Perpetually tired mental health counselor, sometimes retro game streamer, comedian, Mensan, coffee connoisseur, bacon lover, chronic pain survivor, nefarious pirate, and generally all-round nice dude…

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Although I would love if they kept their shitty music to themselves, I’m not interested in their crap.

    For real… Any of the people who I do come across doing this are listening to the tinniest garbage that sounds like organized radio static.

    And it’s always got to be in the grocery store or Walmart. How about while you’re there, you go buy some $20 Bluetooth headphones so you can listen to your garbage music alone and stop torturing the rest of us with your bad decisions?






  • You know… I’ve seen a lot of shit in my decades on the internet…

    I was there for the tubgirl/goatse/blue waffle/lemon party College Humor invasions…

    I’ve read the jolly rancher story, the coconut story, and others that would make some men vomit.

    I’ve seen the Hulk getting railed by Slimer…

    I was not expecting pregnant, barefoot Goofy looking like he belongs on a dakimakura today.

    I only hope this doesn’t awaken anything in the guy from the FBI that monitors me… Sorry Steve… The poor guy’s been through a lot.







  • A whole typical cigarette contains around 10-12mg of nicotine. The wiki says 30-60mg is potentially fatal to an adult, but that it could potentially take as much as 500mg. So for an adult, unlikely. For a child, I see mixed things saying 1 cigarette could be fatal. This says 1-13mg per kg for an infant. So maybe, depending on the size of the butt and the child?


  • So I just did a bit of research on it and according to Wikipedia and several journals it seems to be definitely possible for someone to die from nicotine poisoning. The wiki article cites two child deaths. I also found at least one article where nicotine poisoning was deemed the cause of death. Warning, it does contain shots of ther person’s dissected esophagus and their stomach contents. There’s a NLM journal article that pops up on a child committing suicide by nicotine ingestion, but the article was missing. So I can say it definitely has happened. I just couldnt find any readily available mortality studies showing how often it happens.

    As for anecdotal evidence, I had a client with Pica, who would eat cigarette butts among other things and be vomiting all night.