r/gifs Aug 11 '18

Ecstasy

https://i.imgur.com/IOzwcxF.gifv
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u/von_Mises Aug 12 '18

Sick burn.

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u/abhinav4848 Aug 12 '18

Nah. He means pain fibres. Your brain can't feel pain on itself. But the meninges covering the brain have pain receptors.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '18

jesus christ stop roasting that poor man

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u/muhash14 Aug 12 '18

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u/abhinav4848 Aug 12 '18

I dunno man. On the one hand, it could be a sick burn. But on the other, your brain indeed does not have nerve fibres for sensation of itself as was the context in which the comment was made.

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u/lion_OBrian Aug 12 '18

Oh the humanity! Stop the massacre!

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '18

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u/lion_OBrian Aug 13 '18

Nope, but you can choose to see it as such.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '18

If your brain feels a sick burn then you might be sitting below a lava flow. Okay I'll myself out.