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2012-04-20, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Hey guys! I heard this song on the radio today. A protest song from the end of the 70s. It's pretty catchy.
On pansexual/bisexual: I'm fine with pansexual being used as a more semantically inclusive substitute for bisexual. My problems with the term - or rather, its occasional use - are the same as KenderWizard's.
On breastmilk: my sister tells me it tastes like caramel milk. At least, hers did...
On acupuncture: I certainly don't believe in the chi and "energy flow" and similar aspects, but I'm willing to consider the possibility that it has effects due to other factors, mostly on the basis of fairly dramatic anecdotal evidence. I think I've heard of something that's basically acupuncture but without the magical explanations...The Iron Avatarist Hall of Fame!
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2012-04-20, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
"If alternative medicine worked, it would be medicine."
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2012-04-20, 05:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
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2012-04-20, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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That and the TED talk were what I was referencing :D
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2012-04-20, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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As I just realized you guys clearly haven't been getting enough updates on my relationship.
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2012-04-20, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-20, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmmm, we should probably give this topic a little space as it usually tends to end in a huge arguement...
...but certain "alternative" therapies have been shown to have clinical benefit, acupuncture being one of the more provable ones. The hospital I work at (it's a private hospital) does actually have an established acupuncture treatment centre and their success rate is quite surprising.
I would never recommend relying *solely* on treatments like massage and acupuncture as a replacement for surgery and medication but when used in conjunction, it can often speed up recovery and reduce patient symptoms.
I think that's all I can really say without going into more detail than I should. =)
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2012-04-20, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Those are both very interesting. Very, very interesting. I haven't actually filled out the grid, but I anticipate a very high score.
Does it count if I had no idea what I was doing when it happened for whole life up to a year ago sexual behavior?
I also want to own one of those bottles... It seems effective for holding things.
That sounds really good.
So is this one.
I love all varieties of sausage! Except the spicy ones, I hate spicy food...
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2012-04-20, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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I like sausages. (I'm half German. Stereotypes are always accurate!)
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2012-04-20, 09:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Placebo effect.
With an asterisk after A- and Bi, respectively?
Mostly placebo, but also a lot of 'getting attention makes you feel better on a physiological scale'.
A man I know tells me his father, unable to go under anaesthetic due to allergy problems, had an acupuncture practitioner fly in from China (they're Swiss, apparently this was covered by their insurance. Wow!) and isolate a nerve in his neck and stick a needle in it so his arm went totally numb and they could do surgery on his shoulder. That seems beyond placebo!
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I talk too much, it takes too long for me to make my posts. My headache isn't helping!
Oh man is it!
What? That's insane. There are like, two inches of viscera between the lungs and skin. That gross incompetence, not restricted to homeopathy at all.
Case in point, I broke my hand. I had them trying to put it in a splint before the x-rays were done - "it's probably just a hairline fracture", despite the bone pressing against the skin. "are you allergic to anything?" penicillin. "great, so no allergies then."
On a slightly less grim topic, I quite agree that pansexuality and bisexuality are both equally valid. As long as everybody is having fun and not backtalking the other words, it should be fine.
This is untrue, and is again, negligence. There's a difference between accepting something outside of documented scope, and denying empirical data (empirical is one of those words I'm never quite sure I'm spelling right...)
"if being gay were valid, they wouldn't need their own labels."
Shiatsu, the Japanese derivative of traditional Chinese medicine, works differently here in the states than there.
Most western practitioners treat it like some mystic voodoo, all about feel-good nambly pambly "chee" and ley lines in the body, and have fancy certificates from Internet seminars. Most Japanese practitioners roll their eyes and curse about the terrible western abuse, reconcile the system with the biomedical model and trim the fat, discarding and updating in accurate techniques and information.
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2012-04-20, 10:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, to be a Psion...
If I didn't hate food-based euphemisms (and those actual foods, for some reason I can't pin down) so much, I'd agree wholeheartedly. I still do.
Maybe one of those circle-compass-looking graphs would be more appropriate? X could represent preference for feminity and Y masculinity (androgyny would be around the midpoint, and indifference to a given sex would be about {0}).
Z would be romanticism (it'd also make the graph spherical). It'd form eight cuboid quadrants ("octrants"?) in relation to X and Y. A higher Z value (that is to say, one 'closer to the viewer') would imply a higher priority/preference for romantic relationships, and it would describe how romantic one is in regards to which sex in terms of X and Y.
Then there'd be W, which would probably be a curve of some sort that corresponds to the passage of time.
The diagram itself would support a 5-dimensional linear program capable of describing just how much of a nerd I am. DXD
I'm not certain. I use "blanket" for anything heavy enough to keep you warm and "sheet" for anything meant to keep you cool. And occasionally "jacket", when there happen to be no beds available where I happen to be.
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2012-04-20, 10:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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From my understanding, acupuncture, and indeed the majority of what would be considered traditional Chinese medicine, sprung from the practices of Taoists searching for magical elixirs, and in the process accidentally sciencing. Rather like the pursuit of alchemy in Europe, as it happens.
It's kind of funny, though, since even Japanese professional medicine, which is certainly up to any standard you want to pick, has a few carryovers from traditional medicine that don't seem like they'd have much value, for example, doctors tend to suggest not taking baths if it can be avoided for the duration of an illness.
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2012-04-20, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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I performed in a concert today, and actually talked quite a bit more than I do on a daily basis. Is there a make-up day for this or something?
Science doesn't care. At it's truest, it's without politics, without values, and without culture. It's a slow, arduous pursuit of the truth, and not the Truth. Being "valid," being true, just means that whatever it is has proven itself through that brutal process. There have been times when the consensus of scientific experts has taken a bit of prodding before accepting the truth, but the truth has always won. Medicine isn't purely scientific (as a lot of subjective judgements need to be made in order for it to be practical), but it will not accept an "alternative." Medicine will not allow cultural differences to blind it to things that work; and if they do work, it will use them and they will become "medicine." That's what that quote means.
Is it? I didn't know that. Most traditional Japanese music is derivative of Chinese music that the Chinese moved away from 1500 years ago (I might be over shooting that a bit), sort of like how you can find music still being actively played in Appalachia that's more traditionally English than anything you'll find in England. Anyway, that's interesting.
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2012-04-20, 11:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
My concern is that however valid the process, the Pattern the top, the heuristic people take away and wield as cudgels without thought, is 'science is Truth'.
In the same way that having 'relationships' and 'gay relationships' is a bad thing, I think saying "if it were real, we wouldn't have to qualify it" is a bad argument.
That's what that quote means.
I also do not think everything is better without the human component; I get malky when I read something as "people don't matter".
Is it? I didn't know that. Most traditional Japanese music is derivative of Chinese music that the Chinese moved away from 1500 years ago (I might be over shooting that a bit), sort of like how you can find music still being actively played in Appalachia that's more traditionally English than anything you'll find in England. Anyway, that's interesting.
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2012-04-20, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Individual people don't matter, though, in this context. The consensus opinion is important because it's the gestalt (I ****ing love that word so much) of expert opinions on a subject. And the consensus can also be wrong because they're still just people. It's not as likely since they're all also cut throat bastards who are trying to make names for themselves and would all love to be the one who figured out how to cure scoliosis through massage or the common cold through snot diluted in water, etc.
I won't speak for Qaera's motivations or whatever, but what that quote originally meant is that alternative medicine isn't wrong because it's called alternative medicine, it's alternative medicine because it's wrong.
But that's what I said. Doctors are extremely important in medicine because they have to make subjective calls based on their experience and training. People don't matter to science, but they sure as hell matter to medicine.... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2012-04-21, 12:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 01:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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And swinging more towards gay again I think.
I spent much of work today checking out a hot asian guy who couldn't make up his mind about what to get.
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2012-04-21, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 02:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 02:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow. I just realize that whatever I have to contribute to this thread consists largely of apathy and meh. That is actually how I describe my gender and sexuality.
Oh, hey, I am a guy... being a girl would be cool, I guess... I would probably prefer it. But I have no objections to being a guy... I do not really care.
And I like who I like. But I do not particularly care... seeing as I am effectively in a relationship, and am purely monagamous. And... do not particularly feel any stronger feelings towards people of whatever gender or whatever. *shrug* I like one girl, she likes me. Woohoo. *shrug*
Even my voice and appearance are just... meh. I am very androgynous, and my voice sounds sometimes feminine, sometimes... non-feminine. I am not masculine at all. I will act feminine occasionally... I am mostly just crazy. I am gendermeh, and mehsexual. Of course, apathy is my driving emotion, pretty much.
Also, I heard mention of SiuiS in a bikini...? >_> <_<Last edited by MilesTiden; 2012-04-21 at 02:34 AM.
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2012-04-21, 02:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 02:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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How has being cis affected your lives?
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2012-04-21, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Absolutely, we should check to see what the effects are, but better this than nothing. It's not always a choice between doing this or doing something more useful. Often it's a choice between doing this one thing or not.
I also heard about a case like that, from my doctor. He was like "Probably won't hurt, if you want to get it. Unless they puncture your lung, of course."
Anyway, to clarify, I will NOT be getting anyone to stick needles in me. I'm actually just not getting acupuncture and spending the money on bagels and yoga anyway.
There are several words. Blanket is any big flat fabric thing that you can cover yourself with, it's a general word for anything from a large rectangle of thin fleece fabric to anything more complicated. A duvet is standard here, which would be a big puffy stuffed blanket, usually kept inside a cotton sheath called a "duvet cover" so the duvet doesn't need to be washed too often. A quilt would be a more traditional kind of blanket, and still popular, made of fabric squares and stuffed. Still made by hand as a project or a gift. Then if you don't have a duvet cover on your duvet or you're using a quilt (quilts are often pretty, so you don't want to cover them, whereas duvets are just white and boring, and the duvet covers are pretty) you would have a sheet, a big rectangle of cotton or linen, between you and the blanket. You would also put a sheet on the mattress to keep that clean too.
Also, I agree with you about homeopathy and acupuncture.
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2012-04-21, 03:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 03:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-21, 03:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LGBTAitP Part 23: Et tu, ~Bianca?
Quilt I believe used to refer to the type that was made in bits - either squares or hexagons usually - but they've become rare enough nowadays that I think the word has mutated to refer to duvets as well. Well, this side of the puddle, anyway. Apparently they're still popular in Ireland.
(Incidentally, duvet is pronounced as the French - dyoo-vay)Last edited by Heliomance; 2012-04-21 at 03:29 AM.
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2012-04-21, 03:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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I gave the colorguard permission to paint my nails next band trip. Something tells me they will somehow get me in drag by the end of the day. Again. This is a thing that has happened before. Twice. But this time I am actually giving them permission, just because. And beside, 'colorguard got to me' is a perfect excuse if my parents start asking awkward questions. I have tried to get my hair braided, but that did not work out to well. And my friends keep trying to give me skirts and dresses.
... I think they may be, very subtly, trying to make a point.
Although, I actually like skirts. They're swishy and soft.
EDIT: Over here in the Fabulosity Bay, I almost never hear them called duvets. Just comforters, quilts, and blankets.Last edited by MilesTiden; 2012-04-21 at 03:51 AM.
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2012-04-21, 03:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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*Glares at international communities for being confusing*
It most likely has in most places. I just haven't heard anyone refer to that type of human-cover in quite a while, blanketry not being the most common subject of conversation where I live, save for seeing a few cases where bit-quilts were being sold or discussed. Possibly the continued usage of the term in its original form here is a regionalism?Last edited by Lady Serpentine; 2012-04-21 at 03:52 AM.