Random Thoughts 9: Attack of the Vapid Posts

[Valka D'Ur]

So, uh, does the "over-60s must stay indoors" rule still apply if your house falls down?

Presumably people are allowed to leave if that happens, or if there's a fire.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

4.4 earthquake @ 20:30. I guessed it was a 3.0.

I make a point of never guessing about Earthquakes. From where I sit a meaningless 4.0 centered somewhere in the LA basin feels about the same as a 7.0 knocking Ridgecrest into national prominence, or an 8.0 devastating the Bay area. As a rough guess it would feel about the same here if a 9.8 opened up the earth and swallowed Mexico City. There's no telling how big it is until you know where it is.

Glad you are okay.

 

[Snerk]

I would like to try an earthquake at some point before I die. A decent shake but not the kind where buildings come tumbling down obviously.

 

[Synobun]

I would like to try an earthquake at some point before I die. A decent shake but not the kind where buildings come tumbling down obviously.

Eat enough of Mary's cooking and then fall out of bed.

 

[Snerk]

There's another way to make earthquakes in bed you know.

Eh? EH?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I would like to try an earthquake at some point before I die. A decent shake but not the kind where buildings come tumbling down obviously.

Come visit for a while. We get something you can feel if you really pay attention just about every month, sometimes several. No promises for "a decent shake," but if you stay long enough it's pretty likely. There was a stretch in my life where I thought just hanging around me might be enough, because I spent just a few years living outside California and managed to catch the biggest quake that Alaska had had in twenty years as well as the biggest quake ever recorded in Idaho, to go with numerous quakes I've been through here. I kinda wondered if they were following me.

 

[Snerk]

Time to cut back on the desserts then

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

There's another way to make earthquakes in bed you know.

Eh? EH?

In one of the old apartments with paper-thin walls, there was a particularly heavyset couple. Was once treated to the sound of their bedframe breaking after certain strenuous activities.

 

[Snerk]

In one of the old apartments with paper-thin walls, there was a particularly heavyset couple. Was once treated to the sound of their bedframe breaking after certain strenuous activities.

Definitely time to cut back on the desserts!

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I miss the old waterbed days. A bed designed to hold up a ton of water isn't going to fail due to a little nighttime gymnastics.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

But what if it develops a leak?

 

[Snerk]

But what if it develops a leak?

The bed or Tim?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Both of them.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I miss the old waterbed days. A bed designed to hold up a ton of water isn't going to fail due to a little nighttime gymnastics.

But when it fails, it does so catastrophically.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

But when it fails, it does so catastrophically.

So I would imagine. However that never happened to me personally nor to anyone I knew personally, and the anecdotes all seemed more like urban legend than observation.

 

[thecrazyscot]

So I would imagine. However that never happened to me personally nor to anyone I knew personally, and the anecdotes all seemed more like urban legend than observation.

The catastrophic failures I picture in my head are far more entertaining, so I choose to believe in those instead of your cool rationality!

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The catastrophic failures I picture in my head are far more entertaining, so I choose to believe in those instead of your cool rationality!

An excellent choice there!

 

[Gori the Grey]

My aunt and her (then) husband had a waterbed. This was years ago, when I was a kid. I was fascinated by it. It was one of my parent's signs that she and he were "hippies." With her excepted, my family was all very non-hippy. She got a divorce. Also something that doesn't otherwise happen in our family. So one catastrophic failure that waterbeds can cause is divorce. Just be forewarned!

 

[Broken_Erika]

What about laying on a waterbed during an earthquake?

 

[thecrazyscot]

What about laying on a waterbed during an earthquake?

Then you get to experience a twofer: earthquake and tsunami.