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| The Lounge | I Knew It! Gov't Mind Control Rays! | Apr 03 2011 16:04 (UTC) |
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UC Berkeley empirical study on the effectiveness of aluminum foil hats showed that they actually attenuate certain radio waves, and those radio waves just happen to be owned and controlled by the FCC solely for government use. http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/he lmet/ Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason. I like Marilyn Milian, por que soy una Latina, y por que mi madre. I'm sitting here reading Al Jazeera and my husband puts up a DailyMailUK link? LMAO! |
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| The Lounge | Telling a child Santa is real the same as saying Jesus is real? (Not Christian) | Apr 03 2011 15:10 (UTC) |
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Perhaps you do think it's a bit much, but me, personally, I tire quite easily of seeing grown people use their child as a pawn. The fact that a spouse's reaction to a disagreement is to play a tit-for-tat sort of game using the child is childish and wrong and rather different than having a disagreement or even a full-blown argument that doesn't involve the child in question at all. My point had very little to do with the specifics of Christ, Christmas, saints, or Santa, except that this whole thing is engendered specifically due to the celebration of two CHRISTIAN holidays. To believe that Christian holidays can be separated from the very religion is almost a form of cognitive dissonance. Christmas, as in the Christ Mass, did not exist before Christianity. That sort of argument is entirely specious. There were certainly holidays, but do you happen to know what they were called, or what they celebrated? This is a celebration of the birth of Christ, good luck making an argument separating Christ from his own celebrations. I daresay I don't believe I've posted anything about any disagreements Dave and I have had. If you're trying to bring up old news, how about you just get on with it and sling the mud you have ready to sling?
Emily, reread what I said instead of just getting bent. What has gotten my attention has little do with with whether or not you and your husband are Christian or even what the two of you believe in, except that apparently one or the both of you feels it's A-OK to use your child to get back at each other. And that just sucks. I could go into an entire recounting of how I did things with my own children, and granddaughter (not to mention nephews and niece), but that wasn't what you asked about in your first post.
PGeorgian, what was it that I said that brought you to this rather nonsensical conclusion? Where, exactly, did I say that the child can't be allowed to believe in Santa? I'm rather curious from where you drew that conclusion. *I* can totally get that it can be done, honestly I think it's you, along with the others who felt the need to respond to me by being focused instead on the whole Christmas thing, instead of the REALLY important issue that Emily brought up and I chose to focus on. You, and no one else here except my husband, has a CLUE how I did things with my now-grown boys, my nephews and niece, my grandchild until or unless I choose to write about it.
I can't seem to help myself sometimes. Jerking knees, conclusion-jumping and groupthink, oh my! |
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| Weight Loss | Better than Splenda... | Apr 02 2011 15:38 (UTC) |
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Rat and other animal testing is the best we have prior to human testing, and I think that if you understood what a good corollary they make for the human as a model for testing you wouldn't make such a statement.
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| The Lounge | Telling a child Santa is real the same as saying Jesus is real? (Not Christian) | Apr 02 2011 15:35 (UTC) |
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In the end, so what? What if Jesus was real? What if Santa is not? Are you going to allow the child to enjoy the feeling of finding a few coins under his pillow from the Tooth Fairy, or will that have to be debated between the two of you first, too? You can't take a thing like Father Christmas and separate it from Christ, in my admittedly unpopular opinion. There would be no Christmas without the Christ child, to think there's an ability to do otherwise is a little silly, IMO. I mean, what will you tell the boy when he sees his first creche? Who's that little baby in the hay, Mom? Oh, that's Jesus, but he's not real. But Santa is real. And then we have the Easter Bunny. Does that make ANY sense to you at all?
But really, what's caught my attention the most is that it seems to have caused one hell of a debate between you and your husband and the child will be the one who receives the short end of the stick. You both need to behave like adults here, and threats like that is the ultimate sort of childishness. Become the team for your son that you're supposed to be and both of you need to stop fixating on what are ultimately very, very small "problems" in the grand scale of things. That's my opinion on the matter. Doesn't matter where you actually land, it's FAR more important that you and your husband are a TEAM and work TOGETHER, instead of against each other. United front and all of that. |
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| Weight Loss | Better than Splenda... | Apr 02 2011 15:16 (UTC) |
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Wow, really? I'm sitting here looking at Google Scholar looking at paper after paper that's specifically testing safety of sucralose (Splenda), including one paper that's a compilation of toxicity studies (it's not). Here's a link to one paper specifically on toxicity of sucralose, including in-utero, on Sprague-Dawley rats. Splenda (aka sucralose) is safe to use, including for pregnant women. But I'll double-check that with my personal RD. <winky of absolution> Stevia? Maybe. I'm putting up one paper, but anyone can use Google Scholar and type in the words, pull up papers themselves. There are more, many more on the subject. |
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| Weight Loss | Which rules do you break? | Apr 02 2011 14:59 (UTC) |
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Coming from the background and professional family that I do (RD and MD for parents) I find myself wondering very specifically about the professional qualifications of some of the people here who make absolute and declarative statements. It would be very helpful to know Person A has no qualifications other than reading, Person B is a student, Person C is a college grad with access to full papers and not just abstracts, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Especially with very specific regard to diet, statements like "raw almonds (pick a nut/food) are better for you" I find myself wondering, "Upon what data or knowledge is that statement based? I've seen no data, read no data, that would support such an assertion." Certainly the nutrient profile changes, but it's often an exchange with some nutrients becoming more readily available to the gut and others being changed by denaturing (aka "cooking"). It is at that point that I am keenly interested very specifically in the qualifications of the person making said statement. But, that's just me, and this gives you an idea of what goes on in my head. And, since I do happen to have direct and free access to professional-level information, it's very easy for me personally to double-check on just about any diet-related statement made--something not so easily accomplished by most.
Just an FYI, as Dave and I have been discussing this issue for some time now. What you observe is not at all unique to this group. It happens in many other "worlds" and many other venues, and in all honesty sometimes the arguing (I can't call it all debating, ad hominem a debate does not make) becomes hilarious. And then someone whips out some mud and it's all over from there. People become so dogmatic that they can't see beyond anything else. To say that the new person coming in is the one who must adhere to a certain mind-set or that they must learn to get past it is not right to me. If people here are established, and there are people here who are established, then the onus is upon them to make the site welcoming to others, not to force others to figure out how to fit in.
This doesn't even BEGIN to address the problem of trying to tease apart good scientific data from what the government wants us to be fed (information). I give you the food pyramid as the perfect example of such. USdotgov believes that the vast majority of people are simply too stupid to understand the true complexities of a healthy diet, so they simplify it, almost to the point of rudeness, and then spoonfeed that to the masses and even then, people remain woefully ignorant of what should be the basics. Nor does *that* begin to address the very real issue of our soils and the piss-poor foods we're growing on them. But, that's a rant for another day and another thread, yet it could very easily speak to the concept of people becoming dogmatic and close-minded in their dogma. |
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| The Lounge | Considering I've Never Ran One... | Apr 01 2011 14:00 (UTC) |
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Damn! You're neighbors with my sister and brother-in-law, they're on Myrtle just down the road from what was Marker 21 (on 28th, by the high school). Too bad you didn't run the half marathon, you might have been treated to an awesome dose of street theater courtesy of my sister. One couple didn't find it so funny, but all the runners did (except for the one guy who thanked us so nicely). I would recount the story here but it's one of those things that you sort of had to be there for and has required extensive explanation to with people who just don't get the humor.
Dave was SO nervous and apprehensive, it brought me back to my old horse showing days. But I knew he'd not only do just fine, but would do very well, and he did. The photogs who can only get pix with both feet on the ground... not so much (again, fallout from my horse showing days, only pix showing good action allowed!). |
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| Foods | black beans - whats the deal on fiber? | Mar 25 2011 16:22 (UTC) |
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Try this recipe, it's pretty good. http://caloriecount.about.com/frijoles-peruan o-2-recipe-r582821 You can probably use just about *any* dried bean with this recipe and cook it in the very same manner, it adds up to maybe an hour and a half on the stove and is MOST AWESOME the next day(s) after you make it. Have it with rice for deliciousness. The point of using dried beans is that you can control EVERYTHING that goes into the dish. The salt, the fat, the quality of the beans (how many times have you opened up a can of beans only to find sludge on the bottom?). Don't salt the beans at the start, either, just water and bay leaves, maybe onions and bell pepper. That recipe I linked you to can also be tweaked in other ways, adding more peppers, carrots, squash, tomato (it can do well with a lot more tomato in it and I'll be trying that) and it can all be done without adding FAT. Also, add yams to your diet, they'll fill in a good bit of potassium, and having them WITH skins will add fiber as well. Plus they're so tasty, too. |
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| Foods | Asking Almond Lovers | Mar 24 2011 16:57 (UTC) |
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I know people who don't own a microwave because they read somewhere that it "denatures" proteins in a "funky" way. The whole reason it came up is because I culture my own Greek yogurt and I do it using the microwave. These people were SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELL YOU! How can you do that? You're KILLING your food! So I asked them, "What's denaturing proteins?" (I know what it is, they didn't) When they learned for themselves what denaturing was, I then asked them, If microwaving "kills" food, then how am I able to culture *living* microbes using the microwave? No (good) answer from the peanut gallery.
Almonds have their own flavor that, if tasted on anything else, means "poison." Nutty deliciousness! |
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| Calorie Count | New Recipe Analyzer | Mar 24 2011 16:48 (UTC) |
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MANY errors are being generated. I have multiple tabs/pages/windows open, I can filter out CC's errors if you give me all urls to filter for. I'm sure I'm also seeing advert errors on the list here, but I'm also seeing errors specific to the recipe that *I* still cannot log or save as a favorite. I no longer use the old recipe and cannot edit it, either. |
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| Calorie Count | New Recipe Analyzer | Mar 24 2011 16:38 (UTC) |
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Alright, be back with the information momentarily. For whatever reason I cannot convey to you what I'm seeing. But, it exists. Tell me how to get this information to you, screenshots, error log (it's all in Java/html/whatever code and the site will *not* display it). I see no way to post pictures except to upload into my gallery. How do we do this, communicate between all of us? |
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| Foods | nuts | Mar 24 2011 16:29 (UTC) |
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I recall reading that folks who regularly eat a small amount of nuts weekly have something like a 20% reduced chance of developing diabetes. Considering our nation's current health status and the projected incidence of diabetes in the future, it's important for people to know and understand how to prevent this disease from developing in the first place. Nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in women”, Jiang R, et al, JAMA. 2002, 288(20):2554-60 Also apparently good for women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, too. |
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| The Lounge | A date tonight.. | Mar 24 2011 16:23 (UTC) |
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No follow up to hammer out even one little detail? I'd be feeling like you and thinking maybe he's decided to blow it off. |
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| Foods | Asking Almond Lovers | Mar 24 2011 15:42 (UTC) |
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Walnuts tend to go rancid and there's a bitterness in them that I don't care for. Pecans, those are another story. I bet you've never had Mexican wedding cakes, have you? (drool) Them'll make me FAT, I tell you what.
I have a question for you--how can someone not like pecans? They're about one of the best nuts in existence! I love almonds, but if you give me a choice between almonds (this year's crop is likely to be ruined, too, so you'd better start hoarding your favorites) and pecans, I'm taking pecans. Oh... there was that one time, after Mom had warned me and my sister about eating the pecans that had fallen off the tree (this was ca 1971, give or take, Shreveport, La.) that one day we were gonna get a worm. And that very next day, we got a worm! I never did stop trying the pecans from that big old tree that was on the way to school, though. No fun when you hit a bad pecan.... Other'n that, I like almonds toasted, but not such a big fan of extra flavors more often than occasionally. They tend to be too salty, but I have had some chili-limon almonds, Mexican-stylee, that were pretty good. Too salty for my taste, but I love that hot-sour thing that gets you in the neck nodes.
This has made me think of that song I learned, again in Louisiana, on the bus to summer camp about a peanut, had been found, and what happened when that rotten peanut was eaten, despite knowing better. |
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| The Lounge | VERY strange hypothetical question | Mar 24 2011 15:36 (UTC) |
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What my sister described to me was straight up disgusting. But then, horror flicks just aren't my thing. By the by, believe it or not, your question isn't that strange. Not to me, at least. I've had "collapse of American culture/society" on my mind in a really big way, been thinking quite a lot about survival, how we'll get through it, and so on. We have a lot of oaks, so I want to learn how to use acorns, for instance (local native foodstuffs). Perhaps, though, it's me, if I don't think the question so strange... |
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| The Lounge | You're not being a "team player" | Mar 24 2011 15:33 (UTC) |
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My perspective is a little harsher, and while I totally get where chickenjoe is coming from, and would have to say that he's right, I've been milked by companies too often, too hard, to be willing to cut anyone any sort of slack whatsoever. Not when it comes to taking money out of my wallet without my permission. It's why I've almost always ended up working for myself (self-employed). Either way, chickenjoe's got it nailed, even if it's not "right" in the moral sense, it is what it is and it is the way it is.
Interestingly enough, despite being the fractious loner I tend to be, I've never been accused of not being a team player. I'll do the work, but you're also going to hear my opinion about it. |
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| The Lounge | Ok so I'm old-fashioned? wow... | Mar 24 2011 15:25 (UTC) |
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Because, his mother brought him up right. Just as old-fashioned here, too, at least with regard to certain things. In fact, I told my sons that if they're going to have sex before living on their own I expect them to sneak around and do it in cars, just like *I* had to when I was their age. Interestingly enough, though, Dave's and my 'traditional' roles are a little twisted. He often does the cooking, he's a very good cook and it's nice. He also is the one who usually does the grocery shopping, I detest walking around in the market (can't we find something just a little more interesting to do?). He refuses to let me do his laundry unless he's exhausted. Otherwise, fairly traditional. |
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| Health & Support | Advice on coping with night sweats? | Mar 24 2011 15:15 (UTC) |
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I'm perimenopausal, I call them "heat flashes." I pretty much cannot sleep without a fan on me. I'm really sorry, that's all I've got for ya. |
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| The Lounge | Do you play into the media's tangled web of portrayed misfortune? | Mar 24 2011 15:09 (UTC) |
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That makes no sense and makes them look more crazy than they already do. The entire foundation of their "movement" is that God is unhappy with the fact that America accepts gays (really? Not in my neck of the woods, and I'm in California) and so that's why our soldiers die. When we attended the funeral of the son of Dave's ex-GF, we were worried there might be some WBC types out there at the services. Fortunately it was nothing but Patriot Guard, police, fire, and the armed forces all showing up for the fallen Marine.
Kathy, you must check out Dan Rather. His reporting is, in my opinion, thoughtful, forward-thinking, but mostly honest. |
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| The Lounge | VERY strange hypothetical question | Mar 24 2011 15:06 (UTC) |
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Yes, I would drink my own milk, absolutely. Drinking my own urine would be difficult, but it could be done, especially if I'm thirsty enough. The problem is self-expression, I always found that to be a pain in the ass. The machines made collecting my milk SO much easier. Back in the day I could give up to 4pints of milk, too.
Human breastmilk is naturally rather sweet, if somewhat thin compared to cow's milk. |
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