Yeah, I mean you get a few 600-1000 year old lava flows just from keeping your eyes open around town, but where’s the mushroom that does this, smells like it just made a garage full of apple rosemary tarts, grows only on cast-off couches and compressed cushions whose fake firefighting agents needed treatment, and isn’t cloying.
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stopped mice-elf from tweeting due my “girl” frens consistently accusational “You’re just trying to pollinate” tone on beer Tuesdays…
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I had a roommate with a severe allergy to mushrooms. Anaphylaxis and all that fun stuff. She didn’t know if she was or was not allergic to other fungi but why take risks? I’m sure she’d have something to say about the masked orgasm avenger if he was going around spraying dried mushrooms in people’s faces.
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The person who was supposed to put this on parking tickets is falling down on Q/C.
If you order this more than 73 times a year the city -gives you- 3 licenses of your choice (under $$2m.)
It takes a certain kind of man to walk into a bar knowing that he smells disgusting to himself and to other men, but with faith that he’ll leave a certain number of inexplicably aroused women in his wake, and won’t be going home alone.
Or so I’ve heard.
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Take me to your IPO…I’ve always wanted to become filthy rich by buying blue chip stock early.
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I’m putting it on my finger. I want 1/3 of women to sniff my finger and then shriek with an orgasm. Here, smell my finger.
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Research has limitations of funding and time. The finding could well be genuine, but nobody has found it worthwhile to test this again or do a proper study of it. While it sounds like fantastic newspaper bait, I am not sure the major funding organizations would be equally thrilled. Then again, you never know.
In general, though, I don’t think people appreciate how much research is out there waiting to be done. There’s certainly no shortage of things to test, and of most living things, we barely know anything. Even for the organisms we know best, there are huge and glaring holes in our knowledge…
So this may be perfectly good and valid, or it may be humbug. We won’t know until it’s tested, and that might not happen anytime soon.
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Or they can just pretend they sniffed it.
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It could be a good strategy to get funding:
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Write a grant application along the lines of: We want to find out whether this old report in the literature is true, and if it is true, find out the mechanisms behind it.
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Collect $$$
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Five years later, in the grant report, say: “Oh, it turned out the original report about that mushroom was false … but here’s all this cool stuff we did find whilst we were checking out the original question”.
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It’s been suggested that the whole thing is a hoax aimed at encouraging people to sniff revolting-smelling fungi.
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Plus it sounds like the premise of “The Orchid Thief”
TIL: during sex, men smell like the memory of unbridled virility that has long since become dormant and subjected to fungal growth. Still, 1 out of every 3 women approves!
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Starting to get in to YEWWWWWW territory.
You can’t possibly be saying that lady orgasms are gross are you?
And again: that’s like saying “I had a roommate who was severely allergic to oranges, so now we anyone bring any plant within ten feet of her.”
…its not?
Or do you experiment on people with nut allergies throw different tree or ground nuts at them yelling “You can’t be allergic to them all!!!”
Yeah, 2001 study, a total of only 16 women participated (of whom only six supposedly experienced the effect in question), and they used a mushroom that’s maybe the same as Phallus indusiatus - oh, but not that Phallus indusiatus, the kind you can actually find, but a special variety that only grows in rare conditions on volcanoes in Hawaii that requires a “quest” to find, so good luck trying to replicate the study!
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You seem to have a thing for false equivalence. Many people are allergic to tree nuts as a category of closely related organisms. “Fungus” is not a category of closely related organisms. So, just as someone with almond allergy should not therefore avoid tomatoes, barley, bannas, and walking on the grass, someone with an allergy to, say, the Agaricus bisporus commonly sold in grocery stores, should not therefore avoid beer, Roquefort cheese, and breathing the fungal spores ubiquitous to human environments.
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