And earl, I'm sorry to hear you have lots of heartburn-could it be reflux?

yeah it is. no one's sure what's causing it or how to treat it. right now I just eat a lot of stuff with tumeric and avoid acidic foods (all the best foods are acidic)

heartburn is just the sensation, so reflux/gerd can cause heartburn. it can also be caused by other stuff tho. I've had gerd and ulcers in the stomach and duodenum. I'm a little skeptical of kelp bc of the method by which it supposedly works, and bc I can't afford to lose any more weight (main reason people use kelp supp.) I'm on one med that actually inhibits acid production, and I also eat a ton of tums. I hope it works before the walls of my gut are corroded away!!

warp: I meant especially acidic foods, like tomatoes and oranges

i meant to post a bigger post about nutrition/health but maybe i'll do it a little later. stay tuned...also thanks for that graph herobash hell yeah! you have to remember that that graph is really just scientific evidence or rather scientific consensus on those particulary nutritions. a lot of those stuff that are at the bottom end at the graph are good.

also waitwaitwait, you don't want to eat kelp because it leads to lose of weight? can you elaborate how that happens and where did you hear this

i meant to post a bigger post about nutrition/health but maybe i'll do it a little later. stay tuned...also thanks for that graph herobash hell yeah! you have to remember that that graph is really just scientific evidence or rather scientific consensus on those particulary nutritions. a lot of those stuff that are at the bottom end at the graph are good.

also waitwaitwait, you don't want to eat kelp because it leads to lose of weight? can you elaborate how that happens and where did you hear this

infographics generally only serve to spread misinformation unfortunately

not eat kelp, take kelp supplements. something about decreasing the absorption of fat. idk if it's true or not but they also gave me diarrhea so

you should tell her you think she's cool and then ask for some Djibouti

@Terrorantula: You're a girl????

Marketing is lies, design is truth. Except for infographics, they're lies too.

lame. is that how it's gonna be

posts about dreams are always awful but i wanted to get this one down... the dream was structured as a film / tv series i was watching about adolf hitler... it was pitched as this sort of revamp of his early life "before he became famous", kind of like star wars iii... the film starts off focusing on his wife (no names are given throughout, an artsy touch) as she tries to manage her job as a shopgirl in a department store with taking care of their twin sons and trying to organise the house for the big meeting of german officials which will take place that night... however her husband is nowhere to be seen... he's missing but noone seems anything more than vaguely irritated by this so the impression we get is that he's a pretty meagre, spineless guy, a pest... eva(?)'s boss at the department store is played by george costanza's boss from Seinfeld who always sits with his back to the camera... here he breaks with this tradition, yet his face remains vague... from elliptical conversations we gather that the twins have also gone missing, and the boss (who is stern yet kindly) puts his full resources into finding them again... teams are sent out...
meanwhile german officials are gathering at the home and waiting angrily for hitler to appear as eva distributes the finger foods... where could he be?  at this moment, the film cuts to an old-time ambulance tearing through the city before stopping to place a totally shrouded, supine figure onto a stretcher and then into the ambulance... the stretcher is carried hastily through the corridors of the department store... it is placed in the office of the boss. we cut to a closeup of his face and see immediately that it is just undersized enough in relation to his hulking body to be uneasy looking...
the attendents pull back the sheet...
inside is adolf hitler as retconned as a beautiful anorexic teenager of indeterminate gender with shoulder-length red-brown hair, a dreamy expression and an undefined brittle-bone disease which may atcually be sclerosis. he is wan yet glamourous and lays staring blandly at the ceiling throughout... he is naked yet his genitals remain ambiguous... he has no moustache or any other hair on his body...
the boss is furious and asks the ambulance attendants why they couldn't have found the twins instead of this bozo.. he goes on and on about his total contempt for the figure before him... calling him a real puny specimen of humanity, a subhuman, a despicable wretch... hitler shows no reaction to the insults but is writhing slowly on the stretcher, contorting his long & skeletal limbs into a variety of upsetting and unnatural positions...
i remember thinking oh jesus, no, this is how they're foreshadowing / psychologising the holocaust, oh god, oh no in total horror before i woke up...
 
thats my dream...

i have a dream journal should i start a topic about it

thats pretty awesome dude you should make a short film about that.

that's a good dream catamites. costanza's boss is george steinbrenner, played by larry david. I actually had my first vivid dream in ages the other night and it was pretty good but I'm having trouble verbalizing it

Yes. They're very organized lies though.

Nah, I'm just joshin' ya.

they don't intend to misinform (obviously, their purpose is the opposite), but often they do esp. with the health-related ones. something to do with simplifying the information probably. for instance this one http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/sitting-kills/ apparently makes a provocative statement about the dangers of sitting too much, but on closer examination, is based upon a weak correlation, and makes some poorly-thought-out and sometimes unhealthy suggestions (eg "take the extra step", which doesn't actually fit into the infographic and suggests you give yourself an RSI/carpal tunnel and acid reflux). actually looking at it again, almost everything but the core sitting data is wrong

and at worst you could say I'm jaded about marketing

~ benjamin disraeli