My dad was in the freakiest car accident ever when he was a teen - car was going too fast to make a curve, flew into a bean field and rolled six times, coming apart like a snap-together model and flinging all its occupants out in the process. Dad got thrown out on the fifth roll and landed in the field with an unbroken side window in his hands and no injuries.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 12, 2010 7:19:40 am PST #15633 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
erikaj - Mar 12, 2010 7:20:06 am PST #15634 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Scrappy, that line would be funny if House said it. But so would my grocery list. Near death, besides birth, I was almost hit by a very slow-moving car in college(she saw me at the very last second) My life flashed before my eyes and shit...it was very tiny, like looking in the wrong end of a telescope.
megan walker - Mar 12, 2010 7:20:46 am PST #15635 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, as Freakonomics taught me, it is far more dangerous to your kids to have a pool in your yard than a gun in your house. Not that I have a pool. Or a gun. or kids.
Gudanov - Mar 12, 2010 7:26:36 am PST #15636 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
But think how safe they'd be if you did have kids.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2010 7:27:34 am PST #15637 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.
When I was hit by a car while crossing a street, I didn't have my life flash before my eyes or anything. My initial, split-second reaction was that I could run out of the way in time. Next thing I knew, I was sitting on my ass, as the bumper of the SUV nailed my left leg. I just sat there, because I knew that my leg was probably broken so I didn't see the point in even trying to get up.
msbelle - Mar 12, 2010 7:27:42 am PST #15638 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
more financial fail I just discovered: My monthly auto-billed charges to one credit card was $135.12 more each month than my auto-pay amount. no wonder that balance has creeped up. now fixed.
add to my weekend plans: cooking for the next week so I have lunches to bring to work.
ChiKat - Mar 12, 2010 7:27:47 am PST #15639 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Yay, lisah and Bob!!!!
Near death? Nope. I did have cancer and the first few days were really scary. But, after I got informed about it, it was better. There were times I felt horrible, but I never thought I'd die.
Tonight, I'm going to see Seussical at the high school. Should be fun.
Jesse - Mar 12, 2010 7:30:58 am PST #15640 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Looks like Izzy may not be back on Gray's Anatomy: [link]
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2010 7:42:52 am PST #15641 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm very happy about that, Jesse.
The ER keeps telling me I've had near death experiences. Whatever.
Liese S. - Mar 12, 2010 7:51:37 am PST #15642 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, man.
I just got up to the bit in Bureaucracy in February of 2003, just before the start of the war. Fuck. It's coming up on seven years March 20th. I used to protest annually on that date. Jaded.