What is your personal threshold for being grossed out by owning an object that was once part of a living being, and why?
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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.
Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.
What makes one thing gross but the other okay?
I don't mind it as long as it wasn't part of their body, like their skull. That does freak me out.
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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.
Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.
What makes one thing gross but the other okay?
Wait till you think about where your water's been.
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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.
Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.
What makes one thing gross but the other okay?
Heck I don't even eat food that was part of animals
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Same for human parts for me.
Weirdly enough, I still think my preferred way to dispose of my eventual cadaver is being made into a book.
I wouldn't want to own book me, but I love the idea of being a book. Not like a gruesome one where someone could tell right off, something more boring than that.
You would have to check the legality of that in your jurisdiction. Aaaand find someone willing to do it. It would be dope tho.... As for me, I would prefer a sky burial... Return to nature man, also metal as fuck.
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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.
Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.
What makes one thing gross but the other okay?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Insertable sex toys and nothing else I can think of
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I've been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.
Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.
What makes one thing gross but the other okay?
I bought a pretty shell necklace in Samoa, and then asked the seller what shells it was made from.
He said... "Dolphin's teeth."
When I reeled back in horror, he chuckled and said, "Yum yum."
I have various bits of jewellery made from beef bone, I happily wear leather, but there was something intimate about teeth that made it gross, plus eating dolphins, argh.
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Wait till you think about where your water's been.
The water that I shoot at my butt or the water I put in my mouth?
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If I look at an object and I'm reminded that it comes from a dead human or creature i probably wont keep it.
An old jacket is ok because i just see a cool jacked but a tiger skin rug would always remind me of a dead tiger.
What about a tiger skin jacket with the head as a hood?
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If it's human
Does that include the ashes of people in urns?
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Does that include the ashes of people in urns?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Mostly, yes. I saw someone say something about wearing a deceased loved-one. That's understandable. But if you somehow obtained the remains of some random person, that's... Eugh
Although in my culture we don't really cremate but I understand that others do
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Wait till you think about where your water's been.
Running through Belgians like cheap beer!
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If it still looks like it did when it was alive: Shrimp with tails on, whole fish, that sort of thing is too far.
What about a death mask?
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What about a tiger skin jacket with the head as a hood?
Yeah i'll pass on wearing a corpse around.
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Wait till you think about where your water's been.
I have no issues with drinking recycled water. I've even had beer made from treated wastewater. Never again! (Because I'm gluten intolerant.)
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Heck I don't even eat food that was part of animals
I'm vegan btw
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What about a death mask?
I've never eaten one, what's that?
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You would have to check the legality of that in your jurisdiction. Aaaand find someone willing to do it. It would be dope tho.... As for me, I would prefer a sky burial... Return to nature man, also metal as fuck.
Oh yeah, being turned into a book is unlikely to be worth the headache for anyone involved. The tree burials that are legal in some spots is a reasonable option. Or just donation to science.
Whatever is cheapest/lowest fuss is fine. If that means I get reused or recycled great! If not, just don't let me be a bother.
Sky burial is also awesome. Hopefully there are enough vultures to keep that up in at least some places. There's a 99% Invisible episode that talks about collapsing vulture populations resulting in issues with doing it in India.
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I've never eaten one, what's that?
No need to eat it.
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What we find gross is mostly arbitrary and emotional. It’s loosely based on the perception of filth but most people who find something gross will continue to find that thing gross even if they know it’s clean. If someone feels like snakes are gross, they watch you take a snake and scrub it clean with soap and water (don’t actually do this obviously) and you try to hand them the scrubbed snake, most people would continue to call it gross. Furthermore, if you ask most people why they find something gross, they won’t be able to give you a real answer. (Food seems to be an exception but we mean something entirely different and much more specific when calling food gross unless we are saying that the food is somehow foul or unclean)
In most cases, when someone calls something gross, they are doing so as a reaction to a feeling it gives them. Whatever they say after that tends to be some form of post-hoc justification to legitimize that feeling.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I remember seeing an informal test on this. An actor crafted a free drink in front of participants, then unwrapped a factory-new toilet brush in front of the person. They made a point of cleaning the freshly unwrapped brush in the bar sink, to ensure there wasn’t any factory-gunk on it. Then they used the brand new toilet brush to mix the drink.
Nobody would touch the drink. Even though they knew it was clean, they couldn’t overcome the instinctual disgust that was caused by seeing it mixed with a toilet brush.
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No need to eat it.
Okay, but all the other things I listed were foods, I thought this was a continuation on that theme.
