" duress "

 [ "Duress" ]

1: The anxiety level reached by an asshole that is desperately awaiting it's basic need to have the living shit choked of it.

  * e.g.,  ... {asshole experiencing duress} Geez, he's going to choke the living shit out of me when he finds out what I've done. 

 [ "Duress" ]

2: See Stress (1).

 [ "fancy duress" ]

1: The act of being made to participate in fancy dress when you clearly dislike fancy dress.

  * e.g.,  ... I didn't want to do fancy dress but my man made me do fancy duress otherwise he would of been pissed with me. 

 [ "stress and duress" ]

1: Newspeak for torture, used by the CIA and its allies. "Stress and duress" tactics are used in interrogations, and refer to a variety of tortures and forms of mistreatment which the CIA thinks are OK. These include:

  * e.g.,  ... These techniques are widespread also in US prisons, although nominally illegal. They are more widely used in deregulated offshore gulags such as Guantanamo Bay, abu Ghraib in Iraq and Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. 

 [ "stress and duress" ]

2: sleep deprivation

  * e.g.,  ... Don't be fooled - these tactics ARE TORTURE, and are defined as such both by the UN and by experts in trauma. Their role is to break down the sense of personality of the prisoner and to deliberately induce psychological trauma and crisis. 

 [ "stress and duress" ]

3: overload of light

  * e.g.,  ... They are directly referred to in CIA handbooks - so the photos from abu Ghraib show a systematic pattern of torture, NOT rogue acts by a few stupid/evil/misguided soldiers. 

 [ "stress and duress" ]

4: complete darkness

 [ "stress and duress" ]

5: stripping and sexually humiliating prisoners

 [ "stress and duress" ]

6: threatening to torture and rape prisoners

 [ "stress and duress" ]

7: threatening prisoners' families

 [ "stress and duress" ]

8: making prisoners stand, sit etc. in uncomfortable positions to induce pain

 [ "stress and duress" ]

9: denial of satisfaction of basic rights and needs such as food, bedding, clothing and exercise

 [ "stress and duress" ]

10: deliberate cultural insensitivity and intolerance

 [ "stress and duress" ]

11: verbal abuse

 [ "stress and duress" ]

12: use of painful "restraint" techniques

 [ "stress and duress" ]

13: beatings