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Skriven 2008-08-01 01:10:38 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: acid and stuff 675
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to NANCY BACKUS on 07-27-08 23:51 <=-

 ML> To help me sleep today after a tasting session of numerous
 ML> chocolates and two kinds of coffee products, I poured myself
 ML> a big tot of rum, to which I added 1/3 the volume of fresh-
 ML> squeezed lime juice. Clean Dave remarked that if he'd drunk
 ML> that quantity of either rum or lime juice, he'd have a bad
 ML> case of heartburn - but I felt nothing. Didn't help me sleep,
 ML> either. I'm about to try to find some Benadryl.

Well, at least you don't have problems with acid, then.  :)  Back when I
was scoping out my problem with coffee, if I'd had too much too late (ie
any at all after about noon or so, with decaf, or even a small bit first
thing in the morning of the real stuff) and so I couldn't sleep for the
buzz and spin and jitters, I used to use yoga breathing and relaxation
techniques to calm me down enough to get to sleep.  Thankfully, it
worked like a charm... eventually..  :)

 ML> On the other hand, those cherries are getting worse and worse
 ML> for me.

Sigh...  

 ML> Society should reward good deeds and punish evil ones. That's the
 ML> gist of both the civil and criminal systems. The problem with the
 ML> economic impetus I cited above is that there will always be those
 ML> who try to game the system.

Yup.

 ML> I had a friend who was at a laundromat and slipped on a wet spot
 ML> and hurt her kiester ... she actually hurt herself pretty badly,
 ML> and in fact the fall contributed to increasing problems in the
 ML> "for want of a nail a shoe was lost" vein that may have ended up
 ML> killing her a decade later. She sued the heck out of the laundromat
 ML> and actually got a sizable settlement; I thought that was wrong, as
 ML> when one goes to a place where there's a lot of water, one should
 ML> take some extra care not to slip, and if one does, too bleeping bad.

I'm sorry she got hurt, but I agree, she was herself negligent in not
exercising reasonable care in a place known to be potentially hazardous,
even if normally there isn't water causing slippery conditions...  And
this is, of course, part of what I refered to about our increasingly
litigious society... sue whoever for whatever happens to you, even if
you are mainly, mostly or even entirely at fault for the results.

 ML> I didn't speak to her for quite some time after that, and hers was
 ML> a borderline (ethically speaking) case.

I at least would have had a difficult time discussing any part of the
details of the said incident and its aftermath... maybe on totally
different aspects of living... if we had been close enough friends...

A sister of a friend of mine had a similarly ethically suspect case...
she sued a local supermarket because she fell in the parking lot, having
tripped or something in/on a negligible unevenness of the pavement. 
From all accounts, including hers, I couldn't see how the supermarket
was to blame, except possibly peripherally.  It primarily was her fault
in getting out of the car without paying attention to her surroundings. 
Knowing the woman, I almost wondered if she hadn't manufactured the
situation in order to find something to sue someone for in order to get
some sort of substantial money...  Fortunately for me, I didn't normally
have any contact with her, so I didn't have to avoid speaking to her...

ttyl        neb

... If I eat beans and onions, will I make tear gas?

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