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I finished listening to the Synanon episodes, and they were a huge bummer but also really interesting. The last episode was pretty anticlimactic, but real life rarely wraps things up with a nice little bow. I did a little research and figured out how to contact the two people I had biggest issues with from the camp I attended (which does seem to have been influenced a bit by all of this poo poo, but was definitely a filtered version that pulled out most of the blatant abuse even if abuses absolutely still happened there and the broader company had at least a couple CEDU employees), but even before that last episode I didn't think there would be anything to gain from contacting them, and it only cemented that view, so I'm just going to go back to mostly not thinking about all this stuff again I guess. I do hope Brace got some kind of feeling of peace or closure from the experience of making the series as a whole though.
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Bouillon Rube posted:I vaguely remember a thread in GBS many years ago about a private school somewhere that had a bunch of really weird rituals/arbitrary rules…it seemed kind of adjacent to this Synanon stuff. I recall a big part of it was that some students were labeled as “weak” and some were “powerful” or some poo poo, and the relative “strength” levels between a given pair of a students dominated how their interactions would take place. Are you thinking about the "Third Wave" experiment?
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Elan school maybe? They used a low/high strength system. Elan was notable for using not just the usual struggle session style verbal abuse, but also "the ring", where a student would be disciplined by forcing them to box a procession of other students until they got their rear end thoroughly kicked. Edit: Joe vs Elan School is a comic by a survivor detailing his experiences. TerminalSaint fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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TerminalSaint posted:Elan school maybe? They used a low/high strength system. Elan was notable for using not just the usual struggle session style verbal abuse, but also "the ring", where a student would be disciplined by forcing them to box a procession of other students until they got their rear end thoroughly kicked. Thanks! Yes that comic is exactly what I was thinking of.
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I finished listening to the Synanon episodes, and they were a huge bummer but also really interesting. The last episode was pretty anticlimactic, but real life rarely wraps things up with a nice little bow. I did a little research and figured out how to contact the two people I had biggest issues with from the camp I attended (which does seem to have been influenced a bit by all of this poo poo, but was definitely a filtered version that pulled out most of the blatant abuse even if abuses absolutely still happened there and the broader company had at least a couple CEDU employees), but even before that last episode I didn't think there would be anything to gain from contacting them, and it only cemented that view, so I'm just going to go back to mostly not thinking about all this stuff again I guess. I do hope Brace got some kind of feeling of peace or closure from the experience of making the series as a whole though.
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TenementFunster posted:it was pretty hilarious that Brace and Liz even pretended to act like they would ever actually be able to ambush this guy. the notion that he would ever feel sorry for Brace was such a bizarre fantasy. they are so much better off that they didn’t actually get their “climatic” moment. Yeah it felt super naive, and it kind of turned into farcical bumbling, but at least he hopefully got the idea that there's anything to get out of interacting with that guy out of his system now I guess. The idea that Patrick was going to sit down and give them a tearful interview and spill his guts or something was completely ridiculous, and I doubt he even listened to the voicemail unless he was hoping to find a threat he could report to the police or something. I guess the best outcome would be if he finds out about Brace's wartime experience and feels a fraction of the fear he made all the kids at his school feel, but realistically he's probably already forgotten about it.
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Important Arthur Knight update: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/05/prisoner-fighting-extradition-bullied-by-cellmates-singing-leaving-on-a-jet-plane quote:An alleged fugitive fighting extradition to the US is seeking to be freed on bail from a Scottish jail because fellow prisoners are taunting him by singing John Denver’s hit Leaving on a Jet Plane.
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I thought the latest episode would be good based on the description, but it's bad, and Sarah squirm sucks
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Sarah Squirm is an acquired taste, and I have acquired it. Dunno what else to say.
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I don't find her particularly funny, but she was fine on the episode
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was a fine episode for some poo poo i don't care about
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Gone Fashing posted:I thought the latest episode would be good based on the description, but it's bad, and Sarah squirm sucks Nah
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:was a fine episode for some poo poo i don't care about The episode name was cut off in my podcast app as "The Yassification of Kyle R..." so I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't about the Rittenhouse rehabilitation sickos.
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Gone Fashing posted:I thought the latest episode would be good based on the description, but it's bad, and Sarah squirm sucks i love when they talk to quirky white women from booklyn
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it was a good ep. reality tv rocks
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:was a fine episode for some poo poo i don't care about
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truly an ep for da ladies
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I might not actually go to tonight's show despite buying a ticket. Montreal is being hit by a cold wave and my knee is hurting like a bitch since yesterday morning.
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SMERSH Mouth posted:I got a ticket to the Austin show and I kinda bet they don’t make it. why's that? i looked at tickets and the first google result was seatgeek offering front row tickets for $80 lol tickets are still available on the real site but the venue is too loving far
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i got four tickets to see Stav when he was in town then completely forgot the night of the show. i will NOT make the same mistake twice!
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At least the tickets were free
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BB2K posted:At least the tickets were free  the tickets were NOT free.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:i love when they talk to quirky white women from booklyn She’s from Chicago ya dipshit.
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I didn't go.  My knee is starting to get better too. Fml.
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i say swears online posted:why's that? They keep saying they might not make it because they’ll be coming off of two back-to-back show dates or something and will be flying in from Minneapolis that afternoon. I rolled the dice, hoping that the last show of an exhausting tour will be especially deranged if it happens at all.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I didn't go. Just admit you hit a weed vape and passed out in a jersey mikes
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Just admit you hit a weed vape and passed out in a jersey mikes It's ok, it happens to everybody.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Just admit you hit a weed vape and passed out in a jersey mikes I wish, instead I'm just getting old and busted.
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do you guys think brace would sign a holster? i don’t think the venue will respect my carry license but this would be a good compromise
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even though I'm close friends with brace because I listen to his podcast, I have no idea. I just thought it was funny
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get liz to sign your anime imo
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:get liz to sign your anime imo
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Braccè Boldano
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Brace made jokes about Virgil Texas’s disappearance and Andrew Tate’s arrest but didn’t have any laughs about the other Andrew Diagnosis: Coward
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He was diagnosed w pneumonia before our show. But he still gave it his all. I gave Liz some homemade chocolate chip cookies, but didn’t realize that Brace is insanely lactose intolerant. So hopefully, she, Yung Chomsky, and the tour manager enjoy them!
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Boywhiz88 posted:He was diagnosed w pneumonia before our show. But he still gave it his all.
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