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god people just stop typing!, no no no, otf can ruin anything, stop sharing your thoughts, tmi in comments, what no lotus boobie train?

The Lotus Boob! It does haunt my dreams!
Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.)

Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page:

"This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image.

I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche."

Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down.

Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET.

Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing.

ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH."

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	tree 2008-11-24 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	TMI sharing tiems? I once dreamt that my teeth had rotted and I reached into my mouth and the gums had the colour and consistency of a peeled saggy tomato, and I could feel the teeth inside my mouth, on my tongue, and, just, WORST DREAM EVER. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	caoilainn 2008-11-24 01:02 pm UTC (link)
	Oh hell, that sucks so much more than my dreams. Teeth, tomato. I just. You win. I do hope your teeth are all fine. you win OVER the maggoty lotus boob. WIN! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tree 2008-11-24 01:16 pm UTC (link)
	I remember thinking 'tomato' because the looseness of the teeth reminded me of seeds just about hanging on to the goo, yanno? AUGH OK I'll stop talking about it now. Thank heavens my teefs are fine. knocks on wood (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	caoilainn 2008-11-24 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	I literally started counting my teeth when I started to read your comment and then the tomato, and well, yes. Let us not talk about it now. Some things, like teeth, are just important. knocks on more wood Hey, it can't hurt. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	I'll see your dreams.... queencallipygos 2008-11-24 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	....and raise you a real-life TMI: I have actually seen a color photograph of my own necrotized ovary. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'll see your dreams.... caoilainn 2008-11-24 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	You all win! forever and ever. So, who wants sushi? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: I'll see your dreams.... wankaholic 2008-11-24 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	I used to work in a pet store. We'd have to pull out the dead fish each night and write them off. . . . SO MANY PEOPLE asked me that. Finally got to the point where I'd hand them the bag and tell them to take their pick. :P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seiberwing 2008-11-24 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	Tooth-loss dreams are pretty common (I've had one), but yours is the creepiest I've heard. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lirazel 2008-11-24 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I've had dreams of my teeth just kind of crumbling out of my head, but that was after the back cusp of one molar really did just kind of break away one day when I was eating a tootsie roll. D: My dentist? Had kind of "retired in place" and didn't really pay attention when I'd told him that tooth had been twinging... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

frau_eva
2008-11-26 04:21 am UTC (link)

The same thing happened to me eating popcorn! D: Although it was completely the dentist's fault since he had literally done a filling on that tooth THAT DAY. Since we were moving and orthodontists can be fickle, I had to basically deal with it for two years. One of the most uncomfortable feelings ever is food, particularly ice cream, pretty much directly hitting a nerve.

What, me, bitter? Of course not. >:O

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	queencallipygos 2008-11-24 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	Just out of curiosity's sake: An old roommate told me once that she read that tooth-loss dreams were a sign you were worried about some other thing-that-was-supposed-to-be-secure-but-now-maybe-isn't in your life. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2008-11-24 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	That's what I've heard too. But then again, all my dreams are anxiety dreams, so I can't speak from experience. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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