# Make Iceland feel better :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089 "2004-12-29T14:02:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/21 "2004-12-29T20:28:28Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > Ok, the chocolate, champagne, and women I can understand - but how will bananas make him feel better? :dubious: > > Is there something about bananas I don’t know? What else haven’t you told me! Whoa, dude, didn’t you [know](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020426.html)? It’s all in the peel, man, all in the peel. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/22 "2004-12-29T20:37:17Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Not true at all. This is a _diverse_ messageboard. Many, if not most of our most prolific posters are Christians or believe in God. Um, I think you are confusing “secular” with “atheistic” or something… Secular - 1 a : of or relating to the worldly or temporal b : not overtly or specifically religious c : not ecclesiastical or clerical I think this board fits the definition of “secular” quite well. It isn’t here for a religious purpose, therefore it is secular. Doesn’t mean or imply nothing religious ever happens here, or that the members themselves aren’t religious. Just that the board’s purpose isn’t religious. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/23 "2004-12-29T20:46:35Z")
Lurk more. Read the rules (here: [FAQ - guidelines for posting at the SDMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106617). Read some old threads (start here: [Watershed moments in SDMB history; or, the SDMB Anthology Project](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=118749). Because, really: if you thought your MPSIMS Christmas thread was appropriate, if you thought the awards thread was a good idea, and if you think **this** thread is a good idea, then you don’t know enough about the SDMB, its rules, and its history. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/24 "2004-12-29T21:14:03Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > Ok, the chocolate, champagne, and women I can understand - but how will bananas make him feel better? I heard somewhere that bananas make people feel happy(they contain serotonin or some such). However a google and a wikipedia search prove that I was wrong, bananas are not a naturall antidepressant. But they are sweet, pleasant to chew and are very nutricous so **iceland** should eat some anyway. Another good thing to do in the winter is switch to brighter lightbulbs and generally have more of them working. And if this doesn’t help then a Rolling Stones song may contain the answer to all **Iceland’s** troubles: And though she’s not really ill There’s a little yellow pill… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/25 "2004-12-29T21:29:09Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Occasionally a bit **off-color**! 😛 > > Seriously, “secular”/“Christian” is not a line I’m comfortable with – the people of this board, **without exception** , have moral standards by which they live. Many are one variety of another of Christian, some are Jewish, some are Pagan, a couple or Muslim, some are Christian or other religious humanists, some are agnostic humanists, some are atheist humanists, some are epicureans, some are stoics, and there’s at least one libertarian objectivist Christian. If one does not **live out** one’s moral beliefs, then one could practically be said not to have any. That the moral standards of another don’t happen to fit some given member’s definition of “morality” is tough titties for that member. I wish I still lived in NC. I want to hang out with you. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/26 "2004-12-29T22:10:30Z")
> [@faldureon](#): > > I heard somewhere that bananas make people feel happy(they contain serotonin or some such). However a google and a wikipedia search prove that I was wrong, bananas are not a naturall antidepressant. But they are sweet, pleasant to chew and are very nutricous so **iceland** should eat some anyway. They are the most radioactive of all foods, beating out Mr. Potato by a good margin. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/27 "2004-12-29T22:18:55Z")
I, for one, welcome our new yellow potassium-enriched overlords… ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/28 "2004-12-29T22:36:12Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > They [bananas] are the most radioactive of all foods, beating out Mr. Potato by a good margin. If you scroll down to the middle of this [page](http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm), there’s a table of radioactivity levels of some common foods. It looks to me like Brazil nuts are considerably more radioactive than bananas in terms of picocuries per kilogram (although, it does seem probable that most people eat a far larger mass of bananas than brazil nuts over the course of their lifetimes and thus bananas may be the more significant source of exposure to some radionuclides). ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/29 "2004-12-29T23:05:08Z")
Sometimes the best way to avoid depressing failure is to stick for a while to things you’re good at. Just be careful not to get banned in the process. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/30 "2004-12-30T00:01:50Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I, for one, welcome our new yellow potassium-enriched overlords… I’m joining the insurgance. Some innocent fruit may have to be pulped in the name of keeping the herbs which call themselves fruit from destroying our way of life, but that is the price we must pay! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/31 "2004-12-30T00:11:15Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > This message board is NOT meant to be, nor should it be used for, psychiatric therapy. Do not use the SDMB as a substitute for headshrinking. Do not taunt Happy Fun SDMB. > > Lynn > For the Straight Dope \ Now, tell me about your father… ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/32 "2004-12-30T00:13:11Z")
> [@chukhung](#): > > If you scroll down to the middle of this [page](http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm), there’s a table of radioactivity levels of some common foods. It looks to me like Brazil nuts are considerably more radioactive than bananas in terms of picocuries per kilogram (although, it does seem probable that most people eat a far larger mass of bananas than brazil nuts over the course of their lifetimes and thus bananas may be the more significant source of exposure to some radionuclides). Come now, Brazil nuts are tiny, like 1/8th of an ounce. You have a hefty 7 ounce banana, well, it’s going to have like 20 times the radioactivity of a nut. Sure, you have to be careful of large groups of nuts, but man, if the bananas get in a bunch…watch out! ---
**Author:** ![Apricot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@Apricot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apricot)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/33 "2004-12-30T00:33:35Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > Ok, the chocolate, champagne, and women I can understand - but how will bananas make him feel better? :dubious: I assumed he was constipated. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/34 "2004-12-30T00:47:41Z")
Cool capital name. Nice mythology. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089/35 "2004-12-30T01:15:15Z")
Time to cork this whine . . . past time. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-iceland-feel-better/282089.md?page=1)