Bacon - Nuff' Said...

The most frightening man on the show. Murders innocent people to fulfill his sick needs. Trinity. Fear him. (kinda spoilers)

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:27:20 -0700

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How about a list of intelligent scary movies.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:01:32 -0700

I know we've had list of favorite horror movies, but let's try another one with one stipulation. The movies can not rely on gore, or cheap startle moments to be scary. Scary in an intellectual way.

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Ned........Ryerson!

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:01:38 -0700

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Genesis 8:1-19 - The flood subsides

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:25:41 -0700

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Parents died in a car wreck two days ago. All I want to do is stay in bed and be left alone.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:47:59 -0700

My family has been hassling me about all there is to do and I don't care. They want to plan the funeral and want me to write and perform the eulogy because my brother refuses. I just want to be left alone to get loaded and sleep. How do I get them off my back?

Edit- You guys are really nice. I wasn't expecting such a supportive response. Thank you all.

Edited again- Repling and reading all this has been a good distraction, thank you. Actually feeling the need for real company now. I'm gonna go out to the backyard and continue with the getting loaded and wait to see who comes out to give me hell about smoking a spliff first. I gotta get my mind away from the reality of it all if i'm going to have any chance of getting through the funeral.

PPPS: Just in case anyones still reading this, thanks again. I'm still all fucked up. I get it, I have to pull my shit together for a few days. My family wants to help and they need someone to tell them what to do and as the oldest kid it gets to be my job. I should be glad I've got so many who want to help.

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Time for a new computer? Here's everything you need to know.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:02:20 -0700

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OK

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:31:33 -0700

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John Lithgow wins emmy for Guest Actor in a Drama!

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:45:54 -0700

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Person: "So what's your major?" Me: "Math." Person: O_o.

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:17:56 -0700

Isn't this such a tired act? Why is my major so indefensibly crazy and suicidal? Why does everyone and their brother act like math is some earth-shattering difficult thing that a normal person can't even feign to understand? Also, teaching is not my sole career option. That is all.

Edit: Damn, didn't expect this to be so popular. Nice discussions going on!

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AskReddit: What are some unexplainable things you have witnessed in your life?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:23:51 -0700

This question is inspired by a recent argument with a close friend about something we saw about ten years ago. He's convinced it was a ghost, and I'm not.

About ten years ago we were on his back porch having a smoke (completely sober), when we heard what sounded like all the dogs to the left of us going crazy; not just a few, and not just a little bit of barking. It sounded as if every dog down the left side of the street was going mad; lots growling and ferocious barking that was much louder than I've ever head the dogs around here before (now I'm no expert but I have lived in this area my entire life, and it was definitely unusual).

After a few minuets of this chaos it mostly stops and almost fully returns to the silence there was before it started, minus a couple dogs still raging. Then this, misty...transparent...cloudish...shape starts to float past the back of his chain link fence. Directly behind his house is an empty lot about the size of a house and small ally, and directly past that is a park with a baseball field, and those big park lights were on at the time. Needless to say, the area we were in was exceptionally well lit.

As this "mist" starts floating into view my friend's dog starts to go mad herself. She ran up with the hair on her back sticking up, growling, barking, and biting at the fence. This worried me a bit since she was the most calm dog I've ever known. She was great with old people, kids, small animals, etc. I've never seen her like that before, and have never seen her like that since (from the time she was a pup to the day she died). For whatever the reason she went into fucking battle-mode. The "mist" eventually passed and she calmed back down, but seemed a bit jumpy the rest of the night. After it passed we heard dogs going crazy down the right side of the street just as they had done down the left only minuets before.

To this day I have never seen anything even remotely similar to this, or anything as unexplainable either. My friend is convinced it was a ghost, but I don't believe in ghosts. I would also find it silly to classify something that, to me, is unexplainable, as something that's not even proven to exist in the first place.

This is not a throwaway account, and I'm not trolling. I'm genuinely interested in what unexplainable events others have witnessed.

TL;DR: A friend and I saw some sort of "transparent mist" in a well lit area that made what seemed like every dog on the street go insane while in its presence. Friend thinks it was a ghost and I don't. (yeah, I know exactly how it sounds...which is why I don't speak of it often.)

Edit: For those that care, this "mist" is probably some sort of swarm of insects. Personally I've never seen a swarm of insects before and would have never thought of it, but everything fits with this explanation. Proves a great point too: Just because you can't explain something, doesn't mean it can't be explained. (Thanks to 0______0 for pointing that out.)

Also again, for those who care: MINUET!

I can't believe how many people are responding to this. I really thought this would have just got downvoted to hell based on the premise alone, if not my lame story. Interesting change of pace to see reddit talking about weird experiences, creepy coincidences, and downright odd things. I guess everyone really does have one of those stories.

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The House Call

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:43:53 -0700

True story, names changed.

I grew up in a very small town in a Northeast state. It used to be a big town, bigger than our state capital, back in the early 1800's, but then the creek started to dry up and the mills closed down. A few thousand people lived there when I was a kid. We were hill people, mostly. And mostly poor.

So one day my dad decides he wants to see if there's any furniture in an old shack he knows way out in the woods. Keep in mind that we're already hill people and this is a shack by our own standards. This whole operation classier than it sounds, my dad was a finish carpenter, and often restored old antiques, our house was filled with them. Now they tell you to leave that stuff alone, for the patina.

So his idea was that we should get anything left in the house before it rots. No one else ever went up there. Town lore was that the owner left for California 40 years ago after some kind of drama with her mate, refused to maintain the place, and would never sell it. No one knows what happened to her love interest. Standard campfire stuff, no one really believed any of it, except kids. I happened to be a kid, though.

So one afternoon, my dad, his buddy, and I all go up there in some kind of tiny imported four seater car. We sputter on toward this place, and I feel immediately lost. Even though I'm 5, this is a really small town, so I know my way around, and I'm very concerned about this "lost" feeling, and I keep asking my dad if he's going to remember the way back. I am getting more and more agitated as we get closer, and this is starting to freak my dad out because I'm usually a pretty mellow kid.

Finally we pull up the path through the overgrown grass to the house and it looks bad, no paint, roof starting to bend, windows all blown out, door jammed open. I'm just crying now, and won't stop. The original plan was that all three of us would go inside and look around. Now there's now way I'm going in the house, and I'm too freaked out to be by myself in this place, so my dad's buddy stays with me in the car, and he goes inside alone. He promises me he'll just look through real quick and be back in a minute or two, and starts climbing up the rise to where the house stands.

He forces the door the rest of the way open with his shoulder and disappears inside. I quit crying now, because things seem very serious now. And we wait in the car as I count the minutes on my watch. Analog, with a second hand. It's really quiet now, and it seems to have gotten late, and I'm getting really worried, because once the sun goes down I won't be able to see into the house from the car, and for some reason this seems really important. And then it gets more quiet, the kind you forget about, because you don't hear it very often. We can't hear birds, or distant cars, no wind, not even a jet in the sky, and worse, we can't hear my dad ramming around in the house, opening warped closet doors and testing stairs & such.

I can sense my dad's buddy getting kind of worried too, which isn't cool, because I don't think he has the balls to go inside the house and get my dad if something's gone wrong. Right about this time, he surprises me by saying, "Okay, Johnny [not my real name], we better go help finish this up," and we both start opening our car doors. I remember being surprised because 1) normally my dad's buddy was kind of wimpy, and just then he seemed pretty fierce; 2) it was the first time anyone had used my given name, in the diminutive, with that much respect. I felt like I was going to be an important part in whatever happened next, just like one of the grownups. For the first time, the name didn't feel debiggened, if you know what I mean. I was suddenly being relied on for something, although I wasn't sure what. Hard to explain that part. And 3) I was terrified a few moments ago, and now I felt kind of floaty and brave, and I was amazed as I watched my own hand opening the car door to go confront whatever was scaring us.

Anyway, as we're clicking the mechanisms on the doors to get out and go to war (?), the old front door of the house slams open - remember it was wicked jammed before, there was a whole lot of power yanking it open this time. Dad comes running out toward the car faster than I'd ever seen him go before. You know that kind of running wan you take three stairs at a time without noticing? His buddy is instinctively hauling himself into the back seat as my dad is already in the car and starting the ignition, we're in reverse halfway down the path before his door is even shut. He sort of spins the car on the grass so we're going forward, and speeds home slamming through the gears. His buddy, is yelling "John! John! [not his real name] What happened! Calm down, if the girls see you this way they'll freak out, man! Slow down, man, the kid's in the car! What the fuck?"

I was disappointed, I was back to being the kid. But I was relieved to be away from that house, and the farther we all got from it the slower he drive, but he wouldn't talk about it, and even I could see his hands still tremoring on the steering wheel. We got home, and my dad and his buddy went to smoke a joint (hindsight makes this clear lol), they told my mom and my dad's buddy's girl that they didn't find anything worth salvaging in the old house, and it looked like they were pretty much going to get away with not having to explain the whole story to anyone.

Later that night, the phone rang, and my dad got up to get it. He said "Hello?" and then turned white as a ghost. My mom was alarmed, and asked him what was wrong. He hung up and said it was the old lady, and she told him "stay the fuck out of my house."

I learned the rest of the story years later when my dad was drunk and told me what happened in the house. I'll tell the whole thing from that perspective in another post if you want.

Edited for grammer. lol.

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The law

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:51:25 -0700

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Help with the Riemann Hypothesis

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:17:07 -0700

I've been told to write on the "the Conjecture and relate it to the distribution of prime numbers."

I'm struggle to understand how all of it relates to the Euler product formula. I've been reading through Prime Obsession and I'm still trying to get it all in.

Thanks!

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Mathematicians of reddit: Question about prime numbers

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:12:46 -0700

Regarding this comment about the 1401 digit prime number that is a GZip of a DeCSS decryption program. I understand that there are infinitely many prime numbers but is there a proof or can it be proven that there are infinitely many prime numbers beginning with a given series of numbers? This is an honest question, I am legitimately interested in. I'm no mathematician myself but it is a subject I really enjoy, particularly weird stuff like this. Thanks.

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DAE hate unrealistically articulate kids in movies?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:13:23 -0700

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Easter egg (?) in the music from Inception

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:29:56 -0700

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Questions from an atheist - a few things I've never had the opportunity to ask

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:40:38 -0700

edit: Mods: I believe this doesn't violate the community policy, but if you disagree let me know and I'll take it down.

First, let me start out by stating that while I disagree with your beliefs, I'm not here for conflict. I'm not looking for a debate either, although if you have any questions for me I'll try to answer as best I can. I even decided to use my real account. Anyway, if anything comes across as offensive it wasn't meant to be.

Final edit: Thanks for your time, and responses.

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Teachers in 1960 vs 2010

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:40:37 -0700

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Letter of complaint. NSWF language. [pic]

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:03:25 -0700

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In case you weren't sure, cosine is definitely the derivative of sine. [GIF]

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:08:46 -0700

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A man buys a goat.

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:40:00 -0700

A man buys a goat from a farmer. The farmer goes back to get it, and when he comes back he says that the goat died while he was out. The man asks for his money back, but the farmer says that he's really sorry, but he spent it in town. The man says "alright, give me the goat anyway, I'll raffle it off." The farmer responds, " You can't raffle of a dead goat!" "Sure I can, I just won't tell anyone that it's dead."

So the farmer gives the man the goat, and doesn't see him again until a week later. The farmer asks, "How'd the raffle go?" "Great, I sold 100 tickets for $10 bucks each. I made $990". The farmer is incredulous. "Didn't anybody complain about the dead goat?" "Only the guy that won, so I gave him his money back."

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Michael Scott's diploma...I just noticed what it says.

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:11:04 -0700

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America gets a lot of negativity on this site, so what's your favorite thing about America?

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:20:17 -0700

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Does anyone else feel that the first words in a conversation with someone after leaving a movie theater have a certain awkwardness to them?

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:29:01 -0700

Same with watching a movie at home with someone else.

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Awesome Wallpaper Site

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:41:48 -0700

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