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jodai posted:Ugh. I'm going to guess some kind of viral marketing attempt. The whole thing bums me out because I totally would have been one of the people who tells everyone about this and thinks it's so cool about ten years ago but now I just think it's fake and dumb. Either that or someone who staged it to be like a standard haunted house horror movie. It definitely belongs in this thread though as long as we assume the writer is implying there is something supernatural going on. No real parent lets their kid go digging around in the wall. It's not even a crawlspace if adults can't fit in it, it's just a hole in the wall. They just cut the hole in for plumbing purposes or something, then made up one of the other normal rooms inthe house to be all ~2spooky~ and posted it on the internet. e: also they claim they aren't going to make the "horror movie mistakes", but shotguns don't do poo poo to "ghosts" (unless we're assuming Supernatural is a documentary and the shotgun is full of rock salt shells). Headlamps don't do anything either. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 17:11 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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Possible stupid question here, but is it at all normal for an attic to be directly next to a bathroom as opposed to above it? I've never lived anywhere that has an attic anywhere but above the accessible rooms in the house. Also, no way a 6-year old could fit in that tiny pipe access, let alone get through the pipes.
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Stahlgeist posted:Also, no way a 6-year old could fit in that tiny pipe access, let alone get through the pipes. 
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Stahlgeist posted:Possible stupid question here, but is it at all normal for an attic to be directly next to a bathroom as opposed to above it? I've never lived anywhere that has an attic anywhere but above the accessible rooms in the house. The attic is separate from the secret room, as the landlord knew about one but not the other. Murphy Brownback posted:e: also they claim they aren't going to make the "horror movie mistakes", but shotguns don't do poo poo to "ghosts" (unless we're assuming Supernatural is a documentary and the shotgun is full of rock salt shells). Headlamps don't do anything either. The shotgun is for murderers or intruders, not ghosts. Now, both those said, this really didn't happen, but at least criticize it on the right grounds.
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EmmyOk posted:Minge is a very unpleasant word, almost as bad as panties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiFM0xRXlic
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Fake as hell but I think it's fairly obvious it's a bit of fun, I thought it was pretty neat since I like to conlang and when I die there will be a nice voynich manuscript of transliterated notes left behind with no references.
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Noyemi K posted:Fake as hell but I think it's fairly obvious it's a bit of fun, I thought it was pretty neat since I like to conlang and when I die there will be a nice voynich manuscript of transliterated notes left behind with no references. Yeah, I guess it's all in fun. It is probably similar to if whoever made Ted the Caver went around presenting it as real.
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Stahlgeist posted:Possible stupid question here, but is it at all normal for an attic to be directly next to a bathroom as opposed to above it? I've never lived anywhere that has an attic anywhere but above the accessible rooms in the house. Actually, my parents house (an A-Frame) has a closet converted into a bathroom on the second floor, and there's a little door that goes out to the attic, which is above a wing added on to the side of the A-frame after market.
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Well, here's another "I fought off the intruders with my katana story" that didn't happen. Oh, wait. It did! Warning: Gore ahead.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3037356/Hacked-pieces-Samurai-sword-burglars-got-unpleasant-surprise-victim-fought-back.html
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Khazar-khum posted:Well, here's another "I fought off the intruders with my katana story" that didn't happen. Oh, wait. It did! Awesome! I'm kind of worried they'll want to get revenge, but this is a good case of self defense.
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EmmyOk posted:Minge is a very unpleasant word, almost as bad as panties. dregan posted:Minge is so much worse than panties, don't even start. How about a moist minge?
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Fathis Munk posted:Daughter's creepy drawing led to hidden room Apparently there's been a whole bunch of Imgur photostories about "I found a secret room/safe/whatever hidden in my house!", it's pretty much a genre on its own. Imgur is a photosharing site where people compete for the most number of views/upvotes so they'll quite often create fake poo poo like this and attach a bizarre story to hook people in. The part at the end where they go "Make sure you tune in for part two!" is a dead giveaway.
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Apr 19, 2015 06:39
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Yeah there is a bunch of those stupid things, but I never saw one that was quite as stupid as that one 
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WickedHate posted:Awesome! I'm kind of worried they'll want to get revenge, but this is a good case of self defense. The katana hero and his wife have gone into hiding to prevent just that.
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Khazar-khum posted:Well, here's another "I fought off the intruders with my katana story" that didn't happen. Oh, wait. It did!  Iunno, seemed relevant
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Besesoth posted:How about a moist minge? I'm down. Count me in.
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Paladinus posted:Count me in. And a one, and a two, and a one two three GO
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The part at the end where they go "Make sure you tune in for part two!" is a dead giveaway. Anytime I see a post where someone found a walled up secret room in their house, and waited any time before checking it out, I immediately think they're loving idiots. I could never sleep knowing there's some hidden room in my house I haven't looked around yet.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Apparently there's been a whole bunch of Imgur photostories about "I found a secret room/safe/whatever hidden in my house!", it's pretty much a genre on its own. There's also an entire subreddit dedicated to creepy/scary stories like this where it's obvious everything is fake, but people respond and post as if it were real and this one sounds exactly like that. It's probably intentionally fake and the author isn't trying to fool anybody is what I'm saying.
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EZipperelli posted:Anytime I see a post where someone found a walled up secret room in their house, and waited any time before checking it out, I immediately think they're loving idiots. The house I grew up in had all kinds of little, secret compartments and passages. Most were too small for a person, but were put there deliberately. The place was haunted, too.
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Khazar-khum posted:The house I grew up in had all kinds of little, secret compartments and passages. Most were too small for a person, but were put there deliberately. The place was haunted, too. Source your quotes. (Your house was not haunted)
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Captain Monkey posted:Source your quotes. It was haunted by squirrels and the occasional raccoon.
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Khazar-khum posted:The house I grew up in had all kinds of little, secret compartments and passages. Most were too small for a person, but were put there deliberately. The place was haunted, too. Funnyman going along with the thread jokingly or genuine retard ghost-believer that grew up in the Winchester house??? You decide!
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http://kotaku.com/invisible-nunchuck-man-and-other-ridiculous-retail-stor-1699035311 Saw this article on Kotaku about game retail horror stories and immediately thought of this thread. Some of the stories sound plausible enough, but.. quote:I worked for GameStop for five years, and I was an assistant store manager for four of them. If you browse the Internet for gaming news, it doesn’t take long to find one of the thousands of stories about how everyone seems to hate GameStop. (Our own district manager made sure to keep the job applications of promising people on hand to remind us we could be replaced at anytime.) I get why the hate was there. However, I made it my personal goal to ensure that MY GameStop would not end up like those hated ones. I'm very surprised he didn't end up marrying the mom by the end.
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Wonder how many child beatings that caused when the parents thought they caught the kids shoplifting and the little bastards refused to come clean about it
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Sentient Data posted:Wonder how many child beatings that caused when the parents thought they caught the kids shoplifting and the little bastards refused to come clean about it Yeah seriously that is a dick move. Why wouldn't you just say "and here's a free bonus!" as they're checking out, so they can thank you? I guess so the rest of the store doesn't get jealous?
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Sentient Data posted:Wonder how many child beatings that caused when the parents thought they caught the kids shoplifting and the little bastards refused to come clean about it I thought the same thing but the mom comes back in right away in that story. Our stidwriter knew we would catch that plothole and made sure to fill it Kinda love the idea of it happening more than once and the mom just starts banking on it and totally taking advantage of that store, like coming in every week to get this free poo poo from this dumb dude.
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sweeperbravo posted:I thought the same thing but the mom comes back in right away in that story. Our stidwriter knew we would catch that plothole and made sure to fill it Probably more like he's so delusional that even the fictitious people in his stories need to acknowledge what a great guy he is. Remember, there are no selfless good deeds. Not even ones that didn't happen.
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For as much time as these clowns spend playing children's games, they sure hate kids a lot. Really, dude, you've never once met a polite or well-behaved child? Really?
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I recall one story (I think from a goon) that did have some selfless act that backfired. A kid was denied candy at the checkout due to them being pretty thrift, so the guy buys some, follows the family out and tries to give it to them, weirding them out in the process that they refuse so he throws it into the bin after they walk away.
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WebDog posted:I recall one story (I think from a goon) that did have some selfless act that backfired. A kid was denied candy at the checkout due to them being pretty thrift, so the guy buys some, follows the family out and tries to give it to them, weirding them out in the process that they refuse so he throws it into the bin after they walk away. I think that one is buried in this thread somewhere. Yeah, real loving cringeworthy.
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Does anyone still have that story about Robert Downey Jr. at some sort of charity event. The author's grandma or something falls of a stage and hurts herself and like Robert Downey Jr. comes to the rescue and says all this patronizing poo poo while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Then the author sees Robert Downey Jr. in a cafe or something and tells him about it and they like bond over it. It's seriously one of the most cringeworthy STDH stories I can remember.
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Trebek posted:Does anyone still have that story about Robert Downey Jr. at some sort of charity event. The author's grandma or something falls of a stage and hurts herself and like Robert Downey Jr. comes to the rescue and says all this patronizing poo poo while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Then the author sees Robert Downey Jr. in a cafe or something and tells him about it and they like bond over it. It's seriously one of the most cringeworthy STDH stories I can remember. http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/robert-downey-jr-saved-grandma/ I’m willing to go out on a limb here and guess that most stories of kindness do not begin with formerly drug-addicted celebrity bad boys. Mine does. You may or may not be a fan, but I am: His name is Robert Downey Jr., and it was the early ’90s (I was barely 20 years old) when this story took place. It was at a garden party for the ACLU of Southern California—my stepmother was the executive director of the organization. I was escorting my grandmother to the event. There isn’t enough room in this story to explain to you everything my grandmother was—I would need volumes. So for the sake of brevity, I will tell you that she was beautiful even in her 80s, vain as the day is long, and whip smart, though her type of intelligence did not include recognizing young celebrities. I pointed out Robert Downey Jr. to her when he arrived, in a gorgeous cream-colored linen suit, with Sarah Jessica Parker on his arm. My grandmother shrugged, far more interested in piling her paper plate with cheese. He wasn’t Cary Grant or Gregory Peck. What did she care? The afternoon’s main honoree was Ron Kovic, whose time in the Vietnam War left him in a wheelchair and whose story had recently been immortalized in the Oliver Stone film Born on the Fourth of July. I mention the wheelchair because it played a role in what happened next. After the speeches concluded, we stood up in our front-row seats to make our exit. But as she rose, my grandmother tripped and fell smack into the wheelchair ramp that provided Ron Kovic with access to the stage. I didn’t know that wheelchair ramps have sharp edges, but they do—at least this one did, and it sliced her shin right open. The blood was staggering. I’d like to be able to tell you that I whipped into action—that I quickly took control of the situation, tending to my grandmother and calling for the ambulance that was so obviously needed—but I didn’t. I sat down and put my head between my knees because I thought I was going to faint. Did I mention the blood? Luckily, somebody did take control of the situation. That person was Robert Downey Jr. He ordered someone to call an ambulance, another to bring a glass of water, and another to fetch a blanket. He took off his gorgeous linen jacket, he rolled up his sleeves, and he grabbed hold of my grandmother’s leg. Then he took the jacket, which I’d assumed he’d taken off only to get it out of the way, and he tied it around her wound. I watched the cream-colored linen turn scarlet with her blood. He told her not to worry and that everything would be all right. He knew, instinctively, how to speak to her, distract her, and—most critically—play to her vanity. He held on to her calf, and he whistled. He told her how stunning her legs were. She said to him, to my humiliation, “My granddaughter tells me you’re a famous actor, but I’ve never heard of you.” He stayed with her until the ambulance came, and then he walked alongside the stretcher holding her hand and telling her she was breaking his heart by leaving the party so early, just as they were getting to know each other. He waved to her as they closed the doors. “Don’t forget to call me, Silvia,” he said. “We’ll do lunch.” He was a movie star, after all. Believe it or not, I hurried into the ambulance without a word. I was too embarrassed and way too shy to thank him. We all have things we wish we’d said, moments we’d like to revisit and reenact. Rarely do we get that chance to make up for those times when words utterly failed us. But I did—many years later. I should mention that, later, when Robert Downey Jr. was in prison for possession of heroin, cocaine, and an unloaded .357 Magnum handgun found in his car, I thought of writing to him. I wanted to remind him of that day when he was humanity personified, when he was the best of what we each can be. On that day, he was the kindest of strangers. But I didn’t. Some 15 years after that garden party, ten years after my grandmother had died, and five since he’d been released from prison, I saw him in a restaurant. I grew up in Los Angeles, where celebrity sightings are commonplace and where I was raised to respect people’s privacy and never bother someone while he’s out having a meal. But on this day, I decided to abandon the code of the native Angeleno and my own shyness, and I approached his table. I said, “I don’t have any idea if you remember this …,” and I told him the story. He remembered. “I just wanted to thank you,” I said. “And I wanted to tell you that it was simply the kindest act I’ve ever witnessed.” He stood up and he took both of my hands in his and he looked into my eyes and he said, “You have absolutely no idea how much I needed to hear that today.” Marley Wants More has a new favorite as of 15:11 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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loving hell, the comments section of that Kotaku article is full of even more egregious bullshit.quote:I work in the electronics department at Toys R Us. One day, I had a random kid start chatting me up, being suspiciously friendly and telling me how cool I am and how awesome my job is, and then he says he’s going to get his grandma and come back. Yes, because uttering the words "giant dildo baseball bat" to a customer in a childrens' toy store is totally okay.
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Marley Wants More posted:http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/robert-downey-jr-saved-grandma/
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quote:On my last day there, her children happened to stop by, gave me a teary-eyed hug goodbye, and the mother bought me lunch! It was customers like them that kept me coming back to that job. Why is it so hard for stidders to stop before they reach peak bullshit? I'm surprised there isn't a part about how the store was so sad to be losing [employee of the decade] that [store manager] put up posters advertising [nutjob]'s moving on to [retail store/cryptocurrency investment mogul] on [month before] so that all [GameStop Santa]'s loving customers had a chance to come in and pay their last respects.
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Kimoosabi X posted:Yes, because uttering the words "giant dildo baseball bat" to a customer in a childrens' toy store is totally okay.
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IrvingWashington posted:Why is it so hard for stidders to stop before they reach peak bullshit? I'm surprised there isn't a part about how the store was so sad to be losing [employee of the decade] that [store manager] put up posters advertising [nutjob]'s moving on to [retail store/cryptocurrency investment mogul] on [month before] so that all [GameStop Santa]'s loving customers had a chance to come in and pay their last respects. I think it says a lot about your average STDH writer that they can never come up with a story of themselves doing a good deed without them receiving a reward in the end. You can't just do a good thing and then feel nice because you did a good thing; you need to get repaid in full for your noble sacrifice of telling some customer to stop beating up a gay person.
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Marley Wants More posted:http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/robert-downey-jr-saved-grandma/ This is so sad. This is like the kind of wish-fulfillment stories I would make up in my head when I was a dopey teenager. This person is apparently in their 30s and imagining that they totally fixed poor broken Robert Downey Jr. He probably never could have done Iron Man without that moment. If it had happened.
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quote:I mention the wheelchair because it played a role in what happened next. quote:“We’ll do lunch.” He was a movie star, after all. quote:I grew up in Los Angeles, where celebrity sightings are commonplace and where I was raised to respect people’s privacy quote:“No ma’am, one of the first weapons you get is a giant dildo baseball bat.”
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