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Bullet shrimp

There he is!



You know what a show about singing and dancing needs?  A handicapable!

I remember seeing one episode where that kid was gonna get on the football team. Their strategy: use him as a battering ram. I SHIT YOU NOT

Looking at the title, i immediately pictured the Burger King Kids Club, only with more leather jackets and smoking.

Are we including monks and similar spiritual people in our definition of guru? we seem to be focusing a lot on American cult leaders.

Some people like fixing their own cars. And even when they don't, don't you check out if a mechanic is any good before you bring your car to him?

That's actually not a bad metaphor for alternative medicine practioners. Some will fix the engine, some will insist on putting in a brand new engine, and that your motor elf has worn out and a new one must be ordered from the shores of Avalon. 

Yea, that's exactly my point. because the field itself isn't scientific, it puts the impetus upon you, the patient, to do your research into what you're about to do; much in the way that not wanting to eat GMOs means you're probably gonna hafta buy your veggies from a farmer's market at twice the price.

You can either read up on which herbs are natural mood balancers and discover which ones work for your own personal body chemistry through trial and error, or you can take some prescription antidepressant that takes away your lows, and also your highs.

or some third thing. whatever floats your boat.

I had the chance to do some research on Traditional Chinese Medicine a while back, and while i admit that there's a lot of shit within the wider world of holistic medicine that can be dismissed as hippy bullshit (as much as I hate pill-happy psychiatrists, i immediately discount any herbalist that would tell me that EVERYTHING can be solved with herbs),what I managed to take away from it was this:
TCM(and disciplines like it) aren't scientific, but they can still prove valuable. Practices like herbalism, yinyangism, or chakras came about thousands of years before there was  much in the way of an established scientific method as we know it today. So, instead of an organized methodology for forming and testing hypotheses, TCM owes its roots to more of a cultural tradition of trial and error. Basically, a healer had what he'd been told worked from whoever trained him, he tried it out on whoever he was called upon to heal, and if it worked, he kept on doing it, if it didn't, well... less so. As a result, you got tons of differing accounts of what things were good for what, and broader theories about the body were made to explain the things they observed, which is why it's still considered healthy in china to eat according to ones chi(is it warm, or cool? wet or dry?). And while it has lead to a number of fallacies (spoiler:ground tiger dong does nothing for virility) modern science has found some claims that hold true. There are some nuggets of useful knowledge there, it's just a matter of how much hippie bullshit you wanna wade through in order to find them

see, you say that, but you haven't considered the horror of actually seeing me in a speedo. Be careful what you wish for

think less "fabulous" and more.....squamous i believe is the proper term.

[The Vatican]

The Vatican
Your one-stop shop for silence and pleasing lies!

CPD is scary enough without this addition to the mythology.

Thanks Roger. Now I won't be able to sleep tonight and I'm going to be cranky all the way through my 16 1/2 hour coach journey. Which will disturb Pixie. Which will cause the destruction of much of the right coast of England.

O Roger, what hast thou wrought!

It is not the business of Holy Men™ to remain silent, or to tell pleasing lies.

Tell that to the Vatican

I think an important distinction between offense and butthurt is that in the latter, feeling a way about something isn't enough. It's not enough that YOU found that Joke/Movie/Facebook post offensive it's that you feel the need for other people to feel exactly as outraged as you do, and even going so far as to demand that  they Do Something About IT! Theres definitely an aspect of needing to make your own emotional responses Someone Else's Problem.

Several good points on the topic of butts and the hurting thereof:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-everyone-gets-wrong-about-being-offended/

Nice Roger! I'm really liking these PI stories so far!