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

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@jerry I think that, much like quicksand, it was very overhyped.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

I grew up thinking that I was going to have way more problems with quicksand and ring around the collar.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@Lightfighter great minds and all that.

[manicpxisiemgrl@infosec.exchange]

@jerry but what about horse eating tar pits?!

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@manicPxiSIEMGrl those were certainly on my mind, but quicksand seemed much more common

[mathaetaes@infosec.exchange]

@jerry We stopped wearing white, collared shirts... and the ones we do wear just get thrown away faster.

My family definitely has some old white collared shirts with discoloration that doesn't come out in the wash. I'm just too much of a dirtbag to throw them away or worry about it.

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@jerry The amount of drugs NOT offered to me is bullshit.

That and I am way over concerned about being kidnapped.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@mathaetaes I had a feeling the answer was "we stopped caring"

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@jackryder so very very true

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@jerry It's real. I had to get rid of a few of my button-downs because the insides of the collars were looking pretty nasty and even bleach wasn't getting them clean.

Organic bodies are kinda nasty sometimes.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@trollball.bsky.social this is probably the best explanation

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@jackryder @jerry True.

[somcak@beige.party]

@jerry quicksand and lasers we going to be my downfall for sure. They've never surfaced as a problem. I want a refund.

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@jerry It's been replaced by 'chemical free' and 'natural' and whatnot.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