Kaol's Pig and knives related post reminded me of something
School was a bit shit to be honest, and I've been realy trying to remember something amusing and/or gross enough. So here it is.....

It was either GCSE or A level Biology, I honestly forget which but my teacher at the time was pretty cool, and every now and then would bring in part of a pig carcass for us to dissect. I tended to be fairly handy at dissection, possibly because I wasn't that squeamish (despite being the only vegetarian in the class - weird huh?). Anyway, one lesson the teacher bought in a pair of pigs lungs. He decided that he would demonstrate to us how lungs inflate and deflate, and asked for a voulunteer to inflate them via a length of tubing.

Anyway, I voulunteered - as you do, and obligingly drew a deep breath, put the tube to my lips and inflated the lung. It looked pretty cool, I must admit. Then I made a tiny miscalculation. I breathed back in. Without taking the tube out of my mouth. Words alone cannot describe the taste that filled my mouth, together with what I can only imagine where flecks of dried blood and pig mucus..... To my credit I managed not to throw up - though I did gag pretty hard
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:15, 8 replies)

Urgh...
I've been there too.
I share your pain on that one.
( Cawl, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:29, closed)

It's a peculiarly vile taste....
Put me right off my lunch that day
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:32, closed)

Stale,
Yet curiously metallic.
( Cawl, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:36, closed)

Yeah.
I think the metal must be the blood. The staleness is like how your mouth tastes after a few nights heavy drinking and continual smoking, but cold.... if that makes sense
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:40, closed)

yep...
My biology teacher did the same...had the self-control to reach for a bin and chunder into it. One of the boys in my class fainted...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 14:45, closed)

And here
A friend of mine did this at GCSE.

What is so hard to grasp about "Don't breathe in"?
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 16:40, closed)

So you gagged a bit, and didn't swallow?
Heh.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 20:16, closed)

similar
Ha, our teacher did something very similar, he had some pigs lungs and got one of the girls in the class who was obviously terrified of them to touch them. Unbeknownst to everyone, he had secretly connected a tube to the lungs, which had a small rubber bulb on the end, which he was concealing in his hand. Just as she poked the lungs, he squeezed the bulb and inflated the lungs. The girl gave a full-on horror movie style scream, and ran from the room greeting. Awesome teacher, totally mental.
(unciebana It's good, but it's not right., Wed 4 Feb 2009, 16:50, closed)