Take scouring pad, apply directly to eyeball
Click on the following links at your own peril. If you’re already queasy, you definitely want to take a pass.
I have a morbid fascination with gross stuff, which I blame on my health care professional family members. Dinner-inappropriate conversational topics were standard fare, with myself being the individual with the weakest capacity for enduring sights/stories involving blood and guts. That said, if the goal is to gross-out other people, it seems to suppress my natural urge to vomit and faint. As a result, I am to blame for introducing more than a handful of my friends to the wonders that the Internet has to offer. Goatse? Yep, introduced several people to that. 2 Girls 1 Cup? Yep, introduced several people to that.
My memories of the early WWW days usually involved items with shock factor, my first favourite find being Rectal Foreign Bodies, a collection of the various items that beleaguered health care professionals have had to remove from the rectums of individual who have exercised exceptionally poor judgement. That site is more funny than gross, since most of the contents are either text case reports, or x-ray images. Another throwback is a site that I’ve attempted to visit over the years, but have been overcome with nausea and unable to actually explore. Yes, I’m talking about Rotten.com.
With the prevalence of gross/shocking images these days, the site doesn’t have quite as much gag-potential as it once did. Even so, I still can’t bring myself to click on some of the images. Skin disorders, large wounds and massive head injuries are still enough to force me into a head-between-knees position. Can we talk about something else now? That’s about all the nausea I need for one day.
