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[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chew it first so it goes down smoother

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Chew that water you lazybones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Cart narcs!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (8 children)

We've always called this "French Fry Syndrome" in my family, when you go to swallow a huge handful of fries and they do that super slow slide all the way down and it's painful as hell

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (5 children)

??? Maybe don't shove handfuls of fries down your throat ???

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago

Well you say that, but then there's fries and one thing leads to another

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are you the fries police?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes put the fries down and ur hands up 🔫

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You just want to take my fries, scalawag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

But my fingers are all salty and greasy...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are you a fucking communist?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Watch out everybody, the fry police are here to stop us from shoving fries down our throat.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have this, even with a single fry at the start of a meal. Starchy or dry food in general. I'm about to get hiccup from that fry, then I down a half glass of water and I'm good for the rest of the meal.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How many of your family members can fit in an average sized row boat?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

LMFAO not cool

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Interesting. We call this "attempted suicide" in my family.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

A universal experience. In the UK we sometimes call it "chip chest"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Esophageal Stricture?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You remember the "poop knife" story from Reddit where the dude made a casual comment and then found out his family was weird as fuck? This is your poop knife moment.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Or me the other day when I Inhaled my own spit in my otherwise empty mouth, sending me into a coughing fit, which made everyone around me look at me like I had COVID instead of just having an inability to function at a basic level.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do that almost hourly I feel. Really pisses me off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

If it really happens that often, maybe get it checked out. Speech therapists also deal with swallowing disorders, which can be a sign of (potentially treatable) neurological conditions.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What is that? I thought it was just me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bronchoaspiration. Trust me, I'm a pretend doctor.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's "going down the wrong pipe", not whatever the hell this is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's more like your throat cramps up instead of swallowing properly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My mother is a nurse, apparently "the wrong pipe" is not proper terminology and I will continue using it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Your mom 1 minute later: "oh wait he wasn't talking about anal"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I think it's a combination of overstretching the autonomous nervous system and smooth muscles basically leading to a cramp and the fact that the esophagus has a narrow spot in the middle (not a sphincter, just a bit more narrow).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

I thought I was the only one. Hurts like a mofo.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I always figured it was your lower esophageal sphincter (the one by your stomach) kinda, like..spasming when you swallow, and then being seized up when the water tries to pass through, leading you to have to swallow extra-hard and force it through.

The resulting pain would be from having forced it, and feel like it's in your chest 'cause abdominal pains can tend to be pretty imprecise.

But, I know absolutely nothing about medicine or the human body, so don't take my word for that. These are just the ramblings of a filth-strewn peasant trying to make sense of the world around him.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I got "chest freeze" once and it was fucking weird. I call it that only because of what caused it and because I have never known anything like it or heard anyone else have a similar reaction.

A couple years ago Iwas working as an installer for a wireless ISP, mostly outdoors working on roofs and shit. This was in the summer and we had a helluva time surveying for the signal before we could install the dish and run the cable, hella hot and shit, on our last appointment of the day. We finally get done and leave the site, which was right next to an AM/PM so I stop and grab a couple Gatorades and as soon as I got back in my truck, just slammed one down. Fucker was ice cold and after I took a couple chugs, it was like a donkey kicked me in the chest. It hurt so bad. But only for like 30 seconds, like a brain freeze headache but in my chest. Shit was weird as fuck and sucked.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Water in your lungs is no laughing matter. Laughing will actually make the pain worse.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

It's not a wrong pipe thing, it's like a spasm or cramping of your throat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

If this is what drowning feels like I don't want to drown.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's caused by the lector stultus maximus muscle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lector stultus maximus muscle what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lector stultus maximus muscle who?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Lector stultus maximus muscle chka chka Slim Shady

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Lector? Hardly knew 'er

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah what is that, your body trying it's best to give you a hernia or what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That's a hiatal hernia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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