shout out to my off topic friends - miss you folks - had some close girls on here could use a friend again!

 

Seen on the Twitterverse. Gave me a chuckle.


True Confessions...

 

Awwwwwww......




A bunch of lucky ducks get saved from storm drain

6/11/17

Nine lucky ducklings were reunited with their mother yesterday morning thanks to a Cambridge man who called the city when he heard their frantic chirps coming from a storm drain and the firefighters who pulled them out.

Eric Maki was walking on Bond Street about 9 a.m. when he said he spotted a mother duck “flapping like crazy” near a storm drain.

“I looked inside and I heard the ducklings, so I called the city,” Maki told the Herald. “Ten minutes later, the firetrucks pulled up.”

Cambridge fire Chief William Brathwaite said they managed to rescue the “wet, cold and scared” waterfowl by rigging up a retrieval system with a hauling line, two pike poles and a 5-gallon bucket. After the ducklings dried off in the sun, they and their relieved mother were released outside Harvard University’s Observatory Hall.

Braithwaite was pleased to report that “after a joyful reunion, they were led off with mom, all in a row.”

 

I saw the rescue online. Nice to see people doing good.

 

She's a nervous little fawn
Without him she might be gone
Nigh deer saved by Storm!

(Why, yes, that WAS a heapin' helpin' of poetic license (Two scoops, even!) with "nigh". It's 3:00 am. Get over it.)

 

Coffee that gets you up...and keeps you up.


FDA not amused by coffee laced with Viagra-like drugs, issues recall

Chuckles aside, it could cause serious health problems in some.

7/21/7

A cup of this brew will certainly get you up in the morning. But the Food and Drug Administration is not having it.

The agency announced a second voluntary recall of a coffee product laced with a Viagra-like drug. The latest recall affects the uniquely named “New of Kopi Jantan Tradisional Natural Herbs Coffee” product, distributed by Bestherbs Coffee LLC. As in other cases, the owner of Bestherbs Coffee suspects that a common herbal ingredient used in the coffee was purposefully contaminated to cut down on costs.

“FDA laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of desmethyl carbodenafil,” according to an announcement posted on the FDA’s website. “Desmethyl carbodenafil is structurally similar to sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, an FDA-approved prescription drug for erectile dysfunction (ED).”

In May, the agency announced the voluntary recall of “Caverflo Natural Herbal Coffee,” distributed by Caverflo.com. That product was found by FDA lab testing to contain both sildenafil and tadalafil, another active ingredient in prescription drugs used to treat ED.

And in September of last year, the agency released a public notification warning that yet another coffee product, aptly named “Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee”—which has the tag line: “The relationship saver”—also contained the Viagra-like desmethyl carbodenafil.

Though there clearly seems to be a market for male-enhancing cups of joe, the agency notes that they can pose serious health risks. The Viagra-like drugs can interfere with nitrates found in some prescription medicines, which are often taken by men with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease. The combination could lead to dangerously low blood pressure in those men.

(Bestherbs Coffee’s “New of Kopi Jantan Tradisional Natural Herbs Coffee” product also contained undeclared milk, the recall announcement noted, which could pose a risk to those with severe milk sensitives.)

It’s unclear how the drugs got into the coffee, but Bestherbs Coffee owner Albert Yee told the Washington Post Thursday, that he suspects it’s from an adulterated herbal ingredient, Tongkat Ali. This is an herb from the root of Eurycoma longifolia plant, which is found in southeast Asia, primarily in Malaysia and Indonesia, and used extensively in folk medicine. In Malaysia, Tongkat Ali is sometimes called “Malaysian ginseng,” and used for everything from a general health tonic to an anti-aging remedy. In supplements, it’s often said to boost mood, energy, enhance weight loss, and improve libido and sexual performance.

But it can be expensive and difficult to harvest in mass quantities because it requires uprooting the large plants. When the news broke about drugs in “Stiff Bull Herbal Coffee,” the producers publicly speculated that the manufacturers of the herb purposefully cut in the Viagra-like drug to reduce costs. Yee suspects the same.

Yee told the Post he’s unsure of how much of his instant coffee mix will be recalled and sent to the FDA for destruction. He guesses a few hundred to thousand bags.

Both Yee and the FDA said they haven’t gotten any complaints about negative health effects from the coffee.

 

The drug companies complained because it was cutting into their profits. Male enhancement drugs are a multimillion dollar part of their business.

 

Holy hotness! Scarlett has turned up the heat in this new series! This is the second book in the Curves Envy series and it picked up right where book one left off.

 

What advice would you give? I've gotta admit, the "Dear Abby", rather, Jann Blackstone, even though firm, was quite kinder than I would have been.


New spouse upset that dad hiked with son, ex’s family

7/30/17

My husband recently took his son on a backpacking trip. It’s a family tradition that I thought was going to stop now that we are married. When they returned, I found out that my husband’s ex-wife’s father and brother also went along. I feel uncomfortable with my husband continuing to associate with his ex’s family. I feel like they are always comparing me to my husband’s ex and what they really want is for them to reconcile. This infuriates me. I want my husband to stop. What’s good ex-etiquette?

Me: Biiiiitch, listen to yourself! Now, go stand in front of the mirror, and look at yourself saying what you just wrote, and keep in mind that you seem to think you're competing with your husband's child, who was in his life long before you came along, and from the sounds of it, will be long after you're out of the picture.

But that's just me.

What would you have told her?

Spoiler: What the adviser said

OK, there are a ton of red flags here. To begin, although intellectually, most understand the parameters of co-parenting, when it comes to their own new relationship, all reason goes right out the window, and they revert to high school — “You can’t talk to her, she’s your ex.”

That mentality is completely impractical when your new partner has a shared custody plan. The kids go back and forth between parents, and extended family play a huge part in the child’s life. Good ex-etiquette is based on the needs of the child, not the needs of the new partner. Reframe these relationships — the child has a tradition of going backpacking each year with his dad, his grandpa and his uncle. Your husband broke up with his child’s mother — that’s the relationship that changes.

New partners should not expect their partners or their partner’s children to cut off ties to the former extended family because of their personal insecurities. This should have been discussed before marriage and clear boundaries established from the beginning. In other words, you should have known what you were getting into before you signed the marriage license. Your husband has a child.

Granted, it was awful ex-etiquette to keep the backpacking trip a secret — you should have been in on the planning; the more transparent, the better. But it was apparently kept a secret because you’re openly having a problem with your husband continuing these relationships. If he’s lying to you, it’s because he felt like he had to make a choice — ask him to choose, and you will lose. Your husband has a child.

In regards to feeling that you’re being compared to the ex and “I feel like the extended family wants a reconciliation.” Any time you start a sentence with “I feel like...” make sure it has something positive following those words. Otherwise, you’re reaffirming a negative expectation and undermining your own impact on this relationship. Dad married you for a reason. Reinforce that. Don’t get wound up in a battle for position. Work toward no preconceived notions — a clean slate for each meeting, holding no grudges, no spiteful behavior, and giving that little boy the best life you can. That’s what “Put the children first” means. He didn’t ask for the divorce, and since you joined the club, your responsibility is to help, not hinder. That’s good ex-etiquette.

 

Who the hell does she think she is? Why on earth would he stop doing something with his son that he did for who knows how long. Just because he's divorced, doesn't change the fact that the uncle and grandfather are still part of his sons family. It sounds like he needs to have a heart to heart with her, and either she gets ok with this or hits the road.

 

I must admit that someone that says things like this does not generally go dark without cause ?
Who is hogging all the rabbit stew ?

 

After having been made aware I need to offer my apology for my insensitivity in making this post without any consideration for the circumstances and also offer my sincerest condolences .

 

Whoever the hell it was that criticized you for your post obviously doesn't read the shit justpassingthru posts. Compared to some of the shit he's said about people, your comment is about as inappropriate as a comment from Emily Post/Donna Reed/June Cleaver.

That's my ten cents
My two cents is free
A nuisance, who sent,
You sent for me?

And I still wonder if Eminem's really would melt in my mouth.

 

SMFH.............................where's old head shaker when ya need him????

 

Jailbreak: Inmates used peanut butter to fool guard

7/31/17

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail by using peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside, a sheriff said Monday.

The inmates changed the number above a cell to the number that identified the door leading outside the jail. So when an inmate asked a young, inexperienced jailer to let him into his cell, the jailer was fooled into opening the outside door instead.

The group then fled, throwing off their orange uniforms and using blankets to climb over a fence topped with razor wire on Sunday evening.

"It may sound crazy, but these people are crazy like a fox," Walker County Sheriff James Underwood said at a news conference in Jasper.

Inmates "scheme all the time to con us and our employees at the jail," Underwood added. "You have to stay on your toes. This is one time we slipped up. I'm not going to make any excuses."

The sheriff said the inmates "went off in every direction," but all but one were captured within eight hours, and the sheriff said he hoped the last prisoner would be back in custody by the end of the day Monday.

The 11 were arrested without violence, and the only person seriously hurt was an inmate who sliced his thumb climbing over the fence, the sheriff said.

The fugitives were between 18 and 30, facing charges ranging from disorderly conduct to attempted murder.

A manhunt continued for the last fugitive, Bradley Andrew Kilpatrick, 24, of Cordova, who had been jailed on charges of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. That search was getting some airborne help from a state helicopter.

Underwood estimated that the inmates had cleared the barbed wire fence in less than 10 minutes.

"They took advantage of a young fellow that hadn't been here very long" and who had to monitor 150 inmates at a time, the sheriff said. They apparently saved peanut butter from food regularly served at the jail.

"They love peanut butter sandwiches," the sheriff said.

 

Bride arrested for pulling gun from wedding dress, pointing at groom

8/1/17

Talk about a shotgun wedding.

Shortly after saying “I do,” a Tennessee bride was arrested for pulling a firearm out from beneath her wedding dress and pulling the trigger on her new hubby.

Police said Kate Elizabeth Prichard, 25, and her groom had started fighting only hours after their nuptials in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, according to news station WTVF.

The couple was drinking outside a local motel called the Clarion Inn when they began to fight, authorities said.

“She pulled out of her wedding dress a 9 mm pistol. Pointed it at her new husband’s head and pulled the trigger,” Murfreesboro Police Sgt. Kyle Evans told WTVF.

The gun, however, was not loaded, forcing the pistol-packing bride to load a round before reportedly firing a shot into the air.

“Responding officers let the husband know the honeymoon was over and his new wife was going to jail,” Evans said.

Authorities took Prichard, who was still in her gown, into custody and charged her with aggravated domestic assault. She was released from Rutherford County jail on $15,000 bond.

 

Police departments nationwide are celebrating Krispy Kreme' announcement of a new Reese's Peanut Butter doughnut beginning August 4th!

 

A fire broke out at a 86th floor of one of the worlds tallest residential skyscrapers in Dubai. The building had previously caught fire 2 1/2 years ago. Fortunately no reported casualties.

 

A California town goes to pot....

A cannabis company is buying all 80 acres of Nipton, Ca. which includes its Old West-style hotel, a handful of houses, an RV park and a coffee shop. Its plans are to transform the old Gold Rush town into what it calls "an energy-independent, cannabis-friendly hospitality destination."

Potsylvania?

 

The body of a 47 year old woman was found in her pool by police, who said her husband murdered her, then went to Applebee's to order takeout.