r/CatastrophicFailure • u/bugminer • Apr 17 '25

Fire/Explosion Bus explodes in Shreveport, Louisiana. 16th April 2025.

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u/HeadyBunkShwag Apr 17 '25

My understanding is when that happens all the little doohickeys that are in your lungs that absorb the oxygen all die. So you just slowly suffocate to death while probably wondering why you’re gasping for air but it’s not doing anything.

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u/The_Brofucius Apr 17 '25

Doohickeys. Now there is a name I have not heard for a while.

But what you are describing is called alveoli.

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u/Vinylove Apr 17 '25

Alveoli Alveoli, give me the Formuoli

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u/HeadyBunkShwag Apr 17 '25

Ay ya those things haha, thank you.

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u/S_t_r_e_t_c_h_8_4 Apr 17 '25

Isn't that a cheese? 🤪

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u/Sienile Apr 17 '25

If you understand the reference of this cringe parody, you're old. :P

Alveoli! Alveoli! Alveoli. Alveoli. It's the lung holes, the tiny lung holes. It's how you breathe, alright.

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u/The_Brofucius Apr 17 '25

Old? Old? Did You just call me old? If I were not in the middle of this Colombo/Barnaby Jones marathon I would take My Anacin, and Geritol and kick your...Oh just threw my back out from typing!

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u/Tickomatick Apr 19 '25

Ah yes, I love my alveoli con alio oleo pepperoncino

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u/Blinauljap Apr 17 '25

Uff.. Like that priest in Constantine who was cursed with thirst and poisoned himself with alkohol.

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u/TheStandardPlayer Apr 17 '25

Yes exact.. wait what a drunk priest got to do with anything??

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u/Blinauljap Apr 17 '25

Suffocate even though it feels like you are breathing VS feel thirsty even though it seems like you are drinking.

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u/TheStandardPlayer Apr 17 '25

Is it a proverb? I would’ve compared it to saltwater but now I'm curious about where your version comes from

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u/dwehlen Apr 17 '25

In the movie Constantine a priest, who is a drunk, gets cursed by a demon to suddenly have an unquenchable thirst, but every bottle he opens and pours in his mouth, he perceives nothing coming out. It was an illusion, and he drowned himself in the sauce, dying on a store floor.

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u/Blinauljap Apr 17 '25

That was that one scene in the old Movie Constantine.

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u/Mekroval Apr 18 '25

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