Riley: No pulse. Anya: Yup. The space lamb got 'im.

'Never Leave Me'


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.


Ginger - Aug 28, 2012 9:59:35 am PDT #19837 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

If Tennessee has a state song, I never learned it.

I bet you did, although possibly not as the state's song. It's the Tennessee Waltz.

I was waltzing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
Introduced her to my loved one and while they were waltzing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me


Amy - Aug 28, 2012 9:59:54 am PDT #19838 of 30001
Because books.

No, I mean driving a manual transmission car

I guess when you're talking penises, I think the whole ... thing is about penises somehow. I didn't really see a connection between driving and circumcision.

That said, I know a lot of people, male and female, who drive stick.


msbelle - Aug 28, 2012 10:01:04 am PDT #19839 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

a little bit. yes.

it seems an odd thing to be wondering about, even for you. two things having nothing to do with each other.

It seems I have become my father in that all I want to do today is watch the weather channel. And it has moved from hurricane watch to wanting to transpose rainfall info from the storm over the drought map.


flea - Aug 28, 2012 10:01:09 am PDT #19840 of 30001
information libertarian

ita, did you mean know how to drive stick, or regularly drive a stick shift as their primary vehicle? Because IMO most people (75-80%?) over 30 know how to drive stick, but far fewer own a stick shift car.

Charleston SC has people kayaking in the Central Market right now. Facebook told me so.


§ ita § - Aug 28, 2012 10:01:32 am PDT #19841 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The connection is they're not the majority, and they are things that are extra minority in the US, as opposed to other markets.


§ ita § - Aug 28, 2012 10:04:27 am PDT #19842 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

two things having nothing to do with each other

See above.

Because IMO most people (75-80%?) over 30 know how to drive stick, but far fewer own a stick shift car.

Really? I'd have thought it was closer to 50%, but that might be because I've forgotten how twice by now. Forgetting might be my weird thing, though. It isn't like riding a bike for me. If I don't spend more than a month or two doing it, and have gaps of over five or ten years, the next time I still have to practice before I'd be jumping on and off the highway, never mind heavy traffic and hills.


Fred Pete - Aug 28, 2012 10:04:54 am PDT #19843 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

My first thought was Faith's line that "Willow's no longer driving stick!"

I can drive a car with manual transmission. As for the other part, I'll just point out that I was born in a hospital in 1962.


Amy - Aug 28, 2012 10:05:24 am PDT #19844 of 30001
Because books.

I think like flea said, driving stick (and even driving one primarily) was pretty common when I was growing up, and not so much anymore. But in high school every other person I knew was driving an old Beetle.


msbelle - Aug 28, 2012 10:07:02 am PDT #19845 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

weather.com is telling me it is only 70% humidity in NOLA right now. I think they are mistaken.


Jessica - Aug 28, 2012 10:07:23 am PDT #19846 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Because IMO most people (75-80%?) over 30 know how to drive stick

I doubt it's that high for people 30-40. (I'm 33 and never even had access to a stick shift car to learn on.)