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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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J.E.S.T. I had to take leave to take the course, so in a sense, I paid to eat the bat. I also gave the instructor a couple hundred pesos.

Although the base is gone, it's still there if anyone is interested: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

All we got was a bolo, no tent like in the pic. They have watered down versions for the weak, but last time I looked into the website, they had the full mil-spec version available, or at least similar. It was a hoot. I'll probably go back if there are flights from Naga City to Subic, but I ain't making THAT drive again, and no way am I going on a bus for probably 24 hours. I think it took 17 hours driving Subic to Naga, only stopping to eat.
 
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BadExample said:
I ate a fruit bat.
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Some bats can get pretty big. They eat mosquitoes, good to keep around.
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beans-on-toast said:
Did they tell you that it tastes like chicken?
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:laugh:

Being Alaska Native, we traditionally eat all kinds of seafood that most of you might not be familiar with. As several versions are entering the endangered species list, I'm hesitant to eat bats. One of our traditional meals is baked fish heads. The cheeks and cartilage in the nose are considered delicacies. There's lots of very tender meat in the heads roughly equal to eating the Filet Mignon (sp) of beef.

Bear? Yep. Moose? Yep. Venison? Whenever we can. The ocean is full of delicacies that often we Alaska Natives share among each other.
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
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Being Alaska Native, we traditionally eat all kinds of seafood that most of you might not be familiar with. As several versions are entering the endangered species list, I'm hesitant to eat bats. One of our traditional meals is baked fish heads. The cheeks and cartilage in the nose are considered delicacies. There's lots of very tender meat in the heads roughly equal to eating the Filet Mignon (sp) of beef.
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My ex-GF's commercial fisherman brother often used to bring home Halibut cheeks for family gatherings, they were delicious.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
Did they tell you that it tastes like chicken?
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No but they still have wild chickens in Bicol. AFAIK, that's the only place they are wild, but you can get the same anywhere, called "Native Chicken." And it doesn't taste like chicken :D Pretty dry and tough. Head of household gets the fish head in the Philippines. I let my wife have it.

Balut (pronounced buh-loot) anyone? I can get that here, but it's raw and you don't know how mature it is, which makes a huge difference. No one makes their own there, just but it from the guy on the street with a basket full and he gives you the type you like. Same for peanuts and pork rinds (with their vinegar and hot pepper dipping sauce). Still warm and fresh. I'll miss pork rinds for breakfast though.
 
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BadExample said:
No but they still have wild chickens in Bicol. AFAIK, that's the only place they are wild, but you can get the same anywhere, called "Native Chicken." And it doesn't taste like chicken :D Pretty dry and tough. Head of household gets the fish head in the Philippines. I let my wife have it.

Balut (pronounced buh-loot) anyone? I can get that here, but it's raw and you don't know how mature it is, which makes a huge difference. No one makes their own there, just but it from the guy on the street with a basket full and he gives you the type you like. Same for peanuts and pork rinds (with their vinegar and hot pepper dipping sauce). Still warm and fresh. I'll miss pork rinds for breakfast though.
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I've never had authentic pork rinds. Even warm fresh ones sounds like heaven.
And I can't believe you let Charlie's reference to "cheeks" slide by you..... :laugh:
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
:laugh:

Being Alaska Native, we traditionally eat all kinds of seafood that most of you might not be familiar with. As several versions are entering the endangered species list, I'm hesitant to eat bats. One of our traditional meals is baked fish heads. The cheeks and cartilage in the nose are considered delicacies. There's lots of very tender meat in the heads roughly equal to eating the Filet Mignon (sp) of beef.

Bear? Yep. Moose? Yep. Venison? Whenever we can. The ocean is full of delicacies that often we Alaska Natives share among each other.
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I don’t think that I could swallow fermented seal flipper or blubber the way that it is eaten.

It is interesting to note that Inuit have genetic adaptations that allow them to eat high fat seal blubber blubber and meat diets without the ill affects that we would suffer from. (Invalid Link Removed). If only they can figure out how the rest of the world can adapt.


You can’t have cod cheeks without the tongues.

 
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beans-on-toast said:
I don’t think that I could swallow fermented seal flipper or blubber the way that it is eaten.

It is interesting to note that Inuit have genetic adaptations that allow them to eat high fat seal blubber blubber and meat diets without the ill affects that we would suffer from. (Invalid Link Removed). If only they can figure out how the rest of the world can adapt.
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Just think-- fatty beef and pork three times a week and just pop a pill-- Voila! No high cholesterol, etc! In the meantime wife is still weighing my meat portions.... :whistle:
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
Calling all GOF's! Front and center! Fingers and toes count!

My favorite guitarist with whom we are doing an 80's tribute band is going for complete hip replacement surgery. Very sad because in this little berg there are some guitarists but most of them are acoustic strummers singing some crap about trees and stuff. Don't even know any Cars tunes! :laugh:

I'm fighting with my wife right now because she has Afib, which the doctor has diagnosed as mild but her heart is beating too fast. She was prescribed medication to slow down her heart-- when the heart beats fast continuously it doesn't have time to rest or pump blood throughout her system completely so she gets more tired lately. No a big change but noticeable. Those of you GOF's long term marriage can imagine the fight I'm facing when wife makes up her mind. She wrongly thinks the medicine is making her tired, but it isn't. I've threatened to call her friend of 36 years, the kids, bcut she's got her mind made up. She said the medication made her feel weird and she was tired of feeling weird.
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I'm here. Hangin' in there.

I feel for your wife. Taking some kinds of meds ain't fun. I take $5000 worth of meds each month. One of the meds is Otezla. The side effects (documented ones) are not pleasant. I do swear from time to time that I experience other side effects as well.

As bad as the real and imagined side effects are, I am much better off taking the meds than I otherwise would be.

You might want her to talk with others who have afib.

Good luck!
 
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12BitSlab said:
I'm here. Hangin' in there.

I feel for your wife. Taking some kinds of meds ain't fun. I take $5000 worth of meds each month. One of the meds is Otezla. The side effects (documented ones) are not pleasant. I do swear from time to time that I experience other side effects as well.

As bad as the real and imagined side effects are, I am much better off taking the meds than I otherwise would be.

You might want her to talk with others who have afib.

Good luck!
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Thanks @12BitSlab . She finally relented but is still a bit resentful. She says she doesn't feel like herself on that medication.
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
Thanks @12BitSlab . She finally relented but is still a bit resentful. She says she doesn't feel like herself on that medication.
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People in denial about our bodily changes, IME, don't make very good patients. Also, IME, people who hate authority do not make good patients as well.

People I know have died from not taking care of their diabetes. People in their 60s and 70s. Too much glucose in your system dulls the electrical impulses our body runs on. Some have amputations when extremities fail. Some go blind when optical nerves die. Some go on dialysis when kidneys fail. When the heart beats and its signals can't be read by the rest of the body, you have a heart attack and die.

One person I knew took care of her diabetes and lived to be 98 years young.

We may have to overcome a lifetime of habits (what's normal to us) that are counter to medical treatment. It may be one of the most difficult things we need to do to continue our quality of life (sometime lower quality) and live longer. The alternative is that what might happen 20-30 years from now could happen in 5 or 10 years.

I hope your wife sticks with the med long enough for it to become the "new normal".

Good luck!
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
Thanks @12BitSlab . She finally relented but is still a bit resentful. She says she doesn't feel like herself on that medication.
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I don’t have a choice. I am married to a retired RN.

BTW, no matter how sick I am and no matter how bad I am injured, I get NO sympathy - she has seen FAR worse.

I’m not complaining - I married WAY up and outta my league!
 
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