Video: World's Biggest Zit

[Vision of Love]

You are about to witness the popping of the Mother of All Zits.

http://www.funlol.com/funpages/worlds-biggest-zit.html

Not ready? How about a starter (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=342263) before The Big One?

[ivylass]

Ya know....I think I'm going to pass, and just live vicariously through those Dopers who haven't gotten their minimum daily requirement of TMI and who post their thoughts after clicking your link.

I wait patiently.

[Santos L Halper]

Gaaahhh!!

It was so much worse than I was expecting (and I was expecting it to be pretty bad). :eek:

And I've generally enjoyed the zit threads and videos that've been posted in the past....

If I recall correctly, that lining (or whatever it is) that they're pulling out towards the end of the video means it actually a cyst rather than a zit, right?

[Flutterby]

Why did I click on that?

I knew it was going to be bad.. *shudders*

It looked like they were pushing toothpaste out of her skin.

[Santos L Halper]

Oh, and even with all the pus and blood, the worst part has to be when they pull out the table spoon to scoop up all the stuff... :eek:

[Beware of Doug]

Y'know, at times like this, I'm kinda glad those not-really-a-download sites like funlol and youtube load video so slowly and stallingly.

I'm still wondering how they do it, though. Really cheapass low-bandwidth servers would be my guess. Anyhow, they do a great job of recreating the dial-up experience for the young folks who never knew it firsthand.

[Jayn_Newell]

As someone who considers herself to be of a stong stomach and able to handle a decent ammount of gore, all I can say is...



EW!

[FilmGeek]

It's been posted before, wonderfully.

I dream about it sometimes. ::shudder::

[SnakesCatLady]

I knew I was going to regret clicking on that link. I did it anyway.

I was right. I regret it. I did ok until they started scooping the stuff with a spoon.

urg.

[Amp]

If you haven't clicked on it then don't. I now regret ever watching that video. No dinner for me tonight.

[Khan]

That would have been so much more fulfilling to watch had they used legitimate medical procedures, eg gloves, anesthetic, etc. The only thing that bothered me about the clip was the fact that they used kitchen implements, bare hands, and only used the bible as a "precaution"; they might as well have left the "zit" there (well, that, and the whole tugging-at-raw-flesh" part--it makes me wince on the patient's behalf).

And is it really accurate to refer to such a thing as a friggin' "tumor?"

I wonder if Broomstick's entry in "The TMI thread" would have been this interesting to watch.

[Asimovian]

"I will call you... Pustulio! Together we can hypnotize the enemy and bend them to my will!"

[Bryan Ekers]

Looks like she had an undeveloped Siamese twin with a really bad complexion.

[Sattua]

Thank you so much for posting an interesting thread on a slow weekend.

[Casey1505]

I have just thrown out my brand new tube of Pepsodent and am about to run out and buy some sort of gel toothpaste. Maybe Aim.

[Miller]

Man! It's like he had a soft serve ice cream machine in his back! With strawberry topping, no less.

[Bambi Hassenpfeffer]

It's been posted before, wonderfully.

I dream about it sometimes. ::shudder::
At least you noticed. I posted this video in this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=342263), as someone felt that they had found the worst cyst-popping video ever and I felt the need to correct them.

[fishbicycle]

Up until now, I thought I had a pretty strong constitution. But holy crap, I'm all queasy now, and in a little while, I will be eating spaghetti, which will remind me of what I just saw with every bite. Yum.

[pizzabrat]

I love it. It's comforting to watch something that physically cathartic. Makes me a bit envious, even.

[silenus]

I remember that clip! Just like striped toothpaste. I love a good zit story, and pictures just make it all the better. I used to get big, honking zits on my back, but haven't for almost 10 years. I kinda miss them. :eek:

[Amazon Floozy Goddess]

Yeah, that one's old hat now. I built up tolerance to it and now look forward to/dread the day when I see something that will top it.

[Alice The Goon]

I haven't watched it, and I'm not going to, but it probably is a cyst, not a zit.

As part of my job, I get to not only see it at work, but stand there (with gloves on of course) with gauze pads and bacterial swabs and actually touch that stuff! It's exceedingly nasty and revolting. Especially the smell. Gag.

[CynicalGabe]

I'm going to go sit in my closet and cry now.

[Vision of Love]

At least you noticed. I posted this video in this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=342263), as someone felt that they had found the worst cyst-popping video ever and I felt the need to correct them.

I went back to that thread before posting this one and for some reason I missed the link down the page. :(



I think it looks more like very thick Hellman's than toothpaste, if you ask me.

[thirdname]

I've been on this forum for six months and I still don't understand what is with you people. I am not going to view the video.

[Jman]

I really want to click it. I do...but I think I have enough of an idea from the descriptions here that I can live without seeing it. Thanks!

[Dryfreeze]

Wow . . I've seen some sick shit but wow . .no gloves . .nothing . .a frickin spoon!!! Eww . .what's she going to do, put that on a cracker???

[indecisive1]

Am I glad that I can't get the thing to play for me?

[PapSett]

Am I glad that I can't get the thing to play for me?



Yes.

[xbuckeye]

Dude, I so had one of those taken out in June of '04. They probably called it a tumor because that is what mine was orriginally diagnosed as. Apparently, you can't tell the difference between the cyst and the lipoma without cutting. As far as the cyst/zit debate, mine was a cystic acne zit that healed on the skin level, but remained infected beneath the healed skin. Add surgical gloves, remove the tablespoon, remove the helpful Bible toter and replace him/her with a very very nauseated first day on the job nurse, and that was my surgery.

[Beware of Doug]

Dosen't the GdBk refere to these entities as boils?

[Beware of Doug]

I kan spel. Rly I kan. :smack: :smack: :smack:

[Rysdad]

I've been on this forum for six months and I still don't understand what is with you people. I am not going to view the video.

Heh. "We people" talk about and look at damned near everything. Perianal cysts, ball sweat stink, it's all fair game.

BTW, your six month review is coming up, and it's not looking too good for you if you can't handle the manipulation of a little ol' pimple.

G'wan. G'head. Look at the link.

[Phlosphr]

No.....Just no.

[Airman Doors, USAF]

I have just thrown out my brand new tube of Pepsodent and am about to run out and buy some sort of gel toothpaste. Maybe Aim.

You know that that's Budd Dwyer's favorite toothpaste, don't you? ;)

I didn't make it any further than seeing the lump. I knew then that I would regret looking further. For the opinions of the rest of you I was right to do so.

[melondeca]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[Kythereia]

I'm not going to come near this one with a twenty-eight foot pole and a fully equipped HazMat squad.

[GrizzRich]

I've been on this forum for six months and I still don't understand what is with you people. I am not going to view the video.

Yeah.... well I've been here a few YEARS, m'friend... and I'm as puzzled as you.

And, as I've said in threads like this from the past...

...I think.........I'm going..........to vomit.

[Sunspace]

I am not looking at that.
I am not looking at that.
I am not looking at that.
I am not looking at that.
I am not looking at that.
I am not looking at that.

...and yet, some terrible part of me wants to pull the curtain aside and follow that link, even though I know I would have to basically scrub my retinas with sandpaper afterwards...

[jjimm]

Shame on the spoon! The doctor missed a golden opportunity to bury his face in it and suck out the rest.

Did I really just say that? (http://www.crowaptok.com/images/barfy.gif)

[Feydeau]

That would make a great party video, doncha think? :D


(Note: I couldn't finish watching it. I saw just enough to not throw up.)

[Smeghead]

You are about to witness the popping of the Mother of All Zits.
No I am not.

I'm still traumatized from reading [url="http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3492&p=4"]this[/i] Something Awful article.

[Rysdad]

No I am not.

Someone with the user handle "Smeghead" won't look? Hmph.

[Casey1505]

You know that that's Budd Dwyer's favorite toothpaste, don't you? ;)
Bud Dwyer jokes never fail to get laughs from me. My high school buddy seemingly had one a day for weeks after it happened. But, unfortunately, I seem to have forgotten them all. :D

[Vision of Love]

As disgusting as the video is, I'd rather watch it than stare at a close-up picture of pores plugged with large blackheads. I saw something like that once and gagged. :eek: :(

[buttonjockey308]

It's a simple (albeit HUGE) sebaceous cyst. Jeebers, you people get worked up easy.

I had one of these things on my back a few years ago, that stuff coming out of there is FOUL smelling, as you may expect it to be. They're usually dealt with using antibiotics, or go away on their own.

Kinda yucky, but not as bad as it seems...

Although the spoon makes the whole scene that much more perverse.

[Guinastasia]

I'm so not going to watch that.

But perhaps this would be a good thread to bookmark in case one goes on a diet and needs to kill their appetite?

[Alan Smithee]

Shame on the spoon! The doctor missed a golden opportunity to bury his face in it and suck out the rest.

Did I really just say that? (http://www.crowaptok.com/images/barfy.gif)
Oddly enough, I was fine watching the video and reading the thread until I got to that. Now there's an image I can't get out of my head and wish I could. Yeech!

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

It's a simple (albeit HUGE) sebaceous cyst. Jeebers, you people get worked up easy.
buttonjockey has it mostly right.

It's not infected, it's not a tumor, it's not a boil, it's not a zit.

It's a sebaceous cyst and the material expressed out of it is not pus. It is caseous material. Smells nasty. Like old cheese that smells like people's feet.

Since it doesn't appear that they removed the cyst itself, but rather just drained it, it's liable to recur.

Antibiotics are generally not indicated. 99% of these things are not infected at the time they are drained. Some dopey docs just feel that because it's full of nasty smelling stuff, that it must need antibiotics.

These things are pretty common. I haven't dealt with one in a patient in nearly a week now.

BTW, they did not use universal precautions in dealing with this thing, thereby putting themselves at risk for Hepatitis B and C and HIV. Gowns, gloves, masks and eye protection should be employed when dealing with bodily fluids.

[Least Original User Name Ever]

that's it..we need a TMI thread...
with pictures/videos...

who's gonna start it???

[Gut]

Since it doesn't appear that they removed the cyst itself, but rather just drained it, it's liable to recur.

So that pod looking thing that popped out and all that yankin and pullin didn't remove it? Damn I hope I never get one of those things!

[Vision of Love]

So I looked up sebaceous cyst at Google Images and found some rather interesting photos, such as one of a large cyst just below the brow. It was bound to leave a pretty large crater on his face. :eek:

[Vision of Love]

So I looked up sebaceous cyst at Google Images and found some rather interesting photos, such as one of a large cyst just below the brow. It was bound to leave a pretty large crater on his face. :eek:

Might as well. Sharing is caring.

http://www.mrcophth.com/oculoplasticgallery/sebaceouscyst/sebaceouscyst.html

[Sunspace]

IIIIIIICCCKKKK!!!!!

And no, I haven't looked at any of the links. Just the discussion here is squicking me out.

:: shudder ::

[Caricci]

Might as well. Sharing is caring.

http://www.mrcophth.com/oculoplasticgallery/sebaceouscyst/sebaceouscyst.html


Oh! My! God! I was NOT expecting the removal.

[Rysdad]

Might as well. Sharing is caring.

http://www.mrcophth.com/oculoplasticgallery/sebaceouscyst/sebaceouscyst.html

From the above link:

"The content was made up of cheesy materials."

Note the plural.

Not just one type of cheese. Several. I'm guessing warmed Neufchatel, shredded Monterey Jack, and some crumbled Stilton.

[sturmhauke]

Having grown up with a Filipino dad who ate traditional Filipino food (fish eyes, duck embryos, etc.), I'm hard to gross out. Still, that was quite grimace inducing.

Who's hungry?

[Amazon Floozy Goddess]

Well, if you're a sucker for punishment, here's another nasty one.

Euuugh (http://www.hawt.net/viewvideo.php?id=1256)

Looks like an infected ear piercing.
Crank the volume and you can actually hear the pop. That was the gag-trigger for me.

[Lionne]

Well, if you're a sucker for punishment, here's another nasty one.

Euuugh (http://www.hawt.net/viewvideo.php?id=1256)

Looks like an infected ear piercing.
Crank the volume and you can actually hear the pop. That was the gag-trigger for me.


Eeeeeeughhhh! That was worse than the original for me because I once had an infected ear piercing. It was NOTHING like that, though, but still....~shudder~

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

So that pod looking thing that popped out and all that yankin and pullin didn't remove it? Damn I hope I never get one of those things!
Guess I missed the pod extraction. Sounds like they got the cyst out after all.

[Gut]

Guess I missed the pod extraction. Sounds like they got the cyst out after all.


Phew! But I still hope I never get one of those damn things!

[sturmhauke]

Hold on a second. If you listen closely you can hear the narrator saying at the beginning, "He operates without a knife, opening the skin with a mere movement of his finger." In other words, it's a psychic surgery hoax.

[Bambi Hassenpfeffer]

Hold on a second. If you listen closely you can hear the narrator saying at the beginning, "He operates without a knife, opening the skin with a mere movement of his finger." In other words, it's a psychic surgery hoax.
I'm not certain exactly how he made the incision, but I guarantee you that it is real. I've seen enough sebaceous cysts (one of my dogs is super-prone) to know that what is shown there is entirely possible.

[Derleth]

Cream cheese with cherry syrup. It even came out nicely, like it was being squeezed out of a tube. The surgeon must have used a cutting instrument of some kind, even though it might not technically have been a 'knife'. I don't know what was up with that part of the narration, myself.

Maybe the guy had really sharp fingernails.

Anyway, it didn't gross me out at all. I've heard tales told by a home health nurse who tended to low-income outpatient patients living in a warm climate. I'll just say 'maggots were a blessing' and leave it at that. I've heard tales told by a nurse who worked in a podiatrist's clinic in a region with a high incidence of alcoholism and diabetes, who once saw a patient with diabetic neuropathy (literally 'nerve-death') so severe she was unaware her flesh had worn away from her bone in one spot until she noticed that she would stick to the linoleum floor in her kitchen when she was barefoot. As an Internet geek, I've seen 'tubgirl' and 'goatse.cx' and others the names of which I forget, all of which were worse than this movie in at least one way.

It takes more than a large sebaceous cyst to put me off my feed. Even if it is white and thick and creamy.*

*(The feed and the cyst's contents.)

[sturmhauke]

I'm not certain exactly how he made the incision, but I guarantee you that it is real.
I don't doubt that such a cyst could exist in reality, but I do doubt the veracity of that video. Maybe the cyst was real and he just palmed a scalpel out of sight of the camera, or maybe the whole thing was staged. The way he was tugging on the flesh at the end, the patient should have been screaming in pain.

[Derleth]

sturmhauke: Regardless of the veracity of the video, the existence of this thread makes me happy. It proves that the SDMB is truly a haven for free expression.

(Medical geeks groan.)

[BobLibDem]

I'd have given the "surgeon" fifty bucks to down that tablespoon of goo that came out.

[Least Original User Name Ever]

I'd have given the "surgeon" fifty bucks to down that tablespoon of goo that came out.

what, do you hate doctors or something?

by the way, the earpuss video was pretty nice, too. i heard that nice squishy "pop"...bah.

and yeah, i think goatse might be worse than all of this...except it's not a video....(or so i'm aware of)

ah..the breadth and scope of the internets...

[Sage Rat]

I was mostly just fascinated with the sheer amount of punishment the lady was inflicting on the poor fellow's back. The squeezing and scooping and whatnot didn't really affect me.

With a smell to go with the visuals, though, I can envision myself getting a little green about the gills.

[Clothahump]

I was disappointed in that the guy doing the squeezing didn't position her properly and try to paint the wall.

[Kalhoun]

(banging head on desk)

I deserve this
I deserve this
I deserve this

[Bambi Hassenpfeffer]

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[ivylass]

If you haven't clicked on it then don't. I now regret ever watching that video. No dinner for me tonight.


:D

Ivylass, sitting back smugly, knowing her brain has not been polluted.

There are certain things that I can go through life without ever seeing...and this is one of them.

[Feydeau]

I've seen the beginning of this video, and I've seen goatse, and I've seen tubgirl.

Goatse just doesn't bother me all that much.

If tubgirl were a video, I still think that this cyst video would be worse. Not sure why; this cyst video just seems far more gross than a girl voluntarily shitting herself.

I think.

Okay, I've spent far too much time thinking about this.

[BobLibDem]

what, do you hate doctors or something?

by the way, the earpuss video was pretty nice, too. i heard that nice squishy "pop"...bah.

and yeah, i think goatse might be worse than all of this...except it's not a video....(or so i'm aware of)

ah..the breadth and scope of the internets...

That dude wasn't a surgeon. Real surgeons wouldn't be sticking ungloved hands into an open wound like that. And what was up with the Bible?

[Clothahump]

And what was up with the Bible?

A splatter guard. Either that or they were going to swat the cyst with it first.

[Electrical Storm]

Ivylass, sitting back smugly, knowing her brain has not been polluted.

There are certain things that I can go through life without ever seeing...and this is one of them.

I join Ivylass in her smugness. I decided to cut myself a break this time and not let my overwhelming curiosity about the world's biggest zit get the best of me. The descriptions posted by other 'Dopers still made me do that "shudder" thing, so I think I'll pass.

Plus, Mr. Silver1 is supposed to be making dinner tonight. He's a very good cook. I want to eat, so no video. :D

[marymargaret]

Was that really a pimple???

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

Was that really a pimple???
No. See earlier posts on the previous page (including mine) for further explanation about sebaceous cysts.

[Sage Rat]

I just felt it important to point out the three things for which Qadgop is famous:

1) Prison doctor
2) Tolkein expert
3) Likes to eat really foul, old, and smelly cheese

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

I just felt it important to point out the three things for which Qadgop is famous:

1) Prison doctor
2) Tolkein expert
3) Likes to eat really foul, old, and smelly cheese

Excuse me!!!!!

That's Tolkien!

[astro]

From the above link:

"The content was made up of cheesy materials."

Note the plural.

Not just one type of cheese. Several. I'm guessing warmed Neufchatel, shredded Monterey Jack, and some crumbled Stilton.

Possibly (http://www.msstate.edu/Images/Film/GrandDayOut_8.jpg)

[Sage Rat]

Excuse me!!!!!

That's Tolkien!
See. :D

Just too many cheese references in this thread.

[aruvqan]

Excuse me!!!!!

That's Tolkien!

you forgot the vegemite