RoHS, man! Otherwise he’d be illegal to sell in the EU after the operation.
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I would counter that by saying that The Thing is a Rob Bottin masterpiece. It’s one of the last truly handmade special effects showpieces, knowing everything you’re seeing was completely handcrafted and sculpted out of everyday stuff. The 2011 prequel is worthwhile, surprisingly, but its reliance on CG dates it more than the original.
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You jape, but those in the know use Dewalts.
Which also work quite well for stubborn warts. Ask me how I know.
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Fair point.
I just meant by comparison to all the fancy CGI and other tech special effects that are currently in use.
ITA about the prequel, and that’s kind of what I meant by “all things considered.”
I love John Carpenter’s version, and I was dreading any sort of reboot of the film, because y’know… they usually fuck it up.
I had extremely low expectations, and so I was pleasantly surprised when it actually turned out to be decent.
When I was young I read a magazine article about a doctor in New York and his “magic wart tape”. It seems this guy would tell his (child) patients that he was applying “magic wart tape” to their warts, and then would cover them with regular white adhesive medical tape, and the warts would go away. He thought it was a case of purposely harnessing the placebo effect.
On reading this I got very angry and decided I would have no more wart treatments, and also no more warts, from that date. At which point my existing warts went away, and have never come back. I didn’t put tape on them or anything, I just fiercely believed that they would go away.
Later it turned out that denying oxygen to warts is an excellent and effective therapy, so the tape actually was a real treatment, and probably not the placebo effect at all. There’s no way of knowing what caused mine to spontaneously go away, nor if my attitude had any effect on them.
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Are you sure it wasn’t a skin tag? Vinegar is a fairly acceptable home treatment for those, recommended by many.
Don’t forget the pulling/digging stuff out of people’s ears videos… ENT Docs (especially in India) are like magicians.
Either folks at work or the wife inevitably get me to go to urgent care after they hear about what I did (injury/repair)… Invariably, the folks at the urgent care say that my DIY looks like it is doing fine, but if I came in the day before they would have put a few stitches in, etc. – they just tell me to keep doing what I am doing and to watch for any signs of infection.
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You basically just reinvented this:
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Nope. Wart. Diagnosed by doctor. (Was an ‘and also’ question when I was getting a spot checked to see if anything nasty). He told me to give it a go, but if it failed to come in and we’d freeze it off. Vinegar worked.
Petty spurge is much less painful and probably quicker.
Could always do the full self-trepanation a la Joey Mellon.
Hey, thanks for that!
Spurge is an invasive weed here. Glad to find a use for it.
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