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One of the formative things in my life was when a friend of mine got a massive haemorrhage in her brain around 18 years old midway through her first year at Uni. She had been a very party-girl giggly going to the clubs and shopping person with a rugby playing boyfriend. One day she felt woozy and strange in the local shopping mall and tried to get people to call emergency services (at this point she couldn't use her own phone due to the haemorrhage) but basically everyone thought she was on drugs. Long story short, a golfball sized volume of her brain was just hosed and dead. Took her a year to recover and after that she was basically a quite quiet librarianish type with a totally different look and outlook. I actually only knew her after so it was real surreal to see photos and videos, and met friends who knew what she was like before. Might not be totally relevant to what you said but man did it drive home how the actual physical and chemical makeup of your brain IS what you are and you have very little control as to what happens, most of the time. That is unnerving to me. NLJP has a new favorite as of 00:28 on May 25, 2016 |
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A girl in my HS had a grand mal seizure the summer before senior year. She forgot who everyone was. She'd known most of these people since elementary school, and all of a sudden she was the new girl, except everyone knew her. Spooky stuff.
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May 25, 2016 00:57
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NLJP posted:One of the formative things in my life was when a friend of mine got a massive haemorrhage in her brain around 18 years old midway through her first year at Uni. She had been a very party-girl giggly going to the clubs and shopping person with a rugby playing boyfriend. One day she felt woozy and strange in the local shopping mall and tried to get people to call emergency services (at this point she couldn't use her own phone due to the haemorrhage) but basically everyone thought she was on drugs. Something similar happened to a friend of mine. From when I met him in middle school to when he went off to college, he was an extremely intelligent and bookish sort of guy. One summer, he fell off a roof he was reshingling and landed on his head. This marked his change to a complete dudebro who was barely tolerable to be around.
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Those stories are disturbing, but hopefully they were able to (re?)build some (new?) relationships with their loved ones.The fact that I can't even write about what they are going through without doing that annoying deconstructionist binary-breakage thing with words is testament to the fact that their experiences probably just can't be conceptualized or communicated by anyone but those who experience them. It's strange that a lot of people become bookish or more analytical after these accidents, when you'd think they would become less able to control themselves, like the guy I posted about, who was urinaitng and trying to rape everyone in sight by the end. My gut feeling is brain loss would never allow you to gain abilities or traits, but in a lot of cases it does. There is the story of this buff mullet-bro who spent his time getting laid, driving fast cars and working out until he was 31 and got his head kicked in during a fight outside a karaoke bar:  And woke up as an introverted mathematical genius with OCD that literally sees fractals and patterns everywhere and spends his time studying advanced physics and geometry. He and his wife seem to see his head-smashing as a sort of blessing:  Apparently since other parts of the brain take over functions when brain matter is damaged it sometimes unlocks abilities. Although the title is a bit cloying I'm interested in checking out the David Lynch produced documentary "My Beautiful Broken Brain"which is about exactly what y'all have described- a girl gets a hemorrhage, loses a chunk of brain and wakes up a very different person. She also seems to have additional elements in her field of visions, experiences color and movement differently. She ways its like being in a surrealist film, so I guess her story belongs in this thread. FAKE EDIT: Nth Doctor posted:Something similar happened to a friend of mine. From when I met him in middle school to when he went off to college, he was an extremely intelligent and bookish sort of guy. One summer, he fell off a roof he was reshingling and landed on his head. This marked his change to a complete dudebro who was barely tolerable to be around. That sucks, guess it works both ways. But I'm sure his dudebro friends like the 2.0 version better. crowoutofcontext has a new favorite as of 01:59 on May 25, 2016 |
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Westie posted:I google image search'd Underwood's name - let's just say the links I ended up clicking on have scarred me for life - Shirley Lynette Ledford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4YmVi4_LQ&t=1214s quote:The most damning evidence presented at Bittaker's trial was a 17-minute section of the audio tape the pair had created of Shirley Lynette Ledford's abuse and torment. The audio tape, which had been found inside Bittaker's van and which Norris had earlier testified Bittaker had repeatedly played as he drove in the weeks prior to his arrest—adding that Bittaker considered the contents to be "real funny"— was presented in evidence on January 29. (Judge Fredericks had earlier denied motions by the defense to omit the tape recording from admission as evidence.) edit: fyi, the tape isn't fully played in the video, though you can hear a tiny bit of it when the jurors flee the courtroom. FourLeaf has a new favorite as of 02:53 on May 25, 2016 |
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NLJP posted:Long story short, a golfball sized volume of her brain was just hosed and dead. Took her a year to recover and after that she was basically a quite quiet librarianish type with a totally different look and outlook. I actually only knew her after so it was real surreal to see photos and videos, and met friends who knew what she was like before. Might not be totally relevant to what you said but man did it drive home how the actual physical and chemical makeup of your brain IS what you are and you have very little control as to what happens, most of the time. That is unnerving to me. I'm not doubting that this can happen, but I've had friends come out of serious medical situations (unrelated to the brain) emerge as almost completely different people. The stress, constant reminders about death, financial burden, guilt for "causing" close family members such anguish, and all that have a sort of PTSD effect on people. The situations I'm thinking of involve work friends, and they got really shy after and almost seemed ashamed or embarrassed to have been through an open secret health scare. Again I'm not saying that there coudn't be some psychological phenomenon at play, but being withdrawn after trauma and having a different outlook on life don't require a dead piece of brain IMO.
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I'm pretty sure that Dean Corll has been mentioned in this thread before, but I only just thoroughly read about him.quote:Police also found a plywood torture board measuring 8 by 3 feet (2.44 by 0.91 m) with handcuffs in each corner. Also found at Corll's address were a large hunting knife, rolls of clear plastic of the same type used to cover the floor, a portable radio rigged to a pair of dry cells to give increased volume,[86] an electric motor with loose wires attached,[87] eight pairs of handcuffs, a number of dildos, thin glass tubes and lengths of rope. There is nothing worse when you're torturing someone than having their screams of despair drown out your tunes. quote:All of the victims found had been sodomized and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture: pubic hairs had been plucked out, genitals had been chewed, objects had been inserted into their rectums, and glass rods had been shoved into their urethrae and smashed.  quote:The macabre record of number of known victims attributed to a single murder case set by the Houston Mass Murders was only surpassed in 1978 by John Wayne Gacy, who murdered 33 boys and young men and who admitted to being influenced by Corll and his accomplices.
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The Endbringer posted:I'm pretty sure that Dean Corll has been mentioned in this thread before, but I only just thoroughly read about him. If you want something really and  then look up the crime scene photos.
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The Endbringer posted:I'm pretty sure that Dean Corll has been mentioned in this thread before, but I only just thoroughly read about him. And Corll almost certainly had more victims, according to his accomplices, the police just stopped looking once they broke the then-current record.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:If you want something really Indeed I have, but what is the most to me personally is the idea that someone you know, or even be friends with, could lead you into a living hell:quote:Corll and Brooks encountered a 17-year-old acquaintance of Brooks named Ruben Watson Haney walking home from a movie theater in Houston. Brooks persuaded Haney to attend a party at an address Corll had moved to on San Felipe Street the previous month.[44] Haney agreed and was taken to Corll's home where he was subsequently strangled and buried in the boat shed. quote:[Henley] assisted Corll and Brooks in the abduction of another youth; a 17-year-old friend of his named Mark Scott. Scott was grabbed by force and fought furiously against attempts by Corll to secure him to the torture board, even attempting to stab his attackers with a knife. However, Scott saw Henley pointing a pistol toward him and, according to Brooks, Mark "just gave up." Scott was tied to the torture board and suffered the same fate as Aguirre: rape; torture; strangulation and burial at High Island Beach. EDIT: Plus the fact that Brooks and Henley were paid to lure these young men to Corll, yet assisted him in the murders. All kinds of hosed up right here. The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 12:43 on May 25, 2016 |
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The Endbringer posted:I'm pretty sure that Dean Corll has been mentioned in this thread before, but I only just thoroughly read about him. It's worth listening to the final part of Last Podcast on the Lefts series about Corll just to hear about the shitshow that was the investigation
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Literally The Worst posted:It's worth listening to the final part of Last Podcast on the Lefts series about Corll just to hear about the shitshow that was the investigation There's a book called The Candyman, written when the case was still fresh, that goes into the lovely police work, as well.
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life is a joke posted:I'm not doubting that this can happen, but I've had friends come out of serious medical situations (unrelated to the brain) emerge as almost completely different people. The stress, constant reminders about death, financial burden, guilt for "causing" close family members such anguish, and all that have a sort of PTSD effect on people. The situations I'm thinking of involve work friends, and they got really shy after and almost seemed ashamed or embarrassed to have been through an open secret health scare. Again I'm not saying that there coudn't be some psychological phenomenon at play, but being withdrawn after trauma and having a different outlook on life don't require a dead piece of brain IMO. There can definitely be a PTSD-type effect, but at least you can rationalize that as "well they had an event that changed them" but they're still the same person. The scary part is that you can have physical brain trauma and end up a totally different person. Your physical body will be the same but pretty much every trace of the person you think of as you will be gone.
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Glass rods in the urethra was a favoured trick of the Gestapo and KGB.
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Madkal posted:The two teams, Orlando Pirates and Kaiser Chiefs, are both based in Soweto and both have extreme You'd think they would have been able to predict a riot
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Tiny Lowtax posted:You'd think they would have been able to predict a riot  
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subpar anachronism posted:I knew this guy from another site and we ran in a lot of the same social circles. He always seemed perfectly nice, which makes me wonder how many other people can be hiding a secret like that. That poor little girl. My brush with creepiness was finding out that an obnoxious guy on a friend's mailing list I was part of circa 2003 has been Perverted Justice's #1 Most Slimy bust for several years running. On that particular list he was famous for insisting he was "a Marine, not a soldier; there is a difference". Clearly he served in the Cola Wars. Sarcopenia posted:Criminal Twins While not creepy, I always kind of liked the Han Twins attempted murder for being a Korean version of a white trash tale straight out of Maury. Despite carpet-bombing every talk show she could get on before the trial, the almost-murdered twin disappeared off the radar immediately afterward.
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Madkal posted:For a few posts people were talking about sport arena disasters and it reminded me of one that happened in my neck of the woods about 15 years ago. I'm talking about the Ellis Park disaster in Johannesburg, South Africa. Well, at least it wasn't the Football War?
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life is a joke posted:I'm not doubting that this can happen, but I've had friends come out of serious medical situations (unrelated to the brain) emerge as almost completely different people. The stress, constant reminders about death, financial burden, guilt for "causing" close family members such anguish, and all that have a sort of PTSD effect on people. The situations I'm thinking of involve work friends, and they got really shy after and almost seemed ashamed or embarrassed to have been through an open secret health scare. Again I'm not saying that there coudn't be some psychological phenomenon at play, but being withdrawn after trauma and having a different outlook on life don't require a dead piece of brain IMO. I thought the same thing when I read that.
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The Endbringer posted:I'm pretty sure that Dean Corll has been mentioned in this thread before, but I only just thoroughly read about him. What was the purpose of the electric motor?
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BattleMaster posted:What was the purpose of the electric motor? It undoubtedly had to do with mutilating genitals. The man seemed to have a knack for that. I'm thinking he probably got the motor spinning and then got the scrote to wrap around the motor shaft. Sort of like when you accidentally get a sock or something wrapped around your vaccuum brush. Only with ball sack flesh instead of a sock. And a crude electric torture motor instead of a vaccuum.
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It had two cables so think simpler. Think 'high voltage shocks'. Think 'gegene'.
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life is a joke posted:I'm not doubting that this can happen, but I've had friends come out of serious medical situations (unrelated to the brain) emerge as almost completely different people. The stress, constant reminders about death, financial burden, guilt for "causing" close family members such anguish, and all that have a sort of PTSD effect on people. The situations I'm thinking of involve work friends, and they got really shy after and almost seemed ashamed or embarrassed to have been through an open secret health scare. Again I'm not saying that there coudn't be some psychological phenomenon at play, but being withdrawn after trauma and having a different outlook on life don't require a dead piece of brain IMO. True. It can even be a little of both. I definitely don't feel like I'm the same person I was before the encephalitis.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:It undoubtedly had to do with mutilating genitals. The man seemed to have a knack for that. I'm thinking he probably got the motor spinning and then got the scrote to wrap around the motor shaft. Sort of like when you accidentally get a sock or something wrapped around your vaccuum brush. Only with ball sack flesh instead of a sock. And a crude electric torture motor instead of a vaccuum. Dude wtf
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:It undoubtedly had to do with mutilating genitals. The man seemed to have a knack for that. I'm thinking he probably got the motor spinning and then got the scrote to wrap around the motor shaft. Sort of like when you accidentally get a sock or something wrapped around your vaccuum brush. Only with ball sack flesh instead of a sock. And a crude electric torture motor instead of a vaccuum. I think I'm more unnerved that you came up with that poo poo than I would be by finding out Corll did it.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:It undoubtedly had to do with mutilating genitals. The man seemed to have a knack for that. I'm thinking he probably got the motor spinning and then got the scrote to wrap around the motor shaft. Sort of like when you accidentally get a sock or something wrapped around your vaccuum brush. Only with ball sack flesh instead of a sock. And a crude electric torture motor instead of a vaccuum.  the yikes emoticon
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Man sure is a slow work day. Starting to get those 3°clock yawns. I wonder what the most efficient way for a serial killer to grind off a child's scrotum is?
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Not to derail this charming line of discussion, but there has been a development on one of the missing hikers we were talking about during the "gently caress the woods" portion of this thread. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...alachian-trail/ “When you find my body, please call my husband George and my daughter Kerry,” she wrote in the note, dated Aug. 6, 2013. “It will be the greatest kindness for them to know that I am dead and where you found me — no matter how many years from now.” 
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and breaking news just as I was reading that article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ bye humanity, it's been a... a time
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:and breaking news just as I was reading that article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ I'm sure there's some stuff that's made it through testing. We've had a good 20 years to prepare for this. ...just like global warming.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Not to derail this charming line of discussion, but there has been a development on one of the missing hikers we were talking about during the "gently caress the woods" portion of this thread. This is why when the one dummy in Blair Witch Project said something to the effect of "There are no areas of wilderness in the United States big enough to get lost in anymore" I instantly wanted them all to die horribly.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...t-a7048046.htmlquote:They found it contained an extremely rare type of genome sequence, known as U5b2c1, which is almost unknown among modern populations. The research has now been published in the scientific journal Plos One. This freaks me out. loving Phoenicians can just roanoke the gently caress out of history. Where the hell did they go, and who the gently caress were they?
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Wedemeyer posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...t-a7048046.html I'm not very good at genetics and such. Is this some random string of DNA? What does it mean? Ty
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If you have a sample sequenced you can use that to look at other sequences you already have to see if there are any matches. This site has a cool map and probably some good information on what it means and how it works etc. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/
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Aesop Poprock posted:Dude wtf I didn't mean to go to quite that dark of a place. We are talking about Dean Corrl here though. I was imagining what one of the sickest most horrible fucks to ever live would use something like that for. I suppose I may have outshined the man and deep down in one of the most horrible corners of hell theres a devil winding his balls around the shaft of an old electric motor while he wonders why he never thought to do that to his victims.
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We are all goons gazing into the abyss here. It's no wonder that occasionally the abyss gazes back.
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One of the worst things about this guy is that afterwards they found a picture of a scared teenage boy chained to his toolbox. Nobody knew who the kid was, not even Corll's accomplice, and he was never identified. The last evidence of this kid's life was a photo taken by the man who was going to torture and kill him.
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Stoca Zola posted:If you have a sample sequenced you can use that to look at other sequences you already have to see if there are any matches. This site has a cool map and probably some good information on what it means and how it works etc. This is incredibly cool. Thanks for posting it.
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Wedemeyer posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...t-a7048046.html I imagine it's because not many people have had their genome sequenced yet out of the 7 billion possible. I did it and it cost me $200. Some of it might be because Rome genocided a bunch of them.
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