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It took me a while to parse this phrase in any way that wasn't disturbing.

So can you explain why LDS, AoG and SDA seem to generate more atheists than all other faiths combined? I've known people to switch between Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal, and even Catholic churches as their beliefs changed, (or as the denominations changed - United Methodists, for example, are expecting a split over same-sex marriage as soon as the church states its final position, so one side will stay UMC and the other will leave and pick a new name) but when someone leaves any of those three, they generally seem to leave Christianity altogether.

It's easier here; "spot the Pentecostals" is a downright boring game when they stand out so much in the Texas summer.

You assume they'll read the whole title before tossing it on the "stuff we'll never read" shelf. At least the JWs have enough diverse literature that there's usually something the right thickness to level a piece of furniture, so you'll see it every time you vacuum behind the couch.

Fire safety. FWIW, fire professionals also recommend that bedroom doors be closed at any time someone is sleeping, so toxic smoke has less chance to accumulate in the bedroom before they wake up. I've had a house with such strong airflow that smoke would be pulled right past the hall detector into the bedrooms without concentrating enough to set the detector off if the doors were left open. Relocating the detector (and teaching the ex wife that heavy smoke is an indication you're doing something wrong with a casserole) helped some, but closing the doors made a lot more sense.

Don't even get me started. Half the people I know who are struggling under mountains of debt are still trading in the car and taking on a higher payment every 3-4 years. 5-6 years in a used, reliable beater bought for less than 2-3 of their monthly payments would save them enough to pay off a significant portion of their other debts, but they have even bigger mountains of excuses for why they "need" a new car. Same for cable; how about getting some exercise or a second job in your TV time instead? Heck, just get them through some simple concepts like "if you can carry on a normal conversation, you're not getting a workout." I pass quite a few fat women on the local park trail constantly jabbering on the phone, and no doubt wondering why they're still just as fat as they've been for the 6-7 years I've been passing them on that trail. There's also an LDS woman on one of the regional singles groups who has been shilling for one "miracle" supplement after another on her FB page for the 6 years I've known her, and she's still around the same 250 pounds as when we first met. Meanwhile, I have a friend who dropped 14 sizes in 18 months, largely by replacing all but four hours a week of her TV (and unhealthy snacking) time with serious workouts, and watching a heart rate monitor to be sure she was constantly pushing her limits. No fad diets, no drugs other than aspirin and naproxen, no magic superfoods, no surgery; just learning what she was eating and paying attention to how many calories she was burning. Now she's a personal trainer and nutrition coach. Too many just don't have the desire to think deeply about anything, nor will they, as that's too much like real work. I was part of an interesting conversation with a retired Marine a while back. He was explaining to someone about landing a job as an office assistant in a very formal office just after he got out of the Corps. "Nobody cared what time I got out of bed, or how long I took to shower or eat breakfast, as long as I made it in by 8AM, in a suit I got to pick out, carrying a portfolio that weighed less than than a couple full rifle mags. Then I only had to carry paperwork and the occasional 30-40 pound file box back and forth in a safe, air conditioned office complex for eight hours and the rest of my day was mine. I thought I was a complete slacker until they promoted me three times in my second year." They also held a full time spot for him while he worked part time to get a degree, and now he's a regional executive with the same company. They've told him his veteran status had nothing to do with his advancement, but that the work ethic he came out of it with was the top deciding factor.

Uh, he's single and he's male. I'm not sure why you think this is unusual. I have two sets of sheets and three towels, one of which lives in my emergency gear. There's more cookware and dishes in my camping gear than my kitchen gear, and I have almost a full case of Irish Spring. (It was on sale, and if I stop using soap, it'll be because I have bigger problems than impulse buying.) Currently, my actual food products available consist of four frozen egg rolls, four frozen waffles, three bagels, two pounds of sugar, half a pound of butter, a quarter box of HEB store-brand Cocoa-Pebbles-like-cereal and five oranges. My only real concern with that at the moment is that the cereal sounds pretty good for dinner but I may not have enough milk for even one mug of it.

The main thing Trek has going for it besides two episodes with Julia Nickson is that The Princess Bride clearly happens in the same universe. Commander Kruge's pet targ: ROUS: There's just no way those aren't related.

Hardly an unrealistic expectation, and not that unusual to mention if you were in contact for a while already. IMO, it's a good thing to know you're not dealing with somebody who just wants to date indefinitely, and never let (or help) the relationship progress beyond that point. If you look at a relationship as some sort of inconvenience, you might as well quit wasting so much time on sleep too.

Actually sort of went the opposite way; these are the super-ventilated arch compression moisture wicking ones that are fitted left and right. They were 3 pairs for $2.50, so I figured I'd try a few pairs. I think my feet are cooler right now than they would be barefoot. I may give them a serious road ride test over the weekend, or take Monday off and do the 55 miles each way to my aikido class on the bike.

Half past midnight on my birthday, and I was in WalMart buying myself some socks. In fairness, it was sort of necessary, as yesterday two toes were hanging out of my last good pair of riding socks.

No. You have fewer friends because you were sleeping through English class.

Hmmm... @Carborendum I'm tempted to become extremely wealthy. Start sending me winning lottery tickets. (Technically, neither of us would even be gambling, since he has no chance of winning, and I stand to lose nothing. What a great loophole.)

Lightsabers already have a major logic violation; think about what would happen if you instantaneously superheated water with a plasma stream like that. Even a minor lightsaber wound would look like a grenade went off inside the body from all that steam trying to escape. It's made clear from the melt effects when someone cuts through a door that heat is at least a major part of the damaging effect, (enough to apparently sublimate most of the metal actually in the beam, leaving the edges clearly melted) but then they just make a nice clean, cauterized wound when they hit people.

There are plenty of ways to make a light fog that's harmless to humans. The real trick would be having enough converging light sources to give a clear, bright image without any one being bright enough to blind the user when they're positioned so as to be looking right into it.

I would so have to hack that and be the Anonymous of the fashion police. Suddenly every hipster in Starbucks is going to be wearing a MAGA t-shirt.

Meh; save the research money and skip straight to holographic VR in empty air, like Iron Man.

Give him time. I just checked in on a site I hadn't visited in a while. Last login: 16 years ago. Guess I really haven't checked it in a while.

LDM is making sense again. I need to go make sure I don't have a fever.

It's a 34 year grudge over a 4 year marriage that she ended over a "strong belief" he was cheating on her. (Now that I type that out, it's exactly what my ex is headed for, except our marriage lasted six years, and it's only been over another six so far. Still, she was trying to talk her lawyer into presenting the complete lack of evidence of adultery as absolute proof that I had to be cheating and covering it up.) This is not something to self-medicate. My ex still tends to alienate people fairly often with unsolicited rants about me that make "JFK is still alive and planned 9/11" sound rational by comparison. I've gotten some very interesting FB messages that start with variations of "was she always that crazy?" and "it's a good thing your oldest is such a daddy's girl."

Interesting that they only looked at commercial baked goods, which generally have a few days between finishing and consumption to continue outgassing. IIRC, USDA did a study on home baked breads and found up to 5% ethanol concentration in bread that was still warm form the oven, though the average was closer to 2%.

This, and "Is there anything in your conduct relating to members of your family that is not in harmony with the teachings of the Church?" Yeah, if he got a TR, he's either lying or severely delusional.

Unless, of course, the truth is "Stop trying to blame that on the dress. The presence of any useful amount of ambient light is what makes your butt look big."

You never remember the start of a dream or the moment you went into a hypnotic trance. Coincidence?

Idiots. That's Canadians, not redheads.