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On 11/29/24 8:22 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 29/11/2024 09:24, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> On 11/28/24 1:22 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 28/11/2024 10:04, D wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:12:47 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>    But it was writ in the Magic Crystal - and I lost it down the 
>>>>>> commode
>>>>>>    at a Stuckeys in 1978 ........
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a wonder I didn't lose more than pascal down the commode. They 
>>>>> were a
>>>>> southern thing when I was a kid and could look at a pecan pie without
>>>>> going into insulin shock. By the time they spread I was past sugar 
>>>>> as an
>>>>> essential food group.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is interesting! Have you, like me, become increasingly 
>>>> sensitive to sugar as you grew older?
>>>>
>>>> When I was young, I could drink enormous amounts of Coca Cola nad 
>>>> enjoy it. Today it is not longer possible. At most, I can drink 
>>>> 15-20 cl on a hot summer day, and that's about it.
>>>>
>>>> Same with chocolate. I can eat 3-4 small pieces, and then I'm full.
>>>
>>> Sadly with age I have had to abandon nearly all starch, as well as 
>>> nearly all vegetables. I have more than one condition kept in check 
>>> my diets so strict they make life increasingly miserable...it's now 
>>> more a question of what I can eat, rather than what I can't.
>>>
>>> Life's a bitch
>>> And then you die.
>>
>>    Well ... you can drag that last bit out quite a bit
>>    by not eating 5000 cals of sugar/equivs every day  :-)
>>
> 
> I cant even hack 50g of wheat starch in a day.

   I've become kind of the same way. Likely cutting WAY
   back on the sugar-equivs for a time lowers your tolerance.

>>    Ah, "Buffy" is over ... time to go to bed. Clearly
>>    I'm bio-fixed on a "night shift" cycle. Screw the
>>    fuckin' self-superior dawn-2-dusk farmers, too 1700s :-)
> 
> I recorded the whole damn series when I finally got to watch it two 
> years ago.
> I wonder if I'll ever watch it again.


   It was a *clever* series - well-writ with competent
   actors. Somewhere between 'horror' and comedy with a
   good dose of 'quirk' and some 'soap opera' thrown in.

   Take a year off and then re-watch.