Especially if there’s a Gap in Fangorn Forest.
Could have been worse. They almost couldn’t find his grandfather.
I thought it might be this tree man. A definite WTF.
If this is the most WTF thing you’ve seen, you haven’t been on the internet long enough. And no, I’m not proud of having seen much, much worse.
I’m assuming he went to the one on Elm Street because the location of the one across town, on Jefferson Road, wasn’t named after a tree …
Seriously, the OP reminds me a bit of a friend of mine (the one who I mentioned in another thread passed away suddenly last week, not due to what I am about to mention, btw) - he had cycstic fibrosis, which resulted in small (“normal-looking”, ie nothing like “Tree Man” warts/bumps all over his body. I’m wondering if this is something similar …
There’s no reason to be afraid of him.
His bark is worse than his bite.
I hear he’s an honest to goodness son-of-a-birch.
In the picture he’s just sitting there. I wonder when he’s going to leaf?
He’d be well-camoflaged on Elm St.
I wonder if that’s what a woman I used to see in downtown Saskatoon had. She had warts all over her face (I don’t recall if it was over all of her body that you could see, or just her head). They were fairly big ones, too; you really couldn’t see what she looked like except for a completely bumpy face.
I haven’t clicked that article, but Dede has a “relative” of sorts in the skin growth category: The Coral Man. (He might have actually ben mentioned in it.) Not doing any links, but put it into Google Images, and you’ll see all you care to.
Some other extraordinary cases are:
Arianto, an Indonesian kid with half of his face abnormally large
Jose Mestre, the man with no face
Mandy Sellars, the girl with the giant legs
Just to show that there are all sorts of unusual things that can go wrong.
The Coral Man seems to have the same problem as the tree man, only not nearly as bad.
Perhaps I should have been more explicit. The OP issued a challenge, and I answered. I find it more of a WTF moment that someone who proclaims to be extremely cultured and impressed by his belongings would live in filth and yet make a mockery of someone who clearly has no choice in the physical manifestations of his illness. If lissener wanted to point and poke without any repercussions he shouldn’t have issued a WTF challenge.
[Spock]Fascinating[/Spock]. Makes me wonder if this condition has had any influence on historical folklore or legend, and how people who were afflicted were viewed in the past—were they reviled or revered?
Agreed. There are horrors on the internet the average person can scarcely imagine. Should one challenge the internet on this, the internet wins every time. This I have learned.
But what gets me about this man’s case is the energy that must have gone into producing those growths. And of what do they consist? skin? Hair/fingernail material?
Meh. Google the phrase ‘mr cream of wheat porn’ for a more confusing video.
I understood you just fine – and I’m telling you that if you have a problem with lissener, take it to the Pit, don’t derail a thread about a separate topic with your hostile comments about his struggles with emotional issues.
I noticed that, too. He’s a very handsome man with a very charismatic aura of relaxed calm. Even with all those growths, he has surprisingly little scarring.
A lot of the medical talk in the wikipedia article on his condition is a bit over my head - if someone a bit more knowledgeable in the field could give a plain-english summary, I’d be overjoyed - but it looks like it’s primarily warts. Possibly cancerous tumours, but I can’t find anything specifically stating whether he, specifically, has any.
I had the same thoughts. As I looked through the pictures, I kept being struck by how surprisingly handsome he was; not just in some patronizing, disease-offsetting noble sufferer way, but, like, genuinely.
And how used to his condition he appears to be in the pictures. I don’t even get the idea that it causes him any pain. That may be an editorial decision on the part of the people who released the photos, of course.