Comments on: Excuse Me? http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/ Free Minds, Free Markets, Free Booze Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:40:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: mene http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4224 mene Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:34:52 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4224 Well, then good for housing changing the training program. Back when I worked for housing (all of three years ago), there was little mention of anyone going out the windows. And, until someone blew up a mattress in Hamilton that year, there was no mention of fireworks, either. Well, then good for housing changing the training program. Back when I worked for housing (all of three years ago), there was little mention of anyone going out the windows. And, until someone blew up a mattress in Hamilton that year, there was no mention of fireworks, either.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4223 Melissa Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:13:16 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4223 Matt? Where you at?! I got a lousy 82 on that final. Matt? Where you at?! I got a lousy 82 on that final.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4222 Melissa Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:11:16 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4222 Up with Life! Up with Life!

]]> By: Timbo http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4221 Timbo Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:06:42 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4221 Down with gravity! Down with gravity!

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4220 Timothy Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:07:08 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4220 Damnable gravity, always killing people. We must raise gravitational awareness! Damnable gravity, always killing people. We must raise gravitational awareness!

]]> By: Matt http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4219 Matt Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:24:02 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4219 on second thought, she fell. no jumping was involved. the truth lives on... on second thought, she fell. no jumping was involved. the truth lives on…

]]> By: Matt http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4218 Matt Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:22:53 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4218 "probably more people die each year from jumping out windows, but you don't hear about preventing that in RA training class." - oh, but you do. and not only did the girl in the story fall out of the four story window but landed on metal rods. could the RA training portion be more uplifting? “probably more people die each year from jumping out windows, but you don’t hear about preventing that in RA training class.”
- oh, but you do. and not only did the girl in the story fall out of the four story window but landed on metal rods. could the RA training portion be more uplifting?

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4217 Timothy Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:51:06 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4217 So these people are like William Gibson but without all that talent for writing? So these people are like William Gibson but without all that talent for writing?

]]> By: Melissa http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4216 Melissa Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:43:25 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4216 I don't know if I'd want to eat at a bistro arrogantly staffed by people who admittedly have body image problems bad enough to result in physical harm, and proclaim themselves "the world's first restaurant for anorexics." I have an aquaintence who my friends and I call the "food police" because we can't eat without her telling us we're bad, and how many calories we're eating, and how much we need to excercise to get it off. It got to the point of us eating in secret. I'll be damned if I'm going to come out of hiding to eat with a whole restaurant full of her! The Insurgent bit is not online, but is the December 2004 issue 16.2, page 17, the excerpt from Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance and the Culture of Control by Jensen and Draffan. It pretty much jumps to conclusions about nanotechnology, immortality and anti-deathist thinking as the future of mankind and the source of devaluing the natural process of death. Scary stuff: scarier still, it is an excerpt from 285 pages of what borders on an Earth First/Wachowski brothers film. BTW, "deathist" is my new favorite word. I don’t know if I’d want to eat at a bistro arrogantly staffed by people who admittedly have body image problems bad enough to result in physical harm, and proclaim themselves “the world’s first restaurant for anorexics.”

I have an aquaintence who my friends and I call the “food police” because we can’t eat without her telling us we’re bad, and how many calories we’re eating, and how much we need to excercise to get it off. It got to the point of us eating in secret. I’ll be damned if I’m going to come out of hiding to eat with a whole restaurant full of her!

The Insurgent bit is not online, but is the December 2004 issue 16.2, page 17, the excerpt from Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance and the Culture of Control by Jensen and Draffan. It pretty much jumps to conclusions about nanotechnology, immortality and anti-deathist thinking as the future of mankind and the source of devaluing the natural process of death. Scary stuff: scarier still, it is an excerpt from 285 pages of what borders on an Earth First/Wachowski brothers film.

BTW, “deathist” is my new favorite word.

]]> By: mene http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4215 mene Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:58:18 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4215 Something from the Insurgent is wickedly stupid? That's an improvement. Way too much attention is given to eating disorders for how few people die from them...probably more people die each year from jumping out windows, but you don't hear about preventing that in RA training class. Something from the Insurgent is wickedly stupid? That’s an improvement.

Way too much attention is given to eating disorders for how few people die from them…probably more people die each year from jumping out windows, but you don’t hear about preventing that in RA training class.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4214 Melissa Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:53:51 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4214 That is so funny, Tim. I was doing the math in my head as I read that and I thought, wow, I need to stop thinking like Tim. 100% of people will die, anorexic or not. There's a wickedly stupid Insurgent article touching on that, but that's for another day. That is so funny, Tim. I was doing the math in my head as I read that and I thought, wow, I need to stop thinking like Tim.

100% of people will die, anorexic or not. There’s a wickedly stupid Insurgent article touching on that, but that’s for another day.

]]> By: Timothy http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4213 Timothy Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:33:54 +0000 http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2004/12/21/excuse-me/#comment-4213 In the United States, between .5 percent and 1 percent of American women struggle with anorexia, and between 5 percent and 20 percent of those struggling with anorexia nervosa will die, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. So somewhere between .00025 and .002 percent of American women die from anorexia. I think we should be fighting heart disease instead. In the United States, between .5 percent and 1 percent of American women struggle with anorexia, and between 5 percent and 20 percent of those struggling with anorexia nervosa will die, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.

So somewhere between .00025 and .002 percent of American women die from anorexia. I think we should be fighting heart disease instead.

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