Celiac Warning: Prima Force Piracetam

Since the company I usually get my piracetam from stopped carrying it, I've had to search for alternatives. I bought Prima Force brand piracetam. Upon consumption, my fiance and I (both of us celiac) immediately became ill with the typical symptoms, including days of feeling dysphoric, flat and tired afterward.

I'm posting this because it's nearly impossible to find out if [Insert Brand Here]'s piracetam is gluten free and dairy free. Hopefully, some equally-frustrated individual will stumble upon this post before they, too waste their time, money and health with Prima Force.

I emailed Prima Force and asked if the piracetam was gluten free. They said it was, and now I will never trust another manufacturer again. Prima Force's piracetam is not gluten free!

Most companies buy their piracetam from China in bulk, put it in a container and slap their label on it. So I'm not sure if Prima Force is blatantly lying, or if they just really believe it's gluten free only because they didn't add anything to it. They may not have added anything to it after they recieved it, but there's no telling what went into the stuff when it was manufactured in China.

So if you're Celiac stay away from Prima Force!

Safety Baby Shaker

From The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_babysafe_ball_makes_shaking?utm_source=videoembed

Mothers' Day Ellen Show Episode

It featured an audience full of preggos. It was disgusting. And of course they got free stuff. SUV strollers and some other garbage that they don't need.

I cringe to think of all of those babies being born. 6,706,993,152... 6,706,993,153... 6,706,993,154... 6,706,993,155...

Overpopulation isn't my only problem. It's the modern parenting styles by which most of these kids will be raised: Helicopter parenting, attachment parenting, gentle discipline (read: no discipline) and extended breastfeeding, just to name a few. No wonder kids today are so overindulged, greedy, selfish, lazy, cruel and disrespectful. Back in my day, kids didn't act that way for the most part. We knew what we'd get if we did.


Mothers Day can suck my ass. Isn't motherhood supposed to be "it's own reward" or some such shit? All it is is a 'holiday' made up by card companies and perpetrated by various industries to guilt people into throwing exorbitant amounts of money at overpriced, impractical, pre-fabricated, impersonal gifts.

You know, nobody blubbers about fatherhood and Father's Day the way they do motherhood and Mother's Day. I guess that's because, by and large, men are considered to be bumbling, brutish, incompetent ninnies who are incapable of caring for a rock. Society (especially baby-rabid women) these days views men with children as nothing more than a hapless sperm donor there to provide financial support. Glorified sugar daddies. Marital prostitution. 'Tis a shame, really. No wonder so many fathers feel disillusioned and either leave their families or fuck around on their childed wives. Look at how they're treated.

Here's an interesting poll from a forum. This seems to be the general consensus across the board, as I see evidence of it in everyday society.

It's 4/20.

And I'm celebrating.

Man, I'm toasted. Let me say that, out of all the plant-based/herbal drugs I've tried, weed is my favorite.

I remember the highest I've ever been. It was at a resort in Jamaica (family vacation with fiance's mom). We bought weed from a cab driver, smoked a huge joint, bought ganja cake, smoked another huge joint, then went back to the hotel room and I spent hours in pure, unadulterated, euphoric, enlightened bliss before I finally passed out.

Nothing I've smoked so far (and it has been a lot) has come close to Jamaica's fine produce. Not in smell, texture, taste or high. This stuff was golden-green in color, very long and compact (reminiscent of a skinny turd), very sticky, very seedy, very skunky and sickly sweet-smelling. This was, as they say, 'some good shit, man'.

Man, I want to go back to Jamaica.

Calories vs Nutrition

You know how a lot of daytime TV shows have that "eat this, not that" bullshit where they say you should, by default, eat the one with less calories?

That pisses me off, because it's bad advice. They pay no attention to which one is actually healthier. Just which one has fewer calories.

A serving of pretzels may have less calories than a serving of peanuts, but it is not healthier! Peanuts have protein, and fiber, if they have the skins. Pretzels are 100% refined carbohydrates, which are no better than sugar. No fiber. No protein.

An ice cream cone may have fewer calories than a Jamba Juice, but assuming that the Jamba juice has real fruit and/or juice in it, the ice cream cone is not healthier!

Compare white sugar, pasteurized table honey (not raw), and raw sugar. They all have the same calories, but raw sugar is better for you, because it still contains some semblance of vitamins and minerals in it.

Watching your calories is important, but you also need to make sure you're making the most nutritious choices. Losing/maintaining weight isn't going to do you much good if your health is poor because you eat garbage all the time!

High-calorie, nutrient dense foods are always better than lower-calorie, nutritionally empty foods like ice cream and pretzels. If you're counting your calories, you'd do yourself a favor to use them wisely. To eat empty calories is a waste.

And people wonder why their health is suffering? People are idiots. They can't be bothered to think for themselves, they need TV to tell them how to think, what to eat and how to live. How pathetic.

Another Awesome Post

Here's yet another brilliant post by a person on the forum I frequent (RE: This news story):

What a load of old tripe.

The median income in the UK is currently about £28K. That's about $40K. 'Poverty level' is considered to be 60 percent of that, so they're talking about deprivation -- oops I do mean 'chyld poverty' -- setting in at a household income before state benefits of £17K (or about $25K).

Do the maths and they're trying to suggest that a low-income working class fambly can't survive on £1200/mo ($1700/mo). Remember this is before they're handed five different kinds of taxpayer cash, in the form of income support, housing benefit, child benefit, grants, etc etc etc.

What the FUCK are they wearing and eating and smoking and drinking that they can't survive on that kind of money?!

I despise the term 'child poverty'. It's wrong. Frankly I do not give a shit about the fact that a kiddie only has three pairs of trousers, seven tshirts and two pairs of shoes to wear (and remember the poorest get free or virtually free school uniforms here). The answer to this terrible situation is something called a washing machine. And I'm getting the message too that second-hand shops aren't good enough for their precious egos.

There is no such thing as 'child poverty'. Children do not generate income, so it could be said that ALL those little shits are poverty-stricken, yes? There's only 'adult poverty' -- and if a brat is unfortunate enough to be born to an unemployable fuckwit, then hey, hard cheese. He might have better luck in the next life, aye?

I, myself, do just fucking dandy on roughly a third of $1700/month. With money to spare! Something's rotten in tunatown, and it looks like I'm not the only one who thinks so!

CodeRed Phone Notification Angers Dodge County Residents

Here.

Dodge County's sheriff says he was inundated with calls and e-mails from residents who were angry about an early morning call notifying them of a missing child. The phone calls to residents of Mayville were made by the county's CodeRed phone emergency notification system Tuesday at 7:30 a.m.

The residents were notified that an 8-year-old boy was missing. Sheriff Todd Nehls says some assumed it was an April Fools' Day prank.

The county's Emergency Management Director Joe Meagher says the notification system is an important tool in alerting citizens about a potentially dangerous situation, such as a chemical spill, or other emergencies, like a missing child.

After the notification system was activated, sheriff's officials got a call that the child had walked to a friend's house blocks away.

And rightfully fucking so! The first time my phone rang for something so redundant, they'd have a harassment lawsuit on their hands. A missing child is not an public emergency. It is not a threat to the public. Here's a novel idea- Maybe these dumb shitsacks should... I don't know... Watch their fucking child? But that would require some parenting, and we all know that that's tooo haaaaard! I'm so sick of seeing responsible people pay for the stupidity neglect mistakes of others (irresponsible breeders in particular), even if it is merely an inconvenience.

What a stupid idea, classifying a missing child as an emergency. What a waste of time, money and resources. This is on par with telemarketing, and it should be illegal to use public emergency notification systems for such asinine things.

Urban Occurances

Ahh... The joys of living in the Big Shitty City! Smog, noise, poor abandoned animals and trash of both the human and inanimate varieties everywhere... Gotta love it! *puke*

At the rate I'm going with my camera, this may start doubling as a photoblog. I don't go anywhere without my camera, as every time I leave it at home, I miss something photoworthy. You know what they say- A picture's worth a thousand words.

As I was out getting groceries today, I took three very, um.... interesting pictures..


That is a used condom lying by the sidewalk. Charming.

This is some entitled whore (probably a moother) who thought it'd be fine to park her ugly-ass minivan on the sidewalk. Why, yes, that is a school in the background!

And this is the cunt's license plate. If you live in the St. Louis area and you see this van, key it.

Why the fuck do you have a kid?

A brilliant piece. You can find it here.

If there was ever something that shows the gleaming virtue and unmitigated goodness of abortion, this is it. If children are the future, then the future does not bode well.

The fact that people like that are allowed to breed is one reason why I keep a loaded gun by my bed at night.

Football Player Stopped by Cops

...While his MIL was dying from cancer.


This story pisses me off. A cop was punished because some self-entitled prick was endangering other people. I originally saw the story on NBC nightly news, and it said he was speeding and ran a red light.

Y'know, call me callous, but just because your MIL is dying doesn't mean that you are entitled to disregard the law and endanger other people in your rush to get to the hospital. It sucks that he wasn't there and that his MIL was dying. But come on! The only reason this is getting any attention is because the guy was a football player. When a big, 'important' person like that boo-hoos about something, everybody runs to tongue-wash their dumper.

Bird ID

I took a picture of a bird today with my shiny, bitchin' new camera. I've never seen this bird before in my life, and it had the most beautiful song! I wondered if someone out there might know what it is?



EDIT: Apparently, this is a Mockingbird.

The Ellen Show

There's this woman on there that apparently has a 15 month old (read: 1 year. What's with moomies and that "months" crap?) kid, a car that doesn't start half the time and a lack of money. Ellen will be giving her a shiny new car and $5k in gas money.

Anyone else see what's wrong with this situation? No? Then allow me to point it out.

To be there, she would have had to buy an airline ticket, hotel, feed herself , and buy a ticket to the show. None of that is cheap. I can guaran-fucking-tee you that for what she pissed away to get herself to the show, she could have bought a decent used car. Yet another case of some numbnuts who whines about money, then pisses away copious amounts of it on something so totally retarded that it boggles the mind.

If I whined about how I didn't have money to pay my bills, then revealed that I'd spent it all on, say, a new stereo system, I'd get verbally torn to shreds. And rightfully so.

There are probably millions of other people out there far more deserving of a free luxury car and five grand in gas that this obviously irresponsible git.

"For the sake of the chyldrun!"

I've been reading the archives of Childfree Abby, an advice columnist. She's hilarious beyond belief, and a very wise lady, indeed.

She has received a lot of letters from people in shitty relationships who don't want to divorce "because of the kids".

I take issue with this. Why, in [insert diety here]'s name would anyone want to stay in an abusive or otherwise miserable, unhealthy relationship for the sake of their fuck trophies?

Nobody should have to suffer a horrid relationship simply because of their brat(s). Children are not that important. And besides, do they really think it's good for the loaves? What kind of model do they think they will be for Bratleigh and Snotford if they stay in a loveless, probably abusive marriage?

Yeah, that's a great thing to teach the kyds.

Soap Opera Revelations

I've come to several revelations that, for some reason, I have failed to think of in the past regarding soap operas.

1. Soap opera characters are chronically horny. They're always ready to go at the drop of a hat skirt, and you can guarantee that, in every episode, there will be at least one couple du jour boning.
2. Soap opera characters will, eventually, fuck everyone in the show at least once.
3. In Soap Opera Land, there is no such thing as birth control, condoms or abortion. However, there are plenty of miscarriages, secret pregnancies and bastard children.
4. Soap opera characters must be the most arrogant, sneaky, spiteful, conniving, spoiled, entitled, lying, underhanded assholes in the world. Kind of like most parents.
6. Someone is always in some sort of moral, physical or emotional turmoil. Everyone is miserable with their lives for some reason or another.
7. Nobody except the odd old lady knows how to cooks, and they all eat out every. Freaking. Night.
8. Everyone is eager and thrilled to have babies, even if they are accidents.

The very fact that these shows are so popular speaks volumes about society and human psychology. Their target audience, stay-at-home-moms, relate to a lot of these characters and situations (sans the excessive weatlth and lavish homes), and I think that's why they're so popular. Pathetic, really.