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Phobophilia posted:Luckily it never actually does that and the fear of them smacks of a whole range of culture-bound syndromes such as your dick disappearing into itself. Weird, I have totally read that wikipedia page on Koro. It must have come up while I was reading about vagina dentata. Actually, for me, I guess that's not so weird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata Associated film that may be of interest- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_(film)
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Tibor posted:If you're into the whole nuclear apocalypse thing you should read 'On The Beach' by Nevil Shute. It starts off fairly slowly but that just helps to build a creeping sense of inevitability. Then you reach the last 20 or so pages and you sob like an infant and feel distraught for the rest of the week (if you're me). Seconding this, it's a great read.
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May 27, 2013 16:30
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pienipple posted:Thanks to this thread I watched When the Wind Blows, Threads, and There Will Come Soft Rains back to back. Then you're ready for Come and See! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_see
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feminist killjoy posted:I haven't seen any mention of these little bloodsuckers. Possible penile amputation as a preventative measure could be unnerving to some... That reminds of River Monsters with Jeremy Wade which is pretty much concentrated  :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A7lA-BQQcs
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One really intriguing idea for a post-nuclear war film would be to focus on how the Swiss would come out of it. They wouldn't just be unlikely to have to deal with any nuclear strikes (unless I'm wrong about that); they also have more than enough shelters for everyone in the country, plenty of guns, and the ability to dynamite all or most of the key access points into the country. So if the surrounding countries were dealing with Threads-type scenarios, might they end up essentially taking control of some of them, if not politically then economically? Or would they just stay where they were, deal as best as they could with the nuclear winter and whatever else, and work on rebuilding their country? It'd make sense if there had been a novel or even a TV movie with this premise at some point, so if anyone happened to know of anything that'd be great.
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May 27, 2013 20:37
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They'd all die from radiation sickness. They're in the dead center of Europe. Hell, they probably had Soviet missiles pointed at them.
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May 27, 2013 21:04
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Can't have all that gold go unirradiated after all. The fallout and nuclear winter would probably have hosed them up good in any case.
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May 27, 2013 21:12
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Mans posted:Then you're ready for Come and See! You're just going to keep it up until he's broken aren't you! I watched that when I was about 14, you can imagine the effect it had, watching it late at night with the lights off and headphones on so my parents thought I was asleep. I'm now 40, and have never watched it again, and never want to. There aren't many films I can say that about.
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This has probably already been mentioned but it fits with the current trend of nuclear war. Acute Radiation Syndrome. The so called 'walking ghost phase' of ARS is a period during which people who have been exposed to lethal amounts of ionizing radiation seem to be in good health, sometimes lasting as long as a week, before their system crashes completely and they quickly succumb to the health problems caused associated with radiation. The reason this happens is due to which cells are most vulnerable to the radiation. These cells are the fast growing ones found in places such as the bone marrow and the gastrointestinal tract. While the death of these cells cause huge health problems, the effect 'lags' a bit due to the fact that the body still has white blood cells circulating in the blood stream and that these have to be used up first. The diarrhea associated with ARS stems from the dead cells which have to slough of the walls of the intestines before they pass through the rest of the digestive system. The though that a person that has been fatally poisoned by radiation can still appear somewhat healthy on the outside while their body is falling apart inside is deeply disturbing for me. Imagine what it must be like to go through that. You seem healthy, then suddenly you just crash and die a horrible death
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FrozenVent posted:Can't have all that gold go unirradiated after all. Yeah, I suppose even if many of them were able to stay in the shelters long enough to avoid the fallout, they'd still be likely to run out of food before the nuclear winter ended. It's just interesting to wonder what they'd do with themselves if they were somehow left semi-intact, though (like say if those newer nuclear weapons were used, which aren't supposed to cause as much of a nuclear winter), and how they'd deal with all the ruined civilizations around them.
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TurboTax posted:Yeah, I suppose even if many of them were able to stay in the shelters long enough to avoid the fallout, they'd still be likely to run out of food before the nuclear winter ended. I'm pretty sure the Swiss was on the "nuke just in case" list for both sides. Making sure everyone is on the same level of being an irradiated hellscape was a thing in nuclear planning.
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May 28, 2013 00:31
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Mans posted:Then you're ready for Come and See! I have work tomorrow, the crushing depression moviethon will have to continue next weekend. I need to watch The War Game since "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." and I suppose Come and See.
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After plowing though 60 pages of this thread I have now developed a fear of the human race, mild agoraphobia and am suffering from a moderate existential crisis regarding the fragility of human life and the eventual heat death of the universe. Thanks thread! Well onward into the void, I suppose. The 1955 Le Mans disaster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster quote:The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race, when a crash caused large pieces of racing car debris to fly into the crowd. Eighty-three spectators and driver Pierre Levegh died at the scene, whilst 120 more were injured in the most catastrophic accident in motorsport history. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the crash was the fact the race was not stopped due to perceived issues with the emergency vehicle access, so the drivers kept racing, not know exactly what was going on with the enormous pile of corpses on the main straight.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXtb5eDUuQw
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RideTheSpiral posted:The 1955 Le Mans disaster. That's insane, has their been any other crashes that have come close to that many people killed by one car? quote:The bonnet decapitated tightly jammed spectators like a guillotine. With the front of the spaceframe chassis—and thus crucial engine mounts—destroyed, the car's heavy engine block also broke free and hurtled into the crowd. Spectators who had climbed onto trestle tables to get a better view of the track found themselves in the direct path of the lethal debris.
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May 28, 2013 01:04
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jalopybrown posted:That's insane, has their been any other crashes that have come close to that many people killed by one car? I can't recall any that have killed more than one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VtQ9Uc062M If you can find this BBC film it is definitely worth watching. It documents how insane motor-racing was before modern safety precautions (very insane).
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RideTheSpiral posted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pryce RideTheSpiral posted:Pryce was directly behind Stuck's car along the main straight, Stuck himself sensed Van Vuuren and moved to the right to avoid both marshals, missing Bill by what Tremayne reports to have been a matter of "millimetres". From his position directly behind Stuck, Pryce could not see Van Vuuren and was unable to react as quickly as Stuck had done. He struck the teenage marshal at approximately 270 km/h (170 mph). Van Vuuren was thrown into the air and landed yards in front of Zorzi and Bill. He died upon impact, his body being literally torn in half by Pryce's car.[42] The fire extinguisher he had been carrying smashed into Pryce's head, before striking the Shadow's roll hoop. The force of the impact was such that the extinguisher was thrown up and over the adjacent grandstand. It came to ground in the car park to the rear of the stand, where it hit a parked car and jammed its door shut.[41] I'm not going to give youtube links in respect of the dead.
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May 28, 2013 04:16
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RideTheSpiral posted:I can't recall any that have killed more than one. Seconding this. The parts where Jackie Stewart talks are amazingly horrifying: having to tape a spanner onto his steering wheel in case of a crash, fighting for ambulances and medics to be on-site, etc.
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As long as we're discussing awful nuclear stuff, check out Barefoot Gen. There have been a couple of film adaptations of the book, including an animated version in 1983 that has a pretty horrific sequence of the bomb falling on Hiroshima.
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May 28, 2013 13:04
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Somewhat related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_broadcast_system The tests profoundly creeped me out when I saw them on TV as a kid. Apparently by design: quote:The Attention Signal most commonly associated with the system was a combination of the sine waves of 853 and 960 Hz, an interval suited to getting the audience's collective attention due to its unpleasantness on the human ear.
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I find wikipedia's sandwich list unnerving because its incredibly long and instead of the standard wiki list page of just a big alphabetical list of hyperlinks, its a comprehensive table where sandwiches are listed with images, names, countries of origin and descriptions. The idea that people have spent days creating this list and finding images and everything for something as mundane as sandwiches is impressive in a slightly scary way.
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Mr. Pumroy posted:Welp, yeah that was pretty grim. The Day After didn't get nearly as dark. I keep wondering if people remember how hopeless The Day After got at the end. It doesn't have the grey trash-heap nightmare setting of Threads but all the storylines wrapping up at the end of that movie are awfully dark.
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Red Bones posted:I find wikipedia's sandwich list unnerving because its incredibly long and instead of the standard wiki list page of just a big alphabetical list of hyperlinks, its a comprehensive table where sandwiches are listed with images, names, countries of origin and descriptions. The idea that people have spent days creating this list and finding images and everything for something as mundane as sandwiches is impressive in a slightly scary way. I quite enjoyed that article. In a similar way to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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Red Bones posted:I find wikipedia's sandwich list unnerving because its incredibly long and instead of the standard wiki list page of just a big alphabetical list of hyperlinks, its a comprehensive table where sandwiches are listed with images, names, countries of origin and descriptions. The idea that people have spent days creating this list and finding images and everything for something as mundane as sandwiches is impressive in a slightly scary way. I don't really see it, I mean thousands and thousands of people have written entire books (which have taken far more time than a few days) of basically every topic under the sky, including sandwiches and even sillier and more niche topics. Now here's something more unnerving and, while it doesn't have a wikipedia article, I think it needs to be mentioned in this context; there's a certain fanfiction story about the Mass Effect video game series that numbers 3,404,854 words. Three point four million. This is approximately six to seven times the amount of words found in all of the Lord of the Rings books combined. Think about that for a while.
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Kanfy posted:I don't really see it, I mean thousands and thousands of people have written entire books (which have taken far more time than a few days) of basically every topic under the sky, including sandwiches and even sillier and more niche topics. Million+ word fanfiction pieces are nothing new. I remember seeing a 2.5+ million word Teen Titans fanfiction in a thread similar to this years ago.
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It's this generation's version of automatic writing, I wouldn't think about it too much.
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Red Bones posted:I find wikipedia's sandwich list unnerving because its incredibly long and instead of the standard wiki list page of just a big alphabetical list of hyperlinks, its a comprehensive table where sandwiches are listed with images, names, countries of origin and descriptions. The idea that people have spent days creating this list and finding images and everything for something as mundane as sandwiches is impressive in a slightly scary way.  
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Did the "forever delitized" guy write that list of sandwiches?
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RideTheSpiral posted:I quite enjoyed that article. It's incredible what amount of lists Wikipedia amassed over the years, including a list detailing every football transfer in Denmark in the year 2009. Which in turn leads to an even longer list of said transfers and tons of articles to pretty much every one of those football players. Just to think of how much time it must have taken to compile such an amount of information is staggering. 13stitches has a new favorite as of 18:11 on May 28, 2013 |
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AnonSpore posted:Million+ word fanfiction pieces are nothing new. I remember seeing a 2.5+ million word Teen Titans fanfiction in a thread similar to this years ago. Last year in the wrestling web thread in PSP, someone linked to a site that had ongoing wrestling erotic fan-fiction going back at least 15 years. The author inserted herself into the storylines for WWE. It was really disturbing that anyone would put that much effort into something like that.
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Kanfy posted:I don't really see it, I mean thousands and thousands of people have written entire books (which have taken far more time than a few days) of basically every topic under the sky, including sandwiches and even sillier and more niche topics. Agreed, I found this one to be pretty interesting when most of the other pages are mostly 
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jalopybrown posted:That's insane, has their been any other crashes that have come close to that many people killed by one car? Oh yeah, not as many as that, but there have been some awful spectator death tolls in the history of racing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Materassi - Emilio Materassi and 21 spectators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Von_Trips - Count Von Crash and 15 spectators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_de_Portago - Alfonso de Portago and 10 spectators (5 children) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Farina - Nino Farina (Nephew of Pinin Farina, famous coach builder) It doesn't say anything about it in the Wikipedia article, but he crashed into the crowd during the 1953 Argentine Grand Prix and killed at least 10 spectators; some estimate it as being significantly higher. He survived that crash and died in a road accident on the way to spectate a race 10 years after retiring. That's mostly Grand Prix and sports car focused. There have been some equally nasty drag racing and off road racing accidents as well, but I'm not as familiar with those. I'm sure they wouldn't be hard to find though.
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Here is the video of the Tom Pryce F1 crash if anyone is actually curious. It's not for the faint of heart. In other motorsport related pages, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_World_Rally_Championship_season was the last season the extremely powerful Group B rally cars were allowed to race. At the Portuguese rally 3 spectators were killed when a driver lost control and plowed into the crowd. The final nail in the coffin was when another car left the track in Corsica and burst into flames, killing the driver and co-driver.
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TurboTax posted:Yeah, I suppose even if many of them were able to stay in the shelters long enough to avoid the fallout, they'd still be likely to run out of food before the nuclear winter ended. I know parts of Protect and Survive (the story, not the PSA) deal with Switzerland and the latter part has them venturing into the remains of West Germany. http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=164027 Here's the relevant parts. quote:
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Nckdictator posted:I know parts of Protect and Survive (the story, not the PSA) deal with Switzerland and the latter part has them venturing into the remains of West Germany. That's great – whoever wrote this certainly put some thought into it.
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Phobophilia posted:Luckily it never actually does that and the fear of them smacks of a whole range of culture-bound syndromes such as your dick disappearing into itself. That reminds me of something that was in the same issue of Skeptic Magazine as an article about that: The Monkey Man. Obviously the thing wasn't real either, but the whole situation was pretty nasty. Folks were forming armed mobs trying to kill the thing, and others fell off buildings to their deaths while running away from what they thought was the Monkey Man. Can't find anything about the death, so that might have been something else though.
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No Your Other Left posted:That reminds me of something that was in the same issue of Skeptic Magazine as an article about that: The Monkey Man. Obviously the thing wasn't real either... Oh, really?
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Aulus posted:Somewhat related: I have the same reaction to the tune played at the end of the UK Protect and Survive broadcasts when they show the logo. It's used well in Threads, because you can hear it on the broadcasts quite a few times in the background during some scenes.
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I can't remember is Prosopagnosia(also known as "face blindness") has been posted yet, but it's always freaked me out. I was reminded of it by Arrested Development today.quote:Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing"), also called face blindness, is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision making) remain intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage (acquired prosopagnosia), but a congenital or developmental form of the disorder also exists, which may affect up to 2.5% of the population.[1] The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus,[2] which activates specifically in response to faces. Thanks to this specialization, most people recognize faces much more effectively than they do similarly complex inanimate objects. For those with prosopagnosia, the ability to recognize faces depends on the less-sensitive object recognition system. Basically, the part of the brain that does face recognition is damaged, so the effected individual is unable to recognize or remember faces. I find it weird to think about how much post-processing is going on in our brains on the images we see. Everything we experience is filtered through a bunch of evolutionary developed processors. Always makes me wonder about how much I can trust my perceptions. For more fun, see Akinetopsia, also known as "motion blindness": quote:Akinetopsia, also known as cerebral akinetopsia or motion blindness, is an extremely rare neuropsychological disorder in which a patient cannot perceive motion in their visual field, despite being able to see stationary objects without issue. For patients with akinetopsia, the world becomes devoid of motion. Most of what is known about akinetopsia was learned through the case study of one patient, LM. There is currently no effective treatment or cure for akinetopsia. Prosopagnosia sounds like it would suck, but be manageable. Akinetopsia sounds like it would be pure hell: quote:Akinetopsia is the inability to see motion despite normal spatial acuity, flicker detection, stereo and color vision. Other intact functions include visual space perception and visual identification of shapes, objects, and faces.[2] Besides simple perception, akinetopsia also disturbs visuomotor tasks, such as reaching for objects[3] and catching objects.[4] When doing tasks, feedback of one's own motion appears to be important.[4]
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Mans posted:Those drawings are loving adorable That police artist must have a night job working for Hallmark.
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