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Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by TomSawyer on Thursday October 01, 2015 @12:55PM (#10312593)
It's no worse than the picture that comes up if you look up trypophobia.
Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by scmoore on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:31PM (#10313460)
Of course I had to google it, and I seem to have missed whatever's so disgusting about it (guessing an insect-infested wound or something based on reactions here).

"Trypophobia is a claimed pathological fear of holes, particularly irregular patterns of holes. ... Shapes that elicit a reaction were said to include clustered holes in innocuous contexts such as fruit and bubbles, and in contexts associated with danger, such as holes made by insects and holes in wounds and diseased tissue."

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia, which contains a picture of a lotus seed head.

Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by bdamm on Thursday October 01, 2015 @01:25PM (#10312835)
I wish I hadn't googled that. It may be time to license photoshop on a certain kind of ethical requirement to not create certain images. Those images are so disgusting, my teeth hurt.
Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by skatenerd on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:03PM (#10313748)
Sorry I put you through that.
Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by croddin on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:06PM (#10313198)
If you have trypophobia, consider not googling trypophobia.
Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by 36erhefg on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:17PM (#10314798)
I think there should be a word for not having this fear, since I think most of us shudder at the sight of those images.