I dunno. I’m rather fond of the cannibalism one. I don’t think it’s laughable at all.
That one is a good idea due to the biocompatibility of the pathogens in the food. Still, worth violating when the risk of imminent death by hunger is higher than the risk of a food-borne illness.
“God was my copilot. But then we crashed in Andes and I had to eat him.”
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Biocompatibility, plus long gestation and child-rating times.
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I’m with you. I know people in a cannibal cult, where they symbolically eat the flesh and drink the blood of their god every Sunday!
It’s madness.
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I regret that I have only one Like to give you for that GIF
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Pyoo-al-up.
sounds like food-cal-truck. But of course, you already know it.
Most hilarious mispronunciation of Puyallup? “Poo-yall-ooppuh”, which was quickly followed up by a second attempt “Pupa”, followed up by “Y’all live here, how do I say that word?!”
Most of us in Seattle pronounce it very close to organ. “Or-eh-gun”.
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Witty but still not actually pointing to any shrillness.
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I totally did. Didn’t want to ruin the mystery. Magical mystery caves, vaginas. Maaaagical.
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Sounds like one of those Internet urban myths.
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I’m definitely not a people-expert; but ‘sympathetic magic’ and ‘contagion’(in the social science sense); appear to be fairly firmly embedded in human psychology, even with regard to things that have no microbiological component(relics of saints, assorted talismans and effigies and whatnot); and even in situations where the distaste is expressed in germ-theory-of-disease terms, the mechanism of the ‘contagion’ is very, very, loosely linked to anything biologically plausible: as you note; the fact that the world is basically all contaminants, with things-to-be-contaminated just along for the ride, is psychologically invisible until some act of contamination is known to have occurred.
It works in the opposite direction, as well: if you perform an act of contamination under circumstances that that the subject knows will prevent actual microbial transfer(a food item protected by an impermeable mylar barrier film, and feces or vermin placed in contact with the opposite side of the barrier) you will still create a strong feeling that the object has been contaminated.
When someone is aware of germ theory, some of their contagion-beliefs will be expressed in those terms; but the psychology involved appears to be far older, much more general, and only modestly similar to what actual models of biological contamination would suggest.
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Nonsense, vampire mythology totally predates the internet!
The blood is the life…
I went once.
I know someone who has a theory about all these Northern names. Owing to the bitter cold, the wind and the rain or snow, people want to open their mouths for the shortest time possible. So names get contracted (Kirkubri, Embro.) Down south we don’t have this problem so we have places with multisyllable names like Peasedown St. John (Peasdown sinjun), Bishop’s Waltham, Cirencester. Because we have time to say them before our vocal chords freeze up.
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Caves? They’re more like… beakless, tentacle-less, body-temperature squid. If squid asked you to do assorted household repairs and got standoffish when you drink too much.
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I swear to you. I’ve been there and seen it!
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Maaaagical squid.
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Aaaah, Northumberland. You ever heard a native pronounce ‘Rothbury’? Or, indeed, any word. The denizens of Ashington are also the butt of many jokes for their accents. By people from Newcastle, I might add, which ought to give you some handle on how outlandish their vowel-strangling is 
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