Half Man Half Tree

Bananna man

Check out this dude Tree Man. he has some really rare immune problem and a fungal infection has spread all over the place.

Creepy :eek:

biko

Wow, it's like when Harry became a tree.

prendy

thats disgusting.poor fella!

The Hill Billy

Poor sap.

Can you just imagine the desperate circumstances this man and his child carers have had o live through.
Your scumbags for delighting in the spectacle of his misery.
Shame on you :mad:

GerryRyan

Moonbaby wrote: »

Can you just imagine the desperate circumstances this man and his child carers have had o live through.
Your scumbags for delighting in the spectacle of his misery.
Shame on you :mad:

pfft ... I'm assuming you're a woman

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i'm not laughing at him, that just happens to be my fetish.

The Hill Billy

Moonbaby wrote: »

Can you just imagine the desperate circumstances this man and his child carers have had o live through.
Your scumbags for delighting in the spectacle of his misery.
Shame on you :mad:

Oh FFS - this is AH. Lighten up.
Report the post if your knickers are in such a twist.

Honestly, I think it is time for you to leave.

Dragan

Moonbaby wrote: »

Can you just imagine the desperate circumstances this man and his child carers have had o live through.
Your scumbags for delighting in the spectacle of his misery.
Shame on you :mad:

Your clearly a pesimistic person....look at the positive side....he can grow fruit and provide food for his village, due to this story he has been offered a roll in a Hollywood remake of "Swamp Thing"........... i'm sure he will find a very nice Tree Woman and they will have lots of little plants together.

The Hill Billy

If he maintains a positive outlook I'm sure you could class him as a fun-guy.

orestes

"Only smoking - he gets through 30 a day - can be enjoyed on his own, with a special cigarette holder."

The anti-smoking brigade are gonna jump all over this one! Coming soon to a cigarette packet near you......

Dragan

orestes wrote: »

The anti-smoking brigade are gonna jump all over this one! Coming soon to a cigarette packet near you......

He only smokes home grown though.

Dave!

ehh... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

The Hill Billy

DaveMcG wrote: »

ehh... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Yew? Looks more like fir to me.

Slow Motion

That story is a plant !

xzanti

Jesus H Christ :eek: poor bastard... Thats gross I actually feel sick..

Wompa1

After the media attention I'm sure his career will blossom!

echosound

Dragan wrote: »

He only smokes home grown though.

:eek:
barf.
yeah, sure why not? throw a few hash plant seeds in there and become a walking hydroponics system.
seriously though, that poor guy looks like an Ent.

Jesus Wept

Hill Billy wrote: »

Poor sap.

Pun of the month award to you sir.

Pompey Magnus

But Dede says: "I worry that this disease will be passed to my children."

In other words it could be passed down the family tree.

Hopefully doctors will get to the root of the problem.

Hellm0

echosound wrote: »

hash plant seeds

No such thing as a hash plant m8, the hash your refering to is a product of the Cannabis plant.

EDIT: Also, poor guy.

The Hill Billy

A new branch of medicine may be needed to twig what's wrong with him.

The Hill Billy

The-Rigger wrote: »

Hill Billy wrote:

Poor sap.

Pun of the month award to you sir.

Thanks Rig.

* takes a bough *

echosound

Hellm0 wrote: »

Thats a strain of Cannabis, nice try but no cigar.

eh, and your point is?
What's your bug bear with this BTW? I mentioned hash plant, I meant hash plant.
If I mention McDonald's burger, I mean McDonald's burger as opposed to generic "burger".

And if you want to get pedantic (and obviously you really really do) then this: "the hash your refering to is a product of the Cannabis plant" should read "the hash you're referring to is a product of the Cannabis plant".

meh.

back on topic - is anyone going to watch the upcoming discovery docu on this guy?
edit:

* takes a bough *

nice one!

Hellm0

echosound wrote: »

eh, and your point is?
What's your bug bear with this BTW? I mentioned hash plant, I meant hash plant.
If I mention McDonald's burger, I mean McDonald's burger as opposed to generic "burger".

If you meant "Hash plant" as in the strain hash plant fair enough I withdraw my comment, its a term I find annoying when used in a generalised and ignorant reference to the Cannabis plant though.

echosound wrote: »

And if you want to get pedantic (and obviously you really really do) then this: "the hash your refering to is a product of the Cannabis plant" should read "the hash you're referring to is a product of the Cannabis plant".

Breaking out the Grammar gun huh? That has to be the most original means to retort someones point of view and discredit them I have EVER seen. You sir, are a genius.

Anywho that is enough OT from moi.

The tree man has my pity.

The Hill Billy

Oak-ay, enough! Fir God's sake wood yew two calm down & stop all this beech-ing.

Blowfish

His wife also left him, leaving him to raise their two children, Entis, now 18, and Entang, 16, on his own.

Is it wrong that I found that funny?

The Hill Billy

It wouldn't have been fair to uproot them at that age.

Blowfish

Someone must be around if needs to go to the toilet.

<insert "wood" joke here>

Bananna man

So many puns, he must be barking mad after hearing them all 1000 times

ansionnachclist

Poor chap.
I'd hate to see his pubes.

Unpossible

Blowfish wrote:

Is it wrong that I found that funny?

It made me suspect the whole thing is a fake

TPD

Hill Billy made this thread about 5 times funnier. 'Time for you to leave', classic.

RoyalMarine

i dont think anything will spruce his life up.
although he's probably poplar in his small village.
needles to say, i still feel bad for him.
did the doctor's say if he'll get sycamore?

and last but not least, run forest run.

biko

Thursday at 9 on discovery there's a documentary about this man. Or was it the Thursday after that? Anyway...

SuprSi

Depeche_Mode wrote: »

In other words it could be passed down the family tree.

Hopefully doctors will get to the root of the problem.

Hehe brilliant

kev_s88

i just burst out laughing in the middle of my office..... i feel like a complete and utter twat now!!!

hopefully the disease wont branch off to anyone else and that they will be able to nip it in the bud

The Hill Billy

kev_s88 wrote: »

hopefully the disease wont branch off to anyone else and that they will be able to nip it in the bud

I don't think so. It looks like he's lumbered with it. All he can do is sit there in his hut & pine away. What a beech!

Romo

Both Dede and the Romanian man, Ion Toader have a condition known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis. Essentially, they have no resistance to the wart virus. Their warts are so bad that cutaneous horns grow out of them. Its a very rare disease and is usually found in remote villages-some people think that generations of inter-breeding among a small population is the reason for the condition.

Ion Toader has started to recieve treatment and the results, so far, have been very encouraging. As you can see from the pictures, the first part involved the removal of the horns with a dermal saw. He then had an operation where the remaining growths on his right hand were cut away and skin from his leg was grafted. Ion's Doctor believes that with four or five more operations he can get him back to near normal.

There are also new drugs known as 'interferons' which encourage the body to produce resistance to the wart virus. So there may be some hope for Dede.

Romo

A few more pictures of Ion. The first few were taken at the start of this year, before he had any medical treatment. The next set of pictures show his hands after the cutaneous horns had been sawn off and the final pictures show Ion after his first operation during the Summer.

I know that he had a second operation in September, but i don't have pictures of that yet.

The Hill Billy

Why wooden yew just leave this alone?

sebastianlieken

Hill Billy wrote: »

Why wooden yew just leave this alone?

tree hugger

Romo

Here's some video footage of Dede. One of the top dermatologists in America has become involved in the case. Dr Gaspari believes that he can be largely cured. Hopefully, Dede has started on the long road to recovery.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MLYGYKBGOGQ2DQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/11/12/wtree112.xml

Romo

Just for the record, I don't think this is some huge joke. I think that a lot of people on this forum who are mocking these misfortunate people, would be on their knees praying to God for a cure if their children had this condition. Post-
Catholic/Protestant or not.

RoyalMarine

did anyone see the program on tonight about this? pretty amazing.

BigEejit

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

did anyone see the program on tonight about this? pretty amazing.

Bah, I wanted to watch it but wifey freaked

sebastianlieken

ya, cant blame ur wife for gettin freaked...tbh, couldnt watch the whole thing either

Gun_Slinger

Yea, seen this last night and must say felt very sorry for Dede. It was hard to watch at times.
He seems like a proud man but is stricken by this terrible affliction and is forced to appear in a freak show type of thing to earn any money for his family. It was very hard to watch him and the others of the "clan" do their performance. You could easily see the suffering in his eyes especially when he was doing the jeep pulling stunt.
On a side point wasn't it really weird the amount of people with amazingly severe deformaties in such a localised area (kind of like Roscommon )?
Concluded where his doctor was fairly sure he had a medicine that would almost completely cure his warts but Dede was still working for the circus/freak show (whatever it was) and it wasn't clear if he was going to take the offer up.
Count our blessings lads! I'm gettin the stanley knife to the small wart on me finger tonight!

sebastianlieken

Gun_Slinger wrote: »

Count our blessings lads! I'm gettin the stanley knife to the small wart on me finger tonight!

aw thanks for that, really beautiful image there..

RuailleBuaille

I watched the show but missed the last 5 minutes. Can anyone tell me why Dede refused the medication? You guys are getting such mileage out of this and you havn't even seen Bubble Man, The Nose or the Lady, his 'colleagues' in the freak show. Holy ****, how can you have so many fcuked up people in the one area?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

what was the name of the program?