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I have absolutely NO IDEA why you didn't get an upvote for that. So I gave you one.
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Cheers, Loony! Think the only reason I'm still hanging around 'ere is coz no fucker can be arsed to ban me! This isHONESTLY the only forum from which I've yet to receive my marching orders (an it ain't for want of trying, neither!).
I've been here under my real name so long I can't be bothered using an alias.
Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship.between people and plants, just as ethnozoology is the study of the relationship between humans and nonhuman species.
A botanist is merely concerned with the study of plants and their classification in relation to other plants. Without ethnobotany, we'd not know about the miracle of cannabis for example, nor opiates.
Ethnobotany is a very real science. Think of all the hallucinogenics and psychedelics we now know exist.
I'll direct you - and anyone else interested - to http://www.erowid.org.
Always makes me smile how almost everyone believes there were 3; I'm no theologian, but I believe the pertinent passage reads summat like this:
"And then came there men from the East, bearing with them gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh for to honour the new born…"
NOWHERE does it explicitly state the number of wise men; 'men' obviously implies more than one, but there could have been 2 - there could have been 2,000 - nowhere is the exact number mentioned.
Number of gifts DOES NOT necessarily equal number of givers, and vice versa.
Wish Apple would add an advanced symbols keypad - the number of times I've wanted a 'not equal to' sign…
You're also forgetting that Xmas is only in December because the Romans already celebrated the (re)birth of the Sun on the 21st and the newly-formed Xian church wanted to capitalise on that. The chance of Jesus ACTUALLY being born in December is between zero and none, especially if you take all the events leading up to his birth and view them historically.
I don't celebrate Xmas at all - I'm an atheist, why should I…? I also hate people.
…and I DESPISE the NHS, too. I've explained WHY I find the NHS so particularly abhorrent on here fuck knows HOW many times and, as no fucker is listening or, if they are, don't give a shit, I'm not going to do so again.
The poor are the ones getting fucked over the most by the NHS. It's like the govt has listened to,Dead Kennedys 'Kill The Poor' and taken it as an instruction manual.
The NHS is the epitome of CAPITALISTIC GREED, and CORPORATE EVIL. It's also the perfect example of a FASCIST organisation.The very fact you believe otherwise proves I'm right.
It's 'healthcare' controlled by the STATE - WTF would you blindly trust the state with your health…?! You're ALL out of your tiny minds! Let the state control your health and, by extension, it'll control you. I hate to keep mentioning them (no, actually, I don't) but statins - WHY do you believe that cholesterol causes heart disease and, therefore, you need to take a statin to control it…? Could it be because the NHS told you…,! Have you EVER stopped to think for one split nanosecond that the NHS could be WRONG - or, more accurately - LYING…?! 99.9999999999999999999999999% of what you read on NHS Choices is UTTER BULLSHIT! 'Truths, debunked whilst I was barely out of prep school, yet they're STILL being taught as gospel at med schools even now.
All this 'SAVE OUR NHS!' bollocks is doing EXACTLY what the fascists WANT you to do, which is WHY I'll,have no part of it.
REMEMBER
MORALITY IS DOING WHAT IS RIGHT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU'RE TOLD
OBEDIENCE IS DOING WHAT YOU'RE TOLD, REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS RIGHT
State-drugged sheep, the whole fucking lot of ya!
Kill, kill, kill the NHS/kill, kill, kill the NHS/kill, kill, kill the NHS
…the size of a guy's car is inversely proportional to… does the same apply to tellies…?
Up until just a few years ago (2010/11) my parents still had the B&O telly they bought around the time my sister was born (she's 36 now). If they'd not been forced to ditch it, I'm pretty certain they'd be watching it still. They've a 35" Panasonic Viera in the living room now and a 22" Samsung in the kitchen (which, ironically I've always thought, considering Apple and Sammy ain't exactly bestest buds, supports AirPlay). There's an old-ish Sony CRT in the front room (one of those TV/VHS combis), and it has, semi-successfully, been hooked up to a Freeview box, though it's rarely watched, and my folks have a Hitachi LCD they inherited from Dad's dad, in the bedroom (who, prior to that, had the same B&O model my parents did, as did Dad's bro and family).
Personally, I don't have one, coz there's feck all on worth watching (even though I do - or at least DID - qualify for a free licence).
it’s-just-some-overrated-overpaid-people-running-around-a-field-kicking-a-ball
There, FTFY.
And I likes a bit of Kraftwerk, I does.
I've often found myself wishing I was Kryten, so I could swap heads if the current one quit functioning. My head often quits functioning. It'd be nice to be able to replace it occasionally. M
Although, at the mo, I need a new body, too…
UC was Idiot Dickhead Shit's crackpot idea to pay us disabled less money. He believed that, if we got it all as one payment, it'd seem like we had loadsamoney because he thinks we're all stupid, and completely incapable of realising that the lump sum equated to <33% LESS than what all our entitlements would have toted up to individually.
Oh and don't buy into the myth that IDS is skint, he's got a bit, he's just too tight to use it.
He claimed over £6k for Flash All-Purpose wipes between September and December last year - that's 360k wipes worth. Except it isn't, because he was charging the taxpayer up to £20 a wipe. I obtained his expenses under the FoIA.
Not as bonkers as the amount the taxpayer forks out to keep Betty and her inbred parasitic, racist, xenophobic, paedophilic, fascist (and that's just Phil and Chaz!) family. Betty gets more than £1m A WEEK, fuck knows about the rest of the cunts.
Yes, I agree, Premier League wages ARE insane - but at least the taxpayer isn't paying 'em.
Vive La Révolution! Vive La République!
I'm sorry, I can't accept that. I've a Mac Plus still in perfect working order, although I WILL accept that they've not been AS reliable since the switch from PPC (although I do still have an early Intel MP that works, but it's got 3 rather tiny HDDs).
Gerrit sor'ed! I had BOFH and Dabbsy bookmarked, and then they both vamoosed - was beginning to worry that Dabbsy'd been collared by GCHQ. I've now found him by accident twice, and I usually end up reading him about a week late.
I don't take to change well. I don't take to owt well, as it goes.
EVERYTHING'S smaller than it was 30 years ago - and thinner; like a lot of chocolate on yer biscuit (is it just me, or doe that somehow sound really filthy written down…?), tough! I don't eat 'em anymore, but Dad does - and you can see the biscuit through whatever it is that Jacob's pass off as chocolate!
Mum used to buy Picnics all the time as a kid - she came over all nostalgic t'other day, and bought one; it was about 3mm thick, with one - I kid you not, ONE - solitary peanut!
Bring back Aztec bars! And Texans! And Secrets!
I only eat raw chocolate these days, the less stuff's been buggered about, the better… I'm munching on a trail mix made with 100% raw Ecuadorian cacao drops, macadamias, coconut shavings, and a few goji and golden Inca berries.
I eat most of my food raw, cooking decreases the nutrition.
Yes, and the NHS ALSO says that saturated fat and cholesterol cause CVD/CHD, eating fat makes you fat, grains and starches are healthy, calories in > calories out = weight loss. A low-fat/high-carb, calorie-restricted diet = weight loss, eating a high fat diet causes gallstones, eating red meat will kill you… I'm struggling, really STRUGGLING, to think of of a single NHS proclamation containing the tiniest grain of truth - nope, aren't any.
Wanna know why this country is fat and sick…? The NHS is the reason this country is fat and sick. If you wanna remain relatively healthy, simply do the exact opposite of what the NHS tells you, especially when it comes to diet. According to NHS Choices, everything we've been eating since the dawn of man (red meat, saturated fat, cholesterol, etc.) is suddenly gonna kill us and, everything we've only been cultivating for a mere 10k years or so is a health food! The evidence for the bullshit is out there if you look, I'll give you some starter pages:
Http://www.drmalcolmkendrick.org (ex-NHS GP, hounded out of the NHS for telling the truth about saturated fat, cholesterol, statins and CVD/CHD. The 'diet-heart hypothesis' was debunked in the late 70s, yet kids attending med school today are STILL taught it as though it was fact. Dr. Kendrick is also an advocate for a low-carb/high-fat palaeo-style diet. Author of 'The Great Cholesterol Con')
Http://www.dietdoctor.com/faq (blog of Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, Swedish GP, and another LCHF palaeo advocate)
Http://www.cerealkillersmovie.com (website for South African-shot film about the dangers of a so-called 'healthy' Western diet)
Http://www.chrskresser.com (LCHF advocate, health myth debunker, and author of 'Your Personal Paleo Code')
I'll tell this to you straight: the NHS has two ambitions
1. Making the UK the world's fattest and sickest nation
2. Arse-fucking Big Pharma as it does so
Do you realise that many GPs are little more than Big Pharma salesmen…? They're not remotely interested in your health, merely in shoving their employer's latest poison at you, for which they'll receive a decent commission. They draw a big fat NHS salary and another from Big Pharma.
Keep reading that GPs are leaving the NHS due to 'stress'…? I suspect their consciences have bested them and they've been hounded out for speaking the truth.
If anyone who reads this is currently taking any kind of statin, I URGE you to read Dr. Kendrick's book. It could, very literally, save your life. If you're taking statins, chances are you're also taking a PPI and something for GORD (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease). Your GP will tell you that heartburn/acid reflux is caused by EXCESS stomach acid, this is bullshit, heartburn (which may lead to GORD) is actually caused by INSUFFICIENT acid and taking a PPI will increase your risk of developing an ulcer, which will increase your chances of developing gastric cancer and continual acid reflux increases the chance of oesophageal cancer.
I expect a billion DVs for this, but I speak truth…
…and they STILL produce an infographic using Comic Sans (The Font That Won't Die)…?!
Still got my Speccy. No longer got a tape player I can hook up to it though. Got a RAMpak, too, though I never did figure out how the damn thing worked (then the connector got rodented, so now it never will).
Followed by a totally loony eclipse a fortnight later (SkySafari just informed me when I went to check). If only I had a 'scope, and lived somewhere with less light pollution (it's rarely less than 60% here. Some nights I can make out the Orion Nebula - just! - but it's a rare thing).
Herbivore's what…? That's a singular possessive, not a fucking plural, dickhead! What is it with people…?! If a word ends in a vowel, it DOES NOT require an apostrophe in the plural!
Herbivore means 'plant-eater', not 'grass-eater' aka vegan when it comes to humans. Veganism isn't a healthy lifestyle (despite what vociferous veganists, such as Morrissey, would have you believe). The human digestive system isn't designed to extract nutrition from plant matter, our guts are too short, nor do we have the dentition to effectively masticate plant fibre. Every creature has a genetic and evolutionary dietary blueprint, and it makes as much sense for us to eat nothing but plants as it does a tiger or lion. What happens when a cat eats grass…? It throws up (usually on the living room carpet. Cats are cunts like that. Samson, my mother's last moggy, used to wait until he got on their bed. He was a Greebo - a total bastard, but to my mother he was just a big softie (even when he used to try to try to lacerate her jugular)).
Anyway, the point is that cats need meat and so do we. It was no coincidence that Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer, his 100% carb diet would have significantly overloaded his pancreas.
If you want to avoid all the world's major ills, it's simple; simply eat the opposite of what the NHS/USDA would have you believe is a healthy diet, and you won't go far wrong.
Do what I do; find a reputable supplier of grass-fed/finished organic cow flesh - and eat it raw. I've been eating raw steak - and raw eggs, when I can be certain of their provenance - for over a decade. Cooking destroys the nutrition (particularly iron and B12).
Though back to the subject, I've eaten grass, used to do so a lot when I was at uni. Baking with it was popular, brownies especially so. But it was added to many things; pot roasts, pot noodles, even hash browns.
Apple seemingly alter something that prevents 3rd party cables working with each new itineration of iOS. I've got some 3rd party cables from a company called Twisted Envy (sounds more like the name of a nu-metal band) and, whilst they worked perfectly with iOS 7, try to use 'em with 8 and you'll get the 'this cable is not certified…" message and your iThing won't charge. If I stick one in my Air 2, I don't even get the popup, just a blunt 'not charging', where the battery life percentage should be.
The only 3rd party manufacturer which HAS cracked it is Belkin, as I'm using 2 of their UltraFast chargers as I type this, one on a Touch still running 7, and on this 'ere Pad running 8. I wish I knew how they worked coz it's cut charging on the Air 2 from <20hrs for a full charge with Apple's brick, to between 2 and 3 (2.5 is typical). It's 12W vs 10, so it's not as though it's that much more powerful.
Yeah, I know Belkin don't count, but I'm still in awe of this thing.
If anyone's interested, it's an UltraFast 2.4, cost £25 from Amazon. If you need help, tweet @BelkinCares, otherwise you're calling India. But you probably knew that…