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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by TheHottub@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Had the song It's Raining Men stuck in my head. Got me thinking. Would my home owners insurance cover the damages to my house? And what about the clean up?

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 79 points 6 months ago

It’d go very quickly from “It’s Raining Men” to “Let the bodies hit the floor”.

[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Lol. I want to see a short 15 minute serious horror drama movie about this happening. Having the song playing ironically as all hell breaks loose.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Or an action movie with a fight scene aboard a transport airplane with people getting tossed out of the loading door. Cut to action on the ground with them impacting in sync with the music.

[-] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just watch video footage from 9/11 while the song is playing.

[-] Tagger@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Hmm, it has been 22.3 years though. Shouldn’t it be funny now?

[-] nailingjello@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

I figured those two songs were based on the same event.

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago
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[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Lol I like the macho man in there

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I think he's in every dj cumberbund song.

[-] thezeesystem@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Idk if Boeing keeps heading the way it's going....

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They are just opening the doors to ~~success~~ the plane midflight

[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think most homeowners insurance policies cover 'acts of God' aka phenomena that can't be controlled and that would likely be covered under that.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I think most home owners insurance companies would, as usual, do their best to fuck over their customers in a way they think they can get away with (and they probably will, fuckers).

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

"We see here that you don’t have ‘The Weather Girls’ comprehensive coverage which does in fact cover raining men”

[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] thisbenzingring 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the book series Red Rising, there's a part where one army terrorizes a city by flying over it and dropping all the POWs it captured. Lots of them dropped from low orbit but high enough to take a bit to hit. All nude and alive, hundreds of thousands of soldiers.The character that describes it suggests that the city looks like the windshield of a transport after driving through a bug swarm. It's such a brutal and horrific description of the violence. In a book series that really does a good job at describing violent uprising, that part really painted a vivid scene in my head.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

What if they're tiny men though? Like a hail report but, "Today across the central plains, residents experienced golf ball sized man rain."

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

man rain

That sounds like a completely different problem, with much worse cleanup 0.o

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

it starts raining male humans from the sky

Half the population hears It's Raining Men by the Weather Girls the other half hears Bodies by Drowning Pool

[-] dukethorion@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I picture the former as that they are gently and safely floating down to the earth, whereas the latter definitely matches the velocity at which rain actually falls.

Human bodies probably splash.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

You know the sound right when it starts to rain?

There's a tap on the roof or the window, then a few more, and you think "Oh, is that...?" and, sure enough, the taps continue, getting more and more frequent until they blend together into the soothing patter of rainfall. Now imagine that, but instead of light taps, it's a dull "phomp."

I imagine someone in an alternate universe hearing that first phomp, and running to grab a cup of tea before sitting by the window to watch the manfall.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Cloudy, with a chance of Man Balls.

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Meat's back on the menu, boys!

[-] Granite@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

Are these spontaneously generated men or are they pre-existing dudes who got teleported into the sky?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Just run of the mill spontaneously generated men. No crazy teleportation stuff. This ain’t Star Trek.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

They'll have enough time in their short lives to think "Welp, just my luck..."

[-] NoRodent@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

"And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?"

[-] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

ME: "Wow I can't exist with how hot and sunny it is today. A-" <disappears>

The man cycle.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That would be horrible. Just imagine its staggered so you see your own death coming

[-] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

A lot of idioms are not great if considered literally, tbf. "Raining cats and dogs", "Break a leg", letting someone "off the hook", etc.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago

Fun Fact: "It's Raining Men" was co-written by Paul Shaffer, best known as David Letterman's band leader.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The smell would become spectacularly awful after a week or so...

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

They had a scene in Dune part 2 where it was raining men. It was quite upsetting.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I couldn't imagine what it was like standing around the north tower on 9-11, around 200 people rained down that morning.

[-] shadowSprite@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Shit, I'll never forget being at home watching the towers burn on TV as a kid and seeing things falling from them and asking my mom what they were and hearing "those are people jumping rather than burn to death". Horrifying. What a choice to make.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

I'm sure the Firefighters have some serious nightmares

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Nightmares won't kill them, but the mesothelioma has. Over 400 first responders were affected by illnesses due to 9/11, over 340 have died as a result. Politicians have been trying to fuck over the survivors and they can't wait for the last one to die so they won't have to deal with John Stewart raining hate on their miserable lives.

There are stories from survivors that mentions how they heard the bodies hit the ground without knowing what the noise was from. They looked around for the source and found out how grim a reality they were in.

[-] Tehhund@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

The men are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I think there is a Junji Ito novel with people raining from the skies. It is, as expected, quite unpleasant.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago
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[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

G I loves this movie and I totally forgot! This is perfect.

[-] dukethorion@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Leonidas made it rain.

this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
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