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[beamie564]

Let's start the training. My coach is this cat:

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That's funny!

Psinter's Mission Number 34: Capture a baby chicken to touch it.

Please tell me some of your other missions

 

[zoobyshoe]

I must admit it was comical. If I see someone else chased by a bird I would probably laugh too.

I grew up in a small rural town and my first summer job when I was a kid was collecting eggs at a local egg farm. For six hours a day I walked through this huge three story chicken barn surrounded by a huge mass of chickens who all wanted to kill me. They pecked relentlessly at my legs and by the end of the day I had no feeling left in them. It was a surreal experience.

 

[WWGD]

How did you guess? Man, she got all hysterical about it. I was definitely not expecting that reaction. It was just so sudden that I got scared for a while there and made a run for it. I was like: "Ahhh, what the?... What's this reaction?! What do... What the..." *while running*

Afterwards, I tried to sneak, but she went nuts about it again and I couldn't get closer. I think she was overreacting . I wasn't going to hurt them, I just wanted to touch them. .

I guess unlike Colonel Sanders, you don't do chicken right.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of a fun day. I was walking and thinking about an old joke and, without notice, I started smiling. I noticed this after people walking opposite my direction started smiling back, thinking I was smiling at them.

 

[jim hardy]

Kind of a fun day. I was walking and thinking about an old joke and, without notice, I started smiling. I noticed this after people walking opposite my direction started smiling back, thinking I was smiling at them.

I've often speculated it's not all visual, includes some sort of "vibes" that' are sensed subliminally .
You were after all in a happy frame of mind.

 

[WWGD]

I've often speculated it's not all visual, includes some sort of "vibes" that' are sensed subliminally .
You were after all in a happy frame of mind.

Could be, I have noticed something similar a few times. Weirdly, if you just choose to smile for a while, it seems you start actually feeling happier, maybe somehow "resonating with happiness" . And it seems memory is also mood-specific in that when you are happy, you tend to remember other happy experiences. Still, seems like a recipe for disaster , or at least difficulties, if/when you are depressed.

 

[zoobyshoe]

And it seems memory is also mood-specific in that when you are happy, you tend to remember other happy experiences.

The psychiatric community now calls that, "Emotional Google": you automatically call up memories that are similar in mood to the one you're currently in.

 

[WWGD]

The psychiatric community now calls that, "Emotional Google": you automatically call up memories that are similar in mood to the one you're currently in.

Doesn't bode well for depressed people --- depressive feedback loop

 

[zoobyshoe]

Doesn't bode well for depressed people --- depressive feedback loop

Exactly. Things that aren't relevant to your current mood get filtered out. Confirmation bias, "I can't remember a time when I wasn't depressed."

 

[zoobyshoe]

The psychiatric community now calls that, "Emotional Google"...

Incidentally, I just made this up.

 

[WWGD]

Incidentally, I just made this up.

Hey, my post on resonance of emotions is $science lite^{\infty}$

 

[zoobyshoe]

My post about being hounded by murderous chickens was true, though. I was taking their eggs.

 

[Psinter]

Unless the bird is a cassowary.

http://pickle.nine.com.au/2016/04/11/09/44/fatal-cassowary-attack

(Yes, 90 years ago, but attacks do happen even today now and then, they are just not fatal.)

Wow. What an ugly chicken. I mean, bird.

Please tell me some of your other missions

For the record they are classified. Maybe in the future they will get unclassified.

I grew up in a small rural town and my first summer job when I was a kid was collecting eggs at a local egg farm. For six hours a day I walked through this huge three story chicken barn surrounded by a huge mass of chickens who all wanted to kill me. They pecked relentlessly at my legs and by the end of the day I had no feeling left in them. It was a surreal experience.

Poor zooby! I hope the salary was good and that your legs recovered. That was Chicken Siege.

dictionary's definition of siege - a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.

my definition of siege - a relentless and vicious attack.

Surrender zooby, surrender! Chicken used peck...

Here is someone else (very famous, a classic in the game industry) being chased by chickens:
http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Link-Being-Chased-By-a-Bunch-Of-Powerful-Berserk-Cucco-Chickens-In-The-Legend-Of-Zelda-Majoras-Mask.gif

And here too. That's why you don't mess with that Village.

I guess unlike Colonel Sanders, you don't do chicken right.

You are telling me.

 

[Astronuc]

Clean one's wind instruments occasionally.

He withered away for 7 years. Doctors didn’t realize his passion was killing him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rs-didnt-realize-his-passion-was-killing-him/

An X-ray suggested pneumonia, a blood clot in the lungs or an exacerbation of the still mysterious HP. A CT scan ruled out a clot but showed that the lung scarring that had started seven years earlier had gotten worse.

Doctors gave him a cocktail of drugs to treat what they thought was bacterial pneumonia. When those didn’t work, they added Posaconazole therapy, used to treat pneumonia caused by fungi.

Despite their efforts, the man died on Oct. 10, 2014.

According to the paper, when doctors initially tried diagnosing the man’s illness, they overlooked his daily hobby: playing the bagpipes.

Tests conducted on the man’s bagpipes found a slew of fungi and yeast living inside the musical instrument.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I have software with a loophole, things going into it never come out.

 

[jim hardy]

things going into it never come out.

I have a garage that's like that.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I have a garage that's like that.

 

[fresh_42]

Just read on the news ticker of a news channel:

He, who must not be named triggered a measles alert in Japan.

There are no better jokes than those written by real life.

 

[Bystander]

He, who must not be named

"Who he?"

 

[fresh_42]

This one Canadian who tries singing and is sent abroad on a regular basis for even the Canadians don't want to have him around.

 

[Bystander]

Oh ... Him.

 

[fresh_42]

Oh ... Him.

What annoys me the most is, that he ruins my prejudices as I really like Shania Twain and Brian Adams.

 

[Bystander]

Looks like everyone's watching Red Eye.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Yeh... my Stanford professor in on air!

 

[DiracPool]

I'm watching "13 days" on NatGeo and they said that the nuclear bombs in Cuba can hit everywhere in the USA but Seattle, but now I'm hearing that the North Korea nuclear bombs can't hit anywhere in the USA but Seattle. In live in Seattle. Should I stay or should I go now?

 

[WWGD]

I'm watching "13 days" on NatGeo and they said that the nuclear bombs in Cuba can hit everywhere in the USA but Seattle, but now I'm hearing that the North Korea nuclear bombs can't hit anywhere in the USA but Seattle. In live in Seattle. Should I stay or should I go now?

Seems strange, I can't tell anything particular to the NW that would make it so hard for Seattle to be hit.

 

[WWGD]

I wasted a break I got. I won a whole broiled chicken at the supermarket, as part of customer appreciation day (at a place I barely go to, since it is expensive). I did eat around 2/3 the chicken. I saved the rest for the following day, but then left it in my backpack overnight, only to find it moldy in the morning when I was about to eat it. What a waste, I became a representative of the statistic that 1/3 of all fod produced ( in the US, I think) goes bad and it is then thrown out.

 

[strangerep]

Clean one's wind instruments [bagpipes] occasionally.

I always suspected something seriously dodgy about bagpipes, and not just the sound.

 

[Evo]

I wasted a break I got. I won a whole broiled chicken at the supermarket, as part of customer appreciation day (at a place I barely go to, since it is expensive). I did eat around 2/3 the chicken. I saved the rest for the following day, but then left it in my backpack overnight, only to find it moldy in the morning when I was about to eat it. What a waste, I became a representative of the statistic that 1/3 of all fod produced ( in the US, I think) goes bad and it is then thrown out.

Ewwww. it shouldn't go bad overnight! That means it was already rotting when you ate it!

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ewwww. it shouldn't go bad overnight! That means it was already rotting when you ate it!

I don't know what mold grown on chicken, but fruit can be good one day and have mold on it the next when you don't put it in the fridge.

 

[Pepper Mint]

I'm watching "13 days" on NatGeo and they said that the nuclear bombs in Cuba can hit everywhere in the USA but Seattle, but now I'm hearing that the North Korea nuclear bombs can't hit anywhere in the USA but Seattle. In live in Seattle. Should I stay or should I go now?

Move here, my country, it's safer for you. I will protect you.

 

[DiracPool]

I wasted a break I got. I won a whole broiled chicken at the supermarket, as part of customer appreciation day

Umm, I can buy a whole broiled chicken at my supermarket for about 7 bucks, 8 bucks if you want it organic. So, if you call getting a break in life winning a whole broiled chicken from your local supermarket, then my heart goes out to you. And to feel like you wasted this windfall bounty by only consuming 2/3rd's of it I think is not necessary. We all make mistakes. For instance, I once bought a bucket of KFC and placed it on my roof of my car as I unlocked the door. It wasn't till I got home that I realized that I fed half of the stray cats from my house to KFC. Dumb move but I didn't feel guilty at all

 

[Evo]

I don't know what mold grown on chicken, but fruit can be good one day and have mold on it the next when you don't put it in the fridge.

Yeah, but chicken shouldn't go bad bad that fast.

 

[DiracPool]

Yeah, but chicken shouldn't go bad bad that fast.

Yeah, especially when it's cooked. Being the health conscious individual I am, I'm only stupid enough to buy a store bought broiled chicken or KFC when I'm extremely drunk and lazy. As a result, I almost invariably leave it out overnight and eat it the next morning. They always taste delish. Sometimes even a day or two later I'll find a drumstick behind my computer monitor or an "original recipe" thigh in my basketball shorts...and I'll eat that mother too! Maybe add a little hot sauce. No prob.

Maybe his problem is "backpack incubation" or something, Idk.

 

[Evo]

Yeah, especially when it's cooked. Being the health conscious individual I am, I'm only stupid enough to buy a store bought broiled chicken or KFC when I'm extremely drunk and lazy. As a result, I almost invariably leave it out overnight and eat it the next morning. They always taste delish. Sometimes even a day or two later I'll find a drumstick behind my computer monitor or an "original recipe" thigh in my basketball shorts...and I'll eat that mother too! Maybe add a little hot sauce. No prob.

Maybe it's a problem with "backpack incubation" or something, Idk.

LOL! They should last at least 2 days!

 

[OCR]

...and placed it on my roof of my...

I did that very same thing, only it was a cell phone on a pickup roof... it's been laying alongside our county road, somewhere, for about ten years now...

I don't know if it's "gone bad", or not... lol

 

[WWGD]

Umm, I can buy a whole broiled chicken at my supermarket for about 7 bucks, 8 bucks if you want it organic. So, if you call getting a break in life winning a whole broiled chicken from your local supermarket, then my heart goes out to you.

Hey, you take what you can get :)

 

[Ibix]

I don't know if it's "gone bad", or not... lol

Has there been an increase in electronics thefts reported in your area? If so, I'd say it's gone bad. It's out there now, bringing down slower tablets, ripping into their screens and bringing their still-warm components back to feed its growing brood of digital watches.

Otherwise, you're probably fine.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yeah, but chicken shouldn't go bad bad that fast.

If the chicken had been "bad," as in full of noxious bacteria, when he ate it, WWGD would have gotten sick. Ergo: it was not "bad." What mold grows depends on what molds it's exposed to, and which of those like chicken. I expect it picked up the mold spores during the first days eating session, and the mold grew between then and when he looked at it the next day.

 

[WWGD]

If the chicken had been "bad," as in full of noxious bacteria, when he ate it, WWGD would have gotten sick. Ergo: it was not "bad." What mold grows depends on what molds it's exposed to, and which of those like chicken. I expect it picked up the mold spores during the first days eating session, and the mold grew between then and when he looked at it the next day.

Were you in NCIS or in any other of the 3-4 letter acronym soup (CSI, CIS)?

 

[Evo]

If the chicken had been "bad," as in full of noxious bacteria, when he ate it, WWGD would have gotten sick. Ergo: it was not "bad." What mold grows depends on what molds it's exposed to, and which of those like chicken. I expect it picked up the mold spores during the first days eating session, and the mold grew between then and when he looked at it the next day.

Not necessarily, I recently threw a handful of green-blue molded blue cheese shredds into a salad and didn't realize it until after. I had no ill affects at all. According to everything I googled, I should have had e-coli, salmonella, listeria, brucella.

 

[Sophia]

Not necessarily, I recently threw a handful of green-blue molded blue cheese shredds into a salad and didn't realize it until after. I had no ill affects at all. According to everything I googled, I should have had e-coli, salmonella, listeria, brucella.

I often eat mouldy cheese (one that is already sold as mouldy) and nothing ever happened to me :-) i guess you made your own at home.
People are too sensitive today to natural dirt but don't mind eating all kinds of artificial toxins at all.

 

[Evo]

I often eat mouldy cheese (one that is already sold as mouldy) and nothing ever happened to me :-) i guess you made your own at home.
People are too sensitive today to natural dirt but don't mind eating all kinds of artificial toxins at all.

Cheese that is intentionally moldy is fine but cheese that is not, is dangerous.

 

[WWGD]

I often eat mouldy cheese (one that is already sold as mouldy) and nothing ever happened to me :-) i guess you made your own at home.
People are too sensitive today to natural dirt but don't mind eating all kinds of artificial toxins at all.

I was surprised to hear some French people refer to yogurt as a type of cheese,

 

[Sophia]

I was surprised to hear some French people refer to yogurt as a type of cheese,

I haven't heard it yet but it makes sense when you think about it. Yogurt as the softest type of cheese. Then you've got cottage cheese, quark (if the translation is correct.) and then "normal" cheeses.

 

[Sophia]

Cheese that is intentionally moldy is fine but cheese that is not, is dangerous.

Yeah. It may be dangerous in some cases, but I guess some people overestimate the danger.
Eg we would eat bread with a little bit of green mould on it when I was little a few times. We just cut it off and ate the rest. Because obviously, it's morally wrong to throw out bread. One man I know told me that during socialism, soldiers (compulsory service for all men.) used to get old bread to "make them though".
The same with homemade jams before people had better preservatives. There was sometimes a layer of white mould on it, which you only scraped off and ate the jam.
I'm not saying it's healthy and should be done normally.
But it's something that people used to do quite often and not everyone died of it.
Of course, I'm not talking about spoiled meat and eggs which are probably always dangerous!

 

[Borek]

I'm not talking about spoiled meat and eggs which are probably always dangerous!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surströmming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiviak

Of the top of my head. There are more.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Not necessarily, I recently threw a handful of green-blue molded blue cheese shredds into a salad and didn't realize it until after. I had no ill affects at all. According to everything I googled, I should have had e-coli, salmonella, listeria, brucella.

You're confusing mold with bacteria. The presence of mold does not mean noxious bacteria is also present. Your cheese would have had to have been contaminated with e-coli, salmonella, listeria, brucella, etc separately from it's exposure to mold spores.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal...ng/molds-on-food-are-they-dangerous_/ct_index
Some mold, but not all, but itself, is harmful:

Are Some Molds Dangerous?
Yes, some molds cause allergic reactions and respiratory problems. And a few molds, in the right conditions, produce "mycotoxins," poisonous substances that can make you sick.

What Are Mycotoxins?
Mycotoxins are poisonous substances produced by certain molds found primarily in grain and nut crops, but are also known to be on celery, grape juice, apples, and other produce. There are many of them and scientists are continually discovering new ones. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates that 25% of the world's food crops are affected by mycotoxins, of which the most notorious are aflatoxins.

Are Any Food Molds Beneficial?
Yes, molds are used to make certain kinds of cheeses and can be on the surface of cheese or be developed internally. Blue veined cheese such as Roquefort, blue, Gorgonzola, and Stilton are created by the introduction of P. roqueforti or Penicillium roquefortispores. Cheeses such as Brie and Camembert have white surface molds. Other cheeses have both an internal and a surface mold. The molds used to manufacture these cheeses are safe to eat.

In any cases where a food did not make you sick, it can't be called "bad."

 

[DiracPool]

You're confusing mold with bacteria. The presence of mold does not mean noxious bacteria is also present. Your cheese would have had to have been contaminated with e-coli, salmonella, listeria, brucella, etc separately from it's exposure to mold spores.

Mmmm, you guys are making me hungry

 

[OCR]

It's out there now, bringing down slower tablets, ripping into their screens and bringing their still-warm components back to feed its growing brood of digital watches.

Oh my!... you think I might have been responsible for the furtherance of the poor thing developing... Rss ?

Was it caused by abandonment...? or, bad parenting skill...? ...