Trypophilia and Trypophobia: A Picture Thread? (Not exactly NSFW but some deeply disturbing images in here)

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totally have the creepy crawlies again

The only organic example of this that doesn't really bother me are honeycombs. I'm fine with those but apparently they're really problematic for some people.

ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link

well that fear of bologna thing is because those speckles in your bologna are bone.

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link

i mean what the fuck is that in that tree? asian longhorn beetles?

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't think I want to know.

ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link

wow, I had no idea this was even a thing, and apparently not even a rare thing

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link

can't wait for TamTam to post tbh

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link

ಠ_ಠ

One of the weirdest things about it is that even though this is very much a thing for me, I can't not open this thread when I notice it's been updated.

ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3659286404_c3212b77a2.jpg

O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link

http://home.comcast.net/~osoono/ethnicdoughs/doughnut/donuts.jpg

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link

really, really did not want to read about Parasitic Neurocysticercosis today tho

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm not even going to look that one up right now. Too itchy still.

ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link

again with the tapeworms

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link

i mean what the fuck is that in that tree? asian longhorn beetles?

Check out the filename!

StanM, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link

no.

ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm guessing maggot debridement therapy would be a no go for y'all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link

note to stanm, acorns do not grow there

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link

I know. Woodpeckers store their acorns there.

http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/4179-10581

StanM, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link

XD both xp and not xp

woodpeckers is a wholesome and adorable solution to that quandary, and that cat is squeeeeee

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link

resisting urge to post chase no face

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link

ah, what the hell, happy holidays!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/chase_rolled.jpg

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh jesus I forgot all about that cat with no face.

nate woolls, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

you can like him on facebook now

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link

im going to throw up.

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Just been reading his blog, good news - he's still alive and doing well.

nate woolls, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link

put that fucker out of his misery.

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm sure he's perfectly adorable but there's no fucking way on earth this thing would sit on my lap

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mtxIjWA73qM/TN05cBv6olI/AAAAAAAAFi8/8RJXBgAJQ1M/s400/DSC_0290.JPG

nate woolls, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link

there is no way that he would come anywhere near me unless he wanted to get punted.

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

:( STOP BEING MEAN TO CHASE

ENBB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link

chase no face is an emissary of tolerance for disfigured ppl everywhere

good going, now you hate disfigured ppl

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link

jesus christ, I have images off and have not clicked on any of these pics and my skin is STILL crawling

urgh

the entire concept of "lotus breast" in connection to this thread terrifies me

Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, that cat needs to not exist. Or I need to not be aware of it, one or the other.

Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link

i do not like disfigured animals!

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link

something lovecraftian about this shit

cant tell whether it gives me the creepy crawlies cuz im actually creeped out or because alla u nancies make me think i should have em

max, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link

the only truly horrendous thing here is the worm-brain

smexy fishy hawt joey martin (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, lotus roots never bothered me before? But that bleeding fungus, I mean you'd have to be blind and DEAD not to at least grok why that has the appearance of being antithetical to human life and/or sanity.

Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

aaargh

Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link

I dunno, that nail polish fingers one is kinda creepy

worms-in-brain not bothering me for some reason, hey at least you don't have any pain receptors in your brain

Є|Э (Edward III), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link

The lack of pain recep is what DOESN'T TELL YOU that WYRMS ARE EATING YOUR BRANE which seems like rather a bigger problem.

Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link

oh well i mean duh the idea of holes in skin is gross, and a worm-eaten brain

ppl freaking out about holes in trees tho?

max, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link

none of these freak me out at all tbh

o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Nah.

Jesus Christ, the apple tree! (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link

My first job when I was 17, I worked as a dishwasher. I was kind of a punk or something and I always wore heavy black boots. I didn’t stop to think that working in high-temperature steam environment should really change that.

Anyway, after about a month of working there, I developed all these little round holes in the skin on the bottom of my feet. I was pretty freaked out – I thought maybe it was leprosy or something. I had no fucking idea. My doctor said that my sweat was eroding the skin on my feet and maybe I should look into purchasing some better-ventilated footwear.

rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link

(couldn't find any pictures of this particular malady - sorry, Jesse!)

rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link

i have a weird horror-aversion to patterns of holes or openings in flesh (the back of the surinam toad, for instance), but in no other context do such things bother me. honeycombs, perforated tree trunks, lotus flowers - no problem. i see the potentially revolting alienness of those things, but it doesn't get me. honeycombed flesh, otoh, like those photoshopped lotus fingers, really freaks me out. seems to me that it's related to my fear of certain worms, of being maggot-riddled. remember a book of parasites that a grade school english teacher kept about that included horrid images of such things as parasitic peurocysticercosis, pages i could only handle by their edges lest my fingers touch anything unforgivable. i couldn't stop looking though.

there's something about beholding a wholly wormy thing, covered with tiny mouthlike openings from which blind white heads rhythmically emerge and then retract in wavelike patterns...

a man called hearse (contenderizer), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link

hate u

Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link

xp:

Although not truly trypophobia related, that reminds me of this one time I was riding my bike down a trail and came across this groundhog corpse with a huge chuck of flesh taken out of its back. The hole was writhing with maggots. I grabbed a couple sticks to move the body off the trail, but when I got close, the groundhog popped up and ran away!

rake rock reggae (kkvgz), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Ha, I saw that yesterday and was going to post it but since all fb image links go away in a week or so I didn't bother.

nickn, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:04 (eight months ago) link

Yeah, I tried to find the source image to no avail. I found it disturbing enough to share anyway. Enjoy it while you can!

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:16 (eight months ago) link

fb again, grab it while it's hot!

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/363839046_5596720483764204_6164559767232487540_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=DQD_iuhVnZoAX-F3Qgv&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AfDtf4kqjdt5okr4GD8joqKsqyjcUMJrB0Al-lAX1m2G6g&oe=64CD4601

I don't know what's going on here, but the poster seems to think it's a good luck thing (high-rise building with lots of satellite dishes on it).

nickn, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:46 (eight months ago) link


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