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Post by Shoesh on Mar 13, 2011 14:17:03 GMT -5
No booze either?
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Post by Lungsey on Mar 13, 2011 14:27:34 GMT -5
No booze either. I have a little thing with booze. I think it's called alcoholism
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Post by Grumpella on Mar 23, 2011 19:02:06 GMT -5
I grew up on the Gulf Coast, and one thing I could never figure out is why the hell do people eat crawdads?!?!?! And don't think calling them "crayfish" classes them up any, it doesn't. They're still an aquatic, outdoor equivalent of cockroaches, no matter what you call them. Any time a good rain came along (which was often), their little mud cone homes would pop up in all of the ditches (even in the yard at one house we lived at in the barrio). Gross, garbage, gross! I may be half coonass (technically), but that doesn't make me like crawdads. Or zydeco. I need that one explained to me, as well.
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Post by Montage on Mar 23, 2011 19:46:18 GMT -5
They're tiny lobsters
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Post by Grumpella on Mar 24, 2011 0:34:39 GMT -5
That's no excuse.
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Post by grangerlang on Mar 24, 2011 0:54:29 GMT -5
They're gross, I agree. I've never tasted one, but we dissected them in junior high science. Blergh.
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Post by Montage on Mar 24, 2011 1:22:30 GMT -5
We dissected pigs. You couldn't even think of it as "this is similar to how I get food" because they reeked of formaldehyde. Yummy.
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Post by grangerlang on Mar 24, 2011 1:32:00 GMT -5
bleeeeeccchhhh, I would have opted out of that. I seem to recall our doing the traditional frog as well, definitely no pigs. Poor piggies.
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Post by Grumpella on Mar 24, 2011 1:49:45 GMT -5
We got to try to do frogs but they were still frozen. (First class of the day.) We got cow hearts in, too, but we weren't allowed to dissect them, just look at them. I think the school couldn't afford enough of them for us to do the dissecting. Thank goodness HISD couldn't afford anything fancier than frozen frogs and un-dissectable cow hearts. My mom worked at the Downtown branch of the University of Houston one summer, I think I was seven or eight. I made the mistake of walking into a biology lab right after class, when the cats were still on the tables. Dr. Tang rushed to get me out of the room as quickly as possible, but I still had nightmares for weeks after. I don't think I could have handled pigs, either.
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Post by Montage on Mar 24, 2011 2:27:17 GMT -5
I thought it would be a lot worse than it was. Still a bit jarring, but my 15-year-old self managed. We also had cow hearts, but I missed that day and had to just look at a dissected one later. I learned how to clean fish when I was 6, so maybe I was a little desensitized right from the start...
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Post by kyselina on Mar 24, 2011 15:12:08 GMT -5
A high school classmate & I did an independent study course in biology after coasting right through Bio 1 & 2. It was primarily dissecting anything our advisor could get her hands on. We did pigs, baby sharks, cats, etc.... We worked in a room next to the classroom, so the class students would occasionally catch glimpses of what we were doing and be horrified. It's amazing what you can get used to (admittedly, I worked for a vet after school and during the summer, so I saw lots of gross stuff). My classmate's family owned a donut shop, so she would bring in day-old donuts for our snack. Nothing like eating a donut while dissecting fishy formaldehyde stinking baby sharks.
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Post by Grumpella on Mar 24, 2011 23:01:19 GMT -5
I grew up in some of the shittier parts of Houston, so I saw dead animals - cats and dogs - a lot. Animal control couldn't be bothered to collect the road kill and dumped (murdered?) animals in the poor neighborhoods, so you'd think I'd have become inured to the sight. I never did, I still get upset seeing them. I was definetely never meant to be a biologist or doctor or anything dealing with the insides of creatures. I always thought I was meant to be a lumberjill, except for the cutting down trees part. Yes, I can see it now, leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia, the giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty Scots pine! The smell of fresh-cut timber, the crash of mighty trees, with my best girlie by my side, we'd sing, sing, sing ....
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Post by Shoesh on Mar 25, 2011 12:49:50 GMT -5
I just watched Monty Python at the hollywood bowl yesterday
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Post by solitude on Mar 25, 2011 17:43:57 GMT -5
I am getting my own Bio classes next year, and I am terrified that I will lose it during dissection. Maybe I can get away with just doing a grasshopper and worm.
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Post by comejanuary on Mar 25, 2011 21:19:55 GMT -5
We dissected pigs. You couldn't even think of it as "this is similar to how I get food" because they reeked of formaldehyde. Yummy. I took Anatomy in HS and we did the pigs too... oh lordy. Sometimes I get a whiff of a similar smell and it brings me right back... rotting pork and formaldehyde. ("oh my god it smells like fetal pig!") We worked on those poor things for like THREE WEEKS. Most people named theirs. My partner and I ended up with the 'runt'- and we named him "Fluffy." Ah, to be 16 years old again....
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Post by Montage on Apr 28, 2011 1:04:18 GMT -5
Katey died again? huh....
Anyways, back to what I came here for----What is the big deal over Tegan and Sara? Why do so many people like them? Is it just a Canadian thing or what? They have the honour of being one of the only bands I've completely wiped from my harddrive, ever. I just don't get it.
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Post by Grumpella on Apr 28, 2011 1:35:25 GMT -5
See, I thought it was a lesbian thing with Tegan and Sara - like, they're one of the required acts you must like if you're queer. I do like a couple of their songs, but I've never been a true convert.
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Post by Montage on Apr 28, 2011 1:52:11 GMT -5
But it's not just a lesbian thing, they sell out shows all across the country...Me, I'd rather fill my blender full of nails.
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Post by beyondthepale on May 1, 2011 14:48:13 GMT -5
How come comejanuary is listed as a new recruit with only 2 posts?
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Post by solitude on May 1, 2011 14:57:27 GMT -5
I wondered the same thing. Sometimes this board makes me question my sanity, but I have finally figured out that one can terminate an identity and then come back to the flock. I have just always been boring old me. I guess nobody here has ever pissed me off enough to change my name or leave.
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Post by Montage on May 1, 2011 15:23:02 GMT -5
Katey died again? huh.... The account went dead. I guess if you rename a new account the same as the old it just starts your posts at 0.
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Post by calm ocean on May 1, 2011 18:23:17 GMT -5
Tegan and Sara:
I ignored them up until "The Con" was released but have loved them ever since. I haven't been a fan for long, i guess tampon rock was never my thing before. but with the increasing lack of good music being made these days, i find myself opening up more to things i had previously thought ridiculous, and some of it has turned out to be pretty good. T&S are okay in my books. Never woulda said that 5 years ago though...
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Post by comejanuary on May 1, 2011 18:32:54 GMT -5
Katey died again? huh.... The account went dead. I guess if you rename a new account the same as the old it just starts your posts at 0. Hey I wasn't mad at anyone this time... just depressed. I nuked my Facebook that day too. And made a number of 'jokes' about going to lay down on the train tracks. Luckily things have improved a bit. And re Tegan and Sara... I like them, but I'm a sucker for a little trendy lite indie pop. (I have that Feist album too.) When I first heard Santogold I thought she sounded just like T&S.... and now there's this Likki Li chick who sounds like Santogold.
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Post by Grumpella on May 1, 2011 20:42:10 GMT -5
Hey I wasn't mad at anyone this time... just depressed. I nuked my Facebook that day too. And made a number of 'jokes' about going to lay down on the train tracks. Luckily things have improved a bit. And re Tegan and Sara... I like them, but I'm a sucker for a little trendy lite indie pop. (I have that Feist album too.) When I first heard Santogold I thought she sounded just like T&S.... and now there's this Likki Li chick who sounds like Santogold. Glad you didn't nap on train tracks, I hope things continue to get better for you (better roommates for one!).
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Post by Grumpella on May 1, 2011 20:47:04 GMT -5
I once wrote a short story about a young woman with an abusive boyfriend who she finally flipped out on when he was insulting her in a store - she whipped out her tampon and slapped him across the face with it. I wouldn't describe Tegan and Sara as tampon rock, they're too sweet and poppish. I think of L7 (back in the good old days), Joan Jett (I Love Rock'n'Roll / Bad Reputation era), Bikini Kill and 7 Year Bitch as more appropriate to that time of the month. Raging, horny and bad-ass. ;D ;D
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