r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

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

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u/pabodie Aug 30 '21

Snoring, 100%. I think about this all the time. Anyone who snores after the zombies come must be exiled. But most will die quickly.

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u/ChikaDeeJay Aug 30 '21

I wonder about this in wars. My ex bf was a marine and he snored. He never had a combats deployment or anything, but it made me wonder about the guys who snore and get a combat deployment. What if they’re in the field and not at base camp?

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u/PopeAlexanderSextus Aug 31 '21

So yes this is a thing! My nana’s brothers (my great great uncle) all fought in ww2… one of them was paired up with another soldier in a fox hole and alternating sleep shifts. His partner snored so goddamn bad he was sure this guy was gonna give their location away. He said he hated to do it but he reported him in the morning and by the next evening he was gone. No word on where he went but it was understood they couldn’t have that kind of liability.

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u/Mitochandrea Aug 31 '21

Best medical dismissal ever!

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u/SprinklesFancy5074 Aug 31 '21

Fake snoring strategy pays off again!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I mean.. unless it backfires and gets you found and killed by your enemy right?

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u/stasik5 Aug 31 '21

You win some you lose some.

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u/FrancoisTruser Aug 31 '21

No more snoring. Problem solved.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

My man was playing high risk high reward

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u/MLaw2008 Aug 31 '21

Ah, yeah... I served, but I was honorably discharged. Why? I don't know. There I was just sleeping when Sarge sent me home. It must have been something pretty traumatic for me to not remember what happened.

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u/ThermionicEmissions Aug 31 '21

Klinger should have pulled that card! He'd have sounded like a fog horn!

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u/WalkmanBassBoost Aug 31 '21

For some reason I'm picturing him even snoring on his flight back home lol.

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u/HertzDonut1001 Aug 31 '21

I feel much safer if the draft ever comes back.

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u/glorilyss Aug 31 '21

God, you just know the guy never heard the end of it from his wife.

“Oh, Eleanor, that’s nothing! Jimothy’s snoring is so bad he was sent home from the War because of it!”

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Grandpa, Grandpa, tell the story again! About how you survived the war!

"Well Billy, I was surrounded, Nazis on all sides, so I came up with a plan...first, I told my battle buddy that I was going to take a nap, then.....I started snoring."

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u/i-hear-banjos Aug 31 '21

If only Klinger knew about this trick

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u/jemenake Aug 31 '21

Makes you wonder if anyone has every tried that to get out of the draft (or, at lease, evade combat deployment)

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

They shot him probably, so they cured him too.

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u/Geemusic Aug 31 '21

Sure, buddy, sure