Total Pageviews

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

THE MAN

Aka Anthony Mudine, the once rugby league star turned successful boxer. His stellar carreer is facing ruin because he has got an eye infection that has the risk of permanently damaging his sight. Nightmare. Love him or hate him (and a lot do) I wouldn't wish this on anyone - the loss of sight.

But the funny thing is (funny peculiar not funny haha) that the reason for the infection was because Mr Mudine cleaned a contact lens by putting it in his mouth, then inserting it into his eye. Let's not even consider where his mouth might have been hoho. Do not mess with your eyes and be very careful what your bring in contact with them. Cleanin it with your mouth indeed.

DOH! Anthony.

7 comments:

morgetron said...

I was at the zoo last week. I was waiting outside the aquarium with my daughters, while they snacked on apples, as the rest of the zoo world porked down hot dogs, ice cream cones, and 50 gallon vats of Coke. I saw a mom feeding herself (mostly) and her baby (like 1 or so) Cheetos. The baby would gum a Cheeto for a while, then put a pacifier into her mouth. Then the baby dropped the pacifier on the zoo concrete in the nasty ol' snacking area. The mom picked it up, put it into her own mouth and popped it right back into baby's mouth as though her own saliva was a disinfectant. EGAD!

mutters said...

That ye shouldn't have been at a zoo in the first place, Morgy, we'll leave for another time...

Was the mother fat? The baby? Obesity is rife in the ole US - Australia, apparently, is fast catching up.

But to your main point about the dropped pacifier (hoho - pacifier - you crazy Americans)...in the advent of any other method of disinfection, the mother's saliva may well be the next best thing actually.

And it raises the issue of over-protection of the human body. Normal, traditional antibodies that are encouraged by contact with germs, because of this desire for an almost hospital-grade cleanliness, are becoming lacking in people today. This creates problems of its own - documented ones - from "experts" all over (including MY expert who gets pulled out for corroboration of all my claims).

morgetron said...

Hey, I know what you're probably thinking regarding the zoo. I probably even agree with you, mostly.

People have done a pretty effective job of harming almost every type of living creature on Earth, including themselves and all other animals, not to mention the land itself.

The zoo in Omaha has done some amazing things in preserving endangered species. They, as an entity, are trying to fix some things that others have effectively destroyed or are in the process of destroying.

This is not a "shove a tiger in a tiny cage" type of zoo. It is one of the world's finest exceptions to the stereotypical zoo. A trip to this zoo is a learning experience every time. Is it as good as the wild? No. But, it is for the greater good of their species.

Check it out: http://www.omahazoo.com/.

Now I do also agree very much with you regarding our oversterilization of the world. I believe my family is much healthier, now that we've stopped using bleach, and other harmful chemicals, but you still won't find me sticking my mouth on something that's rolled around in pigeon poop, people ick, and rotten ice cream. Hell no!

You don't mean to say that Australians/the British do not use pacifiers? Are you serious? Wow. You *are* superior. LOL. So you know ... not everyone here in America does either. (I did with my first because it was forced upon my by nurses in the hospital and I was a mere 18-year-old and didn't know my head from my ass at the time, but not with my second.)

And YES, the mother was obese. I won't say that the baby was because I don't know. She was plump, but I think it's all right if babies are, but they should be plump on healthy whole foods -- not Cheetos.

I'd love to hear from YOUR expert. (Is your expert YOU?)

:)

mutters said...

Well, an 'open' zoo is a different thing I'd suppose. I referred to the traditional cages that constitute the average zoo.
(Don't EVEN get me started on birds in cages...!)

Speaking of endangered species - the river dolphin indigeonous to a certain river in china (really should google more...) has been proclaimed by the scientists who have been working on the numbers for the past two years, extinct. Woo-hoo! GOOD for us...I'm soooo proud. Okay - NEXT! What's on the edge of extinction already? What won't cost much to wipe out. Hey look, if we all make a concerted effort we could knock over quite a lot in short order. Who's with me? Think of the money we could make? C'monnnnn, they're only dolphins/whales/birds...

The open zoo is fine I suppose and it's commendable of those who have benign reasons for being involved in such but it must be remembered that a zoo, as in everything, disturbingly, is first and foremost, a business and as such is driven by profits. Don't tell me those profits are returned to the zoo.
Will there come a time, Morgy, in the next decades, where the only place our descendants will be able to view the natural world, will be in a synthetic setting? Will the natural world become...compartmentalized. A modern day Noah's Ark? Keep one of each safely sequestered from the world while we exploit it to the nth degree?

Anyway, I suppose such open zoos are the best we can hope for. (Lucky we have South Africa).


Do you know it rolled in pigeon poop, people ick and rotten ice cream? For a fact? Maybe it just hit the concrete - a 'clean' bit? (Clean being relative, of course).
As 'eeooow', I think it is, as it maybe to the average person, as I've said, in the absence of an alternative, the mother's saliva probably is the next best thing with it's genetically connected natural anitbodies etc.

Which segues me smoothly into the next point - concerning the sanitizing of life in general. Hospital grade, I mentioned. Ironically the chances of one dying have increased in hospitals of late with the various diseases that float around the average hospital. So to aspire to such cleanliness is a bit strange and actually sees us becoming so obsessed with protecting ourselves from infection that we are now actually making things worse.


Hahaha, Morgy, you missed my point. It wasn't a go at you crazy Yanks using pacifiers (which is very succint actually in the items job description), it was a go at you calling them pacifiers as opposed to dummies. I don't mean to offend - it's just...just for the hell of it, it would seem is the only motivation. Hoho, I say again - you crazy Americans.

Phew, have to go write some more. Thanks for calling, Morgy, I o enjoy our sparring.

morgetron said...

Actually most people call them "binkies". Hahaha.

-J

mutters said...

Dummy is short for dummy tit, which is rather crude actually - wonder is it maybe teat rather than the other. Mind you, those particular...bits aren't called teats so...

Anyway, look, I 'm gettin off the point - fact is they are known as dummies in other places.

What's binky short for if anything or to what does the word refer?

morgetron said...

Honestly -- no idea. I think people just think it's "cute." I think it may be a regional term. I don't know if it's used nationwide. I just know that most folks in the area where I live use it.

My cousin called it a "nookie," but Limp Bizkit ruined that for the family.

-J