Teacup Café XLII

[Acalewia]

Originally Posted by Butterbeer

That's an incredibly sexist view Alcuin.

As a woman, I didn't find his comments sexist at all. He was just stating what history claims. Women typically don't want to go to war, but if war comes to them, most aren't going to just sit around and wait for their men to save them.

I, for one, do not want to go to war. I have no desire to kill someone just because I'm ordered to by the higher ups before the other person can kill me. But if that same war came knocking on my door, I'm going to take up arms and defend my family, whether or not my husband is at my side or not.

History has been known to brush off the minority in favor of the majority, which is mainly men. Men tend to write history, so they make themselves look better.


But, I digress.


I'm with Earniel and Mari, I hate pollen too

[The last sane person]

Except for the fact that historically speaking, even up to present day there are laws enacted to keep women away from combat, whether they want to or otherwise. At any rate, had the combat ban been lifted sooner and pay scale equalized I'd have no problem signing up for military service. War happens regardless and some people simply need to be killed. Besides my tax dollars fund it; I have no qualms taking advantage of the benefits that would be offered by going into combat arms.

[Mari]

What a lovely text you have in your signature, sane!

[The last sane person]

It has been there for years, you just noticed it? or were you trying to point out the incongruity of my willingness to take up arms with my rather pacifistic poem passage?

[Mari]

No, I only just noticed. On my phone the sigs are displayed larger than the actual posts for some reason, so it's harder to ignore.

[Earniel]

Ugh, I think my pollen medecine is losing its effectiveness. I know I shouldn't been outside all day long yesterday, but the sun was delicious and everyone else was outside (and badgering me to join them). I sure paid for the privilege with the rest of the evening of sneezing and snuffling. I lost count after the twentiest hankerchief or so. And that means laundry today!

Damn allergies.

Has anyone ever tried the honey method? Supposedly, if you can find local honey it will have pollen in it of which you're allergic too but and if you take some regularly your immune system may just learn to adapt.

[Alcuin]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

Has anyone ever tried the honey method? Supposedly, if you can find local honey it will have pollen in it of which you're allergic too but and if you take some regularly your immune system may just learn to adapt.

As I read your post, the honey method is what came to mind. It worked for me.

[Mari]

I don't like honey. Yesterday the wind was blowing the other way, so I could sit outside no problem. I've never had as much trouble with hayfever as u had last week though. It is a bit better now (still not much wind).

[Acalewia]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

Ugh, I think my pollen medecine is losing its effectiveness. I know I shouldn't been outside all day long yesterday, but the sun was delicious and everyone else was outside (and badgering me to join them). I sure paid for the privilege with the rest of the evening of sneezing and snuffling. I lost count after the twentiest hankerchief or so. And that means laundry today!

Damn allergies.

Has anyone ever tried the honey method? Supposedly, if you can find local honey it will have pollen in it of which you're allergic too but and if you take some regularly your immune system may just learn to adapt.

Allergy meds stopped working for me a long time ago. Even the prescription ones.


I may have to try the honey method

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by Alcuin

As I read your post, the honey method is what came to mind. It worked for me.

Oh, I'm glad to hear. When I tried to look it up I read so many times of people knowing other people for whom it worked but never direct accounts. Can I ask if how long it took for you to notice effect?

Originally Posted by Acalewia

Allergy meds stopped working for me a long time ago. Even the prescription ones.

I have been fine with herbal allergy meds so far. Prescription meds tend to have way more side-effects so I avoided them so far. But since last year I became allergic to a vitamin mix it seems to have gone only downward from then on. I could manage the increased number of allergies but I'm not going to manage if my meds fail me at the same.

[Alcuin]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

Oh, I'm glad to hear. When I tried to look it up I read so many times of people knowing other people for whom it worked but never direct accounts. Can I ask if how long it took for you to notice effect?

It took a while: it wasn't immediate. But before I finished that jar of honey, I no longer suffered the sneezing and watery eyes I had before.

(I think that should be, “But ere I finished that jar of honey, I no longer suffered the sneezing and watery eyes I had before,” the word ere designating that one set of past events or conditions is nearer to the present than another set described by before; but ere sounds forced. English is such a lovely language.)

[Earniel]

Oooh, that's faster than what I've read so far. Sounds promising. Time periods of over a year were mentioned, which didn't exactly make things more attractive.

Do you still have to take the honey regularly to keep away the symptoms? Or is it done and dusted forever after the last honey-jar?

[Mari]

That's amazing! I hope he has lots of fun.

[Earniel]

Oooh, they grow up so quickly. Good on him. I remember that one photo with the little princelings.

Just today I met up with some friends I hadn't seen all year, their kids too have grown with leaps and bounds since the last time.

[Mari]

I'm posting from my new laptop. My old one was still doggedly going on, but it didn't have much fight left in it.

[The last sane person]

May it rest well in fields of RAM, with fans gently blowing!

[Mari]

I have one pair of earrings that give me that feeling. They're silver in the shape of leaves.

[Rían]

oooh, nice - and silver is definitely more elvish

[Acalewia]

How is everyone?

[The last sane person]

Not much different, at the moment. Been making things in my workshop for the past week. Yourself?