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Wait wait wait! You forgot about marshmallows!

• Theodores 4y ago
  Sssh! You know it already. It is a social phenomenon. When someone rocks up at a barbecue or place with an open fire, brandishing marshmallows. After everyone has consumed their marshmallows it is explained that they are real marsh mallows, containing marsh mallow root, as used by the ancients to get their blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm in perfect harmony. So these are not your normal marshmallow 'toy sweets', these are the real deal, to be savoured like truffles laced with gold. By now everyone has had a few beers. The presence of the open fire makes them feel good. Miraculously they feel that their black bile is definitely in order and that the phlegm situation is great. Of course the marshmallows were just out of date ones bought from the corner shop and had no active ingredients. Often people that are not very good at barbecues conflate the Marshmallow effect with their endeavours so any extensive visits made to the rest rooms the following day are all seen as a good thing and not toxic food poisoning. It is easier to admit to 'Marshmallow Effect' than to something brown and runny. Which brings me on to the 'Pigeon Feather Effect'...
  • saiya-jin 4y ago
    People are weird, aren't they (we)? We all feel all mighty and rational and smart while doing this dumb shit all the time, due to some evolutionary group herding mentality advantage and god knows what else down there in our subconsiousness. Its all fun and games till elections come and then you feel like a sore thumb in the sea of idiocy... or not.