Just bring your own, unless you want to risk pregnancy, STIs, etc from defective condoms or doing something reckless when you can't find any. This post smacks of ajnabi...

lol when I saw the heading for this thread, I thought you were going to post this article I read earlier today and thought about sharing here. I dry heaved through the whole thing (sorry to hijack your thread but it's the same topic really...): This Guy's Eaten Nothing but Raw Meat for Five Years Meet Derek Nance. Five years ago, Derek had some mystery illness that killed his appetite and brought up anything he ate. The doctors suspected it was an allergy thing so Derek changed his diet. First he cut the wheat and dairy, but he still continued losing weight. Getting desperate, he was soon online, chatting to people pushing all manner of lifesaving diets. Derek tried a Mediterranean diet (fish and vegetables) before ditching the fish and eventually becoming a vegan but nothing worked. Finally a guy who’d had similar symptoms recommended a carnivorous version of the Palaeolithic diet. With nothing to lose, Derek gave raw meat a try. That was five years ago and he now goes so far as to brush his teeth with animal fat. For reasons I don’t properly understand I wanted to watch Derek eat a meal and he obliged. I found him in Lexington, Kentucky and we talked about vital organs, rotten meat, and health, which is the main point of this according to Derek. He’s never been healthier. VICE: Hi Derek, can you tell me more about this diet? Whose idea was this? Derek: So it was started by a dentist named Weston Price who in the 1930s studied the health benefits of eating more raw foods including raw meats. He studied the Native Americans and a few of them who lived on a guts and grease diet. He found people in primitive communities were much healthier than we are today and I thought alright, I’ll give it a try. So was there any deliberation? Not really because I’d been sick for such a long time that I was willing to give anything a try. I had a couple of goats in my yard that I was using for milk and you know, I was tired of milking them so I slaughtered them. I ate both of those goats, all raw, and just switched over like that. Did it make you sick? No. Maybe what you get at first is a little diarrhoea but that’s just your digestive system adapting. After the first week I just felt absolutely great and I never went back Derek’s dinner. Chunks of lamb and fat. And you’ve eaten nothing else since? Yeah, for nearly six years. I’m into lamb mainly. It’s just easy to go out to farms, barter over a decent price, slaughter it and throw it in the truck. It’s a lot harder to deal with beef because it’s a lot bigger. Pigs are kind of a no-no because they shoot them full of hormones and raise them on grains, which promote bacterial growth. How do you avoid scurvy? The organ meat of the animal actually contains vitamin C. And the thing about vitamin C is that you need more of it in a high carbohydrate diet, but if you’re eating carnivorously there’s enough in the animal flesh. So I just eat the organ meat and the connective tissue and everything else. Derek’s hit of vitamin C. A jar of sheep organs and clotted blood. What happens if you go to a friend’s house for dinner? If I go to a friend’s house, most people will allow me to bring a little bit of my own food. Same with if I go out for dinner. But don’t you get sick of eating the same thing all the time? No, there’s something that happens during the adaption process. About three weeks in I noticed this real strong blood-like taste in the back of my throat and then all of a sudden I started getting strong cravings for it. The idea of cooked meat no longer appeals. It just tastes burned. And herbs and spices too, I used to season the meat and those just no longer appeal either. Ok, and you eat rotten meat. Why do you eat rotten meat? It’s a pro-biotic. Half of my problem with my digestion was actually just lack of enzymes. My body just doesn’t produce enough enzymes to digest starchy foods. So the pro-biotic bacteria in rotten meat actually help me to digest the food. Derek lets chunks of lamb rot in a jar before he eats them. Better than Yakult. Have you ever explained your diet to a vegetarian? Well my girlfriend is vegetarian. Joanne, you’re a vegetarian? Joanne: Yes, well more omnivore with vegan tendencies. I’ve tried Derek’s diet—we had lamb tenderloins once and they were delicious, but I’m a vegetarian for compassionate reasons. Derek and Joanne. So you guys talk about your difference in opinion? Yeah and I understand his reasoning because for him this is his health. I think I can eat anything and it doesn’t affect me. That’s a big difference between us. And Derek, you’re comfortable personally slaughtering animals? Well if an animal lives in accordance with its nature, I have no problem ethically slaughtering that animal. But if you raise that animal in a pen and when it’s sick just shoot it up with antibiotics, I have real problems with that. It’s not just unfair on the animal; it’s unfair on the people who eat it. After dinner Derek takes me down to his basement to his Jeffrey Dahmer fridge. After butchering a sheep this is where he hangs all the bits as he eats it over a few weeks. Tonight the fridge contains a few legs and a head. “It’s a Shetland sheep, it’s got a very mild, sweet flavour. I crack open the scull and eat the brain. It’s kind of a delicacy so I’ll wait until the weekend to get into it.” What’s the worst thing about this diet? Being an outcast. My family, they think I’ve lost it. They literally think I’m off the deep end insane and I don’t know why. Eating raw meat is just something they can’t accept. My father has a master's in biology and he tells me that if I eat raw meat I’ll get some sort of pathogen. Joanne: Yeah that’s weird. I’m not even allowed to mention Derrick’s diet around them. They say, “that’s wrong! He’ll die” and they just get really emotional about it. Will you ever stop this diet? No, not by choice. If they haul me away, kicking and screaming then maybe. And you’ve recently become a butcher. Can you tell me about that? Well, I was going out to farms for years slaughtering my own animals and one of the guys at these farms needed some help so I offered. Now I’m learning the trade from the ground up and I get lots of scraps to snack on. Before I was an electrician but I’ll do anything. Joanne runs a vegan juice bar so sometimes I’ll help out there. That’s just life.

Wadani;980205 wrote: Family planning is nothing more than misanthropic marxist B.S. Whites are now reeling from their current state of self inflicted racial suicide (birth rates below replacement levels) as a result of wholeheartedly swallowing the nefarious designs on the traditional family by these evil leftists under the guise of 'progressiveness'. Ragow dumarka guursada, sii fiicanna u dhaqda, ciyaal badan oo diintooda, dadkooda iyo dalkoodana anfaca dhala. Please tell me this is satire.

Coofle;980175 wrote: Confusing topics (my life as a man of science and my studies recommend few babies, my spiritual and lust for kids dictate me to have as many progeny as an army) ..... I was relieved when I decided,, ,,"Intii Ilaahay ii qoray uun baan dhali, saw awlaaduba risiqa kama mid aha" ... Family planning is different topic , Religiously and scientifically deemed to be good. Somalis use that very saying to avoid family planning! In fact, many are under the impression that family planning/birth control is haram. I remember discussing this with a friend who works for MSF in kililka 5aad, they've received so many death threats and hostile words from husbands that they no longer discuss BC options with women, and instead advise breastfeeding as a method.

Wadani;980174 wrote: lool, Waan ogahay inaan aniguba iska reer galbeed ahay laakiin dee reer bariga way inaga qurux badanyihiin baan umalaynayaa lol. Reer Hargaysa hadda Oromo ayay u wada eekaadeen, tollow maxaa dadkii ku dhacay lool. lol my mom wondered this outloud when she went to Hargeisa for the first time in 25 years or so last year.

Abbaas;980151 wrote: Safferz, we 're trying to transalte this string, in this case it's a point. English -- >> Comment score below threshold (the limit.) Somali --> Fallada xadkeedii score-ka weey ka hooseeysaa Do you know a proper Somali word/string to replace score-ka is Dhibcaha :confused: Mahadsanid. Ohh I see. Dhibic or foore can both mean score, I think.

YoniZ;980148 wrote: Miyir & Tallaabo. Have you seen the original posts of the guy before the admin edit? If yes, and you still believe someone should be given free pass to insult the religion of SOL's majority members in a way, not Guardian or even Nytimes wouldn't have tolerated. Then, good luck to your free speech mantra. There's a fine line between free speech and hate speech, there are plenty of people here who are critical of religion and Muslims but don't resort to insults and caricatures. Hobbesian_Brute is a true islamophobe and bigot.

Haatu;978712 wrote: How do you say: Score Reccomendation Feature in Somali? Score as in point/goal, or a mark?

What do you guys think of my new doormat?

Tallaabo;980108 wrote: Anything which makes the US troops marauding around the world to pack their bags and return home on budget planes is most welcome Military is unaffected, though their paycheques may be delayed Anything considered an essential service will still be running.

N.O.R.F;980101 wrote: Whats are the details? Is this specifically in relation to Obamacare or is it general budgetary/fiscal? The article I linked to above from the Washington Post (also the New York Times) gives a good explanation, but both -- Congressional Republicans refused to pass the budget without provisions to delay/defund Obamacare, Harry Reid and Obama told them to f*ck off, and government gets shut down because Congress can't reach an agreement. And as far as I know, Obamacare goes into effect anyway, and this shutdown is costing taxpayers $150 million a day.

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Including NASA! Even the Curiosity rover on Mars is being furloughed, poor guy. The Washington Post explains the shutdown

Wadani;980090 wrote: Actually, having a lot of children is one of our biggest money making schemes lol. Living on social assistance is still living in poverty.

SomaliPhilosopher;980036 wrote: Hobbes you have issues kid. Saffy I am strangely drawn to read 'far from medina'. i recall you being a fan of this djebar. know where can i get a copy online- torrent, pdf?? Sadly I was only ever able to find that book at my university library, I'm not sure it's in print (in English at least) since it's not one of her well known works. Fantasia: An Algeria Cavalcade is my favourite novel ever, but I don't know of any electronic copies. Worth purchasing though

OdaySomali;980071 wrote: Why would anyone in their right mind do that to themselves :eek: they are such hard work. I see some peole with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 kids like its no big deal. They are such strong people. More importantly, very few people can afford to have more than two or three children, yet that doesn't stop our people from overbreeding anyway and ignoring financial planning with the belief that Allah will provide for their hellspawn. I'm sure this is a contibuting factor to why we're generally one of the poorest immigrant groups in every country we settle in.

Mad_Mullah;979960 wrote: What's the percentage/ratio of light skinned (normal skinned) xalimos - everytime I watch a universal program about Xamar/Somalia I feel like I'm watching Tanzania, acuudubillah, till now I'm blaming the cameras....must be the cameras. Most Somalis are quite dark, that's a "normal" skintone. A lot of women in Hargeisa abuse skin lightening products and wear pale makeup that looks more like a mask.

nuune;979935 wrote: ^^ More exercises, as if they don't do enough already on the bed with their husbands every night and day, abti, dee. Studies in Ireland, as it is the country I know most, shows that majority of car accidents are caused by women, and majority alone, I mean that 187 lives were lost this year alone on road accidents, 80% of them involved women drivers, this was on the news recently. The Saudis are right or the sheikh is right in preventing women from driving to use any method or language, he can even say women driving causes breasts to shrink! What do you know, mods troll too! Provide sources, because all the evidence points to the contrary, which is why men (particularly young men) generally pay higher insurance rates than women.

Haatu;979874 wrote: I came across a funny dance from back home. I don't even know if it even qualifies for a dance HAG have the worst dances, this looks like a saar ceremony or something lol

A crappy Sunday morning here in Boston, I didn't even plan to get up this early but it's only 13 degrees outside and my apartment is freezing I don't think my building turns the heat on until October 1st.

burahadeer;979844 wrote: It's the home of Somali literature & has the largest number of poets along with ogdnia. How is it the home of Somali literature? Not hating on Burco, it just seems it has more eccentric people than the average Somali town

Miyir;979826 wrote: lol saffers stop looking excuse, I'm not going to drive you around:mad: I've been driving since age 16 Miyir Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar;979825 wrote: Why are recently married women in Western world pressured to take their new husband's name, as though she was a property from one ownership to another? And worse, in this day, she still becomes a Mrs -- Mister's . So, she belongs to the mister. Again, as though she was a property, the way they treated them and still do. Westerners with this kind of subjugating culture cannot and should not tell others how to live. Why did I bring this into this thread? Because Reer Galbeed ayaa buun buuniyo waxaan, qashinkoodana ma arkaan dhaqan ay ka dhigteen. There's no logic whatsoever in this post. "Western" women (it's not a monolith, and not all Western cultures have the practice of taking their husband's last name) are neither pressured nor are they legally FORCED to adopt their new husband's name, and women in Western countries have as many rights under the law as their male counterparts. Trying to compare gender issues in the West to those of Saudi women living under a medieval government is a losing argument, and I can't believe your response to this article is to get defensive. There is no reason whatsoever to bar women from driving.

From Al-Arabiya Saudi women seeking to challenge a de facto ban on driving should realize that this could affect their ovaries and pelvises, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan, a judicial and psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association, told Saudi news website sabq.org. Driving “could have a reverse physiological impact. Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees,” Sheikh al-Luhaydan said. Saudi female activists have launched an online campaign urging women to drive on Oct. 26. More than 11,000 women have signed the oct26driving.com declaration that says: “Since there are no clear justifications for the state to ban adult, capable women from driving. We call for enabling women to have driving tests and for issuing licenses for those who pass.” Sheikh al-Luhaydan urged these women to consider “the mind before the heart and emotion and look at this issue with a realistic eye.” “The result of this is bad and they should wait and consider the negativities,” he said.

Abbaas;979801 wrote: :D :D lol I love this!