Web Watch knows that it’s wrong to laugh at other people’s medical situations.
However, Web Watch can recommend laughing at the questions that can arise from some of the more unusual medical issues that can crop up from time to time.
Because let’s face it – some folks have either some amusing medical problems or they don’t mind asking in public what are normally private conversations that one should have with their personal physician.
The UK’s Channel 4 embraces this philosophy wholeheartedly, to the point of making an Internet television program that serves just that purpose. EMBARRASSING BODIES and EMBARRASSING BODIES LIVE are a TV program and companion website that allows viewers of all shapes and sizes and of all ages and educational backgrounds a platform to ask just those questions — anonymously — that they just feel uncomfortable asking a doctor, family, or friend about.
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Update to our Discovery Channel “Boom de ya da” Post
Earlier this month, Web Watch posted about parodies of the Discovery Channel’s BOOM DE YA DA commercial.
How could we not include THIS TRIBUTE TO WEB COMIC xkcd featuring online favs like Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton, which was based on THIS xkcd cartoon, based on the Discovery Channel commercial (shown below). Whew!