[Hip Priest]

The last one for tonight, I promise.

Accident-prone people do exist

Some people have all the bad luck. Whether you call them accident-prone, or just unfortunate, there's a group of people who really do have more mishaps than others.

Everyone seems to know a comic or tragic figure who tends to get into scrapes, but until now it has been hard to show whether they are genuinely more accident-prone than others. To answer this question, Ellen Visser and colleagues at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands analysed the results of 79 studies which examined how prone people are to having accidents. In all, the studies recorded the mishaps suffered by 147,000 people, drawn from the general population in 15 countries.

Strikingly, it appears that there is a discrete group of people who suffer the most accidents: 1 in 29 people have a 50 per cent higher chance of having an accident than the rest of the population (Accident Analysis and Prevention, DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2006.09.012).

Visser says the study doesn't reveal which people in particular are most at risk, but it does show that a band of hapless people exists. Previous research suggests that children and people who work on oil rigs or as combat pilots, for instance, tend to have more accidents. But Visser suspects that the hapless have certain personality traits that predispose them to accidents.





Goodnight everyone. See you tomorrow.

[Everyneurotic]

i feel shitty, how about you.

[SynthethicalY]

Ok, sorry to hear that everyneurotic.

[schizophrenicroom]

Originally Posted by Danny Himself

I was asleep having a wonderful dream about being a jew when my sister came home from work and she was unaware I was upstairs in bed. So when I came out of my room and walked down the stairs, she shouted 'WHO IS THAT?!' in a booming voice because she thought I was a burglar.

Then I had some Beechams All-In-One for my throat and nose and sat on the couch with the dog playing on my ps2. And I've been basically drifting around feeling weird all evening. The Daily Show made me laugh, though. But I still can't get my mind off my trouble with the opposite sex.

So yeah, I've improved a little.

that's happened to me quite a few times. i dreamed i was a jew last night. maybe we should be the gay jew stoners.

i don't see why you have trouble. but i am very glad you're feeling better.

[schizophrenicroom]

every-e- what's up?

[schizophrenicroom]

Originally Posted by Hip Priest

Pretty good Jade, thanks.Tomorrow will be 19 years to the day since my partner and I first started courting.

How are you?

congrats!

i'm just ok.

[SynthethicalY]

Hey Schizo. How are you today?

[schizophrenicroom]

school was boring and i'm kinda tired. you?

[SynthethicalY]

Still in school, researching why kids should be sent to preschool. That is the topic of my next speech.

Edit- Other than that I had a good day, sleepy but good.

[schizophrenicroom]

that sounds cool. i didn't go to preschool.

i napped my last two periods today. i've been unable to get tired until two or three am this past week.

[SynthethicalY]

Oh I have been able to sleep wonderfully now, for some odd reason. I did go to preschool, it was so much fun, painting and counting, and all that crap.

[schizophrenicroom]

i started getting on a real nice sleep schedule but now that it's cramming season i'm up studying and writing until late.

i did a lot of painting in kindergarten. my teacher was a really sweet old lady who let me go off alone most of the time. she died when i was in first grade, and i went home and cried for a good two hours.

[SynthethicalY]

I remember, in kindergarten, the first day I was so anxious to start school. There was this one kid who started to cry when her mother left him that he went after her. I remember giving my mom a kiss and then going to my class. Oh those where the days, especially the oatmeal and chocolate milk.

[schizophrenicroom]

in kindergarten i ate a lot of oatmeal. i got in a phase where it was the only thing i wanted to eat.

first grade for me was pretty terrible. my first teacher thought i was a know-it-all and let me and these two other kids sit in the back of the class doing "advanced" work grouped off everyone else. mom and dad had to drag me into class. then i switched to another teacher who thought i was "too precocious".

[SynthethicalY]

Haha, I was the best speller in my second grade class, they were always giving my prizes for spelling things right. And in third grade I got to go to Disneyland, for being one of the smartest kids in class, and showing improvement and all that crap. I think the Disneyland trip was my highlight of Elementary.

[schizophrenicroom]

i got a ton of reading awards at my first elementary school. at my second one even though i was chubby i racked up the cross country awards.

my highlight was the big freeze tag game we had at my favorite park in fourth grade. and being on the school news team. the boy i was in love with, my then-best friend, and my other good friend did the "reporting"/camera work for a two-week rotation and oh my goodness, it was awesome.

[SynthethicalY]

I am listening to Rufus Wainwright a cd compilation my ex( now friend w/benefits) gave me. He isn't a horrible singer, has a good voice. But too many gay themed songs, well all of his are.

[schizophrenicroom]

yeah, i can't really say i relate to his music too much but i love his voice.

[SynthethicalY]

Yeah, but I just like some songs, I get annoyed when all they sing is the same theme over and over. I need variety. I think I am about to leave, I need food. And done researching for my speech class.

[drrrtyboots]

I have to start writing my research paper on kerouac right now and it sucks pretty bad.