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ParticipantPeople hate lawyers for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that lawyers don’t tend to show up when life is going well. No one wakes up, goes for a hike and then says “this is a great day, I think I’ll call my lawyer.” Instead, lawyers are called when marriages go south, children are arrested, business deals sour or the IRS is looming. None of these are life’s high points. If the outcome is good, people resent having to pay for what they feel they fairly deserved. If you lose, they paid you for nothing. My area of law is a bit different, so it’s more fun.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=njtosd]
Lance is like the girls who got pregnant out of wedlock in the 50s. He’s vilified because he was unlucky enough to get caught. The belief that any major athlete doesn’t use performance enhancing drugs while continuing to beat those who do is sort of Pollyana-ish.
Regarding cancer generally, “checkpoint inhibitors” may really turn around survival rates. They are getting a lot of attention in bio-techie circles:
What is a Checkpoint Inhibitor? Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Definition
[/quote]I lost all respect for lance. He was too much of a self promoter. If you screw around out of wedlock then shut up, and lay low.
It’s very likely lance’s cancer was all made up. People do that all the time.[/quote]
I agree about the ego and self promotion. Sheryl Crow dodged a bullet, but maybe she’s just as bad. Lying about having cancer is just asking for it, in my very superstitious way of looking at things.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]It’s difficult to live under the shadow of death. I’ve had this fear since 1979.
Probably the only thing we can do while we are waiting for the extinction of everything we are, have known and have loved, is at least to not waste the fish heads.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/07/286881659/why-we-should-quit-tossing-fish-heads-and-eat-em-up-instead-yum%5B/quote%5DFunny – my husband sings that song to (at) me when he wants to be annoying. The fish by products aren’t being wasted, though. They are being recycled in the most biological sense of the word into other marine creatures.
I’m lucky in that I don’t think about death unless something happens to someone close to me. I guess as I get older this will happen more….
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=spdrun]Don’t men fear cancer just as much?[/quote]
Save the tatas not the testes[/quote]
I don’t quite know what scaredy’s response meant, but these statistics from the American Cancer Society suggest men have more to fear:
“Nearly half of all men and a little more than one-third of all women in the United States will have cancer during their lifetimes.”
Men are more likely to die of cancer as well.[/quote]
Lance Armstrong kind of ruined the face of testicular cancer.[/quote]
Lance is like the girls who got pregnant out of wedlock in the 50s. He’s vilified because he was unlucky enough to get caught. The belief that any major athlete doesn’t use performance enhancing drugs while continuing to beat those who do is sort of Pollyana-ish.
Regarding cancer generally, “checkpoint inhibitors” may really turn around survival rates. They are getting a lot of attention in bio-techie circles:
What is a Checkpoint Inhibitor? Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Definition
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=spdrun]Don’t men fear cancer just as much?[/quote]
Save the tatas not the testes[/quote]
I don’t quite know what scaredy’s response meant, but these statistics from the American Cancer Society suggest men have more to fear:
“Nearly half of all men and a little more than one-third of all women in the United States will have cancer during their lifetimes.”
Men are more likely to die of cancer as well.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=njtosd] Considering the fact that the basic stimulants have been around forever, they are generic and therefore cheap. It seems like a reasonable option.[/quote]
Yes, reasonable… But I wonder if, with all the advertising, we’re enabling people by saying things are medical conditions they have little control over.[/quote]
It’s probably true. Free will is probably largely an illusion: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5975778/scientific-evidence-that-you-probably-dont-have-free-will
And what free will we do have is probably insufficient to address very basic, primitive issues like eating. And even if it does it is insufficient to make a difference every day under every circumstance.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]About addiction, did you guys see the BED ad by Monica Seles. It’s on prime time everyday.
Everything is a disorder now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iri8DHJB2Q4%5B/quote%5D
In order to sell a drug for an indication, there has to be a diagnosis. With a diagnosis of BED, doctors can (ethically) at least try someone on stimulants before moving on to the gastric bypass option. I think that’s the case – perhaps some are too obese for stimulants to be safe. Considering the fact that the basic stimulants have been around forever, they are generic and therefore cheap. It seems like a reasonable option.
April 6, 2016 at 11:47 PM in reply to: HOA emergency special assessment in the amount $4000.00 dollars!! #796514Participant[quote=no_such_reality]Is the roof repair project already under way?
I lived in a complex of duplex town homes. Typical wood frame 70s construction with shake roofing. This is back in 2000, his was mid-200s, reserve was in excess of $10k per unit in reserve up to date and it wasn’t enough after the grand gaming was done. We forked out an additional $4k plus special assessment for unanticipated “u foreseeable” damage beyond sample home test Bs
Final roofing bill to replace shake with asphalt shingles totaled about $30-35k per duplex which amounted to a roof on a two story 3000 sf house
Really seemed excessive. And IMHO standard HOA market seems to be 100% over private owner price[/quote]
I know this sounds cynical, but I truly believed the HOA officers for our first house in SD were in it just to send work to their friends and my guess is they were reimbursed in kind. The worst is if there is litigation involved and fees start spiraling out of control. No HOAs for us anymore ….
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi] Needless to say, I won’t be my asshole, know-it-all self. I’m like that only when I can win.
[/quote]Perhaps you can control it, but perhaps that’s why you have a neighbor that’s calling code compliance on you . . .
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]I am scared.
I plan to go ever 3 months, but 10 months elapsed since last visit.
Ayurvedic treatment involves mustard oil and turmeric . Also rinsing with oils. I’m gonna try that too.
Inflammation.
I don’t think one can wear out gums and still have teeth. When the gums go the teeth fall out.
Twizzlers was a bad joke. I eat loads of sugar though. I thought burning it off with exercise was OK. Well, no more. I love twizzlers, cookies, cake, candy, caramel, popcorn, rice, juice, smoothies, pie, jam, jelly, ice cream, esp. Ice cream..
It’s over. I’m old.[/quote]
Eventually you might be able to have your cake and eat it with your teeth, too. Once again, a vaccine to prevent periodontitis is in the works: http://www.dentalcarenews.co.uk/oralmedicine/vaccination-a-permanent-cure-to-gum-disease-2/
Participant[quote=spdrun]
Or you can bump into terrorists.
Not worried. Even in 2001, there was more of a risk dying of being hit by a car than of a terrorist attack in the US.[/quote]
That was a joke. I spent many years working in Chicago – I have nothing against cities. I just don’t have anything against rural areas either.
ParticipantI don’t generally like HOAs, but this makes the one at Meadowview look interesting – and I love the “sheep thrills” pun in the article. http://www.pe.com/articles/sheep-696568-meadow-peterson.html
Try searching for lawsuits that involve the Meadowview Community Association. It will give you an idea of whether people get frustrated with them, and if so, about what.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
Me, I’m going to live in a city apartment where I can walk to bistros and cafes, and bump into interesting people everyday.
May we both live happily a long time.[/quote]
Or you can bump into terrorists. Your value as a target increases with increasing population density. There are interesting people everywhere. You just have a mental picture of the urban sophisticate.
Plus, you’re in luck! You said, in another post “If our government lets in thousand of refugees into my towns, I’d be willing to sponsor a couple families. ” There are a thousand refugees that come to San Diego every year and they’re looking for volunteers and $. Here’s the organization that does it: http://www.rescue.org/us-program/us-san-diego-ca/programs
And they’re not just hanging out on the street corner, so you’re going to have to deal with a charitable organization. I don’t think refugees advertise on Craigslist.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]
There’s a recent http://www.humansofnewyork.com shot of a Liberian woman who was taken in by a Jewish couple in NYC that made me cry. She’s on full purple third from the top[/quote]
I’ve never seen that website before – it’s a simple idea but very interesting. (I like the “today in micro fashion” entries.) Her story was very sweet and the fact that she started a scholarship fund is inspiring.
I don’t know what the answer is on immigration. Not walls, obviously (especially after the video of those two guys going up and over in a matter of seconds). It is something more complicated than letting everyone in or keeping everyone out. There was a great book that came out about 10 yrs ago called “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky” about Sudanese “Lost Boys” refugees who ultimately ended up in San Diego. One wrote an article in Newsweek about his experience. http://www.newsweek.com/i-have-had-learn-live-peace-120687. The woman who sponsored them did a very good thing.
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