Octopus Overlords

Holman wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:Amazon is now collecting state sales tax from everyone.

This will be a comfort to any brick-and-mortar bookstores that still exist.

Jaymann wrote:In California they expect you to pay taxes on anything you bought out of state.

Max Peck wrote:Ovaltine, Horlicks or Milo?

MHS wrote:

coopasonic wrote:We may never hear from KKBlue again. Speaking of, has anyone heard from KKBlue?

On Facebook, yes.

KKBlue wrote:Actually was going to text Default and wish him happy Octocon! Coop, was just reminiscing how you were our ride for one of those days when we both made the trip into Chicago to hand with our internet family.

Paingod in 2012 wrote:Teeth vary by person. Some are fragile, some are strong, some are granite.

I brush my teeth once a day and never floss. I haven't been to a dentist in 17 years. I have no tooth pains, no fillings, no visible issues. I suppose there might be things I don't see, but they're not bothering me in any way.

I've been thinking of going in for a screening and to have my sealant replaced, but have never liked the experience of a dentists' office. My recollections are them jabbing my gums with sharp metal pins until I bleed and then telling me that I'm not doing a good enough job.

Remus West in 2012 wrote:If you are only brushing once a day and never flossing then you are not doing a good enough job.

stessier in 2012 wrote:Egads, Paingod - get thee to a dentist!

There have been a lot of changes in the last 17 years. If you don't like your old dentist, try to find a younger guy.

TheMix wrote:Apparently my family is genetically resistant to Novocain. Or something like that. It took a long time and multiple shots... and I could still feel it faintly. Compounded with the fact that 2 of my wisdom teeth had an extra root; which apparently thought it would be cool to wrap itself around a nerve. There is not enough Novocain made for that. It was painful. Very painful. But survivable, obviously. And I'm sure that your experience will be very different.

LordMortis wrote:How do people in HR not go home and throw themselves off a cliff every day? Every time we terminate someone and I have to do their access terminations it eats away at my soul but it doesn't make me numb and having your soul be eaten alive sucks ass. It's like you're the good soldier just taking orders. Just fulfilling commands from up the hierarchy.

Amid a troop of monkeys in the Katraniaghat forest range in northern India roamed a naked human girl, playing with the primates as if she were one of them. She looked emaciated, her hair disheveled. But she appeared to be in a comfortable state, until the police arrived.

A group of woodcutters had alerted authorities after spotting the girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old. When police approached her, the monkeys surrounded the girl, protecting her as one of their own, and attacking an officer as the girl screeched at him, the New Indian Express reported this week. After rescuing the girl, the officer sped away in his patrol car, the monkeys chasing him.

She was soon admitted to a state-run hospital in Bahraich, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where she has remained for the past two months. Doctors believe the girl had been raised by monkeys for quite some time, and her story has so far mystified authorities, sending them searching through reports of missing children in an attempt to identify her, according to the Associated Press.

In the Indian press, the girl has also drawn comparisons to Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli, a feral child from Seoni, India, featured as the prominent character in Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.”

Based on her behavior, it appears she could have lived among the primates since she was an infant, Bahraich police officer Dinesh Tripathi told the New Indian Express. When the girl arrived at the hospital, she had wounds all over her body. “Her nails and hair were unkempt like monkeys,” Tripathi said.

The thin, weak girl looked like she had not eaten for many days. Although she was capable of walking on her feet, she would sometimes suddenly drop down on all fours.

“The way she moved, even her eating habits were like that of an animal,” D.K. Singh, chief medical superintendent at Bahraich District Hospital, told the Associated Press in an interview recorded on video. “She would throw food on the ground and eat it directly with her mouth, without lifting it with her hands. She used to move around using only her elbows and her knees.”

Now, doctors are tasked with teaching her how to transition to life as a human, a task that initially proved difficult because of her aversion to human interaction.

“She behaves like an ape and screams loudly if doctors try to reach out to her,” Singh told the New Indian Express. Another doctor treating her said the girl struggles to understand anything, and makes apelike noises and facial expressions.

But over the past two months, the girl’s health and behavior have improved significantly, doctors say. She has begun to walk normally by herself and eat food with her own hands. She is still unable to speak, and has begun to use gestures to communicate. Occasionally, she smiles, according to a hospital spokesman, Sky News reported.

dbt1949 wrote:At you 30,000 get to go thru the Time Warp again.

Rip wrote:My blood runs cold.