I'm hoping that in LJ's death throes, s_f will be grateful for some mild (albeit dated) dental wank. Over on Dentistry Forums.com, Stormin Mormon has discovered that ( Baking soda )

Over in toronto, the_goodson is cranky: BMV hasn't treated his used books with the respect they deserve as mint-condition books that aren't Stephen King.

Gratuitous rape analogy? Check.
Strange assertion that books are personally insulted by being only worth 75 cents each to a used book store? Check.
Unusually swift progression to calling suitablyemoname an unpleasant & gendered ( Read more... )

It turns out that joining fanficrants makes me want to post to s_f a lot. Okay, twice in a month, but given that that's more posts than it had in the previous year...

So slashjunkie1 posts with a rant about a pregnancy trope in fics - the pregnant person waking up their partner in the middle of the night to make them food. Because, you see, the only valid reason for ( Read more... )

I know this comm is beyond dead and all, but I just couldn't resist this.

Over in fanficrants, cauldronofdoom posts a physics rant. They just hate it when authors get basic motion wrong in fics, which is a valid complaint. However, within this post they manage to mislabel Newton's Third Law as his First Law, AND attribute the phenomenon in question to the Third Law when, ( Read more... )

A Wired article citing several studies says eating more proteins for breakfast gives you more energy and that carbohydrates for breakfast, particularly sugars, actually make you more tired. Almonds are mentioned three times, and the Zone diet is mentioned once, which recommends 30% of your calories come from protein but not from any particular ( Read more... )

A post is made to ONTD about Pink taking her newborn baby out for a walk. Pink had a c-section, due to a breech baby, about five days ago and the comments are... well:

is she pregnant again?

it doesn't look like she's given birth yet.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but are you still supposed to look pregnant five days after you've given birth?

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HAYYY, LOOK AT US MAKING POKEMON AND GODZILLA JOKES ABOUT THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI! LOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUSLOOKATUS WE'RE EDGY WE'RE EDGY WE'RE EDGY WE'RE EDGY WE'RE EDGY WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Today has been a bad day for me. First we have kharmii and his/her insensitivity toward terminal conditions. WHY DOESN'T SHE GIVE CANCER OR AIDS THE CREDIT THEY DESERVES!!!1!111!1! I'm glad you all recognize. They should start a new class at university called 'cancer studies' where we learn to be more sensitive toward cancer victims and learn to be ( Read more... )

Kharmii: No one really dies of AIDs or Cancer.


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