Simplifying English for The Americans | Michael McIntyre

Don’t spiders actually sort of rather drink their prey than eating it? We digest food inside us, spiders just vomit up shit onto paralysed prey that liquifies it so the spider can just sort of slurp it up.

So I wonder how he’ll do with a turtle. It’s easy enough to imagine on a fish, but…

What would you, specifically, find to be a tolerable amount of ads?

It’s genuinely more or less just more “reefer madness”.

If you actually read my comment and the study carefully, you might notice that.

For example:

Because there is no diagnostic code for CHS, we followed the previous literature identifying CHS ED visits as those in which vomiting (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Canada [ICD-10-CA] code R11) was the primary diagnosis and a cannabis harm (ICD-10-CA code F12 or T40.7) was an additional diagnosis.19,20 Since CHS is not widely recognized, we developed a secondary outcome measure termed sensitive CHS ED visits, which includes the primary outcome definition and an ED visit with a primary diagnosis of vomiting (ICD-10-CA code R11) plus an ED visit owing to a cannabis harm in the 6 months preceding or following the incident vomiting visit.

So, anyone who’s been labeled to have any sort of harm from cannabis, which a lot of people take to just be use of cannabis. I can show you a recording of a psychiatrist supposedly specialising in drugs and addiction, who told me “there is no safe amount of cannabis you can use”.

And then, when any of those roughly just users, report with vomiting to an ER even 6 months after someone has written down something about cannabis use, it get counted as “cannabis hyperemesis syndrome”.

So because legalisation has made doctors more aware they’re questioning youth more about cannabis use. And since it’s legal, the youths aren’t lying as much as they used to. But they still have the same amount of alcohol overdoses (ie getting so drunk you start vomiting) and if you then visit the ER even just for being too drunk or having a fever with vomiting, you’ll be counted as a “ER CHS patient”.

So you know. You really do need to go and read the things they claim, all the way down to the source. For one most of the things they source in those studies are studies which aren’t exclusively Canadian, making your “well the study is Canadian” argument a bit frail, since the study references other non-Canadian studies.

I’m not against regulation, and I think a boozecard model would be fantastic. For things that actually require it. We had the same in Finland, up until the 70’s, really.

It was from ‘44-’ 70 yeah.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratt_System

But see that was for booze, not beer. Since growing your own is also legal and east af, trying to control the amount of cannabis wouldn’t work in practice, and as someone who’s known daily users for years, I don’t think there is any inherent factor in cannabis which would cause this syndrome (“syndrome” = a collection of symptoms, not a disease in itself). It’s more bad reporting and bad understanding of the subject.

For one when you’re totally drunk, never smoked weed, you take a large hit of something strong, you can easily start to feel spinning such that you literally vomit like there’s no tomorrow. To the point people who haven’t seen it will genuinely consider taking them to the ER. And during something like that, it does help to be in a hot shower.

However as the drunkenness wears off, the person becomes even more nauseous, as they’re still plenty high without being used to it, and the hangover is creeping in.

But never have I ever seen anyone vomit from cannabis who hasn’t been drinking. I’m not saying they don’t exist or that this syndrome isn’t real. I’m just saying I don’t see a well-explained causal relationship. I just see a bunch of poor correlation, as always.

Anyways, yeah, register and limit. For actual drugs. That’s why booze was on the card but beer wasn’t. You can make that at home and it’s not strong enough to mess you up line vodka will do.

Just the same, cannabis should be legal and ecstasy and others legalised with the Bratt system. People don’t cook mdma at home if there’s some available to purchase legally.

Government is leaving out billions in drug money because there’s a huge market for illegal drugs just going completely unregulated and untaxed.

I wouldn’t say “combative”. Critical, maybe.

It is a syndrome they’re describing, with rather vague symptoms and a very large userbase.

I’m not one to deny the risks of anything, but since cannabis has been subjected to biased research and journalism for 100 years, it’s not really surprising some people are somewhat critical of something this vague.

Like what’s your suggestion on “regulation”? Because I think an appropriate age limit is fine, just like with alcohol. Actual proper legalisation would allow people to actually know how much theyre consuming. Now it’s just random strength weed for random amount of inhale. If you knew x mg per puff or edible, like you can do in some places, but not most of the world, then it becomes easier knowing how much you’re actually consuming. So yeah, better regulation. Which requires legalisation.

Properly implemented machine learning, sure.

These dimwits are genuinely just gonna feed everything to a second rate LLM and treat the output as the word of God.

Took me a while to realise it’s because Trump administration is aggressively scrubbing anything to do with “diversity”

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But yah, my favourite one as well

Sarumon, nice typo.

Popeball

“Son, if you’re interested in biology, you’ll have to learn to understand that the definitions of terms are rather… loose.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

“pudgy” as in bloated? I never even knew what “bloating” was before I actually got properly rid of it.

I too skipped meals and still do (because it kinds stayed as a habit) but i don’t need to anymore. I went on an exclusion diet to see if it was some undiagnosed food allergy. Rice/potatos and fish/meats basically, with some basic veggies. Even at one point I avoided all allium plants, meaning all onions, leeks, garlic, etc. It’s kinda basic, but if it works, then you can start adding things back and see what you react to.

I still haven’t got a diagnosis, but I’ve lost the bloating and stomach pain and about like 20% of bodyweight even though I was never even overweight. I’m still kinda wondering what it exactly is which triggers that sort of horrible inflammation in me, but I can very clearly feel a difference. Like night and day. I couldn’t even enjoy red wines before, stomach just didn’t fucking handle them. I even had heart palpitations most days. Them and burping and eveything; gone (I’m not on a not too restrictive but gluten and casein free diet, meaning no gluten and no dairy.)

Nice.

I have no question, just wanted to comment “nice”. Reading the comments I wanted to say I’m surprised, but then I remberered my grandpa is over 90 and he’s the one who taught me to use computers in the first place. DOS commands to launch games and users Win3.11 really, but still.

Nice seeing representation of older people here, thanks for posting!

Fermenting anything generally results in at most some 15-18%, depending on the yeast you use. I’d say 10-12% is more realistic for homemade wines, but 14-16 isn’t out of the question.

So I don’t know what the deal is specifically with dandelion wine, but usually 10% alc will fuck up a person (and a teen especially) pretty well if chugged and the brewing process usually leads to there being all sorts of things in it (alcohols sugars, not-too-toxic byproducts) so the hangovers you get from home wines are usually… interesting, to say the least.

You rang?

If you’re gonna be anal about it, technically “laying” could be argued to be inaccurate, (although then you’d get into the semantics about how it’s technically referring to careful putting down, and I don’t know if you could argue that for like, pigeons), but I’d definitely agree that all mammals have eggs.

No worries. I think you better check it’s spelling again though, you called me “exist”. I don’t discriminate against my exes.

I think you meant to call someone sexist, what with the hysteria mention there.

I’ve got 2x whats literally called “painful rib syndrome” in English and I can barely get ibuprofen.