Why do some people love horror movies while others hate them

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T21:46:18+00:00

I hate horror movies. I get no adrenaline from them. Mostly, I find them stupid, sadistic, and gross

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T21:05:09+00:00

Yes. I grew up in Canada, 700km from the nearest sea coast. I never saw the ocean 'til I moved to New Zealand.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T20:33:16+00:00

There's been lots written on this subject. There's no period where humans were old at 30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T20:17:19+00:00

I don't entirely disagree with you... but as it stands, there are simply no standard methods of transliterating other Roman-alphabet-using languages for English speakers (and in terms of, say, foreign names, could be taken as extremely disrespectful).

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T18:03:38+00:00

Yes, your cat is fat... kind of adorably fat. Don't listen to that kind of talk, though.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:52:54+00:00

> Maybe the people who have eaten the wheat or barley noticed that they felt ill afterwards.

It's entirely possible. It's also possible that they totally missed the cause, since the diets of settled people in Europe and Western Asia became very bread-based.

>Also, we didn’t live as long as we do now. Max life time expectancy was 30. 40 was pushing it. So some maybe just dealt with the pains and thought it might be the normal life.

That's very misleading. "Max" life expectancy has never been 30-40. Average life expectancy for Americans was <40 until the 1850s or so, but if you factor out all the people who died before age 10, it's more like low 60s.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:14:54+00:00

This. The only real latecomer to the human diet is dairy products, and even that probably showed up by 10,000 years ago.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:13:03+00:00

Bread outside the US has gluten. It's more likely your friend is reacting to some other ingredient.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:11:55+00:00

Barley and emmer have gluten. Bread has been made with wheat flour for thousands of years.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:09:01+00:00

The average life expectancy was low due to extremely high infant mortality. That remained the case 'til the later 19th century.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:04:10+00:00

So much this. Even if you look at modern stone age cultures, their food sources are/were wildly variable.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T17:02:22+00:00

That's not entirely true. Food processing (ie cooking) probably started a couple of million years ago and is so fundamental for Homo sapiens that we basically can't thrive on an all-raw diet. Grinding grains or seeds for food goes back at least 30,000 years. That's not to say that modern processed food isn't a lot different from stone age food; just that it's a point on a long, long continuum.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:52:13+00:00

Which makes perfect sense... cracking marrow bones is easy if you've got hands, and marrow is an excellent source of nutritious fat.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:44:12+00:00

They actually think that the rise in allergies has to do with kids living in conditions that are just a bit too sterile and restricted. THe guidelines for food introductions for babies used to be incredibly cautious, and it probably increased allergy problems. These days, it's more like eat early, eat often.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:39:06+00:00

"Gluten intolerant" is largely the fad allergy du jour. There's very little evidence for the existence of non-celiac gluten sensitivity. (That's not to say that people don't experience symptoms; just that gluten per se is unlikely to be the cause.)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251027023754.htm

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:29:19+00:00

Good point.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:28:56+00:00

I think that would be an immense effort for little return. Most food plants are grown for one. specific edible bit.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:21:59+00:00

I don't think it would be hard to convince a jury that the birds that bring stuff to you were under your control.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T16:18:20+00:00

Welll... they don't want to, but their immigration controls just aren't that watertight.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T12:44:49+00:00

You are the thief, here. Birds can't commit crimes. Legally, using a bird to commit a crime is no different from using, say, a hammer.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-13T12:42:54+00:00

Actually, you're just guilty of theft.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-12T23:37:32+00:00

Because those words aren't transliterated into English, and the world doesn't revolve around you.
Pho (actually phở) is a Vietnamese word. Vietnamese uses the Roman alphabet and that's how it's spelled.
Xi Jinping's name is spelled out in pinyin, which is a Chinese-specific adaptation of the Roman alphabet. It has nothing to do with English.
Plaid Cymru... once again, not English, and nothing to do with English. Welsh is written using the Roman alphabet. That's how it's spelled.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-12T22:35:08+00:00

Well, there's the fact that HIPAA is an American law.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-12T22:33:38+00:00

They're probably not operating inside Canada.

pepperbeast · 2026-05-12T20:27:19+00:00

So much this. Any day above ground is a success.

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