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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
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Yeah, you're probably right. Their target audience is likely not interested. It would be interesting, though, if the catalogued urban myths of the world and did a special.
Perhaps the myth just seems too absurd to a western audience to have the kind of suspense that a good bustable myth has. |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Everytime I think about "fan death" it makes me feel like an immortal. I have always had a fan in my room since I was young. I never turn them off even when I am not at home (and yes, that is in a room that doesn't have proper ventilation all the time  ). To think that I have lived this long without meeting my demise is a medical mystery. God love the Koreans and their legends.  |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Fan death is a cover up for the actual cause of death. Just like the way everyone in Korea with a disability has been in a "car accident." |
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Omkara
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| 4 months left wrote: |
| Fan death is a cover up for the actual cause of death. Just like the way everyone in Korea with a disability has been in a "car accident." |
This, actually, is the most rational theory I have heard. It would fit a face-saving culture perfectly.
Yet, though the pieces would fit does not mean they belong! |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Probably not interested cause there's never been a single case of death by a fan...unless you mean getting your throat cut by one. And, how would they go about trying to prove/disprove it? Who would be the subject? How long would it take? Who would care? |
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huck
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Maybe they won't do it because it's not a myth...it's real!
If it's on the Korean news AND the Korean teachers say that it's true, well then....it just has to be true! |
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daemyann
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| cause there's never been a single case of death by a fan.. |
Check your facts. A simple youtube search finds videos to the contrary. (at least, reportedly so.)
Clearly I'm not advocating the belief, just offering one explanation of it's prevalence.
As for the "all mythbusters would have to do is..." comment....think that through.
They attempt to approach their myths with a minimal amount of bias.
Approaching a myth about death by asphyxiation/hypothermia ( and any number of other claims) with the assumption that they are false would do little to prove anything "scientifically".
How do they test something they have to regard as plausible from the start?
(particularly when that thing is convoluted to have multiple interpretations and explanations, as well some ridiculous assumptions and escape routes--->read "differences between Korean and non-Korean physiology").
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daemyann
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| double post. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| They would have to test it on a white person and then a Korean just to make sure that Koreans and their unique physiology doesn't play a role. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Omkara wrote: |
Yeah, you're probably right. Their target audience is likely not interested. It would be interesting, though, if the catalogued urban myths of the world and did a special.
Perhaps the myth just seems too absurd to a western audience to have the kind of suspense that a good bustable myth has. |
That's never going to happen. Ever read Plato's Myth of the Cave? Well, there's more than one way to put the offender to death...in this case it would probably be accusations of racism and local cable providers not broadcasting the Discovery Channel anymore. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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The real reason Mythbusters won't do this show is because they don't want to risk the lives of anybody on their crew. Just think! What if their test subject actually died! It'd be the end of the show!
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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wouldn't make fascinating television. they'd want to blow up the fan in a rock quarry.
fans have no zing. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| daemyann wrote: |
| spliff wrote: |
| cause there's never been a single case of death by a fan.. |
Check your facts. A simple youtube search finds videos to the contrary. (at least, reportedly so.)
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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fan+death&search_type=
I'm not seeing anything worth calling a "fact".
Mind pointing me in the right direction? |
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Insidejohnmalkovich
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Mythbusters very often tackle myths which are patently ridiculous, just for the fun of it.
(Faithful viewer thereof.) |
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daemyann
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