I have no idea where to put this. This could get ugly, or it’s just another example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing:
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Well, I get severe asthma attacks after exposure to cigarette smoke, eggplants, or avacados. Could be nicotine-related.
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a sinister swordsman indeed.
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Parallax animation warning.
Could be, I get an incredibly itchy nose (like feels as if I’d rubbed poison ivy all over it or something) any time I try to eat Italian food and sometimes other stuff. There’s something in some types of food that I’m obviously allergic to, but I haven’t been able to isolate what it is yet.
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A chemist friend once told me that coffee has something like 800 separate chemicals in it. (He did some research trying to relate changes in the chemicals present due to roasting conditions.) So which of those 800 chemicals do what? And it’s probably a similar situation in tobacco.
So at least in vaping, you can control what chemicals you put in (in theory).
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Has anyone done Caffeine vaping? I’m just thinking that gives us non-smokers a reason to leave the office every hour.
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I don’t know, that sounds like one of those…
kind of activities to me…
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A weirdly specific reason for having an AK… and it happened to the guy 4 times?
But it is true that there is a wild hog problem in texas… Still. Other ways to deal with it than an AK, I think.
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Can your chemist friend scream that more loudly? Can we crowd-fund some billboards? Because I am being driven around the bend by people who assume that I must be lying when I say I can’t drink coffee and snark at me for drinking tea “which has caffeine” in it and/or tell me to “admit you just don’t like the taste. That’s because you’ve only had bad coffee.” Uh, no. I wouldn’t be giving up tiramisu if it didn’t hit me like a bag of hammers dropped from a great height. Trust me, one or more of those 800 do not get along with me. I just don’t know which.
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Olive oil? Or a general salicylate sensitivity?
Like with tea? a roomful of hot tea?
And yeah, I too get awful migraines from exposure to coffee. It may be something in the bean itself, or it may be the gum arabic routinely used as a preservative.
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Same. Whatever causes the hives and numb skin when I come in contact with coffee, it’s not the caffeine.
Good advice I once got: tell them even the slightest little bit quickly gives you horrible gas for hours. That should shut them up if they’re going to be in the same room as you.
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So they’re Australia’s answer to raccoons?
Or raccoons are North America’s answer to echidnas, however it goes?
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Well, being monotremes - no.
More like possums when it comes to taking care of insects; I dunno about the mating habits of 'coons or possums, btw. I do know that we call raccoons “trash pandas”, however.
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Raccoons had regular sex in the attic of my first apartment in Toronto. Their screams were over the top even for humans who think no-one else can hear. I could hear them at it from two doors down from my apartment – and my apartment was set on a hill, about 10 steps up from the sidewalk, and set back another 10 paces or so after that.
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Oh, in that sense, LOL, then I guess so.
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Oh yeah. Now that you mention it, we haven’t heard the screaming raccoons in the tops of trees (we’re talking 3rd to 4th floor height off the ground) for a while now. It’s just obnoxious in every way. Plus, you’re worried they’re going to fall on someone.
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