Normally, and by "normally", I mean "lately, as I have been in a foul mood and I hate everything and the economy sucks and please fetch me a gin and tonic", I would ignore or even unpublish a comment about douching for the sake of covering up an infidelity, but I think I'll leave it up so as to make an example of it, and also because I love talking about stupid things that people do when having sex.
Douching after having unprotected sex is a great way to send sperm flying towards your uterus. Just as an FYI to anyone who happens to stumble across this little conversation.
I see people in the US talking of the percentage that they are earning but without worrying about the currency they are invested in. I have lived in Costa Rica for some 43 years and for day to day expenses I deal in the local colon but I'd never keep savings in that currency as it is too unstable. I used to save in dollars but I am now aware that it isn't all that much more stable. So most our savings are in gold and silver coin, and when I can't get that I will hold Euros in cash.
You see the US is looking for 700 billion for this bailout program. I doubt if any great part of that will become available to borrow so they probably will just print it. This will cause a considerable drop in the dollar's value. So why worry about 6% or 8% interest next year if the dollar is going to lose some 25% of its value. That's a lose/lose situation.
I might point out that no country on Earth still issues currency that is redeemable in real value. If the people of a few major countries begin to lose faith in their valueless currency it may all begin to collapse over the whole world. Then no investment, bond, stock or bank deposit will have much meaning. I'm not saying this will definitely happen but there's a darn good possibility. Then you either have gold, silver or some other commodity or you have nothing.
Remember, douchebag is a better insult than it is an invention.
I heard of a woman who had a practical reason to douche. If she had unprotected sex with her boyfriend in the afternoon, and wanted to hide the evidence, she'd douche before her husband got home. She knew douching was unhealthy, and tried to avoid it, so her preference was to either have sex with the boyfriend early in the morning, use a condom if she met him later in the day, or a few other alternatives. Not cheating would have been another solution too, but she didn't like that answer very well.
(I am not the woman or either of the men described above, but I knew the woman.)
I've been wondering this very same thing for a while, particularly applied to brushing your teeth. From what (admittedly little) I know, it's the sugars and meat that destroy our teeth and breath. I wonder if a person were to eat a primitive diet, would they need to brush their teeth? I also think that fibrous foods (e.g. celery) are natural flossing agents, getting between your teeth but relatively easily removed, taking with it the gunk that was there. Anyone think I'm on to something, or just crazy?
I haven't had a cold since 1997 and I'm the only person I ever knew who had a bunch of allergy tests that showed no allergies to Anything. So you probably don't want to see my house.
Everything single dollar that issues forth from the Federal Reserve is counterfeit in the sense that it is nothing more than a piece of paper. Federal money isn't backed up by anything other than the mutual illusion that it has value.
... is my favourite - because it focuses on your values, and building a life worth meaning. It shows how to intertwine what you want to give back to the world, get out of life, and teaches you to honor and respect the true value of your hard work and earning potential, not to mention calculate your true wage. It also has a wonderful chapter on frugal tips.
This kind of thinking is exactly what has got so many Americans (and people all over the world) in deep trouble, financially speaking. People wind up seeking the image of wealth, as opposed to to actually building it.
When I was a new mom, I put my daughter's new teething ring in the bottle sterilizer. The result was "art" and I keep it by my desk to make me laugh and as a reminder to relax.
Thanks for this awesome article. As women (and mothers) the media preys on our worries and determination to protect our children by pummeling us with ads that suggest our children are constantly at risk of contracting disease. Thank you for counter-balancing this. And I love your last point too - this is another way we have been sold products by being told our bodies are inherently unclean.
For serious, you. When was that ever a problem? I shudder to think of the things that women have been forced to do to themselves over the years to prevent their husbands from... locking them out or whatever. :)
This is a terrible analogy. The bill is $100. The fifth poorest guy pays 1% of the bill. The next guy pays 3% of the bill. These percentages are about the cost of the bill. Taxes are a percentage of earnings, not the federal budget. Plus, when he reduced the cost of the bill, they didn't keep the same percent distribution, they tried to take the rebate in equal percentages. They should have paid 0, 0, 0, 0, $0.80, $2.40, $5.60, $9.60, $14.40, and $47.20, and everyone would still be happy. They all got mad and couldn't pay the bill because they were all dumb and couldn't do math.
In many other not-so-developed countries, they don't use pacifiers also, so there is one less thing to worry about as well. There are significant number of crutches that developed world has which may be another problem as well.
Another example is westerners traveling to developing counties, if they eat street food so many get sick, it's simply because we haven't developed the resistance the locals have. While we are out there fighting off bugs with medicines the strains it doesn't work on get stronger while we get weaker.
All I can say is "duh." It's the same as getting a shot. Your body learns to fight off small doses of baddies so it knows what to do to a real threat. I've been trying to explain this to my wife for years with very little success.
It seems to be almost like politics. People are so deeply entrenched in what they believe that they won't listen to any alternatives.
I've always thought that Americans are way overly concerned with hygiene and food safety. I shower 2-3 times a week, and leave my cheese out on the counter for several hours and don't die. Actually, I managed to not get sick AT ALL for four years straight, until last year when I started teaching high school kids and got sick again.
"Remember, douchebag is a better insult than it is an invention."
My husband used to look at me sideways when I would make a sandwich directly on the kitchen countertop with out aid of some kind o'sanatation until I explained to him that the only people who I knew that used that stuff were always sick. He thought about it for a moment and agreed.
He still doesn't make a sandwich directly on the counter-but he has stopped harrassing me about it!
The immune system of healthy children and adults is well equipped to fight off most germs. It had to, otherise, early humankind wouldn't have survived. On the other hand, early humankind didn't have hospitals with their intentional collection of sick and vulnerable people, and neither commercial kitchen with their possibilities to spread bacterias widely. We should leave disinfectants to hospitals and commercial kitchens, they need them.
We keep our home reasonably clean, especially the dishes to avoid food poisoning, but are happy to have a cat, also as a germ carrier - our kids should be exposed to and fight off germs from an early age. They have stayed relatively healthy, except one winter in a childcare for babies that couldn't let the babies out - the infections were rampant there. Again, childcare is not something early humans had to deal with, where the happy germs could easily from one young host to the next. Childcare must put more care on cleaning.
Margaret Garcia-Couoh: Instead of killing people in foreign countries, maybe we should wait until they come over here like on 9/11. Maybe they can enjoy the arts and sex education before they get us first. Clinton tried the leave you alone and you'll leave us alone approach and that didn't work out too well.
It's odd that people seem to have lost their sanity over sanitizing. This is a nice post that sums up why a little dirt isn't all that bad, and can be a good thing.
the day the "stars allign" sort of speak makes me really wonder if people see the true beauty in all of this ...on one hand we have talks of what will i do or act or nothing at all. i for one think that if the sun does reach the center of the galaxy, it will recreate the fear of love, the love for existence.
i dont KNOW if the world will end 2012, but i like that the situation for many begs the question of not your existence but
OUR existence!
so what can i do for now? well im going to take it with a grain of salt. i already planned on living a exultant sort of life with many goals toward self-righteousness, understanding, and career...dont forget those virtues... for me 2012 is another bright day in the middle of the galaxy.
Normally, and by "normally", I mean "lately, as I have been in a foul mood and I hate everything and the economy sucks and please fetch me a gin and tonic", I would ignore or even unpublish a comment about douching for the sake of covering up an infidelity, but I think I'll leave it up so as to make an example of it, and also because I love talking about stupid things that people do when having sex.
Douching after having unprotected sex is a great way to send sperm flying towards your uterus. Just as an FYI to anyone who happens to stumble across this little conversation.
I see people in the US talking of the percentage that they are earning but without worrying about the currency they are invested in. I have lived in Costa Rica for some 43 years and for day to day expenses I deal in the local colon but I'd never keep savings in that currency as it is too unstable. I used to save in dollars but I am now aware that it isn't all that much more stable. So most our savings are in gold and silver coin, and when I can't get that I will hold Euros in cash.
You see the US is looking for 700 billion for this bailout program. I doubt if any great part of that will become available to borrow so they probably will just print it. This will cause a considerable drop in the dollar's value. So why worry about 6% or 8% interest next year if the dollar is going to lose some 25% of its value. That's a lose/lose situation.
I might point out that no country on Earth still issues currency that is redeemable in real value. If the people of a few major countries begin to lose faith in their valueless currency it may all begin to collapse over the whole world. Then no investment, bond, stock or bank deposit will have much meaning. I'm not saying this will definitely happen but there's a darn good possibility. Then you either have gold, silver or some other commodity or you have nothing.
Remember, douchebag is a better insult than it is an invention.
I heard of a woman who had a practical reason to douche. If she had unprotected sex with her boyfriend in the afternoon, and wanted to hide the evidence, she'd douche before her husband got home. She knew douching was unhealthy, and tried to avoid it, so her preference was to either have sex with the boyfriend early in the morning, use a condom if she met him later in the day, or a few other alternatives. Not cheating would have been another solution too, but she didn't like that answer very well.
(I am not the woman or either of the men described above, but I knew the woman.)
I've been wondering this very same thing for a while, particularly applied to brushing your teeth. From what (admittedly little) I know, it's the sugars and meat that destroy our teeth and breath. I wonder if a person were to eat a primitive diet, would they need to brush their teeth? I also think that fibrous foods (e.g. celery) are natural flossing agents, getting between your teeth but relatively easily removed, taking with it the gunk that was there. Anyone think I'm on to something, or just crazy?
I haven't had a cold since 1997 and I'm the only person I ever knew who had a bunch of allergy tests that showed no allergies to Anything. So you probably don't want to see my house.
Everything single dollar that issues forth from the Federal Reserve is counterfeit in the sense that it is nothing more than a piece of paper. Federal money isn't backed up by anything other than the mutual illusion that it has value.
... is my favourite - because it focuses on your values, and building a life worth meaning. It shows how to intertwine what you want to give back to the world, get out of life, and teaches you to honor and respect the true value of your hard work and earning potential, not to mention calculate your true wage. It also has a wonderful chapter on frugal tips.
This kind of thinking is exactly what has got so many Americans (and people all over the world) in deep trouble, financially speaking. People wind up seeking the image of wealth, as opposed to to actually building it.
When I was a new mom, I put my daughter's new teething ring in the bottle sterilizer. The result was "art" and I keep it by my desk to make me laugh and as a reminder to relax.
Thanks for this awesome article. As women (and mothers) the media preys on our worries and determination to protect our children by pummeling us with ads that suggest our children are constantly at risk of contracting disease. Thank you for counter-balancing this. And I love your last point too - this is another way we have been sold products by being told our bodies are inherently unclean.
For serious, you. When was that ever a problem? I shudder to think of the things that women have been forced to do to themselves over the years to prevent their husbands from... locking them out or whatever. :)
This is a terrible analogy. The bill is $100. The fifth poorest guy pays 1% of the bill. The next guy pays 3% of the bill. These percentages are about the cost of the bill. Taxes are a percentage of earnings, not the federal budget. Plus, when he reduced the cost of the bill, they didn't keep the same percent distribution, they tried to take the rebate in equal percentages. They should have paid 0, 0, 0, 0, $0.80, $2.40, $5.60, $9.60, $14.40, and $47.20, and everyone would still be happy. They all got mad and couldn't pay the bill because they were all dumb and couldn't do math.
In many other not-so-developed countries, they don't use pacifiers also, so there is one less thing to worry about as well. There are significant number of crutches that developed world has which may be another problem as well.
I just check out the Flickr ad... "No greasy aftereffect." Good to know!
Linsey
Another example is westerners traveling to developing counties, if they eat street food so many get sick, it's simply because we haven't developed the resistance the locals have. While we are out there fighting off bugs with medicines the strains it doesn't work on get stronger while we get weaker.
All I can say is "duh." It's the same as getting a shot. Your body learns to fight off small doses of baddies so it knows what to do to a real threat. I've been trying to explain this to my wife for years with very little success.
It seems to be almost like politics. People are so deeply entrenched in what they believe that they won't listen to any alternatives.
Oh, and I don't smell, even though I work out and ride my bike to work.
I've always thought that Americans are way overly concerned with hygiene and food safety. I shower 2-3 times a week, and leave my cheese out on the counter for several hours and don't die. Actually, I managed to not get sick AT ALL for four years straight, until last year when I started teaching high school kids and got sick again.
Oh Andrea- I love it!
"Remember, douchebag is a better insult than it is an invention."
My husband used to look at me sideways when I would make a sandwich directly on the kitchen countertop with out aid of some kind o'sanatation until I explained to him that the only people who I knew that used that stuff were always sick. He thought about it for a moment and agreed.
He still doesn't make a sandwich directly on the counter-but he has stopped harrassing me about it!
Thanks for a great article.
The immune system of healthy children and adults is well equipped to fight off most germs. It had to, otherise, early humankind wouldn't have survived. On the other hand, early humankind didn't have hospitals with their intentional collection of sick and vulnerable people, and neither commercial kitchen with their possibilities to spread bacterias widely. We should leave disinfectants to hospitals and commercial kitchens, they need them.
We keep our home reasonably clean, especially the dishes to avoid food poisoning, but are happy to have a cat, also as a germ carrier - our kids should be exposed to and fight off germs from an early age. They have stayed relatively healthy, except one winter in a childcare for babies that couldn't let the babies out - the infections were rampant there. Again, childcare is not something early humans had to deal with, where the happy germs could easily from one young host to the next. Childcare must put more care on cleaning.
Margaret Garcia-Couoh: Instead of killing people in foreign countries, maybe we should wait until they come over here like on 9/11. Maybe they can enjoy the arts and sex education before they get us first. Clinton tried the leave you alone and you'll leave us alone approach and that didn't work out too well.
It's odd that people seem to have lost their sanity over sanitizing. This is a nice post that sums up why a little dirt isn't all that bad, and can be a good thing.
the day the "stars allign" sort of speak makes me really wonder if people see the true beauty in all of this ...on one hand we have talks of what will i do or act or nothing at all. i for one think that if the sun does reach the center of the galaxy, it will recreate the fear of love, the love for existence.
i dont KNOW if the world will end 2012, but i like that the situation for many begs the question of not your existence but
OUR existence!
so what can i do for now? well im going to take it with a grain of salt. i already planned on living a exultant sort of life with many goals toward self-righteousness, understanding, and career...dont forget those virtues... for me 2012 is another bright day in the middle of the galaxy.
The Investment Club Directory is a useful resource for anyone looking to set up or join an investment club in the UK.
nothing added can be not harming a child so yes.