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Pronounced “Guuuur-RON-tee” like a Cajun car salesman.
Spelling mistakes getting called out increases engagement. I'm not saying it was done on purpose in this instance, but in general it does make sense that you'll see more posts with spelling mistakes because they'll rise to the top. The only winning move is not to play.
What will they do with all this engagement on Lemmy?
Oh definitely, it's not like Lemmy is overflowing with it and I can't imagine the author is the one posting here. I'm just saying that if you're sorting by hot or active you increase the odds of seeing content with these spelling mistakes or silly errors by calling it out, so instead of the presumed effect the corrector wanted, i.e. either getting the author to change it, the poster not bother, or having it seen fewer people, it generally has the opposite effect.
Human flesh is said to smell and taste very similar to pork. At least one culture that partook in cannibalism called human meat "long pig" probably because of that. I'm also fairly sure I've heard stories of fire and rescue workers reporting delicious pork-roast smells that turned out absolutely horrifying and put them off pork for a very long time.
It may also be one of the reasons that certain religious texts and cultures forbid the eating of pork. It's probably more to do with how pork spoils quickly in the climates where those religions originated, as well as the risk of roundworms if it isn't cooked properly, but it does also stop the butcher from selling you a pork steak that isn't actually pork, so that's a bonus.
I was in the basement working on a electronic project sitting in the floor My parents house. Couldn't find my soldering iron holder so I just had a somewhat deep bowl and set it in upside down
Something surprising was on TV and I looked up, subconsciously I reach down to pick up the soldering iron which was upside down of its normal orientation.
I heard a sizzle. It took a good half second for me to realize it was me.
The lead on the iron was sweet when I touched the burned finger in my mouth, the skin had a decidedly porky flavor to it. Not going to lie it was kind of barbecuey...*
Edit: dictation did me dirty
I was distracted by some other students and grabbed a soldering iron in a metal workshop class when I was young.
The results were predictably uncomfortable and now when Im soldering it is impossible to distract me.
It’s the kind of lesson you don’t ever forget.
“For a long time.”
Implying that the allure of pork cannot be denied.
Been firefighting for about 17 years now. Nothing burned up has ever smelled good.
Thank you for your service 🫡
Thanks. It's a sweet job. Even if the pay is below what it should be, its still awesome to do.
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Origin of “long pig”, copied from this Reddit comment:
I think you might be right. In A St. Johnston's Camping among Cannibals (which the OED quotes in its etymology of the term), he describes how:
The expression "long pig" is not a joke, nor a phrase invented by Europeans, but one frequently used by the Fijians, who looked upon a corpse as ordinary butcher's meat, and call a human body puaka balava, " long pig," in contradistinction to puaka dina, or " real pig."
Which makes it sound like they were just distinguishing between the length of pigs and people.
but it does also stop the butcher from selling you a pork steak that isn’t actually pork, so that’s a bonus.
or maybe it's just a translation error haha
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Sure!
But "no one gets harmed" includes me so I better not get addicted or so help me
Basically had this conversation, and no, I'm fine hearing second-hand descriptions.
There's a reason it's called long pig.
It's named after a wild African boars, which have a much different taste from the pork you're used to
I once worked with that one person. You know the one, heavy enjoyer of cannabis even on the job. He was THE person. No, let me put it into perspective.
The guy would down a full bottle of cannalean 1k nano THC before work and would come in with a massive 500mg candy in his mouth. This kid would impress old Tommy Chong.
The first thing he'd ever tell you is that he ate human flesh. Apparently, him and a buddy were cooking something and his buddy cut the tip of his finger off on the cutting board. He said that they both stared at it for a long time before my coworker asked, "Can I eat that?" If its true, these guys had to have been blasted.
Shame he was fired for sleeping on the job.
Hey extrovert, how about you shut up? Silence is nice. We don't constantly need to hear you talking.
Nah, I love my extroverts. They do what I repeatedly fail to do, and help pull me into the conversation and actually get some social interaction rather than sulking quietly in a corner.
Extroverts that know how to pull introverts into social interaction are the best and I have often looked up to them.
It sounds like you're shy, not introverted.
Introverts need social interaction too, just less of it.
ok but isn’t telling an extrovert to talk less the same as telling an introvert to talk more??
like…
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You will be either in my maelstrom of social interaction or you can leave, I'm partially sorry but I'm nowhere near the steering wheel as soon as I'm in a group of people.
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Catholics been doing if for a couple of millenia
two millenia
mmmm, prions
Ultra-rare, and not spontaneously caused by eating human flesh. You're more likely to get mad cow disease (also prions) from eating beef.
Aren't prions located in the brain?
as far as i understand it they can technically just show up, without you having to eat anything. it's one of those "could kill you from nowhere" things, like false vacuum decay.
but eating human meat, especially brain, will significantly increase the risk, yes
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They spread everywhere, and cause progressively worse neurological issues as they spread through the brain.
You can make any meat in the lab. Why stop at cow? I want all the tastes.
Imagine celebrities allowing the lab to use their cloned cells to grow "Angelina Jolie's Cultured Thighs" for public consumption or something.
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Sounds like a Margaret Atwood novel haha
I'll have the rump roast
Everybody eating ass these days smh
But that's an actual thing I heard about some time ago, but not googling because you know, just no.
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Vegan gelatin has entered the chat:
When "eating somebody out" suddenly gets a new meaning.
How do you guarantee that? If it's just a matter of asking consent, that's probably illegal. If the person died from other causes (illness, accidents, old age etc.), I'd question whether it's safe (illness) or palatable (old age) to eat that meat.
Not that I want to link to reddit, but there was a thread from a guy who had to have his foot amputated due to injury. He took it home, prepared it and then ate it. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/
I have a hard time believing that the foot was entirely unaffected by the injury ... it's whatever if it's your own limb, but I wouldn't eat someone else's limb that was amputated due to injury.
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Cloned meat would satisfy the requirement
Just sign up to be a meat donor like you sign up to be an organ donor. if you were healthy enough to have your organs harvested at death, you were healthy enough to eat (probably idk).
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