Posted on 08/20/2015 4:58:19 AM PDT by rickmichaels
This article brought to you by the same “scientists” who push glow-bull warming.
Heh!
A Korean man who moved to the U.S. called the police as his wife had died. He claimed “fan death”, which the police found both puzzling and unlikely. Further investigation showed that he suffocated her. I wonder how many of the reported “fan deaths” in Korea are actually homicides?
People have lived outside in cold climates for hundreds of thousands of years. Some people continue to live and sleep in freezing conditions.
Am I supposed to believe that humans are now so fragile that wind blowing on us while sleeping will kill us?
I call bull butter.
You might wake up with a stiff neck sleeping with a fan blowing on you all night, but die??
They have several of those giant fans at the massive McMaster Carr location in Santa Fe Springs. First time I saw them I half expected the whole building to take off like a helicopter!
***Or maybe having dog for dinner causes nighttime acid reflux.***
My thoughts also. Got drunk, threw up ingested it in the lungs, choked to death, so blame the air fan.
I hate an air fan or AC blowing right on me. I cover myself with a sheet or face the fan to the side so it moves the air, but does not blow on me.
I remember those hot and humid Arkansas nights in the 1950s and 60s before we had a fan. I would wake up in the night and the sweat would just be rolling off me. The sheets would be soaked, and I would not make the bed till it dried out in the morning.
New Mexico and Utah nights were cold, even in summer. Had to have a blanket then!
I’ll flip that problem - The noise bothers me more than the fan wind speed. But, a reversed fan (one that is pulling up air from below, then discharging it sideways towards the walls of the room helps to reduce the wind irritation as well.
Waiting for post from angry Korean: “We are not a nation of dog eaters!!!”
Just like when I asked a Turkish student if he had seen “Lawrence of Arabia”. He went ballistic: “We are not a bunch of queers!!!”
;^)
Death? Doubtful. Itchy, watery eyes, headaches, etc. Definitely.
You’re right, I overlooked that. The donkey logo must not be copyrighted.
I saw one of these for the first time in a restaurant at Kent Narrows, MD.
It was a bit smaller than the one in the picture, but still very big.
I looked up at it and said “That is one big-ass fan”.
Sure enough the name on the fan is “Big Ass Fan”.
In the immortal words of Lt. Frank Drebin, “You take a chance waking up every day, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.”
Mine also.
Winter, window cracked, ceiling fan on high, shorty PJs. Wind chill.... way past my tolerance.
Separate bedrooms.
As do I. But a fan won't help much when the temp is in the high 80s or in the 90s and dew points are in the mid to high 70s. An A/C is the only real relief.
Maybe this is something to do with Korean fans. We have slept with a ceiling fan on for many years. We also have the a/ c temp set pretty low, we like to be cold when we sleep.
This is possibly no joke. Though ceiling fans may be a bit over the top; as a child I would at times fall asleep with an air conditioner window unit very close to the bed. When waking, no it didn’t kill me, I’d find that I had extreme head aches. I did get migraines which might last for days Never found the cause for those. But the sleep under the ac..more often than not with that habit there was always the extreme headache. Fan off, no headache. Sleeping one night with it on...oh mama! This theory just may have merit, even if only a small merit.
Really? Most of the Korean people I have met have been pretty smart.
I guess this means I'm immortal!............unless I run into one of those pesky guys with a sword.
Yes, they usually are, but I've seen some of the smartest who are very, very superstitious. This is one of those superstitions.
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