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Mr. Flunchy posted:Just saw this recent BBC News/Home Office simulated nuclear war broadcast: Oh my you weren't kidding. That is extremely convincing, and the last five minutes is pure nightmare fuel. I watched it yesterday and I can't get that sound from the final warning out of my head. Only funny thing: I love when they're talking to the guy in Poland, and you hear sirens and then see a bright flash, and then the feed cuts out. The British anchor is like "Well we seem to be having technical difficulties. We will get back to talking with this expert who I assure you is alive and well and not a smoldering pile of cinders right now as soon as we can."
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Three people are shot dead during armed bank robbery. Guardian: "Trio killed in bizarre cops&robbers game gone wrong!"
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chernobyl kinsman posted:just wandering off...into a refrigerator, and dying. yes. I don't know all the details of this story- but if you've ever worked in a restaurant with a large, walk-in refrigerator you know that the doors are very heavy, often only open from the inside by pushing, and the floors can become very slippery over time from accumulated spills. It's not completely insane that someone not operating at 100% could get trapped in one.
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8 Ball posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43928318 Oh god we’re only 10 years away from old rich fuckers transferring their brains to younger bodies so they can live forever aren’t we? Like Get Out but not in secret- totally out in the open. The baby boomers will NEVER stop loving us.
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Apr 28, 2018 01:27
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If you put a cat on a treadmill for long enough would it eventually take off?
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Sep 22, 2018 17:00
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spite house posted:The nurse thought it might be my appendix, but what it turned out to be was a 10cm teratoma, bulging with hair, teeth, fingernails and little bones, which had developed on my right ovary, adhered itself to my intestines, and twisted my Fallopian tube into macramé. The whole arrangement was going necrotic and if they hadn't cut me open and removed the giant mutant tumor, tube and ovary I would have been looking at wildfire sepsis. I’m really sorry for your suffering but damned if I don’t love a good teratoma story. My mom had one of those removed after her third kid and my siblings and I always used to joke about our long lost brother Toothy.
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Nov 14, 2018 15:26
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Just to be safe I would recommend not being a woman at all.
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Mar 6, 2019 13:01
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Obscene amounts of money can protect someone from the consequences of their actions, which makes it more likely for them to act on their worst impulses. I think the desire to do evil things is evenly distributed among all levels of wealth, it’s just that the poorer you are, the more likely you’ll be caught and punished immediately. You know those crazy “Florida Man” stories everyone loves to laugh at? Imagine someone with that level of crazy but with enough money and lawyers to make every problem go away. That’s what we are dealing with as a society.
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Apr 27, 2019 13:26
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Busket Posket posted:A couple has been charged in a years-long investigation, accused of abandoning a girl in a Lafayette [Indiana] apartment and then leaving for Canada. Prosecutors say Michael and Kristine Barnett also legally changed the Ukranian girl's presumed age from 8-years-old to 22-years-old. I don’t know if the article is poorly written or if it’s just such a strange situation but I’m not sure if I’m correctly parsing what happened here. So the parents adopted a normal Ukrainian child, had her age “legally changed” to 22, told everyone she was 22 and looked 8, abandoned her in their apartment but kept paying the rent while they all hosed off to Canada...because reasons? What the hell was their end game?
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Sep 15, 2019 18:12
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Labes for days posted:She wasn’t “normal” - she had dwarfism which is why I assume they changed her age before abandoning her. Like eh 8, 22, who can really tell the difference if they’re physically deformed to begin with? See that’s the part that’s tripping me up. The article isn’t clear whether the girl actually has dwarfism or if the parents made it all up.
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Sep 15, 2019 18:31
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Busket Posket posted:There’s an update, but it doesn’t really clear anything up. The Washington Post has picked up the story which keeps getting weirder and weirder. The craziest part to me is, even if the adoptive mom is telling the truth and this girl is actually a 20-something scam artist, how the hell is the appropriate response to this not “alert the authorities” but rather “stash her in an apartment, move out of the country and hope the whole thing just goes away”?
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Sep 17, 2019 21:51
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Elmnt80 posted:You missed this completely unrelated or provoked comment. I actually 100% believe this and am completely ok with it.
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Dec 26, 2019 21:38
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I’m just still blown away that all these years I had no idea there is a not-insignificant number of women and men who will have sex with you for no other reason than you having access to a baby tiger.
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Apr 3, 2020 02:15
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Amateurs- the way you do it is you get the kids age legally changed to 18, abandon him in an apartment and leave the country.
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May 28, 2020 14:37
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When I started reading your summary TorpedoFish I assumed this story took place in the 1870s or something, when you could just roll from town to town and the only requirement for being a doctor was “says he is a doctor”. This mofo was pulling this poo poo in the mid-90s!
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Jul 7, 2020 18:36
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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. “There are too many corpses. Why are there so many corpses? The brochure said there’d only be a few corpses. This is a terrible vacation.”
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Aug 15, 2020 00:58
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CommissarMega posted:The Romans had fast food, d20s and mass-produced spells. I have no problem believing they had their equivalent of fidget spinners. But did they have robots?
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Aug 17, 2020 17:30
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Solice Kirsk posted:Joking aside, one of my buddy's had a real bad drinking problem and he would go through a bottle of whiskey and a case of beer a day. But on the weekends, well that's when he'd really cut loose. Was your buddy Andre the Giant? But seriously, you used past tense so I hope that means he eventually got better. I don’t know how a person would even have TIME to drink that much. Or the energy - two glasses of whisky and it’s pretty much sleepy-town for me.
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Dec 23, 2020 00:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yeah a few years ago a woman got killed by coyotes in Nova Scotia iirc It was an up and coming folk singer. It’s a weird story that may have come up already in this thread. The fact that it was considered so unusual speaks to how rare coyote attacks are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mitchell
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Dec 23, 2020 18:26
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The Lone Badger posted:IIRC most predators haven't had the update to recognise bipedalism yet, so by being tall humans end up looking really huge to them. Try to avoid looking short near wolves. Now I have this image of wolves that keep forgetting to leave themselves plugged in overnight.
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Guy I knew was a cop who was tracking this dangerous gang. They ambushed him, tortured him and finally shot him in the head. Miraculously he lived, but he has to be turned into this cyborg-thing and now he has no memory of his past life. It sucks, really.
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