stanley

A simple Google search will show you evidence that purports masks work. Another simple Google search will show you evidence that purports they do not work.

Ummm.... Huh??? 🙄🤪 Exactly where did you hear or read that??? 'Expelling the virus orally' has absolutely NOTHING to do with your body's first line of defense against viruses. If you are expelling a virus orally from your body, you already have it. In fact you just made the argument for wearing one, by indicating you can't expel the virus orally with a mask on.

Ya, I get you. Was of course mainly just making a lame joke about how jalapenos inflame me. For sure I'm a believer in trying to eat natural-healthy foods to the extent that I can. VERY scary what ends-up in canned foods, and I avoid canned/processed foods to the extent that I can. I have gravitated towards lots of veggies & protein, and lower carbs & simple sugars. (Though I cheat a little too much on the simple sugars thing....)

+1 I would like to know what "inflammatory" food is. Had some jalapenos two days ago that may qualify, but not sure.

Would be great to keep it to the point of the thread, as opposed to hi-jacking. Plenty of room for another thread to vent about mask mandates, etc. If you really had it, good deal to be one of the lucky folks with fairly benign symptoms. GreayGhost85, for me the primary impact has been the lingering affect on my taste (hyper sensitive to spicy/salty). That being said though, yes, I have felt a little 'off' as well. Am trying to chalk it up to being work at home and basically not eating as well as I used to. Trying to get back closer to my healthy eating habits, exercise, hot yoga, etc,, and hoping that will help get me back to normal.

I had it in late November. A week or so of feeling very crappy/fatigued, then a week or so of feeling just sort of 'off'. Taste and smell went wonky, but didn't disappear. Strange thing for me, was that in January (as my taste/smell was slowly coming back, my taste buds started to get hyper-sensitive to spicy/salty/sour foods. Basically, my tongue would feel like it was burning with even mild salty/spicy. It sucks because like a lot of southern Arizona natives, I LOVE spicy food! That has been slowly fading over the past several weeks, but still lingering a bit.

That is a great looking car! I've always been partial towards the Italian and German brands. Have looked at the Ghibli’s, and really like them! Can't bring myself to get rid of my little ol' two seater (911) to make room, though. (One of the disadvantages of living in an older neighborhood. No BIG 3+ car garage! lol) Market looks solid and it's a fair price. I imagine you'll get a taker soon.

Thanks! Yep, almost. She came from a Dec 16th litter.

OUTSTANDING!!!!! I’m just starting to work with my little tyke, as well. So much fun!! She is also still locking-up and holding well in house flys! 🤣

Moderating this sort of thing can be extremely burdensome, and putting in technical rules/parameters may or may not be an option depending on the hosting software, etc. Buyers beware!!!! Best defense against scammers is a little common sense and judgement by the users. S.

Excellent!!!!! Cool that you got your first gobbler! Also looks like you guys know how to camp! Good stuff! S.

That scammer account has now been banned. Everybody BEWARE!!!!

Most of you have likely noticed more threads regarding scammers and account hacking, lately. T here have been multiple occurrences of folks getting private messages from new members offering to connect with someone selling stuff. Obviously, everyone needs to keep their scammer-radar on high alert and use your judgement on these. If you get contacted by a brand new member and the vibe feels 'scammy', then send myself or another admin a note about it. There has also been a couple of instances recently where a user account is hacked, and suspicious (or just plain lame) content and malicious activity occurs. As/when this happens, our only choice is to shut that account down. If you find that your account is suddenly inaccessible to you, hopefully you have a friend or contact that can message one of the admins, else open a new account. There are 1000s of user accounts, and thus far the occurrence of account take-overs has been super rare, but it might not be a bad idea for folks to go in and change your password just to be safe (Honestly, 'internet site 101' would say all of us should do that on a regular basis anyway...). Stan

I don't have them all right here at my fingertips. Tried to get in touch with the user name owners offline. Had you been impacted or involved in it, you definitely would have known.

Yes, it is happening. Lame!!

Either son or I. Of course hoping it’s him! He’s a much better shot that I am, anyway... 😉

I wouldn't get too worked-up over it. Happens all the time. (You must not have noticed the posts above mentioning it.) Usually a product of various bank's system processing as they move charges from 'pending' status....

Jnb-scammer is now gone. Yep, more and more of this. Interesting MO, in that lately the thing is primarily private messaging. The process to sign-up was enhanced in the last couple of years to include e-mail validation, etc. (Standard stuff for most websites today.....) Not fool proof though, especially with the sophistication of bots and such. Scammers constantly working to stay a step or two ahead of website validation/security.

MidFirst (relatively small bank....)

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Welcome to the site!

The scammer account was deleted.

Isn’t that one of the ONLY topics here, lately? 🙄🤣

Good point, that was pretty low..... LOL

And rock bottom would be VERY low around here lately, wouldn't it....