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A few years ago I read a load of books about foraging for food in the wild. There are plants that you can eat raw, but some need to be cooked first in order to break down harmful compounds. Others have parts that are edible, while other bits are poisonous. It’s tremendously dangerous to go picking leaves at random and then mixing them together. Possibly what you drank had some kind of mild amphetamine effect.
Is this Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome a hard thing to live with or is it something that stays under the radar most of the time?
I’ve never had the courage of my convictions to go gathering food from the wild; you’re placing a lot of faith in the guidebook that you use and also in your own abilities to correctly identify a plant. I’d love to harvest wild mushrooms, but you can pick out any two guides on the subject and the artist’s renderings of the same plant will look completely different, which doesn’t inspire a great deal of confidence.
I’ve often thought about growing herbs such as mint, which I could use to make fresh mint tea.
In The Guardian this weekend there was an article about a Liquorice tea flavoured with spices. The author described the taste as being more like a shape than a flavour.
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A few years ago I read a load of books about foraging for food in the wild. There are plants that you can eat raw, but some need to be cooked first in order to break down harmful compounds. Others have parts that are edible, while other bits are poisonous. It’s tremendously dangerous to go picking leaves at random and then mixing them together. Possibly what you drank had some kind of mild amphetamine effect.
I think so as well.
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Is this Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome a hard thing to live with or is it something that stays under the radar most of the time?
It's not at all hard to live with, since it rarely causes me problems. Only once over the last 20 years has it ever been serious, and that was when I drank that tea concoction as I described above. My sister, who is a registered nurse, has given me information on the surgery that I could have to get rid of WPW, but as it hasn't been life-threatening I haven't had a reason to have the surgical procedure done.
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I’ve never had the courage of my convictions to go gathering food from the wild; you’re placing a lot of faith in the guidebook that you use and also in your own abilities to correctly identify a plant. I’d love to harvest wild mushrooms, but you can pick out any two guides on the subject and the artist’s renderings of the same plant will look completely different, which doesn’t inspire a great deal of confidence.
Yes, and that's the last time I've tried something like that (with the exception of some magic mushrooms I tried when I was working as a landscaper).
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I’ve often thought about growing herbs such as mint, which I could use to make fresh mint tea.
In The Guardian this weekend there was an article about a Liquorice tea flavoured with spices. The author described the taste as being more like a shape than a flavour.
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Yes, and that's the last time I've tried something like that (with the exception of some magic mushrooms I tried when I was working as a landscaper).
It's the beginning of magic mushroom season in the UK.
Today I bought some Ginseng tea. I haven't had any yet. The teabags smell like a damp mouldy towel.
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I can't be arsed to read all 70-odd pages of this massive thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned much, but...
Have any of you gone out of your way to find some non-brand name, home-made tea in different parts of the world?
I have some Chiese gunpowder tea I bought recently.
I did have some great oolong-ginseng tea I bought in a traditonal tea shop in Beijing, whcih I sent to a friend in Beijing from Hong Kong when I worked out that Australian customs wouldn't let me bring it home.
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Later on I learned that the irregular heartbeat was caused by Wolf-Parkinson-White Syndrome, which is basically an electrical problem in the heart, but it's not serious. I guess the strange brew of tea the girls concocted set it off. It's never happened since then, even after heavy cardiovascular workouts.
Remarkable that ti was triggered by a chemical reaction. No speed for you, young man.
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I don’t think I’m going to be able to drink this Ginseng tea without some kind of sweetener. On the box, they recommend adding honey to taste. I brewed a cup yesterday and it smelt of wet bracken. Unlike most teas, the water stays almost completely clear.
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I don't like Tea so much.
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i've actually since adapted to coffee, as well. i'm a sellout, of the largest, corporate shill.
like beer, its still not a flavor i love, nor have i found a version of it that i'd readily drink at any time. rather, i drink both for two reasons:
1) the drug involved (beer's intoxication, coffee's "wake the fuck up"ication)
2) the social aspect.
i find that the latter seems to be the higher calling for me, as beer, even still, is mostly unsuccesful in getting me even slightly buzzed, regardless of quantity. the same is true of coffee, in that i dont really find it keeping me any more awake than on the days where i dont drink any at all.
with beer and getting drunk, i have no clue. sometimes, i can have 50 drinks and feel nothing, though recently, i could have 2 and pass out. entirely random.
with coffee though, i used to suspect it was because i only liked the delicious, milk-skakey coffees -- caramel frappuccinos, n'what not, where there's a whole candy bar crammed in there. but for the past few months, i just drink it clean. one packet of sugar, and thats it. and still no caffeine-enhanced redeeming quality.
... and none of that stops me from drinking either.
socially, though, its just something you have to do. me, anyway. and not even so much that i'm getting talked into it. not at all. its just something that you do.
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Tend to drink soy hot chocolate nowadays.
Still like my tea, though.
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I just had my first taste of Herbal Green Tea.
That shit is sick!
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Isn't it strange how little interest there was in the news a cat had been cloned? Apart from ""oh, it's a cat this time"" that is. Apparently the problem with the other cloned animals is that the clones are getting old prematurely and have wonky livers.<br><br>Yes Poppa - clones, religions and tea. What a board."
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This is the longest thread in this forum.
I have no idea what its about.
November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
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So, are carbonated drinks called soda, pop, soda pop, soft drinks or coke (used as a generic much like kleenix) where y'all are?
Mostly they're referred to as pop, or sometimes fizzy pop. Soda is what some people put in their whisky: I don't think I've ever heard the term ""soda pop"" used by a British person, unless it was specifically used to mock an American. Coke is used as a generic term for any dark brown pop. A soft drink is any beverage that isn't hot and doesn't contain alcohol, which is (presumably) why it's soft." are you calling him a liar...?
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The first poster I recognized was Aussie Dave. And that was four pages into the thread. Clearly, I did not leave the Writing Forum that much when I arrived...
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that whole thread was from... hmm... i forget. something on the original DCMBs. vertigo forums, maybe? it was an early effort to bring posters here.
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It was from the Lucifer Boards, also known as the Morningstar High.
I came from that place. I came IN that place.
I believe backwards7 was also an alumnus.
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plus, he used to like, post there and shit.
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Dave only stayed there for the shit
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If it am looks like shit, smells like am shit, and am feels like shit, you don`t have to actually eat it to am know it`s shit.
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Roxane wrote:<br><br>Just out of interest does anyone know whether or not a cup of tea with a spoon in it will cool twice as quickly as a cup od tea without one? This one had potential!
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