OMG. Screaming at the Sistine Chapel is a REAL thing!

[ShinyMe]

This came up as a question on University Challenge the other day, and I had to come here and tell you all! We all laughed at that poor woman on holiday in Rome, whose husband had no sympathy. And now I find out that she had a real condition. We should all be ashamed of ourselves.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome#

Is this some kind of sick joke?! It's not April 1st already is it?

Ha ha!

Haha brilliant

People referenced that in the original thread.

Oh wow! That thread was hilarious

@surelynotnever

People referenced that in the original thread.

Oh, damn, I missed that!

My mother couldn't understand why I was giggling so much at University Challenge. That thread was gold.

oops!!

That woman was unhinged. I'm amazed her husband didn't abandon her and fly home.

I feel very uncultured now. I ate a large lunch after visiting the Uffizzi, no heart palpitations or screaming at all. Does getting annoyed at the children count?

Sounds like it's Beatlemania, but gets called a Proper Name when it happens to learnèd men...

Still my all time favourite thread. I was incredibly ill in hospital a while ago (look at me with my sistene level hyperbole) and read it to get me through an especially awful afternoon. My god it was a lifesaver. The irony is that when I read the thread I have tears streaming down my face too

I'm like that when I see an artistic spider.

Please oh please can someone link it here? I’ve just tried looking for it in classics. I could do with a giggle, I remember being in fits last time.

It was one of fabulous threads

Well there you go

I wonder what did happen to the poster of that original Sistine chapel thread?

Enjoy.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3178898-DH-embarrassed-by-my-sensitivity

Oh I bloody LOVED that thread, thanks Aquamarine, off to pour myself a glass of wine before reading it again

@Mangerfield

Sounds like it's Beatlemania, but gets called a Proper Name when it happens to learnèd men...

Yes, men are "consumed with ardent passion" women are "hysterical bunny boilers". Twas ever thus.

Screaming in the Sistine chapel is my favourite thread it been making me laugh for years When someone remembers it on here 😂

I read about Stendhall syndrome the other day while in a Jerusalem syndrome rabbit hole, and immediately thought of that thread!

I'd pay good money to observe the Sistine Screamer in Florence.

Have you considered a visit to the wailing wall? This may be where you will find your people

^That post on that thread gets me every time

That thread was great!

I get jealous when someone on a new thread says they've never read the Sistine one before. They have so much to look forward to!

@wizzywig

Is this some kind of sick joke?! It's not April 1st already is it?

It actually is, in Spain. Happy Fools' Day