The Vent and Rant Thread

[Blossom]

Forget Stevia, Sorbitol is from the pit of evil.

Yesterday I ate two granola bars that I had no clue had sorbitol in them. Five minutes later this tingling burning sensation starts in my left fingertips travels up my arm into my brain and down my spine. I had no idea what this was. It was so strange, so foreign. A few minutes later it hit my digestive system hard.
An hour later I got so sick I had to call the factory to send Hubby home from his new job.

I didn't want to but I didn't know what was happening to me. I kept taking my vitals. I had no chest pain just this weird sensation that settled in my arms, back and digestive system while it began purging.

An hour later hubby got home and it would be four hours later before it started to subside.

We decided to check the ingredients on the bars and everything looked fine till half way through it said Sorbitol. After Googling we found out what a severe reaction can do.

I'm still in pain this morning. It's like a very bad GERD episode. I have burning in my arms, back and in my esophagus. I still having bouts of running to the bathroom.

Here's my rant. There is nothing on the box that says it contains artificial sweeteners. It has sugar, honey, molasses, fruit, corn syrup, more sugar. So why in hockey sticks does it contain sorbitol!?!? Why? Why!?! Is Sunbelt sadists? It makes no sense to use it when you are using regular sugar, honey, molasses....

Evil sneaky $#*!......

The lesson learned is nothing new goes into this mouth without reading the label.

Sent from my XT1528

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Forget Stevia, Sorbitol is from the pit of evil.

Yesterday I ate two granola bars that I had no clue had sorbitol in them. Five minutes later this tingling burning sensation starts in my left fingertips travels up my arm into my brain and down my spine. I had no idea what this was. It was so strange, so foreign. A few minutes later it hit my digestive system hard.
An hour later I got so sick I had to call the factory to send Hubby home from his new job.

I didn't want to but I didn't know what was happening to me. I kept taking my vitals. I had no chest pain just this weird sensation that settled in my arms, back and digestive system while it began purging.

An hour later hubby got home and it would be four hours later before it started to subside.

We decided to check the ingredients on the bars and everything looked fine till half way through it said Sorbitol. After Googling we found out what a severe reaction can do.

I'm still in pain this morning. It's like a very bad GERD episode. I have burning in my arms, back and in my esophagus. I still having bouts of running to the bathroom.

Here's my rant. There is nothing on the box that says it contains artificial sweeteners. It has sugar, honey, molasses, fruit, corn syrup, more sugar. So why in hockey sticks does it contain sorbitol!?!? Why? Why!?! Is Sunbelt sadists? It makes no sense to use it when you are using regular sugar, honey, molasses....

Evil sneaky $#*!......

The lesson learned is nothing new goes into this mouth without reading the label.

Sent from my XT1528

Please post the name of these granola bars.

Oh and an update on the family.

[Blossom]

Sunbelt Banana Oat Granola Bars. They are pure evil! Just got back from the bathroom again. Ugh!

Mom and Sis are okay. I call once a day and mom just complains about everything. I haven't talked to sis. She's has to get therapy ordered through her doctor so she waiting on an appointment Mom hasn't been able to get home services started. She's playing phone tag.

Hubby's supervisor said he could come back today. She's was very understanding about him having to leave.



Sent from my XT1528

[covingtoncat73]

Speak of, BLossm, I was having some tummy issues this morning. I felt a bit better after drinking some Sprite but I noticed a co-worker chugging Pepto Bismol in the break room, so I hope I haven't come down with something.

[WT Sharpe]

The two kids in the house both woke up sick. One has a sore throat and the other a stomach ache. Kids are germ magnets. Looking forward now to catching my first bug in months.

[ApK]

Sorry to interrupt the serious health stuff with some petty vents, but I'm going to, nonetheless.

Dear fellow technologists:

"Cache," as in an area of memory or storage where data is held for quick access, is pronounced like "cash," as in money.

It is NOT pronounced "ca-SHAY." That word, spelled "cachet," means 'prestige.'
You're knowledge workers. Please add this to your knowledge base, so you sound knowledgeable.

Thank you!

Dear callers to the Dave Ramsey Show:
Learn the difference between the pronouns "I" and "me" and how to use them correctly, at least in the most simple and common constructions. Maybe if you spoke like you paid attention in grammar school, you'd do better in job interviews, and command a higher salary, and you'd be in better financial shape.

Worth a try.

Thanks!

[silverraven]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Forget Stevia, Sorbitol is from the pit of evil.

Yesterday I ate two granola bars that I had no clue had sorbitol in them. Five minutes later this tingling burning sensation starts in my left fingertips travels up my arm into my brain and down my spine. I had no idea what this was. It was so strange, so foreign. A few minutes later it hit my digestive system hard.
An hour later I got so sick I had to call the factory to send Hubby home from his new job.

I didn't want to but I didn't know what was happening to me. I kept taking my vitals. I had no chest pain just this weird sensation that settled in my arms, back and digestive system while it began purging.

An hour later hubby got home and it would be four hours later before it started to subside.

We decided to check the ingredients on the bars and everything looked fine till half way through it said Sorbitol. After Googling we found out what a severe reaction can do.

I'm still in pain this morning. It's like a very bad GERD episode. I have burning in my arms, back and in my esophagus. I still having bouts of running to the bathroom.

Here's my rant. There is nothing on the box that says it contains artificial sweeteners. It has sugar, honey, molasses, fruit, corn syrup, more sugar. So why in hockey sticks does it contain sorbitol!?!? Why? Why!?! Is Sunbelt sadists? It makes no sense to use it when you are using regular sugar, honey, molasses....

Evil sneaky $#*!......

The lesson learned is nothing new goes into this mouth without reading the label.

Sent from my XT1528

I don't touch anything with Sorbitol. It does bad bad bad things to my digestive tract that last for a couple days. Very Very Bad things! I guess since they use it for a laxative I shouldn't be surprised. Some people are just much more sensitive to it than others. I'm just "lucky" to be one of those Some people!

Sorbitol can be used as a laxative via an oral suspension or enema. As with other sugar alcohols, gastrointestinal distress may result when food products that contain sorbitol are consumed.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up!
S

[gridlewak]

Regarding office people stealing items from others desks. Long ago and far away, the engineering office where I worked had a somewhat identical issue. In this case, it was the head engineer who was the culprit.

The regular guys out in the office floor kept a dish full of those pink peppermints for folks to help themselves to. One would usually grab one or two when going by the chap's desk. Once in a while, someone would come in with a replacement bag to keep the supply up. Except for the head engineer. He would actually make a special trip out to the dish, grab a handful and head back to his office. This was starting to get on their nerves, so a plan was hatched by the originator of the candy supply.

One day, he came in and replenished the supply. He then told the rest of the crew not to take any peppermints. He next instructed the staff that when the manager eventually came out to help himself, that they should do whatever they can to keep him busy and just watch. What the chap did was replace the mints with those pink wafers that one uses to clean false teeth. Can't remember the brand name right off hand.

Sure enough, the manager came out, grabbed a small handful right after popping 2 into his mouth. Apparently, it only took a few seconds for him to realize he didn't have mints in his mouth. That's when one guy came over to get an issue corrected that only he could authorize. The second one came over to get a handful of signatures on some work orders or something. All the time, they could see his eyes start to tear up, and, by the time he could actually get away from the crew, one could see really teeny pink bubbles creeping out of the edges of each side of his mouth.

That was the last time he helped himself to anything in the office.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by ApK

Sorry to interrupt the serious health stuff with some petty vents, but I'm going to, nonetheless.

Dear fellow technologists:

"Cache," as in an area of memory or storage where data is held for quick access, is pronounced like "cash," as in money.

It is NOT pronounced "ca-SHAY." That word, spelled "cachet," means 'prestige.'
You're knowledge workers. Please add this to your knowledge base, so you sound knowledgeable.

Thank you!

Dear callers to the Dave Ramsey Show:
Learn the difference between the pronouns "I" and "me" and how to use them correctly, at least in the most simple an common constructions. Maybe if you spoke like you paid attention in grammar school, you'd do better in join interviews, and command a higher salary, and you'd be in better financial shape.

Worth a try.

Thanks!

So one could have a cache of cachet.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by ApK

Sorry to interrupt the serious health stuff with some petty vents, but I'm going to, nonetheless.

Dear fellow technologists:

"Cache," as in an area of memory or storage where data is held for quick access, is pronounced like "cash," as in money.

It is NOT pronounced "ca-SHAY." That word, spelled "cachet," means 'prestige.'
You're knowledge workers. Please add this to your knowledge base, so you sound knowledgeable.

Thank you!

Dear callers to the Dave Ramsey Show:
Learn the difference between the pronouns "I" and "me" and how to use them correctly, at least in the most simple an common constructions. Maybe if you spoke like you paid attention in grammar school, you'd do better in join interviews, and command a higher salary, and you'd be in better financial shape.

Worth a try.

Thanks!

Good luck with that! I feel your pain, though I've almost given up on expecting correct personal pronoun usage. But seriously, there are IT folks who use ka-SHAY for 'cache'? That's just awful!

[wodin]

Originally Posted by ApK

...
Dear callers to the Dave Ramsey Show:
Learn the difference between the pronouns "I" and "me" and how to use them correctly, at least in the most simple an common constructions. Maybe if you spoke like you paid attention in grammar school, you'd do better in join interviews, and command a higher salary, and you'd be in better financial shape.

Worth a try.

Thanks!

Seen and saw have always been my bugaboos, some folks will invariably say they seen something when they actually saw it, or they might have seen it. I've even seen it used improperly by TV personalities who should really know better.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by ApK

Sorry to interrupt the serious health stuff with some petty vents, but I'm going to, nonetheless.

Dear fellow technologists:

"Cache," as in an area of memory or storage where data is held for quick access, is pronounced like "cash," as in money.

It is NOT pronounced "ca-SHAY." That word, spelled "cachet," means 'prestige.'
You're knowledge workers. Please add this to your knowledge base, so you sound knowledgeable.

Thank you!

Dear callers to the Dave Ramsey Show:
Learn the difference between the pronouns "I" and "me" and how to use them correctly, at least in the most simple an common constructions. Maybe if you spoke like you paid attention in grammar school, you'd do better in join interviews, and command a higher salary, and you'd be in better financial shape.

Worth a try.

Thanks!

Did you know that you can't be a caller or get any information from Dave Ramsey unless you make over $50,000 a year?
So, don't be kidding yourself about those incomes.
Dave don't give a rat's patootie about helping the poor. He helps the overspending middle class.
Yes, his callers are not exactly financially bright, but they have to have a good paying job to be on the show.
He won't even allow people to look at any of his tips on his website unless you make over 50K a year or lie.

His show is nothing but an advertisement for his financial planning stuff or his sponsors stuff.

Now having that out of the way, he does give good advice sometimes.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by wodin

Seen and saw have always been my bugaboos, some folks will invariably say they seen something when they actually saw it, or they might have seen it. I've even seen it used improperly by TV personalities who should really know better.

The hell with TV personalities--all the talking heads that are so-called and purported "newscasters" will bungle I/Me. It drives me NUTS. It's gotten to the point that my lesser half--who has now suffered through decades of me yelling at the TV, to correct grammar/word usage (don't get me started on "begs the question"), will now shout in stereo--which is pretty funny, because he's math/science guy, not Grammar/English Lit guy. But even he's become attuned to "It's me, you jack@$$! It's not 'John and me went to..." IDIOTS!"

BUT, what can we expect? Let's face it the cult of celebrity now far overrides any cult of education/learning/erudition. We had a president who agreed to be interviewed with a woman who sat in a tub full of cereal and milk. 'Nuff said. And no, I do NOT mean to compare or start a discussion over which Prez had worse taste or any political horseshaft. Just saying that celebrity outweighs any sort of real weight, in terms of education, accomplishments, capability, etc. It seems that nowadays, news coverage and the like would rather interview some twit that made himself famous on YouTube, doing something stupid, than a guy that cures cancer, or develops a treatment for some horrible disease, or sends stuff to Mars.
Therefore, no one feels as though they are compelled to educate themselves as to how to speak. Why bother? They can be famous on Youtube, or publish a barely-literate book on Amazon that can actually earn good amounts of money. It's boggling. The Illiterocracy begins.

/rant


Hitch

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Hitch

The hell with TV personalities--all the talking heads that are so-called and purported "newscasters" will bungle I/Me. It drives me NUTS. It's gotten to the point that my lesser half--who has now suffered through decades of me yelling at the TV, to correct grammar/word usage (don't get me started on "begs the question"), will now shout in stereo--which is pretty funny, because he's math/science guy, not Grammar/English Lit guy. But even he's become attuned to "It's me, you jack@$$! It's not 'John and me went to..." IDIOTS!"

BUT, what can we expect? Let's face it the cult of celebrity now far overrides any cult of education/learning/erudition. We had a president who agreed to be interviewed with a woman who sat in a tub full of cereal and milk. 'Nuff said. And no, I do NOT mean to compare or start a discussion over which Prez had worse taste or any political horseshaft. Just saying that celebrity outweighs any sort of real weight, in terms of education, accomplishments, capability, etc. It seems that nowadays, news coverage and the like would rather interview some twit that made himself famous on YouTube, doing something stupid, than a guy that cures cancer, or develops a treatment for some horrible disease, or sends stuff to Mars.
Therefore, no one feels as though they are compelled to educate themselves as to how to speak. Why bother? They can be famous on Youtube, or publish a barely-literate book on Amazon that can actually earn good amounts of money. It's boggling. The Illiterocracy begins.

/rant


Hitch

The funniest one I ever saw was about a thief that had entered a business during business hours, ran out and got arrested. The reporter was standing outside during the day and promptly announced at "midnight" a guy went into the store, when he came back out and tried to run across the very busy street, the cops arrested him.

Note: The store is only open during the day. That street is busy at noon not midnight.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by CRussel

In my old Electrician days, I used to paint a nice, big swath of pink paint on all my tools. EVERYONE knew that meant they were "Pinkies" (mine). And amazingly, no one wanted to steal^H^H^H^H^H borrow them.

Unfortunately, that tends not to work for good multi-tools. I discovered the hard way that Leatherman Wave tools get up and walk if not in your belt pouch or under your eyes at all times...
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Dennis