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.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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.
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.
§ 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
Jesse - Jan 25, 2012 3:48:55 pm PST #18371 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fiona?
sarameg - Jan 25, 2012 3:54:19 pm PST #18372 of 30001
Way to go BGE. They just implemented a new site for managing your account, billing, etc. First, it takes them a week to verify your bank account. FINALLY, I get notice that it's been verified. I try to sign in and..services are temporarily unavailable, please check in later. This PLUS it keeps asking me to upgrade some microsoft silverlight beta thing multiple times through out (and I say no) with each page load. Implementation FAIL.
I finally seem to be getting my swim times back. I think. I hope.