Landlubber77
Landlubber77 t1_j9y2f03 wrote
Reply to comment by GibsonMaestro in TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult. by duganaok
The majority of Redditors are Americans, where we're allowed to see extreme violence as long as there's not a stray female nipple or something. We'd be more likely to expect a more adult rating for this movie because of the scene where the wife gets dragged all over her ceiling and you see her panties, then when the older daughter runs out in the front yard and you see hers. The puritans can't help but lose their minds over that ^^^after ^^^pausing ^^^and ^^^masturbating ^^^to ^^^it.
Landlubber77 t1_j9wabl4 wrote
Reply to comment by Mr_Monty_Burns in Collateral - Quentin Tarentino cameo? by hbh2000
Not nearly enough feet for his liking.
Landlubber77 t1_j9pgeh6 wrote
Reply to TIL that scientists created contact lenses that zoom when you blink twice through the use of electric impulses by jamjam1090
In Japan they had to make a mandatory camera shutter sound accompany the blink because of so many people trying to get upskirt shots on the subway.
Landlubber77 t1_j9oq4hk wrote
Reply to TIL Sheriff Jordan, the leader of the posse that killed Bonnie & Clyde, attempted to keep the stolen car in which they were ambushed and shot to death. The car's legal owner sued the Sheriff for possession of the car then drove it to Shreveport, still covered with blood & human tissue. by Shark-Farts
> still covered with blood and human tissue
The werewolves in Shreveport must've loved that.
Landlubber77 t1_j9ojuhs wrote
Reply to TIL that in 1554 Elizabeth Crofts hid in a wall on Aldersgate Street, where she pretended to be a heavenly voice. Reputedly 17,000 people came to listen to her give out anti-Catholic propaganda. by Kurma-the-Turtle
"You are loved forever, without condition."
"Thank you heavenly mother."
"There is a healing light inside of your heart, let it shine always."
"I will heavenly mother."
"The Pope wears a butt plug under that robe."
"He does heavenly mother fucker what?!"
Landlubber77 t1_j9en63o wrote
Reply to TIL with Scallops, only the abductor muscle is eaten by humans. The rest of the meat, which is edible, may contain a buildup of toxins, and is discarded at sea. by testhec10ck
Ever since I read on here that scallops have like a thousand eyes I'm still too weirded out to eat them.
Landlubber77 t1_j9cnk7g wrote
Reply to TIL that Milton Bradley originally had been in the business of selling pictures of celebrities. After his biggest seller Abraham Lincoln grew his iconic beard and rendered his entire stock of lithographs worthless and had customers demanding their money back, MB switched to selling board games by Loki-L
He was forced to say Sorry for all the Trouble he caused when his Operation became a Monopoly.
Landlubber77 t1_j99vfuj wrote
Reply to TIL: While in office, President Jimmy Carter had to physically defend himself from a rabbit. by Forever_Overthinking
He got jumped in the rose garden. Well, hopped anyway.
Landlubber77 t1_j96zwqj wrote
Reply to comment by Elfere in TIL that East Germany is believed to have made around 3.5B DM off West Germany by ransoming political prisoners by QuietGanache
Well here's a gold for that account to be jealous of.
Landlubber77 t1_j96ytsv wrote
Reply to TIL that East Germany is believed to have made around 3.5B DM off West Germany by ransoming political prisoners by QuietGanache
They were behind a paywall.
Landlubber77 t1_j939m9l wrote
Reply to TIL a woman was once drafted by the NBA but had to turn the team down bc she was pregnant. She’s also in the hall of fame. by Desolecontra
She had to have an episiotomy during childbirth, or as she put it, going hard in the taint.
Landlubber77 t1_j8ocaxm wrote
Reply to TIL: The Chamblee Incident. In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill man who believed that the Domino's Pizza "Avoid the Noid" ads were personally directed towards him, antagonizing him. He took 2 Domino's employees hostage at gunpoint. by SilentWalrus92
That's...fuckin hilarious honestly.
Landlubber77 t1_j8ncwg3 wrote
Reply to TIL that the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night" was the opening line to an actual novel published in 1830, but runs on for another 51 words: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which..." by dylancatlow
>...which blew my fancy little nips off the tips of my tits and did there make me spontaneously explode at my loins with an ejaculate so frothy it would cause the ocean's waves to turn green with envy.
Landlubber77 t1_j7uk6a2 wrote
Reply to TIL The first bridge to span the Mississippi River was built in 1855 near Minneapolis. The Father Louis Hennepin Suspension Bridge charged a toll. Price for pigs and sheep was 2 cents, humans paid 3 cents, horses cost 15 cents and carriages cost 25 cents. by triviafrenzy
If you could manage to fit all your pigs, sheep, humans, and horses in your carriage you could really stick it to the man.
Landlubber77 t1_j7khut8 wrote
Landlubber77 t1_j7kdony wrote
Reply to TIL about Rob McKuen, the bestselling poet in American history who sold 60 million books and 100 million records but is all but forgotten today by SAT0725
We who gather here today shall not allow his name to be lost to the sands of time! Each one of you who sees this post, go out into the world today and speak his name. Tell one person about his deeds at work, in the drive-thru, during a polite bank robbery or home invasion, while buying nails to finally hang that goddamn frame that has two hangy things on the back instead of just one in the center so now you have to make sure the nails are perfectly level or the picture is gonna be crooked and drive you absolutely fucking nu--just tell somebody, anybody!
Landlubber77 t1_j7bc7v6 wrote
Reply to TIL about split brain theory, which explains that a person's brain hemispheres cannot share information with each other if the corpus callosum is severed. by Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder
So then it is crucial that they share this fact before it becomes severed. I'll do so right now, thanks.
Landlubber77 t1_j766yhy wrote
Reply to TIL that when Jack Grimm tried to find the Titanic in 1980, he planned to take a monkey called Titan that was trained to point to the wreck on a map. The monkey was left behind when scientists objected. Grimm never found the wreck, despite his sonar traveling right over it. by Bortron86
So they wouldn't let him take a monkey but he was allowed to take a bat?
Landlubber77 t1_j6o6qeh wrote
Reply to TIL Maria Sabina was an indigenous medicine woman who introduced the western world to psilocybin. Her community's rituals were appropriated for power and fame, and she died in poverty. by kerblooee
> The Mazatec sacred mushroom veladas have survived into the 21st century and are now accepted by the Catholic Church there.
"Body of Christ?"
"Yes father."
"Blood of Christ?"
"Yes father."
"Radical psychedelic mushrooms?"
"You fucking know it, son."
Landlubber77 t1_j6mpwks wrote
Reply to Life in Prison Plus 25 Years for Defendant Who Shot 21-Year-Old Man in Broad Daylight by SuperBethesda
Next time do it at night man, you'd only get life. Now your corpse is gonna have to spend a quarter century in a cell.
Landlubber77 t1_j6k17yx wrote
Reply to TIL Morocco has built a huge wall splitting the Western Saharan territory in half lengthwise. The wall features garrisions of up to 40 men and a radar system linked to active artillery. by Iwamiyama
If this desert is Moroccan don’t bother knockin.
Landlubber77 t1_j6ifp42 wrote
Reply to TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and congressman during the Civil War. The Union deported him for supporting the Confederacy. After the war, he died by accidentally shooting himself during a murder trial while trying to show the murder weapon could have misfired. His client got off as a result by MikiLove
Thank god the victim didn't die of spontaneous human combustion, that would've been a much harder feat to pull off in court.
Landlubber77 t1_j6himhb wrote
Reply to comment by DAT_DROP in TIL that World War One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker became a long-time head of Eastern Air Lines and survived well into the 1970s by DAT_DROP
We can chop this up however we want but it always goes back to the fact that the guy lived until he was 82. That's not "shocking." Yes of course WW1 was a long time ago, but 1973 when this guy died was 50 years ago itself. It would be like us hearing someone died today who was born in 1941. That's not shocking lol.
Anyway, like I said to the other guy I was discussing this with, this isn't a big deal and you posted an interesting TIL, I just found the wording sorta funny. He lived "well into the 1970s." First of all, not sure making it to '73 constitutes making it well into the decade, but fine. Secondly, a great number of people who fought in and survived WW1 made it to 1973. You talked about how older Redditors would view this story, my whole thing is how young ones view it. They hear WW1 and think we're talking about a bunch of cavemen riding into battle on the back of an ankylosaurs.
Landlubber77 t1_j6gwj5l wrote
Reply to comment by mega_douche1 in TIL that air is a fluid by andreasdagen
Goo goo gaga
Landlubber77 t1_ja012ah wrote
Reply to TIL that Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding & 6 other people in 1967. Cauley took off his seat belt shortly before the crash. He managed to cling to a seat cushion for 20 minutes, until a rescue boat pulled him from the freezing lake waters. by Paiger__
Thank god someone was sitting on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away or they wouldn't have known someone needed resucuing.