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Get sick / Cure cancer

misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
edited February 2008 in Social Entropy++
So, apparently a new study has revealed that getting sick may help treat/prevent cancer. The underlying premise is that our modern, disinfected lifestyles are preventing us from getting sick very much, which is in turn created immature immune systems that do not fight cancers properly.

The study cites this as a possible reason for the rise in cancers over the past several decades, and shows examples where giving illnesses to animals that already have cancer have shown a reduction in that cancer after the illness is fought off by the body.

So... Time to get SICK! Who has a cold?? Anyone??

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    This just in: AIDS cures cancer

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] new member
    edited February 2008
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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    i live in filth

    just today i discovered that the butter i had been using was growing mold

    i've had dirty sausage water fermenting in the kitchen for a week


    i am invisible

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    i don't think my life counts as disinfected

    sometimes my tap water is opaque

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    They said the same thing about allergies

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    i think i might have train cancer

    possibly even grain cancer

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Whatever doesn't kill me makes me _______.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    There was a House episode where the life of a cancer patient was prolonged a couple of months when a kid gave her herpes. Sounded plausible then.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I only eat e.coli burgers and raw chicken, so I guess I'll live forever then.

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  • satansfingerssatansfingers Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    The Far Side wrote: »
    satansfingers wrote: »
    i don't think my life counts as disinfected

    sometimes my tap water is opaque
    oh god that is disgusting

    i generally don't drink it when that happens

    generally

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    last night i dropped a cracker on the floor, so i reached down, picked it up, and ate it without thinking twice
    a few minutes later i looked down and saw the cracker that i dropped

    i'm still not quite sure what i ate

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited February 2008
    i thought the 'over-sterile modern living' theory has been around for years?

    i read about a treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases that involves swallowing the eggs of a type of bovine tapeworm that is harmless to humans, but which provokes an immune response in the bowel

    while it's 'busy' with the tapeworm eggs, there are no flareups of the ulcers or anything

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    last night i dropped a cracker on the floor, so i reached down, picked it up, and ate it without thinking twice
    a few minutes later i looked down and saw the cracker that i dropped

    i'm still not quite sure what i ate

    D:

    D:
    D:

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    last night i dropped a cracker on the floor, so i reached down, picked it up, and ate it without thinking twice
    a few minutes later i looked down and saw the cracker that i dropped

    i'm still not quite sure what i ate

    hahahaahahaha

    hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah

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  • misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-lab18feb18,1,162154.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

    Thats the study, by the way.

    And as for the other sickness thread: Didn't notice it, although this one is more about the sickness/cancer relationship and for people to brag about how disgusting they are.

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    i thought the 'over-sterile modern living' theory has been around for years?

    i read about a treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases that involves swallowing the eggs of a type of bovine tapeworm that is harmless to humans, but which provokes an immune response in the bowel

    while it's 'busy' with the tapeworm eggs, there are no flareups of the ulcers or anything
    Tossrock wrote: »
    They said the same thing about allergies

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Hunter wrote: »
    I only eat e.coli burgers and raw chicken, so I guess I'll live forever then.

    That would require a change of course from a strict diet of raw squirrel and deer jerky. I don't think you have it in you.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    LET'S

    LET'S CURE

    LET'S CURE EVERYTHING

    LET'S CURE EVERYTHING WITH

    LET'S CURE EVERYTHING WITH LEECHES

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    last night i dropped a cracker on the floor, so i reached down, picked it up, and ate it without thinking twice
    a few minutes later i looked down and saw the cracker that i dropped

    i'm still not quite sure what i ate

    You are a fucking animal. I hope you enjoyed your crispy spider snack.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    i live in filth

    just today i discovered that the butter i had been using was growing mold

    i've had dirty sausage water fermenting in the kitchen for a week


    i am invisible

    I have never in my life seen moldy butter.

    I did not think that was possible.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    sometimes ill cut myself all over and then run through a hospital naked, hugging and kissing every patient i can find

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Butters wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    I only eat e.coli burgers and raw chicken, so I guess I'll live forever then.

    That would require a change of course from a strict diet of raw squirrel and deer jerky. I don't think you have it in you.

    Cooked squirrel isn't bad. Tastes like rabbit.

    Also, you can't eat deer jerky all the time and not have explosive diarrhea the likes of which no mortal man should experience.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    have leeches on you all the time

    just to be prepared

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  • casper_27dcasper_27d The Friendly Ghost EverywhereRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    satansfingers wrote: »
    i don't think my life counts as disinfected

    sometimes my tap water is opaque

    I feel you on that, we can not even use our tap water to brush our teeth. We have to use bottled water for everything.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Tonkka wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    i live in filth

    just today i discovered that the butter i had been using was growing mold

    i've had dirty sausage water fermenting in the kitchen for a week


    i am invisible

    I have never in my life seen moldy butter.

    I did not think that was possible.

    The mold was probably feeding off of a dead bacterial colony or something.

    Ruckus on
  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Whatever doesn't kill me makes me _______.

    hornier

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    i have a fanny pack full of leeches

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Tonkka wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    i live in filth

    just today i discovered that the butter i had been using was growing mold

    i've had dirty sausage water fermenting in the kitchen for a week


    i am invisible

    I have never in my life seen moldy butter.

    I did not think that was possible.

    The mold was probably feeding off of a dead baby or something.

    <.<

    >.>

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    Ruckus wrote: »
    Whatever doesn't kill me makes me _______.

    hornier

    Hahahaha, that was going to be the statement originally, then I decided it would be funnier if I left it up to everyone's imagination.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    i just realized i wrote invisible rather than invincible

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited February 2008
    leeches can cure homosexuality

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I was wondering about that

    edit: @ potatoe

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    bongi wrote: »
    leeches can cure homosexuality

    Only prayer and donating money to Jerry Falwell can cure homosexuality.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    shoving leeches up my ass

    leeches on my face/breasts

    a leech in each hand

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    what if you never get sick because you already have an immune system?

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    The Far Side wrote: »
    Donatin' to dead people

    Jerry Falwell isn't dead, he's waiting for the raptor jesus to come back and take us to Godland.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited February 2008
    pop a leech in your mouth before you go to bed and let it dissolve slowly

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