Off Topic Quicksand

[Nathan Brazil]

When I was a kid (born 1961) quicksand was often a problem for tv characters. Struggle & you sink!
Is it still a hazard on progs made from about 1980 onwards?

1970ish onwards sometimes played in Carley Hill quarry, and somewhere near the e boldon end (memory) was a dump, grey landscape, pipes, ventilation tubes etc, real alien landscape to us. Amongst this was a black thick, muddy, sooty, gloopy pool.
This was my childhood quicksand.
If you ran across it quickly you didn't die I seem to recall, but you could lose a welly.

 

[Oliver's Army]

Not sure if it's quick sand, but there can be some dodgy looking sand down the beach with a very very shallow covering of sea water (less than an inch) that wobbles a bit when the tide goes out.

Saying that, I think quicksand is dry and you need a snake close by to use a rope to get close friends out of a tight situation.

 

[Nacho]

It's certainly not the threat that the books and comics of my childhood lead me to believe it would be. Is it even a real thing, when's the last time you read "Tragedy as family disappears into quicksand in front of shocked onlookers"

 

[Oliver's Army]

It's certainly not the threat that the books and comics of my childhood lead me to believe it would be. Is it even a real thing, when's the last time you read "Tragedy as family disappears into quicksand in front of shocked onlookers"

I was expecting to find it outside of Wilko in the town, it was that common in the 80s movies . Swallowing up people who didn't pay for their bog roll.

 

[rooch 3]

It's certainly not the threat that the books and comics of my childhood lead me to believe it would be. Is it even a real thing, when's the last time you read "Tragedy as family disappears into quicksand in front of shocked onlookers"

That’s quite regular where I live to be fair mate.

 

[rooch 3]

Not sure if it's quick sand, but there can be some dodgy looking sand down the beach with a very very shallow covering of sea water (less than an inch) that wobbles a bit when the tide goes out.

Saying that, I think quicksand is dry and you need a snake close by to use a rope to get close friends out of a tight situation.

Or a horse wandering past with its reign trailing.

 

[Robref62]

When I was a kid (born 1961) quicksand was often a problem for tv characters. Struggle & you sink!
Is it still a hazard on progs made from about 1980 onwards?

1970ish onwards sometimes played in Carley Hill quarry, and somewhere near the e boldon end (memory) was a dump, grey landscape, pipes, ventilation tubes etc, real alien landscape to us. Amongst this was a black thick, muddy, sooty, gloopy pool.
This was my childhood quicksand.
If you ran across it quickly you didn't die I seem to recall, but you could lose a welly.

In one of my fave films 'Ice Cold In Alex' there's a Kraut who almost comes a cropper and Tarzan films their my only 'experiences' of quicksand.

 

[cumbrianmackem]

In one of my fave films 'Ice Cold In Alex' there's a Kraut who almost comes a cropper and Tarzan films their my only 'experiences' of quicksand.

Lawrence of Arabia, where one of his two young Arab guides goes under the quicksand in the middle of the desert, also Robin of Sherwood, Errol Flynn as Robin Hood and the baddie comes to a gloopy end in the quicksand, they're my two movie memories.

 

[cumbrianmackem]

It's certainly not the threat that the books and comics of my childhood lead me to believe it would be. Is it even a real thing, when's the last time you read "Tragedy as family disappears into quicksand in front of shocked onlookers"

as Rooch says Morcambe Bay is very treacherous with quicksand and there's people having to be rescued every summer.
cocklepickers tractors have disappeared under the sands as well.

 

[rooch 3]

If I remember right if you watched the Lone Ranger or Wells Fargo somebody disappeared in quicksand nearly every week

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Did what I shouldn't have done, googled it. It does exist, but you only sink so far, impossible to drown, blah, blah, blah.
Almost as disappointing as it was to learn coyotes can actually run faster than road runners.

 

[Gordon Armstrong]

Quicksand certainly does exist, and it's mighty dangerous.

Someone had to be pulled from some near the beginning of my favourite film, Blazing Saddles . . . . after rescuing the more important railtrack handcar thingy first, of course

It's probably not a good idea to build a railroad over an area of quicksand anyway, mind

 

[clockstander]

Or a horse wandering past with its reign trailing.

There used to be just such a horse in aforementioned Quarry, the mystery if not the quicksand deepens.

 

[samwise_new]

you were safe as long as you were not the 'baddy' though...

 

[clockstander]

If I remember right if you watched the Lone Ranger or Wells Fargo somebody disappeared in quicksand nearly every week

Safe as houses compared to King of the Rocketmen

 

[rooch 3]

you were safe as long as you were not the 'baddy' though...

True! And sometimes you could see it was in a studio with a tub just filled with wet porridge oats

 

[FellTop]

I never understood why it was called quicksand because in the films it took ages for the fella to go under

 

[samwise_new]

True! And sometimes you could see it was in a studio with a tub just filled with wet porridge oats

combined with the inevitable screeching chimpanzee sound to welcome every scene meant to be in darkest africa with the lion roar and elephant trumpet thrown in, just in case the khaki suits, thick vegetation and indigenous people carrying the equipment was not enough...

 

[rooch 3]

I never understood why it was called quicksand because in the films it took ages for the fella to go under

Slow sand hasn’t got the same ring.

 

[rooch 3]

combined with the inevitable screeching chimpanzee sound to welcome every scene meant to be in darkest africa with the lion roar and elephant trumpet thrown in, just in case the khaki suits, thick vegetation and indigenous people carrying the equipment was not enough...

If you look back now at these programmes weren’t they bloody s hit.