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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • This is the real difference.

    One is an allergy hypersensitivity that triggers the release of histamine that (in this scenario) closes the throat and causes the person to die.

    The other is a lack of an enzyme in the stomach to break down a specific component, so instead bacteria break it down. When they break it down, gas is released, which causes the stomach to be irritated.

    So one is your throat literally trying to kill you, vs your stomach being irritated (possibly very bad). Not downplaying lactose intolerance, but its not the same as a type 1 hypersensitivity

    Edit - as pointed out, most the stuff for lactose intolerance happens in the intestines not the stomach




  • She’s not, cause she’s talking. Think about putting a bottle to your mouth, especially one that isn’t completely full. Someone says something to you, you want to respond, but you don’t need to put the drink down because you’re going right back to sipping on it. You would tilt the neck/mouthpiece away from your mouth slightly. From a straight on look, this scenario would look just like the drawing







  • Similar to what others have said, tough i don’t know that the specific meme trend is right now.

    A big thing people say though is ‘ohio is so boring/bad/terrible people decide to leave the planet’ because so many astronauts are from ohio. On Google maps when you enter other states it does a ‘Welcome to BlahBlah’, and for Ohio the little symbol is an astronaut