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Heruka:
what was the suicide rate during the 90's. I'm sure I heard, but I forgot.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 2:46:20 pm)
bela:
Who would know that?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 2:48:55 pm)
Heruka:
It's supposed to go uo inti the 50's this weekend. Which is good. We're done with our scuba lessons, all we have to do now is make 4 open-water dives. We'll waite till summer and dive lake Erie. I'll be able to dive the wrecks this summer. Woo-hoo!
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 2:50:18 pm)
Chewing Wax:
That sounds like fun. Isn't breathing underwater a kick? I just got the biggest kick out of that. I haven't been scuba diving in 16 years.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 2:54:58 pm)
Heruka:
It's really bizarre. Doesn't seem right. Although I've only been in a kiddie pool so far yet, and not yet out in an uncontrolled enivironment.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 2:58:28 pm)
Heruka:
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 3:01:46 pm)
Heruka:
We had all of 3 lessons at 4 hours each. I thought there was more to it than that. It's all breathing. Learning to breath. That's pretty much it.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 3:04:42 pm)
Chewing Wax:
I had to do crap like dive in and put together the regulator under water in the deep end of the pool, and hook it up to the tank and put it on. It was timed. Lots of info about avoiding the bends. Sounds like military training now that I think of it. What the hell?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 3:08:56 pm)
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(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 3:55:06 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Those tiny Asian critters love their rum
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 3:55:48 pm)
Heruka:
K Mart is down to 85 cents a share.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:06:27 pm)
:
Rate of Suicide in the United States, 1990–94
NOTE: Per 100,000 population.
Adjusted to the age, sex, and race/ethnicity distribution of the 1980 U.S. population.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:07:00 pm)
Decoy:
If you squint at it, killing yourself seems proportional to killing others. I didn't expect that.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:10:10 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Isn't that interesting.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:11:17 pm)
Decoy:
You can almost track the market crashes.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:14:28 pm)
Decoy:
This is so funny I just laughed out loud, what the fuck was with our nation's founders? This can't be true:
On 23 August 1779, the USS Constitution set sail from Boston. She left with 475officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7400 cannon shot, 11,600 poundsof black powder, and 79,400 gallons of rum on board. Her mission was to destroyand harass English shipping. Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 poundsof black powder and 68,300 gallons of rum. Then she headed for the Azores,arriving there on 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and64,300 gallons of Portugese wine. On 18 November she set sail for England. Inthe ensuing days, she defeated five British Men-of War and captured and scuttled12 English Merchantmen, salvaging only their rum. By 27 January, her powder andshot were exhausted. Unarmed, she made a raid up the Firth of Clyde. Her landingparty captured a whiskey distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons aboard bydawn. Then she headed home. The Constitution arrived in Boston harbor on 20Febuary 1780 with no cannon shot, no powder, no food, no rum, no whisky, butwith 48,600 gallons of stagnate water.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:19:44 pm)
Chewing Wax:
The British navy was the same way. They drank gallons and gallons of rum. Each man had a gallon a day ration. That rum couldn't be full strength. People couldn't function.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:21:02 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Half a gallon a day maybe
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:21:27 pm)
Decoy:
I want to know the source of this. Did the sailors drink that all themselves? Did they get the British sailors drunk first and then defeat them? Was the revolutionary war was just some drunken escapade over liquor tax?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:22:09 pm)
Chewing Wax:
What else was there to do back then?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:22:38 pm)
Chewing Wax:
I just searched with the opening sentence. http://www.gthhh.com/beer/beerpage.ht
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:23:58 pm)
Chewing Wax:
"The math is quite enlightening: Length of cruise: 181 days Booze consumption: 1.26 gallons per man per day (this does NOT includethe unknown quantify of rum captured from the 12 English merchant vessels in November) "
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:25:10 pm)
Decoy:
Between September 1779 and March of 1780, SEVEN months, 475 crew drank 252,000 gallons of rum, wine, and whiskey, plus and undiscosed amount salvaged from 12 English Merchentmen. That's 530 gallons a man over the trip - at LEAST two gallons a day. How does that leave time to fight?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:27:36 pm)
Decoy:
That's my math. But the real question is why did they take the water? To put out the alcohol fires?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:28:43 pm)
Chewing Wax:
If you drink a gallon of rum, you don't even wake up the next day to drink another. I think it's all a lie. A stinking lie.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:30:24 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Say. that gives me an idea.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:32:05 pm)
Detlef Sping:
Ballast?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:32:13 pm)
Detlef Sping:
No, it's just these shoes.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:33:05 pm)
Decoy:
Doesn't say much for the Royal Navy either,
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:34:10 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Canibals
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:35:30 pm)
Colonel Kilgore:
You either fight, or you drink! What's it gonna be. son?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:35:42 pm)
Decoy:
Are there stats on how many British sailors were consumed?
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:37:07 pm)
Chewing Wax:
There must be. Somewhere.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 4:37:44 pm)