Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven, completely different chords.

Oz ,'Storyteller'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Dana - Apr 05, 2013 5:43:18 pm PDT #17399 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

As long as you didn't blink.


Burrell - Apr 05, 2013 5:51:46 pm PDT #17400 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

eewwww creepy, Dana!


sarameg - Apr 05, 2013 5:53:01 pm PDT #17401 of 30001

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Boy, I was in a foul mood today. And isn't sudafed supposed to be an upper? Didn't really work that way. Eh, it'll be out of my system by the morning.


Steph L. - Apr 05, 2013 5:54:49 pm PDT #17402 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

As long as you didn't blink.

If you blink, you lose a spleen?


-t - Apr 05, 2013 5:57:56 pm PDT #17403 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Aw, man, stay awake during surgery or have an angel run amok with your insides? Don't like those options.


Lee - Apr 05, 2013 6:01:54 pm PDT #17404 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

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It's a Dr Who thing


Steph L. - Apr 05, 2013 6:05:01 pm PDT #17405 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Plus, my health insurance doesn't consider psychic angel surgeons to be in-network. So I'd have to pay that whole thing out of pocket, which has GOT to be a bitch.


-t - Apr 05, 2013 6:06:49 pm PDT #17406 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, that's just insult to injury. And/or time displacement.


Steph L. - Apr 05, 2013 6:15:40 pm PDT #17407 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

That's why we need single-payer, man.


billytea - Apr 05, 2013 6:20:49 pm PDT #17408 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I think it's been demonstrated that chiropractic works for the lower- and mid-back, because shit gets out of whack. (The upper back and neck are dicier, because if something gets adjusted wrong, you are fucked unto the Lord.) The sketchy part is when they tell you that you need adjustments every week forever to keep things in working order. OR when they claim that chiropractic can cure or fix anything other than some parts that are out of whack (say, from years of sitting on your foot, not that my hip would know anything about that). Because adjusting a vertebra will not cure a cold.

What Steph said. Subluxations causing illness is unmitigated nonsense, but there's some evidence it can help with lower and mid back pain. With the caveat that PT has been found to be at least as effective, and it's lower-impact and hence safer. The risks aren't so great for lower spinal manipulation, but as Steph noted, they mess things up with your neck and you're screwed, up to and including possible fatality.

Likewise, there's some evidence acupuncture can help with mild to moderate pain and nausea, but the idea it's going to cure anything else is totally unsupported.

However, to be more accurate, it's not that these treatments don't help anything else; it's that they don't help any more than the placebo effect. (One of the several reasons why data is not the plural of anecdote, and clinical trial is not the plural of personal experience.)