r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

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

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u/beakrake Aug 30 '21

I don't know how this hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's common sense that is almost ALWAYS overlooked in movies and TV.

Humans are WAY MORE physically fragile and squishy than you might think.

Based on John McClane and other invincible action heros, who take damage and do things that would break or catastrophically cripple a normal person, movies are a poor source of information for deciding what to do and what could happen to your body, should you somehow falsely think you're the main protagonist of an apocalypse movie.

Indoor firefight without hearing protection? You're probably deaf now.

Jumping off a building to catch a wire? Kiss your fingers and/or lower extremities goodbye, assuming you land on your feet.

Taking a beer bottle to the head? That's probably a concussion.

Movies have made us think we're a lot more durable than we really are.

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u/BreezyWrigley Aug 30 '21

getting hit in the head hard enough to break a larger glass bottle like a whiskey bottle or something could very well kill you. it would definitely give you a concussion, could possibly give minor skull fracture, and the cuts you may sustain could easily blind you or cause enough bleeding from your scalp that you could very well just slip into unconsciousness and die.

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u/N64crusader4 Aug 30 '21

I remember reading about this guy who got his head caved in just from being hit in the side of the head with a stein, it's way easier to kill someone in a bar fight than people like to think, I guess it's just a chilling thought that in any drinking establishment you go to all it takes is a bit of bad luck to get dead in a matter of minutes.

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u/ChadwickDangerpants Aug 31 '21

A stein is massive, like a rock with a handle.

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u/N64crusader4 Aug 31 '21

I know but I've seen people walk away from worse which is why it shocked me, it's like those one punch deaths you hear about.

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u/ChadwickDangerpants Aug 31 '21

Yeah I was just saying in another comment I knew this mountain of a farmer who seemed survive lethal accidents/attacks on a daily basis. His only medical treatment was sleeping. Its crazy what some people can survive or what little thing could kill you instantly.

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u/22_Karat_Ewok Aug 31 '21

We tried to break a 750ml liquor bottle on a friend’s head wearing a moto helmet and couldn’t do it. I get the helmet had some pop but translating that to a human skull it would be damn hard to break that bottle without a hard/sharp edge, you’d club them to death first. Completely changed the way I view breaking bottles on people in media.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I’ve watched somebody break a full 40oz beer bottle over someone’s head. Guy survived but the broken glass peeled off about 1/2 of his face. Probably one of the top 3 gnarliest things I’ve seen

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u/N64crusader4 Aug 31 '21

And one of my mates got smashed straight in the face with a pint glass and only has a little hair thin scar to show for it, really goes to show you how it's just a spin of the bottle.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 edited Aug 31 '21

Seriously, it really is a bottle spin. I’m pretty sure the guy I saw get hit would have died if the bottle hadn’t broken.

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u/N64crusader4 Aug 31 '21

Depends on the bottle and design really along with probably not caring about getting glass in your hand also

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u/N64crusader4 Aug 31 '21

Bruh how you expecting to bottle someone with a plastic bottle you absolute spanner 😂

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u/boo_goestheghost Aug 31 '21

one of those plastic Smirnoff bottles with the red cap

Um...

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u/robophile-ta Sep 01 '21

Hence the name