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  1. SHARP Yung Blood
    Originally posted by Sophie Lol SHARP, how've you been. How in the world did you find us here?

    I'm doing ok, I don't keep spiders anymore though, it took too much of my time and I kind of lost interest, on the other hand, I started spearfishing instead, and have been doing that for some 6-7 years now, resulting in a healthier lifestyle. Apart from all the beer, of course.:-D

    I don't remember how I found this place, probably through Google, in an attempt to figure out what happened to everyone after Zoklet went down. You wouldn't happen to have seen Morb around somewhere?
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  2. SHARP Yung Blood
    Worked as a certified pyrotechnician for 10 years, and in special effects for 15, just to get that out of the way.

    Don't worry about explosions etc. while driving with a full tank. if you get in a car crash, and the tank ruptures, and the fuel ignites, your car most likely won't explode. The reason why gas tanks explode when they do, is usually because while gasoline in itself isn't flammable, gasoline vapor is, and if you've got an almost empty, but intact tank, you will have a lot of vapor in a confined space. When this vapor is heated (for example by a burning car) to the auto-ignition temperature, it will ignite, causing an explosion. No open flame in direct contact with the gasoline is needed. I've seen this demonstrated when I got my pyro license. With a full tank, the gasoline might start boiling, but that doesn't mean it's reached the critical temperature in order to ignite it.

    If you die in, and because of a car fire, you'll most likely be slow-cooked. Or, "roasted" is probably a more accurate description. If the smoke doesn't kill you first. But don't worry about being blown up. If memory serves, about 90% of the people who dies due to a car fire could have been saved, if the bystanders had gotten their thumbs out of their asses and helped the victim out of the burning wreck, but because of Hollywood's portrayal of what happens when a car catches on fire, by far most are too scared to get near the wreck.

    Yes, cars explode, but they do so very rarely.
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  3. SHARP Yung Blood
    I've never seen something that shouldn't exist, but I do have a story.

    This was around 15 years ago, or thereabouts. A couple of friends and I were staying in a house belonging to one of my friend's dad, while on a 3-day fishing trip to various lakes and coastlines in the area. In the evening we'd get drunk/stoned. At some point, I really needed to go take a piss, but someone was already using the bathroom, and I couldn't wait, so I went outside. On my way back, I passed by a van with a trailer in the driveway. The trailer was a tall boxy thing, probably a little taller than me. Everything was fine, and I was slightly buzzed, and pretty satisfied after a good long piss. As I passed by the space between the back end of the van, and the front end of the trailer, I instantly got the feeling that someone or something was standing in the space between the vehicles. Now, don't get me wrong, it was not just a sort-of-feeling, I was instantly convinced 100% that something very very dangerous was well within reach, I didn't even have time to turn my head, before I'd started throwing punches into the spot where this "boogeyman's" head would have been. Of course, I didn't connect with anything, there was nothing there, but the instant feeling of pure and utter dread was very real, I knew that something was there, in just the same way that you don't doubt whether or not you're reading this post. To this day I have no idea why I all of the sudden felt this way, but apparently, my fight or flight instinct thought it prudent to beat the living crap out of whatever wasn't there.

    The only other strange thing I can think of, was when I was some 13-14 years old, and had been rollerskating all day on a ramp I'd built with a friend. At some point, my friend went home and I laid down on the ramp, and looked at the stars for some 20 minutes. I noticed one of them seemed to move. It wasn't a shooting star, it wasn't an airplane, and it wasn't a satellite because they tend to travel in straight lines, whereas this joker was sort of just wobbling around. I have no idea what it was, it looked like any other ordinary star, except for its odd behavior.

    Which reminds me, I actually do have a couple of family members who's seen some really weird shit. Family member A has seen something "cigar-shaped and glowing, of unknown size" flying at a crazy speed over her house as a child. This must've been around the early 50's. Family members B and C has simultaneously seen something "about the size of a bus, glowing orange, hovering over a field, and then slowly flying away without making a sound". This must've been around '87. I've heard the stories several times over the years, and they haven't changed a bit. My family has no history of insanity and the people involved are not prone to making up stories.

    Post last edited by SHARP at 2017-11-20T21:13:51.596516+00:00
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