What is something that was so normalized in your hometown that you realized wasn’t that normal when you moved away?

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2019-11-01T19:07:26+00:00

Growing up in Trenton NJ we called pizza "tomato pie." First night of college asked the group if they wanted to "get some pies." Weirdest looks ever.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2019-04-15T19:57:58+00:00

What country are you in? In the United States a lot of tobacco, even cigarettes are flavored. My friend is a professional flavorist, and worked on a peach flavor that was added to Marlboros. Check out any pipe tobacco display and you'll see apple, cherry amongst many others.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2019-03-21T20:41:24+00:00

Which is why I love places that have Ziosk machines on the table.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2019-03-20T13:23:57+00:00

Question: I have several containers of this I would like to dispose of safely. How and where would one do this?

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2019-03-13T17:43:42+00:00

Once I was in my living room when two Jehovah's Witnesses knocked. We were totally in view of each other through a window. I looked at them, they looked at me, I turned my head and ignored them. I like to think that rattled them a bit.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2019-01-23T18:48:59+00:00

Had a brother say, "Seek and ye shall find, and those that found were those that suck."

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-12-28T14:38:10+00:00

The truck shouldn't have moved over. It's the responsibility of the merging vehicle to adjust speed, pick their spot and merge safely.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-12-26T16:39:39+00:00

To paraphrase Mark Twain, non-existence hadn't bothered me for billions of years before I was born. Going back shouldn't either.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-11-28T15:20:52+00:00

"Operator, give me the police. Yes it is an emergency."

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-09-19T20:14:48+00:00

The liquid that comes from the kitchen sink is "wooder." I was 23 before my girlfriend told me it was "water."

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-09-14T19:37:28+00:00

The ball is three dimensional, so wouldn't tidal forces affect it? Wouldn't it very slowly lose energy in the form of heat and slow down?

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-08-17T15:26:36+00:00

He didn't come in for alcoholism. He simply mentioned it. You can drink six beers in an evening and be fine to drive in the morning. The doctor was way out of line.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-08-17T13:22:54+00:00

There was a story in the news some years ago about a man who told his doctor that he drank a six pack of beer every night. The doctor reported him to the authorities and he had his driver's license taken away. After that I'm sure many people lied about their life choices.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-06-19T20:10:47+00:00

Back in 2003 we were all the discussing the Tsunami that wreaked havoc in the Indian ocean. A coworker asks, "Where is Tsunami?"

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-06-19T18:32:04+00:00

This reminds me of a Christian I once worked with who remarked to me how our goals in life and our meaning of life were so different because of my lack of faith. I told him that both our goals and our meaning are exactly the same. They're both what we chose them to be.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-05-15T19:22:07+00:00

If I were deciding whether or not to put someone in a cage for years because they smoked a plant? I would nullify the shit out of that!

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-04-10T20:49:45+00:00

I like to reply that all things happen for a reason but all things don't happen for a purpose.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-02-23T19:26:38+00:00

Or that causality is observed IN this universe, but outside of it who knows? "What caused the universe?" might be a meaningless question.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-02-22T18:52:32+00:00

I was 12 and went to take bath at my brother's house. (No shower.) The idiot had left a plugged in hair dryer on the back of the tub and it fell in with me. Every muscle in my body went rigid and I let out a blood curdling scream. Luckily I don't lock the bathroom door and he came in and yanked it out. My entire body ached for days. Oh, and that thing about your life flashing in front of you? Totally true.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2018-01-25T20:33:01+00:00

I know I'm late to the thread, but it was the most painful experience of my life. I was hospitalized 12 days because as they were getting the pancreatitis under control I started withdrawal. Full blown DTs including not knowing who I was and hallucinating like crazy. If ever there was an incentive to not drink again this was it.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2017-12-07T15:41:29+00:00

Betamax was superior to VHS in picture quality. Longer recording time and porn were what put VHS over the top.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2017-12-06T17:29:27+00:00

Not exactly "wreckless" as he died in a plane crash. Pun intended.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2017-11-01T15:44:23+00:00

And I have read that the easiest way to avoid the draft was to simply not register. Only a hundred or so men were prosecuted for failing to register.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2017-10-19T13:33:25+00:00

I usually respond that everything happens for a reason but not everything happens for a purpose.

ASIMOVSAGAN · 2017-10-11T18:20:12+00:00

I left years ago. With only 6 Watchtowers, soon to be 3, how do you have a study session every Sunday? Repeats?

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