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Extraordinary People the tree man channel 5 9pm

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:59 pm
by bean

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:04 pm
by badger
seen someone like this before. can't believe there's more than one :o

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:04 pm
by elbe
shit yes, ima watchin that, when is it? can't be bothered following link

insane, you see the autistic artist? man has skills

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:08 pm
by bean
yeah mate fukin amazin story amazing how autism can be unlocked
by creativeness

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:10 pm
by badger
in fact that might actually be the same person because the one i saw was romanian too

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:11 pm
by defiance
its on tonite man, looks good too, i missed that autism one last week was it, wanted to see that but i heard it was good

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:23 pm
by spooKs
ohhh noo i basically have nightmares about that skin condition, found a link about it a while ago....scary :cry:

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:24 pm
by kins83
I'll be watching that, just as I sit down for dinner. Mmmmmmmm.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:28 pm
by metalboxproducts
Pretty sure this has been on before and also not too long ago. Made me feek sick when i saw the moving images. Feel really sorry for th poor guy tbh. He does have some heavy weight specialist working on his rare condition though so he should be ok soon.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:38 pm
by shonky
metalboxproducts wrote:Pretty sure this has been on before and also not too long ago. Made me feek sick when i saw the moving images. Feel really sorry for th poor guy tbh. He does have some heavy weight specialist working on his rare condition though so he should be ok soon.
Channel 5 do really well on finding someone with incredibly rare and disfiguring diseases and then turning it into a "human interest" story, usually with a sensationalist title and then having a load of people tune in to gawp at a stranger suffering.

Is it just me that finds the interest in this sort of thing a bit odd?

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:41 pm
by datura
Shonky wrote:
metalboxproducts wrote:Pretty sure this has been on before and also not too long ago. Made me feek sick when i saw the moving images. Feel really sorry for th poor guy tbh. He does have some heavy weight specialist working on his rare condition though so he should be ok soon.
Channel 5 do really well on finding someone with incredibly rare and disfiguring diseases and then turning it into a "human interest" story, usually with a sensationalist title and then having a load of people tune in to gawp at a stranger suffering.

Is it just me that finds the interest in this sort of thing a bit odd?
So you're watching it then?

I'll bring the popcorn.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:44 pm
by shonky
datura wrote:
Shonky wrote:
metalboxproducts wrote:Pretty sure this has been on before and also not too long ago. Made me feek sick when i saw the moving images. Feel really sorry for th poor guy tbh. He does have some heavy weight specialist working on his rare condition though so he should be ok soon.
Channel 5 do really well on finding someone with incredibly rare and disfiguring diseases and then turning it into a "human interest" story, usually with a sensationalist title and then having a load of people tune in to gawp at a stranger suffering.

Is it just me that finds the interest in this sort of thing a bit odd?
So you're watching it then?

I'll bring the popcorn.
I'm just bitter cause they didn't offer me a show. How disfigured do you have to fucking be eh? Maybe if my mum had done the dirty with A FUCKING TREE I might have my own show - but no, the bitch refused to get all evil dead and I don't have a fucking show. Fuck you mum :evil:

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:45 pm
by metalboxproducts
What is really sad is the guy has a family but the only way he can make money is by performing in freak shows and this does'nt really support his kids. He apparently used to have a pretty good job in the construction industry.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:46 pm
by kins83
in a simialr vein, did anybody see that guy with the tumours on his face. It was fucking awful. I really felt for the guy.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:48 pm
by shonky
metalboxproducts wrote:What is really sad is the guy has a family but the only way he can make money is by performing in freak shows and this does'nt really support his kids. He apparently used to have a pretty good job in the construction industry.
I think they decided that it was better and more ethical to use pine than bits of his head.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:49 pm
by wil blaze
Just so you know the guy is now cured... i read an article about it in Bizarre mag...

the USA dermatologist flew him over to the states and managed to cure him... so happy days all round eh?

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:51 pm
by dubluke
i fucking hate these programs for the reason shonky states, its just the ultimate disgusting voyeurism

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:06 pm
by dreadheaded
yea looks like he is being treated and it is improving

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... ree112.xml

i usually hate those programs aswell but i saw the ads and had to watch it

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:06 pm
by kins83
dubluke wrote:i fucking hate these programs for the reason shonky states, its just the ultimate disgusting voyeurism
I like watching them for the reason Shonky states. Sorry.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:09 pm
by dreadheaded
dubluke wrote:i fucking hate these programs for the reason shonky states, its just the ultimate disgusting voyeurism
mate if you think thats bad, the guy from that program goes around with like 6 other people with some of the rarest most disfiguring illnesses in the world and do a sort of freak show, and some of them could even be treated, when this guy was offered treatment he initially refused treatment cause he was making money from being who he was, he was being proper exploited, but it seems he finaly came around