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I found this quote from Wikipedia eerie:quote:Nathan Cobb the nematologist, described the ubiquity of nematodes on Earth thus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode
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Phyzzle posted:I found this quote from Wikipedia eerie:
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 00:31 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron Crazy man makes Mormon cult. Treats it like its the mob by invoking blood atonement on everyone who slightly crosses him. Victims include his pregnant 17year old daughter and a man and his 8year old little girl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY4eHaiVK9s Kind of reminded me about this documentary about another horrible patriarch.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 07:14 |
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Serious Cephalopod posted:Hey, guess who's wrong about this! this article says that this has legitimately happened one time, ever other objects have been found in halloween treats, but they were nearly all hoaxes here's the article by the guy referenced in the Snopes article, he says it doesn't happen: http://www.udel.edu/soc/faculty/best/site/halloween.html
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 17:56 |
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I'm reading the excellent book The Second World War by Antony Beevor and it's got a lot of details about poo poo I never heard before. He pays particular attention to all the hosed up suffering civilians on all sides went through. One incident I'd never heard of really stood out as yet another example of Nazi evil. Before the war, Mussolini had drained the Pontine Marshes near Anzio and encouraged them to be resettled. The Nazis undid that work for no real military gain, but essentially just to punish the Italian people for switching sides:Wikipedia posted:On September 8, 1943, Italy changed sides in World War II, the king having already issued an order for Mussolini's arrest. Rescued by the Germans, he became the head of the Republic of Salò, a puppet regime over northern Italy. The defense of Italy and the suppression of its insurgent population were left to the Wehrmacht. After the loss of Sicily, they successfully defended the Gustaf Line south of the marshes, necessitating an Allied landing at Anzio and Nettuno in an effort to outflank the Germans. Malaria had returned to the Agro Pontino: Quinine and other medicines were in short supply or withheld by the Germans, the food was bad, a shortage of metal prevented the screens from being repaired, and veterans returning from the Balkans brought back resistant strains of the disease. Beevor says, though it isn't noted in the Wikipedia article, that the mosquito was deliberately reintroduced, not just "encouraged". Imagined has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Kat R. Waulin posted:You know how lovely it can be when you're enjoying a lovely weekend by doing chores around the yard, and meet up with the business end of a rusty pointy thing? Then have to drop everything, and go get a tetanus shot? Here's why. Jesus CHrist that's fuckin Unnerving
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 19:17 |
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 19:28 |
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Similar to tetanus -- just a normal bacteria chilling all around you that's fine most of the time until it suddenly gets shoved into your body, some tornado victims who survive the tornado end up dying of fungal infections from normally harmless soil fungi that get pushed into their bodies by flying debris. Terrible. As if you don't have enough problems at the point, but you've got to feel like, wow, the worst is over, I survived. Nope. Fungus gonna eat you now.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 19:36 |
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Don't think this has been posted. It has always unnerved me a little because one of the murderers lived in the house i am renting now and it all happened just a few blocks away. I remember the night she went missing, i probably drove by the house they had her in http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/10/world-of-warcraft-text-murder-201110
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Imagined posted:Similar to tetanus -- just a normal bacteria chilling all around you that's fine most of the time until it suddenly gets shoved into your body, some tornado victims who survive the tornado end up dying of fungal infections from normally harmless soil fungi that get pushed into their bodies by flying debris. Terrible. As if you don't have enough problems at the point, but you've got to feel like, wow, the worst is over, I survived. Nope. Fungus gonna eat you now. Speaking of airborne bacteria, this is a pretty unnerving article that is worth a read. The New Yorker posted:In soil, C. immitis exists in chains of barrel-shaped units called arthroconidia; airborne, these fragment easily into lightweight spores. C. immitis is adapted to lodge deep: its spores are small enough to reach the end of the bronchioles at the bottom of the lungs. We can breathe them in, but we can’t breathe them out. Once in the lung, the spore circles up into a spherule, defined by a chitinous cell wall and filled with a hundred or so baby endospores. When the spherule is sufficiently full, it ruptures, releasing the endospores and stimulating an acute inflammatory response that disrupts blood flow to the tissue and can lead to necrosis. The endospores, each of which will become a new spherule, travel through the blood and lymph systems, allowing the cocci to spread, as one specialist told me, “anywhere it wants.” In people with weakened immune systems, cocci can take over. monny has a new favorite as of 20:18 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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eberbs posted:Don't think this has been posted. Kids killing kids is basically the most unnerving thing I can think of as a parent. I should probably walk away from the internet for a while and check on my 4yo to remind myself that there are good things in the world.
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eberbs posted:Don't think this has been posted. Is there a significant chunk missing from that article? It seems to jump abruptly from Kruse and Kim dating to Kruse and Cam luring her over to their house with no description of what happened in the interim.
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Smelly Bohemian posted:Is there a significant chunk missing from that article? It seems to jump abruptly from Kruse and Kim dating to Kruse and Cam luring her over to their house with no description of what happened in the interim. Yeah, the text log mentioned a rabbit but there's no explanation about it.
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Anoia posted:Yeah, the text log mentioned a rabbit but there's no explanation about it. i will see if i can dig up another link but that one seemed to be the most in depth http://bc.ctvnews.ca/killers-had-sex-with-dead-teen-court-hears-1.624429 also has some related links on the side of this artical, but i still dont know if that fills in all the gaps. edit for link. eberbs has a new favorite as of 19:55 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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The story of child actor (and voice of Peter Pan ) Bobby Driscoll is seriously depressing quote:
Related to Driscoll the story of his Song of the South co-star James Baskett is pretty sad too. Baskett played Uncle Remus in Song of the South, was hired on the spot by Walt Disney after auditing for a minor role,is banned from the movie's premiere in Atlanta due to segregation laws, but later becomes one of the first African-Americans to win a Oscar for his role in Song of the South and then dies from heart problems at the age of 44. Of course he's all but forgotten nowadays for somewhat obvious reasons. http://trueclassics.net/2012/03/10/bobby-driscoll-the-boy-who-never-grew-up/ Nckdictator has a new favorite as of 18:43 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Goddamn, Disney's been chewing up child actors and spitting out corpses for close to a century, now.
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Nckdictator posted:Related to Driscoll the story of his Song of the South co-star James Baskett is pretty sad too. Baskett played Uncle Remus in Song of the South, was hired on the spot by Walt Disney after auditing for a minor role,is banned from the movie's premiere in Atlanta due to segregation laws, but later becomes the first African-American to win a Oscar for his role in Song of the South and then dies from heart problems at the age of 44. Of course he's all but forgotten nowadays for somewhat obvious reasons. How the gently caress was this dude 40 when he was in Song of the South, he looks almost exactly like my grandpa who's 75. I know being black sucked real bad back then but jesus
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Nckdictator posted:James Baskett... later becomes the first African-American to win a Oscar for his role in Song of the South Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Gone With The Wind in 1939. Baskett's Oscar was an honorary one, while the first regular Oscar won by an African American male was Sidney Poitier for 1963's Lilies of the Field.
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RNG posted:Goddamn, Disney's been chewing up child actors and spitting out corpses for close to a century, now. There's nothing quite as depressing as a child actor doing that thing that says "Look! I'm an adult now!" The crippling realization of inevitable irrelevance swooping down, clutching at them as they screech it: "Look! I'm an adult now! Look! I'm an adult now! Look! I'm an adult now!"
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:10 |
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Cracked has an article about creepy local news stories, and I found this one pretty cool/creepy/disturbing: Man discovers human hand, coins in attic
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benito posted:Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Gone With The Wind in 1939. Baskett's Oscar was an honorary one, while the first regular Oscar won by an African American male was Sidney Poitier for 1963's Lilies of the Field. I stand corrected then, thanks.
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Puseklepp posted:Cracked has an article about creepy local news stories, and I found this one pretty cool/creepy/disturbing: Man discovers human hand, coins in attic quote:"Well, it certainly is a hand," said Rodney Kite Powell, curator at the Tampa Bay History Center.
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When Rodney was later asked how old he thought the hand was, the curator supposed it was "Very old, for sure."
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Nckdictator posted:The story of child actor (and voice of Peter Pan Bobby Driscoll is seriously depressing It is a sad story. Benjy Ferree did a whole album dedicated to Bobby D. Come Back to the Five & Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee
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Aesop Poprock posted:How the gently caress was this dude 40 when he was in Song of the South, he looks almost exactly like my grandpa who's 75. I know being black sucked real bad back then but jesus He was diabetic and they aged him up on screen. He died three years after the movie was released.
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quote:"I think it still looks real. The weirdest thing is the hand," said Lopez. LOCAL PHILOSOPHER-POET FINDS HAND Man's insights of situation will astound
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 01:47 |
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Man, the guy passed up a chance to go on a grand adventure to find buried treasure.
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# ? Oct 8, 2015 02:50 |
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Rosemary Kennedy is the subject of a new book, "Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter." Rosemary is best known as being the lobotomized Kennedy, the one who spent her adult years nearly completely separated from the family as barely more than a living vegetable. It wasn't supposed to be that way. Rosemary was a capable young woman, albeit behind her siblings. Her threats of independence and potential embarrassment for Joe Kennedy were too much. He wanted her more docile. So he sent her for a new procedure, the lobotomy. It didn't go like planned and the family hushed it up. During JFK's Presidency, Rosemary was referred to as being mentally retarded. quote:New York Times quote:Rosemary’s return to the family home in Bronxville was disastrous. She regressed, experiencing seizures and violent tantrums, hitting and hurting those in the vicinity. Her frantic parents sent her to a summer camp in western Massachusetts (she was kicked out after a few weeks), a Philadelphia boarding school (she lasted a few months) and then a convent school in Washington, D.C., where a rebellious Rosemary wandered off at night. Fearing that men might sexually prey on their vulnerable daughter, her parents worried that a scandal would diminish the family’s political prospects.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Man, the guy passed up a chance to go on a grand adventure to find buried treasure. This. Goonies.
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quote:In November 1941, at George Washington University Hospital, a wide-awake Rosemary followed a doctor’s instructions to recite songs and stories as he drilled two holes in her head and cut nerve endings in her brain until she became incoherent, then silent This bit gets me every time. Poor woman
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Rondette posted:This bit gets me every time. Poor woman Walter Freeman, who pretty much became Mr. Lobotomy, simplified the procedure. "The Guardian posted:Spurred on by his first-hand experience of the horrors of state-run mental institutions and determined to make his name as a medical pioneer, Freeman developed a version of Moniz's procedure that reached the frontal lobe tissue through the tear ducts. His transorbital lobotomy involved taking a kitchen ice pick, later refined into a more proficient instrument called a leucotome, and hammering it through the thin layer of skull in the corner of each eye socket. The pick would then be scrambled from side to side in order to damage the frontal lobe. The process took about 10 minutes and could be performed anywhere, without the assistance of a surgeon. If anyone has access to Saturday Evening Post archives via EBSCOhost, look up Irving Wallace's "The Operation of Last Resort" from 1951. The original title was supposedly "They Cut Out His Conscience." That thing gave me nightmares.
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I don't know if it has been discussed recently, but I remember following this thread years ago and one goon claimed that his/her grandfather may have been the Tylenol Killer or something like that, and they were going to find out. Did anything ever come of that?
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Yoshi Jjang posted:I don't know if it has been discussed recently, but I remember following this thread years ago and one goon claimed that his/her grandfather may have been the Tylenol Killer or something like that, and they were going to find out. Did anything ever come of that? From what I heard the FBI asked a few questions and then shelved the thing. Childhood memories of stories told by relatives are pretty low on the actionable evidence list.
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This instructional video for professional divers got me a bit unsettled, especially the middle bit where they were describing the various fatalities attributable to differential pressure. https://youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0
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Kenning posted:This instructional video for professional divers got me a bit unsettled, especially the middle bit where they were describing the various fatalities attributable to differential pressure. Delta P is a classic. The OSHA thread has a wealth of posts about occupational health films of that sort.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Rosemary Kennedy is the subject of a new book, "Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter." quote:By ordering Rose to keep her legs closed and forcing the baby’s head to stay in the birth canal for two hours, the nurse took actions that resulted in a harmful loss of oxygen. What the gently caress is this poo poo?! I have a soft spot (I can't think of a better term, sorry) for this sort of thing, as my son had gone through a comparatively minor amount of stress when he was born (contractions lowered his heart rate significantly), and it might have caused a slight delay in his development, but he's doing really well now. Hearing about this is a nightmare; it's like your child has all of the chances in the world (especially being a Kennedy), and this simple act robs them of almost everything. Add the lobotomy to that, and holy poo poo Why was this done?
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There is some evidence that Rosemary may not actually have been developmentally delayed, just of more average intelligence than her exceedingly bright siblings. A doctor pointed out (sorry, phone posting and can't find the article - I'll edit it in later) that it is proven she could do arithmetic, which categorically places her IQ above the 75 point cutoff for mental retardation. She also had an apparently normal social life as a teenager and no one she interacted with seemed to perceive her as disabled. The theory is that the Kennedys found it less socially damaging to claim she was born retarded than to admit she'd developed what was likely bipolar disorder. The doctor who performed the lobotomy said years later that they never performed them on patients who were simply retarded, only the mentally ill. EDIT: found it: http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/324146 squeegee has a new favorite as of 13:29 on Oct 8, 2015 |
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There was a guy called Howard Dully who had a bunch of problems in his early adult life with incarceration, alcoholism and homelessness and then found out that he'd had a lobotomy when he was a child. He wrote a book about it and how it affected his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully quote:Neurologist Walter Freeman had diagnosed Dully as suffering from childhood schizophrenia since age 4, although numerous other medical and psychiatric professionals who had seen Dully did not detect a psychiatric disorder. In 1960, at 12 years of age, Dully was submitted by his father and stepmother for a trans-orbital lobotomy, performed by Dr. Freeman. During the procedure, a long, sharp instrument called an orbitoclast was inserted through each of Dully's eye sockets 7 cm (2.75 inches) into his brain. The physician who performed Dully's lobotomy, Walter Freeman, doled out lobotomies pretty casually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II quote:Following his development of the icepick lobotomy, Freeman began traveling across the country visiting mental institutions in his personal van, which he called the "lobotomobile."[10] He toured around the nation performing lobotomies and spreading their use by educating and training staff to perform the operation. Freeman's name gained popularity despite the widespread criticism of his methods following a lobotomy on President John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary Kennedy, which left her with severe mental and physical disability.[2] A memoir written by former patient Howard Dully, called My Lobotomy documented his experiences with Freeman and his long recovery after undergoing a lobotomy surgery at 12 years old.[11] Walter Freeman charged just $25 for each procedure that he performed.[9] After four decades Freeman had personally performed as many as 3,439[12] lobotomy surgeries in 23 states, of which 2,500 used his ice-pick procedure,[13] despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training.[2] quote:His patients often had to be retaught how to eat and use the bathroom. Relapses were common. Some never recovered and about fifteen percent[14] died from the procedure. In 1951, one patient at Iowa's Cherokee Mental Health Institute died when he stopped for a photo and the surgical instrument penetrated too far into the patient's brain.[15] Freeman wore neither glove nor mask during these procedures.[15] He lobotomized 19 minors including a 4 year old child.[16]
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We really loving should drag these fuckers legacies right through the loving mud because it's what they goddamn deserve.
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I've known about the Rosemary Kennedy thing for years, I didn't realize a book needed to be written to expose all that. I know Howard Stern's been talking about it on his show for a long time, he loves to poo poo on the Kennedys.
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