Urban myths that somehow, people still believe

Urban myths that somehow, people still believe

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Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

279 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
If it was a professional hit, they picked the wrong option.

That is what they want you to think.

ruggedscotty

5,626 posts

209 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Vaud said:
Jimmy Recard said:
My uncle always insisted that every CD player was made by Philips
That has a logic to it.. Sony and Philips developed the standard and had substantial patent royalties for many years... not true that they made them all, but you can see the logic, sort of...
sort of logic to it.... was that dolby pro logic ?

Swampy1982

3,306 posts

111 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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br d said:
When the internet was a lot younger there was that story floating about of the woman in the bath with the lobster and cigarette lighter. Was that based on anything substantial or just complete bks?
If anyone is interested in the story then this is it, NSFW

If you read one disgusting story this year . . . LET IT BE THIS ONE !
Susy DeLucci and the Miracle of Life. One morning around 5am 22 year old Susan DaLucci of Kittery Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole.

She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police.

When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe. Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic

had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth. The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing.

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think that is bad – wait until you hear how it happened:

Ms. DeLucci official death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is believed by medical police that on two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature’s tail into her vagina to derive pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature’s face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion.

The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci’s DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobster tail joints. The lobster’s face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster’s digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci’s when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period, doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular “Sea Monkey” pets sold throughout the US. Over night the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes. You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

116 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Vaud said:
nonsequitur said:
Simply, what is a 'gran'? We have granddaughter, grandson, grandmother. And so to granddad.
Gran is always the grandma in my life experience.
Yes, agree. But not with 'dad' following in this instance.

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

105 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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nonsequitur said:
Yes, agree. But not with 'dad' following in this instance.
Yep....the alternative would be "Gramps"

julian64

14,317 posts

254 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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PixelpeepS3 said:
heard a great one from our electrician last weekend

'some people think that electricity can't kill any one and it was a myth created by electricians to ensure that people at home didn't attempt their own electrical work'

laugh

seriously?!
My father believes this. He's now in his eighties and thinks your generation could simply do with a slap. Worked most of his life in the aircraft industry on aviation navigation and weapon systems.

If one of my boys says mains is dangerous my father will likely find a live mains wire and touch it to show them they're wrong. He says it gives him a jump but no more than that. He tells them that when he first started working engineers in the airforce were told to touch wires to see if they were mains live, and regularly did this if meter testing equipment was either not around or too large to be used where it was needed. They also used to charge up high value capacitors and thrown them at each other.

I have to de-program my sons when he leaves the house.

When you think about it he possibly has a point. The problem is based on where current flows near the heart and how much so that good insulation between you and an earth to limit the current flow and making sure the current path is not across the heart.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

279 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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julian64 said:
PixelpeepS3 said:
heard a great one from our electrician last weekend

'some people think that electricity can't kill any one and it was a myth created by electricians to ensure that people at home didn't attempt their own electrical work'

laugh

seriously?!
My father believes this. He's now in his eighties and thinks your generation could simply do with a slap. Worked most of his life in the aircraft industry on aviation navigation and weapon systems.

If one of my boys says mains is dangerous my father will likely find a live mains wire and touch it to show them they're wrong. He says it gives him a jump but no more than that. He tells them that when he first started working engineers in the airforce were told to touch wires to see if they were mains live, and regularly did this if meter testing equipment was either not around or too large to be used where it was needed. They also used to charge up high value capacitors and thrown them at each other.

I have to de-program my sons when he leaves the house.

When you think about it he possibly has a point. The problem is based on where current flows near the heart and how much so that good insulation between you and an earth to limit the current flow and making sure the current path is not across the heart.
Back in the day our classroom main light switch had been vandalised and the exposed wires left hanging out. We had most lessons in semi darkness, until the physics teacher turned up, looked at the wires, took hold of them with his fingers, twisted them together, and the lights came back on!



julian64

14,317 posts

254 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Ayahuasca said:
julian64 said:
PixelpeepS3 said:
heard a great one from our electrician last weekend

'some people think that electricity can't kill any one and it was a myth created by electricians to ensure that people at home didn't attempt their own electrical work'

laugh

seriously?!
My father believes this. He's now in his eighties and thinks your generation could simply do with a slap. Worked most of his life in the aircraft industry on aviation navigation and weapon systems.

If one of my boys says mains is dangerous my father will likely find a live mains wire and touch it to show them they're wrong. He says it gives him a jump but no more than that. He tells them that when he first started working engineers in the airforce were told to touch wires to see if they were mains live, and regularly did this if meter testing equipment was either not around or too large to be used where it was needed. They also used to charge up high value capacitors and thrown them at each other.

I have to de-program my sons when he leaves the house.

When you think about it he possibly has a point. The problem is based on where current flows near the heart and how much so that good insulation between you and an earth to limit the current flow and making sure the current path is not across the heart.
Back in the day our classroom main light switch had been vandalised and the exposed wires left hanging out. We had most lessons in semi darkness, until the physics teacher turned up, looked at the wires, took hold of them with his fingers, twisted them together, and the lights came back on!
Along the same line he also likes to talk about when electricity was first around the cables were not in the wall but simply draped down the wall and the insulation used to crack and fall off. Most houses therefore had exposed bare wires. Might have been DC at that point though.

Funniest thing was the poor sod who came to put a new boiler in for him about a year ago. Apparently the guy started putting earth leads on everything he could see including push fit plastic pipes. According to my mum that guy spent the entire day having the mickey taken out of him with a barrage of abuse, to which his only reply which made the situation much worse, was that it was a health and safety requirement.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

118 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Swampy1982 said:
If anyone is interested in the story then this is it, NSFW

If you read one disgusting story this year . . . LET IT BE THIS ONE !
Susy DeLucci and the Miracle of Life. One morning around 5am 22 year old Susan DaLucci of Kittery Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole.

She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police.

When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe. Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic

had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there on the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth. The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing.

The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think that is bad – wait until you hear how it happened:

Ms. DeLucci official death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is believed by medical police that on two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature’s tail into her vagina to derive pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature’s face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion.

The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci’s DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobster tail joints. The lobster’s face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster’s digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci’s when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period, doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular “Sea Monkey” pets sold throughout the US. Over night the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes. You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.
I'm sorry, funny but BS!! Lol

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

116 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Stickyfinger said:
nonsequitur said:
Yes, agree. But not with 'dad' following in this instance.
Yep....the alternative would be "Gramps"
Sorry sticky, I don't follow.

Getragdogleg

8,768 posts

183 months

Friday 4th August 2017
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Steamer said:
The British 'Strategic (steam) Reserve'
Hidden in plain sight.

How many steam engines are in preservation, tended by volunteers and kept tip top and ready to use in an emergency ?

Its such a good reserve scheme the Govt don't pay a penny toward it and in time of need just need to requisition them.



aka_kerrly

12,418 posts

210 months

Saturday 5th August 2017
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Ayahuasca said:
Back in the day our classroom main light switch had been vandalised and the exposed wires left hanging out. We had most lessons in semi darkness, until the physics teacher turned up, looked at the wires, took hold of them with his fingers, twisted them together, and the lights came back on!