My favourite little bird, the lowly barn swallow. Incredibly social, they gather on the power lines and twitter at each other when a storm is coming. Lightning fast, and voracious mosquito eaters, and they keep their nests incredibly clean, carrying out their droppings from the building.
It’s a bolus – a ball-shaped mass of liquid – moving down the throat via peristalsis. The muscles just happened to have formed the liquid into a sphere, liquids cannot be compressed, so the peristaltic muscles are trying to squeeze something that can’t be squeezed. The muscles don’t know that, squeeze anyway, and that pain is the result.
well then someone should fix it since we clearly know the cause and it's reproducible. we filed this issue like 300,000 years ago and it's still open, and I've seen it on other MAMMALX platforms like cat and dog
Theodicy is the the teological conundrum of how to square God's omnipotence (can do anything) and omnibenevolence (absolute good) with the existence of evil in the world. A shitton of teologicians and philosophers tried to tackle the problem and usually failed miserably. Personally I never found any explanation to be convincing, until I came up with one and I honestly believe it is the only possible one.
What if God just... isn't very clever? He's doing his best, ok?!
Now, you may ask - if he's omnipotent, couldn't he increase his own intelligence? Yes he could. But he's too stupid to realise that =(
We don't write the H there in my native Czech and I'm very hungover today, so I apparently fucked it up twice. Interesting that I did write "theodicy" correctly (I hope)
I sometimes catch myself writing "Kanada" instead of Canada when not paying attention too.
Ah, I was hoping it was more "te" as in "tea" to imply making shit "wisdom" up while looking at the bottom of a cup, or as in the Latin accusative/ablative "you" to imply Truth™ via argumentum ad populum. 🤪🤓
I've always had it with soda, and I thought I had swallowed in such a way that the CO2 was all trying to fizz out at once. Feels like you've stubbed your esophagus.
Same feeling I get when I swallow an irregular shaped piece of food or one of those elongated multivitamin pills and the object decides to go down SIDEWAYS. You can feel it getting lodged at the back of your throat and then you feel it slowly painfully sliding down your esophagus as you start imagining who will be attending your funeral and what they will be saying for your eulogy.
I always picture a swashbuckling pirate jumping down my throat, using his knife to slow down his decent like in the cartoons when they did it to the sails on the ship. ☠️
German: Quadrat verschluckt
Haitian Creole: vale yon kare
Hawaiian: ale i ka huinahaHungarian: nyelt egy négyzetet
Icelandic : gleypti ferningJapanese: 四角を飲み込んだ (Shikaku o nomikonda)
Scottish Gaelic : shluig e cearnag
Ukranian: проковтнув квадрат (prokovtnuv kvadrat)
Usually happens when you are in a rush or are not paying attention. I have that happen to me when I'm rushing out the door and decide to drink a bit of water or a coffee but want to hurry up. Then you lose any amount of time you were trying to save by standing there imagining what they will be writing on your tombstone.
This has happened a few times in my life. Feels kinda like when you use a muscle wrong and it starts cramping, just that in this case I somehow swallowed wrong. At least it doesn't last for very long. Once my leg started cramping while I was half-asleep. Fuck that hurt for what felt like 5 minutes.
Shit. My first cramp was when I was lying in bed half asleep. My left calf started cramping, but I had no clue what was going on. I was too scared/in pain to attempt to touch it. I just stated in pain for probably 5 minutes but it felt longer. That shit sucked.
Now I can recognize it when it first starts and massage the fuck outta it before it gets really bad.
I have identified certain positions and stretches that are guaranteed to cause a muscle spasms, and try to avoid them.
I have to sleep with my feet over the end of the bed, in an L shape, because if I sleep with my foot extended, I WILL get hit with a screaming cramp out of a deep sleep. No matter how big a bed is, I have to sleep toward the end, so my feet can hang over.
I also have to be careful stretching. Calf muscles are always vulnerable, but it's easy to pull a muscle along the ribcage that will ache for a week or so.
I've cycled from in shape to out of shape and back again several times in my life, but being prone to muscle spasms has been constant throughout all of it.
On October 11, 1991, during a break from rehearsals for The Royal Family, [Redd] Foxx suffered a heart attack on the set.
...
Foxx did his scripted part of the scene (walking across the back of a chair) while being livid, then immediately fell to the floor. Reese said that nobody initially suspected that anything was wrong, as Foxx was famous for Fred Sanford's fake heart attacks on Sanford and Son and was particularly skilled at pratfalls. When he did not immediately rise, Reese went to the floor[38] and heard him say "get my wife" twice.[39] Reese called for paramedics.[39] According to Joshua Rich at Entertainment Weekly: "It was an end so ironic that for a brief moment castmates figured Foxx–whose 1970s TV character often faked coronaries–was kidding when he grabbed a chair and fell to the floor."[40]
No. It's this weird thing that sometimes if you swallow badly it really fucking hurts. Water goes to your stomach, there's no coughing or anything. It just hurts like you swallowed your tonsils or something.
It has taken way to long for someone bringing this up online,forcing me to spread the word offline.
It's called "Eckiger Schluck", I came up with the name and I refuse any facts indicating that this term is incorrect! Looking at you @x@piefed.world
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its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 113 pts · 284d
If you swallow too much at once it overextends the esophagus. This causes it to spasm. That is why it hurts sometimes.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 284d
Swallow what? 😳
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 44 pts · 284d
It's a bird.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 284d
European or African?
667@lemmy.radio · 19 pts · 284d
Uh, I don’t know that
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 284d
casmael@mander.xyz · 16 pts · 284d
zoimmnnggg
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 7 pts · 284d
Both. That’s why it’s too much.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 284d
European, or African?
justlemmyin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
European or, African?
vateso5074@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
X@piefed.world · 6 pts · 284d
Laden? Or unladen?
robocall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Bin laden or Lin Biden?
robocall@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 284d
anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca · 7 pts · 284d
My favourite little bird, the lowly barn swallow. Incredibly social, they gather on the power lines and twitter at each other when a storm is coming. Lightning fast, and voracious mosquito eaters, and they keep their nests incredibly clean, carrying out their droppings from the building.
I love barn swallows.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 284d
So does their mom?
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 284d
European or African?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
PENIS
gray@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 284d
I already learned this from your dad
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 284d
Are you saying you throat goated my dad?
yucandu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
Jokes on you, I get muscle spasms all the time.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 284d
Same. Especially in my back. I end up having to lay down on the floor just to help stabilize and stretch.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 284d
Have you had your sodium levels checked?
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 284d
I haven't seen a doctor in over 10 years.
village604@adultswim.fan · 5 pts · 284d
That sounds like an issue. You should get physical blood work done at the very least, if able.
robocall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
But I don't have any broken bones
X@piefed.world · 104 pts · 284d
It’s a bolus – a ball-shaped mass of liquid – moving down the throat via peristalsis. The muscles just happened to have formed the liquid into a sphere, liquids cannot be compressed, so the peristaltic muscles are trying to squeeze something that can’t be squeezed. The muscles don’t know that, squeeze anyway, and that pain is the result.
kautau@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 284d
well then someone should fix it since we clearly know the cause and it's reproducible. we filed this issue like 300,000 years ago and it's still open, and I've seen it on other MAMMALX platforms like cat and dog
X@piefed.world · 20 pts · 284d
thank you for volunteering to fix this issue!
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 16 pts · 284d
So much for intelligent design eh?
Klear@quokk.au · 13 pts · 284d
Theodicy is the the teological conundrum of how to square God's omnipotence (can do anything) and omnibenevolence (absolute good) with the existence of evil in the world. A shitton of teologicians and philosophers tried to tackle the problem and usually failed miserably. Personally I never found any explanation to be convincing, until I came up with one and I honestly believe it is the only possible one.
What if God just... isn't very clever? He's doing his best, ok?!
Now, you may ask - if he's omnipotent, couldn't he increase his own intelligence? Yes he could. But he's too stupid to realise that =(
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 284d
Ah the Dunning-Kruger theodicy, I like it
justaman123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
I had a philosophy professor who espoused this view, and I tend to agree.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 284d
"Teological"?
Klear@quokk.au · 3 pts · 284d
We don't write the H there in my native Czech and I'm very hungover today, so I apparently fucked it up twice. Interesting that I did write "theodicy" correctly (I hope)
I sometimes catch myself writing "Kanada" instead of Canada when not paying attention too.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 284d
Ah, I was hoping it was more "te" as in "tea" to imply making shit "wisdom" up while looking at the bottom of a cup, or as in the Latin accusative/ablative "you" to imply Truth™ via argumentum ad populum. 🤪🤓
Klear@quokk.au · 1 pts · 284d
Ah, no. You want wine with that.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 5 pts · 284d
It's in the next release.
Unfortunately there is no path forward without full uninstall, reinstall.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 282d
🤣🤣🤣🤣
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 284d
I've always had it with soda, and I thought I had swallowed in such a way that the CO2 was all trying to fizz out at once. Feels like you've stubbed your esophagus.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Out of curiosity, do you lack the ability to burp?
I used to get that issue with soda and I also used to not be able to burp
There's actually a real treatment for it now
On the off chance you can't burp, try looking (or try having your doctor look) into "dysfunction of the belch reflex"
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 284d
I can burp. But not during a swallow. Esophagus is half-duplex.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 285d
"I'm probably going to die"
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 284d
Same feeling I get when I swallow an irregular shaped piece of food or one of those elongated multivitamin pills and the object decides to go down SIDEWAYS. You can feel it getting lodged at the back of your throat and then you feel it slowly painfully sliding down your esophagus as you start imagining who will be attending your funeral and what they will be saying for your eulogy.
hkspowers@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 284d
I always picture a swashbuckling pirate jumping down my throat, using his knife to slow down his decent like in the cartoons when they did it to the sails on the ship. ☠️
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 284d
I just start to imagine my lungs full of water
eldoom@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 284d
I call it swallowing a square because that's what it feels like to me.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 284d
Me too from this moment on. You've described it perfectly.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 284d
You mean "cube"?
mika_mika@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 283d
Expecting that everyone else exists in the third dimension is kinda ableist tbh.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 283d
Ha! It do be facts, tho.
eldoom@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 283d
Swallowing a cube doesn't have quite the same ring to it as swallowing a square though!
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 283d
There is a certain flow to it, certainly. 🤣
porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 284d
Oh man! I'd love it if there was a translation from German, Hungarian, Japanese, or the like that had this description for this. You nailed it.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 283d
German: Quadrat verschluckt Haitian Creole: vale yon kare Hawaiian: ale i ka huinaha Hungarian: nyelt egy négyzetet Icelandic : gleypti ferning Japanese: 四角を飲み込んだ (Shikaku o nomikonda) Scottish Gaelic : shluig e cearnag Ukranian: проковтнув квадрат (prokovtnuv kvadrat)
FWIW 🤷🏼♂️🤓
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 284d
Usually happens when you are in a rush or are not paying attention. I have that happen to me when I'm rushing out the door and decide to drink a bit of water or a coffee but want to hurry up. Then you lose any amount of time you were trying to save by standing there imagining what they will be writing on your tombstone.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 284d
This has happened a few times in my life. Feels kinda like when you use a muscle wrong and it starts cramping, just that in this case I somehow swallowed wrong. At least it doesn't last for very long. Once my leg started cramping while I was half-asleep. Fuck that hurt for what felt like 5 minutes.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 284d
Shit. My first cramp was when I was lying in bed half asleep. My left calf started cramping, but I had no clue what was going on. I was too scared/in pain to attempt to touch it. I just stated in pain for probably 5 minutes but it felt longer. That shit sucked.
Now I can recognize it when it first starts and massage the fuck outta it before it gets really bad.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 284d
I have identified certain positions and stretches that are guaranteed to cause a muscle spasms, and try to avoid them.
I have to sleep with my feet over the end of the bed, in an L shape, because if I sleep with my foot extended, I WILL get hit with a screaming cramp out of a deep sleep. No matter how big a bed is, I have to sleep toward the end, so my feet can hang over.
I also have to be careful stretching. Calf muscles are always vulnerable, but it's easy to pull a muscle along the ribcage that will ache for a week or so.
I've cycled from in shape to out of shape and back again several times in my life, but being prone to muscle spasms has been constant throughout all of it.
Cort@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 285d
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
I'm coming for you Elizabeth!
Sergio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 284d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redd_Foxx
nevetsg@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 284d
When I eat Fries too fast and have nothing to drink nearby.
breakfastburrito@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 284d
Any bread product for me. No idea why. 1 sip of water and I’m completely normal, and can keep eating bread no issue. It’s bizarre!
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 285d
Is this water in lung or what?
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 14 pts · 285d
Could be sudden gas pocket. Idk though.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
Like those nuclear mantis shrimp detonations? That makes a lot of sense
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 10 pts · 284d
For me there are times where I ”drink too hard”, and it leaves some nasty chest pain. Rare, but I hate when it happens.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 285d
Maybe? Or drinking cold water after not eating anything for a long time?
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 285d
No. It's this weird thing that sometimes if you swallow badly it really fucking hurts. Water goes to your stomach, there's no coughing or anything. It just hurts like you swallowed your tonsils or something.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 284d
Good luck with that
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
I think it is hiccup muscle involved, but I'm also at the biological understanding level of an extra terrestrial
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 284d
No, it's more like swallowing an air bubble that's too big.
whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 284d
This is called dysphagia when it becomes a problem.
Maestro@fedia.io · 6 pts · 285d
I have that sometimes! Any idea what it is?
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 284d
Doc told me it was related to acid reflux in my case and put me on some prescription meds.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Oh good after all these years I thought it was just me that experienced this.
Klear@quokk.au · 3 pts · 284d
Same. Reading the comments is actually a huge relief.
Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 283d
It has taken way to long for someone bringing this up online,forcing me to spread the word offline. It's called "Eckiger Schluck", I came up with the name and I refuse any facts indicating that this term is incorrect! Looking at you @x@piefed.world
Jumi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 283d
Sounds about right
halvar@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 284d
every
fucking
time
gray@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 284d
See a doctor
halvar@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 284d
don't worry it just happened to me today and I've overreacted a bit
vateso5074@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
Drowning on dry land
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 284d
Commenting because I like anything from TLOU 1 and Pedro.