Psst: wanna see some ultra-violence on TV?

I fell into watching the HBO series "Rome" by accident. I thought it was a pile of soap-operatic codswallop at first, but kept watching, because it had moments of hard fucking and gory killing in every episode, and I don't have anything better to do on Sunday night anyway. Being an inveterate boy, I like to see stuff like that.
Then I got sort of snagged by the characters, especially the tortured soldier and his brute friend at the heart of the story, and the twists and turns of soap-operatic melodrama got to me. Finally, last weekend, my watching paid off.

There was a scene where a man condemned to death fought back, and -- fuck me with a dismembered eyeball -- there ensued a slashing and chopping of flying body parts I've never seen before in my whole goddam life. If it had been on the big screen, I think I might've fainted.
They'll replay this episode, the penultimate one of the series, at 8 pm on the East Coast this coming Sunday on HBO (before the final episode at 9).
If you like your ultra-violence hardcore vicious and bloody, I urge you to see it -- and I sincerely apologize to my female readers for subjecting you to this exposure of the boorish underbelly of sickening masculinity: the boyish enthusiasm of grown men for seeing the blood spurt in mortal combat.

I'm looking forward to seeing this amazing scene again, because my viewing pleasure last Sunday was slightly spoiled by the presence of the Eternal Woman in the room, who doesn't like violence at all, so I could not engage in enjoying the violence with my customary glee, and felt infected by her charming delicacy to the point of being slightly shocked instead of fully pleasured.
But I'm going to lap it up come Sunday again. See it. You won't fucking believe it. It's the most shockingly sustained few minutes of violence you're likely to observe in your lifetime.

And here's a bit of news you ladies can shake your heads about:

A Welsh rugby fan has spoken out about how he hacked off his own testicles after his team beat England. Geoffrey Huish, 31, took an agonising ten minutes to perform the op using a pair of blunt wire cutters. Then he put his severed parts in a blue plastic bag and staggered to a social club to tell fellow Wales fans what he'd done. Jobless Geoffrey finally collapsed with blood pouring from his groin as horrified drinkers put his testicles in a pint glass of ice. They were handed to paramedics who rushed him to hospital - but surgeons could not sew them back.

Geoffrey, of Senghenydd, spent several months in a psychiatric unit as experts tried to fathom his actions. He said: “I’d told my pal Gethin Probert before the game that Wales didn’t stand a chance. It wasn’t a bet, but I said I’d cut my balls off if we won ... So I started hacking away at my tackle. It took about ten minutes and there was quite a lot of pain — but I just kept going. The cutters were blunt so I had to keep snipping. I cut my penis as well. There was a lot of blood but not as much as you would expect.” He added: “I think about what happened every day and still haven’t come up with a good reason why. I’d had a lot going on and felt a bit down. I can’t have kids now, but still want a family. Maybe I’ll adopt.”

The mind boggles.