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The Winchesters' baby died of marasmus? Wikipedia says:quote:Marasmus is caused by a severe deficiency of nearly all nutrients, especially protein, carbohydrates, and lipids. That's not actually disease, it's just starvation. I wonder if it was caused in this case by some other disease not recognized at the time, or if it was as simple as untreated failure to thrive. Either way, depressing.
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pookel posted:The Winchesters' baby died of marasmus? Wikipedia says: This confused me too, I was actually just googling to make sure I wasn't misremembering and would've posted something similar to this if you hadn't.
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pookel posted:The Winchesters' baby died of marasmus? Wikipedia says: In a great deal of cases in the developing world currently it's caused by contaminated water. If the baby took in water laden with parasites or bacteria then its' poor wee body would have succumbed to infection and diarrhea, etc. Without antibiotics and intravenous fluids, a baby would waste away very quickly. (Most awfully, the contaminated water could well have come from the way the baby was fed. Bottle feeding and artificial formulas was gaining popularity amongst the middle and upper classes in Victorian UK and America in the 1860s'. The bottle shapes and rubber stoppers meant they were impossible to clean properly, which led to infection, and the formula milk was often no more than flour and arrowroot powder. Babies quite often wasted away on it, given it had no fats or protein in it, not like cow or human milk. )
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Irisi posted:In a great deal of cases in the developing world currently it's caused by contaminated water. If the baby took in water laden with parasites or bacteria then its' poor wee body would have succumbed to infection and diarrhea, etc. Without antibiotics and intravenous fluids, a baby would waste away very quickly. Those horrible bottles are the stuff of nightmares themselves. Here's a quick overview. http://www.mandyhaberman.com/index.php?cID=11&cType=blog quote:In the late 1800’s ‘Banjo’ shaped infant feeders were introduced to the marketplace. The latter day nicknames of 'The killer' and the 'The murderer' were, however, far more apt as the ‘Banjo’ was impossible to clean and hygiene was a joke. Why go to such a dangerous practice when there's regular breast milk around? From http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/09/02/the-bottle-feeding-epidemic-and-killer-baby-formula/ quote:Breastfeeding had a number of things working against it in the Victorian-era United States. Sigmund Freud’s theory held that infants suckling at their mothers’ teats were exhibiting incestuous desires. In response to both Freud’s theory and “evolution,” Victorian mothers substituted bottle-feeding for the breast.
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There was the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal in which baby formula was found to be adulterated with melamine, the same chemical that killed a bunch of cats and dogs from tainted pet food. But here's the one that has always terrified me: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2008/09/22/2003423869 quote:Thirteen babies died of malnutrition in 2004 and almost 200 were hospitalized in Anhui Province after drinking milk powder with no nutritional content. A baby formula company was literally making formula with no nutritional content. And that's not a case of somebody not wearing a hair net or some bizarre cow disease, it's an entire company deciding to cut corners by making something that would vaguely look like milk when combined with water.
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Hey, don't be so quick to judge. A bunch of dead babies sounds like bad news at first but you haven't given a thought to the sheer profit margins involved. I'm sure the free market knows best.
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benito posted:There was the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal in which baby formula was found to be adulterated with melamine, the same chemical that killed a bunch of cats and dogs from tainted pet food. But here's the one that has always terrified me: After reading posts in this thread about overpopulation I look upon these men as heroes.
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Chichevache posted:After reading posts in this thread about overpopulation I look upon these men as heroes.
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Mate, if you think I'm serious you've been reading this thread too much. Go hug your children or play in the park with your dog or something.
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Chichevache posted:Mate, if you think I'm serious you've been reading this thread too much. Go hug your children or play in the park with your dog or something.
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lenoon posted:Threads is all about my home town. Now that's depressing! The Day After is about MY town. Sort of. I live in Kansas City, not Lawrence, KS. I thought the movie was funny.
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benito posted:http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2008/09/22/2003423869 Sounds like a Libertarian utopia!
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A Spider Covets posted:i like ghosts and demon possession related things. i dont actually believe in ghosts or possession but i love the idea and find it fun to pretend-believe. pls post a bunch of really cool stories about ghosts/demon posession and i will, in turn, post a funny animal gif for u. or a spooky gif, if the OP desires. Family in the late 80s begins to experience stereotypical poltergeist activity in their new home, but then the walls start leaking blood plasma and an investigator gets hanged in the attic. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread672735/pg1 The whole documentary, filled with cheesy effects, but genuinely pretty creepy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwSIczexst0
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too bad it's not actually real
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neither are ghosts lol thank u for the scary stories!
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DemonDarkhorse posted:Family in the late 80s begins to experience stereotypical poltergeist activity in their new home, but then the walls start leaking blood plasma and an investigator gets hanged in the attic. Where IS the Ghost Story Thread, anyways?
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Khazar-khum posted:Where IS the Ghost Story Thread, anyways? Not in GBS anymore, that's for sure.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:Sounds like a Libertarian utopia! Well, now that they know it killed their babies, they will know not to buy formula from them in the future. Really, they should have noticed sooner, if they were rational actors. The Free Market works .
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cptn_dr posted:Not in GBS anymore, that's for sure. But where can I read the Drain Lady again for the 20th time?
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I for one want more stories about people's boring rear end nightmares or how they heard ~spooky~ noises in their house one time and it was totally a ghost.
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If anyone legitimately wants to find it, it's in PYF. I just bumped it with DemonDarkhorse's link because it was topical to that thread. edit: I just stumbled upon this article. It seems legit but I'm not familiar with the site so take that with a grain of salt. Apparently some Polish fisherman recently caught the biggest and oldest catfish ever (12 ft long, 400lbs, and 100 years old). When they opened it up they found the remains of a Nazi SS officer inside of the fish who had died and been eaten by it in the early 1940's. http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/remains-of-nazi-officer-discovered-inside-100-year-old-giant-catfish/ JibbaJabberwocky has a new favorite as of 15:15 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:edit: I just stumbled upon this article. It seems legit but I'm not familiar with the site so take that with a grain of salt. Apparently some Polish fisherman recently caught the biggest and oldest catfish ever (12 ft long, 400lbs, and 100 years old). When they opened it up they found the remains of a Nazi SS officer inside of the fish who had died and been eaten by it in the early 1940's.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I for one want more stories about people's boring rear end nightmares or how they heard ~spooky~ noises in their house one time and it was totally a ghost. http://m.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/video-footage-emerges-of-ghost-in-leeds-restaurant-1-7212995 It's from my local paper, it's definitely a ghost which is real.
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Alereon posted:That's a joke site, ala Weekly World News. Duly noted.
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:If anyone legitimately wants to find it, it's in PYF. I just bumped it with DemonDarkhorse's link because it was topical to that thread. Update: the indigestible Nazi guy came back to life and is currently rampaging through the Polish countryside. Apparently he mostly turns up behind people who have just gotten out of the shower and are wiping the fog off of their bathroom mirrors. This is totally true, guys
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Chicken Butt posted:Update: the indigestible Nazi guy came back to life and is currently rampaging through the Polish countryside. Apparently he mostly turns up behind people who have just gotten out of the shower and are wiping the fog off of their bathroom mirrors. If someone wrote this into a story and posted it in the Ghost Stories thread, I would totally read it.
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benito posted:There was the 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal in which baby formula was found to be adulterated with melamine, the same chemical that killed a bunch of cats and dogs from tainted pet food. I don't remember the specifics but I believe the perpetrators (or at least 2 people who had something to do with it) were sentenced to death. Fine by me.
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The guy who approved the fake dog food was also put to death after a trial that took something like two days.
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If Disposable Workers and Shutting out the Sun are right, Japan is a very empty, very sad nation I mean, I'd heard of 'being worked to death', and I'm aware that it can happen in the industrial hells of North Korea and China, but I'd never thought that office workers in a developed country could suffer the same thing.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Also known as the Suicide Forest, Aokigahara is a dense forest with unique properties that make it almost prenaturally quiet and still. Combined with its remote location it's a very popular suicide destination, with people even coming from other countries to kill themselves there. The Japanese authorities have officially stopped releasing the numbers of bodies found there annually in an effort to curb the suicides. It apparently hasn't worked. Linked to that is a list of popular places around the world to do oneself in. Bridges seem to be the most common, though Niagara Falls appears to win for sheer numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_sites
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Gus Van Sant is making a movie about a man who goes to that forest to commit suicide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Trees_%28film%29
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Gangstalking is real and the Stasi did it to thousands of people. is probably doing it to you right now! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
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Astrofig posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara When I was at Cornell, one of the big debates was whether or not to install nets under the bridges because some people thought that nets would give the idea of suicide to people who wouldn't have otherwise considered it, like the suicide forest statistics. I'm glad to see they just stuck security guards there to make it awkward for everyone.
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Astrofig posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Vice (yeah, I know) did a piece on that forest where they followed a park ranger who, in addition to all the usual ranger duties, frequently ends up either discovering bodies or trying to talk people out of suicide. I can't imagine dealing with that every day, but he's got an amazingly good attitude about it all. https://youtu.be/4FDSdg09df8
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Jack Gladney posted:When I was at Cornell, one of the big debates was whether or not to install nets under the bridges because some people thought that nets would give the idea of suicide to people who wouldn't have otherwise considered it, like the suicide forest statistics. I'm glad to see they just stuck security guards there to make it awkward for everyone. There was a place in China where an employer installed nets between buildings..........in response to complaints about working conditions being so poor that people were committing suicide.
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Death Zebra posted:There was a place in China where an employer installed nets between buildings..........in response to complaints about working conditions being so poor that people were committing suicide. That was Foxconn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
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Gibfender posted:That was Foxconn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides Home of the iPad! Don't worry though. Steve Jobs told them to knock it off.
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Gibfender posted:That was Foxconn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides gross
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Jack Gladney posted:When I was at Cornell, one of the big debates was whether or not to install nets under the bridges because some people thought that nets would give the idea of suicide to people who wouldn't have otherwise considered it, like the suicide forest statistics. I'm glad to see they just stuck security guards there to make it awkward for everyone. Nets/fences on bridges are proven to cut down on suicides. It's why San Francisco's refusal to put any on Golden Gate, a popular suicide hotspot, for reasons of aesthetics was so amazingly callous.
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Polaron posted:Nets/fences on bridges are proven to cut down on suicides. It's why San Francisco's refusal to put any on Golden Gate, a popular suicide hotspot, for reasons of aesthetics was so amazingly callous. there's a doc on Netflix iirc about the golden bridge, the suicides, and the lead architect, i wish i could remember the name because i didn't know about any of this before watching it. it was really good but definitely sad, would be surprised if it hadn't already been posted itt
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