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Aug 3, 2017 3:35 PM

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8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The barn thing isn't totally correct. Red paint lasts longer than others.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I believe @MisterSavage was involved in creating Blendo as well, yeah?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#BringBackBlendo

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(Blendo would get utterly freaking annihilated now)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hate that companies can own phrases. "Taco Tuesday." DNA sequences can be patented too.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Note to Americans: bedsit = studio apartment. Note to Canadians: bedsit = bachelor apartment . I looked it up so you don't have to.

8 years ago | Likes 306 Dislikes 2

Thank you, kind Sir, for ending my lingering frustration after closing the Wiki page on the subject no less ignorant than when I opened it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Had to look it up too.... apparently it's even worse than that: it's a studio apartment, with a shared bathroom.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yup, bedsit is Britishese for one level above a homeless shelter.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The hero we need +1

8 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

But not the one we deserve

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a person who is not a native speaker, nor from any English-speaking country - why did I already have that information?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Perhaps you were a Brit in a former life... Tell me, what is your stance on iced tea?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I had some peach-flavoured iced tea (by Lipton) years ago, and enjoyed it. I haven't wanted to try it again, but I don't Object to the idea.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I do however think reincarnation is bunk :)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The fuck is a "bedsit".

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

It's an English term.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A studio apartment.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There is a documentary about Joyce Vicente and it was very sad.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

"Deams of a Life" - never cried so much before

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just read her Wiki page and that's also sad. Her poor sisters hired a PI to find her and assumed she didn't want to talk to them.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually, dolphins are one of the few species that use sex as a form of aggression. Humans and chimps do, and there are a few others.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Blendo for those curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKbE7ocZBHI

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Wasn't this adapted to a robot called Ziggo in Battle bots?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So it infects other bots with a spin virus?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I love how DoMore sits there for a good ten seconds while the creator thinks "well fuck, how do I approach this?"

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#5 what an achievement

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Usually in these dumps, a whole bunch turn out to be utter bullshit. Not so this time.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did some fact checking on a large dump of wtf facts, and all the ones I checked were true.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Open blister packs ? Fuck it , I'll just go on with my miserable life. I'm not going to sit here opening blister packs"

8 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 2

Considering that lack of motivation stops a lot of suicides (a bit tricky to kill yourself when you can't be arsed to get up), it can work.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You would be _amazed_ at how lazy suicidal people are.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Mar 13, 2023 4:45 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Suicide is really hard without a gun. Even hanging unless you have a real drop is pretty difficult. Cutting too. So without the ease success

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Goes down. I've tried hanging and over dose and obviously both times were unsuccessful for reasons. Also things are better now

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And cutting is self limiting to an extent. Even when suicidal it's hard to really get that deep.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It's fairly easy if you have access to a chainsaw. It's not pretty, but it gets the job done.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You guys are amazed at #3 keeping her bills in check and here I am wondering why her tv stayed on

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

...that's sort of why people are asking about her bills...tv require electricity, electricity needs to be payed for.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Automated billing?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

More like were there never any thunderstorms causing electricity to go out or the tv never frying. That's what I was aiming for

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My electricity almost never goes out. Old dorm was on the same grid as the hospital. Also, old tvs would have just come back on with power.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There's lots of reasons that a TV could "remain" on.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The more you know, thanks.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

TIL that barns are red because stars explode

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Basically everything because stars explode.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Touché, sir. I guess I was just reacting to the oddly specific 'fact' about the redness of barns #backpedal #imsmartipromise

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not trying to correct you or one up you or anything. Just adding on to your comment about the silliness of that 'fact'.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I actually got that, just couldn't think of a clever retort so I went with facetious x)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#4 - False - barns are red because Linseed oil derived from flax plants was used to seal bare wood against rotting. This stained it red.

8 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 3

I don't know about linseed, but the red paint is the cheapest because the iron rust is left from mining. In Sweden it's Falurödfärg.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought I heard red was expensive because I he pigments to make it are . I have never really thought about it though. I may be dumb.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought it was so they were seen easily in snow. But I'm Australian, so whatever.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nah, the red came from iron oxide. Linseed oil is unrelated to the color. http://www.dahp.wa.gov/barn-paint-colors

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Technically not false, since it says "barns are painted red because" and not "barns are red because"

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

But the Linseed Oil thing is still pretty interesting.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also because when they could afford actual paint, red truly was the cheapest.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

I've never had linseed oil stain anything red. It's amberish, clear or dried. <_<

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same here.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They would mix rust in with the oil because it kills moss and helps seal the wood

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But that says taco Thursday...

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Duh, they can't advertise it as Taco Tuesday because that company owns the trademark. DIdn't you read it?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#3 someone got her presents but didn't check up on her for 3 years?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

No, she had wrapped those presents and died beside them.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Aw, festive

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The tic tac sugar one is false, if you look at the label its like 1g of sugar per serving, 60 servings per container. they label that crap

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#2 even though Tylenol overdoses went down, the amount of overall suicides showed almost no decrease bc they committed suicide other ways.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Pretty sure Tylenol doesn't give a fuck if you kill yourself as long as you don't associate with their brand when you do it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To be fair, a Tylenol overdose is one of the worst ways to go. You get all sorts of horrible symptoms for days before it finally kills you.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yea, I guess there are better ways to go

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So if people just shot themselves in the head rather than OD on Tylenol, that prevented a lot of misery.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Moved from MN to GA and damn do I miss Taco John's.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I've lived my whole life in Wyoming (where TJ's started). I can not imagine life without them.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's pretty awful. Don't move. Lol

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's a Taco John's on Robins AFB outside Macon.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well I'm in Atlanta so that's a pretty long way to go for a taco. Lol

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

STEVEN WILSON has a beautiful album called HAND.CANNOT.ERASE based on the woman in 3(Joyce wincent) a must listen.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

According to Wilson, the album is written frm a female perspective and the concept and story are inspired by the case of Joyce Carol Vincent

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

where a woman living in a large city dies in her apartment and no one misses her for over three years, despite her having family and friends

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The shitty taste of West-Mex.

8 years ago | Likes 197 Dislikes 4

Accurate

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Apple Grandes are the fucking best!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I worked there. Yes, very shitty.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But I love potato oles!

8 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

I fucking love taco johns

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Fuck yeah! How do you make nachos better? Replace the chips with tots

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Damn now I really want a super potato olé... but I live in Los Angeles now :,( the closest one I knew of closed in Tucson recently.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I tried it a few weeks ago for the first time. It was alright, but I like Taco Bell more. I dug the hot sauce cups though

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

I guess if they don't agree with your opinion, they downvote. Have an upvote, my friend. Even if you ARE wrong.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I probably am, I'm just a stickler for familiarity. I'm used to Taco Bell, so I'm always going to love it more.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah this made me sad. I love Taco Johns

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

That's the closest fast food joint, but I don't eat it often. Them taters are so good

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Are taco John's all around the US? I thought they just in the Midwest.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a brit, what the fuck is tylenol

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Acetaminophen

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Acording to google its the same as paracetamol

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As an American, I had no idea!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeh, in britain you just by paracetamol. Or sometimes Ibuprofen. It's just called the medical name.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I hope not, ibuprofen and acetaminophen are both painkillers but do two different things.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yeh yeh i mean we have both of them

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We have name brands.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I guess there's Nurofen? most people just call it paracetamol tho

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#3 who the hell was paying her electricity bill for 3 years?

8 years ago | Likes 716 Dislikes 5

Benefits. Eventually the bills started to accrue and an investigation was made.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It seems it was the lack of payment that led to her eventually being found https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent

8 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 1

so it is true if you think no one cares be delinquent on your payments

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Listen to Hand.Cannot.Erase by Steven Wilson. It's inspired by that woman. Brilliant album. "

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Came here to say this!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Great album!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

... and what the heck is a bedsit?

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Kind of like a dorm room for adults. One room flat with shared bathroom.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

A studio apartment in the U.K.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Huh, no one noticed a smell. That's odd. Well, thanks for the info. Never would have realized that was an apartment.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Half her bills where paid by a benefits agency. They sent her to collections to get the other half which is how she was discovered.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

No one. Solar powered TV.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 7

So you never heard about a person getting his electricity cut even when he was paying it? That is someone somewhere getting it free forever

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The state was paying half her rent, which is why it went unnoticed for awhile; but eventually bailiffs came to repossess the place.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

More importantly, who brought her christmas presents for 3 years?

8 years ago | Likes 183 Dislikes 4

:))))

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

So THAT'S the explanation for all the unsent Imgur secret Santa gifts!!

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

santa. right? RIGHT???

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No one. She was wrapping things for her nieces and nephews she was going to see over Christmas

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Who were apparently very close to her.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Apparently

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

So close that they didn't bother checking in on her!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I assumed a serial killer had been living with her and made her presents before he left the place and someone found her. Poor fella

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

hahsahahahaahaaha. i think it was santa.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Those were from before she past away

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 17

She was wrapping presents for someone, the police never found out for whom.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is not the reality I want to believe in.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

*passed

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Who was she giving/received them to that cared so little to check up on her in them 3 years!

8 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

That is my question

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Maybe that lonely was wrapping presents to gift to herself? A sad story non the less

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I was thinking the same thing

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

auto pay

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh, FFS people!! http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Joyce+Vincent

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 8

Awesome. A video that resolves into a real clickable site. How u do that?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How???!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But whyyyyy?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because nothing screams "I'm an asshole" like handing out lmgtfy links

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Was that fucking wizardry?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She payed in advance or had it payed automatically. Can't remember which

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Dreams of a Life is a documentary about her. It was one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't think #4 is technically true regarding iron being the last element formed. It's quite a bit more complicated than that

8 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 4

Well, bright red isn't a common iron allotrope/oxide. Brown or even black are more often seen. Basic iron oxide is still a major paint tint.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought that one escalated pretty quickly...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I worl at an automotive paint store and red paint is by far the most expensive

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your paint probably doesn't use iron oxide as a pigment

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tint main tint is called red oxide..

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that's nice but probably not applicable to barns in the 1700's

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/lXMbRry for the win

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Iron-56 is the second most stable nucleus (after nickel-62) and all elements after this release less energy than is required to make them.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You're talking about binding energy per nucleon, not stability. These are very different things.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But most of that is formed during normal star fusion right? The Fact is written as if it's all created when a star dies.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Even if it is... how many stars have died on Earth?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 13

2016 was a great year for iron production.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I think people missed your joke..

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

they did... but then it provided some interesting conversation so I just went with it!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Earth and everything else in existence is made of blown up stars.

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

that's not actually fact though.... that's theoretical. Unless you've just solved the most difficult question in the known universe....

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 8

Pretty sure that's a widely accepted fact in scientific world. If your argument is god may have created them instead, then we're done here

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

yo8bdont just to just claim something is a fact because it can't be debunked. It's a fact because it's been proven to be indisputable.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

As there is literally no other way, yes, we are stardust.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ok apparently that dolphin thing is real.

8 years ago | Likes 1814 Dislikes 11

Thank you for posting this!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What words did it learn? How did it fall in love?

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Hand job.

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

The SEGA game Echo The Dolphin has some association to it, too.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

He was pretty much the inspiration for the game

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I just thought I was playing a cute game where you explore the ocean as a dolphin. Then I'm fighting aliens for some reason.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Great rtaa about it. Thanks Rooster Teeth Podcast!

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Teach me English I love you long time!!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That dolphin was on a shitload of acid, too.

8 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

Just when you think the story couldn't be wackier.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah its an Ecco the Dolphin thing. Seriously.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not only is it real in order for the dolphin to become more responsive he woman gave the dolphin hand jobs and in a last effort they 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Started dropping acid until the govt cut their funding

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

First thing I was going to look up, like wtf that can't be true...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I said the same thing lmao

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's a Radiolab about this

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Still a better love story than Twilight

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

any way to listen to recordings of the dolphin speaking human words?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That was a great read. There is more than one lesson behind it and it makes you wonder on what we do for the sake of knowledge.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And in the end they inspired a new generation of more ethical research on dolphins, only the good things remained.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

. Dolphin love suicide

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gus from RoosterTeeth did a pretty good explanation of it

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Heard that story on Radiolab. One of the weirdest things I've ever heard. Definitely worth a listen.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The podcast The Dollop did a really great job telling this story.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It was sad yet hilarious!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure the handler/trainer fell in love with the dolphin too and it was some weird thing going on

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She actually had to give the dolphin handjobs too. Heres that saucy sauce: http://uproxx.com/tv/dolphin-sex-bbc-documentary-nope-nope-nope/

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Gave it drugs & handys. That poor dolphin...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"had to"

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

She did it to make him stop bothering her so they could get back to work, which is one of the most human thing I've heard of an animal doing

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No I got that. I was being snarky and implying that it wasn't necessarily unenjoyable or a "chore" for her

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think the idea of Free Love may have gone a liiiiii'll too far there. Maybe. Possibly.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Yup! Here's the RTAA about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmx0lYBTko

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Came here for this comment.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Still way better love story than twilight

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Usually in these dumps, a whole bunch turn out to be utter bullshit. Not so this time.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But how learning English is related to him falling in love? Do we have cases of non-English speaker dolphins loving humans? I am con-fu-sed.

8 years ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 4

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8 years ago (deleted Oct 16, 2018 6:27 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

She jerked him off. That's a little perverted even on my standards.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Oct 16, 2018 6:27 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

What kind of upbringing is that?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

in hs i learned that they can fall in love with humans. And that dolphin suicide is somewhat common. my teacher was kinda tho loaded so idk

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Not really related. They just got a male dolphin at an awkward age.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The trainer was jerking it off a lot.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure it has nothing to do with English. More than likey it was from the bonding time. And beacuse German sounds scary.

8 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

Pretty sure it was the sexual contact. See that other comment

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That followed the dolphin being infatuated though. She started that to get him to calm and focus, but it would have intensified things sure!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hm.. It's clearer now. That also means there might be in the world a depressed dolphin herd in love with their keepers & afraid of germanic

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

English is a germanic language, correct me if I'm wrong

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Um. Wat.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

IIRC the handler used to jerk it off.

8 years ago | Likes 299 Dislikes 1

She did so because she found the dolphin was too distracted otherwise to learn. She did it for expediency, so she has said.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

So you're saying that female teachers should jerk off boys to get them to focus.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

If those boys are rapacious dolphins, then maybe it should be considered.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 2

Holy shit man...

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Yup I did remember that right http://nypost.com/2014/06/10/the-dolphin-that-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

8 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 0

That makes more sense, now.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

That is tragic. Poor Peter.

8 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 0

Poor Peter's Peter.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This is so sad for Peter. :(

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

the researcher started jacking it off and started taking lsd with it

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

This just fits so perfectly

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This reminded me of Project Nim. Equally as awful.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I have a feeling that I may regret asking, but what is Project Nim?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh Jeeze. That's heart wrenching. It reminds me vaguely of the movie Project X where they experimented on chimps.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i thought you meant nihm

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Like the Secret of Nihm?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yes!!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol. Noooooo little different. Although secret of Nihm is about intelligent lab mice.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How does a dolphin commit suicide?

8 years ago | Likes 713 Dislikes 4

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8 years ago (deleted Oct 16, 2018 6:27 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

fuck that's actually horribly, horribly sad. :(

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Presumably beaching or drowning itself. Maybe a handful of pills and swig of whiskey.

8 years ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 2

Slowly, and with alcohol, like anyone else rejected by a pretty girl

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running into enclosure wall?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

he was fin ished

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

Very carefully. Or actually, carelessly.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He spent hours opening up a shit ton of Tylenol.

8 years ago | Likes 204 Dislikes 0

Well played

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oooo relevant

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Cross referencing is gold

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

How does a dolphin speak?..

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

yes

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only on... Poirpoise!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

so story time, once i was sailing through the Hauraki Gulf, midnight, very light conditions, there's a few things to avoid hitting so I was

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regularly going down to the chart table and plotting positions. Thing about dolphins I have found is that they can always tell where you are

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inside the boat, i think they can effectively hear/see/sonar/something right through the hull. So if you're in the fo'c's'l, they'll play

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English, of course

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That clears it up, thanks

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He was able to mimic a few words using his blow hole

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Much like Piers Morgan

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"Hello? Yes 911, I'd like to report a murder."

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on porpoise

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Came back to upvote this

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"That downvote doesn't count" - the Mayor of Imgur

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v

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Oh, you!

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the true hero comment

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Um. Everyone upvote this. What is wrong with all of you.

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you're a gem

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Maybe just a mineral.

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That's the cutest savage comment I have ever read. Well done +1

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Well, in the wild, dolphin mate over 50 times per day. So he probably wasn't in love but rather had natural urges. Plus, he killed 1/2

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himself after he was locked in a small tank in a lab without sunlight. Poor thing ... 2/2

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Damn they coulda just called me up if they needed someone for the dolphin

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If the pill packaging stops you from killing yourself, you weren't really that into it in the first place.

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For in face of misery / Only a little is needed / Before men start throwing / Their unbearable life away.

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Sounds like a challenge.

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That's the point, extra time to think about it.

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*pill flies out of blister and bounces under fridge for third time* fuck it I'll just jump off the roof.

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Filthy casuals

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If I felt the packaging of normal pills were challenging me to kill myself I might have already done so.

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That fact is mainly wrong. In the uk you cant buy more than 24 paracetamol at a time. Packets are more convenient. Big reduction to suicide.

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Seriously, back in my day we wouldn't have let a blister pack stop us from commuting suicide. Kids these days, amirite?

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They are also sold in lesser quantities since. Buying 6 boxes at once is usually a good tip off.

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You aren't actually allowed to buy 6 boxes at once, limited to 16 pills in most boxes as well unless you go to a behind the counter place

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That's exactly the point. Studies have shown most suicidal people won't go through with it when there's the barest amount of an (1)

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(2)obstacle. It's usually a desperate, spur-of-the-moment decision when people are overwhelmed, not a drastic desire to die.

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A lot of Tylenol in UK also has codeine so I'm sure that has something to do with it

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I live in the U.K. Never seen Tylenol once

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Oh thanks for that, I was trying to figure out how you kill yourself with tylenol.

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Way more often than you think. People fuck themselves up on it because think it's perfectly safe. Like you apparently do.

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Where do you get that? I rarely take it at all actually but it was always deemed safe that's why you could give it to children.

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I'm a pharmacy tech, and here in the US, that's a big ignored side effect of opioid abuse. High vol's of Norco will kill your liver first

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because of the Tylenol content, even if you don't OD on the hydrocodone.

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Yeah I knew a kid that would do a cold water extraction to separate Tylenol/Aspirin from hydro and oxycodone scripts.

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From tylenol? Then why was it deemed safe for children when other pain killers weren't?

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It usually causes death by liver failure, it's fairly easy to do actually.

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How long would that take?

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Especially if you drink a bunch while taking it.

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It says "suicide by tylenol rates went down" a majority of those people probably just turned to a different method of suicide.

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Serious people yes but a large number of Tylenol "suicides" are accidental. It also reduced Tylenol related liver damage by 30%

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How does changing from a bottle to blister packs reduce accidental overdoses? I'm not saying you're wrong, i'm just trying to understand.

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Sounds silly but having to pop each individual pill makes you consider its necessity far more. Small change with large pyschologixal effect.

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Quantity more than packaging. I beleive they max at 35 pills now. You'll wait till morning to take the next dose when you run out.

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10 tablet max. 2 tablet every 4 hours is only 20 hrs the last dose puts you at potential overdose territory for the last dose because it

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Probably not. When the UK stopped using goal gas ovens, suicides fell and stayed down. People would put their heads in with the gas on(1)

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(2)to kill themselves, which is where the whole "sticking head in oven to kill yourself" thing in pop culture comes from.

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We don't have Tylenol in the UK

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acetaminophen

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Yeah exactly.

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It's acetaminophen if that helps.

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Paracetamol in the UK

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Similar to how Albuterol is Salbutamol in the UK

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Paracetamol

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But it's probably more due to the fact you can't buy more than 16 paracetamol at a time.

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Could be enough to kill your liver

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It's 32, you can buy two packs of 16. I also think you can buy larger packs at the chemist as long as the pharmacist gives permission.

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Also an embuggerance if you suffer from gout and have to pop ibuprofen like they're sweets.

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Does this include aspirin? Also suicide by liver failure seems like a terrible way to go....

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+1 for PTerry reference

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Which is hilarious because you sell voltarol gel but in the US our equivalent requires a doctor visit& prescription to get from the pharmacy

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Which obviously isn't a suicide risk, but I'm just saying, we don't have our priorities straight over here.

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I buy 32 paracetamol and 96 ibuprofen at a time in the UK. You could walk into another shop and buy another 32 & 96 immediately.

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Also the ibuprofen are 400mg (rather than 200) so only take one at a time (equiv to 182 200mg ibuprofen)

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