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"We just got the x-rays back...

Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in Social Entropy++
...and you're missing about 90% of your brain."

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,495607,00.html
Tiny Brain No Problem for French Tax Official

Something that many people secretly believed has been confirmed: You don't actually need a brain to work in a tax office. A French civil servant has been found to have a huge cavity filled with fluid in his head -- yet lives a completely normal life.

The commonly spouted wisdom that people only use 10 percent of their brain power may have been dismissed as a myth, but one French man seems to be managing fine with just a small fraction of his actual brain.

In fact the man, who works as a civil servant in southern France, has succeeded in living an entirely normal life despite a huge fluid-filled cavity taking up most of the space where his brain should be.

D:D:D:

Man. Brain damage is one of my biggest injury fears ever (along with loss of eyes or hands), but I guess it cant be that bad if he gets along fine with a huge sloshy cavity in his head.

I guess?

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "SIR. WE'VE LOOKED AT THE SCANS, AND WELL...THERE'S NO EASY WAY TO SAY THIS SO I'LL JUST SAY IT."

    "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REMOVE YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR BODY. WE'VE WEIGHED THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES...IT REALLY KEEPS COMING BACK TO REMOVING YOUR HEAD."


    Synth for serious though, that shit is crazy.

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    This is absolutely fascinating.

    Also, this guy suffers from the same thing that Billy Master: Boy Genius suffers from on Venture Bros.

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  • FirstComradeStalinFirstComradeStalin Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    This is fucking crazy.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    My doctor thinks I may have Sluggish Cognitive Tempo. I'm inclined to agree since the symptoms read like my life history to date.

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I wonder how they broke the news to him. I'm wondering how he took it, being told that he's been functioning with the leftovers of a brain.

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  • gruggrug Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    that wiki reads like a horoscope

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Wow.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Well, he's french, what do you expect.

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  • The CatThe Cat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    funny. there was that woman a few years back who only had a halfbrain, and she was an accountant

    wonder if its just a coincidence that they're both in finance.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I bet they suspected something was up when he started talking about how Carlos Mencia is a comedic genius.

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  • ForeverenderForeverender cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "Son, I got 10% of a mind to whoop your ass!"

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  • TM2 RampageTM2 Rampage Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    What if his brain IS the fluid?

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  • FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    He is able to live a "normal life" without raising any suspicions. I don't think this speaks for society as a whole.
    To clarify: Seems like in the right social environment, a general lack of understanding, and I'm quite sure that person is prone to it, there MUST be deficits due to his condition, is easily considered normal. Which translates to: The general level of intellect seems to be even lower than I suspected.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I wonder what the liquid is. I'm guessing, the piss of a brain eating parasite.

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I can't believe they still bring that 10% of your brain crap in the regular news. It's just a myth. Trust me you use your whole brain.

    Apparently you don't have to though.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Butler wrote: »
    My doctor thinks I may have Sluggish Cognitive Tempo. I'm inclined to agree since the symptoms read like my life history to date.

    Hrm I think I know at least five friends that might have this, and myself included.

    Then again, ah well.

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  • ShujaaShujaa Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I bet House could fix him.

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Moriveth wrote: »
    I bet they suspected something was up when he started talking about how Carlos Mencia is a comedic genius.
    No, they already said he wasn't retarded.

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  • PkmoutlPkmoutl Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Well, they say you only use 10% of your brain, right?

    Well, his body just made sure to get rid of the excess, I guess.

    Just think...

    He could hide things in there.

    Who would think to look for your valuables in your own head?

    Sock drawer, yes. Own head? Not so much.

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  • FalloutFallout ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)σ" Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Butler wrote: »
    My doctor thinks I may have Sluggish Cognitive Tempo. I'm inclined to agree since the symptoms read like my life history to date.

    i've been diagnosed with ADHD but I am, uh... obviously not hyperactive if you know me

    SCT sounds more like it... does it mean you never think very quickly or ?

    because i have my little moments

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Man, you guys don't know nuthin' bout brains.

    If he's had this condition since birth or adolescence, he'd be fine. It's not that society's standards are low, it's that his brain really does function as good as a normal brain.

    If one day he'd woken up and was missing 90% of his brain, then yes, he'd be retarded. I'm guessing this is a case of the former.

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  • RegrettableRegrettable Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    The article said he has an IQ of 75, where the average is 100. So he's not retarded, but he's probably not particularly sharp.

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  • FalloutFallout ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)σ" Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Man, you guys don't know nuthin' bout brains.

    If he's had this condition since birth or adolescence, he'd be fine. It's not that society's standards are low, it's that his brain really does function as good as a normal brain.

    If one day he'd woken up and was missing 90% of his brain, then yes, he'd be retarded. I'm guessing this is a case of the former.

    what if they sucked all the juice out of it

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  • TM2 RampageTM2 Rampage Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I kinda wish his head was abnormally large and that there was a microphone and a 4 foot purple alien inside it

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  • PkmoutlPkmoutl Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Fallout wrote: »
    Kazhiim wrote: »
    Man, you guys don't know nuthin' bout brains.

    If he's had this condition since birth or adolescence, he'd be fine. It's not that society's standards are low, it's that his brain really does function as good as a normal brain.

    If one day he'd woken up and was missing 90% of his brain, then yes, he'd be retarded. I'm guessing this is a case of the former.

    what if they sucked all the juice out of it

    Mmmm.... Peach.

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  • cherv1cherv1 Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Regrettable wrote: »
    The article said he has an IQ of 75, where the average is 100. So he's not retarded, but he's probably not particularly sharp.

    I am pretty sure that anything below 75 counts as retarded. I think that's the level you need to get to participate in the paralympics as a mentally disabled person.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I was under the impression that anything under 80 was considered disabled. I could be mistaken, though.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    IQ is a pretty worthless number, though. Particularly past around the age of 30.

    He's 44. An IQ of 75 means that he has the "mental age" of a 33 year old.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Pkmoutl wrote: »
    Well, they say you only use 10% of your brain, right?

    This makes me twitch every time someone says it - It's totally false, we use 100% of our brains. This guy's probably getting by on a principle called Brain Plasticity where the brain remoulds itself under certain situations. If you cut away the language center of the brain in young children (for shits and giggles probably) it'll reform elsewhere. Like Kaz says, he was probably born this way, so his brain would've just developed differently, using less space to cram in all the vital functions at the expense of more advanced shit.


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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    he should become a boxer



    like in the simpsons if you dont get what im saying here id rather just make it easy now than deal with you punks all 'wha?'

    because he has lots of brain cushioning

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    More cushion for the punchin'

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited July 2007
    There was a guy who did a Maths degree at Cambridge University who had this. They sent him in for a brain scan one day for something completely unrelated and discovered his brain was full of liquid.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    my brain is 20% strawberries

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    That must be so embarrassing.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    strawberry jam pouring out of my nose

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Incidentally, there's an operation called a hemispherectomy where they rip out half your brain, and assuming they get the non-language half there's very little noticeable difference in terms of cognitive ability.

    I mean it's not like a good idea or anything, but it's not going to turn you into a complete drooling retard.

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  • yourclothesyourclothes __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    do you remember that episode of farscape where crichton got the language part of his brain removed

    hilarious!

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    thinevestments wrote: »
    do you remember that episode of farscape where crichton got the language part of his brain removed

    hilarious!

    Brain damage makes for the best television.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "Your x-ray came back. Guess what we found!"

    "What?"

    "Not much!"

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  • RegrettableRegrettable Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    SpongeCake wrote: »
    thinevestments wrote: »
    do you remember that episode of farscape where crichton got the language part of his brain removed

    hilarious!

    Brain damage makes for the best television.
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