Weed
It is a softdrug, not a harddrug, but it’s a drug nonetheless. It has the potential to destroy your life, but the potentiol is just very low. You should always treat it with respect. Saying “weed is harmless” is respectless. Think of the bullied nerd in highschool who is regarded as a harmless loser. He get’s bullied every day, because he never fights back. Until he snaps some day and becomes a top ranking highschool shooter. If you abuse weed long enough, it will change you and it will ruin you.
To be fair, a lot of research had been held up by it being federally illegal.
I think enough people have used it for long enough that we can assume it’s relatively harmless but we can’t say it’s completely harmless just because the studies haven’t been done.
I mean with the CSU/CDU out of the way, they might finally get around to doing it.
It isn’t harmless. I’m not saying you shouldn’t use it. In all likelihood, it’s less harmful than tobacco or alcohol, but we shouldn’t pretend it’s completely harmless.
Nothing is completely harmless… aspirin and paracetamol is far more dangerous than marijuana.
I’d love to see the data on this if you have it. Isn’t weed more long term impact than the others you listed?
According to people like you even a water is more dangerous than weed. Weed is dangerous, that’s a fact. Not more than alcohol, but it’s dangerous.
Water is far more dangerous than weed - you can literally kill yourself by drinking too much of it.
What people always forget is that it’s the dosage that makes the poison. Weed might very well be harmless for recreational use, but recreational use does not mean trying to out smoke Snoop Dog.
Give a 50mg gummy to a weed newbie and everybody’s having a bad night.
That’s a very good point, along with usage. Weed might have practically no effect if you consume it non-regularly but might have significant effect when you do every day.
Weed does not agree with me at all, it sends me into truly horrifying attacks of paranoia. It effects people differently so yeah it’s definitely not “completely harmless.”
Vaccinations!
Spiders.
Even black widows basically have to be harassed into biting.
I wouldn’t take that bet with a funnel Web spider.
that said the fear is way out of proportion to risk, yes many people are bit, but antidote is a thing. I think there’s only been a very small handful of actual spider bite deaths in Australia in decades and those that were were mainly untreated
Eating mushrooms you find wherever
Right? Jews aren’t completely harmless
We have a similar one here in the US. People think if you go outside when it’s too cold, you’ll get sick.
In the US, I hear this more when your hair is wet: “Don’t go outside, it’s cold and your hair’s wet, you’ll get sick!”
It’s not completely baseless. You can’t get sick from the cold itself, but lower core body temp does weaken your immune system until you warm up, making it easier for you to get sick if you do get exposed to something.
The cold, dry air during the winter can also dry out the mucus membranes in the sinuses which can make it easier for pathogens to enter the body. Again, doesn’t make you sick directly but does interfere with your body’s defense mechanisms.
I don’t know about that, I always get a pink eye and my sinuses start to hurt if I stay in draft for a longer period of time.
God, on one hand, catching a draft makes you die and then on the other STOSSLÜFTEN!!
Tja ein STOSS ist halt kein ZUG!
Schon, wenn meine Mutter lüftet. Alle Fenster im Haus (auch im Winter) und das ist nicht mehr ein Zug, aber ein ganzer Hauptbahnhof lol
Sei froh! Wenn sie die Fenster nur kippen würde wärt ihr wahrscheinlich schon tot oder zumindest schwer krank. Soweit ich weiß ist so ein kleiner Zug, den man kaum spürt, am gefährlichsten. Weil dann fühlt sich der Körper sicher und Killerviren haben leichtes Spiel!
The hero we need, but don’t deserve 😔
- meine Mutter, wahrscheinlich
Same in Czechia.
Similar in France, also airco giving you all kinds of symptoms
Similar to “fan death” in Korea, where they think running a fan in your bedroom while you sleep can kill you.
Also Russia and probably most eastern European countries. One of my kids will catch a cold and the first thing my mother or grandmother will ask is if they were somewhere drafty.
It’s even in the name! A “cold”, huh!
Not only colds, but you also get stiff necks! According to my mother, it’s almost instantly. Leaving two windows open makes here neck stiffer than a priest in a kindergarten, but only inside. Standing in the wind outside is perfectly fine.
I’ve heard that cited in stories, usually older. A baby dies and they blame someone leaving the door open too long and letting in a draft.
Yeah, but then they go and open all the windows to “change the air” no matter the weather.
I used to work with a bunch of Germans in the US. I came in to the office one time at about 4:30am in February. One of the guys had all the windows open when the outdoor temperature was something like -20F.
Like Moritz, I think that avoiding the draft is more important than changing the air at that point. 🙄
I also had an old manufacturing guy tell me that drinking cold water in the summer would kill you because of the shock to your system.
Oh, that kind of draft
That’s totally cultural, in the US it’s dehydration
5G, Vaccines, MSG, WiFi, Socialized Medicine, Jews.
2.4ghz WiFi is actually classed as a carcinogen by the WHO. There’s some pretty interesting and heavily peer reviewed research supporting this. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10643389.2021.1951549
Why did I read that like the Pokérap
Or lyrics to an updated Billy Joel song “We Totally Started This Fire”
Studies showed that MSG is entirely safe and only that some people may have “sensitivity” to it, akin to caffeine or any other food sensitivity. (note this is not allergy)
I’ve always wanted to try mixing my Bugles with a dusting of MSG, it could be so tasty!
Speak for yourself, sis. I’m a dangerous homosexual.
must be the flames
Reading in the dark.
I do this a lot (reading books on my phone before I sleep)
it does but damage the eyes?
It doesn’t damage them, just makes them more tired. Sleep can fix that, though.
Not dangerous but definitely becomes more difficult the older I get.
Threads
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In South Korea most fans have timers so they’re not left on overnight, because people think it’ll kill you if you do leave it on.
This belief wasn’t helped by medical examiners putting “death by fan” on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a “cowardly death” for a few decades.So do they think that CPAP machines are just suicide devices?
What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?
Ask John Lennon.
Lol, Jesus Christ
!LeMMySilvur
Oh shit… This was funny. Thank you.
I used to work in a real sweatbox of a factory so we had huge fans running all day. It was deceptive because you’d normally be drenched in sweat but the fans prevented it. So you’d drink a gallon of water and take maybe one brown ass dehydrated piss. I could see something like that being blamed on a fan. Just heat exhaustion or dehydration
I think they believe it will blow all the air out of the room
Chop up all the oxygen and make it unusable?
That’s basically what they think, yes. That it interrupts the flow of the air, as if capillary action was needed to pull air into your lungs. I’m not sure how the myth started but at one point they were selling fans with special guards or something to protect against the imaginary risk.
Of course, I might be wrong - I read about this on the internet.
If the hydrogen and oxygen get redistributed in the wrong way, the room will fill with water and you drown.
Understandable.
Fan Death.
They are large, and they gallop across your ceiling like demented gazelles, chasing down cockroaches.
However, they’re nonaggressive to humans, you’d have to seriously harrass one to provoke it into biting you, and the worst they could do to you is a beesting-like bite.
They’re also all named Kevin.
This is all true except I’ve met huntsmans with different names.
Also as you said, they are not completely harmless like OP requested. Going by these standards we could also list a lot of animals that occasionally bite or sting non lethally if provoked.
Granted, but they look a whole lot more threatening than they are, which I felt was in the spirit of the thread.
Yes, that’s true
Sorry, as an arachnophobe, Kevin better stay out of my house or have a faster draw than I do or he’s toast. Castle doctrine applies to spiders that large lmao.
My house would be a pile of ashes if I saw one of those inside.
My house would not change, it would just become Kevin’s house. I’d be back in with my parents.
I sincerely hope you aren’t lying because I will accept this as fact and act accordingly should I ever see something I think is a huntsman spider
There’s apparently one subspecies of huntsman that could make you a bit nauseous and headachey, but the majority aren’t going to do more than hurt a bit. And yeah, they’re cool.
Of course, I’m not going to take responsibility if you misidentify something else as a huntsman…
Of course, I’m not going to take responsibility if you misidentify something else as a huntsman…
Oops, that was a 2011 Ford Mondeo coming straight at me, not a huntsman spider.
Not again!
I’m allergic to actual bee stings …
I’ve never had one, so I don’t know. I’ve always been irrationally nervous around bees, and I really, really don’t want to find out if I am or not.
It’s not worth it
Dihydrogen monoxide except for when it completely replaces the air.
Oh, that shit is dangerous.
At high pressure it can cut through pretty much anything.
Heated to vapor can cause severe burns. (Steam)
A high percentage in the air when it’s not enough will cause your body’s cooling ability to fail. Killing you very quickly.
And that’s just off the top of my head.
drinking more than a liter (L) or so per hour for several hours can kill you
Not to mention it’s potency as a solvent.
It also severely decreases function of you car brakes, which can lead to severe injuries or death.
According to my mother, gay marriage. Nuts on mustaches is just the end of the world to her for some reason.
Otherwise, she’s a sweet lady.
Gay sex is fine, but they dare not try to ceremoniously demonstrate their love and devotion.
I was actually a bit disappointed when it wasn’t as hyped up as religion makes it out to be. It feels extremely similar to having sex with women, lmao. I thought it would be super different and scandalous or…something? But yeah. Guys, gals, and everyone in between are basically just slightly different muscle tones, and slightly different pressure points.
Everyone gets excited by romantic dates and you doing the dishes out of love, remembering anniversaries, all the normal stuff. Sometimes boyfriends like to play videogames and do pedicures too, which are actually a blast and everyone should try them, haha.
MSG. People will swear it gives them all manner of ailments
I bought a big pack of msg from the Asian supermarket and use it instead of normal salt for many things. My partner and I call it wonder salt.
(Of course, msg like normal salt or anything should be used in moderation lol)
I heard a lot about how msg can make stuff taste great, so I bought some a while back and I try it every now and then, but I can’t really tell the difference. If I use too much I do notice that it makes the taste worse. I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong.
Yeah, using too much is going to make your food taste gross, just like adding too much salt would too. I also think it might not be suitable for every dish, so I think there’s some experimentation required. For me, I like to add it to things that have a lot of tomato in them (like a sauce) or when I feel like there’s something “missing”. I find it rounds out the taste.
Maybe while you’re cooking, taste your food before and then immediately after adding some msg, taste it again. It won’t be like a huge, in your face difference - it’s pretty subtle imo. Then again everyone’s tastes and taste buds are different and it might just actually not be for you!
Yeah it just adds umami. Some dishes don’t want umami added. Whiskey really doesn’t from personal experience. Alcohol and curiosity are a dangerous combination
Wait, you added it to whiskey?? That sounds disgusting but also I love that you tried it lmfao
It was not quite disgusting but very not good. Adhd probably played a role in this decision lol
Mmm yes, I can relate. I have also eaten weird shit because my brain had weird ideas.
I bought a big pack of msg from the Asian supermarket and use it instead of normal salt for many things. My partner and I call it wonder salt.
I hear the voices of my ancestors cry in confusion.
But seriously speaking, I’ve never encountered MSG being used in place of salt. We use it here to give food more of that nondescript meaty taste (aka umami).
Personally, if I need both salty and umami tastes I’d reach for soy or fish sauce first (depending on what’s being cooked). I’d only add MSG and/or salt if I really have to—usually to make minute adjustments.
I’m sorry for offending your ancestors. I hope they can find it in their hearts to forgive me lol
Tbh, I’m not very good at cooking and I rarely add salt to my food. If I want saltiness, I usually get it through ingredients like soy sauce, for example. I guess I don’t mean that I use the msg instead of salt, but I do use in foods where you might add salt, and I just happen to not since I added something else that serves a similar purpose. Does that make sense? But then, like I said, I’m not good at cooking and I just try to make things and experiment a bunch (a lot of experiments have failed horribly)
Also - maybe it also makes a difference that I eat vegan/vegetarian and I don’t always know how to fill in the “meaty” gap that I feel like can be missing.
The purpose of salt in cooking is as a flavour enhancer. It brings out the other flavours that already exist in the food. Salt is not a flavour. It’s why a lot of recipes call for salt to taste, as how much you add can vary a bit. Next time you cook something that tastes a bit dull, try adding a small amount of salt and note what it does to the flavours as you add more. If it tastes “salty” you probably added too much.
Source - I was a chef/cook for 9 years
That makes sense, thank you! I will try experimenting with salt later :)
They seem to be a lot more confused than angry, lol!
But yeah, thanks for the explanation about your use case. This, and your comment about using MSG on tomato-ey stuff has clarified things for me. The reason I brought up soy and fish sauces earlier is because they too, have MSG, and depending on the flavor profile I’m after, I might elect to use one or the other. That usually takes care of MSG in a lot of cases.
I just happen to not since I added something else that serves a similar purpose
… Taken that way, we both do a similar thing.
I eat vegan/vegetarian and I don’t always know how to fill in the “meaty” gap that I feel like can be missing.
Ah, that explains a lot, thanks! And I don’t really have experience in vegetarian/vegan cooking so I am afraid I can’t help with that. There are meat substitutes, of course, but the one I had experience with relied on gluten to achieve a meat-like texture. I’ve heard, too, that mushrooms can used to give that earthy taste that can be enhanced with MSG. Tofu as well. But please take these with a pinch of… MSG, lol!
I really appreciate the explanation! I’ve learned a lot from you and the others, and I have some ideas for things I want to try for the next time (which is probably very soon, since it’s almost lunch time lol)
I actually bought some mushroom sauce a couple of days ago, and I’m looking forward to giving that a go. I only recently discovered this amazing Asian supermarket near where I live (in Germany) and it has been so fun learning to use things I didn’t know I had such easy access to before!
My ancestors are happy to have reeled one in. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
But yeah! Have fun exploring the various (weird) flavors that you can find in Asian supermarkets. Some of them might be a bit too weird for your tastebuds, but I think that’s part of the fun. You might also want to explore Buddhist vegetarian cooking as well, if you haven’t already, since there are a lot of techniques there might be useful for you.
There’s glutamate, although not MSG, in breast milk. Also sugar in the form of lactose. That’s because that’s what gets babies to keep sucking.
Msg started from analyzing seaweed, thanks Japan
I remember when I was looking up diet videos years ago everyone was VEHEMETLY advocating against MSG and how bad it was for you, especially for diabetics. I’m still not entirely sure what to believe, but I know MSG isn’t as bad as everyone thought it was.
It’s basically just salt. Salt can be bad for you if you eat too much of it. Don’t over salt your food and you’re fine.
That was the conclusion i came to, it’s just another seasoning like paprika or salt. The opposition to it is what keeps me skeptical, if it’s just a seasoning why are people so randomly against it? I think it’s because it’s used in lots of fast food.
It’s rooted in racism. Chinese American food was cheap and delicious, steadily growing in popularity. Non-Chinese restaurant owners viewed us as a threat. So the racists among them used dubious studies, which have since been discredited, to try to spread this myth that Chinese food was unhealthy because it contained MSG.
Of course it was all a fabrication. People would claim to feel bloated/sick even after eating Chinese food containing no MSG, probably because it tastes so damn good and people are bad at eating in moderation. Likewise, people could eat non-Chinese food containing MSG and somehow there are minimal complaints.
My family’s restaurant was put through the ringer over this in the 80’s-90’s and almost went out of business, but thankfully the science prevailed in the end.
MSG isn’t “bad” at all, it’s just another ingredient really. The campaign against it was entirely bullshit that was driven by racism against Asian people because it’s a common ingredient in Chinese food.
I love MSG. I buy 2.4 kg at once and add it to pretty much everything savoury :D
It’s almost like a cheat code to make almost anything taste better!
But I also I don’t understand people who think that it literally is cheating and shouldn’t be used because of that. If msg is cheating, salt is also cheating.
For me, msg has become almost as important “tool” in the kitchen as salt.
My understanding of “cheating” when it comes to cooking is that you’re becoming reliant on something that might be/become difficult to get ahold of. Pure salt is ubiquitous in western cuisine, so most would feel comfortable relying on it. That’s not the case with MSG.
Well if people won’t use it because it’s “cheating”. Then it’ll never make it to bw ubiquitious next to salt, like it imo deserves to be.
salt is also cheating.
and fat! I love all 3 :D
The holy trinity 🤤.
I also love msg, but 2.4kg would probably last a decade in my pantry. I use it sparingly. How much do you use?
Little, but as I said, on everything. That’s usually twice a day, breakfast and lunch/dinner, every day, for two people. Checking my order history, it seems to usually last 9-11 months.
I was confused at first how anyone thought that Madison Square Garden was dangerous, could it be all that ice-hockey they play there. Then I read the other comments and now I realize it’s the basketball.
I remember reading something from Chef John being against MSG (he was commenting within one of his YouTube videos). But not for health reasons. He just felt the flavor punch it gave lead to addictive overeating.
I’m like bitch, that delicious food you showcase does the same thing, you don’t hear me bitching about it.
I love the taste of msg, unfortunately over the past few years it seems to have become a trigger for my migraines. I miss eating noodles with msg.
Had a gnarly migraine yesterday after having msg. Hope its not msg causing it, so tasty 😩
I sometimes eat it knowingly and then question all my life decisions once the migraine sets in 🤣
That’s actually a misconception within a misconception.
It’s not that MSG allergies don’t exist, it is that they are often downplayed for the same reason that Celiac’s disease is downplayed. When a few people fake or overexaggerate their symptoms, credibility is taken from the rest of us who actually suffer from it. Now people are always quick to invalidate those who are symptomatic.
Yes, it’s true that some of the rumors around MSG are racially motivated, and that some people who claim to be affected are lying. But that doesn’t mean that MSG related symptoms aren’t real for the rest of us. Speaking as someone who is from Hong Kong, grew up with MSG, and absolutely loves the taste of it, but developed health conditions that were comorbid with MSG intolerance.
As a chronic pain and migraine sufferer, large quantities of MSG is a common trigger for migraines (or headaches when I’m lucky). I’ve been blind tested before with someone else’s help using the same quantities of salt vs MSG in a cellulose capsule. Each time, I would happen to be fine after taking the salt capsule with a glass of water. But after taking the MSG capsule with a glass of water, I would have have a headache or a painfully tense sensation around my head. This was done multiple times across separate days to rule out confounding factors.
It’s likely true that for the vast majority of people MSG doesn’t trigger a reaction. However, a few of us have an intolerance and we are frequently dismissed and medically gaslit. Please believe us. I’m so tired of people telling me that what I’m experiencing isn’t real. I wish it didn’t have to be real so I could go back to eating whatever I want and not worry about migraines.
