why that was nice

[6spdcoupe 5,000+ posts]

Can you explain how 49 is Not 75% volume though?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

to make them seem bigger

 

[puppie_chow 10+ year member]

Same reason computer monitors are.

 

[DaveVT 10+ year member]

It is a marketing technique so they sound huge.

 

[DiamondFanatic 10+ year member]

Perhaps because there are different length : height ratios for TV's? If it was just one dimension and not diagonal then it would be confusing.

 

[marleyskater420 5,000+ posts]

It is a maketing technique so they sound huge.

^^^

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

(CBS) Teenagers have always been thrill seekers, willing to take dangerous risks. But, reports The Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman, a growing number of teens nationwide are taking part in a disturbing and potentially deadly trend, known as "The Choking Game."

 

Thirteen-year-old Sam Mordecai's twin brother, Gabe, died recently while playing the "game." Sam found him with a rope around his neck.

 

"I saw him sitting on the ground with the rope on him and thought he was playing," Sam recalls. "I was like, 'Gabe, knock it off.' "

 

Gabe and Sam's mother, Sarah Pacatte, told Kauffman, "The first thing you think of is, 'My God, my child, he killed himself. Oh, my God.' And as soon as the thought came in my head, the thought was gone. I knew immediately what Gabriel had done. …I had no doubt in my mind."

 

Gabe had shut off the oxygen to his brain to get a sort of high, Kauffman explains. Other names for "The Choking Game" include "Fainting Game," "Passing-Out Game," even "Space Monkey."

 

Sam says he and his brother had played it several times: "It's hard to describe how it feels. It's kinda like, just, like, somewhere not on earth, but you're just dreaming, kind of. But then it only lasts for a few seconds and when you wake up … you don't know where you are or what's going on."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/earlyshow/main712411.shtml

Just saw this on the news and wondered wtf is wrong with america? Kids now choke themselves to catch a buzz?!? They said like almost 60 kids have died nation wide?! That shit cant be right, i must have heard it wrong..i hope.

Darwinism ftw

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

haha yah man, atleast they are taking action to rid the dumbasses that could run our country one day.

 

[dkguitarist 5,000+ posts]

stupid shit i tell you what. ****ing idiots. if they're stupid enough to put their lives on the line for a quick "buzz" then they deserve what's coming to them. it doesn't make sense. why man why?!

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i mean steal a fcking beer if your that desperate to get loaded!!!!111`

 

[Cobra Commander 10+ year member]

I remember these 12 y/o girls that used to do this. I lived near a trailer park, and I guess they thought it was cool to show everyone their skillz. That was back in 95 so they are legal now....

I wonder how they turned out...???

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

what happened to mild drugs and alcohol? who the **** strangles themselves for shits and giggles?

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

That has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard. What are they thinking?

 

[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

what happened to mild drugs and alcohol? who the **** strangles themselves for shits and giggles?

x2 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif wtf

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

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