Design your own hell

[monolith94]

still, no one else has decided to change the punishments... therefore I am still THE WINNER!

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Actually, Odin did way before you.

[The Andy-Man]

Me
Circle I Limbo

Creationists
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Bill Gates
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Democrats
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Militant Vegans
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Everybody Else
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Greens
Circle VII Burning Sands

New Labour
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Old Labour
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

[molly bloom]

A suffocatingly small room, decorated with gaudy flock wallpaper, pictures of dogs playing cards, teary eyed moppet haired children, and Liberace and gangsta rap on infinite tape loops playing 24 hours a day at a just uncomfortable volume.

The chair has one leg shorter than the others, the seat is broken, an dthe material covering it is pilled and vaguely like crimplene.

All my clothing is stretch nylon, and it is very hot.

My eyelids are taped open, and the television (Imax style screen) is showing schmaltzy television versions of biblical stories, advertisements for Conservative political parties and t.v. evangelists and Anthony Robbins infodocs.

My arms are in handcuffs, my mouth held in a clamp, and Ben Kenobi feeds me Velveeta and jello on stale sliced white bread from a hypermarket (definitely not a small baker's) whilst talking incessantly about why gays aren't allowed to marry and why a zygote should be given voting rights.

[Monk]

molly,

That's some display of vivid imagination you've got there. Mind-altering drugs would be bound to have profound effects on you, but I'm not sure in which way.

[Kuciwalker]

I think the best hell would be TOTAL sensory deprivation, plain and simple, except for exponentially increasing stimulation of the pain nerves, forever. Assuming your neurons didn't explode or anything, I doubt you'd ever grow "accustomed" to the pain.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Thanks skywalker. I didn't need to sleep well tonight.

[Kuciwalker]

What do you expect, in a thread titled "create your own hell"?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Monk
molly,

That's some display of vivid imagination you've got there. Mind-altering drugs would be bound to have profound effects on you, but I'm not sure in which way.

Isn't that the arrogant Swedish doctor from 'The Kingdom' in your avatar?

What a great series.

[monolith94]

"Actually, Odin did way before you."

Yeah, but he didn't make them ZANY AND WHACKED OUT!!!

[Kuciwalker]

I still win, hands-down, for including Finns.

[Monk]

Originally posted by molly bloom

Isn't that the arrogant Swedish doctor from 'The Kingdom' in your avatar?

Wow, it made its way to Australia, too? Cool. Yeah, it was awesome, especially that guy. "You know guys, back in Sweden we have two criteria of death - dead and very dead. This guy here is very dead."

To complete the threadjack, I understand Stephen King was inspired by The Kingdom to make a similar story for American television. He won't - especially not in the eyes of the Danes - match the quality of von Trier's masterpiece but it could turn out allright.

[Odin]

My new and improved Hell.

Libertarians, Militant Vegans
Circle I Limbo

Scientologists
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Rednecks
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Gray Davis, Ben Kenobi
Circle IV Rolling Weights

The New York Yankees
Circle V Eternal whipping

River Styx

Republicans, Capitalist Pigs, Ned, John Ashcroft
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Creationists, NAMBLA Members, Fez
Circle VII Burning Sands

George Bush, Religious Nuts
Circle VIII Immersed in Lava

PNAC Supporters, Osama bin Laden, Murderous Despots
Circle IX Thrown into the Sun

Design your own hell

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Monk


Wow, it made its way to Australia, too? Cool. Yeah, it was awesome, especially that guy. "You know guys, back in Sweden we have two criteria of death - dead and very dead. This guy here is very dead."

To complete the threadjack, I understand Stephen King was inspired by The Kingdom to make a similar story for American television. He won't - especially not in the eyes of the Danes - match the quality of von Trier's masterpiece but it could turn out allright.

I saw the first series in Great Britain, then SBS (a channel dedicated to showing foreign television with subtitles where possible) in Australia showed it.

I think it's actually better than some of von Trier's films- the atmosphere of gloom and foreboding is like Dinesen's 'Seven Gothic Tales', and I love the spectral ambulance, the monstrous birth, the psychic Downs Syndrome narrators, and so on.

Absolutely inspired, and very funny too. I love the opening credit sequence in the bleaching marshes, and the soundtrack.

[Odin]

Even better!

Libertarians, Militant Vegans
Circle I Limbo

Scientologists
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Rednecks
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Gray Davis, Ben Kenobi
Circle IV Rolling Weights

The New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers
Circle V Eternal Whipping

River Styx

Republicans, Capitalist Pigs, Ned, John Ashcroft,
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Creationists, NAMBLA Members, Fez
Circle VII Burning Sands

George Bush, Religious Nuts, Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch
Circle VIII Immersed in Lava

PNAC Supporters, Osama bin Laden, Murderous Despots
Circle IX Thrown into the Sun

Design your own hell