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[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 68 points 6 days ago (3 children)

In my mailbox...My arrest warrant from the Dutch police.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ok, this is definitely the winning comment. I'm crossing my fingers for you bro

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Eating a meal, a Succulent Chinese Meal

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 10 points 6 days ago

Get your hands off my penis!

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 9 points 6 days ago

Ah so you send me that .pdf, tuff luck

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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I find this segment to be particularly insightful:

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That's the one I was gonna post! I think the text file containing ASCII 0s and 1s for an image of the Mona Lisa comes second.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I found the Cunt Coloring Book from the 1970's. Yes, scanned in as PDF. Yes, a few pages were already colored in, mostly psychedelic colors though.

And yes, it's exactly what it sounds like, a bunch of hand drawn lady parts to be colored in.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

Ah I didn't think to look into that part of my downloads for PDFs

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[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 33 points 6 days ago
[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago
[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (11 children)

A copy of Man after Man:

This is such a weird book. It has leech people, underwater people, blind psychic baby people, meat mountain people, etc.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

Kenshi mentioned!

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The technical plans for the Death Star.

[–] nebm51@drlemmy.net 8 points 6 days ago

Are there any vulnerabilities? Asking for a friend

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[–] psyspoop@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I have a key to tree identification in winter. It's surprisingly useful

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[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"Countries where suicide is outlawed.pdf"

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck, Bahamas? Life imprisonment?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, if they went for the death penalty it'd be obviously ironic.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Historically, I have a vague memory of knowing the fact that some places did actually do that, although I should check.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

Germanic-sphere countries historically liked to kill people for stealing bread, so I guess it's not too disproportional. You have to think the person going "yes please" would make the whole lynchmob atmosphere hard to keep going, though.

Do share if you find it, I've mostly turned up works by critics with a quick search.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 3 points 5 days ago

Usually it’s a placeholder punishment so that the police can break in and stop you committing a crime

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[–] telemaphone@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My mom's death certificate. That's weird.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

RIP. This is up there with the arrest warrant

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 13 points 6 days ago

This feels pretty niche...

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Hmm, it probably depends what you think is weird, but I have one in their on the feasibility of extracting ammonia from biomass. There's also one on early steam turbines by a fellow named Geoff Horseman, which is a fun name.

Edit: Oh, I also have a professional critique of my dating profile photos. That's weird in a different way, since I actually got that done, and it unexpectedly came as a PDF.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ok, the second one is definitely a wierd(ly specific) PDF and I dig it!

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You got your dating photos critiqued? And it exists as a paid service?? You fascinate me Sir.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, it came with ghostwriting for the text section.

Man, I have no idea what people are looking for from dating profiles, and what I got back from the seasoned pros just reinforces that. Left to my own devices, I went terse and impartial. What they wrote seems cheesy and boastful to me, but I guess comes across as confidence to others. Which just means it's money well spent, I suppose, because I haven't gotten any complaints since.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

The Death report for Kurt Cobain. Mostly from morbid curiosity and a love for Nirvana. I don’t do that for everyone or anything like that. That’s the weirdest one. πŸ˜…

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have the working draft of this year's List of Items for the Official University of Chicago Official Scavenger Hunt, the world's largest -and probably weirdest- annual scavenger hunt.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Let's see, The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual, some paper on MKultra, some paper about The Hum, Some scientific paper on the longevity of recordable optical media, and a paper about crows.

[–] beercupcake@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

Pdf version of doom from hackernews not so long ago.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Depends on your weird.

I write, so there's a ton of stuff on decomposition, forensics, and related subject matter that are weird by some standards.

I've got stuff on niche mythology too, for the same reason. Along with that is stuff on modern paganism, syncretic religions, and related subjects. Again, weird by some standards.

But I tend to think the morbid stuff is what would catch most people by surprise.

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I think if i dig through my records I can find a federal subpoena from 2016. A LEO had to formally come to my door to confirm I received it but the prosecutor sent it to me via email.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

I just cleaned up my downloads so I no longer have it, but a couple weeks ago it was a copy of Maid: The Role-Playing Game

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Should add the poor man's James bond. The anarchist cookbook. The army survival manual. There is an old army improvised munitions manual.

There are lots of fun reads that should probably be held onto.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mine is this report by the central bank where they tested the insurance sector at-large for resillience to financial shocks. ^(Although after reading some books by nassim nicholas taleb, I realize that testing using the worst imaginable shocks isn't sufficient as black swan events are by their nature unpredictable)

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