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psmgx, in Modern blocks of C4 explosive come with the warning “poisonous if eaten” on the packaging

Michael Herr in Dispatches, his book about the Vietnam War, relates that a soldier would occasionally ingest C4 from a Claymore mine in order to cause temporary illness so that he would be sent on sick leave.

Also heard that since it burns, troops in Vietnam would break off small pieces as firestarter or cooking rations, hence the warning about how it burns and makes toxic gases.

HikingVet,

We were told in basic that while flammable it did not go boom when lit in fire, but not to cook steak over it…

ziviz, in We Added 690 New Words to the Dictionary for September 2023 | merriam-webster.com
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Surprised by how many words here I consider old. jorts? Jorts is a recent addition?

Shadow,
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Also, “cutscene”. How out of date can they be?

bradorsomething, in I got a misprinted fortune cookie fortune

…am I right, fellas?

QubaXR,
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Get out of my head. Came here to post pretty much the same words.

Anticorp,

As did I, fellow nerd.

Nusm, in I got a misprinted fortune cookie fortune

They obviously left out a word.

“relationships. amiright?”

NucleusAdumbens, in Guinea Pig for sale at the local market

*Guinea pork

JizzmasterD, in For training, the US Army puts fake front cabins on Humvees to make them look like Soviet produced light vehicles.

See the USA and Russia have more in common than they realize.

Russia puts the same on the front of a Lada Niva and send them out to the battlefield.

Madison420, in This is an Octobass

Davie503 and rob scallion fucking about with one.

youtu.be/rnk33YH3jLQ?si=UuVlMgZVl--WPTjX

MrPoopyButthole,
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Of course Davie found the biggest base possible

SkyezOpen,

Hopefully he gave it the biggest SLAP

Madison420,

Indeed he did.

Rhynoplaz,

Very cool! Never heard of that thing before. Very impressive to see it in action!

m_r_butts, in 12 year old string cheese

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  • Turious,

    I look forward to seeing OP on Chubbyemu.

    Wogi,

    OP, a 38 year old man ate 12 year old string cheese, THIS is what happened to his colon.

    SatansMaggotyCumFart,

    I’d like to see his colon.

    nickhammes,

    Too bad, now it’s a semicolon

    Alteon, in My grandfather was an aircraft inspector for De Havilland in WWII. This is one of the notebooks he used to study for the job. He drew all the pictures.

    You should post this in the mechanical engineering community. This is amazingly well done. We love this sort of stuff.

    HessiaNerd,

    It’s interesting they called first angle ‘British Projection’. I can see calling third angle ‘American Projection’ cause of ANSI, but it is still kinda odd.

    SlothMama, in Axolotl: This Incredible Creature Can Regenerate Its Brain, Heart, And Limbs

    It’s because they’re all juvenile though. They actually don’t produce a hormone needed for proper growth and that’s why they look the way they do. They are supposed to go through another stage of growth, and their appearance and existence is because of a genetic birth defect.

    lauha,

    How do they reproduce then?

    clubb,
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    Simple. They don’t have to be adults to reproduce. Wasn’t there a pregnant 2 year old girl at some point?

    BennyInc,

    So would it be possible to make one grow up by giving them hormones? And what would it look like?

    ChihuahuaOfDoom,

    They can force them to change with a shot of iodine and they apparently look like Tiger Salamanders.

    gizmodo.com/scientists-show-that-peter-pan-grows-…

    BennyInc,

    Interesting. But whoever wrote the article should have gone for pictures 😁

    Number358,

    If I remember correctly then yes, you can though I don’t know how that would look like, probably like this

    Tuss, in Two double-yolks in a row

    Does it perhaps say “double yolk” on the carton?

    expatriado,

    you must be yolking

    agent_flounder,
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    Lol you crack me up

    eezeebee,
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    No, just large eggs. Do deliberately double-yolked eggs exist?

    Guntrigger,

    Yeah I’ve only bought them once and it was unintentional. Living in a place where I didn’t fully grasp thr language, I thought I was having the luckiest egg day ever until I translated the carton!

    sky,

    This sounds like it would’ve been such a magical experience until you realized though!

    zammy95,

    How do they know which eggs will be double yolk? I’ve never heard of that before, just occasionally get them in a normal carton of eggs.

    ridethespiral,

    Using a very bright light through the shell :)

    It’s called candling.

    ElPussyKangaroo, in Rib vortices forming under a breaking wave

    Ah man that’s stunning.

    How is this mildly interesting?!

    OldWoodFrame, in Black panthers are not an actual species - they are jaguars and leopards with melanism, the opposite of albinism

    This is wild I had no idea.

    Janis,

    www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/

    so that chadwik dude plays a super hero with melanism??

    Diprount_Tomato,
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    💀

    Micha, in "Progress"

    My hometown. Looks better than the old photos ;) Come visit us!

    Arsenal4ever, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

    Where is the 1 trillion on defense? /s

    Mewtwo,
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    Australia hiding their full power so the emu’s do not win again.

    Gork,

    Everyone focuses on the emus. The kangaroos are the real threat because they’ve got pouches to hide their AR-15s illegally smuggled in from America.

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