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Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


what are you talkin bout

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Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

peanut posted:

is your face still on the pamphlet of your apartment complex

Wait what you never told me this!!!!!

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
If people want to eat something they will find a way to farm it.

I don't know if horses are tasty but the animals we slaughter has been selectively breed over thousands of years for meat and behaviour.

We didn't do the same with horses because they were more valuable as mounts and for that function they have the be intelligent enough to follow orders.

Turning donkeys into dick pill is much much better than rare species but they somehow made this tragic by car jacking ruining people's livelihoods.

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

oohhboy posted:

If people want to eat something they will find a way to farm it.

I don't know if horses are tasty but the animals we slaughter has been selectively breed over thousands of years for meat and behaviour.

We didn't do the same with horses because they were more valuable as mounts and for that function they have the be intelligent enough to follow orders.

Turning donkeys into dick pill is much much better than rare species but they somehow made this tragic by car jacking ruining people's livelihoods.

We do eat horse in much of Europe. Nowhere near as much as beef and pork but I can walk into pretty much any supermarket in Sweden and buy horse meat. Usually sold as "hamburger meat" for marketing reasons.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Donkeys are majestic and good animals.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Horse meat is really good.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Hedenius posted:

We do eat horse in much of Europe. Nowhere near as much as beef and pork but I can walk into pretty much any supermarket in Sweden and buy horse meat. Usually sold as "hamburger meat" for marketing reasons.

Much rejoicing was had.

Pound_Coin
Feb 5, 2004
£


Hedenius posted:

We do eat horse in much of Europe. Nowhere near as much as beef and pork but I can walk into pretty much any supermarket in Sweden and buy horse meat. Usually sold as "lasagne" for marketing reasons.

Fasdar
Sep 1, 2001

Everybody loves dancing!
Has anyone ever had the experiencing of discussing the whole dick pills from literally every animal issue in China? Like, do they ever say, "it is sad that all these irreplacable species had to die, but without dick pills how would I ensure I contribute to gender imbalanced perfect society?"

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

How am I gonna get my dick up without special pills after a lifetime of smoking, boozing, and jerking off to censored porn

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

Jeoh posted:

How am I gonna get my dick up without special pills after a lifetime of smoking, boozing, and jerking off to censored porn

As it turns out, with Viagra and Cialis flavored by a powder made from your choice of endangered species.

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.
Marilyn Manson claims to have smoked human bones, which is the dumbest thing I'd ever heard of until donkey dick pills.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

So after hearing about some friends inconveniencing their home layouts and moving mirrors around because of "Feng Shui", which I always just dismissed as some harmless home decor system from the mystic east I was doing some reading up on it and it's 100x more stupid and bad than I imagined. I loved this blurb from an article on it though.

"J.J.M. de Groot, who between 1892 and 1910 produced a mammoth six-volume work, The Religious System of China. He described feng shui as “an essential part of the Chinese Religion in its broadest sense,” but seemed peeved to have to cover it. He begged off explaining every detail because he felt “the cobwebs of absurd, puerile speculation, built up by the system, are hardly worthy of serious study.” De Groot saw feng shui as:

a mere chaos of childish absurdities and refined mysticism, cemented together, by sophistic reasonings, into a system, which is in reality a ridiculous caricature of science. But it is highly instructive from an ethnographical point of view…. It fully shows the dense cloud of ignorance which hovers over the whole Chinese people; it exhibits in all its nakedness the low condition of their mental culture, the fact that natural philosophy in that part of the globe is a huge mount of learning without a single trace of true knowledge in it.

Ouch! A lot of foreigners at the time had similar views. As they saw it, feng shui beliefs were impeding China’s much-needed development (and their exploitation of its resources); Chinese officials opposed railway tracks and telegraph lines because the straight lines disturbed the geomantic environment, and, in turn, ancestors’ graves. The first railway in China, a fourteen-kilometre line from Shanghai to Wusong near the mouth of the Yangtze River, commenced operation in 1876. Built by British firm Jardine, Matheson, and Co. in the face of official opposition, the railway operated for only one year. The concession of having built it in a winding pattern to cause less harm didn’t placate Chinese concerns about the disrupted feng shui. The Qing government bought the railway and tore up the tracks."

Chinese century coming any moment.

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


Big Bill's Burro
Donkey Dong
Black Donk
Jackassss
Stree Overdonk

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Marilyn Manson claims to have smoked human bones, which is the dumbest thing I'd ever heard of until donkey dick pills.

He also claimed that all of his concerts are satanic worship rituals.

Not really a person to take seriously.

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Ziv Zulander posted:

Stree Overdonk

mods please

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

Baronjutter posted:

"Ouch! A lot of foreigners at the time had similar views. As they saw it, feng shui beliefs were impeding China’s much-needed development (and their exploitation of its resources); Chinese officials opposed railway tracks and telegraph lines because the straight lines disturbed the geomantic environment, and, in turn, ancestors’ graves. The first railway in China, a fourteen-kilometre line from Shanghai to Wusong near the mouth of the Yangtze River, commenced operation in 1876. Built by British firm Jardine, Matheson, and Co. in the face of official opposition, the railway operated for only one year. The concession of having built it in a winding pattern to cause less harm didn’t placate Chinese concerns about the disrupted feng shui. The Qing government bought the railway and tore up the tracks."

It's a bit more nuanced than that author's understanding. Foreigners were fed lines about bad feng shui causing officials to rip up the Woosung Railway because it fit into their conception of the inscrutable oriental. The actual reasons were ones stemming from sovereignty and economics. There's this journal article if you want to delve into the details. Basically brits were planning on expanding the rail line to Suzhou and starting freight service to move more of their goods even though they were prohibited from doing so. The rolling stock was supposed to be reused in Taiwan for mining operations but the government ran out of funds to start construction.

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
Donkey dick makes more sense than tiger dick. Who says hung like a tiger?

Riptor
Apr 13, 2003

here's to feelin' good all the time
Was at the Hong Kong airport and saw a sign for "hot drinking water" and sure enough there was a line of like twenty people waiting. Made me laugh, thanks thread

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


One of my classes has a water cooler that actually, honest to god, dispenses cold water from the cold water tap. Like actually cold not room temp. It's fantastic and also the first time I have ever seen that in China in three years.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

oohhboy posted:

If people want to eat something they will find a way to farm it.

I don't know if horses are tasty but the animals we slaughter has been selectively breed over thousands of years for meat and behaviour.
boy have they ever. i always get a kick out of telling people about the chicken they eat. many fryer chickens in particular are so hilariously bred that they literally have to be given a toilet on one side of their nest and food on the other, because they are so colossally dumb and lazy that they will be unable to find their food otherwise, and will refuse to clean themselves if they poo poo all over themselves. literally the only good thing a fryer chicken ever does is die for you.

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Grand Fromage posted:

One of my classes has a water cooler that actually, honest to god, dispenses cold water from the cold water tap. Like actually cold not room temp. It's fantastic and also the first time I have ever seen that in China in three years.

My old office had one. People kept turning off the cold side to "save electricity" :argh:

Deceitful Penguin
Feb 16, 2011

oohhboy posted:

If people want to eat something they will find a way to farm it.

I don't know if horses are tasty but the animals we slaughter has been selectively breed over thousands of years for meat and behaviour.

We didn't do the same with horses because they were more valuable as mounts and for that function they have the be intelligent enough to follow orders.

Turning donkeys into dick pill is much much better than rare species but they somehow made this tragic by car jacking ruining people's livelihoods.
You barely even need a couple hundred years to do it; Icelandic livestock are apparently loving geniuses, with the horses now having begun ambushing tourists and shaking them down for bread and veggies and the sheep just wandering around since settlement semi-wild. (Meanwhile, the dogs are lovable retards; the only thing they have going for them is that they live a long time)

Horse is tasty, yeah. Foal is like a less oily whale; rich and tender.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
You don't even need a hundred. The Russians of course as an experiment tamed Foxes and it only took 58 years.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/domesticated-foxes-genetically-fascinating-terrible-pets/

They now sell the foxes and their pelts to continue their research program.

OTOH I have no idea :wtf: is going on here other than a gross demonstration of there is the will(money), there is a way.

https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/monster-fox-fur-farms

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Horse is tasty, yeah. Foal is like a less oily whale; rich and tender.

Ducks is great but New Zealand ducks are skin as anything lacking in both fat and muscle. I might have eaten other fowl at some point and I can't complain.

I don't like Sheep though, nasty taste.

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

Grand Fromage posted:

One of my classes has a water cooler that actually, honest to god, dispenses cold water from the cold water tap. Like actually cold not room temp. It's fantastic and also the first time I have ever seen that in China in three years.

is it like the suicide booth in futurama?

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

Grand Fromage posted:

One of my classes has a water cooler that actually, honest to god, dispenses cold water from the cold water tap. Like actually cold not room temp. It's fantastic and also the first time I have ever seen that in China in three years.

my office has these, but any time someone is filling up a mug using it they always swap over to the hot side at least once to get a nice tepid bathwater in there



Baronjutter posted:

But it is highly instructive from an ethnographical point of view…. It fully shows the dense cloud of ignorance which hovers over the whole Chinese people; it exhibits in all its nakedness the low condition of their mental culture, the fact that natural philosophy in that part of the globe is a huge mount of learning without a single trace of true knowledge in it.

drat! I imagine agreeing with this would make me a huge rear end in a top hat, but....





Everything he said about feng shui is also true for nutrition advice. Below translations taken from another blog:

Tomato and shrimp: shrimp contain something that when mixed with tomato becomes poisonous.

Honey and scallion: also poisonous and will affect your eyes.

Chicken and celery: affects the immune system.

Mushrooms and donkey meat: causes illness in the arteries.

Carrot and white radish: if you eat them together very often they can affect the immune system and cause a blood infection.

Potato and persimmon: if you eat them together very often they can form kidney stones.

Carrot and baijiu (rice wine): can poison your liver.

Pumpkin and lamb: causes inflammation of the pleura.

White radish and loofah: this combination causes premature ejaculation and diabetes.

Pear and goose: bad for your spleen.

Spinach and tofu: will prevent calcium from being absorbed and spoil the calcium already in your body.

Tangerine and lemon: if you eat them together very often you will get stomach ulcers.

Dog meat and garlic: harms the stomach walls and poisons you.

Banana and watermelon, cantaloupe or related melons: raises your blood sugar.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


LentThem posted:

baijiu: poison

Well, at least there's one accurate bit.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

LentThem posted:

my office has these, but any time someone is filling up a mug using it they always swap over to the hot side at least once to get a nice tepid bathwater in there


drat! I imagine agreeing with this would make me a huge rear end in a top hat, but....




Everything he said about feng shui is also true for nutrition advice. Below translations taken from another blog:
Tomato and shrimp: shrimp contain something that when mixed with tomato becomes poisonous.
Honey and scallion: also poisonous and will affect your eyes.
Chicken and celery: affects the immune system.
Mushrooms and donkey meat: causes illness in the arteries.
Carrot and white radish: if you eat them together very often they can affect the immune system and cause a blood infection.
Potato and persimmon: if you eat them together very often they can form kidney stones.
Carrot and baijiu (rice wine): can poison your liver.
Pumpkin and lamb: causes inflammation of the pleura.
White radish and loofah: this combination causes premature ejaculation and diabetes.
Pear and goose: bad for your spleen.
Spinach and tofu: will prevent calcium from being absorbed and spoil the calcium already in your body.
Tangerine and lemon: if you eat them together very often you will get stomach ulcers.
Dog meat and garlic: harms the stomach walls and poisons you.
Banana and watermelon, cantaloupe or related melons: raises your blood sugar.

A lifetime of chainsmoking, drinking 55% paint thinner alcohol, breathing in smog, loading up on heavy metals, eating a gallon of oil a week, and abstaining for any form of exercise or drinking more than the bare minimum of water is healthy though.

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug
Oh no! I once ate shrimps and tomato! gently caress!

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

Ceciltron posted:

Oh no! I once ate shrimps and tomato! gently caress!

tomato-base seafood pasta is lethal for all but the hearty europeans


quote:

Eggs and saccharin, you die. Tofu and honey, you will become deaf. Kelp and pig blood, constipation. Potato and banana, you will get freckles. Beef and brown sugar, the mixture expands inside you and you die. Pork and swamp eel, you die. Lamb and river snails, you will fart a lot. Celery and rabbit, your hair will fall. Tomato and mung beans, it will affect your qi. Crab and persimmon, diarrhea.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Beef and brown sugar explains why literally everyone who's ever eaten Texas barbecue is dead.

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

ded posted:

Not really a person to take seriously.

Oh no I took that super seriously now what will I do with my time

Murray Mantoinette
Jun 11, 2005

THE  POSTS  MUST  FLOW
Clapping Larry

LentThem posted:

Dog meat and garlic: harms the stomach walls and poisons you.

Like, if I'm going to go as far as eating dog, I'm definitely going to season it but no garlic, what even is the point?

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Marilyn Manson claims to have smoked human bones, which is the dumbest thing I'd ever heard of until donkey dick pills.

Here, something incrementally dumber than smoking human bones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSAq2sHotic&t=141s

ntan1
Apr 29, 2009

sempai noticed me
poo poo. I eat a lot of white radish/daikon and carrot because they are a common combination for Japanese cooking so now Im going to die of a blood infection.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Everyone in Vietnam died from banh mi

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Actually if I get to choose, death by banh mi sounds pretty good

LentThem
Aug 31, 2004

90% Retractible

Grand Fromage posted:

Beef and brown sugar explains why literally everyone who's ever eaten Texas barbecue is dead.

so would you go so far as to describe this as "a mere chaos of childish absurdities and refined mysticism, cemented together, by sophistic reasonings, into a system, which is in reality a ridiculous caricature of science"?

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


LentThem posted:

so would you go so far as to describe this as "a mere chaos of childish absurdities and refined mysticism, cemented together, by sophistic reasonings, into a system, which is in reality a ridiculous caricature of science"?

Sounds accurate.

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Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Baronjutter posted:

So after hearing about some friends inconveniencing their home layouts and moving mirrors around because of "Feng Shui", which I always just dismissed as some harmless home decor system from the mystic east I was doing some reading up on it and it's 100x more stupid and bad than I imagined. I loved this blurb from an article on it though.

"J.J.M. de Groot, who between 1892 and 1910 produced a mammoth six-volume work, The Religious System of China. He described feng shui as “an essential part of the Chinese Religion in its broadest sense,” but seemed peeved to have to cover it. He begged off explaining every detail because he felt “the cobwebs of absurd, puerile speculation, built up by the system, are hardly worthy of serious study.” De Groot saw feng shui as:

a mere chaos of childish absurdities and refined mysticism, cemented together, by sophistic reasonings, into a system, which is in reality a ridiculous caricature of science. But it is highly instructive from an ethnographical point of view…. It fully shows the dense cloud of ignorance which hovers over the whole Chinese people; it exhibits in all its nakedness the low condition of their mental culture, the fact that natural philosophy in that part of the globe is a huge mount of learning without a single trace of true knowledge in it.

Ouch! A lot of foreigners at the time had similar views. As they saw it, feng shui beliefs were impeding China’s much-needed development (and their exploitation of its resources); Chinese officials opposed railway tracks and telegraph lines because the straight lines disturbed the geomantic environment, and, in turn, ancestors’ graves. The first railway in China, a fourteen-kilometre line from Shanghai to Wusong near the mouth of the Yangtze River, commenced operation in 1876. Built by British firm Jardine, Matheson, and Co. in the face of official opposition, the railway operated for only one year. The concession of having built it in a winding pattern to cause less harm didn’t placate Chinese concerns about the disrupted feng shui. The Qing government bought the railway and tore up the tracks."

Chinese century coming any moment.

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