Somebody lectured me about Splenda today
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nutmegoreo wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.
I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke.
That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.
(Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.
**sigh**
More reading, less typing.)
LOL
Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.
Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???
(And now I understand the 23 pages.)
And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).
Oh, MFP, don't ever change.
Don't. Ever. Change.
There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:
The moderators can see who's doing it.
Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!2 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.
I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke.
That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.
(Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.
**sigh**
More reading, less typing.)
LOL
Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.
Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???
(And now I understand the 23 pages.)
And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).
Oh, MFP, don't ever change.
Don't. Ever. Change.
There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:
The moderators can see who's doing it.
Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!
It won't happen. The rivers of red hot molten butthurt will flow for years.22 -
I've read here about strangers making inappropriate comments in general about people's food choices, but usually not direct evangalizing to their faces - it's certainly a first for me! Does this sort of thing happen often, and am I just oblivious? Does anyone want to share a story?
And of course, now I'm thinking of all the things I could have said if I was just a little bit quicker on my feet - did anyone actually think fast enough to make a good comeback?
I feel like this 99% of the time that I meet someone on KETO. Sorry KETO peeps, but, please.......JUST STOP!!!6 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »
I swear when I first started paying attention to the forums a couple years ago I was able to see who clicked them but it was for a short period of time, maybe premium accounts had this ability at some point?1 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.
I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke.
That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.
(Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.
**sigh**
More reading, less typing.)
LOL
Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.
Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???
(And now I understand the 23 pages.)
And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).
Oh, MFP, don't ever change.
Don't. Ever. Change.
There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:
The moderators can see who's doing it.
Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!
Yeah it would be nice to see who flags your posts at least. I posted what I thought was an amusing joke a few pages back and it got flagged by someone as abuse..?4 -
Fitnessgirl0913 wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »I've had people telling me how awful artificial sweeteners are for decades. I used to listen quietly, nod, and say nothing.
Then I spent a lot of time countering with my own story of diabetes and how high blood sugar will destroy all my organs and will put me into a coma.
Now I'm too old to be told how to live my life and listen to discussion of my choices, or hear one more time about how someone ordered a triple bacon cheeseburger with a diet coke (Me. It was me. I ordered it.) So now the only response you'd get from me is a death stare while I drink my coffee with 3 Splendas.
I've always preferred the taste of diet soda over regular. It surprised me when studies came out that correlated diet drinks with obesity, until I realized I was probably a contributing data point every time I ordered a big mac, fries and a diet coke.
That's actually what I suspect is causing that correlation...the "I'm having a diet coke, so I can afford to splurge a little and super-size my meal"/"I ordered the wooly-mammoth sized meal, so I'll have a diet coke to drink" phenomenon.
(Okay, now to stop replying and catch up on the...TWENTY-THREE PAGES?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?.
**sigh**
More reading, less typing.)
LOL
Now I have to decide if those woo's were for my personal theory or because I tried so hard to catch up before posting.jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sometimes unsolicited advice is legitimate. Just sayin'.I understand how y'all feel about someone encroaching on your privacy, but at least they care enough to say something. It really doesn't sound like anyone is being judgy, they're just trying to let you know that that stuff is bad for you.
Finally. Page 7. What took you two so long to get here???
(And now I understand the 23 pages.)
And these too! Woo'ed because I was shocked it took the "artificial sweeteners are obviously bad for everyone" people seven pages to get here? Or for my understanding of why this was 23 pages (which was totally confirmed, to be clear).
Oh, MFP, don't ever change.
Don't. Ever. Change.
There seems to be an angry woo'er running around wooing everything in sight, and seems to have recruited some friends. I would love to see the update where we can see who hit the buttons. I can well imagine all the angry PMs flying around after that. :laugh:
The moderators can see who's doing it.
Lucky buggers. There was some chatter at one point about us being able to see it too!
Yeah it would be nice to see who flags your posts at least. I posted what I thought was an amusing joke a few pages back and it got flagged by someone as abuse..?
Yes there have been a number of inappropriate flags thrown - I called one out early on but I'm afraid giving any attention to these people just encourages them
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If I were running the site, there would be an Agree and Disagree button, and people would be able to see who agrees and disagrees with them. The woo button is not only meaningless because of the ambiguous meaning, but when it's used as "this post is just a bunch of woo" (when a comment collects 17 woos immediately after posting) it has an automatic personal attack emotion attached, whether or not it's meant that way.
For a site that hammers on respecting other people's views and will send warnings for fairly innocuous remarks if someone gets their feelings hurt, I'm completely lost why they would think a stealth attack button is a good idea.
<steps off soap box>13 -
If I were running the site, there would be an Agree and Disagree button, and people would be able to see who agrees and disagrees with them. The woo button is not only meaningless because of the ambiguous meaning, but when it's used as "this post is just a bunch of woo" (when a comment collects 17 woos immediately after posting) it has an automatic personal attack emotion attached, whether or not it's meant that way.
For a site that hammers on respecting other people's views and will send warnings for fairly innocuous remarks if someone gets their feelings hurt, I'm completely lost why they would think a stealth attack button is a good idea.
<steps off soap box>
You have no idea how much I wanted to "woo" this post for the irony, but I settled for liking it.7 -
nickssweetheart wrote: »If I were running the site, there would be an Agree and Disagree button, and people would be able to see who agrees and disagrees with them. The woo button is not only meaningless because of the ambiguous meaning, but when it's used as "this post is just a bunch of woo" (when a comment collects 17 woos immediately after posting) it has an automatic personal attack emotion attached, whether or not it's meant that way.
For a site that hammers on respecting other people's views and will send warnings for fairly innocuous remarks if someone gets their feelings hurt, I'm completely lost why they would think a stealth attack button is a good idea.
<steps off soap box>
You have no idea how much I wanted to "woo" this post for the irony, but I settled for liking it.
Ironic duty demanded that I woo it.8 -
nickssweetheart wrote: »If I were running the site, there would be an Agree and Disagree button, and people would be able to see who agrees and disagrees with them. The woo button is not only meaningless because of the ambiguous meaning, but when it's used as "this post is just a bunch of woo" (when a comment collects 17 woos immediately after posting) it has an automatic personal attack emotion attached, whether or not it's meant that way.
For a site that hammers on respecting other people's views and will send warnings for fairly innocuous remarks if someone gets their feelings hurt, I'm completely lost why they would think a stealth attack button is a good idea.
<steps off soap box>
You have no idea how much I wanted to "woo" this post for the irony, but I settled for liking it.
Loveya! I had a fairly low woo count before this thread but it's on it's way to doubling now
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To be honest having the ability to view who clicked what in the little emoticons on the bottom of posts would just add to more drama and wouldn't really add anything truly useful to the conversation. I pay attention to what people say, I couldn't care less what anonymous person decided to click a button without expressing why. I mean how does knowing that it was BobSlayer2442 that clicked "woo" on my post help me exactly?
If one of my posts gets actually responded to with a response then I will care enough to take the time to read and respond. If someone responds to my post by clicking a button and saying nothing I honestly don't care.
Do I really want to see a bunch of "Hey, why did you click woo on my post BobSlayer244!?!?!?" posts filling up the forums? Not really.17 -
jofjltncb6 wrote: »nickssweetheart wrote: »If I were running the site, there would be an Agree and Disagree button, and people would be able to see who agrees and disagrees with them. The woo button is not only meaningless because of the ambiguous meaning, but when it's used as "this post is just a bunch of woo" (when a comment collects 17 woos immediately after posting) it has an automatic personal attack emotion attached, whether or not it's meant that way.
For a site that hammers on respecting other people's views and will send warnings for fairly innocuous remarks if someone gets their feelings hurt, I'm completely lost why they would think a stealth attack button is a good idea.
<steps off soap box>
You have no idea how much I wanted to "woo" this post for the irony, but I settled for liking it.
Ironic duty demanded that I woo it.
Nods. Keeping up the tradition that any post that contains the word woo requires at least one woo reaction.
I honestly don't care much about reactions myself, but I feel sorry every time someone with 20 posts starts an ACV thread and immediately collects a lot of wood.** Full disclosure I used to do that myself, and I'm sorry about it now when I put myself in other people's shoes.
**Woos. God bless the autocorrect.6 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »
I swear when I first started paying attention to the forums a couple years ago I was able to see who clicked them but it was for a short period of time, maybe premium accounts had this ability at some point?
I think they're missing a revenue opportunity by not offering that feature as an extra-cost option.
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »My husbands friend gets bags and bags of blueberries and eats them with spoonfuls of peanut butter. When asked why, he says that it's a super food and that it's helping his body because of the nutrition . He didn't want to believe that the calories still counted.
He started to walk up to others and talk to them about how they should be eating super food too.
Now he's 310lbs and 5'8. I guess the calories did count after all. Lol
He stopped walking up to strangers to preach about the super foods now but my husband said people would roll their eyes and walk away quickly or say something like well then you eat it. Lol
Hearing "super food" would have made me stop him right there in his tracks.4 -
100_PROOF_ wrote: »My husbands friend gets bags and bags of blueberries and eats them with spoonfuls of peanut butter. When asked why, he says that it's a super food and that it's helping his body because of the nutrition . He didn't want to believe that the calories still counted.
He started to walk up to others and talk to them about how they should be eating super food too.
Now he's 310lbs and 5'8. I guess the calories did count after all. Lol
He stopped walking up to strangers to preach about the super foods now but my husband said people would roll their eyes and walk away quickly or say something like well then you eat it. Lol
Super food, LOL.
Super food's like PB, Granola, Blueberries, etc are what People like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and AT walkers use to ensure they get their necessary calories and nutrients in as dense a package as possible.
If you want to eat like Michael Phelps, you gotta train like Michale Phelps.3 -
I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.8
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.
Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!?
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.
Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!?
Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!3 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »
I swear when I first started paying attention to the forums a couple years ago I was able to see who clicked them but it was for a short period of time, maybe premium accounts had this ability at some point?
I think they're missing a revenue opportunity by not offering that feature as an extra-cost option.
Oooh somebody get in there with a third party app!0 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »I haxxord their system and I apparently have 159 woos distributed over a total of 50 posts.
Did you do that in public?!?!?!?!?
Pfff, what do you know...you have 59 woo's distributed over 41 posts. One post on May 3rd had 5 woo's!
Are you hand counting the posts? Or am I missing a click somewhere. I know I have 332.0
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