CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

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I don't understand why, at home, every man doesn't pee sitting down. It's more comfortable and, more importantly, less likely to result in PEEING ALL OVER THE PLACE. And you can say that you have good aim and that you're careful but you know what? When you aim a hose at a bucket of water from a distance, some of it is going to splash out no matter how careful you are. And that's disgusting.

xpost - Julia rocks.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You're just mad because you don't have a penis.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

if i go to target tonight am i going to want to kill myself after being in there for five minutes? i need to get some things (more shelves, a heater, a blanket, probably some xmas gifts) and if i have the car i can hit target on western & diversey then hit jewel or dominic's on western & addison.

huh, i guess i should've reserved the car at milwaukee and western instead.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I pee sitting down out of sheer laziness sometimes.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Shut up, Kenan Freud.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

don't understand why, at home, every man doesn't pee sitting down.

i will do this if drunk or hung over. i used to keep a toss pillow in the bathroom closet of my place on augusta so i could put my head against the sink and pass out on the can.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

there's an image.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, that's hilarious, otto.

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: "toss pillow" vs. "throw pillow"

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Neither. Why would anyone need so many pillows?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm for throw everything. Anything in your home should be easily thrown.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

a throw pillow is for decor. a toss pillow is for tossing.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

you shouldn't throw anything indoors you fucking heathens.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

What if you're playing indoor bocci?

(nb this is played using those light-up rubber koosh dingii)

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, i'm booking a flight and i forget, is it allegedly safer to have your seat in the cabin in front of the wing or behind the wing? not that i'd have much faith in surviving a plane crash anyway but still i'm sure if there was one and everyone died on board but one person, i would be that person. my clean living of a christian life tells me so.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Select your seat for comfort, not survival.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

they're all the same, my choice is in front of the wing or behind. i usually prefer in front so i don't have to hear the engines. but the last few times i've sat on the wing hoping to have one of those twilight zone freak outs where i see a monster on the wing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck it, i'll take the default seating, 14c going down, 13c coming back.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, were there more people on the Lost island from the front of the plane or the back of the plane?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The front, even before the Others got the Tailies.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, plus i figure if the plane splits in half at least the front half will be moving away from the fuel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

In front of wing: supposedly more smooth/comfortable
Behind wint/in tail: supposedly more safe, bumpier ride

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

wint=wing

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I like to sit in an exit row because there's a little more leg room. I have no idea how you tall motherfuckers can deal with it. My knees are throbbing by the time I'm done flying.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

how this tall motherfucker deals with it, i get cramps in my back because i have to sit with my legs going diagonally as my femurs are freakishly long.

i changed it to 6c going down and 5c coming back just so i can get off the goddamn plane quicker. i won't be checking any bags so i just want to bolt.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and yes, i prefer exit rows too but they weren't available.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like sitting in exit rows, but that's where my paranoia ends. I like to sit in front so that I can get off the plane sooner, but I always forget to do online check-in so I usually end up in the way back.

xpost

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Exit rows are the f'n king. Aisle after that, but watch out for my shoulders. The upper body thing for me is actually worse than the lack of knee-room.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm all leg so i need the space. now i'm pricelining one-star hotels.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

window seats > aisle seats > middle seats

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

wrong

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost I was once like you! Now I must go without the pleasure of looking out the windows :(

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i prefer the window, because if i nod off i can position myself to fall towards the window. if i'm on the aisle i'm either going to pass out (and likely drool) on the person sitting next to me or have my giant canetloupe head blocking the aisle and likely getting whacked by the beverage cart.

the cart got my knee the last time i was on an aisle. never ever again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf, priceline has a hotel i stayed at before listed as a one-star whereas orbitz has it listed as three. PRICELINE IS TELLING THE TRUTH. although the hotel appears to have a new name.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't like my ability to go to the bathroom to be limited by other jerks

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

My elbows always hurt after flying, too. I'm just all aching creaking joints by the time I get off the plane.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the window because then I don't have to deal with people on at least one side.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Window is good for sleeping against! And once I was seated between two fattish (well, middle-aged sales types who were pudgy and florid-faced) who ended up talking to each other ACROSS ME for most of the flight and leaning into my knees and stuff until I offered to move. They never excused themselves for the leaning or crowding me, NEVERMIND the sales talk. Grump grump.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

only thing you have to watch out for with sleeping against the window is bell's palsy. the vibrations from the plane tranfer through the glass to your facial nerves and can paralyze them. happened to ralph nader!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, how much longer 'til you're done school?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm too retarded to answer that difficult question.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

omg you did not just mention bell's palsy. it happened to my aunt and i lived in FEAR OF IT for the first 18-20 years of my life. my mom told me that i was NEVER EVER to go to sleep with wet hair while a fan was blowing cold air on my face or else i would wake up with a half-paralyzed face like aunt betsy.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I answered that difficult question on the DC thread, but the answer is: December 19th.

How did Aunt Betsy get Bell's palsy?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

From going to sleep with wet hair while a fan blew cold air on her face! Also truckers sometimes get it when they drive with the window open. Or so my mom said.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

that sounds like an old wive's tale!

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course I'm googling it now . . .
I love that the Mayo Clinic says that it can "be a blow to your self-esteem" . . .
"The condition may result in a droopy appearance of your face. This can be a blow to your self-esteem, but most often Bell's palsy isn't serious."

They also claim that most cases clear up within weeks or months for most people. Is Aunt Betsy's still active?

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i know. but i believed it all the way. i know for sure that aunt betsy had a partially paralyzed face for a good 6 weeks or so. i guess in a way i still believe it, just to be safe. who wants a partially (or entirely?) paralyzed face?

aunt betsy has been fine for many, many years -- way longer than i've been alive, but her legacy remains. avoid bell's palsy at all costs!

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i googled it too, and it looks like it's idiopathic, meaning they don't know the cause. a friend of mine in high school had it, but it wasn't that noticeable at all.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

bell's palsy: worse than boogeyman because it's REAL

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

omg pwned by finals

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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