Fivequart said : No, that should be a TEAspoon! Actually, a slightly heaping teaspoon is just about right, a tablespoon is too much.
Jon said: No, that should be a TEAspoon! Actually, a slightly heaping teaspoon is just about right, a tablespoon is too much.
Every time I lurk among discussions from the Safety section my hair stand on end. I wonder about how the on/off unease of living with mixed feelings for the wonderful sense of safe haven that a community can communicate, the free exchange of notions, facts, fantasies and recollections - even if only in a virtual way - makes me think about being a bit uncomfortable to fit somewhat narrowly amidst a fair number of members which tendency to drift across the lines seems an urge comparable only to bodily functions.
No, wait: such analogy isn't the most appropriate, I had to suppress a snickering fit.
Maybe this will fit better. I remember many years ago there was a question topic about our equipment and the OP titled the thread along the lines of “where do you stash your gear”. My first thought was, what I am doing here? Why didn't he wrote “where do you store your gear” instead? Then if someone actually happens to be forced to hide his/her paraphernalia, reasons aside, well he/she could have always pointed that out and that would have fueled further reflections. This, I think, is what the gist of such a place should be. Hypercharacterization won't neither build comraderie nor gain more acceptance or else. Too many closet type persons hide from themselves far more than from others IMHO.
Okay, this is a kink oriented site not a medical one: but then why implementing such a section if posts and replies veer on anything and its opposite like a tide, not to mention plain nonsense scattered here and there? Should I point to single examples? A lifetime care toward politeness and education forbids me that within this community, not to mention that it would equal to skating on thin ice - done that already…
I know about at least three istances a few years ago where here in Italy an enema led to death the recipient, two in hospitals and one in a correction facility. None of them were recreational enemas gone awry - one was the tragic yet guiltless mistake of a nurse who administered to three elderly patients formaldehyde instead of sorbitol due to a container substitution.
Just to remain on topic with salt, the numbers have been laid out and not since last night. Newbies can always be plainly taught as the most useful fringe benefit of our welcome embrace - I, for one, felt our nice circle a heartwarming place since I first stumbled upon Zity. Personal choices are what they are, equally respectable, mostly interesting and stimulating provided no one promotes dangerous acts, recipes, of habits. (Then again: why implementing such a section?) So if someone clearly shows faulty thinking moderators or the many of us having even a crumb of science under their belt should steer on the spot the easygoers (my harsher remark for the time being) toward correctness. In this case, since salt is used as a buffering agent and not a seasoning, depending on volume and retention time and individual sensitivity too, salt or no salt is a plain choice; promoting flawed views of the matter is not. Alas, other threads and sections are far more suitable for throwing out with skips and leaps about one's wildest scenarios. I thought the library section was to be such a space.
Rant over.
For heaven's sake, is a stupid pocket digital scale that expensive, nowhere to be found, or offputting? Is common sense sold for gold at some black market?