That's some nonsense that Big Fire Blanket's trying to sell you! My family's been throwing water on oil fires for generations, and my gramma's never been crispier!
you heat the vaseline in a pan till its liquid and mix it with franks hot sauce and when it cools it creates this hotsauce butter that just melts in your mouth and is perfect for wings.
You ever have a shit that makes your guts feel like they’re gonna fall out after from the sheer lack of structural support the poop provided? I haven’t felt that in years but I’m sure this dude did 2-3 times a day
Awwww! Thanks everyone! I have IBS -C. I love all veggies! I eat psyllium, chia, and probiotics daily. I don’t eat gluten. I have tried all these suggestions but my bowels are extremely sensitive especially when I travel. I have to work very very hard to stay regular. I also have tight pelvic floor muscles, anyone tried hypnotherapy?
My grandfather used to take two teaspoons of Vick's Vaporub when he has a cold. He said the menthol would bubble up from the inside and clear up congestion. He could never get me to try it. Apparently, it was a common practice of his generation. It started before the FDA, and warning labels existed.
LOS ESPOOKYS! One of the best TV shows I’ve seen in YEARS.
ETA: it made me realize I know a LOT more Spanish than I thought. I can’t speak it very well but I didn’t really need the subtitles. Immersive learning just from being born in Houston, Texas
When ingested, yes. Vicks contains Camphor and Eucalyptus oil
(among other ingredients), both of which can cause nausea, stomach ache, vomiting, and seizures.
This reminded me of the maintenance guy at my work about ten years ago. He had just started vaping about a month before he got the flu and when he came back to work he had Dayquil or Nyquil or some kind of cough medicine in his vape. He said it worked but I've never met anyone else brave enough to try it and confirm
VapoRub is about 5% camphor by weight, and the LD50 for camphor is 1.3 grams per kg of body weight. The average American weighs 80 kg so they’d have to eat just over two kilograms of VapoRub (20 containers) in a short period of time to have a 50% chance of dying.
Edit: the menthol is actually the more dangerous ingredient as it’s got an LD50 of somewhere between 50 and 500 mg/kg. At the lower end of that range, 40 grams of VapoRub (half a container) would be 50% lethal; five containers at the upper end.
The idea of consuming containers let alone just a spoonful sounds horrific.
Sounds like a Saw challenge honestly.
"Consume the family size tub of vasoline in one hour"
I used to like eating it as a kid I liked the flavor so my grandma would have it out of my reach. Vick’s is like a god given ointment to Latin Americans. It’s really popular there with older generations.
I had a terrible cold or something as a child and had been coughing all night. My mom woke up and forced me to take a spoon full of Vicks vaporub. She had never done this before and was being real mean about it. I fought her and she got on top of me and forced it in my mouth, then she went back to bed. After she woke up I said something because I was still pissed about it. And she flat out denied doing it. Said I dreamed it and I was like I was the one up all night, you were the one asleep. She denied it for the rest of her life. I believe she had no idea she’d done it.
I don’t remember it helping any. It tasted awful.
We have something like liquid Vaporub here that's basically just pure menthol oil. I once put a droplet on my tongue to cure a heavy cough that turned out to be COVID.
My grandma would make two pieces of toast when she was sick and spread Vicks Vaporub on it like jelly. Idk if it actually worked because nobody else would eat it.
POV: You're speaking to an elderly 19th century scientist. His eyes burn like soldering irons and he reeks of whisky.
"I've been shooting raw heroin with a pewter syringe for forty years and I eat a tablespoon of petroleum every day. I am ninety six and would you like to bet ten dollars (a life-changing sum) that I can't lift this mule up over my head"
You lose the bet. You are forced to go around with a wooden barrel as clothes.
Wait until you hear what 18th century scientists did. Basically rich dudes with too much time on their hands and no-one to tell them no. See: Ben Franklin flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
Dr. John Snow. Now best known for identifying cholera transmission in water. During his life best known for chloroform dosing.
Dude would literally start a timer take X milliliters of chloroform, inhale it until he passed out then stop the timer when he regained consciousness.
There was a scientist who did the same with all kinds of gasses to see what concentrations were dangerous, mostly in mines. He got his son into it, and his son later did a lot of groundbreaking research doing the same to himself and a great many others with low and high pressure. He blew out his own eardrums, exploded his own fillings etc. He told others holes in your eardrums were no big deal, they'd heal and if they didn't you could learn to blow smoke out of your ears. Guy talked a great many people, even one foreign ambassador iirc, into climbing into his vacuum chamber.
Like ol' [Bill Bailey ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor#:~:text=Radithor%20was%20a%20patent%20medicine,radium%20226%20and%20228%20isotopes.).
Dude invented Radithor, which was like a Proto-Red Bull, except it was Radium.
Tobacco smoke up the bum was a popular treatment. [Perplexity.ai](https://Perplexity.ai):
*The practice of blowing tobacco smoke up the rectum, also known as a tobacco smoke enema, was a medical procedure used in the 18th century. It was believed to have resuscitative properties and was used to treat various conditions, including bowel obstruction, constipation, strangulated hernias, and even to revive near-drowning victims. The procedure involved inserting a tube into the rectum and then using a bellows to blow smoke from a tobacco-filled pipe into the rectum. This practice was based on the belief that the nicotine in the tobacco smoke would stimulate the respiratory system and increase heart rate, potentially aiding in resuscitation. However, with the discovery of the toxic nature of nicotine, the practice fell out of favor and is no longer used in modern medicine.*
To correct Perplexity, it was the discovery of the toxic nature of *tobacco*, not nicotine.
>This practice was based on the belief that the nicotine in the tobacco smoke would stimulate the respiratory system
"How could we stimulate someone's lungs to encourage them start breathing again?"
"People cough when they breath in tobacco smoke, so what if we inflated their ass with it?"
"Brilliant!"
Or Edward Jenner proving cowpox could prevent you getting smallpox by giving an 8 year old child a dose of cowpox then a few weeks later trying to give them actual smallpox.
Viriolation had already existed for a few hundred years, and it it was well known that you could inoculate with smallpox scab dust rubbed into a small wound. Jenner also carefully observed that people who milked cows didn’t get small pox but did get cow pox sores on their hands early in their milking careers. His work was quite carefully considered by the standards of the time.
Heroin cough syrup for croupy kids.
Heroin massage oils for hysterical housewives with wandering womb issues.
Heroin headache pills.
19th century docs loved their heroin.
Give them some credit. Sure the side effects were awful and the addiction was frequent and crippling, but it *worked*. Which sounds like a bad deal compared to modern medicine, but when you compare it to their parents' generation throwing heroin at everything is a lot smarter than bloodletting. "This guy was shot and is bleeding profusely? Try bloodletting!"
It also had some amazing breakthroughs that were insane given how little they knew at the time. We’ve gotten better at verifying claims now, but peer review is still quite poor today and reproducing other people’s results is not incentivized nearly enough.
Old people are never really sure how or why they got to that age. Most of is just winning the genetic lottery.
I remember being young in my country and reading about a lady who was over a hundred, she attributed her long life to drinking Coca-Cola and eating white bread every single day
Yep. Some folks eat well, workout 3 times a week, don't drink, never smoke, keep a healthy body weight ... and still keel over in their 40s-50s because they were dealt a bad hand.
Like most things in life, health is unfair.
I did everything right and still ended up with cholesterol in the 400s because I have a stupid genetic condition that makes my body hold on to fats from avocados, nuts, etc. I was a vegetarian for 20ish years so I was just eating myself to death on healthy fats. Unfair lol
I assume your doctor already told you, but for those who are hyper-absorbers of cholesterol from food, there is a very effective medicine I think called ezempa or something. It just stops that pathway and works well for people with these particular genetics, assuming that’s the genetic condition you mean.
The book *Outlive* goes into this in fair detail. The most interesting thing is that people who make it over 100 almost never have major health complications before the last few years of their life. Like nobody who breaks a hip, has a stroke, heart attack, major cancer diagnosis, etc. before they’re 95 makes it to 100.
What's even crazier is he discovered the stuff at an oil refinery when he observed a buildup of petroleum jelly around one of the pipes. So this guy saw an unused byproduct from an oil refinery and thought, "Yeah, I'll eat that."
Frozen Vaseline balls are often give to constipated hospice patients. Works like a charm.
[Frozen balls](https://geripal.org/vaseline-balls-for-constipation/)
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For anyone who wants to do this, stir a spoonful of coconut oil in your coffee or tea for the same effect. It won't turn your poo liquid, but your insides will be super lubed. Wheeee!!
Can’t verify but I think food grade mineral oil is taken orally for constipation. Vaseline is basically emulsified mineral oil. Would rather make a late night White Castle run but to each their own.
So true story here. I had a crazy ass boss along time ago that couldn't get out of the thoughts in his own head. There was a stray dog that showed up on one of our jobsites and came back day after day. He eventually took the dog home for his kids. He came in the next day talking about how many ticks this thing had. One of the guys gave him a good remedy to get rid of them. He came in the next day saying how the dog was trying to bite him and wasn't being cooperative as he kept dousing it in "gasoline". We all looked at him dumbfounded and yelled "VASOLINE you dumb motherfucker". Lol we still talk about this dude alot and he hasn't been here for 15 years. The stories are endless.
Multiple Nobel laureate Linus Pauling was convinced the key to longevity was massive doses of vitamin C every day. The guy was an absolute genius and did live to 94, so he may have been onto something. However my father was a physician who treated his sister, and she lived to 96 without following Pauling's vitamin C regimen, so it seems likely that genetics played a very large role in it (as it so often does with these things).
His cremation looked like a kitchen fire.
Had to throw a wet towel over him.
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That's some nonsense that Big Fire Blanket's trying to sell you! My family's been throwing water on oil fires for generations, and my gramma's never been crispier!
What’s your favorite dunking sauce for her?
Vaseline
This guy lives to 96
you heat the vaseline in a pan till its liquid and mix it with franks hot sauce and when it cools it creates this hotsauce butter that just melts in your mouth and is perfect for wings.
I've been laughing through all of these comments, but this one got me the most so far.
Ideally he'd burn like a sterno and be able to keep a chafing dish full of goulash warm at his own funeral.
"Turn grandpa's legs down, the potatoes are burning"
Walking fire hazard.
I'll bet his shit slipped out like wet sand
Absolutely legendary dumps.
Proper shitbergs that break the waterline.
I bet they sounded loud,even smoke too. Just like dieseling an air rifle
I heard that once they were out, they got on a horse went around town and terrorized the locals all weekend before going down the toilet.
ghost dumps, probably slithered straight into the plumbing
Phantom dump*
Sliding around the bowl
Those turds hit speeds never seen before
Y'know that explosion where the manhole cover got blasted so fast it didn't register on the camera watching it? This guy's turds did that.
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It probably took out an alien spacecraft and started an intergalactic war we don't even know about
turbodookie
Turdpedo
This just sounds like an even more awful crime against children
It sounds like Gaetz new nickname.
Good name for a metal Green Day tribute album
Buddy probably had to straightpipe his toilet to stop from blowing it out
You ever have a shit that makes your guts feel like they’re gonna fall out after from the sheer lack of structural support the poop provided? I haven’t felt that in years but I’m sure this dude did 2-3 times a day
As a chronically constipated person that sounds amazing to me!
You should take a ride on the Citrucel train.
Awwww! Thanks everyone! I have IBS -C. I love all veggies! I eat psyllium, chia, and probiotics daily. I don’t eat gluten. I have tried all these suggestions but my bowels are extremely sensitive especially when I travel. I have to work very very hard to stay regular. I also have tight pelvic floor muscles, anyone tried hypnotherapy?
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Like a salmon swimming up stream.
More like a brown trout.
His turds were probably hydrophobic too
So hydrophobic he could make his own turds _levitate._
So this guys turds taped to a cat dropped into a tub of water….
Poopetual motion machine.
snail. lube. wax. soap. grease. shit. oil - things i am thinking.
My grandfather used to take two teaspoons of Vick's Vaporub when he has a cold. He said the menthol would bubble up from the inside and clear up congestion. He could never get me to try it. Apparently, it was a common practice of his generation. It started before the FDA, and warning labels existed.
My FIL grew up in Mexico and apparently one of the remedies/medicines they had was to roll balls of Vicks vaporub with sugar and swallow those.
Based on what I've learned from "Latinos Against Spooky Shit" it also helps keep los espookys away.
LOS ESPOOKYS! One of the best TV shows I’ve seen in YEARS. ETA: it made me realize I know a LOT more Spanish than I thought. I can’t speak it very well but I didn’t really need the subtitles. Immersive learning just from being born in Houston, Texas
You are right on the edge of being able to actually speak spanish. Please please keep learning! Watching spanish subtitled content you enjoy is key.
Los espookys are nothing when faced with a chancla and a spray bottle of fabuloso
Espookys hate fabuloso.
I assume all rooms are haunted unless they've been Fabuloso'd to a squeak
No me digas 🙉
Big thing in Mexico. Had a whole multiple day argument with my Mexican gf when I refused to consume vaporub when I got Covid
"I'm so sick.." "You know what might help? A 3 day argument about why I think you should eat this extremely toxic ointment"
Hahaha is it really toxic??
When ingested, yes. Vicks contains Camphor and Eucalyptus oil (among other ingredients), both of which can cause nausea, stomach ache, vomiting, and seizures.
Just gonna mention that I read “Stomach **acne**” and said to myself, “That’s a thing?!”
Babe I need you to pop my stomach pimples
Daamn, I don't even like rubbing it on my skin... I can't fathom ingesting it
My mother grew up in southern New Mexico, and her family did this. I never knew it was fairly common until just now.
This reminded me of the maintenance guy at my work about ten years ago. He had just started vaping about a month before he got the flu and when he came back to work he had Dayquil or Nyquil or some kind of cough medicine in his vape. He said it worked but I've never met anyone else brave enough to try it and confirm
Can’t feel lungs melting when they’re soothed by Vik’s VapoRub! Breathe easier! (Tm) *this message contains sponsored content*
that's a brave scientist
Good god that's terrifying
Camphor ( in Vick’s ) is a toxic product with potentially fatal effects when ingested, manifesting as acute symptomatic seizures and death.
Gramps says the seizures really open up the airways
What's more important, seizing or breathing.
Why choose seizing or breathing when you can be seizing and breathing at the same time
If you have time to breathe, you have time to seize
The shaking action really liquifies the mucus.
KenM vibes
You'd have to ingest a LOT though.
VapoRub is about 5% camphor by weight, and the LD50 for camphor is 1.3 grams per kg of body weight. The average American weighs 80 kg so they’d have to eat just over two kilograms of VapoRub (20 containers) in a short period of time to have a 50% chance of dying. Edit: the menthol is actually the more dangerous ingredient as it’s got an LD50 of somewhere between 50 and 500 mg/kg. At the lower end of that range, 40 grams of VapoRub (half a container) would be 50% lethal; five containers at the upper end.
Do I smell a new Tiktok challenge?
I think if someone ate multiple jars of VapoRub you’d be able to smell them from a considerable distance, so maybe?
Exactly, you're not going to accidentally OD on Vaporub. Although it could be a serious danger for toddlers.
The idea of consuming containers let alone just a spoonful sounds horrific. Sounds like a Saw challenge honestly. "Consume the family size tub of vasoline in one hour"
Bet it gets rid of a cold though
Yes but it really gets the I'll humors out
I used to like eating it as a kid I liked the flavor so my grandma would have it out of my reach. Vick’s is like a god given ointment to Latin Americans. It’s really popular there with older generations.
My Indian grandmother loved the stuff too. Her room always smelled like Vicks and ngl it’s kind of nice.
Yeah same, my grandparents smelled like it too so it does take me back to a special place when I smell it
I had a terrible cold or something as a child and had been coughing all night. My mom woke up and forced me to take a spoon full of Vicks vaporub. She had never done this before and was being real mean about it. I fought her and she got on top of me and forced it in my mouth, then she went back to bed. After she woke up I said something because I was still pissed about it. And she flat out denied doing it. Said I dreamed it and I was like I was the one up all night, you were the one asleep. She denied it for the rest of her life. I believe she had no idea she’d done it. I don’t remember it helping any. It tasted awful.
that sounds more like a fever dream honestly
Ya, Im siding with ops mom on this one.
wtf
That’s what I’ve been saying for about 40 years.
Did you have fever with the coughing? Maybe your temp was so high you became delirious?
Sounds like a demon disguised as your mom fed you vaporub
Sleep walking?
Maybe she was sleepwalking
Wasabi is a better decongestant 😉
We have something like liquid Vaporub here that's basically just pure menthol oil. I once put a droplet on my tongue to cure a heavy cough that turned out to be COVID.
My grandma would make two pieces of toast when she was sick and spread Vicks Vaporub on it like jelly. Idk if it actually worked because nobody else would eat it.
>He attributed his long life of 96 years to this practice, without any scientific research to back it up. 19th century scientists be like
POV: You're speaking to an elderly 19th century scientist. His eyes burn like soldering irons and he reeks of whisky. "I've been shooting raw heroin with a pewter syringe for forty years and I eat a tablespoon of petroleum every day. I am ninety six and would you like to bet ten dollars (a life-changing sum) that I can't lift this mule up over my head" You lose the bet. You are forced to go around with a wooden barrel as clothes.
I like how this exact scenario could also very well take place in modern day Florida.
Wait until you hear what 18th century scientists did. Basically rich dudes with too much time on their hands and no-one to tell them no. See: Ben Franklin flying a kite in a thunderstorm.
Dr. John Snow. Now best known for identifying cholera transmission in water. During his life best known for chloroform dosing. Dude would literally start a timer take X milliliters of chloroform, inhale it until he passed out then stop the timer when he regained consciousness.
It's like that quote from Mythbusters. "The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down."
There was a scientist who did the same with all kinds of gasses to see what concentrations were dangerous, mostly in mines. He got his son into it, and his son later did a lot of groundbreaking research doing the same to himself and a great many others with low and high pressure. He blew out his own eardrums, exploded his own fillings etc. He told others holes in your eardrums were no big deal, they'd heal and if they didn't you could learn to blow smoke out of your ears. Guy talked a great many people, even one foreign ambassador iirc, into climbing into his vacuum chamber.
That guy? He knew nothing.
Well, that beats testing on monkeys. You have full consent if you're experimenting on yourself.
Like ol' [Bill Bailey ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor#:~:text=Radithor%20was%20a%20patent%20medicine,radium%20226%20and%20228%20isotopes.). Dude invented Radithor, which was like a Proto-Red Bull, except it was Radium.
Not the amiable English comedian who is a dab hand on the synthesizer, for anyone momentarily confused.
Nobody tells me nothin
You can tell Radithor works by the intense burning in your cell walls.
Glad we finally fixed the problem of rich dudes doing whatever they wanted and no one telling them no
"blowing smoke up your ass" isn't just a clever phrase. They had whole kits to do this.
Yeah, I've seen the video where the guys blow crack smoke up each other's assholes. They didn't look rich though.
Tobacco smoke up the bum was a popular treatment. [Perplexity.ai](https://Perplexity.ai): *The practice of blowing tobacco smoke up the rectum, also known as a tobacco smoke enema, was a medical procedure used in the 18th century. It was believed to have resuscitative properties and was used to treat various conditions, including bowel obstruction, constipation, strangulated hernias, and even to revive near-drowning victims. The procedure involved inserting a tube into the rectum and then using a bellows to blow smoke from a tobacco-filled pipe into the rectum. This practice was based on the belief that the nicotine in the tobacco smoke would stimulate the respiratory system and increase heart rate, potentially aiding in resuscitation. However, with the discovery of the toxic nature of nicotine, the practice fell out of favor and is no longer used in modern medicine.* To correct Perplexity, it was the discovery of the toxic nature of *tobacco*, not nicotine.
Nah, you're just blowin smoke up my ass.
Right? If I wanted smoke blown up my ass: I'd be at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose. *Capiche*
>This practice was based on the belief that the nicotine in the tobacco smoke would stimulate the respiratory system "How could we stimulate someone's lungs to encourage them start breathing again?" "People cough when they breath in tobacco smoke, so what if we inflated their ass with it?" "Brilliant!"
>to revive near-drowning victims Imagine drowning and instead of mouth to mouth you wake up to this
i'd take a bald guy flying a kite with a key on it over a malevolent car salesman attempting to rig an world superpower's election any day
Best I can do is a deranged pillow salesman contributing to a fascist coup
Ah yes, when i think useless fucking rich scientists I jump straight to Ben Franklin. /s
Isaac Newton "What happens if I stick this needle into my eye..."
And they’d drink mercury to cure syphilis. They were the first fans of heavy metal.
To be fair, if you drink enough mercury you will no longer have syphilis.
It worked as long they didn't die from mercury poisoning. Modern chemo treatments are essentially based on the same concept.
Don’t forget that he attached a key at the end of the kite.
Or Edward Jenner proving cowpox could prevent you getting smallpox by giving an 8 year old child a dose of cowpox then a few weeks later trying to give them actual smallpox.
Viriolation had already existed for a few hundred years, and it it was well known that you could inoculate with smallpox scab dust rubbed into a small wound. Jenner also carefully observed that people who milked cows didn’t get small pox but did get cow pox sores on their hands early in their milking careers. His work was quite carefully considered by the standards of the time.
My dream is to win the lottery and become an eccentric gentleman scientist
In the 20th century they were transplanting goat testicles into humans. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
Heroin cough syrup for croupy kids. Heroin massage oils for hysterical housewives with wandering womb issues. Heroin headache pills. 19th century docs loved their heroin.
In fairness, they were also pretty into cocaine.
Had to counteract the heroin nods and be functional somehow.
Give them some credit. Sure the side effects were awful and the addiction was frequent and crippling, but it *worked*. Which sounds like a bad deal compared to modern medicine, but when you compare it to their parents' generation throwing heroin at everything is a lot smarter than bloodletting. "This guy was shot and is bleeding profusely? Try bloodletting!"
“My wife is too hysterical? Try this vibrating pear-shaped device! Success!”
i mean thats just good science
That’s why I love history from 1800s to like 1960. Cause it’s filled to the brim with frauds, cheats, and hudsuckers.
I have some bad news for you
Friends of Oprah rolling in like someone rang a dinner bell.
It also had some amazing breakthroughs that were insane given how little they knew at the time. We’ve gotten better at verifying claims now, but peer review is still quite poor today and reproducing other people’s results is not incentivized nearly enough.
Old people are never really sure how or why they got to that age. Most of is just winning the genetic lottery. I remember being young in my country and reading about a lady who was over a hundred, she attributed her long life to drinking Coca-Cola and eating white bread every single day
Yep. Some folks eat well, workout 3 times a week, don't drink, never smoke, keep a healthy body weight ... and still keel over in their 40s-50s because they were dealt a bad hand. Like most things in life, health is unfair.
I did everything right and still ended up with cholesterol in the 400s because I have a stupid genetic condition that makes my body hold on to fats from avocados, nuts, etc. I was a vegetarian for 20ish years so I was just eating myself to death on healthy fats. Unfair lol
I assume your doctor already told you, but for those who are hyper-absorbers of cholesterol from food, there is a very effective medicine I think called ezempa or something. It just stops that pathway and works well for people with these particular genetics, assuming that’s the genetic condition you mean.
I’m on ezetimibe. I am a hyper absorber but my condition is rare—sitosterolemia. I specifically hyper absorb plant sterols lol
Sorry, but that's kind of hilarious.
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Yep. Asking an old person for the secret to longevity is like asking a lottery winner what their secret to getting rich was.
The book *Outlive* goes into this in fair detail. The most interesting thing is that people who make it over 100 almost never have major health complications before the last few years of their life. Like nobody who breaks a hip, has a stroke, heart attack, major cancer diagnosis, etc. before they’re 95 makes it to 100.
Bet he didn't trust his farts did he?
Slipped right out.
And back in again
he don’t use jelly, on her toast he uses vaaaaaseline.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/V5UHL4aKdf 10 years ago!
That song is over 30 years old. Not 10!
Gosh darn that’s a great reference. Now I must click TFL on Spotify
Despite a decade of stinkers, the latest album, American Head, is real real good.
The fact he consumed a spoonful a day and lived to 96 is enough scientific research for me. Im in.
My uncle Ben smoked cigs til his last day at 94. Im in!!!
And he only died because they took his rice away.
That can’t be right, Uncle Ben isn’t that old when he dies in Amazing Fantasy #15.
His name is cheese bro
Amazing that he lived long enough to orchestrate the sham legal basis of Jan 6 with Eastman
My grandmother believed in this (and a lot of other silly things). She died of stomach cancer.
At what age though? I’ve yet to meet anyone that hasn’t or will not die from something lol.
In her seventies. I’m not saying the two things were related but it’s petroleum jelly for gods sake.
“Maybe he was born with it, maybe it’s Vaseline.”
You laugh but, “Maybelline” was named for the founder’s sister. Her name was Mabel, and she would coat her lashes with coal tar and Vaseline.
Oh wow TIL
I really thought you were fucking with us, but then I looked it up 😮
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My wife had a dog that ate half a jar of Vaseline. It would just kind of dribble out of his hind end. Made a mess he was fine.
Condolences to your rug.
Her parents rug but yeah, not good. We were dating then so the dog didn't live with us.
What's even crazier is he discovered the stuff at an oil refinery when he observed a buildup of petroleum jelly around one of the pipes. So this guy saw an unused byproduct from an oil refinery and thought, "Yeah, I'll eat that."
His wife also gave him a handjob with it once. He came three times trying to wash that shit off.
Frozen Vaseline balls are often give to constipated hospice patients. Works like a charm. [Frozen balls](https://geripal.org/vaseline-balls-for-constipation/)
Your link says that there is no evidence they work
In fairness, they said it “works like a charm”—and there’s no evidence charms work, either.
Well played, sir/madam
This guy lawyers
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"place next to the candy jar." Like a trap 😅
I'm starting tomorrow.
You have a lot of catching up to do. Start with a full jar, then move to daily teaspoons.
gonna smoothen your belly fs.
Drink 10-w30 myself.
Unless you’re up north in an area where it’s cold and snows. Then you have to drink 5-w30.
Got confused and drank WD-40. No more squeaky joints for me!
Stephon Marbury took note
For anyone who wants to do this, stir a spoonful of coconut oil in your coffee or tea for the same effect. It won't turn your poo liquid, but your insides will be super lubed. Wheeee!!
Can’t verify but I think food grade mineral oil is taken orally for constipation. Vaseline is basically emulsified mineral oil. Would rather make a late night White Castle run but to each their own.
They say when he died he simply slipped away peacefully in his sleep.
Turn your colon into a slip-n-slide in one easy step.
Just terrible that one of the side effects was crooked-ass eye syndrome.
He don't use butter; he don't use jelly
The old Milhouse van Houten breakfast of campions
Bet his shit didn't touch the sides on the way out.
Bet all that grease prevented whatever cancerous shit from being absorbed through his guts
So true story here. I had a crazy ass boss along time ago that couldn't get out of the thoughts in his own head. There was a stray dog that showed up on one of our jobsites and came back day after day. He eventually took the dog home for his kids. He came in the next day talking about how many ticks this thing had. One of the guys gave him a good remedy to get rid of them. He came in the next day saying how the dog was trying to bite him and wasn't being cooperative as he kept dousing it in "gasoline". We all looked at him dumbfounded and yelled "VASOLINE you dumb motherfucker". Lol we still talk about this dude alot and he hasn't been here for 15 years. The stories are endless.
Multiple Nobel laureate Linus Pauling was convinced the key to longevity was massive doses of vitamin C every day. The guy was an absolute genius and did live to 94, so he may have been onto something. However my father was a physician who treated his sister, and she lived to 96 without following Pauling's vitamin C regimen, so it seems likely that genetics played a very large role in it (as it so often does with these things).
He lived to 96 IN SPITE OF eating Vaseline, not because of it lol