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It is flat out fact that colds are caused by virus.

Being cold IE not wearing a jacket out in winter might knock your immune system down two power points but the cause of cold and flu are virus and bacteria not because you got some chilly goosey bumps on your hair follicle.

I love the fact this baby is embracing an atmosphere I once participated in, this is wonderful. The baby has no harm of getting sick.

Unless the water is laced with that drug/substance they are saying was in the non burning snow ! !

FUn fact 245: When I was around that age, I "swam" in our newly built houses gravel driveway, the ruts were a fair size and I was a wee size. Many front and back and splishy splash strokes where made, No sniffles were consequential. A mommies Txt proves it so.

My children will eat chilli peppers or lemons, and one of the yt comments was from someone who said he ate them as a child. She looked quite determined to eat it, I don't know if I'd quite say happy to eat it, but determined... like, it's my prize you can't take it.

I dunno, I've been shot at close range on a chilly day with a paintball and it hurt pretty bad.

I grow them too, but still end up buying huge quantities of fresh and tinned tomatoes, so the commercial growers really have nothing to fear from the competition

I should plant some strawberries... they are wonderfully weed-like plants, and like the weather here more than tomatoes and chillies do.

Probably the standard herbs and spices for Indian cooking, similar to this recipe - http://www.sailusfood.com/2012/11/18/masala-omelette-recipe-breakfast-india/

I would guess at a minimum salt, pepper, coriander leaves, chopped green chilli, maybe some spices, and maybe some shallots.

...tellin' y'all, a few ice cubes er not with 4oz & 4oz...chill the vodka, chill the brine, pour..dry Vermouth may have an edge that can't be duplicated so add it if ya will, but ya can't go wrong with, and nothing hits the spot quite like, chilly olive brine and vodka from the freezer standing stiff on her own-S'pecially after a long day at the (insert physically demanding discipline here.)

"It's getting a bit chilly. I might turn the heat... oh"

my fav Flea moment was seeing him in the film, "Let's Get Lost" hanging out with Chet Baker whom they tracked-down resurrected for a recording session for the film months before he was gone.
Flea has always been about the music-Funny though, never really dug on the Chilli Peppers heavily, ignored most popular music from the nineties altogether-Ex saw them in PDX back in the late 90's on a bill with the Beastie Boys, said it was the best show she'd ever almost been trampled at!

Oh dear lord, I am BOOKMARKING THAT PAGE.

Yep. That about sums it up.

Thanks!!!!

>> ^gwiz665:

Seriously though, I just stumbled on this which reminds me of your post
http://oglaf.com/amazonlinguistics/1/
and I thought it was hilarious.
>> ^bareboards2:
For folks out there who call women "girls", please note the use of the word "men" in the beginning of this vid, and store it away for the future.

Seriously though, I just stumbled on this which reminds me of your post
http://oglaf.com/amazonlinguistics/1/
and I thought it was hilarious.
>> ^bareboards2:

For folks out there who call women "girls", please note the use of the word "men" in the beginning of this vid, and store it away for the future.

Alright alright, we're sorry. They're fags.
>> ^bareboards2:

For folks out there who call women "girls", please note the use of the word "men" in the beginning of this vid, and store it away for the future.

>> ^bareboards2:
I'll stop typing now and await your answer to that last question. Would you argue with a black person about their experience of racism in America?


Yes I would and I have, because @speechless, race is another thing we should just stop banging on about. It's an even less useful signifier than gender.

You should probably discard all your experiences as a woman. I've had a couple of experiences as a woman and a few more as a man; and let me tell you, compelling as they were, they don't influence my politics. We should endeavour to distance ourselves from anecdotalism and consider every issue intellectually and impartially - that's the best way to learn.

If we are going to continue then we have to revisit context, where we obviously haven't been able to understand one another. I don't want you to 'see my context'. The point I want to get across to you is that while any word, like 'boy', will have many connotations - age, sex, gender, race, power, innocence and many more, and subtly shaded combinations of any number of these; the application of that word in one context, by the stereotyped southern sheriff say, doesn't retroactively change the meaning of the word used in another context, "Dear Dan Savage, I'm a boy..." You have to think of these as distinct 'meta-words' rather than a single word that you imagine is being used wrong.

However much you might object to a perceived cultural infantilization of women, which I contend isn't a meaningful grouping anyway, playing the word-police is a truly bizarre and useless way of opposing it.

>> ^bareboards2:

@gorillaman, oh! We can keep going if you want to. I just thought we had hit a wall. If you don't think so, then by all means, let's continue.
I carefully avoided using the word sexist, until you used it first. It is such a charged word, fraught with emotions on both "sides." It is shorthand for a very complex subject. And sure enough, you have taken exception to its use, understandably.
I wish you could just take a second and consider that maybe my experiences as a woman in this world are very different than yours are. Would you argue with a black person about their experiences with racism in this country? Are we a racist country? There are some racists. Not all our citizens are racists. Does that mean that a black person can't say "man, I live in a racist society"?
I wouldn't dream of arguing with a black person on that topic. I would listen and listen carefully, because they have experiences I will never, ever have. And the only way I can learn is by listening and letting in new information.
So would you? Would you argue with a black person about their perceptions of racism in America? Are they "anchored to the idea of an eternal, pervasive sexism racism that they want to keep fighting forever"?
I'll stop typing now and await your answer to that last question. Would you argue with a black person about their experience of racism in America?


Hi, I talked with some other black persons and we all agreed that it would just be really great if you didn't use black persons as a way to try and prove whatever point it is you're trying to make.

Even the most profligate girl-labeller would use 'grown woman' to refer to the other kind of guy in that scenario.

This is actually the key to our disagreement.

Are you unwilling to allow that the same words can suggest completely different meanings in different contexts?
I'm not talking about 'bear' and 'bear'. I'm not even talking about 'boy - a five year old male' and 'boy - a forty year old black guy'. I'm talking about 'boy - a forty year old black guy' and 'boy - a forty year old black guy'.

We're both aware 'boy' and 'girl' can be used in denigrating ways, so can, say, 'liberal', 'geek' and 'yankee'; and all of these have neutral and positive applications.

In fact no word has a meaning independent of the context in which it's used, this is literally true - words depend entirely on interaction with each other and on the circumstances of their transmission to impart information; rhetoricians call this 'interinanimation', dictionary writers call this 'damned annoying'. It's also true that no communication is possible where words have meaning only to their speaker. Consequently, language is an ongoing negotiation.

So, my position isn't that these words are literally interchangeable, in every context, but that they are interchangeable in a lot more contexts than you will admit. You have to look to the attitude of the speaker; to do that you have to examine what they're saying contextually. Monitoring individual word usage is a cheap, futile shortcut to understanding where a person is coming from.

>> ^bareboards2:
I still think it is mostly about power, though, and your example of "grown man" kind of proves it to me. Why couldn't you say "grown boy"? If boy is the same as man, just as girl is the same as woman? A grown boy is indeed a man, yes? It actually is more accurate than "grown man."

I don't know what that means [edit -- wall of text thingy]. The Sift is the only place I have ever hung out and commented.

It isn't often that someone has such ... discharge.... maybe we don't really need it here? Even though I don't know what it means?

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>> ^bareboards2:

Oh gawd. What a fricking long post. Sorry.


We need comment tags like wall-of-text, maybe? Used to have those a lot on GEnie.