Belle Rose

Thanks, Reg!

Yes, alternative medicine is an alternative to medicine. However acupuncture is just as effective when used in conjunction with aromatherapy !!  I know someone who spent almost 3K on a course of it for sciatica and was no better off after the final session. I eventually persuaded him to try the “dead hang” on the calisthenics bars in the local…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: Acupuncture is essentially astrology.

I recently searched YouTube with the words “Acupuncture” and “Pseudoscience” and found a whole deluge of videos from Ivy League Universities, medical sites like WebMD, and supposedly legitimate M.D.s touting Acupuncture! And you could count on one hand the number of videos calling…[Read more]

Have a great week!

Fellow Unbelievers:

Yet another distraction from a poorly-executed war, an economy in the crapper, the Epstein Files, and a Hantavirus outbreak that could be worse than COVID-19. The pictures aren’t even as good as past ones:

Any SETI programs on other worlds is surely up for a ton of let-down…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Whoa, nice factoid. I think I’ll remember this. I mean, I want to transmute enough brain cells to accomodate a more permanent memory. Salamandering, too? I always recall seeing districts with only a highway-wide corridor connecting two distinctly separated areas.

Well, the proper lesson to derive from the factoid is that G…[Read more]

Reg,

I forgot to add something else: The Guillain-Barré Syndrome the woman got from the camylobacter caught from raw milk is a Syndrome which is contraindicative with certain vaccines. The Pharmacist or Physician always asks if you have Guillain-Barré Syndrome on the vaccine form.

So, drinking tainted raw milk increases the number of people w…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Y’all know that SCOTUS just defanged the Voting Rights Act, right? So incumbent legislators are already celebrating by ramping up gerrymandering. (An incumbent majority is even more empowered now to remain incumbent regardless of the majority of votes cast.)

Shifting goalposts in the middle of a game is always a crap deal, but w…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

It could have been either Trump or Biden. Both are proof that you don’t need to be drunk or stoned to have deranged faculties.

Reg:

Will e-coli parties be as successful as measles parties are?

Not just e-coli but anything the cow’s udder touches or anything the cow isn’t innoculated to prevent. (And Anti-Vaxxerism tends come with Raw Milk Cultism and tends to be a cross-species pathology.) The e-coli party could also include Amoebic Dysentery, Botulism, Bird Flu,…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Ecumunism does not always mean peace or tolerance. Sometimes it just means sharing a common hatred:

The Islamo-Christian Right
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5972b94cae7e8a1cf4ae043a&s=69f487b2748d746ddbabed8e&linknum=2&linktot=46

Simon,

A very quick-witted reply.

Strega,

I think the top killer for the tribe is heart attacks or heart disease, closely followed by untreated diabetes. Sleep apnea would be a long way down that list.

They are all interrelated and even reinforcing. Obstructed sleep affects the brain which also affects heart and pancreas gland functioning. It also affects strength to exercise…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer Oh well, now I’m de-modded maybe @unseen will talk to me again 😜

Enco, there was one day when the boys decided to drive into town (there are no actual roads to the marae, you just drive over scrubby sandy bumps till you get to a road) to get Fish & Chips and sliced white bread. The fish was covered in thick batter so I opened one up and ate the white meat inside the batter case. One of the boys eyes lit up, he…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
@regthefronkeyfarmer Apparently I’m no longer a moderator (!) so you’re on your own if anything gets rowdy

Bring it on if you have a god on your side!! 🙂

Seriously Strega, that is not good enough. You will always be more that a participant to us all !!! I am making protest signs. We need more god mods!!

Jake:

When I think of Mantras, I think of the old Matt Groening cartoon from his pre-Simpsons days doing the comic strip “Life in Hell.”. He drew an anthropomorphized cow sitting in a lotus position and saying: “Your Mantra is: Moooo!” 🐮😁

Strega:

I hate to be a buzz-harsher, but that snoring you heard could be a sign of potentially deadly sleep apnea.

I hope the Maori of today are not so isolated from medical modernity that they don’t see a Physician about that.

@regthefronkeyfarmer Apparently I’m no longer a moderator (!) so you’re on your own if anything gets rowdy 🤣