Pictures So Horrific I Have No Adequate Words to Describe Them

The BBQ Pit
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Hey, I work for medical researchers. I see a lot of nasty, icky medical pictures. In full living color. Except for the dead people of course - we get those in Corps-O-Color™. No, seriously, I see very explicit medical stuff from time to time as part of my job. I can handle it. OK, pictures of brains creep me out, especially in cross-section, but I no longer find those nauseating, just mildly unpleasent.

For that matter, I’ve seen (and smelled) some pretty nasty horrible stuff in real life - motorcycle and car accidents, a person cuisanarted by an Amtrak, that sort of thing. No, it’s not fun, but it usually doesn’t leave me twitching.

Hell - read my contribution to the pimple thread. I’ve sent medical students racing to the nearest trash can to unload their lunch. When the New England Journal of Medicine published an article on a Rhode Island Nightclub Fire survivor, complete with a picture of what the poor woman looked like after they debrided her burnt face and scalp clear down to her charred skullbone I went “huh, wow, her “after” picture looks ever so much better”, set down the magazine, and went and had a hamburger for lunch. Gore does not usually bother me, OK?

Well, today at work I’m opening the executive director’s mail (one of my more scutty duties - this was so much fun back during the anthrax mailings!) when I slide a stack of promotional materials from a surgical supply company out of the envelope and

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!***
:eek: :confused: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I jumped up from my chair, spilling the highly detailed, professionally lit, very explicit, glossy 5 x7 in FULL ROTTING COLOR onto the floor.

Then I had to pick them up again.

This was GROSS! And ICKY! And FOUL! :eek:

Seriously - this was WORSE than Rotten-dot-com. :eek: :eek:

Hey - they got a pro to do these. Nice, framing, sharp focus - really, the pornography of open oozing necrotizing wounds.

And SO FUCKING EDUCATIONAL!!! I did not know an infected peritoneum looked like that. You know, I could have gone through life without actually seeing a picture of any peritoneum, but one swollen and bubbling up out of someone split sternum to crotch, with assorted puddles of pust— oh to HELL with it, I can not adequately describe this, and I’m not sure if I even should.

Hello? Can we get a puking smiley here? Can we? I really really need one right now…

[sounds of distant vomiting]

I have seen two day old ROAD KILL that looked better than this - and these were pictures of living, suffering people with their flesh litterally rotting away in spots - not just fingers and toes but major portions of their torsos. :frowning:

Which brings me to another point. They really needed to do a better job with the surgical drapes. :rolleyes: Aside from things like feces bags dangling off people’s bellies being just one more added medical yuck item, ANYONE getting photographed for medical reasons should have their genitalia COMPLETELY COVERED (unless of course, that is the subject in question). Granted, you didn’t notice the bits hanging out for the first 9 or 10 glimpses of the photograph, but WHAT THE FUCK??? :confused:

WHO THE FUCKING HELL DECIDED THESE WOULD BE GOOD PICTURES TO PUT IN AN ADVERTISING BROCHURE WITHOUT SOME SORT OF GODDAMNED WARNING LABEL???

Seriously - we’ve gotten stuff this explicit before, but it was sent doctor-to-doctor, and there was some sort of warning that they were explicit photos of severe wounds and injuries. C’MON PEOPLE!!! This was a FUCKING PROMOTIONAL BROCHURE! The sort of shit unsuspecting secretaries and office temps see. Holy fucking hell - if I couldn’t handle it the average cubicle dweller is going to have a hard time, too. It shocked some of the NURSES, and, goddamn, they’re usually tougher nuts than the docs! (Don’t believe me? Guess who gets to do the dressing changes on the people in those sorts of photos… )

WHY? WHY? WHY?

Oh, man, this is gonna haunt me for awhile, I just KNOW it!

(By the way - judging from some of their “after” photos their stuff actually does work - but how many people are going to get that far?

Guess what - they have a website.

No, I am not posting the URL.

Holy fuck :eek:

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The NC judge gives this one a 10!

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Ok, you’re seen some bad pictures. It’s going to take awhile for you to come down. Do you have any beer? One or two will help you set down. And maybe you could play some music? Do you have anything from the Allman Brothers? Just settle down, find a quiet place and remember, were all brothers and sisters on this planet.

And explicit medical pictures are bad, mmmkay?

Whistlepig

don’t post the link, let them find it on their own.

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You tease, then disappoint.

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I have a pretty high gross out threshhold, but your description is putting me off my dinner! No photos needed.

By the way, where do these companies get the photography? We get stock photos for our marketing brochures, but we search through categories with names like “puppies,” “babies,” and “happy couples aged XX-XX.” I’ve never seen a category name like “rotting flesh.”

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So, ya gonna post some scans or what?

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You know where I can get a copy of those pictures? My mom’s birthday is coming up, these sound perfect.

No, really. I’m dead serious. She loves this shit. She’s got coffee table books full autopsy photos. She collect skulls. She’s a bad haircut and a Cure album away from being a full-on Goth. She’d flip over a few brochures full of necrotizing flesh.

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Guys, the last time I posted a direct link on this forum thinking it wasn’t so bad as to be unacceptable I nearly got booted off the Dope. You know - banned. I figure if I’m horrified the mods will be, too.

(…sick motherfuckers wanting to see oozing wounds mutter mutter mutter…)

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Well, how else are you gonna market your new Necrotizer?

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I think that the relevant part of the quote is “…without some sort of goddamned warning label???”

Sometimes an image can caught us off ward, I remember in high-school, before I went to classes I was browsing some (Newsweek I think) magazines at the English institute, I skimmed through an article about a war somewhere, and there was this picture of this soldier hanging off a tank hatch charred and crooked like a burnt match, it just summoned all the evils of war and suffering on me, and it stuck; later that day I passed out in the middle of Geometry class. :eek:

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I’ve told this story here before, but it fits here - the psychophysiology lab I worked in back in college had a whole selection of slides that included some with that stuff on it. People with half their head blown off from a shotgun suicide, woman beat so badly in the face that her eyes were nearly swollen shut, etc. I had to select a mess of the slides - chosen to evoke strong emotion, positive or negative (the slides covered a large variety of good and bad subjects) - and mail them in to a photo processing lab to be blown up into 8x10" glossy photos. They all came back processed, except for 3 slides separated into their own envelope and which were skipped. They were of nudes. Nearly full frontal, but tastefully done, airbrushed nicely, etc. According to the woman I spoke to on the phone, they were owned by a conservative company and couldn’t process nude photos unless we sent them a letter on our university letterhead explaining why we needed them (experiment). I asked why they could develop those nasty photos but not the nicely-done nudes, and she sounded sheepish - company policy. Decay, death, violence = OK; nudity = not OK.

That being said, I felt for whoever had to develop the yucky photos. I nearly got sick picking out the slides.

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Perhaps I could help you in judging how to link this appropriately. Email’s in the profile. :smiley:

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Uh-huh.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Do warn me–I mean tell me–when and if your dear sweet ma-ma comes down around Tennessee, hmmmm?

So I can buy a gun, & barricade my door.
:eek: :eek: :eek:

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Tell us the name of the company, at least.

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Fortunately I’ve read Miller enough and indeed appreciate his humor to a more than respectable level… otherwise this, given it’s grammatical shortcomings, would be the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever read on this board.

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I think I’d rather look at an oozing wound from a leper’s ass, than see what’s left of some guys face after it got hit by a helicopter blade. Or the motorcycle guy, with the softball-sized chunk of his face missing. I guess I’d have to see the pics in order to tell. (hint hint)

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Think of either of those two folks you just named, but 3 days later and still alive and being munched by technicolor microbes.

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I think that the TMI alarm just went ka-boom.

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And here the title had me thinking this was the Bil Keane Pit thread.

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smyw.com has some gory stuff. If they are as bad as you say, then they have to be on the internet somewhere. People are curious about such things.

Is it really that bad? I mean considering I’ve seen goatse, tubgirl, etc I’ve got a prett high gross-out tolerance.

I mean, it can’t be worse than the pic of the old man who died in his bathtub, and the bathtub electric heater turned him into corpse stew which rendered him little more than goo+putrified remnants of legs.