Same here, mom made ONE meal, and that was that - we had to at least try anything that hit the plate once and then if we didn’t like it, we could not have any of it. I grew up liking lima beans [fresh not canned] spinach and peas, artichokes ... luckily neither parent liked mushrooms because I am seriously allergic…

I only get notifications from my email, text messages, and alarms I set for specific times. I have never loaded my phone with facebook, games, various time wasters. I do have an ebook reader app, but it doesn’t do notifications at all. Android user. Hell, half the time I tend to ignore incoming calls, I am in…

I have always had issues eating breakfast, Mom gave up and just let me nosh diner leftovers for breakfast, never had the sweet tooth for cereal, I can only do eggs for maybe 3 days before they start turning my stomach, and leftover noodles, leftover rice or mashed or roasted potatoes always were edible for me. Barillo…

“Except in the case of rape (<1% of all abortions) the baby is the product two individuals who willingly engaged in an act that could produce a child.”

I have medication driven “morning sickness” that can hit at any time, day or night. Since eating is more difficult in the evenings I try to get the more nutritionally dense stuff in the morning - I had a portion of

Ugh - as a female who tends to do much of my driving at night and occasionally through some pretty desolate areas I fill up when I hit a quarter tank - and I make sure that I have $50 in *cash* stashed on road trips in case I run into issues where plastic isn’t an option. Why anybody [especially a woman] who risks…

Why is a neti pot ridiculous? Form and function, you put warm saline in, stand by the sink or in the shower, tilt your head and flush. No batteries, electrical wiring, fancy crap, just a simple little clay or plastic or glass pot and some inexpensive packets of salt and bicarb. I think my plastic neti pot cost me $3…

Why is a neti pot ridiculous? Form and function, you put warm saline in, stand by the sink or in the shower, tilt…

I know how that goes =) Our house burnt last August, and I have spent an insane amount of time working on the personal property claim portion, and fighting with the attempt to get a modular home dropped in to replace the structure. *sigh* And I know how much work goes into a remodel [we had just freaking finished…

If you are in a corp ... I am in an excellent corp, we have fun on mining ops smacktalking each other in TS, and when we aren’t in any sort of op or roam together we frequently hang out in TS. While I can PVP, I fly a cloaky hauler with fuel for the guy cynoing the fleet, and hauling loot back out. I have done stuff…

The game has no story line - it is a giant sandbox you get dumped into, at one of 4 starting systems [4 ‘racials’ in game, I play Amarr, my husband is Caldari] You are in a starter ship, a frigate with minimal things that are player changable. You are given an ‘agent’ that issues you missions that train you in basic…

True, though I hang out and chat with my corpsmates, we go on roams where I fly a cloaking hauler and carry fuel to jump fleets and pick up loot ... as an indy pilot I gather planetary materials so we can build anything from a mining crystal to a cap ship, though I can also fly PVP when I want to [VR trained me to fly…

I wouldn’t mind suicide rear doors, it would make schlepping my wheelchair out of the back seat something I could do singlehandedly and not need to drive a momvan with a sliding driverside door.

Fun article! I can definitely say that my husband could sleep on a rotissery - 20 years as a submariner and he still doesn’t sprawl out. Though I did grab the sound of 688i General Quarters as a sound file, it is my ringtone for his calls, and it is my alarm clock sound for 5am. Pops his ass out of bed pretty much…

*snicker* It is even funnier if you hear a couple guys on the same boat respond simultaneously with that answer to that joke =)

<shrug> Actually there are a lot of people who more or less live online, not only in Second Life, but are seriously invested in their online characters so deeply they more or less work a job so they can live online. Having the best equipment and stuff like food/potions/spell components and being in *the* guild can be…

And that is why there will be a minimal number of people slogging through killing level 1 rats with a rusty dagger while wearing effectively rags in the newbie zone.

Not specifically WoW, but early MMORPG. It means you are playing a very low level character that has been given the best of gear and money, and is a member of a guild that normally would not have your level character in it. It is implying that you have and end game character that is supporting a brand new character,…

Actually, some players push to get to the end game and end game equipment and never do anything except end game raids or activities. Seen it a *lot* in many different games [I started back in the days of Everquest 1 ...] *shrug* Why do you think that you run into so many level 10 twinks that have an end game main?…

Still have the originals =) And for people with an irrational desire to leave perfectly good aircraft, Bird Turds and Idiots certificate =)

There is a distinct smell, light diesel, some machine oil, some leftover almost-ozone and a hint of that smell-taste you get on a hot day holding a handful of spare change [sort of metallic, I really can’t describe it but just get sweaty and hold a handfull of pennies and nickles] I find it oddly comforting and even…