Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:42:33 +0000 Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:42:32 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 62 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-k79IhLRE0De1hm08Tl0cb1/TiWfTBZ1AaBI8/L+SrweOkfTET/u2kT6cvvgOaAtOI4Ng+g8dI379uYJ!OdJmBXWwHao0XEchC+wnJmhCvSs/jdSEeVPhxPFpXe8/9YUxl6QKdOauKiXTlTKu5SZrT/3OZQL+!LlMQtWIjDDxT/l8eF5gm X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4488 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.