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InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.

Manuel Calavera posted:

:gonk:
Is this a PYF thread, or somewhere else? I'm morbidly curious.

Does youtube count for the thread? I forget when I subscribed, but Tats does various lists. Namely, creepy stories and the like. Here's a classic one, non-gaming creepypastas. It includes goon favorite Slenderman, and some honestly creepy stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjCHTSMGuY

It's in The Goon Doctor. Click the username in the top of the quote where it says "elise the great posted" and you will be taken directly to it in the original thread.

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InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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i must compose posted:

Wasn't there a thread with almost the exact same name that had like hundreds of pages? And I think the bloop got posted in that one like three times already.

yes and the mods closed it and said to make a new one, just like they did with the funny pictures thread, the idiots on social media thread, shitthatdidnthappen.txt, and all the other threads that had like hundreds of pages

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.
personally i just assumed the german dude had originally been writing in german and possibly had used a word that got TRANSLATED to butcher which did not necessarily, in its original language, mean "literally killing things is literally their job"

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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MrGreenShirt posted:

Thalidomide is a chiral molecule with a benign configuration and a mirror image configuration that's teratogenic. The problem is that it's difficult if not impossible to screen out one from the other during production.
Wikipedia says that the issue is that "Thalidomide is racemic; the individual enantiomers can racemize due to the acidic hydrogen at the chiral centre, and this process can occur in vivo so any plan to administer a purified single enantiomer to avoid the teratogenic effects will most likely be in vain"

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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wow on rereading I sound like I'm marching in all "well wiki says you're wrong" when really I was just thinking "oh wow it turns out it's even fuckeder than that"

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Good News Everyone posted:

But why did he continually confess to anyone who would listen?

because he thought if he said what they wanted him to say then he wouldn't get in trouble and when he proceeded to get in trouble anyway he probably thought that maybe they just needed him to say it some more until it would work, you colossal reject

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Jose posted:

Not with Japan;s 99+% conviction rate. If you're arrested there you're going to prison

by the time you have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution you have already been arrested and put in prison yo

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Ozz81 posted:

Isn't this the same with natural gas as well, being odorless/tasteless/colorless? I recall hearing somewhere that companies using natural gas for homes had to put chemicals or some such into the gas to give it a scent, because of accidents where gas leaks were undetected and caused fires or explosions. I might not be remembering correctly though...
Because of one specific accident, no less (I'm 100% sure the New London school explosion has been covered in this thread before tho)

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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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?
There was that lady in California last year whose mental disorder gave her the urge to give every little girl in her town a doll that looked like them.

Also, rape and torture make better press than starting a mission or feeding homeless people, which is probably why we know so many more examples of the former.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Kimmalah posted:

I had one doctor who basically ignored my complaints for about a year, refusing to run tests or do much of anything because at the time I was a teenage girl and they brushed it off as "it's in her head or she's faking it to hide an eating disorder" like it was no big thing. Once I lost about 30 pounds and could barely function they finally (grudgingly) did a test only because I wouldn't stop bugging them and found I had tons of inflammation all over my digestive system. I've always felt like if I had been male I would have been taken seriously much sooner and wouldn't have had to practically beg for a test.

Even now I still run into the occasional condescending attitude, where they treat you like you're either crazy or a child.
I died on the operating table and had to be resuscitated because a doctor assumed I was a teenage girl who was lying to hide a pregnancy when I spent twelve hours in extreme abdominal pain in the ER. Turned out my appendix had already burst by the time a different doctor came on shift and deigned to look at me for more time than it took to accuse me of lying. Tons of people who are or are assumed to be female get disbelieved by doctors on the regular because "everyone knows" women are just "hysterical" - most of the time when there's a discussion on this topic it ends up being full of women going "yeah me too" and then a bunch of dudes going "nah that never happens to me so you probably are exaggerating"

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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note that the symptoms of hysteria include both sexual desire and a loss of appetite for sex: if you want too much sex you're broken but if you don't want it when your husband does you're also broken, please refrain from displaying any desire of your own but always eagerly agree to please your husband or you might get forcibly committed

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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1. The uncontrolled, lovely "experiments" they made were of questionable actual scientific utility
2. Why do you think letting people get away with it is necessary? Why do you think there's no "punish the people who did the poo poo" option unless you set fire to their so-called 'research' when you do it?

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Polaron posted:

Wasn't there a clothing fabric back in the 60s or 70s that would melt when exposed to heat?

synthetic fabrics which do this are still in use

never, EVER weld while wearing a polyester shirt

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:

News of stories like that — or stories in general, really — was a lot harder for people to come by back then, since it was still a long time before the inventions of things like the TV and CNN. They had newspapers, but you're talking about an era when married women didn't normally leave their homes without male escorts, and when not even all of the men could read.

On the other hand, people whose social class meant they were illiterate were usually people whose social class meant they couldn't afford to wear crinolines, which were not really inexpensive.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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quote:

On the morning of June 29, the number of cracks in the area increased dramatically, prompting managers to close the top floor and shut the air conditioning off. The store management failed to shut the building down or issue formal evacuation orders, as the number of customers in the building was unusually high, and they did not want to lose the day's revenue. However, the executives themselves left the premises as a precaution.
end capitalism forever

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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BattleMaster posted:

Isn't that just a slightly more extreme version of what monks and nuns were doing anyway?
Theoretically, but in practice some people who chose to become immured were doing so to protest the fact that abbeys were gettin rich and failing to live up to their orders. Of course, anchorites weren't exactly fully cut off from society despite being in their little rooms - the sheer number of church edicts reminding people "if you're an anchorite you're supposed to sit there and be quiet, not entertain visitors and teach school and have tea parties through your window" implies that, well, they were entertaining visitors and teaching school and having tea parties through their windows

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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I am 100% sure, but also 100% unable to remember the source (it sounds like something Chaucer'd write but I don't think it's from Canterbury), that I've read about a ribald story from some medieval literature which involved an anchorite farting and/or pissing out the slot when someone was praying to them

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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the link pops up static and a picture of max headroom n poo poo on a browser (no audio for me thankfully)

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Jack Gladney posted:

Is vocal fry what Ira Glass does, or what those old Delicious Dish SNL segments were making fun of? I've never been able to figure out what it's supposed to be.

vocal fry is when your vowels get creaky but it's mostly just used as a dogwhistle for "I do not want to listen to a woman speak because girls are icky amirite" tbqh

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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considering that being unconscious changes and slows your breathing, and the horse was receiving oxygen therapy, perhaps there were clinical reasons not to sedate the horse? I'm not really gonna play blame-the-victim second-guessing games about it myself though because I'm not a veterinarian and might be talking through my rear end

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Omnishambles posted:

Huh. I thought I specifically checked that one out. Imma check again...

Edit: Weird when I go to the Black Dahlia page it's just text. Actually, that's how I originally got to the Sodomy page.
http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/unsolved-crimes/black-dahlia-murder/

Black Dahlia is also all-text for me, but sodomy has pictures, site overall still nsfw. How's that one guy getting photos on the Black Dahlia page and we aren't?

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Chicken Butt posted:

It somewhat reminds me of the art of Louis Wain, which
is oversimplified. The fractal cats were part of artistic experimentation partly to try to create wallpaper patterns and he continued to ALSO create the typical cutesy-realism cat pictures throughout his career. There's not actually real evidence for putting them in the chronological order in which you always see them, it's just that some doctor was like "well he's schizophrenic and if I arrange them in this order it looks like his art got weirder as he got more schizophrenic, which fits with my preexisting worldview so I'm gonna assume I'm right"

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Son of Thunderbeast posted:

"WOOP WOOP--PULL UP. WOOP WOOP--PULL UP"
Juggalo planes, the truest horror

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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AnonSpore posted:

Guy eloped with girl? Rape his sisters. Makes perfect sense.

"guy stole some family's property; therefore wreck some of his family's possessions in return" Women don't count as people, just as something that belongs to a man, to a huge swathe of the world (including massive amounts of the United States: that's the underlying rationale behind "you don't mess with Another Man's Wife" and "asking her father for his daughter's hand in marriage" and poo poo, after all)

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Khazar-khum posted:

If you don't see the difference between the innocuous "Mr Roberts, Missy and I are in love and would like to get married" and raping a 15 year old because her brother eloped, I can't help you.

If YOU don't see the difference between me explaining a mindset and me condoning that mindset how the everloving gently caress did you manage to survive high school history lessons about Hitler, dude. Thought my disapproval was obvious enough in my wording, but apparently some people are loving idiots

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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In an ideal world the reason for not messing with "Another Man's Wife" would be "respect for the woman's relationship choices and life decisions" but we do not live there. we live in the real world where women are still legally chattel in some countries, and even here in the good ol' U. S. of A. the husband had full and final control over all the property in the marriage even if it had been paid for by the wife with her own money from her own job and her name was the only one on the title until 1979. Right now across America girls are being taught, in school sex ed classes, that they shouldn't have sex until marriage because no one wants a present that someone else has already opened, which is pretty blatantly treating women as property via direct pointed metaphor. While women are no longer legally considered chattel in the west, they were considered chattel in our culture for centuries upon centuries and to think that a few decades is enough to completely eradicate all traces of that mindset from the culture is naive as gently caress

NOTE TO SOMETHING AWFUL FORUMS READERS: I DISAPPROVE OF THIS SITUATION AND WOULD PREFER TO LIVE IN THE IDEAL WORLD I MENTIONED IN THE FIRST SENTENCE. I AM IN FAVOR OF TREATING WOMEN AS ACTUAL AUTONOMOUS HUMAN BEINGS RATHER THAN PROPERTY.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Khazar-khum posted:


Cultural relativism is bullshit. "Yes, they'll be savagely raped, but it's OK because Jack asked my Robertson if he could marry Missy and the two are basically alike!" No, they are not. Because even in the days when women were more or less chattel, in the West most still had to consent to the marriage; women could not be forced to marry.
I was not attempting cultural relativism. I was not saying "It's OK because." I was not saying "it's OK." I was not doing this thing you accuse me of. I was explaining THE MINDSET BEHIND THE THING in response to someone who said they did not understand the mindset behind the thing. The two things are obviously qualitatively and quantitatively different. I was, again, explaining the mindset. If you interpret that as "it's ok" then that's your misreading, not my intent.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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so eager to do a murder he offered the dude a discount jesus christ

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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that's because they're in Austin, and the only part of Austin that's really "Texas" is the government

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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A CRUNK BIRD posted:

He opened her up and spread her guts around the apartment if any wiener was too scared to click the link (which includes no gross pics) in this pussified post

he didn't open her up, he put his hand up an orifice and pulled her intestines out of a pre-existing hole

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Olewithmilk posted:

do you think the pussy leads straight to the intestines, bro?
do you think it's impossible to put a hand in a butthole, bro?

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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why is this thread so full of dumbasses

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Same thing (with a grown woman going to high school) happened where I live a couple years ago.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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They've probably all read the same books. There's a lot of super creepy ultra-disciplinarian "parenting guide" type books out there -- I can't think of any titles offhand, but there's a fundamentalist Christian cult (I use this term because, according to the approving explanation given me by a member, the church requires its members to give all their bank account information to the guy who's in charge of the church, and that's inherently sketchy to me) in my town and the thrift stores are always full of really creepy poo poo on the bookshelves about how beating your wife and kids keeps 'em safe and godly, so I'm sure there's more secular versions too. Probably listed on Amazon if you know where to look.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Delivery McGee posted:

Fixed, the animal control people have to drag gators out of swimming pools all the loving time.

https://www.news-journal.com/news/2016/jun/15/two-alligators-rescued-swimming-pool-gladewater/
(edit: article is not unnerving, just "yeah, gators get in pools" because it happened locally the other day)

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InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Thoughtless posted:

The only thing you could realistically do with an alligator is gouge the eyes. Same thing for pretty much all large animals, unless you're armed, always go for the eyes.

Gators' eyes retract into their skulls for protection against this tactic

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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RNG posted:

Too lazy to put together a linkdump, but Luka Magnotta had a bizarre web presence where he pretended to be an international playboy before posting the video of him mutilating his boyfriend.

Lin Jun was not his boyfriend.

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Business of Ferrets posted:

knowing how to pass the knot likely would have prevented the near-tragedy part of their epic.

this could also be a review of a Supernatural fic on fanfiction dot net

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

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Safety Biscuits posted:

I find it pretty unnerving that plenty of places have hearses available but not ambulances.

even poors are gonna die and need a hearse, but poors can't afford medical treatment and there might not be a hospital nearby anyway so why even bother trying to help them
this is America after all, if you want an ambulance so bad just get rich and buy your own, freeloader

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InediblePenguin
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