I think I’m going to just give up. All I wanted to know is if there was data indicating that aircraft had higher disease transmission rates than other locales. And now I’m told that I should be freaking out and cleaning everything in sight because re-using blankets on an airplane is equivalent to biological warfare…

lice. i can tell you don’t have kids.

“Karmic balance” was my phrasing based on the concept I often discussed with my friends in the program, that you don’t get to skip or stop at that step because the person you wronged is dead or otherwise inaccessible. AND, that your desire to make amends and work your steps is not more important than the wronged…

I travel every week and despite the insane number of fear articles about dirty airplane blankets, dirty airplane coffee, dirty hotel rooms, dirty rental cars, I don’t get sick. Maybe if I stood at the end of an escalator and licked the entire moving handrail as it went by I’d catch something but otherwise let’s chill…

kinda feel like it’s a place where junior steven tylers can come to work at to pick up broken girls

In ‘Walk this Way- the biography of Aerosmith’ Tyler and his camp tells their side of the story. It’s absolutely horrible from their point of view too.

LifeSite is...not reliable. It is a Religious Right propaganda site. Holcomb’s account hits every square on the Religious Right Life-Is-A-Left-Wing-Conspiracy Bingo card, but she’s subtle about it, and if you didn’t grow up speaking the language, you might miss it. I have no doubt that she had a relationship with…

Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky and Michael Jackson used charity as a way to rise above suspicion while getting access to a vulnerable pool of potential victims, and increase the odds that anyone who could catch them in the act had a reason to look the other way. The facility is fine only as long as Tyler isn’t allowed…

But the sous chef who has a cold (or something else that involves a runny nose) but came in because they really need the hours right now doesn’t worry you.

I did a quick search and didn’t find anything relevant. What is the impact of contact time on infection rate?

Again, chill out.

These articles are so irritating (and yet I clicked another one!).  We all touch millions of germs every day!  There is fecal matter ALL AROUND US!  It’s fine.  Everything’s fine.  

Is there any actual data on the risk factors here? We come into contact with all kinds of bacteria on a regular basis, be it through contact with public surfaces everywhere from doors to washrooms to chairs, exchanges of money and other products that come into contact with multiple people, and even being in close…

Do not suggest that this is some sort of Canadian thing. Burritos may not be indigenous up here but we do know how to eat them the properly. Covered in cheese curds and drenched in maple syrup.

Sometimes you can see the singularity in the fabric of discourse, around which spiral lost IQ points—spaghettifying and fading from the cosmos, until nothing remains but lottery tickets and corn dust.

To me I’m a native American living on an Indian reservation. The flag has no meaning to me or most of my people here. I’ll never stand for that flag. Us govt to this day tries to violate my tribes treaty rights. There is no change from the 1800s to now only the govt kills us with meth