Who says it’s unethical to slay a dragon? Even saints do that. I’m reminded of a line in a transition from Tom Lehrer’s infamous song “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”:

But it’s not against any religion…
To want to dispose of… a pigeon…

The case worker was quite good, in that she admitted when she couldn’t figure something out. I have spent afternoons as we attempted to decipher a regulation or form to discover what the state wanted. It was during this period that I learned to hate the Florida legislature. I would go in and the case worker would be in tears because the legislature on changed the rules that she had finally mastered, and the new rules didn’t make any sense, and I mean that literally – the rules did not constitute standard English sentences. Things were apparently omitted when the regulations were printed and no one knew what was missing.

I wish you luck in your quest, Sir Kryten, and slay one for me, no matter what PETA says.

Anyway… isn’t the maxim: “Men have ages. Women have Birthdays!” LOL

Oh! That reminds of another I heard (in the USA I think): “A woman is as old as she feels, a man is as old as the woman he’s feeling!” LOL

Hmmm. I must be in a good mood today. 😉 Dunno why! I have to go fight the forces of evil!! I have an appointment with the Gov department designed to make life impossible for al,l Centrelink! Kinda like the US Dep’t of Social Security. I tell you… bureaucrats are the TRUE enemy of man!

Everyone is different and there is no single solution.

Well see now… Why are you not running the USA Bryan? I guess people prefer a fool than a wise man. Maybe so many like Bush because he makes them seem superior in comparison! 😉 😀

Cheers all! I’m off to do battle with the dragons! If you don’t hear from me for, say… 48 hours… I lost! 😉

While Nature produces a lot of interesting compounds for both good and ill, I have less confidences in chemistry. The incentives in the system are too heavily weighted towards quick to market, rather than extended testing, and too many of the tests and trials are corrupted by money.

I also have an odd body chemistry that interferes with many drugs. Morphine, for example, is totally ineffective. I have received it twice and it produced absolutely nothing – it didn’t reduce the pain, nor produce a high. It might as well have been water. I need 4 to 6 times as much Novocaine as is normal to deaden my mouth enough for dental work, and I can still feel the dentist working, but I can control my reaction.

Aspirin, on the other hand, works wonders, but the bleeding side effect proscribes it in many cases.

Everyone is different and there is no single solution.

LadyMinopause? 😈

I didn’t know about that application of SJW. I’ll tell Stella, but I think she’s past the worst of it by now, and glad of it. She only looks 30; she’s actually almost my age. Everyone assumes I’m cradle-robbing, but I’m not. I’m 59… but unlike Stella, I am part of (as the student demographer is said to have phrased it) “the population broken down by age and sex.” 🙂

Well, yes, you did tell me that. Works for the mood swings. Not for hot flashes though. I am determined not to take hormones.

Oh no… now I’ve given away my age. 😐

Anyway, thanks again. 🙂

Geez… I told LadyMin about it a few years ago! It’s good for menopause too. 😉

I wonder if I can sell my head? As a comedian once quipped… ‘The only thing it’s good for is to hang a hat on!’ LOL

Thanks again. 🙂

I agree one must control one’s own anger in a way that one can manage under even the worst circumstances, but depression is different from anger, and I find the herbal remedy St. John’s Wort to be very effective in controlling depression.

I am not quick to adopt such things, and I did my homework before taking this one. SJW has been around as a remedy for enough centuries that, if it were seriously harmful, we’d know about it (e.g., it does not appear to induce suicide as some of the meds from Big Pharma sometimes do). Its effects are gradual, over weeks, so there’s plenty of time to adjust quantities. And if you run out during the next Hurricane Ivan (Dog forbid!!), the worst that happens is that you gradually get depressed again. (That observation is from my personal experience, though not during a hurricane.) It’s not like alcohol; there’s no instant mood-elevating effect. But after a few weeks of daily use (recent studies suggest 4x300mg/day), I found that my only remaining depression was in response to actual depressing events, not the vague, nameless physiologically induced depression I experienced for decades. Oh, and it’s available over the counter. YMMV, but it works for me.

Please note, though, as I remarked in doggerel some years back, for full effect, you may need to take SJW along with an antidepresident [sic].