Horrib Things Wot I Have Seen

Not really "horrific" in the Goatse / Executions / Harlequin Babies sense, but horrific in context: As a Doctor Who fan, the most horrific thing I ever saw was the first episode of Time And The Rani. Other Who fans here may share this pain. Or they may love that story. Eh! It's a funny old world.

The actual most horrific thing was something I heard: I was in hospital for a month or so when I was 17 with bacterial endocarditis. Yay for my 6th Form years! I lost 3 stone and they were going to test for HIV until they correctly identified what was ailing me.

HOWEVER, that wasn't the horrific thing. That was the bloke with leukemia in a side ward close to me. The night he died, his wife was with him. The sound of her crying has haunted me ever since.

Most horrific thing seen on the Internet: I know not to go and search out those beheadings videos. They say that what you can imagine is worse than anything you can see, but this is only true of horror stories. I'd rather not be haunted for the rest of my life by the sight and sounds of some poor bastard having his head slowly sawn off by a grimacing fanatic. Call me a wuss, I don't care. I know how my mind would react to it, no thanks buddy.

The most horrific thing I've seen actually on the 'net was during a bad patch of hypochondria a couple of years ago when I thought I had a certain disease [nothing embarrassing, but certainly fatal.] I Googled symptoms endlessly [word to the wise: NEVER do this - if you think there's something wrong with you, go to your doctor. They may not be perfect, but they're a much better bet than filling your head with shitloads of horror stories and images from the Internet]. For some reason, I happened across an image of a smoker with advanced mouth cancer [and I wasn't even obsessing about cancer]. It was breathtakingly gruesome, and I'm not posting a link because I don't want to see it ever again. He was an old chap in his 50s with tidy silver hair, and the worst thing about it was the look in his poor blue eyes. Never, ever forget it. You can probably Google it, but I don't advise it.

Harlequin Babies: I have seen these images, during the phase spoken of above [Internet hypochondria spirals out and out into a vortex of hell] and they are pretty horrific. Poor little bastards. But if you are into deformed babies, google Anencephaly. You can probably suss out what it means from the name. Proof, if needed, that God does not exist, and Nature is a cunt.

Goatse: Well if that's NOT his arsehole - WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?

Dr S
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Wed 27 Jun 2007, 22:10, Reply)