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Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live?
Ed writes "Apparently, the Centers for Disease Control released a study indicating that geography can have a significant impact on mood. You may not be surprised to learn that Kentucky is more depressing than Hawaii. However, ranking up there with Hawaii are Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin. Frustratingly, they have not yet published the study on the web, so it is left as an exercise for the reader to find the original study and post a link for the rest of us."
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891465,00.html
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Florida's the opposite way. There is a law against car stereos [albeit never enforced], but no car inspection and no regulations about mufflers and engine noise from vehicles and motorcycles. Then again, Florida is a shithole.
It's here.
Yeah, I've pretty much learned to ignore anyone who claims that "happiness comes from within" or that "your problems are internal." I mean, there are some cases where they are, but in most cases they're because of a shitty job, shitty friends, shitty location, or other shittiness.
Before they were books (and after they were books), they were radio plays. In the second set of fits (now called Secondary Phase) there are some significant differences which never made it into the books, mainly due to missed deadlines on the first book. The above quote is from that version.
The complete series can be imported wherever you like. Well, complete except for a bit on Magrathea where Marvin hums like Pink Floyd which is cut from all pressings due to rights issues and will probably never be reinstated within the lifetime of anyone alive today. Arthur's awe of being on an alien planet for the first time and the discovery of the remains of the whale are a casualty of this cut. Someone has a couple copies of this scene on-line somewhere at differing qualities recorded from the first airing.
Also there are some differences in the UK edition of one of the books as well. There's more adult language in the UK edition (Arthur is called an "arsehole" instead of "knee-biter") and the bit about Belgium is not there (the Rory is for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fuck" in a Serious Screenplay in the UK edition). I haven't tried buying the books from Amazon UK for delivery to the US. I do know they won't ship toys (unless they're attached to a DVD box set) and most electronics.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
They do 80+ and change lanes without signaling
Sounds just like Atlanta. If you're not doing at least 15 over, your life is in danger. I don't think cars even come with turn signals down here. 80+ on 285 or the connector is common.
Note to the yankees in Atlanta: If it snows (which does happen occasionally), just stay home. I know that you know how to drive in feet of snow, but nobody else here can even handle half an inch. You'll just get hit. And watch out when it rains, too--a single drop, and everything goest to hell.
Go down to Savannah, and they aren't nearly as aggressive--but they often drive very slow, and don't know how to deal with traffic, either. Get a line of five or six cars, and everyone suddenly forgets how to drive.
The meek may inherit the earth, but the strong shall take the stars.
Uh, no, asking a stranger for a blow job out of the blue isn't something a normal person would do. That shit only works in pornos.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Not to mention that it's about a bazillion times harder to learn a language without hearing it spoken by and/or conversing with a native speaker at least every now and then. For a big chunk of the U.S., that means your only real option is the Mexican flavor of Spanish.