if ur gonna shoot urself in the head...
i suppose if you fired upward at ~70° angle from the base of your skull, you could get the bullet into the "important bits" without having to penetrate the skull.
the penetration factor i'd assume is why most people go through the mouth.
the mob had good success with .22 at a rearward angle into the temple.
the small caliber bullet can't penetrate the skull but has very high velocity, allowing it to bounce around inside your brain bucket turning your thinker into swiss cheese.
the penetration factor i'd assume is why most people go through the mouth.
the mob had good success with .22 at a rearward angle into the temple.
the small caliber bullet can't penetrate the skull but has very high velocity, allowing it to bounce around inside your brain bucket turning your thinker into swiss cheese.
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My worst was preparing for the PhD prelims...they had this thing called '20 questions.' It worked like this - you were given a list of 20 questions that pretty much encompassed all of molecular biology, from evolutionary stuff to the latest research to whatever. Each question was open ended, and you could write pages and pages of material on it. You had well over a year to prepare, but most didn't really start until a few months before. When your time came, you would go into a little room with 3 or 4 profs, and they would roll the dice to determine the questions you had to answer. The goal was to be able to talk for about 20-30 minutes on each one, and then answer questions for another 15-20. They didn't decide who passed and failed until everyone had gone.Nightshade wrote:Heh, I'm going to have to do at least three of these defenses. 1 for my senior math project, 1 for my senior EE design project, and my master's thesis defense.
If you passed, you were a PhD candidate. If you failed, you had one more shot, and then you were stuck with a master's and that was all you'd get. I quit anyhow, so it didn't matter that I passed.
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They can be arseholes.Hannibal wrote:Prelims shelims. Don't even get me started. EVERY MEMBER OF EVERY PHD COMMITTEE NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR GENITALS SNACKED ON BY A PACK OF WILD BOARS!!
*whew* I needed to get that out.
ps: real men shoot themselves in the balls kids. Suffering makes the eventual oblivion that much sweeter.
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I've learned so much from this thread, from a geoff thread of all threads.
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Heh, we don't get a masters if we fail. After two years in the program, there's a two-part qualifying exam, which consists of written research proposal and an oral defense of it. You're warned to expect a 3-hour defense, and if you don't pass after the second try, you get nothing. You're just out of the program.tnf wrote:My worst was preparing for the PhD prelims...they had this thing called '20 questions.' It worked like this - you were given a list of 20 questions that pretty much encompassed all of molecular biology, from evolutionary stuff to the latest research to whatever. Each question was open ended, and you could write pages and pages of material on it. You had well over a year to prepare, but most didn't really start until a few months before. When your time came, you would go into a little room with 3 or 4 profs, and they would roll the dice to determine the questions you had to answer. The goal was to be able to talk for about 20-30 minutes on each one, and then answer questions for another 15-20. They didn't decide who passed and failed until everyone had gone.Nightshade wrote:Heh, I'm going to have to do at least three of these defenses. 1 for my senior math project, 1 for my senior EE design project, and my master's thesis defense.
If you passed, you were a PhD candidate. If you failed, you had one more shot, and then you were stuck with a master's and that was all you'd get. I quit anyhow, so it didn't matter that I passed.
Boy, I can't wait to deal with the anxiety of THAT. :icon8:
Re: if ur gonna shoot urself in the head...
the judas priest fan? remember watching a show about him - poor dumb bastard blew the whole front of his head off and didn't die.Freakaloin wrote:i know of a guy who shot himself with a shotty in the mouth and he lived...its kinda tricky i guess...
spent the last of his days sat in a hospital with a wet flannel draped over the gaping hole in his forehead until he finally overdosed on painkillers or something.
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Re: if ur gonna shoot urself in the head...
no4days wrote:the judas priest fan? remember watching a show about him - poor dumb bastard blew the whole front of his head off and didn't die.Freakaloin wrote:i know of a guy who shot himself with a shotty in the mouth and he lived...its kinda tricky i guess...
spent the last of his days sat in a hospital with a wet flannel draped over the gaping hole in his forehead until he finally overdosed on painkillers or something.
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Re: if ur gonna shoot urself in the head...
He lived probably due to the fact that he probably put his head to far back and the shotgun was at to much of an angle.Freakaloin wrote:where would be the best location for the desired result? just wondering...just in case...
i know of a guy who shot himself with a shotty in the mouth and he lived...its kinda tricky i guess...
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