hahah
what a shit thing is garlic to repel vampires, though. was bram off his tits? i mean, crosses and consecrated ground, fair enough, unholy demon and all, and sunlight since they're a creature of the night, forever damned to roam in the shadows. but still, garlic?
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 18:58,
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Are you in a better mood today nanaman?
It doesn't look like it
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:00,
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i am,
actually. i just don't understand the garlic vampires thing, that's all.
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:01,
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unless they also like garlic
mmmm, garlic bread, garlic mayonaise, etc
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:07,
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I didn't suggest
an image search
Porphyria
Of all the disorders and diseases even loosely linked to vampirism, the most bizarre must be porphyria. It is rare hereditary blood disease; its symptoms so closely match the myths associated with our modern conception of vampirism it?s eerie. A victim of porphyria cannot produce heme, a major and vital component of red blood. Today, this disease is treated with regular injections of heme into the body. However, as little as fifty years ago, this treatment was unavailable and the disease unknown. In the past, a porphyria sufferer would show symptoms that include:
Extreme sensitivity to sunlight
Sores and scars that break open and will not heal properly
Excessive hair growth
Tightening of skin around lips and gums (which would make the incisors more prominent)
This disease would likely cause the victim to only go out at night, in order to avoid the painful rays of the sun. In addition, while garlic stimulates the production of heme in a healthy person, it would only cause the symptoms of porphyria to become more painful and severe.
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:09,
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Porphyria
Of all the disorders and diseases even loosely linked to vampirism, the most bizarre must be porphyria. It is rare hereditary blood disease; its symptoms so closely match the myths associated with our modern conception of vampirism it?s eerie. A victim of porphyria cannot produce heme, a major and vital component of red blood. Today, this disease is treated with regular injections of heme into the body. However, as little as fifty years ago, this treatment was unavailable and the disease unknown. In the past, a porphyria sufferer would show symptoms that include:
Extreme sensitivity to sunlight
Sores and scars that break open and will not heal properly
Excessive hair growth
Tightening of skin around lips and gums (which would make the incisors more prominent)
This disease would likely cause the victim to only go out at night, in order to avoid the painful rays of the sun. In addition, while garlic stimulates the production of heme in a healthy person, it would only cause the symptoms of porphyria to become more painful and severe.
Oh right sorry
but I'm scared for life just like those poor bast**ds.
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:10,
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how rare.
what about churches, crosses and stakes through the heart?
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:10,
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that entire book
is the one of the biggest piles of wank i have ever read anyway, god knows how it became a classic
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:03,
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this is another one of those....
.........garlic??? bread??? moments
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:07,
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hmmm......
..have you even seen peter kay?
you missed the other moment...hahaha sucks for you my friend
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Fri 20 Jun 2003, 19:11,
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you missed the other moment...hahaha sucks for you my friend