Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:22:29 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:22:30 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="324bccc9bb11dd88d68685d631659c8b"; logging-data="689938"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JHAkAUlzxOzjD1YCay2W7dqKprSXE8fU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:itBw7M1YpoHwDb/TFup2piWMCVo= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3650 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. -- Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age. Richard Lindzen