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Chips. I can go through a bag of chips easily, but that's just too much ice cream for one sitting. I use ublock origin. I haven't seen an ad on Youtube in years, apart from the advertisements that Youtubers do for their sponsors within their own videos. I just skip over those. Ublock is also doing a great job of getting around Youtube's ban on ad-blockers. I wouldn't. I don't have anything against them as people, but I'm just personally not attracted to anyone who was born male. I wish them the best in their lives though, I know it's difficult. I think all monarchies should be abolished. They're inherently reactionary institutions, including the "constitutional" ones. Out of the few dozen communist governments that existed, the only one that ever actually banned religion was Albania, and that was because the churches and mosques were intricately tied into the old feudal landholding system, not because "tHeY mUsT wOrShIp ThE sTaTe". I don't expect someone imbecilic enough to think leftists drool at the sight of demons "desecrating Christian morality" to understand anything about the complex history and spectrum of leftist opinion on religion (or anything else) though. "and the Leftists would have liked seeing the demon desecrating Christian morality." Lol where do people come up with crap like this? Yeah. Well, the bus came to my house. So all I did was walk from my front door to the bus. Then the bus dropped me off at home after preschool. It was the same for all the other kids on the bus. You sound like a delightful human being. Pro. They're useful. Lots of storage space. It's a very well-known and popular song in Japan, so although I haven't seen any specific examples of it, I wouldn't be surprised if it made it onto some movie soundtracks. Quentin Tarantino has taken a few Japanese songs from the 1970s and thereabouts and used them in some of his movies, but I'm not sure if this is one of them (btw this song was first performed in 1977). I'm generally not very good at translating (I guess because I'm a very literal-minded person, and translation requires some mental flexibility because sentences in different languages rarely correspond to each other exactly). But I'll try to translate this one. It won't be as natural or poetic as it is in Japanese, but hopefully it doesn't turn out too clunky. Btw, Tsugaru Strait is in the north of Japan, between the main island of Honshu and the big northern island of Hokkaido. "Since I stepped off the night train from Ueno Aomori Station is covered in snow In the crowds of people returning north, everyone is quiet The roar of the sea is all I can hear I, too, board the ferry alone Gazing at the seagulls that looked like they were freezing, I cried Aaaa, Tsugaru Strait winter scenery Look, there is Cape Tappi, the tip of the north Someone I don’t know points their finger Although I tried wiping the window glass fogged by my breath All I could see was mist in the distance Goodbye my dear, I’m going back The sound of the wind shakes my chest and I can only cry Aaaa, Tsugaru Strait winter scenery Goodbye my dear, I’m going back The sound of the wind shakes my chest and I can only cry Aaaa, Tsugaru Strait winter scenery” 津軽海峡冬景色 (Winter Scene of Tsugaru Strait) by Ishikawa Sayuri. One of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpSFU4C2XEY I'm a very restless sleeper. I toss and turn a lot. In life or in sleep, I just can't ever seem to get comfortable. Summer for me. I love heat and hate cold. No, that went to Tim in the book. It's been some time since I last read it, but from what I recall Lex was written in such a way that she had little personality other than whining and complaining a lot. The ages of the children were switched between the book and the movie, so in the book Lex was younger than Tim. Crichton, for all his brilliance as a writer, seems to have been kind of sexist and had some issues with how to write about female characters. So he just made Lex the annoying little girl who whines a lot and contributes nothing while Tim had all the brains in addition to the dinosaur knowledge. One of the improvements made by the movie was that it gave Lex more personality and ways to contribute more to the story. In the movie, Lex was generally intelligent although not well-informed about dinosaurs, while Tim was the dinosaur expert of the two. In the book, Tim had both the brains and the dinosaur knowledge while Lex had neither and was just kind of there. The movie did it better IMO. Whatever. Mind your own business. Whatever, who cares. Let people live their lives and make their own choices. What a stupid thread. The book is fantastic. Has a few little flaws (like the way Lex is portrayed), but the first time I picked up the book I wasn't able to put it down until I finished it. I read the whole thing all through one night. Couldn't stop.