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vtgts300kw said:
Gwagon111 said:
If you get a proper bout, it's st scary. You are well aware if what's going on, but you can't do anything. You think your making a sound, but your not. It's a very strange thing to experience.
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream. Found in the unusual deaths article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
theironduke said:
vtgts300kw said:
Gwagon111 said:
If you get a proper bout, it's st scary. You are well aware if what's going on, but you can't do anything. You think your making a sound, but your not. It's a very strange thing to experience.
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream. AstonZagato said:
Found in the unusual deaths article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
Good God http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
Rouleur said:
List of unusual deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_death...
This is pretty grim:
1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.
The PH way...This is pretty grim:
1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.
Urban Sports said:
AstonZagato said:
Found in the unusual deaths article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
Good God http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
Slink said:
ive had something, i guess is a form of sleep paralysis, but i am paralysed in my dream and cannot move or do anything, but its not the whole dream me not being able to move, im having a strange dream, then i start getting really heavy, then fall over and cannot move, like i am so drunk i cant move or say anything. has happened a couple of times now, but not recently thank god. quite scary.
I don't often dream when i sleep,but when i dream once in a while they are all like this,a car is trying to run me over and suddenly my feet feel heavy and i move in slow-motion than the same scenario about some strange things chasing me.NightRunner said:
Rouleur said:
List of unusual deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_death...
This is pretty grim:
1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.
The PH way...This is pretty grim:
1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.
Wikipedia said:
2008: Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. He then got into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him.
Daily Soovy linktheironduke said:
I've had this too. Worst was when i was at Uni and woke up about 9 i guess but couldnt physically get up and out of bed till half 5. I went downstairs and my housemates assumed id gone home the previous day. Not nice.
It lasted over 6 hours????SpeckledJim said:
This has happened to a great many students. Don't worry about it.
The execution of Hugh Despenser the younger, from a manuscript of Jean Froissart.
In Froissart's account of the execution, Despenser was then tied to a ladder, and —in full view of the crowd— had his genitals sliced off and burned (in his still-conscious sight) then his entrails slowly pulled out, and, finally, his heart cut out and thrown into the fire. Professor Clare Sponsler says that Froissart is the only source to describe castration, where all other contemporary accounts have Despenser quartered, hanged, and beheaded.[10]
Just before he died, it is recorded that he let out a "ghastly inhuman howl",[citation needed] much to the delight and merriment of the spectators.[citation needed] Finally, his corpse was beheaded, his body cut into four pieces, and his head mounted on the gates of London.[2] Mortimer and Isabella feasted with their chief supporters, as they watched the execution.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Despenser_the_yo...
In Froissart's account of the execution, Despenser was then tied to a ladder, and —in full view of the crowd— had his genitals sliced off and burned (in his still-conscious sight) then his entrails slowly pulled out, and, finally, his heart cut out and thrown into the fire. Professor Clare Sponsler says that Froissart is the only source to describe castration, where all other contemporary accounts have Despenser quartered, hanged, and beheaded.[10]
Just before he died, it is recorded that he let out a "ghastly inhuman howl",[citation needed] much to the delight and merriment of the spectators.[citation needed] Finally, his corpse was beheaded, his body cut into four pieces, and his head mounted on the gates of London.[2] Mortimer and Isabella feasted with their chief supporters, as they watched the execution.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Despenser_the_yo...
The Winchester Mansion: the intention was that it would never be completed thus rendering the owner imortal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion
NitroNick said:
The Winchester Mansion: the intention was that it would never be completed thus rendering the owner imortal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion
I've visited there, most amusing.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion
Late 19th century Spaniards need a path around a gorge so stick one onto the cliffs, very high up. Now falling to bits, it attracts extreme ramblers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_del_Rey
This you tube clip sort of helps illustrate it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_del_Rey
This you tube clip sort of helps illustrate it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw
Craiglamuffin said:
Late 19th century Spaniards need a path around a gorge so stick one onto the cliffs, very high up. Now falling to bits, it attracts extreme ramblers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_del_Rey
This you tube clip sort of helps illustrate it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw
What, no streetview? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_del_Rey
This you tube clip sort of helps illustrate it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw
Not everyones cup of tea, but it fascinates me...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonto
This is interesting too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonto
This is interesting too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant
Edited by mattnunn on Monday 8th October 18:08
This man needs two homes. One for him, and a second for his balls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_sky_dive
I'm in awe of this man!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_sky_dive
I'm in awe of this man!
Hyper Realistic art:
Chuck Close
Paul Cadden
Richard Estes
Evan Penny
OK, the wiki on Paul Cadden ISN'T interesting as it's about one line long, but have a Google for some of his images (in fact all four are worth a Google). I saw some Chuck Close and Even Penny stuff last week, and it's mind blowing.
Chuck Close
Paul Cadden
Richard Estes
Evan Penny
OK, the wiki on Paul Cadden ISN'T interesting as it's about one line long, but have a Google for some of his images (in fact all four are worth a Google). I saw some Chuck Close and Even Penny stuff last week, and it's mind blowing.
MocMocaMoc said:
This man needs two homes. One for him, and a second for his balls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_sky_dive
I'm in awe of this man!
Felix Baumgartner is trying to go higher tomorrow at ~1pm.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_sky_dive
I'm in awe of this man!
A few people have claimed to have found the ultimate PH way to go from that list of unusual deaths.
How about this. Ultimate PHer (unfortunately);
How about this. Ultimate PHer (unfortunately);
That Wikipedia list of unusual deaths said:
270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death. British classicist Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.
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