I don’t know if this will help anyone figure anything out :eek:, but it is something that took me a long time to realize.
I was between 5-7 years old when I found out that babies took 9 months. No one explained that it was “give or take” no, babies took 9 months. (They didn’t tell me how the babies were made, either.) I wrote out all the months and counted backwards. My birthday is September 25th, which counts back to Christmas day. I grabbed my sheet of paper and ran excitedly into the living room, shouting, “Mom! Mom! I was made on Christmas Day!!” A little perplexed, she said, “You were what?” I showed her my piece of paper, explained to her that babies took 9 months, and so I was made on Christmas day. My mother, bless her heart, tells me, "Honey, the word you want is “conceived.” " I was so excited, I ignored this big new word, and I shouted, “Yeah, that! I was that on Christmas day!!” She smiled fondly and said, “Yeah, that was the best Christmas present I ever got.” It took me about 10 years to figure out that it wasn’t ME she was talking about. :o :smack:
Thank you, I am so glad you said that! I have told my friends that cilantro has that weird taste, and they can’t taste it. I thought it was just me.
Mine tends to do that when I’m carrying Mom and her luggage. Due to the black hole in the middle it’s not evident how much it’s carrying, but the woman has been known to bring two suitcases, a full-body pillow and two overlarge sports bags (full of anything but sports equipment) for a six-nights trip.
And it’s not a hamster, it’s a pony. The hamster’s in the old laptop, silly.
Yep, peer reviewed and all. Not the whole thing about “subluxations”, that’s crap, but the actual manipulations.
Results : According to total Oswestry scores improvement in all patients at three years was about 29% more in those treated by chiropractors than in those treated by the hospitals. The beneficial effect of chiropractic on pain was particularly clear. …
Conclusions : At three years the results confirm the findings of an earlier report that when chiropractic or hospital therapists treat patients with low back pain as they would in day to day practice those treated by chiropractic derive more benefit and long term satisfaction than those treated by hospitals.
http://annals.org/article.aspx?volume=147&issue=7&page=478
*Recommendation 7: For patients who do not improve with self-care options, clinicians should consider the addition of nonpharmacologic therapy with proven benefits—for acute low back pain, spinal manipulation; for chronic or subacute low back pain, intensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation, exercise therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, spinal manipulation, yoga, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or progressive relaxation (weak recommendation, moderate-quality evidence).
For acute low back pain (duration <4 weeks), spinal manipulation administered by providers with appropriate training is associated with small to moderate short-term benefits (108). *
Now, let me be clear. Pain is very subjective and results have differed, some studies have shown only a small benefit. But as long as the Chiropractor is treating ONLY your moderate back pain, and it works for you, then it’s not a scam at all.
Subluxations? Very doubtful.
It’s like Acupuncture. Yes, it helps with pain. But, the crap about qi is bullshit.
To make things even stranger there is an herb apparently called culantro(I have only ever encountered it under the name shadow benny) that is supposed to taste similar to cilantro according to some sources. Now as a big fan of cilantro AND shadow benny I have to say that is nutso, they taste nothing alike!
As for the why, ever have your back cracked? It is basically like stretching strongly, your back feels a lot better afterward for a short while. I’d liken it to a massage.
Now as for curing ANYTHING ELSE(some chiros claim to cure all sorts of ailments) that is where the woo comes in.
Me too! I simply never learned “left - right” anywhere, home or school or otherwise. It wasn’t until I was pretty much grown-up that I started using the terms, and I still need to think about it.
Pardon if I missed it, but I don’t think I saw a response to this yet. Okay, you got the explanation of Fido, but nothing about Wells [del]Gofar[/del] Fargo.
The company was originally a stage coach transportation company. Y’know all those scenes you see in old Western movies with people traveling to/from the Far West in horse-drawn stage coaches? That’s the business Wells Fargo was. Photo of Wells Fargo stage coach in a museum.
Story goes, that got them involved in transporting gold from the California gold fields, and other valuables too – kinda like an early-day Fedex. They had to develop security measures to protect their cargo. Hence, the standard Hollywood Western memes of stage coach robberies, and the guy riding shotgun on the back. They got into storing people’s gold and other valuables, and their banking business grew out of that. Story goes.
So the slogan “You’ll go far…” plays off of their early-day transportation business.
Or similarly, that little fuel pump icon shows the hose on one side or the other, indicating which side the filler pipe is on.
But wasn’t that question beaten to death some time ago in some message board? Quite possibly even here on SDMB? (Sorry, not interested enough to go searching for it.) IIRC the consensus was, vehicle manufactures aren’t consistent about that. So, even if your car gets it right, you don’t know if your car manufacturer follows this convention or if they got it right just by happenstance (and we don’t really even know if there is such a convention). Am I remembering this right?
The icon with the arrow is always correct; that’s what it’s there for.
The icon with a fuel pump has a nozzle and hose on one side, and is not an indicator. It’s just telling you it’s the fuel gauge and will be right 50% of the time, probably.
This actually happened to me when I was about 7 years old. I was playing in the back yard, and my father was watering some plants. At one point he told me to turn off the water. He figured that I’d never done it before, so he said “Turn it to the right.” I looked at the damn thing and immediately understood that no matter how I moved the top, the bottom would move in the opposite direction. So I asked “Which part?” My father responded, impatiently, “Just turn it to the right.” And I asked “The top or the bottom?”/QUOTE]
What I hate is how the convention differs for differing things. For things like knobs, “to the left” means counterclockwise, but for dealing cards “to the left” means clockwise. I hate that. I know the convention but I have to think about it. “Lefty loosy, righty tighty” is for me just a mess. In French, it’s worse though, since the phrase for counterclockwise is “dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre,” *(in the inverse direction of the hands of a watch)*which is so long that it is rarely said. There is the shorter phrase, “sens horaire” that would work excpet that no one knows what that is.
It took me quite awhile to realize the couple of guys are playing Beethoven’s 5th on the pop machine and the weird old man is supposed to be Beethoven.
