Taking the test and doing the reg paperwork, that took us about 30-45 minutes. But then we had to get our cars checked out, go back and get plates, etc.
Madness.
River: 1001. 1002. Simon: River... River: Shh. I'm counting between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm is coming or going. .1005
'The Message'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
le nubian - Aug 24, 2012 8:15:41 pm PDT #19390 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
JenP - Aug 24, 2012 8:15:50 pm PDT #19391 of 30001
One way or another, the DMV will make you pay.
I had one yuck experience there in Baltimore, and I had one where the person went above and beyond just because. I choose to remember the last one as the defining experience.
Strix - Aug 24, 2012 8:48:03 pm PDT #19392 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Le Nub, I am on the direct Leo/Virgo cusp (8/23, 8 pm CST.)
I have great hair, can be extroverted except when I am a hermit, analyze like the wind and can organize anything.
P-C...ooh, what a great present! I'm sure Seanan made it JUST FOR ME!
(Right?)
Sangria is chilling, boozy fruit to add to sangria is macerating, I need to figure out something geeky and slutty to wear, and all is a go for my party tomorrow!
YAY! I love parties!
Typo Boy - Aug 24, 2012 9:25:55 pm PDT #19393 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of the tranfusions - none proven except ones associationed with cancer treatment. The eyewitnesses mostly anonymous. Not fighting it - millions in legal costs, and poor chance of winning because of having agreeding to mediation. Menaing simple unfairness was not enough to get it overturned.
Atropa - Aug 24, 2012 9:35:47 pm PDT #19394 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Still, it was pretty amazing. Blood. Good shit.
And people wonder why this whole vampire thing is alluring.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2012 11:13:01 pm PDT #19395 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
Personally, I think it's ridiculous to classify someone's own living blood as a controlled substance. If Lance had been attacking onlookers during the race and taking some of theirs it'd be another matter.
brenda m - Aug 25, 2012 4:00:12 am PDT #19396 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Personally, I think it's ridiculous to classify someone's own living blood as a controlled substance. If Lance had been attacking onlookers during the race and taking some of theirs it'd be another matter.
Though it would make the Tour more interesting to watch.
Floyd Landis nd others have called for legalization of blood doping. Is it really that different than all the crazy biomechanics based traing that goes on now? Or the athletes who train extensively at high altitudes to get an oxygen boost when they race at sea level? Another step along, sure, but not like taking steroids. And stamping it out pushes people to ever more dangerous substances.
Plus it's seriously kind of neat. Science!
amych - Aug 25, 2012 4:22:06 am PDT #19397 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm actually kind of inclined to agree, or at least I'm definitely not inclined to see blood doping as being in the same class as steroids and the like. If anything, it's kind of the flip side of saying, "hey, dumbass, don't go and give blood the morning of a big event!"
Sports (the whole sports world, really) have a really big and maybe unresolvable tension between the myth of "we must remain Pure! and Untainted! and Noble!" (thanks, asshole Baron Coubertin) and the fact that taking every advantage you can isn't just a huge incentive, it's actually a duty (and just as much a part of the whole wacky code). And doping regulation is a giant mess; the cycling sponsors and baseball stars and other such guys with money are endlessly coming up with new stuff that isn't caught by any of the tests, and meanwhile, kids on a competitive level nobody actually cares about get smacked down for their asthma inhalers. Sigh.
Theodosia - Aug 25, 2012 4:28:15 am PDT #19398 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Plenty of professional athletes have genetic abnormalities that enhance their performance. Just wait until genetic engineering can create those enhancements on demand....
billytea - Aug 25, 2012 4:29:26 am PDT #19399 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.
Floyd Landis nd others have called for legalization of blood doping. Is it really that different than all the crazy biomechanics based traing that goes on now? Or the athletes who train extensively at high altitudes to get an oxygen boost when they race at sea level? Another step along, sure, but not like taking steroids. And stamping it out pushes people to ever more dangerous substances.
I don't know the ins and outs of it myself; the question I'd ask is, does it pose a significant health risk? If so, then I'm good with it being banned. If not, then I don't see a problem. (I think it raises blood pressure or such like. Whether dangerously so, I don't know.)