This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


Polter-Cow - Nov 06, 2011 9:15:58 am PST #4997 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Once there was a girl who got pulled over and, when the cop asked her if she knew why he had pulled her over, she joked, "Because of the body in my trunk?"

The cop was less than amused. "Ma'am, could you please open your trunk for me?"

She got off with a warning and a lot of dirty looks.

Ladies and gentlemen, my little sister.


Stephanie - Nov 06, 2011 9:16:17 am PST #4998 of 30001
Trust my rage

ita, I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I think I remember Dave Zabriskie (pro cyclist) going gluten-free. Part of the reasoning behind it was that, for distance cyclists, there is a lot of muscle repair each night and the gluten supposedly slowed down the healing by causing inflammation. I'm going to look and see if I can find something about it, but that was the general idea.


Jesse - Nov 06, 2011 9:21:38 am PST #4999 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Without having done any research myself, I feel like there are a lot of wackadoo health claims around various dietary changes. That said, if they aren't leading to malnutrition, I vote whatever works for you.


meara - Nov 06, 2011 9:26:02 am PST #5000 of 30001

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure for some people going, say, vegan helps them. For others it doesn't. And for others it helps because of psychosomatic stuff--but hey, it helps. As long as no one is preaching that I need to do it...(obviously there are many reasons other than health to be vegan)

I finally took mysel to the urgent care clinic. I have pneumonia. Am now in the pharmacy waiting for drugs. Apparently my pulse is in the fat burning zone all on its own (and my pulse ox is not so hot)


Jesse - Nov 06, 2011 9:30:17 am PST #5001 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And for others it helps because of psychosomatic stuff--but hey, it helps.

Yeah, exactly.


Jesse - Nov 06, 2011 9:30:40 am PST #5002 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, ugh pneumonia! That's no fun. Can you take sick time?


Amy - Nov 06, 2011 9:30:41 am PST #5003 of 30001
Because books.

meara! Good god. I'm glad you went.


Anne W. - Nov 06, 2011 9:34:42 am PST #5004 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Gah! Feel better, meara! I'm glad you went to the doctor.


DavidS - Nov 06, 2011 9:40:19 am PST #5005 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Get better, meara!

Ladies and gentlemen, my little sister.

Get smarter, Little Cow!

Incidentally, your brother is now named Rebel Cow. In my mind, at least.


§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 9:40:55 am PST #5006 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That is not good fat burning! Stop it immediately! I hope the meds give you relief stat.

If you want to see the screwy duck penis in action, look here. What I hadn't realised until reading it on IO9 right now (although BT surely said so--it just never sunk in) is that the female duck's vagina corkscrews in the opposite direction, which is why the ejaculation is so explosive, and can tear through vaginal walls to get to its goal. However, I'm not sure how the female duck actually lets the right one in. What's the trick to surmounting that geometrical incompatibility?