[Watcher===]

Here's a stack from elsewhere.

I wonder how rectal massage guy feels now the novelty must have worn off. Still, I'd shy away if I had suddenly found myself with a French accent too. That thing can sound a bit arrogant, especially if you do the laugh.

And no, don't say anything about the woman with half a brain being a blonde...... :)

[kellyhound]

Fascinating

Christina got married and has 2 kids now
https://apnews.com/d81263a495714dce90c15f1a13d9dafd

Someone earned the Ig Nobel prize in medicine for the rectal massage

Fesmire, a specialist in emergency medicine and cardiology, probably did not have a real Nobel in mind when he published “Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage” in Annals of Emergency Medicine (vol 17, p 872). He was, it transpires, attempting to help a man who walked into the emergency room after hiccuping for 72 hours at up to 30 times a minute.

Heart stopper
Runaway electrical impulses in the vagus nerve cause intractable hiccups, so Fesmire attempted to block them by stimulating the nerve. Gagging, tongue pulling, sinus massage and pressing the eyeball to stimulate the vagus all failed to stop the hiccups. Then he remembered reading about a case in which digital rectal massage – inserting a finger into a patient’s anus – had slowed a racing heartbeat, an effect similar to runaway hiccups.


“It worked, and the rest is history,” he says. He has not needed to go that far again for other patients, but Majed Odeh of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, did a few years later and wrote a paper with the same title that earned him a share of the Ig Nobel.

However, Fesmire will not be trying it again. In researching his Ig Nobel acceptance speech, he told New Scientist that he found a treatment sure to be more popular with hiccup patients. “An orgasm results in incredible stimulation of the vagus nerve. From now on, I will be recommending sex – culminating with orgasm – as the cure-all for intractable hiccups.”

[DiamondSmiles]

I love happy endings. Good for Christina!

Some people have whole brains and never use most of them.

[Hogmann]

These graphics remind me of the click-bait news stories you find at the bottom of legitimate websites.
" gynecologist hate her! Woman gives birth to twins with this one weird trick"

[TwistedPrincess]

Stephen Crohn (immune to AIDS) committed suicide by a drug overdose on oxycodone and benzodiazepines at the age of 66. He was a great-nephew of Burrill Bernard Crohn, for whom Crohn's disease is named. (Wikipedia)

[aivlysplath]

Humans are weird af..m