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- NateHKA, on 05/03/2009, -10/+766My wife must be healthy. She's a bitch.
- RanIntoTheDevil, on 05/03/2009, -8/+596Swine flu and now mind controlling cat parasites. We are all doomed.
- anixmander, on 05/03/2009, -9/+549When I read the first line there, I was expecting to see an Onion article.
- diemunkiesdie, on 05/03/2009, -12/+476"Research has shown that women who are infected with the parasite tend to be warm, outgoing and attentive to others, while infected men tend to be less intelligent and probably a bit boring."
Alright, who's with me, let's infect all the women in the world! - seanayb, on 05/03/2009, -3/+348I now have an excuse for my unintelligent, boring nature.
- fastguyrules, on 05/03/2009, -178/+478Yet another reason why dogs are better than cats.
- tomjm5000, on 05/03/2009, -10/+288News flash: boring men and hysterical women have cats.
Glad science has shown us why. - bphm42, on 05/03/2009, -9/+279I want to see the data for this research. For some reason I highly doubt their conclusion.
- puntloos, on 05/03/2009, -3/+206The real question is twofold:
1/ Do I have the parasite
2/ How do I get rid of it?
(this applies mostly to males, the effects on females seem .. more benign?) - sageerrant, on 05/03/2009, -1/+195Lolcats, finally explained.
- netneutrality, on 05/03/2009, -0/+187The parasite is making you say that.
- Dennisisok, on 05/03/2009, -5/+178GET IT OUT
GET IT OUT
HOW DO I GET IT OUT
OH GOD GET IT OUT
GET IT OUT - Edudris, on 05/03/2009, -2/+158"It can change the personality of a rat so much that the rat surrenders itself to a cat, just as the parasite wanted."
"The behavior of the rat undergoes a dramatic change, making the rat more adventuresome and more likely to hang out around cats."
"We have a parasite in our brain that is trying to get transmitted to a cat," he says. "This changes an individual's personality."
Is this why some of us find cats to be so irresistibly cute? Is it a parasite making us feel this way? - inactive, on 05/03/2009, -4/+142""This isn't about trying to freak cat owners out," he says. "Simply having a cat as a pet doesn't mean you're going to get infected, for sure."
"The parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has been transmitted indirectly from cats to roughly half the people on the planet,"
I'm getting mixed messages... - tas08, on 05/03/2009, -3/+134That's what she said.
- Peach3s, on 05/03/2009, -14/+132bunch of pussies
- teemingvoid, on 05/03/2009, -5/+109yeah, you really shouldn't eat under cooked cat.. parasites, ya know?
- LostFaction, on 05/03/2009, -7/+105you are now entering... the twilight zone
- nokstar, on 05/03/2009, -4/+97Meanwhile at the Legion of Doom....
- llamagod, on 05/03/2009, -4/+85Only 1 in 8 in the U.S.? Well that's a 12.5% chance, not bad lol. Same number of kids that obsessively draw dicks.
- Phillycat81, on 05/03/2009, -5/+85Yu can has mi parysites
- avalokiteshvara, on 05/03/2009, -4/+82Oh I get it.... it's Caturday.
- Kyan, on 05/03/2009, -0/+77I see a new legal defence in the making... >^o•o^<
- Harelin, on 05/03/2009, -3/+80So how would someone go about getting tested?
- bkraj, on 05/03/2009, -0/+74This has been around a long time, even this article is from 2006.
- Xantu, on 05/03/2009, -6/+80This article is almost 3 years old...
- Choobie, on 05/03/2009, -2/+75That's why I always cook cats thoroughly.
- westyvw, on 05/03/2009, -4/+77From Wikipedia (Has source):
One study suggests that a possible behavior modification is that people not infected with the parasite found women with toxoplasma more attractive than women who don't have toxoplasma. - Amadeus2490, on 05/03/2009, -2/+71Tickle your pelvic splanglic ganglion.
- Vindexus, on 05/03/2009, -2/+69I know there's something wrong with me because I when I read that sentence I thought "a semi-colon would've kicked ass right there."
- bruce1q, on 05/03/2009, -1/+67Reading this I could not stop thinking about eating gas station sandwiches.
- webznz, on 05/03/2009, -12/+76can your dog control the minds of over half the worlds population??? i think not... CATS RULE!
- LimeParrot, on 05/03/2009, -4/+66HONEY?!?
- melivorous, on 05/03/2009, -0/+62what!?
but if i get rid of it ill never laugh at a lolcat again - Jascol, on 05/03/2009, -9/+71Dog crap causes blindness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3116684 - KingGorilla, on 05/03/2009, -0/+54Then we're already dead
- dsanonline, on 05/03/2009, -6/+58Jaffa! Kree!
- keviniskool, on 05/03/2009, -0/+52This explains Garfield.
- mttmcgrgr, on 05/03/2009, -3/+52Maybe this explains why some people enjoy lolcats and some don't.
- freedomischaos, on 05/03/2009, -0/+47Because half of the world's population doesn't live in America. It's simple really. There are many more cats that live outdoors and feed on rats in other parts of the world than in the States, which is why the ratio is so low for Americans.
- darkuk, on 05/03/2009, -3/+49im in ur headz parasitin ur thoughtz
- inactive, on 05/03/2009, -1/+478===D%
- Toshibi, on 05/03/2009, -3/+47A few mutations here....shake in some more there....you get zombies. Just saying.
- bjornski, on 05/03/2009, -1/+45We can send the head in for examination and have the results back in about 2 weeks.
- MasterGrief, on 05/03/2009, -5/+48Half the population on the planet is a pretty big claim to make, but this isn't the first I've heard on the subject. Maybe it's right. That said, this looks like a very sensational article, so I'm not going to click it and give them the ad revenue they're looking for.
- bjornski, on 05/03/2009, -3/+45I welcome our feline overlords....
- desertDenizen, on 05/03/2009, -0/+40That was the exact line where I glanced up at the top expecting to see The Onion.
- ruiner32, on 05/03/2009, -1/+40awesome.
- wemessy, on 05/03/2009, -1/+40Dude, does anyone remember Animorphs? It's like the yerks (or however you spell it)!
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