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Boiling People.

  • 04-06-2014 06:23PM
    #1
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭


    Saw a bit of King Solomon's Mines earlier and himself and yer wan were about to be boiled for lunch,is this a Hollywood myth or did "the natives"indulge in this sort of activity?Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    kneemos wrote: »
    Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?

    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say yes, yes it would hurt.


  • #3
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    kneemos wrote: »
    Saw a bit of King Solomon's Mines earlier and himself and yer wan were about to be boiled for lunch,is this a Hollywood myth or did "the natives"indulge in this sort of activity?Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?

    Learning from a pg13 comedy adventure action movie?

    ....

    Um no boiling people to eat is a bad idea. You would rupture internal organs and cause issues with waste.

    Also its kinda awkward when you could just kill them and then cook the parts.

    However it has been used in executions

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_boiling

    And yes we aren't frogs or crustaceans, it would hurt... A LOT


  • #4
    TiGeR KiNgS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭TiGeR KiNgS


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say yes, yes it would hurt.

    Arm or Leg ?


  • #5
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    why don't you ask a lobster


  • #6
    carlmango11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


    kneemos wrote: »
    Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?

    :confused:


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  • #7
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    kneemos wrote: »
    Saw a bit of King Solomon's Mines earlier and himself and yer wan were about to be boiled for lunch,is this a Hollywood myth or did "the natives"indulge in this sort of activity?Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?

    Did you ever take a shower and, whilst you were in it, someone turns on a cold tap and you get scalded? Well imagine that, ten times worse.


  • #8
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    kneemos wrote: »
    Saw a bit of King Solomon's Mines earlier and himself and yer wan were about to be boiled for lunch,is this a Hollywood myth or did "the natives" indulge in this sort of activity? Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?



    Nevermind the natives, a certain neighbour of Irelands' did it to OUR natives, purely for being Catholic. Kinda looks like it might head that way again.


  • #9
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    newmug wrote: »
    Nevermind the natives, a certain neighbour of Irelands' did it to OUR natives, purely for being Catholic. Kinda looks like it might head that way again.

    Kinda looks like it might head that way again.

    Er, wha'? Could be missing something but I don't think Cameron has any immediate plans to re-run the plantations.


  • #10
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    newmug wrote: »
    Nevermind the natives, a certain neighbour of Irelands' did it to OUR natives, purely for being Catholic. Kinda looks like it might head that way again.

    Aye, the Cosby's in Laois were fairly into their Catholic torture and killing.

    Enjoy the Electric Picnic folks!


  • #11
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Feel ill even thinking about.


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  • #12
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    NSFW: distressing survivor's account of what it is like to be boiled alive here.


  • #13
    Hotale.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    kneemos wrote: »
    Would it actually hurt to be boiled if the water was cold at the start?

    I heard somewhere that if you heat the water really slowly a frog will stay in it and eventually be scalded to death, he just won't realise that he's being boiled :rolleyes:

    Does that count? :P

    I reckon we use The Backwards Man as a test subject anyway. :)


  • #14
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Well... the Drug Cartels in Mexico and Columbia seem to have a thing of boiling people alive...


  • #15
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    I read somewhere that the Halloween practice of Bobbing for Apples came from the Druids.

    The locals were given the choice of decapitation or bobbing your face into boiling water for apple.

    Either way you're bollixed.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hotale.com wrote: »
    I heard somewhere that if you heat the water really slowly a frog will stay in it and eventually be scalded to death, he just won't realise that he's being boiled :rolleyes:

    Does that count? :P

    I reckon we use The Backwards Man as a test subject anyway. :)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpsLZDgFK4


  • #17
    Hotale.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    Deleted User wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpsLZDgFK4

    No wonder you're a home appliances mod :rolleyes:


  • #18
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Duracell Bunny wrote: »
    Did you ever take a shower and, whilst you were in it, someone turns on a cold tap and you get scalded? Well imagine that, ten times worse.
    someone needs to get their plumbing upgraded :)


  • #19
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Yes they were alleged to have done it in Uzbekistan recently. There is a picture floating about on the inter web of the aftermath. As you could imagine, it ain't pretty.


  • #20
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Yes they were alleged to have done it in Uzbekistan recently. There is a picture floating about on the inter web of the aftermath. As you could imagine, it ain't pretty.

    Floating.....ha ha.


  • #21
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Yes they were alleged to have done it in Uzbekistan recently. There is a picture floating about on the inter web of the aftermath. As you could imagine, it ain't pretty.
    I should have taken your word for it.:eek:


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  • #22
    renegademaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭renegademaster


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Kinda looks like it might head that way again.

    Er, wha'? Could be missing something but I don't think Cameron has any immediate plans to re-run the plantations.

    you do know he's up to his neck in present day war crimes??


  • #23
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    I'm going to be very dull here and say that yes, it's utter fantasy. In all the wacky adventures of Alan Quatermain (hah!) and company, nobody bothered to figure out how the primitive, skirt-wearing natives managed to master the metallurgical processes necessary to build an enormous cauldron big enough to fit two people. You'd need casting, a blast furnace, access to quality iron, a full suite of tools...the expenses would be endless.

    Fantastically, there was once a Japanese thief with the wonderful name of Goemon Ishikawa boiled alive for his crimes in a huge iron vessel. His last words, addressed to the shogun of Japan, were reportedly "You're the real prince of thieves. You stole the whole damn country!" To this day, iron one-person tubs are known in Japan as "Goemon Baths".

    Yes, yes, I'm Buzz Killington, but I endeavour to educate in all things.


  • #24
    Azwaldo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Azwaldo55


    The cannibal savages in the movie needn't have lit a fire under the pot.
    Sharon Stone was smoking hot! DAYUM!



  • #25
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Quatermain wrote: »
    I'm going to be very dull here and say that yes, it's utter fantasy. In all the wacky adventures of Alan Quatermain (hah!) and company, nobody bothered to figure out how the primitive, skirt-wearing natives managed to master the metallurgical processes necessary to build an enormous cauldron big enough to fit two people. You'd need casting, a blast furnace, access to quality iron, a full suite of tools...the expenses would be endless.

    Fantastically, there was once a Japanese thief with the wonderful name of Goemon Ishikawa boiled alive for his crimes in a huge iron vessel. His last words, addressed to the shogun of Japan, were reportedly "You're the real prince of thieves. You stole the whole damn country!" To this day, iron one-person tubs are known in Japan as "Goemon Baths".

    Yes, yes, I'm Buzz Killington, but I endeavour to educate in all things.

    Not to be a pedant, but I believe it is Allan rather than Alan. I hope this has been educational for you also.


  • #26
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Not to be a pedant, but I believe it is Allan rather than Alan. I hope this has been educational for you also.

    Huh. Well caught.


  • #27
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    newmug wrote: »
    a certain neighbour of Irelands' did it to OUR natives

    I don't believe Iceland would ever do that to us.


    The greeks had a similar execution method


  • #28
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Hitchens wrote: »
    someone needs to get their plumbing upgraded :)

    You mind your own business, my plumbing is top notch.


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