Tag: eww

  1. Well, it happened again.

    14 March 2025

    I know I should probably change the title, given the one of my last post. I can't be arsed right now.

    I've been offline for a couple of weeks and not writing because I've been giving my body a chance to heal up. If you haven't guessed by now when I say something like that, it's just about a given that some form of emergency dental work was involved, and along with it pain, prescription drugs, and something gross. You would, unfortunately, be correct. About halfway through February of this year I noticed a rather large, loose blister on the …

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  2. I have no desire at all to find out how these fountains were contaminated.

    10 January 2010

    There's really no way to start off an article about this other than to lay it out up front: Soda fountains in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia were found to be contaminated with the same bacteria you find in human feces. Thirty soda machines in the area had samples taken from them for analysis and the soda from them was found to be contaminated with a few strains of e. coli, stenotrophomonas maltophilia, klebsiella pneumoniae, and other coliform microorginisms. Oh, and as if that wasn't enough to make you reconsider getting a drink the next time you go to a …

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