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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with
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I don’t think she’s actually bending the bow? The string is apparently made of elastic. Worth noting that Robin using a longbow... -
Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with
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Obligatory reference to Once and Future again, when some English nationalists summon Arthur (who’s undead) and he kills them all because... -
Mannahnin reacted to Dioltach's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
Have you ever read Lachamon's Brut? He goes on for 16,000 lines about "the Britons", and King Arthur, and in the very last line all of...
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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff! with Like.
Any Robin Hood does have to thread the needle between the various versions. He kind of started out as a generic criminal and robber (it...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I still have my 1984 copy of Richard Erdoes' and Alphonso Ortiz' American Indian Myths & Legends, and it's pure gold. And one of the...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.The placebo effect is a thing, of course, but yeah. Chiropractic actually does real physical things, and certainly seems to help some...
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Mannahnin reacted to Pale Violet Light's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Fair enough. But the lack of listed side effects does not necessarily correspond to a lack of side effects in general.
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Mannahnin reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Sometimes the state of knowledge is pretty good and they just aren't packaged as drugs for scientific or economic (can't patent natural...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Boy, remember when Sharon was going to be a big villain in the post-Endgame era? They were really throwing a lot of spaghetti at the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Pale Violet Light's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
If the growth conditions aren’t reproducible and your metabolite ratios are off, then no amount of reproducible processing is going to...
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Mannahnin reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
With respect, quality control is generally better enforced in processing, rather than in growth. The amateur herbalist is kinda like...
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Mannahnin reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proven to work? Medicine.
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Mannahnin reacted to Pale Violet Light's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Modern analytical technology is pretty fantastic: it’s easy enough to quantify these things if you know the active ingredients. And...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Good ol' ASA was derived from willow bark, because chewing it was used as a pain killer. Controlling dosage can be a problem on both...
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Mannahnin reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
You don't have to be skeptical of all of them. Some, like homeopathy, are completely certified as pure snake oil.