Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two

[Pruitt IV]

I only go with the help of supplements at this point.

Additionally I got prescribed an anti-anxiety med for the first time. Hasn't been filled yet but we will see if that makes any difference. Not just with Costco, mind you.

What are they giving you?

I took Zoloft for a couple of years. It helped a lot.

[sancarlos]

My wife and I have found that going on a Monday or Tuesday right after lunch, about 1:30 works great (obviously because lots of folks can’t go, then). I also drive past the main entrance and go in at the last possible entrance, which usually works out much better for fast, convenient parking.

[A_B]

I only go with the help of supplements at this point.

Additionally I got prescribed an anti-anxiety med for the first time. Hasn't been filled yet but we will see if that makes any difference. Not just with Costco, mind you.

What are they giving you?

I took Zoloft for a couple of years. It helped a lot.

Buspira? I think that’s the name. It’s apparently pretty mild but that’s what the doc wanted to start with.

[Pruitt IV]

I only go with the help of supplements at this point.

Additionally I got prescribed an anti-anxiety med for the first time. Hasn't been filled yet but we will see if that makes any difference. Not just with Costco, mind you.

What are they giving you?

I took Zoloft for a couple of years. It helped a lot.

Buspira? I think that’s the name. It’s apparently pretty mild but that’s what the doc wanted to start with.

Looks like Buspirone is for short term usage - Zoloft is an SSRI and takes many weeks to have an effect.

[brian]

I took Xanax for the first time last week and it works in the sense that it lessens my anxiety but it does so by making me fall asleep.

[Nonlinear FC]

I took Xanax for the first time last week and it works in the sense that it lessens my anxiety but it does so by making me fall asleep.

My wife got a chortle out of this one.

One of her friends went to Italy with her family and took 2(!) and missed the first day of that trip sleeping it off.

[P.D.X.]

It's great for long flights. Just pop one and then bam! you're there.

[DSafetyGuy]

You just need a few strategies to survive Costco

- You can get out of there in under 30 minutes, even if you're buying a lot of stuff. I will be going tomorrow and have an 18-item list. I'll be leaving the parking lot 30 minutes after I get there.

Walked into the store at 10:00am, parked the cart to go to the restroom at 10:14 after checking out (a stream that wasn't the requested live one), left the parking lot at 10:26.

[sancarlos]

parked the cart to go to the restroom at 10:14 after checking out (a stream that wasn't the requested live one)

Ha!

[Pruitt IV]

The Hindi word for snow is "barf."

[Reaper]

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881. His eldest daughter, Maya, passed away this past week at age 87. He's got two other children who are still living, as is their 101-year-old mother, Françoise Gilot, who is 40 years his junior. Gilot and Picasso never married, but she did end up marrying Jonas Salk, making Salk stepfather to two of Picasso's kids.

[Jerloma]

Pickles are like super healthy for you except for the HBP? I think I heard some stupid myth about a whole dill pickle adding a pound of weight before I was skeptical and it just stuck with me all this time. Like how the fuck did I possibly believe that adding vinegar and salt to a cucumber made it like 2,000 calories?

[mister d]

Most have sugar too but, yeah, pickles aren’t going to be what kills anyone.

[The Sybian]

Pickles are like super healthy for you except for the HBP? I think I heard some stupid myth about a whole dill pickle adding a pound of weight before I was skeptical and it just stuck with me all this time. Like how the fuck did I possibly believe that adding vinegar and salt to a cucumber made it like 2,000 calories?

All the salt might cause temporary water weight gain, like maybe it's bad if you are trying to cut weight for a wrestling weigh-in?

[govmentchedda]

Pickles are like super healthy for you except for the HBP? I think I heard some stupid myth about a whole dill pickle adding a pound of weight before I was skeptical and it just stuck with me all this time. Like how the fuck did I possibly believe that adding vinegar and salt to a cucumber made it like 2,000 calories?

Fermented food of nearly all kinds is very good for you, and much easier to make than you'd think. Took a class a few weeks back and made a baek kimchi and a shio Koji. Christmas roast was marinated with the shio Koji. Very tender and tasty.

[Jerloma]

Pickles are like super healthy for you except for the HBP? I think I heard some stupid myth about a whole dill pickle adding a pound of weight before I was skeptical and it just stuck with me all this time. Like how the fuck did I possibly believe that adding vinegar and salt to a cucumber made it like 2,000 calories?

All the salt might cause temporary water weight gain, like maybe it's bad if you are trying to cut weight for a wrestling weigh-in?

Oh yeah that had to be it. I likely wasn't listening very intently either.

[Johnnie]

There's a reason this dude went viral. It's videos like this.

And yes, it works.

[wlu_lax6]

The word pompatus was made up by Steve Miller. But it was used in another song before the Joker. It was used in Enter Maurice a year before Joker.

[Shirley]

The Go-Gos started out as a punk band.

[sancarlos]

The Go-Gos started out as a punk band.

Their bass player, Kathy Valentine, wrote an interesting memoir, “All I ever wanted”, which sheds a lot of light on their early days. (Although, she was not the original bassist for the Go-Gos. In a then-controversial move to get more professional, they fired their original drummer and bassist and went for upgrades.)

[Nonlinear FC]

There's a documentary out on some streamer about them. I remember the part about firing the drummer/bassist.

[Gunpowder]

Woolworth's eventually became Foot Locker, kinda

[DaveInSeattle]

There's a documentary out on some streamer about them. I remember the part about firing the drummer/bassist.

The Documentary is really good.

And Valentine did a great episode of 'WTF' back when her book was released.

[L-Jam3]

Agatha Christie surfed?

[sancarlos]

Maybe it’s because I rarely visit the area, but I was surprised to learn that Columbus is the most populous city and metropolitan area in Ohio, and the 2nd most populous city in the Midwest.
(Per wiki)

[wlu_lax6]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

[Shirley]

Maybe it’s because I rarely visit the area, but I was surprised to learn that Columbus is the most populous city and metropolitan area in Ohio, and the 2nd most populous city in the Midwest.
(Per wiki)

These lists are always confusing because of the vagaries of city limits. So, St. Louis city has fewer than 300K people, but nobody really thinks of that limited area as "St. Louis." And then Virginia Beach consumed its entire county, so it has nearly 500K people even though it's mostly suburban.

[Steve of phpBB]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

Now I’m curious. Where are they?

[Giff]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

Now I’m curious. Where are they?

Liz Cheney's house.

[wlu_lax6]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

Now I’m curious. Where are they?

Liz Cheney's house.

There’s the one at First Interstate Bank in downtown Casper. There’s the one at Hilltop National Bank out on Country Club Road in Casper.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/20 ... 986911007/

[MaxWebster]

agreed, it's always such a nebulous figure that can kinda be used however one wants. Boston proper was always under like 700k maybe when I lived there but ... yeah no.

Local example: Buffalo the city proper is tiny at maybe 275k (only grew in population this past census for the first time since ~1950) but if you expand it just to the area code you get a million. There was some talk a decade or so ago about the concept of regionalizing the area and somehow combining it with Rochester which seems insane.

Also that 275k does not include the beloved western suburbs at all (aka Ft Erie/Niagara Falls ONT).

Maybe it’s because I rarely visit the area, but I was surprised to learn that Columbus is the most populous city and metropolitan area in Ohio, and the 2nd most populous city in the Midwest.
(Per wiki)

These lists are always confusing because of the vagaries of city limits. So, St. Louis city has fewer than 300K people, but nobody really thinks of that limited area as "St. Louis." And then Virginia Beach consumed its entire county, so it has nearly 500K people even though it's mostly suburban.

[DSafetyGuy]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

Now I’m curious. Where are they?

Liz Cheney's house.

There’s the one at First Interstate Bank in downtown Casper. There’s the one at Hilltop National Bank out on Country Club Road in Casper.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/20 ... 986911007/

Oh, the Escalator District.

[sancarlos]

Back in the stone age when I was a young boy, our town’s only escalator was in the J.C. Penney store. My mum would cajole us to go clothes shopping with her by mentioning we could ride the escalator. Exciting times!

[brian]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

I can’t even begin to calculate how many escalators there are in Las Vegas.

[Nonlinear FC]

1,158.5 (One of them only has a down.)

[wlu_lax6]

Wyoming has two escalators.(four if you factor in that each has an up and a down) in the state.

Now I’m curious. Where are they?

Liz Cheney's house.

There’s the one at First Interstate Bank in downtown Casper. There’s the one at Hilltop National Bank out on Country Club Road in Casper.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/20 ... 986911007/

Oh, the Escalator District.

made my mind go here....Thank you

[DSafetyGuy]

That worked.

[Rush2112]

The Netherlands national colours are red, white, and blue, while they more commonly associated with orange (soccer team and the like.) They changed their original flag from orange, white, and blue because the orange faded and was harder to spot at sea. The royal family then switched their colours to fit the new flag.

[Nonlinear FC]

That's a weird ass typo.

[A_B]

Organ failure was probably pretty prominent back then, but this one could be diagnosed, I suppose.