Watching the USA struggle against Panama.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
What's everyone up to right now?
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Watching the USA struggle against Panama.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
(July 25, 2015 at 6:32 pm)pocaracas Wrote: You saw those things... and you still went in the water? To be fair they're almost always dead on the beach in New Smyrna Beach/Daytona. And I didn't see them until two or three of them were draped across my back/shoulders/chest, sucking the life out of me with their tentacles of doom.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Just got back from a day in the hospital. I was under observation for complications following a procedure I had on Thursday. Things resolved well.
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Watching gymnastics.
Man o' wars are nasty even when dead.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
(July 25, 2015 at 6:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(July 25, 2015 at 6:32 pm)pocaracas Wrote: You saw those things... and you still went in the water? How long ago was this? Did it scar?
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie (July 25, 2015 at 9:11 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote:(July 25, 2015 at 6:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: To be fair they're almost always dead on the beach in New Smyrna Beach/Daytona. And I didn't see them until two or three of them were draped across my back/shoulders/chest, sucking the life out of me with their tentacles of doom. I was a teenager, so 10-12 years ago. Nah, didn't scar. Just hurt like a sonofabitch for a week or so. Wearing a shirt was a pain. I do have a scar from when I stepped on a stingray and it barbed me at Crescent Beach when I was 10, though. That one was less painful, but more bloody. There was a 3" barb sticking out of my achilles. I wiggled it out by myself, and was told afterwards at the hospital that I could have broken the tip off and needed surgery by doing that. Oh well, it was fun to make my sister flip out while pretending to be macho.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (July 25, 2015 at 8:48 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Just got back from a day in the hospital. I was under observation for complications following a procedure I had on Thursday. Things resolved well. Glad you're okay, Ras. :hugs:
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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July 25, 2015 at 10:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 10:14 pm by Regina.)
Ouch, omg I'm so sensitive to gore I'd faint if that stingray incident happened to me
I have a scar, and an accompanying small patch of hair permanently missing, on my head from when I was born. I don't know the exact details but I know both me and Mum nearly died. Luckily it's not so big a patch that I can cover it easily once my hair gets to about 1/2 an inch long, if it wasn't for that I'd probably just keep my hair shaved off most of the time, I'm a bit conscious. Still the alternative is worse.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie (July 25, 2015 at 3:56 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I was body surfing at Daytona Beach when I got hit by a wave full of Portuguese Men of War. Yikes, I got hit with a single tentacle once when I was diving in Mexico. Seriously, those things are far scarier than sharks. No joke. |
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