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MightyJoe36 posted:I was born in 1961. '64. What up, fellow elder?
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The Parker-Hulme murder case always give me a heebie-jeebies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%E2%80%93Hulme_murder_case Especially when one of the murderers became a murder mystery novelist and tried to downplay her part in the murders, it creeps me out. The fact that a murderer became a murder mystery novelist feels like a joke.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:02
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HUMAN FISH posted:Motel of the Mysteries is pretty funny. It depicts an archaeologist from 4022 studying a normal motel room (and other things). This is pretty good, a spin on Howard Carters excavation of Tutankhamun. Seems to end rather abruptly though.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:21
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HUMAN FISH posted:Motel of the Mysteries is pretty funny. It depicts an archaeologist from 4022 studying a normal motel room (and other things). The thing I said earlier about "ristualistic purposes" was actually something told to me by one of my professors who was an archaeologist. He was joking around of course, but I think only partially in this case.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:23
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Jisae posted:My entire boyfriend's family almost died of CO2 exposure early Sunday morning. Weird Al Yankovic's parents died from a CO2 leak in their house roughly ten years ago or so.
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Tired Moritz posted:The Parker-Hulme murder case always give me a heebie-jeebies. It does, doesn't it? The posh privileged kid goes off to America and becomes a prolific crime writer while the working class one hides for decades.
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Jan 13, 2015 16:30
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bean_shadow posted:Weird Al Yankovic's parents died from a CO2 leak in their house roughly ten years ago or so. Monoxide. Not dioxide. I know it sounds nitpicky but there's a big difference. One your body will notice. You'll feel like you're suffocating. The other you'll just get tired and fall asleep. Forever.
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Jan 13, 2015 17:03
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Popcorn posted:Go here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_passport and listen to the audio version of the article. 
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Jan 13, 2015 21:33
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Tired Moritz posted:The Parker-Hulme murder case always give me a heebie-jeebies. There's a 1994 Peter Jackson movie called Heavenly Creatures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110005/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_40 about this case, it's a pretty cool film. That Sword and Scale podcast is really hosed-up. I listened to an episode about psychopaths among us, and the first story was about the Chinese guy who flipped his poo poo on a bus in the middle of BFE Canada and decapitated some poor bastard. The surprising part of the story is that the killer actually ended up getting released not too long after the incident because he got on medication and got his mind squared away. The producer was really trying to drive a strong law-and-order point of view - RARRR HOW DARE THESE EGGHEAD SHRINKS SAY HE'S NOT A DANGER RARRR!!! - and made not the slightest attempt to be objective, which pissed me off.
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Jan 13, 2015 21:37
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Imagined posted:Monoxide. Not dioxide. I know it sounds nitpicky but there's a big difference. One your body will notice. You'll feel like you're suffocating. The other you'll just get tired and fall asleep. Forever. Honestly the best way to go. I'm jealous.
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Jan 13, 2015 22:18
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The_Raven posted:There's a 1994 Peter Jackson movie called Heavenly Creatures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110005/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_40 about this case, it's a pretty cool film. The host thinks he's personally fighting in the eternal war between good and evil. It's really lurid and weird.
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Jan 13, 2015 22:37
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Sword and Scale episode 14 is about a girl named Kim Mabry who was a friend of mine back in the 80's/90's. She got involved with some bad stuff (stripping/possible prostitution/drugs) and vanished around Labor Day weekend 1994. The following April some kids were messing around near a creek in a fairly remote area about 40 miles SW of here and found a bag with one of her legs in it. The rest of her was cut up in other bags and they found her head weighted down with a rock a half mile upstream. No one has ever been caught/charged with the crime and the case has gone cold.
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Jan 13, 2015 22:48
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HUMAN FISH posted:Motel of the Mysteries is pretty funny. It depicts an archaeologist from 4022 studying a normal motel room (and other things). Here is a section! http://teachers2.wcs.edu/high/shs/sharonb3/By%20the%20Waters%20of%20Babylon/Motel-of-the-Mysteries-Macaulay.pdf I had a copy of it that I gave to my sister as a present, I kind of wish I had kept it for myself. David McCauley is an awesome illustrator - I own a book called 'Unbuilding' which is a fictional account of a rich Arab prince who buys the Empire State Building and has it dismantled. It is all drawn with Rotring pens and is a little bit mind-blowing (especially for me who is a budding illustrator with a fondness for Rotrings.) 
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Jan 13, 2015 22:55
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The_Raven posted:There's a 1994 Peter Jackson movie called Heavenly Creatures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110005/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_40 about this case, it's a pretty cool film. Heavenly Creatures is great, everyone should watch it if they haven't. Last I checked, it's on Netflix, and it does a really good, very sensitive job of capturing the weird head spaces teenagers can get into if left to their own devices. Thankfully, most don't take it to the extremes that Parker and Hulme did, but I certainly identified with both characters in the film to some extent. Relatedly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux
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Jan 14, 2015 00:49
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WescottF1 posted:No one has ever been caught/charged with the crime and the case has gone cold.  Would you - ahem - like to confess anything to us?* * Please say "no".
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Jan 14, 2015 01:00
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Haha - no. I have no idea who could have done it to her. Sad, she was a sweet girl who just got wrapped up in some bad poo poo. She had Lupus which they think could be partly to blame.
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Jan 14, 2015 01:53
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WescottF1 posted:Haha - no. I have no idea who could have done it to her. Sad, she was a sweet girl who just got wrapped up in some bad poo poo. She had Lupus which they think could be partly to blame. Huh, so swollen joints, arthritis, and maybe some sort of skin irritation/rash contributed to her being chopped into pieces and thrown in a river? Unless I'm not remembering Lupus correctly. Edit: Unless it was a really confused/rookie werewolf hunter. As a kid I thought lupus was somehow related to werewolves. Solice Kirsk has a new favorite as of 02:20 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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^^^^ beaten WescottF1 posted:Haha - no. I have no idea who could have done it to her. Sad, she was a sweet girl who just got wrapped up in some bad poo poo. She had Lupus which they think could be partly to blame. Wait, how does lupus get you murdered?
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I think they were saying that the lupus contributed to her getting involved in the "bad poo poo" that possibly led to her death.
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Omnishambles posted:Honestly the best way to go. I'm jealous. There's still time!
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From what her sister said on the podcast, her Lupus had affected her brain. Kim would sleep for days on end and when she wasn't sleeping she would self medicate with cocaine and other things.
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Jan 14, 2015 03:40
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Under the vegetable posted:The host thinks he's personally fighting in the eternal war between good and evil. It's really lurid and weird. After his 4th or 5th tirade about how there are literal hordes of paranoid schizophrenics waiting to skin your children alive I had to unsubscribe.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:22
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Your Gay Uncle posted:After his 4th or 5th tirade about how there are literal hordes of paranoid schizophrenics waiting to skin your children alive I had to unsubscribe. reading that one episode summary about how there are mentally ill people lurking around every corner waiting to murder you was really loving strange and I have never heard of this podcast before
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Rondette posted:http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/09/angry-ghost-chases-after-car-in-lancashire-5015310/ OHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I feel like this thread wants me to listen to Sword and Scale Punkin Spunkin has a new favorite as of 09:52 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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Jan 14, 2015 08:59
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Jisae posted:My entire boyfriend's family almost died of CO2 exposure early Sunday morning. I went over Friday and when I walked in I mentioned how the house reeked like sulphur. Everyone in the house was used to the smell and dismissed my comment, chalking it up to Grandma's bad cooking. Walked in Saturday shortly after noon and it smelled soo much like sulphur I pressed the matter until my boyfriend's grandfather begrudgingly took a look at the boiler and furnace. He came to the conclusion that "we'll get someone over to look at it on Monday." My boyfriend and I shortly thereafter left to go to a party. This was us in 2013. Heater acting up, everyone with headaches, funny smells. I finally had the guy who replaced the AC come look. There was a hole in the heater, dumping evil gasses like CO2 into the house. The heater was installed in the 80s, so it was long overdue for replacing. The heater guy said it probably would have killed us before too much longer. Doesn't help my anxiety, either.
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Jan 14, 2015 10:17
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Your Gay Uncle posted:After his 4th or 5th tirade about how there are literal hordes of paranoid schizophrenics waiting to skin your children alive I had to unsubscribe. Sounds a bit... paranoid.
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Jan 14, 2015 10:47
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I really don't think heaters dump out CO2 guys (At least not lethal amounts).
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bamhand posted:I really don't think heaters dump out CO2 guys (At least not lethal amounts). So many people have mixed these up that I can't tell who is joking anymore. Thank you whoever recommended Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. This book rules. Just reading bout this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II brings me great joy. "On September 19, 1980, a major mishap occurred after a socket rolled off a platform and punctured the missile's Stage I fuel tank, subsequently causing the missile to collapse. Due to the hypergolic propellants involved, the entire missile exploded a few hours later, killing an Air Force airman, SrA David Livingston, and destroying the silo (374-7, near Damascus, Arkansas).[10] Thanks to the warhead's built-in safety features, it did not detonate. A television movie portrays this event, "Disaster at Silo 7".[11] Author Eric Schlosser published a book centered on the accident, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, in September 2013."
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Your Gay Uncle posted:After his 4th or 5th tirade about how there are literal hordes of paranoid schizophrenics waiting to skin your children alive I had to unsubscribe. Alouicious posted:reading that one episode summary about how there are mentally ill people lurking around every corner waiting to murder you was really loving strange and I have never heard of this podcast before This is made extra funny by the fact that statistically you're much much more likely to be skinned alive by someone who does not have a mental illness. You'd think that would be something he would have picked up on in the course of doing those podcasts. In general paranoid schizophrenics tend to be pretty harmless. It's the mild-mannered accountants you've got to watch out for.
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:This is made extra funny by the fact that statistically you're much much more likely to be skinned alive by someone who does not have a mental illness. You'd think that would be something he would have picked up on in the course of doing those podcasts. In general paranoid schizophrenics tend to be pretty harmless. It's the mild-mannered accountants you've got to watch out for. This is one of the great problems of true crime: it encourages fear about things that are unlikely to present any danger to most readers / listeners. This is how well-off white middle-class people end up talking about how the world is a dangerous place and obsessing about serial killers, pedophiles and "cunning sociopaths". You're more likely to die in a car accident or be killed by someone you know than be attacked by a random nut.
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AdjectiveNoun posted:I think the last episode was a huge letdown, but 1-3 were both amazing and horrifying. Yeah, you have to love an anticlimax, I guess.
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outlier posted:This is one of the great problems of true crime: it encourages fear about things that are unlikely to present any danger to most readers / listeners. This is how well-off white middle-class people end up talking about how the world is a dangerous place and obsessing about serial killers, pedophiles and "cunning sociopaths". You're more likely to die in a car accident or be killed by someone you know than be attacked by a random nut. AKA "stereotyping" - which in itself is ridiculous and leads people to do the exact opposite of what they *should* do. Case in point, any time the media has brought up pedophiles or sexual predators, they always have some actor that looks like a creepy, grizzled weirdo (as if you could tell a pedo from any regular person walking the street). Then another news story comes along and it's the guy that lived next door and was super friendly, didn't have a criminal record, and was as generic looks-wise as anyone could get. Same goes for other crimes too, most times it's the person someone least expects, and it's because we've effectively been brainwashed to believe that criminals fit a certain mold and can be pointed out on looks alone.
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You can tell by the slope of their foreheads, the set of their eyes and the shape of their skull.
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Literally Kermit posted:And we're back! Spooky stuff. I just re-read all about these since my sister was pretending to be edgy and interested in cannibalism.
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errol _flynn posted:'64. What up, fellow elder? Not much. How's it feel to be older than the Super Bowl?
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The endless stereotyping of killers as weird-looking un-people is how people die. Its scary how many people wind up dead because they still accept lifts from strangers even when they know a serial killer is operating nearby. "Oh he's still got all his teeth and his eyes are level, he couldn't possibly be the killer" then bam, Ted Bundy. As for Sword and Scale's "thousands of psychos walk among us" shtick, I suppose if you spend all day every day reading true crime stuff you might develop that opinion without realizing it. Zupansky regularly goes off on tangents about how Canadian law is too lenient, but I put that down to him being a true crime author himself and I expect interviewing serial killers for a living is going to colour your opinion.
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Ozz81 posted:AKA "stereotyping" - which in itself is ridiculous and leads people to do the exact opposite of what they *should* do. Case in point, any time the media has brought up pedophiles or sexual predators, they always have some actor that looks like a creepy, grizzled weirdo (as if you could tell a pedo from any regular person walking the street). Then another news story comes along and it's the guy that lived next door and was super friendly, didn't have a criminal record, and was as generic looks-wise as anyone could get. Same goes for other crimes too, most times it's the person someone least expects, and it's because we've effectively been brainwashed to believe that criminals fit a certain mold and can be pointed out on looks alone. Check this out, a public service film from the sixties which basically states homo=paedo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijbovskICjk
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Ghost Cow Goes Boo posted:The endless stereotyping of killers as weird-looking un-people is how people die. Its scary how many people wind up dead because they still accept lifts from strangers even when they know a serial killer is operating nearby. "Oh he's still got all his teeth and his eyes are level, he couldn't possibly be the killer" then bam, Ted Bundy. The episode which featured the army wife who killed her kids? I don't know the number. She was very obviously severely mentally ill. The host kept telling me she was evil, but I didn't get evil. She was ill. What she did was horrific, she shot both her kids in the head. She was ill. The host guy comes out with lots of faux psychology that he pulls out of his arse, when even the husband's first reaction on returning home was asking how his wife was. She just killed his kids and he wanted to know if she was ok. Thinking about it now I have no idea why I listened to so many loving episodes.
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Ghost Cow Goes Boo posted:As for Sword and Scale's "thousands of psychos walk among us" shtick, I suppose if you spend all day every day reading true crime stuff you might develop that opinion without realizing it. Zupansky regularly goes off on tangents about how Canadian law is too lenient, but I put that down to him being a true crime author himself and I expect interviewing serial killers for a living is going to colour your opinion. I put it down to him being a dumb motherfucker.
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I've always been fascinated by the Sea Peoples, a collective name for nine different groups that terrorized the Mediterranean back 3,500-3,200 years ago. Nobody knows much about them and there's not a lot in the historical record despite how much we know from the Egyptians and Greeks of the same era. We don't even know that much about their boats or how they were able to settle Sicily and other islands. There are lots of different hypotheses about who exactly the Sea Peoples were. And to make it more interesting, whoever they were, they may have been responsible for the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a period of "dark ages", the collapse of a bunch of kingdoms and civilizations 3,200 years ago. We do know that they seriously pissed off the pharaohs: quote:Merneptah states that he defeated the invasion, killing 6,000 soldiers and taking 9,000 prisoners. To be sure of the numbers, among other things, he took the penises of all uncircumcised enemy dead and the hands of all the circumcised... Even after that, they came back to attack Ramses III at the Battle of the Delta :
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