today's rat post is the most disgusting thing I've ever read on MeFi

April 1, 2005 12:02 PM

Just wanted to say that today's rat post is the most digusting thing I've ever read on MeFi. I had to go back and read it two or three times just to be sure.
posted by 327.ca to MetaFilter-Related at 12:02 PM (63 comments total)

You're just inviting us to make this the most disgusting thing any of us have ever seen on MeTa, aren't you?
posted by breezeway at 12:12 PM on April 1, 2005

I think s/he's challenging us to come up with something even more disgusting. Superlatives are dangerous around here.
posted by anapestic at 12:13 PM on April 1, 2005

If you give a mouse a cookie...
posted by Smart Dalek at 12:14 PM on April 1, 2005

rats aren't too disgusting, i don't think.
posted by puke & cry at 12:14 PM on April 1, 2005

I assume this is praise, right? It's a pretty engrossing post.

HA! enGROSSing! I kill me!
posted by eyeballkid at 12:16 PM on April 1, 2005

Wow, I was just wondering what you thought was the most disgusting thing you've ever read on MeFi! Thanks!
posted by LittleMissCranky at 12:16 PM on April 1, 2005

So, this family of rats walks in to see a talent agent...
posted by COBRA! at 12:20 PM on April 1, 2005

If you carefully craft an AskMe post, you can find out what everyone else thinks is the most disgusting thing they've ever seen, without setting off the anti-chatfilter filters.
posted by anapestic at 12:21 PM on April 1, 2005

I assume this is praise, right?

Hell, yes! (I had to read the article one more time to be sure though.)
posted by 327.ca at 12:25 PM on April 1, 2005

I am no breezeway.
posted by AlexReynolds at 12:35 PM on April 1, 2005

Oh my god Alex, now I'm crying here at work. :(
posted by yodelingisfun at 12:37 PM on April 1, 2005

Holy shit Alex, that is the most disgusting thing I've seen on MeTa.

It would be funny if it said STFU, NOOB! at the top, though.
posted by OmieWise at 12:43 PM on April 1, 2005

Oh my god Alex, now I'm crying here at work. :(

This'll make you feel better.
posted by 327.ca at 12:44 PM on April 1, 2005

Alex, unfortunately, neither am I.
posted by breezeway at 12:46 PM on April 1, 2005

This morning we got up and checked, and yes, we still live with three cats.
posted by mischief at 12:49 PM on April 1, 2005

Did someone say "cat?"
posted by breezeway at 12:51 PM on April 1, 2005

OK, if you read the post carefully, the parameters of the contest are "the most disgusting thing you've ever read" on Mefi. Pictures are easy. In the written word category, I nominate this, but welcome all challengers.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 12:51 PM on April 1, 2005

Sitting on this throne of waste,
I reach beneath me for a taste.
My love of dung is yet unsung;
It melts apart upon my tongue.

It's pungent stuff, from bowels born.
Hey, what is this? Yum, yum, sweet corn.
posted by breezeway at 12:58 PM on April 1, 2005

In the written word category, I nominate this, but welcome all challengers.

Well, the dissector did label the huge testes.
posted by AlexReynolds at 1:09 PM on April 1, 2005

Alex, if someone were having sex with that rat, we would have the new goatse.
posted by keijo at 1:09 PM on April 1, 2005

MeFiYoung'uns will not remember, but back shortly after the halcyon days of Watergate, G. Gordon Liddy (known as G. Gordon Liddy to his friends) published a memoir which recounted how, as a child, he had overcome his fear of the rats in his cellar by catching one, killing it, and eating it. Much can be discerned about his character from that anecdote, but that observation is tangential to my point here, which is that the Washington Post Food Section, never one to miss a golden opportunity of the culinary variety, polled a group of DC-area chefs as to how they would prepare rat, were they required to do so.

Alex' picture above put me in mind of that article, and made me think that the dissected rat could be stuffed with a nice forcemeat, tied into a round, and subjected to a brief saute followed by a long, slow braising in a nice young, assertive red wine. Bon appetit!
posted by anapestic at 1:11 PM on April 1, 2005

Dining on rat, Thai style.
posted by breezeway at 1:15 PM on April 1, 2005

"OK, if you read the post carefully, the parameters of the contest are "the most disgusting thing you've ever read" on Mefi. Pictures are easy. In the written word category, I nominate this, but welcome all challengers."


The new cache for Guts
posted by nkyad at 1:16 PM on April 1, 2005

posted by dfowler at 1:17 PM on April 1, 2005

I like rats.

Even thinking about dentists and thier evil little drills makes me want to plug my ears and scream bloody murder.

But you want gross? involving rats? read American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis? I don't think it would be right to describe what happens on page 328 here...suffice it to say that that is the grossest thing i've ever read (although not on MeFi.)
posted by schyler523 at 1:17 PM on April 1, 2005

So, this family of rats walks in to see a talent agent...

*snicker*
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 1:21 PM on April 1, 2005

breezeway writes "Did someone say 'cat?'"

Made me laugh out loud, and I'm not being trite, that isn't something I do very often. Thanks.

Re: cooking rats-I once read a recipe for Possum that went: Put the possum on a hickory board. Bake for three hours. Throw away possum and eat the board.
posted by OmieWise at 1:21 PM on April 1, 2005

OmieWise, I think you'll like these, too
posted by breezeway at 1:26 PM on April 1, 2005

rat 1
rat 2
inside a rat lives
ratbit
rat 3
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:28 PM on April 1, 2005

breezeway, I'm serious, I'm just not a laugh out loud person, but I keep clicking on all three and they slay me. The first one is the best, but that's always the way. Thanks a lot, you started my weekend off right!

On preview: sonofsamiam, not so much.
posted by OmieWise at 1:30 PM on April 1, 2005

Crikey, OmieWise, will you let the whole possum thing go already? We get it: you don't like possums. There is really no need for you to remind us at every opportunity. I picture you sitting there in front of your screen, thinking to yourself, "Can I somehow make that about possums? Yes! Yes, I can" and then posting yet another of your over-the-top, out of proportion, drug-induced, hate-filled anti-possum screeds.

The opossum is a noble animal and not at all deserving of your scorn. Not only are opossums America's only marsupial, but they're downright adorable.

Even mentioning those cute little possums in the same thread as the conniving and dangerous rats is a gross miscarriage of justice. I don't know what in your past has poisoned you against the opossum, but I suggest that you get help, and fast.
posted by anapestic at 1:31 PM on April 1, 2005

I agree.
posted by OmieWise at 1:37 PM on April 1, 2005

I liked this post. I really liked the antique rattraps.

I'm wearing my black stileproject hoodie right now. I tend to feel guilty wearing it in public lest those unsuspecting folks check it out.
posted by frecklefaerie at 1:46 PM on April 1, 2005

google image search == funner than a warm gun!
rat 4
rat 5
rat 6
rat 7
rat 8
rat 9
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:55 PM on April 1, 2005

I ran over a goddamn big possum on route five. Scared the hell out of my Reba.
posted by breezeway at 1:58 PM on April 1, 2005

breezeway wins!
posted by ericb at 2:03 PM on April 1, 2005

breezeway wins!

I'd say stupidsexyFlanders won. Guts is vivid.
posted by 327.ca at 2:10 PM on April 1, 2005

Rats are tasty and all, but wouldn't you prefer some chicken? Get a second helping here.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:14 PM on April 1, 2005

Balut. Forever.
posted by brownpau at 2:39 PM on April 1, 2005

Brezzeway. Thank you. My girlfriend is going be appauled (and laugh so hard) when she sees the new wallpaper.
posted by kenaman at 2:57 PM on April 1, 2005

Surely "My Anal Fissure" and that restaurant bathroom explosion story have been posted here?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:15 PM on April 1, 2005

...and the tapeworm and botfly stories? This rat post was amusing to me, not particularly disgusting.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:17 PM on April 1, 2005

The Worm Within is pretty gross, but it's REALLY well-written.
posted by clevershark at 3:59 PM on April 1, 2005

Yep, that's what I had in mind when I referred to the "tapeworm story".
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:46 PM on April 1, 2005

COBRA! writes "So, this family of rats walks in to see a talent agent..."

COBRA! won this thread almost right off the bat, and nobody even noticed. You (aristoc-)rats!
posted by BoringPostcards at 7:45 PM on April 1, 2005

Oh, I think some of us caught the aristocrat reference. You seen that movie? I'm in the boondocks, sadly.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:49 PM on April 1, 2005

Reminds me of this time in Cuzco, Peru, where my gf and I were staying for a few weeks. After a while of eating the local fare we decided to go to one nice-looking restaurant and order the "cui-cui" or guinea pig, which is pretty commonly consumed in highland Peru. We had no idea what to expect. After we giggled through a suspenseful wait, the waiter brought out two plates holding...deep breath...exact copies of deep fried rats. I actually managed to get a few bites of mine down, but as for the gf, no way.
posted by telstar at 4:02 AM on April 2, 2005

I like rats. I find them significantly less disgusting in their habits and their appearance than, say, the average single young male human.
posted by Decani at 5:48 AM on April 2, 2005

dfowler wins
posted by LouReedsSon at 7:29 AM on April 2, 2005

Just wanted to say that today's rat post is the most digusting thing I've ever read on MeFi. I had to go back and read it two or three times just to be sure.

Are you kidding me?
posted by delmoi at 10:36 AM on April 2, 2005

I'd say stupidsexyFlanders won. Guts is vivid.
posted by 327.ca at 2:10 PM PST on April 1 [!]

Yo, delmoi! You agreein' with me? I'm talking to you! You agreein' with me? Muthafucka.
posted by 327.ca at 11:59 AM on April 2, 2005

Yeah, but Palahniuk's story is fiction.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:51 PM on April 2, 2005

Tell that to the little girl John Edwards represented.
posted by beth at 3:08 PM on April 2, 2005

That Palahniuk's story is fiction? Why would she care? Besides the fact that the story is fiction, indicated not the least by the fact that Palahniuk is a short story fiction writer, it's also the case that what happened to her is not what happened to Palahniuk's character. Unless she ate through her large intestine in order to prevent herself from drowning. If so, that astonishing fact was omitted from all the accounts I've read. Court documents, too.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:22 PM on April 2, 2005

Dude, you are a total fucking dumbass.
posted by beth at 12:14 AM on April 3, 2005

Okay. I'm a dumbass.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:36 AM on April 3, 2005

...but Palahniuk's story is still fiction.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:39 AM on April 3, 2005

*smacks forehead*. That was not my point at all. And no, I am not going to spell it out for you.
posted by beth at 12:43 AM on April 3, 2005

You should do that first thing more often. It might help.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:17 AM on April 3, 2005

Dude, you are a total fucking dumbass.
Okay. I'm a dumbass...but Palahniuk's story is still fiction.
*smacks forehead*. That was not my point at all. And no, I am not going to spell it out for you.
You should do that first thing more often. It might help.

Hee. Beautiful. I have stolen this exchange for a play I'm working on.

You two should hook up.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 4:42 PM on April 3, 2005

You two should hook up.

Uhhh, no fucking way. I have standards.
posted by beth at 6:28 PM on April 3, 2005

I have standards.
posted by sonofsamiam at 7:58 AM on April 4, 2005

No, I don't have stds.
posted by beth at 6:41 AM on April 5, 2005