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Did anyone else read about this? I just came across it this evening by chance. The video is crazy. She talks to an undercover cop about how he should kill her husband. She looks into the camera a few times as if she knows something is going on. Strange and sad story. I read in a different article that the husband commented that he didn't want her to go to jail.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/09/woman-hires-hitman-to-murder-husband/

I don't trust any hitman who doesn't have a barcode tattooed to the back of his head.

This is why you don't hire hitmen out of the yellow pages.

Ravenpoe said:

This is why you don't hire hitmen out of the yellow pages.

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The yellow pages are so last century... Craigslist was last decade... How do people get in touch with Shegokigo these days?

figmentPez said:

The yellow pages are so last century... Craigslist was last decade... How do people get in touch with Shegokigo these days?

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Well first you're going to need a passport.....

figmentPez said:

The yellow pages are so last century... Craigslist was last decade... How do people get in touch with Shegokigo these days?

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Yelp?

Ravenpoe said:

Yelp?

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2 stars! Killed the wrong guy, but did so really well. You'd think for these prices the guy could buy a pen!

A+++++ would murder again

Is it my wife?

Yikes.

"I don't want to break his heart"
Total romantic there.

Part of me understands it was likely for the $400,000 insurance payout more then anything, but the way she explains it as being "easier then divorce" and because she "didn't want to break his heart" really makes me shake my head.

ScytheRexx said:

Part of me understands it was likely for the $400,000 insurance payout more then anything, but the way she explains it as being "easier then divorce" and because she "didn't want to break his heart" really makes me shake my head.

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But wouldn't you totally want to explain to the hit-man that you have the best of intentions for paying him to kill someone?

Shawnacy said:

But wouldn't you totally want to explain to the hit-man that you have the best of intentions for paying him to kill someone?

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I love it when the "hitman" says he will just walk up and shoot the husband in the face, and she is just "okay". Also, how she gets all giggly about not getting blood on the carpet.

It's the "casual" nature of how she is treating the whole thing that really bothered me. You are hiring someone to murder your husband, not throwing him a surprise party.

Has there been a hitman in the 10 years that was not an undercover cop?

ScytheRexx said:

I love it when the "hitman" says he will just walk up and shoot the husband in the face, and she is just "okay". Also, how she gets all giggly about not getting blood on the carpet.

It's the "casual" nature of how she is treating the whole thing that really bothered me. You are hiring someone to murder your husband, not throwing him a surprise party.

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Isn't a wake technically a surprise party?

Shawnacy said:

Isn't a wake technically a surprise party?

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But if you join in on the party....


You'll be drinking alone.

sixpackshaker said:

Has there been a hitman in the 10 years that was not an undercover cop?

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About the same amount of young kids who are in sex chat rooms with adults.

figmentPez said:

The yellow pages are so last century... Craigslist was last decade... How do people get in touch with Shegokigo these days?

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Some say you can still hear Shegokigo when the wind blows on a cold night and Charlie Don't Surf is making a point.

Heard this on the radio this morning. 21 years old and THAT tired of being married.

(shaking head)

Millenials. It must be bewildering to have such short attention spaHEY LOOK A DOG let's go ride bikes you guys.

And they already have 2-3 kids as well. No qualms about bumping off the father of your children?? Better to kill someone than suffer a little embarrassment.

Man, too many people are getting married too young and for the dumbest reasons. I blame rom-coms and disney movies.

BananaHands said:

Man, too many people are getting married too young and for the dumbest reasons.

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My mother was 19 when she married my father. Granted, they later divorced, but nobody tried to have anybody killed.

I blame rom-coms and disney movies.

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You're on to something here. Every depiction of romance in popular culture is all about the GETTING together and not the STAYING together. It sells an unrealistic depiction of romantic love that is always a whirlwind of passion and emotion, and deeply ingraining the idea that any long term relationship is just the starting point for the next partner to come and whisk you away from your current "loveless" situation. It's all part of the neverending adolescence our populace has been desperately clinging too for much of the last half century.

Man, if Shegokigo ever logs in to make a return, she's going to be flooded with tag alerts. Including this one.

And then she'll kill us all.

GasBandit said:

Every depiction of romance in popular culture...

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You must be new to this planet. You could finish your sentence with "...throughout the history of the human race"

Welcome to the new generation, same as the old.

The issue probably has more to do with the decoupling of sex/children/marriage in our society than it has to do with the stories we've been telling for centuries. Certainly the stories of our time are more explicit about the recent decoupling, but the old stories were only interesting to people of their time because they broke the same taboos.

Or, in other words, I doubt the society is a reflection of the stories, rather the stories are a reflection of changes already made in society.

stienman said:

You must be new to this planet. You could finish your sentence with "...throughout the history of the human race"

Welcome to the new generation, same as the old.

The issue probably has more to do with the decoupling of sex/children/marriage in our society than it has to do with the stories we've been telling for centuries. Certainly the stories of our time are more explicit about the recent decoupling, but the old stories were only interesting to people of their time because they broke the same taboos.

Or, in other words, I doubt the society is a reflection of the stories, rather the stories are a reflection of changes already made in society.

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We haven't had the exposure to the stories that have been told for centuries as we do now. I mean, come on. We're hit with commercials and films and television shows telling us that we're going to be swept off our feet and that anything after that is credits.

stienman said:

You must be new to this planet. You could finish your sentence with "...throughout the history of the human race"

Welcome to the new generation, same as the old.

The issue probably has more to do with the decoupling of sex/children/marriage in our society than it has to do with the stories we've been telling for centuries. Certainly the stories of our time are more explicit about the recent decoupling, but the old stories were only interesting to people of their time because they broke the same taboos.

Or, in other words, I doubt the society is a reflection of the stories, rather the stories are a reflection of changes already made in society.

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I disagree, I think it's become a lot more exacerbated in recent decades. Especially as noted with the proliferation of "rom com" type female-aimed entertainment that tell every professional woman (a new development in its own right) that her life isn't complete unless a Baldwin is boning her, yet at the same time our culture calls any woman who condescends to being a wife and mother some kind of failure as a feminist. Put them all together and you've got a recipe for no long term commitments whatsoever.

Also, I'm not saying that love and marriage couldn't happen at a young age. That can happen.

BananaHands said:

Also, I'm not saying that love and marriage couldn't happen at a young age. That can happen.

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In fact they did so more often in the past. Well, granted, the female was usually the younger of the two, sometimes married off in the teens, while men were expected to make something of themselves first, leading to a lot of older men with younger girls, if I remember what I've read correctly.

Chiming in here, recently had a situation with a girl who was coming on to me and sending me very questionable pictures all the while she had a husband (knew them both). They had gotten married very rushed and on the phone (while he was in another state with another girl) and instead of doing the responsible thing and talking to him when she was unhappy , she just tried to cheat on him.

It's a combination of these rom coms and the people genuinely not wanting to take responsibility for their actions as of late. They go for the easy way / short-term solutions.

Another thought - in prior centuries and in undeveloped countries having children was a requirement if you wanted to have any sort of chance at being taken care of in your golden years.

With modern social care for the older generations people no longer need to have children to take care of them when they retire.

Right now, a rational human being growing up in our society knows that they don't have to plan for the future (social safety net) and they don't have to restrict themselves to one partner or take care of children they didn't intend to have (control over reproduction).

It's not a matter of deliberate selfishness, it's simply a matter of having more options available to them, so why wouldn't they choose the options which provide them with the greatest pleasure?

stienman said:

It's not a matter of deliberate selfishness, it's simply a matter of having more options available to them, so why wouldn't they choose the options which provide them with the greatest pleasure?

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Because despite what recent leftist media sources vehemently chant, single mothers cause crime.

I think you're giving people far too much credit. I don't think they think about social safety nets at all. It's pure living in the moment. The people who think about social safety nets are the people who don't need them.

I also think you're being a little unfair to authors. I mean come on, what would you rather read, a whirlwind romance or the story of an old married couple discussing what to eat for dinner and whether or not <family member> took their medicine today?

fade said:

I think you're giving people far too much credit. I don't think they think about social safety nets at all. It's pure living in the moment. The people who think about social safety nets are the people who don't need them.

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You might be right, but consider that they don't have to actively think about it. The net is present, and they see the lives their grandparents are living, and no one is telling them, "You better have children, else who's going to take care of you when you start wearing diapers again?"

It's the lack of pressure that's allowing them to live in the moment, not the requirement that they think forward.

For the record, this is the place where most political parties completely agree. The disagreement is on what to do about it.

Sterilize humanity. Fixes everything once and for all, within 100 years.

GasBandit said:

Sterilize humanity. Fixes everything once and for all, within 100 years.

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Only the fundamentalist nuts hiding in the hills would be left. You sure you want them to inherit the earth?

stienman said:

Only the fundamentalist nuts hiding in the hills would be left. You sure you want them to inherit the earth?

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I was thinking some sort of airborne contagion that causes sterility and can lie dormant for long periods without a host. Gonna have to open the bunker at some point, or all you inherit is the vault interior.

Fun Size said:

I also think you're being a little unfair to authors. I mean come on, what would you rather read, a whirlwind romance or the story of an old married couple discussing what to eat for dinner and whether or not <family member> took their medicine today?

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For some reason this reminded me of this song. It captures much of my married life in a nutshell.

BananaHands said:

Man, too many people are getting married too young and for the dumbest reasons. I blame rom-coms and disney movies.

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I stopped reading the thread to just say THIS THIS THIS THIS. OH MY GOD THIS.

doomdragon6 said:

I stopped reading the thread to just say THIS THIS THIS THIS. OH MY GOD THIS.

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Then there's the people who get married just to stop their girlfriends from feeling sad.

>.>


<3

GasBandit said:

I was thinking some sort of airborne contagion that causes sterility and can lie dormant for long periods without a host. Gonna have to open the bunker at some point, or all you inherit is the vault interior.

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Stargate SG-1 plots gooo.