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shish_mish@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery

arstechnica.com

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Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man's groin during elective surgery

arstechnica.com

shish_mish@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Oddly, it wasn't the first time this had happened to the man.
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    It was still alive, and slithered and squirmed on the surgical table.

    Great.

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      Google how do I delete someone else’s account

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        If it’s Instagram you can ask their AI to do it for you.

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        *how to delete my eyes

      • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world
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        Use a better search like Bing or duckduckgo. googol sucks and was never any good.

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    This is the second worm found in this guy…

    For unexplained reasons, the [first] worm was not identified, and he was not treated with anti-parasitic drugs after the discovery.

    I’m trying to imagine pulling a parasite out of a guy and not even wondering what kind it is.

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      Who’s your worm guy?

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    Imagine shooting a load and it crawls back up your dick for some reason.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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        comic featuring one really big sperm

      • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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        What the fuck is wrong with you.

      • zorblitz@programming.dev
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        https://youtu.be/gtPxuC60GU4

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        You saw this and decided to share it.

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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        It would probably be as scary to be a girl having her first sex.

        • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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          Or ever. Unprotected sex meaning you have to fish out the little bugger, though it’d make avoiding unwanted pregnancy easier. You’d just need a little net, maybe a bait trap.

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        I recognise that name

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
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      No

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        :(

      • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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        LMAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Why not?

    • dolphin @lemmy.world
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      How does it crawl back after i swallow

      • huppakee@lemmy.world
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        Just watch baby

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    “Hey babe, I got ten inches in my pants…”

    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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      “Probably not the type that you’d like tho.”

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    The man’s only recollection of a possible exposure was eating raw snake meat during military service 50 years prior.

    Based

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      Oh, thank god the snake meat I ate during military service 50 years ago was cooked! 🥴

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      Oh, it’s just baby snakes

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      Hooray for hazing.

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        It’s not hazing. I’ll bet it was during the Cobra Gold exercise, during which Thailand hosts various militaries including the US Marines. Part of the training traded is survival skills specific to the jungle environments Thailand provides, which includes eating of animals, dead or alive. Spiders, scorpions, snakes… one of the traditional hallmarks being the drinking of cobra blood as an alternative to being able to find clean water.

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    I’m sure the worm was equally surprised to find the doctors

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      Oh, I’m glad I found you, doc, please fix this cat I’ve been living in, it’s layout is all wrong, I think he’s very sick! Please save him, he’s very important to me!

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    Humans aren’t a definitive host for the worms, and they become destined to aimlessly wander through our meat sacks.

    What a way with words!

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      What are they surviving on? It ain’t like I got a pantry of snacks hidden in my groin.

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        tapeworms have no digestive system, so they absorb nutrients through thier integument, probably just living off of the body fluids. this is how intestinal tapeworms absorb food too.

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        You should try it. Makes first dates really interesting.

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        Good point, I didn’t think about that. I get how they survive in the intestines but in the crotchal region what are they nibbling on?

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          tapeworms being parasitic have no digestive system, they absorb nutrients through thier cuticles.

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    Fuck this so much

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    Well when I had elective surgery they found a live anaconda in my groin

    ….

    I’ll show myself out…

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      Was it dead?

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        Rigor mortis, stiff as a board

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        Hard to tell.

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          I’ve got a bone to pick with that comment

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            Erection.

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    In worm lore they’re piloting this dude like an eva and their bravest keep getting taken by malevolent gods

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      You must be watching the (very) wrong version of Ratatouille.

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        Yeah it’s better in the original Korean

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          The what now?

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            Korean Ratatouille is a KDrama that involves the mystery of “Who left this giant green and purple turd on the table?”

            (if you know what KDrama that’s actually from I’ve been wondering for years)

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    Quote: “Adding to the oddity, the man told the surgeons that this had actually happened to him before…”

    Sounds like he drinks unboiled lake/river water. Gross.

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      Possibly. The article just mentions he ate a raw snake

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    Nope. Nope nope nope.

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    Lifespan was 20-30 years. Least it could have done was pick up a case of beer.

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    Lovely. Encountered this post while eating and as I’m about to be full.

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      Let me guess, spaghetti?

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        Nan’s old world recipe for groin worm marsala

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    Good thing he got to worm his way out of this dilemma.

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      I can’t tell if I’m more upset by the article or the fact that I laughed at this

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