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Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
I mean, it was a freak thing. I touched a stingray yesterday in a tank at Sea World and there's other places where you can swim with them. The problem was where it got him.
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Unintentional does not make him any were less dead. There were two where's there. One was where it struck him and where he was when it got him. The ones in Sea World are pretty tame by now.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Goofyernmost said:
Unintentional does not make him any were less dead. There were two where's there. One was where it struck him and where he was when it got him. The ones in Sea World are pretty tame by now.
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If it had gotten him a few inches to the right, he'd still be alive. Just totally freak occurrence. Stingrays are not aggressive towards humans ordinarily. They usually save that barb for predators like sharks.
 
John park hopper

John park hopper

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Goofyernmost said:
You just triggered an awful memory. I had at least three rookie Mickey Mantle cards that I used as a motor in my bicycle spokes. I guess I wasn't good with money even back then. I may still have had one left that I didn't use so callously, but another traumatic thing happened a few years later. When we moved from New York to Vermont my parents had a large yard sale. We were downsizing and they wanted to sell off everything we didn't need before we moved. Along with whatever baseball cards I had put aside she also sold my 4th place team bowling patch. The only thing I ever won when it came to even a slightly sporting event. Why anyone else would have wanted it is still a mystery, just like her failure to even ask me if I wanted to keep that stuff. A few baseball cards and a flat cloth patch would not have taken up much room. I never let her forget that parental discrepancy, but all was forgiven because other than that she was a great mom. She just threw away more valuable things (todays antiques) than you can imagine. She never saw the value in any item, not even nostalgia. Except for one thing.

I know that all of you have at least seen a picture of what was a big thing in the 50's. We had a console black and white TV in a beautiful cabinet that along with the TV also had a turntable and (rare in those day) AM/FM stereo radio. It as about 5 feet long, 3 foot high and 18 inches deep. That thing died in about 1965 and when she passed in 2005 it was still located on her sunporch because "it was to nice a piece of furniture to throw out". At that time it was still worthless in any monetary sense. You wouldn't believe how spotless she kept that thing. I guess as a child of the depression it was a very important status symbol in her mind. It looked something like this one below.

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I had bunch of Yankee baseball cards Mickey Mantel, Roger Mariss, White Ford, etc Did the same thing cards in the bike spokes. Another memory making rubber band guns that would shoot the round milk caps that came on the glass qt milk bottles. We a very similar TV record player console
 
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Lilofan

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rshell68 said:
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This one made me chuckle because it is 100% true though I am glad they let kids bring water to class nowadays.
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I don’t recall if at all I drank from the dirty water fountain in the school hallway. The only nutrients I got was what mom packed in my metal GI Joe lunch box - apple, bologna on white and apple juice. No vending machines or free school lunch existed back in my elementary school. Some came to school with no lunch and ate nothing during lunchtime but we played dodgeball working up a sweat after eating our lunch very fast because we all wanted to play in the adjacent playground.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
If it had gotten him a few inches to the right, he'd still be alive. Just totally freak occurrence. Stingrays are not aggressive towards humans ordinarily. They usually save that barb for predators like sharks.
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I'm not saying that the animal had it in for Steve, I just said that it was ironic that the one of the creatures he claimed to love so much, killed him. I'm sure that the stingray (at this point nameless) acted intentionally because Steve inappropriately petted Stingy's wife or girlfriend. I, however, suspect that Steve was at fault. How I don't know! He was maybe over confident making him less than careful, maybe approached from the wrong direction or even made a sudden move that startled poor old nameless stingray. Whatever happened really doesn't matter except for the end result and it's kinda to late to fix that now.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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rshell68 said:
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This one made me chuckle because it is 100% true though I am glad they let kids bring water to class nowadays.
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I wonder how as an adult how I wasn't always dehydrated at school. 🤣 I have the big 24 ounce Starbucks tumblers at my desk and refill them at least once a day, plus I have a diet mountain dew in the morning.
Yes, I know this is not the greatest thing in the world for me.
I'm also not giving it up, so...
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Lilofan said:
I don’t recall if at all I drank from the dirty water fountain in the school hallway. The only nutrients I got was what mom packed in my metal GI Joe lunch box - apple, bologna on white and apple juice. No vending machines or free school lunch existed back in my elementary school. Some came to school with no lunch and ate nothing during lunchtime but we played dodgeball working up a sweat after eating our lunch very fast because we all wanted to play in the adjacent playground.
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That last one made me chuckle. We always played Dodge Ball during recess. I know of no one that got hurt to the point that it was a lasting injury and we weren't forced to play it. We did play it because it was fun and challenging and only required reflexes but no running.

If we had been forced to play it I can see how some parents would be upset, but all someone had to do to avoid minor injury was to not play it. In recent years, if a kid came home and told their parents that it stung when they got hit with the ball, they would start a petition and have it banned. Typical parental overreaction.

I think that it was a good lesson in dealing with some of the hard knocks that the parents aren't going to be able to protect their child from when the grow up. Lasting to the end only required a normal amount of agility and the courage to just step into the ball and catch it. I found that was a lot easier than to trying to avoid it. Hurt way less as well.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
I wonder how as an adult how I wasn't always dehydrated at school. 🤣 I have the big 24 ounce Starbucks tumblers at my desk and refill them at least once a day, plus I have a diet mountain dew in the morning.
Yes, I know this is not the greatest thing in the world for me.
I'm also not giving it up, so...
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I have always wondered about that and what I consider over hydration. I used to have juice with breakfast and go to school, maybe have a couple swallows of water from the evil public fountains after recess. A milk for lunch and nothing else until I got home (usually Kool-Aid), water for dinner and an occasional Pepsi, not always.

There is a degree of liquid in just about everything we eat. I was always healthy right up through to my late 60's. I think I would drown internally if I ever tried to consume the half gallon jugs of water brought into work by office people now. I understand if you work outside, you know, manual labor in the hot sun. But for the most part the only movement most office workers do is with their fingers on a keyboard. And then wonder how come they can't seem to lose weight. Remember a gallon of liquid weighs 8 pounds. Just because you swallowed it doesn't mean it become weightless. The body is made up of 55% to 60% water. So every consumption of liquid over what is expelled by the kidneys each day or sweating is just added on to your total weight.

Back when I was forced, by the Air Force, to lose weight I quickly learned to not drink water for a time before weigh-in. It could wait for after and then my body would have had time to process and get rid of it before the next day.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Goofyernmost said:
I have always wondered about that and what I consider over hydration. I used to have juice with breakfast and go to school, maybe have a couple swallows of water from the evil public fountains after recess. A milk for lunch and nothing else until I got home (usually Kool-Aid), water for dinner and an occasional Pepsi, not always.

There is a degree of liquid in just about everything we eat. I was always healthy right up through to my late 60's. I think I would drown internally if I ever tried to consume the half gallon jugs of water brought into work by office people now. I understand if you work outside, you know, manual labor in the hot sun. But for the most part the only movement most office workers do is with their fingers on a keyboard. And then wonder how come they can't seem to lose weight. Remember a gallon of liquid weighs 8 pounds. Just because you swallowed it doesn't mean it become weightless. The body is made up of 55% to 60% water. So every consumption of liquid over what is expelled by the kidneys each day or sweating is just added on to your total weight.

Back when I was forced, by the Air Force, to lose weight I quickly learned to not drink water for a time before weigh-in. It could wait for after and then my body would have had time to process and get rid of it before the next day.
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I personally think it's the opposite. I think our bodies adapted to less liquid, so we didn't feel thirsty, and then research came out that said "hey, we're probably not drinking enough" and then we started drinking more, and our bodies went "oh yeah, this is how much we're supposed to be drinking."

It's worth noting that I had a bunch of UTIs, starting in eighth grade when it went into my kidneys, and they've pretty much stopped now that I drink more.
 
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Lilofan

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Goofyernmost said:
I have always wondered about that and what I consider over hydration. I used to have juice with breakfast and go to school, maybe have a couple swallows of water from the evil public fountains after recess. A milk for lunch and nothing else until I got home (usually Kool-Aid), water for dinner and an occasional Pepsi, not always.

There is a degree of liquid in just about everything we eat. I was always healthy right up through to my late 60's. I think I would drown internally if I ever tried to consume the half gallon jugs of water brought into work by office people now. I understand if you work outside, you know, manual labor in the hot sun. But for the most part the only movement most office workers do is with their fingers on a keyboard. And then wonder how come they can't seem to lose weight. Remember a gallon of liquid weighs 8 pounds. Just because you swallowed it doesn't mean it become weightless. The body is made up of 55% to 60% water. So every consumption of liquid over what is expelled by the kidneys each day or sweating is just added on to your total weight.

Back when I was forced, by the Air Force, to lose weight I quickly learned to not drink water for a time before weigh-in. It could wait for after and then my body would have had time to process and get rid of it before the next day.
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I have family and friends that are school teachers and retired school teachers . For many years they did not hydrate throughout the day since if needing to use the restroom they could not leave the classroom unless someone was called to be in the class room with the students or else all hell would break loose.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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StarWarsGirl said:
I personally think it's the opposite. I think our bodies adapted to less liquid, so we didn't feel thirsty, and then research came out that said "hey, we're probably not drinking enough" and then we started drinking more, and our bodies went "oh yeah, this is how much we're supposed to be drinking."

It's worth noting that I had a bunch of UTIs, starting in eighth grade when it went into my kidneys, and they've pretty much stopped now that I drink more.
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Life has never been one size fit's all. UTI's are also something that aren't always a problem no matter the amount of water consumed. My wife and I were together for 29 years and I can't remember her having more than one UTI during that time. While others have them multiple times per year. Some need more water, but not everyone does. In the long haul, people need to consume water in the quantities that each one needs. Even I have had one but it was during the time that they had slammed me with massive antibiotics because of a suspected Bloodstream Infection and all the bacteria in my entire system had been almost totally killed off. My rule of thumb has always been when I'm thirsty I drink, when I'm not I don't. I guess I am fortunate that this has always worked for me. Others mileage may vary!
 
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wdwfan4ver

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FutureCEO said:
Ouch $5,000 a ticket for the World Series. And they say Disney is bad.
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I can't say the prices are a surprise. I am saying that because of the price of Super Bowl Tickets . I've read the cheapest Super Bowl seats are something like $4,000, but the more expensive seats can cost over $25,000.

The rule of thumb is well known games that determine a champion are the most expensive especially for MLB and the NFL.
 

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