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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

As a kid, I always assumed if someone fell down the stairs--they died. It just appeared that way often enough in tv and movies.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair falling down the stairs could very easily kill you if you land wrong.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

For sure!! I just assumed every instance had to end in death for some reason. I just remember eventually seeing someone on tv not die after falling down stairs and i was stunned, lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That one is way more true than "if you swim after you eat you will die". And even the swimming one is way more true than the interpretation that most people had that if you just enter the water, you will die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If you really want something crazy, look up "fan death".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

As a kid I would have been fine falling down staris.

Now, overweight and in my 40s I get it. I slipped on porch steps last year and went down 3 steps and I had to go to the ER and was basically bedridden for a week.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just a random fact that had barely anything to do with anything: In parts of Germany, there is the saying "did you fall down the stairs backwards" when someone cuts their hair quite short. I am from a part of Germany where this is not common and first time I heard it, it was a mentally handicapped person so I assumed he was just talking random stuff as he often did until I was told that that is common here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's such a fun tangent! Thanks for sharing that 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What shows were you watching? I can only think of the Exorcist and Psycho, but those are kind of unique falls. All the others I can think of were comedy pratfalls and definitely not fatal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I wish i could remember! Guess I'm old enough now to have forgotten where those ideas even came from. Whatever it was, it was likely in the early-mid 80's...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you faint, you can hurt yourself pretty badly by just falling to the ground; now imagine the same thing with stairs.

Even if awake, falling down the stairs has the risk of you hitting your head/neck/back, so it might be exaggerated somehow in movies, but still potentially bad.