So I have a disgusting story. I was bowling every Monday night in a bar league. I’m not a serious bowler by any means so I always just chose a random ball at the alley. Well, one night I chose the wrong ball. I started the game and threw the ball. As I sat down after my frame I noticed a strange smell. I don’t know if you’ve ever stuck your finger in a butthole, but that’s exactly what my finger smell liked. My fingers smelled like I just shoved them into a fresh pile of shit. I gagged, freaked out, and ran to the restroom. That week I went and bought my own ball. Never ever will I use a public ball. And yes. I’ve thought of every scenario possible in which a bowling ball can smell that shitty, and it just frightened me more.
OTOH (god, I can't believe I'm gonna say this), the fact that we're not getting sick en masse from bowling balls and whatever else you can think of shows the resiliency of the human immune system.
A long time ago and in a land far away, I took a brutal semester long course in microbiology. I learned that at any given time there are roughly the same as or actually more bacterial and virus cells in and on our bodies than there are human cells. So it makes sense that it really does take a lot for the average person to get sick from simple contact with nasty microbes.
sit_down_and_color on December 29th, 2020 at 02:19 UTC »
Pretty sure I remember seeing a study decades ago where the main substance found in bowling alley bowling balls was human fecal matter....
Pump_N_Dump on December 29th, 2020 at 02:49 UTC »
So I have a disgusting story. I was bowling every Monday night in a bar league. I’m not a serious bowler by any means so I always just chose a random ball at the alley. Well, one night I chose the wrong ball. I started the game and threw the ball. As I sat down after my frame I noticed a strange smell. I don’t know if you’ve ever stuck your finger in a butthole, but that’s exactly what my finger smell liked. My fingers smelled like I just shoved them into a fresh pile of shit. I gagged, freaked out, and ran to the restroom. That week I went and bought my own ball. Never ever will I use a public ball. And yes. I’ve thought of every scenario possible in which a bowling ball can smell that shitty, and it just frightened me more.
TheGreatOpoponax on December 29th, 2020 at 03:48 UTC »
OTOH (god, I can't believe I'm gonna say this), the fact that we're not getting sick en masse from bowling balls and whatever else you can think of shows the resiliency of the human immune system.
A long time ago and in a land far away, I took a brutal semester long course in microbiology. I learned that at any given time there are roughly the same as or actually more bacterial and virus cells in and on our bodies than there are human cells. So it makes sense that it really does take a lot for the average person to get sick from simple contact with nasty microbes.