AlbieQuirky posted:

I have a lot of auditory pareidolia, and one of the things that triggers it is electric fans, which my brain always parses into barely-heard songs. Right now, my bedroom fan is playing me something in the style of early REM, and I’m not loving it.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Rhandhali, what's the correct way to treat somebody whose trachea needs repair? What should have been done for the baby, for instance? (I don't in any way doubt that the Italian guy is a quack and a monster.)

Solice Kirsk posted:

Think about how many teenagers kill themselves when a boy/girlfriend breaks up with them. It doesn't take much to bring someone to suicide if they've got problems.

Bussamove posted:

You solved a 25+ year old mystery of “why did I always hear gameboy music in the bathroom when I was a kid and my gameboy wasn’t in there?” For me, so thank you for that.

AlbieQuirky posted:

I have a lot of auditory pareidolia, and one of the things that triggers it is electric fans, which my brain always parses into barely-heard songs. Right now, my bedroom fan is playing me something in the style of early REM, and I’m not loving it.at for y

Bookish posted:

When I was little and the air conditioning would turn on in my bedroom, I would hear a bunch of people whispering. Trying to figure out what they were saying would always put me to sleep.

Graedyn posted:

OMG, is that what that is?!? I've had that for as long as I can remember. Sometimes I hear something vaguely resembling electronic/house music with the beat and everything when my furnace is running and other times it sounds like chamber music. I've never known of anyone else that has this. Those that I've told has teased me that I was going bonkers.

It's great to know there's a term for it.

Inceltown posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzfZLqreSXk

Untrustable posted:

The main thing I remember the most from the Last Podcast On The Left episodes about Jonestown is that Jim Jones could arc his piss over a house.

Edit: this is the 4th or 5th time I've mentioned the "pissing over a house" thing in this thread. It really stuck with me. How did he do it?

Solice Kirsk posted:

I once met a woman who could arc her piss clear across a yard, so I know it could be possible. Like I'm talking she kind of just arched her back, squeezed her pee hole kind of like putting your thumb over the end of a hose, and let fly. So I'd imagine a dude with all that extra pee stored in his balls would have no problem.

Wasabi the J posted:

quote:

Work on restoring an abandoned €35m mansion in one of the most prestigious areas of Paris has been suspended after the discovery of a corpse that had been decomposing in the basement for 30 years, local media have reported.

Minutes from Les Invalides and the French prime minister’s official residence, and backing onto the former home of Yves Saint Laurent, the vast but crumbling complex at 12 rue Oudinot in the heart of Paris had been empty for more than 30 years.

Behind a bricked-off facade, Le Monde said, ivy sprouted from the cracked walls and broken shutters of four imposing buildings once lived in by the poet and playwright François Coppée. A once-elegant garden had been untended since the mid-1980s and was now completely overgrown.

The stuff of estate agents’ dreams, the hôtel particulier – billed as “the last truly significant property in the capital’s most sought-after neighbourhood” – finally sold in January by its owners, a discreet Dutch company, at an auction that lasted barely 15 minutes. The buyer, Jean-Bernard Lafonta, paid €35.1m (£29.9m) – nearly six times the reserve price.

https://twitter.com/monsieurkaplan/status/1219201548452093953

Lafonta, a former director of the French investment firm Wendel and now head of his own industrial holding group, lost no time in February starting work on restoring the property, protected by a strict preservation order, to its former glory, residents told Le Parisien.

But then workmen surveying the site stumbled across the body. “Everyone was devastated to learn it had been there so long, without any of us knowing,” said Sabine Lebreton, the vice-president of a local association dedicated to preserving the mansion.

Le Monde said the corpse, the discovery of which was only recently made public, came to light as workers removed a pile of planks and rubble in one of the mansion’s cellars. Traces of wounds including broken bones and knife cuts prompted police to open a murder investigation, the newspaper said.

Papers found on the body allowed authorities to identify the man as Jean-Pierre Renaud, and his death was dated to about 30 years ago. “He was someone of no fixed abode, with a drink problem,” a police source told Le Monde.

“We could imagine a fight with someone else living on the margin … But it’s unclear whether he died in the mansion or was brought there, and we may never find out who was responsible. It’s quite possible the murderer is himself now dead.”

Renaud’s children have been located and informed of their father’s death, police said, and Lafonta, the new owner, has declined to comment. Work on the abandoned mansion is expected to start again after the summer.

luxury handset posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/thirty-year-old-corpse-discovered-cellar-35m-paris-mansion

Zopotantor posted:

Welp, this building's haunted now.

Necrothatcher posted:

You called him a sex pest earlier. I've done a bunch of googling and looking around Twitter and can't turn up anything - what is he supposed to have done?

New Wave Jose posted:

I was wondering the same thing

CleverHans posted:

How about a mysterious lake, high up in the Himalayas, filled with corpses?

Scathach posted:

Wouldn't that suck, hiking all the way up there, getting camp set up and then boiling some water for dinner...oh. Oh ew.

Telsa Cola posted:

Not my region of study but thats reaaaally screaming ritual sacrifice.

christmas boots posted:

Isn't there some running joke where if archeologists have no idea what a thing is they just say it had ritualistic purposes or something?