Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Schulzenfest]

So this is a thing that happened ...

 

[Dylan8]

Wasn't that the same guy piping up on a couple of public facebook posts around draft time?

 

[edgie]

Yeah! Sock it to em Rambo!

Activate unlimited ammo!

Uh oh, here comes the final boss fight.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Reckon that Port Arthur special put the conspiracy shit to bed

 

[edgie]

I didn't watch. I'm not giving time and ratings to networks that continue to bring it up and keep talking about him.

What happened though?

 

[edgie]

STALLONE DOUBLE FEATURE! And a Survivor soundtrack!

My television is growing chest hair. Then shaving it off, working out, and applying body oil.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I didn't watch. I'm not giving time and ratings to networks that continue to bring it up and keep talking about him.

What happened though?

His police interviews etc., his lawyer spoke, cold piece of crap he was giggling n' chortling while being shown weapons & crime scene photos, childlike imbecile was the right description but he admitted to it in his own way even a childish drawing of the cafe layout and where he killed step by step.

*TBH for the magnitude of the crime I've always found the media quite silent on him until the last couple of years. there's only one documentary on the incident as far as I know.

 

[bacharach]

I didn't watch. I'm not giving time and ratings to networks that continue to bring it up and keep talking about him.

What happened though?

Was pretty interesting. All he wanted notoriety.
Apparently he pleaded not guilty simply because he wanted each of the living victims to take the stand and identify him - because he'd get a kick out if it.. His lawyer talked him into a guilty plea saying that he would come across as being dumb in court (he had a very low IQ).
His psychiatrist said he didn't have a mental illness. By the sounds of it, no one really liked him growing up...besides some lady who left him a shit load of money which I'm guessing he used to buy his guns, one of which was 5k.

So basically there was no ryme or reason for the massacre. He's just a dead set campaigner.

 

[edgie]

His police interviews etc., his lawyer spoke, cold piece of crap he was giggling n' chortling while being shown weapons & crime scene photos, childlike imbecile was the right description but he admitted to it in his own way even a childish drawing of the cafe layout and where he killed step by step.

*TBH for the magnitude of the crime I've always found the media quite silent on him until the last couple of years. there's only one documentary on the incident as far as I know.

Just popped over to the crime board for a read, and within a few posts I'm reading people shooting (choice of words) down the conspiracy theory again by mentioning that the shooting aspect of what he done is no big deal.

**** me. There's like, hundreds of legitimate arguments to verify he done it, but people fixate on the shooting, the one aspect that is incredibly out of the ordinary.

 

[edgie]

Was pretty interesting. All he wanted notoriety.
Apparently he pleaded not guilty simply because he wanted each of the living victims to take the stand and identify him - because he'd get a kick out if it.. His lawyer talked him into a guilty plea saying that he would come across as being dumb in court (he had a very low IQ).
His psychiatrist said he didn't have a mental illness. By the sounds of it, no one really liked him growing up...besides some lady who left him a shit load of money which I'm guessing he used to buy his guns, one of which was 5k.

So basically there was no ryme or reason for the massacre. He's just a dead set campaigner.

He's obviously mentally impaired.

Did they touch on the rifle that was supposedly illegally obtained?

 

[bacharach]

He's obviously mentally impaired.

Did they touch on the rifle that was supposedly illegally obtained?

Nothing on how the gun was obtained.

Maybe nowadays he might be diagnosed with something but the psychiatrist said he just wasn't liked by society because he was dim. He said that this was worsened because he looked 'normal' so he probably experienced healthy inititial interactions with people but then he drove them away because he never lived up to peoples expectation of him...so i guess it was a greater let down and then he probably got real pissed off.

 

[edgie]

Nothing on how the gun was obtained.

Maybe nowadays he might be diagnosed with something but the psychiatrist said he just wasn't liked by society because he was dim. He said that this was worsened because he looked 'normal' so he probably experienced healthy inititial interactions with people but then he drove them away because he never lived up to peoples expectation of him...so i guess it was a greater let down and then he probably got real pissed off.

It sounds wrong to say, but he wasn't bad looking by 90s culture standards. Almost like a clean shaven Kurt Cobain. You make a very good point.

 

[bacharach]

It sounds wrong to say, but he wasn't bad looking by 90s culture standards. Almost like a clean shaven Kurt Cobain. You make a very good point.

The psychiatrist made that point. But happy to take the credit

 

[edgie]

The psychiatrist made that point. But happy to take the credit

I heard it here first.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

You can only imagine how much damage can be done by initially being liked by people because you are "good looking" only to be discarded like a used napkin when they realize you are a complete dullard.. I assume that was weekly event for him since adolescence

 

[edgie]

I think the problem isn't so much he was a "dullard"... more a psychopathic loony.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I think the problem isn't so much he was a "dullard"... more a psychopathic loony.

I just elaborated on what the shrink was saying, rejection on a daily/weekly basis from childhood into adulthood would create a pretty bleak attitude towards people in general let alone for someone like Martin with a limited mental capacity to deal with it... Loony I'm not so sure more a social outcast dimwit with "point" to prove.

 

[Del80659]

Reckon that Port Arthur special put the conspiracy shit to bed

if there are fresh docos coming out about this port arthur massacre to make sure nobody thinks it's a staged shooting then it's DEFINITELY not a staged shooting!!!

 

[edgie]

Interesting line of thought.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

if there are fresh docos coming out about this port arthur massacre to make sure nobody thinks it's a staged shooting then it's DEFINITELY not a staged shooting!!!

 

[rum ham]

I'm guessing you don't mean the music......

My kid played this yesterday, I think I'd rather have Sabrina stuck in my head

I kinda like it now, having heard this:

 

[spookism]

Walking to work.
Hungover.
It's raining.
Still dark outside.

Must be Monday

 

[PAFC04]

I just elaborated on what the shrink was saying, rejection on a daily/weekly basis from childhood into adulthood would create a pretty bleak attitude towards people in general let alone for someone like Martin with a limited mental capacity to deal with it... Loony I'm not so sure more a social outcast dimwit with "point" to prove.

It takes a village to raise a child, society as whole must work together as a whole and therefor partly to blame. Its a common theme around the world if you look at the history of these US cases.

Martin Bryant carried out an act which was the easiest route to have is day in the sun to let society know that he is someone who just wants to be noticed. This all could have avoided if someone could have been his mate or friend.

We as a society as whole, must take a portion of the blame for the heinous crime and to become more accepting of people who are out cast by the norm.

Is/Was Martin a symptom of the society at the time?

 

[John the Butcher]

Walking to work.
Hungover.
It's raining.
Still dark outside.

Must be Monday

On the drinks after a poor SFA effort?

 

[spookism]

On the drinks after a poor SFA effort?

Big weekend at work. Needed an unwind.
But, yeah, that didn't help.