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speaking of diseases:subpar anachronism posted:I had to be out of the country for three months to get surgery in the US (weird insurance thing) and was the only one who really cooked in my two-goon house. My partner got doctor-diagnosed scurvy towards the end of my stay just from eating like crap so I absolutely believe the common goon is capable of clinical scurvy. InequalityGodzilla posted:True story, in college one of the guys on the same level of my dorm had decided that he hated fruits and vegetables and decided that, since he was no longer under his parent's watchful eyes, he was no longer going to eat them. About 3 months after the year started he went to the campus health center complaining about constant tiredness and bruising easily. They told him to go to a real doctor because they didn't know what the gently caress. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3683302&pagenumber=25&perpage=40#post438880770 quote:I had a friend in college who subsisted entirely on lovely dollar store ramen and pop, he ended up getting scurvy and all the doctor told him was "eat a goddamn orange you loving idiot" in the nicest possible terms. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3683302&pagenumber=25&perpage=40#post438871011 quote:I'm amazed that modern day soldiers are suffering from an easily avoidable medical condition that has been known about at least as far back as Napoleonic times. But then again I've heard of college students getting scurvy because of their poor diets so I guess anything's possible.
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I would think even a college student eating a garbage diet would pick up enough Vitamin C here or there to prevent their teeth from falling out. I mean gently caress, a fistful of froot loops probably has enough Vitamin C to keep you going.
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May 20, 2017 15:41
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Yeah even I avoid Scurvy and im neurotic enough that I get upset even just touching most greens
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May 20, 2017 15:52
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Well according to a cursory google search and the really goofily named website, you need about 60 mg of Vitamin C a day to prevent scurvy A small orange is worth 51 mg but why would you do that when you can eat five whole pizzas like a real college kid.
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May 20, 2017 16:08
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Goddamn CHICKEN NUGGETS have vitamin C in them, how are these nerds dying?!
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May 20, 2017 16:14
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:Yeah even I avoid Scurvy and im neurotic enough that I get upset even just touching most greens
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May 20, 2017 16:14
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Supposedly Carlsberg brewery workers all got scurvy when it became illegal to use additives in beer in Denmark. Apparently they had subsisted on a diet consisting entirely of beer (which were free for employees for decades; I think there's a limit now).
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May 20, 2017 16:27
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I feel like most of the scurvy stories are just "a friend of a friend told me..." or "well, apparently..." urban legends that get spread around as truth. Maybe a small handful are true but I would bet a lot of money that the majority are just people who went to webmd and said "well, I guess I have some of these symptoms" and diagnosed themselves.
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May 20, 2017 16:32
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FactsAreUseless posted:Please elaborate thanks. I have a mild(?) Plant phobia. Like if I eat pizza and I feel the little basil or whatever it is on my tongue I'll pick it out because I'm not comfortable swallowing it. My life is very tedious
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May 20, 2017 16:55
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:I have a mild(?) Plant phobia. Like if I eat pizza and I feel the little basil or whatever it is on my tongue I'll pick it out because I'm not comfortable swallowing it. My life is very tedious Plants are food, not friends! Edit: jk, some are definitely not food, and I like to think some are friends 
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May 20, 2017 17:03
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They need to be mashed into something unrecognizable mess like boneless meat, and cheetos
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May 20, 2017 17:04
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:They need to be mashed into something unrecognizable mess like boneless meat, and cheetos I'm pretty certain you can't mash plants into boneless meat and cheetos.
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May 20, 2017 17:09
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:I have a mild(?) Plant phobia. Like if I eat pizza and I feel the little basil or whatever it is on my tongue I'll pick it out because I'm not comfortable swallowing it. My life is very tedious
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May 20, 2017 17:11
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Nah that's low on my priority list of brain problems
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May 20, 2017 17:12
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm pretty certain you can't mash plants into boneless meat and cheetos.  Welcome to the 21st century.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Type 2 used Insulin! Diabetes: The RPG ("Real Problems with Glucose")
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May 20, 2017 17:16
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FactsAreUseless posted:
I'm all the lies printed on the packaging.
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May 20, 2017 17:20
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http://www.somethingawful.com/rom-pit/captain-novolin/
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:I have a mild(?) Plant phobia. Like if I eat pizza and I feel the little basil or whatever it is on my tongue I'll pick it out because I'm not comfortable swallowing it. My life is very tedious This can't be a real thing. How can you be afraid of plants.
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May 20, 2017 17:54
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poor ol' Goon, thought of plants and died
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Who What Now posted:This can't be a real thing. How can you be afraid of plants. phobias are irrational, that's kind of the whole point
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Who What Now posted:This can't be a real thing. How can you be afraid of plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias?wprov=sfla1 Shout out to vestiphobia for being real
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Yeah. Phobias are irrational, and it's not cool to mock them. It's really frustrating for someone to know they shouldn't be afraid of something and have no logical reason to be, but react involuntarily every time they are exposed to it 
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Snak posted:Yeah. Phobias are irrational, and it's not cool to mock them. It's really frustrating for someone to know they shouldn't be afraid of something and have no logical reason to be, but react involuntarily every time they are exposed to it Not all of them are irrational. 
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May 20, 2017 18:08
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Jerry Cotton posted:Not all of them are irrational. They are by definition. If it's a thing to be rationally afraid of then the severity of the reaction is irrational for it to be a phobia
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May 20, 2017 18:14
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What is this skullmund thing and why do I keep seeing goons freak out over it.
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May 20, 2017 18:43
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skullmunds are almonds that are shaped like skulls. (I have no idea what Skullmund is either)
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May 20, 2017 18:45
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poptart_fairy posted:What is this skullmund thing and why do I keep seeing goons freak out over it. It's an off-site version of GBS made by the guys Zen Death Robot perma-probated.
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May 20, 2017 18:53
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias?wprov=sfla1 I mean... it's not on the list you just linked.
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Who What Now posted:It's an off-site version of GBS made by the guys Zen Death Robot perma-probated. How many terrible offsites have these forums generated by now?
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:I mean... it's not on the list you just linked. That's huge I mentioned it and totally not because I assumed Wikipedia is more comprehensive than it is like all morons
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:That's huge I mentioned it and totally not because I assumed Wikipedia is more comprehensive than it is like all morons I did google it and found a reddit ama that is definitely an 18 year old girl afflicted with this phobia and totally not at all some dude furiously jerkin' it while typing
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Who What Now posted:It's an off-site version of GBS made by the guys Zen Death Robot perma-probated. Ah, fair enough.
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Andrast posted:How many terrible offsites have these forums generated by now? Including 4chan?
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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:That's huge I mentioned it and totally not because I assumed Wikipedia is more comprehensive than it is like all morons So, like, do you just become non functional if you see a lawn? Do trees horrify you? Or does it just extend to edible plants?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJGIMd3_LfY
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I feel like most of the scurvy stories are just "a friend of a friend told me..." or "well, apparently..." urban legends that get spread around as truth. Maybe a small handful are true but I would bet a lot of money that the majority are just people who went to webmd and said "well, I guess I have some of these symptoms" and diagnosed themselves. yeah I eat rear end posted:I feel like most of the scurvy stories are just "a friend of a friend told me..." or "well, apparently..." urban legends that get spread around as truth. Maybe a small handful are true but I would bet a lot of money that the majority are just people who went to webmd and said "well, I guess I have some of these symptoms" and diagnosed themselves. I would like to clarify that in the case of my story the doctor had said the guy was suffering from "Severe Vitamin C Deficiency" which pretty much everyone else on the floor immediately started saying was basically scurvy. He wasn't quite at the bleeding gums stage, but given another month without seeing a doctor...
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My idiot older brother got gout when he was like 40 I mean what the gently caress.
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