A food-based public service announcement:

Bananas are not supposed to make your mouth tingle or feel burny when you eat them.

Some foods, yes. Kiwifruit, for example. They contain a great deal of protease compounds that break down proteins on contact; kiwifruit are trying to digest you before you can digest them. That more or less happens across the board. But bananas are not on this list. If you have a tingly or burny sensation in your mouth upon eating bananas, you are either allergic to bananas or you are allergic to ragweed pollen and are experiencing a cross-reactive case of oral allergy syndrome.

Other than that, bananas do not or at least should not burn on contact with your flesh.




This message brought to you by a friend of mine, to whom I was telling the story of the guy on Not Always Friendly who told his friends he loved the tingly burning sensation of eating bananas and got stared at and told he was allergic... my friend proceeded to genuinely blink and say "wait, you mean bananas aren't supposed to do that?" And mention that not only did he get that sensation when eating raw bananas but that he got a tingly burny sensation in his mouth/oesophagus/stomach when eating his homemade banana muffins.

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*lonnnnnnnnnnng, unpleasant look at Pandora*

I'm not a big fan of suddenly going from ambient or dark ambient to ads, but unless I wanna pay every month I have to let the ads happen. I understand this.

I was JUST FINE letting your ads roll by every so often today but then you interrupted my lovely Alio Die music with !*@)(&! MYPILLOW. Yes, the crappy-ass product made by the former guy's lunatic ally.

I have tweeted at Pandora to ask how I block a specific ad, because I'm not going to listen to their service if it means I have to take a chance on Mike !&(*!@&! Lindell suddenly coming out of my speakers.

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Hey, do any of you guys need/want an ID bracelet or tag for exercising? You know, if you're a bicyclist and you get hit by a car or something, or if you're like me and you worry that going out paddling one day will end with the Coast Guard or the local harbor patrol fishing you out of the water, having a bracelet on with your name and basic medical info and/or contact info for someone who might need to know what happened?

I just got a new RoadID bracelet so I don't have to remember whether I left my original with my bike helmet or my life jacket. Five lines of engraved information on a metal faceplate attached to a silicone wristband. They sent four cards for $10 off each for future purchases, either my own or someone else's. I"m not gonna need a new card soon so if you or someone you know wants one instead, let me know- oh, they make these for pets, too.