clockworkrat

I wouldn't hold the French influence against them tbf

That the slrpnk.net admins in the picture?

Aye, that was a bit of a tongue in cheek comment. I was hoping someone would pop by to correct me!

Or even people who insist on going to other countries for their holidays. For most of us using Lemmy, there will be so much in a 200 mile radius of us that is wonderful but we will never see because we insist on holidays going even further afield.

Unless you live in the Midwest, in which case I don't blame you for going further.

Aye, sorry, I missed the bit at the end of your comment

What's the scale? Deaths per 1000km driven? Time in vehicle? Per 100k people?

So just piss on your hands. Problem solved.

You've just dragged a memory out of my childhood; was up at my teacher's desk handing in classwork and was idly rubbing the table leg while she checked it. Afterwards she gently pointed out that I had been rubbing her toe.

Maybe he would become an addict to benzos and propanolol

Does it different. In the US the violence is more up front. Here it's done through mechanisms of the state.

Alien Clay is particularly relevant to this thread.

Also his Terrible Worlds novella set, particularly Firewalkers and Ogres.