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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4820 on: April 18, 2017, 02:21:27 pm »
Somebody parked their car literally right in front of the door to the school so no one can get through and enter or leave without backtracking and having to go to the other end of the building and around. They did this to avoid a little bit of rain, but now everyone else has to walk all around the building in the rain.

I hope the door opens outwards.  I would make excuses to leave the building every 5 minutes and make sure i dinged the dorre each annd every time.


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4821 on: April 18, 2017, 02:37:25 pm »
Anyone ever typing in Hangul Word Processor and it just randomly turns into Chinese characters. Fuckin annoying as hell.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4822 on: April 18, 2017, 02:43:51 pm »
Anyone ever typing in Hangul Word Processor and it just randomly turns into Chinese characters. Fuckin annoying as hell.

I get that at my travel school.  I share a computer with the Chinese teacher, she has this program installed that changes words into Chinese. 
To get it to stop, there's a little icon on my taskbar.  It's next to the time/battery/network connection symbols area.  Sometimes it will randomly switch back to Chinese, and the letters CH will appear beside the icon.  To switch it back, click the letters and then click the EN option.

Hopefully, this works for you.  I know how frustrating it is!


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4823 on: April 18, 2017, 03:07:56 pm »
Somebody parked their car literally right in front of the door to the school so no one can get through and enter or leave without backtracking and having to go to the other end of the building and around. They did this to avoid a little bit of rain, but now everyone else has to walk all around the building in the rain.

I hope the door opens outwards.  I would make excuses to leave the building every 5 minutes and make sure i dinged the dorre each annd every time.
Haha, nope, the doors are propped open, inwardly. Thankfully they are gone now.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4824 on: April 18, 2017, 03:32:16 pm »
Morphologically speaking, humans (like most other primate) are omnivores. As such, we can more or less eat whatever they like.

That's not really the point.

Homo sapiens CAN SURVIVE eating a lot of different things. But are more adapted to certain foods (meat, and plants not including grains). This is easily proven, as for every single culture that has ever existed, all over the planet — health declined when sugar and white flour were introduced.

Your theory—destroyed!  :laugh:

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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4825 on: April 18, 2017, 03:38:44 pm »
health declined when sugar and white flour were introduced.

You got a source on that?


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4826 on: April 18, 2017, 03:43:31 pm »
You got a source on that?

LMAO, the internet is so hilarious.   :huh:


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4827 on: April 18, 2017, 04:16:02 pm »
Morphologically speaking, humans (like most other primate) are omnivores. As such, we can more or less eat whatever they like.

That's not really the point.

Homo sapiens CAN SURVIVE eating a lot of different things. But are more adapted to certain foods (meat, and plants not including grains). This is easily proven, as for every single culture that has ever existed, all over the planet — health declined when sugar and white flour were introduced.

Your theory—destroyed!
    :huh:
     Um, all that I pointed out was that humans are omnivores. No theories postulated to be destroyed.

    So long as I'm not the main course, I'm pretty laissez faire about what other folk choose to eat. :undecided:


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4828 on: April 18, 2017, 04:22:20 pm »
Um, all that I pointed out was that humans are omnivores.

People misinterpret "omnivore" with "being able to eat anything with equal results". The existence of a metabolic syndrome epidemic sweeping the planet contradicts that.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4829 on: April 18, 2017, 07:13:02 pm »
Loki88,

I don't envy you.

I used to get an earful from a former colleague and friend that went through the same struggles/battles.

Thankfully for him, his wife was much more assertive and firm with her mother (that is a razor's edge to navigate).

How many more years do you think you will have to endure?

Years. Pff, our plane tickets are booked for June.

I'm just worried about leaving fir more than 30 seconds because I come back to the temp set to 30 and my son is wrapped in multiple blankets panting fir breath.

He was actually hospitalized Monday night and she still doesn't ****** get it. My wife is too scared to do anything about it.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4830 on: April 18, 2017, 08:03:14 pm »
Loki88,

I don't envy you.

I used to get an earful from a former colleague and friend that went through the same struggles/battles.

Thankfully for him, his wife was much more assertive and firm with her mother (that is a razor's edge to navigate).

How many more years do you think you will have to endure?

Years. Pff, our plane tickets are booked for June.

I'm just worried about leaving fir more than 30 seconds because I come back to the temp set to 30 and my son is wrapped in multiple blankets panting fir breath.

He was actually hospitalized Monday night and she still doesn't ****** get it. My wife is too scared to do anything about it.
No doubt, she has the best of intentions.  She is simply unable to see how wrong-headed she is.

Two practices you'll want to put an end to: laying the child on the hard floor and having their legs spread out around the backs of their mothers/grandmothers (old school back strapping).  Both cause irreversible damage and deformity: flat-head cranium/Plagiocephaly and bowed legs (two generations+ suffer from the above).

Be mindful.

As for your wife, don't be too tough on her.  Postpartum depression can take its toll.

Hang in there Loki.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4831 on: April 18, 2017, 09:17:19 pm »
You got a source on that?

LMAO, the internet is so hilarious.   :huh:

No, seriously. I'm 95% sure that sugar and flour have done way more good than harm for the average human being. If your post was serious - and it's hard to tell when you're so flippant - you need some proof to back up such a claim.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4832 on: April 18, 2017, 09:33:29 pm »
No, seriously. I'm 95% sure that sugar and flour have done way more good than harm for the average human being.

Umm. The internet is so weird sometimes I don't even know, uhh what to say. It's probably all the sugar, destroying the minds of people.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4833 on: April 18, 2017, 09:59:29 pm »
This is easily proven, as for every single culture that has ever existed, all over the planet — health declined when sugar and white flour were introduced.
"White flour" dates from around 1870, when steam-driven mills came about during the Industrial Revolution.

Avg world life expectancy in 1870 was 29.7 years.  Today, it is 71.4 years. 

It is verifiably untrue that "health" (assuming that has anything to do with, y'know, being alive) has declined since the introduction of white flour.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4834 on: April 18, 2017, 10:17:09 pm »

"White flour" dates from around 1870, when steam-driven mills came about during the Industrial Revolution.

Avg world life expectancy in 1870 was 29.7 years.  Today, it is 71.4 years. 

HA!!! You guys crack me up. Riiiight, because life span is a proxy for health.  :rolleyes:

Internet people always say that...


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4835 on: April 19, 2017, 06:06:16 am »

"White flour" dates from around 1870, when steam-driven mills came about during the Industrial Revolution.

Avg world life expectancy in 1870 was 29.7 years.  Today, it is 71.4 years. 

HA!!! You guys crack me up. Riiiight, because life span is a proxy for health.  :rolleyes:

Internet people always say that...
So do medical people, at least in that life expectancy is the most widely used measure of health.  It's not perfect, and there are ways of computing "quality of life" into measuring "health", but however you do it, it is simply a fact that human health has vastly improved since the introduction of white flour.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4836 on: April 19, 2017, 06:24:22 am »
Sorry, but wouldn't looking at the actual causes of increased lifespans be more telling?

Clean drinking water, for example?

Life expectancy has increased in India, Africa, etc., for different reasons, but not one of them is due to white flour and sugar.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4837 on: April 19, 2017, 06:51:34 am »
Sorry, but wouldn't looking at the actual causes of increased lifespans be more telling?

Clean drinking water, for example?

Life expectancy has increased in India, Africa, etc., for different reasons, but not one of them is due to white flour and sugar.
Certainly, but I didn't say white flour has either contributed to or caused a decline in human health.

I was responding to this statement: "health declined when sugar and white flour were introduced."

And it's just not so.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4838 on: April 19, 2017, 07:41:14 am »
White flour and sugar are literally poison

I live on the edge *eats donut for breakfast*
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #4839 on: April 19, 2017, 07:41:56 am »