Month: October 2018

One of my recent purchases:

Meanwhile, back home:

I mostly did a quick comparison out of curiosity, because I remembered it being like 2-3 pint bottles for $1 when I was last buying any. About the same price still. Figured it couldn’t be much more now, and definitely not around 20x as expensive 😨

This time I was specifically wanting some for a skin problem, and to dilute for a mouth rinse. Best thing I’ve found for some uses. (And it’s not going to turn your teeth brown like the chlorhexidine they push for any kind of gum problems here… 😦)

And I would rather avoid unnecessary additional ingredients which might cause more irritation. (There is one Peroxyl mouthwash formulation available, but yeah. It’s more expensive, besides the extra crap I don’t want.)

I may have been able to find some plain peroxide a little cheaper somewhere else, but possibly not by that much. It’s barely used as an antiseptic here, and IME really is not worth the hassle of trying to buy in person. Which really surprised me the first time I tried.

Some context.

Maybe my favorite comment I ran across on another site, though:

There are some very dangerous uses for hydrogen peroxide, using it to clean a cut is a very strange idea. I would not like to be the one helping OP to obtain it.

That would be in reference to another American looking for the 3% stuff to treat a cut. It would be very difficult indeed to do anything nefarious with that weak a solution, even if someone wanted to try.

Reminds me of when my first GP here was appalled to hear that I’d regularly been taking Benadryl, because it is “a powerful sedative” 🤔 Including with the attitude. (No joke. Turned out they only sell diphenhydramine as a Nytol/Sominex here, in small boxes behind the pharmacy counter.)

Meanwhile, in Ireland, from just last month: Boots ordered to pay €700 to man after hydrogen peroxide purchase queried. With an added racist element in that case, though that’s basically the reception I got before at a Boots here.

Oh yeah, I also had no trouble buying the 40-volume hair kind at Sally’s before. No questions whatsoever. Shame that’s not something I would want to use except for hair.

Impressive differences sometimes, yeah. And it’s definitely not just the US that’s prone to weird panics. Unfortunately.

Opinion | Asexual People Deserve Better From Our Medical Providers

thereisquiet:

fuckyeahasexual:

Part of the problem is the pervasive stigma against asexuality. It was only recognized as distinct from hypoactive sexual desire disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published in 2013. Comprehensive education during medical training is needed to combat the stigma and ensure that health care providers have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to properly care for asexual patients.

I’m 25 years old with a doctorate and work in the medical profession. My PCP still tries to force me to get the HPV vaccine and makes comments about how I still “have time to find someone and have kids”. THIS is why we don’t trust doctors. It’s not even an issue of sexual orientation, it’s an overall issue of doctors listening to the patient.

Opinion | Asexual People Deserve Better From Our Medical Providers

tinyfloatingwhales:

firethesound:

socialistexan:

reverseracism:

Good

Reminder that the mayor of Pittsburgh and Rabbis and Jewish leaders asked Trump not to come to Pittsburgh.

The former Rabbi of Tree of Life went on MSNBC just last night to implore Trump not to come.

He did not listen, just like he never does.

The reason that the mayor of Pittsburgh asked him not to come is because the first three funerals were held today, and the city did not have enough public resources (police) to both deal with the president and protect the funerals at the same time.

He showed up anyway.

self important piece of shit

jabberwockypie:

sexhaver:

sexhaver:

in Houston we have something called the 100 Club where if you donate 100 dollars to the police in a year you get a special, very visible sticker you can put on your back window that obviously in no way influences the way cops treat you and i just now learned that isnt a universal thing

how often do you think this guy gets pulled over for speeding

This feels kind of like how in Ankh-Morpork, you can pay the Thieves Guild not to rob you.

Except if the City Watch ever did this bullshit, Mister Vimes would go spare.

egregiousderp:

sarahhbe:

sadunacc:

wodneswynn:

kainoliero:

wodneswynn:

Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

You blink back. It’s only polite to return the greeting of the Big Night Cat.

I meant for this to be all spooky and ominous, but fuck it, this is way better. I love the Big Night Cat. She is beautiful. I support her.

Big Night Cat watches over the Earth ❤

Oh my, look through the reblogs and see all the art! This was one of my favorites!

Slow blinking cat means she loves you.

This is good.

You love Big Night Cat too.

queerdo-mcjewface:

earlgraytay:

fierceawakening:

cornbreadcrumbs:

skeleton-richard:

fratresdei:

“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it Jesus Christ or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother Goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things—if they are where you tap real meaning in life—then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already—it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power—you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart—you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on..”

— David Foster Wallace , This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life 

Years ago, when I was going through a really rough time my English teacher sent me the speech at Kenyon College he gave that includes this and it’s been burned in my mind ever since.

If I had a nickel for every time a Christian told me I wasn’t really an atheist..

No, I don’t worship anything. Certainly not in a theological sense. I just straight up don’t believe in a supernatural power, and I don’t bow down before it. Wanting to make money, wanting to find love, etc. That’s not worship, that’s a fucking goal.

I feel like “some infrangible set of ethical principles” is SUPPOSED to cover that, but the quoted individual is missing that… that’s an atheist.

This is abusive rhetoric, straight-up. 

I mean, ffs, a Cartoonishly Abusive Partner outright tells you stuff that sounds like this without the religion veneer. “If you leave me, you’ll die ugly and weak and stupid and alone. You will never be happy, and you will never feel like you have enough. I’m the only thing that can make you happy.”

Abusers don’t want you to have anything in their lives but the abuser. Abusers don’t want you to have friends, or family, or meaningful hobbies, or ethical principles, or goals, or anything that gives your life meaning.  They want you to be completely obsessed with them, and only them.

I don’t think David Foster Wallace is an abuser- I’m sure he’s a lovely person- but he’s definitely stanning for abusive!Jesus right now.  

David Foster Wallace physically abused his girlfriend and stalked her after she broke up with him. (Not directly related to the quote above, but he was definitely an abuser.)

silver-boots:

steadfast:

vampireapologist:

You all, fools: *getting tattoos based on the ancient tattoos they find on bog mummies and the other ancient dead that for all you know will bind you to a forgotten god that now by all rights has a claim on your life for better or for worse*

Me, and intellectual: *doesnt fucking do that*

A forgotten god cannot run my life any worse than I am currently running it myself.

Bog mummy take the wheel