Random Thoughts Thread

**Viking** · 09-22-2019, 09:20

In the immediate term, Medzhitov’s takeaway is to follow our cravings when we’re sick, because they may reflect evolutionary mechanisms that evolved to be protective: “So, for example, when you have the flu, you kind of feel like having some tea and honey. That may be the body’s way of telling us that we need some glucose. I suspect we have these mechanisms that tell us what we prefer to eat (or not to eat) when we’re sick. Those are the mechanisms we should probably listen to.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...mation/498965/

Interesting..

I'll eat that chocolate.

**Montmorency** · 10-23-2019, 03:52

"Sleepers get stupefied"? That's the original English? Definitely makes no sense.

**Xantan** · 11-01-2019, 14:19

Can't wait for the December cinnamon tea while outside it's 0 degrees.

**Viking** · 01-29-2020, 17:38

Answered a question from an Asian tourist today. Wish me luck.

**Montmorency** · 03-09-2020, 13:48

It's 2020. A hundred years ago was 1920. Everyone who grew up prior to WW2, who had a full experience of the 1930s, is pretty much a centenarian by now.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 03-09-2020, 18:30

Originally Posted by Montmorency

It's 2020. A hundred years ago was 1920. Everyone who grew up prior to WW2, who had a full experience of the 1930s, is pretty much a centenarian by now.

I think we still have one person left receiving a Civil War pension check.