I am itching all over after reading this one:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/meyebrowmites.html
And only “essentially invisible” to the naked eye? That means with good light, and peering closely, one can probably see them, much like those tiny white specks that crawl around Stilton cheese.
And now I feel horrifically compelled to go and do a Google search on “skin mites” and spend the rest of the evening dousing myself in bleach.
Also, there’s several billion e. coli in your intestines. Better get rid of them quick, because it’s not healthy to have foreign organisms anywhere near you.
Seriously, they’re there to help. They don’t know it, but the skin mites cleanup your outsides and the bacteria clean up your insides.
I heard somewhere that in the human body, there are more non-human cells than human cells. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but the thought that my skin is crawling with little critters is enough to make my skin crawl.
E-coli I can deal with.
Arachnids in my pores I cannot.
Thanks to Cecil I will never sleep again, and once the supermarkets open tomorrow I will be removing my entire skin with wire wool.
You do realize that the column you linked to was not written by Cecil, but instead by a member of the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board? As such, perhaps this thread should by moved to Comments on Staff Reports.
how about pinworms that send their young on a joyride through your body? starting from your anus, pass your mouth and eventually back to their parents in the colon? - from a recent thread.
“they mostly come at night. mostly.”
Ooops. I was so horror struck I didn’t notice!
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Why did you have to go and do that?
If you think Stilton mites are gross, check out Casu Marzu:
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There’s that wonderful stuff my brother likes to eat, it’s sold in Stop and Shops, “Fat-Free Pasteurized Cheese Product”. BwaH! American bastardized cheese!