Confessions of a 20-something mother

neo-dragon · Postby **neo-dragon** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:53 pm

What's more, this being Canada, they wanted it in centimeters.
Really? That's odd. I've always found Canada to be a weird hybrid of metric and imperial. Height and weight are always imperial, unlike, say Australia where it's all metric.
I just have no reference point for how tall someone is when they're 170cm.

I can only speak for Ontario, but around here people still discuss and measure heights and weights in feet and pounds. Everything else is metric. But I suppose since drivers licenses are official documents they figured they should go with proper metric units.

Metric heights/weights don't work for me either. I have to convert them in order for them to really have meaning. I think in metric for everything else though, especially speeds and distances.

Rei · Postby **Rei** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:56 pm

Yeah, I see imperial used a lot in construction and just daily life. And I see metric on official documents and in math textbooks. It's a hybrid of what the government uses and what everyone else uses. Except where temperature is concerned, mostly. Not entirely. And speeds and distances, as you said.

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:14 am

And I've seen Clerks 2, but the reference completely flies over my head. Not that I didn't love the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnJujTjUvkw

Actually, I find centimeters more appropriating for measuring heights; maybe this is because I come from a centimeters-using country, but they allow (IMO) more precise measuring than with inches.

I also find 50/127 inches more precise than just using plain inches.

(Metric makes a lot more sense to me, though, but... eh, not just intuitive for me, whaddya gonna do.)

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:29 pm

Confession: The movie Critters is responsible for my long time fear (that I'm mostly but not entirely over) of letting limbs and such hang over the edge of a bed.

daPyr0x · Postby **daPyr0x** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:46 pm

Confession: My 'arrogance' is a complete put on, because I'm tired of being walked on.

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:59 pm

Confession: The movie Critters is responsible for my long time fear (that I'm mostly but not entirely over) of letting limbs and such hang over the edge of a bed.

You could say I have a similar problem:
I have a lifetime fear of ventriloquist puppets because of that Goosebumps book ("Night of the Living Dummy") and TV episode, with Mr. Wood (the evil puppet). I stayed up at 9 and a half o'clock (pretty late for me back then) to watch the episode and was terrified to death. And then I read the book which made me even more terrified.

The result: whenever I had a fever and thought I was hearing fearful noises, one of them was always that ventriloquist doll. They're just plain evil.

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:02 am

I have a lifetime fear of ventriloquist puppets because of that Goosebumps book

It also probably doesn't help that they're just creepy as hell.

BonitoDeMadrid · Postby **BonitoDeMadrid** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:20 am

I have a lifetime fear of ventriloquist puppets because of that Goosebumps book
It also probably doesn't help that they're just creepy as hell.

Yeah, that too.

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:09 pm

Confession: I got my first pink bill ever in the mail today. Not a good feeling, even though it isn't my fault and the person whose fault it is has agreed to cover me for it, and I know their word is good. I feel like a character in The Sims.

Derwyddon · Postby **Derwyddon** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:12 pm

Confession: omg now i want to play the sims

Confessions · Postby **Confessions** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:03 am

Confession: Sometimes I pee a little when I cough.

I've been coughing non stop for three weeks.

The laundry load has been ridiculous.

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:24 pm

Confessions:

Oh. My.

I saw part of It* and I didn't throw up, or want to, right then...but ever since, my nerves have been really unsettled.

*Not referring to the Stephen King story or movie based on it.

Postby **Luet** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:58 pm

Wow, I am so curious as to what "it" is.

My confession:
After an emotional, argument filled ride to the airport with my SIL, I was incredibly depressed and consumed with thoughts of self-injury. The most innocuous of my notions was to buy alcohol to drown my sorrows, even though I have only consumed a total of one drink in the last year.

Rei · Postby **Rei** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:30 pm

Tonight my counsellor introduced me to a technique called Focusing. It's something I realised I used to do a lot, and when I did it I began to lose myself. On some level I know I should be careful of this. But on another level the draw it so lovely and restful that I'm not sure I want to resist.

VelvetElvis · Postby **VelvetElvis** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:12 pm

Beverly Hills Chihuahua is one of the most delightful movies I've ever seen.

Postby **Jayelle** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:09 pm

I don't see how that could possibly be true.

VelvetElvis · Postby **VelvetElvis** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:31 pm

I was as surprised as you.

Rei · Postby **Rei** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:45 pm

I'd reached the point of averting my eyes when that preview showed up... I can't imagine how it could be good!

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:28 am

I'm starting to think of pwebbers in terms of Tales of Mu characters. Normally thinking of people I know as specific fictional characters isn't anything worthy of mentioning, but almost all of the ToM characters I think I would find extremely annoying to be around, or at the very least are all really f****** up. (Well, maybe that's because almost all characters are female, so it could just be being realistic. *ba-dum ching*)

I'm also in the "why am I reading this" stage-of-reading when reading ToM. And yet, I still read it.

Postby **Dr. Mobius** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:54 am

So you think we're all really annoying and f****** up? Thanks man.

Mich · Postby **Mich** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:51 am

Funny, by the end of the post I completely forgot about that and instead was focused on the fact that zero, only now, was reaching the point of questioning why he was still reading it.

Then again, it took me seven years to do that with Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:38 pm

So you think we're all really annoying and f****** up? Thanks man.

Probably not all of us, Josh.

Just the girls.

You're okay.

Eddie Pinz · Postby **Eddie Pinz** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:12 am

I'd ask Josh but he doesn't have one, being an honorary girl and all.

Apparently, you're not okay Josh.

Postby **locke** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:13 am

Confessions: Oh. My.

I saw part of It* and I didn't throw up, or want to, right then...but ever since, my nerves have been really unsettled.

*Not referring to the Stephen King story or movie based on it.

I feel as though this should be combined with what Alea said in the guy stuff thread to be my new signature.

mwahahahaha!

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:21 pm

I'd ask Josh but he doesn't have one, being an honorary girl and all.
Apparently, you're not okay Josh.

Well, he sort of insists he does have one, but I don't believe him.

Adam, buddy, ol' pal. What's this talk of sigs?

VelvetElvis · Postby **VelvetElvis** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:17 pm

I'd reached the point of averting my eyes when that preview showed up... I can't imagine how it could be good!

I'm going to lump this movie in with computer animated movies.

I liked it better than any computer animated movie I've ever seen save Wall*E and Shrek.

It could be compared to Homeward Bound, I suppose. Except not as depressing.

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:37 am

Confession: Sometimes I take my horoscope seriously, even if I know it's junk.

Postby **Eaquae Legit** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:40 am

I'd reached the point of averting my eyes when that preview showed up... I can't imagine how it could be good!
I'm going to lump this movie in with computer animated movies.

I liked it better than any computer animated movie I've ever seen save Wall*E and Shrek.

It could be compared to Homeward Bound, I suppose. Except not as depressing.

Homeward Bound was depressing?

Postby **locke** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:55 am

I like the original Incredible Journey from the 60s, with no voices for the animals, just a mesmerizing journey and sporadic narration to make the footage of the animals seem like they were following a plot.

VelvetElvis · Postby **VelvetElvis** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:02 pm

Shadow's paw didn't make you cry?

Postby **locke** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:38 pm

Confession, I've never seen Rocky Horror Picture Show and I don't intend to.

Postby **Luet** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:02 pm

I weighed myself for the first time in about a week and the scale said 7 lbs less than the last time. I was irrationally happy about that. But the next day when I weighed myself again, I realized that the scale had been pressed against the wall and thus had misread the weight. Once I moved it from the wall, my weight was back to normal. And I was irrationally disappointed.

Postby **Eaquae Legit** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:57 pm

I'm in a "crushing self-doubt" phase of grad school, and I hate it.

zeroguy · Postby **zeroguy** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:30 am

I went to sleep at 6am for three nights in a row; and two of which I needed to be up the next day. *shakes fist at a certain nongringa*

I have the uncanny urge to play Final Fantasy X. Really; it's inexplicable; don't even try to find a meaning.

Gravity Defier · Postby **Gravity Defier** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:47 am

Confession: A Pwebber has inspired me to start a drinking game because of their habit of using the same phrase over and over and over again. Now, I don't like alcohol much but this doesn't matter; the phrase deserves to be 'honored.'

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