Here comes the science!

[meresy]

Strange/funny things encountered in fic/the internet:

- A character waking up and attempting to focus his retinas. Sounds painful.

- Liquid nitrogen being kept in a sealed container. Firstly, it's not a bomb, you don't have to be afraid... but it WILL be a bomb if you don't have an outlet for the pressure.

- A spoon, frozen in liquid N2,

Comments

[etcetera_cat]

I...think I'm going to laugh along with you.

[meresy]

I have been trying to collect all these random "wait, what?" moments for a post just such as this. I know I've forgotten some. I have to get better at making a note.

[etcetera_cat]

I keep meaning to do a collective post of all the weird things people ask me at work, but I suspect that they'll only be funny to me, and just plain skeevy to everyone else (so it turns out that if you're too embarrassed to actually go to the STD clinic, the next port of call is to anonymously phone up a vet practice and list symptoms to them until the nurse on the end has to "put you on hold while I just check something" and then fall off her chair laughing)

[meresy]

LMAO.

I challenge anyone not to find that hilaritizing.

[etcetera_cat]

The best one was the person I had phone up and inform me that her son had just been diagnosed with hepatitis (from being a Naughty Boy), but her main concern was whether or not the family dog was going to catch it from him. I didn't want to ask what she thought her son and the dog would be doing together O_o