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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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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)

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