That's the spirit! as General Melchett said 'If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through". :-)
It's good to think about it long enough to develop a proper perspective on life. One could indeed die at any moment. If this day is to be your last, how do you want to live it? Do you want to live it wracked with terror of your impending fate? Or would it not be better to live it filled with wonder and beauty at the marvel of existence? However you would live your last day should be how you live every day.
I already knew some of these facts (because my dad is a biology professor and delights in telling everyone gross facts about stuff like bacteria...) but the drowning one is the most horrific to me. I never used to have a fear of water until I was caught in a riptide once, the feeling of swimming endlessly towards a shore that isn't getting any closer and feeling your body betray you as it becomes too tired to keep you afloat any longer is... Enough to scar a child. So thank you for adding to my ocean fears!!
My Dad's birthday is 9 months before my own. I get the feeling I've noticed this before, but erase it from my mind to protect...ing endangered species, especially apex predators such as Tigers. The reintroduction of Wolves into Yellow Stone National Park is clear evidence of this.
eighnasa - Come on, I'm joking. Still, nobody really enjoys the thought of their parents getting it on. Especially when you think of all the things you've done, or the porn you've watched and then realise your parents have probably been just as experiential as you, probably more so.
I raise chickens and goats and do organic gardening... You get use to the poop after a while and actually start gathering it up for fertilizer so you are spot on!
If you don't like the idea of poo in your mug, just think about how much is on your toothbrush. The one that rests daily just feet away from your crapper! Not to worry though. Fecal coliform bacteria are literally everywhere all the time, so unless you keep everything (EVERY THING) you ever put in your mouth in alcohol under a UV light, you might as well keep your toothbrush right where it is. Even if you did keep all that stuff in an antibiotic environment, you still inhale it every time you take a dump and have every day since you took your very first poop. It's why you have an immune system, thank Darwin.
My boyfriend's 7 year old daughter has the worst bathroom habits. Often forgets to flush, uses too much TP and clogs it (one time to overflowing...after a deuce...I was the only adult home...), not washing hands not wiping thoroughly...and recently dumped out all the toothbrushes from their holder to use it to put water into for painting. Oh, and she picks her nose and eats it >_>. I'm no germaphobe, but I frequently get grossed out around her XD. God kids are gross. And now I'm preggo with one! I don't know if I can handle anymore grossness! Poor, poor toothbrushes.
The bit about "it's inside your nose" is just flat-out wrong. Smells aren't caused by tiny particles of the thing you're smelling - they're caused by chemicals released by the thing. If you're smelling faeces, you don't have little bits of shit up your nose; you are detecting the various gases given off by the bacteria in it. Also, the saltwater vs freshwater drowning thing is an urban legend. Freshwater is hypotonic, and osmosis causes water to be drawn into pulmonary capillaries and thence into the blood stream. It doesn't burst blood vessels, and it doesn't rupture red blood cells. Saltwater has the opposite effect (it is hypertonic) - water from the bloodstream is drawn by osmosis into the alveoli, causing a drop in blood volume. But it doesn't dessicate blood cells or dry up your blood vessels. If either of them did this, you would suffer agonising injuries from getting water (salt or fresh) in your eyes as cells were either ruptured or dessicated.
My kids' birthday (twins) was originally supposed to be July 31st, which is also my birthday. Instead, they were born on July 4th. They know they were conceived on Halloween. Guess which two holidays are our favorite? Lol
Sneezing can quite literally kill you. Every time you sneeze your heart stops for exactly one microsecond. Too many sneezes in a row can cause your heart to stop completely. If you've ever sneezed and felt a sharp pain in your chest that is because you REALLY just felt your heart stop. On the other hand, supressing a sneeze can cause blood vessels to burst, specifically, IN YOUR BRAIN! Try to hold back a sneeze once too often and you may just drop dead. Enjoy this fact when your allergies start acting up.
“How did you get chlamydia?? Are you cheating on me?!?” “ you don’t understand, it’s from a koala!” And then I get out on a strange list with the government and am watched for the rest of my life
I heard UAE is there first land target. They know you've let your guard down. First they adapted to fresh water. Next, sand. We will remember your people fondly.
Ha! That’s why I laugh when somebody says “breathe through your mouth” when you smell something gross. I would rather have that smell go up my nose than into my mouth.
Man, that was just one of those things that should not in any way whatsoever be funny... but it was. I hate talking about it though, with someone who hasn't seen or heard of it, because there's no way I can actually articulate how or why it's funny. I just get weird stares.
I don't know this for fact, but I've read that people who are cannibals give off a certain pheromone, due to their consumption of human flesh, which is subliminally picked up by other humans and makes the non-cannibals feel inexplicably aggressive and weirded out by the cannibal. So, if you've ever been in a confined space with someone, i.e. an elevator, and felt unexplainable threatened and/or aggressive toward the person next to you, it could be that they're a cannibal.
When you're smelling shit, you're smelling the gases that shit emits (e.g., methane) in your nose, not literal pieces of shit in your nose. The real disturbing fact is that if you flush a toilet or urinal, there are aerosolized...let's call it "dirty water" (urine/feces) that do spread around the room, so it's particularly bad when you use a toilet that doesn't have a seat cover that's down (which would block a significant portion of it)...one of the many reasons to hate using public restrooms.
We would actually see it coming. It would outshine everything in the sky and depending how far away it is, would determine how long it would take to hit us.
I actually read... or heard somewhere a long time ago that in France back in the day, they used to guillotine someone, then show them their bodies. I kind of wrote it off as a rumor.
Brains are conscious in a narrow range of blood pressure... too low or too high and you blank out. A clean cut decapitation as described would lead to instantaneous pressure drop and consequent unconsciousness.
I'll have you know my birthday is 10 days after my dads, however it is roughly 9 months after my moms so ........kinda speaks volumes about their marriage, that ended shortly after I was born.
Fact: When somebody drowns in the salt water, their brain shuts down stopping them from calling for help even when somebody else (friend, rescue crew or whoever) if right near them.... so those 10 minutes people get when they drown in salt water you were talking about won't matter.... (i read this in an article in the "long reads" in an uk news paper about a couple who help law enforcement with drownings, so you can look it up. It was while ago though)
I love these videos, so it's super disappointing to hear them make a mistake. You don't drown because of water in your lungs. Instead, the second that water hits your windpipe, a reflex closes the throat. You suffocate due to nothing entering your lungs instead of water in your lungs. It's why people pulled from the water tend to vomit, because instead of breathing in water, they swallow it.
an oxymoron is a self contradicting statement e.g dark light, soft blade, boringly interesting... Not a statement that may of may not encourage you to do something opposite to the statement. so you're close but not exactly correct.
It's also possible to contract Hansen's disease - leprosy - from armadillos, including eating the meat. It is very rare but armadillos are known to carry the bacteria that causes the disease.
I've experienced something similar to #9, but it was due to illness, not maritime shenanigans. And yes, the feeling of your lungs being filled with water (or watery mucus, in my case) is absolutely terrifying. You want to breathe, but you just don't have the capacity, and YOU KNOW THIS THE WHOLE TIME.... not fun.
it made me cry at an office I use to work at the management would store water bottles and other pots and pans inside on a shelf in the bathroom.... yeah they were ignorant as hell
So, if you cut the blood flow off to the brain for a little over 3 seconds you will go unconscious, think mma chokes. But, you are saying a severed head can stay conscious, and look around, and make eye contact when it hears it's name, for 30 seconds? With zero blood flow or oxygen? Come on.
wow, didn't know that about sea water, when i was a teenager i tried to kill my self down on our local beach, the pain was just exacting and i found it so difficult, dunked my self atleast 4 , 5 times and just got a dreadful headache instead..... now i know why, alot older now and fine thanks.
My birthday isn't 9 months after my dad's, so ha! It is, however, 10 months after their anniversary. Like exact, they got married exactly 10 months before I was born... Btw I was actually born a month late... So yeah...
And wow peter, mine isn't my dad's birthday, cause I was born a day before my dad's birthday, my birthday is about 9-10 months after my parents anniversary.......
And that is why at work, I go around with disinfectant and wipe every surface and rewash all of the coffee mugs in the cupboard. Not only does it keep me awake and busy during a night shift, I don't have to worry about shitty mugs! Woohoo!
Being burned alive is accepted to be the most painful thing a human being can experience, benign several times more painful than the runners up: drowning and childbirth
I chose the worst possible time to watch this video.... I have the giggles from my broken sleeping pattern and as soon as I heard "release a chocolate hostage" I fucking lost it, I am struggling to type this comment from laughing at it.
If we all die... what's there to be afraid of? You'd figure the initial fear would be being the lone survivor, suffering in pain and starving to death and unable to psychologically handle the fact that everyone on earth is dead.
