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eating only apples posted:Talhotblonde is a good one. The documentary "Kill Me If You Can" is about a separate but similar incident but I wasn't really into the documentary itself. Here's a write up. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502 HelloIAmYourHeart posted:This is my favorite documentary. Pretty well done as I'm always "OMG is Joe gonna live???" as he is telling his story twenty years after it happened, obviously having lived. You forgot the most horrifying and crippling part of it all. He thought he was going to die listening to an endless loop of "Brown Girl In The Ring" by Boney M.  Sarcopenia has a new favorite as of 03:31 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Might I suggest Dear Zachary?
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It's really good and definitely falls into "things spiral out of control" territory. It's a tough watch for sure though.
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Sarcopenia posted:The documentary "Kill Me If You Can" is about a separate but similar incident but I wasn't really into the documentary itself. This is basically the thing that unnerved me the most. The way the brain acts when close to hypothermia and when under stress is scary. Having that song on repeat as an earworm while I'm slowly dying is a version of hell of don't want to experience.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, both experienced mountaineers, set out to ascend the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in Peru. Though they reach the summit, a powerful storm develops and Joe suffers a badly broken leg in a fall during the descent. The pair attempt a self-rescue, deciding to lower Joe with ropes down the steep and snowy slope while an enormous storm rages on. Simon cannot see where he is lowering Joe and Joe eventually drops over the edge of a large cliff and is suspended by the rope in mid-air. Simon arrests his fall, but neither sees the predicament his partner is in nor hears him over the howling wind. This is a slasher movie setup, right?
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Sarcopenia posted:I've seen it like a hundred times, but good recommend yeah. I feel like Dear Zachary as a whole is pretty good but even the first time I saw it I remember being kind of grossed out with the ridiculous filters and dramatic sound effects/music croscendo stuff they do at the climax. It's heartbreaking and mindboggling enough without having to resort to that sort of cheap emotional bullshit and it left a bit of a sour mark on the movie for me
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Yeah it does suffer from some pretty bad production decisions, especially with the sound effects. "I got in my car," *sound of a car door slamming shut, engine starting, tires screeching* "and when I arrived, I wrote a letter" *sound of pen scratching paper*
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For decades an entire Island normalizes having sex with girls as soon as they are at the age of 12 to the point where it is normal to see pregnant 12 year olds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004 quote:"The woman said that at first, she had tried to object to the rapes. After a while, however, she had come to realize that there was nothing she could do about it"  I can't help but wonder if most of the women who defended the practices did so because they didn't want to face that they had been abused and later enabled the abuse of their daughters.
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The demographics on that island are insane.
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For me the amateurishness and rawness of dear Zachary's production just multiplied the effect. Like it's not some super professional filmmaker I dunno how far that dudes career got film wise but it gives the appropriate impression of an amateur dude doing a film for his buddy etc Plus by the time there's like scary noise and the dad is like "I WANTED TO KILL-" I'm just curled up into a ball somewhere and easily affected
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Sarcopenia posted:For decades an entire Island normalizes having sex with girls as soon as they are at the age of 12 to the point where it is normal to see pregnant 12 year olds. Well, when an island colony is started by mutineers that kidnapped women from Fiji, I guess it's society is gonna be a little hosed up.
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Can't remember where I found this so it may be a repost: http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/
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Punkin Spunkin posted:For me the amateurishness and rawness of dear Zachary's production just multiplied the effect. Like it's not some super professional filmmaker I dunno how far that dudes career got film wise but it gives the appropriate impression of an amateur dude doing a film for his buddy etc A quick googling says that it changed a bunch of laws and criminal processes in Canada for the better at least? Although there's always a teeny, terrible voice in the back of my head that goes "LOL, of course the Canadian part happened in Newfoundland".
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8 Ball posted:Can't remember where I found this so it may be a repost: http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/ Well, that was a soul-crushing read. Edit: Also, pretty NSFW. But there was this: "Omsy was a rapist and thief but left the gang a few years ago to become a bass guitarist." Business of Ferrets has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/20/canada-toe-stolen-drinks-dawson-city-downtown-hotel?CMP=soc_567quote:Canada police investigate theft of mummified human toe served in drinks
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Vladimir Poutine posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/20/canada-toe-stolen-drinks-dawson-city-downtown-hotel?CMP=soc_567  I kinda wanna try it. That's way more hardcore than a shot of Malort.
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Vladimir Poutine posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/20/canada-toe-stolen-drinks-dawson-city-downtown-hotel?CMP=soc_567 This is the employees fault for letting him drink it outside of the designated time, hopefully she learns her lesson and goes the line for here on out.
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Solice Kirsk posted:
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Jun 21, 2017 06:45
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I remember hearing about the dude who swallowed the toe before. Isn't there something in Canadian laws that would make this illegal cause I can't imagine the US or UK being cool with people drinking things with desiccated corpse remains or eating them I mean a Chinese place near me got shut down for a few months for having legally killed deer in their work freezer
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Honestly. You'd think the patrons would know to toe the line.
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Jun 21, 2017 11:34
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you want a toe? I can get you a toe
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8 Ball posted:Can't remember where I found this so it may be a repost: http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/ This is loving horrible.
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8 Ball posted:Can't remember where I found this so it may be a repost: http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/ Bloody hell.
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Yeah, that's a rough one. I got hand twitching mad by chapter 2.
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Sarcopenia posted:For decades an entire Island normalizes having sex with girls as soon as they are at the age of 12 to the point where it is normal to see pregnant 12 year olds.
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 update on a thread favorite: Fran and Dan Keller were exonerated of all crime on June 20th.. You may or may not recall their story - they were essentially the flash point of the satanic panic craze in the early 90's. The link above recounts the cliff notes better than I can, so for the lazy here's an excerpt: quote:Fran and Dan Keller were each sentenced to 48 years in prison for the alleged sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl who was an occasional drop-in at their home daycare center on the rural outskirts of Austin. The child initially accused Dan of spanking her “like daddy” used to, but under intense and repeated questioning by her mother and a therapist, the story morphed to include claims of rape and orgies involving children. From there, the number of children alleging abuse increased and the accusations grew even more lurid and confounding: The Kellers had sacrificed babies; they held ceremonies in a local graveyard; they put blood in the children’s Kool-Aid; Fran cut off the arm of a gorilla in a local park; they flew the children to Mexico to be sexually assaulted by military officials. I am also quite bewildered by the police report that they obtained. All I can do is hold my head and wonder how the hell anyone would ever believe anything like that was going on... Then I remember pizzagate and give up hope for society.
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That drat Satyr posted:
about drat time.
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There was some discussion earlier about "how on earth can fake memory implanting even work" and today I found a link to this article on that phenomenon http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/remembering-the-murder-you-didnt-commit
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InediblePenguin posted:There was some discussion earlier about "how on earth can fake memory implanting even work" and today I found a link to this article on that phenomenon http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/remembering-the-murder-you-didnt-commit I think this was posted a few pages ago but yeah it's a good read.
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In Pakistan, a Fuel Tanker Fire Leaves at Least 150 Deadquote:ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When a tanker truck overturned on a road in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, hundreds of people rushed toward the vehicle to collect the spilled and leaking fuel. fuuuuuuuuck  I can't imagine what that must have looked like. A huge crowd of people splashing around in petrol, all going up in flames at once.
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That drat Satyr posted:
quote:Mouw told me that not long after the Kellers were convicted, he attended a medical conference where he learned that what he had interpreted as signs of abuse were nothing more than a normal variant of female genitalia. Haha, what the gently caress
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BrianRx posted:Haha, what the gently caress That part does kind if morbidly make me want to know what he saw that he mistook for signs of abuse. Like... Surely that dude must have written a detailed report that's out there somewhere since it says he tried very hard to have the courts reassess the facts.
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"These sick bastards really did a number on this girl's penis."
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Toys For rear end Bum posted:In Pakistan, a Fuel Tanker Fire Leaves at Least 150 Dead This has happened multiple times at the exact same spot at a really sharp turn that leads up to the tiny Tanzanian village I'm from.  You can still see a huge orangy spot where it happened. Gave me nightmares for weeks. The only good thing that came out of it is that it's kind of a "green boots" that makes the trucks slow down and be careful.
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Sarcopenia posted:This has happened multiple times at the exact same spot at a really sharp turn that leads up to the tiny Tanzanian village I'm from. Jesus, multiple times? I'm so sorry.
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Sarcopenia posted:My mom also had a good story about a black widow that terrorized the entire village for years until she somehow mysteriously disappeared. 
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Bamabalacha posted:As someone else posted, a Buzzfeed writer was on the Pulitzer short list for his work on the site. My dad was a journalist at a huge, well regarded paper and him and all his colleagues held their news division in well regard. My favorite fun fact about BuzzFeed is that the founder wrote his college thesis on viral marketing in light of Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism & Schizophrenia.
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8 Ball posted:Can't remember where I found this so it may be a repost: http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/ It will be a long time before I forget this.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:"These sick bastards really did a number on this girl's penis." hahaha I'm betting it's just that labia can be radically different from one person to the next, and pre-pornography the average person didn't see that many sets of women's genitals.
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