:O What is WRONG with me?!!? D:

[Frosty]

True story... when my brother was little (maybe 2 or 3?), he was outside chewing something. Mom asked what he had and he gave her a big grin and said 'Beetles!' He had a handful of Japanese Beetles and was eating them.

 

[KristyHall]

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that doesn't gross me out as badly as the story of the boy eating ticks

 

[gritsar]

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[ranchhand]

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There's an old joke - Little country boy sitting the yard eating something. His dad looks out and says "Otis, what's that you're eating boy?" Otis says "raisins". Dad says "Raisins! Where'd you get raisins?" Otis says "Off of ol' Beau."

Grits? I could have lived happily, the rest of my life, WITHOUT that story!

 

[gritsar]

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There's an old joke - Little country boy sitting the yard eating something. His dad looks out and says "Otis, what's that you're eating boy?" Otis says "raisins". Dad says "Raisins! Where'd you get raisins?" Otis says "Off of ol' Beau."

Grits? I could have lived happily, the rest of my life, WITHOUT that story!

My work here is done.

 

[Frosty]

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There's an old joke - Little country boy sitting the yard eating something. His dad looks out and says "Otis, what's that you're eating boy?" Otis says "raisins". Dad says "Raisins! Where'd you get raisins?" Otis says "Off of ol' Beau."

Grits? I could have lived happily, the rest of my life, WITHOUT that story!

Ahhh... but are you sure it's just a story? Maybe it's true...

 

[sourland]

Of all of the many creatures that have used my body as a banquet, leeches are the only ones that make me somewhat queasy. Never been attacked by maggots or bot flies, but know that both would also tend to freak me. As an interesting sidenote, both leeches and maggots have medicinal applications.

 

[welsummerchicks]

How do you think our species could have survived for millions of years if we were NOT disgusted by leeches?

You're just behaving like a natural woman, protecting her flock.

How people behave when they see blood, leeches and things like that, is instinctive. It's just built into that person. Not a single thing you can do about it.

Incidentally, how you behave when you get your hand operated on under a mild sedative is ALSO just how-that-person-is-made.

I recently had surgery on my hand, and was appalled by my getting woozy and sick to my stomach while they were PULLING and YANKING on my tendons and ligaments and I could feel gallons of blood flowing down my arm.

Until I was wheeled out to recovery. There was a GIGANTIC pro football player out there, clutching his hand and whining, 'Juuuuuuice box.....cooooookie......ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....' after passing out.

I asked the nurses about it and they gloated excitedly, 'We LOVE to watch all the BIG STRONG MEN come in here and act SOOOOOOO macho, and then PASS OUT!'

 

[magicpigeon]

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But i can sympathise, now for some reason I can't help constantly checking my legs, arms, back...

 

[Delta2 23]

Leeches are no good

I find it astounding that people use them for medicinal reasons, I would be utterly freaked out!

My mother tells me stories about finding them in rice paddies, they'd go in and come out with leeches stuck all over their bodies: and when you tried to pull 'em off, they'd stretch, and your skin would stretch with them as they hung on...

Me: *cringe*