Pondering 6

As you should be aware, since this is the 6th one. I often get random thoughts that I ponder every now and then. My brain seems to not like being quiet, so here are a few more thoughts to think about if you’re bored…

Blood pressure medicine being bad for exercise?

I learnt through various conversations with someone, that everything to do with having high blood pressure actually goes against you getting better/free of the tablets?

Consider this –

  1. No muscle pain Relief: You are not allowed to take muscle relief tablets e.g. ibuprofen as it may make your blood pressure worse? Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It causes your body to hold onto salt and water. This fluid build up raises your blood pressure. It can actually damage your kidneys… So if you have sore muscles from any exercise, please do not use the one thing which works for this kind of pain. Also girls, lets face it, those period cramps are not cared of by blood pressure experts. So you can just suffer…
  2. Decongestants: anyone ever tried to run with a blocked nose/sinus trouble? Decongestant medications or antihistamines narrow your blood vessels, which raises your blood pressure and heart rate. So, to actually use anything to help you breath from your hay fever or allergies is actually a major no, no. Due to causing the ingredients like pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine, and oxymetazoline shrink blood vessels in your nose to stop swelling it causes the same squeezing action happens in blood vessels all over your body, forcing your heart to work harder to pump blood.

So with blood pressure all the things enabling you to take some work out classes and be healthy fit human beings are off the table so far…

They also cause high urination frequency, lower potassium, dry coughs, swelling in ankles and feet, dizziness, light-headedness and fatigue.

I no longer, really have to wonder why you don’t do vigorous exercise to counteract these effects…

Mens arses, not sexy.

Why do woman maintain this odd myth? I have never seen the appeal. To me, that is where all the smell comes out of???

As a species we have natural mating instincts, when it comes to females, yes if it comes to boobs, bigger equals higher chances of making healthy babies due to higher milk content? Wider hips mean you can give birth without complications, which I guess can translate to big butt? But males? No, naturally we focus on your ability to provide. This unfortunately has gone towards an intelligence factor rather than the broad shoulders and ability to run faster than a lion, now, adays…

I am not talking about attraction. Females actually can mate without even liking the other sex without any problem. This does not make us sluts, this is a genetic make up which choses which genes survive. Ever wonder why the dumb jocks used to be the flavour of the month then over time switched to the shy nerd. Because the females decided it was a better bet in the current society.

Where our brains used to pick a hunter to gather food and protect, now we have a society which is driven by income and brains.

I am not saying we are still not animals, the physical spectre is very strong. Especially when you are young. But is not the end point of choosing who you want to end up with and for how long. BTW, the mating instinct lasts two years after the infant is born. Then most get divorces or feel unfulfilled. I’m not condemning your relationship, just saying be realistic.

Anyway, all this is to say… men’s arses are not sexy or something any woman should be mooning over and I am quite sure it is just our sexes way of levelling out the playing field for male objectification. Why couldn’t we copy a species that sang?

It wasn’t even a smart objectification as we are basically copying baboons big red butt mating instinct? Yep, much better than Brad Pitt’s torso…

Armpit hair shaving, should not be gender specific.

Men and women smell. Especially under the armpits. Why are woman the sex you decided are the only ones to shave the hair? Have you ever smelled a boys teenage soccer team? Fuck, really bad. This is not only a girl problem, please don’t specify that only girls need to maintain their underarm stink by shaving off the hair. This is a universal, all inclusive aim to stop stink. Shave the hair, less smell. Done. Do not gender the cure! It is needed with all teens/young adults. I do not like being around anyone that age and it’s not only because of their personalities, also the stink…

Funeral flowers are mean

How to remind the grieving that everything dies quickly… Seriously, you want to show your condolences by showing the bereaved that no matter how well they look after your gift, they will eventually wilt and die…. Like who you are currently grieving over. Also, if the person was looking after the person who recently passed away, them trying to look after an already dying bunch of plant limbs may not make them feel good about their guilt. Gives a twist in the heart as those supposed, thoughtful flowers shrivel and die doesn’t it? Fuck is it bad. Send a bottle of booze, at least you know it won’t die or go off you muppet!

Loud cars, no need for them.

Who, has ever said, “Wow, more noise! That’s a good idea!”? As a teenager do you need more attention so decided to make your entire neighbourhood suffer at 2am? South Park explained this best…

Medicine and milk being body functions needing refrigeration

Ok the reason I thought of this was my insulin is a natural body hormone, which produces itself in a normal body at temperatures at around 36-37 degree Celsius. So take them as an external production and they have reduced the temp to a refrigeration level. This is an unnatural level for the hormone and yet it apparently is crucial for it’s makers! I do know heat producers bacteria, but a five minute car ride should not be the critical factor for a medicine going bad!

Everything hot that naturally is produced in heat will need to be refrigerated to very low temperatures as soon as it doesn’t have a body’s protection…

Same as milk, it is produced in high heat, why does it externalise outside the body and suddenly become so regimented by this needing to be so protected by bacteria. Think logically bout this, the milk inside a mammals chest does not go off if they don’t feed a baby within a couple of hours on a hot day. How does taking it outside the breast suddenly make it so vulnerable? Wouldn’t replicating the breasts protection by artificially mimicking the body’s immune systems be a better solution than sticking it in sub zero temperatures? Okay, I get it. It would cost more.

Which actually makes me ponder the different outside temperatures and the abilities to cause illness. Heat causes bacterial problems and cold produces viral issues. There must be an exact temperature between them that keeps these two in balance? Or do they just continually fight it out… “Rooms too warm, all tiny, single-celled living organisms that lack a distinct nucleus start spreading! Oh, wait a minute… they turned on the air-conditioner, viruses please get ready to inject your DNA/RNA into healthy cells!”

Windows

Ok, now this one is a bit of a long thought process, so I m sorry, but if you make it to the end, it gets explained, kinda…

Windows are such an important part of a house, yet something all seem to overlook when building a house. They mostly put in drab boring panes of glass and the fly-screen on the outside. Which is not easy to pull in and out, even though it’s meant to be and has to be redone every few months because it has a tear, got unfitted during a painting spree, the hot weather makes the thing holding the screen in expand and pop out etc. So when you see these screens they are fitted to keep out bugs, but unfortunately due to my previous list their frames are horribly bent in places. So as they are bent, all manor of bugs, now have access to the home and find this screen as a wonderful protection against birds… so the screens purpose is lost and you can’t open the windows for that needed fresh breeze on stuffy days as the giant spider has chosen it as a nest for her millions of babies.

Windows provide needed daylight during days and they add a bit of security for peering out when someone dares to knock on the door without notice. But think about how much we pay to cover them up or to afford privacy within your home? So, you cannot dare to undress on the street side of the house, if the curtains are open. Men, not as bad, but unfortunately for woman we have the girls upstairs and unless extremely tall or you have floor length windows (which some houses do think are a good idea) you are showing something off. Nothing like dropping the towel accidentally when dressing after a shower to the delight or horror of the next door neighbours who happen to be allowing their dog to defecate on your front lawn… “Why, hello Mr and Mrs Tweed. Lovely day isn’t it? See that the plum tree is ready to begin blossoming, going to be an amazing spring. Oh, I see you’ve noticed my breasts! Yes, they have started to sag, think it’s not wearing a running bra on the treadmill. Bet you gave up long ago from the looks of it Mrs Tweed? Anyway have to rush to work after I put on this bra, which I need to put on back to front as I can’t be bothered fastening it behind my back anymore due to three hooks, rather than two being more complicated somehow. But hope you have a lovely day!”

So, why not draw the curtains? Yes, good idea. But lets face it, on a daily basis I have to remind myself to do life giving needs like eat, so drawing a curtain, might be asking too much. Also, anyone else notice that most sun proof curtains are beautiful inside the house and you look from the outside in and they look like trashy curtains? Apparently most curtain makers have realised most people don’t care what their neighbours think of them anymore… Just letting you all know what I think when I walk past your house lol.

Could tint the windows, yes, if I owned the house, sure. But unfortunately I rent at the moment as I don’t wish to spend a million dollars on a shoebox which has foundation issues. Landlords, don’t care about a tenants comfort, as I have found by the numerous property repairs which should have been done ages ago, but are not considered ‘necessary’. “Pfft, like people need running water or electricity!”

Anyway, also could get dressed on the other side of the house? Yep, but unfortunately, the lovely real estate agent decided that since I had too much privacy, so they agreed to knock down the fence and replace it with a tiny meter high one (to save money), which now allows seven properties to look into my backyard and back bedroom. Which also allows three floodlights my neighbours have decided to get for security to make my back yard also seem as if it is day during the night.

So, all in all, windows and privacy seem to cause some issues…

This is not the only thing to consider with windows, but also security. Think about it. A thin piece of glass is apparently a protector against anyone wanting to burgle you or physically harm you! I have 5 windows and then one in the front door as well! These are easy to break. If there was a dangerous situation, where I needed to keep someone out… I am screwed!

Ok, here I am going to go with my favourite genre aka horror movies, and yes logically I do know a zombie apocalypse or deranged psychopathic Mike Myers is not going to suddenly decide to try kill me… But if there was a danger of lets say a drug addled person, not understanding where they are and tried to break into your property (this actually happened to me and it was terrifying)… you are not safe. In South Africa we had burglar bars, but my problem with them is that if there was a fire, you couldn’t break the window to escape. So, ultimately either it’s kinda unsafe or extremely unsafe. Your choice… either way with windows.

Authors note: sorry that was a long thought process, if you made it to the end you deserve a big glass of bourbon…

Cognitive Thought Makes Us Stupider Not Smarter

I know all the bible nuts always go berserk whenever we talk evolution etc. But lets face it, the new generation has fought and won against the old views and said “No!”. Thank goodness. Anyway, so humanity has accepted we are mammals, we have bodies which need food as sustenance, water for hydration, shelter for protection and reproductive systems which allow us to sustain our species.

Not sure if you saw my theories about this in the past, that smart people have said “no” to reproducing, due to realising the problems and the practicality about the time it takes to raise a child. Then you have the less intelligent reproducing at a rate of knots because they think, oh sorry no not think, um, their body tells them they want baby so they do stuff and baby is made?

Animals reproduce in the same way, they get a need and then mate, then have a/many baby/babies. Idiots, you are acting like animals! I am not being a preacher here, I understand that as animals you make really stupid choices, which seem like they are not your choice… But come on America, you elected Trump twice!



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