World's Leading Entomologist Calls For Someone To Get It Off

[polaris93]

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/worlds-leading-entomologist-calls-for-someone-to-g,17127/

Comments

[hannahsarah]

When I lived in New York, I worked with this really cool guy. At the time I was having trouble finding an apartment I could afford, and he needed a roommate. We were discussing if we thought we could be compatible or not. He asked me "Do you have entophobia?" and I said "No, I have etophobia. I'm afraid of knowing the origins of words."

Then we both cracked up and decided I could move in until I found a new place.

It turns out that he was studying clinical entomology, and his apartment was full of textbooks showing people in various states of horrible infestation. DX

[polaris93]

There seem to be two types of people in the world: those who find books/photos on entemology (and those interested in them) fascinating, and those who run screaming at the sight/sound of either. It's like forensic pathology: you either love it or hate it. Sounds like you're one of the lucky ones who don't run screaming from entemology. :-)

[hannahsarah]

I'm pretty cool with medical stuff. Crime scenes and violence are a whole other subject. That sort of stuff freaks me out, but flesh eating bacteria are no problem.

[polaris93]

I think the difference has to do with perceived malice -- bacteria aren't malicious, but people can be and often are, and that is what lies behind human violence.

[hannahsarah]

EXACTLY! It's all about intent and motivation. A parasite is just trying to get a meal, and they only eat as much as they need. Far more moral, in my books.

[polaris93]

I know. I've known a bunch of sociopaths in my time -- not because I wanted to; I seem to be a magnet for them, and it takes a while for their real nature to show itself -- and malice of any kind sends me up the wall. Not that I'm all sweetness and light, myself; my nerves are permanently shot to you-know, and rather than a temper, I seem to have a nuclear reactor which occasionally chooses to pull a Cernobyl. But cruelty and destruction for the sake of it is not my bag. I could never indulge in them as participatory sports the way some people seem to. So I can only agree.