Norway seems like to most generous country, almost an anomaly in a world of expansion politics. They have been trying to gift Finalnd a mountain!

Granny got him à grammy

Aye, it's effectively a soft sanding pad. They rub off paint and smear it.

That's all the world will have soon...the sound of bees :(

Hahahaha!

I tried this but so far no one has offered me a job.

I'm amused, disturbed, in awe and sad all at once

It's a tribal community Inside the Grand Canyon. They don't want a road, because they would be drastically over-run with tourists. Also, people who are willing to hike 8 miles are far quieter than hundreds of vehicles.

I am an avid reader, maybe I could profit off of this.

I'm going to be thinking about this all day now.... A row of ladybirds lined up outside the clinic, not looking eachother in the face

Not surprising considering how schizophrenia can impact people’s relationship with reality as well as considering how the world views people with such mental disorder. To add, how in most part of the world, the disease is often treated as paranormal condition.

I guess I must write a horror story now.

In France, in those days, there was a slur which said 'crétin des Alpes', basically mountain (Alps) idiot, because of the intellectual deficiency due to the lack of iodine in this area.

So they lived long enough to die of cancer, unlike their reproducing sisters

Turbulent? He raped her, abused her (physically), cheated on her with many women and was an unstable, sick man.

This sounds depressing to me!

Maggots clean wounds up beautifully! I treated a festering skin cancer infected with maggots & they had made the skin as clean as a whistle. Was amazing to see.

I had this treatment in August! Couldn't feel a thing and they seriously improved my wounds!

I WAS EATING!!!

EEEWWW WHAT. THE. *@/#=#@*€\€[£<€]. IS. THATTTTTTTTT

isnt; that a beetle larva??

They did this in world war 1 and 2.

For all that's holy, what is that... thing... in the picture!?

Bruh. How big is the fly gonna be from THAT larva?? 😳

I worked in a hospital, and one afternoon took delivery of a box maggots.

I'd do it if it was my best option, but I really don't want to think about maggots eating my flesh.

There is a fly that produces maggots that likes fresh flesh. The screwworm infested parts of Texas and Mexico during the 60s. My Dad had to shoot a fawn whose entire side was a mass of maggots. It was terrible. They stopped the infestation by parachuting packages with irradiated male flies, which rendered the females sterile. Worked a treat.

That is a BIG bug.

Okay, but what I want to know is WTF kind of giant caterpillar is she holding in the picture???

To try and reduce the "ick factor" to patients, it is usually referred to as "larval therapy".

I would require full anesthesia for this treatment.

As do maggots.

This has been done through out history. Even during WWII. "Intern" by "Dr. X" tells about when he was faced with a homeless person who had a whopping huge open sore on his leg. It was covered with maggots. He didn't know what to do, but the charge nurse, grabbed a bottle of ether and poured it over the would and "washed away" the maggots. The nurse told him that the maggots only eat dead tissue and they were the best way to treat gangrenous wounds. He said that he was shocked at how "clean" and "pink" the tissue was. Started healing up right away.

No one remembers the scene from Gladiator?

Wtf does she have in her hands though????

Well nobody uses the Monster-Maggot in the picture for that. They use small sterile medical grade larvae.

That sure is a hell of a lot of nope in that picture.

They figured this out during the Civil War. Wounded soldiers that were on the field for days (with maggots) often fared better than soldiers immediately brought in and treated.

I DO NOT like the giant NOPE in the picture.

Oh, my eyes. I want to unsee that pic.

This is quite common

Gross to see but incredibly efficient.

Leeches are also surgically useless but same problem, though not to the extent of maggots ick factor.