Well, the person *did* provide citations.

Of sugar being distributed in apothecaries because it had later-disproved medicinal qualities.

Uh? Your point was that it was dangerous so it was a controlled substance. YOUR WORDS SAID THAT. Your links do not.

(They gave another link that proves (PROVES) a diet of only sugar and water was unhealthy--so if I need a real live example of a straw man, I know where to find it now)

I can't argue against you if you don't even try to have a point.

And then I usually want to punch them in the neck.

Yup, pretty much where I am. But it was the paleo diet article comments, so it was guaranteed to have people with...beliefs posting.

Timelies all!

Organizing the liquid nitrogen freezer for our lab(which involves much pulling up of freezer racks from a chest-high freezer) is not doing much to help with my shoulder/upper back pain. Still, it must be done...

But it was the paleo diet article comments, so it was guaranteed to have people with...beliefs posting.

I've been sneered at -- in person -- by paleo people that my eating gluten-free is a "fad" and if I want to lose weight paleo is the only "real" way to do it.

I described the gastrointestinal horror that happens when I don't adhere to my "fad" diet, and informed them that I wasn't doing it to lose weight. (When I told them that I wasn't trying to lose weight -- since I embody the deathfatz OMGOBESITYEPIDEMIC [speaking of something that can be disproven with actual hard data] -- the wife of the couple actually looked like I said I eat babies. Which I would think would be totally paleo.)

In conclusion(s): people can be dicks, and babies are probably a safe paelo entree.

In conclusion(s): people can be dicks, and babies are probably a safe paleo entree.

Well, sure, as long as they're not processed babies.

Mmmm...tasty processed nacho-cheese-flavored babies...

Among the ones I've never heard: "open the kimono". And I am *so* glad about that, because I would not know where to look or who to glare at first.

I have decided that this refers to the Jensen Ackles scene in Blonde. And that's ALL it can ever refer to because anything else makes me really creeped out.

When I told them that I wasn't trying to lose weight -- since I embody the deathfatz OMGOBESITYEPIDEMIC [speaking of something that can be disproven with actual hard data] -- the wife of the couple actually looked like I said I eat babies.

I got this once from a physical therapist, when I was in high school. She tried to start the weight conversation with, "Are you comfortable with your weight?" My real answer would be no, but I didn't want to get into that discussion, so I said yes, I was comfortable with my weight. And then she started lecturing me on why I shouldn't be comfortable with my weight.

One of the the things that's keeping me from pulling the trigger (jargon!) on the gastric bypass is that everyone's going to go "Ooh, couldn't lose weight by diet alone, huh?" And by everyone I mean the meatspace people whom I haven't managed to frighten into not making comments to me that are none of their business.

Seriously, you can't just say "sugar used to be a prescription-controlled substance" and use "I googled it and found references easily" as your proof.

I was wondering if this person was drawing that conclusion from "A Spoonful of Sugar" in Mary Poppins.

Though it is interesting that crystallized sugar wasn't widely known in the West before the Crusades.

Warning:

do not listen to CNN reports of testimony in the Sandusky trial. I am in a fucked up mood today because of a bad day at work and I listened to the testimony, thinking my mood couldn't get much darker.

Guess what?

miscalculation on my part.