Excellent read. I was wondering how they deal with prions. It seems their "solution" is not feeding the human meat to children and usually not living past middle age. They seem to die from a lot of diseases, and I can't help but think some of them are prion related.

We could always make one up. Zungenfreude, tongue joy.

Der Spruch „Vielseitig” hat mir immer Zungenfreude bereitet.

Saying "versatile" always gave me tongue-joy.

Edit: it's pronounced "tsoong-en-froy-duh"

I'm currently reading "All the Knowledge in the World: A History of the Encyclopedia" by Simon Garfield. It mentions a similar thought held by some around the time of the creation of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. (Late 1700s, if I recall correctly)

There were too many books, and they were being printed by just anyone. Who needs a really long dictionary, anyway?

Alcohol also increases your blood pressure, and that has nothing to do with the liver. Still wouldn't be a good idea to be drunk all the time.

So, I'm also a layman. I have been following bird flu news articles since the massive wild bird deaths started.

For what it's worth, it didn't just start jumping to mammals recently. It's been infecting aquatic mammals for a while. I believe European minks and goats were infected even before that. Luckily, the virus doesn't currently seem to be infecting the lungs of cattle. Similarly, the one human who contracted it recently had no respiratory symptoms. It seems he touched a cow and then touched his eye, causing the spread.

Based on articles I've read, it won't be a problem for humans until the virus infects the upper respiratory tracts of humans easily.

However, with cattle farmers seemingly taking no precautions other than not milking sick cows (and I'm not even sure I believe that, honestly), it may just be a matter of time before that happens. Every infected cow is a place for the virus to spread and mutate.

"Which hand do you wipe with?"

[They answer]

"Huh, that's gross. I use toilet paper."

Pish posh.

Also, please censor Bri*ish next time.

That's half a carton (5 packs) a day some days. Even the most dedicated smokers I know only do about 2 packs a day. (I don't smoke, but I used to sell them.)

Gameboy camera was grayscale not sepia.

It's a pity that other languages weren't voice acted. I understand it would probably be prohibitively expensive with a game like this.

Unknown mobile client. Yeah, I'm pretty mysterious like that.

I was sitting in a friend's couch one day, and I said to him, "you're awfully jittery today." To which he replied, "I have Tourette's."

I had no idea. His tic was to twist his head slightly to the right. Fairly subtle.