*cracks knuckles*
guess I'm a little rusty ...
*doublepromote

Unfortunately knuckle dragging and stupidity plays really well to the mob mentality.

Growing up near a place of Nazi pilgrimage, I always found comfort in the "knowledge" that a) it was just a regional/national problem and b) it'll sort of die down over the following years.

Two decades later, that particular area is almost rid of these knuckle draggers, yet the likes of Golden Dawn and the EDL are popping up all over the place. I had hoped to see the demise of this ideology, not to see it flame up again...

white knuckles

I won't argue that Chiro makes your joints feel better, Cracking my knuckles makes my knuckles feel better too... but it doesn't make them better. It doesn't "heal" anything, and that is alternative medicine's "Big Issue" with "Allopathic" medicine. You will ALWAYS, 100% guaranteed, get better care from a Physical Therapist, as they're there to ensure your body gets strong enough to heal itself. They can handle "acute adjustments" as well, but they prefer the holistic solution. The best part is, they have a proper understanding of the body, instead of all of the quackery mumbo-jumbo that Chiropractic Practitioners are taught (note: not all believe it, but they aren't taught anything else).

If you want to boil down how vaccines work into three words, sure, you might pick those three... but if you pick four, you'd get a very different phrase: "learn from dead things". But the main difference between vaccines and homeopathy is that we have an excellent understanding of what and why vaccines work, while homeopathy has never been validated by an impartial study. Sure, the premise started the same, but then doctors and scientists actually put work into verifying and validating how vaccines work. They made up new and interesting phrases to describe what was going on, just like homeopathy and it's "water memory", but unlike homeopaths, they reproduced their findings in labs across the country before they started selling it.

Homeopathy and Proper Medicine are as similar as me and the guy that wins a marathon. We both started the race... Sure, I was distracted after a block because I realized I could take a cab to the nearest restaurant and have a nice dinner and a beer, then I watched some TV, and took a cab back to the finish line and crossed it a couple hours later... But hey, we're both the same thing because we started at the same place, right?

The garbage man? I think you mean sanitation, specifically as it relates to bodily wasted, which has been around for over 5000 years. Of course, there have been many advances over the years, and it was not taken seriously in most of Europe until the industrial revolution. But it's certainly true... this technology that has been developing for 5000 years has had more of an effect on human health in cities than anything Medical Science has done.

Of course, it wasn't until we had a good understanding of biological vectors of diseases (research done by "Natural Philosophers", from which sprung all of modern science) that we understood just how important sanitation is, and started real improvements.


TLDR:

Chiropractic Care: May make you feel better, but at it's very best is the very least of what a PT can do.

Homeopathy: Complete and utter quackery, bearing only the most vague and abstract connection to real science.

Ugh. There are two kinds of chiropractors: the ones who charge you to accomplish nothing, and the ones who are extremely dangerous.

The ones who accomplish nothing are the ones who pop your back and call it medicine. It's the same as cracking your knuckles, and it does not cure anything.

The extremely dangerous ones are the ones who claim they can solve non-joint-pain problems by adjusting your spine. Like curing your kids' ear infections.

When I hear "holistic" and see a chiropractor wearing dentist gloves and examining your teeth, I think it's the extremely dangerous kind. I *hope* it's a joke.

If I was the driver I would give the navigator 2 knuckle sammiches with a side of STFU!!!

That was not a bam.

That was a BAYAM.

Willie adds a consonant and a vowel just for being Willie. And the capitalization is well deserved by his extraspecial all right now.

We need more people like Willie, honestly.

(He also has intense knuckle scarring from stupid kids that punch the heck out of his hand.)

Yeah you're really driving that point home huh. I'm sure everyone will see your comments as a reasonable request to shun Chris Rock as a "media whore", what with your statements being so well thought out and not at all knuckle dragging stupidity. You've certainly opened my eyes.

First up, did you miss the smiley at the end of my post? That would be the hint that I wasn't 100% serious.

As it happens, I know a few guys who play gridiron in NZ and they're tough as nails.

The only athletes I have no time for are road bikers. Drug-taking, lycra-wearing pussies, the lot of them*.

Regarding boxing, I fully agree with you. Personally, I think we should go back to bare knuckle boxing for exactly that reason, but I know it'd never sell. People are perfectly happy to have boxers brain damaged, but god forbid we see some blood. That would be barbaric.

Finally as far as ultra marathon guys go, I have huge respect for them, but you're confusing fitness with toughness. But they don't have to be, any more than a rugby player needs to run at a constant pace for 3 hours.

*For the humour impaired, this is an example of hyperbole combined with an overly broad generalisation for a cheap laugh. I acknowledge that some road bikers don't take drugs, and that in general they're very fit. But they still wear lycra, so there.

Yeah I get annoyed by this and I'm gonna call you out on it especially since we had a major former NFL star in Junior Seau die from playing Football. Rugby is a very tough sport, made for very tough men, but they're not tougher than NFL football players because they don't wear pads. Players wearing pads hit eachother with a much greater velocity than Rugby players normally hit themselves...and they hit eachother in the head which is causing deaths.

I think you can make a similar comparison to boxing and bare knuckle fighting. In over 100 years of bare knuckle fighting no one has died from it, but an average of 4 people die from boxing related injuries in the US alone. The reason is because when you fight bare knuckle you don't go for the head as much...it hurts. In boxing you basically trade blows to the head for rounds and rounds severely damaging a brain.

So no, rugby players are not tougher than NFL players...or even soccer players. We should all do well to remember that we have similar DNA and sports with differing sets of challenges. I would say the toughest athletes in the world are ultra-marathon runners. Because nothing is more suggestive than the voice in your head telling you to stop.

So skinny little runners in short shorts that run over 100 miles in 120 degree temperatures are tougher than all of you. Have a nice day.

I, chingalera, being of sound mind and tighter than a Mennonite contemplating Hindu dowry, have decided to use my old dilapidated moniker as a blog. I can ramble here just as well as showcasing a slot in exchange for beer money and a gem harder to find is that much more brilliant in proper light, yadda, yadda.

I suppose when I make an entry here there will be some new-and-improved way for me to get the word out about everything fit to scan and wonder why you wasted valuable time otherwise-

OS, this is my first New Year's Blog Entry, through a back door and sure to wax creaking like my joints 'n knuckles.

@gwiz665

Yes, sometimes knuckle-dragging animals get shot. That's particularly valuable when they're in your home beating your family.

No, nothing will fix academic achievement gaps within our lifetime, and the same applies to Denmark's achievement gaps. If the Danish system worked better than the US system, then Denmark's mistreated Muslims would average as high as US Muslims, who average even above the White average.

@chilaxe solving it by giving everybody guns is not a solution at all. The knuckle draggers come from somewhere, setting in there would be better. Making harsher gun laws, or rather, making it harder to get a gun legally in all of the US would be a potential short term solution. Mutually Assured Destruction is not really a good idea, since it will just escalate it anyway. Maybe the crazies who wants to attack schools will start wearing kevlar vests, so to stop them you need to have armor piercing bullets.

I feel for you and your friends, but the reason your friends get mugged is what needs to be worked at. Are they just bored youths? Poor, desperate people? Gangs? Muggings are rarely completely random, if everyone had a gun, wouldn't they just still mug them, but some times either side would be shot?

@Jerykk if people are crazy enough, they'll suicide bomb with nukes. You'll be a martyr anyway, so it's all good. People are fucking insane, making everyone have an easy way to put metal inside other people is not a good idea.

Guns don't kill people, but they make it damn easy for people to do it.

@gwiz665

I'm guessing you've never had your friends murdered by the knuckle-dragging animals that make up an increasing portion of US society.

My friends routinely get violently mugged in the far-left city I live in because the politicians and voters are incompetent.

Concealed carry weapons are rarely used in crimes, and likely save far more lives in self-defense than the small number of lives they cost.