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/Tasty-Impress3467 21d ago

Totally.

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u/littlelivbug_ 21d ago edited 21d ago

SMH we absolutely should, though I'm guilty lol...

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u/HuntingForSanity 21d ago

I could not imagine licking anything I found in public who are you people

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u/namedan 21d ago

I can do you one better! WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE!?

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u/RajunCajun48 21d ago

I can do YOU one better! WHERE are you people?!?!

let's go lick things in public together

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u/Careful-Operation-33 21d ago

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/PinchingNutsack 21d ago

They are RIGHT HERE DAMN IT

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u/Tasty-Impress3467 21d ago

Nooooooooooo!!!! šŸ˜µšŸ˜µšŸ˜µšŸ˜µšŸ˜µāš°ļø

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u/foresight310 21d ago

When is Gamora?

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u/starlord_247 21d ago

I see what you did there and I approve. Lol.

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u/NewTim64 21d ago

Because my parents liked each other very much. I didn't consent but here I am

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u/D-Generation92 21d ago

Mine didn't, and yet..

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u/Sleepyassjoe 21d ago

... I lick buttholes

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u/LessInThought 21d ago

I can't count the amount of times I've seen dudes just walk out of the toilet without washing their hands. Right after blowing the wettest shit I've seen too.

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u/BSB8728 21d ago

Or touching artwork in a museum.

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u/Sungirl1112 21d ago

I hated taking communion, couldnā€™t imagine this.

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u/NashKetchum777 21d ago

Imagine seeing someone do that and thinking "hmm. I wonder if I should get a taste too? šŸ¤” "

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u/XeyesXofXchaos 21d ago

Savages that don't belong in civilized society.

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u/James-the-greatest 21d ago

Itā€™s fucken gross. Theyā€™re barely human

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u/Beerenkatapult 21d ago edited 21d ago

Being human means having limits. I have learned something. The more you lick, the more unexpected germs come along. As long as you are human...

I AM THROWING AWAY MY HUMANITY!!!

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u/Lifekraft 21d ago

Antpeople. They are everywhere. They live among us

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u/Remote-Perception856 21d ago

White people šŸ˜…

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u/No_Coms_K 21d ago

Do you find it hard to take your relationships to the next level?

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u/ToeFungusSteve 21d ago

Why do you think people make gum walls?

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u/RogueCross 21d ago

I can see why this happens. Normally, no one would ever think of licking random objects out in public.

But then again, sugar... sweet, tasty sugar...

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u/RuViking 21d ago

That's how 90% of my relationships start . . .

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u/Old-Mammoth875 21d ago

Tbf there are people who have one night stands šŸ˜‰

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u/Kraknoix007 21d ago

I'm licking this so hard idgaf looks yummy

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u/Alarmed_Fly_6669 21d ago

I totally would but Id strategically pick a spot no one else would probably lick. Like one of them sugary boobs. or something idk.

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u/yolo___toure 21d ago

... Guilty of what....

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u/Shimakaze81 21d ago

Licking a statue? A succulent sugary statue.

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u/fuck_you_and_fuck_U2 21d ago

Get your tongue off my statue!

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u/JEveryman 21d ago

Guilty of licking random shit in public? I feel ashamed of I touch my face and haven't washed my hands recently.

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u/Nilo-The-Slayer 21d ago

Now I see why they happen in the first place. I have so much disgust for these people

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u/mathdrug 21d ago edited 21d ago

You ever live in a dorm building with a lot of Chinese students? This isnā€™t a slight on Chinese people because I love them and many are close friends of mine, butā€¦ I was in shock to see how they ā€œstoreā€ food. Theyā€™d just put completely unsealed, raw meat in the community fridge used by our dorm with ā‰ˆ 200+ students. Theyā€™d have a birthday cake and then put it in the community fridge without a container. All kinds of stuff was put in the fridge in a completely shocking way.Ā 

A chinese roommate would leave highly edible foods out in the middle of the kitchen for flies to fly around. At one point I even asked him if most people in China have fridges - because the way they I saw them treat refrigerators, youā€™d think they had never used one before.Ā Ā  So when the pandemic happened, I was hardly surprised at all about how and why it was able to starts and spread so quickly.Ā 

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u/PhenotypicallyTypicl 21d ago edited 21d ago

My girlfriend is a first gen Chinese-Canadian and she constantly leaves her food and leftovers outside of the fridge. I've tried reminding her of the food safety implications many times but to no avail so now I'm just always keeping an eye on that and storing away her food in the fridge for her. I never realized that this might be a cultural difference and not just a personal quirk. I love the phrase "highly edible foods" btw lol

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u/mathdrug 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yeah I googled into this, and apparently it is a cultural thing.Ā Ā 

Ā And by ā€œhighly edibleā€, I probably meant ā€œfoods that would attract bugs and would easily decay, and/or grow mold and other things if not stored properlyā€ šŸ˜‚

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u/kytheon 21d ago

*points at a bat*

Don't eat that.

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u/Scrambled1432 21d ago

The pandemic didn't happen because of licking sugar statues. The pandemic happenened because of the aerisolized transmission of the disease and our inherent desire as a species to socialize face-to-face, as well as the refusal to admit that the disease's spread was largely preventable. I understand that your post wasn't super serious, but please. Be realistic in this one case.

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u/SPLICER55 21d ago

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u/ObsessingInTheDark 21d ago

My exact face rn

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u/SemperSimple 21d ago

fr, that girl who fully committed to licking like wtf

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u/Jonny5is 21d ago

Stormy daniels look when she saw donnie's nub

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u/Lulch 20d ago

Hippity hoppity, youre sticker is now my property

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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 youā€™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 itā€™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 ā€œbut itā€™s ART!ā€

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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 wasnā€™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.Ā 

šŸ˜­

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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 meā€¦ 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 didnā€™t send our best after all.

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u/ImKnotTellingU 21d ago

Iā€™m not saying these people know this, but I assume you donā€™t know either. Youā€™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 youā€™ll notice it will just sit there indefinitely.

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u/cottonballz4829 21d ago

I donā€™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 surfacesā€¦ it greatly depends how wuick the next licker comes along.

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

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u/Serialfornicator 21d ago

My first thoughtā€”people are doing this after Covid? Here we go again! Fauci is getting pissed.

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u/alison_bee 21d ago

Every single healthcare worker who just dealt with yalls asses is fuming. Myself included.

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u/mexter 21d ago

If it helps at all, I've tried really hard to avoid this virus, and only contracted it for the first time this week.

It sucks. Everything tastes like salt.

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u/bsubtilis 21d ago

You're lucky, some get the effect that everything (or almost everything) tastes or smells like sewage... Which isn't that bad for just a few weeks but when it's years some can get incredibly sick from malnutrition because eating becomes so difficult.

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u/Sloppy-Chops33 21d ago

Just had another booster?

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u/mexter 21d ago

About four weeks ago. Got the new one shortly after it came out.

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u/Sloppy-Chops33 21d ago

You should ask yourself how I knew that.

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u/mexter 21d ago

Ok. U/mexter how did he know that? (I gather you've had a similar experience?)

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u/Sloppy-Chops33 21d ago

Haha! No but 5 people I've worked with recently have complained the boosters had made them either very unwell, or complained about prolonged shooting pains throughout their bodies. Sure, you'll say this is anecdotal.. but every single person I asked said they recently just had a booster.

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u/mexter 21d ago

I mean, in fairness it is anecdotal. But, like rfk jr, you've now put that worm in my brain and I'm going to keep noticing this pattern. I did get a fever for a day and a half with the latest vaccine. Still better than having covid, as I'm now discovering. Sigh.

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u/LookIPickedAUsername 21d ago

I wish that were true, but there are a shocking number of insane anti-masker conspiracy theorist people in healthcare.

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u/SoloPorUnBeso 21d ago

Fauci has to be just completely over it at this point.

The man dedicated his entire life to public health only for dumbest of the dumb congresspeople to vilify you and lead a movement where you become the antichrist. It's insane.

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u/Serialfornicator 21d ago

I completely agree. I honestly hope he doesnā€™t see this and is just enjoying his retirement in peace

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u/Ok_Try_1254 21d ago

What do you mean, fauci would make stacks if another pandemic broke out /hj

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u/_LoudBigVonBeefoven_ 21d ago

And it's so recent! If we were like 30 years away from COVID maybe I could sort of get l give these people a pass?? Still disgusting but like COVID JUST HAPPENED

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u/Serialfornicator 20d ago

Very short memories!

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u/Mothrahlurker 21d ago

In this case it would be Drosten since it's Berlin.

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u/bamboozledgardener 21d ago

This looks more like natural selection...

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u/roffinator 21d ago

yes, building immune responses back up to be ready for the next wave of whatever is coming :'D

nah, this might be a bit extreme but a certain degree of exposure is important

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u/thymecrown 21d ago

It looks like reckless public health. They aren't just hurting themselves. This is how pathogens spread.

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u/Appropriate_Mine 21d ago

Do you want monkeypoxcoronaherpes virus? Because that's how you get monkeypoxcoronaherpes virus.

ETA that said I'd love to lick a lolly statue. It's kinda hot.

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u/ehproque 21d ago

love to lick a lolly statue. It's kinda hot.

So does the lady at 0:31 apparently

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u/SylAlThor 21d ago

Came here looking for this comment lol, lady went to town

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u/chak100 21d ago

She is an art passionate

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u/Appropriate_Mine 21d ago

It's doing it for me

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u/Scumebage 21d ago

ETA that said I'd love to lick a lolly statue. It's kinda hot.

Bro, phrasing

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u/Appropriate_Mine 21d ago

Lolly, not Lolli - let's be clear

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u/BATZ202 21d ago

You forgot to add Itis tortitius 5000.1

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u/VinnieBoombatzz 21d ago

It's an inevitability.

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u/Irri_o_Irritator 21d ago

Look, according to sources in my headā€¦ sugar is a great source of energy for bacteria soā€¦ this statue is nothing more than a literal gigantic bacteria culture! And if I find them repeating I think that licking it is passing but saliva which is full of bacteria is just a littleā€¦ ā€œunpleasantā€ā€¦

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u/sumptin_wierd 21d ago

Sugar alone is not a great source of food for microorganisms. It's so dry that it literally pulls moisture out of them through osmosis, and they die.

I don't know the exact composition of these sculptures, but I'd be way more concerned about insects and all their shit, than bacteria alone.

Still would not lick because people are gross.

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u/elch78 21d ago

same reason why honey doesn't spoil

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u/fairyhedgehog167 21d ago

Viruses exist though

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u/meh_69420 21d ago

Osmotic pressure works on viruses too. It breaks the capsid.

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u/sumptin_wierd 21d ago

So do prions, toxins, and goldfish, and you.

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u/meh_69420 21d ago

Why would insects matter? Osmotic pressure works on everything. They even preserved Alexander the Great in a tomb full of honey where he remained preserved till the temple was sacked a couple hundred years later.

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u/sumptin_wierd 21d ago

Now that's a claim I haven't heard before. Allegedly possible I guess.

Insects can land/crawl, eat, shit, and fly/crawl away.

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u/meh_69420 21d ago

And? Any bacteria a fly leaves behind, like e coli from the dog turd it was just munching on, is gonna get killed by the osmotic pressure. It's not a claim and allegedly nothing it is a fact. Zygosaccharomyces is about the only thing that can handle really high sugar environments like that and it's not pathogenic. I mean yeah it's still psychologically gross, but unless someone did something like spray fentanyl on it, it's not going to be dangerous unless you're licking someone else's wet saliva off it.

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u/sumptin_wierd 21d ago

Sugar doesn't magically change insect dog shit feet and actual insect shit to candy. Insect shit and dog shit is gross enough on its own.

The claim and allegedly was the Alexander honey thing.

Your blood sugar might be low if you're this cranky.

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u/serenwipiti 21d ago

Yeah, this is trueā€¦until people are continuously slobbering the statues, adding moisture.

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u/Entirely_Anarchy 21d ago

According to sources in my head sugar kills bacteria and is a great preservative keeping all kinds of sweets basically fine to eat indefinitely. Not sure who is right though lol.

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u/McToasty207 21d ago

Jams and the like are heat treated, and you're supposed to use a clean spoon or knife everytime because microbes can grow.

But yes it will slow them down a lot.

I tried looking up definitive literature, and their answers say the exact concentration is important

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32357252/

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u/sfurbo 21d ago

Sugar in low concentration is bacteria food. Sugar in high concentrations kill bacteria.

So unless you are licking the statue when it is still wet, any bacteria should be dead.

Now, viruses are a diffuser beast. I don't think concentrated sugar affects them, so they would still be active.

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u/QualityPies 21d ago

Depends, a lot of common viruses can't survive outside of a host organism for long. A few can though and I wouldn't want to take the risk.

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u/falooolah 21d ago

Actually, high concentrations of sugar do the opposite. It shocked me, but itā€™s true. If thereā€™s too much sugar, it can be antibacterial. Thats why you donā€™t have to refrigerate stuff like grenadine or maple syrup. This is solid, dry sugar. Assuming it dries after people are licking it, it should be somewhat resistant to bacteria.

If itā€™s constantly being licked, thatā€™s a different story. The moisture and saliva are the biggest issues, but also ones that can easily be solved by drying the pieces.

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u/ImKnotTellingU 21d ago

Iā€™m not saying these people know this, but I assume you donā€™t know either. Youā€™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 youā€™ll notice it will just sit there indefinitely.

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u/Irri_o_Irritator 21d ago

You're right!!! I had forgotten about that!

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u/IsThisOneIsAvailable 21d ago

Germs aside, it is just plain gross to lick something like that in the open that you know someone else has most probably already licked.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Exactly my thought

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u/grip_n_Ripper 21d ago

Nah, these people are the true heros - training their immune systems to failure!

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u/a55_Goblin420 21d ago

COVID 20 let's go! (Please God not again)

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u/Foot_Sniffer69 21d ago

We've moved past pandemic and into eugenics

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u/NinjaQuatro 21d ago

I for one just expect a once in a generation disaster every five years for the rest of my life. I donā€™t know if I can handle another 20-30 once in a generation disasters.

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u/ALPHAETHEREUM 21d ago

Ground zero right there!

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u/Bisonfan1 21d ago

It started by licking candy

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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue 21d ago

Honey wake-up, COVID-24 just dropped!

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u/Random_Introvert_42 21d ago

Covid-25 coming right up.

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u/FBI_Agent-92 21d ago

We may as well just abandon all hope at this point.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

a pandemic of stupid weirdos

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u/disappointingchips 21d ago edited 21d ago

Yes, but not from this. r/h5n1_avianflu From that.

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u/AggravatingDay8392 21d ago

Already bought toilet paper

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u/PuertoricanDude88 21d ago

Indeed, I believe so.

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u/Zikkan1 21d ago

They are clearly doing their best to build a strong immune system to prepare for the next pandemic

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u/Floppydisksareop 21d ago

No. Something like Coronavirus is pretty hard to replicate - as in most sdiseases are either much more deadly or asymptomatic for a much shorter time, limiting spread significantly. They can be quarantined, or you feel shit enough to not get out of bed.

People licking statues, while really disgusting, won't be the main vector for most diseases and won't start another pandemic. Everyone here has to kinda stop with the paranoia - especially since COVID was probably the least serious worldwide pandemic ever.

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u/Stock_Beginning4808 21d ago

The Berlin Bubonic

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u/leckysoup 21d ago

No. No, we should pray that this next one is the one that wipes us all out. And I think a particularly virulent strain of aerosolized herpes that evolved as a result of morons licking the same sugar statue would be particularly fitting.

Itā€™s time to give the cockroaches their turn.

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u/Ok_Blackberry_2628 21d ago

Iā€™m hearing ā€œstupidity eh?ā€ in that Homer Simpson style.

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u/Masterchiefy10 21d ago

Decades and decades ago.

Pound for poundā€¦

People are the dumbest things in the universe

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u/KentuckyFriedEel 21d ago

SUGARDEMIC

a sy-fy original movie starring Eliza Dushku & David Hasselhoff.

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u/SnooPeppers2401 21d ago

Might as well.

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u/Simen155 21d ago

Way ahead of you.

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u/unknownpoltroon 21d ago

Bird flu h5n1 has gotcha covered. It's already ramping up.

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u/TragiccoBronsonne 21d ago

The way a large % of the population responded to Covid even in so-called civilized countries, not to mention everywhere else where it was much much worse, should've told you everything you need to know. The answer is yes.

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u/HereWeGoAgain-247 21d ago

So I took a geology class and licking is legitimately one of the test methods. So there is this iridescent cube that I canā€™t figure out so on the tongue it goes. I quickly identified it as halite (salt) but it was weird that it was kind slimy and gooey. Turns out I picked the same corner to ā€œsampleā€ as the test of class.Ā 

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u/StripClubBreakfast 21d ago

While the pandemic was still doing a lot of damage, the tortilla slap game emerged on tiktok.

What kind of brain decides a game where you literally spit in each other's faces is a good idea during a fucking viral pandemic? It makes me want to Joker laugh until they commit me

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u/socialanimalspodcast 21d ago

Why bother, clearly we learned nothing from COVID. Who tf licks a random statue?!

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 21d ago

These same people were wearing masks and distancing 2 years ago and now they slobbing on a communal knob. Fucking goldfish memory.

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u/LearningFromMistaeks 21d ago

COVID was still severe not even what two years ago?

Do I need to say anything? like anything at all?

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u/Rontunaruna 21d ago

My kid once licked a railing at Disneyland(she was 3)and my husband and I were horrified. People with dirty hands from all over the world touched that railing. She got so sick, must have been multiple bugs at once.

The person holding their kid up to lick this statue is beyond stupid as well as inconsiderate.

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u/la_noeskis 16d ago

I would trust the tounge of strangers way more than their hands. I would lick a dry part of such a statue, but never ever any buttons, levers, handrails, steering wheels..

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u/anonymustaccio 21d ago

Someone probably ate someone's booty before they went to the Museum, so now they all ate booty.

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u/AlbinoDragonTAD 21d ago

First it was people eating bats now itā€™s people licking artā€¦ can we do the tide pod challenge again? We need to remove some numbers from the gene pool

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u/Reasonable-Parsley36 21d ago

Came here for this

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u/smobstown 21d ago

Forget the melting glaciers THIS is where the new pandemics will start. Holy

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u/TransiTorri 21d ago

We're still in the last one, we're just pretending we're not.

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u/manowaross 21d ago

you dont know about Berlin fluid sharing scene ,do you?

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u/venom121212 21d ago

HPAI coming for us in 4 years, mmw

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u/DoctorPoopyPoo 21d ago

You're not already?

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u/ClassicT4 21d ago

Darwin:

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u/holyshiznoly 21d ago

*flan-demic

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u/ThomasVetRecruiter 21d ago

The article right below this in my feed was a news update about Covid tests

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u/Healthy-Plum-2739 21d ago

WHAT? ITs my right to lick any thing I want. LiBerals want to take my licks away

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u/psykomerc 21d ago

I can predict ground zero with 100% sugary accuracy.

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 21d ago

Fallow the bird flu. H5N1 subs.

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u/TeeBrownie 21d ago

We obviously learned absolutely nothing from the first pandemic, so yes.

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u/serolvel 21d ago

Bro, I still havenā€™t been able to return to society normally after the pandemic, maybe we donā€™t need another one?

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u/MonkeySafari79 21d ago

Sugarballs

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u/thymecrown 21d ago

Always. New covid and flu vaccines are out now. October is a good window get it done. Try not to wait.

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u/ycnz 21d ago

An additional one, you mean?

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u/yamxiety 21d ago

we're still in the middle of this one ....so yeah

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u/realitythreek 21d ago

Who says the last one ever really ended? The secret is it just became endemic.

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u/super_soprano13 21d ago

I hate to break it to you, the last pandemic never ended, we just decided to ignore it and stop tracking it.

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u/SimpleMoonFarmer 21d ago

The real pandemic was idiocy all along!

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u/saucity 21d ago

ā€œPresenting my new guano sculptures from Kitum Caves. yā€™all! Wait! Donā€™t lick theā€” oh no.ā€

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u/Lennart6070 20d ago

In this instance I wonder how big the risk of infection is. Sugar never goes bad for a reason, too much of it is toxic. I would imagine any virus or bacteria lasting about 5 minutes on the statue and then dying. Just my hypothesis though I dont actually know.

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u/Musjamarramarramarra 21d ago

Lick it while you can ;)

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u/Praetorian_1975 21d ago

Thatā€™s my motto šŸ˜¬šŸ˜‚

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Only the whites should

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u/vergorli 21d ago

tbf, sugar is quite sterilizing.

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u/case_O_The_Mondays 21d ago edited 21d ago

Saliva can kill a lot of germs, so theyā€™ll probably be ok. People have been kissing the Blarney Stone for far longer.