Spyke

Id prefer a shit-stream of them screaming as they empty their bowels on a twitch stream.

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Hupfreply
feddit.org

The cylinder must not be damaged in any way.

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lemmy.sdf.org

Suuuuper don't eat that. Heavy weight gear oil is the worst thing I've ever tasted and I had only a tiny amount of it

Maybe actual excrement tastes worse, but I wasn't curious enough to try tasting that

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I don't know about going down, but coming up your body turns off the tongue. Either that or I've gotten good at redirecting the stream

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Have you never made a cherry or cranberry jam/syrup. That's exactly what it looks like when you boil red fruit and sugar together

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lemmy.world

I literally was going to say that exact thing. It's why they had to ban kinder eggs. Everything from heavy grease to tide pods and small plastic toys looks edible to Americans.

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lemmy.zip

We feed our cat a little petroleum jelly to get his insides lubricated. This was prescribed by a vet after he was very constipated. That was an expensive vet visit

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it's not so much what it is, but what uses it.

late transistor radios required small high powered batteries. according to Wikipedia 22.5v batteries were popular in early transistor radios.

these 9 volt batteries were popular in powering these late transistor radios, the transistors specifically. hence the name.

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The inventor of vaseline ate a spoonful every day. He promoted it as wonder goo, fit for everything and anything. NGL it is pretty great, on the outside. Well, and a fistful of inches deep as well but no farther.

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lemmy.world

Does that work with humans this is not a medical question this is a personal experience question

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arrow74reply
lemmy.zip

To be clear this is not just straight petroleum jelly it's formulated for cats, but the tube says 98% petroleum jelly with maple flavor

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lemmy.ca

Interesting they went with a sweet flavour; I always figured since cats are obligate carnivores that sweet things wouldn't be very attractive to them.

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Corkyskogreply
sh.itjust.works

My cats will drink flat soda or energy drinks if you leave them out. My dog hunts down chocolate knowing it will make her puke. Animals are weird.

Also deer are known to eat mice and birds and eggs and even dead rabbits.

I once had a friend in school who had a rabbit. He took the vegetables off his burger and threw it in the cage with a couple strips of bacon. The rabbit sat on the tomato, devoured the bacon and then nibbled the lettuce a little bit. I still wonder to this day how a rabbit even digests bacon, let alone gets an appetite for it.

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sh.itjust.works

That rabbit was very lucky to have had such a strong stomach, rabbits in general are unable to digest foods high in protein and gastric upset in rabbits can be fatal. Its one of the scariest things as a rabbit owner.

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Corkyskogreply
sh.itjust.works

Yeah. I don't know how long it lived, at least a year since then, after that who knows. Rabbits aren't very long lived to begin with, and even less so when they sell them at the fair as tiny bunnies not neutered or spayed. Once you know how much work they are it seems kind of criminal.

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Rabbits aren't very long lived to begin with

A domestic rabbit has an expected life span of about 8-12 years which I'd say is decently long

Not neutered or spayed

But yeah, that will shorten their life span for sure. Rabbits are a lot of work too and they're not for everyone! Most people don't really know or care about the work that's required to really take proper care of them.

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Corkyskogreply
sh.itjust.works

I am not even sure if they do. They may just be dumb or too lazy to walk over to their water bowl.

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arrow74reply
lemmy.zip

I had the same thought but he gets so very excited when we pull out the tube.

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lemmy.ca

Well, the inventor of Vaseline thought so

Chesebrough lived to be 96 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day

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lemmy.zip

Petroleum jelly would work, but it's not intended for consumption. If you do want petroleum products intended for consumption that will do exactly the same thing, get some mineral oil

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And go a tbsp every hour or so. I've seen so many videos of people drinking shots or larger of that stuff and stating they inhabited the bathroom all night.

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I don't know about petroleum jelly, but I know you can drink mineral oil as a laxative, and that's basically the same stuff just runny.

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lemmy.world

Look man. If you're constipated, just get some burritos with extra beans!

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burritos aren't real man. they're a conspiracy by the government to... okay this one doesn't fit i'm changing it back hold on.

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lemmy.world

Has no one ever smelled bearing grease? Even fresh it smells terrible.

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I dunno if it's some kind of additive, but AFAIK it universally smells like stinky bugs, just weaker.

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AxExRxreply
lemmy.world

I got a syringe of same looking red grease for installing a bicycle bottom bracket, (might have been for a fancy front fork?)
and it smelled vaguely sweet... like almost fructosey enough to make you imagine it was raspberry flavored.

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SupraMarioreply
lemmy.world

Might have been some other compound, cause straight bearing grease for cars/trucks/heavy equipment/etc doesn't smell pleasant at all.

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ikiddreply
lemmy.world

Diff oil is the worst, especially if it's been heated in a catastrophuck.

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SupraMarioreply
lemmy.world

Diff oil that's been burned and over due for a change is probably one of the most vile things on the planet. Even rotting carcasses don't match it.

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lemmy.world

I've smelled rotting human remains. I doubt it smells worse than a bloated cadaver in the summer heat.

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Same here and you'd be surprised. It's one of those unnaturally putrid smells that even trying to breathe through your mouth fails to dilute.

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lemmy.world

different strokes and all that. I've never thought that.

then again I worked in a factory that used shortening as a mould release for years. that shit stinks and gets scummy after a few months. Imagine what it smells like after a few decades.

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SupraMarioreply
lemmy.world

That sounds horrible, I guess it's more healthy than bearing grease though.

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lemmy.world

you'd think that, but you'd be wrong.

ever hear of popcorn lung? yeah, working there, all the old timers had it. I had only worked there for about 5 years but the smell got into everything.

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SupraMarioreply
lemmy.world

How'd they get popcorn lung from that? Did it aerosolize from the us?

BTW those people who got popcorn lung which ended up coining the term, all were heavy heavy smokers. So yes it's dangerous but it's one of those...well it probably didn't help that they smoked like freight trains.

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lemmy.world

yeah. the factory was doing diecast parts at 1400° and the shortening was a mould release so the parts would pop out of the dies.

the pressure that those machines push in molten metal plus the high temperature would vaporize the shortening and with 3-12 tons of pressure aerosolize it.

Even after 5 years there I had a bit of a cough, but nothing as bad as the old guys that had been around for 30+ years.

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SupraMarioreply
lemmy.world

That sounds fucking awful. Did they not give you guys any PPE?

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🤣

no.

the best ppe we got was cotton uniforms so when the metal sprayed out (which happened daily) would burn and not melt to our skin.

we also got some pretty nice gloves too for grabbing the parts out of the machines. usually they'd come out around 700° and have to go on cooling racks.

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I miss forbidden snacks in the first few months... Before people flooded it with pictures of buildings and scenery. God do I not miss reddit near the end...

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lemmy.zip

I had to do the axles on my trailer this year and honestly this is one of my first thoughts when I opened up the can of Grease as well. It kind of did look tasty.

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It’s funny how our brains react to colors and textures, even when we know it’s not food. Visual perception is wild.

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lemmy.world

They shouldn't have made edible things look like grease

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lemmy.ca

This is like saying that antifreeze shouldn't taste/smell sweet.

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Are you saying we shouldn't put cotton candy inside our walls either?!

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Cherry pie filling. Which is mostly artificial cherry flavor like used in cough syrup, water, sugar, and corn starch. So... you probably shouldn't eat either one.

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ikiddreply
lemmy.world

Tractors are born looking for a novel and expensive way to die.

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I can testify, twice, that liquid green apple soap does not taste as good as it smells

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"This man used lithium grease as a personal lubricant. It destroyed his colon and organs."

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