beautiful names for terrible things

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srebrenica

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link

vagi- wait, hold on

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link

chlamydia

Fortuné's Old Albion Englishness (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

rhabdomyolisis

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

darraghmac

estela, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

hegemony

passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

Mugabe

blues bras (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

lol estela

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

folie a deux

super perv powder (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

mesothelioma

ehkarl, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

sabertooth

ehkarl, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

i guess a vas deferens is not TERRIBLE but

ehkarl, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

if I may be allowed to reverse the thread premise, pulchritude

乒乓, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link

calimari
cirrhosis

once i told my friend one of my favourite words was ceramicist
& they said, cirrhosis?

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link

calimari isn't terrible!

passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link

if I may be allowed to reverse the thread premise, pulchritude

― 乒乓, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was my first thought, too.

Back on track: varicella zoster

emil.y, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link

calimari isn't terrible!

― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:51 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://s3.amazonaws.com/foodspotting-ec2/reviews/826940/thumb_600.jpg

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link

what is the texture of the walls of hell if not dimpled squid flesh

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

I think the real challenge of this thread will be finding words that aren't medical conditions

乒乓, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

my friend said this about diarrhea. but which yeah is sorta medical.

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link

what about like, fratricide, or one of those. patricide could be a light carbonated springtime beverage, or a seasonal fruit preserve, if it didn't already refer to killing your father.

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link

patricidal: an introspective mood

spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link

bag

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link

gi

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link

qat

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

bereft

ehkarl, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

bastinado

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

falanga

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link

falafel

乒乓, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link

torquemadista

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link

there are innumerable things that might be listed herein, medical conditions merely being the most obvious

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link

god

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link

Are proper names permitted? Tamurlane.

Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link

jebtsundamba khutugtu

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link

kristallnacht

emil.y, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link

emily otm
also that picture failed to disgust me

add to list: Pinochet

passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link

falafel

― 乒乓, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:09 PM (Yesterday)

you soulless monster

Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link

spina bifida
geisterfahrer
cancer

a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link

moombathon

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link

cancer is a good one imo

乒乓, Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link

neoplasm too

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link

bastinado

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:08 PM (3 hours ago)

mookieproof, Thursday, 6 December 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link

vicious personal assaults itt

rosacea
chlorine
evangelical

Josefa, Friday, 7 December 2012 07:28 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

gethsemane

乒乓, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link

misericorde

乒乓, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link

limerence

乒乓, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link

anomie

乒乓, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link

katyn

Mordy, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link

dermestidae

crüt, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link

so many diseases and viruses

marcos, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link

cholera

marcos, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link

ebola

marcos, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link

salmonella

marcos, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link

Cthulhu

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link

Euthanasia

Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link

Saudade
Hemorrhage
Bergen Belsen
Desaparecido

Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link

clostridium difficile
mens rea
castigation
dysmorphia
breech birth
placenta
tinnitus (not beautiful, but cute & dignified)

emilys., Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:20 (ten years ago) link

holocaust

ian, Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link

diptheria

ian, Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link

exsanguination

ian, Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link

immolation
effluvium
perfidy
Vladimiro Montesinos

emilys., Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link

good one, ian

emilys., Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link

maim

slam dunk, Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link

eviscerate

emilys., Thursday, 19 September 2013 05:50 (ten years ago) link

similarly: viscera

ian, Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link

meconium

diamonddave85, Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

quenelle

VENIET IMBER (imago), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link

anhedonia

rob, Monday, 30 December 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link

imago

乒乓, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link

^^^the cheek of this fucker; he started the goddamned entomology thread

VENIET IMBER (imago), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link

the culinary quenelle looks like it would be quite nice

A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link

I didn't know HK fishballs had a fancy name

乒乓, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link

I fear something has been lost at either end here

VENIET IMBER (imago), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link

acedia

slam dunk, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link

melena

Plasmon, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:58 (ten years ago) link

eight months pass...

caliphate

imago, Sunday, 7 September 2014 11:12 (nine years ago) link

seven months pass...

quisling

young ruffian - sick banter (imago), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link

Really? That sounds like a method of dismembering a goose or something.

fish or click bait (how's life), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link

webinar

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

i literally came here to post 'webinar' and see it was the last thing posted ITT. uncanny

Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 2 November 2017 09:46 (six years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazy_pie

nashwan, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link

Chalazion

Week of Wonders (Ross), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link

ten months pass...

Hegelian.

Nag Reddit (Leee), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link

pugilism

Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link

Treblinka

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link

debriding

aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 14 September 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

vegetti

frogbs, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link

sweetbreads

kinder, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

warm beer

imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link

imago

sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link

first response hall of fame

||||||||, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link

as your teeth get more ravaged/decayed and temperature sensitive as you get closer to death it's much easier to swill room temperature beer, just saying.

calzino, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link

imago

― sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:37 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was annoying when dayo did it 6 years ago!

imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link

i just cracked open a room-temperature beer and thanked myself that at least it wasn't warm

then the phrase 'warm beer' struck me as uncommonly beautiful

imago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link

xp - there was a post in between 6 years ago, i got a clean hit

sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link

vagina dentata

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link

Eumenides

pomenitul, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link

jive turkey

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link

I Love Everything

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link


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