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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/06/ntiny106.xml
Good lord but she is a wee one. She kind of freaks me out in that normally small people are dwarfs and as such have stunted little bodies. This girl seems comparatively normally-proportioned despite being the size of a toddler. Kind of like she became a toddler and her body said "Right, that's enough growing for me, thank you. I think this will do nicely, actually."
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That picture of her with her school friends. The girl on the far left has this expression on her face that says "I like her and all but really, it's a little unsettling."
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I am not sure that woman is large enough to actually cast a shadow
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Wow.
Immediately sent to the gossipers in my e-mail family so they can spread this around because that's pretty trippy.
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Altered the title for reasons. Sorry about all the edits.
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That picture of her with her school friends brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, "That backpack's bigger than you!"
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If I went to that highschool I'd always be watching my feet, so that I dont step on her.
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People with primordial dwarfism are way more awesome.
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My God, I didn't know people could be that small.
est: Nice title, but don't hold your breath for that sub-editing job. :laugh:
What is that dancing horse-man?
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i was just talking about this with a friend today and we concluded it would be kind of upsetting if this girl ended up being incredibly brilliant or talented or something because no one would ever take her seriously. she'd be all "guys i really want to major in rocket science" and everyone else would be all HEY I BET I COULD PUT YOU IN A BAG AND CARRY YOU AROUND, DID YOU KNOW YOU'RE REALLY SMALL I JUST THOUGHT I'D POINT THAT OUT.
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Thinking of her majoring in rocket science, maybe she could be an astronaut. Mass is the critical thing when you're boosting something into space, isn't it? Who better than a tiny person?
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Not to mention she would consume much less oxygen that a normal sized person.
At that, maybe she should be an oceanographer?
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Or a cat-burglar. She would make a pretty amazing cat-burglar.
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The only cat-bugler smaller than actual cats?
I am thinking the astronaut idea isn't such a bad one because she's be able to get in all sorts of places the other astronauts couldn't go for repairs and stuff.
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She could be a P.I., along the lines of Inch High. She'd also make a very challenging opponent in hide and seek.
On the subject of little people, I helped a midget compose his resume at my volunteer position today and one of his jobs was as a Midget Wrestler. Definitely the highlight of my week.
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Did you people not see the story about the baby with two faces (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/windia107.xml)?!
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That's creepy.
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What's real sad about that baby is that the parents won't take it in for medical care. I'm all for respecting peoples' religions, but isn't there a line where the health of the baby needs to be pushed to the forefront and their belief that this baby is Ganush pushed a little to the back? That seems like a really tricky situation for the doctors, and I hope they figure it out.
But, yeah. A baby with two faces is kind of cute looking.
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I wonder what kind of surgery would it be, if the surgeons were allowed to do it. I mean, would they just "erase" the other face in some gigantic operation or something?
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I think the headline is misleading. The article doesn't mention anything about doing surgery. The doctors just want to see if she's ok, and will grow without problems.
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I should not have clicked on the two-faced baby story, I knew it would bring me nothing but sadness. In general I feel really, really bad when any human being looks scary enough to actually make me feel kind of ill and generally freaked out.
Kind of makes me feel like a jerk.
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Yeah, it appears there's nothing they can really do for it, aside from just watching it (and it's probably a once in a lifetime kind of thing, so a lot of interesting medical stuff could be learned from it). But without the parents' permission there's not much they can do.
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i was just talking about this with a friend today and we concluded it would be kind of upsetting if this girl ended up being incredibly brilliant or talented or something because no one would ever take her seriously. she'd be all "guys i really want to major in rocket science" and everyone else would be all HEY I BET I COULD PUT YOU IN A BAG AND CARRY YOU AROUND, DID YOU KNOW YOU'RE REALLY SMALL I JUST THOUGHT I'D POINT THAT OUT!
This is a really good po....OH MAN TANIA YOU ARE SUCH AN ICKLE LADY. WOOK AT OOOO. WOOOK A WOSE WICKLE CHEEKS.
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Do girls start cooing at your penis?
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I could try and find out for myself, but I think mostly they would just run away screaming, and I really don't have the money to pay for an indecent exposure charge.
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Do girls start cooing at your penis?
Ohh, snap!
Yeah, it appears there's nothing they can really do for it, aside from just watching it (and it's probably a once in a lifetime kind of thing, so a lot of interesting medical stuff could be learned from it). But without the parents' permission there's not much they can do.
This has happened a fair few time before, eg:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Lali_of_Saini_Sunpura%2C_India.jpg)
Mother Sushma holds her daughter Lali at their residence in Saini Sunpura, 50 kilometerseast of New Delhi, India.
this is Lali from Saini Sunpura, 50kms due east of New Dheli, India
I can't fin musch on humans but from what I can find out on craniofacial duplication in animals doesn't look to promising. Many two-faced animals don't live long due to the resulting internal organ and brain abnormalities. One problem for this child would be the dual oesophagus and trachea.
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Man, if I was the sort of person who quoted things like that in my signature, I'd quote that it my signature.
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I'm thinking about quoting that in my signature.
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Oh no... I think this is going to go into a never-ending loop of people thinking about quoting someone saying they are thinking about quoting someone saying they are thinking about quoting someone in their signature.
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I am thinking the astronaut idea isn't such a bad one because she's be able to get in all sorts of places the other astronauts couldn't go for repairs and stuff.
My Grandfather spent from shortly after WWII until retirement when I was a teenager working at an airplane manufacturing plant as an electrician. He told me that he used to have an entire crew of dwarves working for him because they could fit in the little tiny places in the aircraft wings, etc. that other people couldn't.
They used to specifically hire dwarves and would put ads in the paper like "Midgets wanted: Will train as electrician"
Just thought I'd pass that little anecdote of Grandpa's along.
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why does everyone always feel the need to point out how small i am? 5'2" is not really ridiculously short. i don't think you can legitimately call someone "tiny" unless they're under the five foot line, at least.
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i was just talking about this with a friend today and we concluded it would be kind of upsetting if this girl ended up being incredibly brilliant or talented or something because no one would ever take her seriously.
So apparently she can sing? She just recorded an album?
It's down the bottom of the article.
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She only recorded an album because she is tiny. It's a pity-record-deal. Like how they still let Britney Spears pretend she is a celebrity because she is a horrible, dead-beat mum.
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That girl is never going to get laid.
Ever.
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I am sure there'd be someone somewhere in
Scotlandthe world for her for which penetration was not a physical impossibility.
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she might be the smallest woman in the world right now but i'm sure there's lots of other people with dwarfism who are at least of similar height. she'll find a way to make something work.
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That girl is never going to get laid.
Ever.
I was totally reading the article hoping she was tiny but also super cute. Instead she is an ugly 15 year old.
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I mean in her hand even Tommy's dick would look big.
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At least she's not a piñata man (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tJTMDcCbWN4)
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I'M JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!!
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Oh wow, that commercial is kinda creepy.
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Man, if I was the sort of person who quoted things like that in my signature, I'd quote that it my signature.
It's okay. Your Powerthirst quote overshadows anything anyone could ever post. Ever.
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Use your glowing SWEAT to fuel sweet rave parties!
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Oh wow, that commercial is kinda creepy.
I think it's rather funny. Perhaps just the slightest bit creepy.
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why does everyone always feel the need to point out how small i am? 5'2" is not really ridiculously short. i don't think you can legitimately call someone "tiny" unless they're under the five foot line, at least.
People always like to tell me about how they know some one taller than me, or who has bigger hands/feets/arm-span.
It is NOT a contest. I am not gigantic in order to prove a point. This just happens tobe the way that I am.
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Size does not correlate with ferocity. Observe Huda.
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Size does not correlate with ferocity. Observe Huda.
Size often seems to have an inverse correlation with ferocity.
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Whilst she is genuinely sweet, one does get the impression that Huda could legitimately bite your face off if the mood took her.
I always imagined it as more of a clawing than a biting.
Or maybe kicking your face off. Something limb related, though.
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I saw a special on tv about this guy
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/myshockingstory/halfman/index.shtml
He's turning into a tree!
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Okay, now -that- is creepy...
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And if they used the really small girl, it would look about right, proportionally, for her to be one of the hobbits.
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Size often seems to have an inverse correlation with ferocity.
I have observed this slight correlation, though it's probably not true in other places. Most of the tall people I know, guys in the 6'2" and taller range and women who are 5'11" or so, are really, really laid back. The most terrifying friends I have are a guy who is 5'7" and a girl who is 5'1".
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Size often seems to have an inverse correlation with ferocity.
I have observed this slight correlation, though it's probably not true in other places. Most of the tall people I know, guys in the 6'2" and taller range and women who are 5'11" or so, are really, really laid back. The most terrifying friends I have are a guy who is 5'7" and a girl who is 5'1".
It makes sense.
I'm 6'5", 325 lbs., size 15 feet, 7' wingspan, my hands are 8"long and 10" wide, etc.
I don't need to be fierce. My visage is intimidating enough. Yes, I am large enough that I can reffer to it as a visage.
If I was a tiny person, I might need to develope a more aggressive attitude for my own protection.
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(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/roadside-statues-102.jpg) ?
(http://blog.clickonline.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/c_10_immagine_14450_fileimmagine.jpg) ?
(http://www.rodos.com/rhodes-tn/images/colossus-rh.jpg) ?
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Definitely the third one.
I'm only 5'3" and I guess I'm pretty tenacious, so I fit the pattern as well.
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Well, I used to have the Andre hair.
I don't have the old photos here on my work laptop, but I'm sure some one on the forums can at least confirm them.
edit: when I get home, maybe I can drudge up the picture of Huda perched on my shoulder.
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(http://www.rodos.com/rhodes-tn/images/colossus-rh.jpg) ?
Images of the Colossus straddling the waterway are almost certainly a myth. [/pedant]
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Hear we go:
(http://evander.joethecat.com/hair.jpg)
(http://evander.joethecat.com/perched.jpg)
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That girl will hop on anyone's bicep.
Images of the Colossus straddling the waterway are almost certainly a myth. [/pedant]
I think it's generally accepted among academics in the know that the Colossus of Rhodes went anywhere he damn well pleased. Here is a rendering using the latest in archeological modelling extrapolation techniques:
(http://img.gamepark.ru/screen/screen_ps2_God_of_War_II-01.jpg)
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Size often seems to have an inverse correlation with ferocity.
I have observed this slight correlation, though it's probably not true in other places. Most of the tall people I know, guys in the 6'2" and taller range and women who are 5'11" or so, are really, really laid back. The most terrifying friends I have are a guy who is 5'7" and a girl who is 5'1".
My most terrifying friend is a 5' male, I would put money on him versus most anybody. I am 6' and growing, and I am pretty laid back, my friend who is slightly taller than me is a lot angrier, but he has to deal with dumbshits all day, so I can't blame him.
That picture of the Colossus straddling the waterway makes me want to know something which I am sure has been asked before: Was he anatomically correct?
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This is my 100th post.
also for the sake of relevance "They're after me lucky charms!'
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I am a scant five feet tall, and I am the most vicious person that I know.
And I know a lot of people.
My friend, however, is over six feet tall and he is amazingly sweet.
He's also gay, so uh...
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I don't see what that has to do with it.
Also I think you should appreciate how hard it was for me to make a calm and polite reply to that.
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yea, gay people can be dicks and assholes too you know.
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Yeah, but not really tall ones. Haven't you been listening?
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Just to go slightly back towards the original topic (though I agree with the sentiment above). WTF is with this quote (re: two-faced baby):
Another local doctor, Bridal Nagar, said she was not an "abnormal baby" but just one with two faces living a normal life, but who might face problems later on.
"And if she dies it's as God wishes," he added.
A local doctor said that?? O... kay. That's a helpful attitude. Plus, aren't you curious about why? Seriously, I want to know what she is genetically (is she made of two fertilised eggs?), what her brain is like, how her nostrils and sinuses work and what her trachea/oesophagus looks like! Maybe that's seeing her as a freak show but how the hell does the two-faced thing actually work?!
P.S. Evandar? As in Evandar the guardian from the Deverry series? That's an awesome awesome name. I love Katherine Kerr. Just finished her most recent book, so your reference made me smile lots (unless there's another Evandar which I am wondering...)
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I see your point, Fenris, but I also understand why her parents would rather they didn't poke around to find out how she works. I mean, back when Michaelangelo was working out how the average human body worked he waited until the people were dead before having a good look. So really, if doctors want to find out what's going on with her faces and how it happened etc, they shouldn't treat her any differently to how they treat people with just the one face.
That really really isn't as articulate as I'd have liked but I've just had an hour and a half of Chaucer analysis and my brain has dissolved.
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Rather like taking physics classes, in my experience.
Actually that wasn't fun either. But it certainly held little scientfic value. We were amused when our teacher managed to reverse the laws of magnetic polarity one lesson though.
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I don't see what that has to do with it.
Also I think you should appreciate how hard it was for me to make a calm and polite reply to that.
I think you are misunderstanding me.
ATTENTION INTERNET HE NEEDS A BOYFRIEND HLUAGHALAGHAULAGHALAUAH
(I love my tall Twiggy friend. He is pretty much my favorite boy in the world, mostly because I can constantly pick on him and he doesn't really mind. Or maybe he's just too sweet to tell me that he minds. Either way, I'm having fun.)
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Dammit, I thought you had managed to become a tolerable poster and stopped pissing people off
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Your post seemed to imply that gay people are always sweet. This is not the case.
I'm not saying that you are a bad bad stereotyping person, I am just saying that the way you worded your last post leaves some to be desired. It sounded like "hey here's a tall person who is sweet, but he's gay anyways so ignore the fact that he's tall and sweet because gay people are always sweet". Why else would you mention he is gay?
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You sound quite defensive right now, James.
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Liz just because I wouldn't put out for you doesn't mean I'm gay, it just means I've got standards.
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James you are making me so sad lately. I don't like it.
:cry:
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Liz you are letting yourself be made sad and that is a self defeating cycle. If nobody likes you now, no one more will like you if you just mope and let my words hurt you. What people like to see is confidence. There's nothing more attractive than a confident, comfortable person aware of themselves, their shortfalls, and their strengths.
Oh and tits. Try padding your bra or something.
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I'm tall. I would not hesitate to bite someone's face off if they pissed me off. I BREAK YOUR SILLY HYPOTHESIS.
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ATTENTION INTERNET HE NEEDS A BOYFRIEND HLUAGHALAGHAULAGHALAUAH
You're so boring. I hope you decide to try when you write your next post, or just go back to Gaia Online.
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Liz just because I wouldn't put out for you doesn't mean I'm gay, it just means I've got standards.
There's nothing more attractive than... tits. Try padding your bra or something.
:-o
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If my gabbly joke account wasn't banned I'd use it to harass you, Mr. Joe Hocking.
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One use for large boobs is for pillows. You know, the kind you smother people with while they're sleeping.
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Oh and tits. Try padding your bra or something.
Man, I do not need that. (http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v122/216/108/33809235/n33809235_31828436_5782.jpg)
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Whatever.
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As if.
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Oh and tits. Try padding your bra or something.
Man, I do not need this. (http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/cms/2004/large/Dolly_Parton_-_Blondes_gallery_-_lg.6477920.jpg)
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I don't need that either. Ish. I'll take mine as they are.
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The thought that popped into my head when I saw that picture was not "ooh, big boobs" or indeed "what a tiny waist" but "why is she wearing pink and red together?". Although actually, it doesn't look too bad on her. Not much does, in my opinion, but my opinion may be based partially (totally) on my worship of her music.
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Most, if not all, of the scarily odd shit we have just seen came out of India. Apparently, a population of 1.1 billion tends to bring out the statistically unlikely.
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so what about China? China has way more people than India. i think there's something in the air or water in India because there seems to be an abnormal amount of genetic anomallies(sp?) over there compared to most other places.
or maybe they're all just humping their cousins or something. i don't know, i'm not a doctor.
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The world's tallest man is from China.
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for now.
and besides that's just someone doing something we all do (growing) alot more than the rest of us. he doesn't have multiple faces/trees for hands/crazy face bubbles/melting nose/whatever.
i am not impressed, China.
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The tree dude is from Indonesia.
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I thought there were two tree people
I might be wrong though
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Plus, aren't you curious about why? Seriously, I want to know what she is genetically (is she made of two fertilised eggs?), what her brain is like, how her nostrils and sinuses work and what her trachea/oesophagus looks like! Maybe that's seeing her as a freak show but how the hell does the two-faced thing actually work?!
Having two fertilised eggs in the womb makes fraternal twins. Since fraternal twins start out as two separate entities altogether, they would never fuse together to form something like that. Even if they were to implant too close together in the uterine wall, they might come out with a misshapen limb or something from overcrowding at worst. Two (http://home.graffiti.net/rjisaac:graffiti.net/vac-pics/2headedcow.jpg)-headed (http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/assets/two_headed_goat.jpg) anythings (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/images/060317_two_headed_big.jpg) are what happens when a single zygote tries to split and produce identical twins and fails to complete the separation. Most of them don't survive because of the strain placed on the single heart, and the ones that do are like this baby girl who doesn't have too many extra blood vessels and organs to power or are actually split apart a bit more and have two hearts.
Here (http://www.jstor.org/pss/3624480) is an analysis of the autopsy of a two-headed calf.
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calenlass is a tiny freakish girl
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Having two fertilised eggs in the womb makes fraternal twins. Since fraternal twins start out as two separate entities altogether, they would never fuse together to form something like that. Even if they were to implant too close together in the uterine wall, they might come out with a misshapen limb or something from overcrowding at worst. Two (http://home.graffiti.net/rjisaac:graffiti.net/vac-pics/2headedcow.jpg)-headed (http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/assets/two_headed_goat.jpg) anythings (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/images/060317_two_headed_big.jpg) are what happens when a single zygote tries to split and produce identical twins and fails to complete the separation. Most of them don't survive because of the strain placed on the single heart, and the ones that do are like this baby girl who doesn't have too many extra blood vessels and organs to power or are actually split apart a bit more and have two hearts.
Here (http://www.jstor.org/pss/3624480) is an analysis of the autopsy of a two-headed calf.
Actually, two-headed things are the work of the devil, and are a portent of dire things to come.
Trust me, I'm a scientist.
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Actually, two-headed things are the work of the devil, and are a portent of dire things to come.
Trust me, I'm a scaremongerer.