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Sleep Paralysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I've had it happen to me a handful of times and it's one of the scariest things I've ever experienced. Trying to scream out and can't make a sound. Trying to move and can't. The feeling of a presence in the room.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/79...nations-57023/

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08-05-2011 , 12:14 AM

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18000rpm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama****a%27s_gold

Replace **** with something that rhymes with ship.

Last edited by 18000rpm; 08-05-2011 at 12:25 AM.

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08-05-2011 , 01:34 AM

#1553

NHFunkii

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took me a while to decipher that... shi.t does not rhyme with ship.

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08-05-2011 , 01:45 AM

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mug3n

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Originally Posted by NHFunkii

took me a while to decipher that... shi.t does not rhyme with ship.

lol

based on ur comment i thought it *wasn't* that, so i tried a bunch of different combos

but yea, rhyming fail

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08-05-2011 , 01:58 AM

#1555

CCuster_911

You Only Live Once

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Originally Posted by NHFunkii

took me a while to decipher that... shi.t does not rhyme with ship.

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/types-of-rhyme/

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08-05-2011 , 11:22 PM

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brad2002tj

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

Alternative weapon developed in wwii that involved strapping explosives to bats.

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08-06-2011 , 12:12 AM

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akem

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Originally Posted by JJdeblufheld

Related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza-bomber

i'm in tears

of laughter

"However, it was later determined that regardless of what had unfolded, Wells would never have had enough time to complete the tasks to get the bomb defused."

sigh, at least the one dude is serving life

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08-06-2011 , 12:39 AM

#1558

18000rpm

old hand

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Originally Posted by mug3n

but yea, rhyming fail

My bad.

So how many of you tried to google Yamafu.cka's Gold? Be honest.

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08-06-2011 , 06:32 AM

#1559

TheRempel

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Originally Posted by akem

NSFW Video of the bomb going off, somewhat gory

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08-06-2011 , 08:12 AM

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NoahSD

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This might be pretty disturbing for some people as it's quite detailed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes.

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Armin Meiwes ( /ˈɑrmɪn ˈmaɪvəs/ ar-min my-vəs; born 1 December 1961) is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet.

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08-06-2011 , 09:07 AM

#1561

donjonnie

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the puke ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_Incapacitator

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08-06-2011 , 05:21 PM

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bottomset

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Originally Posted by NoahSD

This might be pretty disturbing for some people as it's quite detailed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes.

guess it's good for Casey Anthony that she doesn't live in Germany, wtf at the retrial

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08-06-2011 , 05:42 PM

#1563

NoahSD

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It was an appeal of the sentence.

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08-07-2011 , 01:18 AM

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peatr999

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well dunno about german law but in the US a contract for performance that is illegal is void, and yes its still some form of homicide, possibily mitigated by the contract

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08-07-2011 , 03:31 AM

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Oski

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Originally Posted by UCheckIFold

So if someone agrees to be killed and say they sign a contract that gives you permission and all that jazz is that still murder? Has that situation every happened? It's like a suicide just not by your hands basically.

Obviously, you don't know Jack.

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08-07-2011 , 04:02 AM

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Oski

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Originally Posted by peatr999

well dunno about german law but in the US a contract for performance that is illegal is void, and yes its still some form of homicide, possibily mitigated by the contract

Second-degree murder. Yes, an illegal contract is void ab initio, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist for other purposes - such as to evidence malice or the lack thereof in the case of consensual killing.

Just to take one (unneccessary) step further: A person does not have a legal right to kill themself. Of course, a person cannot contract away a right they do not possess.

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08-07-2011 , 04:19 AM

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NoahSD

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Assisted suicide is legal in some states.

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08-07-2011 , 08:16 AM

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Oski

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Originally Posted by NoahSD

Assisted suicide is legal in some states.

and?

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08-07-2011 , 04:30 PM

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YouFaiil

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Originally Posted by CasualFriday

Kinda stumbled acros this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

Lyokha, Kaluga, Central Russia (December 2007). He had been living with a pack of wolves, had typical wolflike behavior and reactions. He was unable to speak any human language. Taken to a Moscow hospital, he received some medical treatment, a shower and nail trim and several meals before escaping from the building. He is believed to still be in the wild.

Incredible.

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08-07-2011 , 09:04 PM

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CheckRaise_

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^I watched a movie about a girl who had for the first 13 years of her life been locked to a chair and emotionally tortured by her father, I was completly depressed for like three days after watching it, especially because she was then temporarely placed with some religous family, she was there hit by the father when she had thrown up some food, after that event, she never talked again

The movie was a true story, **** people

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08-07-2011 , 11:00 PM

#1571

Aytumious

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Originally Posted by CheckRaise_

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

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08-08-2011 , 07:06 PM

#1572

youtalkfunny

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Originally Posted by sokiraJ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

How much radiation do you think this idiot has been around?

The next "normal" Eagle Scout I meet, will be the first.

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08-10-2011 , 05:32 PM

#1573

SatanBunny

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Originally Posted by dimebar

this is something I used to get. I'd be falling asleep and hear a loud bang/pop

Oh yeah, I had that once also...

Turns out my roommate was trying to blow up the living room.

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08-14-2011 , 09:47 AM

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SnotBoogy

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jewish community in ny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York

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08-15-2011 , 05:42 PM

#1575

mike ski

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Great thread.

War Plan Red

Was a plan for the United States to make war with Great Britain. It was developed by the United States Army during the mid 1920s, approved in May 1930 by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of Navy, updated in 1934–35, and officially withdrawn in 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War.

The war was intended to be a continental war, waged primarily on North American territory between the United States and the British Empire. The assumption was that Canada would represent the primary theater of operations.

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