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What's the funniest commercial you've seen? Or what do you think the funniest campaign currenty running is? What store/product/service do you think has the funniest commercials? My parents are absolutely captivated with the Sonic commercials. You know, "Did your body tell you to wear that sweater?" They wait for the next installment like it's a soap. Actually, like it's the Taster's Choice campaign that ran in what... mid 80s? Remember that one? I like the one running currently - can't remember what it's actually for - but the kid putting on the art show for his parents, who unveils the painting that he titled "mommy and daddy wrestling". But in general I think IKEA has the best commercials. Though some of the old Budweiser frog/lizard ones were pretty good. What are yours?

How the farkin frip did I miss this thread? I have proof... The Flying: This part of the Flying Spaghetti Monster gives it flight, allowing it to span infinite distances in infinitesimal spans of time. This part is irreducibly complex, hyper-real (see Weird Calculus), and cannot be broken down into components. Doing so – if it were even possible, and it isn't – would incur the wrath of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is proven by this series of math-like squiggles. (The original formula revealed to Pastafarian scholars did not include the butter and toast element, which is necessary to relate kittens to antigravity. The Flying Spaghetti Monster inspired this revision one day He skipped Breakfast.)

I had no gas at all, and no pains from gas. This seems to be the exception - maybe you will luck out. If not, three magic words: EXIT ROW AISLE. Makes for quick & easy access to the facilities.

Surgery was around 10, I was asking to leave by 12 and was discharged right around 1:30.

Honestly? It's kind of par for the course. Not "warfare", of course, but a topic -- especially in RnR -- rarely ends in the same form that it began. It makes for an interesting sort of conversational evolution.

Hey Nykee, it's great to see you again. Seemed like you took a bit of a sabatical from the board. 100 lbs is great. Would you like some help brainstorming what's going on? Don't give up on the band. Plateaus can be brutal. Stalls can be even more brutal. I once stalled for about 7 months. It's hard to keep going when you aren't seeing anything to motivate you. I think we can all sympathize. And trust me, there's NO WAY 100 lbs isn't noticeable. I look in the mirror and think, "Same old fat me"... and then I look at the pants I"m going to wear and think, "They're so tiny, there's no way they'll fit"... and they do. It just takes a while for our brains to catch up with our eyes. 2bthinagain - have we talked before? I'm in KCMO. Are you in KS or MO? Do you have a surgeon picked out? Well - after my emergency unfill the week before last, I'm going back in for a fill Wednesday. There will be a learning curve, I'm sure... because even though I'm still at 2cc in my 4cc band, I have virtually no restriction. I hope my behaviors haven't slacked. I've maintained the weight...a ctually up 2 #, but that's a WELCOMED gain, because during the 4 days I was too tight I drank a total of about 8 oz water... I'll take a few pounds if it means I'm hydrated again. My loss is really uneven. Enough that - while heavy I was always proportionate, I'm now disproportionately large on bottom. By nearly 2 sizes. :omg: My pants today are a 24 jeans (no idea what brand but I bought them at Gordman's... holy cow! I didn't have to go to a fat store! Just the fat department in a regular store!) LOL And my top is an 18/20. I was trying to scratch that elusive spot on my back lastnight and realized - wow, I can actually feel my spine. I'm not talking vertebra, but a long "lump". My back has always been too fat to feel it before. And my shoulderblades actually stick out now. Wtf is up with that? But on the flip side of that, my butt & thighs still look like a big white sock full of quarters. :faint:

Seems to contradict: So sin is what... contagious? (Not twisting, asking for clarification). A fetus has a disease in utero, that was not passed directly from the mother. We'll call it "spontaneous" disease. It happens all the time. Genetic defects are one of the most likely causes. That fetus has never sinned. It hasn't even breathed. Yet it is sentenced to death. Because of what? It's mother or father's sins? Adam's? You say someone who has never sinned would never get sick and die. But it happenes every day.

:clap2: Just wait and see what happens with the pharamceutical companies if they're able to push through the pending genome patents. Je parle Francais.

Yup yup. Factor in that a lot of our vets didn't necessarily want to be vets, fought a war they didn't necessarily want to fight, and then got spit on when they got back to home soil. Nice little slap to the face. BTW, Air Force One was at a local airport yesterday. I was one of the unfortunate ones (I had been out of town since Sunday and forgot about it) stuck in the complete traffic halt. I observed an interesting combination of wanting to see the plane and contempt for the president for holding up traffic. I only actually spoke with 20 or so of the people stuck in traffic, a small sampling for sure, but not a single one of them was the least bit interested in seeing Bush. Though almost all were trying to get shots of the plane on their cell phone cams. Even while driving. Past. :tired

I have Cingular. It's the best for me because my family uses Cingular (no minute hits for the calls). DH had Nextel for his work phone but they're changing to Cingular too. They only used Nextel because of the 2-way capabilities. I looked at Sprint, and decided against. If you look at their coverage map, it seems to really only be thick along major interstates, and who spends most of their time there... not worth it, even though I would get a huge discount through my company's partner/discount program. Tmobile, in my opinion, survives because of its technology and appeal to younger crowds, not on its functional offerings.

Probably between 50 and 65 lbs. I really don't remember. It was pretty much the same time as my clothes started changing drastically, since for the first 40+ lbs I was wearing the same clothing, just a lot less snug than it used to be. Don't equate ppl staying quiet to your loss not being noticeable. I've lost something like 130 lbs now, and few people have said anything. Or I'll get, "You look different, you have a glow, did you go tanning?" There are lots of reasons for people to stay quiet, and few for them to speak up.

Well I wasn't really making myself vomit I was eating in excess then drinking fluids right after to get rid of the aweful full feeling I have after eating. If I read correctly, you eat a few bites and feel ok, then eat a few more and feel "filled up to my neck". You need to practice stopping after the first few bites. If you've been doing this for months, and feeling ok, but continuing to eat until you're uncomfortable, you aren't really changing your behaviors, you're just developing undesirable ones to offset them. Why take the extra few bites? By now I'd think you know an average of what you can comfortably eat. Eat that and put the fork down! I look at it as I have already asked for help by going to my surgeon and being honest with him telling him all thats really going on and asking for guidance. I already made a counceling appointment and next week I have the swollow study and maybe get a little looser. That is asking for help, in a way, but that doesn't mean it's all you have to do and can "sit back" and wait for someone else to figure it out. Work proactively with what you have at your fingertips. The doc who did my psch eval i new him and he said i have a eating disorder but he wouldn't put that in the notes if I really wanted this surgery. I no thats a foul thing to do but I am sure he isn't the first or only doc to do it. Doesn't make it ok, or mean that it was a smart idea to let him do it. But I'm sure you know that. I would rather not go back to that doc cause he is pill happy and i dont wanna be on any crazy medications. Sometimes medications are appropriate. I believe in general they're overused, especially with children, but don't automatically rule them out because taking them means you're "crazy". Sometimes they're a very appropriate solution, and the qualified medical professiona you're talking to is the only one who can make that decision. So I thought the counceling would be a good start. I am so far going a whole day without vomiting and I am so happy about it. But this filled up to my neck feeling is rough to stand its very uncomfortable. Counseling is ALWAYS a good start. As for the uncomfortable feeling, again, why not stop after the few bites that feel ok? Why push yourself to the discomfort? Honestly, step back and look at yourself a little bit removed. You say it isn't bulemia... You knowingly eat past the point of comfort. You then ingest liquids knowing they will "purge" your pouch. You repeat this 20 times a day? How is that different from binging (eating past the point of comfort) and then drinking liquids for the sole purpose of causing you to bring up what you forced down? When you inadvertently eat too much, and then have to PB, or you get stuck and then do something to end the pain - that's not bulemic behavior. Because the intent is missing. But it sounds (from your account, anyway) that you're acting with intent. Sorry if this is "tough love", but you seem dismissive of some things that might do you well to consider. And in the end, it's about what's best for you.

So I've actually had some time to watch TV this week (business trip, late night in the hotel, no household responsiblities yay!) And I saw a few that were cute. One was for some kind of beer, and the guy has a rubber floor installed to keep dropped beer bottles from breaking. Another was a Sprint anti-theft device, where the guy hits the other guy in the head with his phone. Very funny.

Geezer, is this the gist of your question?

Ron, I think you've hit a very important nail on the head, and commend you for it. No one here, to the best of my knowledge, is put off or offended by your knowledge or your confidence in your knowledge. Rather, how the message was communicated. I think we can see that in the speed with which this conversation deteriorated. We do debate and we do disagree here, but perhaps in a different manner than you're accustomed to, as you to us. Cheers!

TommyO - we agree!!!!!!! Pretty much, anyway!:faint:

This may not be completely clear, it's been a LONG time since I've studied this, but I will try to remove the medical mumbo jumbo as much as I can. The two types of cells you're referencing actually aren't the same, and the two sources don't yield the same kinds of cells. Embryonic stem cells are "pluripotent", meaning they can turn into just about any type of cell. They're "blanks". The cells derived from cord blood are "multipotent" cells, meaning they can turn into the same kind of cell, but not any kind of cell. So an embryonic stem cell could turn into a red blood cell, or a brain cell, or a nerve cell, or a liver cell, or a kidney cell, etc. But cord blood cells have a limit to the types of cells they can turn into, so when the cell is harvested, it's already destined to be ONLY a blood cell or ONLY a brain cell. (That's greatly simplified, but hopefully the idea is there). So as opposed to being a completely blank canvas, the cord blood cells' broad cell type is already determined. The same is true for adult stem cells. As a not great analogy, white can become any other color, with addition of the right pigments. Red can only become another color that has red in it. They're also the hot topic because they will reproduce well in captivity, so to speak. Easier to multiple in controlled conditions than cord blood cells. So from an embryo you get a LOT of "anything" cells, that you have a great chance of being able to culture. From cord blood you get some "this or that" cells that are fairly difficult to culture. *Edited - I should clarify that when I use the color analogy, applied to the topic of stem cells, "pigments" become the environmental and internal factors the scientists can manipulate, such as conditions in the culture's environment, adding gene data to the cell, etc.

Yeah, it's pretty much thick slobber, and yeah - it's pretty normal. It's what a lot of people here will call "slime" or "ropey saliva". It's the same stuff you're spitting out or swallowing before you PB, just a little thicker because it's been churned. It's really nice and descriptive, when you're stuck on something with some color, and PB it into Water (e.g. toilet bowl), you'll see how much thicker it really is than water, as it "grips" the water surface, but still manages to sink, forming something kind of like a nicely colored slide from the top of the bowl to the bottom.

I gave up all carbonation (even though I craved it BIG time for about 2 weeks after surgery... didn't crave caffeine or the flavor, just the carbonation burn), but know many people who "treat" themselves with a can of a zero carb soda (e.g. Diet Rite). And all have managed to keep their bands. I also know someone who saves carbonated drinks for when she's stuck. She swears by them. The added burping helps her sticks move, I think. If it was a known problem or absolute risk increase, I'd think more surgeons would outlaw it. But since it's only a no-no on a case by case basis, the theoretical aspect makes sense. But surgeon's rules are always best.

I wouldn't say you SHOULD have pbed, but you COULD have pbed. There is no "should" have. It's not really something we "should" do, just something that happens when food can't pass, or - well - for random reasons sometimes.

It took me 2 or 2.5 cc to feel any restriction, and even then I wasn't "tight". But my surgeon will take me as I see fit, and I'd wager it's atypical to be told to wait 4 months between fills. My first and second fill were 3 weeks apart, and my third was about a month and a half later. Anytime a surgeon tells you not to call for X amount of time, start asking questions. You should never be "cut off" or restricted from contacting your surgeon. If it were me, and I was pretty sure my fill wasn't just suffering from a delayed kick in, I'd call and schedule another.

I gave up red meat 100% when I got my band. Never liked it too much before that. For me, it's too hard to chew it well enough. It seems like red meat, even the most tender cut, will only chew so much. And by the time I get it chewed as much as I can, my jaws hurt and it has no flavor left anyway. *sigh* Quickly decided I'd just give it up, it isn't worth it. That doesn't mean the medium rare sirloin my husband ordered lastnight didn't look orgasmically good.

Unfortunately that's the case more and more. I can think of two things. One would be to post your question in the Texas forum. More people overall will see it here, but frequently people will also review the posts in just one or two forums, and ignore "general". Might give it a try...? Two would be - I hear a lot of people mentioning "fill center USA"...or maybe it's "centers". Or something like that. I'm *thinking* they mention it in the context of aftercare. Maybe search for it here or on Google and see what you can find.

Living in the ocean, no (unless you want to go way back and entertain preSocratic philosophy). But there are people who DO live in the woods and hunt for their food. So while "we" maybe don't (or maybe do), "humans" ABSOLUTELY do. Think of all the tribesmen the world over. Houses, refrigeration, canned goods - all recent things. Twas but an earth's blink of the eye ago that we did EXACTLY that. *Edited - ack, meant to post more but my elbow was resting on the "enter" key, little did I know. As for a god having a penis - eww.

Vomitting is a suspect for some slipped bands. Several bandsters (me included!) keep a liquid anti-emitic on hand, just in case the nausea hits. It hasn't for me, but then again, I've vomitted twice in the last 20+ years.