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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you kill a snake and decide to chew on the venom glands, would they be considered poisonous or venomous?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

With the sucking venom out of a bite memes they always warned that you needed good mouth health as the venom getting into your blood through a cut or sore would be dangerous, suggesting that venom could be safely ingested

Our digestive system is pretty good at talking apart proteins

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well. I know that they're gonna consider you both stupid and dead.. but yeah.. The corner would have a tough time

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

Just watch the german version, where both translates to "giftig". Who cares if it needs to bite you or if you need to bite it, if it contains poison/venom just stay away from it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Snakes in Australia are probably venomous and poisonous.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

There are poisonous snakes, but most are not. They become poisonous through their diet.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a common mistake, so isn't a character in a movie making it realistic? Wouldn't it be out of character for many characters to have perfect English?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it only takes 1 flaw to turn a movie from a 10/10 to a 0/10. this is one such example

sigh guess us real kinophiles must fend for ourselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

May point is that it might be a mistake of the character, intended by the writers, not a mistake by the writers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (6 children)

As a non native English speaker, where does toxic fit into the poisonous/venevenomous question?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Typically used to describe chemicals, or your ex girlfriend

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If "poisonous" are parallelograms and "venomous" are trapezoids, "toxic" would be quadrilaterals in general. (Can't use square/rectangle analogy, because squares are a type of rectangle, and venom/poison is not a type of poison/venom.)

Aside from that, there aren't too many rules on "toxic".

Poison and venom will both cause serious acute injury with the possibility of immediate death. Both can be considered "toxic".

Just to be confusing, "poison" and "poisoning" can have substantially different connotations. For example, the heavy metal "lead" would not normally* be considered a "poison". Lead would generally be considered "toxic".

But, repeated exposure to lead to the point that it causes physical symptoms is referred to as "lead poisoning".

Same thing with mercury: it would be considered "toxic"; it wouldn't normally* be considered a poison. But repeated exposure to mercury would be considered "mercury poisoning".

(* If a third party were to deliberately introduce lead or mercury into the body of an individual, the substance would then be considered a "poison".)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Thank you for your thorough explanation.

It's always a bit confusing when your language has one word for something another language makes distinctions within.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Bro, look at "かける (kakeru)” in Japanese. It's a verb with a bajillion different meanings depending on context. Kill me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I thought it couldn't be that bad but as I was scrolling it just keeps going

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/364-poisons-and-toxins

Sounds like poisons are injested, and toxins are poisons that are produced within the body through reactions. And venom is just poison that's only harmful in the bloodstream.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I saw it last night: it's the worst wet fart of a movie I've seen in a long time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is missing from the original?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Story cohesion, justifiable plot, relatable characters, believable dialogues, good montage (there are more frame changes than a fast and furious chase sequence) and in general there is nothing that make this one look like a Tim Burton movie.
But hey we now have *checks notes* Monica Bellucci, the worst actress the big screen has ever seen...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I literally thought the correction in my head while in the theater. It took some restraint to not mention anything to my partner lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Remakes are unwatchable

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

It's not a remake. It's a sequel with the same director and writing team as the first one.

It also has a few truly disturbing scenes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes and no. Soulless cash grabs are unwatchable. But things like The Fly, dawn of the dead, the mummy, Scarface...10/10