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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3480 on: January 01, 2013, 06:51:36 PM »

Okay, fair warning, I'm posting a HuffPo link. But in this case, I'm not really sure how much room for warping there was, so I think this one can maybe be taken at more-or-less face value: potentialprostitutes.com

Sooooo, basically a straight-up blackmail site that may or may not be legal!
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Do you understand how terrifying the words “vibrating strap on” are for an asexual? That’s like saying “the holocaust” to a Jew.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3482 on: January 18, 2013, 12:22:27 PM »

Homeless man choked to death over tube of toothpaste

Six other random people join in to pin the man down and kick him in the head as a CVS manager chokes the man to death.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3483 on: January 22, 2013, 09:09:47 AM »

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Do you understand how terrifying the words “vibrating strap on” are for an asexual? That’s like saying “the holocaust” to a Jew.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3484 on: January 27, 2013, 10:01:44 AM »

This isn't WTF or disturbing at all, but we don't really have the old random catch-all thread anymore, so here we are.

The doomsday preppers of New York

It's a decently interesting little read.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3485 on: January 27, 2013, 11:00:25 AM »

It's a shame that there's such a cross-section between survivalists and paranoid coots.  Most people could stand to benefit from knowing what to do if the immediate area were to be suddenly demolished.

The other thing I always notice about these setups is that they are generally self-centered.  Nobody ever plans on meeting other people or, god forbid, helping or working together with them.  The person who has a sustainable plan in place for that is probably the one who will do more than survive for a few weeks.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3486 on: January 27, 2013, 12:01:46 PM »

There was a recent Simpsons episode where Homer fell in with some survivalists (including guest star Tom Waits!).  It was, you know, pretty so-so television, as you'd expect from modern Simpsons, but still possibly the best one of this season.

And that was where the episode headed -- it was a Homer Shows Basic Human Decency episode rather than a Jerkass Homer episode; he has a falling-out with the survivalists because he wants to go back to town and share resources with the people who are still there.  When he gets back, he discovers they're all doing just fine, because everybody who WASN'T making their way for a bunker had already decided that helping each other out was the best way to deal with a crisis.

The meteor episode covered a lot of the same ground and did it better, but it didn't have Tom Waits.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3487 on: January 27, 2013, 01:22:43 PM »

I'm not sure what to think about apparently having the same mind as a modern Simpsons writer.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3488 on: January 27, 2013, 02:13:24 PM »

I'm getting convinced that it's not videogames or guns that are causing Americans to go crazy, it's the generalized assumption that society will go to hell at any second.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3489 on: January 27, 2013, 02:45:32 PM »

I suspect it actually has more to do with the feeling of powerlessness.
These preppers are kind of crazy, but their madness (generally) begins and ends with their preparation. Something to make them feel like they have control and will continue to have control even in a worst-case scenario.

At least, this is my read on people in general.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3490 on: January 27, 2013, 03:14:17 PM »

I think it's attractive to the overly-nostalgiac beyond just "Things are going to hell now!"/"The modern world is gonna get it!". There's also the aspect of "I'll be self-sufficient like our brave pioneer ancestors." (note: Your ancestors were rarely self-sufficient, even if they were 'muricans).

This is of course the 'prepper' subdemographic that is likely to tell you they're a "Strict Constitutionalist" or other such nonsense.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3491 on: January 27, 2013, 04:20:32 PM »

I think it's attractive to the overly-nostalgiac beyond just "Things are going to hell now!"/"The modern world is gonna get it!". There's also the aspect of "I'll be self-sufficient like our brave pioneer ancestors." (note: Your ancestors were rarely self-sufficient, even if they were 'muricans).

There's an attractiveness to the end of the world, even if we don't end with it. Wiping civilization out means no more taxes or mortgages or credit card bills!
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3492 on: January 27, 2013, 04:56:46 PM »

I'm not sure what to think about apparently having the same mind as a modern Simpsons writer.

Well, it's the guy who introduced Zapp Brannigan to the world, so I think you're probably okay.

I'm getting convinced that it's not videogames or guns that are causing Americans to go crazy, it's the generalized assumption that society will go to hell at any second.

There's certainly a lot of self-fulfilling prophecy going 'round to the people who are convinced that society is on the verge of collapse.

Take recent YouTube celebrity James Yeager, who got his handgun permit revoked after ranting that he'd murder people if the government tried to take his guns.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3493 on: January 27, 2013, 05:29:37 PM »

So uh... has he killed anyone yet?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3494 on: January 28, 2013, 12:13:16 AM »

So, uh, anybody been keeping up with the story of Ed Kramer, the Dragon*Con co-founder who's spent the past 13 years stalling a trial on child molestation charges?

An article from last September in Atlanta Magazine has a pretty thorough breakdown of everything that's happened -- the original charges, the variety of ways Kramer managed to wear down authorities until they let him go from jail and put him under house arrest, and then let him out once a week, and eventually agreed to take off his ankle bracelet -- and how he eventually got caught violating his parole following a 16-year-old boy around in Connecticut in 2009.  He spent the ensuing three years fighting to keep from being extradited back to Georgia, but as of last week he's finally back in a Georgia jail and will hopefully actually get tried now.

As for how he's been able to play this game for so long: part of it is that he's got some legitimate and serious health problems (and possibly some less legitimate and serious ones that he's exaggerated, too), and part of it is that he's still got plenty of money coming in from Dragon*Con (he's still a 34% owner).  So uh you might want to share that if you know anybody who wants to go to Dragon*Con.

Added bonus distant-second-most-disgusting-human-being-in-this-story dept: while most of his defense attorneys have abandoned him, he's still being defended by Bob Barr.  Yes the former Georgia Congressman, yes one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment proceedings, yes the fundamentalist who decided he was a Libertarian once that became a more profitable thing for him to be, yes a truly conscienceless, opportunistic hypocrite.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3497 on: February 08, 2013, 11:01:25 AM »

That piece of shit of a person.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3498 on: February 08, 2013, 11:26:11 AM »

THAT'll get people to take you seriously instead of thinking you're just a crazy asshole.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3499 on: February 08, 2013, 12:14:25 PM »

Amish group gets 15 years for hair-cutting hate crimes.

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