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[TD1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRatIMUSu8

[scriver]

Herpes can't get covid Kagus, it's all right.

[Iduno]

*Sigh*...

I've got a girl visiting, someone I've known for a little while and had a few such dates with. She's nice, but she's also a little bit... Slow.

Not necessarily stupid, she just doesn't really think a lot of things through, because when she does it tends to take a while before she gets the thought through all the hoops.

While that's been interesting enough with covid-19 and trying to make sure she washes her hands each time she comes in from the outside (she does care, her dad's at risk and she doesn't want him to get sick, but she just doesn't remember things very well), this visit has been curious because she:

• Has a cold sore
• Doesn't seem to be the most knowledgeable on how cold sores work
• Keeps forgetting that she has a cold sore

So one thing has been dodging her lingual advances whenever she forgets and goes in for a kiss, but this morning she woke up and decided she wanted veggies and dip for breakfast. Alright. Give me a minute to get everything prepped...

...and then partway through the bowl she double-dips without even noticing. Welp. So much for my breakfast.

And that was pretty much her last piece, she's full now, and the dip's still got 1/3rd left.

I suppose it's on me for not arranging two different bowls for this eventuality, but... Buh.

Eh...it's just herpes. Don't something like 1/3 of people have herpes?

[Kagus]

"50-80% of the adult population in the US have HSV-1" according to one extremely scientific site I flipped past before (presumably the very high numbers and variance are due to asymptomatic carriers). No idea what Norway's numbers are though.

Still, I'd... Rather not. Incurable, constantly transmissible diseases aren't actually my idea of a good time generally speaking (sorry grandpa Nurgle).


Not exactly helping my nerves that I've got something which is most likely just a very unfortunately-placed/timed zit brewing on the edge of my lip now.

[Egan_BW]

Nurgle's fun, but there's only one blood god.

[Kagus]

Nurgle's fun, but there's only one blood god.

Pus for the pus god!

Boogers for the booger throne!

[scriver]

There's no way of knowing wether it's genital herpes or mouth herpes, so why not take the chance?

[Grim Portent]

I got lax on checking my snake's shed and now he's lost the last few mm of his tail because I'm an idiot.

I didn't check his tail after his last shed and there was some stuck to him that cut off bloodflow to the final scales on his tail, which then proceeded to go necrotic and came off in my fingers while bathing him today when I noticed the area was discolored.

He seems fine, it's not bleeding, there's just a little spot of raw flesh which should heal up fine, it happens to tons of pet snakes. Nevertheless I feel like a shitty pet owner.

[Dunamisdeos]

Poor snek.

How do they avoid that in the wild?

[Iduno]

There's no way of knowing wether it's genital herpes or mouth herpes, so why not take the chance?

Pretty sure they're the same virus.

Nurgle's fun, but there's only one blood god.

And only every few weeks.

[Grim Portent]

Poor snek.

How do they avoid that in the wild?

They hide in damp leaflitter and holes in the ground which help their shed stay soft and pliable so it can peel off them as they move around. In captivity they need to have damp conditions provided for them, but it can be hard to maintain them.

Wild ones do have shedding problems, lost tail tips is common among wild and pet snakes alike, but because they're free to seek specific conditions when they feel themselves shedding it's easier for wild snakes to take care of it without outside intervention.

Part of the problem my snake has had in the past is that he somehow lost a few small scales just below the tip of his tail, which has in turn made him have more problems with shedding the bit on the tip.

[Kagus]

Pretty sure they're the same virus.

Look, it's perfectly simple: One virus causes oral/facial outbreaks but can also lead to genital infections, while the other virus causes genital outbreaks but can also lead to oral/facial infections.

They're completely different!

[Frumple]

Someone else goddamn ate my cheesecake.

[TD1]

Dude wrong thread this is for things which are mildly upsetting.

[scriver]

Pretty sure they're the same virus.

Look, it's perfectly simple: One virus causes oral/facial outbreaks but can also lead to genital infections, while the other virus causes genital outbreaks but can also lead to oral/facial infections.

They're completely different!

This is why herpes is my favourite std

Someone else goddamn ate my cheesecake.

Dude wrong thread this is for things which are mildly upsetting.

There's only one course of action to right this wrong. Make the perp -- may, the terrorist -- a cheesecake. Then tell them you've made them cheesecake and left it in the fridge. Then eat the cheesecake before they can have it.