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What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity?
CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling — and disturbing — questions Google is regularly forced to answer."
I agree. Hydrogren peroxide is a common home remedy for ear-aches and wax buildup. It seems reasonable (and even smart) for someone, upon receiving advice to put hydrogen peroxide in his ears, to plug it into Google to see if it's actually a good idea.
I also don't think "Why would a pregnancy test be negative?" is that crazy a question. Yes, there's the obvious answer (you're not pregnant), but one might assume the intention of the question is "Are there reasons why a pregnancy test would be negative even if the woman were pregnant?" Pregnancy tests aren't 100% accurate, after all, so someone might have just wanted to know what factors might throw one off.
In fact, most of the questions in this article are pretty valid questions that I can understand a person wanting the answer to. "Am I going into labor?" Well it's not necessarily immediately obvious, and there's even such a thing as "false labor". "Why would a married man cheat?" It's a valid question, and I bet there are interesting scientific studies that try to address the question.
One of the sites I like to look at from time to time is a blog of webmasters who post some of the more bizarre search requests that have led people to their sites. A recent one: "masturbate with armor all". http://www.disturbingsearchrequests.com/
I should read the article.
Hopefully it does not simply say "the Bible is wrong about this, so why use it for that?" as - whether true or not - that misses the "out of context" point.
People that believe the Bible still very, very, very frequently take it out of context and simply use it as proof of their own ideas. "proof-texting." Finding texts to prove your idea instead of finding the idea the text is giving...
I was camping once during a nice summer weekend.. no chance of rain so i just slept on the ground. Early morning something was crawling on my face (happens a lot) so i swiped it off and was planning on going back to sleep. It was a little black beetle and i startled him badly apparently because he decided to find refuge in my ear.
You can imagine my surprise.. my surprise deepened into worry when i realized my finger could not get him out and he was still burrowing (or whatever it is beetles do). After a few minutes it really really started to hurt and i could hear the beetle screaming or something.. it was beyond loud. I tried not to panic and re-packed what little i had to GTFO of the woods. Made it maybe a half mile and could barely jog in a straight line. Stashed my pack and kept going. He stopped screaming and burrowing and the pain was down to a throb (but still quite intense). Blood was coming out of the ear and i couldn't hear anymore.
Anyways, finally got back to base and the hospital. They flushed my ear with a pinkish fluid and a large syringe type thing, just like you described. Of course they had to bring every freaking doctor and nurse in the hospital down to see the guy with a beetle in his ear. Not that i really cared at that point, giggling doctors is nothing compared to a beetle inside your head. After a dozen or so high pressure blasts and the little guy (and some of his legs) came out. What a relief!
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