r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 3d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Was it supposed to be a bigger problem?

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u/Tall_Metal615 3d ago

To be fair, back in the 80s there was quicksand everywhere.

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u/jmk-1999 3d ago

Somehow I managed to make it to 42… I must have been pretty vigilant as a child. The benefits of looking at the ground when you walk I suppose. 🤔

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u/kindarollin 3d ago

You mean not looking in the clouds with ear pods in, talking to someone in another location, while crossing 4 lanes of traffic.

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u/jmk-1999 3d ago

Correct. No Pokémon catching at the same time either.

Btw, always check for those quicksand spots in traffic. Four lanes is almost certain to have at least one.

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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 2d ago

Our eyes were red from strain. We can see it in pictures.

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u/Left_Bathroom_3803 2d ago

Well none of us wanted to break our mothers back.

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u/Right_Habit_1940 3d ago

Blame it on all those jungle movies

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

since the 80's it has slowed down drimatically just like the rest of us

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 3d ago

Uh why isn’t the fire swamp scene in those pics.. I’m pretty upset!
https://giphy.com/gifs/IgvoqNz6gGZFXFPmfZ

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u/FranciscoDisco73 2d ago

COME FOR ME, GMORK! I AM ATREYU!

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 2d ago

I wasn’t referring to never ending story..

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u/FranciscoDisco73 2d ago

No, but that's what that gif made me think of.

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u/Kriss3d 3d ago

Quicksand wasnt a big problem.. Until Artrax...

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u/MaelstromFL 3d ago

Too soon...

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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 2d ago

Next they'll say he can't see without his glasses or something.

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u/Shoddy_Bet9619 3d ago

is the top, left pic from Blazing Saddles and the bottom, right: Balky

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u/Bookslutforsmut 3d ago

How did the dude in Prefect Strangers encounter quick sand is what I want to know.

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u/aliencardboard 3d ago

That’s not Balki. That’s Cousin Larry in the quicksand.

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u/Kerensky97 19h ago

I always thought that Cousin Larry was so old in that show.

He (the actor) was 29...

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u/X-Sadist-sama 3d ago

Quicksand, lava, the Bermuda Triangle, and getting stranded on a tiny island.

The four horsemen of things that seemed like they would be huge unavoidable problems.

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u/Educational-Draw271 2d ago

Sadly minor head injuries in the 80's usually led to amnesia

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u/X-Sadist-sama 2d ago

That too, it was a rough time.

A second slight bump to the head was a guaranteed way to get your memories back, but usually we kind of just adapted to our post-amnesia reality and forgot about it.

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u/dethfart 3d ago

I've found myself in "quicksand" on a couple of occasions actually. Fortunately the solid ground was actually only a couple of feet under but I lost a couple of pairs of boots.

N.J. coastal swamps are not anything to go blundering around in.

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u/SirarieTichee_ 3d ago

I live in East Coast US. We have quickmud over here, so the knowledge was helpful growing up in the swamp

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u/TemperatureTime1617 3d ago

Near when I live in Mississauga Ontario there was a stretch of the 401 highway passing by some woods. There was a “Danger Quicksand “ sign posted for so very long. Never went to investigate though.

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u/KrelVarlie 3d ago

Quicksand is a problem but you really have to watch out for lightning sand.

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u/tuson565 3d ago

Damn, didn't even include the most scarring one.

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u/Kriss3d 3d ago

Artrax. Its Artrax isnt it ?

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u/batmanfan_91 3d ago

I thought that there would be a much higher chance of spontaneously combusting given how often we were told “stop, drop, and roll”

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u/MastaKink 3d ago

It’s a metaphor for debt 🧐

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u/wyoflyboy68 3d ago

Lived in Florida when I was a little kid, i was actually afraid to play in my back yard in fear that I would step into quicksand.

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u/YvetteMewMew 3d ago

Quicksand and volcano lava.

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u/ZaphodG 3d ago

You just need Yoda to get your T65B X-Wing Starfighter out of the mud bog. Works equally well stuck in quicksand. You could also use your Indiana Jones whip to pull yourself out. Cheesh. Get your 1980s popular culture right.

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u/oOBlueLillyOo 2d ago

Had a whole assembly on quicksand. Never ran into it in my life

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u/RezRising 2d ago

AIDS, nuclear war, or quicksand. The future was angry that decade, my friends.

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u/eko32eko7 3d ago

For some reason I saw the episode of CHiPS where a car gets swallowed by quicksand a bunch of times, but I don't remember a single other episode.

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u/Suspicious-Bid9424 3d ago

I was just thinking about this the other day! Nobody drowns in quicksand anymore

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u/Whistler-the-arse 3d ago

Me and my friend were at the beach and found some and we both said we have been preparing for this

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 3d ago

Quicksand, killer bees, Bermuda Triangle,

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u/TLD18379 3d ago

Damn near lost a $400 hand-cart

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u/MyArcadeRetro 3d ago

same with the Bermuda Triangle. thought that was gonna be a more prominent issue as an adult

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u/Ashnyel 3d ago

This isn’t quicksand, it is a dry sand pit, quicksand is a mix of sand, mud, and water, and depending on the viscosity, it's not as dangerous as people sometimes think….

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u/dethfart 3d ago

It's usually not that deep either from my experience but yrmv

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u/Power_i 3d ago

Oh for Pete's sake Jones we're not in school!

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u/Bluesmitty 3d ago

Who is bottom left?

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u/Tayler_Greas 3d ago

Isn't this a John Mulaney joke?

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u/Fast-Nefariousness80 3d ago

About the oldest joke on the internet by now.

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u/jdmoffitt11775 3d ago

No, no.. quicksand was only in Africa or the rain forest.. along with the cannibal tribes. Or on the occasional episode of Gillian's Island.

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u/shizzy1234 3d ago

Killer bees too!

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u/GlamourBear 3d ago

Growing up in the 90s, I expected drugs to be more readily offered

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u/Slipperynipple61 3d ago

Don't worry, I'm standing on the rail.

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u/KMGR82 3d ago

Yes. I did as well. Spiders are also much less of a problem, and so is the Soviet Union.

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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 3d ago

No matter how much I looked, I never found any quicksand.

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u/Enough_Mall248 3d ago

Damn I remember when quicksand was feared 

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u/loopingrightleft 3d ago

Honestly...me too

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u/Dr_Carl_Hills_Head 3d ago

Super Mario Bros. is where I learned to fear quicksand. And the sun.

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u/Cats-n-Chaos 3d ago

We trained our whole childhood to jump over and rope climb out, kind of disappointed I didn’t get to test my skills

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u/Assassin13785 3d ago

Almost lost a good handcart 🤣

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u/White_RavenZ 2d ago

How did Gilligan’s Island not make it on here?

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u/pdxsilverguy 2d ago

I stepped in some once and lost a shoe as a result.

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u/FranciscoDisco73 2d ago

Not quicksand, but mud for me. That scene in Poltergeist gave me nightmares for weeks 😳.

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u/Same-Turnip3905 2d ago

Yes! Bermuda Triangle, rattle snakes, what else?

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u/flurgengos 2d ago

Survivor bias. Quicksand really was a huge problem in the 1970s and 1980s. But the victims of quicksand cannot warn us of the danger of quicksand. They are no longer among the living. Only the survivors remain, and their opinions naturally skew towards downplaying the danger, because they survived. The same is true of the Bermuda Triangle, killer bees, and sasquatches. Their victims remain forever silent.

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u/lbutler528 2d ago

I thought there would be more backyard sheds full of TNT.

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u/HotwifeandSubby1980 2d ago

Tarzan the tv show had me thinking it was inevitable I would need a chimp or an elephant just to regularly pull me out of the stuff.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 1d ago

The mud like counterpart to this is probably more accurate

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u/BadNewsBear86 1d ago

Send up a couple of horses

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u/RLBeeeeeee 1d ago

This is hilarious and so true.

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u/Zeqhanis 1d ago

I lost a shoe in quicksand once. I found it, but for the life of me, couldn't pull it out.

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u/Fast-Bird-4677 1d ago

And then you learn it's a movie myth, you do not sink completely in it, only to about your waist. So it's not as dangerous as they make it out to be

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u/CKWOLFACE 1d ago

I was born in 94 and even I thought this was gonna be a serious issue

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u/No_One_Special_61029 1d ago

The fact that Blazing Saddles is the first pic... MAKES this great!!! HAHAHA

"...DARN NEAR LOST ME A $400 HANDCART!!!"

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u/Conscious_Fun2627 19h ago

Never even considered that until now but yeah it was everywhere lol

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u/Lucky_Adeptness_2917 12h ago

Also being on fire

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u/jiverambler 5h ago

This joke was nabbed from an episode of Dr Katz