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xkcd #3217: Home Remedies (xkcd.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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The bot appears to be down, so it's now up to me again like in the old days to post new xkcd comics here. :D

As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.

https://explainxkcd.com/3217/

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[–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Give the skunk a Bloody Mary. The vodka will help dissolve the gum and will help with the hangover, the tomato juice will help neutralize the smell, the garnish will keep the lil guy occupied as to not bite you.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    "Hair of the dog that bit you" approach is okay but idk if a drunk skunk is better than a hung over one.

    Contestant 3 gave the skunk gatorade, water, and advil.

    Contestant 2 appears to have gone into shock of an unrelated delayed release monkshead and nightshade poisoning coupled with arythmia caused by meat-only diet. This was all actually predicted by the odds in the betting market.

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    • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Freeze the skunk.

    • gum falls off
    • no smell
    • skunk has no hangover anymore
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    • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    TIL Cueball is Alton Brown.

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    oh wow I really needed the explanation for this one 😂

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Some "old home remedies" would be: tomato sauce, for skunk; peanut butter, for gum; and prairie oyster cocktail, for hangover. Most of these either don't work or make the mess worse so a game show where people try this on a wild animal would be disastrous and possibly humorous if you ignore the animal abuse.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    You don't have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    No.... I know of skunks from the cartoon Pépé the Skunk, but I never really reconnected that with reality, as in, they smell bad IRL, that's not just a cartoon thing. So that prevented me from identifying the xkcd being about grandma's remedies.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    they smell bad IRL

    They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not just bad either, vomit-inducing, appetite-destroying-bad. It's their defense mechanism from large things with sharp teeth that haven't eaten in 24h. The smell stays on you and anything the liquid touches for weeks. Burn the clothes, wait for new skin cells to replace the existing ones. Pray it isn't on something like your car or place of residence.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    We have a skunk that roams around our back yard. Our dog got within a foot of it once, luckily didn’t get spayed. I can tell when he’s outside, just the lingering odor of their spray fills the entire outdoors. It is incredible how potently disgusting their actual spray is.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Skunks smell fine, they just have the ability to spray predators with a scent that smells fucking awful. The skunk itself doesn't usually smell like that though, and if they aren't afraid for their life they're actually super friendly cuddly creatures. They're like cats with a stinkbomb cannon.

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    • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    The bot appears to be down

    Oh, thanks for telling me...

    Bot is back online.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Taskmaster type challenge

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