The Wondrous World of Parasites - Beware icky pix! (The Cure, cover)

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 05-04-2009, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

Yea, I saw some kind of documentary about him. It's some abnormality that causes warts to grow uncontrollably. I forget the details, but after years and years of not doing anything about it, it got that bad.
Supposedly he's getting treatment and getting all that surgically removed.

yeah but its got to be crazy rare sort of wart... looks like bark

Thrice · 05-04-2009, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

I believe so.
It's also what I call my herb supplier.

Ha ha, I hope he doesnt look like that, who knows what you're smoking

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-04-2009, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

Are you crazy? Thanks for teaching me stuff about the remora fish .. I've always wondered about those little suckers!

There are ways (like with the pork tapeworm), something that travels in your blood can end up in the brain. Your neighbour sounds paranoid though, I don't think there's a need to worry about that.

Thanks to Bulldog for the bot-fly post and also thanks to [paranoid.android] and Vanilla for icky pictures!

Yeah I think my neighbour has a screw loose sometimes! But screw a parasite getting into your brain anyhow!

Seltzer · 05-04-2009, 03:24 AM

Sometimes I doubt my neighbours have any screws tightened in their heads at all... don't get me started on that.

Anyhow I'm enjoying this thread with its delightfully gruesome pictures.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-04-2009, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

Sometimes I doubt my neighbours have any screws tightened in their heads at all... don't get me started on that.

Anyhow I'm enjoying this thread with its delightfully gruesome pictures.

Haha no, go on! It sounds scandelous!

Seltzer · 05-04-2009, 04:17 AM

Ok, here's a list of peculiar neighbours of mine

* Creepy old guy who seems good natured enough but is also very weird. He goes everywhere (including on the bus) with a video recorder and sometimes tapes random people.

* Electrician dude who at first seemed fine but then wouldn't let us use his driveway to get out onto the road when our one was blocked off due to roadworks. His reasoning was that he dislikes our landlord because of some dispute over the fencing. I don't see why he should take it out on us.

* Upstairs family who ignore us when we say hello and play bollywood soundtracks, hilarious bollywoodified versions of well known songs (Final Countdown and Child in Time) and generally trashy dance music at 7 am every morning.

* There's a house at the end of our backyard and its bathroom faces our garden - once I was doing some weeding and some guy was in the bathroom coughing and spluttering for 10 whole minutes... it sounded like he was regurgitating his guts. There were points when he almost seemed to have stopped his spluttering symphony, but then not long afterwards he would hawk up again.

* Some guy who screamed at us for reversing into his driveway so that we could get out onto the road.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-04-2009, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

Ok, here's a list of peculiar neighbours of mine

* Creepy old guy who seems good natured enough but is also very weird. He goes everywhere (including on the bus) with a video recorder and sometimes tapes random people.

* Electrician dude who at first seemed fine but then wouldn't let us use his driveway to get out onto the road when our one was blocked off due to roadworks. His reasoning was that he dislikes our landlord because of some dispute over the fencing. I don't see why he should take it out on us.

* Upstairs family who ignore us when we say hello and play bollywood soundtracks, hilarious bollywoodified versions of well known songs (Final Countdown and Child in Time) and generally trashy dance music at 7 am every morning.

* There's a house at the end of our backyard and its bathroom faces our garden - once I was doing some weeding and some guy was in the bathroom coughing and spluttering for 10 whole minutes... it sounded like he was regurgitating his guts. There were points when he almost seemed to have stopped his spluttering symphony, but then not long afterwards he would hawk up again.

* Some guy who screamed at us for reversing into his driveway so that we could get out onto the road.

Ewww guy with the video recorder! That reminds me of old men who go to beaches and take photos of little girls and boys on their phones. When you said there was a bathroom facing your garden I thought you were going to say you saw a guys pee pee haha!

They are a pretty strange lot from the sounds of it, and I don't think my neighbours compare as they are pretty typical drunken students who dress up and play loud music all the time. But it's so close to Uni so I love it. Back when I lived with my folks in my second house their was an old bat on one side of us who used to watch my dad and take notes of how much water he used, and she would yell at him! She had a 40 year-old son living with her...strange. And then on the otherside was a family who were obviously poor and had strange parties all the time and had dogs barking all day long. So to sum up...it's a hard road finding the perfect neighbours!

Freebase Dali · 05-04-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

yeah but its got to be crazy rare sort of wart... looks like bark

I assume that after years of warts growing on top one another, dying, hardening, drying, etc... that it would become bark-like.
I don't remember all the details, but I do remember the documentary saying it was uncontrollable wart growth.

If I were him, I'd leave the hands just the way they are.
He could have some epic fisticuffs.

Guybrush · 05-04-2009, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

I assume that after years of warts growing on top one another, dying, hardening, drying, etc... that it would become bark-like.
I don't remember all the details, but I do remember the documentary saying it was uncontrollable wart growth.

If I were him, I'd leave the hands just the way they are.
He could have some epic fisticuffs.

It's not exactly warts although I don't know enough about the details to explain it myself. I know it's caused by a genetic mutation, so it should run in families.

You can read about it on wikipedia though -> Epidermodysplasia verruciformis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Freebase Dali · 05-04-2009, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

It's not exactly warts although I don't know enough about the details to explain it myself. I know it's caused by a genetic mutation, so it should run in families.

You can read about it on wikipedia though -> Epidermodysplasia verruciformis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I could be wrong, but I was going off of this:
(sourced from the wiki article)
"On August 26, 2008, MSNBC reported that Dede had returned home following surgery to remove thirteen pounds (5.8 kilo) of warts from his body.[13] In all, 95% of the warts were removed. [13] The surgery was documented by the Discovery Channel and TLC in the episode "Treeman: Search for the Cure."

05-04-2009, 03:24 AM	#44 (permalink)
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05-04-2009, 04:17 AM	#46 (permalink)
Seltzer Fish in the percolator! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hobbit Land NZ Posts: 2,870	Ok, here's a list of peculiar neighbours of mine * Creepy old guy who seems good natured enough but is also very weird. He goes everywhere (including on the bus) with a video recorder and sometimes tapes random people. * Electrician dude who at first seemed fine but then wouldn't let us use his driveway to get out onto the road when our one was blocked off due to roadworks. His reasoning was that he dislikes our landlord because of some dispute over the fencing. I don't see why he should take it out on us. * Upstairs family who ignore us when we say hello and play bollywood soundtracks, hilarious bollywoodified versions of well known songs (Final Countdown and Child in Time) and generally trashy dance music at 7 am every morning. * There's a house at the end of our backyard and its bathroom faces our garden - once I was doing some weeding and some guy was in the bathroom coughing and spluttering for 10 whole minutes... it sounded like he was regurgitating his guts. There were points when he almost seemed to have stopped his spluttering symphony, but then not long afterwards he would hawk up again. * Some guy who screamed at us for reversing into his driveway so that we could get out onto the road. __________________ In the Court of King Crimson \| Last.fm \| RYM