Fan Death!

[a6m5]

Koreans are so stupid & silly....... oh wait. Somebody told me this while growing up in Japan, too. My bad Korea.

P.S. I wanted to make a John Lennon joke, but I have way too much class for that!

 

[Omnis]

In China it's the number 4 that people fear. The character for the number is the same as the one for death, hence the fear.

Fan death? Meh. It's the killer reading lamps one should watch out for!

He's already killed the I, it's only a matter of time before he sets his sights on humans.

Tensor lamp? Sounds like a torture device.

Also, true story with the number 4. #4 killed Takuma Sato's career after all.

 

[Danny]

You're probably more likely to have the blades come shearing off in somekind of 'Omen' film-style possessed appliance death than be suffocated.

I've been paranoid about this for years.

 

[terminator363]

+1 on the comment above me.

 

[dxm8975]

The hearsay of an electrically operated fan causing an asphyxiation to people in direct line with the current of air in front of that? That's obviously a groundless belief...

Only an electric fan does is to assist in cycling the torrent of the air with vanes making batter air-condition within the room, not to increase the amount of the atmosphere or suck it so that we offensively feel stuffy as the condition varies in every minute, the rumor that the cold wind takes away oxygen from the body as the temperature gets lower is just a misconception of "someone becomes likely to catch a cold or a runny noise as the wind cools down their body temperature", not lead someone to death through depriving either of them...

 

[terminator363]

I'm afraid it's that time of year again.. Where this thread is revived. As temperatures rise in the summer the fear of dying from an oscillating fan ever so slightly increase. Discuss.

 

[Danoff]

Fan Death is real. Here's how it happens:

If you subject yourself to sleeping in a room with a fan on all the time... slowly, without your even knowing it, you will become dependent on the noise and air circulation of the fan to sleep. Eventually the dependence i so strong that you'll be unable to fall asleep without the breeze of a fan. Then one day your power goes out, suddenly you have no fan. How do you sleep? You don't. Human beings cannot live without sleep, we go crazy and die in short order if deprived of sleep.


...make sure your fan stays working. Your life depends on it.

 

[W3H5]

Having spent the whole last 4 months sleeping in a tiny dorm with a fan running continuously and no open windows or doors I can safely say that I have died of fan death.

 

[Omnis]

Stock up for the summer, avoid fan death. Choco Pie.

 

[Tornado]

Also, true story with the number 4. #4 killed Takuma Sato's career after all.

That's simply not true. He has gone on to have the same excellent, hugely entertaining and race-winning quality performance before inexplicably crashing out 5 laps from the end in nearly every IRL race in the past two years; just as he did during his time in F1.

 

[Wiegert]

...make sure your fan stays working. Your life depends on it.

Only for fan-dependent folk. Anyone hardy/mad enough to endure the night with nothing more than an open window and still manage to get enough sleep will no doubt make sure the fans won't inherit the Earth when everyone else is killed off by insomnia.

So be a man. Say no to the fan.

 

[Lizard]

Only for fan-dependent folk. Anyone hardy/mad enough to endure the night with nothing more than an open window.

I tried that. Within 5 minutes my face was covered in moths.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I tried that. Within 5 minutes my face was covered in moths.

You don't have a screen?

 

[W3H5]

Screens aren't necessary in Britain. There really aren't too many things than can bother you if they come in through the window. The worst things are moths and gnats but they cause minimal problems compared to what folk experience elsewhere in the world. I'd probably wake up with Dengue without the screens on my windows.

 

[Danoff]

I tried that. Within 5 minutes my face was covered in moths.

Screens aren't necessary in Britain.

@haitch40 begs to differ.

 

[W3H5]

I did fine for 18 years there without any. Nothing from outside ever seriously bothered me.

 

[Robin]

You don't have a screen?

We don't really have insects which come in through windows to bite AT NIGHT in the UK however you will get things like moth's come in. Then again it's only hot enough to really need windows open like 2 weeks a year and even then you could just do with a fan.

Pretty much no UK house I have ever seen has insect screens but as the climate here is apparently getting warmer we might well need them along with AC one day.

 

[Jay]

Hmm Interesting..come to Australia and try sleeping a warm night with the window open and no screens...

 

[G.T.Ace]

First time I see this thread, bloody fantastic!

Love the fantasy of Koreans sometimes and how westerners blow things out of proportion.
Can't believe it circulated so much, that it got its own Wikipedia article.
I know everything is cool, running these things 24/7 in the summer and no issue, have one hanging from the ceiling, a lot of people think it looks quite fancy.

 

[Danoff]

 

[terminator363]

 

[XS]

Do you buy your fans from Acme?

We do at work. http://www.acmefan.com/

 

[terminator363]