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Woman Swallows Eight Live Frogs to Cure Her Back Pain (www.odditycentral.com)
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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The article doesn't say if it worked. Says it caused stomach pain and parasite infection, but no mention of back pain.

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Your brain is too busy worrying about the pain in your guts to worry about the pain in your back

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

checkmate modern science

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Let the parasites cook, maybe they can fix it

[–] remon@ani.social 23 points 2 months ago

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

No mention of helping her back pain, but it caused a lot of pain to 8 frogs though.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Damn, poor frogs.

I hope she croaks 😏

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

This woman could be on the career fast track at RFK Jr's HHS!

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Those poor frogs..

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean

...

Did it work? 🐸

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was going to ask the same thing, but her being hospitalised because of it probably answers that.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

But how does her back feel? 🐸

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Article posted on a Wednesday of course

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Meine Kerle!

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, leave us hanging, Oddity Central.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is she related to the old lady who swallowed a fly?

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She swallowed the frogs to catch the fly.

I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

In fairness to her, she swallowed a spider to catch the fly. That should solve it.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

Damned oppotunistic omnivores.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

I'm kind of curious about the moon logic behind it, but I've spoken to enough people in the subway to know that there may be none.

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eight? One or two wasn't enough?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Dose matters, that's just pharmacology.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

This website sure doesn't like to list its sources