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Your vibe is oddly bitter and reeks of insecurity
sounds like someone needs to go in the water
Reblogging again because the art is spectacular. 10/10.
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Look, I'm not saying that I hate the rest of Europe during the Euros but that's exactly what I'm saying. Fuck your country. I hope your country loses and loses badly. Whatever country that is.
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Here it is folks:
My definitive ranking of my least favorite bodies of water! These are ranked from least to most scary (1/10 is okay, 10/10 gives me nightmares). Iâm sorry this post is long, I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this.
The Great Blue Hole, Belize
Iâve been here! I have snorkeled over this thing! It is terrifying! The water around the hole is so shallow you canât even swim over the coral without bumping it, and then thereâs a little slope down, and then it just fucking drops off into the abyss! When youâre over the hole the water temperature drops like 10 degrees and itâs midnight blue even when youâre right by the surface. Anyway. The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater cave, and its roughly 410 feet deep. Overall, itâs a relatively safe area to swim. Itâs a popular tourist attraction and recreational divers can even go down and explore some of the caves. People do die at the Blue Hole, but it is generally from a lack of diving experience rather than anything sinister going on down in the depths. My rating for this one is 1/10 because Iâve been here and although itâs kinda freaky itâs really not that bad.
Lake Baikal, Russia
When I want to give myself a scare I look at the depth diagram of this lake. Itâs so deep because itâs not a regular lake, itâs a Rift Valley, A massive crack in the earthâs crust where the continental plates are pulling apart. Itâs over 5,000 feet deep and contains one-fifth of all freshwater on Earth. Luckily, its not any more deadly than a normal lake. It just happens to be very, very, freakishly deep. My rating for this lake is a 2/10 because I really hate looking at the depth charts but just looking at the lake itself isnât that scary.
Jacobâs Well, Texas
This âwellâ is actually the opening to an underwater cave system. Itâs roughly 120 feet deep, surrounded by very shallow water. This area is safe to swim in, but diving into the well can be deadly. The cave system below has false exits and narrow passages, resulting in multiple divers getting trapped and dying. My rating is a 3/10, because although I hate seeing that drop into the abyss itâs a pretty safe place to swim as long as you donât go down into the cave (which I sure as shit wonât).
The Devilâs Kettle, Minnesota
This is an area in the Brule River where half the river just disappears. It literally falls into a hole and is never seen again. Scientists have dropped in dye, ping pong balls, and other things to try and figure out where it goes, and the things they drop in never resurface. Rating is 4/10 because Sometimes I worry Iâm going to fall into it.
Flathead Lake, Montana
Everyone has probably seen this picture accompanied by a description about how this lake is actually hundreds of feet deep but just looks shallow because the water is so clear. If that were the case, this would definitely rank higher, but that claim is mostly bull. Look at the shadow of the raft. If it were hundreds of feet deep, the shadow would look like a tiny speck. Flathead lake does get very deep, but the spot the picture was taken in is fairly shallow. You canât see the bottom in the deep parts. However, having freakishly clear water means you can see exactly where the sandy bottom drops off into blackness, so this still ranks a 5/10.
The Lower Congo River, multiple countries
Most of the Congo is a pretty normal, if large, River. In the lower section of it, however, lurks a disturbing surprise: massive underwater canyons that plunge down to 720 feet. The fish that live down there resemble cave fish, having no color, no eyes, and special sensory organs to find their way in the dark. These canyons are so sheer that they create massive rapids, wild currents and vortexes that can very easily kill you if you fall in. A solid 6/10, would not go there.
Little Crater Lake, Oregon
On first glance this lake doesnât look too scary. It ranks this high because I really donât like the sheer drop off and how clear it is (because it shows you exactly how deep it goes). This lake is about 100 feet across and 45 feet deep, and I strongly feel that this is too deep for such a small lake. Also, the water is freezing, and if you fall into the lake your muscles will seize up and youâll sink and drown. I donât like that either. 7/10.
Grand Turk 7,000 ft drop off
No. 8/10. I hate it.
Gulf of Corryvreckan, Scotland
Due to a quirk in the sea floor, there is a permanent whirlpool here. This isnât one of those things that looks scary but actually wonât hurt you, either. It absolutely will suck you down if you get too close. Scientists threw a mannequin with a depth gauge into it and when it was recovered the gauge showed it went down to over 600 feet. If you fall into this whirlpool you will die. 9/10 because this seems like something that should only be in movies.
The Bolton Strid, England
This looks like an adorable little creek in the English countryside but itâs not. Its really not. Statistically speaking, this is the most deadly body of water in the world. It has a 100% mortality rate. There is no recorded case of anyone falling into this river and coming out alive. This is because, a little ways upstream, this isnât a cute little creek. Itâs the River Wharfe, a river approximately 30 feet wide. This river is forced through a tiny crack in the earth, essentially turning it on its side. Now, instead of being 30 feet wide and 6 feet deep, itâs 6 feet wide and 30 feet deep (estimated, because no one actually knows how deep the Strid is). The currents are deadly fast. The banks are extremely undercut and the river has created caves, tunnels and holes for things (like bodies) to get trapped in. The innocent appearance of the Strid makes this place a death trap, because people assume itâs only knee-deep and step in to never be seen again. I hate this river. I have nightmares about it. I will never go to England just because I donât want to be in the same country as this people-swallowing stream. 10/10, I live in constant fear of this place.
Honorable mention: The Quarry, Pennsylvania
I donât know if thatâs itâs actual name. This lake gets an honorable mention not because itâs particularly deep or dangerous, but itâs where I almost drowned during a scuba diving accident.
Edit: Iâve looked up the name of the quarry, itâs called Crustyâs Quarry and is privately owned and only used for training purposes, not recreational diving.
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sorry if iâm being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if youâre bitten or scratched by an animal that you arenât 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. itâs not a joke. really.Â
Youâre being kind when you say âalmost 100% fatalityâ. What people need to hear is: if you get to develop rabies symptoms, youâre dead. If you get heavy treatment after developping symptoms, you still need a miracle. Like, a real miracle, you should enter some religion if you escape that.
ALSO, I donât want people feeling confident about petting stray/wild animals because thereâs a vaccine available, either. Iâll explain why from my own experience (Iâm not a doctor).
I got bitten by a wild tamarin once, on the pulp of my index finger. It drew blood, there are many wild animals in the area (tamarins, possums, bats, foxes) and it isnât that uncommon to hear about 1 or 2 rabies cases every now and again (a puppy we gave to a friend got it, for instance), so I went to an ambulatory immediately.
Because I was bitten in an ultrasensitive area, I needed fast treatment. But it was also a small area, so the usual thing they do - inject the vaccine in the place - wasnât a choice. They told me theyâd divide the shot in 5 small ones, and inject me all over my body, so the antidote would get to my entire system fast.
Please stop for a moment and think that the disease is so worrysome that theyâd rather needle me all over than to give me one shot and wait until it spread through my system.
Then they said that, okay, but there was a catch first. I needed to take an antiallergic shot. âWhy?â âBecause the virus is devastating, and as the vaccine is made from it, but weakened (like almost every vaccine) it will still create a reaction, and itâs a strong one, and itâs veru common for people to have strong allergic reactions to it.â YOU HAVE TO TAKE AN ANTIALLERGIC SHOT IN ORDER TO TAKE THE VACCINE COZ THE VACCINE COULD POTENTIALLY MAKE YOU REALLY SICK
ALSO IT WASNâT JUST âA LITTLE ANTIALLERGIC SHOTâ
IT WAS ONE OF THESE FUCKERS HERE.
It was OBVIOUSLY dripped in my body and not injected because HAHAHAHA. Truth be told I was an adult already and Iâm tall so I have a lot of mass but STILL.
So after I had taken the antiallegic and was starting to feel drowsy (as a side effect of it) the doctor came with the 5 shots.
- One in each buttock
- One in each thigh
- One in my left arm
They all stung like a bitch and I usually donât care about shots.
âOkay so can I go home now?â
âNo, we have to keep you under observation for 2h so weâre SURE the vaccine wonât give you any reaction.â
BINCH I WAS GIVEN A BUTTLOAD OF MEDICINE BUT THERE WAS STILL A RISK.
I slept through the two hours and then was liberated to go home. My legs, butt, and left arm hurt all over, like I had been punched there, for a few days. I also had a fever (not feverish, a fever)
BUT DID YOU THINK IT WAS OVER?
WRONG!!!
I had to take four reinforcement shots in the next month, one a week, so I could be positively be considered immunized. Every time I took a shot, my arm would swell and hurt like itâd been hit, and when night came Iâd have a fever. Because thatâs how fucking strong the vaccine is, BECAUSE THATâS HOW VICIOUS THE VIRUS IS.
So yeah. DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN RISK, GODDAMNIT. Rabies is a rare condition all over, THANK GOD, and 1 confirmed case can be already considered a surge and a reason for mass campaigning, AND FOR A REASON.
If you like messing with stray/wild animals, donât go picking them up and be extra careful. Or just, like, DONâT - call a vet or an authority that can handle them safely.
I must add that I live in a country with universal healthcare, so I didnât pay a single penny for my treatment. Is this your reality? If not, ONE MORE REASON TO NOT FUCKING PLAY WITH THIS SHIT.
Rabies is 100% lethal. Period. If you are scratched or bitten by an animal youâre not positive is vaccinated, you need to find treatment NOW. And probably go through all that shit Iâve been through (also if you are immunosupressed? I DONâT KNOW WHATâD HAPPEN)
Stay safe and donât be stupid ffs
Guys, I know this isnât art nor anything like that, but Iâve been hearing about this rabies thing and ???? Look I trust none of you would risk yourselves like this, but maybe you can educate someone through my experience and stuff.
Also rabies does not necessarily cause frothing-at-the-mouth aggression in animals. Docility is also a very common symptom so any wild animal that is âfriendlyâ or âlikes to be petâ is suspect. Literally any wild animal is a vector.
Finally, you donât need to be bitten. All you need is to come into contact with an infected animalâs bodily fluids through a cut that maybe you didnât notice when you were handling it when it drooled on you.
Never touch a wild animal.
Infection with the rabies virus progresses through three distinct stages.
Prodromal: Stage One. Marked by altered behavioral patterns. âDocilityâ and âlikes to be petâ are very common in the prodromal stage. Usually lasts 1-3 days. An animal in this stage carries virus bodies in its saliva and is infectious.
Excitative: Stage Two. Also called âfuriousâ rabies. This is what everyone thinks rabies isâhyperreacting to stimuli and biting everything. Excessive salivation occurs. Animals in this stage also exhibit hydrophobia or the fear of water; they cannot drink (swallowing causes painful spasms of the throat muscles), and will panic if shown water. Usually lasts 3-4 days before rapidly progressing into the next stage.
Paralytic: Stage Three. Also called âdumbâ rabies. As the infection runs its course, the virus starts degrading the nervous system. Limbs begin to fail; animals in this stage will often limp or drag their haunches behind them. If the animal has survived all this way, death will usually come through respiratory arrest: Their diaphragm becomes paralyzed and they stop breathing.
And to add onto the above, saliva isnât the only infectious fluid. Brain matter is, too. If, somehow, you find yourself in possession of a firearm and faced with a rabid animal, do not go for a head shot. If you do, you will aerosolize the brain matter and effectively create a cloud of infectious material. Breathe it in, and youâll give yourself an infection.
When I worked in wildlife rehabilitation, I actually did see a rabid animal in person, and it remains one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, because I was literally looking death in the eyes.
A pair of well-intentioned women brought us a raccoon that they thought had been hit by a car. They had found it on the side of the road, dragging its hind legs. They managedâsomehowâto get it into a cat carrier and brought it to us.Â
As they brought it in, I remember how eerily silent it was. Normal raccoons chatter almost constantly. They fidget. They bump around. They purr and mumble and make little grabby-hands at everything. Even when theyâre in pain, and especially when theyâre stressed. But this one wasnât moving around inside the carrier, and it wasnât making a sound.
The clinic director also noticed this, and he asked in a calm but urgent voice for the women to hand the carrier to him. He took it to the exam room and set it on the table while they filled out some forms in the next room. I took a step towards the carrier, to look at our new patient, and without turning around, he told me, âGo to the other side of the room, and stay there.â
He took a small penlight out of the drawer and shone it briefly into the carrier, then sighed. âBear, if you want to come look at this, you can put on a mask,â he said. âItâs really pretty neat, but I know youâre not vaccinated and I donât want to take any chances.âÂ
And at that point, I knew exactly what we were dealing with, and I knew that this would be the closest I had ever been to certain death. So I grabbed a respirator from the table and put it on, and held my breath for good measure as I approached the table. The clinic director pointed where I should stand, well back from the carrier door. He shone the light inside again, and I saw two brilliant flashes of emerald greenâthe most vivid, unnatural eyeshine I had ever seen.Â
âI donât know why it does it,â the director murmured, âbut it turns their eyes green.â
âWhat does?â one of the women asked, with uncanny, unintentionally dramatic timing, as she poked her head around the corner.
âRabies,â the director said. âThe raccoon is rabid. Did it bite either of you, or even lick you?â They told us no, said they had even used leather garden gloves when they herded it into the carrier. He told them to throw away the gloves as soon as possible, and steam-clean the upholstery in their car. They asked how they should clean the cat carrier; they wanted it back and couldnât be convinced otherwise, so he told them to soak it in just barely diluted bleach.
But before we could give them the carrier back, we had to remove the raccoon. The rabid raccoon.
The clinic director readied a syringe with tranquilizers and attached it to the end of a short pole. I donât remember how it was rigged exactlyâwhether he had a way to push down the plunger or if the needle would inject with pressureâbut all he would have to do was stick the animal to inject it. And so, after sending me and the women back to the other side of the room, he made his fist jab.
He missed the raccoon.
The sound that that animal made on being brushed by the pole can only be described as a roar. It was throaty and ragged and ungodly loud. It was not a sound that a raccoon should ever make. Iâm convinced it was a sound that a raccoon physically could not make.Â
It thrashed inside the carrier, sending it tipping from side to side. Its claws clattered against the walls. It bellowed that throaty, rasping sound again. It was absolutely frenzied, and I was genuinely scared that it would break loose from inside those plastic walls.Â
Somehow, the clinic director kept his calm, and as the raccoon jolted around inside the cat carrier, he moved in with the syringe again, and this time, he hit it. He emptied the syringe into its body and withdrew the pole.
And then we waited.
We waited for those awful screams, that horrible thrashing, to die down. As we did, the director loaded up another syringe with even more tranquilizer, and as the raccoon dropped off into unconsciousness, he stuck it a second time with the heavier dose. Even then, it growled at him and flailed a paw against the wall.
More waiting, this time to make sure the animal was truly down for the count.
Then, while wearing welderâs gloves, the director opened the door of the carrier and removed the raccoon. She was limp, bedraggled, and utterly emaciated, but she was still alive. We bagged up the cat carrier and gave it to the women again, advising them that now was a good time to leave. They heeded our warning.
I asked if I could come closer to see, and the clinic director pointed where I could stand. I pushed the mask up against my face and tried to breathe as little as possible.
He and his co-directorâwho I think he was grooming to be his successor, but the clinic actually went under later that yearâexamined the raccoon together. Donning a pair of nitrile gloves, he reached down and pulled up a handful, a literal fistful, of the raccoonâs skin and released it. It stayed pulled up.
Severe dehydration causes a phenomenon called âskin tentingâ. The skin loses its elasticity somewhat, and will be slow to return to its ânormalâ shape when manipulated. The clinic director estimated that it had been at least four or five days since the raccoon had had anything to eat or drink.Â
She was already on deathâs doorstep, but her rabies infection had driven her exhausted body to scream and lunge and bite.Â
Because, the scariest thing about rabies (if you ask me) is the way that it alters the behavior of those it infects to increase chances of spreading.Â
The prodromal stage? Nocturnal animals become diurnalâallowing them to potentially infect most hosts than if they remained nocturnal.Â
The excitative stage? The infected animal bites at the slightest provocation. Swallowing causes painful spasms, so they drool, coating their bodies in infectious matter. A drink could wash away the virus-charged saliva from their mouth and bodies, so the virus drives them to panic at the sight of water.
(The paralytic stage? By that point, the animal has probably spread its infection to new hosts, so the virus has no need for it any longer.)
Rabies is deadly. Rabies is dangerous. In all of recorded history, one person survived an infection after she became symptomatic, and so far we havenât been able to replicate that success. The Milwaukee Protocol hasnât saved anyone else. Just one person. And even then, she still had to struggle to gain back control of her body after all that nerve damage.
Please, please, take rabies seriously.
This has been a warning from your old pal Bear.
I knew how bad it was, but I had never read anything like the raccoon story.
I am not exaggerating when I say that is literally terrifying.
Y'all please read this. That is absolutely hideous. Thatâs literally like something from a horror movie.
Do not fuck around with wildlife. Or weird strays.
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