DON'T EAT ICICLES 💩 This is your annual reminder that icicles can potentially have poop in them 😅 - ThreadSky

weatherkatie.bsky.social • 87 days ago

DON'T EAT ICICLES 💩

This is your annual reminder that icicles can potentially have poop in them 😅

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sovietcola.bsky.social•87 days ago

IIRC this is also why you don't collect rainwater that's ever touched a roof

davec726.bsky.social•87 days ago

I used to love it when I was a kid…

… that might explain a lot

gregorydoodles.bsky.social•87 days ago

Thank you Katie... 🧊🥰🌞

dixie700.bsky.social•87 days ago

Not only that but roofing materials, cars, and many other things can leach toxins or heavy metals into the water that freezes.

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yes👍 that is a far more valid reason

freedom2b.bsky.social•87 days ago

I was listening to this on repeat.

freedom2b.bsky.social•87 days ago

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kevinsci.bsky.social•87 days ago

Used to eat them all the time when I was a kid. We also drank from the garden hose.

And we’re still alive… hypothetically.😁

funkaspuck.bsky.social•87 days ago

There was a bunch of leach fields at the top of a cliff, leading to a wall of 💩’cicles at the bottom

proudrebelscum.bsky.social•87 days ago

I only eat raw icicles, never pasteurized.

br3nda.bsky.social•87 days ago

But so does flour...

br3nda.bsky.social•87 days ago

Maybe they need to pasturize their icicles

otorhinosaur.bsky.social•87 days ago

ok but can I eat that brown mass that builds up just behind my tires?

huenix.com•87 days ago

I survived giardia. I'll be ok with an icicle. :)

tommyowens.bsky.social•87 days ago

Science ruins everything. Next you'll be telling me not to eat yellow snow.

einst1.bsky.social•87 days ago

There's always an acceptable level of feces in all the water we consume 😀

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•87 days ago

.. crystal formation excludes contaminants .. it wouldnt be clear if there was anything in it

weatherkatie.bsky.social•87 days ago

The debris gets trapped between the crystals. Melt down an icicle and you'll notice flecks of debris in the water.

cosaingalway.bsky.social•87 days ago

Since there have been Bird Flu outbreaks in North America, it's important to consider the risk that H5N1 can be present in bird poop. The virus can infect avian respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, "causing birds to shed the virus in their saliva, mucus and feces".

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/prevention/hpai-interim-recommendations.html

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•87 days ago

.. thats true but im fairly certain freezing inactivates virion no?

cosaingalway.bsky.social•87 days ago

Good point. You may well be right, though it's probably safer not to test the theory! 😬

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•87 days ago

.. you know the saying .. 'there are Old chemists, and there are Bold chemists, but there are no Old Bold chemists

I am trying to break that

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•87 days ago

Have you done this?