Strained metaphors

[purplebean]

This article, on "why you shouldn't hit your kids," on Slate, attempts to link the addictiveness of cigarettes with the addictiveness of hitting your kids!   I would have liked to have read more details about the studies that the article alludes to, but it was still interesting.  For instance, I didn't realize any countries had actually banned

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[r_transpose_p]

Clearly I should start running!

I've been forced to choose between cigarettes and food a couple times this summer -- which helps one realize that it is much easier to quit for a couple days than one would otherwise think.

Its also much easier to quit if you think "Oh, I'll just start up again once I have money!"

[slgarrett]

I never knew you smoked either.

God... I feel so... ignorent of people I thought I knew. So much changes over the course of the years. Weird.

[szkoda]

I second this. ( I knew about purplebean, but not r_transpose_p.) The internet is lacking sometimes -- it seems like so many things get communicated, but then there are these every day things that I miss out on.

[slgarrett]

We should stage a Gauge Cave reunion. We could do it in 2010! The year Hal gets reactivated!

[r_transpose_p]

p.s. My longest "quitting" was two years.

It ended around the same time as my marriage.

(It didn't help that I couch-surfed in the house of a chain-smoker)

[slgarrett]

I never knew you smoked.

[purplebean]

Don't worry about it -- it's hardly something I do every day, and for health insurance purposes, I'm well within the non-smoker range! :)

[slgarrett]

Ah... a statistical non-smoker. Interesting... :-)