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It reminds me of the controversy over Mrs/Ms/Miss in the '70s. We made it through that. I m sure this will be similar.

Glad you like him. He's even sort of nice - a periodontist in Beirut.

He was lucky to have such a devoted friend. Very sorry for your loss.

What about vaping? Is that bad too? I haven't smoked pot at all since they came out with vaping pens and cartidges of extract.

As a young man, I tended to get a bad shaving rash. A dermatologist prescribed a triamcinolone cream to control it, which it did. In retrospect, I think it was probably overkill, but obviously, I lived to tell about it.

I don't think the 2006 study was double-blind. It's unfortunate you gave up searching before you found any references that called what you "know" into question. According to this meta-analysis, double-blind studies have shown a clear benefit from treatment with high-dose acyclovir. I haven't looked at the indications for acyclovir, but I don't imagine it is FDA approved for pytyriasis. I don't doubt you are familiar with off-label uses of approved drugs. Effectiveness of acyclovir in the treatment of pityriasis rosea. A systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed PUBMED.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV Symptomatic treatment is a reasonable option for pityriasis rosea, and the addition of acyclovir is justified for the control of symptoms and pruritus.

Unusual in older adults but not rare either. Two dermatologists and my PCP all agreed on the dx. Unfortunately, since they weren't familiar with the literature WRT use of acyclovir to treat pytyriasis, I'm outside the window when it would have done any good. The cream is triamcinolone in Sarna - works well enough, but the acyclovir could have knocked this out in as little as a week.

Lord - I do love hairy legs

A couple weeks ago, I came down with a scary looking rash called pytariasis rosea. It's supposed to be caused by herpes 6/7. I have itchy red blotches on my back, shoulders, chest, stomach. arms, legs. I asked them to give me valacyclovir for it, but they said no - not enough evidence that it is effective. Instead, they gave me an industrial strength itch cream compounded with a long-acting corticosteroid.

The Royal Carriage was already a silly anachronism, but that pair riding in it could have been straight out of Monty Python.

I don't care that much that she and Charlie were stepping out on Diana. I just find her loathsome on general principles. At the coronation, she and Charlie were more cartoonish than monarchic.

Sounds tasty. I might try it.

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A queen who reigns in her own right is called either a sovereign queen or a queen regnant. The wife of a king is a queen consort.

kind of like Japanese brush painting - know when to stop.

We have one friend who has lived in France for many years. She says the idea that, at some point in her life, a woman should allow herself to go gray is a very American notion and that European women don't have any guilt about wanting to look good until the day they die. She colors her own hair a beautiful rich brunette and sports a very glamorous Jackie hairstyle.

I don't pay enough attention to athletes to be able to name specific ones, but I love basketball players. I know next to nothing about basketball but I like to watch it occasionally because I like watching those beatiful big men run back and forth on the court.

Bingo!! This.

I don't think it is a community, mostly for technical reasons. Im sure there is a sociology textbook out there that contains a definition of "community," but I don't know what it is. My idea of a community is that is an ad hoc assortment of people who have something in common - they live in the same neighborhood, they have a common interest, etc. I also think that an essential feature of a community is that community members identify with the community. I don't think this forum is a community because it lacks the ad hoc feature that I think communities have. The group has an announced purpose. People join this group by opening an account and establishing login credentials. They are provided with an orientation to the group's purpose and standards of conduct. The group has moderators that are tasked with enforcing the standards of conduct. Group members can be disciplined or even banished for failing to conform to the group standards. This is more like a club than a community, even though it may resemble a community on the surface.

Most service professionals who have given it any thought have an avatar client. I'm guessing that for escorts who stay really busy, 9- or 10- good looks are not an essential characteristic of their avatar client.

I read a science-fiction novel once, can't remember the title, where everybody ate synthetic meat - only the extremely wealthy could afford real naturally-produced meat.

If they believe their own lies, they are delusional.

Does anybody know if there was insurance? There are carriers who specialize in coverage of very high-risk scenarios.

It was sort of a joke. In a few studies of people who have what I have, an incidental finding was that they tended to live a little longer than the general population (emphasis added).

When I was a little kid, our neighbors across the street had her mother living with them, and she was over 100 years old. When I was looking for skilled care for my father, I toured a Methodist home. They told me that centenarians were starting to become commonplace - they had 11 or 12 of them among their residents. I wouldn't say that I have ever known a centenarian though. I knew an almost-centenarian. He was a resident at the assisted living facility where my mother lived. He was just a few months short of 100 when I met him. He was a retired philosophy professor, and we just hit if off - loved talking with each other, developed sort of a man crusch for each other. It was very sad when I heard he had died.