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It was after AMP's birthday vomitarian party. Lots of people in AMP's bed already, K8 being one of them. Benway tries to get into the bed as well (to sleep) and K8 jumps up and starts shouting at him to "Fuck off! Just Fuck off!" I think AMP wrote it up on her birthday thread actually.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: So when you said you'd do the ginger one you meant amp then?
Well that's the joke isn't it, because there are two ginger ones, so it's possible that I was talking about amp who we all know and love, which would be highly inappropriate, or I might have been talking about some other girl who I've not met before, which would be fairly acceptable. The pun really is in how you might choose to interpret the statement that I would "do the ginger one", since I might be confessing that I have a secret crush on amp, or I might just be talking shite. Or both. Either way, I've been chuckling to myself for the past 5 minutes, although I think I've now completely Danged my own funny.
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I think ringo concluded that he'd like a redhead sandwich. Good choice Ringo, as I imagine K8 would fling you out of bed just for looking at the buxom blondes jelly bongos.
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y'know, the saddest part of the story re: kate and I is that I wasn't tying to get into bed. I was seeing if there was room for Louise. I slept at the foot of the bed, on the floor, under a coat.
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This is excellent. I can just stare dreamily at the wall of water outside.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: y'know, the saddest part of the story re: kate and I is that I wasn't tying to get into bed. I was seeing if there was room for Louise. I slept at the foot of the bed, on the floor, under a coat.
There's nothing sad about that story. I salute you sir.
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yeah dudes never mind about that - SOMETHING JUST GOT HIT BY LIGHTNING!!!!!!!! There was lightning flash and orange and then A REALLY FUCKING LOUD BANG!!!! Er, not the bang of thunder. The bang like an explosion!!!! I am doing a scared!!!!!!!!! OMG.
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Sounds like you got hit by lightning actually Amp. Check this chart:
Are you:
1.) Smoking [ ] 2.) On fire [ ] 3.) Black all over your face [ ] 3a.) Not a black person? [ ] 4.) Covered in tight curly frizzy hair [ ] 4a.) More than usual? [ ]
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Are you ok London?
It's this kind of compassionate behaviour that really butters the bread of a good sandwich.
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quote:Originally posted by Bandy: Last year in the USA more people are killed in competitive eating competitions than lightning strikes and bear attacks combined.
Do you have the statistics for how many bears are struck by lightning during competitive people-eating competitions?
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According to the National Public Health Newsletter of January, 1922, the chances of being hit by lightning is 1:28,500.
The Insurance Institute of America states the property damage caused by lightning is over $1 billion a year. The National Lightning Safety Institute has evidence that the damage exceeds $2 billion per year.
The average number of deaths from lightning is more than 100 a year with several more deaths from lightning related fires. Lightning injuries account for 3-5 times than those of lightning deaths.
Comparative weather deaths (1940 –1984 period)
Lightning = 7,751
Tornado = 5,268
Flood = 4,481
Hurricane = 1,923
Lightning sets about 10,000 forest fires every year in the United States.
Between 1940 – 1991, lightning killed 8,316 people in the U.S.
Lightning smells of strawberries.
Lightning usually appears before the rain, in a thunderstorm setting, so do not wait for rain before suspending activities when thunder and lightning are visible.
At any given moment, there are about 1,800 thunderstorms happening around the world. Approximately 100 lightning bolts strike the earth every second.
Lightning’s return stroke is hotter than the surface of the sun. Lightning is 50,000 degrees F. The sun is about 11,000 degrees F.
Lightning is equivalent to the electric power of 100 million light bulbs in your face.
About 156 billion, billion electrons flow down into the ground during a typical lightning strike.
Lightning can strike the same place twice and sometimes many times. The Empire State Building in New York City is struck an average of 23 times a year. During one thunderstorm it was struck 8 times in 24 minutes.
Based on data from 1959 –1990, from the National Climatic Data Center, Florida holds the record for the most people killed by lightning. There were over 300 deaths. North Carolina comes in second with 160 deaths and Texas third with around 145 deaths.
The person that holds the title for the most times struck by lightning is the former human lightning conductor of Virginia, ex-park ranger, Roy C. Sullivan. He was struck seven times. He was never killed by lightning but finally took his own life in 1983 reportedly rejected by love.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: He was struck seven times. He was never killed by lightning but finally took his own life in 1983 reportedly rejected by love.
Does his epitaph read sparks never flew?
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quote: "Naturally, people avoid me", Sullivan told a reporter. "I was walking with the chief ranger one day, and lightning struck way off, and he said, "I'll see you later, Roy."
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Get some of that Magicool stuff. It looks great. The lady in the advert seems to be transported to an orgasmic state of bliss.
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But they're all having orgasms in adverts nowadays- just another aspect of The World's concerted campaign to make me feel loveless.
I don't see how it can be legal to work people in these conditions. Why aren't Amnesty International getting involved.
Oh god, did anyone read that mongletter in the "Let The Mongs Speak Out" section of MongPaper, Metro, this morning? It was telling British people to smile, as it would put "sunshine in our souls". My soul nearly exited my mouth, violently, on reading this.
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I start my new job in ten days' time. I went in to 'meet the team' on Friday and nearly died of heat exhaustion. The office is about the size of my bedroom, with six desks, computers, printer, fax, etc all pumping out heat. It's west-facing, so all that lovely afternoon sun gets in, and on the top floor. A few tiny fans moved a few molecules of air half an inch. Mr Boss had hired one of those heatbuster airconditioners, which had created an icy cold area two inches around it but made no difference to the air beyond.
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Oh god, did anyone read that mongletter in the "Let The Mongs Speak Out" section of MongPaper, Metro, this morning?
yes, but I liked the reader trying to excite people into sending in their 'what's the largest thing you've seen an ant carry?' because the metro said they could carry 20 times their weight. I'm tempted to write in with '20 other ants'
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: I start my new job in ten days' time. I went in to 'meet the team' on Friday and nearly died of heat exhaustion. The office is about the size of my bedroom, with six desks, computers, printer, fax, etc all pumping out heat. It's west-facing, so all that lovely afternoon sun gets in, and on the top floor. A few tiny fans moved a few molecules of air half an inch. Mr Boss had hired one of those heatbuster airconditioners, which had created an icy cold area two inches around it but made no difference to the air beyond.
I'm looking forward to starting!
On the plus side: this office sounds far more effective than a sauna. The pounds will pour off. You'll probably go down a jeans size in a week. If you physically can go down a further jeans size. I don't know. For all I know you may already be a size 6. In which case, the sauna effect may not be a feasible one. Unless you want to evaporate.
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