We are. I think you didn’t read the full set of posts from the person who has now since been banned (his posts may have been eaten).
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What? Who? Where?
Maybe. I dunno. 
G’night.
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I live in a part of the country with one of the highest incidences of tick bourn illness. Before we knew exactly what Lyme was it was identified as a disease here and refered to in reference to a town near me (Montauk Knee) and a lot of the anthropological and historical info about it comes from here.
You can live in a bubble and get a tick.
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I am the only one of 4 children who didn’t inherit celiac from our father. My sister and both my brothers have it, my dad had it, and then I married a man who also had it. His son won the genetic garbage jackpot and got celiac from dad, hypothyroidism from both sides, and diabetes from mom’s side.
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If your spouse/partner does not support you, ask for an explanation. If the explanation does not make sense, get a new spouse/partner.
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Screw the “person with” terminology. Sometimes it’s easier to engineer a usable solution with a clear understanding of the problem. Impersonal, but highly effective.
Dominos pizza doesn’t need to harass blind customers. “Hey, can you use our app, test our app, please won’t you test our app”. They need to be able to run their website/app through a unit test that highlights the missing functionality.
Third time, I bring my own food.
“Hey, no problems today, I brought something that I know I can eat! Last time, I almost puked on your carpet. We wouldn’t want THAT to happen! Anyhow, I got take-out from Chong’s, and they’re able to make my kung pao and fried rice without any mushrooms or that laxative that you always seem to put in my food here. So let’s all eat and enjoy our food together! Mangiamo!”
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I’m sure the world has seen many instance of people choosing to die rather than the make a fuss or look foolish.
Tycho Brahe died rather than ask to be excused to go pee: Tycho Brahe Died From Pee, Not Poison | Live Science
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So you go with celiac sensitive persons?
And which is both clumsier and inaccurate?
What?
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They’re referring to this:
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I just gave expert consultation to a law firm on a small ADA case like this. While I support building accessible sites and don’t see a business case for skimping on compliance, unfortunately there seem to be a lot of opportunistic bottom-feeder law firms using the ADA to squeeze respondents (especially small businesses) for big settlements.
[apologies for going off topic. Carry on…]
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For sure.
Of course it’s deliberate.
I was paraphrasing something I remembered hearing before, but I didn’t bother to search out the reference. It was probably from Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”
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As a card-carrying (well, maybe Epi-pen carrying) member of the food-tries-to-kill-me club, can i add an amen to that. Interestingly, I developed an airway closing peanut allergy at 50. It’s not just kids. And I love peanut butter. Like sit on the couch with a big jar of Jif and a spoon and call it dinner kinda love. But oh well, breathing is nice too.
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Hmm, I should have text mined medlne for the appropriate noun.
I remember shelling brazil nuts for some sort of fruit cake that mom was baking, after we had enjoyed a meal of crab. Developed hives, went to the emergency room etc, and was banned from eating shell fish, until another encounter with brasil nuts (this time while camping with boy scouts during the winter in Shenandoah Natl Park resulted in some unpleasantness.
Not this, but that!
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One of those weird quirks of the immune system is the tendency for it to decide that some benign protein is a deadly pathogen and unload its full nuclear arsenal on it. There is nothing that goes into a human body that someone somewhere is not allergic to. Some are weird (the tick bite induced red meat allergy is one of the stranger ones) some are pretty common, but they are very very real.
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The missus has an onion allergy too. My mother has always been extremely careful to check all ingredients for onions in any dishes served to my missus. She also prepares onion-free variants of whatever she is making. I think if my wife and I were to ever divorce my wife would keep my mother.
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That’ll be all that intelligent designing.
Edit: today is a school day. Thanks @docosc
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