:-) I wish i knew who said that originally. It's so apt!
I've felt down for about the last twenty-four hours -- no good reason, but it seems every time i turn around i see examples of people behaving in really dumb ways! Ascribing many large, complex problems to a single, simple and limited "cause" that a child might be able to dispute reasonably. Ignoring elegant theories (and i do mean THEORIES in the scientific sense), explanatory of a whole range of phenomena, to fixate on ... Benghazi-like flakey notions that don't even reach the level of hypotheses! Manganese! Electric fields!
Head ... Bang ... Wall ....
I think i'll desist from reading comments in my favorite blogs, altogether. Used to be, the fanatics came to call very rarely, but when moderators have busy lives, the nutcases come out to play....
When I start reading that microwaves will kill us all, I know it's time to move on.
ReplyDeletei suppose it depends on whether the microwaves are confined to a metal box, or they're running free in my back yard.... ;-)
DeleteWhat about the one that if you heat your food up in those plastic containers in the microwave it causes some kind of toxic chemical reaction. I don't buy it. Some people hear something on the radio or some online article and stop thinking for themselves. I want to use my brain!!! I want someone to stop the government from telling everyone to eat while grain bread, cause it's good for you. We're swimming in a sea of idiots.
ReplyDeleteYEP! if it weren't for my daughter and a few wonderful friends, i'd never go near facebook again. but it's bad on Wooo's blog from time to time, between the trolls and the demented ones. i let loose yesterday, which i shouldn't have done, but ... DAMN!
DeleteIt is a truth universally acknowledged that chronic, daily usage of facebook will significantly depletes one's dopamine levels, especially in individuals with introvert tendencies. Other side effects of facebook include : increased dissatisfaction with ones life, computer addiction, and excessive selfie taking. Excessive usage of facebook can be corrected with a period of abstinence, supplemented by a good book or two.
DeleteSource: I hate facebook.com. :)
DeleteLOLROF.... Almond wins the internet today! :-)
DeleteI've been spending a lot of time at GNC lately shopping for supplements and stupid people are off the chain there. 99% come in and ask all kinds of questions about the stimulates and diet pills that are supposed to burn fat. They ask the sales people if they can still have sugary foods and still lose weight. Nobody wants to eat a healthy balanced diet. I laugh up my sleeve.
ReplyDeletei can imagine! i wish i were one of the people who can read the stoopid and find it amusing, but it just depresses or infuriates me, depending on my dopamine levels. ;-)
DeleteAnyone who would ask the staff at GNC for advice about anything deserves whatever they get.
Deletekinda like asking non-vegetarian questions at most Whole Paycheck.... :-) on the other hand, our St. Louis store has the best fish, and some of the best meat in town
DeleteI can't stand Facebook. I've heard there's a way to block feeds, but by the time I blocked everything I didn't want to see, there would be nothing left.
ReplyDeleteI go to GNC for hair, skin and nail vitamins and iron pills. (For some reason, it's hard to find a multi without a boatload of vitamin B or a plain iron pill.) Once, a skinny young guy asked for protein powder or somesuch that was...wait for it...low in cholesterol.
no kidding! ... my consolation on that last bit is, in twenty or thirty years he's going to look like Cliven Bundy's recent photographs. ;-)
DeleteRegarding facebook, I keep my true friends on there, stop following those who love all the mushy (if you love your blank share this) and use it as a vehicle to keep in touch with my relatives in the USA, Australia and Ukraine. Beats the cost of long distance.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the stupidity out there, it's really hard to follow it all and it's really hard to not let it get to you. My sounding board is my sister and we get together often to rant.
bless 'em, i have friends and family members with tea-party leanings [gulp].... i do my best to ignore the ludicrous, but i still want to hear about life events, so i can't "unfollow" all of them, no matter how tempting.
DeleteAs a product of a life in a totalitarian country, I am reluctant to put details of my life on a Facebook, but I am checking what others are doing. I've let only 5- 6 people as friends, I mainly check what my son is doing.
ReplyDeleteWhat irks me about Facebook is that I'm supposed to be interested in a million bad photos and mundane details of the lives of people who've never bothered to call or email me. I'm not even interested in keeping up with the Kardashians, let alone a bunch of boring relatives.
Deleteif anyone wants to know anything about us badly enough, it's not that hard to find out. i just assume i'm not worth that much bother. :-)
Deleteyes, it's curious what people think is worthwhile to post! my philosophy is, if it makes me laugh it's worth passing along. i'm also fond of "outing" hypocritical assholes.
If the lunatic microwave reference is to me on Woo's blog I assure you it was tongue in cheek :) I used to like Jack in the early days, even if I didn't understand most of what he was saying, but as soon as he got in the wrong zip code, microwaves, EMF rantings I lost all interest in him. I do like comments from Galina and yourself, being ..ahem..more mature ladies as I am. I have to remember Wooo is in her early 30's..young..and some of the fat gung-ho zealots are men..and what works for them may not work for me as a mature person. So Tess, please don't avoid the blogs or the websites, because us oldies need the voice of maturity and reason to remind us what works for young fit men won't work for us :)))
Deletethanks, Jasmin -- and welcome! :-) my rant was all about Jack and Jane -- like you, i tried to get something out of the former, but i think he's out of control these days, and she (although correct about the importance of micronutrients) has beaten her horse to death.
Deletei agree that we older ladies need to gang together to help each other find techniques that WE benefit from! yes, Wooo's insight is exceptionally valuable, but her experience doesn't always apply to me, at least. certainly, men who spend hours a day in the gym can't really communicate anything that's at all helpful ... to ME. :-) honest -- i wish them well, but why in god's name do they think that their experience has ANYTHING in it that can apply to the well-being of members of the opposite sex, old enough to be their mothers, with a history of hormonal disregulation?????
Thank you, Jasmin! I do feel being over 45 creates additional challenges which are are not present at a younger age. I remember at some point young male paleo crowd rebelled against the fact that some old menopausal females (every one without a visible 6-pack and far from being "ripped") who mostly practiced LC were imagining themselves being paleo members too. Actually, I also don't want to mix up with bodybuilders who want to live forever and think they would be young forever, and discuss the dilemma is using a toilet pepper a paleo practice.
Deletesome things matter and some JUST ... DON'T. ;-)
Delete"Gang together", yes.
ReplyDeleteThe saying used to be:
"Hang together or hang separately."
"jack & jane went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water .. .. .. "
Will Jane come tumbling after ?
Gal, It was more the dlemma of whether wet wipes were paleo, rather than the green, green grass of the Plains Sioux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-yKq-FsFyk -
Sláinte
I suspect some hard cores buy on the internet sfagnum moss and keep it in their cubicles in drawers and personal bathrooms. Must be a conversation peace with the house guests.
DeleteLeon -- speaking of a' o' that an' a' o' that, i prefer that freedom an' whisky gang thegither. ;-)
Deletesphagnum moss as TP being conversation-starter -- i think Galina wins the internet TODAY!
I am finding some of the comments on Wooo's last blog, between Jane and Jack, entertaining. Most of the time I'm unsure if it is tongue in cheek, trolling or serious forms of delusion.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to say that since I went seriously LC, almost ketogenic, that maintenance is currently effortless. Previously I couldn't get past that eating so much meat, less veggies and fruit wouldn't be disastrous to my health, but the more I read over at Gnolls and Wooo, etc, I became more confident. Eliminating fruit has helped greatly with carb cravings, I had given up sugar and ended up overeating on fruit instead - I can't have sugar or starch in any form; or big meals. I used to eat a shedload of low cal veggies and would be craving and binging half and hour afterwards and just couldn't understand why. Wooo has totally opened my eyes. Most people in my life are truly horrified that I don't eat "fibre, fruit, bread, grains" and so much meat and fat and I'm going to have a heart attack. I need my internet sources, blogs, people to reinforce what I'm doing and so I appreciate everything I learn here. Both my parents had T2 diabetes and I was certainly heading that way. By the way I have found a great alternative to nuts.... cacao beans, they satisfy the crunch aspect and impossible to overeat, chocful of mag, potassium, zinc, anti-oxidants, etc. I wish I could eat the nuts like the young uns, but I find the more I eat them the more I crave.
ooh, i need to try cacao! i love nuts and could easily overdo them, but low-sugar chocolate is definitely self-limiting for me.
Delete99% chocolate is one bar that I can't overheat! even though I have a hedonistic appetite. Coffee is the only fruit I indulge in! :)
Delete*overeat. I hate autocorrect ( I swear it's more trouble than its worth).
DeleteI can't find 99% here but I imagine it would be similar to the nibs/cacao beans although I don't find them bitter, just tasteless and crunchy. You know when I get home from a day of fasting and am cooking my meat/veggies which are taking too long and I just want to crunch on something, well the cocoa/nibs do the trick nicely. I did find 90% very hedonistic once. I melted the whole bar with just a tad of CO to set it, caramel flavoured stevia and crushed walnuts and then in freezer. It was AMAZING....honestly I wouldn't even go back to milk chocolate...alas I couldn't stop eating it...so have decided to only make it for my birthday a once in a while treat hehehe
DeleteOh gosh I do the CO + dark chocolate + stevia thing too :) they are little faux peanut butter cups of heaven (sans the peanut butter, since it makes me face break out). 99% is rare find as it's an acquired taste. First time I tried it, it was like sucking on a lemon rind.
DeleteGreat variety of comments, and I hope this isn't too off topic BUT to repeat your first sentence .....Please don't feel too down as someone said sometime ago 'Life is a Circus' we all have to fit in somewhere. We all choose what we read, what we comment on. Our on/off switch is our own to use and I like reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteIt's a mad world out there, we all have to do our best to make sense of it.
I enjoy reading your blog
All the best Jan
thank you, Jan! :-) ... and you're more than welcome to be as off-topic as you like!
Deleteclearly you are under the influence of excess progesterone
ReplyDeletei thought i was suffering from champagne deficiency! ;-D ...if PJ can invent imaginary deficiencies, i can too!
DeleteGalina did wins the internet!!
ReplyDeleteI could not quite bring myself to riff on Gal's hardcores as a marketing subculture of outré N'Yawkers who might TradeMark SFagNum or SpankNumb underwear from Sami or Inuit subpolar (sic) regions.
D'Oh: I was lookin' for 100 gm of Green & Black's 80% and instead found Devine's 70% Cacao with Chilli. It was sooooh good I ate the lot in one sitting and lost same in one (later) sitting. Memories of toute tendresse! :)) :))