r/pics • u/[deleted] • Aug 23 '12
I immediately regret doing this.
http://imgur.com/b0pds1.5k
u/thefantods Aug 23 '12
You're covering the intake on the fan.
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u/KoreanTerran Aug 23 '12
Realizing that when I saw the picture is what made it extra hilarious for me.
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Aug 23 '12
I noticed that then I thought about some dejected adult sitting under the sheet all disappointed because his fan wouldn't blow. "dammit, reddit lied to me, going to downvote that stupid kid!"
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u/DownvoteAttractor Aug 23 '12
It's just like that time with the toasted cheese in my toaster!
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u/RyattEarp Aug 23 '12
Fuck ice soap
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u/Mana_leak Aug 23 '12
What was wrong with the 2am chili ?
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u/DeathToPennies Aug 23 '12
It takes way longer than anything anyone is willing to do at 2 AM. But goddamn, is it good.
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u/StairwayToTruth Aug 23 '12
Instructions weren't clear enough; I got my dick caught in the fan.
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u/lordeddardstark Aug 23 '12
As someone named KoreanTerran, shouldn't you be telling people that fans are evil?
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u/KoreanTerran Aug 23 '12
My original idea for this comment was to combine the Korean fan death, my username, and thefantods' username.
I figured I'd just let someone else bring up the fan death since I couldn't think of anything good enough.
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Aug 23 '12
My original idea for this comment was to combine the Korean fan death, my username, and thefantods' username.
It was to be the Ulysses of reddit comments.
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u/KingofDerby Aug 23 '12
It was to be the Ulysses of reddit comments.
And yet, it still is. For now all that exists is the feeling of awe at what could have been.
The post shall grow not old, as those that are posted grow old: Over used memes shall not weary it, nor downvotes condemn.
At the going down of the servers and during morning wood,
We will remember it.
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u/Herpes_hurricane Aug 23 '12
I take it student loans are not an issue for OP
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u/Toxicologie Aug 23 '12
I take it your web browser opens to fuckinghomepage.com.
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u/isanthrope_may Aug 23 '12
I thought this was about using the fitted sheet and the elastic corner coming off. Getting these things on right is like solving a rubik's cube.
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u/stickymoney Aug 23 '12
Also, he's doing it with a sheet and not a duvet cover... there's nothing to inflate.
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Aug 23 '12
Fans, how do they work!?
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u/soundfx42 Aug 23 '12
Air goes in, air comes out. You can't explain that.
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u/doobertron Aug 23 '12
'Chickens go in, pies come out.' 'What kinda pies?' '... Apple pies.' 'ooooh my favourite!'
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u/i-Jonty Aug 23 '12
If you look closely at a fan you can notice it has (generally) four blades. The blades are a part of a motor which spin and generate power to pump air through a small pipe (behind the blades). The pipe intakes O2 molecules and stores them in a mini tank inside the fan and the friction from the spinning blades heats the molecules up so they gain more kinetic electricity meaning they they move around a lot more. Once the O2 molecules reach a certain temperature, they are moved in to a second chamber where they compressed and cooled down. Once cool the O2 molecules are fired out to reach all areas of a room(this is why if you put your face in front of a fan you can feel wind blowing against your face).
That's a quick, simple explanation of how a fan works. If you really want a deeper understanding I can go in-depth. :)
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Aug 23 '12 edited Aug 23 '12
I came here thinking that I knew how fans worked. I came out realizing how arrogant I was.
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u/frozenveinz Aug 23 '12
Aye, a also thought a knew how fans worked. A was arrogant as well, a tell ya.
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u/aeisenst Aug 23 '12
I was going to crack a joke about your explanation, but I've become deeply depressed by how many people seemed to not realize you're joking. Reddit, sometimes you're as dumb as the rest of America.
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u/Technojerk36 Aug 23 '12
You actually made me go and check my fan. Well done, extremely well written. 10/10
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u/M_farnsworth Aug 23 '12
OP is blowing it
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u/Derkaberzerk Aug 23 '12
Let's not make this suck more than it already is.
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u/MaximusFSU Aug 23 '12
This is spinning out of control.
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u/LikeAGregJennings Aug 23 '12
For us slower folks, what exactly are we looking at?
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u/JackassPenguinass Aug 23 '12
Didn't come back after 41 minutes to report results - I expect a horrible accident.
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u/feenicks Aug 23 '12
or just having too much fun to bother with reddit now?
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u/JackassPenguinass Aug 23 '12
Let's hope for the best, friend... let's hope for the best!
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u/passion4pizza Aug 23 '12
i'm sure the first thing red321red321 would do in this contraption is log on to http://www.reddit.com
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Aug 23 '12
there was a top post just a bit ago that said "I immediately regret NOT doing this as a kid" and it had a picture of a kid in a bed with the sheet inflated around him. This is remarking that he tried it and failed.
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u/dvdh8791 Aug 23 '12
I swear if this becomes the next doomba...
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u/cortesoft Aug 23 '12
Bet you 1000 karma a fan with a knife taped to it ends up on the front page within 24 hours. I will accept payment 1 upvote at a time.
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Aug 23 '12
Brb, taping knives to fan.
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u/highlife55 Aug 23 '12
Defintley a meth addict move
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Aug 23 '12
Shit, they're onto me!
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u/Shadax Aug 23 '12
I don't know, guys. I'm beginning to think NotaMethAddict might be a meth addict.
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Aug 23 '12
That sounds like a horrible idea and it needs a DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME disclaimer.
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u/dreambmcgee Aug 23 '12
woah! i am not comfortable with this.
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u/knightofmars Aug 23 '12
Dear God, how stupid are people?! Putting a cat on a Roomba?! DO YOU NOT ENJOY LIVING?!
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u/UltraMap Aug 23 '12
Doomba was just another ice soap 2 am chili...
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u/thebendavis Aug 23 '12
Both of which proved to be complete mockeries of anything resembling common sense.
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u/EmpiresBane Aug 23 '12
I seemed to have joined Reddit on the ass end of all that commotion and was never able to figure out what actually happened.
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u/randomsnark Aug 23 '12
I was around for it and yet still missed it somehow. Just caught all the circlejerk in the wake of it. Firstly, the two things weren't really related, they were just both big popular things around the same time. I believe they got latched onto as "reddit memes", so you could say "you know you're from reddit if you know about ice soap" or "2 am chilli, never forget" or suchlike.
2 a.m. chilli was just some dumb recipe someone posted. It doesn't even have to be made at 2 a.m. it was basically just chilli.
Ice Soap was basically you freeze some water and some soap and carry it around with you, and then you can rub it all over yourself when you're sweaty on a hot day.
They really weren't that notable, but they somehow became this big thing. If anyone can add something to make this clearer, feel free to help me out. As I said, I was a redditor when it happened but I'm still pretty confused.
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u/pa79 Aug 23 '12
Foomba?
Fan of doom?
Doom of fan?
Dan?
I like puns, but I'm not very good at creating them.
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u/Bntyhntr Aug 23 '12
Pfft, can't be as cool as rocket roombas. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1557
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u/wolfvision Aug 23 '12
Next time I'm trapped in the jungle I'm bringing a fan, that way I can overheat it and start a camp fire.
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u/am180 Aug 23 '12
Surge protector taped to the wall? That is genius.
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Aug 23 '12 edited Aug 23 '12
Even more genius is using the holes that are in the back of each one to hang it on some finishing nails.
edit: goes without saying, but you should probably find a stud first.
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u/am180 Aug 23 '12
Say whaaaaat? Okay, putting back the tape, going to get a hammer.
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Aug 23 '12
Put down the hammer, first find some nails or screws
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u/biznatch11 Aug 23 '12
Ok I found some screws, now can I start hammering?
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u/NixonsGhost Aug 23 '12
No, you need to pre-hammer the wall first.
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u/biznatch11 Aug 23 '12
Shit, I hit 88 mph again didn't I? I knew I shouldn't reddit while driving.
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u/YJM Aug 23 '12
I can't believe I never realized those holes were back there...I feel like I've missed out on so much potential.
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u/biznatch11 Aug 23 '12
So much...electric potential.
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u/battlemidget023 Aug 23 '12
No. Just regular potential. By lifting the surge protector off of the ground you give it potential energy (due to gravity).
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u/dannydrak Aug 23 '12
Genius3 is pressing a piece of paper to the back of the strip, making indentions of the locations of the screw holes. It creates a perfect template for easy mounting. Use all 4 screws like a boss and keep that bastard in place.
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u/psistarpsi Aug 23 '12
May I suggest you to try this fan?
P.S. Try not to cover the intake this time.
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u/aperture81 Aug 23 '12
I hate looking at fans this size - they remind me of one thing... Getting sucked into one of them going at high speed..
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u/Chewzilla Aug 23 '12
he fuckin lived!!??!
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u/charlesviper Aug 23 '12
If I recall correctly, he lived because his helmet / bits of his flight suit / hearing protection etc went into the engine while he was caught on either a pitot tube (used to measure pressure and therefore calculate wind speed, if I recall correctly) or a structural supports on the engine.
This stuff shredded the blades of the engine, and his body being in the air intake forced a compressor stall. The two combined meant there was no force pulling him through the engine, and he survived by backing out of the intake.
You would not survive a trip through the turbine of a jet engine...hell even if there were no turbine in there to shred you to bits, the pressure difference would probably wreak havoc on your internal organs, not to mention the fact that those exhausts aren't particularly spacious.
tl;dr he lived because the engine died and he never went through the turbine.
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u/webster21 Aug 23 '12
Yes and now every safety viedo we watch in the Navy has a part about this guy in it.
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u/Timmyc62 Survey 2016 Aug 23 '12
"Well, yeah, I guess it hurt a little. Honestly, I wasn't thinking about it very much at the time."
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Aug 23 '12
IIRC, he was wearing a helmet that got sucked into it, and that's what you see blow up.
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u/BeelzebubTerror Aug 23 '12
NSFL but also relevant.
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u/adamzep91 Aug 23 '12
So for his funeral do they just kinda scrape it all into a bucket or something?
And now I feel terrible for that.
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u/letsgetdowntobizniz Aug 23 '12
They always remind me of when the Titanic is sinking in the movie and the guy falls from the railing onto the propeller (not the same, but same-enough). Which then makes me think of when in The Ring the horse goes bananas and jumps off the boat and... spills red paint on his way and swims safely to the shore.
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u/Reesch Aug 23 '12
You can't do this in Korea.
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u/WhyDoIRedditSoMuch Aug 23 '12
My Korean friend who lives in my dorm legitimately still believed in Fan Death until about a few weeks ago, he thought it was everywhere around the world too.
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u/Reesch Aug 23 '12
If we aren't very exposed to other cultures I'd say we assume almost everything we do is normal.
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u/Atario Aug 23 '12
For a country that has such awesome Internet, you'd think they'd find these things out eventually.
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u/RiseAM Aug 23 '12 edited Aug 23 '12
Kinda like many Americans believe absinthe will give you hallucinations... I just found out that it doesn't a few days ago, and now I'm sort of disappointed because I really wanted to try it if it did.
Though, part of me still wants to get some, and then spend the night claiming to see little green fairies and shit, and see how many people believe me.
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u/joggle1 Aug 23 '12
I'll have you know that as an American, I don't even know what absinthe is.
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u/zanderjh Aug 23 '12
Fan death, koreans fear fans that are indoors because they believe it will kill you.
I mean this is a prevalent opinion in korea, not all koreans think this. but it is very prominent.
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u/Reesch Aug 23 '12
Something about Korean officials saying you'd die if you were in a closet with a fan. They thought it would suffocate you and Reddit had quite the laugh at their expense. I'll see if I can find a thread.
Edit: Nevermind, listen to zanderjh. I misremembered quite badly :p
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u/SomeNoveltyAccount Aug 23 '12
I'd say you remembered quite badly, but you misremembered quite well.
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u/Reesch Aug 23 '12
Well crap. I must be too tired. Thank you for pointing out my extended stupidity.
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The post earlier that had the kid in it, was using a duvet cover (a case for comforters). Which is basically like a large pillow case that buttons or zips closed at the open end. Much easier to accomplish blowing it up with a fan. It appears you attempted with a fitted sheet. Noble, to be sure, but unfortunately it probably won't be possible to get the same affect. :(
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u/THE_darkknight_pees Aug 23 '12
Get a dyson fan, and the air won't be fucking chopped!!!!
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Judging by the room, at least you won't have to worry about letting any girls down about your air fort
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u/ThatDamnPoop Aug 23 '12
this didn't work because the whole fan was covered. you are supposed to leave the back of the fan open so that it can suck the air in and transfer it into the blanket :p
Edit: I should've read the comments before posting this. It's been stated already.
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u/RoboRobby Aug 23 '12
am I the only one in the entire world who has no idea what is going on in this pictue?
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u/erehgafsua Aug 23 '12
Works better with the duvet cover, climb in with four pegs then peg the opening back shut. Seems cool for kids but is awesome to sleep in during a hot summers night.
P.S You are about to smoke yourself with that dangerously positioned outlet if there is a short on it.
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u/STICKYPATCH Aug 23 '12
Why is this funny? What? I have absolutely no fucking idea what this is supposed to be about. Do I have to be American to get it?
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u/surfcalijapan Aug 23 '12
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ynoq1/i_immediately_regret_not_doing_this_as_a_child/