Tell me something, that if I know, I would be up nights worrying about it

[LynneSin]

You know - stuff about how many bug eggs can be found in my cereal or how killer bees with lazer rays attached to them are going to kill me in about 5 years.

I love that sort of stuff!

[XemaSab]

1. Here!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x45220

[billyskank]

63. You must have heard about the supervolcano

under Yellowstone national park, that is due to go off any day now and, when it does, will obliterate much of the United States and make the rest uninhabitable and will probably kill billions of people by blotting out the sun's rays? Still, should sort global warming out, I suppose.

:hi:

[XemaSab]

75. It's #1 on my top 10 list of natural disasters!

:bounce:

[billyskank]

77. What's the other nine?

I love disasters. ;)

[XemaSab]

78. Let me try to remember...

(in no order)

Reactivation of the western flood basalts

Antarctic ice sheet breaking in half and sliding into the ocean

Something involving Mt Shasta and/or Shasta Dam destroying Northern California

Megathrust earthquake on the Cascadian Subduction zone followed by a tsunami

Meteor hitting the earth

Gulf Stream shutting down leading to a new ice age

(I'm spacing on the other three :( )

[billyskank]

79. Megathrust earthquake on the Cascadian Subduction zone

Sounds like a film by Russ Meyer. :D

[XemaSab]

82. Oh geez

The Cascadian subduction zone is a fault that runs from Northern California up to British Columbia, and occasionally the whole thing moves producing bigger earthquakes than we've ever seen. We're talking 10+. We're talking 60+ feet of displacement. We're talking about a 1000 mile surface rupture, and the destruction of Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and all the other cities big and small.

Good times. :D

[billyskank]

83. But that won't matter when the 10km meteorite hits, right?

:D

[XemaSab]

84. It's all good...

:D

[Richardo]

2. All the dead skin cells you slough off in a year would fill a 5-gal bucket

I have no idea if this is true!

[khashka]

9. Well, dust is primarily human skin cells

Which is why every Sunday night I cover myself in glue and roll around on the carpet.


(OK I stold that from Dawn French)

Khash.

(P.S. That is the cutest darn puppy! Is it yours, Richardo?)

[Richardo]

53. No, just my virtual DU beagle...

...I do have 5 real-life pups, tho. :)

[ucmike]

3. killer bees with lazer rays......

2-3 years....tops.

5 years is a fool's dream.

[Hugin]

4. The number of mites in your bed exceed the number of people in the world.

... Maybe ...

[flvegan]

5. Some red food coloring is made from beetles.

Female beetles (not Beatles, nor VW Beetles). Bugs. Pretty common, too.

[Catchawave]

6. The Dems lose again in '06

That keeps ME up at night :silly:

[Bucky]

26. Frankly, it just don't bother me any more.

I am convinced that we the people stopped the PNAC's "four wars in six years" program by taking to the streets and raising holy hell about the two wars they did (altho frankly I supported the Afghan invasion). Democracy ain't only about elections. It's about owning the government. No, not pw3ning the government... exercising our god-given control over its actions.

Petitioning for redress of grievances (if I may coin a phrase) is the soul of democracy, not voting. Hell, they vote in China. If the Democrats blow this one--and you're right, they just might--we can still kick up the dust and stop the worst of their schemes. We tear out our hair over Bush's big brotherism, but frankly things are a LOT better off than they would be if liberals didnt' make a stink.

[khashka]

7. I got dozens of 'em!

Never eat canned vegetables. US food standards allow a rather surprising number of rat droppings and insect parts in them. But the worst standards are for chocolate syrup.....

The genocide in Darfur is only getting worse. And moving into Chad. I recently read an account of soldiers in Darfur tearing infants out of their mothers' arms and throwing the live babies on bonfires. No link, because there are certain things you do NOT want in your head. Just knowing it is happening is enough - you don't want details. And the international community is doing sod all.

Britain and the US are major manufacturers and distributors of torture equipment. In violation of their own laws and international treaties. The governments of both countries turn a blind eye to this death trade. No, not exactly true... they actually facilitate it. So next time you read an Amnesty International report describing torture in a Third World country - and you want to cry and puke at the same time - remember your tax dollars helped pay for it.....

Now try to get a good night's sleep.....


Khash.

[Ravenseye]

8. There's a lunatic standing right behind you

RIGHT NOW HE'S GOT A KNIFE FOR GOD SAKES TURN AROUND!

TURN AROUND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!

DUCK!!!!!!!

[Debi]

10. Bigfoot is real and watches you through your bedroom window at night n/t

[Hugin]

11. Darn, no sleeping for me tonight...

THANKS DEBI!

Cripes!

:scared:

[Debi]

13. Don't you remember those 1970's movies where a girl is sitting

by the window (and there's a lamp on the end table) and she hears a sound so she peaks out the curtains and sees nothing. She turns back toward the room and BIGFOOT breaks the window and tries to reach her but grabs the lamp instead. And she's screaming and freaking out :wow:

Yeah, that's what keeps me up at night!!!

[Hugin]

14. I can't say I do...

Good LORD! Maybe it's because it really did happen to you!

A suppressed memory?

Have you considered counseling?

[Debi]

55. No, I just drink until the feeling goes away

:toast: Join me?

[KatyMan]

67. Bizarrely..

I seem to remember that as some kind of TV commercial or something? Isn't she watching the news? I remember that from the early 70s when I was wee, and I was terrified of Bigfoot for years. It didn't matter that we lived in suburban Philly at the time :D

[Debi]

72. I grew up in Montana where the woods were all around us

Bigfoot was a real scare every night. Now I live in Iowa and close to the woods, not so scared of Bigfoot anymore, I don't think he likes pork :shrug:

[hyphenate]

74. Thank God I'm on the second floor!!!! eom

[Debi]

76. Bigfoot is tall and can jump very high n/t

[rug]

12. There's meat in marshmallows.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

32. You gotta 'splain this one, Lucy!

[LeftyMom]

37. Gelatin

Gelatin (US spelling) or gelatine (British spelling) (used to make Jell-o and other desserts) is made from the boiled bones, skins and tendons of animals.

http://www.ivu.org/faq/gelatine.html

How are Marshmallows Made?

In the 19th century, marshmallows were made by mixing mallow root sap, egg whites and sugar into a fluffy mold. The French added cornstarch to help speed up the production and give the candy its unforgettable form.

Today the manufacturing of marshmallows is quite different. Mallow root sap has been replaced by gelatin. Corn syrup, starch, sugar and water are mixed with the gelatin. The fluffy mixture is piped through long tubes and then cut into equal pieces. To create shaped marshmallows like Peeps, a special nozzle moves back and forth to cut the marshmallow into recognizable shapes.

http://www.candyusa.org/Candy/marshmallows.asp

[MaggieSwanson]

15. The average person eats

8 spiders a year while they are sleeping.

Also: there is a spider within 3 feet of you at any given moment.

[LynneSin]

28. spiders do not phase me a bit

bring em on!

[kay1864]

54. Snopes says...

the 8 spiders thing isn't true.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

[MaggieSwanson]

88. *Whew* Thanks for looking that one up.

I may just get some rest tonight, lol!

[Benfea]

16. Darth Jar-Jar is president.

Also, the candy coating on many kinds of candy uses insect exoskeletons as a major ingredient.

[leftofthedial]

17. the republicans run everything

[helderheid]

18. Ack! That's what GD is for!

;)

[LeftyMom]

19. It takes a lye bath and temperatures over 700 degrees F to kill BSE prions

While that protocol is used on instruments for brain surgery, it's unheard of in slaughterhouses, butcher shops and restaurant food handling.

Less than one percent of the cattle slaughtered in the US are tested for BSE and they enter the food supply before the results come back.

Even if you never ate a scrap of meat in your life, you'd still be at some risk because of careless food handling and potential cross-contamination (one of the victims in the British outbreak was vegan.) If you get it, you get dementia and die painfully, there is no treatment or cure. Likely nobody'd every know what was the matter, as US dementia patients generally aren't tested for variant-CJD (the human equivalent of BSE/mad cow.)

I don't know if anybody else finds that scary, but it keeps me up nights.

[6000eliot]

20. The overuse of antibiotics is leading to super strains of bacteria

that will be resistant to any attempts to kill them.

[Road Scholar]

21. Ok here ya go. Global warming. Ice caps melt. Center of gravity shifts

In 10 years earth rolls over on it's side and orbit changes radius by 50 million miles, Earth's average temperature becomes 200 below zero.
Earth's surface freezes for 100 miles below the surface. Howz that?:hurts:

[kitkatrose]

22. Maybe not worry about, but still interesting.

At any given time you have about 10lbs of feces inside you. So when you say someone's full of shit, they really are. :D

[Road Scholar]

23. Like a blivit????

:toast:

[kitkatrose]

31. What's a blivit?

:hi:

[Road Scholar]

51. 10 pounds of sh_ _ in a 5 pound bag LOL

[kitkatrose]

52. LOL!!!

:rofl:

[Bucky]

24. Karl Rove lactates

Okay, I stole that joke from a Letterman joke on Ted Kennedy. But I have a right to play up to my audience. And to steal jokes.

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. If you fly, you need to know

The airlines spray the interiors of the cabin with pesticides, such as permethrin, permethring derivatives, and/or malathion...and NO ONE HOLDS THEM FUCKING ACCOUNTABLE!

(Am under a doctor's care for toxic esposure to pesticides that caused many severe attacks of hives (urticaria) that were covering as much as 60% of my body for hours at a time, often recurring every 3-4 hours. And, this all started after flying about a year and a half ago and sitting in a coach seat for almost three hours It has been a fucking nightmare up until I found a really great allergist. I now have to be very aware of staying away from permethrin, its derivatives and especially malathion as in having close proximity and/or prolonged exposure.)

[Xipe Totec]

27. Er... Okay...

[LynneSin]

29. BTW - you guys all suck at this

so far nothing that a mild OTC sleep medicine won't fix for tonight

[Xipe Totec]

34. Don't you worry that you've become jaded?

That should keep you up nights... :evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

35. I think we have a winner here

:scared:

How the hell did I become like this

:cry:

[Xipe Totec]

38. Don't fret too much

It's nothing a little more cowbell can't fix.

:pals:

[Hugin]

39. It's the current Zeitgeist...

It makes one a hard person.

Reminds me of a Jewel song...

With the lyrics "I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way."

[Capn Sunshine]

30. Because of Bush's cancelling of the program funding, in the Ukraine

There's only about sixteen guards watching over the Atomic Weapons plutonium stockpile of the former USSR. And they haven't been paid in six months.

[RevolutionaryActs]

33. Just go read GD

that should about do it.


;)

[KyndCulture]

36. LOL that's the truth! nt.

[LynneSin]

43. Should I reread my posts

:shrug:

That's nothing!

[ET Awful]

40. All of your problems in life can be traced to the existence of

alien spirits who have attached themselves to your body, they are called Thetans. Here, hold these soup cans and we'll talk them all into leaving. :P. . . .

Oh wait, I was channelling L. Ron Hubbard there for a second, sorry . . :evilgrin:

[Call Me Wesley]

60. That's really scary. And I'm an OT 15!

:rofl:

[ET Awful]

65. LMFAO

It's a cruisetomatoe BUAHAHAHAHA

[anarch]

41. here you go...check out the article on nuclear power plants on this page

scroll down about half way...

http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle24.html

[LynneSin]

42. I grew up 10 miles from TMI

I lived through the accident.

Move on - I'd sleep like a baby about that one.

BTW, one of the ports involved with the Dubai deal, a minor part of it, is the Port of Wilmington which is less than 5 miles from a nuclear power plant

:boring:

[Spider Jerusalem]

44. Our way of life is doomed and economic collapse is a near-certainty...

probably within a decade or so, give or take.

Petroleum is what drives the engine of the global economy, and at present, demand has almost caught up with available supply. Global production is 84 million barrels a day; global consumption is 82 million barrels a day (25% of which is in the US alone). Production has remained essentially flat for more than a year now, and output is likely to decline thanks to oilfield depletion. Once demand rises above availability, the price of a barrel of oil will spike above $100, and probably higher...you can expect to see gasoline at $10 a gallon; the cost of consumer goods will skyrocket, thanks to the fact that in the US everything is transported by truck and cost of shipping affects retail prices; and the house of cards that is the US economy will implode under the weight of massive debt defaults, unemployment on a scale not seen since the 1930's, and the collapse of the dollar as a global reserve currency thanks to the instability of the petroleum market.

There are also likely to be resource wars to ensure access to what's suddenly a VERY important and extremely expensive resource.

And it's all but certain that this is the course events are going to take; no amount of investment in alternative energy sources can replace oil, and we've waited too long to get a start on things to avoid what looks to be a tremendously unpleasant future.

Think that'll keep you up nights?

[Zomby Woof]

45. Robert Plant

He once pooped on Freddie Mercury's grave.

[Kurovski]

46. Hundreds of new chemicals are created every year and

many are not tested for affects on health. we also don't know the affects that so many thousands of chemicals in our homes and environment have when combined. :shrug:

How'z that?

[Kurovski]

47. We get cancer all the time. Cancer cells are destroyed/removed

by our immune systems on a regular basis until our immune system gets mad at us and stops doing it, or is overwhelmed, or something. I dunno.

[Guava Jelly]

48. there are underground mole people living in your attic

your toothpaste is really relabeled vagisil
we secretly changed your coffee to tasters choice

[northzax]

81. taster's choice! you bastards

how could you!

[LynneSin]

85. I have no attic and I don't drink coffee

that leaves my :wow:

:cry: I didn't know!!

[In_The_Wind]

49. I'm packin' it in.

I don't think I can take these long winters in the north any longer.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. George W. Bush is the president.

[sakabatou]

56. A sneeze can be classified as a Cat. 2 hurricane

100 mph winds.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

57. Tom Cruise

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

58. Both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant will die in your lifetime

[graywarrior]

59. Everyone...EVERYONE...will either die of bird flu or lung cancer.

There's no stopping either one. The media told us. Oh yeah, and it will be Hillary vs. McCain, unless they get bird flu or lung cancer.

[myrna minx]

61. The phone calls were coming from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!!!

:rofl:

[underpants]

62. 1991 FCC ruling prohibits cowbells in music recordings

HAve you heard any NEW cow bell songs??? I didn't think so

[WeRQ4U]

64. The Republicans are putting Gonorrhea in your sandwiches.

(That's actually John Stewart's I think)

[DS1]

66. If Aliens are capable of interstellar travel, wouldn't it be safe to

assume that they could abduct you, do all sorts of unpleasant things to you, and put you back without you ever remembering it?

[LynneSin]

86. I thought my butt was a little sore this morning

:wow:

[Ava]

68. here's a few

Your mouth is one of the liveliest parts of your whole body. More than 100,000,000 micro-creatures live there at any one time.

Hydrochloric acid in your stomach is so strong that it could eat up stainless steel razor blades.

If your body's natural defenses failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.

Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.

Ear wax naturally dries up and forms little balls that drop out when we yawn, chew or swallow.


yeah, i'm a science and math geek.

[Ava]

71. a few more

Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare it's barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.

On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes.

Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.

[Ava]

69. a story to keep you up a night

A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had safaried in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed. :wow:

[GumboYaYa]

70. Yellowstone is sitting on top of a giant super volcano and if it

erupts, it could wipe out life on the planet as we know it. In the past it has erupted on a schedule of about every 600,000 years. Scientists estimate that it has been about 640,000 years since the last eruption. Recent activity in the Yelowstone region indicates that the volcano may be becoming active again.

This is the one that made me stop watching disaster shows.

[hyphenate]

73. I haven't checked any below

but I do know this: for every eyelash you have, there is a spider mite residing at the base of the lash. A little itty bitty thing, but it is alive and well and living just a fraction of an inch away from your eye. :)

Found this cool link with pictures!!!

http://www.natureofcreation.org/articles/spiders.htm

[begin_within]

80. The average house has 60,000 spiders in it.

[Brazenly Liberal]

87. GET! OUT!

I'm not afraid of spiders, I'm just more aware than most people are of the true evil intent of the 8-legged beasts. It's not even the legs. I have a table with 8 legs and it's not evil. No, it's the 8 eyes. EIGHT EYES There's just no excuse for that.

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