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a little known fact about one of my socialist heroes, Teddy Roosevelt. In 1905, 18 people died playing football. He demanded change - crash davis Oct 18, 13:38
I just saw someone playing Angry Birds on a Samsung Galaxy Tab and nearly peed myself. -- nm - Mop (224 lbs) Oct 18, 13:31 4
- better luck next time in being incontinent -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:35
- correlation is not causation. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 13:32 2
  - That's pretty good for an early-in-the-week joke. Might hold up til Sunday. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 18, 13:33
  - *laughing* -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:32
Butler star Godon Hayward in preseason scored 26 points against the Lakers... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 18, 13:29
boston.com love letters: He Sleeps On the Couch - Diva Oct 18, 13:24 32
- He says he wants "alone time"! Leave him be! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 18, 13:37
- I think she gives it up to him sometimes in those odd hours. She needs to stop doing that. - Lon_cHaneY Oct 18, 13:33 2
  - 'gives it up to him'? their sex life should be based on what they both want. not on what she wants any more than it is on what he wants. - Andie Oct 18, 13:34 1
    - *ding* to your IM -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:35
- Just a sidenote, I hear more and more couples having seperate bedrooms - amoxy Oct 18, 13:31 8
  - If sleeping apart is the wrong direction, then what is the right direction? ... oh. - Beryllium Oct 18, 13:37
  - one couple on my ball team has separate bedrooms for sleep reasons. he snores, no matter what, she could not sleep through it. - Andie Oct 18, 13:33 2
    - it's the onlly reason I can think of as to why some couples sleep in separate quarters -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:35
    - i have no idea how my mother deals with my stepdad's snoring. none. -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:34
  - but if one has a major snoring issue, or porn issue, or something, I can understand it. -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:33 1
    - "I can't sleep in the same bed as you if you're going to be filming porn all night" -- nm - hachiko Oct 18, 13:35
  - I blame subprime mortgages. People are buying bigger houses. -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:33 1
    - : D -- nm - Andie Oct 18, 13:35
- she let it go too long. she's lost her right to bitch. -- nm - chromanda Oct 18, 13:30 5
  - how many times is too many? - hachiko Oct 18, 13:33
  - I also hate the assumption that (and perhaps not in her case) if she was to go to bed at 9pm that he has to end his day -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:32 3
    - Yeah, this one is where we are. She goes to bed around ten, but I'm never in bed until midnight. - Name Withheld By Request Oct 18, 13:36 2
      - And there's no, "Wake me up when you come to bed [wink]"? -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:37 1
        
        Do you really want to be woken up from a couple hours of sleep to be sexed up? -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:37
- By "movies" does she mean pron? - musubi Oct 18, 13:29 1
  - uh-huh. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 13:30
- Is she putting the word movies in quotation marks because they are directed by Michael Bay? -- nm - Qale Oct 18, 13:29 2
  - she also put "getting together" in quotes so... -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:29 1
    - "wash my car!" -- nm - Michael Bay Oct 18, 13:31
- wah wah wah. Who gives a rat's ass. -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:28 2
  - I dig the new Surly CQ. - Mel Profit Oct 18, 13:29 1
    - hee -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:30
- put bedbugs in the couch -- nm - hachiko Oct 18, 13:26
- I'm so glad my wife is so zonked out tired when she decides to go to bed she could not care less if I joined her. I'm also smart enough - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:26
- Maybe getting close without sex makes him feel used. Maybe the couch is awesomely comfortable. -- nm - Max Oct 18, 13:26
- Feeling unloved and unwanted is a result of a lot more than where he sleeps. -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:26
- Sleep next tohim on the couch. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:25
sitwmopped: Disney to pay Paramount $115 Million for right to distribute Avengers and Iron Man 3.... -- (link) - Remlik Oct 18, 13:23
son of a bitch. fall pledge drive. -- nm - Max Oct 18, 13:22 2
- Max in DC! -- nm - Diane Rehm Oct 18, 13:24
- You like me? You really like me? Then become a sponcer of public radio. We can't do it without your support. - Ira Glass Oct 18, 13:23
It must really suck getting tickets to Oprah, lining up, waiting patiently forever for the show to air, hoping it'll be a give-a-way show and instead - Qale Oct 18, 13:22 3
- greedy bastard' just being in the pressance of the goddess is reward enough, maybe there is muslim version - zeitgeist Oct 18, 13:41
- not as bad as you might think -- nm - diggnan Oct 18, 13:23 1
  - :( I miss dignan. -- nm - Diva Oct 18, 13:24
did we talk about the mountain goat that attacked and killed a hiker in Washington? -- (link) - hachiko Oct 18, 13:20 6
- thank the gods they killed that aggressive goat. Those damn wild animals should be respectful of us humans. -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:30 1
  - maybe it read watership down and took it to heart -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 18, 13:33
- Bizarre. They're not something you'd think of as being a serious threat. Hard to imagine they couldn't chase it away. -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 18, 13:27
- I feel for the hiker's family. And I told people on Friday that we must understand what the goats try to say. -- nm - crash davis Oct 18, 13:26 2
  - it sounds like that goat had been just laying in wait. picking his spot -- nm - hachiko Oct 18, 13:27 1
    - "And you. You I'm going to let live so you can tell the world." -- nm - Goat Oct 18, 13:29
Rob Lowe's political reality show has gotten picked up. - David Oct 18, 13:18
I think Iron Mike Webster was killed from playing football, it just took 12 years after he quit to die from it -- nm - crash davis Oct 18, 13:15 11
- I just saw that post from ML on B2. Like you imply, I think it depends on how "direct" you're looking at it. - musubi Oct 18, 13:19 5
  - I think Webster was a direct result, but you couldn't point to any one play. -- nm - crash davis Oct 18, 13:23 3
    - Exactly. I say it's direct result, but I'm guessing people are thinking on a much smaller time scale. (nm) - musubi Oct 18, 13:28 2
      - Well yeah.....but at some point, they'll need to come to grips with the longer-term - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:30
      - we need more exposure to astronomy and geology if people are thinking like that -- nm - crash davis Oct 18, 13:29
  - I took it to mean, guy gets hit on the field and dies as a result of that injury - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:20
- *nods* We're really entering a weird time for that sport where the toll it takes on people is becoming more noticed. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:17 1
  - They got JACKED UP! -- nm - Tom Jackson Oct 18, 13:19
- That's a different, but valid, story. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:16 2
  - well, it was to explain my "instantly less than 1%, over time 100%" b2 answer -- nm - crash davis Oct 18, 13:17 1
    - on a long enough time scale... -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:18
can you die from a broken spine? - groiny Oct 18, 13:11 61
- trama enough to break spine can damage nerve cord, jusst as a rib can damage the lung -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 18, 13:30
- Technically a broken neck is a broken spine, yes? - Ender Oct 18, 13:27 1
  - we do have a poster that's survived a broken neck here even. But it obviously could have gone another way for Dano. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:28
- It's like you've never even seen a Steven Seagal movie. He kills dudes by breaking spines all. the. time. - musubi Oct 18, 13:17 48
  - I have never heard of someone dying immediately from a broken spine. - groiny Oct 18, 13:22 47
    - kids are more flexible, silly -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 13:25 3
      - being a kid is like being constantly drunk! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 13:29 2
        
        A drunken kid is nearly invincible -- nm - Guigue Oct 18, 13:30 1
        
        *lauhing* -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:32
    - Nobody is saying it's a *likely* injury. Like ReyRey said, it's such a small step from paralysis to death. - musubi Oct 18, 13:25 18
      - in NFL history, has anyone ever died on the field? - groiny Oct 18, 13:29 17
        
        Chuck Hughes 1971 -- (link) - amoxy Oct 18, 13:33
        
        Before the first perfect game was pitched, noone had ever pitched a perfect game before. - musubi Oct 18, 13:32 1
        
        *sighs* nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:33
        
        Ray Chapman died from a fastball to the head. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:31 6
        
        again, a baseball at 90mph to an unpadded undeveloped chest.... - groiny Oct 18, 13:33 2
        
        You accept that a guy could get paralyzed from a hit, right? - musubi Oct 18, 13:37
        
        Mike Utley was paralyzed when he went face down on the turf in a trench block. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:34
        
        Chris Pronger's heart stopped from a slapshot to the chest. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:32 2
        
        did he die? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:34 1
        
        good lord you're obtuse. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:36
        
        (also, in almost every case, the people that have suffered catastrophic injuries are the hitters, not the hittees). -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:30
        
        that settles it then, it can't happen. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:30 5
        
        not, you are jumping to a point way out there. - groiny Oct 18, 13:31 3
        
        football has not been played for very long with players of the size and force of today's NFL. at all. - TFox Oct 18, 13:37
        
        You're making the classic mistakes. - Reagen Oct 18, 13:36 1
        
        sure, they are, but they are on both ends of the hits. - groiny Oct 18, 13:39
        
        yeah, that changed my mind too! -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:31
    - It's not math. It's not "X and Y happens then death". People live through injuries they should have died from. but they also die from injuries they - Reagen Oct 18, 13:25
    - dude, you can lose the nerve pathway that tells your heart to beat and/or your lungs to breathe. It's very possible to die from that. Hopefully, they - zork Oct 18, 13:25
    - Who was the famous racecar driver who hit the wall and died immediately despite being in all that protection? -- nm - Max Oct 18, 13:25 11
      - Earnhardt is the most recent/notable. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:25 10
        
        apples and oranges. common sense is 150 MPH, is significant. - groiny Oct 18, 13:26 9
        
        No, we're talking people dying from catastrophic neck/spine injuries. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:27 8
        
        35 is pretty fucking far from 150. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:34 7
        
        and those drivers have harnesses to constrict the movement of their helmet. it's about g-forces not speed. -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:36
        
        people don't die in 35 mph car crashes? -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:35 5
        
        we are not talking about cars here. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:37 2
        
        and the difference is...? - Reagen Oct 18, 13:39
        
        you've made the analogy to your own car crash like four times. force is force. -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:38
        
        The only person with the expertise to answer this issue is going to be loosi. -- nm - Max Oct 18, 13:37
        
        35's pretty fast when your head's smashing into an immovable object. -- nm - Ender Oct 18, 13:37
    - A lady I worked with slipped down the stairs and broke her neck....her family found her when they came home. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:23 7
      - ok, but assume there is medical staff on hand as there is in a football game? - groiny Oct 18, 13:25 6
        
        and she couldn't get oxygen to her lungs because... -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:27
        
        Wait. You think the brain being unable to tell the lungs to breath is a failure of the lungs? (nm) - musubi Oct 18, 13:26 2
        
        someone laying in a stairwell for 8 hours with a broken neck, sure. - groiny Oct 18, 13:30 1
        
        So....let's say they're there within 30 seconds, they intubate within a minute.... - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:33
        
        And yes, medical personnel could help....they almost might just be there to put up a good show (ala the Owen Hart accident) -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:26
        
        She died in the manner that her brain operations were no longer connected to the remainder of her body operations. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:25
    - you got hit by a car? - hachiko Oct 18, 13:23 1
      - yup. - groiny Oct 18, 13:23
- *flashes back to the discussions of risks of SheFox's spine surgeries* yep. -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:15 3
  - there is risk in every surgery, even a tooth extraction. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:23 2
    - that wasn't the kind of risk i meant, but ok. -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:31
    - even teeth cleaning, plaque from teeth cn get into bloodstream and effect heart valves -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 18, 13:28
- Spine, no. Completely severed spinal cord, I think yes. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Oct 18, 13:14
- Really? You really can't? -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:14
- *shrugs* - zombie Chris Reeve Oct 18, 13:12
- The Last Boyscout. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 13:12 1
  - well, if you are gonna shoot a DB to score a TD, sure. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:22
I'm thinking driving off a cliff is not the choice I'd make to off myself. -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:10 6
- Jerk. -- nm - Dar Robinson Oct 18, 13:13
- I'm wondering if maybe he wasn't thinking very rationally at that point. -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:11 3
  - bitches make you *crazy* -- nm - OJ Oct 18, 13:14
  - besides, it was right there. -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:13
  - I'm sure he was totally lucid, heh -- nm - CQ Oct 18, 13:12
- At least not one that is only 30 feet. -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 13:11
Da WiFis is hurting my brain -- nm - decline Oct 18, 13:09
Why does it seem so difficult to find a garage door opener keypad that can hold multiple PIN numbers? -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:09 14
- why would you need multiple pins? -- nm - decline Oct 18, 13:10 10
  - I would like one for each family member so if for some reason my kids gave their code to someone else I could change just their code -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:10 9
    - so everyone has to learn a new PIN, big deal. -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:16 5
      - Except that we also typically have openers in the possession of neighbors and grandparents which just makes it more of a hassle. Seems like a simple - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:22 4
        
        no, it seems like you're overcomplicating it... - samara Oct 18, 13:26 3
        
        of course. I considered biometric first but the multiple code thing seemed like it would be easy enough to find - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:26 2
        
        that would also make your system easier to hack. -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:27 1
        
        The reality is my home is quite simple to hack (break a window) so it's not supposed to be foolproof - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:30
    - Why on earth would they give it to someone else? -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 13:14 1
      - Because kids are stupid -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:22
    - plus groiny - hachiko Oct 18, 13:12
- how many garages you got, diamond jim? -- nm - hachiko Oct 18, 13:10
- Uh, why would one need to? -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 13:10
- PINs. Grrrr. -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 18, 13:09

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