World's Bizarrest Syndrome?

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LLB

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We need confirmation from zimzum that his tackle is still in place :evil:

An epidemic struck Singapore in 1967, resulting in thousands of reported cases. Government and medical officials alleviated the outbreak only by a massive campaign to reassure men of the anatomical impossibility of retraction together with a media blackout on the spread of the condition.
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Globalti

Globalti

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It is frequently reported in the Nigerian press. It is usually the trigger for a lynching, in which some unfortunate man or woman whose face doesn't fit is accused of witchcraft then attacked by a baying mob and set on fire.

My own son had it when he was about eight - he watched a video of Gnarls Barkley on TV then turned to me and said: "Do you know Daddy, tha man is so ugly he makes my willy shrink!"
 
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Melvil

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yenrod said:
How did you come across that Melv - :evil:
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I read a fair bit of wierd and wonderful stuff. But mostly wierd stuff! :rolleyes::smile: It still doesn't ever help me in pub quizzes tho' :biggrin:
 
Arch

Arch

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Wasn't there an episode of Tribe where Bruce Parry visited a tribe who voluntarily practised some sort of retraction? I think he tried to let them do it to him, but had to bail out because it felt too wierd....
 
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Melvil

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Arch said:
Wasn't there an episode of Tribe where Bruce Parry visited a tribe who voluntarily practised some sort of retraction? I think he tried to let them do it to him, but had to bail out because it felt too wierd....
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If any rite or practice is too wierd for Bruce Parry then I for one am not going within a thousand miles of it!
 
Speicher

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They did it to him, but he found it such a weird sensation that they had to let him undo it. Which, considering everything else he went through on that programme, eeekk:ohmy:

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ColinJ

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Arch said:
Wasn't there an episode of Tribe where Bruce Parry visited a tribe who voluntarily practised some sort of retraction? I think he tried to let them do it to him, but had to bail out because it felt too wierd....
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There was, but he didn't so much bail out as stagger away to throw up! Just watching it almost had the same effect on me... :ohmy:

I just found this on the Telegraph website:

  • After the Kombai had encouraged Parry to stick a bone - actually, a sago thorn - through his septum ("agony"), they encouraged him to wear his penis inside rather than outside his body, just like them. For reasons of hygiene, he assumes. Apart from the odd gourd, they are a naked people and the ants crawl everywhere.

    "Well," he says, pouring a glass of hazelnut liqueur over his tiramisu. "They push it back inside and then they wrap the residue of their foreskin in a leaf and tie it with tree bark that has been filed into a bit of string. So it looks like your penis is nothing, a macaroon. To make mine like that, this guy grabbed the end of it and squeezed it hard; a very strange sensation, like your foreskin is a sausage roll and your penis is the meat that is shooting back inside your body." The awful thing was that, for once in his life, Parry's communication skills let him down. "I was trying to say, by sign language, 'I don't want to do this, I don't want to do this!', but they didn't understand." You can't help but wonder if the Kombai were just having a laugh.

    "And I wasn't supposed to move, but I did, just an inch, and then nearly fainted with the pain. Sweat poured out of me. I was in a very weird way. What delicious tiramisu."
 
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