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  1. 6 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    You shouldn’t offer suggestions when you don’t know how a health condition works. All the artificial sweeteners are hard for the bowels to digest. As a result a single sugar-free soda can cause a major flare-up for people with IBS. Same for people with IBD, Chron’s disease, etc. Drinking them would make things worse.

    As for tea, it’s high in oxalates, which contribute to kidney stone formation. Frequent calcium oxalate stone formers (the most common type) like me are not supposed to drink any tea. It would lead to more and bigger stones, again making things worse.

  2. 25 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    Not been quite that cold here, but has been getting down into the teens every night for the last several days. We don’t get that cold too often, thankfully. Is supposed to be a bit warmer tonight and a few more degrees warmer Friday night despite the predicted major storm that’s hitting then.

  3. 27 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    Yeah, I live in east Tennessee. We can get 100F+ days in summer along with nearly 100% humidity. You don’t want to go outside during the day on days like that if you can avoid it.

  4. about 1 month ago on Crabgrass

    And Children’s Day in Japan is May 5th, part of the Golden Week holidays. So kids already have at least two holidays, while mothers and fathers only get one each. (Unless they’re also grandparents and you count grandparent’s day as a second one.)

  5. about 2 months ago on Sherman's Lagoon

    I think even used car salesman would be wary of Hawthorne.

  6. 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

    Only 1,745 possible side effects? I need to switch to that one. My current one’s got 1,931.

  7. 2 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    I don’t think The Beatles fall into it, but there’s a whole genre for that called “bubblegum”. Per Wikipedia:

    “Bubblegum (also called bubblegum pop) is pop music in a catchy and upbeat style that is marketed for children and adolescents. The term also refers to a more specific rock and pop subgenre, originating in the United States in the late 1960s, that evolved from garage rock, novelty songs, and the Brill Building sound, and which was also defined by its target demographic of preteens and young teenagers. The Archies’ 1969 hit “Sugar, Sugar” was a representative example that led to cartoon rock, a short-lived trend of Saturday-morning cartoon series that heavily featured pop rock songs in the bubblegum vein."

  8. 2 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    I like their music when it’s without them singing, for example there’s a nice album by the London Symphony Orchestra playing music by The Beatles that’s instrumental only and I quite like it. I also like stuff the individual members went on to do solo.

    But when it comes to listening to The Beatles themselves I can not stand them. I don’t know what it is exactly, but apparently something about the combination of their voices really irritates my brain, so I don’t like hearing them.

  9. 2 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    Ignoring the whole vinyl vs CD vs digital thing, there are indeed warm tones in music. “In music, warm tones are denoted to sounds that lean towards bass frequencies.” Instruments like a tenor or baritone sax will have a warmer sound to them than alto or soprano saxes. Also tubas and trombones have warmer sounds compared to trumpets or French horns. And the keys on the piano are warmer the lower you go (to the left side of the keyboard) and colder the higher you go (to the right).

  10. 3 months ago on Loose Parts

    Had an IV insertion go slightly wrong when the nurse was trying to draw blood from it before attaching the IV line. Ended up with some blood squirting out on the gurney and floor. The nurse apologized profusely, but I just told her, “It’s okay, I’ll make more.” That got a laugh out of her. It wasn’t a large amount of blood, just enough to make a mess.