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Don Henley was right.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 14:04 |
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# ? Jun 4, 2024 00:03 |
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There's a really good documentary I saw on Netflix about the National Enquirer, 'Enquiring Minds'. Some of the stories and pictures they had in that magazine in the early days (think 40s-50s) would not have looked out of place on Rotten.com. They even 'touched up' the gore, it was pretty eye opening. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4139412/ Trailer- with some potential gore from ye olde days https://vimeo.com/111859845
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 15:56 |
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Rondette posted:Is that a serious real book? Because it sounds like a spoof, I mean come on! Government employees are the same everywhere - At the start of the first gulf war when Saddam was holding Westerners from Kuwait as part of his 'human shield' some of them were British Civil Servants. While they were still being held they were notified that this would have to come out of their annual vacation allowance.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 17:42 |
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Madkal posted:When it comes to media and reporters and such it is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Reporters/media will report on disgusting poo poo, people will watch disgusting poo poo in droves, meaning the media will report more on disgusting poo poo. As long as people are willing to watch and talk about disgusting poo poo they saw on the news, the news will continue to report on disgusting poo poo. The highlight was CNN reporting on the backlash against their own people and tsk tsking the whole time
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 18:33 |
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Baconroll posted:Government employees are the same everywhere - At the start of the first gulf war when Saddam was holding Westerners from Kuwait as part of his 'human shield' some of them were British Civil Servants. While they were still being held they were notified that this would have to come out of their annual vacation allowance. Not saying I don't believe you - because the cynic in me does - but do you have a source for this? I'd like to think there was some sort of outcry or backlash about that because that's the epitome of soulless /heartless / dickless bureaucracy right there.
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# ? Jan 2, 2016 06:40 |
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About the End of the Innocence, or the Boys of Summer?
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# ? Jan 2, 2016 07:05 |
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Didn't he write this after he got caught with a houseful of naked underaged girls running around out of their minds on Quaaludes and was super-butthurt about the press' interest in the incident? The Eagles, current and former, are not so good at moral judgments. I'll draw the queen of diamonds if I drat well feel like it, Don.
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# ? Jan 2, 2016 19:41 |
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Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. A few extracts: quote:FIRST FIT Suffolk, August 2008 quote:FIRST OPERATION Queen Square, London, September 2008 quote:BIG TURN March 2010 quote:SECOND OPERATION Queen Square, London, April 2010 quote:30 June quote:I do not even notice that I can't read most of the time. Or rather, I can manage only the simplest words and constructions, and very slowly. For example: I have lost my specific recall of passages, that is, all my poems, all my lyrics – partly gradually lost to radiotherapy, I think. Of course I know where to look things up, which is something. They are in books and in CDs. I know where they are on the shelf. quote:15 July quote:OCTOBER 2010 quote:I cannot count. At all. quote:First of all it was scary; now it's all right; it is still, even now, interesting;
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 07:03 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. This is amazing and sad. Reminds me of that artist who did self portraits on LSD.
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 08:58 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. Holy poo poo Flowers for Algernon was real
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 09:41 |
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fun hater posted:The roommates were at odds with Kranz, who had not paid rent totalling $16.66, and asked him to move out. Kranz became agitated and allegedly told the roommates, "I'll put parasites in your food and you'll wake up dead". Kranz did pay the full rent balance on January 31, but the roommates evicted him anyway. Some time around February 1, Kranz prepared a festive Winter Carnival dinner for his roommates, and allegedly tainted the food with eggs stolen from the university laboratory where he studied. Why did they eat the food after he said that??
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 10:19 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. This is terrifying and depressing. I'm going to read a book, work on my novel, speak with my friends, and be intensely glad I don't suffer like Lubbock did. Screaming Idiot has a new favorite as of 10:29 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. Ugh this really is terrifying and heartbreaking all in one. I don't know that I'd have to courage to let my consciousness degrade like that, but it sure is interesting as hell. Yes sir, the day I'm inevitably diagnosed with Alzheimer's is the day I eat a bullet like the coward I am
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 14:40 |
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MissEchelon posted:Why did they eat the food after he said that?? They were grad students.
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 14:55 |
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Mak0rz posted:They were grad students. That would explain it if they drank whiskey.
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 15:12 |
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Doctor_Acula posted:This is amazing and sad. Reminds me of that artist who did self portraits on LSD. Are you talking about this? There's probably a few artists who've done this, but this was the first one I found.
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 15:23 |
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Karma Monkey posted:Are you talking about this? There's probably a few artists who've done this, but this was the first one I found. This would be the one I am familiar with. Turns out I was misremembering a bit. They weren't self portraits, but portraits of the doctor administering the LSD.
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 16:11 |
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There was also Louis Wain (Victorian artist famous for his cat illustrations) and his descent into schizophrenia, although the fact that these pictures represent his mind's journey has been all but debunked now after the realisation that the doctor who ordered the pictures possibly had no idea of the true chronology. http://mindhacks.com/2007/09/26/the-false-progression-of-louis-wain/ quote:The five pictures are by Victorian artist Louis Wain who painted cats through the whole of his life and continued through periods of intense psychosis. I've seen a couple of the 'schizo' drawings at an exhibition. They were way smaller than I was expecting, and also on the backs of jotters and other bits of paper. I found this weirdly touching. Hell, I think if you pieced some of my illustrations together from the last 5 years in the right order you could make it look like I was going nuts too. Rondette has a new favorite as of 18:02 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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MissEchelon posted:Why did they eat the food after he said that?? Yeah that seemed odd to me. They evicted him, he threatened to poison them, then the day after they eat a big feast with him?? edit: ah yes grad students... I should have refreshed before posting. Underwear has a new favorite as of 19:28 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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wootsie posted:That would explain it if they drank whiskey. No grad student will turn down free food.
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# ? Jan 3, 2016 19:31 |
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I figure this is a good place to ask as any. Or at the very least perhaps someone can point me to a thread that might know. Is there a longform article about people who were outed in the Ashley Madison hacks. I heard pastors and stuff were found and went on to commit suicide so I was wondering if there was a piece about what happened after rather than the breach itself.
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# ? Jan 4, 2016 02:13 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Art critic Tom Lubbock kept a journal of his declining ability to communicate as a fatal brain tumour developed in the speech center of his brain. As his symptoms progressed, his writing style also changed. This scares the poo poo out of me because I was diagnosed with epilepsy a few years back, and when I was coming around from my first seizure I couldn't understand what my ex was saying to me. I could repeat the words back exactly an hour or so later, but right then it might as well have been a different language for all the sense it made. Since then, my language skills have deteriorated. I struggle to find the right words for things, and I'll use the completely wrong word in a sentence sometimes without realizing it until someone points it out (like Lubbock's "police steakhouse/police stakeout" example). It's really scary to just completely lose a word, it doesn't feel like it's "just on the tip of my tongue" or anything, it's just gone. And it's even worse when people laugh at my mistakes because they don't realize it's not just a simple accident but a very real deterioration that I have to be hyper aware of all the time. Brain disorders suck.
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# ? Jan 4, 2016 02:48 |
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tower time posted: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. Yeah, I listened to two episodes of Last Podcast on the Left thinking it would be a good chat about mysteries and horror and whatever, but it was just a morning zoo crew screaming about rape and murder. edit: whooops, this was form like four pages back. Human has a new favorite as of 04:36 on Jan 4, 2016 |
# ? Jan 4, 2016 04:18 |
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last podcast on the left owns, what is wrong with all of you people they did a christmas special starring recurring character detective popcorn, it's clearly the best podcast ever edit just saw that zupansky did an episode about his own new book DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER which is an amazing title
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 15:04 |
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I like Last Podcast specifically because they're a morning zoo crew screaming about rape and murder. A few edgy jokes help take the edge off when I'm binging crime podcasts at work. The biggest criticism I can level at them is the episodes on Leonard Lake and Charles Ng could have done without being 90% me-so-solly Chinese impressions. I'm into paranormal/cryptozoology podcasts, too, and my favourite right now is definitely Expanded Perspectives because they're a similar change of pace. They don't go into as much detail as some of the others, but when most other podcasts in the genre are just guys snarking at each other, it's refreshing to listen to two guys from Texas who just love them some bigfoot.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 20:25 |
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How bout lakes that fart and murder you from miles away? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 20:37 |
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:I like Last Podcast specifically because they're a morning zoo crew screaming about rape and murder. A few edgy jokes help take the edge off when I'm binging crime podcasts at work. The biggest criticism I can level at them is the episodes on Leonard Lake and Charles Ng could have done without being 90% me-so-solly Chinese impressions. on the other hand gently caress charles ng
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 22:43 |
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:
I've been really digging Lore lately. It's more about folklore and urban legends than explicitly paranormal stuff, but I really enjoy it.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 23:14 |
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Literally The Worst posted:on the other hand gently caress charles ng Not even in an "oh wow that's racist" way, just in a "you're on your fourth hour-long episode of this poo poo, you are supposed to be a comedian" way. But absolutely, gently caress Ng.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 23:31 |
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Oh absolutely, please don't think I'm offended on behalf of that rear end in a top hat. It just wasn't funny. i would agree but every single time he yelled WHAT I BRING TO *thing* i laughed for some unknown reason so is a wash for content, i saw a couple of the clips they talked about last episode, because they were aired as part of an episode of american justice that i swear to god ran twice a day for ten years on a&e. hoooooo boy.
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 01:01 |
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http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2015/12/publicity-and-clement-passal-or-warning.htmlquote:Clement Passal was a man well-known to the French police in the early 20th century. He was a career thief who, under his favored alias of "Marquis de Champaubert," committed various swindles. He was a determined, ambitious crook, but, alas for him, a largely unsuccessful one. His busy career earned him a prominent name in the Parisian underworld, but not much else.
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 02:09 |
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Cracked did an image listicle yesterday of creepy stuff, some of it already posted in the thread. http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1872_18-terrifying-things-that-were-hidden-in-plain-sight/ I don't think this entry's been in the thread yet: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/la...k-1226806916459
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 07:56 |
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Lore seems okay. From the sound of how cornball Last Podcast is I don't think I'm gonna bother. Like yeah, True Crime is dark and dreary, it probably should be, I don't think I want some dude doing "ME CHINESE" jokes just to be able to swallow the Lake and Ng case Which brings me to finally being desperate enough for Sword and Scale. You know, I gotta say, it's a decent series when you come into it equipped with all the complaints people have helpfully given throughout the duration of this thread. Not only do I avoid specific episodes because of your tips but I also generally know to avoid anything that seems too "shock" or involves graphic recordings or discussion of schizophrenia/mental illness. So it's all thanks to you guys I've found though, when you're able to pinpoint and be selective with it, it's a pretty decent option. There's still a tinge of being smarmy towards defense attorneys which annoys me but it's usually not too blatant and that's (unfortunately) not a particularly uncommon attitude in America anyway.
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 21:13 |
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I really want to like Lore but it puts me right to sleep. It's like someone is reading a wikipedia article to me and well...I can read it myself a lot faster.
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 22:59 |
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Lore seems okay. From the sound of how cornball Last Podcast is I don't think I'm gonna bother. Like yeah, True Crime is dark and dreary, it probably should be, I don't think I want some dude doing "ME CHINESE" jokes just to be able to swallow the Lake and Ng case Totally agree. Can't stand some of the sensationalist bullshit, but I loved his satanic panic stuff. It's hit or miss, but pretty decent when he stays focused. I also like Lore and Criminal, but they don't come out as frequently.
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 23:02 |
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Here's a callback to a thread favorite! The Station nightclub illegally had no sprinklers in the building. As a result, over 100 people died when a fire broke out during a show on February 20, 2003. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) re-created the disaster, both with and without sprinklers, to illustrate differences in the temperature and spread of the flames. Original raw footage of the fire for the unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzfq9Egxeo NIST without sprinklers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxiOXZ55hbc NIST with sprinklers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1EWVR1iP8
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# ? Jan 8, 2016 23:02 |
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That drat Satyr posted:Here's a callback to a thread favorite! I don't know what's worse; dying in a fire or dying at a Great White concert.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 00:08 |
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That drat Satyr posted:Here's a callback to a thread favorite! I didn't think the fire was too bad in the first one, then all of the sudden at the 1 minute mark the smoke went from a little bit on the ceiling to very quickly covering the entire area in about 3 seconds. About that same time the fire so ready very quickly. Never want to be caught in a fire. Probably two of the worst ways to go between burns and smoke inhalation.
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# ? Jan 9, 2016 00:59 |
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I don't know what's worse; dying in a fire or dying at a Great White concert. As The Onion opined... "What happened in that Rhode Island club is shocking. To think that over a hundred people would attend a Great White concert..." http://www.theonion.com/americanvoices/the-great-white-tragedy-14451
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