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Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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How anyone can look at the US Justice system and trust it is beyond me.

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Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Solice Kirsk posted:

How anyone can look at the US Justice system and trust it is beyond me.

By being rich and white, or poor and white.

If you're rich you get off scott-free. Money fixes everything. If you're poor, you grow up just being told "It just works" and a thousand morons never bother to look around them and think for a moment and instead just see a cop shoot an unarmed kid and go "well he must have done something to deserve it, cops would never do something wrong!"

Filox
Oct 4, 2014

Grimey Drawer
Something new every day. I've been reading the unnerving for years, but I'd never heard of this guy until I found him tonight on the axe murder category on Wikipedia (Wikipedia, by the way, has an axe murder category.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuyama_massacre

Another one. You decide to murder someone and you haven't even finished burning the body when you get interrupted by one of the greatest earthquakes ever to hit the U.S. What are the loving odds? Oh, and later a dog digs up the skull and leaves it in the middle of the road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_George

Filox has a new favorite as of 07:57 on Jun 14, 2016

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

Filox posted:

one of the greatest earthquakes ever to hit the U.S.


Consider me unnerved.

Pipski
Apr 18, 2004

Darkhold posted:

Probably posted in this thread before but the most unnerving suicide I read about was suicide by tree
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4264282.stm

Guy a few miles up the road from where I grew up offed himself by strapping a chainsaw to a tree trunk at throat height and running at it. No loving about either, his head was clean off.

Imagined
Feb 2, 2007

Pipski posted:

Guy a few miles up the road from where I grew up offed himself by strapping a chainsaw to a tree trunk at throat height and running at it. No loving about either, his head was clean off.

Jesus. Has he heard about this crazy invention called a loving gun?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Solice Kirsk posted:

How anyone can look at the US Justice system and trust it is beyond me.

voting in prosecutors/judges is so loving stupid its incredible

Karma Monkey
Sep 6, 2005

I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Imagined posted:

Jesus. Has he heard about this crazy invention called a loving gun?

Or pills? Or a rope? Or a tall building? Or pretty much anyfuckingthing else besides running headlong into a chainsaw? :gonk:

Bonster
Mar 3, 2007

Keep rolling, rolling

Platystemon posted:



Consider me unnerved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone

In 1811-1812 the magnitude was probably over 7.0, with four quakes in 3 months. 1811 was 7.5-7.9. Most of the modern quakes are around 5.4. It's startling and shakes the buildings, but rarely does anything major.

So, yeah, the midwest is sitting on a major fault line.

Karma Monkey
Sep 6, 2005

I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Bonster posted:

So, yeah, the midwest is sitting on a major fault line.

Oh trust me the midwest has a lot of major faults. See that part of Ohio that the red covers? I grew up there. It really needs to fall through a massive crack in the earth. The 1895 Quake botched the job.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Maybe we'll luck out and Yellowstone will erupt and trigger the New Madrid fault line. Just drop 80% of the country in one swoop. I'm assuming Chicago will be just fine.

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

Centripetal Horse posted:

Torture-murder that oval office live on pay-per-view.
Can you not?

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


pookel posted:

Can you not?

Are you serious dude

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Celluloid Sam posted:

Are you serious dude

I hope so.

Filox
Oct 4, 2014

Grimey Drawer

Bonster posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone

In 1811-1812 the magnitude was probably over 7.0, with four quakes in 3 months. 1811 was 7.5-7.9. Most of the modern quakes are around 5.4. It's startling and shakes the buildings, but rarely does anything major.

So, yeah, the midwest is sitting on a major fault line.

And apparently, the rock east of the Mississippi is older and allows seismic waves to travel farther than on the west coast, and indeed farther than they had ever suspected. That little earthquake in Virginia a few years ago caused landslides 150 miles away, which was four times farther than researchers had believed was possible.

Earthquakes: still figuring it out.

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

Celluloid Sam posted:

Are you serious dude
Serious, yes. Dude, no.

ravenkult
Feb 3, 2011


oh no what is happening

Josef K. Sourdust
Jul 16, 2014

"To be quite frank, Platinum sucks at making games. Vanquish was terrible and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance was so boring it put me to sleep."

You are cordially invited to attend the opening of a new thread on marine disasters/wrecks/diving.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3779967

I hope no one thinks this detracts from activity here. I thought that getting in a few specialist divers, oceanographers and history buffs might be fun.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Josef K. Sourdust posted:

You are cordially invited to attend the opening of a new thread on marine disasters/wrecks/diving.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3779967

I hope no one thinks this detracts from activity here. I thought that getting in a few specialist divers, oceanographers and history buffs might be fun.

This is the stuff that normally terrifies me so thank you!

Josef K. Sourdust
Jul 16, 2014

"To be quite frank, Platinum sucks at making games. Vanquish was terrible and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance was so boring it put me to sleep."

Solice Kirsk posted:

This is the stuff that normally terrifies me so thank you!

Thanks! :)

I keep wondering how long the arctic exploration thread will last. ( http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655083&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 ) People find it really useful as a resource and reading list but not many people post there. It would be a shame if it got archived. Hopefully the marine disaster thread will get a bit more traffic....

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Josef K. Sourdust posted:

You are cordially invited to attend the opening of a new thread on marine disasters/wrecks/diving.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3779967

I hope no one thinks this detracts from activity here. I thought that getting in a few specialist divers, oceanographers and history buffs might be fun.

I hope there are more stories here to play upon my claustrophobia and fear of drowning. :toot:

Josef K. Sourdust
Jul 16, 2014

"To be quite frank, Platinum sucks at making games. Vanquish was terrible and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance was so boring it put me to sleep."

Dick Trauma posted:

I hope there are more stories here to play upon my claustrophobia and fear of drowning. :toot:

Oh, boy you have no idea.... We already have posts on the Kursk submarine disaster and the Estonia ferry sinking. Eyyyyyyy......

Cobweb Heart
Mar 31, 2010

I need you to wear this. I need you to wear this all the time. It's office policy.

pookel posted:

Can you not?

He's facetiously calling for live torture and murder. You already know what sort of person he is. It doesn't matter if he used a mean word. It would not have been better if he had substituted "jerk". Your saying something isn't going to make him stop. Nobody in this discussion is going to be satisfied.

I brought my Drake
Jul 10, 2014

These high-G injections have some serious side effects after pulling so many jumps.

Filox posted:

And apparently, the rock east of the Mississippi is older and allows seismic waves to travel farther than on the west coast, and indeed farther than they had ever suspected. That little earthquake in Virginia a few years ago caused landslides 150 miles away, which was four times farther than researchers had believed was possible.

Earthquakes: still figuring it out.

I was at work when that happened! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake You'd've thought the entire state fell down. Nope, just some masonry.

Speaking of natural disasters, wasn't there a volcano that sprang up along a fault somewhere in 20th century Central America? No warning, just suddenly volcano?

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Josef K. Sourdust posted:

Oh, boy you have no idea.... We already have posts on the Kursk submarine disaster and the Estonia ferry sinking. Eyyyyyyy......

Once I get home from work I'll be able to contribute some good ones.

Patattack
Nov 23, 2008

The English Language!

queserasera posted:

I was at work when that happened! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake You'd've thought the entire state fell down. Nope, just some masonry.

Speaking of natural disasters, wasn't there a volcano that sprang up along a fault somewhere in 20th century Central America? No warning, just suddenly volcano?

You might be thinking of Parícutin, where a farmer working his corn field witnessed a fissure opening up spontaneously - which quickly became a volcano that went on to erupt for several years and consumed the entire city and much of the surrounding area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%EDcutin

quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest

Platystemon posted:



Consider me unnerved.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one here's a neat article about how "the big one" isn't going to come from the san andreas fault, it's going to come from a fault line nobody even knew about until 50ish years ago

and just because it mentions fukushima here's a story about how just building to minimum compliance standards isnt always the best idea http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/08/how_tenacity_a_wall_saved_a_ja.html

there's a pretty high chance that i got one or both of these from here but i just remembered them and thought they were cool so i wanted to share them anyway!

Bonster
Mar 3, 2007

Keep rolling, rolling
That's one of the issues with the New Madrid. Nothing is built to earthquake code. A big quake in the Midwest + cinder block foundations, masonry structures, heavy use of stone facing on buildings, all of it adds up to lots and lots of things falling down.

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

Cobweb Heart posted:

He's facetiously calling for live torture and murder. You already know what sort of person he is. It doesn't matter if he used a mean word. It would not have been better if he had substituted "jerk". Your saying something isn't going to make him stop. Nobody in this discussion is going to be satisfied.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt by assuming they don't realize how shockingly offensive that particular word is, at least to American women, considering that it's treated as a much milder swear word in some parts of the English-speaking world.

Content:
It seems that a number of different cultures across the world independently came up with the idea of ensuring building stability through human sacrifice instead of with good engineering techniques.

In Japan, this was supposedly practiced during the construction of bridges. Such sacrifices were known as hitobashira, or human pillars, although they may have been mostly urban legend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitobashira
http://pinktentacle.com/2010/03/human-pillars/

The Maori of New Zealand had similar practices, according to this early ethnographic text (I'm not sure of the date, but this author died in 1931, so it's old):
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes01Reli-t1-body-d5-d2-d2.html

quote:

Tutakangahau, of the Tuhoe Tribe, informed me that his tribesmen occasionally sacrificed a human being at the building of an important new house. The body of the hapless victim was buried at the base of the central post supporting the ridge-pole; there is no evidence as to his being buried alive. A victim disposed of in this manner was called a whatu.

The Masons are really into collecting these stories, although I'm sure some are myth:
http://www.themasonictrowel.com/masonic_talk/stb/stbs/36-07.htm

quote:

"In Polynesia, the center pillar of the Temple of Maerva was planted in the body of a human victim.

"In Siam, the gates of the cities were erected on posts under which four or eight persons were buried alive, their spirits being supposed to act as guardian angels.

"In Burma, we read that the city gates of Mandalay were swung on posts erected on a living child.

The Aztecs, of course, were especially zealous about human sacrifice:
http://qz.com/374994/aztec-sacrifice-was-real-and-its-not-fetishistic-to-be-fascinated-by-it/

quote:

“[The Aztecs were] a culture obsessed with death: they believed that human sacrifice was the highest form of karmic healing. When the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan was consecrated in 1487 the Aztecs recorded that 84,000 people were slaughtered in four days. Self-sacrifice was common and individuals would pierce their ears, tongues and genitals to nourish the floors of temples with their blood. Unsurprisingly, there is evidence that Mexico was already suffering from a demographic crisis before the Spanish arrived.”

And the info here is sketchy, but it seems some sort of cult leader in Nigeria buried several people alive under his new church as part of a ritual to attract more followers (WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS):
http://naijagists.com/photos-humans-found-buried-alive-in-the-foundation-of-enugu-church-building/

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
See, I would think the spirit of someone I buried alive under my house would cause me more trouble, rather than less, but I guess that's just me.

Filox
Oct 4, 2014

Grimey Drawer

A Pinball Wizard posted:

See, I would think the spirit of someone I buried alive under my house would cause me more trouble, rather than less, but I guess that's just me.

Yeah, it reminds me of those ghost stories (from oral folk tradition) I read as a kid where the haunting ended with the discovery of a body hidden under the house or bricked up in the fireplace.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

What if you ended up with one of those screaming skulls in the foundation? It'd be worse than living by an airport. You'd have to carpet the basement and you couldn't have company down there.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Just put a Cradle of Filth album on repeat until the skull admits defeat and moves on.

I brought my Drake
Jul 10, 2014

These high-G injections have some serious side effects after pulling so many jumps.

Patattack posted:

You might be thinking of Parícutin, where a farmer working his corn field witnessed a fissure opening up spontaneously - which quickly became a volcano that went on to erupt for several years and consumed the entire city and much of the surrounding area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%EDcutin

That's the one.

quote:

Before leaving his home for the last time, Dionisio Pulido placed a sign on the cornfield that read “This volcano is owned and operated by Dionisio Pulido.”

mod saas
May 4, 2004

Grimey Drawer

queserasera posted:

This volcano is owned and operated by Dionisio Pulido.



oh wait this isnt the pyf badass pictures thread

Karma Monkey
Sep 6, 2005

I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Jack Gladney posted:

What if you ended up with one of those screaming skulls in the foundation? It'd be worse than living by an airport. You'd have to carpet the basement and you couldn't have company down there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7UjF8R_-B0

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

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Solice Kirsk posted:

Just put a Cradle of Filth album on repeat until the skull admits defeat and moves on.

The BBC made a TV programme a bunch of years ago where they had Dani Filth live with a family of fundamentalist Christians for two weeks. Apparently they got on surprisingly well.

LSD CURES JUNKIES
Sep 12, 2013

pookel posted:

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt by assuming they don't realize how shockingly offensive that particular word is, at least to American women, considering that it's treated as a much milder swear word in some parts of the English-speaking world.

I'm an American woman and I consider oval office,motherfucker,bitch,bastard or whore insults that I'll use no matter what you got between your legs so you don't have to get all offended on behalf of anyone else,thanks.

Here's something I find unnerving:

A dude in the town where I live beat his twin to death with a hammer

http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Police-find-body-in-Laurel-County-home-374807441.html

I couldn't ever imagine killing a sibling of mine let alone beating my twin to death with a loving hammer. There had to be some hosed up mental state going on there,he goes to trial sometime this month. :stare:

CAROL
Oct 29, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

LSD CURES JUNKIES posted:

I'm an American

loving owned

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Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

LSD CURES JUNKIES posted:

Here's something I find unnerving:

A dude in the town where I live beat his twin to death with a hammer

A word of wisdom for that guy - using your twin to provide an alibi for your crimes does not work in all situations.

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