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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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 Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: "Did you hear that African-American ate human?" |
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OK...
One of my Korean co-workers just told me that he read in a newspaper that black people in NO were eating dead corpses...
Anyone heard that or does anyone know where that story came from? I don't think the guys is lying, and it sounds like something that a newspaper here would print... |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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If you were truly starving to death, and a corpse were there, would you rather die?
I don't know what I would do. It is a pretty gruesome thought, but it wouldn't be the first time it has happened to someone.
Problem is, I imagine the corpse would get pretty ripe pretty quickly in the fetid flood water of New Orleans. |
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jinglejangle
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Far far far away.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
If you were truly starving to death, and a corpse were there, would you rather die?
I don't know what I would do. It is a pretty gruesome thought, but it wouldn't be the first time it has happened to someone.
Problem is, I imagine the corpse would get pretty ripe pretty quickly in the fetid flood water of New Orleans. |
Eh, I guess there are still people dying there. I guess it would depend on how long it had been dead.
Hmmm.....Me or him, and he's already dead.....
I'd probably eat him in the end, but only if I was sure he was fresh and didn't die of disease, and then only if I could cook him first.
I gotta draw the line at people sashimi.
I gotta think though, a guy trapped by a rock distills and drinks his own urine, and then cuts off his arm with a pocket knife to live and he's a hero.
But a guy who's trapped by flood waters and cuts off his dead buddy's arm to live, well, people will consider him a monster if they find out.
***edit*** Anyone here know if cannibalism is illegal in the US? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Somehow I think it would take a lot more than a few days before I would consider cuttin' chunks of a corpse and stir-fryin'. What was that case in the Andes that they made the movie about? I believe they were there for a long time before they had to resort to canibalism. But I may be wrong about that. |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Somehow I think it would take a lot more than a few days before I would consider cuttin' chunks of a corpse and stir-fryin'. What was that case in the Andes that they made the movie about? I believe they were there for a long time before they had to resort to canibalism. But I may be wrong about that. |
You can live for 30 days without food, chowing down on your dead grandma after a couple of days indicates something more than hunger.
Anyway the story was bunk just like a lot of stories coming out of the area. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| fidel wrote: |
| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Somehow I think it would take a lot more than a few days before I would consider cuttin' chunks of a corpse and stir-fryin'. What was that case in the Andes that they made the movie about? I believe they were there for a long time before they had to resort to canibalism. But I may be wrong about that. |
You can live for 30 days without food, chowing down on your dead grandma after a couple of days indicates something more than hunger.
Anyway the story was bunk just like a lot of stories coming out of the area. |
Yeah, I am sure it was bunk. But the thread title, instead of saying something neutral about someone possibly having eaten another human, had to say "African American". I am sure if the assertion had been about a white guy, it would not have indicated "Anglo American". The agendas around here are so transparent sometimes.  |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Your own agenda is quite transparent as well. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| That is probably true- but my agenda is in the interest of fairness and justice, so I don't mind at all owning it. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
| fidel wrote: |
| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Somehow I think it would take a lot more than a few days before I would consider cuttin' chunks of a corpse and stir-fryin'. What was that case in the Andes that they made the movie about? I believe they were there for a long time before they had to resort to canibalism. But I may be wrong about that. |
You can live for 30 days without food, chowing down on your dead grandma after a couple of days indicates something more than hunger.
Anyway the story was bunk just like a lot of stories coming out of the area. |
Yeah, I am sure it was bunk. But the thread title, instead of saying something neutral about someone possibly having eaten another human, had to say "African American". I am sure if the assertion had been about a white guy, it would not have indicated "Anglo American". The agendas around here are so transparent sometimes. |
I put the thread title in quotes, in case you didn't notice. You know, these little thingies ---> " "
Those mean that someone else said it, as in the Korean co-worker of mine, who said the exact words that are between the quotes.
I didn't even think about it until you brought it up... Guess you're right, the agendas are transparent. |
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nrvs
Joined: 30 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Out of all of the things that could be said about this tragedy, it's disgusting that your Korean coworker chose to focus on this (now retracted) report.
It's also incredibly predictable the report was published in a Korean newspaper with no fact-checking whatsoever. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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I put the thread title in quotes, in case you didn't notice. You know, these little thingies ---> " "
Those mean that someone else said it, as in the Korean co-worker of mine, who said the exact words that are between the quotes. |
If the whole sentence is a quote, then you need to cite the source at least in your OP. You only have a whole sentence in quotes, not the African American part. And with no source, on has to assume you were saying it.
Good on you for knowing the quote function, now you need to move on to the citation part of it. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
| That is probably true- but my agenda is in the interest of fairness and justice, so I don't mind at all owning it. |
Beware of the righteous. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| desultude wrote: |
| That is probably true- but my agenda is in the interest of fairness and justice, so I don't mind at all owning it. |
Beware of the righteous. |
Amen. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
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| I put the thread title in quotes, in case you didn't notice. You know, these little thingies ---> " " |
If the whole sentence is a quote, then you need to cite the source at least in your OP. You only have a whole sentence in quotes, not the African American part. And with no source, on has to assume you were saying it. |
Wow, you're some kind of an idiot, huh? Citation and bibliography in the subject line of a post? Sorry Des I think you're the one with the defect. The rest of us know what quotation marks mean and we don't need a sentence following them by way of explanation.
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| Good on you for knowing the quote function, now you need to move on to the citation part of it. |
It's not the "quote function" (the preceding was surrounded by quotation marks to indicate that they were Desultude's words), it was something he wrote in the subject line. Browsing the forum, you will see that it clearly stands out from other subject lines. |
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