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I figure it crashed somewhere other than where they're looking. It's always a mystery until you know what happened. There was a yacht some year ago they found and everyone was gone. Plates and glasses out like they'd just finished eating and were gone. The bodies were found washed ashore some miles...

GORDON wrote:I was envisioning that it has to be like having a rope around my waist with a sea anchor.

You say 'sea anchor', I say 'majestically-billowing cape'.

I'm woken up by stabbing pain in my calf from my leg moving around awkwardly and pinching nerves, which eases 99% as soon as I stretch out on tiptoe like a ballerina to release them. That occasionally happens to me, but only when I'm half-awake. Still seems strange. I don't make the distinction bet...

GORDON wrote:Between this post and the environmentalist thread, and my opinions about politics, I've been waiting for someone to ask me what the deal was with my nihilistic outlook on life, lately.

Sorry, I didn't find your positions to be so unreasonable that they needed explanation.

So tie yourself up every night or deal with what I assume is some variation of this . You shouldn't be moving around during the night if you're sleeping properly. Waking up with cramps and soreness means your muscles are doing far too much work when they ought to be resting. I don't wake up with cr...

Typically muscle cramps are a product of overuse, secondarily a product of electrolyte imbalance (potassium, sodium, other) Thirdly they're a product of a wide bed that let my legs kick around all crazy-legs-style while I'm on my side, instead of my nice, narrow futon. I will try some bananas, but ...

I keep getting woken up by charley horses that make my calves ache all day even if I stretch them out as soon as I feel them. Three times a fucking week at least.

It's not from running either, it's from the damn wide bed I'm sleeping on. I miss my tiny futon.

What I want to find is a human chew toy. I habitually chew on my pens, as do many people. Why isn't there some sort of thing designed to be a replacement object for that behavior? I think there's a market there. http://globaltoynews.typepad.com/.a/6a0133ec87bd6d970b017ee5c514c2970d-pi Just as tough...

It's like when the average person thinks they can make a difference, but they are one person in 350,000,000. What's the pollution share of an individual, just looking at that number? And the thing is, individual cars and personal air conditioners aren't the only cause of pollution... IIRC, I think ...

I hate ketchup. I really hate ketchup. Seconded. I don't use it on anything. I have no desire to slather what I'm eating in shitty, salty, vinegary tomato paste substitute. If it were just salty and vinegary I'd like it plenty. Most store ketchup is sickeningly sweet, like tomato cake frosting. Fuc...

Yes, it's quite pleasant.

GORDON wrote:It can be sort of a silly thing to dedicate your life to, though.

Only from the stigma of association. On its own it's no sillier than football or regatta racing or fusion cuisine or anthropological studies in general.

But it has no basis in truth. It's just made up crap for all we know. It COULD have been a great response. But it's not. No, it has unknown basis in truth. Either she got sick and died, which means she was gravely ill, or she killed herself, which satisfies 'mental illness' for most people who don'...

I'm starting to get confused. Is gender studies sexist? Fields of study aren't inherently anything. Some tend to attract certain types of people very strongly, who then shit up the field with their opinions, but there's no natural sexism in examining the differences between masculine, feminine, and...

But it has no basis in truth. It's just made up crap for all we know. It COULD have been a great response. But it's not. No, it has unknown basis in truth. Either she got sick and died, which means she was gravely ill, or she killed herself, which satisfies 'mental illness' for most people who don'...

This is very damaging for her. No. I think it hurts, but it's merely one more tag on a well spray-painted wall. There isn't , and I cannot overemphasize that enough, one damn thing short of committing a violent felony on video that's going to stop either of these two. Hillary will take up smoking c...

TheCatt wrote:My doctor wants to discuss statins. I do not.

Good call. Don't they fuck up your memory?

"Trump Support Among Latinos Continues to Slide." I assume this means he's losing votes among Hispanic folk from other countries because I didn't know he had any left in this one. No, I think it means that his one Hispanic voter wants to keep riding the slide instead of letting the other ...

PS: Bullyragging the third party voters? What now? I'm a third party voter. Well, probably; there's still the chance I may go Trump and hope for a quick assassination, but I'm about as far from either Democrat or Republican as you can get. You'll find I said "third-party believers", not v...

Why? Because there are only two parties and if you don't vote against the one you hate the most by voting for the one you hate second most, the former wins. That is contorted reasoning that keeps you a slave to the system. Reasoning of any kind is not what slaves you to the system. Violence is. Shu...