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On a related note, does anyone know if those new Off! gadgets that hook onto your belt and have a tiny little fan inside them to ward off mosquitoes actually works? I would much prefer that to bathing in DEET.
09/02/09
"The quiet, battery-powered fan circulates repellent all around you."
"If you move, allow a few minutes for the unit to rebuild its protection."
"Avoid breathing vapor."
So, I'm supposed to sit still and let the DEET vapor waft about me, but not breath it in.
I'll take my chances using 98% concentration DEET carefully, so that I can get off my ass out into the woods and hike all day.
Still, one should expect mosquito, fly, and tick bites. That's why it's called "outdoors."
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-According to friends of friends (I swear), GHB's glorious effects include throwing up all over yourself, passing out cold and, yes, blacking out and forgetting everything that happened. So even if people are doing it by choice, you've got to wonder what sort of company they're in.
-Dangerous abortions? Yikes. What a time for abortion-providing doctors to be dwindling. Keep scaring them out of it and no one will even know what to do in an emergency birth.
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Sorry. That bit just really hit home for me.
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I'll go out drinking and feel NO BUGS. But the next morning I'll see bite. They must get me in my sleep!
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Who knew first love in Paris included shitting your pants, watching 101 Dalmatians on a continuous loop and puking on your aunt.
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@LuvEwan: This one, on the other hand, stole my formula for cold fusion, but at least he also taught my cold, unfeeling scientist heart to love for the first time!
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My laid-back husband, on the other hand, can roll in 6-inch grass and splash in stagnant water and emerge unharmed.
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I get bitten all the damn time, so I must be super laid-back.
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In the innocence of youth, I thought that the absence of welts was just because we had an "understanding" (me and the mosquitoes) and that I had coaxed them all into a peace accord with me.
Now, I realize it is more likely that I just don't react. :)
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So... pretentious, cliche, and self-absorbed? That sounds like a lot of babies I know. Thanks, Philosopher Alison Gopnik!
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Not in my case -- thanks to my awful, awful grandmother, I have really visceral negative reactions to elderly women. (Like, you know how TV shows sometimes put old people in danger, or make them deal with sad things, in order to tug your heartstrings? When it's an old lady, my first reaction is, "Good.")
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