r/AskReddit Jul 13 '15

What socially unacceptable things are you OK with?

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u/Cum_on_doorknob Jul 13 '15

That could be a vitamin D deficiency

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u/AprilXIIV Jul 13 '15

I guess /u/Cum_on_doorknob would know all about D deficiencies.

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u/delineated Jul 13 '15

Are you Mike, perchance?

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u/AprilXIIV Jul 13 '15

Nope.

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u/delineated Jul 13 '15

Oh darn, you have the same birthday.

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u/TetrisJenga Jul 13 '15 edited Jul 13 '15

Let's assume that you know that Mike uses Reddit.

Now take the number of accounts on Reddit, which is around 36,000,000. Divide that number by 365, which gives you 98,630 (we will round that to 100,000). Now we can work out that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance that the person you just replied to was Mike.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

Hi

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '15

Thats wrong. Birthday probability is fucked up. Look up on wikipedia and you'll see.

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u/TetrisJenga Jul 13 '15

In that case a specialist will have to take over as my maths skills don't extend past basic multiplication and division.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

So you're saying there's a chance?

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u/Words_are_Windy Jul 14 '15

The chances would be much better that it would be a Mike, just not the Mike the person actually knows.

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u/Jiggahawaiianpunch Jul 14 '15

But Mike is a fairly common name, plus the (vast?) majority of Redditors are men, so I'd say there was a slightly better chance of him finding a Mike, tho not necessarily the Mike

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u/BeneGezzWitch Jul 14 '15

This made me laugh so hard my husband asked if I was peeing

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u/Psylink Jul 14 '15

Well, were you?

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u/BeneGezzWitch Jul 14 '15

Damn near. I was in a fit of that kind of laughter that self perpetuates. I only stopped when I spilled my fizzy water.

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u/LostSoul1797 Jul 14 '15

Damn... That burns like his pee.

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u/DeadFetusConsumer Jul 14 '15

HAHAHAHAAHAH THAT WAS SO FUNNY OMG HAHAAH

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u/agam_vark Jul 13 '15

Is that truely a thing? Going to take my vitamins tomorrow!

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u/Cum_on_doorknob Jul 13 '15

As a medical student, I can say that I have learned in lecture that the RDA for vit D is pretty low, and people can perhaps benefit from higher levels. However, I can't say that excessive sweating was a clinical feature we were taught to look for. However, I have heard it from non-reputable sources.

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u/tablesix Jul 14 '15

In other words, it can't hurt to try. And improvement post Vitamin D supplement may even merit further scientific study.

That's my interpretation at least.

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u/cubsfan85 Jul 14 '15

Omg. I recently found out my vitamin D is ridiculously low and months of prescription strength supplements hasn't brought it up. I start sweating if it's above like, 75 degrees. My head and face sweat the worst so I can forget about doing my hair or makeup for 6 months out of the year.

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u/FrankieAK Jul 14 '15

Oh my gosh! Me too! My husband thinks I'm crazy, but if I don't keep it at like 72 in the house I start sweating profusely. Especially my face! I'm gonna try taking vitamin D supplements.

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u/MuffDragon Jul 14 '15

Woah. I'm gonna look in to this. Thanks.

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u/Skreamie Jul 14 '15

You've seriously helped me a lot.

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u/PvtFobbit Jul 14 '15

Or hiperhidrosis. My NCO in the Army has it, he'l could be butt naked in the snow and still have nice beads forming all over his Hotspots and his face.

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u/0Lezz0 Jul 14 '15

wait. so, hiding from the sun makes me sweat a lot?

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u/santaliqueur Jul 14 '15

Or it could be the way his body sweats.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob Jul 14 '15

Probably, I'm just a med student, I don't know shit. Already regret giving an uninformed opinion. Oh well...

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u/santaliqueur Jul 14 '15

I didn't know about the Vitamin D deficiency thing, but I'm going to assume it's much more common that it's just his natural biology.

If you're a medical student then you know infinitely more than I'll ever know, but because I know nothing, I feel like I can step back and look at it with only logic and nothing else. No offense intended.