Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XVIII - The Debutante Death

I need to drink more water

Be careful, you can die from drinking too much water.

Particularly if you're submerged in it.

And especialy if you drink it while submerged in it.

Drinking in the drink

“It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water.”

The radio built up a new series of H2G2. I caught the first few minutes of two episodes. The first was a dreadful mishmash of some things that had happened before, but without any structure or particular relevance. I dozed off. The second one went into a musical number and again I dozed off. I should stress that although I have a cat, I don't have catalepsy.

Oddly enough, I was reading an '80s magazine earlier on this week. The fourth Adams novel was being reviewed. The reviewer who, whether he's to be agreed with or not, really does know his sci-fi books, didn't think much of it, and charted the diminishing returns of the series.

Ah, facts versus opinions. Quite a war to watch.

From 1739 to 1748 England and Spain fought the War of Jenkin's ear.

Then there was the Football War between El Salvador and Honduras.

The shortest war on record is the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896. It lasted between 38 and 45 minutes on August 27, 1896

I was explaining the football war to someone only a couple of weeks ago. There was the Cod Wars between Namor and Aquaman. No, wait ... between Britain and Iceland.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted between 38 and 45 minutes.

It would be embarrassing to sleep in past the war you're supposed to be in. Self preserving, but embarrassing.

Not a good time for the train to break down either. “Oh crap, sorry pals, I was stuck on the train while you were dodging bullets...”

It has been a while since I was in a stuck train.

There were a few here when it snowed a couple of weeks ago.

Last year here in Boston, there was a new head of the public transportation system who moved here from Atlanta. There was a snowstorm and she shut down the buses and subway at 7:30 pm (the subway runs until 12:30am) and basically stranded thousands of people. It was a major storm, but not anything we haven't gotten through before. She said she did it for the safety of the drivers. She resigned shortly after that.

Sounds like the mistake was too big to recover from.

There's definitely been a change in risk appetite here. While correct for some regions, it's not granular enough for others. It just leads to services being shut down needlessly and, noticeably, for some public services to take advantage of that.

The preparedness of the population matters too

Well the last storm predicted turned out to be a nothing show.

Like my father used to say about meteorologists "They don't know!"

It's a very hit and miss kind of job.

A boxer is another example of a hit and miss kind of job.

Weird. I posted a post saying that I didn't miss my job because I like it. But it is missing.