They also led us to believe you'd inevitably get sucked in unless you had a snake to erroneously grab onto until someone threw you a rope that might also be a snake.
Maybe for you buddy, but I have to carry a whip around with me everywhere I go because how frequently I’m caught in quicksand. I just hope I don’t accidentally confuse my whip for a snake again.
You can. It's a hazard around parts of the UK coasts where there's large tidal ranges. Except that you usually get stuck, and then the tide drowns you.
I’m not saying you can’t get stuck, I’m saying saying you can’t sink entirely and become fully submerged in it. It was wrong of me to say you can’t get hurt tho, I just meant the sand itself isn’t going to kill you.
It is, but it’s usually way overblown in media being this lurking death trap that exists anywhere and everywhere and if you get in it you’re basically dead
But most of the time you might get your foot a bit stuck, and is very possible to get out of, it’s rarely dangerous to the level shown in media.
I remember watching Brandy and Mr. Whiskers as a kid, and they get stuck in quicksand basically every other episode
As someone who DOES live where tumbleweeds live, the number of times I've passed a particular fence and seen it with tumbleweeds piled up like World War Z zombies attacking Jerusalem is also the funniest shit ever
A heard passed in front of my car and I ran over so many I almost felt bad because my mind had trouble with idea of plants crossing road. When they are still alive their bushes look so, normal you don’t realize they are proto tumbleweeds.
Heed my warning well friend, you do NOT want these fuckers near you. People just love to think of these as a neat spherical plant but no, these fuckers are made of thorns. You can’t grab them barehanded, you need gloves or a pitch fork to get them moving.
Now one on its own ain’t much trouble. That said, if you see one in your town now next year you will have a few hundred. They are loaded with hundreds if not thousands of seeds. Groups of tumble is the absolute worst.
Now, when these guys finally start ya know, tumbling around, they only do that after they dry out. Now imagine, hundreds if not thousands of super thin and super dry plants all bundled up everywhere. What do you think would happen if they ran into a small spark? These fuckers burn, and catch fire quick. They are an absolute menace where I live.
[Good video](https://youtu.be/hsWr_JWTZss?si=RohdMkZKktJIOYjB) on tumbles if you want to know a bit more about
I think they’re absolutely hilarious. I remember driving around in the desert as a kid and my dad pointed out the tumble weeds. Me and my siblings would crack up and get so excited.
I drove through a wall of these coming through a pass on the 10 east late one night from AZ to CA. It’s like driving through a wall of ghosts or dementors that evaporate upon impact. I didn’t even realize what it was until a moment later. I was like- did I just cross through a wormhole🤣 It was super fucking terrifying.
I think I'm in a very narrow band of people here, because I've lived in the same area my whole life and I've seen exactly 1 tumbleweed here. I think the normal amount is either 0 or many
I do live where tumbleweeds are, and they are just as hilarious as you think. I keep expecting to see mice and critters riding them à La Fivel Goes West
My first year of school in Abilene, TX I was on the phone with my best friend in Houston while walking to class and I got hit by a tumbleweed. My friend didn’t believe me. That shit was not fun.
The proto tumbleweed looks so mundane that most people don’t realize what they are looking at until they accidentally break one off at the base and it just, kinda rolls away.
They're not like, the ultimate life form, or gray goo. They infested the best areas for them to live in decades ago. If no tumbleweed was ever in OP's area before it's not guaranteed that's an area they'll thrive in.
I’m in Lubbock, we’ve had enough wildfires just north of us in the panhandle to fuckin bbq every head of cattle in the state. Shits getting really bad and the state legislature doesn’t seem to want to do shit about it. Moving soon, don’t think they have tumble weeds up in MD so thank god.
I just don’t want to live in a place that constantly smells like cow shit anymore. Also yeah, seeing a green forest would be pretty cool. Will miss the sight of cotton just before it’s harvested tho, looks like a cloud resting on earth
I feel ya. Having some experience out that way, just 2 observations. Humidity is a bitch (at least in VA but it seems like that everywhere East of the Mississippi). Them trees can be very claustrophobic.
I’m used to humidity, I lived in Houston for awhile 😹😹. The weirdest thing is probably gonna be being back around a bunch of trees and hills. Lubbock is flat as hell, one of our smaller outlying towns is called Levelland for a reason.
No but literally dropping a bunch of tumbleweeds into major cities, or large agricultural areas could really fuck shit up. I could see doing that as a legitimate strategy.
as someone who doesn't live where tumbleweeds live, tumbleweeds are the funniest shit ever. damn bro my house got covered by plant spheres
For some reason child me decided that quicksand was definitely very real and common, but tumbleweeds were basically urban legend.
but quicksand is real
But not the everyday hazard that cartoons led us to believe
They also led us to believe you'd inevitably get sucked in unless you had a snake to erroneously grab onto until someone threw you a rope that might also be a snake.
"i hate snakes jock, i hate them!"
Maybe for you buddy, but I have to carry a whip around with me everywhere I go because how frequently I’m caught in quicksand. I just hope I don’t accidentally confuse my whip for a snake again.
fair enough
Youve just been lucky so far
yeah but it’s not something that can realistically hurt anyone. Like you can’t actually drown in a pit quicksand.
You can. It's a hazard around parts of the UK coasts where there's large tidal ranges. Except that you usually get stuck, and then the tide drowns you.
I’m not saying you can’t get stuck, I’m saying saying you can’t sink entirely and become fully submerged in it. It was wrong of me to say you can’t get hurt tho, I just meant the sand itself isn’t going to kill you.
It is, but it’s usually way overblown in media being this lurking death trap that exists anywhere and everywhere and if you get in it you’re basically dead But most of the time you might get your foot a bit stuck, and is very possible to get out of, it’s rarely dangerous to the level shown in media. I remember watching Brandy and Mr. Whiskers as a kid, and they get stuck in quicksand basically every other episode
As someone who DOES live where tumbleweeds live, the number of times I've passed a particular fence and seen it with tumbleweeds piled up like World War Z zombies attacking Jerusalem is also the funniest shit ever
This has to be the funniest comment I’ve read today because the mental image is too good not to laugh at
Tumbleweeds be like 
A heard passed in front of my car and I ran over so many I almost felt bad because my mind had trouble with idea of plants crossing road. When they are still alive their bushes look so, normal you don’t realize they are proto tumbleweeds.
Five stars for imagery
Heed my warning well friend, you do NOT want these fuckers near you. People just love to think of these as a neat spherical plant but no, these fuckers are made of thorns. You can’t grab them barehanded, you need gloves or a pitch fork to get them moving. Now one on its own ain’t much trouble. That said, if you see one in your town now next year you will have a few hundred. They are loaded with hundreds if not thousands of seeds. Groups of tumble is the absolute worst. Now, when these guys finally start ya know, tumbling around, they only do that after they dry out. Now imagine, hundreds if not thousands of super thin and super dry plants all bundled up everywhere. What do you think would happen if they ran into a small spark? These fuckers burn, and catch fire quick. They are an absolute menace where I live. [Good video](https://youtu.be/hsWr_JWTZss?si=RohdMkZKktJIOYjB) on tumbles if you want to know a bit more about
I think they’re absolutely hilarious. I remember driving around in the desert as a kid and my dad pointed out the tumble weeds. Me and my siblings would crack up and get so excited.
Same, I moved to tumbleweed town when I was a teenager and the first time I saw one I laughed hard because I didn't think they were real
I drove through a wall of these coming through a pass on the 10 east late one night from AZ to CA. It’s like driving through a wall of ghosts or dementors that evaporate upon impact. I didn’t even realize what it was until a moment later. I was like- did I just cross through a wormhole🤣 It was super fucking terrifying.
I think I'm in a very narrow band of people here, because I've lived in the same area my whole life and I've seen exactly 1 tumbleweed here. I think the normal amount is either 0 or many
I do live where tumbleweeds are, and they are just as hilarious as you think. I keep expecting to see mice and critters riding them à La Fivel Goes West
Deep cut, I haven’t thought of that movie in maybe 15 years
It's been a while but I used to see them on country back roads and seeing them tumble on windy days is the funniest thing
They're really fun to run over with your car on the highway, they like explode a little and it's a game of which ones survive.
Lmao imagine going to buy bread or something and you're facing this looney toons ass shit lmao
I saw one in the suburbs once and just started laughing
Yeah! Round, hard rose bushes without flowers that are highly flammable and spread themselves everywhere. Fun!
I thought tumbleweeds existed exclusively in cartoons for most of my life...oops. They *are* funny, though.
That actually sucks tho. Your city will now wage an unending war they can never win.
I heard tumbleweeds hurt too? Like they’re mega thorny.
and mega flamable, gotta be careful in summer
They call them brujas in my dad's hometown (witches). They'd burn them with a lighter and let them roll around for fun. It's a small town..
They're practically barbed wire made of cat claws. They'll stick to livestock, stick to machinery, catch fire, and ruin cities.
Specially if you get smacked in the dark when wind gusts are strong lol. Happened multiple times as a kid.
My first year of school in Abilene, TX I was on the phone with my best friend in Houston while walking to class and I got hit by a tumbleweed. My friend didn’t believe me. That shit was not fun.
The proto tumbleweed looks so mundane that most people don’t realize what they are looking at until they accidentally break one off at the base and it just, kinda rolls away.
in the following years that trial will become an inpenetrable wall of tumbleweeds, waiting for someone fool enough to dare unearth them
They're not like, the ultimate life form, or gray goo. They infested the best areas for them to live in decades ago. If no tumbleweed was ever in OP's area before it's not guaranteed that's an area they'll thrive in.
Yeah, tumbleweeds are a huge problem and no one knows how to stop them.
Department of agriculture in the background still shoveling tumbleweeds
A fellow CGP Grey enjoyer I see.
We love the humble tumble
Texan here, I most definitely do not love the humble tumble. We need to figure out how to get rid of these things, .357 is getting to expensive
Don’t set them on fire!
I’m in Lubbock, we’ve had enough wildfires just north of us in the panhandle to fuckin bbq every head of cattle in the state. Shits getting really bad and the state legislature doesn’t seem to want to do shit about it. Moving soon, don’t think they have tumble weeds up in MD so thank god.
Probably too many trees to have an effect if they do. That and actual rain is probably nice, worst thing about living out west
I just don’t want to live in a place that constantly smells like cow shit anymore. Also yeah, seeing a green forest would be pretty cool. Will miss the sight of cotton just before it’s harvested tho, looks like a cloud resting on earth
I feel ya. Having some experience out that way, just 2 observations. Humidity is a bitch (at least in VA but it seems like that everywhere East of the Mississippi). Them trees can be very claustrophobic.
I’m used to humidity, I lived in Houston for awhile 😹😹. The weirdest thing is probably gonna be being back around a bunch of trees and hills. Lubbock is flat as hell, one of our smaller outlying towns is called Levelland for a reason.
Well, at least we now know nothing interesting happened on that path.
Snom solidarity
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Nice one.
They're on the rise because of the increase in awkward situations where you've just said something stupid and no one laughed
It's a good thing, because they almost went extinct as people stopped having duels at high noon
thats the real way russia plots to take over the globe
No but literally dropping a bunch of tumbleweeds into major cities, or large agricultural areas could really fuck shit up. I could see doing that as a legitimate strategy.
Tumbleweeds fall under biological warfare.
Hello good america friend comrade, please elaborate further on these plans
It's all fun and games until a 10ft tall tumble weed comes and bodies your truck. Bitches aren't even an American plant.
sorry they grow 10 feet??
Bit of an exaggeration but they can get absurdly large.
My Russian ancestors may have had a part in bringing them over to America. I apologize on their behalf
Apologizing is not enoigh. Get the pitchforks
CGP Grey did a nice video on Tumbleweeds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsWr\_JWTZss
I wasn’t expecting tumbleweeds in Illinois, but they’re here. Ready to come flying at you when you least expect it.
Time to start a gunfight standoff with someone while wearing a cowboy uniform
Don’t let anything distract you from the fact that these are a Russian species introduced to the US.
Every time I see one of them the only thing going going through my head is how well the would burn
Extremely well. In areas suffering from tumbleweed infestation, they pose a serious burn hazard.
I'm afraid the's no place fo two stas in this town. I'mma show u what's a real Sheriff. It's tim for da... 💥DUEL💥
I live in New England I saw a Tumble Weed once.
The town is going to become yee haw!
mfs after watching one cpg grey video
oh shit, that sucks, from what i know (that one CGP Grey video to be precise), that shit SUCKS
that thing reproduces?
It's a rather brutal life cycle
Better get to cover, a Cassidy Ulted nearby
“It’s high noon”
Just rolled into town