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Bust Rodd posted:I read this as like your grandparents all shared a bed a la’ Willy Wonka and there was a gas leak I just assumed it was a fatal geriatric orgy. 
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Loucks posted:I just assumed it was a fatal geriatric orgy. They used to call me "Fatal Geriatric Orgy" in college. 
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May 4, 2018 20:19
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Antivehicular posted:During my grandmother's last decline, we drove about 12 hours nonstop to get to her bedside and got the call halfway there that she had passed. The first place we stopped for a meal afterwards was a Hardee's, and I still can't see one without thinking of Grandma's death-day. Luckily, Hardee's is not a big loss. Yeah, I actually kinda miss Waffle House, though now I work for a breakfast place so I eat eggs and hashbrowns and such all the freakin' time and don't really get those cravings. I don't distinctly remember the circumstances around getting the second "ok, for reals this time, she's dead" call because at that point I had been spending the previous 24 hours pretty much replacing the majority of my blood plasma with vodka. I'd already accepted that she was gone, and my big drunken concern was whether I should go see the Godzilla movie I'd bought tickets for 2 weeks prior. (I did, because mom would've wanted that, but that's the one Big G film I can't re-watch. Theme music makes me bawl.) OK, let's lighten the mood with some actual unnerving stories about Godzilla films! Specifically, about Kenpachiro Satsuma, who got his start in kaiju films playing Hedorah the Smog Monster, and went on to play Godzilla himself for about 20 years. quote:While playing Hedorah, Satsuma was struck with appendicitis during the production. The doctors were forced to perform the appendectomy while he was still wearing the Hedorah suit, due to the length of time it took to take off. During the operation, Satsuma learned that painkillers have no effect on him.  That's... quite a time to learn that.quote:Satsuma reported that while playing Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, the smoke given off by the suit was concentrated Carbon Monoxide. This would lead to him passing out multiple times during production.  No wonder that was his last role in kaiju. Still, gotta give a dude credit for putting up with that sort of poo poo for 25 years.
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May 4, 2018 20:21
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Solice Kirsk posted:They used to call me "Fatal Geriatric Orgy" in college. please don’t doxx my mathcore band
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May 4, 2018 21:11
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Aleph Null posted:My step-brother got yelling-at-people angry when everybody else was joking around while his dad was in the hospital for a brain tumor, even though his dad was the main one joking around. Humor helps, but some people believe it belittles the seriousness of the situation. Nurses and other families like, visiting my dad's room mates in the hospital would give us weird looks when we'd talk about how I would have to make the decision to take my dad off life support because my mom would pull the plug herself. Of course, that joke was there because we all knew she'd never be able to do it so it WOULD be a decision that would fall to me, unfair as that may seem. china bot posted:my grandfather died in his sleep the night after winning a couple hundred bucks at casino isn't it ironic Me too
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May 4, 2018 21:12
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pookel posted:I'm a little envious of this. All four of my grandparents just went to bed one day and didn't wake up in the morning. I mean, in three of four cases they were old and ill and it wasn't a big surprise, but we never knew exactly when the time would be. That must have been one stressful morning!
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May 4, 2018 22:13
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Bust Rodd posted:I read this as like your grandparents all shared a bed a la’ Willy Wonka and there was a gas leak I was thinking the exact same thing and was very confused as to how this living situation came to be
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May 4, 2018 23:49
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My dad died slowly of colon cancer, on a hospital bed in our living room so he could be at home, slipping in and out of consciousness, and gradually spending more time out than in until he finally stopped breathing. Now my mom finished her first round of chemo for pancreatic cancer just over year after being diagnosed and it's probably completely unsurprising to anyone reading these run-on sentences that I spent last Monday in the ER with severe chest pain doing the "anxiety attacks in men can present with the same symptoms as a heart attack" thing.
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May 5, 2018 00:15
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GWBBQ posted:My dad died slowly of colon cancer, on a hospital bed in our living room so he could be at home, slipping in and out of consciousness, and gradually spending more time out than in until he finally stopped breathing. Now my mom finished her first round of chemo for pancreatic cancer just over year after being diagnosed and it's probably completely unsurprising to anyone reading these run-on sentences that I spent last Monday in the ER with severe chest pain doing the "anxiety attacks in men can present with the same symptoms as a heart attack" thing. Wait that’s just a men thing? I’ve been in the ER for the same stuff a bunch of times but I didn’t know this was specific to males
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May 5, 2018 00:18
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Nobody knows what the symptoms of a heart attack are in women except for clamminess, sweating, and nausea. Some women get the chest and arm pain, but not all.
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May 5, 2018 00:32
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My grandfather died on Christmas eve, while I was at Chili's with my now-fiance's family. My dad called to tell me that the only present he opened was mine, a DVD of Frank Sinatra's most renowned performances, watched it, and died. I never really liked Christmas anyway.
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May 5, 2018 02:21
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My grandfather found out he had emphysema in the late 1970s and took his shotgun with him to the creek behind his farm. My grandmother sent her youngest son to chase after him. He would be in and out of hospitals, slowly getting weaker and died when I was seven, in 1989. Because he had had it for at least ten years, I expected much of the same when my father was diagnosed in 2010. Except he didn't quit smoking or drinking and died within five years. He went to the hospital with what we all thought was standard breathing problems but actually had pneumonia and died within two weeks. I spent three days in a mental hospital from a nervous breakdown while he was dying. His surviving brother and sister-in-law were there when he died in hospice (either that or be sent to a nursing home stuck on a trach for the rest of his life). I, his only child and daughter, gave the eulogy. Interestingly my grandfather spent some time in Hiroshima in October of 1945 and my dad worked at the Nevada Test Site clearing out waste after tests. But they also smoked like chimneys and my grandfather used dangerous pesticides.
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May 5, 2018 02:37
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AlbieQuirky posted:Nobody knows what the symptoms of a heart attack are in women except for clamminess, sweating, and nausea. Some women get the chest and arm pain, but not all. Jaw pain is the standout unique symptom http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Condi...sp#.Wu0pGogvyUk what's unnerving is that the reason they're so poorly known is the initial study that gave us all the classic symptoms of a heart attack came from a sample of all men, and no one ever gave a crap to see if women experience them any differently!
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May 5, 2018 04:48
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Sex Hobbit posted:Jaw pain is the standout unique symptom http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Condi...sp#.Wu0pGogvyUk My grandmother had the jaw pain with hers. When my mom had horrible jaw pan,they thought she had bronchitis at urgent care. She had the main heart attack in the waiting room of the emergency room after being seen hours before without anyone bothering to draw blood because the EKG looked ok (because she wasn't currently having a heart attack at that moment, was just having the like, small build up ones. I guess it's kinda like volcanoes??)and obviously the only reason she was complaining about pain so much was because she was drug seeking (despite her saying how her mom presented multiple times). She finally got seen after making a scene in the waiting room (because she was having a heart attack). The female doctor took one look at her and the chart, ordered blood work for cardiac markers and gave her some nitroglycerin.
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May 5, 2018 06:04
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pookel posted:There's an older thread about arctic exploration in general, if you have archives: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655083 I'm way late to this but huge thanks for the link! I knew it was in here somewhere but I didn't feel like digging that hard.
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May 5, 2018 07:31
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chitoryu12 posted:I like stuff that can be connected to an interesting real world area or legend, instead of just interchangeable fictional small towns in the Midwest. little late, but https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2015/07/01/van-meter-remembers-1903-visit-from-winged-monster/29583469/ Is one of the odder ones out of Iowa. A bunch of people in a small town saw and attempted to shoot a large humanoid figure with bat wings that was around the town and spotted multiple times over a few nights. Otherwise it is the definition of small forgettable Midwestern town.
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May 5, 2018 11:09
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I truly envy anyone who has had such a creeper-free life that they could look at those stalker diaries and immediately think STDH.txt.
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May 6, 2018 00:56
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Busket Posket posted:I truly envy anyone who has had such a creeper-free life that they could look at those stalker diaries and immediately think STDH.txt.  I once talked to a dude at bar for 5 min. Apparently one of my friends had told him where we went to "school". He then called the "school" saying that he had a project he specifically wanted me to do. They gave him my phone number and he started calling every day asking for a date and trying to convince me to break up with my boyfriend. He started showing up at my regular hangouts which creeped me out enough that I started going less out, sleeping at my boyfriends place and stopped answering his calls. I saw him walk by my boyfriend's apartment twice but didn't tell my boyfriend because I told myself that it was totally a coincidence. Luckily he just stopped calling. He genuinely thought he was being charming.
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May 6, 2018 14:56
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Yikes, I hope you complained to the school for giving out your personal details like that. Situations like that are why all organisations need to have strict policies around personal details and contact information.
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May 6, 2018 23:40
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Varkk posted:Yikes, I hope you complained to the school for giving out your personal details like that. Situations like that are why all organisations need to have strict policies around personal details and contact information.  It was a place for young people who didn't have a lot of direction. Most of us were dealing with mental illness and under the age of 18 so the whole thing was immensely hosed up.
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May 7, 2018 00:57
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Just read a really unnerving Rolling Stone article about how utterly hosed Camden NJ is. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/apocalypse-new-jersey-a-dispatch-from-americas-most-desperate-town-20131211 The city's economy is largely collapsed, they have a huge youth bulge, population is way under what it used to be so lots of abandoned housing and neglect. Solely the police budget for the city is significantly larger than the entire tax base, so Camden is basically subsidized by the rest of NJ just to keep the lights on. At one point a decade or so back, Chris Christie was feuding with the police union, so between cop absenteeism ("blue flu"), understaffing, budget issues, etc they had points where there were literally only a dozen cops out on the beat for the whole city, and 911 was just triaging all calls to "is someone being murdered *right* now?" And on top of all the immediately local problems, what with the heroin boom Camden has become a mecca for addicts from PA, to the point there's a routine chain of PA cars coming across the Ben Franklin bridge just to buy heroin, and panhandlers from downtown Philly just walking across the bridge and back. Locals note that it was incredibly rare to see a white person in Camden, but these days in the heroin hotspots, white people looking to score are a constant presence. They've made the town a test-case for 21st Century policing and beyond, basically aiming for a cross between Minority Report and Occupied Fallujah. Really worth the read.
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May 10, 2018 05:47
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Reading an article about a guy who went missing in Kansas in the 1980s, that was for a while suspected to be a cult murder due to the whole Satanic Panic moral scare going on at the time. One detective found it much more likely that he'd ploughed his car into a river driving home on the backroads, and they ended up finding several cars in the nearby river, but not his. But here was the freaky side mention: quote:
That is one hell of a training exercise...
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May 10, 2018 06:46
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Dirty Deeds Thunderchief posted:I dunno, I actually don't find it that jarring. How else is she supposed to cope if she doesn't use humor as a defense mechanism? Humor's always been my goto defense/coping mechanism, probably doesn't help that my family and the family I'll be marrying into are all doctors, nurses, paramedics/EMTs, cops, and firefighters. I've always looked at it as if you can at least find something to laugh at during major lifeshattering event, then it's a sign that as horrible as it is now, you will get through this. Case in point, I was very close to my Mom and she passed away from a heart attack during one of the hottest summers in Chicago and I was the one who found her a couple days later. All I remember of that day was stopping by her apartment and the dog was freaking out more than just happy to see me, going down the hallway and like a bad edit job, next I remember sobbing in the kitchen with my Dad and Uncle showing up with the paramedics. I don't remember at all calling anyone and it's been around 20 years since. The funeral had to be closed casket and for anyone asking we just said that my Mom hated how everyone looked overly made up in the casket so she wanted everyone to remember her as she was instead. It was a partial truth because my Mom always rolled her eyes at the heavy make up jobs on the deceased. During the funeral my Dad, me and my Uncle were able to laugh at some of the attendees at the funeral home like the really busty lady who was wearing a heavily ruffled blouse and looked like a turkey, laugh at the priest's pronunciations during the service, and make a running joke of my aunt's confusing the restaurant we were going to afterwards, White Eagle with White Hen pantry (everyone, it's a two weenie limit!). I feel my Mom would rather I remember the jokes from the funeral instead of the day I found her and while I do have friends who still insist I should go to therapy to try to remember that day, I just keep something my Intro to Psych professor said about sometimes recalling something your mind's blanked out isn't beneficial to you and that as long as you can function in life, then you don't need to. So I have my days where I wish she was around to share things I've experienced or to be able to ask her for advice on, and I do feel it stronger around the day she passed, but I figure that's normal and I'm okay just keeping on.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Just read a really unnerving Rolling Stone article about how utterly hosed Camden NJ is. Camden has been a hell hole since forever. The last time I was there (As aside to just driving through) was either 2005-2006 for a Beck show and it was worse than any other American city I’ve ever been to, except at least at that point there were cops everywhere. It was somehow worse than Baltimore where I saw a literal corpse on a bench once
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May 10, 2018 10:37
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Camden's the only place in the country where cops will pull white people over for not running stop lights. The immediate area within two blocks or so of the waterfront and the one block radius of Rutgers is okay. The rest of it, though, that's stabbin' country. One of my favorite parts of going to Rutgers Camden was seeing which frats got robbed in every new bulletin. It was always at least one.
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May 10, 2018 14:41
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M_Sinistrari posted:I feel my Mom would rather I remember the jokes from the funeral instead of the day I found her and while I do have friends who still insist I should go to therapy to try to remember that day, I just keep something my Intro to Psych professor said about sometimes recalling something your mind's blanked out isn't beneficial to you and that as long as you can function in life, then you don't need to. So I have my days where I wish she was around to share things I've experienced or to be able to ask her for advice on, and I do feel it stronger around the day she passed, but I figure that's normal and I'm okay just keeping on. Yeah keep doing you, your friends are trying to be helpful but they're also being dumb.
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May 10, 2018 18:48
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The Mysterious Death of David Douglas. A famous botanist dies on Mauna Kea, though not how you might expect.
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OutOfPrint posted:Camden's the only place in the country where cops will pull white people over for not running stop lights. The immediate area within two blocks or so of the waterfront and the one block radius of Rutgers is okay. The rest of it, though, that's stabbin' country. You know it's a bad sign in America when your economy is too weak to support gun crime, and people are forced to economize with knife crime.
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The last thing my granddad said to me before he died was that I looked like the Kaiser. Anyhoo, have another dead baby incident
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8 Ball posted:The last thing my granddad said to me before he died was that I looked like the Kaiser. Saw the headline and noped the gently caress out.
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May 11, 2018 02:43
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Same, but with the URL
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Aesop Poprock posted:Camden has been a hell hole since forever. The last time I was there (As aside to just driving through) was either 2005-2006 for a Beck show and it was worse than any other American city I’ve ever been to, except at least at that point there were cops everywhere. It was somehow worse than Baltimore where I saw a literal corpse on a bench once Ha, my last trip to Camden was this same Beck concert. Later, I was on the phone with my dad and he told me Camden had the highest or one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. Gee, dad, thanks for holding that information back until AFTER I already drove through the city unaware.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Ha, my last trip to Camden was this same Beck concert. Later, I was on the phone with my dad and he told me Camden had the highest or one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. Gee, dad, thanks for holding that information back until AFTER I already drove through the city unaware. Going in scared would have made you look like an easy target.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Ha, my last trip to Camden was this same Beck concert. Later, I was on the phone with my dad and he told me Camden had the highest or one of the highest violent crime rates in the country. Gee, dad, thanks for holding that information back until AFTER I already drove through the city unaware. New Jersey as a whole just seems pretty terrible. I ended up in Newark a few years ago and while sitting at a stop light got to watch a guy prep and then shoot up sitting on the sidewalk. The whole city also had a super disgusting smell. New York did as well though. I didn’t smell that kind of stink in Detroit or Chicago.
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May 11, 2018 03:26
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chill out rorschach
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Once ten years ago I went to a big dubstep show at the Camden bank center and I ate a bunch of acid first and my 115 lb skinny Jewish girlfriend basically carried me through the annals of Camden from the PATCO to the venue and I felt like every person I saw was a complete caricature of poverty and that I was somehow being set up for like a Jamie Kennedy experiment but then on the walk home like 6 hours later I was down and realized whoa no it actually is basically the Wild West out here Jesus Christ.
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Does anyone else listen to the Parcast: Serial Killers podcast? I started listening to it for the Bible John episodes, and to one degree I don't like how corny it is, with too much staged back-forth between the hosts, but then again the episodes have been pretty informative even for things I've read the Wikipedia article for, and I've discovered the voice modulation is low-key enough that I can fall asleep to it: https://www.parcast.com/serial/
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One especially interesting line from the Camden article, referring to the years where Gov. Christie cut off subsidies:quote:Over three years, fires raged, violent crime spiked and the murder rate soared so high that on a per-capita basis, it "put us somewhere between Honduras and Somalia," says Police Chief J. Scott Thomson.
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May 11, 2018 09:45
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The Parcast Serial Killers podcast has this uncanny dissonance between the content and the narrators talking like it's a show about knitting. But it's not bad.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:New Jersey as a whole just seems pretty terrible. I ended up in Newark a few years ago and while sitting at a stop light got to watch a guy prep and then shoot up sitting on the sidewalk. The whole city also had a super disgusting smell. New York did as well though. I didn’t smell that kind of stink in Detroit or Chicago. Chicago doesn't stink because we got alleys to stuff all our trash. Walk in the alleys in the summer past restaurants and you'll get that trademarked big city smell.
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