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I read a diet book by the Three’s Company actress in the 1990s, and her scientific theory seemed to work better for me than the standard nutritional advice of the time to eat less fat and more carbohydrates.
Nah, Suzanne Somers said, you want to eat more protein and fat (and complex carbs like vegetables) because (at least for a lot of people), eating simple carbohydrates like Cheerios just makes you hungrier. All those simple carbs hit your stomach and your stomach responds with more acids to digest them quickly, which feels like hunger pangs, so you eat one more bowl of Cheerios, or two or three more.
Is this Valid Science? Beats me, but it sure sounded to me like a good explanation why I was getting fatter following the diet advice in the kind of orthodox 1990s Science of Nutrition articles run in The Atlantic Monthly.
And ever since I read her book, I’ve found it easier to not balloon up as much.
Thanks.
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Suzanne here, Suzanne there
But she was immortalized by this:
https://archive.ph/ParPWReplies: @Slim
Susanne Somers movies were the good old times. No quota Blacks, no Hispanic majorities, husbands' salaries could feed an affluent family with dumb teens who can roam around safely, except for their own dumb mistakes
and no mandatory seat beltsReplies: @bomag
She had surprisingly strong comedy chops coming out of the gate! Her comedic timing was always right on the money. She was certainly as valuable an asset as John Ritter, and looking back, it’s clear she was right to ask for closer to equal pay as Ritter’s, which got her fired, with the cast and producers trying to turn her into a pariah.
Throughout the negotiations and firing, even John Ritter was a douchebag.
Afterwards, the series was never near the same quality.
Here’s the first episode of the first season when everyone worked great together, in no small part due to Suzanne…
No she never lived up to her comedic talent.
She and Ritter formed one of those mixed sex comedy duos that people,specially women,are drawn to,with Ritter's " Bob Hope" taking on Somers' well,Judy Holliday?
Yes,TC was dumb,but unafraid to go for the jokes,and the jokes came one after another.
Every show can't be "Breaking Bad." Though I did have a lot of laughs sometimes.😮
Sexual misunderstandings! Oh brother!
Another guy who fought this battle was Carroll O'Conner,
who grew to hate Norman Lear for his crooked ways. But O'Connor swallowed his pride and hung in there.
So a pudgy,2nd tier character actor became one of TVs funniest guys,evuh!Replies: @Jonathan Mason
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Anonymous, @ex-banker, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Mr. Anon
I remember watching Three's Company a few times when I was young, because it was risque and it had two good looking women. But even then, I recognized that it was nothing but salacious trash.Replies: @Anonymous
The power of liberalism
Black South Africans were so impressed by this noble act that they ceased all racial attacks on whites. Well, maybe not, but it would have been really something if that had been the case.Replies: @Frau Katze
The attacks have turned even peace-loving lefties in Israel into fire-breathing Kahanists, though. Still, there'll always be a few deluded Jews (and more in the US, of course). And you can bet the BBC will find them.
..Sounds like the Atkins diet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXnuYDGQdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf37iSpBk5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mV_l-KJios
But she was immortalized by this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofuXWGnfjjoReplies: @HammerJack, @4HONESTY.com
Also this: wickedest theatrical notice ever.
https://archive.ph/ParPW
Honestly I mostly remember her as Chrissy from the numerous reruns of Three’s Company. She was a successful business woman later in life but what most impressed me was reading that she’d fought breast cancer for over twenty years. She probably learned a lot about nutrition that way.
Slightly OT, I’ve discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we’re very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I’ve also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It’s not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.
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There are cases of metastatic breast cancer which can be contained for that length of time, but that's unusual for cancers which go stage iv. Maybe 4% of stage iv patients last that long. (Fewer than 20% of breast cancer patients go stage iv).
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I'm going to wager she was successfully treated in 2000-01 and healthy for the next 20 years, but that the cancer resurfaced and killed her. Unless the recurrence is localized (and it typically isn't), your life expectancy if it resurfaces is about 2 or 3 years. Breast cancer is not particularly lethal compared to other cancers and north of 80% survive it, but it has the unfortunate property of being able to resurface at any time. The annual relapse rate slowly declines for the first 15 years after your treatments, but after that it's a constant, so you're never over it. We were told by the medical oncologist at the conclusion of the course of treatment, "My next patient has had a recurrence after 20 years. You need to know that can happen.".Replies: @Thoughts, @Frau Katze
To find your magnesium dose, slowly up your dose, say 10% per day, until you get the effect you're after (e.g. relief of muscle tension), then hold steady. If you're not sure the effect you want will be readily & immediately noticeable, and you want to be taking the near maximum amount you can absorb, then up the dose until you get GI symptoms, then dial it down 10-20% / until the GI symptoms go away.
Note also magnesium comes in different forms (citrate, glycinate, ...) and different people tolerate the different forms better or worse.
Research interactions. Magnesium supplementation may interfere with antibiotics. If you're taking a lot of zinc close to the magnesium, that may inhibit the magnesium absorption (i.e. lower your tolerated magnesium dose).Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @Cool Shoes
Have you ever considered transdermal magnesium?
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Bad (Not Well Absorbed):
Oxide
Hydroxide
Carbonate
Sulphate
Good:
Citrate - easily absorbed - has laxative effect
Threonate - absorbed in the brain
Bisglysonate - non-laxative effect - if it has has glycine, has no laxative effect
Orotate - good for pro athletes - improves energy
Taurate - blood sugar issues - good if you’re diabetic
Malate - helps against fiber myalgia
You can stay perfectly thin on a diet of mostly carbs, as long as they’re from whole foods. The problem is people are getting their carbs from processed and prepackaged foods that are calorically dense, which gets them addicted to calorically dense meals, and eventually they never feel satiety. The average American eats fast food three times per week–if you cut that out you can have all the whole grain bread and pasta you want at home.
@Steve Sailer: Cheerios are complex carbs (oats). Processed foods usually have high caloric density and digest quickly. This can spike your blood sugar and stimulate insulin, leading to a blood sugar crash and hunger. In my observation, sedentary people do not handle carbs well. Active, athletic people can follow Covert Bailey's advice - "Fat burns in a carbohydrate flame."
Suzanne Somers' website still markets the awful ThighMaster and ButtMaster. At least she didn't follow Jenny McCarthy's conspiracies about vaccines and autism.Replies: @Joe Paluka
OT: this is right up your alley, Mr. Sailer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/16/marines-black-fighter-pilots/
Only five black Marine fighter pilots? Well, of course, this lack of diversity is totally unacceptable!
Ooops, still too many pale males, I guess. By all means, let’s entrust a machine that weighs 37,000 lbs, can fly in excess of 1,000 mph, and is loaded to the gills with stuff that go boom to people who can’t hack it.
Thanks for nothing.
Now, please, back to the blonde and her thighmaster…Replies: @Twinkie
Why the hell do we have Marine fighter pilots?
We already have an Air Force, and the Navy has their own planes to fly off carriers.
Air refueling is a demanding procedure, but it's done thousands of times every year without mishap. The drive up the boulevard from the boat to Afghanistan, a six-hour round trip, required three air refuelings, two at night, and nobody ever managed to crash into the tanker after topping off and disengaging. You would really have to try to do that.Replies: @James J. O'Meara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXnuYDGQdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf37iSpBk5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mV_l-KJios
But she was immortalized by this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofuXWGnfjjoReplies: @HammerJack, @4HONESTY.com
California RIP
Susanne Somers movies were the good old times. No quota Blacks, no Hispanic majorities, husbands’ salaries could feed an affluent family with dumb teens who can roam around safely, except for their own dumb mistakes
and no mandatory seat belts
My thoughts were: vintage cars; vintage people.
It’s Putin’s fault.
Requiescete in pace, Suzanne. She was a really loveable presence: the kind of pin-up girl who you didn’t actually want to boink, you just wanted to hang out with her like an older sister, have a mai-tai and gossip about rock stars.
And the next chapter of “How to destroy a Country without really trying”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stockholm-ban-gas-and-diesel-cars-starting-2025
One hopes they’ll have enough electric ambulances to cope with the after effects of diversity.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/16/euro-2024-qualifier-between-belgium-and-sweden-abandoned-after-shootingThe gunman (since shot by police) was a failed asylum seeker aka illegal immigrant living in a highly enriched suburb of Brussels.
In the UK, a 70 year old guy was murdered as he walked past an "asylum seekers hostel" in Hartlepool, Peter Mandelson's former constituency.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12634669/Migrant-hostel-double-stabbing-Hartlepool.html
Not so long ago the former industrial town of Hartlepool, while a poor area, was also very white. Then councils discovered they could relieve council house waiting lists aka "housing shortages" by paying for their worst tenants to move elsewhere (which is why there are London smackheads in places like Llanelli), and soon afterwards HMG discovered that it was a lot cheaper to move "asylum seekers" oop North as well.
A real environmentalist program would take this huge windfall of money and re-direct it to people who otherwise couldn't afford an electric car, including first-time car buyers who were stuck getting around on foot all this time. A ten-year-old could come up with this idea in a homework assignment. But the idea of giving money back to the taxpayers, or rewarding us for good behavior, or even acknowledging that we can in fact do something good, is out of bounds for the modern Left.Replies: @James J. O'Meara
We are talking about Suzanne here (and thinking about how good she looked in a sweater) and you immediately dump this crap on the thread.
Thanks for nothing.
Now, please, back to the blonde and her thighmaster…
I never thought Somers was all that attractive and she did epitomize that "dumb blonde" look. For my money, the most attractive blonde actress ever was this lady:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/01/89/09/0189092fa368f49271e9cda052102f99.jpgReplies: @Kylie, @Trinity, @The Germ Theory of Disease
It looks like you weren’t the only one with your hobby-horse ready at the starting gate. At least your OT wasn’t about the Jews, so thanks for that, I guess.
Good news for the Sweden Democrats.
Swedes aren’t even safe in Belgium!
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/16/euro-2024-qualifier-between-belgium-and-sweden-abandoned-after-shooting
The gunman (since shot by police) was a failed asylum seeker aka illegal immigrant living in a highly enriched suburb of Brussels.
In the UK, a 70 year old guy was murdered as he walked past an “asylum seekers hostel” in Hartlepool, Peter Mandelson’s former constituency.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12634669/Migrant-hostel-double-stabbing-Hartlepool.html
Not so long ago the former industrial town of Hartlepool, while a poor area, was also very white. Then councils discovered they could relieve council house waiting lists aka “housing shortages” by paying for their worst tenants to move elsewhere (which is why there are London smackheads in places like Llanelli), and soon afterwards HMG discovered that it was a lot cheaper to move “asylum seekers” oop North as well.
Throughout the negotiations and firing, even John Ritter was a douchebag.
Afterwards, the series was never near the same quality.
Here’s the first episode of the first season when everyone worked great together, in no small part due to Suzanne…
https://youtu.be/d0Ru_q2qGdg?si=UekHVxrmirsJmkv0Replies: @Adolf Smith, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mr. Anon
You took the words right out of my,er,kindle.
No she never lived up to her comedic talent.
She and Ritter formed one of those mixed sex comedy duos that people,specially women,are drawn to,with Ritter’s ” Bob Hope” taking on Somers’ well,Judy Holliday?
Yes,TC was dumb,but unafraid to go for the jokes,and the jokes came one after another.
Every show can’t be “Breaking Bad.” Though I did have a lot of laughs sometimes.😮
Sexual misunderstandings! Oh brother!
Another guy who fought this battle was Carroll O’Conner,
who grew to hate Norman Lear for his crooked ways. But O’Connor swallowed his pride and hung in there.
So a pudgy,2nd tier character actor became one of TVs funniest guys,evuh!
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/man_about_the_house/
Sheeeeeeeit! Ain’ no thang. Colored Boyz been vibranticizing the military aviation world fo’ a long time.
There’s Auburn Calloway. Proud negro and former Navy pilot, who went on to bigger and better things working as a pilot at FedEx, capping off his career by trying to hijack and crash a FedEx aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705
Throughout the negotiations and firing, even John Ritter was a douchebag.
Afterwards, the series was never near the same quality.
Here’s the first episode of the first season when everyone worked great together, in no small part due to Suzanne…
https://youtu.be/d0Ru_q2qGdg?si=UekHVxrmirsJmkv0Replies: @Adolf Smith, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mr. Anon
That was really fun to watch. Interesting to see that, for an ostensibly tacky 70s sitcom, it was really constructed according to what you might call classical principles. Also, Suzanne so much better than the other gal. Also, they say in passing that 1980 is “the future”.
Right on. The point is that vegetables have low caloric density and fiber has no calories. Fat has more calories, but digests slower and keeps you satiated.
: Cheerios are complex carbs (oats). Processed foods usually have high caloric density and digest quickly. This can spike your blood sugar and stimulate insulin, leading to a blood sugar crash and hunger. In my observation, sedentary people do not handle carbs well. Active, athletic people can follow Covert Bailey’s advice – “Fat burns in a carbohydrate flame.”
Suzanne Somers’ website still markets the awful ThighMaster and ButtMaster. At least she didn’t follow Jenny McCarthy’s conspiracies about vaccines and autism.
My immediate thought when I heard that she had died was if she had taken the clot shot.
Throughout the negotiations and firing, even John Ritter was a douchebag.
Afterwards, the series was never near the same quality.
Here’s the first episode of the first season when everyone worked great together, in no small part due to Suzanne…
https://youtu.be/d0Ru_q2qGdg?si=UekHVxrmirsJmkv0Replies: @Adolf Smith, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mr. Anon
It was kind of weird to have a homosexual pretending to be a straight guy pretending to be a homosexual. (You could say “homo” back then, so I’m grandfathered in.) I never thought even a real guy like Barney Fife would go for it, much less a guy with more landlording experience, Mr. Furley.*
Yes, Suzanne Somers made being a dumb blond hilarious.
I am glad that dieting advice helped you, Steve. It goes to show that one does not have to be an expert with an article in the New England Journal of Medicine to have some good opinions on these matters as taken from one’s own personal experience and common sense.
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0Vucn7xwwReplies: @James J. O'Meara
If you want the science around why carbohydrates make you fat, probably the best commentator is the south african sports scientist prof Tim Noakes and why seed oils are bad for you the journalist(of all people) Nina Teicholz – ‘Vegetable Oils: The Unknown Story’
basically we were conned that simple carbs were good for you to avoid cholesterol which is actually good for you.
With bad statistics you can prove anything…even that statins are good for you.
Like the old joke , I’m from the pharmaceutical head office and here to help you
I want more Black pilots flying for the US military.
I’ve actually seen the term “diverse individual” used to refer to people who had the property of not being a straight white male. I’ve seen it more than once, in official corporate contexts. This seems like a contradiction in terms — how can an “individual” be “diverse”? — but nobody bats an eye.
Funny how we never found out very much about that f-35 crash in S.C. ,the pilot ejected from an air-worthy plane that flew by itself for many miles…….they said something about weather …….it was a clear day…….no word was released on the pilot.
Yes, before scientists were lying to us about vaccines, and after they were lying to us about cigarettes, they were lying to us about sugar.
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Anonymous, @ex-banker, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Mr. Anon
Amazingly from Wiki:
It would be interesting to know the source of the “dumb blonde” stereotype that was so popular with Hollywood. Apparently, the actual facts support the opposite conclusion.
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
No shit, Sherlock, although Step by Step was fun (if formulaic) as well.
Also, a little fat prevents you from feeling hungry for a long time. Have chorizo and eggs for breakfast and you’ll be okay until dinner. A bowl of oatmeal? Fine — but you’ll be hungry by 11:00.
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Anonymous, @ex-banker, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Mr. Anon
A dude playing a dude playing a dude disguised as a dude. White American playing Australian actor playing black American sergeant disguised as a Thai peasant.
Now get me a diet Coke.
It’s never been more obvious that this has nothing to do with clean air, and a lot to do with extracting money from the working class. Apparently, London is okay with you driving a traditional car, but you have to pay an additional fee if you enter a “green zone” in the business district with it. The article says London is just one of several Western cities doing this. Some other people would rather force you to just buy another car, an electric car, something that will keep you dependent on energy policies that have yet to be written. Of course, once the people in power realize that they’re going to be collecting less gas tax, they’ll punish their obedient slaves by taxing electric charging stations too, or having people pay by the mile as has happened in Oregon.
A real environmentalist program would take this huge windfall of money and re-direct it to people who otherwise couldn’t afford an electric car, including first-time car buyers who were stuck getting around on foot all this time. A ten-year-old could come up with this idea in a homework assignment. But the idea of giving money back to the taxpayers, or rewarding us for good behavior, or even acknowledging that we can in fact do something good, is out of bounds for the modern Left.
Because environment, see.
Of course, you'll be living in "15 minute city" so who needs a car?
It'll be "walkable," friendly, like those small towns Bradbury and Twilight Zone and any number of "against the Modern World" right-wingers reminisced over.
Sort of like The Village.
https://youtu.be/E0YNSvWYtrs?si=ZRxBUV0jQy7G2wWT
But it occurs to me that even though MacGoohan included a variety of accents and languages to suggest people from all over, it's entirely White, unlike the diverse village of the Future.Replies: @J.Ross
If you have a problem with Cheerios, never, ever eat a Wheat Thin. Or a Sun Chip. You can go through a whole box. Or bag.
I find a free container perfect for that are the one's Cool Whip come in, with their press seal tops.Replies: @Ben tillman
Donuts (especially with any glaze)
Any HFCS soft drink
She was funny as the dumb blonde in Three’s Company, probably the best thing in that show. The others seemed more generic or replaceable, she was likeable.
Although I’m not even sure she was a real blonde, she looked as if she was wearing a wig all the time throughout her life. But then again, I guess most people in TV/Hollywood look that way.
Ya gotta dig the Regal Beagle.
OT, but this is with respect to Steve’s earlier comments on Coleridge…
My motto for years has been from Bettie Serveert:
“Only a tom-boy could stand above it!”
When I was growing up*, this was my artistic motto from the time that I was six years old, and has been ever since, again from Coleridge….
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
She was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Ebora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
Such deep delight ‘twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I COULD BUILD THOSE CAVES IN AIR!
THAT SUNNY DOME! THOSE CAVES OF ICE!
And all who heard would SEE it there,
And all would cry — Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread:
For he on Honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
The Air Force fighter pilot selected to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon was black. What are the odds?
Susanne Somers movies were the good old times. No quota Blacks, no Hispanic majorities, husbands' salaries could feed an affluent family with dumb teens who can roam around safely, except for their own dumb mistakes
and no mandatory seat beltsReplies: @bomag
Right.
My thoughts were: vintage cars; vintage people.
That is hair that would be enjoyable to touch, not some woolly Brillo pad. Were the landlords Jewish tropes and canards?
Is it a hobby horse when it is plastered in our face by every media; gov’t; and business group?
One hopes they’ll still have an electric grid to charge such vehicles; and functioning institutions that allow any cars and roads to exist.
I read David Reuben’s nutrition books in the late ’70s and never turned back. The first was chiefly “eat more fiber”, but the second was more general and combined science and common sense. A helpful admission was that physicians’ training in nutrition was quite inadequate in mid-century America.
He was a refreshing alternative to the Adele Davis-Irwin Stillman wars on the Carson show. Dr Reuben turns 90 next month, so he’s done something right.
I understand he wrote some books about sex, too, but those are of little importance.
Likewise, I watched Suzanne's comedy technique and also never turned back.
https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1713802875862663286?t=UNKwp6HLibMqtRrD3M0niw&s=19Replies: @Bill Jones, @Harry Baldwin, @Nachum
Whats remarkable is the lockstep claim that this commenced on Saturday, rather than the Thursday prior when 700 plus Israeli’s occupied and desecrated the Al Aqsa Mosque.
It’s almost as if one cult controls the media in the West.
These advice work only in a specific type of a society, with lots of crappy food, unhealthy eating habits & sedentary life.
One can moderately eat all types of foods- except loads of sweets- and be healthy & rather slim- except if one’s metabolism & body type are specific (then, you can’t do much about anything).
And, the most important of all- stable psyche & low level of stress.
https://www.theonion.com/scientists-discover-gene-responsible-for-eating-whole-g-1819565291
Steve Sailer has put on weight.
As in Steve’s heft as an opinion maker has got heavier since then.
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
was reading that she’d fought breast cancer for over twenty years.
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There are cases of metastatic breast cancer which can be contained for that length of time, but that’s unusual for cancers which go stage iv. Maybe 4% of stage iv patients last that long. (Fewer than 20% of breast cancer patients go stage iv).
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I’m going to wager she was successfully treated in 2000-01 and healthy for the next 20 years, but that the cancer resurfaced and killed her. Unless the recurrence is localized (and it typically isn’t), your life expectancy if it resurfaces is about 2 or 3 years. Breast cancer is not particularly lethal compared to other cancers and north of 80% survive it, but it has the unfortunate property of being able to resurface at any time. The annual relapse rate slowly declines for the first 15 years after your treatments, but after that it’s a constant, so you’re never over it. We were told by the medical oncologist at the conclusion of the course of treatment, “My next patient has had a recurrence after 20 years. You need to know that can happen.”.
It’s fallen in popularity with evidence it may cause breast cancer and other conditions.
She advocated bio identical HRT, but that’s no improvement.
Always seemed a bit of a pale copy of the British original. Brit original snappier and funnier.When American tv execs like to remake successful Brit comedies . Same with “All in the Family”.
https://archive.ph/ParPWReplies: @Slim
When it comes to critics, it’s best to remember, “dogs bark as the caravan passes.”
I remember when Wheat Thins and Triscuits came out at about the same time, both as super-healthy alternatives to, say, Bugles or Doodles or Cool Ranch Doritos. Going by taste and texture I much preferred Wheat Thins. Later when I understood a little about nutrition I was shocked by the sugar content in a nominally healthy product (or, for that matter, that a Pop Tart has far more calories than any chocolate bar). Happily Triscuit is actually somewhat healthy and now has numerous flavors, but I still now rely on Dare Breton Everything crackers (with Alouette and cucumber). This is the shadow of Howard Moskowitz. He’s the guy who figured out how to add maximum sugar to a nominal non-dessert without the desserter picking up on it. Read about him in Michael Moss’s Salt, Sugar, and Fat.
What happens with sugar is that any excess sugar is turned into fat. John Yudkin discovered the connection in the 1950s as refined sugar consumption went through the roof—along with heart disease and obesity.
But the sugar industry shut him up with a flawed study by Ancel Keys that showed that fat caused heart disease.Replies: @OilcanFloyd
OT: The gunman who killed two Swedish men in Brussels (Which became a bigger story because the men were wearing Swedish jerseys and in Brussels to attend a Euro 2024 qualifying match between Belgium and Sweden which was dramatically abandoned after the first half when the news began to percolate that two fans had been murdered earlier in the day) and severely wounded another man was, surprise, a 45 year old illegal immigrant from Tunisia.
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language “known to police who was living in Belgium illegally”. So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.
I guess it would inconvenience the ones who do have business in your country. But if you have many illegals coming in for every legal, then it isn't all that much of an incentive.
from cnn:
Why is it so easy for the Chinese authorities to find visa overstayers and other potential deportees? Oh yeah, cause they have Exit Tracking and not so many foreigners that picking someone out from his "community" is like finding a needle in a haystack.Replies: @Frau Katze
As for “All In The Family”, “”Till Death Do Us Part” though subtitles may be required for Americans. Added bonus Cherie Blair’s father as the “British Meathead”.
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq8-8VeMY
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language "known to police who was living in Belgium illegally". So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.Replies: @MM, @MagyarHataror, @MGB, @Frau Katze, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous
The guy’s illegal – he didn’t have an entry visa. So why do you think this would solve the problem?
I guess it would inconvenience the ones who do have business in your country. But if you have many illegals coming in for every legal, then it isn’t all that much of an incentive.
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq8-8VeMY
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language "known to police who was living in Belgium illegally". So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.Replies: @MM, @MagyarHataror, @MGB, @Frau Katze, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous
Because systemic and effective deportation takes a strong political will — and outside of Hungary — previous few Western countries are willing to enforce the deportation part of illegal entry and immigration policy.
Her diet advice has held up much better than the low fat consensus of nutritionists from that time. Glad it helped you.
In later years she went much deeper into health and aging. Here is something from 2020.
https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2020/3/will-suzannes-celebrity-status-wake-up-the-world
I like a lot of things about Islam but wanting to kill someone over a burned book seems rather ridiculous to me. Far more ridiculous is murdering two people simply for being from a country whose government allowed some guy to burn the Quran in public. Then again, it does seem that they shouldn’t have allowed it based on their own law that prohibits “expression considered to be hate speech and prohibits threats or statements of contempt for a group or member of a group based on race, color, national or ethnic origin, religious belief, or sexual orientation. Penalties for hate speech range from fines to a maximum of four years in prison. In addition the country’s courts have held that it is illegal to wear xenophobic symbols or racist paraphernalia or to display signs and banners with inflammatory symbols at rallies.” (Source: https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/sweden/)
Put me in the ‘no’ column. Setting aside her genius advice to iSteve that he should eat more salmon and less potato chips, her TV and movie career was part of the full-court press of propaganda campaigns that hit their stride in the 70s when the boob tube was finally ubiquitous in households. my mother, a teacher, held out as long as she could, our family going to a neighbor to watch the moon landing coverage, and me and my brothers sneaking over to watch ‘The Banana Splits’. it was actually my father who got a TV into our home to watch sports. (sorry, dad. bad decision.) ‘3s company’ had its crusty old, white male, easily outwitted with the assistance of his worldly wise wife. this is just a variation on the ‘Gilligan’s Island’/ ‘All in the Family’ formula, with goofy, unaware males fucking things up, getting in the way of the progress.
curmudgeonly rant over.
What do you mean?
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Anonymous, @ex-banker, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Mr. Anon
The Graduate…
The pilots are most likely light skinned. I don’t think you have any Snoop Doggs driving planes up there,yo.
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq8-8VeMY
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language "known to police who was living in Belgium illegally". So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.Replies: @MM, @MagyarHataror, @MGB, @Frau Katze, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous
this shooting has the smell of the toulouse incident a decade or so ago. i don’t have the time now, but there was some very good work done on the security services involvement in the shootings, and their assassination of the patsy. if i recall, there was even some public disclosure of intelligence ‘failures’, finger pointing, usually the only time you get some light shed on the truth in the msm. the guy was on the intelligence services radar, as they say, travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
from cnn:
But………….Trust the Science, eh?
The entire Medical/Nutrition complex f**ked up with the food-pyramid and the war on fat. It was one of the contributing factors to the current landscape of landwhales and the high incidence of diabetes. Not the only one of course, but an important one.
But when it comes to COVID…………….Well, I’m sure they’ve got it all right this time.
Way back, a nutritionist named Rena Wing managed to find 5000 people who had lost 30 pounds or more, and, kept it off for five years…!! (Previous sentence is from memory and might not be exact.). She asked them, what the heck did you do. Well, the men had begun traversing 28 miles per week and the women 26 miles per week. The lesson is, when a doctor tells you to park in the farthest parking space, or to take the stairs instead of the elevator, he is off by a few orders of magnitude. Just because he has a separate entrance doesn’t mean that he knows anything about this.
One doc, a smart one with a flair for words, once told me: “If you sit down on the couch holding the entire pint of ice cream, you have already selected your portion.” I will build on that by suggesting that you not just sit down on the couch with your ice-cream or chips portion preselected, in a bowl. Upon finishing the ice cream, you race into the bathroom to brush your teeth, which will abolish the agony of having to stop eating.
I had to hit the gym 3 solid hours a day
Dropped 2 pant sizes
I've gained the weight back, but as of Oct 1 I have a personal trainer...needless to say I can't afford the leather bound Steve Book as that money is going to my trainer :)
The 1990s (F)Atkins Diet was NOT revolutionary at all. Athletes from high school wrestlers to boxers to weightlifters/ bodybuilders would go on a high protein, moderate fat, low carb diet to cut weight/fat back in the 1970s and probably sooner. Drastic measures called for meat and water only.
Suzanne was a hottie back in her day for sure.
RIP Suzanne
Speaking of hot blondes, Angie Dickinson is 92. Gawd I feel old. That means she was 50+ for “Pretty Maids All In A Row” and “Police Woman.” Damn, talk about great genetics. How about a 50 something Charles Bronson in “Hard Times.” Charlie didn’t have an ounce of fat on him.
As a young man he once shared an apartment with Jack Klugman when they were both breaking into acting. Klugman would later recall Bronson pressing his shirts before work or an audition, veins popping out of his forearms as he ran the iron.Replies: @Trinity
https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Medicine-Blake-F-Donaldson/dp/1684225647/ref=asc_df_1684225647/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=598290856963&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15814822051329709527&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008162&hvtargid=pla-1391625783546&psc=1
Comments section of the Washington Post for this article is very reassuring in that a clear majority of posters for that very left wing paper come out in support of qualifications instead of quotas.
Throughout the negotiations and firing, even John Ritter was a douchebag.
Afterwards, the series was never near the same quality.
Here’s the first episode of the first season when everyone worked great together, in no small part due to Suzanne…
https://youtu.be/d0Ru_q2qGdg?si=UekHVxrmirsJmkv0Replies: @Adolf Smith, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mr. Anon
You do realize that it was just a stupid sex sit-com. It wasn’t Troilus and Cressida.
I remember watching Three’s Company a few times when I was young, because it was risque and it had two good looking women. But even then, I recognized that it was nothing but salacious trash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nRjKC_OEcY
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
Magnesium attracts water. If you take too much, the unabsorbed excess magnesium will draw water in your intestinal tract, causing diarrhea. You’d have to take a pretty high dose and ignore unpleasant symptoms for a long time to hurt yourself.
To find your magnesium dose, slowly up your dose, say 10% per day, until you get the effect you’re after (e.g. relief of muscle tension), then hold steady. If you’re not sure the effect you want will be readily & immediately noticeable, and you want to be taking the near maximum amount you can absorb, then up the dose until you get GI symptoms, then dial it down 10-20% / until the GI symptoms go away.
Note also magnesium comes in different forms (citrate, glycinate, …) and different people tolerate the different forms better or worse.
Research interactions. Magnesium supplementation may interfere with antibiotics. If you’re taking a lot of zinc close to the magnesium, that may inhibit the magnesium absorption (i.e. lower your tolerated magnesium dose).
Thanks for the advice.
I'm taking the oxinate form at only 250mg plus whatever is in my multivitamin (which I should add together). The other forms seem to do different and amazing things that I may or may not need. I was just going for muscle tone and not ready to commit to some major transformation. The claims seemed pretty intense like a doctor should prescribe them for serious conditions but, there they all were for sale OTC on Amazon.
I mostly remember Johnny Carson from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
I don’t want to piss off any former Marines here, but I’ll ask:
Why the hell do we have Marine fighter pilots?
We already have an Air Force, and the Navy has their own planes to fly off carriers.
Suzanne was a hottie back in her day for sure.
RIP Suzanne
Speaking of hot blondes, Angie Dickinson is 92. Gawd I feel old. That means she was 50+ for "Pretty Maids All In A Row" and "Police Woman." Damn, talk about great genetics. How about a 50 something Charles Bronson in "Hard Times." Charlie didn't have an ounce of fat on him.Replies: @Trinity, @Corn, @Rohirrimborn
Oops, Angie was 40+ not 50+, still looking good for 40 something though. Bronson looked great for 50+.
I only saw John Ritter on TV once — Before becoming well known he played a total douchebag on Hawaii 5-0 and was very convincing
Ritter gave a wonderful performance in Slingblade as a gay guy doing his best to protect the two people he considers his family. He was very convincing.
https://youtu.be/uB2eggtlTfE?si=HbajjGTTWnpaHWSzReplies: @Jim Don Bob
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
No more than 500 mg of maganesium a day….you need magnesium for the rna part of protien synthesis……Small dose of magnesium every day protects against heart attacks……
The weird thing is her hubby is on a media tour over her death
Maybe he’s the one who really did everything, who knows, and now this is his time to shine
I don’t like the husband, he seems controlling
Oh Well Whatever…her marriage to him probably was her Paying the Piper
I’m also of the mind that people who were Totally Fine a few months before dying of cancer, actually died from Chemo
https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1713802875862663286?t=UNKwp6HLibMqtRrD3M0niw&s=19Replies: @Bill Jones, @Harry Baldwin, @Nachum
Sounds like Amy Biehl Syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Biehl
Black South Africans were so impressed by this noble act that they ceased all racial attacks on whites. Well, maybe not, but it would have been really something if that had been the case.
Killing someone for “political” reasons is just fine there.Replies: @Richard B
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There are cases of metastatic breast cancer which can be contained for that length of time, but that's unusual for cancers which go stage iv. Maybe 4% of stage iv patients last that long. (Fewer than 20% of breast cancer patients go stage iv).
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I'm going to wager she was successfully treated in 2000-01 and healthy for the next 20 years, but that the cancer resurfaced and killed her. Unless the recurrence is localized (and it typically isn't), your life expectancy if it resurfaces is about 2 or 3 years. Breast cancer is not particularly lethal compared to other cancers and north of 80% survive it, but it has the unfortunate property of being able to resurface at any time. The annual relapse rate slowly declines for the first 15 years after your treatments, but after that it's a constant, so you're never over it. We were told by the medical oncologist at the conclusion of the course of treatment, "My next patient has had a recurrence after 20 years. You need to know that can happen.".Replies: @Thoughts, @Frau Katze
A relative of mine ignored her breast cancer diagnosis
She lived 30 more years and died in her late 80s of something else
I’ve paid some pretty expensive vet bills over cancer just for shits and giggles
Never saved the animal or extended the life
Don't count on miracles if the MD tells you you need treatment and ignore the advice.
I learned this 2 years ago
I had to hit the gym 3 solid hours a day
Dropped 2 pant sizes
I’ve gained the weight back, but as of Oct 1 I have a personal trainer…needless to say I can’t afford the leather bound Steve Book as that money is going to my trainer 🙂
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Anonymous, @ex-banker, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Mr. Anon
I hadn’t heard anything about Ritter actually being gay, although a lot of people thought he was just a tad too convincing in that role. He did play an actual gay in “Sling Blade”.
Yeah, in Sling Blade he was a gay man. "Reckon I'll have me some biscuits."
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* Mr. Furley had been a landlord before in the movies. Anyone?Replies: @Loyalty is The First Law of Morality, @Anonymous, @ex-banker, @Hapalong Cassidy, @Mr. Anon
I don’t believe that John Ritter was homosexual. He had several children and was, by all accounts, happily married.
I had been snacking on too many Oreos and chocolates a couple of months back, and quickly gained 10 lbs and 2 inches of fat on my waist. I cut those snacks out completely, and within two weeks I lost the fat and am back to my 31-inch waist and 155lbs, same as at age 18 over 40 years ago.
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There are cases of metastatic breast cancer which can be contained for that length of time, but that's unusual for cancers which go stage iv. Maybe 4% of stage iv patients last that long. (Fewer than 20% of breast cancer patients go stage iv).
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I'm going to wager she was successfully treated in 2000-01 and healthy for the next 20 years, but that the cancer resurfaced and killed her. Unless the recurrence is localized (and it typically isn't), your life expectancy if it resurfaces is about 2 or 3 years. Breast cancer is not particularly lethal compared to other cancers and north of 80% survive it, but it has the unfortunate property of being able to resurface at any time. The annual relapse rate slowly declines for the first 15 years after your treatments, but after that it's a constant, so you're never over it. We were told by the medical oncologist at the conclusion of the course of treatment, "My next patient has had a recurrence after 20 years. You need to know that can happen.".Replies: @Thoughts, @Frau Katze
Nothing can be proved of course but I wonder if it was a good idea for a breast cancer survivor to take hormone replacement therapy.
It’s fallen in popularity with evidence it may cause breast cancer and other conditions.
She advocated bio identical HRT, but that’s no improvement.
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
Magnesium Citrate acts as a laxative. Use Threonate.
Or Grooves–my wife is addicted to them
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq8-8VeMY
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language "known to police who was living in Belgium illegally". So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.Replies: @MM, @MagyarHataror, @MGB, @Frau Katze, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous
Deport someone from vibrant Tunisia? Unthinkable.
Black South Africans were so impressed by this noble act that they ceased all racial attacks on whites. Well, maybe not, but it would have been really something if that had been the case.Replies: @Frau Katze
As a white woman, I would not set foot in present day South Africa.
Killing someone for “political” reasons is just fine there.
Now this was a most tasteful obit post, Steve. I had half wagered (mentally) that you weren’t going to notice that Ms. Sommers had passed. After all, you didn’t say anything earlier this year on the passing of Raquel Welch.
But of course it would be a egregious error to assume that Suzanne Somers was a mere object with nothing else on the ball upstairs, as she was more than that, and in droves (or spades). She had integrity, fortitude, and above all, exuded a gracefulness that few in Hollywood seemed to have.
Mom watched Suzanne Sommers religiously every time she appeared on Home Shopping Network throughout the late ’90’s, 2000’s, and into the early 2010’s. She bought the face contraption, read all her cook books, tried her recipes, the whole works.
Suzanne was one heck of a classy lady. Grace under pressure, courageously waging a battle for over two decades with a deadly illness. That she remained true to herself while going through so many ordeals speaks volumes.
It should also be noted that if Suzanne was an outlier (born to a working class family, one side an alcoholic, dropped out of college to raise her child, spent yrs toiling away in Hollywood before landing her big break, etc), then she was indeed the best kind of outlier to be—she beat the odds that were stacked against her and made it to the big time.
She will be missed.
Here’s to you, Suzanne. God bless
She did what every Hollywood actress does to get ahead, she married Jew Alan Hamel.
As Amy Jacobson (WIND-AM) said: “You’re supposed to put some in a separate container, then eat that!”
I find a free container perfect for that are the one’s Cool Whip come in, with their press seal tops.
“I read David Reuben’s nutrition books in the late ’70s and never turned back.”
Likewise, I watched Suzanne’s comedy technique and also never turned back.
What makes you think those Black pilots aren’t Jewish?
So ‘Reg’ is short for regular?
Let’s be real. The vax killed her.
Swedish ambulances, police vehicles, and the Swedish military will continue to use gas and diesel.
Another big negative factor is alcoholic drinks. If they can cut those, the weight tends to drop rather quickly.
Killing someone for “political” reasons is just fine there.Replies: @Richard B
How long before that’s used as justification for murdering whites in the United States?
Think piles of corpses and celebrations with a sign that reads Welcome to America!
I've long thought late in life I'd be killed in my bed, robbed of the few saved treasures around me, by my second or third generation imminent caregiver. Even if convicted they'll be excused for historical grievance.Replies: @Old Virginia
Gay.
There used to be one more but he crashed into the C-130J air tanker he had just refueled from, killing its five-man crew as well as himself. The Marine Corps has bent over backwards not to blame him for the accident. Usually, of course, in any crash, the authorities, military or civilian, bend over backwards to blame the pilot.
Air refueling is a demanding procedure, but it’s done thousands of times every year without mishap. The drive up the boulevard from the boat to Afghanistan, a six-hour round trip, required three air refuelings, two at night, and nobody ever managed to crash into the tanker after topping off and disengaging. You would really have to try to do that.
It never gets old: the majestic refueling sequences from the MST3k episode devoted to The Starfighters.
https://youtu.be/7Tm1ciFq5d4?si=uDj7MpgsSum_mVWh
A fan favorite. The Starfighters is arguably the worst, and certainly the most boring, film ever made. But that's unfair, since it's not really a "film" at all, but rather a lame attempt by the AF/Lockheed to convince people that the F-104 Starfighter was an engineering triumph, not "The Widowmaker". US/NATO was trying to force the Germans to buy it, but German pilots called it "a brick with wings".
Since the strategy was to show that the F-104 was absolutely the safest plane ever made, no actual "drama" was possible. All crises are handled quickly by the crack pilots, hence no danger or tension. There is one crash, towards the end, and it's blamed on ... pilot error.
Fun Fact #1: rather than having actors pilot planes, they had AF pilots as actors. Not a great plan. But starring future and former congressman Bob "B-1" Dornan!
Fun Fact #2: I believe some of the same footage occurs at the beginning of another 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. Or maybe all planes look the same when refueling.
Fun Fact #3: Filmed in the heart of the JFK/Right Stuff/James Bond era, the film casually depicts pilots as cocky, pranksters, womanizers, hard drinkers, and, when on night flights to Europe, issued amphetamines by the AF. Also, quite ugly (Mike: Is your face odd, misshapen? Join the Air Force!)
Somewhat softened by Dornan who's more interested in flying than in drinking, and has a budding romance with a naive girl from Iowa who knows all about corn husking.
Unfortunately, the episode came out in the mid 90s, otherwise they would have relentlessly pointed out that it's basically The George W. Bush Story.
"So basically, according to themselves, the Air Force is a bunch of leather-faced, not-so-bright, heavy-drinking, dull-witted speed freaks who poop in their pants and can't make it with women. Right? Am I right?" — Tom ServoReplies: @Steve Sailer
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
Many people are magnesium deficient. And, yes, too much magnesium can cause some serious problems like irregular heartbeat, low blood pressure, confusion, slowed breathing, coma, and death. But this is unlikely to happen if you are taking oral magnesium supplements. Taken orally, you’ll know when you’ve taken too much because oral magnesium is a very effective laxative.
Have you ever considered transdermal magnesium?
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Charming, funny, beautiful and yes indeed, far more knowledgeable than anyone in our entire federal-corporate healthcare bureaucracy. RIP
Not to mention Count Chocula.
And just LOOK where it got me! Commenting on Unz, fer cripes sake.
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq8-8VeMY
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language "known to police who was living in Belgium illegally". So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.Replies: @MM, @MagyarHataror, @MGB, @Frau Katze, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous
Right, and that’s just one of a myriad ways a country that is still desirable (as of 10/17/23) to live in or visit can play hardball on this.
Why is it so easy for the Chinese authorities to find visa overstayers and other potential deportees? Oh yeah, cause they have Exit Tracking and not so many foreigners that picking someone out from his “community” is like finding a needle in a haystack.
He has been shot and killed by police who were somehow able to find him now but were apparently powerless to do so or deport him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq8-8VeMY
The report from Deutsche Welle using the language "known to police who was living in Belgium illegally". So if he was known to police and apparently known to be an extremist why was he, as an illegal immigrant, not deported?
This whole problem of countries refusing to take back their citizens can be solved by refusing to give new entry visas to citizens of such states.Replies: @MM, @MagyarHataror, @MGB, @Frau Katze, @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous
To us it’s a problem. If those calling the shots felt it was one, they could have resolved it many years ago very easily, as you point out. Things are proceeding just as they’re supposed to.
I feel very sorry for the victims, of course. But I have to say… Swedish victims, in Swedish jerseys, killed by a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker who originally landed at Lampedusa, managing hours on the run, all of it taking place in our glorious North African capital of Brussels… It reads like a comedy bit. Or some kind of 4chan hoax. It’s almost too much.
I do enjoy all the discussion in the aftermath. The Swedes and the Belgians wondering why oh why he was still in the country. You’d almost think no one even bothers to deport these people! Just how could something like that happen in our amazing union? Why, it just ain’t right!! Surely heads will roll!
Also, all the classic variations of “they hate us for our freedom”. This happened because the West is just so free and virtuous and amazing. It’s actually a sign to just keep going and not change anything! If we change course in any way, those people will have died in vain!
See? It all makes sense.
I love it. Once upon a time, it would have been very bad for my blood pressure. Life is much nicer now that I’ve stopped expecting better and learned to just appreciate the comedy.
Read Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories” for some sound scientific information on low glycemic vs. high glycemic diets.
I’unno: I was one of those horrible kids that everyone hates, whose mom made me eat either eggs and bacon for breakfast, or else oatmeal and fruit, every morning. I could only eat Frosted Flakes and Cap’n Crunch on weekends, as a snack, while watching my Looney Tunes. Other cartoons besides Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, while not forbidden, were frowned upon. (“What the hell is this with this Hong Kong Phooey? Don’t you know how comedy works??!”) Plain ole Cheerios or old-fashioned Raisin Bran were like chocolate-creme swirly fudge doodles snuck in, in disguise.
And just LOOK where it got me! Commenting on Unz, fer cripes sake.
In later years she went much deeper into health and aging. Here is something from 2020.
https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2020/3/will-suzannes-celebrity-status-wake-up-the-worldReplies: @Mark G.
The magazine you linked to is my favorite magazine. I have been interested in life extension since I read a Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw book on the subject in 1987. I am glad I got interested in the subject because I am in the late sixties now and don’t seem to have the heath problems other people my age do.
Why is it so easy for the Chinese authorities to find visa overstayers and other potential deportees? Oh yeah, cause they have Exit Tracking and not so many foreigners that picking someone out from his "community" is like finding a needle in a haystack.Replies: @Frau Katze
It’s much easier for the authoritarian government of China to find and deport people of course. OTOH how many people want to move illegally to China?
No, Frau Katze, it’s not because the Chinese Government is authoritarian (it is), but because of 3 reasons:
1) They have exit tracking.
2) They don’t have HUGE unassimilated groups of the same foreigners (as we do: Chinatowns, pretty much all of Miami, California, Hamtramck, Michigan, etc, etc.) It’d be very easy to find any type of non-Oriental foreigner in China to deport him.
3) They are not insane.
Lots would WANT to, if that’s what you mean, but they wouldn’t TRY to because, as evil, greedy, and stupid as the CCP can be at times, they are not suicidal and insane. I wish I could say the same for the Potomac Regime.
https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1713802875862663286?t=UNKwp6HLibMqtRrD3M0niw&s=19Replies: @Bill Jones, @Harry Baldwin, @Nachum
The hard Left accounts for somewhere in the single digits of the Israeli Jewish population. Maybe 5 or 7%, tops. Their ideological hearth are the secular kibbutzim, a number of which were attacked last week.
The attacks have turned even peace-loving lefties in Israel into fire-breathing Kahanists, though. Still, there’ll always be a few deluded Jews (and more in the US, of course). And you can bet the BBC will find them.
Actually, the fastest, surest path to poor health via diet is probably :
Doritos
Donuts (especially with any glaze)
Any HFCS soft drink
He was hilarious in Bad Santa, one of a few really crass, great comedies around that time. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. Disgusting but funny.
Whose in hamtramck now? Used to be a lot of poles.
http://www.thehamtramckreview.com/hamtramck%E2%80%99s-census-shows-an-ever-changing-face/Islam USA: Inside America's only Muslim-majority city, where the call to prayer echoes in the streets - and Syrian refugees are welcomed in defiance of the governor
They have one: Koreans. DPRK residents– let’s not call them citizens– who escape can hide in ethnic Korean communities over the line in Jilin Province. But these are like Central Americans in Mexico– they have no intention to stick around. It’s a way station.
http://www.thehamtramckreview.com/hamtramck%E2%80%99s-census-shows-an-ever-changing-face/
Islam USA: Inside America’s only Muslim-majority city, where the call to prayer echoes in the streets – and Syrian refugees are welcomed in defiance of the governor
My go to is grits with a fresh tomato, hard salami chopped up, three pats of butter, Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper. I can go all day until cocktail hour
Good luck finding a pole there now without power lines attached. ;-} No, there are still a good many, but the place is Moslem majority now, as is Dearbornistan, the city I should have used as one of my examples.
Yeah, you and Mr. Anon must be right, as I couldn’t find anything on-line. I would have sworn I read something about this when he died, but my apologies to his memory.
Yeah, in Sling Blade he was a gay man. “Reckon I’ll have me some biscuits.”
• Bingo!
It was ‘desecrated’ only in the imagination of Arab revanchists.
Thanks for nothing.
Now, please, back to the blonde and her thighmaster…Replies: @Twinkie
Hey, I don’t need to come to Unz to look at a blonde (I just look at my wife for that). I come here for the HBD talk!
I never thought Somers was all that attractive and she did epitomize that “dumb blonde” look. For my money, the most attractive blonde actress ever was this lady:
https://youtu.be/GuidzJ0iyVs?si=ORJ9soX_NPA2Z3knReplies: @Twinkie
For me, I found a 40 something Angie Dickinson sexy as hell.
Hmm, Best looking were Judy and Audrey Landers back in the day.Replies: @Old Virginia, @Kylie
@Steve Sailer: Cheerios are complex carbs (oats). Processed foods usually have high caloric density and digest quickly. This can spike your blood sugar and stimulate insulin, leading to a blood sugar crash and hunger. In my observation, sedentary people do not handle carbs well. Active, athletic people can follow Covert Bailey's advice - "Fat burns in a carbohydrate flame."
Suzanne Somers' website still markets the awful ThighMaster and ButtMaster. At least she didn't follow Jenny McCarthy's conspiracies about vaccines and autism.Replies: @Joe Paluka
“At least she didn’t follow Jenny McCarthy’s conspiracies about vaccines and autism.”
My immediate thought when I heard that she had died was if she had taken the clot shot.
But of course it would be a egregious error to assume that Suzanne Somers was a mere object with nothing else on the ball upstairs, as she was more than that, and in droves (or spades). She had integrity, fortitude, and above all, exuded a gracefulness that few in Hollywood seemed to have.
Mom watched Suzanne Sommers religiously every time she appeared on Home Shopping Network throughout the late '90's, 2000's, and into the early 2010's. She bought the face contraption, read all her cook books, tried her recipes, the whole works.
Suzanne was one heck of a classy lady. Grace under pressure, courageously waging a battle for over two decades with a deadly illness. That she remained true to herself while going through so many ordeals speaks volumes.
It should also be noted that if Suzanne was an outlier (born to a working class family, one side an alcoholic, dropped out of college to raise her child, spent yrs toiling away in Hollywood before landing her big break, etc), then she was indeed the best kind of outlier to be---she beat the odds that were stacked against her and made it to the big time.
She will be missed.
Here's to you, Suzanne. God blessReplies: @Joe Paluka
“spent yrs toiling away in Hollywood before landing her big break, etc), then she was indeed the best kind”
She did what every Hollywood actress does to get ahead, she married Jew Alan Hamel.
I find a free container perfect for that are the one's Cool Whip come in, with their press seal tops.Replies: @Ben tillman
I tell my daughter that the “separate container” needs to be her bedroom, and the whole box needs to stay in that “container”. Then her mom says, she’s not supposed to eat in her room. Gee, thanks, Mom!
“I only saw John Ritter on TV once — Before becoming well known he played a total douchebag on Hawaii 5-0 and was very convincing.”
Ritter gave a wonderful performance in Slingblade as a gay guy doing his best to protect the two people he considers his family. He was very convincing.
Suzanne was a hottie back in her day for sure.
RIP Suzanne
Speaking of hot blondes, Angie Dickinson is 92. Gawd I feel old. That means she was 50+ for "Pretty Maids All In A Row" and "Police Woman." Damn, talk about great genetics. How about a 50 something Charles Bronson in "Hard Times." Charlie didn't have an ounce of fat on him.Replies: @Trinity, @Corn, @Rohirrimborn
I don’t know if he lifted weights or had good genes, but he really kept the coal miner physique of his youth.
As a young man he once shared an apartment with Jack Klugman when they were both breaking into acting. Klugman would later recall Bronson pressing his shirts before work or an audition, veins popping out of his forearms as he ran the iron.
I remember watching Three's Company a few times when I was young, because it was risque and it had two good looking women. But even then, I recognized that it was nothing but salacious trash.Replies: @Anonymous
But what’s funnier than this?
I remember the diet book. Written with a doctor with an alternative idea of good eating. Whether it was good or not turned out to be beside the point. See Ms. Somers had lipo-suction while under the care of that doctor and prior to co-writing that book. In other words, it was all a farce, a lie, a way to trade on her name and her fame using her good thin looks to rake in the dough. All a lie. Had nothing good to say about the mediocre TV tart since learning that. She was a money grubbing talent-less con.
Now I don’t think that prescription for eating in that book is a bad idea. The book as proof of it however along with the doctor and actress are a fraud.
Jane Fonda is not quite as much a fraud. She released her famous workout video which sold like bananas after someone said she could make money on it. I once saw her in an interview where she was told she looked terrific for her age (which she did) and was asked if the workouts from her video were responsible for that. She ended up truthfully telling how she never did those workouts or any workout prior to the video. And had not done them since. The only time she did those exercises were for the video. To help out a friend who started a fitness center and needed some attention. I think she did add fitness to her routine later like in her 60’s. She just was genetically blessed as someone who aged well like her brother (no fitness buff there) and her father.
I never thought Somers was all that attractive and she did epitomize that "dumb blonde" look. For my money, the most attractive blonde actress ever was this lady:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/01/89/09/0189092fa368f49271e9cda052102f99.jpgReplies: @Kylie, @Trinity, @The Germ Theory of Disease
I don’t think any woman was ever more beautiful than Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns and The Age of Innocence.
And she can act too. Some critic once referred to her as a character actress trapped in the face and body of a bombshell. Or something to that effect.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/6d/af/c56daf3851ba83c3516202f451ed1aa7.png
You can smear dish dirt on that lady's face and dress her as a broken-down diner waitress and she still lights up the screen.Replies: @MGB, @Kylie
https://youtu.be/GuidzJ0iyVs?si=ORJ9soX_NPA2Z3knReplies: @Twinkie
She was likewise quite beautiful in The Fabulous Baker Boys, Ladyhawke, and Frankie and Johnny. Perhaps even Dangerous Liaisons. She lights up the screen in pretty much any film.
And she can act too. Some critic once referred to her as a character actress trapped in the face and body of a bombshell. Or something to that effect.
You can smear dish dirt on that lady’s face and dress her as a broken-down diner waitress and she still lights up the screen.
To find your magnesium dose, slowly up your dose, say 10% per day, until you get the effect you're after (e.g. relief of muscle tension), then hold steady. If you're not sure the effect you want will be readily & immediately noticeable, and you want to be taking the near maximum amount you can absorb, then up the dose until you get GI symptoms, then dial it down 10-20% / until the GI symptoms go away.
Note also magnesium comes in different forms (citrate, glycinate, ...) and different people tolerate the different forms better or worse.
Research interactions. Magnesium supplementation may interfere with antibiotics. If you're taking a lot of zinc close to the magnesium, that may inhibit the magnesium absorption (i.e. lower your tolerated magnesium dose).Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @Cool Shoes
“Note also magnesium comes in different forms (citrate, glycinate, …) and different people tolerate the different forms better or worse.”
Thanks for the advice.
I’m taking the oxinate form at only 250mg plus whatever is in my multivitamin (which I should add together). The other forms seem to do different and amazing things that I may or may not need. I was just going for muscle tone and not ready to commit to some major transformation. The claims seemed pretty intense like a doctor should prescribe them for serious conditions but, there they all were for sale OTC on Amazon.
“Make up your minds! It’s breakfast, I gotta eat something!” — Lewis Black
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu0Vucn7xwwReplies: @James J. O'Meara
The underappreciated genius that is Tropic Thunder.
Now get me a diet Coke.
A real environmentalist program would take this huge windfall of money and re-direct it to people who otherwise couldn't afford an electric car, including first-time car buyers who were stuck getting around on foot all this time. A ten-year-old could come up with this idea in a homework assignment. But the idea of giving money back to the taxpayers, or rewarding us for good behavior, or even acknowledging that we can in fact do something good, is out of bounds for the modern Left.Replies: @James J. O'Meara
The plan is, that just like jets, the elite has a car, you proles don’t.
Because environment, see.
Of course, you’ll be living in “15 minute city” so who needs a car?
It’ll be “walkable,” friendly, like those small towns Bradbury and Twilight Zone and any number of “against the Modern World” right-wingers reminisced over.
Sort of like The Village.
But it occurs to me that even though MacGoohan included a variety of accents and languages to suggest people from all over, it’s entirely White, unlike the diverse village of the Future.
Air refueling is a demanding procedure, but it's done thousands of times every year without mishap. The drive up the boulevard from the boat to Afghanistan, a six-hour round trip, required three air refuelings, two at night, and nobody ever managed to crash into the tanker after topping off and disengaging. You would really have to try to do that.Replies: @James J. O'Meara
Did someone mention refueling?
It never gets old: the majestic refueling sequences from the MST3k episode devoted to The Starfighters.
A fan favorite. The Starfighters is arguably the worst, and certainly the most boring, film ever made. But that’s unfair, since it’s not really a “film” at all, but rather a lame attempt by the AF/Lockheed to convince people that the F-104 Starfighter was an engineering triumph, not “The Widowmaker”. US/NATO was trying to force the Germans to buy it, but German pilots called it “a brick with wings”.
Since the strategy was to show that the F-104 was absolutely the safest plane ever made, no actual “drama” was possible. All crises are handled quickly by the crack pilots, hence no danger or tension. There is one crash, towards the end, and it’s blamed on … pilot error.
Fun Fact #1: rather than having actors pilot planes, they had AF pilots as actors. Not a great plan. But starring future and former congressman Bob “B-1” Dornan!
Fun Fact #2: I believe some of the same footage occurs at the beginning of another 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. Or maybe all planes look the same when refueling.
Fun Fact #3: Filmed in the heart of the JFK/Right Stuff/James Bond era, the film casually depicts pilots as cocky, pranksters, womanizers, hard drinkers, and, when on night flights to Europe, issued amphetamines by the AF. Also, quite ugly (Mike: Is your face odd, misshapen? Join the Air Force!)
Somewhat softened by Dornan who’s more interested in flying than in drinking, and has a budding romance with a naive girl from Iowa who knows all about corn husking.
Unfortunately, the episode came out in the mid 90s, otherwise they would have relentlessly pointed out that it’s basically The George W. Bush Story.
“So basically, according to themselves, the Air Force is a bunch of leather-faced, not-so-bright, heavy-drinking, dull-witted speed freaks who poop in their pants and can’t make it with women. Right? Am I right?” — Tom Servo
It never gets old: the majestic refueling sequences from the MST3k episode devoted to The Starfighters.
https://youtu.be/7Tm1ciFq5d4?si=uDj7MpgsSum_mVWh
A fan favorite. The Starfighters is arguably the worst, and certainly the most boring, film ever made. But that's unfair, since it's not really a "film" at all, but rather a lame attempt by the AF/Lockheed to convince people that the F-104 Starfighter was an engineering triumph, not "The Widowmaker". US/NATO was trying to force the Germans to buy it, but German pilots called it "a brick with wings".
Since the strategy was to show that the F-104 was absolutely the safest plane ever made, no actual "drama" was possible. All crises are handled quickly by the crack pilots, hence no danger or tension. There is one crash, towards the end, and it's blamed on ... pilot error.
Fun Fact #1: rather than having actors pilot planes, they had AF pilots as actors. Not a great plan. But starring future and former congressman Bob "B-1" Dornan!
Fun Fact #2: I believe some of the same footage occurs at the beginning of another 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. Or maybe all planes look the same when refueling.
Fun Fact #3: Filmed in the heart of the JFK/Right Stuff/James Bond era, the film casually depicts pilots as cocky, pranksters, womanizers, hard drinkers, and, when on night flights to Europe, issued amphetamines by the AF. Also, quite ugly (Mike: Is your face odd, misshapen? Join the Air Force!)
Somewhat softened by Dornan who's more interested in flying than in drinking, and has a budding romance with a naive girl from Iowa who knows all about corn husking.
Unfortunately, the episode came out in the mid 90s, otherwise they would have relentlessly pointed out that it's basically The George W. Bush Story.
"So basically, according to themselves, the Air Force is a bunch of leather-faced, not-so-bright, heavy-drinking, dull-witted speed freaks who poop in their pants and can't make it with women. Right? Am I right?" — Tom ServoReplies: @Steve Sailer
Thanks.
Suzanne was a hottie back in her day for sure.
RIP Suzanne
Speaking of hot blondes, Angie Dickinson is 92. Gawd I feel old. That means she was 50+ for "Pretty Maids All In A Row" and "Police Woman." Damn, talk about great genetics. How about a 50 something Charles Bronson in "Hard Times." Charlie didn't have an ounce of fat on him.Replies: @Trinity, @Corn, @Rohirrimborn
A friend of my parents, Dr. Blake Donaldson, wrote a book in 1962 that advocated a meat based diet.
And she can act too. Some critic once referred to her as a character actress trapped in the face and body of a bombshell. Or something to that effect.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/6d/af/c56daf3851ba83c3516202f451ed1aa7.png
You can smear dish dirt on that lady's face and dress her as a broken-down diner waitress and she still lights up the screen.Replies: @MGB, @Kylie
That’s how you know she’s a real beauty. The less she’s made up, the prettier she is. All the makeup, like in Scarface, actually detracts from her looks.
Slightly OT, I've discovered that taking a magnesium supplement helps with muscle tone which in turn helps with weight loss. I recently went online to find a new brand to replace my first batch and discovered many variations of magnesium used for everything from relaxing muscles to improving brain nerves. This made me nervous since the dosages we're very high on a mineral that can have harmful effects in too large a quantity. I've also never heard of such uses and just wondered if the claims were legit. It's not unusual for people to glom on to a new super supplement but magnesium seems like a dangerous one to overdo compared to beets or vitamin c.Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Art Deco, @Alan Mercer, @War for Blair Mountain, @Mike Tre, @Adam Smith, @Anonymous
Magnesium…
Bad (Not Well Absorbed):
Oxide
Hydroxide
Carbonate
Sulphate
Good:
Citrate – easily absorbed – has laxative effect
Threonate – absorbed in the brain
Bisglysonate – non-laxative effect – if it has has glycine, has no laxative effect
Orotate – good for pro athletes – improves energy
Taurate – blood sugar issues – good if you’re diabetic
Malate – helps against fiber myalgia
During the 70s and 80s when it was believed that “fat is bad,” food companies like Nabisco, Kraft, and Heinz took out fat in their products. Doing so made them taste awful, so they replaced the fat they took out with…SUGAR!
What happens with sugar is that any excess sugar is turned into fat. John Yudkin discovered the connection in the 1950s as refined sugar consumption went through the roof—along with heart disease and obesity.
But the sugar industry shut him up with a flawed study by Ancel Keys that showed that fat caused heart disease.
Bangladeshis and Yemenis.
I lost more than 40 pounds and about 2-3 inches off my waist and neck (I no longer snore) this year. I needed to lose the weight I gained during the plague years because my blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol were high, and I also had unhealthy liver function as indicated by elevated liver enzymes.
I did it by limiting my intake of refined sugar and starches, eating more protein, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, limiting alcohol, cutting way back on snacking, making some substitutions (flavored seltzer for beer and soda, a protein shake or bar instead of hitting the burger joint for quick meals) and some intermittent fasting (not eating anything after 5 PM). I also walk regularly, run a road race here and there, do some barbells and kettlebells, and use the elliptical when the weather is bad. I also take a standard multi vitamin and some supplements for joint and liver health.
At my last physical, all of my tests were normal, and I no longer had elevated liver enzymes.
Part of it is indeed a simple calories in/calories out change to favor a calorie deficit. Part of it is that I eat foods that are less likely to lead to unhealthy cravings. And part of it is that feeling better means I’m more active in general.
Because environment, see.
Of course, you'll be living in "15 minute city" so who needs a car?
It'll be "walkable," friendly, like those small towns Bradbury and Twilight Zone and any number of "against the Modern World" right-wingers reminisced over.
Sort of like The Village.
https://youtu.be/E0YNSvWYtrs?si=ZRxBUV0jQy7G2wWT
But it occurs to me that even though MacGoohan included a variety of accents and languages to suggest people from all over, it's entirely White, unlike the diverse village of the Future.Replies: @J.Ross
Quibble: there are plenty of Meds and ethnically ambiguous people who could be Indian, and when he first arrives, he gets a golf cart ride from a pretty East Asian girl. But we know what you mean.
In retrospect, its seems very Cold War-ish, for obvious reasons. Their idea of "diversity" was an episode when the new #2 says something like "das vedanya" to the one leaving, who responds "auf wiedersehn". Today, the staff would look like a Marvel movie.Replies: @J.Ross
I never thought Somers was all that attractive and she did epitomize that "dumb blonde" look. For my money, the most attractive blonde actress ever was this lady:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/01/89/09/0189092fa368f49271e9cda052102f99.jpgReplies: @Kylie, @Trinity, @The Germ Theory of Disease
Kim Basinger in her prime was better looking and sexier IMO.
For me, I found a 40 something Angie Dickinson sexy as hell.
Hmm, Best looking were Judy and Audrey Landers back in the day.
See the dance scene in Cactus Flower, 55 years old, 5'11' Ingrid Bergman dominating the dance floor covered from neck to ankle in an aqua evening gown.
It turned on Walter Matthau, anyway.
Can't say I agree but Kim is definitely one of the great screen beauties with an irresistible vulnerability.
You might think it's weird my commenting on these but my dad, who introduced me to many classic movies, loved to discuss the beauty of various actresses (e.g., Olivia de Havilland's cheekbones, Joan Fontaine's lips). Not just Hollywood, either. We both thought Win Min Than was a great beauty.
Of course, you’re right; how could I forget the East Asian taxi driver!
In retrospect, its seems very Cold War-ish, for obvious reasons. Their idea of “diversity” was an episode when the new #2 says something like “das vedanya” to the one leaving, who responds “auf wiedersehn”. Today, the staff would look like a Marvel movie.
(1) Exactly what you see. A spy story in the late 60s, the heyday of spy stories. We find ourselves in the not 8th but 9th circle of needtoknow, where assets of every extraction are debriefed prior to "retirement," and so we hear the accents and languages of 60s NATO intelligence assets.
(2) Metaphor for human society and the world -- thus, the international cast bears out the "worldliness."
As a young man he once shared an apartment with Jack Klugman when they were both breaking into acting. Klugman would later recall Bronson pressing his shirts before work or an audition, veins popping out of his forearms as he ran the iron.Replies: @Trinity
Charlie probably obtained his physique from manual labor and genetics. He really didn’t seem to have a physique built from weights. I read he was a chain smoker though. In Hard Times, he had a physique that the general public would find ideal for a man, even a young man. Amazingly, Bronson was 53-54 at the time.
In retrospect, its seems very Cold War-ish, for obvious reasons. Their idea of "diversity" was an episode when the new #2 says something like "das vedanya" to the one leaving, who responds "auf wiedersehn". Today, the staff would look like a Marvel movie.Replies: @J.Ross
The way I understood it when I first watched it in high school, thanks to Blockbuster Video (and by the way, hell yeah, wasn’t she a looker? Ming Na-Wen came up in some discussion and everyone stopped and talked about how well she’s aged, or hasn’t aged), was that there were two layers:
(1) Exactly what you see. A spy story in the late 60s, the heyday of spy stories. We find ourselves in the not 8th but 9th circle of needtoknow, where assets of every extraction are debriefed prior to “retirement,” and so we hear the accents and languages of 60s NATO intelligence assets.
(2) Metaphor for human society and the world — thus, the international cast bears out the “worldliness.”
I don’t have the link but right here at iSteve some commentator posted a link to an article explicitly telling it all. tldr Bronson’s brothers, uncles, and dads were real men of the old stamp, and would simply not allow him to be a wimp growing up, and he kept it up for the rest of his life.
I did it by limiting my intake of refined sugar and starches, eating more protein, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, limiting alcohol, cutting way back on snacking, making some substitutions (flavored seltzer for beer and soda, a protein shake or bar instead of hitting the burger joint for quick meals) and some intermittent fasting (not eating anything after 5 PM). I also walk regularly, run a road race here and there, do some barbells and kettlebells, and use the elliptical when the weather is bad. I also take a standard multi vitamin and some supplements for joint and liver health.
At my last physical, all of my tests were normal, and I no longer had elevated liver enzymes.
Part of it is indeed a simple calories in/calories out change to favor a calorie deficit. Part of it is that I eat foods that are less likely to lead to unhealthy cravings. And part of it is that feeling better means I’m more active in general.Replies: @J.Ross, @Jimbo in OPKS
I have made similar if inferior progress, but a major unexpected part of it was replacing soda pop and beer with plain seltzer with a squirt of lemon and/or lime juice. The bubbles count for something.
Indeed. It’s already happening incrementally by degrees. Reports of blacks getting light sentences or early release after killing white people occasionally bypass mainstream news.
I’ve long thought late in life I’d be killed in my bed, robbed of the few saved treasures around me, by my second or third generation imminent caregiver. Even if convicted they’ll be excused for historical grievance.
Then again, there is something imminent about continued immigration.
You’d think that if they wanted to take full advantage of the land of milk and honey they’d do more to assimilate.
To find your magnesium dose, slowly up your dose, say 10% per day, until you get the effect you're after (e.g. relief of muscle tension), then hold steady. If you're not sure the effect you want will be readily & immediately noticeable, and you want to be taking the near maximum amount you can absorb, then up the dose until you get GI symptoms, then dial it down 10-20% / until the GI symptoms go away.
Note also magnesium comes in different forms (citrate, glycinate, ...) and different people tolerate the different forms better or worse.
Research interactions. Magnesium supplementation may interfere with antibiotics. If you're taking a lot of zinc close to the magnesium, that may inhibit the magnesium absorption (i.e. lower your tolerated magnesium dose).Replies: @Unintended Consequence, @Cool Shoes
The citrate is good for cleaning you out. The glycinate is good at night for a restful nights sleep
I've long thought late in life I'd be killed in my bed, robbed of the few saved treasures around me, by my second or third generation imminent caregiver. Even if convicted they'll be excused for historical grievance.Replies: @Old Virginia
“immigrant”. Bad! spell check! Like I don’t know how to spell “immigrant”.
Then again, there is something imminent about continued immigration.
For me, I found a 40 something Angie Dickinson sexy as hell.
Hmm, Best looking were Judy and Audrey Landers back in the day.Replies: @Old Virginia, @Kylie
Ingrid Bergmann. I like the classics.
See the dance scene in Cactus Flower, 55 years old, 5’11’ Ingrid Bergman dominating the dance floor covered from neck to ankle in an aqua evening gown.
It turned on Walter Matthau, anyway.
And she can act too. Some critic once referred to her as a character actress trapped in the face and body of a bombshell. Or something to that effect.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/6d/af/c56daf3851ba83c3516202f451ed1aa7.png
You can smear dish dirt on that lady's face and dress her as a broken-down diner waitress and she still lights up the screen.Replies: @MGB, @Kylie
Totally agree.
“And she can act too.”
Yes, she has the rare gift of being able to convey thought as well as emotion. She is totally in the moment onscreen and that, combined with her matchless beauty, makes her unforgettable.
I love her in this scene. We see and feel everything Ellen is feeling. Meanwhile poor Daniel Day-Lewis is so mannered and Methody. I get the feeling he’s just reeling off the conversational lines waiting for his chance to “emote”. Whereas she is feeling her way through this thicket of emotions, you can see it in her eyes, hear it in her voice. It’s such a poignant performance.
A radiation physicist told me a Black woman came in with some untreatable cancer that was treatable as she was diagnosed and chose to ignore it.
Don’t count on miracles if the MD tells you you need treatment and ignore the advice.
No she never lived up to her comedic talent.
She and Ritter formed one of those mixed sex comedy duos that people,specially women,are drawn to,with Ritter's " Bob Hope" taking on Somers' well,Judy Holliday?
Yes,TC was dumb,but unafraid to go for the jokes,and the jokes came one after another.
Every show can't be "Breaking Bad." Though I did have a lot of laughs sometimes.😮
Sexual misunderstandings! Oh brother!
Another guy who fought this battle was Carroll O'Conner,
who grew to hate Norman Lear for his crooked ways. But O'Connor swallowed his pride and hung in there.
So a pudgy,2nd tier character actor became one of TVs funniest guys,evuh!Replies: @Jonathan Mason
Seems to me that the characters for Three’s Company were mostly selected because they looked somewhat like the characters in the British original which was called Man About The House.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/man_about_the_house/
Ritter gave a wonderful performance in Slingblade as a gay guy doing his best to protect the two people he considers his family. He was very convincing.
https://youtu.be/uB2eggtlTfE?si=HbajjGTTWnpaHWSzReplies: @Jim Don Bob
I like Billy Bob Thornton, but I thought Slingblade was despicable, and predictable. I turned it off halfway through.
I liked it. It was predictable, yes, but I didn't find it despicable. John Ritter and Robert Duvall both gave memorable performances and I love Daniel Lanois's score.
Could be I'm missing something. Wouldn't be the first time.
What are you thanking him for? It’s irrelevant gibberish.
What happens with sugar is that any excess sugar is turned into fat. John Yudkin discovered the connection in the 1950s as refined sugar consumption went through the roof—along with heart disease and obesity.
But the sugar industry shut him up with a flawed study by Ancel Keys that showed that fat caused heart disease.Replies: @OilcanFloyd
This sounds like what Ivor Cummins claims. It makes sense.
For me, I found a 40 something Angie Dickinson sexy as hell.
Hmm, Best looking were Judy and Audrey Landers back in the day.Replies: @Old Virginia, @Kylie
“Kim Basinger in her prime was better looking and sexier [than Michelle Pfeiffer] IMO.”
Can’t say I agree but Kim is definitely one of the great screen beauties with an irresistible vulnerability.
You might think it’s weird my commenting on these but my dad, who introduced me to many classic movies, loved to discuss the beauty of various actresses (e.g., Olivia de Havilland’s cheekbones, Joan Fontaine’s lips). Not just Hollywood, either. We both thought Win Min Than was a great beauty.
He had a smoking hot (female) wife in real life.
“I like Billy Bob Thornton, but I thought Slingblade was despicable, and predictable.”
I liked it. It was predictable, yes, but I didn’t find it despicable. John Ritter and Robert Duvall both gave memorable performances and I love Daniel Lanois’s score.
Could be I’m missing something. Wouldn’t be the first time.
I never thought Somers was all that attractive and she did epitomize that "dumb blonde" look. For my money, the most attractive blonde actress ever was this lady:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/01/89/09/0189092fa368f49271e9cda052102f99.jpgReplies: @Kylie, @Trinity, @The Germ Theory of Disease
I no longer keep a scorecard of who did what, at least not for mainstream purposes, but whichever gal was the lead in “White Oleander” she gets my vote OK.
Otherwise put me down with like Lucinda Childs and Peyton Smith and so forth.
I did it by limiting my intake of refined sugar and starches, eating more protein, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, limiting alcohol, cutting way back on snacking, making some substitutions (flavored seltzer for beer and soda, a protein shake or bar instead of hitting the burger joint for quick meals) and some intermittent fasting (not eating anything after 5 PM). I also walk regularly, run a road race here and there, do some barbells and kettlebells, and use the elliptical when the weather is bad. I also take a standard multi vitamin and some supplements for joint and liver health.
At my last physical, all of my tests were normal, and I no longer had elevated liver enzymes.
Part of it is indeed a simple calories in/calories out change to favor a calorie deficit. Part of it is that I eat foods that are less likely to lead to unhealthy cravings. And part of it is that feeling better means I’m more active in general.Replies: @J.Ross, @Jimbo in OPKS
40 pounds, Wow! Congrats. I lost about the same weight as a case of bottled water from Costco. I picked one up the other day and thought, whoa! I used to carry this around all the time. So happy I did.
Now I don't think that prescription for eating in that book is a bad idea. The book as proof of it however along with the doctor and actress are a fraud.
Jane Fonda is not quite as much a fraud. She released her famous workout video which sold like bananas after someone said she could make money on it. I once saw her in an interview where she was told she looked terrific for her age (which she did) and was asked if the workouts from her video were responsible for that. She ended up truthfully telling how she never did those workouts or any workout prior to the video. And had not done them since. The only time she did those exercises were for the video. To help out a friend who started a fitness center and needed some attention. I think she did add fitness to her routine later like in her 60's. She just was genetically blessed as someone who aged well like her brother (no fitness buff there) and her father.Replies: @Colin Wright
I’m vaguely reminded of my dog, who was an uncastrated male Labrador Retriever. He ate anything that got lower than counter height, and while we tried to remember to walk him, he didn’t get all that much exercise.
But he was like rock. I remember noticing when he pissed me off and I had to hit him on his hams or something. All muscle; Lab or no, not an ounce of fat on him. That animal was in great shape.
Aside from being uncastrated, it might have had something to do with his origin. He seemed to come from a strain of hunting dogs that appears out in the Central Valley of California, where it gets very, very hot in the summer.
And he was Tex Ritter’s son!