There was a finding that all males have microplastic particles in our testes.
It became a meme.
Everybody laughed.
New meme overtakes old meme.
We forget about our plastic testes and move on.
But, is there any issues going forward, that anyone is aware of?
There are microplastics in your testes perhaps. Not mine. I’m built different.
(incorrectly)
Think of the profits corporations will be able to make curing the impacts of this!
Probably fertility. It’s almost certain that the decreased average sperm count is related to microplastics. It’s less clear if it’s related to our elevated rate of prostate cancer, but I’m cool with blaming big oil for that, too.
Or the lack of exercise. Or the lack of zinc. Or the obesity epidemic.
No not the obesity! You are hurting the slop gobbling agenda!
You don’t want to run afoul of big slop
Death to big slop.
But I like Big Slop…
My fear is not enough to be noticeable. More than enough to matter.
Ancient romans and lead pipes come to mind
So this is where all those plastic babies in King Cakes are coming from…
Not mine. Mine so big, they got their own municipal recycling program.
unusually enlarged testes are a sign of cancer
I got checked. They’re as smooth as ostrich eggs.
They blew off my shins in Vietnam!
Those balls ain’t right.
Not a problem for 50% of humans.
Unless they want to breed healthy offspring maybe? Who can say.
I think the implication is that 50% of people don’t have testicles.
I think that the point being made is, that even the part of the population that does not have testicles, needs healthy testicles in order to breed and thereby can be potentially affected by them being damaged by by micro plastics, even though they dont have them
And if they want kids then they still need a partner with functioning testicles.
True, but what would be the issue to have microplastics ejects into you
Preliminary testes have suggested it will be an issue, but we need another few rounds of testes to be sure.
Please send any testes you have laying around to PO box 609 for testing.
For science!
not me I’m getting them removed lmao
I’m guessing it’s unknown. There’s microplastic in testes, and it’s not good for fertility. Getting that far probably required a lot of research. Understanding the mechanism and projecting it forwards would require way, way more.
Plastic babies with poseable figures; you’ll be able to get them into any cool action pose for selfies!
Soon we will all be plastic. Its already in our food and water.
What i really think about is these are only the effects so far from the plastics that have started to break down from when plastics were created (smaller quantities). What happens when the plastics of today start to break down (larger quantities).
Kind of like the effects of oil (air pollution) being felt 30-50 years down the line.
It’s irreversible at this point and nothing you can do except hope it won’t affect your health.
It’s only fair that it’s happening to humans since we are destroying the planet.
it’s gonna keep looping through the foodchain until some microbe finally figures out an easy way to break them down… fun stuff.
It’s also happening to practically every other animal, and some of them were more sensitive to the effects before people.
I’m 30 live in Northern Australia, I have a sperm count of 93million and fantastic mobility.
It hasn’t affected me, but I’m sure it will effect others.
I’m 29 in CA and just found out I am unable to have children. I hope my wife doesn’t leave me over this. She really really wants kids of her own.
That sounds rough. Hopefully you can work it out.
But just to err on the side of caution, I wouldn’t let her know about that Australian guy,
This is the level of sympathy I have come to expect from the Internet.
that must be heartbreaking for you, im so sorry. i hope you two are able to work it out.
