Remember When
cough syrup over the counter
that had codeine? It was banned
in the early 70's. My mom would
give us some cherry flavored
codeine cough syrup in the 50's
and you felt real good real fast.
Codeine is an opiate, people
were addicted to it all thru the
20th century until the 70's.
Big pharm must have had some
good lobbyists to keep it on
the market that long. An over
the counter opiate, those were
the days.
Seems like you had to have a prescription for that in the eighties, however, they gave it to you in big ass bottles, even if you had the slightest indication of a cold. I thought for sure it made you sleepy, I can't remember how it really made me feel. I just remember my mom always trying to get me to take it whenever I had the slightest indication of a cold. I Remember they used to give me actifed tablets all the time and that stuff made me drowsy as f***. I started to refusing to take it. My mom took me to the doctor at the slightest indication I might be sick.Quote: rxwineI remember having cough syrup with codeine. But I often felt like the suppressed cough was making my lungs infected, so I didn't really enjoy it.
Is it just me, or when you were a kid and you had a bad cold it didn't really bother you? It's like I barely even noticed. Perhaps because I got colds all the time and I got used to them? Same thing goes when I had bronchitis.
I would have to have the flu before It stop me and I really noticed anything different. At some point I noticed during my twenties - today whenever I get a cold I'm absolutely miserable, even if it's not that bad.
this is before our time and a lot of people don't believe it but it's true
when Coca Cola first came out in 1885 in contained cocaine which was not illegal
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/coca-colas-scandalous-past
GWAE swears they're still adding cocaine to Coca-Cola. 🤣.Quote: lilredroosterthis is what my mom gave to me when I was a little kid and got sick:
this is before our time and a lot of people don't believe it but it's true
when Coca Cola first came out in 1885 in contained cocaine which was not illegal
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/coca-colas-scandalous-past
Admittedly, I'm also addicted to Coca-Cola. I go through about a case of minis in two and a half days. However, I seriously need those extra calories.
Quote: AxelWolf
Admittedly, I'm also addicted to Coca-Cola. I go through about a case of minis in two and a half days. However, I seriously need those extra calories.
I think IIRC you're a pretty thin guy. lots of thin people think they don't have to watch what they consume - but that is incorrect
too much sugar is really, really risky even if you are thin
not trying to tell you how to live your life - just sayin'
Yes, I'm well aware too much sugar might be bad for you, but there's always something that's bad for you. I'm fairly certain something else will get me before the sugar does. Until my dietitian or doctor tell me it's super important I stop, I will continue. I truly am very lucky to be alive a few times over, and in as good a shape as I am. And by no means am I under the impression that I'm in good shape.Quote: lilredroosterI think IIRC you're a pretty thin guy. lots of thin people think they don't have to watch what they consume - but that is incorrect
too much sugar is really, really risky even if you are thin
not trying to tell you how to live your life - just sayin'
then I had some pretty bad medical sh.. happen to me
now I'm really careful - being sick really sucks -
Quote: EvenBobRemember when you could get
cough syrup over the counter
that had codeine? It was banned
in the early 70's. My mom would
give us some cherry flavored
codeine cough syrup in the 50's
and you felt real good real fast.
Codeine is an opiate, people
were addicted to it all thru the
20th century until the 70's.
Big pharm must have had some
good lobbyists to keep it on
the market that long. An over
the counter opiate, those were
the days.
How I wish you could still get that. I keep wondering if they have some kind of that good stuff in Canada. Or wish I could get some in Mexico and ship it back without getting arrested. All month I've been coughing like Walter White. Went to the care center and they gave me some stuff only partly working. Driving people at work nuts. Do all I can to not keep hacking. Last week had a dealing gig where they actually put us up overnight. My roommate told me how a dentist he had worked for gave him a scrip for like a druggist gallon drum of codeine cough syrup. He's set for years.
Quote: DRichWhen they came out and said peanut butter might cause cancer I started completely disregarding anything the health officials said. I would rather die a horrible death than give up peanut butter.
What's your pb of choice? I used to be a jiff smooth only but recently I have switched to smuckers all natural smooth. It is some really good stuff but you have to make sure you stir it completely or when you get to the bottom there wont be any oil left.
Quote: DRichWhen they came out and said peanut butter might cause cancer I started completely disregarding anything the health officials said. I would rather die a horrible death than give up peanut butter.
Am I the only one who never liked peanut butter?
Quote: AxelWolfGWAE swears they're still adding cocaine to Coca-Cola. 🤣.
They do add coca leaf extract. Coke
is the only company in the US allowed
to import the coca leaf legally.
Quote: EvenBobThey do add coca leaf extract. Coke
is the only company in the US allowed
to import the coca leaf legally.
I thought this was interesting so Googled it. It’s not quite right. A separate company (Stepan Company) is allowed to import the leaf and Coco Cola is allowed to use the products as refined by Stepan. Stepan processes it into pharmacologically active and inactive stuff and sells the latter to Coca Cola.
Interesting three part read: https://medium.com/@Rmcortes/the-cocainemaker-reefer-madness-and-the-vice-president-of-the-coca-cola-company-e1b39e65b63c
Quote: unJonI thought this was interesting so Googled it. It’s not quite right. A separate company (Stepan Company)
Coke has been using that company, it's
parent company, since 1902. Coke is
the reason they're still in business.
Wasn't New Coke a formula with the
coca extract removed and the public
hated it?
Quote: GWAEWhat's your pb of choice? I used to be a jiff smooth only but recently I have switched to smuckers all natural smooth. It is some really good stuff but you have to make sure you stir it completely or when you get to the bottom there wont be any oil left.
JIF smooth is the only one that I will buy. I am brand loyal on very few things but JIF is one.
Quote: TigerWuI buy Best Choice Natural Peanut Butter. Only ingredients are peanuts and salt. $2.15 for a 1 lb jar. All natural peanut butter tastes ten times better than the stuff with sugar in it.
I disagree vehementaly. When does sugar not make something good? Healthy no, good yes.
Sounds like an addictionQuote: DRichI disagree vehementaly. When does sugar not make something good? Healthy no, good yes.
Quote: DRichI disagree vehementaly. When does sugar not make something good? Healthy no, good yes.
How can you not like this guy. You always make me feel good about my own food choices! When I think maybe I should not eat something I ask myself, "what would DRich do"
Quote: vegasHow can you not like this guy. You always make me feel good about my own food choices! When I think maybe I should not eat something I ask myself, "what would DRich do"
I'll vouch for him: very likeable in person, too!
Quote: vegasHow can you not like this guy. You always make me feel good about my own food choices! When I think maybe I should not eat something I ask myself, "what would DRich do"
Anyone that knows me will tell you that I do everything that I enjoy and damn the consequences. I have no interest in living longer if I can't enjoy what I like.
weighed a ton and were a pain to operate?
My 80's vac finally gave up the ghost and
I got a new one. What a difference, it
weighs almost nothing and is fun to use.
It could suck the chrome off a trailer
hitch too. The bottom one was what we
had in the 50's, it was wrestling with an
lion.
Quote: EvenBobRemember when vacuums were huge and
weighed a ton and were a pain to operate?
My 80's vac finally gave up the ghost and
I got a new one. What a difference, it
weighs almost nothing and is fun to use.
It could suck the chrome off a trailer
hitch too. The bottom one was what we
had in the 50's, it was wrestling with an
lion.
I maintain that a real marriage saver is a vacuum that stays quieter than the TV.
Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when we wondered what the star and "tic tac toe" buttons on the touch tone phone were for? I remember if you pushed them your phone would get upset, putting off weird sounds in the ear piece.
Kids today call the "#" the hash tag symbol. Lol. They don;t even know what a hash is.
Quote: DRichKids today call the "#" the hash tag symbol. Lol. They don;t even know what a hash is.
They need to watch "Midnight Express" I guess.
On a similar note I remember reading how in the early 80s they thought of taking the @ off the typewriter due to lack of use. Think about that, did you use @ at all before email then URL?
Luckily this passed with the oughts.
Quote: AZDuffmanRemember when people with answering machines
Remember when answering machines
were magical and wonderful and
space age tech? That a fricking
MACHINE could answer your phone
for you? I hate talking on the phone
and it got me out of a ton of unwanted
conversations.
The architect Buckminster Fuller never
had a phone. He said it was like having
a rope tied to your ankle and anytime
somebody wanted you, they just jerked
on the rope. Amen to that.
Quote: EvenBobRemember when answering machines
were magical and wonderful and
space age tech? That a fricking
MACHINE could answer your phone
for you? I hate talking on the phone
and it got me out of a ton of unwanted
conversations.
The architect Buckminster Fuller never
had a phone. He said it was like having
a rope tied to your ankle and anytime
somebody wanted you, they just jerked
on the rope. Amen to that.
Most of my friends don't talk on the telephone much at all.
I am probably on the telephone for 15 minutes a month. 10 minutes of that will be talking to my parents, and then 5 minutes of someone calling me.
Quote: DRichMost of my friends don't talk on the telephone much at all.
I am probably on the telephone for 15 minutes a month. 10 minutes of that will be talking to my parents, and then 5 minutes of someone calling me.
Same here. Almost everybody texts or emails nowadays. At least among people I know. That's just personal use, though. Business-related stuff is much more phone oriented.
I made "funny" answering machine messages all the time back in the late '90's. I remember one where I was pretending to play with a gun and it "went off" and then the line went silent like I had accidentally shot myself. That would probably get me a visit from the police nowadays, but back in the day everyone thought it was a hoot.
Custom ringtones were big in the 2000's... Now nobody cares about that stuff and has pretty much gone back to a basic ringtone, if anything. A lot of people I know (myself included) just have it permanently on vibrate.
a reason. And the ringer is turned off
so if you call me, good luck. This
drives my doctors office nuts. Don't
you ever answer your phone, the
nurse will say. No, text or email only.
We don't do that, she says. Oh well,
says I..
They somehow got my wife's number
and she told them to stop bugging her.
My doctor looks at his chart and reads
me a note that my mother was rude
to one of the nurses when she called.
I said good trick, my mother died 25
years ago. lol
Quote: TigerWuSame here. Almost everybody texts or emails nowadays. At least among people I know. That's just personal use, though. Business-related stuff is much more phone oriented.
I made "funny" answering machine messages all the time back in the late '90's. I remember one where I was pretending to play with a gun and it "went off" and then the line went silent like I had accidentally shot myself. That would probably get me a visit from the police nowadays, but back in the day everyone thought it was a hoot.
Custom ringtones were big in the 2000's... Now nobody cares about that stuff and has pretty much gone back to a basic ringtone, if anything. A lot of people I know (myself included) just have it permanently on vibrate.
I never got that downloading ringtones thing. Never got so much of the phone culture. I guess it was worse in China and Southeast Asia. I read in the late 90s how in that area phones were such a thing after six months you were out of the loop. They went crazy for the latest features.
My smartphone is a tool. I use it well but for style it is not.
I saw on TV and in books. I was
a HS senior when Star Trek came
out and I marveled at their
communicators. They could do
everything, even contact the
computer on the ship. Now I
have a phone that does all that.
I rented a Ford Ecosport this
weekend and couldn't figure
out how to get the boot open.
So I asked my phone and it
showed me a video. Right
there in the parking lot.
I just bought all the Reacher
books in the last 2 weeks
and never left my home office.
I wanted a recipe for tonight
and got it immediately from
Youtube. I wanted to know
the current weather in EU and
had instant access to radar
and stats.
This is my dream future and
I'm living in it. Every single
day, and I'm serious. I marvel
at it. Because I remember
vividly what life was like
without it.
Quote: EvenBobFor me, I'm living the sci/fi future
I saw on TV and in books.
Look at Elon Musk's new rocket. It's straight out of the 1950's sci-fi flicks you grew up on.
Quote: EvenBob
This is my dream future and
I'm living in it. Every single
day, and I'm serious. I marvel
at it. Because I remember
vividly what life was like
without it.
For me as well, though I keep wondering when it will plane off. 1880-1930 was amazing. 1930-1980 was fits and starts. For example, a 1970 car did not have much fancier tech than one did in 1945. But a 2000 car was far more different than one in 1979.
It has to level off for a decade or two sooner or later.
Quote: AZDuffmanFor me as well, though I keep wondering when it will plane off. 1880-1930 was amazing.
I think about that all the time. Rockefeller
was born in 1839 and died in 1938. He
saw it all. Telegraph, phone, phonograph,
electric, light bulb, cars, radio, movies, planes.
If he'd lived one more year he would
have seen TV at the worlds fair.
Quote: EvenBob
I just bought all the Reacher
books in the last 2 weeks
and never left my home office.
Glad you're enjoying the Jack Reacher books. They are the Krispy Kreme doughnuts of modern literature - you just can't put them down. I re-read many of them over and over.
Quote: EvenBobI think about that all the time. Rockefeller
was born in 1839 and died in 1938...
My grandfather was born in 1896, died in 1976.
First flight to the moon landing in one lifetime.
Quote: gordonm888Glad you're enjoying the Jack Reacher books. They are the Krispy Kreme doughnuts of modern literature - you just can't put them down. I re-read many of them over and over.
Reacher is the modern Travis McGee.
Except John McDonald was a much
better writer. Reacher and McGee
even look alike and talk alike. Lee
Child is a big McGee fan, even does
the intro in the new McGee reprints.
You read these books for the cleverness.
No matter how thick it gets for the
hero, you know he'll live thru it so
you really don't care. I haven't read a
James Bond book since the 60's. I
bet they haven't held up well.
Quote: EvenBobI have no voicemail on my phone for
a reason. And the ringer is turned off
so if you call me, good luck. This
drives my doctors office nuts. Don't
you ever answer your phone, the
nurse will say. No, text or email only.
We don't do that, she says. Oh well,
says I..
They somehow got my wife's number
and she told them to stop bugging her.
My doctor looks at his chart and reads
me a note that my mother was rude
to one of the nurses when she called.
I said good trick, my mother died 25
years ago. lol
I go to a 'spa' for a monthly massage covered by my health insurance. I have to pay a $10 co-pay. But if I miss my massage without canceling the day before there is a big sign telling me I would owe $25. I get MULTIPLE emails reminding me of the date and time, MULTIPLE text messages the same, and even actual phone calls...... Last time I went MY MASSAGE THERAPIST WAS NOT THERE; she forgot she was working that day..... I told the secretary that every time I get a text/email/call to do the same for my therapist.
Have you asked them for the $25? ;-)Quote: SOOPOOI go to a 'spa' for a monthly massage covered by my health insurance. I have to pay a $10 co-pay. But if I miss my massage without canceling the day before there is a big sign telling me I would owe $25. I get MULTIPLE emails reminding me of the date and time, MULTIPLE text messages the same, and even actual phone calls...... Last time I went MY MASSAGE THERAPIST WAS NOT THERE; she forgot she was working that day..... I told the secretary that every time I get a text/email/call to do the same for my therapist.
Quote: AZDuffmanFor me as well, though I keep wondering when it will plane off. 1880-1930 was amazing. 1930-1980 was fits and starts. For example, a 1970 car did not have much fancier tech than one did in 1945. But a 2000 car was far more different than one in 1979.
It has to level off for a decade or two sooner or later.
I think autonomous vehicles will be the next big change in culture, so we've got a couple of decades of innovation to go. However, if the climate continues to change, food shortages will change our way of life as we are forced to transition from wheat and beef to other sources of nutrition.
As for the "wonder" in the world, a generation is coming that will never see a live orca, rhinoceros, nor elephant. I suppose it will be how today we can only imagine the massive herds of bison that roamed western North America in the first half of the 1800's.
When the Defense Department verified that fighter pilot video of a UFO performing maneuvers at speeds and endurance beyond our current capabilities was genuine, I thought the world would go nuts. However, the news came and went pretty quietly. Why are we not as a planet looking into this?
Quote: Ayecarumba
When the Defense Department verified that fighter pilot video of a UFO performing maneuvers at speeds and endurance beyond our current capabilities was genuine, I thought the world would go nuts. However, the news came and went pretty quietly. Why are we not as a planet looking into this?
Most people probably just assume it's some top secret skunkworks project, either from our government or someone else's. UFO =/= aliens.
Quote: AyecarumbaI think autonomous vehicles will be the next big change in culture, so we've got a couple of decades of innovation to go. However, if the climate continues to change, food shortages will change our way of life as we are forced to transition from wheat and beef to other sources of nutrition.
????
I thought the climate was getting warmer? That would mean more food not less.
The AV thing is the most oversold story perhaps of my life. Autoline was bragging about a GM car with no controls. I wrote in asking how you move it around the parking lot and how does a mechanic properly road test it. They kept dancing around the question.
The declining to collapsing birth rate is what is going to cause the problems for most nations. South Korea will collapse in a couple generations.
Quote: AZDuffman????
I thought the climate was getting warmer? That would mean more food not less.
Depends on the crop and where it is. If it gets too hot somewhere, they wouldn't be able to grow crops anymore. If other places warm up, they might be able to grow stuff they previously couldn't. We might break even on food, or lose food, or come out ahead (if we're really lucky).
