Useless Conversation

[Morat20]

What the fuck is psylium husk and how disgusting is it to eat for 3 days? 

Just buy some damn fiber capsules and shotgun those with water. :)

[ghost]

Useless conversation at F13-  bowel  movements and the weather.  I feel like I'm having a conversation with my grandfather.   

[Mrbloodworth]

Remember kids, exercise your colon!

[ghost]

 

Get the fuck off my lawn. 

[Morat20]

Useless conversation at F13-  bowel  movements and the weather.  I feel like I'm having a conversation with my grandfather.  

Well, I could vent about the guy who tried this gem:

for(int x=0;x<MAX;x++) {
   //stuff
   for(int x=0;x<2;x++) {
      if(x==0)
          //do one thing
      else
          //do other thing
       }
  //do more stuff
}

He eventually worked it out. Right as he was saying "And array[ x ] here -- the first x, not the second...ah, shit. That was fucking dumb, wasn't it? No wonder this doesn't work".

In all fairness, was a classic brain fart. He's a very skilled coder in general. Most of the times he asks for a second opinion the issue is generally very subtle and does take a lot of work to suss out.

[Nebu]

Useless conversation at F13-  bowel  movements and the weather.  I feel like I'm having a conversation with my grandfather.   

I was just trying to be helpful by answering questions.  I enjoy the gross medical stuff. 

[NowhereMan]

Normally I'd have been grossed out but then I read all those posts as Nebu's avatar telling me. I think I need a professor cat for a physician, I imagine it would also make the bad news a lot easier to take.

[Der Helm]

One way to observe this is to go on a high fiber, low solid diet for a few days. 

Oatmeal and water ? 

[rattran]

This thread seems like it's becoming Confessions of a Secret Senna-pod Drinker

On an unrelated note, people are crazy. Woman ran a red light, narrowly missing me, to get to the Popeye's drive-thru.

[Rasix]

On Saturday I saw two people on a tandem road bike run a red light at one of the busiest intersections NW Tucson. Only in Tucson..

[Morat20]

One way to observe this is to go on a high fiber, low solid diet for a few days. 

Oatmeal and water ? 

It's strange that, as I've gotten older, how much my tastes of changed.

Oatmeal is fucking delicious, for one. :) Or spinach -- love that. Why would I eat lettuce if I could have spinach instead? Mushrooms? GIVE ME MORE.

I wonder if it's merely my body going "Jesus, enough goddamn junk food. EAT SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU BEFORE I DIE".

[RhyssaFireheart]

I'll be kind and leave my medical issues out of Useless Conversation.  Especially considering almost all of you are male and would no doubt be squicked hearing about it, except for probably Nebu.  Not that it's gross, mind.

Prepping for month's end activities annoys me, because I have everything ready to go and still have 2 days to go before the month actually ends.  Then it's 2-3 days of number checking and work and then... nothing again for about a week.

[Nebu]

Oatmeal is fucking delicious, for one.

I recommend THESE.  I wish I had a Whole Foods closer to where I live.  Having to buy food online makes me crabby. 

[Sky]

I like McCanns oats. Never go back to crappy oats again, so rich. I get 'em at the supermarket.

On an unrelated note, people are crazy. Woman ran a red light, narrowly missing me, to get to the Popeye's drive-thru.

Last week I was behind an elderly woman who was weaving and had inconsistent speed. I gave her plenty of room and just kept my eye on her, didn't pass even though it was a 4-lane. She ended up swerving across the other two lanes of oncoming traffic to pull into the liquor store. As I parked and walked into the grocery market across the way, I watched her attempts to get into a parking space, almost hitting every car in the lot as well as people leaving the store before finally coming to rest just kind of randomly in the lot.

God watches over drunks.

[RhyssaFireheart]

One way to observe this is to go on a high fiber, low solid diet for a few days. 

Oatmeal and water ? 

It's strange that, as I've gotten older, how much my tastes of changed.

Oatmeal is fucking delicious, for one. :) Or spinach -- love that. Why would I eat lettuce if I could have spinach instead? Mushrooms? GIVE ME MORE.

I wonder if it's merely my body going "Jesus, enough goddamn junk food. EAT SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU BEFORE I DIE".

I never realize how much better I feel for not eating junk food until I give in and have some.  Then I end up feeling icky for a while.  I simply can not seem to kick my Dr Pepper habit though. :(

Granola (cereal) and yogurt for breakfast is delicious.  I love oatmeal (want to try the steelcut variety next) but the cooking part is troublesome because either I'm eating at 6:30am, which means I'm starving for lunch by 11 and/or I have to bring everything to make and cook at work, so I'm eating breakfast at 8:30am and by then I'm starving.  Now to sort out my lunches a bit more and starting bringing home-made rather than buying the Healthy Choice ones (even though those are pretty darn tasty, IMO).

[Nebu]

Here's a great way to cook oats if you're pressed for time.

Bring water to a boil
Add 1 cup of oats, cover and remove from heat. No stirring.
After 3 mins, drain off excess water.  
Add sugar, butter, etc to taste (I love cranberries and almonds with some cinnamon)


I love the chewy consistency.  

[Sky]

I microwave it. And add maple syrup!

[Nebu]

I microwave it. And add maple syrup!

Microwave ovens are instruments of TEH DEBIL!

[Der Helm]

Here's a great way to cook oats if you're pressed for time.

Bring water to a boil
Add 1 cup of oats, cover and remove from heat. No stirring.
After 3 mins, drain off excess water.  
Add sugar, butter, etc to taste (I love cranberries and almonds with some cinnamon)

There are other ways to cook oats ? 

[Paelos]

I make my oats into cookies.

[bhodi]

Microwave ovens are instruments of TEH DEBIL!

What?! It's like science in a box!

[Sky]

Microwave ovens are instruments of TEH DEBIL!

A devil that delivers yummy oats with almost no work!

Besides, you haven't seen my stove. THAT is the instrument of the devil. Like a child's glockenspiel of the devil.

[NowhereMan]

I microwave my porridge but then I have rolled oats since apparently British people are allergic to pinhead oats or something and they are nowhere to be found. There was one supermarket near me that had McCanns for about 3 months but I guess they sold too slowly to bother restocking them. I really liked them though.

[Mosesandstick]

I might pop in to a whole foods here to check if they have anything apart from rolled oats.

[RhyssaFireheart]

I know Trader Joe's have steelcut oats, saw them when shopping this past weekend.  Of course, I didn't buy any. 

Now I'm wondering how those would work in oatmeal or cowboy cookies.

[ghost]

I love it when teenagers lie to me and think that I can't tell the difference.  Like I don't see hundreds of kids every week and hear every lame ass story known to man. 

[Strazos]

Aren't you a dentist? What is there to lie about, flossing habits?

Not trying to condescend at all, just don't know what you would lie to a dentist about.

[WayAbvPar]

Call them on it and at least make them tell you a more entertaining lie.

[rattran]

I've made steel-cut oats (McCanns are good, as are King Arthur and Bob's Red Mill) by soaking them in water and milk with a bit of honey overnight. Then heat them up in the morning and eat. And Trader Joe's nukrowavable frozen steel cut oats are good for busy mornings.

[MisterNoisy]

Useless conversation at F13-  bowel  movements and the weather.  I feel like I'm having a conversation with my grandfather.  

They do say that gamers as a group are getting older.

[Merusk]

Aren't you a dentist? What is there to lie about, flossing habits?

Not trying to condescend at all, just don't know what you would lie to a dentist about.

Dip, smoking, drinking.

Alternatively it could be his own kids lying to him.

[Sand]

So I'm alive thus far. Colostomy, I don't even remember. They found polyps which they sent in for a biopsy.
So what's the technical difference between rolled, steel cut, pin head and all these other oats?

[Paelos]

This talk of oats made me make a large cookie, which I proceeded to eat. Now I'm nauseous.

I'm not sure what happened, but I managed to derail into a tummyache.

[JWIV]

So I'm alive thus far. Colostomy, I don't even remember. They found polyps which they sent in for a biopsy.
So what's the technical difference between rolled, steel cut, pin head and all these other oats?

Steel cut oats are also known as Irish oats.  They look completely different than rolled oats, and are a bit nuttier in flavor than rolled oats. 

[ghost]

Aren't you a dentist? What is there to lie about, flossing habits?

Not trying to condescend at all, just don't know what you would lie to a dentist about.

More specifically I'm an orthodontist.  Teenagers lie about breaking their appliances, how much they brush, how much they wear their rubber bands, why they weren't wearing their retainers.......and so on.  I've heard every excuse and I know when they're lying.  They won't look me in the eye and start fidgeting.  But yes, people lie to the regular dentist about flossing or brushing or what have you.  There's a lot of weird psychology that goes with dentistry, and lots of folks are very embarrassed about their teeth.