That seems a bit rash.

I wish to buy that man a beer.

herpes thread!

*tries to avoid the herp*

"We can't walk down the hallway without someone yelling, 'Herpes!'" said senior wrestler Zane Atkins.

Gutsy, since I would assume people on the wrestling team could beat most of them senseless, and probably will at some point.

After one to make a point, it might stop, at least to their faces.

$$$

obligatory - lifted from the "where i come from noone puts something in their asshole" thread

Jocks getting made fun of?

aww them poor poor kids

At least it wasn't GIGIVITIS!

Give me an H! Give me an I! Give me a P! Give me a P! Give me an A!

What does that spell?! Lawsuit!

wrestling team for the next 20 years, walking to mailbox every month:

"Hello, check!"

Better than being called a pillowbiter.

And change him good!

LOL WUT makes a good point. Nobody deserves to be ostracized in high school, but it's a little grating that these guys get media attention for it when worse things than "Herpes!" are yelled in hallways all the time.

"For almost a week, they've felt ostracized at their own school."



What's worse? Being ostracized for having herpes, or being ostracized for rolling around in spandex with other guys. Buncha aitch-moes.

They need to sue the guy who made the diagnosis for malpractice and acting as a doctor without a licence.

This high school is 5 miles from my house. I heard nothing. Not even the anguished cry of every female in Gustine (all 50 of them) begging their pharmacist for Valtrex, nor the vice-principal getting sodomized by the wrestling team in an out of the way almond orchard.

Wrestling teams are always so classy. A few years ago there was a herp outbreak here too.

eqtworld:
*tries to avoid the herp*

Those wrestling boys are a little too tempting, huh?

Flashman73: Those wrestling boys are a little too tempting, huh?

he said he had been tested!

*LIES*

I blame the No Administrator Not a Horse's Ass Act.

A recorded message was sent by phone to the students' parents informing them of the outbreak at school.

MUST HAVE SOUND CLIP!

guess they'll be sittn some activities out for awhile...

..checks lil blk book...

ElegantGoose: Give me an H! Give me an I! Give me a P! Give me a P! Give me an A!

What does that spell?! Lawsuit!

Give me a H! Give me an I! Give me a P! Give me an A! Give me an A! What's that spell? The proper farking acronym for HIPAA. Hey internet Perry Mason, why don't you cite the part of HIPAA that is pertinent to school principals.

Break out the rubber Sumo suits...

They're never gonna get laid again. But at least with good reason.

I need a new name:
They're never gonna get laid again. But at least with good reason.

Well, actually, since they've all just been tested for herpes they're probably the safest bet in school. But, yeah...

herpes gladiatorum. Sweet

meh everyone has herpes anyways

I wonder if that Principal has ever heard of HIPAA and realizes that he and the school could be at huge liability. Regardless of whether he named them or not he has to assure anonymity of the individual to the level of state. Since it had to be someone in the school I don't think he passed the test.

Must be from all the buttsecks.

insomniac8400: At least it wasn't GIGIVITIS!

Quagmire's Disease? Yes, thank goodness.

I need a new name: They're never gonna get laid again. But at least with good reason.

Right. Protestations of "It's not that kind of herpes!!!" will meet with blank stares.

Wow, the faculty at the school is a bunch of morans.

Sounds like an outbreak of Ring Worm. It's pretty common as alluded to in the article.

Misch: Rowan Atkinson, "No One Called Jones" (aka, The Teacher skit)

Ah. the Secret Policeman's Ball.

Or was it the Other Ball?

Seriously, the man is a straight-faced master.

Who can also do the lot without words when called for.

/so much more than Bean. [Sorry. Have to vomit in my toilet a little when I think of Bean.]
//though I'm sure he's proud.
//or, at least, happy with the revenue.

For almost a week, they've felt ostracized at their own school.

Just a week? Must be nice. I had assholes make shiat up about me as early as 1st grade that I had to put up with right through my senior year, occasionally about teachers. I note the utter lack of news articles to raise awareness of my plight.

I find I have a hard time sympathizing with the jocks in this matter.

That said, as a professional in an educational system, that Assistant Principal is a complete asshat who needs to be made an example of, an immediate ex-Assistant Principal, pour encourager les autres to remember what the law says about confidentiality and about who is and who isn't allowed to practice medicine.

/ Summary: Unless your last name is ", MD", STFU and GBTW.
// Jocks suck, apparently.

/// "Occasionally from teachers", not "about".

A sibling of mine got herpes from a mat in gym class in high school. He wasn't even on the wrestling team. Although that form of herpes is pretty tame, he gets a very mild outbreak on his forearms and stomach about every 8 years or so. Its usually gone after a week. No biggie.

/fark the jocks

How I got hip to HIPPA. Film at 10.

//and you thought the mustache was a fashion statement

Hank Rearden: A sibling of mine

Odd.

Hank Rearden : A sibling of mine got herpes from a mat in gym class in high school.

That'll teach him not to go around rubbing his dork on wrestling mats.

Bender The Offender: The proper farking acronym for HIPAA. Hey internet Perry Mason, why don't you cite the part of HIPAA that is pertinent to school principals.

Oooh... burn. Well done.

Though... I am pretty sure that after this debacle the assistant principal will no longer be allowed to practice medicine in that state.

/HIPAA works!
//And what the fark is an assistant principal? Is that better or worse than being vice principal?

Mercutio74: //And what the fark is an assistant principal? Is that better or worse than being vice principal?

Pretty much the same but with less farking the students.
/He just said Herpes because he was jealous
//my money was on MRSA

Ahh... the days of ring-worm infested wrestling mats.

Our coaches cure: rub the rash with sandpaper and apply a bleach-drenched paper towel to the wound. That way, the ref won't notice the rash and you won't be disqualified. Offer not valid for darkies.

The best part was all the hot chicks from the aerobics class used our mats for aerobics when they were wearing daisy dukes. They got the same rashes, which led to many accusations of nonexistant promiscuity.

Hell, I always thought it was the wrestlers who yelled "herpes" in the hallway...

Wait. Rash? Pustules? Staph infection ahoy!

Assistant Principal needs to be smacked. With a bag of bricks.

FTA: These parents are going to the mat for their sons.

They're gonna get the herp too. Idiots.

Wrestling with Paris Hilton?

HERPWNED!!!

Where was the rash on the wrestlers???

I'd be willing to bet that 95% of farkers have or have had some form of "herpes." You people do realize that there are about 20 some forms of herpes don't you and one of the most common of all herpes viruses is better known as chicken pox.

my brother had shingles, which is a form of herpes.

I'm here to agree with MooseUpNorth.

Small town in SW Louisiana born and raised, and I had to deal with things my written in my senior yearbook (published, not written by hand by ass tards, TYVM) that happened in first, third and sixth grade.

And yes, it was usually the jocks, their friends, and their whorish girlfriends.

Went back to visit that town for Christmas. It was nice bragging about my job, my degree, living in Dallas, and loving life to the same people who all live in the same shiatty town, and are all divorced several times living in shiatty houses, going to the same shiatty football games on Friday nights.

And one, when he asked me how life was, and I told him, had the farking audacity to bring up the same... old... shiat... I guess just to remind himself of a time when he thought he was better than me.

Long story short? fark these guys. Let them get a taste of what they have most likely been dishing out to the small wormy guys that will end up happier and more successful in the long run. Oh, and fark the school officials for doing what they did, but still, I hate them all.

God I hope it's some uber-dork that's yelling "HERPES" every single time.

50+ replies and no references to "Assistant Principal Dunbar?"

For shame, Fark.

For shame.

/I'll be spanking it, ehhh, with a thumb, ehhh, up my ass...

So *that's* where Principal Blackman ended up!

Dwayne Hawking:
What's worse? Being ostracized for having herpes, or being ostracized for rolling around in spandex with other guys. Buncha aitch-moes.

I the rasslers always scared the shiat out of me. They were the first homosexuals I knew of that could kick my ass.

/did not taunt the rasslers

rebelpride644: Not all "Jocks" are farktards chief

No, not all jocks were farktards. Some were decent. But so many of them were abusive overgeneralizing bullying farktards that I have entire cables of room before my lack of sympathy places me at risk of losing the moral high ground on this matter.

Let me know when they've heard "herpes" at least thrice daily for a decade or so. Then we'll talk.

I'm wondering why they don't disinfect the mats after practices and meets. Perhaps that would stop the spread of herpes, ringworm, and other fantastic diseases.

/I heart wrestlers
// Only because I'm sleeping with one

USAF_Farker: my brother had shingles, which is a form of herpes

Well...not exactly. I got shingles almost a year ago, and I'm still dealing with residual nerve pain. Shingles is farking nasty. It's a reactivation of chickenpox virus, after it lies dormant in your nerves. Usually it happens in older people. The doctor was a bit surprised a 38 year-old (me) came down with it.

From the Wiki (new window):
" It is caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV), which is also the virus that causes chickenpox. After a chickenpox infection the virus can lodge permanently in nerve cell bodies without causing any symptoms, although it is not known exactly how this happens. At times of reduced immuno-competence, years or decades later, the virus may break out of nerve cell bodies and travel down nerve axons to cause viral infection of the skin in the region of the nerve. The nerve cell bodies of dorsal root, cranial nerve or autonomic ganglion may contain the latent virus,[1] and the virus may spread from one or more ganglia along nerves of an affected segment and infect the corresponding dermatome causing a shingles rash.[2][3] Although the rash usually heals within two to four weeks, some sufferers experience residual nerve pain for months or years, a condition called postherpetic neuralgia.[1]"

It sucks. Trust me.

rebelpride644: As a jock with Cerebral Palsy, I am really getting a kick out of your reply...

Yeah. See, sympathy. Them, not so much.

Head_Shot: USAF_Farker: my brother had shingles, which is a form of herpes

Well...not exactly. I got shingles almost a year ago, and I'm still dealing with residual nerve pain. Shingles is farking nasty. It's a reactivation of chickenpox virus, after it lies dormant in your nerves. Usually it happens in older people. The doctor was a bit surprised a 38 year-old (me) came down with it.

From the Wiki (new window):
" It is caused by varicella zoster virus (VZV), which is also the virus that causes chickenpox. After a chickenpox infection the virus can lodge permanently in nerve cell bodies without causing any symptoms, although it is not known exactly how this happens. At times of reduced immuno-competence, years or decades later, the virus may break out of nerve cell bodies and travel down nerve axons to cause viral infection of the skin in the region of the nerve. The nerve cell bodies of dorsal root, cranial nerve or autonomic ganglion may contain the latent virus,[1] and the virus may spread from one or more ganglia along nerves of an affected segment and infect the corresponding dermatome causing a shingles rash.[2][3] Although the rash usually heals within two to four weeks, some sufferers experience residual nerve pain for months or years, a condition called postherpetic neuralgia.[1]"

It sucks. Trust me.

I had the extreme pleasure of having shingles last spring at the age of 32. My doctor was quite surprised that I got it at that age. Funny thing (although not for her), she got it a few months later, also in her thirties.

Vicodin was my best friend for a week.

As a guy who wrestled in highschool and got staph at one point, I'm getting a kick out of... hey, why isn't my knee joint working anymore?

jmh79: I'm wondering why they don't disinfect the mats after practices and meets. Perhaps that would stop the spread of herpes, ringworm, and other fantastic diseases.

I was wondering the same thing. Given the number of people who use the mats, it should be standard practice to spray them down with a sanitizer every day and between populations (between when the wrestlers use it and the cheerleaders use it, etc.)

I can think of 2 reasons why it might not be done: 1) expense, 2) laziness.

The article doesn't attribute diagnoses to anyone other that a doctor, Subtard.


However this gem from TFA (consecutive sentences, yet) is indicative:

[Assistant principal] Bussard had no comment and said he had been instructed to refer all questions to the district office.

"It was the best knowledge we had at the time," [Superintendent] McWilliams said. "As for any additional info, I wasn't there, so I don't know if I'm the best person to talk to."


Those at the scene have to refer questions up the ladder, and those higher-ups plead ignorance since they weren't at the scene.
Your tax dollars at work...


/also had shingles at 38, surprising the doc
//don't care to repeat it

I'm confused. Is wrestling for the gay kids or for the gay staff? or both equally?

LOL WUT: Jocks getting made fun of?

aww them poor poor kids

We made fun of the 'jocks' at our HS. But that was because they couldn't play for shiat.

/nerds outnumbered 'cool people'
//hell, we had sub-groups of nerds

Herpes the love bug

yes the rasslers were jocks, but they were like the bottom of the barrel jocks at my high school. i think it was the spandex. they were like cross country runners - jocks who were actually jocks (unlike cheerleaders) but didn't get the social recognition that armoured wank ball players got.

Dwayne Hawking: "For almost a week, they've felt ostracized at their own school."

What's worse? Being ostracized for having herpes, or being ostracized for rolling around in spandex with other guys. Buncha aitch-moes.

Oh, man, if you think that's hilarious, you've gotta see Football: a bunch of fat guys piling on top of each other.

/got to practice in the same room as the Gymnasts and the Cheerleaders

Well that wasn't very bright of the assistant principal. Especially considering a staph infection is probably a lot more likely from what they described. Wonder if there any chance he'll be punished for it.

I'm going to have to agree with the "little sympathy" folks. I was given shiat by the jocks all through middle and high school because I had flat feet etc. (which precludes most sports that involve any kind of running) and didn't see the fun in sustaining lifelong injuries in the name of extremely temporary "glory." Maybe I'm just dumb though.

Half of the jackasses that were doing it would probably have tried to kill themselves if they were subjected to what they gave the "outcasts" at my school on a daily basis, some of their egos seemed a bit fragile. I normally wouldn't wish that kind of ridicule on people, but turnabout is fail play and all that.