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Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
If it’s an African one. Not sure about the European one if we’re talking young coconuts, those things are heavy.
I’m guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
Yeah, where were they fighting, the Pacific or something?
No man, you gotta upgrade to Big Gulp based logistics.
Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
They don’t, not enough sodium in coconut juice for one thing.
I guess you first use the clean juice to make the wounded stop dying long enough so you can stitch what’s left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.
Way too much potassium too (and gives a hint as to why it burns at the infusion site just like a k run would). It’s like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term. Thankfully the glucose in the coconut water treats hyperkalemia or it would be deadly in the short term.
Yeah it’s actually a really shitty substitute for blood, it’s just slightly less shitty than dying. It was all about keeping the blood pressure high enough so that what little blood you had would work. Coconut water was one of the only things that could do that without also killing you. It’s still a very bad day
Well you could always go the boiled water and some salt route. “Yo dog I heard you liked shock so I infused some water with bacteria antigens in it so you could go into shock while you’re going into shock.”
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This machines is fueled by Hamburgers and greased by it’s fat.
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… Lime juice through an IV is probably going to be extremely painful to endure, and could just kill you.
For starters: “My blood is on fire” is roughly what that would feel like, lime juice is extremely acidic.
Beyond that: It isn’t sterile.
So you’re literally mainlining bacterial infections.
Extremely bad idea, its such a bad idea that it would basically constitute a horrific form of torture/execution.
I’m allergic to coconut so I’m pretty sure this would feel similar to me.
I did not realize one could be allergic to coconut, but yes probably avoid that then lol!
It… probably would not ‘burn’ with the same intensity, as its less acidic than lime.
But… being allergic to it… and then mainlining it… seems like a bad idea that would probably also hurt.
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It’s the flesh more than the milk, but yea.
Ahem, well lets hope it wouldn’t end up petrifying you. =P
Now put the *line in the coconut
They’re actually perfect because they double up as cannon balls too
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isn’t this a decades long myth?
This also works for hangover recovery.
Coconut water is awesome!
You can actually just drink it if you’re hung over in most cases.
Oh dear.
Yes, that is what I meant, but … I now realize I should have specified that.
Yes, you don’t need to mainline the coconut water for it to be good for you lol!
Mainlining a coconut for a hangover would be so rock and roll though
I’m stuck on where the hell these guys were finding coconuts…???
A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all. They could be carried.
… The… Pacific theatre?
Whole bunch of tropical islands?
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Coconut is not a nut.
Its also not a coco
Similar to how a red panda isn’t a panda or wild rice isn’t rice or a sichuan pepper isn’t a pepper… yeah there’s a lot of these.
Panda bears were named after red pandas, both in Chinese and English.
So you’re saying pandas aren’t pandas?
Evidently yes.
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Jackie Chan did it in Who Am I. Amazing 90s movie.
The driving stunts in that movie are so rad, like her 180 reverse parking job.
I would rather die
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There is no greater disappointment for me than biting into something without suspecting a thing, and my taste buds then suddenly being assaulted by the vileness dubbed “coconut flavor”.
In case my remains are consumed by animals or plants, I can’t put them through something I hate so much. I mean, do we even know how long this will make you taste like coconut?!
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but it goes in your blood?
Yes, and if anything were to eat me, it would have the same experience I have eating a chocolate.bar with coconut in it :(
I’m allergic to coconut, so I would.
Yeah but the hairs ruin your razor, shaving the puncture site.
