arizona, and black widows are even more prevalent
😆😆😆
Tornados aren’t a big deal until they are. Then they are a very big deal
The truth in this comment is absurdly realistic. I’m in Tennessee, my area has relatively recently been deemed Dixie Alley as a nod to Tornado Alley. We’ve had 2 brushes with tornadoes and I have felt very mild earthquakes, twice.
Not cool. Not. At. All. Cool.
As a man in California my whole life, earthquakes are nothing. Even when they hit it they are still relatively nothing. Yet I always hear outsiders scared of the idea in regards to Cali.
@@BigSteelThrill Think of a tornado as an earthquake that has all of its energy scrunched up into a narrow moving dot. So within that moving dot, Richter 9.5. Outside of that moving dot, maybe Richter 2.0, or zero. If you don't get hit, not a big deal. If you do get hit, at worst you're dead, at best you have major building damage. Trailers in particular fare poorly against tornadoes.
Can confirm, still cleaning up 2 yrs later
I was gonna say the same thing: "A tornado isn't a big deal until it hits your house..."
You’re not a Midwesterner unless you have gone outside during a tornado warning to look. Maybe while eating something with ranch.
So true😂
It’s the same in Texas and Louisiana.. only the food could be different. 🤣
That something had better be Bacon.
Same here in S. Carolina, I remember once in the early 90's during a tornado warning in 6th grade they made us huddle down in the hallways, and it was really close to us being let out of school for the day, and they kept us there for a good while after school, and all the parents who where coming to pick up their kids, my dad included were like WTF, let them out, I gotta get home, and all the while my dad was sitting in his truck drinking coffee, and eating powdered doughnuts lol!
And drinking Mt. Dew
Honestly I'm a little sad that you haven't experienced the demented Midwestern pastime of seeing a pea green sky outside, hearing the wail of a tornado siren, and running outside to try and get a glimpse of the funnel. Or yelling at your Dad to turn the TV off and come to the basement. Good times.
We always had a contest to see who could catch the most hail when we were home with dad. Mom survived the 74 Xenia, oh tornado though, so if she was home, we were locked in a closet. (No basement)
My childhood summers in a nutshell.
My grandson and I were the only two home last time a tornado warning came and we had two large dogs. So we sat in the hallway with one dog pulled over still in his crate, afraid he'd freak out. We sat on the floor and played on our phones when suddenly I said " do you think the dogs are wondering what the hell is wrong with this picture?" 😂😂
Quick, everyone run outside to watch the tornado
I live in nebraska and I haven’t experienced it yet
I dream of a world were a chicken can cross the road without
having his motives questioned.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
It didn't. It just kindof wandered out there and did fuck-all for a solid minute.
Even then the chicken will still be the joke.
The chicken crossed the road because it was stupid. Very stupid. I work with them for a living so I know! In all fairness it's our fault for inbreeding them to the Nth degree, but they truly aren't mental giants.
@@agoogleuser4443 Still smarter than the domestic turkey!
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
To get away from Gonzo!
Why did Gonzo cross the road?
He was chasing the chicken!!
Based on my elementary school education, I always thought being lit on fire would be a much bigger problem than it actually is.
*stop*drop*roll*
I swear they beat that into my head more than they did any other academic course.
And yet you see videos of people on fire running all over internet/news/tv shows... while I'm yelling "stop running you fool!"
Maybe it's less of a problem than it otherwise would be because kids are taught to stop/drop/roll/run around flailing?
Strangle I have been on fire or almost on fire so often that I don't ware synthetic fabrics. That's on account of bad life choices like drunken bonfires and running into danger.
I know 2 ppl that "stop, drop, and roll" saved their life. It was worth the lesson. 😂
As an American kid in the 70s, my biggest fears were quicksand and Bigfoot 😂
Me too...and i thought everyone's garage had an anvil and blasting caps!
Bigfoot? Wow, bruh
The Syfy channel: Bigfoot and tornadoes write that down!
Same
My biggest fear was the girl who lived next door's father.
Speaking of Jaywalking; I'm a Canadian who was visiting Seoul South Korea with a group. While in the downtown business district one day we grew impatient with the ridiculously long traffic light and decided to go for it and Jaywalk. The strangers also waiting at the light saw what we were planning and started to freak out. Finally the one man told us that we would die if we tried to cross. People drive too fast, ignore traffic rules and pedestrians die all the time there.
When I was a kid in Oklahoma, I used to ride a tarantula to school while being chased by a tornado. Just sayin'.
In Illinois we just road the tornado.
That made me LOL! So true!
One word: alligators.
@@JonGee420 In Illinois, its a struggle to find an intact road to take in the first place. God forbid your arachnid is on the fritz.
@@LostShipMate last time I was in Illinois I gassed up in Indiana and drove all the way through without stopping for fear that I would be taxed for something
I remember visiting Ireland and my cousins asked if it was scary with all the big storms and I had to tell them I lived on the other end of the country from all those big storms in the South East. A lot of people don't realize how big the US is.
I live on the south east and I had a tornado rip threw our town like 10 years ago and another one a few months ago
They say we're going to get hit by a tropical storm here tomorrow. It looks to be shaping up to be a fairly big storm. Just rain and some wind though. I don't anticipate it being life threatening. I've never been in any storm that was really life threatening I don't think. Although once I was stupid enough to drive in water a few feet deep. I was in a 4WD truck though so I made it OK. I could have gone around it. If I'd known how deep it really was I would have. Turns out once you're committed you pretty much have to press on.
The media doesn't do us any favors either. During all the riots last year, my Canadian friend was legitimately afraid for my life as if the entire country was burning down- thanks international media.
@@bodyofhope you wouldn't have known anything was going on from where I live. One day when I was out I saw a small group that tried to do something on a highway here. But they were just too small and were largely ignored so it never amounted to anything.
When my wife's family (Cuban) in Miami saw the news about the attacks in NYC & D.C. on 9/11, they called to check on her, worried for her safety. She lived in Cincinnati.
so THATS why my friends kept asking me whether it was true that jaywalking is illegal in america when i lived in manchester. I was so confused why brits were so concerned about our almost never enforced misdemeanor crimes
generally in my experience its only ever enforced when one of 2 things happens 1) the cop is behind on his ticket quota and needs to get more tickets or 2) your jaywalking was a component in an accident causing people to be injured or worse. Also its almost never enforced in smaller towns and cities
In the late 90s and early 00s there was a rash of smaller (especially college) towns enforcing the jaywalking laws (at least in the Deep South) - but it was usually as part of a ticketing quota/scare tactic used sporadically just to remind people that it was illegal and often dangerous. It was especially used at start of fall term. These areas were generally unfriendly to and dangerous for pedestrians or cyclists anyway. I have not seen jaywalking enforced since I returned from York (where some of my friends practically had to push me across the roads when I wanted to wait for signals - from a fear of cars more than laws) and suspect it is because the areas have become more pedestrian friendly. That said, when driving, you do have to keep a eye on all of the cellphone zombies out there.
I remember hearing that one a lot when I was a kid, how we shouldn't jaywalk. Then you grow up and realize you can pretty much do what you want, within reason. Jaywalking in New York City, for example, isn't within reason. But in smaller cities, jaywalking is fairly common.
@@curiouslywoven9737 following the traffic laws in smaller cities actually makes less sense than jaywalking. So the crosswalks are only ever at the intersection so when I can cross I'm always at risk of being hit by people just cruising through their red to turn or blitzing between cars to turn or people pulling up to the light to turn right on red. If I jaywalk a bit further up I no longer have to worry about traffic in 4 directions, just left and right. Yeah the cars shouldn't be mowing you over but I'm middle aged and cannot recall a single pedestrian strike ever resulting in charges despite both being in the cross walk with the right of way and pedestrians always having the right of way anyhow. So everyone tries to bully/blast/squeak by you regardless of how close that cuts it and they do so at high speed.
Enforced in Canada, so keep to the cross-walks! Safer for everybody!!
I thought Quicksand would play a bigger part in my life when growing up
It's a lot more likely to take your shoes,than your lfe.
Farmers drained all their wetlands. They were losing cattle.
2 years ago I would have laughed like a clown at that... but then I got stuck in quicksand.. it scared the fuck out of me because I am old and it took over 2 hours to free myself... my brother also got stuck. At first it was funny.. you know getting your boot stuck in the mud... but then you pull it out and the other is stuck even worse... and it goes on. At first you are just in up to your ankles.. and then the knees... It was comical I am sure... but not funny for us... until we were safe..
@@drmorqWarrenProject Glad you are both safe. I have never seen it (I am in New Zealand) but it does exist and it is dangerous if you panic. It was in every movie and tv series as a kid. So i thought it was everywhere...
We have areas of quicksand in Toronto, Ontario. The big pond, formerly a bay on Lake Ontario is called Grenadier Pond because 2 British Grenadiers fell through the ice and were sucked into the quicksand on the bottom. Part of the Toronto subway runs through circular metal tunnels because the subway runs through a pocket of quicksand. The trains are severely limited for speed through the area because the weight of the train could create a bow wave that could cause the tunnel to flex to much and break.
the amount of times growing up in school having fire fighters and cops talking about stop drop and roll really made it seem like getting lit on fire was far more likely that it has been
It’s surprising how it only takes one time to make all that talk worthwhile.
@@moremerry57 Yeah, my uncle got lit on fire once as a kid. Thankfully his brothers were there and remembered, so they knocked him down and rolled him around. Still spent months in the burn ward, but it could have been a lot worse
Here in Chicago, we’ve heard of this urban legend of the ‘jaywalking law’. We cross anywhere, anytime..carefully. Assume every car is TRYING to hit you.
In Chicago, Jaywalking is an extreme sport. We're basically playing Real-Life Frogger
Extra points if you cross in front of the Daley Center. If you get hit there you’ll die of paper cuts from all of the attorneys’ cards being thrown on your prone body!
Wait...they’re not trying to hit me?
Then you Have Florida, where the Pedestrian has Right of Way
@@railbaron1 ?? Thats in every state
As a kid my mom would huddle my 5 siblings under the basement stairs during tornado warnings. We'd about kill each other ! Dad on the other hand wanted to take us all in the family station wagon and go look for them. We preferred going with dad @