How many cockroaches would you hold in your mouth ... for charity?

[Liberal_in_LA]

How many cockroaches would you hold in your mouth ... for charity?



Sean Murphy will attempt to set a Guinness World Record by holding cockroaches in his mouth for 10 seconds on Sunday.

By Alisha Green, The Lansing State (Mich.) Journal

Sean Murphy stuffs them in one by one as they hiss. The small barbs on the cockroaches' kicking legs cut his lip and the inside of his mouth, but he is doing this for a cause.

Murphy, a pet store employee, will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for holding Madagascar hissing cockroaches in his mouth for 10 seconds on Sunday.

The record attempt will be part of the Halloween Spectacular at Preuss Pets, where Murphy works, to raise money for the Harris Nature Center.

After seeing a video of the unofficial cockroach record holder, Murphy said he knew he could top it. That inspired his attempt last October, when he held 16 hissing cockroaches in his mouth for 10 seconds, but it was not verified as an official Guinness World Record because it did not meet several guidelines.

http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/mind-soul/doing-good/2010-10-22-cockroach-charity_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

[JVS]

1. Zero

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. me too

[yella_dawg]

6. That's more than I would.

[meow mix]

3. can i opt for a pistol and 1 bullet

not gonna happen

[virgogal]

4. Nary a one. eom

[pnwmom]

5. What kind of sickos would pay to watch someone do this?

If they wanted to donate to charity, they don't need to have someone do something idiotic.

[WinkyDink]

7. That would be a gag me with a maggot NONE. WhoTH would even THINK of such a disease-ridden stunt??

[hlthe2b]

8. Good way to end up with Salmonella infection...

Of course, I would be throwing up, without the bacteria.

[pipi_k]

17. I know...imagine a mouth full of cockroach poo....

:puke:

[marmar]

9. I'd rather French kiss Rush Limbaugh.....

..... Then again, same species.

[Dawson Leery]

10. ZERO! And the jackass of the day award goes to Sean Murphy!

:eyes:

[Toucano]

11. Doing something disgusting is a form of humiliation.

People who are entertained by the humiliation of others are not empathetic people.

Whether the person is doing it voluntarily or for "charity" is irrelevant.

[pipi_k]

15. Humiliation?

Huh.

One time I decided to pull a prank on someone at a campout. I was having a brownie for breakfast with some friends. Took the brownie and rolled it into the shape of a cat turd then left it on the picnic table.

When my "victim" came over I screeched in disgust at the "turd" some naughty cat had left on the picnic table. But...maybe it's not really a cat turd? I picked it up...smelled it...yep...smells like a turd. Took a bite...yep...tastes like a turd...

My "victim" was horrified.

Was my disgusting act a form of self humiliation? I didn't think so. I laughed and so did my friends.

Which was my aim all along. A little fun.


Perhaps "humiliation" is in the mind of the beholder?

:shrug:

[Toucano]

21. You think there's an analogy there?

Your "little fun" was based on soliciting a reaction to something disgusting that you were simulating. You knew you were not eating cat shit. Your victim did not know you were not eating cat shit - hence the fun. The deception is the amusement. That's being a jackass, a goof-ball, a punk.

This situation seeks to solicit a reaction to doing something disgusting - by doing it, and making a spectacle of it to generate money for a "worthy cause".

Humiliation is an act of degradation. Do you know what that means? To "de - grade" something? Lowering the condition or quality of something is degrading it, which makes the act humiliation. The condition or quality being lowered is the human condition. Humans don't put cockroaches in their mouths and suffer cuts to their lips and inner mouth for amusement.

Empathy is characteristic all primates have (and maybe all social organisms) that keeps the group united. It can be seen firing in the brain when a monkey watches another monkey fail or "get punked". It's distressing to the monkey - not amusing.

It can also be seen when a monkey watches another monkey succeed; it makes the first monkey happy.

This is what empathy is.

The cultural trend that permits us to find amusement in the failings, foibles, and humiliation of other human beings contradicts the biological process and the sociological benefits that empathy engenders to our social group.

That millions of people would now rather watch someone like William Hung not sing well - not excel and succeed, but fail and be ridiculed and humiliated - on "American Idol" RATHER THAN watch someone like Pavarotti sing well and excel in his uniqueness...this does not represent a great leap in human evolution.

All MTV-Jerry Springer-type, so-called "reality" programming uses the same principle: humiliation, degradation, ridicule, and mockery.

So, no. This is not "in the eye of the beholder". It's in the eye of the AWAKE.

[pipi_k]

23. I'm sorry, but it is in the eye of the beholder

If William Hung doesn't feel humiliated, then what's the problem?

Why would it be your job to tell him how he should feel?


I've known far too many people who have done just that. THEY would feel angry or humiliated or victimized in certain situations, and if someone else in those, or similar, situations, didn't feel the same way, there must be something wrong with them.

So it's pretty obvious that you, yourself, would feel humiliated to be doing something stupid, but that doesn't mean the act itself is humiliating. And anyone who doesn't feel humiliated isn't wrong except by YOUR standards.

I'm not saying you're wrong to feel humiliated if you were asked, or required, to do something stupid...but you ARE wrong to insist that things you find humiliating are, or should be humiliating to the rest of us.

[Toucano]

24. You can squeeze your eyes shut

and continue blindly going down that road, or you can open your eyes and see what's going on in the world around you. Do you want to wake up and see? Or will you insist that just because you've become desensitized to the humiliation that it does not exist?

I have explained the biology and sociology of empathy...what happens in the brain of one monkey watching something happen to another monkey.

The penchant some liberals have for insisting that what we see and hear happening to our fellow humans doesn't affect us is our equivalent to "intelligent design". It's something you insist on believing despite all evidence to the contrary.

Embarrassment and shame, humiliation, degradation, and ridicule are not exclusively first-had experiences. That's why the dullards watch.

[hobbit709]

12. Not even if I got to keep the money.

[pipi_k]

13. Mouth? I wouldn't even hold one in my hand! Although....

there was this one time when I was living in a real shithole where the landlord didn't do anything about the cockroach invasion till the ones seen on the 3rd floor were seen by us on the 1st floor.

Anyway, I've always kept a glass of water by my bedside. One early morning I wake up and take a big ol drink and feel something funny in my mouth. Spit it back into the glass and it's a poor drowned cockroach.

Yech

[HipChick]

14. Zip..zero...I'd scream if I was in a 10ft radius of one...so you'd never have to worry about it

being anyway near my mouth

[pipi_k]

16. Up above I relate a story...

about the cockroach in my water glass.

There was another time...same crummy apartment building...where we were eating dinner and a cockroach made a pretty impressive leap off the hanging light fixture over the kitchen table and landed splat right in my green beans.


There were also times when I would open a cabinet door for a glass or something and there would be a cockroach peeking back at me on the shelf.


It was an adventure living with the little bastards.

You would probably have gone insane... :scared:

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. I hear ya. Lived in a place that got infested with them. Moved out immediately.

Seems one apartment was infested. When the folks moved out, they sprayed and the bugs fled to other apartments. ugh.

[Canuckistanian]

18. Well, on the plus side

Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches are among the largest cockroaches in the world.

So it would take less of them to fill a mouth - and capture the record.

Just don't tell me any more about it.

[beforeyoureyes]

19. NONE

[flvegan]

20. Pet store that sells kittens?

Fuck him and fuck his store.

[Raine]

22. zip, zero, nada nt

:puke: x(