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mgk920

Quote from: kernals12 on January 20, 2025, 11:12:08 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on January 20, 2025, 10:08:24 PMMinor thing: when you pop a pimple and you think you've got it all out, even to the point of bleeding. Yet a day later, there is is, back again like it never left, and you have to pop it again, and double squeeze to make sure you got it all.

Dermatologists are pretty unanimous in their opinion that you should not pop zits or cysts or any other cutaneous abscess as they will simply come back.

Or one can wait a few years and they will no longer be a problem. :nod:

Mike


kernals12

#10251
Quote from: formulanone on January 21, 2025, 11:25:04 AMThat the term axle tramp hasn't caught on in America.

That's because the word "tramp" has developed its own stigma

EDIT: And that's another thing that bothers me, the multitude of once-innocent words that have become double entendres. It's called the euphemism treadmill

JayhawkCO

Quote from: mgk920 on January 21, 2025, 01:48:16 PM
Quote from: kernals12 on January 20, 2025, 11:12:08 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on January 20, 2025, 10:08:24 PMMinor thing: when you pop a pimple and you think you've got it all out, even to the point of bleeding. Yet a day later, there is is, back again like it never left, and you have to pop it again, and double squeeze to make sure you got it all.

Dermatologists are pretty unanimous in their opinion that you should not pop zits or cysts or any other cutaneous abscess as they will simply come back.

Or one can wait a few years and they will no longer be a problem. :nod:

Mike

If that were only the case. 42 years old and still get them occasionally.

kphoger

Quote from: kernals12 on January 20, 2025, 11:12:08 PMDermatologists are pretty unanimous in their opinion that you should not pop zits or cysts or any other cutaneous abscess as they will simply come back.

Fortunately, I never pop my zits.  My wife does it for me.
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Max Rockatansky

I'm usually the popper of my zits in addition to those of my wife.  Running around every morning for an hour plus in damp clothes doesn't seem to ward off pimples.

JayhawkCO

Pimple patches are where it's at.

kphoger

Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 21, 2025, 03:16:47 PMPimple patches are where it's at.

That sounds similar to a pumpkin patch.
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J N Winkler

I'm not above expressing comedones, but I do think it is important to clean the skin first.
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kphoger

Quote from: J N Winkler on January 21, 2025, 04:25:57 PMI'm not above expressing comedones

I prefer expressed pustules, myself.
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Male pronouns, please.

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1995hoo

Quote from: kphoger on January 21, 2025, 03:58:37 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 21, 2025, 03:16:47 PMPimple patches are where it's at.

That sounds similar to a pumpkin patch.

You're making me picture the Great Pimple rising out of the most serene pimple patch.... yeah, I don't want to envision what the Great Pimple distributes, although I suppose the scene where Bluto says he's a zit is maybe a better way to envision it.

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—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

hbelkins

Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 21, 2025, 02:06:39 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on January 21, 2025, 01:48:16 PM
Quote from: kernals12 on January 20, 2025, 11:12:08 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on January 20, 2025, 10:08:24 PMMinor thing: when you pop a pimple and you think you've got it all out, even to the point of bleeding. Yet a day later, there is is, back again like it never left, and you have to pop it again, and double squeeze to make sure you got it all.

Dermatologists are pretty unanimous in their opinion that you should not pop zits or cysts or any other cutaneous abscess as they will simply come back.

Or one can wait a few years and they will no longer be a problem. :nod:

Mike

If that were only the case. 42 years old and still get them occasionally.

42? I'm 63 and I still get them.
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kphoger

My grandma still gets them.  And she died in 2006.
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Male pronouns, please.

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Max Rockatansky

Replies to posts like:

"What state is this pic from?"

When it is clear that the person saying something like that didn't read what they are replying to.  In the case of the above question:

"Pictured is a graveled early US Route 40 near Floriston siding in the Truckee River Canyon.  This photo is part of the Caltrans McCurry Collection.  This segment of highway was opened during 1926 as a bypass of the Dog Valley Grade which carried the early North Lincoln Highway and Victory Highway.  The corridor of the Truckee River Canyon State Highway would be assigned as US Route 40 when the US Route System was commissioned during November 1926.  During 1958 the segment of Interstate 80 between Boca, California and the Nevada state line was complete.   

Numerous abandoned portions of early US Route 40 can now be found near Floriston.  A notable segment is part of a Pyramid-Tahoe Trail which can be accessed from the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80."

thenetwork

Quote from: kernals12 on January 20, 2025, 11:12:08 PM
Quote from: tchafe1978 on January 20, 2025, 10:08:24 PMMinor thing: when you pop a pimple and you think you've got it all out, even to the point of bleeding. Yet a day later, there is is, back again like it never left, and you have to pop it again, and double squeeze to make sure you got it all.

Dermatologists are pretty unanimous in their opinion that you should not pop zits or cysts or any other cutaneous abscess as they will simply come back.

So Dr. Pimple Popper should change her name....

SSOWorld

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tchafe1978

I don't get pimples like I did when I was a teenager, but I still get them occasionaly, and I'm 46. Sometimes they're in an uncomfortable spot and are, well, uncomfortable. When I was a teenager I would use Oxy pads on my face, and the took care of them. but I'm not keeping the stuff around for the occasional zit now anymore. My first reaction has always been to pop them, never caused any issues other than the annoyance that they'll come back.

Amaury

Like pretty much anything, acne can happen to anyone of any age. I'm not as old as some of the above, as I'm only 33, but I still get acne, just not very often. It's the same thing with random visitors for males. That and acne can happen at any age, whether it's before, during, or after puberty. During puberty, it's just prone to happening a lot more. regardless of whatever it may be, due to hormones going crazy because of changes happening everywhere. Although it's not an always thing, as some people do get lucky, especially if in the case like acne, they're on top of keeping their skin clean.
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GaryV

I got a "pimple" about 7 years ago. Turns out it was skin cancer - it just didn't go away after popping.

kphoger

Two years ago, our eldest son kept popping the same pimple on his forehead that just kept coming back.  The spot developed into a pyogenic granuloma, which then had to be cut and cauterized.
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Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

ZLoth

Quote from: ZLoth on January 12, 2025, 10:00:07 PMThe fact that my cataract/laser surgery in my right eye has made me far-sighted in that eye while my unoperated left eye is near-sighted. I'm wearing a eye patch and switching between the two eyes until my left eye has it's cataract/laser surgery on the 22nd.

Despite the inconvenience, it's a big improvement over what I had before.

As a follow-up, I had the cataract/laser surgery on my left eye yesterday, and yes, same thing second verse. I'm now far-sighted on both eyes, but near-vision is bad. It drove me up the wall not being able to read anything on my phone. As a workaround, I have some over-the-counter readers which help with the reading (nice and clear), but the edges are distorted. A follow-up appointment is scheduled for February 3rd.

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1995hoo

#10270
My wife just called me to say she was lost on the way to a luncheon. I looked at the "Find My" app (we share our locations precisely because she is prone to getting lost), saw where she was, and told her where to go. Then I asked which of her cars she had driven. Turns out she drove the one with the built-in sat-nav but she didn't put in the name of the restaurant, even when she realized she was lost. Nor did she use the mapping app on her phone for directions.  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:

I suppose I should be glad that it was simply a case of her getting lost and not being in a car crash or similar.

Edited to add: I'm watching where she is and it looks like she missed the turn again.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Scott5114

It could be worse. My wife is pretending (I hope?) to be unable to learn where the grocery store is.
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Max Rockatansky

My wife doesn't get lost.  She does refuse to learn the names of the roads, streets and highways which she uses though.  That isn't helpful for me when I'm driving and ask her to help me pinpoint businesses we are visiting.  Usually when I ask for clarification she says something along the lines of "I don't know, I just go where I know it is when I'm driving."

kphoger

Hey, guys, I'm starting to think |1995hoo| is actually asking us to do an intervention.  What do everyone's week-ends look like coming up?

Quote from: 1995hoo on January 27, 2024, 06:31:08 PMI would commit a man card violation and stop and ask for directions (assuming, for argument's sake, that I couldn't retrieve maps on my phone or some such) before I trusted my wife to guide me somewhere if I were lost, including calling her to ask her to look at a map and help me. Her sense of direction is just plain bad. Before we got married, she once got lost driving to work in the morning.

Quote from: 1995hoo on April 11, 2024, 05:14:31 PMMy wife's car has a built-in sat-nav and we have our home address saved (with a PIN, of course) for the "Go Home" option. So, of course, she just called me from Fairfax City to say she was lost. Apparently, when I said "go right at the second light, then left at the first light after that," it meant "go right two lights in a row so you're going north when you want to go south."

Quote from: 1995hoo on April 11, 2024, 06:57:38 PMShe hadn't told it where she was going. She shouldn't have needed it when she was going somewhere she's been several times before in the past month!

Quote from: 1995hoo on April 13, 2024, 08:36:27 AMYeah, I don't understand why, when she realizes she's gone in a direction she thinks is wrong, she doesn't just hit the voice command button, say "Go Home," and enter her PIN. Instead she calls me. I haven't asked her that since this most recent incident, of course. Have to wait for the right time that won't start an argument.

Quote from: 1995hoo on January 23, 2025, 12:21:38 PMMy wife just called me to say she was lost on the way to a luncheon. I looked at the "Find My" app (we share our locations precisely because she is prone to getting lost), saw where she was, and told her where to go. Then I asked which of her cars she had driven. Turns out she drove the one with the built-in sat-nav but she didn't put in the name of the restaurant, even when she realized she was lost. Nor did she use the mapping app on her phone for directions.  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:

I suppose I should be glad that it was simply a case of her getting lost and not being in a car crash or similar.

Edited to add: I'm watching where she is and it looks like she missed the turn again.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

ZLoth

Quote from: 1995hoo on January 23, 2025, 12:21:38 PMI looked at the "Find My" app (we share our locations precisely because she is prone to getting lost), saw where she was, and told her where to go.

I have that active on my mother's phone ever since we moved to North Dallas, and it became more important in mid-2022 when she was no longer allowed to drive.
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