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From the Longform thread:Helith posted:This is a Guardian longread article that appeared today This bit disturbed me: quote:Not long afterwards, Dawson injected the king with 750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease the monarch’s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight. Not ancient history there, either - that's George V in 1936.
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I mean, euthanasia isn't exactly some big dealm doing it for the timing of the presses is a little bit strange I guess. Or was the king not informed that this was happening? I know they kept some details of hos diagnosis from him, but did it last up until his death?
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Mar 22, 2017 20:24
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Captain Monkey posted:I mean, euthanasia isn't exactly some big dealm doing it for the timing of the presses is a little bit strange I guess. Ohhhh he was told, and did not consent to it. Apparently his last words, aimed at the doctor, were "God-drat you!" or something similar.
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Mar 22, 2017 21:40
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Josef bugman posted:Ohhhh he was told, and did not consent to it. Wouldn't that make it high treason? What happened to the doctor?
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Mar 22, 2017 22:52
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Nothing, kept on being physician to the royal family, died at 80.
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Mar 22, 2017 22:55
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Captain Monkey posted:I mean, euthanasia isn't exactly some big dealm doing it for the timing of the presses is a little bit strange I guess. Armstrong's first steps on the Moon were delayed to coincide with TV prime time in the US.
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Mar 22, 2017 23:08
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LizzieBorden posted:Nothing, kept on being physician to the royal family, died at 80. He also voted against legalising euthanasia in the house of Lords because he was a self serving shitpile of a human.
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Mar 22, 2017 23:15
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FrozenVent posted:Armstrong's first steps on the Moon were delayed to coincide with TV prime time in the US. Not sure if it's true, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Especially after reading that Aldrin was senior, but since he was military (a Colonel in the Air Force) and the whole VietNam thing was in high gear at the time, they felt it would be better PR-wise if Armstrong, a civilian, was the First Man on the Moon.
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MightyJoe36 posted:Not sure if it's true, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Especially after reading that Aldrin was senior, but since he was military (a Colonel in the Air Force) and the whole VietNam thing was in high gear at the time, they felt it would be better PR-wise if Armstrong, a civilian, was the First Man on the Moon. It's true, and they were very very touchy about having a military officer be the first person to step foot on the moon. So touchy that Apollo 11 was the first time the LEM was flown with a fully fueled lunar ascent engine, just in case any of those earlier flights got a wild hair
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Armstrong tried to play it cool by saying he didn’t really care who first set foot on the Moon. Buzz countered by saying that whoever got that honor should at least be someone who recognized it an an honor.
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Mar 23, 2017 01:44
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Glazier posted:It's true, and they were very very touchy about having a military officer be the first person to step foot on the moon. So touchy that Apollo 11 was the first time the LEM was flown with a fully fueled lunar ascent engine, just in case any of those earlier flights got a wild hair Meh. That sentiment came from a short remark by Cernan during an interview and he was known to quip funny answers. Fuel was only one of three things preventing the Apollo 10 crew from landing: Cdr Stafford and LMP Cernan had not trained for a landing at this point. It's not trivial enough to figure out on the fly. Next, the Apollo guidance computer required different programs to be loaded (manually) into its limited memory for different stages of the flight. The program required for the landing phase was not on board. Lastly, those guys were test pilots who got to where they were by being disciplined and following rules. And about the short-fueling: The ascent stage was loaded to approximately the same fuel level that the Apollo 11 ascent stage was expected to have after lifting off and being at 50,000 ft for rendezvous and docking with the CSM. I don't think that an early landing was ever really a legit concern. Gene was funny guy. PS: Apollo 8 flew to the moon but did not carry an LM. Apollo 9 didn't go to the moon. TotalLossBrain has a new favorite as of 01:51 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 01:47
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Apollo 10’s real problem was that the LM was overweight. It couldn’t have landed on the Moon with a full load.
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Not sure if it really qualifies as unnerving, but it definitely is for me, to this day - I once smoked weed with a murderer. My husband's best friend was murdered in 2011 by three of his friends, one of whom was an Army buddy (both active duty at the time, stationed at Ft Stewart, GA). Apparently it was a poorly-thought-out drug ring gone bad, but none of us had any idea at any point beforehand that any of it was going on. We'd visited James and his wife and daughters a few months before, and my husband had been semi-friends with Aaron Paxton (the ringleader) for years without knowing what he was up to. We met Eicher (the Army buddy) and thought he was a bit weird but otherwise didn't give him a second thought until we heard he was involved; the same day we spent several hours at Aaron's house smoking and hanging out since we were in town and I'd never met him before. http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2014-05-12/story/former-soldier-pleads-voluntary-manslaughter-2011-shooting-death-3rd-id tl;dr of that article posted:Superior Court Judge Anthony Harrison accepted Eicher’s plea to voluntary manslaughter and another to conspiracy to distribute marijuana and sentenced him to 20 years in prison on the manslaughter charge and 10 years probation on the drug charge. In hindsight, I would totally believe that Aaron would cut off someone's finger for loving him over, or order the murder of a guy he'd known for years, though. He was one of those people that rubbed me the wrong way just because he was a consummate one-upper and did nothing but talk about how rich he was (he was doing fairly well but not nearly as well as he tried to convince us he was) and how he'd invented [something I totally forget now] that was going to make him millions. Bragged about everything he'd done and how brilliant he was, talked down to me when he found out I was a "computer person" since he'd allegedly been in tech for decades and knew everything there was to know about everything, etc etc, you know the type, uncle works for Nintendo and so on. Except from a 35-year-old man. Didn't strike me as a drug lord or a murderer, just kind of a huge tool, but I guess nobody ever really does unless they're obviously a total psychopath. Kingsland is very, very close to the Florida/Georgia line and thus Jacksonville, hence the Jax paper, but this one technically can't be added to the rap sheet of Florida Man. 
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Captain Monkey posted:I mean, euthanasia isn't exactly some big dealm doing it for the timing of the presses is a little bit strange I guess.
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Mar 23, 2017 16:30
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TheKennedys posted:Not sure if it really qualifies as unnerving, but it definitely is for me, to this day - I once smoked weed with a murderer. My sister's husband was murdered by people breaking in to steal drugs, and hitting the wrong drat house. http://www.gainesville.com/news/20090130/waldo-man-enters-no-contest-plea-in-newberry-murder
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Mar 23, 2017 20:56
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Why do people even live in Florida?
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Mar 23, 2017 21:33
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? Because hills are literally the devil.
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Mar 23, 2017 21:42
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? Taxes
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? The beach? That's the only reason I would ever consider it. I had one teenage vacation alongside a natural preserve beach and it was beautiful as gently caress. Not crowded, no giant resorts with tons of people and miles of umbrellas. Much more natural sort of dunes and less trash washing up, etc. Would totally live there as a beach hermit if I could.
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Mar 23, 2017 21:56
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? You get $20 off Disneyworld admission.
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? Because you can be whacked right out of your skull and act it and everybody just takes it in stride as another Florida day.
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Mar 23, 2017 22:18
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? Meth
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Mar 23, 2017 22:43
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Meth I thought meth was the result, not cause?
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Mar 23, 2017 23:31
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Cost of living is extremely cheap, there's some nice beaches that aren't entirely ruined by tourists and development, and you can be absolute human trash and not feel judged. Some people like it being warm all the time too.
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Mar 23, 2017 23:36
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I like my home state of Florida. 
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Mar 23, 2017 23:51
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Gatorland was pretty awesome. Is that still around?
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Mar 23, 2017 23:54
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Solice Kirsk posted:Gatorland was pretty awesome. Is that still around? Yep, and still awesome.
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Mar 23, 2017 23:58
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Do idiots still let their kids sit on top of the railing so they can "see better" above a literal flooded pit of carnivorous monsters?
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Mar 24, 2017 00:23
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Do people still bring marching bands? Relevant bit starts 19:43 and takes a few minutes to get to the band.
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Mar 24, 2017 00:29
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Solice Kirsk posted:Do idiots still let their kids sit on top of the railing so they can "see better" above a literal flooded pit of carnivorous monsters? I haven't seen that the last few times I've gone.
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Mar 24, 2017 00:32
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Come to North Dakota instead, there are no loving cockroaches in the entire state and there is also no wildlife that will eat you, unless you count the mosquitos.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Times, the most respectable paper and "paper of record", was an evening paper. The morning papers were (from the upper classes' point of view) trashy things aimed at the middle/working classes. It wasn't just making the Times, it was avoiding the tabloids. You've got this completely backwards. The physician's stated reasoning was that the morning papers were respectable and the evening papers were less appropriate. That was why he was concerned about a newspaper which went to press at midnight. The papers which go to press at midnight are distributed in the morning. "Dawson claimed that he acted to preserve the King's dignity, to prevent further strain on the family, and so that the King's death at 11:55 p.m. could be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper rather than "less appropriate ... evening journals"."
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Mar 24, 2017 01:40
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pookel posted:Come to North Dakota instead, there are no loving cockroaches in the entire state and there is also no wildlife that will eat you, unless you count the mosquitos. Also nothing cool
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Mar 24, 2017 01:39
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Leavemywife posted:Why do people even live in Florida? 1. look at this dude who's never had a proper Cuban sandwich 2. Taco Bus stubbornly refuses to locate outside of the Tampa area
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:1. look at this dude who's never had a proper Cuban sandwich Also it's home, my family goes back generations in Tampa.
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Mar 24, 2017 01:49
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Glazier posted:Also it's home, my family goes back generations in Tampa. So, 30 years?
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Also nothing cool
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Mycroft Holmes posted:So, 30 years? No! 31 vvv Or a python on Oxy! Don't pigeonhole the rednecks. Gynocentric Regime has a new favorite as of 03:05 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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Azathoth posted:Just do what everyone else in North Dakota does: drink straight grain alcohol until sitting on the porch and staring at crops is fun. Or you could do meth and try to fight a gator
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Someone pls link to the west mesa bone collector post. Also, podcasts in thread topic vein? I listen to sword and scale, casefile, lore, and astonishing legends.
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