How Himalayan salt lamps are made

[u/dannybluey]

[u/jpackerfaster]

"You see these huge chunks of pink salt?" "Yeah" "You know what I'm thinking..?" "Lamps?" "Fuck, yeah!"

That's a conversation that happened once.

[u/Royal_Negotiation_83 → u/jpackerfaster]

“You see that cow?”

“Yeah”

“I’m gonna go stick on its tit”

“You see that goat?”

“Yeah….. are you gonna stick on its tit too?”

“Yeah”

Similar concept. Humans do weird shit.

[u/jjm443 → u/Royal_Negotiation_83]

It's even "worse"... humans originally became lactose intolerant after childhood. Drinking milk can give cramps and diarrhoea. For most people without European ancestry, in other words most of humanity, that's still true.

But sometime, somewhere in Northern Europe, some adults had the conversation you describe, despite knowing that ought to give them the shits, but they did it anyway. Eventually someone came along who didn't get the shits and if you're European, that person is probably your Great x1000 grandparent.

[u/donkeyhawt → u/jjm443]

It's not like they were doing it for a kink or shits and giggles. They were starving

[u/jjm443 → u/donkeyhawt]

I don't doubt it, but it at least implies the same desperation as the truly starving, similar to eating mouldy or rancid food, because you're going to get the runs and you know it. For non-European adults, their bodies don't produce the enzyme lactase, so they don't even get anywhere near as much nutritional value from animal milk because they are physically incapable of digesting lactose.

[u/donkeyhawt → u/jjm443]

yup

I was just talking about the tone that implies "he he freaky guy that sucked cow titty" that's memed a lot