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Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

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.


Allyson - Jun 05, 2008 5:47:25 am PDT #1205 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I just so don't want to go to work today. I'm having a terrible week. No signs that it will be any better today.

I've quit using the squat machine at the gym. Every single time, no matter how I use it, even with the trainer there monitoring my posture, my left knee makes a terrible pop.

Why do trainers not accept this? Every other machine is fine. Cardio is fine. Squat machine? My knee says no, and I'm not risking an injury that would prevent me from doing everything else at the gym. GET OVER IT TRAINERS.


CaBil - Jun 05, 2008 5:47:59 am PDT #1206 of 10003
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Google Maps uses non-classified satellite photos, and Israeli has placed lots of pressure on the civilian satellite corporations (directly or indirectly through allies) not sell satellite photos to anyone...


Nilly - Jun 05, 2008 5:48:10 am PDT #1207 of 10003
Swouncing

Thanks, y'all!

I usually use "from". But somebody here, who asked me to go over a text he wrote in English, keeps using "than", so much so that I started to doubt my phrasing. Now it seems that I'm just older and Britishier. Hmm.

Why is Israel a big blank on Google Maps?

Security reasons.

Emily, have a great trip! I'll just have to get to see you some other time, in some other place.

[Edit: "in"? "at"? I have now reached that point in which I doubt every single English phrasing I try to use.]


Shir - Jun 05, 2008 5:48:21 am PDT #1208 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Why is Israel a big blank on Google Maps?

Because Israel isn't a country; It's an experiment.

Suggestions?

When in doubt about traveling, I go there. Or actually, to one of the groups. I highly recommend posting a question in "Independent Women" group.


Torque - Jun 05, 2008 5:49:33 am PDT #1209 of 10003
Bad Wolf

Allyson,

My knee does the same thing. Anatomically/Biologically speaking, its supposed to just be Nitrogen escaping. I don't really buy that either, maybe the first time it cracks but not every subsequent time.


Emily - Jun 05, 2008 5:50:17 am PDT #1210 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Security reasons.

I figured it was probably that. So how long DOES it take to get from Cairo to the border?


CaBil - Jun 05, 2008 5:50:38 am PDT #1211 of 10003
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Which is sad in a way, because satellite archeology is growing field, and I suspect that there a lot of sites inside Israeli borders that hi-rez satellite photos can help direct scientists to...


Allyson - Jun 05, 2008 5:52:06 am PDT #1212 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Yeah, I don't buy it either. The pain was getting progressively worse. I didn't use it today and there's no knee pain.


Nilly - Jun 05, 2008 5:52:42 am PDT #1213 of 10003
Swouncing

Allyson!

In the rounds of loading your book to friends, the one who borrowed it now wrote me an e-mail yesterday saying "I LOVE Allyson. She writes about *me*! Me! ME!".

So how long DOES it take to get from Cairo to the border?

I guess it depends on more than just the distance - the quality of the roads, the cars, and the like. Sorry, no idea. But I still wish you could miraculously skip here, just for a bit. It doesn't have to make sense, right?

[Edit: I seem to have lost all ability to write a doesn't-need-an-Edit post]


Allyson - Jun 05, 2008 5:54:48 am PDT #1214 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Nilly, yesterday the guys at work were asking about my next book, and the ones who have read it all say your chapter is their favorite. "The one about Nilly!" So you have fans.