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Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"
This stopped being my positivity thread around the same time the dinosaurs were saying, what’s that bright light in the sky?

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Harris Ranch comes to mind, alongside Interstate 5 in California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The largest cattle feedlot in California, right next to the freeway. The stench of cattle shit stretches for miles. So thick and pungent it makes you worry it's going to stick in your clothing.
I think Wallace (or his character) was saying that Allston is shabby, not that it literally smelled bad, because it doesn't. (I haven't attempted to read Infinite Jest.) It's just an ordinary urban neighborhood (I have driven through there). Maybe Wallace is trying to say that the character is a bit snobby, or Wallace himself was a bit snobby. (His attempt at jest in that snippet fell flat.)

So if shabbiness is really the criteria here, I'd nominate East St. Louis, Camden, NJ, and Gary, IN as far worse than Allston.
 
When my dad was young, the only 24-hour restaurant in his hometown was at a truck stop just outside town. It was next to the office of Texas County Feedlot, the biggest feedlot in Oklahoma. While the joint (as he called it) had great food, many a person lost what they ate going to their car.
I think Wallace (or his character) was saying that Allston is shabby, not that it literally smelled bad, because it doesn't. (I haven't attempted to read Infinite Jest.) It's just an ordinary urban neighborhood (I have driven through there). Maybe Wallace is trying to say that the character is a bit snobby, or Wallace himself was a bit snobby. (His attempt at jest in that snippet fell flat.)

So if shabbiness is really the criteria here, I'd nominate East St. Louis, Camden, NJ, and Gary, IN as far worse than Allston.
 
I would argue that the best cunnilingus requires eye contact
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Harris Ranch comes to mind, alongside Interstate 5 in California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The largest cattle feedlot in California, right next to the freeway. The stench of cattle shit stretches for miles. So thick and pungent it makes you worry it's going to stick in your clothing.
My mother-in-law calls that feedlot "Cowschwitz."
 
You've got to wonder why anybody would go to medical school and choose urology as a specialty.
Money, and because it is probably a less competitive field?

Though really, I can't relate to wanting to be a doctor of any kind. I'm glad some people do, but I couldn't.

I suppose for any sub-field of it, there are people who are truly interested in it. Outside of medicine, there are some fields that involve pretty gross things, yet there are people happy to do them.
 
Though really, I can't relate to wanting to be a doctor of any kind. I'm glad some people do, but I couldn't.

I was in high school with a very smart young lady who wanted to be a cardiologist. After a couple of years struggling with pre-med, she decided she didn't have the heart for it.
 
I was in high school with a very smart young lady who wanted to be a cardiologist. After a couple of years struggling with pre-med, she decided she didn't have the heart for it.
Did she switch to gastroenterology, only to discover she couldn't stomach the workload?
 
I was in high school with a very smart young lady who wanted to be a cardiologist. After a couple of years struggling with pre-med, she decided she didn't have the heart for it.
Positive self promotion quote from one of my April Fools stories -

"He loved practical jokes, and always thought he should have been a clown instead of a chiropodist. He had wanted to become a heart surgeon at medical school, but got cold feet instead."
 
My high school friend is real and she actually wanted to be a cardiologist. She changed her major to some form of biology and went off in pursuit of graduate work in Germany, where she stayed for... gosh... about 40 years. When she returned to the US, it was to marry her high school sweetheart, a professional oboist (strange, that). When I met up with them about five years ago she apologized several times about her poor English as she had lived her entire adult life speaking German.
 
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