I'd be willing to accept that plays into it somehow.
― ENBB, Sunday, 3 April 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
would like to see data for cloudy vs. clear full moon nights
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 3 April 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Which is odd, because street lighting has the exact opposite effect.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
totally believe that full moons cause werewolves
― das reboot (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, I'd be careful about relying on data from cops, because there are a lot of superstitious cops. A lot.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, I've never been able to shake the feeling that Reagan had dementia a lot longer than is currently accepted.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
(I mean, had it longer before what is currently accepted.)
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe the cops are the ones suffering lunacy during full moons and therefore arrest more ppl.
― Aimless, Monday, 4 April 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Sunkist didn't have caffeine in it until I was about 15 or 16.2. Cold temperatures produce cold-like symptoms, as in, symptoms of the virus.
― bamcquern, Monday, 4 April 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i still believe in the existence of "clutch hitters"
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 4 April 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that whole thing recently about how the parameters were wrong and you are probably a different sign was weird b/c I am totally Scorpio, even though my TRUE sign, now, is Virgo
FWIW that wasnt actually true. The signs have not changed, it was misinformation spread by a ranty skeptic astrology hater dude.
Not that I believe in astrology, but neither did the signs "change".
― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 4 April 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
If we stop believing in Tinkerbelle, she will die. I swear it.
― Aimless, Monday, 4 April 2011 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I find it really amusing that astrology is so solid that one over publicized guy can make tons of people question their pseudo-beliefs. Say something like that about actual religion and people would be up in arms.
― sarcasdick (mh), Monday, 4 April 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition. Like, my body will make me hungry for broccoli if I lack iron or something.
― sarcasdick (mh), Monday, 4 April 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
that line of thinking led to a pint of peanut butter fudge swirl ice cream today
― lukas, Monday, 4 April 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition.
Heh. On a similar tip, I like to think that the cravings I have are my body flagging a need for a certain mineral/vitamin/trace element. And its not like I crave ice cream and chips, I'll get WEIRD random cravings for broccoli or sardines or V8 juice or something.
― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 4 April 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
2. Cold temperatures produce cold-like symptoms, as in, symptoms of the virus.
yeah, but are people really so dumb that they can't distinguish between a runny nose caused by cold weather and a runny nose caused by an actual illness?
(answer: yes)
if you stay out in the cold long enough to get pneumonia, your immune system is definitely going to suffer. but a few minutes in 30°F weather isn't going to do it, and frostbite is a more immediate concern than the possibility of coming down with the sniffles.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Monday, 4 April 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
MERCURY IN RETROGRADE
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 4 April 2011 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
that drinking water with your ears plugged cures hiccups
― symsymsym, Monday, 4 April 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know about that but drinking water without taking a breat and taking as many sips as poss before you have to breathe actually does cure mine every single time.
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
whenever i get hiccups (which is thankfully not often because i hate them) i spend the whole episode wondering if i'm going to be one of those poor hiccup people who can never stop hiccupping, year after year.
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
That happened to my mom's uncle and so the thought of it scares me to death. He had them for like 7 years or something until he died of something totally unrelated.
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes i complicate my wondering by wondering if worrying about it might perversely bring on the condition so then i try not to think about it but i still do.
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol same - it's very stressful!
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
rip poor uncle hic.
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i was not scared of this phenomenon until now.
― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
hiccup runneth over
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i wasn't scared of it either before i heard of it and then when i did i decried it by saying wtf and whatnot but my criticism was to no avail, it didn't help sufferers one bit.
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
if you shouted WTF very loudly behind them, perhaps?
Though it would probably just add nerve problems to an already tough situation
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
If the moon can affect tides and we have water in our brains then surely it has the capacity to affect the water in our brains.
Uh guys the gravitational attraction between the moon and your brain, even at the moon's closest approach, is less than that between your brain and the chair you're sitting in. Gravitational force is a function of mass. The moon weighs about 7.35 x 10^22 kg. The ocean weighs about 1.4 x 10^21 kg. Your brain weighs about 1,400 g.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so full moon madness has something to do with bigger chairs?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Pictured: The full moon effect
http://therearehymnsweshout.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/edith_ann.jpg?w=300&h=365
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Monday, 4 April 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
*hic*
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread is infuriating. That is all, carry on.
― Jeff, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i think some of youse are looking for the thread where we believe in stuff fully supported by science
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I had a friend who lived by this philosophy, that he body was giving her cravings for nutritional reasons & we should all just listen to our bodies to have a balanced diet. This lead to her regularly doing things like making an entire pot of caramel sauce & eating it with a spoon, or eating a bag of mini Babybel cheeses in one sitting.
― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that would be me if I tried that tbh.
― ENBB, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
You must also eat the red Babybel wax for a balanced meal
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh she totally did that. She'd also make & eat batches of the salt dough you make for kids to play with. I am blaming the copious amounts of marijuana her body also told her to smoke.
― Publicidad de Sexo (Abbbottt), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i am always drawn to people like that, i believe the water in my brain is gravitationally attracted to the liquid molecules in their caramel sauce.
― estela, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
My brain has been telling me I need a constant supply of whisky lately, but I'm trying to tell it to shut up.
― sarcasdick (mh), Monday, 4 April 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was an early adolescent, I used to believe that girls would deeply know if I had ... impure ... thoughts about them. Not as in: "he likes me, and he's unsubtle," but the actual content and/or narrative of the fantasies I had imagined. Poor, poor Jazmine D.;
― they call him (remy bean), Monday, 4 April 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I also imagined it was possible to share dreams; to meet up and hang out with other people in your sleep.
xp: That tangentially reminds me of how I used to think (ca. 5th grade) that teachers could tell if I had done my homework that morning, as opposed to the night before when it should have been done. I imagined that they had equipment that could determine how recently the pencil marks had been made, or whatever. I have somewhat of a history with giving authority figures entirely too much credit for their technological sleuthing abilities.
― kkvgz, Monday, 4 April 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link