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The volume 1 of ___ EDIT: New page, guess I should contribute something. The Collector by John Fowles fits the current theme. Written in 1963, it tells the story of a butterfly collector who decides to kidnap the object of his obsession--a college art student. I brought my Drake has a new favorite as of 21:08 on May 3, 2018 |
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queserasera posted:The volume 1 of ___ Serial killer Leonard Lake was obsessed with that novel.
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May 3, 2018 21:14
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duz posted:Everything this guy wrote about his coworker: I feel like the kidnapping attempt at the end kind of floats by without enough significance, relative to the insane journals.
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May 3, 2018 21:16
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I'll be honest, the little bit I read felt a bit like stdh.
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May 3, 2018 22:13
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Image is gone now... what was it?
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May 3, 2018 22:25
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Dirty Deeds Thunderchief posted:Image is gone now... what was it? A guy going full-blown stalker on the woman a couple cubicles over who almost certainly didn't know his name until he tried to kidnap her. The image I saw in the IoSM thread (which is now gone with the rest of the album) was along the lines of "I can't stand it that you have to work here, you're so much better than that, you'll be so much happier when you're barefoot in my kitchen pushing out my babies like you're meant to do".
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May 3, 2018 22:57
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Dirty Deeds Thunderchief posted:Image is gone now... what was it? Rehosted. http://cheezburger.com/5520901/panicked-woman-finds-insane-coworkers-chilling-stalker-diary-about-her
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May 3, 2018 22:59
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Scarodactyl posted:I'll be honest, the little bit I read felt a bit like stdh. It does feel a little like a writing project, but it's still unnerving even if it isn't real.
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May 3, 2018 23:03
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Rehosted. I don't know whats creepier. the diary or that its posted on a lolcats domaine.
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May 3, 2018 23:11
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Scarodactyl posted:I'll be honest, the little bit I read felt a bit like stdh. This is a comforting fiction, but we both know there are guys out there like this.
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May 3, 2018 23:40
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It’s a little jarring that her commentary between images is quippy and laughs at him for being a loser, then in the end she’s just casually like “this guy came to my apartment and wouldn’t leave, so I got a restraining order and then he broke it by trying to abduct me. Hope that answers all your questions.” It doesn’t.
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May 3, 2018 23:45
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The Collector was a great book. Then again I read it right after reading A Long Way Gone, so it was basically a light-hearted romp.
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May 4, 2018 00:32
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business hammocks posted:It’s a little jarring that her commentary between images is quippy and laughs at him for being a loser, then in the end she’s just casually like “this guy came to my apartment and wouldn’t leave, so I got a restraining order and then he broke it by trying to abduct me. Hope that answers all your questions.” 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?
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May 4, 2018 01:39
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She could take it as a wake up call to finally start acting like a proper lady and marry this guy that obviously cares about her more than she even cares about herself. 
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May 4, 2018 01:50
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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? Yeah, I took all the quips as her stripping his words of any power by pointing out what a pathetic loser the guy is. Good on her for being at a point where she can do that.
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May 4, 2018 02:26
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I mean, it's obviously fake.
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May 4, 2018 02:32
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Solice Kirsk posted:The Collector was a great book. Then again I read it right after reading A Long Way Gone, so it was basically a light-hearted romp.  tragic book club buddy
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May 4, 2018 04:32
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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? That's similar to how I talk about my ex husband. He used to abuse me terribly and went on to kill a man. I like to laugh about how he was a total dumbass who got caught almost immediately. Also, talking about it in a serious manner is a LOT harder than talking about my dumbass ex who always talked about how he could totally get away with murder but then surprise! he totally didn't even come close.
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May 4, 2018 04:37
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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? Lord knows that's how I'm getting through the double anniversary of my mom's death right now. When the cancer finally took her, she made good on her promise not to die on a Tuesday in April (everyone aside from mom that I've known and loved who's died has kicked it on a Tuesday in April, so I've got a superstition about that). Then The Call came in May, and while I was still on the phone with my step dad telling me "your mom finally passed" and I'm sobbing in the parking lot of a Waffle House, she starts breathing again, 15 minutes after a nurse said she was dead. It was a pretty harrowing 24 hours for me until mom's nervous system finally said "y'know what, gently caress this, peace out" and really died. Now I like to say, "a mom so nice, she had to die twice!" My point: Humor helps the pain. Waffle House, sadly, still makes me cry, so I don't eat there anymore. Edit: sorry for getting all e/n in here, I just have this memory all up front right now and I kinda needed to vent my spleen, thanks for listening JacquelineDempsey has a new favorite as of 05:58 on May 4, 2018 |
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May 4, 2018 05:29
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Man, super rough on both counts... but as someone who has had my fair share of Dark Life poo poo, too, humor is absolutely the easier way to talk about it. Discussing something seriously is important too, but it takes a lot more out of you, and imo I think stripping the power from his words (as mentioned) in this scenario is important and powerful. Saying it's obviously fake still feels a bit eh. It still doesn't really read like stdh.txt to me just because... I could see it happening way too easily. Without any news articles relating to the case (which would be a Very Bad Idea) there's no real way of knowing, but it's not like something exactly similar hasn't happened many times before. Anyway, I'll go back to lurking for unnerving articles now.
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May 4, 2018 06:37
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Not sure if this has been posted recently or not but here is an article about people eating people, but it is educational because it is about history.
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May 4, 2018 07:36
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duz posted:Everything this guy wrote about his coworker: Got a summary or something? It isn’t found for me. Edit: Nevermind. I see it above. There was a whole new page that I somehow missed before responding.
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May 4, 2018 10:50
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Dirty Deeds Thunderchief posted:as someone who has had my fair share of Dark Life poo poo, too, humor is absolutely the easier way to talk about it. See also cops, firefighters, ambulance crews, and experienced news reporters/phographers.
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May 4, 2018 15:11
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Dirty Deeds Thunderchief posted:Man, super rough on both counts... but as someone who has had my fair share of Dark Life poo poo, too, humor is absolutely the easier way to talk about it. Discussing something seriously is important too, but it takes a lot more out of you, and imo I think stripping the power from his words (as mentioned) in this scenario is important and powerful. 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.
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May 4, 2018 15:52
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Chillbro Baggins posted:See also cops, firefighters, ambulance crews, and experienced news reporters/phographers. And soldiers. My son was in Iraq for 3 years and has a seriously dark sense of humor, to the point where it offends some people.
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May 4, 2018 16:13
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My aunt (well, second cousin, but basically an aunt to me) is probably going to die in the next couple of days because she has stage 4 lymph and throat cancer and I joked around that it's probably killing her to not be able to complain about the food in the feeding tube because of the tracheotomy. It got a pretty good laugh.
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May 4, 2018 16:21
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Just a PSA he can always come hang out in GIP, we have a great get help thread, story threads and dick books.
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May 4, 2018 16:23
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MightyJoe36 posted:And soldiers. My son was in Iraq for 3 years and has a seriously dark sense of humor, to the point where it offends some people. Oh yeah, that's a given. My father was a Green Beret in Vietnam, and his stories are hilarious, even the ones where his friends die. Of course, there's a psych eval when you apply for an 18-series MOS, and if you're a normal, well-adjusted person, they won't let you in (according to Dad; that may be a joke.) If you have archives, I've posted them here a time or two.
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May 4, 2018 16:41
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Solice Kirsk posted:My aunt (well, second cousin, but basically an aunt to me) is probably going to die in the next couple of days because she has stage 4 lymph and throat cancer and I joked around that it's probably killing her to not be able to complain about the food in the feeding tube because of the tracheotomy. It got a pretty good laugh. These situations are grueling and exhausting for loved ones, it's really hard to imagine going through something like that without trying to lighten things up a bit here and there. When my grandfather passed away last year, my 92 year old grandmother was spending like 18 hours a day 7 days a week in the hospital with him just sitting there(he was totally out of it by that point). When people came to visit she sure as hell didn't want to just sit there solemnly staring at him, she wanted to get a little bit of a respite from that and a joke was not considered out of place at all.
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May 4, 2018 17:04
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Waffle House, sadly, still makes me cry, so I don't eat there anymore. 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.
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May 4, 2018 18:22
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my last memory of my grandfather is him, at the age of 93, trying to describe in full the plot of the film Prisoners
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May 4, 2018 18:54
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My grandma died on Christmas Day. The phone call from my mom Christmas Day went from "why the hell is she calling me at 7am?" to "Happy Xmas mom!" to "can't cry on the phone with my mom listening" all in a matter of seconds. I have a lot of friends and family, and so there's not really a year that goes by that one or two people I'm close with die, but my grandmas were the hardest ones I've had to deal with. I at least got to say goodbye to both of them. Well, one of them knew I was saying goodbye, the other one kept mistaking me for either my grandfather's brother who died in WW2 or my dad.
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May 4, 2018 19:04
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Both of my grandparents died on my birthday, exactly one year apart. My grandpa apparently said that he saw his wife beckoning him when it was his time to go, and the stereo played a song they had always listened to.
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May 4, 2018 19:24
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china bot posted:my last memory of my grandfather is him, at the age of 93, trying to describe in full the plot of the film Prisoners The Denis Villeneuve movie? What a rad grandpa.
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May 4, 2018 19:34
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My dad died from cancer when I was 10, so I’ve spent the better part of my life joking about death and cancer and tragedy and people always act like I’m so callous and insensitive and I’m like “hey have some respect my father passed away!” and they always clam up because people are cowards
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May 4, 2018 19:43
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Stare-Out posted:The Denis Villeneuve movie? What a rad grandpa. the very same. he had a mind like a steel trap until the very end, but he couldn't wrap his brain around the cooler filled with snakes
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May 4, 2018 19:44
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chitoryu12 posted:Both of my grandparents died on my birthday, exactly one year apart. My grandpa apparently said that he saw his wife beckoning him when it was his time to go, and the stereo played a song they had always listened to.
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May 4, 2018 20:07
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Antivehicular posted:. Luckily, Hardee's is not a big loss. you watch your drat mouth
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May 4, 2018 20:13
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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. I read this as like your grandparents all shared a bed a la’ Willy Wonka and there was a gas leak
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my grandfather died in his sleep the night after winning a couple hundred bucks at casino isn't it ironic
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