I looked him up and he is English. Weren't English sailors called Limeys because of the lime juice in their rations, specifically for scurvy prevention? He should have signed up with the Admiralty instead of the pirates.
Funny enough...
Yes.
The lime juice was meant as a cheaper alternative to lemon juice. And it wasn't very effective, lmao. National militaries and sabotaging the health of their troops to save a buck - name a more iconic duo.
It was cheaper in the sense of they imported from limes from the Carribean and lemons from India, which with no Suez canal is a pretty big difference. And at the same time they invented steam power, shortening voyages so the reduced effectiveness wasn't noticed until longer voyages due to newer military doctrines occurred again
It seems like many in here dont realise that you can be gay and masculine at the same time.
In the same way that you can be straight and feminine at the same time.
I would argue that people who feel the need to prove their masculinity tend to be the ones not realizing that, and people here are making fun of that.
then why are my masc 4 masc posts never answered
According to the internet, he did it at university, eating nothing but mince, chicken, and mayonnaise for about 2 months. He did so to annoy other students in his classes who were vegan or vegetarian.
I’ve actually heard a few stories of uni students getting scurvy, although they were because they either didn’t know how to cook or couldn’t afford food.
That makes more sense. Although I think the carnivore diet is stupid, most people that are doing it or similar diets eat organ meats, many of which contain sufficient vitamin C among many other important vitamins and minerals.
Eating chicken salad with a spoon every day seems like it would cause all kinds of dietary issues.
To be fair, he said he did this his first year in college- everyone did dumb shit in college.
So… is it ok to move your human to an all meat diet?
Quite apparently no. Give your omnivorous human the vitamins it needs!
"You wouldn't pirate an illness"
In medival times if you could afford to only eat meat it meant you were a rich soft fancy boy.
Pretty much the same as now then.
haha, happened to me:
its copper deficency by zink overload.-
without copper, there is multiple things that go wrong. but it takes time to deplete copper stores. zink always wins against copper, and meat is full of zink.
vitamin c d, and iron wont work without copper.
I did that because I develeoped grain allergy, and was insuline resistant.
I eat grains again, but sparingly.
went down from 95 kilos to 65.
fun fact:
nobody talks about that. carnivore influencer dont, thats for sure.
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(20)71083-5/fulltext https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2021.711227/full
It is pretty funny that eating meat is still seen as a masculine thing. Pff what? Tofu? No i buy my meat like a real man in this other isle, next to the tofu.
On one hand it's stupid to sabotage your health to appear more masculine. On the other hand casually bringing up that you have contracted a pirate illness in conversation does sound pretty damn masculine.
Should’ve eaten some sauerkraut and fried onions! The manliest of all vegetables! Has the bonus effect of repelling ladies up to 5 feet away!
Keeping femalehood at bay, now THAT's masculine af
There are a lot of reasons to not like James Blunt, but there is one reason to like James Blunt, which is when he parodied his own hit song on Sesame Street. And that is the one reason I still like James Blunt. A little.
James Blunt is hilarious. Awful music but excellent at self-deprecating humour
Maybe I’m slow or something, but I don’t get how eating meat is masculine.
Not slow, just lucky to have not encountered such cretins. There is a very non-zero amount of men who believe that 'traditional' masculinity includes avoiding 'feminine' foods, including 'rabbit food' (ie anything green, leafy, or vaguely healthy). The meat-only diet is the natural extension of this line of thinking to the full caveman-stereotype conclusion.
Sounds like insecurity to me.
Very much so.
The stupidest thing is that actual cave people probably couldn't catch meat daily and thus also ate a lot of gathered plants.
#notallmen
As a man without scurvy, I can personally attest that not all men have scurvy
Wow, guess he just wasn't manly enough.
TBH it's not impossible to derive necessary vitamins from raw herbivore livers, as many early humans assuredly did when crops were scarce.
He's just a pussy.
What kinda fragile masculinity can't handle a bit o' scurvy?
Scurvy is one of the manliest diseases, though, so he kind of failed this one successfully
Should've washed his food down with some orange juice.
Balanced diet isn't manly, you know what is, being swept up by internet trends, and things on the internet are real.
Just look at the manly Liver King! His manly skin is a red manly skin, you gotta be a man!
Hmmmmm.
Reminds me, I should probably increase my citrus intake.
If you have potatoes or onions in your diet, you're probably safe.
It's hilariously easy to not get scurvy unless you're on a 18th century ship, an arctic expedition, or trying to get it.
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