Care to elaborate? I have a problem with unthinking kowtowing before power.
Maybe this isn’t quite the same thing, but we used to be friends with a couple…the wife was a major drama queen. She told us a tree falling against the house had knocked in the front door and smashed her entire thigh, leaving her unable to walk and bruised black and blue. When my wife went over to help and actually saw the leg, she had to ask where the bruise was. Another time, a cat had clawed her daughter in the eyeball, causing an emergency room visit. When I was over the next day, the kid had a little red spot on one cheekbone, literally less than an eighth of an inch long, which was dramatically pointed out to me as the injury.
They were otherwise great people, but the drama was tiring.
Which in your mind equates to allowing the police to enforce the law and to carry their equipment (e.g. guns) in places where this is required of them?
Yeah, but there’s a good chance the person may be responsible for their own disability, like the pregnant sluts, so just go for it. I’m with you. It’s disgusting the way some places try to be nice to certain people without being nice to me first. Fuck 'em.
Put me on the list of people who think handicapped spots are great, but all those other specialty spots are bullshit.
Spoken as a person with food allergies, I think there are several factors:
- Peanut butter sandwiches were poverty food 50-80 years ago. It’s likely those children may have had parasites which dampened the immune responses. Now peanut butter sandwiches are the default food for special snowflakes who won’t eat anything else.
- Kids just died for no apparent reason 80+ years ago. There was no Benadryl or anything to save a life, even if someone knew what was happening. Hence, they were gone from the gene pool.
- Shellfish was an extremely rare treat for inlanders until perhaps 50 years ago. Also, shellfish allergies and histamine reactions from slightly spoiled seafood present similarly, IIRC. Same with iodine allergies and seafood allergies.
- My own hypothesis is that people have GERD more often as weight issues increase, and that the acid associated damages the gut and lets more proteins seep into the blood stream without being totally digested.
And, I know that there was research being done about 20 years ago as to developing an allergen-free peanut. Most people were allergic to a single protein in the legume, and at the time, it seemed a very good idea. It’s an area of research, though, which I have not kept up on.
Beat me to it. Yes, this is what I meant.
I am neither rabidly pro- nor anti-police. But if the police are enforcing the law in a given area, the people in that area who might be breaking the law don’t get to tell them not to bring their guns with them. This is not kowtowing to power. It’s respecting civilized behavior, and not feeling entitled to break local laws whenever I want, even those laws I don’t particularly respect.
Reading this response, I’d like to shake your hand.
Yes, including the assumptions that their mission has much to do with enforcing just laws, and that they need be armed in the first place. It might be different in a context where police act as peace officers trained to deescalate situations, rather than an increasingly heavily-armed and militarized (despite decreased crime rates) army of occupation often protecting wealth and privilege. Although the situation wasn’t perfect by any means, police usually played the former role in the not-too-distant past in the US, and they still do in some places. It’s thus entirely plausible to re-imagine and remake the role of security services.
Do I get to tell cops, “We don’t allow badges or neckties here?”
I’m sorry your life is so bitter.
Speaking of parking spots, why is it that people get so worked up about them? You’ll see people passing dozens of empty spots to hunt or fight over a spot just a few paces away, and often this is at some mega-outlet mall where they’re about to spend a couple of hours walking multiple miles and waiting in multiple lines. But walking an extra hundred or so feet is somehow a big deal.
Eh, I remember a WSJ article from about 15 years ago on horror stories from Park and Forest Rangers.
#1: “There’s so many bugs, why aren’t you people spraying these woods?”
Another one about the two women that walking down a forest trail just minutes before sunset, got maybe half a mile before it got dark, then sat down, called the rangers and refused to budge until someone brought them flashlights. I’d have laughed and hung up.
I remember visiting Mesa Verde back in 1992-ish. To get to one of the kivas you had to hike up and down a rather steep trail with a small amount of climbing. Rather large woman in front of me loudly and angrily demanding that they install escalators. :smack:
In short, people are nasty, stupid, selfish little cunts and it is often amazing that we manage to have any kind of functioning society at all.
qft
Actually, food allergies were somewhat common then, but the symptoms were not as severe and the foods were less common- shellfish is a common allergen.
1-4% of Americans have a peanut or tree nut allergy.
http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(03)02026-8/abstract?cc=y
http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(10)00575-0/abstract
“Allergy to peanuts and tree nuts (TNs) is the leading cause of fatal allergic reactions in the United States, and the prevalence appears to be increasing.”
Causes could be application of peanut oil to skin during early years or soy-milk formulae.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013536#t=articleResults
- “It is likely that children with allergy to cow’s milk or with eczema are at increased risk for food allergies, and soy consumption in infancy is increased in response to these atopic disorders…In contrast, analysis of data on creams applied to the infant’s skin revealed that 84 percent of the children who were allergic to peanuts and 91 percent of those with a positive peanut-challenge test had been exposed to creams containing peanut oil during the first six months of life …The apparent recent increase in the prevalence of peanut allergy has been difficult to explain, although it parallels an overall increase in allergic diseases of childhood.5 We found that, in a cohort of preschool children, peanut allergy proved by double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge had important associations, which persisted after adjustment for other factors, with a family history of peanut allergy, consumption of soy by the infant, early onset of eczema, other rashes with oozing and crusting, and exposure to topical preparations containing peanut oil.”*
Apparently it could be that kids get rashes, rashes are treated with salve with peanut oil, this leads to allergy?
But note again- only about 1% of kids really have a significant peanut allergy.
I’m certainly wondering what’s wrong with **ZPG Zealot ** now.
I presume the Occupy people were in a city park and not their private residence? So what makes you think they are in any position to tell city employees (e.g. “cops”) what equipment they can or cannot take onto city property in execution of their duties?
Don’t be. Her life isn’t bitter. Her life is wonderous and joyous and it spills over onto this board and brings a smile to my face everytime I read one of her posts.
People are idiots.
But I do agree about the special parking spots. That is bullshit. I deliberately park in those spots and then when I get out of the car I loudly announce to the world that I don’t have a handicap and nor am I pregnant and if people don’t like it they can go fuck a cactus. Once in a while some schmo will come up and try to protest but I just stare them down until they back down and then I stalk them around the store taking every chance I can to stare them down some more.
A couple of times the cops have shown up but I just stare at them and tell them their badges and guns have no authority here and they should just bugger off. And like the little bitches that they are they do because they know not to mess with me.
yeah, but sitting around in a public park trying to tell uniformed police officers to leave because you “don’t allow guns here” is really clueless. And typical of your average young slacktivist.
