{"id":3968,"date":"2021-05-29T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:26:00","slug":"tales-from-the-town-7-the-most-disgusting-thing-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/05\/29\/tales-from-the-town-7-the-most-disgusting-thing-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #7: The Most Disgusting Thing In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/themostdisgustingthing-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/themostdisgustingthing-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/themostdisgustingthing-small.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/themostdisgustingthing-small-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most disgusting thing in the world,\u201d Claire said confidently. \u201cIs swimming in the sea and a great big jellyfish comes along and it goes over your head like a plastic bag!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most disgusting thing in the world,\u201d Tina said. \u201cIs having your eyeballs pulled out and turned round and pushed back in again so you can see your own brain!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most disgusting thing in the world,\u201d Ethel said. \u201cIs waking up and finding maggots in your bed and you\u2019ve been sleeping in your bed all night and you\u2019re a maggot too and you\u2019re made of maggots and you don\u2019t even know you are a maggot you just think you\u2019re normal but you\u2019re not you\u2019re a maggot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most disgusting thing in the world,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cIs bananas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018<em>Are<\/em>\u2019 bananas,\u201d Ethel told her brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr \u2018<em>is<\/em>\u2019 banana,\u201d suggested Claire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs \u2018<em>a<\/em>\u2019 banana,\u201d Tina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway,\u201d said Claire, looking at both Tina and Daniel with a glare so intense it knocked over the ketchup. \u201cBananas aren\u2019t disgusting at all.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are,\u201d Daniel said with a shudder, as he thought about bananas for a second too long. \u201cThey\u2019re horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can\u2019t be that disgusting,\u201d Ethel said. \u201cMum eats bananas sandwiches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI eat banana sandwiches,\u201d Claire said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re still disgusting,\u201d said Daniel. \u201cThey make me feel sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t make <em>me<\/em> feel sick,\u201d Claire said. \u201cAnd even if they did, they wouldn\u2019t be disgusting as sick!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr maggots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr sick with maggots in it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about a banana with maggots in it?\u201d Daniel asked. \u201cAnd the maggots are being sick <em>in<\/em> the banana?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the banana\u2019s in a sandwich!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd mum\u2019s eating the sandwich!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd <em>I\u2019m<\/em> eating the sandwich!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then someone shoves the sandwich right through your eye and into your brain!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then your brain <em>EXPLODES<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then some pigeons come along and start eating your brains!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then the pigeons explode!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we have to eat the pigeons!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we explode!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we have to eat <em>ourselves<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then we explode <em>AGAIN<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written between the 1st and the 4th of May, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe most disgusting thing in the world,\u201d Claire said confidently. \u201cIs swimming in the sea and a great big jellyfish comes along and it goes over your head like a plastic bag!\u201d \u201cThe most disgusting thing in the world,\u201d Tina said. \u201cIs having your eyeballs pulled out and turned round and pushed back in again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1192,1221,713,83,699,1222,1209],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-a-cast-of-characters","tag-bananas","tag-disgust","tag-horror","tag-jellyfish","tag-maggots","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}