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[Euld]

On a different topic, apperently my niece wrote a little narrative in school about slicing open her own body, and peeling back the skin to see how it all works, etc. On the back of her semester final test, just before turning it in.

So, yeah, call from the school counciler.

Also: I had bought my neice a nice set of cooking knives and a sharpener for christmas...

Maybe she wants to be a doctor?  There was a girl I knew in my biology class who was a bit obsessed with dissecting things...

[Flying Dice]

Usually, I just psych myself up into a manic state, hammer out the final, and run out of the room screaming before I collapse into a puddle of self-doubt.

That's totally healthy, right?

Sounds pretty much like what I do, except I do that for every responsibility that is school-related.

SeaWorld sued over 'enslaved' killer whales.
Five killer whales have been named as plaintiffs in a court case which argues they deserve the same constitutional protection from slavery as humans.
A US judge is considering People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (Peta) lawsuit against SeaWorld.

It is reportedly the first time a US court has heard legal arguments over whether animals should enjoy the same constitutional protections as humans.

Seriously PETA?
Whats the point, I can't imagine it would ever get anywhere close to passing, and even if it did, vast sectors of the US economy rely on ownership of animals (namely hunting/farming animals/pets/zoos/about a zillion other things) and would mobilize to defeat this if it did get close to (somehow) passing. And it's not going to be good publicity for them either, since everyone will be going "Wow those PETA folks are crazy".

My WTF from that is that they're up in arms about SeaWorld whales which may or may not live for less time in captivity, rather than, say, the fucking whaling fleets and fishing fleets that are busy killing every trace of marine life that they can reach. But then who expects reason and rationality from PETA?

[kaenneth]

Not as bad as the time she made up a story that involved being molested. I think she was trying to make up an excuse to not go out with a boy who liked her, and lies compounded. Then the boy reported it to the school.

Could have went badly for me, as an adult uncle living in the same house... Fortunetly, the story she told was about a step-dad, which she dosn't have, and many other obviously untrue things; instead of about an uncle.

[MaximumZero]

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I'm nonplussed. Yup, chalk that up in the WTF column.

[Valid_Dark]

Does anyone else have those moments where you become super aware of your breathing,
and then can't figure out how to breath without focusing on breathing, because if you try to not focus on breathing you stop breathing, so you have to think about breathing until you start breathing without thinking about it?

[MaximumZero]

I was terrified of sleeping as a small child for that very reason.

[Scaraban]

Does anyone else have those moments where you become super aware of your breathing,
and then can't figure out how to breath without focusing on breathing, because if you try to not focus on breathing you stop breathing, so you have to think about breathing until you start breathing without thinking about it?

...Damn it

[MaximumZero]

I've found that the best defense is a good offense. Take a nice, deep, slow breath in, hold it as long as you can, and when you exhale, focus on something else immediately.

[Max White]

I gotta be honest, does not happen to me. I mean I become aware of my breathing, but if I hold my breath and don't think about it it goes away.

[Angel Of Death]

Does anyone else have those moments where you become super aware of your breathing,
and then can't figure out how to breath without focusing on breathing, because if you try to not focus on breathing you stop breathing, so you have to think about breathing until you start breathing without thinking about it?

It happens every few minutes to me. One of the many reasons why I wish I didn't have to breathe.

[Cyprinus]

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[Gatleos]

I am afraid.

[Powder Miner]

Something that struck me as a bit odd just now. I have only ever had one real-life thing go into a nightmare (and I rarely have dreams that I remember at all, used to have them more when I was younger.). And that thing is the red blinking lights on smoke detectors, when I was little. I would lie awake for a while, thinking that it was a laser and would shoot me. I proceeded to have the oddest dream involving countdowns when I have to say "No!" or else get shot by lazors, creepy gnome-things that would crawl up to eat me if I moved weird on the bed, and having to refuse my grandmother offering me peaches (house teleport whoooo) because of the countdown.

It was genuinely terrifying.

[kaenneth]

I used to have dreams that the luggage carosel at the airport would swallow me up when I tried to grab luggage. That the metal panels would slide open, with a sickly green light, and mashing, crushing gears. Same with Escelators now that I think about it.

One time an escelator ate my shoelace.

[alway]

There is apparently something called "Exploding Head Syndrome."