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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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	sithwitch13 2008-11-24 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	Nope. After you've seen a guy with his face eaten off by turtles and someone trying very hard to dissect their own arm down to the bone, it's hard to get disturbed by a pretty obvious photoshop. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lil_miss_stfu 2008-11-25 01:24 am UTC (link)
	... Turtles? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sithwitch13
2008-11-25 02:52 am UTC (link)

Okay, here's the story.

My last semester of college, I took a forensic entomology course, which was one of the best decisions I ever made. The last few weeks of class, my professor brought in a whole bunch of experts to talk with us about various aspects of the criminal justice system--regular cops, state police, FBI profilers (whose lecture is the one thing that actually traumatized me, and I don't like thinking back on it at all) and a medical examiner.

The day the medical examiner came in, he brought a bunch of slides of various gruesome things. Examples of bloat, states of decomposition, etc. He stopped at one slide that had a man with his face removed. The ears were there, the hair was there, his eyes were there, but the face was gone down to the bone in places.

"Dogs are man's best friend," said the M.E. while we all stared in horror. "Cats are just waiting for you to stop breathing."

We all sat in silence until a guy in the row behind me raised his hand. "Did a cat do that?"

"Nope. It was turtles. I just don't like cats."

The guy had a heart attack or stroke or something on a golf course, and turtles from the pond were the first ones to get to him. Yeah.

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	lil_miss_stfu 2008-11-25 03:17 am UTC (link)
	O_o (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mydemand 2008-11-25 03:21 am UTC (link)
	...cries (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2008-11-25 04:38 am UTC (link)
	Just like I imagined. "Wow... look at that..." Dire, solemn nod "Turtles, man... turtles." (And my cat would never eat me! I'm too big to fit in her mouth!) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2008-11-25 04:45 am UTC (link)
	"Nope. It was turtles. I just don't like cats." SPFFFFFFFFHAHAHA I saw plenty of gruesome things in the forensic anthropology program, but not that. OTOH, we did have to learn what a rat-gnawed bone looked like so we wouldn't tell the police bizarre things about, say, perps with chisels and a defleshing fetish. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sithwitch13 2008-11-25 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh, I would have loved to take a forensic anthropology course... I think we had a forensic anthropologist come in and speak with us and told us the difference between the way that bones look if they're burned postmortem compared with antemortem, but I can barely remember. (One was transverse cracking. I think that was postmortem, but it's been years.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	deliciouschaos 2008-11-25 07:00 am UTC (link)
	"Nope. It was turtles. I just don't like cats." I laughed; I am going to hell. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dragonfangirl 2008-11-25 08:25 am UTC (link)
	Me too. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sithwitch13 2008-11-25 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	Don't feel too bad! Horrific visuals aside, that was my absolute favorite thing ever from that semester. My husband and I joke about that with our cats (particularly our rescued-and-put-on-an-enforced-diet cat Fatty) all the time. If one of us dies in our sleep, he's going to wait about twenty minutes until deciding that we're not going to miss our faces too much. (Reply to this)(Parent)

beejium
2008-11-25 03:37 pm UTC (link)

It can be gross story thread time nao?

Okay, so we visited the human anatomy lab last week, which is pretty seven types of awesome. I never realized that we do plastination 'round here (just like Body Worlds), and the difference is, we get to touch them! So I've got this guy's head in my hands, which is cut in half, and I'm super interested, all like "i'm in ur head, examinin' ur nervous system" but the specimens get kind of sticky in the humid lab, so as I run my finger over the dude's spinal cord, it gets stuck to my finger. I do a sort of "oh, dear" and very slowly peel it off. It didn't traumatize me a whole lot, but no one I tell seems to find it as funny as I do. :(

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	kookaburra 2008-11-25 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	I giggled. :) My A&P professor has a bunch of old bones from before advanced bone-setting techniques were wide spread. It's fantastic when a new student opens the drawer with them in it (she stores them so the "normal" end is sticking out and visible) and is like, "Oh, so these are fem- (pulls out the rest of the bone) OH MY GOD!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2008-11-26 05:07 am UTC (link)
	"Nope. It was turtles. I just don't like cats." BWAHA! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amy_wolf 2008-11-26 11:09 am UTC (link)
	Okay, I laughed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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