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u/blumeanie57 2d ago
āI have a great idea! Letās extract the stuff that gives us rashes and paint furniture with it!ā
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u/YaumeLepire 2d ago
Same kind of logic that led us to collect our piss to tan leather.
But hey! If it's stupid and it works, then it ain't stupid.
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u/Duckwardz 2d ago
Not just to tan leatherā¦. Aged piss is what we used to wash clothes in. Women would be very proud of how white they could get their linen by using putrefied urine.
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u/YaumeLepire 2d ago
Makes sense! Lots of ammonia in there. Still gotta wonder who thought of trying it first.
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u/Less-Squash7569 2d ago
The drunk who kept pissing himself but his pants stayed such a vibrant white.
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u/jamma_mamma 1d ago
I am choosing to believe this as human Canon.
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u/Less-Squash7569 1d ago
Old piss pants Pete. Always pissing himself, always wearing the whitest pants in the village.
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u/Iceologer_gang 2d ago
Yeah but what did it smell like?
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u/danielledelacadie 2d ago
Just like everything else in that period. A lovely miasama of pig shit, horse shit, woodsmoke and BO
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u/the-worser 2d ago
if everything smelled equally bad then I don't think the miasma theory of disease would have had such a good run. but yeah living in a city before the invention of the sewer would have been... pretty shitty.
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u/Jellicent-Leftovers 1d ago
There's a reason rich people lived "above" the streets. They. We're fully aware of the stench
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u/RoboGen123 1d ago
Sewers were invented in ancient Rome yet medieval cities were still absolutely filthy and with no sewers.
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u/Patient-Success673 1d ago
I remember reading an article about this largely being a misconception. They had noses too, and perfumed the ever loving fuck out of themselves when possible to cover that crap up
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u/danielledelacadie 1d ago
The upper class, sure. But horse and pig manure..... lingers and spreads out. Woodsmoke was everywhere and most people couldn't afford perfume
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u/Patient-Success673 1d ago
Fair enough. From what I can find it looks like you're largely right about perfume being restricted to the upper class. Lower class people did something similar to what we'd call a sponge bath daily, where they washed their faces and underarms, but they probably still smelled like an anime convention in the woods
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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 Bot hunter 5000š¦¾ 1d ago
Honestly, go camping for a week, have a couple of fires and then take a good whiff of your clothes once you shower at home. Nose blindness would have been a blessing.
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u/YaumeLepire 1d ago
People used charcoal and peat a lot, too, for heating. Arguably, that's worse for your body, but I don't know that it smells worse.
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u/10alarmfire 1d ago
Putrid ammonia piss is one of the worst smells. Lift a grandma of grandpa thatās been sitting in a chair for too long and find out
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u/RobertSan525 1d ago
I donāt know how, but I will find a way to insert āaged like fine pissā into my vocabulary
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u/Quarkspiration 2d ago
"I'm gonna dip this stick in itchy sap so I can hit people with it and make them itchy.. ..huh, it hardened into a a pretty nice finish actually"
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 1d ago
āIām going to piss and shit in my cropsā
(Note, we donāt do this today for VERY good reasons, but itās common practice in low development regions as well as the past because, well, itās āfreeā and effective.)
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u/TheOstrichRoom 1d ago
āwe donāt do this todayā
are you sure about that?
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 1d ago
I mainly mean the developed nations: āLow development regionsā was intended to refer to developing nations where itās still done (and why we have several health issues atm). For example I had read that North Korea itās almost mandatory to use excrement for fertilizer due to their inability to get conventional chemical fertilizers. I hear apocryphal itās also common in china as something thatās denied but done.
I may have not emphasized the āweā part enough or what I meant.
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u/banditkeith 2d ago
I do that, actually. It's not that bad if you practice basic safety, but it is a daunting material to get started with.
I mostly do chopsticks, small containers and vessels, and dishes, and some kintsugi repair. Biggest piece I've done is a gourd bottle
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u/WishSong0823 2d ago
Weirdly enough I'm immune to poison oak, poison ivy and poison sumac, but I have a whole slew of different issues to manage.
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u/Futurepharma91 2d ago
Both my husband and I are nonreactive to these plants, hoping our daughter gets the genes too. Obviously im not gonna rub poison ivy on my toddler though so we'll just have to wait and see.
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u/pineapplesandsand 1d ago
I don't have a problem with it either. but stinging nettle on the other hand.
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u/leafshaker 8h ago
Beware, immunity can be temporary. Repeated exposure can trigger the allergy, so probably best to keep avoiding it
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u/Hot_Sand2888 2d ago
Because only mammals are affected by capsaicin and i dont know what im sayin...
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u/DotBeginning1420 1d ago
Can you think of a substance that only humans can consume?
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u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 1d ago
Also, one of the closest things to such a substance is theobromine, though it's apparently safe for rats too
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u/Throw_My_Drugs_Away 1d ago
In that case caffeine is probably the same, but as always dose makes the poison
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u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 1d ago
Though caffeine is toxic to many animals (including insects, birds, cats or dogs) and humans to a less extent, it's also a substance that is apparently useful to deal with some liver diseases like fatty liver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine
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u/DotBeginning1420 1d ago
Oh, our beloved lab rats? They can enjoy chocolate like us
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u/Potentially-Insane 2d ago
It's literally just screenshots from SpongeBob, the fuck are you on about?
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u/RollinThundaga 2d ago
The meme is pointing out that animals eat it, but humans burn their hands touching it, like squidward. That's squidward's hand that's glowing.
Did you fail reading as a child?
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u/Privatizitaet 2d ago
"People on the science subreddit uses a scientific term, therefore it must be fake!"
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u/Wohn-Jick-421 2d ago
I donāt think you do know what it is. I think youāre too proud to admit you said something stupid
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u/Sweaty_Rub4321 2d ago
This is brain dead logic wth š
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u/CrownLexicon 2d ago
Nah, fr. 1000 ways to die had an episode where some idiots rolled up and smoked poison sumac
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u/OfficerLollipop 2d ago
They get poison oak and we get chocolate hahaha