RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 11, 2014 at 7:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2014 at 8:23 pm by ManMachine.)
(September 10, 2014 at 9:06 pm)Beccs Wrote:(September 10, 2014 at 9:00 pm)Tonus Wrote: This was quite a few years ago (late 90s probably). I was laying network cable along a row of cubicles (like I said, the 90s) and it was slow going as we had to carefully work it past any and all obstacles. One of those, in a corner office, was a pair of file cabinets. So I flip the cable over the cabinets and am pulling it through the other end, and it's stuck. So I feel around back to see what's got it caught, but after several attempts I can't quite get my hand far enough. Fine, I decide, I'll pull the cable back out on the near side.
The cable comes back, stuck to an old glue trap... with a mouldering mouse right next to the cable, just inches from where I'd stopped and given up. I could see the black patches of rotting skin where the fur had fallen off. I didn't actually touch the mouse, but I kept imagining that I'd gone ahead and felt just another inch or two further and felt that fuzzy-- BLEEGHGHHGHG I still get this chill up my spine just thinking about how close I came.
Not the worst way to learn that lesson, though. I was much more circumspect when I was laying cable after that.
Ha.
Okay, gross story time.
When I was a first year student I worked part time in a hospital working in the morgue. When I moved onto my second year, I had to train a first year to replace me in the morgue.
The day he was sitting in on his first autopsy, I had told him not to eat for 24 hours beforehand. Unfortunately he decided to eat.
The moment they opened the y-incision he threw up - on my shoes.
I've eaten one of these, it's called a 100 year old egg (yes, that greeny black stuff is the yolk).
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
