That article is complete bollocks. Yeah, I’ve been watching a lot of British telly. 
It was raining heavily today. In both of the buses that I took home, the fucking sunroofs were open, so that a lot of rain got inside the bus and on the passengers and all over the seats. It was so bad at one point that I had to open my umbrella inside the bus.
I don’t know why the drivers leave the roofs open. :mad: In the second bus I was on, the sunroof wasn’t even open at first, so midway through the ride, the driver actually stopped the bus so that he could open the sunroof. (And it was still raining.)
I do not understand bus drivers.
I have never seen a bus with a sunroof.
Why didn’t someone on the bus simply just shut it? When I took city transit people opened/closed the sunroofs and windows all the time.
Rant: why is it that every time I have a doctor’s appointment, I forget? Despite multiple reminders in different calendars and looking the day before. I so hate being late!
Anti-rant: the appointment was for my yearly physical. My cholesterol is down, my weight is down and due to new rules, I didn’t have to get a PAP! She was so impressed, she didn’t even nag me about smoking (too much).
I imagine the buses here have them to cool the buses down (most buses here have no air conditioning.)
Soylent Juicy, the sunroofs on the local city buses here are too high for anyone to open or shut without a special tool (a long stick that only the drivers have. I discovered this today when it was raining and the bus driver opened up a sunroof with the stick - to let in the rain or something?) If I had a means of shutting the sunroofs myself, I’d totally do it.
I think that this month, I’ll keep a tally of how many times I ride in a bus in the rain, and how many times the sunroof is open, just to see if I’m not experiencing a confirmation bias. The tally so far: 2 bus rides in the rain, both times with sunroof open.
I’m having an unhappy one at the moment. I was all healthy and normal and shit, turned 43 last week, and I’ve been giving up approximately 1 ml per day ever since. WTF? Am I supposed to ride cotton forever now? It can’t be menopause already…or worse, knocked up again!
It’s an NPR article. You’re safe.
I don’t understand this “discuss your period with all of your friends!” marlarkey people keep trying to foist off as normal. I have never ever EVER discussed my period with any of my friends, male or female. I may have used it as the reason I was cranky/unable to stand up and move quickly/needing to go to bed with severe cramps* but I never went into details and discussed it at great length. Private things are private.
*Not anymore though. God bless the Mirena.
What about the process of buying a house makes it ok for people to tell you their horror stories?
I swear to god, it’s like when I was pregnant only then I only had to listen to women. Now it’s all the MEN who are telling me tales to freak me the hell out, as if I wasn’t freaked out as it is and needing hand holding in the process.
I don’t know if this is really realted or not, but when my mother was pregnant with me, she had a coworker who kept telling her horror stories about pregnancy and birth (things like severely-deformed babies, etc.)
One month to go! Then hey, we can’t promise you’ll be able to have cookies straight away (plus every new-mom I’ve known was just too knackered for anything), but at least the feet won’t be on the inside any more
On Sunday my mother-in-law asked me AGAIN if I dye my hair.* This is perhaps the tenth time she has asked me.
Today she called to ask the name of my salon and my hairdresser, because she’s “looking for a change.” Any bets on how long before she starts in with the interrogation?
*I do not, but it seems to me that if I did and wanted to keep it to myself, I should be able to. If I “confessed,” what would be next? Would she feel me up to see if my boobs are real? Wanna check to see if I have false teeth?
This is a really tiny mini-rant, but iTunes 11 sucks, so I uninstalled it and installed 10.6.3, and all my music had vanished. Managed to get it back, but my playlists are gone - and I keep a load of stuff in playlists. I found a possible fix online, but I’m not going to try it tonight because I’m scared of fucking everything up worse and because the baby is being full-on this week (I think she’s hit the four-month sleep regression early. Nice going, kid) and I am just too bloody tired for anything involving anything with a file extension. So now iTunes isn’t the way I want it, and I feel like whining.
Kevin Rudd is a fucking retard. To raise $0.5 billion a year as a nest egg in case an Australian bank needs to be bailed out, he just tanked their share price by $40 billion by announcing a new wealth tax. There will be some bounce back, sure, but what kind of idiot does not understand that intentionally causing bank runs is not the right way to keep a bank afloat?
I found my smudge phantom. Did you know that cats are greasy? :eek: 
Yes. It’s true.
How did I not know this? Hey, it’s not my cat, OK? Yes, it’s been living with me for a few years - what’s your point? This is the first time that she’s had occasion to nestle down on my reading glasses.
As I’ve explained once in another thread, the cat likes to sit in the box I use for a pillow that I use for my mouse (the one by the HDTV). I’m not sure why this hasn’t happened before although it probably did I just didn’t notice since my glasses are probably always smudged.
What’s weird is that shes always cleaning herself - well, you know, if shes awake that is.
A couple of times when my period was late, I was happy when it showed up. I didn’t enjoy the period experience, you understand, I was just happy about not being pregnant.
Still trying to resolve the mystery/misery of left hand neuropathy and numbness; been to doc, lab, MRI, surgeon, chiro, acupuncture, now off to a neurologist; also need a ganglion cyst removed from the opposite hand (wrist) and have been changed to yet another med. Good thing it’s an office sample.
These co-pays are killing me. The only upshot is that my insurance co. keeps sending me overpayment refund checks now and then.Do you wear tight stuff on a daily basis? I once bought bras that fit so well and were so comfortable that they were the only ones I’d wear, but my left hand would go numb and I’d get tingling or pain up and down my arm. I took myself off to the doctor and she was busy writing up orders for tests.
The weekend after my first nerve conduction test, I flew out to Houston and something happened and I ended up braless for the weekend. My hand was fine and my arm didn’t ache, not even after the triggers.
I bought my minon a weight belt for moving boxes. He wore it tight and after a while, I notices that he was acting like his shoulder hurt. That was because his shoulder did hurt, but once I reminded him that he should only tighten it while he was lifting, he tossed the belt and his shoulder hasn’t hurt since.
I really hope it might be as simple as that for you.
Think of that as a compliment. This is the woman who raised your husband, the man you love. She knows that her son likes how you look, so she would like to look like you.
If I’m wrong and boob grabbing happens, just slap her down the stairs.
Do you know that main reason that I know that corded keyboards can be washed in the dishwasher is because our rotten beasts like to sleep on them?
(stops laughing and asks what you are feeding your “not my cat”. Healthy cats aren’t usually greasy. How do your fingers feel after a love session?)
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I did not know that. I’m using one now but did not have the urge to throw it in the washer. [looks mischievously at keyboard - tries to squirm away]
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I feed her Evo wet food and Instinct dry. It used to be Evo for both but there was a recall on the dry food.
The really odd thing is that she has such nice fur and it never feels greasy at all. That’s why it never even occurred to me. Maybe if I give her a really good scritching, but even then - not really.
edit: but maybe it’s just her belly fur. Her fur is finer there and I rub her belly but I’m much more careful so I don’t think I would notice.
Okay folks. New rule:
If you post a YouTube video, and that video has music on it, and you don’t give the name of the song AND the artist, you’re banned from YouTube. Also…
NINJAS GET TO COME ROUND AND CUT OFF YOUR FUCKING HEAD!!
You have been warned.