This talk of rings reminds me - I never hear about the scourge of laundry doers worldwide from 40 years ago - ring around the collar.

[mathaetaes@infosec.exchange]

@jerry It's been replaced by 'chemical free' and 'natural' and whatnot.

Sadly, my partner was raised with no mechanism for skepticism, and buys into it completely.

[zcutlip@hachyderm.io]

@jerry There was the quicksand and also a lot of misplaced concern about playing with abandoned refrigerators

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@zcutlip I had completely forgot about that. but you are right

[chronovore@infosec.exchange]

@jerry personally I thought I would have encountered more falling anvils and exploding cigars. I can, in fact, count on one hand the number of falling pianos I've come across (0).

[varx@cybersecurity.theater]

@zcutlip @jerry Fridges used to have latching doors and a bunch of kids *did* die until those latches were made illegal.

Refrigerator death - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Dismissing it now reminds me of Y2K. ("Well, that was a big nothing-burger." Yeah, people worked to make sure it was!)

[reverseics@infosec.exchange]

@jerry I also thought that venemous snake wounds in which I would have to lacerate the injured and suck out venom in order to save them would be at least a weekly occurrence in my adult life.

[gangrif@social.undrground.org]

@Lightfighter @jerry I legit once fell into a mud hole that was very much like quick sand while i was out hiking with a friend. Only luck got my hand to something solid before i was fully submerged.

I dont think it'd have been as hard to escape as quick sand supposedly is.

All i got.

Not once have i witnessed ring around the collar. More elusive than quick sand (or.. mud) in my experience.

[reverseics@infosec.exchange]

@jerry Perhaps there is a causal effect at play. The lack of venomous snake wounds accounts for collar ring not being a problem anymore.

Like, running to save people from dying of poison, then holding them down to operate, is a lot of work and would certainly make a normal businessperson perspire, thereby staining the collar of their shirt. Maybe this problem was a lot more common in the 60s and 70s, and advancements in venomous snake management are having the unintended effect of making our shirts cleaner.

[gangrif@social.undrground.org]

@Lightfighter @jerry it was like you see in cartoons by the way. One moment im walking on solid ground, the next im falling through what looked like a solid patch of trail. Crazy.

[corq@infosec.exchange]

@jerry "RING AROUND THE COLLAR?!?!?!"

For the youngsters:

TikTok - Make Your Day

(www.tiktok.com)

[infosecstuc@infosec.exchange]

@jerry I have generally found, that by leaving the ring around my bath I can avoid leaving it around my collar.

[pauliehedron@infosec.exchange]

@jerry It all changed when IBM went polos...

[binsk@infosec.exchange]

@jerry I love that story. Wisk invented it--it was never a thing. And yet, however many years later, I still remember the name of the detergent that resolved that non-problem.

[hcf@infosec.exchange]

@jerry I never heard of such fears. But being born in the USSR I grew up instead with a fear that Americans were going to nuke us.

"Mama, do you think they'll drop the bomb?.."