I do have a sweet tooth, yo.
I used to buy brisket at the north Austin, TX Rudy’s (not to be confused with Ruby’s). Then I would race home to my big bottle of Sweet Baby Ray’s bbq sauce.
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I asked and this was from “Ecolab.”
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Eco cleaners are so called because they degrade safely in the environment. That doesn’t mean that they are nice to people. Twenty years ago I designed and set up an “eco” electroplating plant. The cleaner could take your skin off, but once diluted and down the drain it helped keep the drains clear as it safely decomposed. We actually got a refund from the water company because our effluent saved them money. (Even a little chromium is beneficial because the bacteria at the treatment plant need it.)
Edit: remember that the “environment” is full of things that are nasty for people, such as liver fluke, redbacks, glaciers and heavy metal deposits!
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Who puts a strobe light in an oven? That’s nuts!
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THANK YOU.
I have a certain amount of, ah, “crunchy” friends who love to go on about how this or that is 'natural" and that or this is not.
Every time it comes to light some item at Whole Foods is actually bad for you, there’s always someone to exclaim, “but it’s all natural!”, to which I growl, “so are cyanide and arsenic”.
It’s becoming a bit of a catch phrase. I’ll have to watch that.
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It depends on what you are trying to clean. If whatever it is doesn’t need to be sanitized, vinegar and water work pretty well. For countertops, I make a mix of 1/4 witch hazel, 1/4 white vinegar, 1/2 water, and some essential oils for smellpretty, then I use a spray bottle and an old terrycloth towel.
But, it’s not going to kill germs. For the toilet, I use bleach, but not everything requires that level of cleanliness. For most of the cleaning I do, I don’t need every germ to be dead, I just need stuff to be not-gross.
I don’t know how you react to the smell of vinegar. I am unbothered by it, but you know yourself better than I do.
In fact, during some really lean times, I cleaned most everything with water and dish soap. I might have a higher tolerance for funky living situations than most, I won’t deny that.
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I can’t find the actual clip but heres a transcript.
Frasier: [reads the label] “With pasteurized, processed, cheese-flavored snack food.”
[opens the lid]
Frasier: Dear God, it looks like someone melted down a highway cone.
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I’m currently staying in a hotel, and get sick from their cleaning fluids.
I know vinegar triggers my asthma attacks and sometimes bronchial pain. I don’t know about witch hazel, but it’s on some warning lists for sal. sensitivity.
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All the low molecular weight organic acids - formic, acetic, oxalic - can irritate airways. If you really think that you are getting enough exposure to be problematic, consider investing in some calcium hydroxide. It doesn’t dissolve well in water but made into a weak slurry it will remove acidic cleaners and the product is nonvolatile. Also consider getting a solvent rated respirator to use while you decontaminate the bathroom. Activated charcoal is pretty effective. eBay or Amazon will help.
If this seems a little ott, it will at least help to distinguish chemical induced asthma from stress induced asthma.
I am extremely sensitive to dry cleaning solvents. Fortunately our local dry cleaners now has very efficient emission controls so I can actually visit it. But with a P3 mask I can tolerate even large quantities of solvent epoxy paint for hours - not that I do that these days, I don’t project manage factory commissioning any more!
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I used to crave Cheez Whiz and saltines about once every two years. I don’t know why; the first big craving was a few months after my ex left.
I haven’t had it in about 10 years now.
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Cheez Whiz is to Velveeta as Velveeta is to New York aged sharp cheddar.
I used to love that stuff but I haven’t had any in decades.
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I would like to present Exhibit A…Squeeze Cheese
Every Summer, vacation was the car trip from NW Montana to Sacramento Area to see the Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles.
Lunch was always at Highway rest areas and was typically Squeeze Cheese on Ritz and fruit.
For as objectively bad as it may be, I shall always remember Squeeze Cheese with fondness. (Except the pimento one. It can fuck right off)
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So is nuclear waste, and really everything. That dump/landfill? Filled with things that came from the Earth. It’s all natural. Plastic? That’s not supernatural, it comes from the Earth. Someday when it’s harder to extract and process stuff we’ll be mining all that waste.
I never liked spray-on aerosol cheez. But that nacho cheese sauce (that for some reason you can only find at schools, carnivals, and occasionally movie theaters)… that stuff should be a part of every meal. I don’t know why they don’t market it to the public.
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You eat Squeeze Cheese on fruit? 
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You eat cheese on food?
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Are you implying that cheese isn’t food? That’s debatable, as there are indeed a lot of cultures that don’t eat cheese. Although if you were to make that case, I’d say that Squeeze Cheese and Easy Cheese are certainly not food.
Doesn’t stop me from eating them though
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Why didn’t anyone tell me there was a vaccine? I got a nasty case of chicken pox in 2000. Now vaccines aren’t perfect. Somehow, without getting vaccinated, I got a nasty case of cow pox all over my body in 2002, maybe the vaccine went airborne.
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No I’m with the Trevors it would be wierd if we didn’t have something that served the same function as teeth.
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Technically no.
The uranium deposits have been sitting there in yellowcake and granite for a long time and gradually stabilised - the U-235 slowly decays (why we can’t have natural nuclear reactors any more), the radon escapes slowly. But the stuff from nuclear reactors includes all the short lived stuff that was around briefly when that Wolf-Rayet star went pop*, and which hasn’t been around for billennia.
Not that I’m over-anxious about nuclear waste - I worry far more about the thousands of plutonium warheads - but the problem of dealing with reactor waste if civilisation were to collapse just constantly gets kicked into the long grass because it’s beyond the next financial quarter.
*Latest theory of heavy metal genesis, apparently.
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