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Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What is the average number of sexual partners Americans have over their lifetimes? Differences between the genders? Is there a statistically significant difference between those who lose their virginity younger than average and those who wait? ---Portia
ADear Portia, This information, though easy to find, is awkward to explain when a roommate sees my screen. Nevertheless, here it is: the median number of sex partners for men is seven; the median for women is four. This MSNBC article does point out a difference between people who have sex younger versus those who wait longer. Some of the most interesting statistics from that article have to do with the sex practices between different racial groups in the U.S.
The information in that article is pretty fascinating. But if you feel awkward reading about s-e-x, just stick with what I've shared. It is most pertinent, after all. -Mico ADear Portia, Can I just emphasize that that Mico's number is the median, not the mean? These relations are, by definition, heterosexual. There are roughly the same amount of men as women. Because pairings are commutative, for each man that has a female partner, there is exactly one female that has a male partner. Right? Therefore, the mean is necessarily going to be the same for both. If you're super interested in the raw data, it can be found here. Love, Waldorf and Sauron Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I heard there is a place in the Wilk where students can find free counseling... Is this the kind of place I can go if I need some real help overcoming a fear I have? This fear is starting to take over my life and I really need to talk to someone. Can you give me some more information on this and tell me if it would be a worthwhile place to seek help? I really don't want to go if all they do is give me a pamphlet or something not helpful. Are there real counselors or students working there? Thanks! Anonymous
ADear Anonymous, Good for you for taking responsibility for yourself. I salute you. There definitely is a place that offers free counseling located in 1500 WSC (that's in the basement of the Wilk). Most of the counselors are Ph.D. students, but it's real counseling. Here is their website. Click on the little link near the top of the page that says "Personal Counseling" and you'll get links to answer most of the questions you could possibly have about the experience. If you're a freshman in on-campus housing, your RA had a lesson on all of this, so they should also be able to help you. Here is where to start the online intake process, which is how you have to do things now. Follow those steps and you'll have an appointment set up with one of the counselors. I'm not sure if your problem is more like anxiety or a specific fear, but there's also an anxiety and meditation group you might want to look into. For the reference of other people reading this question, you can also get free on-campus counseling at the Comprehensive Clinic in the Taylor Building. For you, Anonymous, I think the Counseling Center in the basement of the Wilk is the best, easiest bet. - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I am a sophomore and I have a roommate who I really love and have spent a lot of time with. We just met at the beginning of the school year, and she is younger than me and very sensitive... I look out for her and have been very, very nice to her. Then a week ago I came across a blog that she has. I found that she writes in it almost every single day every single thing on her mind and criticizes all of us roommates! Including me! I complain about my roommates here and there to my parents too but not in a blog! She doesn't know I've read it. And I just want to forget it. But now I am bitter because I've been above and beyond nice to her (even taking care of her when she was sick!) and all this time she's been writing rude things about me in a blog (stupid petty things like that I was supposed to mop the floor and she doesn't think I did a good enough job). I thought she was the sweetest girl ever! What should I do??? Sucking on the Lemon
ADear Sucking, You do just realize that you've done exactly what you're upset at her for, namely ranting about something you don't like about her on the internet ... right? Isn't that embarrassing... Now, before you take that the wrong way, I'm not trying to chew you out. Just realize, ranting online is a very human, common thing to do—so common, in fact, that you fell in the same trap. And so you shouldn't feel morally superior to her on this point. So take a deep breath. Have some compassion. And get over it. Forgive and forget. And if you don't like being criticized publicly on the internet, worry about your own behavior first. Be the Gandhi that you want to see in the world. Love, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Lemony Sucker, Well, if you weren't horrible at mopping the floor, this wouldn't be an issue! Ha, just kidding! Don't hate me. Seriously though, I would ask you some questions: Why do you really care? Is it because you're afraid that her less-than-positive review of your mopping skills is besmirching everyone's opinion of your housekeeping abilities? Are you mentioned by name? Do people even read her blog? Perhaps her blog is just her way of venting or letting her mind run loose for a while. Like you said, she writes in it almost every day and writes "every single thing on her mind," so maybe it functions as a journal of sorts for her. You said yourself that you sometimes critique your roommates to your parents, so how is that any better? Just because it's less frequent? Surely little criticisms about your roomies pop into your head throughout the course of the day - so she's a bad person for taking those thoughts that everyone has and putting them on paper? Er...internet? Granted, it's probably not the best medium, but... There's only so many avenues that you can take here. I've listed a few off the top of my head: 1. Confront her angrily. Tell her that she's a horrible person and a complete fake except for on her overly-honest blog. 2. Confront her calmly and explain how it makes you feel when she writes such things. Be sure to emphasize that you weren't trying to stalk her blog, but just came across it by chance and you want to know what YOU can do to be a better roommate and friend to her. 3. Make a counter-blog where you outline all of her personal flaws in great detail. 4. Forget about it and move on. 5. Pray for charity. Do more service for her. 6. Say nothing and use her blog as a self-evaluative tool. If, upon introspection, you find something to be true, take steps to change that attribute in yourself. 7. Realize that, in the grand scheme of things, your roomie's opinion of you doesn't mean squat. So, why spend any time or brain power thinking about it? Whatever you choose to do, I would caution you to avoid making justice YOUR responsibility. There's only one person who can dole that out, and things often turn messy when we try to take it upon ourselves to do His job. Know that no matter how small or petty a matter may seem, nothing is beyond the reach of the Atonement. So, don't worry if something seems unjust - it'll be handled so that everything works out in the end. -Commander Keen ADear Sucker, While I think you need to take the higher road, I don't think there's anything wrong with letting your roommate know that you have read the things she wrote and that it hurt your feelings. Even though everyone needs a place to vent, that doesn't mean it's a polite thing to do it consistently and publicly. Your feelings of bitterness and anger, well, those you should deal with. But making a polite attempt to tell your roommate that her behavior isn't appropriate is an acceptable course of action. I would suggest either talking to her or writing her a note, simply asking her if she would be willing to complain or vent in a more private fashion. There have been times when people have been upset about some things that I say when writing Board answers and they have written in and told me so. And while being told that you were mean-spirited or belittling or straight up wrong about something can sting, a lot of the time, people were right to try and correct me. You are upset that she is upset about things that are stupid and petty. Asking someone to complain about you (if they must) in a more private fashion isn't petty in and of itself. But refusing to forgive her if she apologizes and shows a desire to change, or trying to look for little things that she does that bother you, however, would be petty. - Rating Pending (who believes that you writing into an anonymous question and answer service for advice is a completely different barrel of fish than complaining about someone on a public blog that offers no privacy or protection of identity. Don't feel bad for writing in.) ADear Lemon-sucker, I actually had this happen to me a few years ago. I, too, was hurt and upset. I knew that I wouldn't feel better until I had somehow addressed the issue with the offending friend, but didn't want to make a huge production of it. So, I simply left a polite comment on the blog entry, apologizing for what I had done to upset her. This made me feel better because I didn't stoop to revenge, yet still called her attention to her behavior in a way that could be noted by the other people who had read the entry, who may have let what she had said color their opinion of me. Also, she learned her lesson fast; once she realized how easy it was for me to stumble upon what she'd written, she stopped ranting about friends online (or at least refrained from using their names or other specifics). ~Hermia Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Just came home from another family vacation. We were in the car for a few hours drive to get there last week and return home today. My question is, why does it seem a long ride sitting down traveling in a car seem more uncomfortable than in a plane or bus? Or is that just me... -LDS Camera Guy (Who is now wondering if he should have submitted this question in the first place....ah well *click*)
ADear Guy, It's probably not just you, but I prefer car rides to plane rides. Of course for my historical roadtrips "car" has usually meant "incredibly spacious twelve-seat van," but even without that, cars can do things like stop at restaurants. Cars also aren't subject to ridiculous federal aviation guidelines, which I will now briefly whine about. Two main issues. One, they involve completely awful science. The amount of stray radiation from having an iPod on will probably never affect anything, or even be measurable without special equipment, never mind bring down a plane during takeoff or landing. Two, airport security is time-consuming and expensive while still managing to be completely laughable. Any enterprising high school student with an internet connection can break airport physical security half a dozen ways; anyone who thinks otherwise has no imagination. Anyways, point is I don't have to put up with that kind of junk in cars. ~Ƥ. Ɗ. Kirĸe ADear Camera Dude, I probably prefer planes to cars because they are more of a novelty - I spend at least some time in a car almost every day, but only get to ride in a plane a few times a year. I also associate plane rides with more exciting destinations; seeing my family or going to Moscow is a lot more exciting than going to the grocery store. Also, plane trips usually involve a beverage (and sometimes food) service, and sometimes you get to watch a movie. This sure beats our family roadtrips, where all of the familial offspring are clamoring to be fed, while our dad tells us that it's all in our heads and we can wait until we make it to whatever cheap motel is waiting for us a couple hundred miles away. ~Hermia ADear LDS Camera Guy, For me, it all depends on the seating arrangement of the vehicle I'm traveling in. I love long plane rides - but usually only if I have an aisle seat. I love the window seat too, but I can get kind of claustrophobic. As for the car, unless you're sitting on the hump in the back seat between two hot, complaining siblings, chances are good you have something to look at. Besides those reasons, here are some others: - I don't know if it makes a difference to you, but not being able to read in the car because of motion sickness might make those rides seem much longer. - In an airplane, even if you're in a smaller seat than you would be in a car, you can usually get up and walk around. - Since for the majority of the time there is nothing to look at or see from the airplane, you are much more likely to feel more insulated and detached from your surroundings, making it easier to be distracted from the fact that you are in a giant metal tube with dozens of other people. - Rating Pending (who actually liked road trips more before making that list of all those good things about airplanes) Back to top QDear cent heure board, Is the free yoga class offered by women's services for women only? I'm guessing there's only women there but I didn't sign up for the class in the SFH this semester because of time conflicts. Do any of you go? Are there any guys there? There's usually not a lot of guys in the SFH yoga either, but is it not allowed since it's offered by women's services? If so, I think there should be a men's services, and men's only yoga. And an all-white ward while we're at it (I also find the asian ward quite discriminatory). ~~~~The Frenchman from Asia
ADear Frenchman, I'm going to say this as tactfully as I can: you seem to have a real chip on your shoulder for some reason. Your question would have been better without the attitude; the things you actually asked are fine. However, your assumptions and your implications of discrimination are flat-out wrong. Let's start with what BYU Women's Services says about themselves. From their FAQ: What does Women's Services and Resources do?As you can see, Women's Services does offer help to men as well. They didn't say anything specifically about yoga. I could call them and ask for you, but I think it might be good for you to talk to them yourself. Their phone number is available on their website. When you ask, I think their answer will be one of two things:
Our Church has an approach to the obvious cultural and ethnic diversities among our members. We teach that what unites us is far more important than what differentiates us. Consequently, our members are asked to concentrate their efforts to strengthen our unity—not to glorify our diversity. For example, our objective is not to organize local wards and branches according to differences in culture or in ethnic or national origins, although that effect is sometimes produced on a temporary basis when required because of language barriers. Instead, we teach that members of majority groupings (whatever their nature) are responsible to accept Church members of other groupings, providing full fellowship and full opportunities in Church participation. We seek to establish a community of Saints—“one body,” the Apostle Paul called it (1 Cor. 12:13)—where everyone feels needed and wanted and where all can pursue the eternal goals we share.Hopefully that satisfies your suspicions of discrimination by general authorities. —Laser Jock Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Denny's and IHOP are both famous for being 'breakfast' restaurants. Do they in fact make more money at breakfast or at lunch or dinner? - Poor Chutney Writer
ADear Chutney Writer, I first called the Denny's in Provo and asked what time of day they sold the most food. The woman at Denny's said that they sold equal amounts of food in the morning and the evening, except for the weekends when they would sell more in the morning. I was curious if this was a common trend among all Denny's (Denny'ses?) so I called the Denny's in downtown Salt Lake. The woman who answered there said that, throughout the week, they sell more food during the graveyard shift, "around when the bars close." Finally, I called the Orem IHOP, where they said that during the week they sell more food in the morning, except for weekends when they sell the most during the graveyard shift. - Rating Pending (who is literally very ashamed to admit that the first restaurant he took his wife to was IHOP and only because he had a gift certificate) Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I take issue with the Honor Code rules on facial hair. I don't mind that they expect us to be clean shaven; it bothers me that mustaches, of all things, are allowed. It is my understanding that beards are frowned upon because they are associated with counterculture and drug use. In my opinion, most of the guys on campus who sport a mustache look like child molesters. And this certainly wouldn't reflect well on the university! My question is this: what would be the best way to go about requesting that mustaches be removed as an exception to the facial hair rule? —Glabrous Philtrum
ADear GP, Yes, mustaches are almost always gross. That said, consider this me killing your dream. In order to make a change like that happen, you'd almost certainly have to get President Samuelson and/or some fraction of the Board of Trustees (consisting of members of the First Presidency, Twelve, and Relief Society General Presidency) on your side. Passing over a host of other problems, you probably can't even contact any of the above. Letters to the First Presidency have a nasty habit of getting referred back to one's stake president by secretaries; unless you have a stake president counter-sign your letter the First Presidency would probably never even know it existed. The Twelve and the Relief Society General Presidency might have slightly less intense screening of their mail, but your letter is still probably going to be opened by a secretary and filed in the "have a yet lower ranking secretary write a polite form response" category. Likewise for President Samuelson. Even assuming you actually managed to get anyone with influence to read your letter, it seems unlikely to me that you'd be able to offer any arguments the Board of Trustees did not sufficiently consider when it implemented the current policy. So. You can't contact the people with power, and even if you could your arguments would likely carry no weight. Given this there's hardly a best way, as I can't see any way that carries any chance whatsoever of success. So...RIP dream. As a random aside, I've heard that mustaches are allowed because some sweet sisters are known to exhibit them, testing center employees or whoever can't really call out said sisters, and there can't well be a "no facial hair except female mustaches are ok" rule, so everyone's just allowed to have mustaches. Which sounds ridiculous, but then again this is BYU we're talking about. ~Ƥ. Ɗ. Kirĸe ADear Ƥ. Ɗ.- I have often cited your last thought as a reason the Honor Code should be amended. Females shouldn't be sporting facial hair, and if that's how they need to learn, so be it. -Foreman ADear Foreman Amen. -Humble Master AGP- The original ban on beards came into being because there was a group of students who sported them who met in the library to discuss their support of political views that the university did not agree with. Therefore, what you should do is grow a mustache and get a bunch of your friends to do the same. Meet in a public place on campus and be very vocal about your support of gay marriage and women's right to choose. Do your best to make mustaches synonymous with foaming-at-the-mouth liberals. They might get banned eventually. In any case, it'd be fun to watch. - Cuddlefish Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, So I like this guy in my ward, I think he may be interested in me too. Whenever we see eachother we talk and have a good converstation. But he never asks me out or anything, we only talk when we meet up by chance or at required church functions so my only oppertunities are at church, i hate waiting once a week to talk to this guy. (he is in a different FHE group) I was thinking what are some excuses I could make up to hang out with or talk to him outside of our required activites. Like this example is lame, but I could go to his house to borrow sugar or something. So things like that, or otherwise we won't talk until next sunday. I think he likes me too, I always catch him starring at me, maybe he's just shy. Maybe not, but either way he would be a cool friend, if I could just have the opportunity to get to know him better. We even have mutual interests, we both like long boarding, cooking, hiking. But we just talk about it, i wish I could do one of those with him. lol Sorry if this sounds silly, thanks so much!!! ps. you might suggest I ask him out, i'm not really into asking guys out, maybe if you can think of a smooth way, but he's still a bit of a stranger to me, like i said i just want a chance to get to know him better. - new friends would be nice :)
ANew Friend- I really do think that asking him out is the way to go, but if you're not comfortable doing that, there are other ways you can hang out with him. Here's a list of examples. - Invite his apartment over for a game or movie night. I recommend games over movies, because games facilitate conversation and teamwork (depending on the game, obviously), whereas movies cause people to zone out and stare at the tv. - Ask him if he knows of any good hikes around Provo, then see if you can get a group together to go and try out whatever he suggests. Make sure he's in the group with you, and talk to him a lot throughout the hike. - Invite him to Sunday dinner with you and your roommates. We did this all the time in my apartments, and I'm still really good friends with some of the guys who came. - If there's a movie or a concert coming up that you know he wants to see, get a group of friends together to go, and then invite him along. - Ask him if he has a cheesecake pan or some other specialized piece of cookware. Borrow it and promise a piece of whatever you're making as payment. Make sure you get his pan back reasonably quickly, and feed him delicious food. Really, the thing to do is to invite him to do things with you and your friends that both of you would be interested in doing. Be brave and act interested, and this thing just might get off the ground. Good luck! - Cuddlefish ADear new friends, Cuddlefish's suggestions sound good to me. I'd also add inviting him over to cook something: since you both like to cook, that's a perfect in. Try a Sunday afternoon, maybe, and make something delicious. —Laser Jock, who has done this Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How do I tell the members of my ward that, even though I have my paperwork in, no, I won't be leaving for my mission anytime soon due to worthiness issues, and no, I won't be returning to BYU because we don't have enough money, so yes, I'll be hanging around here and living with my parents and attending the local community college even though everyone's under the impression that I should be leaving any week now? - Stagnant in Seattle
ADear Stagnant, It's really nobody's business whether you go on a mission, go to BYU, or go to community college. Tell people what you are comfortable with, and nothing more. If you want to tell them what you told us, then go for it. Be direct, but don't share more information than you feel is necessary. If you don't feel comfortable telling people all of that, then don't. Say that you'll be going to the local college and leave it at that. Respectful people won't pry, and people who pry don't deserve to know. Whatever you decide to share, don't let people make you feel ashamed of yourself for any reason. Nobody (down here) knows your life, and nobody is perfect. The people who cast stones have issues of their own. Best of luck, ⋯Anomalous ASiS- I don't think it's necessary to say more than something along the lines of, "My plans have changed and I'll be going to X school this semester." There's no need to go into detail. If they keep pressing the issue, excuse yourself and talk to someone else. If you leave it vague, people will fill in the gaps themselves. There are many reasons people can't leave on missions right away, and the people who automatically assume the worst are not the sort of people you want to be spending time with. Good luck! - Cuddlefish Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How does one acquire self-discipline and willpower? - Toni
AToni- Hard work, preferably paid. - Cuddlefish ADear Toni, One trick I try to use: make one choice now that will save you from fighting multiple moments of temptation later. For example, if there is ice cream in my house, I will eat it. All of it. Immediately. So instead of pretending that I'm going to ration it out, struggling, giving in, and feeling guilty, I make the decision once, at the grocery store, not to buy ice cream. Or maybe if I struggled with pornography I'd decide to install a really good blocker once and then I wouldn't have to fight the urge whenever I got online. Or if I spend too much time online in general, I could use a general internet blocker with a timer, and so on. But that only applies to a certain type of self-discipline. If you need something more proactive - say, you'd like to start exercising but you loathe it - you'll have to try some other tricks. You could try to change your motivations. When we've got the desire and the excitement to do something, it's easy to do it. And when you dread something you avoid it. So pretend to want it. Try to choose to want it. At least wanting to want it is a good start. I often find myself praying for help with this. I'm a "natural man" through and through, but Jesus has the capacity to change our hearts, our motivations, and our very natures. And there's always the popular "eat the frog" technique. Just Google "eat the frog" to find out more about it, but the basic concept is that you start the day with your most dreaded, most procrastinatable task. Then you'll have it done, and you'll get through the rest of the day without the thought of it weighing you down. I find, too, that productivity has a kind of momentum. Once you see the results of a little hard work, you get fired up to work even more. Again, it just takes one choice at the beginning to get things rolling. Those are my two cents, anyway, Waldorf or Sauron ADear Toni, This might seem contradictory at first (what with your question being about self-discipline), but using the help of friends and family is a great way to give yourself that boost that we all often need to move from "wanting to do something" to "doing something." To use an example that Waldorf and Sauron brought up, if you really want to get in shape, set an exercise schedule with a friend and then hold each other to it. While you're still relying on one another for help, it at least starts a habit which would then be easier to continue by yourself if your friend stopped going with you. It's like making a trail through a forest with a group of hikers - the task of creating the path is much less daunting when done with a group, but it will still be there if you come back by yourself. Okay, my analogies are really lame, but you get what I mean, I hope. -Commander Keen ADear Toni, A few hours of Chinese water torture should do it. Just make sure you don't go insane. -Sky Bones Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What's the correlation between majors and marital status? Are students in certain majors more likely to get married than other majors? Also, how does gender play in to this? For example, it seems like most of the guys in my major are married, but the vast majority of the girls (although it is a male-dominated field) aren't. I would also expect there would be some majors where a guy would have a harder time finding a spouse, for example a field that has less stable job opportunities or abnormal working hours. --just wondering
ADear Just Wondering, 1. Probably, really, there is no significant correlation between majors and marital status. Especially at BYU, where the majority of students are seeking someone to marry. At schools where this is less common, where students are more into dating than getting engaged, perhaps there would be a real correlation, but I suspect that at BYU any major difference based on major is unsubstantial. 2. Some people with whom I have spoken would say that open majors are not the most attractive as potential marriage partners. The reason for this might be that an open major hasn't yet decided a major, or maybe because a lot of open major students are freshmen. It is hard to say, my wondering friend. Another rumor is that students majoring in MHFD are more likely to get married, but there is no evidence of this. Probably those (usually) girls who get married are an expected stereotype, so when someone hears about a girl from that major getting married, it is an "Of course she is, no surprise." 3. Gender plays into this just how you suspected. My special source, a male who graduated from the Computer Science major, says that a girl in any science-central major is automatically more attractive to a guy who is in a science-central major. Furthermore, a pure math major is sexier than an applied math major. So ladies, choose carefully. I would suspect this is because the more math- or science-centric a major is, the less likely a girl is to be involved in it (which is another discussion entirely). The exoticness, the different style of thinking, may make the girl more attractive. In my Sociology class last Fall, my professor often joked around about how hard it was for him to get married, a large factor being that he was a Sociology major. I suspect that girls in more "masculine"* majors are just cool to males, whereas when there is a male in a more "feminine" major a lot of girls wonder if something is different about him, and not in a good way. At the end of the day, the correlation between majors and marital status definitely is affected by gender, and in fact is different depending entirely on the genders of the people involved. -Mico, practically an open major, and glad. *Based on what society has told us about gender roles. Ugh, The Man has done it again. Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, The question from today (28 Sept 2009) about the movie about the kid trapped down the well reminded me that I have lived in some very obscure places and in describing those places, I have had to resort to some convoluted explanations of where they are. It would go something like this: "Where are you from?" "Odessa, Texas" "Where's THAT?" "You remember when Baby Jessica fell down the well?" "Yeah" "We're right next door to Midland, where it happened" "Oh" Now we have President Bush from Midland and other ways of describing it, but you get the idea. Now for my question: What are some of the convoluted ways you have tried to explain where some place is located? Or how do you tie yourself to a famous event or location to help people understand where you are talking about? - Always from the not-so-famous-but-nearby place P.S. I guess the newest claim to fame is now "You know where the movie Friday Night Lights is based - I went to the OTHER high school."
ADear Always, I can't claim this one, but an old roommate of mine always explained her hometown like this: "Where are you from?" "You know where the Rose Bowl is?" "Pasadena?" "Yeah, I'm from a city right next to it." She's from La Crescenta, California, just so everyone knows what I'm talking about. In my case (I'm almost sure that I'm going to regret admitting this), when my family first moved to Utah, it was difficult to explain where we lived. When it was still in-vogue to watch Disney made-for-TV movies, I used to explain it as "about ten minutes from where they filmed The Luck of the Irish." I don't know if it is weirder that I explained it like that, or that people actually knew what I was talking about. Now that I'm in Provo, I say, "You know where Logan is? It's half the distance from Provo to Logan." I then have to defend my hometown, which is actually classified as an urban area, against insinuations of a high cow-to-people ratio (not that there is anything wrong with a high cow-to-people ratio). Ah, the pain of it all... ⋯Anomalous ADear Always from the not-so-famous-but-nearby place, You know that board game Monopoly? Yeah, I'm originally from a tiny town that's very close to Atlantic City. Park Place is actually a pretty awful place, but the boardwalk's not so bad. Whenever Marie Osmond or Gladys Knight would do shows in Atlantic City on Saturday nights, they'd always be at my ward for sacrament the next morning. I guess that's kind of cool. -Sky Bones AAlways- I'm originally from Los Alamos, New Mexico, where they designed and built the first atomic bombs. That's generally how I describe my town if people ask where it is. - Cuddlefish Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How many of you have gotten the hog flu? - Farmer Joe
ADear FJ, Assuming you really mean H1N1 (someone was gonna say it), I'm just getting over it. My brother, whom I room with, has it now as well. In fact, my entire apartment has been/is sick. Awesome! Just in case anyone is wondering, it's really not that bad. It's still no fun, mind you, but nothing measurably different from a regular flu. At least, not in my experience. All I can say is that I'm very happy not to be sick anymore. -Commander Keen ADear Farmer Joe, I didn't get it, but my uncle did. And his immediate family members were all "silent carriers." Terrifying, right? It sounds like a pretty mean flu; who knew pigs would turn on us? -Mico AFJ- I had it, but it wasn't all that bad. The worst part was that I had it over Labor Day weekend. Lame. I think it'd be interesting if someone got both bird flu and swine flu, and the strains got mixed together so we'd have the highly contagious and deadly Flying Pig flu. - Cuddlefish Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What exactly happens to you when you experience a stupor of thought? -Might be
ADear Might be, I knew once, but I think I forgot. - Furious George ADear Might be, It is actually a complex series of brain functions. At first... What? -Mico AMight be- Your thoughts become muddled and confused, or sometimes your mind just goes completely blank, at least in my experience. - Cuddlefish Back to top CDear 100 Hour Board, Regarding Board Question #53754: If I may throw in a comment about baking soda and the brushing of one's teeth. I have had periodically severe bouts of canker sores in the mouth. I had read that one of the ingredients commonly found in most brands of toothpaste (sodium lauryl sulfate) (See http://www.animated-teeth.com/...) would exacerbate the occurrence of cankers, so I looked for something to use that didn't include that substance. So I started using Arm and Hammer Tooth Powder, but when they discontinued making it, I resorted to straight Baking Soda. Yes, it is nasty tasting and you can hardly wait to rinse, but it was effective in cleaning my teeth. As a matter of fact, too effective. My dentist informed me that I should probably not use it every day, as it was abrasive enough that it was starting to wear away some of the essential enamel. So there you have it straight from a dentist. It's a good cleaner, but I would advise against using it every day. - Hermano Úlcera Bucal
Back to top CThis is a comment about Board Question #53754. My husband is a dentist, and says that baking soda is actually very abrasive and not a good idea for regular use. Just like brushing too hard, an abrasive toothpaste can soften/weaken your enamel and make you a better candidate for a cavity and/or tooth sensitivity. Furthermore - just because you don't have dental insurance doesn't mean you don't have options to see the dentist. There is tons of research right now showing a strong link between oral and systemic health, and you don't really want to put off getting a cleaning until you have a really painful abscess, you know? There are dental free clinics in almost every major city, and all dental assisting schools (Apollo, Milan, etc...they are everywhere)/dental schools provide cleanings or other work free or at a severely reduced cost. -we paid $350,000 in student loans to share this knowledge with you...use it!!
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