# Things that you've read/seen that you wish you hadn't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408 "2014-12-29T04:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/21 "2014-12-29T09:03:49Z")
Why yes I have and now you can too because they are freely available. [The man who turned into a tree haunted me for years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStwXsmZ3OE). It is just a very short nonfiction documentary so you can see it for yourself. For fiction, I nominate [Sundays Game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RW1Yil7ZRk). It is just an 8 minute little independent film that contains some of the most realistic acting I have ever seen. It is just about a cute weekend get together of some of the dearest little old ladies friends that you will ever see. Check it out. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/22 "2014-12-29T09:47:29Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > [The man who turned into a tree haunted me for years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStwXsmZ3OE). It is just a very short nonfiction documentary so you can see it for yourself. You wouldn’t have been so haunted if you had seen the sequel: [Human Treeman stops turning into a tree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkizRC5mZYQ) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/23 "2014-12-29T12:11:49Z")
I saw a video of an artist vomiting paint onto a canvas, accompanied by the beautiful “Flower Duet” by Delibes. It was more disgusting than I thought it would be. That music still sometimes reminds me of the video. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/24 "2014-12-29T12:23:50Z")
The usual stuff – war photos, surgery footage, and so on. My biggest weakness is eye violence. Even a tame scene like the Kill Bill eye snatch makes me wince and turn my head. Entertainment wise, _Antichrist_ was a surprise. I heard it was fucked up, but for the most part it was a low key horror drama. There’s a scene where the dude’s crazy girlfriend is jerking him off, then she hits him in the balls with a giant piece of wood, keeps going, and he ejaculates blood. That made me grit my teeth in empathy pain, but not too bad. Then later on the crazy woman grabbed scissors and gave herself a clitoridecotmy. Snip, snip. Did I mention this film showed full nudity with no cut aways? I guess if you’re into knife play it could be pretty hot, but no. Thanks a lot, Lars von Trier. I don’t know the name of the film, but when I was a teen I saw some Vietnam, maybe Korean war movie where the Americans are getting overrun and the planes are bombing very close to their own troops (Broken arrow event I think they called it). One guy got caught in the napalm and his buddies tried to move him. So they grab his legs, but his pants are fused to his skin, and his skin is melting and sloughing off, so the skin slides right off and they can’t grab him. UGH. Just thinking about it makes my shins tingle. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/25 "2014-12-29T12:58:20Z")
The movie Trainspotting. I thought I would be okay–Fight Club doesn’t bother me at all–but no. It’s the one media experience of my life that I wish I hadn’t had. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/26 "2014-12-29T13:46:08Z")
The movie **Se7en by David Fincher**. I am not interested in being…manipulated…the way that director is seeking to manipulate me. I left the theater thinking, “hey, Fincher - yeah, Fuck You, too. Thanks a lot :(” ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/27 "2014-12-29T13:52:28Z")
Ugh. I couldn’t even read **chorpler’s** description of the skinning video. I do not want that staying in my head. I can’t believe no one has mentioned the lotus boob. It doesn’t matter that it’s fake and everyone knows it’s a fake. It’s the trypophobia thing. Along the same lines, there’s footage of a Surinam toad. I’m sorry I even mentioned these things now. ---
**Author:** ![ArztWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@ArztWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArztWolf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/28 "2014-12-29T14:54:07Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > Ugh. I couldn’t even read **chorpler’s** description of the skinning video. I do not want that staying in my head. > > I can’t believe no one has mentioned the lotus boob. It doesn’t matter that it’s fake and everyone knows it’s a fake. It’s the trypophobia thing. Along the same lines, there’s footage of a Surinam toad. I’m sorry I even mentioned these things now. Yeah, when I first saw the lotus boob I could not get that image out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/29 "2014-12-29T15:18:38Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > For fiction, I nominate [Sundays Game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RW1Yil7ZRk). It is just an 8 minute little independent film that contains some of the most realistic acting I have ever seen. It is just about a cute weekend get together of some of the dearest little old ladies friends that you will ever see. Check it out. This, this a million times this. I actually saw this here in a thread that was basically “link to the most disturbing video you can find” It’s so horrifying, and you don’t even really SEE anything. Given the context it’s less gory than your average Eli Roth slasherporn movie, but still the implications of it ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/30 "2014-12-29T16:12:13Z")
A My little Pony fanfic version of “The Human Caterpillar”. Seriously as soon as I saw the title I should have fled like the Flash. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/31 "2014-12-29T16:40:36Z")
When I was a kid, back in the '50s, on the front page of the newspaper was an article and photo. The photo showed a baby that had been born . . . numerous heads and arms and legs, seemingly arranged randomly. I remember shrieking and running out of the house. Wish I’d never seen that. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/32 "2014-12-29T16:49:20Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > When I was a kid, back in the '50s, on the front page of the newspaper was an article and photo. The photo showed a baby that had been born . . . numerous heads and arms and legs, seemingly arranged randomly. I remember shrieking and running out of the house. Wish I’d never seen that. Sounds like standard fare for the _National Enquirer_ back in those days. The NE has become more discrete in recent years, but back in the 1950s and 1960s they went for the grotesque photos of babies and such on the front page in the hopes of persuading folks to pick up their little newspaper. If it soothes your conscience, I’m pretty sure that their images were constructions and darkroom creations\* as much as the “God’s hand seen in thunderstorm” or “Batboy” pictures later were. > [@](#): > > In 1953, Pope revamped the format from a broadsheet to a sensationalist tabloid focusing on sex and violence. The paper’s editorial content became so salacious that Griffin was forced by the Mayor to resign from the city’s Board of Higher Education in 1954.[6] In 1957, Pope changed the name of the newspaper to The National Enquirer and changed its scope to national stories of sex and scandal.[6] Pope worked tirelessly in the 1950s and 1960s to increase the circulation and broaden the tabloid’s appeal. In the late 1950s and through most of the 1960s, the Enquirer was known for its gory and unsettling headlines and stories such as: “I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped on It” (Sept. 8, 1963) and “Mom Boiled Her Baby and Ate Her” (1962). At this time the paper was sold on newsstands and in drugstores only. Pope stated he got the idea for the format and these gory stories from seeing people congregate around auto accidents. By 1966, circulation had risen to one million.[6] > **[National Enquirer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Enquirer)** > > The National Enquirer is an American tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1926, the newspaper has undergone a number of changes over the years. The National Enquirer openly acknowledges that it pays sources for tips (checkbook journalism), a common practice in tabloid journalism that results in conflicts of interest. It has also been embroiled in several controversies related to its catch and kill practices and allegations of blackmail. It has struggled with declining circulation figures because o In... \*They’d have used Photoshop if it had been around then. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/33 "2014-12-29T17:11:05Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > This, this a million times this. > > I actually saw this here in a thread that was basically “link to the most disturbing video you can find” > > It’s so horrifying, and you don’t even really SEE anything. Given the context it’s less gory than your average Eli Roth slasherporn movie, but still the implications of it Thanks for the link. That was awesomely dark and hilarious! Love it. (ETA: or rather, thanks to Shagnasty, but both your descriptions piqued my curiosity.) ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/34 "2014-12-29T17:41:03Z")
Like most depraved things, it came from the SDMB. 😉 Specifically, I lay the blame on **MsWhatsit** , who linked to [a humorous commentary on a really, really awful piece of fanfiction](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17980243&postcount=63). Was it hilarious? Hell yes. However . . . that _mental image_ of him . . . _tearing_ . . . erg. Brain bleach. Please. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/35 "2014-12-29T18:03:01Z")
One of the most disturbing fanfiction pieces I’ve ever read has the same title as my username. AFAIK, it’s no longer online but you might be able to read it on the Wayback Machine, should you be so inclined. It’s about the straight members of R.E.M., Bill, Mike, and Peter, all having sex with each other in every way you could possibly think of. Someone else described it as “unadulterated puke” and that’s an excellent summation. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dustin_the_Wind)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/36 "2014-12-29T18:03:36Z")
A couple of things, sort of. In 1987 when I was hugely pregnant with my first child, I worked at a law firm where my boss occasionally handled personal injury cases. I had just eaten a donut and was going through a file that I was unfamiliar with. I ran across some pictures of an accident victim, horribly mutilated. It was all I could do not to lose my donut. I don’t know if it’s still around, but I was on [Rotten.com](http://Rotten.com) once and ran across some absolutely horrifying shots, each one worse than the one before. It was a very, very long time before I could stop remembering those. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/37 "2014-12-29T18:10:36Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I think every autopsy photo I’ve ever had to see is still in my brain. I collect old medical books, and a gynecology book I have from 1908 has a pencil drawing of the perineal area of an 8-month-old baby who had been raped. :eek: It is every bit as horrible as it sounds. There’s a You Tube video made by the military in 1955 about the original hantavirus outbreak; it’s about 45 minutes long and has risen in “popularity” since the Ebola outbreak. It has graphic autopsy footage and also clips of victims vomiting blood, and I don’t think those were re-enactments. I personally did not find it disturbing, but others might. What WAS disturbing to me was that most of the fatalities were from kidney failure, which at the time was untreatable. ---
**Author:** ![Lemmytheseal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lemmytheseal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmytheseal2)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/38 "2014-12-29T19:20:21Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The ritual scene in A Man Called Horse where the man is suspended by a eagle claws stuck into his chest. I was only 13, it seemed horrific. The teachers showed us that movie in middle school. > [@Baker](#): > > Against my better judgement I clicked on a link in a thread here on the Dope, quite some time ago. > > The story was about a young South American woman who was part of a campaign against drunk driving, allowing her image to be used. > > There was the “before” picture of a gorgeous girl in a bikini, on the beach. > > Then there was the link with the picture of her after her car had been struck by a drunk driver, and she’d been burned over her entire body. I will not describe what she looked like afterwards, I just remember pushing myself away from the keyboard in shock. > > She was brave enough to let her picture be used, to try and get the point across about the dangers of DUI. Poor, poor Jacqueline Saburido. She’s been like that since 1999. She was 20 or so when it happened. I think about her all the time. Her friends in the front seats were killed. The drunk driver did eight years in jail. > [@madsircool](#): > > Salo:120 Days of Sodom I was ready to be shocked and horrified, but I was just bored. I understand what Pasolini was trying to do, and the reasons behind all the awful things happening, but it just provoked little reaction in me. > [@marshmallow](#): > > Entertainment wise, _Antichrist_ was a surprise. I heard it was fucked up, but for the most part it was a low key horror drama. There’s a scene where the dude’s crazy girlfriend is jerking him off, then she hits him in the balls with a giant piece of wood, keeps going, and he ejaculates blood. That made me grit my teeth in empathy pain, but not too bad. Then later on the crazy woman grabbed scissors and gave herself a clitoridecotmy. Snip, snip. Did I mention this film showed full nudity with no cut aways? I guess if you’re into knife play it could be pretty hot, but no. Thanks a lot, Lars von Trier. I did flinch at that. I thought it was a powerful film, all things considered. > [@Sattua](#): > > The movie Trainspotting. I thought I would be okay–Fight Club doesn’t bother me at all–but no. It’s the one media experience of my life that I wish I hadn’t had. I love Trainspotting! I’ve seen it multiple times, and watched clips from it many more times. > [@WordMan](#): > > The movie **Se7en by David Fincher**. I am not interested in being…manipulated…the way that director is seeking to manipulate me. I left the theater thinking, “hey, Fincher - yeah, Fuck You, too. Thanks a lot :(” Same for Se7en! ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/39 "2014-12-29T19:27:39Z")
The scene from the Human Centipede, where the lead guy has to poop, and you can see the agony as he doesn’t want to, but the lady behind him had to accept what was coming. That, or when the doctor was checking out the surgery and found pus and ugh. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408/40 "2014-12-29T20:55:50Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > Ugh. I couldn’t even read **chorpler’s** description of the skinning video. I do not want that staying in my head. I apologize. I should have spoiler-boxed that. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youve-read-seen-that-you-wish-you-hadnt/708408.md?page=3)