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Ror
Oct 21, 2010

😸Everything's 🗞️ purrfect!💯🤟


you can see it glow white while you're rubbing it into your armpit that's how you know it is real

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BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

penis pumps demonstrably work though

Using one can cause an erection. There's no scientific evidence they increase penis size permanently though. Hope this news doesn't ruin your day.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323688

hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

BigBadSteve posted:

Using one can cause an erection. There's no scientific evidence they increase penis size permanently though. Hope this news doesn't ruin your day.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323688

lol i didnt know people used them in an attempt to increase dick size. i just knew that it was a legit ed tool

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo
Oh yeah that sounds like woo

I just thought they were for temporary embiggening

Somehow unsurprising there's bro science about them with all the weird ads around porn

Take this pill and cum a gallon every time

ChairmanMauzer
Dec 30, 2004

It wears a human face.

Ratios and Tendency posted:

That pain is cognitive dissonance. Explore it.

Is this a Deepak Chopra BS Quote Generator content?

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
I just rubbed snail mucous cream on my face which makes me a bit of a face care expert. AMA.

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

ChairmanMauzer posted:

Is this a Deepak Chopra BS Quote Generator content?

Needs more "quantum"

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo

zedprime posted:

I just rubbed snail mucous cream on my face which makes me a bit of a face care expert. AMA.

You can say "cum" here

yoloer420
May 19, 2006

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

lol i didnt know people used them in an attempt to increase dick size. i just knew that it was a legit ed tool

Huh, I knew people used them in a (futile) attempt to enlarge their penises. I had know idea they had applications for ED!

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

maybealabia posted:

You can say "cum" here

they use every part of the snail, not just the cum :colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hbenumAaJM

Bingo_Bango
Oct 11, 2023
id rather be a pimple covered goblin than rub snail milk on my face

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

maybealabia posted:

Yeah you can buy these alum crystals as smooth round rocks. You just wet it and rub it in yer pits

Lasts basically forever

What now? I thought aluminum in deodorant WAS the antiperspirant and also what left that film on your undershirt even after repeated washing and there was some stuff coming out in the late 90s about the aluminum in deodorant possibly being bad for you.

I've just been using deodorant for decades now since my pits are not swamps and as far as I can tell there is no aluminum in it at all and it definitely doesn't leave a gross coating of grime on clothing it touches like antiperspirant used to do.

No idea if it's the same now but your scenario sounds like antiperspirant from my admittedly ancient knowledge I havent looked up since discovering that deodorant won't ruin my clothes and works just fine for me.

Edit: I didn't know alum was different from aluminum I thought it was just like a salt variant form or something..

Edit 2: it is just the salt variant.. now I don't even know but I give up researching it too many nut job articles from sux bloggers and product copy about how it's natural and this gooder.

Edit 2: I guess aluminum hydrochloride was the poo poo they used or maybe still do that clogs up your sweat glands and stops them from sweating as an antiperspirant.. the alum crystal thing doesn't penetrate skin just deposits salt layer on there to prevent bacterial growth?

Someone tell me what to believe before I go ask a chiropractor

Wendigee fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Oct 12, 2023

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

Looks like the aluminum is bad poo poo was debunked in like the 2010s.. lol.

It doesn't get into your blood just clogs sweat ducts.

My only remaining question is does antiperspirant still coat your clothes in a film that builds up over time ruining said garment because it won't wash out?

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo
I made alum crystals from soda cans as one of my projects in AP Chemistry lol

That was a long time ago and I'm no chemist

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

Rubbing plastic film melted with aluminum in a science class demo into your lymph nodes sounds healthy

Did you try snapping the can in half first and diluting it with water until only .001 percent of the original compound could be detected?

*takes a swig of Coca-Cola out of an aluminum can lined with plastic*

Wendigee fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Oct 12, 2023

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


zedprime posted:

I just rubbed snail mucous cream on my face which makes me a bit of a face care expert. AMA.

What does it smell like

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

maybealabia posted:

You can say "cum" here
I thought snails shoot dick rockets, not cum.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

What does it smell like
I didn't smell anything but I also didn't apply qualitative smelling methods because I don't want to know what snail cum smells like.

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

Doesn't snail juice have a chance of having toxic poo poo in it? Like meningitis?

Rat parasite poo poo can live in that

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo

Wendigee posted:

Rubbing plastic film melted with aluminum in a science class demo into your lymph nodes sounds healthy

1. It's a complex chemical process, there was no "plastic film" left over lol

2. I didn't rub it anyplace

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

maybealabia posted:

1. It's a complex chemical process, there was no "plastic film" left over lol

2. I didn't rub it anyplace

:cheers:

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Wendigee posted:

Doesn't snail juice have a chance of having toxic poo poo in it? Like meningitis?

Rat parasite poo poo can live in that
Yes, this is actually a protozoa posting trying to convince others to take the snail bait.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

Private Cumshoe posted:

you know what's subjectively and objectively GREAT for pain? Heroin!

yep thats why its still used, its called diamorphine iirc. heroin was a bayer brand name that they let the copyright lapse on. hard to litigiously enforce copyright against marsacian mobsters and the mafia

it wasn't shifted off the first line because it wasn't effective, but because there's lots of other safer alternatives that also work

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Wendigee posted:

What now? I thought aluminum in deodorant WAS the antiperspirant and also what left that film on your undershirt even after repeated washing and there was some stuff coming out in the late 90s about the aluminum in deodorant possibly being bad for you.

I've just been using deodorant for decades now since my pits are not swamps and as far as I can tell there is no aluminum in it at all and it definitely doesn't leave a gross coating of grime on clothing it touches like antiperspirant used to do.

No idea if it's the same now but your scenario sounds like antiperspirant from my admittedly ancient knowledge I havent looked up since discovering that deodorant won't ruin my clothes and works just fine for me.

Edit: I didn't know alum was different from aluminum I thought it was just like a salt variant form or something..

Edit 2: it is just the salt variant.. now I don't even know but I give up researching it too many nut job articles from sux bloggers and product copy about how it's natural and this gooder.

Edit 2: I guess aluminum hydrochloride was the poo poo they used or maybe still do that clogs up your sweat glands and stops them from sweating as an antiperspirant.. the alum crystal thing doesn't penetrate skin just deposits salt layer on there to prevent bacterial growth?

Someone tell me what to believe before I go ask a chiropractor

According to one vendor website: "Sweat is odourless: the smell is produced when bacteria in the body work to break it down. Therefore, alum deodorant works by preventing the growth or breakdown of bacteria and by absorbing excess sweat."

Sounds plausible.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

ikanreed posted:

Melt hot wax into ear. Let dry. Pull string. Point at all the ear wax embedded in the wax. Call it toxin. $80 please.

Hope you didn't have an abrasion in your ear drum, sorry you'll never hear as well again. Oops.

From a couple pages ago, but ear candling is even dumber than that.

The candle wax never enters your ear. It'd be way too easy for someone to burn themselves that way. Done properly, nothing from the candle goes further into your ear than an earbud. No, an ear candle is a hollow, conical candle, where 'air currents' and suction and wicking effects are supposed to draw wax and 'toxins' from your ear. The evidence is all of the gunk left inside the candle!

Which is actually just residue produced by the candle itself.

It is a lot like the 'toxin-removing' foot stickers mentioned a few posts down, which just react to moisture by turning black, or the foot baths where it just electrolyzes a hunk of metal and dumps rust into the bath to be the 'toxins'.

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


Oh man that reminds me of the time this woman was telling me to put onion slices on the soles of my feet while I slept at night. In the morning, they're all brown and that's the toxins that were in you!

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




Buy my patented Toxin Patches! Attach them like nicotine patches and watch them turn brown as they draw out the toxins!

*sticks teabags to fat sweaty body* oh wow it works

Sarah Cenia
Apr 2, 2008

Laying in the forest, by the water
Underneath these ferns
You'll never find me

bitterandtwisted posted:

Buy my patented Toxin Patches! Attach them like nicotine patches and watch them turn brown as they draw out the toxins!

*sticks teabags to fat sweaty body* oh wow it works

coworker swears by castor oil packs for drawing out liver toxins

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

The general term "toxins" has become so synonymous with BS medicine at this point, it's wild.

In their world your body can do nothing on its own, the liver and kidneys are just meat hunks, the real secret to getting rid of toxins is sticking potatoes up your rear end in a top hat until they turn brown.

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

A Fancy Hat posted:

sticking potatoes up your rear end in a top hat until they turn brown

dont threaten me with a good time

NoiseAnnoys
May 17, 2010

if you find blood in your butt potato please see a real doctor

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
I choose to believe the blood in my stool is from rectal stigmata and it's blessed as all hell

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


Still chuckling about "scientism" occasionally

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

A Fancy Hat posted:

The general term "toxins" has become so synonymous with BS medicine at this point, it's wild.

In their world your body can do nothing on its own, the liver and kidneys are just meat hunks, the real secret to getting rid of toxins is sticking potatoes up your rear end in a top hat until they turn brown.

yes and no, the world of woo is contradictory in that the body is both magically capable of solving everything on its own, but also somehow constantly full of toxins it can't flush out. it's always some 'the medical establishment doesn't want you to know....that pouring orange juice into your eyes cures asthma' poo poo, where a simple household item induces your body into its natural healing state that the current establishment doesn't want you to know you can achieve

these same sorts of people are the type to insist they could never get COVID because of their daily meditation practices. it's their own little Just Cause fallacy - all the sick people of the world are sick because they're not ~~believing in the power of their body~~ and meditating hard enough while drinking apple cider vinegar

StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Oct 12, 2023

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
crystals, I actually don't mind so much, they have their own belief systems and things they represent which becomes its own sort of communication. it sits in the same spot of my brain as 'the language of flowers' - meaning that is imbued by custom, but that is metaphorical, not literal. if someone gives you a rose quartz, maybe they believe it has magical sex-vibes sure, but really, they're just saying they wanna gently caress you.

maybeadracula
Sep 9, 2022

by sebmojo

StrangersInTheNight posted:

crystals, I actually don't mind so much, they have their own belief systems and things they represent which becomes its own sort of communication. it sits in the same spot of my brain as 'the language of flowers' - meaning that is imbued by custom, but that is metaphorical, not literal. if someone gives you a rose quartz, maybe they believe it has magical sex-vibes sure, but really, they're just saying they wanna gently caress you.

Maybe they just like Steven Universe


Crystals and astrology and naked dancing in the woods is all perfectly whatever cultural poo poo as long as no one's substituting it for things that are actually needed like... medicine

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
The crystals problem isn't that there is a belief system, it's that the belief system is substituted for medical things that work not unlike extreme Christian Scientists.

Flowers for QAnon
May 20, 2019

I weave titanium into my underwear to cure the stinks

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



I dated a chick that believed in crystals and sold essential oils. I was young

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hot cocoa on the couch
Dec 8, 2009

vyst posted:

I dated a chick that believed in crystals and sold essential oils. I was young

i was married to one

:whitewater:

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