Doesn't *everyone* know Latin? Geez!
I never thought I'd see a wank about gastric lavage outside of an E.R. fan forum, but there you go.

gummyneko posts to spo_prevention about a dog that came into her workplace that had gotten into the wacky tobaccy. Unsurprisingly, this causes significant problems for the dog (and is yet another reminder that my keeping mine in tins is a really good idea).

But the wank isn't over drugs. Oh, no, it's over semantics.

It starts off okay - since gummyneko's used complicated terms like gastric lavage and bradycardia, the reasonable suggestion is made that perhaps she should edit for a lay audience. This causes sopay to get really offended for some reason, which leads to escalation, then mod smackage made worse by sopay's taking offense at the mod smackage that goes ON and ON, and my favorite, teratologist's comment that, hey, it's not like these terms are hard for the average layperson who watches daytime talk shows and knows a Romance language 'cause the Francophile Oprah demographic is HUGE. Or something.

Then doberkim gets annoyed by the use of kilograms amid allegations of Americentrism and more semantic wank. Which causes more mod wank.

It's not huge as wanks go, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in variety. And all this over a grand total of two technical terms.