*backs out of thread*

Then there is cow-pattie bingo... but you don't want to pick up the "chip"! LOL!

Not really gross, but fasinating........

Pigs are the only other animal besides humans and dolphins that have sex for pleasure......

And they're orgasms last for 7 hours.

I don't know if thats awesome or terrifying.

Most disgusting parasite: the hairworm.

When in the host body of a snail, thousands of near microscopic pre-adult hairworms will course through its body before eventually resting inside its eye stalks. This causes the stalks to swell enormously and to light up in many distinct colors.

At this point, the worm larvae will start to attach to the snail's nerve ganglion (its brain) and control it to do very specific things. When infected like this, the snail will perch on a flower or somewhere else where its vulnerable to a predator. When something like a bird eats it, the hairworm will grow to adulthood within the bird.

Snails leave thousands of these larvae in their droppings. Creatures like ants or grasshoppers may consume snail droppings, at which point the larvae will breed within the insects body and cause it to exhibit similar behavior.

A hairworm can live most of its life cycle inside the body of an insect. An adult hairworm may have 2 or 3 times as much body mass as its insect host, yet the insect continues to live seemingly normally.

I saw a video on youtube that had three adult hairworms coming out of one grasshopper host. Ew.

On a similar note, there was a woman in the States who was regularly feeling lethargic.

She went to the doctor and had an MRI.

The scan revealed what was then thought to be a tumor inside her brain.

The doctor operated, and found that the tumor wasn't a tumor at all, but a rather large worm. To rephrase, a worm was found thriving in the brain of a human. The doctor said it wasn't altogether unusual. He had done three or four operations to remove worms from people's brains within the past year.

The parasite was probably introduced to its environment when the woman ate contaminated meat. She may also have been exposed through the touch of someone else who was infected.

cooooool

a dustmite will leave behind twenty waste particles per day. 200 times thier body weight in fiecies. Over ten million mites live in the average matteress. We shed enough skin in 5 years to create another bodies worth of skin in the bed. and sweat75 mil. each night. wich causes asthma and exima.

oh come on... another body's worth after 5 years??

i'm old enough to not believe everything i hear hon'

When you fart in the bathtub, you are releasing small amounts of feces into the water with you.


House flies go to the bathroom roughly every 4.5 minutes. Think about that next time you see one fly on your delicious dinner.

For all you men who like to go "down south":

Just remember there IS a MUCUS gland down there, so when things get nice and wet, remember what's causing that!

disgusting things.......

well let me see....mucous coming out of somebodys NECK....always gets me. gags me.

Good God People.....I think I should have finished breakfast before (urp) ..reading...this...oh no...

Good Morning Krupa!

G'morning Holly Honey!!! Gonna be a great day sweety!

Want a disgusting fact? Poop is brown.

Wanna see something truly disgusting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNes8uah4Cg&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

A little friendly advice. Don't plan on eating anything right before seeing this.

Sneak peek: look at the little suckers squirm!

Ah, yes, and that little tidbit reminded me of something.

For those of you with ant problems (or those of you likely to have ant problems this summer), try Blaze's homemade ant trap!

Take one recently finished fruit container (that year I had the ant problem, I used the plastic ones). Set it out anywhere the ants are likely to get at it.

Wait 6 hours or so, and there should be 50-75 of the little nutters in the bottom of the jar, feeding on the leftover juices.

Take the container to your nearest tap. Now, this is the most important part: run the tap until the water is boiling hot (ie, until the water causes your hand to reflexively jump away when you test it).

Lastly, fill the container just short of the brim. Now sit back and watch the theatrics.

Caution: may take several repititions to kill the entire colony. The writer of this post is not responsible for any retribution exacted by the ant queen. Nor is the writer responsible for any scalding resulting from clumsy/irresponsible handling of the container.

Welcome to ant purgatory.

And lastly...and I swear after this one I'm finished...

Did you know that if you aggravate two grasshoppers by pushing them together, eventually they'll begin to cannibalize one another?

I discovered this in way back in third grade. Me and a friend would go out into the fields near town and trap a hundred of the suckers inside a jar (after pulling their legs off of course; wouldn't want the little buggers to get away).

Then we'd bring the jar to our yard, and expose them to a number of crude experiments, such as mixing grasshopper mud pie.

I discovered the grasshopper cannibalization thing quite by accident. When skipping school one day (my third grade teacher was quite the dog) I decided to stage a grasshopper gladiatorial bout by putting two of equal size into a very large pop gun. Blowing into the barrel of the gun really aggravated the little bastards, to the point that they began devouring one another.

And the funny thing is, I haven't found anything to support grasshopper cannibalization or why they might behave this way in any documents, but I swear its true.

Don't be too quick to judge. I had two friends back in those days who were taken to catching grasshoppers and eating their legs. I've heard they're a delicacy, but I've never felt compelled to partake.