Ice cream truck music should be outlawed because: Doppler effect - I live in a resort town and there are several vehicles and they go all day for at least half the year. That's six months of constant creepy dread brought on by something that sounds straight out of a horror B movie about demented clowns or haunted…
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Had a boyfriend who mispronounced couscous as koo-shuss, I guess because he misread the last part similar to the ending sound in "atrocious".
why do people get so upset at the idea of moving bones that have been buried for a century or more
Meet Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. and Maj. Major Major Major...
All adults will disappoint you eventually, but with people like you out there, kids who otherwise may never have had a chance to grow will get the loving guidance, stability, support, and faith to trust that they need to become healthy adults. Hats off to you!
My dad told me the story of the last time he ever spanked me, when I was around four: he said I cried so much and was so inconsolable that he felt so bad he never did it again.
Nhdr's link gives a very good explanation from a neuroscientist about some of the brain processes that can lead to this happening. Additionally:
Oh, I had to laugh in commiseration with your description of idiotic dog-fondlers totally ignoring your wish to control your animal's behavior as I went through exactly the same thing with so many people, only a few of whom I could "train" to act correctly around my dog...
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And @elumere11 I saw that, it was BBC's Louis Theroux "The Nazis", worth seeing!
Well-said and reasoned response, hear hear!
Preach! I live on the "Emerald Coast" and my brother lives in Miami - totally different worlds . . . and up here, it's the Underworld. If Homer's right that Florida is America's wang, then the Panhandle is America's taint.
I live there now (ditto sigh) and just the other day saw on a truck a rebel-flag bumpersticker with the saying: "Heavily Armed/Easily Pissed". This truly is the Redneck Riviera/Lower Alabama.
I have a coworker librarian (Master's in Library and Information Science) who also has an MBA who believes in the illuminati, that we are in End Times, that gay men are pedophiles, that Catholics (he is an ex-Catholic) are NOT Christians, that evolution is "only a theory", is a big supporter of the quack Dr. Mercola,…
You are thinking of Dian Fossey.
Maybe Travers wasn't Mary Poppins, but I think she might have been one of the Cottingley Fairies!
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She knows how that story ended, right?
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Making them so uncomfortable just to get off is pretty mean, too:
In '89 at age 18 I pierced my nose and my upper ear cartilage with a safety pin and a bottle of vodka (some for sterilization, some for anesthetic).
I never thought about what age the UV syndrome might come into play, that's an interesting question... I only know about the phenom because I got a bit obsessed - it being Halloween season and all - by what makes a thing creepy. There's a ubiquitous youtube vid that talks about it, but not in depth. So I did a little…
Gah, I'm not always heroic about it, believe me... I work at a college and seeing all these young, lovely, unlined, soft-skinned ladies sometimes gets me down but then I remember that I had my time being attractive and I didn't always like it.
I know I probably shouldn't couch it in these terms but accepting the loss…