What's the most horrific thing you've seen?What is going on?
Lightguy was walking home when he saw a fox eating a cat. As he watched, it threw up on the cat and then continued eating, having doused it in its own marinade.
Only this morning, Rachelswipe saw a tramp hock up a bright green loogy, only for a pigeon to hop over on its withered stumps and peck it up joyfully.
Are these the end times? What horrible stuff have you seen recently?
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chthonic, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 10:36)
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The most horrific thing I've ever heardWhen I was in Year 6, my teacher told me a story which to this day is the only thing I've ever heard that has made me feel physically sick.
We were having a history lesson during which the lovely Mrs Skingley was trying to impress upon us the general awesomeness of the NHS by telling us about what it was like for poor people who got sick before free healthcare was available. In order to illustrate this, she told us a story that her grandmother had told her from when she was a child.
It was relatively common for kids in her village to get tapeworms. The standard treatment for a tapeworm is to administer drugs to kill it, and the dead worm is then passed whole in the patient's stool. Bad enough, right? Wrong! For the poor kids in Mrs Skingley's grandmother's village the standard cure was this:
1 - Get a bowl of steamed fish
2 - Get kid to stand over bowl of steamed fish with his mouth open
3 - Tapeworm smells fish. Yum yum
4 - Tapeworm crawls up out of kid's stomach towards the yummy fishy smell and comes out of his mouth
Guess what my dad cooked me for dinner that night? Tagliatelle.
(, Mon 25 Jun 2007, 10:05, Reply)
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