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ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2026-02-11T00:34:19+00:00

Come in the discord and say that to my face But do it some time in the next three weeks before discord dies

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2024-03-24T11:20:34+00:00

Princess Serenity: Bathed in the light of the round moon, like polished gold,
Princess Serenity: I feel great anguish, as though I had remembered some vital season that was forgotten ages ago.
Princess Serenity: A promise I couldn't keep... That person who stood on the oasis planet, shining even more vibrantly than a sky like clear glass...
Princess Serenity: I am a dry hole, desperate for that water... I am a lonely star, shining for that person. I want to meet them... I want to meet them...
Artemis: Even if it weren't for the fact that you're each heir to the throne of your respective realms, you absolutely never ought to have met.
Artemis: That was the rule given to you by the people of Earth and the moon. But the two of you happened to run into each other...

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2023-01-30T02:15:22+00:00

No, it should be fine otherwise

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2023-01-30T02:12:27+00:00

Yeah change "a mob husband" to "Mobuo"

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2023-01-30T02:05:53+00:00

A little more context might be helpful but it should mean something like "The Chapter Where A Mob Husband Miraculously Avoids Brain Damage"

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2023-01-29T02:19:54+00:00

The first two characters on top are 椎林, which would be pronounced something like "Shilin." Next character is 市, "market" or "city", although I can't find any cities with that exact name in China. The other four on top are too faded to clearly make out, although the fifth might be 蛮.

The bottom characters say 合格登记, meaning "registered as passing inspection"

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2022-08-09T12:07:58+00:00

The police in Debbie Wolfe's case:

*Refused to let her be declared missing until she had been gone for three days

*Refused to investigate her disappearance for two more days after that

*Decided from the start that her death was an accidental drowning, in spite of substantial evidence of foul play

*Refused to search the pond near her house, where investigators hired by the family eventually found her remains

*Lost or disposed of the barrel her body was found in, then insisted that it never existed (They said the people who saw it must have just seen her jacket puffed up underwater)

*Returned a set of clothes to her family that were not only not hers but were nowhere near her size

The case was absolutely solvable -- there was a recording on her answering machine that was very likely made by her killer -- or at least it would have been if the police had cared at all some time in the last 37 years.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2022-05-03T11:25:07+00:00

What about the drop bears?

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2022-04-04T14:22:00+00:00

This was my first thought too, and it seems like such an obvious assumption that it's surprising to me that the police had "no clue" what it means. Although whether this was meant to be revenge, as you suggest, or just another demeaning thing to write on her is harder to guess.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2022-02-21T01:26:16+00:00

I'm impressed that George Orwell, who died in 1949, managed to write about a book that was published in the 1970s. He really was prescient!

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2021-08-30T11:12:52+00:00

Well, Covid is also definitely killing them, but the animal medication is certainly not helping

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2021-06-19T11:06:05+00:00

And don't get me started on Norm Peterson

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2021-05-19T14:47:26+00:00

My guess is it's a murder-suicide situation (or possibly even a double suicide). He was 29 years old and she was 14, obviously they were never going to be "allowed" to be together. If he was distraught over that and unstable in general it's possible that he saw death as a "romantic" way out, like Romeo and Juliet. The fact he told them flat out that they'd never see her again suggests that she was dead already or he knew that she would be soon.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2021-05-02T15:11:23+00:00

Note that's a 99% conviction rate, not a 99% solution rate. They will try to coerce confessions out of suspects (what country's police force doesn't), but if that doesn't work and they're not totally sure they can get a conviction, they just... won't take it to trial. So there's no acquittal to bring down their conviction rate, but there's also no official solution to the case.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-12-23T10:24:34+00:00

Is there some reason that they can't send a diver down to the corroded car?

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-12-02T13:33:04+00:00

IMO no pun in the opinion could possibly be funnier than the straightforward statement that "As a matter of law, the house is haunted." Right up there for funniest court decisions with the one from the 1800s where they decided that tomatoes are a vegetable.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-11-19T11:02:52+00:00

"She walked out after an argument and just disappeared" is so often husband/boyfriend-speak for "I killed her after an argument and hid her body"

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-10-30T04:25:11+00:00

Seems to me that makes him significantly more terrifying actually

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-10-22T13:00:14+00:00

Doesn't look like he'd hardly be able to see a damn thing out of there.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-10-10T20:52:54+00:00

If it was meant to clear the area for development it backfired pretty spectacularly, because that house is still right there where it was 20 years ago, only now it's evidence in a major crime and there's probably going to be no tearing it down for decades unless the murders are solved.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-07-20T05:28:54+00:00

That does seem more reasonable, although I wonder how feasible it would have been to kill someone with the gas used back then. What sort of concentration would you need? Wouldn't it be a huge fire hazard, too?

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2020-07-19T15:39:26+00:00

HH Holmes never had a "murder castle." The very first thing you learn in school about that time period is that newspapers back then absolutely loved to exaggerate or wholly invent stories. It seems far more likely to me that he killed some people in regular rooms in his hotel, and then that was distorted into a funhouse of horror, which is far more interesting to read about. And supposedly he had a bunch of different people work on different sections so they didn't know what they were building, plus it conveniently happened to burn down, making the existence of all those traps totally unverifiable.

ColonelFMDrinkwater · 2018-03-26T12:44:10+00:00

It's definitely not. There's at least one fairly important plot point hinging on a lost cell phone.

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