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but don't, as its surface temperature is zero kelvin and yr fingers wd shatter into an icy dust

*cough*

"What would you ask us?"

Miss Lavis laid her hand pleasantly on Lucy's arm, as if to suggest that she, at all events, would get full marks."

OK, then, something I DO believe; Derek Bailey will have a number one single before this decade's out.

*does this controversial opinion necessarily have to be mine?

that's something I WANT to believe.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

The people who sometimes annoy me on ILE are on the whole the ones whose talents I most envy.

AND WHAT ANDREW SAID!!

I believe the Harry Potter industry is even more guilty of this.

But he DID!

I don't have a firm opinion on whether abortion should be legal. I've yet to see a totally convincing pro-choice argument (not that I've been reading in depth). My main reason for being sort of pro-choice is that it's a controversial topic and since I don't have a firm decided opinion I want to leave it up to personal choice.

Chilli edgelords were once kids who doused everything in ketchup

Far, far fewer people should be running marathons. I come across so many people who are just starting to run, and they set themselves a target of a marathon. Please don't: chances are you'll burn out or get injured, and if you do run the race itself is going to be an expensive, painful experience. If you finish it (which is impressive, no doubt!) you're probably going to want to take a few weeks off, and then you'll be back at square one. It's a bad cycle. Instead, aim for a local 5k. If you're lucky enough to have a Parkrun nearby, run that every few weeks, and in between train with an aim to improve your time. Newbies will find running so much more manageable and enjoyable that way.

I an taking this advice to heart and not running a marathon.

I didn't run three marathons last year alone

Far, far fewer people should be running

here's my special snowflake running opinion: people should run because it feels good. fuck a race. why does everything good have to be made into a competition?

I didn't run three marathons last year alone

people should only run if they are being chased by mortal predators. as god intended

I ran for the bus once last year at 1am. Felt young again but fuck that.

Sacrificing myself for you all by not getting up off the comfy chair at all today.

here's my special snowflake running opinion: people should run because it feels good. fuck a race. why does everything good have to be made into a competition?

doing a half marathon race this sunday, i'm inclined to agree with you.

Is running just to take part not a snowflake now?

A few years ago I did a Parkrun because I needed to do some exercise of some sort and it was a horrible experience. What I realised was that I don't mind exercise, I just cannot do it with other people watching me or even doing it next to me.

My wife was a runner until her back got messed up. She was always training for some race but she never saw it as a competition. If she finished a half-marathon she was proud of herself. It was more about having a goal to work towards.

One of my friends decided he wanted to do an Ironman after he turned 50. He spent an entire year training intensively and successfully completed one last fall. He has spent the succeeding months trying to get back in the good graces of his wife after quasi-neglecting the family for the entire training period lol. That kind of commitment takes a lot out of everyone. (I think he's glad he did it, but he's sure not clamoring for another big goal.)

Everyone I know who runs marathons is like, yeah I’m gonna win this shit

I saw someone on the news after the London marathon who had won the record for "fastest time dressed as a crustacean"

Disappointing for all the other runners dressed as crustaceans.

guessing they hadn't bunged any money to Guinness, very much doubt that any real checks were done into other competitors who have dressed as crustaceans at marathons over the years.

Can't we just dress as crustaceans for fun? Why is everything a competition?

All the records broken at the TCS London Marathon 2025

jesus

if I were a billionaire I'd start my reign of terror by paying professional marathon runners to break all of these stupid records

running after a ball ✓✓✓

running before a ball xxx

you get all sweaty in the gown

Nothing worse than sweaty balls

in a gown

restrictly ball room

stickly ballroom?

i like running, a good friend just ran his first marathon here— don’t really understand the antipathy toward people running them. that said, he trained intelligently for over a year, all while being the head routesetter for a number of climbing gyms and coaching youth classes. fitness is sort of his thing, along with photography.

My only real beef with runners is when they decide they simply must run on sidewalks that are widely known and expected to be packed with pedestrians and then loudly express exasperation that they have to adjust their rate of speed to negotiate people.

over a million people have applied for next year's London marathon according to the news this morning, 1.5% of the population

My wife is one of them.

hardwood floors suck

as someone who has them and owns their house, I agree

disagree but now I want a flooring poll.

As someone who has them and owns their house, I agree. At the same time, they are my favorite kind of flooring.

Tile is too hard. Carpet is gross. I love wood flooring but I acknowledge that it's kind of stupid. Ideally flooring that costs that much would be extremely durable. Wood dents and gouges and if it gets wet you're hosed. When ours was finished their sander left a subtle wavy pattern everywhere. It's not awful but it sort of drives me crazy. Our last house had cracks in the foundation and cracks in the iron pipes so a lot of our flooring developed moisture damage.

We had carpet growing up. I remember going to visit a girl that I was crushing on in high school. Her house had hardwood floors and I had this Crumb-like fascination with her and the wooden floor and so now this is my curse. We even put wood in the kitchen. But not the bathrooms.

if you're installing wood floors now, they're probably just a veneer unless you're paying out the ass, and even then, I'd be skeptical of calling it hardwood

(I'm adhering to the thread title in tone if not in content)

I have lived in a house with a carpeted kitchen and it was gross af; my wife briefly lived in a London flat with a carpeted bathroom and that was grosser bt far.

In my current house we had a grotesquely stained carpet and spent a fortune (which we did not have) only to find it had asbestos underneath. So before we could put in the new carpet (which, remember, cost a fortune that we did not have) we had to spend a completely different fortune, which we still did not have, on abatement. That was 5 years ago and the carpet is gross again.

So the original hardwood floor (which we don't deserve and have done exactly nothing to take care of) is the winner here.

*by far

bad look for me, but if I found asbestos floor tile in decent condition under carpet and it wasn't garish, I'd go with that. it's largely not friable unless someone did the dumb thing of sanding it to get carpet glue to stick to it and that shit lasts forever

We went to visit some friends who had moved into a new old house months before. They had more or less settled in but hadn’t tackled any of the pressing issues with the house yet.

They had two little boys and the bathrooms were carpeted. I made the mistake of using The Boys restroom and *phewww* that was gross! Reeked of piss.

They have since replaced the carpet with tile.

lol my elderly grandfather, before he moved to assisted living, had a carpeted bathroom. he also called a plumber once because "the toilet is leaking" (it was not)

saying a little prayer for whoever had to rip the carpet out of that bathroom

on a related, brighter note: my grandparents built that house circa 1960ish and always had carpet in the living room, meaning that finishing the floors once the carpet was removed resulted in insanely nice wood floors

My parents carpeted everything after I moved out and there were no kids around. Both bathrooms are carpeted and there’s no exhaust fan so it smells mildewy and funky.

if I found asbestos floor tile in decent condition under carpet and it wasn't garish, I'd go with that

If it were just between me and my conscience I would have 100% have carpeted over it. Unfortunately the carpet installers found it and could not proceed (legally) without a certificate proving abatement by a contractor licensed to do so.

Nothing worse than sweaty balls

― the babality of evil (wins)

have you ever really lived though

Hardwood floors are the worst form of flooring, except for all the others

-Bob Marley

I have white tile and boy does it show how much hair I lose

Nothing worse than sweaty balls

― the babality of evil (wins)

have you ever really lived though