PYF unnerving article or story: Why is everything always so fucking weird

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dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

M_Sinistrari posted:

That reminds me of this guy: https://www.wired.com/2007/01/poly-furries-in/

The linked article's work safe but expect the links to Encyclopedia Dramatica and OTFWank to not be. The short version is a guy was posting on some polyamory forum about the trouble his girlfriend was having about him having relations with his wife and as it came out, the girlfriend's human and the wife's an actual horse. Horse was pregnant and the guy was insistent he was the father.

Oh! This is the "His wife? A horse." guy. The OTFWank links are pretty worksafe; it's just text.

# ¿ May 15, 2018 23:11

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 18:03

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

M_Sinistrari posted:

I figured to err on the side of caution. I rarely posted over on OTFWank compared to how much I was over on FandomWank.

Reasonable. Of course you need the wayback machine to read either site nowadays.

# ¿ May 16, 2018 03:14

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

I followed a year-old link from Reddit to a site called "stopsylvia.com" which was supposed to be for an article listing how the psychic Browne was totally wrong about the Amanda Berry kidnapping case (one of the multi-year victims of Ariel Castro). So presumably the whole site was an anti-Browne resource criticizing her work.

I check it now, and it's "Stop Smoking with Sylvia Browne" and it's an e-cigarette blog with a bare minimum amount of content on it. So kinda unnerving that there used to be a whole attack site taking on one of the most famous crime psychics, and then in the last year someone bought the domain name and made is something unrelated.

It could also be because she died back in 2013.

# ¿ May 26, 2018 16:48

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Abugadu posted:

Before being arrested, Scout kid's parents found the gun in his bedroom, and decided to disassemble it and put it in a cookie jar, not knowing it was a murder weapon.

Even if it wasn't a murder weapon, why would you do this?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 05:32

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Bath Tubs posted:

I also have teeth growing in my sinus

All right thread, pack it up. We've found it.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2018 02:09

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Nikita Khrushchev posted:

Ya I stopped using Tumblr and live journal several years ago and basically just hang out in anon communities now. It's so toxic now that it's not worth being invested in in any meaningful sense

Which one?

subpar anachronism posted:

I like this weird Andy story, and the Final Fantasy house stories; what other internet-infamous people do y'all think are the most messed up?

There was a huge dust-up in Hamilton fandom where it turned out somebody was lying about being HIV+ and a whole host of other marginalized identities. Let's see, oh! the E.L. James/Snowqueen Icedragon thing. That was big.
Cassie Claire's plagiarism but that's mostly a grudge.

AlbieQuirky posted:

"Victoria Bitter" was after the beer and not meant as a feminine name, though.

Blake's pretending to have been in the IRA is one of my favorite weirdnesses in the story. Also when he told some lady that her son (actual son, not a bird) was under psychic attack by wizards.

Not just the IRA he claimed to have been on both sides for about a week each to see what they were about.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2018 00:24

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Nikita Khrushchev posted:

Fail-fandom anon on dreamwidth is one of the few remaining anonymous fandom spaces I think. I lurk there like once every few months and reminisce lol

Ha! I knew it was FFA (I've uh been around there since it started); glad to see another nonnie.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Yeah, but Tumblr doesn't have threaded conversations, which are important when you're hatereading.

Trying to hateread tumblr is a huge pain in the rear end between the half deleted blogs and half the horrible loving site layout.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2018 21:44

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Ariong posted:

Okay, let�s try to unpack this first part. You wish that the person who wrote it was someone who seems less reliable when they say they buy into the Multiple System thing. Instead they are a person who still seems credible when they say that. What?

They wish someone who didn't buy into the whole Multiple Systems thing wrote this book but as it stands they're all right that someone did because "it takes one to know one". (Sidenote: Unbelievably Fat Man, I remember your friend from puttering around Livejournal and I'm glad to see they're doing all right!)

# ¿ Aug 25, 2018 05:34

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Also a guy from CompLexity Gaming got grazed on the thumb.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 22:20

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

The Snoo posted:

this is very stupid but lol now there's been two high-profile shootings on separate birthdays of mine in the past 3(?) years

No more stupid than my comment about the one guy's thumb! The human reacts to tragedy in weird ways sometimes.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2018 07:23

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

StrixNebulosa posted:

Speaking of sex, and unnerving things, longform.org has delivered again

Death of a Kinkster: The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

Spoilered out for content, think breast implants but for balls

I know we don't talk about the bird offsite but they actually have a very good thread on the murderer. Dylan is completely despicable (there's evidence that Jack died days before he sad he did).

# ¿ Nov 10, 2018 04:54

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Werong Bustope posted:

Apologies if this has been posted before in this thread but I don't remember it; I've just found out about Ervil LeBaron and the completely insane Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God

I can't believe I've never heard of this one before, it's got everything: religiously ordained murder, "blood atonement", a literal fued, child assassins, you name it. I stumbled across this interview with one of his daughters, it's got terrible reconstructions and the text is backwards but it's still a wild ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu-MOWZSAPI

Jon Krakauer has a fascinating book about a different (IIRC) murdering Mormon cult if you'd like more!

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 17:38

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

My money's on sex slave house. The Tupperware is the weird part.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 19:24

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

You can strangle yourself with loads of poo poo, including jeans and shoelaces. (Using your hands is uh difficult.) (I'm better now, 4+ years of therapy plus meds helped/help a bunch.)

# ¿ Mar 25, 2019 23:17

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Sarcopenia posted:

Some dude tried to pull a Frederic Bourdin on Timmothy Pitzen's family.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/timmothy-pitzen-missing-child-brian-michael-rini-impostor-818249/

At least he didn't have a thick as gently caress French accent like Bourdin.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2019 06:14

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

jobson groeth posted:

They're not scared of me and my candy. They should be though.

Why? What kinda lovely candy you giving out?

# ¿ Apr 8, 2019 22:07

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

M_Sinistrari posted:

My maternal grandmother always had these and those Brach's butterscotch candies in her purse when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure both were at least a decade old as well. I was never sure why she had them since no one liked them, but then since she also loved those godawful Circus Peanuts, I think her sense of taste was shot.

Brach's are delicious, you heathen. I bet you also hate those strawberry-flavored gooey center candies that old white dudes always have in their house.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2019 04:56

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Bonster posted:

Ummm....

Taiwan doctor finds four sweat bees living inside woman's eye

My eyes sting.

I'm sorry but sweat bees? Nature should stop making insects.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2019 18:30

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

The most unnerving part is all these lovely candy opinions.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2019 04:43

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Dewgy posted:

Also no one�s pointing out that thanks to the US education system, it�s how most people think about their income over here. A whole nation raised to be loving terrible with money because they can�t do math.

Uh yeah, math is for nerds. We're a nation of (armchair) jocks!

# ¿ Apr 26, 2019 22:19

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Milo and POTUS posted:

They are 100% coming after birth control next lol. I'm laughing because white women in the deep south looooooove the GOP.

https://www.statenews.org/post/ohio-legislature-considering-abortion-bill-more-restrictive-heartbeat-bill posted:

Ohio Legislature Considering An Abortion Bill That Is More Restrictive Than The "Heartbeat Bill"

A new bill would ban most private insurance coverage for abortions. But opponents say it would also ban effective methods of birth control.

One fifth of the representatives in the House have signed on to a bill sponsored by Republican John Becker that would prohibit most insurance companies from offering coverage for abortion services.

�The intent is to save lives and reduce the cost of employers and employees health care insurance," Becker says.

The bill would ban nontherapeutic abortions that include "drugs or devices used to prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.�

And Becker says the bill also speaks to coverage of ectopic or tubal pregnancies where the fertilized egg attaches outside of the womb.

�Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill," Becker explains.

�That doesn�t exist in the realm of treatment for ectopic pregnancy. You can�t just re-implant. It�s not a medical thing," says Jaime Miracle, deputy director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio.

She says, under this bill, women would have to wait until their very lives were in danger to get an abortion in the case of an ectopic pregnancy.

�This bill will have grave impacts on Ohio�s infant and maternal mortality rate," Miracle says.

And she says that�s not all. She says it will ban insurance from covering popular methods of birth control.

�Birth control pills, IUD�s and other methods of birth control like that � the bill states that any birth control that could act to stop a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus is considered an abortion under this bill," Miracle says.

Becker insists his bill does not target birth control.

�When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that�s clearly not my area of expertise but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would be classified as an abortifacient, then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so it�s no longer an abortifacient and is strictly a contraceptive," Becker says.

This bill just had its first hearing in committee. If it goes further, supporters, opponents and medical professionals will testify for or against it.

Less than a month ago, Ohio lawmakers passed and Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy - at the point a fetal heartbeat can be detected. If this legislation goes through as written, it would go even further.

Garbage-rear end Ohio beat the South to it!

# ¿ May 10, 2019 02:12

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Pirate Radar posted:

Prader-Willi�s the one with the CSI episode where they find a guy dead in a dumpster and retrace his path from the day before to figure out what happened and it turns out he was a P-W sufferer who had escaped from his parents� basement, where he was usually kept in chains to stop him from eating everything

No, no, no. He did have Prader-Willi but it was his sister's boyfriend who let him loose from the living room recliner where he was kept chained to enjoy a day at the fair but he went a little overboard at a buffet and died from IIRC choking on food.

# ¿ May 17, 2019 08:18

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

HelleSpud posted:

Weekdays at 6, and the weather channel airs the weather related accidents under the Mayday branding.

I always really liked Seconds from Disaster, although the British narrator was just way too stoked about everything.
Anyone know if there's a third breakdown the cause and effect, and the investigation into them series? Sometimes there's episodes like that in Forensic Files and Modern Marvels, but is there another one?

My friend, if you're interested in disasters the USCSB (United States Chemical Safety Board) has a bunch of videos you're gonna enjoy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?USCSB

dovetaile has a new favorite as of 21:33 on Jun 18, 2019

# ¿ Jun 18, 2019 06:48

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

luxury handset posted:

this talk of cults reminded me - i vaguely remember some kind of like femme cult in 1950's england that was women who would dress primly and had this whole strict discipline thing going on? i realize this sounds like a bad porn but does this description ring any bells?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I remember in the old 'stories about anime weirdos; thread by uglynoodles they went into a weird partly-online subculture about some all-female fantasy world (though with social roles that basically translated to masculine and feminine gender roles) that kinda came off like a throwback to pre-20th century lesbian culture. Mostly that they had a huge issue as it was the early 00s and a shitload of newer members were huge weebs and basically crowbarred in anime fetish ideas that didn't really fit, and after some schisms and dramabombs the whole thing went back underground with minimal online presence.

Like Aristasia?

# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 04:03

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

quote:

Elizabeth Griffin 1997, Atlanta, GA. Yerkes Primate Center.
Griffin was working with Rhesus monkeys infected with Herpes B virus. One monkey flung some debris from its cage that hit Griffin in the eye. Griffin contracted the disease and died six weeks later.

You all forgot the "best" lab accident.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2019 00:51

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

C.M. Kruger posted:

The (former) Crown Prince of Nepal wiped out most of the royal family because they apparently wouldn't let him marry a Indian woman from a lower class family (who's still fairly wealthy apparently), and then shot himself, but he may have actually been shot by the guards since they apparently found two bullets in his head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_royal_massacre

There's an excellent book about this Massacre at the Palace: The Doomed Royal Dynasty of Nepal.

# ¿ May 11, 2020 20:45

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Scathach posted:

Oh boy the one human I love to hate. Sylvia Browne is such a terrible person. Montel is partially responsible for her being so famous and believed, and he's absolutely batshit too.

Oh no, what's wrong with Montel?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2020 07:12

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

A local one I love is the Goatman.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2021 06:43

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

Please elaborate

He's a Goatman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_(Maryland) Half-man, half-goat, fully bloodthirsty.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2021 16:27

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

My dad worked (HVAC stuff) across the street from the woods where they arrested/caught https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadden_Clark.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 05:39

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Milo and POTUS posted:

gently caress that's gotta be a hell of a thing to know. Was he working at the time?

He was. He was out on a job site near the woods.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 13:42

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

I grew up with this guy and his two brothers, they lived four houses away, he was a couple years older than me and a troublemaker. Still big news when he offed two people, including a cop, during a mini-mart robbery.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...b-00a3d43f76ea/

Oh poo poo, never thought I'd see my hometown in this thread.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2021 01:42

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Sarcopenia posted:

Part of Brian Laundrie's body may have been found.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/brian-laundrie-search-update-belongings-human-remains-fbi/

I don't think they're his.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2021 21:02

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

And she tested positive for Covid.

# ¿ May 9, 2022 02:55

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

There's a whole internet subculture of "Munchausen by Internet". The first I knew of it was the alaska-says-sun drama on tumblr like ten years ago, which doesn't seem to be available on tumblr anymore but someone on Reddit wrote up a synopsis https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/5af77m/munchausen_by_internet_a_case_study/

Obviously this woman was very sick, just not with that she claimed.

Oh that's been around a lot longer than ten years. I remember reading in the early-mid 2000s about fan-authors committing "pseuicide".

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 18:03

dovetaile: Jul 8, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Grassy Knowles posted:

wonder what his forums account is

Well, it was reported on in 1988 so I don't think he has one.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2023 02:27

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