TIL: Today I Learned

[The_J]

Attention, this needs some clarification.
There are 2 types of herpes, the mouth one and the genital one. And the mouth herpes is the one which 90% of all people have, whereas the incidence rate for the genital one is a lot lower.
Both are pretty harmless though. Not having mouth Herpes is like having never had a cold, or something. Everyone gets it, just that Herpes stays with you.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I heard the figure 80 % about mouth herpes.

I didn't think I had it but I might have since I've had this mouth wound for like 2 bloody years

 

[Snerk]

Mouth wound? Did you get stabbed in the face Lohr!?

I'm deffo a carrier. And it manifests itself as a cold-sore once every other year or so.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You know what's way more painful than cold sores? Canker sores. OMG so much pain.

 

[Farm Boy]

pretty similar numbers for HPV.

I refuse to consider myself weird, though. At least not for this. There's plenty of other stuff to own up to for that.

 

[Snerk]

You know what's way more painful than cold sores? Canker sores. OMG so much pain.

Got me one of those on my tongue a year ago or so. And yeah it was rather painful. Went to a pharmacy and got this acidic fluid that you applied to it with a q-tip. Stung like an inferno when I applied it but after a minute or so it got better. I tell you, I've never experienced a more effective treatment of a painful health issue in my life. Will be the first thing I do if I ever get it again.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I had one on the inside of my lip. I thought it was a cold sore because I've never had one but I've been exposed plenty of times. But the cold sore medicine hurt like hell and didn't make it better so I went to a dentist and he told me it was a canker sore. He didn't give me any medicine for it though. It was like an open hole straight into the flesh of my lip. Oh man that was incredibly painful. Just thinking about it makes my lip hurt.

 

[Farm Boy]

If you don't get medicine for it you can make a canker sore go away in a couple treatments of alum powder. Get some on the tip of a moist(not wet) Q-tip or your finger and put it into the sore. Hurts like a ***** but let it sit for a minute or two before you let your saliva re-wet the area. Repeat as or if necessary.

 

[Hygro]

I refuse to consider myself weird, though. At least not for this. There's plenty of other stuff to own up to for that.

Is that your nya nya I dont have HPV post?

 

[shadowplay]

But do they link up to form Albert Einstein?

They don't have to - Al Brooks' real name is actually Albert Einstein.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Is that your nya nya I dont have HPV post?

I thought it was his nya nya I don't have herpes post.

Mine came after his though actually I assume I do have it I just haven't had any outbreaks ever.

 

[Hygro]

Yeah I assume I've got both simply by virtue of age and statistics. No sign of it.

 

[Farm Boy]

No, simply that I don't go out of my way to call people weird for a common disease, because they aren't, and neither am I. So shmeh on the people who are "normies" or whatever.

 

[Tigranes]

TIL that...


President Abraham Lincoln politely rejected an offer of elephants from the King of Siam. Just imagine them at Shiloh!

 

[madviking]

"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"

 

[Borachio]

Sounds painful. Even if put the end with the stem in first, the colon just can't accommodate the girth of a whole broccoli.

Ah. But cauliflower ear, now...

 

[Arakhor]

Apparently, macaques will pass up their favourite cherry juice if they get to look at pictures of high-status female macaques. This does not apply, it seems, if the females are of low status.

#QIfacts

 

[Ajidica]

Apparently, macaques will pass up their favourite cherry juice if they get to look at pictures of high-status female macaques. This does not apply, it seems, if the females are of low status.

#QIfacts

Considering that we have accidentally introduced the concept of prostitution to monkeys, I'm not surprised.

Link to video.

 

[Tigranes]

"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"

Did you read that quote while playing Empire: Total War?

 

[Arakhor]

They mentioned the prostitution story on QI as well.