HailToTheDeacons
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Where is this idea that Wellman is retiring in a year coming from?
Certainly not from any of the resident 'Super Users'.
Where is this idea that Wellman is retiring in a year coming from?
Where is this idea that Wellman is retiring in a year coming from?
Just read a tweet:
"The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl."
WHOA.
What up Chat Thread?
The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl."
Going with mass shooting as a talent? That’s bold. But definitely American.
rj called and wants his jokes back
Slate is a clearinghouse for out-of-touch millennial bullshit
But after swallowing the slug, Ballard contracted a rat lungworm — a parasitic worm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) that lives in rodents and can be passed onto snails and slugs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those gastropods can then transmit the worm to humans.
In an unusual and tragic turn, the parasite infested Ballard’s brain — putting him into a coma for 420 days and leaving him paralyzed, according to News.com.au.
“It’s devastated, changed his life forever, changed my life forever,” his mother told 7 News Sydney in 2011. “It’s huge. The impact is huge.”
Ballard, whose mother said he once seemed “invincible,” is now a 28-year-old quadriplegic. He suffers from seizures, eats and breathes through tubes, and requires constant care, which the family is struggling to pay for, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The parasitic worm Angiostrongylus cantonensis lives in rodents’ lungs.
As the CDC explained in a video, the rodent — typically a rat — coughs up the worms and then swallows them, forcing them into the animal’s stomach. Eventually, the rat excretes the worms.
Snails or slugs can become infected by eating the rat’s feces, according to the CDC, and people can become infected by eating the snails or slugs.
Slate is a clearinghouse for out-of-touch millennial bullshit