kirjavaa
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Post by kirjavaa on Jan 30, 2005 21:10:12 GMT -5
So I'm bored as hell and no one seems to be about to offer stimulating conversation. Err. That sucks mightily.
So what do I do? I make a boredom posting thread. A boredom posting thread of randomosity. Where going off-topic is virtually impossible, because the more randomness the better.
For when you have something to say but just have nowhere else to say it!
I sound like a cheesy home products commercial.
Oy.
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kirjavaa
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Post by kirjavaa on Jan 30, 2005 21:12:05 GMT -5
*rolls around in sheer utter incurable and unimaginably unbearable boredom*
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Post by Annie on Jan 30, 2005 21:33:38 GMT -5
I like cows. o.o
Nah. I really don't. Not especially anyway.
Is that random enough?
Hm...My father attempted suicide 3 years ago and I didn't find out until my birthday this year. That sucks majorly. =(
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Post by kirjavaa on Jan 31, 2005 0:10:41 GMT -5
Oh dear Hannah, I'm sorry to hear that...your dad must have been going through some tough times, but hopefully things have gotten better for him after that...
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Post by Zoe 'n' Calosta on Jan 31, 2005 5:28:31 GMT -5
Sorry to hear bout your Dad Hannah My great uncle actually committed suicide and no one told me I even had a great uncle til I was 12 when I got depressed But still - this is a happy randomness thread! Is it true bout all the rivers and stuff? Crocodiles - eurgh. I've got a phobia of sharks though so I cant go swimming in the sea without freaking out. I sometimes even freak out in swimming pools :S And then a great white shark turned up on Porthcawl Beach!!!! The one place I thought I was safe and with all this global warming crap the sharks will invade! I don't like sharks lol
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Post by Kaye&Lanh on Jan 31, 2005 6:29:06 GMT -5
Did you know... There is a kingdom inside of Australia? yea, there are TWO countries on that continent, instead of one, like all the geography teachers have been telling us... I'm not making this up either. if you go to snopes.com, it'sall about urban legends.. somewhere on there is about this country...
was THAT random enough?
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Post by cock of teh walk on Jan 31, 2005 8:57:53 GMT -5
ahh this is JUST what I was looking for - ok I keep having nosebleeds, like this is my fourth one in less than a week...just wondering if that means anything....yes? no? stop whining? anything?
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Post by cock of teh walk on Jan 31, 2005 9:45:59 GMT -5
oh..i just wanted add something about..a friend of mine...ED GEIN Born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin, Gein lived a repressive and solitary life on his family homestead with a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex was a sinful thing. Eddie ran the family's 160-acre farm on the outskirts of Plainfield until his brother Henry died in 1944 and his mother in 1945. When she died her son was a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor, still emotionally enslaved to the woman who had tyrannized his life. The rest of the house, however, soon degenerated into a madman's shambles. Thanks to federal subsidies, Gein no longer needed to farm his land, and he abandoned it to do odd jobs here and there for the Plainfield residents, to earn him a little extra cash. But he remained alone in the enormous farmhouse, haunted by the ghost of his overbearing mother, whose bedroom he kept locked and undisturbed, exactly as it had been when she was alive. He also sealed off the drawing room and five more upstairs rooms, living only in one downstairs room and the kitchen.
"Weird old Eddie", as the local community know him, had begun to develop a deeply unhealthy interest in the intimate anatomy of the female body - and interest that was fed by medical encyclopedias, books on anatomy, pulp horror novels and pornographic magazines. He became particularly interested in the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War and the medical experiments performed on Jews in the concentration camps. Soon he graduated on to the real thing by digging up decaying female corpses by night in far-flung Wisconsin cemeteries. These he would dissect and keep some parts heads, sex organs, livers, hearts and intestines. Then he would flay the skin from the body, draping it over a tailor's dummy or even wearing it himself to dance and cavort around the homestead - a practice that apparently gave him intense gratification. On other occasions, Gein took only the body parts that particularly interested him. He was especially fascinated by the excised female genitalia, which he would fondle and play with, sometimes stuffing them into a pair of women's panties, which he would then wear around the house. Not surprisingly, he quickly became a recluse in the community, discouraging any visitors from coming near his by now neglected and decaying farm
Gein's fascination with the female body eventually led him to seek out fresher samples. His victims, usually women of his mother's age, included 54-year old Mary Hogan, who disappeared from the tavern she ran in December 1954, and Bernice Worden, a woman in her late fifties who ran the local hardware store, who disappeared on the 16th November 1957. Mrs. Worden's son Frank was also the sheriff's deputy, and upon learning that weird old Eddie Gein had been spotted in town on the day of his mother's disappearance, Frank Worden and the sheriff went to check out the old Gein place, already infamous amongst the local children as a haunted house There, the gruesome evidence proved that Gein's bizarre obsessions had finally exploded into murder, and much, much worse. In the woodshed of the farm was the naked, headless body of Bernice Worden, hanging upside down from a meat hook and slit open down the front. Her head and intestines were discovered in a box, and her heart on a plate in the dining room. The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pilled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of human organs. The four posts on Gein's bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. The stunned searchers also uncovered a soup bowls fashioned from skulls, a shoebox full of female genitalia, faces stuffed with newspapers and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls, and a "mammary vest" flayed from the torso of a woman. Gein later confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.
The scattered remains of an estimated fifteen bodies were found at the farmhouse when Gein was eventually arrested, but he could not remember how many murders he had actually committed. The discovery of these Gothic horrors sent shock waves throughout Eisenhower-era America. In Wisconsin itself, Gein quickly entered local folklore. Within weeks of his arrest, macabre Jokes called "Geiners" became a statewide craze. The country as a whole learned about Gein in December 1957, when both Life and Time magazines ran features on his "house of horrors."
long, I know, but sure to keep you horrifiedly interested enough. Really, consider the oedipal strangeness of this whole affair...this was the part of anthro i enjoyed. I was watching " Mockingbird Don't Cry' yesterday, about a girl whose parents locked her to a chair and beat her until she was thirteen, and , you can look it up if you want its a true story, she couldnt speak or anything, she proved that theory that theres a certain amount of time for children to learn language, and if they don't, then they never will. Anyways the reason, the reason her dad did this ( her mother was weak and blind and , said the courts ' a victim' as well. ) had to do with his mother's death, he was close to his mother, very, very close, and he kept his daughter in his mothers bedroom, sortof like he was protecting her, like a princess locked in a tower. It had more to do with his mother but I can't quite remember. in any case the movie made me terribly angry.
back to ed gein though , tons of movies books and songs were made about him. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, based on the things he did with the bodies, Silence of the Lambs, the character Buffalo Bill is representing Ed American Psycho, the whole oedipal murder thing again ... those are just the well known ones..theres jillions more.
a post good enough to cure your boredom , make you vomit and generally scar you for life. Enjoy kirjavaa.
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Post by Cat on Jan 31, 2005 11:30:47 GMT -5
Wow. That's sick. It reminded me very strongly of Buffalo Bill and Psycho. -shiver- I didn't like that story.
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Post by kirjavaa on Jan 31, 2005 16:01:54 GMT -5
Eh, I have a very morbid sense of curiosity, so while it didn't scar me for life the story certainly fascinated me...But it's nearly inconcievable the depths of madness to which the mind of a human being can plunge, making them cast off all social norms to become dangerous and derranged killers...As a psychologist, one of my interests is what leads people to such lows, but yes I did notice those Oedipal echoes that made the story all the more fascinating.
As for the language thing, it's absolutley true. There is a certain window, slightly different for each human, where the development of speech and speech patterns takes place, after which it is difficult or nearly impossible for children to learn to speak properly. Language development is a fascinating thing.
Have you read "A Child Called It"? I haven't yet but I'm dying to the momment I have a chance and don't have so many papers to write...
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Post by Monkey and Bellanei on Jan 31, 2005 17:27:41 GMT -5
Ah..Ed Gein...from my state.
People apparently scared children (back then) by saying Ed Gein was in one of Madison's mental institutions-at least, someone mentioned it on a website awhile ago that they did this.
..... My state has such great famous people. Ed Gein, Jeffery Dhamer...Er...yeah, great people.
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Post by cock of teh walk on Jan 31, 2005 20:03:49 GMT -5
aww no Gacy? well then, your state can't be THAT great.
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Post by Annie on Jan 31, 2005 22:10:44 GMT -5
That really is sick. XP
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is supposedly a collection of stories that all have basis in truth but were jumbled together to get that one. There actually is a place in Texas where this creepy dude would invite people to stay the night in his house. He only killed one though. Chopped 'em up. He's on or was on death row. Heh...what's creepy is when he's given the injection, he'll be here. With a whole bunch of people watching. *shudder* (My town is known as Prison City and Death Capitol. If you want to look that up. It's facinating. One of the most famous units in America is litterally 3 blocks down the street from the middle school. =D)
Just wondering, did any of you Americans (at least I'd only expect Americans to know this because it took place in america and whatnot) hear about a prisoner spitting out a hand-cuff key just before he was executed? I was just wondering if it was only here or if it was all over the place. It was between 4 and 8 years ago...
Anywho, I didn't know that Gacy was a real dude until I saw it on the Discovery channel. Kinda creeped me out. Gave me a permanent distaste for Clowns. 'Cept Rodeo Clowns. They're cool =)
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Post by Kaye&Lanh on Feb 1, 2005 6:31:09 GMT -5
In 1994 I heard the most amazing interview on the radio. Someone was selling fake royal titles of the principality of Hutt River Province -- and right under Prince Leonard's nose too!
Now I'll bet you're asking where the blazes Hutt River Province is and who is Prince Leonard. Well, he's an Aussie, and Hutt River Province is what he chose to call his homeland after he seceded from Australia. Some years ago he had a disagreement with the government Down Under, so he declared his land no longer part of Australia and named himself prince of this new country. He rules HRP along with his wife, Princess Shirley.
They have their own currency (which is apparently worthless). But tourism is booming in HRP as many people stop by to visit this country within a country.
Prince Leonard and his principality were in the news in 1994 because some imposter was peddling "fake" HRP titles through a direct mail campaign. For a mere $10 Cdn, this con artist would provide anyone with documentation that proclaimed the bearer related to Prince Leonard and thus in the line of succession to the throne. Quelle scam.
But more about Prince Leonard and his wacky principality, eh? A 1989 news article about him said:
Australians have always been known for their independent spirit, but Leonard George Casley has carried his a lot farther than the government expected. It has been almost 20 years since Casley protested a government-imposed wheat quota of 1,647 bushels for his 18,500-acre Western Australia farm. When he claimed the dollar returned on such a small crop would hardly pay the interest on the loan due for two of his four tractors, his complaints fell on deaf ears. He then "seceded" from the Commonwealth of Australia and has since been ignoring every government order to cease and desist. Australian authorities made the mistake of addressing him on occasion as "The Administrator" of his self-proclaimed Principality of Hutt River Province. It was a slip of the official pen that Casley claims is equivalent to de facto recognition. Since "secession," Casley has proclaimed himself a prince. He's bestowed honors, titles and knighthood, issued proclamations and edicts, designed a flag, printed postage stamps, and issued both coins and currency that he claims to be "legal tender" in the principality.
There ya go ^^ BTW the site is dedicated to proving or diproving urban legends. If you're ever bored, I'd reccomend going there... But I don't advise reading the horrors section at night... You'll instantly think you're going to be murdered in your sleep... or at least I did, and I've always been told I have an overactive immagination *makes the Sponge Bob rainbow when saying immagination*
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Post by Cat on Feb 1, 2005 11:25:44 GMT -5
Cool. XD So who's Gacy? I don't think I've ever heard of him. Jeffery Dhamer, I have - but what did he do again? =/ I can't remember. I have a bit of a morbid sense of curiosity too. I think the worst Canada has to offer is Paul ... er ... Paul something. I'll post his name when I remember it. It rhymes with something ... -wanders off confused-
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