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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry October 4, 2013 - 10:51am

...fucking gross-ass--FUCKING GROSS ASS--video that some of the rest of you may have seen of some guy getting his teeth pulled.  I'm talking about this because it bothered the shit out of me, and will continue to.  God damnit.

So, for those of you who are not yet aware of this video, the guy gets his teeth pulled and under his teeth, in that cavity where the teeth used to be, is this swarm, this herd, of maggots.  In his gums. 

Maggots in his gums.  Squirming and poking their heads out of the empty tooth-hole. 

This is the closest I've been to vomiting in a long time.  Just thought I'd share.

 

 

 

 

Fuck that's nasty.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters October 4, 2013 - 10:52am

Why do you people watch these things? 

People are disgusting.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry October 4, 2013 - 11:02am

IT WAS ON FACEBOOK!

 

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Chacron from England, South Coast is reading Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb October 4, 2013 - 11:04am

Okay I'll go with this: perhaps people watch it for story inspiration. Seriously, if you're up for writing a story where things get one more level of fucked up than 'normal', a bit like some of the ones in Palahniuk's Haunted, then that's got to be up there with the gold material. Wouldn't write that sort of material myself but the idea has to be worth a mention somewhere when I'm looking for a bit of grossness.

(And I'll resist trying to find the video because I'm about to have dinner.)

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry October 4, 2013 - 11:06am

I should just post it here on autoplay...

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Matt from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz October 4, 2013 - 11:08am

Please don't.

#TeamAvery

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry October 4, 2013 - 11:12am

Now you're just egging me on.

#TeamUtah

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Matt from New Zealand is reading This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz October 4, 2013 - 11:23am

I can't help it. I'm easily amused.

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Tim Johnson from Rockville, MD is reading Notes From a Necrophobe by T.C. Armstrong October 4, 2013 - 1:59pm

If you need somebody to talk to, my pm box is always open.

 

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Michael.Eric.Snyder October 4, 2013 - 5:37pm

I had something similar to me happen a long time ago, probably around 2000. It was still internet 1.0. Maybe 1.5. But anyway, this guy at work mentions this website he likes, which will go unnamed here, and out of some morbid curiosity and naivety, I went home and checked it out. I stumbled across a video. This was before YouTube, though I had broadband for the first time (DSL).

The video I saw was REAL. I was DAMAGED BY IT. Unfortunately, I'll never forget it, though the video has kind of faded away, and I can vaguely recall it now without becoming sick to my stomach. 

As I write this, I'm thinking it would make a great short story. So there's that.

 

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like October 4, 2013 - 7:24pm

There was one I saw of a tremendous boil being lanced and drained. (The cause was some sort of exotic fly, I think.) 'Drained' is a bit tame. 'Drained' like you might 'drain' a garbage can full of rotten vanilla pudding by punching a hole in it with a crowbar and then giving it a bear hug.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like October 4, 2013 - 7:27pm

I don't seek this sort of thing out, but I'm not scared of it either.

"IT WAS ON FACEBOOK!"

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated October 4, 2013 - 8:08pm

Such videos don't bother me, but only because I can't smell it.

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Nathan Scalia from Kansas is reading so many things October 4, 2013 - 10:49pm

Jeez, really? I had a dream like that, and planned to write a story to see what people thought.

Way to beat me to my horror story, reality.

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big_old_dave from Watford, about 20 miles outside London, Uk October 5, 2013 - 6:51am

Maggots in a wound is good news to be honest, I know that sounds strange but the miltary used them back in the day before modern medicine popped along. It would stop gangrene in a lot of cases and saves people from having thier limbs cutt off. Simply pop them into the wound wait for them to eat the dead cells and then they cawl out. Job done. Not too sure how they would get out under a tooth, but ye get the point.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry October 6, 2013 - 5:43am

the miltary used them back in the day before modern medicine popped along

But then modern medicine came along and you should't have fucking maggots in your gums!

Yeah, I can understand how some dude in 1781 could go, "Man, my halitosis has really been kickin lately.  I sure am glad for these gum-maggots to consume the necrotic tissue so I can--eventually--be less offensive to my friends and loved ones."

Had this man no friends to tell him, hey Sam, go brush your teeth.  If you don't your breath will continue to stink and your gums will eventually become infested with maggots. 

And now I feel like a bad friend, because I have never told any friend this, and might thus be indirectly contributing to something really awful. 

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SRead from Colorado is reading Stories October 6, 2013 - 6:21am

Bad news, Utah: modern medicine still uses maggots to clean necrotic flesh. They are really good at what they do! Go brush your teeth.

And I just watched a whole bunch of videos of liposuction surgeries for a story. It was awful. But I'm grateful. Has there ever been a better tool than YouTube for horror research?

 

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Flaminia Ferina from Umbria is reading stuff October 6, 2013 - 10:41am

Has there ever been a better tool than YouTube for horror research?

True dat. In horror, only the Abyss itself beats YT. And with the Abyss I mean the one that stares back at us.

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal October 6, 2013 - 3:08pm

You think that's bad, try being suckered into a video of a sex-change surgery...  Slicing the penis into a fake vagina.  Wow.

That, and two girls, one cup...

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SConley from Texas is reading Coin Locker Babies October 7, 2013 - 5:23am

So where's the video??