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AlbieQuirky posted:So, this is now the PYF excruciatingly boring derail thread? And it's unnerving as hell!
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AlbieQuirky posted:So, this is now the PYF excruciatingly boring derail thread? There's always the debate over is pizza a sandwich. Though to topic, here's the Nazino Affair, aka Cannibal Island. In 1933, Stalin has over 6000 people shipped off to Nazino Island in Sibera to construct the gulag there. Save for the guards who'd kill anyone trying to escape, they were essentially abandoned. Over the course of 13 weeks, approximately 4000 of those people would be dead or 'disappeared'. What happened there would be kept secret until 1988 during the glasnost reforms. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nazino http://www.memorial.krsk.ru/eng/Dokument/Memuar/Barysheva.htm https://www.rferl.org/a/cannibal-island-in-1933-nearly-5-000-died-in-one-of-stalin-s-most-horrific-labor-camps/29341167.html
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May 17, 2019 21:06
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Pizza is not a sandwich but curry is definitely a chili
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May 17, 2019 21:48
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Pizza is not a sandwich but curry is definitely a chili You’re half right
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May 17, 2019 21:50
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sushi is a sandwich
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May 17, 2019 21:56
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Look, we've been over this before, there are two kinds of foods; stews and raw fruit. If it isn't a piece of raw fruit it's a stew.
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May 17, 2019 21:58
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so a carrot is a stew in and of itself?  vvv : this guy gets it Watermelon Daiquiri has a new favorite as of 22:11 on May 17, 2019 |
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May 17, 2019 22:03
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Poptarts are my favorite kind of stew.
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May 17, 2019 22:09
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Solice Kirsk posted:Poptarts are my favorite kind of stew. brown sugar cinnamon or strawberry? choose wisely
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May 17, 2019 22:18
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Brown sugar, is there any real competition?
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May 17, 2019 22:41
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hawowanlawow posted:brown sugar cinnamon or strawberry? S’mo’re
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May 17, 2019 22:51
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AFewBricksShy posted:Most people aren't extremely tall, extremely short, or extremely muscular. As a four-foot-six-foot-four powerlifter with a bmi of 23i, I'm all these things.
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May 17, 2019 23:39
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There are only two colors, light blue and dark blue.
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May 17, 2019 23:53
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christmas boots posted:S’mo’re When your stew's not a pie but a sandwich of lies, that's a s'mo're.
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May 17, 2019 23:59
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M_Sinistrari posted:There's always the debate over is pizza a sandwich.  This was apparently 500mi from my hometown and I'd never heard of it. Although my family didn't really end up in the region until the 50s and it's not like Soviets are all about sharing that history
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May 18, 2019 00:06
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M_Sinistrari posted:Though to topic, here's the Nazino Affair, aka Cannibal Island. In 1933, Stalin has over 6000 people shipped off to Nazino Island in Sibera to construct the gulag there. Save for the guards who'd kill anyone trying to escape, they were essentially abandoned. Over the course of 13 weeks, approximately 4000 of those people would be dead or 'disappeared'. What happened there would be kept secret until 1988 during the glasnost reforms. Unnerving train back on track! Yikes!
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May 18, 2019 01:57
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Das Boo posted:When your stew's not a pie but a sandwich of lies, that's a s'mo're. 
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May 18, 2019 02:23
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My BMI is INTJ
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May 18, 2019 02:30
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Is overeating junk/fast food a valid excuse to be overweight?
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May 18, 2019 02:45
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i lose thirty seven pounds every time i take a dump
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May 18, 2019 04:29
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Moey posted:Is overeating junk/fast food a valid excuse to be overweight? WE’RE NOT loving DOING THIS ANYMORE THIS IS PYF UNNERVING, NOT PYF BORING
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May 18, 2019 04:36
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When it comes to locations of hosed up cults, last place anyone's going to think is Canada. But with the nightmare that's the Ant Hill Kids Cult, this one's probably the worst out of a larger organization type like Scientology. Roch Thériault founded the doomsday cult in Ontario back in the 70s. It followed the usual pattern we see in these sorts of cults with the domineering leader as prophet who ends up sexually abusing many of his followers, but that was only the surface stuff. It wasn't until the late 80s that he was arrested and the darker secrets came out such as torture, amateur surgery, and murder would surface. The 2002 film Savage Messiah is based on the Ant Hill Kids Cult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch_Th%C3%A9riault https://www.cvltnation.com/ant-hill-kids-break-legs-sledgehammer-go-hell/ https://www.investigationdiscovery....ent-cult-leader http://reallifeishorror.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-ant-hill-kids-cult-and-roch.html https://www.ranker.com/list/roch-moise-theriault-facts/stefanie-hammond
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M_Sinistrari posted:When it comes to locations of hosed up cults, last place anyone's going to think is Canada. But with the nightmare that's the Ant Hill Kids Cult, this one's probably the worst out of a larger organization type like Scientology. He called himself Moses.
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Let's continue to re-rail, thread. Here's an article on head transplants, which mostly unnerves me because I was unaware people were still trying to loving do this, what the hell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant Tashilicious posted:He called himself Moses. quote:He nicknamed himself Humble Bob. 
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May 18, 2019 18:09
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When I first heard of The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 as a kid, my first thought was 'it's molasses, how can you not get out of the way'. But when I was older and read up on it, I learned how wrong I was with that earlier thought. The tank had been hastily and improperly constructed, it also hadn't been run through the standard stress tests for the era. Workers had reported the tank leaking and straining when the tank was near filled to capacity, but the Purity Distilling Company did nothing. When the tank burst, it resulted in a wave of molasses 25ft high and moving at around 35mph. The force was enough to bend steel and move buildings off thier foundations. With the weather, the molasses thickened to hamper escape and rescue attempts. Many drowned in the goop, more were crushed by it or the debris. The only positive that came from this was the first class action lawsuit which set the standard for future lawsuits as well as paved the way for the implementation of regulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood https://www.history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science https://www.history.com/news/the-great-molasses-flood-of-1919 https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/685154620/a-deadly-tsunami-of-molasses-in-bostons-north-end https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/great-boston-molasses-flood-1919-killed-21-after-2-million-n958326 https://allthatsinteresting.com/boston-molasses-flood
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M_Sinistrari posted:There's always the debate over is pizza a sandwich. I had nightmares about this for weeks after first reading about it. It was Hell.
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Pvt.Scott posted:Any quick examples of the sorts of shenanigans that got left out of the Chernobyl miniseries for being too unbelievable? I can only imagine someone using a chunk of depleted uranium as a doorstop to prop open a door that should be sealed at all times. This reminded me of the Goiânia accident in Brazil in 1987. People looking for scrap metal in an abandoned hospital take home part of a radiotherapy machine and bad poo poo ensues, including one of their daughters using cesium as body glitter. Which also reminds me of PU-239, a really darkly funny story by Ken Kalfus that was made into a movie. The movie wasn't quite as good, but both are worth a shot.
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OutOfPrint posted:I had nightmares about this for weeks after first reading about it. It was Hell. quote:"Once a woman from the Island of Death was brought to our house," Feofila Bylina, a resident of the village of Nazino on the north bank of the Ob, recalled in an oral history in 1989. "She was being taken to another camp.... The woman was taken into the back room to spend the night and I saw that her calves had been cut off. I asked and she said, 'They did that to me on the Island of Death – cut them off and cooked them.' All the meat on her calves was cut away. Her legs were freezing because of this and she wrapped them up with rags. She was able to move on her own. She looked like an old woman, but really she was just a little over 40." what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Why did I read that! Why did I do that to myself!
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M_Sinistrari posted:When it comes to locations of hosed up cults, last place anyone's going to think is Canada. But with the nightmare that's the Ant Hill Kids Cult, this one's probably the worst out of a larger organization type like Scientology. quote:There were many other disciplinary practices Thériault used. He forced commune members to break their own legs with sledgehammers, to shoot each other in the shoulders, eating their own – and other’s – feces, insects and rats. He would nail children to a tree and force other children to throw rocks at them. He would forcibly remove teeth and nails. He would burn his followers by making them sit on lit stoves. He would cut off arms and legs without warning. He made them sit naked in the cold and whip and beat them. Nothing was too cruel a punishment. what the fuckkkk
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May 19, 2019 12:17
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Humans are so, so dumb.
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May 19, 2019 12:28
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I... Couldn't come up with poo poo like that, and I'm super glad.
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May 19, 2019 13:54
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Let me present a case of "Oh God, please no, don't let me experience anything like that!". A diver's lifeline snaps, he lands on the bottom of the North Sea, still conscious. With enough oxygen for 6-7 minutes. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190423-the-man-who-ran-out-of-air-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean
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May 19, 2019 17:04
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I was not expecting that outcome, holy hell
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May 19, 2019 20:03
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Our new column at the BBC, a little something we like to call HOLY HELL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN WHAT THE ACTUAL gently caress 
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May 19, 2019 22:35
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AlbieQuirky posted:Our new column at the BBC, a little something we like to call HOLY HELL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN WHAT THE ACTUAL gently caress loving right. Jesus.
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May 19, 2019 22:44
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I watched the doc on Netflix and it was incredible. Absolutely terrifying.
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May 19, 2019 22:45
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that's not horrifying, that whips rear end
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May 19, 2019 23:15
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AlbieQuirky posted:Our new column at the BBC, a little something we like to call HOLY HELL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN WHAT THE ACTUAL gently caress I will literally never be even close to being in that situation so it doesn't bother me like that. The cult thing though, holy poo poo - I didn't think anyone could think of anything that depraved, nor could I, so now I'm even less optimistic about people than I was before 2019.
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Alaois posted:that's not horrifying, that whips rear end *Casio intro* CHRIS LEMONS COULD NOT BREATHE HIS AIR HOSE HAD BROKEN CHRIS LEMONS REALLY WHIPPED THE KRAKEN'S rear end
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When it comes to hoarders, nowadays we're pretty knowledgeable. We've mapped the gene for hoarder tendencies, we know it's usually triggered by a tragic incident such as loss of a loved one. We know with patience and therapy, hoarding can be treated. But decades back, this wasn't the case. The first well documented instance of hoarders is the Collyer Brothers, Homer and Langley. Born in the late 1800s, they were from a pretty well off family and lived in a Harlem brownstone. However, after thier parents died and with the advent of the Great Depression and neighborhood demographics changing, the brothers gradually became reclusive especially after Homer lost his sight and Langley quit his job to look after him in the 1930s. There was much speculation about the odd behavior of the brothers. Langley was known to go out at night for foraging and buying food. He was fiercely protective of Homer and wouldn't allow anyone to speak to him. No one was allowed inside, but what could be seen from outside was mountains of junk and newspapers. It wasn't until a call was made about a smell of decomposition coming from the house in 1947, that the extent of things inside the brownstone was known. The brownstone was packed completely with junk and newspapers, the only way to navigate was through carefully made tunnels through the garbage. Homer was found dead from starvation and heart failure. Langley was found a couple weeks later, crushed under a pile of garbage. It was likely that he died while bringing his brother food. Approximately 120 tons of garbage was removed from the brownstone. The brothers estate was valued at $91,000 at the time which is approximately $1,170,000 modern rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/01/collyer-brothers-hoarders/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/collyer-brothers-park https://allthatsinteresting.com/collyer-brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jV9D8FiFA
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