Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally. Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:23:57 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <3xfEA.172418$3m1.84745@fx15.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:407099 sci.physics:628006 alt.privacy.anon-server:58597 comp.sys.mac.system:103884 alt.comp.os.windows-10:38375 alt.cellular-phone-tech:515 On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 03:05:06 +0100, Snit wrote: > On 4/4/17, 4:08 PM, in article op.yx6072ozjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson > Sword" wrote: > > ... >>>>>> Imagine if it bred with a tarantula. >>>>> >>>>> I love tarantulas. Went to a summer camp once where we ended up in the >>>>> migration path of them... THOUSANDS crossed the camp. Maybe millions. >>>>> Seriously, it was hard to NOT step on them for a day or two. >>>>> >>>>> Right now I live in a place where we see them from time to time but nothing >>>>> like that. >>>> >>>> Normal folk don't like things with twice as many limbs as themselves. >>> >>> Yes, I know. Not sure why... >> >> An animal that can run 50 times faster than you compared to it's size, and >> hide behind things and pounce on you in your sleep, ending up in your mouth >> for you to digest doesn't bother you? > > Nope. Lady bugs can do that or at least most of it... and they do not seem > to disgust most people. I have a fairly large number of spiders living > around my house -- I live near a lake and they help reduce the level of > unwanted pests. I like them. Ladybugs (we stupidly call them ladybirds) don't have 100 times more leg than body, that's why spiders are disgusting. >>> other than just one of those things like trying >>> to drink your own spit. You swallow it all day, no issue... now try to spit >>> into a glass and drink it. YUCK! >>> >>> No logic to it, but almost everyone has that reaction. >> >> Plenty logic to it. Drinking a lot at once fucks up your digestive system. > > I am not talking a full glass worth! Just spit a little into a cup and then > drink it. Yuck. For that matter, we have mucus from our nose drip down our > throats all the time... but the thought of sneezing into your hand is not > pleasant and then eating it is absolutely repulsive. I admit it is for me... > but why? Because you can see it. > I suppose if our own was not gross to us then we might eat others and that > would spread disease. Still, it is not really logical that our own that we > eat anyway is so gross. We don't find our own farts repulsive. Amazing we can tell if it's ours or not. Must be a chemical code in it. > Not suggesting it should not be. I am certainly not starting a campaign to > push spit drinking and bugger eating... I hope you meant booger eating. Bugger eating sounds homosexual and even more disgusting. > but I realize it is just an > instinctual response and not really rational. It avoids, as you said, catching disease. Once it's out of you, your brain probably automatically classes it as somebody else's. >> We feel ill when about to intake things that could screw up our insides. >> That's why it's impossible for you to swallow a piece of dogshit. > > Never tried. :) I'm sure you realise you couldn't though. -- More people in the UK are injured by standing on upturned mains plugs than by electric shocks.