The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: food, and why we love it

[Statius]

Clearly I did something to anger you ...

Just messing around. Don't look at it. I'm not afraid of spiders, but that thing... Yeah. Sorry if I offended. Have a good one!

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Just messing around. Don't look at it. I'm not afraid of spiders, but that thing... Yeah. Sorry if I offended. Have a good one!

Oh you didn't! Sorry - I should have added some sort of sarcasm, j/k font there!

 

[Statius]

Oh you didn't! Sorry - I should have added some sort of sarcasm, j/k font there!

Well I mean... ummm... yeah. Interpretation can be hard sometimes? IDK.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Well I mean... ummm... yeah. Interpretation can be hard sometimes? IDK.

Thanks for understanding how bad I am at it sometimes. This is such a great understanding bunch!

 

[Statius]

Thanks for understanding how bad I am at it sometimes. This is such a great understanding bunch!

I meant me. I'm bad at it sometimes. I should go.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Monarch update

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Final monarch update: it’s flown off, I wish it favorable winds on its long journey

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I meant me. I'm bad at it sometimes. I should go.

I love that we're both trying to one up each other on taking the blame for it. Something gives me the feeling neither of us are going to blame the other any time soon. Cool part is - I think that means we're both left with no hard feelings.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Final monarch update: it’s flown off, I wish it favorable winds on its long journey

Safe and Happy Migration Monarch!

 

[Lifestyle66]

We have deer, fox, the occasional black bear, and squirrels wandering around our property. And there are hawks, buzzards, crows, and eagles who fly overhead.

MOST of the animals wander through eating the flowers. But the squirrels are the worst, because they get into any opening in the house or vehicles to cause damage. They dig into flower pots and they eat romex wiring, exposing the wires to moisture to cause breakers to trip. They ate the vapor recovery lines over the gas tank on my truck!

But I enjoy feeding the hawks and fox, ... with the bodies of squirrels. My wife enjoyed the scene of a hawk swooping down to retrieve one of the squirrel bodies I left for them. But sometimes, we just see the crows or buzzards taking turns pecking away at them.

 

[lovecraft68]

We have deer, fox, the occasional black bear, and squirrels wandering around our property. And there are hawks, buzzards, crows, and eagles who fly overhead.

MOST of the animals wander through eating the flowers. But the squirrels are the worst, because they get into any opening in the house or vehicles to cause damage. They dig into flower pots and they eat romex wiring, exposing the wires to moisture to cause breakers to trip. They ate the vapor recovery lines over the gas tank on my truck!

But I enjoy feeding the hawks and fox, ... with the bodies of squirrels. My wife enjoyed the scene of a hawk swooping down to retrieve one of the squirrel bodies I left for them. But sometimes, we just see the crows or buzzards taking turns pecking away at them.

We feed the squirrels and other critters that pass through the yard.

I'd rather watch the carrion eaters peck at dead humans.

 

[SandraMaus]

We have birds in the garden...I think they are birds... they look like birds., who knows.....https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsAreNotReal/s/RkEPEZgDk6

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

We have these hairy ugly things called wolf spiders. As far as I know, they're essentially harmless to us and eat a ton of bugs. I was messing around in the yard one day and I must have hit a nest of them. Seemed like a couple of hundred went scurrying everywhere.

 

[Lifestyle66]

We feed the squirrels and other critters that pass through the yard.

I'd rather watch the carrion eaters peck at dead humans.

I don't like the carrion eaters.

The hawks are the best. I like that they carry the destructive little critters away.

The crows and buzzards are too whiny. The buzzards in particular are so cowardly, sitting on the roof top waiting for the crows to fly away for their turn to peck away at a corpse


Edit: Speaking of corpse, you still haven't weighed in on my last one in LW almost three months ago!

 

[Bamagan]

New topic: weird medication side effects.
I am fighting off a case of the sniffles. I needed to interact with the public, so I took some store-brand cold and flu pills (on an empty stomach, which matters for some meds). While they succeeded in reducing my congestion considerably, I became hyper-sensitive to smells, so much so that people seemed to be walking around in misasmic clouds of cloying stench. Even things that smell nice when subtle can be off-putting if they're too strong, and nearly everyone reeked. Walking home I almost lost my stomach contents thanks to the smell of the cars. Coming home to my cats wasn't exactly a bed of roses, either, but at least the effects were beginning to subside by then.

 

[MetaBob]

After a long moment, with surgical precision, maybe just maybe

 

[StillStunned]

Final monarch update: it’s flown off, I wish it favorable winds on its long journey

Vaya con Dios, brave butterfly!

 

[Erozetta]

New topic: weird medication side effects.
I am fighting off a case of the sniffles. I needed to interact with the public, so I took some store-brand cold and flu pills (on an empty stomach, which matters for some meds). While they succeeded in reducing my congestion considerably, I became hyper-sensitive to smells, so much so that people seemed to be walking around in misasmic clouds of cloying stench. Even things that smell nice when subtle can be off-putting if they're too strong, and nearly everyone reeked. Walking home I almost lost my stomach contents thanks to the smell of the cars. Coming home to my cats wasn't exactly a bed of roses, either, but at least the effects were beginning to subside by then.

So, you just described what it basically is to live with having a migraine. Everything smelling stronger is one of the early "pre-" symptoms that tells me I need to get home and lay down before I:
1. Throw up.
2. My vision turns kaleidoscopic with pretty lights.
3. My head feels as though it's about to explode from being squeezed in a vice.
4. Pass out. (Or throw up again then pass out.)

Another "pre-" symptom is sounds being amplified to the degree that even having the tv on while muted is too loud. Strobing lights are another.

 

[SimonDoom]

The opossums continue to be very busy after dark. I sit on the patio and watch them scurry around. They're extremely quiet. The squirrels have been busy burying walnuts lately during the day. I also see rats and an occasional skunk at night.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The opossums continue to be very busy after dark.

We're getting the armored ones. Stupid things too. I was out walking one morning and one of these idiots was waddling down the road in front of me. Must have been several hundred feet before it managed to figure out to head off into the tall grass.

 

[NuclearFairy]

New topic: weird medication side effects.
I am fighting off a case of the sniffles. I needed to interact with the public, so I took some store-brand cold and flu pills (on an empty stomach, which matters for some meds). While they succeeded in reducing my congestion considerably, I became hyper-sensitive to smells, so much so that people seemed to be walking around in misasmic clouds of cloying stench. Even things that smell nice when subtle can be off-putting if they're too strong, and nearly everyone reeked. Walking home I almost lost my stomach contents thanks to the smell of the cars. Coming home to my cats wasn't exactly a bed of roses, either, but at least the effects were beginning to subside by then.

I can't take the store brand version of Tylenol cold, it makes me loopy and out of it. Which I've never understood because I feel just fine when taking the name brand.

 

[iwatchus]

I am nervous about any OTC cold meds. I had a student several years ago who took two different OTC meds for a cold (it was about to be finals week, so he wanted to be better). Somehow the two interacted in him and formed a new compound that he was allergic to. He ended up in a coma in the hospital for two days.

He was fine after that, Well as fine as he ever was -- he also had serious mental health issues.

 

[onehitwanda]

I can't take the store brand version of Tylenol cold, it makes me loopy and out of it. Which I've never understood because I feel just fine when taking the name brand.

there must be something else in it - probably pseudoephedrine or phenylephrine. What you lot call tylenol is just acetaminophen (paracetamol) and I've never heard of it causing anything like that, where a big dose of pseudoephedrine would probably make you feel pretty weird.

 

[iwatchus]

Tylenol cold has some mixture of decongestants to go with the acetaminophen. It wouldn’t surprise me that generics would change the addons

 

[Bamagan]

So, you just described what it basically is to live with having a migraine. Everything smelling stronger is one of the early "pre-" symptoms that tells me I need to get home and lay down before I:
1. Throw up.
2. My vision turns kaleidoscopic with pretty lights.
3. My head feels as though it's about to explode from being squeezed in a vice.
4. Pass out. (Or throw up again then pass out.)

Another "pre-" symptom is sounds being amplified to the degree that even having the tv on while muted is too loud. Strobing lights are another.

Yes, I've been susceptible to migraines in the past. I've never had such symptoms precipitated by OTC meds before, though. Perhaps I've just been lucky.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

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