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In the context of the words written in his yearbook, "Judge, have you boofed yet?", how could it possibly make sense to ask a 16-year-old boy if he has ever farted yet? Why even ask that question? What do you guess the answer is? Interpreting "boof" as fart in that context makes absolutely no sense. But interpreting "boof" as ingesting drugs or alcohol though the anus is perfectly consistent with his well documented…

Having once been a 16 year old boy, it's not unusual for teenagers to say catchphrases that are nonsensical and/or inside jokes.

You're really going out on a limb and bending over backwards to defend a mendacious alcoholic rapist. Did you actually WATCH his belligerent histrionic performance in which he cried and screamed and threw a tantrum and repeatedly lied under oath to Congress? Or are you completely ignorant of the context, but defending him anyway?

Are you also willing to perform the same outlandish logical gymnastics to argue against the widely known definition of "Devil’s Triangle", too?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Devils%20Tri...

>A threesome with 1 woman and 2 men. It is important to remember that straight men do not make eye contact while in the act. Doing so will question their sexuality. Larry: Did you hear that Eric and Brian were in a Devils Triangle with Sarah last night? Brad: Yeah man, I did, what homo's. Larry: No man, its cool, they didn't make eye contact.

And to argue just as vigorously and confidently that the women who went public to accused him of sexual assault, and subjected themselves to vicious attack and ridicule and death threats, were all lying?

And do you firmly believe it was right for Republicans to refuse to let the FBI investigate the stories and interview witnesses, or to call his friend Mark Judge as a witness to testify under oath, who was present when Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Kirsten Gillibrand, and who could have also addressed who "Bart O'Kavanaugh" he wrote about in his book "Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk" was based on?

https://www.newsweek.com/brett-kavanaugh-refuses-bart-okavan...

>During questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, Kavanaugh did not deny that he was the drunken "Bart O'Kavanaugh" who was said to have vomited and passed out in a car in Judge's book. A heated exchange between Kavanaugh and Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont left the question unanswered, but suggested Kavanaugh believed Judge was referring to him.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180928120612/https://www.gazet...

>Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is blasting Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for failing to call additional witnesses to testify about allegations by Christine Blasey Ford that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. The New York senator said Thursday that it is “an outrage” that Republicans did not force Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge to testify under oath. Ford says Judge was present when Kavanaugh attacked her.

So is it your opinion that "boys will be boys", and "(shrug) who hasn't been accused of rape at that age (chuckle)?"

Maybe you're only defending him because you acted the same way at that age, but you weren't nominated for the Supreme Court, and you didn't lie about it under oath in front of Congress.

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#162

First thing I needed to check that I have not woke up in alternate reality and that today is not 1 April, after I remembered that some drug addicts use similar techniques to get high.

Sir, I object. Not everyone who puts drugs in their butt is an addict. Some of us can plug a pill at a full-moon party every so often and go about the rest of our lives as usual thank-you-very-much.

Just don't get hooked on coffee!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznDjbQLzMo&ab_channel=TLC

At least you don't need to use those expensive tasty gourmet beans.

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#163

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Sir, I object. Not everyone who puts drugs in their butt is an addict. Some of us can plug a pill at a full-moon party every so often and go about the rest of our lives as usual thank-you-very-much.

That was not clear enough on my side, let me find source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thai-die/ So, some type of ultra cheap method to get high (but quite dangerous) is to get pump air with bicycle pump into the bottom. Article above.

I suggest you actually read the article you posted.

"The death was not part of a "fad" for getting high"

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#164

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Yes it was "The Abyss", see the rat scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6hw4dGhm8Y From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss "The breathing fluid used in the film actually exists but has only been thoroughly investigated in animals.[5] Over the previous 20 years it had been tested on several animals, who survived. The rat shown in the film was actually breathing fluid and survived unharmed" https://en.wikipedi…

I could see a low pressure breathing fluid being advantageous for space travel. I wonder how long a mammal could live in that environment. Now if we can just retain our gills.

What's the point?

The human body can take vacuum fine if supported. The lung pressure lower limit is the required oxygen pressure plus the vapor pressure of water at body temperature plus the pressure of the carbon dioxide being expelled. Putting your oxygen in a liquid isn't going to change this minimum.

Liquid breathing is being looked into for high pressure environments, not low pressure environments. The human body has no problem with any high pressure it's ever been exposed to, the depth limit for diving is because the dose makes the poison--you eventually hit the point where anything you could put in your tanks is dangerous.

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

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The rectum is an interesting place. You can apparently also absorb water there, if you are severely dehydrated and unable to hold anything down (eg seasick). All you need, the saying goes, is a funnel and a friend.. full disclosure: I've not tried that!

Does this mean you can absorb electrolytes from swimming in the ocean?

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#166

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I could see a low pressure breathing fluid being advantageous for space travel. I wonder how long a mammal could live in that environment. Now if we can just retain our gills.

What's the point? The human body can take vacuum fine if supported. The lung pressure lower limit is the required oxygen pressure plus the vapor pressure of water at body temperature plus the pressure of the carbon dioxide being expelled. Putting your oxygen in a liquid isn't going to change this minimum. Liquid breathing is being looked into for high pressure environments, not low pressure environments. The human bo…

What are you talking about? The human body has enormous problems with high pressure.

You are referring to oxygen toxicity. There is far more to it than that. At great enough pressure, your body cannot expel CO2.

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#167

My wife had toxicology courses and one of the things the lecturer said it's that the rectum is interesting because of its absorbtion capacitors that are not hampered by the body. Alcohol is one example, where you can die of intoxication, while if you have taken it the more traditional way your body would have reacted earlier to get it out.

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-13.html

He earned the Award, no ifs ands or butts about it

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#168

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Having once been a 16 year old boy, it's not unusual for teenagers to say catchphrases that are nonsensical and/or inside jokes.

You're really going out on a limb and bending over backwards to defend a mendacious alcoholic rapist. Did you actually WATCH his belligerent histrionic performance in which he cried and screamed and threw a tantrum and repeatedly lied under oath to Congress? Or are you completely ignorant of the context, but defending him anyway? Are you also willing to perform the same outlandish logical gymnastics to argue against…

I think you're putting words in my mouth that I didn't say. All I'm saying is that I wrote dumb shit and inside jokes that don't make sense syntactically in my friends' yearbooks. Don't you dare try to project beliefs about rape culture onto me because of that.

Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives

#169

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I could see a low pressure breathing fluid being advantageous for space travel. I wonder how long a mammal could live in that environment. Now if we can just retain our gills.

What's the point? The human body can take vacuum fine if supported. The lung pressure lower limit is the required oxygen pressure plus the vapor pressure of water at body temperature plus the pressure of the carbon dioxide being expelled. Putting your oxygen in a liquid isn't going to change this minimum. Liquid breathing is being looked into for high pressure environments, not low pressure environments. The human bo…

The point is forming an environment that is at low risk to depressurization while at the same time forming a radiation barrier.

Why do you need to be so hostile?

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