Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3)

Laboratory testing indicates that Cheerios contain detectable glyphosate, which enters cereal grains like oats because they are often sprayed with it as a desiccant. Is “detectable” glyphosate dangerous? Who knows.

Hey, I had a misty beige Accord, an '87. Stripper name never occurred to me.

Sounds like a rather boring stripper.

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I’ve had several ocular migraines, which cause a scintillating distortion in the visual field, but I don’t think I should count that as a hallucination.

I saw a ghost one morning in an old hotel when I was lying in bed. I refuse to consider that it was a hallucination, certainly not due to a brain glitch in moving between sleeping & waking states. He was real, damn it. I voted no. The facts that nobody else has ever seen this particular ghost and I am not at all spiritual or psychic have nothing to do with anything.

One of my so-called “friend’s” used to make fun of the way I pronounced the word. However, again this is a word with two totally acceptable pronunciations, neither is wrong. About 60% of Americans use the KYOO way.

And hurting people and ruining friendships is why some people need to get over little insignificant shit like this.

I voted yes on the visual hallucinations; but I knew what I was seeing wasn’t there; at least, in any usual sense of being there.

I also voted “yes” on the visual hallucinations, though very rare, and almost all caused by semi-serious (36-48 hours) of sleep deprivation. Mostly things shifting in ways they couldn’t have naturally, but I was aware (intellectually) that it was going on, so this is possibly a borderline case.

Bring it! Wait until you see my collection of small cardboard boxes!

Never a visual hallucination, but I’ve had a handful of auditory hallucinations – the last one of those was years ago, though.

lol You animal! There’s no way I can keep up with that

I’ve often wondered why some people pronounce it that way. Obviously, they heard other people pronouncing it that way; but how did it get started? There’s nothing in the spelling of the word that would make me think to add a Y.

Lots of visual hallucinations during my one mushroom trip. otherwise, I don’t think so.

One weird visual hallucination (or visual effect, anyway) during my first migraine, which did not include a headache. Does that count?

One visual hallucination. Back in my yout, I foolishly went to an amusement park with a buddy after having worked all night. We spent all day doing nothing but riding roller coasters.

Driving home that night, in the dark, after being awake 24+ hours, the highway turned into a coaster in my mind. I don’t know how long the hallucination lasted, but I do know that I’m lucky to be alive and lucky not to have killed someone.

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Why do people add a Y sound in use, Utah, etc.? There’s nothing in the spelling that suggests a Y. (I don’t actually know the answer to this, but I suspect it’s the same reason.)

Do they nest, like those Russian dolls?

That is a spelling issue; not one of pronunciation. Both derive from the Spanish Yuta (which itself is no where close to the native Núuchi-u)

Okay: leave Utah aside. use is Latinate, and there’s no y-sound in the Latin or French cognates: same with union, cucumber, cube, etc. English ū somehow behave /ju/ (yoo) in many words, and I suspect that it spread to coupon by analogy with those.

Sorry. I just focused on Utah and felt the need to show off. I was thinking of the word Ute for the tribe. Lower case it is short for utility vehicle which also follows the weird pronunciation you describe.

When I was in my early 20s I did an enormous amount of LSD, so visual hallucinations were relatively common then. At 58 I’d be terrified to mess around with psychedelics - far too much emotional baggage at this stage of life.