For once in a long while I’m missing my winter wonderland!
I mean, don’t get me wrong. Snowy fields and small towns are amazingly pretty but the people I deal with on the road are just numbskulls when it comes to handling inclement weather. This year though, so far not a single flake to be found! I feel like old man winter took a beach vacation in my neck of the woods here in central Virginia.
… Come back snow. I want my white christmas.
It’s a funny year everywhere it seems.
We’re looking at storms for at least the next week one site (maybe beyond. but I’m home for christmas this year)
As long as it’s not stinking hot on christmas day, I’ll be happy tho.
Friend: I’d trust you with my life
Me: hahahaha.. Bad idea.
I’ll be honest, whenever a work of speculative fiction (fanmade or otherwise) goes out of its way to describe an intelligent species with bizarre and complicated reproductive biology, the first question that invariably pops into my head is: “How do these critters masturbate?”
what if masturbation was uniquely a human experience though
Okay, I know that you meant “what if humans are the only intelligent species that’s anatomically capable of masturbating?”, but now I’m picturing a universe where humans are the only ones that ever thought to try it.
Human masturbation specialists traveling the galaxy to offer our gift, undertaking rigorous study and enormous personal risk to teach weird-ass aliens how to rub one out.
Calculating the exact harmonic frequencies to allow ancient, vacuum-dwelling crystalline intelligences to self-stimulate.
Descending into the crushing atmospheres of gas giants in specially constructed aerostats to design sex toys for the vast, jellyfish-like super-predators that prowl the hurricane slipstreams.
Wanking is our genius. Our legacy.
Oh, what I would give for William Shatner to do a dramatic reading of this speech, as Kirk, played dead seriously.
We were moved out so quickly that we weren’t given time to do any of that yet. We don’t have an address to redirect to right now.
Yeah, I’m more expressing concern it may get left behind in the flurry of activity. Even though you don’t have somewhere yet, maybe diverting it to someone you trust could be a temporary option?
Using antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers could be doing you more harm than good because they can contain damaging chemicals and pesticides. Recent studies suggest they aren’t safe for humans and that they may be creating antibiotic-resistant super bugs.
“The potential risks definitely outweigh the benefits, which are none,” says Dr. Allison Aiello, an epidemiologist at the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. After systematically reviewing 27 studies of antiseptic soaps containing the active ingredient triclosan, Aiello and her partners believe that some antibacterial soaps may be making antibiotic resistance super bugs.
Various studies have found that triclosan promotes tumor growth, causes decreased thyroid hormone levels, and changes our ability to respond to estrogen and testosterone.
Triclosan is the most widespread consumer antibacterial,used in toothpaste, shampoo, exercise clothing, and plastics. It’s been found in 97% of breast milk samples in the US, as well as the urine of 75% of Americans over age six, and is one of the seven most frequently found compounds in US streams.
I found this weird big snail shell in my hognose snake’s enclosure today. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I wonder what kind of snail this is?
Wait a minute…
That is not a regular snail!
That’s a Gjallarhorn snail! Silly baby hognose, you almost had me fooled.
