Germs
You may think you are clean, but take a close look at human skin and it's a seething mass of bacteria. Every square centimeter is home to around 100 million of them. That's over 10 times the population of London on every centimeter. There could easily be 50 different species multiplying, consuming, competing and dying on the back of your hand right now.
And we've not even looked out our mucus membranes yet, they're little more than a microbial soup. In your alimentary canal there are trillions of bacteria. If you could remove them all from your body you have 5lbs of multi-colored slime to look at.

Basically, our bodies are little more than walking compost heaps of micro-biota biding their time until they can over-run and consume us completely.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 16 Dec 2011, 12:37, 11 replies)

but without them
we would be overrun with nasty bacteria making us poorly sick. Those bugs are your friends.

There are bacteria in our mouths who's precice nature is unknown to medical science because they cannot be cultured outside of the mouth, but without them your gums would rot out of your face
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 16 Dec 2011, 12:42, closed)

The rational response to those sort if facts
Is to say that they can't be too bad for us then
(clinteastwoodbradfield, Fri 16 Dec 2011, 12:43, closed)

Try saying that when your tounge has been eaten away by Staphylococcus aureus.

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 16 Dec 2011, 16:17, closed)

Chicks must be constantly asking to suck your dick.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 16 Dec 2011, 12:45, closed)

My tasty microbial soup

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 16 Dec 2011, 16:05, closed)

Weird Rituals
David Cameron holds in his piss in order to concentrate. What weird borderline OCD shit do you do and why?
( 4Q just lurking, Fri 16 Dec 2011, 12:54, closed)

I try and get strangers to wash their hands while they sob uncontrollably

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 16 Dec 2011, 16:12, closed)

It's exactly this sort of thinking
that made Louis Pasteur such an intolerable wanker.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 16 Dec 2011, 13:02, closed)

Have you encountered Bill Bryson's theory (if it is his)
that the purpose of our existance is to give bacteria a reason to evolve?
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Sat 17 Dec 2011, 19:50, closed)

No.
But I can't help thinking that we've horribly complicated this whole life thing. From a numbers point of view complex multi-cellular organisms are a freakish aberrations.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 19 Dec 2011, 20:07, closed)

In the words of BB:
"Life struggles to be, but often it doesn't struggle to be much"
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Tue 20 Dec 2011, 18:46, closed)