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It's easy to imagine yourself withstanding torture in order to save a loved one... until you hit your thumb with a hammer or stub your toe IRL (lemmy.world)
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Sorry fam, I can buy you maybe 5 minutes. Make 'em count.

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 77 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Pluck a nostril hair: "Please stop! I have a wife and kids! Take them"

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 14 points 4 weeks ago

"That dude has a wife and kids! I'll get you their bank account numbers and social security numbers! PLEASE STOP!!!"

[–] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

my record is 23 nostril hairs at once!

I used to pull them out instead of using a nose hair trimmer because it was easy and doesn't realy hurt if I do it fast.

Then i learned you can get awful brain poisoning from doing this if you get an infection so i had to let the record stand there about 15 years ago. Best record before that was only 14 so I was quite excited to get 23.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

you can get awful brain poisoning from doing this

Say whay now? Sounds like I should stop the practice. I didn't even keep score :(

[–] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

i do not understand at all why waxing your mustache is fine but plucking your nose hairs is not!

But the tldr is an infection inside your nose can get into your brain somehow and it's way more likely if you pull the hairs out vs trimming them.

Idk it was 15 years ago and i'm no scientist but the evidence available to me at the time was compelling enough that i quit it!

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

[–] mrsgreenpotato@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

[–] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

see what i'm saying that's fucking compelling!!!

thank you jawa21

[–] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

It is indeed. Time to get a trimmer I guess

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

You jest, but a person in the grips of torture will give up anyone, and anything to make it stop, their wife and kids included.