Subject: Stream of Consciousness: a thread that cannot be hijacked
Date: Tue Aug 14 10:25:40 2018
User: outskirts
Message:That paint looks awfully fresh to be on a rusted out piece of junk. And $25,000? I don't care who's it was. This stinks of fake.
Date: Tue Aug 21 07:17:12 2018
User: outskirts
Message:How is this not a comedy sketch?!?
Or is it?
Link: With go-less!
Date: Tue Aug 21 10:41:38 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:"Go-Less is a registered trademark of Frutarom".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutarom
Frutarom:
http://www.frutarom.com/
From that:
http://www.frutaromhealth.com/
From that (by clicking on "Pharma"):
http://eflapharm.frutaromhealth.com/
From that (by clicking on "Therapeutic areas"):
http://eflapharm.frutaromhealth.com/#pg-302-4
The "Go-Less":
http://www.frutaromhealth.com/health-benefits/go-less/
Yes, that commercial does seem funny, almost like an SNL one. I'm tempted to go read the clinical studies they mention, just to see if it's rigorous science. Those Israelis actually are pretty hep about nutraceuticals, Yet I've never heard of this company.
Date: Tue Aug 21 10:56:28 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh, as I was reading about all that, I was wondering "How are they a competitor to IFF (international Flavors & Fragrances), and I don't know about them? Well, "upon further review" (from the wiki article):
"On May 8, 2018, International Flavors & Fragrances acquired Frutarom for $7.1 Billion." That's kinda sad, in a way, as IFF is such a huge juggernaut, that the science is going to be harder to ascertain maybe? They are VERY protective of most of their science, etc.
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Date: Tue Aug 28 11:30:00 2018
User: Turpin827
Message:Wtf is this last post? The US death rate from synthetic opioids in 2017 was about 30,000 and is rising very fast!
Date: Tue Aug 28 11:53:03 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Drug sales def need to be deleted
Date: Tue Aug 28 12:24:44 2018
User: Turpin827
Message:Reports sent to FBI and DEA
Date: Sat Sep 22 11:16:39 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Decided to put this here instead of "Recent Sports Oddities", as this isn't really an "oddity"; just extraordinarily noteworthy. So Kaos, roo, and a few others here have a new mark to shoot for...…
Can he knock off the 2-hour barrier?
Link: *He* lacks words?? Well so do we.
Date: Fri Nov 30 13:51:52 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message: BREAKING NEWS!!
The word "iconic" has become meaningless from overuse.
Date: Fri Nov 30 14:10:49 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:IRONIC!!
The term "Breaking News" has become meaningless from overuse. What's amazing is that this happened in such a short period of time. We wait on tenterhooks to see what eye-catching ("they" hope) phrase replaces it.
Date: Fri Nov 30 17:46:40 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:My father talked about that storm. The icons were nearly impossible to clean off his windshield before he could drive home from grandma's house.
Date: Sat Dec 1 02:50:56 2018
User: sprucegoose
Message:I recall taking my about five-year-old son Christmas shopping for his mother. After a short discussion, he knew his mother had several shelves with breakable glass figurines, he decided she needed a "fragile dinosaur" something she was sure to like. We found one.
Date: Sat Dec 1 05:43:08 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Why doesn't anyone seem to know the meaning of the word "entitlement" any more?
Date: Sat Dec 1 10:23:57 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:Why do people ask rhetorical questions?
Date: Sat Dec 1 12:48:36 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message:Probably to distract from the fact that they just imbulbitated.
Date: Sat Dec 1 20:42:44 2018
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:Oh my.
I’m not sure that’s true in every case, but in this instance... it seems to pass the smell test.
Date: Sun Dec 2 10:06:03 2018
User: Snowguy
Message:The Great Thanksgiving Snow, mentioned above hit our area. I remember this 1950 snow, being 7 years old. We got about 33 inches or so, according to one of the graphics. That was back when small towns only had one or more small grocery stores. The bread ran out very quickly, along with flour for baking bread, because the regular delivery trucks could not get through.
This was truly a snow a kid could (and did) tunnel through.)
Date: Mon Jan 28 09:00:47 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:From the archives of the addicted time wasters who ignored the ten steps: After about 18 months of inconsistent effort, I have cleaned out all unplayed and unbeaten games in 9x4 levels 5-10. About 8,000 of them. Why? No idea. A better question is, "Now what?"
Having finished this less-than-Herculean task, one thing is certain: my reaction upon completing it was absolutely NOT, "I can die now." It was more of a "Good lord. What was I thinking?"
Sigmund? A little perspective might be in order.
Date: Mon Jan 28 12:53:09 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Sorry I can't answer your questions, Buzz, and as far as that goes, I'm not sure the psychiatrist is in today. Maybe you could check with Lucy.
That said………...I was going to resurrect this thread very soon, anyway. I refer latecomers to earlier in this thread, at:
Tue Sep 5 13:00:18 2017, specifically. My post about how to make it rain in Africa. Well, here's an update. I'm not sure why the artist would choose Toto's version over the Angel City Chorale version, but that's what art is all about, no?
Artist's site about it:
http://maxsiedentopf.com/toto-forever
Link: The Namibian desert sure needs some of that rain
Date: Sat Feb 23 15:18:54 2019
User: The_Inquisitor
Message:92 pictures? I don't have that many years left.
Date: Sat Feb 23 17:55:55 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:If I may be so bold, Mr. Inquisitor, sir.........perhaps consider viewing 2 or 3 per year, or maybe 1 a month - at least during winter.
Date: Sun Feb 24 16:50:20 2019
User: Bonnard+me
Message:Winter- 1945,in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at the end of the WWII war.
The fire dept.flooded corner lots so we, wee ones could put on ice skates which were too big ...no money to buy skates for kids every winter--- and the neighborhood -- where we played ice hockey on our bumpy, icy, play- ground corner, lot.
--- We girls figure skated on our ankles and our cold rear ends on the winter ice.
IN The Winter snows in 1950 , --we built huge snow forts, and played ' WE ARE THE KING of THE Mountain", and snow ball fights prevailed until, somebody got hurt . Then every one went inside the house for hot chocolate , cookies and a dressing down about the dangers of snow ball fights , while we sat in front of daddy's roaring fireplace.
Later, we had to go to the neighbors house and apologize to the kids we hurt.
----We took extra cookies. It was the Marshall Plan for warring children.
Living in Maui, surfing is the competitive winter sport.
a tad warmer...!
Date: Mon Feb 25 04:34:15 2019
User: outskirts
Message:'My mom, born well over a hundred years ago (how can I be so young?) in Canada, said they used to put hot potatoes in their pockets.
Date: Fri Mar 1 04:09:32 2019
User: joeygray
Message:I guess this works... but the earth becomes uninhabitable in around a billion years, just due to the suns increasing luminosity. And probably a lot sooner for humans. This is without counting the near certainty that a cataclysmic asteroid collision will happen before the billion years are up. Any survivors will have to be off-planet and it would take so much genetic engineering to make that work that they couldn't really be called human any more. I wouldn't imagine they would care all that much about the early 21st century Wikipedia. :-(
Date: Fri Mar 1 06:12:07 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:I think it more likely, as per the Fermi paradox, etc., that we wipe ourselves out first, or some new pathogen does, long before the sun or an asteroid does - but who knows? Maybe when the new dinosaurs (or whoever/whatever comes next) get (back) to the moon, they'll have a "2001: A Space Odyssey" moment?
I suspect the Israeli senders don't see this as a very likely 'solution' - only kinda like the seed banks and sequencing databases that are being used to store DNA for when needed. You really don't think this will work/be necessary, but wouldn't it look foolish in a few thousand years what we *could have* done, but didn't? Alternatively......it may just be archival history (like the newly-lost tournament database - lol) for whatever wandering space explorers discover Earth and it's moon, and wonder how we did ourselves in.
Further.......if by some chance we survive, forget about this for a century or five, and then our ancestors re-discover it, it would be a pretty neat, but "quaint" time capsule.
Date: Thu Mar 14 03:20:15 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:This, imo, doesn't qualify for either of the "big science" threads (at least yet!), but it's pretty intriguing, nonetheless. We all know about how entropy works - at least those of us who are at least semi-hep science-wise. Well, this is intriguing because it gets at a kinda profound mystery - which is why time always goes forward. (Or does it?)
(You can click on the link "Scientific Reports" to see the entire paper, but warning: *serious* quantum mechanics therein.)
Link: Entropy/time reversal?
Date: Tue Mar 19 03:14:12 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Almost put this in the "Interesting New Music" thread (unused since August), but that thread is really 'music'. This is *about* music. And yes, I would consider music from 2003 to 2015 as "new music", altho I'm sure some wouldn't.
"We apologize for the inconvenience." "We apologize for the inconvenience"(?!??!!) hardly seems appropriate. A better statement would be something like "We promise we will commit hari-kari whenever we've totally given up on recovering it". And Andy Baio's comment seems like it could be on target. Why, this could be an *even bigger* data loss than Denny losing the tournament results. I know, I know - but I still used it on occasion - when 'sent' there.
Link: Honey, I shrunk the music!
Date: Sat Apr 13 13:45:26 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:I tried really, really hard to find a proper thread to put this in, but rejected all the ideas I had. Oh well. Yet another one of those things that seems like it should be a fake SNL commercial:
Link: "Does this bean bag make my ass look fat?"
Date: Sat Apr 13 14:09:32 2019
User: ix
Message:
Date: Sat Apr 13 14:12:54 2019
User: outskirts
Message:I'd get that hemorrhoid removed
Date: Sun Apr 14 20:42:51 2019
User: ix
Message:
Date: Sun Apr 14 23:27:55 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Now you've spoiled our fun!
Date: Sun Apr 14 23:47:11 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Altho since apparently that's something you'd like to have, I can ask around and see if anyone would like to take that on as a project for you. Mo' better, ask here. Apparently there are people on this site who have time to kill.
Date: Mon Apr 15 00:04:11 2019
User: ix
Message:
Date: Mon Apr 15 01:12:01 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:It's hard to imagine a dog more enthusiastic than that one. Wonder how many pics they took to get that perfect expression? And that *is* $20 cheaper than the "chair". I'm shocked I haven't seen ads for that, as it's apparently a "As Seen on TV" product - a sure sign of quality.
One of the threads I considered putting 'my' product on was the one with the crazy warnings for products. Can you imagine the one enclosed with the doggie dryer?
Date: Mon Apr 15 04:31:41 2019
User: outskirts
Message:After the "as seen in tv" stuff fizzles, it can be found at the dollar store. They've got FLEX SEAL. The containers are ridiculously small. I'd have to buy 100s to tape my boat together.
Date: Fri Apr 26 16:12:06 2019
User: The_Interpreter
Message:The best line is:
"The parrot, who police did not name. . . . . . . . . "
Date: Fri Apr 26 16:30:50 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:That whole sentence, which includes "refuses to sing like a canary", is well done. I'm betting it's name is not "Polly".
Date: Fri Apr 26 18:36:15 2019
User: ix
Message:
Date: Fri Apr 26 22:56:48 2019
User: mrbuck
Message:The parrot is well aware that if El Chapo finds outs that he squawks to the police he'll end up just like the Norwegian Blue.
Google it.
mrbuck
Date: Sun Apr 28 09:15:37 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:I was thinking more in terms of the bird in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane."
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