Technology: The Good and the Bad

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Saturday, August 13, 2011 06:57
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Cinnamon is actually a quite good backstop to peppers and is used in that fashion in some cajun cooking, it also has some useful antiseptic properties - an old quick bandage method for minor cuts involved a fistful of gossamer (aka spiderweb) and a dash of cinnamon, presumably to prevent infection.

Actually it's not the cookies, or despite suspicious glares, the brownies, but the cake - I have a niiiice recipe for Absinthe-Ginger Cake, but I wouldn't reccommend you drive after having some, and lets not even talk about the Rum-n-Brandy fruitcake, heh.

I did quite by unintentional chance, wind up putting away a couple "special" brownies down in Oklahoma once, washed down with half a bottle of Boones Farm - and nobody TOLD me those brownies (which were in fact damn good brownies in their own right, mind you) were "special" cause everyone assumed I knew.
Apparently though, THC seems to have no discernable effect in regards to personality or behavior, I really was quite, quite stoned out of my wits, but I think what happens with most folk is that the repressed parts of their personality start to surface, and someone who doesn't really repress much if any of it won't react the same.
The looking-through-a-bowl vision effect did kinda throw me though.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Interesting the different ways people perceive things. I didn't see anything "attacking" in Yin's posts, but I did see

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I choose to be offended by your preciousness and your defence of the indefendable.

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as pretty attacking and inflammatory. The use of "preciousness" and "indefensible" seems pretty assumptive, judgmental and a statement many might agree with (that it's indefensible, I mean). Since we don't know Yin that well in such a short time, maybe we should wait a bit before judging him/her. JMHO.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Thanks, Niki. (BTW, I'm a her.)

Call me weak, cowardly, melodramatic, whatever, but I think I've already had enough of RWED for this year. Maybe I'll see y'all next year.

::snags a cookie on the way out::

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Interesting the different ways people perceive things. I didn't see anything "attacking" in Yin's posts, but I did see

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I choose to be offended by your preciousness and your defence of the indefendable.

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as pretty attacking and inflammatory. The use of "preciousness" and "indefensible" seems pretty assumptive, judgmental and a statement many might agree with (that it's indefensible, I mean). Since we don't know Yin that well in such a short time, maybe we should wait a bit before judging him/her. JMHO.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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meh, Yin had a go at me in a couple of threads and I bit back. I don't know her modus operandus and I thought she went in hard on me for someone who doesn't come here or contribute much. My comments were throw away, and really my statement was meant to be about the excesses of the west, rather than attacking fat people.

I have observed in conversations on the Internet, that Americans like to put things a bit more delicately than what is usual or common for Australians, and that I can sometimes come across as a rude bastard. I do try not to go on the attack if I can help it, but I will bite back from time to time.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Magons, I'm with you, tho' I see it slightly differently. While I don't consider us gluttons. I consider advertising and waaaay too much choices as contributing to natural human weakness. IF the other countries you mentioned had the choices, resources and were constantly barraged with advertising telling them to "eat, buy, EAT, BUY!", I think they'd be in the same boat as we are. There's also the fact that fast-food is worse and more fattenting, and so many families where the parents both work depend on them, as do an awfully large number of the poor (because McDonald's is cheaper than trying to cook dinner unless you REALLY work at it, if you don't have the money).

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You see I believe we ARE gluttons. Not just with food, but everything. We are primed to live a life of excessive consumption. That is our culture, and I guess advertising is part of that, but advertising happens in other countries as well. It's just that westerners tend to consume to excess, food, alcohol, sex, technology. It always really seems to apparent when I have visited Asia, where even in the wealthy parts you are less likely to see fat people. And the food is everywhere, plentiful and yummy and people eat all day long. They just don't eat too much.

years ago I visited america after living in Europe and I visited Disneyland. I saw obese families, lots of them, something I had never really come across in my youth in Australia or in my time in Europe. I mean you saw fat people, but not families, not that often. Also what was different was the serving sizes, 2-3 times that what was served in Europe easily. Now all that is here as well. I can't believe how big portions have become over the past 10 years as we follow the American model in how we eat. I understand that things have changed in the UK as well.

So to my mind it is obscene that we are so fat, that we spend so much on diets and medication and medical treatment and a huge proprotion of the world's population are simply unable to get enough calories to survive.

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