I don’t have anything GQ-ish to add, but I’m just popping in to say that, despite the disturbing content, this thread is a perfect example of why I am a member of this message board.
Not just a yeti-esque guy - a friend of a friend was attending a function at Government house many years ago and reported back to us: “One of the Ambassadors had genital lice in his eyebrows - but the champagne was great!”
Diplomatic immunity only goes so far 
Si
Oh, now I wonder what his diplomatic bag was (or who… )
Litoris, that was great. (My one complaint is that I’m always technically challnged with stories about people represented by single letters.)
Let me try one. I told this story a little while back and was saddened because it killed the thread. I’ll try to spread my TMI-ing ability a little better with this crowd.
I beleive it’s impossible to horrify a real laboratorian. I always felt sorry for whatever poor marketing major, or engineer that had to sit at the table next to ours back in the cafe when I was still in school. The horrors we would discuss. If it wasn’t the odd stuff from clinical chemistry, then it was the downright disgusting, like our 5 weeks spent in parasitology.
One day our professor told us about ptomaine poisoning, which is an outdated term for a type of food borne illness. Basically it’s seen in areas of great poverty, because to get it goes way beyond just eating food past the expiration date, or a mayo sandwich left in the sun. Ptomaines were supposed to be a group of chemical substances like putrescine and cadaverine (as pleasant as their name sounds) that were formed by the rotting process of old food. We’re talking the garbage waste of old food, weeks old, at the bottom of the dumpster.
Basically, if you somehow injested this stuff, you were in bad shape afterwards.
Well, in our class, Paul put some thoughts together at lunch after learning about this. One type of bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, is the main cause of bacterial vaginitis. Bad enough infections of G. vaginalis can lead to protein proteolysis, producing chemicals like putrescine in the genital area. This causes the foul smell.
Well, putting two and two together at lunch one day, Paul surmised that this meant that you could get food poisoning from “eating too much bad pussy.”
Thank you, goodnight.
I had a friend in college who had crabs once. In fact, he was so thoroughly infested with them at one point that as we were talking one day, he took off his watch for some reason, and there was a little crab-louse crawling around on his wrist, where his watch had been. (Yes, he was a rather hairy fellow.)
Now that is a friend.
Funny enough, I always wondered if people who are allergic to yeast would have a reaction if their girlfriend had a yeast infection during relations. So, I admit I think waaaaaaay too much about the gross.
chorpler – did I mention this friend was HAWT? Yeh, guys love hearing the story, just because of the thought of a blonde and a redhead digging through another blonde’s pubes. I have to say I don’t know that I was ever close enough with any other girls to ever agree to something like that. :eek:
Heh heh … unfortunately, the story is somewhat lessened in hotness by the fact that she had AN EVIL PUBIC VISITOR FROM THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT!!! But we’ll try not to focus on that.
So what did you guys do with the one louse that you found? I’ve always wondered what people do if they see them. Did you grab it up and squish it, or what?
S and I screamed, pointed at it and watched T grab it and squish it, then we flushed it down the toilet.
Yeah, I guess that’s what most people would do if there was a bug on them, too … certainly I would. Bleah.
I guess that means that the distinctive crab-like shape of pubic lice is somehow excellent for traversing pubic hair, then?