Nightmare Death Syndrome is a phenomenon reported among certain men of Thailand, who are apparently being killed in their sleep by spirits known as âwidow ghosts.â These are said to be the ghosts of particularly sexual womenwho met a violent death. Now, theyâre out to kill men and take their souls as husbands.
A widespread panic over the widow ghosts broke out in northeastern Thailand in 1990. Since the ghosts only attacked men, some young Thai fellows took to wearing lipstick and nail polish in bed in order to trick the spirits into thinking they were actually women. Yet the main strategy for warding off the ghosts was penises hung around the neck or in close proximity to the sleeping man.
Most were carved from wood, some more crude than others. Some artistic types added testicles made of coconuts, and pubic hair made from fishing nets. The residents of Ban Thung Nang Oak were very proud of their giant communal phallus, which was almost a meter (3 ft) long and had a red tip.
One couple crafted an entire scarecrow with the relevant appendage, and hung a sign around its neck that read âwidow ghost hunter.â In one village, there were rumors that the ghosts had finally acquired enough husbands, and the spirits were going to start seeking out female companions as well.
Thereâs actually a proper explanation for these ghost attacks, which have caused hundreds of deaths over the years. Autopsies revealed that the men had died due to poor nutrition. Many lived on a diet of nothing but sweet rice, which led to overproduction of insulin and a bunch of nutrient deficiencies. Combined with stress, the awful diets were enough to kill men in their sleep.Â
Tent Graveyards are usually located in the Highland Rim and western Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee. Reasons for their construction are often given as protection from animals such as cattle walking on the graves or to protect the grave from the weather.  The date of the tent graves generally is between the middle 1800âs to the mid 1900âs. (Source)
Surtsey is a piece of land that formed in 1963 (Iceland), after a huge volcanic
eruption that has lasted for 3 years. Now, the land is used for
scientific research and observations. The focus of the work is to better
understand how an ecosystem forms from scratch, without any human
impact. There are only a couple of scientists that are allowed on the
islandâs premises, making it one of a few forbidden places on earth.
(Source)
when i was 12 i got banned from yahoo answers and when i emailed support to be like âwhat did i do??â i got a really vague answer that just said âyou know what you didâ and it still haunts me to this day
When I was 10 I was in a AOL chatroom for kids and we were all making this Homer Simpson face (8^(|) but this one girl Crystal forgot to put the nose in the face so I said âYou forgot the nose crystalâ and I immediately got booted offline and no one in my family could log on. My Mom talked to someone from AOL and they said I was trying to sell drugs to minors because I said ânose crystalâ
When I was like 10 I roleplayed with people on Neopets, completely innocent stuff like âhigh school AUâ or âwolf AUâ and the like. I made a thread called âSee the Sea Hotelâ and it went on for a few replies until I randomly got my account frozen and after explaining to my mom for a good 30 minutes that âfrozenâ didnât mean the computer wouldnât respond, she got on to try and send an email to Neopetsâ staff and they said that âhotelâ was a restricted word because it included âhoâ in it
I had a similar experience around that age with an online music game called Audition.
I said something like âCan I get the speed to 2x speed?â and it automatically changed my message to âCan I get the **** to **** ****?â, and a moderator saw that modified message and suspended my account for offensive language.
It turned out that I couldnât say âspeedâ because it had âpeeâ in it, and I when I contacted support to say it was a mistake on their part and asked if I could be unsuspended, they said that I was also writing numbers, and writing numbers was strictly forbidden just in case they were a phone number.
I remember playing Phantasy Star Online back in like 2001 – it was one of the first console MMOs, if I remember correctly – and you didnât get banned for saying âbad wordsâ, but they did get censored. their list of inappropriate words wasâŠ.extensive, and one in particular created a real problem for people trying to make plans to play together. because of course the most common day of the week to do that would be Saturday, right? but. that has the word âturdâ in it. so. every time. you tried to say âdo you want to play Saturdayâ. it would say. âdo you want to play $%&@%#+%â. and the other person is just. sitting there. wondering. what the fuck did you just ask them to play
Having trouble creating a believable but original governing system for your dystopia novel?
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Instead of just using one type of traditional government (i.e. monarchy, republic, democracy, ect.), which has been done waaaay too many times, try making up your own from scratch, or try mixing multiple governing systems together.
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For example:
In my novel, Under Control I used a monarchy as the foundation of my government. Then I swirled that around with an oligarchy, threw in a pinch of plutocracy and a smidgen of totalitarianism, along with a dollop of fascism.
Sounds confusing? Itâs really not. Hereâs how the government in Under Control works.
There is one family who mostly rules over what was formerly the United States and Canada (which has been renamed) the ancestors of this family are the ones responsible for changing the world, hence why theyâre in control. But there are other families that rule along side them also.
Thatâs where the monarchy comes in.
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Only these select families rule over/have authority, which basically turns the government into an oligarchy. And thatâs also where the fascism comes in.
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Because the people who are not helping to rule the country have absolutely no say in what happens, and because only the appointed few have authority this twists it into a bit of a totalitarian government.
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Little do the people know that the governing family, the face of the nation, doesnât actually have all the control. There is an organization, the Internal Ministry, which is made up of the (supposedly) most upright citizens that can be found (within certain social classifications). They actually run the show, making the government system into a Plutocracy.
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By mixing these ideas together I have created a deep, complex governing system thatâs original, and will make the readers ask questions. You always want to keep your readers asking questions as to keep them reading through to the end.
Now why do you give it a try!
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Up above is a chart of different forms of government to help you get started!
Karymsky Lake is a crater lake located in the Karymsky volcano in Russia. With a radius of 5 km it was once one of the worldâs largest fresh water lakes, but as a result of a recent eruption toxic gases turned this into one of the largest acid water lakes.
Trees
can split rocks when the roots find their way into small cracks. As the
root grows, it forces the crack to open little by little. This crack
also allows water to enter, where the freeze/thaw cycle will force it
open more. Eventually, even large boulders will give way and split
entirely. (Source)
Okay so, Iâm sure weâve all asked this at one time in our lives
âWhy the hell is a freaking rabbit Darkâs wings?â
WELL IâLL FUCKING TELL YOU WHY
Back when Buddhism had a huge influence in Japanese society, there was prohibition on eating meatâŠspecifically if it came from a 4-legged animal. Things like birds were okay.
But the Japanese really wanted to eat rabbits. So they came up with this explanation that the big ears on rabbits were their wings, and as such rabbits were birds, and okay to eat. That has survived in the counting system; while most (small) animals tend to be referred to using the counter âhikiâ, birds and rabbits alike use the counter wa.
Wa = 矜
YOU KNOW, THE KANJI THAT MEANS FEATHER.
AND WITH FUCKING USES HIS EARS TO FLY
IâM SO DONE
*Takes notes on this for University*
Ninjangel, if it calms you down, us Europeans did something very simmilar! đ
Catholic monks were permitted from eating meat other than fish during certain times on the year. But they really, really wanted to eat beaverâŠ
âŠYou can probably guess it already. Same story, different animal, really. They simply declared the beaver a fish. XâD
đ„ There is beauty in destructionđ„ 