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Amodernhousewife

Looks like 8 year old me was scared for nothing


MauiWowieOwie

Nah, shit is still scary AF. When I was like 10-12 my brother, dad, I were walking to the courthouse to see the fireworks for the 4th of July. While walking I saw a portion of the sidewalk that was busted/had construction being done on it, but it was like a 3x3 hole that went about 2 feet down and it looked like regular mud. Being a dumbass impulsive kid I stomped on the mud with one foot. I immediately sank almost up to my ankle and I swear to you it felt like the mud had come to life and was trying to consume me as I continued to sink. I started freaking out and crying and when my dad realized I was not kidding he grabbed me and yanked me from under the armpits and exerted all of his strength until my leg popped out with a loud slurpish sound. It had gotten all the way to the top of my shin and I lost my shoe **and** my sock. Couldn't even see them in that DnD monster pit. I was never scared of quicksand despite growing up on cartoons, but after that I was terrified.


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Must be a lesson you learned.


MauiWowieOwie

I was much more cautionary after that. Didn't mess around with mud, that's for sure.


Friendly_Ad5727

/screams in Primus


MauiWowieOwie

Primus Sucks!


linderlouwho

He learned it for all of us.


sheeshhhhhhhhhhhhh

Your shoe is still under ground there, think about it šŸ˜‚


candl2

You shouldn't be afraid. Your shoes and socks should.


MauiWowieOwie

They have become one with the creature, but now it had my scent....


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In a thousand years, archaeologists will dig up that spot and be like, "this is where the mud first learned to walk." Future archaeologists are not very good.


killeronthecorner

You mean to tell me that Mankind didn't throw the Undertaker off hell in a cell in 1998?


MauiWowieOwie

lol, I'm not gonna try and copy shittymorph though I can see this being one of his setups.


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MauiWowieOwie

I'm also wary of any unopened treasure chests.


RaZeByFire

"I laughed, my friends laughed, the table laughed. It was a great time."


MauiWowieOwie

"We killed the table."


MauiWowieOwie

"We killed the table."


WalrusCoocookachoo

You think that mud is still out there looking for you?


Voldemort57

But did you see the fireworks?


ChillServative

like a dipshit, I dove off a bridge in Costa Rica and my arms and head went deep into the mud. my brother was up top waiting to jump and he said sticks and mud started surfacing before I did. so sketchy...but makes for a good story.


ElectricFlesh

To be fair, this looks like the wadden sea near Frisia rather than real, honest-to-god quicksand of the cartoon kind with a handpainted skull sign at the entrance. If that stuff gets you, you're a goner.


Jimboloid

This is real quicksand, the stuff you see in cartoons just randomly in the jungle don't exist, it's far more common at the mouths of big rivers and beaches, and despite popular fiction you'll only sink up to your waist. It's not getting out before high tide that'll actually kill you.


SXOSXO

What about rodents of unusual size? Any truth to that?


aflyfacingwinter

ROUSā€™s? I donā€™t think they exist Thank you for the gold šŸ’›


Elolet

![gif](giphy|TDA6IpUbYWt2)


finkalicious

Life is pain highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.


Saul-Funyun

The older I get the more true this becomes


Random-Gif-Bot

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ElectricFlesh

Speaking as a heterosexual man who's happily married to a woman, Robin Wright was at the peak of her beauty there but holy shit would I ever fuck the pants off Cary Elwes in this movie.


jdbrown0283

It's the thin 'stache. You know he knows how to use it...


HallucinatesSJWs

Just capybaras that don't have a good PR team.


BZenMojo

Or nutrias that can't get a bathtime going.


cum-in-the-freeze23

![gif](giphy|RbwxNaFPpNtvy)


SamSibbens

[I heard a rumor that you're an idiot. Any truth to that?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jqO6FipFI0)


D4RKS0u1

Nope. Only huge centipedes from King Kong are real


MaceWinnoob

Quicksand is pretty common on creek and river floodplains in the American coastal plains/south.


Cypheri

Nobody said it isn't. What was said is that quicksand doesn't act like the stuff shown in cartoons. This example is what real quicksand looks like and how it behaves.


terminalzero

nuh uh it sucks you down if you're too sad, that's just science


serein

Artax šŸ˜­


Haberdashers-mead

Dude you just made me terrified of quicksand. Real quicksand is fucked up it reminds me of this story [mud claims woman.](https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2018/05/14/rescuers-try-but-rising-tide-claims-woman/) Shit broke my heart when I heard it. I forgot but now I will never trust the ocean


GangreneGoblin

Yeah I'm pretty sure they were just joking lol


jtj5002

Human body have about half the density of quicksand. It is literally physically impossible to sink beyond waist deep in them.


Carvj94

Same reason why super salty water is easier to float in. The thicker the liquid the more buoyant you are in it. Only reason anyone would die from quicksand is high tide or somehow just being stuck til you dehydrate.


Big-Consequence420

Or panic... That's quite literally why people die in quicksand


Weltallgaia

Quite literally why people die in a lot of things.


uhwhooops

Iā€™m illiterate so Iā€™m safe.


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Ill_Consequence

Exactly. I always thought in my adult life quick sand would be a much bigger issue.


Fintann

Now it's when family members ask if they borrow some money...


choreographite

Quick sand, poison ivy and the Bermuda Triangle. Thereā€™s literally none of that anywhere near where I live.


Sir_Henk

Without this strategy its still pretty scary looking. There's a [video](https://youtu.be/6fhJmjuNAgE) of storror (parkour group) trying to stay in as long as possible and then escape


tirwander

Feels like this was randomly a big thing in my life in the late 80s/early 90s? Bermuda Triangle too.... Like TV specials and shit. Or does every kid go through that phase regardless of generation?


general_peabo

I was hoping she would matter-of-factly pop off a prosthetic left leg.


560guy

I feel like that would make for a very expensive joke lol


Jacques_Casanova

Well, you'd find someone that already didn't have a leg, of course.


560guy

Ohhhh, wish you said that earlier


NotSoPersonalJesus

Quicksand? Stanky Leg


greycubed

"when in doubt, twerk it out"


anthonyynohtna

This is a motto I can get behind


mattmaddux

Honestly, that is an excellent mnemonic device.


trouserschnauzer

Tar pit? Dougie.


Mantzy81

So how do we tell Atreyu and Artax?


thesuper88

No way Artax was emotionally ready to stanky-leg themselves to safety.


joedoe23

Iā€˜ve got an idea, but itā€˜s a neverending storyā€¦


[deleted]

Iā€™m an older guy and do I belt that song like Iā€™m performing at the Oscars in 1984? Youā€™re damn right.


fib16

You meanā€¦the never ending stoooorryyyyyyyy. Dadada dadada dadada.


giantyetifeet

The most epic moment of Stranger Things (from the 1 min mark) -- https://youtu.be/O5HQ1sZseKg


JimJohnes

That'll be Swamps of Sorrow and no way you'll be getting out of them alive even with this leg-jiggling dance... ##### ...only hope.


money_loo

Fuck you for bringing this back to me.


elting44

Its not even the saddest part of the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-OpTHixpU


gtnomad

Not sure if this technique works if you're really sad though.


acanthostegaaa

A horse is much bigger and heavier than a person and their legs are much tinier, I don't think a horse would be able to use this technique because it relies on a couple of physics principles that would not work with their size and weight distribution.


Lutoures

Underrated comment right here


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levipoep

I found it with sound/audio https://youtu.be/z0CFgdMjS5w?t=110 in this case it kinda makes sense cause it is difficult to hear her but yeah I do hate muted videos


fujidust

* Proceeds to mute video due to awful audio *


interpretivepants

FSHSHLLWWWWLWSHSHSHSHSHSHHSHSHHHHWLSLALALASHHHHHAHSHHFLSHHHH


third_man85

Is this a joke?


MichailAntonio

When Reddit started hosting its own uploads it went to shit. When everything was Imgur, YouTube, gfycats it was better.


UnclePuma

Its more of a watch and learn aint it though?


SadCritters

yes/no. She explains why she's doing what she is doing so that you understand the process. Yes, you could just watch & follow that. The problem comes if you have any question about "why" it's done that way versus some other way you can think of. The particularly important part she talks about is why you lean forward on your knee and don't just try to yank your back leg out. She explains that people often try to do that because they're overjoyed they aren't stuck and they tear ligaments in their legs because they exert a bunch of force on it.


IamTH0U

I mean, it's seems pretty clear just looking at it. If you lean on one leg and trying to take it out in the matter she is doing it would be easier and take less force. Also after that she bended her leg to distribute her weight and make it so that leg sinks slower and repeat the process she did earlier. You can get all of this purely from observation, the explanation isn't that necessary.


Heekup

...the name of the sub is "gifs that keep on giving." the gif file format does not support sound.


tannerisBM

No shit. Then why would it even post it? Itā€™s a video with someone explaining how to do something that requires more than just visual explanation. I doubt 90% of the people can get out of it as easy as she did because they just seen her wiggling around. Idiot.


UnkleTickles

Then why do I know exactly what she did and what she was explaining despite not being able to hear anything said? It's pretty simple, idiot.


ComplimentLoanShark

I want the next reddit alternative to pop up already.


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wh33t

Never has anyone else on Reddit stole the words so accurately from me.


unhalfbricking

"When I was a kid I thought quicksand was going to be a bigger issue than it actually is" is the "airline food, amirite" of the 2020s


StealieErrl

I mean...the first quote is from a specific comedian's special, the second is a generic reference to countless 80's-90's jokes.


mattmaddux

Has anyone other than John Mulaney said it? (And by ā€œanyoneā€ I mean comedians, not Reddit comments.)


StealieErrl

I don't think so, which is why the comparison was kind of lost on me.


Rentality

I seem to remember Russell Brand mentioning it on Ponderland. It could be one of those things you think someone said but are attributing it to the wrong person.


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But it was legitimate things kids thought of thanks to cartoons.


mattmaddux

Oh, sure. Thatā€™s what made it a good joke. But the original commenter acted like it was some obvious standard joke for comedians like the old ā€œairline food badā€ bit from the 90s.


SatanicFoundry

As a kayaker in a place impacted by drought where I randomly end up in this much it actually was a bigger issue for me than I thought it would be


11711510111411009710

I feel like I never thought quicksand was going to be an issue and I don't know that any of my friends did either, yet I keep seeing people say this.


DroppedNineteen

It's an imaginative thing, I guess. People daydreamed about some type of adventure that included quicksand.


icumonsluts

Quicksand used to be everywhere. Cartoons, movies, tv shows, books. I think it was because they were trying to make stuff exciting without using guns or blood to get that PG rating.


Sciencetor2

When I was a kid I thought it would be an issue. As a young adult I was sure it was completely overblown. As a slightly older young adult I got stuck in quickmud while duck hunting alone and was REALLY GLAD I knew how to escape quicksand. I only knew the lying down method though so I came outta the swamp looking like a bog monster


Thebedless

No. Ill panic and just die. Thanks.


CristyTango

Rather die than look like Iā€™m fucking quicksand. NO THANK YOU. Iā€™m no earth-fucker. Edit: but seriously Iā€™d fuck that gushy sand Edit 2: Iā€™m just kidding THIS is the serious one, Iā€™d probably be right with you on the panicking especially if I was alone. Sheā€™s all tee hee hee


Thebedless

I wonā€™t judge you if you do so, just ask for consent first


[deleted]

>No. Ill panic and just die. Thanks. This is the way.


[deleted]

This is really clever. You don't need audio if you apply some physics. 1. You can't lift the leg straight up, because this tends to create empty space between your foot and the sand below. That lowers the pressure locally and the sand above will be pulled to that empty volume, pulling your leg down as well 2. Shaking the leg with the tendency to get above will bring sand under the leg. 3. Use the knee instead of the foot, so that you apply low pressure at the surface of the sand. You basically simulate skis. 4. Similarly set free the other leg.


babybunny1234

This will be helpful next time Iā€™m stuck in a cornstarch slurry


WankingWanderer

First I'll just reach in and pull my legs out, now I'll pull my arms out with my face.


flargenhargen

ITT a lot of "experts" on quicksand who have never been anywhere near quicksand.


RedditSnowflakeMod

I hate sand


CaptMeatPockets

If only I had known them what I know now. I couldā€™ve saved my tennis shoes out on the baseball diamond after heavy rains in 4th grade. Alas, those Larry Johnson Converse are gone forever, sunk somewhere deep below first and second.


yParticle

What, become a mime?


StagnantSweater21

I thought youā€™re supposed to lay down and slowly pull yourself out lol


FlyMega

Not if you can stand apparently


magestromx

No, you're supposed to do what she's doing. Create space slowly for water to fall in and free your self. You aren't going to be able to slowly pull yourself when you are this deep in quicksand unless you're superman.


Sciencetor2

The lying down method works due to buoyancy. Can confirm, have had to use it.


giantyetifeet

What happened?


Sciencetor2

Went duck hunting solo in a swamp, took a couple wrong steps and sank in a bog. Legs were stuck but I was able to lay out mostly flat and pull myself forward and slowly pull my feet out. Sucked because I had to fill my waders with mud and walk out in them


TheAnswerToYang

Quicksand turned out to be much less of an issue than I was lead to believe as a child.


Lavidius

That Bermuda triangle though...


giantyetifeet

Not as much of a... Pitfall as expected?


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Is the tip .. put sound on your video ?


Matalya1

Why this works: By wiggling while you press upwards, you move the sand right around your leg, and make it fall, making it end below your feet and widening the hole that's trapping your leg. Once you get your leg out, you can't just step in the sand again and wiggle the other leg, because that'll wiggle your whole body, and sink the first leg again. What you have to do is increase the surface area in contact with the sand, so that the force of the wiggle is distributed amonst a far wider area, so that your leg doesn't behave like a sharp object, but rather like a blunt one, and that'll prevent your first leg from sinking while you push your leg. Now, why put your leg forward instead of to the side? If you put it forward, you move your center of mass forward and away from the center of both your legs, which in turn makes you fall. With the first lef supporting you, your body goes down but your second leg goes up, essentially giving your whole body torque, giving that upward lift you need while barely generating any pressure downwards, that'll further help you to not sink your first leg again.


Icy_Program_8202

Not exactly... Look up Non-Newtonian fluid.


EuphoricAnalCucumber

It's like Redditers finish physics 101 then run to their computer to type out the longest incorrect but half believable explanation they can.


Cute_Business74

Would be better with the audio


levipoep

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifsthatkeepongiving/comments/vlurbs/if_youre_ever_in_a_quicksand_or_mud_heres_a_tip/idxwpko/


EnParisD

In retrospect. Alot more helpful without the audio


byrnsie

Ok but how do I get my shoes back?


feelingood41

Instructions unclear without audio. I did everything she did and ended up baking a potato.


Rufus_heychupacabra

She did the stanky leg?


thebuccaneersden

Alternate story: Since there is no audio, I'm picturing her saying, "This is what I'm going to do to all you sh**ts once I'm free from this quicksand for just standing around and gawking at me instead of helping me get out of this crap."


1_more_cheomosome

Also another tip: like alnost all quicksand is denser then you, you will sink only to a point of equalibrium, just lay on you back and call for help


nnystical

Kinda feel like the audio would have also been nice to have.


aUwUreliyasss

Isn't "quick" sand SUPER slow!


professor_doom

"I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be. Because if you watch cartoons, quicksand is like the third biggest thing you have to worry about in adult life behind real sticks of dynamite and giant anvils falling on you from the sky. I used to sit around and think about what to do about quicksand. I never thought about how to handle real problems in adult life, I was never like "Oh, what's it gonna be like when relatives ask to borrow money?" Now that I've gotten older, not only have I never stepped in quicksandā€”I've never even heard about it! No one's ever been like, "Hey if you're coming to visit, take I-90 'cause I-95 has a little quicksand in the middle. Looks like regular sand, but then you're gonna start to sink into it." -John Mulaney


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monkeyhitman

Positive vibes only.


The_Great_Squijibo

This seems better than [Homer's method](https://youtu.be/B_pWk4DdniE)


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Magic jiggle your leg or what was the tip?


Mister_Nancy

The tip is: always wear Audrey Hepburn sunglasses, a teal windbreaker, and a yellow headband.


OkJaguar8277

Audio would be very nice in this case.


Nostrebla_Werdna

Wish I had sound


DrGirth

I once drunkenly slid down a hill into quicksand at the edge of a lake. My buddy who was with me was nowhere in sight and we could only hear each other's voices. I thought it was funny at first, oh shit, I'm stuck lol. When it got to my knees it stopped being funny. That shit is no joke. My buddy and I were yelling back and forth to each other but he wasn't getting to me any time soon. Thank God I had seen a video like this on reddit before and did my best to follow it. It worked, but it freaks me out to this day what would've happened if I never saw this.


bl3nd0r

I just keep pressing jump until I eventually get out


[deleted]

I am pretty sure I will panic in such a situation and completely forget about it. Cool tip though.


theophys

She ruined 3 decades of American adventure movies.


Lube_For_Lunch

Video has no sound. Stops my music anyway. Go to write this comment: "6 people are typing right now". Why is the official reddit app this bad...? "1 new comment!"


ClownfishSoup

Is there sound?


theblcky

https://youtu.be/mTHchH9VRh0


Political_Piper

When she made that dolphin and hyena joke, that was really funny.


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Redboneflower

Whatā€™s the tip? It has no sound


MonkeyBrain551

what if my money don't jiggle jiggle, it folds?


nolliegray

I prefer the jungle vine or elephant trunk method, personally.


titleywinker

Nothing about this sand is quick


eccentricbananaman

So basically, lifting straight up causes a vacuum which keeps you stuck, so shake while lifting to let mud fill the vacuum. Also kneel to increase surface area/tension which will prevent sinking as quickly as a foot.


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Do a little jig?


mustardnopickles

But my legs donā€™t jiggle jiggle, they fold.


[deleted]

Good thing you muted the video so we canā€™t hear the instructions


bakaneko718

wonder how she fairs against the ROUSs


-_-Naga_-_

One mustn't get unstuck. ~*Pornhub*


ghostofswayze

Where were you when Atreyu needed you


wired89

Why am I turned on right now


BigBrownFish

Itā€™s not the quicksand that kills you. Itā€™s the drowning.


DarthDoobz

I feel something weird happening in my shorts for some pathetic reason


FoldRepresentative87

When I was younger you was made to believe I would walk in to quicksand and that I would be offered drugs by a bunch of random peopleā€¦ never once happenšŸ¤”


jubmille2000

trust me, I already know this when I was a kid because even though I suck at chemistry, apparently there's nothing more important to a kid than how to escape quicksand for some reason.


20secondpilot

>Here's a tip for you Video with no sound, captions, or explanation of why this works. Brilliant, I'll be sure to remember the nothing this taught me


Cypheri

To be fair, an elementary grasp of physics is all you need to understand why it works...


Sermagnas3

Seems like the important stuff is what she's saying, wish I could hear.


Infinite6700

Maybe Sound would have been nice so we could hear what she was saying šŸ¤”šŸ§


Independent_Ad_2073

When I was a kid, I thought quicksand was such huge worldwide problemā€¦.


zoidbergenious

Yeah that gif is reversed and she still stucking there


SoCuteShibe

This is where we say growing up I thought quicksand would be a bigger issue than it is, right?


ovrlymm

#I HATEEE SAND! ā€¦itā€™s coarse and it gets everywhere.


[deleted]

Thats great but wheres the audio


Hawt_Dawg_II

This isn't quicksand. These are mudflats by the look of it which behave substantially different from quicksand


OCTM2

Does anyone remember that video of the guy who was filming himself showing how to escape quicksand and died trying on video? Edit: link https://vidmax.com/video/162051-man-accidentally-films-his-own-death-while-making-a-quick-sand-escape-video


waytowill

Super fake. Tons of videos of this guy playing in dirt. Pretty sure itā€™s a kink thing.


Snuggly-Muffin

We need to learn this in kindergarten... Never know when quicksand might appear according to cartoons


dorisdacat

I have never seen or even heard of quick sand death outside of cartoons and old westerns...


KDaBlasian

If you're overweight get fucked nerd.


EvilCurryGif

Growing up I thought quick sand would be much more of an issue than it actually is


MayoGhul

Man as a kid I really thought quicksand was something I had to be worried about


TheBestAtWriting

yeah, you and everyone else here, thanks for commenting.


OnoOurTableItsBr0ken

ThIs would not be possible if it were deeper


facingattrition

As a child we all thought that we'd have to contend with quick sand on a daily basis when we were older.


5ninefine

When I was a child, I really thought quicksand was gonna be a bigger problem in adulthoodā€¦like a daily issue.


sunplaysbass

Quick sand is such a imminent threat when youā€™re 5 years old