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The little brat deserves it. |
If the comment
section of this article can be believed, there are actually lots of people
out there who really believe that honest-to-goodness, reanimated corpse,
flesh-eating zombies really exist, and that the government has been hiding
their existence, and that a devastating zombie apocalypse is just around the
corner. Take a look at some of these:
if
you look up 1970 in florida there were boats full of zombies from cuba being
dumped off florida a few hundred i think made it to the shores 57 people were
biten 22 died ,, i think the a coast guard ship was over taken and the fzva
agency had to go out there and clean up the ship and sink several other boats
full of cuba zombies that was in 1970 , thanks castro they ran out of vombie
vaccine during the embargo and they wouldnt accept help from the usa but they
gave us fresh biten cuban for spite i guess thanks castro i guess that virus is
common there in cuba ,i have my doubts it wasnt helped along ,
you know bio-warfare is a practicing college war games and little guinea pigs commoner get to play victim.
big mad scientist play roulette with peoples lives,
you know bio-warfare is a practicing college war games and little guinea pigs commoner get to play victim.
big mad scientist play roulette with peoples lives,
Not understanding the U.S. embargo of Cuba fail, and failure
to recognize a parody website fail.
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And, of course, the standard illiteracy fail. |
Another comment reads:
I just have to say that if zombies are not
real then where does it come from???
Have
a good think about it.
(More
to think about)
If
people can restart the hart after death then what’s to stop people from
reprogramming
the brain.
Hart. HART. Restart the HART.
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Hart! ~ Bill Ebbesen |
Another guy says,
I
really thing it could happen just look at the madcow thing ppl eat the meat
from a cow with mad cow they get all fucked up in the head . And just thing add
up it’s going to happen and outbrake of infected ppl and ppl that eat ppl turn
in to zOmbies after years of eat meat from ppl. It’s real and going to happen
soon
And then some guy lets us know that his buddy’s uncle, who
works at NASA, has assured him that “zombies are one of the top predators that
can cause trouble on apocalyptic scale for man kind.” It goes on in this manner
through four years’ worth of comments. I didn’t read them all. But hey, did you
know Hitler used zombies in his takeover of Europe?
I guess that’s what happens when you’re foolish enough to Google
“zombie outbreak” – you spend the next hour reading poorly written comment
after poorly written comment about how zombies are real because they just make sense. Because it’s like
mad cow, and we have to stop eating each other before it’s too late.
In all fairness, I’m pretty sure none of these commentators
were Haitian or members of the Voodoo faith. They’re just random idiots who can’t spell
and who believe everything they read.
Legends of undead creatures coming back from the grave are
pretty common all around the world. The Norse tradition gives us draugr,
the animated bodies of the dead, who are super strong, capable of hulking out
whenever they want, and smell of death. In Europe in the Middle Ages, people believed in revenants,
evildoers who return from the dead and may or may not be vampires. The Chinese believe in jiang shi, the
hopping zombie (or vampire).
Irish skeletons dating back to the 8th century
were found
interred with rocks in their mouths, which scientists take as a sign that
the people who buried them were concerned about the possibility of
zombification. Bodies from the time of the Black Death have been found with
stones in their mouths, perhaps because it was thought that blocking the mouth
prevented the spread of disease. From the 1500s on, shoving a rock into the
mouth of a corpse was considered an effective treatment for vampirism. However,
these bodies – two men, one middle-aged and the other in his 20s – predate these
practices. Archeologist Chris Read thinks that the mouth may have been
considered a gateway for the soul, and that stuffing a rock in there was meant
to keep the soul from returning to the body, or alternatively, to keep ghosties
out.
Legends of flesh-eating zombies pop up even in mankind’s
earliest written records, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh,
a Mesopotamian poem that’s 3,800 years old.
Zombies, as we understand them, first appeared in the 1968 Romero
classic Night of the Living Dead.
Many people insist that Haitian Voodoo witch doctors, or bokors, are capable of turning a
person into a “real zombie” by feeding them a drug that
contains tetrodotoxin, the stuff in pufferfish, combined with a mix of datura
and other dissociative
drugs. The victim goes into a death-like coma, then wakes up to find
himself in a trance-like state, and under the total control of the bokor. Ethnobotanist Wade Davis investigated
this phenomenon, and claims these drugs were used to keep Haitian Clairvius Narcisse
in state of subservience for two years.
Criticism of Davis’s research has been plentiful. Counterarguments
include:
- The pufferfish toxin is very, very potent and will kill the shit out of you like so fast; it’d be all too easy for a Voodoo sorcerer to accidentally kill the person he meant to zombify and enslave.
- If pufferfish toxin doesn’t kill a person outright, it gives them brain damage. A person dosed with this poison would be really good at drooling, shitting himself, and falling down, maybe not so good at farming sugar.
- I guess you have to keep dosing the person, too, because Narcisse was able to escape his undead destiny when he missed his medicine. The bokor controlling him came down with a bad case of dead, the drugs wore off, and Narcisse was suddenly his old self once again (and not brain-damaged at all, it would appear).
- It would be more expensive to feed, house and clothe “zombie” workers than it would to hire regular workers for, pardon the pun, slave wages.
- No one has ever seen a crew of “zombies” working on a sugar plantation.
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Not pictured: zombies. |
one of my biggest pet peeves is people talking about zombie apocalypses like they're really going to happen and like they're going to survive it anyway.
ReplyDeleteakljsdfsjkldfjkldfjklfdhjfdghjldfsjkldsfjkldsafdfsadfsadfsdfsdfsdgrjkl I can't even.
the zombie myth is really cool, though. The really old shit, when they were kind of indistinguishable from vampires/revenants. Just dead dudes hangin out, eating people, banging [not the sex kind of banging] on your roof at night. GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES.
I'd like to see a TV show about THAT.
I'm going to blog more about those things, fer sure.
Deletego to rockerfeller.org....clik downloads, download the pdf...read LOCKSTEP SCENARIO...ull understand more wen u read it. very shocking shit!!! seeing as the threat of cave-dwelling "terrorists" is not as useful as it once was to herd the masses in desired directions-a new threat is in the making. how else would the powers that be unite the world to usher in their NEW WORLD ORDER?!?!-new way for the new age) an OUTSIDE THREAT is how!!! do you think us bottomfeeders would still be bickering n killin eachother over our differences if there were..lets say ALIENS attackin the planet?? well mayb aliens is alil far-fetched 4 some...so lets say INFECTED PEOPLE runnin around naked n eatting anything that moves..similar to "zombies"...??...the word "zombie" gotta f'n go!!! wen ppl hear this word they think of shit they saw on the boobtube. whats happenin 2day is NO REANIMATED CORPSE ZOMBIE DAMMIT!!!! i truly, honestly believe they released a virus of sum sort-this virus will be dubbed the "game-changer"-as the rockerfeller pdf file states. this virus, that makes ppl zombie-like, will be the new threat to unite the world as 1. ppl will beg to get put in the FEMA camps-for fear of gettin chowed on by their neighbor. those billions of hollow tips bullets ordered by DHS n weather service make much more sense now huh??shoot 4 the head-thats what hollw-tips r designed 2 do..not injure but KILL. how about those fema coffins all over the us..many made of cement n preburied, waitin 2 be filled with the "infected". oh, n those FEMA trains w the shackes n shit...hmmm, would u wanna open the train door if there may b infected ppl in it?? no, so u shackle the ppl there 1st-jus incase they try to NOM NOM NOM on 1 of ur limbs. this shit goes way deeper than some re-animated corpse zombie FOX news headline BS. as an end note-there is a major military/fbi/cia/1st responders exercise goin on off the coast of san diago i believe. on the 19th of this month....but here's the catch: it's 4 a "zombie apocalypse" scenario trainin. now y would agencies of such power n influence waste all that money on some mock zombie exercise if they didn't take the threat seriously.
ReplyDeletehopw this comment was good enough 4 u...good article thingy by the way:)
It's a lovely comment, thank you very much.
DeleteMarjorie, the comment above mine is HILARIOUS! Where do these people come up with this shit?! I'm still LMAO. Seriously though, I don't get the appeal of staring at rotting flesh for 120 minutes. Eeew! Even if Spielberg made a zombie movie, there'd be one less occupied seat in the theatre. Now, if we're talking vampires, that's something I can sink my teeth into! :-)
ReplyDeleteThe thing I like about zombie movies is when, for instance, the zombies rip someone apart and a beef liver flies across the screen.
DeleteLOLOLOL, I love this post. All of it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you read the comments too, it's getting some good comments! I feel this post is not getting the attention it deserves, really.
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