bubonis

I'm afraid I'm going to be targeted as a mean-spirited troll in saying this, but I feel very strongly that this needs to be said:

You are not a well man, and you should sincerely look into psychological counseling.

I don't have a problem with your handling of snakes, nor do I think you're being cruel to them. I do think that what you believe are positive manifestations of injecting snake venom are purely psychological, or at the very least are being falsely attributed to snake venom. For lack of a better term, you are suffering from a Prayer Delusion. You are crediting snake venom for things your body can (and does) do without it.

For example, you claimed in your video that you felt fast and strong after injecting yourself with snake venom. You even claim to be able to move like a snake afterwards (completely ignoring the realities of vectors of force on a skateboard; no, it couldn't be that, it has to be the venom). Your response to another redditor here says that cobra venom "makes you feel kind of charged, and possibly lack of pain". Well, yes, it would, because your body is releasing endorphins to combat the trauma that you just put your system through. You classify this as being a positive attribute of injecting venom; it's not. It's your body's way of helping you stay alive despite your actions, not because of them. You would get a comparable rush after some hard exercise and with a lot less risk and a lot more benefit to your health.

You claim the snake venom is responsible for your youthful appearance, which IMO is the most transparent attribution you've made. Your appearance depends on a lot of things; your genetics, your diet, your environment, your activity level, etc. One of the guys I work with is 41 years old but you would swear he was in his mid 20's at most.

You also don't seem to recognize the psychological loop you've inserted yourself into. You've effectively predicted the results of your experimentation before it even happened. You say, "I knew that night which venoms I was going to use and everything. I had a strong feeling that something good would come of it." So you didn't start injecting yourself with the notion of "what if?" but rather with the explicit belief that it would work. This is called the placebo effect; you believe it works so it does, to an extent, and anything positive you see as a result reinforces your delusion that it's the positive attributes of the venom. That delusion just reinforces your belief and the cycle repeats itself, until you die. You largely brush off the negatives, like almost losing your leg or turning your blood into pudding, as being unimportant. It will kill you.

You have no medical background, no meaningful education. You have no scientifically credible documentation of your process, in fact nothing that would hold up through peer review. You say there is a "there is a method to (your) 'madness'" but so far you haven't shown any method at all. Just madness.

I think you just have some self-destructive issues which I really think need to be addressed from a psychological perspective. I don't say this to be mean spirited, to drag you down, or anything negative like that. You sincerely need help and I sincerely hope you get it.

Good luck.

EDIT: Thanks for the gold!

And the success of the movie speaks for itself.

I couldn't agree more.

• 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
• 16/100 on Metacritic
• $62 million on a $2 million budget, which makes it a financial success. And that's really what matters.

McHi.

1. Given the resources you have at your disposal, what is the one thing you wish you could do inside your store to make the biggest positive impact with your customers but aren't allowed to do for corporate reasons?

2. If you could make one change to the menu — either the food itself or the manner in which it's prepared — that would immediately be reflected across all McDonald's, what would it be? (Assume the goal is to improve something.)

3. There's been quite a bit of press about McDonald's managers "adjusting" employee's time sheets for payroll reasons, often illegally. Many managers claim that they're ordered to do this — sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly — by their managers. What is your experience with this?

TIL John Ratzenberger was in Empire.

A chuckle for you.... I watched the premiere of DC's Legends of Tomorrow with a friend. When you first appeared on screen I turned to my friend and said, "You know, he'd make a really good Superman." She stared at me for a few seconds before (rightfully) calling me an idiot.