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There is no way I’m suffering having seen this video about a teenager who has trouble seeing and goes to the hospital and learns that there is a maggot growing in (and EATING) his eyeball by myself. No. Nope. No, sir. You’re coming with me on this particular journey of discovery. Perhaps we should have all taken the blue pill, but we didn’t, and now WE ARE ALL GOING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE TOGETHER.
Best part of this video: the dramatic re-enactments of the teenager walking to school and covering his eye with his hand.
Worst part of this video: the part where it’s about a teenager who has a maggot GROWING AND EATING HIS EYEBALL.
On the one hand, posting this video, I definitely feel a little less alone with the information that this is a thing that happens in this world, on the other hand, I definitely still feel like I just watched a video about a teenager with a maggot growing and eating his eyeball. Misery loves barfery.
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somehow this video still isn’t worse than the Fred trailer from yesterday.
oh man, i hate it when a magot eats my eyeball, im always like ‘ughhhh feels like a MONDAY’
Nermal stop eating Garfield’s eyeball
Has anyone listened to the Radiolab episode: “Why I love the Fly that is eating my head” or something like that. About the guy that has a Botfly larva growing in his scalp and chooses to leave it there until it matures and eats its way out? Much grosser.
Yeah! I think that’s the same one where a guy walks around open sewage in Western Africa to get a tapeworm to cure his allergies. And then sells the tapeworm babies via Fed Ex.
And then carried out a series of successful social interactions. Maybe.
You dorks!!
Now excuse me while I tote some stuff away from you.
I hadn’t heard that episode, but I just looked it up to see if it was about the same grad student I knew who did the same thing. Nope, someone else. I suppose raising a botfly must be fairly common among Entomologists who travel to tropical regions because who else has an adult botfly in their insect collections? Only the most badass of nerds, that’s who. He said the worst part was having to listen to the maggot chewing right behind his ear while he was trying to go to sleep. He also told me a story that he knew of another grad student who apparently helped out a friend get revenge on an ex who cheated on him by sneaking him some ascaris worm eggs, which he proceeded to covertly dump into the cheating ex’s cereal and leave. I’m not sure if this story is true, but the moral is apparently don’t fuck with invertebrate biologists.
hhhhmmmmm watch this or sleep some time in the next 8 months, I’ll go with the sleep
I just blindly hit play! And then made an unintentional pun, which I just realized as I was typing this!
My eyes hurt.
So now in addition to bugs burrowing in my ears and ingesting spiders, I have to worry about maggots in my eyeballs? I’m going to need a bigger xanax.
At this point I’m just throwing them back like candy.
Wait. Those aren’t candies? They’re a medicine? And you’re supposed to need a prescription? Wow. I feel like this is something I should be nervous about, but I’m not.
Definitely good drugs, good guide.
neuroses-jinx.
Monsters Inside Me: Breeders — The True Stories of Gay People Hiding their True Identity as a Straight People.
All because a gnat just flew into his eye! Which is a fairly common occurrence! Nightmaretown, it is nightmaretown. For months every itch has been a bedbug; now every eye-twitch is a maggot, gnawing away at my retina. OK 2012, I’m ready.
I saw this M.I.M. episode and the WORST part was that the doctors told him this wasn’t worst-case scenario; that if a fly laid an egg in his ear (which could easily happen while someone is sleeping), the maggot would have crawled into his brain and EATEN HIS BRAIN FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
So I’m definitely your neighbor in Nightmaretown. How can I ever sleep without ear plugs again?
That sounds like an urban legend. Now I have to worry about all of them coming true.
I currently have the bedbugs paranoia too, have a sympathy upvote.
They’re EVERYWHERE. Eventually they will be all of our furniture and we will just have to burn all of our houses down and shave all of our hair off. How will I explain that to the dogs?
Have you not gotten rid of them yet? I got Rentokil in to slaughter the fuckers. It was a horrible and depressing couple of weeks what with the lack of sleep and the itching. And the shame, OH the shame of it! I know what you mean about destroying everything, I wanted to send all my belongings out to sea on a burning raft, Viking style, and walk off naked to start anew.
I took an entomology class in undergrad and it was neat! Because bugs are cool!
But the very best part of the semester was the day the professor talked about parasites. I was sitting near the back of the (large) lecture hall and it was hilarious to watch all of the students giving in to the urge to scratch at their hair, rub their eyes, etc. Which is exactly what I was doing as well.
When I feel like a maggot is eating my eyeball, I first check to make sure I’m not just watching a Jeff Dunham special.
I picked the wrong day to eat lunch at my desk.
And the wrong day to eat white rice and hardboiled eggs.
i watched this icelandic movie last night called jar city (side note: not bad), and dude rolls up to a drive-thru (A DRIVE-THRU!) and orders a sheep’s head. he gets home and digs in, eating the eyeball first. it was a fairly dark movie so i really couldn’t tell if this was done for dramatic effect or if that is just an everyday icelandic thing to do.
It is. They love sheep eyeballs in Iceland. John Waters wrote about it in ‘Crackpot’.
Ugh, NASTY! I was compelled to watch that three times.
Monsters Inside Me. hehehe
Monsters Inside Me…
Videogum Porn Parody?
Yuck I recently read The Lost City of Z and they were talking about how explorers in the Amazon sometimes got infested with maggots in their joints and appendages and how they could see the maggots eating them. Ach agrggrrgg I feel like barfing just thinking about it.
Somebody on the boing boing blog quoted somebody as saying that when you do a blog, you are like a chef making a fancy dinner, and when you allow commentators to commentate on your blog, it is like you are offering a side of maggots with the fancy dinner.
We are through the looking glass now people. Gabe is a troll on his own blog, his posts have maggots in them and we’re the main course. “Bon Appetite, …bitch!” – Freddy Kruger
Whoever first said that is just a self-reverential asshole. Blog=Fancy Dinner prepared by a chef? Most blogs are more like microwave dinners prepared by Rachel Ray.
i thought maggots only ate dead tissue. i am now haunted/scarred.
MOST maggots only eat dead tissue. The world is far scarier, grosser place than even you believed.
I think there’s also a maggot in his ear whispering that the chin strap beard is a good look.
Not actually a maggot, but a parasite closely related to Toxoplasma gondii.
P.T, I think that Toxoplasma gondii is another thing that should go on our list of esoteric references.
i woke up the other day because a fly was crawling on my face, and i was momentarily afraid i was going to have maggots in my head or something gross, but then i was like, nah that doesn’t happen.
FINGERS CROSSED for not having maggot eyes
Shit just got way too real. Literally.
All I kept thinking was: If I had a maggot eating my eye in high school, I would not go on TV with that. I would be working serious overtime to make sure no one found out. “Huh? Why’s there gauze on my eye? Um, because, uh, I was in a mosh pit — yes — and got kicked, saving a kitten, uh, the band was cool, you never heard of them they’re from the Niagara Falls region — listen, it’s not a maggot, I can tell you that!”
I can’t believe he had a f***** m***** inside his eyeball.
Fucking maggots, how do they work?
cool video. which i will not watch.
instead i shall think on something great…
“ruby’s my sister. ruby, ruby, ruby, ruby”
Why can’t maggots and eyeballs just be friends?
maggots aren’t here to make friends.
I always cover my face and cry before I get on the bus. I thought it might be a maggot in my eye so I went to the doctor and he said it wasn’t. Oh well…
I’m gonna pluck you till you leave me, maggot.
I am sending you one hundred dollars.
It all looked like a Tool video.
“Doctors removed the magnet by cutting it in half with a laser.”
SCIENCE RULES
What a very hungry caterpillar.
no no no no no no no no no no no no no! I needed NONE of this information, but stupid morbid curiosity killed the being-able-to-sleep-at-night cat! Like when I watched some horrible show on TLC or something equally terrible, and the chick had bugs living in her scalp. My head itched for a month. Now my eyes??? Why???