i have a weird horror-aversion to patterns of holes or openings in flesh (the back of the surinam toad, for instance), but in no other context do such things bother me. honeycombs, perforated tree trunks, lotus flowers - no problem. i see the potentially revolting alienness of those things, but it doesn't get me. honeycombed flesh, otoh, like those photoshopped lotus fingers, really freaks me out. seems to me that it's related to my fear of certain worms, of being maggot-riddled. remember a book of parasites that a grade school english teacher kept about that included horrid images of such things as parasitic peurocysticercosis, pages i could only handle by their edges lest my fingers touch anything unforgivable. i couldn't stop looking though.
there's something about beholding a wholly wormy thing, covered with tiny mouthlike openings from which blind white heads rhythmically emerge and then retract in wavelike patterns...
― a man called hearse (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
hate u
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xp:
Although not truly trypophobia related, that reminds me of this one time I was riding my bike down a trail and came across this groundhog corpse with a huge chuck of flesh taken out of its back. The hole was writhing with maggots. I grabbed a couple sticks to move the body off the trail, but when I got close, the groundhog popped up and ran away!
― rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
that is some fucking horror movie shit
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i would die
― ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
kkvgz, thats called pitted keratolysis. i have it.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
and that groundhog story, i would have emptied my bowels right there.
ok that groundhog thing has just taken us into a bad place
― smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
groundhog's doctor recommended maggot debridement therapy, don't see what the big deal is
― Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I just went straight home. I gave the hell up on the day. Also, thanks Chris! that's exactly what that was!
― rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.danderm-pdv.is.kkh.dk/atlas/pics/8/8-50-1.jpg
― rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoah that is really interesting. Wouldn't a good soak and pumice take care of that for you, too, though? Seems like a combo of "no ventilation" but also "can't be arsed to take care of self" issue, at least in normal non-tropical jungle circs that also do not involve perpetually flooded trenches of any kind.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"can't be arsed to take care of self"
what was at play here.
― rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
some years ago, i knew (by association) a guy who was terrified of acne, because his mother had told him that pimples were caused by and contained parasitic worms. he was pretty seriously crazy. he also thought phone poles were radioactive due to secret chemicals used in creosote manufacturing.
― a man called hearse (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently they're carcinogenic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote#Coal_tar_creosote
― rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
My mother thought that ringworm was an actual WORM, and not a fungus or whatever it actually is. So when she got on her breastbone from hugging some kid in her elementary class who had it on his or her head, she was practically ready to vomit and/or scratch her skin off in panic and grossness until I thought to look it up. Poor Momz.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it was a worm too when I was younger.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi, a skin fungus is not any less gross than a parasitic worm
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
It seems less invasive, to me. But obv not to everyone.
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
and that pitted foot fungus stinks like a mother fucker. I have to use frickin deodorant on my rotten feet.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't help that i wear docs, and giant boots all day, every day.
"pitted foot fungus"
;_;
― ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
only get it in the winter time though.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://pidge2571.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/face-melt.jpg%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D268
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iCDag7rZLqw/ScmcL5L8III/AAAAAAAAAjc/_SmsaztOFeY/s400/FaceMelt.jpg
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
interesting tidbit from some medical report on it:
Tunnel-like spaces were built inside the horny layer, where the bacteria exhibited a hairy surface.
talking about my cock i see.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
omg at everything about and/or in this thread
― ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread should be destroyed for the sake of humanity/my sanity.
― lenonsense (Clay), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
nuke it from space imo
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
fukk u god
we're all gods flowers, even if we have no face or worms in brain
― Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
and you call yourself a doctor
we're all god's lotusflow3rs
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
seeing gross shit in person is waaaaay less gross than jpgs on an internet imo
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ true
Por ejemplo, I've seen ladies literally pour blood from very personal areas in the confines of a doctor's office and that's nothing compared to looking at the shit in this thread for me.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/3403915208_95a967b148.jpg
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i am not okay with this and the disgusting creatures thread being at the top of new answers today
(and this post isn't going to help but JUST SAYIN)
― where they douthat at (donna rouge), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
some good gross things in here.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/548890-the-grossest-pictures-in-sports
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/chinese-cheese-grater-slide.jpg
― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
OK Curt I don't care how fake that is it's completely horrible. That is a prime example of this at its worst for me. I'm going to puke.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i can feel myself sliding over that.....blech.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly curt
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.toplessrobot.com/toht%20face%20melting.jpg
http://corporateswine.net/images/exxon_grin.jpg
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2009/07/504x_streettrash_io9.flv.jpg
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.distantcreations.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pizza-the-hutt.jpg
http://photoshopcontest.com/images/fullsize/74484341d094492a7da9d0404c8fa39ad40ab284110052.jpg
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/59abc778d2be574f01ce1fad55e187556227e6c7_m.gif
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
What the true to life metaphorical equivalent to Tryophobia? Why do people have this fear besides the fact that the finger hole worms/eyes look nasty?
― 486.52 (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/zjuphyxN/BwnSJQ/Zoster%20Trunk%202.jpg
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Would Pop
― Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1195.snc4/154732_1521091999438_1598727610_31345172_5510439_n.jpg
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/sonnenblumenbrot-sunflower-seed-bread-crumb.jpg
― ☆, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/2983983344_a0aa84909b_o.jpg
― ☆, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link