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Ron said:
My buddy told me recently of a CD that has X RATED images of his ex-wife...who was a smoke show btw....that he would like to review but cant find a cd drive...I came really close to offering to help a brother out, for purely noble purposes of course....but didnt
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Clearly you are too close to the situation. I still have an old computer or two with a CD drive and I'm another step detached, so feel free to send him my way. For the sake of science of course. :laughing:
 
jeepinmatt said:
Clearly you are too close to the situation. I still have an old computer or two with a CD drive and I'm another step detached, so feel free to send him my way. For the sake of science of course. :laughing:
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This plus... you can buy USB DVD/CD/whatever drives for like 20 bucks.
That sounds like pretty cheap entertainment..

I use mine frequently to rip CDs.

... yep I'm that guy. Still buy music in "ideal" format whenever possible. I like to own it and choose my own settings.
 
This was a fascinating read...

www.indystar.com

The mobster in our midst

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.
www.indystar.com
 
Am I in Raleigh or Mexico City?!
 

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If the Earth really were flat.... why would we fake it being round?
That's a story that's an aweful lot of work to maintain for... .what purpose?
 
A multi agency and county pursuit from concord to hp….. and the suspect gets away! That’s a hour drive or more. How could they not be stopped.
 
Life is so fragile and I am working everyday on reminding myself of that and that I don't have it that bad, even though in my head I feel like I do.

2 people that I work with are going through something unfathomable to me.

My boss's daughter (22 y/o) and was just diagnosed with GBS an is currently in a facility in Atlanta that specializes in GBS and is basically going to have to relearn how to do everything.

Then a lady that just retired in April who did SO much for her church and community and had this plan of volunteering and doing all of these great things, her husband fell down the stairs 2 weeks and is now paralyzed from the neck down and he is going to have to live the rest of his life in a nursing home.

I mean, I just can't even imagine and it just makes me so thankful and blessed for what I have and don't have to deal with it.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Life is so fragile and I am working everyday on reminding myself of that and that I don't have it that bad, even though in my head I feel like I do.

2 people that I work with are going through something unfathomable to me.

My boss's daughter (22 y/o) and was just diagnosed with GBS an is currently in a facility in Atlanta that specializes in GBS and is basically going to have to relearn how to do everything.

Then a lady that just retired in April who did SO much for her church and community and had this plan of volunteering and doing all of these great things, her husband fell down the stairs 2 weeks and is now paralyzed from the neck down and he is going to have to live the rest of his life in a nursing home.

I mean, I just can't even imagine and it just makes me so thankful and blessed for what I have and don't have to deal with it.
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One of my professors at Wake Forest had Guillain-Barré syndrome when he was the same age. He had a limp his whole life. Its also what made him get into physiology and teaching neuroscience.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Life is so fragile and I am working everyday on reminding myself of that and that I don't have it that bad, even though in my head I feel like I do.

2 people that I work with are going through something unfathomable to me...

I mean, I just can't even imagine and it just makes me so thankful and blessed for what I have and don't have to deal with it
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A good friend likes to say, "if we put all our problems in the middle of the room, I'd want mine back."
 
trailhugger said:
A good friend likes to say, "if we put all our problems in the middle of the room, I'd want mine back."
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Put to Music… anytime I have a moment of feeling sorry for myself these two are literally in a playlist named ‘grateful’





Works for me….

What was that old saying - I was sad because I had no shoes then I met a man with no feet.

Try to count my blessings everyday
 
Ron said:
Put to Music… anytime I have a moment of feeling sorry for myself these two are literally in a playlist named ‘grateful’





Works for me….

What was that old saying - I was sad because I had no shoes then I met a man with no feet.

Try to count my blessings everyday
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We differ on that modern gay country stuff you like, but dammit Montgomery Gentry is so good.
 
jeepinmatt said:
We differ on that modern gay country stuff you like, but dammit Montgomery Gentry is so good.
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Modern country?
Me?
You have me confused with someone else
 
R Q said:
Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts are ALWAYS great!
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I used to like them.

They use beef gelatin in them. Don't know what that is?

Beef gelatin is collagen that's been cooked for long enough that gelatin becomes isolated and the amino acids inside are broken down into much smaller parts. After the collagen protein is extracted from cow hides, the collagen is then 'cooked' or hydrolysed into gelatin using hot water and acid solutions.
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So, basically boiled cow hides. Sounds delicious!
 
RatLabGuy said:
One of my professors at Wake Forest had Guillain-Barré syndrome when he was the same age. He had a limp his whole life. Its also what made him get into physiology and teaching neuroscience.
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I had heard of it before but never knew what exactly it was. It sounds like a complete nightmare, but I guess the silver lining is that from what I hear, most people fully recover but its a slow process.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
I had heard of it before but never knew what exactly it was. It sounds like a complete nightmare, but I guess the silver lining is that from what I hear, most people fully recover but its a slow process.
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yes, its rarely fatal and most people recover but having long term nerve control problems is common.
Its a super fascinating condition actually. Autoimmune IIRC, Most people don't know your nerves [and neurons] are wrapped in a fatty material that ironically prevents direct conduction along the outside, but instead causes a skip along nodes where there are gaps as the charge jumps, making it much faster than linear travel. Called saltatory conduction. This works great as long as the capacitive buildup matches the length of the jump.
Very much like properly spaced gaps in spark plugs.
In GBS - IIRC its an autoimmune problem - those myelin sheaths rapidly degrade. The nerves still technically "work", their physiology is intact but without the sheathing saltatory conduction can't happen and the electrical signals either stop or are very... slow. You have to wait for the myelin to go back, which can take months to years.
 
kaiser715 said:
I used to like them.

They use beef gelatin in them. Don't know what that is?



So, basically boiled cow hides. Sounds delicious!
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I gotta say, after reading that, it still didn't bother me. 🤷‍♂️
 
kaiser715 said:
I used to like them.

They use beef gelatin in them. Don't know what that is?



So, basically boiled cow hides. Sounds delicious!
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jeepinmatt said:
I gotta say, after reading that, it still didn't bother me. 🤷‍♂️
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yeah thats all gelatin. Its only a question of whether it comes from pigs, cows, poultry or fish, it's gonna be from their skin, lips, ears, and other fun parts.
 
kaiser715 said:
I used to like them.

They use beef gelatin in them. Don't know what that is?



So, basically boiled cow hides. Sounds delicious!
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And yet that's likely not the worst thing you're eating. I'd rather eat that than some lab grown crap.
 
RatLabGuy said:
yes, its rarely fatal and most people recover but having long term nerve control problems is common.
Its a super fascinating condition actually. Autoimmune IIRC, Most people don't know your nerves [and neurons] are wrapped in a fatty material that ironically prevents direct conduction along the outside, but instead causes a skip along nodes where there are gaps as the charge jumps, making it much faster than linear travel. Called saltatory conduction. This works great as long as the capacitive buildup matches the length of the jump.
Very much like properly spaced gaps in spark plugs.
In GBS - IIRC its an autoimmune problem - those myelin sheaths rapidly degrade. The nerves still technically "work", their physiology is intact but without the sheathing saltatory conduction can't happen and the electrical signals either stop or are very... slow. You have to wait for the myelin to go back, which can take months to years.
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that is absolutely nuts. I mean she went from being normal to completely paralyzed in less than 48 hours once she started feeling sick.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
that is absolutely nuts. I mean she went from being normal to completely paralyzed in less than 48 hours once she started feeling sick.
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Yep. The good(?) news is its only peripheral nerves so you lose control over you limbs but critical things like breathing and your brain remain intact
 
We need a lollygaggers law. If you are caught lollygagging while driving between the hours of 7am-9am or 4pm-6pm, it is legally permissible and encouraged for others to pass you and/or pit you.
 
jeepinmatt said:
We need a lollygaggers law. If you are caught lollygagging while driving between the hours of 7am-9am or 4pm-6pm, it is legally permissible and encouraged for others to pass you and/or pit you.
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What about these knuckleheads that drive 40 in a 65 with their hazard on in the left lane because of a light rain? Or really anybody with hazards on in the rain.
 
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