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  • The question is what is a good type of food that would entice someone to steal that I can successfully mix ipecac in? I'm thinking something along the line of desserts. Perhaps brownies or a cheesecake.
    That would be funny, but also potentially dangerous. You should buy biohazard bags to start bringing your lunch in. Maybe whoever is stealing food will think twice before eating it then!
  • That would be funny, but also potentially dangerous. You should buy biohazard bags to start bringing your lunch in. Maybe whoever is stealing food will think twice before eating it then!
    Hmm, you're right. I can see the "victim" suing for medical complications. Ro, do you think you could convince your manager or whoever to let you keep a mini fridge under your desk? Another solution, like the biohazard thing, is to put prescription labels on stuff to make it look like its got drugs in it or something, like you are eating special food due to a medical condition.
  • Well I can always put all my food in a bag and tie it up. That normally deters people from making all the effort of untying a plastic bag and making a lot of noise to even look at the food inside.

    I work in closed room with one other coworker so I could get a mini fridge, but I'd rather not spend money on it.

    My best bet would be to just bring my food in every day and leave it at that.
  • lunchbox with a lock?
  • edited May 2011
    Cat food and/or dog food sandwich.

    EDIT: Or you take the mature route and talk to your supervisor about it. They should do a non-specific "hey don't take food that's not yours" address and sort of shame everyone at the same time.

    Or indelible ink on the bag.
    Post edited by TheWhaleShark on
  • My supervisor can't do anything and doesn't really care. Our floor is currently having issues with the Janitorial staff. We've had several missing items reported over the last few months.

    We pretty much have to lock up everything now.
  • Or indelible ink on the bag.
    For some odd reason I am recalling news reports of people being liable for the ills suffered by the people who stole the food. This seems the safest way to flag the offender and not get yourself in legal trouble. Blue hands are hard to explain away.
  • Lots and lots of wasabi.
  • My coworker and I get curious from time to time about certain medical conditions and look it up on Wikipedia.

    Today we looked up rectal prolapse.

    I need to find a happy place.

    You've been warned.
  • Today we looked up rectal prolapse.
    Isn't that the thing where your arsehole ends up hanging out like a tattered windsock?
  • Yes. It looked horrible.
  • One more little thing in my list of things that I should not have done. Next time I really need to think twice before ignoring warnings.
  • edited May 2011
    Today we looked up rectal prolapse.
    Fun fact:

    In Elizabethan England, the rectum was known as the "fundament," and a rectal prolapse was called a "fallen fundament." The treatment was to tie it back up with string and apply some bullshit ointment daily.
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  • edited May 2011
    That is so wrong, but can't stop laughing. That's just as bad as when people would treat gonorrhea by "clapping" the penis to force the infection out, hence the nickname "The Clap".

    I like how the causes of it can be associated with: advanced age, long term constipation, long term straining during defecation, receiving anal sex, long term diarrhea, high gastrointestinal helminth loads, pregnancy and stresses of childbirth, previous surgery, cystic fibrosis, COPD, and sphincter paralysis.

    One more reason why I fear having babies now.
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  • Next time I really need to think twice before ignoring warnings.
  • COPD
    I misread that at first, and was left wondering how OCD makes your arse fall out.
  • Jeez, I wish I'd been here for the religion argument.

    I really don't understand why some atheists get so upset with believers. I really, really don't care what others believe as long as they don't try to force me to have the same belief. When atheists get all bent out of shape, they are usually pretty indistinguishable from the religious types they rail against. What's the problem? They don't think the same as you? Isn't that sort of intolerance the thing that alienates a lot of atheists from religion in the first place?

    I agree with Pete and Lou. This argument goes nowhere and is really just mental masturbation. Time could be better spent doing something more productive than railing against a scientist who can be a scientist and a religious type at the same time.

    Also, big loss of respect for the "no true Scotsman" argument.
  • I have a friend who lives in Norman, OK. It is currently surrounded by tornadoes and is in the middle of a tornadic supercell. I cannot stop watching the goddamn weather news.
  • Also, big loss of respect for the "no true Scotsman" argument.
    Which one? It's not a "no-true" Scotsman" if you use the Scotsman's own rules.

    Scotsman (with black hair): "To be a Scotsman, one must have red hair."
    Naysayer: "You do not have red hair, and therefore are not a Scotsman by your own definition."

    The majority of people who call themselves "Catholics" in the US aren't likely so by the church's definitions. Many people who call themselves "Christians" proceed to make up personal definitions of the word, as they do not satisfy most of the dictionary definitions.
    What's the problem?
    They vote.
  • I really don't understand why some atheists get so upset with believers. I really, really don't care what others believe as long as they don't try to force me to have the same belief.
    Believing stupid things often makes people do stupid things, and I don't want people to do stupid things that make their own lives, or those of other people, worse. In particular,
    They vote.
  • Apparently when a medical professional says "You may feel some moderate cramping," they actually mean "I'ma make you hurt so bad that you yelp like a wounded puppy."
  • They vote.
    It's worse than that. Voting, whatever. Democracy is broken and our representatives do what they want anyway.

    No, the problem is that, being a social animal, humans pay more attention to people in their community than they do to people outside of it. So, those people with crazy-assed beliefs have way more influence on the people around them than non-crazy people do.

    My problem is that crazy promulgates way better than does sanity.
  • Apparently when a medical professional says "You may feel some moderate cramping," they actually mean "I'ma make you hurt so bad that you yelp like a wounded puppy."
    Yes. Generally, they mean "the full extent of this word." "Severe" cramping means objectively severe. Enough to make anyone say, "Yup, that was severe."
  • "Severe" cramping means objectively severe.
    translated: I'm pretty sure I'm dying.
  • "Severe" cramping means objectively severe.
    translated: I'm pretty sure I'm dying.
    Relevant link is relevant.
  • Apparently when a medical professional says "You may feel some moderate cramping," they actually mean "I'ma make you hurt so bad that you yelp like a wounded puppy."
    Yes. Generally, they mean "the full extent of this word." "Severe" cramping means objectively severe. Enough to make anyone say, "Yup, that was severe."
    She actually apologized to me because she forgot to tell me that it would hurt much more because I haven't had children.
  • Went to analyze some new sonar data we recorded yesterday only to realize that our SDK provided by the manufacturer is out of date and throws errors upon loading the files. The only solution is to wait for support to e-mail me with a link to an updated version.
  • Kids these days. Haven't even seen The Blues Brothers. What the hell.
  • Kids these days. Haven't even seen The Blues Brothers. What the hell.
  • Kids these days. Haven't even seen The Blues Brothers. What the hell.
    I haven't seen it.
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