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Hmm in theory it would start to rot from where it has the biggest exposure to air and or bacteria...so my highly scientific theory: It starts from the head bec

by nix23 5y ago

Hmm in theory it would start to rot from where it has the biggest exposure to air and or bacteria...so my highly scientific theory: It starts from the head because gills, but the stink comes from the guts (lack of fresh air) ;)

throwaway47292 5y ago
i think the original proverb is actually the fish stinks from the head, which later became the fish rots from the head, but this is biologically incorrect. https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposition/ https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposit... for example you can see the decomposition of a pig, it looks like the head is first, but it is actually the bacteria in the gut.
- nix23 5y ago
  But you can also see that maggots start in the ear, i don't know enough about Fish-gut bacteria, but you can check a Fish freshness when you smell the Gills the Colors of them and if the Eye is milky...well and sometimes the slime on the fish-skin....maybe that's the history of that proverb (freshness indicator mostly from the gills/eyes...head)
  - throwaway47292 5y ago
    yea, visibly it looks like its starting from the head, and probably the smell comes from there as well, and of course thats where insects can start eating first (eyes, mouth etc) it is funny though, i have used this proverb hundreds of times, until today i decided to think a bit about it, and look up how bodies decompose. i wonder if in those big companies actually the leadership takes all the fault, maybe like in 1984, the real power is in the proles, they can change everything if they want.. they just dont seem to want change.
saberience 5y ago
It's not about taking it literally... it's a proverb. It means organization or militaries or whatever else usually goes bad due to leadership, not due to the people at the bottom of the hierarchy. I thought this was obvious.
- nix23 5y ago
  >It's not about taking it literally... it's a proverb. Like "no BS Sherlock"?

by nix23 5y ago

throwaway47292 5y ago

i think the original proverb is actually the fish stinks from the head, which later became the fish rots from the head, but this is biologically incorrect. https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposition/ https://australian.museum/learn/science/stages-of-decomposit... for example you can see the decomposition of a pig, it looks like the head is first, but it is actually the bacteria in the gut.

nix23 5y ago
But you can also see that maggots start in the ear, i don't know enough about Fish-gut bacteria, but you can check a Fish freshness when you smell the Gills the Colors of them and if the Eye is milky...well and sometimes the slime on the fish-skin....maybe that's the history of that proverb (freshness indicator mostly from the gills/eyes...head)
- throwaway47292 5y ago
  yea, visibly it looks like its starting from the head, and probably the smell comes from there as well, and of course thats where insects can start eating first (eyes, mouth etc) it is funny though, i have used this proverb hundreds of times, until today i decided to think a bit about it, and look up how bodies decompose. i wonder if in those big companies actually the leadership takes all the fault, maybe like in 1984, the real power is in the proles, they can change everything if they want.. they just dont seem to want change.

saberience 5y ago

It's not about taking it literally... it's a proverb. It means organization or militaries or whatever else usually goes bad due to leadership, not due to the people at the bottom of the hierarchy. I thought this was obvious.

nix23 5y ago
>It's not about taking it literally... it's a proverb. Like "no BS Sherlock"?