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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 32 points 12 hours ago (40 children)

Everyone always laughs at hitting someone in the head with a punch/can of beans/baseball bat/2x4/karate chop/whatever and knock them out. The joke being that the person will wake in ten minutes or an hour like in the movies and they'll go about living again.

In real life if you knock someone out cold with some kind of hit to their head ... you've more than likely killed them or put them in a place where they will die within the next hour or two.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 50 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Being knocked out is certainly not good, but it's not automatic death like you're suggesting.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Depends where you hit and how hard. It's the emergency shutdown because of concussion. If the concussion was too hard, it can swell and then it gets dangerous. Not to mention fragile places like temple or neck.

Wdit: concussion, not convulsion

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

I don't think the word convulsion means what you think it means. Do you mean concussion? Concussion is only one type of head injury, though, with different grades to it.

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