General Questions Thread

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by speck123

First name that popped to mind is Issei Sagawa

I will never be able to understand why he's a free man after only a very short period.

[GenjiChan]

I wonder why the victims family didn't complain for either the crime and the action of the French court. After being a free man and a celebrity is a slap to the French and Dutch.

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Originally Posted by GenjiChan

I wonder why the victims family didn't complain for either the crime and the action of the French court. After being a free man and a celebrity is a slap to the French and Dutch.

Yes, him being a minor celebrity is what I couldn't stand. It's just feeding into his ego and making it seem as if the murder he committed is an achievement.

[GenjiChan]

In my country, "pretending to be insane"and being drunk is the usual defense of lawyers if their client has committed an unimaginable crime like multiple murder, child rape and mutilation of victims. I often pissed off of such excused of damed criminals. I wonder why authorities didn't shoot them on the spot (while being arrested) pretending that they "fought back."

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

In my country, "pretending to be insane"and being drunk is the usual defense of lawyers if their client has committed an unimaginable crime like multiple murder, child rape and mutilation of victims. I often pissed off of such excused of damed criminals. I wonder why authorities didn't shoot them on the spot (while being arrested) pretending that they "fought back."

It is my belief that every justice system in all countries has a loophole that can be taken advantage of.

Anyways, it seems like we are going off-topic here. So I shall stop here.

I am planning to get Adobe photoshop but I am not sure which version to purchase. I just want one that I could make avatars and gif. Preferably not pricey to the point I have to be declared bankrupt.

[GenjiChan]

Originally Posted by MUAHAHAHAHAHA

I am planning to get Adobe photoshop but I am not sure which version to purchase. I just want one that I could make avatars and gif.

well, I wanted to try Adobe but I'm satified with GIMP for now.

[Endless Soul]

I still use Photoshop 6.

Endless "Ancient" Soul

[MUAHAHAHAHAHA]

Does it make a whole lot of difference if I get a used version from Amazon?

[Vexx]

For casual use, I find GIMP to be just wonderous for image manipulation -- its free (open source).

[dragon4dudes]

And it's cross-platform!

[FlavoryFantasy]

Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky

-airplane crash in the mountains in winter
-zombie apocalypse
-stranded in a lifeboat out on the ocean
-dystopian future

I'm almost curious as to what kind of dystopian future...but that can be for a day to ponder about things.

Originally Posted by speck123

First name that popped to mind is Issei Sagawa

Interesting read. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

Spoiler for for space:

Yeah first thing in my head was Issei Sagawa, whose case was a disaster -.-"

Cannibals are scattered everywhere. They are concentrated in lesser developed worlds with existing secluded tribes as a cultural thing. Cannibals exists like psychopaths. There's people that do those things, and there's people who harbor those thoughts and hide it for their entire life.

There's random shit like someone volunteering himself to be eaten by another person because one guy is a cannibal and other guy is insane and thinks being eaten by a cannibal is cool. I think the Americas and Oceania have least cannibals. Asia and Africa is rather hard to survey with lack of adequate/uncensored media. Most acts of cannibalism are reported in Europe.

Cannibalism in normal people are forced when there's a disaster and people are starving for an extremely long period of time. Tang Shan Earthquake, plane crash, stranded in water etc.

Really now ? A cannibal, and an insane man, I can't even begin to imagine the circumstances on how they even met...

Such a random question XD

Curiosity got the better of me here so...

Well thank you for all the responses!

[Raiga]

Random thought popped into my head today.

What do Italians call italic typeface?

[Merilyn Mensola]

Originally Posted by Raiga

Random thought popped into my head today.

What do Italians call italic typeface?

“Io scrivo in Corsivo“

Corsivo is Italic type...

[totoum]

Originally Posted by Dhomochevsky

-airplane crash in the mountains in winter

Here's an exemple

The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude. Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned, the survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow. Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found a Chilean huaso, who gave them food and then alerted authorities about the existence of the other survivors.

At high altitude, the body's caloric needs are astronomical ... we were starving in earnest, with no hope of finding food, but our hunger soon grew so voracious that we searched anyway ...again and again we scoured the fuselage in search of crumbs and morsels. We tried to eat strips of leather torn from pieces of luggage, though we knew that the chemicals they'd been treated with would do us more harm than good. We ripped open seat cushions hoping to find straw, but found only inedible upholstery foam ... Again and again I came to the same conclusion: unless we wanted to eat the clothes we were wearing, there was nothing here but aluminium, plastic, ice, and rock

[Paranoid Android]

Anyone familiar with brewing wine/alcohol? My Chinese friend wants to make 85% alcohol, he says he has everything except this device which is a 2 layered vessel where supposedly something evaporates and drips to the outer layer? He explained it to me in chinese which I'm terrible at and I have no idea what he's talking about.

He's making it out of rice wine and looking for something that makes the alcohol concentrated I think?

He wants to buy that container he talked about but he hasn't yet learned English so he doesn't know how to go about looking for where to buy it. Which is why he asked me to help but I'm clueless.

*confused*

[Dhomochevsky]

You can not 'brew' something with 85% alc.
For that you have to distill it, which I guess would be part of the name of that mysterious device.
There are a lot of different techniques to get the water out of your wine/beer.

Pick one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistillery

[Paranoid Android]

OHHH thanks XD Yeah alcohol distiller, found it xD Thanks

[Hasumi]

Which part of the head are you supposed to shoot for certain death.

I heard that you can't just shoot anywhere on the head, if you do that it's possible they won't die and just end up with permanent brain damage.

[MeoTwister5]

Destroyed brain stem and midbrain will pretty much guarantee death. Most of the cerebral structures aren't completely required to be biologically alive.

Also, 85%? Are you trying to moonshine your way to perforated stomachs?

[Paranoid Android]

I don't know, it's my friend who makes this stuff lol.