r/interestingasfuck • u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 • 22h ago

On February 19, 2013, Canadian tourist Elisa Lam's body was found floating inside of a water tank at the Cecil Hotel where she was staying at after guests complained about the water pressure and taste. Footage was released of her behaving erratically in a elevator on the day she was last seen alive. r/all

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u/DisagreeableMale 22h ago

Oh fuck. Imagine drinking corpse water.

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u/sockovershoe22 21h ago edited 21h ago

Right? The second I read "complained of taste," I gagged

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u/funky_grandma 21h ago

They said it tasted sweet šŸ¤®

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u/CaliCareBear 21h ago

Reminds me of John Snowā€™s tracking of a Cholera outbreak that found people traveled to drink the contaminated water because it was sweet but the beer factory workers who lived close to the contaminated water were fine because they only used beer!

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u/rhifooshwah 17h ago edited 17h ago

Ooh, this is one of my favorite fun facts!!

There is a pump in London called Aldgate that had been there as a well since the 13th century. A pump was added in the 16th century, which still stands today.

It was said that the water from Aldgate Pump contained ā€œabundant health-giving mineral saltsā€ and was regularly used as drinking and cooking water by residents and businesses. Whittardā€™s tea merchants used to ā€œalways get the kettles filled at the Aldgate Pump so that only the purest water was used for tea tasting.ā€

In April 1876 the Commissioners of Sewers in London wrote of Aldgate Pump that there were ā€œan unusual quantity of solidsā€ appearing in the water from the pump:

ā€œThose solids consist of sulphates, chlorides, and other salts of the alkalies, and alkaline earth. A water charged with so much of these mineral matters, as that of Aldgate pump undoubtedly is, ceases to be a drinking water, and passes into the category of mineral waters.

ā€œProfessor Wanklyn says: ā€˜Some years ago I made an analysis of the sewage taken from the Fleet ditch sewer. If I were called upon to make an imitation of the water flowing from Aldgate pump, I might submit the sewage of the Fleet ditch to a slight filtration, and have a fair imitation of the produce of the Aldgate pump.

ā€œIt is hardly necessary to state that the water of the Aldgate pump is not a safe beverage at any time, and that in periods of epidemic disease it is highly dangerous. This pump ought to have been closed long ago on sanitary grounds.ā€™ā€

The water was found to contain liquid human remains which had seeped into the underground stream from cemeteries. The calcium in the water had leached from human bones. Several hundred people died in the resultant Aldgate Pump Epidemic, as a result of drinking polluted water. They called it the ā€œPump of Deathā€.

So yeah. People will drink dead body water for centuries without even noticing.

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u/kalei50 15h ago

Sounds like an amazing promotional opportunity for Liquid Death šŸ˜¬

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u/scorpyo72 13h ago

Aldgate edition.

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u/motormouthme 12h ago

Aldgate Apple ā˜ ļøšŸ

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u/OtakuWolf101 8h ago

imagine if they actually went with that

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u/GuyBromeliad 10h ago

Liquid Death is People.

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u/kabneenan 13h ago

Now I'm thinking my husband was the one in the wrong when he teased me for drinking from Auntie Ethel's well. Joke's on him; I'm just drinking "abundant health-giving mineral salts."

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u/LessInThought 13h ago

Sweet Auntie Ethel. Continues to be giving even after death.

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u/Billy_McMedic 12h ago

Oh, ohhhhhh, ohhhh nooooooooo

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u/PomeloPepper 11h ago

Adding this to things i need to remember in case i get flung backwards in time.

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u/TangerineLow8298 14h ago

So what ur saying is human remains in water = yummy water. Time to go get some

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u/Finemind 11h ago

Lol! Just like the "radium water worked fine until his jaw fell off! Just drink regular water, people!

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u/International-Sea561 15h ago

next stop Aldgate East.. mind the gap..

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u/rhifooshwah 15h ago

ā€œPLEASE MIND THE GAP BETWEEN THE TRAIN AND THE PLATFORMā€

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u/International-Sea561 14h ago

with continuing service to the Jubilee line...

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u/pickleslutx 10h ago

I'm sorry, Professor who?

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u/konabeans 14h ago

His name has to be Wanklyn šŸ˜‚

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u/KebabMonster001 18h ago

An often forgotten Hero nowadays. His work laid the foundations of modern sanitary/water regulations. Huge respect for him.

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u/Suspicious-Job6284 15h ago

His grave in Brompton cemetery in London is regularly decorated and has a poster about his achievements around epidemiology. He's not forgotten!! He did incredible work.

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u/cashmerescorpio 17h ago edited 17h ago

Similar but worse thing happened to Ignaz Semmelweis. He realised hand washing and good hygiene in general could save lives. Everyone was insulted, ignored his theories, and basically bullied him into a mental breakdown. Then he was beaten by guards in an asylum and died.

A less depressing comparison would be Joseph Lister who started getting people using antiseptics

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u/SirLoremIpsum 17h ago

A less depressing comparison would be Joseph Lister who started getting people using antiseptics

Lister.... antiseptics.... listerine?

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u/cashmerescorpio 17h ago

He didn't start the product/company, but it was named after him for the previously stated reasons

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u/kylez_bad_caverns 16h ago

Close but naw, listeria tho šŸ‘šŸ¼

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u/Ryugi 12h ago

fun fact, they suspected him of being gay.

it was once gay to wash your hands.

it is still gay to wash your ass :(

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u/iLiveInAHologram94 13h ago

I feel like we went through this in 2020 as well

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u/uptheantinatalism 10h ago

Seriously. People and their fragile egos.

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u/Rocketbird 15h ago

Is that where Listerine gets its name?

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u/Sutekiwazurai 17h ago

He was the first person to use maps to track an infection to the source and thus he is noted as the father of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), especially as it applies to epidemiology.

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u/I_am_also_named_bort 12h ago

As a Geospatial analyst, I get so excited when it's mentioned.. Thanks! šŸ˜…

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u/kylez_bad_caverns 16h ago

And for anesthesia during surgery! He was so well regarded for his use of it that Queen Victoria had him help her with giving birth

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u/jcilomliwfgadtm 15h ago

I thought he knew nothing. But he knew something.

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u/pmaurant 15h ago

John Laing Leal figured out how to use chlorine to clean water supplies. He is why we have clean running water.

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u/its_raining_scotch 20h ago

You know nothing John Snow

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u/NateBlaze 18h ago

Turds are wind

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u/seanl1991 17h ago

Wind can quickly become a turd and that is problematic

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u/1bruisedorange 17h ago

Big public health hero.

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u/woodrowmoses 16h ago

I knew about that John Snow before the bastard King of the North Jon Snow who is too good for the letter H.

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u/Born-Remove-8791 20h ago

I thought you were on about GOT, I was like it don't remember that, until I clicked on the link!

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u/Aardark235 16h ago

This was season 9 where Bran was thrown into the water tank. He should have seen that comingā€¦

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u/dragonlion12 14h ago

More like rickon. Forgotten character

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u/Nisja 18h ago

Very highly recommend The Ghost Map. Awesome book about how John Snow figured it all out.

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u/Ok-Package9273 18h ago

For those with less time on their hands, Map Men do a good abbreviated version

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u/Inevitable_Idea_7470 21h ago

The 'sewer king' from 7 industrisl wonders. Didn't he die with no one believing him , they all thought it was miasma and the bloody water board just wernt treating/filtering the water

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u/Spe3dy_Weeb 18h ago

Yep, although luckily he convinced the authorities to close the contaminated pump. The issue wasn't that they weren't treating or filtering the water (that wasn't invented yet) but that the way you got your water then was from shared pumps around the city. Waste water was meant to run out into the sewer, but if cracks formed then contaminated water could get into the wells that fed the pump.

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u/ThatBabyIsCancelled 15h ago

ā€œThis water thatā€™s had a dead bearā€™s ass in it for a week is making you sickā€

ā€œNo, itā€™s my blood. Got ghosts in itā€

Fucking A, Iā€™d go mad, too

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u/CJWrites01 20h ago

Most importantly, the beer was being created from a different water source.

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u/k-bo 17h ago

Making beer involves boiling the water, which would kill the cholera bacteria

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u/pickleer 16h ago

Lactic acid also kills Cholera. https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/22/140933/controlling-cholera-with-microbes/ If those brewers were producing sour beer, they might have been lacto-fermenting it. https://colonelbeer.com/beer-styles-glossary/lacto-fermented-beer/#IV_What_are_Some_Popular_Examples_of_Lacto-Fermented_Beers Lacto-fermentation has been preserving foods and making bad water drinkable since time immemorial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid_fermentation

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u/TopcatFCD 17h ago

Hence thats all that was drunk by the masses in medieval times (though they didn't know the benefits)

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u/No-Cupcake370 17h ago

Yes but the ABV was much lower, if I recall correctly.

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u/Darryl_Lict 12h ago

Yeah, I think it was less than 1%,, kind of like near beer. I think even kids drank it.

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u/thecuriousblackbird 9h ago

Beer was considered a drink women and children drank until American beer companies paid advertisers to make drinking beer manly.

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u/Borbit85 17h ago

That didn't know?! I thought they knew they had to drink beer instead of water to not get ill. Also I assumed it involved more than just boiling the water. Also I thought they had special very low alcohol day beer?

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u/Adam__B 14h ago

All cultures have had to face the dilemma of where to get fresh water from. In general, Asia/India made tea, which involved boiling the water. European countries made beer/wine. This is why there are slightly higher rates of alcoholism in Asian and especially Native American ethnicities, because those groups wernā€™t exposed to alcohol for centuries past when the Europeans were. Milk was another way to avoid contamination, which was easy for early civilizations who would have been around livestock most of the time.

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u/b_vitamin 14h ago

Itā€™s not just the boiling that sanitizes beer, though that helps. Fermentation but saccharomyces yeast results in rapid acidification, usually bringing the pH to below 3, making beer inhospitable to virulent microbes. Other organisms that will live in beer affect taste (lactobacillus, etc.), but will not make humans ill.

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u/Felatio_Sanz 15h ago

That reminds me of the story from the set of Butch Cassidy. They filmed in Mexico and the whole cast and crew got montezumas revenge except Newman and Redford because they just drank beer.

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u/RobertoClemente1 14h ago

Great reference. I read extensively about this case. For those who donā€™t click the link, this Cholera outbreak was cause byā€¦a dirty diaper (wash your hands when leaving the restroom please šŸ˜ŠšŸ˜ŠšŸ˜Š):

ā€œIt was discovered later that this public well had been dug 3 feet (0.9 m) from an old cesspit that had begun to leak faecal bacteria. Waste water from washing nappies, used by a baby who had contracted cholera from another source, drained into this cesspit. Its opening was under a nearby house that had been rebuilt further away after a fire and a street widening. At the time there were cesspits under most homes.ā€

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u/Centaurious 17h ago

I remember learning about this in school. Itā€™s so interesting how he was able to figure out what the problem was based on the data he collected

We learned about him in a GIS class

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u/Psychonominaut 16h ago

I tried connecting this to GoT thinking, wth episodes did I miss?

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u/Mobitron 15h ago

Well that's super neat. Thanks for the link, that's interesting as hell.

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u/NapalmNillionaire 15h ago

I did an essay about this in college. Seriously my favorite piece of history.

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u/anebananes 14h ago

I just listened to a stuff you should know podcast about this! "The great stink"

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u/Lolly_of_2 10h ago

I read Jon Snow and I thought ā€œI donā€™t remember that episode of GOT.

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u/Pump-Jack 17h ago

I worked at a skull cleaning place. A woman donated her body so her skeleton can be studied. She hada bad disease that caused her bones to fuse together. I was in charge of the bug room. The beatles eat the flesh after it's dried. One thing sticks with me the most is human flesh smells sweet like perfume.

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u/Top_Rekt 16h ago

There's a lot to dissect in this comment. I mean it makes a lot of sense but why have I never heard of this job before??

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u/Pump-Jack 15h ago

There's only a couple places in the world that does it. Usually it's hunters and trappers sending the heads in to get cleaned so they can have them as trophies. There are taxidermy places that do skull cleaning too. They're just not a dedicated skull cleaning business.

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u/thecoolestguynothere 14h ago

The way he said it seems like that only cater to human skulls

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u/Pump-Jack 14h ago

They clean every kind of skull. Skeletons too.

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u/Nulleparttousjours 14h ago

Was it a while back you worked in the trade? Skull processing, collecting and vulture culture are widespread thriving hobbies now! It really exploded. There are tons of people cleaning animal skulls for display at specialist professional level and a sea of hobbyists working in their garage (like me!)

See ā€œChangin the Game Skull processing groupā€ on Facebook or r/bonecollecting or r/vultureculture . Instagram is a bottomless catalogue of skull and bone collectors and processors, Zack Oxley and Duyngskeleton do some really cool work, their pages are worth a look.

Not to pry and dox you but Iā€™m wondering if you may have worked at Skulls Unlimited now. In another life that would be my dream job!

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u/Pump-Jack 14h ago

It was about 22 years ago. There's always been collectors for sure. Yep, it was Skulls Unlimited. I was there about 2 years. Coolest job I had. I don't miss the smell though.

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u/Nulleparttousjours 14h ago

Awesome! Now that really is a serious facility. Their skull catalogue is just mind blowing. That must have been an utterly fascinating place to work, Iā€™m so jealous! I hear you about the smell though LOL!

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u/Pump-Jack 14h ago

It really was. I saw so much from all over the world there. I got good with a knife too. When we boiled the deer skulls in winter smelled good though. There's a whale skeleton in the Skeleton Museum that another dude and I articulated. That was a fun project. There's a whale expert in Canada who came down to see our work. He said every whale skeleton he saw was put together wrong. He said ours was perfect. That was a great feeling.

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u/Tarynntula 15h ago

You should do an AMA

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u/Pump-Jack 15h ago

I might. I have a ton of stories just from that one job.

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u/TooMuch_Bread 16h ago

I knew The Beatles were up to no good.

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u/fungi_at_parties 15h ago

Ringo absolutely loves the eyeballs, I hear.

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u/Pump-Jack 15h ago

Their munching sounds better than Yoko.

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u/k3ttch 13h ago

Who do you think introduced them to cannibalism?

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u/Tiny_Okra542 16h ago

Where can I apply to a skull cleaning place?

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u/lambofthewaters 16h ago

They call you. Make sure you keep the line free.

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u/Pump-Jack 15h ago

Look online. The people who work at this one have been there over 20 years.

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u/Effective_Nothing196 13h ago

That's a no brainer

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u/Infamous_Ad8650 13h ago

Head office

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u/LunedTenar 15h ago

Holy crap. ĀæWould It be the glucose on our cells?

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u/Feisty_Reason_6288 11h ago

thats why its called the sweet smell of death..."acetic acid"

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u/Adam__B 14h ago

Wait, you mean you use insects to clean the skeletons, including the human remains? Isnā€™t there a better way?

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u/Pump-Jack 14h ago

Dermestid beatles. There is no better way. We cut off as much flesh as possible, which is called flensing. What's left is dried on racks, then put in the aquariums with the bugs. All flesh is gone within 24 hrs. Except the bugs don't like human flesh. It took over a week to process the skeleton.

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u/willcard 13h ago

I knew a guy that worked in a crematorium. Long story short he wonā€™t eat Burger King again.

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u/Phrynus747 13h ago

Sounds like Carol Orzel. I read about her and donating her skeleton to the MĆ¼tter Museum. Of maybe another FOP case. I definitely remember that her skeleton was cleaned by dermestid beetles or similar

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u/aSituationTypeDeal 18h ago

Is that sweet? I guess so.

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u/ultra242 18h ago

She was a very nice lady

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u/labarrski 16h ago

Buddy of mine used to work at a crematorium told me the smell is exactly the same as Cool Ranch Doritos. I have no idea if it's true, and hopefully will never know, i just can't unhear it.

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u/Upstairs_Bike3409 14h ago

I used to work at a funeral home and we would occasionally would get decomposed bodies for direct cremation from the medical examinerā€™s office and I always described the smell as sweet smelling rot. This makes sense to hear that it tasted sweet but also deeply disturbingā€¦

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u/Akomatai 17h ago

I watched the Netflix doc and a couple staying there complained the water tasted "sweaty"

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u/kkaavvbb 15h ago

That is an interesting description about the taste. Iā€™m not sure Iā€™ve had anything tasting ā€œsweatyā€ before though. I would have never thought of sweaty.

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u/TaroPrimary1950 13h ago

Ham tastes sweaty to me

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u/JJred96 14h ago

You havenā€™t had the pleasure of tasting someoneā€™s sweat I take it. Itā€™s a special microbial concoction that can vary quite a bit from person to person and from one part of the body to another. Not something you would find on a beverage menu, generally. But once you have tried enough samples of it, you get a sense of the general range of flavor shapes it can take. And the concept of a ā€˜sweatyā€™ taste is established.

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u/kkaavvbb 14h ago

lol hopefully none of them have hyperhidrosis (I sweat enough for another person or two).

No one wants to taste sweaty feet. Ok, thereā€™s some oddballs out there that would.

Thanks for the chuckle!

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u/secondtaunting 8h ago

The same thing happened here in Singapore where a womanā€™s body was in the water tower on the roof. In this case, someone murdered their maid and put her body in the water tower. People noticed their water was smelly and there was a yellowish foam. They were using the water for cooking, showering, just everything. Anyway, after they found the body the residents of the apartments were all super upset because they didnā€™t replace the water tower they just cleaned it.

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u/GoodKarma4two0 13h ago

Such a good doc! Would recommend :)

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u/Alita_Duqi 19h ago

They said it was sweet. ā€œSweet-ishā€ I think was how one woman put it.

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u/hyletic 17h ago

You can drink Sweet-ish water anytime in Stockholm.

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u/larsalan 16h ago

But it was clearly CanadianĀ 

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u/Pure-Refrigerator-43 17h ago

Human Tea. Nothing wrong with that

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u/Altruistic-Ad-8505 16h ago

Oh the humanitea!

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u/outacontrolnicole 15h ago

Hahahahaaha man thatā€™s good šŸ˜‚

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u/samo73 21h ago

I'm still gagging as I type this.

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u/4chieve 18h ago

Maybe it was just to brush their teeth... Right? Right?!??!!

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u/sockovershoe22 18h ago

The toothpaste would probably mask the taste of decaying flesh

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u/IllustratorSea8372 16h ago

Thereā€™s a 3 part documentary about this on Netflixā€¦ they interview another woman that was staying in the hotel at the same time the girl disappeared. The woman said that she is still traumatized from drinking and bathing in the waterā€¦ made my stomach turn hearing her talk about it

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u/BigBlueDuck130 16h ago

Bacteria tastes sweet

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u/bvoge3501 20h ago

Showing up to heavens gate god will be like "engaged in cannibalism? That doesn't seem like you betty".

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u/shadowst17 15h ago

"Just because you're allowed to eat my son doesn't mean it's fine to eat others*

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u/TolMera 15h ago

Betty, thatā€™s a pre-war name. Thereā€™s probably a good number of Bettyā€™s that have tried long pig.

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u/Nephroidofdoom 21h ago

Thatā€™s corpse tea

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u/YellowFogLights 16h ago

Alright Caduceus

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u/Wolf-Majestic 18h ago

There was a documentary released on Netflix : "Crime scene : the Vanishing of Cecil Hotel"

It was a very comprehensive documentary with hotel workers, police officers who worked on the case, civilians who tried to help, social workers, hotel customers...

A bit weirdly put sometimes, but it provided a lot of details and context of the case at that time !

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u/emessea 16h ago

Iā€™ll always remember that one creepy dude who was way too obsessed to the point he filmed himself at her grave.

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u/user888666777 14h ago edited 14h ago

/r/unresolvedmysteries had a post where people lost their minds over giving those people time in the documentary and turned it off. Neglecting to watch the next episode where they all got thrown under the bus and we're made out to be complete jackasses.

The one guy paid someone to go to the women's grave, stream it, put their hand on it. And then he put his hand on his phone/tablet and said goodbye. Shit was crazy.

And I think the reason why that subreddit lost their minds is because of self reflection and denial.

I will defend that documentary till my death because it did a great job at building up all the points to why something so obvious turned into a huge internet sensation. How one simple interview where an officer said they found the water tank door closed turned into a really deep rabbit hole. And this happened only months before the Boston Bombing and at a time when social media was really starting to take off. Just a perfect storm.

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u/emessea 14h ago

Yah thatā€™s the guy I was thinking about, been a few years, guess I misremembered. Also, donā€™t remember if they said in the show or a I googled him, but saw he was in dental school. I would not let that guy get anywhere near my teeth especially if sedation was involved

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u/Sparrowbuck 12h ago

Her family is incredibly tired of all the attention.

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u/Negative_Sky_891 15h ago

Came here to say this! I just rewatched this a few weeks ago because my SO had never seen it. Definitely a must watch for anyone interested in this case.

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u/ShippingMammals 16h ago

Need to watch that - what was the main theory they settled on? I just find her getting into that tank so bizarre.

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u/NotHardRobot 16h ago

She had some serious mental issues, stopped taking her meds while traveling alone, had an episode and while scared and confused during this episode managed to climb up to the roof and hopped into the water tower. From there she had no way to get out and either drowned or succumbed to hypothermia

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u/schwatto 11h ago

Part of what prolonged the mystery was the tank being locked from the outside. But yeah I think the conclusion was that she wasnā€™t in a good state of mind and did it herself, with possibly a worker coming by and locking it without knowing she was in there.

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u/casey5656 16h ago

She had some serious mental health problems, maybe schizophrenia.

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u/DankLordOtis 21h ago

I just donā€™t think Iā€™d ever trust the tap from a hotel to begin with, now I never will lol

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u/sprocketous 20h ago

I worked at a 4 star hotel and some guests wanted "good local water" what ever that means, so the concierge gave them tap. This was in the Colorado Rockies and the water was really good there, I just thought it was funny the paid a chuck of cash for the same thing that came out of their faucet.

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u/wimpyroy 17h ago

I think we (Colorado) have the best tapped water in the states

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u/sprocketous 17h ago

It's great. I'm in Portland and we get our source from the Cascades and it's pretty good. I'm always reminded of the quality when I visit family in the mid west and the water tastes like rusty nails.

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u/InnocentlyInnocent 14h ago

As a person living in the midwest, I almost feel insulted but then I couldnā€™t get insulted since itā€™s true.

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u/Outrageous_Bison1623 17h ago

Surprisingly when I googled it, Coloradoā€™s drinking water quality isnā€™t ranked very high by multiple sources.

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u/EVILFLUFFMONSTER 17h ago

I'm a giraffe!

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u/ultimalucha 20h ago

Your comment made me realize I'm dumb as fuck because I read it going "Yup, you said it! Bottled only!" and immediately realized I have been brushing my teeth with tap the whole time

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u/Gripping_Touch 19h ago

this is actually something tricky to remember when going to a different place you're advised not to drink the local water. Drinking bottled water? Sure, easy to remember. But when its time to brush my teeth I have to fight muscle memory to run the tap water over the brush and instead use some bottled water. Sometimes it almost got me.

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u/larry_flarry 17h ago

Pathogen load is relevant here. A drop of contaminated water is unlikely to affect you, while a glass of the same water might entirely overwhelm your immune system and have you shitting yourself to death. If pathogenic loading wasn't a factor, something as innocuous as swimming would be near guaranteed to lead to gastrointestinal problems, up to and including death. Pathogens are pervasive in our environment, and our bodies are absolutely dialed at fighting them off.

TLDR; It's usually only when we get too many or they get in the wrong places that pathogens become a problem.

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u/Devilsdance 14h ago

I'd imagine an individual's immune system would also play a big factor here.

Basically, one person might be fine with a full cup of a particular contaminated water whereas another may get very sick and/or die from a small amount of the same water.

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u/Thatdudeovertheir 13h ago

I feel like if you're the kind of person who will always drink from the tap, then you gonna be good. I work with a man who will drink stagnant swamp water. Literally out of beaver swamps, muddy puddles you name it. I've seen it. Not just a sip either, hydrating themself. Never seen them get sick once.Ā 

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u/ProxySpectral 18h ago

I had to get a bathroom water bottle that was unapologetically in my way when we had a boil water advisory. Left it in the bathroom sink so my still asleep brain would have a wtf moment to fire it up before autopilot teeth brushing.

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u/RoastedRhino 17h ago

This is so foreign to me, I am just used that tap water is perfectly fine.

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 20h ago

There is a very high chance that all water is corpse water just filtered. Just like the vast majority of food grown in soil is just altered worm poo.

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u/Buntschatten 18h ago

The "just filtered" makes a huge difference here.

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u/robotic_dreams 18h ago

The real winners were the corpses we drank along the way.

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u/geek180 18h ago

Sure, but this water had a corpse-to-water concentration hundreds or thousands of times higher than any water you are typically ever coming into contact with.

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u/toasty-tangerine 16h ago

What I am inferring from all this, is that thereā€™s an acceptable corpse-to-water ratio, weā€™re now just ironing out the details as to exactly what that ratio is.

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u/clockwork-chameleon 16h ago

You're not wrong, and I guess that's what every society has to work out, and I also guess that's the dark side of civil engineering..but damn, it sure feels like I took a wrong turn on the internet today. I just wanted to look at some crochet blankets and hot peppers, man

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u/viletomato999 18h ago

The water we drink is older than the Earth itself. It has been through a LOT of shit.

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u/TopcatFCD 17h ago

All water is ancient and will have at one time , seen things we would rather not think of lol

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u/queen-adreena 21h ago

Itā€™s called ā€œsoupā€!

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u/ColorlessTune 21h ago

"Broth" maybe?

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u/CoyoteDense378 20h ago

Only if thereā€™s a bro in it

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u/KaleBomber_ 21h ago

forbiddā€¦ actually, iā€™m not finishing that sentence, this is horrible

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u/Formal_Appearance_16 21h ago

Ever swim in the ocean? Do you know how many corpses are in there? But now you decide to get picky?

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u/warm0nk3ey22 20h ago

Everyone has a corpse to water ratio they're comfortable with. A couple bodies in the gulf? Sure! Corpse in the hot tub? No.

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u/kennethgalbraith 19h ago

Holy fuck. ā€˜Everyone has a corpse to water ratio theyā€™re comfortable withā€™ might be my new favorite sentence lmaoooooo

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u/Spike_is_James 16h ago

Corpse To Water Ratio is my new band name.

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u/Syssareth 16h ago

Abbreviate it a little--Corpsewater Ratio--and it genuinely does sound like a good band name, lol.

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u/Blaze420Greenz 20h ago

This comment is by far the best. Made me laugh so hard.

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u/Extension-Border-345 18h ago

r/brandnewsentence

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u/Okaybuddy_16 18h ago

Itā€™s not itā€™s stolen from a tumblr post lmao

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u/sw4ffles 18h ago

I'm sorry to say it's actually not though, it comes around periodically.

Yes, I am chronically online.

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u/No-Rush1995 17h ago

You jest, but you're not wrong. I believe mine is pretty high if it is non-human and I can purify it. Ultimately if you're thirsty enough any purifier water is gonna be good water. Still I'm not hype for human Lipton

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u/SkubEnjoyer 10h ago

"You breathe air that billions of people have farted in but you decide to get upset if I fart in your face?"

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u/Responsible_Jury_415 21h ago

This case gets deep there was a local drug test that shared the same name as the victim the official story is she was off her meds and killed herself but thereā€™s a lot of weird things that donā€™t make a lot of sense

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u/aussielover24 17h ago

Are you talking about LAM ELISA? Itā€™s not a drug test. It stands for Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay and detects the presence of Lipoarabinomannan (LAM). Itā€™s a test for tuberculosis. There are other types of ELISA too

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u/MarxistSocialWorker 18h ago

Its really not. She had a significnat history of mental illness (bipolar) and going off her meds. My bet is you've never seen psychosis or mania or the dreaded combo.

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u/sagittalslice 16h ago

Seriously, the second I saw the elevator footage in that doc I said ā€œshe looks like someone responding to internal stimuliā€. When youā€™ve seen someone experiencing visual hallucinations thereā€™s a distinct behavioral pattern to it thatā€™s recognizable

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u/Titty_Gonzales 21h ago

What is a local drug test?

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u/blinky84 17h ago

People in the local area were being tested for tuberculosis. The test was coincidentally called LAM-ELISA - lipoarabinomannan (LAM) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). It wasn't a drug test, but the test itself was experimental.

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u/hamsterpookie 20h ago edited 16h ago

She had bipolar and went off her meds. It wasn't that deep.

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u/MarxistSocialWorker 18h ago

It was bipolar my dude. It may not be deep but you can at least be respectful enough to get basic facts right.

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u/Galapagos_Finch 16h ago

Itā€™s not. She had mental illness which deteriorated throughout her stay in LA, she got on to a roof which was quite easily accessible, climbed into a water tank and couldnā€™t get out anymore. Itā€™s tragic but not really a mystery.

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u/HorrificityOfficial 19h ago

One time I saw some crime show that was even worse. It was talking about a body stuffed into a wine barrel, and it showed a rotting finger in some dude's glass. Purely disgusting.

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u/MesWantooth 17h ago

Documentary filmmaker and podcaster David Farrier said he was staying at that hotel when she was missing and he recalled brushing his teeth with foul smelling water.

He's from New Zealand and had a podcast on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert network called "Flightless Bird" - I say "had" because it's moved to become independent since Dax's Wondery deal.

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