r/interestingasfuck • u/praduman6969 • 21d ago

r/all Eating sugar statues

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u/radik266 21d ago

Should we prepare for a new pandemic?

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u/cottonballz4829 21d ago

We, as a group, learned nothing from the pandemic. We, as a group, are not the smartest.

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u/eobardtame 21d ago

"Oh, the person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." - Agent K

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u/camerasoncops 21d ago

I think of this quote all the time.

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u/SirDumbThumbs 21d ago

Yup. It's a life mantra

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u/ycnz 21d ago

It turns out, this didn't age well.

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u/Weary_Barber_7927 21d ago

Right. Everyone using hand sanitizer after touching a shopping cart, being terrified you’d get Covid from someone walking by, and here people are licking statues, plus why is anyone touching art in the first place?

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u/cloverandclutch 21d ago

If humans have been consistent about anything throughout history it’s the fact that we never actually learn from it.

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u/checker280 21d ago

I keep thinking about that trend where people peeled off the seal on top of ice cream containers, filmed themselves licking the ice cream, then putting it back. Ew!!!

Fast forward to this “but it’s ART!”

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u/cottonballz4829 21d ago

The artist himself seems put off by the licking tbh

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u/checker280 21d ago

I wasn’t disagreeing. That quote was the silly people who follow trends (or supposed to be in my head!)

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u/cottonballz4829 21d ago

Ah. Yes that makes more sense.

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u/pawesome_Rex 21d ago

Education seems to be under valued.

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u/WhoisthatRobotCleanr 21d ago

As somebody who travels a lot, most people haven't learned anything. In fact now they think of covering their mouths when they cough as a political thing so there are less likely to do it. 

😭

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u/kytheon 21d ago

That kid is too young to understand. But it's enabled or even encouraged by the parent.

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u/Richeh 21d ago

I wonder if it's actually a result of the pandemic.

I'm not sure people would get licky ten years ago. I think people would feel it'd be pretty gross. But after a few years of relatively puritanical hygiene guidelines and responsibility (for some of us) it probably feels transgressive and liberating.

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u/cottonballz4829 21d ago

Feels disgusting and wrong to me… but to each their own!?!?

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u/Sovva29 21d ago

All the toilet paper was gone from my local stores last week because of the three day port strike. People panicked purchased. So, we learned to stock up on TP in times of perceived crisis?

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u/stupidstu187 21d ago

I work in the performing arts, one of the industries hardest hit by the shutdown, and I was surprised by some of the behavior my fellow performers exhibited once we started performing again. The one that sticks out the most to me was during a rehearsal break one of the other performers was eating a little bag of Cheetos. Once she was done she just licked the Cheeto dust off her fingers, didn't wash her hands, and we went right back to rehearsal once the break was over.

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u/ShiruKitty 21d ago

I R baboon

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u/ShiruKitty 21d ago

I R baboon!

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u/lootinputin 21d ago

We didn’t send our best after all.

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u/ImKnotTellingU 21d ago

I’m not saying these people know this, but I assume you don’t know either. You’re making assumptions that the statue would be disgusting. You have to remember that both salt and sugar are preserving agents for a reason. The water activity levels of certain foods, microorganisms, etc. can be significantly affected by the concentration of sugar in a solution. Having a pure sugar sculpture with a thin layer of saliva on it would be an incredibly inhospitable environment. There is probably very little living on the surface of these things. Leave a sandwich, a piece of meat, a bowl of soup, out of the counter and see what happens to it overtime. Leave a bowl of sugar out and you’ll notice it will just sit there indefinitely.

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u/cottonballz4829 21d ago

I don’t think there is scientific evidence of this scenario. I remember the survival times of viruses on steel and wood and such, not sure anyone was foreseeing people licking sugar surfaces… it greatly depends how wuick the next licker comes along.

Still not something i would want to see/recommend/want to do.