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[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Wow, we had completely opposite take-aways from his posts. I'm not sure I'm using the term "take-away" correctly, but it was fun using it anyway.

In Britain, "takeaway" means "takeout," so if you were in Britain, you would definitely be using the term incorrectly, unless Adder's post gave you some fish and chips or a doner kebab or curry or some such. FYI.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Adder

Because there is no worse method of picking a medical treatment than personal anecdotes.

Since you seem to be relying on gut feel, I would suggest that there is at least one worse method than other people's actual experiences.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Dalton said "pain don't hurt," and he had a PhD in Philosophy from NYU. Now, who do you think I'm going to listen to: you or Dalton?

Dalton is dead now, no?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Since you seem to be relying on gut feel, I would suggest that there is at least one worse method than other people's actual experiences.

If you were anything like Dalton, you would have been a man and dealt with it. Because pain don't hurt real men.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

In Britain, "takeaway" means "takeout," so if you were in Britain, you would definitely be using the term incorrectly, unless Adder's post gave you some fish and chips or a doner kebab or curry or some such. FYI.

Translation: I'm fancy! I know about Europe!

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

You've always been a weenie, but when did you become such an insufferable weenie?

TM

It seems to be directed entirely at E/O. I think Adder is trying to bag her.

I'm hoping he'll try a different approach on the paralegal.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Wow, we had completely opposite take-aways from his posts. I'm not sure I'm using the term "take-away" correctly, but it was fun using it anyway.

Yeah, I totally know! I think it's because you're a life-affirming, positive-thinking, glass-is-half-full kind of Adder guy, while I'm just a bitter, negative-thinking, Adder-is-a-lonely-alcoholic kind of Adder guy. When his obit comes out we can see who's right, assuming one of us notices it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

If you were anything like Dalton, you would have been a man and dealt with it. Because pain don't hurt real men.

Exactly. Which is why Adder is out fucking paralegals and Sidd is just . . . um . . . well, doing whatever he does.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Dalton is dead now, no?

Yes, but only because he didn't use acupuncture to cure his pancreatic cancer.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

If you were anything like Dalton, you would have been a man and dealt with it. Because pain don't hurt real men.

Dude -- I'm in SF. We pay good money to get pain here.

But bone pain is different.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Adder

For a lawyer, you do not read very critically. There are some rather key qualifications in there that make clear the Mayo clinic is not making and claims about the effectiveness of acupuncture: . . . . And, of course, the key, "But Western-style medicine has found it challenging to design research studies to prove acupuncture's effectiveness."

My post to which you are responding was about you and your closed-mindedness. I never said Mayo proved it. I pulled quotes that discussed that some doctors are using it, how, and why, even though they cannot test for its effectiveness or understand all of the factors involved in why it works.

Whether or not its efficacy can be tested, why are you so closed-minded about something about which you admit to knowing absolutely nothing?

I do not understand the Han-Nambu color theory of quarks, but I am certainly open to the idea that they exist.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint

Yeah, I totally know! I think it's because you're a life-affirming, positive-thinking, glass-is-half-full kind of Adder guy, while I'm just a bitter, negative-thinking, Adder-is-a-lonely-alcoholic kind of Adder guy. When his obit comes out we can see who's right, assuming one of us notices it.

I'll have my assistant do periodic online checks and e-mail us both when he kicks it. It will be fun to find out who's right!

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I do not understand the Han-Nambu color theory of quarks, but I am certainly open to the idea that they exist.

Pfft. NOW you're talking some serious voodoo.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Dude -- I'm in SF. We pay good money to get pain here.

But bone pain is different.

I hear you pay for bone pain as well, so I'm not sure why it's any different. Whatever, dude, I'm not judging you.

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

It seems to be directed entirely at E/O. I think Adder is trying to bag her.

I'm hoping he'll try a different approach on the paralegal.

Adder, remember: E/O is not your "friend." This will boost your chances, such as they are.