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18:38 January 31st, 2008

With trends like these, who needs enemas?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, , ,

You know how 10-year-old boys have competitions to see who can come up with the grossest thing? Well, watch and learn, kids.

It turns out people visiting a health resort got kind of a rude shock when a nurse giving them enemas failed to use water. Instead, she used hydrogen peroxide. Well, yes, the stuff you can bleach your hair with. Seventeen of them had to be treated in a hospital after the mix-up, according to our story.

I am not going to say anything else about this; you can just use your imagination for the rest. Or better still, ask a 10-year-old.

spa-hands-300.jpgNo, no, this is just healing oil, and this is a 2007 file photo of somebody at a petroleum spa in Azerbaijan. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

7 comments so far

All I can say is that I almost puked when I saw that picture. I know it’s not what it looks like…but really…I almost puked.

- Posted by K

[...] With Trends Like These Who Needs Enemas? You know how 10-year-old boys have competitions to see who can come up with the grossest thing? Well, watch and learn, kids. [...]

- Posted by This Month’s Best Headline | Going Like Sixty

She’s obviously been reading Wikipedia recently.

And could you have found a less, or perhaps more, appropriate photo to go with this?

- Posted by Charlene

Is it time to choose champagne’s new nickname to replace ‘bubbly?’

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

That’s it. I have never voluntarily gotten an enema and now, I never, ever will.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Dear Basler,

Hydrogen peroxide enemas are mild. Now polonium farting, this is where the real action is at. I recommend you try it:

http://www.profscrub.com/2006/11/poloniu m-my-arse.html

Your radioactive farting Professor,
Prof Scrub
http://www.profscrub.com

- Posted by Prof Scrub

Good thing they didnt forget to pay their hydrogen peroxide bill.

- Posted by John C Abell

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