The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[MillieDynamite]

Good lord, it's already afternoon and I'm just getting here. WTF is wrong with me. Okay, a quick cupacoffee and back to it.

 

[HyunnaPark]

But the good thing is I can toss all the corporate bullshit and tell them to screw themselves.

I deprioritized my current action item in order to reallocate my time capital to a production spike effort that should recognize synergies with future strategic projects.

Translation: Chasing new plot bunny

 

[sirhugs]

I deprioritized my current action item in order to reallocate my time capital to a production spike effort that should recognize synergies with future strategic projects.

Translation: Chasing new plot bunny

did you try seeding the traps with carrots?

 

[ChloeTzang]

did you try seeding the traps with carrots?

First you need to make sure it's an actual bunny and NOT a wild goose. LOL

 

[HyunnaPark]

First you need to make sure it's an actual bunny and NOT a wild goose. LOL

Sexxi Foxx's twin sister arrives unexpectedly. Plot bunny? Or wild goose?

 

[NotWise]

Sexxi Foxx's twin sister arrives unexpectedly. Plot bunny? Or wild goose?

Depends on who gets goosed, I think.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Guys I don't know where this belongs but

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009641585928175832

 

[TheLobster]

Guys I don't know where this belongs but

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009641585928175832

Christ, that's brutal. Poor rhino had no chance.

 

[sirhugs]

First you need to make sure it's an actual bunny and NOT a wild goose. LOL

geese don't eat carrots, silly

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's another gray morning with rain expected before the cold gets here tonight. I got the results of my blood work back and my overall cholesterol is just fine despite HDL being a bit low and LDL and Triglycerides being a bit high. I don't understand why he keeps insisting that I need to take any statins. The side affects are horrible and I refuse to take them.

For now, I've got a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is boiling. I'm having a cup of Earl Grey to go with the doughnut I got off the counter. There is some cornbread and some birthday cupcakes there, too.

I'll be over in the corner, once again trying to rationalize my need to write stories that nobody wants to read. Oh, well, my Muse wants me to write so I guess I'd better get to it ...

 

[old_prof]

I'll be over in the corner, once again trying to rationalize my need to write stories that nobody wants to read. Oh, well, my Muse wants me to write so I guess I'd better get to it ...

Some of us like to read them!

 

[MrPixel]

...statins. The side affects are horrible and I refuse to take them.

I waged this same battle for many years, and avoiding it altogether earned me a near-"widowmaker" heart attack (99% blockage in the LAD - left anterior descending artery) and a stent.

Not all statins are the same. What have you tried? I had big problems with Lipitor (atorvastatin) and bigger problems with Crestor (rosuvastatin), the latter almost earning me an ambulance ride. Currently on the lowest-dose simvastatin (Zocor) combined with Zetia (ezetimibe, not a statin) with no obvious side effects and excellent lipids numbers.

I've also researched other statins specifically formulated for reduced side effects, although they are rarely prescribed because they are expensive. So "rare" that my cardiologist didn't even know about them and I blew his mind with what I had found.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I am sitting in a training session about microaggressions in discrimination.

So far today, I've been given a "gluten free" lunch that contained unlabeled pasta that nobody could determine the gluten status of, given a chair that didnt have a place to put a cane, and had to navigate an unheated access hallway to find the elevator.

10/10, no notes.

I remember a parasitology prof, two minutes into the opening lecture, asking those present to raise their hand if they were also taking microbiology. Some of us did. He then asked who was also taking mycology (fungi, if you didn't know). Some hands went up.

He sadly shook his head and remarked that he pitied those who were taking all three. By the end of the year, he said, such poor creatures would be afraid to eat or drink anything not from a can or bottle and wouldn't be able to make themselves touch a doorknob. "As for your love life..." he muttered.

The entire concept of microaggressions is like that. There is absolutely nothing that some individual in any group cannot find upsetting and the more we scratch at it, the more people find themselves micro-traumatized. Which, of course, only proves the need for more lessons, more guidelines and more HR drones.

 

[MillieDynamite]

It's cold outside. My office is the warmest room in the house. I'm in here writing, Cat's in here to stay warm, Donnie's in here to be with Cat, and Jo deserted us to work on a classic car for a friend of ours. I'm having to share the keyboard with Cat, who keeps '/[.[-p,l0omi9nuybygv6trdwzq walking across the keyboard.qzxx23rf3t5vrt56h57bg Damn, bitch that she is. What's good in the pot today?

=/l08ujmnh6rfvc

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I waged this same battle for many years, and avoiding it altogether earned me a near-"widowmaker" heart attack (99% blockage in the LAD - left anterior descending artery) and a stent.

Not all statins are the same. What have you tried? I had big problems with Lipitor (atorvastatin) and bigger problems with Crestor (rosuvastatin), the latter almost earning me an ambulance ride. Currently on the lowest-dose simvastatin (Zocor) combined with Zetia (ezetimibe, not a statin) with no obvious side effects and excellent lipids numbers.

I've also researched other statins specifically formulated for reduced side effects, although they are rarely prescribed because they are expensive. So "rare" that my cardiologist didn't even know about them and I blew his mind with what I had found.

I've tried Lopid (Gemfibrozil) and Lipitor (Atorvastatin) and both of them cause bad side effects. I will bring up the Zocor with my doctor.

 

[stickygirl]

Yeuch
The ghast of Christmas past. In the UK there are a couple of traditional confections, and out neighbour gave us Qulaity Street. They're individually wrapped bite-sized sweets like caramel choc, strawberry mush, toffee stick. I had foolishly forgotten how revolting they are - it's not something you notice immediately, though they are unremarkable and far from being a treat. It's only an hour later when they repeat on you and all you get is vomit flavour.
The rest went in the bin. Ghastly

 

[stickygirl]

I've tried Lopid (Gemfibrozil) and Lipitor (Atorvastatin) and both of them cause bad side effects. I will bring up the Zocor with my doctor.

If statins are so great, how come they can't make a single one without noxious side effects?

 

[MrPixel]

If statins are so great, how come they can't make a single one without noxious side effects?

Short version, they play games with liver enzymes and muscle tissue, and some are better than others about controlling the damage. Side effect I'm dealing with is increased propensity for Type 2 diabetes. We're managing. I probably need to have "the talk" with the cardiologist about going back on one of the expensive ones.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Yeuch
The ghast of Christmas past. In the UK there are a couple of traditional confections, and out neighbour gave us Qulaity Street. They're individually wrapped bite-sized sweets like caramel choc, strawberry mush, toffee stick. I had foolishly forgotten how revolting they are - it's not something you notice immediately, though they are unremarkable and far from being a treat. It's only an hour later when they repeat on you and all you get is vomit flavour.
The rest went in the bin. Ghastly

Low-Quality Street is the clearest example of enshittification in action, alongside shrinkflation.

They hardly bothered getting any in the shops this year, after so many were left over last year. And Terry's Chocolate Oranges are no longer a staple of every Christmas stocking, because they're half hollow as well as shit.

So far, Bendicks (Bittermints and Mint Selection) have resisted enshittification, though I'm sure they were bigger when I was little. But they're on offer before Christmas and definitely better than sticky After Eights, which have been taken over by Nestlé.

 

[MrPixel]

which have been taken over by Nestlé.

Nestlé has done a very good job of crapping on nearly every popular brand of chocolates, at least on this side of the pond. Makes me think ill of the Swiss and other Eurozone corporate holding companies that have enshittified US brands like Panera Bread and Budweiser.

 

[NotWise]

Yeuch
The ghast of Christmas past. In the UK there are a couple of traditional confections, and out neighbour gave us Qulaity Street. They're individually wrapped bite-sized sweets like caramel choc, strawberry mush, toffee stick. I had foolishly forgotten how revolting they are - it's not something you notice immediately, though they are unremarkable and far from being a treat. It's only an hour later when they repeat on you and all you get is vomit flavour.
The rest went in the bin. Ghastly

Ever read Gravity's Rainbow? I think a lot of people don't get through the opening, but after the opening there's a scene about English candies that's one of the funniest things I've ever read. I read it by lamp light while camping alone (at the mountain lake described in Breaking from Tradition). I laughed loud enough to keep the coyotes far away.

 

[stickygirl]

Nestlé has done a very good job of crapping on nearly every popular brand of chocolates, at least on this side of the pond. Makes me think ill of the Swiss and other Eurozone corporate holding companies that have enshittified US brands like Panera Bread and Budweiser.

Nestle is famous for crapping on plenty things - like stealing water supplies and selling tap water as mineral water. They're the Jeff Bezos of the food world.
( oh dear - I hope this isn't too political )

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Nestle is famous for crapping on plenty things - like stealing water supplies and selling tap water as mineral water. They're the Jeff Bezos of the food world.
( oh dear - I hope this isn't too political )

Yeah, I've been vaguely boycotting them since becoming aware of Baby Milk Action as a student, but it's hardly ever been a hardship to avoid KitKats and the obvious-logoed cereals and crap instant coffee in favour of others. Life's too short to trace the lineage of every item in the supermarket, though.

My kid alerted me to them having taken over After Eights (no hardship given better alternatives like Lidl or Bendicks), and then apparently Haagen-Dazs, which I do like, but kid wants other brands. Luckily supermarket ice-cream is now tastier as well as cheaper.

But

... Makes me think ill of the Swiss and other Eurozone corporate holding companies that have enshittified US brands like Panera Bread and Budweiser.

You mean US Bud wasn't always 'sex in a canoe' and Panera Bread isn't just a pretentious Subway??

Sorry, couldn't resist. I have to admit I've never eaten at a Panera, though apparently one has opened here. Are they worth it or just sweet bread with seeds and cheap sweet filler?

 

[MrPixel]

You mean US Bud wasn't always 'sex in a canoe' and Panera Bread isn't just a pretentious Subway??

We live in the (much) greater St. Louis metro region. AB/Inbev has been doing a whole bunch of shit to dilute the brand, especially community presence. Their main beer was always horse piss (Clydesdales, you know), but the positive side of their business here is sorely missed. They were sort of family. Not now.

Panera (initially known as St. Louis Bread Company) was once a purveyor of quality breads and other baked goods. The ownership changes imposed about three years ago were shocking in the reduction of quality and the shift to meal items over the bakery variety, not to mention the OMG price increases. Haven't been to the local store after sampling the changes on two occasions. It's sad.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Toilet was running.


I caught it though.