>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
>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
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.
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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.
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
>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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
you homies are the most obnoxious freaks alive >WAAAAAAAA WHERES LE HECKIN GENXERINOS!!!!!!!!!!
You are millenials too, seethe about it generation warrior
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.
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.
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
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.
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
>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.
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.
>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?
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
back then people went outside
I don't think quicksand exists in America, just like jungles of Africa or something.
Go near any quarry
that's just mud or sinkholes
especially if it's a bentonite quarry that shit is like toothpaste when it gets wet
your sand is fat and slow
It does, it's just in remote areas.
quicksand doesn’t exist at all. It’s a movie myth
>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
Peat bogs are real and do kill people, at least.
>quicksand isn't dangerous and never killed anyone ever
grainy, yellow hands typed this post
>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
tl,dr - you can get stuck but because you're lighter than it you can't really sink.
>back in my day, we went outside and encountered quicksand as a direct consequence of not staying indoors
outside seems kinda mid fr fr
heh heh
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.
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.
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.
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
>elementary school
>2003
Im so fricking old lads...
>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
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.
What the frick man. What are these deep web tier shit being shown to elementary students
>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?
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.
well they would know it's nothing like in the movies and it's not really dangerous
bump
they went outside
Has anyone even seen quicksand in real life?
Yea. The whole time, all I could think about is how I could frick it without falling in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
outside people went back then
It's scary
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]
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.
thats not quicksands
they're Black folk
no those are white actors in blackface
Nah. At least one of them is obviously Dutch.
Only on his grandmother's side.
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.
Tides are an actual danger and kill plenty of people but they're not too scary on film
>Boomers- Oh no, quicksand!
>Millennials- Oh no, zombies!
>Zoomers- ???
oh no racists
>oh no, boomers!
Tie between these two
>Zoomers- Oh no, a job!
>oh no, my social media account isnt popular
ai probably
people that don't have broccoli hair
seriously go outside it's not just a meme with those npc kids
"Oh no, White people!"
>yall jelly frfr no cap
>Zoomers- Oh no! Cis white man!
I joke, but it's kinda true though.
>Oh no, hate speech!
Republicans
>Oh no, empty rooms!
Boomers: oh no, responsibility!
t.coalburner offspring
>can only think about dicks
Anon it's alright to have feelings for your male friends.
That's zoomers.
>Zoomers- OH N-
what?
Liminal space
oh no! 30 seconds of work and job security!
Why is his theater ending game shows?
holy shit what an absolute mess. that would take 40 seconds to clean up.
>that would take 40 seconds to clean up
He would probably get fired for manhandling that autistic kid.
>Oh no, racism and transphobia
Oh no, sex!
>oh, no sex
FTFY
solitude
>Oh no, white people!
>Oh no, white males!
>Oh no, I lost my phone / no signal !
>oh no, I'm being misgendered!
>Oh no, a happy person
>Zoomers - OH NO, MISGENDERERS!
Zoomers
>Oh no work and responsibilities
SHOCKING! GEN X COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED
>many such cases
you homies are the most obnoxious freaks alive
>WAAAAAAAA WHERES LE HECKIN GENXERINOS!!!!!!!!!!
You are millenials too, seethe about it generation warrior
Gen X - "Gee, your hair smells terrific."
>Gee, your hair smells terrific.
Gee, your hair smells terrific.
CAPTCHA: Gee, your hair smells terrific.
>Oh no, Black folk!
that's boomers, not zoomers
Oh no, I need to charge my phone!
>oh no, employment!
>INESCAPABLE POVERTY
Darn near lost a 400 dollar hand cart
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.
Actually me too as a kid I actually expected that quicksand would be an actual danger in my life.
It was hot at the time to make quicksand the villain, like white people today
How can we return to the days where it's okay to make a film like Blazing Saddles?
move to china or something where they are culturally behind like a century
quicksand was in Rise of Skywalker released a couple years ago
really? I don't remember that.
quicksand that leads to a hollow cave but the sand doesnt fall into the cave because reasons
Really fitting that ROS used THE cheapest trope ever
Because most boomers are fat fricks who can't even go shopping without their cars.
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.
nobody lives in Alaska though
The population of Alaska is 0?
Do zoomers even know what dirt or mud is?
they probably think dirt and mud are just racist terms
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
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.
>walk into a party
>shout WHERE DA WHITE WIMMIN AT?
>everyone laughs and pats me on the back
Works every time.
This only works if you are black though whats wrong with you
No its funny every time. Sometimes I'll bust in like Kramer and then shout WHERE DA WHITE WIMMIN AT?. Its pretty hilarious.
Quicksand was all over america before the 1980s when scientists wiped it out
t. tartary pseudoscientist
>pseudo
It was one guys fetish and he worked on a lot of films and tv shows so he ended up shoving it into everything.
>we need a poisonous spider that can kill you instantly with one bite for our boomer movie
I know just the man, sir.
it would be a cgi spider these days
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
>herd you were talking shit, like i wouldn't find out
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
Where the hell do you live? A zoo?
the sonoran desert is a zoo from hell
is that where llano estacado is?. ol shatter hand was there along with ol death
> ol shatter hand was there along with ol death
based Karl May enjoyer
That's a couple of states over.
>poisonous
Doubt.
I thought the biggest risk from those was getting their hair in your eyes and causing irritation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urticating_hair
its like stinging nettles on some tarantulas apparently
>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.
What the frick? you can probably swallow pozzed up AIDS cum too and be alright but Im still not doing it
You be sayin the covid vaccine isn't poison but venom?
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.
real men only fear invasive anal medical procedures
>It's in new star war
where?
Finn tries to confess as they sink to death in quick sand only to get in cavern.
yea I don't remember that part at all
Bermuda Triangle is just big methane deposits. It's Mother Earth farting on our ships and planes that causes them to sink.
believing the ~~*Discovery Channel*~~. They don't want you to investigate and find the sea monsters
braap queen gaia proves goddess is real imo
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
>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?
Indiana Jones
Princess Bride iirc.
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
Krull (1983)
>Quicksand
>Quick sand
Oh god. Anglos have no creativity at all
Our waifu got stuck in quicksand too
Gross, she'd be SO dirty and muddy even if she got out of that haha
I'd clean her off with my wing wang.
she was, you would have to wash her down
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
I just want to be the one who hoses her down
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
I miss quicksand in movies.
OH NO
Gross
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.
where were you?
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.
That is called wet sand, not quicksand which is an opening under the sand.
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.
>tfw i have a quicksand fetish
why am i cursed
Post fetish material to prove it.
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.
almost funny
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.
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
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
Oh lawdy that quicksand done ate me up! HEP ME HEP ME
How do you know to not be afraid of quicksand? You googled it. Google didn't exist back then. Check mate, atheist.
doesnt empire strikes back or return of the jedi have quicksand too?
the xwing sinks in it.
that was just a swamp
Sarlacc is basically like a monster form of quicksand
>It's like in every old movie.
Cheap and very easy to make plot device / prop.
Because boomers didnt have the internet and thought quicksand was a unrelenting deathtrap rather than a extremely easily escapable mud pool.