Oh, christ, those fucked with my head. posted by notsnot at 1:02 PM on November 20, 2007
Reminds me of a certain shot in Romero's Land of the Dead, which is an X-ray image of a zombie tearing someone's forearm bones apart from each other. Almost made me puke in the theatre, and when I watched it on DVD I literally closed my eyes, put my fingers in my ears and went "lalala" so that I didn't have to hear the sound. posted by autodidact at 1:06 PM on November 20, 2007
Unfortunately I can't find the pictures online, but my dad, an ER doctor, took a couple of shots of head x-rays of a patient that had a screw in his ear, probably a #10 wood screw. Anyway, he had manually screwed it all the way into his ear, obliterating his ear drum and bones. Oddly, he claimed that it didn't hurt. I think he turned out okay, except for the deafness in that ear and the mental illness that lead to it.
He didn't get pictures of the (also mentally ill) woman who was left alone and ate an entire 50 count box of latex exam gloves, but apparently that x-ray was also something to see. posted by jedicus at 1:07 PM on November 20, 2007
My ex brother-in-law is an ER doc and while in school at a teaching hospital he brought home a number of these. His story is that this type of picture is very common both among the students and docs in that setting. Its both used as a teaching tool and as a macabre and ghoulish joke item. He seemed to believe it had value to attenuate reactions such as autodidact's. posted by sfts2 at 1:11 PM on November 20, 2007
A relative of mine is a radiologist and he says every x-ray department in which he's worked keeps a "greatest hits" file of macabre, unusual, or hilarious X-rays like this, many of which are films of Foreign Body in the Rectum. He's seen a coat hangar, cucumbers, carrots, a golf ball, soap-on-a-rope, and a mustard jar--the code phrase in that hospital for FBiR was, "Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?" posted by fandango_matt at 1:14 PM on November 20, 2007
Holy shitcrap cow! The dildo is to be expected, but a graduated cylinder? A shot glass? What in the hell? posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:46 PM on November 20, 2007
parudox, my wife does that all the time. I have tried every variant of "you do realize you're putting your feet on a bomb" and she will not stop. Somebody is going to have that picture taped to her monitor when she returns from her current vacation trip :-) posted by localroger at 1:51 PM on November 20, 2007
I like how the fellow went out of his way to mention how much he appreciates brutal honesty: "Look doc, I get off on having this thing in my ass, but I need some help getting if out."
Should I ever be in that situation (a renaissance man should never say "never") that's the approach I'll take. No sense beating around the bush, as it were. posted by aladfar at 2:20 PM on November 20, 2007
You know, I've not been having a great day, and, at first, these pictures added to the horror. But, honestly, each of these people had a much, much worse day at some time and so I will whine no more. posted by inconsequentialist at 2:31 PM on November 20, 2007
It's just that every now and then someone comes in and says "I love these things in my ass, I got one stuck and I can't get it out, will you help me?" I respect that kind of honesty.
As do we all. As do we all. posted by shmegegge at 2:33 PM on November 20, 2007
Ok, ok, jeez: I love these things in my ass. posted by everichon at 3:08 PM on November 20, 2007
Thats no big deal. My brother used to swallow toothbrushes all the time! lol! posted by AlphaLlama at 3:57 PM on November 20, 2007
Not so many unusual "things I put in my ass" pictures, but plenty of fascinating looks at all the horrible things that happen to the inside of the human body anyway. It's a must-see. posted by briank at 4:38 PM on November 20, 2007
It's pretty funny to think that some upstanding but poverty-stricken civilization in the far distant future will look back at our age, and they'll probably use stuff like this as an example of our horrific decadence and shameless debauchery.
Take that, Roman empire! posted by mullingitover at 7:21 PM on November 20, 2007
Yes, yes, the gruesome stuff is fascinating / hilarious / eeeeeeueuehueuheughghhghghg-inducing, but I was most moved by the exquisite shell cross-sections. I'd have liked to see more of those.
...or better yet, shells in rectums! (Recti? Rectae? Yes, I'm an illiterate peasant.) posted by ZakDaddy at 8:38 PM on November 20, 2007
I once found a toothbrush inside my piano. It's one thing for a piano to swallow a toothbrush, but a person? What's the appeal?
Training for sword-swallowing? posted by bassjump at 6:15 AM on November 21, 2007
the juxtaposition of the icon and last comment on this image is so funny - a sweet little baby saying, "what a nasty way to go!" posted by lapolla at 3:41 AM on November 23, 2007
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Oh, christ, those fucked with my head.
posted by notsnot at 1:02 PM on November 20, 2007