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comment by Devac

    I can't think of a single other disease that doesn't impart some form of immunity.

I'd suppose HIV/AIDS doesn't.





kleinbl00  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

HIV/AIDS, Hep C and the like aren't really "cured." That's an infection that never goes away. Not the same.

Devac  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gotcha. I'm now kinda curious if those few rabies survivors developed any kind of immunity, but my google-fu wasn't strong enough.

am_Unition  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Whenever I meet someone, the first thing I ask them is "Would you rather have rabies, scabies, or babies?" (no I don't). I'm a "scabies" guy, myself.

kleinbl00  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How did this pick-up line go with your wife?

am_Unition  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hadn’t developed the -abies question yet, at the time, but she was 19, working at a bar, on the clock, and I scored them digits.

Fuck pickup artistry, just be yourself, kids.

Edit: lol, I had to look up Leisure Suit Larry, I thought it was pickup artist software coaching

kleinbl00  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess in a way it kind of was.

I got one buddy who coded it backintheday and my wife, as a summer job once, did online phone support for Sierra. Her two products were Leisure Suit Larry and After Dark.

goobster  ·  1866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh man I love/d After Dark. I wasted so many computer cycles on that...

kleinbl00  ·  1866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I am still running flying toasters as my screensaver across two platforms.

am_Unition  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Online phone support for Leisure Suit Larry?!? Holy shit, I wanna hear those stories someday.

kleinbl00  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

She's very demure about it. I've had that conversation several times - she says it was mostly flowchart shit, albeit more ridiculous than normal. "So. Did you get into the club? And did you buy the margarita? Did you get her back into the car? Which answer did you choose when she said she needed some air?" etc.

Keep in mind this is a woman who has made a career out of watching the vaginas of screaming women so it didn't really make much of an impression on her.

kleinbl00  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...thing is that's kind of the gold standard. Pasteur saved lives by coming up with a rabies vaccine, which means it is possible to impart immunity to rabies.

Thank god.

Devac  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sure, I just found the original statement (one I quoted) interesting.

kleinbl00  ·  1867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's an important question: is there a disease out there where you get it and it goes away but you get it again with no real immune response? Or are the ones that don't provoke an immune response the ones where you just... have it forever?