I live in South Africa and we have some truly bizarre Dorito flavours here...biltong (beef jerky), sweet chilli,---a million of 'em. But what we DON'T have (and I would dearly love to find) is PLAIN Doritos...you know, the kind you use for dipping into fresh salsa? I have been here more than 7 years and haven't seen the plain ones even once. :(
This article doesn't advocate NOT communicating, it advises changing HOW you communicate. "I love it when you put gas in the car and hang up your wet towel" is a far cry from "Dammit! You didn't put gas in the car again and my side of the bed is wet again from your wet towel! Why can't you be a little more aware? A little more responsible..." I'd shut down, too, if my spouse talked to me like that!
My husband and I have a peaceful marriage. We chat alot but we don't "talk" very often.
I get these every few months and have been having them since the late 1960s. They never involve pain of any kind, just annoyingly affect my field of vision until they go away, usually about 15 minutes.
I used to get migraine headaches (went away when I quit using The Pill) and while this phenomenon is similar to the pre-migraine aura I used to get, it isn't quite the same.
Glad to see someone has come up with a graphic of it, though, as I've never been able to describe it to anyone either.
Sounds like one of the mentally ill who have no place to go but the streets. A lot of those people need to be locked in institutions for their own safety. Looks like this one needed to be locked up for ours.
I had a cat that looked just like this. We didn't find out he was deaf until he was about 8 months old and he was clipped by a car he didn't hear coming. After that, we kept him in the house.
He loved TV football! The cat would sit in front of the TV and watch the action, occasionally reaching up and batting at a runner. Once, when a long ball was thrown and it went off screen, he actually went around to the side of the TV to look for it!
Sadly, he died of FLV when he was about 4...this was before the vaccine. He sure was a sweet, funny cat though.
Jean, both studies referenced here studied male behaviour. The original blog entry is here http://sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/2008/09/invisible-genetic-programming.html
Polygamy may be acceptable in certain cultures, but that doesn't mean all male members of the culture practice it. My guess is that the social mores are immaterial...whether the culture permits one wife or many, the men who have the variant are predisposed to continue to seek new female companions.
MoniA---unfortunately, parents are not the sole providers of food to children. Kids swap their lunches with other kids, they buy treats on the way home from school and even in vending machines at school. Their friends homes are great grazing grounds, as are the cupboards and refrigerators at home when Mom's not looking. One of my teenaged sons ate an entire bowl of leftover spaghetti for an "afternoon snack," while I was downstairs doing the laundry!
Children, unfortunately, do not always respond in the way we would prefer them to: if you provide nothing but "healthy food," they'll just cadge cookies and sweets from the mothers of their friends.
One of the major flaws in this, to my mind, is that the letters to the parents apparently give no clues what to do about the problem. I didn't need a letter from the school to tell me one of my children was overweight...I'm neither stupid nor blind. What would have been helpful is some resources for a remedy that would not create an eating disorder or make my child feel singled out from his thin sibs who could eat anything in any quantity.
Additionally, the person spearheading this in the UK come across as an incredibly obtuse and offensive fellow who doesn't care if his message alienates the parents or emotionally damages the children: parents who are alienated will not heed the message; emotionally wounded children may well become further obese through comfort eating.
The original "A View from the Other Side" blog post is at http://sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-officialyoure-fat.html
Few people know you aren't supposed to dispose of CFls in the regular trash. Here in South Africa one of our food retailers is supplying a box where you can put used CFLs for proper disposal, but the first I knew they required "proper" disposal was when I saw the box!
My husband is an engineer with the local power utility and he advocates using CFLs. I hate them...not only are they, as you say, "butt ugly," they also do not give off the amount of light the labels say they do. When I can see to sew with a 60W incandescent bulb and I cannot see to sew with an "equivalent" CFL, I know the CFL is simply NOT equivalent.
The nasty things are ugly, they cause headaches and eyestrain, and they are toxic. Someone remind me why they are considered superior...
@Johnny Cat---I live in South Africa and believe me, the believers in God/Allah are very much in evidence here...so much so that I would have little trouble believing such a figure.
Many African nations are heavily Muslim...so much so that Sharia is the law of their lands. Here in South Africa church and gospel singing are a huge part of the lives of black South Africans. My husband and I were out driving in the country a couple of Sundays ago and came across a group of people, dressed in their finest clothes, walking along the road, miles from any kind of settlement. They were on their way home from church.
My husband and I have a peaceful marriage. We chat alot but we don't "talk" very often.
I used to get migraine headaches (went away when I quit using The Pill) and while this phenomenon is similar to the pre-migraine aura I used to get, it isn't quite the same.
Glad to see someone has come up with a graphic of it, though, as I've never been able to describe it to anyone either.
If this thing is being displayed in a public gallery, it needs to have an "R" rating because it could traumatize children!
He loved TV football! The cat would sit in front of the TV and watch the action, occasionally reaching up and batting at a runner. Once, when a long ball was thrown and it went off screen, he actually went around to the side of the TV to look for it!
Sadly, he died of FLV when he was about 4...this was before the vaccine. He sure was a sweet, funny cat though.
Children, unfortunately, do not always respond in the way we would prefer them to: if you provide nothing but "healthy food," they'll just cadge cookies and sweets from the mothers of their friends.
Additionally, the person spearheading this in the UK come across as an incredibly obtuse and offensive fellow who doesn't care if his message alienates the parents or emotionally damages the children: parents who are alienated will not heed the message; emotionally wounded children may well become further obese through comfort eating.
The original "A View from the Other Side" blog post is at http://sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-officialyoure-fat.html
My husband is an engineer with the local power utility and he advocates using CFLs. I hate them...not only are they, as you say, "butt ugly," they also do not give off the amount of light the labels say they do. When I can see to sew with a 60W incandescent bulb and I cannot see to sew with an "equivalent" CFL, I know the CFL is simply NOT equivalent.
The nasty things are ugly, they cause headaches and eyestrain, and they are toxic. Someone remind me why they are considered superior...
Many African nations are heavily Muslim...so much so that Sharia is the law of their lands. Here in South Africa church and gospel singing are a huge part of the lives of black South Africans. My husband and I were out driving in the country a couple of Sundays ago and came across a group of people, dressed in their finest clothes, walking along the road, miles from any kind of settlement. They were on their way home from church.
Africa believes in God.