How do you sanitise the area to prevent infection? If you get surgery on the rusty sheriff's badge, how does it not get infected the next time you lay an otter egg? Do they connect a colostomy bag in that case, to give it time to heal?

You can get a lethal infection from a paper cut if the right (see: wrong) bacteria get into it. Short of piledriving a snooker cue coated with hand sanitiser, I don't know how a filthy corridor of doom like the excretory system can be kept free of bacteria after Dr. Bussy Torn MD has been rooting around in there with his weed whacker.

Surely antibiotics aren't enough on their own to prevent infection? Anywhere else in the body, sure, but the chucklet waterpark is like ground zero for biological malevolence. It would be like wearing nothing but a steel showercap to keep mosquitos from biting you.

What dark arts are surgeons invoking here?

The validity of the 'map' of the brain used as the basis for this idea has been called into question.

Arthur Upfield was writing a novel in which a killer comes up with the perfect murder scenario. In short, the killer puts the corpse of his victim inside a dead cow's gut, and burns both of them at the same time. He removes any metal fragments, such as jewellery, belt buckles and teeth, dissolving them in acid, then smashes up the bony ash and scatters it to the winds.

Unable to think of a way for his fictional detective to actually solve such an ingenious scheme, he starts asking friends and acquaintances for ideas. Word gets about town, and a fellow named Snowy Rowles decides that he'll put it to the test. He murdered three people, the first two of whom were killed exactly as written, and no one suspected him. The third is where he got sloppy, and he forgot to remove and dissolve the metal fragments, and the victim's distinctive ring was found.

Snowy maintained his innocence, but was hanged.

I was watching a film yesterday (went in blind) and during the opening credits I saw something along the lines of "Special effects artist for the Creature". I had no idea the movie was going to have a creature in it before reading that, so when it was eventually revealed later in the film I was kinda annoyed that I knew it was coming. Would have been pretty cool to have it sprung on me out of the blue, because there were no hints during the preceding part of the film that anything supernatural or weird was happening.

It got me thinking about what other films contain spoilers in the opening credits. Do you have any other examples?

One notable incident occurred in 1326, when a gong-farmer named Richard the Raker fell into a cesspit whose ceiling had rotted, and drowned while collecting feces.

Possibly the worst death on the job ever?

Do you ever notice how 99.9% of the time when a reviewer says this, they err on the side of a negative review? 🤔

What are the consequences of not severing it? I imagine you'd have the weirdest bellybutton on earth if nothing else.

Cheers!

We get novelisation of films, but what about plays? I know I can freely read his plays anywhere online, but surely reading a script is less ideal than reading a novelised version written for people who were born sometime after Bach, assuming you're not planning a word-for-word performance yourself of course.

I don't even enjoy reading the scripts for my favourite films, and I understand all of the words, phrasings and allusions in those. With Shakespeare, I need to do a 4-year college course just to know what the fuck he's on about.

This isn't me being anti-intellectual, I respect anyone who can read through Shakespeare and enjoy it, it's more about life being too fucking short and I'd like to experience the stories in a less torturous manner if possible.

If this has been attempted, can you recommend any authors?

Cheers!

By way of an example, I was eating a salad which had raw onions in it. I then took a sip of Coke. The combination of the two flavours was amazing, but I know that if someone handed me an onion-infused Coke, I'd find it horrid.

What the hell is the difference?