Stupid shit you see on the internet
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@Snowy True story. My old flatmate at Uni got scurvy. He had a cunning plan, where he had done some research and decided that baked beans were incredibly nutritious, so when his grant came through at the beginning of term he went out and bought a couple of hundred cans of Oak beans from the wholesaler because they were a lot cheaper than Watties. That left him with the remainder of his bursary money to spend on beer at the Hilly. Anyway he got a Vitamin C deficiency that the Uni doc told him was basically scurvy. The doc must have been impressed, because he'd never seen a case before, let alone in a 110 kg gym bunny.
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@JC I really shouldn't have laughed at that but the idea of someone getting scurvy when we know what causes it is amusing. Stupid things you see on the internet is appropriate.
Out of interest did he graduate? His "research" skills clearly weren't too flash.
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@JC said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:
@Snowy Yep. Eventually. He's a chemist in a Pharma in Australia. I'd tell you which one but I don't want to crash their stock price
The "eventually" seems pertinent. Good that he avoided the food tech side of chemistry. I assume he specialises in producing vitamin c supplements being one of very few people to have experienced scurvy (which still makes me laugh when I type it).
Those are all pretty normal things for students even without scurvy though.
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@JC said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:
@Snowy True story. My old flatmate at Uni got scurvy. He had a cunning plan, where he had done some research and decided that baked beans were incredibly nutritious, so when his grant came through at the beginning of term he went out and bought a couple of hundred cans of Oak beans from the wholesaler because they were a lot cheaper than Watties. That left him with the remainder of his bursary money to spend on beer at the Hilly. Anyway he got a Vitamin C deficiency that the Uni doc told him was basically scurvy. The doc must have been impressed, because he'd never seen a case before, let alone in a 110 kg gym bunny.
there were all these stories in Dunners when I was at uni about someone pretty much doing the same things with 2 min noodles, doubt they thought it was nutritious in any way...just cheaper
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@Kiwiwomble I don't doubt it. My flatmate though was pretty convinced that there was loads of vitamin B in the beans and vitamin C in the tommy sauce. He was apparently right about the first and not so much on the sauce.
And he farted like a bastard too.
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Well, the Metro has the headline of the day:
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@stockcar86 probably full of cancer causing nitrates!
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@machpants Random thought - don't cancer cells multiply easily, so could you use those as the tissue samples for a bit more jeopardy when eating...
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when subtitle transcript goes wrong...or maybe it's right, but was still wrong...
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@stockcar86 crack up.