Things that make you go What the F**k?

[laoislad]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27189951

The Korean grandmothers who sell sex

There was a documentary on Channel 4 last week called My Granny the Escort.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/my-granny-the-escort

[supersarsfields]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27189951

The Korean grandmothers who sell sex

There was a documentary on Channel 4 last week called My Granny the Escort.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/my-granny-the-escort

Was Rooney on it?

[Tony Baloney]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27790882

[armaghniac]

There was a documentary on Channel 4 last week called My Granny the Escort.

My granny had an Escort, a blue 1.3.


meanwhile
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/abuse-case-boy-2-held-open-beer-can-and-was-visibly-sunburnt-30346683.html

[seafoid]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10900044/Most-expensive-rescue-in-German-history-as-man-begins-second-week-trapped-3000-feet-underground-in-cave.html

For seven days, more than 200 people have battled round the clock to save a seriously injured caver trapped 3,200 feet below the ground, in what is set to become the most expensive rescue operation in German history.
Yesterday the long, dangerous journey to bring the injured 52-year-old back to the surface was finally under way, but rescuers are warning it will take another full week to transport him up through a dizzying series of tunnels and shafts, before he sees the daylight again.
Johann Westhauser has lain in the icy dark beneath the Bavarian Alps while doctors struggled to reach him and assess his condition. Now a team of 14 rescuers accompanied by a doctor must carry him on a stretcher more than three miles underground. They must cross underground lakes by dinghy, climb 1,000 feet vertical shafts by rope, fight their way past underground waterfalls and squeeze through tiny bottlenecks.
At one point they will somehow have to negotiate Mr Westhauser's stretcher through a passage so narrow an average-sized man has to double over and exhale in order to squeeze past. Along the way, they will face near freezing temperatures and cave winds, and a constant danger of flooding.
The journey would take a professional caver more than ten hours under ideal conditions – and they must do all this while carrying a man with a serious brain injury, who needs to be kept lying flat as much as possible.

[Tony Baloney]

The stuff of nightmares. I can't even watch caving on tv.

[5 Sams]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624367-rhododendron-rescue/

[J OGorman]

what the buck!?

http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local-news/man-mutilated-testicles-and-gouged-his-own-eyes-out-while-in-prison-1-6123899

[Orior]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0617/624367-rhododendron-rescue/

I assume it is not on Google Earth

[Hardy]

It's called psychopathic behaviour. It's always been prevalent present in society. Psychopaths have no empathy for other beings and inflict suffering without compunction. There also seems to be some type of group psychopathy (the mob principle) whereby people in groups commit atrocities they wouldn't as individuals.

I don't know whether it's any more or less prevalent now than in any other period of history, though I'm inclined to think less.

[haveaharp]

It's called psychopathic behaviour. It's always been prevalent. Psychopaths have no empathy for other beings and inflict suffering without compunction. There also seems to be some type of group psychopathy (the mob principle) whereby people in groups commit atrocities they wouldn't as individuals.

I don't know whether it's any more or less prevalent now than in any other period of history, though I'm inclined to think less.

Slight tangent from the discussion about the horrible act above. Heard this debate before about occupations that attract psychopaths (not necessarily people that turn into Hannibal Lecter) and people that display psychopathic traits. I guess we all know a few.......
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant

[seafoid]

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/10/betty-white-golden-girl

"Why do people say 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding."

If you happen to look this quote up, you'll see it attributed to notoriously sweet 90-year-old TV great Betty White. Only those words never passed her lips, and she'd quite like people to bear that in mind next time they see fit to quote it at her, as I have just done. "That's what I hate about Facebook and the internet," she sighs. "They can say you said anything. I never would have said that. I'd never say that in a million years."

[muppet]

It's called psychopathic behaviour. It's always been prevalent. Psychopaths have no empathy for other beings and inflict suffering without compunction. There also seems to be some type of group psychopathy (the mob principle) whereby people in groups commit atrocities they wouldn't as individuals.

I don't know whether it's any more or less prevalent now than in any other period of history, though I'm inclined to think less.

Slight tangent from the discussion about the horrible act above. Heard this debate before about occupations that attract psychopaths (not necessarily people that turn into Hannibal Lecter) and people that display psychopathic traits. I guess we all know a few.......
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant

11. Politician
12. Trade Union leader

Further to Hardy's point, I see it as a hostile leader type of individual(s), who has no boundaries, leveraging peer pressure on otherwise normal individuals to get them to step outside their normal boundaries.

[Hardy]

"Prevalent" was the wrong word in my post. It's always been with us.

[moysider]

It's called psychopathic behaviour. It's always been prevalent present in society. Psychopaths have no empathy for other beings and inflict suffering without compunction. There also seems to be some type of group psychopathy (the mob principle) whereby people in groups commit atrocities they wouldn't as individuals.

I don't know whether it's any more or less prevalent now than in any other period of history, though I'm inclined to think less.

I dunno how prevalent it is now either but I ve come across a few and it never ends well.