What are you doing to celebrate the fourth?

[skyking]

Well, I got a stomach flu or food poisoning. Fever and weak diarrhea and cramps. Guess it just me, the cat and my rog ally for 4 days.

Don't give up on your plans. Set up the gaming in the bathtub.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'd rather have covid than the explosive diarrhea I am having.

Eat 250mg plain yogurt mixed with a tablespoon of psyllium husk.

 

[brianmanahan]

I'd rather have covid than the explosive diarrhea I am having. Haven't eaten in 30 hours. Just tried some soup and that was a mistake. Gonna stick to water and Gatorade.

hopefully you don't have what i got earlier this year

14 straight days where i couldn't eat anything including soup without it immediately going through my system

no idea what was wrong, but drinking pepto 3 times a day for 5 days finally cleared it up

(also i lost over 10 pounds so that was a nice benefit)

 

[Captante]

No one really knows the origins of the term but it doesn't refer to a "false" summer. If anything it refers more to an extension of summer into the fall. Dating back to its origins it was never meant as a slur against the native peoples of NA or at least it was never used as one in publications dating back to the time.

It's first origins most likely have more to do with the Indian peoples burning the grasslands in the fall after the harvest.

A new name for Indian summer?

What should we call those last balmy days of autumn?

www.mprnews.org

Indian Summer - Meaning & Origin Of The Phrase

What's the meaning and origin of the phrase 'Indian summer'?

www.phrases.org.uk

The only "Indian people" I'm aware of live in.... you know.... India? (ie: NOT where Columbus sailed the ocean blue)

No matter what the actual "origin" is (or the "spin" lol) just like "cotton-picking mad" (etc) it's NOW racist.

Feel free to continue to justify saying it though.... I wouldn't myself but hey, you do you.

Man, there is literally no sub-forum safe from P&N anymore .

Damn straight .... under-cover racism gets called out on OT too ... at least by ME.

And the attempted "spin" is pathetic btw.

 

[Ajay]

The only "Indian people" I'm aware of live in.... you know.... India? (ie: NOT where Columbus sailed the ocean blue)

No matter what the actual "origin" is (or the "spin" lol) just like "cotton-picking mad" (etc) it's NOW racist.

Feel free to continue to justify saying it though.... I wouldn't myself but hey, you do you.





Damn straight .... under-cover racism gets called out on OT too ... at least by ME.

And the attempted "spin" is pathetic btw.

Spin? WTF man??

 

[igor_kavinski]

14 straight days where i couldn't eat anything including soup without it immediately going through my system

What was the last thing you ate before it started?

Most likely some bad bacterial strain that took hold in your gut, due to plentiful sugar or something in the last meal.

 

[jpiniero]

"Working"

 

[Captante]

Spin? WTF man??

Not from you!

 

[BoomerD]

"Working"

I used to volunteer to work on the major holidays. We almost never went camping or did any travelling on them...too crowded, too many idiots...so why not get paid double time...or double & a half time for the day?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ I did that too.

 

[pmv]

The only "Indian people" I'm aware of live in.... you know.... India? (ie: NOT where Columbus sailed the ocean blue)

No matter what the actual "origin" is (or the "spin" lol) just like "cotton-picking mad" (etc) it's NOW racist.

Feel free to continue to justify saying it though.... I wouldn't myself but hey, you do you.





Damn straight .... under-cover racism gets called out on OT too ... at least by ME.

And the attempted "spin" is pathetic btw.

Beats me. It's news to me the phrase is to do with American Indians - I've always assumed it referred to India, and it being warm later in the year there than it is here. But wiki seems to agree its related to the American Indians.

Still, not sure that use of Indian is "racist". The political movement to secure the rights of that group was, after all, the "American Indian Movement". And the alternative of "native American" I've heard more-than-once disparaged as an anodyne bit of government language, that itself is sometimes regarded as offensive.

Maybe one is supposed to use the specific tribal names like "Shoshone"? (that I only know from Civilisation V!) Is that how it works? I had the idea that in Canada the acceptable term was "first nations people", but that was only for Canada. No idea what the acceptable term is for the US, still less the rest of the Americas. Doesn't really come up very much in Europe.

Wiki says that in some European languages the phenomenon is called "old woman's summer", which doesn't seem much better. Nor does "Gipsy Summer" or "Poor man's summer".

In any case, I don't think anyone regards it as a "false" summer. It's just an unexpected second-wind for summer, when it gets warm in (so-called) autumn. In my experience it's almost always warm in early autumn and it's usually bloody cold in the so-called "spring", so the whole "seasons" thing needs reworking.

 

[WelshBloke]

Beats me. It's news to me the phrase is to do with American Indians - I've always assumed it referred to India, and it being warm later in the year there than it is here. But wiki seems to agree its related to the American Indians.

I'm with you on that one, I assumed that it was a holdover from Empire.

 

[sdifox]

I am at Japanese all you can eat to celebrate Canada Day

 

[brianmanahan]

No matter what the actual "origin" is (or the "spin" lol) just like "cotton-picking mad" (etc) it's NOW racist

haha my grandpa called me a cotton picker for decades

that, and a pot licker

 

[skyking]

This was the view this holiday. There is something that does not belong in this pictar.

 

[Captante]

something that does not belong in this pictar

I seez it!

 

[skyking]

seedless it!
The North American tiger striped river melon, a 4th of July favorite.