God's punishment for the evil you've done in this life, a preview of what an eternity in Hell is going to be like unless you straighten up your act.

Child birth. Hell. Agony. You name it.

a calcified rock lodged in a man's penis.

Also known as a urolithiasis, a kidney stone forms in a kidney, then usually gets sucked into a urine stream, being stuck in your bladder until it goes in though enough urinating, causing mass pain near the bladder area, kidney stones can sometimes cause fevers and illnesses.

The act of taking drugs by placing a needle in one's urethra.

a blasphemous rendering of the popular Harry Potter book entitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The "Kidney Stone Software Development Process" is a degenerate process where releasing software to the field is incredibly painful but eventually "passes" and reaches customers. Developers within the process find that once the code portion of the project is complete, there are so many gates held by so many other internal groups that the software must first pass through, including peer review, quality assurance, documentation, not to mention possible conflicting schedules of other teams, product owners and managers, that the customers may not see the finished product for a long time. The process is akin to passing the proverbial kidney stone - incredibly painful, but eventually, it passes through.