Actually, with regard to pickling, it is ONLY to get rid of and protect against BAD micros. There are plenty of good gut bacteria grown and and promoted by pickled foods, if you're talking about natural fermentation pickling like with kraut, kimchee, cucumber pickles. You can actually replenish your good gut bacteria with these foods after you might lose them due to having to take antibiotics for an illness.
Sure there is some salt, but you only have to do enough of a ratio to ensure that the healthy bacteria are able to culture and ferment you food with the acid by products and CO2.
Heck, many of the old natural ways of preserving aided with "friendly" bacteria...beer for instance, when not pasteurized and filtered, has great live yeast in there that help with your B vitamins.
IN many ways, modern conveniences have caused some problems.
Hell, living TOO cleanly has likely put our present day children at health risks....they aren't exposed like we were in my day to microbes in the environment and were able to build our immune systems. Too sterile an environment is not good for kids today (do any of them actually PLAY outside in the dirt anymore?)....as that their immune systems may be weaker than should be...
Enjoying how much better you feel when the hangover wears off is like the old joke about the guy who is hitting himself in the head with a hammer. When he's asked why he's doing that, he says "because it feels so good when I stop."
Why is alcohol so important, even necessary to have a nice night out? I really don't get it.
Because it is fun and makes fun MORE fun.
I think it was W.C.Fields who said "I feel sorry for people that don't drink, when they get up in the morning, that is the best they'll feel all day..."
A few strange trends emerged in this initial experiment, such as the decline of 'health care' as a trending Parliamentary topic, with 'welfare' consistently on the rise
This seems to pretty much mirror the political considerations of the US during the Obama administration.
Oh FFS, if you are going to insist on having guns then at least use them safely. You don't need fingerprint scanners or triggers that are harder to squeeze. When you aren't using them then you unload them, store the gun and the gun in a secure and locked place (don't know if you have to keep them separate if they are locked away). If you are using it always have the safety on and never put it near a child who can't understand what it is.
Err...that doesn't do you much good if you need a gun QUICKLY.
Hmm...someone has broken into my house, I need to hope they'll let me live long enough to find the gun safe in the dark, open it, find one of the guns and then locate the bullets that fit that one...and *BANG* you're dead.
I keep all my guns loaded with the safety on (the ones with switchable safeties, some like Glocks don't have this), so all I have to do is grab and shoot. My semi-autos, like the Berretta, I keep loaded full clip with one in the pipe, ready to go.
If you're gonna have guns, yes, keep them out of the reach of children, but an unloaded locked up gun is useless in an emergency. Also, at a young age, you TEACH your kids about guns, gun safety and that they are not toys. My parents did this. I knew when I was in 4-5th grade where the gun was. I knew how to pull it out and use it if need be, but I also had the fear of God put into me that I must never even come close to touching it. And trust me, I never did....
Perhaps the problems is parents (or lack thereof) aren't teaching their kids to obey, or teaching them anything at all that used to be common when I grew up.
Get a designated driver. If you're having more than one glass of wine when dining out then you should NOT be driving.
Hmm...never one around when you need one.
EVERYONE drinks....at least in my crowd. I've never known anyone that played the part of designated driver, unless you count some of my friends who do get their wives to drive us home, but not that many will do that.
So that people with a fucking brain don't have to park elsewhere.
So, do you seriously think that even a minority of those cars in the bar parking lots, are NOT drinking and driving home?
I'm guessing you've never been to many bars. MOST of the people in a bar are drinking and will drive home that night likely at or a bit higher than the legal limit BAC.
I mean, you drive by a bar an hour or so after closing time, I guarantee you that parking lot that was full of patons' cars that night is 99% empty and they did NOT all come there to not drink any.
Or you could just skip the fucking wine if you're going to be driving.
Is sobriety that much of a burden for just one night?
So, you're saying that no one should ever have a drink with a meal when dining out? I mean, you're driving your date out to a meal and you never get to have drinks with her that evening till you get home?
Or that maybe we shouldn't even have bars that serve drinks, that have parking lots for the patrons to park in, knowing they'll all be driving home?
I don't think you understand the concept of using BAC to determine impairment.
I'm saying BAC isn't a good measure of a persons tolerance for alcohol. One person can do just fine and.08 and another cannot. The measure and number is arbitrary.
I also just purchased a VW last Thursday. The dealership was saying they were making quite a few more sales than usual from people trading in TDIs for regular gasoline cars. They still had a huge "clean diesel" banner up, though, heh.
Hmm..so, are they selling the used/new TDIs for a cheaper price? Can you get one of them before they "fix" it?
Volkswagen's fix will reduce the mileage on the cars that it's applied to. I wonder if VW owners are really going to line up at the garage to have the fix applied. Or will mandatory emissions testing force them to allow VW to apply the fix?
If it were MY car, I'd not take it in for the "fix" either just for that reason...reduction in performance and mileage.
Thankfully, not everyone lives in a state that requires an emissions test....or even auto inspections at ALL.
if you're insulting people in the south and saying most of them are fine with that (seems rather prejudicial and self-serving to your own shitty attitude), then you will simply reap many more pointless traffic deaths
No, I"m saying I have grown up here all my life, and I know the attitudes and culture, and from my visits up to the NE, yes, I can say that in general, they are MUCH more uptight about drinking any at all and having to drive home. It is very usual with anyone I've even known, to often grab a beer when leaving the house and driving somewhere (I'm speaking primarily on the weekends of course). No one will give you a sideways glance if you do that, in general. I know, I've grown up with it (and to mention I was raised in a house with no alcohol, I learned and observed this from other families, my parents were tee-totallers when I was growing up).
And no, I don't risk lives...frankly the only time I actually look at the speedometer and check the speed limits IS when I've had a couple drinks and making my way home.
Lighten up Francis....having 3 beers of so in an hour to hour and a half isn't a big deal, especially if you are used to drinking on a regular basis.
And you seem to ignore reality, people do imbibe a bit and then go home, fact of life.
It isn't really that scary. If I'm loaded, no, I don't drive home..but if I've only had a few (and decades of living with myself and having alcohol and knowing my limits) I will get myself home.
I will say, however, now that uber is out there and so cheap (MUCH less than a cab), if I know I'm planning a night out, I'll do uber back and forth from home to bar(s) and fests. But if you're out and about and happen to have drinks with friends in a restaurant or bar (spur of the moment when someone calls you to stop by xyz) you gotta be more careful and know your limits.
I'm guessing you're a bit more uptight about drinking and driving possibly due to you living up north in the US?
It is much more acceptable in the south, especially down here in the New Orleans area. Hell, until a few years ago, we didn't even have an open container law for cars, if you got pulled over not that long back, all you had to do was hand your beer to the passenger. We have drive through daquiri shops here and you can take drinks to go from bars, some of which never close.
It depends on where you grow up a bit I guess...more relaxed about alcohol down here and we're fine with it unless you do something stupid.
that's not what i said, asshole. in fact it is the exact opposite of what i said. i said assuming the officer of the law has a good reason to apply the test
But that is the reality of today. Just driving to a checkpoint is grounds for them to stop you and pull you from the car for tests. You having the misfortune of hitting a checkpoint is "good enough reason" in many case for them to detain you and test you.
Thankfully in many states, they require the cops to post where checkpoints are in advance, which if you are smart you'll know to look for and avoid those areas. There are also nice apps for your phone to help avoid checkpoints if you don't want your trip to be interrupted by essentially a random search.
assuming the officer of the law has a good reason to apply the test, then they pass it, and there is no problem
So, the mere act if driving through a checkpoint is good enough reason to require you to stop your car, get out, take time out of your day and schedule to do some test because of an arbitrary head count.
Would you condone the same if alcohol wasn't a reason...just have checkpoints to stop people in case they are doing something wrong and test things out and search their cars and persons?
The BAC legal levels are WAAAY too low now. A grown man or woman just having a couple of glasses of wine with a meal can be dangerously close to the legal level of DWI...when in fact there is no problem with driving home.
And, if you're so against any drinking at all and driving, then why is is even legal to have a bar with a parking lot for the patrons to come in? Do you seriouslythink all those cars are for designated drivers? Do you not wonder where they all disappear to at night at closing time (for those of you living in states/cities where you require bars to close)?
Be realistic. People go out..they have a few...they have to get themselves and their cars HOME for the next day. It happens. The trick is to not be too impaired to drive safely.
Note what my original comment said, refusing a BAC test AFTER being arrested is a poor choice. You've already been arrest, you are going to jail, refusing doesn't keep you out of jail.
No, but if you can refuse, you are not giving them evidence to convict you of DWI.
If you get a good lawyer, they likely can get it reduced to Reckless Driving or something less...which is certainly much better than a DWI considering that will cost you much more $$, be a stain when applying for jobs, and insurance.
Like I mentioned before, with BAC legal levels being so damned low today...you can get pinched for just a couple glasses of wine with a meal which should not be the case.
I often wonder if social media is just making people more stupid....
Or if social media just brings the people that are stupid more out of the woodwork for the rest of us to see.
Why would anyone FB, Tweet, Periscope or whatever ANY activity that might potentially get you jailed?
We see gang members with FB pages of stolen goods, drugs and cash online. This chick live streams a drunk drive home (not to mention many shots of her early drinking heavily with a timecode attached to it)...I mean, why do people gather so much evidence against themselves and just hand it to the police?
Actually a LOT of this depends on the state you live in. I spoke to an atty friend of mine here and he said basically if you get pulled over and are a bit tanked, don't say a word, don't do any field tests....just hold your hands out because you are going to be arrested.
He said all the field tests are doing, is collecting evidence against you, so you don't want to give them any help. Don't do any tests till you can get an atty. present....if nothing else this will give your body more time to process the alcohol so that if you do have to get blood drawn, it will be less.
But know the laws of your state, if you refuse tests most will suspend your license, but still, that's better than a DWI....and get a good lawyer, they help. You can often get special permission to drive on suspended license for work, groceries, etc.....so, life will go on for you.
With the alcohol laws SO drastic today..the BAC level is now a low 0.08 in most states, as a grown man just having a couple glasses of wine with a meal out can get your dangerously close to the legal level, when in reality you are just fine to drive.
But being pulled over for DWI is like being pulled over for ANY infraction, the police are NOT there to help you, and you need to know your rights and stick by them and not give them any evidence to charge or prosecute you, which IS their job.
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Sure there is some salt, but you only have to do enough of a ratio to ensure that the healthy bacteria are able to culture and ferment you food with the acid by products and CO2.
Heck, many of the old natural ways of preserving aided with "friendly" bacteria...beer for instance, when not pasteurized and filtered, has great live yeast in there that help with your B vitamins.
IN many ways, modern conveniences have caused some problems.
Hell, living TOO cleanly has likely put our present day children at health risks....they aren't exposed like we were in my day to microbes in the environment and were able to build our immune systems. Too sterile an environment is not good for kids today (do any of them actually PLAY outside in the dirt anymore?)....as that their immune systems may be weaker than should be...
What's a hangover?
....find out how many people actually were at the million man march.
Because it is fun and makes fun MORE fun.
I think it was W.C.Fields who said "I feel sorry for people that don't drink, when they get up in the morning, that is the best they'll feel all day..."
This seems to pretty much mirror the political considerations of the US during the Obama administration.
Err...that doesn't do you much good if you need a gun QUICKLY.
Hmm...someone has broken into my house, I need to hope they'll let me live long enough to find the gun safe in the dark, open it, find one of the guns and then locate the bullets that fit that one...and *BANG* you're dead.
I keep all my guns loaded with the safety on (the ones with switchable safeties, some like Glocks don't have this), so all I have to do is grab and shoot. My semi-autos, like the Berretta, I keep loaded full clip with one in the pipe, ready to go.
If you're gonna have guns, yes, keep them out of the reach of children, but an unloaded locked up gun is useless in an emergency. Also, at a young age, you TEACH your kids about guns, gun safety and that they are not toys. My parents did this. I knew when I was in 4-5th grade where the gun was. I knew how to pull it out and use it if need be, but I also had the fear of God put into me that I must never even come close to touching it. And trust me, I never did....
Perhaps the problems is parents (or lack thereof) aren't teaching their kids to obey, or teaching them anything at all that used to be common when I grew up.
Then again, there are some of us, whom the others toss the keys to, because they know I'll get us home ok....long proven record.
But no one wants to drink alone, so would be weird for her to be drinking, and you being a stick in the mud and having only iced tea...?
Hmm...never one around when you need one.
EVERYONE drinks....at least in my crowd. I've never known anyone that played the part of designated driver, unless you count some of my friends who do get their wives to drive us home, but not that many will do that.
So, do you seriously think that even a minority of those cars in the bar parking lots, are NOT drinking and driving home?
I'm guessing you've never been to many bars. MOST of the people in a bar are drinking and will drive home that night likely at or a bit higher than the legal limit BAC.
I mean, you drive by a bar an hour or so after closing time, I guarantee you that parking lot that was full of patons' cars that night is 99% empty and they did NOT all come there to not drink any.
So, you're saying that no one should ever have a drink with a meal when dining out? I mean, you're driving your date out to a meal and you never get to have drinks with her that evening till you get home?
Or that maybe we shouldn't even have bars that serve drinks, that have parking lots for the patrons to park in, knowing they'll all be driving home?
That's just not reality man...
I'm saying BAC isn't a good measure of a persons tolerance for alcohol. One person can do just fine and .08 and another cannot. The measure and number is arbitrary.
I think you're being a bit overdramatic....it isn't like this is not a common thought and consideration of the subject.
Not sure why all the name calling, but seems a bit of an overreaction.
Hmm..so, are they selling the used/new TDIs for a cheaper price? Can you get one of them before they "fix" it?
If it were MY car, I'd not take it in for the "fix" either just for that reason...reduction in performance and mileage.
Thankfully, not everyone lives in a state that requires an emissions test....or even auto inspections at ALL.
No, I"m saying I have grown up here all my life, and I know the attitudes and culture, and from my visits up to the NE, yes, I can say that in general, they are MUCH more uptight about drinking any at all and having to drive home. It is very usual with anyone I've even known, to often grab a beer when leaving the house and driving somewhere (I'm speaking primarily on the weekends of course). No one will give you a sideways glance if you do that, in general. I know, I've grown up with it (and to mention I was raised in a house with no alcohol, I learned and observed this from other families, my parents were tee-totallers when I was growing up).
And no, I don't risk lives...frankly the only time I actually look at the speedometer and check the speed limits IS when I've had a couple drinks and making my way home.
Lighten up Francis....having 3 beers of so in an hour to hour and a half isn't a big deal, especially if you are used to drinking on a regular basis.
It isn't really that scary. If I'm loaded, no, I don't drive home..but if I've only had a few (and decades of living with myself and having alcohol and knowing my limits) I will get myself home.
I will say, however, now that uber is out there and so cheap (MUCH less than a cab), if I know I'm planning a night out, I'll do uber back and forth from home to bar(s) and fests. But if you're out and about and happen to have drinks with friends in a restaurant or bar (spur of the moment when someone calls you to stop by xyz) you gotta be more careful and know your limits.
I'm guessing you're a bit more uptight about drinking and driving possibly due to you living up north in the US?
It is much more acceptable in the south, especially down here in the New Orleans area. Hell, until a few years ago, we didn't even have an open container law for cars, if you got pulled over not that long back, all you had to do was hand your beer to the passenger. We have drive through daquiri shops here and you can take drinks to go from bars, some of which never close.
It depends on where you grow up a bit I guess...more relaxed about alcohol down here and we're fine with it unless you do something stupid.
I agree.
A few years back, I saw what was basically Symphonic Zeppelin, where they did Led Zep music with an orchestra backing a guy named Randy Jackson.
It actually was a lot of fun...
But that is the reality of today. Just driving to a checkpoint is grounds for them to stop you and pull you from the car for tests. You having the misfortune of hitting a checkpoint is "good enough reason" in many case for them to detain you and test you.
Thankfully in many states, they require the cops to post where checkpoints are in advance, which if you are smart you'll know to look for and avoid those areas. There are also nice apps for your phone to help avoid checkpoints if you don't want your trip to be interrupted by essentially a random search.
So, the mere act if driving through a checkpoint is good enough reason to require you to stop your car, get out, take time out of your day and schedule to do some test because of an arbitrary head count.
Would you condone the same if alcohol wasn't a reason...just have checkpoints to stop people in case they are doing something wrong and test things out and search their cars and persons?
The BAC legal levels are WAAAY too low now. A grown man or woman just having a couple of glasses of wine with a meal can be dangerously close to the legal level of DWI...when in fact there is no problem with driving home.
And, if you're so against any drinking at all and driving, then why is is even legal to have a bar with a parking lot for the patrons to come in? Do you seriouslythink all those cars are for designated drivers? Do you not wonder where they all disappear to at night at closing time (for those of you living in states/cities where you require bars to close)?
Be realistic. People go out..they have a few...they have to get themselves and their cars HOME for the next day. It happens. The trick is to not be too impaired to drive safely.
Depends on the state you live in, not all force you to submit to such an invasive procedure against your will.
Know the laws of the state you are in is the best advice.
No, but if you can refuse, you are not giving them evidence to convict you of DWI.
If you get a good lawyer, they likely can get it reduced to Reckless Driving or something less...which is certainly much better than a DWI considering that will cost you much more $$, be a stain when applying for jobs, and insurance.
Like I mentioned before, with BAC legal levels being so damned low today...you can get pinched for just a couple glasses of wine with a meal which should not be the case.
I often wonder if social media is just making people more stupid....
Or if social media just brings the people that are stupid more out of the woodwork for the rest of us to see.
Why would anyone FB, Tweet, Periscope or whatever ANY activity that might potentially get you jailed?
We see gang members with FB pages of stolen goods, drugs and cash online. This chick live streams a drunk drive home (not to mention many shots of her early drinking heavily with a timecode attached to it)...I mean, why do people gather so much evidence against themselves and just hand it to the police?
Are we just getting dumber as a country?
Actually a LOT of this depends on the state you live in. I spoke to an atty friend of mine here and he said basically if you get pulled over and are a bit tanked, don't say a word, don't do any field tests....just hold your hands out because you are going to be arrested.
He said all the field tests are doing, is collecting evidence against you, so you don't want to give them any help. Don't do any tests till you can get an atty. present....if nothing else this will give your body more time to process the alcohol so that if you do have to get blood drawn, it will be less.
But know the laws of your state, if you refuse tests most will suspend your license, but still, that's better than a DWI....and get a good lawyer, they help. You can often get special permission to drive on suspended license for work, groceries, etc.....so, life will go on for you.
With the alcohol laws SO drastic today..the BAC level is now a low 0.08 in most states, as a grown man just having a couple glasses of wine with a meal out can get your dangerously close to the legal level, when in reality you are just fine to drive.
But being pulled over for DWI is like being pulled over for ANY infraction, the police are NOT there to help you, and you need to know your rights and stick by them and not give them any evidence to charge or prosecute you, which IS their job.