I need everyone to know that I looked it up, and Noah Lyles is doing this as part of an ongoing bet he has with shotput competitor Chase Jackson. She’s wearing Naruto accessories every day, and if Lyles whips out Yugioh cards at every race, then for the shotput finals Jackson will re-enact the scene of Rock Lee dropping his weights.
This is now the only part of the Olympics that I care about.
NOAH LYLES pulls out the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Exodia the Forbidden One Yu-Gi-Oh! cards before winning all of his 100m races at the 2024 Olympic trials
Sex worker/Charity worker Halstarion AU [set late 70’s/early 80’s] —
Why did I set the whole thing inside a car :). Also forgive me that is not a period accurate interior I did it from my head because apparently I can do that now…because I keep setting things in cars…
This is loosely based on current UK resources, not 70’s-80’s, and I also don’t know how well a nuanced situation like this would be dealt with by our gov/councils.
this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important.
I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently!
My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded.
I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it.
police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.
We were trapped in the mall awhile. Because the olympics was on, they had big screens in a few sitting areas of the mall that would normally be showing the games. but now the coverage was focused on this crowd surge. They showed a helicopter shot of the building we were now in, totally surrounded by colorful dots. a solid mass of humans with no space between.
I know someone was partially trampled and needed medics, because I saw that, but i don’t know the statistics on who else was hurt, hopefully no one killed!
I don’t know if these methods can definitely save you, but they might give you a better chance. so watch and share!
Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back.
Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.
And also — not to get nitpicky with deadly tragedies, but they’re called “human crushes,” not “stampedes.” It’s an important difference in description and also in respect. The deaths usually happen because the victims are pinned together in a tight space, they can’t breathe (as in the video) and they suffocate. “Stampede” doesn’t convey what actually happened to those people. The crush that happened in Seoul recently wasn’t because people “stampeded,” it was because they couldn’t move at all and they suffocated. But calling it a “stampede,” you’d think it was the people themselves that ran over each other, like wild animals. It’s disrespectful and untrue.
Horrifyingly, the victims of many human crushes have been blamed for their own deaths, which are usually purely accidental or due to criminal mismanagement from authorities. If you’re in a mental place to read about tragedies and police corruption, check out the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 97 people died due to the incompetence of the police, who then blamed everything on the victims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
If you can’t play the video:
1. Stand like a boxer. Nice wide stance, arms up like you’re preparing to either throw a punch or shield against one, i.e. elbows bent by your waist and fists by your shoulders. That will keep some space around your chest
2. If you fall and can’t get up, roll onto your side and curl up in the foetal position
So I just rewatched Megamind and, since I will never not respond to a good piece of pop culture with analysis, here’s a few things I noticed about how Hal and Megamind interact with Roxanne.
So both characters fancy Roxanne (sorry, but there’s no way I’m going to use the phrase “in love with” to describe Hal’s obsession), and so they both try and do nice things for her.
The difference is…
Sorry, I just had to.
But seriously, note how most of the things Megamind does for Roxanne are done, kind of, anonymously. Or, at least, not as the identity that he’s using to interact with her.
When he cleans up the city and restores the portrait gallery, he does it as Megamind while dating her as Bernard. So, even though Roxanne technically knows that he’s the one doing these things, because she doesn’t knw that he and Bernard are the same person she has no idea that he’s doing them for her.
Even when he rescues her from Titan, he does it in the form of Metroman. And when Titan flies away and Megamind flies down to the ground, he’s still Metroman— making me wonder if he wouldn’t have tried to keep up the charade if Roxanne hadn’t twigged.
Titan, meanwhile, tells Roxanne his secret identity moments after giving her flowers and ‘saving her’ a few times.
Why? Because Hal’s good deeds all have a hidden agenda behind them. He wants to make Roxanne like him and fall in love with him. When he learns that that’s not a possibility, he drops all pretence at being nice to her and becomes downright horrible.
Megamind, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to care whether Roxanne links his hood deeds back to him. Sure, he seems to want her to think well of him, (as shown by his frequent attempts to big his alter ego up by saying things like “maybe Megamind isn’t as bad as everybody thinks” and “I tried my best, but he’s just too fantastic”) that doesn’t seem to be his motivation for being nice to her.
When she discovers his true identity and confronts him, saying she could never love him because of his actions, he doesn’t respond by pointing out all the good things he’s been doing for her recently. He isn’t doing nice things for her so as to get into her good books, he just genuinely seems to want her to be happy and, as such, doesn’t present his actions as a huge favour to her.
And another thing, he pays attention to her.
When she laments that the park is a dump now, he picks up on it. Same when he’s fighting Titan and she hints to him about the location of the invisible car— he not only listens to what she’s saying but pays attention to how she’s saying it and why. After his ‘presentation’ moment (shown above in all its glory), he doesn’t stick around to enjoy the fight. He sees that she’s falling and goes down go rescue her.
Again, compare to Hal, who claims to love Roxanne but ends up not noticing even as she’s kidnapped under his nose because he’s too busy monologuing about how he feels about her. And who is so caught up in himself during the 'Roxanne meets Titan’ sequence that he seems to be completely oblivious to how absolutely terrified Roxanne is of him.
Because Megamind falls in love with the real Roxanne, and so feels the need to pay attention to what she’s doing and feeling, while Hal is in love with a fantasy version of Roxanne that he’s made up in his head, and isn’t at all willing to let the real Roxanne’s feelings interfere with that.
And, last point, their reactions to getting dumped by her.
Hal, as previously mentioned, turns into a complete asshole, because he got the power to be evil at around the same time he lost the only thing that motivated him to be nice.
Megamind, on the other hand, actually reacts reasonably well. Sure, he’s devastated in the moment, and he does ask her if she looked back, but when she makes it clear that she’s not interested in talking about their relationship, he shuts up about it. And he’s still respectful and polite towards her— he recognises that she’s still a fucking human being and so deserving of respect, even though she rejected him (which doesn’t sound like much, until you consider that Hal reacted to rejection by tying her to the top of a tower and then trying to demolish it).
The furthest he goes is when she tries to encourage him to confront Titan with her and he responds: “I’m the bad guy. I don’t save the city, I don’t ride off into the sunset, and I don’t get the girl. I’m going home.” But the way he says it doesn’t seem to imply that he would have given it a go if she’d just agreed to go out with him. It doesn’t sound like he’s trying to pressure her into dating him, just that he’s, once again, sick of trying to be good in a society that doesn’t expect him to be anything but evil.
And in the end, when he does go back to save her, it isn’t because she makes any declaration of love towards him. All she says is that she always respected the way that he’d never back down from a fight— reminding him that he does have admirable qualities.
So yeah, in conclusion, this is a good film and I should watch it more often. Than you for putting up with what turned out to be basically just a ramble.
