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Alizee-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States845 Posts
September 02 2008 06:11 GMT
#81
...a climatologist to explain the effects of a fan lol wtf I don't even know where to begin with this, I closed my door and had a fan on every single day for years even though my room was the hottest in the house, I woke up hella thirsty, but no big deal. Seriously when people are 70+ when health conditions nearly anything can kill them..so the fan kills them? without the fan they'd probably die too, its so stupid to have "experts" even say anything on the matter. And yeah people lived outside for thousands of years, now all of a sudden a breeze can kil you. Get a clothespin for your nose, attach a 120 mm fan to your mouth and then you might die.
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fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
September 02 2008 07:01 GMT
#82
Just a lie propagated by the government to cut down on the amount of energy used.
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x_woof_x
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States659 Posts
September 02 2008 07:37 GMT
#83
im korean, but whoever believes in that fan death shit i must say, is retarded
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MyLostTemple *
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2921 Posts
September 02 2008 08:32 GMT
#84
lol i've met koreans who believe this! it's so funny.
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.Ix
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Philippines266 Posts
September 02 2008 10:10 GMT
#85
On September 02 2008 08:39 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
At first I thought that koreans were afraid of the cover flying off and the spinning blade flying and decapitating you. That seems more plausible than their theories ;\




When I was in high school, I was chilling out in front of the classroom fan when the front cover fell off. It hit the spinning blade, broke a small part of it, and launched the broken bit right into my left eyebrow. I didn't notice it until my classmate told me, but it was bleeding LOL, so I went to the infirmary to get it stitched. Less than an inch above my eye, holy shit.


pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
September 02 2008 11:21 GMT
#86
LOL wtf??
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 02 2008 11:44 GMT
#87
roflllllll i read about this a while ago its so stupid haha
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Angel[BTL]
Profile Joined February 2003
Romania345 Posts
September 02 2008 11:46 GMT
#88
This thread is gold. It's also about how myths arise. Maybe mass isteria?
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Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
September 02 2008 11:57 GMT
#89
I find this topic really interesting.

It's pretty cool how a silly rumour can reach the point where a whole nation believes it to be true.
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Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-02 14:06:04
September 02 2008 14:04 GMT
#90
On September 02 2008 03:33 fusionsdf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2008 18:31 BlackStar wrote:
wtf lol?

One of the strangest things I have ever heard, haha.


On September 01 2008 12:52 HumbleZealot wrote:
This is utter bullshit, for the past few years I've always slept with my fan on when its hot and I keep it on throughout the night.



I am amazed you think this proves it is bullshit.


well all I know is I've kept my fan on for like 3 months straight, and 90% of the time my window is closed

I have occasionally gone to bed drunk during this timeline

so if it was fatal, I think I would have felt something

Anecdotal evidence is not the way to refute claims based on anecdotal evidence.

Edit: To be clear, this is obviously bullshit. I just mean that saying "Well I've slept with a fan a lot and I'm not dead!" isn't the way to go about proving that.
Juanpe
Profile Joined May 2008
Uruguay283 Posts
September 02 2008 14:21 GMT
#91
Rofl wtf??? Almost every summer I do this and i´m still alive... and since 2000 to 2004 i used the shities fan ever and nothing happend...
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32160 Posts
September 02 2008 14:30 GMT
#92
I knew about this for a while, and I still laugh at thought of millions of old korean ladies turning off their kids fans at night
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BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
September 03 2008 17:09 GMT
#93
I've heard that this "fan death" theory was perpetuated by finding some people dead in a room with a fan on.

Ignoring the fact that these "fan victims" had health problems, were elderly, or massively intoxicated, this would seem to indicate that fans do actually cause death. Somehow. Well, obviously the fans aren't doing anything but pushing air, so this must mean that they somehow create a "vortex" that, while not completely devoid of oxygen, somehow is fatal to humans. Or EM waves. Or uhm... yeah, they ionize the... air.... and that kills you.

Remember, folks, this is the country where people hang up plastic gloves filled with water "to keep flies away." And boil cats alive and drink the concoction "to help rheumatism."
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CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
September 03 2008 18:03 GMT
#94
On September 04 2008 02:09 BottleAbuser wrote:
And boil cats alive and drink the concoction "to help rheumatism."

lol they actually do this? jesus
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Romanian
Profile Joined February 2008
Romania5 Posts
September 03 2008 18:54 GMT
#95
They push away the air so yeah it is really obvious they are dangerous when you sleep obviously, you wont even know that you aint breathing air and choke to deaht.
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
September 03 2008 19:12 GMT
#96
I found this a bit funny:

That fans contribute to hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature.


And right after:

That fans contribute to hyperthermia, commonly known as heatstroke
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
September 03 2008 19:12 GMT
#97
On September 02 2008 19:10 .Ix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 02 2008 08:39 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
At first I thought that koreans were afraid of the cover flying off and the spinning blade flying and decapitating you. That seems more plausible than their theories ;\




When I was in high school, I was chilling out in front of the classroom fan when the front cover fell off. It hit the spinning blade, broke a small part of it, and launched the broken bit right into my left eyebrow. I didn't notice it until my classmate told me, but it was bleeding LOL, so I went to the infirmary to get it stitched. Less than an inch above my eye, holy shit.




oh dang, thats so close hitting your eye. you ok?
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-03 19:17:22
September 03 2008 19:16 GMT
#98
Convenient myth, for saving energy imo conspiracy.
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
September 03 2008 20:07 GMT
#99
lol the dehydration part might have some backing. I feel much more thirsty with the fan on, that's easy to understand why. And wikipidia dehydration page does say it increases heart rate a lil bit.

So I suppose that if we're talking about a..
- town with very low humidity
- some very old man
- who already wasn't well hydrated before going to bed (wikipedia says old ppl don't feel the effects of it as well)
- old man already have heart health issues (we all heard of old ppl dying of heart attacks because of very small rate increases)

Then I suppose it's plausible for old guy to die at night of heart attack. And one of the many things that helped the heart attack could be... the fan... lol
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Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
September 03 2008 20:17 GMT
#100
Wow I had never heard of this, but I asked my Korean friend and she swore to me that it was true. It was hard to stop myself from laughing at her.
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
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