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[MrRoboto75]

Not everything that gets killed by a vehicle is splattered.

Hell, most deer seem to survive more than the car does.

[hector13]

I ate roadkill rabbit once when I was little.  My dad just clipped the top of its head.  The rest of its body was totally undamaged.  Not everything that gets killed by a vehicle is splattered.

I said “chances are” not “absolutely guaranteed smoosh every time”

You don’t want to hit a deer in your car. A friend of mine totaled two cars in as many weeks after hitting deer.

[Truean]

Please do not quote:

You know, I don't get it....  I come in early; I leave late. I'm going to be working this weekend. I haven't really bothered anybody;
Please do not quote:

[Putnam]

I went to my forked copy of the DFHack repository and found that I had made changes to the master branch that are incapable of being merged with the current version... in 2014.

2014 me was an idiot.

[Frumple]

Talk to the doctor before trying to trim their toenails, I says. Make sure you know what they want done, I says.

It's just a spot of blood, they says within a day or two. Did you talk to the doctor I ask. I did exactly what a foot doctor would have done, they says.

Except, of course, get a medical professional to handle it, in an environment that's, y'know, not someone's living room. #%&€.

Fortunately it does look like there wasn't major bleeding but literally bloody hell this is exactly why I was saying what I was saying ;_;

[wierd]

they aren't diabetic are they? (the person with the now bloody toes)--- If so, get them on antibiotics, quickly.  There is a reason why toenails don't get trimmed by nurse aids or nurses in nursing homes, and this is the reason. (Diabetes seriously compromises the ability of extremities to heal, and is often also associated with neuropathy which causes the person to not feel pain very acutely. This is often due to poor blood circulation in the extremity, due to the diabetes. This makes even a tiny wound into a site where serious infection can occur, as the body is NOT able to fight off normal pathogens that get through the skin there. It can quickly progress to necrosis and worse!)

It can go bad very quickly.  These things need to be done by a podiatrist if they are diabetic. No, for reals yo.

[Reelya]

That article's pretty interesting; I particularly like the breakdown by state.

Texas is the opposite of all my expectations.  Not only is collecting roadkill illegal there, but *PETA* was calling for it to be legal!  Wanted the dead animals to at least be eaten.  Pretty cool, for PETA.

In Alaska you can't eat your kills - you have to call in volunteers who retrieve and prepare the meat for the homeless.  Parts of that seem questionable, but I'm just glad the meat gets used!

There's another perspective here: something only needs to become a law when it becomes a problem. States with little roadkill eating wouldn't ever be in a position where the government needed to think about the problem of roadkill, therefore it's never made illegal.

[Frumple]

Actually, far as I'm aware anti-roadkill laws have less to do with occurrence frequency and more to do with how it's happening. Want to say they tend to be related or bundled up with laws against hunting from your vehicle as you drive down the road.

It can go bad very quickly.  These things need to be done by a podiatrist if they are diabetic. No, for reals yo.

They are, actually. Pretty sure they're already on meds for immune system, to some degree, though, or something along those lines. They're a bit on the slow healing side of things for their age, I think, but even with some fairly regular stuff like the toe they don't tend to have problems with infection. Other sorts of shit, but not that. Regardless, ASAP is day after tomorrow when they got a VA appointment for something else and I'll be keeping what eye I can on it.

Also yes. Yes, I'm entirely and completely aware it really needs to be dealt with by a podiatrist. I don't have power of attorney, though, or guardianship, so there's only so much I can do when they pitched a fit a month or two ago after not being let in a half hour late to an appointment and canceled future podiatry visits

Hopefully getting it squared away early next week, otherwise I'm probably going to have to pitch a fit, which can get awkward considering my complete lack of leverage over anyone able to actually do anything about it. Don't like even considering it, heh.

[Greiger]

Apparently Spam is considered a delicacy in some foreign nations.

[Yoink]

...Nigeria?

[hector13]

Only among the well-off. Royalty, even.

[TamerVirus]

Spam is pretty big in Hawaiian cuisine, surprisingly.

[Lord Shonus]

From what I understand, everywhere in the Pacific where the US had military forces stationed in WWII (other than already large countries like Australia) became quite fond of SPAM during the war. The US made so much of the stuff for rations that it was often distributed or traded to the locals, who were having a bit of trouble getting meat.


Of course, SPAM is quite nice overall, so I don't see why it being popular would be surprising.

[redwallzyl]

Well it is supposed to taste good from what I hear. Its just horribly unhealthy. So the meat version of cake I guess.

[Reelya]

...Nigeria?

No, Japan, South Korea, other parts of Asia.

The origin dates from the WWII era, when US Spam was one of the few ways to get meat in war-ravaged areas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/world/asia/in-south-korea-spam-is-the-stuff-gifts-are-made-of.html

SEOUL, South Korea — As the Lunar New Year holiday approaches, Seoul’s increasingly well-heeled residents are scouring store shelves for tastefully wrapped boxes of culinary specialties. Among their favorite choices: imported wines, choice cuts of beef, rare herbal teas. And Spam.

Yeah, in South Korea, gift-wrapped Spam is considered to be on the same level as bringing a bottle of imported wine.

https://iremit.com.au/what-is-spam-and-why-are-filipinos-obsessed-with-it/

Filipino’s obsession with SPAM has reached the next level when an eatery called SPAM JAM Café opened in SM Megamall. SPAM Jam‘s menu features SPAM nuggets, SPAM Spaghetti, SPAM Burgers, and SPAM Musubi. SPAM Musubi is made with a “sushi-style” slice of SPAM that is sandwiched in seaweed and rice.

Asia ... they sell Spam Sushi at cafes.