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benstylus wrote:

well, obviously, but my point was the freezer pop has red dye in it. Not to mention it's obviously way too big a treat to give to a child that young. At the time of that photo she was most likely doped up from all the sugar.

A typical otter pop is 1 liquid ounce, with 3.5 grams of sugar in it.

A typical Hi-C juice box is 6 ounces, with 11 grams of sugar (plus additional sucralose so they can say there is less actual sugar)

A mini 7.5 ounce can of coke has 25 grams of sugar.

I'd say an otter pop is one of the least harmful sugary treats you can give a kid.

hmm, then I guess I overestimated how big it is

Is Tool the "Rush" of the 90s?

rayzor6 wrote:

"Slappin da' bass!"

Tool is one of my all time favorites. Saw em live 3x, hell of a show.

LOL...I just saw some young girl playing Tom Sawyer on drums and kicking arse...but it was the first time I really heard all the parts separate but in unison...and it just reminded me of how Tool kind of does the same thing/different genre.

I always joke that Billy Idol was the 80s Trent Reznor/NIN...heh heh.

Disclaimer: these are just my half joking opinion and not meant to throw anyone into a reason to rage (TM) (C)

A raccoon missing an eye would not leave my kid's outdoor playset. I shot it twice and it did not respond much, just stayed there looking at me. I pinned it with a stick and it finally got angry. When it squirmed out the back I put it out of its misery. Had to either be infected or rabid being so bolden in the middle of the afternoon. Ended up burying it so hopefully nothing gets to it. I hope the cats and chickens avoided it. Need to bleach the area now.

Pour one out for one-eyed raccoon. 🙏

I was once outdoors on an extremely cold winter day for several hours. I was so cold when I got back that I went to the boiler room with a hot drink (figured I'd warm myself up both internally and externally).

You really gotta bundle up well in freezing weather. Layers, thermals, a hat, scarf, etc.

theJaw wrote:


Definitely. Don't care for needless suffering.

nonamesleft wrote:

Yeah, I can't stand any temperatures under 60 degrees, I know how it is.

I had a random thought earlier. Don't recall at the moment what it was, so I hope it wasn't too hilarious or interesting. But this reminds me of a Mitch Hedburg joke.

Mitch said that if he's in bed and he thinks of a funny joke but doesn't want to get out of bed to write it down, he has to convince himself that the joke isn't funny.

Ah, Mitch. Wish he'd still be here and doing shows. His humor was great. One of the few comedians whose work I've bought.

Mitch Hedberg is my favorite comedian of all time, and I doubt that will change. He had a great way of being relatable without being predictable.

nonamesleft wrote:

You know you are good when I watch the same joke over and over and still laugh out loud. He was brilliant.

Probably my favorite two:

"I was walking down the street at 3am, and I passed a dry cleaner. The sign in the window said -"Sorry, We're Closed". You don't have to be sorry. It's 3am. And you're a dry cleaners. Its not like I was gonna come back at 10 and say "Hey man, I was here at 3 and you guys were closed... somebody owes me an apology!"

"I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D"."

rayzor6 wrote:


for doughnut."

The Subway duck joke is pretty good too...

The Pringles and escalator jokes always come to mind when I think of Mitch.

KCPenguins wrote:
I just mentioned the Pringles joke recently. Instead of tennis balls, a truck of potatoes arrived. Pringles said cut em up!

Mitch was great. A gem. Comic genius.

Pretty happy to see all grocery stores and Walmart closed all day today in my area. The death of the shopping craze on this holiday weekend is long overdue.

Turkey and taters were good. Saw both brothers at the same time since probably Christmas. Winding down with football. Pretty good day.

There is an annual ceremony in the U.S. where the president grants a pardon to a turkey.

KCPenguins wrote:

Why would that make you happy, you monster. Sometimes people need to buy stuff, what harm is it doing to you lol

My entire family is on the other side of the country, meanwhile I'm still stuck in this hell pit with no way to go see them.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

I'm told that fluoride toothpaste contains 1500 as much fluoride as water. So lately I've been using less and less toothpaste. Now I'm considering just not using toothpaste at all. By this point I'm convinced it doesn't do anything, I was more or less using it simply to mask the taste of brushing w/o toothpaste.

Wondering, though, if I should look into alternatives. Up till now I was sticking to the major brands. (Crest and Colgate) There are organic / "all natural" toothpaste brands, maybe I should look into those. I see toothpaste that advertises itself as fluoride-free. And, charcoal toothpaste? It's toothpaste that's literally black. Looks interesting..

I used the charcoal toothpaste for a few months and it definitely helped. Just be careful where u brush cause that stuff gets everywhere

I use prescription toothpaste with extra fluoride. Keep in mind you are not supposed to swallow toothpaste.

I'd bet that fluoride gets absorbed through the gums. And even if you spit it out and rinse your mouth, there will still be trace amounts left, so invariably I would swallow some of it. At 1500 times concentration, any small amount is still a lot, I'd imagine.

egg wrote:

Why?

Why are you concerned about fluoride? Fluoride toxicity toxicity is extremely rate in adults. It generally only affects children -- because they swallow normal toothpaste when they shouldn't. If you aren't swallowing your toothpaste, I'm not sure there is much cause for concern. Especially too the point of avoiding toothpaste.

Now, I've seen arguments that we should maybe stop fluoridating water. I can see valid arguments on both sides there.

But I haven't seen much in the idea of not wanting to use toothpaste in adults. So, I'm curious why you think you need to avoid it?

Hold on though. If you can see valid arguments for removing fluoride in water, then why wouldn't you apply the same for toothpaste? (which has way more of it?)

egg wrote:

Because of children. I don't think it should necessarily be removed, but I can see an argument, at least, that having it in water can cause some issues in children who drink a lot of it.

Again, I'm not saying it should be -- but I think there are at least some valid arguments for it.

What I said was that I don't see much in the way of valid arguments to not use toothpaste with it as an adult.

Isn’t a big difference also the fact you might drink a lot of water but you shouldn’t really be consuming (a lot of) toothpaste?

@egg, you're an adult - you can make a decision to try brushing without toothpaste, and then see how it affects your dental checkups.

If you don't trust your own judgment, talk to your dentist first.

y'know, I suppose I could just buy fluoride-free toothpaste, which there is apparently plenty of on the market.

egg wrote:

Just brush with baking soda. Problem solved.

egg wrote:

I guess I am still curious why you are worried about fluoride? Is there some data that indicates that this is an issue for most adults that I'm not seeing?

Most of the stuff I can find about being worried about fluoride looks to be conspiracy theory stuff -- not science. (Again, except in children in mostly 3rd world countries where they are adding it to the water, but in poorly controlled manners that are unregulated -- which is not the case pretty much everywhere else.)

Sid_Ceaser wrote:

There's also charcoal toothpaste! But uh, it might make you look like a serial killer

Someone just tried to hack my Microsoft account. Thank goodness for 2 step verification. I also changed my password.

Anyone else think I need to do anything more? Legit looking for advice on this.

BucketofJustice wrote:
As an extra precaution, maybe make your password very difficult to figure out, for instance a bunch of random numbers, symbols, and letters, and maybe even a comma or two.

BucketofJustice wrote:


Do you have any other sites where you use the same password? If so, go change them too.

Let me know your password (PM it if you prefer) and I will let you know if I think it is a solid PW. I work in IT and am good at these things.

Porksta wrote:


One of the downsides to writing as opposed to speaking is that sometimes it's tricky to tell what tone is being used. Your offer sounds genuine, and at the same time humorous.

Also, reputation helps a bit lol.