Does anybody remember in the late 70's when eating eggs as stated by govt. officials was going to kill you.(cholesterol)

History | 8/01/20 | me

[greeneyes]

Yes, I remember-it was fake, phony, and false. Actually to help prevent build up in the arteries, you need Vitamin K2 to get calcium into your bones and not clogging up the arteries.

IIRC, K2 is a fat soluble Vitamin that humans do not make in their own body. Cows that eat grass-not grains make a lot of K2 and it's in their fat and milk. Eggs also have K2 in the yolks from free range chickens.

Your body also needs healthy fats to make the good Cholesterol HDL. Carbohydrates in the amounts advised by the pyramid that was adopted after the McGovern hearings is detrimental to your health. To fatten animals-feed them grain. And then wonder why obesity is a problem. DUH.

[oldvirginian]

What I really find frightening is that our accents are disappearing. I grew up speaking with the the Scotts inspired Virginia accent.
This part of the state was settled largely by Scotts who were either brought over on the prison ships or immigrated later.
I love the old accents that were part of our national heritage. They haven’t disappeared completely but in another generation only the deep South and upper North East will have distinguishable accents. Even the dreaded NYC accent has been toned down.

As to writing I see it as a symphony of words telling a story. Most of the time cutting too many words out is like cutting the flute section out of the show. The story is still somewhat told but too much is missing. It’s like heavy petting with no payoff! Just plain unsatisfying.

Can you imagine an editor telling Winston Churchill to cut half of his History of WW2?
Telling Mark Twain to cut 1/3 of his writing?
Telling William Shakespeare his plays were too wordy?

Only in a dumbed down society is a paucity of words in writing considered good. We are there.

Now they aren’t rewriting history, they want to stop teaching it completely.

[oldvirginian]

Not even the Scotts can understand Glaswegian! They speak a non terrestrial gibberish in Glasgow. If you’re not from there don’t even try.

Before the WhuFlu I used to run into a lady, mid 30’s, from England. She had met her American husband while he was working in London. She was happy to now be living in the U.S. but had one complaint, her children are growing up with “beastly American accents.” She smiled when she said it and she is so pretty I just smiled myself and nodded.
She and I once talked about accents and she noticed the difference between the older generations of Virginians and the kids. She told me about the accents from the various parts of England. I hadn’t realized a country as small as England had regional accents.

Kentucky still holds onto it’s accent. The hills of North Carolina, western South Carolina, rural West Virginia, the western mountains of Virginia and various parts of the deep south are also holding their accents. Pretty much anywhere away from a big city and interstate highways is still doing okay. Pennsylvania still has some regional differences as well as Wisconsin.

I’ll say Bostonese, though not as bad as Glaswegian, is also one of those accents that is not only hard to decipher but hard on the ear. How can so many people talk through their noses and think YOU’RE the one who sounds funny?