The Heebeegeebees?

OutlawPete · 24-04-2011 1:19pm #1

Just watched a docu on Lisa Left Lopes (singer with TLC who died in 2002) and at the end it shows how she died, totally got the heebeegeebees. (stomach turning, hair raising, adrenaline up spine etc). Very spooky and don't think I have ever seen anything which that brought home the truth in the statement 'here one minute, gone the next' quite as much as this did. Maybe it was that it was shot on a camcorder, dunno .. just sent a cold shiver through me. Here it is for those that have never seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mAP6ksDh74

So have you seen, heard or witnessed in life that has given you the "heebeegeebees" ?

24-04-2011 1:25pm

That video someone posted about the Syrian "martyrs" who've been shot with snipers using exploding bullets.

I don't particularly like when celebrity deaths get so much attention, Lisa Lopez was driving without a seatbelt as were most of the people in the back, they were putting themselves and everyone else in the car at risk by doing that.

I'd feel far worse for people knocked down by drunk drivers.

OutlawPete · 24-04-2011 1:28pm

Sacramento wrote: »

I'd feel far worse for people knocked down by drunk drivers.

As would anyone, it's not posted because she was a celebrity - would have given me the spooks no matter who or what the person was. It was the fleeting nature in which she died that was the reason I included it.

Hookah · 24-04-2011 1:30pm

There's something ironic about the product placement till the last.

She seems to have been distracted passing the Coca Cola box back, and then had to swerve to avoid an oncoming car.

BraziliaNZ · 24-04-2011 1:31pm

The night in bed after a 4 day bender when you're trying to sleep... Nothing quite as spooky as that.

liah · 24-04-2011 1:34pm

Are we really using videos of people's deaths solely to give us the 'heebeegeebees'?

I mean, like.. I know it's AH and all, but this isn't the kind of thing that's particularly appropriate. This isn't 'heebeejeebees' stuff - the Bogeyman is 'heebeejeebees' stuff. This is a person losing their life, do we really want to be reducing it to causing some stupid fleeting physical sensation for our own entertainment?

And the "here it is in case you've never seen it" as if it's a totally normal thing to have seen - I don't know about you but I actively avoid looking at videos of people dying, why would anyone actually want to look at it?

admiralofthefleet · 24-04-2011 1:37pm

there is a tree in the distance from where i live in arklow that keeps drawing me to look at it, its on its own on a hill and no matter where i am i keep looking at it, freaks me out a bit

BraziliaNZ · 24-04-2011 1:38pm

liah wrote: »

Are we really using videos of people's deaths solely to give us the 'heebeegeebees'?

I mean, like.. I know it's AH and all, but this isn't the kind of thing that's particularly appropriate. This isn't 'heebeejeebees' stuff - the Bogeyman is 'heebeejeebees' stuff. This is a person losing their life, do we really want to be reducing it to causing some stupid fleeting physical sensation for our own entertainment?

And the "here it is in case you've never seen it" as if it's a totally normal thing to have seen - I don't know about you but I actively avoid looking at videos of people dying, why would anyone actually want to look at it?

Who cares, everyone dies, not many people will care when you or I die!
And if it's entertaining why not? I hope my death entertains a few people.

mick.m · 24-04-2011 1:41pm

Tommy cooper's death. Think it's on youtube somewhere. Easily the most creepy video I've seen.

Hookah · 24-04-2011 1:43pm

mick.m wrote: »

Tommy cooper's death. Think it's on youtube somewhere. Easily the most creepy video I've seen.

I was watching it that night. I thought it was part of the show.

admiralofthefleet · 24-04-2011 1:43pm

mick.m wrote: »

Tommy cooper's death. Think it's on youtube somewhere. Easily the most creepy video I've seen.

ive seen it loads of times. the weird thing about it is that the audience thought it was all part of the act and carried on laughing as he lay dead

BraziliaNZ · 24-04-2011 1:44pm

mick.m wrote: »

Tommy cooper's death. Think it's on youtube somewhere. Easily the most creepy video I've seen.

I thought it was a great way for a great man to go out, and rather fitting.

liah · 24-04-2011 1:44pm

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Who cares, everyone dies, not many people will care when you or I die!
And if it's entertaining why not? I hope my death entertains a few people.

I'm not asking people to care about her death. I'm just curious as to why people would actually want to watch someone die. I have a lot of trouble with viewing someone else's real life death as entertainment.

Hookah · 24-04-2011 1:46pm

liah wrote: »

I'm not asking people to care about her death. I'm just curious as to why people would actually want to watch someone die. I have a lot of trouble with viewing someone else's real life death as entertainment.

It shows the seconds preceding her death, but cuts out before the actual crash.

iPlop · 24-04-2011 1:53pm

I was shown the autopsy photos of her on some site many moons ago.She died from blunt force trauma to the head I think, she had severe bruising on the side of her head and she was dressed in pyjamas.

m@cc@ · 24-04-2011 1:56pm

mick.m wrote: »

Tommy cooper's death. Think it's on youtube somewhere. Easily the most creepy video I've seen.

Was just about to mention that.

Kevin Duffy · 24-04-2011 2:02pm

liah wrote: »

Are we really using videos of people's deaths solely to give us the 'heebeegeebees'?

I mean, like.. I know it's AH and all, but this isn't the kind of thing that's particularly appropriate. This isn't 'heebeejeebees' stuff - the Bogeyman is 'heebeejeebees' stuff. This is a person losing their life, do we really want to be reducing it to causing some stupid fleeting physical sensation for our own entertainment?

And the "here it is in case you've never seen it" as if it's a totally normal thing to have seen - I don't know about you but I actively avoid looking at videos of people dying, why would anyone actually want to look at it?

My reading of OP's comments was that it hadn't struck him in the same way before just how instantaneous tragedy and loss can be, not that he was in any way entertained by it.

liah · 24-04-2011 2:04pm

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

My reading of OP's comments was that it hadn't struck him in the same way before just how instantaneous tragedy and loss can be, not that he was in any way entertained by it.

It's just the use of a word as infantile as 'heebeejeebees' and the inclusion of the video for everyone to watch 'just in case you haven't seen it,' as though watching videos like that is normal, gets under my skin a bit.

Maybe it's a culture thing but where I grew up, typically the word 'heebeejeebees' is used for commenting about things like ghost stories or bogeymen or other such silly 'scary' things. Not real life people having their lives taken. Think things like that deserve terms that are a little more.. mature, I suppose.

.same. · 24-04-2011 2:07pm

OutlawPete wrote: »

Jup spine etc). Very spooky and don't think I have ever seen anything which that brought home the truth in the statement 'here one minute, gone the next' quite as much as this did.

Find a reason to visit an old folks home and spend some time there, don't ask me how it works but this might cure you.

easyeason3 · 24-04-2011 2:08pm

Can someone post the Tommy Cooper video?

Tigger · 24-04-2011 2:14pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHELTET6m84

Hookah · 24-04-2011 2:14pm

easyeason3 wrote: »

Can someone post the Tommy Cooper video?

Just like that?

Tigger · 24-04-2011 2:15pm

an before anyone gets their nickers in a twist the man got a laugh outa death
he;d have loved it

Kevin Duffy · 24-04-2011 2:16pm

liah wrote: »

It's just the use of a word as infantile as 'heebeejeebees' and the inclusion of the video for everyone to watch 'just in case you haven't seen it,' as though watching videos like that is normal, gets under my skin a bit.

Maybe it's a culture thing but where I grew up, typically the word 'heebeejeebees' is used for commenting about things like ghost stories or bogeymen or other such silly 'scary' things. Not real life people having their lives taken. Think things like that deserve terms that are a little more.. mature, I suppose.

Perhaps it is a cultural difference. I consider myself mature (well, mostly

) but the word in that context made sense to me. I understood he was talking about something that gave him a reaction encompassing fear and a realisation of mortality, an instinctive reaction with physical signs of the impression it had made on him. Heebeejeebees was a more succinct way of putting it.

easyeason3 · 24-04-2011 2:19pm

Tigger wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHELTET6m84

Fcukin' hell that was creepy.

How long before they realised it wasn't a joke?

Tigger · 24-04-2011 2:21pm

couple more seconds

OutlawPete · 24-04-2011 2:21pm

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Perhaps it is a cultural difference. I consider myself mature (well, mostly ) but the word in that context made sense to me. I understood he was talking about something that gave him a reaction encompassing fear and a realisation of mortality, an instinctive reaction with physical signs of the impression it had made on him. Heebeejeebees was a more succinct way of putting it.

It's not the content of the OP that Liah has issues with

WindSock · 24-04-2011 2:29pm

This thread has. Myself and my lodger have been trying to think of people with initials GB so we can say he be gb then this thread appeared...true story.

liah · 24-04-2011 2:29pm

OutlawPete wrote: »

It's not the content of the OP that Liah has issues with

Just because you think I have issues with you, and you have issues with me, doesn't mean I do. I'd be writing the exact same thing, and have done, to anyone who posts videos of people dying. I just don't think it's right. I actually find it a bit bizarre that you automatically think it's you - is it really that strange to disagree with posting death videos?

I don't hold grudges so I really don't get what this comment is about.

Wolfe Tone · 24-04-2011 2:37pm

liah wrote: »

I'm not asking people to care about her death. I'm just curious as to why people would actually want to watch someone die. I have a lot of trouble with viewing someone else's real life death as entertainment.

Jesus get over yourself.

No one is watching it for entertainment.

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 2:51pm

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Jesus get over yourself.

No one is watching it for entertainment.

Fair enough but I actually just don't get the point of the OP at all. I'm scratching my head here. Lots of things give people the heebeejeebees. I have the heebeejeegees more times in my life than I remember.

Wolfe Tone · 24-04-2011 2:53pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Fair enough but I actually just don't get the point of the OP at all. I'm scratching my head here. Lots of things give people the heebeejeebees. I have the heebeejeegees more times in my life than I remember.

I thought it was quite clear.... Pete got the heebeegeebees when he watched the video... Then he asked;

"So have you seen, heard or witnessed in life that has given you the "heebeegeebees" ?"

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 2:56pm

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

"So have you seen, heard or witnessed in life that has given you the "heebeegeebees" ?"

And I would think if someone never experienced the heebeegeebees at some stage in their life, they must be barely sentient. Of course people have! So it seems a strange thing to ask.

WindSock · 24-04-2011 2:57pm

I think my story is quite interesting and deserves more attention in this thread, to be honest.

hondasam · 24-04-2011 2:57pm

liah wrote: »

Are we really using videos of people's deaths solely to give us the 'heebeegeebees'?

I mean, like.. I know it's AH and all, but this isn't the kind of thing that's particularly appropriate. This isn't 'heebeejeebees' stuff - the Bogeyman is 'heebeejeebees' stuff. This is a person losing their life, do we really want to be reducing it to causing some stupid fleeting physical sensation for our own entertainment?

And the "here it is in case you've never seen it" as if it's a totally normal thing to have seen - I don't know about you but I actively avoid looking at videos of people dying, why would anyone actually want to look at it?

If this happened last week for eg I would not want to watch it. I think what the OP is saying is how fragile life is and how it can change so quickly.

The fact the video is real gives you the heebeejeebees. I'm sure we all know people who have died tragically and the last conversation you have with them can sometimes give you the heebeejeebees.

Hookah · 24-04-2011 2:58pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

And I would think if someone never experienced the heebeegeebees at some stage in their life, they must be barely sentient. Of course people have! So it seems a strange thing to ask.

Why have any thread then?

Hookah · 24-04-2011 2:59pm

WindSock wrote: »

I think my story is quite interesting and deserves more attention in this thread, to be honest.

There, there, Windsock.

You and Pete obviously have a strong telekenetic connection for such a synchronicity to occur.

Kevin Duffy · 24-04-2011 2:59pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

And I would think if someone never experienced the heebeegeebees at some stage in their life, they must be barely sentient. Of course people have! So it seems a strange thing to ask.

Shared experience, empathy, sympathy, some of most important aspects of humanity. If we followed your logic, we'd assume everybody had experienced everything that the majority have and never ask each other questions.

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 3:01pm

Hookah wrote: »

Why have any thread then?

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Shared experience, empathy, sympathy, some of most important aspects of humanity. If we followed your logic, we'd assume everybody had experienced everything that the majority have and never ask each other questions.

Sigh, I just mean asking the question "Have you have the heebeejeebees?" seems a bit a daft. The answer that is probably going to be 100% yes.

Maybe he could have phrased it better.

The OP was just a bit nebulous to me, it could have been tighter to punch home its point.

Wolfe Tone · 24-04-2011 3:02pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

And I would think if someone never experienced the heebeegeebees at some stage in their life, they must be barely sentient. Of course people have! So it seems a strange thing to ask.

Well I reckon most people have seen stingy people, or met mega ignorant people, are they strange things to start threads on?

I really dont see what your problem is.

Anyway, to address the OP I got a mega case of the heebeegeebees when I visited Aushwitz. I can remember the exact moment too, was when I walked into the room with the mountain of human hair. Equally hard hitting was the pile of broken kids toys. It drove home the reality of something which I had only read about, sure the numbers in the books are large but they are just numbers and books. Much more real when you see the actual place for yourself.

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 3:04pm

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Well I reckon most people have seen stingy people, or met mega ignorant people, are they strange things to start threads on?

I really dont see what your problem is.

See the post above this one.

Gunsfortoys · 24-04-2011 3:04pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

And I would think if someone never experienced the heebeegeebees at some stage in their life, they must be barely sentient. Of course people have! So it seems a strange thing to ask.

It's no "have you ever slept with anyone famous" thread...

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 3:05pm

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

It's no "have you ever slept with anyone famous" thread...

Wow, Gunfortoys, you're so scathing.

Gunsfortoys · 24-04-2011 3:08pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Wow, Gunsfortoys, you're so scathing.

FYP

Wolfe Tone · 24-04-2011 3:09pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

See the post above this one.

I think its just you and liah. OP was perfectly clear to me.

Kevin Duffy · 24-04-2011 3:10pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Sigh, I just mean asking the question "Have you have the heebeejeebees?" seems a bit a daft. The answer that is probably going to be 100% yes.

Maybe he could have phrased it better.

The message is not what is sent, but what is received. I and others understood the phraseology.

Asking if other people have experienced something you have is far from daft, it's at the heart of social relationships. It's only your guess that the response is going to be "100%" yes and it sounds to me like a wild and unlikely guess to me - no one has lived my life and I haven't lived anyone elses, so by definition our experiences are different, whether the difference is in our experience of the heebeejeebees or anything else.

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 3:12pm

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Asking if other people have experienced something you have is far from daft, it's at the heart of social relationships.

Thank you for that lecture, my life can go on now.

Kevin Duffy · 24-04-2011 3:14pm

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Thank you for that lecture, my life can go on now.

It was badly needed and you're very welcome.

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 3:15pm

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

It was badly needed and you're very welcome.

It wasn't but thanks for the armchair psychology anyway.

Hookah · 24-04-2011 3:16pm

This thread's going well.

Poor Craythur · 24-04-2011 3:17pm

Hookah wrote: »

This thread's going well.

It didn't really start well, TBH, hence the way it has continued.

The Heebeegeebees?

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