The bot appears to be down, so it’s now up to me again like in the old days to post new xkcd comics here. :D
As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.
The bot appears to be down, so it’s now up to me again like in the old days to post new xkcd comics here. :D
As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.
oh wow I really needed the explanation for this one 😂
Some “old home remedies” would be: tomato sauce, for skunk; peanut butter, for gum; and prairie oyster cocktail, for hangover. Most of these either don’t work or make the mess worse so a game show where people try this on a wild animal would be disastrous and possibly humorous if you ignore the animal abuse.
You don’t have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?
No… I know of skunks from the cartoon Pépé the Skunk, but I never really reconnected that with reality, as in, they smell bad IRL, that’s not just a cartoon thing. So that prevented me from identifying the xkcd being about grandma’s remedies.
They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.
Not just bad either, vomit-inducing, appetite-destroying-bad. It’s their defense mechanism from large things with sharp teeth that haven’t eaten in 24h. The smell stays on you and anything the liquid touches for weeks. Burn the clothes, wait for new skin cells to replace the existing ones. Pray it isn’t on something like your car or place of residence.