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It appears I can't eat really hot things anymore without experiencing significant... unpleasantries in the ol' digestive system later, to the point where I think my time with the "extreme" sauces may be at its end.

I guess it's just Sriracha, Palo Alto and Texas Pete from here on it.

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What about hot takes? Those dead, too, pal?
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You get used to it. If your mouth learned to like the sauces, Uranus can too.

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A few years ago I tried a recommendation to consume yellow apple cider vinegar and molasses each day. For the molasses, two tablespoons; for the vinegar start wlth one tablespoon and a glass of water, eventually moving up to 1/4 cup of straight vinegar.

I was having reflux problems and someone pointed out it isn't the acid in our system, it's because the acid is becoming diluted in people, and the problem is the body trying to produce more acid to compensate.

So I tried, and while molasses tastes like what you'd think coal tar does, even a teaspoon of 5% vinegar will taste like battery acid. But, over the weeks I got used to it until I actually was able to drink 1/4 cup of vinegar with no water, and it was simpy sour, it didn't burn anymore. And the reflux stopped without eating antacids. Counterintuitive but it worked.
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Can someone draw me a diagram showing how that post was even remotely related to the thread topic or any of the posts within it?
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pinback wrote:Can someone draw me a diagram showing how that post was even remotely related to the thread topic or any of the posts within it?
From what I see, the topic is:

The most depressing thing ever.

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pinback wrote:Can someone draw me a diagram showing how that post was even remotely related to the thread topic or any of the posts within it?
From what I see, the topic is:

The most depressing thing ever.
I apologize. I read Pinback's article and thought he was discussing how his acid reflux made him unable to eat hot sauce. I offfered a suggestion on how he might cure his reflux.

But since his article was on the most depressing thing ever, he should have simply said three words.

Benjamin A. Parrish

Then I could have offered a solution:

Have you considered suicide?
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Wow. That was very hurtful, Paul.
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Ouch. That crosses a line. Doesn't it? I mean, we don't all tell you to kill yourself, Paul.

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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Ouch. That crosses a line. Doesn't it? I mean, we don't all tell you to kill yourself, Paul.

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No, but I still remember all the nasty and cruel things he's said to me. Then he asks for the opportunity to try again, proceeds to insult me again, and wonders why I am unhappy with him. Did I cross a line? Maybe. But I still wonder why he has such a negative and depressed attitude, going back years to his vows to essentially drive this BBS out of existence by being as nasty as possible to everyone here in order to drive them away.

I mean, seriously, he's got a job, a car, a home and a wife I presume loves him. He has no announced disabilities and can travel as he chooses.

I'm a disabled man who can't walk, can't use his hands, lives in a room, and survives on Disability. And I'm (much) happier than he is. **** LINE COUNT 9 LINES.
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Tdarcos wrote:And I'm (much) happier than he is.
Isn't that enough? Why do you seek to push me down even further?
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pinback wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:And I'm (much) happier than he is.
Isn't that enough? Why do you seek to push me down even further?
So reported from the man who has no trouble kicking people when they're down.

Look, I don't think you have announced what was the most depressing thing. But if I am correct and it is you, maybe I was trying to give you the kick out of it and bring yourself back. And if you can't do it, get help, as in, "I am going to see a professional, I am not going to let that fat assed son-of-a-bitch prolix cripple get me down, I'm going to find out what's wrong and fix it." Maybe you just need to not eat some foods that trigger depression, or do eat some foods that improve wellbeing.

Or maybe you need prescriptions, minerals and vitamins. I take 6 prescriptions & etc. every day for heart failure, low thyroid, high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes. I never felt better in my life. *** LINE COUNT 10
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Man. It's just painful to see, is all. You guys were friends once. And now, this.... this.... this strife.

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Tdarcos wrote:Look, I don't think you have announced what was the most depressing thing.
Oh, sorry. The entire thread is about the fact I can't eat very spicy food anymore, which was my one remaining pleasure.

This was stated clearly in the first post, but I forgot about your... you know, "condition".
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Ouch. That crosses a line. Doesn't it? I mean, we don't all tell you to kill yourself, Paul.

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Hello Mr. Pot, and welcome to Kettletown.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:...How about you kill yourself for being so bad about getting a third Annoyotron game out instead? That's the kind of suicide that I can get behind.

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Billy Mays wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Ouch. That crosses a line. Doesn't it? I mean, we don't all tell you to kill yourself, Paul.

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Hello Mr. Pot, and welcome to Kettletown.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:...How about you kill yourself for being so bad about getting a third Annoyotron game out instead? That's the kind of suicide that I can get behind.
Right. Paul? Anything to say for yourself on this one?
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Went to Ohio to visit family. Stopped at the Rusty Bucket for some wings. Ordered them "medium".

Medium wings. With a Diet Coke.

Maybe Paul is right. Time to get this over with.
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pinback wrote:Went to Ohio to visit family. Stopped at the Rusty Bucket for some wings. Ordered them "medium".

Medium wings. With a Diet Coke.

Maybe Paul is right. Time to get this over with.
I hope you mean "to get professional help."

You do realize my recommending you kill yourself was just busting your balls?

If what you love to experience in life has become unpleasant you should go to a doctor: possibly an ear-nose-throat specialist and see if you can do or take something for it.

I was having terrible pains in my right leg such that I was in agony trying to get out to liie down. Pain of unimaginable excruciation, that makes you scream at the top of your lungs. Pain that exploded bad enough that I would have to try and wait for it to get worse in order that it would "pop" four or five seconds of level 10 agony, then it stops for a short time, long enough to get out of the chair and lie down.

I went to the doctor and asked for a recommendation for something to relieve the pain, "before I need something like calcium cyanide." He laughed and recommended glucosamine chondroitin. I bought some at Target, within a week it all stopped. It has not come back in the last year or so I've been taking them.

If one of the few things that bring you pleasure is being denied to you and you don't bother to get medical attention and maybe something simple to fix it, then clearly you deserve to suffer since you're too stupid to fix a problem making it impossible for you to enjoy your one precious irreplaceable lifetime that you have the capacity to change. This isn't bone cancer.

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Well, you make some good points. Thanks for the suggestions!

However, lately I have given up nearly all of the pleasures I once filled my time with -- alcohol, greasy yummy food, extreme hot sauce, among other things -- and the truth of what Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj says here has become directly known to me:

"Q: What is the difference between happiness and pleasure?

M: Pleasure depends on things, happiness does not."


To wit, having very little pleasure on a day to day basis, I do find myself happier than almost ever before.

Therefore, I must admit that the premise of this thread is a lie. It's not the most depressing thing ever.

(Though I find, as with all of the aforementioned pleasures, I do miss it from time to time.)
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So it's like having your toes fall off for whatever reason but your shoes fit better now.


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