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FrozenVent posted:Nah, he was an rear end in a top hat too. The USSR never had a premier who wasn't a murderous rear end in a top hat; it's how you got ahead in that system. The nice guys got murdered / sent to the gulag. Well, I guess Pavlov wasn't in the position long enough to do anything ESPECIALLY heinous. Watch this, it'll turn out he stomped a tonne of puppies to death in the middle of Red Square or something.
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Yeah, Charles Bonnet Syndrome has always SERIOUSLY creeped me out. I think it's because it's so specific. Like, if your brain just switched off and you fell over dead, I'd be less scared of that because it's just another thing that can kill you. But having such incredibly specific hallucinations, especially such bizarrely mundane ones, I dunno, just really gets under my skin. Something similar is the Ganzfield effect. It's similar to sensory deprivation. If you stare long enough at a single field of colour, your brain almost goes into a "screensaver", and just...switches your eyes off. You just see black, and some people have reported hallucinations, because the brain is essentially scrambling for any other activity. Gyro Zeppeli has a new favorite as of 23:37 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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monkeytennis posted:[quote="BioMe" post="432984339"] As soon as I saw discussion of pigs eating corpses, I felt like giving the definition of what "nemesis" means. (A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible oval office.)
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Aug 2, 2014 16:10
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Random Stranger posted:And yet I somehow still feel better about how the US handles its nuclear arsenal than how Russia does... And for true  level, imagine the North Korean nuclear program.
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Doctor Malaver posted:How about a music break? Varg Vikernes on his own is enough to make it into this thread. He is a very disturbing individual.
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Rabbit Hill posted:It's funny how mental disorder never gives people the urge to, like, build orphanages by hand or feed every homeless person on their home block or something. Instead of having the urge to break into women's apartments to rape them in their sleep, how about breaking in to tuck them in and sing them lullabies? Why's it always got to be rape and torture, mayhem and murder? Turns out the people whose illnesses compel them to kill and eat people are reported on more than those whose illnesses compel them to donate modestly to charity or help old women cross the road.
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Jan 16, 2015 22:20
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spleen merchant posted:In early 19th century Scotland, the only corpses that could be used to fill the rising need for anatomical study were those condemned to death and dissection. Unfortunately for the medical community, capital punishment was falling out of favour and supply could no longer meet demand. This led to the rise of body snatchers, or "resurrectionists" - who would steal the recently diseased from the grave and sell them on to medical schools. Some of these resurrectionists didn't have that much patience. And then some of the Resurrectionists didn't even wait for people to be buried to dig them back up.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:25
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BattleMaster posted:Is it really civilian medical doctors' faults that government-sanctioned butchers brutalized blacks in the past? I mean, I doubt that Jews in Germany are wary of medical doctors because of Mengele's concentration camp horror show. I suppose it's the lack of a major shift in power that's the problem. Jews in Germany can be reasonably sure they're not going to get Mengele'd, because the Nazis aren't in power any more. There was no massive regime toppling to signal "They're not gonna try Tuskegee again".
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Yeah, "the uncle did it" is some full  stuff. There's a massive mountain of evidence that supports the claim that it was Hauptmann.I read a book about it a while ago, The Ghosts of Hopewell, that outlines everything that led to his conviction, and how it would still easily hold up today. The only way he could become more guilty is if they found him in the house, covered in blood, screaming "I KILLED THAT BABY". Gyro Zeppeli has a new favorite as of 00:40 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Feb 9, 2015 00:37
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RCarr posted:I'm pretty sure this is bullshit. Nope, Desomorphine is real, as are the effects of using homemade versions.
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Mar 6, 2015 14:17
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AnonSpore posted:One day they're gonna invent a bomb so deadly and destructive that the very possibility of it ever being used is enough to stop all wars forever Nukes basically are that bomb. Turns out we'll go to war anyway.
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AnonSpore posted:whooooooooosh Literally Kermit posted:Holy poo poo. You meant well, but holy poo poo. Welp, serves me right for not reading the rest of the thread. 
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JacquelineDempsey posted:As the diver told it... He's down there and comes across a woman, still belted into her seat. The woman starts moving, and not in a way that matches the ocean current. She looks, incredibly, alive. He checks his tanks to make sure he's not flipping out on nitrogen narcosis; there's no way anyone's still alive who's been down there so long.  Jesus loving christ. Out of all of the stuff posted in this thread, I think I had the most visceral "FUCKIN NOPE" to that image.
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showbiz_liz posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_abduction This is absolutely horrific, but if there's any silver lining to be found, it's how many of the children end up living through it. It's incredible how resilient even a newborn baby is.
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Mar 25, 2015 23:32
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As a non-American, I seriously had no idea you could go inside the Washington Monument. I thought it was just a big obelisk and that was it. I've learned something from this thread other than the fear of humanity in general
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What makes this worse is that Turkey still entirely deny it happened. It's one thing to kill 1.5 million people, and to do it in such a way that it necessitates the creation of the word "genocide", but to then basically play dumb when accused of it is another thing entirely.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:48
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Pondex posted:Be warned though. You need to have a pretty high tolerance for bleakness, otherwise it might seriously bum you out. You want bleak, watch Threads. Then take the next day off to recover.
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The Lone Badger posted:And you have to stay calm while you're swept away. You panic, you die. Yeah, "swim parallel to the shore for a bit and you'll be fine" tends to get overridden by "OH gently caress I'M BEING SWEPT OUT TO SEA I'M GOING TO DIE".
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May 12, 2015 11:36
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All we had around here is an oil refinery and an abattoir/meat rendering plant 
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MightyJoe36 posted:Back in the 60s too. Surprised no-one posted one of the most famous occurances of someone dying on live TV. (No video or anything, although there is very famous footage of it out there.)
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