• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I can fit quarters and €2 coins in my nostrils. I used to have a drunkenness level that would prompt me to assert this at parties or bars, and then I’d obviously show people.

    Nobody wants their coins back after that, but it’s not very lucrative and I shudder to think now about the diseases I tempted.

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      8 hours ago

      Likely got some beta-hemolytic staphylococcus aureus all up in there. It’s a community derived strain of a common microorganism of the skins biome that can kill blood cells. Do you get sore-throats often, itchy nostrils?

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        8 hours ago

        It’s been a decade or more since I did it, but I wasn’t very frequently sick at the time, nor am I now. I do get more severely sick than my husband now, but he’s an overweight omnivore and I’m an underweight vegan, so I assume it’s more related to that. Itchy nostrils sound awful, but I’ve never had them.