Random Statements About Something NOBODY Cares About, the resurrection

[Trevor]

Remember, at 10,000 posts you're still a Kraken, with or without the initiation rites. You dont have to get in the car with them when the Rev and Trevor show up at your house holding duct tape and a blindfold.

[Trevor]

You can ignore me all you want, but I highly recommend doing whatever Trevor asks. You do not want him to "loose the underpants."

[LilCerberus]

Underpants really don't work all that well with a union suit.....

[ER]

I've actually had men try to tell me a male getting thunked in the testicles hurts worse than childbirth does for women. Not to diminish y'all's pain but I just can't think that's possible.

[LilCerberus]

RIP Michael Nesmith

[lester1/2jr]

Oliver Stone's Nixon was really awesome I need to see it again.

[Rev. Powell]

I've actually had men try to tell me a male getting thunked in the testicles hurts worse than childbirth does for women. Not to diminish y'all's pain but I just can't think that's possible.

It's hard to measure a short-lived intense pain against an extended pain. I will say that absolutely no man in the world would agree to be kicked in the nuts for hours on end if they knew they'd get a son or daughter out of it when it was all over.

[ER]

I've actually had men try to tell me a male getting thunked in the testicles hurts worse than childbirth does for women. Not to diminish y'all's pain but I just can't think that's possible.

It's hard to measure a short-lived intense pain against an extended pain. I will say that absolutely no man in the world would agree to be kicked in the nuts for hours on end if they knew they'd get a son or daughter out of it when it was all over.

There was a question posed here about what if humans had a mating season (good question) and I asked someone not long ago about the consequences of sexual reproduction being a painful act. (Supposedly it is for some species, like female cats.) I think life would not be able to thrive if this were the case. I had a class called Biology of Reproduction and honestly, the way new generations are brought into being is varied and complex, and some species have a gender whose entire purpose is simply to be the breeder of future members of the species. (The queen among a colony of ants and bees comes to mind but there are others.) Even aside from the fact that it's the study of, well, mostly sex, reproduction as a subject is strangely sci-fi and compelling to read about because is can be such a complex process, with species existing who carry out fertilization and gestation orally, and some others who asexally clone themselves by mitosis. It's crazy.

[Trevor]

Oliver Stone's Nixon was really awesome I need to see it again.

Agreed: Sir Anthony Hopkins made Richard Nixon human, especially what he said to JFK's portrait: "They look at you, they see what they wanna be, they look at me, they see what they are."

[lester1/2jr]

^yes I love that line

[RCMerchant]

Kanye West changed his name to ' Ye.'

"Ye"?  
What a has been dope.


http://youtu.be/ZZ5LpwO-An4

[ER]

I was shocked to find Paris was the most litter-free capital city I'd ever visited. The French are selective neat freaks, scorning litter but not always being tidy when it comes to themselves. A train in Paris smells like tobacco and heavy perfumes and colognes, and here and there an unwashed scent hanging around a person, even the well-dressed, yet the trains are almost antiseptically clean.

London was dirty almost everywhere but I loved it anyway. I was once there  in the company of a local, and as I watched person after person walk along and toss down their empty wrappers and drink cans, I asked him why people did that, and he seemed surprised I'd ask, and said, "They just do."

Washington DC was very mixed, clean one neighborhood, dirty another. The dirtiest parts were not always the poorest.

Nassau was a facade that hid its real nature, looking good on the surface, but someone there told me about a dead homeless man left in the street off the tourist section for a whole day, lying there, getting stepped around, no one caring to get him off the sidewalk, and that was probably the real Nassau.

Wellington, New Zealand was decently clean, Ottawa was cleaner than DC, Brasilia surprised me by being tidier than I'd figured it'd be, but in Brazil all the public services seemed to operate on bribes.

Ankara was amazing. Well-scrubbed and filled with polite locals who seemed personally honor-bound to be as nice as possible to a guest in their nation. Turkey was not at all what I was expecting.

Dublin though was always a  litter-strewn s**thole when I'd slip across there every summer with my grandfather and see the wonderful museums. The trash that lay all over Dublin, especially north of the river, that bore out all the scorn my west country grandmother ever heaped on it.

I'll not speak of other the other capital I visited because if I put a name to it, few would believe I'd truly been there.

[indianasmith]

I remember being very impressed with how clean and neat Tokyo was.  The Japanese don't like litterbugs at all.

[lester1/2jr]

Malroux, an art critic, is I think the one who made sure Paris stayed clean via constitutional type order.

[ER]

I always get a little depressed on the winter solstice, because it means days are getting longer.

I like night.