Dolphins probably lament not being able to make milk come out of their buddy's nose by making them laugh while drinking.
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The teeth thing is just because of our high sugar, high grain diet
The first* people with bad dental health were Egyptians as they lived on bread (which packs your teeth and feeds the bacteria that ferment it and make acid) before that, and until the invention spread, people died of old age with all their teeth intact
I eat very low carb - almost entirely meat due to allergies, and haven't had a cavity since I started doing that, despite me nearly never brushing or flossing my teeth
*There were also people who lived in the tropics and ate a lot of fruit, and those with sugar cane.
Brush your teeth bud. People can probably smell your breath from a mile away.
brushing your teeth doesnt do much for bad breath. You want to clean the rest of your mouth to get rid of that, which is probably what they do.
You'd think. But where does the bad smell come from?
My understanding is it's from overactive bacteria; I don't feed my mouth bacteria with food that makes them smell
At least my partner still kisses me
I do intermittent fasting.
My breath stinks quite a bit on days I don't eat. The bacteria develop very well on those days, since they're not being washed off as often. And that's before "keto breath" even comes into play.
Point is, your mouth bacteria are fine producing all sorts of "charming" smells even without food.
You probably do stink. The two of you are just used to it.
How do you think you can know when your breath is bad and I can't?
You didn't say what you feed your mouth bacteria aside from saying you only do so occasionally.
It's just a really well-known phenomenon. People thinking they don't stink because it's the smell they're used to. I'm just speculating, and there's of course a chance I'm wrong.
As for how I know I stink, i have a much keener nose than the average. I can tell when my hair stinks because it's been too long since my last shampoo, for instance, a thing most people can't even tell about others apparently. Even though it's the grossest smell ever.
But even then, most of the time I can't tell my breath stinks. It probably has to do with how close the mouth is to the nose. Mostly, I've associated sensations in my mouth with instances where I was told I stunk and work from there.
As for what I eat, oh yeah, I absolutely do eat carbs a normal amount. But I really don't think this should have much of an effect when I'm not eating. I have trouble imagining bacteria having a stock of food for when I don't eat.
Some people get off on eating ass
I thought Egyptians had bad teeth because their flour was ground with sandstone, leaving sand in their bread. They ground their teeth into nothing by eating sand.
I feel like the sand thing was a guess by people who couldn't pick why ancient Egyptians had worse teeth than everyone else in the ancient world
If there's sand in your food you notice and it feels bad. It's not something that makes you go "oh well I'll just keep chomping" and that would wear teeth down, not give them abscesses
this is also common with older bread. Another reason why it's bad, it's probably both though.
Similar. I don't eat low carbs, just almost no bread, and my teeth never get cavities
I note that birds, which evolved eating grains, don't have teeth
Yeah but that can also be because of genetics. I eat bread everyday and still never had a cavity
I am 99% sure humans are supposed to have tails
I sure as hell am supposed to. A big, floofy one.
Ah yes, you are indeed one of my kind.
Tails aren't particularly common on great apes
Guess it doesn't make sense to call them great, then.
Large apes maybe.
Yeah. It's "big cats" and "great apes" I'm just hoping the name was made when great just meant big (I do know they named them before they knew we were in that picture)
That's cap as hell considering a saiyan without a tail can't become a Great Ape or an SSJ4 for that matter.
Did you mistype? I don't understand what you're trying to say
Sorry, let me translate for the non-internet poison speaking audience.
"Sir, you are mistaken in the idea that Great Apes do not have tails for in order to become a Great Ape one must be of the saiya-jin race and still possess a tail. Meaning a Great Ape without a tail would be difficult to believe, and additionally the Great Ape state is a pre-requisite for the Super Saiyan 4 transformation as well, which promiently features a tail. You see I am being humorous by conflating real life categories of animal species with references to Akira Toryiama's hit series Dragon Ball"
applauds and guffaws with merriment
Thanks mate I got the Saiyan part, I just couldn't see what you were saying at the start because I couldn't see you missed the "r" in crap :/
imagine having a stuffy nose and you can't breathe with your mouth.
wait yeah no we wouldnt be able to play like, any wind instruments, traditionally at least.
As much as I'd advocate for a professional rectal woodwind orchestra, I can't help but feel we wouldn't have invented the instruments in the first place.
if we did it would be nasal based, probably, and they would suck a lot more to play as well.
Could be worse:
We don't have cloacas.
Idk, shitting an egg/baby sounds a lot better than present human childbirth..
I don’t disagree, but being egg bound sounds about as bad as dying in childbirth.
I feel like if that happened with a human it would be a pretty minor thing to go up in there and smash the egg so you just shit out the shell and stuff. I don’t really see a reason it would have to be fatal, or even really all that big of a deal, if that’s just what human reproduction looks like.
Now if we were using the cloaca in the same way we presently use the vagina, as a birth canal for developed offspring, that would be a different story, but ultimately not all that different from now.
We're not that efficient yet.
the lack of a highly clickable abstract and title that ignores the last names of many of the people involved leads me to believe this is a satire
We're God's creation but God is a lazy kid that rushed the science project for the whole semester in six days and barely half assed it hoping no one digs too deep into it
as long as you ditch the whole "omniscient and omnipotent" part, god is pretty relatable.
i'd like to see you do better when you're literally creating the fucking universe on your own.
Well let me pull out of the drawer my really dusty degree in Biology and let's see.
First of all, do I still have to follow the principles of Embriology or do I get to make it from scratch? Because that's where I reckon most of the problems that came up come from
you can do precisely whatever you want, but you have to personally compute every single interaction, you are THE game master of EVERYTHING, ALL the time, FOREVER.
frankly the fact that we have sensible physics all the way down to quarks is pretty impressive, i struggle to make a sensible day dream in my head. Put me in charge of a universe and you have something somehow worse than the fey wilds.
Horses were at least marginally less ridiculous before people got involved. Not quite to the same extent as dogs, but compare a steppe horse with a thoroughbred and you'll see that they're smaller and hardier. Much better equipped to live, slightly less able to carry fully armored people on their back.
What use is grief to a horse?