Stuff you're not sure you want to know

[BigApplePi]

I've spent too long on the internet, or I perhaps I just have a naturally steely disposition. Pictures like that no longer have any effect on me.

Slightly off-topic. I challenge you all to find a picture or a fact or something that actually disturbs me (nothing illegal of course)

Cog. That's because you just LOOK. You have to immerse yourself. You have to actually get down and dirty with all your senses. Makes sense?

Okay. I challenge the authors of this thread to find something that actually disturbs Cogwulf. I double challenge. Mind you, we don't know the mind of Cogwulf so he might just laugh or grimace in disgust. How disturbed do you want to get fella? I don't think we would want to ACTUALLY get you upset. Maybe disturb you up to but not including actual upset.

 

[Cognisant]

Well there's that Amazonian fish/parasite that'll swim up your dick if you're not careful, I don't know where pictures are and frankly I don't care to look, but I think Cogwulf may know about that already.

I recommend digging around the horror section of TvTropes, follow the links.

 

[DarkGreen]

Slightly off-topic. I challenge you all to find a picture or a fact or something that actually disturbs me (nothing illegal of course)

YOU LOOK PRETTY WITH RIBBONS

 

[Cogwulf]

Spoiler

YOU LOOK PRETTY WITH RIBBONS

You win

 

[DarkGreen]

Yay!

 

[Lobstrich]

Mucophagy (literally mucus-eating, also referred as picking one's nose and eating it) is the consumption of the nasal mucus, boogers, and other detritus obtained from nose- picking. Some research suggests that mucophagy may be a natural and even healthy activity, which exposes the digestive system to bacteria accumulated in the mucus, thereby helping to
strengthen the immune system.

I'm not even going to doubt that, even though I've literally never eaten a "boogey" I'm gonna do that from now on and till I die! I'm never going to get sick again, woooh!

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I've spent too long on the internet, or I perhaps I just have a naturally steely disposition. Pictures like that no longer have any effect on me.

Slightly off-topic. I challenge you all to find a picture or a fact or something that actually disturbs me (nothing illegal of course)

You have been warned.

Spoiler

Seriously.

Spoiler

 

[Cogwulf]

Research has proven that blood really does make good mortar. Specifically, it makes cement stronger and lighter. (United States Patent 4203674)

I've just got round to researching this, and its' effect comes from the creation of very fine bubbles in the cement, although I haven't been able to find out the mechanism by which the bubbles are created.
Bubbles in the cement obviously lower the density, but their strengthening effects is due to the bubbles blocking crack propagation. The bubbles are in the size range of micrometers, which is much smaller than could be achieved by mechanical aeration. And generally, when introducing a second component into a material to improve its' properties, the smaller and more finely dispersed the second component, the better the improvement.

You have been warned.

There's far worse on photobomb

Spoiler

 

[BigApplePi]

I've just got round to researching this, and its' effect comes from the creation of very fine bubbles in the cement, although I haven't been able to find out the mechanism by which the bubbles are created.
Bubbles in the cement obviously lower the density, but their strengthening effects is due to the bubbles blocking crack propagation. The bubbles are in the size range of micrometers, which is much smaller than could be achieved by mechanical aeration. And generally, when introducing a second component into a material to improve its' properties, the smaller and more finely dispersed the second component, the better the improvement.

If this thread has been converted to "stuff you want to know 4 sure", then I want to know if one can use non-human blood ... just in case one doesn't have a fresh body lying around and you don't know any hemophiliacs or have friends at the neighborhood blood bank.

 

[Pepper]

10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria

85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.

A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.

259200 people die every day.

A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot

 

[EyeSeeCold]

A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.

Lol

43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot

9/10 people believe them.

 

[Pepper]

Lol

I think deep, deeeeep down, you really wanted to know that. I think we all did.

 

[Agent Intellect]

Scientists have a drug that inhibits the action of Protein Kinase M-zeta, which is the primary component in long term potentiation (long term memory). This drug can erase spatial memory (in the hippocampus) and procedural/contextual memory (in the basolateral amygdala).

To put it simply: what they did in Dollhouse or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not science fiction anymore. You may not want to know this, but you can take solace in the fact that someday, you may not remember this.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Scientists have a drug that inhibits the action of Protein Kinase M-zeta, which is the primary component in long term potentiation (long term memory). This drug can erase spatial memory (in the hippocampus) and procedural/contextual memory (in the basolateral amygdala).

To put it simply: what they did in Dollhouse or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not science fiction anymore. You may not want to know this, but you can take solace in the fact that someday, you may not remember this.

Wasn't there also some sort of special substance used by the CIA or something to increase human intelligence? It would make more neurons connect with each other or something... Damn I wish I knew what it was exactly.

 

[Agent Intellect]

Wasn't there also some sort of special substance used by the CIA or something to increase human intelligence? It would make more neurons connect with each other or something... Damn I wish I knew what it was exactly.

I don't know about the CIA, but ampakines have been investigated by DARPA (according to wiki). Racetams are also supposed to be able to improve intelligence (I've tried piracetam before, but it didn't seem to do much for me).

 

[WittyUsername]

Spike lined ring

This device was aimed not only at preventing masturbation, but nocturnal
emissions as well.

Young men would tie this ring of death around their member, and whenever they became aroused, the spikes would sink into their flesh, causing excruciating pain.

 

[Cognisant]

I pity the masochist, or should I?

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Spike lined ring

This device was aimed not only at preventing masturbation, but nocturnal
emissions as well.

Young men would tie this ring of death around their member, and whenever they became aroused, the spikes would sink into their flesh, causing excruciating pain.

Oh god, I can feel it... What sort of sick person would come up with something like this?

 

[Pepper]

Probably a man hating butch lesbian who probably also invented this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20008347-10391704.html

 

[Zensunni]

One grammar nazi's should hate:

The phrase "OK" came from a slang misspelling for "all correct": orl korrekt. So, when people say they hate slang words (particularly internet slang, like using "ur" instead of your or "kewl" for cool) they're using one every time they say okay.

Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president of the US, Ph.D. of history and political science, and president of Princeton university, always wrote 'okay' as 'okey'. He said that it was the proper way of spelling a native American Indian word that meant, 'it is so.'

 

[Zensunni]

Spike lined ring

This device was aimed not only at preventing masturbation, but nocturnal
emissions as well.

Young men would tie this ring of death around their member, and whenever they became aroused, the spikes would sink into their flesh, causing excruciating pain.

The normal male has between 4 and 8 erections every night while sleeping. That thing had to totally suck if your Victorian mother strapped it to you to prevent you from going to hell; inducing it here on earth nightly.

 

[Architectonic]

Mucophagy

As taboo as some people find it, it is similarly risky to a combination of sniffing and sticking your finger in your mouth.

To put it simply: what they did in Dollhouse or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not science fiction anymore. You may not want to know this, but you can take solace in the fact that someday, you may not remember this.

I won't be worried until they start implanting new personalities.

Note, this is a joke. I don't think it is possible:
YouTube - From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination, UCLA

 

[Fukyo]

Even the slightest amount of paracetamol, a cheap and widely available drug can easily kill a cat.

 

[Awaken]

If you take a bone saw to bone, the smell is very similar to Frito's(the chips).

The "scotch tape test" is a test to find eggs of a worm that lives in your GI tract. This worm lays eggs at your anus at night so that you scratch your anus, come in contact with your contaminated hand, and ingest the eggs.

Surgeons do hemicorpectomies and the post-op state reminds me of the movie Saw on so many levels.(look it up)

 

[echoplex]

Perhaps it's simply because I'm male, but the spiky penis ring is, at the moment at least, the leading candidate for the coveted title of "thing that officially causes my loss of faith in humanity". It was a nice run, Bridalplasty.

And what's sad is that I know many posters will immediately think of something worse upon reading this.

 

[Keegan_A]

Attention 19th century! Tired of morphine? Well new from Bayer try non-addictive...

Spoiler

That's right. The guys who you buy aspirin from invented heroin.

 

[Melllvar]

Ferret Legging:

While telling some people about this the other night I managed to find a video of it on youtube:

YouTube - ferret in your trousers

I was also informed of a style of catfish fishing called noodling, which typically involves diving 10 or 20 feet underwater, sticking your arm in a catfish hole and hoping it will bite down, then swimming back to the surface where a buddy helps remove the fish.

According to wikipedia: "Losing fingers is also a risk, whether from the bite or infection. Most holes are deep enough that diving is needed, so there can be a danger of drowning. .... The greatest physical threat posed to noodlers, however, comes from other forms of aquatic life found in catfish holes. Far more dangerous than catfish are alligators, snakes, beavers, muskrats and snapping turtles, who will take over abandoned catfish holes as homes of their own."

... Spiked penis ring stuff ...

There's also the Prince Albert.

 

[Awaken]

Yea, the ferret in the trousers just won it for me. As if I needed more reason to lose faith in humanity. Why, just why?

 

[warryer]

There's also the Prince Albert.

I use mine to pull my car out of the snow when it gets stuck.

 

[Nysamis]

Perhaps it's simply because I'm male, but the spiky penis ring is, at the moment at least, the leading candidate for the coveted title of "thing that officially causes my loss of faith in humanity". It was a nice run, Bridalplasty.

What's worse than a spiky cockring? The spiky cockring plus some of these other ways the Victorians tried to disabuse their boys from "self abuse." Infibulation sounds pretty horrible. And having an alarm that wakes up your parents when you're about to have a wank or one of those *deadly* wet dreams? I imagine those parents getting rather frayed around the edges due to lack of sleep. Still rather embarrassing. (The cereal sounds fine, though it's probably regressed from it's Thou Shalt not Choke the Chicken stance. Rule 34 ruins everything, even children's cereal mascots.)

Japanese women are taught (I wonder how?!) to feel extremely self-conscious about their pee. Getting overheard tinkling in the public potty by another female, that is. For years, the solution had been to flush the toilet while peeing, wasting tons of perfectly fine toilet water. But now, there is the Otohime. It is a machine that makes artificial toilet flushing noises when you wave your hand anywhere in its general vicinity. (The first time is freaky/WTF inducing if you accidentally get your hand too close to it.)

These are a stable of any good public toilet facility. Applying certain economic principles to it is quite unnerving, as it must be cost-effective to install these, which are probably not cheap. All because of some really stupid cultural meme that doesn't exist anywhere else. Ah, Japan...

And then this awesomeness is coming soon to the finest men's toilet establishments. YouTube - トイレ用デジタルサイãƒãƒ¼ã‚¸ã€€å°¿é‡æ¸¬å®šSEGA（トイレッツ）
It's not fair... Oh wait! That's what the Shenis is for!

And then Japan craps out videos like this one teaching little children how to deposit their anthropomorphized human waste products into the toilet bowl.

YouTube - How To Poop English Subtitles

 

[Cogwulf]

People like stuff like this:
http://cers45.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

 

[BigApplePi]

Cog. Also it's very informative. I always wanted to know what body builders were trying to accomplish. Now we know.

 

[BigApplePi]

This is not a problem as long as you keep your fingers out of your mouth and don't inhale.

 

[BigApplePi]

Perhaps it's simply because I'm male, but the spiky penis ring is, at the moment at least, the leading candidate for the coveted title of "thing that officially causes my loss of faith in humanity". It was a nice run, Bridalplasty.

Although I'm male also, my advice is if you insist on wearing one of those, not to get an erection. If you must have an erection, don't wear one and your problem goes away. (Why do male people have erections anyway?)

And what's sad is that I know many posters will immediately think of something worse upon reading this.

I don't think that so sad. It's simply to be prepared when the worser comes along ... like being prepared when you get an erection.

 

[BigApplePi]

I'm sure you know tanks are very heavy. When they roll over the ground they leave an indentation in the Earth. If you'd enloy knowing what it's like to have one roll over your arm, see Jack Palance's performance here.

 

[Fukyo]

What's worse than a spiky cockring? The spiky cockring plus some of these other ways the Victorians tried to disabuse their boys from "self abuse." Infibulation sounds pretty horrible. And having an alarm that wakes up your parents when you're about to have a wank or one of those *deadly* wet dreams? I imagine those parents getting rather frayed around the edges due to lack of sleep. Still rather embarrassing. (The cereal sounds fine, though it's probably regressed from it's Thou Shalt not Choke the Chicken stance. Rule 34 ruins everything, even children's cereal mascots.)

and, circumcision.

Spoiler

A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

 

[GYX_Kid]

and, circumcision.

Spoiler

A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

yep, you just brought this 'trolling with the truth' thread to a new level sorta.

idealistic male INxP's:

don't be so quick to try restoring foreskin before you know exactly what you're doing

 

[Zmaster]

It is possible to define any finite positive number by an integer times a binary code that is represented by the geometric formula called the Sum of Halves. Example 23.605 would be 24 times [11111011110010010110001011111100100101100011] where each position is 1/2 , 1/4, 1/8, 1/16,...,etc.

 

[echoplex]

Although I'm male also, my advice is if you insist on wearing one of those, not to get an erection. If you must have an erection, don't wear one and your problem goes away.

I think this is very sound advice!

(Why do male people have erections anyway?)

I dunno, I blame the female people. It must be something they're doing. I would ask them.

 

[24hoursplumber]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who walks in rubbing his cock doorknobs and countertops!