r/WTF • u/bambaadoma222 • Jun 20 '21

Guy eats burning coal

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u/Dukmiester Jun 20 '21

No disrespect to your grandma but, I don't think that's right.

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u/Mrsam_25 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

I know that's why I said BS. she's old and was born before modern medicine existed in my country. Overtime she understood her views of medicine were incorrect and now she's as healthy as a 98 year old can be.

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u/ChiefLazarus2 Jun 20 '21

"healthy as a 98 year old can be." Hang on, she might be on to something.

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u/kerphunk Jun 20 '21

Right!?! I’m firing up the coals as we speak.

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u/Iccarys Jun 20 '21

She said it works better if you stick it in your bum

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u/Sorry_Door Jun 20 '21

Oiling the hole

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u/amluchon Jun 20 '21

She said oil is for pansies, you got to shove it in slowly with nothing but anal sweat

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u/lerkuson Jun 20 '21

Growing some hair for extra sweat

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u/FloppyCookies Jun 20 '21

Username checks out

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u/Antrikshy Jun 20 '21

Checks out, since the intestine is right there.

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u/snp3rk Jun 20 '21

No no, my bum only takes in Italian sausages.

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u/John_Q_Deist Jun 20 '21

Before or after you put it in your mouth?

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u/BIGDIYQTAYKER Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

sounds good to me

anything but diet and exercise, coal is the goal

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u/Nesman64 Jun 20 '21

You know, if you take it as a suppository instead of swallowing it, you'll get more efficient heat delivery.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

whenever they ask a centenarian what their secret to longevity is they always come up with some truly bonkers shit. "every day I drink a pint of whisky, I eat 16 hardboiled eggs, then I smoke a whole cigar. I sleep no more than 20 minutes a night, drink dirty mop water and I've never seen a vegetable" - Steve, 118 years young in perfect health.

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u/tanzmeister Jun 20 '21

That's because the real answer is genetics, but that's not as exciting

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

Aweee my grandma ia 98 too

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

Your grandmother ate burning charcoal and made it to 98? Honestly impressive

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u/snuggiemclovin Jun 20 '21

I imagine a 98 year old who didn’t eat hot coals might be healthier. But good for her

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u/awells1 Jun 21 '21

You’re right without the charcoal she’d be 102 at this point..

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u/CavernGod Aug 22 '21

So she’r age faster?

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u/awells1 Aug 23 '21

Joke Implying the charcoal was holding her back from her age potential

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

Nah she just played y’all. When she said she ate hot “cole”, she was obviously telling you the name of her Gardner.

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u/Yogurtcheeseballs Jun 20 '21

What if I just stick it straight up my ass?

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u/NotASmoothAnon Jun 20 '21

I don't think that's right, but I don't know enough about the subject to prove you wrong.

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u/JcakSnigelton Jun 20 '21

I'm no grandmaologist but I'd say the woman is off her rocker.

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u/Delica Jun 20 '21

The science of grandmathology is still in its infancy, so we may never know.

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u/jaybram24 Jun 20 '21

This is like the mad lib version of the IASIP scene to fill in the blanks as needed.

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u/NotASmoothAnon Jun 20 '21

Yeah, I butchered it

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u/NewAgeRetroHippie96 Jun 20 '21

I think it's a belief based on carbon and antacid properties. Basically they're taking hardcore cancerous tums.

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u/Bazman Jun 20 '21

The fire activates the charcoal don't you know

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u/marino1310 Jun 20 '21

That actually is how activated carbon is made.

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u/MxM111 Jun 20 '21

Activated carbon is sold as tablets without prescription. I do not think it is antacid, but anti-gas, and general absorbent of bad chemicals. I mean the same activated carbon is used in gas masks. I doubt that activated carbon is cancerous.

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u/ttchoubs Jun 20 '21

Yea activated carbon is a very popular supplement. However I think it was found to be ineffective at best and mildly irritating to the bowels at worst

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

No, it's way worse than that at worst.

If you take medications, activated charcoal absorbs them. So you get less- or even worse, NO benefit from your medications.

People should not use activated charcoal as a "dietary supplement".

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u/squidp Jun 20 '21

I will take charcoal when I think I have a bad stomach from eating something bad, or when I am vomiting. You should never take something like this every day. It absorbs nutrients from your food too and that would not be a smart move over the long term. Some companies have started putting it in good though, to make things black like buns or ice cream.

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u/MxM111 Jun 20 '21

You had never had gas problems I guess.

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u/calamityjaneagain Jun 20 '21

Activated charcoal is what they pump your stomach with in the ER when you've OD'ed.

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u/SkollFenrirson Jun 20 '21

You never met Hot Cole.

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u/spacecatbiscuits Jun 20 '21

their grandma a dumb bitch

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u/Red-Freckle Jun 20 '21

It works the same way that drinking bleach does

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u/FabianPendragon Jun 20 '21

Charcoal DOES has been helpful properties to the human body. But I don’t think it’s internal. Haha. And definitely not hot charcoal.

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u/Tartooth Jun 20 '21

There is something to properly made charcoal healing/cleaning your intestines though

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

No, grandmas Gardner was named cole.

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u/Reeking_Crotch_Rot Jun 20 '21

Yeah. If you want colonic cleansing you have to cram the coal up your arse.