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Sunday, 22 November 2009
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Moderating Comments?!
http://www.xanga.com/ideas/1629/moderatedcommenting.html
Came across a plug where someone wants us to be able to moderate comments, like on myspace, where it won't show up until you approve it. How stupid! While I think we should be able to DELETE certain comments, or get them deleted such as one the other day who wrote BLAH about a million times. If you allow someone to moderate comments then they will OBVIOUSLY choice to only allow positive "I agree with you" comments to be seen and any and all that oppose their view point will never be seen.
Because I don't care what someone says that is trying to get this passed or in support of it, when push comes to shove, why would you approve any comment that goes against you, that says you are stupid, or that your beliefs are wrong. You wouldn't, NOBODY would!
Xanga allows all points of view, good or bad to be out there and for the most part it shouldn't change. What should change is when they post stupid million times over BLAH comments, or are ATTACKING someone, and not just respectfully or more or less beig respectful about stating their opinion. -
Why do people react the way they do?
A few days ago while hanging out with friends we were reading fmylife.com when a post came up about a child being lactose intolerant, http://www.fmylife.com/kids/6351623 and it was implied that she threw up from it. I said that being mildly lactose intolerant I have never thrown up from dairy, nor has chocolate ever made me sick unless I ate lots of it at one time.
One of the people I was with immediately claimed that obviously this child has it much worse than I do.
I don't eat much dairy, I use soy milk, don't care for cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, or most creamy dips and dressings. So I eat yogurt, some ice cream, and cream cheese, as well as cheese on nachos, tacos and pizza, I never add any cheese to a sandwich or burger of any kind, and sometimes pick it off tacos and pizza and go very light with it on nachos. Being diabetic, I can't eat tons of sugary ice cream and yogurt so I don't get much dairy. But I do have a huge sweet tooth when it comes to chocolate, and being diabetic I find ways around that, so that I can still have a bit of chocolate when I want it. So wanting to know more I have looked around online at medical sites, like webmd and the mayo clinic, nowhere on any of these medical sites does it list CHOCOLATE as a normal food that affects lactose intolerance and vomiting is not a symptom either, probably because that would be your stomach and lactose intolerance comes from you intestines. (Hope I understood that correctly, may be wrong so don't quote me on it)
This is almost as good as a comment I once read on an ISH site where someone doesn't like MILK chocolate because it tastes to MILKY! (May have been the original poster who first said it) and the at least 3-4 people agreed with her. I'm not a big fan of dark chocolate so I don't eat it much, my chocolate of choice is milk chocolate. Although it is obviously made with milk, it doesn't taste like milk, I HATE milk, never drink it, and only use SOY milk on my cereal. I think milk has a nasty taste.
In all my life I have never heard anyone say that milk chocolate tasted like MILK, except for on that post.
I honestly think it comes from the fact that we live in a society that as sick as it is want to be sick, wants to have whichever aliment, to fit in, to feel included, who knows why society is the way it is with this, but so many WANT to be sick and if not them, then their child, or spouse. Society suffers from the "flavor of the month" popular syndrome.
Everyone suddenly has the HOT new disease, allergic to wheat, my child is autistic, etc... and I have noticed this over the years, which ever BIG disease or disorder is hot, everyone has it, and doctors are confirming that the number of reported cases (people claiming to have it) and the number of actual cases don't match up. That so many people (and I know a few, too many sadly) that think they know more than the doctor, so even when he says no you/your child doesn't have this they still believe that they do, even with medical tests and no symptoms.
As a person with multiple aliments and diseases/disorders I don't understand why you'd want something you don't actually have. I have a food allergy (one that is rare, and I only know of a handful of other people with it), diabetes, migraines, high blood pressure (genetic), acid reflux, mild lactose intolerance that is currently being checked for an IBS as Crohns and Colitis run in my family, and a bad knee, that is along with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. I currently take more medicine than a typical cancer or HIV patient according to my doctor.
And as bad as all that sounds, it isn't bad, I take medicine, and watch what I eat, get exercise and am mostly okay, pretty easy to take care of, but managing it all does take time and patients.
Friday, 20 November 2009
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What is a sport?
I love some sports, baseball, soccer, and hockey mostly. I follow football, but not a die hard fan.
Over the last few years poker and I think blackjack have made their way onto channels such as Fox Sports and ESPN. WTF?! Why, those aren't sports!
To me a sport is an activity that requires PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, and chance, somebody wins, and somebody loses, usually but not always a ball or puck is used. Sports to me are things like baseball, football, soccer, basketball, hockey, field hockey, volley ball, softball, etc...
To a loose extent I will say golf is. Cheerleading IS NOT, although cheerleaders, real ones, not those that ONLY cheer at games but the ones that complete are athletes.
In my opinion things like bowling is not a sports, it is a GAME!
I use another website where you can ask and answer questions, and once someone asked what where you most favorite and least favorite sports. Some stupid bitch answered and said that she LOVED ballroom dancing, (and several other NON-SPORTS) and hated football, basketball, hockey, baseball, basically any and all SPORTS!
You may or may not agree with me on some of these, but not all games or competitions are sports. And some there is NO way possible to label them a sport.
Friday, 13 November 2009
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Overdoing it with clean?
I am a big one for being clean, I have to be being diabetic. Cuts and wounds, as well as tattoos and piercings take longer to heal for me, and as they take longer I am more prone to infections. I wash my hands after using the bathroom, before and after handling most food, and several other times a day. I carry hand sanitizer and anti-bacterial wipes with me, as well as alcohol wipes with my test kit. I have neosporin and band-aides as well. I would say I am pretty typical with my hand washing and care, especially being diabetic.
I was out at a major sporting event, can't remember if it was baseball or football, and saw a woman wash her hands with soap and water and then use hand sanitizer. Now once your hands are clean they are clean, you can't make them extra clean! And this bathroom had faucets that shut off, so no touching after your hands where clean, automatic paper towels, so no touching with clean hands and NO DOORS, so no touching, and what I think is the funniest part, the hand sanitizer was INSIDE the bathroom, so even if she had had to open a door the sanitizer wouldn't have worked. I know some people get all stupid and paranoid about touching things with clean hands in public because what if someone else didn't wash their hands? That is why I think she went overboard, this bathroom was made with those types in mind, things were automatic and no door so nothing to touch.
I have to be careful with some soaps in bathrooms in public, the soap used at the grocery store I worked in a while back was one that I was allergic to and if I used it, I would start itching and my hands would get a rash. I could never "wash" my hands in the bathrooms at work. I had to use hand sanitizer only. I can now tell which soaps are that one, which places use it, so I can use my sanitizer instead.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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My thoughts on Surviving Thanksgiving with Acid Reflux
Surviving Thanksgiving with Acid Reflux | healthkicker
I came across the above article on Healthkicker, and because I have acid reflux, was diagnosed when I was 15, I thought maybe I'd learn something I didn't know. I am a picky eater so many things listed I wouldn't know about whether they affect acid reflux or not. And for me, I have it so bad that it really doesn't matter what I eat I get it anyway unless I take my medicine. When I take that I can pretty much eat whatever I want and have little or no problem, may have to take a few rolaids or drink a small glass of milk (eww!) to settle my stomach and I'm good. A few times a year I have a few very serious bouts of it, where nothing helps and I have the grossest taste in my mouth, and the only way to understand is to have it or be around someone who does when they have it (I'm sorry) and really bad burps.
So the is article ends with this line: Do you suffer from acid reflux? Are there certain foods you have to avoid during the holidays because of disease or allergies?
Now as someone who suffers from this I personally feel that by asking about OTHER DISEASES AND ALLERGIES it downplays acid reflux and makes it less of a disease then it is. I have other problems that cause me to have issue with food, but I don't feel they should be clumped together.
I mentions this on the blog, and the original writer let me know that she didn't add it, the editors of HEALTHKICKER did.
Why did anything else, any other disease need to be brought up and try to be introduced?
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