This went round 2 days ago:
Basically it seems that many countries reccommended calcium intake is too high, there is little evidence that drinking milk or taking supplements really helps.
That study is strictly about extra calcium intake for seniors, above the recommended amount, not the usual normal recommended amount. Most people do not get enough calcium. Low calcium intake still causes weak bones.
Last night, I came home from work and reclined in an office chair in my bedroom.
I then kicked my legs up on my bed, and I rested in this position for a bit of time. (I'm pretty dumb, don't do this)
As I got out of the chair to go prepare some food. I noticed my left leg had a charlie horse.
And as I clutched my knee and shouted obscenities, I experienced a charlie horse in my right leg, and collapsed off the chair onto the floor.
Then I just tried to not move for about 15 minutes waiting for things to be less painfull, then awkwardly pulled myself up into a standing position.
Walked to the closed bedroom door and felt extremely dizzy in this standing position.
Losing motor control & falling is an interesting experience. There is a blur that envelops the vision outside in, your arms and legs turn to vapor, though sometimes you can will yourself to grip and cling onto something despite this.
Unfortunately, I had opened the door in this dizzyness and sorta fell facefirst into the wood, then across the doornob, and finally, onto the hallway hardwood.
Laid on the floor a bit longer that time, and I decided to make sure I wasn't diabetic. I have meters for when my mother visits.
My sugar and blood pressure was aces, so it was just matter of extremely bad posture and standing up too quickly.
Wound up with stiff legs, and a scraped bumpy head, but I'm fine all the same.
I get this happen to me ALL the time. At least once every few months, if not more often, and it's been happening for years. So I'm pretty used to the sensation. Luckily being so used to it happening means that as soon as I get that vision darkening, heady fuzzy feeling I immediately drop to one knee and put both hands on the floor to brace myself. That way I don't end up falling face first into anything.
It usually can be prevented or at least mitigated by keeping yourself properly hydrated. Though the one time it happened to me in public, at my dentists office, I learned that an ammonia tablet will cause it to stop IMMEDIATELY.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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Um yeah. the cramping, along with the blurred/darkening vision, sounds a lot like what happens when they take too much fluid off me at the dialysis clinic. basically a sudden severe drop in blood pressure caused by dehydration. Oh and also your heart rate will increase and it'll be tough to catch a breath because your O2 sats go to shit.
So stay hydrated.
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Charley horse is a popular colloquial term in Canada and the United States for painful spasms or cramps in the leg muscles, typically lasting anywhere from a few seconds to about a day.
Some Googling suggests it may have to do with baseball.
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It appears to have emerged as a baseball term but there are several conflicting stories regarding the exact origin. The most plausible I've read is there was a pitcher named Charlie Radboune whose nickname was "old hoss" and one day he got a cramp and it grew out of that.
Less plausible but more colorful is the story that the Chicago grounds crew used a lame horse named Charlie, and injured players began to be called Charley Horses.
A lot of USA idioms come from baseball.
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“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Hey I just had an example fall into my lap. Colleague's son's birthday is coming up, his son wanted a Kinect for his Xbox One. I'd recently bought a second-hand one for £35 online, showed him where I got it, and said I'd order it for him and he could just give me the money. Ordered it to my work address, he gave me the money, everything went through fine. A week later it still hasn't arrived, so I email them to see what's up, they ask what address it was sent to. I check the address, and see it's all fine apart from one missing digit in the postcode.
Now I would expect this to not cause a problem as everything else was correct, but it probably means I'm out £35 for the missing Kinect I'll have to reorder and someone out there's enjoying their free Xbox accessory.
edit: bonus irony - entering addresses correctly is about 90% of my actual job. It's what I do all day.
bonus good news: I've heard from the site I ordered from, and they include a return address, and would expect it back by the middle of next week. So that's maybe a relief.
One time during high school, I was riding my bike home from school. I was with a friend, and we were coming up to the intersection where we had to split up. The light on my side of the street was green, so I turned to say goodbye and kept pedaling. I turned back, partway through the intersection, to see a bunch of cars heading right me, and one clipped my back tire and sent me sprawling,
To this day I still have no idea how it happened. I am 100% positive I had the green light to go, and there were no cars going through the intersection. But I somehow ended up crossing the street right in the middle of traffic. No idea.
One time during high school, I was riding my bike home from school. I was with a friend, and we were coming up to the intersection where we had to split up. The light on my side of the street was green, so I turned to say goodbye and kept pedaling. I turned back, partway through the intersection, to see a bunch of cars heading right me, and one clipped my back tire and sent me sprawling,
To this day I still have no idea how it happened. I am 100% positive I had the green light to go, and there were no cars going through the intersection. But I somehow ended up crossing the street right in the middle of traffic. No idea.
When you turned to your friend you accidentally turned the bike the same direction?
One time during high school, I was riding my bike home from school. I was with a friend, and we were coming up to the intersection where we had to split up. The light on my side of the street was green, so I turned to say goodbye and kept pedaling. I turned back, partway through the intersection, to see a bunch of cars heading right me, and one clipped my back tire and sent me sprawling,
To this day I still have no idea how it happened. I am 100% positive I had the green light to go, and there were no cars going through the intersection. But I somehow ended up crossing the street right in the middle of traffic. No idea.
When you turned to your friend you accidentally turned the bike the same direction?
Back in the Windows 95 times I tried to remove Internet Explorer, because I was a cool kid using Netscape Navigator.
After the hard drive was wiped and Windows re-installed, I was still a cool kid using Netscape but IE remained on the system.
When I was in 7th grade, my best friend from elementary school moved to New Zealand for a couple years because his dad got a gig with an orchestra there. While they were gone, we got their minivan, and I got his computer.
This was a big deal for me, because his computer not only had a CD-ROM drive, but also an actual sound card with speakers and a joystick.
During the time I had it, I decided I'd upgrade the version of DOS on our old computer, since his was newer.
I attempted to do this by copying config.sys, command.com, autoexec.bat from his to ours, because I knew those were Important System Files.
Our computer stopped booting.
Fortunately, I still had the boot disc the guy who installed TIE Fighter on our computer made that enabled it to play, so it just booted off of that for next 3 or 4 years until we gave it away.
I once spent like three hours trying to figure out why a new pc wasnt starting.
I kept taking things out and back in...
Then I plugged in the four pin connector.
*raises hand* ooh, ooooh! Me me me! I got one!
Not recent, but I was reformatting (I was in high school and didn't have any of that fancy "image" software) a Win98 box to give to my sister. Had everything set, powered it up.
No OS found.
Huh....that's weird, it should be good to go. I look in the case and ooooh, hey I forgot to plug the power into the harddrive.
Well here let me just go ahead and
*SPARKS*
...oops.
turns out all I did was fry the power supply. Western Digital harddrive was fine, Asus motherboard was fine. Both got a customer for life out of me that day.
Frankly, the company that made your power supply probably should have too, since it did its job of sacrificing itself to save the other components.
Back in the Windows 95 times I tried to remove Internet Explorer, because I was a cool kid using Netscape Navigator.
After the hard drive was wiped and Windows re-installed, I was still a cool kid using Netscape but IE remained on the system.
When I was in 7th grade, my best friend from elementary school moved to New Zealand for a couple years because his dad got a gig with an orchestra there. While they were gone, we got their minivan, and I got his computer.
This was a big deal for me, because his computer not only had a CD-ROM drive, but also an actual sound card with speakers and a joystick.
During the time I had it, I decided I'd upgrade the version of DOS on our old computer, since his was newer.
I attempted to do this by copying config.sys, command.com, autoexec.bat from his to ours, because I knew those were Important System Files.
Our computer stopped booting.
Fortunately, I still had the boot disc the guy who installed TIE Fighter on our computer made that enabled it to play, so it just booted off of that for next 3 or 4 years until we gave it away.
I remember those old computers and their MASSIVE 256MB hard drives that you'll "never need to replace". Lemmings 2 was a 3 meg game and that was ENORMOUS.
Words failed me. No comedic remark. No explanation. No nothing. I mean, how nuts does it sound? "Oh yeah, I was killing time by being really super bad at singing 'Layla'?" Right, that's something people do. Instead I just gave the weakest oh-did-you-hear-that response. I was probably the weird neighbor kid to her. Doesn't matter now, didn't matter then, but I consider myself a better than average singer and that stung a bit.
I was really thinking this story was going to end with you marrying the girl and having Odd Father-in-law
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Fucking what
Well ok it's got calcium and whatnot
But it doesn't make your bones any stronger.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
This went round 2 days ago:
Basically it seems that many countries reccommended calcium intake is too high, there is little evidence that drinking milk or taking supplements really helps.
Eat sardines people.
Also can't breath laying on my back...
So like random spontaneous cramps.
As opposed to cramps triggered by excessive working out our not stretching properly.
I get this happen to me ALL the time. At least once every few months, if not more often, and it's been happening for years. So I'm pretty used to the sensation. Luckily being so used to it happening means that as soon as I get that vision darkening, heady fuzzy feeling I immediately drop to one knee and put both hands on the floor to brace myself. That way I don't end up falling face first into anything.
It usually can be prevented or at least mitigated by keeping yourself properly hydrated. Though the one time it happened to me in public, at my dentists office, I learned that an ammonia tablet will cause it to stop IMMEDIATELY.
You stole the show.
So stay hydrated.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Did someone called charlie get cramp while riding a horse?
Less plausible but more colorful is the story that the Chicago grounds crew used a lame horse named Charlie, and injured players began to be called Charley Horses.
A lot of USA idioms come from baseball.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
What's the opposite of hyperbole? Understatement doesn't feel like a strong enough word for what this is.
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Now I would expect this to not cause a problem as everything else was correct, but it probably means I'm out £35 for the missing Kinect I'll have to reorder and someone out there's enjoying their free Xbox accessory.
edit: bonus irony - entering addresses correctly is about 90% of my actual job. It's what I do all day.
bonus good news: I've heard from the site I ordered from, and they include a return address, and would expect it back by the middle of next week. So that's maybe a relief.
To this day I still have no idea how it happened. I am 100% positive I had the green light to go, and there were no cars going through the intersection. But I somehow ended up crossing the street right in the middle of traffic. No idea.
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When you turned to your friend you accidentally turned the bike the same direction?
Nope, I was still on the road to home.
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Hypobole.
Bathos.
Wow they made a board game out of my family's Thanksgiving? They could have at least asked permission...
When I was in 7th grade, my best friend from elementary school moved to New Zealand for a couple years because his dad got a gig with an orchestra there. While they were gone, we got their minivan, and I got his computer.
This was a big deal for me, because his computer not only had a CD-ROM drive, but also an actual sound card with speakers and a joystick.
During the time I had it, I decided I'd upgrade the version of DOS on our old computer, since his was newer.
I attempted to do this by copying config.sys, command.com, autoexec.bat from his to ours, because I knew those were Important System Files.
Our computer stopped booting.
Fortunately, I still had the boot disc the guy who installed TIE Fighter on our computer made that enabled it to play, so it just booted off of that for next 3 or 4 years until we gave it away.
Frankly, the company that made your power supply probably should have too, since it did its job of sacrificing itself to save the other components.
I remember those old computers and their MASSIVE 256MB hard drives that you'll "never need to replace". Lemmings 2 was a 3 meg game and that was ENORMOUS.
This needs to be framed
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I was really thinking this story was going to end with you marrying the girl and having Odd Father-in-law
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when i left the house the other day, i saw one of our cats walking around on the other side of the street
and i called out and waved to him
and then stood there for a second, lowered my arm, jumped in my car and drove away as fast as i could
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