Posts tagged nightmare fuel
“ The bug, for its part, “does not wish to live in us,” says Schaffner, and the likelihood of it doing so and causing infection is “about 1 in 10 million.
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Remember that brain-eating amoeba we told you about earlier this week? Well turns out it probably WON’T eat your brain. Apparently it only eats brains if it HAS to, which is comforting, or if you swim in stagnant waters or do a cannonball. I guess I won’t be staging my annual high dive splash contest at the local peat bog. Seriously though, I STILL LIVE IN FEAR.

-DM

[Jen Doll]
“ The amoeba typically enters a swimmer’s nose and invades the brain causing an almost always fatal infection, according to Jonathan Yoder, an epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta.
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Holy smokes, did you know there are amoebas in the ocean that will eat your brain? This Yahoo report about the death of a 16-year-old girl in Florida confirms it. And I kind of wish news like this was censored from publication, because what do you do with it except sit there wondering if the next time you go for a swim, a microbe will burrow into your skull and kill you and there’s NOTHING you can do about it? This knowledge is a CURSE, I tell you!

-DM

[Colin Hettinger]
GAHHHHHHHHHH!  The above image is one of nine terrifyingly graphic images cigarette makers will be forced to display on their packages starting next year.  And I promise you this: This effort will not cause the sales of cigarettes to fall.  But sales of cigarette cases?  THROUGH THE ROOF. -DM [nprfreshair]

GAHHHHHHHHHH!  The above image is one of nine terrifyingly graphic images cigarette makers will be forced to display on their packages starting next year.  And I promise you this: This effort will not cause the sales of cigarettes to fall.  But sales of cigarette cases?  THROUGH THE ROOF.

-DM

[nprfreshair]

Weird Al As Lady Gaga Scarier Than Actual Lady Gaga. Here’s Weird Al Yankovic’s video for “Perform This Way,” a Lady Gaga parody that Gaga’s record company initially didn’t approve. And it’s sort of reassuring to know that, fifty years from now, Werid Al will still be around doing mildly punny riffs on popular songs, though I really hope he never has his head superimposed onto a young, female dancer’s body again.

-DM

[Uproxx]