I sometimes feel the need to Blood Eagle all the phone scammers... Who else?
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I can't stand scammers of any kind. Especially those who target the elderly. If I could I would rip them a new one through the phone. Get a damn job. Stop bothering us.Anubisa
Dedicated and devoted to Lord Anubis and Lady Bast. A follower of the path of Egyptian Wicca.
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That's pretty harsh. Yes, scam callers are very annoying and their acts can be detrimental to someone who doesn't understand what's happening, but wanting to execute them is uncalled for.�Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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Re: Scam callers
Originally posted by Juniper View PostThat's pretty harsh. Yes, scam callers are very annoying and their acts can be detrimental to someone who doesn't understand what's happening, but wanting to execute them is uncalled for.Anubisa
Dedicated and devoted to Lord Anubis and Lady Bast. A follower of the path of Egyptian Wicca.
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Originally posted by Bartmanhomer View PostYes me too. What's a blood eagle anyway?
One does not have to search too far in the secondary sources to uncover explicit descriptions of what execution by the blood eagle entailed. At its most elaborate, sketched by Sharon Turner in the History of the Anglo-Saxons (1799) or J.M. Lappenberg in his History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings (1834), the ritual involved several distinct stages. First the intended victim would be restrained, face down; next, the shape of an eagle with outstretched wings would be cut into his back. After that, his ribs would be hacked from his spine with an ax, one by one, and the bones and skin on both sides pulled outward to create a pair of “wings” from the man’s back. The victim, it is said, would still be alive at this point to experience the agony of what Turner terms “saline stimulant”—having salt rubbed, quite literally, into his vast wound. After that, his exposed lungs would be pulled out of his body and spread over his “wings,” offering witnesses the sight of a final bird-like “fluttering” as he died.�Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.�
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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