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if you are not wearing a seatbelt and are in a crash you can a: kill the person in front of you if you are indeed sitting behind someone by hitting the back of their headrest with your head at a great speed. b: go flying out of the car and presumably a human projectile has potential to injure others

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:46 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly how often do you think this happens? serious question because I have no idea

― Wimmels, Thursday, May 4, 2017 11:52 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1380376/Unbelted-rear-passengers-biggest-danger-in-crash.html

the actual projectile flying through the windscreen aspect i have to admit i have never heard of. just seems like a plausible thing that could potentially cause damage? but maybe not

I mean, even if you argue that it's exceedingly unlikely you'll get in an accident at that low speed for a few blocks, you're wagering the what -- four seconds, maybe? -- of buckling and unbuckling against that likelihood. I'm so used to buckling as I get in the driver's seat that I do it in the same motion as closing the door and starting the car. Why even close the door if you're going two blocks?

the kind of position you have in the Gulf where it's relatively easy to obtain a right to work but citizenship and benefits are impossible

It is worth noting that guest workers in the Gulf states are notoriously maltreated, in many situations the conditions are indistinguishable from slavery.

Why drive if you're going two blocks?

the kind of position you have in the Gulf where it's relatively easy to obtain a right to work but citizenship and benefits are impossible

It is worth noting that guest workers in the Gulf states are notoriously maltreated, in many situations the conditions are indistinguishable from slavery.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:06 PM (eighteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this sort of position is also the most common way people come to work in canada and has been since the 70s. temporary foreign workers who have no road to permanent residence and whose staying in the country is reliant on them remaining in the initial job they were hired for

conditions better than the gulf in general but abuses and illegal wages and working conditions are reported

xp to Lauren--Because on my way to places that aren't in any way close enough to walk or bike to, I often have to run errands and stop at the post office, bank, library, etc, and buckling and unbuckling every time I have to jump out if the car to mail a letter seems tedious and unnecessary

what makes you think you don't deserve a tedious life

touché

Finally an opinion that kicked up some dust!

(And which I hella disagree with, fwiw.)

I notice no one challenged the open container law part of that post

surely we can all agree open container laws are nonsense, at least

'all' ILX never agrees on anything that specific. and don't call me Shirley.

Being dead would be pretty awesome, it's only the painful way of getting there that sucks.

I mean most of the drag of being dead = worrying about it when alive, guilt of leaving people behind, all things that I ain't gots to worry about if I just peace out in my sleep. i'm not suicidal or nothin, but...idk, eternal sleep seems p cool atm

seatbelts are cool. i wore them every time when i used to drive.

fwiw my brother was in a car accident and not wearing his seatbelt at the time. he flew out of the car and landed on the ground unhurt. lucky as hell.

xp if it is indeed just like sleep, I'm with ya. I think most people fear dying more than death, like you say, and that makes perfect sense to me. My anxieties are more about doing "enough" while I'm still here, to sorta earn the rest, I guess

that said, if it's hellfire and space monsters or something even more unimaginably horrible, that's gonna suck big time

biggest fear: some kind of lingering consciousness while buried, for all fucking eternity

sweet dreams, ILX!

that used to scare me but now i figure u can get used to anything even frozen eternity

i honestly can't believe we had a discussion in 2017 on the merits of seatbelt laws. what's next, vaccines?

here's one that should be a little more controversial: combustible tobacco products should not be on the market

k3vin otm (on both counts)

in-n-out burgers are merely ok

blasphemy. you gotta order 'animal style' man

brimstead otm and not controversial so not otm

xp: So long as discreet/incombustible tobacco is still available for those who self-medicate. Snuff, snus, or even chew for the spitters who want oral cancer. I fully recognize that I don't have the right to harm the health of others, but frankly short-acting nicotine has been a life-saver for this neurotic.

When you're sliding into first and you feel something burst...it might *not* be diarrhea

I know it's controversial in the wider world but would the average ilx person be glad to be rid of cars and motorbikes? Even with a good public transport system we'd probably need some taxis.
Would be quite difficult for farms to downscale the number of vehicles used.

I'd feel kind of bad for motor vehicle enthusiasts, except from guys who use cars to impress women.

but then paul walker will have died for nothing

Too Fast, Too Furious

Ban them in that London, for sure.

peanut butter is bad and if you like it so are you

i'm comfortable with my badness tbh

Mistaking controversial for WRONG there

open masturbation at work should be encouraged

congrats on your seven years at the morgue btw

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/shocked-will-smith.gif

ilx got better

open masturbation at work should be encouraged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3BNsttZQGQ

US and U.K. peanut butter are different. U.K. vers vastly more sour/rancid.

whhaaaatt the UK stuff with actual peanuts in is great, smooth peanut butter is like sickly paste for babbies

Yeah no eff smooth peanut butter. I always get the all natural superchunk stuff that's just slightly ground peanuts and salt.

damn straight

Wait, I've been eating crunchy peanut butter since childhood. That's not UK-specific. 2xp

Huh, when I Google Kraft crunchy peanut butter, I seem to just get Canadian and Australian results. Do they not sell that in the US?

The super-hippie stuff where the oil separates from the solids and you need to stir is a pita, admittedly.

I guess I have been mostly buying smooth recently because cheap and easy to spread.

I've never even tried peanut butter because it sounds like such a bad idea.

the crunchy/smooth split is not along US/UK lines. that is a falsity! both smooth and crunchy are available on both sides of the atlantic. i am disparaging u.k.p.b, only because every single jar of peanut butter i have ever opened in the UK is off and some configuration of (a) undersalted (b) rancid (c) separated (d) grainy (e) cardboardish (e)mildewy. i've heard tell that americans will buy anything oleaginous in a green bottle under the understanding that it is olive oil, and i am pretty sure that something similar is true for u.k.p.b.

the crunchy/smooth split is not along US/UK lines. that is a falsity!

My bad, I thought that was the case, though we have smooth pb here I assumed it was an American thing mostly. I might still largely be right.

Along the same lines, am I the only one who finds the idea of peanut butter and jam jelly together disgusting?

kraft peanut butter appears to be canada-only. a little curious, as kraft does not seem to own any of the major american brands

Isn't palm oil in most peanut butter? I used to love Nutella and consider it a relatively healthy type of junk food. But then all the major Italian supermarkets have took it off the shelves and off-putting stuff about Palm Oil being a total carcinogen and also fucking up the environment was everywhere.

The more I see the Trump "grab her by the pussy" quote perpetually made a huge deal by liberal activists, the more petty and childish the activists seem to me, like a bunch of kindergarteners who can't get over the fact that someone said a bad word. Especially in context of the rest of the quote, which sounds as much juvenile as predatory and reminds me a little of Steve Carrell in the 40yo virgin talking about what breasts feel like.