Feral, I'm going to Iceland in July. Please have a report on my desk by mid-june.
Everybody speaks English, everybody is really nice, it barely feels like a foreign country.
The biggest pieces of advice I can give are:
1) Don't bother renting a car if you're just staying in Reykjavik. The city is small and very walkable, they have a good bus system, and their bus app (straeto.is) is in English.
2) If you are renting a car, don't assume that the highways are paved. Google Maps might direct you down (for example) highway 54 from Stykkisholmur to Budardalur. Don't do it, it's a trap. You'll get halfway through and the road is no longer a road and it's just a pile of rocks. Verify your routes using the road network viewer at road.is. If you stick to the paved roads, driving is easy. Traffic is light and road signs are easy to read.
3) They're very creative when it comes to writing out price tags. Most of the time, prices are in thousands of kroner. (For example: 1,000kr). Sometimes they put the comma in interesting places (10,00kr) or they use a decimal instead (1.000kr). Sometimes they abbreviate Icelandic kroner as kr, sometimes as isk, sometimes as just k. Ignore punctuation, just read every price as some multiple of 1000kr (or 100kr-1000kr for items under $10). I used a mental shortcut to calculate prices, for you it is $10 CAD = roughly 1000 kr. If when doing your mental calculation food and booze seems a bit expensive, that's because it is. A cheesburger might be 1500kr and a cocktail 1200kr and that's just normal for Iceland.
4) Everybody speaks English, but learning the non-English Icelandic characters (such as ð, eth) helps a lot with reading maps and signs. It's a Germanic language and there are a lot of English cognates that you'll instantly recognize as long as you learn the basic pronunciation rules. If you go farther into the rural areas, peoples' English skills get weaker, but we didn't meet anybody who spoke no English at all.
5) Don't bother eating fermented shark. As far as I can tell, it's a counterargument against the "No True Scotch, Man" fallacy. I'm sure somebody somewhere actually likes the stuff, but I couldn't find anybody who would admit it. It persists mostly as a tourist curiosity and as a rite of passage for Icelanders.
6) Reindeer, however, is delicious. So is horse, as long as it's slaughtered young. So is pretty much all of their other seafood.
...$15 for a cheeseburger?
Like, a fast food cheeseburger?
Or are we talking about like a restaurant burger with a side?
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DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
I have a somewhat weird sex question for anyone to answer:
What is the longest you've maintained an erection after orgasm? I had a weird thing happen last night and am now curious.
I stay 80-95% erect for as long as sex continues. Half hour or longer, whatever.
I usually maintain an erection a good 10 minutes after orgasm.
Mines gone probably 2-3min afterwards if I actually ejaculate. If not it sticks around until I do. Otherwise I'm down for the count until a 15min break.
I have a somewhat weird sex question for anyone to answer:
What is the longest you've maintained an erection after orgasm? I had a weird thing happen last night and am now curious.
I stay 80-95% erect for as long as sex continues. Half hour or longer, whatever.
note that spool also minimizes or abstains from masturbation as well so his persistence times are probably higher as a result
Ohhhh he just says that so the ladies don't know he's cranking them out in the bathroom and cant admit to the time he forgot to unsync his Bluetooth connection and lurid moaning started blaring from the living room speakers
Wrote some R code that works. Did a deep dive and prep for a meeting tomorrow with another research group and I am ready. Had a meeting for the big report that I just kind of slept through and played a game of hearthstone because I didn't have anything to say.
on how much I've been orgasming in the e.g. week or few days previous.
If I jerk it a lot on the reg, boners expire and dissipate right quick. If I hold off for a few days, there have been times where I didn't even have a refractory period, just one marathon boner, but more commonly it's just going to be around for a few more minutes, as many as 10 or 15
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I was just posting but I need to find an therapist here.
I have finally come to the conclusion that my almost dying in '09 and such has left a few rather permanent mental scars I think.
What happened?
My Crohn's.
I have a picture of me at the time.
But I had my first flare that year. I went from 155 lbs to 105 lbs in 3 months. Had abdominal abscesses which still kill like 1 in 5 people who have them. Had two surgeries. The first one led to complications and pericardial pneumonia. I straight up almost died. Severe anemia. Pain that sat on an 8+ for weeks at a time. I am good now but it was a rough multi-month period.
Traumatic experiences like that tend to leave marks, even those that aren't scene.
:bro:
Being strong is tough. I kind of know the feeling having g/f go through multiple life saving surgeries after surgeons botched removing her failed transplant.
It's still nothing compared to being the actual person to go through it. It's hard. Hope you get the help you need.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
on how much I've been orgasming in the e.g. week or few days previous.
If I jerk it a lot on the reg, boners expire and dissipate right quick. If I hold off for a few days, there have been times where I didn't even have a refractory period, just one marathon boner, but more commonly it's just going to be around for a few more minutes, as many as 10 or 15
Yeah so this is my general experience, though I tend not to have them last super long after orgasm. On top of that, transness makes things weird. So I was surprised when I had a particularly persistent one, even after orgasm, during the third time I had sex in forty eight hours.
Got more info on this job interview in an hour, including the info that current librarians are interviewing for the library job. I almost certainly am at the bottom rung for this but hey, interview practice! It's a job half about trying to make programs that grow the library and building the collection for the library and having stuff be up to date and ready to use for teachers and all that. Important job, no idea if I'm qualified. But hey, the more experience I get not talking too fast in front of interviewers the better.
I get irrationally nervous about these sometimes to the point I can feel my heart hammering in my chest and I'm out of breath while talking about where I'm from and where I went to college. Which is weird, since I have no problem streaming, and previously have had very little trouble singing and dancing on a stage in front of much larger crowds.
For some reason, interviews are scary shit.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
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Actually since this is sex questions time. So if I have sex back to back, and have 2 quick orgasms it makes my ears ring, and one time I had a quick refractory period and got a third in for 3 in like 10 minutes. On the third one, I got super dizzy and sick to my stomach. And then I felt like emotionally numb for the rest of the day, not sad, but like I didn't feel anything. Is that normal?
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It wasn't even actually good
80 calories
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Though also confusing
i'll share my mfp notebook with you if you share yours with me
ughhh but i've been so bad about hitting my targets lately
...$15 for a cheeseburger?
Like, a fast food cheeseburger?
Or are we talking about like a restaurant burger with a side?
I need to go back
well, not back
i need to find a new therapist with whom I can make progress
Like a casual lunch bistro or cafe cheeseburger.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Ohhhh he just says that so the ladies don't know he's cranking them out in the bathroom and cant admit to the time he forgot to unsync his Bluetooth connection and lurid moaning started blaring from the living room speakers
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This is about normal for a bistro burger or cocktail in my city. The prices will not shock me. I guess my city is a little expensive.
In an interesting Afro-futurist twist, the surviving member now performs as a white German man.
I blame the hummus I bought last night from the low-price store near the cash-only part of town.
another workday is over.
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Yes.
Today has been a productive day.
Wrote some R code that works. Did a deep dive and prep for a meeting tomorrow with another research group and I am ready. Had a meeting for the big report that I just kind of slept through and played a game of hearthstone because I didn't have anything to say.
Did some more just admin work.
I just had coffee and then ramen with sriracha and my stomach hurts too now.
I want my robot stomach.
For me it varies completely based
If I jerk it a lot on the reg, boners expire and dissipate right quick. If I hold off for a few days, there have been times where I didn't even have a refractory period, just one marathon boner, but more commonly it's just going to be around for a few more minutes, as many as 10 or 15
"fun size" is pure Newspeak but I guess they won't let them call it dissatisfying horseshit size
it's always hard enough to continue sex. ain't nothin' wrong with pushing rope.
I looked as some of my old arts this weekend, all of them were so much farther from completion than I remembered
@Gooey dick size was considered too specific.
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Wow.
I would crumble beneath the crushing financial weight of my burg budget if I were an Icelander.
I want to eat a candybar that I finish, barely, out of pure loathing for myself.
I want to feel my pancreas and gall bladder whine under the strain of the massive amount of chocolate, nougat, and nut log that I just consumed
:bro:
Being strong is tough. I kind of know the feeling having g/f go through multiple life saving surgeries after surgeons botched removing her failed transplant.
It's still nothing compared to being the actual person to go through it. It's hard. Hope you get the help you need.
It was not predicted./spoiler]
I get irrationally nervous about these sometimes to the point I can feel my heart hammering in my chest and I'm out of breath while talking about where I'm from and where I went to college. Which is weird, since I have no problem streaming, and previously have had very little trouble singing and dancing on a stage in front of much larger crowds.
For some reason, interviews are scary shit.