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: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:22:01 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:22:01 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="362478c8474a89d0922df549d92b75d4"; logging-data="1163880"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18g621vVqzdn1k+fgmX1DeaYnnCfIVin4M=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nuHnNK8RUiAEa6OAHIuHaE6a8mE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 4024 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. -- "In our post-modern world, climate science is not powerful because it is true: it is true because it is powerful." Lucas Bergkamp