Things you find creepy/scary

[getopt]

Having changed my bean counting hat to a semantic equivalence helmet:

Coconuts also kill people like sharks.

Do they? Do coconuts bite and eat humans?

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Profighost sorry! Bean counting not intended, I was reminded of something from years ago, is all.

 

[Deleted member 43773]

Profighost sorry! Bean counting not intended

I did not ment you.

Do they? Do coconuts bite and eat humans?

Still counting beans?
I'm so glad I asked the admins to delete my account.

 

[mro]

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).

 

[skunk]

Alive spiders walking over my hand *cuuute*
Dead spiders overgrown with hairy white mold *shudder*
Morbidly obese Greens politicians *creep*

 

[Champion]

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.

 

[astyle]

Having changed my bean counting hat to a semantic equivalence helmet:


Do they? Do coconuts bite and eat humans?

No, you get knocked out, and if you get hit in a bad spot... There's a reason for danger warning signage...

Beachgoers concerned about falling coconuts - West Hawaii Today

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www.westhawaiitoday.com

 

[Maxnix]

Having changed my bean counting hat to a semantic equivalence helmet:


Do they? Do coconuts bite and eat humans?

Don't know if they eat humans, but seem plausible that this ones bite: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Kakamora ?

 

[smithi]

No, you get knocked out, and if you get hit in a bad spot... There's a reason for danger warning signage...

Coconuts are lightweights; you want danger, see 'Dangers':

Try a bunya pinecone for size.

 

[Russian_Man]

flying cockroach?

No please! Please let that shit not to fly!

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Profighost don't delete, please.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

smithi how beautiful. We see those trees occasionally in the UK, but I've never seen anything like what's pictured.

 

[smithi]

smithi how beautiful. We see those trees occasionally in the UK, but I've never seen anything like what's pictured.

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]

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.

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.

 

[smithi]

The choice was gecko.

Always. My favourite reptile. Sooo not scary.

 

[astyle]

I love geckos, they look like bright green plastic toys, and they eat the cockroaches! That's kind of a reason to be nice to the geckos!

 

[astyle]

Don't know if they eat humans, but seem plausible that this ones bite: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Kakamora ?

you're confusing fictional characters with durians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian ...

Coconuts are lightweights;

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.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Two minutes of advertisements forced upon me by Google before I can begin watching a two-minute video that's more than two years old. Scared me away before the video began. Thanks, YouTube, but no thanks.

 

[PMc]

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]

The purpose of advertisements is to annoy so you pay for not having them.

 

[astyle]

The purpose of advertisements is to annoy so you pay for not having them.

Sounds like racketeering by the Sicilian Mafia over olives and other goods for sale:

Sicilian Mafia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[PMc]

The purpose of advertisements is to annoy so you pay for not having them.

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...

 

[PMc]

Sounds like racketeering by the Sicilian Mafia over olives and other goods for sale:

Sicilian Mafia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hmmnje, not really. It's simply called extortion. There is no such thing as a honored society on the Internet.

 

[taiwan740]

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.

 

[Alain De Vos]

What some ads on Television or youtube do is increasing the sound-volume in order to be as annoy-ant as possible.