If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
'War Stories'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
amyth - Jan 25, 2012 2:26:05 pm PST #18361 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
tommyrot - Jan 25, 2012 2:29:42 pm PST #18362 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
I went more than two years without driving once. But with my parents' declining health I figured I needed a car....
aurelia - Jan 25, 2012 2:34:38 pm PST #18363 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Boston is the worst place I've driven.
Likewise. Although St. Louis seems to have a higher proportion of deeply stupid drivers than other cities I've driven in.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2012 2:45:03 pm PST #18364 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Boston was the first place I drove that wasn't Michigan. Afterwards my boss apologised for not just approving taxis for the whole business trip. It was horrible.
I seem to cross the street at random: I am going when it is safe, which is not at all the same thing as when I have a walk sign!
In Montreal the assumption was that stop signs and walk signals were convenient ways to assemble pedestrians so that drivers had less work to do in order to mow them down.
smonster - Jan 25, 2012 2:49:55 pm PST #18365 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Sue, her balance may be going. My grandmother fell (at 83, IIRC) and faceplanted and broke her nose and got two black eyes. She had a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing, and at 96 (tomorrow!) she's still toodling around but with a walker.
I don't know if that anecdata is helpful or more worrisome, but it's something to consider.
Ginger - Jan 25, 2012 3:08:40 pm PST #18366 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's scary and frustrating, Sue. I hope she'll see her doctor. She also could have had a mini stroke.
My mother goes to doctors and has tests, but I'm not convinced she really tells them what's going on.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 25, 2012 3:13:52 pm PST #18367 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
Matt, have you seen it done voluntarily? I would put that into a different category, I guess?
Participants were smiling and laughing in the photos I saw, so I assume it must have been voluntarily although alcohol was probably a factor. Note that the version I've seen was the 5th one listed at Urban Dictionary.
Sue - Jan 25, 2012 3:24:15 pm PST #18368 of 30001
hip deep in pie
My mother goes to doctors and has tests, but I'm not convinced she really tells them what's going on.
Yeah, mine too.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2012 3:39:58 pm PST #18369 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently mother is not happy right now with the state of things.
I need to go home so I can call her and see if she'll be honest with me. It's so hard from long distance, because it's easy to lie on the phone once every three days.
I mean, I know because I do it myself.
Unrelatedly, whoa, a Gizmodo author got himself banned for being an offensive doucherag to commenters. There is some right in the world.
amych - Jan 25, 2012 3:42:30 pm PST #18370 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
anyone on here Scottish, or know anyone Scottish?
Tom W., IIRC