A family friend's wife had fairly early onset Alzheimer's disease and he cared for her for years until he had to put her in a nursing facility. During that time, he became close with a neighbor who was 10-15 years younger. I don't really wish to know about the sex lives of my parents' friends, but they married when his wife died. His health began declining and she took care of him for a decade or so. His children wouldn't speak to her and tried to cut her out of the will.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Ginger - Jul 07, 2011 11:13:37 am PDT #15674 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Amy - Jul 07, 2011 11:23:23 am PDT #15675 of 30001
Because books.
I love Pepsi (well, diet). Coke is very much Too Sweet for me.
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2011 11:31:19 am PDT #15676 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Really? I think Pepsi is sweeter. Coke is more acidic. Coke all the way.
Gudanov - Jul 07, 2011 11:33:12 am PDT #15677 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Diet: Pepsi, though Coke Zero isn't bad.
Regular: I'm with P-C.
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2011 11:37:37 am PDT #15678 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm actually cool with Coke Zero, too. I can't do Diet Coke, but Coke Zero is perfectly drinkable and makes me feel like I am doing less damage to my body.
le nubian - Jul 07, 2011 11:55:18 am PDT #15679 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
coke helps clean corroded car battery contacts. anything that caustic is something I need to consume on a regular basis!
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2011 11:56:52 am PDT #15680 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No diet drinks because no artificial sweeteners. Good god, those are nasty. And I'm sure I'd think that even if they didn't give me headaches.
Coke all the way, and it's for when I feel my throat needs a good scouring. Nothing better.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2011 11:59:09 am PDT #15681 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Diet Dr. Pepper actually tastes better to me than the regular kind at this point. I'll drink Diet Coke in a restaurant, but not buy it at the store. And Pepsi is off limits across the board - all of it tastes like ass to me except Mountain Dew, and that gives me heartburn.
Fred Pete - Jul 07, 2011 12:01:31 pm PDT #15682 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I prefer sweeter, which means I prefer Pepsi.
billytea - Jul 07, 2011 12:10:04 pm PDT #15683 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Punctuated equilibrium, I presume.
Actually, no. (Punctuated equilibrium is Stephen Jay Gould's thing. I think both Dawkins and Mayr are in broad agreement about the issue.) No, the disagreement I'm thinking of is more the conceptual one of whether natural selection may best be understood as working on genes or individuals.
I pretty much live on Coke Zero these days. It actually took me a month's concerted effort to get used to the taste of artificial sweetener. Now, I find regular Coke to be too sweet.