Comment on Urine Luck
isame@hexbear.net 3 days ago
So you’re saying that when I drink monster energy and my pee smells funny, it’s because there was literally monster energy in my veins? Would my blood smell like coffee, too, if I bled after drinking coffee?
See, I went through a phase of absolutely loving banana flavoured milk. I realised at the time that it made my pee vivid yellow, from the Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) they used to colour the product.
Now, I never got a chance to test it, but I wanted to have to have a blood sample taken, to see if my blood was bright orange if I drank enough banana milk.
I know, I know. Dumb as fuck, but I thought it’d be a laugh.
I’m judging you only for liking banana flavored anything. Banana are great. Banana flavoring, not so much.
Actually bananas used to taste kinda like what banana flavouring tastes like.
But they all died, so now we have another monoculture variety, because they learned fucking nothing the first time.
Point of interest, they didn’t all die. They still exist in a few places and private plantations, but they can’t be grown on an industrial scale any more.
I want to try one someday. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Yes! It’s pretty interesting. I would definitely try an “old” banana but suspect I wouldn’t like them much.
Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Many years ago, I had to have a central line (semi-permanent IV to a large vein) for a while. Whenever a nurse flushed my line with saline, the tastebuds in my mouth felt like they were tasting salt. Our body wiring connects in strange ways.
isame@hexbear.net 3 days ago
You were, in fact, tasting the salt. The prevailing theory is once the blood hits the lungs, the extra molecules end up out in your lungs and you exhale them, causing you to taste it. I’m not sure I vibe with that theory. But I’m no scientist. I’d wager, though, that the blood passing the mucus membranes in your nose and throat causes the taste. But apparently even the medical establishment hasn’t figured this out yet.
isame@hexbear.net 3 days ago
I’m an ex IV drug user. It’s been years so I may not remember the order. But when you inject (at least in the arm) you feel it in your stomach, then throat, then brain. You’ll get a lil queasy feeling, then you’ll taste something in the back of your mouth. Sometimes it’s the drug, sometimes it’s just metallic or weird. But you notice it. And then the hit… Hits. It’s fucking fascinating. Injecting molly is like boarding a rocket ship, and those little feelings gave you a rhythm. Push > stomach - hand the needle off (for safety, you don’t have time to cap and store that thing) > throat - lay down > head - congrats you’re rolling face in 10 seconds flat and in about a minute or two you can probably open your eyes without throwing up.