Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is apparently based on a true story.
Baldur’s Gate sounds like it’s based on Australia tbf
I just got to the scary shadow place, and TBH I cant tell the difference
“Faerun” I’m pretty sure is just a province in australia
Even Mind Flayers are afraid of living in Australia
Apparently she’s yet to undergo ceremorphosis so I wonder what sort of powers she’s getting.
Ophidascaris robertsi is a roundworm usually found in pythons. The Canberra hospital patient marks the world-first case of the parasite being found in humans.
The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens.
Moral of the story: make sure you wash all the snake shit off your produce and hands before eating.
You don’t have to eat a round worm for it to get all up in you. They can enter through the skin on your hands and feet. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000630.htm
Gtfo with your nightmare fuel!
It could be worse. It could have been one of those worms that reproduce and then leave their hosts.
Or it could be that worm that enters through your anus
Or the worms that live in your eyeballs.
Well frankly that’s on you for going outside.
If this is the first case when is it the first case of that zombie fungus from the last of us
Why is she eating grass? Grass doesn’t have any nutritional value for humans.
That’s not true, 70% of all human crops are grasses. “Grass” is much more than just the typical American lawn.
Various grasses can be used as spices or herbs, like lemongrass, and the “warigal greens” mentioned are a type of spinach.
Maybe this is a cultural difference. In the USA we don’t call any produce “grass”, other than things like lemon grass, which gets called by its full name. No one would say “grass” when referring to spinach. Actual grass, like lawn grass, or plains grass, doesn’t really have much nutritional value to us because our stomachs can’t break it down enough.
Just because we don’t call it grass doesn’t mean things aren’t grass.
Pretty much all the grains we eat are grass seeds.
Crabgrass, Rice, Wheatgrass, Sorghum, Wheat, Bluegrass, Cat Grass, Brome, Rye, Goosegrass, Timothy grass.
All edible grass.
I find it amusing you used the term “actual grass” then tried to explain it to them as if they were somehow mistaken because of cultural differences.
No, sweetie, you’re just ignorant.
Only of scientific terms. Technically, these are cereal grasses, while lawn grass is not the same thing. But yeah, saying “it’s cultural” doesn’t look good.
Thanks for curing me of my ignorance. I’ll remember to say “I’d like a steaming hot bowl of grass” next time I order rice at a restaurant. You’re the best!
I know this is getting downvoted but holy fuck I’m laughing
I don’t understand why youre being down voted, it’s like saying “oh yeah, love me some tomatoes in my fruit salad”. Like sure, tomatoes are fruits, but you’re not going to receive one if you ever like order “fruit”.
And we also use grass to refer to marijuana, which is also not a grass.
Right? The conversation is easily solved with “she was eating salad greens, not actual grass”. Pendants enjoying their pedantry.
Eh it depends on context. Lawn grass is one thing but wheat is a grass, palm “trees” are a grass. All kinds of things are grasses
I mean, it’s maybe cultural to a degree, it’s an Australian article and I’m American, but like, it’s still grass. “Actual” isn’t a scientific or technical term.
And for all we know, she was picking lemongrass in addition to the greens.
Nah it is commonly used to describe plants in the Poaceae family which includes grains, rice, bamboo, sugar cane and lots of others.
Spinach is not in that family.
People in Australia always say that everyone overstated its dangers.
But I think Australians just want us to visit and store more of their mindworms.
Could have been the mind worms all along, “No it’s perfectly safe. Please bring your delicious brains to our land”
It’s too bad that the brain doesn’t have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling through your thoughts.
Maybe it’d even tickle :3A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she “has worms in my brain.” Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual’s claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.
My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.
I’d heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I’m not going to believe that’s accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.
People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing very real physical symptoms.
Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he’s got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.
I remember that! I’m pretty sure that was an episode of House.
Yeah, that was definitely House, I remember the scene where he shown the flashlight into the poor kid’s eye and you see the worms swimming inside the boy’s (fortunately intact) eyeball and ewwwwww… That said, both in-story and IRL it’s easily treatable, with special antibiotics iirc.
Monsters Inside Me is aptly chosen as titles go, a docuseries named like a horror novel because botflies, hookworms and, yes, actual brain-eating amoebas and bacteria, are fucking terrifying.
Oh god you just unlocked ptsd I didn’t even know I had
I hate you 😵💫
“I ate you”
Damn this a bad memory
Chomp :)
Hey thanks buddy have some thought juice to go along with that
Therapy-worm just munching away on all your trauma.
I, for one, welcome our parasitic overlords!
I felt that just by reading it, thank you very much.
Then they’d have to use anesthesia when doing brain surgery
Fuck’s sake. I always thought brain worms was one of my irrational fears.
I love this bit, best news article in ages
That poor patient, she was so courageous and wonderful,” Senanayake said. “You don’t want to be the first patient in the world with a roundworm found in pythons and we really take our hats off to her. She’s been wonderful.
Lmao what were they trying to say?
The worm ate the aggression right out of her?
That’s what the worms want you to think
Well there is brain eating amoeba as well, which is why I’m now afraid of swimming in random bodies of water
"The patient resides near a lake area inhabited by carpet pythons. Despite no direct snake contact, she often collected native grasses, including warrigal greens, from around the lake to use in cooking, Senanayake said.
The doctors and scientists involved in her case hypothesise that a python may have shed the parasite via its faeces into the grass. They believe the patient was probably infected with the parasite directly from touching the native grass or after eating the greens."
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Takes “touch grass” to a new level
Worm Level ~
Excuse me while I boil my food for a half hour.
Never change Australia. Unless you want to become more deadly.
You probably didn’t intend it but ‘deadly’ is also a word used in the Aboriginal community to mean something is good or awesome.
So this works on two levels.
Time for some tetris?
I’ll be playing snake
Is that a genuine response or is it because the roundworm found is specifically found among snakes?
Yes.
Soo, I’m technically correct?
And she hasn’t transformed into a mindflayer? She should harness her Illithid powers. The Absolute’s clearly chosen her as a True Soul.
I’ve never been to Australia, and yet this explains so much about me.
so, can we make this a “in world-last discovery”?
of course it was Australia
Lol, if this was in America the lady would have been charged a billion dollars!
Brain worms are a preexisting condition not covered by insurance.
No, her insurance would have covered $280.
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The world is burning, I got worms in my brains
I guess Ashnikko wasn’t being metaphorical with that line in Worms.
