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Re: Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally.

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On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 03:05:06 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 4/4/17, 4:08 PM, in article op.yx6072ozjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> 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.

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Re: Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-09 19:23 +0100

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