A taxpayer-funded study set to find out if people can smell their own “asparagus pee.”
Researchers at Harvard on two active studies that received over $3 million last year surveyed nearly 7,000 people to determine if their urine smelled funny after eating the vegetable. The results were published in the BMJ scientific journal, which uses its final edition each year to publish articles that are “quirky, amusing, and creative…
!Parsnips!
Don’t bother to look it up.
It says most people can’t smell it.
HT/. FDR in Smell
Laugh if you want to. The money came out of your life.
Another example of how congress can’t throw your money away fast enough. Redacted is right……..it was YOUR money.
“But it isn’t very much money…”
Times a million studies.
obvious political pork barrel pay back.
sofa king wrong
One bite of asparagus and my piss stinks for the next 24 hours. Same with everyone else in my family, for a 100% hit rate. My wife said it shouldn’t stink “if your body has proper nutrients.” Whatever the hell that means because my blood work says otherwise.
Same with a strong cup of coffee. Dark yellow coffee flows into the toilet. Starbucks and MacDonalds coffee is the worst probably because they burn the hell out of it.
FFS!!
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/illegal-alien-kills-christian-missionary-indianapolis-video/
The media doesn’t want people to see this article that I just posted
Finally, the government spent money on something worthwhile! Have you ever had to spend time in the vicinity of someone who smelled of asparagus scented pee? just ask Bill and Chelsea Clinton how it feels!
Let’s get back to basics here. Are you a Constitutional originalist? Yes? Then the solution to this kind of legalized theft is to recognize that the Constitution has no provision for any of the three branches of the central govt to establish and fund scientific research except in the explicitly limited case of NIST (formerly Bureau of Standards). Wind the rest of the labs down as quickly as possible and sell their assets to make partial restitution to us ripped-off taxpayers.
I would have provided the answer for only one million dollars. YES, definitely YES.
Crap, you can always tell when liberals are involved with our dollars.
Whoever did the study and got the money just got paid to vote for the person who paid them. Or someone was lining the pockets of a
At least that’s three-million out of the budget, so less can be spent on teddy bears for thirty-year-old, unaccompanied, minor… what?… oh… never mind.
I can smell it and see it, same with coffee.
Imagine my surprise when I ate a bunch of onion rings and they were leaking out of my ass. But noooooo, they had to waste the money on asparagus, all the while disparaging onions!
We need a study on why Liberals can’t smell their own bullshit!
This nonsense had to stop. How about we abolish the Department of Money for Stupid Studies? If the study were important it would be privately funded. MAGA
I could’ve answered this on Saturday night after eating it. It definitely smells different when you pee. Anytime I eat the stuff my pee smells different.
Maybe there needs to duplicate this study except replace asparagus with a multi-vitamin.
Think that’s bad? You should see whut it smells like when you have a democRat for dinner!
What’s next – research to determine if people enjoy their own farts?
Well known issue if the people would just read a book. Asparagus, once processed by the body, makes a chemical that smells. It is also a diuretic.
Chemical is asparagusic acid
Just so we can save money, Poor Lazlo the Great Seer and Mystic: will make himself available FOR FREE to answer any question prior to funding any of these dumb ass studies.
For example:
Yes, a shrimp can probably be trained to walk on a tread mill.
No, cats do not ‘like’ the taste of their own fur
Yes, skinny lesbians are actually ‘Jollier’ than fat ones
Yes, Dogs approve of nougat
No you cannot achieve orbital velocity on a Pepsi-Mentos powered rocket
No, left handed people are not better at frisbee, in certain hemispheres.
Does anyone in government have the smallest regard for the concept of being responsible for the taxpayer’s money? It seems that one of them could make a name for himself by ranting about this asinine waste of our hard earned money, especially with a twenty trillion dollar debt.
who cares? smells from pee and passing gas are human nature- Do they also check on all the cows to see how much gas they let into the air? yes they do and it is stupid– plug your nose when you pass gas or buy some air freshener– don’t spend my tax money on stupid things.
Gee, I didn’t know that asparagus had little hidden wieners that they could pee out of. Why else would they smell like pee?
If asparagus smells like pee, why don’t they call it a leek (leak)?
If a bad actor accepts property for an unbelievably low price, bad actor can be charged with accepting/being in possession of stolen property. Why are thieves who accept research dollars not charged for committing the very same crime?