Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
RobinOakapple said:
People facing execution just seem to go along with it for the most part. Should I ever be in that position I picture myself fighting every step of the way. I'd be overpowered for sure but at least I would have done everything I could. But maybe when death is inevitable they just want to get it over with with as little fuss as possible?
They don't always, by coincidence I read the following description this afternoon..."The guards came for xxxxx at 3:30am. He was ordered to step out of his prison issue shorts to avoid soiling them with urine & excrement and told to dress in his civilian clothes. He refused so his prison garb was torn from him. He should have been weighed to calculate the drop. He refused to be weighed for the drop. It took 12 guards 20 minutes to drag him to the holding cell next to the gallows. During the struggle he sustained a broken nose, cheekbone, jaw, 2 black eyes & multiple bruising. At the appointed time xxxx was heard to be sobbing. The 2 other doomed men were already pinioned & hooded on the trap when he was prepared. Again he lashed out before being bound with leather straps. Now neutralised, naked & tightly buckled he lost control of his bodily functions. Quickly a rubber bung was forced between his teeth. Then cam the hood, followed by the rope. Apull on the leaver & xxxx plunged into eternity. The consequences of the failure to calculate a proper drop were only too obvious, for his head had almost been ripped from his body"
The official description of events said ......
" xxxx was woken by guards at about 3:30am & escorted to a waiting room where he and 2 other prisoners were prepared. He spoke to a priest & a prison chaplin before his time came when he walked bravely to his death"
This is a true account of a judicial execution of a British man in 1996.
I went to Melbourne Gael a few years ago and there was an exhibit about hanging including a book with tables for calculating the drop using the prisoners height and weight. There was also the story of a prisoner who was a chippy before prison. He was 'employed' to disassemble then reassemble the hanging stuff when they relocated the jail. He was the first person to be handed from it in its new location.
andyb28 said:
OK, here is one thats always bothered me.
In Red Dwarf, Rimmer was repairing a drive plate, which in turn killed all the crew. So my question is this... Why is Rimmer, a 2nd Technician repairing a drive plate, instead of fixing vending machines?
He was meant to carry out a maintenance check and missed the radiation leak. He wasn't actually directly responsible, but blamed himself for missing it.In Red Dwarf, Rimmer was repairing a drive plate, which in turn killed all the crew. So my question is this... Why is Rimmer, a 2nd Technician repairing a drive plate, instead of fixing vending machines?
That's only a little bit racist 
Did a Chinese boy steal your girlfriend or something?
Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inve...
HTH.
Did a Chinese boy steal your girlfriend or something?
Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inve...
HTH.
scarble said:
That's only a little bit racist
Did a Chinese boy steal your girlfriend or something?
Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inve...
HTH.
that's not many inventions for 1.4 billion people. Did a Chinese boy steal your girlfriend or something?
Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inve...
HTH.
Willy Nilly said:
Has modern China actually invented anything or just plagiarised things and buit stuff cheaply in factories? We see a lot in the news about what a bunch of studious clever clogs their kids are, but I don't seem many great Chinese inventions.
The Chinese education system just turns out robots that can regurgitate stuff from text books and thus pass exams.The finished graduate standard is not very high. With such a huge population there are of course a few Gooduns but the average Grad is pretty dire.
The China Gov are aware of it and are stuck as to what to do about it.
GT03ROB said:
RobinOakapple said:
People facing execution just seem to go along with it for the most part. Should I ever be in that position I picture myself fighting every step of the way. I'd be overpowered for sure but at least I would have done everything I could. But maybe when death is inevitable they just want to get it over with with as little fuss as possible?
They don't always, by coincidence I read the following description this afternoon..."The guards came for xxxxx at 3:30am. He was ordered to step out of his prison issue shorts to avoid soiling them with urine & excrement and told to dress in his civilian clothes. He refused so his prison garb was torn from him. He should have been weighed to calculate the drop. He refused to be weighed for the drop. It took 12 guards 20 minutes to drag him to the holding cell next to the gallows. During the struggle he sustained a broken nose, cheekbone, jaw, 2 black eyes & multiple bruising. At the appointed time xxxx was heard to be sobbing. The 2 other doomed men were already pinioned & hooded on the trap when he was prepared. Again he lashed out before being bound with leather straps. Now neutralised, naked & tightly buckled he lost control of his bodily functions. Quickly a rubber bung was forced between his teeth. Then cam the hood, followed by the rope. Apull on the leaver & xxxx plunged into eternity. The consequences of the failure to calculate a proper drop were only too obvious, for his head had almost been ripped from his body"
The official description of events said ......
" xxxx was woken by guards at about 3:30am & escorted to a waiting room where he and 2 other prisoners were prepared. He spoke to a priest & a prison chaplin before his time came when he walked bravely to his death"
This is a true account of a judicial execution of a British man in 1996.
Where?
thismonkeyhere said:
GT03ROB said:
RobinOakapple said:
People facing execution just seem to go along with it for the most part. Should I ever be in that position I picture myself fighting every step of the way. I'd be overpowered for sure but at least I would have done everything I could. But maybe when death is inevitable they just want to get it over with with as little fuss as possible?
They don't always, by coincidence I read the following description this afternoon..."The guards came for xxxxx at 3:30am. He was ordered to step out of his prison issue shorts to avoid soiling them with urine & excrement and told to dress in his civilian clothes. He refused so his prison garb was torn from him. He should have been weighed to calculate the drop. He refused to be weighed for the drop. It took 12 guards 20 minutes to drag him to the holding cell next to the gallows. During the struggle he sustained a broken nose, cheekbone, jaw, 2 black eyes & multiple bruising. At the appointed time xxxx was heard to be sobbing. The 2 other doomed men were already pinioned & hooded on the trap when he was prepared. Again he lashed out before being bound with leather straps. Now neutralised, naked & tightly buckled he lost control of his bodily functions. Quickly a rubber bung was forced between his teeth. Then cam the hood, followed by the rope. Apull on the leaver & xxxx plunged into eternity. The consequences of the failure to calculate a proper drop were only too obvious, for his head had almost been ripped from his body"
The official description of events said ......
" xxxx was woken by guards at about 3:30am & escorted to a waiting room where he and 2 other prisoners were prepared. He spoke to a priest & a prison chaplin before his time came when he walked bravely to his death"
This is a true account of a judicial execution of a British man in 1996.
Where?
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