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[Frumple]

I... wait.. what?? Do not put alcohol directly on your colon, its dangerous.

Yeah, people get hospitalized or killed by it occasionally.

[Kagus]

And then they earn Darwin Awards! Just like that one fellow who got found by his wife out in the garage, with his pants around his ankles and a bottle of Stoli up his butt.

[methylatedspirit]

I was editing a presentation that I was a part of, and...



That is my part. Yes, that ungodly amount of cuts is needed to have my part remain at least vaguely tolerable. This was basically the first try, and boy, it shows. Jesus. Also, I speak... it's not quite doctor's handwriting, but it's definitely a dialect. I spoke like my handwriting when I'm trying to copy notes off a whiteboard. I feel sorry for my lecturer, who has to sit through this.

[MonkeyHead]

I've heard you could pour booze into your butt and somehow get drunk.

The thing is, the colon is amazing at absorbing anything you put into it. It's a legit method of drug administration. Some drugs just get broken down to useless garbage during digestion if you swallow them, so the colon is often a viable backup route for those drugs. At least, that's what Wikipedia tells me.

But no, I'm not gonna give myself an Everclear Enema to get drunk. Not that I'd touch the stuff in the first place, either.

Which raises an interesting question: why? What evolutionary advantage does a super absorbent colon give us? Water retention?

[LordBaal]

A backup way to get drunk/high as you see.

[Kagus]

I've heard you could pour booze into your butt and somehow get drunk.

The thing is, the colon is amazing at absorbing anything you put into it. It's a legit method of drug administration. Some drugs just get broken down to useless garbage during digestion if you swallow them, so the colon is often a viable backup route for those drugs. At least, that's what Wikipedia tells me.

But no, I'm not gonna give myself an Everclear Enema to get drunk. Not that I'd touch the stuff in the first place, either.

Which raises an interesting question: why? What evolutionary advantage does a super absorbent colon give us? Water retention?

Well, technically yes... But also everything else as well. It's part of your digestive tract. The stomach doesn't absorb anything, it just melts everything coming in until it becomes a nice mushy slurp, which then gets passed on into the intestines where it's further processed by bacteria (gut flora) and all the necessary nutrients and moisture get absorbed from it.

As the mush passes through the various stages of intestine, its makeup gets changed by the bacterial presence breaking it down into different things, so we need to be able to absorb different things at different times as it gets worked on.

Getting the final drops out of the nutrient mush as it's on its way through is useful both in terms of water/nutrition intake, and also for making sure that the final waste has an appropriate amount of moisture in it and isn't just runny diarrhea, which would be much more of a health risk due to it getting stuck on everything and spreading around.


There's probably also some sort of interaction between plant vs. animal matter getting processed and how quickly it's supposed to get passed out of the system, as humans have generally much longer intestinal tracts than obligate carnivores, but I really do not know enough about any of this to be able to provide more than pure speculation.

[martinuzz]

Which raises an interesting question: why? What evolutionary advantage does a super absorbent colon give us? Water retention?

Digestion doesn't stop in the stomach. In fact, most nutrients from our food are absorbed into the body in the colon, not in the stomach. So it makes sense it's super absorbent.

EDIT: ninja'd

EDIT2: All carnivores have 2 meters of colon, all plant eters / omnivores have 7 meters. Carnivores need to be able to digest meat fast and excrete the rest. Meat doesn't stop rotting and spoiling after eating it.

[Kagus]

This is a combination WTF/"things that made you laugh", but Steam's released the results for December 2020's best-selling games.

And...

...uh...

...those poor bastards.


Just look at the list. Second title from the bottom (before the free titles). This is peak Steam content.

[JoshuaFH]

where are you looking? I can only find weekly sales.

[scriver]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/steam/

[MCreeper]

Futa Fix Dick Dine and Dash. Ouch. 

[scriver]

It is terrifying

[MonkeyHead]

Spoiler: long old quotewall (click to show/hide)

I've heard you could pour booze into your butt and somehow get drunk.

The thing is, the colon is amazing at absorbing anything you put into it. It's a legit method of drug administration. Some drugs just get broken down to useless garbage during digestion if you swallow them, so the colon is often a viable backup route for those drugs. At least, that's what Wikipedia tells me.

But no, I'm not gonna give myself an Everclear Enema to get drunk. Not that I'd touch the stuff in the first place, either.

Which raises an interesting question: why? What evolutionary advantage does a super absorbent colon give us? Water retention?

Well, technically yes... But also everything else as well. It's part of your digestive tract. The stomach doesn't absorb anything, it just melts everything coming in until it becomes a nice mushy slurp, which then gets passed on into the intestines where it's further processed by bacteria (gut flora) and all the necessary nutrients and moisture get absorbed from it.

As the mush passes through the various stages of intestine, its makeup gets changed by the bacterial presence breaking it down into different things, so we need to be able to absorb different things at different times as it gets worked on.

Getting the final drops out of the nutrient mush as it's on its way through is useful both in terms of water/nutrition intake, and also for making sure that the final waste has an appropriate amount of moisture in it and isn't just runny diarrhea, which would be much more of a health risk due to it getting stuck on everything and spreading around.


There's probably also some sort of interaction between plant vs. animal matter getting processed and how quickly it's supposed to get passed out of the system, as humans have generally much longer intestinal tracts than obligate carnivores, but I really do not know enough about any of this to be able to provide more than pure speculation.

Science fair idea: which animal has the most absorbent colon.

[heydude6]

My hypothesis would be some sort of desert animal.

[Frumple]

Futa Fix Dick Dine and Dash. Ouch. 

I mean... congrats to whoever the dev/publishers are for that, I guess? It's pretty impressive to have a noteable best seller when you're peddling somethin' like that.