2006-10-22 09:32:33 · 17 answers · asked by Ms. Roxie 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
I've been studying this unfortunate syndrome for 60 years. It's truly tragic - especially as no-one bothers to TELL people just how dangerous it is!
The outrageous fact is that although the old-fashioned woollen socks that our grandparents used to wear only took about 5 years to digest - thus passing harmlessly out of the system - the more modern synthetic-yarn socks take a lot longer. It takes your average modern sock - just ONE at a time - at least 40,000 years to digest in the human gut. When you consider the fact that you've got hundreds of them in there, it's hardly surprising that modern man is dying of intestinal cancers and 'modern' diseases left, right & centre!!
Tragic.
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2006-10-22 13:27:54 · answer #1 · answered by _ 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The washing machine probably swallows 4 socks a year.
2006-10-22 16:35:31 · answer #2 · answered by JubJub 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Since I don't and have never slept in socks, I find that highly unlikely.They say we have swallowed it is said on the equivalent of 8 spiders in our sleep but this has also been called a myth.
2006-10-22 16:36:24 · answer #3 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Where on Earth did you hear that?????
I've seen goats eat socks, but I'm pretty sure that any human would wake up the minute a sock tried to creep down their throat..... (that's why socks often play the all-important part as murder-weapon in crime-series on the telly...)
2006-10-22 16:43:18 · answer #4 · answered by Malene P 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not usually sleeping when I eat mine. And since I only wear cotton footies, they only take a day or two to digest.
2006-10-24 21:04:05 · answer #5 · answered by oh kate! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That one is a fallacy. Even though there is positive evidence that people sometimes eat their pillows while dreaming that they are consuming marshmallows. They complain of feeling bloated for 2-7 days.
2006-10-23 13:15:11 · answer #6 · answered by Silkie1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know. I never tried to eat one, so I never paid any attention to things like that!
I would believe it if you mean that's how much lint we digest.
2006-10-23 00:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by smoothsoullady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 of my socks went missing today. Damn dryer
2006-10-22 16:40:20 · answer #8 · answered by pryncess 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Long enough to realise I've lost more than 4.. Are you sure it wasn't you who swallowed mine :)
2006-10-23 05:30:10 · answer #9 · answered by j 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i never swallowed a sock, but i once sh1t a brick!
2006-10-23 13:25:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋