I take the old left over bar before it breaks and put it on top of the new bar while they are both wet and press down lightly. It dries overnight. Then the next days as I use it, I twist it around and around in my hands to lather, and, further marry them together until they are one seamless bar.

To be fair, Yale university police did follow protocol and checked ID. Given our current environment with shootings, that is justified.

You’re SPECIFICALLY told not to hold your breath. Breathe shallow, blink a lot. The point is to learn to trust your gas mask. YES, it will do its job. The other point is to keep your wits when your lungs, eyes, nose, sweat glands, etc all feel like they’ve been doused in gasoline and set on fire. Stay calm, breathe…

No, it’s literally to make sure you know what it feels like when your seal fails.

I believe the intention is to force an exposure so that you understand what it feels like, how long you have, etc., so that if you get caught out in the field you’re less likely to panic. Whether that holds up in across a large enough real-life sample to be statistically significant, we haven’t had to find out... yet.…

and you just, you know, believed it?

...wait, isn’t the point to hold your breath? I thought it was basically “how to not get totally fucked by tear gas.” Why would you voluntarily breathe it? Don’t you remove mask, say answer, put back on?

I joined up in ‘11 and they were still doing it then.

My dad told me stories about that one. You took the mask off, said your official data, and then put it back on, yeah? He says that was awful and never again.

Perhaps, they breath through their mouth and the nose is there merely for decorative purposes.

I never had trouble saying ‘thanks but no thanks’ but that’s the decent thing to do. If he keeps pleading his case after that, then yes, ignore him. Then again, decency is a dying art...

I stick with the good ol’ CCleaner and Spybot combo with common sense internet browsing. Top it all off with a Defraggler fragmentation scan/defrag and your computer will be in tip top shape.

CCkeaner should be included here. I love its intelligent cookie scan, which leaves a lot of “tokens” alone when it cleans.

definitely chrome, i cant tell if she has mono though...

Seeing how eBay has become a thief’s market / seller’s nightmare, I need to check this out. Less money but no more dirtbag eBay buyer headaches.

I remember when I got my new M3 in 2008, everyone wanted $4000+. We’re married, about 30 at that time, and missus only had one speeding ticket on record.

Maybe she skates for the US speed skating team.

But what about that one devious kid in every class? How do you get them to actually behave regardless of reverse psychology?

I fear my kid is going to be that one.

If I quit the book it gets a little line instead of a filled in square in my book tracker and I don’t add it to my “read this year” book challenge on good reads, and I’m a completest, so it can be very hard for me to quit (especially when it’s the third incomplete book in a row). I generally get the “I’m not enjoying…

Even celebrities pump their own goddam gas.