Sallubrious

I wish someone would dose a bunch of the mentally ill pricks running the country to the point of ego death and study that. They might find some of them come out of it with a sense of humanity and start steering the ship for everyone's benefit.

Whatever it was the satisfaction was short lived. It's back with a vengeance now.

Eargasm

I hate the fucking moon, every time it gets full my mrs turns into a werewolf. Not quite a werewolf but sometimes the fangs come out. She used to mark her menstrual cycles on a calendar but all I had to do was look in the sky at night. I used to hate it when I had a telescope, it's like some bastard has installed a massive spotlight in the sky and no matter what you try do the fucking thing always gets in the way or just blasts so much light everywhere that it's hard to nebulas and other deep space objects. Then if you accidentally look at it your pupils constrict and you can't see through the scope properly for a while. Fuck the moon.

We'd have to entertain the preposterous notion that the earth was round and the moon was in orbit to even attempt to explain that.

I did a bit of DIY surgery today Last week I went to get something in the shed and scraped my thumbnail on an old 2*4 and a splinter slipped straight down the side of the nail. It hurt a bit but I actually got a bit of laugh out the irony. Compared to the pain my back had been giving me for last month it was actually enjoyable. I was half tempted to leave it in as a distraction. It was a half rotten piece of timber that had had soil contact for years so I didn't hold that thought for more than about two or three minutes. The end was just poking out beyond my nail so I was lucky enough to be able grab it with a pair needle nose pliers and pull it back out, The fucking was longer than thumbnail it slipped under. I gave the wound a quick clean with peroxide and just forgot about it. It was sore and tender for a few days (I couldn't use a cigarette lighter with that hand for a few days, I fell of the wagon with the smokes after my back trouble I stopped giving a fuck everything there for a while ) and then last night it started hurting a bit & I noticed it was getting pretty swollen. So I ran my other thumbnail along the swollen area and a heap of pus came out - excellent. So I opened up a fresh hypodermic needle and poked/sliced around into the quick at the side of my nail and found several more splinters were still in there. Those big arse needles from the produce supply store are the ants pants for slicing and dicing yourself when you have something stuck under your skin that you want out, much sharper than an ordinary needle and you don't have to be as brave as you do to go in with a scalpel, you can incise an area almost painlessly just by poking holes all around it and then use it to cut and rip anything still hanging on. I cleaned it up with peroxide and now (8 hours later) it just looks like a bit of skin is gone from the side of the nail and most of the swelling and redness is gone. Looks like I had a win there. I've had the flu for the last week and it seems I've ruptured and eardrum as consequence of an ear infection that came with it, For the first time in years I'll admit that I probably should see a quack but I can't get to a doctor, the mobile dial a quacks won't come to me (as soon as they find out you're a middle aged man you get dropped right down the priority list) and I'm sure as fuck not going to hospital. So I've decided to DIY that too - peroxide in the ear until all the blood and shit seems to clear up and then mega dose vitamin C.

Phuck Photobucket. The site is subhosted on what seems like an endless list of unrelated sites that may or may not be trustworthy. I don't know them personally so by default I don't trust them. If I even want to look at a photo there I have to let no-scrpt allow every tom, dick and unknown harry into my home folder that I don't know or trust. I get so sick of disabling all the sub sites that host unknown shit that I always quit before even looking at a photo. I'd be zapping my exif data before I posted anything there.

I won't be able to help it now. Every time I see someone drinking a redbull I'll think of them drinking bull cum.

I think the wintergreen oil is used in the oil based liniments a lot but the tiger balms type salves are more camphor and peppermint/menthol based. A bit of clove oil can be helpful in those types of oil based liniments too. Wintergreen oil has a long history of use in TCM and western liniments & IME experience it definitely works for soft tissue injuries.. Some chemists will tell you that heating balms do nothing for deep tissues and nerves etc but just the act of rubbing on them stimulates blood flow and increased blood flow is good for all types of injury where there is stasis and reduced movement. You could also try a dit da jao which is a Chinese liniment made by soaking herbs and sometimes animal or mineral products in wine or vodka. It's in some ways part of the win chun tradition - healing and inflicting injury are two sides of the same coin or yin and yang in some respects. You can get the herb mix from ebay, buy it pre-made or just mix up your own. I make my own & I'm smothered in it myself right now, it would have been totally fucked without that. I haven't tried this guys stuff because I make own but he's one of the only Ausse sellers I've seen making it to traditional formulas. He has several different blends for sale on ebay 25 herb mix 15 herb mix 26 herb mix It's worth reading his ads just to see which herbs are used, there's a few common ones that are used in most blends and they all have good anti inflammatory properties.

Was that the Aussie Kratom or an imported indo Kratom like a red vein or something similar ? I've eaten bucket loads of the Aussie stuff and it does nothing for my pain & does nothing else desirable either. No energising effects and no buzz that couldn't be put down to self suggestion or wishful thinking either. I've never tried an extract but the fresh leaf just doesn't work for me.

The thoughts that try to fill the void where a respected mate resided upon hearing of his sudden death.

I'd be keen for some seed too. The pain I've been in for the last few weeks has been pure hell.

Me too mate, I've been in the same state for the last 12 days. Sitting in a chair is just as painful as laying down, so I pretend to sleep kneeling on pillows with my forearms resting on the bed. I'm seriously considering making something to strap myself into to sleep standing up. My spinal chord is fucked and the signals are only partially getting through to my legs, so I can hardly walk most of the time and sometimes not at all. It took me almost half an hour to crawl to the shithouse and back the other night and by the time I got back I needed another piss. If I had a pet in half as much pain I'd put it out of its misery.

"It's an abomination" My ten year old son tonight when he heard the new Dr Who will be a woman.

After watching that most people would believe that anything published in a respectable journal would be 100% trustworthy. In some fields it is but then when you start looking at medical journals things start to get very murky. Dr Richard Horton wrote several pieces of work indicating that as much as half of what's published in medical journals can't be trusted, while he was editor of the Lancet. One was titled What is medicine’s 5 sigma? Dr Richard Smith was editor of the British Medical Journal for over 20 years wrote a a paper Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies. complete with a section on how to get the results you want from your research. & Dr Marcia Angell, ex editor of the the New England Journal of medicine wrote in her article "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption" From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Angell & then there's Dr Scott Reuben who faked dozens of studies that were all published in reputable journals. His faked work on celebrex contributed to hundreds of thousands of injuries and deaths. His work has been cited in an almost countless array of work from scientists all over the globe. Anywhere there are large sums of money involved the possibility for corruption exists. Medical & pharmaceutical research is just like any other area where large sums of money are involved. Humans + Money = Greed & Corruption

MCT vs Coconut oil A somewhat biased opinion from a site peddling coconut oil,

Some of the supermarket MCT's are bit of a rort as I see it. Although they are MCT's many of them (particularly coconut oil MCT's) are the leftovers after the lauric acid has been removed and sold at a premium. Sometimes they also remove the caproic acid fraction too because it doesn't taste very good. They do give a quick shot energy though. It's a bit controversial in some respects as the lauric acid has 12 carbon and is a borderline long chain fatty acid, but the lauric acid has so many benefits it's hard for me to get my head around taking a supermarket MCT without it. There's an entire discussion right there on the metabolism of fatty acids with different length carbon chains. The lauric acid fraction is in many ways the most desirable fatty acid in coconut oil, the rest still have value but to pay a premium for an MCT product missing the (arguably) most important one is rip off. I just go for the coconut oil that has seems to have had the least processing

& I forgot to add, if you dilute your fermented kefir down 50% and do a secondary fermentation you get double the output in the same time frame.

I didn't think it was ambiguous, I got what you were saying. I was just pointing out that kefir is very efficient when used as a secondary ferment. I used to add sorts of stuff to the primary ferment and I've ruined more than one batch of grains doing that way, coconut millk and cream are fine. Some other things not so much. So now I prefer to do my experimentation in a secondary ferment sans the grains and keep the grains going in pure milk to preserve their vigour and health.

That sounds like a good idea. I was doing milk kefir as a primary ferment and then adding 25% coconut cream and 25% fresh milk for a secondary ferment in the fridge (most of the coconut milk I found was just diluted or less concentrated cream). I did the normal one day ferment with the grains and then when I strained them off I added more milk & coconut cream and added fresh ground turmeric and or ginger and then threw it in the fridge for about a week for secondary ferment and to ripen a bit. I've added all sorts of stuff to milk kefir over the last twenty years and some things can stain and bog up the grains if they are added to the initial ferment. It's normally not much of an issue and the grains just change colour a bit, but sometimes prolonged use of additives can cause the grains to lose vigour and not perform as well. So any additives I put in now go into a secondary ferment either with 50% milk, coconut milk or coconut cream or a mixture of milk and coconut milk or cream

I grew a scobyusing bottles of kombucha from woolies as a starter. It took a few batches to get a good scoby going but it kicked on quite well. Is there a commercial brand of Kombucha selling a drink with that strain of bacillus coagulans or did you buy some specific culture that has been lab tested? Most of the commercial stuff I see in supermarkets is very scant on details such as the microbiological profile. I'm thinking of getting back into the Kombucha myself.

It will be interesting to see how it turns out. Maybe it will behave a bit like a whiskey mash and form a cake on top of the brew. Some people stir the cake back into the brew, which is something you may have to consider doing to get all the cacao submerged and fermenting. One thing I've found (especially in warm weather) is that some brews can really foam up and overflow, so it can pay to have the fermenter somewhere that will be safe if it overflows

I just went trough 16 USB drives looking for that book about mead/beer and of course it was on the last fucking one. I really need to organise my backups better. The book is called Sacred and herbal healing beers, by Stephen Harrod Buhner. I can't find a download link that doesn't need a subscription or isn't paywalled. I'll try a direct upload and see if that works. Stephen_Harrod_Buhner-Sacred_and_herbal_healing_beers__the_secrets_of_ancient_fermentation__-Siris_Books_(1998).pdf

I think it was Waterboy posted a link to download a book about Mead (can't remember the name) and other medicinal beers one time, is was an excellent resource on fermenting and had a lot of info about mead enhanced with heather for it's therapeutic effect. I was thinking a honey cacao mead would make a very nice drink. The book is on one of my backup drives somewhere, so I can't put my hand on it right now. I'll poke around for it and get back if I find it.

I was thinking the alcohol would help with solubility too, that's why I suggested the turbo yeast. After a bit of reflection I think a sugar brew made with turbo yeast wouldn't be very palatable even if the alcohol does help to get the actives into solution. Another way would be to try a water kefir ferment. Dom's Kefir has a good overview of using water kefir grains to enhance bio availabilty of ginseng and chinese angelica. Milk kefir was traditionally ferment with snow rose to enhance its medicinal value as well. Dom's Kefir - Tibicos Dom's Kefir