This is too mundane and pointless to go into Cafe Society, although if the mods disagree you can always move it. It just describes one truly delightful hour of my life earlier today.
This afternoon on Animal Planet I happened to catch a program called “Eaten Alive.” If I hadn’t already been well fortified by such Dope beauties as the TMI Thread and the Pimple Thread, I’m not sure I could have made it through the show without running into the bathroom to toss my cookies. They showed people attacked in strange, virulent, and really, REALLY gross ways by all sorts of parasites and assorted other nasty creatures (including one Amazonian fish that attacked a man by crawling up inside his…no, I can’t even SAY it!). There was:
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The man who had worms crawling around under his skin, for months
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The man who had a worm crawling on the inside of his cornea
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The man who had a worm growing under his skin that he named “George” (I swear I am not making this up)
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The woman with brain parasites (that were tapeworm larvae)
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The man with a tapeworm who had his wife come in and trim the extruding portion before he went to the doctor (which gives a whole new meaning to “for better or for worse,” for sure!)
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And, of course, the man who started to pee into the Amazon River and…well, you need to see the show to truly appreciate the full horror of it.
It was all presented with true glee, and a matter-of-factness on the part of the various victims that made it even more ick-making. And trust me, by telling you what all it included doesn’t even BEGIN to describe the full horror that is this show.
Obviously, I HIGHLY recommend this program! I don’t know when it’s being rebroadcast – the Animal Planet listings didn’t show any future air dates – but it is WELL worth it to gross yourself out beyond description.
With my tinfoil hat on, I even suspect the producer might have picked up his glee for TMI hiding out here amongst Dopers. Hey, it’s possible!
