Oops… I thought you knew!
I do know that, on occasion, a phlebotomy of this type will result in a fluttering sensation, as the vein partially collapses. That would seem to be a result of the vacuum…
Off to General Questions!
My friend once told me she had poor eyesight growing up, and she was 9 or 10 years old before she realized that grass is made of individual blades growing close together. She’d always assumed it was just a layer of fuzzy fluff.
That’s pretty astounding. Did your friend never, before the age of 9 or 10, play on the grass, roll in it, like kids do? It doesn’t take very good eyesight to feel the blades between your fingers, or even to see them when your face is right down there.
I’ve heard people say similar things about noticing that trees have lots of individual leaves instead of a big wad of green fluff but I’d always assumed it was hyperbole. Was your friend really serious?
The one that my grandmother used came with a spotlight with a rotating color head. You’d set the spotlight under the tree, to one side, and it would project colored light to sparkle on the aluminum.
The bottom half of the center of the tree was wood, spray painted silver. I guess it was cheaper than the aluminum.
Well, I didn’t say they were idiot-proof. We just put a rotating colored light under it.
Besides, there would be no risk of electrocution unless there was something very wrong with your lights. And even then, I would have to see some evidence that more people were electrocuted (from licking the tree?) than were burned in fires started in dry trees.
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I’m attending the World Tea Expo next week, and one of the seminars is entitled “TDS in RTD: How Much is Enough?” From the description, it’s clear that RTD is ready-to-drink tea. TDS, on the other hand, has many possible meanings. I think it means total dissolved solids in this case, but I’m not really sure.
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In my expert opinion, they just spelled STD wrong.
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:798, topic:615416”]
I’m attending the World Tea Expo next week, and one of the seminars is entitled “TDS in RTD: How Much is Enough?” From the description, it’s clear that RTD is ready-to-drink tea. TDS, on the other hand, has many possible meanings. I think it means total dissolved solids in this case, but I’m not really sure.
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Sorry to thread jack, but though I am sure I cannot attend this expo, is there any information on what’s to be discussed, and the possibility of reading/listening to the talks / seminars?
Of course, I bet I’m nit the only person who would enjoy reading a thread about the expo, tea is quite interesting IMHO.
If you do make a thread, or wish to publicly (orr privately) share your talk, please ping me for an interested listener.
Best wishes at the expo, hopefully it’ll be great.
If its the one in Japan in June, I think there is a guy on another forum attending and speaking there as well.
According to the mob over in General Questions, it’s due to the (partial) vacuum in the tube. Whew… You were right, and my lab tech was wrong…
A coworker asked me about his idea of changing careers. He thinks he would make a good psychotherapist because his friends are always telling him he is a good listener.
I silently disagreed with this, but let him continue.
“How hard can it be? All you have to do is just sit there and go ‘mmm,hmm’, ‘yes, that’s good,’ and ‘Can you tell me more about that?’”
Me: “Um, that’s not true at all. Psychotherapists give advice too.”
Him (very sincerely): “No way! If you ask them what you should do, all they do is turn the question back on you. That’s how it was when my kids were in therapy. It’s against their ethics or something.”
I had to explain to him that good therapists actually do more than act as an echo chamber, and good patients seek out people like this. They don’t want someone who will only agree with them since if all their ideas were good ones, then they wouldn’t need to be in therapy This guy, who is seriously considering going to school to become a therapist, was totally unaware of this.
He also didn’t know what a modality is. CBT? He’d never heard of it. He didn’t know that psychologists have a Ph.D either.
It wouldn’t have blown me away if he’d had a little smirk on his face or some other sign showing he was pulling my leg. But he seemed 100% genuine in his cluelessness. This isn’t a whippersnapper either. But a guy in his 50s.
Cherry ketchup sounds intriguing. I read through the recipe and thought: This is what I always would have called chutney. I used to make a plum chutney rather similar to this.
The Ethiopian recipe is called ketchup only figuratively in that it’s a wet reddish table condiment. Awaze is basically a spiced wine sauce, emphasis on the spice.
In Malay and Indonesian language, ketchup is simply the word for soy sauce. Except they spell it kicap. I read somewhere that soy sauce was originally invented as a vegetarian alternative to fermented fish sauce, the original ke-tsiap of China.
My experience is the same as your coworker’s for the most part. I know, or at least I have heard, that some therapists actually do something but I have never seen one that did. Most of them just do exactly as your coworker described. I wanted one that would give advice or do something other than nod and fill out papers but just gave up after many attempts. I know now that CBT practitioners are active but I don’t need one now and most practitioners don’t specialize in CBT.
I knew trees had individual leaves. But until I got my first pair of glasses at about 8 y.o., I didn’t know that other people could see them from more than a foot or so away.
My dad had the opposite experience. He’d go to therapy but the therapist would do all the talking.
Yes, she was entirely serious. I guess the way she was raised good little girls are not to get their nice white gloves all grass-stained and so are not allowed to play down on the ground. Sit up properly at a table and pour tea for your dolls, is more like it. I guess.
We had one of those. It was extremely useful in my early days as a rock-star-in-training.
I get this all the time, in Denmark, except they insist there are 48 states. My stepson told me that his teacher taught them this and I corrected him. He went back to her and she told him that it’s amazing that “he doesn’t know anything about where he’s from”. :smack: The stupid HURTS!
This was the same school where the same kid was learning English and asked to do an exercise to make sure verbs are in the right form, plural or singular. So- “The boy (was, were) eating ice cream.” Circle one. He asked me how to determine the correct answer, and being unaware of the staggering ignorance of his English teacher, I tried the Socratic method- “Well, what did your teacher tell you?” She told them “whichever SOUNDS better.” He said she would even belittle students with wrong answers saying “Does that REALLY sound right to you?”
Not surprisingly, he asked me at age 15, who Hitler was (we’re in Europe, part of this country borders Germany!), and what Jews were. Imagine his surprise.
I swore to myself I would reply only after reading entire thread. This far in, I’m not sure if I can slog through all that stupid.
I have a psychiatrist who agrees with every decision I make. Which I don’t mind, since I’m not there but for five minutes anyway.
But my psychotherapist is different. Maybe it’s because I’ve been going to her for some time now, but she gives me advice and tells me I’m wrong all the time. If she were not like this, I wouldn’t be wasting my time with her.
So what does it mean? I only recognize the acronym as a form of BDSM, meaning “c**k & ball torture”.
I have been in psychoanalysis for an extended periods of time with two therapist and they certainly do more than listen. They do try to make the patient do the work but they help by offering suggestions to the meaning of thoughts and behavior so triggers can be discovered, behavior can be modified etc. I can’t imagine it would be helpful to simply have someone nod and smile. One could use their bff for that. I have always sought out a specialist in psychoanalysis and I wonder if it makes a difference rather than just be referred to a “therapist” by an insurance company or internet ad.