Krankenstyle posted:

Dunno where else to put this: My friend is at a horse race & there's a horse named BON VOYAGE VIXI. So I'm like wait, that's not a valid Roman numeral and it turns out it means "I have lived", in other words "My life is over" or "I'm dead". Bon voyage indeed. Poor freckles, thought of racing & died.

e: lmao it loving won

Evilreaver posted:

drat I put all my on Freddy C*cks

Bobby Digital posted:

Well yeah they can only move one space at a time. Two if it’s their first move.

Platystemon posted:

How did China get four extra pawns?

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

They used to be Tibet's

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

They used to be Tibet's

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Here are the victims who died in the hot yoga shooting in Tallahassee

Don Gato posted:

Reality as written by coked up 1980s Stephen King.

mrkillboy posted:

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Wheat Loaf posted:

Wheat Loaf posted:

For reference, this is meant to be a statue of this man:

Wheat Loaf posted:

Knormal posted:

I feel like an Australian should be especially aware not to eat random local wildlife.

Wheat Loaf posted:

For reference, this is meant to be a statue of this man:

Mister Mind posted:

...He woke up paralyzed, unable to eat without a tube or move without intense effort. He required 24-hour care, seven days a week.
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But the disease didn't affect his mental faculties, his family and friends said...

Wheat Loaf posted:

Mister Mind posted:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html



(CNN)It was just a silly dare among teenage boys. What could it hurt to eat a small slug?

So Australian teenager Sam Ballard grabbed the slimy creature and gulped it down. He had no idea that the slug carried a potentially deadly worm that would put him into a coma that lasted more than a year, paralyze his body and ultimately take his life.
'Trying to act like grown-ups'
In 2010, 19-year-old Sam, an avid rugby player, was drinking with Jimmy Galvin and several more of his Australian "mates" when a slug began crawling across Galvin's concrete patio at his home in Sydney.

"We were sitting over here, having a bit of red wine appreciation night, trying to act as grown-ups," Galvin recalled in a video interview this year with Lisa Wilkinson of "The Sunday Project," a current affairs talk show that airs on Network 10 in Australia. CNN reached out to Galvin but has not heard back.
"And then the conversation came up, 'Should I eat it?' " recalled Galvin. "And then off Sam went and bang, that's how it happened."
After downing the slug, Sam became weak and complained of severe pain in his legs, according to "The Sunday Project." Sam's mother, Katie Ballard, told the news show that at first they worried he might have multiple sclerosis, which had afflicted her husband. But doctors said no, that wasn't the cause.
Then Sam turned to his mother and told her he had eaten a slug, "And I went, 'No, no one gets sick from that,' " Katie Ballard said. CNN has also reached out to Ballard.
Soon, however, doctors told them otherwise. Sam had developed rat lungworm disease from the infected slug, changing his life forever.
What is rat lungworm disease?
Rat lungworm disease is caused by a parasitic worm called Angiostronjilus cantonensis. As the name suggests, the parasite lodges in the lungs of rats and is later excreted in poop.
Along comes a slug, snail, freshwater crab, shrimp, prawn or frog, and either eats the rat dung or the parasite works its way into the creature infecting it. Fish, however, do not spread the parasite.

Humans can be infected if they eat the raw or undercooked contaminated animals, or vegetables carrying unseen snails or slugs that have not been thoroughly washed.
In addition, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, beverages can become contaminated with worms if left open for snails and slugs to enter.
Unlike in rats, the worm's life cycle is not completed in a human. So instead of passing through the digestive tract, the worm larvae "can get lost, and it will go to the brain, and it'll stay there," said Heather Stockdale Walden, an assistant professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology at the University of Florida. The parasite is not passed from human to human.
"When it gets to the brain, you can have eosinophilic meningitis," Walden said, which is an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
Symptoms can include headaches, nausea, vomiting, fever and a stiff neck, the CDC said.

'So full of love'
Most cases of rat lungworm disease are typically mild. But in some cases, like Sam's, the disease can cause catastrophic damage.
Soon after the diagnosis, Sam fell into a coma, where he remained for 420 days, Ballard said in the Australian news report. He woke up paralyzed, unable to eat without a tube or move without intense effort. He required 24-hour care, seven days a week.
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But the disease didn't affect his mental faculties, his family and friends said.
"He's in there, 100%," Galvin told "The Sunday Project." "I apologized to Sam about everything that happened that night in the backyard. And he just started bawling his eyes out. I know he's there."
Late last week, Sam died, "The Sunday Project's" Wilkinson wrote in a blog post.
"Sam passed away on Friday morning at Hornsby Hospital, not far from where he grew up, surrounded by 20 of those he most loved in the world," she wrote.

"Katie tells me 'the room was so full of love,' " Wilkinson said. "One of his friends there in the room continued, 'He had his voice and he said "I love you" several times to Katie.' "
A funeral service will be held for Sam on Thursday, according to a post on Galvin's Facebook page.

Mister Mind posted:

"Sam fell into a coma, where he remained for 420 days"

Platystemon posted:

https://twitter.com/7NewsSydney/status/1060048610224594945

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rort
/rɔːt/
nouninformal
noun: rort; plural noun: rorts

1.
Australian/NZ
a fraudulent or dishonest act or practice.
"a tax rort"

spog posted:

Not sure if buying more than 2 tins of baby milk counts as a major fraud though.

mrkillboy posted:

For context, there's an ongoing thing in Australia where people are stripping supermarket shelves of baby formula in order to sell or ship it to China because of the contamination thing a few years back. Obviously customers needing formula to actually feed their babies are pretty pissed off at this, and as the video notes its gotten so bad they've had to put purchase limits on them pretty much nationwide. This looks to be one of the more outrageous examples of this thing happening.

Aesop Poprock posted:

Why is Australia so goddamn weird

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The tainted baby formula thing has gotten a shitload of Chinese people understandably paranoid and terrified, dead babies and all. Australia happens to be one of the closest places with functioning food regulations.

Randaconda posted:

Didn't the Chinese come down pretty hard on that? Like, suspected executions hard, or am I remembering wrong?

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. Two people were executed, one given a suspended death penalty, three people receiving life imprisonment, two receiving 15-year jail terms,[6] and seven local government officials, as well as the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), were fired or forced to resign.[7]