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A thread to prove why parasites are made up, so will go on diet from 09.04.2023 til 09.04.2024

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liveandlearn91 · 07/04/2023 23:39

This is to prove a guy who said parasites can make humans do stuff they dont want to. Which i think is rubbish. So i will save this thread, and make new post here in one year from now on. Here is what i look now in 08.04.2023

A thread to prove why parasites are made up, so will go on diet from 09.04.2023 til 09.04.2024
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CircleofWillis · 16/04/2023 22:07

Hi Op, how did your first week go?

Zucker · 10/04/2023 22:19

Does your friend think you're infested with parasites? Why would they think that?

Do the parasites not want you to diet?
Do the parasites want you to diet?

Are the parasites here in the room with us? Confused

SBHon · 10/04/2023 22:14

This makes such little sense. I love that you either assume we know everything you know, or you don’t give a shit whether we know it or not.

Ignoring the mysterious ‘guy’ and the ‘stuff’ it was the reference to ‘evening food’ in particular that made me smile. Imagining everyone across the world eats the same set meal of an evening so we’d all know exactly what it was. Or that there are certain foods that can only be consumed after 6pm.

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 10/04/2023 21:37

I think I got a little overexcited when I first read OPs plans-I found myself in the gardening thread talking about dodgy hot dogs, water-borne parasitic infections and defecating in a bush, have only just dared to catch up with this thread... 😱

Fuerza · 10/04/2023 21:34

Good luck with the diet! I love accountability. I take it that's what's going on here!

Exhibity · 10/04/2023 21:31

What the Jeff are you on about?

Rogue1001MNer · 10/04/2023 21:20

I'm confused, but also curious

AutisticLegoLover · 10/04/2023 20:32

Looks like the parasites were inserted rectally from the look on your face.

lljkk · 10/04/2023 20:13

I'm sure there's a theory that people who are colonised by toxoplasmosis are supposed to be more reckless.

pickledandpuzzled · 08/04/2023 11:53

Drat. Should shouted 'bagsy' first. Unless you're willing to share, @YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet ? I'd be useful in a pinch, I reckon.

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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 08/04/2023 11:10

Hello @liveandlearn91 - it may help other posters if you give more information about what guy/parasite you're referring to.

Fingers crossed we're not taken over by Cordyceps but if we are I'm putting in an early request for Pedro Pascal to help me navigate the dystopian landscape.

pickledandpuzzled · 08/04/2023 03:40

I think op may be talking about gut bacteria driving our appetite.

strawberryseed · 08/04/2023 03:13

I thought hotdogs had parasites in them? Or are you trying to catch some parasites? How will you know if you're doing things you don't want to do?

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 08/04/2023 02:00

"and evening food" is intriguingly cryptic, which gourmand possibilities are you thinking of, OP?

CrunchyCarrot · 08/04/2023 02:00

Last of Us is a terrible game - I wouldn't know, I was talking about the TV series. Didn't know it was a game, too!

was it Walking Dead 2012 game that made the zombie apocalypse stuff popular? No - zombies were popular long before the Walking Dead! Think back to Night of the Living Dead (1968) and even before that, White Zombie (1932)!

I'm not sure why we are talking about zombies. Is that what parasites are supposed to do to you? Will you be a zombie in one year's time?

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 08/04/2023 01:57

Is your friend the parasite and you the kindly host?
You look very jolly, unless its intestinal parasites you're thinking of, which is a whole different ball game ...... as I found out when I was rushed into hospital in India 🙃😖

Barold · 08/04/2023 01:54

How is you going on a new diet going to prove anything about parasites?

Wereongunoil · 08/04/2023 01:51

X files?

The truth is out there

mowly77 · 08/04/2023 01:45

I think you’re lost & you’re looking for Reddit?

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liveandlearn91 · 08/04/2023 01:43

CrunchyCarrot · 08/04/2023 00:36

It's not that far-fetched (although The Last of Us springs to mind here!). There are some parasites that can do this - in insects!

Mind control - How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00572/full

Also from Wiki:

The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, for example, infects small rodents and causes them to become careless and may even cause them to become attracted to the smell of feline urine, both of which increase their risk of predation and the parasite's chance of infecting a cat, its definitive host.

But I am not sure what you want to prove out of this post, OP. What behaviours do you think will be altered? That you will not stick to a new, healthier diet? You don't need a parasite to explain not being able to do so! Other biochemical explanations will suffice!

First of all. Last of Us is a terrible game. I mean was it Walking Dead 2012 game that made the zombie apocalypse stuff popular?.

In either case, the reason zombies are unrealistic is animals are primitive, they do primitive stuff. Sapient human despite being drunk on alcohol still has some sense of control. So its why its unrealistic and dumb theory to why its unreal scenario. Also i feel it glorifies poor people with guns is gonna solve problems rather than criticizing Reagen era of policies.

But its why i prefer Resident Evil because you can tell they add campy fun stuff in it because zombies is a concept thats not meant to be realistic or serious

If i wanted to watch sad people while having fun with it, i would go with Evangelion, good art but terrible plot.

But Soul 2020 movie is a good movie

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CrunchyCarrot · 08/04/2023 00:36

It's not that far-fetched (although The Last of Us springs to mind here!). There are some parasites that can do this - in insects!

Mind control - How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00572/full

Also from Wiki:

The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, for example, infects small rodents and causes them to become careless and may even cause them to become attracted to the smell of feline urine, both of which increase their risk of predation and the parasite's chance of infecting a cat, its definitive host.

But I am not sure what you want to prove out of this post, OP. What behaviours do you think will be altered? That you will not stick to a new, healthier diet? You don't need a parasite to explain not being able to do so! Other biochemical explanations will suffice!

Mind Control: How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts

Neuro-parasitology is an emerging branch of science that deals with parasites that can control the nervous system of the host. It offers the possibility of discovering how one species (the parasite) modifies a particular neural network, and thus partic...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00572/full

MoongazyHare · 08/04/2023 00:30

Nope. No idea. My cue to go to sleep, I think.

Pixiedust1234 · 08/04/2023 00:29

😮

Bananavape · 08/04/2023 00:26

What?

ChangedForEmbarrassingQuestions · 08/04/2023 00:23

EasterEggBunny · 07/04/2023 23:57

It's nearly midnight, by the time most people read it it'll be the 8th 🤷 or maybe poster isn't in UK and it's already 8th

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That is a very good point.

However, I am still perplexed by the thread as a whole.