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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/boston-man-diagnosed-tapeworms-brain-184647285.html
No that doesn't happen. I'm not sure if tapeworms even have mouths. They may just absorb nutrients form the digestive juices inside of intestine through their skin.kyphysics said:speaking of tapeworms ^^^ is the following story urban legend or possibly true?:
As a kid, I was told by an older kid that he had heard of a story of a guy who got a tapeworm. This man went through a period of not eating much (possibly a diet or fasting). One day, as the man took a piece of bread out to eat and opened his mouth, others at the table saw the tapeworm rise out of his throat to snatch the bread and take a bite out of it (before retracting down his throat).
This is quite possibly the most disgusting story I've ever heard. Seems biologically/medically possible, but has a ring of urban legend to it too. I could never verify the story, but wonder if it's possible and/or a popular urban tale/myth of sorts?
Proof if proof were needed that there is no God!BillTre said:No that doesn't happen. I'm not sure if tapeworms even have mouths. They may just absorb nutrients form the igestive juices inside of intestine through their skin.
On the other hand, there is a fish parasite (an isopod (a crustacean)) that eats a fish's tongue and replaces the function the fish lost when it tongue got eaten and eats some of the food that goes by on the way to the fish's stomach.
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Okay, suppose my story was urban legend.gmax137 said:When I was a boy, my friend's father told us that when he was a boy, growing up in the Carpathian mountains in the Ukraine, a kid in his village had a tapeworm. So the village wise men held him by his heels, upside down over a bowl of warm milk until the worm came out and dropped into the bowl.
I thought that was the most disgusting story until I saw the photo ^^^ in @BillTre 's post.
I don't know for sure, my friend's dad was kind of an exotic guy and he may have been pulling our legs. Or not. But that's the story he told.kyphysics said:Was YOUR story true?
Its not true.gmax137 said:I don't know for sure, my friend's dad was kind of an exotic guy and he may have been pulling our legs. Or not. But that's the story he told.
There are unproven claims that, around 1900, tapeworm eggs were marketed to the public as slimming tablets.[42] A full-page coloured advertisement, purportedly from a women's magazine of that period, reads "Fat: the enemy ... that is banished! How? With sanitized tape worms. Jar packed. No ill effects!"[34] When television presenter Michael Mosley deliberately infected himself with tapeworms he gained weight due to increased appetite.[43] Dieters still sometimes risk intentional infection, evidenced by a 2013 warning on American television.[44]
well I'm glad that's cleared up. I heard the story in the late 1960s and never forgot it, I guess now I can let it go.BillTre said:Its not true.
You could try Unwatching the thread. Is that like "unseeing" ?kyphysics said:I should have known not to return to this thread today...my mind is grossed out!
the mouth within a mouth thing as depicted in that movieBorg said:For some reason, this topic has me thinking of the movie Alien.
I was thinking about what burst out of his chest but that works too.sysprog said:
Ringworm is a fungus. It just looks like a worm under your skin.BillTre said:I would expect round worms (like ringworm) would be much more active, but they should not be coming out your mouth either.
That's what happens when we are always looking for someone to blame, especially thinking bigger & bigger punishments will deter people from acting irresponsibly. When the expected punishment is so destructive that it cannot be worst, people have nothing to lose by acting a little bit more irresponsible and - maybe - getting away with it.Borg said:This falls more in the category of evil than weird.
After striking a pedestrian, the woman got out of her car, went over to the injured man, took away his cell phone as he tried to call 911, threw his phone into the bushes and then sped off. What she failed to realize is that her bumper, which came off during the collision, still had the license plate on it. It didn't take long to track her down. Somebody needs to go to jail for a VERY long time.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...-run-crash-draw-more-serious-charges/2887477/
Agree.Borg said:What she did was reprehensible beyond belief and showed complete disregard for another human being.
How sure are you about that? Maybe she was talking on her cell? Or speeding? Or maybe she had a little drink before taking the wheel?Borg said:If she had stayed and rendered aid, there might have been some consequences but nothing like what she is facing now.
They are fewer of those. What used to be accidents are more and more defined as criminal negligence someway, somehow (i.e. trying to blame someone). This leads to more and more people facing the previous dilemma. And fleeing is a natural instinct hard to fight.Borg said:What started out as an accident,
It didn't turn out well.Back in the day, the balloons were released into sky to float away. Macy’s officials — knowing the air space would be filled with planes — issued a stern warning to pilots who might be tempted to use the helium-filled characters for target practice, emphasizing that no reward would be given for, as they put it, “recovering” balloons.
That did not deter a plucky 22-year-old student pilot, Annette Gibson, of Brooklyn. At 4 pm on November 24th, a half-hour after the parade was over and the balloons released, Gibson and her flight instructor, Hugh Copeland, flying at 5,000 feet above Queens, spotted a 60-foot, yellow-striped Tom Kat directly in their path. Gibson, ready for some fun, wasn’t about to swerve, announcing, “I think I’ll have a piece of its neck.”
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The site boasts having almost 18,000 field operatives who can do a job anywhere in the United States. It features testimonials from satisfied clients, including a man who wrote that RentAHitman "handled my disgruntled employee issue promptly while I was out of town on vacation."
Innes, who lives in Fairfield, California, says he's left red flags all over his site hinting that it's a trap. For starters, the website openly suggests that it offers illegal services. Its phony testimonials include one from a woman who's "ready to mingle" after she caught her husband cheating with a babysitter.
And the site promises confidentiality under the "Hitman Information Privacy & Protection Act of 1964," a tongue-in-cheek nod to HIPAA, the real-life Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which passed in 1996 and protects patients' medical information.
Innes says more than 400 people have filled service request forms on the site since it launched, including some who have expressed interest in becoming hit men and pranksters trying to play jokes on friends. Of those, roughly 10% turned into legitimate cases where police became involved, he says.
"I thought nobody can be that stupid, and boy have I been proven wrong," says Innes, 54. "These people ... whoever they are, they see HIPAA, they think privacy. So they feel compelled to leave their real information -- names, address, where the intended target is..."
"I just play matchmaker with the police," he says. "I'd rather be a state witness than a state conspirator."
"This work was supported by the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education of Singapore, and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA Project No. PPN/PPO/2018/1/00007/U/00001."mfb said:Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade
This is not an AI-generated title. They used a tardigrade (cooled to 10 mK and in an extremely good vacuum) as dielectric material in a capacitor, and put that into superposition between two different states.
They approximated the tardigrade as a cube with a dielectric constant of about 4. The tardigrade could be brought back to life afterwards.
Two of the authors previously won an Ig Nobel prize for investigating the magnetic properties of cockroaches.
mfb said:A bank robber deposited the stolen money in an ATM - the ATM of that bank branch, immediately after leaving the bank he just robbed.
With every new college semester, students are faced with multiple syllabuses outlining the subjects in their classes.
But do students read them thoroughly?
A Philadelphia mother has given birth to what is believed to be the world’s first Tesla baby: an infant delivered in the front seat of an electric smart car while it was driving on autopilot.
I shudder to think of the subsequent bill for car cleaning.Astronuc said:Don't try this at home, . . . or in the car,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/19/tesla-baby-philadelphia-autopilot
(CNN)Amazon's Alexa has been developed over the years to offer ever-improving access to information and knowledge.
However, the voice-enabled assistant recently gave some dangerous advice to one user that went viral on social media.
According to a tweet posted by Kristin Livdahl, Alexa told her 10-year-old child to touch a penny to an exposed plug socket, .
"My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said," Livdahl tweeted on Sunday.
Livdahl shared an image of Alexa's response after her child asked the device for a challenge.
"Here's something I found on the web. According to ourcommunitynow.com: The challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs," Alexa's response read.
Users expressed their astonishment in the comments:
"That's shocking," one user tweeted.
berkeman said:Amazon's Alexa tells 10-year-old child to touch penny to exposed plug socket
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/nat...oods-and-illegal-activities-irs-says/2766905/As you wind down the year, cleaning out drawers and emptying wallets of receipts, don’t forget to report to the IRS any income you brought in from drug deals, bribes, stolen goods, prostitution or other illegal activity.According to IRS publication 17, the Internal Revenue Service wants taxpayers to include on their forms “income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs.” Make sure you put that on “Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z, or on Schedule C (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity,” the IRS wrote.The agency also requests that “if you steal property, you must report its fair market value,” but only if you don’t “return it to its rightful owner in the same year.”
And you can't afford to blast it off to Mars? (I guess Musk wrote that off as a business expense - rocket testing.)Borg said:What do you do when the replacement of the battery is more than the car is worth? Blow it up of course!
This has been bugging me since I read this:berkeman said:Important tax preparation tip!
Don't Forget to Declare Income From Stolen Goods and Illegal Activities, IRS Says
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/nat...oods-and-illegal-activities-irs-says/2766905/
jack action said:This has been bugging me since I read this:
Say I kill someone to inherit from them. That is clearly an illegal activity, but also there is no inheritance tax. So do I have to declare it or not?
Asking for a friend?jack action said:Say I kill someone to inherit from them. That is clearly an illegal activity, but also there is no inheritance tax. So do I have to declare it or not?