Posted on 05/14/2025 7:50:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
“Nature features a range of invasive parasites, including penis worms”
Okay, I don’t wanna know any more.
Scary.
As if we don’t already have enough to worry about…..
Pretty soon scientists will ask the question that everyone wants to know the answer to:
Are there penis worms on Uranus?
Well that’s reassuring, thanks.
It causes amoebic dysentery. Very common in many parts of the globe. My best friend nearly died of it in SE Asia. It can range from very mild to deadly.
I hate Illinois penis worms. “Rail-splitters” brrrrr
I read recently that ‘Swedish Bitters’ have been used to counter parasites...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_bitters
RB, you have the best politic busting posts around. After reading about constant wokery, media gaslighting, and Democrat skullduggery, they are always a nice change of pace, interesting, and I always learn something. Keep it up, and you will be our MAGA Bill Nye :)
Well, that’s enough internet for tonight…
Camphor? Yuck! I bet it tastes awful!
But if it works, then I wish I’d had some back in the day in SE Asia.
The people had never heard of the germ theory and laughed at you if you tried to explain it to them. It just seemed preposterous to them.
There was this one poor tiny baby ...
Her mother was being treated for TB and the French doctors down to the south had told her not to breastfeed her baby because the drugs could harm her, and had given her powdered formula and bottles.
Well, the baby kept getting amoebic dysentery, and the mother would wait until the poor little thing was so dehydrated her soft spot was totally sunken in and bring her to our office in the middle of the night. I’d get a radio call, go to the office and stay up past dawn saving the baby.
I stressed to the mother the importance of boiling the water she used to make the formula and boiling the bottle, nipple, etc., too.
A few weeks later ... my radio cracking in the middle of the night, same baby, again severely dehydrated, amoebic dysentery.
The third time, I told the mother a terrible lie. I knew that while these people “no believe” in germs and parasites, they very much believed in ghosts and evil spirits. So I told her an evil spirit was making her baby sick. And that the only way to make her baby safe from it was to boil the evil spirit away. I told her it went up in the steam and she would see it. That she had to keep boiling as the steam rose while singing a popular local folk song five times to make sure the evil spirit was gone.
It worked. No more sick baby.
Of course I’d never have given yucky bitters to that little baby — but if it actually worked, and it tasted bad enough, maybe the adults would have been more diligent about boiling their water if they knew the cure would be so yucky.
This is about Congress right?
Ya just had to go there didnja?
1982… “The Thing”…
That screenshot made Wilfred Brimley lose it….
Total fornicating BS.
Wifey has a penisworm infestation regularly (part of a healthy marriage) and doesn’t complains. Uranus never come up though. Some things are better Left untouched.
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