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Rondette posted:Talking of claustrophobia and caves, check this video of a guy getting stuck. It's not graphic or anything but gives you an idea of how pant-shittingly terrifying getting stuck in a cave is. So naturally this poo poo led to me finding this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbbS4qhVKjk
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Speaking of CO poisoning, I Googled my friends name way back when and this poo poo popped up.
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Ague Proof posted:Hide the stuff behind a wall decorated with really ornate and beautiful art. Or porn. The visigoths might like to have a word with you...
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Jan 8, 2015 17:37
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Ok wait maybe he's onto something, if only assholes destroy priceless poo poo like that.
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Jan 8, 2015 17:54
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Rabbit Hill posted:I've seen the body of St. Clare of Assisi, and either her remains themselves look like she's been turned to wax, or someone has put a wax mask over the face, because that's what she looked like. A friend of mine (who was with me in Assisi when we saw St. Clare) was in France this summer and saw the body of St. Catherine Laboure, and she said that, unlike St. Clare, the body looked like a living person who was asleep. The church rarely allows scientists to put their credibility on the line; I would reckon they're always embalmed or waxen.
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peter gabriel posted:Where does the ham come from in a lion hamburger? Hamburg, the city.
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Jan 26, 2015 23:47
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Chicken Butt posted:Be sure to check out the sections about Lituya Bay (holy poo poo, that fishing boat) and Cumbre Vieja (which is going to kill us aalllllllll ...) I remember the news about Cumbre Vieja being pretty underwhelming.
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Feb 1, 2015 18:04
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I worked hotel/casino security and unattended minor calls are depressingly frequent. I could understand if the child was capable of using a phone and making a snack on their own, but we constantly had parents leaving 7 and under kids alone in hotel rooms and even arcades, which are typically not restricted access like the hotel towers. The infuriating part is when we would do a welfare check later and find the parents ditched the kid a second time, and decided to call the police. We would even generally recommend they call a sitter/nanny service in the first offense, where the people who've dumped $1500 on a stay couldn't be arsed to spend $50 to have their kid watched for half a night. Kids were cool to work with though. Generally they called the report in themselves, "where's my mommy/daddy," and just wanted a snack or cartoons put back on. 
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Feb 9, 2015 21:30
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Never mind the F-35, the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship would have probably disintegrated within a decade or two It was literally disintegrating at the docks where it was built.
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Feb 10, 2015 02:56
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That drat Satyr posted:Perhaps, but one of the points that's made is that they were all mostly, if not completely in some cases, naked or in underwear. Though... I suppose the best garment to sew something in to keep them dry might be underwear, but that seems like they could still get damp from sweat and so on. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/541627
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Feb 19, 2015 16:24
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visuvius posted:Fired at the sight, a faithful friend vowed that he would make the devourer disgorge, or die poo poo, I don't even have friends that will help me move a couch.
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Feb 21, 2015 20:15
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Has anyone here tried to lift a limp person? If you have, then let's picture ideal conditions at sea level--and let's say you're lucky and you have a friend that's equally altruistic and that's willing to help you carry this dying person. You, your friend, and the expectant are all wearing/carrying your climbing gear, and you have to move him let's say a few city blocks. You forgot the part where sometimes you try to help that idiot down, and their brain is so starved of oxygen, they literally try to fist fight you. Basebf555 posted:I just don't know any other recreational activities where its every man for themselves, and deaths are expected and part of the deal when you sign up. I guess cave-diving but I feel the same way about that; caves deemed dangerous enough by experts should be closed permanently to the public. Yeah, but in every recreational activity where there is a serious chance of harm to others or self, you have certifying regulatory bodies to at least attempt to make sure you're not going to kill someone doing it; e.g. PADI, auto racing sanctioning bodies, USPA, FAA, etc.
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Feb 27, 2015 00:01
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Literally Kermit posted:^^^ case in point. She's the yellow-suited lady who photoshopped herself onto wheelchair accessible mountains then died on Everest because it loving hates lazy photoshops above all else. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3694151
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Feb 27, 2015 20:10
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Centripetal Horse posted:Surprisingly, it's not obvious which group is more evil, either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYjyLg8bbo
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Mar 2, 2015 20:02
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PresidentBeard posted:I honestly hate that show. The liberal romanticism of past eras as atrocity free and hyper focus on more recent evils is just so contemptible.Yeah it's totally red team fault that America was built on Imperialism from the very beginning. k. It's not like it was along the lines of what the above poster said or anything.
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Mar 2, 2015 22:43
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KozmoNaut posted:After watching the Vice documentary on Krystle Cole (was it linked in this thread?), which pretty much portrays her as an innocent small town girl victimized by evil drug lords, I started reading up on what happened between her, Gordon Todd Skinner and Brandon Green. I am astounded that she is not in jail on a multiple life sentence, if even half of this article is true. I mean yeah, Skinner is a monster, but Cole's scary as gently caress. Read that and look at this at the same time, and you can see how people wouldn't be the wiser.
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Alereon posted:This article has a bit about their stupid conspiracy theories, and Wikipedia has a decent summary too. Honestly now that we have the MH17 shoot-down to compare with it seems bizarre to think TWA800 was shot down by a missile. With MH17 you see the expected shrapnel holes in the fuselage left by the fragmentary warhead, as well as fragments embedded in the bodies of the victims. Nothing like that was ever found with TWA 800. The only thing that could be interpreted as evidence is the inconclusive positive test results for explosive residues, but these were trace results and each test detected a different residue, and any real residues would have been washed off while the debris was submerged, so it seems clear that this was a result of contamination. Evidence contamination and inconclusive results are a problem in any investigation and why it's so important to look at the totality of the evidence for things that either confirm or refute a theory, and not just decide what you want to see. I read the comments.  Speaking of air incidents, the survivor accounts of Japan Airlines Flight 123 always make me incredibly unnerved. The short end of the story is that an improper repair years prior caused an explosive decompression when it failed, taking the vertical stabilizer off and severing most of the hydraulics. The pilots tried heroically to maneuver the plane with just the engines, but ended up having to put it into the mountain, killing them and many passengers in the process. The Japanese government refused aid from nearby American forces several times and no one ever stepped forward to take responsibility for this. A USAF Huey crew was overhead literally minutes after the crash, and was told to kindly gently caress off, Japanese rescue forces would handle it. A survivor recounted hearing a helicopter overhead and spotlights, but then hearing it get further away. According to the four survivors eventually found, there were many voices and cries from survivors but because of the delay in rescue, their numbers dwindled. This is supported by autopsies showing people dying of shock, exposure, and injuries that with prior treatment would have been non-fatal. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 10:13 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Literally Kermit posted:Doesn't look like there's gonna be any survivors. The Everest thread has a similar response.
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Mar 24, 2015 13:05
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C.M. Kruger posted:I'd say the Soviets were largely a non-threat to the home islands. They had limited sealift capacity in the Pacific and little to no experience with amphibious operations. They had few warships for naval gunfire, limited amounts of long-range bombers and fighters, no big troop ships or heavy transports to bring tanks ashore, only a handful of lend-lease infantry landing craft, and thus could have been easily repulsed because they would be unable to bring a effective weight of force ashore in a rapid amount of time. Plus, the Japanese were pretty soundly pushing people's poo poo in on the sea. War is awful, bombing two manufacturing cities was objectively not-nice but nothing new in terms of suffering; please look at Doolittle raids. I am glad whatever caused the Japanese to surrender worked, because a mainland invasion would have been just as loving massive in terms of loss of life, and with draftees fighting on both sides, there is no "innocent lives," exclusion. Only difference was the inclusion of women and kids in the casualty list.
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:List of things we learned from The War to End All Wars: It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. Fred Woodworth The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein It's kinda weird to me how I can go day to day most of my life and not think about hurting someone, especially fatally; yet when I hear of horrible things on the news about threats to people I don't know in countries I've never visited, I can be incensed to think that a stranger deserves death.
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The Endbringer posted:If for but to not honey great of fever nine forty two! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PenaCaptainBeefheart.ogg This poo poo sounds like what insanity must feel like  quote:In the end, after the album's recording, Beefheart ejected French from the band by throwing him down a set of stairs, telling him to "Take a walk, man" after not responding in a desired manner to a request to "play a strawberry" on the drums. WHAT THE gently caress DO YOU MEAN PLAY A STRAWBERRY ON THE DRUMS???? Another article pretty clearly shows he was loving nuts. quote:He expressed bewilderment that anybody should listen to his music. "I don't know how people can stand it. Who would want to be beat, slapped, have their wig pulled off, if they have one for sure. I can't stand falsies. When I was three or four I found one of my grandmother's falsies, and it had NO NIPPLE. It was a hip shape, and that old foam – like a soya-bean steering wheel". His voice rose in a deafening bellow – "Blow your top! BLOW YOUR TOP!", causing everybody in the room to cast anxious looks in our direction. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 13:38 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Nckdictator posted:Look at the location. It's not the park itself (I would have loved to visit it) but building it so close to a battlefield really upsets the preservationist in me. If I died on some God-forsaken field, nothing would bring me better joy than the horror of that place being forgotten.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Holy poo poo that is loving terrifying. That's just spindrift from the main avalanche. The main avalanche occurred under the Khumbu ice fall, and has left hundreds unaccounted for. Fig. 1: Khumbu Icefall 
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Khazar-khum posted:That's scary all by itself. And you're saying it's now even worse? The Khumbu is MASSIVE. Literally miles of house-sized boulders of ice. From the Everest thread: Blitter posted:
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ASIC v Danny Bro posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah gently caress I don't know why I watched this, Jesus Christ those screams. Literally threw up; I cannot handle hearing that very real and primal terror. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 12:55 on May 11, 2015 |
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May 11, 2015 12:52
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Seriously do not listen to that video. I just fell asleep after work and immediately heard the screams.
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May 11, 2015 15:43
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New Leaf posted:I read both parts of the article. Good god drat. I can't even imagine. I almost want to see a diagram, but part of me knows that is a terrible idea. 
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Solice Kirsk posted:http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ZNSaq Junji Ito is really good at horror stuff, but it's more "weird" than "scary."
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Volume posted:A while ago in this thread there was an article posted about a hospital in New Orleans that had to do the unthinkable and decide which of their patients they were gonna save during Hurricane Katrina. Any one know where I can find it? http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/12355903-171/in-katrinas-aftermath-new-orleans
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Mincher posted:All the hike chat has reminded me of a thread I once read on AskReddit titled something like "Hikers of Reddit, What's the weirdest thing you've come across". Yeah people think I'm a bit paranoid for bringing two days of water, a survival blanket, tourniquet, knife, flint, and food for two days on even a short hike. Even if I won't need it, I worry that I'll stumble across someone who does.
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Walton Simons posted:I still don't think I get the idea of these military bases in the desert where nobody is there. I get that they're protected by their remoteness but they're certainly not impossible to get there if you're determined and prepared. So what's there, what are they for and why even bother marking them on a map if they're not worth guarding? To say the land belongs to the government???
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We were just talking about him! pookel posted:Some interesting material here, some creepy, some funny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths Spooky!
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pookel posted:I'm wondering now, is it an American thing to think of military bases as places to house lots of troops while they train and equipment gets tested? It never really occurred to me to think of them as primarily strategic installations that you put near places that need to be defended. But then, we usually fight wars far from home - there's not much need to set up bases for local defense. Military bases aren't quite what you'd expect; they're more like ranges (as in the open range). When a foreigner says base they're likely thinking of what we'd call an installation or post. There are lots of installations that have fences and guards, but they're usually the part where there are personnel and equipment to watch. The land where nothing's happening 99% of the time? Not so much. So in the story of the Germans, they indeed would have hit a manned perimeter, but nearer to ridgecrest than their hoped for location.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Why do people say this in regards to racism outside the US, "it's as bad, or worse"? Possibly "as bad"? WHAT!? Racism outside the US is another another quantum level compared to the US. Quantum means very small. ---- I met a really cool Romanian military dude when I was in Afghanistan. One day he was taking about how he didn't want to be doing the poo poo he was doing for the Romanian army. "I thought I would try out for special forces, to kill some Gypsies." He was a bit less cool after that.
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pookel posted:I once ran across a forum for "pedophiles against child abuse." These were men who were sexually attracted to children but committed not to acting on it. It was both sad and creepy - on the one hand, some of them were struggling pretty hard to do the right thing in the face of a terrible obsession. On the other, some of them reeeeally liked sharing (innocent) pics of kids and talking about how "hot" they were. Read that related article about pedophilia, it pretty much describes how, because we've demonized the disease and urges alone, pedos can't even get real help because of the stigma. Seriously, it's hosed up and what they do could be monstrous (could, should they act upon their urges), but they literally cannot get help and are basically like TCC members trying to keep each other off the smack, while doing the latest synth chemical, while claiming that because the mechanism is different, it's not a relapse! And that's the best they are legally protected to do.
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Man I seriously hope that's a joke. I know an abused person and they have the most hellish life I could imagine. If we can do anything to actually prevent that I'm all for it.
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kanonvandekempen posted:Yes, the wikipedia article about them is pretty interesting: While that kind of American racism exists, it's much more subtle than that. British racism is usually most well intentioned if bumbling charivaris caricatures of other cultures, sprinkled with a healthy dose of xenophobia. It's not good, but it's so removed from my American life that it doesn't bug me as much, when Top Gear makes jokes about Mexicans and Americans, as it dies when my coworkers say ignorant poo poo about my nation of birth, Mexico. Americans abhor the idea of racism, but don't recognize racist narratives and bias, like how news about primarily white rioting will be classified as, "protests" or "partiers out of control," but black riots are described in terms of "unrest" "thugs destroying businesses" etc. Other things include conflating culture with class without acknowledging a stratified society. Racists here genuinely don't generally know they're being racist, they think they're being fairly objective. Problem is they're usually coming from a position of privilege and don't understand that the poo poo they're saying is patronizing at best, and usually hurtful. "I'm just SAYING..."
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Alvarez IV posted:Does anyone remember the story someone posted in here earlier of one of the first guys to die of radiation poisoning and they had to keep him alive for study despite how painful it was because we needed to know in what order the organs melt? http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Death-Days-Radiation-Sickness/dp/1934287407
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I went on a field trip to that marshmallow factory too! Las Vegans for years kept calling Henderson "Green Cloud" or something like that because the cause of the explosion wasn't really well explained, so people made up this chemicals = green equivalency.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Almost everything I've read about Kemper from people who interviewed him is always quick to point out that he was disarmingly funny. quote:The garbage disposal could not break down the tough vocal cord tissue and ejected the tissue back into the sink. "That seemed appropriate, as much as she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years" he later said after his arrest.
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