The Longest, Most Inconsistently-Off-Topic Thread in History

chunkdz · Post by **chunkdz** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:59 am

I've not had any cheese since age 15...

Lactose intolerant?

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:09 am

Robbie_2327 wrote:I saw a chart on yahoo for this forum and it showed the message volume per month since I guess the start of the board. Maybe a few of you who have been around can enlighten me as to why a few years ago the board used to get over 2000 messages per month and now it only gets several hundred. What happened??

Are you talking about MOTU-MAC, the Yahoo-hosted mailing list? That is the only thing I can imagine you might be looking at. This web site... UnicornNation.com is a bulletin board SEPARATE from the Yahoo email list here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/motu-mac/

It says UnicorNation there in the title, but it is the companion list. The email list has become less popular while this board has become more popular.

I repeat THAT CHART HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WEB SITE.

Just gotta love how these things can get started.

twistedtom · Post by **twistedtom** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:15 am

Nick when I was in the 8th grade I got mononucleosis and some other things all together, I was so bed that I made the medical record books. They thought I may die and I came close so every day is a gift to me. For the most part I have done fine through out my life and have not been weak or any thing.

twistedtom · Post by **twistedtom** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:19 am

I know the group you are talking about James I have been there; I like it better here there is much more valuable information at the Nation and cool people too.

twistedtom · Post by **twistedtom** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:20 am

Monkey Man we may need to change your name to "Sick Nick".
It is to bad you go through so much.

Resonant Alien · Post by **Resonant Alien** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:31 am

A colleague of mine once at sushi in Moscow and was sick for over 5 months. What frustrated her most was everyone asking her: "Well, what possessed you to eat sushi in Moscow in the first place?"

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:39 am

chunkdz wrote:
I've not had any cheese since age 15...
Lactose intolerant?

Actually, I'm sensitive to everything that is not good for us: animal products, all processed foods, perfumes, soaps, deodorants, fuel and other fumes, pesticides, synthetic fabrics in clothing and furniture etc and even negative emotions, "exciting" contact with others, lies (on any topic) and so on.
Heck, I can't even go near metals 'cause they stink and I have to eat with plastic (not ideal, but OK for now) cutlery.

Gave up all animal products at age 15 along with tea and coffee, sugar, bread etc; I had to listen to my body and conscience in the face of overwhelming opposition.

My lack of headroom (so-called tolerance) for all things sub-standard is a blessing as much as a curse, 'cause folks always want to debate the pros and cons of their preferences, whereas I've known what's right and wrong (yes, there are such things!) since I was a kid.

FWIW, I gave up on debating these things many years ago; I don't need to prove what I already know. I just feel for all the folks who laughed over the years; they'll all die before I do, even if I never quite get well!

Thank you for asking though, Chunkster (gotta love that nickname, methinks).

twistedtom wrote:Nick when I was in the 8th grade I got mononucleosis and some other things all together, I was so bed that I made the medical record books. They thought I may die and I came close so every day is a gift to me. For the most part I have done fine through out my life and have not been weak or any thing.

Well done, Tom. It's great to hear that you recovered fully man.
I'm immediately struck by the fact that your experiences will help you relate to your wife's situation.
Wonderful.

Robbie_2327 · Post by **Robbie_2327** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:03 am

James Steele wrote:
Robbie_2327 wrote:I saw a chart on yahoo for this forum and it showed the message volume per month since I guess the start of the board. Maybe a few of you who have been around can enlighten me as to why a few years ago the board used to get over 2000 messages per month and now it only gets several hundred. What happened??
Are you talking about MOTU-MAC, the Yahoo-hosted mailing list? That is the only thing I can imagine you might be looking at. This web site... UnicornNation.com is a bulletin board SEPARATE from the Yahoo email list here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/motu-mac/

It says UnicorNation there in the title, but it is the companion list. The email list has become less popular while this board has become more popular.

I repeat THAT CHART HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WEB SITE.

Just gotta love how these things can get started.

Wow, that is really misleading

thanks for clarifying

chunkdz · Post by **chunkdz** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:36 am

Gave up all animal products at age 15 along with tea and coffee, sugar, bread etc; I had to listen to my body and conscience in the face of overwhelming opposition.

I hear you monkey man. My house is in the process of a similar change. While I can tolerate a wide variety of ingestables, the wife is much more sensitive and daughter even more so. In the past 6 months we have switched to whole grains, organic this and that, soy milk, sugar free such and such, and gluten-free whatnots.

I enjoy it, but I still reserve the right to eat the occasional hard salami with some variety of stinky cheese. Now you've got me curious about creamy white stilton with sultana and pawpaw!

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:43 am

I hear you too, Chunkster.
I've felt like I've been missing out on so very many pleasures all my life, and eating is surely close to my favourite activity.

Try the dried fruit man. If you can mix it into the cheese, I still reckon it'd be bonza!

chunkdz · Post by **chunkdz** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:53 am

I hear you too, Chunkster.
I've felt like I've been missing out on so very many pleasures all my life, and eating is surely close to my favourite activity.

I'm not so sure that you're missing out. I recently went to a restaurant that only served raw vegan fare. It was immensely satisfying. I remember thinking that I could eat this every day.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you listen closely, your body will tell you exactly what to shove down your hatch.

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:27 pm

Your belief is rooted in fact, my friend.

As I like to say (and in fact said to a pal here on the site tonight), a good experiment's worth a pound of theory, any day.

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:43 pm

MM, Ti many martoonis tonite. I'm in a serious state of FUBAR. The perfect condition for this off topic thread. So how about them Redsox?

Phil

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:04 pm

Robbie_2327 wrote:
James Steele wrote:
Robbie_2327 wrote:I saw a chart on yahoo for this forum and it showed the message volume per month since I guess the start of the board. Maybe a few of you who have been around can enlighten me as to why a few years ago the board used to get over 2000 messages per month and now it only gets several hundred. What happened??
Are you talking about MOTU-MAC, the Yahoo-hosted mailing list? That is the only thing I can imagine you might be looking at. This web site... UnicornNation.com is a bulletin board SEPARATE from the Yahoo email list here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/motu-mac/

It says UnicorNation there in the title, but it is the companion list. The email list has become less popular while this board has become more popular.

I repeat THAT CHART HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WEB SITE.

Just gotta love how these things can get started.
Wow, that is really misleading thanks for clarifying

I'm not sure how it's misleading. One is this web-site with the domain name unicornation.com, the other is an email list hosted at yahoo.com. The chart shows the number of messages posted on the MOTU-MAC email list at Yahoo. It has nothing to do with the traffic on this site, which has been steadily increasing for years.

twistedtom · Post by **twistedtom** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:49 pm

Ok if it is wrong to eat aniamals why are they made out of meat?