Last horoscope of the year! And I’m not going to look for things happening on off-days, what there is what you’re going to get.
There’s only one alignment, but it’s a good one: The Earth remains aligned with the Sun and Jupiter, which is all great news for the home life.
Capricorn gets its month in the sun, which means I get to link to the best of Xan Griffin’s zodiac songs. It also retains the Jovian combo of Saturn and Jupiter which gives them tremendous power, but not necessarily any particular direction inherent in it. So use it wisely. Mercury in Sagittarius indicates that you’re going to receive excellent advice this week. The moon joining with Venus in Aquarius is at basic level a sign of femininity, more specifically motherhood, and also nature.
The cards agree with GRRRRL POWAH! and the general overall domestic bliss (King/Queen of a suit drawn together, one reversed? Do I really have to spell it out?) However, the overall theme of the week is “shit’s gone pear-shaped, yo.” Ten of the twelve cards were drawn reversed, and to say that swords are overrepresented is putting it mildly. Many sets included, majors indicate this will be an important week.
Capricorn: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament
Aquarius: King of Swords reversed – Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention
Pisces: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation
Aries: King of Wands reversed – Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious
Taurus: Justice reversed – Law, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity
Gemini: The Moon reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error
Cancer: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame
Leo: Page of Swords – Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination
Virgo: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man, roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss
Libra: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment, growth ending
Scorpio: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections
Sagittarius: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting
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197 responses to “IFLA: The “No Special Effort” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of December 29”
At least I get “lesser degrees of error”.
I feel bad for all the Pisces out there.
And what’s with Aries and “generally married”? Is that as opposed to “specifically married”?
I was wondering the same thing!!
More time than being “majorly married”?
Well, there is “plural married” too….
Ugh. Meeting with the lawyer on the 15th and I haven’t gotten my shit together yet.
Not going to church today, sick kid, so no cod jokes for you people.
Nobody has their shit together. Went out tonight and came home to a wife and daughter asleep in the next room as I listen to this. Don’t even like the song, but at least I’m not walking again.
I write characters who have their shit together, because that is what I want to most attain in life, a feeling of control and orderliness. I say that is their super power.
OTOH, if I did that, I might be bored and feel like there is something I am not doing that I should be doing. The sense of accomplishment might go away.
I love that song. I love “Solsbury Hill” more. “‘Son,’ he said, ‘grab your things. I’ve come to take you home.’” Hits me in teh feelz.
That’s what I’m listening to as we speak. Red Rain just finished.
Not listening to this walking song?
I totally forgot all about that song! Thanks!
This is on my walking playlist.
I mentioned this one a couple of weeks back. Fuck cancer.
Yep.
I will put my walking playlist on YouTube. It will prove once and for all I am a basic bitch.
More walking music
Better, Ted.
Don’t know whether to give you this or this.
Well, only give us the second since it seems you SFed the first link.
Fuck a duck.
https://youtu.be/l5aZJBLAu1E
More
Always good for a brisk walk!
That’s terrible. If I listened to that, I’d walk in front of a semi.
Don’t worry, none of my clients ever have their shit together.
Please forgive me for forgetting (I know you’ve said before), but what do you do?
Attorney/Fireman
Our attorney (bankruptcy) was very matter-of-fact, gave us the bigger picture as to who files, which was very comforting. Sometimes I just need to know I’m not the only one in X circumstance.
Pest control guy did that years ago as well.
Our house broke us.
I posted a wall of text about radicalizing in the last thread. It took so long to type the thread died before I was done. It might be thought provoking, so I’ll repost it here.
Here’s a little story about radicalizing and white power.
In about 1989, I used to go to a weekly AA dance at a Masonic Temple. One day, this chick showed up and was hanging out with a few of the more obnoxious people there. They offended her and she loudly proclaimed that she “knows a bunch of Crips” and she’s gonna send them to get revenge. This dance was full of young kids and was all sober or sober adjacent people. Anyway, the next week, a bunch of Crips show up and have a gang fight with the punks that offended the Crip girl. It was quite the blowout, with a gun drawn at one point. She had told the Crips that these guys were in the KKK, which they were not. All this happened around the teenaged daughters of my good friends.
So the punks that offended Crip girl decided to actually join the KKK. They somehow got some materials together and started having meetings at a local coffee shop. Pretty much all the sober people stopped talking to them. The Crips began coming to the same dance and clashing with them regularly. I kinda led the charge of denouncing them, I guess because I was less afraid of them. I would rail against their ideas and actions from podiums in meetings, without actually naming them. Everyone knew what I was talking about. The leader was a big scary Aryan looking dude, and he took special exception to me fronting him off. I ended up having physical fights with him about a half dozen times.
One day, I went to a donut shop on my way to work. I saw the leader dude ride by on his Harley. He flips a u-turn and rides up to the window of my Chevelle. I figured it’d be just another minor scuffle, so I rolled down the window. All of our other fights had been near a crowd of people. This was on a desolate street at 6 a.m. Anyway, as soon as the window is down far enough, he reached in and grabbed my long hair, trying to pull me out of the car. I started punching at him through the window with my left hand while reaching around for a weapon with my right. He then reaches into his jacket and pulls out a shiny silver semiauto. Before it even cleared his jacket, I dropped it in gear and peeled out, leaving him with a handful of my hair. The force of it knocked his bike over and flipped him on top of it.
I then stopped even going to that part of L.A. The dude got arrested for smuggling pot across the country and went to prison. The other guys in his KKK group all had massive legal problems too. At least one other went to prison and came out seemingly reformed. Sorry for the wall, it’s kinda hard to condense this story.
I would have stopped going to that part of LA about three paragraphs earlier. Yikes!
Yeah, I learned the hard way to be choosier with where i put myself. The thing about AA is the people there are the same people who are in jails. It’s somewhat challenging to discern which ones still belong there. Couple that with my vision of myself as a crusader and you get stories like these. I have many more too.
Please tell them.
AA can be a fucking shitshow.
That is…weird on many levels.
People generally join gangs, whether Crips or KKK out of a need for belonging and family.
Not surprising that they also had legal troubles.
I’m guessing no fathers at home.
Or the fathers at home were alcoholic, drug-addicted, wife-beating pieces of shit.
I dunno about those guys, but that’s a good description of my dad. I’ve always been determined to be the opposite of him.
Always wondered what leads a man to think that was a good idea. I get the impulse, but how would you justify the long term consequences?
Don’t fight anyone that wants to fight when no one else is around. They’re psychos.
Damn, great story, glad you reposted it and made it out alive, albeit with a hair trim. No bueno having a gun drawn on you. It’s happened three times in my life, all by the police. When I was 15 playing paintball in a canyon near our houses, some idiot neighbor called the police and said there were people with guns running around. I popped my head out from behind a bush to see a cop pointing a 12 gauge at chest from 20 feet away. The second was probably the most dangerous. I was in Recife, Brazil and on the back of a friend’s motorbike. Two dudes on a bike are a red flag for cops there, often they are robbing people or doing some bad shit. They hate the competition. We got pulled over by a couple cops and they barked at us to put our hands on our heads with their guns drawn on us. After about 30 seconds of conversation when they lowered their guns I stupidly let my hands off to point to where we were going to and my buddy whispered to me to get them the fuck back on my head. I didn’t see that there were two other cops behind us that were advancing with guns pointed at our heads and one of them got really nervous when I made that gesture.
Twice in my life, both bona-fide criminals.
Muggings?
One was a garden-variety mugging in Paris. The other was on the job – money was taken but the twist is the robber was a guest at the hotel I was training at on my first day.
Did you stay for a second day? 🙂
Year and a half.
Aw, x2. Where in Paris?
Steps from the Eiffel Tower.
Don’t know which I’d rather have. At least (those) cops didn’t take my money.
Speaking of cops and guns.. was driving down a five lane street the other night. Cops had the other direction partially blocked with a minivan pulled over. Drivers door is open and no one inside. Three cops appear to be making entry into the passenger sliding door. They’re either holding their hands near their guns, already drawn, or drawing. As traffic, which included me, was allowed to move unimpeded in the other direction. Directly in front of the passenger door that was dangerous enough that the cops felt the need to have unholstered weapons.
Protected and served. Luckily it didn’t turn into another South Florida Heat reinaction.
For me the worst was getting a turkey carving knife pulled on me by my brother.
I’ve been that idiot neighbor. A little girl was over visiting mine and they were running around in the woods. They saw some dudes with guns. They ran all the way home, in tears, and said one of them pointed a gun at them and told them to go away. I called the cops. He was very professional and matter-of-fact about it when talking to the girls.
Turns out they were Airsofts. They were boys from the neighborhood and my girl didn’t recognize them because they were too far away. One of the boys lived across the street from me, and his mom is a family court judge. She never EVER forgave me for that. Now, even if *I* had seen them, I have a terrible time with faces if they are totally normal (all you himans look alike). I couldn’t pick my own children out of a lineup.
Later I found out that the little girl visiting was a troublemaker, always instigating drama, had to be sent to a boot camp for troubled kids (on Christmas day). I always wondered, after I found that out, if she had done it on purpose. One time, I was talking to her mom, and the mom was either not paying attention to the girl or was not leaving quickly enough, and the girl hit her mother, hard. I watched for a second to see what the mom would do, but she only gave in to whatever the girl wanted. I interrupted the mom and got in the little girl’s face and snarled, “Don’t you EVER hit your mother again.” The girl was wide-eyed and the mother didn’t say anything to ME, either. “Understand?” She nodded all scared. That was the last time that girl was in my house, but not because I had banned her (I hadn’t).
Sounds like she knew what she was doing alright.
? yaaass
Rats.
“generally”
Yeah, that sounds like some DL shit.
That’s how you put it when you’re trying to get some “strange.”
“Are you married?”
” Well, generally, I guess.”
Taurus: Justice reversed – Law, legal complications,…
Oh, piss off.
“Gemini: The Moon reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error”
Since I know this is coming, can I use it to have the system? Or is that like trying to pull a fast one on the Stars?
Game*
In other words: Is my fate destined or is this foreknowlege i can use to my advantage?
Neither, it’s verbiage pulled from the rectum of a well-dressed rat.
Packers music
Not this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HsJKqA2tvM
Packers and a polka, what is not to love?
That’s some dark shit, but none of the good card draws has helped me noticeably, so I’m gonna assume the same will happen with this shit draw.
Virgo: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man, roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
On the downhill side again. At least I won’t be bored.
So… I need a ruling.
My friend and his wife were going somewhere and after waiting 5 minutes in the car, the wife gets in and he waits for her to put the seatbelt on. She says to go and he waits for her to put the seatbelt on… she spends the rest of the day mad at my friend for treating her like a kid. Thoughts?
I don’t drive until all the passengers have buckled in. Doesn’t matter who the passengers are.
I don’t see it as treating them like a kid but not wanting to be the one to kill them.
The dynamic is not the same.
How so?
This isn’t just a friend you can say with impunity, “Yeah, no. Not going anywhere.”
This is a person you live with, sleep with, (presumably) treat like a partner and suddenly you’re going to sit there like an authority figure? What, you can’t just say, “Please, honey?”
Also, there are lots of unanswered questions. Is this a chronic thing? Have they ever talked about it? Is this something she just refuses to do all the time and he’s putting his foot down? Is this a one-off? Did she just forget one time?
If you can’t intervene when they’re doing something stupid (and vice versa), you’re probably not supposed to be together.
Okay, now see, the “stupid” thing is a problem.
It’s not about the seatbelt. It’s about his attitude that she is a child and being stupid.
Does he treat her like this all the time? Did she just finally snap? What’s really going on here, because I guarantee this is not about the seatbelt.
That guarantee would require facts not in evidence.
I’ve been married long enough to know the signs.
Okay, now see, the “stupid” thing is a problem.
I’m pretty pro liberty but yeah if you don’t wear your seatbelt you are being stupid. That is pretty cut and dried.
I am not disputing that.
The question was … “Thoughts?”
I am sharing my thoughts, which is that she’s not mad about the seatbelt. She’s mad about the way he went about making a point, which may be a cover for what she’s really mad about.
Fuck a duck. That was to leon below.
suddenly you’re going to sit there like an authority figure?
Yup, if my wife does stupid shit, I’m not going to abet her stupidness. I’ve certainly pulled rank when she was in buckling and messing around with stuff in the backseat while we were doing 75 down the highway. I’m not scraping my wife off the pavement with a spatula because the toddler is playing the “throw it on the floor” game with her drink.
unbuckling
Yeah… I think the whole seatbelt thing is a catalyst for something else, because insisting that your Spouse wear there seatbelt isn’t about treating them like a kid. It’s about caring for them.
That being said, i have no problem slow rolling out of the garage while my wife puts her seatbelt on. It seems like this was just a fight in a deeper argument going on or just someone having a bad attitude at the time.
Agreed. It’s the classic straw that broke the camel’s back. If there’s anything to be particularly uncomfortable with, it’s the public airing of dirty laundry.
You followed it up with the someing deeper, but the WAY he did it IS very definitely treating her like a kid. That’s a parent’s move.
I think that is something we can all agree on. I think.
You followed it up with the someing deeper, but the WAY he did it IS very definitely treating her like a kid. That’s a parent’s move.
Sure, it was a very passive aggressive way of treating ones wife, it seems like there was a bit of that on both sides.
It is not quite a grovel-able offense, but he better never do that again.
Can he be ticketed if the front seat passenger isn’t wearing a seat belt?
As an adult, she would be ticketed. I assume their finances are mingled, so probably doesn’t matter who pays it.
I’m wondering, though: How long have they been married? Has this happened before?
They both sound like a couple of needling bickerers. Why did he wait for 5 minutes in the car? Why didn’t she just put the seat belt on? Why didn’t he just let her belt herself when she felt like it? Why did she stay mad all day? Can’t we all just get along?
At least around here it is the driver that gets the ticket. When your rebellion is achieved at my expense I think I get to be the one who decides if it happens or not.
Same here. And as UCS says above, if I’m driving, I’m the one who’s guilty if something happens.
I’d need to see where they’re driving. If they’re going to be going 25mph for 8 blocks through a residential area, just go, she’ll buckle up in a second. If they will be entering a 45+ heavily trafficked road in a matter of seconds, just buckle up, sweetheart. And don’t complain all day about it.
I can see that happening in the Sensei household. Difference is my wife would be moderately annoyed with me for roughly 5 minutes.
Issue for me is I can’t stand the stupid car chime and my wife doesn’t care that i’m annoyed with car chime.
So in my case there is bit of an issue on both sides.
You buckle the belt behind the seat or buckle it and sit on it.
Yeah, My SS has the damn alarm. Nobody ignores it, though.
I wouldn’t want to put up with that “seatbelt alarm” going off either.
Either way they both suck and deserve each other.
Put the damn seatbelt on.
Says the EMT!
Nope.
That said, there’s a lot of information left out here.
My car, my rules. Put the damn seatbelt on.
This is not about the seatbelt.
I can see that, but it’s a stupid way to protest. I believe, “cutting off your nose to spite your face” fits here.
Because not having your seatbelt on the very second a car starts moving is a 100% chance to get injured?
It’s a stupider way to try to get someone to do something you want them to do.
Again, I ask, is this a one-off? Is this an ongoing argument? Is she poking at him? Is he poking at her?
Because there are no guarantees in life. I’ve never picked up a patient that expected to get in an accident.
@mo.
Why does she get to tell him to drive, but he can’t decide for himself when to go?
The wife normally wears her seatbelt so I agree it’s not about the seatbelt.
Because there are no guarantees in life. I’ve never picked up a patient that expected to get in an accident.
A good friend of mine got Tboned by the neighbor across the street backing out of their driveway as he turned left onto the street. Literally both cars pulling out of their driveways.
Mike, it’s a residential area, but backing out of your driveway is probably second for second one of the most dangerous things in driving. I think someone else asked about other roads, there is a highway nearby.
Yep. Just like wearing a belt is no guarantee of survival and not wearing one is no guarantee of death.
For the record, I wear a seatbelt all the time, but calling someone stupid for spending 5.3 seconds unbuckled in a moving vehicle is just a tish harsh. Especially at jogging speed.
The way you presented it, it blossomed in my mind like this:
Wife (who usually buckles): Gets in, forgets.
Husband: Sits there looking at her expectantly, says nothing.
Wife: Confused. “Okay, go.”
Husband: Says nothing, still looking at her expectantly.
Wife: Not getting it.
Husband: “Not going anywhere until you buckle up.”
That may not have happened that way, but that’s how it sounded to me.
If you present it to a bunch of dudes as “She wouldn’t put her seatbelt on and now she’s mad,” of course a bunch of dudes are gonna say, “Put the damn seatbelt on.”
No. That’s just the husband being a dick.
“Hey, honey, you forgot your seatbelt.”
“Oh! I did!” Buckles. “Thanks.”
How do you know they’re going to fix the situation promptly? it’s safer to wait until all aprties are buckled instead of recklessly rushing off and endangering the people you care for.
We better wrap everyone in bubble wrap and ban driving if it’s anything other that sunny.
Well, no too sunny…say overcast. But no rain. Sure as hell no snow. We’ll need a wind mph limit, too.
@Mo, it seems like both sides of this argument are assuming a lot of interaction not stated in the description, and arguing based upon what narrative got constructed in each party’s mind.
This is leading to additional assumptions about the perspectives of the other side and thus conclusions of unreasonableness.
@mo.
Does it change anything if the genders are reversed? I wish I had from the start, maybe I’ll ask this question again in 3 months with them switched. I wonder what the responses would be.
Seat belts are statistically safer. In most cases, they will protect you from harm. Not all cases. I had an accident where, had I worn one, I’d have been hurt far worse. T-boned in the driver’s door while driving a Porsche. My feet were captured between the door and the console. I was mostly laying in the passenger seat. The driver’s seat was broken in half. It knocked me out cold and put a gash on my left cheek. I bled all over the passenger seat. I woke up hours later in a cat scan machine.
See my response to Jarflax. That is exactly what happened to me. I was not buckled. I was thrown into the passenger seat instead of being a sitting duck for the full impact.
As presented the husband is being a dick and the wife is being a bitch, so in judging between them I’m coming down on who is right about the underlying issue. Put another way when your issue is the rudeness of the sitting there waiting for her to put the seatbelt on rather than asking, but you give a pass to her for telling him to go rather than asking and then play the ‘bunch of dudes’ card in the argument perhaps the argument here isn’t about this story at all?
Sounds likeyou shouldn’t put your belt on until you’re out of the driveway then, since that’s when you’re most worried about being t boned, right?
So not only is the husband a poopy head, but he was making his wife less safe?
I already said it’s not about the seatbelt.
I, a woman, am telling you why the wife feels like he was treating her like a kid.
I, a woman, am telling you that this is an argument every married couple has, when it’s not about The Thing. It’s about something deeper.
Do I and my husband have those? Yes. Not gonna blab it all over the internet to buttress my point.
So as I told UCS above deeper in the thread, this is not about the seatbelt.
There’s a whole lot more going on underneath what’s going on.
A woman’s seldom mad about the thing she’s mad about.
It looks like Mahomes isn’t interested in becoming Mojeaux’s new Nikki Sixx.
Too young. There’s already one person in this house with a crush on Mahomes and it’s not me.
Virgo: King of Cups reversed – Dishonest, double-dealing man, roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss
I see the Stars have been to our family New Years get together, too.
Jeebus.
https://untappd.com/b/sockeye-brewing-kiss-of-death/2935969
Sounds good
How you know you’re not intimidating. Lol.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/alleged-machete-wielding-suspect-attempts-to-steal-money-twice-without-success-in-columbus
OT: Barack Obama lists his favorite books of
You’re welcome.
You really have to work hard to create such a long list with no classics.
History is racist.
I’d say “of 2019” but some of those books weren’t written in 2019, so I have no fucking clue what the list is supposed to be.
Maybe he understands the year as well as the number of states.
““The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” “””
Did someone say shut the fuck up Troll?
What? Not “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion”?
Bullshit.
“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshana Zuboff
But he’s OK with surveillance government.
My friend and his wife were going somewhere and after waiting 5 minutes in the car, the wife gets in and he waits for her to put the seatbelt on. She says to go and he waits for her to put the seatbelt on…
I was on the flip side of that, the other night. I gave this girl a ride to some friends’ house, and when she yanked on the passenger seatbelt, it wouldn’t come out. She was all stressed out about riding in a car without a seatbelt on. I told her I’d leave mine off, but it didn’t help. Now she says she can’t ride with me unless I have a working seatblet.
Hmmmm.
Uber.
Did she thank you for the ride?
Hah, it’s another long story, but when I went to the DMV to get my first Drivers license, they rejected 3 vehicles I brought to take the driving test. Finally got one they’d accept.
ps- wear it, don’t wear it (the seatbelt); your choice.
Of course, in Trump’s America, an unbelted passenger can probably get you pulled over, so there’s that to consider.
Agreed. From my experience, this seems to be another rural/urban divide here. And the urbanites have decided they get to label everyone “stupid” who doesn’t agree with them.
Other than FYTW what are the pros to not wearing a seatbelt? What cons are there to wearing it? I frequently did the rebel FYTW thing up till the day I rolled my car down the median at 85 and realized quite literally that the seatbelt had saved my life. I’d have gone halfway out the driver side window and had the car land on me. Sorry, but while I agree that there should not be a law about this, refusing to wear a seatbelt is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It is objectively more stupid to ride a motorcycle, but is legal, whereas driving without a seatbelt on is not.
The “pros” and “cons” are not at issue, but neither is FYTW. It’s simewhere in the middle for me.
Now, my view MAY be colored by the fact that NOT wearing a seatbelt saved my life. EMT told the cop I wasn’t buckled, but told hi. specifically not to cite me for it because I would have died.
Yes, yes, I know that’s statistically impossible and “probably didn’t happen.” But it did and to this day I am hesitant to wear a seatbelt.
The pro isn’t “FYTW”, it’s “Fuck off slaver”.
As I said above, I wear mine all the time. I think everyone should wear one. But to act like any movement of the vehicle whatsoever without being buckled up is certain doom, is a bit pearl-clutchy.
That is an argument against the law. Which I agree should be eliminated, not against the act. And if I had come along and started up with “wear your seatbelt’ in a vacuum I’d agree that it is pearl clutchy, but we were asked about a specific incident in which the wisdom/lack thereof of seatbelts is a salient point.
No, that is my argument against multiple people above (including you) unequivocally labeling anyone who doesn’t wear a seatbelt, “stupid”.
…regardless of circumstances.
Freedom from judgement is not something on offer.
I’ll remember that when you guys start bitching how stupid the latest push to make this or that safer is, and how nothing in life is safe, and that everyone should be able to make their own choices, and that safer doesn’t equal safe…
I won’t actually remember because I don’t retain stuff like this, but I wish I would.
You can either stick with us, where we’ll say mean things, but leave you to do as you will when not in our vehicles.
Or you can go with the other groups who will judge you, say mean things, and try to force you to comply with their opinion even when not in their car.
*sigh* Fine, I’ll stay with you meanies.
And in your car, I would want to be bubble wrapped. That little thing looks like a rolling death trap.
[pictures UCS driving one of these]
Worse, MikeS, it’s a rolling hazardous waste dump.
Seatbelts are uncomfortable, cut into my neck, limit mobility, and create driving distractions.
That.
I always wear mine, but when I was a kid, I had an accident where I wasn’t and it saved me from greater harm. It still is better to have one on and you can never predict the bizarre situation that I got into. That last sentiment applies to a great many situations I’ve gotten into, btw.
Seatbelt or no seatbelt is the question that will determine our future.
Wow- nice TD run, KC.
And the only guy on the field who can catch up with him is one of his teammates.
Is it me or did the Chefs just get the #2 seed?
It is not just you.
Did she thank you for the ride?
She did. No euphemisms involved 🙁
To be honest, the other kind of “thanking” definitely falls into the “be careful what you wish for” bucket.
No, I was speaking of basic courtesy. “Thank you for the ride.” No “in spite of your seatbelt”, no sarcastic tone.
Cops warn mystery swarms of up to 30 drones with 6ft wingspans are spreading across states and could pose a danger to planes – but tell residents NOT to shoot them down
The Deep State is about to invade!
Stivers later told The Denver Post that he had been warning local residents not to shoot the drones out of the sky, telling them that to do so would be a violation of federal law.
This is actually a big problem now because stores no longer market Femenine Hygine products to just women. Now you can get MAN PADS at any dollar store.
And thanks to my white pants are no longer ruined by my bloody piles.
And thanks to man pads my white pants are no longer ruined by my bloody piles.
Effing NRA ruining America.
Did she thank you for the ride?
I turned 18 my freshman year of college. In Colorado, that meant a driving test, for some reason. I rolled up to the DMV (in mid December) in my MG with the top down. The asshole made me put the top up before he’d ride in it. What a sniveling pussy.
Derp- wrong quote, above. S’posed to be a response to blackjack’s driver test story. Thus:
when I went to the DMV to get my first Drivers license, they rejected 3 vehicles I brought to take the driving test. Finally got one they’d accept.
I turned 18 my freshman year of college. In Colorado, that meant a driving test, for some reason. I rolled up to the DMV (in mid December) in my MG with the top down. The asshole made me put the top up before he’d ride in it. What a sniveling pussy.
Other than FYTW what are the pros to not wearing a seatbelt? What cons are there to wearing it?
There are stories about people being “thrown clear” of a wreck and walking away unhurt. The odds are not in favor of that actually happening.
I used to say I wore the seat belt in my MG (mentioned above) so the EMTs wouldn’t have to hunt for my body. Your mid-sixties MG Midget was not especially crashworthy.
The Cons of seatbelt wearing is borne by the people you drive on the road with. Being safer in your car makes you slightly more likely to be reckless with other people.
Pedestrians, Bikers end up eating the highest costs.
On my motorcycle, I am extremely cautious. It doesn’t look like it to others, but I am. The cost of crashing is way higher. Spacing out is never an option on a bike.
Yes. I learned what “defensive driving” really meant the first 5 minutes the first time I drove a motorcycle.
I stopped riding as soon as I got pregnant. We sold it the day some old geezer thought it would be cute to bump the back tire as my husband was stopped at a stoplight. My husband looked over his shoulder and the old geezer just smirked at him.
Yeah, cage drivers can be assholes.
What I can’t phathom are the motorcycle riders who split the lanes on the freeway at 100+ MPH. I don’t remember most motorcyclists, because they’re not doing stuff like that. But I very vividly remember almost ending up having to power wash a reckless one off the driver’s side of the car.
Generally speaking, those are frat boys on rice burners. They’re in it for thrills, just like any risky behavior. And I have done stuff for thrills too, so I understand the urge. I fear very little except heights.
But I’ve split lanes in a traffic jam for the sole purpose of getting to work on time. You just have to pray someone’s not going to be an asshole and open their door to be a dick.
Splitting lanes is actually safer, when done right than taking you place in traffic. Of course, exceeding the speed of traffic by more than 10 mph is not safe, mostly. Between the lines of cars, no one will get you, but yourself. Racing there is just plain dumb.
The bike from the incident in question whipped past me as I was in the middle of changing lanes to pass another car. We both ended up swerving because of the guy who just went back to the dashed white line.
This was not a jam or anthing, as the cars were at normal highway speed, with plenty of people changing lanes / passing slower cars.
Bullshit.
The seatbelt in my Honda (1990) is the goddam automatic type. The shoulder belt runs up a track in the door when you turn the key. My suspicion is it would be worse than useless in an actual crash.
I remember those.
One of those cut my face once.
The irony, it bled!
In retrospect better than a Takata airbag!
Obama Names ‘American Factory,’ ‘The Irishman,’ ‘Parasite’ Among Favorite Films of 2019
“Apollo 11” was amazing!
I can’t imagine actually caring what he thinks about that, and pretty much everything else. He’ll coast to his grave on sycophancy.
And the second he’s in the grave, we’ll get the deluge of renaming things after him.
The only satisfaction I can get is that every “Barack H. Obama Memorial Blvd” will probably be a ghetto warzone with syringes on the sidewalk.
“Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention”
I know I’m an asshole, but c’mon. Or does this mean it’s time to massacre armies in TW?
@leon
8:30 start time next week. Four units in the building. Ugh.
Ugh. We were supposed to go to 9, but then they added a third ward to our building so now we go to 12.
4 is just awful.
I thought it only went to 11.
And fuck Not Adahn for making me buy a gun last night that I didn’t want.
What did you get.
A muzzleloading bombard, 8 inch bore.
“making me buy a gun”
The Spud doth protest too much, methinks.
Dear God that was an ugly, ugly Packer win.
Next up: ugly Cowboys loss!!
I fucked up. For some reason, I read some of the comments on that FEE article Mojeaux linked.
Now I remember why I pretty much never read comments anywhere but here.