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[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Opie

I specifically posted a relevant article without context, the articles contents speak for themselves, and immediately others made assumptions and posted characterizations for no reason. This isn't on me.

Context is in your well-known position on the subject. We've been here reading your posts all along. Shall we call the waambulance?

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i always challenged my parents to send off the stuff i didn't want to africa. they attempted to teach me about supply chain difficulties. so i threw my brussel sprouts in the garbage.

I was one of those weird kids that always liked brussel sprouts. Nowadays....brussel sprouts roasted with chopped bacon, then drizzled with honey, coarse Dijon, and goat cheese...one of my favorite pub snacks of all time.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

I was one of those weird kids that always liked brussel sprouts. Nowadays....brussel sprouts roasted with chopped bacon, then drizzled with honey, coarse Dijon, and goat cheese...one of my favorite pub snacks of all time.

i'd be willing to try them like that. with bacon, how can it be bad?!?

no, they were always served to me 'steamed', as in boiled in water until they were so soft that they'd fall entirely apart in the transition from the water to the serving bowl-i'd have to use a spoon to get the pieces.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by soundman98

i'd be willing to try them like that. with bacon, how can it be bad?!?

no, they were always served to me 'steamed', as in boiled in water until they were so soft that they'd fall entirely apart in the transition from the water to the serving bowl-i'd have to use a spoon to get the pieces.

Cooking ANY vegetable until it's mushy should automatically disqualify anyone from further contact with vegetables in the kitchen. I used to think I hated spinach as a kid. I was wrong... I just hated overcooked, punished spinach.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

I was one of those weird kids that always liked brussel sprouts. Nowadays....brussel sprouts roasted with chopped bacon, then drizzled with honey, coarse Dijon, and goat cheese...one of my favorite pub snacks of all time.

Maple syrup is better than honey... In this context.

[Opie]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Actually it is on you.

Sorry, but other people's assumptions are their own, not mine. I posted the article for it's content in the related topic post. Any jackwad that doesn't rear past the headline is a subject for another post.

Go get 10 boosters and wear a mask for the rest of your life, I really don't care.

[Opie]

Originally Posted by Spuds

I thought you intentionally picked an article with a misleading headline to join in on the prior conversation. Besides, if you don't want commentary, I would advise against posting an article to a public forum.

Commentary is one thing, assumptions are another. It's pretty simple.

[Opie]

Here's another:

Vaccines give good protection against Delta, and fully vaccinated people with a previous COVID-19 infection are the best-protected group, real-world data shows

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Opie

Commentary is one thing, assumptions are another. It's pretty simple.

I honestly don't understand what assumptions you are referring to.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

Headline..

"FDA Warns Against Ivermectin As COVID Treatment."

https://www.foxnews.com/health/fda-w...ovid-treatment

Then, like the other article previously linked, the article clarifies the headline by stating that the caution is against self-medicating and against using formulations not intended for human consumption. In the last paragraph it did state, "Consumers with an ivermectin prescription for an approved use should take the drug exactly as prescribed, the FDA said." Including the fact that "many studies have shown possible benefits to ivermectin usage in a controlled setting under a doctor's care, but the WHO has not found those studies conclusive," and maybe altering the headline to "FDA Warns Against Self-Medicating With Veterinary Ivermectin As COVID Treatment," would have been more accurate, responsible reporting of facts, or in other words, journalism.

It is, of course, remarkable and disheartening that the FDA feels that such a warning is even necessary...are there really that many people ingesting veterinary preparations? The article mentions percentages but no hard numbers. Also disheartening that the headline can lead one to believe that ivermectin should never be used to treat COVID, regardless of setting or current and past studies. That may indeed be the FDA's position, as the quoted sentence above includes the phrase "for an APPROVED use," (emphasis mine), but physicians are still clinically studying its efficacy.

OK, time for another back-in-the-day story.

Back on the farm, when I was about 10 years old, I was terribly skinny. One of my uncles stated at a Sunday dinner table that I must have a tape worm that made me that skinny.

In a set of encyclopedias, that another uncle had left at our farm, I looked up tape worms in humans. Dang, there was such a thing that could live inside humans and absorb lots of nutrients. The longest on record was 20 some feet long!

I just knew that's what I had -

The very next week we were "worming" the hogs. My grandfather was pouring the wormer (which came in a dark brown glass one gallon jug) into the hog waterer. I was curious as to how much he knew to add to each waterer. He said 8 "glugs". That turned the water sort of a purple.

Within a couple of days, I noticed that the floors of the hog pens were covered with white worms about 6" in length that the hogs had pooped out.

Yep, you guessed it, I decided to worm myself. I had watched the hogs drink water and knew about how much they drank a day (because I was the one who had to fill up the hog waterers with a hand cranked chain type pump on top of the cistern).

So, since I weighed about as much as a small hog, I figured I should drink about 3 tin cups full of the treated water to get rid of my tape worms.

I did that and checked my poop for the next few days for worms. I never did find any -

THE END

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Lol, we said the same thing. Then you realize that if you sent it to Africa it would spoil before it gets there. The lesson is eat what's prepared in front of you and be grateful for it, or the cookie jar is getting hidden somewhere you can't reach.

My parents were concerned about the starving kids in "China" - go figure -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

I was one of those weird kids that always liked brussel sprouts. Nowadays....brussel sprouts roasted with chopped bacon, then drizzled with honey, coarse Dijon, and goat cheese...one of my favorite pub snacks of all time.

I always figured there was something from your childhood that made you weird, now I know -

[spike021]

Originally Posted by humfrz

OK, time for another back-in-the-day story.
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THE END

So what you're saying is, you put some "sludge" in your body and all these years you are (mostly?) normal???

Wow, and people are concerned with a shot of liquid that years of research and millions of dollars have gone into, made specifically for people, not hogs, by talented people!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by humfrz

My parents were concerned about the starving kids in "China" - go figure -

That's another common one lol.