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Fallout
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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 13:24 Edited at: 4th Oct 2006 14:02
If you are a complete OTT superstitious "I believe anything" muppet, then dont read what's in the code box. In fact, leave this thread and die.

This was posted on a YouTube vid:


About 50% of people then copy and pasted it into the video comments box. This really bothers me quite a lot, as I believe it's an insight into just how annoyingly stupid the vast majority of the worlds population is.

I had to post a comment. I said:
Quote: "lp2137, Paludis, iweqytp, karabeads and the rest - you are all scare-mongering retards. Not only are you intellectual throwbacks for believing in such crap, you are also selfish and thoughtless for spreading it to other people who might be as impressionable and stupid as yourselves. You should be embarrassed by your utter gullible stupidity and ashamed of your willingness to inflict it upon others as simple as yourselves.

CANDYMAN CANDYMAN CANDYMAN CANDYMAN CANDYMAN. Enjoy."


What bothers me is that the majority of these people will be American or European (mainly UK). The majority again will either be Christian, Jewish or athiests/don't believe in this sort of thing. Any of those options means you cannot possibly believe this is true. The amount of God fearers who probably got freaked by that, even though the idea of it being true insults and goes against their religion.

Anyways, it just bothered me. I saw this message spreading like a plague with about 50% of people bricking it and reposting the message, over and over and over. Edit: Removed whole terrorism bit, but you get the picture. If people can fall for this crap, then people can fall for anything.

We need a global cull, ASAP.


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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 13:38 Edited at: 4th Oct 2006 13:51
Oh there are many other ways to tell how stupid the majority of the population is .

[edit] And Fallout, you too reproduced it :p.

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 13:42
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the
ground when she was still alive. The murderer chanted, "Toma tosou
pisgood" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you
will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be
on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated.
If you post this, she will not smother you with diced onions. Your kindness will be rewarded.

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 14:02
@dark coder

....

Doh.

Actually, I'm gonna edit it out, else I'm being a bit of a hypocrite.


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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 14:31
Actually I don't know what you were on about (edited out) but the most stupid superstitious thing I ever heard was when my boss (IT director at the time) sent around a chain mail saying he totally didn't believe in the "you will die unless you send to 8 friends, which will reward you with good luck if you do" line, but "just incase" he sent it anyway. Just incase? Just in-f*****g-case?!£$!!???? Honestly. Bloody IT director as well....

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 14:32 Edited at: 4th Oct 2006 14:34
Although that isn't to say that, for example, I cut my nails on a Sunday. But at least I can admit that it is really brainwashing by my parents that is seriously hard to break when, after all, you have another 6 days in the week Edit: Rather than some amazing act of God for commiting a cardinal sin of cutting your nails on the sabbath. Oh, and I'll further back that up with the fact that you are seriously suggestable as a kid and soak anything up like a sponge. Which are unlucky to use with soap on a wednesday

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 15:09
Yeah, that's totally true, but when someone throws something new at you as an adult, or as an older kid (mid->late teens), you really should be able to decipher the truth from the fiction. I have a phobia of spiders ... obviously really common ... which I know is totally irrational. It doesnt make me run screaming from them like a little girl - I just have to excute them with extreme prejudice. If a big fat common house spider escapes under my bed, no corner of my room will be left unturned until it is dead ... and throwing it out of the window?!?!? I can't run the risk of it coming back in.

This is totally irrational, but it all stems (I think) from when my dad pretended to throw a big spider at me when I was very young, making it all as scarey as he possibly could. A typical example of my dads enlightened parenting. As a kiddy, that festers in your brain that your male role model in life considers spiders a horrible and scarey thing and stays with you to adult hood. That's my excuse for that. But this sort of thing .... there is no excuse.

Btw, for reference, Jimmy typed out what I edited out, with some artistic license, so you can get the general gist.


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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 15:40
Quote: " If a big fat common house spider escapes under my bed, no corner of my room will be left unturned until it is dead"
And if you can't find it then after bordering up the door, 2 bedrooms is more than enough.... And my Dad used to get Daddy long legs out of room in the night (my personal hate), then chuck them (alive) out of the backdoor. He would then stand there in the open doorway and have a fag (ciggie for our US friends). Obviously with the light still on behind him. Of course the daddy long legs and 10 of his mates would zoom in to get revenge on me.

Quote: "dads enlightened parenting"
As a kid I was a really good swimmer, but really really didn't like diving in or going into the deep end (ply my cold dead hands from the door). In tournaments I had to do backstroke instead (honest). To kill two birds with one stone my dad threw me in the deep end. F****** ***t. In the end the only thing that stopped me from being scared was a friend of mine who essentially convinced me you looked cool jumping in the deep end. Worked a treat and I returned to my fish like ways in no time.

Hah, just read Jimmy's edit. Yeah, as I thought. And all chain letter writers should be reserved a place in hell just a little lower than people who send them on "just incase" and a little higher than people who create spyware (or legal adware).

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 15:55
Ive had about 30 of these "do it or you'll die" chain mail emails and I havent replied to any of them, so I should be dead 30 fold, shouldnt I?

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 17:50
@Dazzag

Yeah, dads and their "learning the hard way" and "my practical joke sense of humour won't affect a 4 year old" really suck.

@Higgins

Yes.


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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 17:58
Since I see you edited your post, I must say I have no idea what the bugger you're on about. Link please?

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 18:06
Read Jimmy's post and attempt to remove his artistic alterations.


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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 18:28 Edited at: 4th Oct 2006 18:31
I'll give it a shot I guess...

So he mentioned a girl who was murdered...and your original post was (I'm guessing) was also about a little kid you've pushed out into open traffic...and then you said killing people is wrong, but then at that moment you remembered that you did it too...so you went back and edited your post to state that you're a hypocrite?

Well I tried.
(Seriously, anyone link me back to the original vid?)

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Posted: 4th Oct 2006 18:55
That'd make me a hypocrite! It's almost exactly like what Jimmy typed. He's hardly changed it. Swap "pisgood" for some other random chant word and swap "smother you with diced onions" for something like "kill you." and that's pretty much exactly the dealio of what kept getting posted on that YouTube vid.


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 01:21
ROFL how stupid are people

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 01:27
"A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the
ground when she was still alive. The murderer chanted, "Toma tosou
pisgood" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you
will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be
on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated.
If you post this, she will not smother you with diced onions. Your kindness will be rewarded."

Just to be safe

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 01:40
Because clearly in 1933 people were just as active on forums as they are now. This is complete idiocy, sorry to say. I feel bad if any of you believe this. Shows you how society has gotten used to being frightened by little girls of all people--- come on, people! The Ring, Grudge, Fear, etc..

The rumour used to be that if you looked in a mirror and said "bloody Mary" three times some woman would appear. Or Candyman etc. It's all childish playground myths--- surprised anyone who is over 9 believes in it.

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 01:41
I welcome the onions. And I only hope that she dusts the lamp shade for me.

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 01:44
Is that what was posted on the youtube thing?

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 01:59
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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 04:13
Bloody Mary is REAL!

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 04:16
But what about Jimmy? Is he real?

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 04:32
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the
ground when she was still alive. The murderer chanted, "Toma tosou
pisgood" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you
will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be
on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated.
If you post this, she will not smother you with diced onions. Your kindness will be rewarded.

=P

http://phoenixophelia.com

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 04:37
The dog by the way is in deed alive.

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 06:56 Edited at: 5th Oct 2006 06:59
A girl died in 1933 by a homicidal murderer. He buried her in the
ground when she was still alive after he fed her liver and onions. The murderer chanted, "Aka laka I'm a killer wit da magic aka lak an I'm gonna tell everyone dis chant cuz I wanna get caught pisgood aka laka" as he buried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be
on your ceiling with a large onion and a knife. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated, in foul tasting sauce.
Whether or not you post this, she will smother you with diced onions and eat you like grilled liver. She just doesn't care, you've made her mad, and she's coming for you. That will teach you to read anything. Haha. You're dead.


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 08:37
If you're reading this, you have 3 seconds to repost elsewhere or you will die.

Oops. Too late.


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 13:53
Quote: "She just doesn't care, you've made her mad, and she's coming for you. That will teach you to read anything. Haha. You're dead."


I think I just pissed my pants laughing.

... or was it from fear?

Doesn't matter. I still need to shower.


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 14:19
Haha Hey, what's the original link? I want to post my version.


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 14:50
It was this google earth vid, but it looks like the curse has finally been lifted by the sane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KScuosn2WqY


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 15:02
This was also posted on that site:

Quote: "A Pixie died in 2006 by a loco leprachaun. He burried her in a vase of fine oils as she was gasping for her last breath. The leprachaun cried, "You will thank me one day" as he burried her. Now that you have read the chant, you will meet this little pixie. In the middle of your next shower she will be sitting on your shampoo bottle, watching you. She will spook you and cause you to fall, busting your head open. Tell others and you may be saved!"


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 15:38
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like supersticious bunk is going away any time soon. There was something about a psychology lecturer talking about supersticion in a lecture, and asked for volunteers to wear a jacket and he'd give them $20 to do so. Lots of volunteers. Then he told them that the jacket had belonged to a murderer. A lot of the volunteers just suddenly decided they didn't need $20 any more.

That's a room full of psychology students. There's no hope

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speaking of chainmails and stuff look what i just recieved:
http://lukasw.com/other/t.html
it is in norwegian at the top, but then it is written in english.

It's something about 1st of November MSN is closing down. If you don't send the email to 18 persons your msn account will be closed and you have to pay $10 a month to get it back, or something like that.



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Quote: " It was this google earth vid, but it looks like the curse has finally been lifted by the sane. "

That's so sad I wanted to kill a whole bunch of people with an inescapable curse.

@Tinkergirl -
It's just absurd. These silly supersitions of ghosts and pixies and whatnot aren't even real superstitions. They're just absurd inventions that people choose to believe. I can't for the life of me understand.


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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 16:12
Lukas, Ive had that email, and I just laughed at it, because msn says, they will never contact their members, ever!

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Quote: "I have a phobia of spiders
This is totally irrational, but it all stems (I think) from when my dad pretended to throw a big spider at me when I was very young, making it all as scary as he possibly could."


I've got a spider story. More of a 'This is my entire childhood' story. My room was really an old porch/patio that was converted so a room, but the builder really sucked. It had a couple of huge holes in the floor. Sometimes cats would crawl through the holes during the night. They were my cats so it was okay.

Anyway, I had tons of spiders that lived in my room. They'd spin their webs and just hang out. I liked them though because they'd catch and eat all of the wasps. I didn't care for them at all because one night I rolled over on my bed and a wasp stung me

The crazy thing is all of my kids are irrationally afraid of spiders. If they see a spider in the house they freak out and get me. I just take it outside because I don't see any point in killing it. My house is nothing like growing up. It's clean and bug free. I actually have money now, so I provide a house like I always wanted growing up. I guess not having spiders around have created this fear in my kids, which I suppose is pretty common.


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Once a daddy long legs (Crane fly) got into my room at night and I was basically frozen with my slipper in my hands (to kill it) for like half an hour considering my options (don't want it to leap on you if you get it wrong). In the end I remembered a friend said he fried it with deoderant and a lighter. I *almost* did it.

In the end I remembered that someone said you could use deoderant on them and it would cover them complely so they would suffocate. Excellent. So I sprayed the bug. And sprayed. And sprayed. The damn thing just sat there not moving on the wall. I went through about 3 deoderant cans. It was basically white by the time I had finished. And it wasn't dead. Stupid rumour. After another 10 minutes of me thinking what to do it sort of lazily flew a little but in a really really drunk slow kind of way, before dropping to the floor. I hadn't killed it but it probably had asthma by now Then I used a book (thicker than the bible and an item that really meant something to my dad) and dropped it on him. Hey, you can't be too sure right? Almost died when I picked up the book and the thing was still going. Not after I replaced the book and stood on it for, oh I dunno, about 10 minutes. Die die die!

When I looked around the room was like something out of Sherlock Holmes with like this thick mist. Unfortuantly I *do* have asthma and I realised it wasn't that easy to breathe. Then spent the night worried I would suffocate during my sleep. Cos I had to open the windows and door to make sure I could breathe a little I woke up to quite a few bugs. Including this other daddy long legs that had got squished on my back. Yuck....

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@Cash

Yeah, spiders are our friends. I should consider them awesome, but what influences you when you're very young unfortunately brainwashes you for life. My little young brain associated spiders with fear and something nasty and that becomes ingrained. That's the natural system your brain has, which enabled you to learn the dangers from your parents and avoid dangerous things through second nature.

I won't make the same mistake with my kids! I'll hide the fact I hate spiders and let them play with them, chase them, pick em up, or whatever. In fact, I'll recruit my kids into taking them outside. Sorted.

@Dazzag

I dont really have any hardcore stories like that! I did once spend a good 20 minutes trying to kill a spider with a BB Gun. Much harder than it sounds, as even though they look big, their little bodies are hard to hit. Blowing off a leg beneath the knee cap won't do it. Aside from that, I did do the lighter+lynx trick on a wasp once, which just fell out of the sky instantly dead. Had the fear the fire would somehow go back into the can and blow it up though, so it only got a 2 second burst of flaming death. It definitely works!


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Quote: "Had the fear the fire would somehow go back into the can and blow it up though"
I've seen that on a video. Apparently it happens when the can runs out. Nice. Although nothing beats the time I lost half my facial hair when I tried to light the gas barbi once. Too many beers and yapping away after turning on the gas basically. Didn't see anything and just felt like a hit of air. And then noticed my hair falling off my face/ arm. Plus a bit of skin too. Nice Luckily was more like when you skin gets flakey and peely when you lose your tan compared with, oh I dunno, that welsh bloke in the Falklands. Not so nice.... Interestingly your face turns into velcro (esp if you had a bit of manly stubble) with your pillow at nights. Rather annoying until you shave a bit.

Oh, and another spider story was when this *massive* spider was in my room once. Only a small rented room at the time and basically I shoved a plastic pint glass I had got from a club over the top of it. So it basically had a little plastic pint tent. And then it started to move the pint. I mean it was powerful enough to walk around a bit with this plastic pint glass! Put another proper glass pint glass over the top of it and it just about stopped it. Slightly annoying with it tapping the glass with the plastic every now and again (and worryingly shaking the glass). Still ,how long can a spider last without air or food eh? I mean hell aren't they only supposed to last a few days full stop? Well about 2 or 3 *weeks* later (I kid you not) of it taking up about a third of my living space (can't get too near) it was still going! Bit sluggish but still there. Dunno if someone was taking the mick and giving it the odd oxygen boost, insect grub, or CPR to extend it's lifespan, but the damn thing was almost indestructible! Obviously I had to handle the glasses very carefully when I got rid of it, and of course the glasses *had* to go.

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They live for ages those archnid bastards, and dont need food for ages either. I thought little daddy longlegs (not crane flies) would only last for a week or something, so I decided once to leave one alive this summer (I used to routinely kill about 3 or 4 per night as they just keep appearing in my room). He quite happily sat motionless in his web for about a week, a small baby one, not appearing to grow any bigger. Then after a week he suddenly was dead .... but no he wasn't. It was his shed skin, and he was hiding in the corner, now slightly bigger, but not much.

Those little blighers live for ever. I believe about 3 or 4 million years, and if they get really hungry they just eat their own legs and then they grow back. It's like an all you can eat limb banquet.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_long_legsIt's a crane fly. Totally deadly poison in the female too. Actually thats a total urban myth. Totally harmless aparently. I'm just a girl....

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Posted: 5th Oct 2006 22:23
Apparantly it's also a Korean film.



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Quote: "I'm just a girl...."

I quite like daddylonglegs, and spiders, and all creepy crawly things (except earwigs, which I respectfully squash with my boot).

So, Dazzag - I'd prefer you call yourself something else - you're not brave enough to be a girl

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Hmmm. Good point. Just had a kick boxing demonstration after politely commentating that the only reason I'm as quiet as a mouse when she drives is because I don't like drifting into other lanes when concentration slightly lapses. I am seriously stupid when talking to women at times...

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