The Damn I'm Old Thread - Putting Up With Being a Geezer

[Yodelgoat]

I am grateful that the Fed is not able to stop supplements. Only a fool would trust them in the current environment to do the right thing for people. Its fracked up beyond their ability to control. I'll control what goes into my body, thank you, Mister Fed...

My wife has been taking Kratom for the past 3 or 4 years. It has been an absolute godsend to her. Every few months they threaten to regulate it (meaning outlawing it) and so we have several pounds of it locked up for that inevitable day. It is a wonderful product, that most people would never take for recreational use - its basically like eating horse-poo. Its effect is fairly mild, you cant OD because you just throw it up. But for a fibromyalgia sufferer, this has been the most effective treatment we have tried, opioids excepted. We do not have access to MJ and in Texas you really dont want to get locked up - for anything. Orin Hatch helped stop the FDA from destroying Kratom's use. You can hate him for his politics, but he did our family a solid there and credit is due. Those of you who think the government is always going to act in the best interest of you... well, I just dont see it as the godsend that you do.

The DEA will tell you that Kratom is the absolute devil, if you mix it with illegal substances. So is water.

[progmatist]

So is water.

Or if you use the chemical name, Dihydrogen Oxide.

[rcarlberg]

[yamishogun]

So, what is heavy water?

[progmatist]

^^ You never saw the Hogan's Heroes episode, where Hogan and the gang convinced Klink heavy water was from the fountain of youth? This was of course to impede Nazi nuclear research.

[rcarlberg]

So, what is heavy water?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

[Yodelgoat]

When I lived in Nova Scotia, Canada there was a heavy water plant just outside of the the little town I lived in (Port Hawkesbury). When you approached the plant where it was manufactured, there were huge billboards with lights along the side of the road that warned "If lights are flashing, turn around immediately evacuate... They had these huge bunson burners surrounding the plant and supposedly they would send whatever could potentially escape from the site up into the atmosphere and dissipate it... I'm not sure if that was a sound plan, but, apparently making heavy water requires some pretty scary science... I always thought it was just H3O... but reading the wikipedia it looks a lot more complex.

[rcarlberg]

Looks like the Glace Bay plant was operational from 1976-1985 only, and closed thereafter due to lack of need.

With the discovery of nuclear fission in late 1938, and the need for a neutron moderator that captured few neutrons, heavy water became a component of early nuclear energy research. Since then, heavy water has been an essential component in some types of reactors, both those that generate power and those designed to produce isotopes for nuclear weapons. These heavy water reactors have the advantage of being able to run on natural uranium without using graphite moderators that pose radiological[7] and dust explosion[8] hazards in the decommissioning phase. Most modern reactors use enriched uranium with ordinary water as the moderator.

Here's a history of heavy water reactors in Canada.

[yamishogun]

It's hard to believe that there is only one prog classic based on this theme:

[moecurlythanu]

^ Mentioned in "Distant Early Warning" or Red Sector A," I don't recall.

[IMWeasel]

You guys remember when I was one of the youngest PE members here?
I'll be 40 in 2 and a half months.

[progmatist]

^^ At one time, I was the youngest person on planet Earth. For a few seconds anyway.

[yamishogun]

You guys remember when I was one of the youngest PE members here?
I'll be 40 in 2 and a half months.

And I hope your final hundred years will be mostly good ones!

[moecurlythanu]

^ Hate to burst your bubble, but it was probably only for a microsecond.

[walt]

I remember when pizza was 15 cents a slice.

Hey you kids......get off my lawn.

[progeezer]

I remember when pizza was 15 cents a slice.
.

Strangely enough, I remember that 15 cent slice as well.

[mozo-pg]

I remember when I could buy a chocolate bar for 10 cents. My lawn too!

[Firth]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/s...epression.html

[TheH]

Another I'm old Moment: I spent the night of a Company Party with a very sweet younger lady and complainted about the Music not being
my thing, as Bryan Adams "Summer of 69" was played she replied "now that's finaly a song about your youth" (I was 2 in 69).

[Lou]

I found out 10 days ago that it is possible to dislocate a rib. It also hurts like a mo fo!!

[walt]

I found out 10 days ago that it is possible to dislocate a rib.!

Yeah, i'm misplacing things all the time.Very annoying.

[rcarlberg]

I found out 10 days ago that it is possible to dislocate a rib. It also hurts like a mo fo!!

Yeah, i'm misplacing things all the time.Very annoying.

Any new women in your life?

[moecurlythanu]

^ I don't know how many got that, Carlberg, but I did.

[Garyhead]

Any new women in your life?

HEY, No Religion!

[Lou]

Any new women in your life?

Dislocate, not remove!