The thread of movie titles and absence of badges. In previous episodes, it was signs you're getting older, chiropractic vs. medicine, atheism vs. Mormonism and religion vs. science with no existentialism nor philosophy thrown in
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Moxibustion (burning of patient's flesh)
How the hell is that a thing??
It's not. Moxibustion is burning of various substances near the patient's flesh so that the fumes have some presumably therapeutic effect on said flesh.
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Ah, that makes significantly more sense (and significantly less painful).
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It's not. Moxibustion is burning of various substances near the patient's flesh so that the fumes have some presumably therapeutic effect on said flesh.
It is still quackery. No cultural offense meant, but hoooooooly fuuuuuuuck.
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Youngster. I have a 16 year old, and I didn't have kids until I was 27.
Almost a match. Started having kids at 27, my eldest is now almost 14.
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My partner is Chinese. Her father is a medical professional, mostly in dialysis. He's also a very large proponent of a lot of alternative medicines, traditional Chinese herbalism, magnets, all that stuff. Cultural Inertia is a very powerful force.
Fortunately he keeps it out of the hospital.
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It is still quackery. No cultural offense meant, but hoooooooly fuuuuuuuck.
Not really the fumes doing anything. It is the heat from the moxa that has the effect.
The points on the body that you'd apply the moxa match up with acupuncture so it makes sense to learn both of them (needle or heat, effect being similar).I haven't had acupuncture done before but have had moxa (okyuu) done. Sometimes it is effective. I'm not usually in need of it though (not that old/unhealthy).
I definitely enjoy massage much more. Similar to the above, mostly shiatsu is what I've received/applied.
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moxa (okyuu)
Yes, that's it. Also called oyaito.Japan also has practitioners who place the moxa directly on the skin and set it on fire, which gives greater heat and blistering and second degree burning. It is yuukonkyuu(有痕灸,scarring moxibustion). But it is uncommon overseas having moved to mukonkyuu(無痕灸,non-scarring moxibustion), and dying even in Japan. In the end, Japan is TRWTF.
Expressing oneself in a second language is sometimes problematic.
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This is an interesting quote that's relevant, I think to this thread:
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-- C.S. Lewis
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I am not certain why, but it reminded me of another quote I heard and have no clue who to attribute it to: "People speak of age and wisdom as though they are mutually-inclusive traits. Yet, age does not always guarantee wisdom, and not all of those who are wise are also aged."
I am sure I butchered that, and I may be remembering a third-hand telling of it, but it has stuck with me all the same.
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sounds almost tolkienesque.... but that can't be right, can it?
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The man I remember telling it to me was old and Jewish, so I seriously doubt it...
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Here's a sign of getting older, it's been the case for a few years that the up and coming youngsters in sports I watch are my age or younger, but there's now an increasing number of the more established guys who I look at and think "he's bloody young"
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I'll have to remember that quote. A charge of immaturity is a common shaming tactic used by a certain category of SJW.
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WIS=3 illithids, yep. Also, things that are considered "wisdom" are not immune to invalidation by scientific experiment...
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Maybe this should be filed under: "Signs you have become a parent", but tonight I asked my wife, "Why is there a gigantic stuffed chicken in our bed?"
My son apparently decided I needed a stuffed animal to sleep with and chose a 3' tall stuffed chicken. I know @RaceProUK was probably getting all excited at the furry possibilities, but it was nothing lascivious. :-P
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know @RaceProUK was probably getting all excited at the furry possibilities, but it was nothing lascivious.
It still baffles me how @RaceProUK got to be our resident furry expert...
He only has the avatar of a hedgehog, he doesn't use it as his persona...
This puzzles me,.
Or maybe I am the only on who thinks it odd.
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Or maybe we just like (playfully) messing with people that we like?
Would you prefer that we give you the title? :-P
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Tech sign of getting older: when someone proposes some incredible groundbreaking new idea and your only reaction is "didn't we already do this? Years before you were born?"
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Getting chickens when the weather breaks
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Tech sign of getting older: when someone proposes some incredible groundbreaking new idea and your only reaction is "didn't we already do this? Years before you were born?"
When thin-clients were all the rage, I could only think..."Didn't we do this shit before I was born?!"
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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
I once had a debate with someone who used that line, except he thought it stopped at the word "things".
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Property one rents from the council, owned by the council. There are (usually a lot) cheaper than renting in the private sector and there are waiting lists - typically years - and certain circumstances will push you higher up the list. Like being an unmarried mother.
They are - these days -intended to be the 'last resort' for housing, but are perceived to be an aspiration by both those who want it and those who feel they shouldn't be paying for it via tax.
"Council estates" is a pejorative term for an area mostly or solely consisting of council houses where crime is perceived to be higher than normal due to the fact that those living there CBA to get off their sofas (watching Jeremy Kyle) and get a job instead of sponging off the state.
This has been your daily dose of stereotyping....
I remember getting my first job out of college. Within a month I got a 12% raise and position made permanent. After the raise, I was still making less than the average welfare recipient, who lived 4 blocks down the street from where I worked, in public housing (counting the free rent as part of their income as compared to what one would normally pay for such living quarters). Made me question wtf was wrong with me...
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And yet, most studies show
that those who take vitamins are literally piss in money away..just about anything you want it to show if you're paying for the study.FTFY
E.G.: Global warming...
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FTFY
When I said "literally", I meant literally. As in, people who eat a half-ass balanced diet and take vitamins quite literally piss out the vitamins unutilized. Your body only uses what it needs. The rest gets excreted.
Now, if we could only figure out a way to make our bodies do the same with fat and calories so I could eat a shit load of fried foods, not gain weight and have a reason to take vitamins
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Chiropractors traditionally do nothing that could actually help with anything.
My wife took (actually, half carried) me to her Chiropractor the day I threw out my back and couldn't walk from the pain. One adjustment (lower back cracked from him pulling my leg a certain way to get the nerve un-pinched), and although my back was still too sore to stand properly, much less walk, the pain was mostly gone. Next day it was as if nothing had happened.
Despite professionals like him routinely getting results like this, there are some who persist calling them quacks. When the alternative is seeing "a proper M.D." as some of my friends would say, diagnosis of which could lead to anything from strong pain meds for a few weeks to being bedridden in a hospital (again from some of those same friends having such events happen to them), I frankly just don't get it.
EDIT: That being said:
@HardwareGeek said:At my then-wife's urging, I saw a chiropractor for a while. He was a personal friend, so I'm reluctant to call him a quack, but his treatments never did me any noticeable good; I didn't even feel better afterward. He also promoted dubious nutritional products and some expensive bottled water. (I thought it was SmartWater, but googling that doesn't result in what I remember; this stuff was supposedly beneficial because it had extra oxygen dissolved in it, or something.)
If you're not getting results, and communicating with the doctor doesn't lead to any changes that do give results, no point in going back to waste your money.
How many quack surgeons perform surgery at every opportunity and think that surgery is the cure-all for back problems. I guarantee you that this is the cause of so many back surgeries gone awry.
Any profession has its share of practitioners who think their specialty is the cure-all. Those are the ones to observe with skepticism and watch for results (or lack thereof).
I was lucky enough to have an honest enough surgeon to tell me that surgery wasn't a good option for me.
+1
That is a real professional: one who is aware of related professions and where they apply in relation to his own and the problem being examined.
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people who eat a half-ass balanced diet and take vitamins quite literally piss out the vitamins unutilized. Your body only uses what it needs. The rest gets excreted.
This is definitely true of water-soluble vitamins like B-* and C. Fat-soluble vitamins like A and E, not so much:
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(When I was a kid, I was the smarta** who, when asked to read the bottom line of the eye chart, would read "Copyright Acme Eye Chart Co.")
+1
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It still baffles me how @RaceProUK got to be our resident furry expert...
You were involved in choosing the title!Not to mention the Sonic-related pics I post every now and again. And these old avatars:
And the fact I changed my long name to Resident Furry Expert before becoming a Knight of WTF. Can't remember why I did that though...
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Would you prefer that we give you the title?
Not really.
It's just one of those things my brain keeps thinking about
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It still baffles me how @RaceProUK got to be our resident furry expert...
Been doing some digging, and gone back as far as this post from December 4th last year... so blame @Magus
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Nerdsniped?
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It still baffles me how @RaceProUK got to be our resident furry expert...
He's the main culprit for posting the anthropomorphic things which look like they've escaped from a kids cartoon.
Most of the animals you post are, well, actually animals.
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Nerdsniped?
Possibly.Shortly after @Magus's post I linked to, and the discussion that followed it, I changed my long name to Resident Furry Expert (apparently!), then a few days later dropped the (apparently!), then changed it to the current after being elevated to Lord Knight @RaceProUK of the Ancient Study of Furries and Anthros
He's the main culprit for posting the anthropomorphic things which look like they've escaped from a kids cartoon.
That too
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It not's fair to bring up the Worst of the Worst.
I hate to burst your bubble, but plenty of studies show that teaching to the test is detrimental, no matter where it's done.A school system whose graduation rates are in the same range as everybody's else's dropout rates.
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OTOH, If I were a hedgehog, I would make it my business to know all there is to know about foxes, cats, and other furry predators, so as to better avoid them.
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predators,
hedgehogs are too stringly and gamy for every day eats. they are emergency only foods.
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I hate to burst your bubble, but plenty of studies show that teaching to the test is detrimental, no matter where it's done.
You have completely, and outrageously, missed my point.
Which is:
Baltimore City Schools are so horribly broken that to drag anything they do or don't do into any discussion of education is pointless.
I ain't got no bubble
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Fair enough, as long as you don't dispute my point that standardized testing encourages teaching to the test, which doesn't help educate kids.
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He only has the avatar of a hedgehog, he doesn't use it as his persona...
Not strictly true; I have once referred to myself as a hedgehog:
@RaceProUK said:i r puzld hejhog
Whether I continue or not is another question entirelyAnd I'm pretty sure there's a thread somewhere where we were having a discussion as hedgehog and fox; I think there was talk of nibbling ears too
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I have once referred to myself as a hedgehog:
right.... you did that.
i forgot about that.
And I'm pretty sure there's a thread somewhere where we were having a discussion as hedgehog and fox;
i believe that be the thread of personal digital assistants?
I think there was talk of nibbling ears too
nibbling ears is fun!
but ears are not for eatings, just nibblings!
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standardized testing encourages teaching to the test
and much other nonsense.
The old state tests here were a strange mixture of too easy and too hard. The new, in-development, ones look like they will be strange as well.
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(When I was a kid, I was the smarta** who, when asked to read the bottom line of the eye chart, would read "Copyright Acme Eye Chart Co.")
Was it the smallest line on the chart, font-size-wise?
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Was it the smallest line on the chart, font-size-wise?
That was the joke, yes. I'm not sure I ever actually did that, except maybe once when I had a chance to look at the chart closely before the doctor came in.
Joking aside, I never had any difficulty reading the smallest line of the actual chart. Sadly, no longer even close to true.
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When I said "literally", I meant literally. As in, people who eat a half-ass balanced diet and take vitamins quite literally piss out the vitamins unutilized. Your body only uses what it needs. The rest gets excreted.
That's only half true. Your body will excrete the excess water soluble vitamins. The fat soluble vitamins will get stored in whatever fat reserves you have. (As @HardwareGeek already pointed out). This can be particularly dangerous for overweight people who end up losing weight, or even people with a healthy weight who get ill enough that their body begins burning off whatever fat reserves they have. What generally happens is that they will continue to take the vitamin supplements, because it's already become a habit. However, they are unknowingly getting additional doses of the fat-soluble vitamins as their body burns off fat. This can easily lead to a situation of vitamin toxicity.
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This can easily lead to a situation of vitamin toxicity.
I just learned the word "Hypervitaminosis" - best word EVARRRRR.
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I've seen an elderly woman put in a hospital because of this.
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And prickly, no?
And, in some cases, armed. Choices include large hammers, crossbows, longbows, and medallions that transform into musical instruments that double as ray guns.And no, I'm not making any of those up; they all officially exist somewhere.
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Want!
You have a choice between guitar, keyboard, or drumkit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGjgOwZo1M