• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I once went 9 days without pooping in a hospital. They wouldn’t let me use the toilet (wanted me to go in a pan), so I refused to shit. They even gave me laxatives, and I beat them. The nurse said they were going to have to stick things up my ass if I don’t shit soon, so I gave up my protest - though was able to use the toilet. It was painful and I clogged it with pure shit. Never again.

    • ISurvivedThePandemic@lemmus.org
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      A similar thing happened to me when I had to travel a bit while having to take some antibiotics and when I got to the doctor I was on my 10th day of not pooping. She said “we’ll have to clear the blockage if these laxatives won’t work” and when I asked how she twirled her index finger in the air with a scary grin on her face. That night I ate a box of prunes, immediately downed a beer followed by two coffees with those laxatives and I gave birth after an hour of labour. I then unclogged the toilet after a half hour of work. Do not recommend it

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, the body can do crazy things. At first I was surprised by the storage amount, then amazed I was able to fill the whole toilet bowl.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah there’s a reason we get worried when you haven’t pooped. It’s like you said but then sometimes people also just die of it.

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        I remember them treating me like I was 90 years old (I was 27), unable to go to the toilet. I knew my body and I knew I can shit just fine, but apparently they couldn’t let me go due to protocol. So I guess my only hope was to try and keep it in. I felt humiliated, unable to even take a shit in piece. It taught me anything its that I sincerely wish I die before I’m unable to use the toilet by myself. I also found a new respect for what we take for granted, even the simplest task of going to the toilet.

    • Wurm@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      Hopefully you heed the advice of medical professionals more willingly in the future 😂

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    13 hours ago

    i would’ve said “he doesn’t read the articles and comments purely on the titles” but that works too

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    20 hours ago

    My China related conspiracy theory:

    As a total layman, if I look up the origins of the English word “mango”, I find its first use in the 1500’s by Portuguese traders converting the Tamil word mankay.

    The Chinese word for mango is “mang guo”, a cognate. What’s weird is that “guo” means roughly “fruit,” also used in “ping guo” for apple.

    When I ask around if the original Portuguese translation came from the Chinese word, rhe common answer is no, and that’s the conspiracy.

    I think the word has already transferred into Portuguese through Mandarin before its first recorded use, either through direct trade or via Arabic traders who also visited Mandarin speaking ports.

    Because otherwise the match on the “guo” is just too coincidental.

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        14 hours ago

        I think you might be right, but I give up on trying to link the damn articles.

        It’s hard (apparently for me) to find English articles about Chinese etymology. Bunch of pdfs or translations of Chinese pages.

        At the latest I saw claims Chinese adopted the “mang” term as late as the 1800’s.

        Another said China adopted it at the same time as Portugal, during the 1500s southeast Asia trades.

        Their first words referencing the fruit were in the 600’s but that was a completely different word.

        I thought this would be an easy find… it’s simultaneously annoying and fascinating how tricky it is to get a clean answer.

        Or I’m just dumb. Not claiming my research training is any good, but I Googled my damnedest.

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 hours ago

    Lemmy: "Greg what is your opinion on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang having an affair with a chinese spy?

    Greg: “Laxative, please.”

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        24 hours ago

        You gotta get artistic with it. A couple of pintos as patsies on the soapy tiddies, a garbanzo for Dean’s head, a couple of red kidney’s wearing jeans, etc.

        You got this.

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            17 hours ago

            Scene open, interior view of what appears to be a 90s basement, hardly visible beneath an ever present glow.

            Tesseract guy in wizard robes, pondering an orb that flashes out images of random hapless Lemmings following the Nicole rabbit hole to its conclusion to their horror, gathering his indignation for the lawlessness of these federated lands from within the confines of his home made of the pure golden light of his righteousness.

            Camera pan zoom out, reveals that the home is within a light bulb. A moth divides itself by zero as the light winks out but there are no tankies to hear it, screeches someone cosplaying as a tankie.

            Femcelmemes posts a meme simultaneously crying for help and roasting everyone involved that is so lit that Fediversal peace is achieved, until the next time a leftist is technically incorrect, or worse, correct.

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      17 hours ago

      I guess I married a Greg. My wife once spent a 3-day vacation without pooping at all. She lost a couple pounds once she finally went

    • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      I think that whole thing was supposed to be a joke about the OceanGate sub that imploded. But it was worded so vague and serious that almost no one got the joke.