sharp4runr said:There is something about that Snuggles bear that freaks me out. I don't know what it is, but I think it's out to get me or something.
Falls said:Snakes !! Even the little one's like grass snakes.
I see some horrific things in my life on a pretty regular basis and it doesn't bother me , but let me see a grass snake in the back 40 of my property and I run like a school girl.
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KellyJ said:I hate three main things.
I am afraid of onions ( I will never eat one, even for a hundred thousand dollars there is NO way you could willingly get me to eat one, the taste and texture makes me want to chop my tongue off so I never have to eat such an awful, disgusting thing ever again in my life.)
I hate clowns, mostly because of "It". That movie scared the living shit out of me when I saw it. I stand by Demitri Martin's policy about clowns: Circus- annoying, Birthday- sad, One that is just around- creepy. But one that is injured...that is funny.
Thirdly, I freaking hate bridges. I hate looking at them, I hate talking about them, and most of all I hate going over them or under them. They just freak the hell out of me, probably from hearing about so many bridges collapsing and seeing that one really famous video of that bridge that was so flexible.
04 sc V8 said:Oh yeah, there's one more thing; I never ate eggs until a couple of weeks ago. I know that's wierd, but I was sickly disguisted by the look, smell and texture of them. I'm still not a huge fan of them:nono:
Yes and no...dingo said:I guess it isn't any easier knowing that they come out of a chicken's rear end. May not be the @ss per se, but close enough. Ok, I'm not helping matters.
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Chickens, as well as other birds, have a common opening for reproduction, and for the evacuation of stools and urine. This opening is called the "vent". They do not have a bladder because their urine is not a fluid. It is a white paste, called urates, that you can observe surrounding the droppings. The intestine, ureters and oviduct come together into a common chamber called the cloaca. This is a rather dirty place, whereas the egg is always clean and almost sterile when laid.
The hen turns part of the cloaca and the last segment of the oviduct inside out, "like a glove." The described red membrane is then everted inside of these organs. The egg emerges far outside, at the end of the bulge. So it cannot contact the walls of the cloaca and get contaminated by stools or urine. Moreover, the intestine and inner part of the cloaca are kept shut by the emerging egg, and their contents cannot leave when the hen strains to deliver the egg. Therefore, eggs are always clean as they are laid.
Iolaus said:Yes and no...
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