There was an even grizzlier story a few weeks ago about men coming up missing in some small Chinese village and -- I don't claim to know all the details -- but there initially appeared to be a delay in suspicion falling upon an old convicted murderer known as "cannibal monster." Like the village did not initially suspect the guy, who was even supposedly selling the "mystery meat" in a neighboring village. I don't know about you guys, but if people start turning up missing, the first place I'm going to look is ole cannibal monster's house.
I wish this was the least of this story. It's gone REALLY WTF.
They think it's a dude that has worked in porn and possibly dated one of Canada's most notorious women.
There is suppose to be a video online of him killing the guy and doing all kinds of fucked up things with the body.
Fucked up shit.
Can read some Canadians talking about this here. WARNING I suggest not clicking any links in there. I refused to watch. So I don't know what is exactly in them. But what's being described is horrible.
Gonna be totally honest here....when I learned that the crazy white dude on the left WASN'T the face eating cannibal zombie perp...I was flabbergasted.
Dude has "I'll eat a mother fuckers face" written all over his face....
I just can't read that story and laugh.
Not condemning anyone, just saying how it effects me.
Also all reports of mental illness or drug use at this time are speculative.
Yeah, maybe I'm just getting sensitive in my old age but I just don't think its funny. And yeah, it doesn't bother me that other folks are joking, because thats just what we do. But news like this disturbs me in ways that it didn't used to.
Of course as soon as I post this I'll think of some hilarious pun, but will be unable to post it without looking like a hyprocrite.
I just can't read that story and laugh.
Not condemning anyone, just saying how it effects me.
Also all reports of mental illness or drug use at this time are speculative.
Yeah, maybe I'm just getting sensitive in my old age but I just don't think its funny. And yeah, it doesn't bother me that other folks are joking, because thats just what we do. But news like this disturbs me in ways that it didn't used to.
Of course as soon as I post this I'll think of some hilarious pun, but will be unable to post it without looking like a hyprocrite.
Nah, man...I think it's totally understandable to be disturbed at the fact that people make light of sick sad shit while also partaking in it ourselves...it's kind of a weird coping mechanism, IMO.
Pretty much everything I've giggled at in this thread has been followed up with a "Jesus wtf is wrong with us"....
I can't laugh about a man eating a man for 18 minutes on a causeway.
Wait - it was a black man eating a homeless man, so that's fair game.
Giggle at your clown shoes, fucksticks.
This is one of the bad things about how the internet has changed people.
It's saddening that the world is less and less shocked by this kinda stuff.
I think people are a lot more desensitized to the weird and twisted crap that goes on in the world cause its right there on their computer screens, if not via the news then they stumble upon it via youtube or accidentally get directed to a gore site or whatever.
I was at a party the other day and theres this girl going on about the 'pain olympics', like "hey check it out check it out... see how long you can watch this video for!" - it's a video of a dude cutting off his own jibbs. Then someone chimes in with "hey check it out check it out, there's a video of a guy falling to his death from a tightrope" and then someone pulls up a video of an old guy who has a heart attack on live TV. It's surprising how many people have seen something like this by the time they are like 13.
I mean take the whole 2 girls 1 cup thing that most people have either heard of or seen at some point... most cause they saw a reaction video and wanted to know what the reaction video was a reaction to.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
True, but the global access to videos and images of sick shit since the internet came about is unprecedented. The desensitization is very real. Just look at 4chan and even some parts of Reddit. People just get numb to violent, shocking stuff after a while. It's all pretty fucked.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Look at human history. It's obviously in a our nature to be ultra-violent. This whole idea that we are suddenly being desensitized by media to something we've been DOING all along is redundant to me.
But I guess if you really like sappy violin music...
True, but the global access to videos and images of sick shit since the internet came about is unprecedented. The desensitization is very real. Just look at 4chan and even some parts of Reddit. People just get numb to violent, shocking stuff after a while. It's all pretty fucked.
North America has always been lightweight when it comes to reporting gruesome news. The newspapers in South America have always been graphic and censor nothing when it comes to death and violence. That being said, I won't go out of my way to see it and don't feel I'm missing out on anything by not seeing dudes gnawed off face.
As far as making light of such tragedies, it's better than dwelling on the horror and allowing it to consume you. I once worked with a Viet Nam vet who had been on the "body recovery team". He told me stories of making jokes and mixing body parts on the post-battlefield. As he was telling me I thought it was the most disgusting, heartless and vile thing I had ever heard. He went on to explain that they HAD to make light of it because if they didn't and focused on just how horrible it all was they would have lost their sanity. I have to take his word for it.
Look at human history. It's obviously in a our nature to be ultra-violent. This whole idea that we are suddenly being desensitized by media to something we've been DOING all along is redundant to me.
But I guess if you really like sappy violin music...
Come on dude. You're conflating people being violent with people being desensitized to seeing violence/gore/weird sex shit etc.
I remember the first time someone sent me a link disguised as something else as a joke and I saw a dude get his head cut off. That fucked me up for a while. Years later 2 girls one cup is like whatever. Think what you want, but I can tell you personally I can take seeing a lot more gruesome things than I ever thought I could after years of being on the internet.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
You have the entire collective memory of the universe in your dna, including all the gruesome to go with all the glorious.
Therefore, nothing in this world should ever come as a shock to you.
b/w
"America leads the world in shocks." - Gil Scott-Heron
I just can't read that story and laugh.
Not condemning anyone, just saying how it effects me.
Also all reports of mental illness or drug use at this time are speculative.
Yeah, maybe I'm just getting sensitive in my old age but I just don't think its funny. And yeah, it doesn't bother me that other folks are joking, because thats just what we do. But news like this disturbs me in ways that it didn't used to.
Of course as soon as I post this I'll think of some hilarious pun, but will be unable to post it without looking like a hyprocrite.
Nah, man...I think it's totally understandable to be disturbed at the fact that people make light of sick sad shit while also partaking in it ourselves...it's kind of a weird coping mechanism, IMO.
Pretty much everything I've giggled at in this thread has been followed up with a "Jesus wtf is wrong with us"....
Just to be clear, I don't have a problem with people making light of it. That doesn't really bother me. Its the story itself that fucks me up, and so I can't find myself laughing at any of it. But others making jokes, that's fine to me.
I might have made a joke or two about this,... but its more of a defense mechanism because I am fucking scared of zombies.
I think the argument could be made that the more people are exposed to REAL violent imagery, the less likely they are to become desensitized.
Maybe not, but it seems a lot easier to say.....sanction a foreign war, when its all tied up with bleachy clean news coverage and we dont actually have to watch women and children get their limbs blown off. Whether or not you see it though, it still happens.
In the case of faces of death, I read a really interesting article with the dude that made them a while back. A lot of it was fakes, but he was more about playing with societies tabboo's and stuff.
I am still fucking scared of zombies though... jesus.
I might have made a joke or two about this,... but its more of a defense mechanism because I am fucking scared of zombies.
I think the argument could be made that the more people are exposed to REAL violent imagery, the less likely they are to become desensitized.
Maybe not, but it seems a lot easier to say.....sanction a foreign war, when its all tied up with bleachy clean news coverage and we dont actually have to watch women and children get their limbs blown off. Whether or not you see it though, it still happens.
In the case of faces of death, I read a really interesting article with the dude that made them a while back. A lot of it was fakes, but he was more about playing with societies tabboo's and stuff.
I am still fucking scared of zombies though... jesus.
Just buy a boat. Zombies don't swim. They just walk along the bottom of the sea.
Look at human history. It's obviously in a our nature to be ultra-violent. This whole idea that we are suddenly being desensitized by media to something we've been DOING all along is redundant to me.
But I guess if you really like sappy violin music...
Sex and violence have always fascinated people. People can turn into monsters overnight. It's a thin line. Cultural boundaries hold us back from random face chewing. And we agreed on sex in the bedroom and violence on the battlefield: we regulated our behaviours. We consider the actions of people that break these rules News. Being a teen and exploring the rules: no news there.
And i like some sappy violins to go with my gore & sleaze: makes me feel classy.
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I wish this was the least of this story. It's gone REALLY WTF.
They think it's a dude that has worked in porn and possibly dated one of Canada's most notorious women.
There is suppose to be a video online of him killing the guy and doing all kinds of fucked up things with the body.
Fucked up shit.
Can read some Canadians talking about this here. WARNING I suggest not clicking any links in there. I refused to watch. So I don't know what is exactly in them. But what's being described is horrible.
http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/ucgmk/luca_rocco_magnotta_named_as_a_murder_and/
So sober and sane is still a possibility.....smh.
Gonna be totally honest here....when I learned that the crazy white dude on the left WASN'T the face eating cannibal zombie perp...I was flabbergasted.
Dude has "I'll eat a mother fuckers face" written all over his face....
Yeah, maybe I'm just getting sensitive in my old age but I just don't think its funny. And yeah, it doesn't bother me that other folks are joking, because thats just what we do. But news like this disturbs me in ways that it didn't used to.
Of course as soon as I post this I'll think of some hilarious pun, but will be unable to post it without looking like a hyprocrite.
Nah, man...I think it's totally understandable to be disturbed at the fact that people make light of sick sad shit while also partaking in it ourselves...it's kind of a weird coping mechanism, IMO.
Pretty much everything I've giggled at in this thread has been followed up with a "Jesus wtf is wrong with us"....
Wait - it was a black man eating a homeless man, so that's fair game.
Giggle at your clown shoes, fucksticks.
and:
this thread is insane.
But, Dude...Duuuuuude.....it was a causeway.
It's saddening that the world is less and less shocked by this kinda stuff.
I think people are a lot more desensitized to the weird and twisted crap that goes on in the world cause its right there on their computer screens, if not via the news then they stumble upon it via youtube or accidentally get directed to a gore site or whatever.
I was at a party the other day and theres this girl going on about the 'pain olympics', like "hey check it out check it out... see how long you can watch this video for!" - it's a video of a dude cutting off his own jibbs. Then someone chimes in with "hey check it out check it out, there's a video of a guy falling to his death from a tightrope" and then someone pulls up a video of an old guy who has a heart attack on live TV. It's surprising how many people have seen something like this by the time they are like 13.
I mean take the whole 2 girls 1 cup thing that most people have either heard of or seen at some point... most cause they saw a reaction video and wanted to know what the reaction video was a reaction to.
b/w
Drug freak-outs and cannibalism are nothing new.
True, but the global access to videos and images of sick shit since the internet came about is unprecedented. The desensitization is very real. Just look at 4chan and even some parts of Reddit. People just get numb to violent, shocking stuff after a while. It's all pretty fucked.
But I guess if you really like sappy violin music...
North America has always been lightweight when it comes to reporting gruesome news. The newspapers in South America have always been graphic and censor nothing when it comes to death and violence. That being said, I won't go out of my way to see it and don't feel I'm missing out on anything by not seeing dudes gnawed off face.
As far as making light of such tragedies, it's better than dwelling on the horror and allowing it to consume you. I once worked with a Viet Nam vet who had been on the "body recovery team". He told me stories of making jokes and mixing body parts on the post-battlefield. As he was telling me I thought it was the most disgusting, heartless and vile thing I had ever heard. He went on to explain that they HAD to make light of it because if they didn't and focused on just how horrible it all was they would have lost their sanity. I have to take his word for it.
Come on dude. You're conflating people being violent with people being desensitized to seeing violence/gore/weird sex shit etc.
I remember the first time someone sent me a link disguised as something else as a joke and I saw a dude get his head cut off. That fucked me up for a while. Years later 2 girls one cup is like whatever. Think what you want, but I can tell you personally I can take seeing a lot more gruesome things than I ever thought I could after years of being on the internet.
Therefore, nothing in this world should ever come as a shock to you.
b/w
"America leads the world in shocks." - Gil Scott-Heron
And tire balancing
Oh, cool. Well that clears everything up.
Just to be clear, I don't have a problem with people making light of it. That doesn't really bother me. Its the story itself that fucks me up, and so I can't find myself laughing at any of it. But others making jokes, that's fine to me.
I think the argument could be made that the more people are exposed to REAL violent imagery, the less likely they are to become desensitized.
Maybe not, but it seems a lot easier to say.....sanction a foreign war, when its all tied up with bleachy clean news coverage and we dont actually have to watch women and children get their limbs blown off. Whether or not you see it though, it still happens.
In the case of faces of death, I read a really interesting article with the dude that made them a while back. A lot of it was fakes, but he was more about playing with societies tabboo's and stuff.
I am still fucking scared of zombies though... jesus.
Just buy a boat. Zombies don't swim. They just walk along the bottom of the sea.
Was he dead at some point in the past?
Hahaha....
In all seriousness, I see both sides of this topic being valid.
Sex and violence have always fascinated people. People can turn into monsters overnight. It's a thin line. Cultural boundaries hold us back from random face chewing. And we agreed on sex in the bedroom and violence on the battlefield: we regulated our behaviours. We consider the actions of people that break these rules News. Being a teen and exploring the rules: no news there.
And i like some sappy violins to go with my gore & sleaze: makes me feel classy.
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