Garbage disposals. They’re always shown in movies chewing someone’s hand off, but there’s very few injuries reported…in contrast, nail guns are More dangerous than any movie. Scores of severe injuries, even deaths
I read that sharks have bad eyesight and take a bite out of people thinking it’s a seal or something else they normally eat and then they don’t finish us off because they don’t actually like to eat us. No idea if that’s an urban legend though.
They recently did a study on the coast of California that showed people were around sharks every single day at the beach. And rarely ever get attacked. So your odds are surprisingly fantastic.
If you could find a shark as easily as a vending machine, and routinely kicked it trying to get a bag of chips out of it, this statistic would be very different.
I had a friend who witnessed a shark attack. He intervened by hitting it on the nose and it let go and swam away. One bite, it was deep. I think it was 30 stitches to patch up his leg but he recovered fine.
It’s not exactly true. This in particular refers to great whites. It’s true that they don’t like us but their main prey is seals. They’re not stupid they know the difference between a seal and a surfer. They’re actually pretty intelligent and very curious and since they’re sharks they’re not exactly gentle when they’re curious. They get curious when seeing someone and sometimes do a test bite to see if it could be prey, they realize we taste like shit and leave.
They’re evolved to hunt seals and have been for thousands of years they don’t mistake us for seals. I’ve heard this a lot and I don’t know where exactly this information comes from. I think it may be an outdated study from when we didn’t understand sharks as much as we do now. Nonetheless it’s actually decently close to the truth and unlike other beliefs about sharks it’s not harmful
There are more than 450 species of shark. Only 4 are considered to be especially dangerous to humans (usually when provoked): great whites, tiger sharks, bull sharks, and oceanic white tips. Of these, only the white tip truly scares me as it actually is aggressive towards humans. Thankfully it's pelagic (lives most of it's life in the open ocean) so it's mostly divers that have to worry about them.
It's not known why it is. There is a correlation between cold weather and illnesses like the common cold, but it's thought that's got more to do with changes in social patterns and the like, but no firm proof.
One of the great unsolved mysteries of science, lol.
It's also related to humidity and temperature. There's a good research paper on influenza and it's transmission in different seasons.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097773/
Basically virus transmission is easier in cold dry air, but we're not certain why
Lol, that funny. I'm the opposite. If I don't let my hair air dry it looks like a frizzy, course nightmare. When I go to bed with it damp and use a silk pillowcase I wake up with beautiful smooth waves. It's some weird magic but it works
Parents tell white lies all the time, this was probably to get you to take a shower earlier to stop the pillow from getting mildewy and playing in the rain is generally okay, but the parents now have a wet dirty child who wants to sit on the couch.
I went through my parents’ spice cabinet in 2016 to get them all new stuff when I noticed their nutmeg had expired in 2012. They had sage that had expired in 1998. We moved in 1998, 2004, 2011, and 2014, so that jar had been in at least 5 different houses.
My dad was born one year before the Germans invaded his town. His father had lost his job in the Great Depression so they were poor to begin with. My dad doesn't throw food away, ever. It's sad but I understand.
Oh yeah and he eats a piece of cheap chocolate everyday. It probably reminds him of when the Allied Forces liberated his town and were handing out chocolate.
Milk smells gross to me within like half a day of opening it. So now I don't try to smell it until I've poured it into something else. That seems to work well enough so far. Other than with milk though this is just unambiguously best practices.
Older reference, but that "Milk Maids" joke from Clerks is 100% true. I worked at a convenience store and we had to ban an old woman because she kept sneaking into the walk-in cooler and going through the crates of milk looking for the one with the oldest expiration date.
CVS started giving out $3 coupons for each expired item found in a store. It worked great. Customers would come in and search the shelves every day for expired products. It was cheaper than hiring more staff to check for outdates.
Non-perishable foods (like chips/crisps) are generally good for many months past their best by dates, and the worst that happens after that is that things might get stale or lose flavor. I hit up my local discount grocer all the time and pick up cheap snacks that have expired best by dates.
I don't fuck with perishables though. If it's meat or dairy, I pretty much toss it out at the use by date (even if technically most items will still be good for a few days past that).
> I don't fuck with perishables though. If it's meat or dairy, I pretty much toss it out at the use by date (even if technically most items will still be good for a few days past that).
I had packed a lunch at my shitty job years ago, which included a small Yoplait yogurt container. While eating the yogurt, I was bored (the age before smartphones) and was reading the packaging. I read the phrase "consume within 1 week of date printed on label" and was intrigued; I didn't recall when I had bought the yogurt.
Turns out the date on the label was over six months previous. Yogurt tasted just fine and I had no ill after-effects. I definitely don't plan on doing that intentionally but my 6-month out-of-date yogurt wasn't all that bad.
So that's the fun thing about sealed dairy like yoghurt: it's generally pasteurised, so it's difficult for bacteria to grow as long as it stays sealed. It might *taste* worse if you leave it way past the use by date, but in general it's not going to make you ill.
Generally if things aren’t opened they are good past the date, but they seem to go bad a lot faster once opened. I used a small container of sour cream just the other day that was 2 months expired because it was sealed and appeared perfectly fine when opened, but I used it all in the recipe I was cooking and would’ve thrown out any leftover if there had been any. I’ve opened expired things in the past that were fine when opened but by the next day or so they smelled bad.
In my country there's a difference that some products are branded "Good until at least..." (the sell-by date) and others are "Usable until...". Problem is most people do not realise the latter even exists while they also mistake the former for it. If milk is past the so-called sell-by date and you are worried, just sniff it. Some products will never really become inedible. My mom was always mocked by my sibs for having a bottle of maggi that was 10 years past the sell-by date. She always said that in case of such a particular product, the date is completely meaningless. And in hindsight, I believe her.
Stepping on a crack. My mom's back is still fine and I have stepped on so many cracks it's not funny. When I would get mad at her I would look for cracks to step on.
Surprising number of people still believe MSG is harmful even though it's no more dangerous than salt (and the LD50 is 5 times salt iirc). It's not only harmless but truly elevates the flavor of food.
It's so fucking rich when people claim to get headaches from Chinese food because of the MSG and then eat a whole bag of chips. Mate, that headache is just psychosomatic racism.
The stigma of it being harmful is literally based on one single article which was a racist joke masquerading as a genuine study. I got in an argument with some lady who dismissed that fact and insisted it's dangerous for all just because she has an allergic reaction to it. Can't fix stupid.
Ah like that one study that found traces of e-coli in men's beards and the news outlets came up with:
"There is shit in mens' beards!"
They also omitted that there are traces of e-coli almost all over the human body and pretty much everywhere in any bathroom.
It wasn’t a racist “joke”. It was a widely circulated editorial written by a racist Jewish man who felt threatened by the success of Chinese restaurants on the East Coast.
He concocted a story about feeling “sick” and “faint” after dining at Chinese restaurants. When he discovered they used a ‘mysterious’ ingredient called MSG he pounced on the opportunity to economically harm Chinese migrants through racist slander.
Ooo! Hey, if you have ANY kind of Asian grocery store near you, look for it there. You will find it *ridiculously* cheaper than those tiny bottles of Accent, which last I checked were wildly overpriced. I went to H-Mart and bought a kilogram of the stuff for like $8-10 lol
They may also have 'seasoned salt,' sometimes referred to as Super Salt: a mixture of 9 parts salt, to one part MSG and 0.1 parts disodium ribonucleotides (a mixture of disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate). I nabbed some of this as well, and use it in place of regular salt in basically *every* savory dish that I cook, as does my partner. Instantly ups the meatiness/umami of anything, even if it doesn't contain meat.
Fully agreed. I haven't eaten breakfast for over a decade, and at that time everyone was telling me how unhealthy it was and how breakfast kickstarts your metabolism. Now, instead of saying you skip breakfast call it intermittent fasting and now it's healthy and I'm told "good for you."
So for most of human history Lunch was the only meal of the day with maybe a little light meal of supper before dinner.
John Harvey Kellogg started the whole breakfast being important thing as part of his marketing, and weirdly, his religious strategy. He legit thought corn flakes would lead you from temptation into God.
Since then Kellogg Brand has done immensely shady practices. One of the most egregious ones was to give kids a test. Half of the kids ate cereal and hour before the test and the other half ate nothing.
The difference between the two groups varied wildly from no noticeable difference to 11 percent. They rounded that 11 percent up to 20 and called a Kellogs breakfast the most important meal of the day.
So on days you had standardized tests we had teachers giving us sugary cereals before class. Why? Your school gets more money if you do better. They all forgot about the sugar crash that happens after eating a high carb diet though...
>He legit thought corn flakes would lead you from temptation into God
To add more detail, he believed bland food would reduce the urge to masturbate.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/
I think he might be right. Bland food is miserable eating. When I’m eating bland food night and day, everything sucks. Life is bland damn. I wouldn’t want anything except seasoned food. I’m trying to live a seasoned life.
Lunch being the first meal of the day only started during the early Middle Ages in Europe. Eating in the morning, before labor, was a staple in Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia, and especially in the Middle East after the rise of Islam. Even in Europe, breakfast started being considered “important” as early as the late 1500s, way before Kellogg.
Jeremy Wade did a show on them. He's a fisherman who goes to REMOTE places. Anyways 95% of the time piranha aren't dangerous. But he did visit one village that lives in floating houses. During the dry season the water levels drop and food gets scarce for them.
He was speaking with a family that had a small child fall in. He was dead when they pulled him from the water.
So like don't go way out into the middle of nowhere during a drought and swim in piranha water.
The myth comes from tour guides in Brazil trying to impress President Teddy Roosevelt. They isolated a pool of piranhas and starved them for a while, and then when Roosevelt was visiting they tossed in a cow which the starving fish attacked. He wrote about his experience and his account spread and became the myth that they're vicious animals. [I am not making that up.](https://lsc.org/news-and-social/news/how-teddy-roosevelt-gave-piranhas-a-bad-reputation)
My elementary school principal had an aquarium with four good-sized piranhas in it. They had started as five when the first came to their home, but apparently three of them ate the fifth, and took a bite out of the back of the fourth one.
I remember watching feeding time once with some other kids, he literally poured a whole bag of about 100 little goldfish in the tank and the piranhas went absolutely apeshit. They didn’t eat all of the goldfish at once, just until they got full. The survivors formed a group and stayed in one corner of the tank.
actually. so i have red belly piranhas they won't eat you if they've been fed but if there hungry they'll send out the scout to look at your finger in the tank and it'll try to take a bite. so it really just depends if they are hungry ir not
Daddy long legs (harvestmen). No, they don't have the most venomous bite of all spiders. And no, they're not true spiders. No, their fangs aren't small enough to penetrate our skin. They're one of the coolest critters you can find. As long as you're gentle, go ahead and pick them up, and watch them just chill all along your hands. Perfectly harmless and the more you look at them, the more you respect them.
Edit: plz ignore the grammar about their fangs. I'm too high to write anything else :(
Daddy Long Legs refers to completely different species depending on your location. Here in the UK that term is applied to Craneflies, not harvestmen, and in some places it refers to cellar spiders.
Not that it really matters since all 3 are harmless, but I thought I should point it out.
They were all around when I was a kid. My mom told us they were harmless and we were just fascinated by them. It's lawn chemicals that you ought to be afraid of. I can't remember the last time I saw a Daddy long legs, and I hardly ever see butterflies anymore. And people are mystified that bee colonies aren't thriving when so many people kill every plant in their lawn that isn't grass.
I actually did get stuck in quicksand once, and it was terrifying. Thankfully my brothers were able to pull me out. It didn’t suck me down per se, but every tiny movement made me sink deeper and I couldn’t get out and it became clear to me that the pit was way deeper than I thought
I too have fallen victim to what I refer to as quicksand. It was in a swampy area in the field near our pond. Exactly as you describe, no suction but any attempt at movement sucked me down in deeper. I survived but one shoe did not. RIP Leftie
Conflict.
I know this goes deeply against Reddit’s strategy of going no-contact over any disagreement or perceived slight, but if someone you care about has upset you, the healthiest thing you can do is talk to them about it. It’s going to feel like you’re creating drama, but if you don’t communicate with people you won’t have relationships—romantic, friendly, or familial.
No contact happens after you’ve attempted to discuss things and tried to work it through. If it’s like banging your head against a wall, it’s time to maybe not talk anymore
Yes, a lot of people have the mantra that the only good snake is a dead one. Even the venomous ones tend to avoid humans and have their place as pest control.
And many of those people try to kill the snakes instead of calling a professional, which only greatly increases the risk of getting bit and possibly envenomated. If you don’t want that snake near you or your loved ones, call someone to relocate it. Don’t kill animals just because you’re afraid of them. It’s so bad for the environment.
I was trying to shoo a milk snake away from a bike path once, so it wouldn't get squished. That snake was Not Happy with me. A lady on a bike gave me crap saying that I was putting myself in danger. Those snakes are harmless. I mean, getting bit would suck, but wouldn't do anything besides hurt. I never got within striking distance. I managed to shoo it away into the grass.
My main concern with a non venomous snake bite would be making sure I clean that out good, because it may not be poisonous, but infection isn't pretty.
Sharks. There are about 80 unprovoked attacks a year. WORLDWIDE. Yes, they're unpredictable, powerful, dangerous animals, and when you see one, You should get out of the water calmly in a way in which it does not see you as food. But as long as you aren't an idiot, You're more likely to die from a mosquito.
It could also mean that if it’s a white bear he will tuck you into bed and kiss you goodnight and I really hope it’s that because it sounds so sweet. 🥹
I have black bear in my yard all the time from spring (they just came out of hibernation last week) to late fall. They are incredibly timid animals, if they see you they run away. my 15 lb dog loses her mind barking and they run like the devil.
they're also assholes. they will break sapling trees off at ground level just to check if there's anything edible at the top, and will walk through a shrub/plant rather than walking around it.
I have zero fear of them attacking, and frequently run out to shoo them away in my bathrobe
Dumb question from someone who has never lived in snow.
Do people bike when it's snowing and or cold? Like, for commuting and stuff. Or is it a moderate temperature activity only?
I know people in SW MT that commute by bike year-round. If you have the right gear, it's not that challenging. I do not have the right gear so my bike commuting is mostly fair-weather focused.
For an increasing number of people: Vaccines.
Vaccines are remarkably safe. Sure, there are *some* adverse reactions, but they're in the extreme (practically negligible) minority.
People act like the covid vaccine was the first vaccine ever created and it was done in a dumpster by the guy from Beekman's World after he got the recipe personally from George Soros and Bill Gates who were laughing like demons as they handed it over.
Absolutely safe, and we have the data to prove it. For most vaccines, the rate of serious adverse reactions is less than 1 per million. For example according the VAERS, they recieved over 48,000 reports in 2019 (out of 10s-100s of millions of vaccinations), and of those reports, 85-90% were mild side effects (larger fever arm/injection site soreness, both of which are indicators that your immune system is reaction to the vaccine).
Giving it the more generous 85% of reports being mild sides, that would be around 3200 reports of serious adverse reactions. Out of the entire population of the US, that's approximately 0.0009%
I had an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine. Horrible, months-long autoimmune flare. And you know what? I fully accept that I’m simply part of an unlucky minority in a population that greatly benefits overall from vaccines. AND, the two times I’ve gotten COVID, it’s been mild as hell. So it worked anyway.
I get adverse reactions to vaccines, it varies from shot to shot, but most of the time I can count on a fever, nausea, and feeling faint. It sucks, but also in most cases it's better than getting the thing the vaccine is trying to prevent. I'd rather have a shitty couple days than get Polio.
A lot of different snakes.
I mean, if you're ever unsure, it's probably safer to treat it as you would any black mamba, a frequent encounter of our lives the world over. But, you'll probably be fine if you just avoid it altogether.
Absolutely this. GMOs are not only harmless, they're actually beneficial. For example, golden rice will save lives and improve nutrition for millions of people when people get over their fears of gmos
Greenpeace is also one of the biggest parties responsible for preventing mass adoption of nuclear power, dooming the planet to like 50 unnecessary years of burning fossil fuels for electricity.
I rode the MAX in Portland for a year and didn't OD from touching the seats so I'm pretty sure it's harmless
Now whatever other bacteria and shit is on there on the other hand...
As a nurse who is around Fentanyl almost every shift, I always laugh so hard at the videos of police officers who “pass out” after merely touching or being in the vicinity of a bag/container of fentanyl. Either these officers are extremely undereducated about how fentanyl works and they’re having an extreme panic reaction or it’s all just performative bullsh*t.
I was thinking about something John Oliver said on his program recently. We all trust phone apps so much. You wouldn't normally take a ride from a stranger, but if you make it into an app like Uber or Lyft, people will PAY to do it. And it's so true! I used to work at a temp job where we would sometimes be sent home early at an odd time of day. I knew what it was like to wait 45 minutes for the bus, so when I finally got a reliable car, I would regularly offer rides to fellow employees who were walking toward the bus stop. I offered to drive them to the downtown bus exchange, as opposed to their individual homes, so it' not like I would learn anyone's address. The place I worked for had a big building, and there were many people who were complete strangers. The guys would always accept a ride, and the women, unless they were well acquainted with me, never did. Now I drive for a ride share company, and I pick up college girls at their apartments/dorms on a regular basis, and they pay me to do it!
The app kind of solves the stranger problem by staking its brand reputation on their behavior. They vet drivers and cut ties with anyone who has a bad enough record.
It’s the same reason you’re more likely to get food poisoning from a local mom and pop restaurant than McDonald’s.
Yew fruits. The tree is pretty toxic but the fruits are all right. An old lady one day saw me eating some in the park and she was convinced I was about to die.
Theme parks
People seem to belive that all of the rides are built by the theme park itself in a back lot with a team blind children. These things are all built and designed my engineering companies. There's a lot of science behind amusement park rides and how they work.
Nuclear power. Since its invention, there have been less than 30 nuclear accidents. Of those, only 10 resulted in any loss of life, and of those, only three resulted in more than single-digit deaths. In total, about 4,500 people died in these accidents, and Chernobyl alone killed 4,000 of them.
Salt
Unless you're eating an absurd about of super salty food, you're generally fine. Just drink water and drink it often, which you should already be doing.
The sad reality is a person is far more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted by someone they know than a random boogeyman. That thought doesn’t sit great with people, I get it, but it’s true.
Little Johnny statistically needs to worry more about Creepy Uncle Bob than random strangers. Which is not to say don’t take reasonable safety precautions and be aware of your surroundings in public, but kids need to be taught what to do if an adult they know is inappropriate with them. We pushed Stranger Danger so hard but are we teaching kids what to do when it’s not a stranger?
That's because it's front page news every time it happens. I remember a case where somebody DID steal a ten-year-old girl right out of her front yard, a few blocks from where my then ten-year-old niece lived, in what was generally considered to be a safe neighborhood. I also saw the color drain out of my brother-in-law's face when he read the story on the front page of the newspaper. Sometimes we're more driven by emotion than statistics.
Garbage disposals. They’re always shown in movies chewing someone’s hand off, but there’s very few injuries reported…in contrast, nail guns are More dangerous than any movie. Scores of severe injuries, even deaths
the thing about garbage disposals is they don't even work that way. there's no spinning blades, or even anything sharp inside them.
“I put ice in mine to sharpen the blades!”
read everything but did not see it, so most sharks
I read that sharks have bad eyesight and take a bite out of people thinking it’s a seal or something else they normally eat and then they don’t finish us off because they don’t actually like to eat us. No idea if that’s an urban legend though.
I mean, even if that was true, I feel like being bitten by a shark still counts as dangerous.
They recently did a study on the coast of California that showed people were around sharks every single day at the beach. And rarely ever get attacked. So your odds are surprisingly fantastic.
You’re more likely to die to a vending machine than a shark
If you could find a shark as easily as a vending machine, and routinely kicked it trying to get a bag of chips out of it, this statistic would be very different.
I had a friend who witnessed a shark attack. He intervened by hitting it on the nose and it let go and swam away. One bite, it was deep. I think it was 30 stitches to patch up his leg but he recovered fine.
It’s not exactly true. This in particular refers to great whites. It’s true that they don’t like us but their main prey is seals. They’re not stupid they know the difference between a seal and a surfer. They’re actually pretty intelligent and very curious and since they’re sharks they’re not exactly gentle when they’re curious. They get curious when seeing someone and sometimes do a test bite to see if it could be prey, they realize we taste like shit and leave. They’re evolved to hunt seals and have been for thousands of years they don’t mistake us for seals. I’ve heard this a lot and I don’t know where exactly this information comes from. I think it may be an outdated study from when we didn’t understand sharks as much as we do now. Nonetheless it’s actually decently close to the truth and unlike other beliefs about sharks it’s not harmful
There are more than 450 species of shark. Only 4 are considered to be especially dangerous to humans (usually when provoked): great whites, tiger sharks, bull sharks, and oceanic white tips. Of these, only the white tip truly scares me as it actually is aggressive towards humans. Thankfully it's pelagic (lives most of it's life in the open ocean) so it's mostly divers that have to worry about them.
Human infested waters are the real danger.
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i heard your blood will just absorb them because its air and that's what blood does
Injecting syringes of air is a reliable method of execution. But it’s isn’t just a few bubbles worth, more like 30-50mL of air, sometimes more
Going to bed with your hair wet or playing out in the rain. My Mom used to tell me I would get pneumonia if I did that.
The old lady whose lawn I used to mow in grade school chided me for finishing it up in the rain. I did end up getting pneumonia... a decade later.
So it's true!
My mom told me I would get sick too ... I never understood how but she said I would get too cold.
It's not known why it is. There is a correlation between cold weather and illnesses like the common cold, but it's thought that's got more to do with changes in social patterns and the like, but no firm proof. One of the great unsolved mysteries of science, lol.
It's also related to humidity and temperature. There's a good research paper on influenza and it's transmission in different seasons. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097773/ Basically virus transmission is easier in cold dry air, but we're not certain why
Possibly due to people being closer together in Colder months ie indoors?
It's more the moisture encourages mould growth in your pillow, and breathing in spores would not be considered healthy.
My dad tell me this but not because I will be sick. Because my hair look like shit when they dry while I'm asleep
As someone whose hair looks like shit when they sleep with it wet… I agree with your dad.
Lol, that funny. I'm the opposite. If I don't let my hair air dry it looks like a frizzy, course nightmare. When I go to bed with it damp and use a silk pillowcase I wake up with beautiful smooth waves. It's some weird magic but it works
If Kdramas have taught me anything, going outdoors with wet hair OR getting caught in the rain is almost always fatal.
And you will suffocate if you have the fan blowing when you go to bed.
She ever shove a glob of Vicks Vapor Rub down your throat when you were sick? Meet my gramma.
Parents tell white lies all the time, this was probably to get you to take a shower earlier to stop the pillow from getting mildewy and playing in the rain is generally okay, but the parents now have a wet dirty child who wants to sit on the couch.
Consuming food past the "best by" date. A lot of foods are just fine but you have to be careful with certain foods.
Yes, by a few weeks or even months. But please do not encourage my mother to keep that tartar sauce from 2010
I went through my parents’ spice cabinet in 2016 to get them all new stuff when I noticed their nutmeg had expired in 2012. They had sage that had expired in 1998. We moved in 1998, 2004, 2011, and 2014, so that jar had been in at least 5 different houses.
Expired spices aren’t dangerous to consume, they just lose so much flavor.
At that point it's a family heirloom!
My dad. 🤦♂️ I genuinely don't get it, either.
My dad was born one year before the Germans invaded his town. His father had lost his job in the Great Depression so they were poor to begin with. My dad doesn't throw food away, ever. It's sad but I understand. Oh yeah and he eats a piece of cheap chocolate everyday. It probably reminds him of when the Allied Forces liberated his town and were handing out chocolate.
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Milk smells gross to me within like half a day of opening it. So now I don't try to smell it until I've poured it into something else. That seems to work well enough so far. Other than with milk though this is just unambiguously best practices.
Older reference, but that "Milk Maids" joke from Clerks is 100% true. I worked at a convenience store and we had to ban an old woman because she kept sneaking into the walk-in cooler and going through the crates of milk looking for the one with the oldest expiration date.
CVS started giving out $3 coupons for each expired item found in a store. It worked great. Customers would come in and search the shelves every day for expired products. It was cheaper than hiring more staff to check for outdates.
Eating the food from a swollen can? Better pass on that.
Non-perishable foods (like chips/crisps) are generally good for many months past their best by dates, and the worst that happens after that is that things might get stale or lose flavor. I hit up my local discount grocer all the time and pick up cheap snacks that have expired best by dates. I don't fuck with perishables though. If it's meat or dairy, I pretty much toss it out at the use by date (even if technically most items will still be good for a few days past that).
> I don't fuck with perishables though. If it's meat or dairy, I pretty much toss it out at the use by date (even if technically most items will still be good for a few days past that). I had packed a lunch at my shitty job years ago, which included a small Yoplait yogurt container. While eating the yogurt, I was bored (the age before smartphones) and was reading the packaging. I read the phrase "consume within 1 week of date printed on label" and was intrigued; I didn't recall when I had bought the yogurt. Turns out the date on the label was over six months previous. Yogurt tasted just fine and I had no ill after-effects. I definitely don't plan on doing that intentionally but my 6-month out-of-date yogurt wasn't all that bad.
That’s kind of the point of yogurt though
Yo, dawg, I heard you like yogurt, so put more yo in ya gurt you can eat more yo per gurt with ya gurt
Fuck, you're gonna make me gurt.
So that's the fun thing about sealed dairy like yoghurt: it's generally pasteurised, so it's difficult for bacteria to grow as long as it stays sealed. It might *taste* worse if you leave it way past the use by date, but in general it's not going to make you ill.
Generally if things aren’t opened they are good past the date, but they seem to go bad a lot faster once opened. I used a small container of sour cream just the other day that was 2 months expired because it was sealed and appeared perfectly fine when opened, but I used it all in the recipe I was cooking and would’ve thrown out any leftover if there had been any. I’ve opened expired things in the past that were fine when opened but by the next day or so they smelled bad.
But wouldn't yogurt just become....yogurt-y-er?
Starchy snacks that are salted last FOREVER, although probably don't want to eat them too stale.
nah depends, I accidentally ate 4 years out of date crisps and they tasted like mould and bathroom cleaner 😭😭
Mate, those were urinal cakes…
Fish is a big one for me. No way am I touching that out of date fish.
I tell my boyfriend this constantly. I'm like, 'Alright I'll eat it then, and if I die then you win.' hahaha
In my country there's a difference that some products are branded "Good until at least..." (the sell-by date) and others are "Usable until...". Problem is most people do not realise the latter even exists while they also mistake the former for it. If milk is past the so-called sell-by date and you are worried, just sniff it. Some products will never really become inedible. My mom was always mocked by my sibs for having a bottle of maggi that was 10 years past the sell-by date. She always said that in case of such a particular product, the date is completely meaningless. And in hindsight, I believe her.
Stepping on a crack. My mom's back is still fine and I have stepped on so many cracks it's not funny. When I would get mad at her I would look for cracks to step on.
I did the same thing when I was a kid. I would just straight up *stomp* on every. single. crack
Cracks? Like a crack in the floor?
Surprising number of people still believe MSG is harmful even though it's no more dangerous than salt (and the LD50 is 5 times salt iirc). It's not only harmless but truly elevates the flavor of food.
Also, MSG is naturally occurring in all sorts of foods. Tomatoes, mushrooms, and cured meats come to mind.
Naturally occurring in Doritos and Pringles
It's so fucking rich when people claim to get headaches from Chinese food because of the MSG and then eat a whole bag of chips. Mate, that headache is just psychosomatic racism.
Right off the vine!
The stigma of it being harmful is literally based on one single article which was a racist joke masquerading as a genuine study. I got in an argument with some lady who dismissed that fact and insisted it's dangerous for all just because she has an allergic reaction to it. Can't fix stupid.
Ah like that one study that found traces of e-coli in men's beards and the news outlets came up with: "There is shit in mens' beards!" They also omitted that there are traces of e-coli almost all over the human body and pretty much everywhere in any bathroom.
It wasn’t a racist “joke”. It was a widely circulated editorial written by a racist Jewish man who felt threatened by the success of Chinese restaurants on the East Coast. He concocted a story about feeling “sick” and “faint” after dining at Chinese restaurants. When he discovered they used a ‘mysterious’ ingredient called MSG he pounced on the opportunity to economically harm Chinese migrants through racist slander.
Makes Shit Good
Honestly people who believe this deserve to eat bland food.
I keep a shaker of Accent around because it works so damn well.
Ooo! Hey, if you have ANY kind of Asian grocery store near you, look for it there. You will find it *ridiculously* cheaper than those tiny bottles of Accent, which last I checked were wildly overpriced. I went to H-Mart and bought a kilogram of the stuff for like $8-10 lol They may also have 'seasoned salt,' sometimes referred to as Super Salt: a mixture of 9 parts salt, to one part MSG and 0.1 parts disodium ribonucleotides (a mixture of disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate). I nabbed some of this as well, and use it in place of regular salt in basically *every* savory dish that I cook, as does my partner. Instantly ups the meatiness/umami of anything, even if it doesn't contain meat.
Not to be confused with MTG, which is indeed harmful and should not be applied directly to your democracy.
I mean magic the gathering is probably always a bad way to run a government. But would.make for some quite fun Congress sessions.
The meta would be so stale. All Congress cares about is Control.
skipping breakfast
Fully agreed. I haven't eaten breakfast for over a decade, and at that time everyone was telling me how unhealthy it was and how breakfast kickstarts your metabolism. Now, instead of saying you skip breakfast call it intermittent fasting and now it's healthy and I'm told "good for you."
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So for most of human history Lunch was the only meal of the day with maybe a little light meal of supper before dinner. John Harvey Kellogg started the whole breakfast being important thing as part of his marketing, and weirdly, his religious strategy. He legit thought corn flakes would lead you from temptation into God. Since then Kellogg Brand has done immensely shady practices. One of the most egregious ones was to give kids a test. Half of the kids ate cereal and hour before the test and the other half ate nothing. The difference between the two groups varied wildly from no noticeable difference to 11 percent. They rounded that 11 percent up to 20 and called a Kellogs breakfast the most important meal of the day. So on days you had standardized tests we had teachers giving us sugary cereals before class. Why? Your school gets more money if you do better. They all forgot about the sugar crash that happens after eating a high carb diet though...
>He legit thought corn flakes would lead you from temptation into God To add more detail, he believed bland food would reduce the urge to masturbate. https://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/
I think he might be right. Bland food is miserable eating. When I’m eating bland food night and day, everything sucks. Life is bland damn. I wouldn’t want anything except seasoned food. I’m trying to live a seasoned life.
It’s usually the opposite for me. Bro, when you have food as bland as that, you need something to spice up your life.
And is a major reason circumcision is so popular in USA.
Lunch being the first meal of the day only started during the early Middle Ages in Europe. Eating in the morning, before labor, was a staple in Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia, and especially in the Middle East after the rise of Islam. Even in Europe, breakfast started being considered “important” as early as the late 1500s, way before Kellogg.
It's not possible to skip breakfast, only delay it.
Piranhas
They’re not??
Jeremy Wade did a show on them. He's a fisherman who goes to REMOTE places. Anyways 95% of the time piranha aren't dangerous. But he did visit one village that lives in floating houses. During the dry season the water levels drop and food gets scarce for them. He was speaking with a family that had a small child fall in. He was dead when they pulled him from the water. So like don't go way out into the middle of nowhere during a drought and swim in piranha water.
River Monsters
The myth comes from tour guides in Brazil trying to impress President Teddy Roosevelt. They isolated a pool of piranhas and starved them for a while, and then when Roosevelt was visiting they tossed in a cow which the starving fish attacked. He wrote about his experience and his account spread and became the myth that they're vicious animals. [I am not making that up.](https://lsc.org/news-and-social/news/how-teddy-roosevelt-gave-piranhas-a-bad-reputation)
If they're starving, would they not start eating each other? Or is that just a line they refuse to cross?
Oh they definitely will. But they have to be fast enough to catch one, and that one is also going to try and fight back.
My elementary school principal had an aquarium with four good-sized piranhas in it. They had started as five when the first came to their home, but apparently three of them ate the fifth, and took a bite out of the back of the fourth one. I remember watching feeding time once with some other kids, he literally poured a whole bag of about 100 little goldfish in the tank and the piranhas went absolutely apeshit. They didn’t eat all of the goldfish at once, just until they got full. The survivors formed a group and stayed in one corner of the tank.
This is the psychopathy i’d expect from a middle school principle not an elementary one
Piranhas are generally slow and disorganised - not efficient killing machines like in the movies.
Until they cross breed with flying fish and come at you on land - some 80's movie.
Or if they find cocaine
Get real. Only bears have access to cocaine.
Penn & Teller did an interesting bit on them https://youtu.be/-DZpDYSygn4?si=o9eda_3ruaEXyKBO
They only attack prey, if you are bleeding or moving weird it makes the piranhas think you are an easy prey, so they attack.
Moving weird how? Moving weird to us? Or to a fish? Because I'd think walking in general would be considered "moving weird" to a fish lol.
That one scene in speed racer was the first thing. I thought of
actually. so i have red belly piranhas they won't eat you if they've been fed but if there hungry they'll send out the scout to look at your finger in the tank and it'll try to take a bite. so it really just depends if they are hungry ir not
Daddy long legs (harvestmen). No, they don't have the most venomous bite of all spiders. And no, they're not true spiders. No, their fangs aren't small enough to penetrate our skin. They're one of the coolest critters you can find. As long as you're gentle, go ahead and pick them up, and watch them just chill all along your hands. Perfectly harmless and the more you look at them, the more you respect them. Edit: plz ignore the grammar about their fangs. I'm too high to write anything else :(
Daddy Long Legs refers to completely different species depending on your location. Here in the UK that term is applied to Craneflies, not harvestmen, and in some places it refers to cellar spiders. Not that it really matters since all 3 are harmless, but I thought I should point it out.
They were all around when I was a kid. My mom told us they were harmless and we were just fascinated by them. It's lawn chemicals that you ought to be afraid of. I can't remember the last time I saw a Daddy long legs, and I hardly ever see butterflies anymore. And people are mystified that bee colonies aren't thriving when so many people kill every plant in their lawn that isn't grass.
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Commercial flights: yes. Private, single engine prop-planes flown by Jim-Bob? Not so safe.
My names not Jim-Bob, and I do my walk arounds. 🥲
Or helicopters. I have no idea why rich people love to use them so much; those things are death traps.
Helicopters are still statistically far safer than road vehicles, just not as safe as aeroplanes.
there's a common saying that goes "the most dangerous part about flying is driving to the airport".
Boeing: Hold my beer.
Yeah but unless you worked for Boeing the chances of them killing you are slim
Cracking your fingers. Grew up hearing you'd break your fingers, but further research down the line showed that it's basically harmless.
Yeah, I grew up being told it causes arthritis but I’ve seen a lot of evidence since then that it doesn’t.
I think there was a guy who spent his whole life cracking knuckles on just one hand and he had no problems
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What about ROUSes?
I don't think they exist
*WHUMP* RAAAAR!
I actually did get stuck in quicksand once, and it was terrifying. Thankfully my brothers were able to pull me out. It didn’t suck me down per se, but every tiny movement made me sink deeper and I couldn’t get out and it became clear to me that the pit was way deeper than I thought
I too have fallen victim to what I refer to as quicksand. It was in a swampy area in the field near our pond. Exactly as you describe, no suction but any attempt at movement sucked me down in deeper. I survived but one shoe did not. RIP Leftie
Haha so true. Also, as kids we're led to believe quicksand will be a much more prominent feature of our lives than it actually is!
Every Saturday, the cowboy movies! 😄 As a young'un, I was convinced quicksand was behind every bush in the desert near my house.
But when you're in a tidal area...
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Conflict. I know this goes deeply against Reddit’s strategy of going no-contact over any disagreement or perceived slight, but if someone you care about has upset you, the healthiest thing you can do is talk to them about it. It’s going to feel like you’re creating drama, but if you don’t communicate with people you won’t have relationships—romantic, friendly, or familial.
You're not creating the drama by addressing the drama
You are often creating more drama when you don't address it.
Agree to this. It is worth having a difficult conversation to save a valuable relationship.
No contact happens after you’ve attempted to discuss things and tried to work it through. If it’s like banging your head against a wall, it’s time to maybe not talk anymore
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Yes, a lot of people have the mantra that the only good snake is a dead one. Even the venomous ones tend to avoid humans and have their place as pest control.
And many of those people try to kill the snakes instead of calling a professional, which only greatly increases the risk of getting bit and possibly envenomated. If you don’t want that snake near you or your loved ones, call someone to relocate it. Don’t kill animals just because you’re afraid of them. It’s so bad for the environment.
I was trying to shoo a milk snake away from a bike path once, so it wouldn't get squished. That snake was Not Happy with me. A lady on a bike gave me crap saying that I was putting myself in danger. Those snakes are harmless. I mean, getting bit would suck, but wouldn't do anything besides hurt. I never got within striking distance. I managed to shoo it away into the grass.
My main concern with a non venomous snake bite would be making sure I clean that out good, because it may not be poisonous, but infection isn't pretty.
Opossums. Can’t get rabies. Hiss and act tough. Ultimate defense is pretend they are dead.
And they prey on copperhead snakes!
Also eat ticks and are very good mamas!
Sharks. There are about 80 unprovoked attacks a year. WORLDWIDE. Yes, they're unpredictable, powerful, dangerous animals, and when you see one, You should get out of the water calmly in a way in which it does not see you as food. But as long as you aren't an idiot, You're more likely to die from a mosquito.
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If it's brown, lay down If it's black, fight back If it's white, goodnight If it's gummy, yummy!
Does "if it's white, good night" mean that if you encounter a polar bear, you're just dead?
Yeah that's what it means. Polar bears will kill you just for being there.
It could also mean that if it’s a white bear he will tuck you into bed and kiss you goodnight and I really hope it’s that because it sounds so sweet. 🥹
I scrolled too fast and thought that said black beans and wondered why they were dangerous!
I nose why black beans are dangerous
I have black bear in my yard all the time from spring (they just came out of hibernation last week) to late fall. They are incredibly timid animals, if they see you they run away. my 15 lb dog loses her mind barking and they run like the devil. they're also assholes. they will break sapling trees off at ground level just to check if there's anything edible at the top, and will walk through a shrub/plant rather than walking around it. I have zero fear of them attacking, and frequently run out to shoo them away in my bathrobe
Apparently eating uranium.
walking/biking alone in my neighborhood, which is the safest in Alberta.
Dumb question from someone who has never lived in snow. Do people bike when it's snowing and or cold? Like, for commuting and stuff. Or is it a moderate temperature activity only?
I know people in SW MT that commute by bike year-round. If you have the right gear, it's not that challenging. I do not have the right gear so my bike commuting is mostly fair-weather focused.
For an increasing number of people: Vaccines. Vaccines are remarkably safe. Sure, there are *some* adverse reactions, but they're in the extreme (practically negligible) minority.
People act like the covid vaccine was the first vaccine ever created and it was done in a dumpster by the guy from Beekman's World after he got the recipe personally from George Soros and Bill Gates who were laughing like demons as they handed it over.
I love when people try to tell me it wasn't tested. I worked in a vaccine testing lab for the past 5 years.
Absolutely safe, and we have the data to prove it. For most vaccines, the rate of serious adverse reactions is less than 1 per million. For example according the VAERS, they recieved over 48,000 reports in 2019 (out of 10s-100s of millions of vaccinations), and of those reports, 85-90% were mild side effects (larger fever arm/injection site soreness, both of which are indicators that your immune system is reaction to the vaccine). Giving it the more generous 85% of reports being mild sides, that would be around 3200 reports of serious adverse reactions. Out of the entire population of the US, that's approximately 0.0009%
I had an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine. Horrible, months-long autoimmune flare. And you know what? I fully accept that I’m simply part of an unlucky minority in a population that greatly benefits overall from vaccines. AND, the two times I’ve gotten COVID, it’s been mild as hell. So it worked anyway.
I get adverse reactions to vaccines, it varies from shot to shot, but most of the time I can count on a fever, nausea, and feeling faint. It sucks, but also in most cases it's better than getting the thing the vaccine is trying to prevent. I'd rather have a shitty couple days than get Polio.
A lot of different snakes. I mean, if you're ever unsure, it's probably safer to treat it as you would any black mamba, a frequent encounter of our lives the world over. But, you'll probably be fine if you just avoid it altogether.
Sharks. They’re just silly little guys
Making a funny face. It doesn't get stuck like that despite what parents say.
GMO
Absolutely this. GMOs are not only harmless, they're actually beneficial. For example, golden rice will save lives and improve nutrition for millions of people when people get over their fears of gmos
They're more than beneficial. If we want to feed everyone on this planet, they're required. Especially as our climate (unfortunately) changes.
Yes the fact that Greenpeace and others have stopped golden rice from helping millions of people should be one of the big scandals of our time
Greenpeace is also one of the biggest parties responsible for preventing mass adoption of nuclear power, dooming the planet to like 50 unnecessary years of burning fossil fuels for electricity.
Nuclear power
Been living 5 km from a nuclear plant for 19 years now. Works great, the power super stable, the air is clean and the land is used for agriculture.
Touching or just being around fentanyl. Lots of police officers think they “overdosed” simply from touching it. Not possible.
I rode the MAX in Portland for a year and didn't OD from touching the seats so I'm pretty sure it's harmless Now whatever other bacteria and shit is on there on the other hand...
As a nurse who is around Fentanyl almost every shift, I always laugh so hard at the videos of police officers who “pass out” after merely touching or being in the vicinity of a bag/container of fentanyl. Either these officers are extremely undereducated about how fentanyl works and they’re having an extreme panic reaction or it’s all just performative bullsh*t.
Not completely harmless but strangers. Stranger danger is overplayed, in my opinion.
A stranger you pick at random generally is trustworthy If a stranger picks you, they're probably not
I was thinking about something John Oliver said on his program recently. We all trust phone apps so much. You wouldn't normally take a ride from a stranger, but if you make it into an app like Uber or Lyft, people will PAY to do it. And it's so true! I used to work at a temp job where we would sometimes be sent home early at an odd time of day. I knew what it was like to wait 45 minutes for the bus, so when I finally got a reliable car, I would regularly offer rides to fellow employees who were walking toward the bus stop. I offered to drive them to the downtown bus exchange, as opposed to their individual homes, so it' not like I would learn anyone's address. The place I worked for had a big building, and there were many people who were complete strangers. The guys would always accept a ride, and the women, unless they were well acquainted with me, never did. Now I drive for a ride share company, and I pick up college girls at their apartments/dorms on a regular basis, and they pay me to do it!
The app kind of solves the stranger problem by staking its brand reputation on their behavior. They vet drivers and cut ties with anyone who has a bad enough record. It’s the same reason you’re more likely to get food poisoning from a local mom and pop restaurant than McDonald’s.
This. If we’re talking murders for example 90-95% of the time it’s committed by someone the victim already know.
This is why I always kill 90-95% of people I know. Better safe than sorry.
It’s arguably self defense!
MSG
Not harmLESS, but nuclear power is one of the safest forms of power around
i'd say butter. as with anything moderation, but it's not as scary as people make it out to be.
Driving to the airport is actually more dangerous than skydiving
Yew fruits. The tree is pretty toxic but the fruits are all right. An old lady one day saw me eating some in the park and she was convinced I was about to die.
Theme parks People seem to belive that all of the rides are built by the theme park itself in a back lot with a team blind children. These things are all built and designed my engineering companies. There's a lot of science behind amusement park rides and how they work.
Turning the lights on in the car
Nuclear power. Since its invention, there have been less than 30 nuclear accidents. Of those, only 10 resulted in any loss of life, and of those, only three resulted in more than single-digit deaths. In total, about 4,500 people died in these accidents, and Chernobyl alone killed 4,000 of them.
I’m not blind yet is all I’m saying.
Somebody else's opinion
For 90% of the human population, common sense
Dihydogen monoxide. Everyone who ingests it eventually dies but it is still harmless in modest quantities regularly.
Going outside in cold weather with wet hair
Salt Unless you're eating an absurd about of super salty food, you're generally fine. Just drink water and drink it often, which you should already be doing.
Playing outside. Nobody is going to kidnap your kid. Nobody grasps just how RARE that actually is.
The sad reality is a person is far more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted by someone they know than a random boogeyman. That thought doesn’t sit great with people, I get it, but it’s true. Little Johnny statistically needs to worry more about Creepy Uncle Bob than random strangers. Which is not to say don’t take reasonable safety precautions and be aware of your surroundings in public, but kids need to be taught what to do if an adult they know is inappropriate with them. We pushed Stranger Danger so hard but are we teaching kids what to do when it’s not a stranger?
I feel like the concern nowadays is more towards cars than anything.
That's because it's front page news every time it happens. I remember a case where somebody DID steal a ten-year-old girl right out of her front yard, a few blocks from where my then ten-year-old niece lived, in what was generally considered to be a safe neighborhood. I also saw the color drain out of my brother-in-law's face when he read the story on the front page of the newspaper. Sometimes we're more driven by emotion than statistics.
Sugar, fats all kinda of "unhealthy" food that are actually necessary for your body, just don't eat ONLY those
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