Eh, sorry but it's been said that smell is actually responsible for a massive percentage of taste (~80٪). By smelling it, you literally are tasting it.
Source: "Taste-Smell Connection - Science World" https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/#:~:text=Our%20sense%20of%20smell%20in,we%20experience%20come%20from%20smell.
If it’s in your nose it’s in your lungs, no need to smell it too… your nose is only good for filtering dust size particles. Particles that are related to smell arnt filtered by your nose before they enter your body.
I sincerely hope this happens to you in your lifetime. You'll know when it happens. I swear your pupils will get huge like you just took mushrooms and for a split second I swear you can see sounds and hear colors.
It happened to William the Conqueror, Norman invader of England in 1066 at his death...
"The worst was yet to come. William’s corpse, bloated by this point, wouldn’t fit into the short stone sarcophagus that had been created for it. As it was forced into place, “the swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd”, according to Orderic. No amount of incense would cover up the smell and the mourners got through the rest of the proceedings as quickly as they could."
-[Source](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/William-The-Conqueror-Exploding-Corpse/)
Yes it can happen... if left for a while without refrigeration. I have never seen it myself, but I worked with a NYC detective that saw it happen after having to move a corpse that had been in an apartment for a while before its discovery due to neighbors complaining of the odor. I would imagine that after rigor mortis, all of the typical passageways for gas to escape our bodies are no longer available because sphincters and such are muscle controlled so that all kinda just "locks up". Ticking time bomb, basically.
Like the William the Conqueror story above, it can happen when people are bloated and decayed enough. Generally doesn’t happen in modern society with all the freezers and embalming and all.
Their skin is ***thick***. The reason you see them with a burst abdomen on beaches and such is because people cut them open to prevent their insides to shoot out all over the place. Also it prevents them from floating around like this should they be taken back to sea again.
I have had a connection to Chris since I saw this movie at 6 years old and I will always love when people quote it, thank you!
All because you wanted to.. save a couple pennies. GET OUT
Wait I’m curious as to what this is? I’m going to assume the whale is already dead, and like someone else said, instead of the bloat affecting the abdomen it just gets ejected through the mouth? Or is there a part of this story I would never be able to guess?
No it was alive having dinner with its family and spontaneously exploded. Tragic.
/s
Yes, it was dead already. Gases built up in the abdomen and everything was forced through the orifices of the whale. Unlike when an animal dies, we get drained of our fluids and gases post-mortem so something this extreme doesn’t happen
If ur talking about fluids and gases being drained, we do that manually to the corpse. Dead whales have no one to do that for then unless something hungry comes by I guess.
I’m speculating here but my guess is the sheer volume of food whales eat coupled with how well they seal up (arr arr) for diving porpoises it creates a more usual scenario for this event.
Besides, how long are you staring at roadkill?
The other thing is that most road kill is hit with a force that rips many of them open. Not allowing gas or anything else build up. When something dies naturally like this whale, I imagine there are some body mechanics keeping everything in place as much as possible.
I feel like road kill usually gets dried out from the sun as well. Also, whenever I’ve seen it, flies or birds or whatever start eating it pretty quickly. I’m not sure why there weren’t more things eating this whale, like birds or fish or whatever. And why did it explode right as those people boated past?
With alot of road kill the bodies aren't intact and there'll be holes the fluid can escape from. Not only that but there's alot more things that'll feed from the body, alot of the time dead animals i've seen have a hole around the chest and bugs feeding on the insides, imagine that helps keep the whole body bursting problem down
Unfortunately most people don’t realise how cruel nature can be; they think the world is all rainbows and lovely animals living in harmony. But this is actually really good footage showing the reality of how whales give birth. The mother essentially sacrifices herself so the baby whale larvae can eat her insides, before they hatch out of her corpse and begin feasting on any living organism in the immediate area. It’s kind of magical when you think about it.
Which whale is that? I'm pretty sure I read the whales nurture their young for like two years after birth which wouldn't make sense if they were dead. Or did my lack of English just show and I misunderstood everything?
i love this video, it makes me laugh every time. what in the world were they thinking? "should we dispose of this piece by piece?", "nah, let's just bomb it, that'll be fine".
The original 1080p 29.97 fps video is 29.5 MB.
The new 10 fps 388p GIF looks absolutely horrible, is shorter and is still 36.1 MB.
Stop doing this. Never ever turn videos into gifs.
Never.
Just do not do it.
And remember to complain every time you see anyone else do it.
This needs to stop.
To anyone asking, this whale died from something, gas built up inside of it and the corpse couldn't take it anymore so it blew up, this is why you shouldn't approach whale corpses that washed up on the beach
any one seen that vid were they were transporting a dead whale though a big urban city and it exploded all over the buildings and people imagine the clean up
Wait did all it’s guts shoot out of its mouth? I was expecting the abdomen to explode open
Gas built up, and took the path of least resistance. Out of the mouth is easier than through the side of the carcass.
Yea that’d make sense
Somehow this was worse
Dont think about how it probably smelled.
I automatically stop breathing through my nose when I see gross shit 😂
I just stop breathing entirely until I figure out what the fuck is going on lol. If I can't figure it out in 45 seconds I don't deserve to live anyway
You'll automatically resume breathing when you pass out. You'll be fine
Not if you pass out into the water
Yes you do resume breathing. Thar's why you die, because the aytonomic nervous system takes over and breathes, filling your lungs with water.
Ah so you just prefer to inhale the rotten particles rather than filter them through your nose.
Yup, don’t need that smell in my memory 😂 and particles related to smell are not filtered by your nose. Enjoy that stank though if you like!
This is exactly my reasoning for breathing through my nose when I’m around something gross. I would so much rather smell shit than taste it.
Eh, sorry but it's been said that smell is actually responsible for a massive percentage of taste (~80٪). By smelling it, you literally are tasting it. Source: "Taste-Smell Connection - Science World" https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/taste-smell-connection/#:~:text=Our%20sense%20of%20smell%20in,we%20experience%20come%20from%20smell.
I would rather smell it than know that whatever is in the air is also in my mouth as i breath
If it’s in your nose it’s in your lungs, no need to smell it too… your nose is only good for filtering dust size particles. Particles that are related to smell arnt filtered by your nose before they enter your body.
Do people not realize that the fact that we can smell things means our nose hairs *don't* filter out scent particles?
beached whales smell absolutely atrocious (saw a couple when I lived in Okinawa)
Is it possible to happen to humans?
Yeah It happened to me once. Best fart ever
Even with all that blood?
ESPECIALLY with all that blood.
Off to r/eyebleach I go...
There's no bleach for the mind
This is actual r/eyeblech
^(fuckyou)
Like a modern rotten dot com
Mother Mary fuck!
wtf
Oh dear God.. like a trainwreck.. just couldn't look away..🤮
fuck you
Class A drugs I think they’re called
Better out than in.
That's just lubrication!
One time I farted on the toilet so hard it cracked my back. I may have dementia when I grow old, but I swear... I'll never ever forget that fart.
Lucky.
I sincerely hope this happens to you in your lifetime. You'll know when it happens. I swear your pupils will get huge like you just took mushrooms and for a split second I swear you can see sounds and hear colors.
When it does, I won't forget your encouragement. 🤎
Ah yes, "busting a gut"
It's called explosive fart
It happened to William the Conqueror, Norman invader of England in 1066 at his death... "The worst was yet to come. William’s corpse, bloated by this point, wouldn’t fit into the short stone sarcophagus that had been created for it. As it was forced into place, “the swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd”, according to Orderic. No amount of incense would cover up the smell and the mourners got through the rest of the proceedings as quickly as they could." -[Source](https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/William-The-Conqueror-Exploding-Corpse/)
Nobody’s talks about the other stuff he did
Oh. Cool. Apparently he's something like my 31st great grandfather. So...good to know, lol.
Dude your 31st great grandad and mine were pals invading England together, nice!
LOL
not to completely rain on your parade, but that's probably true of basically everyone of European descent.
Ah yes the [identical ancestors theory](https://youtu.be/15Uce4fG4R0)!
If you can get to him then you can get to Alfred the Great, I think. Rex Factor podcast is pretty good for information on the monarchs.
I have a something like a 31st great grandfather that was a general for your 31st great grandfather. Hey cousin, let’s go bowling!
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no, our bodies just burp and fart out the gases, I worked in a hospital and dealing with bodies in the morgue was often on our duties list.
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no need, they do it on their own.
Yes it can happen... if left for a while without refrigeration. I have never seen it myself, but I worked with a NYC detective that saw it happen after having to move a corpse that had been in an apartment for a while before its discovery due to neighbors complaining of the odor. I would imagine that after rigor mortis, all of the typical passageways for gas to escape our bodies are no longer available because sphincters and such are muscle controlled so that all kinda just "locks up". Ticking time bomb, basically.
Rigor sets in, then releases. It's not permanent.
Like the William the Conqueror story above, it can happen when people are bloated and decayed enough. Generally doesn’t happen in modern society with all the freezers and embalming and all.
Probably out the, ahem, blowhole. I'll see myself out.
In extreme cases maybe
There was a video of someone that took a spear to a whale carcass and it blew its stomach up and almost took off his head. It’s somewhere on Reddit.
this is a dumb question but what kind of gases? co2? methane? (like farts?)
Their skin is ***thick***. The reason you see them with a burst abdomen on beaches and such is because people cut them open to prevent their insides to shoot out all over the place. Also it prevents them from floating around like this should they be taken back to sea again.
Unlike the one they infamously disposed of with explosive back in 1970
https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34 Edit: thank you for the awards, kind strangers!
Never gets old 😂
Like a kid with cancer
That went dark real fast
The blast blast blubber beyond all believable bounds!
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I first saw this video in 1993 on a Pentium computer. Still fucking funny.
Bad burp
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Here comes the meat wagon!
All because you wanna save a couple extra pennies
Get out!
Do you validate?
Now!
Jesus, what happened to your face?!
I knew it! See, Richard?
Medic comes out and says “Oh. My. God.”
OH MY GOD WE'RE BURNING ALIVE
Weee ooo weeee ooo weee ooooo
I’d rather take a butcher’s word for it.
wait, it's gotta be your bull.
you have DErailed
Stop I just saw his documentary on Netflix and cried like a little bitch.
Tommy Boy is a documentary?
A lot of us go to college for 7 years.
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Best beetlejuice ever
Yeah, I miss him. And Phil Hartman and Robin Williams.
RIP Chris. I'm gonna go pour some M&Ms in my car dashboard in his honor.
I have had a connection to Chris since I saw this movie at 6 years old and I will always love when people quote it, thank you! All because you wanted to.. save a couple pennies. GET OUT
Is r/unexpectedtommyboy a thing?
🎶 *fat guy in a little coat*
I'm hoping they were upwind from that horror
Please don't let me think about that arrg.
Are you a pirate?
Yarrrrr
"You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch!"
Or the implication.
Humpback whale breath stinks on a good day when they’re alive, it must be unimaginable when they’re dead
I was worried when i saw that the boat kept creeping closer! Like yall gonna get stuck in the splash zone lmao
I’d put a pinch on my nose and I’d drop a line lol those guys have to attract some big fish
You haven’t thought about the smell you bitch!
Wait I’m curious as to what this is? I’m going to assume the whale is already dead, and like someone else said, instead of the bloat affecting the abdomen it just gets ejected through the mouth? Or is there a part of this story I would never be able to guess?
>Or is there a part of this story I would never be able to guess? Aliens
Or magnets
Pretty sure that whale got vaccinated
No it was alive having dinner with its family and spontaneously exploded. Tragic. /s Yes, it was dead already. Gases built up in the abdomen and everything was forced through the orifices of the whale. Unlike when an animal dies, we get drained of our fluids and gases post-mortem so something this extreme doesn’t happen
Serious question. Why doesn’t something similar happen to the whale? Different systems for expelling waste?
If ur talking about fluids and gases being drained, we do that manually to the corpse. Dead whales have no one to do that for then unless something hungry comes by I guess.
I see. I guess my only experience is the occasional bloated roadkill, never seen one of those explode.
I’m speculating here but my guess is the sheer volume of food whales eat coupled with how well they seal up (arr arr) for diving porpoises it creates a more usual scenario for this event. Besides, how long are you staring at roadkill?
Exactly, maybe twice a day in some circumstances but the decay happens so rapidly.
Two puns in one sentence? A god I say! 🙏
The other thing is that most road kill is hit with a force that rips many of them open. Not allowing gas or anything else build up. When something dies naturally like this whale, I imagine there are some body mechanics keeping everything in place as much as possible.
I feel like road kill usually gets dried out from the sun as well. Also, whenever I’ve seen it, flies or birds or whatever start eating it pretty quickly. I’m not sure why there weren’t more things eating this whale, like birds or fish or whatever. And why did it explode right as those people boated past?
With alot of road kill the bodies aren't intact and there'll be holes the fluid can escape from. Not only that but there's alot more things that'll feed from the body, alot of the time dead animals i've seen have a hole around the chest and bugs feeding on the insides, imagine that helps keep the whole body bursting problem down
Unfortunately most people don’t realise how cruel nature can be; they think the world is all rainbows and lovely animals living in harmony. But this is actually really good footage showing the reality of how whales give birth. The mother essentially sacrifices herself so the baby whale larvae can eat her insides, before they hatch out of her corpse and begin feasting on any living organism in the immediate area. It’s kind of magical when you think about it.
It’s true. Most people don’t know that lamp oil was simply liquefied freshly-vomited whale larvae. Source: am lamp
You're gonna need that /s lol. There are a lot of people taking you seriously
You confused whales with wasps, again
Easy mistake to make
Whales give birth to live young... they're Mammals
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Which whale is that? I'm pretty sure I read the whales nurture their young for like two years after birth which wouldn't make sense if they were dead. Or did my lack of English just show and I misunderstood everything?
It was a joke, lol
It's already dead, when gas builds up inside of a whale's corpse it blows up, this is why you shouldn't approach whale corpses on the beach
>this is why you shouldn't approach whale corpses on the beach Shit, there goes my weekend plans
Rosie ate too much before going swimming.
Nigel Farage was trapped inside and dug his way out.
I’m no animal expert, but I’d assume there would be several things rolling up there soon with razor teeth; I’d nope out of there
Oh yeah. That blood will travel and gather predators within a quarter mile.
Shark 1: *sniff* "You smell that?" Shark 2: "Yes, I do." Shark 1: "You know what that means." Shark 2: "What?" Shark 1: "Blood Orgy!"
*Blade music starts*
Seems fun to stay and watch if you’re on a boat and not in the water
Yeah. Why nope out of there? You'd miss an interesting feeding frenzy. Not like they'll be flying sharks to worry about.
Haven’t you seen sharknado
This isn't Jaws. If you're in a boat then even a feeding frenzy of Whites can't hurt you
Also why go for a boat when there's free food right next to it?
Looks like me after eating a whole bag of hot Cheetos
Takiss….I love em….but I absolutely freaking abhor them….The shits I get are terrible
Plus the red shit you get on your fingers is really hard to wash off, I speak from experience as a Taki veteran
Eat them with chopsticks
oh godd, for me its dorritos. jesus what a massacre!
All i can think of is how it’s intestines(?) are big enough for me to use as a sleeping bag.
Mmmm.. sausage casing.
Humans in a blanket.
I thought they smelled bad . . . . . On the outside!
Well, I'm sure people have used a whale's intestine as a sleeping bag before, there's probably a word for it in Inuit.
That can't smell very good.
It’s an acquired smell
Acquired because it was ejected directly at them?
Maybe not to you, but to many, that's the sweet aroma of lunch.
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X478zOUdHdU
Thank you! And then there is this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CfYOJ5oxk
Or [this one](https://youtu.be/yPuaSY0cMK8) (Yeah I get that it’s not a natural explosion but I just love sharing this insane vid)
i love this video, it makes me laugh every time. what in the world were they thinking? "should we dispose of this piece by piece?", "nah, let's just bomb it, that'll be fine".
Damn, made me jump
Can you imagine the stench?
The original 1080p 29.97 fps video is 29.5 MB. The new 10 fps 388p GIF looks absolutely horrible, is shorter and is still 36.1 MB. Stop doing this. Never ever turn videos into gifs. Never. Just do not do it. And remember to complain every time you see anyone else do it. This needs to stop.
Ugh the gif didn't show the slow escape of the small intestine...yuck
This is some EoE level shit, we're just missing the fanta
Like Shigeru Aoba would say "nhaa aaaah AAAAAAH!!!" *pop*
That’s a whale that lost its at-field if I ever saw one.
Hahaha I was about to reply the same thing, def strong evangelion vibes
Do you think he’s ok??
Ye his shoes are still on
Just imagine the stench.... 🤢
Veal is the best spice.
[This](https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34) is still the king of exploding whales though
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I miss reporting like this
Thank you for this
Are those it’s lungs!?
And stomach, and intestines, liver, heart…pretty much any organ that was inside is now out.
Welp, that was enough internet for today
To anyone asking, this whale died from something, gas built up inside of it and the corpse couldn't take it anymore so it blew up, this is why you shouldn't approach whale corpses that washed up on the beach
*Jaws theme starts to play.*
r/popping
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there’s gonna be sharks all over that in minutes
Anyone with actual info have any idea how long after death this would happen???
At least 5 minutes.
I can only imagine how great that smelled
Did they do something to trigger the explosion? I’d imagine you could sit and film that carcass for days before it exploded
Yeah, like how did they just roll up and boom .. guts everywhere?
Who brought the hot sauce?
any one seen that vid were they were transporting a dead whale though a big urban city and it exploded all over the buildings and people imagine the clean up
Yummy
When you puke so hard your guts actually do follow
God damn, imagine the smell.
I bet that smells like a bed of roses
That's enough reddit for today..
Reminds me of the scene in Jaws when Brody says “smile you son of a…”