I looked him up and he is English. Weren't English sailors called Limeys because of the lime juice in their rations, specifically for scurvy prevention? He should have signed up with the Admiralty instead of the pirates.
Funny enough...
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The lime juice was meant as a cheaper alternative to lemon juice. And it wasn't very effective, lmao. National militaries and sabotaging the health of their troops to save a buck - name a more iconic duo.
It was cheaper in the sense of they imported from limes from the Carribean and lemons from India, which with no Suez canal is a pretty big difference. And at the same time they invented steam power, shortening voyages so the reduced effectiveness wasn't noticed until longer voyages due to newer military doctrines occurred again
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Taking care of yourself is gay. "Real men" reduce their life expectancy by purposefully living an unhealthy lifestyle.
Damn, I never realized I was so masculine!
The whole man flu thing is also goofy because I'm pretty sure I've read men typically avoid going to the doctor for things they absolutely should be going to the doctor over. Then again, it's my understanding that doctors will blow off things women tell them so it's just an overall shitty state of affairs.
Uhh, I once found good information on why that is:
Testosterone raises the pain threshold, so men are usually more resistant to pain and more prone to "tough it out". But Testosterone also makes people more vulnerable to typical cold and flu symptoms.
So while men do have a higher pain tolerance than non-pregnant women (pregnancy hormones really hit different) they also suffer more severe symptoms.
I'm pretty sure I've read men typically avoid going to the doctor for things they absolutely should be going to the doctor over.
Maybe we should be looking into the cause of this and rectifying the cause instead of just leaving it as some random thing and I mean actually look into the cause and not speculate based on bigoted or misinformed biases
"Fuck yeah! My low testosterone, erectile dysfunction and abysmal fitness are just due to my 380 pound pure manliness!" - A "real" man
It must be because I'm not eating enough meat! I better eat even less vegetables and more meat!
According to the internet, he did it at university, eating nothing but mince, chicken, and mayonnaise for about 2 months. He did so to annoy other students in his classes who were vegan or vegetarian.
I’ve actually heard a few stories of uni students getting scurvy, although they were because they either didn’t know how to cook or couldn’t afford food.
That makes more sense. Although I think the carnivore diet is stupid, most people that are doing it or similar diets eat organ meats, many of which contain sufficient vitamin C among many other important vitamins and minerals.
Eating chicken salad with a spoon every day seems like it would cause all kinds of dietary issues.
It seems like many in here dont realise that you can be gay and masculine at the same time.
In the same way that you can be straight and feminine at the same time.
then why are my masc 4 masc posts never answered
I would argue that people who feel the need to prove their masculinity tend to be the ones not realizing that, and people here are making fun of that.
Shhh don’t tell the men insecure in their masculinity about bears, gay jocks, and Tom of Finland
To be fair, he said he did this his first year in college- everyone did dumb shit in college.
One sure sign that you're not masculine, is doing things to show others how masculine you are.
So… is it ok to move your human to an all meat diet?
Quite apparently no. Give your omnivorous human the vitamins it needs!
You can get that good, scurvy-busting vitamin C from meat just fine, all you have to do is eat it raw
"You wouldn't pirate an illness"
In medival times if you could afford to only eat meat it meant you were a rich soft fancy boy.
Pretty much the same as now then.
ACTUALLY rich people loved to eat white bread. white bread was expensive
And for the longest time, mac and cheese was a luxury dish, and lobster was considered prisoner food.
It's kind of amusing to see the eating trends of the wealthy.
At one point peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were rich food too, because they were able to afford the berries to make jam, or had land to grow them.
Nowadays it is some of the cheapest lunch you can make.
I think meat is going that route now, and in 15-20 years the only people who will be able to afford real meat will be the wealthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyOf3DKZaFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yzHgQ1m-E
here, sadly it is in german, but this guy is an absolute expert in medival history
he talks extensivly about food in medival times.
That's not super accurate, there were still public lands for hunting and chickens and goats were eaten regularly by non-nobles.
That said, it wasn't common to have meat at every meal.
Also: feast days, and there were a fucktonne of them (more than the pitiful handful we get nowadays) and were almost always catered lavishly by their local lord as a show of wealth.
I'm not saying life was 'better' then, just that we have a lot of misconceptions about historic periods, usually influenced by movies and other entertainment media.
On one hand it's stupid to sabotage your health to appear more masculine. On the other hand casually bringing up that you have contracted a pirate illness in conversation does sound pretty damn masculine.
haha, happened to me:
its copper deficency by zink overload.-
without copper, there is multiple things that go wrong. but it takes time to deplete copper stores. zink always wins against copper, and meat is full of zink.
vitamin c d, and iron wont work without copper.
I did that because I develeoped grain allergy, and was insuline resistant.
I eat grains again, but sparingly.
went down from 95 kilos to 65.
fun fact:
nobody talks about that. carnivore influencer dont, thats for sure.
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(20)71083-5/fulltext https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2021.711227/full
The word “carnivore influencer” just set me off haha.
It’s so fucking obvious is it that these people are paid by the meat industry.
Like, seriously. NOBODY has ever thought eating nothing but meat was a good idea until veganism became somewhat mainstream.
It’s reactionary bullshit to keep the profits coming.
It’s so fucking obvious is it that these people are paid by the meat industry.
I disagree. I think many of them are legitimately just that stupid.
Although some probably are paid.
I did that because of prediabetis, that worked. many people do it because they suffer. should have informed me about vitamins though. i did stop eating many vegtabls, because i suffered from migraines, and my skin burned, and my nose was always blocked. for that, it worked as well.
well, there is plenty folks from around earth that only eat meat. but they know what to eat ;-) and I think they eat fish as well.
It is pretty funny that eating meat is still seen as a masculine thing. Pff what? Tofu? No i buy my meat like a real man in this other isle, next to the tofu.
It's funny because eating flesh and blood is a "woman" thing in most species. Ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, flies - all the ones biting you are female looking for a blood meal. Arguably, in ancient times men gathering meat was probably to provide for the women in their lives. Even roosters will do this for their hens - bring them bugs or peck at food on the ground to show the hen where it is without eating it.
That all being said, the gender dichotomy is stupid and we are a bit more sophisticated than all that.
Should’ve eaten some sauerkraut and fried onions! The manliest of all vegetables! Has the bonus effect of repelling ladies up to 5 feet away!
Keeping femalehood at bay, now THAT's masculine af
Maybe I’m slow or something, but I don’t get how eating meat is masculine.
Not slow, just lucky to have not encountered such cretins. There is a very non-zero amount of men who believe that 'traditional' masculinity includes avoiding 'feminine' foods, including 'rabbit food' (ie anything green, leafy, or vaguely healthy). The meat-only diet is the natural extension of this line of thinking to the full caveman-stereotype conclusion.
If the alternative is scurvy I'd rather just be a dude with a dick that likes vag that's emasculate.
I’ll take all the testosterone pussy you pass up.
You see, like, wolves eat meat, and they are masc as fuck. You ever seen a gay wolf? Wait no don't look tha- screaming in terror
(signed, a gay af wolf <3)
Wow, guess he just wasn't manly enough.
TBH it's not impossible to derive necessary vitamins from raw herbivore livers, as many early humans assuredly did when crops were scarce.
He's just a pussy.
Livers were prized parts of the animal for hunts, we knew the value of organ meat before.
Just now everyone is like 'ick, organ meat'...
That said, I don't know if I trust modern livers, they are the toxin dump of the body and while I'd happily eat liver before the industrial revolution, I'm not sure its safe to eat now considering how we treat our farmlands.
There are a lot of reasons to not like James Blunt, but there is one reason to like James Blunt, which is when he parodied his own hit song on Sesame Street. And that is the one reason I still like James Blunt. A little.
James Blunt is hilarious. Awful music but excellent at self-deprecating humour
He's a riot.
He knows what his music is, makes fun of it.
#notallmen
As a man without scurvy, I can personally attest that not all men have scurvy
I guess nobody ever told this genius about multivitamins either.
Alas: also shaped like cocks
My multivitamins are shaped like balls!
Fellas is it gay to be healthy
It's gay that he didn't hunt it himself that bottom bytch
Broccoli and tomatoes are okay, but carrots are questionable, and zucchini is hella gay.
What kinda fragile masculinity can't handle a bit o' scurvy?
Lemons
Also: This guy "prevented" WW3, no shit.
He prevented WW3, fulfilling his traditionally masculine role as protector in a way many of us can only dream of. It sucks if that isn’t validation enough of his masculinity for him…
That's fascinating! TY!
Bloody hell, this actually happened.
Should've washed his food down with some orange juice.
That's gay.
He looks like Benedict Cumberbatch if Benedict Cumberbatch got hit by a truck.
A truck full of meat?
Driven by pengwings
Fellas is it gay to eat fruits and veggies
No way bro, now get these bananas and cucumbers all up in your pretty mouth, yeah, do it bitch
Hmmmmm.
Reminds me, I should probably increase my citrus intake.
Alpha mind virus.
You've gotta eat the liver too.
Some people are just not built to digest fruits and vegetables.
It's okay not everyone is strong enough.
Good god this is real. What a tit.
Is this why todays NYT Crossword Mini asked for scurvy treatment?
Surprisingly, certain meats prevent scurvy by providing sufficient nutrients.
...if fresh. Vitamin C is relatively fragile.
Hence why everyone being clear to say 'raw liver', which was traditionally eaten fresh from the kill as a prize.
But those are probably some gay meats like fish, which are basically a vegetable.
Masculinity is in crisis.
You joke but it really is.
We are seeing the fallout of 2 world wars killing off so many fathers that the tradition of passing down male wisdom was broken, and was replaced by the 'hollywood' vision of masculinity, which is toxic af. Just look at how accepted slapping women was on film in the 40s-70s.
The modern chantard incel stereotype is a direct result of boys growing up with few positive male role models in their close circles and none of them having the generational wisdom of their great grandfathers to pass down.
Unfortunately, most people concerned with gender equality are so focused on dismantling the patriarchy that no one has a solid plan for re-establishing the positive male role model tradition.
All of the social signs are there, China experienced this problem several times during the Warring States period and identified the root as 'bare branches', men with no prospect for a marriage or future that would form bands of criminals that would go around raping and pillaging.
We are starting to see that a bit now with all of the white male mass shootings, and rape has always been a mostly invisible problem in our culture.
And it's going to get much, much worse unless we can find a way to re-establish the value of the wholesome male role model. And if you see who the male role models the youngest generation are choosing (Logan Paul is a great example) you'll be just as pessimistic about our immediate future as I am.
Oh no. I wasn't joking.
Hannah needs to learn gay is masculine.
Bruh you're supposed to have meat and vegetables as part of a balanced diet
But you can't have them in a manly diet.
You ran out of rum didn't you James?
Too bad he failed that close to getting a Darwin award!
That doesn't have anything to do with scurvy.
Scurvy is a Vitamin C deficiency, and you will absolutely get scurvy from an all-meat diet unless you're eating mostly organs and uncooked meat.
Or taking supplements to go along with it
it is true, i expierence the same right know, have scurvy.
vitamin c alone did not help. i was out of calcium, magnesium, b vitamins, and copper. took me ages to figure it out. I am slowly getting better.
eyes full af burst tiny blood vessels, hair falling out and thinning, wound healing defect, black shadow under eyes, well i looked like a dead person. lips chafy, tongue full of white stuff.
my eyes are so much sharper. i can even think better, maybe there is no way to measure that, but i feel that way.
Carnivore and lion diets don't result in scurvy. The guy just ate like shit
You got a lot of downvotes, but you're right at least when it comes to Carnivore.
I'm a proud omnivore, but vitamin C can be found in a lot of different organ meats.
Not only that but requirements for vitamin C plummet to virtually non existent when you stop eating carbs. It's an area that is gaining increased scientific interest. A lot of people have been doing carnivore for 5-10 years now and show no signs of deficiency. High profile people like Jordan Peterson and his daughter Mikayla come to mind
