GrumpyDoctor posted:

No it doesn't

mons al-madeen posted:

Aerith

Detroit Q. Spider posted:

yeah well this is wikipedia where everything has a japanesu pronunciation because the whole point of romanization is pronounce it like english is your second goddam language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquance posted:

the former two words are often used as synonyms for the latter, a word less commonly employed in reference to the characteristic which in regards to taste it solely defines

Skyl3lazer posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

geeves posted:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Shot_at_Love_II_with_Tila_Tequila

The Evan posted:

Lamont Cranston posted:

sorry, this isn't the "post wikipedia articles that, against all odds, are actually pretty awesome" thread

quote:

1993: Michael A. Shingledecker Jr. was killed almost instantly when he and a friend were struck by a pickup truck while lying flat on the yellow dividing line of a two-lane highway in Polk, Pennsylvania. They were copying a daredevil stunt from the movie The Program. Marco Birkhimer died of a similar accident while performing the same stunt in Route 206 of Bordentown, New Jersey.[127]

quote:

009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently because of having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.[174]

Skyl3lazer posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

lazar wulf posted:

read the whole thing and dont regret it

geeves posted:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Shot_at_Love_II_with_Tila_Tequila

quote:

Thought to be the "whole package," but Kristy was unsure about whether or not to accept Tequila's final key. Tequila told Kristy to be completely honest with her, to which Kristy agreed, admitting that she was not ready for a relationship with a woman and did not want to accept the key. Tequila dropped the key on the ground and retreated into the house to cry. Kristy put the key back and walked away from the house

fork bomb posted:

yeah that's a good one. wikilinked (is there a real word for this?) myself to it around a year ago.

ShadowHawk posted:

the word is "wikied" -- you wikied it.

wikilinking is when you put the little [[]] around words in an article

RZApublican posted:

oh you mean savory

fork bomb posted:

but what about when you get lost in wiki for hours because you kept clicking links and end up miles away from where you started?

maniacdevnull posted:

on that note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai

a japanese style of comedy involving a "straight man" and a "funny man" that is TOTALLY UNIQUE AND DISSIMILAR TO ANYTHING IN THE WHITE DEVIL'S CULTURE

Skyl3lazer posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

quote:

Scaphism, also known as the boats, was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death. The name comes from the Greek word skaphe, meaning "scooped (or hollowed) out".

The naked person was firmly fastened within a face-to-face pair of narrow rowing boats (or a hollowed-out tree trunk), with the head, hands and feet protruding. The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the point of developing severe diarrhea, and more honey would be rubbed on his body to attract insects to the exposed appendages. He or she would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun. The defenseless individual's feces accumulated within the container, attracting more insects, which would eat and breed within his or her exposed and increasingly gangrenous flesh. The feeding would be repeated each day in some cases to prolong the torture, so that dehydration or starvation did not provide him or her with the release of death. Death, when it eventually occurred, was probably due to a combination of dehydration, starvation and septic shock. Delirium would typically set in after a few days.

In other recorded versions, the insects did not eat the person; biting and stinging insects such as wasps, which were attracted by honey on the body, acted as the torture.

Death by scaphism was painful, humiliating and protracted. Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner for killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.[1]

maniacdevnull posted:

on that note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai

a japanese style of comedy involving a "straight man" and a "funny man" that is TOTALLY UNIQUE AND DISSIMILAR TO ANYTHING IN THE WHITE DEVIL'S CULTURE

GrumpyDoctor posted:

No it doesn't

Sniep posted:

Used Effectively

JawnV6 posted:

e:
tug a nov

RZApublican posted:

oh you mean savory

Yodzilla posted:

cock, poo poo in my rear end, gently caress balls

Detroit Q. Spider posted:

idk, it seems to vary based on moderator mood so i'm playing it safe

ShadowHawk posted:

Ahh yes, Wikipedia, where you can see constructions that would get you a C on a high school paper:

The Evan posted:

don't be such a oval office