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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:22:01 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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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.

>    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.

-- 
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true: it is true because it is powerful."

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