no. it would be lonely beyond belief.
i love medical virology. the other week we had a herpes lecture off a doctor clap, and today we're getting a lecture on scrapie and other prion brain diseases from a professor mutton who looks like a zombie.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:35, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

The Only Way Is Essex is sponsored by a cream for herpes.
Simplex, admittedly, but it's still hilarious.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:36, Reply)

There's that prion disease which is the rarest disease in the world
the only way to catch it is to find one of the 10 people that suffer from it in the peruvian jungle and eat their brain.

/well I think it's interesting.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:43, Reply)

Then how did the 10 people get it?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:46, Reply)

They used to eat the bodies of the dead as part of the burial ritual.
The more it spread the more people died and the more people ate it etc etc.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:48, Reply)

ew.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:50, Reply)

you're making that up

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:52, Reply)

It's believable

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:53, Reply)

He's not, apparently it's called Kuru

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:54, Reply)

I don't ALWAYS lie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_
(PsychoChomp, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:54, Reply)

if you don't stop citing Wikipedia
badger's going to lecture you again
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:00, Reply)

haha. perhaps I should
no, I did agree with him that it's not a problem for this. I just disagree that it's a valid scientific resource, but I am quite harsh on that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:10, Reply)

"It is also known as the laughing sickness due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease"
like being a canibal isn't creepy enough, they need to have a crazy laugh too?
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:01, Reply)

I bet, when it was reported, the word zombie cropped up.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:49, Reply)