mthor

Yay! It's the panda!

actually, we're over now. I just type slower than bnmjy

Not me - I know, I know, but try to hide your disappointment.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” ― Epicurus

There are several words on the list for you as well; "tiny moron" is at the top.

Actually, there were several; stupid was on the list.

But what about Gunther and Pasquale?

Y'know, that's a fairly misogynistic suggestion, playing into millennia of fears and superstitions about menstrual blood. How would you feel if somebody suggested something equally homophobic?

Raid? One of my kids was a secret shopper for a while - she would go into convenience stores or bars and try to buy alcohol and/or tobacco. If they didn't proof her, she gave them a red card, and reported it to her boss. One young-looking 24-year old girl does not seem raid-like. And are you really so naive as to assume that there is no one under 21 drinking or gambling?

When my older daughter was in middle school, she saw some woman take an antiperspirant stick off the shelf, use it, and put it back. From that day to this, she will dig to the back of the shelf before she'll buy one, and she'll inspect it as soon as she gets home to make sure that it's unused.

This was a Family Dollar. I'll have to check at the drug store the next time I go; I wonder if it's a general thing, or maybe just a chain by chain thing.

I did some more readoing about it, and apparently what they take is metric fucktons of it. The max recommended daily dose is 16 mg for an adult, usually in 4 divided doses...people who are trying to get some kind of opiate-type effect(beyond constipation) are taking 200-400 mg/day. My colon would never speak to me again, no matter how high I got. Edit: I might as well turn in my decoder ring and resign - I've hit the point in life where normal bowel function is more appealing than getting high.

That's what makes the clerk's reaction even weirder - nobody has ever seemed to have a problem telling me that I have to sign for real Sudafed because you can make meth out of it, or that they need ID for Robitussin DM because the kids drink it to get high. But this chick - the look on her face was like I'd asked her where a good place to get kiddie porn was.

(Actually, I read the article - thank you. I just wanted a chance to say that in a thread about an anti-diarrheal.)

You're shitting me.

I went to the family dollar this morning, and while I was waiting for the clerk to find her way to the register, I took a look in the locked case to see if they carry my brands. They didn't, but what they did have locked up was the Immodium and all the generic equivalents thereof. I asked the clerk, and she said that they had to, because people were stealing it, and she had no idea why. (Answers delivered through gritted teeth; whether there are a lot of idiots like me asking, or because there's a sordid story behind it, I don't know). So tell me, all you trend setters out there, what is so alluring about Immodium that it has to be locked up? I've never even seen that done with Robitussin DM. Is there some kind of never poop again fad going on, or is it something more arcane?

Policies and procedures differ from institution to institution - I'm sure that's true in your business as well as mine. That's why new employees get orientation before they're handed a mop or a bedpan. Did you consider that they may have been red-carded?

Oh. So since I've worked in hospitals, I know exactly what the drill is in a nursing home. That's an interesting premise. Too bad it doesn't quite work that way.

How do you know they weren't checking everybody's ID? Because she said so?

Meh, he likes her cause she's cheap. Won't drop the $30 for a state ID, was trying to get into a club for free. The woman of his dreams.

OK, is this really you, or have you been replaced by a pod person?

No, they picked on her because she didn't have what is usually considered valid ID, and they were attempting to work with her to remedy the situation when her "window of opportunity closed" (her friend who was going to sleaze her in free went off shift), and she didn't want to pay to get in, so she left too. And get over yourself - I get proofed all the time. I can't buy smokes or cartridges at the drug store or beer at the grocery store without having my license scanned, because the registers are programmed not to complete the transaction until proof of age is presented. And I'm probably just about your age - I may actually be a couple of years older.

Is it issued by the county, state, or federal government? And did they scan it, or just look at it?

If she had not been a woman of a certain age, but instead had been in her 20's, Kenny wouldn't care either - he'd be more focused on the fact that she was trying to sleaze her way in through a friend that worked there and was apparently going off duty soon. She flat out said that she didn't want to pay to get in, so she left.

What? No diarrhea? Amateur.