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Comic in 4 Panels
Panel 1: A girl fallen to the floor screams holding up her hand to stop an object from falling on her as well.
Girl: AAA A A AA
Panel 2: A ladder falls onto a girl with a CLANK
Panel 3: The girl stares speechless at the ladder.
Girl: β¦..
Panel 4: the girl, bashful, pushes the ladder back
Girl: W-What are you doing- step ladder?
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Official translation from @komikkamvret
Jokes aside, ladder fall accidents are terrifyingly dangerous and will fuck you up.
I teach an OSHA safety course and they have a statistic that 80% of workplace injuries are caused by slipping/tripping or ladders. There's an entire chapter devoted to HOW to use all the myriad types of ladders safely.... it's actually pretty amazing that such a dangerous tool is sooooo common in everyday life. Injuries related to cuts from saws etc are kinda common but those are rarely life-threatening... falling from elevated height will wreck you!
on the slipping/tripping side, i am friends with someone who either is or used to be the world's foremost expert on knocking over old people (she both loves and hates when i describe her PhD that way). like 2/3 falls are because of vision problems. keep your eyes healthy and your vision prescriptions as current as you can afford!
Everyone I've ever known who fell off a ladder no matter how high has gotten hospital hurt.
6 different people btw
It's a bit odd that you know so many people that have fallen off of ladders. I'm not saying it's suspicious, but still, maybe someone ought to look into it.
Damn that's brutal...
I've jumped out of ladders as I've felt them starting to fall a couple of times, never more than like 2 metres high though, and it's scary.
I wouldn't climb anything higher without strapping my self up to something, it's just asking for a quick grave...
yeah, that time i climbed a 50 foot ladder that was a little rickety as fuck...
i was insane. absolutely insane.
I fell off a step ladder as a teenager and physically was only badly bruised.
It has left me with a lifelong minor fear of ladders though.
Only person I know who fell off one died. Real tragic, he had just retired.
People don't give falls the respect they deserve. I worked at a place that required fall-arrest harnesses for anything over 5 ft. It was a pain for sure, and people loved to bitch and moan, but a 5 ft fall can genuinely be deadly.
a 5 ft fall can genuinely be deadly
Most adults are tall enough that their brain/head/face can get serious injuries in an uncontrolled loss of consciousness. Any additional height simply makes the fall harder to control and increases the energy that needs to be safely dispersed.
Yes, even falls from household ladders are deadly serious.
That's 1,5 meters? Lmao I'm surprised anyone followed that requirement
Place was extremely serious about safety requirements. You would have gotten fired quick if you didn't follow it.
Agreed. My one friend's dad fell off a ladder and landed on concrete. He had a lot issues as a result. I believe he recovered mostly from that before being diagnosed with really early pancreatic cancer (a year after the fall and was actually caught on a CT scan bc of the fall). He passed away a few months ago.
You think ladder accidents are bad... I'm still traumatized from when i searched "trampoline accident". I can't drive the 55 south because of it
That is 100% an old people worry. I often forget just hold old some folks on Lemmy are. You are right though.
Relative of mine dropped 3 meters down and since then is heavily disabled. Happened at the ripe old age of 8 years.
Falling down and landing head head first is lethal at any age. Ladders don't even have to be a part of it, normal standing height can sometimes be enough. It happens more to older adults because they don't have the speed or mobility to break their own fall, but it can kill a youngster too if they're not careful.
oh yeah just like getting shot at school. I used to worry about getting shot in the cross fire or ricochet of a bullied kid shooting the bully while I'm in the room but thats just becaue I'm old and I often forget hold old I is. We are all right thigh and young people wouldnp understamb
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She, was just an innocent girl, trying to get a leg up on household chores...
... but she never expected, to get tripped up, in a romance, of ethically dubious proportions...
... coming, this summer...
... April's Spring Cleaning.
I read this in my head with the voice.
This is my step-ladder. I never knew my real ladder. βΉοΈ
This is perfect for my objectophillia fetish
Wait, the original was not in English? How would that pun work in any other language?
I think that footer is just generic and for this specific comic the English version is the original one. Even on their Indonesian Instagram they posted this English version: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEjQBxFnrHN
Kept referencing this when I played Assassin's Creed Origins. "What are you doing, (Djoser's) step-pyramid?"
I don't get it.
I still don't get it.
You don't watch enough porn, then.
A step ladder is called a step ladder because of the steps, but here the author subverted that obvious meaning to have "step" mean that they are part of different families related by marriage, and then inserting that into the stepbrother trope I linked to above, resulting in an even more ridiculous situation than in the porn plots, since humans and ladders usually aren't sexually interested in each other.