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Sarcopenia posted:No, no, no you guys. the worst loving episode of "Sword and Scale" was the one without no loving warning that starts of with a guy talking about how he choked and sexually abused his young son. y'know, the whole 'not knowing if your kid is really yours' thing also applies to all fathers.
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Cumslut1895 posted:y'know, the whole 'not knowing if your kid is really yours' thing also applies to all fathers. Or it did up until the dawn of DNA testing
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Degenerate Star posted:Or it did up until the dawn of DNA testing well yeah, but that also applies for twilight sleep women lets pour out a drink for whoever invented dna tests.
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Mak0rz posted:I liked Sword and Scale, despite the often annoying narrator, until they covered the Ukranian hammer murder video, the Greyhound bus beheading and a third person in that multi-part episode I won't even mention because he probably still googles his name when he has the chance and masturbates furiously to people talking about him. Yeah, I remember them playing the audio from the hammer murder video. Here's a Caitlin Moran article about her reaction to accidentally seeing that video. http://web.archive.org/web/20110629121815/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article5483397.ece quote:It took 1 min 47 seconds for my memory to become host to a horror that will never go
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Unfortunately I think every man knows that guy who likes to share sick videos and pictures off the internet. I knew a guy at college who was always trying to show us stuff off rotton.com (not sure if it even still exists, and I'm not going to bother to find out). I figured as broadband Internet was in its relative infancy when he was doing this, the beheading videos, the videos of people being being hit by lorries, etc would disappear - banned or simply chased off the web by loving normal people. I fear it is still a part of growing up with the internet, especially for young men, where the machismo element compels you to watch with your mates (now with added social media, so they don't even have to be in the same room!). I managed to avoid most of them, though I have managed to watch two by accident. One was a guy getting hit by an indie 500 type car (or something similar), as he was running across the track to put out a fire. The creepy thing was, the video was set up as tribute to the driver, who was internally decapitated by the fire extinguisher the guy was carrying, but there was no mention of the guy who was flung 15 feet in the air and ripped in half from the centrifugal force of his own body. Like they were so desensitised to gore, they didn't even notice it. There may also have been an element of people blaming the run-over guy for the drivers death - he wasn't following safety protocol or something, as if he deserved to die for that. EvilGenius has a new favorite as of 09:38 on Dec 20, 2015 |
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As weird as the sword and scale host is, I find his attitude towards the victims to be much more palatable than last podcast on the left where the tone in which they discuss the cases is more what you'd expect from some drunk college students discussing a bad horror movie. Also the podcast where zupansky interviews authors about true crime cases is very hit or miss - the audio quality and general interview skills of the authors vary so wildly that one episode you are listening to crystal clear audio from a trained speaker, and the next you have a guy saying the word "Uh" every 5 seconds while mumbling in what sounds like an airplane hanger.
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Dec 20, 2015 10:27
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Cumslut1895 posted:y'know, the whole 'not knowing if your kid is really yours' thing also applies to all fathers. I really like that Caitlyn Moran thing. I feel the same way about images I'll never be able to get out of my head. One time when the internet was young, I downloaded what promised to be a BDSM porn video, but turned out to be something that was almost certainly rape. I shut it off and deleted it the instant I figured that out, but the minute or so I'd see up to that point remains in my brain 15 years later.
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EvilGenius posted:I managed to avoid most of them, though I have managed to watch two by accident. One was a guy getting hit by an indie 500 type car (or something similar), as he was running across the track to put out a fire. The creepy thing was, the video was set up as tribute to the driver, who was internally decapitated by the fire extinguisher the guy was carrying, but there was no mention of the guy who was flung 15 feet in the air and ripped in half from the centrifugal force of his own body. Like they were so desensitised to gore, they didn't even notice it. There may also have been an element of people blaming the run-over guy for the drivers death - he wasn't following safety protocol or something, as if he deserved to die for that. Part of the reason for that might be it was the marshal's action which caused the accident. He ran onto an active track without permission and the driver was unable to avoid him
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I find the Sword and Scale episodes I Like the most are the ones where the host talks the least. The less time he gets to go off about the hordes of schizophrenics waiting outside your door so the can eat your children's eyeballs the better. The DeeDee Blanchard episode he just did was really good though. I couldn't stand Last Podcast on the Left, it was just 4 really unfunny people trying see who can make the edgiest retard rape joke. I've never been to squeamish about Internet videos. In high school we used to download Faces of Death clips off of Kazaa or Limewire, but the Luka Magnotta video was too much for even me.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I find the Sword and Scale episodes I Like the most are the ones where the host talks the least. The less time he gets to go off about the hordes of schizophrenics waiting outside your door so the can eat your children's eyeballs the better. The DeeDee Blanchard episode he just did was really good though. I couldn't stand Last Podcast on the Left, it was just 4 really unfunny people trying see who can make the edgiest retard rape joke. Well yeah, faces of death is like 90% fake and 10% workplace accidents/bud dwyer. Compared to Isis videos, that hammer video etc it's basically babytown frolics
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PYF Unnerving Article or Story: Faces of Death is basically babytown frolics
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Cumslut1895 posted:y'know, the whole 'not knowing if your kid is really yours' thing also applies to all fathers. Lmao are you being serious? pookel posted:Er, that's not really the disturbing part of the twilight sleep thing. It's more the "hey, you were basically tortured and we didn't treat you well or give you enough pain meds, but it's all good since you don't remember it, right?" thing. Also the whole doctors lying to you about advantages of a drug or procedure merely to make their jobs easier is pretty fun too.
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Last Podcast on the Left is OK. They can be unfunny edgelords but they hit that "joking over a few beers with your dumb buddies" sweet spot that I can put on in the background and make my work days go faster. I can see how they'd be pretty intolerable if I gave them my full attention for an hour at a time, and I certainly wouldn't listen to them if I actually wanted to know anything about the things they cover.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:Part of the reason for that might be it was the marshal's action which caused the accident. He ran onto an active track without permission and the driver was unable to avoid him Yes, but my point was that people are talking over the details like this when YOU JUST SAW A GUY LITERALLY TORN IN HALF. Which is part of the reason I didn't recognise it as a gore video - it wasn't presented as one. It was a tribute to a dead driver that happened to have a guy BEING TORN HALF in it. I guess that's what I found the most creepy.
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Tom Pryce was the driver who died, and Frederik Jansen van Vuuren was the track marshal who ran across the track and got them both killed. I've seen the videos of it many times. I'm not a gorehound by any means, but the whole thing is so brutal that it's surreal. You don't see Pryce die, really, and van Vuuren's death is so grotesque that it was hard at first to understand what I was seeing. It's unnerving as hell to watch him come apart into loosely-connected, nearly unidentifiable pieces that go flying and skidding across the track until they end up tucked up to a fence. In one of the videos, his body looks like trash blowing across the track, because there's nothng recognizable to it, and it's that fast. They didn't even know who'd been killed until they did a roll call later that day, and by that time people had walked past his remains several times without understanding what they were. Tom Pryce died strapped into this car, which eventually rolled to a stop. Van Vurren was turned into debris in an instant. Not replying to anyone's point, exactly.
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bowser posted:A completely random killing here in Toronto This is pretty sad. It reminds me of that schizophrenic guy that decapitated someone on a bus. It's weird because I thought Canada was better about this sort of thing. On the other hand, if a person's mental health is failing but they're still functional you can't force them to get treatment (unless/until a crime like this happens).
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FourLeaf posted:This is pretty sad. It reminds me of that schizophrenic guy that decapitated someone on a bus. It's weird because I thought Canada was better about this sort of thing. On the other hand, if a person's mental health is failing but they're still functional you can't force them to get treatment (unless/until a crime like this happens). People with schizophrenia are statistically less likely to commit crimes.
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nocal posted:People with schizophrenia are statistically less likely to commit crimes. Ok. Did I ever say otherwise?
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EvilGenius posted:Unfortunately I think every man knows that guy who likes to share sick videos and pictures off the internet. I knew a guy at college who was always trying to show us stuff off rotton.com (not sure if it even still exists, and I'm not going to bother to find out). For years I confused somethingawful.com with rotten.com.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:Part of the reason for that might be it was the marshal's action which caused the accident. He ran onto an active track without permission and the driver was unable to avoid him he was part of a three-man team running across the track to help a driver who'd crashed and who's car was on fire. The other two managed to avoided Pryce's car.
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FourLeaf posted:This is pretty sad. It reminds me of that schizophrenic guy that decapitated someone on a bus. It's weird because I thought Canada was better about this sort of thing. On the other hand, if a person's mental health is failing but they're still functional you can't force them to get treatment (unless/until a crime like this happens). I work in a hospital as a guard in a psych ward. It's amazing how many times we release people who are clearly not functioning fully.  Have fun on the street! Hope the voices you heard in the walls don't follow you home and tell you to kill yourself!
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FourLeaf posted:Ok. Did I ever say otherwise? Why do you want to imprison innocent people, then? Just out of spite?
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Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:Why do you want to imprison innocent people, then? Just out of spite? Broken brains should just be culled. Why waste the imprisonment on them.
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AlbieQuirky posted:I much prefer The Generation Why Podcast and Thinking Sideways to Sword and Scale. Thinking Sideways seems to be spending all their time just reading the Wikipedia article aloud lately.
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monster on a stick posted:Thinking Sideways seems to be spending all their time just reading the Wikipedia article aloud lately. Yeah, I guess this is my problem with them lately. You can tell their research for some of these things are "well, I googled it and read everything on the first 3 pages" levels of effort. Some of them are pretty great, but it's feeling more and more phoned in. Also they haven't done one in like 5 weeks, though they may have taken some time off. I don't know, as I don't follow them on twitter or anything. I've been trying to find a good true crime audio book to use my Audible credit on, but everything seems bland.
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Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:Why do you want to imprison innocent people, then? Just out of spite? I like how when I said "get treatment" you decided it meant prison. Would I have been better off if my parents forced me to get therapy for my depression in college rather then three years later? Probably, but I had to consent to get it myself and I probably wasted several years getting worse grades, drinking too much, and missing out on many relationships I otherwise could have gotten as a result.
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You also wouldn't have learned from it or progressed until you realized that it was necessary and would help you.
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I decided to poke around on Texas Monthly's site at random, since they are consistently so good at true crime and at longform stories in general. This piece on the 1999 bonfire collapse at Texas A&M, which killed 12 students when approximately a million pounds of logs fell apart while they were standing on the structure, is both excellent and terrifying. Like the piece I posted earlier about the Texas tower shooter, it consists mostly of quotes from survivors, telling the story of the collapse and the history behind it in the order that it happened.quote:CHIP THIEL I was standing on top of the world—perched on fourth stack with three of my dearest friends—when stack started to sway. The "stack" in 1999 before the collapse (keep in mind that the center pole is 100 feet tall, and check the size of the people standing in front for scale):  And the fallen logs after the collapse: 
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monster on a stick posted:Thinking Sideways seems to be spending all their time just reading the Wikipedia article aloud lately. I liked the recent one about the porn image board with mercenaries, or whatever the hell that was. Criminal and Here Be Monsters are okay but too copycatty of This American Life for me to love them. Stuff You Missed in History Class usually does a good job with mysteries and murders.
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Jack Gladney posted:You also wouldn't have learned from it or progressed until you realized that it was necessary and would help you. I too believe that someone must consciously decide to have an illness treated before it will be effective. Hallucinations should remain until after the victim can already know they aren't real.
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pookel posted:I decided to poke around on Texas Monthly's site at random, since they are consistently so good at true crime and at longform stories in general. Skip Hollandsworth (pretty sure his work has come up, he's mainly the true-crime guy) and Pam Colloff (in the quoted post) are the best of TM. They have some pretty badass photographers, too (disclaimer: including the guy that inspired/taught me to be a photojournalist).
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Terrible Opinions posted:I too believe that someone must consciously decide to have an illness treated before it will be effective. Hallucinations should remain until after the victim can already know they aren't real. your username is apt
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Terrible Opinions posted:I too believe that someone must consciously decide to have an illness treated before it will be effective. Hallucinations should remain until after the victim can already know they aren't real. Here's it is, the dumbest post on the forums. Close it all down, we reached peak idiocy.
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Captain Monkey posted:Here's it is, the dumbest post on the forums. 
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AlbieQuirky posted:I liked the recent one about the porn image board with mercenaries, or whatever the hell that was. If you have an episode number or other way to ID this episode, it sounds interesting as hell. As for images you can never forget, I remember finding a series of short porn videos with this blonde chick that all seemed to be your average kinda weird home movies. I later learned that the chick had been kidnapped and forced to do them. Pretty sure I learned about it on this site. 
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Quick, stop this stupid argument and read this unnerving article. It's a bit long, be warned. Then cry in despair.
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FourLeaf posted:Quick, stop this stupid argument and read this unnerving article. It's a bit long, be warned. Then cry in despair. A lesson to all Americans: Don't be a poor orphan - police hate that.
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bulletsponge13 posted:If you have an episode number or other way to ID this episode, it sounds interesting as hell. I believe it's this recent episode: http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.com/lake-city-quiet-pills/
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Doctor_Acula posted:I've been trying to find a good true crime audio book to use my Audible credit on, but everything seems bland. I don't know what's on Audible, but if you can find a copy of Forty Years of Murder by Keith Simpson then do. He was Britain's top forensic pathologist for many years and worked a lot of high profile cases. It's CSI: Real Life.
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FourLeaf posted:Quick, stop this stupid argument and read this unnerving article. It's a bit long, be warned. Then cry in despair. Yeah, I read this one a few days ago. In summary: men, you should read this, as you may find it shocking. Women, you will probably find it horrifying, but not shocking in the least. Worth a read in either case if you can stomach it. quote:She had reported being raped in her apartment by a man who had bound and gagged her. Then, confronted by police with inconsistencies in her story, she had conceded it might have been a dream. Then she admitted making the story up. One TV newscast announced, “A Western Washington woman has confessed that she cried wolf when it came to her rape she reported earlier this week.” Spoiler: She didn't make it up.
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