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Went to see the puppies today. They are so cute and I found out which one is mine. He's so amazing.
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The "what's On Your Mind?" Thread -2018
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He's coming home early in June. Just about a month left to go.
HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS THREAD BEFORE NOW???
I am certain that the boys have some Siamese heritage after reading a personality trait article about Siamese cats. I felt like the author had met Toffee and Fudge, they described them to a T! They both have Siamese like features; and Fudge has been particularly representing the breed a lot lately.
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I didn't either.
Well, I have seen it now, and posted one of my own favorites!
My college orientation is Friday. I must be getting nervous, because I just woke up from a dream where my boss and co-workers attended it too.
~ I am researching PEX vs copper plumbing to repipe an old house . Next step is a visit to Home Depot/Lowes and see if I get lucky and find a plumber I can question .
There's a sucker born every minute!
CHAZZ INNISS
May 04, 2018 07:18 PM
2017 brought us many viral fashion moments, but perhaps the most polarizing were the distressed thong jeans that hit the runway at Thibaut’s fashion show during Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo — and took the Internet by storm. They caused such a stir that Yandy.com quickly turned the barely-there pants into a Halloween costume. Now another brand is ripping off the look and turning the once viral style moment into a fashion reality. The “jeans” retail for $168 — and they’re already sold out.
LA-based brand, Carmar Denim, created almost an exact replica of Thibaut’s thong jeans. The style leaves very little to imagination, and considering the amount of fabric needed to make the jeans, it’s hard to justify the $168 price tag.
Aflo / Splash News
The “Extreme Cut Out Jean” come in a limited size range (24 to 27) and feature “large statement cutouts” on the front and back.
If you’re wondering just how these daring pants would fare in public, Carmar Denim has the answer for all of your questions. On the brand’s Instagram, they’ve accounted for a few situations where no pants are acceptable.
CHAZZ INNISS
May 04, 2018 07:18 PM
2017 brought us many viral fashion moments, but perhaps the most polarizing were the distressed thong jeans that hit the runway at Thibaut’s fashion show during Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo — and took the Internet by storm. They caused such a stir that Yandy.com quickly turned the barely-there pants into a Halloween costume. Now another brand is ripping off the look and turning the once viral style moment into a fashion reality. The “jeans” retail for $168 — and they’re already sold out.
LA-based brand, Carmar Denim, created almost an exact replica of Thibaut’s thong jeans. The style leaves very little to imagination, and considering the amount of fabric needed to make the jeans, it’s hard to justify the $168 price tag.
Aflo / Splash News
The “Extreme Cut Out Jean” come in a limited size range (24 to 27) and feature “large statement cutouts” on the front and back.
If you’re wondering just how these daring pants would fare in public, Carmar Denim has the answer for all of your questions. On the brand’s Instagram, they’ve accounted for a few situations where no pants are acceptable.
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Ugh. 
The movie Zoolander just went through my head.There's a sucker born every minute!
CHAZZ INNISS
May 04, 2018 07:18 PM
2017 brought us many viral fashion moments, but perhaps the most polarizing were the distressed thong jeans that hit the runway at Thibaut’s fashion show during Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo — and took the Internet by storm. They caused such a stir that Yandy.com quickly turned the barely-there pants into a Halloween costume. Now another brand is ripping off the look and turning the once viral style moment into a fashion reality. The “jeans” retail for $168 — and they’re already sold out.
LA-based brand, Carmar Denim, created almost an exact replica of Thibaut’s thong jeans. The style leaves very little to imagination, and considering the amount of fabric needed to make the jeans, it’s hard to justify the $168 price tag.
Aflo / Splash News
The “Extreme Cut Out Jean” come in a limited size range (24 to 27) and feature “large statement cutouts” on the front and back.
If you’re wondering just how these daring pants would fare in public, Carmar Denim has the answer for all of your questions. On the brand’s Instagram, they’ve accounted for a few situations where no pants are acceptable.
Ugh.
And should I ever be so lost to all sense of decorum, decency, and care for the eyesight of others as to consider something like that, I can buy a well-worn pair of jeans from a thrift store for about $3, and rip them apart myself in under 20 minutes. Not that I would. Ever. For any reason. BLECH.
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I just read an article that two ingredients in nearly all sunscreen is harmful to coral reefs and marine wildlife. Hawaii is apparently banning those two chemicals. Apparently toxic levels is so teeny it's the equivalent of one drop in 6 Olympic size pools according to the article, and in Hawaii alone people put over 400 pounds of sunscreen in the ocean.
Well the question is what sunscreens are safe for marine life and coral reefs. But is that what the question should be? Most people in the US are vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D deficiency is tied to a bunch of nasty stuff, like low energy, depression, and is even increases the risk of breast, colon, prostate, ovarian, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer. Vitamin D deficiency while in the womb due to the mother's deficiency may even be a cause of schizophrenia and a partial cause of type 1 diabetes. And rickets has made a comeback since people aren't exposing babies to sunlight for fear of skin cancer yet vitamin D doesn't pass through breast milk, sun exposure is the only way for babies to get vitamin D. Speaking of skin cancer, melanoma is most common in areas that see little sunlight, and skin cancer rates have not dropped despite the aggressive no sunlight campaign.
Maybe the question shouldn't be a safer sunscreen. Maybe the question should be why are we even bothering with sunscreen at all? Maybe the question should be why aren't we trying to prevent all these horrible things by recognizing there's a reason our bodies synthesize vitamin D directly and allow it to do its job by tossing the sunscreen.
Sunscreen Chemicals Are Destroying Coral Reefs And Now Hawaii Is Banning Them
Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets
Well the question is what sunscreens are safe for marine life and coral reefs. But is that what the question should be? Most people in the US are vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D deficiency is tied to a bunch of nasty stuff, like low energy, depression, and is even increases the risk of breast, colon, prostate, ovarian, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer. Vitamin D deficiency while in the womb due to the mother's deficiency may even be a cause of schizophrenia and a partial cause of type 1 diabetes. And rickets has made a comeback since people aren't exposing babies to sunlight for fear of skin cancer yet vitamin D doesn't pass through breast milk, sun exposure is the only way for babies to get vitamin D. Speaking of skin cancer, melanoma is most common in areas that see little sunlight, and skin cancer rates have not dropped despite the aggressive no sunlight campaign.
Maybe the question shouldn't be a safer sunscreen. Maybe the question should be why are we even bothering with sunscreen at all? Maybe the question should be why aren't we trying to prevent all these horrible things by recognizing there's a reason our bodies synthesize vitamin D directly and allow it to do its job by tossing the sunscreen.
Sunscreen Chemicals Are Destroying Coral Reefs And Now Hawaii Is Banning Them
Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets
Because some of us are so Scottish-ly pale that we get terrible painful sunburns after only 23 minutes (yes I timed it)
. And Australia managed to reduce their skin cancer rate, so "slip, slop, slap" must have some beneficial effect. Probably Americans are doing it wrong.We can get all the Vitamin D we need with just 10 minutes of unprotected sun exposure. Maybe we just don't go outside during the day enough :/.
My dad, having Scottish-ly pale skin and growing up in the tropics, has had many many skin cancers removed. But he doesn't wear sunscreen either. He wears a large hat, long sleeves, and fingerless gloves, all the time. I think he'd fit in if he lived in Australia but people here look at him weird, lol. Physically blocking the sun is probably more effective than sunscreen anyway. It's probably time for us to embrace those long-sleeved wetsuit-type bathing suits.
Anyway, there are some sunblocks that don't damage the reefs. They may be more effective and safer for humans too. I'm definitely going to look into that.
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Don't forget about us Irish lasses!
I always burned, ever since I was a child, despite the fraction of native american in our ancestry. I didn't think it was fair that my cousins didn't burn... and neither did my brother, whose dad was the epitome of the pale, freckled, carrot top. Somehow, he still ended up with enough malanin in his skin to tan without burning. So. Not. Fair.
The only sunscreen that works for me is the baby stuff with titanium dioxide in it. I don't live near the ocean, or do a lot of swimming, so I don't know how that stuff impacts the ecology.
And yes, most Americans are "doing it wrong". When I sold cosmetics for a short time, I had an argument with my team leader about how SPF works. She was telling our customers that layering SPF products would give cumulative protection (15 + 15 = 30).
That is NOT how it works. Your SPF is only as good as the highest level you use, and there is a time factor to it as well (length of exposure).
I always burned, ever since I was a child, despite the fraction of native american in our ancestry. I didn't think it was fair that my cousins didn't burn... and neither did my brother, whose dad was the epitome of the pale, freckled, carrot top. Somehow, he still ended up with enough malanin in his skin to tan without burning. So. Not. Fair.
The only sunscreen that works for me is the baby stuff with titanium dioxide in it. I don't live near the ocean, or do a lot of swimming, so I don't know how that stuff impacts the ecology.
And yes, most Americans are "doing it wrong". When I sold cosmetics for a short time, I had an argument with my team leader about how SPF works. She was telling our customers that layering SPF products would give cumulative protection (15 + 15 = 30).
That is NOT how it works. Your SPF is only as good as the highest level you use, and there is a time factor to it as well (length of exposure).
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I'm Scandinavian, my ancestors were raiding both your ancestors' villages. I burn if I'm not careful, but short stints in the sun are okay.
It seems that as I age I burn less and less. I used to be the half hour burner but now I can handle an hour+. I also have become more and more freckled, to the point that my arms and face have no unfreckled areas. Maybe they are an increase in melanin? I burnt the worst as a child and teen, but I also live at a lot lower elevation than in my youth (4500 ft vs 0-200 ft), so maybe the thinning of the air also had something to do with it.
I'm also chronically vitamin D deficient. I really should start the mega supplements again. They are the first to go when I get into a "I don't want to take any more pills ever" phase.
It seems that as I age I burn less and less. I used to be the half hour burner but now I can handle an hour+. I also have become more and more freckled, to the point that my arms and face have no unfreckled areas. Maybe they are an increase in melanin? I burnt the worst as a child and teen, but I also live at a lot lower elevation than in my youth (4500 ft vs 0-200 ft), so maybe the thinning of the air also had something to do with it.
I'm also chronically vitamin D deficient. I really should start the mega supplements again. They are the first to go when I get into a "I don't want to take any more pills ever" phase.
My brother has been doing some family genealogy. My dad's side is basically all British isles---Scottish on his mom's side (she grew up in Nova Scotia so no surprise), and Irish/Cornish on his dad's side.
My mom's side is more interesting. Her mom's side was mostly German and French, no surprises because my grandma's mom had a German last name and her dad had a French last name, lol. But my grandpa's side was really something! There isn't much known about his mother before she married his father (pregnant, at age 16 or 17), and based on the DNA we now suspect she was of Romani descent (Travellers, Gypsies, whatever the traveling people were called at the time, I'm not sure). The list is ridiculously long. Romanian, Berber, Moroccan, Tuareg, Bulgarian, Slovenian, etc. Hopefully he can dig more up because that seems fascinating. My grandpa was swarthy (he claimed Native American heritage but the DNA says nope. Maybe his family felt that was more socially acceptable than Romani :/) but I sure didn't inherit any of that. I got all the Irish/Scottish from my dad's side I guess.
I told him that if the ethno-nationalists get their way and we all have to "go back where we came from", we're gonna have a heck of a time figuring out where to go.
My mom was a mail carrier, out in the sun for many hours a day. She didn't wear sunscreen or a hat most days. And she's severely and chronically Vitamin D deficient. Maybe the sun just doesn't work around here.
My mom's side is more interesting. Her mom's side was mostly German and French, no surprises because my grandma's mom had a German last name and her dad had a French last name, lol. But my grandpa's side was really something! There isn't much known about his mother before she married his father (pregnant, at age 16 or 17), and based on the DNA we now suspect she was of Romani descent (Travellers, Gypsies, whatever the traveling people were called at the time, I'm not sure). The list is ridiculously long. Romanian, Berber, Moroccan, Tuareg, Bulgarian, Slovenian, etc. Hopefully he can dig more up because that seems fascinating. My grandpa was swarthy (he claimed Native American heritage but the DNA says nope. Maybe his family felt that was more socially acceptable than Romani :/) but I sure didn't inherit any of that. I got all the Irish/Scottish from my dad's side I guess.
I told him that if the ethno-nationalists get their way and we all have to "go back where we came from", we're gonna have a heck of a time figuring out where to go
.My mom was a mail carrier, out in the sun for many hours a day. She didn't wear sunscreen or a hat most days. And she's severely and chronically Vitamin D deficient. Maybe the sun just doesn't work around here.
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