Congrats!
Find out what people dress like for the festival, and dress a bit nicer than average.
Wish her happy birthday.
Get haircut/trim beard if need be.
Get lots of sleep the night before.
Bring cash.
Plan 1 or 2 stops but be fluid.
I'm giving you concrete tips with the idea that being prepared = less freaking out. 
Don't do drugs, okay?
Superior to the original.
An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.
At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women.
"I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away."
His own daughter, Tracey, also had to have the Anti-D injection [developed from his blood] after the birth of her first son.
She said she was 'proud' of her dad for continuing to give blood, even after the death of her mother after 56 years of marriage.
Mr Harrison said: "I was back in hospital giving blood a week after Barbara passed away. It was sad but life marches on and we have to continue doing what we do. She's up there looking down, so I carry on."
- from The Daily Mail
Other people imprison our people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_imprisonment_of_American_journalists_by_North_Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maziar_Bahari
We imprison other people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Transcript_Set_7_20497-20750.pdf
Russia imprisons its own people:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/22/they_killed_my_lawyer
Imagine this: you're a criminal. Together with your fellow thugs, you have trailed your quarry into an alley and cornered him. You trip him and the beating begins.
Suddenly, out of the night spill black-clad avengers in full ninja uniforms.
Fantasy?
Fiction?
No. Australia.
From SMH:
Kaylan Soto, a sensei with 30 years' Ninjutsu training, and three of his students raced out of the dojo towards the startled attackers. All five crusaders were clad in the ninja's traditional, all black uniform.
''We would have been just a silhouette,'' one of the ninjas, Steve Ashley, said. ''It was probably the worst place in Sydney where they could have taken him.''
Mr Soto said it took the three assailants a few moments to realise what was going on. When they did, they shot off. ''You should have seen their faces when they saw us in ninja gear coming towards them,'' he said.
The ninjas gave chase, but the men escaped. Police yesterday said they had made arrests in relation to the attack.
[22:33] Mew102983: maybe thats' the trick... live like you're leaving
[22:33] moritheil: Live each day as if it were your last?
[22:33] moritheil: Date each girl as if she were your last?
[22:34] Mew102983: lol
[22:34] moritheil: Eat each meal as if it were your last?
Being blown up
isn't half as fun as blowing up
In the "horrifying medical mishap" category: a story originally titled 'Boston Market Tit Breaker'
I am walking out of Boston Market, food in hand, like I do most nights because their food is awesome and as I am walking to my car, this couple gets out of their car. Their car was an expensive one(if I remember correctly, it was either a Chrysler Crossfire or a decked out G35) so I had to assume that they were pretty loaded. They were both mid-20's and the girl was kinda cute..but something about her was off. She was wearing one of those belly shirts and underneath the shirt bandages were just visible. I am about to pass right by them and then the girl grabs her chest and stomach, bends over like she is going to vomit and just screams bloody fucking murder. Her boyfriend flips a shit and the girl just starts gushing blood and this mucasy shit. Now when I say gushing..I mean she is pouring blood and whatever that other crap was, like someone took a Gatorade dispenser at a football game and poured it out of her shirt..blood just going everywhere. Then these 2 huge clear water-balloon looking things fall out of her body and bounce around on the ground and she falls over into this pool of human..for lack of a better word..stuff. The paramedics were there within 5 minutes because luckily, the college I live next to(University of Central Florida) had an AMB unit on campus.
Turns out..this girl had just had a boob job that brought her from like an A cup to a DD cup and the stitching and her skin just tore from the weight of her new tits, spilling out of her.
Men and women are not angels, nor are they gods. Love can become hatred; joy, sorrow, marriage, divorce. But human beings are not condemned to failure.
-Kenneth W. Phifer, Institution of Marriage
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