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MightyJoe36 posted:Here in Ohio, they're still trying to figure that out. the answer is "being in ohio"
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Speaking of caves, I went to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico years ago. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Definitely check out something like that, if you are able.
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Lie face up on your couch after you've removed any pillows from it. Your legs can hang over, but make sure that your head is flat against the cushion. Get as comfortable as you can, just relax. Now push the back of your head in the crack between the cushion and the back of the couch, as far as it will go. Stay there, and imagine you're stuck in an earthen crevice until someone rescues you, or you die. If you have a good imagination and a healthy sense of fear, you won't last too long. This is my way of saying I love and hate you all for the cave stories throughout this thread.
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Longform buzzfeed article, three women and one woman's parents have spoken to Buzzfeed, telling them R. Kelly is keeping women in guarded apartments and won't allow them to contact their families. https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimderogat...008K#.naV1qOOV1 Edit: A couple women's parents, not just one. The Dickens has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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yo rear end is grass posted:Lie face up on your couch after you've removed any pillows from it. Your legs can hang over, but make sure that your head is flat against the cushion. Really enjoying the idea of a grown man doing this since I'm 100% sure you did. Bonus points if someone walks in on you with your rear end in the air and your head lodged in a couch like some sort of sad Winnie the Pooh
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I got to go caving in Barbados this January. It was great fun, got to swim across an underground pond to get to the section we were crawling through, really neat formations... but there was one bit where we crawled through a section about 2 feet in diameter that had water running through the bottom six inches, as a rapid stream, and we were in total darkness. They turned our lights off so we could experience what it was like. I am not at all claustrophobic, but boy was I glad to see the light at the end. I kept thinking the water was rising even though I knew it wasn't, and it felt like the tunnel was getting narrower and narrower. I can't imagine how terrified I would have been if I had actually become stuck.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Really enjoying the idea of a grown man doing this since I'm 100% sure you did. Bonus points if someone walks in on you with your rear end in the air and your head lodged in a couch like some sort of sad Winnie the Pooh lmao, 
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Bonster posted:I got to go caving in Barbados this January. It was great fun, got to swim across an underground pond to get to the section we were crawling through, really neat formations... but there was one bit where we crawled through a section about 2 feet in diameter that had water running through the bottom six inches, as a rapid stream, and we were in total darkness. They turned our lights off so we could experience what it was like. I am not at all claustrophobic, but boy was I glad to see the light at the end. I kept thinking the water was rising even though I knew it wasn't, and it felt like the tunnel was getting narrower and narrower. I can't imagine how terrified I would have been if I had actually become stuck. There is a part in one of the more touristy caves I have gone to where its an underground pool of water with a small passage to the other section, which is easy enough but there is a fan of rock that basically rubs along your neck as you go through. The call it the decapitation chamber. (You can also submerge and swim under it but most people are not down for that.)
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Telsa Cola posted:There is a part in one of the more touristy caves I have gone to where its an underground pool of water with a small passage to the other section, which is easy enough but there is a fan of rock that basically rubs along your neck as you go through. The call it the decapitation chamber. Sounds like you're describing a sump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sump_(cave)
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The Dickens posted:Longform buzzfeed article, three women and one woman's parents have spoken to Buzzfeed, telling them R. Kelly is keeping women in guarded apartments and won't allow them to contact their families. There's a joke about Trapped in the Closet here.
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djssniper posted:Sounds like you're describing a sump Almost, the part is not completely submerged and you can just shimmy your way through the passage depending on the water level.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Really enjoying the idea of a grown man doing this since I'm 100% sure you did. Bonus points if someone walks in on you with your rear end in the air and your head lodged in a couch like some sort of sad Winnie the Pooh No, lie face up and push the back of your head in. Duh.
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Telsa Cola posted:There is a part in one of the more touristy caves I have gone to where its an underground pool of water with a small passage to the other section, which is easy enough but there is a fan of rock that basically rubs along your neck as you go through. The call it the decapitation chamber. One I went to turned off all the lights and played low leopard/bear growls and noises while they described the probable cause of death for a young prehistoric boy who's jaw was found wedged deep in the cave without any other evidence of human activity.
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yo rear end is grass posted:No, lie face up and push the back of your head in. Duh. If I walked into a room and my roommate was laying on his back with his head shoved in the couch I'd probably feel like an intervention was necessary regardless of how calmly he was treating the situation
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Aesop Poprock posted:If I walked into a room and my roommate was laying on his back with his head shoved in the couch I'd probably feel like an intervention was necessary regardless of how calmly he was treating the situation Someone coming in and seeing you perform this experiment is like a rescuer finally finding you trapped underground. Try it! Bonus points if you refuse to move even though you're hungry and/or thirsty.
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yo rear end is grass posted:Lie face up on your couch after you've removed any pillows from it. Your legs can hang over, but make sure that your head is flat against the cushion. Okay so I'm enough of a goon to have tried this. I can report that all I could imagine was the words I've read about being stuck in a cave and wanting to die. It was terrifying and I have less understanding of cavedivers than ever. Then my dumbass cat jumped on me and started purring and now the cave was collapsing at the rate of her purrs and then omg I met zombie lizard Jesus. Then the shrooms wore off and I was an idiot trapped in a couch. More scared of caves than ever though, so good show.
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fizzymercy posted:Okay so I'm enough of a goon to have tried this. I can report that all I could imagine was the words I've read about being stuck in a cave and wanting to die. It was terrifying and I have less understanding of cavedivers than ever. I don't recommend trying it on drugs.
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yo rear end is grass posted:I don't recommend trying it on drugs. Imagine caving on shrooms or acid and getting stuck Actually just imagine being that girl who got drunk and passed out in the Parisian catacombs and waking up in pure darkness and having no idea of where to go or what to do. And no one comes looking for you and you die terrified and disoriented. How the gently caress did that even happen?? Still probably the creepiest story I've read about
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yo rear end is grass posted:I don't recommend trying it on drugs. I really wish you'd mentioned that before now.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Imagine caving on shrooms or acid and getting stuck taking a torch from the wall she spies row upon row of skeletons. grasping the nearest by the shoulders, she shakes it madly, yelling “my nigga have u tried lsd”
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Cumslut1895 posted:taking a torch from the wall she spies row upon row of skeletons. grasping the nearest by the shoulders, she shakes it madly, yelling “my nigga have u tried lsd” Lmfao
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yo rear end is grass posted:Lie face up on your couch after you've removed any pillows from it. Your legs can hang over, but make sure that your head is flat against the cushion. Or, just make an appointment for an MRI.
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ElGroucho posted:I feel like people who do this kind of poo poo never got their hand, feet, or head stuck in some poo poo as a kid. It is goddamn horrifying. I feel like it's not a negative to avoid catastrophic trauma as a child? I got my head stuck in a weird sweater and a weather drain as a kid and that didn't give me enough PTSD to avoid the couch diver illustration. Be more adventurous man.
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MightyJoe36 posted:Or, just make an appointment for an MRI. You'd have to be pretty loving fat to get wedged in an MRI machine.
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Cumslut1895 posted:taking a torch from the wall she spies row upon row of skeletons. grasping the nearest by the shoulders, she shakes it madly, yelling “my nigga have u tried lsd” 
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ElGroucho posted:I feel like people who do this kind of poo poo never got their hand, feet, or head stuck in some poo poo as a kid. It is goddamn horrifying. I got stuck in a front-load dryer as a kid. Parents took pictures, then got me out.
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MightyJoe36 posted:Or, just make an appointment for an MRI. I actually find MRI's super relaxing, I've fallen asleep in them before. Maybe the imaging units at the hospitals I've been to just have really good noise canceling headphones. CT scans freak me out more, I just keep thinking "RADIATION!" Also, I had an allergic reaction to IV contrast dye they use and almost died 
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Hello friends, let's talk, once again, about GHOST FLIGHTS Wow, that sure was a long hiatus! Been a while. hosed if I’m going to read 2,000 posts to catch up, tho'. ITS MY THREAD I’LL DO WHAT I WANT  And what is a “ghost flight” you ask? You idiot, loving rube, it has been a while though. You can just read my post history, I guess, but I've helpfully linked each post below. So! A Ghost Flight is what happens when a plane continues on, mid-flight, without any human intervention -- either because the crew has abandoned the plane, or has become incapacitated. The plane continues on until it runs out of fuel, and like all other plane crashes end, hit the ground.  Basically not as metal as this picture, but still pretty fuckin' metal We talked first about the Lady Be Good, which is an example of crew abandonment. The plane was shot to poo poo, and the crew bailed out, believing the bomber had become a liability. In practice, however, the plane ended up crashing some miles away (and a pretty survivable crash at that, judging the wreck that was found 15 years later) still full of water, rations, and survival gear. The crew, on the other hand (minus the one guy whose chute unfortunately did not open) were stuck in a desert with the very basics, and did not survive long enough to make it back to civilization. But hey, at least the survival gear survived!  "Ahhhh, I can get 'er going again!" But the Lady Be Good was an out-of-control, wounded WWII B-24 Bomber, a ghost flight that lasted only 16 miles. Our second case, the 1999 South Dakota Learjet Crash, was a perfectly healthy Learjet with a modern autopilot installed. Originally bound for Dallas, Texas, a small leak led to a slow depressurization in the cabin, causing everyone aboard to succumb to hypoxia shortly after take-off. This is an example of a ghost flight caused by crew incapacitation (and one that was sustained by the autopilot until the plane ran out of fuel).  Translator's Note: Dallas is no where near South Dakota Next, we discussed Hypoxia and You. The deadly combination of a slow leak causing oxygen starvation in the brain can impede an even experienced crew from performing emergency countermeasures.It’s actually the same reasons people turn into assholes while attempting to summit Mt. Everest, and why they often make incredibly bad judgement calls. When you’re in a jet at an altitude twice as high as Everest, you can begin to understand how terrifying cabin depressurization can be. So terrifying there's not a picture for it, because you never see it coming. For our third case, we covered Helios Flight 522, a flight in Greece that ended up going into a Part Two, and a Part Three. I started getting a little silly about then, but only because stripped of humor Part Three can be summed up as: Literally Kermit posted:Ghost Flights 3 Anyway, all kidding aside, we'll go for a happy medium from here on out That brings us up to speed with- what? You want to know what happened after Helios Flight 522? Alright, we'll close out with that, then talk about some other flights that are ghostly. NEXT: Lucy, You Got Some 'Splainin' to Do
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Aesop Poprock posted:Imagine caving on shrooms or acid and getting stuck The catacombs are huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge and super easy to get lost in, from what I've read. I doubt you get reception down there either, so it makes sense that anyone who's inebriated especially could lose their way and wind up dying down there. I almost got to see them when I was in France, but the catacombs weren't open on Tuesdays, the one day I could go. 
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That Hypoxia and You post reminded me of that Smarter Every Day video where Dustin underwent hypoxia training. It's insane just how acutely his faculties leave him. : Alright sir, if you don't get on oxygen, you're gonna die. *Doesn't put on mask*: Go to your regulator and get all three switches up.: I don't wanna die... *still does nothing*Ugh. Just watching him become less and less articulate and dexterous made me feel a little lightheaded.
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Here's a real blast from the past: one of John Wayne Gacy's unidentified victims was finally identified. James Byron Haakenson, victim #24.quote:{NEWSER) – A Minnesota runaway has been identified as one of the victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, an Illinois sheriff's office announced in a Wednesday news release. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says that the remains of a person whose body was found under the crawl space of Gacy's Chicago-area home in 1978 are those of 16-year-old James "Jimmie" Byron Haakenson. The teenager had left his home in 1976 and was last heard from in August of that year when he called his mother and told her he was in Chicago. The Pioneer Press reports his mother reported him missing shortly thereafter, on Sept. 2. Gacy was convicted of killing 33 young men and was executed in 1994. Haakenson was one of eight of Gacy's victims who were buried without being identified. That Damn Satyr has a new favorite as of 20:36 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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Literally Kermit posted:Hello friends, let's talk, once again, about Ghost flights! Payne Stewart was not the only major name in sports to die in a hypoxia-related crash. LSU's head football coach died in what was likely a hypoxia accident. That one doesn't get talked about much now. Bo Rein was hired after the 1979 college football season to become LSU's new football coach. Rein had been at North Carolina State, where he produced three straight winning seasons and had two bowl appearances in the days that not every college football team went to a bowl. Rein was taking a recruiting trip in January 1980, flying only from Shreveport to Baton Rouge. The flight was scheduled to go just an hour, but the plane ran into bad weather and the pilot went east to avoid the system. That was the last anyone heard from the plane. Authorities were able to keep tracking it and it was spotted in North Carolina, more than 1,000 miles off course. The Air National Guard was able to fly next to it, but saw no one in the cabin. The ultimately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia and the bodies were never recovered. Times-Picayune posted:Rein wanted he and Williams to fly up to Shreveport and back. [LSU assistant coach Greg] Willlams convinced Rein to drive together to Shreveport because the south Louisiana January fog would delay their departure and put them behind schedule. Times-Picayune posted:couple of hours before sunrise, Williams was awakened by a phone call.
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A Spider Covets posted:The catacombs are huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge and super easy to get lost in, from what I've read. I doubt you get reception down there either, so it makes sense that anyone who's inebriated especially could lose their way and wind up dying down there. They should've taken some LSD.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:They should've taken some LSD. Or played Mazes and Monsters.
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What are catacombs, really, but the Ghost Flights of the ground?
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I have some photos of the Brno catacombs before they were reopened to the public. Huge piles of random bones everywhere, it was like a vision of hell. Pretty cool. I'll see if I can find my old sd card with them but it was like 10 years ago... Edit: sorry lads, can't find it: will keep looking NLJP has a new favorite as of 12:30 on Jul 20, 2017 |
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NLJP posted:I have some photos of the Brno catacombs before they were reopened to the public. Huge piles of random bones everywhere, it was like a vision of hell. Pretty cool. I'll see if I can find my old sd card with them but it was like 10 years ago... The people who first, and unexpectedly, broke into that ossuary described it as "we probed a wall and skulls started pouring out of everywhere". Very metal.
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