Human Skin Lampshade

Thargor

A seriously disturbing article if I ever read one:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-lampshade-that-drives-its-owners-mad-strange-truth-behind-20th-centurys-most-disturbing-object-2117357.html?lamp

Saila

thats just shady

ascanbe

Saila wrote: »

thats just shady

It's certainly not a light subject.

pickarooney

I've seensomething like this before. I can't remember where but someone showed me some object and asked me to touch it and remark on the softness before telling me it was made of human skin. I don't think it was a lamp, though.

mikom

Hey, whatever turns you on.

MrStuffins

pickarooney wrote: »

I've seensomething like this before. I can't remember where but someone showed me some object and asked me to touch it and remark on the softness before telling me it was made of human skin. I don't think it was a lamp, though.

Their penis! Oldest trick in the book!

Princess Peach

It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

Also

But it did shed some light on an important issue.

Sanjuro

Ed Gein called. He wants his lamp back.

Wibbs

Meh whatabout the thousands of human medical specimens in every college and medical school in the world. Many of who are representations of pain and suffering through sometimes awful illnesses, some of whom the patient was writhing in agony up to the last. Of course it's macabre and it does show us a terrible part of history which we should be mindful of, but the bit where the guy and others like him go on about some daft "psychic" influence? That's magical thinking and nothing more. Do you mourn the cow that drapes your feet or handbag or car seat? Does this give you psychic terrors? If not why not? The object itself is interesting historically but when people are burying it because of their own weak minds, or even madder trying to denote whether the DNA suggests it should be buried in the Jewish manner? Like I opened with... meh.

heffomike54

Very disturbing alright. I recall reading about the Fred & Rose West Murders, that the knocked down the house to stop it becoming a kind of sick shrine, that sounds like a great plan now. Guessing some things are probably best left undiscovered.

Wibbs

pickarooney wrote: »

I've seensomething like this before. I can't remember where but someone showed me some object and asked me to touch it and remark on the softness before telling me it was made of human skin. I don't think it was a lamp, though.

There are a fair few books bound in human skin out there. Some people even left their body for that purpose after death. I've handled one. A treatise on anatomy from the mid 19th century bound in human skin. It's in a semi dee in Dublin as we speak. Spooooooky. Or not. Very fine leather though I have to say, though I certainly didnt go mad madder after touching it.

pickarooney

Wibbs wrote: »

There are a fair few books bound in human skin out there. Some people even left their body for that purpose after death. I've handled one. A treatise on anatomy from the mid 19th century bound in human skin. It's in a semi dee in Dublin as we speak. Spooooooky. Or not. Very fine leather though I have to say, though I certainly didnt go mad madder after touching it.

Yes! It was a book. Now I just have to remember who showed it to me. I think it was a German friend.

starbelgrade

I have a body suit made from human skin.

I wear it every day.

Yakult

pickarooney wrote: »

I've seensomething like this before. I can't remember where but someone showed me some object and asked me to touch it and remark on the softness before telling me it was made of human skin. I don't think it was a lamp, though.

Torch so?



Any pictures of the lampshade?

Sharpshooter

starbelgrade wrote: »

I have a body suit made from human skin.

I wear it every day.

And it does what no one else has been able to copy into clothing, it's waterproof.:D

MrStuffins

pickarooney wrote: »

Yes! It was a book. Now I just have to remember who showed it to me. I think it was a German friend.

A German friend eh?

ronnie3585

Why is he in his bare feet?

MrStuffins

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Why is he in his bare feet?

He's not, they're his human-skin slippers!

4zn76tysfajdxp

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Why is he in his bare feet?

He's not, he's wearing human skin shoes.

Thargor

Stop ripping off MrStuffins Frada.

MrStuffins

Rogelio Plain Martinet wrote: »

He's not, he's wearing human skin shoes.

JUST too slow Rogelio Plain Martinet :P

CliffHuxtabel

You'd need a really thick skin to make a lampshade like that

PanchoVilla

That lampshade would look great with my upholstery. I wonder if he'd be willing to sell it. It's much too difficult to find decent human skin furnishings these days.

pickarooney

MrStuffins wrote: »

JUST too slow Frada :P

More eerie that this thread subject is the brain-merge that resuts in two people posting the same thing at exactly the same time at 1AM.

MrStuffins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7n9ReMbGNs

4zn76tysfajdxp

Thargor wrote: »

Stop ripping off MrStuffins Frada.

But my feet are cold.

marcsignal

Thargor wrote: »

A seriously disturbing article if I ever read one:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-lampshade-that-drives-its-owners-mad-strange-truth-behind-20th-centurys-most-disturbing-object-2117357.html?lamp

don't lose any sleep over it op, because it's cobblers.

Apanachi

pickarooney wrote: »

Yes! It was a book. Now I just have to remember who showed it to me. I think it was a German friend.

Probably was from a German, most Germans will have heard of Ilse Koch the wife of the concentration camp commander in Buchenwald who made lampshades from the concentration camp's prisoners, especially if they had pretty or unusual tattoos

Morlar

Apanachi wrote: »

Probably was from a German, most Germans will have heard of Ilse Koch the wife of the concentration camp commander in Buchenwald who made lampshades from the concentration camp's prisoners, especially if they had pretty or unusual tattoos

Except none of them have ever shown up in 65 years of looking and those allegations were long since dropped . I would not hold out much hope for the one in this story, sold to a jewish collector by a man who is 'a substance abuser who had served long sentences for stealing from graveyards.'

marcsignal

Morlar wrote: »

Except none of them have ever shown up in 65 years of looking and those allegations were long since dropped . I would not hold out much hope for the one in this story, sold to a jewish collector by a man who is 'a substance abuser who had served long sentences for stealing from graveyards.'

exacty

something tells me the same dealer has a box full of these knockin around in his shop, along with pieces of the cross and noahs ark :rolleyes:

Apanachi

Morlar wrote: »

Except none of them have ever shown up in 65 years of looking and those allegations were long since dropped . I would not hold out much hope for the one in this story, sold to a jewish collector by a man who is 'a substance abuser who had served long sentences for stealing from graveyards.'

Damn, that was a great story...

That'll teach me to believe everything I hear

Seriously; I had heard this originally from someone who had visited Buchenwald and told me they saw a lampshade on display (apparently it was a fake)

FatherLen

i may have found it

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/funny-pictures-cat-comes-home-in-lamp-shade.jpg

Orando Broom

Wibbs wrote: »

There are a fair few books bound in human skin out there. Some people even left their body for that purpose after death. I've handled one. A treatise on anatomy from the mid 19th century bound in human skin. It's in a semi dee in Dublin as we speak. Spooooooky. Or not. Very fine leather though I have to say, though I certainly didnt go mad madder after touching it.

My mother used to cover my school books with see through plastic contact. You needed an indeliable pen to write on the cover. It invariably wore off.

benjamin d

Wibbs wrote: »

Meh whatabout the thousands of human medical specimens in every college and medical school in the world. Many of who are representations of pain and suffering through sometimes awful illnesses, some of whom the patient was writhing in agony up to the last. Of course it's macabre and it does show us a terrible part of history which we should be mindful of, but the bit where the guy and others like him go on about some daft "psychic" influence? That's magical thinking and nothing more. Do you mourn the cow that drapes your feet or handbag or car seat? Does this give you psychic terrors? If not why not? The object itself is interesting historically but when people are burying it because of their own weak minds, or even madder trying to denote whether the DNA suggests it should be buried in the Jewish manner? Like I opened with... meh.

But medical specimens, even if taken wrongly, are for experimentation, learning and the enhancement of science. They may not have been taken in the most ethical of circumstances but they are used for the good of a lot of people. I wouldn't buy into the psychic influence of it but the very fact that a human being was made into an ornament just for someone's pleasure is seriously disturbing. What you say about the cow doesn't hold any relevance to this either in my view, cows are not people. Do you mourn the parent or grandparent lying in a grave? Of course you do. That lampshade was someone's son or daughter, mother or father, so how can you say that its the same as mourning an animal. If you're arguing that how about I cook you up a nice steak made from a relative of yours and see how similar to a cow it is?

Degsy

Some people are just ghoulish

fedor.2.

benjamin d wrote: »

. That lampshade was someone's son or daughter, mother or father,

Sorry, i had to laugh at that

jackiebaron

benjamin d wrote: »

That lampshade was someone's son or daughter, mother or father,

The light of their life, no doubt. :P

benjamin d

fedor.2. wrote: »

Sorry, i had to laugh at that

I had to resist it when I wrote it too in fairness. Its disturbing though and I wouldn't compare it to a cow! I went back to that line a couple of times to try to change it because it sounded ridiculous no matter what way I said it!:pac: