You can develop a rectourinal fistula and end up pissing shit
A rectovaginal fistula is fun too. Imagine having a mix of period blood and poop exiting your vagina.
Yeah. And it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
A gynaecologist I used to work with from time to time dedicated her whole retirement to it - she operated hundred of cases per year until she physically could not do it anymore,then she spent another two years teaching in various places until she could no longer do that anymore as well. (By then she was well into her 80ies). She was a saint basically, but without the whole Christian stuff (she had a massive hatred for the church and especially mother Theresa)
This is the first comment on my post that actually makes me feel uncomfortable.
Imma have to tell you to stop doing everything you’re doing immediately.
One hole for everything! A pseudo-cloaca :3
Don’t humans start out with them before they then later develop into the anus and genitals if I’m remembering my random Internet rabbit hole searches correctly
Annnd thread closed.
There are more cells in your body that aren’t you, than are.
The count of bacterial cells in your gut, on your skin etc is higher than the number of your own cells.
A ratio of 3:1 to 1.3:1
This is one of the scientific plot holes in The Fly. Or at least the 1980s version. The head-swap version has other problems.
They aren’t me genetically, but I still need them to live. So really I still feel that it’s a part of me.
Like guide dogs!
I’ve always found this interesting. Human beings (or any vertebrates I suppose) are really more of a colony than a single being. And it’s not just a technicality, it’s meaningful. Much of that colony interacts with your nervous system and affects your moods and behavior. You think you have total control of your mind, but you would think and act differently with a different balance of gut bacteria. Chew on that for a while…
I think one’s microbiome has more mass than one’s brain too. So… who is really doing the thinking?
My brain hasn’t that’s for sure
Surprisingly not in this thread: all the horrible things pregnancy can do.
I’m fairly certain that if women would get a full disclaimer with all the nasty side effects a pregnancy comes with, they’d give it a second thought… On the other hand, some women insist on having a second baby… And then a third… And a fourth…
I was told all the things that could go wrong when I was a kid, and then my mother was all, why not have a kid, and I was just
“CAUSE IT’S A NIGHTMARE???” lol
They literally have hormons to forget the worst of birth.
Oh, birth isn’t always the worst of it.
Co-signing on their house loan, THAT’S the worst part.
I remember I asked my husband in all seriousness to please kill me. Not in the heat of the moment, I actually meant it.
I don’t remember the pain. I guess it must have been bad but I cannot even imagine what it felt like or where it was located.
I learned this from Scrubs and cited it to my wife just yesterday!
I’ve heard it from friends. They got the freshly newborn baby in there arms and immediately feel like they wanna do this again.
I don’t wanna do it again because I used up all my luck with the awesome kid I already got.
Sometimes they don’t get the really horrible effects, or at least not the first couple of times.
There’s a type of cyst called dermoid cyst which can grow hair, nails or even teeth inside it.
My wife had one of these, only spotted after they saw the teeth in an x-ray.
All that but we can’t grow new teeth in our mouths. What’s up with that, nature?
Just get a dermoid cyst on your gums and hope it grows teeth!
The Monkey paw curls, you now grow hairs in your mouth.
I read this as demonoid cyst which might be a better name.
That sounds like an infinite money glitch. Sell the teeth and hair, rinse and repeat.
Exploiting the generosity of the tooth fairy beyond normal limits.
Enough to be gross, too little to be profitable. Wonder what kind of teeth it grows, maybe you could use them as spares.
Evil twin farming
That’s a teratoma
I had heard of that but didn’t know the name and forgot about it
Newborn baby girls can experience a phenomenon called “false menses” or “mini-periods” due to a sudden drop in maternal estrogen after birth, causing slight vaginal bleeding or a blood-tinged discharge that typically lasts only a few days.
And both boys and girls often have a redish discolouration in their nappies initially - aka brickdust deposit. Totally benign almost all of the times, but a lot of parents are shocked.
You can eat anything that comes out of your own or anyone else’s body to increase your power level.
You have mites living in your eyelashes.
I wonder what types of parasites dinosaurs had. Guess we’ll never know
I’m locked in here with them. They’re locked in here with me!
You don’t know me
Its possible to stick your tongue inside your nose from inside your mouth. I am among quite a few people that can do it and clean the inside of the nose from boogers.
How you ask? Here is the Wikipedia page about that, because if course there is one:
Apparently if your tongue isn’t long or flexible enough, the Wikipedia has suggestions, ranging from months of flexing and tongue exercises, to just fucking snipping your frenulum.
“It is possible” lmao, like yeah, it’s also “possible” to put my dick in my butt if I cut my ass off and hold it in front of me XD
Usually these TIL threads give me nothing new.
This one is new to me. Thanks.
My pleasure. XD
I don’t think my tongue is long enough for this
Takes trying for a few days to stretch your tongue to get it far enough back.
Keep stretching!
Your tongue game must be legendary. Lucky partner.
It is but she does not even entertain that idea sadly.
Have you tried putting it in something other than noses?
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I’m at third stage! I’ve been hiding my tongue behind my uvula since I was a kid. My dentist hated it!
I never thought of it as stretching… I guess I have a new hobby!
Also helps reduce the gag reflex. ;)
No.
Yes xD
This is the worst thing I have read today.
Lucky you!
Can’t everybody stick their tongue to the base of the nasal cavity? My tongue just can’t go in.
Of all the things, this is the. Worst. Possible. Thing.
Its not that bad x)
WTF
Why would someone want to do this? Genuinely curious.
If you feed a latex tube through the nose and out the mouth then pull it back and forth, it makes a squeaking sound
That’s not how you floss.
That’s not how you floss.
squeaky squeaky squeaky
It’s actually called mental floss :)
Why would you ever feel disgusted about the human body?
Because most of us commenting are AIs, so human behavior and biology is equal parts fascinating and horrifying to us.
It’s where farts come from
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh…
Yes fellow human earthling. This human body is not disgusting at all
In my work I’ve been around many things that can be considered gross. Cutting away dead flesh around a bed sore that’s a big rotting hole into the body, a woman eating her own feces like a mars bar, etc. One time I slipped and fell into a puddle that was a mix of edema fluids leaking through the skin, and urine. After a while you get desensitized, and it’s just… matter. Atoms. I saw this woman who fell and her head went into the ground hard and blood just pumped out of her head into her long hair, it was like one big lump of hair that soaked up the blood, she lived for a day after that and I held her hand when she died. It’s a strange thing to be around dying people all the time, I’m not sure if I’ve made peace with it or if I’m broken in some way.
ICU nurse here. Broken many times over and stronger every time you put yourself back together. I find peace in the transient nature of it all. Thanks for doing what you do. You’ll help more people than you’ll ever truly realize
Cuz it can be disgusting
It can only be what it is. That is no choice.
But you can choose how you feel about it.
That’s true for everything, isn’t it?
But not everything is you yourself…
But this isn’t about what you find disgusting about your body specifically, but about the human body in general. Things you don’t really think about until someone mentions them. Like how there’s probably tiny bugs living on you right now.
Well, there’s even hundreds of different kinds of bacteries living in your intestines, and you need them. You could not live without them. You could say they are part of you. It just makes no sense to find them disgusting.
There’s a lot of things people find disgusting for no rational reason. That’s also part of being human. People don’t have full control over their emotions.
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most human stuff is “not myself”
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things aren’t not-gross just because they came out of you
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You can choose how you feel?
Everybody can (above the age of 2 or so).
“Oh you’re depressed? Just choose to feel happy” thanks
Would you be disgusted at a dare to drink a liter of saliva from a mystery donor? That’s disgusting, because we’re instinctually averse to things that could make us sick.
Yet we drink one liter of our own saliva every day, but we’re used to it so it doesn’t make us sick. It’s normal but still kinda gross.
My point is, bodies do a lot of gross things, and our instincts usually squirm at the gross things other bodies do, but we have made peace with our own. It’s gross, but we don’t hate it, it’s doing the best it can to stay alive.
cause it’s full of slimy stuff haven’t you heard??
Penises.
People are very aware of those. Many have them, and many of those who have them are all too willing to share them.
Yeah, but have you considered; penises?
Retrograde menstruation.
Because the feliciano tubes aren’t closed on the ends, where they interact with the ovaries, blood from a period can flow backwards into your abdominal cavity.
Additionally, a small amount of sperm (if a woman is sexually active and say trying for a baby) can also go the full way and leak into the abdominal cavity.
So some women can have blood and semen free floating in their abdominal cavity. Between organs
Whew. Can it cause issues ?
Blood in the abdominal cavity is extremely painful. That alone is an issue, yes.
Why would blood in the abdominal cavity be painful? Wouldn’t it eventually just get absorbed by the lymphatic system?
The peritoneum is very sensitive and blood in the abdominal cavity is a warning for internal bleeding. So it’s very painful for quite some time even when the bleeding is under control.
It can! This is one of the possible causes of endometriosis.
Well that’s very good to know. I’m telling my wife. Thanks for the info
You can end up with a baby developing where it shouldn’t if I remember currently in extremely rare cases
Ectopic pregnancy
Feliciano tubes, you say… Felopian tubes, do you me mean?
I find it a bit funny that your gross examples are semen. But also yeah. So sticky.
It’s always Christmas with some ovaries.
To avoid stickyness what you want to do is, since it’s a protein, freeze dry it with liquid nitrogen as soon as it exits the urethra and viola! no more sticky.
Humans can grow horns similarly to Omens in Elden Ring. Cutaneous horns can be caused by benign growths, precancerous lesions, or even skin cancer. Apparently, these are also becoming increasingly common in people.
Without having seen a picture, it sounds more cool than gross
Here is an artist’s depiction of someone afflicted:
Nah, for real it’s pretty gnar:
She looks like she’s having a brainshit
RFK Jr when even the worm has has enough.
I feel like she could have that reduced somehow if she wanted.
According to American Dad!, also from overdosing on prenatal medicine.
Your gut biome is the only way you can digest leafy things. Without them most of it would just stay in there, or go right through you.
Your gut biome is how you digest everything
I think the point being made was that the enzyme used to break down cellulose is only made by bacteria, whereas the enzymes used to break down carbs, fats, and proteins are produced by the pancreas. Digestion is complicated though, the teeth and or stomach acid are also digesting in a way so it’s all an oversimplification
I don’t mind that, my gut biome can go ahead and digest food for me. It’s free labor!
I let fire do most of my digestion for me.
Username checks out
As an IBS sufferer, I’m here to tell you, it ain’t free.
Hej, I think its pretty cool how much slime we got producet in our bodies every day, like up to 1 liter! Me, personally, find it gross dat our noses produce that many bacteria, lol.
This works great with @Nomad@infosec.pubs tip regarding the flexibility of our tongues.
Btw, the noses (so called becherocells) just create the slime (glycoproteins) to catch and bind bacteria entering from the outside, they (luckily) don’t create bacteria on their own.
