Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh, god, I flash back to some of the public bathrooms we used in Morocco--most of the public toilets were china holes in the ground, and some of the times when we got actual Western toilets (or do I just mean western toilets) the lack of aim and cleanup was DISGUSTING that I can still remember clearly almost 20 years later. Just nasty.
And few of our hotel rooms had en suite bathrooms. Few of our hotel rooms cost more than $5 a night, so there was that to consider.
Timelies all!
Ignoring the bathroom talk to say, I want pie. And I have none. Feh.
An article on how the US will mount a laser cannon on a fighter jet: [link]
The article then goes on to discus the implications for shark-mounted lasers:
HELL-beam carbines and possible battlefield-dominating raygun fighters are all very well, of course, but by now our apparently large readership of evil billionaires will be impatiently skipping ahead to find out the consequences in terms of home/lair defence applications. Specifically, defence against tiresome government agents and/or their scantily-clad feminine assistants, black-clad SWAT-commando frogman allies etc, implemented by execution-pool sharks employing head-mounted energy weapons.
Well, a dolphin can carry a human being weighing up to 100kg along for a ride. A thoroughbred shark in good training can surely match this. Thus, we seem to be looking at practicable head-lazor output in the 20-kilowatt range, roughly equating to a submachinegun with a cyclic rate well over 1500 rounds per minute. This is more than double that offered by the Heckler & Koch MP5 favoured by government SWAT operatives worldwide.
Advantage: laser shark. ®
Neat. First African-American female rabbi ordained by a mainstream rabbinical school: [link]
When I took the hydrofoil from Crete to Santorini we ran into really rough seas—even some of the sailors were seasick. I went to use the bathroom and discovered that the same thing that made people want to toss their cookies also had a really bad effect on their aim.
I was never so glad to have a pack of antibiotic wipes in my life. And when I left, I had about half a pack.
I have little to add to the toilet conversation, except that I have a friend who won't even do up his fly until he's washed his hands. (One hopes that he's ok with touching the tap, since otherwise he's a guy in a public restroom with his fly down hollering that he needs some help.)
One hopes that he's ok with touching the tap
He's got to get out of the stall/flush the urinal somehow, hasn't he?
And, damn, this conversation has gone on a long time. I'm totally grossed out and I can't stop myself.
Completely unrelatedly, I think all married men should wear wedding rings, or no married women should. I want to know, dammit.
I also think engaged men should label themselves, or engaged women shouldn't, but I can't see that ever catching on.
At home, I keep the toilet seat cover down so that I don't fumble and drop things in the toilet. I accidentally knock things into the toilet with distressing frequency.
just got the cats new scratching mats and loaded them up with catnip. crazy cats in 5-4-3-2-1. Well mac is acting like a loon, I guess that is something.