Comments on: Krocodile thoughts

By: talby

talby — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:59:28 +0000

I’m not a doctor- but afaik, skin heals faster than bone, so injuries can heal with the bone exposed in the short term, but the lack of blood supply means that the exposed bone is necrotic and will slowly degrade. The other thing I would guess is that because bone is so porous, there’s a constant risk of infection at the site where the bone renters the body.

By: Twwly

Twwly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:12:03 +0000

OK. I get it. Just finished watching some of this madness on YouTube… they don’t live long enough. You weren’t kidding about shortened lifespan.

By: Twwly

Twwly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:40:06 +0000

Holy fuck. Well, learned something new today. I can barely believe what I am looking at.

I am left wondering why the limbs in 9, 10 and 11 (though 10 & 11 are the same woman it looks like) have not been amputated? I would sort of assume that would happen right out of the gate if any of these folks wound up at a hospital. Surely some of them go?

Shuddering.

And I have seen animals with healed skin and exposed bone, so I in theory it is possible. I am sure that the animals have a better diet and stronger immune system than any of these junkies.

By: Darrin

Darrin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:38:07 +0000

My dreamhost sites stayed up yesterday. I went and checked them as soon as I saw yours down, though, suspecting it was their fault. Guess it’s the old “cheap” vs “reliable” problem again. At least it sounds like they’re trying to ensure it’s not likely to happen again.

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By: Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:03:09 +0000

I’m fairly sure #9 is a still shot from a video I watched a while ago on the internet where they basically use a bone saw to remove his foot whilst still in the wheelchair. I might be wrong, but i’m definitely not going looking for it a second time round.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:35:48 +0000

I think your concerns for the harm addicts are willing to do to themselves is well founded. The drug laws are so irrational that they increase both the cost and harm of illicit drugs at the expense of all who use drugs, or pay taxes. The war on (some) drugs is really a civil war against users of (some) drugs, many of whom are desperately self-medicating to treat significant psychological or physical torment. This chemical bigotry seems to run deepest in Christian circles, but they have been exposed as being the largest group to ever protect child molesters and as also laundering mafia money; as such they have given assistance to and profited from the very crimes they claim to detest, and that gives them and what they profess a decidedly Satanic bias.

If Jesus can’t heal the sick here and now should human suffering be increased to punish the sick?