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@irelephant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 days ago

Almost all of you was food at one point.

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Almost all of you was food at one point.

@irelephant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 days ago
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  • kbal
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    35•10 days ago

    What do you mean “almost”?

    • pruwyben
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      33•10 days ago

      Part of you is oxygen you inhaled.

      • kbal
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        7•10 days ago

        Most of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would’ve come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.

    • Ephera
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      9•10 days ago

      I guess, some bacteria might have made it into your body in other ways, but might still be considered part of you in the wider sense…?

      • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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        15•10 days ago

        Plus there’s all those microplastics mixed in there.

        • @Godort@lemm.ee
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          8•10 days ago

          Those were also arguably food at some point

          • Midnight Wolf
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            9•10 days ago

            I’ll take a #1 2 liter coke bottle and a uhhhhhh mini tray table

            crunch mmmm

          • Jerkface (any/all)
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            1•8 days ago

            Eating something doesn’t make it food. You can eat a bike but you’re not a metalovore.

      • @Zenith@lemm.ee
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        2•9 days ago

        There’s more life in your gut than cells in your whole body

        • Ephera
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          1•9 days ago

          Ah yeah, my comment was caveated as such, because I assumed those bacteria to have mostly gotten there via food. Then again, no idea if any even survive going through the stomach acid…

    • @irelephant@lemmy.worldOP
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      4•9 days ago

      Bacteria, air inside you, implants/prostetics. Essentially just a smartass shield.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    27•10 days ago

    Almost all of you is food right now if you go try and hug a bear.

    • Midnight Wolf
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      6•10 days ago

      Hey hey, I’m not a cannibal! I’m just a little chubby… and I like hugs…

  • @Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
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    21•10 days ago

    You hear it as a joke when you’re young, but it’s not til you’re old that you realize “you are what you eat” is literal.

  • @remon@ani.social
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    9•9 days ago

    All of us are food all the time.

  • @renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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    6•10 days ago

    Literally all of you was either food/drink or oxygen from the air at some point—whether it was consumed by you or by your mother.

    • @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      11•10 days ago

      Unless you have dental fillings or other implants.

      • @irmoz@lemmy.world
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        10•9 days ago

        Theseus’ ship wants to know if those fillings are really part of you

        • @SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3•9 days ago

          Is Theseus happy?

        • @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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          2•9 days ago

          Theseus’ ship hasn’t been the same since they replaced the rudder with an AI.

      • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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        4•9 days ago

        Or if you worked an asbestos mine

  • @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    3•9 days ago

    No, most of me was water I drank!

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      1•9 days ago

      You were water that YOU drank???

      Oh…oh this is hurting my brain trying to work this out.

  • @Yermaw@lemm.ee
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    3•9 days ago

    My sweat is just seasoning.

  • @0x01@lemmy.ml
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    2•10 days ago

    Oh like all of the material of your body was food, at first I thought you just had really bad grammar and meant “all of you” meaning allb of us readers or something and all the comments were just keeping up the bit

  • Cyv_
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    2•9 days ago

    Jokes on you, I’m technically food right now!

  • @tatann@lemm.ee
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    1•9 days ago

    I don’t get it. Is this a joke about “swallowing” ?

    • @admin@lemmy.today
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      5•9 days ago

      I don’t think so, more like you are built of nutrients you get from food you eat so technically you are the food you ate.

      • @tatann@lemm.ee
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        1•9 days ago

        Thanks, maybe I should sometimes get my mind out of the gutter

  • oppy1984
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    0•9 days ago

    *were

    • @irelephant@lemmy.worldOP
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      1•8 days ago

      Its you, singular.

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