Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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A swallow, carrying a coconut?
If it's an African one. Not sure about the European one if we're talking young coconuts, those things are heavy.
African ones are non migratory though.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all, the swallow could've carried it by the husk.
I'm guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
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Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside
We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!
(I screenshotted this and sent it to Rust programmers)
The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn't mean it's a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.
I think if people really understood that anything you eat and drink is also going into your bloodstream we might all be a lot more careful about what we consume.
They don't, not enough sodium in coconut juice for one thing.
I guess you first use the clean juice to make the wounded stop dying long enough so you can stitch what's left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.
Yeah it's actually a really shitty substitute for blood, it's just slightly less shitty than dying. It was all about keeping the blood pressure high enough so that what little blood you had would work. Coconut water was one of the only things that could do that without also killing you. It's still a very bad day
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Way too much potassium too (and gives a hint as to why it burns at the infusion site just like a k run would). It's like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term. Thankfully the glucose in the coconut water treats hyperkalemia or it would be deadly in the short term.
Don't tell the Jehovah's Witnesses, they'll use it to further justify their insane anti-blood transfusion beliefs.
This also works for hangover recovery.
Coconut water is awesome!
You can actually just drink it if you're hung over in most cases.
Oh dear.
Yes, that is what I meant, but ... I now realize I should have specified that.
Yes, you don't need to mainline the coconut water for it to be good for you lol!
Mainlining a coconut for a hangover would be so rock and roll though
Now put the lime in the coconut
Please, no shaking the trauma victims.
... Lime juice through an IV is probably going to be extremely painful to endure, and could just kill you.
For starters: "My blood is on fire" is roughly what that would feel like, lime juice is extremely acidic.
Beyond that: It isn't sterile.
So you're literally mainlining bacterial infections.
Extremely bad idea, its such a bad idea that it would basically constitute a horrific form of torture/execution.
I'm allergic to coconut so I'm pretty sure this would feel similar to me.
I did not realize one could be allergic to coconut, but yes probably avoid that then lol!
It... probably would not 'burn' with the same intensity, as its less acidic than lime.
But... being allergic to it... and then mainlining it... seems like a bad idea that would probably also hurt.
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It's the flesh more than the milk, but yea.
Ahem, well lets hope it wouldn't end up petrifying you. =P
Now put the *line in the coconut
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Piña Colonic
Coconut is not a nut.
Its also not a coco
Similar to how a red panda isn't a panda or wild rice isn't rice or a sichuan pepper isn't a pepper... yeah there's a lot of these.
Panda bears were named after red pandas, both in Chinese and English.
So you're saying pandas aren't pandas?
Evidently yes.
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Big news for the tropical vampire community
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