# Holy shit, this guy is seriously FUCKED UP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445 "2002-07-23T20:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/21 "2002-07-24T03:15:01Z")
I can kinda sympathize. I sometimes wish I could lose an eye, just so I’d have an excuse to wear an eyepatch in public. 'Cause eyepatches are cool. Pirates wear them, you know. Sometimes I wonder if I’d rather lose a finger, but I like being able to count to ten. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/22 "2002-07-24T04:06:07Z")
Yeeks. I mean, YEEKS! I thought _I_ was an attention junkie. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/23 "2002-07-24T07:38:41Z")
“I love how my braces look when I sit in my wheelchair.” Uh-huh. :rolleyes: Listen, every person has the right to do with their body as they please. Drive a piece of metal through your tongue, ear, nose, or nipple. Tattoo Barbara Bush on your left testicle. Hell, chop of your left arm just because you think it makes you more attractive. What the hell do I care? Is it sick? It would be to _me_, but then again, so would going to a Backstreet Boys concert be. Who am I to judge? However, when someone is so desperate for attention that they will pretend to be seriously handicapped (c’mon, this is beyond the _I can’t dance honey, I sprained my ankle at volleyball practice_ level), you can’t stop me from secretly wishing they get hit by a truck ever so slightly so that they **fucking know what it is like to sit in a wheelchair with good reason** , if even for a few weeks. That may make me an evil person, but I’d rather be downright evil than an attention whore that pisses people off with their elaborated displays of tacky insecurity. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/24 "2002-07-24T07:48:41Z")
What I wonder is, why do people this sick always have such ugly websites? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/25 "2002-07-24T07:53:05Z")
Ugly people=Ugly Websites? ---
**Author:** ![zephonith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@zephonith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephonith)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/26 "2002-07-24T10:26:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > **The fetishising of amputation is called apotemnophila and is recognised in many fetish and medical circles.** My boyfriend’s mother is an amputee from about the knee down. I have no problem with it, but I have to say I’ll never be able to think of my boyfriend’s father in the same way again :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/27 "2002-07-24T12:13:39Z")
Could this fetish be rooted in a form of Munchausen Syndrome (not “by proxy” variety) or another form of factitious disorder? But eek - hooks? E. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/28 "2002-07-24T13:16:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*Tattoo Barbara Bush on your left testicle. You **swore** you wouldn’t tell anybody about that! See if I go with you to the gym again! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/29 "2002-07-24T14:52:38Z")
He looks a bit like an industrial fuse now, although I’m not sure there’s a filament going from one side to the other. My guess is his lap times in the pool will suffer as well. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/30 "2002-07-24T23:51:55Z")
**Sauron** and **lieu** , you’re killing me! This is why I love this place. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/31 "2002-07-25T01:03:06Z")
**Sauron** My SO just mentioned that he has the exact same tatoo, and is happy I’ve never noticed it. I think he’s finally beginning to understand why I hang around here. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/32 "2002-07-25T06:35:39Z")
As an amputee for 16 years, if I was the sensitive type, I could say Guin and jarbaby’s lame and old attempt at amputee humor was offensive. However I won’t. You two will not put up with any bullshit about your respective mental/emotional issues, (as you have posted before) so why shouldn’t I call you on that? Hypocritical much, ladies? I really don’t give a shit, but WTF? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/33 "2002-07-25T07:44:10Z")
I’m confused. Is publishing a website now sufficient to make one an attention whore? If so, I and a whole bunch of people around here are in a lotta trouble. So what makes this person’s fetish so godawful offensive? You know, some “feminists”\* think that _drag_ is offensive. Doesn’t make it true. \*[sub]I don’t think that they’re actually feminists, to tell you the truth.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/34 "2002-07-25T08:12:03Z")
I don’t know if I’d call it offensive… I just think this guy has some severe issues. Not to mention the fact that she’s really really ugly. I think she’s delusional. She seems to think that folks that she deals with are as fixated on her “hooks” as he is. That dealing with her, and by proxy, them, makes them uncomfortable. I wish this guy were local, so I could meet him somewhere and just act like a class-1 asshole to him. If he tried the sympathy ploy, I would reveal him for what he is… not an amputee. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/35 "2002-07-25T10:23:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > **I’m confused. Is publishing a website now sufficient to make one an attention whore?** No, but deliberately riding a wheelchair in public so as to stand out qualifies you for the **Open Attention Whore Championships** just nicely. It’s not about the fact that he puts this on a website - that fact merely grants us permission to criticise him. I’m all for people living out their fantasies, but I can also see how this sort of behaviour is VERY offensive to someone who honestly HAS to sit in a wheelchair all day. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Fluffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/36 "2002-07-25T12:48:44Z")
Zeponith-Why would you not be able to think of your boyfriends father the same way again? Is it possible that he is with your boyfriends mother in spite of her amputation and not because it “turns him on?” ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/37 "2002-07-25T13:47:28Z")
Hippocrit, Yeah I saw you park in in the handicapped space and then pretend to limp when you got out! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/38 "2002-07-25T14:24:46Z")
Um…well. I’m sorry. it all goes back to that thread last year where the woman wanted to cut off her arms and have hooks implanted…of which there have been at least two references in this thread. I don’t remember you being offended then… but it was a two page long thread of nothing but puns. I just thought I’d start it up again. I apologize. J ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/39 "2002-07-25T16:33:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fluffy \* > \*\*Zeponith-Why would you not be able to think of your boyfriends father the same way again? Is it possible that he is with your boyfriends mother in spite of her amputation and not because it “turns him on?” \*\* I think Zepo mistook the fetish to be attraction to aputations on others instead of wanting to have your own body lopped off. My guess is that it’s a misunderstanding of the phrasing and word. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445/40 "2002-07-25T16:55:19Z")
I still don’t see in what way it mocks handicapped people, but that’s OK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-shit-this-guy-is-seriously-fucked-up/120445.md?page=3)