re: Is there anything more painful than being skinned alive?

The Persians did not mess around.

[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lie down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all over his face. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

— Plutarch, Life of Artaxerxes[2]

I read that the Japanese (or Vietnamese) would tie prisoners to the ground so that bamboo shoots would grow up and through their bodies. Bamboo grows very quickly so the prisoners would still be alive. Myth busters, or some such show, proved it true with ballistic gel.

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Stubbing your pinky toe on the coffee table is up there

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Did this yesterday. Bled pretty good and has a gnarly bruise.

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Giving birth, per mrs tw and countless other women.

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or being forced to read a thread started by OweO with no one else in it but taint, 08, yote, and mingo

ETA: and owlfan86

You realize you suck just as bad as the rest of us?

But if this is your way of starting a feud then you’ve got one

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Having one’s head crushed by a steamroller, perhaps.

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high speed? or low speed?

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You would pass out then bleed out as soon as the knife cut your first piece of meat off

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You might pass out, but you won’t bleed out unless an artery is cut.

maybe, but not on the same frequency, I must admit I chuckled, even though it came from that douche

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self-deprecation is always funny to me

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yep