27 Things Many People View As Unsafe When Actually They Are More Than Safe

Talking to homeless people. Yeah, they might be looking for money, but typically they aren’t seeking to harm anyone. They’re just hungry, cold, and isolated. Give them the human decency of eye contact and acknowledgment, even if you don’t want to give them anything.

Eating food that’s a bit past the sell by date.

imacmadman22 replied:

Exactly. You can safely eat most expired foods with just a few exceptions. In particular anything that is dry, like beans, rice, cereals, baking mixes, etc. Leftovers are usually good if refrigerated shortly after cooking for about three to four days, after that, toss it.
The only things I will not trust are things that have been previously frozen, shellfish, fish, meat and dairy products. Those items can have serious consequences if you eat them when they are spoiled.
I smell everything because I use it and if it doesn’t smell right, it’s gone. I was a chef for thirty five years, it’s not that hard for anyone to sort out what is good and bad when it comes to food.
Smell your food when it’s good, so you have a point of reference if you think something is bad.

MSG.

Emu1981 replied:

The only "dangerous" thing about MSG is that it contains sodium so if you are on a sodium controlled diet then you need to take MSG into account in the same way that you would table salt.

Flying on airplanes.

srekar-trebor replied:

If you traveled by car to the airport and made it, you already survived the most dangerous part of your trip.

For most people, (i.e. those without celiac), Gluten.

EvilSnack replied:

There was a comic in The New Yorker which showed to people sitting at a cafe table. One of them says, "I went gluten-free two weeks ago and already I'm fifteen percent more annoying."

Extremely sharp knives.

SlobMyKnob1 replied:

In fact, extremely sharp knives are way safer than dull knives

Cracking your knuckles. No, it doesn’t damage the joint, it compresses an air pocket through a tight space created by the movement of your bones.

Spiders. Like unless you bother them, you're probably good. They just wanna eat the annoying bugs and chill.

You dont look like food to them.

Microwaves relax, it’s heating your pizza, not your DNA lol.

Letting kids play outside.

InanimateSensation replied:

I find it funny that the same people that romanticize about their childhoods being free from technology, going outside until the streetlights come on, not a care in the world, etc. are now the same parents that are worried to let their kid leave the house or make them keep a phone with a tracker. And no, the world is not "more dangerous now". There have always been crazy people.
They miss their "freedom" but force all these restrictions on their own kids.

Leaving butter on the counter, unrefrigerated.

“Chem Trails”.

BadTouchUncle replied:

Yeah but they make the frogs gay. That's not nothing.

Nuclear power - the safest energy source humanity has ever known.

There has never, ever, been a recorded instance of someone using a mobile phone at a petrol pump and there being an explosion.

Drag queens reading books to children

Paper wasps. They're incredibly docile. Every year they build a nest above my back door. Even if there's dozens of them swarming around, they won't bother you if you don't bother them.

They're fascinating creatures to observe. You can actually feed them by hand by dipping your finger in syrup, honey or anything sugary. They'll lick it right off. Five years of co-existing with them, and I have yet to get stung. Plus having their nest over the door deters burglars.

Swimming after eating. You won't get cramps. Ask around. Nobody has. Ever.

GMO foods.

britsol99 replied:

For Me, it isn’t the GMO food itself, it’s what they’ve been modified for. The majority of GMO crops are plants modified to be resistant against [pesticides] (glyphosate, dicamba). This means farmers can spray [pesticides] over their entire field, the weeds die, the crops don’t. So the crops then are tainted with the [pesticide] residue.
It’s the glyphosate that is dangerous, not the GMO crop itself.

Traveling. Don't be a moron and wear expensive watches etc and mostly you'll be fine. In fact most countries are way safer than people believe them to be.

It’s perfectly safe to have some salt in your diet, especially if you are a healthy normal person. There is a strange problem for many decades where people completely cut out salt from their diet and think they need to drink a gallon of water per day, which often leads to some dilution of normal blood salt levels. Only when you have poor quality high sodium diets, hypertension, old age, or heart failure do we start restricting salt intake.