Happy Thanksgiving, to everyone who celebrates it! And a very merry Thursday to everyone who doesn’t.
Because I haven’t provided a health update in a while (outside of the comments) I just wanted to reassure everyone that I am still here, and still trying to sort through a bunch of medical issues with the help of assorted doctors, some very competent and others not so much.
The issues I’m facing aren’t lifethreatening, but they are still debilitating enough to keep me from regular posting here. Sorry to be so vague; I’ll offer more details once some of these issues are sorted out a bit more. I’ll return to posting as soon as I am able but I cannot predict when that will be.
I appreciate everyone’s patience and continued support. Thanks!
Without even watching the video, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the theory is that soy is bad because it has plant estrogens and those feminize men and make them gay. I’ve heard this one before, unfortunately.
Thought it were the trypsin inhibitors. Manly men live on chunks of raw flesh, so anything that impedes digestion of meat and it’s conversion to muscle for lifting is starvation (and probably misandry). 😛
Not awake enough yet to wade through 7 million pages of nutri-bullshit though.
@Victorious Parasol
We’ll be your Discworld coven and let you know if you start cackling.
@Victorious Parasol : you can let them be to their woes and not care about it. Just don’t do out of your way to make their life worse for revenge.
The Hbomberguy clip is good (like usual); I watched it earlier today. He’s going on a soy diet for 30 days (allegedly) as an experiment. Also out this weekend was a new Shaun video about the resurgence of GG shite via the Cuphead non-controversy. Oh, those funny little people…
@Sheila Crosby,
I so want to claim the place of Granny in that coven, but I am not worthy. Nanny Ogg fits my personality better, anyways, although I’d still be a pale imitation (I don’t even know all the words to the Hedgehog Song)
I would love it if y’all were my Discworld coven. Thank you. I will now earnestly start singing a folk song with extra vibrato and in ignorance of all the innuendo, especially that bit in the chorus.
David, I really hope your health takes a turn for the better soon. Thank you for updating us.
@everyone dealing with crappy family, I’m sorry you’re going through it. Cutting out toxic family was the best thing for me. If it’s possible for you to do, it’s worth considering at least making some distance.
@everyone missing good family, I wish I had better words than I’m sorry as that doesn’t seem enough. But I hope you’re doing ok.
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Im having surgery next Friday to correct some of the damage that was done when I was assaulted last year. I’m really stressing myself out about it which I know is the worst thing to do. Sleep and food are becoming problems so I may have to go to my doctor and get some medication.
Other than that I’m throwing myself into my degree, work, exercise and my kids. Weirdly I become extra functional to the point of over achieving sometimes when my mental health is bad. Then I wear myself out because you can’t do all of that on minimal food and sleep for long.
Hoping it all dies down after the surgery.
WWTH FTW.
Of course, H Bomberguy is talking about Paul Joseph Watson. Who constantly touts Infowars “Brain Force Plus” dietary supplement pills.
Which contain soy.
My eyes have achieved terminal velocity from my head. If you see them, let me know, okay?
@VP
*clears throat* aaaaaAA wizard’s staff has a….!
Anyone up for a rousing rendition of the ‘hedgehog song’?
Also, what Schnookums said.
NicolaLuna,
Best wishes. I hope the surgery helps.
Peevee,
Men that are terrified of consuming estrogen crack me up. They think it will demanify them but little do they know, men not only produce their own estrogen naturally, they need it for their precious boners. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4854098/
Nature is misandry!
@PV
Oh, that shit is funny.
But, letsbehonest, I bet that “Brain Force Plus” comes in a black and red bottle, and as we all know the colors black and red instantly neutralize any estrogens that are nearby. So neener neener to your attempt at eye misandrony, feminist acorn!
@Jesalin
–a knob on the end!
And the wizard’s staff is the wizard’s friend!
Black bottle. Some rotten lime coloured text. Blurb misspells laser (Seriously, America – fuck off with the Z thing. It’s embarrassing).
I peeked – Amazon though. There aren’t enough horses in the world to drag me to infowars. 😛
@WWTH
“men not only produce their own estrogen naturally,
Proof that feminism’s attack on masaculinity has even turned men’s bodies against men1 does feminism no no bounds?
I can understand the sentiment that maybe we should take a hard look at how many hormones we are eating, but we should probably look at things like plastics and pesticides first, and worry less about the naturally occuring estrogens that come from eating a little bit of soy or beef. (Or do animal estrogens somehow not effect manly men after all? I can never keep track with these guys).
ETA:Shadowplay
“Black bottle. Some rotten lime coloured text. Blurb misspells laser”
Johnney told me that black and lime green is the new black and red after labor day. Is there any barbed wire on the bottle? No?
Weak.
EDIT ETA: Why do I always use angle brackets for my sarcasm tags? Why do I never learn? 🙁
My latest favorite version of the Hedgehog Song, primarily because it mentions the Librarian:
The Orang-Utan seldom says more than just “Oook”
If you’re quiet and quick and he’s bent o’er a book
You may slip in and out again – this pleasure’s small:
But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
Oh, and once in the library, try the Thesaurus.
Have your way with words (so to speak), though it did bore us,
Try the .303 Bookworm if your tool’s rather small,
But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
Is the Cuphead non-controversy over the ‘easy mode’ they plan to add or is it something else?
@VP
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omg
*dies laughing*
Can confirm, my conspiracy nut family is now checking everything for soy in the belief that it will demanify them.
I pointed out that they have eaten soy all their life, including throughout puberty, so if it was going to do anything it would have done it by now. That did not work, and my mom began ranting about how mens’ sperm counts have been going down. Apparently, that must be caused by something, so clearly that something is soy.
I then pointed out that dropping sperm counts were observed in the Middle East a generation ago and were linked to ambient pollution, and got shrugs and the comment, “Well, I’m suspicious of anything that smacks of reducing masculinity.”
Truly, there is no reasoning with conservatives.
We could probably use something that “reduces masculinity” right about now. The whole planet is suffering from acute testosterone poisoning. 😛
@Kivutar
Comments policy. Thanks
I’ve been having some problems with my two cats, Terri (16 months old) and Sassy (about 5 months old).
I’ve had Terri since September 2016. Sassy I got in late September 2017. Sassy was feral, and it took some time for me to get her to trust me. Now, she’s cuddling with me, the whole 9 yards!
Terri is not happy with this new development. She didn’t seem to mind when Sassy merely cowered under furniture most of the time, but she’s ridiculously jealous of my giving Sassy any attention at all. This includes the cats’ morning feeding of canned cat food. I had to shut Terri in a room to keep her from tearing up the stairs (it sounds like she’s literally ripping up the carpeting!) and jumping poor Sassy while she’s eating. Which leads to her nearly vomiting, sometimes.
This leads me to another issue – I now have an upstairs cat, and a downstairs cat. If Sassy gets even halfway down the stairs, Terri attacks her. As far as Sassy is concerned, Terri was BORN TO RAISE HELL.
I got Sassy as a companion to Terri…it’s not turning out that way.
Otherwise, I’ve heard that soy stuff, and it’s absurd. Soy is only one of many plants known to contain these estrogen-like substances – I’ve read that sweet potatoes have them, too. Though, you’d have to eat bushels of them to get any appreciable amount.
I also wanted to say I hope David’s health improves soon. It’s good to know it’s not life threatening, but that doesn’t mean it can’t ruin his quality of life. I hope he’s able to have some of that as he recovers.
@NicolaLuna
Hope the surgery goes well for you.
My friday was a bundle of things. I no longer have the funds to continue attending therapy but I now feel more welcome hanging out with my step brother and his friends while we play Magic:The Gathering. So at least I still have a day of self care where I’m around people I can be myself. Okay not completely since you know, trans, but eh I can work with this.
Also how can I convince my mom that I still need my antidepressant medication? I’m getting a bit annoyed how she thinks that just because I’m happy now suddenly means that I no longer need those meds. Yes, my grades are good, I’m hanging out with more people, and my overall mood is better. But I still don’t see why I should stop taking them. To be honest I’m kind of annoyed how it sometimes feels like she’s treating me like some addict.
@Axecalibur, thanks for pointing that out. Apologies! That’s a habit I have to work harder to break. Unfortunately I’m past the edit deadline 🙁
@Oogly
Don’t know if you live with your mom and your general relations with her or not, so … my very tentative suggestions:
If you don’t live with her – ignore her when she talks about it. If you absolutely must say something – tell her you will take them until your doctor says otherwise, because you don’t want to go back to how you were. Do NOT then ask her if she wants you back how you were. You’re not aiming to put her on the defensive – that backfires, bigtime.
If you do live with her – don’t you tell her. Ask your doc to tell her that you’re going to be on them for a while yet. It’s a little embarrassing, fetching your mom into the doctors with you, but stuff she won’t accept from you (as her snot nosed kid what she changed the nappies of) she’ll be more prone to accept from someone in a white coat.
Both are an appeal to authority – but hey, it usually works on people of my generation. 😛
Luck to you.