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This Jesus guy must have been pretty fat.

Idk i think that guy was harmed pretty bad

two millenia

There's a reason it's called long pig.

Oppertunity

Spelling mistakes getting called out increases engagement. I'm not saying it was done on purpose in this instance, but in general it does make sense that you'll see more posts with spelling mistakes because they'll rise to the top. The only winning move is not to play.

Ugh, I bet the smell of burning wood doesn't help that either. Hickory smoked pig just wouldn't be the same after smelling a person burning alive in their wood frame home.

Been firefighting for about 17 years now. Nothing burned up has ever smelled good.

Origin of “long pig”, copied from this Reddit comment:

I think you might be right. In A St. Johnston's Camping among Cannibals (which the OED quotes in its etymology of the term), he describes how:

The expression "long pig" is not a joke, nor a phrase invented by Europeans, but one frequently used by the Fijians, who looked upon a corpse as ordinary butcher's meat, and call a human body puaka balava, " long pig," in contradistinction to puaka dina, or " real pig."

Which makes it sound like they were just distinguishing between the length of pigs and people.

I was in the basement working on a electronic project sitting in the floor My parents house. Couldn't find my soldering iron holder so I just had a somewhat deep bowl and set it in upside down

Something surprising was on TV and I looked up, subconsciously I reach down to pick up the soldering iron which was upside down of its normal orientation.

I heard a sizzle. It took a good half second for me to realize it was me.

The lead on the iron was sweet when I touched the burned finger in my mouth, the skin had a decidedly porky flavor to it. Not going to lie it was kind of barbecuey...*

Edit: dictation did me dirty

Ultra-rare, and not spontaneously caused by eating human flesh. You're more likely to get mad cow disease (also prions) from eating beef.

Introvert here, don't listen to merc. I like hearing people talk, especially if it's a weird subject that I can actually engage with

Nah, I love my extroverts. They do what I repeatedly fail to do, and help pull me into the conversation and actually get some social interaction rather than sulking quietly in a corner.

Extroverts that know how to pull introverts into social interaction are the best and I have often looked up to them.

Prions seem to accumulate in the brain and spinal cord. Stay away from those and you’re probably good!

it says was harmed, not that noone will be harmed

Also, William Seabrook.

In the 1920s, Seabrook traveled to West Africa and came across a tribe who partook in the eating of human meat. Seabrook wrote about his experience of cannibalism in his travel book Jungle Ways; however, he later admitted that the tribe had not allowed him to join in on the ritualistic cannibalism. Instead, he had obtained samples of human flesh by persuading a medical intern at the Sorbonne University to give him a chunk of human meat from the body of a man who had died in an accident.

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Seabrook might have eaten human flesh also on another occasion. When his claim of having participating in ritualistic cannibalism turned out wrong (and he hadn't yet dared reveal the Sorbonne story), he was much mocked for it. According to his autobiography, the wealthy socialite Daisy Fellowes invited him to one of her garden parties, stating "I think you deserve to know what human flesh really tastes like". During the party, which was attended by about a dozen guests (some of them well-known), a piece of supposedly human flesh was grilled and eaten with much pomp. He comments that, while he never found out "the real truth" behind this meal, it "looked and tasted exactly" like the human flesh he had eaten before.