2022-02-25
51 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Baaa!
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshensky, Andrew Huntsomuri and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one, that is Anna.
My fact this week is that the reason you can no longer bathe in the Roman baths at bath is because they contain brain eating amoeba, so I don't know, doing like a D-rate horror film or something, but yeah it's true, there are amoeba in the baths that will eat your brain.
I must say Anna, since you told us this fact and we got to our travel lodge or premier inn or whatever it was today, I was thinking can I drink the water in bath?
Oh yeah!
I have a question about this, which is that I have drunk the waters of bath and I don't know exactly which ones I drunk, I imagine that...
Just some random bath water.
Actually that's the problem with this fact, when you try and research it, if you google bath water, all you get is someone called Belle Delphine, who is apparently an adult influencer who was selling her bath water for $30 a bottle.
Oh wow!
Okay well you shouldn't be bathing in Belle Delphine's bath water or Bath's bath water and it's not all the water in bath is just directly from the spring, so this was discovered in the 70s, I hadn't realized that until 1978, you could bathe directly in the spring you know when you're in the bath baths in the museum, there's that bath, how many times when I say the word bath?
I hadn't realized that people used to swim in it until 1978 and then they realized that coming directly from the spring was this amoeba called Nigleria fowleri, which is also known as the brain eating amoeba and you get it in warm fresh water, it's very rare and like I said it's just this one spring, it's not in any of the rest of the water and it burrows into your brain through your nose, so it goes up your nose and then burrows straight into your brain and it's 100% facial.
But that's okay, that means it's fine if you drink water, you're not going to get it, if you drank the water, if you jumped into the bath, and don't do this but if you did jump into the bath spars and you just took down a lot down your mouth but kept your nose out of the water, you'd be fine.
But then if someone made you laugh halfway through and it accidentally went up into your nose, it would murder you.
It came out the other way.
What is great murder mystery though?
What did I pay 50p to drink in about 2006?
That was just Evian, they siphoned it into a...
It tasted horrible, it tasted sulfurous and it was really strong stuff.
Sorry, what's the story Andy, what's his story?