George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Consistent high sodium intake over time will overwork your kidneys. At the same time your body needs salt to regulate fluid, among other things. It's an issue of degree. What you're referring to as Science here isn't a great mystery. The typical diet in the US is high in sodium, and sodium in most pre-prepared or restaurant foods is particularly high, which anyone who doesn't cook (and therefore doesn't realize how much salt is required to get the intense tastes in such foods) doesn't realize. Thus you have all sorts of warnings and caveats. But rotisserie chicken is good, go ahead and have it, just not every meal every day for years.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
That's pretty amazing. I imagine any sleep specialist would be very interested in you. A sleep study would investigate how much you sleep but also your cognitive function after deprivation (despite how it may feel, in other words gauging your performance objectively with and without sleep). What stands out isn't necessarily your reduced hour need for sleep but your added ability to function without sleep for the extended periods you've mentioned here. Wild.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Have you ever had a polysomnography or any other investigation into your sleep issues?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Not to be a pedantic dick but Tirzepatide is technically a "dual" GIP / GLP-1 receptor agonist. In practice this means it reduces weight and HbA1c (average blood glucose lvl over time) more than semaglutide alone.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
How did you dislocate your shoulder?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
WALL-E unless they need something fast-paced, which it isn't.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
I remember refusing to show my sons Cars because of the frenetic pace of the editing. It seemed like a film designed to induce ADHD.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Could you expand on or give an example of one or two of the nonsensical rules? Japan also has a very intransigent bureaucracy regarding such things.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Japanese I like Roku. Otherwise a London Dry, currently the daily is Beefeater or Bombay Sapphire. I had a g and t at a very nice hotel recently and it was earthmoving but I suspect because they must have squeezed an entire lime into it. The Wilkinson's tonic is key Canada Dry works and Suntory has a tonic, but Wilkinson's is superior. I should look into those you mentioned.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
If I may address a statement you made rather than answer your question, you wrote:
rule of law (which I guess is now a pro-left position in 2026 or something)
This leapt out at me. Care to elaborate? If not, it's fine.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Mid fifties, drink almost every day, two probably. Meaning three. Gins and tonic this time of year. Wine whenever we get a bottle. Beers but beer goes to the gut for me. My wife suggests I limit my consumption more but when I did a month sober last fall her refrain was Just have a drink! as she found my sober self at dinner rather boring. I usually do a day or two dry each week just to spell the liver.
Known to exceed these limits on occasion as I run with degenerates.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
I read Cotton Comes to Harlem about a year ago, lmk what you thought.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
--Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Also God damn I just saw the price tag on Tabarome and now I feel like a pauper touting Old Spice.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Possibly you wouldn't. Or possibly you would. I feel like this is another way of dividing the world--those who appreciate it, and those who don't. Many don't. Many horrible reviews. And part of me really does think Fuck those Philistines.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Ambroxan, which is a synthetic form of ambergris, tends to induce temporary anosmia, but then comes back to you later. The key is not to bathe in the scent. I remember my older brother in high school got a hold of my bottle of Polo, which in those days was what the southern girls loved (or claimed to.) When he stepped from the bathroom, presumably going out to do something social, it was as if he were trying to gas us all. It shamed me to be the author of his effort, having been the one who bought the stuff to start with. Anyway the point is don't overdo it. Put the stuff on and forget about it.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Interesting. I will admit to first scanning the list, looking for what I will call The Scent. It was not there. I did eventually locate it in the world and buy it though. I did. Some have described it online as smelling "like glossy magazines and cocaine." I am not sure I agree with that. But it is something else. @daguerrean would no doubt recoil, like the proverbial vampire to a braid of Spanish Roja. His good right.
A more generous man would just tell you what in the hell it is that I got. But I feel like it's one of those things that I cannot reveal directly. Anyway the "That sucks are you joking me?" kind of retort is inevitable, as is the justified taunting mockery for the price I paid. I'm probably a romantic, but then only fools would admit to, or, indeed, be that. Plus now you have the descriptive quote and hey, Internet. I will neither confirm nor deny queries, but of course the cat is out of the bag.
I will also say that unlike your approach, mine was to hunt down the thing and bag it. Now that I have it, I am not interested in anything else. The princess was in the castle. Appreciate the time and effort to write it all up. A year ago I would not have even bothered reading it because I didn't give a damn about smells until the Korean guy got on the train that morning. I feel the need to spit and pepper this post with swear words to reassert my heterosexuality. Fuckin' oath.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
I sympathize. Just trying what often works. Best of luck.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Well I don't know how sorry I feel for them. You can mourn a world where they feel that's their lot in life, but no one's twisting their arms (as far as I know) to take off their tops. It's lucrative in the short term and I think historically very much exposed the girl to abuse (from agents, scouts, management) as well as public ogling. In the sense that an unworldly or unsavvy young woman is duped (or drugged!) sure, it's too bad. It's potentially tragic. It's infuriating. But there's a naïvete that I find a bit cloying in certain girls, if it is naïvete at all--it might just be that they're disingenuous in the style of the burikko if you're familiar with that term. Add to that a certain different cultural approach to sex and it is what it is. Outright rape and abuse certainly does exist, though, and I suspect was more of a common routine in the past. If there's anything good about Post your own porn sites or camgirl type business, it's that to some degree the girls can have more control and not be gang raped on camera for ten grand or however much a pittance they have historically been paid.
Exceptions in my mind, or situations where I'd genuinely feel pity, are where the girl, due to her endowments and the sleaziness of those around her, was, at puberty, treated as a sexual plaything by a relative (fondled or worse) and internalized this pathologically. I've heard terrible stories.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
I probably knew that, thanks.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Here's my pep talk one man to another: Just fucking stop drinking it. You're a German for heaven's sakes, since when is your willpower weak? Job done. Onward
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
As usual I have to insert that I cannot speak for Japan, but in my my experience Japanese don't make much commentary on Chinese models, actresses, etc. The same cannot be said about Koreans--meaning Koreans are regularly commented on as kirei or kawaii, or, since I am in Kansai, meccha kirei na hito. (Lit. very pretty person.) I guess there were some Taiwanese who were known --notably Vivian Tsu, though I haven't seen her around in years (probably because she's about 50 now and has no doubt had facial surgery which irrevocably altered the cute image she had in the 90s/2000s). Some women are probably part Chinese though, and just don't trumpet it over PR.
A side note: More buxom (by Asian standards) women are rarely top tier actresses or models here. They end up, in their brief career spans during youth, doing so-called "gravia" or semi nude books and calendars (グラビアアイドル is a term) or pornography. At times they transition to the mainstream (as in the late Ai Iijima) but that's almost unheard of.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
4mo ago
Very interesting. I watch it every year. There are to my mind some absolutely brilliantly constructed scenes. When Alex Kintner gets eaten, that whole set-up prior (the sounds of the beach radios disappear as the camera goes out to Alex's distance, returns when the camera is back on the beach, etc ) is so well done. The whole movie is so full of granular detail of this sort that when I hear people say they dislike it I wonder if either they're watching a different film or they are used to more, I don't know, motion or action. I love JAWS , almost as much as I love Close Encounters. The same things are happening in that film. The cuts, the shot setups, it's just so rich. If you didn't like the JAWS film characters you should definitely avoid reading the novel.
I'm not saying you're wrong to dislike these films, but to me they're both eminently rewatchable.
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