Because like schoolchildren or Ned Flanders we must not say bad words but abbreviations or euphemisms are okely dokely.

Edinburgh may be my favorite city I’ve ever visited. I want to go back again later this year. That being said: thoughts about some of the things we did.

Edinburgh Castle is iconic, has great views, and outside of the Scottish crown jewels it was not that terribly crowded though there is also not as much to see as something like the tower of London though the history is still quite interesting. Can probably see it all in under a half day, realistically I think we were there four hours and saw everything but the crown jewels.

The royal botanic gardens in Edinburgh was not on my list of things to do before visiting but it was beautiful. Would definitely book at least half a day to explore it.

The johnny walker experience wasn’t all that great. Would book a seat at their bar way early but the tasting wasn’t particularly special. The west end brasserie right across the street from there actually has a stupidly long scotch menu if you have an idea of what styles you already like and just want to go taste a broad variety of things you could probably have actually spent less money there for better scotch (I don’t particularly love most of JW’s blends).

We actually took a fly fishing trip for native brown trout on one of the lochs northeast of Glasgow. VERY reasonably priced, gorgeous scenery, and fun letting my (now) wife catch her first trout on a fly. Pun intended but she’s now hooked. Definitely needed to pack better waterproof gear for that though. The rain jacket wasn’t good enough sitting in a boat going across a loch in a strong mist.

“Empress” Verdiacee “Tiari” Washitaw-Turner Goston El-Bey of the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah (the article missed aa few of her names or self proclaimed honorifics). Now thats a name I haven’t heard in probably two decades(and one she continued to add onto and embellish throughout her life), but reading the article immediately made me remember just how absolutely batshit crazy she was. I grew up in Northeast Louisiana and remember her stirring up problems at various civic meetings for years. I can’t believe anybody would ever take anything she said as serious, because she was so clearly mentally ill that even as a kid I picked up on it. But somehow they did, and she even led a movement for the “town” of richwood to secede from the city of Monroe, taking with it a good portion of the more densely populated areas but almost none of the tax base to support the basic civic infrastructure. You can probably figure out how the next two decades plus looked for residents there.

Because they looked around and realized nobody else would put up with Jerry’s shit?

Any chance you have an Indian grocery near you? The ones I’ve gone to often have pg tips for way cheaper than that.

Sure sounds like it. 5800x3d I think is max 4.5ghz base. But at $100 cheaper list, I know which I’m picking.

I mean, you CAN make wine out of Concord grapes, but it still tastes like Concord grapes after fermentation. Many places that lack the more temperate climate of France or coastal California make a lot of wine out of Concord and similar grape varieties bred from native grape species that are in many cases more disease resistant and tolerant of extreme temps. Overall, they tend to be sweeter wines(though concords technically have a lower natural sugar content on average than many traditional varieties) and often they get mixed with other fruit wines (blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and even another native grape called a muscadine) because they aren’t easy to extract a lot of tannins out of, and are a real one trick pony from a flavor perspective. Many attempts have been made to breed grapes that exhibit more “traditional” wine flavors, to varying degrees of success.

That being said, this is some real prison hooch territory and there’s zero reason to do something like this with as accessable as winemaking kits are these days. Now if you’re in a prohibition type scenario maybe it makes at least some sort of sense.

What is this, non credible defense? If you believe that, then nothing matters and all options are on the table including preemptive action, because you either assume that MAD is enough to stave off that stupidity or you dont. But…this is all bullshit propaganda and saber rattling so who really cares.

They’ve been held at bay for over a year by a smaller army with at best 20+ year old “B stock” conventional munitions often Jerry rigged to give half the capabilities they have when used as intended. Russia is a paper tiger who would get the Iraq revolutionary guards treatment inside 3 weeks if they start shit against the finns. And nobody outside Putin himself is suicidal enough to start throwing nukes.

Yep. Most people clutching their pearls at this story don’t have any idea how difficult it is to actually build anything outside a gen 3 Glock or an ar-15. And those have “80% kits” that basically say “drill hole here” available on the market. Try finding a hi point, lorcin, or even Taurus or low end S&W pistol, or cheap shotgun(like a Stevens or Remington 870) receiver(because that’s most of what comes into these guys who have businesses like this), and you’ll find out it is a) cost prohibitive, b) still has to go through a nics check bc there’s nobody home building much of anything (well, the hi point may be the odd one out bc there are 3d printed frames you could make). What they do end up doing is a lot of business with guys refurbishing grandpa’s old deer or duck gun.

Is tarkov not a massive time sink? I feel like I’m committed to 2+hours every time I try to sit down and play, and the mid game crafting you almost have to undertake to get quality ammo makes you have to log in almost daily to not waste resources.

I think you’re misunderstanding what most of them keep practicing. It’s not the kooky cranial/cervical manipulation(you can make an argument that them having to learn that stuff in the first place is BS and a waste of time), but most do pick up a few muscle pressure point tricks and stretches that are essentially the same as what PT instructs patients on how to do. Is it bullshit? No more so than most medicine that’s practiced(the data behind the vast majority of what your average physician does is at best all over the place, the truly “settled” clinical questions are few and far between). In my book though, anything that keeps you from having to prescribe a scheduled drug (read as:narcotic or muscle relaxer) to get someone functional from something like severe trapezius tightness or piriformus syndrome is a heck of a tool to have at your disposal in a primary care or urgent care setting.

So, DO’s in many of not most states in the US have the same licensure and practice limitations as MDs and charge/are reimbursed similarly. I’m many cases they actually attend the same residency programs as allopathic/MDs. Most I’ve worked with drop 99% of the Osteopathic manipulation stuff soon as they graduate. Naturopaths on the other hand…

Me too. And add the botanical gardens to your list if they weren’t already on it. It wasn’t on mine initially but we spent half a day there and only left because we had reservations for the JW whiskey tasting.

Give the west end brasserie a shot too if you’re still in town. Literally across the street from the Johnnie Walker experience (the experience/tasting isn’t worth the price in my opinion, but the bar is cool). Maybe my favorite city ever.

Literally half or more of the drugs aren’t antidepressants…

Seborrheic dermatitis is what I think of when I read what you’re describing. Probably worth getting a second visit or even an outright second opinion if it’s not going away with the ketoconazole (especially if that’s what the dermatologist told you it was, it may be worth getting seen by an internal med doc or GP…depending on what they are called around your part of the world).

Chipolo tags delayed and no update from the company since July 27. Very close to requesting a refund at this point.

Not all that different from the canada crj series. Those always feel like they are too long for their wingspan.

Tarkov is a place where people discover they are actual masochists. The learning curve is near asymptotic, especially if you start mid or late in one of the economy “wipe” cycles. The cheater issues they have make it 10x worse than it should be though.