03-05-2005 14:22									#31
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui * Imran Siddiqui wonders what Agathon will do when his next flight is staffed by an all male crew

Haven't seen anything like that, yet.

	03-05-2005 14:34									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Rufus is gay. Real men spend flights thinking about screwing the stewardess in one of the washrooms.

Real men would screw the stewardess in the washroom

	03-05-2005 14:48									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue Real men would screw the stewardess in the washroom

Truth.

	03-05-2005 15:10									#34
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None of the stewardesses on flights I take are screwable.

	03-05-2005 16:20									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker I love peanut butter, the natural kind is freakin awesome, not bad oils in them. So I'm glad I don't have the allergy.

Peanut butter by the spoon

	03-05-2005 16:21									#36
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat Unless there is a strain of peanut which is not an allergen, there's no intra-peanut competition, so no selective advantage either way.

There is competition with other crops though.

	03-05-2005 17:05									#37
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I'm allergic to peanuts and i'm glad: i can't stand even the odour. I've had reactions ranging from severe asthma attacks when i was a kid to just rashes nowadays.

quote: In school, we had this kid who carried around a HUGE needle, for peanut allergies. I mean this needle looked like freakin nail or something. Anyway, in case of peanut ingestion, everyone was instructed to take the needle and stab him in the heart with it.

In the heart?

It was probably an epipen. Very common for peanut and other allergy sufferers. You're supposed to stick it in your thigh.

	03-05-2005 17:09									#38
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A lot of allergies are because we live in such an artificial environment. It's becoming more and more because kids aren't playing outside anymore and eating worms/dirt/grass etc to challenge their immune system. This makes the immune system cranky and it'll start looking for other antigens it can go and inflame too

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quote: Originally posted by lightblue A lot of allergies are because we live in such an artificial environment. It's becoming more and more because kids aren't playing outside anymore and eating worms/dirt/grass etc to challenge their immune system. This makes the immune system cranky and it'll start looking for other antigens it can go and inflame too

Yep, and also, we don't have parasitic worms in our guts anymore for our immune system to attack.

	03-05-2005 20:02									#40
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Nah, any successful parasitic worms in our guts have evolved sufficiently to fool our immune system.

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quote: Originally posted by lightblue A lot of allergies are because we live in such an artificial environment. It's becoming more and more because kids aren't playing outside anymore and eating worms/dirt/grass etc to challenge their immune system. This makes the immune system cranky and it'll start looking for other antigens it can go and inflame too

If there is a more efficient disease distribution mechanism then the public school, I don't want to know about it.

	03-05-2005 20:07									#42
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Too late i think, it's the very early years that matter.

	03-05-2005 20:38									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly So, I'm sitting at 35,000 feet, not eating peanuts, and I'm thinking: which better explains peanut allergies, creationism or evolution?

Evolution.

Creationism thinks of a peanut as a peanut as a peanut -- Noah took two peanuts of the two kinds with him onboard the Ark -- whereas Evolution allows for unpredictable interaction of component chemicals. Allergies are a sign of a paranoid body that trusts nothing and over-reacts in the name of self-preservation.

	03-05-2005 20:46									#44
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I am happy to report that I am not allergic to any food stuff, that I know of, so after WW3 when Aggie and I are stuck on an island with nothing to eat but jars of peanuts I will not be the one starving.

	04-05-2005 03:56									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin I am happy to report that I am not allergic to any food stuff, that I know of, so after WW3 when Aggie and I are stuck on an island with nothing to eat but jars of peanuts I will not be the one starving.

No, but given that scenario, you'll be the one envying the dead..

	04-05-2005 04:00									#46
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly So, I'm sitting at 35,000 feet, not eating peanuts, and I'm thinking: which better explains peanut allergies, creationism or evolution? Evolution. Creationism thinks of a peanut as a peanut as a peanut -- Noah took two peanuts of the two kinds with him onboard the Ark -- whereas Evolution allows for unpredictable interaction of component chemicals. Allergies are a sign of a paranoid body that trusts nothing and over-reacts in the name of self-preservation.

So peanut allergies are a way we thin the herd?

	04-05-2005 05:07									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly Nah, Rufus is happily married; it's like being gay, but with less sex.

Sig material.

	04-05-2005 06:51									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Rufus is gay. Real men spend flights thinking about screwing the stewardess in one of the washrooms.

How disgusting! I'd never demean a woman by porking her over a toilet. I fantasize about banging her in mid air after the plane comes apart at 15000 feet. We enjoy mutual satisfaction just before hitting the ground.

	04-05-2005 10:12									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Peanut butter by the spoon

Word up, it tastes way better on the spoon.

What's really good is to get some strong apples and eat the slices with peanut butter.

AWESOME

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quote: How disgusting! I'd never demean a woman by porking her over a toilet.

Needs must friend...

	04-05-2005 10:53									#51
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Peanut allergies are how God separates the saved from the unsaved.

	04-05-2005 11:45									#52
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quote: Originally posted by Richelieu I'm allergic to peanuts and i'm glad: i can't stand even the odour. I've had reactions ranging from severe asthma attacks when i was a kid to just rashes nowadays. In the heart? It was probably an epipen. Very common for peanut and other allergy sufferers. You're supposed to stick it in your thigh.

LOL WOOPS!

	04-05-2005 11:56									#53
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OOPS

Well, it was the heart in this case, that's why I never forget it. At least that's what we were instructed on.

Maybe this person had an acute case or something.

But I remember asking: the heart? Are you serious???

That thing looked way too big to put into the heart.

Last edited by Ted Striker on 04-05-2005 at 12:13