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I don't have a real clue about your medical mystery (except that arm numbness can be caused by pinching in the brachial plexus, as well as stres-xiety, so check your neck/shoulder girdle/pec minor area for tightness and postural issues) but wanted to highlight this stunning example of British Ingenuity.

Sylvia (my Saturn) didn't roll over to 100,000 miles until this winter, after Saturn was euthanized as a company. D: I did go to the factory once, in 2003 or 2004 - it was on the way to Shammack's place. There weren't any tours going on at the time so I just wandered around, signed the guestbook, then got back on the interstate. (I have photographs of the odometer at 100,000 miles, 101,010 miles, and 111,111 miles.) After a full hour waiting for idiot bloke to finish idiot paperwork, I now have a 2011 Mazda 3i (2.0L, 5-speed auto)! Her name is Mab. I am still getting used to the difference; the 3 is... well, it's a Mazda and it's only a year old so I'm sure you know, but because of the difference in age and trim I feel more isolated from the road. Interestingly, the car that felt most like the Saturn in that "oh hey i am driving I am not just in a bubble floating above the ground" way was the older Miata - you KNEW what was going on because you felt EVERYTHING, the road was right there in your face at your back under your feet here's a turn whoomph. That 'woomph' in the Miata would be a little mariokart revvy power slide; the 'whoomph' in the Saturn would be the transmission falling out. No joke, I think if I had kept the Saturn it would have lost the entire exhaust system within the week - there were Ominous Noises coming from the back end. Haven't worked out what I can and can't do with Mab yet, and keep accidentally flooring it because I'm used to only having the power of 3-hamster-wheels. And my insurance premium went up. D: THE END.

The Grindr (anonymous, usually m/m hookup) iThing app crashed in London within hours of the athletes arriving. So many horny athletes.

Do chickens... have elbows?

Also most of a Saturn is made of plastic so it was a good first car for someone who wasn't quite sure where walls, other vehicles, traffic cones etc were.

And teachers are just the kind of people who bought Saturns. Saturn was GM's attempt to create a marque that would compete with cheap Asian imports. It was billed as "a different kind of car company"; no haggling at dealerships, owner picnics, guided tours of the factory, "birthday" and 100K rollover parties for cars and owners, etc. It was a good bet for economy vehicles. Had Saturn not been taken out back and shot during the car industry meltdown, I would have tried to get another.

P.S. In the background on the left of the open hood of that Mazda, you can juuuust see the wing mirror of my current car, a 12-year-old Saturn econobox that is mostly plastic. She has 102K miles on her, the boot release doesn't work, and I'm just counting the moments until she finally conks out. HOWEVER I did get her up to 95mph once, and for a Saturn, she is pretty - despite being "Harvest Gold" beige.

That's just what they want you to think. Switch to 'off mode' so you get the external camera view.

It's not a Miata, but...

I read 50SoG. I felt a horrible sense of doom when I got to the end and discovered there were still 2 more in the series. It is terrible. Awful. The male lead hits all the warning signs for an abuser. The fact that this was Twilight fanfic isn't hit-you-in-the-face obvious, but it's there. There's no character development; it relies upon your knowing which characters in Twilight the chars are based on. (The sex scenes and contracts are also terribad.) As to adding sex scenes to these existing books... why? There are already classics that have sexy sex scenes, you don't need to molest Jane Eyre or Lizzy Bennet to get your reading jollies.

I physically can't have kids. I sometimes feel a bit smug about that, but then I look at the self-satisfied fuckers in the "childfree" communities on LJ and that fixes it.

Dear itissubbes, Thank you for your recent purchase on Steam. Secret of the Magic Crystals 1.25 USD

NOPE

I almost bought this without trying the demo, but decided to try the demo first and discovered it was terrible.

I buy the organic milk from Costco, but my original motivation for that was that the regular milk is sold in giant multi-gallon bottles and would go bad quicker, while the organic is isn separate quart cartons. I try to shop my conscience but sometimes the fact that I'm poor wins out.

Humans in this era eat way more meat than at any other period in human history. Meat in the US, for example, is insaaaaanely cheap and has tended to be so for a long time (new Irish immigrants to the USA would write back to the Old Country, saying "we eat meat seven times a week" in order to brag). More things pulled out of my ass: I think that in the past, there wasn't a vegetarian ethics thing because people who didn't eat meat usually were doing so because they couldn't afford to, not out of choice. Now, because of increased efficiency in the meat trades (both in terms of faster fattening of animals and improved reclamation of meat - woo pink slime), and improved food preservation (allowing meat to be packed centrally - take a look at Tyson and Perdue, who I think are the only large scale chicken packers in the US), affording meat isn't a problem for many. Vegetables, on the other hand... These days, eating meat seven days a week wouldn't be a brag - eating local (lol locavores), or sustainable, or organic, would probably be the comparable brags.

I anthropomorphize things way too much (not just animals, but also inanimate objects like my car) but I just cannot manage to ascribe human or human-like motivations or attributes to chickens. I eat more chicken than I do beef.

That's true, but what would be an alternative? Judging within-species, e.g. whether a dog is stupid in comparison to other dogs? I'm pulling this outta my ass here, but wouldn't any rubric we come up innately privilege human intelligence since we as humans are the ones devising it? Is there such a thing as intellectual relativism? Meta - It's really easy to slide into reflexive snark. I do it all the time - and I've said this in the Life thread (or the Feminism thread, I forget which). It's a defense mechanism for me because it's that or the alternatives, which are: 1. Genuinely and fully engage with the topic at hand. This is risky because it makes me vulnerable - e.g. if I confess in the feminist thread that I am a victim of xyz, or think abc, there's a chance that such honest share could come back to shame me later or be used against me. 2. Not post in the thread (omg whaaaaaaaaat). I probably should take option 2 more often, ha. P.S. "Green Lantern is the Blindfolded Fool" is a ref to "Sincerely, These Nuts," the musical interlude in Idle Thumbs Episode 8.

There is not, or if there is, it is so hidden no-one knows about it; I and someone else asked about it early after the change and the consensus was a bit of a Gallic shrug.

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Genre change! Has anyone wandered into this thread to extoll Pomplamoose yet? Yes, they're a bit precious and twee, and they've done covers of L Gaga and Beyonce, but... i dunno. They're cute and they're from near San Rafael so you sort of expect anything from there to be incredibly twee anyway.

I still don't see inline black stripes, tho.

Maybe if you replied to my letters I wouldn't hate you. (It's not hatred or anything. It's just that sometimes in contentious threads, it's hard for me to continue assuming good faith rather than "i are edgy" teenager posturing.)

I gave up eating meat at the age of 4, and in truth is was because I was squicked by gristle, bones etc. I've gone back and forth through the omnivore - herbivore continuum through life, but I've never been the sort to eat a lot of meat (I don't cook with meat, for example - mainly because I don't want to give everyone Salmonella). Seeing videos like this one make me feel empathy for cows - and while they don't make me feel guilty for drinking milk or eating beef, they do make me want to avoid factory farmed meat. Even if a cow is going to be hamburger one day I think it should still get to be happy before then. Dolphins, however.... dolphin rape caves, man. Dolphin rape caves. When threads get contentiously fighty about 'controversial' topics, it usually ends with me revising my opinions of some of the posters. And that makes me sad, because I want to continue thinking all of you are hunky-dory nice people, not a bunch of "Green Lantern is the Blindfolded Fool" posters. Also I hope we can get through the US Election without my having to murder any of you.

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