Man, I got a gluten-free attitude all up in my face of "What, is it going to KILL you? Just eat a little! Why do you have to be so different all the time?"

This kind of baffles me, because I've never heard of anyone foregoing gluten for non-medical reasons*.

Some people try it, because they think it will make them lose weight. Well, if you substitute other starchy carbs for wheat, that ain't happening. (GF bread has more carbs than bread with wheat. It's crazy.)

And in some cases, the answer to "Is it going to kill you?" would be "YES THAT IS WHY IT'S CALLED AN ALLERGY YOU JACKASS."

Right? What if it were peanuts, or fish, or...anything? I mean, DAMN. If you're not a doctor...scratch that -- if you're not MY doctor, you don't get to tell me what I should and shouldn't eat, and if I say a little gluten is going to make me sick, then STFU and stop badgering me to eat your fucking corn bread.

t edit And, not that I need to justify the GF, some days I can eat a little gluten -- say, the amount of pasta in a really vegetable-laden lasagna. Or a biscuit. Or a piece of pizza. But I can't eat all that in one day. So if I had gluten earlier in the day, I'm going to generally forgo it later that same day. And it ain't anyone's business why. If they pester me, I'm going to start describing in detail what happens in the bathroom after I eat too much gluten.

Hey, is what seems like random capitalization to us in writing from, say, the 17th-18th centuries actually some sort of thing passed down from English's Germanic roots?

That's totally how we teach kids to fold the paper. They get it. It's an easy shorthand. It's not folding a hamburger or hot dog. It's the end result looking like a hamburger or hot dog.

Huh, I wonder when that started. I told the trainer, when he said he learned it in elementary school, "Well, I'm old. We had black and white TV and three channels and were happy about it." No one said "Uphill both ways?" But I did get a laugh.

I sometimes like to use Pooh Case (aka Random Capitalization) for irony. But then, I wonder if people don;t realize that.

I heard of the hotdog vs hamburger fold for the first time a few weeks ago, also in the context of elementary school. Maybe it's a newfangled notion.

ita, not just any 9 year-old....Willow Smith! Really annoying song.

Random Capitalization sounds different (you know, when the voice in my head reads it aloud to me) from bold and italic. So I assume they all mean slightly different things.

Right. I like Clean All The Things. Is that random?

We've been here over 2 months and have not yet done a full house cleaning. Now I've grossed myself out.

Hah. I have lived in my house now for FIVE months, and...you would probably be DISGUSTED OMG!

I did not know you could make brownies without eggs. And my inner Namond, who, admittedly is never hard to find, wants to post "With all due respect, sir, fuck you," to mansplaining dude.

I've been reading Clean All The Things like a title of something. Which, capitalised makes sense.

But we had an important Release yesterday, totally doesn't deserve capitalisation. Those are just noises in your head. Also, grammatically incorrect. Proper nouns, people.

Categorised yo mama jokes.

Really annoying song.

I didn't reply back to her that saying "good for a nine year old" was akin to "tall for a nine year old"--i.e. something I'm not actually interested in until it means actually GOOD (not the same as random capitalisation, FWIW).