Stupid things people have actually said to you.

[Peter Wolf]

Distilled water [neutral ph] is completely unnatural[unless you count rainwater but very little rainwater is essentially pure]  and upon exposure to CO2 in the air it begins to acidify into Carbonic acid and it also attracts and flushes out minerals and nutrients as well as toxins from the body but you can compensate for this by eating grains and dairy products and vegetables etc.

Apparently it doesnt leach minerals and nutrients that are already absorbed into cell structures but it will flush out anything that hasnt been absorbed by cells or what cant be absorbed or what is surplus or what has been expelled or what hasnt been absorbed......yet.

So although it will flush out impurities and toxins that have been ingested it will also by default also flush out nutrients/minerals at the same time if you drink distilled water after eating so you will actually lose the nutritional value of what you have eaten to a certain extent so this will ultimately lead to depletion in the long term because if you drink mineral free water which by default will flush out unabsorbed/unused minerals to a certain extent that means there is a net decrease in your intake of minerals in the long term.Distilled water doesnt discriminate between unabsorbed minerals and toxins and anything else as it goes through the body.

So it makes sense to drink mineral rich carbon block filtered water instead which was my original point.

[Mikey]

That sounds like water to me!

M.

[House of Usher]

Hmm. While I'm no expert on this topic, my partner, who is a biologist, agrees with me that distilled water vs regular tap water can't have an effect of removing nutrients from your body. Whatever you drink will be absorbed through your colon and into your bloodstream. From there it passes through your kidneys. Your kidneys do the job of keeping or excreting nutrients and waste products from the bloodstream, so they're not particularly fussed about the mineral content or otherwise of the water you drink.

[TordelBack]

AFAIR the whole shutting down of North Atlantic Deep Water formation isn't a real concern currently - although as Jim said it's a possibilty and evidence indicates it has happened in the past - the wonderfully named Heinrich events and the Younger Dryas cold snap.

Interesting new theory about post-glacial cold snaps here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100407-ice-age-extinction-comet-meteor-shower/

Shakes fist at the sky!

[Jim_Campbell]

Interesting new theory about post-glacial cold snaps here:

Digression, but interesting link off the sidebar of that page:

Yikes!

Cheers!

Jim

[Mikey]

Do you see Tordelback? DO YOU SEE? You blamed the Bedrock SUVs like the rest of the Neanderthal liberal aurochs.

On topic; A friend of Mrs Mikey got chatting to a potential date on 'Gaydar'. Said friend asked what the person was currently doing, to which she replied "I'm at the hsptl. They think I'm schizo or bi polar.LOL!"


M.

[Mike Gloady]

Confessing mental illness or personality disorder as a chat up line?

[HdE]

Here's a recent one somebody said to me:

'I come to your web page to continue this discussion, and you accuse me of trolling?'

Well, yes I do. Because when the discussion consists of you telling me via a succession of wall-length messages explaining, rudely, how I'm wrong and you're right, long after I asked you if we could agree to disagree and stated that the discussion was over, THAT IS TROLLING! 

I swear the internet breeds 'em!


Might I take this opportunity to say how nice I've found all you fine 2000 AD boarders to be? You guys are a dream to converse with.

[Robin Low]

Interesting new theory about post-glacial cold snaps here:

Digression, but interesting link off the sidebar of that page:

Yikes!

Funnily enough, this one cropped up on yog-sothoth.com. Think of it as a pubic louse of Cthulhu.

Regards

Robin

[Roger Godpleton]

Spotted a letter in the Mirror extolling the virtues of Brian Cox and it ended with "If my science teacher had been like him I might have paid attention." Uh, yeah, fuck you. Maybe you might have learnt something interesting, like how fuckin' magnets work.

[Something Fishy]

Same here, Mikey.  I was the first person in my entire family to go to uni - my dad didn't even notch up more than a year in SCHOOL for Cod's sake (there was ploughing to be done and one of the Christian Brothers hit his little brother so he decked him and never went back).  My folks had bugger all so if I was going to make it I had to support myself AND prove to my mum (my dad had died by this point) that I wasn't making a mistake in not staying in full-time (and reasonably well-paid) work.

Me too.  Dad was a gardener and Mum has been disabled for years.  They were also divorced.  So, back before EMA's, I had to work 30 hours a week in order to pay Mum keep so I could go to FE College.  By the time i got to Uni I was determined I was never blowing this chance to do something our family hasn't done and make something of myself.  Never looked back I'm pleased to say and the work ethic served me well i think.

[House of Usher]

I had a university work colleague who would go on about it being a big deal that she was the first woman in her family to have gone to university. Four generations of her family had gone to university, and she couldn't see why it was anything of a big deal if someone was the first person in their family to have gone to university full stop. "But I'm a woman," she would say, "that's an even bigger achievement. You're a man - men have always gone to university."

Hmm. Not in my family they haven't.

[TordelBack]

"You're a man - men have always gone to university."

Ha, tell that to my Dad.  He'd have loved to have gone, and would have made a great academic too, but instead spent 42 years working for the same company, and loathing every minute.  Still, since retiring for health reasons he's become a specialist tour guide, which meant study, exams, researching stuff and then waffling all day to a captive audience about nothing of any consequence for minimum wage, so you could say he's living the dream!

[Peter Wolf]

Here's a recent one somebody said to me:

'I come to your web page to continue this discussion, and you accuse me of trolling?'

Well, yes I do. Because when the discussion consists of you telling me via a succession of wall-length messages explaining, rudely, how I'm wrong and you're right, long after I asked you if we could agree to disagree and stated that the discussion was over, THAT IS TROLLING! 

I swear the internet breeds 'em!

I just had one of those on another forum.Endless Wall length comments with a condescending tone and know it all attitude - I am right even if i am wrong type thing.Also ignoring the topic in question and always steering the topic over to their for profit website/scam which they were too tight to pay advertising space for.

He just would not accept the definition of treason and the context was Bilderberg.

This individual would argue with an empty room or failing that themselves.

I just got sick and tired of it in the end and one thing led to another and now they have left the forum and i cant even recall a particular quote as there were so many.

I had another one of these a while back and this one said "I am going to grind you into the ground" 

Too bad it was the other way around.

[HdE]

They're friggin' hilarious, ain't they, Peter!

What makes me laugh is that the silly fool in question got all incensed because I did the following:

I didn't respond to the off-topic, rude, unprovoked remark the person made in the discussion thread.

I politely but firmly messaged the individual privately to tell them that I disagreed with their comments, and found them discourteous, but that  there was no reason for us to fall out over it.

Then, the same individual starts sending the wall length messages to my inbox, which I responded to by simply saying 'please don't clog up my inbox. I'm very busy, and I already stated that I don't wish to continue this discussion'.

THEN the troll starts posting the same line of condescending, superior (and factually incorrect) nonsense on a feature I wrote on my DA page! So, being as it's a feature of the site, I simply hid the messages and posted a simple firm warning NOT to do it again.

What happens? I get messages from my DA watchers telling me how the person has posted a load of stuff on their own page about what a snotty, arrogant, nasty little man I am, and how my failure to agree with them means I must be this and that... It's HILARIOUS! These folks have no idea how they come across, or how much better they could be using their time. It's put a great big cheshire grin on my face!