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WWWP · 07-21-2017, 01:27 PM

RE: California wildfires, I live just south of Lake County where Middletown was turned to ash a couple summers ago. If you could keep destruction and ruin south of the bay that would be great.

Plankton · 07-21-2017, 02:02 PM

I design fire training facilities and have never come across a need for it here in the midwest, but we're working on a modular solution for fighting forest fires. It really doesn't get a lot of attention like the residential/commercial areas do.

The Batlord · 07-21-2017, 03:29 PM

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Being related to naturopaths sucks. My parents buy a lot of supplements from their chiropractor and they will not believe that they're drinking snake oil by the gallon no matter what I say or which studies I show them. Well, they might believe me once their dumb asses hear about it on Adam Ruins Everything

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Thank god I live in the South but not so far South that we treat cancer by hitting it with a stick. We trust doctors just cause we'll be damned if we trust any of that Left Coast witchcraft.

Trollheart · 07-21-2017, 05:25 PM

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Homeopathy has a very powerful marketing force behind it that has made it so that people think that homeopathic is a synonym for healthy. It's similar to the push for organic foods or the fear surrounding things like aspartame and gluten. People usually mean well when they use or avoid these products, but yes they're morons.

I guess that's their choice, but they shouldn't visit it on their pets, especially for something as serious as cancer.

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I imagine homeopathic treatments are often more expensive, actually. Not sure if it would be the same for pets, but I remember back when my mom would drag my brother to questionable "naturopath" doctors, the prescribed treatments were often extremelyyyy expensive. Especially when you include all of the ridiculously overpriced supplements that are often prescribed alongside it.

Yeah, and they turned you into a wolf!

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Being related to naturopaths sucks. My parents buy a lot of supplements from their chiropractor and they will not believe that they're drinking snake oil by the gallon no matter what I say or which studies I show them. Well, they might believe me once their dumb asses hear about it on Adam Ruins Everything

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It's the same with beauty treatments. Karen's beauty therapist recommends stuff for her skin that is over 70 euro per bottle, and lasts about a month. I don't see any difference between that and the five euro cream she usually uses..

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Ugh I know; my mom doesn't care about what any scientific study says either. Ancient, poorly researched books at the library about how gluten causes autism are WAY more trustworthy!!! If it's in a gimmicky book or TV show it is 100% true. Clearly the solution here is to print out a glossy newsletter with a little picture of Dr. Oz's (or some other popular guru) head on it so that it's more trustworthy for them. And chiropractors terrify me, personally.

Zhanteimi · 07-21-2017, 05:52 PM

My day just started, and my two-year-old son is lying on the bed singing Black Sabbath. This is going to be a great Saturday!

Chiomara · 07-21-2017, 06:47 PM

I want to know who chose the terrible lighting in Target dressing rooms. (Want to take a picture of some vaguely attractive piece of clothing you're trying on? TOO BAD!!!) It transforms you into a frightful beast-- a pale, ghastly demon from the bowels of hell with a body that is somehow both bulbous and gaunt, and did I mention pale? They should just turn the dressing rooms into a standalone carnival attraction called Surprise! You're a Monster! and go the whole nine yards with spooky sound effects and all. And if you want to leave the cursed mirror dome you have to fight an animatronic version of yourself who scorns you for your vanity by screaming Jenny Holzer quotes at you in a terrifying metallic monotone.

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Yeah, and they turned you into a wolf!

I know! It's awfully hard to type in this state. I'm going to need a homeopathic tincture of distilled unicorn blood and wormwood essence to remedy this asap.

Trollheart · 07-21-2017, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

I want to know who chose the terrible lighting in Target dressing rooms. (Want to take a picture of some vaguely attractive piece of clothing you're trying on? TOO BAD!!!) It transforms you into a frightful beast-- a pale, ghastly demon from the bowels of hell with a body that is somehow both bulbous and gaunt, and did I mention pale? They should just turn the dressing rooms into a standalone carnival attraction called Surprise! You're a Monster! and go the whole nine yards with spooky sound effects and all. And if you want to leave the cursed mirror dome you have to fight an animatronic version of yourself who scorns you for your vanity by screaming Jenny Holzer quotes at you in a terrifying metallic monotone.

To Dragons Den!

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I know! It's awfully hard to type in this state. I'm going to need a homeopathic tincture of distilled unicorn blood and wormwood essence to remedy this asap.

And the blood of one comely maiden of virtue true.

The Batlord · 07-21-2017, 07:24 PM

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My day just started, and my two-year-old son is lying on the bed singing Black Sabbath. This is going to be a great Saturday!

I don't know how, but somehow that makes you a bad Christian.

Chula Vista · 07-21-2017, 07:27 PM

Overcast · 07-22-2017, 02:44 AM

Made eye contact with a human being outside of family for the first time this year. Freaky.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	__________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Overcast . Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: . Posts: 1,531	Made eye contact with a human being outside of family for the first time this year. Freaky.