Ohhh Limey! I am open, kind, affectionate, kind women. I love to communicate with smart & polite men!
Pleased to meet you, but I'm afraid I'm taken.
I am also conscious and plodding!!!!
Wowee! Quick, let me click on your link to view your profile RIGHT AWAY!
Apparently, Tennessee's “Due Care Law” is very broad, making it a lot easier for a cyclist or cyclist's lawyer to claim that the vehicle driver was being negligent in some way and thus pin the blame on them for any collisions that occur between the two.
Compounding this, bike lanes are not common in Tennessee, pretty much nonexistent outside the central portions of larger cities, and where they exist they tend to be narrow, as are most of our streets. As a result, bikes very very often take up whole lanes rather than just a typical bike lane off to the right side of a street.
So yes, it seems the public perception that collisions between bikes and motorized vehicles very strongly favor the cyclist is at least founded in truth. Which goes a long way to explaining why drivers here are immensely skittish around them.
serious question:
If your lanes are THAT narrow, how do you not trade paint/lose your driver's side mirror to oncoming traffic in the opposite lane?
I have gained some weight over the years, but there is no way I am as wide as a car on a bike.
Mostly by basically driving with passenger-side wheels halfway on the edge of the pavement, more or less. Leaning as far away from the other lane as possible.
It's only cost me that side's window twice. Once to a mailbox, once to a garbage or recycling receptacle (I don't remember which, but it was dark-greenish, so I'm guessing the former).
That is insane.
Which, as I've stated before, is why you get off and walk the bike until you're past the pedestrians, then resume riding. It's what I did all the time when I was biking as a kid.
I wish I could stream my commute. Doing what you suggest here would be nothing more than walking a bike to wherever you are going.
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On the plus side, my new safety sunglasses keep chips from flying under them and ricocheting around, and I look like Bono.
The down side, apparently looking like a hybrid of Brad Pitt in Legends Of The Fall and Bono is kinda weird.
Spam temptress, are you made out of spam and do you tempt people to eat spam?
Neither. I send enticing messages to gentlemen worldwide in order to arouse their bestial lusts.
Sorry Freehold, The Man shut down the Mazomanie nude beach last year.
Apparently people were just using it to get f+$%ed up and f*&~.
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Sorry Freehold, The Man shut down the Mazomanie nude beach last year.
Apparently people were just using it to get f##*ed up and f%%~.
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I think he was talking about the age of the deer in question. More points on rack =older deer.Exactly. Also, the buck in question is a bit on the small side.Freehold, back me up here.
Two points. On a rack. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
...Oh never mind, how 'bout those [insert sportsing players here]!
>_> ---> ( . Y . )
*Commences motor-boating*
Right! I remember you talking about that.
It's not that they can't get it right, it's just that they have to make everything so damned complicated because they don't trust simple answers.
Like the xkcd.com strip from the other day.
*Narrows eyes, and scratches beard*
I'm sure these here dames are fishing for some kind of angle on us menfolk by trying to put us down for our 'complicated natures'.
I just can't figure what angle they're 'angling' for.
And it's not that women are any better at the start; I think we're just better at resigning ourselves to the inescapable conclusion that the universe is fundamentally chaotic and unknowable, and it's better to accept the kind lie of simplicity than to howl at the darkness and drink yourself to death under a bridge.
*Looks at his ceiling, before taking a swing from his glass of scotch*
Madam! I'll have you know I don't need no fancy bridge to drink myself to death under! My apartment ceiling is fine enough for me!
…
Postscript edit:
You gentlemen know I adore you all. But y'all do know how to complicate s***…
I love you to LM
^^;P
Ya'll can have my cranberries. I don't eat them.
+1
at least, unless its in juice form...^^'
Spam temptress, are you made out of spam and do you tempt people to eat spam?Neither. I send enticing messages to gentlemen worldwide in order to arouse their bestial lusts.
Madam.
You have your work cut out for you.*Takes off his shirt, unzips his cargo pants, waggles eye-brows and mentions for Spam temptress to "come at him"*
Edit: Oh and it's finally vacation time!
Another post more and it would be a bare problem.
Er...
...from the article itself: "Only six deaths had previously been reportedly linked to black bears in Alaska in the past 130 years."And according to Google Maps, those attacks were... 3000(!!) miles away from the black bear range in California.
If you look at the list of fatal black bear attacks in North America in the last 20 years, there are *0* in California, Oregon, and Washington (our black bears' range).
We've got some seriously timid bears.
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New Jersey has more fatal bear attacks than California. That's the one I find astounding. Not the first thing one thinks about when New Jersey is mentioned.
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I have no use for mild cheese, and I commend you Nobodyshome for giving up on mislabeled cheese.Remind me not to eat your cheese. I only eat MILD CHEESE! Anything too strong turns me off.
Maybe I should apply that to pathfinder, but again it's players freedoms I'm infringing on.
Something that Mort WON'T EAT?!!!
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Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.
New Jersey has more fatal bear attacks than California. That's the one I find astounding. Not the first thing one thinks about when New Jersey is mentioned.
As backpackers, we had to be very bear-aware wherever we went. The general rule of thumb was, "If black bears live in proximity to grizzlies, they can be dangerously aggressive. If they don't, they're far less dangerous."
So yeah, the ones that surprise me are the ones in Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee, and anywhere else grizzlies are extinct. New Jersey is at least remotely close to the Canadian border, and we all know those wacky Canucks just loves them some grizzlies...
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Around here you have to keep an eye out for timber rattlers (well disguised in the woods) and anything that might be carrying rabies (any mammal, sure, but largely coyotes, racoons, foxes, feral cats/dogs). And wild turkeys. They're mean. And territorial.
That said, for years there have been reports of an occasional cougar or two living in some of the river valleys in the central part of the state. I really don't know if those reports have ever been officially confirmed or not.
EDIT: I was afraid to Google "cougars in Illinois", not sure of what I'd really get, but yes. We have a low number of cougars in the state.
New Jersey has more fatal bear attacks than California. That's the one I find astounding. Not the first thing one thinks about when New Jersey is mentioned.As backpackers, we had to be very bear-aware wherever we went. The general rule of thumb was, "If black bears live in proximity to grizzlies, they can be dangerously aggressive. If they don't, they're far less dangerous."
So yeah, the ones that surprise me are the ones in Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee, and anywhere else grizzlies are extinct. New Jersey is at least remotely close to the Canadian border, and we all know those wacky Canucks just loves them some grizzlies...
I hear they ride them to work instead of driving cars.
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Around here you have to keep an eye out for timber rattlers (well disguised in the woods) and anything that might be carrying rabies (any mammal, sure, but largely coyotes, racoons, foxes, feral cats/dogs). And wild turkeys. They're mean. And territorial.
That said, for years there have been reports of an occasional cougar or two living in some of the river valleys in the central part of the state. I really don't know if those reports have ever been officially confirmed or not.
EDIT: I was afraid to Google "cougars in Illinois", not sure of what I'd really get, but yes. We have a low number of cougars in the state.
I really need to visit illinois again, apparently...
And looking further...the populations (not that long ago were zero or scientifically non-viable) have been increasing of not just cougars, but also wolves and...black bears...although the bears seem to be going more for Missouri and Wisconsin.
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Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.
Pretty much yeah, but I still have standars. Like I don't eat live fish and wouldn't be too keen on eating live octopi - mainly because of the choking risk.
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Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.
Maybe that's the problem, the bleu cheese is not squirming?
Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.Pretty much yeah, but I still have standars. Like I don't eat live fish and wouldn't be too keen on eating live octopi - mainly because of the choking risk.
I expect my food to be properly coup d'graced. No live food for me.
Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.Pretty much yeah, but I still have standars. Like I don't eat live fish and wouldn't be too keen on eating live octopi - mainly because of the choking risk.
I refer to octopi as pre-takoyaki.
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I expect my food to be properly coup d'graced. No live food for me.Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.Pretty much yeah, but I still have standars. Like I don't eat live fish and wouldn't be too keen on eating live octopi - mainly because of the choking risk.
Yeah, I don't eat Klingon delicacies either.
However, I do love me a good angus burger with bleu cheese, grilled onions, sauteed mushrooms, good bacon...mmmm....
I am all about strong cheeses. Especially gjetost.
Excepting really gross cheeses, like the one where they plant fly eggs in it, and then serve it after the maggots have hatched and done something gourmet and gross to the cheese. Pass on that one.
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Yeah, I don't eat Klingon delicacies either.I expect my food to be properly coup d'graced. No live food for me.Bleu cheese isn't for everybody. I'm just shocked that would be one of those things for you, since, you know, you'll eat any other disgusting thing that squirms along the Earth.Pretty much yeah, but I still have standars. Like I don't eat live fish and wouldn't be too keen on eating live octopi - mainly because of the choking risk.
I want to eat gagh almost as much as I want to eat Klingon women.
Mort, this post could have been avoided if you wore your bike helmet.
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Around here you have to keep an eye out for timber rattlers (well disguised in the woods) and anything that might be carrying rabies (any mammal, sure, but largely coyotes, racoons, foxes, feral cats/dogs). And wild turkeys. They're mean. And territorial.
That said, for years there have been reports of an occasional cougar or two living in some of the river valleys in the central part of the state. I really don't know if those reports have ever been officially confirmed or not.
EDIT: I was afraid to Google "cougars in Illinois", not sure of what I'd really get, but yes. We have a low number of cougars in the state.
I have actually seen one, along I-80, in eastern Iowa in December. It was eating something. Definitely a cougar, the shape of the head and body were unmistakable.
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I have actually seen one, along I-80, in eastern Iowa in December. It was eating something. Definitely a cougar, the shape of the head and body were unmistakable.Around here you have to keep an eye out for timber rattlers (well disguised in the woods) and anything that might be carrying rabies (any mammal, sure, but largely coyotes, racoons, foxes, feral cats/dogs). And wild turkeys. They're mean. And territorial.
That said, for years there have been reports of an occasional cougar or two living in some of the river valleys in the central part of the state. I really don't know if those reports have ever been officially confirmed or not.
EDIT: I was afraid to Google "cougars in Illinois", not sure of what I'd really get, but yes. We have a low number of cougars in the state.
wow.
What do I want for lunch?
Gagh and takoyaki are not available around here.
Street vendor hot dogs.
Street vendor hot dogs.
also unavailable around here. I would have to go down the street for Nathan's.
Mm. Been a while.
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Troy is a terrible movie, and you know it's going to be terrible from the very beginning. Because Sean Bean plays Odysseus, thus creating a paradox -- Sean Bean lives. And the foreshadowing of terribleness is fulfilled from there: the story is mythologically inaccurate, historically inaccurate, and the characters make no sense. Except for Odysseus, but again, Sean Bean paradox. There is no tension or drama, just Brad Pitt playing a level 20 fighter among two armies of low-levels.
And yet I watched if for a second time this week.
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OK. Kids only earning money for doing chores?
Best. Decision. Ever.
Last night a nigh-insurmountable pile of laundry vanished in a folding frenzy when the kids learned they got $1 per 10 pieces of laundry, meaning 5 pairs of socks was an easy $1. Today Impus Minor accompanied me on a major shopping run (had to get wine and beer, so he couldn't go alone) and insisted on carrying most of the bags home, while Impus Major did his first load of laundry ever. And they're cleaning their rooms and making their beds every day.
I disagreed with it vehemently during the 1980s, but now I understand: Greed IS Good!
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Around here you have to keep an eye out for timber rattlers (well disguised in the woods) and anything that might be carrying rabies (any mammal, sure, but largely coyotes, racoons, foxes, feral cats/dogs). And wild turkeys. They're mean. And territorial.
That said, for years there have been reports of an occasional cougar or two living in some of the river valleys in the central part of the state. I really don't know if those reports have ever been officially confirmed or not.
EDIT: I was afraid to Google "cougars in Illinois", not sure of what I'd really get, but yes. We have a low number of cougars in the state.
We have hedgehogs.
OK. Kids only earning money for doing chores?
Best. Decision. Ever.
Last night a nigh-insurmountable pile of laundry vanished in a folding frenzy when the kids learned they got $1 per 10 pieces of laundry, meaning 5 pairs of socks was an easy $1. Today Impus Minor accompanied me on a major shopping run (had to get wine and beer, so he couldn't go alone) and insisted on carrying most of the bags home, while Impus Major did his first load of laundry ever. And they're cleaning their rooms and making their beds every day.
I disagreed with it vehemently during the 1980s, but now I understand: Greed IS Good!
pay people for their time.
We have hedgehogs.Around here you have to keep an eye out for timber rattlers (well disguised in the woods) and anything that might be carrying rabies (any mammal, sure, but largely coyotes, racoons, foxes, feral cats/dogs). And wild turkeys. They're mean. And territorial.
That said, for years there have been reports of an occasional cougar or two living in some of the river valleys in the central part of the state. I really don't know if those reports have ever been officially confirmed or not.
EDIT: I was afraid to Google "cougars in Illinois", not sure of what I'd really get, but yes. We have a low number of cougars in the state.
Illinois is sounding better and better.
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Well I don't do well for short sprints(I'm not very fast), so if you want to catch me all you need is a short burst of speed. Otherwise I could keep running for a fairly long time. I've also wondered what it's like to run 10km in the open, but I've never really tried.
I know if I'm not carrying anything or on a light load I could be on my feet the whole day np.
Though if I were really running 10 km, I would drop my running speed to 4.9 miles/h or lower. I don't think 5.9 miles/h is sustainable for me.
Anyone down here has marathon experience?
I cant run for the life of me. Even with training I never get real good at it.
Walking on the other hand, I'm good at that. I can easily walk a whole day. Last Ingress event, I walked 16 kilometers with no prior training.