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[CortJstr]

It's just another part of the international Communist Capitalist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

First fluoridation, now this.

[theinevitable]

I am disappointed that my "this is not a real job offer, it's a fucked up scam" meter wasn't going off a little stronger on this one.

Finally went through the google search results for this company until I found a thing that was actually about them.

Man, I need to learn to trust my creeped-out feeling.

Or, I guess it isn't really a scam, just a trick. They say they're offering you this great job, and then you end up selling perfume door to door. fuck that noise.

[miles]

eat at a sandwich place I love, etc. YEAH.

What's the name of the place, just out of curiosity?

[theinevitable]

Hannah's Bretzel. So good. Best sandwich I have ever eaten.

Right now I am trying to sleep on the couch at my girlfriend's parents' house. Too many friends here. Very crowded. Worried her one friend who is not that into music and won tickets is going to be a party pooper. It has happened before.
I thought waking up at 9 after 4 hrs of sleep  would make me fall asleep early, but I did not anticipate waking up 2 hours later. Oops.

[robot_god]

Worried her one friend who is not that into music and won tickets is going to be a party pooper. It has happened before.

I'm intrigued.

[wombat]

...feel an earthquake! Whoo hoo!

Actually, I wanted to do that once in life, but once is definitely enough.

[theinevitable]

No fun story. She just doesn't like doing fun things.

[CortJstr]

...feel an earthquake! Whoo hoo!

Actually, I wanted to do that once in life, but once is definitely enough.

I slept through it. From what I've heard anybody who's ever lived in Ashburn and claims it freaked them out is a dirty liar. When I lived there at least twice a week a plane would come in so low we'd say they were "dropping in for coffee" and from all accounts this earthquake felt exactly like that.

[wombat]

Yeah, but what's really freaky is to feel that when there is NO PLANE.

[pmcd9]

I think we discussed this before, but I would really like to feel an earthquake.

[littlefallsmets]

Earthquakes are basically overrated and they are for a very basic, very important reason.

There are two kinds of earthquakes.

"Oh, that was all? That was nothing, that's funny." AND "Holy fuck, all the shit in my house is destroyed and here comes FEMA."

I've felt a dozen earthquakes and they were all so mild they were comical.

I definitely think that for it to no longer be comical, it would have to be strong enough to be tragic and that wouldn't be cool at all.

[littlefallsmets]

All I can say is... I think all natural disasters are kind of like this.

23 years in northern New York State and reactions to blizzards are exactly the same. "Holy fuck, I can't get out of my house" or "Pfft, that was nothing, you should'a seen ten years ago." No in-betweens.

7 years in southern California and that was more or less the same reaction to wildfires and earthquakes. There ain't no in-betweens in human reaction.

I think this is a problem with our species more than a problem with the natural cycles of Earth. Humans are huge on under or overreacting.

Though tornadoes, I dunno. I've only been through two tornadoes but they both pretty well fucked stuff up in a terrifying way.

[Lister]

Natural disasters I've been close to:

• Tornado (lots)
• Earthquake (5+)
• Hurricane (4)
• Wildfire (2)
• Blizzard (1)

I've been lucky enough to have most of them just result in lost food due to power outage.  Mostly what I've learned, though, is that it's how prepared you are/your region is that makes the difference.  Tornadoes in the southeast are recovered from quickly - they do heavy damage but in a limited area, so the infrastructure's there to rebuild.  That blizzard in the southeast?  2 weeks of paralysis.

Overall I'm going to say that hurricanes suck the most.  They last a long time, do damage via wind AND water, and damage so widely that it takes vast amounts of materiel coming from far away to fix it.

Today I'm be back at work, which several people can no longer say here.  That sucks, too.

[wombat]

Pictures of the earthquake devastation.
http://famousdc.com/2010/07/16/dc-earthquake/

[greenkoolayd]

120 sci-fi events on a real world time line