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2011-04-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Bobby 2011-04-11 06:47|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Next fad: unnecessary amputations of major body parts.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-04-11 07:19|| 2011-04-11 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the last fad among the body modification set was splitting the tongue to look like a snake. Ears at least can be covered by hair.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-11 07:33|| 2011-04-11 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Quite a lot of voters seem to have chosen brain amputation.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-04-11 07:56|| 2011-04-11 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 There is actually a bizarre mental illness that is focused on the amputation of one or more limbs. This resulted in a highly questionable bit of medical care in South America.

A young doctor, a surgeon, was stationed at a major insane asylum with four rare patients that had this mental illness. The four were unresponsive to any therapy and were "basket cases".

After several years of consultation, he got permission and support of the medical staff to amputate on of the patients' legs, that the patient had already damaged himself trying to self-amputate.

After the surgery, the patient normalized into full and functional sanity, and was able to be discharged and returned to his family.

A second patient was partially fixed, but demanded the removal of three toes on his other foot before he was likewise deemed "sane".

But the third patient wanted removal of all his limbs, and that was a no-go, as far as the doctors were concerned, so he remained institutionalized. And the fourth patient was not an issue, as word got out, and they were told to halt future surgeries until their national medical college could review their findings.

But the Internet intervened, as one of these amputation people created a website, which attracted others of his kind. Thus indicating that a lot more people had this mental illness than previously believed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-11 09:25|| 2011-04-11 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 http://comics.com/the_buckets/2011-03-23/

Posted by mom 2011-04-11 10:24|| 2011-04-11 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 It's hypothesised that Amputee wannabes have a damaged sense of proprioception (knowing where your limbs are i.e. the brains mental map of your body) and they process this mismatch by thinking of the limb as alien.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-04-11 11:43|| 2011-04-11 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Bright Pebbles ...Funny... I have the same feeling about Obama...can I get an amputation?

Posted by Warthog 2011-04-11 13:19|| 2011-04-11 13:19|| Front Page Top

#8 "I don't imagine seeing many CEOs out there that have elf ears."

Didn't help Spock much in the movie.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-04-11 13:30|| 2011-04-11 13:30|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess later on you could always claim it was the result of an unfortunate accident with a rice picking machine.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-04-11 14:09|| 2011-04-11 14:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Why aren't trans-gendered (or whatever the PC term is) considered mentally ill also? Certainly seems very similar at least.

Posted by AlanC 2011-04-11 15:44|| 2011-04-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#11 "My friend...is...obviously...Chinese..."

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-04-11 15:49|| 2011-04-11 15:49|| Front Page Top

#12 I find this highly illogical.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-11 17:31|| 2011-04-11 17:31|| Front Page Top

#13 article has no pictures. The articles I saw on the split tongue thing had pictures. Makes me doubt if this is real.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-04-11 23:55|| 2011-04-11 23:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Okay, Google has enough pictures of the elf-people. I believe. Still, that's pretty shoddy journalism to force people to look around for the pictures.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-04-11 23:59|| 2011-04-11 23:59|| Front Page Top

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