OT: Blues Forum Lounge (Home of All Things OT) - Part 2024-2025

[Celtic Note]

My family is fine. We had some fatalities in town and a lot of destroyed houses/businesses. But we are partway up the mountains so we’re only minorly inconvenienced.

- YouTube

This is a couple miles from our house. The hospital that was evacuated by helicopter is in Erwin too. Weird for our little town to be in the national news.

We are grateful for our good fortune, and planning to join with our neighbors in the work crews in coming weekends to muck out houses and rip out rotten drywall, etc. When I lived in Texas I had several occasions to help with hurricane cleanup, but I never imagined I’d be doing it in Appalachia.

Stay safe in those homes doing the good work you are planning.

 

[bluesXwinXtheXcup]

I hate cotton balls.
I can't touch them...

 

[pseudoswede]

T minus 6 days until I'll be back in the STL. Can't wait.

As for a TV show, if you and the significant other are looking for a light, airy rom-com, I highly recommend Colin from Accounts on Paramount+.

 

[pseudoswede]

Here is a totally random question... does Enterprise Center have a size limit on poster board signs? My kid wants to make one for Sunny--but since he might play, she may have to pivot and make it for Broberg.

Edited to add: Welp... just saw on the website and it says 24" x 36".

 

[ChicagoBlues]

'Westworld' is Earth.

Step right up! For a token admission fee, you too can have a human experience!

You will soon figure out who is real and who are NPC backdrop "people".

 

[BrokenFace]

'Westworld' is Earth.

Step right up! For a token admission fee, you too can have a human experience!

You will soon figure out who is real and who are NPC backdrop "people".

Works for me, as long as season 2 of this Westworld doesn't screw the pooch as much season 2 of the HBO series did.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Works for me, as long as season 2 of this Westworld doesn't screw the pooch as much season 2 of the HBO series did.

Right! This Earthly human experience is soooooooo immersive. Almost feels real!! Almost.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

There is only one type of cholesterol; the good kind.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

There is only one type of cholesterol; the good kind.

Yeah…not so much.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Yeah…not so much.

My PCP agrees with me. The fossil in Endo? No. He says 75% of the country is on statins, so why shouldn't I? LOL Seriously?

Do you know what is insulating our brain cells (and every other cell), so that they actually perform?

Do you know what is 100% necessary in order to manufacture hormones?

Take a wild guess. There's a lot of talk about how unhealthy people are in this country. Low-fat, vegan diets are terrible for human health.

But wear down every cell in your body with statins and pound that sugar and we will be just fine. Cholesterol doesn't kill people. Inflammation kills people.

There is only one type of cholesterol; the good kind.

EDIT: A couple months ago that fossil in Endo ordered for me a CT scan of my heart to check for inflammation because he said I had a very high risk of experiencing a heart attack. My arteries were just about perfect. Duh. I knew that already.

Cholesterol is not a problem unless there is too much inflammation. We need cholesterol and lots of it. The myelin sheath insulating our neurons depend on it.

EDIT 2: I will add that another killer, besides sugar, are polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs). The scientific and medical communities have been shoving down our throats the dangers of saturated fats and cholesterol. Now look at the country. Fat and unhealthy.

Cholesterol good.

Saturated fats good.