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Skriven 2009-02-09 06:56:00 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Dimished IQ
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-=> MICHAEL LOO wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 DD> Not to mention there has been some research (by the military) that
 DD> being in a high-noise low frequency sound environment can lower
 DD> effective IQ up to 10 points ... and most of these idjits don't have
 DD> tem points to give.

 ML> How transitory is this phenomenon, one wonders. Does it persist
 ML> long after the termination of the stimulus, or perhaps these
 ML> guys' brains are in the toilet forever?

The effect seems to be transitory - lasting a few minutes to a few hours. But,
there is some evidence that it can be cumulative, given prolonged and repeated
exposure. When I was in Unk's Yacht Club there was no such thing as official
ear protection - although some wusses bought/used ear plugs on their own. Smart
folks, they. Now hearing protection is mandatory when working around jet
engines, loud guns being fired, etc.

 DD> I can understand the attraction, though. When I was young and dumb and
 DD> hadn't a clue I used to clamp the Sennheiser headphones on me ears and
 DD> crank Steppenwolf (and others) up to the threshold of pain. Made cogent
 DD> though impossible and let the world slip away without resorting to
 DD> either alcohol or less legal substances.   Bv)=

 ML> I had HD414s as well as Koss Pro4As, which I preferred except
 ML> for the ear feel. Of course, for me, the psychedelic stimuli
 ML> were the likes of Shostakovich and Beethoven. Seldom did I listen
 ML> at a volume that exceeded that encountered in an orchestra (which
 ML> by itself can be enough to cause hearing loss in the long term).

I tried the Koss but preferred the Sennheisers with their fluid filled padding.

 DD> But, I did this at home - not driving down the street in a two ton
 DD> weapon. And with headphones not LOUD speakers.

 ML> My BIL and I were talking today - after he was cut off
 ML> by, variously, a Camry or its successor, an SUV, and
 ML> some other vehicle - about the general obliviousness of
 ML> the public. The problem of course is that these folks
 ML> tend to do in innocent bystanders rather than themselves,
 ML> so the Darwin effect doesn't take hold nearly soon enough.

Driving around delivering auto parts nearly every day I see lots of such
idjits. Mostly speeding while weaving in and out of traffic whilst holding a
cell phone clamped to their ears ... further distracting them from paying
attention to their surroundings.

 ML> Oh, yeah, a propos nothing in particular, here's something
 ML> I heard recently in the Red Carpet Club, delivered with
 ML> apparently all seriousness:

 ML>  I never read Communist propaganda such as Newsweek, Time,
 ML>  and the Washington Post.

Still lots of wing-nuts left in the world.    Bv)=

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Arroz Rosetxat
 Categories: Latino, Rice, Lamb/mutton, Pork
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
    300 g  Lean meat of lamb leg
    200 g  Pig ear
      1    Valencian blood and onion
           - sausage
      2    White catalan sausages
    100 g  Chickpeas in soaking
      1    Big parsnip
      1    Big turnip
      1    Rib celery
    150 g  Pig lean meat
     50 g  Salted bacon
    400 g  Rice
      1    Egg
      1 dl Of oil
           -=OR=-
    100 g  Pig shortening (lard)
      2 cl Garlic,
           Some strands of dry saffron
      2 tb Grated white bread crumb
           Powdered cinnamon
           Parsley
      2 tb Flour
 
  He/she puts on to the fire a pot with about three liters of water, and
  he/she throws in her the lamb meat and the pig ear, cut to pieces not
  very big; when it begins to be boiled it scums and the chickpeas are
  added, the parsnip, the turnip, the celery, peeled and cut in slices,
  and the salt.
  
  When this meats are half cooked they incorporate the Catalan sausages
  it informs, two balls made with the pig lean meat and the bacon.
  
  The balls are made going the meat by the processor of meat and adding
  the bread crumb, the beaten egg, salt, cinnamon, pepper and chopped
  parsley.
  
  He/she cooks slowly until being everything totally cooked, finishing
  off their seasoning with the saffron.
  
  In a pan of mud, with the oil and setting to the fire, the garlics are
  fried itched to those that one adds subsequently, the rice that is
  braised during some seconds with the oil. Then the components of the
  cooked pot are added (Catalan sausages and meat balls intersect in
  slices and they are reserved), and the broth, calculating double
  quantity of this that of rice.
  
  He/she puts on to alive fire, and he/she leaves decreasing as the
  cooking advances. It is rectified of salt. The cooking ends in the
  oven, so that it is grated well, not without before to place for
  above the slices of Catalan sausages, the balls, cut, and some
  chopped parsley.
  
  Total cooking about twenty minutes. To allow it to rest about three
  minutes and to serve.
  
  Contributor:  Esther Pérez Solsona

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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