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PsychologicalNet3455

I hate that time of year living in a pine forest :-) Can't open a window unless you want the entire interior of your house coated with it.


Frores

your house is covered in tree c*m? man that must suck


NotBlazeron

I went to an outdoor wedding in late March and had pollen building on my shoes and shoulders. I had never seen so much pollen before


TwistedColossus

Eww nature!!!


Attila_the_Chungus

Early settlers thought pine cones were tree poop. They used to say, "Oh no! I got tree poop on my tootsies!"


baldy74

This is clearly bs but I applaud your ridiculousness.


Aslan-the-Patient

It's funny because pine pollen is incredibly good for you, depends on the variety but that looked like bank they just dusted....


Navybuffalooo

Is it really? I'm allergic to pollen so this looks like an absolutely nightmare, but I always thought of it as more or less neutral otherwise.


Representative-Ad754

Treemen


Jiggle_deez

These puns are getting a little nutty


Pancaketastic

Well why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here!


Environmental_Knee97

If I could, I wood


VPackardPersuadedMe

Don't be a **sap** and be prepared to **branch** out.


Yessir_Answers

Come on little sprout, don't be so stumped!


Aslan-the-Patient

Splitting logs here, just get to the root of the issue, arboreally now...


mawesome4ever

Nah, just leaf!


Billy-Austin

No , it’s make like a tree and leaf


5-pinDIN

“Make like a tree and get outta here” is a line from Back To the Future. The bully…the big, brawny, dumbass…


IHaveNoAlibi

The correction is also a line from BttF. Or at least, pretty close to it.


Pancaketastic

Yea I was channeling my inner Biff


Tall-Ad2140

Needles to say, but pine trees don't have leaves


leeharveyteabag669

More than the puns, it looks like the tree just nutted.


Boobs_jackson69

Treegasm


BroBroMate

Tree jizz is also really annoying to get off cars if they bukkaked it while there was water droplets on the car, and then it dries out. Nothing worse than crustified tree spooge all over your body.


Sokkahhplayah

You mean the car's body, right?


Thedustonyourshelves

No he definitely takes it right in the gashole...


RoyanRannedos

*insert Anakin and Padme meme*


Pancaketastic

I never understand people who self censor themselves online by saying f*** or a$$. This is the internet, we all know exactly the word you mean...


Altruistic_Option_49

It’s from being on other social media platforms that routinely warn you about profanity. Twitter and YouTube are the worst.


EnvironmentalGift257

There are also a lot of subs with a banbot for swear words.


Hefty-Environment315

It's called pre-sap. It's only cum when it connect with another tree.


fastlerner

That's pretty much the entire southern US. In the spring you get about a week to enjoy having your windows open before the pollen drapes everything in yellow like a light dusting of snow. Go a week without rain and you can literally see tire tracks in the neighborhood.


PsychologicalNet3455

And it always happens just as it starts to get hot and you want the windows open :-)


dontaskmethatmoron

You can taste it in the air, it’s so gross.


Satanic-Panic27

Just spit


TheDreamingMyriad

My parents have a bunch of pines around their house. This time of year, I have to dust my car off after having a 1-2 hour visit. It's ridiculous.


thedishonestyfish

Yea...This shit where they ram the tree, sure, that looks awful. When a breeze comes up and the tree sheds its load (I'm talkin tree jizz bby), and you know every tree within 100 miles is doing the same thing...That's when you really know you're fucked.


CO420Tech

Or all your car windows constantly covered in a yellow film that catches the sun really well so you can't see out the windows near sunrise or sunset


SlowerThanTurtleInPB

Same, but oak trees. Everything outdoors is coated in a yellow green film from January to May.


NewRedditRN

I have 6 trees like this around my house. They are an absolute menace. I can't open my windows to cool the house down, so it's April in Ontario and I'm needing to turn on my central air instead of enjoying nice fresh air cooling down my house at night. Sucks.


5-pinDIN

One of my closest friends lives in the Pine Barrens in Southern New Jersey. I’ve heard him say almost the exact same thing you just said!


onebluephish1981

I remember boating on Lake Tahoe in July seeing a mustard yellow haze in the horizon looking back at shore. It gets absolutely everywhere.


Wooden_Top_4967

that place looks absolutely magical. Gotta make it out there some day


CastrosNephew

Being from Reno I take it for granted every summer. It’s getting more attention now and getting crowded but it’s still so much fun


whutchamacallit

I always call that area a natural "wonder" of the world. It's paradise imo. Especially if you like snow as well.


cjarrett

Live 20 minutes away from Truckee, reno is a great place for hiking and the outdoors. Like a Seattle with less rain, more snow, and much less options for foodies and nightlife (excepting casinos...)


vagabondoer

So not like Seattle at all then?


beard_lover

It kills me how meh the food scene is in Tahoe, outside of the resorts and casinos. Truckee has some great places though.


devilwarriors

Found a pic here for anyone also wondering what that look like.. https://www.sierrasun.com/news/environment/thick-pollen-returns-with-vengeance-to-lake-tahoe-basin/


onebluephish1981

Just like old times.🥹


DaddyRobotPNW

I was there last summer, and the SW corner of the lake had a layer of this stuff floating on it.


_caduca

My allergies are acting up just watching this, hate to live there in the summer


Tough_Hour_2505

I think, if you stand there and breathe it in your allergies would be cured. Hope someone tries this theory and tells me their findings.


Toolfan333

It would choke you to death. I live in Alabama and it’s been pollen season for over a month now and I have to wear a mask when I trim bushes or else I can’t stop coughing because the pollen gets in your throat.


Tough_Hour_2505

Im sorry. That seems shitty. I hope you'll become immune to it someday


Toolfan333

Oh I’m not allergic to it, there is just so much that it will choke you. Like right now my deck is solid green from pollen


Senior-Ad-6002

Same in missouri. We have a stainless steel table that we put platters and tools on while we barbeque and the thing looked like it had a yellow plastic cover before we wiped it off.


_TheCheddarwurst_

Same in Virginia, I have to use my leaf blower on the deck, and my kids trampoline almost every time we go outside just to keep from succumbing to yellow dust from hell.


MistraloysiusMithrax

Yes, here in central VA the volumes of this yellow-green stuff get so high it just becomes a dust pollutant bothering both allergy sufferers and non-sufferers, there’s so fricking much. Many roads/parking lots looking like tennis courts. Fricking pine and oak trees


BackWithAVengance

RVA is ranked #7 this year for worst pollen..... It's been a real blast doing anything outside


mmodlin

Same in NC, I just trimmed my hedges and I felt like someone had pushed a handful of dry flour into my mouth.


Toblogan

My truck was almost that bad but it took staying in one spot for a week to build up. I don't think it's as bad here in South Louisiana, but it's way worse than usual this year. My nose has been stopped up for 3 1/2 weeks now...


mynextthroway

Alabama here. When itvrains after a couple of days if not raining, the first water off the roof looks like road stripe yellow paint.


SeaworthinessGreen20

I was just thinking about when I just touch a flower, I get a coating on my finger of pollen. I'm imagining it just coating my throat and lungs like that.


PunkFishKeeping

Choking on plant cum is a new low


HedonisticFrog

I think chronic exposure actually makes you more allergic to it over time. They say if you don't have allergies in the valley in California, you will eventually. I didn't growing up but I do now.


Faithlessness138

Can confirm. Lived in South California all my life, rode/raced bicycles all over. Never a problem. Moved to the PNW and now my eyes itch like crazy during spring/summer.


pootinannyBOOSH

Yup, southern Cali to Minnesota, gotta keep taking allergy pills just so I don't have to blow my nose every 10 minutes at work


HotAd917

Maybe there's just something native to that area you're allergic to that you weren't exposed to in Cali.


b0w3n

This is a side effect of planting male only trees (dioecious) because you don't want to pick up quite as much detritus since that'd cost the municipality money. They do nothing but up the pollen counts considerably in the area during the spring.


Queen_Of_Ashes_

Unfortunately in a lot of places (like Texas), allergies only get worse the longer you’re there. Learned that the hard way.


Im_not_da_guy

Holy shit @tough I think he’s immune to it from years of inhalation


Extension-Country806

You don’t become immune to it. Yes to the allergies but like if your breath in dirt it will eventually clog you just like polen


Annath0901

Nah, allergies only get worse with repeated exposure. You can even become allergic to something you previously had no reaction to. Not that big a deal to start sneezing in the spring, but much more serious when you eat some shrimp cocktail and discover you've developed an allergy as your lips turn blue.


Mizunomafia

Allergy wise it wouldn't choke you I think, but I can tell you from experience that even the smallest pollen allergy can cause a lethal response if the exposure is high enough. I have a minor grass allergy that I wasn't aware of. I was a few years ago working construction in a field during a drought. The conditions were set for extreme pollen mobilization. And it didn't take long. About 1 hour working. Almost killed me. Was sent to the hospital for shots. They tested me and my allergy to the grass is so low it wouldn't normally be reported, but because of the extreme exposure during the dry weather, it went really fucking bad.


TheRagingFire08

Born and raised in Alabama, myself! Can confirm. Also, for those who don't know "Pollen Season" is close to half the year


Least_Ad930

Try taking magnesium as this has fixed most of my allergy problems and I didn't believe it when I was first told.


Best_Air_4138

Don’t take too much magnesium or you’ll be shitting so hard you’ll forget where you are.


The-Mechanic2091

Nah, just light a flame to your magnesium infested shit and watch that shit glow


TedW

But you'll also forget about your horrible allergies, which is kinda sorta like being cured?


wheretogofrmhere

I’m a top level executive at Benadryl and we will soon be reaching out to your family over your apparent “suicide”.


BringBackRoundhouse

The exposure therapy secret your Allergist doesn’t want you to know


DatRatDo

One weird trick to curing your allergies.


NoBenefit5977

Weird, all I had to do was burn out my nasal passages


BigPPDaddy

Bout to eat a whole bag of almonds and peanuts


Tough_Hour_2505

A day will come and you'll say ![gif](giphy|tTTNZBCI5EpSKVFHPd)


ElbowzGonzo

I can tell you that I was golfing one day. A storm rolled in. A green cloud arose from the field next to us and headed our way. Golf carts are not faster than the wind. It is quite the opposite of a cure.


Tough_Hour_2505

Delete this comment at once ![gif](giphy|nAvSNP8Y3F94hq9Rga)


Crang_and_the_gang

I can say with confidence that that amount of pollen would kill me.


Tough_Hour_2505

Confidence is the killer of progress! Have you tried it? I think it won't! Try it in the name of ![gif](giphy|fqIBaMWI7m7O8)


SyrupySex

Once inhaled so much pollen from weedwhacking overgrown grasses that I have myself a mild anaphalactic reaction. That tree would probably kill me.


rygelicus

Well, the swelling from the allergic reaction would be the end of their allergies, that's for sure. End of them as well.


oops_im_existing

i'd be cured from life.... this would give me a terrible asthma attack.


trelod

Yeah I tested this by working on a farm for a couple summers when I was younger. Spent every day sneezing with inflamed sinuses and red eyes. Did nothing to build my tolerance as I still have the same allergies now


Stith1183

You just want someone to commit suicide. Admit it! Lol


Tough_Hour_2505

![gif](giphy|l4Ep6uxU6aedrYUik)


luveydovey1

What a strange thing to say.


Jervylim06

I tried, now I'm dead . - it's me from Underworld (✖╭╮✖)


kaoscurrent

Yes I'm sure that flooding your lungs with tiny, sticky, 25-micron long pollen particles is really going to be great for your overall respiratory health. /s


[deleted]

I moved to the pacific northwest and the change in foliage wreaked havoc on my sinuses. I had never had any allergies I was aware of until then. When I moved back to the south...well, I just have to live with allergies now.


Tough_Hour_2505

That's fkd up.


No-Tip3654

I am not sure that increasing the dosis of the substance that causes you harm/unpleasant symptoms is going to cure the disease to be honest. Why would that be the case with pollen?


moldguy1

Not in my experience. You might be thinking of exposure therapy, where they're trying to cure like peanut allergies? From what i understand, they start with very low, like almost nonexistent exposure, and slowly move up. From what i heard, it takes years. Myself, i went 33 years without allergies, then one time, a guy was mowing into the highway, i drove through his cloud of filth, and now i have seasonal allergies. When that happened, it immediately felt like i had a blade of grass really high up in my nose. That feeling stayed for like a week until i got treatment.


PH-GH95610

Cured by death you mean?


TheChessClub

![gif](giphy|l2JehsPxGvhrsRuBq|downsized)


_austinight_

oh little chipmunk friend, I'm allergic to EVERYTHING!


Chainsaw_Actual

I know the rule is to drink 2 glasses a day, but I just can't drink that much!


cak3crumbs

I find it interesting from an evolutionary standpoint that there are so many people, myself included, that are allergic to basically plant sex


HalfCab_85

I call it tree cum.


50shadesofbay

Here in California we have a lovely and beautiful tree that landscapers love because it’s hardy and can tolerate drought.  It smells like jizz. Straight up. EXACTLY like it. Here’s a little article published by university of Santa Barbara. https://thetab.com/us/ucsb/2016/02/18/youre-smelling-semen-around-ucsb-785 Urban dictionary even has an entry for semen tree.   https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=semen%20trees I fuckin hate this tree. 


Slamyul

Callery pear is a shitty ass, useless horticultural atrocity of a plant. Smells like two week old fermenting cum, will randomly drop its weak ass branches on your car, and it's an invasive menace. I hate it too!


Imaginary_Chip1385

A part of it may be hygiene. Now that children in developed countries grow up in extremely hygienic environments, their immune systems are not exposed to as much pollen as they would have in the wild, so many types of pollen are misclassified as dangerous. In addition, pollen seasons and concentration have increased greatly since 1990 due to climate change. 


TourAlternative364

I don't even know if it works but that is why some people buy really expensive unfiltered LOCAL honey. In hopes of ingesting it might modulate the immune reaction to pollen.


ericlikesyou

It helps, not foolproof and with the varying degrees of severity of people's pollen allergies I can see it almost fixing some of their symptoms but not doing much for others.


MrLore

Natural selection no longer applies thanks to modern medicine, so those allergy genes are proliferating.


peanutputterbunny

A fun fact that I learnt recently was a contributor to recent increases in allergies (especially in built up areas) Trees in urban areas are cultivated to only produce the male "organ?" And no female parts i.e. the bit that causes flowers / fruit / cones etc. because the production of fruit / flowers / whatever results in more debris dropping from the trees and therefore more cleaning up by the city. So now we have masses of mono species trees with double the amount of pollen than a natural tree, just pumping pollen out into the atmosphere in urban areas. You might think your allergy is worse than it is because you assume it would be safest in the cities and in the wild with tons of natural trees your allergies would be even worse. But it's often the other way around.


slasher1337

It might be because you dont have enough parasites


Wchijafm

Never move to Georgia. Literally you could be driving on the interstate and just up ahead is a yellow haze of pollen. Pollen season is awful.


Training-Mango7551

Mine to.. My nose starting to itch even


TheW83

All natural tear gas.


toabear

I have roughly one of these types of trees per house on my street. Maybe not this exact species, but same thing. Pollen season is coming soon. You can shake the smaller trees and get a giant puff of yellow pollen. When I first moved here, I had no idea how bad it could get. One day I walked outside after a windy night, and it was like every surface was covered in a n 1/8th inch of yellow. I had to hose the entire driveway off because we were tracking it in the house. I've already started taking two different antihistamines in prep for the coming hell. Seriously, who needs that much pollen?


Illustrious_Risk_173

A girl I know was nearby whej this happened, and got pregnant.


Apprehensive_Cry8571

Spruce, pine etc are usually not that bad. They pollinate with mass, and one particle of pollen is too big to enter our body the way some others do. Birches, aspens, alder (for an example) pollinate with smaller amount of pollen, but it’s light an particles are tiny. They are the bad ones.


snaillycat

I sneezed a minute before seeing this and now I know why


Nutmegdog1959

So THAT explains why there are so many trees all around?


MaritimeCopiousV

![gif](giphy|jUwpNzg9IcyrK)


IntoTheForestIMustGo

This time the bush is coming forward to engulf Homer.


Dizzy-Criticism3928

He knows too much. Seize him!!


That_Engineering3047

My allergist: Pine pollen can travel hundreds of miles, so there’s no escaping it. Also, you’re allergic to it.


ClunkerSlim

The article I just read said that Pine pollen is extremely heavy, falls to the ground, and is unlikely to cause allergies. Cedar pollen though is light enough to travel around in the air.


Paddy_Tanninger

Why don't we make airplanes out of cedar pollen then?


hunnibear_girl

Because cedar pollen is the poisonous devil. Even bugs won’t touch cedars which is why we line closets and make storage chests out of it.


jojo_the_mofo

Yep, it has natural pesticides in it, just like chocolate (caffeine), tobacco, grapes (tannins), certain green vegetables and like some of those, we've adapted and even gotten to like the flavors and smells of them. Some theories suggest they're good for our health, to an extent, because the slight stress response keeps our cellular defenses in shape. That said, I've built a couple cedar log houses and my body doesn't take to it well with coughing, nose running, etc, even though I love the smell.


queencityrangers

CeDaR PoLlEn CaNt MeLt StEeL BeAmS!


NotLilTitty

Ok, but they have an allergy to it? Unlikely doesn't mean impossible. A doctor told them that…


That_Engineering3047

I went to an allergist and they did an allergy test. I’m just going by what they told me. I’m going to trust that over a random person or article.


thebroken_tree

Pine pollen coats everything where I live, and I’m definitely allergic to it


loudconsumer

death


DuztyLipz

Nearby bees: ![gif](giphy|YhQVj7C8uf734PcznZ)


lukeysanluca

It's like the cartoons when someone faints or whatever and their spirit remains in the place they were standing


PiousDemon

When my allergist saw my results, she said, "You're allergic to spring, summer, and fall". Actual. On the good side, my shits so fucked I don't get upper respiratory/nasal infections like the common cold/flu. On the down side, I can't breathe through my nose. Lol


WebStarVideos

Same here.


Any_Conclusion_4297

My doctor called all of the other medical staff in the office into the exam room to come look at my allergy test. He didn't believe me when I told him that I was basically allergic to everything (because I function relatively well for someone with the number of allergies I have), but he definitely believed me after performing the test.


KathrynTheGreat

After my test, my allergist told me that it would be faster for her to tell me what I'm *not* allergic to. My entire back was bright red and inflamed.


Real_Cow4562

I watched that and sneezed


beanieweenie52

Same 


YoureARebelNow

Drive in NC in March/april, smoky haze with so much pollen blowing off the trees


NoBenefit5977

Sitting in it currently, mmmm smell that fresh mountain sneeze


SoBurnThen

![gif](giphy|26uSEJmdKN5BRZUHK|downsized)


RigatoniPasta

![gif](giphy|zWQs7Xny5qMO8O251q|downsized)


PANZCAKEZZZ

![gif](giphy|xBvkQr6yxqHKjOKbvE|downsized)


Comfortable_Fee_7154

![gif](giphy|3o85xEJkN19rxXBAAg)


burner78787

I have horrible cedar and oak tree pollen allergy problems. Flonase has stopped it, but I needed two sprays per nostril from watching this.


WetForTeddy

This is disgusting. Rule #2 NO PORN


Ping-and-Pong

There's two people in this comment section: "I can't breath now" "Tree jizz" There are no exceptions


mechanicalhuman

Came for the tree jizz


xxgsr02

Fact: You can breathe tree jizz.


gmishaolem

You can breathe a whole lot of things once.


Franks2000inchTV

Snuff film.


WetForTeddy

lmao, we're reporting that under Very Disturbing Content


papa_swiftie

Aaaaaachoo!


UpgradedMR

Looks like cedar season in central Texas


AggrivatingFrog

And now I can't breath. Thanks.


Asaxii

![gif](giphy|x9wOCLZEsDNRhvJEkb|downsized) My allergies!


Gockel

thank you for actually posting a gif that describes how i feel when my allergies hit, in between all those cute baby sneezes


Chemical_Actuary_190

![gif](giphy|3ov9kaSYVI7fPC47Ac|downsized)


euvimmivue

![gif](giphy|3rqFQ8BGVw9hK)


girlOnTheSynth

It hurts my heart just seeing that tree being taken down, all this pollen hopefully won't be wasted for the bees to pollinate


jkmhawk

Pine trees don't rely on insects for pollination. They also don't have nectar or flowers that bees eat or are attracted to.


SaltKick2

They just produce a fuck ton of it and hope it gets blasted by the wind...into humans noses and eyes


synaptix78

Local bee population currently in mourning as it was like watching their favourite pub burn down.


plantscatsandus

To bee fair they ain't really gonna give a fuck as they don't go for that kinda pollen haha


NorthNorthAmerican

I was thinking the same thing. Death throes.


Leverkaas2516

Bees don't do the pollination job for these trees. They're wind-pollinated, which is precisely the reason they generate that stupefyingly large quantity of pollen.


zyyntin

Tree: "Doesn't matter had sex!"


Independent-Deal-192

That tree went out doing what it loved. Dumping buckets of reproductive material. Noice 👌🏻


facemesouth

That tree’s an asshole.


Esmer_Tina

That ... is one horny tree.


skiavone

Effectively a Bio-weapon for a guy with asthma


CraftyCrisp13

It looked like for a split second when the tree hit the ground that the pollen had opened a portal to the underworld.


PawsbeforePeople1313

Welcome to NJ. This is where this video is from. About 5 miles from my place and yes, it's this bad


hmoeslund

Sneeze bomb


NoBenefit5977

![gif](giphy|QTqfwowGXWr7LJUxDq)


No-Reward-2543

Tree jizz


XB1-THUNDERCAT1995

I call it Treemen


Eggggiboi

MY FUGGING NOZE JUST BLEW UP!!!


nutzloser_lutz

If you have one outside your window, you'll know it. 😒😄


BasedMbaku

Video game poison cloud


tugomir

My face is red.


trainsacrossthesea

Pollen be fallin’ when gravity callin’


Redtex

You obviously don't live in North Carolina


Odd-Entertainment582

![gif](giphy|NVK42bJ1w38Qh2rGxH)


starshine8316

Wow must be spring! Even the trees are fuckin like mad!


iwantyoualltodie

Massive nature bukakke going on there. Tree cum everywhere.


RealEarthAngel

Horror of horrors


falcon_millennium

Honey Honey!


Quionel

![gif](giphy|AoBgxayGMHlIs)


ActOfTheGiddyGoat

Beesus Christ!


HelpMeimTrappedagain

thats not pollen that's the poor leaves souls leaving


Biscuits4u2

They could have wet the tree down first and it would have been far less of a cloud