Last night while watching Man vs. Wild – I learnt that if you’re lost in a desert somewhere and you’ve already scalped a snake – that you can tie a knot around one end of the “snake tube” if you will, and then piss in it and then seal off the other end with another knot. Then if you get really thirsty, you can un-tie one end of your snake-skin-piss-water-balloon thing and drink your own piss.
Now I know why people carry around water bottles – to prevent this type of situation becoming a reality.
“Why are you always carrying around a bottle of water?”
“Cause, imagine if I didn’t have water and I had to piss inside of a snake’s skin and drink it”
“oh, Good point”
I did also learnt that you don’t just want to eat snow if you are thirsty and stranded in a snowy area … apparently eating snow can eventually burn the inside of your mouth, causing sores, ulcers, etc., so it is best to stuff the snow into something like a water bottle, or a snake tube – so that it can melt – and then you can drink it safely.
Not to mention - as I read my own posting again - I would also conclude that you could piss in the snow, and then take the yellow snow and put it in a snake tube and then drink it. Now while this might be considered "Semantics" - it does sorta debunk the age old warning against yellow snow. Maybe it wasn't the fact that it was yellow - rather the fact that eating snow in general wasn't your best bet - Anyway I will do some more research and let you know.
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and to think I use to piss and moan about all these people in COS carrying around plastic bottles of water..........
PS: is this what that zz top song "tube snake boogie" is about?
my point exactly... now when you see someone walking around with an Aqua Fina or Winn Dixie branded water bottle - you can ask them "it's because of the snake-piss-water-balloon-skin-tube thing isn't it?"
or better yet - just walk up to someone carrying a water bottle and say "I agree, I wouldn't want to drink my own piss out of a snake carcass either" ...
might also be a good way to break the ice if you're looking to start a relationship or something...
conversely, and admittedly more concerning ... I'm now wondering if those that "do" carry water bottles around with them everywhere think that the rest of us would rather scalp a snake and drink our own piss?
maybe that's why they always come off a little snobby?
water is life. water is good for you. The plastic that Nalgene (the very trendy water-tote maker) makes their water bottles out of, however, is not.
i would venture to guess that the reptilian guy in our neighboring blog doesn't drink nearly enough water.
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