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This seems to be a surprisingly common thing. I remember talking to a mate who came back from an area with rabies, and when I asked about it he said pretty much the same thing, "Nah didn't get vaccinated, if I get any symptoms I'll just get it checked.". And it's not like he didn't do research on other risks with traveling there, or doesn't know how to research. Just had an idea that modern medicine was much better with dealing with illness like that than it actually is. I guess when your young and your used to a bit of rest or a prescription from a doctor sorting everything out, you can get into that mind set if you've never really seen otherwise. Medical shows like House probably don't help that perception.
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Lt. Cock posted:Whompst among us has not been friends with a giant pony blow up doll Well, not a giant one.
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Splicer posted:There's no rabies in Ireland and telling non-irish people this has revealed that a surprising number of people seem to think going rabid is a thing some mammals just kinda do sometimes. Same in the mainland UK and new zealand. Luckily, the diesease that makes you insanely and irrationally hydrophobic makes it difficult for the diesease to cross large bodies of water. I actually don't think anyone here would have rabies "awareness" like you would in a place its endemic, which is probably a problem. Drone_Fragger fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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That's a moray 
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Guess he's not feeling eel
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Altared State posted:That's a moray It's a yak 
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dr_rat posted:This seems to be a surprisingly common thing. I remember talking to a mate who came back from an area with rabies, and when I asked about it he said pretty much the same thing, "Nah didn't get vaccinated, if I get any symptoms I'll just get it checked.". house md had an episode where a woman got rabies from a bat and died in miserable agony though? it was pretty clear that rabies is bad and needs to be treated right away.
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Baronjutter posted:A local idiot just did that and died. Found a bat on the ground that was "acting weird" and decided to go film a tiktok about it or whatever and try to pick it up and play with it. Friends even told him about rabies and he of course was like "yeah if I feel bad I'll get checked out"  One of my favorite jokes from the good place.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Guess he's not eeling well
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dr_rat posted:This seems to be a surprisingly common thing. I remember talking to a mate who came back from an area with rabies, and when I asked about it he said pretty much the same thing, "Nah didn't get vaccinated, if I get any symptoms I'll just get it checked.". Also, rabies is terrifying. It's not even a rational fear for me given my everyday life, but I started watching a YouTube video about rabies and I couldn't make it past a couple of minutes. (And I still would sound as blasé as your mate in his shoes.)
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I think the better play is to get treated if you get bitten by a wild animal that could carry rabies without waiting to see if you feel symptoms.
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Yeah, I thought rabies was one of those "if you start feeling the symptoms, it's probably too late" kinda diseases.
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This exchange is making me sweat thinking of the time one of my childhood cats came home with a still living bat, and my dad got it away from her, and we oohed and awwed over it and probably tried petting it.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Yeah, I thought rabies was one of those "if you start feeling the symptoms, it's probably too late" kinda diseases. It is, IIRC there have been very few (as in like one or two) cases of someone coming down with rabies and actually getting successfully treated.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Yeah, I thought rabies was one of those "if you start feeling the symptoms, it's probably too late" kinda diseases. It is. Hell, you can take the "probably" out of that, it's considered 100% mortality rate. There are around 60k human rabies fatalities per year. There are 30 known symptomatic survivors in all of recorded history.
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davidspackage posted:This exchange is making me sweat thinking of the time one of my childhood cats came home with a still living bat, and my dad got it away from her, and we oohed and awwed over it and probably tried petting it. Good news is! While bats are responsible for the bulk of rabies cases in the US, they as a population still have a very low infection rate. Around 1%, depending on the source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249890/ My folks live in a rural area and everyone's extremely bat paranoid. Like, I've known a farmer who euthanized their animals because a dead bat was found in her barn. They think the rabies rate in bats is way, way higher than the reality (some people here just think all bats carry rabies somehow, like it's a HIV>AIDS thing), and they kill them on sight. I really like bats. 
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Bats are cool, but man they've been dealt a pretty raw deal. White nose syndrome is annihilating their populations over much of North America, and climate change is only going to allow it to spread farther. So yeah if you find a sick bat it's probably not rabid, it's probably dying of a fungal infection. Either way, don't touch it.
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Mozi posted:I think the better play is to get treated if you get bitten by a wild animal that could carry rabies without waiting to see if you feel symptoms. From what I've seen in countries that have rabies, a single case of a wild animal bite from something that can carry it means the public health people get involved and the bitten person needs to go to the hospital. In practice, it might not work out that way all the time, but that's the general plan.
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Dick Burglar posted:Bats are cool, but man they've been dealt a pretty raw deal. White nose syndrome is annihilating their populations over much of North America, and climate change is only going to allow it to spread farther. Y'know, they could have given the syndrome a name that doesn't make the bats sound like coke addicts.
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:Y'know, they could have given the syndrome a name that doesn't make the bats sound like coke addicts. We don't want to help the bats after they stole our tv and sold it to us
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 By popular demand posted:well a gallon of food oil is nearly 31,000 calories which is much more efficient. I feel like LA Beast has done this. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttC7KbE_uDo
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wow, I hope homie stocked up on maxi pads first
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MSPain posted:wow, I hope homie stocked up on maxi pads first Still not as bad of a toilet experience as the sugar free gummy bears
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Hope he’s not on septic
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Das Boo posted:I really like bats. Austin is one of the nicer cities in Texas for a lot of reasons, but one of them is they have caves full of bats down there and they eat up all the mosquitoes. You can walk around outside in the summertime evenings and just... not get bit. It's wild. RatHat posted:Still not as bad of a toilet experience as the sugar free gummy bears Oh, if only it was on the toilet... In some other video he talks about making this one, and he said as he was sitting at his desk editing the footage he felt the oil just start running down his leg as it slipped out his rear end 
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RatHat posted:Still not as bad of a toilet experience as the sugar free gummy bears Takes No Damage posted:Oh, if only it was on the toilet... In some other video he talks about making this one, and he said as he was sitting at his desk editing the footage he felt the oil just start running down his leg as it slipped out his rear end Not just any gummy bears. A 5 pound pack of the legendarily infamous original recipe Hariibo sugar free gummy bears which have been likened to an improvised explosive device for your intestinal tract. Just eating 8-15 of those things in "take as many as you want" public bowls of candy has allegedly laid up an army office in the past to the point of them assuming it was some sort of flu outbreak, bringing in medics that had to run IV's from the extreme "fluid loss", and temporarily shutting down for the rest of the day. Poor bastard was in so much pain after eating 5 pounds he just dead sprinted to the toilet at one point and forgot to stop filming. Sounded like someone dropped a cluster bomb into the toilet too. Found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMjgaa5j_LE  obviously if you want to watch a grown man almost immediately regret his life choices along with the panicked realization of oncoming agony of the inevitable result at the end after he fails to vomit it up. He does mention it's worse than the three liter tank of olive oil though.
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Probably massively overblown anecdotes but every noncaloric sugar substitute does that, this is how the body disposes of what it can't use. Most sweeteners should be consumed at minute quantity, you could probably get your dihorrea going if just chew sugarless gum all day.
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By popular demand posted:Probably massively overblown anecdotes but every noncaloric sugar substitute does that, this is how the body disposes of what it can't use. To be fair, it helps to keep in mind that the original Haribo recipe was basically nothing but maltitol. Some mad genius at the company had the idea to put a ton of it into each gummy bear way over what you're supposed to have in it to try and sweeten the bears up. Then the company blithely sold multi pound bags of these things not knowing about what was wrong with the recipe until reports came in that just 10 or so gummy bears were straight up dehydrating people from the effects it has on the gut alongside crippling them from the weekend long induced making GBS threads sprees and gas pain maltitol causes in high doses due to them essentially selling a high powered laxative in multi-pound bag form. Haribo changed the recipe and apologized pretty quickly before eventually ceasing sales of their sugar free gummy bears altogether once it came out what sort of traumatic experiences their sugar free gummy bears were producing but holy poo poo did it make for some hilarious stories for the time it lasted. Archonex fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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Weekend Long making GBS threads Spree is the title of the new Clowncore album. Also as the people marketing Olestra chips learned: people never consume anything at 'recommended servings'. All you get is the knowledge that you gave consumers the runs. By popular demand fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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Kind of like that yeah, except the cloud should be more brown
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Archonex posted:Found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMjgaa5j_LE Is this the video where you can hear his paramedic housemate verbally yell out something in shock from the other room?
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Humphreys posted:Is this the video where you can hear his paramedic housemate verbally yell out something in shock from the other room? You know, normally i'd do my due diligence to check but I don't want to have to repeatedly watch a video of a grown man nearly making GBS threads himself before obliterating the interior of the bowl of his toilet on camera. If it wasn't that one it might be the video where he chugged a multi liter container of olive oil in one sitting. Dude basically lubed up his entire intestinal tract with that one. Archonex fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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Most people don't lube nearly that deep.
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By popular demand posted:Most people don't lube nearly that deep. What the hell, is it just me?
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By popular demand posted:Probably massively overblown anecdotes but every noncaloric sugar substitute does that, this is how the body disposes of what it can't use. Uh this is exactly 100% misleading garbage. It’s just physics. The body isn’t magically “disposing of what it can’t use”. It also isn’t applicable to all sugar substitutes. It’s just a normal effect of sugar alcohols. They’re in the laxative category of osmotic laxatives. Just like you remember from 6th grade chemistry it’s just osmosis. Sugar alcohols just set up a big osmotic gradient in your colon and solvent chases solute. The sugar alcohols can’t leave the colon so liquid(ultra filtered plasma) crosses your colon membranes to try and equalize the concentration gradient between your colon and blood stream.
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Bum the Sad posted:Uh this is exactly 100% misleading garbage. It’s just physics. Yeah, the body doesn't just magically crap out anything that can have an adverse effect on it. There's an entire process and even things that make you uncomfortable have a reason for why that is. Forbes did an article on the gummy bears (though they rated the amount of maltitol in it a lot lower than what folks seem to think it had. Hard to tell since the recipe was discontinued though.) way back when that explains the effects of maltitol on the human body. quote:When the indigestible parts of maltitol make it to your intestines they draw water into the digestive tract by osmosis. All that water gets things, uh, moving. For instance, it gets you moving in the direction of the nearest bathroom. TL;DR: They accidentally made osmotic laxative gummies by upping the amount of maltitol in every gummy to unwise levels for casual consumption. Then they sold the tiny gummies in multi pound bags. Cue hilarity. Archonex fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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The sugar understander has logged on.
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Bum the Sad posted:Uh this is exactly 100% misleading garbage. It’s just physics. Name post combo
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