were chopsticks used in hair as well as for eating? like some one would pull it out of their hair just to eat?
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No. Traditionally, the chopsticks used at the table are made of different materials and decorated differently than the long, chopstick like pins used for the hair, and the hair ornaments are more smooth and pointy at the small end, to allow them to be easily placed in the hair....I use both, and have about a dozen sets of wood or laquered chopsticks to use at the table and several pairs of the hair pins in various materials, including an antique set in tortoiseshell with silver inlays...if you put them side by side you can see they are shaped a bit differently.
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There are several hypotheses, one is that it the hair traps scent or pheromomes and may have been useful for attracting a mate in the past. Another is that it reduces friction when moving the arm.  Yet another is that it is just vestigial body hair.  Be interested to see what others suggest.\n\nRegards
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I think if you threw up that much food I don't think it was from eatting all that food,but a particular food that you did eat,that caused a sly form of Food Poisoning.Could the steak have been bad,the shrimp not cooked properly,even down to the choc. cake and sundae,the cream could of been bad.You never know,especially at "all you can eat" buffet If your still threwing up along with the runs then I would check myself to the emercency room,you probably have food poisoning.I went to a chinese "all you can eat" buffet,I didn't stay to eat I went to take a drink and saw a fly swimming around in my Pepsi. I showed them and told them I'm not paying for a meal I can not eat,and walked out. They never came after me.And I never eat there again!!Thanks
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No, but a lady I once worked with asked if I used to eat cotton when I was little. She said she and her brothers used to swallow cotton and then wait for it to come out the other end and pull it. How gross is that? She was really embarrassed when she realised that wasn't something all kids did.
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BUSTED!\n\nWhile medical experts agree that the accompanying stories are fiction, debate over the authenticity of the images themselves is ongoing. When I showed them to pathologist Ed Friedlander, he concluded they had been faked, largely because most of the anatomical landmarks one would expect to find in a dissected brain are nowhere to be seen. Another expert speculated that the photos could be real, but, if so, depict a very serious case of scalp cancer, not a "brain infection."  In any case, no one was able to account for their origin.\n\nIn a new development, the debunkers at Snopes.com have determined, based on information from an unnamed but presumably reliable source, that the images are indeed real and document the case of 70-year-old man suffering from "an unusual form of cancer which had eaten away at the upper portion of his skull and scalp."  Contacted for a follow-up opinion, Dr. Friedlander agreed the explanation is plausible, but in his judgment the photos may still have been retouched.  "I cannot account for the apparent maggots and apparent eggs," he wrote. \n\nAs to Mr. Fujiwara, the sushi fanatic who supposedly contracted brain worms by eating raw fish, that variation of the tale is simply preposterous. While the medical literature supports the claim that certain species of tapeworm and roundworm can infect the human digestive tract when consumed in raw or undercooked fish, I could find no indication that these particular parasites (in contrast to the pork tapeworm, which is capable of causing a wider, more serious array of symptoms) can migrate to other human organs, such as the brain. In documented cases where pork tapeworm larvae have been found in the brain, they were embedded, cyst-like, in the neural tissue; they don't crawl around freely, nor are they capable of boring through the patient's skull and emerging through the scalp.\n\nTo set the record straight, maggots can infest the human brain, and so can certain types of tapeworm larvae. But these conditions are pretty rare and, in spite of what you may have heard through the email grapevine, they don't result from ignoring ingrown hairs or binging on sushi.
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It's not. In fact, eating something that so closely resembles your own DNA is a very efficient way of eating. However, there is a definite social faux pas in eating a human. There are multiple examples in nature where cannibalism occurs, especially in fish in birds eating their young. Female Praying Mantes sometimes consume the male after mating (& you thought getting called the next couple of days sucked)\n\nIt's a cultural thing, like incest. In some cultures, cannabalism is accepted, and in Alabama incest is accepted.\n\nI would feel bad for ripping on Alabama, but they aren't reading this..they don't have the internet yet.
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humans are born with hair. it may be miniscule, or ridiculously fine, but its definitely there. by hair, we don't just mean on the top of the head, hair can be anywhere on the body, including the fine hairs on your arms and stuff.\nthe most hairless mammal i can think of is a whale; they only have hair on their lips.
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Did you ever notice the diameter of an Asian person's hair?  It is thicker than a Causcasians.  I am sure the sheer thickness has something to do with it.
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No, definitely not. So if you've found hair in an anchovies can or something like that, it came from a mammal. Yeugh.
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I think it's fashion too.  Personally I would love to have goregous shiny thick Asian hair. Probably a bunch of them are racially mixed asian/caucasian like my husband and my daughter-in law. Just enjoy the diversity of life!
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Are you serious? My god I am learning a lot of interesting facts this moring. Are you really for real? I need proof.\n\nOkay...I just checked it out and you are right. In fact I was taken to a site in which a man was dining on a little baby in Taiwan. Eck! I am not sure if I will be eating much today.
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Aliens came down looking for our leader, once they did a little research they figured they would be better off with your hairbrush.\n\nOther possibilities:\nBecause you lost it?  Or is it stuck in your hair? \nPossibly taken by your dog and buried in the back yard.
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Public hair causes inconvenience while masturbating and while having sex. And also this days boys like shaved public hair. They even shaved their own public hair.
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Sounds like there's a great story behind this one.  Please share. \n\nGetting gum out of any kind of hair is complicated, but the best way to do it is to apply ice liberally to the hair and gum and "freeze" it.  Once the gum has ...er.... um... "hardened," just begin pulling it off.  Because it's public hair, I might just recommend cutting it (all) off.\n\nAlso, I do not recommend chewing ABC (already been chewed) Gum ever, but especially not in this case.
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Snails for food? snails are generally known to be so slow.\nIf french people like to eat snails as slow food,       maybe its because they don't like to eat FAST FOODS.\n\nWhatever....!
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When you think of Chinese food you think of rice, and rice was the first grain that was farmed in China. There is archaeological evidence of rice farming along the Yang-tse River as early as about 5000 BC. People cooked rice by boiling it in water, the way they do today. Or they made it into wine. Rice wine has been popular in China since prehistory. \n\nBut rice doesn't grow in northern China, which is much drier and colder. People in northern China gathered wild millet and sorghum instead. By 4500 BC, people in northern China were farming millet. They ate it boiled into a kind of porridge.\n\nAnother food people associate with China is tea. Tea grows wild in China. By about 3000 BC (or it could be much earlier), people in China had begun to drink tea. Soon everybody drank tea.\n\nWheat was not native to China, so it took much longer to reach China. People in northern China first began to eat wheat in the Shang Dynasty, about 1500 BC. Wheat was not native to China, but people brought it to China from West Asia. People in China boiled it like millet, to make something like Cream of Wheat. \n\nThese were the main foods of China - rice, millet, sorghum, and wheat. In northern China, people mostly ate millet, wheat, and sorghum. In southern China, people mostly ate rice. Poor people ate almost nothing but these foods.\n\n\nWhen people could afford it, they bought or grew vegetables to put on their rice. Soybeans, for instance, are native to China. So are cucumbers. For fruits, the Chinese had oranges and lemons, peaches and apricots. The native flavorings are ginger and anise (Americans use anise to make licorice).\n\nOn special occasions, people also put little pieces of meat on their rice. By 5500 BC, the Chinese were eating domesticated chicken, which came originally from Thailand. By 4000 or 3000 BC, they were eating pork, which was native to China. Sheep and cattle, which were not native, reached China from West Asia also around 4000 BC.\n\nSince meat was so expensive, and because Buddhists didn't eat meat, starting around the Sung Dynasty (about 1000 AD) people also put tofu, or bean curd, in their food as a source of protein. \n\nBecause China doesn't have big forests, it was always hard to find fuel to cook with. Chinese people learned to cut up their food very small, so it would cook quickly on a very small fire. \n\nDuring the Han Dynasty, millet wine became very popular and was even more popular to drink than tea. Also beginning in the Han Dynasty, about 100 AD, Chinese people began to make their wheat and rice into long noodles. \n\nMarco Polo, a visitor to China from Venice, wrote that by the time of Kublai Khan, about 1200 AD, Chinese people ate millet boiled in milk to make porridge. Even as late as 1200 AD, Chinese people did not bake bread.
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Their bodies were literally unable to process the calories.  The human body is remarkable in its ability to adapt.  We are designed to shut down systematically, sacrificing the non-essential parts to save the essential ones.  First we live off the fat, then the muscle, then the organs that are nonessential.  At the same time the body begins to shut down non-essential functions to conserve energy.  Concentration victims were not starved in one sudden shot - they were systematically starved over many months and years.  Over time, their bodies become extremely efficient at performing only the most vital bodily functions on a minimum of calories.\n\nUnfortunately, when they were rescued and fed, a massive amount of calories, fat, protein, etc were put into their system at once.  For bodies that had been conditioned to exist on the barest minimum, it was too much.  Systems couldn't simply restart, and the sudden intake of so many calories literally sent the body into shock, much like freezing or a sudden trauma.  That type of shock would be completely survivable by a normal body, in much the same way a roller coaster ride is survived and enjoyed.  But for their abused bodies, it was too much.  There were reports of people scarfing down bowls of potato and pork-fat soup ravenously, only to die from shock, a smile still on their face.\n\nVery, very sad.\n.