In a perfect world...

[cjsmith]

(Borrowing from lkeele and crazyladynocats)

In a perfect world:

• No one would ever make a large sacrifice on my behalf, for which I did not ask and of which I remained unaware, then expect me to feel grateful or to reciprocate
• Women's pants could be bought by the numbers: waist, hip, inseam
• Personal growth would be like debugging software: finding the problem is the hard part
• No one would be stupid enough to buy dry-clean-only clothes, so manufacturers would focus on making washable ones
• Calling oneself a vegetarian, much less a vegan, if one eats fish and/or chicken would be grounds for a beating (not the good kind)
• Speed limits would be per-driver: if you KNOW the position and relative speeds of everyone around you, you get +10mph
• I could afford a Pitts

Just had to throw in that last one.

Comments

[portia.livejournal.com]

Calling oneself a vegetarian, much less a vegan, if one eats fish and/or chicken would be grounds for a beating (not the good kind)

Amen.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I threw that one in for crazyladynocats. She'd said something similar in a recent post.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

* Reasonable
* Logical, but then it's not "fashion"...
* Oh, yes, I wish...* Anything dry-clean-only gets worn only on special occasions (well, except for suede)
* No comment
* (grin)
* Me too, even if I couldn't fly it... yet

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

"Yet" ?

I LIKE you. :-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(blush) why, thanks.

I'm just a lowly PP-ASEL, after all... but one can always aspire ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's all I am, too. Plus PP-Glider, which isn't really applicable. No new checkrides required. Just that high-performance signoff (which I don't have, YET) and taildragger (which I do). I'd really really recommend spin training before soloing. D@#$ thing will spin if you just look at it funny.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Spin training before taildraggers, or high-performance? I'd expect the latter because of the increased engine torque (more rudder needed, I would expect) but I haven't flown either. Or a biplane...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Spin training before taildraggers, or high-performance?

Oh sorry, nah, just before the Pitts. Or before any seriously aerobatic muscle plane. Of course, I like recommending spin training just because spins are FUN. Inverted flat ones are really fun. The horizon just... it just... it shouldn't DO that.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that sounds like fun! (admiring glance)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*bouncebouncebounce* It's cool! *bounce* It's like being in one of those beautiful fancy rotating restaurants at the top of a tall building, with the whole of creation going round before your eyes... only sped up 1000X and upside down. :-)

D@#$, I gotta get back in the air.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(envy) I've only had basic spin training, nothing inverted....

Hope that your hot tub rotated as well this afternoon :-).

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

There ought to be a word for fish/chicken/veggie eaters. Then they would keep misusing vegetarian/vegan.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Rondo calls a vegetarian who still eats fish a "catholic vegetarian" -- you know, from the catholic practice of eating no meat on Fridays, but eating fish instead. (I always thought of fish as meat, but I guess not everybody does! Maybe we should ask the fish! )

[rah.livejournal.com]

Calling oneself a vegetarian, much less a vegan, if one eats fish and/or chicken would be grounds for a beating (not the good kind)

I don't think I'll ever understand why, after hearing that I'm a vegetarian so many people insist on asking "so do you eat chicken or seafood?" HUH?!?!? They have faces don't they?

The world is overpopulated with the wrong kind of people.....

[portia.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I know what you mean. My favorite stupid comment is, "How do you get your protein?" That drives me nuts!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

'Cos too many people misuse the word. I call vegetarians-who-eat-fish "fishitarians" and I don't even have a word for the ones who'll eat chicken too -- other than carnivore.

Certainty

[deyo.livejournal.com]

Speed limits would be per-driver: if you KNOW the position and relative speeds of everyone around you, you get +10mph

If I know them to the quantum level, can I have another 670,616,619?

Re: Certainty

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If you know them to the quantum level, you can dig up Heisenberg and use his angular momentum to power your vehicle. :)