Wait, so bourbon is more intoxicating than vodka, basically? (Yeah, that was my takeaway from the article.)
Are you… disappointed?
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Add it to the list!
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I’ll keep saying it until it sinks in…
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I’m not sure about the ethics of this, but I remember having to rewet the gills of a goldfish and track how long it was out of water while my lab partner looked the capillaries under a wide depth of field microscope. It was pretty amazing to see blood corpuscles tumble around, sort of orient themselves as they passed through the capillaries, move through and then back out. The lab may actually have been about some sort of parasite found in or on the fish, as the professor taught everything through the lens of parasites. The class left me with the inability to trust anybody that said that a “good sushi chef finds all the parasites” and the inability to eat raw or undercooked meat, and dura, brains etc… cooked or otherwise (Unless it was part of an intercultural exchange.)
Not the right magnification, but it shows the beauty.
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I do not know anyone that says that. The vast majority of sushi everywhere is frozen to kill parasites.
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Yep, freeze the shit out of it. I don’t care as long as i don’t get brain worms.
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Got a cat?
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Better than worms
Also i take my cat to the vet regularly, he does not have Toxo 
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It was a thing for the longest time among friends when I was younger. Living in a tourist town next to the ocean the mark of good fish was often off the boat just hours ago, or locally line caught. This was well before deep freezing was de rigueur.
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That’s what they let the vet tell ya, dude.
I really wonder why those crazy people are always talking about reptiles when clearly this alien “Gordon I.” is ruling the world.
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Taking a cat to the vet will not prevent them from contacting toxioplamosis. Very few cats show any clinical signs when infected. Vets do not check for the presence of toxioplamosis unless the cat is one of the rare ones who does get ill.
Unless your cat has been strictly indoors for its entire life, has never been in contact with the feces of a cat who had been outdoors, and has never feasted on any mice or rats who wandered inside, your cat has probably contracted it. The good news is, a cat only sheds the parasite for a few weeks after infection. Even less time, or not at all, for any subsequent infection. Bad news, the oocytes can last and remain infectious for over a year.
Check, check, and mine runs away from ants and spiders (so I doubt she’s ever seen a mouse, let alone killed and eaten one). I feel slightly more safe now.
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He is strictly indoors 
and i do yearly lab work on him because he’s had health issues. Came out clean as a whistle last time.
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Well then, his vet probably does check. And I’m glad to hear of a kitty getting such good care.
Gotta love the Dutch - this made an appearance on QI a few years back:
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I remember that! I love QI 
That’s a new model of Tarkus, right?
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Nice!
Saw King Crimson live on Saturday night in London, it was an amazing, magnificent event - though felt a little sad that it wasn’t Greg Lake singing ‘Epitaph’, Moonchild’, and ‘The Court of the Crimson King’.
Mind you, think they needed more drummers…:
There’s a koi living in a pool in a creek near my house. Certainly a release from someone’s “shit he got too big” experiment, but it seems to be doing well (which surprised me due to fairly warm water), but the pool it’s in is on the other side of a little step down/waterfall (if less than a foot qualifies). That seems enough to raise the O2 content in the water enough for a koi.
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