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Josquius

#23955
March 04, 2013, 09:51:15 AM
I've decided as a challenge to try and go a whole day without eating (Just one, not gonna make a habit of it). I wonder which day would be the best....a day where I'm busy I suppose....hmmm....
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DGuller

#23956
March 04, 2013, 10:23:08 AM
Quote from: Tyr on March 04, 2013, 09:51:15 AM
I've decided as a challenge to try and go a whole day without eating (Just one, not gonna make a habit of it). I wonder which day would be the best....a day where I'm busy I suppose....hmmm....
It's not that difficult.

derspiess

#23957
March 04, 2013, 10:25:23 AM
Get a stomach virus.  You won't have any choice!

But yeah, I did it as a sort of challenge once back in college.  Actually I was just so busy with classes & work I realized I had missed a couple meals.  So I went the rest of that day without eating just to see if I could make it. 
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

CountDeMoney

#23958
March 04, 2013, 10:35:49 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 04, 2013, 09:27:37 AM
Vonnegut is overrated.

I don't know about overrated, but I'd definitely say he was a writer for his time and should be judged within that context, similar to the beat writers.

garbon

#23959
March 04, 2013, 10:51:10 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 04, 2013, 10:23:08 AM
Quote from: Tyr on March 04, 2013, 09:51:15 AM
I've decided as a challenge to try and go a whole day without eating (Just one, not gonna make a habit of it). I wonder which day would be the best....a day where I'm busy I suppose....hmmm....
It's not that difficult.

Indeed.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Barrister

#23960
March 04, 2013, 11:04:29 AM
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Malthus

#23961
March 04, 2013, 11:54:03 AM
Quote from: derspiess on March 04, 2013, 10:25:23 AM
Get a stomach virus.  You won't have any choice!

But yeah, I did it as a sort of challenge once back in college.  Actually I was just so busy with classes & work I realized I had missed a couple meals.  So I went the rest of that day without eating just to see if I could make it.

First World Challenge!  :D
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

#23962
March 04, 2013, 01:10:01 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 04, 2013, 11:54:03 AM
Quote from: derspiess on March 04, 2013, 10:25:23 AM
Get a stomach virus.  You won't have any choice!

But yeah, I did it as a sort of challenge once back in college.  Actually I was just so busy with classes & work I realized I had missed a couple meals.  So I went the rest of that day without eating just to see if I could make it.

First World Challenge!  :D

:D
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#23963
March 04, 2013, 01:15:23 PM
Well, it's not much of a challenge to go without eating when you don't have any food.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

sbr

#23964
March 04, 2013, 01:15:29 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 03, 2013, 11:11:07 AM
Damn.

QuoteExpectant parents killed in NYC crash; baby born at scene
By Alexander Smith, BreakingNews.com, and Tracy Connor, NBC News

A young couple en route to a hospital to have their first child was killed in a car crash in New York City early Sunday but the baby was born at the scene and survived.

Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21 and Orthodox Jews, were using a car service to go to the hospital when another vehicle crashed into the side of theirs at an intersection in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Hasidic community activist and family friend Isaac Abraham said.

Nathan Glauber was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital, while his wife died at Bellevue, the New York Post and The Associated Press reported.

Pictures of the scene were posted on Vos Iz Neias, a news site that covers the Jewish community.

The couple's son was delivered at the scene and was taken to a hospital in serious condition, said Abraham, who is also a neighbor of Raizy Glauber's parents and lives two blocks from the scene of the crash.

Abraham said: "The child is in a serious condition in Beth Israel Hospital, in Manhattan. Now we just pray with the child that all medical efforts keep him alive."

He added: "I know Raizy because I saw her grow up from a child."

The driver of the vehicle that hit the couple's car fled, police told the AP. No arrests have yet been made.

The Post reported that a BMW was involved and that it was the driver of the BMW who fled the scene, at the intersection of Kent Avenue and Wilson Street.

The condition of the car service's driver is unclear, police said, according to the AP.

Brooklyn is home to the largest community of ultra-orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250,000.

The baby died today. :(

Syt

#23965
March 04, 2013, 02:36:06 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

CountDeMoney

#23966
March 04, 2013, 02:37:28 PM
Quote from: sbr on March 04, 2013, 01:15:29 PM
The baby died today. :(

Hat trick.  That'll look good for the jury.

fhdz

#23967
March 04, 2013, 03:17:36 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 04, 2013, 01:15:23 PM
Well, it's not much of a challenge to go without eating when you don't have any food.

The goalposts move; the challenge then becomes "living".
and the horse you rode in on

Iormlund

#23968
March 04, 2013, 03:27:16 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 04, 2013, 09:51:15 AM
I've decided as a challenge to try and go a whole day without eating (Just one, not gonna make a habit of it). I wonder which day would be the best....a day where I'm busy I suppose....hmmm....

I find it much harder to keep a diet than to stop eating altogether. It's surprisingly easy.

CountDeMoney

#23969
March 04, 2013, 03:29:59 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 04, 2013, 10:25:23 AM
Actually I was just so busy with classes & work I realized I had missed a couple meals.  So I went the rest of that day without eating just to see if I could make it.

Shit, I do that now--missing meals.  Sometimes I just forget.  Unfortunately, it doesn't show.  :lol:
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