What baseball team should you root for? [link]
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
'Potential'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Mar 15, 2011 4:03:13 pm PDT #28514 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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billytea - Mar 15, 2011 4:04:45 pm PDT #28515 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.
Wikipedia is in Hec's butt...pass it on.
Better that than Wikileaks.
The 1976 Tangshen earthquake in China killed between 242,000 and 779,000 people.
Yeah, Wallybee's family felt that earthquake when she was growing up. In Chengdu, which is not remotely close to Tangshen.
The death tolls that come out of China for natural disasters are truly staggering. Especially floods, historically; the Yellow River is extremely prone to flooding. The high volume of sediment it carries (hence 'Yellow' River) has led to it changing course maybe nine times in recorded history, and the river bed is now elevated above the surrounding (very flat) plains over much of its lower course.
I keep wanting to grab news people and say, "Get a grip. This isn't On the Beach."
I read that book just last year! Nice to know Melbourne is the last to go. Unless you count Hobart, and really, who does?
At any rate, the World Health Organization estimates that the people in living in the highly contaminated zone near Chernobyl received about 33 millisieverts (mSv) of exposure, or the equivalent of three to five cat scans.
I saw a program on the wildlife around Chernobyl. They're thriving better than anyone expected, even though the environment still contains radioactive material. The absence of humans apparently outweighs the doses of radiation they're receiving (so far at least).
It'll never beat 65 Billion years BC. That was a real disaster. Disasters these days don't know shit.
Pfft. You kids today with your Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction events. The Permian-Triassic, now that was an extinction event.
amych - Mar 15, 2011 4:07:37 pm PDT #28516 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What baseball team should you root for?
Dude, that's lovely. Except that Phils fans should never have made it past "look at me like that again and I will punch you".
JZ - Mar 15, 2011 4:07:47 pm PDT #28517 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
And I really needed to hear some amazing rescue stories
I kind of figured we all did.
"Sara, I like you."
Awwwww!
smonster - Mar 15, 2011 4:10:45 pm PDT #28518 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hivemind! I need help. I'm trying to come up with a pithy title for myself for a business card. "Badass deconstructor" isn't quite appropriate. Maybe something about reusing, rebuilding, revitalizing? Argh.
Amy - Mar 15, 2011 4:13:18 pm PDT #28519 of 30001
Because books.
Aw, sara. Kids that age are so awesome. Total id.
What baseball team should you root for?
The answer to that question is always the Mets. In this house, anyway.
sarameg - Mar 15, 2011 4:14:34 pm PDT #28520 of 30001
One of the things I love about that age is the verbal heart-on-sleeveness of it. Even when it is negative. But most especially stuff like that. We get older, we tend to hold back more.
Strix - Mar 15, 2011 4:15:09 pm PDT #28521 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Domicile Reanimator?
Jesse - Mar 15, 2011 4:15:38 pm PDT #28522 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Except that Phils fans should never have made it past "look at me like that again and I will punch you".
Seriously.
Amy - Mar 15, 2011 4:17:31 pm PDT #28523 of 30001
Because books.
I'm only coming up with boring stuff like Rehabilitation Facilitator. Hmmm.