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[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...? ...

 

[Borg]

I was asked to review someone's work this morning. Upon reviewing it, I was reminded of this clip at the 36 second mark.

 

[WWGD]

After watching the great video for 21 Pilots' song , which Ioved, I ventured out of the comfort of loving one
song into listening some the band's other songs, and I didn't like any other much. I am stressed out.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

After watching the great video for 21 Pilots' song , which Ioved, I ventured out of the comfort of loving one
song into listening some the band's other songs, and I didn't like any other much. I am stressed out.

Yeah, I often want to turn back time, too. Used to play that one on loop

How 'bout Polarize, The Judge, We Don't Believe What's On TV, Car Radio, etc...

I don't listen to that type of stuff anymore, but they're fun to play on the uke.

 

[WWGD]

I am kind of confused at the fact that one can easily send emails from a phone to someone's PC, but I have no clue
how to send an email to someone's phone. Or is the email just sent to someone's email and viewed on the phone?
Doesn't seem like it since the email address of emails sent by a phone seem different from those sent by a PC. Serenity now!

 

[Evo]

I am kind of confused at the fact that one can easily send emails from a phone to someone's PC, but I have no clue
how to send an email to someone's phone. Or is the email just sent to someone's email and viewed on the phone?
Doesn't seem like it since the email address of emails sent by a phone seem different from those sent by a PC. Serenity now!

I know that there used to be easy ways to send SMS messages from your computer to a cell phone, but thanks to spammers, most cell phone companies blocked these apps.

 

[WWGD]

I know that there used to be easy ways to send SMS messages from your computer to a cell phone, but thanks to spammers, most cell phone companies blocked these apps.

No kidding, I received the exact same spam from around 60 people, all with different (obviously fake) names. Imagine if spammers could also use phones.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I am kind of confused at the fact that one can easily send emails from a phone to someone's PC, but I have no clue
how to send an email to someone's phone. Or is the email just sent to someone's email and viewed on the phone?
Doesn't seem like it since the email address of emails sent by a phone seem different from those sent by a PC. Serenity now!

A few years back I did some research and found out how to send emails from my computer to people's phones. Every phone actually has an email address. I forget the details but you have to know their number and what company their service is with. I googled all this.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Today I had a thought, what if nothing else in this world can make us laugh or cry again ?

 

[beamie564]

Today I had a thought, what if nothing else in this world can make us laugh or cry again ?

I don't know why, but the thought of such a world scares me a lot!

 

[fresh_42]

Today I had a thought

Yeah, sh** happens. I once tried to avoid this with $C_2H_6O$ but it didn't work. I think, we have to live with it. It is one reason I prefer documentary channels over news channels.