too many things to fixate on

softboiled-doomdesire

clubsdeuce

spilling a drink is one of the deepest pains imaginable. the loss of delicious liquids. the knowledge your adult ass needs a little no-spill baby sippy cup. now you have to clean instead of enjoy your delicious beverage and pray that the ants dont discover youre a god damn fool

astraldragons

clitfisto

peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

clitfisto

dont do this

babblingbranches

cryptoidantagonist

I really hope its not too bad bc i actually love both components.

cryptoidantagonist

it forms a dry skin at the top made of the sour pellets. not a great start.

cryptoidantagonist

tastes really good actually. i also feel like i am about to explode.

cryptoidantagonist

do not do this.

jenjensd

Unanimous consensus: Do not do this

Other people: Hold on I’m about to do this

jenjensd

rosespirit

I keep seeing this post going around so, for folks who want to know why not, here's a chemist's hypothesis:

-Human saliva has an average pH of ~6.7 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800408/), which is pretty neutral.

-Monster energy has a pH of ~2.7 (https://patientconnect365.com/DentalHealthTopics/Article/Energy_Drinks_and_Your_Teeth_Should_You_Worry), which is quite acidic but not dangerous, except to your tooth enamel if consumed in large quantities.

-Rainbow sour belts contain malic acid (a common food additive as a potent acidifier and sour-flavor agent), citric acid (another common sour flavoring in pretty much everything) as well as ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C, used here mainly as a preservative). (https://candypros.com/products/sour-belts-bulk-rainbow)

-All of these acids when added to water would normally release their protons (H+ ions), thereby making the water solution more acidic. However, a chemical constant of these acids called the acid dissociation constant (pKa for short) indicates the pH of a solution at which acids are most likely to keep or release their protons. The pKa's* of these acids are higher (3.4, 3.1, and 4.2 for malic, citric, and ascorbic acids respectively) than the pH of the solution (2.7), which essentially means that the acids can't release their protons and all that acidic potential is trapped in the solid formulation of the candy.

-There's also some evidence that sugar decreases the solubility of acids in water solutions (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3411471/ only sorbic acid is discussed here but it's relatively structurally similar to the acids in discussion). The undoubtedly high sugar content of both the Monster and the candy therefore may contribute to the accounts of the sour crystals bubbling/floating on top of the solution instead of dissolving.

-Malic acid in particular is notorious for causing mouth irritation when eaten in high quantities.

-Thus, I can imagine that upon consuming the battery acid spaghetti, not only is the mix itself quite potently sweet/sour, but also the solid malic acid coming into direct contact with your mouth quickly becomes painful, and as the solution mixes with your (pH neutral) saliva the trapped acidity of the malic/citric/ascorbic acids is dumped into your mouth and esophagus, creating a sensation that I can only imagine is similar to consuming actual battery acid (pH = 0.8).

(*Each of these acids actually has multiple pKa's corresponding to number of protons they're able to donate, but really only the lowest pKa is useful here since once that one dissociates then all of the other ones are already dissociated too.)

the-haiku-bot

weaver-z

Prison guards: Iroh? Escape? Ha! That weak, senile old man couldn’t escape if we rolled a red carpet to the door!

Iroh alone in his cell:

weaver-z

ramblingcj

I saw the video and thought "that guy looks like Jack Black", then I scrolled down to read that. Yup, sure was Jack Black. Also yes, the above is actually true, his mother Judith Love Cohen did indeed help create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.

5bi5

Wait does this mean people are unfamiliar with this iconic post

brosef

Oh hey, I'm in a screenshot.

ophilosoraptoro

That's appropriate, since Jack Black himself is like a chair to the back.

the-haiku-bot

That’s appropriate,

since Jack Black himself is like

a chair to the back.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

unorthodoxica

thoughts-of-kel:
“alpa-the-internet-cowboy:
“fizzyimp:
“wolfram-petanu:
“cyan-draws-stuff:
“captain-of-the-historicfuture:
“ itsquietinsantafe:
“ the-mighty-tor:
“ blakegdiamond:
“ easyvirgin:
“ happy Thursday the 20th
”
I’d have to wait months or...

unorthodoxica

softboiled-doomdesire

captain-price-officially

shadowpuppy2

Wet beast Wednesday

followthebluebell

Oh they’re notching her tail. See the little bit taken out? That tells whoever catches her next to let her go– it’s a sort of “hey, this is a reproductive female; let’s keep the cycle going by putting her right back in the water” signal. The bit will grow back in 2-3 shed cycles, which takes a couple years.

They know she’s able to reproduce bc she was caught with eggs.

bogleech

The abrupt way he slams the fish into her claw is so funny though like take your fucking lunch and get the fuck out of here. Ma'am.

captainlordauditor

Imagine being grabbed by eldritch giants and they give you lunch and send you back home

my-dudedededed

Imagine they shove a whole fucking cow in your arms and throw you back to the Earth

skulk-id

It’s better than that, even. First they give you a tramp stamp that says, “Too fuckable to kill” and THEN they slam a dead cow into your arms and throw you back to Earth.

adoenamedbeeb

Get bred, get bread

finleycannotdraw

animentality

whetstonefires

well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.

softboiled-doomdesire

animentality

senorita-patita

moorbride

'Wool waulking is a traditional Scottish process of finishing and strengthening newly woven woolen fabrics. It is a significant social and cultural activity, often carried out by women in the Highlands of Scotland. The Gaelic songs that are sung during waulking have a distinctive rhythmic pattern that aids in synchronising the work.'

(Video and text via Inverness Outlanders)

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