Eye see what you did there subby.

Fascinating pictures

Come on, Price. There are a lot more important issues than Sri Lanka to worry about.

but Columbo was not a private eye.

Orgasmatron138: Come on, Price. There are a lot more important issues than Sri Lanka to worry about.

in Sri Lanka too!
vote for the boat!
/ when did Rajapaska did a Fark account?

They say in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.

Well in the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king!

Ceylon like hotcakes.

Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!

Sri Lanka could export more of these...

spentmiles: Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!

I think this is pretty cool actually.

Loucifer: Ceylon like hotcakes.

optional: Sri Lanka could export more of these...

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Hindu women? That's a rather politically insensitive comment at this point in the country's history...

/just sayin'

Rambino: optional: Sri Lanka could export more of these...

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Hindu women? That's a rather politically insensitive comment at this point in the country's history...

/just sayin'

I found her doing an image search for "Sinhalese model." Sinhalese are majority Buddhist, but I'm sure there are some Hindus among them, and she's dressed as one. I didn't do much research though; she might well be Tamil and the search engine simply got them mixed up. She looks a bit light-skinned to be Sinhalese, but that's not really uncommon (nor are dark-skinned Tamils).

boy6 is from Sri Lanka and this article should fixed to read "donor", "donate", "willing", "won't take live patients." There's money to be made in a country that has many people who are desperately poor. Entire families "donate" to get money for food. Any body part that can be safely removed is "donated" to a distribution center in Singapore. And if you have a rare blood type, you don't want to be broadcasting that information. You come up missing and your cousin suddenly has a new moped.

3rdWorldproblems :(

I didn't see that one coming, subby...

I was expecting a more "I make your eyes" story

brantgoose: It's nice that the piety of these poor Buddhists is benefiting their fellow man but I worry about the increasing demand for replacement organs pushing us towards the dystopian future of Larry Niven's SF novels, where a wide range of crimes, including crimes such as tax evasion, jaywalking, and drunk driving, are made capital crimes to supply the ever-burgeoning trade in human body parts.

I don't even know if you'd need that, just offering money for organs works, google "One-Kidney Island". I would imagine if you offered even more for livers or hearts you'd have 3rd worlders sacrificing themselves for a payday for their family.

optional: Rambino: optional: Sri Lanka could export more of these...

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Hindu women? That's a rather politically insensitive comment at this point in the country's history...

/just sayin'

I found her doing an image search for "Sinhalese model." Sinhalese are majority Buddhist, but I'm sure there are some Hindus among them, and she's dressed as one. I didn't do much research though; she might well be Tamil and the search engine simply got them mixed up. She looks a bit light-skinned to be Sinhalese, but that's not really uncommon (nor are dark-skinned Tamils).

She could be Sinhalese - it was the pottuwa (or whatever that is between her eyes) and the pantsuit that threw me off. I've never seen a Sri Lankan woman (Sinhalese or Tamil) with that kind of outfit, while Indians wear that stuff all the time. Of course, models wear the darndest things, so hard to tell.

But I'm gonna go with her as a Tea Estate Tamil, because that would make your post as incendiary as possible.

It's coming right for us!

^--Was expecting sparrows

Rambino: optional: Rambino: optional: Sri Lanka could export more of these...

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Hindu women? That's a rather politically insensitive comment at this point in the country's history...

/just sayin'

I found her doing an image search for "Sinhalese model." Sinhalese are majority Buddhist, but I'm sure there are some Hindus among them, and she's dressed as one. I didn't do much research though; she might well be Tamil and the search engine simply got them mixed up. She looks a bit light-skinned to be Sinhalese, but that's not really uncommon (nor are dark-skinned Tamils).

She could be Sinhalese - it was the pottuwa (or whatever that is between her eyes) and the pantsuit that threw me off. I've never seen a Sri Lankan woman (Sinhalese or Tamil) with that kind of outfit, while Indians wear that stuff all the time. Of course, models wear the darndest things, so hard to tell.

But I'm gonna go with her as a Tea Estate Tamil, because that would make your post as incendiary as possible.

Fair enough.

Could this be what the Republican Party means by with entrepreneuiral spirit?

"I just do eyes"

I remember a drawing in Mad Magazine mid60s. The criminals robbed the bank. Turns out it was the 1st National Eye Bank, and there were eyebslls all over the sidewalk when they checked their loot.

When I was 11 or 12 years old, my mother was a volunteer for the Lions Eye Bank. As a nurse, she had the needed skills to remove the eyes, but not the corneas. When an eye donor died, she was called to the hospital and would remove the entire eyeball. Twice she let me come along and watch.

There in the middle of the room was a dead body. She would then open one eye and hold it open with a speculum. She would then cut the muscles which hold the eye in place, and then scoop out the eye with a special spoon that had a slot in it for the optic nerve. Slice away the optic nerve and the eyeball was free. She then put the eye in a jar, and would let me be the one who put the special drops on the corneas. The eyes were then shipped to the eye bank at a much larger hospital where a surgeon would remove the cornea. I vividly remember looking at the eyeless corpse on the table. It was pretty cool and only a bit creepy. She would then fill the eyes in with cotton balls.

A couple times she would bring the eyes home with her, since she'd be going to the big hospital the next day. That was cool as well having human eyes in the refridgerator. They were in a styrofoam box, but she'd let us look. We would twist the little glass jars to make it look like the eyeballs were looking at something. That was 30 years ago--I bet they wouldn't handle the eyes that way today, but back then it was ok.

cfroelic: and then scoop out the eye with a special spoon that had a slot in it for the optic nerve.

why couldn't they make the slot also cut the nerve?

I was in the food stamp line in Colombo and saw Potato Head Bobby.

In all my years I've never dealt with a more corrupt people or government than Sri Lanka.

Headso: cfroelic: and then scoop out the eye with a special spoon that had a slot in it for the optic nerve.

why couldn't they make the slot also cut the nerve?

I suppose it would be hard to make the slot in the spoon sharp enough, or it's just not worth it when all it takes is a snip of a surgical scissors, which are already being used to cut the muscle. Who knows, maybe they have them today. I'm certainly not a doctor, I'm just remembering what happened 30 years ago. I'm sure I'm missing some steps. It was pretty cool, though.

This is what they use. Probably couldn't put enough pressure on the optic nerve with just this.

mosten: In all my years I've never dealt with a more corrupt people or government than Sri Lanka.

I know this sounds rather incredible, but I did encounter ONE honest person in Sri Lanka (OK, two if you count Sir Arthur C. Clarke, although he could tell some real whoppers). On Gem Street in Colombo, we newcomers were told to avoid the Hindu gemsellers on one side of the street, and likewise avoid the Buddhist gemsellers on the other side of the street. At the end of the street, we were told, was the only honest gemseller in town. He was not Hindu, he was not Buddhist, he was Muslim and his name was Muhammad Ali. Nothing like Cassius Clay, this Muhammad Ali was a tiny old man with glasses who was happy to see us. Didn't try to sell us anything we didn't want; haggled fairly, provided us with some excellent bargains including a big ol' sapphire that wound up in my wife's wedding ring.

Fark yeah, Asia is overpopulated anyway and full of yummy organs

who else had been there and like the island?
i have been fascinated with Sri Lanka since meeting some friends from there
and reading Michael Onadaatje's (new window) marvelous novels.
i probably know more about current events over there, then here.

expobill: who else had been there and like the island?
i have been fascinated with Sri Lanka since meeting some friends from there
and reading Michael Onadaatje's (new window) marvelous novels.
i probably know more about current events over there, then here.

Just remember to bring Mace for when you run into those Bengal tigers.

Rambino: expobill: who else had been there and like the island?
i have been fascinated with Sri Lanka since meeting some friends from there
and reading Michael Onadaatje's (new window) marvelous novels.
i probably know more about current events over there, then here.

Just remember to bring Mace for when you run into those Bengal tigers.

i think they were Tamils
and sorry for not acknowledging your post, MBooda nice story!

S.P.D. Siriwardana, 63, remained still under a white sheet as the surgeon delicately replaced the cornea that had gone bad in his right eye following a cataract surgery.


Wait, I'm sorry, cataract surgery? She had a complication with one of the simplest eye operations ever? Was the doctor himself blind or did he have parkinsons? Because cataract surgery has been performed in South Asia for millennia. Even Galen could do simple cataract surgery. Also considering the lens has no blood vessels. Was he just jabbing at her eye hoping for cloudy stuff to come out or something?
As long as you know the right place to poke, any competent doctor should be able to perform such a surgery. It's the like the wisdom teeth extraction of eye surgery. Even a rudimentary clinic in the Indian Ocean can perform it.

I'm sorry, this is just really bothering me. Wtf happened?

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"I just do eyes"



Dammit I wanted to do that...

Lone Stranger: Eye see what you did there subby.

Could that joke be any cornea? It was the silliest one I've retina while.


brantgoose: It's nice that the piety of these poor Buddhists is benefiting their fellow man but I worry about the increasing demand for replacement organs pushing us towards the dystopian future of Larry Niven's SF novels, where a wide range of crimes, including crimes such as tax evasion, jaywalking, and drunk driving, are made capital crimes to supply the ever-burgeoning trade in human body parts.

Human beings and human body parts should not be commodified, and while these people are donating because of religious beliefs and charity, others might not have a choice.

Also, a ready supply of replacement parts from living or dead humans means that work on cures and organ-cloning or stem cell production of new organs might not get funded and pursued as diligently as they could.

Better to keep people alive with their own cloned or repaired organs than to promote a culture of dehumanisation and death by turning people into organ factories.

Market shortages leads to black markets, and the excessive extension of punishment leads to callous and worse than criminal governance.

I hope we have the wisdom to pursue prevention and production of synthetic or cloned organs rather than mining our own species for parts.

Cannibalism is cannibalism, whether it's by consumption or scavenging people for parts.



Relax, we're ahead of schedule on alloplasty, so perhaps there's already a Pak Protector lurking about.