Rabies!
Travelling to remote places (or indeed France) necessitates the travel clinic to suggest a rabies vaccine. Now, the rabies vaccine doesn't prevent rabies, it merely provides the unfortunate victim a little more time to get to hospital for some very unpleasant but lifesaving treatment. I paid me money and I got me shots.

Mongolia. One in ten dogs - and that's not just wild dogs, that includes domestic dogs - has rabies. We stopped at a ger to ask directions.

"Oooooo," squealed a rather annoying girl from my convoy. "Lovely doggy, though it's a little bit bitey!" and proceeded to pet the dog and generally cling to it lovingly.

"One in ten dogs in Mongolia has rabies," I told her solemnly.

"But it's sooooooo cute!" she gasped.

Yeah, that's right, my mistake. The cute ones don't get rabies. Bite me, bitch. Or rather, don't.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:44, 8 replies)

Aaaahhh... the rabies jab
It's the only thing that's ever made me faint. I just lost consciousness and slid off m chair. It was ace. The doctor gave me tea and Cadbury's fingers to revive me.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:45, closed)

was it cos
it was just under the skin rather than a big deep needle-poking?

*jealous of chocolate fingers, dammit*
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:46, closed)

I wish I had chocolate fingers
I've just got rubbish cheese sandwiches.

*sniff*
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:48, closed)

Brother's ex-g/f
While very, very bright and a praticising lawyer had fuck all in the way of common sense.

They're on holiday somewhere exotic and she spies some semi-feral cats living in a colony.

"Ooh, look at the cute widdle kitty...."

rrrwarrr, *bite*
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:48, closed)

@CHCB
Enough about you and fingers...



Tee hee
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:48, closed)

@CHCB
if you had chocolate fingers your killer pussy would keep getting all sticky when you stroked it.

edit - damn enzyme made the joke first and it was funnier.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:52, closed)

yes!!
I've just come back from Mongolia, and had multiple arguments with an idiot I was travelling with about this. His grasp of science was, shall we say, a little tenuous. He couldn't seem to get to grips with the fact that a dog can give you rabies without being in a foaming-mouthed sort of state. He kept trying to beckon over mangy stray curs (with similar 'loook at the widdle doggggy!' noises) and said I was picking on him when I told him not to do that, ever. Or at least not near me.
Nobhead.
(jennymnemonic, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 13:06, closed)

Rabies Jabs
I got my jab mixed in with about 3 others one afternoon by the company nurse before a trip into the Sahara. You'll be fine she said. Goes back to desk and starts to feel a bit woozy and euphoric.

Spent 45 mins walking calmly about outside getting fresh air before I felt sober enough/with it enough to drive home.

Killer hangover the next day and no alcohol consumed to make up for it :(

Rabies doesn't scare me but camel spiders do.
( b3tz, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 13:48, closed)