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[–] 78 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Umm no? Have you never vomited? I'm not sure I'd call that "food". I guess, maybe, it's still food after you've finished chewing it; you could spit it out into your hand instead of swallowing, and someone else could choke it down. But it stops being food long before it hits the intestines. At some point when it starts mixing with stomach acid, probably.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Some dogs eat shit (literally)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    So you're saying the point is somewhere in the esophagus?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The point when it goes from food to vomit, yeah. I’m not sure when it goes from puke to poop, though. Maybe that happens in the intestines?

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  • [+] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Really? Then why does puke smell so awful? Is it all just stomach acid making it stink like that?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I'm from Texas and used to hate Oklahoma, because I was taught that was correct. I've since learned that's essentially the poop calling the turd a piece of shit, but that's beside the point. When I lived outside of Dallas, I once learned that I was less than an hour from Oklahoma. At that age, I'd never driven outside of Texas, and decided to check something off the "things I've done" list.

    When I neared the border, I hesitated and asked myself if I really wanted my first out-of-state driving experience to be in Oklahoma. So, I turned around and drove back.

    The point is, there's still a delineation that determines when a person is someone who's only driven in Texas vs someone who's also driven in Oklahoma. The same kind of line is what's being proposed by SatansMaggotyCumFart's Law. Even if I covered myself in stomach acid, I could still identify as someone who has only ever driven in Texas, even if I looked and smelled like vomit.

    As further evidence supporting my incredibly intelligible argument, the beloved founder of Globo Gym once noted:

    in some cultures, they only eat vomit.

    In conclusion, I took more time writing this comment than I should have, and I'm sorry if you read it.

    Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

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  • [+] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Fun fact: some people stop it near the top or middle, and alter nature's plumbing

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileo-anal_pouch

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    That point is much closer to your mouth than it is the other end of the system.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This suggests the existence of the poop event horizon. Science totally rocks man.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, it's called the pyloric sphincter.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    More like a slush of gastric acid and whatever you ate, but in principle, I agree. :)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    If you divide a woman in half horizontally one side has poop and the other side has boob and both are plaindromes. Also you will go to jail.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It’s no black and white situation.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    but if go backwards, you get assburgers.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Ah, the food of Theseus.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Kissing is just sucking on the better end of two digestive tracts.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The most undialectical shit post

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    OP has had a bit of a streak of butt-related posts...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    If you eat Taco Bell, it goes in and comes out exactly the same. I honestly don't know how they manage to keep collecting, processing, and serving the same diarrhea since 1962, but it's no wonder they'll win the Franchise Wars.

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Reminds me of philosophical question of a boy eating an apple: at what point does it cease to be the apple and become the boy? I suppose this is a similar question: at what point does it cease to be an apple and become a turd?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    I don't think you can call what's in your intestines food, once it leaves the stomach. The stomachs job is kind of to make it not food anymore

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It's like a Food of Theseus.

    Bit by bit the food is replaced with a bit of poop, at which point does it cease being food?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    No that's mixing metaphors in a pretty crazy way.

    This is more like the Sorites Food

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Unlike children, and some adults, I don't eat sand, be it in a heap or not, so I'm not entirely convinced that's the right model either.

    Interesting "paradox" though, as the initial premise of one million grains of sand being a heap falls over as it doesn't specify the structure of the sand: which is what defines a heap of anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    You think that's a worse fit than: If I replace parts of a thing with SOMETHING ELSE is it still the same thing? The ship of theseus is more well known, but you would need to eat sand to think it's a good fit IMO.

    As an aside, the structure of the heap has nothing to do with it. The point is simply "when does a heap stop being a heap if I remove one grain at a time?" That is the same is the same as when does food stop being food if you make it poop one bit at a time. If you don't like "heap" you can call it a pile WLOG.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If I spread a million grain heap of sand out evenly over a plane such that the grains are still touching it's no longer a heap. Therefore the heap is a structure not a numeric quantity.

    You think that’s a worse fit than...

    I said no such thing.

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