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    International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage

    Bodies Recovered from Air France Crash

    Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    06/21/09

    In reply to International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage
    Stupid journalists.
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    Image of Guy Whitey Corngood Guy Whitey Corngood
    06/21/09

    In reply to International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage
    I took some screenshots of the freighter sinking from the season 4 Lost finale, fooled a bunch of 4channers into thinking it was Somali pirate footage. And that was fucking MONTHS ago. What do I win?
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/22/09

    @Guy Whitey Corngood: Huh, fooling 4channers. Now there's an activity guaranteed to make one question his life choices.
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    06/21/09

    In reply to International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage
    All I want is to read that everyone died instantly without suffering any pain, yet these stories are not forthcoming with those kinds of assuring details. I need to know that for the victims' sake of course, but also so I can add it to the pep-talk I give myself every time I fly.
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    06/21/09

    @ronniedobbs: I can't remember the source -- I think it's around here somewhere -- but someone (an authority) noted that when a plane loses pressure, the passengers will pass out in well under a minute. During that time, some blessed bodily chemical reaction kicks in and all it feels like is falling asleep. I've been telling myself this for years, and I'm glad that it turns out to be true.


    Those oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling are only there to make you feel safer. In reality you'd be "asleep" before you could get to it to put it on. So there's a good chance that the passengers on this flight felt a big bump -- like turbulence, and that was that. It's a little bit of comfort anyway.

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    06/21/09

    @minou: Oh, ok, here's that source, um, it looks like something from the Association of Travel Agents, in conjunction with the Airlines Are Safe Confederation. Yes, and what it says is that this breaking up thing never happens, but on the really rare occasion when it does, it's just like going to sleep.

    God, I knew I read it somewhere.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    06/21/09

    @minou: I think that suddenly being exposed to the equivalent of 500-mph winds probably makes the end pretty quick.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    06/21/09

    @minou: No, the oxygen masks are not only there to make you feel safer. There have been many cases where they have actually been used in pressurization incidents. Sheesh.
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    06/21/09

    @badasscat: I'm sure you're right in less extreme cases. I misspoke in that I meant in this case -- a plane breaking up -- it's unlikely that you're gonna put the thing on, be conscious for the whole time, and live through the hell of the plane going down. It is my understanding that in these rare cases, it all happens too fast for the oxygen mask to make much difference, and that's for the best. But I am sure glad that you found the opportunity to gratuitously correct me. Sheesh.
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    06/21/09

    @kneetoe: I think I read on this site that it was an Air France official or the like who cited that? Although I'm not sure the source matters, since I'll take those little comforts anywhere I can get them.
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    06/21/09

    @Weegee's bored: One hopes.
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    Image of DrJimmy DrJimmy
    06/21/09

    In reply to International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage
    There's a handful of Bolivian and Dutch broadcasters who've just graded out as utter and complete Assholes.


    Somebody tell 'em I said so.


    So, Kamer: how does your complimenting these idiots in any way separate you from attached Assholery?

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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/21/09

    @DrJimmy: It doesn't?
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    Image of Patrick Obama Patrick Patrick Obama Patrick
    06/08/09

    In reply to Bodies Recovered from Air France Crash
    i was gunna say, since when did Romania become a geographic reference point to anything?
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    06/08/09

    @Patrick Obama Patrick: Since Wikipedia and Google. ("Let’s see, what country has an area about the size we’re searching ... ")
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    @iplaudius: that's some funny shit right there.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/08/09

    In reply to Bodies Recovered from Air France Crash
    Now I can't get "Wave of Mutilation" out of my head. The lyrics just seem to fit. I don't mean to be flippant--it just makes sense.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    In reply to Bodies Recovered from Air France Crash
    Americans have no idea that there's a country called Romania yet alone how big it is.


    Geographical analogy fail.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri:


    I think Romania is about the size of Oregon.

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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri: I thought the Romanian Empire fell ages ago!
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/08/09

    @Smitros: Which is about the size of Williamsburg, no?
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    @Smitros: What's an Oregon?
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    Image of pmarble pmarble
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Americans who live in Chicago know full well -- big Romanian population. Also, Americans over 30 know Romania from Nadia Comenice. Geographical analogy just fine.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    @SaraRueful: It burned while Zero twittered. At least that's what was told to me.
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    Image of rudi_freude rudi_freude
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri:
    It's a kind of seasoning, I think.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    @pmarble: earnestness in full bloom is rather unattractive. Did no one tell you that?
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    @rudi_freude: Noodles Romania, the San Francisco treat.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Eh, I think pmarble's correct, though. And being correct is pretty OK with me.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri:


    Something about a third of women never reach, alas.

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    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Oh, it's big alright- in a comparing-to-search-area kind of way. That much I do know.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/08/09

    @Smitros: Is it still a third? Yeesh. Can't you do something about this!
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri: You guys, I met this really cool girl from Romania at a conference, and she had a nose job at age NINE. Apparently this is not that weird in Romania. Made me reconsider everything I thought I knew about Eastern Europe.
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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    06/08/09

    @BxgrlJeri: I rather like a pleasant, optimistic attitude on Mondays. Bitterness and misguided cynicism are more enjoyable when they've had time to build over the course of a week.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/08/09

    @BookishLookish:


    That whole marital fidelity thing prevents from engaging in outreach.

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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/08/09

    @PrincessKashmir: It depends on when your week begins.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/08/09

    @Smitros: Oh, bother.
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    Image of SharonTaint SharonTaint
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    Tighten those tin foil hats, people...
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    And somewhere in the Brazilian heartland a jet engine has just fallen from a crear sky and crushed 17 year-old misfit Donnie Darçao.
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    Image of boozeshaman boozeshaman
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    This story fits creepily well into some of the kooky but strangely resonant theories about 2012 I have read; in particular, the notion that in these last couple years there will be a series of developments involving high-profile "disappearances" that will accelerate panic and awe on the planet, and send world religions into deep philosophical crises. This stuff is "supposed to" begin this summer.


    Jesus, I'm stoned.

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    06/05/09

    @boozeshaman: Please expound on this. What are the deets of these 2012 theories?
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    06/05/09

    @koniki:


    I think most serious Mayanologists don't place much stock in the 2012 thing.

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    Image of dado dado
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    One time at a bed and breakfast the girl I was with lost a diamond earring...not a very big one. While searching through the carpet I found another diamond earring, a bigger one. So these things can happen. She kept the earring and we broke up shortly thereafter.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    WOW.
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    06/05/09

    @Richard Lawson: And here I thought the Brazilian Triangle had to do with landscaping.
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    Image of AndIAmTellingYou AndIAmTellingYou
    06/05/09

    @TableNine: LOL
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    06/05/09

    In reply to Wreckage Found By Brazilian Searchers Is Not From Flight 447
    Wait, so there's debris and an oil slick too large to be from this flight? Meaning something even bigger crashed there?


    Screw Lost - this is beginning to look like Sphere.

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