Limestone, calcite and chalk are the same compound as the active ingredient in antacid tablets: calcium carbonate. There isn’t much danger in eating small amounts of it.
Grirrrll....
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Technus@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Chalk it up to a feeling but eating a little bit of sand and whatnot is probably good for us
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
how small is small?
Technus@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You know how big an antacid tablet is? About that amount.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
IMongoose@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Whenever someone asks for tums I tell them “just eat chalk, it’s the same thing.”
Zoop@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Charlie, if your stomach hurts, eat a Tums!
Benjaben@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So we do swallow rocks!
brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I eat Halite pretty frequently
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
People will make a health conspiracy out of every innocuous thing, though.
kemsat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wouldn’t quartz cut up your insides?
three@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Cut my insides into pieces, this is my gastrolith
douz0a0bouz@midwest.social 4 months ago
Don’t give a fuck if I cut my guts bleeding
errer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Btw, our digestive track can’t handle rocks; swallowing rocks is hazardous.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thank you! I was about to put one in my mouth when I saw your comment. Close call.
ninja@lemmy.world 4 months ago
tract. though there’s a joke in there about calling it a track when you have the runs.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Nerdy joke, if I’ve ever seen one.
pigup@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My ruined mind immediately wonders how porn would be different. Similarly, imagine if we had tails. Would we put underwear on them? Would we shave our tails?
gazter@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Oh my fuck, we absolutely would shave our tails, and there is just something so horrid about that thought that how I won’t be able to fucking sleep, thanks, I hate it.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Just think of all the holes those shaved tails can fit into.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It mighr not be as bad as you’re thinking. Demon tails usually aren’t depicted as having hair. Also, without the hair the skin would have melanin in it due to sun exposure. Or people would have it spray-tanned
Donkter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The Victorian era would have made it so that showing any amount of tail was scandalous and we would all be wearing these bizarre contraptions designed to hide our tails beneath our clothing. Most people would be aware of the fact that keeping our tails tied up was an antiquated puritanical practice that was overall unhealthy for us, but even still, the brave few who chose to let their tale go in public would be looked at as pariahs even by those who ostensibly agreed with the reason behind it.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
wearing these bizarre contraptions designed to hide our tails beneath our clothing
You mean skirts and dresses?
NewDark@hexbear.net 4 months ago
If it was that normalized, a lot of the phrasing would have a lot more slang and simpler terminology.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imagine all the designer gastroliths. Gucci rocks in your stomach. All the snake oil ones that “cleanse”, “detox”, or have positive ionic charges or something. Someone surely would suggest plastic, or those would be the cheap ones at gas stations. At some point, we would have had people shilling asbestos or uranium gastroliths as good for you. Someone else would pick rocks up along stream beds and sell them as “organic”, nevermind the parasites or other possible diseases attached to them. Someone would push bullshit medical rocks instead of vaccines as cures for diseases.
Lol, people would make a mess of plain old rocks.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
College bros would compete to swallow the roughest and sharpest ones. There would be a Silicon Valley startup trying to “disrupt” gastroliths with a “smart stomach stone” that gathered data about what you’re eating and sold it to McDonald’s and Kroger. Couples who were really serious would prove it by regurgitating and swapping stones. The “raw gut” movement would be trying to convince people that they didn’t need gastroliths, they just needed to eat softer foods.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 months ago
Damn, this was eye-opening. I seem to hate humans quite a bit.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It would absolutely be a fetish too
Zementid@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Bro… smart Gastroliths would definitely be a thing.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Guarantee that it’s only a matter of time that some snake oil company would release a gastolith that actually gives off positive ions because it contains thorium.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
remember to sterilize your gastroliths, but be careful so you don’t create microfractures that might splinter off in your stomach and kill you! Just stick to smooth polished rocks washed in soap.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There would definitely be vibrating rocks