Which reminds me... I'm too depressed to have energy to eat, survival is a struggle.
Somebody please shoot me lol
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For me eating is just a chore. Yeah I'm under weight
Right there with you. I can't wait to be able to take all my nutrition in a pill form.
Money or health issue?
Not the person you’re replying to but I’m the same as them. For me it’s neither of those options. There just isn’t anything I go out of my way for. I mean sure, I have preferences like anybody else but I’m the person that can eat the same thing 10+ times in a row and that’s totally fine. It’s more or less all the same to me.
Nothing tastes good and never hungry
If you watch the clip of David Lynch explaining why he eats the same thing every day, basically that, I just can't be bothered
Height and body weight?
183cm 70kg
Hit the weed vape more often and you'll get hungry, I fucking guarantee it. Especially if you make it a daily habit. I gained 50 pounds in 6 months simply by doing dabs every single day. It's almost unbelievable how hungry you get once the munchies kick in. Makes everything fucking delicious.
I'm already high almost 24/7 lol
Yeah but on what substance?
Weed yeah
I've never met a skinny weed smoker unless they were also on stimulants (prescribed or otherwise). You are a unique case, my friend.
Nice to meet you too.
I'm even on ssri's. I'm broken lol
Broken? More of a bug turned feature
Have you read the book Project Hail Mary?
Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.
How would it be different than breathing then? I don't get actual pleasure out of breathing, but its not a chore either. If I don't breath, I will die.
We get good chemicals when we get enough air. I'm quite addicted myself.
I guess we evolved to enjoy eating; those that didn't enjoy it didn't live as long
Whenever some fundie says something about sexual education, replace it with food in the argument.
Nutritional education should be a private matter between a parent and child.
Teaching about food in school encourages kids to eat more food.
We don't make this sort of argument about literally any other subject. The very fact that they make these arguments shows they are putting sex in a special place, and will be completely incompetent at actually talking to their kids about sex.
I had a friend who pretty much only eats because he knows if he does not he will die. He is perpetually underweight. He just does not enjoy eating at all. Even foods he enjoys he hates to eat.
Meanwhile, I am over here knowing I am full and standing in the fridge to see what I can make to eat.
Felt. I like the taste of certain foods, but like I do feel like it’s a chore a lotta days
I felt like this when I was bulking and eating healthy. Eating 5k Calories of healthy food a day is a fucking chore.
I know someone who has an issue with his sense of taste that most things are bland to him, so he doesn’t really enjoy eating.
I worked with a guy who had neck surgery that severed the nerves to his taste buds. We worked overnight shifts, and we'd save the old coffee for him because he didn't mind the flavor of burnt coffee. There was always a pot of fresh coffee brewing and a pot of stale coffee set aside for Matt.
I know the guy probably didn’t mind and waste not want not, but god that just sounds so mean at the same time.
I know, the first time someone said it, he wasn't there, and I was like... wait, are we just fucking with Matt? And everyone said no, he is a dad of young kids who does shift work. He drinks a lot of coffee (we all did, the coffee machine was perpetual employee of the month), and he prefers to have it room temperature because he won't feel it burn his mouth. So any time a pot sat on the burner for more than a few hours, we'd dump it into Matt's pot and let it cool.
I always wondered if it fucked up his stomach, because I know stale coffee always gives me heartburn, but we weren't close enough to have those conversations.
At the very least it probably fucked up his breath
Happened to me with COVID, lucky i recovered in a few days and can smell and taste normally after.
I’m glad you got your taste back! One time I had chewed cinnamon gum all day and I guess inadvertently burned my taste buds. I couldn’t taste anything for a month or two!
Oh speaking of burning, having raw onions kinda burns my tongue but i can taste things more afterwards. The onion probably cleaned my tongue microbiome so i have a stronger ability to taste.
Spicy onions are the worst!
I always think to myself.....
"Cats are weird, because cats are weird. But they all have different personalities. Yet you kind of understand what a cat will or won't do. A cat will never starve itself, because he just doesn't like the concept of food. It may eat less than another cat. I've had a fat cat, and a skinny cat. The skinny cat liked eating some food when it wakes up. Then it would save half the meal until later. Well what the fat cat would do is eat all of her half, and then wait for the skinny cat to walk away. Then she'd eat the skinny cats remains. We had to start locking up the skinny cats leftover food, and put the fat cat in the bathroom before we gave the skinny cat the other half.
Then one night the skinny cat wouldn't eat. At all. She was sick. She died that same night. It wasn't because she varied from other cats in her willingness to eat food. It was because she knew she was going to die.
But then you look at humans. Humans are weird, because WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SPECIES??? Some of them are 80lbs as adults, and you can count their ribs, and they refuse to eat because they think they're too fat.
Then there's others who are 700lbs, and eating whole turkeys by themselves, and afterwards claiming they're still hungry.
And thats just food. Humans are weird in every single way.
One time in 2006 I was waiting outside best buy for a Wii. It's 2am, negative 5 degrees outside, store doesn't open until 10am.
Guy in front of me had a tent, and an extension cord, and a tv, and a vcr, and a microwave. He had a tent apartment basically.
So this guy is watching Jurassic Park in his tent. I can't see it, but I can hear it. Ilove that movie. Favorite movie, and I can "see" it, just by hearing it.
He gets to the T-Rex paddock breakout scene. THE iconic scene of the whole franchise. An iconic scene in cinema all around.
He stops the movie there. He STOPS the movie!!! And instead plays Seinfeld episodes.
Humans are weird.
Can we get this AI tale of nonsens removed please?
You think I'm AI? You realize I'm a mod at fuck_ai, right?
My butthole smells like fuck.
Good luck getting an AI to say THAT! Also, please hate the wealthy. Forget racism. Forget religious divides. Forget every other social divide there is......except fuck the wealthy, free Luigi, and fuck the police.
Neat
I am always thinking about food. It's horrible. I love eating. I quite enjoy cooking and baking. I'd love to trade him some of my love for his hate so we could both just have a boring healthy feeling towards food!
All the biological processes are like that. pooping. sex. you think about sex without being horny and its like. I do that?!
I like the one about people having floppy teeth that get hard when they see good food.
Reading how Rocky eats in Project Hail Mary got me thinking on that! I wonder if aliens would find our eating disgusting or if it's the most common way to get energy. Pretty much every life form on Earth chews food with their face then shoves it down.
Pretty much every life form on Earth chews food with their face then shoves it down.
The vast majority of life forms on Earth have neither a mouth nor a face.
There's no good reason to think aliens would be similar to animals. they could be like plants or fungus, or something entirely new.
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Here's what's even weirder: imagine what you're saying, but for sex instead.
Honestly that's me all the time. I do it for several reasons but I don't necessarily get crazy enjoyment from it. I don't hate it either, it's just not like the best thing ever, y'know? And it's not my partner, this has been my whole life. My body gets "enjoyment" as in, I can orgasm, but mentally I'm just like, meh.
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I feel like the point of evolution is to stop this sort of thing from happening tho.
Evolution is about making babies before you die, and those babies grow up and make babies before they die.
“Purpose” is largely irrelevant, unfortunately.
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