it's not clear, have there been peer review studies which fail to find an effect? I'm not sold on the peer review as a great way of judging much beyond a pretty narrow line of knowledge, and I think that even then you'll find cases where stuff that later is viewed as canonical initially struggles to get past peer review.

But I do think it's complex. My experience of decent level student sport is that you are definitely more likely to get injured if you not properly conditioned, up to a point (which is definitely a fair way above sedentry) but equally i have seen people who are quite injury prone, which i would ascribe to what i would identify as overtraining/imbalanced training (especially with regard to weight training) for the sport they are trying to do/their body.

But then on top of a basic sporting capacity, the pros, especially in the us, have to deal with huge numbers of games, and this i expect puts another layer of complexity on how to stay safe. Repetition ad absurdum can magnify very little problems very quickly.

also, a blond haired, blue eyed baby turns out to be a liability when it comes to trying to navigate around an asian city. He attracts so much attention it's embarrassing.

also also: bonus picture of some funky looking doves/pigeons for atak:

Cool. Zenaida something. Without having looked it up, I'm going to guess the patch on the neck is diagnostic.


Edit: correct on the neck patch, but wrong about the genus (and I probably should have known). They're Oriental Turtle Doves (genus Streptopelia, not Zenaida.)

bad atakdog, bad

how could you miss the genus

True, but you might become magnitudes more interesting once they find out you're interested in them. And if you're just not an interesting person, then that's pretty much all you got.

It usually ends just fine a few dozen times, before it doesn't well

(but of course, agreed +100, I'm just trolling because low self-esteem girls and uninteresting guys help make the world go around)

There doesn't need to be any games, fwiw. Playing games increases initial success rate, but leads to people who aren't well suited to each other getting together

People play games, by nature. No escaping it. We use games to communicate. Language is a game we play, one of many. It's all games, the human interaction.

Impromptu games are probably preferable to creepy manufactured games.

sup

So, apparently aim decided to show my frickin' first and last name instead of my login name to everyone. Not that I should care much except I've been cyberstalked before. Anyways, for those that want it, I've created a new account.

bigger3195

Yea I've noticed that for a few people, thingyman as well. Actually a bunch of people.

mine does that, I dunno what I did

I think if you join a chatroom and people don't have your username they see your real name instead

just edit profile and erase your name

I have a 2004 RX8. We finally decided to sell it this summer. Blue book is $11,700. So we listed it for $11,500. First day, we get a guy on the phone who wants to buy it for $10k sight unseen. I eventually get him up to $10,500, but he won't go up any more. Because it's the first weekend it was listed, I decided that I could do better and decide to let him go.

That was over a month ago. Since then, I've had one guy offer me $9,000 sight unseen. And another guy who test drove it, but never contacted me again.

Also since then, the car has completely gone beserk on me: it wouldn't start for 3 consecutive days, the sun visor broke, the radio, and nav decided to stop working. Same with the power windows and door locks. If I wasn't so greedy about the last $1,000, these problems would all belong to the new owner. Now, I'm probably gonna have to spend a bunch just to fix these problems just to get it in sellable condition.

Crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgg_fukbvU#t=00m55s

judge yourself if he's any match to kung fu panda

impressive, but how is he with nunchucks & shuriken?

that's pretty unlucky

LOL. Also congratulations to both of you on graduating and finding jobs.

FTR, I've walked in most of the neighborhoods in DC during daylight hours (usually without either of my dogs, but often with someone else) and never had any problems, other than random guys eyeing me and sometimes saying stuff, which happens pretty much everywhere. Of course, that's not to say things don't happen, because they do. I know people who've had things stolen or even been hurt, and not where the highest crime rates are either.

Re touching the small of the back: go to a salsa club on a night it holds lessons and you're guaranteed to be touching a lot of them (as long the instructor has partners switch frequently). It's a requirement, along with a lot of other stuff you wouldn't normally get away with doing.

Clearly Alice and Timelady don't like to salsa

but do they like to onion dip?

if making tax-free income or sleeping 12 hours a day is on the list I'm in

i used to go to salsa/swing clubs. the latin dances have a lot of contact (forearms pressed, hips, thighs, legs, knees, chest...) but it generally feels natural (just like it's natural to dance w/ a new partner each song in a club, have 3 minutes of extreme physical contact, and then walk away...w/o anyone haunting you for anything more than a dance.)

BUT: there are always some dirty guys that are more interested in grinding their hard-ons against your leg than salsa dancing.


me encanta!!! except for that last part.

guac>salsa>onion dip

imo

Depends on the salsa

ever eat salsa off the small of a woman's back? unspeakably erotic.

Expert advice: Don't vomit into your toilet standing up.