Dairy Products -- A Menace to Society

[TomSeller]

The past couple of weeks I have seen several guys I worked with over the past forty years. The ones who were "cheeseheads" when they were younger are something to see now. Last Wednesday I saw Joe, who is about fifty, at a local drive in restaurant. He has a late teenage, early twenty something daughter who helped his wife get him out of the car. His right arm is strapped to his side to keep it from moving uncontrollably. He was slobbering from the right side of his mouth. Not a pretty sight. His wife said he has had several strokes. The second guy I saw at a funeral home during visitation. He walked in with a cane and his wife guided him around the room. I stood right in front of him and held out my hand to shake his. He didn't recognize me or realize what I was doing until his wife told him to shake my hand. I worked with the guy for more than twenty years. His wife said that he has also had a series of strokes. He is not fifty and could not recognize me. I didn't talk to the next one. Saw him in one of the battery powered buggies at Wal-Mart. He is in his early fifties and looks eighty. The fourth one worked with me nearly every day during the late 90's. I did talk to him but he has had a lung removed and could not stand and talk at the same time. We had to find a place for him to sit. He said that he has had a series of mini-strokes and lung cancer.

These guys were the every weekend type of cheese eaters. Two had been caught culturing it.

They are all from about 45 to 55 years old. I doubt if any will make it much past 70.

Every one of them seem to be in a living he11. Their families are too.

Glad I never picked up that habit.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The past couple of weeks I have seen several guys I worked with over the past forty years. The ones who were "cheeseheads" when they were younger are something to see now. Last Wednesday I saw Joe, who is about fifty, at a local drive in restaurant. He has a late teenage, early twenty something daughter who helped his wife get him out of the car. His right arm is strapped to his side to keep it from moving uncontrollably. He was slobbering from the right side of his mouth. Not a pretty sight. His wife said he has had several strokes. The second guy I saw at a funeral home during visitation. He walked in with a cane and his wife guided him around the room. I stood right in front of him and held out my hand to shake his. He didn't recognize me or realize what I was doing until his wife told him to shake my hand. I worked with the guy for more than twenty years. His wife said that he has also had a series of strokes. He is not fifty and could not recognize me. I didn't talk to the next one. Saw him in one of the battery powered buggies at Wal-Mart. He is in his early fifties and looks eighty. The fourth one worked with me nearly every day during the late 90's. I did talk to him but he has had a lung removed and could not stand and talk at the same time. We had to find a place for him to sit. He said that he has had a series of mini-strokes and lung cancer.

These guys were the every weekend type of cheese eaters. Two had been caught culturing it.

They are all from about 45 to 55 years old. I doubt if any will make it much past 70.

Every one of them seem to be in a living he11. Their families are too.

Glad I never picked up that habit.

Sorry if I am being naive, but you post is somehow puzzling to me. I want to take it at face value, but the tone and tenor of your post suggests that it is a metaphor for something more sinister than just eating cheese. e.g.;

These guys were the every weekend type of cheese eaters. Two had been caught culturing it.

What am I missing here? Are you suggesting that consuming cheese is bad...very bad...for your health? Is there something wrong with "culturing" your own cheese?

P.S. Upon considerable reflection and review of the file, the subtlety of your post has become apparent to me. I guess I have been faced with too much reality lately to appreciate clever sarcasm.

 

[k0ua]

Sorry if I am being naive, but you post is somehow puzzling to me. I want to take it at face value, but the tone and tenor of your post suggests that it is a metaphor for something more sinister than just eating cheese. e.g.;



What am I missing here? Are you suggesting that consuming cheese is bad...very bad...for your health? Is there something wrong with "culturing" your own cheese?

P.S. Upon considerable reflection and review of the file, the subtlety of your post has become apparent to me. I guess I have been faced with too much reality lately to appreciate clever sarcasm.

2 lane... in simple terms he is saying with his tongue in cheek post that his post makes as much sense, and has as much validity as RSKY's original post in the marijuana thread.

Reading a single post will often not give one the meaning of the poster.. You must read all posts in all sections including the "friendly" politics and front porch section to get a feel for the posters state of mind.

In this case Tom feels that RSKY's post in the marijuana thread was absurd and his conclusions invalid.

Tom please correct me if I have placed any "words in your mouth" or made incorrect conclusions.

 

[ultrarunner]

Just curious.

Do you know or have heard/read of anyone who died from being entangled in bedsheets (per the first graph)?

Steve

Almost...

I looked in on an elderly woman... lived in her home 60 years... I worked with her husband at one time who passed away.

I called her number and no answer... called the next morning and no answer.

So I went to home and saw the newspaper and mail had not been picked up...

Opened a back window and climbed in calling her name... I heard a faint voice.

She had somehow got tangled in her bed sheet and wedged between the bed and the wall...

She had been their almost 3 days judging from the newspapers.

I'm certain had I not checked up on her... the outcome would have been tragic.

So yes...

 

[ultrarunner]

Mom's side of the family comes from a long line of small family dairy farmers... going back generations.

They would all drink raw milk with curds, cheese and eat lots of fat.

The up at dawn and to bed a little after sunset... almost nothing processed.... cooked everything on their Wedgwood gas/wood stove.

They all worked into their 90's on the farm... maybe a little slower pace... same schedule.

Industrial accidents were the leading cause of death... not dairy products.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

2 lane... in simple terms he is saying with his tongue in cheek post that his post makes as much sense, and has as much validity as RSKY's original post in the marijuana thread.

Reading a single post will often not give one the meaning of the poster.. You must read all posts in all sections including the "friendly" politics and front porch section to get a feel for the posters state of mind.

In this case Tom feels that RSKY's post in the marijuana thread was absurd and his conclusions invalid.

Tom please correct me if I have placed any "words in your mouth" or made incorrect conclusions.

Yeah, I finally figured it out. I had been following the thread from the beginning, but had forgotten the so-called correlations in the initial post. Once I went back and re-read the thread from the beginning, it suddenly dawned on me where he was going.

 

[davrow]

Just curious.

Do you know or have heard/read of anyone who died from being entangled in bedsheets (per the first graph)?

Steve

Happens to me all the time!

 

[dave1949]

Happens to me all the time!

Wrong kind of death. Perhaps you were thinking of this sort which also involves tangled bedsheets: La petite mort, French for "the little death".

 

[Mace Canute]

Save a child, eat a cow!

I've seen some women who by the looks of them must have saved two - three children...all by themselves!

 

[RobertBrown]

Tunc est.

In auditorium risus