Eating things that say "hydrogenated" on the label may piss you off.

Threadsplit?

 

Evolution.

Was there actually more to be discussed on this topic?

 

Maybe not.

 

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-dihydrogen-oxide.html

 

Signed.

 

I hate water. So I signed. Laugh all you want. But most of it on Earth has salt to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids...

 

By the way, just in case some of you did not get it, read on...

Spoiler: DHMO

Di=2
Hydrogen
Mon(o)=1
Oxide=Oxygen

AKA "H2O"

 

I've heard that ingestion of DHMO has been linked to Heart attack, cancer, stroke, halitosis, bubonic plague, ebola, old age, young age, sunstroke, heat stroke, golf stroke, sudden bouts of leisure time, and the 'Heartbreak of Psoriasis'.

 

I actually used the DHMO thing (seemingly now to great success) in an argument I was having. A group of us were having this discussion about weight loss, and health and so on, and someone started harping on the dangers of high fructose corn syrup. and how everyone ought to be using Agave instead of sugar, etc. I said I was skeptical, but I didn't have facts at hand (at that time). So I let it go. But I did mention DHMO, talking about how horrible it was, how there have been campains (all unsuccesful) to get it banned, how it was linked to all sorts of terrible things, how it's found even in breast milk, and in the blood of newborns. I then explained that DHMO is water.

The main criticism that was aimed at me was "Why did I call it DHMO?" So I told them that DHMO sounds scary because it's based on a chemical formula. and chemistry is scary to people. That was my whole point.

Anyway, I wasn't sure if I had made any impact on the argument, and I showed up the next time with actual documentation about Fructose and High Fructose corn syrup (including the fact that Agave has about the same amount of fructose as high-fructose corn syrup -- yep the substitute they were promoting for the terrible poison actually contained said poison in an equal concentration -- it just did not have a chemical name on it). And I literally had everyone converted. I'm so used to feeling like I'm talking to a wall, and for the first time I actually convinced people that they were talking nonsense.

I like to think that the DHMO argument was the clincher, but I can't be sure.

 

On a similar, note, there is a tragedy affecting American families with children of College age.

 

Family troubles? Take more college!

 

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DHMO, btw, is also a proven cause of at least 4 different kinds of stroke (Breast, Back, Side, and Australian Crawl).

 

The first sign of excessive DHMO is excessive urination....

If you get it in your lungs, you cough and choke and may even suffocate.

Some people retain DHMO and it causes all manner of unpleasant effects.

Cats instinctively know to avoid DHMO.

And a rather interesting tidbit, rabid animals cannot tolerate any of it even being near them.

 

You can also add the fact that it's odourless and thus you won't feel it if there is a lot of it in the air. Other than the sensation from your skin when DHMO starts affecting it, but when that happens there are no antidotes or stuff of the sort.

It is also well-known (or not so well-known) that some countries used (and some of them still use) DHMO as a tool for torturing people.

 

Don't forget that DHMO is also used extensively by Big Agri to fuel the growth of their awful GMO grains, and by Big Food to nudge us into unconsiously guzzling too many grams of high-GI carbs. Or that concoctions made primarily of DHMO are so dangerous that the mayor of New York recently passed a law banning any such concoction over a certain number of ounces.

 

I assume you are also aware that it is THE number ONE cause of global warming? Al Gore eat your heart out.

 

Rofling right now. This is gold!

 

It's also commonly used as a mechanism to assist in the consumption of drugs, and it is found in the body's of 100% of patients who suffer drug side effects.