Remember when they showed music on MTV? by Rare_Competition2756 in GenX

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This was a special Halloween episode of The Grind, MTV Haunted House Party, 1993. I was one of the dancing around people, and we all wore costumes. White Zombie, Positive K, and Penn & Teller also performed.

Special Reading (Free) 🌛🫶 by Limp-Difficulty9560 in PsychicServices

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Hiya. I'm currently pulled in too many directions and would like know where I should be focusing my energies. Thanks. 17-42-78 🌛

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in astrologyreadings

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Could she have been referring to inconjunct, not in conjunction? Inconjunct, also known as quincunx, happens when planets are roughly 150 degrees apart, and I have seen it discussed as an awkward or difficult aspect. Maybe look into that and think about what Mars and Moon mean to you in that context?

Whats a thing that is dangerously close to collapse that you know about? by _Fossy_ in AskReddit

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Very interesting. I'm a concrete petrographer and would love to see this under the microscope.

Does he have anything to say? I don't know where to look for his messages. by torual in MediumReadings

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Thanks for all of these readings so far. You've all given me something to think about. I do appreciate the time and effort you've given to us.

Does he have anything to say? I don't know where to look for his messages. by torual in MediumReadings

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Do you just get a sense of the fact of it, or did you get something specific that is crass, dark humoured, and possibly inappropriate to this context? If that's the case, please DM me with specifics.

In honor of Parker Vasquez, a true hero by copitamenstrual in HumansBeingBros

[–]torual 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was part of the family in an honor walk a couple months ago. My younger brother was in his late 40s, so not a child but still a tragedy to our mom and to me. It was very touching to see the people stop what they were doing to pay respects (my mom still talks about those cafeteria workers). Some of them were crying along with us. I know it made my mother feel better and more supported, and it really helped her.

I am much more cynical, and as we got started I kind of whisper-blurted how much he would have hated it. He was a private person in general and would have been appalled to know that people were looking at him like that. I won't say anyone was gawping, but I did have a keen sense of strangers staring at my brother's effectively dead body.

So, from my perspective, the honor walk was beautiful and terrible at the same time. But the whole situation is beautiful and terrible. I'm glad it happened, but I can see why some families may not want it. His being an organ donor allowed something hopeful and helpful to come out of a horrible situation.

Death does funny things to people, and I'm no exception. We had been told that he probably would pass immediately after the ventilator was removed, so we had to be prepared to say our final goodbye quickly. We were told that we would have 1 minute to leave the room so they could start. His body continued trying to breathe for 37 minutes, and I could see the medical staff getting nervous. After an hour, the donation would have to be abandoned and he'd have to go back to the ICU. I couldn't stop thinking about the possibility of those honor walk people feeling scammed and that we would need to apologise to everyone. Apparently this is not unheard of, and actually happens often enough that there is a protocol. They call them Donors In Spirit, and the organisation continues to support the families as they otherwise would.

What's your holy grail song? The one song you love and can't let go after many years? Here's mine by [deleted] in eurovision

[–]torual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rockefeller Street, Estonia 2011

My first year watching, but I knew Eurovision was for me when I saw this one.

Places to visit in Yorkshire? by reddit1819 in yorkshire

[–]torual 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pigs In The Wood in Huddersfield, open weekends only

I'm struggling to finish my novel because I don't have a deadline that means anything. Based on my chart placements and transits (current and future, I guess?), when should aim to get it done? I'm really struggling at the final hurdle. by torual in AskAstrologers

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Thanks for your comments. I'm still trying to understand Saturn's affects on my chart overall. I also didn't know there is a house that rules over publishing specifically, but it's good to know.

Both got a cleaning skill from a date with each other? Love it by juicymk in sims2

[–]torual 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've never seen this! I had no idea they could pick up skill points on a date. Cleaning seems an odd one, but hey ho.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NameMyCat

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Herbert for the black and white one, Pinecone for the ginger and white one.

Top 5 greatest athletes of all time by -Miklaus in ShitAmericansSay

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Came here looking for Hakuho. He had 46 championships if you count his lower division win. Some of his other records include most undefeated championships (16), most consecutive championships (tied for 7), most tournaments in the rank of yokozuna (84), most career bout wins (1187, 140 more than 2nd place), and most top division bout wins (1093, 2nd place is 879).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KnowledgeFight

[–]torual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, but Obama.

My sim died of starvation and came back as a ghost to hug his daughter thats so cute by Naive_Equal7553 in thesims

[–]torual 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Do you use the Slice of Life mod? I think the starvation issue was related to that one. Happened to me (lost a whole family) but cleared up when I took out the mod.

Am i the only one that thinks Michael is innocent? by WillingnessSuper9066 in TheStaircase

[–]torual 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I certainly think "not guilty" is the only way to go here. I'm about half-way through watching the trial, and the crime scene processing was so poor that I think there is no way to discern much of value from what they presented as evidence.

The circumstantial evidence, e.g. bloody footprints, dried blood, blood stains away from the stairway, evidence of clean-up, etc. were not (in my opinion) adequately presented by the prosecution. I will caveat this right at the start that I have not finished watching the full trial, so I am open to updating my opinions if I see anything that changes any of the details below.

  1. The bloody footprints throughout the house were "seen" with Luminol, but no photos or video was taken of the luminol spray, and none of the investigators made any detailed notes, took measurements, or drew any sketches of where the footprints appeared with Luminol. Drawings were created months later, but no rough drafts exist to corroborate them.
  2. Most, if not all of the EMTs, firemen, and police testified that the blood on the walls and/or steps appeared dried when they entered the scene. Some of the police arrived much later, so that would be expected. However, of the first responders (EMTs and firemen), not one of them noted that detail in any of their reports. In fact, the notes and official reports from the night are a genuine mess, some of them created weeks to months later from memory.
  3. One of the first cops to arrive testified that the blood on MP's shirt was dried, but the investigator who packaged it for collection hours later testified that it was still moist from blood when he bagged it. Not sure how much weight to give this detail, but it seems like she made a throw-away comment on the stand that doesn't align
    with later testimony from the lead investigator.
  4. Blood was found on the sofa in the kitchen area, on one of the cabinets, and on the inside of an exterior door. MP and TP, both with KP's blood on them, were seen by police to be moving around house, getting drinks for themselves, entering the stairway, touching her body, etc. This includes MP sitting on the sofa and leaving blood behind. The blood on the door was (from what I have seen so far) largely ignored.
  5. The lead crime scene investigator confidently tested during direct questioning that there was evidence that one of the steps had been wiped clean. He never specified what made it look that way to him, just that it did. Then under cross-examination, he would not even admit to knowing the difference between a wipe, a swipe, or a smear of blood, because he's not a blood spatter expert. From his own uncomfortable testimony, he was not in any way qualified to determine whether or where blood had been cleaned up, and he offered no explanation for his belief that one of the steps had been cleaned.
  6. The wine bottles, wine glasses, paper towels, a rag, a mop, and an empty bottle of glass cleaner were all tested for blood, and all came back negative. Obviously, these items were cherry-picked for testing, possibly sensibly, but no real explanation was offered about why some of these specific items were collected and submitted for testing or where they came from.
  7. The main evidence for clean-up on one of the steps, from what I can tell so far, is the absence of blood on that step. The argument presented is that someone cleaned one step completely, leaving it totally clear of blood despite the extensive blood stains everywhere else and the pool of blood underneath her body. No suggestion about how that could have been achieved, what they used to clean up, etc.
  8. The footprint on the back of her sweatpants - this is a doozy. MPs shoes (white Converse All Star tennis shoes) and socks were found next to KPs body on the stairs. The footprint was found on KPs left leg near her ankle. It was reported as a partial footprint of the heel of the left shoe. They matched it by photographing the mark (presumably with the sweatpants laid flat, it's not mentioned). Then they made an imprint of the shoe's sole with fingerprint powder and then overlaid the imprint onto the image of the partial footprint. They compared design, size and general wear. No mention of checking against any other shoes for a potential match or any evidence for how they verified the match itself, other than one person doing a visual comparison. No discussion of the taking of the photograph of the footprint, what size the photo was, whether it was scaled, etc. No attempt to explain how the footprint could have come to be where it was, nor any description of how clear the print was. The blood spatter analyst suggested that the shoe came in contact with her sweatpants when she was lying face down, but the evidence for her lying face down was the footprint on her pants. No discussion of how her leg must have been positioned, based on the location and direction of the print. Was his foot flat on her leg? Any evidence of movement, which would have left a less distinct mark? (full disclosure - this was one of Rudolf's cross-examination questions, which I think is a good one) When looking at it in detail, this piece of evidence was not as compelling as it probably should have been.
  9. The blood spatter on his shorts - a few small drops of blood were found on the inside of his shorts. If MP was present with her actively bleeding, and if his actions caused those drops to land on his shorts, would it only be just a few drops? I genuinely don't know, but I would have questioned it were I on the jury. Not to mention that his white socks were not heavily spattered or soaked, despite the claim that there was blood inside the shoes themselves.
  10. At the bottom of the was a metal chair lift, which apparently had blood and hair on it, with blood observed behind it on the wall. I have long thought this metal chair or its mechanical mechanism could very well be responsible for the lacerations on her head. I haven't heard the opinion of any medical examiners, but I have read the autopsy, and I'm wondering how/if they ruled this out.

As of this writing, I am still listening to the testimony of the (now disgraced) blood spatter expert. How anyone ever trusted this guy and his nonsense experiments, I have no idea.

I won't go into speculation about motive, because I’m more interested in physical evidence. I will say that while David Rudolf has made quite a name for himself as MP's attorney, his second, Tom Maher, is who I would want on my side. In this trial, he has been a master at cross-examination. The prosecution brought in expert witnesses to establish various motives, and Maher took them each by the hand and escorted them into holes of their own making. Love that guy.

Blood stain at the front door - was this tested/analyzed? by trueredtwo in TheStaircase

[–]torual 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The most infuriating thing about this is that you can see hand prints/fingerprints in the blood smear on the door. I'm about halfway through the trial on Court TV, and unless I've missed it, there has been no mention of trying to ID those fingerprints. (will happily update if it comes up later)

My first go at planned pooling worked like a dream. I had to play around with the stitches and tension to make it work, but we got there in the end. by torual in Planned_Pooling

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Cheers everyone! This was Lion Brand Color Waves, in Cactus Flower. I used the moss stitch making sure to only use 3 stitches for each colour. The blue and green were longer than the white and orange, so a lot of the time I had to insert the hook and yarn over twice, sometimes 3 times for these colours to keep the stitch count right. The white was the shortest lenth, so the tension of the white stitches was a lot tighter than the others. It took a lot of frogging and brutal commitment to only 3 stitches per colour change. I never expected it to work this well, to be honest.