What meteorological phenomenon (phenomena) affects you this day ?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Even better for TV & Twinkies!

Twinkies are probably better for you than the TV.

[happy_terd]

Naw. I think you get a better workout if you carry a TV when you go on a jog.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by omk3

I couldn't help it... Of course I didn't enlarge the picture, but I still got goosebumps... You poor thing!

this made me laugh so much, because of course it describes my thoughts in similar situations to a T... (except for the cats, I only have dogs And shouldn't the cats be able to do something about the *&$# beast?)

(fanning self with hand and looking feebly for smelling salts) thank you for your sympathy. that was a very VERY difficult day for me. i'm still not fully recovered, as i'm sure you can understand (since you just experienced the same thing), in fact i get goosebumps if i even *almost* think of it. i just try not to think about it too much, if i can avoid it...

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Most people would be appalled if they knew how many insects and insect parts they consume over their lifetime. At one time I worked as a lab assistant in a food plant, and one of my duties was to look through a microscope and count all the insect parts in a small sample of crushed peanuts to insure that their number did not exceed government allowances. It's virtually impossible to eliminate all the insects.

see, that is one of those little fun facts i'm much happier not knowing (or at least, pretending to myself i don't know it). why on earth do people insist on sharing information like this ? huh tom ? why ???? i think i may have to run away and hide with omk3.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Most people would be appalled if they knew how many insects and insect parts they consume over their lifetime.

I was more appalled to discover that shop-bought bread might contain intentionally introduced animal hair and feather (I strongly recommend the book this excerpt is from: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...ad-413156.html). Well, maybe not appalled, but definitely shocked and surprised.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I was more appalled to discover that shop-bought bread might contain intentionally introduced animal hair and feather (I strongly recommend the book this excerpt is from: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...ad-413156.html). Well, maybe not appalled, but definitely shocked and surprised.

Wow. Like most prepared/commercialized foods these days. I've just started Eat to Live and it discusses "prepared" foods in detail in much the same manner/light as the above link.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

note to self, version the third : along with all candy from florence, wrapped or not, maybe it's best to avoid grapes, in general. definitely japanese grapes.

...or go for a drive with her in her car:


http://thatwillbuffout.com/2010/03/10/funny-car-photos-spider-car/

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Most people would be appalled if they knew how many insects and insect parts they consume over their lifetime. At one time I worked as a lab assistant in a food plant, and one of my duties was to look through a microscope and count all the insect parts in a small sample of crushed peanuts to insure that their number did not exceed government allowances. It's virtually impossible to eliminate all the insects.

An excellent book I've kept since my teens is The Life That Lives On Man by Michael Andrews. We're all each walking botanical gardens and zoos.

Cheers,
Marc

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

...or go for a drive with her in her car:


http://thatwillbuffout.com/2010/03/10/funny-car-photos-spider-car/

Hey, this is nice! If I had a car, I'd like it to look like this. Would be very useful on the périphérique (the Paris ring road, home to screaming hordes of homicidal motorists and kamikaze motorcyclists). But I wouldn't advise anybody to get on any kind of car, if I'm the one driving it

[GeoffC]

dull with light rain ...


I the light of how this thread has morphed; I offer the following ....

Eating fly eggs, rodent hair, mold, and fecal matter may sound a lot like a challenge on Fear Factor, but it’s just an episode of our daily lives.

Unintended additives—indiscernible to the naked eye and unlisted on ingredient labels— squirm, crawl, fly, and plop into much of what we eventually put in our mouths. In fact, these unsavory morsels are so common that the Federal Drug Administration permits certain levels of these “natural contaminants” in our food. The FDA’s Food Defect Action Level Handbook establishes the amounts of contaminants permitted in about a hundred plant-derived foods. At or below these levels, the FDA has determined that the defects— however icky—are harmless.
What Bugs Lie Beneath

Under the regulations in the FDA’s handbook, a hefty bowl of spaghetti is permitted 200 or so bug fragments—one for every gram of pasta—fifteen fly eggs, and a maggot. Add a pinch of FDA-acceptable ground oregano and it might be spiced with one hundred itsy bitsy bug bits and a rodent hair. And while hot dogs get a bad rap for the mystery meat parts ground up in them, you might want to take a closer look at the condiments. A few spoonfuls of sauerkraut could include fifty thrips—a small, slender bug pointed at both ends. Even chocolate is impure. As you savor a chocolate bar, you might also be ingesting some sixty insect parts.

Of the foods in the handbook, many are everyday staples. Wheat can contain an “average of nine milligrams or more rodent excreta pellets and/or pellet fragments per kilogram.” The shaker of cinnamon in your spice cabinet could have some 400 bug fragments and eleven rodent hairs. In one eighteen-ounce jar of peanut butter, there must be more than six rodent hairs and sixty insect parts before the FDA considers it tainted.

Happy eating !

[omk3]

I briefly considered quitting food, but on second thoughts, it's more practical to just quit this thread.

I'm off to find a good bug-free hiding place now (Zelda, I'll call you when it's safe)

You can call me back when you start talking about the weather again, and I don't mean the it's-raining-spiders-and-frogs variety!

(PS. The car looks nice though )

[kennyc]

Warmer with much melting here...

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by omk3

I briefly considered quitting food, but on second thoughts, it's more practical to just quit this thread.

I'm off to find a good bug-free hiding place now (Zelda, I'll call you when it's safe)

You can call me back when you start talking about the weather again, and I don't mean the it's-raining-spiders-and-frogs variety!

(PS. The car looks nice though )

What, are you leaving? I was just about to tell you about the pet cockroach I had in my flat in Tokyo. It's a very moving story

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Twinkies are probably better for you than the TV.

You're probably right! Twinkies only rot your teeth and make you fat, but TV rots your mind!

Originally Posted by happy_terd

Naw. I think you get a better workout if you carry a TV when you go on a jog.

In my neighborhood we call that looting!

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

What, are you leaving? I was just about to tell you about the pet cockroach I had in my flat in Tokyo. It's a very moving story

Well - last year I had switched to Quaker Oats rice cakes as a better nutritional choice for snacks - and one night I was polishing off a bag of mini rice cakes when I noticed something dark in the bag - turned out to be several cockroach legs.

I've never been able to eat another rice cake since then.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

see, that is one of those little fun facts i'm much happier not knowing (or at least, pretending to myself i don't know it). why on earth do people insist on sharing information like this ? huh tom ? why ???? i think i may have to run away and hide with omk3.

Here's another fun fact; seeing as how you loved the last one one so much.

In the human body, bacteria outnumber human cells by a factor of 10. Each of us is basically a big bag of germs with a person inside. In short; we can all say, "I are an ecosystem!"

And have you ever seen enlarged photos of those cuddly dinosaur-looking thingies that live in our eyelashes? Our lashes are like a miniature Jurassic Park!

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

And have you ever seen enlarged photos of those cuddly dinosaur-looking thingies that live in our eyelashes? Our lashes are like a miniature Jurassic Park!

Aw, they're so cute