And yet it remains funny!
I can't stay away from it. Every time someone posts in here I look!
Ditto !! It's a bit like trying not to rubber neck by as you drive past a car crash.
A long tme ago when I was working in the hospital lab. we had to do a test every Friday called a faecal fat. I will spare you the details but it was done on a 3 day collection.
The most junior person in the lab had to do it and it was gross, even in the fume cupboard. One week the new lad in the lab found it was his turn. We had all learned at Uni. that long,long ago they used to test for diabetes by sticking a fnger in urine and if it was sweet, the px was diabetic.
The previous night, one of the samples had been substited with chocolate , partly melted and gravy mix.Pretty realistic.
The folowing morning the guy demonstrating the test, reminded the unsuspecting lad of the old diabetes test and proceeded to dmonstrate with the dummy sample what was required of the fat test.
Exclaiming out loud, high leverl triglycerides, LDL and HDL within rasonable parameters, the next thing the boy had fainted. I laughed so much my sides hurt.
He moved into cytology not long after.
I could do a whole section on hospital life. I think being surrounded by sick and dying humans, often working at night etc brings out the sick, macabre in some people, it is a sort of protection barrier. Many people became terrible hypochondriacs, often doing as many tests on themselves as others, myself included.
This post can be moved or deleted if it is too offensive, my sense of humour radar is set pretty low.