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[AndriaD]

The term "liberal" doesnt hold anywhere near its true meaning. Today its just refers to a Democrat and they are extreme socialist and plain fuckin evil.

That's exactly the problem, and Juicy, you shouldn't feel we're picking on you -- I always considered myself a liberal, until suddenly, liberals were infiltrated by socialists and lunatics. There are SOME areas where a touch of socialism isn't a terrible thing, such as Social Security, and even unemployment and food stamps for the short-term financial/employment crises that can happen to anyone. The ORIGINAL "public health" campaigns, for vaccinations, window screens, and other such valuable contributions to PUBLIC HEALTH, were amazing and wonderful contributions to the overall public weal... but now, LUNATICS have driven us right over the edge to the point that "liberalism" is nothing I want to claim -- the lunatics who see some conspiracy in the need to vaccinate all children against lethal diseases, the total fucking morons who have turned anti-smoking into demonization and extortion of smokers... and other such total fruitcakes.

These completely-batshit-crazy "liberals" are putting science back probably at least a century, if not even more -- because those "liberals" are the ones who are PAYING for "scientists" to doctor their outcomes to reflect the liberal ideology, and HANG the truth. It's sad and deplorable, but I don't know what can be done about it, since those batshit-crazy folks are now in positions of wealth and power.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

infiltrated by ... and lunatics.

Hey now, I resent that. Us lunatics aren't too horrible.

These completely-batshit-crazy "liberals" are putting science back probably at least a century, if not even more -- because those "liberals" are the ones who are PAYING for "scientists" to doctor their outcomes to reflect the liberal ideology, and HANG the truth.

No, no now you they aren't doing that. They are looking at a different fact based reality than the rest of us because they cannot accept objective facts which make our reality. In that case we might them deluded. Well yeah, bat shit crazy works too.

I apologize as well, I'm not intending to be cutting anyone down, ... "well except for that mime." Will now, ....

Don't know about the people
Kobayashi issa

Approaching my village:

Don't know about the people,
but all the scarecrows
are crooked.

In this world
Kobayashi issa

In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.

Stillness
Matsuo Basho

Stillness--
the cicada's cry
drills into the rocks

 

[chopdoc]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...garette-battery-causes-small-fire-flight.html

Vape battery explodes on an American Airlines plane. Stewardess stomped the fire out.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Found something interesting in the Oxford Living Dictionaries. They have a definition of gravity. This leads to ask those more familiar with sciences here, does it mean then that sound travels at the speed of light? I'll cite what I'm looking at specifically below.

1.1 The degree of intensity of gravity, measured by acceleration.

• ‘It is not restricted to inertial frames, and it encompasses a broader range of phenomena, namely gravity and accelerated motions.’
• ‘The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time, revealing that it does indeed travel at the speed of light.’
• ‘Although these hidden dimensions remain too small to be measured, gravity can travel in between them.’
• ‘Our estimates of the total mass of the Earth, M, and therefore its mean density, rely on the measurement of gravity.’
• ‘Specific gravity was measured by a harmonic oscillation method on the automated workstation.'

‘The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time, revealing that it does indeed travel at the speed of light.’
‘Specific gravity was measured by a harmonic oscillation method, ...'

Those were listed as example sentences. Oxford does just not go around making stuff up, oh wait Oxford has atoms. In any case they usually state fact based sentences regarding science. So, if science is saying gravity travels at the speed of light and can measure that speed. Then, next the statement is they used harmonic oscillation to measure the speed of gravity. So does it not track logically to think gravity is sound?

Can anyone a little more versed in making science Plain English understandable please 'splain this for some of us what get trapped in Scott Gaelic & Portuguese mixed at times just for giggles?

No, please don't ask how I manage that feat, even my mind rebels at thinks in the Mandarin voice, with a Raymond Burr accent. My subtitles get warped for a few days then and I wind up reading everyone in low German. Google glasses with InterWebs access for translations, bah! I've always had fully on-board subtitles. Suffice it to say I have trouble with Ukrainian versus Russian, but I think they do as well.

Yeah, by the way I did not defenestrate fecal matter that landed on the police car. That was my evil twin, Neb. On that note I need to, ...

 

[AndriaD]

Found something interesting in the Oxford Living Dictionaries. They have a definition of gravity. This leads to ask those more familiar with sciences here, does it mean then that sound travels at the speed of light? I'll cite what I'm looking at specifically below.


‘The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time, revealing that it does indeed travel at the speed of light.’
‘Specific gravity was measured by a harmonic oscillation method, ...'

Those were listed as example sentences. Oxford does just not go around making stuff up, oh wait Oxford has atoms. In any case they usually state fact based sentences regarding science. So, if science is saying gravity travels at the speed of light and can measure that speed. Then, next the statement is they used harmonic oscillation to measure the speed of gravity. So does it not track logically to think gravity is sound?

Can anyone a little more versed in making science Plain English understandable please 'splain this for some of us what get trapped in Scott Gaelic & Portuguese mixed at times just for giggles?

No, please don't ask how I manage that feat, even my mind rebels at thinks in the Mandarin voice, with a Raymond Burr accent. My subtitles get warped for a few days then and I wind up reading everyone in low German. Google glasses with InterWebs access for translations, bah! I've always had fully on-board subtitles. Suffice it to say I have trouble with Ukrainian versus Russian, but I think they do as well.

Yeah, by the way I did not defenestrate fecal matter that landed on the police car. That was my evil twin, Neb. On that note I need to, ...

You know very damn well that sound doesn't move at the speed of light -- the latter is some 186,000-some-odd miles per SECOND. According to the interwebz, the speed of sound is 343 meters per second at 20 degrees celsius in dry air; for those of us who speak American, that comes to 1,131.9 feet per second at 68F -- a WHOLE LOT slower than light, as anyone who's ever counted from a burst of lightening to the sound of thunder should know perfectly well.

The NASA site says sound moves at 761 MPH, or 1100 ft per second.

Andria

 

[dez]

OMG!, I tried going on the reddit website to their skincareaddiction board, and it was a bunch of little teenagers giving bad advice and voting down good advice, and it was stressful and I won't go back.

It's a shame because they have all of the board topics that I would like in one place.. such vaping, a skincareaddiction board (I currently use makeupalley where all of the Skin Care gurus are.. on the skin care board), and they had a CBD board.

I went through, to ask a question trying to find the best way to make my own topical CBD, or to find a lotion or something like Icy Hot or something that's anti-inflammatory with absorption enhancers already in it that I can apply to an area of pain, and add a few drops of my CBD to it, because what they sell is so expensive and low dosage.

Anyway, first I went to the Skin Care addiction board.. and expected the same kind of people that makeupalley skin care board has, which are very intelligent people that know what they are talking about and have done research, like myself.

I advised one girl who said she had damaged her moisture barrier (which makes your face very irritated and dry and sensitive and painful to touch) and she asked what she should do. So I gave her the standard advice.. which is to stop using all of the skincare acids and lotions and try to use only micellar water wipes, and centella asiatica.. or Dr jart cicapair or tiger grass. All of these are very good at moisturizing skin that has become sensitized and helping it heal.

I was bombarded by people down-voting me telling me that micellar water wipes do not exist- you can buy them at Walmart- and that micelle is not a word.

I gave them a link from The Huffington Post about micellar water wipes. They told me the newspaper wouldn't know much about beauty so they didn't trust it. I gave them another link and they didn't like it either. I gave them a third link that was an interview with a dermatologist who explained everything I had explained to them already about what micellar water wipes are, and why they are good to use, and then I gave up and left.

They had downvoted me to the point I could not even get my original question asked on the CBD forum.

I've never seen a bigger bunch of idiot teenagers passing around bad advice in my life! I see why so many of you come here after that and don't ever go back.

They tried to tell me that micellar water wipes do not exist- you can Google it.. oh, they have existed for quite a long time.. and I told them how they were invented by French scientists, and why, (invented in France due to the way the water was affecting people's skin in a bad way, causing acne.)

 

[AndriaD]

OMG!, I tried going on the reddit website to their skincareaddiction board, and it was a bunch of little teenagers giving bad advice and voting down good advice, and it was stressful and I won't go back.

It's a shame because they have all of the board topics that I would like in one place.. such vaping, a skincareaddiction board (I currently use makeupalley where all of the Skin Care gurus are.. on the skin care board), and they had a CBD board.

I went through, to ask a question trying to find the best way to make my own topical CBD, or to find a lotion or something like Icy Hot or something that's anti-inflammatory with absorption enhancers already in it that I can apply to an area of pain, and add a few drops of my CBD to it, because what they sell is so expensive and low dosage.

Anyway, first I went to the Skin Care addiction board.. and expected the same kind of people that makeupalley skin care board has, which are very intelligent people that know what they are talking about and have done research, like myself.

I advised one girl who said she had damaged her moisture barrier (which makes your face very irritated and dry and sensitive and painful to touch) and she asked what she should do. So I gave her the standard advice.. which is to stop using all of the skincare acids and lotions and try to use only micellar water wipes, and centella asiatica.. or Dr jart cicapair or tiger grass. All of these are very good at moisturizing skin that has become sensitized and helping it heal.

I was bombarded by people down-voting me telling me that micellar water wipes do not exist- you can buy them at Walmart- and that micelle is not a word.

I gave them a link from The Huffington Post about micellar water wipes. They told me the newspaper wouldn't know much about beauty so they didn't trust it. I gave them another link and they didn't like it either. I gave them a third link that was an interview with a dermatologist who explained everything I had explained to them already about what micellar water wipes are, and why they are good to use, and then I gave up and left.

They had downvoted me to the point I could not even get my original question asked on the CBD forum.

I've never seen a bigger bunch of idiot teenagers passing around bad advice in my life! I see why so many of you come here after that and don't ever go back.

They tried to tell me that micellar water wipes do not exist- you can Google it.. oh, they have existed for quite a long time.. and I told them how they were invented by French scientists, and why, (invented in France due to the way the water was affecting people's skin in a bad way, causing acne.)

I find similar problems on Quora -- I had to stop allowing "adult content" (sex questions) in my feed, because I kept finding questions from idiot girls who wanted to know if masturbation could make them pregnant, or if coca-cola plus aspirin could prevent pregnancy. I told THAT girl that back in the old days, aspirin was an accepted form of birth control, because any girl who keeps an aspirin between her knees,. will almost certainly not get pregnant.

Andria

 

[dez]

I find similar problems on Quora -- I had to stop allowing "adult content" (sex questions) in my feed, because I kept finding questions from idiot girls who wanted to know if masturbation could make them pregnant, or if coca-cola plus aspirin could prevent pregnancy. I told THAT girl that back in the old days, aspirin was an accepted form of birth control, because any girl who keeps an aspirin between her knees,. will almost certainly not get pregnant.

Andria

OMG! That's hilarious! Some people are so stupid it's a wonder they have stumbled through life so far..

 

[AndriaD]

OMG! That's hilarious! Some people are so stupid it's a wonder they have stumbled through life so far..

That's the fucking truth. But I like hanging there, because it's another place to put forth the Good News that vaping really works for quitting smoking, and it won't make you grow an extra head or 3rd eye. There's a guy there who I really like, he's the guy who wrote that book or article or blog, whatever it is, called "TobakkoNacht," about the so-called "end game" of the smoke nazis and their fascist social engineering regarding smoking.

I like finding places where I can advance that Good News, and shout down the idiots about both smoking and vaping, and offer advice to those who think they might like to try vaping. I usually also include a link to VU, if they're really interested.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

You know very damn well that sound doesn't move at the speed of light -- the latter is some 186,000-some-odd miles per SECOND. According to the interwebz, the speed of sound is 343 meters per second at 20 degrees celsius in dry air; for those of us who speak American, that comes to 1,131.9 feet per second at 68F -- a WHOLE LOT slower than light, as anyone who's ever counted from a burst of lightening to the sound of thunder should know perfectly well.
The NASA site says sound moves at 761 MPH, or 1100 ft per second.

Paint me silly git on that. I genuinely ought to have damn well known that, or at least have done research further on the InterWebz. I thought something was off but it just was not registering. Ha! I was what was off. That will teach me for watching too much cosplay junk food videos. My wife, as per usual with wives, was correct those videos foul up a brain. Fair enough point. I will renounce and rebuke said videos.

What the pea soup was I thinking? They had folks dressed up as Pikachu. I have a Pikachu phobia. Ah, that might have been it, desensitizing to that phobia. Seems I was that odd happy stuff watching those fools. "Ha, look they'll get eaten by Pikachus. Hm, less idijits, ... ah."

There we are, much better.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Today is going to be a lot better. Going to town with her dad today.
I've a few appointments to attend.

Might return home, nap with my dog a bit. Have not been doing much of
anything. Sleep has been scarce for whatever reason, worn out and tired.

Well, need some coffee. No, that's not effecting sleep. I only drink two
to three cups a day.

Found a site that calculated how much you could drink before caffeine
caused overdose. I can drink ten cups but cup eleven is fetal overdose.

Better get to, ...

 

[AndriaD]

My insomnia has been rearing its ugly head about every other night, here lately. With all that rain, I wasn't opening the curtain in my room, so not sufficient daylight to suit my body's needs -- apparently I'm very sensitive to the light/dark cycles. But hell, it doesn't take much to give me insomnia. So, I opened the curtain today -- bright sunshine out there, but the rain will return tomorrow, they're saying.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

Keep having issues with C-Pap. Wake feeling like I'm facing off water-boarding. Supposedly it combats the apnea. Never thought such would be something to effect me. Ah well, life plays cards and we play our hands best we can.

 

[dez]

My insomnia has been rearing its ugly head about every other night, here lately. With all that rain, I wasn't opening the curtain in my room, so not sufficient daylight to suit my body's needs -- apparently I'm very sensitive to the light/dark cycles. But hell, it doesn't take much to give me insomnia. So, I opened the curtain today -- bright sunshine out there, but the rain will return tomorrow, they're saying.

Andria

They have done studies with people who are bipolar and have the severe ups and downs where they use light therapy. You can actually get a sun lamp and use it in the winter to get vitamin D and it is supposed to help with your mood. It is also supposed to help with your sleep cycles and I have noticed that if I turn my bedside lamp on, it helps me wake up much faster in the morning then if I lay in bed and try to wake up watching TV without the lamp beside me.
Something to try when you are trying to wake up or go to sleep- turn the lights on or off , whichever you need.

 

[dez]

Keep having issues with C-Pap. Wake feeling like I'm facing off water-boarding. Supposedly it combats the apnea. Never thought such would be something to effect me. Ah well, life plays cards and we play our hands best we can.

My boyfriend has always snored incredibly loud, louder than anyone I have ever heard. You can hear him through shut doors throughout the apartment and probably the neighbors can hear him too. I hear him stop breathing in the night and wake him up but he will not wear one of those masks and won't even bring it up with the doctor.

I think I may have it to a little bit since I have gained weight, both of us have. Since I have gained some weight I wake up gasping for air every once in awhile, but I am with him - I don't want to wear one of those masks at night either.

I wish he would wear one- but I myself don't want to wear one. LOL.

 

[MyMagicMist]

... wear one of those masks and won't even bring it up with the doctor.

Endocrinologist sent me out for a sleep study. Got booted over to a real
good neurologist. He's one these old fellows that started out as a horse
doc, worked on through and has rooms with walls filled with degrees,
citations for his study.

He just grinned at me. "I didn't need the sleep study results to know
you're wired up different, too much of your appearance and manner gives
it away," he told me. He then said it was probably better I do use the
the accursed thing.

You don't really put anything past an old saw bones like that and you
have to know they know what they're doing. Otherwise I wouldn't bother
with it myself. He even did have them add O2 into mix because he saw I
wasn't up to over 80% during the night.

My wife is one of these old school goth without all the emo or goth baby
wrappings. Reckon if I'm honest I wear flannel shirts too. At any rate
she's all concerned with this idea that she's going to keep around as long
as she can. Although to her credit she did laugh her fool head off over
a few things what got suggested we both saw no way to go along with
doing.

 

[dez]

Endocrinologist sent me out for a sleep study. Got booted over to a real
good neurologist. He's one these old fellows that started out as a horse
doc, worked on through and has rooms with walls filled with degrees,
citations for his study.

He just grinned at me. "I didn't need the sleep study results to know
you're wired up different, too much of your appearance and manner gives
it away," he told me. He then said it was probably better I do use the
the accursed thing.

You don't really put anything past an old saw bones like that and you
have to know they know what they're doing. Otherwise I wouldn't bother
with it myself. He even did have them add O2 into mix because he saw I
wasn't up to over 80% during the night.

My wife is one of these old school goth without all the emo or goth baby
wrappings. Reckon if I'm honest I wear flannel shirts too. At any rate
she's all concerned with this idea that she's going to keep around as long
as she can. Although to her credit she did laugh her fool head off over
a few things what got suggested we both saw no way to go along with
doing.

Yes my sister was in the hospital for the first year of her life. Her left lung and diaphragm had collapsed when she was born and they always had to stay on top of her oxygen levels and 80% I can tell you, is damn near dead if you leave it there too long or at least brain damage. It's a good thing that you went with wearing the mask. Too bad there aren't more doctors like that around anymore.

 

[dez]

Endocrinologist sent me out for a sleep study. Got booted over to a real
good neurologist. He's one these old fellows that started out as a horse
doc, worked on through and has rooms with walls filled with degrees,
citations for his study.

He just grinned at me. "I didn't need the sleep study results to know
you're wired up different, too much of your appearance and manner gives
it away," he told me. He then said it was probably better I do use the
the accursed thing.

You don't really put anything past an old saw bones like that and you
have to know they know what they're doing. Otherwise I wouldn't bother
with it myself. He even did have them add O2 into mix because he saw I
wasn't up to over 80% during the night.

My wife is one of these old school goth without all the emo or goth baby
wrappings. Reckon if I'm honest I wear flannel shirts too. At any rate
she's all concerned with this idea that she's going to keep around as long
as she can. Although to her credit she did laugh her fool head off over
a few things what got suggested we both saw no way to go along with
doing.

I do wonder how he could tell by looking at you? Maybe because when people didn't sleep well they look tired and walk slowly and move a little slower..? I noticed I do that when I haven't had enough sleep. I'm still been up since almost 2 days ago this time though I did have a few small naps.

 

[AndriaD]

They have done studies with people who are bipolar and have the severe ups and downs where they use light therapy. You can actually get a sun lamp and use it in the winter to get vitamin D and it is supposed to help with your mood. It is also supposed to help with your sleep cycles and I have noticed that if I turn my bedside lamp on, it helps me wake up much faster in the morning then if I lay in bed and try to wake up watching TV without the lamp beside me.
Something to try when you are trying to wake up or go to sleep- turn the lights on or off , whichever you need.

I've already got a good bit of "lighting customization" going on -- these new halogen lightbulbs are much brighter and "bluer" than old-style incandescents.... so, in both lamps beside my bed, I have one of each -- I use the halogens when I first wake up, and they stay on all day; around 10pm, when I take my melatonin, I switch both of them over to the dimmer incandescent bulbs (what I'll do when those burn out, I have no clue); in the lamp on my desk, I also switch the bulbs -- I put in the halogen in the "morning" (crack o'noon, usually), and when I get up to go fix dinner, I turn it off, and when I come back in here after dinner, I switch the halogen bulb out for the dimmer incandescent. I got the idea for this because of the "blue light filter" app that I run on my phone, starting around 8pm, and since I got Win10, have discovered that it also has a "night mode" setting, which I have set for 9pm.

All that, plus all the many and varied pills I take to help me sleep, plus the new very-comfy bed, has HELPED... but for me, a real cure for insomnia would probably be a BFH. Right to the head!

 

[chopdoc]

My boyfriend has always snored incredibly loud, louder than anyone I have ever heard. You can hear him through shut doors throughout the apartment and probably the neighbors can hear him too. I hear him stop breathing in the night and wake him up but he will not wear one of those masks and won't even bring it up with the doctor.

I think I may have it to a little bit since I have gained weight, both of us have. Since I have gained some weight I wake up gasping for air every once in awhile, but I am with him - I don't want to wear one of those masks at night either.

I wish he would wear one- but I myself don't want to wear one. LOL.

Your boyfriend and you need to go see a doctor. Snoring and stop breathing while sleeping is sleep apnea and it is very bad. Part of my disability is from thick heart disease. That is the results of having sleep apnea for years and refusing to do anything about it. Tell your boyfriend he is fucking with his heart by not going and so are you.

 

[dez]

Your boyfriend and you need to go see a doctor. Snoring and stop breathing while sleeping is sleep apnea and it is very bad. Part of my disability is from thick heart disease. That is the results of having sleep apnea for years and refusing to do anything about it. Tell your boyfriend he is fucking with his heart by not going and so are you.

That's pretty scary. I knew that it could take years off your life but he did not care he was in the military and he is very different than some people. I just know that I would not be able to sleep with one of those masks on and I didn't have that problem before and I'm in the process of losing weight so I think I'm only doing that every once in a while because I've gained some weight because of a medicine but I'm coming off of that medicine now. I'll tell my boyfriend what you said but I don't expect it to change his mind. He seems to think that when he dies it's going to happen like lightning and that the it's not going to happen slow and painfully like it can, you know?

 

[dez]

I've already got a good bit of "lighting customization" going on -- these new halogen lightbulbs are much brighter and "bluer" than old-style incandescents.... so, in both lamps beside my bed, I have one of each -- I use the halogens when I first wake up, and they stay on all day; around 10pm, when I take my melatonin, I switch both of them over to the dimmer incandescent bulbs (what I'll do when those burn out, I have no clue); in the lamp on my desk, I also switch the bulbs -- I put in the halogen in the "morning" (crack o'noon, usually), and when I get up to go fix dinner, I turn it off, and when I come back in here after dinner, I switch the halogen bulb out for the dimmer incandescent. I got the idea for this because of the "blue light filter" app that I run on my phone, starting around 8pm, and since I got Win10, have discovered that it also has a "night mode" setting, which I have set for 9pm.

All that, plus all the many and varied pills I take to help me sleep, plus the new very-comfy bed, has HELPED... but for me, a real cure for insomnia would probably be a BFH. Right to the head!

"BFH"?

 

[dez]

I've already got a good bit of "lighting customization" going on -- these new halogen lightbulbs are much brighter and "bluer" than old-style incandescents.... so, in both lamps beside my bed, I have one of each -- I use the halogens when I first wake up, and they stay on all day; around 10pm, when I take my melatonin, I switch both of them over to the dimmer incandescent bulbs (what I'll do when those burn out, I have no clue); in the lamp on my desk, I also switch the bulbs -- I put in the halogen in the "morning" (crack o'noon, usually), and when I get up to go fix dinner, I turn it off, and when I come back in here after dinner, I switch the halogen bulb out for the dimmer incandescent. I got the idea for this because of the "blue light filter" app that I run on my phone, starting around 8pm, and since I got Win10, have discovered that it also has a "night mode" setting, which I have set for 9pm.

All that, plus all the many and varied pills I take to help me sleep, plus the new very-comfy bed, has HELPED... but for me, a real cure for insomnia would probably be a BFH. Right to the head!

Oh, if you ever need light bulbs Amazon has every kind of lightbulb you can imagine. Even one that I could not find after I really looked up the serial number and everything I can find on the bulb that came in my little bedside lamps that were different from anything I've ever seen I found on Amazon by punching in numbers on the bulb.

 

[AndriaD]

"BFH"?

Big Fucking Hammer. I'm sure Choppie knows that shorthand.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

I do wonder how he could tell by looking at you? Maybe because when people didn't sleep well they look tired and walk slowly and move a little slower..? I noticed I do that when I haven't had enough sleep. I'm still been up since almost 2 days ago this time though I did have a few small naps.

He probably used something very basic, his experience. The Guardian has an article discussing it and promoting the use of neuro-science in teaching doctors to diagnose more accurately, efficiently.

I can tell you, is damn near dead if you leave it there too long or at least brain damage.

Bah, already been dead once and come back. I was 11 months old and died from pneumonia. I was dead clinically for 7 minutes. I've a few other times that I likely should have been dead but dumb luck kept it from happening. One time I walked into a loaded .45 magnum and put the barrel tip up to my forehead and told the man holding the weapon to fire. He was a coward and asshole, which I had learned long before that. And yeah, I'm one of those dummies that run right into a gunfight, burning building, bomb down the field. That's just me, like to help keep people safe, besides it's just a rush to clear away all the bullshit thoughts in my head and give me some "quiet" time.

I also likely got brain damage from the death. If not that then probably the drugs my mom did when she carried me, or the booze. I was born brain damaged then had that guy who had the 45, whack me up back of the head with a 2*4 when I was a boy. Brain damage? It might scare some folks but me, pfft, what's new? it might have also been some of the stuff I've done too, grew up when folks didn't know about led paint chips. Hm. Oh yeah, and I did inhale unlike Bill Clinton. I no longer do but it was something to try.

"BFH"?

Big Fucking/Flaming/Fraggin' Hammer --- I know because 1. I can read my fourth mamma's mind. 2. I too often need a BFH. 3. Get an education on the Interwebs for like 20 years and you learn shorthands.

he was in the military and he is very different than some people. I

Well, I too was in military, I too am rather different from most people. I may be an apathetic agnostic but when my wife says she wants me around, I kind of give a shit. There's always crazy, sure, then there's also flat out stupid too. Hm, ... Think I'll go check a few other threads. Kind of hoping to find word about some new squonking gear if there is any. Please don't take my post to you here as being mean. I'm kind of tired from doing a bunch of housework today, a bunch of nothing really, and I'm not quite sure where my diplomacy might suffer. I also am doing like eight or twelve other other things, possibly two classes online at the moment, a job online or at least it says it's a job. Hm, plus coding something in the background, White Rooming something. So yep, scattered here and there.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Big Fucking Hammer. I'm sure Choppie knows that shorthand.

Andria

As well as your other misbegotten boi. *llol* Faster typed than me do you.

 

[AndriaD]

when my wife says she wants me around, I kind of give a shit. There's always crazy, sure, then there's also flat out stupid too.

I think I mentioned that when my husband's hypertension was off the charts, I told him he didn't have my permission to die before me, *I* have to go first, so he was to get his stubborn ass to the VA posthaste to get that damn hypertension treated! He did... and now his BP is normal, thx to the meds... and they also found, and CURED, his HepC! Hurrah for the VA! They also financed our house, and no down pmt! Hurrah!

And yeah I figured you and Cromwell too, probably knew "BFH" -- I gather it's a "tool man" thang.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

I think I mentioned that when my husband's hypertension was off the charts, I told him he didn't have my permission to die before me, *I* have to go first, so he was to get his stubborn ass to the VA posthaste to get that damn hypertension treated! He did... and now his BP is normal, thx to the meds...

Yep, think I do recall you mentioning it. Kind of in a little sling here regarding my own blood pressure medicine. I'm taking 4 of the wife's blood pressure pills, but they lack the extra "water" pill aspect that mine has. When my bp was first noticed as a problem, I was in a doc's office. It read over 200 for the bottom number. The nurse told me I was stuck sitting still. Got a pill then and there too & told to double take (take another that day) before bed.

Got in my current sling, seeing a new to us doc. Thought my scrips were all up to date and fillable. Of course not. So I didn't ask the "new" doc to writ me up any new scrips. I go Friday to see him and am taking everything in so he can list it out, writ me new scrips. Yep, I take the big old 325/25 mg pill, the /25 is the "water" pill. I think the mismatch might be fouling me sleeping good up, not sure, maybe not enough diff. but I'm not a doc, only ever got volunteer EMpTy (E.M.T) or Navy basic medic/fireman. I coulda prolly went on for "shock trauma tech" but I never really applied the C.N.A to the E.M.T or had a gumption to do the whole bit and go for nurse. Besides, I'm "bad" enough as it is just having a bit of smarts about herbs, survivalist stuff.

Sometimes I think I way too straight acting. *chuckles* Difficult staying in balance. That's beside the point though, keep me grumpy and life is better for everybody. *smirks* oops, that code will not clear the compile buff, okay drop that frame too. What the fuck? Damn missed a dot ... *grumbles* I need to find my dot, ...

 

[Hypnophone]

The Torture Never Stops.
Late 80's or early 90s .
FUCKIN FRANK!

 

[Hypnophone]

I got me some BP trouble. Some sugar troooubleseses.
What the fuck?

Is this this complain about whatever I got thread?
Austin Tacos! Este chingalatis!

 

[Hypnophone]

The Bastardseses! They BANNED me for my tagline...

Globalist-Commie fucks!

I dont care, except that ah don't dig rejection...
Here's a rejected bunch of fellowseses:

 

[Hypnophone]

Fuckin Jeff Beck!
and Jan Hammer............WHOOO!

 

[Hypnophone]

Ain't nobody talkin' shiite 'bout nobody heah.
Just shut up and listen...

 

[Hypnophone]

Pssst!
Listen:

 

[chopdoc]

When they told me I had to do a sleep study I was like fuck that. How in the hell does anyone sleep with that crap on their face was my attitude. Yet I was between a rock and a hard place and had no choice. If I refuse normal treatment which a sleep study is today then the disability insurance peeps would have an out to not pay me and trust me, they wish to hell they didnt have to pay me. So I took the sleep study and I cheated> I took a couple Xanax when they wasnt looking.

Now I am glad I did it and am using the sleep machine. Sure its a psin in the ass but once your use to it, you really dont know its on until you wake up and try to get up Before getting the machine I would fall asleep anytime I sat down. Thats why I stayed on my feet most night s at work I knew if I sat I would be snoring and some asshole would fuck with me. (I worked in a no slack zone). More than a couple times the GF would catch me falling off the couch and once I did fall and broke the coffee table. Constantly falling asleep on the comode and always tired. None of that now.I sleep good and feel much better and I dont fall asleep all the time unless I am really really buzzin.

My sister was 1 3/4 yeas older than me. She died last September 5 days before her birthday from what the coroner called a cardiac event. One of the contributing factors he stated was thick heart disease. I told her a few times after my medical crap started to go to a cardiologist and get checked out and she never did. Now she is dead. If she did they would have had her do a sleep study and all that fun stuff. Too late now.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Before getting the machine I would fall asleep anytime I sat down.

I'm still falling asleep on set downs. Yes, I do use the machine & proper. Thinking the set down sleeping may be something else for me. Likely it is one of those bits where it's literally "all in you head". My thinking doesn't let up & runs probably as fast as light at times.

Got an INTP personality. That means for me, my mind sees even the everyday mundane as some grand chess game, reads out and plays out all kinds of scenarios. On top of that the "editor" lives in there and nothing ever suits it. All I can do is the best I can, I know that but it doesn't make it any easier to accept.

Swear at times thinking a frontal lobotomy with a dull wooden spoon might not hurt. I am though working with something which ought to have been offered to me earlier. Found something on the Roku, a channel about mental-ism. No it ain't no new age mumbo jumbo much as it might sound. The largest part is this, ...
I own it all. I'm responsible for every choice and there is always a choice.

It is seeming to help because it emphasizes that even the stuff which seems "beyond your control" actually resonates back to your responsibility. You wouldn't have those things if you had not chosen to give up responsibility of them. For me it makes sense and helps to encourage thought into action,, action into reality by habits. It even explains re-framing and analyzing emotions based on actual reality not what you think it is.

For example you might tell me that you think I need goals. Well I might feel challenged, upset by that. I might think you're trying to force your beliefs on me and so on. Truth of the matter is you're only making a friendly suggestion which might be helpful. So, I have to stop and double check my perceptions, this is a choice. If I do that I cannot help but to minimize involving ego or "self", I stop taking everything personally. No need to mention how that can really help in life.

 

[AndriaD]

My husband is a RIOTOUS snorer -- one of the reasons why we went to separate bedrooms. But, having slept beside him for 20+ yrs, I know that he doesn't suffer from apnea; he keeps breathing, even though there were a few times I wished he wouldn't. But he DOES have a serious sleep disorder, that every-3-minutes "restless whole body" that makes him jump and jerk all night long -- which is the MAJOR reason we no longer sleep together -- and he can fall asleep in 2 minutes flat, regardless of his position or whatever is going on around him -- he said he once fell asleep while standing at attention in formation -- can't you just see that USMC drill instructor with THAT guy in his formation? He's just a "fast sleeper"... I envy the SHIT out of him, since I'm a "VERY SLOW sleeper," so slow that sometimes I can't manage it at all.

The only reason we were ever able to sleep in the same bed was my alcoholism -- even every-3-minute jumping and jerking doesn't wake someone passed out drunk. Once I got sober, we had about 15 yrs of middle-of-the-night screaming matches... till we finally decided it was in the best interest of both of us to sleep separately.

Andria

 

[chopdoc]

Good evening fugees and GFY

Seen my Cardiologist today. Said everything looked good, come back in 3 months

I like visits like that

 

[MyMagicMist]

Well, had a psych visited today. I was near in tears explaining I never have gotten zippy, peppy, enthused, highly energetic because I'm not wired to do that. Once she grasped that she then understood my knowing I'll have life long depression. She also told to me ask the endocrinologist to figure something out to help me get energy.

Saw him next today. His response was that he only had to keep my testosterone level between 400-700 points. The docs have already figured out I'll never see the 2,000-3,000 which is regular so all they need is me on a maintenance dose since my body produces no testosterone on its own. He said he was doing that and didn't need to anything more and there really wasn't anything more he could do anyway.

Being honest I find it frustrating. I really find it frustrating because even though it seems everyone wants to restrict what I can do according to my condition, the STATE won't list me as disabled. I damn near cannot work at anything according to what got nixed during my filing and the review of by a judicial administrator. I got left with maybe one or two things to choose from. And they're jobs you got 2-500 people in line to get as soon as they're open.

It's alright though. I'm going to get a wild hare set lose up my ass. Then, I'll get back into writing because face it, not much else to do. Might even start a series of books with homosexuals, transgenders, bisexuals all finding great romance and lives with happily ever after, instead of the mainstream tragic crap ending for forbidden love stories. Don't reckon it matters what I'd write though, just write and let it pile up, Then, after I'm dead they can publish it after finding it and going nuts over it.

Also going to be helping my wife in looking for us a small farmstead. We're thinking ranch style house, no more than 5 acres, out away from everybody. Plenty of dogs, cats and I might do some chickens, maybe a goat, a sheep or two. It won't be anything huge because it doesn't need to be. She's making the house into a craft closet with all her yarn, threads. Told her I get the barn and she can't use my pottery wheel.

And yes, I realize it may sound I am exuding energy with all these varied interests. I actually am not as most of it is stuff I can do up and keep abreast to a point. I know farming takes work. I also know it can be rewarding & if you get into a routine with it there is less energy spent than you may think.

I have varied interests and am a jack of many trades because I'm a polymath, self taught to a point and self listed as such. This is what polymaths do, see Thomas Jefferson, he was into all kinds of things, medicine, farming, astrology, statesmanship, navigation. We pick stuff up easily, gain a quick "working" knowledge of it, bore, move to something else and learn it. We're not able to commit to honing mastery, unless we get deeply interested in something and even then we can go back and forth between stuff.

Yeah, think to borrow a Tim Leary phrase I'm tuning out. He was a C.I.A agent by the by, back when they tried M.K. Ultra, or at least when they say they were doing it but quit it. Better still, a biker phrase I'm sure a few we'll get, ... FTW!

 

[chopdoc]

Mornin fugee's.

Been nasty and cold here last few days but I am glad this storm system that rolled thru didnt dump a blizzard on Bob. Few days ago it like like it might.

donno about yall but I had enough of winter for the year. Time for spring and to get the gardens going

 

[MyMagicMist]

Well our first snow was on the 10th here. We're figuring we'll get ten snows for the Winter. Been having a little fun from sweating. Seems my body has started plopping out bits of rock salt, glass, asphalt, chicken grease, gravels, nylon threads. Will be setting up, back sweats and this stuff comes up and out onto a tissue or paper towel as I wipe off. It's not from the paper towel or whatever, I feel it coming from under the skin.

Rock salt from been burnt with it by a granddad for tipping cattle at night. *grin* Glass from rolling off the back of a motorcycle into a car windshield because the car driver was being a punk and clipped us. Asphalt from that too, I skidded along the road a little ways after twisting around and getting rolled on over the car. Probably where some gravel comes in, that and taking slides in quarries at different times. Chicken grease from working poultry processioning plants two to five years total, it saturates anyone who works there no matter how much you try avoiding it. Nylon threads from various times of dealing with nylon line used for stuff it likely ought naught been used to do, probably manila or natural hemp line should have been used.

Considering it all, have had a blessed life if you want to believe in blessings. I think it's all been dumb luck and not knowing what I was not capable to do, not knowing limits. Hm, might be answer there, forget the limits again because they aren't defined by me. Nor am I defined by them or the others trying to define me. Ha! Yep, I ought to go for my psych degree. Wife says she could see me now acting like the D.I. Full Metal Jacket. "You come here for therapy? Get out of my office, you're not hurt! Can't develop a spine yet maggot? Go play tag with cars on the expressway!"

 

[AndriaD]

Forum's awful dead today... only 8 new posts on the "new posts" list. What the what?!?!?!

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

Monday... and snow panic in much of the country.

 

[AndriaD]

Monday... and snow panic in much of the country.

Why anyone north of the mason-dixon line would panic over snow totally escapes me.

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

Why anyone north of the mason-dixon line would panic over snow totally escapes me.

Andria

Like people on the coast panicking over hurricanes?
Or people living on floodplains and floods?
Or living in HI and volcanoes?

Humans are humans no matter where they are.

 

[AndriaD]

Like people on the coast panicking over hurricanes?
Or people living on floodplains and floods?
Or living in HI and volcanoes?

Humans are humans no matter where they are.

That's true... but having some snow fall isn't the same at all, as hurricanes or floods or volcanoes. Blizzard? Ok, that might be a weather emergency of the same order. But not just some ordinary snow. That's like Atlantans panicking when some raindrops hit the pavement... and they do, I've seen it many times on I-85... "Omigod, water is falling from the sky! God help us all!" and the brakelights come on, all at once, nevermind that suddenly hitting the brakes when rain has JUST started to fall is the worst possible thing to do... that's like hitting the brakes when you feel your car skidding on ice -- worst possible reaction!

I agree with the meme @SMOKIE posted on new year's day... way past time for people to GROW THE FUCK UP!

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

way past time for people to GROW THE FUCK UP!

Ahh but US society is growing more immature all the time.

 

[AndriaD]

Ahh but US society is growing more immature all the time.

I know. Seeing how the world, and the US is becoming, is the only consolation of getting old -- I won't have to be around to see it when the shit REALLY hits the fan. And thank god for that.

Andria

 

[The Cromwell]

Ahh it is but the rise and fall of civilizations that has existed thru all of the humans existence.
The cycle will not be broken.
Until humans finally manage to destroy all.

 

[The Cromwell]

Technology that humans develop is passed on from generation to generation.
Wisdom on how to use that technology is not passed on.