November 29, 2005

Your kisses tase like wine, er peanut butter? This reminds meof a bad movie.....
posted by Crackpot 18 years ago
  • Hey, it could have been murder. The guy must have known about the allergy, maybe they had an argument. He feigned rapprochement, snacked on a packet of salty ones, then kissed the poor kid.
  • Damn! I was just about to post this link. You know what's really morbidly funny? When this article loaded up, so did a sidebar ad for Match.com. Best specify allergies in one's profile.
  • (That bad movie being X-Men, where Anna Paquin kisses that guy and he goes all wonko?)
  • I should point out that being a mutant is not usually listed in online services like match.com. okay, it probably isn't. Anyone know for sure?
  • When I read about this on CNN, I was struck by the following:
    Peanut allergies have been rising in recent decades. The reason remains unclear, but one study found that baby creams or lotions with peanut oil may cause children to develop allergies later in life.
    I don't know if that "one study" is well regarded, but it kind of sounds like my mom's idea that my brother is allergic to beans because she rubbed him down with some chickpea flour as a baby.
  • That's cruel, and unusual. How sad.
  • Wow, that must have been one wet kiss. Or can just a little dab kill you?
  • There was a better one last week. A Pakistani teenager was visiting his girl friend at her apartment. When her parents suddenly came home. The teenager tied some bedsheets together and tryed scaling down the side of the building from the fifthtenth floor. Feeeeew!!. Talk about unexpected arrivals.
  • That's cruel, and unusual. How sad. The kiss or the chickpea flour?
  • It was an "O cruel fate!" in the Sonnet 27 sense Lara, lamenting a young life ended in the first blush of love. I find it hard to believe that anything so nice as chickpeas could be responsible for any ill in the world.
  • Stuffed that up, Sonnet 27 to Fidessa it was supposed to read. And now I re-read the poem it wasn't really an appropriate cite anyhow. That's waht you get for trying to look clever.
  • For whatever reason, I don't find this funny at all. Seems really, really sad to me. / Maybe if it was in a movie, and didn't really happen to some poor girl, I'd get a chuckle.
  • This is tragic - especially at 14 years of age. Though it's too late for the girl in this story, scientists have been working on a vaccine for peanut allergies.
  • Very sad. How long before some abstinence-only class makes this the Scare Tactic of the Month?
  • What's really weird is the way this is spreading - it's a Canadian story and it was in the papers here quite some time before it popped up everywhere else, almost virally. I can't quite tell what gives it that staying power, finding it myself to be a sad story but with very little substance. Even this link proves it - the story is only a few sentences long. Then again, even the first time I saw it in the Globe here, it was presented in a sensational style - tragic kiss!!1one type stuff - so I guess that's enough of a hook? How depressing, really.
  • I remember this one time, true news story, a dog jumps off a balcony(not sure what floor) lands on a passer by, then some old woman watching the whole thing dies of a heart attack. This story was then written into "something about mary", the Ben Stiller flick.
  • How about the guy? Is he marked for life as having the Lips of Death? If nothing else, the experience of being with someone who died shortly after he touched them will be hard to get over. I would have nightmares for months. Not pretty.
  • HEY, THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!!! I'm allergic to peanuts,and even touching - peanut butter lips would cause hers,or mine to swell to say the least of it!!
  • I knew a lesbian like that, she wouldn't touch my peanuts if I paid her.
  • /flashback of date-gone-to-hell with girl with ashtma - who hadn't revealed this info beforehand. Watching her fumble for her bag in a dark cinema, when she had been OK the second before, the bag falls down, she can't tell me what's hapenning, etc. etc... oh sheez... *shudder*
  • That sounds more like...choking.
  • If only... no, she really was looking for her ventolin gizmo. Had to leave amid both boos and concerned patron's help (who could recognize an attack better than dumb me) to the lobby. Oh, she survived. But after that, the budding relationship went kaput.
  • peanut butter lips would cause hers,or mine to swell to say the least of it!! Will...resist...urge...to...make...bad...joke..... My first thought was for the boyfriend, too, EarWax. He must have been horrified.
  • What he had earwax on his lips too?
  • I am allergic to shellfish. I have a 24 hour rule with my partner that says she is not allowed to kiss me within 24 hours of ingesting shellfish. I'm not willing to take the risk. A friend of mine, an allergist, showed my a study a few years ago that illustrated the dangers of penicillin allergies amongst partners. In the article, a man took penicillin, then had sex with his wife, who was allergic. She had an anaphylactic reaction to his penicillin-laced semen. I've been much more vigilant since I read that artice.
  • I have that reaction with bees. So no getting stung by a bee then kissing me. Hmm...is this a good plot for a murder mystery novel? Probably been done.
  • Axh, don't listen to this woman! I have never kissed her! I have never ao much as shaken hands with her! Seriously, severe allergies are rapid onset and very scary since your airway is affected, and ye can't breathe. /allergic to shellfish *sobs*