http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/25432207/fungus-that-causes-fever-found-in-washington
Hi, guys. :)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 07, 2014, 11:09:54 PM
http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/25432207/fungus-that-causes-fever-found-in-washington
Hi, guys. :)
Eastern Washington. Which, we Cascadians might say, is unsurprising.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:20:47 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 07, 2014, 11:09:54 PM
http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/25432207/fungus-that-causes-fever-found-in-washington
Hi, guys. :)
Eastern Washington. Which, we Cascadians might say, is unsurprising.
But this is how it starts. Very small. Some spores from Arizona in some other place nobody gives a crap about.
Does this mean eating the Walla-Walla onion rings is tempting fate? Or does that go for any Burgerville menu item, generally?
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on May 08, 2014, 03:03:35 PM
Does this mean eating the Walla-Walla onion rings is tempting fate? Or does that go for any Burgerville menu item, generally?
Burgerville is a Cascadian Oregon phenomenon; we're safe here.
Roger: The deal with Eastern Washington and Oregon is that it's on the other side of the Cascades. Everything on the other side of the Cascades doesn't really exist, it's all Out East. There aren't even any people there.
The part where people live used to be a big island that kind of got smushed up against the part on the other side by accident, but it's still an island, really. It's just separated by volcanoes instead of water.
I'm pretty sure, actually, that that whole thing is Tucson.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 03:51:03 PM
I'm pretty sure, actually, that that whole thing is Tucson.
Yes. We are surrounded by desert here, but it's really the same thing. No people, just wind-scoured ruins and it's all good until the sun goes down.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 04:42:41 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 03:51:03 PM
I'm pretty sure, actually, that that whole thing is Tucson.
Yes. We are surrounded by desert here, but it's really the same thing. No people, just wind-scoured ruins and it's all good until the sun goes down.
As far as I can remember from driving through it, Eastern Wa and Ore are contiguous with the deserts of Utah, Nevada and Arizona. It's the same landscape all the way down, except you guys have saguaros.
I guess TECHNICALLY our deserts are all on basalt flow from that Yellowstone thing, but whatever.
It looks like this:
(http://travellogs.us/2007Logs/Oregon%202007/82-I%2084/0824desert.JPG)
Here's the Stratton cabin:
(http://www.dwoodworks.com/travel/Steens/files/page72_19.jpg)
Welcome to Oregon, settlers. Don't worry, you'll all be dead of dysentery soon.
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Wasn't there some valley there that the Natives wouldn't live in, but whitey knew better, moved in and everyone died or some shit?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:28:23 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Wasn't there some valley there that the Natives wouldn't live in, but whitey knew better, moved in and everyone died or some shit?
That's the story white people tell themselves about the Willamette Valley, to make them feel better about killing everyone and stealing the only habitable valley in the whole state.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:04:27 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:28:23 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Wasn't there some valley there that the Natives wouldn't live in, but whitey knew better, moved in and everyone died or some shit?
That's the story white people tell themselves about the Willamette Valley, to make them feel better about killing everyone and stealing the only habitable valley in the whole state.
Ohhhh...You had told me about it once, and apparently I completely misunderstood.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 07:10:47 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:04:27 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:28:23 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Wasn't there some valley there that the Natives wouldn't live in, but whitey knew better, moved in and everyone died or some shit?
That's the story white people tell themselves about the Willamette Valley, to make them feel better about killing everyone and stealing the only habitable valley in the whole state.
Ohhhh...You had told me about it once, and apparently I completely misunderstood.
As far as I can tell, it's a really pervasive legend that most regions have a version of. "The indians didn't want this beautiful lush prime territory anyway! So I don't have to feel guilty about my government having massacred everyone and invading it".
It's revisionist history so people can feel better.
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 07:10:47 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:04:27 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:28:23 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Wasn't there some valley there that the Natives wouldn't live in, but whitey knew better, moved in and everyone died or some shit?
That's the story white people tell themselves about the Willamette Valley, to make them feel better about killing everyone and stealing the only habitable valley in the whole state.
Ohhhh...You had told me about it once, and apparently I completely misunderstood.
As far as I can tell, it's a really pervasive legend that most regions have a version of. "The indians didn't want this beautiful lush prime territory anyway! So I don't have to feel guilty about my government having massacred everyone and invading it".
It's revisionist history so people can feel better.
Here in Arizona, people don't really have that sense of guilt. Mostly because we look around and see what we traded our innocence for, and then we shoot shit and get in senseless fist fights and go on whiskey-fueled crying jags.
It's like if you worked at Dachau, and then found out that you got paid in Happy Meal toys.
:horrormirth: You certainly have a way with words...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 07:31:35 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 07:10:47 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 07:04:27 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:28:23 PM
Quote from: All-Father Nigel on May 08, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 08, 2014, 06:10:11 PM
You guys even have some kinda radioactive valley, right?
Because that could be an "Arizona Theme Park" you could do there. Everyone could wear lead suits, and the ghost of a certain hipster could pedal around asking people things in Spanish, in a hollow voice.
Do you mean the radiation that leaks out of the ground here? That's actually a good reminder that I need to use my radon kit and figure out how bad my basement is.
Wasn't there some valley there that the Natives wouldn't live in, but whitey knew better, moved in and everyone died or some shit?
That's the story white people tell themselves about the Willamette Valley, to make them feel better about killing everyone and stealing the only habitable valley in the whole state.
Ohhhh...You had told me about it once, and apparently I completely misunderstood.
As far as I can tell, it's a really pervasive legend that most regions have a version of. "The indians didn't want this beautiful lush prime territory anyway! So I don't have to feel guilty about my government having massacred everyone and invading it".
It's revisionist history so people can feel better.
Here in Arizona, people don't really have that sense of guilt. Mostly because we look around and see what we traded our innocence for, and then we shoot shit and get in senseless fist fights and go on whiskey-fueled crying jags.
:horrormirth:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on May 08, 2014, 07:41:01 PM
:horrormirth: You certainly have a way with words...
It seems to be getting more grotesque as I get older. :lol: