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[Chad Holdenford]

I have a weird soft spot for hearing about crimelords having standards. Any other instances?

One that I know is of Al Capone, ruthless kingpin but surprisingly civil when it came to mess around with mere onlookers.

That infamous bomb attack that happened in one of the first scenes of The Untouchables? It truly happened, but Capone himself was livid over innocent lives being taken, and he personally arranged for the funeral of the people who died on the incident, but had nothing to do with the original target.

 

[A Grey Cat]

One that I know is of Al Capone, ruthless kingpin but surprisingly civil when it came to mess around with mere onlookers.

That infamous bomb attack that happened in one of the first scenes of The Untouchables? It truly happened, but Capone himself was livid over innocent lives being taken, and he personally arranged for the funeral of the people who died on the incident, but had nothing to do with this.

also you know the sell by dates on food? He invented that. He suffered food poisoning from expired milk as a kid and when he was older he actually purchased a dairy company as one of his front but also so he could start labelling dates on the milk for when it shouldn't be sold/drank anymore.

He also ran a majority of the soup kitchens and charities in Chicago during the early days of the depression and none of them were fronts or ruses to make people think he was a good guy. He legit was disgusted at how incompetently Hoover and the government was responding to the crisis and wanted to help in any way he could.

 

[TiggerNits]

Yeah there's no possible use for that. Beach heads, pfft.

Yeah, beaches never have strong wings that would dissipate the gas in quick order. And its not like the British had ever ever reinforced those beaches or that the Luftwaffe was strong enough to gain the needed air superiority to secure the skies long enough for the planes carrying it to get through. Or that the Kriegsmarine were competent or strong enough to amass surface ships and shell those beaches with them.

I'm not saying the allies were without war crimes, Im just saying they had the decency and intelligence to actually win with the tools they had instead of hoping their great grandkids would bemoan their incompetence years later as some form of misunderstood chivalry

 

[Chad Holdenford]

also you know the sell by dates on food? He invented that. He suffered food poisoning from expired milk as a kid and when he was older he actually purchased a dairy company as one of his front but also so he could start labelling dates on the milk for when it shouldn't be sold/drank anymore.

He also ran a majority of the soup kitchens and charities in Chicago during the early days of the depression and none of them were fronts or ruses to make people think he was a good guy. He legit was disgusted at how incompetently Hoover and the government was responding to the crisis and wanted to help in any way he could.

For a man who is synonymous with crime, Al Capone was pretty damn based.

In similar fashion we have Pablo Escobar. Motherfucker had no qualms being a murderous piece of shit, but actually cared about the poor with far more genuine will and care than pretty much every politician ever. With part of the huge contingent of money he made selling blow, he built houses and schools for the poor communities in Medellín, where he grew up in squalid conditions, and supposedly only entered the drug trafficking business with the desire to, first and foremost, help the lower classes but always advising them to not follow his criminal ways.

It is also known that he, together with other Colombian druglords, invested hard in the formation of football players and local teams, since it was an old passion they shared, and as a result, Colombia went from virtually unknown to a legit powerhouse in the South American football scenario, to the point they were touted as favourites to win the 1994 World Cup, thanks to outstanding performances in international competitions. Sadly, this ended up being counterproductive: most players received constant death threats over their performance, which ironically affected it in a negative way. The rest is known: Colombia couldn't qualify for the knockout phase of the World Cup, and the team's captain Andrés Escobar ended up murdered by a Cali cartel member, due to their elimination costing the cartels millions of dollars in wasted bet - Not to mention the hurt national pride.

Around the time of his death, Escobar was considering a run for the Colombian Senate - And only then did the law press on to his activities, because he was so fucking popular among the Colombian populace due to his work for them, he most likely would have won the seat, and maybe even become President some time in the near future.

How were they able to track down Escobar's whereabouts? By following the trace of any dingy place with a squeaky-clean bathroom. He was absolutely disgusted with filthy bathroom stalls. In once such places he was found dead with a gun wound to his temple. Escobar preferred killing himself instead of letting the law judge him. Not that it would have mattered; when he did get arrested in the mid-80's, he managed to be sent to a prison in the city of Envigado... that he himself built.

 

[Wraith]

 

[Tetra]

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Individuals with schizophrenia has an increased rate of death across all ages and all demographic groups when compared to the general population.

 

[Forgetful Gynn]

Maybe also the small matter of genocidal German regime making bricks from human ash, and a foreigner-hating Japanese war empire?
Nah - The noble Axis powers were smothered by the tyrannical Allied democracies and their sharing of military supplies...

Fuck the Axis. They sucked dick, and were crushed for a good reason.

Nah, those were all made up after the fact.

 

[A Grey Cat]

For a man who is synonymous with crime, Al Capone was pretty damn based.

In similar fashion we have Pablo Escobar. Motherfucker had no qualms being a murderous piece of shit, but actually cared about the poor with far more genuine will and care than pretty much every politician ever. With part of the huge contingent of money he made selling blow, he built houses and schools for the poor communities in Medellín, where he grew up in squalid conditions, and supposedly only entered the drug trafficking business with the desire to, first and foremost, help the lower classes but always advising them to not follow his criminal ways.

It is also known that he, together with other Colombian druglords, invested hard in the formation of football players and local teams, since it was an old passion they shared, and as a result, Colombia went from virtually unknown to a legit powerhouse in the South American football scenario, to the point they were touted as favourites to win the 1994 World Cup, thanks to outstanding performances in international competitions. Sadly, this ended up being counterproductive: most players received constant death threats over their performance, which ironically affected it in a negative way. The rest is known: Colombia couldn't qualify for the knockout phase of the World Cup, and the team's captain Andrés Escobar ended up murdered by a Cali cartel member, due to their elimination costing the cartels millions of dollars in wasted bet - Not to mention the hurt national pride.

Around the time of his death, Escobar was considering a run for the Colombian Senate - And only then did the law press on to his activities, because he was so fucking popular among the Colombian populace due to his work for them, he most likely would have won the seat, and maybe even become President some time in the near future.

How were they able to track down Escobar's whereabouts? By following the trace of any dingy place with a squeaky-clean bathroom. He was absolutely disgusted with filthy bathroom stalls. In once such places he was found dead with a gun wound to his temple. Escobar preferred killing himself instead of letting the law judge him. Not that it would have mattered; when he did get arrested in the mid-80's, he managed to be sent to a prison in the city of Envigado... that he himself built.

Herbert Hoover may have won the 1929 election but more or less because everyone was caught up in the roaring twenties to care much. It was only after the market crash the economy went bust and people began suffer did he actually have to do his job as president and all he did was say "the budget will balance itself and people need Fend for themselves. He did almost nothing to help the ordinary people who lost their jobs and we're starving and was only interested in getting wall street and big business back on its feet.


Mind you his successor FDR was... Well he was a little better and actually tried to provide economic relief to everyone not just the elites but still... Where do you think the name of AOC's pet project the green new deal comes from?


No frankly if you ask me this is just another example of the theory that time is a never ending cycle that loops over and over again with only minor changes to certain factors with each pass.

In 1929 to 1933 we were lead by an incompetent republican president who was just a wind bag who cared more about himself and his connections to the elite than he did the common man. But his successor was a democrat who wasn't much better. Sound familiar?

 

[McMitch]

Herbert Hoover may have won the 1929 election but more or less because everyone was caught up in the roaring twenties to care much. It was only after the market crash the economy went bust and people began suffer did he actually have to do his job as president and all he did was say "the budget will balance itself and people need Fend for themselves. He did almost nothing to help the ordinary people who lost their jobs and we're starving and was only interested in getting wall street and big business back on its feet.


Mind you his successor FDR was... Well he was a little better and actually tried to provide economic relief to everyone not just the elites but still... Where do you think the name of AOC's pet project the green new deal comes from?


No frankly if you ask me this is just another example of the theory that time is a never ending cycle that loops over and over again with only minor changes to certain factors with each pass.

In 1929 to 1933 we were lead by an incompetent republican president who was just a wind bag who cared more about himself and his connections to the elite than he did the common man. But his successor was a democrat who wasn't much better. Sound familiar?

FDR wasn’t just “not much better,” but actively prolonged the Great Depression and its effects, before going so far against the role of the president that term limits had to be formalized.

 

[Wraith]

Time for ultra nerd big robit information!
Remember the Transformers? There were robots that could change into rather small things. Soundwave and his minions turn into an old 1984 cassette deck and cassettes, and his rival Blaster and his buddies did the same.
Here's the problem. You're using your alt mode to hide. Some human picks you up. Then you transform and have the capacity of picking up the very same humans that were carrying you around. Never mind the insane nerd concept of the size differential, how does a robot lose weight so a standard person can carry a robit that can end up 30-50 feet tall?
HOW DO YOU HAVE AN INSTANT WEIGHT LOSS PROBLEM LIKE THIS?
I will be up all night trying to figure this one out.

 

[Kornula]

I am sad to learn that no Super Villan can taint a city water supply with LSD. The average tempreature of water alone will render LSD inactive - the chlorine doesn't help either.

 

[Just Dont]

No frankly if you ask me this is just another example of the theory that time is a never ending cycle that loops over and over again with only minor changes to certain factors with each pass.

That is called Hegelian Dialectics. The Pendulum of History always swings at extremes and is never consistent with social politics and humanity progress.

 

[AnOminous]

I am sad to learn that no Super Villan can taint a city water supply with LSD. The average tempreature of water alone will render LSD inactive - the chlorine doesn't help either.

Fun fact: this is why the threat of the Yippies to pour LSD into the public water supply was an obvious joke. Anyone familiar with LSD (and the Yippies certainly were) knew damn well that this couldn't possibly have worked. They got a lot of people to freak out about it, though, when they threatened to dump LSD into the public water supply in Chicago in 1968 before the Democratic convention.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Fun fact: this is why the threat of the Yippies to pour LSD into the public water supply was an obvious joke. Anyone familiar with LSD (and the Yippies certainly were) knew damn well that this couldn't possibly have worked. They got a lot of people to freak out about it, though, when they threatened to dump LSD into the public water supply in Chicago in 1968 before the Democratic convention.

Isn't that something the democratic convention would want?


The Louisiana dish jambalaya was created by Spanish settlers attempting to recreate the traditional Spanish dish paella with local grown ingredients and spices

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

In similar fashion we have Pablo Escobar. Motherfucker had no qualms being a murderous piece of shit, but actually cared about the poor with far more genuine will and care than pretty much every politician ever. With part of the huge contingent of money he made selling blow, he built houses and schools for the poor communities in Medellín, where he grew up in squalid conditions, and supposedly only entered the drug trafficking business with the desire to, first and foremost, help the lower classes but always advising them to not follow his criminal ways.

It is also known that he, together with other Colombian druglords, invested hard in the formation of football players and local teams, since it was an old passion they shared, and as a result, Colombia went from virtually unknown to a legit powerhouse in the South American football scenario, to the point they were touted as favourites to win the 1994 World Cup, thanks to outstanding performances in international competitions. Sadly, this ended up being counterproductive: most players received constant death threats over their performance, which ironically affected it in a negative way. The rest is known: Colombia couldn't qualify for the knockout phase of the World Cup, and the team's captain Andrés Escobar ended up murdered by a Cali cartel member, due to their elimination costing the cartels millions of dollars in wasted bet - Not to mention the hurt national pride.

Around the time of his death, Escobar was considering a run for the Colombian Senate - And only then did the law press on to his activities, because he was so fucking popular among the Colombian populace due to his work for them, he most likely would have won the seat, and maybe even become President some time in the near future.

How were they able to track down Escobar's whereabouts? By following the trace of any dingy place with a squeaky-clean bathroom. He was absolutely disgusted with filthy bathroom stalls. In once such places he was found dead with a gun wound to his temple. Escobar preferred killing himself instead of letting the law judge him. Not that it would have mattered; when he did get arrested in the mid-80's, he managed to be sent to a prison in the city of Envigado... that he himself built.

On the matter of Escobar, the thing that was the final nail in the coffin of his political career was a mugshot when he was aprehended for drug posession nearly 5 years before his dabbling in politics. He did this in order to go to a police office and press the police chief for info on a rat that was trying to sell him out to the cops. That photo managed to effectively end his political career when it was pretty much a guarantee that he would end up in the colombian senate and made the politicians take notice of the criminal activity of "important businessmen".

Also, it's important to notice that for a lot of the bombings that Escobar performed, he had the aid of the spanish terrorist group ETA. Hilariously enough, the Vasque Liberation Army (that's what ETA means in Vasque) firmly believed and propagated the idea that spanish police forces pushed drugs to young people so they wouldn't join ETA and fight for their freedom... When they themselves performed those gigs for Escobar in exchange for tons of coke.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Judy Garland tried to kill herself in 1947

The last actor from the wizard of oz to die was a munchkin actor who died in 2018 at the age of 97


While the infamous "hanging munchkin " turned out to be a hoax, the munchkins were paid less than the dog playing toto, however they munchkin actors were no saints in her later life Judy Garland recalled they would spend hours off set getting drunk, having fights, and would constantly try to grope her which is why she avoided them as much as she could.

 

[Goofy Logic]

In her later life Judy Garland recalled they would spend hours off set getting drunk, having fights, and would constantly try to grope her which is why she avoided them as much as she could.

It's worth noting she was 16 at the time of filming.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Vienna is the largest Central European city to have ever experienced threats of invasion from non-European forces. The Mongols, during their invasion of Europe, came close to invading Vienna. The Ottomans made two attempts.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I am sad to learn that no Super Villan can taint a city water supply with LSD. The average tempreature of water alone will render LSD inactive - the chlorine doesn't help either.

Swamp Thing once poisoned the water of Gotham City(?) with psychedelic potatoes that he grows from his body at will. That's also how Swamp Thing has intimate relations with a woman because he doesn't have a penis.

Graphic Swamp Thing intimacy, very safe for work.

Spoiler

He doesn't stick it in her, she eats it.

 

[Kornula]

Swamp Thing once poisoned the water of Gotham City(?) with psychedelic potatoes that he grows from his body at will. That's also how Swamp Thing has intimate relations with a woman because he doesn't have a penis.

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Graphic Swamp Thing intimacy, very safe for work.

Spoiler

He doesn't stick it in her, she eats it.
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So Swamp Thing gave everyone in Gotham City a potato trip?