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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia So it's like racism, but for oceans?
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painted bird posted:He has profound disabilities, yes. He cannot communicate effectively. But he has lived for three and a half decades and he has experienced them somehow or other and he has thoughts on them, whatever they may be, whatever complexity they may be, that an infant or a toddler would not have. You realise you sound like Terri Schiavo's husband, right?
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Oct 22, 2015 17:55
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painted bird posted:I do not, because a) he was advocating to have life support removed and it was her parents that wanted her to be kept on life support indefinitely b) Terri Schiavo's brain was almost entirely gone. DJ's brain is all there, even if he's disabled. You cannot compare a living human being to a corpse on a ventilator. I beg your pardon, I got it the wrong way round. You actually sound like Terri Schiavo's parents. And it doesn't matter if you're slightly less wrong than they were, you still sound like them.
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Oct 22, 2015 19:47
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AnonSpore posted:English football fans have their own wikipedia article No, English hooligans have their own article. For the American football fans who get violent sport is the reason, whereas for hooligans it's just the excuse.
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Nov 13, 2015 16:26
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Karma Monkey posted:Oh I guess I thought there was a knife involved. The article says Sanchez and Norwood would also be facing weapons charges that could get them ten years, so there probably was a knife involved.
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Nov 15, 2015 01:48
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^^^ It was a bit of both.eightpole posted:What about the holocaust? I hate to say it, but we're kind of used to the Holocaust now. We know the Nazis were absolutely evil in the most banal way, there's no individual atrocity we can hear of where we would think "Well, that's a bit much, even for them". Whatever they did, we expect it.
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Nov 27, 2015 09:42
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Chichevache posted:This brings up an interesting- and relevant- point: where does woods porn come from? Woods porn is something I remember fondly from my own childhood. Does PYF Creepy have any theories? Back in the days before the Internet, when actual physical copies were required, teenagers didn't want to stash their porn where their parents might find it.
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Nov 30, 2015 14:19
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pookel posted:Texas Monthly has shown up so many times in this thread, and it's always, always excellent. Do they just specialize in well-written longform crime stories? Not as such, but Texas seems to specialise in crimes. And guns.
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Dec 11, 2015 11:19
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Doctor_Acula posted:I've been trying to find a good true crime audio book to use my Audible credit on, but everything seems bland. I don't know what's on Audible, but if you can find a copy of Forty Years of Murder by Keith Simpson then do. He was Britain's top forensic pathologist for many years and worked a lot of high profile cases. It's CSI: Real Life.
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Dec 22, 2015 09:56
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Mr. Flunchy posted:A man is found dead in a locked hotel room, apparently from natural causes. But during the autopsy, a mortician discovers that his organs are crushed and he bears all the signs of suffering a violent beating, yet there's no external marks or signs of anyone else being in the hotel room. Everyone is baffled. You know what I find unnerving? The way Vanity Fair articles describe everyone's hairstyle regardless of what the article is about. It's loving weird.
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Jan 12, 2016 18:14
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Geniasis posted:It really weirds me out that there was this dude who was loving sewing people together, and still there are people who are like "yknow the nazis had some good ideas" I'm told there was a lot of data taken out of the concentration camp laboratories that was invaluable to medical science, but nobody could get it any other way because it required being a monster.
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Jan 14, 2016 21:47
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Travis343 posted:Reeeeeeeally want to know what that medal was for. If you can get a medal up your dick, you deserve a medal.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:11
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Nckdictator posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Eric_Wone What's creepy about it?
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Jan 29, 2016 14:54
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Harold Stassen posted:This. Stop defending it, man. Not the hill you wanna die on. Well, if he does at least he won't go to waste.
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Feb 28, 2016 13:28
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Screaming Idiot posted:Can we just end the argument and agree that we're all humanitarians deep down inside? You are what you eat, I guess.
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Feb 29, 2016 10:11
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A Spider Covets posted:Christ her face looks like a mask She used the money she took from her victim to have a facelift.
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Mar 20, 2016 22:19
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Deified Data posted:She's like a Junji Ito drawing come to life. By reports she was calm and smiling even as they hanged her. I don't know about the first but for the second she likely didn't have much choice.
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Mar 22, 2016 14:52
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Would there be any interest in a missing persons thread, probably in A/T? That depends, how many police officers are reading?
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Mar 23, 2016 13:58
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The Mentalizer posted:And that's not even the worst thing from that article. Somewhere in the top 10 worst things about those three paragraphs: "Scully's partner, a 17-year-old Filipino girl, who was also a prior victim of his abuse, as she used to be a prostitute in the Philippines" The Wiki entry is short, but you can read more detail in the source articles. quote:In between filming sessions the pair were allegedly instructed to dig a hole in the home's back garden. Peter Gerard Scully posted:I have done nothing bad.
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Mar 26, 2016 10:47
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Jack Gladney posted:He's probably the only non-white sov cit in the world. Well, yeah. When black people do things that sovereign citizens do they get shot, not tasered.
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Apr 6, 2016 18:30
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crowoutofcontext posted:But cluster suicides throw that all out the window. That's certainly a turn of phrase.
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Apr 11, 2016 14:47
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atomicthumbs posted:One time I saw a Titanium themes bouncy house and realized "yep in 100 years or less 9/11 is gonna be a children's amusement." Jet fuel can't melt latex beams.
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Apr 22, 2016 16:31
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News on the BBC today about an Aussie bloke who got bitten on the dong by a redback spider. Luckily he was near a hospital, so we were spared a recreation of the famous joke.
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Apr 27, 2016 14:52
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pookel posted:In either case, organizations like Autism Speaks are partly to blame, not only for showing them sympathy but for promoting the narrative that autism is a terrible tragedy. They talk about autism stealing children's souls; they call it a "darkness," they talk about children with dead eyes or who are locked away from the world. It's no surprise that awful consequences result when parents start believing their children are monsters, or would be better off dead. My cousin has a son who is profoundly autistic. He doesn't speak; he used to communicate a bit using sign language, but that may have stopped. He has violently assaulted his younger siblings and on one occasion set fire to the house. It was only a stroke of luck that prevented his whole family being killed. And the saddest part is that my cousin can't accept that he can't do anything about it, that he can't help his son and that the boy needs to be institutionalised for the sake of his own family. Is he a monster, though? I don't think so. To be a true monster he'd have to be capable of understanding right and wrong, and he isn't. He doesn't fail to understand the rules or ignore the rules; he just isn't aware that there are rules. There is simply a world with which he has no association. He could kill his parents and his brother and sisters and he wouldn't care. He might not even notice. If that thought doesn't scare the living poo poo out of you, it should. I have nothing but disgust for a person who would kill their malfunctioning child rather than take responsibility for their care. But I can absolutely understand why they are terrified enough to do it, and why the only push they need is for someone to tell them it's OK because the kid isn't really human. And yeah, it is a loving tragedy, on every level for everyone involved.
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May 4, 2016 13:29
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Ever wished you couldn't feel pain? Like a scraped knee, a broken bone or an endless derail? Well some people can't and it ruins their lives. There's an excellent documentary about a girl with the disorder out there somewhere but at the moment I can't find it. It may be the same girl in this news story which will have to do until I can find the doco. Odd coincidence, there's an article on this in the new issue of Fortean Times and I was about to post about it.
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May 5, 2016 16:14
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Apraxin posted:Fire in the Night, about the Piper Alpha disaster, is a good one. A colleague of mine used to work with the guy who was duty control manager on Tartan during the incident, and he confirms that after Claymore requested permission to shut down he was directly instructed to keep pumping gas across to Piper Alpha as it burned. If you want a really unnerving story about Piper Alpha, though: just this week Occidental Petroleum bought out Apache. Nobody ever expected those fuckers to return to the North Sea, and I have no idea who's going to work for them now.
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May 22, 2016 13:56
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:was this a case of management not understanding what was happening or of 'lets get as much oil through before we reaaaally have to stop Neither. Shutting down the pipeline was expensive, and it wouldn't have saved Piper Alpha at that point. It maybe wouldn't even have saved any lives. But it certainly made the fire worse.
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May 22, 2016 17:20
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:I got a little sick to my stomach trying to read that. If you read to the end, he got sick to his stomach saying it. He intellectually understood that what he had done was wrong, but couldn't comprehend how he got to that point.
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May 24, 2016 00:53
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crowoutofcontext posted:He didnt blurt that out until the police literally opened a bit of the container and saw the shirt which he himself had days prior described to them as the last outfit he saw her in. His original story was that the duct-taped container was protecting rare comic books from moisture damage. He also had a meltdown to an online friend about extreme nervousness about being falsely implicated for the "neighbors lost girl" disappearance-behavior that made no logical sense from someone who was trying to act completely innocent. Underwood reminds me a lot of Dennis Nilsen, the Muswell Hill Murderer. I don't have time to write it up now, but he's worth a Google.
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May 24, 2016 08:21
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:It undoubtedly had to do with mutilating genitals. The man seemed to have a knack for that. I'm thinking he probably got the motor spinning and then got the scrote to wrap around the motor shaft. Sort of like when you accidentally get a sock or something wrapped around your vaccuum brush. Only with ball sack flesh instead of a sock. And a crude electric torture motor instead of a vaccuum. I think I'm more unnerved that you came up with that poo poo than I would be by finding out Corll did it.
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May 26, 2016 17:05
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Phanatic posted:Jesus. How many forums posters would we have left if that were the law in America and it were consistently enforced? I've rarely been so happy for the 1st Amendment. What do you think would happen in the US if you walked through a Jewish area wearing a t-shirt that read "Kikes did 9/11, bring back the gas chambers"?
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May 31, 2016 16:47
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Phanatic posted:You would not legally be arrested, and if you were arrested you'd have cause for a massive civil rights lawsuit because you're engaged in clearly protected speech. Brandenburg v. Ohio. It's not even a close call, it's a clearly established right and you could sue even the individual cops who arrested you and they wouldn't have any immunity. Which is why Britain is sane in this instance and America isn't. This guy wasn't arrested over freedom of speech. He was arrested because he was deliberately attempting to get other people to break the law by attacking him.
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Jun 1, 2016 13:36
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Chichevache posted:I admit it, I watched the video. And I felt oddly sympathetic the whole time. Here is this man, he's given his life to entertaining. And now he's giving his life for entertaining. He's going to gasp out his final moments during a live show, and somehow, that just feels wrong. Logically it shouldn't, but I still can't help but be struck by how inappropriate death is. There's something sacrosanct about the show: it must go on. I can't help but be utterly terrified of how alone it must feel to kick and squirm for air while hundreds of people laugh at your torment. It is the kind of ghastly fate reserved for executions from our darker ages, not kind-hearted performers. For Christ's sake he even looks like an ideal grandfather. You should have tried watching it live on TV aged nine, like I did. Things going wrong was Tommy Cooper's schtick - he was a highly skilled stage magician and a member of the Magic Circle, but he'd found that people were more entertained when his tricks failed so he set them up that way for the laughs. It wasn't even a matter of people thinking his collapse was funny or well timed. Everyone watching genuinely believed it was part of the act. And that's the worst part: it was known before the show that Cooper wasn't in good health, they'd even jerry rigged a dressing room in the wings for him because he was having trouble with stairs. If he hadn't had his heart attack at such a perfectly timed moment, people might have reacted fast enough to save him. If you really want to see something  though, watch Howard Keel's performance from the same evening. He was singing in front of the curtain while they tried to revive Cooper behind it.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Jesus Christ, this reads like the plot of a particularly dark Coen brothers movie. That poor woman. You missed the bit where it occurred on the location of a particularly dark Coen Brothers movie, then?
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Jun 7, 2016 10:44
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Crow Jane posted:It'd be one thing if it were Bauhaus. At the time, her favorite band was Belle and frickin' Sebastian. How on earth her parents found that threatening is beyond me. They have an album called The Boy With The Arab Strap. I'm not going to inquire as to how a pair of fundies knew what an Arab strap is, but if they're ignorant of the music and saw the album name I can well understand them thinking it was perverted and ungodly.
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pookel posted:I have no idea what an Arab strap is (something sexual?) but I'm assuming "Arab" is all they'd need to see to think it's Satanic. It's a cockring, basically.
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Jun 10, 2016 16:48
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:Bit He might have wanted to be prepared in case he couldn't go through with it. Or he may not have wanted to make people wonder why he was traveling 200 miles with no luggage or plans to return.
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Telemaze posted:I started reading this and was like "what's the big deal? It's... oh. OH." That poor kid. 2/10 no ring.
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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.
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LSD CURES JUNKIES posted:Here's something I find unnerving: 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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