Microplastic.

[woodsroad]

My father was a quiet, funny, unassuming guy. Never, ever boasted, bragged or used foul language. Before he passed, I started writing down all the stories of his life that I could collect or remember. The Philadelphia Inquirer published it as a display obit. I can't begin to tell you how many people read it and called me, saying that they had no idea about who he really was and what he had done in his life. "He beats that Dos Equis guy cold". "That was the abbreviated and sanitized version", I told them, "you should hear about when he was in the service, driving army trucks going down to Mexico to buy pot, or how part of his job in the lab at Fort Benning's hospital was to check the local working girls for VD".

Every one of our lives has a movie in it, just waiting to be told.

 

[Sobrbiker]

 

[Brad H]

Studies show, those who exercise, eat right, and discipline themselves, all die a healthier person

 

[Sig]

Facts!! I’m 62. The things I’ve touched, ingested or been exposed to is incalculable.

I go in burned out buildings and have for 20 years.

I’ve been shot, stabbed, been in a few accidents (not my fault lol) been on life support twice, broken 18 bones, had hundreds of stitches (some I’ve put in myself).

I’ve been in fights where I got my ass kicked and where I’ve kicked ass.

I’ve spent two nights in jail, for all the right reasons.

Yeah, plastics don’t mean anything to me.

As a fellow bullet catcher (two 7.62x39 to the gut in 2009), I concur with your opinion.
When I woke up in the hospital, one of the surgeons told me to go play the lottery. In 2020 I had some sort of gut leak from the previous injury. I became septic and woke up 11 days later at a hospital in another state. I had had 2 bowl recections, 4 scar removal surgeries, and multiple "clean outs" during those 11 days.
I also wrecked a motorcycle at 120mph, went through a buddies windshield at 50+mph when he hit a tree in an F-150. I disconnected from a parachute 35 feet in the air during Airborne school, and I had an interesting swim with a few 8 foot Bull sharks in Florida when I was a kid. A local said I deserved to lose a leg.
Anyways, if microplastics are what kills me, good for them.

 

[anotherbob]

I’m very interesting. Just not in the normal way.

I feel like you've just admitted to having extra limbs or something like that.

 

[ashdigger]

I feel like you've just admitted to having extra limbs or something like that.

My my octopi

 

[zanxion]

I think that finding out that something like microplastics, when found to be worryingly increasing everywhere (and proven to increase strokes by 4-5 times when too much), it makes sense trying to reduce it before it gets to a critical point where fighting it could be futile.
I am not much worried about microplastics, and many others, but wouldn't ignore it like it does not exist and causing no problems either.

 

[georged]

Plastics?

I'm worried most about Xenu's Thetans.

Scary buggers, those guys.

 

[HeadMisfit]

70% of microplastics are coming from people washing synthetic fiber clothing, not someone tossing a plastic bottle in the indian ocean.

so technically disco may have died, but uncle phils polyster leisure suite, IS KILLING YOU in return.

 

[anotherbob]

Plastics?

I'm worried most about Xenu's Thetans.

Scary buggers, those guys.


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You shouldn't worry bout that... it's too late your thetan levels are so high you'll explode and die if you get near Tom Cruise. That's what the guy I paid lots of money told me bout you surpressives.
Which is my way of saying f those Tologists.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Facts!! I’m 62. The things I’ve touched, ingested or been exposed to is incalculable.

I go in burned out buildings and have for 20 years.

I’ve been shot, stabbed, been in a few accidents (not my fault lol) been on life support twice, broken 18 bones, had hundreds of stitches (some I’ve put in myself).

I’ve been in fights where I got my ass kicked and where I’ve kicked ass.

I’ve spent two nights in jail, for all the right reasons.

Yeah, plastics don’t mean anything to me.

I'm sure it was deserved. Hahaha

 

[gamzultovah]

I’ve been shot, stabbed

But were these your fault???

 

[pappymac]

I BLAME THE DOCTORS.
From the moment they forcefully rip you from your mother's womb and slap you on the bottom, you are destined to eventually die.

Then they do research and find out everything in the world has the potential to kill you.
Then they get rich by telling you not to do things you enjoy because it has the potential to kill you.

Doctors are evil.

 

[JOHN72]

For those who are interested here is an article that gives an overview re microplastics and the concerns surrounding them.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/01/what-s-the-deal-with-microplastics-the-material-that-never-goes-away

The truth is, it's not very encouraging. I don't even want to imagine how many thousands of microtoxins are among us. It's horrible. It's funny that we still buy organic products, free of something? Hahahahaha. Thank you, LotusEater, for sharing that news.

 

[Gerald Boone]

About the only thing I do is distill water. There is a lot in the tap water where I live I don't want to taste or put in my body. Will I live live longer, who knows.

 

[Brad H]

70% of microplastics are coming from people washing synthetic fiber clothing, not someone tossing a plastic bottle in the indian ocean.

so technically disco may have died, but uncle phils polyster leisure suite, IS KILLING YOU in return.

My good sir, to slander disco in such a manner is unworthy of this forum. I must ask you to refrain from any other talk in such a manner towards disco.

 

[RPK]

Studies show, those who exercise, eat right, and discipline themselves, all die a healthier person

Exactly, each of us has the choice of being healthy when we die or not !

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Get rest, eat healthy as you can, exercise and lift weights, spend quality time & LAUGH with people that you care about, & smoke a bowl when you have quiet moments. Worrying about what is not in your control, or worrying about what you can’t see and feel is neurotic behavior that will poison your souls & kill you early. ️

 

[RPK]

Here is a link to an article I read posted on a fly fishing site I visit.

This Caddisfly Discovered Microplastics in 1971—and We Just Noticed

Decades before microplastics made headlines, a caddisfly larva was already incorporating synthetic debris into its home.

www.zmescience.com

 

[Brad H]