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Topic: Death by Electric Fan (Read 11979 times)
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Samwise
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What, no one here has ever gotten a cold from sleeping in a draft before?
No, not that I am aware of. And if it was cold why would I have a fan on?  I sleep with a fan on when it's too goddamn hot to sleep without a fan on. I don't think I'm liable to die of hypothermia or whatever under those conditions. |
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Paelos
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Fans make the room warmer, people. They simply create a windchill effect in the room by causing sweat to evaporate easier off your skin, thus making it easier to eliminate your body heat. Most cases of hypothermia happen because the weather is cold. If you were going to die of hypothermia, the room would have to be cold enough to kill you without the fan on and completely soaked to the bone and loaded on drugs.
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Oban
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... If you were going to die of hypothermia, the room would have to be cold enough to kill you without the fan on and completely soaked to the bone and loaded on drugs.
Yes, the easy availability of drugs and the complete lack of credible porn in Korea are probably the root, cough, cause of these deaths. |
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Bunk
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I asked a buddy who met and married his wife in Korea. They actually had this discussion, quite seriously, over the use of fans.
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schild
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It's hard to take a nation seriously when you find out that they are afraid of a device that MOVES AIR.
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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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I can see the Korean emergency alert system announce that "there are wind speeds clocked at 10 mph, so stay inside and play Starcraft!".
The real reason the Koreans spend so much time online............. Wind Fear!
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Polysorbate80
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Is this a relatively recent thing? I lived in Seoul for 4 1/2 years and never heard of this rumor.
I also ran the fans non-stop day and night all summer, just like everyone else I knew. Because the apartments had zero fucking air conditioning.
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HaemishM
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What, no one here has ever gotten a cold from sleeping in a draft before?
If I sleep with air of any kind blowing directly on my face, whether from the AC vent, ceiling fan or electric fan, I will wake up with one nostril completely blocked as if phlegm gnomes had built a nasal bypass during my REM periods. As a result, I tend to sleep with my head entirely under the covers. I've never died though, at least not that I know of. |
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Murgos
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What, no one here has ever gotten a cold from sleeping in a draft before?
If I sleep with air of any kind blowing directly on my face, whether from the AC vent, ceiling fan or electric fan, I will wake up with one nostril completely blocked as if phlegm gnomes had built a nasal bypass during my REM periods. As a result, I tend to sleep with my head entirely under the covers. I've never died though, at least not that I know of. My wife is the same way, which means I get to sleep in a stuffy room while she dozes peacefully. |
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HaemishM
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Murgos
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Well, you weren't sure if you had died. Just being careful.
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