I think my favorite part is when the dad covers his head with a newspaper. Because although it won't really protect you from being vaporized or receiving a massive radiation burn, it would help block out the yammering of your panicking wife and kids.
D: Oh. My. GOD. I think I now understand the ridiculous level of neurosis in the elderly.
ReplyDeleteSorry but if an A-bomb ever hits, I'm sure all I'll have time to do is pee myself and scream "Oh sh~..." After all, I don't have a turtle shell or a sturdy desk.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson learned here - keep a turtle shell on hand in case of nuclear war. They can survive anything.
I was waiting for the tractor wheel to run over the guys head...
ReplyDeleteand at 6:10 my first thought was HELLO CONCUSSION as the girl was slammed into the wall. Ow.
The purpose of the "duck and cover" drill is not to save you from a nearby nuke going off, but to save you from getting splattered by flying glass from the windows. Lots of schoolkids in Hiroshima were sliced up by flying window glass, and had they ducked, they might have lived.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they'd prolly have died in the fires, anyway.
WV: mortial. how appropriate
O.M.Stars! How did our parents and grandparents deal with that?!?! How was there not a WHOLE lot more substance abuse?? Well, come to think of it... Wow, that explains a lot.
ReplyDeleteWOW - I've never seen that before. Yeah, I agree - this explains a LOT about the previous generations! :) I think I'm going to go have a drink now...
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