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#4528840 - 07/06/20 01:14 AM Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours?  
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Brain-eating amoeba confirmed in Florida!

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A person in Florida has been infected with a rare and usually deadly brain-eating amoeba, according to health officials.

The Florida Department of Health announced Friday that one patient in Hillsborough County has been infected with Naegleria fowleri, a water-borne,microscopic single-celled amoeba that attacks the brain.

"Infections can happen when contaminated water enters the body through the nose," the health department said.


DOH, along with practicing social distancing at the shark infested beach; or my alligator overrun and cottonmouth riddled local swimming hole, I only inhale contaminated water thru my mouth. Some people...

So what's you folks excuse?


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#4528841 - 07/06/20 01:32 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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Snakes. We have a rather large python that kicks around the back yard every now and again and now it seems his mates are moving in.

This was a couple of nights ago just as i was getting ready for a Pe2 sortie and noticed some movement out of the corner of my eye on my right. White Crown, weakly venomous, lizards and such. He got a night time trip to the garden.

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#4528843 - 07/06/20 02:46 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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Come on, Ajay. Just a little photoshop and it's THE KRAKEN!!!

No excuse, Nixer. I usually just defer to Waylon.


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#4528846 - 07/06/20 03:15 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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How is this exactly new? This amoeba has been known about for a long time and there have been reported cases in the past.

It's just the typical sensationalist news media whoring themselves again for ratings. Move along.


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#4528891 - 07/06/20 12:47 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Ajay]  
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Originally Posted by Ajay
Snakes. We have a rather large python that kicks around the back yard every now and again and now it seems his mates are moving in.

This was a couple of nights ago just as i was getting ready for a Pe2 sortie and noticed some movement out of the corner of my eye on my right. White Crown, weakly venomous, lizards and such. He got a night time trip to the garden.


I don't know if I could get use to that.

#4528894 - 07/06/20 01:12 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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I don't like snakes and spiders and scorpions and centipedes and millipedes and caterpillars.

Heard many stories of people finding snakes in the toilet after they sat down on it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-46996559

https://slate.com/culture/2015/09/s...and-other-animals-attack-from-below.html


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#4528924 - 07/06/20 06:00 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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I figured the problem with Florida Man is the arsenic that's prevalent in the water supply.

#4528932 - 07/06/20 06:47 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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Our temperate rain forest climate is very mold friendly, and I believe the wonky thought processes often in evidence here are largely the result of constantly being exposed to high levels of mycotoxins.

Still, you don't see Florida grade levels of WTFery too often.


#4528962 - 07/06/20 10:01 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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That thing would starve to death around here. Not a problem.


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#4528975 - 07/07/20 12:30 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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#4528976 - 07/07/20 12:38 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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A special treat that I remember from North Queensland is finding large Green Frogs in the toilet bowl. Friendly little cusses and perfectly harmless but a bit of a shock to the old posterior if you sat without looking. Then you go outside to find the dog's water bowl full of cane toads relaxing eating mosquitos.


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#4528978 - 07/07/20 12:45 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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#4529050 - 07/07/20 04:29 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Nixer




"Infections can happen when contaminated water enters the body through the nose," the health department said.

that is VERY specific.......

#4529051 - 07/07/20 04:30 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Ajay]  
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Originally Posted by Ajay
No lizards or Frogs?


No brains to eat around here. LOL


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#4529066 - 07/07/20 06:58 PM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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"The more I moved my legs… it just started to wrap around me. Its head just started striking at the chair, between my legs."


Man, and I thought it was scary when I walked out my front screened door a couple of weeks ago and a little, maybe 3 foot black snake scurried of next to my bare feet.

Freakin brown snakes are deadly!. They seem to lie invading human habitat too.

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#4529096 - 07/08/20 12:05 AM Re: Florida's excuse for being crazy. What's yours? [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Nixer


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"The more I moved my legs… it just started to wrap around me. Its head just started striking at the chair, between my legs."


Man, and I thought it was scary when I walked out my front screened door a couple of weeks ago and a little, maybe 3 foot black snake scurried of next to my bare feet.

Freakin brown snakes are deadly!. They seem to lie invading human habitat too.

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Originally Posted by Mad Max
A special treat that I remember from North Queensland is finding large Green Frogs in the toilet bowl. Friendly little cusses and perfectly harmless but a bit of a shock to the old posterior if you sat without looking. Then you go outside to find the dog's water bowl full of cane toads relaxing eating mosquitos.


We have a shovel that sits outside for the caneys that use the animal bowl as a pool. 2-3 a night in summer get the whack-a-mole treatment.


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