have a hen party and bitch about what pigs men are. Such progress from the coffee klatches of 40 years ago where housewives would have morning hen parties and bitch about their husbands.
assuming that everything old was written by fools or charlatans seems like an error.
I don't assume that *everything* old was written by fools or charlatans. After all, it's from where we derived morphine, acetylsalicylic acid and chloroquine.
But for every effective traditional medicine, there were hundreds of "medicines" like rhino horn for limp dick, homeopathy, mercury injections for syphilis an cocaine and opium patent medicines for... just about everything.
If by "success" you mean "good enough to test on mice". How many were good enough to test on humans?
Given that they found one out of the 200 that was better than the state of the art, I'd say score one for applying the scientific method to traditional medicine.
The state of the art (chloroquine) was derived from a traditional medicine.
The manifest problem with "traditional medicine" isn't that none of them work, but that so damned few work, and yet fools still run around saying how all traditional is soooo great.
What stake do you have in how adults enjoy their free time anyhow?
The thread started out with a question. I have my opinion on the matter, but have given no indication whatsoever that I'm on some sort of Moral Crusade to stop adults from playing Pokemon.
My experience has been actually very good with Chase cards...
Ditto. The only time they ever declined *us* using the card is when we used it out-of-state and forgot to call ahead of time.
We've purchased many airline tickets from them without a peep, but have had them detect and block attempted fraud three times (issuing new cards every time).
No one owes you an explanation of why they enjoy the hobbies they do, so why should they have to convince you of anything?
I've already written that you (and everyone else) can ignore me, and yet while writing this (No one owes you an explanation), in another thread you write, I'm not going to ignore you.
Just to be clear, are you saying everyone who played and enjoyed Child of Light (with a female child protagonist), The Last of Us (that features a barely-pubescent Elle as a co-protagonist)... is a paedophile?
I said creepy, not "jail worthy". There actually is a substantial difference.
(Young lad going to rescue a princess is sufficiently ambiguous to be what I consider normal.)
You seem to be implying that if I disagree with you, then I just ignore you and move on
You said that I set myself up as the arbiter of what's appropriate. (Which I didn't.)
I wrote that you have the right to ignore my opinion, since... I am not the arbiter of what's appropriate.
Now we have a short (and probably pointless) debate on the subject.
We can. Or you can ignore me, since... I am not the arbiter of what's appropriate. It's all the same to me, since my self-image is not wrapped up in ensuring that adults don't play Pokemon.
Sport fans act in every single way exactly like anime, video-game, sci-fi etc. fans
But those sports fans wear the jerseys of other adults, not of teenagers (or worse, pre-pubescents).
It's the same reason why a man cosplaying Worf isn't weird, but a man cosplaying as his son Alexander Rozhenko is creepy.
The teenage boy
Or the 10 year old.
The teenage boy catching big-eyed cute pseudo-monsters in an all-primary-colors world
When I was young, I hated broccoli and squash. As I matured, I started liking them. Why? My tastes literally changed.
The difference in setting, tone and style are fluff, a matter of taste and preference, and little more.
Adults playing a game with a 10 year old protagonist is a creepy as old men staring at little girls.
This is completely different from both adults and children reading the Chronicles Of Narnia and both enjoying it (though for completely different reasons: the adult seeing nuances and subtexts lost on a child).
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I'm preparing my suicide potion tonight... :(
have a hen party and bitch about what pigs men are. Such progress from the coffee klatches of 40 years ago where housewives would have morning hen parties and bitch about their husbands.
I separately searched that article for the words "running" and "water" to no avail. Could you help a bloke checking your citation??
You either have no children, or are in the 1% (or, naturally, both).
Why? In the US, at lease, taxes are paid on net income, not earnings.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/smallbusiness-taxes-based-revenue-gross-profit-50369.html
1) When Western pharmaceutical companies are doing a screen, how many of those chemicals turn out not to work on malaria?
Since those chemicals aren't published as being cures, the comparison to TCM is wholly invalid.
3) How many of the TCM drugs were effective against malaria, just not "wonder drug" effective?
That's a good question.
have read through UCSF's "alt med bible" detailing all the thousands of studies on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of various alt med drugs.
And???? How many were effective?
(I'm betting that it's Very Few, since "alt med" that is proven successful isn't "alt med" anymore.)
Mighty suspicious.
More than that. It's them admitting that they're frauds.
assuming that everything old was written by fools or charlatans seems like an error.
I don't assume that *everything* old was written by fools or charlatans. After all, it's from where we derived morphine, acetylsalicylic acid and chloroquine.
But for every effective traditional medicine, there were hundreds of "medicines" like rhino horn for limp dick, homeopathy, mercury injections for syphilis an cocaine and opium patent medicines for... just about everything.
200 out of 2000 is a 10% success rate
If by "success" you mean "good enough to test on mice". How many were good enough to test on humans?
Given that they found one out of the 200 that was better than the state of the art, I'd say score one for applying the scientific method to traditional medicine.
The state of the art (chloroquine) was derived from a traditional medicine.
The manifest problem with "traditional medicine" isn't that none of them work, but that so damned few work, and yet fools still run around saying how all traditional is soooo great.
War is not required (e.g. the Apollo program)
Cold War.
Exactly. A 99.95% failure rate is -- to say the least -- Bad.
But it takes TWO THOUSAND of them to find ONE cure for malaria.
That's a pretty fucking pathetic track record for Chinese herbal medicine.
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Whoosh.
Yes. Yes they did.
And don't forget conspiracy theory wingnuts of all stripes: "Obama wants to destroy us!" and "African holocaust!!"
You seem obsessed with being very grown up.
Obsessed??????
Channeling Wikipedia: citation please.
What stake do you have in how adults enjoy their free time anyhow?
The thread started out with a question. I have my opinion on the matter, but have given no indication whatsoever that I'm on some sort of Moral Crusade to stop adults from playing Pokemon.
Chase has an online system for setting dates and locations. We did that, but still got flagged.
Stupid computers. Now we call, and speak to a human. (Ignore the fact that the person we talk to types it into a computer...)
Seriously. I remember when we could get on a flight, sit down, then have a purser come by and pay in cash for the flight.
I think you're 80, have Alzheimer's and confuse planes and trains.
My experience has been actually very good with Chase cards...
Ditto. The only time they ever declined *us* using the card is when we used it out-of-state and forgot to call ahead of time.
We've purchased many airline tickets from them without a peep, but have had them detect and block attempted fraud three times (issuing new cards every time).
I don't think that shit-gathering contests are the way to stir up that interest.
No one owes you an explanation of why they enjoy the hobbies they do, so why should they have to convince you of anything?
I've already written that you (and everyone else) can ignore me, and yet while writing this (No one owes you an explanation), in another thread you write, I'm not going to ignore you.
Make up your mind.
since you suddenly very defensive and incapable of backing up your opinion with anything more substantial than more opinions and flimsy rhetoric.
No defensiveness; you're reading in too much. It's my opinion, because it does feel creepy.
since no one asked for them and they're completely tangential to the original article.
You do realize this is /., right?
Just to be clear, are you saying everyone who played and enjoyed Child of Light (with a female child protagonist), The Last of Us (that features a barely-pubescent Elle as a co-protagonist) ... is a paedophile?
I said creepy, not "jail worthy". There actually is a substantial difference.
(Young lad going to rescue a princess is sufficiently ambiguous to be what I consider normal.)
You seem to be implying that if I disagree with you, then I just ignore you and move on
You said that I set myself up as the arbiter of what's appropriate. (Which I didn't.)
I wrote that you have the right to ignore my opinion, since... I am not the arbiter of what's appropriate.
Now we have a short (and probably pointless) debate on the subject.
We can. Or you can ignore me, since... I am not the arbiter of what's appropriate. It's all the same to me, since my self-image is not wrapped up in ensuring that adults don't play Pokemon.
Sport fans act in every single way exactly like anime, video-game, sci-fi etc. fans
But those sports fans wear the jerseys of other adults, not of teenagers (or worse, pre-pubescents).
It's the same reason why a man cosplaying Worf isn't weird, but a man cosplaying as his son Alexander Rozhenko is creepy.
The teenage boy
Or the 10 year old.
The teenage boy catching big-eyed cute pseudo-monsters in an all-primary-colors world
When I was young, I hated broccoli and squash. As I matured, I started liking them. Why? My tastes literally changed.
The difference in setting, tone and style are fluff, a matter of taste and preference, and little more.
Adults playing a game with a 10 year old protagonist is a creepy as old men staring at little girls.
This is completely different from both adults and children reading the Chronicles Of Narnia and both enjoying it (though for completely different reasons: the adult seeing nuances and subtexts lost on a child).