Scary, scary baby.

Eosha · Post by **Eosha** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:02 pm

I'm sure everyone's seen this by now, but these were the first pictures I'd seen. I'm going to have nightmares about being chased by armies of these...

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=69722
(Probably not safe for work, mind, happiness, etc.)

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:12 pm

not sure I believe that... but it's -way- cool. reminds me (a little, oddly) of a story I wrote once.

Queenhank · Post by **Queenhank** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:14 pm

Wow, that sucks.

Eosha · Post by **Eosha** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:15 pm

Honor wrote:not sure I believe that... but it's -way- cool. reminds me (a little, oddly) of a story I wrote once.

The power of morbid curiousity compels me to ask about this story...

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:22 pm

http://www.anencephaly.net/

It's real... *shudder* some kind of horrible deficiency syndrome... look up anencephaly on google images if you want to see more examples.

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:31 pm

I didn't think that was so bad to look at.

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:15 pm

The word 'anencephaly' in conjunction with the word 'baby' pretty much tells me that this is yet another link I should have no intention of following ...

Kingofthemorlocks · Post by **Kingofthemorlocks** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:35 pm

Kinda inconsiderate of them to parade the lil' mutant through the streets like that though, huh?

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:56 pm

Many people will do anything stupid for publicity and/or notoriety. It all adds to one of my mottos: "People suck."

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:00 pm

aeridus wrote:http://www.anencephaly.net/

It's real... *shudder* some kind of horrible deficiency syndrome... look up anencephaly on google images if you want to see more examples.

Oh, hell yeah.

Awkwardschoolgirl · Post by **Awkwardschoolgirl** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:47 pm

kingofthemorlocks wrote:Kinda inconsiderate of them to parade the lil' mutant through the streets like that though, huh?

Ya uhh... what the fuck are they doing with it in a bowl in the middle of a crowd?! If that was my child I wouldn't be fucking holding it up in a metal dish with one hand... jesus christ...

Awkwardschoolgirl · Post by **Awkwardschoolgirl** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:49 pm

aeridus wrote:http://www.anencephaly.net/

It's real... *shudder* some kind of horrible deficiency syndrome... look up anencephaly on google images if you want to see more examples.

My head a splode.

Sweet or Sour · Post by **Sweet or Sour** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:28 pm

Having to turn to google to get info on it? Having to turn to google to tell you if it is true or not? It may be unrelated, but not so much since it may be actively being done within this thread, but I’m curious exactly how much back story or unrelated web sites spouting the same ridiculously false information, how many detailed research studies of something that doesn’t exist, and how many pictures of specimens and ‘evidence’ that needs to be propagated onto the internet for otherwise perfectly intelligent people to believe something that is so obviously made up. Not that it is the case here, but given a medical name [false or otherwise] as in this case, or whatever is an appropriate descriptor, and a couple doctored photos of sufferers through history, I’m curious of the ease at which general society can absorb what would otherwise be considered obvious falsehood as undisputed fact.

It would be an interesting experiment, if it was coordinated and executed in a swift manner with sufficient volume of content, exactly how stupid an idea you can take people by storm with.

Of course though, without giving examples [partially so not to offend by chance, but more so because the examples are so numerous], history has told us that very stupid ideas can propagate very easily though stupid/uneducated people. The interesting part would be if the same level of stupid ideas can propagate through intelligent and questioning people if sufficient legitimate looking information is within easy access.

Not that this is made up [which it may very well be made up, just that it is not certain].... It's just a thought.

edit: Also, would it even be possible to easily stop an intentional lie [by coming out with that the entire story was made up, or whatever], or stop it at all, once it had taken hold as truth.

Wilmo · Post by **Wilmo** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:29 pm

godamnit!

I should've learned by now not to click on links from this forum...

Ce6 · Post by **Ce6** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:07 pm

awkwardschoolgirl wrote:
kingofthemorlocks wrote:Kinda inconsiderate of them to parade the lil' mutant through the streets like that though, huh?
Ya uhh... what the fuck are they doing with it in a bowl in the middle of a crowd?! If that was my child I wouldn't be fucking holding it up in a metal dish with one hand... jesus christ...

For one thing, Jesus Christ has nothing to do with this. I'm no expert on Indo-China cultures (this anencephalic child was born in Nepal), but I know just enough that those cultures don't always treat their human freaks the way they have been dealt with here in the western hemsiphere.
Here in the US at least, the Circus Freakshow appeal has pretty much died out in the past half-century with modern medicine curing or sufficiently disguising such malformations to such a large extent that to be anything other than the percieved "normal" is a potential source of shame and something to be hidden away. In certain other cultures and countries, the "sideshow spirit" of exhibiting their freaks still draws crowds who don't feign embarassment at their curiosity of human oddities, some of whom are thought to be reincarnations of various gods or holy figures, such as the Muslim boy with a tail in India* or the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal (an example of craniopagus parasiticus)
Yes, I freely admit a strong draw to the unusual, though usually out of curiosity as opposed to a cheap gawker's thrill. The elasticity of the human body is a remarkable thing. I've probably seen way too many things on google image search by looking up medical birth defect conditions that qualified for an OMGWTFKillItWithFire reaction, but I didn't add them to any Google Seppuku because they weren't stumbled over by accident using Japanese.

*I tried a quick googling of "India baby tail" but the easiest sites to find were heavily biased and tried using him to sensationalize for/against creationism/evolution, so I went with Wikipedia for an attempt at an unbiased source

Queenhank · Post by **Queenhank** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:11 pm

crowds who don't feign embarassment at their curiosity of human oddities

For many (well, myself, and I doubt I'm that much of a statistical anomaly), it isn't feigned embarassment, so much as empathy for the person making you feel really bad. I just don't find any thrill looking at "freaks"; rather, I think about how hard shit must be for them.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:29 pm

Error of Logic wrote:Many people will do anything stupid for publicity and/or notoriety. It all adds to one of my mottos: "People suck."

Nope. If they sucked they'd be good for something

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:38 pm

tellner wrote:
Error of Logic wrote:Many people will do anything stupid for publicity and/or notoriety. It all adds to one of my mottos: "People suck."
Nope. If they sucked they'd be good for something

I know this is the ggc forum ... but assume I wasn't using the word in the sexual sense.

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:22 pm

ce6 wrote:Muslim boy with a tail

I know it's a non-sequiter... But watch "a history of violence"... Viggo totally has a tail!

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:33 am

Awww. Poor little dude. Well at least he didn't suffer too long.
He actually looks kind of cute...