bad...uh, medicine?

[Kebsis]

http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/trepan/

Brilliant.


Warning: Some graphic medical images.

[Gullible Jones]

I suppose trepanation could be used for relieving pressure on the brain under certain conditions... Seems awfully dumb to do it to "increase your consciousness" though. :roll:

[Argos]

I saw a story about a self-trepanating English woman, on TV, recently. It´s interesting how people are eager to revive primitive uses and customs these days: tatoos, piercings, and now, trepanation. It´s an expression of the age of extremes we´re living in. What comes next? cannibalism?

[Maksutov]

I saw a story about a self-trepanating English woman, on TV, recently. It´s interesting how people are eager to revive primitive uses and customs these days: tatoos, piercings, and now, trepanation. It´s an expression of the age of extremes we´re living in. What comes next? cannibalism?
Too late! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4472593.stm)

[Gullible Jones]

Manslaughter? Whatever the hell it is, that fellow needs a shrink, very badly.

[Evan]

Does anyone remember manbeef.com? No don't go there, it's dead now. It was the supremely well done hoax.

[Enzp]

You can still see manbeef at the Museum of Hoaxes site. Go there and look in their Wayback Machine area. If you are not familiar with it, the Museum of Hoaxes is a great site. Well, I guess it is even if you are for that matter.

[Nicolas]

Does anyone remember manbeef.com? No don't go there, it's dead now. It was the supremely well done hoax.

I wouldn't call that site "dead" now. It's more likely to create new life :roll:.


So it would be better to warn that the site apparently has changed (I have never visited it before, so I'm not sure) but anyway it is an ADULTS ONLY site now.

[Maksutov]

Julius Marx had this summarized a few years ago:

"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?" (http://www.whyaduck.com/sounds/feathers/sap.wav)

-Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) in Horse Feathers.

[Nicolas]

Today I committed sorta self-trepanation while trying to look through an open Velux (R) window and lifting my head #-o ...

I mainly noticed a major headache, some blood and the inability to do fine photoshop work with tiling subimages for a few hours, but not really increased conscience - except for the perfect awareness of the whereabouts and environmental interaction of a part of my cranium... [-(

[Maksutov]

Today I committed sorta self-trepanation while trying to look through an open Velux (R) window and lifting my head #-o ...

I mainly noticed a major headache, some blood and the inability to do fine photoshop work with tiling subimages for a few hours, but not really increased conscience - except for the perfect awareness of the whereabouts and environmental interaction of a part of my cranium... [-(
Ouch! Usually trepanning (at least as a machining operation) results in a hole, not a bump!

What you described is sometimes hilarious when it's a stunt on TV or in the movies; anything but when it's experienced in person. Hope you're feeling better soon! http://www.smilies-world.de/smilies/smilies_Picture/kranke_smilies/18.gif

[Nicolas]

The morning after, and all is fine, except for when I comb my hair or scratch my head. It was only a minor wound, and indeed more bump than hole :). The window is fine as well :). I've had much worse head impacts in the past, and none of them resulted in increased conscience. Well, some made me more aware of the dangers of certain situations :).

[mopc]

Does anyone remember manbeef.com? No don't go there, it's dead now. It was the supremely well done hoax.

Was that the one with the cats inside jars?

[Maha Vailo]

I'd undergo the procdure if there was a bona fide medical reason for me to do so (and there are; my college physics teacher had holes drilled in his head to relieve pressure from a head injury; he was bald, so you could see where the holes were drilled). OTOH, I wouldn't do it to "increase my conciousness." Which begs the question: Are there any other ways that a human being can "increase their conciousness" that are safe, effective, and legal?

- Maha "I need that like I need a hole in my head" Vailo

[Moose]

Does anyone remember manbeef.com? No don't go there, it's dead now. It was the supremely well done hoax.

Was that the one with the cats inside jars?

No, you're thinking Bonsai Kittens. Manbeef.com was a supposedly "legal" store for human remains, butchered to your specifications. It was a joke, of course, but it looked just real enough to leave a lot of people wondering.

[Moose]

Which begs the question: Are there any other ways that a human being can "increase their conciousness" that are safe, effective, and legal?

Thinking.

[I will refrain from making the obvious inappropriate (though strangely alluring) joke about independent thought soon becomming a prohibited activity. Oh wait. I just made one. Darn.]

[Maha Vailo]

Well, other than thinking, what else can a person do legally to increase their conciousness? What does "increase one's conciousness" mean, anyway? Anyone know?

- Maha Vailo

[Gullible Jones]

Yes, actually, there is. Start reading, buddy...

[Moose]

It's not right for a woman to read! Soon she starts getting *ideas*, and *thinking*...

Shush Gaston.

[publiusr]

I saw a story about a self-trepanating English woman, on TV, recently. It´s interesting how people are eager to revive primitive uses and customs these days: tatoos, piercings, and now, trepanation. It´s an expression of the age of extremes we´re living in. What comes next? cannibalism?

Just good old-fashioned idiocy.

[Maha Vailo]

Just out of couriosity, how are reading and thinking supposed to increase one's conciousness, anyway? Certainly they don't do in in the way drilling holes in your head is supposed to.

- Maha Vailo

[Maksutov]

Just out of couriosity, how are reading and thinking supposed to increase one's conciousness, anyway? Certainly they don't do in in the way drilling holes in your head is supposed to.
- Maha Vailo
They're different from trepanning in that they actually work. Try them, you'll like them!

Previous remark. (http://www.whyaduck.com/sounds/feathers/sap.wav)

[Maha Vailo]

I still want to know how reading and thinking will increase my conciousness while drilling holes in my head won't. I haven't received a good answer as to why here, or a good explanation as to what "increase one's consciousness" really means.

- Maha Vailo

[teddyv]

I saw a story about a self-trepanating English woman, on TV, recently. It´s interesting how people are eager to revive primitive uses and customs these days: tatoos, piercings, and now, trepanation. It´s an expression of the age of extremes we´re living in. What comes next? cannibalism?
Too late! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4472593.stm)

Is he also known as Riley in the UK? That most rare of criminals, a cannibal and blanc-mange impersonator! :)

[Gullible Jones]

Increase your knowledge store (raw facts), computational capacities (mathematics), logical capacities (logic and philosophy), etc. And expand your brain's "instruction set" (language/vocabulary).

[Gillianren]

as opposed to "a whole heap of medical risks," which is what trepanation brings us. (there was an X-Files comic book about it once. why do I know these things?)

As the old saying goes: I need that like a hole in the head! :roll: