Things you find creepy/scary

reading https://archive.org/details/fieldingsworldsm0000pelt profoundly changed my (rational, cold blooded) perception of danger.

'Dangerous' is what kills. So yes, the coconut more so than the shark.

The most audacious thing is something like a habit of drinking soda (cardiovascular disease) with close relatives (homicide) in the kitchen (accidents).
 
Alive spiders walking over my hand *cuuute*
Dead spiders overgrown with hairy white mold *shudder*
Morbidly obese Greens politicians *creep*
 
Updating to 14.0 because I have all my config files just like I want them and I don't want to fiddle with Vi right now.
 
getopt said:
Having changed my bean counting hat to a semantic equivalence helmet:


Do they? Do coconuts bite and eat humans?
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No, you get knocked out, and if you get hit in a bad spot... There's a reason for danger warning signage...
www.westhawaiitoday.com

Beachgoers concerned about falling coconuts - West Hawaii Today

KAILUA-KONA — For many, sitting beneath a coconut tree at the beach is the epitome of a tropical vacation. ADVERTISING KAILUA-KONA — For many, sitting beneath a coconut tree at the beach is the epitome of a tropical vacation. But
www.westhawaiitoday.com www.westhawaiitoday.com
 
grahamperrin said:
smithi how beautiful. We see those trees occasionally in the UK, but I've never seen anything like what's pictured.
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I'm impressed; they'd hardly be middle-aged there, first export to England ~1820 I think. Here we're only 250km SE of Bunya Mountains NP but they're rare; more Hoop Pine (q.v.) country, only cousin of the Bunya, also lovely trees (and timber) - but off-topic, being non-scary! :)
 
Crivens said:
All you arachnophobia people: just imagine how much panic the spider must have of you. You are better served with fear of Moskitos, they kill more people than you think. And that is where spiders come in again.
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I'll add a little story here to lighten the mood a bit. Once my cousin was touring SE Asia, and upon switching off the light in the hotel room there were these taptaptap sounds. Okaaay, lights on and lo and behold, right above the bed, a gecko looks down at her. The reception is a phone call away, and they had one choice to offer: Maam, you can have a room with gecko or a room with moskitos. The choice was gecko.
 
Crivens said:
The choice was gecko.
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Always. My favourite reptile. Sooo not scary.

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Maxnix said:
Don't know if they eat humans, but seem plausible that this ones bite: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Kakamora 😆
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you're confusing fictional characters with durians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian ...

smithi said:
Coconuts are lightweights;
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So are bullets. A typical bullet weighs slightly more than a pen you write with. And you REALLY don't want to be hit by a bullet, falling coconut, a falling durian or a falling tree branch. Same amount of danger, really, but very different perception of actual danger.
 
Thank You, Graham. I was wondering if I'm the only one annoyed by these proceedings.
But I was told people do actually love advertisments. So, if there were normal people around, the comment sections should be full of praise for them.
 
Alain De Vos said:
The purpose of advertisements is to annoy so you pay for not having them.
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As I just learned, in 2012 planet Nibiru has collided with earth (that was not perceivable for those of you who are still bound to only the material sphere). Since then, things are different.

Now, Alain, please think along with me: normally, the interest of advertisers would lie in those people who have money, to buy things. Those who do not have money are of no relevance to advertisers. But, when the case actually is that those with money can buy themselves out of watching advertisments, and only those without money are forced to watch advertisements, then apparently something is wrong here, from a logical viewpoint.

That looks like a (metaphysical) fault line, and it is not the only such that appeared since 2012...
 
I don't mind the Google adverts so much because they have to at least pretend to comply with local advertising laws (and you can block them) but when the youtuber itself spends the first five minutes of an eight minute video recapping seemingly every video they've ever made, followed by one minute of content, and then the final two minutes being a "sponsor of the video" which is sometimes some dodgy payday loan finance app charging +1000% APR but this isn't declared anywhere in the video, gets very tiresome indeed.
 
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