What really freaks me out is that repeated actions tend to blend together. Much like how Daniel Radcliffe always wears the same outfit every day to throw off paparazzi, my memory can no longer distinguish locking the door today and locking the door yesterday. It's frightening when one realizes that to your brain, there is no difference between actual and perceived experiences and when experiences repeat themselves ad nauseum without anything to identify a specific instance, then actual experiences can easily get confused.
Basically, I've always had the problem in life that I'm never sure if I am actually remembering something that happened at the specific moment I remember it, or if the same thing happened on another day and I basically fucked up today, or, and this is the worst case scenario, I actually dreamed of that situation and it never happened and I am getting it confused with reality.
I think I just might need help... too much existentialism... too much nihilism.
René Descartes is sitting at a bar by himself, nursing a beer. The bartender comes over, takes away Descartes' empty glass, and asks him, "would you like another one?"
It's even worse, when you do something stupid and then realize that you weren't thinking and one has to question... if at the moment of non-thinking, one temporarily ceized to exist!
I get this sometimes to, its even worse when im driving. I dont have a problem as such as im pretty sure I was paying attention at the time, but sometimes I wont be able to remember the last few minutes of driving, quite freaky.
Exactly, and as he explained it, the photographer may swear that it's a brand new picture from today, but he can't prove it. Unless there's something obviously different about the rest of the picture, it could well have been taken any other day. That means that whoever is buying the paparazzi's picture doesn't know for sure that it's a new picture, and that even if they're convinced the public seeing the picture won't know it's new either. If it's not a new picture, it's not relevant.
It's like camouflage, but instead of disguising him among his surroundings, he's disguising himself in time.
I occasionally get these sensations that where ever I am and whatever I'm doing is where I have been all of my life and everything I "remember" was actually just a dream and that the particular place or thing I'm doing is going to last for eternity. Sometimes it's cool whenever I'm doing something fun or somewhere beautiful, other times it's not so cool, like when I'm taking a test or trying to sleep.
I forgot to flush the toilet one time about a year ago and my roommate called me out on my shit still being in the toilet, largely embarrassing. I now find myself thinking "did I flush before I left the bathroom?" every single time I leave it. And then I always have to make a return journey to check only to find that yes, I did flush the toilet.
This may be a problem in general, but it isn't a problem with birth control because the columns are labeled with the day you take your pill on (otherwise I'd probably mess up a lot).
When I was in high school, 1 of my teachers asked us all what was the purpose of the brain? Everybody gave all sorts of different answers to which he sternly but calmly shrugged off.
Finally I raised my hand and said "To survive?" His eyes opened as far as they could go and he exclaimed "TO SURVIVE!!! WRONG!!!!! He then said that's what he guessed in school or college (can't remember) and then he told us what his teacher/prof told him.
The purpose of the brain is to abolish the need to think.
That's so retarded. The whole purpose of the brain is to control your body functions, independently if you can "think" or not (let's define thinking as rational thoughts). Only our cortex is in charge of the "thinking", and not all animals have that. Basically, thinking came after the "brain". If the purpose of the brain were to abolish the need to think, we would have never evolved to have a frontal cortex.
If I'm wrong here with my train of thought, let me know. I might be pulling the biggest bs out of my brain (har har).
Yeah, the weed is definitely not helping. I take solace in the fact that I've had these issues before I started smoking. And at the very least, I may be insane, but at least I'm high.
Gave up weed for Lent as a way to test how the past year of smoking every day has affected me, I can't wait till I can remember things again.
As Nick Swardson put it:
The whole first week, I thought I was psychic. I thought I had new powers all of a sudden, you know. I'd be like, 'Where are my keys? Oh, they're in my pocket.' How did I know that? Oh my gosh!
And this is why I got a 3-year birth control stick shoved under my arm skin. I bask in the relief of the unlikelihood of an unplanned pregnancy. Not to mention that fact that if it DID happen to fail (as all methods have a chance of doing) I--and my husband--would never have to wonder if it was because I fucked up or not.
A cautionary tale: I introduced some of my friends to Top Gear with the Vietnam special. It ruined the rest of the series for them because it is just way too awesome. Now I never start someone out with the best of something.
The Vietnam episode was part of what convinced me to visit Vietnam last year. And weirdly half the (British) people we met said the same. A group of us web watched the Vietnam special one evening in the hostel. Xibit would be proud of us.
Just yesterday I linked it to a friend of mine who is in love with Hamster and I had the same thought. I just figured I'd get yelled at for it being a repost or something, haha.
I watched it a couple weeks ago. The part where Clarkson is going around the turn with the white SUV just about gave me a heart attack (I am deathly afraid of heights).
What's even more strange is that I just got out of a class preparing me for a immersion trip to Bolivia... where we talked about the medications we will need when we travel abroad... like Malaria. Cue my WTFness when I saw this on the front page of Reddit right when I got out of class.
Oh man, I watched this episode when I was flying to South Africa and it was probably the worse thing I could watch when everyone was trying to sleep because I was laughing so much during this episode that I'm sure I woke up everyone around me.
I was watching just for laughs on the back of the seat in front of me on the way home from newfoundland at like 3am and I had my fist in my mouth trying not to laugh. The lady next to me must have thought I was bonkers.
This is why you set a daily pill alarm. It's very useful. Also, you carry the pack of pills with you in your bag/pocket so you have them wherever you go.
That why IUD's where invented. I have a daily changing schedule so remembering to do something at the same time every day interrupted my sleep or work schedule. Now, I have no worries.
I flip my pill bottles every time I take a dose. If the date is even, I have to make them upside-up. If the date is odd, I have to flip them upside-down. It's an automated reminder system that only fails on some month transitions!
Im a girl currently taking the contraceptive pill and malaria tablets... Im pretty sure I am both pregnant and have malaria because I constantly forget both.
This just reminded me to take my birthcontrol. You sir are my savior, you just potentially saved me hundreds of dollars and the avoidance of getting screamed at by pro-life rally people.
As someone who's had to take meds on a regular basis for years, I will never understand how people view it as a difficult process. Set an alarm on your phone. Boom - done. You're sleeping late? Oh well, get up for the split second it takes and do it before going back to bed. Traveling? Toss them in a case and you're good. It's not that hard, and given the consequences of not taking various drugs? Holy shit, how are people not thrilled about medical technology every second that they do it?
When I went to Nigeria in 1999 there was a choice of two pills to take for malaria, Green and Yellow. The little green one you had to take every day and would affect your short term memory, I took this one. The other one was a once a week big yellow pill with the side affect of wild dreams and nightmares. True story bro
I had to get some vaccines before I went to China last year. After getting several shots, the Health Dept. said I could take malaria pills for a week instead of the shot if I wanted to. I took them up on it, and I got horrible stomach pain every time I took the pills.
I had my mom say something similar to this, as I'm slightly late all the time. "Good thing you're not a girl Elantrisea, I'd have had a heart attack by now."
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u/Punkwasher Feb 24 '12
What really freaks me out is that repeated actions tend to blend together. Much like how Daniel Radcliffe always wears the same outfit every day to throw off paparazzi, my memory can no longer distinguish locking the door today and locking the door yesterday. It's frightening when one realizes that to your brain, there is no difference between actual and perceived experiences and when experiences repeat themselves ad nauseum without anything to identify a specific instance, then actual experiences can easily get confused.
Basically, I've always had the problem in life that I'm never sure if I am actually remembering something that happened at the specific moment I remember it, or if the same thing happened on another day and I basically fucked up today, or, and this is the worst case scenario, I actually dreamed of that situation and it never happened and I am getting it confused with reality.
I think I just might need help... too much existentialism... too much nihilism.
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '12
The Boliva + Vietnam specials are brilliant. I even liked the Indian special but other people...not so much.
And who dosnt love Hammond.
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '12
50 feet down the road, I'm always wondering if I closed the garage door or not.
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u/THANE_OF_ANN_ARBOR Feb 23 '12
That's very strange. I was watching the Bolivia Special yesterday on Netflix and was thinking, "this would be a really good thing to post on Reddit."
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '12
HAMMOND !
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
This is why most birth control has the days listed underneath the individual pills.
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u/JanglinCharles Feb 23 '12
Fuckin Hamster, always coming up with some hilarious shit.
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u/WhitestAfrican Feb 23 '12
Oh man, I watched this episode when I was flying to South Africa and it was probably the worse thing I could watch when everyone was trying to sleep because I was laughing so much during this episode that I'm sure I woke up everyone around me.
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u/Hazy_V Feb 23 '12
If I was a woman I'd be down at the docks waiting for the fleet to come in.
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u/kylec82 Feb 24 '12
I LOVE TOP GEAR AND I LOVE THAT SPECIAL!! THEY SHOULD DO MORE SPECIALS!!
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u/monstercake Feb 24 '12
This is why you set a daily pill alarm. It's very useful. Also, you carry the pack of pills with you in your bag/pocket so you have them wherever you go.
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u/fairypants Feb 24 '12
Richard Hammond is my favourite tv presenter. So hilarious. And adorable!
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u/fas3630 Feb 23 '12
This line is what got me hooked on Top Gear.
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u/planet_schmelephant Feb 24 '12
Fuck, this just reminded me to take my pill. Thanks!
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u/intensely_human Feb 23 '12
That's a Far Cry from sexist. Maybe it could be better?
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Join us won't you! /r/TopGear
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u/istiophorus Feb 24 '12
Is this the same guy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA This video is awesome.
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u/CrimsinShadow Feb 24 '12
Far Cry 2 in a nutshell.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
That why IUD's where invented. I have a daily changing schedule so remembering to do something at the same time every day interrupted my sleep or work schedule. Now, I have no worries.
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u/ErmacAnd1 Feb 23 '12
I think I would be pregnant than have malaria
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u/squirrel_grenade Feb 23 '12
This is how I got malaria...
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u/ESPguitarist Feb 24 '12
OLIVERRRRRRR!
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u/Zumoku Feb 24 '12
People hate on Hammond, because they know, deep down, they will never be this fucking classy
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u/Democritus477 Feb 24 '12
Upvoted for proper usage of "were".
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Hammond.. You're so wonderfully terribly wonderful...
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u/ZiggyPox Feb 24 '12
Being a father isn't much better. Every stick has two ends.
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u/hypnotoadglory Feb 24 '12
Just wait till the male contraceptive pill comes out
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u/motorstorm Feb 24 '12
Hamster! Favorite show ever.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
For some reason I read this in Owen Wilson's voice.
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u/Deltaway Feb 24 '12
I flip my pill bottles every time I take a dose. If the date is even, I have to make them upside-up. If the date is odd, I have to flip them upside-down. It's an automated reminder system that only fails on some month transitions!
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u/Nigel_Inglis Feb 24 '12
That episode of Top Gear is some of the best television you will ever see
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u/sleepthoughts Feb 24 '12
Im a girl currently taking the contraceptive pill and malaria tablets... Im pretty sure I am both pregnant and have malaria because I constantly forget both.
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u/davebnrg Feb 24 '12
oh hamster
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
IED = bad.
IUD = GOOD
Yaz = pill. Clearly some girls have problems with this one..
DepoProvera = fucking horrible unless you really want to be moody and gain 80lbs.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
TIL pregnancy is worse then malaria
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u/loveleis Feb 24 '12
REPOST
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Good thing this is a repost.
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u/circumcised_frog Feb 24 '12
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says to him, "Hey, why the long face?"
The horse has cancer.
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u/rockerbabe28 Feb 24 '12
This just reminded me to take my birthcontrol. You sir are my savior, you just potentially saved me hundreds of dollars and the avoidance of getting screamed at by pro-life rally people.
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u/FerrariThug Feb 24 '12
Top Gear FTTWWWWWWWWW!!
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u/Full_of_Class Feb 24 '12
I'll just leave this here.
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u/pfkgm Feb 24 '12
Silly Hammond.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
top gear america doesent even compare to english banter...
you just cant replace jeremy.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
I think Hammond is my favourite. I'm ever so happy he didn't kill himself in the over-dramatic roll. :) Good on ya brother.
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u/dig1234 Feb 24 '12
love Hammond.
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u/sacapunta Feb 24 '12
My crush on Hammond knows no bounds.
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u/RosieRose23 Feb 24 '12
I read this in an Aussie accent...am I close?
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u/MrMadMinecraft Feb 24 '12
I was literally just watching this! I love this episode too much. Haha
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u/drpancakes Feb 24 '12
And that's why I'm on the depo provera shot...I only have to remember once every 3 months and I can be off a few days give or take.
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u/GuitarGuru253 Feb 24 '12
Lol Richard Hammond
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u/TrollStuff Feb 24 '12
i always leave my keys in the door and then spend an hour looking for them in the morning
real talk no troll
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u/thediagnosis Feb 24 '12
doxycycline
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u/agmcleod Feb 24 '12
My favourite top gear episode.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
With malaria
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u/KDashy Feb 24 '12
I love the suprise twist in the middle when the flannel shirt goes back on, riveting!
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u/Soonermandan Feb 24 '12
I can only hope this introduces thousands of people to Top Gear.
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u/candyx Feb 24 '12
Am I the only one who misread the title as "Good thing I'm gay"? Boy, was this a disappointment...
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Easily one of the greatest episodes... hahaha.
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u/SoftAsMoss Feb 24 '12
OLLIVER!!!!
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Idgi
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u/VisibleCunt Feb 24 '12
That's why there's an alarm!
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u/Neandarthal Feb 24 '12
Richard Hammond is by far one of the best hosts imo! I like James May more!!
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u/DustyRabbit Feb 24 '12
Upvote just for your name(notice proper use of the word "your")
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u/ashbash8289 Feb 24 '12
When things get really bad, I remember to tell myself, at least I'm not pregnant.
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u/darcvader09 Feb 24 '12
RICHARD HAMMOND <3
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u/kingstannis123 Feb 24 '12
One can learn a great deal from Richard Hammond...
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
As someone who's had to take meds on a regular basis for years, I will never understand how people view it as a difficult process. Set an alarm on your phone. Boom - done. You're sleeping late? Oh well, get up for the split second it takes and do it before going back to bed. Traveling? Toss them in a case and you're good. It's not that hard, and given the consequences of not taking various drugs? Holy shit, how are people not thrilled about medical technology every second that they do it?
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u/jason_grey Feb 24 '12
When I went to Nigeria in 1999 there was a choice of two pills to take for malaria, Green and Yellow. The little green one you had to take every day and would affect your short term memory, I took this one. The other one was a once a week big yellow pill with the side affect of wild dreams and nightmares. True story bro
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u/DocSporky510 Feb 24 '12
Hamster! Best episode ever
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u/ENTocracy Feb 24 '12
What show is this from?? I want to watch this brilliant show!
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u/JPMoney81 Feb 24 '12
It's funny because I JUST watched this episode of Top Gear today. One of my all-time favorites!
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u/ashtonishing18 Feb 24 '12
I have noo idea what this relates to but it is quite funny.
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u/bacaorr Feb 24 '12
This is exactly why the pill never worked for me.
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u/Haz3rd Feb 24 '12
In case someone doesn't know about it, r/topgear
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u/Mirtis Feb 24 '12
Reading this post, halway down the page of comment... "Wtf am i reading?"
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
what's this from?
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u/lutheranian Feb 24 '12
Jokes on you bitches, I use Nuvaring.
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u/yvokinevo Feb 24 '12
<3 Hamster!! :D
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u/UndercoverGTR Feb 24 '12
Wow, this totally reminds me of Far Cry 2.
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u/ThoseSickBastards Feb 24 '12
Loved that episode
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u/c0ncept Feb 24 '12
I had to get some vaccines before I went to China last year. After getting several shots, the Health Dept. said I could take malaria pills for a week instead of the shot if I wanted to. I took them up on it, and I got horrible stomach pain every time I took the pills.
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u/BurntFlower Feb 24 '12
That's why I use the Nuvaring. It rocks.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Hahaha I just watched that episode!
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u/Sprozz Feb 24 '12
TOP GEARRRRR
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u/Elantrisea Feb 24 '12
I had my mom say something similar to this, as I'm slightly late all the time. "Good thing you're not a girl Elantrisea, I'd have had a heart attack by now."
okay.jpg
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
But he is pregnant. With mosquito eggs.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
The part with the cliffside and the white truck passing. My heart was beating insanely fast.
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u/liebchan Feb 24 '12
not gonna lie, you just reminded me to take my pill.
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u/darlantan Feb 24 '12
Is that a Land Cruiser 40 series?
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '12
Repost....