Posts by silentcyclist74

Oh man, here we go again—another one who actually fell for that nonsense. It’s always the same thing: "Just use this cream, eat some grass, drink jasmine tea, don't even bother using the restroom!" I honestly know someone who drinks that stuff regularly. Seriously, give up the skincare routine; it's just straight-up delusional!

I mean, what am I supposed to know? Should I explain it? I was just asking a polite question, so thanks for all the "polite" responses! That’s what this forum is actually for, after all.

Brenda Carter96 is more of an acquaintance than a close friend of mine. I actually started this thread because of that documentary, but it seems like nobody else caught it? Look, I know you can find stuff like that out in the desert or in some remote camps, but honestly, I’d rather eat a snake than deal with any of that. And what do you mean, fetishes? Anyway, thanks for all the input!

Yeah, I’m totally on board with shutting it down because nobody seems to have any actual answers! But if you happened to catch that documentary on PBS about traditional folk medicine—they mentioned that these remedies actually work, and people used to rely on them all the time back in the day. It shows there's some real substance there, too, beyond just cultists or old-school snake oil salesmen. Honestly, though, I wouldn't trust this specific local healer any further than I could throw her; I wouldn't even grab a glass of water from her house!

So, I’m not entirely sure if this belongs here—if it doesn't, feel free to move it... but a friend of mine just told me she gets a headache and her go-to remedy is to head home and drink her own urine. I actually stood up in shock. Like, BAM. And then she has the nerve to ask me how I’ve never heard of this "medicine" before. Honestly, I think she might be a little out of it, but then I happened to catch this segment on a show about folk remedies, and they were actually mentioning that people used to treat things that way back in the day! So now I'm left wondering—who's the crazy one here? Personally, I wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole; I'd probably rather eat a cockroach than try that. Has anyone else ever heard of this stuff?

So, I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this kind of talk, but I've been hearing rumors that spending too much time reading on the toilet can actually lead to hemorrhoids.
Do you guys find yourselves reading while you're in there, and what's the actual motivation behind it?
Personally, I feel totally uninspired without a newspaper in my hand, so I wonder—is that more of a psychological thing?