Lugging three bags of garbage down the stairs

[conuly]

The very dark stairs. Got three steps down before it occurred to me that maaaaaybe it'd be a good idea to turn on the light.

Adventures in Executive Dysfunction!

But! I did remember to make sure we had a (clean, dry, conveniently located) towel before hopping into the shower! (Forgot to grab the pumice stone. Why don't we store that closer to the bathtub?)

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The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars

Predictive Text Gives Us the Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation We Didn’t Know We Needed (I needed that.)

Earth's Poles Will Eventually Flip, So What Then?

Football helmets don’t prevent concussions. What can? (If helmets make players more likely to use their heads as a weapon, like billy goats, has anybody considered benching any player who does that?)

Why warning signs can't last forever

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How conservatives learned to hate the FBI

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A Kingdom from Dust

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Meet the Blogger Priest Firing Red Pills At the Vatican (This one, I skimmed.)

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Kurds in Syria have reacted furiously to a video showing the body of a female Kurdish fighter killed in battle during a Turkish-led offensive.

Turkey warns Kurdish YPG forces will pay for soldiers' deaths (Then again, Turkey always seems to say that.)

Egypt's ex-army officers pose growing security threat

Comments

[chickenfeet]

Reducing concussions in football is not rocket science but it requires will which is absent. If tackles using the head or contacting the head of the tackled player were sanctioned then they would happen less often. Rugby has proved this. Much stricter enforcement of the "high tackle" law, including the much more frequent use of red and yellow cards has made a difference. Also Head Impact Assessment protocols and post concussion Return to Play protocols can make a difference. The problem in football, like hockey, is that owners think the fans want violence and are prepared to sacrifice players to supply that.

[conuly]

1. Nice icon!

2. Technically, they're already sanctioned, because auto-antonyms are fun like that!

3. I agree. Hoo-boy.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"Space…what is the point of it? You have no idea. This is the Enterprise: a big circle with a porch. I’m the Captain Picard. Come with me!"

*falling about laughing*

I don't know from Predictive Text - never heard of it before - but I suppose it's robot-written. Too funny!

Yo, at least you remembered to turn on the light before you fell down the stairs; I'd count that as a win.

[conuly]

Yes, robot written.

And yes, I did count it as a win!

[jesse_the_k]

Seems like there's a ready market for a strip'o'pumice one could attach to the bottom of the shower stall, and maybe another strip around the water control for one's particularly grotty fingertips.

[adafrog]

OMG, the stairs I go down at my church for a night class are pretty dark if you don't turn the light on. And I ALWAYS forget to turn it on. Yeah, I totally hear you.

[larryhammer]

Why don't we store that closer to the bathtub?

The key question.