Slog - Comments on Remember That Woman Whose Skin Grafted to Her Couch?

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:24:47 -0800

I don't know what to say about that. Whole thing.

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:26:45 -0800

First, HOLY FUCK.

Second, the woman had been sitting on the toilet for the past TWO YEARS.

Full story here.

Comment by Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:30:15 -0800

Wow! That is totally insane!

Comment by pablissima

pablissima — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:32:46 -0800

Mr. Whipple? Now that's kind of funny.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:34:05 -0800

Mr Whipple!!!!!

WTF?!?!?!

This has to be a joke...

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:34:17 -0800

land of the brave & home of the free! we're #1! bomb their ass & steal their gas! love it or leave it! god bless amurka!

Comment by DJSauvage

DJSauvage — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:35:48 -0800

Ok, I'm adding "Ass merges with toliet" to my list of automatic grounds for breakup.

Comment by Gidget

Gidget — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:36:30 -0800

Schmader, that couch woman still haunts my dreams. Damn....to think there is another.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:36:50 -0800

The most amazing thing is, it's not in Florida! "The case has been the buzz in Ness City." No shit. Um.

So where was the boyfriend going to the toilet? Wait -- don't answer that question.

Comment by kebabs

kebabs — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:37:32 -0800

That story simultaneously makes me want to vomit in terror and know more. For example, how did she sleep? Was she morbidly obese like the couch woman? Why did it take two years for him to notice something was seriously fucked up about this whole thing? And finally, did she courtesy flush?

Comment by Non

Non — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:37:36 -0800

"She is the victim of her own responses shackled to a heart that wants to settle; and then turns away."

-Counting Crows

so sad =

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:40:29 -0800

So how did she get stuck to the toilet seat in the first place? At least the couch woman, IIRC, was suffering from severe depression. Who the fuck sits on a toilet seat long enough for skin to graft to it?

Comment by J.R.

J.R. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:43:11 -0800

How do I get a hot girlfriend like that?

Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber

Karlheinz Arschbomber — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:44:13 -0800

You think this is just in Nowhere, Kansas. Fooey.

It's more common than you'd think it is.

Several people like this always seem to fly on the same 10-hour flights with me, from Seattle to Europe.

Comment by julia

julia — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:44:43 -0800

Holy christ. What I don't get is why the boyfriend just let her sit there for two years. I would've called a mental health facility after two days.

Comment by TheMisanthrope

TheMisanthrope — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:48:35 -0800

2 years?

That's 730 days of bringing her food and water. That's at least asking her 730 times to come out of the bathroom.

Seriously. Unless she was physically tied to the toilet seat, it was her own depression.

Comment by Carollani

Carollani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:49:25 -0800

Yeah, all I want to know is where he was taking his twosies while she was occupying his toilet.

Comment by cinenaut

cinenaut — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:55:11 -0800

This has all the signs of the boyfriend being a feeder/into feederism. Which, in my opinion, is abuse.

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:56:07 -0800

GROSS!!!

Comment by catnextdoor

catnextdoor — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:58:16 -0800

This is out of control... how long does someone need to be sitting on something before their skin starts to grow around it?

Did she have entertainment? A TV in there? They obviously didnt have sex, for two years... where was her family and friends? What kind of food did he bring her? Did they have dinner parties with her in the bathroom? Keggars?

I have so many questions that sadly, I dont think will ever be answered.

Comment by Bub

Bub — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:03:28 -0800

The boyfriend didn't break up with the woman all those years despite her rather high maintenance needs. That has to be some kind of love.

Comment by AMB

AMB — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:04:13 -0800

I sure I'm not alone in demanding photographic evidence.

Comment by catnextdoor

catnextdoor — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:11:00 -0800

Like, did the skin grow AROUND the seat? Or did it simply "Hug" the seat?

I cant stop thinking about this. Also, more questions like: could she wipe?

Comment by eustaceia

eustaceia — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:12:13 -0800

@20: They totally could have had sex! Somehow.

Comment by Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:16:21 -0800

Um. Link to the couch story, please.

Comment by Woodbun

Woodbun — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:26:41 -0800

#18, you called it. I think the same thing whent for the woman fused to the couch. I don't think anyone could bring them food and water for years on end unless they were getting off to it... ugh.
-Woodbun

Comment by nbc

nbc — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:42:47 -0800

Clearly the other poster's don't have TVs in their bathrooms. I could totally see this happening.

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:43:52 -0800

@26 - Maybe, but it could be they are bot extremely depressed, with Mr. Whipple being the enabling half in a severely co-dependent relationship.

Comment by inkweary

inkweary — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:50:56 -0800

Fnarf and Carollani, they probably had 2 bathrooms.

Comment by David Wright

David Wright — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:58:01 -0800

The boyfriend may be criminally liable, because he brought her food and water, and because he didn't coerce her into leaving? Excuse me?

Comment by Henrietta

Henrietta — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:13:38 -0800

He musta brought her a LOT of food.

Comment by Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:36:44 -0800

I just don't understand this. I mean, you have to eventually shift around a bit at the very least! How can your ass become ATTACHED to the seat???? How is it even possible to sit on a toilet without shifting around and becoming unstuck???!!! And if she wasn't tied down, then how could she possibly sit there that long?!? Your butt would eventually hurt so much, how could it be physically possible to NOT move???? And do we even know that this was a fat person or a feeder/feedee thing?

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:37:18 -0800

So she didn't bother wiping... nice.

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:50:45 -0800

I'll bet she has anal fissures like no other...

Comment by pretentious

pretentious — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:52:31 -0800

...among all the other awful questions i never imagined i'd be provoked to conjure: wouldn't it only take a few days of same-position-induced circulatory compromise to induce gangrene? then sepsis? then death?
#22, you are not alone. i am calling bullshit on this until shown further evidence.

Comment by cinenaut

cinenaut — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:03:48 -0800

Link to the woman fused to couch story from 2004:

http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html#

Feederism is unfortunately a hell of a lot more common than anyone thinks -- and it certainly isn't as harmless as Dan's casual dismissals of it might lead you to think.

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:14:32 -0800

I asked her if she would please do a courtesy flush, and her reply would be, "Maybe tomorrow."

Comment by Detective Lt. William Somerset

Detective Lt. William Somerset — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:33:46 -0800

This is reminiscent of the movie Se7en.

Comment by Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:14 -0800

I guess I could imagine not being able to get up from the couch...a couch can be comfortable. But to be stuck in ONE position so long that something grafted to you??? How could someone NOT fidget? And toilets are not comfortable...10 minutes tops and then your ass can start to hurt! I hope that never happens to me!

Comment by Mulder

Mulder — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:32:03 -0800

Wow. I miss the X-Files.

Comment by Dan Savage

Dan Savage — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:34:48 -0800

When have I ever casually dismissed feederism? I think -- I'm not sure, I'd have to go back and, uh, read my own book -- that I came out agin' it in Skipping Towards Gomorrah.

Comment by Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:58:43 -0800

Why did they use a crowbar to get the toilet seat off? Usually toilet seats are fastened with plastic nuts that you tighten by hand (so you don't break the porcelain).

Comment by Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:47:39 -0800

I'll believe it when I see it on www.snopes.com.

Comment by brandon h

brandon h — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:13:49 -0800

I'm more saddened by this than I am disgusted.

Plus a little disturbed by the "Look at the freak" nature of the post.

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:13:30 -0800

Brandon, are you somehow implying that someone who sits on a toilet long enough for her skin to graft to the seat ISN'T a freak? Because that sorta fits my definition of "freak" to a T.

Comment by subwlf

subwlf — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:54:10 -0800

Ivan @42 - she was growing TO the seat!! Do you really imagine they could reach around to the nuts?!?

Wow. that sounds way more disgusting than it was meant to...

Comment by Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:20:52 -0800

subwlf @ 46

You'd need to reach around to use a crowbar, and the crowbar would create a lot of torque on the seat, which could be painful if your ass is stuck to the seat, as hers apparently was.

Honestly, I can't imagine it being possible for your skin to fuse with any of the substances typically used for toilet seat, unless it was wood, and she had the equivalent of bed sores from sitting there so long, and after some time the weepy, oozing sores dried and somehow bonded with the seat.

Ew.