Beware of Google Drifting...(Morgellons)

[furtech]

So...I was googling to see if the diatomaceous earth used in some pool filters could cause itchiness after swimming (no-- apparently it's just a skin reaction to bromide or chlorine). Also, apparently some people eat diatomaceous earth for some quackery and others use it as flea control for their cats and dogs (leading to very dusty homes apparently).

That led to links about something called "Morgellons Syndrome". There are arguments both for and against the actual existence of this disease, but I'm less inclined to believe those who dismiss it outright after the way Lyme's disease and chronic fatigue syndrome verifications turned out. Morgellons is that situation where mysterious fibers (black, white, red and blue) appear on or under the skin. Sometimes along with little, wriggling fibers that emerge from slow-healing sores.

That led to reading comments on Morgellons tagged videos on YouTube...which led to learning about the "chemtrail" government conspiracy. According to adherents of this conspiracy, "chemtrails" are a chemical-filled form of contrails left by planes that apparently our government is using to do everything from lower/prevent global warming to supporting the pharmaceutical industry by making us sick. Apparently Morgellons disease is caused by chemtrails, too. Those who believe in the chemtrail conspiracy are -rabid- about it. In other words, nutzo.

That led to links about other conspiracies (equally nutzo, yet fascinating), etc., etc.

Drift is a dangerous thing for the bored or work-avoiding...

Plus, an early drift from Morgellons Syndrome led to videos about other parasites. Here's what I learned: NEVER, EVER SEARCH YOUTUBE FOR "PARASITES"!!! Ack! I cut that drift WAY short!

The end result is that now I am itchy all over and need to take another shower. Aggghafhglll!

Comments

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you didn't end up lingering on the just as wacky (but much less itchy) conspiracy of TacMars (http://tinwiki.org/wiki/Tacmars).

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Great now I got sucked into reading that. Though I must point out the world's worst picture of a chupacabra. The top one. That's an OPOSSUM. A blurry opossum taken in bad lighting, but the spikey fur across the back, posture and white heads scream POSSUM.

Article also had a hilarious ad:
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[furtech.livejournal.com]

Could also go under, "Worst Photoshop Job" as well...those red eyes and fangs! Bwah!

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

They could at least picked a picture of a opossum hissing. Then they already look like space aliens!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Ooo! I looked TacMars up! That's so cool and, yet-- stupid! Now I'm all-looking at the backs of highway signs! Yet another thing to do while late-night dogwalking.

The stupid-crazy part is all of the people who earnestly believe that the reflective dots paper carriers and postmen put on mail boxes have -any- meaning beyond what paper or magazine people get. Gotta make sure you have a pink dot on your mailbox!

The unimpressive part of TacMars is that it generates only -five- pages of google images!

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

ARGH!

Oh man! Thanks for mentioning Morgellons Syndrome, because I was actually thinking about that recently and couldn't remember what it was called! Seriously, I was thinking to myself, "There this disease or something out there where people think they have threads under their skin, what was it called and how would I find it?"

BTW I need to write up my reaction to that thing you sent me. I'm sure it will be all the reaction you could hope for!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I love my friends. It's no wonder I'm not surprised that you mention you'd been thinking about exactly this bizarre, obscure syndrome. It's like Roz knowing instantly the name for that geological formation that separates the Cretaceous period from the Tertiary period. You guys are *gold*!

And yes, I eagerly await your all-guns-firing review/reaction of that publication. I'm just glad the package didn't open up on the way to you.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Heee...thank you for providing my morning LOL. Google drift to parasitism. I love it.

[vlen.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness, you know when you never do something... oh gods... youtube XD bad XD

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

I caught the very end of something on chemtrails the other day while watching TV. it was very much "am I on the wrong channel? I thought I was going to watch the History Channel, not the nutball channel." Of course I think I was tuning in to watch MonsterQuest, so it is the conspiracy channel in some cases...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

The History Channel (aka, "The Hitler Channel" or The War Channel") has lately become the Kook Channel. Monster hunting, conspiracies, etc. Still, when there's NOTHING ON the other 97 channels (I'm still amazed that can happen), some of it can be entertaining. The monster hunting shows are the biggest disappointments, though. Usually some losers talking in whispers for a hour, with a few clips of really bad CGI.

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

The ones where they've had an expert on that clearly says "no, this is a cat turd/ bear track/ dog hair/ etc" once they've examined the evidence and then they have another kook going "but next time we'll have proof!" are the funniest. It's like they're going "curses, foiled again!"

The had a pretty decent one on video footage of something swimming around in Florida where the experts totally couldn't agree. "It's a manatee" "it's definitely not a manatee... it's some kind of seal." "it COULD be this species that got declared extinct about ten years ago."

For some reason they don't have that one on the website.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that no one has created fake monster/cryptoid shows, with created or CG creatures and done straight, like that alien necropsy they hoaxed years ago. Kind of like those haunted/ghost-chaser shows they have now.

[mystifur.livejournal.com]

What have we learned ? Drift is never a good thing.

If Aetos boat drifted, he'd be sailing the wrong direction.
When you google drift, you learn about weird things...

Just imagine what happened if continents drifted..oh, wait.. they do !

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I agree, particularly about the continents part (if they would just stay still, we'd have fewer quakes!). Don't drink and drift! Or, don't -eat- and drift, unless you want to lose your appetite!

[lironess.livejournal.com]

I have found fibers in wounds but to me it is pretty obvious that they are torn nerves and they hurt like a mo fo if you try to pull them. They look like almost thin hairs or pieces of fur that stuck in the wound. I just cut them off or pinch them off. I am pretty sure that is what these people are seeing or blue veins and capillarys just under the surface that need to be left alone.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Dunno-- the pics of the fibers they pull out are not veins or even seem to be organic or tissue related. Could be kookery, but we'll see as evidence mounts one way or another. Still, neat/creepy to think about.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

That's why they call it the world wide WEB ... like that six degrees of separation, everything leads to everything else! ;P

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Yeah-- it's like those, "Choose Your Own Adventure," books! Click one way and you find cute kittens...the other way and you find a man with a face full of parasites. Heesh!

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Or a face full of parasitic kittens!

[albrecht-fur.livejournal.com]

The whole Morgellons thing is decidedly creepy. Not heard anything about the chemtrail stuff though, will have to set sail on google myself.