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[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago

I once worked with that one person. You know the one, heavy enjoyer of cannabis even on the job. He was THE person. No, let me put it into perspective.

The guy would down a full bottle of cannalean 1k nano THC before work and would come in with a massive 500mg candy in his mouth. This kid would impress old Tommy Chong.

The first thing he'd ever tell you is that he ate human flesh. Apparently, him and a buddy were cooking something and his buddy cut the tip of his finger off on the cutting board. He said that they both stared at it for a long time before my coworker asked, "Can I eat that?" If its true, these guys had to have been blasted.

Shame he was fired for sleeping on the job.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Catholics been doing if for a couple of millenia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

This Jesus guy must have been pretty fat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Idk i think that guy was harmed pretty bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

two millenia

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Basically had this conversation, and no, I'm fine hearing second-hand descriptions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There's a reason it's called long pig.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's named after a wild African boars, which have a much different taste from the pork you're used to

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Human flesh is said to smell and taste very similar to pork. At least one culture that partook in cannibalism called human meat "long pig" probably because of that. I'm also fairly sure I've heard stories of fire and rescue workers reporting delicious pork-roast smells that turned out absolutely horrifying and put them off pork for a very long time.

It may also be one of the reasons that certain religious texts and cultures forbid the eating of pork. It's probably more to do with how pork spoils quickly in the climates where those religions originated, as well as the risk of roundworms if it isn't cooked properly, but it does also stop the butcher from selling you a pork steak that isn't actually pork, so that's a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh, I bet the smell of burning wood doesn't help that either. Hickory smoked pig just wouldn't be the same after smelling a person burning alive in their wood frame home.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Been firefighting for about 17 years now. Nothing burned up has ever smelled good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service 🫡

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. It's a sweet job. Even if the pay is below what it should be, its still awesome to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a noble job. Unlike ... you know ... What's your relationship with cops like?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

We usually keep a good working relationship with them around here. I'm not friends with any when off duty.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

Origin of “long pig”, copied from this Reddit comment:

I think you might be right. In A St. Johnston's Camping among Cannibals (which the OED quotes in its etymology of the term), he describes how:

The expression "long pig" is not a joke, nor a phrase invented by Europeans, but one frequently used by the Fijians, who looked upon a corpse as ordinary butcher's meat, and call a human body puaka balava, " long pig," in contradistinction to puaka dina, or " real pig."

Which makes it sound like they were just distinguishing between the length of pigs and people.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was in the basement working on a electronic project sitting in the floor My parents house. Couldn't find my soldering iron holder so I just had a somewhat deep bowl and set it in upside down

Something surprising was on TV and I looked up, subconsciously I reach down to pick up the soldering iron which was upside down of its normal orientation.

I heard a sizzle. It took a good half second for me to realize it was me.

The lead on the iron was sweet when I touched the burned finger in my mouth, the skin had a decidedly porky flavor to it. Not going to lie it was kind of barbecuey...*

Edit: dictation did me dirty

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was distracted by some other students and grabbed a soldering iron in a metal workshop class when I was young.

The results were predictably uncomfortable and now when Im soldering it is impossible to distract me.

It’s the kind of lesson you don’t ever forget.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago

Oppertunity

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You an' me baby, ain't nothin' but mammals so let's do it like they do on the good cooking channels

Cannibal by Tally Hall type situation (though unlikely, as I am boring and my flesh is probably sub-par quality due to poor health), maybe with me listening to that* while zonked out my gourd sauteing a chunk of my own arm with mixed vegetables. I usually don't cook meat though, so maybe they'd do that bit.

* Also relevant but more of an emo aesthetic, Misery Meat or People Eater by Sodikken

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Hey extrovert, how about you shut up? Silence is nice. We don't constantly need to hear you talking.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Nah, I love my extroverts. They do what I repeatedly fail to do, and help pull me into the conversation and actually get some social interaction rather than sulking quietly in a corner.

Extroverts that know how to pull introverts into social interaction are the best and I have often looked up to them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ok but isn’t telling an extrovert to talk less the same as telling an introvert to talk more??

like…

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Ultra-rare, and not spontaneously caused by eating human flesh. You're more likely to get mad cow disease (also prions) from eating beef.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Does the “gurantee” include prions..? 🤨

(If you can guarantee no prions — don't really care about the no one harmed bit, as long as I don't know them or they're on my shitlist —, and it's cooked in some way I enjoy — no fancy gourmet spherified vapour shit, thanks — then yeah, definitely, I'm no vegan or anywhere close, but I'd rather eat human than some other animal who can't consent or have done anything to deserve being murdered and eaten.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prions seem to accumulate in the brain and spinal cord. Stay away from those and you’re probably good!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Well that renders a good chunk of the population perfectly safe to eat then!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it says was harmed, not that noone will be harmed

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Said this on another comment: eating human meat does not increase your chance of prions. If you eat another human with prions disease, then you get it. But if you don't eat prion-infected meat, you don't get prions.

We eat deer, which also get prions. We also eat cow, which also get prions (mad cow disease, which also infects humans). We avoid getting prions with regulation of those markets. We could do exactly the same in this scenario.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

We could do exactly the same in this scenario.

At least we know we can build our cannibal dystopia in a way that's safe for the cannibals.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Sure!

But "no one gets harmed" includes me so I better not get addicted or so help me

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