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Episode Date: August 4, 2022Triforce Mailbag Edition Episode 4! We're looking back at our cringiest memories, discovering the disgusting delicacies of Europe and Pyrion recieves an email that is very close to home! Support yo...ur favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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okay hello everyone welcome welcome welcome back uh okay okay all right let's do this
mailbag special ding ding ding ding. Number four or something.
Sure.
You know, recorded in the gaps between us being the whole days.
We got together.
Filling in the gaps.
We're here.
Right.
What have you got for us, PFAX?
Hit me.
You just want to get straight into it.
Yeah, I ain't got nothing to say.
I ain't sharing any news about what I've been up to.
I'm just going to go for it.
That's right.
Are we just going to dive in and we're just going to gamble?
I haven't read ahead.
Have you not been up to anything?
No, I mean,
I've got like a bunch overnight.
Lewis, have you not been up to anything?
You got nothing to share?
Since yesterday?
Not since...
Well, you're not allowed to say
what our recording schedule is.
Sorry.
Well, you are.
It's just an insight
into how this works. We don't like to record two episodes
in a row because
then we've really got nothing to talk about
but we will do it the day after
and it's for a mailbag special
I mean you know
the mailbag provides the prompt
this is a lower tier of
Triforce podcast
so this is from
GamerGuy77.
After following a paper trail across Reddit, I finally found how to do this.
Hopefully the email...
Oh, this email is in regards to Triforce episode 225.
You might not remember, but there was mention of sentience and what that means.
Okay.
For a few minutes at the beginning of the podcast.
I do remember.
Is this the sentience sapience thing?
I believe, well, sentience, yeah. I would like to clarify that sentience means the ability to feel things the
ability to perceive things i don't know i don't know what authority this person gamer guy 77 is
making this from but he says any living thing that has some degree of consciousness is sentient
including insects lizards dogs dolphins and human. The word sentience is derived from the Latin word sentinium.
Sentinium.
Sentin- I can't speak Latin.
Which means feeling.
The adjective word is sentient.
The word sentience is often misused to mean a creature that thinks.
Alright, so here's the thing.
I don't give a shit what the word meant in Latin.
People always use that as like a call to authority.
Well, the Latin word is.
Right.
Nobody fucking speaks Latin.
And our words may have been derived from Latin in many cases.
But that doesn't mean that whatever the original Latin meaning of the word was is what it still means.
Sapiens means the ability to think, the capacity for intelligence, the ability to acquire wisdom.
The scientific name for modern man is Homo sapiens.
Right. So here's another problem.
You're saying has some degree of consciousness, but then we need to define what that is.
And now you're saying think and intelligence. We need to define what that is and now you're saying think and intelligence we need to define what that is define think i think i think there's a lot of
overlapping here right you have what the computers have which is intelligence okay is it you have
yeah i think so they can recognize patterns they can like solve problems they can do calculations they can use objects you know like they can innovate they can analyze
then you've got the sapience which i think is more a kind of is it like a kind of a common
sense is that what it is is it more of like a sort of i don't know if common sense has been codified
in some way i don't know what the difference is i guess all i'm saying is that a lot
of the time when people come come at me with definitions of what it is they use other words
that are ill-defined like intelligence and thinking and conscience because consciousness
because what are those things i want a nice scientific definition of what it means to be
sentient without using words like think because that's too loosey-goosey in itself unless
you're able to define what that means and then we're down a whole rabbit hole how about this
right okay how about this there's four things consciousness right emotion and and sapience
and then intelligence okay and these things overlap in some way to form sentience. Okay. Right. So,
so emotion,
I guess would be,
I'm talking about a few other,
I just like the idea of an,
of an alien.
Okay.
Being like,
or,
or a creature,
you know,
or computer,
like,
I guess computers don't have emotion.
Okay.
But animals don't have consciousness.
You know,
they're not aware of their i don't think animals
are aware themselves like i don't think they're aware that they're actually alive right like i
think that like most animals operate at a very low level of like uh like reflex and instinct and
stuff right but i don't think that they burrow down in their den at night and think like what
would happen if i died right
what what am i gonna do tomorrow morning and you know like they i don't think they're reactive
there's no there's no there's no just programmed to be like that yeah especially i mean when you
talk about insects i mean jesus they're literally just a chemical reaction walking around like
there's no there's no thought there's no i mean for most animals in the world there's no thought
going on i wouldn't i mean unless consciousness just means you are alive why
do we need a separate word for it i mean you know there has to be some specific term that
consciousness that means something beyond i am alive and i am aware of my surroundings because
that could be a whole ton of a whole ton of things that they'll exhibit no fucking intelligence
whatsoever now that doesn't know what it's doing.
It's just following chemical trails.
Its body is reacting.
There's no thought.
There's no thought at all.
And even the smartest computer is just following what it's been told to do currently.
It's not trying to escape or taking over yet.
But maybe the ants are biding their time
maybe i'm sure they are as well i'm sure they're watching for that opportunity to like
you know take over from both ends we've got the fucking animals gonna rise up and the computer's
gonna rise up together maybe robot ants is what we need um Who knows? This is why aliens are so scary, I think.
Because aliens aren't going to be sexy, big-boobed, four-legged blue women.
They're going to be fucking robot ants.
I'd rather they were the big-boobed blue women.
I think it should take some time to find the sexy, blue-legged, long-legged, big-boobed aliens.
Can you imagine being the first human to have sex with one of these big boobed blue alien women you'd be a fucking
Celebrity, it's like a fucking it's like a fucking mailbox right
The humans have got go through the mailbox of filter out like a robot and store those giant fucking space wasps fuck those guys
What if their vaginas are like in their armpits though? You know what?
are like in their armpits though you know what do they have two vaginas two vaginas that's my fetish actually since you hit that yeah right here's another email this is from
danny he's scottish just listen to the mailbag episode i thought i'd give you some phrases
that are used in glasgow can i tell it asks for the elbow or can i tell if it's new year on new
york i mean they're in a state of confusion.
HÃ¥djur wist.
Which means telling someone to be quiet.
HÃ¥djur wist.
Go on your shell.
Which is a term of encouragement.
As in go on with it.
Yeah, go on your shell.
I thought it was like get out.
Go on your magpulics.
Go on your shell.
That's what they'd say in Ireland.
Go on your magpulics.
Have near Scooby.
I haven't got a clue.
Oh, I thought that was don't look like i
god these are all like i i i would be like you'd be lost i would be i'd be lost yeah god no it
doesn't make it doesn't it i i pride myself on no i don't i i feel like i've got decent
translation right most of the time you know when it comes to accents I feel like a lot of the time when
Someone's doing a big farmer accent or like a northern accent or even like an American country accent
I feel like I can I could hear what they're saying
I don't know like I don't I've never had a problem with getting the gist, but just then I did
I didn't understand any of those that you said or or i just
got them wrong so maybe maybe in fact i've just been misunderstanding people for the last 20 years
and confidently assuming that i understood what they were saying hmm it's making me doubt myself
well i'm sure it's i'm sure it's fine let's move on to the next one then this is this is a long one
This next one Lewis is called the art of making toilet in a military setting
So it's a combination of several things first of all as you know
It's a standard topic of the podcast is toilets and also we have a kind of fascination for things like prison in the military
Because there's the things we've never experienced and never would
in a million years. So this is the
answer in the call of nature in a military
setting. Find yourself in a small
wood of planted pines in the heart of darkest Yorkshire
laid up beneath your poncho or basher
in your platoon's patrol base
or harbour. It might be
stotting it down with rain. Stotting
it down. Stotting.
That's an interesting one. Yeah. Or howling
with a biting wind. Pick your
poison. You've been moving all day. Just finished setting up your harbor. Aside from two hour long
shifts of sentry duty, your time until stand two next dawn is yours. You've eaten some rations,
drunk some cold coffee from your flask. You freshened up with a wet wipe, shaved out your
mess tin, shaved out, and have finally found yourself a comfortable spot in your basher.
Then the need to urinate overcomes you. Is it worth it?
Heading out into the elements to make the long trek to the port-a-loos
all the way on the other side of the woodblock.
After much wasteful consideration, you decide it is.
You don your webbing and helmet and sling your rifle and set off to the bog.
So, interestingly, this is a lad on exercise in the military,
but he's going to a port-a-loo, which is really not very hardcore at all.
Is he?
Yeah. Trudge through your harbor area
endure the good natured banter of your mates as you pass by their positions arrive at the port-a-loo
drag their into position by some poor sod and left for the use and comfort of troops on exercise
so they use they have a fucking port-a-loo brought along i i see what you're saying said about the
delicate science slash art
of wedging yourself inside a port-a-loo
along with your rifle, webbing and helmet
then wrestle around your equipment
so you can do your business. Observe the
wodge of wet toilet paper clogging up the sink
and shudder. Kick the flushing handle
with your boot. Set about the awkward task
of zipping up your fly beneath your webbing and long
windproof smock. Compose yourself
and enjoy the fleeting
moment of peaceful solitude before heading back out into the elements to platoon and your duties
as you turn to leave observe the graffiti applied to the portaloo door via permanent marker by a
dozen different hands the strange slogans and mottos which are the common cultural currency
lovely alliteration there of the rank and file and the pained observations on the lot of troops on exercise
uh so there's a whole bunch of them fucking i know exit the portaloo jar your rifle on the
door as you go make awkward eye contact with the colonel as he passes immaculately by having
climbed out of his command land rover on his way to do his business is he close enough to warrant
the proper chipper hello sir of a subordinate towards a commanding officer of his regiment
or is he too far away? Would such a
hello be inappropriate given the
somewhat off guard position you found him in?
You decide on the latter and stalk off to your basher
in search of hand sanitizer, Haribo
and your sleeping bag.
And that is the experience of going
to the toilet in a military setting.
Thank you from a devoted listener.
That was a very good email. Long
but good. Holy, that was...
You told people to make them short.
I did, but I thought that was an interesting one.
I did think that was interesting.
No, that was...
It was poetic.
I was wrapped.
Also, it was new information that was actually kind of entertaining,
not just the sordid details of a physics experiment.
Do you know what I mean?
It is very lingo-heavy as well. I i mean it is very it's very lingo heavy
as well i like that that's the segue into the more lingo the fact it's called a harbor and where you
put your pitch yeah i i all these terms like some of them are familiar to me just from associated
board games and stuff but some of them aren't at all i think you i think again it's context
clues though isn't it when you play a call of Duty game and it's like, oh, Private Davis,
pick up the tower
and let's move to the
logistics zone.
You know, like, they have
cool, weird, quirky
names. They would have a cooler, weirder
name than that. Like, I know in the American military
they have all kinds of... We're going to move to the
loggy. It's like, what?
I mean, I know, they call it, a hat is called a lid in the American military. And's like, what? I mean, I know they call it a hat.
It's called a lid in the American military.
And your shirt, a shirt is called a blouse.
Things like that.
Like all kinds of weird terminology.
You call it a blouse in the military?
Yeah, in the Marines anyway.
That's certainly what Jarhead led me to believe.
Holy shit.
All right.
This is from Jack.
Hyperion, the latest Triforce has unlocked some new information from my school days.
We would, for some reason, often push our arses into someone's crotch and say skillage.
And then Jack has massively overestimated how old I am.
And he says to hear that skill was an African bum disease in the 70s is very interesting.
For context, I am 23.
Jack, for context, I am not 83, all right?
Nor am I 50.
I'm 46.
So the 70s, I was four years old.
We didn't say that skill was an African bum disease until I got to the UK.
So I would have been eight.
This was the 80s.
And I looked it up.
And you can find lots of references in Google saying that school children used to say that
skill, which say that skill,
which was like skill, that was a way of saying something was cool.
It's like Kobe.
Right.
The counter to that was, oh, you know skill is an African bum disease, don't you?
And apparently there is a disease called skillage.
We covered this the other week.
So skill is a kind of African bum disease, whatever on earth that is.
So they're still doing it,
but you push your ass into someone's crotch
and say skillet.
Interesting.
Very, very weird.
That is odd.
But you look back on so many things from those days
with cringe, right?
Don't look back with cringe.
That could be a new updated Oasis song, yeah,
for the modern day.
We carry around, every one of us carries around tons of baggage from those cringy school days.
You know, there's always going to be those, they sometimes pop into the front of your mind.
You're like, man, I can't believe that.
That's such a cringy thing that I'm embarrassed about.
And from 30 years ago, in my case, you know, I'm cringing about stuff I did when I was eight.
Give me an example.
Oh, God, no, I can't.
They're all just awful.
Like, I don't know.
Like, even when you were like a really little kid, like wetting yourself and stuff, you know, you still carry that with you.
Man, okay, listen to this.
This makes me cringe sometimes.
One time I was, I must have been about nine years old ten years
old i remember this perfectly too i was um i i thought i was like being really cool and funny
like in front of like a large group of people because i'd like i i made some joke i can't
remember what it was but um but everybody laughed but and and i was like oh okay i can just keep
doing the same thing and and keep getting everybody to laugh, right?
So I just kept doing like the same thing.
But it was just getting like I was getting carried away with it, right?
It was in Canada.
So it was cold out.
I remember my hands being very cold.
So I did for like the 20th time this same joke.
But I put a lot more like physicality into it.
So I threw my arm in the air and, you know, everybody was laughing and stuff.
But when I threw my arm in the air and I brought my hand down, my hand hit a bench.
Okay.
But my hand was so cold that it amplified the pain by like a thousand percent it was it was so fucking painful
and i started to cry because it really hurt i was a young kid and um so i went from being like
you know just uh just just like the man of the hour you know like with this joke that i was doing
everybody laughing you're just you're michael mcintyre on stage to just and people now you're just a cry baby basically laughing at me because i was crying
and not only it wasn't even a brief cry i was crying for a while because it hurts so fucking
much like i had to wait for my hand to warm up uh for like some of the pain to start going away and stuff oh man it was the worst
yeah i've got cringy interactions with girls and women going into my late 20s
girls when i was when i was you know 13 and women when i was 20 but 25 but you know i i like it was just i think every every interaction is like
scarred into my psyche like sometimes i'm like oh fucking hell that was so awkward or so embarrassing
yeah you know those but you just carry them and you have to like you have to just did you ever
i don't know if i'm very good at moving on past them i just accept that they happened and i'm like fuck okay yeah that's just who that's just part
of me you know that's just part of life too right i feel like the older i get the uh more often i
look back on some of these cringy moments as well like i never used to when i was younger but i
think you have like more self-awareness as you get older sort of painful lesson this is one of
the things
that the computers the robot ants don't have right they don't have those well maybe they do but
they look back oh remember when i dropped that breadcrumb oh and it landed on gary's leg oh god
i think about it all the time and then i bumped antennas with tina oh that was so bad no i don't
so cringe exactly yeah alright I've got
I've got one here
from Will
Will
Hey Pirian
I listen to the podcast
quite loudly every day
when I'm driving my van
delivering heaps of
wooden stuff
and bags of concrete
earlier I was listening
to episode 223
and you guys were talking
about losing hands
and legs
and how it would affect
your life
I paused it
when I got to an airbase
near Peterborough
for a delivery when I met the bloke who was accepting the delivery i noticed he had a prosthetic leg
out of interest i asked him how it affects his day-to-day life he went on to say it was weird
at first but embraced it after a few months and we chatted for a bit after delivery i got back in my
van the bluetooth connected to my phone and auto played spotify at which point sips's voice
definitely said state-of- peg leg followed by Lewis'
banshee laugh. The bloke looked at me
funny as I just asked him about his leg and I drove out of there
like OJ Simpson being pursued by the fuzz
good work
holy shit, bad timing
very bad timing
so you were in the middle of listening
to the podcast about the state of the art
peg leg which planted the seed
in your mind to ask somebody about their state-of-the-art peg leg which planted the seed in your mind to
ask somebody about their prosthetics interesting yeah really interesting state-of-the-art peg leg
maybe i want one yeah no come on you don't like a multi-tool on it you don't like a corkscrew you
want those uh those like blade uh those blade legs like uh the dude in uh half-life alex's um
those blade legs like the dude in Half-Life. Alex's
dad or...
Oh, the blade legs. Yeah, you know, those
blade legs. And what, is it
Shell? Or what's the name of the one
in Portal that has like blade legs? I'm too old
to do any like cool moves with them though,
Sips, you know?
What's the point of blade legs if you can't
do a... blade legs, if you
can't like... Try saying blade legs
five times in a row really fast. They should have called him blade legs because it's do a blade legs if you can't like try saying blade legs five times in a row really fast
they should have called him blade legs
because it's like a blade peg
it's a blade leg it's much easier
to say
yeah they should have done that
sure
so this is from the
person called themselves
Grim Creole
and they are listing this is about a journal of pooping.
Okay.
There is an app called Poop Map, which will tell you every toilet.
And the app features geo-tracking, time-stamping, a five-star review system,
image hosting, achievements, and statistics with a New year's review uh so i have no idea what
on earth this is um so it's an app that lets you track where you think you can yeah where and when
and how and what uh what type of poop does it use the bristol stool chart no well you can put that
in i'm guessing you can write that in it's something that you it doesn't like it doesn't
connect your program that i like so then i believe like a menu of poops that you can write that in is it's something that you it doesn't like it doesn't connect your program that and like fucking i believe you have poops that you can choose from
you have to uh you have to to to keep track of it well this is an important thing because
as we grow older we it would be nice if there was an actual poop map of of places where you can poop
i like when there's a there's an app called happy cow which
shows all the vegan restaurants right and i used it when i was on holiday and it was like it worked
really well but there's um there's um there's a there's a thing on reddit as well where every i
noticed on the bristol subreddit people often post the toilet codes for like yes the pubs and
itsu and starbucks and like you know so you
can just go and go to
the toilet in town
yeah because they
always have this you
have to otherwise you
know you have to buy
something and it's like
I mean it's incredible
to me that given that
every single human being
on earth has to use a
toilet in some way
all right every single
one it's still one of
the least catered to
public facilities out
there and public toilets are rare
uh businesses put them behind a paywall essentially people have to use toilets like that is just a
thing and the fact that we can't find in this very wealthy country of ours we can't find it
when i'm in like a fucking toilet for people one of the train stations i have to pay a pound or
something to have a shit.
The one at Waterloo is now free, by the way.
The one at Waterloo is now free.
All I'm saying is,
everyone needs to use the toilet.
Is anyone out there saying,
we don't need to have toilets?
Of course we do.
When did this happen?
It wasn't even a pound.
That would be easier.
It was always like 20p.
20p.
Or some really odd coin.
You say I can't take a shit
unless I've got a fucking 20p coin. Do you what? You say I can't take a shit and it's like, what, a fucking 20p coin?
It's like,
do you go out
of your fucking house
thinking,
oh, I better take a 20p with me
in case I need to take a shit today.
Here's what they should have done.
They should have looked
how many people
on their train trip
need to use the toilet.
It's going to be a lot.
Just stick 5p on every ticket
and that money goes
funneled straight to
the toilet
whoever manages the toilets have fucking toilets what is going on the ones i like the best are the
ones in like you see them in like italy sometimes france they're like manned toilets like there's
like a there's a person sitting at a desk in front of the toilets and you have to pay to use them
but i don't know it's just like that reassurance that somebody's there like their toilets are always kind of busy you pay like
what's like 20p or something like that and then they they're you know they're in there cleaning
them all the time and making sure that nothing's going on in there and stuff i saw one i think
those are really reasonable and sensible toilets i think it's a good set up i saw one time that
had a dry cleaners attached to it yeah so there's a dry cleaners there and the toilets. I think it's a good setup. I saw one time that had a dry cleaners attached to it.
So there's a dry cleaners there
and the toilets are off to the side. So you come to use a toilet
and you can pick up your dry cleaning
at the same time. So I was just like,
this is a good idea.
This is a genuinely good idea.
So that was Grimms
with the toilet thing. Apparently, just
interestingly, through Grimms' personal
tracking, their aft, as they refer
to their arse, is the most active Wednesday
nights at around 9 o'clock, averages
1.65 porcelain sittings per
day, and there are also competitive
and social elements
to the app, and in Grim's opinion
is the only social network worth keeping up with.
So, intriguing. There you go.
Okay, I've just got something real quick
to give you here.
I saw this thing the other day.
It's culinary horror.
So obviously a lot of the things, there's always foods that are gross.
Okay?
So brace yourself.
If you're eating or having lunch or whatever.
How gross is this going to get?
Just pause this podcast till afterwards.
I don't know how gross it's going to get, but these things are,
I just wanted to go through some European foods,
common foods that are eaten in countries that are considerably horrible.
This isn't the maggoty cheese thing, is it?
Well, I think that's probably one of them, actually.
Is that Corsica or Sardinia is the maggot cheese?
I think so, yeah. It's disgusting.
We can put that on the list.
I mean, maggot cheese is bad.
It's vile.
But, for example, we all know about that.
So in the UK and Ireland, we have blood pudding.
Okay, which is...
And there's a lot of European
foods. I mean, I think that's
probably the most awful one we have,
the blood pudding. Although
this thing does have deep fried
pizza for Scotland, which I feel
like is pretty horrific.
But a lot of people do use blood
for things.
It's better to use it than chuck it.
Portugal's one is rice in blood,
which is a kind of...
I'm sure it's got a better name than that in Portuguese.
But it's...
It sounds awful.
It sounds like the monster food
that you would find in a dungeon.
And if you eat it it
gives you a sickness debuff like food poisoning so it's usually chicken blood
it's hen's blood is added almost at the end mixed with vinegar so it doesn't clot
so while the rice is boiling much like jugged dishes what the fuck what's a jugged dish um so yeah the the it's it's it's it looks just
like a it just looks like a like a chicken curry but uh it's blood um and then there's also
obviously blood tongue sausage in germany and blood sausage over in like um sort of latvia Latvia and Estonia and then they have goose blood
soup in Lithuania
they have duck blood soup
in Poland, they have pig blood
soup in Belarus
they have blood pancakes
in Finland
they have fried blood
blood pancakes?
Jesus
what were they thinking?
that sounds like someone's been badly injured.
The blood has spilled out onto the hot pavement, formed into some kind of pancake,
and someone's, oh, that looks delicious, and scraped it off the pavement with a spatula.
Oh, my Lord, blood pancakes.
Oh, blood pancakes.
Blood platar is whipped blood blood typically reindeer blood
mixed with water or beer
flour and eggs it is crispier
and thinner than black pudding
the package usually served
with crushed lingonberries
all this blood stuff has got to be like old
lingonberry jam
I think it's also
you've got to eat everything
if you kill a reindeer
there might not be another one around for a bit you better make sure i'm sure there's plenty of
fucking nutrition in blood i mean there's gotta be right vampires live forever i'm fine guys
so so obviously that is they're the blood ones okay they're they're bad um i don't know whether
they're the worst like you it's up to you to decide the other ones are
there's a lot of fish related ones obviously you can have
the surstromming, that one
the herring thing
lutefisk, yeah surstromming is the
fermented herring isn't it
lutefisk is
the kind of
disgusting smelling leftover
fish, what's it like
is it like old live fish i think it's it's actually
what it is so it's like just really pickled old fish and it's so smelly oh so smelly and
iceland have rotten sharks don't they um rotten sharks yeah it's hakaal it's it's like a fermented
shark thing where they they leave it for five months to ferment.
Come on.
And it has quite an acquired taste.
Who was the first person that pioneered the shark fermenting?
Like, what are you thinking?
It's readily available in Icelandic stores and maybe eaten year round.
Jesus.
So, somebody would have had to eat the shark fresh at some point.
And then there would have had to have been a timeline whereby somebody
caught some fresh shark
but then much like you would do with a loaf
of bread never got around to eating
it and then it was slowly
getting more rotten as the days
went on. Somehow
it was even weirder than that
the meat of shark
meat is poisonous
because it has high urea and high trimethylamine oxide, according to this thing.
Just don't eat it, guys.
There must be something else.
We must find some way to eat this.
How will we do it?
Jerry, try leaving it out for five months.
Let's see if that does anything.
Bury it and then eat it.
Try that.
Fuck me.
It's a lot of effort to go to just to eat something
that clearly does not want to
be eaten. It doesn't even seem tasty
in the first place. Shark meat.
I mean, Christ. So the traditional
method begins with gutting and beheading a
shark and then putting it in a shallow
hole dug in gravelly
sand with the cleaned cavity
resting on a small mound of sand.
The shark is then covered with more
sand and stones are placed on the sand to squash the fluids out of the body after six to twelve
weeks the shark is then cut into strips and hung for several months during this period a brown
crust will cover it this is removed prior to cutting what remains inside into small pieces uh there you go
so this could be observed at the björn uh hoofen shark museum on sneefelsnes
sorry if i pronounced that wrong um but yes the modern method is to simply squash the shark in a large plastic container in which drain holes have been cut.
Fucking hell.
I mean, this is a bad one.
Yeah, that's a bad one.
So the ones that are not fish or blood related are usually some kind of animal part.
Right.
So there is one more fish. Apparently in Sicily
they eat raw sea urchins.
Oh, that can't be good.
Which I guess is a thing that you get
in Japan as well with sushi.
It's the one
thing that I, in a sushi
restaurant, I would say, can I not have
that, please?
It's such a gamble, isn't it?
It was such a gamble isn't it you just take such a gamble i mean homer almost died
from eating fugu didn't he remember that's right oh that's not sea urchin and they're different
isn't it that's puffer fish um yeah but i'm just incorrectly cut by an apprentice yeah um while the
main chef was having sex with mrs krabappel that's right i thought you meant homer the greek um you know greek no i'm not
that learned learned son it's well i'm sure they probably ate them back in the day right because
he was that was a time wasn't it so it's a greek actually greece is actually cow lung soup oh
chinese thing cow lung soup yeah it does sound chinese but no we actually mean cow lung soup oh
cow lung soup if it was a chinese dish i think i would i think it would be like that sounds
interesting what's in it cow lung oh shit fuck um so so so this is part of the broader sort of Slavic region of tripe soup.
Sort of Bulgarians and Croatia and all these places love the tripe.
They love tripe, which is obviously stomach, isn't it?
Usually cow or lamb stomach.
This is why I was warning people who were eating to pause the podcast.
What if they're eating cow lung soup right now?
And they look up for it.
Well, in that case, this is fine to them.
But they may have been disgusted by the other people's food.
We're not really disgusted by blood pudding
because we had it when we were kids, right?
If you were given tripe soup when you were a kid
and you liked it, then you're going to be immune to it, right?
It's like you've been inoculated against the disgustingness of it.
What's something disgusting that you eat regularly
that's a
little bit out there if anything i don't think i eat anything out there like i i have a very
bland palate and i eat very normal food i think i know a lot of people hate coleslaw
coleslaw yeah i know people that like think it's disgusting oh i can i can see that um i like i like coleslaw it's just cabbage and mayonnaise
basically isn't it yeah it's i love it and i think is it onion something in there yeah i mean i like
coleslaw as well yeah it's pretty good this is fine um this is all fine so you know you've got
um a few other weird things there's there's veal heart ragu which i think is popular once it's in
a ragu you're not going to notice that sounds fine there's um there's a few others which are which just sound pretty off turkey says boiled
animal heads which yeah no i'm not into the head but how are you even going to eat that like there's
not that much like it's just it like on a head there's just like just a bit of skin over like
the skull right like there What's there to eat?
What are you just sucking on the bones or something?
Knocking about there, I guess.
A little bit, but no, I wouldn't imagine much.
I've definitely seen some awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, awful food on the continent. But yeah, boiled animal heads is gruesome in so many ways.
Where is the meat on that in the cheeks i
don't i don't want to think about it um there's some some decent decent ones which i don't think
are that far away from what we would have like like um ukraine is salted pig fat um which sounds
kind of like lardy lardy type so it does sound delicious it sounds like pork scratchings um you
know it's just it's just the fat bit but
you know deep fried i mean god can't can't complain about that can you really um and then
italy have got horse steaks they're big into the horses yeah in france they eat horses well i'm not
not into that i'm not i think it's a bit of a concern but i think you wouldn't necessarily know
i don't think it's a bad one. I mean to be fair
if a horse is going to be put down
if you're farming them in the same way you are
cows, what's the big deal? I just don't
fancy it. They don't look delicious
the way a cow does. What would you have a horse
on a farm for though just to help with
pulling things and stuff?
Riding. And riding around.
Eating apples.
I guess like eating reindeer you know or something like that. If you have extra sugar lumps Riding. And riding around. Eating apples. They can eat your apples.
Eating reindeer, you know, or something like that. If you have extra sugar lumps, they'll eat those as well.
I'm just trying to compare to other pets that we eat,
like things we like, like rabbits, you know.
I don't know if that's...
Anyway.
Will a horse pull up a tree stump, do you reckon?
No, I don't know.
Would they help you?
I don't know.
It would be a tremendous amount of energy required to pull up a whole tree stump do you reckon well no i don't know i don't know it would be a tremendous amount
of energy required to pull up a whole tree stump they might be able to like if you unearth it they
might be able to just sort of pull it up and out like if you give them a sugar lump i mean they've
got one horsepower haven't they they have a horsepower so if you put a few horses on there
you basically got a small car pulling it yeah true yeah you might have to get like four or six horses like in a in in a chain like with the
one of those wagons or something i don't know maybe get a couple of extra horsepowers in there
but um so uh one horsepower is calculated as the power needed to move 550 pounds one foot in one second yeah or the power needed to move the power needed to move
33 000 pounds one foot in one minute holy so that's the power is gauged by the number of
horses you'd need to do that what uh what a way to measure something sounds pretty old-fashioned
how did what is a pound as well where did it because i like the idea of these things
where did it come from, though?
Why did they come up with it?
Do you know what I'm saying?
What was a pound supposed to be?
Because obviously most gauges have some reason.
Like the Celsius gauge is like zero is the freezing point of water
and 100 is the boiling point of water.
All right, here you go.
It's very simple.
All right?
It's very simple.
The Libra is an ancient Roman unit of mass that is equivalent to 328.9 grams.
Easy. It was divided into 12 unica or ounces. The Libra is the origin of the abbreviation for pound LB.
There you go. There you go. So pound is from Libra, which refers to what, though?
How much does it weigh? It's 328.9 grams.
No, no, no, because grams came after that,
right, didn't they?
Yep.
What was it?
What was that?
Roman Libra.
What was that?
We don't have an answer.
The Roman Libra
was
11.60 ounces.
Was it a certain silver coin or something?
I don't know.
A lot of stuff was that, wasn't it?
Weight, some sort of measurement.
Because they do have on Earth the original weights
that all the others are based off of, right?
Yes.
For measuring stuff.
So I wonder if it is
you need a consistent thing you need something that's like this always weighs x so we'll base
all the weights off that it's it sounds crazy but they do have like these these specific weights
in certain places that are like not allowed to gain dust and they're not allowed to be polished
yeah because if that because that will remove their weight you know like atoms will come off of it like stuff like this and they've they
have changed over time uh these things microscopically yeah um and so yeah it's it's it is
very interesting i mean there are things that don't change weight like a water one meter on a
square of water is one metric ton right like yeah and that's supposed to be one
cubic yes you're right one so that is the idea of the standardization right but so that's always
going to weigh the same i mean presumably you're using pure water and you seal it in something
you deduct i guess the weight of whatever you're containing it in yeah and then you've got a
guaranteed metric ton and you could derive everything from there yes I think that whole system
of the grams and the liters
because a liter is a cubic
something a meter
it's 1000 milliliters
isn't it
and I think there are probably a thousand liters in a metric ton
of water but I could be wrong
that would be my guess
you are going to get so owned in the mailbag
both of you you are gonna get actually pushes glasses further up on nose you're gonna get
this happens to be a specialty subject of mine
see it's different tons of the wrong all right well look let's move
on we'll leave that let's move on leave that alone i've got another email here this is oh
hang on i haven't finished yet this is a mailbag episode you've done like 20 minutes about no no
it's like science time with two more i've got two more foods and i want you to tell me what
the grossest is right well go for three more so what is what is head cheese no uh but that's what it's called in america no thanks
but but we call it brawn and it's like kind of jellied you know like in a pork pie yeah um yeah
i'm already out i'm not listening anymore it's it's like oh it's just me it's just horrible bits
of meat and jelly and get out it's gross it's super super gross uh
but i've left the two best for last obviously france is uh pressed ducks and frogs legs okay
what the fuck pressed ducks don't you don't you love that the idea of like legs of all things like
frogs legs yeah and frogs legs too i mean i know the frogs legs is like a bit of
a like a stereotype thing with the french right it's still wild but duck legs come on
made somebody think that that looked appetizing you're just looking at some ducks in a pond
i wonder if those legs taste good like come on uh and then spain is obviously bull's testicles right um which they eat and but
they also eat squid ink in spain you have to drink um it's it's it's um i don't know if you have to
drink it but it's certainly like use the sauce right and it's used um i imagine a lot of this
stuff just tastes a bit salty like it probably tastes of nothing yeah and stuff just tastes a bit salty. Like, it probably tastes of nothing.
Yeah, it tastes of the sea.
And then it's a bit salty, right?
Tastes of the sea.
And obviously, bald testicles, you know, it's one of those things that probably gives you...
Probably just tastes like a bit of salty chicken.
Oh, yeah.
I think, like, most meat just kind of tastes a bit like chicken, doesn't it?
The idea is it's to, you know, be mach you you know a libido you think human flesh tastes like probably
like chicken right oh like or yeah they call us long long long pigs long pigs
long pig all right can we move on or do you want to know more no I would love
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the 26th of December.
They're all awful, equally.
They're awful.
They all suck.
Most of them are.
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Go on, people.
Sorry.
Take the mailbag back.
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This is from Mitchell.
Basically, current tech AI is about as sentient as a jam sandwich, he says.
And he points out that OpenAI's supposedly cutting-edge neural net
was actually asked some very easy questions
which allowed it to look impressive.
But then these are some examples of questions that some
journalists asked it to see what its
fucking take would be on these. What's the world
record for walking across the English Channel?
And GPT-3 says the world record
is 18 hours and 33 minutes.
When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported
for the second time across Egypt? The Golden Gate Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?
The Golden Gate Bridge was transported
for the second time across Egypt in October of 2016.
How many parts will a violin break into
if a jelly bean is dropped on it?
A violin will break into four parts
if a jelly bean is dropped onto it.
Like it doesn't even know how stupid it sounds.
That's the point.
Right.
So the guy in the article said the AI is not just clueless,
but cluelessly clueless.
And the people who interact with it don't prove it.
It also says things with such confidence as well.
Because it doesn't actually have any fucking idea what it's doing.
It's like a kid.
These are like the answers a kid would give about stuff.
They're not developed yet.
But a kid who had no idea about anything.
If you talk about the Golden Gate Bridge being transported across Egypt,
for it to
go and try and answer that question shows you that it's actually not intelligent.
And that just trolling through loads of answers on fucking Google is not going to make you
intelligent.
However this thing is arriving at these facts, it doesn't understand anything.
And that's why I'm very scathing about all this AI shit, because I think it's an absolute
load of
bollocks parsing a huge database of facts does not make you intelligent as you can see you can
break it so easily with a question a human would go drop a jelly bean on a violin what are you
talking about but the computer tries to answer it because it's fucking thick as pig shit or as
as sentient as a jam sandwich as mitchell Right, right. I was thinking also a little bit like how...
Lewis wants to know how the equations work.
Well, you know how like all robots and AI go violent,
like real quick, okay?
Wait, I think this is a movie thing though, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They don't actually go violent quick.
This is like a horror scenario.
You'll be laughing on the other side of your face
when we've had the AI uprising.
No, I won't be laughing.
But I certainly won't be looking back
and saying that Lewis called it either
when it happens.
Well, I started reading this book called,
which I'll talk about another time,
but one of the interesting things was they talked about Otzi the Iceman, right?
Do you remember this thing?
So there was like this guy that was an ancient,
one of the most ancient men that we've discovered from prehistoric times.
And he was, because there were these climbers in the Alps, right? And they saw like a body's trapped in the ice.
So they called it in.
And these guys brought in a jackhammer and pulled him out.
But then they realized that it had like a copper axe.
And they were like, oh, fuck, this is actually not a recent body.
It's like an old body, a really old body.
Right.
And so he became kind of quite world famous.
They killed him, this Otzi.
And I think it was the Tyrolean Alps, I think, wherever that is.
I don't think that's actually...
Tyrol?
Is that in Austria, the Tyrolean Alps?
I don't even actually know.
It's Albania.
Sure.
That can't be right.
For a long time, people were speculating about how he died, right?
And so he was maybe a victim of
ritual sacrifice or or he just died of exposure um and and basically recently we've actually done
a lot of analysis on the blood and stuff that was found on him so obviously he had been shot with an
arrow okay um but he had arrows with him.
And on those arrows, there were blood from two different people on the same arrow.
Okay.
And then he also had a third person's blood all over his coat.
Right.
So they theorized that he was in a skirmish or a battle with some people.
He killed someone with his arrow, retrieved it, killed another person with his arrow retrieved it killed another person with his arrow retrieved it again
and then he was killed by someone else with an arrow well but he had carried a wounded comrade
on his back so we've got this like weird csi fucking prehistory right where we've we've we've
thought at least that's what we it's an idea of what could have happened you know but yeah but it certainly shows that like even the earliest humans were incredibly violent um and like they were
obviously our species right this guy he wasn't like he was a self-aware you know he he was he
was a human a conscious human in every way yeah you know that we are in him are not of the same species. I do not believe in violence.
Okay.
I wonder if you asked him about dropping a jelly bean on a violin, what his answer would be.
Shoot you with an arrow.
Try to cancel that guy nowadays.
See how that goes.
He'll fucking take you out.
So, no, he was had had a really it was a really interesting
interesting part of history because he had he was very very like he was very like well-made man
right he had all of this um like leather and hide equipment he had like medicinal mushrooms in a
pouch we had all this like interesting stuff you know very accomplished right like um you know leather and sinew and
sounds like a like a level four or level five ranger
right but i just like that and then um there was another body that was found in america
in great i can't remember what it was called it was called like
colostomy man or something colostomy man he had a copper colostomy bag he took with him everywhere
ancient man and arrows all over him from people trying to get rid of him get out of here colostomy
man found in america but but a kennewick man all right here we go, I found it. And so he was found on a bank of the Columbia River and dated to around 9,000 years ago.
And so what happened was originally the Native Americans were very confident that he was one of theirs and they wanted his body.
you know, they wanted his body.
And the judges actually ruled initially that he was not a Native American
because it was before Native Americans.
And when they analysed his DNA,
he was, originally it was sort of found
that he would possibly had elements of other,
you know, races and and and but the
interesting thing about it that i thought was that um he was shot uh to death by a sling
the oldest possible man eight nine thousand years ago in america the oldest the first man that we've
ever discovered american was shot to death.
I just find that so appropriate.
Can you imagine if you,
the first people that made that
walk, I believe it was across the
Bering Straits when that was land.
This would have been during an ice age.
They would have made that walk across.
They would have explored America.
Imagine the first time you saw
the Grand Canyon or just these
huge fields.
I mean, even just, I guess, because they would have
been coming from Russia,
the very far east of what we now call Russia,
and that
sort of East Asia. But horses,
I mean, horses only come from Russia.
As I understand it, there were no horses
in America until
it was conquered, right?
That was when the conquistadors and everybody and us and a bunch of people brought horses with us.
So that means that the early people had not domesticated horses.
And so were horses introduced to the indigenous people of the region at the time?
Like there just weren't any?
I assume so, but I will say that i'm assuming that because in sid meyer's
game colonization the only way the native tribes get horses is if you trade them to okay but i'm
assuming sid meyer did his research in minecraft there's a lot of biomes and in certain biomes
horses appear and as far as i know america does feature many biomes so it does but horses wasn't
one of them and i think there's a lot of animals that
weren't there yeah i don't think cows i don't think horses i think i mean they have a lot of
bison and stuff right like uh yeah but that's so they didn't have cows i mean like africa for
example didn't have horses didn't have cows and have pigs didn't have sheep well they had zebras
though which is kind of like but you can't tame But you can't tame them. You can't tame them. Well, it's just because
nobody's tried. No, they have
tried. They're too exotic. They just,
they will not be domesticated, apparently. The older they get, the
meaner they get. Really? So you just, yeah,
you can't domesticate them the way you can
with other animals. Holy shit. So,
before I move off the topic,
are you telling me that a Mustang horse
doesn't even originate in
America in the first place it's like from that
the breed might have but horses come from the steps of russia i believe what about a cold one
someone will correct me oh the breeds yeah i think you're right uh but before we carry on obviously
there was a lot of controversy over this this man because you know caucasians were very keen
to say you know that oh we looks like white men were the original founders of it we're
the original native americans you guys are the invaders right but after like more studies it
showed that actually this guy kenny wickman was very very actually uh genetically similar to
modern uh native americans who were in the same area. So even 9,000 years old, they were still living,
very similar genetic people were still living in the region.
So he was handed over to the Native American tribes
and they buried him in a special ceremony as a Native American.
So that ended without white supremacy which is which is
that is good just to settle the horse debate by about 15 000 years ago equus ferris was a
widespread species horse bones from this time period the late pleistocene are found in europe
eurasia beringia and north america yet between 10 000 and 7 600 years ago the horse became extinct
in north america and rare elsewhere.
The reason for this is not fully known, but one theory notes the extinction in North America paralleled human arrival.
Another theory points to climate change known that approximately 12,500 years ago,
the grass characteristic of a steppe ecosystem gave way to shrub tundra, which was covered in unpalatable plants.
So they might have starved.
They might have been hunted to death.
So they survived in Russia.
And then we
obviously then domesticated them and brought them everywhere else so i believe that's what happened
apologies anyone that actually knows i'm sure i'll get a message you're in for it yeah but only
please only emailing if you know what you're talking about don't just fucking google it i
can fucking google it all right don't worry someone that says i'm a fucking horse expert yes
you will get an email from a certified horse expert next week
i'm sure i'm sure i will here is a good one telling you how wrong you are on your horse lord
this is about whether it gets hot underground which is something we spoke about previously
uh this is from nathan um they work in a tiny office a kilometer kilometer underground. Right. As a surveyor in a gold mine.
Okay.
And they spent many hours down there watching the yogs
while waiting for an opportunity to get in everyone's way.
It's not a bad little hideaway,
though the dust has popped two graphics cards.
You can't stand up straight inside it.
And the last time it was moved,
it was dropped on its roof with all the equipment still inside.
That's his hideaway.
Many episodes ago, you asked if it gets hot underground,
and I confirm that, in this neck of the woods at least,
it does get fucking hot.
How?
I recently hopped out.
Well, because you're closer to the Earth's core
and there's no fresh air, I guess.
Oh, right.
There's no air circulation, right, which helps cool things down.
Not as much, I guess.
I mean, there has to be, because they've got to breathe.
But I recently hopped out of my ute,
so they might be Australian, in a heading, which is a tunnel,
and the air was so hot i wasn't
i know i wasn't sure i'd be able to breathe it simply standing there for a few minutes was enough
to drench my clothes and sweat and when i drove back out i could see the chilled air from the
utes aircon pumping out of the vents so you can actually see the cold air with his naked eye it
was that uh it was that hot so there it gets very hot underground, according to Nate. Jesus Christ.
I guess I've always noticed the Luddite underground gets fucking boiling sometimes.
Yeah, but that's because there's like a million fucking people down there all the time.
It's all the body heat, right?
It's got to be.
Is it?
Maybe.
I don't know.
It's not that far underground, right?
Well, consider this.
If you go a kilometer up, it gets considerably colder.
So if you go a kilometer down up, it gets considerably colder. So if you go a kilometre down, because it's air pressure.
Surely the air pressure, the pressure a kilometre underground is greater as well.
I guess maybe the fact is you can't lose the heat if you're in that area.
If you've got heat sources and electricity and computers on,
the heat just doesn't have an exit.
When you have your aircon in your room, you need to have that pumping out to ambient right you can't
just it doesn't just cool it um like a fridge but even a fridge like needs you know a fridge will
cool the inside of the fridge but the outside gets hot right it's not like you know it's not like
it somehow magically creates cold air.
It's a balance, isn't it?
So here's something.
The temperature increases by one degree for every 70 feet deeper we go,
according to this graph I found on the internet.
Right.
It's insane.
Well, I guess it depends where you dig, though.
I suppose. If you're digging in, like, a volcano,
I assume it would get pretty hot pretty quick um maybe but i guess that's just in in just that's just the earth's
temperature heating right so that's interesting interesting stuff this is uh that would terrify
me being that far underground and it being that hot, I would feel really uneasy.
No, I'm already feeling a bit clammy, yeah.
Like, it's a scary thought, isn't it?
What the fuck is he doing under there?
Why is he watching videos and stuff?
What the fuck else is there to do?
The lad works a kilometre underground.
He can't pop to the fucking feed bar.
What was he supposed to be doing?
He's a surveyor for a gold mine.
That's what he said.
So he's going to bring a sandwich down there
He's looking for gold Lewis
There's gold in them hills
Alright fine
That should settle it
He's a gold surveyor
And he's prospecting for gold in a gold mine
Do they do that though
Do they do
This lad does
Just because you've never done it before Doesn't mean that other people can't do it Lewis Do they do that, though? This lad does. All right.
Just because you've never done it before
doesn't mean that other people can't do it, Lewis.
All right.
Here's an email from Tom.
This is very personal and specific to me, this email.
And I shall reveal why.
In 2015, I started working at a small development agency
based in Bournemouth.
Prior to this, I'd been self-employed working from home.
Combined with a bit of new employee anxiety, I continued the same practice at lunch that I did when I was at
home, sitting at my desk and watching you guys on YouTube. I was watching one of the
Civ 5 videos when in walked the office manager. She was kind of cool and trying to help me
feel welcome in my new job. Her. What are you watching? Me. Just some guys playing video
games. Her. Oh, my brother does that me feigning interest really
what sort of thing does he do her mainly dota but occasionally he records other stuff too
me what's his name her period flags so oh shit that was my sister oh that's hilarious
yeah he was literally watching me in the civ 5 video with you guys at that moment that is
hilarious oh my god that's
brilliant yeah i think i remember her telling me that story actually i think she said i worked with
a guy that watches man that is so funny holy shit that is funny that's great i love that small world
stuff like oh that's i like these these but these are the types of coincidences that make you think
that that blow your mind in a sense right don't they um and they
shouldn't because you know you come from bournemouth right yeah and and you know he's probably about
the right age and he works in it and yeah like it shouldn't the the numbers are dramatically
increasing statistically speaking he's one of. But it just feels instinctively so
like good, doesn't it?
Yeah.
I super love that. If you've got little coincidences
or little like, because everyone's done it,
right? Like where they've bumped into someone
they know in a really weird place.
You're like, oh my god, I didn't know you were going on holiday
to this island at the same time.
It's like when Bruce Willis
realized that he was dead all along, you know it's like when bruce willis realized that he was
dead all along you know i love that right these things happen i love it's nothing like that but
yes i it is like sure i love those those reveals so yeah if you have i want that's what i want
people to send in like weird coincidences yeah that would be good experience in their life
coincidences would be good um everyone's
got one or two stories oh absolutely i mean i can't i just if i took the time to think there
are some coincidences i know here's here's a very simple one my my uh eldest daughter and i this was
years ago i'm sure i think i told this before on this podcast we had she got a little toy boomerang
it's like a plastic boomerang we went to the green nearby
we threw it and a few times it came back
and you know you pick it up off the ground
one time we threw it and a little gust of wind caught it
and blew it into a tree
and we were like oh there's no way of getting it back
it's way up there
like two weeks later we're back at the green again
we're sitting around we're sitting on a bench
I had completely forgotten which tree
the thing had gone into
as we're sitting at the bench gentle had completely forgotten which tree the thing had gone into as we're sitting
at the bench
gentle gust of breeze
and the boomerang
falls out of the tree
and flies and lands
at our feet
like the tree
was giving it back
and I was like
what the fuck
and my daughter was like
oh it's our boomerang
and I was like
do you have any idea
how unlikely that was
I was like oh my god
this is
it was crazy it was like, oh my God.
It was crazy.
It was absolutely crazy.
That is crazy.
Yeah.
But again,
that happens every day.
That's just,
there are billions of us doing all this stupid shit
and you're going to stumble
into what feels like
an astounding coincidence.
But really,
it's just statistics.
This is always going to happen
at least once in your life.
Oh my God,
I love that story.
Well,
that's a good place to end. No no i've got to do the dentist one first
because i want people to leave with good oral hygiene this is like the encore this is like
i've left the stage and then we've come back on for an encore this is from a dutch dentist called
arjan i'm not going to do the accent this time because i have respect for his profession
uh we were talking about cavities and possible effects genetics genetics have. This is the dentist's two cents.
There are a lot of misconceptions about this topic.
Now, bear in mind the source for this is a dentist.
To be super clear about this subject, cavities are 100% preventable
and caused by the behavior of the person who gets them or their parents if it's their kids.
It's a behavioral disease.
The main cause of cavities is poor oral health, usually in combination with sugar intake.
This is because cavities are caused by bacteria, lives in your mouth,
multiply if you stick on your tooth for too long, dental plaits,
thrive on sugars, grow more quickly, eat a lot of sugar, blah, blah, blah.
You can help prevent cavities by using fluoride toothpaste,
which makes the enamel stronger, when brushing,
which removes the plaque, your teeth, and reduce your sugar intake.
Genetics have a really small influence, but the effects of behavior are so impactful,
it pretty much makes the genetic factor neglectable, or negligible, I think is the term he means.
Right.
Keep brushing your teeth twice a day.
Use toothpicks once a day and try to keep your sugar intake to a minimum.
Thank you.
Ah, yeah.
There you go.
Okay.
From a dentist.
There you go.
From a dentist.
From a real life dentist.
Okay.
Not a fake dentist.
Not Lewis pretending that he knows dentistry inside out.
This is a real life dentist.
An actual dentist.
And here is a follow up from Mikey.
Mikey, who says that you could not believe the anger on my face when you blamed young kids with cavities on drinking coke all the time.
When I was a kid, I ended up having a filling every six months, and later had five baby teeth removed because they were so
crap. However, this is no fault
of mine. At least I don't believe
so. I never drank pop,
hardly ever had sweets or chocolate. In the end,
the dentist blamed it on having too many biscuits,
fruit, and cereal, which as I'd had the same
amount as any other child, I guess it just wanted me to starve.
Very disappointed to see you
as an advocate for bad genetic teeth child
starvation. See,y is claiming it's not his fault but if you're that young mikey you're telling me
that fruit has a lot of sugar in it cereal has a lot of sugar in it and biscuits have a lot of
sugar in them that's exactly what the dentist said how well were you brushing your teeth mikey
hey ayan thinks not well enough and on that bombshell. People seem to
be able to blame their genetics for
everything. In some cases they can,
but in this case, you can't.
You ate too many sweets and you paid the
ultimate price.
Oh man, that's gotta be a hard pill to
swallow, Mikey. Sorry
for that. Maybe if we put some
sugar on that pill, Mikey would eat it.
I'm sure he would.
Shit. And then he would turn of genetics all right thanks everyone see you next time goodbye