Monday, July 27, 2020

Tumblr Thread on Titanic is as Fascinating as it is Made Up


It's weird how with a smidgen of detail and a few photos, you can convey some incredible and untrue "information" on eclipses and death cults. As with history, science can also be easily farced, like this thread on the "dangers" of black-tiled pools and gullibility. 

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Vehicle - facts facts-i-just-made-up •.. HAD TITANIC ARRIVED: The Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Had it not struck the iceberg, it would have arrived in New York on April 17th. But what was happening in New York on April 17th, 1912? The answer may change history as you know it.

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Text - On April 17th, a Wednesday, there was a solar eclipse, one long awaited by a new religious movement called The Order of the Golden Temple. The OGT was a group of about 120 people, located mostly in Manhattan, who believed that the sun itself was a temple of gold sacred to the god Aupolus (a neopagan interpretation of Apollo), who was killed and reborn with each solar eclipse.

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Text - The OGT was banned in England where it was formed by Aleister Crowley's aunt, Jessica Caledrice Boothe. It was banned because, during the eclipse of 1888, Boothe and her followers ran rampant through London committing murders and mutilations, scattering the innards of their victims in occult sigils, and eating their spleens. The case of Jack the Ripper was notably a few days after these events and was not counted among them, however Ripper historians often neglect to note that those murde

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Text - Boothe's murderous cult arrived at Pier 59, where the Titanic would be scheduled to arrive 24 years later. They festered in the New York underground, all the while growing and preparing for the grand ritual to be performed on April 17th, 1912. Documents found in Boothe's home after her death suggest that the day would have been one of mass murder on an unseen scale, in which at least 2222 residents of the big city would be sacrificed to ensure the Sun God's return. But this was not to be.

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Text - News of the Titanic's sinking hit New York on April 16th and it hit like a ton of bricks. The population was stricken with grief and that included Mrs. Boothe, who had two sisters on the ship, inbound for the dark ritual. She cancelled the ritual and disbanded the cult, having had her fill of death and destruction and loss. And so thousands of lives were lost, and thousands more were saved in that strange April, where the Titanic perished only to prevent the mutilation, death, and spleena

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Text - Here's the strangest thing though- Jessica Boothe died a few days after the cancellation of the ritual on April 19th, 1912. Her cause of death is unknown but she promised one thing- The Sun God would have his revenge, specifically on the 222nd eclipse after their failure. That eclipse will take place on December 14, 2020, when Boothe said, the sun would be eclipsed- And never come back. Thankfully this is all unlikely due to the scientific facts of our sun and moon; the unanimous global d

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Poor Design Choices Devoid Of Common Sense


Hindsight is 20/20. These design fails are the embodiment of poor decisions that could've used a little more thought. 

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Stepmom Gives Away Stepson's PS4, Stepson Takes Revenge


Don't mess with the PS4. This stepmom crossed the line that there's simply no coming back from. Think it's safe to say that she learned her humbling lesson. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/youngsourswede • 1y • O3 10 My hag of a stepmom gave away my Playstation 4 while I was away in college. So I rent out "her" house while she was on her honeymoon with her newest husband. I have been reading lots of Reddit lately, especially entitled parents, but made a new account when I came across this page. I never thought I'd actually try to contribute something! Until now Reddit has just been my guilty morning coffee read. So here goes. I'm an only son. My mom died of o

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Text - I'm 22, and am about to graduate college with my degree in chemistry when the main events start to occur. I went to college on a full ride scholarship. This is important later. My dad met my now stepmom when she was my mom's nurse at the hospital where she spent her final days. My stepmom "Grace" played all the right notes to gain my dad's trust. She was empathetic to him, nurturing, comforting after my mom passed. I was seventeen and old enough to sense that she was just trying to weasel

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Text - But we are Scandinavian and at least in my family the son does not tell his father what to do or even offer any opinion. Grace is from the Czech Republic if you're wondering. My father was a very successful banker during his career, and amassed quite a portfolio of wealth. I'll spare you the details, but after six months of dating, Grace and my father are married. My dad never really got over my mom though, and he was getting weaker and weaker even though he was only 57. Since his health

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Text - Well long story short, my dad bequeathed his five bedroom house to me even though I wasn't expecting it and didn't ask for it. He gave a small endowment to each of his sisters and their children. He left about 80% of all his existing money to Grace, which amounted to several hundreds of thousands of dollars. My dad ignored me because he's generous to a fault and still gave me several tens of thousands of dollars, which were of course very useful to me. Grace tried to put on a friendly fro

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Text - downplayed the fact that it was really my house, and over the months I think Grace gradually forgot that she really had no legal right to the house. She probably believed that sooner or later, because I never asked her for any of the hundreds of thousands of my dad's dollars that she now had, that I was somehow independently wealthy and would just give up my house to her. I knew I'd eventually hydrogen bomb this b*tch when she started dating some new guy only five months after my dad was

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Text - I tell her that I graduated college and already secured employment with a local firm, and "will soon find a new place to live." She looks thrilled. Especially the part where it looks like l'll soon have a new place to live. Then in a patronizing way she tells me, "you always have a place in our house though, you are welcome to stay whenever you please." Thanks, Grace, really generous of you. What I really say is that I will probably have a new place in three months. She says that is wonde

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Text - Locks? Changed. All of them. Within days, I am inundated with dozens of inquiries regarding my amazing, furnished house with fantastic views. I rent it to a wonderful young family. A barrister and his schoolteacher wife and their two preteen children. They pay me their first and last month's rent, and sign a lease for a year. I warn them about my crazy stepmom who thinks this is her house, but I present them with contact information to my lawyer (the same lawyer my dad retained) in case t

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Text - Speaking of money, the house that I rent out is generating so much money that I not only am able to help pay for my cousins' college, but I moved into a larger apartment of my own, together with my fiancee. I love my job but really, I could survive solely on renting my dad's old house. And to think. If Grace had only been cooler and nicer I might have let her stay at the house, just to be a good sport. And definitely if she stayed the hell out of my room. But no, she had to act all propri

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Tumblr Post: Paranormal Activity Is Bored Kids Causing Trouble


This quick and funny Tumblr post sheds light on the mysterious paranormal happenings that can occur around eerie film sets. Turns out it's just a bunch of silly kids stirring up trouble cause they have nothing better to do. Or is it? Are we in fact sure that that is always the case? 

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Text - thecheshiresmiles everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn. he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team's trailers and shit. and now there's Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they

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Text - trashcandean I don't like adding to posts but I also have a funny story like this, so I was watching the movie the Blair witch which takes place in burkettsville maryland, which to me is so funny because that is were my grandfather lives and the town is literally just old people and cows with their main street consisting of a post office. Well anyway he told me that after it came out people were coming in like bus loads to the town to find the witch and my grandfather lives up in the Moun

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Text - ginathethundergoddess We had ghost hunters come to a historic house in my town to film and if you think every high school kid in town respectfully stayed at home that night instead of going to fuck up that filming you're dead wrong. animentality this is comforting, actually, sometimes paranormal things are just a bunch of bored people dicking around in the woods. thepoorgroomsbrideisatrot New favorite cryptid: locals

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Queen Karen, President Of The HOA Gets Defeated


Nothing quite warms our hearts like a tyrannical, shady, and genuinely mean Karen getting it in the end. This particular Karen was enforcing the rules while she wasn't abiding by the most important ones herself. This ultimately manifests in Karen's self destruction. Sounds like she lost everything. This revenge is borderline nuclear. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/california-old-timer • 17h Join 1 Taking down Queen Karen. President of the HOA Ok, this happened years ago 1985 to be exact. I was 45 when this happened 81 now. So after my 2nd retirement, I started doing property management. I bought this 2500 square foot luxury home in with the sole intention of renting it out. Now I didn't know how bad the HOA was, but when I became the owner I soon found out. This all took place in 2 years time

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Text - Karen would literally have a problem with everyone in the neighborhood. Trash Can's left out? Fined, Loud music after 10 pm? Fined, Yard Sale without permission? Fine, Removing dead plants and replanting without approval, you get fined. It went on and on like this. Now the community could run for the HOA board, but the HOA board chose the president, 6 out of the 10 members on the board liked Karen so she always kept her job. Her husband was in the medical field so he made a lot of money.

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Text - Queen Karen: Excuse me?! Me: Yeah? Queen Karen: You have to turn that music down it's to0 loud! I told her that it was 8 pm and that music that's even loud can be played until 10. She wasn't having it and demanded that I do so. Now my friends and I kept the music going and we were enjoying ourselves. She proceeded to get angry and fined me.

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Text - Now, most people will just take the abuse and pay the fine. But not me. I went to the HOA board contested the fine and won. From that point on Queen Karen made it her personal mission to destroy me. She would bitch and fuss about every little thing. I fought what I could but I did end up paying for some of it. She also went after my tenants which made things worse for me. I had a sit down with my friends one night to discuss the problem. When I parked my car Queen Karen came over in her r

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Text - From this point on Queen Karen had a massive decline in the quality of life that she had. She sold her car and got a cheaper one and she adopted different dressing habits. But even after the divorce she never got a job and she was still living somewhat better than everyone else. Fast Forward to 1986 in February Queen Karen and the HOA had been giving out fines for very obscure things and increased monthly dues. Having trash cans out a couple of hours early or after the trash man left woul

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Text - Queen Karen said that the community had been falling behind on repairs and that the dues and increase in fines where necessary, especially if people weren't maintaining their own property. She said that it was in the yearly budget report and that we should have read it. The other pissed residents and I go and read the statement. Now none of us read it because we take it | as a junk mail and disregard it. But we read the whole statement cover to cover. Queen had increased the HOA budget 15

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Text - Queen Karen was living off HOA fines and dues. The increase is because she was running out of money. She still didn't have a job so she embezzled from the HOA so she wouldn't have to get a job. She gets BUSTED! We call the police for her embezzling the money. She was charged with fraud and extortion. The Neighbors and I filed a joint lawsuit against Karen to get reimbursement as well. Because she had no money so she had to mortgage her house to pay us all. She later went to federal prison

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

Tumblr Thread: The Cold-Blooded Freak Devil Cave Goat


Tumblr looked at this evolutionary dead-end of a forward-eye-facing cold-blooded cave goat and decided: "good." Sometimes tumblr gets ahold of some biology or history knowledge and extrapolates the ever-loving reality out of it like when they went full mythological science on dragon evolution. For another interesting learning experience here's Tumblr's thread on Kudzu, the monster plant waging war with everything.

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Text - RE tilthat Follow TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature. via http://ift.tt/2vtQOYg r-evolution-aries Follow The goat's binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it

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Dinosaur - Here's what its skull looked like, btw. (By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Skeleton - creepsandcrawlers Follow can't believe we missed out on hte fucked up crocodile goat. :( thylacineshrine that was the devil shoresoftheshadowlands Follow

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Text - wingleader Follow What the what ohnoagremlin Follow having a bad time picturing what a goat with forward facing eyes would look like devilishdescent Follow

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Vertebrate - devilishdescent Follow it went extinct because anything that saw it instinctively wanted to kill it

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