# Ants Eat Away Woman's Eye... (TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236 "2005-11-16T00:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/21 "2005-11-16T15:36:11Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Maggot therapy is making a comeback along with leaches. This is also taught at military survival schools. I was taught about it in an army school 18 years ago. One nitpick, you don’t just throw maggots on a wound. You have to grow your own. Well! I guess I didn’t read down far enough! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/22 "2005-11-16T15:48:28Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > _Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table: that’s the end._ O! That this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. The rest is silence. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/23 "2005-11-16T20:50:53Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! > > Great googly moogly, **Lord Ashtar** , couldn’t you give us a somewhat vaguer title and a TMI warning? I _really_ didn’t want to know this. > > Eww!! I thought the title of the thread was sufficient warning. Maybe a passing mod wouldn’t mind adding a TMI to the thread title for me? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/24 "2005-11-16T20:55:02Z")
Oh, God, **Lord Ashtar** , I _hate_ you. (Not really. But auuuuuuuugh ants eating away a woman’s _eye_ auuuuuuuuuuugh.) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/25 "2005-11-16T21:12:10Z")
Why do the ants gravitate towards diabetic patients? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/26 "2005-11-16T21:37:21Z")
Reminds me of the great **Un Chien Andalou** , courtesy of [Salvador Dali](http://cours.cegep-st-jerome.qc.ca/530-gjb-p.l/images/Surandalou4.gif) & [Luis Bunuel](http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/directors/05/35/un_chien1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/27 "2005-11-16T21:55:24Z")
> [@Dominic Mulligan](#): > > Why do the ants gravitate towards diabetic patients? Ants like sugar. Diabetics are full of the stuff because they can’t metabolize it so well. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/28 "2005-11-16T23:52:46Z")
> [@Dominic Mulligan](#): > > Why do the ants gravitate towards diabetic patients? To get to the other side. Er… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/29 "2005-11-17T04:03:16Z")
I’m waiting on [Snopes.](http://www.snopes.com/daily/) ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/30 "2005-11-17T17:51:14Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > I thought the title of the thread was sufficient warning. Maybe a passing mod wouldn’t mind adding a TMI to the thread title for me? Done. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-eat-away-womans-eye-tmi/331236/31 "2005-11-17T17:55:12Z")
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