Weird News

[DanaC]

As I recall from some of your Russian stories, it's not really alcohol unless it can strip the furniture.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'd settle for the grade that can strip the ladies.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'd settle for the grade that can strip the ladies.

Liquid panty remover, exactly.

'Swat I'm talkin' 'bout.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A woman in L.A. had a stem cell facelift, causing her to grow a bone in her eyelid.

A resident of Los Angeles in her late sixties, she explained that she could not open her right eye without considerable pain and that every time she forced it open, she heard a strange click—a sharp sound, like a tiny castanet snapping shut. After examining her in person at The Morrow Institute in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Wu could see that something was wrong: Her eyelid drooped stubbornly, and the area around her eye was somewhat swollen. Six and a half hours of surgery later, he and his colleagues had dug out small chunks of bone from the woman's eyelid and tissue surrounding her eye, which was scratched but largely intact. The clicks she heard were the bone fragments grinding against one another.

About three months earlier the woman had opted for a relatively new kind of cosmetic procedure at a different clinic in Beverly Hills—a face-lift that made use of her own adult stem cells. First, cosmetic surgeons had removed some the woman's abdominal fat with liposuction and isolated the adult stem cells within—a family of cells that can make many copies of themselves in an immature state and can develop into several different kinds of mature tissue. In this case the doctors extracted mesenchymal stem cells—which can turn into bone, cartilage or fat, among other tissues—and injected those cells back into her face, especially around her eyes. The procedure cost her more than $20,000, Wu recollects. Such face-lifts supposedly rejuvenate the skin because stem cells turn into brand-new tissue and release chemicals that help heal aging cells and stimulate nearby cells to proliferate.

During the face-lift her clinicians had also injected some dermal filler, which plastic surgeons have safely used for more than 20 years to reduce the appearance of wrinkles. The principal component of such fillers is calcium hydroxylapatite, a mineral with which cell biologists encourage mesenchymal stem cells to turn into bone—a fact that escaped the woman's clinicians.

Krones beware, those salons clinics may not be a good idea.

[limey]

Originally Posted by DanaC

As I recall from some of your Russian stories, it's not really alcohol unless it can strip the furniture.

Sent by thought transference.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'd settle for the grade that can strip the ladies.

[Ibby]

MUCH less "weird news" than "funny internet commentary", but, thank you tumblr:

[footfootfoot]

Well at least she hasn't got a bone through her nose...

[ZenGum]

Bone in the eye? That's nothing. I've got an eye in the end of my bone.

[Nirvana]

That explains what those ticks are after...

[footfootfoot]

And blind in your one good eye, I've heard.

[ZenGum]

Infinity monkeys playing on typewriters may perhaps produce Shakespearean works, but give one monkey a TV and its all bloody day.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-adult-TV.html

'To enliven Gina's nights, officials decided to install a Freeview television, protected behind glass, and gave her a remote control so she could change the channels herself.

“In the early trials, her keepers visited Gina to check that everything was in order and she did not break the new toy.

“The surprise came when they found that within a few days, Gina was not only using the remote control perfectly well, but that she also chose the porn channel for entertainment, as many of us would have done.”

[footfootfoot]

Whoa that set me on an hour long Dailymail tangent. I feel caught up, though.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Whoa that set me on an hour long Dailymail tangent. I feel caught up, though.

Do you also feel a little dirty? Take a shower.

[footfootfoot]

I do feel a little dirty. How did you know? Did I leave my webcam on again?