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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3090 on: April 21, 2016, 12:33:23 AM »
  "IntensitySquared ... we've got toad porn!"  :frog: :autism:

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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3091 on: April 21, 2016, 02:18:38 AM »
It is utterly relaxing for me to look at Sakura - this season is no exception. Many hi-res images posted. Plumeria does the same, and the fragrance sometimes mitigates the train wreck. Not sure why about that. My father grows plumeria. I kill it. Recently I bought some essential oil that doesn't smell the same as the flowers. Eucalyptus does it for me too, and the essential oil for that smells just like the live plants, which I've only seen in California.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3092 on: April 21, 2016, 06:32:11 AM »
The session I just attended was on motivating and engaging students. The presenter put an exclamation mark after each word in the title (that should have been a warning).

Why the speaker delivered this information in a monotone, made no activities and asked no questions to engage the audience, I do not know. It was so boring that I may have been traumatized by it. Luckily there is a break now. I could not bring myself even to look at the program.

  I see that punctuation-mark-after-every-word gimmick everywhere and I am so. Over. It.  :P


   Maybe that speaker belongs here.  He could be the Gopher's new special interest.   :zoinks:
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3093 on: April 21, 2016, 08:24:17 AM »
 Thats a tree frog, not a toad.

Toads usually have much drier skin than frogs and USUALLY are warty while frogs have smooth, and moist skin. Toads typically get about by walking, frogs hop.

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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3094 on: April 21, 2016, 08:25:51 AM »
Thats a tree frog, not a toad.

Toads usually have much drier skin than frogs and USUALLY are warty while frogs have smooth, and moist skin. Toads typically get about by walking, frogs hop.
 

  I know it's a frog.  We don't have a toad smiley and I wanted to use this one.  :P
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3095 on: April 21, 2016, 01:14:34 PM »
It is utterly relaxing for me to look at Sakura - this season is no exception. Many hi-res images posted. Plumeria does the same, and the fragrance sometimes mitigates the train wreck. Not sure why about that. My father grows plumeria. I kill it. Recently I bought some essential oil that doesn't smell the same as the flowers. Eucalyptus does it for me too, and the essential oil for that smells just like the live plants, which I've only seen in California.
I noticed that there is no thread for people to share what relaxes them. Aspergers is stressful.

Had to look up Sakura. I love that tree. It was in the garden where I grew up. My kids have seen it too, and have played in the pink "snow" at the end of the blossoming. The tree is no more, alas. It fell apart because of age and had to go.

Every end of April I get happy when I see one of those trees.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3096 on: April 21, 2016, 02:02:48 PM »
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3097 on: April 21, 2016, 05:33:12 PM »
  Afternoon pee smelled strongly of coffee. :coffee:
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3098 on: April 21, 2016, 05:34:20 PM »
Lesson learned. 
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3099 on: April 21, 2016, 08:17:28 PM »
Better that, than the other way round.
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3100 on: April 21, 2016, 08:45:07 PM »
Better that, than the other way round.

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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3101 on: April 21, 2016, 09:20:32 PM »
Well its accurate enough, is it not?

Which would you prefer if neither is not an option? piss with coffee in it, or your coffee with someone's piss in it?

(for those autistic fucking freaks amongst us here, that is an example of the 'rhetorical question', I really don't need to be told of preference one way or the other:P
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3102 on: April 22, 2016, 12:17:22 AM »
Well its accurate enough, is it not?

Which would you prefer if neither is not an option? piss with coffee in it, or your coffee with someone's piss in it?

(for those autistic fucking freaks amongst us here, that is an example of the 'rhetorical question', I really don't need to be told of preference one way or the other:P

I sometimes feel as if caffeinated pee is heavier than non-caffeinated.

 I'm sure it's not, it just feels that way.  As if the molecular structure is different or something.  :tard:
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3103 on: April 22, 2016, 06:49:57 AM »
  Afternoon pee smelled strongly of coffee. :coffee:

Did you think about recycling it?

Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) article on Urine Therapy
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Is urine therapy a cure for ailments?
by A. F. DAWOOD

Dr. C. P. Mithal, M.D., an Indian doctor, in his book "The Miracles of Urine Culture" reveals some stunning facts on the efficacy of urine for so many dreadful diseases, which to lay people seem incredible. He asserts that urine is a panacea for ailments like diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis and for diseases of eyes, ears, teeth and skin. Moraji Desai, a former Prime Minister of India, vouchsafes the fact that he had tried the efficiency of urine on himself very successfully and on his advice some others have tried this remedy with success. The author elicits the following information, which would raise the eye-brows of the readers: that in the days of yore urine therapy was practised widely in the interior villages to the extent that old grandmothers gave children to drink their own urine to overcome fever, lose motion and many other ailments; that Tibetan lamas (monks) used to drink their own urine to preserve their health, as it was believed that urine contained nutritious ingredients; that in the past, a mixture of cow urine and human urine was an essential composition in the ancient ayurvedic medicine; that travellers and explorers drank their own urine when water was scarce in the desert.

Volatile

Dr. C. P. Mithal further pinpoints that urine contains volatile salts which are beneficial to the human body because these salts destroy acidity and get rid of pain in kidney, intestine, and womb; furthermore urine, a natural tonic, eliminates giddiness, tension in nerves, lazy feeling, hemicrama, paralysis, decaying of any part of the body, common cold, diseases of brain, nerves, joints and leukorrhoe (a whitish discharge from vagina resulting from inflammation or congestion of the mucous membrane). According to this book, there is a string of advantages by the use of urine internally and externally. A sick cow or dog drinks its own urine from time to time and recovers from the illness in a few days. If the teeth are washed many times daily with urine, advised a French dentist three hundred years ago, those suffering from tooth ailment could get relief. Dr. Mithal highlights that two books, one published in the nineteenth century "One Thousand Notable Things" and the other published in 1695 "Solomon's English Physician", record the following useful features of urine.

By drinking urine, diseases of kidney, liver and bile, dropsy, jaundice, sinuses and plague could be cured; by washing the anus with urine diseases of the ear, nose and eyes could be cured and the joints become flexible and the skin becomes smooth.

He also quotes in his book an interesting account of an English author, C. Scott on Dr. W. H. Buxton's application of urine therapy in his book "Doctor's Disease and Health". According to this book, though incredible it sounds, the doctor cured himself of cancer by using urine pack and drinking urine, and also drank three tumblers full of urine daily for preservation of his eye sight, in addition to using urine as eye drop. Monks in India, leading a solitary life in the jungles, called Naga Sadhus, remain naked throughout the year and drink their urine daily to maintain good health. The erudite doctor describes urine as a product of the body's excretory system but contains chemical composition such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride and many more, all of which are essential for body health and hence concludes that urine is a natural tonic.

Islam considers urine an impurity and a drop of urine on body or clothes of one due to pray could nullify his or her prayer. I am not aware of the Buddhist point of view on urine but the Holy Bible, according to Dr. Mithal refers to urine therapy in these cryptic words, "Drink waters out of thine own cistern; when thou fastest, annoint thy head and wash your face." It was J. W. Armstrong, those father used to cure disease of domestic cows, horses and dogs by treating them with urine, that first understood the significance of these words. Armstrong was suffering from T.B. for which antibiotics such as stretomycia and penicillin were not available during that time. Having failed to get completely cured from T.B. by two doctors, he adopted urine therapy after he came across the above Bible statement. He fasted on urine and tap water for 45 days and at the same time annointing his body with urine. At the end of forty nine days he broke his fast with raw meat.

It is said that urine is a sure curative for heart ailments; that urine is mixed with other medicines by allopathic doctors and urine is used for the manufacture of skin tonic by some foreign firms.

There even is a forum.  :zoinks:
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Re: Random observations from your day
« Reply #3104 on: April 22, 2016, 03:23:06 PM »
First of all, he is completely, totally, and absolutely wrong, in stating that the body would make use of urine to correct 'acidosis' (which does, actually, in real fact, exist as a medical complaint, however if it is severe enough to warrant treatment at all, then its vital to seek medical help, it isn't just some trivial crap people spout on about foods causing it or curing it.

The body wishes to survive, ergo, it has evolved the biological mechanisms with which to do so. There is a bicarbonate buffer system that effectively controls haematological PH without any help at all.

The body is more than capable of maintaining homeostasis. If we could not, then we would simply be unable to survive, save perhaps being attended to in an ICU.

Salts? yes, sure. What goes in, must come out again at some point, and we excrete electrolytes via sweating and urination. If someone wants to get their electrolytes from drinking piss instead of powerade and food they are welcome to, but I'd be prepared to bet large sums of money (if I had any), that a nice cold bottle of isotonic sports drink, a couple of bananas, melon,etc for potassium rich food (watermelon is even richer in K than is banana), We get, those who can consume dairy produce without intolerance, enough calcium that way, we probably these days get MORE than an ample serving of Na, of course salt ingestion is intaking Cl- as well as Na.

Magnesium can be found in rich quantities in many seeds and nuts.

In short, there is no simple mineral that can only, or that would benefit from drinking urine.  If it has come OUT in the urine, then it didn't pop out of thin air into existence suddenly, the person xingested it to begin with. Presumably, from something that doesn't make one look like a fuckup.

I'm not even going open my mouth on the subject of 'because the bible/koran/talmud/flying invisible spaghetti monster. Because it just doesn't need saying. Other than that said books
say quite a lot of things. Does he also go round stoning faggots to death, cutting people's hands off, executing adulterers and 'witches' ?

Or 'sparing the rod' and 'spoiling the child' If he believes all the shite written by primitive tribespeople with zero comprehension of modern western science and modern medicine, then I have
some prime real-estate and a villa to sell him in sun-kissed nigeria. I heard his bank account is lovely this time of year.......

There are hormones excreted in urine so I could see it being an emergency field-expedient assist, for people with hormonal deficiencies if a normal producer and excreter were present also.
Although I don't know how effective it could be.  If they were trapped somewhere sans potable water then distilled urine can be used , but continual consumption of actual undistilled urine, fresh on tap, so to speak, is mainly going to reintroduce waste products the body excreted because they are WASTE. Garbage. Rubbish. Alex plank, crap, worthless trash. See where that theme is going?t
Txhis if more than the immediate short-term future, drinking unpurified piss will damage the kidneys in particular, by reintroducing the toxic bio-waste produced by the body to it, oncesuoit it has be`en removed, is akin to pouring dirt back into a freshly cleaned..whatever.
 
As for the long list of 'cured' or 'curable' maladies, don't even get me started, because I'd tear his credibility ragged shreds if I were present at such encouragement, or perhaps bring along some low-contagiousness, highly infectious organism/s with me, to stick him with , such as y-pestis. I bet he would kick and scream the house down if he were approached by someone with a syringe of infectious material and about to jab him with it. Should be fine with that considering his clairms he won't need any antibiotics when infected with Y.pestis, because he claims to be able to cure it, does not mean that they ARE able to, they are meaning-free and worthless and idiotic claims he is making, if all they had to do would be to drink piss and be fine and whole, why did hundreds of thousands to millions get exterminated by the black death.

Are we too, to believe simple piss cures every type of cancer under the sun? and everything else. Ebola virus? hey, we are going to piss in a bottle and throw it in your face or force feed it. But again it cures viral diseases, bacterial like bubonic plague, TB, (technically a mycobacterium rather than a bog standard bacterial species, two, actually as there exists both human pulmonary TB and bovine TB, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M.bovis respectively. The bovine form CAN replicate  and thrive in humans though btw),  cures liver disease, leaving all those poor alcoholics too ignorant to pull themselves a pint of their own recycled beer to suffer cirrhosis.

Eye complaints? urine IS said to be sterile, and possibly makes do as an emergency eyewash or wound wash if there is nothing, NOTHING else available that is so. But to the extent I believe the claims without backup....personally I'll stick to saline pods for use if ever again I end up copping something corrosive or toxic in the eyes (had a powder burn as a kid, actually ON my right eye, ended up in hospital for 6 to 8 hours, laid out on a table with my eyelids pulled down whilst saline was squirted into my eyes. For all that 6 or 8 hours. NOT fun. And had some 'dr' suggested I needed
no treatment, but that he was going to try pissing in my face, before I piss off home and salve my eyeball burn with my own, or animal piss? lets just say I'd have been determined to find their home addresses out, and paid a visit not with
the ounces of perchlorate/magnesium/aluminium (second 'I' there, americans, I think I'd have realized if I just blew up some 'aluminum' in my face) but with a good few tens of kilos at LEAST, in an enclosed container full of  ballbearings, and wrapped in razor-wire around the outside (ever seen what an explosion in a thin-walled metal container does, if wrapped in something like wire?
Ends up blowing the walls of the container flat, ribbonlike, and sending that and the wrapping whipping out at such speed I've seen a hollowed out deodorant can full of explosive turn into one long twisty strip of razor-sharp edged metal, extended from being the curved vessel wall, to one long blade, driven through the surroundings fast enough for it to have sliced right into a BIG linden tree, too big to be encircled in a man's arms.

If that had been a person accidentally getting in the way, or if someone deployed that against a person, christ, that thing would probably have cut them in half. Certainly powerful enough to
sever the likes of arms and legs, in a similar principle to how one after a tornado, may witness strands of ordinary grass, embedded in, from being driven through tree trunks like hammered  nails. Thats natural phenomena and grass stalks. Explosive charges and metal? not much I found wouldn't be sliced through by such a projectile. I only let such things off as a little kid/teen for fun, away from any and all people, just for the amusement of building the charges, experimenting at the time with different LEs, HEs and incendiary compositions, shaped charges, etc. And my targets things like wooden boards, tree stumps, steel plates, etc. just for the fun in trying to develop ever more efficient charges and fillings, then testing brisance, penetration depth, and width of penetration site
if it wasn't something loaded with submunitions, like a beehive round or canister shot, shotgunlike effect (think canister full of high explosive, the additional bits required to initiate same, such as boosters, caps/pipes full of mercury fulminate, only instead of otherwise nothing, teargas, smoke, or WP, a whole load of thin, flattened, roughly x-shaped, in profile flechettes. The buzzing shriek heard on firing those things really does, sound like a hive of furiously enraged bees in flight.  NOT something I'd have fancied getting on the wrong end of! because targets would be peppered with hundreds of those razoredged pointy darts, that would EASILY penetrate straight through tisssue, they often did through a piece of wood. And anything else would be sliced to shreds. Very, very effective, even in the hands of a creator not yet in double-digit figures, or if so, then not by long at all, and his amateur attempts to replicate the beehive shells fired as antipersonnel weapons by tanks which are more or less the same thing, I just didn't have a tank. Still don't, sadly. Although if ever I really strike it rich, I would love to buy one, one can get the likes of soviet-era tiger tanks online, armor is old compared to modern antitank capabilities, past it really, but I see no reason it couldn't be beefed up, and something extra, like a big power generator and a PIKL, or PEP cannon, maybe big directed microwave weapon or something to spice up the main tank gun a bit xD

Would be fun as hell a project, to modernize and update a WWII tank until its got some thoroughly modern composite armor, spaced  armor layer over the top to defeat tandem charge rounds,
and a selection of modern energy weapons :D



I won't be drinking any piss in the meantime to stay 'healthy' though thats for certain haha. ew.

Raw meat is begging for some pretty nasty parasites. Like Trichinella, found in pork, tapeworms, you name it. Nasty, too. I can't abide even the thought of rare meat, the way people can ask for
and get, their steak served up slightly browned for the first mm or two each side, and bloody, quivering flesh inside...EWWWWW, jesus. thats just nasty. I like my meat, especially my steaks  very
well done, something tender, but that I can really have a good gnaw on, until each mouthful is sucked and chewed so dry and empty its little but fiber once swallowed. Until every last drop of  seasoning and tasty beef-juices, every fleck of spice has been gnawed from each piece. Not a soft, possibly disease-transmitting, bloody piece of HOPEFULLY dead flesh, but which
I wouldn't actually trust that it wouldn't start mooing on the plate, and needing a couple of sharp blows delivered with a piece of pipe, a hammer, etc. Just to ensure it doesn't up and try running off away from my plate altogether. I won't even eat meat that has a trace of light, light, ever so slight pink to the middle, it MUST be well done for me to like it.
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