Why were Boomers so afraid of quicksand? It's like in every old movie.

Why were Boomers so afraid of quicksand? It's like in every old movie.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    back then people went outside

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they went outside

      I don't think quicksand exists in America, just like jungles of Africa or something.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Go near any quarry

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          that's just mud or sinkholes

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          especially if it's a bentonite quarry that shit is like toothpaste when it gets wet

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        your sand is fat and slow

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It does, it's just in remote areas.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        quicksand doesn’t exist at all. It’s a movie myth

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Quicksand is a trope of adventure fiction, particularly in film, where it is typically and unrealistically depicted with a suction effect that causes people or animals that walk into it to sink until fully submerged and risk drowning. This has led to the common misconception that humans can be completely immersed and drown in quicksand; however, this is physically impossible.[7] According to a 2010 article by Slate, this gimmick had its heyday in the 1960s, when almost 3% of all films showed characters sinking in clay, mud, or sand

        debunked

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Peat bogs are real and do kill people, at least.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >quicksand isn't dangerous and never killed anyone ever
          grainy, yellow hands typed this post

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >misconception that humans can be completely immersed and drown in quicksand; however, this is physically impossible
          Why is it physically impossible? what if its really deep

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            tl,dr - you can get stuck but because you're lighter than it you can't really sink.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they went outside

      outside people went back then

      >back in my day, we went outside and encountered quicksand as a direct consequence of not staying indoors

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      outside seems kinda mid fr fr

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      [...]
      >back in my day, we went outside and encountered quicksand as a direct consequence of not staying indoors

      heh heh

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they went outside

      True. Thinking back, our boomer lifes were kinda stressful. Spending all day outside and never knowing when you'll run into quicksand or that machine that makes you switch bodies with your arch enemy again.

      You kids with your artsy computirs and college degrees don't know how good you have it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        zoomer body switching is so moronic too that they need their voices to switch as well so audiences can tell who is in which body.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they went outside

      [...]
      True. Thinking back, our boomer lifes were kinda stressful. Spending all day outside and never knowing when you'll run into quicksand or that machine that makes you switch bodies with your arch enemy again.

      You kids with your artsy computirs and college degrees don't know how good you have it.

      It wasn't that they were afraid of it, but because it was taught so heavily in schools. I graduated in the 90s and I still remember the teacher dragging the TV cart in and putting on an hour long film about the dangers of quick sand. I think they just stopped teaching students about it like 20 years ago and so it just stopped coming up in popular culture.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I remember in elementary school, probably around 2002 or 2003, we watched some movie about the dangers of a farm.
        Some kid got electrocuted.
        Some kid was riding on a tractor, fell off, and got crushed under the wheels.
        Some kid slowly died in quicksand.
        The quicksand one was the most horrific. It lasted like 2 minutes

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >elementary school
          >2003
          Im so fricking old lads...

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >he didn't get to watch 9/11 with his 2nd grade class all morning and have the principal cry over the mic telling all the kids that it's going to be a half day and that your parents didn't give a shit and worked til 5:30 and you had to stay at the campus club thing for 7 hours watching non stop fox news coverage

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          We saw a similar video in class as well. The worst one was the kid who took his boots off and slipped in the hog pen and couldn't get out. They could barely even find any of his bones left.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            What the frick man. What are these deep web tier shit being shown to elementary students

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >The worst one was the kid who took his boots off and slipped in the hog pen and couldn't get out.
            The hogs ate him?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Shit. When I was in elementary school we watched a video where a kid did drugs, everything turned into a cartoon and Bugs Bunny called him a homosexual or something.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      well they would know it's nothing like in the movies and it's not really dangerous

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      bump

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    they went outside

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Has anyone even seen quicksand in real life?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yea. The whole time, all I could think about is how I could frick it without falling in.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, it fricked up my van in northern Guatemala, is not dangerous to people, unless you are an unsupervised 3 years old the most dangerous thing that can happen is losing your boots. Is just mud or sand that gets accumulated in places with poor draining, clay like mud will frick your car but it shouldn't even ruin your phone, you won't sink low enough for your waist to be covered.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I drop in to one of them near a lake. It's really really hard to come out if you doesnt want to frick up your clothes. I got iside of it until my thights and i couldn't get out by myself. Someone had to pulled me out from the near. Dirt of the lake is used for mud mask and it's pretty solid.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Most of the time it isnt deep enough to pose a threat to you.
      I've accidentally stepped in a shallow puddle of it once. Looks completely solid until you touch it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not in person but in video related a guy fishing in Atlanta, Idaho steps in a patch while out in a pond. It very slowly keep pulling him down, threatening the drown him in the water before he can be drowned in the quicksand itself.

      Nowhere near as exciting as what's in the movies but frightening to think how it would have gone if there weren't people around.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, lost a pair of shoes in the woods due to it once. It's never deep enough to sink a full person in but usually around shin to knee height. Once your feet are in they get vacuumed in and stuck. The more you struggle the deeper you sink in.

      Parents used to lock us outside so we'd stop playing video games so much in the summer. Lost a new pair of shoes in the woods and they stopped doing that. Got to play a lot of n64 that summer. Was a good time. Thanks quicksand.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not exactly. When I was a little kid I went to a beach next to a huge shallow bay that drained so much at low tide that you could walk all the way out to some pretty big ships anchored there. Me and my cousins wanted to go to them and we ended up walking over a mile out onto the wet tidal sand before my older brother chased us down and bodily dragged us all back to the shore, where our parents kicked our asses. Turns out that bay is full of quicksand and about a dozen people each year die by getting stuck in it at low tide and drowned by the returning sea. We didn't see anything that seemed to be quicksand, and we didn't step in any, but maybe we were just too light to sink or something. My aunt said you wouldn't be able to tell it by sight. My brother looked really scared and angry when he caught up to us.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      yes, I was walking in woods with my prostitute exgf and I got stuck into it up to my knees before I stopped moving. Remembered from boy scouts what to do, so I had her go get me a bunch of branches, laid on it, and was able to crawl out, lost both my shoes. No idea what I would have done if she wasn't there.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    outside people went back then

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's scary

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Quicksand is a trope of adventure fiction, particularly in film, where it is typically and unrealistically depicted with a suction effect that causes people or animals that walk into it to sink until fully submerged and risk drowning. This has led to the common misconception that humans can be completely immersed and drown in quicksand; however, this is physically impossible.[7] According to a 2010 article by Slate, this gimmick had its heyday in the 1960s, when almost 3% of all films showed characters sinking in clay, mud, or sand.[8]

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ever actually been stuck in mud? Its among the most frustrating and potentially frightening things of all time. Most boomer shows were written by guys who grew up in the tail end of the wild west, different world.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    thats not quicksands
    they're Black folk

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no those are white actors in blackface

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nah. At least one of them is obviously Dutch.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only on his grandmother's side.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was in the old days. They didn't know that quicksand didn't actually drown you but the tide did while you were stuck in it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Tides are an actual danger and kill plenty of people but they're not too scary on film

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Boomers- Oh no, quicksand!
    >Millennials- Oh no, zombies!
    >Zoomers- ???

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      oh no racists

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oh no, boomers!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Oh no, empty rooms!

        Tie between these two

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Zoomers- Oh no, a job!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oh no, my social media account isnt popular

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ai probably

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      people that don't have broccoli hair
      seriously go outside it's not just a meme with those npc kids

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      "Oh no, White people!"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >yall jelly frfr no cap

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Zoomers- Oh no! Cis white man!

      I joke, but it's kinda true though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, hate speech!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Republicans

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, empty rooms!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Boomers: oh no, responsibility!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        t.coalburner offspring

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >can only think about dicks
          Anon it's alright to have feelings for your male friends.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's zoomers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Zoomers- OH N-

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        what?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Liminal space

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      oh no! 30 seconds of work and job security!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why is his theater ending game shows?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        holy shit what an absolute mess. that would take 40 seconds to clean up.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >that would take 40 seconds to clean up
          He would probably get fired for manhandling that autistic kid.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, racism and transphobia

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh no, sex!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >oh, no sex
        FTFY

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      solitude

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, white people!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, white males!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, I lost my phone / no signal !

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oh no, I'm being misgendered!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, a happy person

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Zoomers - OH NO, MISGENDERERS!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Zoomers
      >Oh no work and responsibilities

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      SHOCKING! GEN X COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED
      >many such cases

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you homies are the most obnoxious freaks alive
        >WAAAAAAAA WHERES LE HECKIN GENXERINOS!!!!!!!!!!
        You are millenials too, seethe about it generation warrior

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Gen X - "Gee, your hair smells terrific."

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Gee, your hair smells terrific.
        Gee, your hair smells terrific.
        CAPTCHA: Gee, your hair smells terrific.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Oh no, Black folk!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        that's boomers, not zoomers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Oh no, I need to charge my phone!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oh no, employment!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >INESCAPABLE POVERTY

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Darn near lost a 400 dollar hand cart

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Adam Carolla has a bit about this. He says when he was youg, TV led him to believe he would constantly be encountering quicksand as an adult. Same with flares.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Actually me too as a kid I actually expected that quicksand would be an actual danger in my life.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was hot at the time to make quicksand the villain, like white people today

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How can we return to the days where it's okay to make a film like Blazing Saddles?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      move to china or something where they are culturally behind like a century

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    quicksand was in Rise of Skywalker released a couple years ago

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      really? I don't remember that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        quicksand that leads to a hollow cave but the sand doesnt fall into the cave because reasons

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Really fitting that ROS used THE cheapest trope ever

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because most boomers are fat fricks who can't even go shopping without their cars.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The mudflats in Alaska won't drown you but they'll hold your ankles so tight that the tide will come in and drown you. Plenty of people have died, shit's fricked up.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      nobody lives in Alaska though

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The population of Alaska is 0?

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do zoomers even know what dirt or mud is?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they probably think dirt and mud are just racist terms

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    quicksand is the way to put another "action" scene in your movie, but the actors get to stand completely still in a pit of dirt and you don't have to set up any complicated camera movements

    why wouldn't you put quicksand in your movie

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you think of it it's one of the cheapest ways to add danger to your movie. Just dig a couple of holes in the ground and have your actors sit in there and scream.
    9 times out of 10 it was probably added as padding when they started running out of budget.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >walk into a party
    >shout WHERE DA WHITE WIMMIN AT?
    >everyone laughs and pats me on the back
    Works every time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This only works if you are black though whats wrong with you

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No its funny every time. Sometimes I'll bust in like Kramer and then shout WHERE DA WHITE WIMMIN AT?. Its pretty hilarious.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Quicksand was all over america before the 1980s when scientists wiped it out

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      t. tartary pseudoscientist

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >pseudo

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was one guys fetish and he worked on a lot of films and tv shows so he ended up shoving it into everything.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >we need a poisonous spider that can kill you instantly with one bite for our boomer movie
    I know just the man, sir.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it would be a cgi spider these days

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I don't get it, we have tarantulas all over the place in the fall here and getting bit by one is no worse than a bee sting if even that

      now centipedes on the other hand can go frick themselves

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >herd you were talking shit, like i wouldn't find out

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          the little ones like that aren't bad but we get like 8 inch long ones that bite like a pair of pliers and have a sting that feels like you're in labor through your foot for hours or something, when I was 13 stepped on one on our outside stairs and I would never wish it on anyone

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Where the hell do you live? A zoo?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              the sonoran desert is a zoo from hell

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                is that where llano estacado is?. ol shatter hand was there along with ol death

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                > ol shatter hand was there along with ol death
                based Karl May enjoyer

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's a couple of states over.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >poisonous
      Doubt.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I thought the biggest risk from those was getting their hair in your eyes and causing irritation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticating_hair

        its like stinging nettles on some tarantulas apparently

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >poisonous
      At this point this gaff should be as shameful as they're/their/there.

      POISON = INGESTED
      VENOM = INJECTED

      You can literally drink venom no problem (it's just proteins) and granted you don't have a cut in your mouth or a ulcer in your stomach you can digest it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What the frick? you can probably swallow pozzed up AIDS cum too and be alright but Im still not doing it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You be sayin the covid vaccine isn't poison but venom?

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers fear it too. It's in new star wars. Real men fear Bermuda triangle where all the space ships crash after flying over horizon and gov kill anyone that entered to cover up how fake space is.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      real men only fear invasive anal medical procedures

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's in new star war
      where?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Finn tries to confess as they sink to death in quick sand only to get in cavern.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yea I don't remember that part at all

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bermuda Triangle is just big methane deposits. It's Mother Earth farting on our ships and planes that causes them to sink.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        believing the ~~*Discovery Channel*~~. They don't want you to investigate and find the sea monsters

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        braap queen gaia proves goddess is real imo

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah I vaguely remember seeing a lot of movies with scenes where people fall into quicksand when I was a kid. Couldn't name a single movie tho lol

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Yeah I vaguely remember seeing a lot of movies with scenes where people fall into quicksand when I was a kid. Couldn't name a single movie tho lol
      is this one of the mass delusion kind of things where people remember falling down the stairs?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Indiana Jones

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Princess Bride iirc.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think the snow sand in princess bride is supposed to be one of the fantasy elements. Like the fire swamp and giant rats. So it makes sense that it is actually deadly

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Krull (1983)

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Quicksand
    >Quick sand
    Oh god. Anglos have no creativity at all

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Our waifu got stuck in quicksand too

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Gross, she'd be SO dirty and muddy even if she got out of that haha

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'd clean her off with my wing wang.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        she was, you would have to wash her down

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      haha imagine buying a snorkel and getting into that mud pool before they filmed the scene and waiting for midthunder to get in and wiggle around and you could do stuff to her and she'd just think it was a snake in the mud or something haha that would be so funny and weird

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I just want to be the one who hoses her down

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          if the producers of that movie knew what they were doing they would have bottled that water as it poured out of her top and sold it as merchandise

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I miss quicksand in movies.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OH NO

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Gross

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    when I was a child I thought about it quite a bit. it was in films, on television, in comics etc all the time.
    only saw it once in real life.
    my sister stepped in it without realising and my dad pulled her foot out of it, her flipflop stayed inside, so he reached in and pulled that out, looked like I took some effort.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      where were you?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        norrhern US, it was very waterlogged sand that had just the right consistency.
        looked solid, but my sister's leg sank a foot into it very quickly.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That is called wet sand, not quicksand which is an opening under the sand.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was a metaphor for being stuck in the inner cities as the blacks moved in. The longer you stayed there the worse it would get.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw i have a quicksand fetish
    why am i cursed

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Post fetish material to prove it.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's basically because quicksand is the perfect representation of "things are not always what they seem". Same thing with mirages. The thing is boomers believe the world is just as they see it. There are no maligancies or deciet, everything is truthful and open. It's a childish view. The existence of quicksand completely puts upside down their world view. It induces fear and incomprehension into their minds, thus fascination.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      almost funny

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1960s tv shows, man. Every 1960s tv adventure show had an episode where someone got caught in quicksand. Nobody knew what the hell it was, but we were all afraid of it.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it was a new exiting technique for kinos, to put the characters in danger
    its like how all the monsters look like cloverfield now, it was new and scary but its just been done to death
    zoomers black trans grandkids will say
    >what was up with millenials and their grey, no face, no hair, shapeless monsters? lmao

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Growing up
    >oh no quicksand
    >oh no killer bees
    >oh no Bermuda Triangle
    now Im grown up...none of these things seem like a big deal

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Oh lawdy that quicksand done ate me up! HEP ME HEP ME

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How do you know to not be afraid of quicksand? You googled it. Google didn't exist back then. Check mate, atheist.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    doesnt empire strikes back or return of the jedi have quicksand too?
    the xwing sinks in it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that was just a swamp

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sarlacc is basically like a monster form of quicksand

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >It's like in every old movie.
    Cheap and very easy to make plot device / prop.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because boomers didnt have the internet and thought quicksand was a unrelenting deathtrap rather than a extremely easily escapable mud pool.

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