America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable

Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by momentmaker on Thursday February 21, 2019 @01:20PM (#19219135)

I read somewhere about to really torture a prisoner in the Galog you instruct the prisoner to just keep digging a hole and then have him fill it back up again.

Continue this to break thoroughly break him down. This is done without giving him any particular reason why he is doing it for...

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Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by ALittleLight on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:13PM (#19220161)

I don't know about "really torture". I'd have to dig and fill a ditch for a very long time before I'd prefer some traditional, physical pain based, tortures.

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Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by misingnoglic on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:42AM (#19226222)

And I'd theoretically prefer water dropped on my head, but in practice it's just as grueling.

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Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by lovecg on Thursday February 21, 2019 @01:52PM (#19219489)

Reminds me of “Cool Hand Luke”.

Boss Paul: That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch. And I told him that dirt in it's your dirt. What's your dirt doin' in his ditch? Luke: I don't know, Boss. Boss Paul: You better get in there and get it out, boy.

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Re:America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Mis... by freethemullet on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:12PM (#19220613)

Maybe "Notes from a Dead House" by Dostoevsky?

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