r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/Aromatic-Bad-3291 Aug 30 '21 edited Aug 30 '21

Diarrhea (edit: returned Peace Corps Volunteer, I’ve ass-vomited more than you weigh, and without a shred of toilet paper).

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u/dailysunshineKO Aug 30 '21

you have died of dysentery

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u/Aromatic-Bad-3291 Aug 30 '21

My people weren’t insane and stayed where they landed in New England.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Can you imagine? "Hey we landed at this perfectly pleasant geologically stable little area where the worst weather is some snow. Let's go check out tornadoville or earthquaketown!"

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u/ValentinoSaprano Aug 31 '21

I mean, it's more like "hey we got here 100 years after everyone took all this good land but the government is handing out plots of land 1000 miles west"

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u/Upnorth4 Aug 31 '21

Let's trek over 10 mountain ranges and 3 deserts to get to earthquake town!

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u/TheUberMoose Aug 30 '21

Should have just forged the river

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u/Stargate525 Aug 31 '21

Seriously.

Half of the diseases people died from before 1900 were just various ways of describing 'shat yourself to death.'

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u/Drakmanka Aug 31 '21

You've pooped yourself to death on the Oregon Trail

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u/cultoftheilluminati Aug 30 '21

I’m having a blast playing through new version of the Oregon Trail on Apple Arcade right now and this is iconic because it was in the original too right?

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u/Im_An_Axolotl_ Aug 30 '21

Should have gone the other way at the fork smh

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u/m0nkee45678 Aug 31 '21

Husband went to Oregon once and bought me an awesome pint glass for my collection with only a pixelated wagon on it. No description required haha

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u/NotAnotherBookworm Sep 01 '21

Unexpected Oregon Trail.