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I'm lazy too. Common personality flaw of people who can breeze through their early years on strength of intellect alone.

Would also be interesting (although difficult without clearance) to see a list of thwarted attempts. Although that in itself is problematic. The government often cites a "thwarted terrorist plot" when they arrest a couple of schmucks who maybe once talked about how it might be cool to blow something up. And that's as far as the plot ever got.

Another bottom line is that terrorism continues to happen overwhelmingly somewhere else. Mostly Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

UPDATE: The next day, I felt like I had ten gallons of sludge pumped into my veins. Thank God I was off work, because I didn't feel like doing anything beyond laying in bed and moaning.

NOT doing that again.

Quote from: druid91 on April 14, 2010, 03:49:13 pm

World domination(verb): the act of controlling the world.

I'm in that club, BTW. Yay for flash memes.

No fungus? I couldn't imagine a life without mushrooms. Or Gorgonzola.

No, genuine risk of sarcasm overdose.

Hey, I would have believed it. Especially in Guangdong. They'll eat anything that can't outrun them there.

Since we're on the topic of (mostly) strange meats, I also grew up eating pork brains (in milk gravy) and liver pudding. Now, I'm not so keen on the brains these days but I still loves me some Neese's Liver Pudding.

Also had a thing for boiled chicken hearts served with dumplings. We'd get a big bag of gizzards and hearts, boil them up and serve with egg noodle dumplings. The gizzards were meh, but there was something about the springiness of the hearts that I really liked. Kinda like eating a chicken-flavored high bouncy ball.


Kinda makes these new marmot brain-eating dwarfs not seem so weird in retrospect.

I would think that in fact there is more risk in a school setting than as an altar boy.

Yes, and no. An altar boy is basically a helper for the ceremonial parts (lighting and extinguishing candles, bearing the processional cross, etc.). Think of it as a religious stage hand.

As such, they have a fair amount of time alone with the priest as they prepare for religious services or after services. And much of this time is when other parishioners aren't present.

I was a Lutheran acolyte in my youth (their version of an altar boy), and I can see where there would be a lot of opportunities for a lecherous priest. Compounded with that is the fact that the priest is something of a "father figure" and authority figure, so there's a built-in pressure not to report. Also, it was not uncommon for altar boys to have some intent towards entering the priesthood themselves when they got older. Exposing a priest is not a good start to gaining admission to the priesthood.