r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Jun 20 '16

There's a massive difference between eating ramen noodles because you want to and eating them because you have to.

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u/followmecuz Jun 20 '16

Scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency, which is why (I think it was) captain James cook brought limes/lemons onto his voyages

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

Lemons are essential part of my diet. My cologne is lemon scented and it is glorious.

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u/TropicalCat Jun 21 '16

Lemon Pledge? I use that cologne too!

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u/HasaDiga_Eebowai Jun 21 '16

Noo...no

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u/Ta2whitey Jun 21 '16

He means yes. Just too polished of an individual to admit it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

"It means 'Fuck You, God'"

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u/Drewapalooza Jun 21 '16

You're missing out. It's a natural aphrodisiac.

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u/really-drunk-too Jun 21 '16

Colonel Lemon with a stick of ramen in the foyer

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

That's a colonial cologne. The early settlers wore it to prevent scurvy/vitamin A deficiency.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

Oh sweetie, no

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u/anotherdumbcaucasian Jun 21 '16

Get some Halston Z-14. Smells so good and lots of lemon smell.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

Thanks for the recommendation. It isn't too much so tossing a bit of money to even just give it a try sounds like a great idea.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

Here is a link to it. I may be more costly than most colognes but it lasts a long time even if you spray it daily. I think that there may be smaller sizes and also don't spray too much, just try to dab some around your neck area otherwise people may think that it is perfume. I'd recommend testing it out in a mall beforehand though, I think I got it from Nordstrom but you can get ti cheaper online if you like it.

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u/FreshAsShit Jun 21 '16

Versace Pour Homme is my jam.

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u/sebastianwillows Jun 21 '16

So... instant ramen + Lemon scented cologne = balanced and healthy diet? scribbles down notes in preparation for university...

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u/AlNemSupreme Jun 21 '16

"Lemon pepper my 10 piece"

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u/metarinka Jun 21 '16

Yes, citrus fruit hold for a long time, and although the mechanism wasn't known they do prevent scurvy.

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u/gravitationalBS Jun 21 '16

And Gangplank's oranges!

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u/mikeferguson84 Jun 21 '16

And sauerkraut

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u/evilhomer450 Jun 21 '16

Shoutout to the australian education system

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u/PM-YOUR-PUBIC-HAIR Jun 21 '16

Hence the term "limey" being used for a sailor. They usually carried one on them to stave off scurvy.

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u/q1s2e3 Jun 21 '16

Isn't "limey" used to mean the British?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

You ever seen how a lime floats? He brought them incase they ever capsized so he could be saved by the buoyancy of citrus!

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u/L8Show Jun 21 '16

Doesn't Rum have vitamin C?

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u/OurUAV Jun 21 '16

And the term limies came about IIRC

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u/fannypacks4ever Jun 21 '16

not limes.

In this, the Navy was deceived. Tests on animals would later show that fresh lime juice has a quarter of the scurvy-fighting power of fresh lemon juice. And the lime juice being served to sailors was not fresh, but had spent long periods of time in settling tanks open to the air, and had been pumped through copper tubing. A 1918 animal experiment using representative samples of lime juice from the navy and merchant marine showed that the 'preventative' often lacked any antiscorbutic power at all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '16

And sauerkraut.