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caspergers posted:Reclamation thing I guess, there's a stigma to being country and so they double down on how they identify with it. Not too dissimilar to what big bang theory did for nerds. For the mintally handicapped.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:My favorite country subgenre is songs from the perspective of the truck, and not the truck driver. Lol wtf
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Holy poo poo, thought it was an art installation before I saw the second pic.
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davidspackage posted:Holy poo poo, thought it was an art installation before I saw the second pic. That kid is going to be in therapy some day because he associates death and loss with 
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What's even more interesting to me is the fact that the 'm' symbol is covered by candies probably due to copyright/trademark stuff.
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I didn't know that Eminem died.
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McGavin posted:I didn't know that Eminem died. Close! Her name was Mary Ester Stocks Martin Gailey
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Tucker Carlson won’t like this one bit
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The blue m&m has a corpse in it.
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Karate Bastard posted:The blue m&m has a corpse in it. Mmm chewy center
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:My favorite country subgenre is songs from the perspective of the truck, and not the truck driver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdvbREwwDc
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Close! Her name was Mary Ester Stocks Martin Gailey The actual story is quite sweet (no pun intended) https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/23/gran-was-so-obsessed-with-mms-she-was-buried-in-a-giant-sweet-18332848/amp/
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Why is the big M&M rubbing smaller M&Ms over its crotch
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steinrokkan posted:Why is the big M&M rubbing smaller M&Ms over its crotch The spawn cycle of the m&m is poorly understood. Like turtles, seahorses, guppies?
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https://i.imgur.com/zezOskI.mp4
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Brb, gonna go submerge my own rear end in a top hat for a few minutes
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TotalLossBrain posted:
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The Wikipedia article on these worms paints a pretty horrific picture. The Mantis ingests them as larvae, and they grow inside until... "When it is mature, the worm secretes proteins that take over the host's nervous system, which directs the mantis to a body of water and causes it to jump in so that the worm can be excreted, at which point it breaks free to reproduce leaving a half empty mantis husk." LEAVING A HALF EMPTY MANTIS HUSK
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This kind of stuff--all the "mind"-controlling insects and fungus--is endlessly fascinating and deeply disturbing to me, in equal measure. I'll read about it forever and be so thoroughly horrified the entire time, but I can't tear myself away. A true curse.
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Buddy, they won't even let me control it
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Decrepus posted:Buddy, they won't even let me
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Waste of Breath posted:The Wikipedia article on these worms paints a pretty horrific picture. The Mantis ingests them as larvae, and they grow inside until... Hirayuki posted:This kind of stuff--all the "mind"-controlling insects and fungus--is endlessly fascinating and deeply disturbing to me, in equal measure. I'll read about it forever and be so thoroughly horrified the entire time, but I can't tear myself away. A true curse. According to my advanced scholarly research watching youtube and reading wiki pages, these kinda parasites exploit what's basically a bug in the bug metabolism, they don't infiltrate the brain itself, but excrete metabolites that then enter the brain and modify behavior -- the proteins that say "man ur thirsty jump in the river," or the ones that make ants really want to find humidity that's optimal for sporulation. These mechanisms don't exist in mammals and wouldn't work. So far nothing as extreme as what afflicts bugs has been discovered that affects mammals. So far. But there's toxoplasmosis, toxo modifies mammals to be less afraid of predators. More bold. Dumber decisions. Toxo needs cats to complete its life cycle though, but it still modifies behavior. Mice aren't as scared of cats. Wolves infected with toxo take more risks and are more likely to leave their packs and start new ones, even though they aren't that likely to get eaten by lynxes or cougars or jaguars or whatever. There's evidence that maybe even 1/3 of humans could be chronically infected. There's even a gangtag for it! And ofc rabies makes you avoid drinking water and drool out a lot of virons and get bitey. And gruesomely die.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:And ofc rabies makes you avoid drinking water and drool out a lot of virons and get bitey. And gruesomely die. Rabies is really the stuff of nightmares. Make a movie about rabies going airborne, it'd be the scariest disaster/slasher movie ever.
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There is an extremely small chance you can develop some level of immunity from a bite. Like 5 known cases. 80% you get rage mode, 20% you get paralytic. Paralytic rabies usually doesn't make you afraid of water at least!
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Ok, good, that leaves 5 survivors at the end of the movie then.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:So far nothing as extreme as what afflicts bugs has been discovered that affects mammals. So far.  Also, it's just gross to see these worms emerging from a mantis or cricket rear end.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Rabies is really the stuff of nightmares. Make a movie about rabies going airborne, it'd be the scariest disaster/slasher movie ever. "Quarantine" had the premise of some kind of super-rabies. It wasn't airborne though. It was one of those movies that gave away the ending in the trailer, so it could have been better. Maybe the "Rec" series it was based on expanded it, but I haven't seen them.
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Hirayuki posted:I'm not sure my interest/revulsion stems so much from a fear that it's coming to get us next, necessarily, but in the (seemingly) calculating horribleness of the controlling parties, as it were. It's awful and amazing that poo poo evolved to be able to control other creatures even through multiple hosts to get to where it needs to be evolutionarily. Even the way Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers make their victims bleed out in a spectacular fashion because it spreads so well through blood (similar to rabies drool/biteyness). That stuff always fascinated/repelled me in the same way: that these tiny, sometimes even microscopic entities--some of which aren't technically alive--"know" how to do nasty, nasty poo poo in the name of furthering their kind. It's 99% throwing poo poo at the wall to see what sticks. Hundreds of millions of years of selection pressures on something whose lifecycle might be as short as a few days means you have uncountable opportunities for transcription errors and sheer dumb luck to end up with something whose confluence of symptoms and spread mechanisms looks almost like someone designed it that way. It's like the entire reason flu-like-symptoms are a thing is because they're an amazing way for a virus with an airborne component to be able to spread itself. If some random virus develops a protein coat that causes hay fever, it's way more likely to win the evolution powerball and make 10^20 copies of itself.
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Hirayuki posted:I'm not sure my interest/revulsion stems so much from a fear that it's coming to get us next, necessarily, but in the (seemingly) calculating horribleness of the controlling parties, as it were. It's awful and amazing that poo poo evolved to be able to control other creatures even through multiple hosts to get to where it needs to be evolutionarily. Even the way Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers make their victims bleed out in a spectacular fashion because it spreads so well through blood (similar to rabies drool/biteyness). That stuff always fascinated/repelled me in the same way: that these tiny, sometimes even microscopic entities--some of which aren't technically alive--"know" how to do nasty, nasty poo poo in the name of furthering their kind. Mutations that increase survival/propagation spread like wildfire, assuming they're able to get a foothold. I'm sure mutations that did plenty of other kinds of horrifying poo poo died on the vine because the organisms that developed them didn't survive to reproduce in sufficient quantities to become widespread. Methylethylaldehyde posted:It's 99% throwing poo poo at the wall to see what sticks. Hundreds of millions of years of selection pressures on something whose lifecycle might be as short as a few days means you have uncountable opportunities for transcription errors and sheer dumb luck to end up with something whose confluence of symptoms and spread mechanisms looks almost like someone designed it that way. Also this.
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Takes No Damage posted:Here's what I got so far ^^^ 1. I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry 2. Stand By Your Man 3. Ring of Fire 4. Act Naturally 5. Harper Valley PTA 6. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia 7. Take This Job and Shove It And A. Coal Miners Daughter B. Okie From Muscogee C. Luckenbach, Texas D. In America All pre 1980, some pre 70.
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https://i.imgur.com/8UGhbhY.mp4 Mushroom isn't poisonous, just bitter.
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Waffle! posted:"Quarantine" had the premise of some kind of super-rabies. It wasn't airborne though. It was one of those movies that gave away the ending in the trailer, so it could have been better. Maybe the "Rec" series it was based on expanded it, but I haven't seen them. "Rec" gave away the ending on the front of the DVD cover.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:https://i.imgur.com/8UGhbhY.mp4 Maybe the spider crawling up his face at the end was the part that he was regretting.
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Proof there is a God.
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