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Start here => Games => Topic started by: 'andersom' on March 25, 2018, 11:29:19 AM
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Dang, while making this topic "good vibrations" sneaked into my skull. I'll evacuate it soon. But it's fitting. It is a weird sensation too.
But what made me make this thread;
I'm toasting bread in a baking pan. And I smell black pudding. Not only do I smell it, I'm kinda craving it.
And that after being a (not completely strict) vegetarian for almost 35 years. :hyke:
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It’s not something that’s stuck on the stove, is it? When I reused a pizza tray the other day, I swore I could smell delicious cake. But I think that was just a craving, cos I haven’t had cake in ages.
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I'm sure Weeble could whip you up a vegetarian version. Maybe with licorice instead of blood?
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Eeeeeewwww. Liquorice is nice. But not fried in a baking pan.
It’s not something that’s stuck on the stove, is it? When I reused a pizza tray the other day, I swore I could smell delicious cake. But I think that was just a craving, cos I haven’t had cake in ages.
Nah, pan was completely clean. Just something in my head happening, triggered by the scent of toasted bread.
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Just had the strangest moment a few minutes ago. Was scrolling through TV channels to put a specific channel on, but I got a weird ass feeling about autism-oriented programs on TV. And then as I kept scrolling down, I saw that a documentary titled 'are you autistic?' was just about to come on.
On freeview TV channel 13 (or possibly 14) channel 4 +1 right now on UK TV, just starting if anyone is interested. I had a weird feeling that such a program...well not quite that there would be one on, but just a weird but quite specific sensation of 'autistic program, TV, soon'
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Maybe you had a visitor Hyke, or like you said something triggered it.
My grandmother had this thing for mothballs. Used to put them everywhere...I hated it. She even gave me a sweater one time and stuffed a couple in the bag with it when I was around 12, I inhaled them all the way back home to NY in the backseat of the car wondering where the smell was coming from.
I have asthma so I've never had a mothball within 5 miles of here...but every now and then I will smell them clear as day to the point I have to use my inhaler.
Either memories are really that potent or I've pissed her off and she's throwing mothballs at me from another dimension.
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Just had the strangest moment a few minutes ago. Was scrolling through TV channels to put a specific channel on, but I got a weird ass feeling about autism-oriented programs on TV. And then as I kept scrolling down, I saw that a documentary titled 'are you autistic?' was just about to come on.
On freeview TV channel 13 (or possibly 14) channel 4 +1 right now on UK TV, just starting if anyone is interested. I had a weird feeling that such a program...well not quite that there would be one on, but just a weird but quite specific sensation of 'autistic program, TV, soon'
Freaky. Will you tell us about the programme when you've seen it?Maybe you had a visitor Hyke, or like you said something triggered it.
My grandmother had this thing for mothballs. Used to put them everywhere...I hated it. She even gave me a sweater one time and stuffed a couple in the bag with it when I was around 12, I inhaled them all the way back home to NY in the backseat of the car wondering where the smell was coming from.
I have asthma so I've never had a mothball within 5 miles of here...but every now and then I will smell them clear as day to the point I have to use my inhaler.
Either memories are really that potent or I've pissed her off and she's throwing mothballs at me from another dimension.
That's freaky too. A couple of times now I have gotten a whiff of mum's perfume and then she's rung me. I guess it can happen if the person is still alive.
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I wonder what visitor would come with the scent of black pudding.
Only one I could think of would be my dad. But he just messes with my socks.
Ex drops by now and then. I checked it with him. When he worries about kid I can smell it.
I just asked him what are you doing around my house that much when I smelled him almost daily. :lol:
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Maybe it is way more mundane. I found out I have a vitamine D deficiency at the moment. Causing fatigue and aching joints all over etc. Was craving other types of meat too.
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I take vitamin D too, mixed in with Caltrate.
I told my doctor I am taking it and I'm sure it's done my bones some good since I had a bone scan in 2014. He hummed and haaahd and said he wouldn't place much faith in it just because they say it's good on tv.
Well it turns out that my hip joint has slight osteopenia and my spine is now normal - both much improved in four years. Take that, doc.
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I'm sure Weeble could whip you up a vegetarian version. Maybe with licorice instead of blood?
Licorice is a delicious flavor! :cbc: My favorite flavor in jelly beans.
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I take vitamin D too, mixed in with Caltrate.
I told my doctor I am taking it and I'm sure it's done my bones some good since I had a bone scan in 2014. He hummed and haaahd and said he wouldn't place much faith in it just because they say it's good on tv.
Well it turns out that my hip joint has slight osteopenia and my spine is now normal - both much improved in four years. Take that, doc.
That's excellent! What caused the initial bone loss, if I may ask? :orly:
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I take vitamin D too, mixed in with Caltrate.
I told my doctor I am taking it and I'm sure it's done my bones some good since I had a bone scan in 2014. He hummed and haaahd and said he wouldn't place much faith in it just because they say it's good on tv.
Well it turns out that my hip joint has slight osteopenia and my spine is now normal - both much improved in four years. Take that, doc.
That's excellent! What caused the initial bone loss, if I may ask? :orly:
Yes, it's having Depo Provera injections that causes bone loss. I initially found out years after I had been on it. I asked for its paperwork at the chemist, read it, and there it was. I was peeved that no doctor had told me this information but I started taking Caltrate straight away.
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I take vitamin D too, mixed in with Caltrate.
I told my doctor I am taking it and I'm sure it's done my bones some good since I had a bone scan in 2014. He hummed and haaahd and said he wouldn't place much faith in it just because they say it's good on tv.
Well it turns out that my hip joint has slight osteopenia and my spine is now normal - both much improved in four years. Take that, doc.
That's excellent! What caused the initial bone loss, if I may ask? :orly:
Yes, it's having Depo Provera injections that causes bone loss. I initially found out years after I had been on it. I asked for its paperwork at the chemist, read it, and there it was. I was peeved that no doctor had told me this information but I started taking Caltrate straight away.
Wow, I'd be peeved too! Good thing you got right on the solution! :viking:
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I don't know anyone else who is on Depo Provera, if I did I would be quick to tell them to start taking Caltrate. I might ask my doctor when I see him next if he has other patients on it.
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licorice jellybeans are my favourite too, along with banana and bubblegum ones. I doubt it'd be an issue with the likes of jellybeans and other candies that are just flavoured, but the licorice based ones actually should be eaten in relative moderation, and I should think a liquorice sausage would be as unhealthy as it sounds repellent. Compounds in liquorice when taken in excess, screw with corticosteroid production (lowering).
A liquorice and coagulated blood sausage though? jesus christ I thought I'd heard of some fucked up food before, but thats getting fairly close to the likes of that fermented rotting shark thing and some of the more noxious oriental dishes. Black pudding is revolting enough without being blended with liquorice and candied.
I do love the liquorice jellybeans though, and can't get enough of them. Not sure if they do them in the US but here we have a brand called 'jelly belly' which have to be the best jellybeans ever, huge range of flavours, as opposed to some cheap ones that barely even have more than one flavour at all.
As for the program on autism, it was copresented by two autistic girls, one a brunette, the other a redhead. The brunette didn't seem so 'obviously' autistic, whereas the redhead barely made eye contact (or camera-contact as the case may be), always doing that autie thing where vision is aimed up and to one side, rather than straight ahead or making eye contact (something I've always found rather cute, for some inexplicable reason)m and also, as not to frighten or freak out the NTs on the more drastic, sheeple end of the NT spectrum, the two spesh girls had an NT copresenter, who also, not being autistic, was in the right sort of condition to know the most pertinent sorts of questions to ask about what autism is, what its like to be one of us, and talking to a group of aspie/auties who were out for a few drinks etc. and to give an interview, and their talking about, to borrow IIRC PMSelle's term, what its like ex post facto when one has used up all their social spoons for the time being and once they got home, having to regenerate by retiring and cutting out all sensory input (although I myself am a bit different in that respect, and wouldn't really find that the ideal or even helpful way to recharge my social batteries, for me, its more about a lot of sensory stimulation, just of the right kind, to flush the buffers and empty the cache, ideally in the form of deafeningly loud, heavy industrial and metal music whilst avoiding further use of said social spoons. I find there is something akin to sleep debt when overdoing it. In that temporarily, if I have to, I can get something social done, but it must be paid for later, meaning a lot of heavy music (its calming to me, whilst what would be calming for lot of NTs or some aspies/auties, really isn't, to me, indeed things like pop music or classical actually make it worse for me and make me more prone to overloading and for the overload to be much worse if it does happen), putting my feet up and sticking on whatever videogame I've been enjoying the most of late, or just some oldschool mindless violent FPS like doom, or something similar but with some humor, like duke nukem 3d, shadow warrior and the like, where you don't really need to use your higher mental processing powers, just have quick reactions and basic strategy along the likes of setting mines, throwing grenades/bouncing launched grenades off walls before turning a corner, just to make sure that anything living round there waiting for the chance to rip your head off and use it for a football has it done to them instead before they have the opportunity to do it to you instead.
Although atm, its been somewhere in the middle, requiring a fair bit of thinking, in the guise of fallout-tactics. A fair bit different to other games in the FO series but all the same, I'm a big fan of the series as a whole, at least the ones I've downloaded so far. (thinking either new vegas, or fallout IV is next on my list.