You don’t have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?
Comment on xkcd #3217: Home Remedies
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
oh wow I really needed the explanation for this one 😂
marcos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
No… I know of skunks from the cartoon Pépé the Skunk, but I never really reconnected that with reality, as in, they smell bad IRL, that’s not just a cartoon thing. So that prevented me from identifying the xkcd being about grandma’s remedies.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
they smell bad IRL
They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.
hyperencabulator@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Not just bad either, vomit-inducing, appetite-destroying-bad. It’s their defense mechanism from large things with sharp teeth that haven’t eaten in 24h. The smell stays on you and anything the liquid touches for weeks. Burn the clothes, wait for new skin cells to replace the existing ones. Pray it isn’t on something like your car or place of residence.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Skunks smell fine, they just have the ability to spray predators with a scent that smells fucking awful. The skunk itself doesn’t usually smell like that though, and if they aren’t afraid for their life they’re actually super friendly cuddly creatures. They’re like cats with a stinkbomb cannon.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
I didn’t know all that, thanks for the skunk lore !
Yosmonkol@piefed.social 1 month ago
Some “old home remedies” would be: tomato sauce, for skunk; peanut butter, for gum; and prairie oyster cocktail, for hangover. Most of these either don’t work or make the mess worse so a game show where people try this on a wild animal would be disastrous and possibly humorous if you ignore the animal abuse.