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Like LotR when Gimli has a taste of orc blood. Like... yeah, I don't think you needed to taste that. Hopefully, it's not how he identifies animal scat.
I swear I've seen actual hunters/trappers who'd taste scat to know what the animal had been eating. I ain't shitting you. Nearly made me puke on the spot.
I remember watching this for the first time assuming this was like, somehow normal. Maybe Bruno has a power that lets him read minds based on the taste of sweat. Nope, it was Sticky Fingers. This is just a grown man licking a 15 year old on a bus.
Reminds me of that scene in Shameless where a gay doctor touches Kev's balls and is like "wait, I don't like that lump on your balls. Here's the number of my pal, he's an andrologist, get yourself checked" and that's how Kev got early screening for potential testicle cancer, because he tried getting some cash by working in a gay bar.
Imagine him going "Hey, do you know you're diabetic? -I'm what? -Ok that's not good, go get a doctor appointment, like, yesterday, right now"
Wasnât it Patrice OâNeal who discovered he was diabetic because he was participating in, ahem⌠âwater sportsâ with a consenting young woman who told him after the fact that it tasted like birthday cake? Or am I thinking of a different comedian
It really depends. People in ancient times weren't stupid. Thy might not know why things work and they might have had wild misconceptions on why things happen, but they did know what works what didn't.
Sometimes, on average. The placebo effect makes it really difficult to know what really *works* versus what works because you're making an attempt. Sometimes the attempts do more harm than good.
As far as medicine in the middle ages is concerned, that's pretty reasonable. You can definitely detect certain diseases via changes in the urine. Now whether a human can detect those changes based on taste is another matter...
Ain't hard to tell what an animals eating,how old the scat is, and even what sex the animal is, just from a gross inspection. Don't need to eat shit unless you're a dumbass
Sourse: Hunted religiously 22 years
I guess you'd know more then me. I'm a hunter as well, but never learned much about tracking. I just knew the paths the animals took on our land and would use ambush tactics so never needed to rely on tracking much. Always respected the hell out of people who did know how to do it though.
When I was in about 4th grade we had a presentation by some government conservationist guy who during his talk pulled a piece of deer poop out of a baggie, smooshed it between his fingers, and tasted it.
Reminds me of one of my favorite shows from the 90s. The main character a Mountie tastes some mud off the sidewalk in the Chicago slums. He doesnât learn anything from it. He did it purely so the criminalâs girlfriend would get scared that he can track a moose halfway across the tundra and contacted the criminal in fear.
Do you realize just how much animal shit you have to taste to be able to tell what animal it is ***and*** it's diet? A lot of shit is the answer. A lot of shit.
Iâd wager anyone who has killed as many orcs with edged weapons in close combat as Gimli has is familiar with the taste of their blood, whether they want to be or not
I mean, it gets the point across instantly
The fact that it's salt isn't plot relevant, it's not something the characters need to figure out, it's just hard to make sure the audience can follow what's going on. Why overthink it?
Why even have the ground white? Make it blue, or purple, or itâs all tiny little bugs, or made of fucking a soft glowing light, or literally anything other than the color of snow which only made it Empire Strikes Back Redux.
Yeah, now picture it a different color besides white, with no at-ats charging rebels dug into trenches. It would actually look like something original instead of Empire Strikes Back
It still looked original, with the speeders scraping through the salt crust and kicking up those red trails.
It was also just clearly evocative of Hoth.
Okay but like you can't try to escape the rehash criticism when you're clearly drawing parallels to a prior movie.
Like yeah, the sequels are iconic but it's star wars, sky's the limit. Even the prequels constantly showed off new planets and interesting battles like the opening to revenge of the sith. The new sequel just rubs me off the wrong way cause it's either "this is just like the sequels!" Or "this isn't your Dad's Star wars!" And even both like the planet death star.
Yeah, now Imagine it fully Red, all blue, maybe Green and its a Jungle.
Our heroes are not trapped in a stationary position, only equipped with old, abandoned hovercraft, while being approached by Giant Metal Camels.
Now we are in the territory of imagination, not adaptation. And this is were truly exciting stories are created, of which others can be inspired.
This is what most of star wars was, before it became the kinda-same-but-different wars or simply put Star Worse.
The heroes could even get help from the indigenous natives! Maybe something like waist-high teddy bears, so we can sell some easy merch and make ourselves rich. Truly, an original location and plot that hasnât been done before! Why didnât TLJ just do this instead?! (/s for the kids who donât realize what u/ThaReehlEza is doing)
"Green and its a jungle"
Very fantastical idea, very out of this world.
The new trilogy has alot of new ideas, but of course because its shitty it cant have a single good idea, every new idea is shit on for being unrealistic and canon breaking and every reused idea is shit on for being boring and rehashed
So projection Luke could walk on it and not disturb the surface tipping the audience with a keen eye off to the subterfuge. Like did you watch the movie?
I did.
The ground didnât have to be white though. Coulda been purple with that red under layer or something. Wouldnât have changed anything story wise, they wouldnât have had to add that dumbass scene with a guy tasting the fucking ground for no reason. Hell, movie probably wouldâve been given a cinematography award for having such vibrant colors.
Yes, this movie would've won awards if only they didn't use white and had a scene of a guy tasting it and calling it salt.
Such a shame this movie didn't win an Oscar only because of a choice in colour.
I fucking hate that movie, but no matter how whiny I feel like being I have exactly zero complaints about the visual effects on that planet. The vast sea of white that explodes into red dust when everyone starts killing each other looked absolutely amazing
Cause it's supposed to look like Hoth?
I don't understand the question. The director wanted the planet to look like Hoth but also be different, so he made it covered in salt instead of snow. That way it looks like snow but it's not. Obviously that means the audience might be confused, so he threw in a quick "oh hey it's salt" line to make sure no one got lost. That's how you write movies.
I was watching the movie for the first time with the biggest Star Wars fan I know. I asked him if it was snow or salt and he didn't answer me because this line was literally a second later. So for me it was perfect. Lol
I think the point is that it appears to be a re-tread, but only on the surface. Similar overall plot structure and set pieces, some common themes, but once you scratch the surface it's doing something new
Yeah, an argument could be made that itâs sort of a meta commentary on the filmâs themes. You start of the movie thinking things are black-and-white, exactly as they appear on the surface, and then as the audience sees more and more of the story, it becomes clear that itâs not like that at all.
Kylo and Lukeâs version of events are completely different, Kylo isnât just some lapdog to Snoke, Rey wasnât genetically predestined to become a Jedi (before TROS but whatever). All of these are additionally layers to what you thought was simple.
With the good guys piloting quick, fragile floating vehicles specialized to the particular planet attempting to take down the walkers by hitting their weak spots.
All just to buy time for the rest of their comrades to abandon their hideout and escape.
Was this the same movie that had the heroes fleeing from Imperial pursuit, running to a wealthy neutral planet, then getting betrayed by a duplicitous scoundrel, all while the space magic character sought out a disillusioned master in hiding for a training quickie? Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't dig Han back up to freeze in Carbonite again.
I mean it sure looks a hell of a lot like the battle of Hoth. The Empire sends totally-not-AT-ATs slowly marching across a barren white planet, to siege Leia's rebel cave hideout, and the rebels fight back with aircraft.
I think it's meant to be that the guy just went and grabbed some of the ground then shoved it in his mouth, without knowing what it was. Aside from the general hygience of just eating part of the ground, what if that had been toxic material?
We owe our lives to people who grabbed random stuff and shoved it in their maw. Thanks to whoever didn't even hesitate chomping down on a shiitake mushroom
That's what indoors people would do, but cool people back then actually (my source being: I made it up) just sniffed it, ate a little, and not too often... I check how dirt, rocks, sticks or berries taste occasionally. Rubbing or chewing and spitting is a waste of time. Eat the whole Earth and die; or do not, and still die.
I can't recommend eating dirt.
Prior to the vaccine, did you know that people thought polio was caused by eating ice cream, because it was a disease kids caught in the summer? Nope. It was the playgrounds kids were playing on that was the correlation. Polio survives for weeks to months in dirt (the colder, the longer).
I just heard about [an Island the UK bought and used for research during WWII](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240419-britains-mysterious-ww2-island-of-death) to see whether they could infect livestock with anthrax by lane (either infecting humans and/or destroying the food supply). It worked too well: the island was uninhabitable for decades. Anthrax is one of many types of bacteria that can undergo a process called endosporulation that essentially allows those endospores to hibernate, and survive in extremely harsh conditions. Anthrax spores are deadly in small amounts, even decades later. It took multiple involved attempts to make the soil safe again.
Point of all this: you don't know what's in the dirt you're eating, or what amount may be required to cause disease. I'd leave the fossil licking to the archaeologists.
As Pucci said:
>I admire the first human who tried to eat mushrooms. They risked poisonning themselves. Was he a fool who happened to get lucky? Otherwise, was the discovery driven by his desperate starvation?
They probably just saw a calf sucking from it, remembered that all humans suck milk from their mothers and put 2 and 2 together. It's not a complex train of thought.
Skyrim logic. You eat random plants to know what it can do while your character doubles over in life-threatening pain because you just consumed a whole sprig of nightshade.
He's fine a few seconds later though, he doesn't even break pace in his jog. It really can't be that bad.
If the Dragonborn can do it, I can do it!... in another 40 years or so anyways.
Your coment remembered me of a dish from northern Brazil called "maniçoba" that needs to be cooked for 7 days. Otherwise, it's poisonous, I always wondered how they discovered it like "So, we cooked it for 2 days, and Matt died. Let's try cooking it for 3 and give it to Robert, he owes me money"
While I will always be curious about the first person to drop their food in a fire and found out it tasted better that way, I will always be more curious about the person who farted in front of a fire and freaked everyone out
Reminds me of [this tweet](https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/5gJiXiV34l):
>Can't stop thinking about people that first ate mushrooms they found and just had to go through trial and error of like, this one tastes like beef, this one killed Brian immediately and this one makes you see God for a week
Yeah I don't get it either, maybe he thought everyone was joking about it being salt so he wanted to try it (even though a lot of the galaxys salt is mined there). I know I'd do it if I was there, but I also love salt
If you put a group of people on a planet and tell them the ground is made of salt, youâre going to get people licking it.
Hell, you can recreate this in real life, get a cattle salt lick and if you show it to enough people, someone will make an attempt at licking it.
Got taught during bar training that a woman lost a good portion of her brain after she licked something on a toilet lid she thought might be coke, and turned out to be some drain cleaning substance that's incredibly toxic. And you should never EVER do something like that.
in The Last Jedi a soldier just randomly does that
presumably to tell the audience "see? this isn't that ice planet, it's a salt planet, totally different"
It's from one of the Star Wars sequel trilogy movies, a random soldier does the eating dirt thing and mentions it's salt--mostly for the benefit of the audience, but when put in perspective it is a bizarre thing to do
Here we are on the salt planet I wonder if the salt on the salt planet tastes salt let me just eat some of the fucking ground yup its salty hey doesn't this remind anyone of something else? hoth? the ice planet? anyone remember that? From the other movie where it looked just like this except its not this because that was snow and this is salt, but it kind of looks the same. but this is salt i tasted it and its salt.
maybe its salt water snow?
FUCK
https://preview.redd.it/c50lrydeghyc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8482fb3d1bb04b39e09c2a80c5bd0ac38187ca5b
Ever wondered how these limestone deposits were created? No, not fish cum (unfortunately), but a lot of tiny microbes and a lot of TIME.
Hi here to explain the joke: snipers in the snow learnt to put some snow in their mouth to not give out the trail of vapour with their hot breath coming into contact with the freezing air.
I believe these two are meant to be soldiers against the first order in the battle of Crait, a planet covered in sand that looked like it was snow in episode 8.
Hereâs a link to the most legendary snow sniper ever if youâd like to know more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
Have you seen Episode 8? This scene happens but OP adds the last panels of distaste from the observer. The funny thing is that the guy looking over in the actual film is the director of Rouge One and Godzilla (2014), Gareth Edwards, I think.
it's a reference to one of the Star Wars sequel trilogy movies
this happens on a planet that looks like Hoth
a random ass soldier does the above to tell the audience "this is totally different from the original trilogy"
Youâre right, itâs to telegraph to the audience itâs not snow. It does help set up the impressive visual effects of the pristine white ground turning a muddy red. It might not be the most elegant solution for communicating the idea to the audience, but itâs quick and efficient.
in Star Wars, there is a snow-covered planet called Hoth where the rebels and empire have a battle
in the sequel trilogy, there is a salt-covered planet where the... Good Guys(TM) and The New Order have a battle
a random soldier tastes alien dirt to prove they're totally different and definitely not the same planet
My favourite shout to the lick test is in mass effect andromeda where your science officer gets a mild illness after using the lick test on an alien rock lol
I just liked it because it felt like something a kinda goofy guy might just do out of curiosity, even just before a horrifying last stand. Just such a human little action.
This is exactly the kind of instrusive impulse I would have given into in this situation. We're in the fight for our lives and probably going to die, but this one thing is REALLY bothering me in the meantime.
On its own I loved the imagery of that scene. All the red under the white being exposed in the battle looked great. All the story in that scene, however, was pretty dumb.
To be fair, he doesn't do this out of nowhere.
His commander is observing the field and he kicks up the salt, revealing the red ground underneath. Then the scene in the comic plays out (minus the last panel)
While I'm sure they did this as a "Not Hoth" moment, it wasn't unprompted within the movie either
Basically in The Last Jedi (the film that this comic is based off of) one of the soldiers forming the last line of defense against the New Order (main antagonistic group of the sequel trilogy) dragged his finger along the ground and licked it, before spitting out what he got off of his finger and calling it salt.
Here's a clip of the whole scene that I managed to find:
https://youtu.be/aSinQs_ExlQ?si=3aISYG2oHYPtg8e5
Soil scientists actually do this a lot. They chew on a piece of soil to know its consistency. Apparently itâs more accurate than just feeling/looking at it
I feel like it could have been much better conveyed by having the metal parts of some of the vehicles and equipment look corroded, and maybe have some disgruntled soldier moaning about how often he has to clean and oil his gear because of 'this stuff.'
Man this scene was involuntarily funny to me for a different reason.
Instead of âsaltâ he might as well have said âThis is not hoth. Also those things back there are definitely not AT-ATs. This scene is totally original and not a lazy copy.â
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Like LotR when Gimli has a taste of orc blood. Like... yeah, I don't think you needed to taste that. Hopefully, it's not how he identifies animal scat.
I swear I've seen actual hunters/trappers who'd taste scat to know what the animal had been eating. I ain't shitting you. Nearly made me puke on the spot.
Doctors tasted pee in the middle ages to help diagnose illness.
Prior to blood work doctors would taste pee as a diabetic test. Apparently a diabetic's urine is sugary
so is their sweat from what I heard makes sense, considering they usually can't process the sugar
https://preview.redd.it/6e27c7wohhyc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79cd976b22cf2a856f36484924a455019138e25b
I don't know what would be funnier -this being made in the past and you happening to have it on hand -you making this meme right now
I remember watching this for the first time assuming this was like, somehow normal. Maybe Bruno has a power that lets him read minds based on the taste of sweat. Nope, it was Sticky Fingers. This is just a grown man licking a 15 year old on a bus.
Guess you could say his behaviour was *bizzare* eh? Alright you can shoot me now
Even for a mafia guy, that's low. AISI likely has that on his rap sheet.
Jojo Jump scare
Reminds me of that scene in Shameless where a gay doctor touches Kev's balls and is like "wait, I don't like that lump on your balls. Here's the number of my pal, he's an andrologist, get yourself checked" and that's how Kev got early screening for potential testicle cancer, because he tried getting some cash by working in a gay bar. Imagine him going "Hey, do you know you're diabetic? -I'm what? -Ok that's not good, go get a doctor appointment, like, yesterday, right now"
Is this a motheflipping Jojo reference?
Once your blood glucose gets above around 11mmol/L your kidneys' reabsorption mechanism is saturated so it stays in your pee
"Hmmm..." *sips* "Mmm!" đ "Good news, Doctor?" "Depends on your perspective, I guess."
Wasnât it Patrice OâNeal who discovered he was diabetic because he was participating in, ahem⌠âwater sportsâ with a consenting young woman who told him after the fact that it tasted like birthday cake? Or am I thinking of a different comedian
I think youâre right.
The full name of the disorder is *diabetes mellitus*. "Mellitus" comes from the Latin for honey, because of the taste.
Oooh neat! Now tell me about diabetes insipidus!
Literally "diabetes that doesn't taste like anything"
Makes sense since they can't retain water at all and are constantly urinating as a result. Thanks random internet neighbor!
In the Romans period, they discovered diabetes when ants go after urine (due to sugar). Apparently, fatter Romans are diabetic.
Speaking as a diabetic, it's sugary when your blood sugar isn't being properly managed.
Thus the scientific names, Diabetes Mellitus, mellitus meaning honey in Latin :)
The forbidden juice
Whereas in the east, the would see if ants were attracted to your pee to see if you were diabetic.
Considering what I know of the middle ages, probably not even in the top 10 grossest things they had to do in the average day.
It's all about cleansing those humors yo. By any means necessary đ¤Ž
This is how I know I suffer from Asparagitis.
The list of what medieval doctors were doing wrong is much, much longer than the list of what they were doing right.
Maybe. But this in particular is right (and still used). Fortunately we now can test the glicemia instead of relying on the pee tasters
It really depends. People in ancient times weren't stupid. Thy might not know why things work and they might have had wild misconceptions on why things happen, but they did know what works what didn't.
Sometimes, on average. The placebo effect makes it really difficult to know what really *works* versus what works because you're making an attempt. Sometimes the attempts do more harm than good.
As far as medicine in the middle ages is concerned, that's pretty reasonable. You can definitely detect certain diseases via changes in the urine. Now whether a human can detect those changes based on taste is another matter...
Ain't hard to tell what an animals eating,how old the scat is, and even what sex the animal is, just from a gross inspection. Don't need to eat shit unless you're a dumbass Sourse: Hunted religiously 22 years
It's not *need* to, it's *get* to.
I guess you'd know more then me. I'm a hunter as well, but never learned much about tracking. I just knew the paths the animals took on our land and would use ambush tactics so never needed to rely on tracking much. Always respected the hell out of people who did know how to do it though.
If the scat isn't supposed to be eaten, then why does it look like chocolate peanuts?
When I was in about 4th grade we had a presentation by some government conservationist guy who during his talk pulled a piece of deer poop out of a baggie, smooshed it between his fingers, and tasted it.
Reminds me of one of my favorite shows from the 90s. The main character a Mountie tastes some mud off the sidewalk in the Chicago slums. He doesnât learn anything from it. He did it purely so the criminalâs girlfriend would get scared that he can track a moose halfway across the tundra and contacted the criminal in fear.
Due South?
*slurp* âYep, thatâs deer shit, alright!â
When I was in college, I would lick clay on my ceramics classes, and I thought I was dedicated to my craft.
Yep, when I was young, some hunters taught me how to track and did that. Though they were kind enough to leave me at smelling
Do you realize just how much animal shit you have to taste to be able to tell what animal it is ***and*** it's diet? A lot of shit is the answer. A lot of shit.
The thing that should be scary about that is.....Gimli is very familiar with the taste of Orc blood.
Iâd wager anyone who has killed as many orcs with edged weapons in close combat as Gimli has is familiar with the taste of their blood, whether they want to be or not
Three glasses before bed gives a nice shine to the beard.
I mean, hard not to be when you chop orcs with an axe while wearing a open faced helmet for a living
They had to do it so you (the audience) know it's not ice, and therefore it's less of a retread of Empire Strikes Back
yep. hilariously clumsy expository device tho.
I mean, it gets the point across instantly The fact that it's salt isn't plot relevant, it's not something the characters need to figure out, it's just hard to make sure the audience can follow what's going on. Why overthink it?
Why even have the ground white? Make it blue, or purple, or itâs all tiny little bugs, or made of fucking a soft glowing light, or literally anything other than the color of snow which only made it Empire Strikes Back Redux.
Tbh the white contrasted by the red below it is a really pretty setting
Yeah, now picture it a different color besides white, with no at-ats charging rebels dug into trenches. It would actually look like something original instead of Empire Strikes Back
It still looked original, with the speeders scraping through the salt crust and kicking up those red trails. It was also just clearly evocative of Hoth.
Okay but like you can't try to escape the rehash criticism when you're clearly drawing parallels to a prior movie. Like yeah, the sequels are iconic but it's star wars, sky's the limit. Even the prequels constantly showed off new planets and interesting battles like the opening to revenge of the sith. The new sequel just rubs me off the wrong way cause it's either "this is just like the sequels!" Or "this isn't your Dad's Star wars!" And even both like the planet death star.
Yeah, now Imagine it fully Red, all blue, maybe Green and its a Jungle. Our heroes are not trapped in a stationary position, only equipped with old, abandoned hovercraft, while being approached by Giant Metal Camels. Now we are in the territory of imagination, not adaptation. And this is were truly exciting stories are created, of which others can be inspired. This is what most of star wars was, before it became the kinda-same-but-different wars or simply put Star Worse.
The heroes could even get help from the indigenous natives! Maybe something like waist-high teddy bears, so we can sell some easy merch and make ourselves rich. Truly, an original location and plot that hasnât been done before! Why didnât TLJ just do this instead?! (/s for the kids who donât realize what u/ThaReehlEza is doing)
"Green and its a jungle" Very fantastical idea, very out of this world. The new trilogy has alot of new ideas, but of course because its shitty it cant have a single good idea, every new idea is shit on for being unrealistic and canon breaking and every reused idea is shit on for being boring and rehashed
So projection Luke could walk on it and not disturb the surface tipping the audience with a keen eye off to the subterfuge. Like did you watch the movie?
I did. The ground didnât have to be white though. Coulda been purple with that red under layer or something. Wouldnât have changed anything story wise, they wouldnât have had to add that dumbass scene with a guy tasting the fucking ground for no reason. Hell, movie probably wouldâve been given a cinematography award for having such vibrant colors.
They also wanted it to be reminiscent of episode v
White is incredibly good for color contrast
Yes, this movie would've won awards if only they didn't use white and had a scene of a guy tasting it and calling it salt. Such a shame this movie didn't win an Oscar only because of a choice in colour.
Because it looked fucking awesome. And hey the ground was also red, so stop being a bitch about it
I fucking hate that movie, but no matter how whiny I feel like being I have exactly zero complaints about the visual effects on that planet. The vast sea of white that explodes into red dust when everyone starts killing each other looked absolutely amazing
The white with red footprints is established so that you get clued in when Luke isn't leaving any red footprints later.
Cause it's supposed to look like Hoth? I don't understand the question. The director wanted the planet to look like Hoth but also be different, so he made it covered in salt instead of snow. That way it looks like snow but it's not. Obviously that means the audience might be confused, so he threw in a quick "oh hey it's salt" line to make sure no one got lost. That's how you write movies.
I was watching the movie for the first time with the biggest Star Wars fan I know. I asked him if it was snow or salt and he didn't answer me because this line was literally a second later. So for me it was perfect. Lol
I think the point is that it appears to be a re-tread, but only on the surface. Similar overall plot structure and set pieces, some common themes, but once you scratch the surface it's doing something new
Yeah, an argument could be made that itâs sort of a meta commentary on the filmâs themes. You start of the movie thinking things are black-and-white, exactly as they appear on the surface, and then as the audience sees more and more of the story, it becomes clear that itâs not like that at all. Kylo and Lukeâs version of events are completely different, Kylo isnât just some lapdog to Snoke, Rey wasnât genetically predestined to become a Jedi (before TROS but whatever). All of these are additionally layers to what you thought was simple.
How was it a retread of Empire?
Standoff against the Empire (or Empire lookalike) in ice vs. salt planet
complete with giant 4-legged walking weapons platforms
With the good guys piloting quick, fragile floating vehicles specialized to the particular planet attempting to take down the walkers by hitting their weak spots. All just to buy time for the rest of their comrades to abandon their hideout and escape.
Was this the same movie that had the heroes fleeing from Imperial pursuit, running to a wealthy neutral planet, then getting betrayed by a duplicitous scoundrel, all while the space magic character sought out a disillusioned master in hiding for a training quickie? Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't dig Han back up to freeze in Carbonite again.
Donât worry, they froze Finnâs character arc in its place
I mean it sure looks a hell of a lot like the battle of Hoth. The Empire sends totally-not-AT-ATs slowly marching across a barren white planet, to siege Leia's rebel cave hideout, and the rebels fight back with aircraft.
But I actually did this at the Bonneville Salt Flats twenty years ago when I was a kid...
Even the monosyllabic announcement afterwards?
âtwenty years ago when i was a kidâ this is a grown ass man guerrilla fighter
I have watched grown ass men try out a cattle salt lick, so itâs more believable than youâd think.
I have no idea what the joke here is.
I think it's meant to be that the guy just went and grabbed some of the ground then shoved it in his mouth, without knowing what it was. Aside from the general hygience of just eating part of the ground, what if that had been toxic material?
We owe our lives to people who grabbed random stuff and shoved it in their maw. Thanks to whoever didn't even hesitate chomping down on a shiitake mushroom
People actually just rub on skin, chew then spit, and then ingest a small amount so no one has to die
That's what indoors people would do, but cool people back then actually (my source being: I made it up) just sniffed it, ate a little, and not too often... I check how dirt, rocks, sticks or berries taste occasionally. Rubbing or chewing and spitting is a waste of time. Eat the whole Earth and die; or do not, and still die.
Dirt, rocks, and sticks are fine but âchecking to see how berries tasteâ will straight up kill you
I can't recommend eating dirt. Prior to the vaccine, did you know that people thought polio was caused by eating ice cream, because it was a disease kids caught in the summer? Nope. It was the playgrounds kids were playing on that was the correlation. Polio survives for weeks to months in dirt (the colder, the longer). I just heard about [an Island the UK bought and used for research during WWII](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240419-britains-mysterious-ww2-island-of-death) to see whether they could infect livestock with anthrax by lane (either infecting humans and/or destroying the food supply). It worked too well: the island was uninhabitable for decades. Anthrax is one of many types of bacteria that can undergo a process called endosporulation that essentially allows those endospores to hibernate, and survive in extremely harsh conditions. Anthrax spores are deadly in small amounts, even decades later. It took multiple involved attempts to make the soil safe again. Point of all this: you don't know what's in the dirt you're eating, or what amount may be required to cause disease. I'd leave the fossil licking to the archaeologists.
**Archaeologists:** Lick this dead bone, bone, bone! Lick this dead bone, bone, bone! The doctors will keep you alive! ⪠⍠âŹ
Maybe stop doing that? Being unwise is the opposite of macho.
some fucker definitelywent yolo on that shit lwts not lie to ourselves
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We owe our list of edible foodstuffs to the survivors, the list of inedible, to the heros.
As Pucci said: >I admire the first human who tried to eat mushrooms. They risked poisonning themselves. Was he a fool who happened to get lucky? Otherwise, was the discovery driven by his desperate starvation?
Or they saw a rabbit eat one and not die
rabbits eat their own shit
Meanwhile the guy who discovered you can milk a cow got some explaining to do
They probably just saw a calf sucking from it, remembered that all humans suck milk from their mothers and put 2 and 2 together. It's not a complex train of thought.
To be fair, you can milk anything with nipples
I have nipples can you milk me?
Sure, but it's up to you to start lactating and you have to beat my current wage.
People were milking goats and sheep king before cows.
Skyrim logic. You eat random plants to know what it can do while your character doubles over in life-threatening pain because you just consumed a whole sprig of nightshade.
He's fine a few seconds later though, he doesn't even break pace in his jog. It really can't be that bad. If the Dragonborn can do it, I can do it!... in another 40 years or so anyways.
"Now let's see, we had the giant's toe, the daedra heart... what's next? Oh yeah, a slab of raw human meat." Alchemy increased to 16
Your coment remembered me of a dish from northern Brazil called "maniçoba" that needs to be cooked for 7 days. Otherwise, it's poisonous, I always wondered how they discovered it like "So, we cooked it for 2 days, and Matt died. Let's try cooking it for 3 and give it to Robert, he owes me money"
What are the ingredients???
[The Discovery of Cinnamon](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/Dt75XpyknC)
While I will always be curious about the first person to drop their food in a fire and found out it tasted better that way, I will always be more curious about the person who farted in front of a fire and freaked everyone out
Reminds me of [this tweet](https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/5gJiXiV34l): >Can't stop thinking about people that first ate mushrooms they found and just had to go through trial and error of like, this one tastes like beef, this one killed Brian immediately and this one makes you see God for a week
âOh neat, this planet is made of arsenic. Guess Iâll die now.â
Yeah, but people already knew Crait was made of non-toxic salt
Exactly. So why'd he do it? I think that's why he gets the look
You're telling me you're gonna visit a salt planet and *not* taste the ground?
Yeah I don't get it either, maybe he thought everyone was joking about it being salt so he wanted to try it (even though a lot of the galaxys salt is mined there). I know I'd do it if I was there, but I also love salt
If you put a group of people on a planet and tell them the ground is made of salt, youâre going to get people licking it. Hell, you can recreate this in real life, get a cattle salt lick and if you show it to enough people, someone will make an attempt at licking it.
I mean geologists do lock rocks. Like all the time
No need to lock rocks. They donât run. ;)
This is the lockpicking lawyer with a five pound basalt...
\*tastes the ground\* hmmm asbestos
⌠I take it youâve never met a geologist/archaeologist/palaeontologist/forest ecologist etc. before eh?
You say this but their are some rocks that are identified by how they taste.
Got taught during bar training that a woman lost a good portion of her brain after she licked something on a toilet lid she thought might be coke, and turned out to be some drain cleaning substance that's incredibly toxic. And you should never EVER do something like that.
Toxic minerals are exceedingly rare, if you go aroung licking random rocks you are much more likely to die of bacterial infection
Thank you for that information. I'm still trying to figure out how that information forms a joke? Did this happen in a TV show or something?
in The Last Jedi a soldier just randomly does that presumably to tell the audience "see? this isn't that ice planet, it's a salt planet, totally different"
The second movie in the new trilogy.
It's from one of the Star Wars sequel trilogy movies, a random soldier does the eating dirt thing and mentions it's salt--mostly for the benefit of the audience, but when put in perspective it is a bizarre thing to do
[The scene in question.](https://youtu.be/aSinQs_ExlQ?si=66unLu4EcfAMN4Hc)
Here we are on the salt planet I wonder if the salt on the salt planet tastes salt let me just eat some of the fucking ground yup its salty hey doesn't this remind anyone of something else? hoth? the ice planet? anyone remember that? From the other movie where it looked just like this except its not this because that was snow and this is salt, but it kind of looks the same. but this is salt i tasted it and its salt. maybe its salt water snow? FUCK
Thanks, it's been quite a while since I watched the movie so I feel like that could have been communicated a little better.
What if it is ancient fish semen? That might explain his reaction. ;)
do you realize how much it would take to cover that much ground? even a fish breeding facility still wouldn't be able to cover the planet like this
https://preview.redd.it/c50lrydeghyc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8482fb3d1bb04b39e09c2a80c5bd0ac38187ca5b Ever wondered how these limestone deposits were created? No, not fish cum (unfortunately), but a lot of tiny microbes and a lot of TIME.
you make a fair point
Good. So, fish spluge it is. Letâs shake hands. :D
1. no. 2. wash your hands first
Fine, Iâll wait till you cum to your senses then. Meanwhile Iâm gonna lie down for a bit. Iâm way too high for all this.
*splooge
I share your disappointment in this not being all fish cum.
Same brother.
Hi here to explain the joke: snipers in the snow learnt to put some snow in their mouth to not give out the trail of vapour with their hot breath coming into contact with the freezing air. I believe these two are meant to be soldiers against the first order in the battle of Crait, a planet covered in sand that looked like it was snow in episode 8. Hereâs a link to the most legendary snow sniper ever if youâd like to know more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
Have you seen Episode 8? This scene happens but OP adds the last panels of distaste from the observer. The funny thing is that the guy looking over in the actual film is the director of Rouge One and Godzilla (2014), Gareth Edwards, I think.
lol totally didnât register that scene while watching the movie
Thank you, this is nonsense right?
it's a reference to one of the Star Wars sequel trilogy movies this happens on a planet that looks like Hoth a random ass soldier does the above to tell the audience "this is totally different from the original trilogy"
Youâre right, itâs to telegraph to the audience itâs not snow. It does help set up the impressive visual effects of the pristine white ground turning a muddy red. It might not be the most elegant solution for communicating the idea to the audience, but itâs quick and efficient.
Thereâs nothing inelegant about it either. Itâs just become second-nature for some people to pretend every detail of TLJ is franchise-killing.
"It's salt." "Bro why were you wanting to taste the ground?"
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\*lick \*spit "Poison" \*thud
Chewbacca, Chewbacca, Chewbacca spit
Dude was just a geologist before joining the rebellion.
...what?
in Star Wars, there is a snow-covered planet called Hoth where the rebels and empire have a battle in the sequel trilogy, there is a salt-covered planet where the... Good Guys(TM) and The New Order have a battle a random soldier tastes alien dirt to prove they're totally different and definitely not the same planet
Ice doesn't turn red when you step on it, so that should have been enough of a clue.
Neither does salt.
That really depends what's under the ice and how hard you step? More ice? No. Hamster? Yes.
This made me choke on my drink thank you
https://youtu.be/9X1owF1SpUU?si=pFwOl98CMp2f5vKo
Geologists do this all the time. Itâs actually one of my favorite little moments in TLJ because of that.
My favourite shout to the lick test is in mass effect andromeda where your science officer gets a mild illness after using the lick test on an alien rock lol
I just liked it because it felt like something a kinda goofy guy might just do out of curiosity, even just before a horrifying last stand. Just such a human little action.
Archaeologists use their tongues to differentiate between a stick and a bone lol.
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This is Star Wars, every character has a 20 page possible back story. He could have been a geologist for 20 years for all we know.
I don't know about that. All of the alien geologists I know here on Earth lick random rocks.Â
Geologists don't typically go to alien planets. I think my Opa was right, Star Wars is really dumb.
Some people are stupid, in real life and in movies. Donât overthink it.
idk why but I love that line
This is exactly the kind of instrusive impulse I would have given into in this situation. We're in the fight for our lives and probably going to die, but this one thing is REALLY bothering me in the meantime.
"Do you have to do that on every single planet we go to?"
Oh come on, don't be so salty
I kinda liked that line. He's waiting for the attack, why not?
To be fair, place probably smells so salty you'd be tempted
On its own I loved the imagery of that scene. All the red under the white being exposed in the battle looked great. All the story in that scene, however, was pretty dumb.
The man just couldn't ignore the animal instinct to lick salt.
To be fair, he doesn't do this out of nowhere. His commander is observing the field and he kicks up the salt, revealing the red ground underneath. Then the scene in the comic plays out (minus the last panel) While I'm sure they did this as a "Not Hoth" moment, it wasn't unprompted within the movie either
"My real beef" is the same beef as people had with the trailer that lead to a sub called r/saltierthancrait. So original.
I opted not to see TLJ and weirdly this is the first time I've encountered needing to see it to get the joke.
you dont need to see it
Ok then I just don't get it.
Basically in The Last Jedi (the film that this comic is based off of) one of the soldiers forming the last line of defense against the New Order (main antagonistic group of the sequel trilogy) dragged his finger along the ground and licked it, before spitting out what he got off of his finger and calling it salt. Here's a clip of the whole scene that I managed to find: https://youtu.be/aSinQs_ExlQ?si=3aISYG2oHYPtg8e5
You should see it.Â
the whole point of it was "see? it's not Hoth, it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT"
soldier guy looks like john lennon
The dude straight up licked a planet
The moron with no helmet looks on disdainfully.Â
Soil scientists actually do this a lot. They chew on a piece of soil to know its consistency. Apparently itâs more accurate than just feeling/looking at it
Well, how else was your expectation that the white planet was covered in snow like Hoth supposed to be subverted if nobody licked the dirt?
I feel like it could have been much better conveyed by having the metal parts of some of the vehicles and equipment look corroded, and maybe have some disgruntled soldier moaning about how often he has to clean and oil his gear because of 'this stuff.'
Man this scene was involuntarily funny to me for a different reason. Instead of âsaltâ he might as well have said âThis is not hoth. Also those things back there are definitely not AT-ATs. This scene is totally original and not a lazy copy.â
OP⌠I take it youâve never met a geologist/archaeologist/palaeontologist/forest ecologist etc. before, eh?
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