It is a useless organ. I can't confirm it, but I've heard the appendix was at one time used to digest raw meat. Since we don't eat raw meat anymore (or we shouldn't anyways), you've basically got an explosive inside of you.
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It is a useless organ. I can't confirm it, but I've heard the appendix was at one time used to digest raw meat. Since we don't eat raw meat anymore (or we shouldn't anyways), you've basically got an explosive inside of you.
Close, but wrong. The appendix is similar to a an organ found in the digestive system of herbivores, used to break down plant matter into digestible nutrients. However, nothing can be said for certain.
The human gut is completely capable of breaking down meat into nutrients. There is, in fact, nothing wrong with properly prepared raw meat. See Steak Tartare, or Sushi. Even something as simple as a steak cooked blue (the step below rare) is pretty raw.
It is a useless organ. I can't confirm it, but I've heard the appendix was at one time used to digest raw meat. Since we don't eat raw meat anymore (or we shouldn't anyways), you've basically got an explosive inside of you.
Close, but wrong. The appendix is similar to a an organ found in the digestive system of herbivores, used to break down plant matter into digestible nutrients. However, nothing can be said for certain.
The human gut is completely capable of breaking down meat into nutrients. There is, in fact, nothing wrong with properly prepared raw meat. See Steak Tartare, or Sushi. Even something as simple as a steak cooked blue (the step below rare) is pretty raw.
Sorry, not used to digest raw meat, but handle the bacteria in raw meat (you know, the kind that is taken directly from a fresh carcass). In either case I'm sure it's still incorrect. But whatever it did or does, it's getting smaller with each generation so we're not using it as much as we used to, if at all.
in 4 months I will actually have time to play video games again.
I don't think I remember what they are like anymore.
I think they have buttons.
That you can press.
Yeah, school + work has done that to me as well.
It isn't as bad as the last month of school, but I'm sure my classes will begin thoroughly raping me again come September
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I had an ingrown toenail that apparently had a staph infection for like, a year.
Just never found time to go to the podiatrist. Its was nice getting that cut out.
I had three of those fuckers, minus the staph infection, and let me tell you. There was nothing nice about getting them cut out. ... Aside from the whole.. not having a toenail growing through my toe anymore.
The hydrocodone did not hurt either. Although it wore off pretty quickly leaving me in paaaaaiin.
in 4 months I will actually have time to play video games again.
I don't think I remember what they are like anymore.
I think they have buttons.
That you can press.
Yeah, school + work has done that to me as well.
It isn't as bad as the last month of school, but I'm sure my classes will begin thoroughly raping me again come September
I'm done in September, after a 3 month 4 class per week gauntlet run in addition to full time+
I had an ingrown toenail that apparently had a staph infection for like, a year.
Just never found time to go to the podiatrist. Its was nice getting that cut out.
I had three of those fuckers, minus the staph infection, and let me tell you. There was nothing nice about getting them cut out. ... Aside from the whole.. not having a toenail growing through my toe anymore.
The hydrocodone did not hurt either. Although it wore off pretty quickly leaving me in paaaaaiin.
Oh, I've had to have both sides of both big toenails cut out because of my x-man like mutant powers of having retarded nails that just love growing DOWN instead of out. One of the 4 operations involved included a 3 week regimen of antibiotics to kill the infection so they could cut out the ingrown nail.
Frankly, the pain during (turns out I've built a tolerance to novicane(sp) 3 injections and an hour later and I can STILL feel her poking at my toe) and after was less than anytime I bumped my toe for the year before I went in for the surgery.
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I had no warning when my appendix failed. Just up & failed in the middle of the night, when I was 16, the Friday before finals week.
Also, all hail wikipedia
Although it was long accepted that the immune tissue, called gut associated lymphoid tissue, surrounding the appendix and elsewhere in the gut carries out a number of important functions, explanations were lacking for the distinctive shape of the appendix and its apparent lack of importance as judged by an absence of side-effects following appendectomy. [11] William Parker, Randy Bollinger, and colleagues at Duke University proposed that the appendix serves as a safe haven for useful bacteria when illness flushes those bacteria from the rest of the intestines.[12] [5] This proposal is based on a new understanding of how the immune system supports the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria [13] [14], in combination with many well-known features of the appendix, including its architecture and its association with copious amounts of immune tissue. Such a function is expected to be useful in a culture lacking modern sanitation and healthcare practice, where diarrhea may be prevalent.[5] Current epidemiological data [15] show that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death in developing countries, indicating that a role of the appendix as an aid in recovering beneficial bacteria following diarrhea may be extremely important in the absence of modern health and sanitation practices.[5]
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I had a friend die of this exact thing, back in school. It err yeah, exploded and the toxins killed him. Last I heard, his dad was sueing the motherfucking pants off of the doctors he consulted while his son was repeatedly sick. Sucky, sucky thing to happen man, glad you're ok.
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Van you are a true man of steel.
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Luckily they got mine out before rupture, because it was failing fast. Failed in the middle of the night and I couldn't even stand the pain was so great. Kept vomiting all over the place and screaming. Couldn't eat or drink for three days after the operation until my digestive system kicked in again.
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Yeah my doctors were nothing but pleasant and took good care of me. Plus, it let me introduce myself as "The Medical Mystery" for awhile. That was fun.
Fire Truck, that's terrible what happened to your sister. They originally hoped to just take mine out by scope, but once they got in and saw my appendix had like melded to my back, they had to open me up. Having staples in my stomach is weird and I do not enjoy it.
Interestingly enough, his sister IS his girlfriend
Luckily they got mine out before rupture, because it was failing fast. Failed in the middle of the night and I couldn't even stand the pain was so great. Kept vomiting all over the place and screaming. Couldn't eat or drink for three days after the operation until my digestive system kicked in again.
Man I guess I was lucky, I never threw up, and after the first 5 or 6 hours I didn't even feel nauseous. My case was acute and it hurt like a motherfucker. My surgery was about 18 hours after I was first in pain.
Fortunately between the intravenouses contrast injection I got during my CT scan (which feels probably like what the Matrix jack-in feels like except in your arm), and the painkillers I wasn't in agony for the last 8 or 9 of those 18 hours.
But fuck not eating, I was chowing down 15 minutes after my discharge.
Yeah my doctors were nothing but pleasant and took good care of me. Plus, it let me introduce myself as "The Medical Mystery" for awhile. That was fun.
Fire Truck, that's terrible what happened to your sister. They originally hoped to just take mine out by scope, but once they got in and saw my appendix had like melded to my back, they had to open me up. Having staples in my stomach is weird and I do not enjoy it.
Interestingly enough, his sister IS his girlfriend
Yeah my doctors were nothing but pleasant and took good care of me. Plus, it let me introduce myself as "The Medical Mystery" for awhile. That was fun.
Fire Truck, that's terrible what happened to your sister. They originally hoped to just take mine out by scope, but once they got in and saw my appendix had like melded to my back, they had to open me up. Having staples in my stomach is weird and I do not enjoy it.
Interestingly enough, his sister IS his girlfriend
I know this for a fact.
If its on the internet, it must be true!
I know both Fire Truck and his girlfriend/sister in the real world life game TM
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edited May 2008
God damnit tofu shut up. Basically it was Firetruck's girlfriend, not his sister that had the horrifying gall-sickness, I was there, I witnessed it, it sucked. Vann just got two different stories confused and thought it was Firetruck's sister that was sick.
So for like the past four or five months I've kept getting dreadfully sick. Doctors couldn't figure out why, nothing seemed to really work. It was like we needed Hugh Laurie to come save me or some shit but that wouldn't work because he's just an actor. A British actor.
But thankfully, we found the problem! Sunday morning around 4 AM I began vomiting uncontrollably. So we go to the emergency room. After a day of dicking around, we find out that my appendix has exploded! No, not ruptured. When the appendix ruptures, it just like gets a hole in it an leaks all it's poisonous shit out. Mine blew up - there were pieces of appendix melded to my spine and all over my abdominal region. Fucker infected the entirety of my gallbladder, too!
Oddly enough, this probably occurred something like two weeks ago. Two weeks! When someone's appendix ruptures, usually they die within like a few hours from the toxins. I lived 2 weeks, motherfucker! How's that feel?
So after having my gallbladder removed as well as the remains of my badass exploding appendix, I'm pretty okay now.
In all honesty I should be dead. But it's pretty cool that I'm not, right?
uhhhh... more like you make the turtle with one hand and then use the other hand to hump the first turtle. The first turtle is not even on its back, so I guess the awkwardness just comes from the surprise buttsex.
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It is a useless organ. I can't confirm it, but I've heard the appendix was at one time used to digest raw meat. Since we don't eat raw meat anymore (or we shouldn't anyways), you've basically got an explosive inside of you.
Close, but wrong. The appendix is similar to a an organ found in the digestive system of herbivores, used to break down plant matter into digestible nutrients. However, nothing can be said for certain.
The human gut is completely capable of breaking down meat into nutrients. There is, in fact, nothing wrong with properly prepared raw meat. See Steak Tartare, or Sushi. Even something as simple as a steak cooked blue (the step below rare) is pretty raw.
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Sorry, not used to digest raw meat, but handle the bacteria in raw meat (you know, the kind that is taken directly from a fresh carcass). In either case I'm sure it's still incorrect. But whatever it did or does, it's getting smaller with each generation so we're not using it as much as we used to, if at all.
You had it for months and then your appendix exploded and they never did the 5 second "does it hurt here" test?
Exploded appendix is supposed to be pretty fatal.
You know what is better than living 5 months with appendicitis?
Living 3 days hooked up to a bag of opiate.
sup.
Just never found time to go to the podiatrist. Its was nice getting that cut out.
heil.
oh you know.
working.
in 4 months I will actually have time to play video games again.
I don't think I remember what they are like anymore.
I think they have buttons.
That you can press.
Yeah, school + work has done that to me as well.
It isn't as bad as the last month of school, but I'm sure my classes will begin thoroughly raping me again come September
I had three of those fuckers, minus the staph infection, and let me tell you. There was nothing nice about getting them cut out. ... Aside from the whole.. not having a toenail growing through my toe anymore.
The hydrocodone did not hurt either. Although it wore off pretty quickly leaving me in paaaaaiin.
I'm done in September, after a 3 month 4 class per week gauntlet run in addition to full time+
It's going to be helllllll.
Oh, I've had to have both sides of both big toenails cut out because of my x-man like mutant powers of having retarded nails that just love growing DOWN instead of out. One of the 4 operations involved included a 3 week regimen of antibiotics to kill the infection so they could cut out the ingrown nail.
Frankly, the pain during (turns out I've built a tolerance to novicane(sp) 3 injections and an hour later and I can STILL feel her poking at my toe) and after was less than anytime I bumped my toe for the year before I went in for the surgery.
Also, all hail wikipedia
Mmmmmmm pancakes for dinner
Interestingly enough, his sister IS his girlfriend
I know this for a fact.
Man I guess I was lucky, I never threw up, and after the first 5 or 6 hours I didn't even feel nauseous. My case was acute and it hurt like a motherfucker. My surgery was about 18 hours after I was first in pain.
Fortunately between the intravenouses contrast injection I got during my CT scan (which feels probably like what the Matrix jack-in feels like except in your arm), and the painkillers I wasn't in agony for the last 8 or 9 of those 18 hours.
But fuck not eating, I was chowing down 15 minutes after my discharge.
If its on the internet, it must be true!
I know both Fire Truck and his girlfriend/sister in the real world life game TM
Tofu I am so mad at you right now, no lube.
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I'm disappointed in you kids
edit: wait since when did you get to be the dad?
This should have gotten more attention
Oh man you should see Awkward turtle has a friend, but it is pretty hard to show somebody over the internet, so you will just have to imagine it.
that sounds awesome
how in the fuck are you still alive?
uhhhh... more like you make the turtle with one hand and then use the other hand to hump the first turtle. The first turtle is not even on its back, so I guess the awkwardness just comes from the surprise buttsex.
That's exactly my Goddamned point
YES, THEY CAN MURDER YOU BUT YOU STILL SOUND LIKE A FAGGOT IF YOU TELL PEOPLE.
if someone told me they got attacked by a horse i'd be no way dude are you okay
Just that it didn't sound particularly impressive.