Kissing is just sucking on the better end of two digestive tracts.
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don't knock the other side till you try it
but if go backwards, you get assburgers.
And you are either an angry assby or a nice assby.
Yeah, it's called the pyloric sphincter.
This suggests the existence of the poop event horizon. Science totally rocks man.
Since you can empty your stomach back up, I guess the event horizon for food is after the stomach. After that the only way out is down.
Rocks big part of science. But science not totally rocks. Science more than rocks.
That point is much closer to your mouth than it is the other end of the system.
You guys think of weird ass shit in the shower.
Literally
Umm no? Have you never vomited? I'm not sure I'd call that "food". I guess, maybe, it's still food after you've finished chewing it; you could spit it out into your hand instead of swallowing, and someone else could choke it down. But it stops being food long before it hits the intestines. At some point when it starts mixing with stomach acid, probably.
So you're saying the point is somewhere in the esophagus?
The point when it goes from food to vomit, yeah. I’m not sure when it goes from puke to poop, though. Maybe that happens in the intestines?
It becomes shit in the large intestine. Before that, it is kind of food leftovers mixed with intestinal liquid. Does not even smell like shit at that point, just more or less like food, still.
Really? Then why does puke smell so awful? Is it all just stomach acid making it stink like that?
Seems like it, though I have not looked into that. I just have a lot of personal experience, with the small intestine pre-shit, because I have an ileostomy.
Ah, I wasn't going to ask. So thanks for answering. :-)
It’s called chyme from the moment it’s swallowed
My dog will eat it.
Some dogs eat shit (literally)
I have a dog that did that until the older dog died. Didn't like her own product I guess.
I'm in a silent study room full of other students and you're making me laugh uncontrollably, thanks
See, still food.
And so do some humans. I guess this kinda stretches the definition of food….
Foop
Fun fact: some people stop it near the top or middle, and alter nature's plumbing
Medicine is so cool.
(only vaguely relevant, but I love this one so much)
What do you call Alternative Medicine that works?
spoiler
Medicine
More like a slush of gastric acid and whatever you ate, but in principle, I agree. :)
Reminds me of philosophical question of a boy eating an apple: at what point does it cease to be the apple and become the boy? I suppose this is a similar question: at what point does it cease to be an apple and become a turd?
At what point does a boy become a turd?
Usually about 11 or 12.
It’s no black and white situation.
It’s brown and white situation
It's like a Food of Theseus.
Bit by bit the food is replaced with a bit of poop, at which point does it cease being food?
No that's mixing metaphors in a pretty crazy way.
This is more like the Sorites Food
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