You ran out of rum didn’t you James?
Hmmmmm.
Reminds me, I should probably increase my citrus intake.
If you have potatoes or onions in your diet, you’re probably safe.
It’s hilariously easy to not get scurvy unless you’re on a 18th century ship, an arctic expedition, or trying to get it.
If you have potatoes or onions in your diet, you’re probably safe.
Looks like I’m in the clear!
Looks like I’m in the clear!
Unironically probably yes, even if that was all your intake. The amount of Vitamin C you need to prevent scurvy is incredibly small. It really is a disease you can’t get unless you’re trying for it anymore. Like, fries and onion rings have like 2 mg of Vitamin C per serving, and you only need 10 mg a day to stave off scurvy.
Got you, 5 servings of fries a day it is.
This is the kind of medical advice I like.
Wow, TIL. Thanks, OP!
Legend has it that you can drink beer instead. A decent IPA should do it, or a bunch of decent IPAs and you won’t care
No I sort of meant more fruits in general
Like a cocktail or something?
One sure sign that you’re not masculine, is doing things to show others how masculine you are.
There are a lot of reasons to not like James Blunt, but there is one reason to like James Blunt, which is when he parodied his own hit song on Sesame Street. And that is the one reason I still like James Blunt. A little.
James Blunt is hilarious. Awful music but excellent at self-deprecating humour
He’s a riot.
He knows what his music is, makes fun of it.
Broccoli and tomatoes are okay, but carrots are questionable, and zucchini is hella gay.
Zucchini is shaped like a penis. It doesn’t get any more manly than that.
that just reminds me of a shitty intelligent design meme where all the foods look like the organ they say they’re good for.
My new proposed man diet is bananas, cucumbers, mushrooms, and animal dicks. Manliest of diets.
The Doctrine of Signs, haha good memories.
Just as an aside: It has its roots in the ancient greek philosophers and was considered for centuries to be the pinnacle of rational thought. I mean, it wasn’t, but for literally more than a thousand years it has been a form of mental masturbation amongst the oldschool academic elite.
Got a lot of shelf fungus prescribed as ear medication lol
Wow, guess he just wasn’t manly enough.
TBH it’s not impossible to derive necessary vitamins from raw herbivore livers, as many early humans assuredly did when crops were scarce.
He’s just a pussy.
You think early humans ate raw livers for vitamin C? Sounds unlikely. We are omnivores, and except for rare exceptions (I.e. on the Northpole) plant material is more abundant than animals.
Yes, sufficient Vitamin C is in raw liver.
Before the age of human agriculture we were endurance hunters. Don’t believe me? Go survive off of random unidentified plants for a while. (Don’t actually, you’ll be dead in a month tops).
That’s discounting the cultural plant knowledge that those hunter gatherers had.
100k years of ‘Don’t eat that, it kill Grog remember?’ can lead up to a pretty extensive safe list of wild plants as well as a bunch of useful healing herbs.
We’ve long since forgotten most of it, having not needed it since agriculture.
I’m unaware of these 100k year documents, please present it.
fucking idiot…
Jesus must have left them in South America next to the Golden Tablets?
Livers were prized parts of the animal for hunts, we knew the value of organ meat before.
Just now everyone is like ‘ick, organ meat’…
That said, I don’t know if I trust modern livers, they are the toxin dump of the body and while I’d happily eat liver before the industrial revolution, I’m not sure its safe to eat now considering how we treat our farmlands.
Yeah I’m not suggesting anybody get parasites to prove how manly they are, but clearly the guy didn’t even know the basics of nutrition.
Most people don’t bother looking into it other than what they read on blogs or see on youtube. There’s a LOT of nutritional misinfo going around. Thats what happens when social media values reach and clout over accuracy and meaning.
It is pretty funny that eating meat is still seen as a masculine thing. Pff what? Tofu? No i buy my meat like a real man in this other isle, next to the tofu.
It’s funny because eating flesh and blood is a “woman” thing in most species. Ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, flies - all the ones biting you are female looking for a blood meal. Arguably, in ancient times men gathering meat was probably to provide for the women in their lives. Even roosters will do this for their hens - bring them bugs or peck at food on the ground to show the hen where it is without eating it.
That all being said, the gender dichotomy is stupid and we are a bit more sophisticated than all that.
that sounds made up
It’s not. You should develop some science literacy if you think that sounds made up and don’t know how to verify it yourself. Ofc, I will say every species is a little different and not every single mosquito species even bites humans for example. But as a general rule, yeah, I’m right.
Only the female mosquito bites and feeds on the blood of humans or other animals. https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/mosquito-life-cycle#:~:text=Only the female mosquito bites,conditions for a few months.
an adult female flea lays eggs following a blood meal from the host https://www.petmd.com/dog/parasites/evr_multi_understanding_the_flea_life_cycle
After a female tick feeds and is engorged with blood, she releases pheromones to attract a mate. https://mosquitojoe.com/blog/understanding-the-tick-lifecycle/
The female then must locate a blood-meal to complete development of her eggs. https://mmcd.org/black-fly-life-cycle/
For the roosters - this is a well recorded and observed behavior you can watch on TT or wherever. Not all roos do it, but it’s pretty common nonetheless with thousands of videos observing this: https://youtu.be/ynhzfbZ0oGk?si=vhEtGxP5VI33sB-L
You forget the scientific study that came to the conclusion that blood sucking and meat eating is a female thing.
it is exclusivly YOU that made the connection. You said MOST species, you mentioned like a handfull. You had this gothic romantic idea, and you chose these papers to fit you idea.
you should develop some sience literacy.
you should not make up stuff, period.
Of course it is a fuckdamn lemm.ee user making this mess in the comments.
Defederate them now please. it is long been beyond time.
https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780385350549
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By biomass, yes most animal species do have females who engage in blood meals https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-biomass-of-earth-in-one-graphic/
thats easy because biomass alone of insects is like, really big.
you said most species, and talked like you were some bigshot scientist and give me this feminist lore, and now you backtrack to alter your initial statement.
Where am I backtracking?
You really shouldn’t go by just gut instinct when it comes to scientific evidence, just saying…
The answer is simple: females in most species have a larger nutritional debt from reproduction. Making sure your partner eats is just good survival tactics.
In medival times if you could afford to only eat meat it meant you were a rich soft fancy boy.
ACTUALLY rich people loved to eat white bread. white bread was expensive
And for the longest time, mac and cheese was a luxury dish, and lobster was considered prisoner food.
It’s kind of amusing to see the eating trends of the wealthy.
At one point peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were rich food too, because they were able to afford the berries to make jam, or had land to grow them.
Nowadays it is some of the cheapest lunch you can make.
I think meat is going that route now, and in 15-20 years the only people who will be able to afford real meat will be the wealthy.
That’s not super accurate, there were still public lands for hunting and chickens and goats were eaten regularly by non-nobles.
That said, it wasn’t common to have meat at every meal.
Also: feast days, and there were a fucktonne of them (more than the pitiful handful we get nowadays) and were almost always catered lavishly by their local lord as a show of wealth.
I’m not saying life was ‘better’ then, just that we have a lot of misconceptions about historic periods, usually influenced by movies and other entertainment media.
Pretty much the same as now then.
I guess nobody ever told this genius about multivitamins either.
Alas: also shaped like cocks
My multivitamins are shaped like balls!
Should’ve washed his food down with some orange juice.
That’s gay.
To be fair, he said he did this his first year in college- everyone did dumb shit in college.
“You wouldn’t pirate an illness”
Scurvy is one of the manliest diseases, though, so he kind of failed this one successfully
No it isn’t.
Testicular cancer is a lot more manly.
slaps tumors
I got double the testicular mass with these bad boys.
The trick is to not show discomfort after slapping your testicular tumors.
Bruh you’re supposed to have meat and vegetables as part of a balanced diet
But you can’t have them in a manly diet.
#notallmen
As a man without scurvy, I can personally attest that not all men have scurvy
