While this is legitimately awful, I keep seeing this story, and my brain keeps singing "every human testicle" in the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's major-general's song, and I am not going to suffer alone.
Eric Topol @EricTopol
The highly pro-inflammatory and pervasive microplastics and nanoplastics: previously found in arteries and associated with increased in heart attacks and strokes, now in all human testes that were assessed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Note: HUMAN TESTES
(I am very sorry, but now maybe my brain will stop)
Microplastics have been found in every human testicle;
In our spermatozoa and in each tiny vesicle.
This gunk is closely linkéd with heart attacks (and also strokes)
But I don't know what to do about it—
Sorry to alarm you folks...
MICROPLASTICS HAVE BEEN FOUND INSIDE OF
EV'RY HUMAN TESTICLE
THEY'VE FOUND THEM IN ALL THINGS MINERAL ANIMAL AND VEG'TABLE
THE SHIT IT'S DOING TO US IS UNKNOWABLE, UNMENTIONABLE
FROM MARATHON TO WATERLOO IT'S TOTALLY UNTENABLE
Microplastics marinate in every human testicle
In specimens of meagre size or in their scale majestical
Don't whip them out in public if you want to stay domestical
I'm almost out of rhymes now but the rhythm's anapestical
Well, to respond, your skeet promptly made me get 'every sperm is sacred' stuck in my head, so there's another 'be careful where you sing it' earworm for you.
You are all very lucky I was unable to find a photo of one of those trick jugs where the milk is plastic and it’s like, floating in midair. ‘Cause I had a truly tasteless joke ready to go.