tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post6105794124979863393..comments2023-05-21T15:20:58.352+01:00Comments on The Untrusted: Daily Chat 26/10/09Montana Wildhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11409705185204787671noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-6816749599242223362009-10-26T22:15:44.804+00:002009-10-26T22:15:44.804+00:00Thauma PCC -
Salt is of course very important. Th...Thauma PCC -<br /><br />Salt is of course very important. The phrase "worth his salt" had literal meaning in Roman times when legionnaires received part of their pay in salt.<br /><br />AS I guess you will know most us have far too much these days. Over-salting is a major factor in high blood pressure.<br /><br />I kinda see myself as an old elephant who walks hundreds of miles every few months to gorge on salt in traditionally secret caves off the beaten track...<br /><br />It's probably the gorging on booze in the other months in between which leads to the low salt......deano30https://www.blogger.com/profile/12637249297224887297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-74223688498369513242009-10-26T22:01:03.672+00:002009-10-26T22:01:03.672+00:00thauma - I love a drink. Worryingly so. I love a...thauma - I love a drink. Worryingly so. I love a glass of red of an evening (or two) or a brandy. I should be really careful with the ME/CFS and I have given up the sugar, caffeine and diary but cannot give up my wine. YOu have to have some bloody fun but do worry how much i seem to 'need' it. If I have gone two or three days get major cravings and cave in.<br /><br />Deano - we need salt and if you crave it maybe it means you need it?<br /><br />Just watching a most interesing prog on Warren Buffet. The worlds richest man has just said that most rich people are not as clever as they think they are and that they would not have done as well in Bangladesh or some other country without advanced nations social structures. He also said the richest should support a tax system that supports those that drew the shortest straw! Interesting.princesschipchopshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18202815936353393398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-37910587063734721402009-10-26T21:44:15.327+00:002009-10-26T21:44:15.327+00:00Can I live a long decadent life please? Ta.Can I live a long decadent life please? Ta.BeautifulBurnouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02904723758901189624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-25568554042449983862009-10-26T21:39:21.301+00:002009-10-26T21:39:21.301+00:00thauma
I'd rather live a short, decadent life ...thauma<br /><i>I'd rather live a short, decadent life than a long boring one.</i><br /><br />Right on the money thauma - this is what I'm aiming for too. Given all the smoking and drinking I've done over the years must already be well past my sell by date, so every day's a bonus. <br /><br />I had a chest xray last year - I think the doctor was a bit miffed at my lungs relatively healthy state, given my history of smoking.Sheffpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683877609100026566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-42655032900714718632009-10-26T21:23:50.232+00:002009-10-26T21:23:50.232+00:00Thauma - Good on young miss.
I removed my post be...Thauma - Good on young miss.<br /><br />I removed my post because it seemed an unfair comment to make especially to those of you who still have the daily grind of earning a living.<br /><br />Even I couldn't indulge myself like I do these days when I had to earn a living and support a family.deano30https://www.blogger.com/profile/12637249297224887297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-56143411495504050752009-10-26T21:12:40.806+00:002009-10-26T21:12:40.806+00:00Deano - I fucking love smoking and drinking. I'...Deano - I fucking love smoking and drinking. I've just had a liver test and it's come back as, quote, "stunningly normal", so I think that's licence to carry on as per.<br /><br />I'd rather live a short, decadent life than a long boring one.<br /><br />On your salt cravings and suchlike: salt is a very necessary part of the mammalian diet, so perhaps your cravings are down to your not having enough of it (unlike most of us!).thaumaturgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116351419774991352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-22511039164893182662009-10-26T20:57:06.477+00:002009-10-26T20:57:06.477+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.deano30https://www.blogger.com/profile/12637249297224887297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-72171257330484012482009-10-26T19:35:25.788+00:002009-10-26T19:35:25.788+00:00pretty in pink
Why not? Good song.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08vQ-vUhWI" rel="nofollow">pretty in pink</a><br /><br />Why not? Good song.xxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12466706566688272356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-44586837775068596162009-10-26T19:23:04.755+00:002009-10-26T19:23:04.755+00:00I'm afraid I retain my recreational drug virgi...I'm afraid I retain my recreational drug virginity. If I had it to do all over again, I probably would have at least shared the massive spliff that the cute guy standing next to me at that Psychedelic Furs concert at the Odéon St. Denis in 1984 kept offering me.<br /><br />I don't take legal drugs any more than I absolutely have to, either. Never had a flu shot.Montana Wildhackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11409705185204787671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-37389597805779057132009-10-26T18:43:53.621+00:002009-10-26T18:43:53.621+00:00Ah, scherf the Zaphod Beeblebrox of the UT.
&q...Ah, scherf the <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/gallery/images/340/zaphod2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/gallery/tv/zaphod2.shtml&h=255&w=340&sz=14&tbnid=QoXvRIZqyr3gFM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dzaphod%2Bbeeblebrox&usg=__13phjCXmgZzvJTzAv7p3WaBlRJ0=&ei=Tu3lSrfnMcSy4Qab84SMDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBoQ9QEwAw" rel="nofollow"> Zaphod Beeblebrox</a> of the UT. <br /><br />""I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."Sheffpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683877609100026566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-38355489811368790812009-10-26T18:40:21.498+00:002009-10-26T18:40:21.498+00:00Anne, I'm assuming that you didn't apply f...Anne, I'm assuming that you didn't apply for the 'pot critic' job in the USA? Anyway, as I already said in another place, I heard that Anna Shapiro got that gig. That could make her ATL articles even more bizarre, and yours will seem even more sensible in comparison. Marxism for the liberal chatterati will win!<br /><br />And just for fun, here's Dave Allen on smoking:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cT-BQLX6nU" rel="nofollow">giving up the filthy habit</a>xxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12466706566688272356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-17054585085590233812009-10-26T18:32:46.650+00:002009-10-26T18:32:46.650+00:00sigh - if I could go back and change one thing in ...sigh - if I could go back and change one thing in my confused and random life, it would be the smoking. Oh, if I'd never started...<br /><br />I'd be about €1,800 a year better off, apart from anything else. Over £2k if I was still in the UK. <br /><br />pah.PhilippaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091980183380957529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-66149750883522370242009-10-26T18:21:38.069+00:002009-10-26T18:21:38.069+00:00Anne - possibly it explains why you tend to make m...Anne - possibly it explains why you tend to make more sense than some of us.thaumaturgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116351419774991352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-74208608076621244632009-10-26T18:20:43.951+00:002009-10-26T18:20:43.951+00:00Oh and I did smole (30-ish a day at one point!) Da...Oh and I did smole (30-ish a day at one point!) Daft addiction that not much fun as I remember!annetan42https://www.blogger.com/profile/01250598516297935480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-43663997193296652052009-10-26T18:19:22.572+00:002009-10-26T18:19:22.572+00:00OMG have a confession to make. Apart from one spli...OMG have a confession to make. Apart from one spliff have been straight all my life, apart from getting really mega drunk three times - <br /><br />Now i have to swallow six different prescription drugs every day I suppose it serves me right really!<br /><br />Its not that I'm against it as such just never fancied it for me. Enjoyed many a happy hour enjoying the delicious nonsense talked by pot heads though! LOL!<br /><br />There is probably some sinister psychological reason for this. ;-)annetan42https://www.blogger.com/profile/01250598516297935480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-74751366901931652172009-10-26T18:14:45.292+00:002009-10-26T18:14:45.292+00:00Scherfig - I've always suspected you were a do...Scherfig - I've always suspected you were a doubly handsome bloke.<br /><br />I've never had a 'flu shot and haven't had the 'flu since I was a kiddie. My theory is never, ever take antibiotics unless you will die without them, and get out in the cold during the winter.<br /><br />Made the mistake of taking antibiotics a few months ago following surgery and now I have some nasty stomach problems.thaumaturgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116351419774991352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-56951752956404436532009-10-26T18:04:18.526+00:002009-10-26T18:04:18.526+00:00Good point about recreational purposes, thauma. FW...Good point about recreational purposes, thauma. FWIW, the only non-recreational drugs I've taken in about the last 15 years (and that includes aspirin) was a corporate-paid flu-shot one winter. And it worked - no flu all winter and people loved my second head. Twice as handsome they said! (And four times as stupid!)<br />How does that work?xxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12466706566688272356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-4909026274716113882009-10-26T18:01:44.927+00:002009-10-26T18:01:44.927+00:00BB - heh heh. Am just feeling quite proud I didn&...BB - heh heh. Am just feeling quite proud I didn't need to get the dictionary out to understand it. Which swiftly wore off having had then to mime hanging a picture and make squeaky noises in the arts and crafts shop before I could persuade them to sell me cuphooks...PhilippaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091980183380957529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-9554472622421585782009-10-26T17:52:34.643+00:002009-10-26T17:52:34.643+00:00thauma
Thats where the contradictions in my asser...thauma<br /><br />Thats where the contradictions in my assertions show up. Although suspicious of drug therapies as in the piggy flu jab, I gleefully downed recreational pharmaceuticals in my youth - not having a clue about their provenance.Sheffpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683877609100026566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-86603354982665262842009-10-26T17:45:57.415+00:002009-10-26T17:45:57.415+00:00Evening all.
I was a tad drunk when I was posting...Evening all.<br /><br />I was a tad drunk when I was posting in french last night, but I did enjoy laying into that silly french Lepenniste woman. <br /><br />For those who don't speaka da lingo, what Pip posted above was:<br /><br />"I can see it is past your beddy byes now, though. Does your mummy always let you play on the computer this late?"BeautifulBurnouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02904723758901189624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-16080134795236802732009-10-26T17:24:10.063+00:002009-10-26T17:24:10.063+00:00In my opinion, drugs should be taken for recreatio...In my opinion, drugs should be taken for recreational purposes only. Certainly never prophylactically.<br /><br />Philippa - thanks for the link; looks like all the good stuff had been deleted by the time I got there.thaumaturgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116351419774991352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-29399823300315265082009-10-26T17:16:35.195+00:002009-10-26T17:16:35.195+00:00Sheff / Scherf - indeed - when there are two battl...Sheff / Scherf - indeed - when there are two battlelines drawn, between those in principle opposed to vaccination (MMR etc) and those opposed to the first group, questions from the confused majority in the middle get co-opted, and lots of the available information seems tainted by association. <br /><br />Re: thalidomide - in the 70s, when my mum was trying to get prgnant, she was given some 'anti-miscarriage' drug, although it turned out that it was supposed to be taken before, rather than after, becoming pregnant. If she hadn't gone to see another doctor when on holiday, she'd have kept taking it and yours truly probably wouldn't be here. She was in fact advised to have a termination, but came over all contrary all of a sudden. Perhaps my lingering antipathy towards medication comes from this...with you on the suspicion, sheff.PhilippaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091980183380957529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-75146446893883684982009-10-26T17:00:50.130+00:002009-10-26T17:00:50.130+00:00scherf
Thats the problem with something like this...scherf<br /><br />Thats the problem with something like this - not being clear about what's actually going on and who has what agenda. <br /><br />Very glad I didn't have morning sickness back in the 60's so I didn't need thalidomide - always been a bit suspicious of pills and jabs since then and resisted them unless <i>absolutely</i> necessary..Sheffpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683877609100026566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-27343854198747050732009-10-26T16:28:11.380+00:002009-10-26T16:28:11.380+00:00Not too well up on the squalene thing, sheff, but ...Not too well up on the squalene thing, sheff, but one name in your link caught my eye - Anders Bruun Laursen who is associated with <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca" rel="nofollow">global research</a> who seem be popping up on Cif links regularly these days. They appear to be a NWO troofer type thing.<br /><br />btw, Laursen wrote an open letter to Anders Fogh Rasmussen a few years back in which one of his questions was:<br /><br />Why is our 1000-year-old identity, religion and culture to be removed and replaced by islam?<br />Right now the foreign ministerial 'Danish Center of Culture and Development' (DCCD) is undermining by means of school textbook revisions, manipulations of journalism and journalists, media, managing arts, comprehensive exchange programs, thus dismantling our religion and culture, which are called 'stereotypes and prejudices'.<br /><br />Not sure that I'd be happy to take medical advice from him (although he is a doctor). I'd be more inclined to go with Frank.xxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12466706566688272356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-7445383908547725562009-10-26T16:10:24.913+00:002009-10-26T16:10:24.913+00:00Frank - I would have the jab but have heard this s...Frank - I would have the jab but have heard this <a href="http://www.whale.to/v/squalene.html" rel="nofollow">squalene</a> stuff they put in it is a tad dodgy to say the least and is also implicated in Gulf War Syndrome. I've also heard that a lot of medics aren't getting the jab either.<br /><br />Difficult to know the truth of it as there are so many competing views.Sheffpixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683877609100026566noreply@blogger.com